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‘The fact we exist is huge’: Iran’s women plotting course to world stage
Twelve years ago Kat Khosrowyar arrived in Iran on holiday. Now she’s driving a revolution in women’s football there
To say things have changed for women’s football in Iran since Katayoun Khosrowyar first arrived in the country more than 12 years ago would be as understated as the coach of the newly established under-19 side herself. Back then the 30-year-old from Oklahoma known as “Kat” arrived in Tehran on a family holiday, was scouted for Iran’s newly formed futsal team and ended up captaining the national side after moving there permanently.
“I didn’t speak the language or know anything about my culture – all I knew was that the food was really good,” Khosrowyar tells the Guardian. “Twelve years ago there were a lot of restrictions – people would ask: ‘Why do you want to play football? Just stay at home and learn to be good wives.’ But now we get lots of help from people who are outspoken about supporting women’s football.”
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Tim Berners-Lee launches Google and Fb-backed plan to repair the net
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world vast internet, has formally launched the Contract for the Net, a set of rules designed to “repair” the web and stop us from sliding right into a “digital dystopia,” The Guardian reviews. The contract lists 9 core rules for governments, corporations, and people to stick to, together with duties to supply reasonably priced, dependable web entry and to respect civil discourse and human dignity.
At launch, the initiative has obtained the backing of over 150 organizations, together with tech corporations comparable to Microsoft, Google, DuckDuckGo, and Fb, and nonprofit teams such because the Digital Frontier Basis. Conspicuously absent from the listing of corporations are Amazon and Twitter. Twitter’s growing position in political discourse was just lately introduced into sharp focus after it selected to ban political advertisements on its platform, citing the “challenges to civic discourse” that they create.
The contract’s launch comes as tech corporations comparable to Fb and Google have confronted mounting stress round each the quantity of consumer knowledge they accumulate, and the methods during which they accumulate it. The Contract for the Net consists of rules designed to forestall this, together with a requirement for corporations to respect folks’s privateness and private knowledge. If corporations don’t present that they’re working to help these goals they threat being faraway from the listing of the venture’s endorsers.
“The forces taking the net within the improper course have at all times been very robust”
It’s not that we’d like a 10-year plan for the net, we have to flip the net round now,” Berners-Lee instructed The Guardian. The Contract, which incorporates 72 clauses alongside its 9 rules, presents a shared imaginative and prescient for the net that Berners-Lee’s Net Basis needs to see constructed, in addition to a roadmap for motion. Lastly, it additionally offers a software to try to maintain corporations and governments to account.
The governments of Germany, France, and Ghana have additionally signed as much as the Contract’s founding rules. The Contract calls on governments to make sure everybody can hook up with the web, and to maintain the web out there all the time. This latter level feels particularly well timed in gentle of the Iranian authorities’s latest resolution to close down the web in an try to forestall protests from spreading.
“The forces taking the net within the improper course have at all times been very robust,” Berners-Lee instructed The Guardian, noting that it will likely be very important for residents to carry governments and firms to account if the scenario is to enhance.
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Instruments & Gear: New Gear
Fishman Rare Earth Mic Blend
Fishman’s legendary magnetic pickup/internal mic combination gets even better.
by Teja Gerken
Fishman’s popular line of Rare Earth soundhole pickups have been used by guitarists of all stripes for many years. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had come up with a new version of the top-of-the-line “Blend” version of the line, which includes a new bass roll-off switch for controlling the microphone’s low-end and a couple of design tweaks, called the Rare Earth Mic Blend. I had a chance to install the new pickup in my 1994 Taylor 712c and check it out through a Fishman Loudbox Mini amplifier.
Like earlier versions of the Rare Earth Blend, the new pickup combines a magnetic soundhole pickup and an internal microphone. The pickup is similar to Fishman’s standard Rare Earth Humbucking pickup, with the same narrow-profile housing and a set of powerful neodymium magnets. The unit is mounted in the soundhole with a pair of cork-padded clamps and phillips-head screws. The Rare Earth Mic Blend’s microphone is a miniature cardioid design attached to the pickup housing with a flexible gooseneck. This gooseneck is shorter and slightly stiffer than it was on earlier versions of the pickup, making it easier to position the mic and avoid contact with the guitar’s body. In addition, the adjustment wheel used to mix the pickup and and microphone signal is now slightly larger and easier to reach. The new bass roll-off switch sits on the side of the pickup housing and can be reached while the pickup is installed. The Rare Earth Mic Blend is powered by a pair of miniature button-style batteries mounted to the bottom of the housing.
One of the great things about the Rare Earth line of pickups is that they can be installed temporarily, without modifications to the instrument. When used in this way, the pickup’s cable is about six feet long, so that it can hang out of the soundhole before connecting to a standard ¼-inch guitar cable by way of its female jack (which can be turned into an endpin jack if permanent installation is desired).
Like its predecessors, the Rare Earth Mic Blend does a wonderful job at combining the rich low-end, great sustain, and warm attack of a magnetic pickup with the “air,” high-end frequency response, and ability to amplify percussive effects on the guitar’s body. I found that a 50/50 blend between pickup and mic produced a full and very natural sound, though exact settings will depend on the particular guitar and amplification setup used. The new bass roll-off switch was subtle in its functionality, but it did audibly affect the microphone’s bass response (more bass in the lower position, less bass when set to the upper position), and it should allow guitarists to use more of the microphone signal in a high-volume setting.
Overall, the Rare Earth Mic Blend is an excellent choice for anyone looking to amplify a steel-string flattop. The option of temporary installation even allows guitarists to move the same pickup between multiple guitars, and the unit’s tonal flexibility makes it suitable for various playing styles, performance settings, and personal preferences.
SPECS: Magnetic soundhole pickup with built-in microphone. Active humbucking design. Neodymium magnets. Gooseneck-mounted miniature cardioid microphone. Pickup/mic blend control. Microphone bass extension roll-off switch. Mono or stereo operation. Powered by two 1.5-volt miniature batteries. Designed and engineered in the USA, assembled in China. $379.99 list/$289.95 street. fishman.com
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by Sam Sodomsky
Leonard Cohen Wrote a Poem About Kanye
“I am the real Kanye West”—Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen (Photo by Brian Rasic/Getty Images); Kanye (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
The Flame, a posthumous collection of poetry by Leonard Cohen, was recently released. It includes a poem titled “Kanye West Is Not Picasso.” Composed in March 2015, the poem makes reference to both Kanye and JAY-Z and includes lines such as, “I am the Kanye West of Kanye West/The Kanye West of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture” and “I am the real Kanye West.” Read it below, via songwriter Amanda Shires’ Twitter.
The Flame is out now via Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Recently, Cohen’s son Adam revealed that a new posthumous album of his father’s recordings is in the works.
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Recognizing Dick Beers
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It is with a heavy heart we notify you of the passing of Richard Beers, Sr. Dick passed away on the evening of October 21st 2019 surrounded by his family.
Dick was a founding member of our corps, first serving on the committee that created PVA. Once PVA was formed, Dick was instrumental in raising the funds to purchase and operate our first ambulance and the base we occupy today. During his membership Dick served as an EMT (one of the first certified EMTs in Monroe County), a driver, a Dispatcher, a trainer, a Director of the Board, and in most leadership roles in our operation. His service with PVA extended 48 years.
His dedicated service to our agency is inspiring, We will sincerely miss his wisdom, engaging presence and funny stories of just how far we have come in our industry. PVA has a long and full history, and today we say goodbye to Dick who was there when it began.
Thank you Mr. Beers, from all of us at Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance- We'll take it from here, friend.
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Book Recommendation-Command and Control
June 19, 2014 ricbretz Leave a comment
by Rick Bretz
Sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you or, after a second look at atomic and hydrogen weapons, can obliterate you.
This is what you learn after reading the book “Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser. The subtitle gives away the theme, “Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety.”
The book moves through the early stages of the Cold War landscape where the country’s leaders addressed many thorny issues such as fixing weapons program technical malfunctions and, even tougher, how to eliminate human errors.
In the Cold War business doing things right 99 percent of the time only gets you criticized for the other one percent when things go wrong. The men and women who keep the country safe and secure while working inside missile control centers and bombers remain examples of intelligent and reliable military professionals. The military forged new territory after World War II when they had to invent procedures and checklists for managing and controlling intercontinental ballistic missiles and warheads designed to wipe cities and countries off the map.
Despite the best planning and “What If” matrices by government and defense professionals in the military, accidents will happen and did happen. Through sheer good fortune the nuclear weapons program didn’t accidentally kill innocent civilians like the 1961 “Broken Arrow” incident near Goldsboro, NC., when bombs went through all but one of the fail safe steps that prevented a detonation after a B-52 bomber crash. Prior to that, the government even authorized military studies such as the Army’s Office of Special Weapons Development report in 1955 titled, “Acceptable Military Risks from Accidental Detonation of Atomic Weapons.” These chapters make you sit up and read with a little more attention so you won’t miss any other revealing “that was a close one” information.
This book scrutinizes and outlines the thought processes and policy battles within the civilian and military government leadership for control of the country’s use and design of the nuclear defense program. He portrays key figures at the early stages of weapons technology like Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay and Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy, who had to deal with the weapons command and control issues in the beginning. A concern raised by leaders at the start was the communication time-lapse from a Soviet Union launch to the moment the President receives word that missiles were on the way. This time period was vital for having enough time to make the correct decision to launch weapons or realize it was a false indicator. If recognition and communications were slow, the President may not have had enough time to give the OK to send missiles down range in retaliation, especially if the target was the nation’s capital.
For the baby boomer generation, this book is a trip down mutual destruction memory lane. The author liberally uses the acronyms some of us have come to know and love like MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), DEFCON (Defense Readiness Condition), ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) and even some new ones like PAL (Permissive Action Link), a term used to describe a coded device installed within a nuclear warhead or bomb, like a lock to prevent unauthorized use of the weapon that might accidentally facilitate MAD.
Several of the acronyms are downright ingenious like MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer), an early electronic, digital computer used at Los Alamos to design the first hydrogen bombs.
The author Schlosser, who also wrote “Fast Food Nation”, begins with an event that occurred on September 18, 1980, in a Titan II missile silo near Damascus, Arkansas. It describes the command and control center and how, through a series of mistakes, a missile came close to contaminating a large part of the state. It’s a story thread that is woven throughout the book. The author walks you through the launch complex while giving the reader a vivid picture of what a missile looks like and the difficult job “Missileers” had keeping our country safe from communist aggression. The job was much more dangerous than conventional thinking would have you believe.
The Air Force officers and airmen mentioned in the book, working at missile silos and control centers across the United States and overseas, trained diligently for a task they were given during a tense time on the Cold War timeline. They were putting into action the Cold War Theory of deterrence. In between the face-offs and stare downs, misinformation and disinformation flowed as part of campaigns to unsettle each other’s government leadership. All the while, agency and department chiefs fought for control, budgets increased, military services developed their own weapons initiatives, and strategies shifted from deterrence and MAD to the strategy of conflict escalation during the arms race.
For some people this book will get tedious in the middle when the author outlines policy arguments and protocols. The read gets interesting when he describes the many personalities that have worked in the program. Some parts take on a solemn tone at times when he writes about young people who have given their lives while flying missions or trying to prevent a missile silo from contaminating an area.
I recommend this book if you want to read about the history of America’s arms race with the Soviet Union and how the two countries played a high stakes game of poker with millions of lives on the table. At times, America bluffed and other times the Soviet Union had the bad hand but played as if they had a straight flush.
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http://www.thegoldsborobrokenarrow.com/
http://www.afmissileers.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_combat_crew
Atomic BombsCold WarCommnd and ControlGeneral Curtis LeMayGoldsboroHydrogen BombsICBMMADMissileersMutually Assured DestructionNCPALPresident EisenhowerPresident KennedyPresident TrumanSACSilosSoviet UnionStrategic Air Command
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Justia Patents Organic PhosphorUS Patent Application for Carbazole based compound, coloring material, colored high molecular organic material and electroluminescent material Patent Application (Application #20030214228)
Carbazole based compound, coloring material, colored high molecular organic material and electroluminescent material
The present invention provides a new carbazole based compound represented by the following formula (1): 1
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a novel carbazole based compound, which is usable as coloring materials emitting fluorescent light. These coloring materials are useful as high molecular organic materials incorporating with high molecular organic compounds, and also useful as electroluminescent materials.
[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art
[0004] Carbazoles represented by the following formula (2) and fluorenes represented by the following formula (3) have been known as compounds exhibiting fluorescence and having heat resistance. Such a compound has strong crystallinity because it forms a hydrogen bond attributable to its three-dimensional structure, so that when a colored layer or film is formed using the above compound (2) or (3) as a coloring material, it is crystallized, giving rise to the problem that it is hard to form an amorphous layer important for the formation of an organic electroluminescent light emitting layer or the like. 2
[0005] In view of this circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new carbazole type fluorescent light emitting coloring material which is decreased in stereoregularity as well as retaining a good fluorescent light emitting characteristics and heat resistance to the extent of a conventional carbazole type dye, having solubility to an organic solvent in addition, and thus being usable for a light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescence element (organic EL element).
[0006] A novel carbazole based compound according to the present invention for solving the foregoing problem is a carbazole based compound represented by the following formula (1), which is dissoluble in an organic solvent. 3
[0007] wherein R is a substituent selected among a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl ether group, a sulfoamino group, a carbon cyclic group, a heterocyclic group and an aromatic cyclic group, “n” is integer denoting number of introduced substituents, where at least one substituent other than the hydrogen atom are introduced and the each substituent may be the same or different.
[0008] In the accompanying drawings:
[0009] FIG. 1 is a view showing the 1H-NMR spectrum of a compound obtained in an Example; and,
[0010] FIG. 2 is a view showing the fluorescent emission spectrum of a novel carbazole based compound.
[0011] A carbazole based compound according to the present invention takes a structure in which three carbazole groups are connected by a triazine group. The carbazole based compound of the present invention is provided with fluorescent light emitting characteristics and heat resistance due to the carbazole part, decreased in stereoregularity of the carbazole itself due to the connecting part and provided with solubility in a solvent by the provision of a side chain part formed on the carbazole ring.
[0012] The carbazole based compound represented by the formula (1) may be used as a coloring material such as dyes because it exhibits a yellow color and has solubility in an organic solvent. Among the carbazole based compounds represented by the formula (1), only one compound or a mixture of two or more kinds of compounds may be used as a coloring material. In the case of using a mixture of the carbazole based compounds represented by the formula (1), this has the advantage that solubility in a solvent is more improved.
[0013] The carbazole based compound represented by the formula (1) can be utilized as a colored high molecular organic material by compounding it in a high molecular organic material. For example, the carbazole based compound may be utilized as plastic materials, melt products, spinning solutions, various coating materials including a solution form, various inks such as screen printing inks, ink jet printing inks or inks for non-impact printing such as thermosensible transfer printing, toners or pigments in blended products.
[0014] The carbazole based compounds represented by the formula (1) emit blue fluorescent light and are therefore useful for the light emitting layer of an organic EL element.
[0015] In the R in the formula (1), the alkyl group is preferably from one to twenty carbon atoms (C1 to C20) and particularly C6 to C20 straight- or branched- chain alkyl groups and specific examples of the alkyl group include a hexyl, heptyl and octyl. The alkyl ether group is preferably an ethylene glycol group and propylene glycol group and specific examples of the alkyl ether group include a diethylene glycol monomethyl ether group, triethylene glycol monomethyl ether group and propylene glycol monomethyl ether group. The sulfoamino group is preferably sulfoaminoalkyl groups containing a C1 to C20 and particularly C6 to C20 straight- or branched-chain alkyl groups and specific examples of the sulfoamino group include a sulfoaminoethyl group, sulfoamino-t-butyl group and sulfoaminohexyl group. The carbon cyclic group is preferably aliphatic carbon cyclic functional groups having 5 to 8 carbon atoms as ring structure elements and particularly a C6(cyclohexyl group) is preferable. The heterocyclic group is preferably a five- to eight-membered cyclic aliphatic functional group and particularly has a piperazine structure or a dioxane structure. The aromatic cyclic group is preferably aromatic carbon rings such as a benzene ring and naphthalene ring and heteroaromatic substituents such as a pyridine ring and triazine ring and particularly preferable are benzene ring and naphthalene ring which are easily synthesized.
[0016] As described above, the novel carbazole based compound of the present invention exhibits a yellow color and has solubility in an organic solvent. Therefore, it may be used as a coloring material such as dyes. The novel carbazole based compound of the present invention emits blue fluorescent light and is therefore useful for the light emitting layer of an organic EL element.
[0017] The substituent “R” on the carbazole ring is required to be simple in its chemical structure and small in its substituted number “n” for the thermal stability (and the electrical stability in a case applying to the organic EL element), but the substituent is also required to have a certain extent of bulkiness and number for solubility (suppressing ability to crystallization) of the carbazole based compound.
[0018] For the chemical structure of the substituent “R”, preferable examples include a short chain alkyl group such as methyl and ethyl, which have about 1-6 carbon atoms, and preferably 1-3 carbon atoms. A preferable substituted number ”n” is 10 or less.
[0019] In particular, when the toluene is used to dissolve the carbazole based compound having ethyl group(s) as the substituent ”R”, a preferable substituted number “n” is in a range of about 3 to 6.
[0020] The carbazole based compound of the above formula (1) has a high solubility in solvents. For example, it is possible to dissolve the carbazole based compound of the above formula (1) in the toluene or xylene at 50° C. at 1% by weight or more, preferably 1.5% by weight or more, and more preferably 2% by weight or more. A concentration at 2% by weight is an objective point for a light emitting or luminescent material to be used for preparing an ink, and if the material can satisfy this requirement, it has an excellent solubility among materials of this kind.
[0021] Further, carbazole based compound of the above formula (1) is hard to be crystallized in coating and drying process, and thus being good in a film formation ability.
[0022] For example, the carbazole based compound can suppress a crystallization of the coated layer to the extent that occurrence of the crystallization can not be found when a solution of the carbazole based compound in the toluene or xylene which contains the carbazole based compound at 1% by weight, preferably 1.5% by weight, and more preferably 2% by weight is applied on a glass plate or substrate, dried it and visually observed, or when a solution of the carbazole based compound and an acrylic binder resin in the toluene or xylene which contains the carbazole based compound and the acrylic binder resin at 1% by weight respectively, preferably 1.5% by weight respectively, and more preferably 2% by weight respectively is applied on a glass plate or substrate, dried it and visually observed.
[0023] The present invention will be hereinafter explained by way of examples.
[0024] <Synthesis of a Compound Represented by the Formula (4)>
[0025] 0.05 g of carbazole manufactured by Sigma-Aldrich was added to dehydrated tetrahydrofuran and the mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 30 minutes in the presence of sodium hydride. Thereafter, 0.14 g of cyanuric acid chloride manufactured by Aldrich which was dissolved in a small amount of tetrahydrofuran was gradually added to the mixture. After the addition of the whole was finished, the mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 3 hours and then the resulting mixture was heated under reflux at 80° C. for 5 hours.
[0026] After the reaction was finished, sodium hydride was inactivated using an aqueous solution of ammonium chloride. Then, precipitates which were dissolved in neither water nor an organic solvent were separated by filtration and dried to obtain 0.38 g of a white solid.
[0027] Further, this powder was stirred in chloroform for 12 hours in the presence of chlorosulfonic acid manufactured by Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. 1.00 g of n-hexylamine manufactured by Tokyo Kasei which was dissolved in a small amount of tetrahydrofuran was gradually added to the mixture under ice-cooling, which was stirred at ambient temperature for 24 hours as it was. As a result, it was confirmed that a part of the powder was dissolved in chloroform to exhibit a yellow color.
[0028] When the component dissolved in chloroform were concentrated, 0.22 g of a pale yellow solid was obtained. When the melting point of the solid was measured, the solid had no clear melting point and was decomposed gradually at 140 to 145° C. The solution 1H-NMR (measured in dimethylsulfoxide deuteride) was measured. The results are shown in FIG. 1 as a 1H-NMR spectrum. From the 1H-NMR spectrum of FIG. 1, the powder was determined as the carbazole based compound represented by the formula (4). 4
[0029] The fluorescent emission spectrum of the resulting carbazole based compound was measured. As a result, the carbazole based compound exhibited good blue fluorescent light emission. FIG. 2 shows the fluorescent emission spectrum.
[0030] <Solubility to Solvent>
[0031] The carbazole based compound of the formula (4) synthesized in Example 1 was added in the toluene or xylene so as to make concentration at 2% by weight, and then stirred in a thermal condition at 50° C. for one hour. As a result, the carbazole based compound was completely dissolved.
[0032] On the other hand, though the perylene (available from Tokyo Kasei Co.,) which is a conventional compound having a blue fluorescent emission similar to that emitted by the compound of the formula (4) was applied to the same solubility test, solubility was insufficient and remain of insoluble portion was observed.
[0033] <Suppressibility of Crystallization (Film Formation Ability)>
[0034] A toluene solution containing 2% by weight of the carbazole based compound of the formula (4) synthesized in Example 1 was prepared. Also, the other toluene solution containing 2% by weight of the same carbazole based compound and 2% by weight of an acrylic binder resin was prepared.
[0035] For the comparative examples, the other toluene solution containing 2% by weight of the carbazole (available from Sigma Aldrich Co,.) and the still other toluene solution containing 2% by weight of the carbazole and 2% by weight of the acrylic binder resin were prepared.
[0036] 2 ml of the each toluene solution was dropped on a non-alkaline glass plate with 5 cm-square shape, and carried out a spin coating at 1,000 rotation per minute for about 2 seconds. Thereafter, it was dried at ambient temperature for 30 minutes, and then a surface of the coating layer was observed and evaluation was carried out regarding suitablility of coating and film-formation process and suppressibility of crystallizing.
[0037] As a result, the coating layers formed from the solution of the carbazole based compound of the formula (4) and the mixture solution of the same carbazole based compound and the acrylic binder resin were homogeneous and showed no crystallization.
[0038] On the other hand, the coating layers formed from the solution of the carbazole and the mixture solution of the carbazole and the acrylic binder resin were crystallized to an extent that findable by visual observation, and thus being inferior in film formation ability.
1. A carbazole based compound represented by the following formula (1):
wherein r is a substituent selected among a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl ether group, a sulfoamino group, a carbon cyclic group, a heterocyclic group and an aromatic cyclic group, ”n” is integer, where at least one substituent other than the hydrogen atom are introduced and the each substituent may be the same or different.
2. A coloring material comprising a carbazole based compound wherein the carbazole based compound is represented by the following formula (1):
3. A colored high molecular organic material comprising a coloring material comprising a carbazole based compound and a high molecular organic compound wherein the carbazole based compound is represented by the following formula (1):
4. An electroluminescent material comprising a coloring material comprising a carbazole based compound wherein the carbazole based compound is represented by the following formula (1):
Filed: Mar 24, 2003
Publication Date: Nov 20, 2003
Inventor: Kiyoshi Itou (Tokyo)
Application Number: 10395528
Current U.S. Class: Organic Phosphor (313/504); Hetero Ring (544/198); Nitrogen Ring Is Part Of A Ring System Having Three Or More Rings Fused Or Bridged Together (524/89)
International Classification: C08K005/34; H01J063/04; C 07D 4 3/14;
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Justia Patents Plasma CleaningUS Patent Application for HIGH DOSE IMPLANTATION STRIP (HDIS) IN H2 BASE CHEMISTRY Patent Application (Application #20140182619)
HIGH DOSE IMPLANTATION STRIP (HDIS) IN H2 BASE CHEMISTRY
Feb 3, 2014 - Novellus Systems, Inc.
Plasma is generated using elemental hydrogen, a weak oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas. An inert gas is introduced to the plasma downstream of the plasma source and upstream of a showerhead that directs gas mixture into the reaction chamber where the mixture reacts with the high-dose implant resist. The process removes both the crust and bulk resist layers at a high strip rate, and leaves the work piece surface substantially residue free with low silicon loss.
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Diagnostic and control systems and methods for substrate processing systems using DC self-bias voltage
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED U.S. APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/462,660, filed May 2, 2012, titled “High Dose Implantation Strip (HDIS) in H2 Base Chemistry,” which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/251,305, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,193,096, filed Oct. 14, 2008, titled “High Dose Implantation Strip (HDIS) in H2 Base Chemistry,” which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/712,253, now abandoned, filed Feb. 27, 2007, titled “Enhanced Stripping of Low-K Films Using Downstream Gas Mixing,” which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/011,273, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,202,176, filed Dec. 13, 2004, and titled “Enhanced Stripping of Low-K Films Using Downstream Gas Mixing.” All of these applications are incorporated herein by this reference in their entireties and for all purposes.
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention pertains to methods and apparatuses to remove or strip photoresist material and removing related residues from a work piece surface. Particularly, this application relates to methods and apparatus for stripping resist after ion implant or plasma assisting doping implant (low dose or high-dose implanted resist).
Photoresist is a light sensitive material used in certain fabrication processes to form a patterned coating on a work piece, e.g., a semiconductor wafer, during processing. After exposing the photoresist coated surface to a pattern of high energy radiation, a portion of the photoresist is removed to reveal the surface below, leaving the rest of the surface protected. Semiconductor processes such as etching, depositing, and ion implanting are performed on the uncovered surface and the remaining photoresist. After performing one or more semiconductor processes, the remaining photoresist is removed in a strip operation.
During ion implantation, dopant ions, e.g., ions of boron, boron difluoride, indium, gallium, thallium, phosphorous, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, or germanium, are accelerated toward a work piece target. The ions implant in exposed regions of the work piece as well as in the remaining photoresist surface. The process may form well regions (source/drain) and lightly doped drain (LDD) and doubled diffused drain (DDD) regions. The ion implant impregnates the resist with the implant species and depletes the surface of hydrogen. The outer layer or crust of the resist forms a carbonized layer that may be much denser than the underlying bulk resist layer. These two layers have different thermal expansion rates and react to stripping processes at different rates.
The difference between the outer layer and bulk layer is quite pronounced in post high-dose ion implant resist. In high-dose implantation, the ion dose may be greater than 1×1015 ions/cm2 and the energy may be from 10 Kev to greater than 100 keV. Traditional high dose implantation strip (HDIS) processes employ oxygen chemistries where monatomic oxygen plasma is formed away from the process chamber and then directed at the work piece surface. The reactive oxygen combines with the photoresist to form gaseous by-products which is removed with a vacuum pump. For HDIS, additional gases are needed to remove the implanted dopants with oxygen.
Primary HDIS considerations include strip rate, amount of residue, and film loss of the exposed and underlying film layer. Residues are commonly found on the substrate surface after HDIS and stripping. They may result from sputtering during the high-energy implant, incomplete removal of crust, and/or oxidation of implant atoms in the resist. After stripping, the surface should be residue free or substantially residue free to ensure high yield and eliminate the need for additional residue removal processing. Residues may be removed by overstripping, i.e., a continuation of the strip process past the point nominally required to remove all photoresist. Unfortunately, in conventional HDIS operations, overstripping sometimes removes some of the underlying functional device structure. At the device layer, even very little silicon loss from the transistor source/drain regions may adversely affect device performance and yield, especially for ultra shallow junction devices fabricated at the <32 nm design rule or below.
What is needed therefore are improved and methods and apparatus for stripping photoresist and ion implant related residues, especially for HDIS, which minimizes silicon loss and leaves little or no residue while maintaining an acceptable strip rate.
The present invention addresses the aforementioned need by providing improved methods and an apparatus for stripping photoresist and removing ion implant related residues from a work piece surface. Plasma is generated using elemental hydrogen, a weak oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas. In certain embodiments, an inert gas is introduced to the plasma downstream of the plasma source and upstream of a showerhead, which directs gas into the reaction chamber. The plasma-activated gases flowing together with the inert gas reacts with the high-dose implant resist, removing both the crust and bulk resist layers, leaving the work piece surface substantially residue free with low silicon loss.
In one aspect of the invention, methods involve removing material from a work piece in a process chamber according to the following operations: introducing a gas comprising elemental hydrogen, a weak oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas into a plasma source, generating a plasma from the gas introduced into the plasma source, and introducing an inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece. The plasma-activated gas travels toward a work piece, and is combined with the inert gas upstream of a showerhead in the reaction chamber. The electrically charged species in the plasma may be discharged or partially discharged when they contact the showerhead.
The plasma-activated gas comprising elemental hydrogen, the weak oxidizing agent, and the fluorine containing gas flows, together with the inert gas, to the work piece and reacts with the material from the work piece. Examples of weak oxidizing agents include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water, hydrogen peroxide, or combinations of these. The weak oxidizing agent is preferably carbon dioxide. The fluorine containing gas may be carbon tetrafluoride, other fluorocarbons including hydrofluorocarbons, elemental fluorine, nitrogen trifluoride, sulfur hexafluoride, combinations of these, and the like. The fluorine containing gas is preferably carbon tetrafluoride. The inert gas may be argon, helium, nitrogen, combinations of these, and the like. The preferred inert gas is argon. The gas introduced into the plasma source may be premixed or not, and may include about 1% to 99%, or about 0.1% to about 10% or about 3% to 5% by volume of the weak oxidizing agent. The inert gas may be introduced at a volumetric flow rate of about 0.15 and 10 times, or about 2 times, the volumetric flow rate of the elemental hydrogen. At the work piece, the gas may include at most about 1% by volume of the weak oxidizing agent species and about 0.1 to 0.5% by volume of the fluorine containing gas species.
In certain embodiments, the material removed from the work piece surface is a high-dose implant resist. The work piece may be a 300 mm wafer. The plasma may be remotely generated using RF power between about 300 watts and about 10 kilo-watts. The temperature of the work piece may be about 160 to 500 degrees Celsius when contacted by the gas. The process pressure may be between about 300 mTorr and 2 Torr.
According to various embodiments, the a high-dose implant resist is removed from the work piece surface at a rate that is at least about 100 nm/min and silicon is removed from the work piece surface at an overall rate of no greater than about 4 nm/min. The resulting work piece is substantially residue free of the high-dose implanted resist after removal, and less than about 3 angstroms silicon is lost from an underlying silicon layer.
Another aspect of this invention relates to multi-step methods of removing high-dose implanted resist from a work piece surface in a reaction chamber. The methods include removing a first portion of the material by introducing, at a first total flow rate, a first gas comprising elemental hydrogen, a weak oxidizing agent, and with or without a fluorine containing gas into a plasma source, generating a first plasma from the first gas introduced into the plasma source, introducing a first inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece, and reacting a first portion of the material from the work piece with the mixture. The methods also include removing a second portion of the material by introducing, at a second total flow rate, a second gas comprising hydrogen and a weak oxidizing agent and with or without a fluorine containing gas into a plasma source, generating a second plasma from the second gas introduced into the plasma source, introducing a second inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece, and reacting a second portion of the material from the work piece. The first and second gas compositions are different. In certain embodiments, at least one of the first or the second gas includes a fluorine containing gas. At the end of the removal process, in certain embodiments, the work piece is substantially residue free and has had less than about 3 angstroms of silicon lost from an underlying silicon layer. The removing a second portion operation may occur before removing the first portion operation. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the removing operations are repeated one or more times. These removing operations may occur in a same or different reaction stations in the reaction chamber.
In yet another aspect, the present invention pertains to an apparatus for removing material from a work piece surface comprising a reaction chamber and a controller. The reaction chamber includes a plasma source, a gas inlet for introducing a gas mixture comprising elemental hydrogen into the plasma source, a gas inlet for introducing an inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece, a showerhead positioned downstream of the gas inlet, and a work piece support downstream of the showerhead. The work piece support includes a pedestal and temperature-controlling mechanism to control a temperature of a work piece supported on the work piece support. The controller is configured to execute a set of instructions, including instructions to introduce a gas comprising hydrogen, a weak oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas into a plasma source, generate a plasma from the gas introduced into the plasma source, introduce an inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece, and optionally to repeat the introduce a gas, generate a plasma, and introduce an inert gas instructions using different flow rates and gas compositions. The plasma source used in accordance with the methods and apparatus of the invention may be any of a number of conventional plasma sources. For example, an RF ICP source may be used.
The process chamber used in accordance with the methods and apparatus of the invention may be any suitable process chamber. The process chamber may be one chamber of a multi-chambered apparatus or it may be part of a single chamber apparatus. In certain embodiments, the reaction chamber includes a plurality of stations, where at least one station includes a plasma source, a plurality of gas inlets, a showerhead, and a work piece support.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the associated drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration showing an apparatus according to certain embodiments of the claimed invention and suitable for practicing the methods of the claimed invention.
FIGS. 2A to 2D depict various stages of semiconductor fabrication before and after ion implantation and stripping operations.
FIG. 3 is a process flow diagram showing various operations in accordance with certain embodiments of the present invention.
FIGS. 4A to 4D depicts before and after strip SEM photos of photoresist pattern stripped under various conditions in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention.
FIG. 5A is a plot of silicon loss for HDIS using various carbon dioxide flow rates in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention.
FIG. 5B is a plot of silicon loss for HDIS using various carbon tetrafluoride flow rates in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Introduction
In the following detailed description of the present invention, numerous specific embodiments are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the invention. However, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art, the present invention may be practiced without these specific details or by using alternate elements or processes. In other instances well-known processes, procedures and components have not been described in detail so as not to unnecessarily obscure aspects of the present invention.
In this application, the terms “work piece”, “semiconductor wafer”, “wafer” and “partially fabricated integrated circuit” will be used interchangeably. One skilled in the art would understand that the term “partially fabricated integrated circuit” can refer to a silicon wafer during any of many stages of integrated circuit fabrication thereon. The following detailed description assumes the invention is implemented on a wafer. However, the invention is not so limited. The work piece may be of various shapes, sizes, and materials. In addition to semiconductor wafers, other work pieces that may take advantage of this invention include various articles such as displays, printed circuit boards, and the like.
As mentioned previously, the methods and apparatus of the invention may be used to efficiently and effectively to remove photoresist materials after high-dose ion implantation. The invention is not limited to high-dose implant strip (HDIS). The invention is also not limited to any particular category of dopants implanted. For instance, described methods and apparatus may be effectively used with stripping after medium or low dose implant. Although specific dopant ions such as boron, arsenic, and phosphorous are discussed, the described methods and apparatus may be effectively used to strip resist impregnated with other dopants, such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, germanium, and aluminum.
The methods and apparatus of the present invention use plasmas that are produced from gases that contain hydrogen. The gases also contain a weak oxidizing agent and a fluorine containing gas. One skilled in the art will recognize that the actual species present in the plasma may be a mixture of different ions, radicals, and molecules derived from the hydrogen, weak oxidizing agent, and fluorine containing gas. It is noted that other species may be present in the reaction chamber, such as small hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, water vapor and other volatile components as the plasma reacts with and breaks down the organic photoresist and other residues. One of skill in the art will also recognize that the initial gas/gases introduced into the plasma is/are often different from the gas/gases that exist in the plasma as well as the gas/gases contact the work piece surface during strip.
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an apparatus 100 according to certain embodiments of the claimed invention. Apparatus 100 has a plasma source 101 and a process chamber 103 separated by a showerhead assembly 105. Plasma source 101 is connected to gas inlet 111. Showerhead 109 forms the bottom of showerhead assembly 105. Inert gas inlets 113 are downstream of plasma source 101 and upstream of wafer 123 and showerhead 109. Inside process chamber 103, a wafer 123 with photoresist/dry etch byproduct material rests on a platen (or stage) 117. Platen 117 may be fitted with a temperature control mechanism that may heat or cool a wafer on the platen as necessary. In some embodiments, platen 117 is also configured for applying a bias to wafer 123. Low pressure is attained in reaction chamber 103 via vacuum pump and conduit 119.
In operation, a gas is introduced via gas inlet 111 to the plasma source 101. The gas introduced to the plasma source contains the chemically active species that will be ionized in the plasma source to form a plasma. Gas inlet 111 may be any type of gas inlet and may include multiple ports or jets. Plasma source 101 is where the active species of the gas introduced to the source are generated to form a plasma. In FIG. 1, an RF plasma source is shown with induction coils 115, which are energized to form the plasma. An inert gas is introduced via gas inlets 113 upstream of the showerhead and downstream of the plasma source. The inert gas mixes with the plasma. Gas inlets 113 may be any type of gas inlets and may include multiple ports or jets to optimize mixing the inert gas with the plasma. Showerhead 109 directs the plasma/inert gas mixture into process chamber 103 through showerhead holes 121. There may be any number and arrangement of showerhead holes 121 to maximize uniformity of the plasma/gas mixture in process chamber 103. Showerhead assembly 105, which may be electrically grounded or have an applied voltage, may capture and discharge some ions and thereby change the composition of the gas flowing into process chamber 103: i.e., the gas will contain an increased proportion of neutral species. As mentioned, wafer 123 may be temperature controlled and/or a RF bias may be applied. The plasma/inert gas mixture removes the photoresist/etch byproduct material from the wafer.
In some embodiments of the claimed invention, the apparatus does not include showerhead assembly 105 and showerhead 109. In these embodiments, the inert gas inlets 113 introduce the inert gas directly into the process chamber where it mixes with the plasma upstream of wafer 115. Various configurations and geometries of the plasma source 101 and induction coils 115 may be used. For example, induction coils 115 may loop around the plasma source 101 in an interlaced pattern. In another example, the plasma source 101 may be shaped as a dome instead of a cylinder.
Suitable plasma apparatuses include the Gamma 2100, 2130 I2CP (Interlaced Inductively Coupled Plasma), G400, and GxT offered by Novellus Systems, Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Other apparatuses include the Fusion line from Axcelis Technologies Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, the TERA21 from PSK Tech Inc. in Korea, and the Aspen tool from Mattson Technology Inc, in Fremont, Calif.
FIGS. 2A to 2D depict various stages of semiconductor fabrication before and after ion implantation and stripping operations. FIG. 2A shows a semiconductor substrate 201 coated with photoresist material 203. The substrate 201 may include one or more layers of deposited film, e.g., oxide film, silicide contact, and/or polysilicon film, or may be a bare silicon substrate, including for example a silicon-on-insulator type substrate. Initially, the photoresist material coats the entire substrate surface. The photoresist is then exposed to patterned radiation generated through a mask and developed to remove a portion of the material, e.g., the opening 204 shown in FIG. 2A between the remaining photoresist materials 203.
The substrate is then exposed to an ion implant process. During ion implant, the surface of the work piece or wafer is implanted with dopant ions. The process may be, for example, a plasma-immersion ion implantation (PIII) or ion beam implantation. The ions bombard the substrate surface, including the exposed silicon layer 201 and the photoresist 203. With high energy ion implantation, small amounts of the underlying material 207 may be sputtered to the photoresist sidewalls. See FIG. 2B. This material may include some of the implant species, other material in the plasma or ion beam, and by-products of the implantation. They include silicon, aluminum, carbon, fluorine, titanium, other contact materials such as cobalt, and oxygen in both elemental and compound form. The actual species depend on the composition of the substrate before ion implant, the photoresist, and the implanted species.
At the exposed silicon layer 201, a doped region 209 is created. The ion energy or intensity of the bombardment determines the depth or thickness of the doped region. The density of the ion flux determines the extent of doping.
The ions also impregnate the photoresist surface creating a crust layer 205. The crust layer 205 may be carbonized and highly cross-linked polymer chains. The crust is usually depleted of hydrogen and impregnated with the implant species. The crust layer 205 is denser than the bulk resist layer 203. The relative density depends on the ion flux while the thickness of the crust layer depends on the ion energy.
This crust layer 205 is harder to strip than the bulk photoresist 203 below. Removal rates of the crust layer may be 50% or 75% slower than the underlying bulk photoresist. The bulk photoresist contains relatively high levels of chemically bonded nitrogen and some of its original casting solvent. At elevated wafer temperature, e.g., above 150 to above 200° C., the bulk resist can outgas and expand relative to the crust layer. The entire photoresist can then “pop” as the underlying bulk photoresist builds up pressure under the crust. Photoresist popping is a source of particles and process defects because the residues are especially hard to clean from the wafer surface and chamber internal parts. With high-dose ion implantation, the density difference between the crust and underlying bulk photoresist layer is even higher. The crust may also be thicker.
FIG. 2C shows the substrate after a strip that fails to completely remove the photo resist 205 and the sidewall sputter residue 207. The sidewall sputter residue 207 may include particles that do not form a volatile compound under conventional strip chemistries. These particles may remain after a conventional strip operation. The residue may also include oxides of implanted species formed with the reactive oxygen used in the conventional strip chemistry, such as boron oxide and arsenic oxide. Portions of the crust 205 may also remain on the substrate. Crust sidewalls and corners at the bottom of photoresist vias may be hard to strip because of geometries.
These residue particles may be removed by overstripping in some cases, using fluorinated chemistry, or wet cleaning the wafer. Overstripping in conventional oxygen chemistry has been found to cause unwanted silicon oxidation but still not remove boron oxide and arsenic oxide residues if present. Using fluorinated compounds in plasmas generated in accordance with this invention produces fluorine radicals that can form volatile boron fluoride and arsenic fluoride. This helps remove residues but may unfortunately also etch underlying silicon and silicon oxide from the substrate. Use of the particular strip fluorinated chemistries in accordance with embodiments of this invention mitigates this problem.
Silicon loss is a function of resist thickness, crust thickness, and percent overstrip. Longer and more aggressive stripping to remove thicker resist can also remove more silicon. For resist with thicker crust, the difference between the crust layer and bulk resist layer is even more pronounced. The thicker crust sidewalls and corners are even harder to strip. Thus, strip processes designed to remove thick crust also tends to remove more silicon. Overstrip may be used to address resist uniformity and geometries in addition to residue removal. Overstrip is a continuation of the strip process past the point nominally required to remove all photoresist. If the photoresist is totally removed in some areas of the wafer but not others, continuation of the strip process would cause additional material, typically silicon and silicon oxide, to be removed from areas that are already stripped. Typical overstrip is about 100%.
FIG. 2D shows the substrate after all the residues has been removed. Preferably, the residue is removed without additional silicon loss or oxidation and with minimum delay. Even more preferably, the strip process leaves no residue and thus reduces the number of process steps.
The disclosed process and apparatus of the present invention use a hydrogen-based plasma chemistry with a weak oxidizing agent and a fluorine-containing gas to achieve a substantially residue free strip process with minimal silicon loss. The silicon loss is believed to be reduced because fluorine radicals in the plasma combine with hydrogen in the process gas to form hydrogen fluoride (HF) instead of remaining as fluorine radicals and etching underlying silicon. A combination of carbon dioxide and carbon tetrafluoride in the plasma has been demonstrated to strip away the post high dose implant photoresist leaving the substrate residue free or substantially residue free based on a SEM inspection or a defect inspection tool such as one from KLA-Tencor of Milpitas, Calif. This is accomplished with minimal overstrip (e.g., less than about 100% overstrip). According to various embodiments, a substantially residue free condition is indicated by less than about 3% inspected die having polymer defects as detected by a defect inspection tool.
An acceptable minimum silicon loss may be about 3 angstroms or less, preferably less than about 1 angstrom. Device requirements drive this minimum silicon loss regardless of resist thickness and other factors that may affect silicon loss. To reduce measurement errors, the silicon loss is typically measured by processing a wafer through the same strip process a number of times, for example, 5 times before measuring the silicon loss on the device structure using an electronic microscope, e.g., transmission electronic microscope. The average silicon loss thus obtained is used to compare various processes.
Process Parameters Upstream Inlet Gas
A hydrogen-containing gas, typically comprising elemental hydrogen, is introduced to the plasma source. Typically the gas introduced to the plasma source contains the chemically active species that will be ionized in the plasma source to form a plasma. The gas introduced to the plasma source includes a fluorine containing gas such as carbon tetrafluoride, other fluorocarbons including C2F6 and hydrofluorocarbons, elemental fluorine, nitrogen trifluoride, sulfur hexafluoride. In certain embodiments, the fluorine containing gas is carbon tetrafluoride. In certain specific embodiments, the gas introduced to the plasma source comprises between about 0.1% to about 3% carbon tetrafluoride by volume. The gas introduced to the plasma source may include a weak oxidizing agent such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide and/or water. In certain embodiments, the weak oxidizing agent is carbon dioxide.
According to various embodiments, the inlet gas may include between about 1 and 99 volume percent, about 80 and 99.9 volume percent, or about 95 volume percent molecular hydrogen, between about 0 and 99 volume percent or 0 and 10 volume percent weak oxidizing agent, and between about 0.1 and 10 volume percent fluorine containing compound(s). In certain embodiments, the inlet gas may include between about 95 to 99 volume percent molecular hydrogen, between about 0.1 and 3 volume percent weak oxidizing agent, and between about 0.1 and 1 volume percent fluorine containing compound(s). In specific embodiments, the gas introduced to the plasma source comprises about 95% to 99% elemental hydrogen, about 1-3% carbon dioxide, and about 1% or less carbon tetrafluoride, all by volume.
The gas introduced to the plasma source may be premixed, partially mixed or unmixed. Individual gas sources may flow into a mixing plenum before being introduced to the plasma source. In other embodiments, the different gases may separately enter the plasma source. The gas introduced to the plasma source may have different compositions when used in different reaction stations of a multistation chamber. For example in a 6-station chamber, station 1 or station 6 may employ process gases with relatively higher amounts of fluorine containing gas to remove the crust or the residue, respectively. One or more of the other stations may employ process gases with little or no fluorine containing gas. Process gases with no carbon dioxide or weak oxidizing agents may also be used.
Methods of stripping photoresist and etch materials using hydrogen-based plasmas with weak oxidizing agents are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,288,484, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety and for all purposes.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,288,484 discloses removing material from a dielectric layer after an etch process according to the following sequence of operations: (a) placing a partially fabricated integrated circuit in a reaction chamber, (b) introducing gas comprising a weak oxidizing agent and hydrogen into the reaction chamber, and (c) applying RF power to form a plasma within the reaction chamber to convert at least a portion of the material to gaseous form, thereby removing at least a portion of the material from the partially fabricated integrated circuit. In preferred embodiments, the weak oxidizing agent comprises at least one of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide and water. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the weak oxidizing agent comprises carbon dioxide. In preferred embodiments where carbon dioxide is used, the gas comprises between about 0.1% to about 1.0% carbon dioxide by volume. In some embodiments, the gas further comprises at least one inert carrier gas such as helium, argon or nitrogen. In preferred embodiments, the gas does not comprise molecular oxygen.
Plasma Generation
Various types of plasma sources may be used in accordance with the invention, including RF, DC, and microwave based plasma sources. In a preferred embodiment, a downstream RF plasma source is used. Typically, the RF plasma power for a 300 mm wafer ranges between about 300 Watts to about 10 Kilowatts. In some embodiments, the RF plasma power is between about 1000 Watts and 2000 Watts.
Inert Gas
Various inert gases may be used in the stripping process. As explained, these gases are introduced downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the showerhead for mixing with the plasma. In a certain embodiments, the inert gas is argon or helium. In a specific embodiment, the inert gas is argon. However, any inert gas, including nitrogen and helium, may be used. In certain embodiments, the inert gas flow rate is between about 0.15 and 10.0 times the hydrogen flow rate. In certain specific embodiments, the inert gas flow rate is between about 1 and 3 times or about 2 times the hydrogen flow rate.
Inert Gas Inlet
The inert gas inlet may be any one of various types of gas inlets and may include multiple ports or jets to facilitate mixing with the plasma. The angle of the inlet jets may also optimized to maximize mixing. In one embodiment, there are at least four inert gas inlet jets. In another embodiment, there are sixteen inlet jets. In certain specific embodiments the angle of the inlet jets, as measured from the bottom of the plasma source, is zero degrees so that the inert gas is injected perpendicular to the direction of flow of the plasma entering the showerhead assembly (or the process chamber if there is no showerhead assembly) from the plasma source. An angle of zero degrees also corresponds to a direction parallel to the face of the work piece. Of course, other inlet angles may be employed, although in many embodiments, the angles are generally parallel to the work piece face.
Showerhead Assembly
According to various embodiments of the present invention the plasma gas is distributed to the work surface via a showerhead assembly. The showerhead assembly may be grounded or have an applied voltage to attract some charge species while not affecting the flow of neutral species to the wafer, e.g., 0-1000 watt bias. Many of the electrically charged species in the plasma recombine at the showerhead. The assembly includes the showerhead itself which may be a metal plate having holes to direct the plasma and inert gas mixture into the reaction chamber. The showerhead redistributes the active hydrogen from the plasma source over a larger area, allowing a smaller plasma source to be used. The number and arrangement of the showerhead holes may be set to optimize strip rate and strip rate uniformity. If the plasma source is centrally located over the wafer, the showerhead holes are preferably smaller and fewer in the center of the showerhead in order to push the active gases toward the outer regions. The showerhead may have at least 100 holes. Suitable showerhead include the Gamma xPR showerhead or the GxT drop-in showerhead available from Novellus Systems, Inc. of San Jose, Calif.
In embodiments in which there is no showerhead assembly, the plasma and inert gas mixture enters the process chamber directly.
Process Chamber
The process chamber may be any suitable reaction chamber for the strip operation being performed. It may be one chamber of a multi-chambered apparatus or it may simply be a single chamber apparatus. The chamber may also include multiple stations where different wafers are processed simultaneously. The process chamber may be the same chamber where the implant, etch, or other resist-mediated process takes place. In other embodiments, a separate chamber is reserved for the strip. Process chamber pressure may range from about 300 mTorr to 2 Torr. In certain embodiments, the pressure ranges from about 0.9 Torr to 1.1 Torr.
The process chamber includes one or more processing stations on which strip operations are performed. In certain embodiments, the one or more processing stations includes a preheat station, at least one strip station, and an over-ash station. Various features of the process chamber and the process station are disclosed in FIG. 1 and associated text. The wafer support is configured to support the wafer during processing. The wafer support may also transfer heat to and from the wafer during processing to adjust the wafer temperature as necessary. In certain embodiments, the wafer is supported on a plurality of minimum contacts and does not physically contact the wafer support surface plane. A spindle picks up the wafer and transfers the wafer from one station to another.
Suitable plasma chambers and systems include the Gamma 2100, 2130 I2CP (Interlaced Inductively Coupled Plasma), G400, and GxT offered by Novellus Systems, Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Other systems include the Fusion line from Axcelis Technologies Inc. of Rockville, Md., TERA21 from PSK Tech Inc. in Korea, and the Aspen from Mattson Technology Inc. in Fremont, Calif. Additionally, various strip chambers may be configured onto cluster tools. For example, a strip chamber may be added to a Centura cluster tool available from Applied Materials of Santa Clara, Calif.
Work piece
In preferred embodiments, the work piece used in accordance with the methods and apparatus of the invention is a semiconductor wafer. Any size wafer may be used. Most modern wafer fabrication facilities use either 200 mm or 300 mm wafers. As disclosed above, the process and apparatus disclosed herein strips photoresist after a processing operation such as etching, ion implant, or deposition. The present invention is suitable for wafers having very small features or critical dimensions, e.g., sub 100 nm, at 65 nm, or at or less than 45 nm. The low silicon loss feature of the HDIS as disclosed is particularly suitable for very shallow junctions of advanced logic devices. The present invention is also specifically suitable for wafers undergoing front end of the line (FEOL) ion implantation, especially high-dose ion implantation.
The plasma-activated species reacts with the photoresist and sputter residue on the wafer. At the wafer, the reactive gas may include a number of plasma activated species, the inert gas, radicals, charged species, and gas by-products. The volume concentration of various hydrogen species may be about 20-80% of the gas at the wafer. The volume concentration of various fluorine species may be 0.01% to about 2% or less than 1% . The volume concentration of various species from the weak oxidizing agent may be 0.05 to about 5% or about 1.2%. These species may include H2*, H2+, H+, H*, e−, OH, O*, CO, CO2, H2O, HF, F*, F−, CF, CF2, and CF3.
Process conditions may vary depending upon the wafer size. In some embodiments of the invention, it is desired to keep the work piece at a particular temperature during the application of plasmas to its surface. Wafer temperatures can range between about 110 degrees and about 500 degrees Celsius. To reduce the likelihood of photoresist popping described above, wafer temperature is preferably increased slowly until enough crust has been removed and photoresist popping ceases to be a concern. Initial station temperature may be about 110 degrees to about 200 degrees Celsius, for example, about 180 degrees Celsius. Later stations can use higher temperatures such as 285 degrees Celsius and about 350 degrees Celsius successfully with good strip rates.
FIG. 3 is a process flow diagram showing various operations in accordance with certain embodiments of the present invention. A wafer is positioned in a reaction chamber on a wafer support. At operation 301, a hydrogen-containing gas is introduced to a plasma source. A plasma is generated from the gas in operation 303. As more gas is added to the plasma source, the plasma flows downstream and mixes with an inert gas introduced at operation 305. Some of the charged species in the plasma may combine to form neutral, albeit activated, species. Together, the activated species and the inert gas flow through a showerhead face plate and react with photoresist on a wafer surface at operation 307. The reaction results in volatile by-products that are removed by the processing area with a vacuum pump at operation 309. The process may be repeated one or more times using different process parameters. For example, the wafer may be heated or cooled during iterations of the process. In another example, different initial hydrogen-containing gas and inert gas composition and flow rates may be used. Preferably, at least one of the iterations involves hydrogen-based gas including elemental hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon tetrafluoride. One or more of the iterations may involve hydrogen-containing gas that does not include carbon dioxide or carbon tetrafluoride.
According to various embodiments, the various iterations may be designed to target different portions of the photoresist, for example, the post high-dose implant resist having a crust and bulk resist regions discussed above. The first strip iteration in a first strip station may be designed to strip the crust layer. The first strip iteration may involve generating a plasma using elemental hydrogen, carbon dioxide (or another weak oxidizing agent), and with or without carbon tetrafluoride (or another fluorine containing gas) to specifically strip the crust layer. When the crust layer is sufficiently thin or completely removed, a second strip iteration may strip the bulk resist along with the residue and the remaining crust layer, often at a higher wafer temperature. The second strip process may be performed in a different processing station from the first strip process. The second strip process may employ plasma generated without the weak oxidizing agent or the fluorine containing gas, or both. After the bulk resist is removed, yet another strip process employing different gas compositions may be designed to strip the residue, if any. This residue stripping process may employ a fluorine containing gas to remove any oxidized implant species. The strip iteration described above may be performed in any order or frequency depending on the number of processing stations and the composition of the photoresist to be stripped. One skilled in the art would be able to tailor the concepts discussed herein to strip thicker or thinner crust having lower or higher resistance to the strip chemistry. Further, the concepts discussed herein is applicable to other situations when more than one layer of photoresist having different properties are stripped by different using strip chemistries to target different resist layers.
In this example, the impacts of carbon dioxide and carbon tetrafluoride on residue were investigated. 300 mm sized wafers were patterned with 45 nm structures and ion implanted with an LDD (lightly doped drain) in the P+ region. The resulting post high dose implant resist was about 2000 angstroms thick with a crust about 630 angstroms thick.
The wafers were stripped in a strip chamber having 5 plasma stations. The plasma was generated with RF power at 2000 Watts. The wafers were exposed to the plasma-activated reactive gas for about 20 seconds at each station for a total of 97 seconds. The wafer support temperature was 350 degrees Celsius. Chamber pressure was 900 mTorr. Hydrogen flow rate was 6 slm (standard liters per minute), and downstream argon flow rate was 14 slm. Carbon dioxide flow rate was varied between 0 and 150 sccm. Carbon tetrafluoride flow rate was varied between 20 and 40 sccm. Note that these flow rates are total flow rates for the entire chamber with 5 plasma stations. Each station receives about ⅕ of the total flow rate.
SEM photos of the wafers before and after stripping with various plasma-activated reactive gases are depicted as FIGS. 4A to 4D. FIG. 4A depicts a small portion of the wafer before stripping. Structure 401 is the post high-dose implant resist. Pads 405 include structures 403 thereon where the photoresist was removed during the patterning process. Thus the HDIS process removes structure 401.
In the first wafer as depicted in FIG. 4B, 20 sccms of carbon tetrafluoride and 150 sccms of carbon dioxide were added to the hydrogen to form the plasma. Worm like residues 407 remained after the process. In the second wafer as depicted in FIG. 4C, 40 sccms of carbon tetrafluoride and 150 sccms of carbon dioxide were added to the hydrogen to form the plasma. The strip resulted in no residue, as shown in FIG. 4C. In yet another wafer as depicted in FIG. 4D, 40 sccms of carbon tetrafluoride and no carbon dioxide was added to the hydrogen to form the plasma. Worm like formation of residue 407 was again observed. This result shows that the addition of carbon dioxide with carbon tetrafluoride can yield residue free film in hydrogen-based HDIS.
In this example, the effects of carbon dioxide flow rate and carbon tetrafluoride flow rate on silicon loss were independently examined. Silicon loss for HDIS under the same process conditions as that of Example 1 was measured for carbon dioxide flow rates of 0, 50, 100, and 150 sccm while the carbon tetrafluoride flow rate was held constant at 40 sccm. The results are plotted in FIG. 5A. Silicon loss is lowest at carbon dioxide flow rate of 150 sccm and highest when no carbon dioxide is added. This result shows that some carbon dioxide in the plasma reduces silicon loss.
Silicon loss for HDIS under the same process conditions as that of Example 1 was also measured for carbon tetrafluoride flow rates of 0, 40, 60, 80, and 100 sccm while carbon dioxide flow rate was held constant at 150 sccm. The results are plotted in FIG. 5B. The silicon loss appears to peak at carbon tetrafluoride flow rates of 60 to 80 sccm.
These results show that silicon loss is affected by flow rates of carbon dioxide and carbon tetrafluoride. For a particular film, one skilled in the art would be able to design an HDIS process that minimizes silicon loss and leaves the film residue free.
In another example, the effect of using different gas compositions at different stations was investigated relative to silicon loss and strip residue. The process conditions were the same as that of Example 1, except that the wafer support temperature is 250 degrees Celsius. In a first recipe, carbon tetrafluoride was employed in all stations at a total flow rate of 40 sccm. In a second recipe, carbon tetrafluoride was delivered only to RF stations 1 and 2 at a total flow rate of 20 sccm (10 sccm per station). Carbon dioxide flow rate was held constant at 150 sccm.
In both cases residue free substrates were obtained after HDIS process. The average silicon losses were 8.1 Å per cycle in the first recipe and 6.7 Å in the second recipe, a reduction of about 17%. A cycle is a complete pass through the tool, including processing at all stations. This result shows that a sequential stripping process using different gas compositions can reduce silicon loss while maintaining residue free substrates.
In this example, the effect of short process time per station and lower carbon tetrafluoride flow rate was investigated. In the first recipe, no carbon tetrafluoride was added and process time was 20 seconds per station. In the second recipe, carbon tetrafluoride was added at 10 sccm with strip process time of 10 seconds per station. In both recipes the wafer support temperature was 285 degrees Celsius.
In the first recipe, without the carbon tetrafluoride in the plasma, residue was found after the strip. The average silicon loss per cycle was 1.93 Å. In the second recipe, with the reduced carbon tetrafluoride flow and reduced process, the substrate was residue free with an average silicon loss per cycle of 3.12 Å. Although the first recipe had the lower silicon loss, the substrate after the strip was not residue free. This result shows that a reduced carbon tetrafluoride flow rate may be used with shorter process time to yield a residue free substrate.
In this example, carbon tetrafluoride was introduced into the plasma source at different stations. In the first recipe, 5 sccm of carbon tetrafluoride was introduced in RF station 1. In the second recipe, 5 sccm of carbon tetrafluoride was introduced in RF station 3. Silicon loss was measured after the first cycle and after the fifth cycle and averaged. The other process parameters are the same as that of example 1.
The first recipe yielded a residue free substrate. Silicon loss after the first cycle with carbon tetrafluoride was 14.4 Å. Silicon loss after the fifth cycle was 18.6 Å. The average silicon loss per cycle decreased from 14.4 Å to 3.7 Å.
Small amounts of residue were observed on the substrate after HDIS with the second recipe. Silicon loss after the first cycle was 6.9 Å, less than that of the first recipe. Silicon loss after the fifth cycle was 10.3 Å. The average silicon loss per cycle decreased from 6.9 Åto 2.1 Å.
This result shows that silicon loss using this chemistry is a self-limiting reaction where majority of silicon loss takes place in the first cycle. Additional processing does not remove much more silicon. This is an advantage over the conventional oxygen with fluorine stripping chemistry where total silicon loss is proportional to processing time. In cases where overstripping is necessary, e.g., when photoresist thickness is not uniform, an oxygen chemistry would cause more silicon loss than the hydrogen chemistry as disclosed.
This result also shows that the first cycle silicon loss is reduced if carbon tetrafluoride is not used. One skilled in the art may be able to delay the introduction of carbon tetrafluoride to reduce the total silicon loss.
Note that experimental results for these specific examples are shown to clarify and illustrate the effectiveness of methods of the invention and are not meant to limit the invention to any particular embodiments.
1. A method of removing material from a work piece surface in a reaction chamber, the method comprising:
introducing a gas comprising hydrogen (H2), a weak oxidizing agent, and a fluorine-containing gas into a plasma source;
generating a plasma from the gas introduced into the plasma source; and
exposing the material to the plasma to remove the material from the work piece.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising introducing an inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the weak oxidizing agent is selected from carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrous oxide, water, hydrogen peroxide and combinations thereof.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plasma source is upstream of a showerhead in the reaction chamber.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein electrically charged species in the plasma are discharged when they contact the showerhead.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the gas introduced into the plasma source comprises between about 0.1% to about 10% by volume of the weak oxidizing agent.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the gas introduced to the plasma source does not comprise oxygen (O2).
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the fluorine-containing gas is selected from carbon tetrafluoride, elemental fluorine, nitrogen trifluoride, and sulfur hexafluoride.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the fluorine-containing gas is a fluorocarbon.
10. An apparatus for removing material from a work piece surface comprising:
a reaction chamber comprising a plasma source, a showerhead coupled to the plasma source; a first gas inlet for introducing a gas into the plasma source, a second gas inlet downstream of the plasma source and upstream the showerhead, and a work piece support downstream of the showerhead, said work piece support comprising a pedestal and temperature-controlling mechanism to control a temperature of a work piece supported on the work piece support; and a controller for executing a set of instructions, said set of instruction comprising instructions to introduce hydrogen (H2), an oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas into the plasma source via the first gas inlet, wherein the oxidizing agent is selected from carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrous oxide and water; generate a plasma from the hydrogen, oxidizing agent and fluorine containing gas introduced into the plasma source, and introduce the generated plasma to the reaction chamber through the showerhead.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the set of instructions further comprise introducing an inert gas downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the weak oxidizing agent is selected from carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrous oxide, water, hydrogen peroxide and combinations thereof.
a reaction chamber comprising a plasma source, a showerhead coupled to the plasma source; a first gas inlet for introducing a gas into the plasma source, a second gas inlet downstream of the plasma source and upstream the showerhead, and a work piece support downstream of the showerhead; and a controller for executing a set of instructions, said set of instruction comprising instructions to introduce hydrogen (H2), an oxidizing agent, and a fluorine containing gas into the plasma source via the first gas inlet, wherein the oxidizing agent is selected from carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrous oxide, and water; generate a plasma from the hydrogen, oxidizing agent and fluorine containing gas introduced into the plasma source, and concurrently introduce an inert gas to the second gas inlet such that the inert gas mixes with plasma from the plasma source downstream of the plasma source and upstream of the work piece support.
Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc. (Fremont, CA)
Inventors: Haruhiro Harry Goto (Saratoga, CA), David Cheung (Foster City, CA)
Current U.S. Class: Plasma Cleaning (134/1.1); With Measuring, Sensing, Detection Or Process Control Means (156/345.24)
International Classification: H01L 21/02 (20060101); H01L 21/67 (20060101);
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Romney calls for unity following Colorado shooting
CNN's Shawna Shepherd and Jim Acosta
Bow, New Hampshire (CNN) – A campaign rally for Mitt Romney was devoid of politics following a deadly shooting in Colorado Friday.
"I stand before you today not as a man running for office, but as a father and a grandfather, a husband and an American," Romney said in New Hampshire. "This is a time for each of us to look into our hearts and remember how much we love one another."
A top Romney adviser said the candidate made the decision to set aside his usual stump speech to offer his own personal reflections on the tragedy.
"He wanted to say something," the adviser told CNN.
Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, introduced Romney to the crowd. Ayotte, who is rumored to be high on Romney's vice presidential search list, kept her remarks brief.
To offer a more respectful backdrop to the candidate's remarks, Romney's aides removed campaign signs from the event site in the early morning hours, an adviser to the GOP contender told CNN.
Instead, as Romney spoke to a crowd of approximately 200 supporters, an American flag was positioned behind on stage for the remarks. Another flag flapped in a light breeze overhead.
In his remarks, Romney said Americans' "hearts break" for the victims and families of the shooting, which took place at a movie theater outside of Denver early Friday morning.
"We pray that the wounded will recover, and that those who are grieving will know the nearness of God," Romney said. "Today, we feel not only a sense of grief, but perhaps also of helplessness, but there is something that we can do. We can offer comfort to someone near us who is suffering or heavy laden and we can mourn with those who mourn in Colorado."
Ahead of Romney's remarks, a couple hundred people who came to watch to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee unleash his latest attacks on President Barack Obama instead were bowing their heads with Father Christian Tutor to pray on behalf of victims and their families.
"I ask all of you to join me in whatever way that you would like to offer a prayer for all those who are mourning and for, of course, our own nation under God," the priest told the crowd.
In an impromptu moment following his remarks, Romney stood just outside the seating area for his event, shaking hands and sharing hugs with nearly all of the supporters who stood in line to meet the candidate. "He just decided to do this," a top Romney adviser explained to CNN.
Tutor, the Anglican priest who gave the prayer and Sen. Kelly Ayotte joined him. Before he left Romney thanked the priest for his "very touching, very moving" remarks.
Romney's campaign said Friday they would pull television advertisements in Colorado.
In a statement released earlier Friday morning, Romney said he and his wife Ann were "deeply saddened" by news of the shooting, which took place at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado.
"We are praying for the families and loved ones of the victims during this time of deep shock and immense grief. We expect that the person responsible for this terrible crime will be quickly brought to justice," Romney wrote.
An adviser said Romney missed having his wife at his side in New Hampshire. Ann Romney was in Michigan for a campaign event that was cancelled in response to the tragedy.
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ourjungle
There are a lot of border line nut cases running around in our miidst.....hard to say what will trigger them....yep, sometimes it does appear that the aslyum is running things.
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lisasc
I thought Gov Romney's words were very comforting.
Well Mitt, I looked into my heart and guess what, I do not love you, your offshore bank accounts, or the millions of jobs Bain Capital shipped offshore.
Dear John: I am guessing you did not work for a company that was closed after Bain Capital shipped production and jobs offshore, all in the interest of profit and greed.
The Real Tom Paine
-Fair is Fair
pitt04
Obama is a gift.
Maybe we can give him to Chavez on his next birthday.
This is a perfect example of how sick we are. The President and Governor Romney both call for reflection, and the only thing people can do is continue to engage in the same kind of sick, partisan attacks that have no place in this situation. Both campaigns have pulled political adds in CO today, and both cancelled or limited appearances out of respect for the dead. is it too much to ask if everyone else can do the same, or are we so hopelessly mired in hate that we can't do it for 24 hours?
IF YOU SIGNED GROVER'S PLEDGE, YOU ARE A TRAITOR TO THE U.S.
He prettty much used the same words the President did in his speech. Willard is so phony. Even in this time of grief, you can see how fake he is. If his speech was genuine, you would have been able to tell it came from his heart. But as we all know, Willard doesn't have a heart. God bless the families of the fallen and may God bless the United States of America.
glad romneys handlers told him it was ok to comment. he is following the example set by our classy president who cares about the average american. prayers for all the family'
he must be thrilled at this opportunity to appear human.
Woman In California so you think the only way to serve and protect our country is during a war? Surely Obama could have enlisted during peace time and help protect this country. Or was he too busy being a community organizer?
Yes, he wa busy being a community organizer, mastering his "victim" creation skills.
amlcpamaine
Yeah, so how does this pablum jive with the Paul Ryan budget plan that Romney endorses? How about cutting ALL the education and medical programs that help a) keep wackos to a minimum and b) keep the ones who go wacko in situations where they won't hurt anybody. Ryan and Romney want to create a great-underclass-worker-life of those with paltry public education, limited medical care, no psychiatric care and no community service care, and stick the cost of dealing with their wacko behaviors on the rest of us (because the billionaires pay even less tax).
Romney can't argue his way out of a paper bag when it gets to specifics, so he never does - just pablum and generalities.
This is why Romney is pulling ahead in the latest polls. He has leadership skills. Obama is probably going to whine, blame Bush, and tell us that if he had a son, he would look just like this gunman.
tkret
That's a description of obama. Only he's never been higher than a community disorganizer.
Romney should call for the NRA to stop opposing gun control legislation.
The idiots on this board are disgusting, heartless, incompetent, and pathetic. Time for some serious reflection of my democratic roots. I'm not one of these, am I??
TomGI
"offer his own personal reflections"
Yeah, the thing is; A.) It's still a photo op so he wants to be on TV and B.) Nobody cares about your personal reflections
So shut up dummy.
thinkingperson
Unity? Love one another? Really? REALLY???? Nothing about preventing nuts from obtaining guns? No suggestion that it's time to enact REAL gun control? What a waste of human flesh!!!
NicPayne
The world is mostly good and positive when you turn off the media sensationalism tube. Each person is tasked with asking themselves; out of the 1,440 minutes in a day, how many were spent suffering at the hands of random violence? really. Most people would have to say none. The consent innudation of negative news makes people "feel" that they are surrounded by harm but inreality most of your fear is imagined.
As for these moviegoers I hope they can heal with as much normalcy as possible and not live their life in constent fear as this type of event more than likely will never happen again. Kinda like lightning hitting the same place twice; very remote
The fools on both sides can't help themselves!! They are devoid of emotion and a heart or soul Shame on all of the posters on BOTH sides who try to use this tragedy for political gain. Try, for once, to be an adult.
Dear Terry – you are a perfect example of a child. Grow up. This is a time to comfort those who are suffering.
CHLTexas
Bloomberg is an idiot. How does more gun control prevent this? Criminals and the criminally insane, like this moron James Holmes don't live within the gun control laws. Criminals will get guns however they can. CHL holders like myself pass FBI background checks in order to have the right to carry. What criminal have you met that subjected themselves to an FBI background check to get a gun? NONE!!
i12bphil
I don't agree with the President's policies or politics, but this was absolutely the right thing to say. This is a day that is not for politics. I am in complete agreement and thank him for his thoughtfulness and sentiments. To bad 90% of people posting here don't seem to be able to hear it.
After reading all the liberal postings concerning the need for more gun control, I have come to the conclusion that being a liberal equals being a "victim" creator. Liberals don't seem to understand that outlawing guns won't keep the criminals from having them (forehead slapping moment!!). But the criminals will know that their victims won't be armed and be able to fight back.
Romney is not the president of these United States. . . So who cares about what he thinks or says about these tragic killings? The elected President got this.
Woman In California
correction: I meant Taran, you aren't even relevant anymore.
"Devoid of politics" ? The author must be a comedian.
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Ponemon-Sullivan Privacy Report
It's 10 p.m.: Do you know where are your apps are?
Larry Ponemon
Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the results of Application Security in the Changing Risk
Landscape sponsored by F5. The purpose of this study is to understand how today’s security
risks are affecting application security. We surveyed 605 IT and IT security practitioners in the
United States who are involved in their organization’s application security activities.
The majority of respondents (57 percent) say it is the lack of visibility in the
application layer that is preventing a strong application security. In fact, 63 percent of respondents say attacks at the application
layer are harder to detect than at the network layer and 67 percent of
respondents say these attacks are more difficult to contain than at the network
Following are key takeaways from this research.
Lack of visibility in the application layer is the main barrier to achieving a
strong application security posture. Other significant barriers are created by
migration to the cloud (47 percent of respondents), lack of skilled or expert
personnel (45 percent of respondents) and proliferation of mobile devices (43 percent of
respondents).
The frequency and severity of attacks on the application layer is considered greater than
at the network layer. Fifty percent of respondents (29 percent + 21 percent) say the application is attacked more and 58 percent of respondents (33 percent + 21 percent) say attacks are more severe than at the network layer. In the past 12 months, the most common security incidents due to insecure applications were: SQL injections (29 percent), DDoS (25 percent) and Web fraud (21 percent).
Network security is better funded than application security. On average, 18 percent of the IT security budget is dedicated to application security. More than double that amount (an average of 39 percent) is allocated to network security. As a consequence, only 35 percent of respondents say their organizations have ample resources to detect vulnerabilities in applications, and 30 percent of respondents say they have enough resources to remediate vulnerabilities in applications.
Accountability for the security of applications is in a state of flux. Fifty-six percent of
respondents believe accountability for application security is shifting from IT to the end user or
application owner. However, at this time responsibility for ensuring the security of applications is dispersed throughout the organization. While 21 percent of respondents say the CIO or CTO is accountable, another 20 percent of respondents say no one person or department is responsible.
Twenty percent of respondents say business units are accountable and 19 percent of
respondents say the head of application development is accountable.
Shadow IT affects the security of applications. Respondents estimate that on average their
organizations have 1,175 applications and an average of 33 percent are considered mission
critical. Sixty-six percent of respondents are only somewhat confident (23 percent) or have no
confidence (43 percent) they know all the applications in their organizations. Accordingly, 68
percent of respondents (34 percent + 34 percent) say their IT function does not have visibility into all the applications deployed in their organizations and 65 percent of respondents (32 percent + 33 percent) agree that Shadow IT is a problem.
Mobile and business applications in the cloud are proliferating. An average of 31 percent of
business applications are mobile apps and this will increase to 38 percent in the next 12 months. Today, 37 percent of business applications are in the cloud and this will increase to an average of 46 percent.
The growth in mobile and cloud-based applications is seen as significantly affecting
application security risk. Sixty percent of respondents say mobile apps increase risk (25
percent) or increase risk significantly (35 percent). Fifty-one percent of respondents say cloud based applications increase risk (25 percent) or increase risk significantly (26 percent).
Hiring and retaining skilled and qualified application developers will improve an
organization’s security posture. Sixty-nine percent of respondents believe the shortage of
skilled and qualified application developers puts their applications at risk. Moreover, 67 percent of respondents say the “rush to release” causes application developers in their organization to
neglect secure coding procedures and processes.
Cyber security threats will weaken application security programs, but new IT security and
privacy compliance requirements will strengthen these programs. Eighty-eight percent of
respondents are concerned that new and emerging cyber security threats will affect the security
of applications. In contrast, 54 percent of respondents say new and emerging IT security and
privacy compliance requirements will help their security programs. According to respondents,
there are more trends expected to weaken application security than will strengthen security.
The responsibility for securing applications will move closer to the application developer.
Sixty percent of respondents anticipate the applications developer will assume more responsibility for the security of applications. Testing for vulnerabilities should take place in the design and development phase of the system development life cycle (SDLC). Today, most applications are tested in the launch or post-launch phase (61 percent). In the future, the goal is to perform more testing in the design and development phase (63 percent).
Do secure coding practices affect the application delivery cycle? Fifty percent of
respondents say secure coding practices, such as penetration testing, slow down the application delivery cycle within their organizations significantly (12 percent of respondents) or some slowdown (38 percent of respondents). However, 44 percent of respondents say there is no slowdown.
How secure coding practices will change. The secure coding practices most often performed
today are: run applications in a safe environment (67 percent of respondents), use automated
scanning tools to test applications for vulnerabilities (49 percent of respondents) and perform
penetration testing procedures (47 percent of respondents). In the next 24 months, the following practices will most likely be performed: run applications in a safe environment (80 percent of respondents), monitor the runtime behavior of applications to determine if tampering has occurred (65 percent
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It’s 10 p.m.: Do you know where are your apps are?
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2016 by Bob Sullivan.
Submarine builder declares 'economic warfare' as plans for ship said to be hacked; now what?
Get used to another term in world of computer hacking: “economic warfare.”
A French firm building multi-billion-dollar submarines for Australia and several other nations says it was the victim of economic warfare after some of its schematics for similar subs being built for India were released online, allegedly by hackers. The data was published by Australian media
The firm, DCNS, is currently bidding for military contracts in Poland and Norway. For the India gig, it had beaten out German and Japanese firms.
An embarrassing data leak would obviously hurt the French firm’s bid for more deals — in addition to perhaps imperiling the security of its current projects.
“DCNS has been made aware of articles published in the Australian press related to the leakage of sensitive data about Indian Scorpene,” the firm said on its website. “This serious matter is thoroughly investigated by the proper French national authorities for Defense Security. This investigation will determine the exact nature of the leaked documents, the potential damages to DCNS customers as well as the responsibilities for this leakage.”
Right now, there’s only speculation about how much the allegedly stolen data might impact the security of the ships when they arrive in India — and the security of similar DCNS ships in Malaysia and Chile.
But DCNS immediately suggested that rivals might be to blame for the leak.
“Competition is getting tougher and tougher, and all means can be used in this context,” a company spokesperson said to Reuters. “There is India, Australia and other prospects, and other countries could raise legitimate questions over DCNS. It’s part of the tools in economic warfare.”
It’s clearly too early to know, however, if simple corporate espionage is to blame — or there might be some military advantage to be gained from publication of the documents. Given that the alleged hackers send the data to a media outlet, it’s also possible their motivation was political.
The incident does highlight the asymmetrical nature of digital “warfare,” however. A billion-dollar project involving thousands of employees can be derailed by a single person with a digital file and a the e-mail address of a journalist.
“If this was economic warfare as speculated, we can expect more attacks like this on a global scale,” said Scott Gordon, COO at file security firm FinalCode. “Hacktivists are motivated by reputational, economic and political gains from capitalizing on businesses’ and countries’ inability to secure sensitive, critical documents— tipping the scale in favor of other contenders in future military action and contracting situations.”
It also shows how hard it is to keep data under wraps when multiple third-party contractors have to share information in large projects.
“Sharing files, such as the 22,000-plus pages of blueprints and technical details on DCNS’s Scorpene submarines, is a necessary collaboration between government, contractor and manufacturing entities,” Gordon said. “But the exposure of these Indian naval secrets illustrates how lax file protection has opened a door to new data loss risks—and how even confidential military information can be exfiltrated and exposed by a weak link in the supply chain.”
Submarine builder declares ‘economic warfare’ as plans for ship said to be hacked; now what?
The cybersecurity threat to financial technology and software
Popular beauty/selfie apps from China ‘spy’ on users; Grindr, Tindr, dating apps accusing of privacy violations
Cyberattacks on SMBs rising globally, becoming more targeted and sophisticated
No Place to Hide podcast: When privacy is a matter of life and death
Paper can be ‘hacked,’ too – the forgotten document problem
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Please be aware that this excerpt contains sensual content that is only suitable for adult readers who are comfortable with frank language and descriptions of erotic scenarios
Find out what happens in an alternate universe when a drop dead gorgeous amnesiac [who might once have been the Eighth Doctor Who, allegedly] turns up on the doorstep of beautiful and sensual widow Claudia Marwood...
When a confused and mysterious young man stumbles into the life of the recently widowed Claudia, he reignites her sleeping sexuality. But is the handsome and angelic Paul really a combination of innocent and voluptuary, amnesiac and genius? Claudia's friends become involved in trying to decide whether or not he is to be trusted. As an erotic obsession flowers between Paul and Claudia, and all taboos are obliterated, his true identity no longer seems to matter.
N.B. Something of a period piece now, The Stranger is a reprint of a title first written in the early 1990s, and thus predates a lot of the familiar technology we take for granted today e.g. mobile phones, high speed internet, GPS etc.
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Chapter 1. The Man in the River
There was a storm coming.
Claudia Marwood looked up at the sky, and seeing only its high, blue canopy, pasted with a thin scattering of hazy gauzelike cloud, she wondered why she found the lovely sight portentous. It was a perfect summer's day, a classic, yet something inside her sensed the distant threat of thunder. She couldn't hear or see it, yet she knew it was on its way.
She paused in the scullery, eyeing her umbrella, and the light cotton jacket she sometimes wore out in the garden on cooler days. Don't be a wimp! she told herself firmly, taking only a broad straw sun hat with a yellow ribbon, then stepping out onto the terrazzo tiled patio at the back of her house. If it does rain, you'll get wet. So what? It won't kill you!
As she crossed the lawn, adjusting the angle of her hat as she went, she analysed her burst of small scale bravado. She felt wild, sort of, and slightly daring. It suddenly dawned her she was actually very happy.
What a relief! At last! Brilliant! Striding out faster, almost skipping, she enjoyed the spring of the immaculately cut turf beneath her sandal-clad feet, then felt faintly dizzy for a second as she inhaled the rich odours from her abundantly stocked flower beds. The roses, the sweet peas, the scented shrubs.
Good God, it was summer, she was as fit as a fiddle, she had no commitments and there was nothing at all that she had to do! The wood pigeons were cooing, honey bees were hovering over the roses and the pelargoniums, and she too shared their unquestioning contentment.
At the bottom of the garden a little lych gate led through into the copse beyond, and the path beyond it led down towards the river. As Claudia passed through, she felt another rush of satisfaction. This was also her land, and she could enjoy her stroll in perfect peace without meeting other walkers. This new feeling of hers had a delicate quality to it; and she wanted to examine it, and analyse it, not have it popped like a balloon before she could savour it. She would be wanting new people around her soon, she was sure of that, but for now, she felt more comfortable alone, or with just her closer friends.
And the copse on a summer's afternoon was a magical place to be alone. The dappled shade was green and fresh and cool. Alive, yet tranquil. Dense with a brooding quality of expectancy. It was the sort of place one might imagine sprites and elves could be found, although it was only the pigeons, the rustling leaves and the nearby river that chattered to each other.
Not that it hadn't been a nice place for company too, she thought, waiting for a pang of pain, then smiling when, thankfully, it didn't come. Only happy memories surfaced. Herself and Gerald, on another post-prandial summer walk, both tipsy on good wine and feeling silly and rather randy. They had rolled in the undergrowth and actually fucked here, beneath an old tree that stood to her right. They had climaxed noisily amongst the ants and twigs and mud.
We were good together, she thought, taken all round. Her smile turned wistful. Oh, there had been rough patches, of course - the difference in their ages, and Gerald's devotion to business matters had meant that frantic fucks in the bushes were quite infrequent - but it was only the cheerful times that were printed in her memory. She imagined she could see where the grass and the ferns had been squashed down, and feel the good earth beneath her back, as she celebrated life with her lover, her husband.
But it wouldn't be with Gerald the next time, would it? Her dear old husband was dead, and had been for eight months. She would have a new lover in the copse one of these days though, when the time was ripe. And her husband's smiling shade would cheer them on.
Don't be weird, Claudia, she instructed herself, treading boldly onwards, and stepping over the occasional root, or straggling creeper that had strayed across the path. In the relative quiet of the woodland bower, she gradually became aware that the water-sounds ahead were changing. The leisurely flow of the river was still a reassuring susurration in the background, but there was a louder, more arrhythmic splashing too. The sound made by a human occupation of the water. Where the river bellied out, diverted by an island of rocks, there was a wide, inviting pond, and from the sound of things, it was obvious that someone was bathing there.
Claudia frowned. It wasn't that she begrudged people access to the land. And it wasn't clearly marked as private property, or fenced off in any way. It was just that she felt protective of her hard won little store of equilibrium, and her sudden and self-nurtured bud of happiness.
Despite her qualms, though, she moved on. You're going to have to break out some time, Mrs Marwood, she told herself, and it might as well be now. She could almost feel Gerald just behind her, pushing her forward.
But just as she was about to burst into the clearing and reveal herself, a dose of sixth sense told her to hold back. Slipping her hat off, she held herself quite still, her breathing shallow, then risked putting out a hand to draw aside the greenery and take a peek into the open area beyond.
Sitting on a rock where she often sat herself, to dangle her feet in the pool, was a naked man, dangling his feet in the pool. Tall and young looking, he had a longish mop of curly mid-brown hair, and he was gazing down intently into the stiller area of water around his ankles. Whatever he saw there had produced a frown upon his face.
Once she had got over the initial shock of the young man's nudity, Claudia allowed herself to breathe properly again, and study his appearance more closely. He was very handsome, she quickly realised. Quite beautiful, in an eccentric sort of way. But there was something wrong, something disturbing or distressing him. He had obviously been responsible for the splashing she had heard, because his pale skin was gleaming with water, but he had climbed out again now, and was staring, in a fugue, at his own reflection. His angular but boyish face was certainly one Claudia would have happily stared at herself, for as long as he would allow her to, yet the manner in which he was contemplating himself was in no way narcissistic. He looked worried to death more than anything, almost afraid of his own attractive features.
And you've taken a beating too, haven't you, stranger? thought Claudia, noting that the young man's smooth, lightly muscled body sported several spectacular bruises in the area of his ribs and thighs. As he put up a hand, and brushed his soft, wild hair back off his brow, she saw that there was also a red and nasty graze upon his temple. When he touched this gingerly, and winced, she winced with him; but when, after a pause, he rose slowly and gracefully to his feet, what she saw then made her forget all thoughts of pain.
Oh yes! Oh yes yes yes!
Claudia felt a crazy urge to wolf-whistle, but kept the sound as a silent tribute inside her mind. Whoever this mysterious stranger was, his body was familiar to her senses. He had exactly the kind of physique she had always preferred in a man. Spare and lean, but strong looking; with fine, straight limbs, and a chest that was deep, nicely defined, but free of hair. His swinging penis was substantial and distinctly perky. Claudia would have liked a better look at that particular part of him, but he chose that moment to jump back down into the water.
Under cover of the aquatic commotion, Claudia crept a little nearer, and sank into a more comfortable semi-crouch. In spite of her concern about the young man's injuries, her overwhelming feeling as she watched him was excitement. A delicious, clandestine devilment that sped through her system like a fortifying wine. He was so gorgeous, so appealing, so unaware of her. She felt as if she was stealing pleasure from his winsome, youthful body.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, woman, she chided, grinning hugely, and feeling even more recovered than she had done earlier. She was a widow, and getting a little too close to middle age for her own liking, but the sight of this man, so innocently vulnerable, yet so tempting, filled the female core of her with sudden jolt of yearning.
Who are you, mystery man? she thought, feeling her own body come alive beneath her cotton dress and minimal, summer undies. And what are you doing here in my little bit of river?
After a few moments, what he was doing became quite evident. As Claudia watched from her hiding place, her heart hammering madly and her fingertips tingling with the denial of not touching him, the young man began a makeshift but strangely rigorous toilette.
First, he ducked his head, then rose again, rubbing at his tousled hair and making the motions of shampooing it. He washed his face carefully too, running his fingertips over his jaw as if he were monitoring the length of his stubble. His regretful shrug indicated that he generally preferred to be clean-shaven, but as there was clearly nothing he could do about it, he began to dash water over his arms and back and shoulders, again and again and again; so much so that Claudia wanted to race back to the house, and return with towels and shampoo and shower gel, and all the fragrant, expensive grooming products that a man so fastidious would clearly relish. He even scrubbed frantically at his teeth and his gums with the pad of his forefinger.
When he had attended to his upper body to his satisfaction, the young man moved towards the bank, into the shallower water, in order to wash himself just as thoroughly below the waist.
Claudia held her breath again. Believing himself alone, her cleanly young god was completely uninhibited, and after working his way up over his legs and thighs, he began massaging water freely over his buttocks and his genitals. Claudia watched wide-eyed as he meticulously scrutinised and dowsed himself; then shared his wry, but unexpectedly sunny smile when the inevitable physical reaction to this occurred.
It took her all her time not to sigh, then gasp, as the stranger's wet penis swelled into long, stiff erection between his fingers. As he handled himself, his lean young face became more tranquil, losing the expression of fear, and worried sadness that had seemed to haunt it. In the midst of her own arousal - a rush of wet heat between her legs that was so sudden and so copious it shocked her - Claudia realised that caressing himself was as much a comfort to the young man as it was an act of sex. He seemed reassured by his body's own responses.
But that took nothing away from the eroticism of his performance.
As the stranger's eyes closed and his head tipped back, Claudia felt as if a gate she had been pushing against had finally swung wide open. The feelings that had been coming back gradually were suddenly all-consuming. Watching the flashing fingers of the young man in the river, she gave herself permission to reach down and clutch her groin.
She wanted to laugh. She wanted to cry. She wanted to lie back, throw her legs apart and make herself come until she couldn't see straight. But most of all she wanted to thank her mystic stranger.
That bud of happiness was now an open flower.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
March 19, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
2007. Directed by Andrew Dominik.
Hypnotic, quiet, and dangerous, Andrew Dominik’s masterpiece, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an epic deconstruction of the Western and a bold commentary on America’s celebrity obsession.
Robert Ford is a 19 year old hanger-on to the legendary James Gang. In the wake of their last heist, he slowly inserts himself into James’s family, beginning an intricate relationship in which both James and Ford recognize the threat in the other man. As the decidedly non-glamorous violence begins to fray James’s already unhinged mind, Ford seizes the opportunity for glory, not fully understanding the ramifications of his deed until staring into his own, personal oblivion.
Casey Affleck delivers the performance of a lifetime as Ford. His grasp of the homoerotic undertones and soul crushing evolution of Ford is so exposed that he almost evokes pity for his treachery. The scene in which James takes his guns off is riveting. Affleck’s expression is pained orgasmic relief, while Brad Pitt’s Jesse James’s nihilistic embrace is flawless. Pitt portrays James as a near psychopath, barely held together by his wife and children. These two actors are muted lightning anytime they are together, playing a dangerous game in which every expression, every gesture has malicious designs.
The supporting cast is a knockout. Sam Shephard, Jeremy Renner, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider, Garrett Dillahunt, James Carville, Zooey Deschanel, Ted Levine, and Michael Parks are all solid, each of them outlaws in their own right. Sam Rockwell as Ford’s brother is gripping in his display of all consuming guilt.
The always mysterious Nick Cave partnered with fellow Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis to create an engrossing, and haunting score that compliments the existential symmetry to near perfection. Patricia Norris’s costume design is yet another pristine component of Dominick’s charade. This is a film that is lived in and used up. The legends of the dying west are real and flawed, hiding their weaknesses behind fancy cravats and sterling watch chains. Janice Blackie-Goodine’s set decoration is meticulous, faithfully cataloging the world that was for the lost souls that wander throughout.
All of these elements are a distant second to Richard Deakins’s transcendent cinematography. Using a variety of lighting to create authentic, blurred edges, while simultaneously capturing the natural beauty of the Western Canadian landscape that was used for the film. The train sequence is a miracle to behold. Deakins’s esoteric approach to the use of light has to be witnessed in order to fully understand how special his work on this film is.
Dominik’s command of these powerful tools is almost to good to be true. His script takes its time, examining each theme with endless scrutiny. The cost of fame is the center of the wheel, while celebrity idolatry, forbidden love, and mental illness are the spokes that move Dominik’s dark epiphany to it’s quiet conclusion. The narration of Hugh Ross is another elegant nail in the romanticized American West’s coffin. What begins as a thorough examination of the end of Jesse James unrepentant existence ends as a footnote in an era where popular opinion made devils into legends and cowardice into a matter of intent and opportunity.
Available now for digital streaming, and running at a colossal 160 minutes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an entrancing addition to the Western genre. A revisionist epic on the surface, this more of an experience than a film. It demands patience and thoughtful examination of it’s subject matter, which provides a visually poetic meditation on so-called heroes and those who blindly worship them.
Highly. Highly Recommend.
-Kyle Jonathan
Kyle Jonathan
Resident Evil Film Series
March 8, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
2002-2017 . Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alexander Witt, & Russell Mulcahy.
Initially based on the popular video game franchise, the Resident Evil films are equally maligned by critics and revered by loyal fans. Rather than breaking down each individual film, this review will be about the work as a whole, focusing on the themes of the series.
Filled with endless Looking Glass allegories, on the surface, these stories are about the evolution of Alice, the series’ protagonist. The manipulation of memory, dreamlike flashbacks, and a repetitive rhythm form the basis of Resident Evil’s mythology. Alice begins the film as the mirror of a video game persona. Confused and abandoned in a lush mansion that sits atop a nefarious laboratory, she descends into the madness below, embarking on an odyssey of bullets, blades, and the undead. The thing is, none of it actually matters because the films purposefully abandon the plot of the game in favor of making a rather provocative statement.
Each entry has a theme. The first film is focuses relationships and how the same event is remembered differently by the two participants. The second film is explores the military as a business, while the third is an apocalyptic story about the culture of government surveillance. The fourth is a dissertation on cloning and multiple past lives. The fifth brings these elements together by forcing the hero to work with the villain in order to save humanity. The six and final entry is the capstone, a summation Anderson’s iconoclastic vision.
It doesn’t fully click until the fifth film, when the various clues hidden in each film start to come together: There’s a beautifully shot sequence by Glen Macpherson involving an endless procession of clones, all of them various characters from each of the films. No matter the environment, the women are always scantily clad while the men appear as macho ideas rather than fleshed out characters. Virtually every film is critically panned but yet manages to make a staggering amount of money. Finally, there is the idea of the good guys being forced into bed with their corporate foils in order to succeed.
These films are a scathing indictment of Hollywood and a love song to creative freedom. They’re remarkably presented and equally catty, all while espousing the idea that art, in its various forms is a part of the creator who gives it life.
Recycled characters and plot lines, hordes of zombie like fans, authoritative control on everything we experience down to our visual memories, and on and on and on. The argument loses some water with reference to the first two films, but in the third, when the series finally finds its stride is where it begins to reveal its true intent. The final three films, helmed by Anderson drive the point home. They feature some legitimately beautiful cinematography by Macpherson, pure adrenaline laced fight choreography by Brett Chan, wicked costumes by Wendy Partridge, and a performance by Milla Jovovich that is both committed to the story and loyal to the rebellious underpinnings.
Available now for digital rental, the Resident Evil series of films may not be for everyone, but the sum of its parts is an important examination of the current box office obsession that is dividing fans and critics, crushing independent creativity, and burning virtual bridges across social media. It took a fellow film lover to point my attention to the artistic level of these films and once I revisited them with this idea in mind, I’m unable to disregard them as D level horror entries. These (particularly the last four) movies are renegade film making at its finest. If you’re interested in seeing some outstanding action sequences, gorgeous visuals, and an unapologetic ode to personal creativity, these films will not disappoint.
Tim Burton’s Batman Begins
1992. Directed by Tim Burton.
A landmark achievement and Burton’s masterpiece. Batman Returns marked the beginning of serious, adult themed superhero films with absolutely zero apologies. There’s so many pieces at work in this tragic fairy tale that it’s difficult to stay focused. It delves into human despair; highlighting rejection, loss, and the life of a victim after traumatic abuse.
Danny Devito and Michelle Pfeiffer deliver the performances of their careers and were both criminally robbed of Oscar nominations. Devito’s Penguin, a menacing troglodyte from the sewers symbolizes the refuse of the American Dream, discarded by his socialite parents for his physical and emotional deformities. He chews up every scene with malicious heartbreak, a son scorned by denial.
Opposite him, is the Catwoman. Pfeiffer’s absolutely brilliant incarnation of Batman’s constant foil is unforgettable. She forces the viewer to confront the inequalities in the boardroom and in the bedroom. On first glance, it’s easy to dismiss her as a leather clad dominatrix and I believe that is Burton’s intent. It is through this satire that she becomes the epitome of a victim’s rage and it’s simply delicious to watch her spar, both verbally and with claws.
Keaton brings the usual anchor as Batman, whose own demons take a backseat to the troubles of the rogue gallery that are an organic response to the costumed vigilante’s presence in Gotham. Walken fills out the cast as a white-haired mogul, a modern day symbol of the wealth that rejected the Penguin in his youth, thus showing that ultimately, greed is a spirit as real as Gotham itself.
Stefan Czapsky’s cinematography shows a Christmas time Gotham in its death throws, with blacks, white, and grays flooding the visuals. The concept of death is in the very foundation of the city, brought to life with Cheryl Carasik’s breathtaking set pieces. The costumes are a marvel and transcend the superhero mores with a sense of desperation, due to Bob Ringwood and Mary Voight’s creative efforts.
Some could argue this is not really a Batman film, but more a Burton film and thus that is why it is such a masterwork. I contend the opposite. Batman is a story, at its core, about loss, searching for acceptance, and the inevitability of ones actions coming to fore. I think it is for these reasons that Burton chose Batman as the setting for his turbulent Shakespearean tragedy.
You can’t help but marvel at the spectacle, and the stench of Gotham’s sewers will follow you home, long after you’ve left the film behind.
Clive Barker’s Nightbreed
February 19, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
Nightbreed (Director’s Cut)
1990. Directed by Clive Barker.
Clive Barker’s most ambitious film, Nightbreed was hacked to pieces by studio execs prior to release and then by critics after its lackluster debut. Horrendously marketed as a slasher film, Barker’s misunderstood opus has thankfully gained a cult following over the years, and a recent Director’s Cut release by Scream Factory, allowing Barker’s incoherent monster-centric fable to be viewed in its intended form.
Boone is a drifter who thinks he may be killing people. His dreams are filled with visions of a city called Midian, a place where monsters dwell. He sets out in search of the city with his paramour, Lori. Pursued by the authorities and his murderous therapist, Decker, Boone discovers that Midian is not only real, but that his coming has been foretold by dead gods, prophesying a war between the inhospitable forces of humanity and the savagely noble legions of outcast creatures known as the Nightbreed.
The biggest problem with this film is also its strongest attribute. Barker throws so many balls into the air that it’s a foregone conclusion that not everything will hit the mark, and yet, Nightbreed comes off as wonderful combination of serial killer fodder, a Gothic fairy tale, and a hauntingly rich form of original mythology. There are dozens of characters that inhabit Barker’s epic with the monsters eclipsing their human foils, save for David Cronenberg’s sadistic Decker, who is one of the more vital roles in the bloated ensemble. Oliver Parker as Peloquin is the monstrous standout, with his flesh dreaded faux Rastafarian killer barking the film’s best lines.
Mark Coulier’s freakish makeup designs are both elegant and obtuse, as some creatures appear as tangible nightmares and others come across half rendered, in part due to Robin Vidgeon’s stormy cinematography that bounces through lonely cemeteries and ancient catacombs without stopping to catch a breath. The shame is that many of the creature designs are revealed as horrific intricacies, whenever the viewer is allowed to glimpse their unspeakable splendor. Danny Elfman’s amazing score enhances the mythic quality of the story, but it’s offset by the cardboard villainy of the humans and the wholesale familial slaughter that looms in the background throughout the narrative.
A feeling of too little, too fast is the mantra of Nightbreed. What begins as a menacing serial killer story mutates into a quest for Midian, with Boone’s Christ-like ascension saturating the central act. There’s also the race war between the monsters and humans and the various social dynamics of the underworld that come into play, but in regrettable portions. The confusion is when all of these elements collide in an uneven stream of sexually charged violence during the final confrontation. Despite the inconsistencies, the final battle is an amazing blend of CGI, practical effects, and gritty stunt choreography that is easily Nightbreed’s strongest aspect.
Available now on Netflix, or on an excellent blu ray transfer by Scream Factory, Nightbreed is a unique horror saga that succeeds as much as it fails. The director’s cut fills in many gaps, but also leaves the viewer wanting more, which while eternally frustrating, is also a testament to Barker’s meticulous world building. This is a film that drives the viewer down a pot hole ridden dirt road into another world filled with esoteric mysteries and dark wonders, delivering an excellent horror fantasy unlike anything ever attempted in the genre.
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Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow
February 1, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow takes a loose interpretation of Washington Irving’s classic story and infuses it with poetic Gothic visuals, a fragile Johnny Depp performance, and a heart felt homage to Hammer Film Productions, to create an artistic slasher film that defies genre conventions with its astounding art direction and beautifully captured sequences of operatic violence.
Ichabod Crane is a scientific police investigator who is dispatched to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders in which the corpses are being found without their heads. Soon after his arrival, Crane is thrown into the midst of scheming aristocrats, malignant chicanery, a precarious love interest, and the impending arrival of the spectral Headless Horsemen.
Filmed almost entirely on set, Peter Young and Rich Heinrich’s art direction creates the town of Sleepy Hollow from the ground up, with the artificial feeling of the sets enriching the dreamy atmosphere. The architecture has a Byzantine quality that offsets the colonial designs with a menacing undercurrent. Young and Heinrich would go on to win the Oscar for their work. Colleen Atwood’s Oscar nominated costume design takes Victorian tropes and uses a dash of steampunk to reinforce Crane’s outsider status, contrasting his big city cop with the town’s nobility, who cling to anachronistic ideals of pomp and circumstance.
Cinematography icon Emmanuel Lubezski uses a Stygian color palette and soft lighting to both emulate the Hammer Film ambiance and to present Sleepy Hollow as an ethereal revelry. While the action sequences are violent, even the bloodshed has an art house quality, so much so that the viewer often forgets they’re viewing a horror film, an undeniable byproduct of El Chivo’s Oscar nominated work. Long time Burton collaborator Danny Elfman scored the film, accentuating the Gothic vibe with droning organs and whimsical vigor.
Johnny Depp gives one of his most understated performances as Crane, the would be hero who is completely out of his element. He’s supported by Christina Ricci, Jeffrey Jones, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Christopher Walken, Caspar Van Dien, Richard Griffiths, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, and Martin Landau. Yes, you read that right. Burton assembled a well oiled machine of top shelf talent in which every participant gladly submits to the melodramatic terror with a playful sense of abandon. While Andrew Walker’s script doesn’t allow much time for attachment, the sheer amount of talent makes each kill scene a story unto itself, with each of the formidable actors having their moment in the fog drenched spotlight.
Available now on Netflix, Sleepy Hollow is vintage Burton and a riotous horror departure. Using amazing visual flourishes and tight cinematography to frame a well known story in a humorously violent package, this film is a welcome addition to any Halloween viewing list. Using a fable like presentation, replete with witches, demons, and redemption, Sleepy Hollow is a unique exercise in American folklore that delivers is a devilishly good fright film.
TOBE HOOPER’S THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
January 20, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
1974. Directed by Tobe Hooper.
Controversial. Appalling. Rebellious.
Tobe Hooper’s infamous masterpiece is a blue collar shocker that stalwartly remains one of the most seminal horror films ever conceived.
Five teenagers set out on a road trip across the blistering Texas back roads. They pick up a hitchhiker whose bizarre behaviors are a harbinger of the horrific events waiting to befall them. When they discover a decrepit farmhouse, the teens unwittingly come face to face with a taxidermic nightmare, a grotesque clan of backwoods killers who are looking for new additions to their congregation of flesh.
The combination of gruesome visuals and sweaty, screen door, Americana cover every inch of this slaughterhouse menagerie. Using a false premise, insinuating that the story actually occurred was a brilliant choice, evoking a lost America, steeped in esoteric pig’s blood and mud caked,work boots. Virtually every set could be plucked from a house the viewer has no doubt passed on an endless familial road trip as a child. The victims are realistically foolhardy and the violence is both brutal and unusually rapid, with most executions happening instantly. It’s the aftermath of the initial onslaught that garnered the film’s notorious reputation.
Daniel Pearl’s cinematography has a vintage quality that gives everything a secondhand feel, using psychedelic oranges to contrast the rustic blues and greens of the locale. The woods and surrounding environs of the farmhouse are captured with lush wide shots while the interior of the house is shot in a confusing procession of odd angles and extreme closeups. During the final act, everything switches to restrained voyeurism, including a wonderful long take of the family’s patriarch being brought downstairs for “dinner”. Robert Burns’s art direction has a repulsive quality that is the perfect accomplice. From the iconic skin mask of Leatherface to the otherworldly interiors of the house, the most frightening aspect of the film is the idea of what has already transpired, rather than the impending atrocities.
Almost every member of the cast was injured during production, Marilyn Burns as Sally and Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface display a torturous amount of body work. Budget constraints required that most of the cast do their own stunts, one of which involved a live chainsaw being perilously close an actor’s neck. Real blood was used in one of the film’s more dubious scenes and Burns’s costume was so saturated in theater blood that it had almost completely calcified when filming concluded.
The film was banned in several countries for its depiction of apathetic violence, and yet, for a horror film, the actual on screen bloodshed is remarkably tame when put against modern contemporaries in the genre. The combination of lighting effects and Larry Caroll and Sallye Richardson’s serrated film editing leave the bulk of the gore to the viewer’s subconscious. Hooper and Wayne Bell’s nails on chalkboard soundtrack is the final piece, using an industrial arsenal to mimic Leatherface’s primal savagery.
Available now on Amazon Prime and Huluplus, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an outstanding piece of terror that is essential viewing for any film fan. This is one of the horror titans, using a wonderful combination of independent film tactics to produce a blood slicked masterwork. On the surface, this is a legendary slasher film, but deeper examination reveals a thoughtful horror film that delivers unforgettable imagery and a thought provoking commentary on post Vietnam America’s specious grandeur.
January 8, 2018 39frames Leave a comment
2012. Directed by Panos Cosmatos.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is a film out of time, a bad acid nightmare that would have been right at home on the VHS shelves of the 1980’s. An exercise in personal catharsis for the director after losing his parents, Rainbow is an amalgam of surreal cinematic influences, that uses confounding and genuinely gorgeous alien aesthetics to present an unsettling exploration of what lies beyond the limits of the human mind.
Elena is a teenager who is a captive in a scientific prison underneath the Arboria Institute, a new age research company whose aim is to achieve transcendence through extensive indulgence in psychotropic narcotics. Her captor is Dr. Barry Nyles, Dr. Arboria’s heir apparent, whose mind and body were cosmically altered after a ghastly inter-dimensional encounter in 1966 that left Elena’s mother dead and Dr. Arboria in a fugue state. Nyles has become infatuated with Elena’s psychic abilities, believing they hold the key to the mysteries of the subconscious. As Nyles gradually slips into pure madness, Elena harnesses her preternatural abilities and attempts a desperate escape into an alternate reality in which the Cold War’s threat of nuclear extinction is but one of many horrors waiting in the darkness.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is jigsaw origami. The surface level is relayed through sharp angles and psychedelic colors that present Elena’s ordeal as a reverse Alice in Wonderland. Beneath the LSD convolution lies a subversive criticism of the baby boomer generation, presenting the casualness of the demographic as the Black Rainbow, a metaphysical point of no return that mankind had no place crossing in the first place. The theme of personal improvement and evolution pervades throughout the glacial narrative, with Cosmatos presenting strange technology, malignant psychic capabilities, and the bio-mechanical horrors of the Arboria Institute as the yield from foolhardy experimentation fueled by manic obsession.
Norm Li’s cinematography is jaw dropping, using a deluge of colors and framing techniques to give the Arboria Institute an otherworldly atmosphere that is simply unforgettable, evoking the compositions of Kubrick and Argento with skin crawling results. In particular, the 1966 flashback scene, shot in unfocused black and white is both terrifying and awe inspiring. Yes, the concession that many aspects of Beyond the Black Rainbow were taken from other films is undeniable. However, the way that Cosmatos assembles each nostalgic block into a psionic Jenga is pure, malicious brilliance. Within a few, precious minutes, you know you’re witnessing something truly different, the type of experimental voodoo that enraptures as much as it divides, and Rainbow is a prime example of one of these poisoned offerings.
Eva Allan conveys Elena’s torment as a form of telepathic bipolar, portraying a young woman whose entire life has been experienced through captivity. With only a lonely, unreliable television to keep her company, Elena fixates on the world outside and wishes only to be reunited with her father. Her chemistry with Michael Rogers’s Nyles is surprisingly potent, especially during the first therapy scene. Rogers’s gives a delirious turn with his villain, presenting Barry Nyles as the false prophet, a murderous prodigal son who maintains his human status through creepy cosmetics and a barely passable sense of endearment that sits atop a furnace of aberrant rage, epitomizing the film’s central theme that not only should man not seek to exceed it’s karmic limitations, but that success in such endeavors would only lead to a new dimension of unspeakable dilemmas.
Cosmatos’s script is filled with important details that will almost certainly be overlooked during an initial viewing. Astral communication happens through unplugged telephones, while an ominous Ronald Reagan monologue enshrouds Elena’s predicament. A disturbing diary contains the profane incantations of a madman and strange automatons, Sentionauts haunt the corridors of the institute, each of them baring a horrifying similarity to Elena’s child like visage. Almost every aspect of the film has an implied double meaning, electing to use limited dialogue and overwhelming visuals to construct a haunted house story told from the inside out.
Jeremy Schmidt AKA Sinoia Caves’s soundtrack is a synthesized love note to Tangerine Dream, one of the many influences on the film. Every song is perfectly applied to a specific segment, enriching the atmospheric occultation with an array of 80’s cult melodies. La Vonne Girard’s set designs, clearly influenced by Suspiria, present the interior of the institute as a post modern dungeon, filled with precarious open chambers that offer few places for Elena to hide. Kathi Moore’s costume design is devilishly simplistic, using a simple white dress for Elena and presenting Nyles as a shag carpet hold out from the institute’s free love origins. The Sentionauts, however, appear as crimson golems who remain suspended in their leather suits until activated, merging the deceptive mundane with the unnatural truths that lurk throughout.
Available now for digital rental, Beyond the Black Rainbow is one of the most unique films of the 21st century. From a distance, this movie is an extreme example of stylistic overkill for what appears to be a straightforward premise. However, if you’re patient with the slow burn allegory, Beyond the Black Rainbow has a plethora of dark wonders to explore, hidden among an eclectic blend of hallucinatory motifs and surreal horror. If you’re interested in a remarkably different, constantly elusive film, this is a one of kind viewing experience.
Highly. Highly Recommended.
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Tony Marsh, Bo’ness Hillclimb, Scotland: BRM P48 Part 1…
Posted: March 26, 2015 in F1, Obscurities
Tags: 1957 German Grand Prix, 1959 Italian Grand Prix, 1960 Belgian Grand Prix, 1960 British Grand Prix, 1960 Monaco Grand Prix, 1962 Brussells Grand Prix, Bo'ness Hillclimb, BRM P48, BRM P48 '484', Cooper T43 Climax, Dan Gurney, Graham Hill, Jo Bonnier, Tony Marsh
Tony Marsh working his 1960 BRM P48 chassis ‘484’, 2.5 litre ex-Bonnier 1960 F1 car very hard, lifting an inside rear wheel into ‘The Courtyard’, Bo’ness Hillclimb, Scotland 1966…
Two of the reasons why the content of this blog is eclectic are that it suits my broad racing interests and that a photo is usually the inspiration for an article, this shot is one of those! I tripped over it on ‘The Nostalgia Forum’, which is a wonderful place for those of you who may not paid it a visit. You can get lost in there for weeks! http://forums.autosport.com/forum/10-the-nostalgia-forum/
Lots of ex-GP cars have found their way into British Hillclimbing over the years and Tony Marshs’ BRM P48 is one of those…
The old and new…P25 and mid-engined P48 prototype ‘481’ on test, circuit unknown, August 1959 (Unattributed)
The 1951 BRM P15 supercharged 1.5litre V16 racer was a disaster, too complex, too late, a fabulous bit of kit and the greatest sound in motor racing full-stop. Aural orgasm is not going too far to describe its musical, mechanical, sonorous howl!
The design which followed, the P25 was the reverse- a simple 2.5 litre, DOHC, Weber carbed’, front-engined, space-frame chassis car which served BRM from 1955 to 1959, finally achieving a breakthrough win for Bourne in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix. Jo Bonnier the driver.
But by then the game had moved on, Cooper dominated with their Coventry Climax engined, simple mid-engined cars. Jack Brabham took the title in 1959 and 1960 with Coopers Types 51 and 53, Tony Rudd and his team needed to respond.
(Vic Berris)
BRM were famous for their engineering process and toolroom quality but the P48 was a ‘quick fix’, utilising as many of the P25 components as possible. In essence the P48 was a mid-engined variant of the P25, right down to its controversial, less than reliable ‘cookie-cutter’, single, gearbox mounted rear disc brake.
The ‘prototype’ chassis ‘481’ BRM P48 was tested in practice at the 1959 Italian Grand Prix, in September by both Harry Schell and Jo Bonnier. They stayed on at Monza for further testing. The P48 was then developed over the Winter of 1959/60 and made its race debut at Silverstone early in 1960. (John Ross Motor Racing Archive)
1960 was the last year of the 2.5 litre Formula, the P48 Mk II was more competitive than the first iterations used for most of the season and devoid of the ‘cookie cutter’ and using wishbone rear suspension formed the basis of BRM’s 1961 contenders design intent.
This car, the P57 was Coventry Climax 1.5 litre FPF powered until BRM’s fabulous and successful P56 1.5 litre V8 was developed. See this link; https://primotipo.com/2014/10/12/graham-hill-brm-p57-german-gp-1962/
The P48 evolved into the P57 delivering BRM’s first and only Manufacturers and Drivers Championships in 1962.
BRM P48…space frame chassis, 2.5 litre DOHC 4 ex P25 front engined car. Strut type rear suspension, ‘cookie cutter’ single rear disc, not the most elegant of mid-engined cars but a good first up effort given the design was not ‘clean sheet’ and BRM learn’t fast! (Unattributed)
Graham Hills’ P48 ‘485’ took 3rd place in the 1960 Belgian GP at Spa won by Brabhams’ Cooper T53 Climax. The weekend was one of GP Racings’ worst, Moss broke both legs after an axle failure, Mike Taylors’ steering failed, he crashed into trees dying of his injuries several days later. Both were driving Lotus 18’s, the accidents in practice. In the race Chris Bristow crashed his Cooper at Malmedy, pushing too hard and was killed, and Alan Stacey was hit in the face by a bird near Masta, also crashing and dying instantly. (Unattributed)
Tony Marsh attacking the Nurburgring in his Cooper T43 Climax, German GP 1957. (Unattributed)
Marsh was an iconic hillclimber, first taking the British Title in a Cooper Mk8 Jap in 1955, after two more successive wins he turned to circuit racing winning the British F2 Championship in 1957 with a Cooper T43 Climax. He also contested the 1957 German GP, finishing fifteenth in his F2 car and eighth in 1958 in a Cooper T45 Climax.
Marsh raced a private Lotus 18 Climax and his own BRM P48/57 1.5 V8 engined car in 1962 in some Non-Championship F1 events. Best placings were 4th in the Pau GP and 7th in the International Trophy at Silverstone.
He returned to hillclimbing in the mid-sixties winning the championship a further three times and was competing right up until the time of his death at 77 years of age in May 2009.
Tony Marsh ahead of Willy Mairesse in the 1962 Brussels GP held on 1 April. His BRM P48/57 was factory entered along with Graham Hills P57, both non-classified. The race was won by ‘Wild Willy’ in his Ferrari 156. (Unattributed)
Tony Marsh warming up his BRM P57 1.5 Litre V8 prior to practice of the ‘Aintree 200’ in April 1962. He qualified 10th, and retired on lap 6 with an oil leak , he had a lot of problems with this car! (Brian Tregilgas)
Bo’ness Hillclimb…
Bo’ness is 17 miles north-west of Edinburgh, the hillclimb used from 1934 to 1966 ran through the grounds of Kinneil House. James Watt of steam engine fame lived there, the grounds contain the ruins of his cottage and the boiler of his ‘Newcomen Engine’.
Tony Marsh set the record for the climb in June 1963, a record which stood for all time, the last meeting in June 1966. Revival meetings have been held in recent years.
Some former motor racing greats held the climbs’ record including Bob Gerard, Ken Wharton, Ron Flockhart and Jim Clark, early in his career with a Lister Jaguar in 1959.
Dan Gurney awaits adjustments to his P48 ‘486’ , Silverstone, British GP 1960. That transmission mounted ‘cookie cutter’ single rear disc and caliper clearly shown (Unattributed)
Jo Bonnier in the Tony Marsh BRM P48 ‘484’ at Monaco in 1960, he finished 5th. ‘Up his chuff’ is Stirling Moss, heading for victory in Rob Walkers’ Lotus 18 Climax (Unattributed)
The Nostalgia Forum, John Ross Motor Racing Archive, Brian Tregilgas, Doug Nye, Vic Berris
From Ballarat to Bathurst, BRM P48’s in Australia, Part 2…
https://primotipo.com/2018/03/16/bourne-to-ballarat-brm-p48-part-2/
graham64 says:
Great photo of Dan Gurney at Silverstone in 1960 – is he wearing a pair of business shoes?
markbisset says:
See 10 shots of Dan and 10 different shoes, usually not Racewear!
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(Featured Image: Lil’ Morris Day and Prince Nelson, in a still presumably from the cancelled Morris Babies TV series; photo stolen from Morris Day and the Time’s Facebook.)
The first four tracks recorded for the Time’s second album were all good to great: “The Walk,” “Gigolos Get Lonely Too,” “Wild and Loose,” and “777-9311,” each a highlight of the group’s overall catalogue. So, to truly live up to the legacy of their 1981 debut, they were long overdue for some filler. Recorded around the same time as “777-9311” in late Spring 1982, “Onedayi’mgonnabesomebody” was exactly that: a slight, palate-cleansing trifle to fill out the first side of the album.
But it isn’t just its throwaway nature that makes this track feel like a callback to the early days of the Time. It’s also the sound: retro rock’n’roll with a dash of New Wave kitsch, not dissimilar from one of Prince’s formative influences for the group, the BusBoys–and, of course, more than a little reminiscent of his own contemporary material. In particular, “Oneday”’s squiggly main synth line recalls “Horny Toad”–another song recorded around the same time and later released as the B-side for “Delirious”–with all of the rough edges and, frankly, most of the appeal buffed away.
Onedaythey’regonnabesomebody: the Time in 1981 (L to R: Jesse Johnson, Terry Lewis, Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Jellybean Johnson, Monte Moir). © Warner Bros., stolen from Lansure’s Music Paraphernalia.
Lyrically, “Oneday” returns to the well of songs like “After Hi School” from the Time’s first album, with singer Morris Day adopting the persona of a working-class youngster dreaming of future success. It wasn’t much of a stretch: during the fallow period between the breakup of Shampayne and his return to the Prince fold, Day had briefly worked in the rental car department of a Montgomery Ward in suburban Maryland–not quite the “car wash” described in the song’s lyrics, but it does add a touch of lived experience to the line, “if gettin’ to the top means washin’ a car, I’d be scrubbin’ with a smile on my face.” There’s also plenty of Prince’s own personal blend of ambition and work ethic in lyrics like, “If I should die before I’m rich, I pray the Lord my soul to keep / But if I’m rich before I die, I wanna work ’cause nothin’ comes cheap.” He’d explored similar themes in another song recorded in rough form in late 1981; that song, “Baby I’m a Star,” would handily overshadow “Oneday” both artistically and commercially when it finally saw release on 1984’s Purple Rain.
In fact, maybe the most enduring aspect of “Oneday” is the seemingly throwaway moment that occurs in its closing seconds: the song’s instrumental vamp is suddenly interrupted by the sound of a turntable needle dragging against the record, followed by a chorus of male voices–mostly Prince’s–declaring, “We don’t like New Wave!” and bursting into maniacal laughter. This, like the similar outburst on “The Walk”–which both follows “Oneday” on the album and serves as the A-side on the single release–was an intentional dig at Prince’s childhood friend and former bass player, André Cymone, whose debut solo album was titled Livin’ in the New Wave. It was also, according to the Time’s guitarist Jesse Johnson, entirely Prince’s idea: “that ain’t me on there, that’s all Prince[’s] voice that I know,” he complained on a 2018 episode of Pandora’s Questlove Supreme show. “But I gotta go box with motherfuckers now and I ain’t got shit to do with that record” (Questlove 2018).
Whether the members of the Time were prepared to fight Prince’s battles for him or not, the soundbite ultimately outlived the beef with André: during the Musicology tour in 2004, drummer John Blackwell would trigger a sample of the chant during his drum solo on “Take Me with U.” If there’s a weirder afterlife for an obscure Prince track than that, I’m not sure I know of it.
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Silence — 7/10
SILENCE (2016, Martin Scorsese)
I can’t imagine ever sitting through this movie again, and I can’t imagine anyone thinking it’s not really good. I’m generally allergic to overtly religious cinema, especially three-hour epics centered expressly on the idea of faith, but this is about as good as filmmaking gets when it wants to explore how humans question what drives them. It’s good because it doesn’t preach — an amazing feat given that all its characters are either missionary Jesuit priests hell-bent on spreading the word of God or angry Buddhist inquisitors hell-bent on removing Christianity from Japan — instead, it shows the violence mankind will do to each other in the name of religious intolerance.
There’s no question the heroes in this film are the Catholics, and the violent villains are the inquisitors — but that doesn’t mean Scorsese doesn’t sympathize with both the men who choose to understand other ways of believing (like Liam Neeson’s fallen Father Ferreira) or the Buddhists who want to protect their country from invaders threatening their worship of nature itself. Still, this film is about what so many non-religious films are also about: how we survive life on earth against towering obstacles. What choices do we have to make and what will we sacrifice?
Andrew Garfield’s Rodrigues (he’s excellent in the role, despite a weird and unnecessary Portuguese accent) suffers the ultimate crisis of faith in face of God’s silence (the lack of divine intervention during the horrors Rodrigues witnesses and endures is what inspires the title), but he simply wills himself to survive and find a life he can answer for — something not uncommon for Scorsese heroes and antiheroes. The world is an ugly, violent, seemingly amoral place, and who knows if there’s any punishment now or later for it (is that really much different from the genius’s previous film, the masterpiece THE WOLF OF WALL STREET?) — and blind faith could either be what saves us or damns us. (The final shot is insanely powerful: without being too specific, I’ll just say it’s a poignant visual juxtaposition of both damnation and salvation).
Technically, this may not be Scorsese’s cleanest effort. Long-time hall of fame editor Thelma Schoonmaker lets a lot of continuity errors fly, backed by equally dubious dialogue editing and ADR. Some ILM effects, like the CG stake-burning, is outright goofy. But Rodrigo Prieto’s characteristically rapturous photography goes a long way, and it’s hard to fault any single camera placement throughout. Jay Cocks was also the co-writer on THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, and just as in that film, his fealty to the source material’s prose (a book I haven’t read by Shûsaku Endô) forces him to rely heavily on voiceover, even when unnecessary. Adam Driver, like Garfield, affects an initially off-putting accent but couldn’t be more dedicated emotionally to every scene. This is a work with sweat all over it, for better and for worse, but it’s great to see a filmmaker this talented continuing to create such raging, energetic art deep into his 70s.
Jackie — 5/10
JACKIE (2016, Pablo Larraín)
As if it weren’t clear from the frustratingly repetitive first 45 minutes, halfway through this dusty, decorative vase of a movie, Jackie Kennedy says “I lost track of what was real, and what was… performance.” The repeated theme Larraín hammers home again and again is that for politicians, especially iconic First Ladies like Jackie, real life becomes about managing image. When she’s just giving a tour through the White House in 1961 (in mock-archival footage that Larraín accurately mimics throughout the movie; you can see it on YouTube to compare how closely he nails it), this is all well and good. But when real life becomes your husband’s brains in your lap, and having to tell your two babies that their father is never coming home again, managing your image and presenting yourself to the public becomes an insufferable pain.
Larraín is right that you can’t separate being a public figure from its representation in the media, so the angle that Jackie is so busy fretting over her image that she lacks the opportunity for spontaneous humanity is a good one. But is it enough to power this entire film? The director showed with the similarly stiff and bloodless NO that he knows how to mimic old videography and place the viewer in a location and time, but that he lacks a sense of cinematic rhythm — his movies don’t move, they lie dormant behind glass boxes (or academy ratio black & white).
Portman’s performance is a love-it-or-hate-it exercise, and I loved it. Her decision to portray Jackie exactly as you see her in old video is a clever exploration of Larraín’s premise: this woman lived from moment to moment with people watching and recording her, so even in private she found it difficult to look and feel candid. And in the rare occasions when she does let a bit of herself come out, to the reporter visiting her shortly after the assassination (played with subtle excellence by Billy Crudup), she makes sure he knows that that’s off the record. It’s showy and studied, but it’s hard to think of an actress doing a better job of portraying the heart of what this movie is about.
Unfortunately Larraín and THE MAZE RUNNER/ALLEGIANT screenwriter Noah Oppenheim don’t fashion a narrative that sustains Portman’s efforts. It goes nowhere fast, and can’t come up with enough different ways to say that public representation matters, or to show the clash between Jackie’s desire to express herself through the funeral arrangements and the government’s need for security. One more fatal flaw in this element is Peter Sarsgaard’s curiously terrible performance as Bobby, a clumsy foil for Jackie’s careful curation of the First Family. Mica Levi’s tremendous score isn’t enough to rescue JACKIE from its fate, like the man whose skull explodes in Dallas, of being unable to finish what it started.
Passengers — 5/10
PASSENGERS (2016, Morten Tyldum)
In the great NOTTING HILL, Hugh Grant’s character watches an Anna Scott joint in the theater, and it’s a goofy-looking sci-fi romance with Anna (Julia Roberts, of course) in a terrible wig. Curtis and Michell don’t exactly directly say that Anna makes dumb Hollywood product (although her happy ending does involve finally making a Henry James adaptation), but they do a good job of implying it with those shots of the fake movie. The third act of PASSENGERS feels like you’re Hugh Grant watching Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence re-enact some fake sci-fi movie that can’t possibly exist. It’s just too cheesy.
But it does exist, and it did get released. And in doing so, somehow it’s still way better than the SNL sketch it might sound like on paper. The positive qualities all come from some of the things Hollywood does best: terrific production design (what a cool fucking spaceship), expert photography (Rodrigo Prieto does no wrong), gorgeous costume design (the space clothes are both trendy and futuristic, without looking like ridiculous STAR TREK shit), and the most vital element: two huge mega movie stars. The star wattage of Pratt and Lawrence on screen could power a city grid, and for the first hour we ride that charm through a highly watchable popcorn blockbuster. It starts like ALL IS LOST or CAST AWAY (with Michael Sheen as an android Wilson) and turns into the first season of the lame Fox sitcom “The Last Man On Earth.” But a lot funnier.
Sadly, things get really creepy and icky, which is weird because they didn’t need to be. The moral conflicts that take over and drive the rest of the film are pointless, and the even-more-ridiculous action climax just feels desperate. Tack on the two or three endings, and you have something that feels workshopped to death, when the first draft was probably the cleanest, best, and least grossly retrograde. Jon Spaihts is the only credited writer, but it feels like this is the product of a studio that sucks at complex material, but excels at flashy, shiny things. So this might be the most Hollywood movie of the year, which says some things good about it, and a lot of things really bad.
Rogue One — 7/10
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016, Gareth Edwards)
When Disney wrestled the Star Wars property out of the hands of George Lucas, fans of the franchise likely had mixed feelings (yay, new movies! boo, new creators) but I saw a good opportunity — give directors who had a sense of camera and character a chance to work in the confines of a big popcorn blockbuster and see what happens. JJ Abrams already proved he could do it, turning out THE FORCE AWAKENS (better than anything Lucas directed), and now Edwards has done him even one better — he’s made a crackerjack action/war movie, cloaked it in a fanboy uniform, and served it to unsuspecting masses. It turned out to be a unique curiosity that may not be good for the franchise, but it’s a fine piece of entertainment.
For those of us who cringe at the whiny, annoying waste of space that is C-3PO, ROGUE ONE gives us salvation: a far different droid named K-2SO, who is a sarcastic asshole, and that’s my kind of robot. The K-2SO character also doses the franchise with a much-needed sense of humor; not that the films have lacked it necessarily (Harrison Ford in particular was always amusing), but the style of it has been a little wet and childish. Now there’s something biting about the comedy, which mixes well with what becomes an ultimately dark, fatalistic tale.
After a confusing first 15 minutes that cross-cuts at an insane pace and introduces new characters every 90 seconds, ROGUE ONE eventually streamlines its narrative and sets up the mission that dominates the back half of the film. During the first half, it continues to build up (I won’t say develop, because they’re still kind of thin and one-dimensional) characters that are likable and well-acted. Even if it feels like a boardroom filled with white guys took a sensitivity class and stocked the film with a diverse cast out of punishment, that’s good for audiences — the likes of Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Felicity Jones, and Forest Whitaker are as good as the series has ever given us (save maybe for Ford, Guinness, and Boyega), and then there’s Donnie Yen being a badass. The battle climax takes place during the day, so we get brightly lit composite shots and action we can see — a terrific antidote to the black-drenched space battles that marred so many previous entries. And the political subtext (I do think it’s there, even though it clearly couldn’t have been intended to directly respond to the liberal outcry over the catastrophic election of a pompous, fascistic demagogue) weighs down the stakes to where they do mean something.
There are apparently a lot of callbacks and references to previous Star Wars movies in here that I missed (even though I’ve seen them a few times, they go in one eye and out the other; nearly impossible to remember), so perhaps I wasn’t as bothered by the desperation as much as a fan would be. I also don’t care about CG being used to make someone young (it’s usually creepy, but so is plenty of stuff). So if a fan wants to criticize ROGUE ONE as if it’s trampling on sacred ground, good for them — but for me this is ground that had too many potholes and needed some good pavement.
Allied — 9/10
ALLIED (2016, Robert Zemeckis)
Not exactly sure why this is one of the biggest surprises of the year, explained only I suppose by a muted response from audiences and critics in the month it’s been out. But you’d think that with two of the biggest movie stars on earth doing a throwback WWII spy-thriller-romance for the guy behind ROMANCING THE STONE, CAST AWAY, and BACK TO THE FUTURE, I might have expected something that sings this magnificently. I didn’t.
On a formal note, this is some of the most assured and impressive work Zemeckis has ever done; certainly his best in over 15 years. Scene and shot construction like this sometimes feels like a lost art, but the way he economizes establishing shots, edits his dialogue scenes with the perfect timing and focus, and directs your gaze through mise-en-scene — it’s all classical and flawless. I’m sick of the cliché “a master class in directing,” but I wouldn’t blame anyone using it here: all the best things people say about Spielberg, Ford, and Hawks can apply to Zemeckis at his best, too, and I think the reason he’s left out is that his subject matter can let him down at times (like the reactionary corn of FORREST GUMP or the sappy AA commercial that FLIGHT becomes).
Thanks to Steven Knight’s superb original screenplay, Zemeckis has a lot to work with from a content standpoint: this is a story about trust and artifice, perfect for a filmmaker who likes to use sets and effects that revel in artifice, trusting the audience to go along with it. The costumes and production design, especially in the luxurious first act set in 1942 Casablanca (a nod to Michael Curtiz’s film from that year which this movie blows away, in the opinion of this humble reviewer), are fit for movie stars like this playing spies playing actors.
Cotillard is brilliant as usual — a chameleon who can take on any role (it’s hard to believe 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and this are all the same actress), and she infuses Marianne with the kind of sly confidence, oozing sexuality, and trigger-happy emotion the character calls for, and what makes Max so head over heels. She even gets her voice right: when Marianne speaks English in Morocco, her accent mirrors Pitt’s Canadian one; when she’s in London, she affects a British accent for her English dialogue. And Pitt, who can be absolutely dire in dramas, comes up aces here — he’s the right kind of square-jaw: more charming than Bogey, as innocent as Jimmy Stewart, and a believable action hero when the bullets fly.
Knight’s script keeps you guessing, and Zemeckis’s storytelling is so gracious that you don’t get distracted by anything arrogant about the filmmaking; it’s all in the purpose of a story to sweep you up, just what old Hollywood used to do so well. I didn’t realize how badly I wanted to see an immersive piece of studio filmmaking that simply crackles. Zemeckis, you glorious bastard!
Toni Erdmann — 7/10
TONI ERDMANN (2016, Maren Ade)
Considered in cinephile circles to be so great it might as well be 2016’s THE TREE OF LIFE, and maybe it is, but upon first viewing it strikes me as a clever, well-executed thesis on something with which I might totally disagree. What sticks with me is a heavy-handed speech late in the movie that lays Ade’s thesis bare, and it’s dropped in the middle of an epilogue that argues that we would all be better people if we could just unthaw our buttoned-down lives with wackiness, and stop working for the soulless corporations that downsize and outsource. I’m not against a good “down with capitalism!” message, but you’d probably have to find wigs and crooked fake teeth hilarious to swallow it easier.
All that said, a lot of this movie works like a charm. There are plenty of laughs big and small, culminating in the WTF house party that serves as the third-act climax. And just because I don’t think Winfried’s Toni disguise is that funny (I’m not even sure Ade does) that doesn’t mean his behavior doesn’t do just what the story needs — and that’s to soften Ines in believable ways. Hüller’s sensational performance sells that transformation, and spending three hours with this father and daughter gives us the time to buy into it.
Ade’s style (similar to EVERYONE ELSE; I haven’t seen THE FOREST FOR THE TREES) is a weird (and effective) counter-balance to the comedy: it’s almost Dardennes-ishly neorealist — no score, almost entirely handheld, everything colored and designed as naturalistic as possible. You usually see this style in a film like 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS, but this is a different kind of Romania entirely. Her script leans heavily upon the two leads, leaving the supporting cast (all of which give solid performances) to fill out skimpy roles; you wish there were a little more to the uptight American colleague, the hapless boyfriend, and the eager assistant. I do wonder if a second viewing might unpack more angles, but for now I’ll have to register a good-but-not-great assessment and move on. (Even though “The Greatest Love of All” has been stuck in my head for hours).
Elle — 6/10
ELLE (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
Verhoeven throws the kitchen sink in with everything else, stuffing his 130-minute film with 180 minutes’ worth of incident and theme, which does a great job of masking the fact that this is ultimately kind of shallow. There’s lots of jokes going around about the plot of COLLATERAL BEAUTY, the description of which almost defies belief, and while ELLE is way more interesting and smart than that movie sounds, the story is still a shitstorm: the daughter of an imprisoned, infamous mass murderer is attacked, raped, and threatened for weeks on end, while her son begs her for money to support his horrific pregnant fiancée, her co-workers sabotage the violent video game she produces, and she carries on affairs with two different married men (whose wives are both friends of hers) and insults her mother for getting engaged to a young, gold-digging stud.
Imagine that story crammed into the style of a French Hitchcockian chamber drama, and you’ve got BASIC INSTINCT meets LA CEREMONIE, which sounds great until you realize the 78-year-old Verhoeven might just be too long in the tooth to pull it off. He does give us a gut-busting laugh (the shot of Omar’s face behind Vincent after he sees Josie’s baby) and some shocking flashbacks to the opening attack, and it’s interesting how he always frames Huppert (playing at least a decade younger than her 65 years) from a little too high of an angle — she’s a diminutive character swallowed by the camera, despite how strong and take-charge Michèle is. But ultimately it’s hard to be engaged by anything intellectual here; the film is entertaining but it barely leaves a mark.
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Category: little one
waffling
waffling, as in waffles (and bacon and hash browns and berries, etc., etc.) by the dozens and dozens…
i’m doing my arithmetic. multiplying quarter cups and teaspoons by multiples. i’m firing up the waffle iron. dumping hash browns in a vat. i’m making first-friday, end-of-high-school brunch for however many high school boys decide to swoop through the front door any hour now.
mostly, i’m squeezing every last drop of joy out of this bumper crop of boys i love. boys i’ve known, some of them, since they were wee tots. i’ve watched first days of kindergarten, first school-bus ride, first loose tooth, first sleepover, first at bat and strike out, too. i’ve watched this crop from almost the beginning, the whole lot of them. i’ve been nothing more than a bit player at the margins of their childhoods, but i’ve been keeping close watch, and i’ve been listening. i’ve known of dark shadows haunting some of them, and scary monsters that would not go away.
across the years, i’ve grown to love this brood. i’ve watched as they’ve reached out to weave a tapestry of love, a band of brothers, if ever there was. i’ve watched them surround the boy i love the night he got cut from soccer. i’ve watched them pile out of a van, bearing ice-cream cake and cookies, the night the kid i love got sidelined in the middle of tryouts, after getting kicked in the head in a scramble at the goal, and the trainer could not let a would-be concussion back onto the field. i’ve listened as i drove them mile after mile. remember back to second grade, when one tried to teach the others the intricacies of quadratic equations. heard them race to read 100 books one summer. watched them run around the neighborhood giggling, chasing make-believe superheroes on their phones. and, in the latest interlude, i’ve listened closely as each one reached for college dreams, listened closely as heartaches came and they leapt in to console each other, to bear the hurt together, share the load, shake it off, and laugh the night away after all. they are each other’s front-line rescue squad of heart and soul. theirs is a deep-grained bond, a glorious brand of friendship i wish could be bottled, sold on supermarket shelves. we’d all do well to learn a thing or two from their thick-or-thin inseparability, their faith in each other’s goodness, their forgiveness at ordinary bloopers.
it’s a blessed thing to love not just your own, but a whole flock of little rascals. to blink your eyes and see them not as little rascals shyly coming to the door, but grown men (with shoes twice the size of mine) now looking me in the eye, engaging in nuanced conversation about the politics or the heartache of the day.
i’m going to miss the lot of them — their cacophony rising from the basement where they gather with nothing more risqué than pretzel twists and gatorade, where they drape themselves amoeba-like on arms of chair, on beanbags, on the treadmill track (unplugged and motionless, at least most of the time). i’m going to miss the way they swarm the kitchen, locusts sucking up whatever crumb of carb or sugar they can find. i’m even going to miss the rides to school, where conversation keeps time with NPR, and we engage in everything from venezuela to william barr or the latest bit of drama from the high school halls (i only catch the latter if i’m listening really really closely).
they’re a bunch of boys so good, so unblemished, it gives me hope — a bumper crop of hope — for the world.
missing the whole lot of them might make it a bit more tolerable to imagine missing only one. the one and only who’s been haunting these halls all by his lonesome for the last eight years. ever since the steamy august day we dropped his big brother off at college, and motored down the highway, wiping away the tears that would not end.
we take our goodbyes in sips and bits. makes it far more bearable than one big final gulp. we animate those leave-takings with the wrappings of joy. with one more excuse to fire up the waffle iron, crank the oven, haul out the maple syrup by the gallon.
long ago, when i too was a high school senior and my mom and dad were out of town, i somehow invited every single girl in my class (that would be a few hundred) for may day breakfast before the school bell ring. i somehow thought of that the other day, and thus the invitation for the flock of high school senior boys. thank goodness it’s not the entire class. i’d be neck-deep in waffles, if it were.
i’m getting off easy here this morning. waffles for 20 oughta be a breeze.
what are the rites and rituals of goodbyes that have animated your years? and while we’re at it, anyone have a simple plot for keeping waffles, bacon, sausage and hash browns hot and to the table?
boy, becoming…
he is trying it on, my boy in the three-way mirror. trying on what comes next: the gulch between boyhood and manhood. the years when certain nicknames are dropped and stuffed bears get tucked away in shadowed boxes. the years when bedtime comes later and later, long after mama’s in dreamland. the years when testing the fates begins to occur. the years when it all — sometimes — comes crashing deep down inside.
my little one is no longer. he’s 13 today. and while the statute of limitations on that tender name — “little one” — has worn out its welcome, i feel the urge to mark the moment here at the chair with a swift look back at my muse, the one whose moments i captured here where words are the butterfly net, here where the tenderest heart took hold in the cracks between letters.
my little one was all of five when the chair first pulled up to the table. he was a kindergartener who hadn’t quite figured out how to hold onto a pencil. or tie a shoe. or string all the slashes and blobs on the page into what might be called words. he climbed into bed, back in those days, outfitted for battle, slaying monsters with light sabers — all while he slept, apparently.
he went off to first grade here at the chair, armed with red hearts in his little jeans pocket. i kept one, too. mine was in my pocket, and all day long through the torturous hours of school, we squeezed on our wee little hearts, a morse code of the very best kind — “i love you.” “i miss you.” “i’m right here.”– were the messages we squeezed back and forth.
my little one and i went for moon walks. we gazed at the stars. and i captured his wonder.
captured his questions too, his questions without answers. “mama, what will happen when i die? will you die? will daddy die? who will die first?” the rat-a-tat-tat of truth-seeking missiles.
over time, and once he realized the world beyond his doorstep was occasionally reading along, he issued a declaration: i wasn’t allowed to write of his wisdoms and ponderings and wobbles and blips without first submitting draft form before the committee of one — the committee of T. he would read, rule, issue edict: publish or no.
what i’ve found — in that magical playground that is the stringing of alphabet letters into words into sentences into thinking out loud — is that the surest way to discover nooks and crannies in your own heart, and in the heart of the one you attempt to capture in brush strokes and shadings — not unlike the art student sketching the pose of the deftly-draped model in the drawing studio — is to circle back, again and again over the years, to put it to paper, to trace over and over again the outlines, the depths and the illuminations. to stand back over the years, and to see what you’d not seen on first go-around. to hold in your hand the faintest yet sharpest glimpse of the child who populates your hours, your heart, your deepest imagination.
to fall in love all over again is a gift to whomever beholds it. i fell in love, over and over, holding my little one up to the light. and now, my little one is at the brink of something quite big: he’s adding a “teen” to his numbers.
thirteen soft august eighths ago, i was perched in a hospital bed, cradling my very own miracle. the babe who defeated all odds — at every step of the odyssey, from conception to birth canal. i remember how keenly i studied him. his delivery had had a few bumps, the sort that can steal your sweet dream and turn it into a nightmare. in the flash of an instant. in a heartbeat skipped.
prayer — and the mightiest push that ever there was — delivered him. a babe in my arms at 44-and-3/4 years. take that, doctors (and actuarial tables) who swore it would never happen!
all these years, that notion of something outrageous, the blessing of beating the odds, it’s held me tight in its focus. i’ve a gift, we’ve a gift, all of us who melt at the tender words that ooze from that heart, or the way he rubs circles soft on your back. he’s a gift, the boy now crossing the great gulch to manhood. here’s praying we draw on all of our wisdom, and acres of love, to guide him safe to the other side.
bless you, sweet T. happy birthday. and with all of my heart, thank you. thank you for coming along….
one of the blessings of having typed here all these years, is that i’ve managed to capture a string of word snapshots: my boys growing up. and they are among the most precious treasures i know — the boys, certainly, but also the snapshots. i never set out to frame these moments in time, but that’s what’s happened. and it’s why i back-up and back-up. why i wish i could carve these in stone, so no cyber-thief, no computer blow-up, could ever steal these fragments of my heart.
but since you don’t come to listen to me ooze about my beautiful boy, i thought i’d leave a little birthday present for anyone interested in the art of paying attention. here’s a glorious passage from robert bly, observing a caterpillar. it’s so exquisite in its powers of focus and concentration, i just thought i’d leave it out on the table — a morsel in words — for your delight. savor.
A Caterpillar on the Desk
by Robert Bly
Lifting my coffee cup, I notice a caterpillar crawling over my sheet of ten-cent airmail stamps. The head is black as a Chinese box. Nine soft accordions follow it around, with a waving motion, like a flabby mountain. Skinny brushes used to clean pop bottles rise from some of its shoulders. As I pick up the sheet of stamps, the caterpillar advances around and around the edge, and I see his feet: three pairs under the head, four spongelike pairs under the middle body, and two final pairs at the tip, pink as a puppy’s hind legs. As he walks, he rears, six pairs of legs off the stamp, waving around the air! One of the sponge pairs, and the last two tail pairs, the reserve feet, hold on anxiously. It is the first of September. The leaf shadows are less ferocious on the notebook cover. A man accepts his failures more easily-or perhaps summer’s insanity is gone? A man notices ordinary earth, scorned in July, with affection, as he settles down to his daily work, to use stamps.
“A Caterpillar on the Desk” by Robert Bly, from The Morning Glory. © Harper & Row, 1975. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
and what such magnificent observations have you made today?
bit by bit (or, the wisdom of being lost)
the hard perch of the airport chair was where i sat for a good half hour after he’d slipped down the gullet that led to the plane that would carry him into the pink-soaked sun-setting sky.
i wasn’t budging till that plane rolled down the tarmac, till it pulled him into the twilight, into the far off far off.
i thought much during that chunk of an hour of how the heart is a vessel that needs determined attention. a heart doesn’t stretch to its widest capacity, not without a long curriculum of tending and exercise. not without short chapters in being pulled to the pinching point, and then finding our way, home through the maze.
my not-so-little one took his first solo flight into yesterday’s sunset. flashed his own boarding pass, lugged his own suitcase, squeezed no one’s hand this time when the plane lifted off, that glorious gallump from earthbound to air.
he’d been hoping and wishing and pining for a chance to go back to a place he loves, back to the global village he called home all last year, back to friends who’d wrapped him in their arms and their hearts and carried him through a landscape that forever changed his worldview. he squeezed me so tight the night i clicked on his ticket, i thought i’d teeter down the stairs. this week, as monday turned to tuesday and wednesday, and finally to thursday, he could barely keep from counting down every last hour.
but then, at gate C 27 at the far end of the concourse at the world’s second-busiest airport, he realized just what he was about to do, what he’d never done before. and once i kissed him — loudly, too loudly — on the forehead, once i’d discovered the angel named “christina” who promised to get him where he needed to be on the other end, in boston, he looked away, into the place where you look when you’re blinking back tears, and talking down all the worries that have come tumbling out of your heart and settled solidly in the pit of your throat.
i watched that young boy of mine, that boy whose heart carries him straight into the face of his fears sometimes, i watched him hand his boarding pass — a bit crinkled by then — to the nice man at the door to the jetway. i watched him tug one last time on his suitcase on wheels. i watched his little boy legs, decked out in hiking shorts and basketball socks, and i felt my heart melt away.
i know it’s not easy for him to get on a plane, to sleep on someone’s hard floor. i know he gets horrible headaches sometimes.
but i know, more than that, that this is a kid who leads with his heart. and who, despite the wobbles and the oh-what-did-i-get-myself-into’s, never backs down from fear. he gives a tug to the wheels and doesn’t look back. he turns round the bend and into the mouth of the plane.
i sat there, nose to the vast span of glass, and saw this short trip for a good bit of what it was: an exercise in finding his way, an exercise in letting a boy discover deep down inside just how resilient he is, just how deeply he can count on the heart that pounds in the chest of his 80-pound self.
his biggest worry as we’d driven to the airport was what if, once he got off the plane, he couldn’t find his way to the baggage claim? what if his dear and wonderful friend — and the whole seventh-grade welcome committee — couldn’t convince the TSA agents in boston to let them slide through security to get to the gate where the intrepid traveler would be getting off the plane?
you’ll find your way, i told him. you’ll stay calm, most of all. you’ll use your brain. and your common sense. and you’ll look for signs. and ask for help if you need it. there are kind people everywhere.
not a bad prescription for all of us, for all of life, come to think of it.
and maybe that’s why, more than anything, i could hold my own breath and let him walk down that accordion-pleated tube all on his own: because as much as i want to hold him tight — no, more than i want to hold him tight — i want him to feel the rush of wind at his cheeks, i want him to know the sturdiness of those well-muscled calves, i want him to know the intricacies of his own inner compass, and the invincibility of that very fine, very deep heart.
isn’t that one of the many definitions of love: to put wings to dreams? to launch early soarings that build to some day’s long flight?
isn’t all of childhood a trajectory of ascend and retreat, climb and tumble, kiss the hurt and try all over again? aren’t we always aiming to loosen the training wheels, to give the children we love the power and knowledge that there is not a hill too high to try to crest? and how will they take in the view from the mountaintop if we don’t plonk them on the starter slopes, whisper in their ear that we know they can do it, and we’ll be here to catch them if and when they need us?
just last week i read a fascinating article about the latest frontier explored by howard gardner, the harvard educator who first advanced the notion of multiple intelligence. in a new book titled “the app generation,” gardner and his co-author, katie davis, consider the ways kids growing up with infinite apps at the touch of their smartphone screen will navigate this new world. the professors probe “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled,” and try to steer us toward the latter.
but the point they made that’s had me thinking all week is when they mentioned how, in a GPS world, kids today barely stand a chance of getting lost, of finding themselves directionless (in a literal, compass-like sense), and thus how they might never get to know the glorious rush of bewilderment followed by clarity. of walking aimlessly and without mooring, before digging deep, relying on internal and external cues to find their way out of the maze — be it city streets, or out in the woods. or in the A terminal of boston’s logan international airport.
so, sitting there in the hard airport chair, training my eyes on the plane that did not budge, i relished this moment, this breathtaking adventure of letting my big-hearted boy dip deep into the vast tool box that’s already his.
he’ll soar home through the stars come sunday eve, and there at the gate will be his papa and i, open-armed and ready to wrap him in once again. the brave sojourner, back where — for now — he belongs most of all.
godspeed, sweet traveler. you teach your mama so very much. xoxoxo
the art of getting lost: do you remember a time when you hadn’t a clue where you were, and needed to find your way? is it a lesson you’ve considered passing along? and do you remember your first solo flight? and what wisdom did you bring home, tucked in your traveler’s bag?
joy of one
sooner or later, it happens. to anyone who’s assembled a tumbled lot of kids. housed them. fed them. worried through a night or two.
it’s the law of simple arithmetic. subtraction, actually.
x – 1 (to the nth power, depending how many you’ve accumulated) eventually = 1.
for all the momentum you’d once acquired under that one shingled roof, for all the noise once collected over forks and spoons and spilled milk, there comes a day when there’s only one poor child under your sights.
poor child, indeed.
that one and only kid is unshakably under the steady gaze of eyes that have no distraction, that aren’t too often pulled hither or yon.
that poor kid is all alone in the glare of your watchtower.
and in our house, the grownups come in pairs. so in fact, he’s under double glare.
he wakes up some fine mornings to not one but two tall people tickling him from slumber. one’s armed with warm, moist washcloth (the turkish spa treatment, you might rightly think). the other employs soft circles to the hollow between the bumps where angel wings were supposed to sprout.
he saunters downstairs to made-to-order pancakes and bacon. on mornings like this morning, when all that slumber was hard to shake, one of the tall people caves and offers a ride in the little black sedan. complete with concentrated conversation, the rare sort that comes when the interviewer is truly deeply interested in all that lurks deep down inside your soul.
now, you might be retching right about here. thinking, holy lord, what sort of overindulgent parenting is this? where’s the rough-and-tough school of hit the “eject” button, hightail ’em out the door, stuff a granola bar in their pocket, and kick ’em in the pants, with a casual, “have a good one,” tossed over your shoulder as you slam the door behind ’em?
well, there are rare few chances in this boardgame called “a life,” in which to pull out all the stops, to give it everything you’ve got, to score one more chance to do it right, to love with all your heart.
so that seems to be the m. o. over here.
by accident of gestational bumps and broken hearts, we’re in our third chapter of parenting over here. we had the one-and-only round one (a round we thought would never end), the oh-my-gosh-it’s-two (yet another round i seemed to think would never end), and now, thanks to a very far away college quad, we’ve got one-and-mostly-only.
day in and day out, it’s a ratio of 2 to 1.
and perhaps the most beautiful part of being the mama of a 12-year-old when you yourself are 56, barreling toward 57, is that you are wise enough to know: there is no more sacred incubator in this blessed gift of life than the one into which you pour your heart, and whatever accumulated wisdom you’ve scraped up along the way — that holy vessel called a growing, stretching child.
doesn’t matter to me if the child comes by birth or by heart, or simply wanders down the sidewalk and finds a place on my couch. it’s a nasty speed-chase out there, with cars flying into ditches right and left. if the walls within which i dwell happen to offer rare respite, time-out, breathing room, a place where dreams can be launched, and hurts aired out to dry, well then i’m posting a shingle on my doorpost: “time-out offered here.”
even after all these days — and there’ve been 4,420 — since that sweet boy landed in my arms, i consider it a miracle of the first order that he’s here at all. never mind that mop of curls. or the bottomless smile and the matching dimples. or the tender way he takes my hand and gives it a squeeze in the middle of driving from anywhere to anywhere. never mind that, mid-lope out the door, he hits the brakes and circles back for a goodbye hug — one for each grownup.
never mind all that.
it’s just the rare precious miracle of the chance to rocket-launch one more sack of hopes and dreams and heart. to try to pack in all the love and goodness and tender toughness that just might add a shard of light to this sometimes darkening planet.
i’ve always said he seems to know, deep inside his soul, that he was a last-chance baby. the one who beat the odds. the one who left his mama jaw-dropped and quaking at the news. those sterile hens in the bible — sarah (90, when she birthed isaac), rebekah and rachel, to name a few of the so-called “barren” — had nothing on me when it came to being flabbergasted at the revelation (although my shriek came upon seeing the little pregnancy plus sign turn pink, which i don’t think was part of the biblical story).
and so, he seems to indulge us in our over-lavishing. fear not, we try to keep it in check. at least when anyone’s watching. but i happen to have married my teacher in the tenderness department. in patience, too. that man has never once uttered a note in the tone of shrill, a tone i know by heart. used to be i didn’t stop myself till he shot me a withering glance. that stopped me, rattled me back on track.
but over all these years — and there’ve been 20 in the parenting corral — i’ve learned to take his lead, and not auto-leap — well, not every time — into the role of mrs. harsh & overhurried.
once upon a time you would’ve thought the world depended on our getting to the nursery school on time. and i still have trouble reminding myself that a tornado-strewn whirl of clothes heaped on the bedroom floor is NOT the moral equivalent of hauling swine flu into the country, hidden in a clandestine stick of salami.
i think often — expend a bumper crop of brain cells — on the subject of growing kids. it’s religion to me, the holiest sort. it matters more than anything else i will ever do. closest thing to curing cancer. because it boils down to taking the heart and soul you’ve been handed, and tenderly, wisely filling it with light. considering it a stealth missile of planetary illumination. the answer to a peace-prize prayer.
oh sure, the darkness will come. we can’t keep that at bay. but we can give the gift of buoyancy. we can keep the boing in the human spirit. the bounce-back machine that takes the wallops, and rights itself again.
there’s not a creature on the globe who wouldn’t pray to be loved deep and pure and forever after. it’s the highest hope of all creation.
and at our house he only wishes for someone else to please steal our attention. especially when we double-team the launching him from bed.
here, on this crystal clear morning before the day of atonement, at the end of a long week of wondering where my next writing assignment will be, the one bit that bubbled up was my poor outnumbered child. he weathers us well. has a stable of distractions. there are two particular readers, readers on the jersey shore whom i happen to adore, and this one was, in good measure, for them. forgive me for indulging in family lore. i know that nothing matters more to them than knowing their sweet boys — five grandsons — are in good-enough hands.
what do you consider the holiest work you’ve been asked to do?
love, bam
prodigal people
when your sweet boy is flying through night, is up in the clouds, winging his way to you, you can’t sleep too soundly. you toss and tumble, and peek open an eye to check on the clock.
you follow him, one flight to the next, berlin to amsterdam, amsterdam, home. 12:40, 2:40, 5:40….all in the ayems, of course. waiting, just waiting, for the scheduled landing at 2:10 p.m.
while he does his half of the task — sits strapped in the seat trying not to splatter his midnight breakfast — you do yours: you haul out the pots and the pans, you indulge in the making of prodigal feast.
there are apples to chop and to simmer. there is cinnamon to sprinkle in dashes. there’s that ol’ mac-‘n’-cheese, the one from page 200 of the may 1995 gourmet magazine, the one you first made when your firstborn turned two, and the one that — ever since — has been family shorthand for comfort hauled from the oven.
because your heart is thumping at john philip sousa proportions, you haul out the red “you are special today” plate. you run about the yard with your clippers, tucking hydrangea (the first of the summer) next to his bed (as if he’ll be awake enough to notice), plunging stems of rambling roses and catmint into an old cracked pitcher you’ve hauled out from hiding.
at last, you leap in the shiny black pick-up mobile (that’s pick-up as in boy from airport), and you note that it’s near out of gas. you make un-anticipated pit stop at nearest gasoline pump, then you motor on your way, arriving at said airport a good hour early. (but considering a week ago, you would have walked to germany to fetch the suffering child, this hour is nothing. and besides it gives you a chance to inhale the tears and the squeals and the long-lost embraces that come with the world’s second-busiest international terminal).
you stare so intently at the swinging double doors, the chute that spits out bleary-eyed, jet-lagged world travelers, you practically will your child to up and appear. as that first hour drags into the start of the second, you suddenly look up and there, curlier than ever, slump shouldered from all that he’s weathered since last you waved him goodbye, there is your sweet little boy, not yet a dozen years on this planet, and now bearing a much-stamped state-department-issued U.S. passport.
you cannot contain it. you yelp: “there he is!” as if everyone in the throng might care about your particular pronoun. and before you can note the collective raised eyebrows, you’ve leapt around the black sash that attempts to keep order there in the exiting-passenger chute.
so sweet is this holy reunion, your boy traveler doesn’t even flinch when you throw your arms tight round his shoulders and backpack. but the nice lady in the uniform does command you to move it along. so you do. and you stand there marveling at how gorgeous he is, how his soul feels like it’s deepened, it’s triumphed.
for it did triumph. that kid, who was sick for five days, who came to know far too many german toilettes, he found it deep within to muscle his way to the finish line. the line where, with your trembling hand squeezing his, he now stood.
you didn’t tarry, there in the airport. you shared hugs goodbye with two surrogate mamas (both of whom you’ll scribble onto your eternally-grateful list for the rest of your days), then you zipped to the car, began dialing essential persons — papa, big brother, anyone who happened to be breathlessly waiting by the phone for word of the traveler’s arrival.
and, at last, after 11 long months, and another two weeks plus a day, you brought the boy home to where he deeply, truly belongs.
he relished every step of the path to the door, through the overgrown greens and the weeds that threaten to cut you off at the knees. he called for his cat, the cat who leapt from the old wicker chair, and promptly rubbed fur against ankle.
he kerplumped into the couch. he soaked up the sights through his sleepiest eyes. then, halfway through mac ‘n’ cheese, he keeled over onto the bench by the old maple table. that’s when he begged for a bubbly bath, and his old old bed.
and that’s where i climbed in beside him, into the 100-year-old bed that once was my grandma’s. i curled my legs around his, and whispered a kite-string of prayer into his soft little ear. by the time i whispered the second “thank you, dear God,” he was off in that place where the dreams come, and he stayed there till six the next morning.
he’s still sleeping it off, all of it, but when he’s awake it’s utterly perfectly clear how he’s grown. deep down, deep inside where the stretching and growing unfolds, he’s a boy who’s mastered an obstacle course.
just two weeks ago he was sending home emails saying he couldn’t possibly make it, would not survive there in a faraway place, upchucking every few hours, alone in a house with few words of english. and we typed back a niagara falls of you-can-do-it declarations. it’s all we could do, since the state department isn’t so keen on issuing on-the-spot passports for mamas whose children are ailing from tummy flu.
there are times, i’ve discovered, when the wisest thing a mama can do is hold her breath, and believe. and pass on sparks of that faith — in whatever form she can send ’em — to a faraway child, who is out doing the hard work of childhood, discovering all the nooks and crannies of vigor and stamina nestled deep down inside. the figuring out that you’re stronger than you think you are. that you can do what you might have thought impossible.
and even when that mama’s heart is nearly skipping its beats, she’s giving that child the best she can give: the hard-won sense of mastery, sure-footed steadiness, that there is no mountain too steep for him to climb. that the summit is there, that lung-filling vista, for the kid who figures it out: put one hiking boot in front of the other, step, climb, step, steadying as you go. you’ll make it to the top. and, once there, you can always tuck that triumph snug in your pocket, for the next time you run into a climb up the sharp side of an incline.
one by one, my boys are trickling home. this old house is filling again, with the hums and the rhythms that make it purr. the blue-willow cookie plate, the one that shines from under the cake dome, it’s filled again. the fridge is stocked with milk in all percents — 0, 2 and 100-percent whole. the oven’s been cranked. the shower is steamy, is dripping.
there’s only one bed that’s un-stirred (so i plop the cat there to make it look used). and as much as i loved this old house all to myself, i discovered i love it more when it’s humming with people whose noises i know by heart.
my prodigal people are back. and i long for the missing one now more than ever, knowing we’ll not really be whole till he’s here.
i’m struck by a sense — sometimes softly, sometimes with a wallop — that it seems we’ve leapt a chapter or two since last we were huddled here at the old maple table.
i can almost hear the page that’s been turned, as the life of this family moves forward. and the sound of little feets on the floorboard, they’re fading. where’d the years go? oh, how i love this old house that remembers. that once knew the sounds of suckling, and little boy birthdays. and now is home to a world-traveler come home to catch up on sleep…..
post-script: i know. i said i would stay mum for awhile. but….well, i found a friday morning without typing a bit of an odd fit. and there were a few things that rumbled around this week, so tap-tap-tap, fingers to keyboard. i’ll try to rest easy in knowing that if you don’t care to click here, you certainly won’t. and i’ll console myself with the knowing that a writer needs to write if she cares to keep her verbs sharp and sharper, and i’ve teachers under my belt who admonish: daily, daily, you must do it daily.
it’s a workday around here, as the professor is back to his life as a newspaper critic, and his first critique is spewing from the typewriter on deadline today. my world traveler is snoozing upstairs, and there’s a long day of writing ahead for me.
hope your fourth was lovely. and blanketed by a nightsky exploding with colors and sizzles and booms.
and now for a question: what were the chapters of your life that tested your deep-down i-can-do-it-ness? how’d you figure out that the best you could do was put one foot in front of the next, and sooner or later, you’d get where you needed, learning a few key lessons along the way?
home. amid a host of tugs and pulls and squeaks from far corners.
dispatch from 60091 (in which, except for invasion of colonies of critters with matchstick-sized legs, i attempt to nest in solitude, with a few elephant-sized distractions…)
i’ve waited 18 months for this. to have unpacked the mountain of moving boxes. to have tiptoed room-to-room, inhaling the musty scent of home. to be tucked up against my old maple table, with the morning sun draped across the slabs. my old chipped coffee mug at the ready, inches from the keyboard.
i’ve waited for the tick and tock of our grandpa’s clock. to hear the morning song of birds, my birds, my flocks, rising up and rolling in from the jungle that is my overgrown garden. i’ve waited and waited.
to be home, and going nowhere.
alas, it hasn’t exactly been a week of lolligagging and tossing back bonbons in a tub of bubbles.
the night before i zipped the last of the home-bound suitcases, back in 02139, i got word — make that, news flash — from my hilarious friend who spent the year here holding down the fort. she’d ducked into the wee bathroom off my writing room (the old garage, long ago turned into maid’s quarters, how apt that i now dwell there…), and there, dozing atop a feather bed of nibbled toilet paper bits, a nice fat chipmunk. only it wasn’t sleeping. it was, um, dead. and had chosen a basket filled with toilet paper rolls to be his final resting place.
she spared me pix of the kerplunked critter, and instead sent me a dramatic close-up of just how adept chipmunks are at making bedclothes out of the tissue paper with a purpose.
i considered myself fair-warned.
which is why, once half across the country, once the cat, the boy, the three fat suitcases and i were greeted at the baggage depot by my fair mama and ferried home, i tiptoed with trepidation into that wee room. i scanned for paw prints, wee paw prints, everywhere a furry thing might scamper. i scanned, too, for the caraway-seed-sized deposits they always leave behind.
i found them.
abundantly.
piled high and thick atop the baby blankets i had so neatly folded and tucked into a basket back in the corner. must have seemed the perfect lullaby land for all the baby chipmunks (and judging from the pile, there was a bumper crop of baby chipmunks). i did not scream. i merely long-jumped from the room, slammed the door, and decided to deal with it in the morning.
long story, short: $500 later, my new best friend joe, the jesus-believing critter control apostle, arrived on the scene, armed with coyote urine, ammonia crystals and wheelbarrows of cement. not a poison to be found, bless his benevolent heart. just some serious deterrents for re-entry to the chipmunks’ underground metropolis, the one they dug in vast array beneath the concrete slab upon which the old garage was built.
that’s the story of the first-floor critters. upstairs, in all the drawers where soaps and cottonballs were stored (note the past tense), another branch of the Rodentia family (the ones with long skinny tails and appetite, apparently, for european scrubs) had made themselves quite at home. why, it was a veritable carnival of critters, all with matchstick legs and the itty-bittiest pit-a-pats the world has ever known. they’d run amok undetected for lord knows how many months. (they don’t exactly blow trumpets announcing their arrival.)
and, oh, they served as such a rousing welcome committee. (i was roused, all right!)
but all that, truly, fades in the narrative arc of this long week.
the heart of the matter is that one long dark night this week i sat alone in my long-awaited bed fielding phone calls from my firstborn who was spending the night in an ER 1,000 miles away, getting IV painkillers pumped into his veins (neck and head pains, all tied back to a broken neck in the eighth grade, when he somersaulted over his handlebars swerving from — get this — a chipmunk who’d dashed across his bike trail).
and that’s only the half of it. my little one, the brave one who boarded a plane to germany a mere 48 hours after whirling in the door, a trip he’d long awaited, a trip for which he’d spent the year studying with his german tutor, he’d gotten sick as a dog on the flight across the atlantic, and 24 hours after de-boarding the plane was still upchucking in his new german bathroom. i was getting emails from the teacher, updating me on just what shade of green he was sporting, hour by hour.
when you are 11, and 4,538 miles from home, and you’ve been tummy-rumbling in volcanic proportions for a good 36 hours, you really truly desperately deeply through-and-through want one of two things: a.) to catch the next plane home, or b.) to have your mama sky-dive from the clouds.
thus, you do what any thinking person would do: you pick up the phone, and dial in your request.
and your mother, on the far side of the globe, hearing the whimper in your voice, imagining just how wretched it must feel to have wretched straight across the ocean, she kicks into high mama gear: she drops to her knees, points eyes heavenward, and unfurls the litanies of prayer reserved for just such moments.
she smacks herself upside the head for letting such a little guy go in the first place. she calls on angels, saints, random trumpet players, anyone and anything who might come charging to the rescue, to barrel up the hill and storm the ramparts.
she tries everything she can humanly think of. she pounds out “this i believe” treatises, reminding the little fellow just how brave he is, and just how valiantly he has conquered a host of uphill battles: the sleepover on wrigley field, the two-week summer camp in the deep dark mosquito-infested woods of michigan, the whole dang city of cambridge, massachusetts. heck, he even weathered a whomping case of scarlet fever and pneumonia when he was just a wee young thing.
the boy can do it.
he is, i often remind him, the egg that wouldn’t take no for an answer. while all the other eggs could not make it out of the roundhouse and chug up the mountain, that little guy was the one egg who made the climb, who was born in a shaft of pure white light at 3:22 one hot august morning, to a mother who defied logic and medical tomes, clocking into the maternity ward at 44 years, eight months and five days old.
on the off-chance that my sweet boy is tucked under the puffy covers in munster, reading these words from glowing screen, i have five words and a comma for you: you can do it, sweetie.
i love you higher than the moon and wider than the oceans. you have angels, saints, mamas, papas, grandmas and grandpas, uncles, aunts and a big brother all pulling for you. we’ll make sure you are pumped up with dramamine for the swift ride home. and we’ll be waiting at the airport with double-time hearts and wide-open arms. we’ll pull you to our thumping hearts, and keep you home all summer. we’ll even ply you with fresh-squeezed lemonade and oatmeal-raisin cookies. we’ll let you stay up late and sleep till lunchtime, if that’s the way you like it. we’ll whip up a welcome home parade, and make you grand marshal and chief potentate. i won’t even make you pluck your dirty socks off the floor. (not for the first hour, anyway….)
you will have triumphed over the latest in your long litany of championship makers. you are some boy, you glorious sweet soul, you who always says, “yes! i want to see the world!”
it’s right before your eyes. take it in, sweetheart. then hurry home. so we can all chase chipmunks hither and yon and all around the garden, one big happy reunited family. home sweet home, at last. oh, sweet lord, at last.
so that’s the news from the homecoming committee. shoulda known that you can’t go away for 10 long months and not expect a bump or grind upon return.
question of the week: what words of wisdom would you impart to a wee lad far from home, and weathering a whopper case of travel bugs…..
turning the page on my little muse
dispatch from 02139 (in which my stretching-by-the-hour muse proclaims independence and right of first refusal…)
it was just a few weeks ago, one night after dinner, when my little fellow was nonchalantly clearing the table, and plopped his plate precipitously over the edge of the counter, threatening to wobble and crash to the depths of the dishwasher down below.
yes, half the plate was securely on the countertop. ah, but the other half, suspended on air and air alone.
seizing this moment of gravity instruction, i chimed: “sweetie, don’t leave the plate there. it could fall.”
to which my young isaac newton circled back, eyed the non-wobbling plate, and crisply replied: “well, it didn’t.”
“but it could,” i tried again, intent on cementing this lesson.
wherein the young thinker, once again, became the teacher.
said he, looking me straight in the eyeballs: “you don’t want to live your life in what-ifs!”
and then he scurried on. and i was left, alone in the kitchen, his words reverberating. making the walls shake. waking up sound-asleep brain cells.
“you don’t want to live your life in what-ifs.”
who is this 11-year-old buddha? is it not true that the heavens send us our teachers in soccer pants and sauce-stained T-shirts?
so struck was i by this kitchen-sink wisdom that i lurched to grab my trusty camera, to record the not-so-tipsy plate, just as he’d left it. so that, as i’ve so often done in the last six of his 11 years, i might etch the lesson here, on the pages of the chair.
but i was caught, mid-click.
he knew what i was up to. and there arose a gentle protest. a declaration of independence.
“mom, you can’t write about me without checking with me first.”
so i didn’t write that week about the lesson of not living your life in what-ifs.
though it was a lesson that shot me through and through. because, yes, how often have i not crossed a threshold after ticking up the hundred ways that something might go wrong. because fear undercuts, boxes in, circumscribes, so very many blue highways in the landscape of our lives.
his claim to right of first refusal became an oft-returned-to point of discussion over days that followed. he’d deemed that if he could be first-reader, it might or might not pass the test. i might or might not get to click the “publish” button.
all wholly on the mark. all wholly admirable. and defensible.
and a policy to which i now subscribe.
and, yes, in that moment, i heard the crinkling of yet another page in my life as it turned, as i lifted up the fragile corner, arced it across time and space, and pressed it back, onto the growing stack of past.
my little muse had, for all these years, been the heartbeat of so many meanders here at the table. there was monster fighter, the one about how he armed himself for perilous nights in those fitful shadowed hours not long before he was swallowed up by first grade. there was the a-ha moment where the little black squiggles on the page suddenly, out of the blue, and after much trying, erupted into words, the likes of which he swallowed whole, in starter sentences and paragraphs. there was, most recently, stitching the homesick blanket, in which he wanted more than anything a plane ticket home. and the meander, in particular, that made him stand up and say, excuse me, i have a right to tell my own story of my own life.
it is a struggle many writers meet head on. there are sharp lines in our lives we do not cross. whole continents of heartland we do not explore in print.
it’s why there’s fiction.
being married to a writer, i’ve long known our unspoken pact: i don’t write about his private life, our private life, because it’s his as much as mine. being the mother of a college kid, i’ve known too just how close i can inch toward that tender, fragile, firm, border crossing. i’ve written less and less about him as he’s grown, claimed his own life story.
but my little one, until just now, has been the one whose heart, whose words, whose wonders i couldn’t help but capture.
like a lepidopterist, i’ve flailed my net, and here and there, in daisy fields and shaded coves, in kindergarten classrooms, and on little league playlots, i’ve netted bright-winged moments that were my sweet boy growing up.
moments that otherwise would have escaped, fluttered off to clouds, or tucked away behind a tree limb.
been lost to time and memory.
i’ve long said that more than anything, pull up a chair has been my truest snapshot album. has lassoed in times new roman (the font in which i type) a mother’s deepest felt moments, the charms of six-year-old and seven-year-old lexicon and logic. has been slow-release, unfurling love song.
more than anything, it’s holding up a life — my life, our life — to the light. it’s catching the rainbow shards distilled in every shaft of sunbeam. it’s turning a moment round and round, re-discovering a miracle or magic not seen in first-run.
and along the way, truth be always told, i fell more in love with one particular little fellow than i ever knew i could. it’s not that i didn’t love him through and through and through in real time. it’s just that in putting him on paper, in digging deep to find the words, to record his whims and whirling marvels, i fell in love all over and over and over again. it’s the prestidigitation of the pen.
just this morning, as i petitioned this very musing, as i inquired as we trudged through snow banks and skidded over ice patch en route to where the school bus stops, he generously offered more than compromise: “oh, you can write about me, mom. just not my private life.”
so no more snaps of little boy legs peeking out from under the covers. no more monster fighter garb, bare naked chest and legs. no more stories from the shadows and the aching vessels of his heart. not without assent — of the committee of one. not unless he lifts the “no trespassing” sign.
my little muse is growing up. and he’s the author of his life.
to which the corollary is: the life that’s mine is the one of which i’m allowed to write. and that alone, i’ll mine.
unless permission’s granted.
for the writers and artists among you, do you too find places in your heart which you know not to trespass, at least not out loud and in public?
dashing to get to audio storytelling class. huge computer snafus this morning. will edit later. thanks, T, for letting me tell a story.
the sweet snap way above is my apple-cheeked boy, caught reading by the light of the double-d battery, long long ago. when he was five, and didn’t mind being the subject of a story.
stitching the homesick blanket
dispatch from 02139…
here on the banks of the charles river, it’s seeped in, that one thing i knew was coming, that one thing i prayed might be kept at bay.
but of course, it couldn’t, wouldn’t be.
not when traveling with young soul, tender soul, boy on the brink of those tumbling years, those years when friends mean everything, when the familiar is lifeline, is equilibrium.
and so, at the dawn of most days lately, and past nightfall, when the bedclothes are tucked up around his chin, that’s when i hear the sigh, the deep, deep hollow sigh. the boy misses home, misses friends, feels unmoored.
“please, can we go home?!?!” he asks, begging and insisting in the same short breaths.
are there words in a mother’s lexicon that cut more sharply against the vessels of the heart?
one morning, not so many days ago, when i’d dried the tears, whispered words meant to stitch together the tatters, when i’d coaxed and promised and pleaded, at last he climbed down from the top of the bunk bed, surrendered more or less to the school day up ahead, and as he stood there, calm by then, bravely slipping arms through soccer jersey, he asked:
“mom, has there ever been a time in your life where you wished you could go back to a decision and make it over again?”
and i knew, of course, before the last word of the sentence rested on my eardrum, that the decision in mind here was the one back in january, around the dinner table, when we’d asked that fifth-grade boy what he’d think of up and moving to cambridge for a year, and he replied, without missing a beat, “sounds great. i need to see the world!”
and here, standing on the hard-planked floor of his little room on franklin street, in cambridge, in the heart of 02139, he was wishing with all his might that time was silly-putty, could be pulled and twisted, turned back, re-formed. that just maybe he’d said nope, no way, i’m stayin’ put.
but fact is, we’re here. for a mere nine more months.
and i know, deep in my mother heart, that he’ll be all right.
that this hurts, absolutely. (after all i’m the girl who sat on the garage stoop for my whole kindergarten year, every sunday night, oozing emptiness and sorrow as i watched my papa pull down the driveway, turn and fade into the darkness, gone again till friday, week after empty week, for most of that whole year.)
the thing that keeps me steady are the words some wise soul said in passing, just before we packed up all the boxes back on maple avenue, when she said: “a parent’s job is to teach our children to be comfortable with the uncomfortable.”
well, it’s uncomfortable, all right. for him, at least. for this kid who travels to a school where he claims just one friend, though when i pick him up on the basketball courts after school, he’s amid a thicket of ball players, all smiling, jostling. and they call out his name in a way that drips with honey, pure sweet, our little scrapper of a hustler on the court. and with that big ol’ smile to boot, he seems to be the proud owner of a formula for instant affection.
if i didn’t believe, deep down, with all my soul, that this year was in fact a trip through the accelerator, that shake-’em-up-machine that can’t help but infuse life knowledge, heart, a deeper wider understanding of the world, whether it comes from sitting on my lap while i read a story from our south african journalist friend about the 1,802 footsteps it takes along a muddy mountain path to fetch a jug of water (twice, each day), or whether it comes while kicking around a soccer ball with four kids, not one of whom speaks english, i would never have emptied out his dresser drawers, stuffed it all in duffel bags, and squished them into the back of the little black sedan that pulled out of our alley back home, and kept chugging till it got to the curb here on franklin.
but that doesn’t mean i’ve not, once again, pulled out my mother bag of implements and tools for stitching back together the tattered heart of a boy who’s been stricken with a nasty case of homesick blues.
and once again i’ve come to that blunt line, the precipice, where words run out, where there are only so many ways you can whisper hope, promise deliverance from this heartache.
and so, as always, i’ve turned to the alchemies of comfort.
i am simmering cider and spices in early morning hours so that even before he flutters open an eyelid, he’ll have breathed in a comfort note, a pungent autumn mix of cinnamon and clove and apple orchard.
i’m frying sausages and bacon. making whopping batches of french toast on weekends, so all week long he’ll start the day with a platter that tries to whisper: you are loved. you’re not home, but home is here, is where the ones who hold you up promise to sustain you, to keep you from being swallowed whole by the rocky waters of your achiness.
i’m snatching samples of hard-rock candy from the white house pastry chef who lectured to my “science and cooking” class, so that he knows, without words, that even in the thick of my dailiness, he is front and center in my mama brain.
last night, dashing out of a mind-blowing talk from five journalists who covered the arab spring, from egypt to liberia to yemen and tunisia, five journalists who barely missed bullets, and didn’t escape arrest, dashing out because i had to get to the soccer field, to fetch my homesick boy from practice, i spied a vat of goldfish crackers, and scooped up a whole cup because even when my head is swirling with images of war and foreign correspondents, i remember that little boys’ tummies growl when they are empty, and the drive home in cambridge traffic is always longer than it should be, and so there i was dashing along the cobbled streets, weaving and darting between college kids plugged into iPhones, with my plastic cup of bright orange goldfish.
because mamas never stop the art, the craft, the hope of being mamas. our one true work is nestled deep in that cord that forever connects us: we are, if we choose to be, the beginning and the end of someone’s belonging to this holy earth. we are womb. even when it’s emptied.
and our prayers are without end. our prayers, without words when we come to the place where no vowels, no consonants exist to capture the whole of what we ask, what we beg for.
dear God, please fill this child’s heart. please stitch together the gaping hole, the oozing-out place where it hurts so very much, where it feels like you’re falling, spinning, down a big black tunnel. where you think you’ll never again get home. where the comfort of your big old bed, the wallpaper that you know by heart, the sounds of the creaking at the top of the stairs, it’s all you long for. that and the footsteps of your friends, tramping in the door, encasing you in the whole cloth of friendship and familiar that you so miss.
dear God, pass me, please, the spool and the needle that i need here. as i try mightily, morning after morning, bedtime after bedtime, to stitch the homesick blanket. so i can tuck in the boy i love, wrap him in the holy cloth of comfort that only angels bring.
chair people, if you’ve an extra word of grace to spare, perhaps you might send up vespers for all the children in this world who don’t quite feel that they belong wherever it is they are. and if you’ve tricks in your sewing kit, or recipes tucked into files, please do tell: how do you stitch comfort for the ones you love when they are aching, oozing, and wholly at a loss?
dashing to send this off because any minute now, the power’s going out for the whole day here. i’ll have to nip and tuck later. but for now…..my morning’s meander….
tumblings from a cambridge notebook…
dispatch from 02139… in which the chair explores the nooks and crannies of this wonderland where at every turn, it seems, there is something to capture the imagination and set it soaring…
because i’ve somehow managed to decorate my days-long fever with wall-to-wall crimson spots (ever conscious of the college colors), i’ve decided that the wisest dispatch here this morning would be the one in which i merely shake out my reporter’s notebook from this enchanted week in cambridge, one in which we launched deep and wide into orientation at the white clapboard lippmann house where the cottage garden blooms and where already i’ve encountered a slew of amazing souls from all around the world.
it is pinch-me hard to believe, quite often, that i am in fact sitting in a chair in a sun-streamed assembly room, looking up at a wall, where there hangs a banner that reads: “nieman foundation for journalism at harvard.”
but there we sit, eight hours in a day, absorbing all they have to tell us about this year of, as the curator of us all so beautifully put it: “exposure to big and wonderful minds.” not a bad agenda for a year.
among us is a foreign correspondent (whose identity i must keep masked) who tells tales of interviewing terrorists and then being told that if the interviews don’t work out, maybe she could marry one of the ol’ bomb-lobbers. yet another is a woman who has dedicated her life and every waking second of the last two years to documenting every single homicide in washington, d.c.; she has been in court for every hearing and proceeding of every bloody death in the district, she hears from victim’s families and suspects and accusers, along with eyewitnesses, and a host of hangers-on, and she was in tears when she got up to introduce herself and explained that in order to come on the fellowship she had to close down her site, and for the first time in two years, there were murders in d.c. going down undocumented this week, unwatched by her watchful eyes.
the conversation i’ll not ever forget is the one that unfolded the other night, sitting at a picnic table, beside a man from a country i won’t name (for confidentiality reasons), who told me that he is publishing a book on the history of his country, and that when he returned home at the end of this year, “trouble will be waiting.”
when i asked what exactly “trouble” meant, he quietly answered, “prison.”
“how long,” i asked.
he shook his head. he didn’t know. but he had two friends, he told me, who’d been in prison 17 years already.
you don’t engage in conversations like those and not begin to feel a shifting deep inside, as you realize that around the world lives are risked for the work that journalists — hellbent on truth-telling, no matter the cost — do each and every day, recording every bloody uprising, every random gang-bang.
on the other end of an indelible spectrum, i’ve been witness to my little fellow, the one who in recent weeks was scared to death about leaving home, the one who on the morning of our leaving, when i walked into his bedroom at dawn to announce, “it’s time to go,” burst into unbroken sobs. i have been watching him cast aside every doubt and worry and dive into friendships with kids he never knew a week ago. even when they don’t speak a word of english.
the most heavenly of those friendships is the one we’ve come to call the three musketeers: there is my little guy, who speaks barely a word of spanish; there is a little boy from spain who speaks barely a word of english; and, in the middle, there is a little fellow whose parents are from argentina, but who has lived in cambridge his whole life, and who fluidly and fluently is the verbal glue between all three. that and the universal conjunction, the soccer ball, which needs no translation, and which the other night, on the sloping lawn of the lippmann house, steering clear of the butterfly bush and the cosmos, was the magnet that drew some 20 kids, from the diaper-set to the 11-year-old ringleaders, into a game that would not quit, not till well after the last drop of cambridge sunlight had been wrung from the night sky.
in my fevered state, it’s hard to find words for how darn proud i am of that little fellow, who has dug down deep and pulled forth a motherlode of courage and great good wit, to already claim a host of friends from all around the world. glory be to the angels and saints to whom i’ve prayed for months, for this very answer to countless whispered pleadings.
and so this week, more than anything, has been about making friends, peeling back that layer that we all show to the world, and through the simple act of asking questions, and listening carefully to the stories that spill and spill, finding divine connection that will carry us through a short and winding year.
a mother from south africa told me how, through meditation, she came to know she was birthing twins. a radio broadcaster from chile extolled the virtues of a chilean feminist poet who’s been clouded by pablo neruda’s blinding fame; and she and i, now on a shared poetry quest, intend to trek to grolier’s, the oldest poetry-only bookstore in the country, just off harvard square. a food writer from new orleans promised he’d make us gumbo.
and so it goes. all upholstered by my smashing case of spots, in harvard crimson colors.
next up: shopping for classes. on the list? “poetry and religion,” in which we explore the works of Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Anna Akhmatova, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Sylvia Plath. or maybe “the science of cooking,” yes, cooking. or perhaps wynton marsalis’ ongoing lecture series. or whatever else tumbles on my hungry path.
and by the way, oh goodness what a difference a year makes, we take the college boy back to amherst tomorrow morn. it will soon be just the three of us. and already i miss that gorgeous soul who inhabits such an enormous chunk of my heart.
do you, too, revel in the art of discovering those divine connections that draw us together and hold us forever after? (and how was that for a rhetorical question…)
apple pie, poker & the afterglow of hardballs to the noggin
these odd chapters somehow always manage to creep up unawares. and so this one.
we were sitting the other eve, forks in mid-lift, i’m certain, when suddenly a skinny pair of sun-browned legs came swishing through the steamy jungle that these days is my secret tangled garden, the one tucked along the side of this old house. not many lopes behind him came another pair of legs, grown-up legs, a mother’s legs. but not his mother’s.
while it took my brain cells a spell or two to shake all this out, it all came tumbling clear once i saw the look of dazed despair on the little one’s face, and the ashen worry on the mama trailing just behind. then i saw the boy holding something to his dust-splattered head, and i needed little explanation to reach the quick conclusion that this was not how the evening had been scripted.
while the little guy stared up at me with those thirsty hazel-brown eyes of his, in that way that kids have of signaling simultaneous distress and “help me, help me, mama! this here’s your job,” the mama trailing behind him began to spill the dots.
there had been a game of stealing bases, and a hardball, one zipping through the air at 35 miles per hour, she figured (and, the mother of three ball-playing boys, she knows these things). that hard-beaned hardball made a beeline straight to my little guy’s forehead, which set him “crumpling” (her word) to the ground, upon which he couldn’t remember my phone number, and kept saying the same thing over and over. oh, and he was dizzy. and he thought he might throw up.
now, mind you, i’d just the week before heard a tale of precisely the same thing, a kid on the side of a ball field taking a bean to the head, how he got rushed to the school nurse, who thought not so much of it, so he went along to his after-school playdate, only to start getting droopy-faced within the hour. that poor kid wound up in emergency brain surgery before the sun set, and now, thank god, is a-okay. though he won’t be playing ball for a long long time. or ever, if his mother has anything to say about it.
so, with that fresh little spectacle shining in my head, i took in the scene with my very own head-bonked boy, and before you can spell “concussion,” i’d speed-dialed our trusty pediatricians, who wasted no time in sending me to the ER we live so conveniently close to. (note to mothers of boys: when house hunting, be sure to clock the door-to-door distance to your nearest friendly emergency room. it comes in handy.)
not-so-long story abbreviated: dear boy didn’t even need a CT scan, though of course they ruled his head bonk a by-the-book concussion. and, worth mention, his big brother did a memorable job playing ambulance driver, clicking on the bright red flashers only to be stuck in traffic behind the north shore’s slowest-ever driver, meandering lazily down the express route to the hospital. and, happy ending taken up a notch, we walked out of that ER into the arms of a thrashing summer’s storm. hallelujah!
but this wouldn’t be a tale worth telling if not for the prescription that came with the bump: no TV, no computers, no reading, no contact sports.
egad.
for how long we must endure this, we do not know. we see the concussion doctor monday. so for now, and through the weekend, we’ve turned back the clock and we’re playing like pioneers, minus the covered wagon.
yesterday we filled the day with this list of exotica: two boys — ages 10 and 11, mind you — baked, from scratch, an apple pie. yessiree, they sliced the apples, dumped the sugar, sprinkled cinnamon with vigor. they rolled out the dough, crimped the edge (in remarkably poetic undulations). then, because both share the initials TK, they drew out a lance from the kitchen junk drawer and lanced away at their letters, a cris-cross of hard-edged consonants nearly doing in the pie top.
while the apple pie did its oven dance, they did what bakers do: they tried their hand at texas hold ’em, a poker variation, then moved on to black jack and dominoes. ping pong served as minor interlude, along with a promise from our head-bonked one that he would not, absolutely not, come crashing down on the sharp corner of the table.
later in the evening, yet another little fellow wandered by. he took the bumped one out for ice cream, and, quietly strolling the lanes from there to here, they returned home for a long night of not-oft-seen board games. checkers, monopoly, and the fierce pursuit of plastic real estate.
so goes the old-fashioned, turn-back-the-clock life of the forehead compromised.
and, of course you’ve guessed that the point here is that gifts sometimes come wrapped in odd packages. say, ones with purple-green swirls just under a little boy’s forehead curls.
it is rather a refreshing, if taxing, way to spend a summer’s day, exercising the imagination, steering clear of pursuits that might potentially jar that tender brain of his.
deep inside, i long for just such summer days. for the gift of building tree forts (though at the moment, the fort is grounded, not cleared for take-off). for, perhaps, lying upon a summer’s couch, listening to the words of a mama turning the page of some fine adventure tale. and, pray tell, how about a lemonade stand, peddling from-scratch lemony-sugar potion, at the turn-back price of 5 cents a glass?
sometimes it takes a klonk on the head to get us seeing clearly. and if that’s the moral to the hardball story, well, then, i wish we could have gotten there without the goose egg hatching on my little fellow’s forehead.
how do you dream of spending a summer’s day? one spent the old-fashioned way?
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The Secret Lives of Tiki Fanatics
A California couple amassed a collection of 10,000 tiki mugs—but they’re not alone in their pursuit.
story: Aaron Goldfarb
photos: Marcus Meisler
If Wendy and Dan Cevola opened the windows in their Sacramento area home, jungle-like greenery accompanied by an otherworldly glow would immediately come into street view. From the outside, it looked distinctly like a marijuana grow room. But the Cevolas weren’t growing weed. For the past two decades, the couple has been stocking their home with one of the world’s greatest tiki collections, illuminated by bespoke mood lighting.
“We had to warn the police,” recalls Wendy, noting that their “Jungle Room”—a Rainforest Café lookalike with tiki mugs scattered throughout—ran the risk of rousing suspicion. “We didn’t want them to kick down the door!”
The Cevolas began their tiki collection in 1997, eventually acquiring around 10,000 pieces—mugs, carvings, plates and artwork—worth nearly half a million dollars. While Dan had long been a collector of vinyl records, he made the crossover after picking up a copy of Tiki News (Otto von Stroheim’s seminal tiki publication) on a whim at Tower Records. “[It] totally just clicked with him,” explains Wendy.
As is so often the first step with tiki collectors, the Cevolas began looking for mugs at garage sales. Their first score was a bucket mug from Stockton, California’s The Islander, a tiki hot spot in the 1960s and ’70s. It didn’t take long after that first acquisition for tiki to take over their lives, despite the fact that neither of them particularly liked to drink, apart from a glass of Champagne here and there. Nevertheless, the two would make a point to visit tiki bars on their travels, picking up souvenirs along the way. “We thought of buying tiki mugs the way other people think of going to the movies,” explains Wendy. “You have your entertainment, and then it’s gone. But ours was there to entertain us for years to come.”
Eventually, Wendy, a nuclear medicine technician by day, started designing her own mugs—a topless hulu girl in a coconut “hot tub” in particular has become a sought-after item amongst collectors. (“Men love that one because she’s bigger than a triple-D,” Wendy notes.)
As of two years ago, before they decided to downsize, the Cevolas had built the biggest tiki mug collection in the world. Ceramic mugs and tiki paraphernalia packed their backyard, part of their garage, their dining room, their kitchen, and their family room, where totems surrounded the TV; they were in downstairs bedrooms, upstairs bedrooms, every hallway and, of course, Dan’s “man cave.” A total of 27 7-foot-tall bookcases, spread throughout the house, were packed to the verge of overflow with tiki mugs, numbering in the thousands.
“We have no children and we started thinking, ‘What would it be like for our heirs to deal with this when we pass away?’” says Wendy, who is only 68. Just last year, they decided to downsize, inviting tiki mug collectors over for a series of eight garage sales where they sold around 8,000 items.
At Home With the Cevolas
Their first buyer was a local friend, Vance Klinke, who acquired about 200 pieces to add to his personal mug collection, which now totals just under 800. The regional director of admissions for a college, Klinke has a passion for the work of Michael “Gecko” Souriolle, known for his mixed medium artistry that extends to larger tiki vessels and serving bowls. After having discovered Gecko’s work on Facebook, Klinke reached out to the Hawaiian artist to commission a bespoke item: a Mr. Bony Trophy Skull mug, which has become his most prized piece in the collection.
If the Cevolas collect mugs as souvenirs, Klinke collects mugs for their artistic value. “I particularly enjoy developing relationships with the artists,” he explains, listing other creators he admires, including Scott “Beachbumz” Taylor and “TikiRob” Hawes. “I feel a sense of pride that I can own great examples of their work.”
But it wasn’t just locals who looted the Cevola stash. Eric Allred flew down from his Seattle-area home and returned the same day with a suitcase packed with 40 of their mugs, including some one-of-a-kind Tiki Bob Maori mugs that Wendy herself had made. (Tiki Bob is one of the most ubiquitous styles of mugs, with his dotted eyes and oversize grin.) Unlike the Cevolas, Allred, a Google technical program manager by trade, is a recent tiki convert, but his descent into mug madness has been rapid. Today he has over 600 mugs, many of which live in his “Sneaki Tiki Lounge,” a converted toolshed in his backyard that doubles as a home tiki bar.
Unlike the Cevolas and Klinke, Allred actually drinks out of his collection. “It horrifies other collectors,” he says of using his mugs, some of which are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars. His collection includes a number of designs from contemporary artists, like Munktiki, a family-run manufacturer from Astoria, Oregon, as well as rare and unusual designs like a Boba Fett coconut mug and a zombiefied Skipper and Little Buddy, which certain diehard collectors might view as falling outside the bounds of traditional tiki. But, Allred reasons: “If I can drink a Mai Tai out of it, it’s a tiki mug.”
Not far from Allred, in Lake Stevens, Washington, Jeff Nelson has amassed around 230 mugs, though he takes a different tack—exclusively seeking out vintage tiki mugs from bars that no longer exist. He has one from Aku Tiki, a long-forgotten bar in Lincoln, Nebraska; another from the once-famed Kahiki Supper Club in Columbus, Ohio. His crown jewel is a crudely made, hand-scratched mug from the Trader Vic’s that was once located in Waikiki. He displays his findings throughout his entire home, which he’s dubbed Hala Kahiki Tiki Hale (Hawaiian for “The Pineapple Tiki House”). With scores of Polynesian artworks adorning the walls, blowfish lamps, wooden parrots and a bamboo ceiling, the space functions as a sort of private club for tiki enthusiasts.
Like Allred, Nelson chooses to use his mugs. “One thing I love is grabbing an old mug, making myself a drink in my home tiki bar, holding it in my hand, and thinking, ‘Gosh, this came from the Bali Hai [in San Diego] in 1962, but now here I am drinking from it,’” he explains. “It makes you feel differently about your cocktail, drinking from something so nostalgic—and such a great piece of art, too.”
For Wendy, however, there is another allure to collecting. “The most fun part is when people come over to our home for the first time, and they see the Jungle Room,” she says. “I still pull out my camera and take a picture, because their mouths just fall open.”
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Aaron Goldfarb
Aaron Goldfarb lives in Brooklyn and is a novelist and the author of Hacking Whiskey. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, Whisky Advocate and more.
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Cemetery Research: Eternity Is Not Forever
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Rosedale senior citizen with schizophrenia missing: NYPD
Otha Goodman, 79, from Rosedale was reported missing on Aug. 24th by his son. The elderly man, who is schizophrenic was last seen at his residence on Aug. 8.
timesledgernews@cnglocal.com
By Naeisha Rose
ROSEDALE — The NYPD was seeking the public’s assistance in a missing person’s case.
Otha Goodman, 79, who suffers from schizophrenia, was reported missing by his son Aug. 24 according to police.
The elderly man, who is in poor mental health, lives at 139-21 254th St. in Rosedale within the confines of the 105th Precinct, according to officers.
Goodman, who is black, was described as having a slim build, brown eyes and gray hair, according to authorities. He is approximately 5-feet-6-inches tall and 130 pounds.
He was last seen leaving his residence Aug. 8, according to the NYPD.
Two teens reported missing after they were last seen at their Queens homes in unrelated cases: NYPD
Police searching for Cambria Heights teen who was last seen on Saturday afternoon
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Unfaithful Quotes
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Connie Sumner: I think this was a mistake.
Paul: There is no such thing as a mistake. There are things you do, and things you don't do.
Connie Sumner: We could end this now and nobody would get hurt
Paul: I'd get hurt.
Connie Sumner: Talk to me. Tell me what you did.
Edward Sumner: No, you tell me what you did! How you fucked him over and over and over, you lied to me over and over and over.
Connie Sumner: Edward, please.
Edward Sumner: No, you don't talk to me now. I gave everything... for this family. Everything... and what did you do? You threw it all away like it was nothing. For what? To a fucking kid! You didn't think I'd know? I wouldn't feel it? I knew it from the very first day! Because I know you, Connie. I know you, and I fucking hate you! I didn't want to kill him, I wanted to kill you!
Connie Sumner: [pauses] Oh, my God.
Connie Sumner: Did you just fuck me across the street?
Paul: Uh-huh. I did.
Tracy: Having an affair is nothing like taking a pottery class.
Sally: Could be.
Tracy: No. It would start out like that, and then, um, something would happen. Someone, uh, finds out, or someone falls in love, and it ends disastrously. It always ends disastrously.
Edward Sumner: You *talk* about me?
Connie Sumner: Be happy for this moment, this moment is you life.
Paul: Your eyes are amazing do you know that? You should never shut them, not even at night.
Connie Sumner: [Dancing] I have to warn you - I tend to lead.
Paul: Of course, you're an American.
[Last Line]
Connie Sumner: We can spend the rest of our lives on that beach, and when we die we can just push out to sea. What do you think?
Edward Sumner: Perfect, sounds perfect.
Connie Sumner: Edward... did you hurt him? You did, didn't you? Jesus, Edward. Talk to me. Tell me what you did.
Edward Sumner: No. You tell me what you did.
Paul: We take Medicard...
Constance: I'm uninsured.
Paul: I'm sorry, we don't take charity cases here.
[closes the door, and then opens it again]
Paul: [laughing] It was a joke.
Tracy: Do you think she's had work?
Sally: Why would she have had work? She still looks gorgeous.
Tracy: Well, that's when they're having it now, before it all turns to shit.
Charlie: What's 'accountable'? Is that like people eating people?
Bill Stone: Wait. Wait a minute. You're telling me about family? Well, you don't know the first goddamn thing about it. Why don't you take a look at your own fucking family, Ed? Take a goddamn look at that.
Paul: [reading from a Braille book] "My mother makes me chicken. Her chicken makes me cough. I wish that when she made it, she at least took the feathers off."
Tracy: [while Connie and Paul are having sex in the restroom] She's not like that. She's really nice.
Sally: Of course she is. That only makes it worse. She's nice and sweet and her ass is exactly where it was when she was in college.
[First Line]
Charlie: Dad, look what I can do. I've been practicing
[Makes fart noise with armpit]
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“Ramón-do-Casar” leads the Ribeiro DO with la Treixadura
Discover ‘Ramón-do-Casar’ and an immediate contemporality in a company that uniquely combines a modern image with elements from the recent and not so recent past, in the history of an individual, and a family, conveying the essence of Ribiero DO through intense emotions.
The waters of the Miño meander across the land in our journey from east to west. We set off from Ourense’s Porto Vello in pursuit of our destination, ‘Ramón-do-Casar’ in Prado, Castrelo de Miño. We soon reach the Ribeiro, famous as a winemaking region since the early Middle Ages under the Crown of Castilla and Leon, and much lauded by cultured 13th-century king, Alfonso X. “Assi com’eu bevería boo vino d’Ourens…”, in Galician, the language of diplomacy. It feels nearer as we leave behind us the “ínsua” of the Troncoso river poking above the waterline1. The Castrelo dam changed both the landscape and life here fifty years ago, its construction resulting in the disappearance of centuries-old vineyards between Ponte-Castrelo, Santa María and Ventosela. Here in the region’s heart were the fertile islands of Cabreira and what is known as ‘A Illa’, described as ‘Isleta Ailla’ on the first National Topographic map in 19432. Both are now mere fragments of memory and imagination, much like Quijote’s imaginary island of ínsula Barataria.
This map was published in the 40s, hard years of a post-war period which saw the overseas emigration of many young people from the middle of the decade onwards, a situation which the Franco dictatorship accepted as a solution to the economic stagnation that was in fact as a result of its political ideology, in the context of euphoria in democratic, parliamentary Europe at the time after defeating its defeat of the Third Reich and Italian fascism. The misery continued in the 50s, with gradually increasing levels of emigration as a solution to people’s difficult personal and family situations. This is the backdrop to Ramón González who left Astariz for Venezuela in 1955, but would go on to establish this vineyard in the neighbouring parish of Prado de Miño. In the promised land of South America, with hard work and a bit of luck, Ramón gradually achieved his goals over the following decades: he married, had children, bought the longed for land, and consolidated the dream he shared with his wife and family and which has gradually taken shape in the 21st century with the dawn of the new millennium.
In our journey along this section of the Miño river, we leave Astariz and Vide behind us, catching sight of the white profile of the winery building which stands out against the different shades of green of the hillside. Beyond the vegetation on the shores of the river we find the vineyard, divided by the regional motorway, lines of vines stretching up the slope perpendicular to the river like strands of wet hair: this is the visible wine growing landscape, modern and characteristic which transforms the traditional system to adapt to new methods and technologies. The house on the hill and beyond this basic structure with its clean lines and granite structure, the mountain, and beyond that the Royal Road, with the high treetops forming an irregular and uneven horizon. The land releases its perfume in the early morning and the grapes absorb it during the warm afternoons to transform this energy at sundown into flavour. Today’s château frames the O Ribeiro space asserting itself like a symbol of new times.
We leave our time-travelling boat here before the waters steer it to port in A Granxa and after mooring we set foot on the estate, entering the winemaking lands of the family vineyard. We leave the road behind and enter the second part of the property, a winemaking landscape where we reach the white acropolis of Ramón-do-Casar on foot, at our backs an old stone wall with plants growing from the cracks. The north-facing building has asymmetric sections over different levels, with western façades in translucent glass and angular shapes to the walls. Rectangular and geometric, all the sections have terraced roofs. This architecture is an expression of a conscious choice which ex nunc3 demonstrates a concept that combines the practical correlation between function and shape and a desire for representation. Because “as music is experienced over time, so is architecture”, in the words of Le Corbusier. The lack of a roof and the choice of light colours for the external walls are two of the characteristics of this great Swiss French architect and painter, a leading figure in the early 20th-century movement to make architecture rational and functional. The control of the use of light, necessary in the work area, and the volume and transparency of the angular corners of the north eastern block, -a lesson from Bauhaus- breaks with the paradigm of the constructive cliché found in this denomination of origin region around the Miño, Avia and Arnoia. This external image is an expression of modernity. As is the creation of wine using Treixadura, the queen of grapes in this Galician winemaking region and the main symbol of the Ribeiro area. Wines made with these grapes have recently won awards at local, regional, national and international level. The winery has the initials RC in Corten steel on the front of the building and it is also the logo on the wine bottles, a carefully considered concept where the “C” is the Ramón-do-Casar wine glass. In this comprehensive vision, everything comes together to give meaning to hard work and commitment.
Xabier Limia Gardón.
1River island.
2The map, drawn up in Spanish, has ‘Ailla’ (sic) as a place name for ‘a illa’, meaning ‘the island’’…
3From now on, Latin phrase.
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Rapides Regional Medical Center September 16, 2016
When Jessica Swanson decided to Back the Blue, it was personal. Her husband had been a Pineville Police Department patrolman for two years – and as an Emergency Department Clerk at Rapides Regional Trauma Center, Swanson had seen her share of injuries.
“I’ve seen patients come into the Emergency Department who didn’t make it because they had lost too much blood and they didn’t get to us in time,” Swanson said.
So when three Baton Rouge area police officers died in the line of duty earlier this year, the risk became very real.
“I wanted to see what I could do,” Swanson said.
At first, that meant designing a “Back the Blue” T-shirt with her friend Michelle Bailey.
“I thought we would sell 50 shirts,” Swanson said. “And with the money we raised, I thought we’d be able to make dinner for the local officers and show our appreciation.”
But Swanson’s first Facebook post had 497 shares.
“It blew up,” Swanson said. “We completed three orders for T-shirts. We sold more than 1,800.” Thousands of dollars poured in and we started saying, what can we do to truly make a difference?”
After a bit of research, Swanson found a “Quick Clot Trauma Kit” used by police officers in other cities. The kit, which can be attached to an officer’s utility belt, includes gloves, CPR shield, tourniquet, and Quick Clot gauze, designed to stop bleeding in the field.
The kit, however, isn’t available for civilian purchase. It can only be purchased by first responders, law enforcement agencies – and hospitals.
That’s where Rapides Regional Trauma Center comes in.
Each year, Rapides Regional Trauma Center sees approximately 3,500 major trauma patients. A recent expansion of the emergency department makes room for trauma patients and the 85,000 other patients expected to visit RRMC in 2016 – with 47 patient beds.
Since it is the only trauma center within 100 miles in any direction, patients arrive from many different parishes and counties, with many different injuries. For many of those patients, blood loss is an issue.
“Jessica contacted us and told us she had raised almost $9,000 with T-shirt sales and wanted to be able to purchase these Quick Clot kits for our local patrolmen,” said Charla Ducote, RRMC Vice President of Public Relations, Marketing and Business Development.
"The people I love will have something that will potentially save a life. And as a police wife, it’s very comforting to me to know that this is going to happen."
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The kits were approximately $60 each.
“There were 214 officers in the Alexandria Police Department, Pineville Police Department and Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Department,” Ducote said. “We were happy to be able to supplement the money Jessica had already and order belt kits for every officer, along with several dozen extra.”
In addition, each kit will include a hand-written note from area elementary school students who wanted to show support for the local officers.
“The cost per kit doesn’t compare to the cost of someone’s life,” Swanson said. “The people I love will have something that will potentially save a life. And as a police wife, it’s very comforting to me to know that this is going to happen.”
Rapides Regional Trauma Center will also offer education for local police officers on how to properly use the Quick Clot product. Distribution of the Quick Clot Belt Kits will take place at each location by the end of October.
“Hemorrhage is the most common cause of preventable death in trauma,” said Donna Lemoine, RN, Rapides Regional Medical Center Trauma Services director. “40 percent of trauma-related deaths worldwide are due to bleeding or its consequences. Something like this could save someone’s life.”
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The Recipe for Good Writing: A Gin Martini, Guinness, and Ampalaya or How It Went Down at the Fil Am Book Fest Panel “Writing Our Way Home: Shaping Tradition, History and Culture”
Saturday, October 19, the stars and planets aligned not just because of LitQuake but because the Fil Am Book Fest II took place at the San Francisco Public Library. In the space of a single day, yours truly was afforded the rare and exceptional chance to reconnect with the most inspiring writers and caring colleagues such as Barbara Jane Reyes, Oscar Bermeo, Jason Bayani, Marianne Villanueva, Emily Breunig, Candace Eros Diaz, Linda Nietes, and Cecilia Brainard, who has been so supportive, a true guiding light since the very start of this writer’s life. Later, the evening of LitCrawl would allow for a quick reunion in the Mission at Muddy Waters Cafe with Rosemary Graham, Marilyn Abilskov, and Brenda Hillman. To share even five minutes off duty and off campus talking about life and writing with each of these luminaries was enough to keep this starved and over-worked soul going for the rest of the year.
The gravitational force who coordinated, collaborated, and made this rare celestial alignment possible was poet and professor and Festival Director Edwin Lozada who serves as President of the sponsoring organization PAWA Inc, and it was PAWA’s steering committee made this international festival a reality. Maraming salamat to Edwin and PAWA!
For the space of an hour, in the hushed setting of the Koret Auditorium with a crowd of fifty plus literarastes, I was honored to sit down and talk shop with Luisa Igloria, Jon Pineda, and Lysley Tenorio, moderating the panel “Writing Our Way Home: Shaping Tradition, History and Culture” as part of the Filipino American International Book Festival (Filbookfest 2)- Likhâ ng Lahi. Writing Our Way Home: Shaping Tradition, History and Culture. So how did it all go down?
We started with the beginning, when I asked the panelists, where do you start?
Igloria: Its more about finding time and a sense of place. Electronic devices allow her to write everywhere, so its a matter or carving out the space.
Pineda: Carries a journal, a $1 notebook and he fills the pages with characters. Not necessarily their physical attributes but what the character wants. He writes fully knowing he’s going to throw all of it away, but this is the fastest way to start dreaming about his characters. Its just a matter of allowing himself to explore, and in essence fail.
Tenorio: His writing is generally plot-driven, and he gets ideas from strange but true intersections, Filipino and American and Filipino-American. He cited his work from the story “Monstress,” which was borne out of horrible B movies that were spliced together–the worst movies of all time. He needs a sense of a beginning and an ending with a story, and so long as he outlines a rough plot that gives him no excuse to get through a draft.
Since all writers mentioned the use of media, we moved to how media shaped their process or inspired their writing.
Igloria: Added that she uses media for quick answers to quick questions. She appreciates the ease and portability of interfaces. The way we wrote five to eight years ago has completely changed, and she’s also open to new ideas of media though she stresses that our most basic sense of media, the sensory apparatus of ears, nose, and eyes, which we all carry are important to keep open.
Pineda: Admitted he’s a very visual person and loves Google maps. The interface is so amazing, allowing viewers to drop down to street level and take a closer look. Its a great tool to find stories. He cited a recent digital excursion where he explored Google Maps and saw the image of a young boy wearing a T-shirt and so obviously giving the finger to the Google car driving by. It was such an instance of giving back to the man. He also encouraged writers to explore historical preservation societies because they have archives that really capture a way of life in the past.
Tenorio: Tries not to write too of the moment with new media but work instead symbolically or metaphorically. For instance, he was recently writing an opening scene that features a webcam though the device at first seemed clunky he later found that it was way to explore the tension of the moment.
Igloria– Added that she appreciates the more open sense of collaboration that newer technology has allowed such as the medium of the video poem where film artists collaborate on the internet. It’s an interesting process to see another form of expression.
We then moved from media to the body and covered an excerpt from Pineda’s Apology because his novel was forefront in my mind and specifically this quote: “It was not a dream, though it felt like one. A beautiful piece of memory that could make him cry. Exequiel woke now, feverish. Out of his head. He summoned it from the faint scar woven in the bottom of his foot. A story hidden in the flesh.” So many of the tales interwoven in this novel are told through the body. I’m curious to know how does the flesh experience–since this is such a visceral and at times violent set of interlocked stories–how does flesh dictate the telling of the novel as opposed to chronology? I’d love to hear the panelists discuss how the body dictates their work.
Pineda: Spoke of how the character of that passage is broken, dealing with his past and the scars, the wreckage of his life. Being mestizo his work deals around the body and especially when he thinks about transitions, and the space the characters inhabit, the body is a point he is constantly meditating on as a device.
Igloria: Emphasized how memory and lyric dwell in the same house. There is always a physical reference point. She recalled how as a child she asked for bedtime stories all the time so her mother started to make them up. The ear was the receptacle, receiving those stories, a physical reference point. Then there were the rituals impressed upon her in youth and up to motherhood from the menstruation rites of adolescence to the tradition of tying the umbilical cords of your children together to ensure they stayed close as they grew older.
Tenorio– Touched on the body in his story “The View from Culion” about a leper colony and the body was very much a point of reference in his story “The Brothers” of which one of the characters was transitioning to female before an untimely death. For him, these specific instances are when the subject matter needs to be rendered by the body. But his stories are not any kind of social documentary on what the body means for a specific experience or expectation. And he noted how one reviewer had called his stories “generic” as if the critic had been anticipating some sense of being transported.
This led to my next question about the sticky issues of authenticity and outside expectations. How did these writers deal with anticipations of others to be representative of preconceived notions about culture and place.
Pineda: Was very truthful and straightforward, calling those expectations ridiculous. He writes from an emotional place and dares to write about certain places even if he’s never been there before.
Igloria: Touched on the sense of complexity, how a writer of diaspora is like the turtle that carries its home with it. Geography is shared but not the only defining element to a work. She emphasized that a writer can limit herself if shes only thinking of geography as a setting when it really serves as an emotional space. Take advantage of the psychology of a space, she encourages.
Pineda: Believes that to have to prove you’re an ambassador or making a nod to a type of individual, well, that makes him think of the kid who gave the Google camera the finger. “The more I write the more I don’t want to care about outside expectations,” he added. “Maybe it comes from twenty years of rejection.” Its nice to get a review but he writes for the connection with the reader. It could be the Catholic in him he explains, this desire for communion but that’s what he aims for.
Igloria: Asked to recalibrate that question and instead posed what are we most curious about? Writing is trying to answer mysterious ineffable questions, that don’t jibe with outside expectations of readership. Its about trying to find emotional truth, trying to seek that thing that will feed a more basic urge.
Tenorio: Urged just write. “They say write what you know, but think I its admirable to write what you don’t know.” There are so many different levels of identity, he focuses on what is useful for the writing.
How has family shaped you as a writer? What memories or experiences in childhood and with family serve as foundational in terms of what inspires you to write and what you write about?
Igloria: Grew up in a kitchen and recounted a story when her family had taught her to peel lima beans at a very young age, so she peeled them all, one by one. And she tells her students to this day thar was her very first lesson in writing because of the time and focused attention required to do something so detailed and miniscule. These kind of domestic details were engendered in childhood, and she has to many countless stories of childhood and family to share.
Tenorio: Explained that he doesn’t write autobiographically. His life is not in his writing though the conflicts that his characters face may be emotionally autobiographical or similar to what he’s seen in himself or his siblings who had it harder to adjust to life in a new country.
Pineda: Spoke of his grandfather’s stories of Japanese Occupation and his father’s. Both were great story tellers, and it wasn’t until later when he learned of tales that his father had been holding out on because he believed if they were shared too soon then Pineda would try and replicate them. The basis of these stories were their intensity.
Finally, these panelists were almost stumped with the last question, which was what is the perfect meal after a long day’s worth of writing or what is the best dish or meal to sit down to after a day of writing?:
Tenorio: A gin martini.
Pineda: A coconut steamer or a Guinness.
Igloria: Wants something really simple like ampalaya, pinakbet. And she stated, “I do like me some coffee, at beginning, the middle and end.”
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I’m proud to know your dad and now you, Rashaan. Best Wishes Always. Gene
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courtweek.com - Archives: 2011November 1, 2011The Law of Post-Halloween Legal StandardsToday is All Saints Day or All Hallows, a holy day of obligation for some. To others, it''s just the day after Halloween -- a day they forget was once merely All Hallows Eve. Some spend All Hallows recovering from the revelry of the night before, and some are still on the streets in the wee hours of the holy day. Our Case of the Week examines once such alleged citizen on the streets and the unfortunate lesson she learned about differing standards of legal review in a California appellate decision handed down last week.Let''s Make a DealAngelique Bongiovanni found herself in the legal system in 2009, charged with possession of methamphetamine in two separate cases. In a deal that would come back to haunt her on the day after Halloween, she made a plea bargain in one of the cases. Under the plea agreement, Ms. Bongiovanni pleaded no contest, and was placed on probation for three years. As an added bonus, her 365-day jail sentence was suspended to run concurrently with the sentence from her other drug bust.It seemed like a good deal at the time, and it would have been...if only she hadn''t allegedly been out with the witches, warlocks, goblins, and alleged gang members on the streets of Los Angeles on All Hallows 2009.All Hallows HijinksOn Nov. 1, 2009, Wendy Diaz lived with her husband and three children in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a gang problem. Perhaps not unlike Chauncey and Wadsworth fighting over tee times, the proper procedure for shaking martinis, or the best way to train a polo pony, Ms. Diaz''s neighborhood faced fights from the gentlemen and ladies of the rival gangs, "Vincent Town," and "Columbus Street." Police arrested a Columbus Street gang member for breaking into the Diaz home.After taking her children trick-or-treating on Halloween evening, Ms. Diaz ventured outside at approximately 1:00 in the morning of All Hallows to look for a friend parking on the street. Instead, Ms. Diaz said she saw Ms. Bongiovanni accompanied by a companion in a pumpkin costume.According to Ms. Diaz, Ms. Bongiovanni proceeded to engage in an expletive-laden tirade of threats. To accommodate the gentle readers of Courtweek.com who would rather witness a debate between Chauncey and Wadworth on the best ways to make covert contributions to the Republican National Committee instead of enduring the vile threats of alleged gang members, we will attempt to sanitize the vulgarity of Ms. Bongiovanni''s alleged utterances.Ms. Diaz said Ms. Bongiovanni approached her and called her an [expletive deleted] snitcher, adding, "You been [expletive deleted] snitching.""You and your family are coming down," Ms. Bongiovanni stated allegedly, as she is said to have added for emphasis, "You [expletive deleted] rata," and "[expletive deleted] all biccicletas."To assist our readers in appreciating the full flavor of Ms. Bongiovanni''s supposed soliloquy, we should note that each deleted expletive is a version of the same slang word referring to an act of sexual intimacy. In addition, "rata" can refer to a Soviet fighter plane from the 1930s, plants from the Metrosideros genus in New Zealand, or rat in Spanish. We''ll let you decide which one Ms. Bongiovanni might have meant. Also, biccicletas is a derivation of the Spanish word for bicycles. Seems innocuous enough. However, in Ms. Bongiovanni''s case, People v. Bongiovanni, California''s Second District Court of Appeal noted biccicletas was also a term Columbus Street gang members used as a sign of disrespect (or "dissing" in gangspeak) when addressing the upstanding citizens of the Vincent Town gang.Ms. Diaz reported the incident to police the same day and gave law enforcement a description of the woman who threatened her. She then identified Ms. Bongiovanni from a photo line up. Police knew Ms. Bongiovanni to be a member of the Columbus Street gang for almost a decade and that she went by the gang name, "Diabla." It wasn''t difficult police work...Ms. Bongiovanni sported Columbus Street gang tattoos on her body. If that weren''t enough, police said she also admitted she was a member.Winning 10-2?However, nifty tattoos notwithstanding, Ms. Bongiovanni denied she was a member of the gang at trial. In addition, Ms. Bongiovanni noted she was approximately 50 pounds heavier than Ms. Diaz had described her. Then again, it was Halloween, and with her friend in that pumpkin costume, she probably got a lot of candy. Despite Ms. Diaz''s testimony and police testimony citing various Columbus Street gang activities including murder, assaults, car theft, and narcotics distribution, the jury deadlocked, and it''s vote was 10-2 in favor of acquitting Ms. Bongiovanni. The court declared a mistrial and thus granted prosecutors'' motion to dismiss the charges pursuant to California Penal Code section 1385.So, it was time for Ms. Bongiovanni to do the happy dance. Sure, she was on probation, but the charges were dropped. No probation violation there...or so she thought.At an ensuing probation violation hearing, Ms. Bongiovanni argued she had not violated her probation in the All Hallows morning incident. She claimed the whole thing was a case of mistaken identity, and she argued the jury''s 10-2 vote in her favor showed she hadn''t done anything wrong.Most members of the jury may have believed her, but the judge wasn''t buying it. More importantly, for purposes of sending Ms. Bongiovanni to the slammer for a probation violation, the opinions of those 10 jurors didn''t matter.You see, California probation violation determinations differ from a criminal trial in that the fact-finder in a probation violation hearing is the judge -- not a jury. In addition, where in a criminal trial, the legal standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, in a probation violation hearing, the standard is only a preponderance of the evidence. In other words, there can be a fair amount of doubt as to whether you did it, but if the judge weighs the evidence, and there''s more evidence indicating guilt rather than innocence, you lose.In Ms. Bongiovanni''s case, the judge noted the cops testified at trial that she was a member of the Columbus Street gang, a Columbus Street member was arrested in connection with the break-in at the Diaz home, and that Ms. Diaz identified Ms. Bongiovanni as the woman who threatened her. In the minds of 10 of 12 jurors, that wasn''t enough to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. However, under the preponderance of the evidence standard, that''s all the judge needed.In upholding the trial court''s decision that Ms Bongiovanni violated her probation, California''s Second District Court of Appeal wrote, "Appellant''s argument that a jury vote of of 10-2 for acquittal supports her credibility is not persuasive because the fact finder in the probation violation hearing was the trial judge, not the jury. Because probation revocation differs substantially from criminal prosecution and the facts supporting the revocation need only be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, we find substantial evidence to support the trial court''s finding that the appellant violated her probation."So, Ms. Bongiovanni had her probation revoked, and it was three years of incarceration for her. The moral of this week''s Case of the Week: if you''re on probation and walking around with a giant pumpkin on All Hallows, study legal standards of review before you go calling someone an [expletive deleted] Soviet fighter plane. __________________________October 22, 2011The Law of Flying DwarfsThose readers who enjoyed -- or perhaps didn''t enjoy -- this writer''s On Trial column in The National Law Journal may remember the saga of Dave the Dwarf. He fought to save the Constitution...while saving his livelihood in dwarf tossing. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Dave the Dwarf''s epic legal battle--and because a Florida state representative is now trying to do in the legislature what Dave could not do in the courts--we now revisit the Law of Dwarf Tossing...and what it tells us about the 5th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution...as well as legislative and regulatory drafting in the state of Florida.Big Fun in a Little PackageDavid Flood is a gentleman of somewhat small stature: three foot two, to be exact. He''s also a Tampa, Fla., radio personality and quasi-celebrity. Known as Dave the Dwarf to his legions of little listeners and big fans on Tampa''s 93.3 FLZ radio, Mr. Flood also has had a side business, and that''s what made him a legal star. You see, for a fee, you could bring Dave the Dwarf to your birthday party, St. Patrick''s Day festival, bar mitzvah, or Millard Fillmore Inauguration Day celebration, and Dave would let you engage in the time-honored tradition of dwarf tossing.That''s right, you could put little Dave in a harness and toss him to your heart''s content. Dwarf tossing was a cultural phenomenon in the 1980s. It was the biggest thing since Members Only jackets. It seemed a good time was being had by all, as tiny torpedoes of humanity went airborne at parties.That was, until the Little People of America and their friends in the Florida Legislature intercepted the toss.Little LobbyistsNot everyone was amused by this zany brand of miniature fun. Among the concerned populace was a public interest organization known as Little People of America, Inc. The non-profit organization provides support and information to people of short stature, and states it is the only dwarfism support organization providing services to those afflicted with all of the over 200 types of dwarfism.Little People and others lobbied the Florida Legislature, and the result was the passage of Section 561.665, Florida Statutes, governing activities involving exploitation of people with Dwarfism in establishments selling alcohol.Not all little people supported the law, and one of them was Dave the Dwarf.Dave the Dwarf sued then-Florida Governor Job Bush in an attempt to overturn the law, arguing the law was an unconstitutional violation of his rights under the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.Specifically, Dave the Dwarf argued in Flood v. Bush, No. 8:01cv02261 (M.D. Fla. filed Nov. 28, 2001), that his due process rights were violated because the law failed to properly define those covered by the law, making the law unconstitutionally vague. He argued also that the law violated his equal protection rights because the law treated him differently than others. For instance, you could be tossed, I could be tossed, and Oprah Winfrey could be tossed (with a great degree of difficulty), but Dave the Dwarf could not be tossed...or so he thought.Banned or Not?The governor''s lawyers swung into action in an attempt to toss Dave the Dwarf right out of court. They argued dwarfs needed protection. Dave counted that was hogwash. Also, in addition to maintaining Gov. Bush should be dismissed from the suit, the Florida Attorney General''s Office argued that there was no constitutional violation because the law didnt really ban dwarf tossing.Turns out they were right.The law itself banned only "undertaking or permitting any contest or promotion or other form of recreational activity involving exploitation endangering the health, safety, and welfare of any person with dwarfism" in establishments selling alcoholic beverages. Nowhere did the law ban dwarf tossing specifically.Dave the Dwarf argued dwarf tossing was good for his welfare because he made money doing it. Note the language is "health, safety, and welfare," as opposed to "health, safety, or welfare." Dave the Dwarf might have been better off leaving the law alone, continuing his aerial acrobatics, and arguing he was in compliance with the law because dwarf tossing promoted his welfare.As it was, the trial court tossed Dave out of the courthouse, holding the law did not ban dwarf tossing and that -- although the law mandated that the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of Floridas Department of Professional Regulation promulgate regulations on the issue -- they had failed to do it. While the regulators may have been out at the beach listening to Jimmy Buffet tunes and drinking margaritas, Dave the Dwarf could have been spending his days flying through the warm Florida breezes.So why is Florida State Rep. Ritch Workman trying to repeal the law while everyone from Jon Stewart to your short Uncle Freddy is weighing in on the issue?Well, it appears those regulators finally finished getting wasted away in Margaritaville, cruised on back home to Tallahassee, and did some regulating.The Oprah RuleThe Division promulgated Section 3.048 of Chapter 61A of its regulations, entitled, "Exploitation of Dwarfs." Unlike their friends in the Legislature, the regulators did more precise drafting and included dwarf tossing specifically. The regulation provided in subsection (2): "Any activity described as dwarf-tossing is specifically included within those acts of exploitation prohibited by this rule."Of course, there was also subsection (3), which could be called the Oprah Rule. It provided: "Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit dwarfs from engaging in non-exploitative sporting or recreational events of the type engaged in by persons who are not dwarfs."So now we''ve come full circle: Oprah Winfrey can be tossed (if one has a large catapult), but Dave the Dwarf is, once again, left out of all the fun...unless Rep. Workman has his way. His bill, HB 4063, is pending in the Florida Legislature. In the meantime, you can catch Dave the Dwarf on his radio show, What Would The Dwarf Do?, where presumably, he is not being tossed...at least not yet.__________________________August 25, 2011The Law of Wiener WarsOnce the gentleman from New York''s Ninth Congressional District resigned his House seat for exposing his wiener, you may have thought you would be finished with bad wiener jokes for a while. You would be wrong.This week, mighty corporate litigants have been battling it out in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois in a wacky wiener war. The case of Sara Lee Corp. v. Kraft Foods Inc., features charges of hot dog blasphemy. Sara Lee, the makers of Ball Park Franks, and Kraft, the friendly folks bringing you the venerable Oscar Mayer wiener, both claim the other has disparaged its products in violation of federal and state law.Seriously though, we all read Upton Sinclair''s The Jungle in school. Thus, everyone thinks hot dogs are comprised of animal parts swept up off the factory floor anyway. How can one disparage a hot dog?Oh, I Wish I Were...Sara Lee fired the first shot in the Weiner War, suing Kraft in May 2009, claiming Kraft violated both the federal Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., known commonly as the "Lanham Act," the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act, and other Illinois state laws.In its federal complaint, Sara Lee alleged Kraft claimed falsely that Oscar Mayer wieners were the "100% pure beef hot dog" when it knew Oscar Meyer wieners contained other mouth-watering ingredients, such as sodium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium phosphates, salt, corn syrup, and dextrose. Sara Lee claimed non-beef ingredients comprised approximately 20 percent of an Oscar Meyer wiener. Of course, Sara Lee conceded that most of this non-beef 20 percent was water.Sara Lee claimed Ball Park Franks were disadvantaged becausebeing the honest dudes they are Sara Lee would not compete with Oscars little lies by claiming falsely that Ball Park Franks were 100 percent pure beef.But, Oscar Meyers alleged crimes against humanity and hot dog harmony didn''t end there.In advertising paraphrasing Oscar Mayers famous jingles for its hot dogs and bologna, Kraft claimed, The best tasting beef hot dog has a name. Its O-S-C-A-R, and These days, its Ball Park and Hebrew National who are wishing they were an Oscar Mayer wiener. In addition, Kraft invited customers to Try the taste that knocked the others out of the park.Just as it claimed the 100 percent beef claim was false, Sara Lee claimed these comparisons against its hot dog were false as well.Sara Lees attorney, Richard Leighton of Washington, D.C.''s Keller and Heckman LLP, claimed the evil Oscar Mayer even cheated on taste tests, claiming testers were served boiled Ball Park franks on a paper plate with no bun, no ketchup, no mustard, nothing.It must have been a big taste test error because the bouquet of the sodium lactate and dextrose really pairs well with mustard.Not only were these claims placed in print and electronic media, Sara Lee claimed Kraft even put them on its Wienermobile, a vehicle described by Sara Lee as a hot dog-shaped vehicle that promotes Oscar Mayer and its products in interstate commerce.Have you ever seen the Wienermobile? This writer has. It looks like a rolling phallic sex toy designed to appeal to the prurient interest in violation of the U.S. Supreme Courts holding in Miller v. California.Sara Lee argued that, by making these allegedly false claims in interstate commerce, Kraft violated section 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act. Section 43(a)(1)(B) prohibits false or misleading advertising or marketing that damages another''s product. In addition, Sara Lee argued these false claims violated the applicable Illinois state laws.Not surprisingly, Oscar Mayer saw things differently.My [Fill in the Blank] Has a First NameMighty Oscar fought back, counterclaiming against Ball Park''s protective corporate mother, Sara Lee. Kraft argued the 100 percent beef was accurate because, although Oscar Mayer contained additives, beef was the only meat in Oscar Mayer. In addition, Kraft believed it needed to illustrate Oscar''s beefiness because of the public perception that hot dogs contain mystery meats.Damn you, Upton Sinclair!In addition, Kraft argued Sara Lee had its own hot dog advertising shenanigans.In a corporate legal battle example of Pee-wee Hermann''s famous retort, "I know you are, but what am I?," Kraft argued Sara Lee made its own false claims about how much beef there was in Oscar''s tubesteak. In addition, Kraft argued Sara Lee mislead consumers with taste tests by professional chefs proclaiming that Ball Park was America''s best franks.All jokes aside, the Wiener War in Sara Lee Corp. v. Kraft Foods Inc., may change the way companies market their products and establish limits for what merchants can say about their products and their competitors in advertising.Meanwhile, the court battle continues with weighty questions, such as "Do a bunch of San Francisco chefs know anything about Chicago hot dogs?" and, if you thought hot dog litigation was bad, just wait until companies start suing each other over other meats lots of people hate.When commenting on the litigation, Sara Lee''s Ball Park product director, Chuck Hemmingway said, "Simply put, we believe that these untrue statements are a bunch of bologna."First, they attack Oscar''s hot dogs, and now Oscar''s bologna? Mr. Hemmingway may want to watch out for the speeding Wienermobile. Oscar is not happy.____________________________August 12, 2011The Law of A&E''s Reality TV TroublesReality television tends to get lots of people into lots of trouble. From going to the slammer for failing to pay taxes on reality winnings to shooting sweet, innocent puppies with arrows, reality TV contestants have often been models of bad behavior. But what happens when it''s the reality show''s network getting in trouble? Our Case of the Week examines what happens when a reality show insinuates falsely that a woman tried to smuggle drugs into a jail via her vaginal cavity.Family DayMarlorita Battle was minding her own business visiting her husband, an inmate at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn. Little did she know she was about to become a big, big star.On the day she chose to visit the prison, the A&E Television Network reality show, The Squad: Prison Police, was there, too. The Riverbend facility apparently had a drug problem, and there were allegations the contraband made its way into the prison compliments of visiting family members.It was time for some riveting reality TV drama.The episode of The Squad: Police Prison entitled, Conspiracy, began with Tennessee Corrections Special Agent John Fisher describing the Riverbend prison''s drug problem. He noted that an informant had indicated a woman was smuggling drugs into the prison on a regular basis."We''re expecting this lady today," Agent Fisher said, as A&E splashed Mr. Battle''s face on the screen.As Ms. Battle began what might have been a pleasant visit with her husband and small child, the A&E cameras moved in, and agent Fisher said, "We''ve identified the female subject and inmate," as a mugshot of Ms. Battles husband is shown to television viewers.Keystone Kops and the Nitty GrittyMs. Battle''s husband had the toddler on his lap, and the couple sat next to each other. Ms. Battle''s husband caressed her, and then Ms. Battle visited the restroom, causing Agent Fisher to use his supposedly excellent cop skills to determine a crime was in progress. Not unlike the Keystone Kops, Agent Fisher and his bumbling band of merrymen swung into action."Hold on now, she''s going to the bathroom," Agent Fisher says, adding, "Typically, these women hide stuff up their vaginal cavity [sic] and then go to the restroom to take it out. Now we are starting to get to the nitty gritty."The camera then shows the doors to the bathroom, triggering more amazingly astute analysis from Agent Fisherthis time its about the size of Ms. Battles bladder and her efficiency in the latrine."There she is, right there. See how fast she went in there. She didn''t have time to pee," Agent Fisher says.Apparently, Agent Fisher, unaware of a bygone era when gentlemen and ladies would not utter the verb, "pee," on national television, has a special mathematical formula for computing travel times for urine through the urethra and into the toilet, hand washing, mirror check, and egress from a restroom.Ms. Battle, allegedly carrying something in her hand, proceeded to kiss her husband, A&E provided a crashing cymbal sound to enhance the reality TV drama, and Agent Fisher exclaimed, "Some [expletive deleted] just happened. I think we got ''em. I think we got them."It was time for the brave men of law enforcement to swing into action with A&E there to capture all the zany fun.First, they conducted a strip-search, and then, they placed Ms. Battle''s husband in a so-called "dry cell." Its called a dry cell because there''s no running water, and thus, no way to get rid of contraband.They kept Ms. Battle''s husband in the dry cell for 24 hours. He neither urinated nor defecated any contraband.After releasing Ms. Battle''s husband from the dry cell, Agent Fisher called the incident a "false alarm," but he added more commentary during the closing credits of The Squad: Prison Police that would become significant in subsequent litigation. This is Courtweek, after allyou know someone''s gonna get sued."If you are dirty, if you are smuggling in contraband, drugs, cellphones, tobacco, then we''re going to catch you. We might not get you today, maybe next week, next month, next year, but eventually, we''re going to catch up with you, and we''re gonna get you. That''s what we do," Agent Fisher said.Reality TV in CourtMs. Battle sued A&E Television Networks, Inc., and Wild Eyes Productions, Inc., the producers of The Squad: Prison Police, in federal district court in Tennessee, alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.A&E and Wild Eyes moved to dismiss the suit, arguing on the defamation claim that The Squad: Prison Police was not capable of defamatory meaning, noting that the program doesn''t claim Ms. Battle committed a crime, but instead "accurately reports the results of an investigation."The court didn''t buy it.Noting the camera angles, the ominous music, and the made-for-TV commentary of Agent Fisher, U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp wrote:"Even though the Program indicates that a search of Plaintiff revealed no drugs, a jury could conclude from the overall way that the Program is presented that Plaintiff was a drug smuggler who just happened not to get caught on September 12, 2009. Such an impression is enforced by Agent Fisher''s parting comments to the effect that while we might not get you today, we will get you sooner or later if you are smuggling drugs into a Tennessee prison."In rejecting the attempt by A&E and Wild Eye''s to dismiss Battle v. A&E Television Networks, Inc., the court cited also the U.S. Supreme Court case of Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., and held that statements of opinion were not automatically protected from libel and slander claims on First Amendment grounds."After all, ''expressions of ''opinion'' may often imply an assertion of objective fact," the court said.The lesson we take from this week''s Case of the Week is that, before airing a show, A&E might want to make sure the subject is guilty of genital smuggling--or at least not put a cop on the air insinuating the innocent party just got lucky on that one occasion. After all, they could just put a bunch of people on a desert island, have a some obnoxious people become roommates, or have really untalented people sing.________________David Horrigan is an attorney, journalist, analyst at The 451 Group, editorial director at Courtweek.com, and former staff reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal. His articles have appeared also in The Washington Examiner, Law Technology News, The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, Corporate Counsel, Texas Lawyer, Florida Lawyer, and Daily Business Review. E-Mail: dhorrigan@courtweek.comAugust 5, 2011The Law of Pig FumesHave you ever had a neighbor who cooked food they may have found tasty and delicious, but that emanated aromas reminiscent of aged Roquefort cheese and dirty baby diapers left in a garbage can in the hot sun? It would be most annoying, but would it be unlawful? Would the pungent aromas be trespassing onto your property?Believe it or not, the issue has been litigated, and, in this week''s Case of the Week, we learn whether various airborne items--chemical particulate matter, sewage plant smells, and pig farm fumes--are trespassing when they waft onto your property. People may disagree, and that''s okay. As we''ll discover, the courts disagree as well.Organic AirOluf and Debra Johnson had decided to get back to nature. They converted their Minnesota conventional family farm into an organic farm, hoping to achieve an organic food certification that would allow them to charge more for their farm fresh products.Soon the Johnsons were ready to enjoy their new organic Eden. As they began their new all-natural existence, they stopped using pesticides, and Mr. Johnson posted signs around the property, letting everyone know that the Johnsons'' new tree-hugging Utopia was a chemical-free zone.There was just one problem. The neighbors hadn''t joined the eco-friendly bandwagon.The Johnsons may have embraced Mother Nature, but their next-door neighbor, the Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company, was still spraying away. Pesticides and herbicides drifted onto the Johnsons farm.Seeing the neighboring farm much like a chinchilla sanctuary might view a petrochemical plant as a neighbor, the Johnsons filed complaints in 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2008. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture cited Farmers Union four times for violating Minn.Stat. 18B.07, subd. 2(b) (2010), which made it illegal to apply a pesticide resulting in damage to adjacent property.Having had enough of chemicals wafting onto their pristine, virginal, chemical-free land, the Johnsons sued in Minnesota state court in January 2009, alleging, among other things, that Farmers Union committed trespass by allowing its chemical fumes to invade their property.A state trial court was unconvinced. It granted summary judgment to Farmers Union, on all claims, including the trespass claim, holding that trespass by particulate matter was not recognized in Minnesota.Leading the charge for Birkenstock-wearing lovers of fields and streams everywhere, the Johnsons appealed.The Law of Pig FumesIn rejecting the Johnsons'' claim, the trial court relied on the Minnesota Court of Appeals'' decision in Wendinger v. Forst Farms, Inc., 662 N.W.2d 546 (Minn. App. 2003), review denied (Minn. Aug. 5, 2003). The facts leading to the court battle in Wendinger are every homeowner''s worst nightmare.The Wendingers and the Forsts had been neighbors for years. They had also farmed their lands for years, and the Wendingers built a new home on their land in 1984.In 1994, the Forsts entered into an agreement with Wakefield Pork, Inc., to construct and maintain a pig farm to house Wakefields'' pigs. In a design sure to make anyone nauseous, liquid pig waste was stored in an outdoor concrete lagoon. The pig poo was then pumped and spread on the fields each fall.As the scents from farmyard feces filled the ambient air, the Wendingers began to complain. Then, they filed scores of complaints with state and local authorities. Finally, they sued.Among their allegations was a claim for trespass, arguing the pig fumes entering their property constituted trespass.A trial court dismissed the trespass claim, and the Wendingers appealed. The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the Wendingers'' claim was one for nuisance--not trespass--because the odors of which the Wendingers complained interfered with the use and enjoyment of their land, not with their exclusive possession of it.The trial court in Johnson used the Wendinger decision for the proposition that particulate matter traveling from one property to another could not constitute trespass. However, the appellate court in Johnson held the trial court read too much into the pig fume decision.Pesticides are not Pig FumesAlthough the appellate court in Wendinger used the phrase, "particulate matter," the appellate court in Johnson held all particulate matter is not alike."Nothing in our Wendinger analysis indicates that we intended the term particulate matter to define a unique category of physical substances that can never constitute a trespass," the court said. Basically, the court held pesticides are not pig fumes."Unlike the plaintiffs in Wendinger, the Johnsons do not claim trespass based on transient odors. Instead, they primarily complain that the liquid chemicals that the cooperative sprayed into the air from neighboring fields drifted, landed, and remained on the Johnsons'' organic crops in detectable form, contaminating them." Judge Kevin Ross wrote for the court.Where the Wendinger court said there was no trespass because the pig fumes only affected enjoyment of the land, not possession of it, in ruling for the Johnsons, the appellate court in Johnson held that pesticides can affect both possession and enjoyment."The errant dispersion of pesticides, which contain chemicals designed to affect the land, can interfere with possession," the court said.So, the next time youre cooking your Aunt Betsys Garlic and Sauted Sardine Surprise, youre probably okay--even if it does ruin the ambiance of your neighbor''s garden. But, if you spray Raid, and it ends up in your neighbors Cheerios, he may just lawyer-up.______________________________July 28, 2011The Law of Protecting Celine DionHow important is protecting Celine Dion?After all, she sells millions of records, and many middle-aged women adore her. However, there are millions more who would rather spend a weekend in an Iranian torture chamber than listen to Ms. Dion sing the theme from Titanic for the 4,761st time.The woman may need some protection.Well, in a development that may damage U.S.-Canadian relations and come as a shock to fans of syrupy, schmaltzy pop music, a federal appellate court has held that serving as Celine Dion''s bodyguard does not constitute an original contribution of major significance in a field of endeavor sufficient to warrant the granting of a EB-1 visa.The BodyguardHad the court heard the case of Kevin Costner''s character protecting Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, the whole thing might have gone differently. Mr. Costner''s character had made a major contribution in the field of celebrity personal protection by serving as a U.S. Secret Service agent. Such a high level of demonstrated skill and accomplishment might have brought him a visa.But what if, instead of being employed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to be part of elite squad of livesavers, Mr. Costner had been employed to protect the top-selling female Canadian recording artist of all time by the pride of Charlemagne, Quebec herself?Would the United States grant a visa to the man who had protected Canada''s fourth most famous export--next to Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted''s Excellent Adventure, maple syrup, and those deeply disturbing Sarah McLachlan commercials with the abused puppies and kittens?Nikolaos Skokos thought they should.Mr. Skokos, a security consultant for Celine Dion, applied to the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for an EB-1 visa, and DHS rejected him. Apparently, DHS didnt think protecting the vocal cords that brought Beauty and the Beast to warm the hearts of little children was important enough.To see what an affront this might be to Ms. Dion''s throngs of adoring fans, it helps to know a little bit about the legal process behind granting visas to enter the United States.Legal TitanicIn addition to establishing a lottery for certain visas and dropping homosexuality as a basis for exclusion from the United States, the Immigration Act of 1990 created the EB-1 visa to attract immigrants with exceptional talents and skills.The EB-1 visa has three types, one for multinational executives and managers, one for professors and researchers, and one for applicants of extraordinary ability. Two of the ways an applicant can demonstrate this extraordinary ability are showing he had made original contributions of major significance to his field of endeavor under 8 C.F.R. 204.5(h)(3)(v) or showing she was paid a high salary compared to others in her field under 8 C.F.R. 204.5(h)(3)(ix).Not only did DHS feel that protecting Celine Dion did not meet this standard of excellence, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada agreed with DHS, holding for the government and rejecting an appeal filed by Mr. Skokos.In the legal equivalent of running the Titanic into an icebergwhile listening to Celine Dion sing about it as Leo and Kate flail in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, Mr. Skokos appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Skokos v. Department of Homeland Security, and fared no better.The appellate court held Mr. Skokos failed to establish that his work for Ms. Dion constituted an original contribution of major significance to the field of bodyguarding. In addition, the court held he failed to establish that he was paid more than most celebrity bodyguards.The court noted Mr. Skokos claimed he was far more than a bodyguard--he supervised guards, made security arrangements in the exotic destinations where Ms. Dion shot her mesmerizingly dramatic videos, and provided around-the-clock protection for Ms. Dion and her family. Nevertheless, the court was unmoved that protecting the valuable Canadian export was sufficiently significant to get a visa.The court noted the high standard for granting an EB-1 visa, citing the case of Kazarian v. USCIS, where a physicist who had published articles, written a textbook, and lectured extensively didnt even qualify for an EB-1 visa because his work--although satisfying the criterion for authorship of scholarly articles--did not establish that his work was of major significance in the field of physics.But, is writing scholarly articles and lecturing on physics at universities really as important as ensuring the gaffer and the best boy don''t snag Celine Dion''s Perrier from the buffet table?Of course, some people have managed to prove they are important and accomplished enough to get an EB-1 visa. Golfer Nick Price got one, but--unlike Mr. Skokos--he had won multiple championships, earned over a million dollars in prize money, and he had Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, and Hale Irwin execute affidavits supporting his position.If only Mr. Skokos had managed to get a raise from Celine Dion and recommendations from Gladys Knight and the Pips.______________________________David Horrigan is an attorney, journalist, analyst at The 451 Group, editorial director at Courtweek.com, and former staff reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal. His articles have appeared also in The Washington Examiner, Law Technology News, The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, Corporate Counsel, Texas Lawyer, Florida Lawyer, and Daily Business Review. E-Mail: dhorrigan@courtweek.comJuly 20, 2011American Idol''s American LitigantMany contestants on the hit television show, American Idol, may believe Simon Cowell is a somewhat nasty fellow. He berates participants, calls them names, and generally makes people wonder if his momma taught him any manners. Nevertheless, most of these verbal salvo victims don''t sue. But, one did, leaving us with the question: Does Simon Cowell''s boorish behavior on American Idol violate Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964?Effeminate Idol?In what some take as evidence of the decline of Western civilization, American Idol, the American spin-off of the British program, Pop Idol, has become one of the most successful shows on television. Contestants participate in singing competitions to win recording contracts, and the winners, including singers Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, have gone on to fame and fortune.Some of the contestants weren''t as talented. One of those contestants was Ian Bernardo.Mr. Bernardo first appeared on American Idol in 2006 on the opening show of the season. These season-opening audition shows feature a few acts that will advance in the competition and a few acts that will come close. They also feature performers with no reasonable chance of advancement. These contestants--possessing little or no talent--apparently appear to provide comedic material by making fools of themselves. Apparently, Ian Bernardo was one of these comedic contestants for the 2006-2007 season.Not surprisingly, Mr. Bernardo was unsuccessful in his American Idol audition. However, Mr. Bernardo--who described himself as "having a non-conforming appearance based on gender stereotype," which a U.S. District Court interpreted to mean that "he appears to conform to a stereotype of an effeminate homosexual male"--did make subsequent appearances on the show for the 2006-2007 season finale and for Simon Cowell''s final appearance on the show in May 2010.The Courthouse AuditionClaiming he was an employee of American Idol Productions Inc. on each of his appearances, Mr. Bernardo claimed also that he was subject to discrimination and harassment due to his sex on each of his appearances. He claimed American Idol Productions employees told him to "gay it up" and that producers conditioned his appearance on Mr. Cowell''s farewell show on Mr. Bernardo''s willingness to be "outrageous, flamboyant, and really gay."Claiming he was also subject to epithets such as "fag" and "homo," Mr. Bernardo filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He obtained a right to sue letter from the EEOC and sued American Idol Productions for violations of Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and New York State law.American Idol Productions moved to dismiss the case, making several arguments. In addition to claiming Mr. Bernardo suffered no adverse employment action, the producers argued Mr. Bernardo had failed to make a case for hostile work environment under Title VII. Although the court conceded that--if true--the conduct at the Simon Cowell farewell show would constitute a hostile work environment, the court rejected Mr. Bernardo''s legal argument.Noting Title VII is not a civility code and that discrimination on the basis of homosexuality is not prohibited under Title VII, the court held Mr. Bernardo had not established that gender stereotyping, which is prohibited by Title VII, had so permeated the workplace so as to create a hostile work environment.The court went on to dismiss all Mr. Bernardo''s claims, noting, "He, like everyone else with a modicum of talent (or less) who auditions for American Idol, chose to appear on a program that was famous for its judges'' insulting behavior. Benardo went on the air after being told what was expected of him, and he knew what to expect. Having volunteered to be insulted, he cannot now claim that he was sexually harassed."There was no word as of press time as to any possible Ian Bernardo appellate audition at the Second Circuit._____________________July 10, 2011Suing After Ferocious Puppy PanicPeople are injured in Americas stores, streets, and subways all the time, making personal injury law a big business. Its also one of the most contentious. Some cases may seem easy, but what if youre injured after being chased down a supermarket aisle by a charging dog owned by a store employee? Should the store be liable? Two Mississippi courts disagreed recently. Of course, it helps if you know something about the dog.Attack in the Artichoke AisleLenetra Outlaw decided to do some shopping at her local Penny Pinchers discount grocery store in West Point, Miss., one day in Aug. 2006. An otherwise pleasant shopping day took an unfortunate turn when Ms. Outlaw heard a sound that gripped her with fear and panic.She heard a dog bark.Ms. Outlaw then heard the terrifying sound of dog claws on Penny Pinchers'' floors as the possibly ferocious beast came charging down the aisle. Ms. Outlaw, who said she was extremely afraid of dogs, decided it was time for drastic evasive maneuvers.She ran down the aisle, made a turn, and sought refuge from her brutal foe. Not finding a safe place in the aisle, she ran into a freezer. Thinking that wasnt safe enough--after all, she probably saw the movie, Cujo--Ms. Outlaw leaped on top of the freezer. In her Quixotic quest to escape Armageddon, Ms. Outlaw exacerbated a previously existing hip injury, and decided to sue Penny Pinchers and Cindy Scott, the store manager who owned the attack dog.A Mississippi state court jury found for Ms. Outlaw and awarded her $130,000, finding Penny Pinchers 70 percent at fault and Ms. Scott 30 percent to blame.At this point, you may be wondering, What''s so interesting about this case?Remember at the beginning we told you it would help if you knew a little about the dog?Baby Weiner DogIt turns out this allegedly ferocious attack dog was nothing more than a four-month-old Dachshund puppy. That''s right. A little weiner dog weighing four pounds.It seems Ms. Scott brought the adorable puppy named Sophie to work every day. The pleasant little puppy had never attacked anyone before. Ms. Scott kept Sophie behind the counter--not to protect customers, but so that no one would step on the little thing. Rather than a 150-pound Rottweiler with a spiked collar, Ms. Outlaw jumped on top of a freezer in mortal fear of a tiny weiner dog puppy.Given this fact pattern, Penny Pincher and Ms. Scott decided an appeal was in order. The issue facing the Mississippi Court of Appeals in Penny Pinchers v. Outlaw: Did the presence of the four-month-old Dachshund puppy create an unreasonably dangerous condition at Penny Pinchers that day?The court noted that the Mississippi Supreme Court had held that dogs are not dangerous per se. The Magnolias State''s dog-loving supreme court held in Poy v. Grayson that to impose liability on a dog owner for personal injuries, a plaintiff must show the dog had a propensity for violence and that the owner knew it.The court in Penny Pinchers noted that the four-month-old, four-pound bundle of love, Sophie the Weiner Dog, had a clean record.Citing the Mississippi Supreme Courts 1969 decision in General Tire & Rubber Co. v. Darnell, the court went on to hold that a premises does not have to be completely safe from any hazardonly reasonable safeand that the plaintiffs own actions can be a factor."We acknowledge Outlaw''s extreme fear of dogs. However, we cannot say that it was reasonable for Penny Pinchers to anticipate that anyone, even someone with a great fear of dogs, would have such a reaction to Sophie''s presence in the store," Judge Thomas Griffis wrote for the court.Thus, we feel confident in saying, if you hurt yourself jumping on top of a freezer to escape a four-pound Dachshund puppy, don''t bother suing anyone because its probably your own fault.__________________________June 29, 2011A Defamer''s Guide to ''Dirtbag v. Dirtbag''What does it really take to slander or libel someone? The law of defamation can be complex, but a New York state court recently tried to sort out this weighty issue: What is a "dirtbag," and is the term defamatory?The issue arose after a man named William Schumacher penned comments that another man, John Acheson, was "the biggest dirtbag" he had ever met in his life. Acheson sued Schumacher before Westchester City Court in what, amusingly, could become a seminal case of black letter law. Apparently, no other U.S. court has ever issued a reported decision on the issue of whether it is defamatory to call someone a "dirtbag."Citing a New York precedent, the court in Acheson v. Schumacher said libel or defamation was "a writing or broadcast that tends to expose the plaintiff to public hatred, contempt, ridicule, or disgrace." The court went on to cite the five proving elements of the tort, including the truth or falsity of the statement and whether the complaining party actually sustained damages.Without offering any citation, the court defined "dirtbag" as "an informal term" meaning "a dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person." The court went on to explain various possible meanings for Mr. Schumacher''s allegedly defamatory statement. Did Schumacher mean that Acheson was the physically largest of the dirtbags he had known? Or perhaps just one of the most powerful? The court surmised also that Schumacher may have believed Acheson to be "just a tad worse" than the other dirtbags he had known.The point the court was making was that -- in any case -- these statements would all be opinions. Citing the case of Gilliam v. Richard M. Greenspan, P.C., the court held that statements of opinion are not defamatory. (In Gilliam, one lawyer penned a nastygram, saying unflattering things about another lawyer. The court held it was opinion and threw out the case.)But don''t take these court decisions as a license to spew any insult you please. In Lund v. Chicago and Northwest Transp. Co., a Minnesota appellate court held that certain epithets -- in that case, the unfriendly word "s---head" -- used alone might be only "unactionable rhetorical hyperbole," but combined with other defamatory words or statements, such words could "take on actionable characteristics."It also matters where and when insults are hurtled. In National Recruiters Inc. v. Cashman, the Minnesota Supreme Court found it slander when a plaintiff was called "a no-good loser; a no-good son of a bitch" in the context of an employment reference.Other courts are more hostile toward such lawsuits. When ESPN posted a photo of daredevil Evel Knievel and his wife with the caption, "Evel Knievel proves you''re never too old to be a pimp," the Knievels sued the network for defamation. They lost on the grounds that a reasonable person would not have taken the photo and caption to mean Evel was literally a pimp and Krystal his prostitute, despite their 29-year age difference and his rose-tinted glasses in the photo.And Florida courts have held that even such insults as "cockroach" and "mega-scumbag" do not constitute defamation, nor do references to a woman''s "poor feminine hygiene." Despite being "crude and indecent," such comments were considered permissible as "satirical hyperbole."The bottom line is that you can freely call someone a dirtbag or a mega-scumbag, but be careful the next time you write a letter of recommendation. If you can''t say something nice, at least don''t say anything that will get you sued.___________________________David Horrigan is an attorney, journalist, analyst at The 451 Group, editorial director at Courtweek.com, and former staff reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal. His articles have appeared also in The Washington Examiner, Law Technology News, The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, Corporate Counsel, Texas Lawyer, Florida Lawyer, and Daily Business Review. E-Mail: dhorrigan@courtweek.comRead more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/06/defamers-guide-dirtbag-v-dirtbag#ixzz1Qfc82pzXJune 12, 2011The Law of Ben & Jerry''s and Natural BeansHave you ever wondered just what "all natural" means? There was once a professor who reminded his students that the bubonic plague was all natural. Various merchants--from sellers of cereal to purveyors of popcorn--claim their products are "all natural." Ben & Jerrys claimed its ice cream was all natural, but the Center for Science in the Public Interest didnt agree, so they got someone to sue Ben & Jerry''s.So, we can attempt to discover once and for all just what all natural means, the tale of Chubby Hubby, Chunky Monkey, and Cherry Garcia defending their honor gets to be this week''s Case of the Week.Activist ice creamIn the 1970s, childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield took a correspondence course in ice cream making. Then they scraped up $12,000, opened an ice cream shop in an old Vermont gas station, and delivered dairy products in a station wagon. Ben & Jerry''s Homemade Inc. was born, and, as they say, the rest is history.Ben & Jerry''s expanded quickly. Not only was the company known for its tasty ice cream with imaginative names, Ben & Jerry''s became known as a leader in social and environmental activism. The growing company tried to promote world peace, and--from green dairy farms to recycled supplies--Ben & Jerry''s made environmental stewardship a focal point of its operations. In addition, Ben & Jerry''s donated 7.5 percent of the companys pre-tax profits to charity through the Ben & Jerry''s Foundation. In 2000, Ben and Jerry sold the company to Unilever.Although they are now very rich dudes, Messrs. Cohen and Greenfield and their ice cream operation still conjure up images of granola, Birkenstocks, peace signs, and...well...things that are all natural. Of course, the labels of Ben & Jerry''s ice cream read all natural, too. Some people didn''t think it was natural enough.Dutch chocolateAlthough Amsterdam may be more famous for Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum, and reefers, some people believe the Netherlands is also famous for Dutch chocolate. But, does anyone really know what Dutch chocolate is? Hint: it''s a little more complicated than just being made near The Hague.Chocolate is produced when seeds from cocoa beans are fermented and dried and mixed with fat and powdered sugar. Cocoa powder can be made in two forms: unalkalized cocoa or Dutch-process alkalized cocoa. The unalkalized cocoa is made by merely pressing the beans. The process produces a light brown, very acidic powder.Dutch-process cocoa, on the other hand, is produced by cocoa nibs with a mild alkali solution to raise the pH and thus, lower the acidity. This process improves taste, color and solubility, but it also destroys many of the flavonols, which are believed to have health benefits. Ben & Jerry''s used the Dutch alkanization process.All Natural?The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) doesn''t think alkanized cocoa is all natural, so it contacted Unilever, demanding that the company remove the words all natural from both Ben & Jerry''s and Breyers ice cream, another brand the company owns. Ben & Jerrys agreed to remove the phrase, all natural, from any products containing alkanized cocoa. Breyers did not.CSPI organized a class action with the ice cream-enjoying Skye Astiana as lead plaintiff of a band of ice cream eaters who hate the allegedly unnatural Dutch chocolate, and sued Ben & Jerry''s in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Astiana v. Ben & Jerry''s Homemade Inc. They alleged violation of both federal and California law in the labeling of the ice cream as all natural even though its cocoa contained potassium carbonate from the alkanization process.Specifically, the CSPI plaintiffs argued Ben & Jerry''s committed fraud and engaged in false advertising in violation of California Business & Professions Code 17500. In addition, CPSI claimed Ben & Jerry''s violated regulations promulgated by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Ben & Jerry''s filed a motion to dismiss the case, making numerous arguments, including debating the definition of all natural.The ice cream makers argued that "all natural" was a term of art under FDA and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations. Thus, Ben & Jerry''s argued, for the CSPI plaintiffs to have been deceived by the all natural packaging, they would have had to have possessed an intimate familiarity with the FDA''s natural policy as well as the USDA''s regulations about what constitutes a synthetic process.Ben & Jerry''s was taking the position that Ms. Astiana was merely an ice cream lover and not a federal regulatory expert.In addition, Ben & Jerry''s argued a prospective class plaintiff would have had to taken that extensive regulatory knowledge, then actually have seen the all natural phrase on the package, and then made her own analysis that the ice cream was either not alkanized or that the alkali used in the Dutch cocoa process was not synthetic under the USDA regulations.After all that, under Ben & Jerry''s argument, the potential plaintiff would have had to have relied on that regulatory analysis in deciding to enjoy that pint of Chubby Hubby. Ben & Jerry''s argued that when the reasonable consumer bought her Chunky Monkey, she was not assuming all natural meant alkanized with sodium carbonate and not potassium carbonate.The court wasn''t buying it--at least not for now.The court denied Ben & Jerry''s motion to dismiss, holding that the dispute was too fact-dependent to be thrown out at this point."Moreover, the fundamental dispute--what is a natural product?--will likely present some factual disputes. The only FDA guidance appears to be a distinction between natural and synthetic in the policy, but that definition in the Federal Register is qualified as meaning something that would not normally be expected to be in food. Surely, that characterization raises multiple linguistic and philosophical questions, not to mention factual questions," U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton wrote for the court.So, the battle between Ben & Jerry''s and the enemies of Dutch chocolate will continue. What have we learned this week? Well, according to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, there really isn''t any definition of "all natural"...at least for the moment._______________________________June 5, 2011The Law of Bees and BudsWhat does it mean to operate a motor vehicle? It seems to be a simple question. Get a bunch of lawyers and judges involved, and it becomes anything but. Although alleged drunk driving cases are where this question is asked most often, this week''s "Case of the Week" asks it in a different setting.What about when that motor vehicle is attacked by a swarm of bees?Unhappy HiveOne May day in 2009, Michael Corpus called animal control for the city of McAllen, Tex. It seems he was having a bit of a problem with a beehive.City of McAllen Animal Control Officer Roberto Mata responded to the call, and upon arrival at the scene, Mr. Corpus asked Officer Mata to accompany him to the hive with the swarming army of displeased bees.Possibly remembering what happened to the fools who tried to go into a hotel room with Mike Tyson''s tiger, Officer Mata said something along the lines of: "I don''t think so; Homey don''t play that," and refused. Officer Mata insisted Mr. Corpus accompany him to the hive.So the two gentlemen entered Officer Mata''s animal control vehicle, equipped with animal protection equipment. Officer Mata donned protective gear and approached the hive of danger, but he instructed Mr. Corpus to remain safely in the animal control vessel as the engine remained running.Things would have been just fine and dandy had Officer Mata not done something that may have been somewhat unwise.Insects Attack!Not unlike a Saturday Morning Super Hero decked out in protective gear as he makes Saturday mornings safe for kiddie sales of sugary cereal and overpriced toys, Officer Mata approached the hive in his protective animal control gear. Then, the swashbuckling hero of animal protection began spraying the bees.Guess what happened next?Shockingly, the bees attacked. But, no worries. Officer Mata was protected by his animal control gear. The problem was what Officer Mata did next.To escape the mighty swarm, Officer Mata ran to the truck, opened the door, and hopped in.The only problem, of course, was that, when he opened the door to the animal control truck, he let in a bunch of very angry bees--who proceeded to have a field day biting the [expletive deleted] out of the unprotected corpus of Mr. Corpus.Mr. Corpus was not amused.What do unamused people do in this column? They sue.The Law of Bees and CarsMr. Corpus sued the city of McAllen, alleging Officer Mata''s negligent operation of his city-owned vehicle cased serious injuries to Mr. Corpus.Operating a motor vehicle? What about spraying the bee hive and opening the truck door so the bees could turn Mr. Corpus into a walking, talking pin cushion.Actually, Mr. Corpus had a smart lawyer.You see, government entities are usually only liable in civil suits if they waive what lawyers call sovereign immunity, the government''s immunity from legal actions. Governments waive sovereign immunity for certain activities. Basically, you can sue the government only if the government says you can sue the government.One of the exceptions to sovereign immunity in Texas is for operation of motor vehicles. If Mr. Corpus'' lawyer could show Officer Mata was operating the animal control truck, then he would have a case under the exception to sovereign immunity.So just what does it take to be operating a motor vehicle?If you asked a bunch of convicted drunk drivers, they would probably tell you Officer Mata was operating the animal control truck. That''s because courts have held that, to be guilty of drunk driving, all one must do is sit in the drivers seat with the key in the ignition.Bud or Bees?For instance, in People v. Wood, Andrew Wood had a very unfortunate night at McDonald''s. When he pulled up to the drive-up window in his van, he passed out--with his car running--and, giving new meaning to the phrase, "This Bud''s for you," he had a can of Budweiser between his legs. At least it wasn''t hot coffee. Oh yeah, he also had a cooler full of marijuana on the front seat.The legal story from the bad night at the Golden Arches wasn''t so bad for Mr. Wood at first. Both a trial court and an intermediate state appellate court threw out the evidence against him, holding he was not operating his van at the time of the arrest and search.However, the Michigan Supreme Court reversed both courts and held Mr. Wood was operating the motor vehicle even though his van wasn''t moving, and he had his foot on the brake. Noting that his van was running and in drive, the state''s high court held he was operating the vehicle because he had put the vehicle in motion, was still in control of it, and the vehicle still posed a danger to the public. In doing so, the court reversed two previous Michigan cases that held one could not be sleeping and operating a motor vehicle at the same time.Actual physical control of the vehicle is the standard used by many jurisdictions, and in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nevada, that control can be maintained while sleeping.Putting the key in the ignition will get you in some states, including Vermont. In the Vermont Supreme Court case, State v. Helton, one hapless, inebriated fellow was convicted of DUI for merely putting his keys in the ignition to roll up his car windows--after he had gone to retrieve his vodka from the car.Note to self: appoint a designated sober window operator.So what about Officer Mata, was he in control of the vehicle and thus operating it for purposes of Mr. Corpus bee attack case?Departing from the case law of other states, both the trial court and the Texas Thirteenth Court of Appeals said "no.""The animal control truck was not in operation; it was parked. Corpus was injured when the bees entered the cab of the truck where he happened to be sitting. Although we do not condone Mata opening the truck door and exposing a passenger not wearing protective gear to agitated bees, we nonetheless cannot conclude that Corpus''s injuries resulted from the operation or the use of the truck," Judge Nelda Rodriguez wrote for the court.So for this week, we''ve established that you are operating a vehicle in Michigan if you''re asleep at the wheel in the McDonald''s drive-through with weed on the seat and Budweiser between your legs, but that you''re not operating a running vehicle in Texas with a swarm of bees on the seat and between your legs.Either way, its not a Happy Meal._____________________________David Horrigan is an attorney, journalist, analyst at The 451 Group, editorial director at Courtweek.com, and former staff reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal. His articles have appeared also in The Washington Examiner, Law Technology News, The American Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, Corporate Counsel, Texas Lawyer, Florida Lawyer, and Daily Business Review. E-Mail: dhorrigan@courtweek.comRead more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/06/law-bees-and-buds#ixzz1OXOJfS6kMay 29, 2011The Law of Rambo and Air FreshenersOur column two weeks ago about the Fourth Amendment has generated some discussion about just what will negate yourFourth Amendment protections and allow the cops to haul your posterior end to jail. As a public service to help our readers remain free from bondage, we will, from time to time, present our Case of the Week: Fourth Amendment Follies edition.This weeks helpful hint: Don''t use too much air freshener.Druggies from CharlotteRobert Little was traveling through the pleasant North Carolina hamlet of Thomasville early one August morning in 2008. It might not have been any big deal, but it was 4:03 in the morning, and Mr. Little was driving an old Buick with a malfunctioning headlight.Bonus reader helpful hint! If you''re carrying contraband, don''t drive through a small Southern town at 4:03 in the morning in an old Buick with a busted headlight. Bad things will happen. At least wait until 5:00 when the first batch of doughnuts comes off the conveyor belt at the local Krispy Kreme.Because Mr. Little didn''t get the memo on suspicious vehicles lurking through the Bible Belt during the wee hours of the morning, he got to meet Officer Adam Kallfelz of the Thomasville Police Dept.Officer Kallfelz observed three things that made him decide it was time for back-up.First was Mr. Little''s nervous and agitated demeanor. Second, Mr. Little said he was traveling from Charlotte. Finally, Mr. Little had approximately 10 tree air fresheners hanging from the rear-view mirror.Before we get to those pesky air fresheners, please allow us to defend the good people of Charlotte, North Carolina. You''re a fine city with an economy built on good barbecue and Bank of America overdraft fees, and--unlike Office Kallfetz--we don''t think you''re a bunch of druggies. We don''t think people should be stopped by the cops just because they''re coming from Charlotte.But, back to those tree air fresheners.Rambo RaidA nervous dude driving from Charlotte with 10 air fresheners made Officer Kallfelz realize he needed a crime deterrent.It was time for Rambo.At 4:07 AM, Officer Kallfelz called Officer Christopher Leonard, asking him to bring his partner, Rambo.Not unlike Sylvester Stallone searching swamps for sadistic Viet Kong alumni, Rambo, a drug dog, went over that old Buick like a frat boy going through sofa cushions looking for that lost last joint.Rambo signaled for the presence of narcotics in the Buick''s door, and Mr. Little was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm.Mr. Little moved to suppress the evidence, arguing the search was illegal, but a trial court denied the motion, holding that the stop and the search were lawful. Mr. Little appealed.Air Freshener JurisprudenceIn his appeal to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the Tar Heel State''s intermediate appellate court, Mr. Little argued in State v. Little that the search was improper because the cornucopia of air fresheners did not provide reasonable suspicion for extending the stop until Rambo arrived.Unfortunately for Mr. Little, North Carolina has a proud tradition of air freshener jurisprudence. They even go after Santa Claus if there''s air freshener involved.In State v. Hernandez, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held a stop was proper when it was based, at least in part, on Christmas tree air fresheners.In Hernandez, Trooper Jonathan Whitley of the North Carolina Highway Patrol stopped a vehicle when driver Jose Hernandez removed his seatbelt while still operating his vehicle. Not unlike with Mr. Little''s arrest, air fresheners would help lead to Mr. Hernandez''s undoing."I noticed there were several of these Christmas trees, air fresheners in the vehicle. I noticed a strong odor coming from the vehicle," Trooper Whitley testified in defending his actions.Christmas tree air fresheners as a basis for detaining a motorists? Well, the court upheld the stop, and the court in Little followed the court in Hernandez."Facts giving rise to a reasonable suspicion include nervousness, sweating, failing to make eye contact, conflicting statements, and strong odor of air freshener," Judge Martha Geer wrote for the court in Little.And, if you think North Carolina is the only state fighting the war on air freshener, you would be wrong.In Commonwealth v. Watts, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held reasonable suspicion could be based, in part, on the presence of fabric softener drier sheets.The federal courts have joined this attack on pleasant aromas as well. In United States v. West, the Tenth Circuit proclaimed, "The Tenth Circuit has consistently held that the scent of air freshener is properly considered as a factor in the probable cause analysis, and in the Eleventh Circuit held in United States v. Wright that evidence of a drug conspiracy existed based partially on the fact that two persons entered the Winn-Dixie together to purchase carpet freshener and fabric softener; materials known to be used to mask the odor of cocaine.Many other federal circuits, including the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth, have upheld convictions based, in part, on the presence of fabric softener, and in United States v. Edmonds, the Third Circuit upheld a trial court''s refusal to believe a drug mule was a mere unsuspecting courier. Why? She brought along a box of Bounce fabric softener sheets.So, the lesson from this week''s Case of the Week: with a Mountain Fresh scent filling the air, your dorm hall monitor in college didn''t believe you then, and the cops don''t believe you now. If you have contraband and notice Rambo sniffing your car, ditch the fabric softener...Bounce can get you busted.____________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/05/law-rambo-and-air-fresheners#ixzz1Nvzi9iNpMay 22, 2011The Law of Airport TipsHave you ever been sitting in a hotel room, staring at a room service bill, trying to determine whether the service charge added to your bill is the tip? And let''s not even get started with deciphering the cryptic hieroglyphics known as the cable bill.But what if your employer hoisted a sign informing customers there would be a two-dollar charge for your services? Would that payment be your tip? Would posting that sign get somebody sued? Of course, it would. This is the Case of the Week.Air a la carteOur story begins in Sept. 2005, when American Airlines began charging a $2.00 fee for passengers to check a bag at curbside.Before this policy began, curbside check-in was free, but customers tipped the skycaps--usually a dollar per bag--for curbside service. Until American went and messed up things, most skycaps earned most of their earnings from tips.As the airline industry faced significant financial problems, airlines began charging for many services that had been free. This a la carte fee system affected everything from headphones to handbags.Want to watch the in-flight movie? No problem. That''s free. Want to hear it? Two dollars for headphones, please. Want to eat? Pay up.Pay2Pee, the world''s first aircraft pay toilet, can''t be far away.At the moment, we can add curbside check-in to our non-complimentary airline a la carte menu.American--and its subcontractor actually employing the skycaps--made out like Tijuana bandits. The charge was designed to defray the cost of curbside service in a dark and dreary economy, but it actually became a profitable business venture for all...except the skycaps themselves.Many passengers thought American''s $2.00 fee was the tip. Others felt $2.00 per bag was enough to pay for curbside service. The end result was the same: the skycaps lost a significant amount of their income as tips plummeted.Suing SkycapsTwo skycaps at Boston Logan International Airport sued American and the contractor, seeking class certification and arguing that American''s curbside fee violated the Massachusetts statute governing tips, Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 49, 152A (2008), constituted tortious interference with an advantageous relationship, unlawful conversion, and unjust enrichment under Massachusetts law, and that the skycaps were entitled to restitution under the legal theory of quantum meruit.The skycaps'' employer was dismissed due to an arbitration agreement, and American removed the case from a Massachusetts commonwealth court to federal court.The skycaps argued Massachusetts law prohibited American from charging the curbside baggage fee because the fee qualified as a service charge under the commonwealth law because it was a fee that a consumer would reasonably expect to be given to the skycap.American countered that the skycaps suit was preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. When a federal law preempts a state law on an issue, the federal statute has sole jurisdiction, and the state statute is preempted and nullified for purposes of that dispute.The District Court held for American on several grounds, but held for the skycaps on the preemption argument. Thus, the claims under the Massachusetts tips law and for tortious interference were tried to a jury.Big TippersIt turned out the jury was a bunch of big tippers. The jury found for the skycaps in April 2008 and awarded damages in the amount of $2.00 to each skycap for every bag handled between Sept. 2005 and the verdict.Thus, the jury awarded the nine prevailing plaintiff skycaps approximately $333,000 in damages plus interest and attorney fees. One plaintiff skycap from the St. Louis airport did not get to share in the bounty because--as a citizen of Missouri--he was not covered by the Massachusetts tip law.But, our story is not over. Cheap tippers can rejoice. American appealed, and the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision bound to make Parisian tourists do a happy dance.The First Circuit reversed the district court and ruled for American in DiFiore v. American Airlines, Inc., holding that the Massachusetts tip statute was, in fact, preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act.Although the appellate court conceded there was conflicting case law, it relied on three U.S. Supreme Court cases, Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., American Airlines, Inc. v. Wolens, and Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Assn, in holding that the federal law preempted the Massachusetts tip statute vis--vis the skycaps tips.The court held the commonwealth''s law was preempted when applied to Ameircan because it was related to a price, route, or service, noting that related to and service were statutorily broad terms.The First Circuit rejected the skycaps'' argument that the tip law''s connection to airline price, route, or service was so tenuous, remote, or peripheral as to not trigger preemption under Morales or Rowe."This, to borrow an apt airplane image, is walking into a rotating propeller: the advertising and service arrangements are just what Congress did not want states regulating, whether at high cost or at low. When the Supreme Court invoked the rubric ("tenuous, remote, or peripheral"), it used as examples limitations on gambling, prostitution, or smoking in public places--state regulation comparatively remote to the transportation function," the court said.So, next time you go to the airport, please remember that--because a federal court has ruled that curbside check-in is not like betting on ponies, retaining the services of a hooker, or smoking a joint at baggage claim--these guys aren''t protected by the Massachusetts tip statute.Even if you pay an airline curbside baggage fee, please, folks, tip your skycap.________________________May 14, 2011The Fourth Amendment and the Law of Bongs and BaggiesThe Fourth Amendment provides some of our greatest protections from government. It keeps colonial constables out of our tea, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI out of our mothers underwear drawers, and seizure-hungry sheriffs out of our Chevys.Yet, as with anything, the Fourth Amendment is not absolute. The Fourth Amendment prohibits only unreasonable searches. Thus, if police have probable cause for a search, its not unreasonable, and the Fourth Amendment won''t stop it. In fact, the Fourth Amendment has a specific clause allowing searches with probable cause.A recent Massachusetts case gets to be our Case of the Week because it addresses the novel legal question: Does the presence of a bong and Baggies constitute probable cause for a search for marijuana?Speeding and SeizingWhen Shawn Smith decided to do some urban drag racing with friends, he probably should have left his bong at home. For readers who may be unfamiliar with the household appliance known as the bong, it is a water pipe--used by some to smoke marijuana.The speeding Mr. Smith was attempting to outduel a fellow motorist when police clocked him traveling 67 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone.When police stopped the Smithmoblie, they noticed a bong and an open box of plastic sandwich bags in the car. The police testified that, based on their experience, a bong and Baggies usually meant one thing...and it usually happens a lot in Cheech and Chong movies. Yes, police thought they were dealing with that plague on humanity: marijuana.Having spotting the offending bong and Baggies, law enforcement swung into action.Police ordered Mr. Smith from the car, and frisked him. They asked him if there were any marijuana in the car, and he said there was not. However, Mr. Smith admitted he had some herbal enjoyment in his pocket. Police seized it, arrested Mr. Smith, and impounded his speedy car. Shockingly, they found more marijuana.However, in a development that will be significant legally later in our story, police did not detect any marijuana smoke or residue in the bong.Evidence Up in Smoke?Sure, police get to do an inventory when they seize a car. In this week''s case, police were arresting Mr. Smith for his weed, so they got to go through his car and inventory everything. However, when police misbehave, there is a judicial remedy known as suppression of the evidence. For those who never have time to watch Law and Order, that means the evidence is thrown out because the cops got it illegally.In this case, because the police failed to give Mr. Smith his Miranda warnings before giving him the Spanish Inquisition, Mr. Smith moved to suppress evidence of the search.However, Massachusetts prosecutors argued the bong and Baggies sitting in the car in plain sight gave the police all the probable cause they needed to search the carMiranda or not. In essence, the Commonwealth argued, it was the probable cause supplied by the bong and Baggiesnot the Mirandaless utterances of Mr. Smith that gave police the pot.Both a trial court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the commonwealths intermediate appellate court, rejected prosecutors'' arguments and threw out the evidence--and thus, the case. Citing Massachusetts case law, the court held that bongs and Baggies--and nothing more--do not give the police probably case for a search.Bong and Baggies LawThe Appeals Court distinguished Mr. Smith''s case from two previous Massachusetts Appeals Court decisions where bongs did lead to probable cause for a search: Commonwealth v. Dolby from 2000, and Commonwealth v. Correia in 2006.It is true the facts in all three cases were somewhat similar: cops stop car, cops see bong, cops arrest driver. However, Smith differed from Dolby and Correia in one, key respect. Unlike in Dolby and Correia, in Smith, there was neither marijuana smoke nor residue present in the bong.The Appeals Court said that distinction was critical. In Dolby and Correia, the evidence was not suppressed, but it was because there was residue in the bong--not because police spotted an innocent bong just hanging out, minding its own business, with no nefarious residue or smoke.Baggies get the same constitutional protections.Citing its decision in Commonwealth v. Garcia, the court held, the observation of two lawful items--the bong and the box of sandwich bags--did not supply probably cause. The court articulated its rationale in Garcia:"The trooper''s experience, coupled with his observation of an apparently empty baggie, is not enough to provide probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the automobile. Benign objects such as spoons, mirrors, and straws are often used in the narcotic trade. To allow police officers, experienced in narcotics investigations, to conduct a warrantless search whenever they observe one of the above items, and nothing more, would permit random searches, which are condemned by the Fourth Amendment and the Declaration of Rights," the court said.So, Mr. Smith got off: the evidence was suppressed, and the charges were dropped. The moral of this week''s Case of the Week: if you''re going to go drag racing with your bong in the back seat, at least make sure it is clean._________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/05/law-bongs-and-baggies-fourth-amendment-searches-probable-cause-miranda-marijuana#ixzz1MKivXiVWMay 8, 2011The Law of Cow Bones and BungeesWhen you buy a product or service, how much information should the seller disclose to you? This week''s Case of the Week examines that issue in a case involving breast implants, bungee cords, a surgeon''s eyesight, and the jurisprudence of cow bone implants...not necessarily in that order.Manmade ChassisDenise Dalien decided she wanted to augment the chassis God gave her, so she consulted plastic surgeon Stanley Jackson of Puyallup, Wash. Dr. Jackson performed breast augmentation on Ms. Dalien in 2000, using saline implants.After a diet and exercise regimen caused her to lose weight, Ms. Dalien noticed some indentation and rippling on what was once her soft and supple upper left bosom.No problem. Dr. Jackson went in again, removed the saline implants, and replaced them with gel implants.Turns out there was a problem. Ms. Dalien was not happy with her new gel bosoms, so under the surgical theory of more is more, Dr. Jackson performed additional revision procedures on Ms. Dalien during 2005 and 2006.Blinding BungeeJust before all this happened, and--importantly for our story--unbeknownst to Ms. Dalien, Dr. Jackson was having issues with a bungee cord. Dr. Jackson went into mortal combat with the killer cord in July 1999.The bungee cord won.Dr. Jackson received surgery on his eye, and took over a month off from his practice. In July 2006, Dr. Jackson reported additional changes in his vision. He retired in October 2006 after unsuccessful surgery.Citing her allegedly unsuccessful surgeries, Ms. Dalien sued the good doctor twice. In one suit, Ms. Dalien argued negligent medical malpractice in the botched boob job.In her second civil action, Ms. Dalien sued under Washington States Consumer Protection Act (CPA). Ms. Dalien argued, among other things, that Dr. Jackson violated the law by failing to disclose his eye injury.Cow Bone LawDr. Jackson argued that the nondisclosure of his eye condition did not occur in trade or commerce and that any alleged professional malpractice or negligence was exempt from the CPA.Ms. Dalien countered that the nondisclosure of the eye condition was, in fact, done in trade or commerce because Dr. Jackson solicited and retained patients by failing to disclose this condition.In siding with Dr. Jackson, Washington State''s Court of Appeals cited the Evergreen State''s jurisprudence on cow bone disclosure and the case of Michel v. Mosquera-Lacy.In Michel, Mystie Michel sought treatment from Lucy Mosquera-Lacy, a periodontist employed by Bright Now! Dental, Inc., and the doctor said Ms. Michel needed a bone graft.When completing her pre-procedure paperwork, Ms. Michel was given the choice of human bone, cow bone, or synthetic bone for her graft. Stating she could not fathom the thought of having animal parts in her body, Ms. Michel declined the opportunity to get authentic cow bone.Well, unfortunately for Ms. Michel, supplies were running low in the dental office that day.When Dr. Mosquera-Lacy ran out of human bone, she finished the job with cow bone.Although the dentist claimed she merely finished up with cow bone--and that cow constituted no more than 10 percent of the graft--Ms. Michel said she now had a McImplant with the doctor having implanted a cow bone in her mouth.Whatever damages or urges to graze on her front lawn Ms. Michel may have experienced, her case wasn''t actionable under the Consumer Protection Act, the Washington Supreme Court held, because the use of cow bone was not an entrepreneurial activity in trade or commerce."Michael failed to show that Dr. Mosquera-Lacy''s use of cow bone is entrepreneurial. It does not relate to billing or obtaining and retaining patients. It simply relates to Dr. Mosquera-Lacy''s judgment and treatment of a patient. There is no evidence that cow bone was used to increase profits or the number of patients. When the supply of human bone ran out during the procedure, Dr. Mosquera-Lacy used her judgment and skills as a periodontist to finish the procedure. This is not actionable under the CPA," the court said.Bovine Bones and BungeesFollowing the Washington Supreme Court''s holding in Michel, the Washington Court of Appeals held in Dalien v. Jackson that Dr. Jackson''s nondisclosure of his eye condition was also an activity that fell outside the scope of Washington''s Consumer Protection Act. Thus, the court declined to certify her class action, and it affirmed a trial court''s dismissal of her case."As in Michel, Dalien has failed to show that Dr. Jackson''s nondisclosure of his eye injury is entrepreneurial. Dr. Jackson''s nondisclosure does not relate to Dr. Jackson''s billing or obtaining and retaining patients. Dalien has presented no evidence that Dr. Jackson represented that he had better vision than his competitors or somehow relied on his vision to promote his business," Judge Russell Hartman wrote for the court.However, the court didn''t say Ms. Dalien didn''t have a case--just that she didnt have a case under the CPA. Referencing her other suit, the court said, "To the extent that Dr. Jackson''s eye injury may have affected his ability to examine, diagnose, treat, or care for his patients, that question is actionable under the negligence theory, which Dalien is pursuing in her original lawsuit."The lesson of this week''s Case of the Week? If you want to sue under Washington''s Consumer Protection Act, make sure they advertise their excellent vision allows them to see your head before they implant a cow bone in it.____________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/05/law-cow-bones-and-bungees#ixzz1Ll8lzZ00May 1, 2011The Law of Bait Car JournalismDavid Broder, Edward R. Murrow, William F. Buckley Jr., Walter Cronkite, and now Bait Car?As the old Sesame Street song said, it would appear that one of these things just doesn''t belong here. Well, that''s not what the producers of the television show, Bait Car, say. They argue their show is real journalism, and--in an attempt to avoid producing evidence in a California court proceeding--they say their photographers are journalists. In recognition of this creative legal argument, their case gets to be our Case of the Week.What is a Journalist?The proliferation of new media sources has created a novel question: Just what is a journalist? Must one possess government-issued press credentials, sending shivers down the spines of First Amendment advocates? How about a requirement that you earn your living from journalism? Perhaps there should be a requirement that at least your Aunt Betsy actually read what you write?This question has taken on real legal significance as the U.S. Congress and many states have tried to implement so-called reporters'' shield laws. These laws attempt to protect reporters and their confidential sources by shielding confidential information from disclosure to courts and third parties.Although there has been substantial progress, a federal shield law has not yet passed. However, 40 states and the District of Columbia have shield laws, with many states enacting them after what some argued were Bush administration abuses, prosecutorial attacks on the press, and the prosecution of New York Times reporter Judith Miller.Some Republican lawmakers cited national security concerns with reporters'' shield legislation, and others had a more fundamental issue: How do you go about deciding which writers get to be journalists in a New Media world vs. Old Media world?Many hipsters sipping lattes at Starbucks like to bash so-called Old Media. As they iPad away their afternoons, bowing before the altar of New Media, they mock institutions such as The Wall Street Journal as the old media of their grandparents, and--bless their little black turtlenecks and Birkenstocks--they weren''t fooled by Rupert Murdoch''s purchase of Myspace. Silly, Rupert, New Media is for hip kids.But, the beautiful world of blogging Brown alumni opining on global warming and Maya Angelous contributions to literature while their conservative brethren blog on banks and hedge funds may be in for a shock to its modern sensibilities. There may be unwanted guests at this post-modern, online clambake, and it may be a sign of things to come.Bait Car as New MediaThe folks at truTV, that network of cop shows that used to be Court TV, have come up with a new show called, Bait Car. In Bait Car, the producers work with local police to place an unlocked car with keys in the ignition out on the street. Its the bait for would-be car thieves. Get it, bait, car?Many unsuspecting citizens, including Joseph Bullard, took the bait.Or did he?In the case of People v. Bullard in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, Mr. Bullard argued that he was merely being a good citizen, moving the Bait Car out of its illegal parking spot.He also argued selective prosecution. Mr. Bullard, a gentleman who enjoys cross-dressing, argued it was no coincidence that the unholy trinity of producers, police, and prosecutors arranged for the Bait Car to be placed outside Divas, a well-known, somewhat risque San Francisco transgendered club. Police countered that they just picked an area known for car theft.To prove Mr. Bullard''s Good Samaritan claim, his legal counsel wanted to see the tapes of the filming from KKI Productions, the producers of the San Francisco episodes of Bait Car. Not unlike Judge John Sirica sending an order to the Nixon White House, Judge Gerardo Sandoval ordered KKI to turn over the tapes.Not so fast, said KKI. Arguing that Bait Car was journalism and that the intrepid Bait Car photographers were, in fact, journalists and so under California''s reporters shield law, KKI refused.Judge Sandoval wasn''t buying it. He rejected KKI''s reporters shield argument, and demanded the tapes.Funny thing. You may have laughed at Mr. Bullard''s "I was only helping by moving the car" argument, but prosecutors dropped the charges against Mr. Bullard.Future of Journalism?Bait Car''s producers were working with prosecutors, turning over their tapes to the district attorney''s office, and that cooperation with cops was fatal to their legal argument, according to Judge Sandoval and legal journalism experts."You can''t have it both ways. You can''t cooperate with one side and not the other," said Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press."You can make a very strong argument that the cooperation with one side is a waiver of the privilege," Ms. Dalglish added.People v. Bullard does not decide the law on the contentious issue of who gets to be a reporter in the eyes of the law--although it does put Californians on notice that, if youre in cahoots with the cops, you probably don''t get to be one, at least for reporters shield purposes.The case also illustrates that the cozy little blogging world at Starbucks and beyond is also in the midst of a culture shift. The latter day hipsters may have make room on the Starbucks sofa for Bait Car journalists, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Big Brian the Fortune Seller, and the zany, fun-loving staffs of Ma''s Roadhouse, Lizard Lick Towing, and Hardcore Pawn.Yes, the Fourth Estate is becoming a very big tent in every respect imaginable...and in some not so imaginable.________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/law-bait-car-journalism#ixzz1LCFs9nEyApril 24, 2011The Law of Gwen Stefani AvatarsAt the time of this week''s legal tale, Gwen Stefani was a big, giant rock star, and Activision Publishing''s Band Hero videogame series was extremely popular. Combine the two - the theory went - and you would have what one of those MBA-types might call, synergy.Activision and Ms. Stefani thought so...until they ended up in court.This week''s Case of the Week illustrates the legal principle of the right of publicity. It also puts us on notice with the following legal poetry: Make Gwen Stefani a dude, and you''re gonna get sued.California Dreamin''In the 1990s, Gwen Stefani and Activision were both living the Southern California dream. Ms. Stefani and her Orange County band, No Doubt, achieved critical and commercial success, including Grammy nominations and huge recording contracts, while hitting the top of the charts with their 1995 single, Don''t Speak.Meanwhile, the friendly folks at Activision were building a videogame empire in Santa Monica with hit games such as MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat and Civilization: Call to Power. They also made some money off a game series based on the adventures of skateboarder Tony Hawk.Entering the 21st Century, one of Activision''s biggest games was its Guitar Hero series, which basically allows players to engage in computer-assisted air guitar. Band Hero was a similar, spin-off production.One of Band Hero''s features allowed players to create avatars based on real life rockers.Thinking it would be just nifty to have No Doubt avatars in the game - or at least thinking that it would be just nifty to have some of Activision''s cash -- No Doubt executed its Professional Services and Character Licensing Agreement with Activision, allowing the gamemaker to create avatars -- or computerized characters -- based on the band, and use them in Band Hero.Gwen is not a dudeMuch to their horror, the members of No Doubt learned about a special feature of Band Hero shortly before the product''s launch -- it was a special feature No Doubt may have worried pubescent punksters might manipulate.In their Agreement, Activision and No Doubt agreed Activision would license only a limited number of No Doubt songs for use in the game. However, that provision failed to consider another potential use of Band Hero.When players reached a certain level of the game, Band Hero allowed them to unlock their avatars, changing their song selection and personal characteristics.For instance, Activision licensed only a few No Doubt songs, but if Little Johnny were proficient enough in Band Hero to get his avatar -- say, perhaps, a lasciviously alluring Ms. Stefani -- to reach Level Nine of Band Hero, he could unlock her and free her from the bondage of her current condition, in every way, including gender.No Doubt was most displeased to discover that, once your Gwen Stafani avatar were unlocked, not only could Avatar Gwen be singing Janet Jackson, she could also be singing Tito Jackson.You see, once unlocked, an avatar''s voice could be changed from male to female.Not surprisingly, Ms. Stefani and her bandmates were not excited about the prospect of having their voices replaced with the manly sounds of Boy George.Ska vs. SuitsCould Activision really use the twisted avatars without No Doubt''s permission?No Doubt didn''t think so, and the band sued Activision in California state court. In No Doubt v. Activision Publg, Inc., the band sued for injunctive relief and damages, arguing Activision had engaged in the unauthorized exploitation of No Doubt''s name and likeness.The band sued on several grounds, including Activision''s alleged violation of No Doubt''s right of publicity.The right of publicity gives an individual control over the commercial use of her name or likeness. About half the states have a statutory right of publicity and others protect the right of publicity as part of their right of privacy laws.There has been a movement to extend the right of publicity beyond death. Not surprisingly, this movement is led by the heirs of some very famous dead people, including the heirs of Marilyn Monroe.California is one of those states with a codified right to publicity, contained in section 3344 of the California Civil Code.However, Activision countered that No Doubt''s right of publicity claim was barred as a matter of law because Activision''s actions on the avatars constituted constitutionally protected activity under the First Amendment.A Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied Activision''s motion to strike No Doubt''s complaint, and Activision appealed to California''s Second District Court of Appeal.Citing Comedy III Prods., Inc. v. Gary Saderup, Inc., the appellate court applied the transformative use test, a method to determine whether a use of a likeness was transformed from something more than a mere impersonation.The appellate court sided with No Doubt and the trial court. The court ruled that a transgendered avatar did not qualify as a transformative use. Thus, the appellate court held, the First Amendment did not excuse Activision''s alleged violation of its right to publicity."Nothing in the creative elements of the Band Hero elevates the depictions of No Doubt to something more than conventional, more or less fungible, images of its members that No Doubt should have the right to control and exploit. Thus, the trial court did not err in denying Activision''s motion to strike the right of publicity claim based on Activision''s assertion of a First Amendment defense," Judge Thomas Willhite Jr., wrote for the court,The court compared and contrasted Ms. Stefani''s avatar with the image in another case involving a Sega videogame and the former lead singer of Dee-Light, Kirby v. Sega of Am., in holding Avatar Stefani was not a transformative use. The First Amendment may be powerful, but -- at least in this Case of the Week -- it provides no constitutional protection for a Gwen Stefani avatar in a Boy George voice singing, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?_________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/law-gwen-stefani-avatars-band-hero-No-Doubt-v-Activision-Publ-Inc#ixzz1KUS9gVwHApril 17, 2011The Law of Urinal TrademarksTrademarks and the legal disputes involving them may be the most entertaining area of intellectual property law, and a recent Pennsylvania federal court case illustrates just how entertaining trademark fights can be. You might think this fight over the name, "Pint," was a beer dispute. You would be wrong.This week''s Case of the Week examines what happens when two urinal manufactures get into a legal dispute over the names of their products.Pint of Yellow LiquidThe urinal and its bathroom cousin, the toilet, use a lot of water. As people have become more concerned about the environment, manufactures have joined the party, developing so-called green products, and urinal makers are no exception. After all, no self-respecting urinal manufacturer wants to be known as a truck stop eco-terrorist.Among the leaders in the urinal market are Zurn Industries and Sloan Valve Co. Both Zurn and Sloan wanted to help save the planet by making eco-friendly urinals.Zurn developed a urinal Mother Nature would love and named it, The Pint. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Zurn the United States Trademark Registration No. 3,389,517 for The Pint, part of Zurn''s EcoVantage line of environmentally friendly "fractional flush" urinals. They''re called fractional flush because they use a fraction of the water regular urinals use when you flush them.Not to be outdone, the nature-loving folks at Sloan came out with their own environmentally sound urinal, the Sloan 1 Pint Urinal System.Not unlike a fraternity pledge spotting someone swiping his pint of Guinness from the bar, lawyers for Zurn swung into action.Urinating ContestAfter noticing a Sloan press release for the Sloan 1 Pint Urinal System on the website, greenlodgingnews.com, Zurn''s lawyers sent Sloan a cease and desist letter, arguing Sloan''s name infringed on Zurn''s registered trademark for The Pint. Zurn demanded that Sloan stop marketing its allegedly infringing urinal with "pint" in its name.In an apparent attempt to maintain peace and harmony in the urinal world, Sloan changed the name of its urinal from the "Sloan 1 Pint Urinal System" to the "Sloan Pint Urinal System."It was a nice try, but Zurn was unsatisfied. Simply deleting the numeral, "1," from the name wasnt enough. Not unlike Carrie Nation on a bar raid, Zurn wanted the Pint the h*ll out of there.Sloan refused, and Zurn''s trademark lawyers did what it takes to become the Case of the Week. They sued.In its case, Zurco, Inc. v. Sloan Valve Co., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Zurn argued Sloan''s use of its name violated the federal Trademark Act of 1946, known commonly as the Lanham Act. Specifically, Zurn argued that Sloan''s name caused a likelihood of confusion among potential customers.Sloan countered that -- despite Zurn''s federal trademark registration --The Pint was not a legally protectable trademark for a urinal because the mark was generic, a trademark legal term meaning the name is a common, general term with no secondary meaning.Sloan argued that pint was merely an identification of a type of urinal -- one that uses one pint of water when flushed. Thus, Sloan argued, urinal purchasers would associate the term, pint, with the flush volume of the urinal, not the maker of the urinal, Zurn.In attempting to decide the dispute between the fighting flushers, the federal court applied the so-called primary significance test, used in many cases, including A.J. Canfield Co. v. Honickman. Under the primary significance test, the court determines whether the primary significance of a term in the minds of the consuming public is the product or the producer.The court illustrated the difference by citing E.T. Browne Drug Co. v. Cococare Products, Inc., where the court made the distinction that cola was generic because it described a product, but Pepsi-Cola is not generic because it describes the producer.Zurn disputed the generic label by noting that, in the toilet and urinal industry, flush volumes are described -- not in pints -- but with the terms, gallons per flush (GPF) and liters per flush (LPF). In fact, Zurn claimed the use of gallon and liter by those other wasteful water-hogs in the toilet and urinal industry was precisely why it chose the unique term, pint.However, Sloan countered that pint had become an industry standard, noting that American Standard has used pint and 1 point since 2008, Mansfield Plumbing Products has used 1-pint for its Brevity line of urinals, and Caroma USA had used one pint for its Cube Ultra line of urinals for two years.Unfortunately for Sloan, the court noted that none of those urinal craftsmen had used the term before Zurn introduced the Pint in 2007. In addition, Zurn argued it had been diligent in sending cease and desist letters to the allegedly infringing urinal producers, a requirement for protection under trademark law.To Be ContinuedIn denying motions for summary judgment on most issues, the court held that there were genuine issues of material fact as to whether The Pint was generic. As a result, the case will move forward, and more evidence about urinals and what people call them can enter the hallowed halls of American jurisprudence.________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/law-urinal-trademarks#ixzz1K9cmh600April 10, 2011The Law of Chicken HeadsEmotional injuries and related damages may be one of the most contentious areas of the law, especially when -- as in thisweek''s Case of the Week -- that emotional injury is based on an employer''s forcing a worker to wear a chicken head mask in order to get medical benefits. Yes, this week, we go to Massachusetts to bring you the law of chicken head damages.Poultry ProblemsKaren Cappello worked full-time for Cricket Productions, where she processed orders. Because she was a full-time employee, she asked her boss, Victor Grillo Jr., for medical coverage.Mr. Grillo was very happy to give Ms. Cappello the medical coverage she desired, but it seems there was a catch.Mr. Grillo said Ms. Cappello could have the medical insurance only if she wore a chicken head mask."No head, no payment," Mr. Grillo wrote in an e-mail.We''re not making this up. We couldn''t come up with stuff this good.Even with major medical and hospitalization coverage for her young daughter on the line, Ms. Cappello declined to don the chicken head, which was part of a complete chicken costume kept in the office. You see, according to court papers, the employees at Cricket Productions considered themselves a fun-loving group that often socialized after hours.Apparently, none of the production place''s playful pranksters thought there was anything odd about making a session in the chicken head a prerequisite to health coverage.Ms. Cappello did.Saying she became too depressed to work as a result of the alleged harassment, Ms. Cappello sought medical attention and claimed she was unable to work.Of course, this is the Case of the Week, so you know what happens next.Colonel Sanders or Jack Daniels?Ms. Cappello decided to file a claim for her alleged injuries, and an administrative legal action ensued. Cricket carried no workers compensation coverage, but an administrative law judge held that, because Cricket was doing the business of DTR Advertising, Inc., DTR''s insurer, The Hartford Insurance Co., was liable for Ms. Cappello''s claim.Based on the opinion of her psychiatrist, Mark Cutler, Ms. Cappello argued Mr. Grillo''s alleged chicken head harassment was the predominant contributing cause of her adjustment disorder and major depressive disorder. The administrative law judge agreed and held for Ms. Cappello, but The Hartford appealed, arguing the chicken head incident was not the predominant contributing cause of Ms. Cappello''s alleged injuries.Hartford argued there could be other potential causes for the alleged injuries, and -- on appeal to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents in the case of Cappello v. DTR Advertising, Inc. -- the judges noted that Ms. Cappello had received previous psychiatric treatment for issues related to a divorce and an alcohol-dependent husband.Ms. Cappello rejected the notion that marital warfare or her husband''s close, personal relationship with Jack Daniels and Johnnie Walker caused her injuries.It was all about that chicken head.Foul fowl?Because of her preoccupation with the perceived harassment at work and her disbelief that she was being asked to do what her employer asked her to do, which she perceived as very humiliating, she has been unable to return to any work for which she is reasonably trained by virtue of her education and job experience, Ms. Cappello''s psychiatrist told the administrative law judges.In a legal ruling sure to shock the San Diego Chicken, Mardi Gras revelers, and others who actually enjoy wearing chicken head masks, the judges sided with Ms. Cappello.Rejecting the insurer''s argument that there were other causes for Ms. Cappellos psychiatric issues, the judges ruled Ms. Cappello had shown those problems were not the cause of her present injuries. Although the judges conceded she had past psychiatric problems, they noted she had not experienced her present symptoms until the chicken head incident.The judges held that Dr. Cutler''s medical opinion satisfied the Massachusetts standard for predominant contributing cause of injuries established in the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision, May''s Case, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision, Robinson''s Case.In addition, citing Bouras v. Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, the judges held that, because Dr. Cutler''s opinion satisfied the predominant contributing cause standard, the chicken head incident was the only legal cause of her injuries."Because the doctor''s opinion effectively ruled out the previous stressors in the employee''s life as causes of her emotional disability, his opinion can be understood to implicate the events at Cricket Productions as the only cause," the judges wrote.The Massachusetts case of the chicken head was remanded to the lower judge on additional claims Ms. Cappello made, but she was victorious on this day...so was her lawyer.For their efforts on behalf of their client and for furthering the jurisprudence of chicken heads in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the judges awarded Ms. Cappello''s lawyer $1,488.30 in legal fees.__________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/law-chicken-heads#ixzz1J7TcDYNfApril 1, 2011The Law of April Fools'' JokesFor our April Fools'' Day edition of the Case of the Week, we visit the California Court of Appeal, which supplies us with a case touching on constitutional law, contracts, defamation, and, of course, the law of April Fools'' jokes. Not surprisingly, our case involves Sasha Baron Cohen, known popularly as Borat and Ali G.A 2004 episode of Mr. Cohen''s British television show got his network into a bit of trouble, and it had to pay the alleged target of his jokes $90,000. When the infuriated supposed subject came back for more, it ended up in American court, raising the question: could a reasonable viewer take the show seriously, resulting in a judgment for defamation?The Art of AmendingOn a 1987 youth trip to Israel, Sasha Baron Cohen began a friendship with a woman known only as "Jane Doe" in court proceedings. The friends lost touch over the years, but Ms. Doe followed Mr. Cohen''s increasingly successful career as a comedian, and, apparently, Mr. Cohen never forgot Ms. Doe''s real name.On the Aug. 15, 2004, episode of Mr. Cohen''s television show, Da Ali G Show, Mr. Cohen interviewed the American author, Gore Vidal. Among the topics of conversation were the United States Constitution and the practice of amending it.Mr. Cohen asked Mr. Vidal if it were not sometimes better to get rid of something rather than amending it. As an example, Mr. Cohen referred to Ms. Doe. Using her real name and referring to her with a term also used to describe a female dog, he said Ms. Doe was always trying to amend herself by such means as highlighting her hair, adorning herself with tattoos, and shaving her private regions.Mr. Cohen said Ms. Doe''s amending was for naught because he dumped her after he impregnated her. (Ms. Doe denied her relationship with Mr. Cohen was ever romantic or sexual in nature.)Given what Mr. Cohen claimed were Ms. Doe''s unsuccessful attempts at amending herself, he reasoned that amending anything -- including the Constitution of the United States -- was ill-advised.With no apologies to Vidal Sassoon, the people of the Eastern Hemisphere, or George Washington, in his role as Ali G, Mr. Cohen went on to suggest that Mr. Vidal was an internationally famous hairstylist, that euthanasia was a means of exterminating the elderly in Asia, and that Denzel Washington resided at Mount Vernon.Ms. Doe was not amused.Costly ComedyDa Ali G Show was produced by Britain''s Channel Four Television Corp. and distributed in the United States by HBO. After complaints from Ms. Doe, HBO settled with her in 2004 for $40,000. As part of the settlement, HBO agreed to edit the episode so Ms. Doe''s name would be removed in any future broadcasts.Well, Ms. Doe''s fame -- or infamy, depending on ones perspective -- continued. When HBO presented the episode on Comcast, it left Ms. Doe''s name in the airing of the show, resulting in another settlement with Ms. Doe in 2006 with the same terms as the 2004 settlement, except this time Ms. Doe received an additional $50,000 payday.Nevertheless, viewers of Da Ali G Show had not heard the last of Ms. Doe.When a friend of Ms. Doe''s saw the unedited version -- that would be the one with Ms. Doe''s name -- on YouTube after the second settlement, he contacted her, and they discovered a viewer in Estonia had uploaded the clip from Finnish television, which had received the unedited version from Channel Four.No more settlements. Ms. Doe decided to take her battle to court.The Law of April Fools''Ms. Doe sued HBO and Mr. Cohen in California state court, and later added Channel Four as a defendant. She sued on multiple grounds, including libel, slander, breach of contract, invasion of privacy, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.Channel Four moved for summary judgment -- a legal ruling where one side wins the case before it even gets to trial -- arguing, among other things, that no reasonable person could have understood Mr. Cohen''s statements as factual.The trial court sided with Channel Four."No reasonable person could consider the statements made by Ali G on the program to be factual. To the contrary, it is obvious that the Ali G character is absurd and all his statements are gibberish and intended as comedy. The actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, never strays from the Ali G character, who is dressed in a ridiculous outfit and speaks in an exaggerated manner of a rap artist. Ali G''s statements are similarly absurd," the trial court said.Ms. Doe appealed, but she fared no better with the Californi''s Second District Court of Appeal in Doe v. Channel Four Television Corp. Citing cases involving comedian Robin Williams and an April Fools'' joke, the appellate court agreed that no reasonable person could have taken Mr. Cohen seriously. Thus, the court held, there was no defamation.In the case involving Robin Williams, Polygram Records, Inc. v. Superior Court, California''s Third District Court of Appeal held there was no defamation when Mr. Williams did a skit where a wine distributor complained that there was white wine and red wine, but no black wine.The court noted Mr. Williams said the so-called black wine was tough enough to be advertised by Mean Joe Green, was black in color, tasted like urine, and went with anything it damn well pleased. The court added that no reasonable person could have taken Mr. Williams seriously and that to hold the skit defamatory would run afoul of the First Amendment.Likewise, in San Francisco Bay Guardian, Inc. v. Superior Court, California''s First District Court of Appeal held there was no defamation when, in its April Fools'' Day edition, the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper ran a fictitious letter from a landlord stating that he found his tenants who had undergone electroshock therapy where much more cooperative because no reasonable person would take the fake letter seriously.Today''s legal lesson is thateven if it involves an electroshocked tenant with shaved privates drinking black wineits tough to win a defamation action against a comedian.________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/03/law-april-fools-jokes#ixzz1ISyc57fbMarch 27, 2011The Law of Cantaloupes and Inflatable SharksHave you ever been really impressed by marketing displays constructed at your local store, where industrious employees create displays of commerce only slightly less impressive than the Taj Mahal?Well, Joyce Henderson may have felt that way before she broke her hip falling before a marketing temple of stacked cantaloupes at her local supermarket.Adding insult to injury, Ms. Henderson lost again in this week''s Case of the Week as the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma grappled with the weighty issue of whether cantaloupes are the legal equivalent of inflatable sharks for premises liability purposes.Cantaloupes of DoomThe story of Henderson v. Harps Food Stores, Inc., began on a fine June day in 2009 when Ms. Henderson visited the Harps Food Store in Fort Gibson, Okla. Harps employees had created a display of cantaloupes, which was actually a giant octagon of wholesome, fruity goodness.Harps displayed the cantaloupes in large cardboard containers resting on a wooden pallet. The cardboard containers were roughly square in shape with the corners slightly recessed, forming the muskmelon octagon.Ms. Henderson admitted spotting the pallet beneath the pile, and even considered the pesky pallets potential as a pitfall. Nevertheless, she plowed ahead.While examining one of the succulently sweet cantaloupes, Ms. Henderson''s foot caught on the pallet, and she hurt her hip hitting Harps'' hard floor.The stage was now set for Ms. Henderson and Harps to debate the jurisprudence of cantaloupes vis-a-vis inflatable sharks.Ms. Henderson sued Harps in Oklahoma state court in a tort action, alleging Harps was negligent in its dangerous display of the killer cantaloupes and in its negligent failure to warn customers of its alleged fruity booby trap.Harps removed the case to federal court and filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing it was not liable because the exposed cantaloupe pallet was an open and obvious condition.Generally, under Oklahoma premises liability law, which applied even though the case was in federal court, businesses are not liable for damages sustained from these so-called open and obvious conditions. However, there is a possible exception in the law for conditions or defects visible but unseen by a plaintiff.Ms. Henderson and Harps battled over the case law. For instance, both parties cited the Oklahoma Supreme Court case of Phelps v. Hotel Mgmt., Inc., where an unsuspecting patron hit her head on a decorative glass bowl that protruded into the seating area of a hotel lobby.Sure, the thing was open and obvious in the literal sense, but the court in Phelps held a reasonably prudent person might not have noticed the risk of injury from the protrusion of funky art into the seating area and -- for the condition to be open and obvious as a matter of law -- the potential for injury must also be noticeable.The court in Henderson rejected Ms. Henderson''s reliance on Phelps and another court decision, Zagal v. Truckstops Corp. of Am., a case where things went horribly awry in the aisle of a truck stop. The court held those cases did not apply to Ms. Henderson''s case of the killer cantaloupes because -- not only did Ms. Henderson see the open and obvious collection of cantaloupes -- she knew it posed possible danger.However, all hope was not lost for Ms. Henderson. It was time for her lawyers to launch a legal shark attack.But could an inflatable shark really save Ms. Henderson''s case?Shark TaleMs. Henderson''s attorneys cited the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals case of Hansen v. Academy, Ltd., where Kimberly Hansen, an unsuspecting customer, was apparently in awe of a large inflatable shark that was part of a boat display on the sidewalk in front of an Academy sporting goods store.So mesmerized by the inflatable shark was Ms. Hansen that she proceeded to walk straight into the tongue of the boat, causing her to trip and break both her arms. Ms. Hansen sued Academy, but a trial court ruled for the sporting goods store, holding that the boat tongue was an open and obvious condition.But, remember...Jaws had a sequel.Ms. Hansen appealed, and the intermediate appellate court ruled for her. Noting an Academy employee testified the purpose of the inflatable shark was to get people''s attention, the appellate court reversed the trial court''s grant of summary judgment to Academy, holding that, although the boat tongue was visible, the plastic, air-filled fish of terror changed the legal outcome."The evidence certainly raised a question of fact as to whether Academy intended for its customers to devote their attention to the merchandise on display rather than to the sidewalk," the appellate court held in Hansen. Unfortunately for Ms. Henderson, U.S. District Judge James Payne wasn''t buying the shark argument in her case.Noting that arrows on the cantaloupe boxes actually pointed to exposed pallet on cantaloupe display, Judge Payne held the inflatable shark case didn''t apply."Because the cantaloupe display actually drew attention to the alleged hazardous condition, the Hansen case is distinguishable and does not provide an exception to the open and obvious rule," the judge wrote.The lesson of our Case of the Week? Apparently, at least in Oklahoma, a cornucopia of cantaloupes provides no exception to the open and obvious rule...but, an inflatable shark does._______________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/03/law-cantaloupes-and-inflatable-sharks#ixzz1HonZsGj9March 13, 2011The Sixth Amendment and another Texas Chicken Ranchby David HorriganIn the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Burt Reynolds, playing a Texas sheriff, falls in love with Dolly Parton, portraying the good-natured, warm-hearted proprietor of a local brothel. That theatrical house of ill-repute was based on a real life bordello known as the La Grange Chicken Ranch.Although many local residents supported the Chicken Ranch -- and the entertainment and tax dollars it brought to Greater La Grange -- its closing involved law enforcement at the highest levels of Texas government.For those whove always wanted yet another sequel, we have one for you. It doesn''t have Ms. Parton, Mr. Reynolds...or even Dom DeLuise. What is does have is an intriguing question of constitutional law, which is why it gets to be our Case of the Week.Texas cathouse jurisprudence now considers: Does memory loss render a witness absent for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution?Before we get to any of that legal stuff in the case of Woodall v. Texas, let''s take a look at the story of the latest little whorehouse in Texas.Naughty HaremPhyllis Anne Woodall may or may not have a lot in common with Dolly Parton''s Best Little Whorehouse in Texas character, Miss Mona Stangley, but Texas prosecutors alleged they were in the same profession.Ms. Woodall was the co-owner and operator of the Naked Harem, an El Paso, Tex., establishment some would refer to euphemistically as a "gentlemen''s club." Ms. Woodall and her business partner, Jeannie Coutta, ran a strip joint empire, El Paso Cosmopolitan, which not only operated the Naked Harem, but also its sibling club, the El Paso Cosmopolitan Topless Show Bar.Sadly for the ladies and their clients, those Texas prosecutors thought they were having a little too much fun.After repeated incidents of alleged prostitution at the Naked Harem, authorities arrested the ladies, charging Ms. Woodall with aggravated promotion of prostitution and engaging in organized criminal activity.At trial, prosecutors called dancers who testified prostitution was plentiful at the club, while Naked Harem loyalists testifying for Ms. Woodall cited Naked Harem policy forbidding dancers from having sex with its gentile clientele. Ms. Woodall then called a dancer, Lucia Pinedo, to testify.It was a bad move.Forget Me NotMs. Pinedo testified she sustained memory loss after an automobile accident and that she could not remember her prior testimony before a grand jury -- nor could she remember even being part of the Naked Harem. However, when Ms. Pinedo didn''t show up for a subsequent day of the trial, prosecutors -- over Ms. Woodall''s objections -- read her grand jury testimony for the jury.Before the grand jury, Ms. Pinedo had testified she had sex with patrons many times in the club''s private rooms, and -- in an unfortunate turn of events for Ms. Woodall -- Ms. Pinedo testified that, although she lied about her age to Naked Harem staffers, she was only 15-years-old when she began dancing at the club. To make matters worse, Ms. Pinedo contradicted the testimony of one of Ms. Woodall''s managers who said Ms. Pinedo showed a birth certificate as part of her identification upon being hired.Instead, in a moment worthy of X-rated versions of High School Musical or Glee, Ms. Pinedo testified her identification to get her job as an exotic entertainer was not her birth certificate, but was, in fact, her high school ID card.As they did with the La Grange Chicken Ranch, the good people of Texas may turn the other cheek when it was just a bunch of adults having consenting, albeit illegal, fun...prostitution by 15-year-olds is a very different story.After prosecutors made numerous references to Ms. Pinedo''s impressionable youth during closing arguments, the jury sentenced Ms. Woodall to 16 years in prison.Ms. Woodall appealed, arguing, among other things, that introducing Ms. Pinedo''s grand jury testimony was a violation of Ms. Woodall''s rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Ms. Pindeo''s memory loss prevented Ms. Woodall from being able to cross-examine her.Constitutional ConfrontationA Texas intermediate appellate court reversed the trial court and sided with Ms. Woodall, holding that allowing prosecutors to read Ms. Pinedo''s grand jury testimony to jurors despite her memory loss violated Ms. Woodall''s Sixth Amendment Rights because the State used out-of-court testimonial statements [the grand jury testimony] about which the declarant [Ms. Pinedo] could not be cross-examined due to memory loss.The state argued also that, because Ms. Woodall refused the trial judge''s offer to issue a so-called writ of attachment forcing Ms. Pinedo to return to continue her testimony, Ms. Woodall was precluded from arguing Ms. Pinedo was absent for Confrontation Clause purposes.However, Ms. Woodall argued that Ms. Pinedo''s memory loss made recalling her futile, and the intermediate appellate court agreed."She did not remember giving the grand jury statement, nor could she remember working at the Naked Harem. A writ of attachment would not have changed Pinedo from an absent witness into a witness available for trial and examination. Her undisputed testimony about the car accident and resulting memory loss established that she was unavailable as a witness regarding the relevant subject matter," the intermediate appellate court held.Yet, in another legal twist, on Mar. 2, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the states highest court for criminal matters, reversed the intermediate appellate court on both issues.First, citing three U.S. Supreme Court decisions, California v. Green, Delaware v. Fensterer, and United States v. Owens, the Texas high court rejected the argument that a Confrontation Clause violation could be based on witness memory loss.Second, Ms. Pinedo''s memory loss notwithstanding, the court held Ms. Woodall''s failure to take the trial judge up on the offer to haul Ms. Pinedo back into court was fatal to her Confrontation Clause argument. The court said Ms. Woodard induced the alleged error of which she now complains, and she may not argue on appeal that her confrontation rights were violated.In the movie, Burt and Dolly went off happily into the sunset. It doesn''t look as though thats happening here._________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/03/sixth-amendment-and-another-texas-chicken-ranch#ixzz1HaDgOkKeMarch 6, 2011Labor, Lassie, and the LawIts been a tough week for the First Amendment and labor unions, but perhaps not for puppies.In this space, we attempt to look at the lighter side of the law, but there''s just nothing funny about a Marine making the ultimate sacrifice for his country or alleged followers of Jesus thinking the Messiah wants them desecrating other people''s religious services. However, Americas courts never let us down when we need comic relief, and free speech cases are no exceptionThis week, California''s Second District Court of Appeal ruled on a particularly perplexing constitutional quandary. It''s a question not yet addressed in the current labor unrest in Wisconsin:Does labor union speech enjoy greater constitutional protection than speech about puppies?Well give you the court''s answer in Best Friends Animal Socy v. Macherich Westside Pavilion Prop., LLC, in a moment, but let''s start off by saying that -- not unlike fallen heroes and violated funerals -- theres nothing funny about animal abuse or unfair labor practices. Nevertheless, what we''ve got here is an appellate court of law weighing the constitutional rights of terriers versus Teamsters.Puppies and PicketersThe Best Friends Animal Society does good work. Not only does the Utah-based organization have adoption programs for dogs and cats, it has programs for parrots and pigs as well. In addition, it operates an animal sanctuary, and its Pup My Ride program transports dogs from overpopulated areas to places where they are more likely to find homes.Best Friends also operates the Puppies Aren''t Products campaign with the stated goals of fighting against so-called puppy mills and irresponsible breeding.One of the weapons in Puppies Arent Products arsenal is the staging of protests at shopping malls where the evil puppy mills alleged middle men -- the pet shops -- attempt to sell their canine cargo.Although Puppies Arent Products bills its mission as a fight against the puppy mills, unlike more militant animal rights groups, Puppies Arent Products stresses the peaceful nature of its protests...a Gandhi for golden retrievers, if you will.Peaceful or not, one shopping center didn''t want to give the puppy protesters free rein over its establishment. When Puppies Arent Products targeted the Barkworks Pups & Stuff store at Los Angeles Westside Pavilion, the owners of the mall swung into action.Not unlike abortion protesters at a Democratic convention or anti-war protesters at a Republican convention, the puppy protesters were confined to undesirable areas -- in this case, mall space far away from Barkworks. Incidentally, Barkworks denies its dogs come from puppy mills, stating it takes great pride in having built a reputation of bringing healthy, happy puppies to loving families and homes.Look for the Union Label?Westside Pavilion had rules about when people could protest in its common areas. The rules applied to so-called noncommercial expressive activity, and covered various forms of expression, such as political and religious speech, soliciting for signatures on petitions, and the dissemination of noncommercial leaflets and fliers.The rules were what constitutional lawyers call content neutral, meaning the rules didnt vary depending on what a speaker was saying. There was just one catch.Labor unions got special treatment.The mall had special rules for qualified labor activity, which was defined, in part, as activity authorized by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or applicable state labor laws.Non-labor expressive activity -- such as the puppy protest -- was limited to certain areas of the mall and was subject to certain blackout days, days when no protests were allowed, such as the busy business days of Valentines Day, Halloween, and the Christmas shopping season.In contrast, labor expressive activity had no blackout dates, and the workers'' expression could take place near the targeted, allegedly union-busting establishment.The litigating Lassie lawyers saw this distinction as the way to get the puppy protesters within pawsteps of the alleged villains at Barkworks.Collies in CourtBest Friends sued Westside Pavilion''s owners in California state court, arguing the mall''s restrictions violated the free speech provisions of article I, section 2 of the California Constitution. Specifically, Best Friends argued, among other things, that it was unconstitutional for the mall to give labor union protesters preferential treatment over the Puppies Arent Products protesters.Westside Pavilion countered that the restrictions passed constitutional muster and that the mall was forced to give labor union protesters special treatment in order to comply with state and federal labor law.The mall won the first round when California Superior Court Judge Linda Lefkowitz ruled against the puppy protesters, holding that, under the 1997 California appellate decision, Union of Needletrades, Indus. & Textile. Emp. v. Superior Court, the shopping mall was within its rights to limit the activities of the puppy protesters and that the NLRA and state law required the mall to make special accommodations for labor protesters.But, this dogfight wasnt over.Best Friends appealed and found a more fur-friendly tribunal in California''s Second District Court of Appeal. In a 3-0 decision on Mar. 2, the appellate court overturned Judge Lefkowitz, and ruled in favor of the puppy protesters.The appellate court rejected the holding of the case on which Judge Lefkowitz relied and instead followed two other California appellate decisions, H-CHH Associates. v. Citizens for Representative Government and Snatchko v. Westfield LLC, in holding the mall could not restrict the puppy protesters in the manner it sought, and it rejected the mall''s preferential treatment of labor protesters.The appellate court said the mall suggests that the law compels it to discriminate. But federal and state laws do not require shopping malls to give labor speech more access to common areas than political and other types of free speech.Celebrating its victory and the apparent end of Puppies Arent Products banishment to the dark corners of the mall where one wouldn''t expect to find Jennifer Grey, Best Friends issued a statement entitled, Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner.______________________________________________Read more at the Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/03/labor-lassie-and-law
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Titzoiu Tudor Titoiu Contemporary UK based artist “...by drawing human beings in their most stripped down forms, Titzoiu points to a shared essence. His practice of abstraction goes further still, to the simplest fundamental elements of representation and perception, perhaps even of reality itself: colour and line. Abstraction in art offers a promise of transcending differences and finding a common language. One can understand the microcosmic world of a well-composed picture as offering an analogy to a well-organized social world, where the good life can be lived. Looking at Titzoiu’s pictures one might speculate about certain ethical principles behind his aesthetics: a well-composed world has its own equilibrium and harmony, but can accommodate experimentation and happy accidents; contrasts and contradictions are not to be feared, but cultivated and enjoyed; the smallest part should be given the same care and attention as the whole; from certain perspectives, the world has centres, but in other senses, every place is as important as any other; we should recognise and make visible the lines of life that connect people with each other, and the planet they live on; the social world is a work in progress that is never definitively finished. Yet abstract art’s claims to universalism are vulnerable to scepticism and critique. It is common sense to observe that every spectator will bring their own experiences and preconceptions to an image; there is no one universal meaning that everybody will infallibly draw from it. Moreover, people’s ways of seeing and standards of beauty are conditioned by their identities and positions in power hierarchies: for example a white bourgeois man might overlook things seen and valued by a working class woman of colour. With this in mind, I can’t help wondering if the somewhat childish aspect of Titzoiu’s technique may represent (among other things) a form of wilful naivety, a way to impart to his work the innocent universality of childhood, helping it to float on past troubling critiques. “ extract from art critic Ben Pritchett’s essay for the exhibition catalogue, Titzoiu: unspoken lines - no man is an island, 2018, Bristol
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Claire Osterberg A photograph captures a moment in time for you to treasure, it also creates a link to the past for future generations. It is for these two reasons that my passion for photography began. I am based on the Norfolk, Suffolk border just south of Thetford. Having lived together for a number of years, I married my husband Tony in 2012. We share our home together with our teenage daughter Leonie and our very loveable but naughty dog Maggie. I discovered my love of taking photographs whilst in my previous employment as an RAF Medic. I was serving in the Falkalnds and felt an overwhelming need to capture the sights I could see and the memories I was making, so that I could share them with my family on my return home. 16 years after joining the RAF, I still travel everywhere with a camera in tow (just in case)!! My other interests are travel, I have been to a lot of places but still have many more on the Bucket list. Dance, I love to dance, at my regular ballet lessons, in the kitchen or even when shopping; if the right tune comes on I can't help myself, the foot tapping starts! In complete contrast to ballet my other love is Formula 1, the high octane sport has me on the edge of the sofa shouting at my T.V and occaisionally when I have been lucky enough, at the side of the circuit; and yes for those wondering I am a Lewis fan. It is important to book a photographer that you can be yourself with. The more relaxed and comfortable you feel, the better. I like to let the client choose the style of shoot, be it for weddings, portaiture of lifestyle. If you are more comfortable in a studio setting and being posed then that's what we will do. If however you prefer to pretend the camera is not there, and get on with your daily activities than that works as well. With all weddings I work to the couples personality and request. I can be completely tucked away, with a very natural unobtrusive approach to the whole day. I can pose couples for very styled wedding photos or we can use a mixture of the two styles, to create an album perfect for you.
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The Voice of One Crying | By Roland Stirnemann "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry." I Samuel 15:23 Perhaps it is a part of the age or stage of life at which I have finally arrived, but I find myself often reflecting upon and projecting the state of my local church. I'm sure a major part of my concern has to do with the fact that I still have two minor sons at home for which I am responsible. What we are handing off to the next generation has always been a concern to me, even before I had kids. The Scripture is clear that, "None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself" (Romans 14:7). We have a responsibility to the generations coming behind us. We have been handed a great truth, and it is essential that we don't taint what we have been given before handing it off to our kids and grandkids. I don't get to travel much, but from what I have personally seen and heard from others, there is a similar spirit infiltrating Apostolic churches across America. I'm am not throwing a broad blanket on all churches, but it is apparent that what is going on is not just pocketed in a few areas. I have visited Apostolic churches in the Bible-belt of Pentecost and seen the same thing with my own eyes. It varies in degree from place to place, but it is very troubling. Deception is creeping in among us. It's not an all-out attack on Apostolic doctrine. The enemy knows such a tactic would not work on us. Instead, he has used a steady drumbeat of worldly culture to chip away at our Apostolic identity. Why Do We Go To Church? A couple of weeks ago, we had an incredible move of the Holy Ghost in our Sunday service. Unfortunately, those kinds of moves have become aberrations. There was a time when they were the norm. Form and time constraints have changed our approach at our gatherings. During some of my reflections, I often scratch my head, wondering what the true purpose of our gatherings are anymore. It used to be for the purpose of seeking a visitation from the Spirit of God, hearing a Word from God via a message or sermon, and intermingling with the saints of God to encourage and be encouraged. That doesn't appear to be the main focus anymore. Whenever I have expressed some of my concerns in tight circles, I have been talked down as a "negative" person. "Focus on the positive, Roland". But what good does it do to talk about how wonderful your left arm is when your right arm is dangling by a thread? Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel and some of the other Old Testament prophets faced the same criticism. I am not calling myself a prophet, but if you read their books, they simply spoke the things they "saw". Ezekiel specifically called what he saw "visions". The others "saw" things in the eyes of their minds. Only time and events bore out the accuracy of what they had to say, but they were willing to step out and declare what they "saw", even if it meant enduring ridicule by their peers and brethren. What I am writing about today are things that I "see" a short distance down the road. The Expansion Of Immorality We are living in tumultuous times. I remember teaching the 12th grade Sunday School class in our church back in the late 90's. I asked those kids at that time what they were going to do in the future when a legally married sodomite couple walked into their church with legally adopted children and wanted to become members of their church. They looked at me dumbfounded. "That will never happen, Bro. Stirnemann," was the look on their faces. Yet here we are, about 20 years later, facing that exact dilemma. Sodomite marriage is now "legal", and the people of our state, Michigan, recently voted to give people more access to "legal" marijuana for "recreational use", whatever that means. It is a sick world. My wife and I are trying our best to raise minor kids in this sick world. Every vile law that is passed by man becomes another obstacle to what we are trying to do with our sons. "Why is it wrong to smoke pot, Dad, if it's been legalized?" I have not been asked that question yet, but you get the picture. In the past, the local church has been a welcome haven from the sick things going on in our world, but much of that is eroding. Along with the absence of persistent Spirit-intense services is the lack of a clear distinction between the world and the church. It seems that there are very few activities in which the world revels which we consider to be anathema. We dress and act like the world, participating in activities with them, while declaring, "By the way, did I tell you I'm Apostolic?" Witchcraft Among Us Without going into detail, let me just state that my wife and I have been dealing with some rebellion in our home for the past 4-5 months. It has manifested itself in a few different forms which are not necessary to expound upon here. Rebellion is rebellion no matter how it manifests itself. Scripture is quite clear that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (I Samuel 15:23). When talking to my youngest son about that verse a while ago, he asked what that meant. I told him that witchcraft was all about denying the power of God. Witchcraft states that it is unnecessary to conform to the laws and boundaries established by our Creator. In essence, witchcraft is a complete challenge to God's authority or right to tell us how we should live. His young brain did not comprehend that, of course, because his brain is still developing at the age of 12. Trying to reason with a 12-year old is difficult for that very reason. You're not sure how much of what you're saying is actually being digested. I know that a degree of rebellion can be expected out of kids going through puberty, but it doesn't mean we should overlook it, either. As I was talking to God about how to further deal with some of these things we have encountered, God slapped me in the face and said, "Look around your local church. What do you see, son?" Immediately my eyes were opened as never before. Before going on, let me say that I am not "blaming" the local church for anything either of my sons are currently going through. Life is life and it doesn't always play fair. I am also aware that some of the Old Testament prophets actually "lived" the messages they were told by God to deliver to Israel and Judah. Hosea named his kids according to the current relationship God had with Israel. Jeremiah and Ezekiel experienced similar fates. Perhaps what is going on in my house is a similar reflection of what some of these men went through. But I also understand that what we define as a "spiritual environment" will become a gauge for the next generation. Like it or not, the local church is what our children will use as a thermometer of spirituality. Here is what God showed me. Local Church Letdown When I walk into our church on a Sunday morning, I am greeted at the door by a lady in slacks with hair chopped to her shoulders, her face laden with makeup and jewelry. This lady is not a new convert. She is a 4th-generation Apostolic. Her husband stands a few feet away handing out the weekly bulletins, oblivious to any inappropriate messages his wife's appearance might be transmitting to guests or new converts who might be wondering what this church is really all about. The silence of the elders, her husband and those in authority over her in her "ministry" tells everyone who sees her, "Hey, her appearance is okay". As I continue on into the auditorium, my ears are blasted with loud music as my eyes attempt to adjust to the dim, mood-setting lighting. Looking up into the sound booth quizzically, I see one of the main men responsible for setting this atmosphere. His hair is half-way down his back. I don't know him well, but I do know he was raised in this church. He is at least a 3rd-generation Apostolic and knows better. Yet somehow, no one in a position of responsibility has the heart, nerve, or chutzpah to tell him to get a haircut. Again, this is not a first-time guest. It is someone who is visible and has been given the power and position to "set the mood" for our services by way of lighting and sound. Somewhere along the way, we have allowed talent to trump obedience to the Word of God. Then, just this last week, I was praying at the altar after service when I happened to open my eyes which were met by a flash coming off the ears of one of our "praise" singers. Indeed, tiny earrings were reflecting the lights as she bobbed her head, singing praises to Jesus. She is not a first-time guest either. She is a 4th-generation Apostolic. We have "allowed" certain degrees of makeup on the platforms of our churches for years. We have even seen the pushing of the envelope with yoga pants under skirts which creep too high at times. But jewelry has always been a no-no for those wishing to participate in platform activities. Until now. The Erosion Of Apostolic Boundaries "You see, Roland", God chided me, "you're wondering why you're dealing with rebellion in your home. Why would you consider that to be a mystery when your sons see rebellion in their local church from the greeting at the front door to the platform?" I was instantly shamed as I bowed my head and wept. Yes, I have watched these "changes" creep into our church in recent years but had never seen them in that light before. These things are not just "the way the younger generation does things". These things are outright rebellion. Witchcraft! Each of these things are specifically called out in Scripture as things God hates. Women wearing men's apparel is an abomination (Deuteronomy 22:5), men with long hair are a shame and don't even comprehend what nature is declaring to them (I Corinthians 11:14), and women who adorn themselves with gold, pearls and such like are using a substitute covering to replace the missing glory of God in their lives (I Timothy 2:9-10). Yet the pulpit remains silent. I'm not talking about guests or new converts who are in the process of "becoming". I am talking about generational "Apostolics" who know better but are "challenging" what they consider to be "the old generation's way of doing things". About a year ago, I heard about a lady from our church who was having lunch with a lady she had grown up with who left the church years ago. The woman from our church was attempting to get this backslidden lady to come back to church. In her attempt to "woo" this lady back, she made the declaration, "Hey, it's okay to wear pants to our church now". When this sad story was relayed to me, I realized how accurate this statement was. Is this what we have become, a church where people can bring in all kinds of vile spirits with them and still feel comfortable among us? "Hey, if you just stick it out a while longer, our church will probably cave in the area you're having problems with." We proclaim that we don't want to judge people, that we should leave that to them and God. But how is that approach affecting our own kids who sit next to these people full of rebellion on the pews, week after week? Besides, Scripture is crystal clear in stating, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (I Peter 4:17). Generation Gap Or Spiritual Warfare? This is not a generational or cultural war. This is a spiritual war that we are losing simply because the Word is not being declared. I am not saying that the preacher needs to get up in the pulpit and start telling men to cut their hair and telling women to stop wearing slacks. But it is obvious that there is not enough "conviction" among us due to a lack of preaching and teaching which would convict people of sin. Messages must go beyond mere anointing. King Saul was "anointed" while chasing after David in an attempt to murder him and protect his own position. Where are the messages that bring "conviction"? The Old Testament prophets were given visions and direction directly from God. Where are our preachers and teachers (and the "vision committee"?) of our church getting direction? From Mark Batterson? Shame on us! In recent years, preachers have backed off from the so-called "clothesline" messages in order to give new converts an opportunity to grow at their own pace. But what has now happened is that generational Apostolics are digressing and no longer believe that the distinctions which set apart their parents and grandparents are necessary at all. When Paul began his missionary journeys and Gentiles were being converted to the faith, the board at Jerusalem made a list of "rules" to give these new converts. Seventy-five percent of their rules had to do with what these new believers put in their mouths. "Don't eat things strangled, don't eat blood, don't eat meat sacrificed to idols, oh, and by the way, don't commit fornication either" (Acts 15:28-29). Paul was respectful to the board, but in his later writings he told many of the churches and people he wrote to that the food part of the rules wasn't necessary to follow. In fact, the entire chapter of I Corinthians 8 was a slap in the face to what the board at Jerusalem had instituted. Paul basically said, there's nothing morally wrong with eating food offered to idols. He briefly mentioned this same thing in a couple of other epistles as well. Meat Offered To Idols Yet in reality, the board did have a point to what they were instructing. The whole "meat offered to idols" rule had to do with keeping people away from associating with certain activities that unbelievers considered to be okay. Paul's point was, meat is meat, and its purpose was to give a person strength, but some people in that day and time considered it to be much more involving than just a meal. Also, the board knew that, due to human nature, if people started associating with certain activities in the world, no matter how innocent those activities may be, they might then be drawn into more serious worldly activities which were actual sin. That's exactly what has happened among us today. It started with going to movie theaters and other questionable places. It escalated to social drinking and a beer now and then. We have now lost the line of separation in areas that really do matter. We have crossed the line of sin, and now we have people who are in "positions" among us who flaunt their sin, and no one says a thing. Long hair on men, women wearing that which "pertaineth" unto a man, and women "adorning" themselves in jewelry and makeup are not cultural issues. They are commands spelled out by God and nature to govern our identity as Apostolics and called-out children of God. Things designated by God as "abominations" or "defined by nature" do not change over time or from one testament to another. If it was abominable to God in Deuteronomy, it's still abominable today. If nature "said" it in Paul's day, nature's story remains consistent today. The Real Issue: Rebellion It's not even these actual "outer" signs which are the problem. These "visible" issues are only "symptoms" of the real problem which is "rebellion". I know a woman can "look" holy on the outside and still have a rotten spirit, but it is impossible for a woman who has been raised in this thing and knows better to openly flaunt a worldly appearance and not have rebellion at the root. Yet we stand by, shake these people's hands each week, allow them to continue on with their "ministry" in our church, and pretend that everything's okay and that it doesn't hinder the work of the Lord. There are some who would argue that "symptoms" should be ignored. After all, "symptoms" don't necessarily indicate serious sickness or bad health. However, certain "symptoms" are indicative of serious problems and, if not addressed, can lead to fatalities. As time has shown over the past dozen years or so, some of these sicknesses are contagious and have infected people who otherwise would never have considered adapting to the worldly appearance and lifestyles of the rebellious. It's Time For A Wake-Up Call We're in trouble. Call me negative. Call me an alarmist. But God is sick of it. Yes, He will still visit from time to time because there are still hungry people among us. But his visitations should not be considered his approval of all that is going on among us. Moses got water out of the rock in the wilderness after "striking" it the second time in direct disobedience to the Word of God, because the people were "thirsty". God took care of his people "in spite of" the disobedience of those in positions of leadership. This did not mean God changed his mind or simply overlooked what He had told Moses as if to say, "Don't worry, Mo, it doesn't really matter. After all, it's not a heaven or hell issue". Moses lost his ticket into the Promised Land as a result of his disobedience. God means what He says. We are becoming less Apostolic by the day. In fact, considering the state in which we find many of our churches, I really think it is a disservice to the community for us to continue to have the "Apostolic" name on some of our church signs. Perhaps a better name would be The Accepting Church. I read the 5th chapter of Amos the other day and wept. God finally shook his head and told Israel in verses 4 and 5 that they weren't going to find their answers at church anymore (Bethel and Gilgal), but rather they needed to seek God directly, because their entire system of worship had become so polluted. The end of the chapter talks about how they tried to incorporate ("blend") the worship of Moloch and Chiun into their worship of Jehovah. It doesn't work. They went into captivity as a result. They desired God to "show up" among them, not realizing that when God "showed up", He was bringing judgment with Him (verse 18). God actually said he "hated" their feast days and wouldn't accept their sacrifices because of their mixture with worldly idols (verses 21-22). In fact, He no longer even wanted to hear their songs of praise which He referred to as "noise" (verse 23). The Invasion Of Worldly Culture A short time ago, a brother in our church was teaching a Wednesday night class in which he talked about the origin of the Pharisees and Sadducees. He talked about the fight that went on between the Sadducees (who wanted to integrate the culture of their day with the church) and the Pharisees (who wanted to return to the structure of the Torah). He asked us to imagine what it would be like for that kind of tug-of-war to happen in our local church today. Well, we are there. There are those who are doing everything they can to eliminate the line of separation between the world and our local church. Oh, they do it with good intentions. They want people to come to our church and hear about Jesus. But what good does that do if we have nothing different to offer them when they get here? I know that there are also extremists on the other side. I am considered by some to be extremist in my views of certain things. But why is someone considered extremist for simply asking for the Word to be preached as it is written? Within ten years, should the Lord tarry and we remain on the same road we are currently on, the local church I attend will not be recognizable as an Apostolic church, no matter what the sign says. If we don't see a revival in our church soon, we will be considered just another charismatic mega-church. We are already inundated with such churches in our area. We don't need any more charismatic mega-churches. What people want and need is a demonstration of Apostolic power and Spirit! Jesus proved to us by how He ministered that this thing was never about numbers. It's time to wake up. The rebellion will be eradicated by anointed messages which convict the hearts of those who come to hear truth. Yes, we will lose some, perhaps many, by preaching such messages. But Jesus Christ is not coming back for a church which has adulterated herself with the filth of the world in order to obtain a large membership. He is returning for a chaste bride who has kept herself "unspotted" from the world (Ephesians 5:27). Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!
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SMITE HIVE | All things SMITE! Olympus was empty. It was but a shadow of itself. An echo of faded grandeur, doomed to be forgotten by those who had once looked to it for inspiration. Or so it seemed in this moment. Hera stood alone in the grand amphitheater, save for the ever-watchful Argus. The Queen of the Gods cast her mind across the myriad of possibilities, seeking a way forward through the chaos that was now inevitable. Her eyes strayed to the empty benches. Who had been the last among the gods to leave? The first? Those were the ones to take note of. The ones who might be swayed to her cause, or who might stand against her. Allies and enemies. As it had always been, so it seemed would always be. "Hera." Ra's voice pierced the silence. Hera turned to see the lord of the Egyptian Pantheon descending the steps of the amphitheater, followed closely by a golden, winged god. "I see it has not gone as well as you hoped," Ra continued. "No. They are as short-sighted as ever. We freed ourselves from the chains of fate, only to repeat the same mistakes." Hera looked past Ra, to meet the steady gaze of his companion. "You are Horus. Son of Osiris. Your fame precedes you." "As does yours, Queen of Olympus," Horus replied. "Word of your wisdom has reached far and wide." He took in the empty amphitheater. "Sadly, it seems to be unappreciated." "Not by all, I hope," Hera said, and then cursed herself silently. Ra would not have brought Horus, save that he was potential ally. She could not risk seeming weak. "Forgive me - circumstances are not as I hoped they might be for a first meeting." "You are not alone in that," Horus said. He fell silent. Hera looked at Ra. "Osiris is gone," he explained. Hera felt a flicker of sympathy for the young god. She too knew the loss of a loved one. Horus' wings snapped out, stretching to their utmost, before folding again. "Betrayed by Set," he said, beak snapping in anger. "My treacherous uncle sees opportunity in chaos. He would crack the world, if it served his ends." "And what would you do with the world, son of Osiris?" Hera asked. "I would ensure that it persisted. That the sun rose without fail, and that mortals lived without fear. Though I am a warrior born, I long for the day war is but a memory." "As do I," Hera said. "As do we all," Ra added. "That is why I acquiesced, when Horus asked me to bring him here. He too seeks allies, though for a different conflict." "Not so different, I think," Horus said. "It is the same battle, whatever the field." He looked out over the amphitheater. "Order against chaos. My uncle thrives in chaos - it is his element. He will seek to take advantage of the current upheaval. As the gods squabble amongst themselves, Set will grow stronger." "He is not alone in that," Hera said. "There are others who will find the opportunity in disorder. They will seek to expand their spheres, whatever the cost." She shook her head. "Even if it means this new war claims us all." Horus nodded in agreement with her words. Set would be forging an army - or at the very least, an alliance of equals. Horus knew that he must do the same, if he had any hope of thwarting his uncle's ambitions. He had one ally, at least, in Ra. But he needed more. He glanced at the lord of the Egyptian Pantheon, and took some comfort from that. Ra was mighty indeed, and had witnessed Set's confession for himself. Had seen him cast down the bloodied crown of Osiris, as if it were but a trinket. As if it did not matter at all. Horus' grip tightened on his spear's haft, as he fought against the by-now familiar surge of anger. He had lost control, in that moment, and nearly his life. Set had defeated him with ease, leaving him humiliated. But determined. Defeat had brought with it a lesson - to defeat Set required cunning. Strategy. Allies. "Why did you come here, son of Isis?" Hera's words snapped him from his reverie. "Allies," he said. "As Ra said. I require - I need allies." He looked around. "But I see none here." He felt Hera bristle at that. She was easily insulted, this queen. Proud, but tempered by pragmatism. Even so, his words had stung her. But before he could attempt to mitigate his statement, someone new spoke. "Then you are not looking close enough, oh lord of the black lands." The words slithered down from above. There was a great rasping, like the sound of many shields scraping against one another. "You see only the ashes of defeat, rather than the spark of victory. How disappointing." Horus turned, seeking the intruder, as Hera, her eyes sparking with divine light, brandished her sceptre. "Who dares come unannounced to Olympus?" she commanded. "Identify yourself!" At her words, her guardian slammed his great fists together. "Identify myself?" the voice hissed. "Do you not know me, Queen of Olympus? You invited me here, and here I am. I watched and listened, as you waxed eloquent to our kith and kin. And now I am done listening." Again, the rasping sound. And something else, like the flapping of wings. Horus peered upwards. His keen gaze picked out a massive serpentine shape, coiled about the uppermost reaches of the pillars above. Even as he spotted the shape, its coils loosened their grip and it plummeted towards the trio of gods. "Look out," Horus cried, letting his wings carry him backwards. Hera and Ra both dove aside as the thing fell towards them. A great rush of wind filled the amphitheater, nearly bowling them all over. Horus fought to stay aloft as the wind ripped at him, and readied his spear. He spied the others preparing themselves as well. Whatever this creature was, it would not find them easy prey, at least. The shape did not strike the floor, but instead hovered in place, held aloft by the beating of great feathered wings. Four of them, in fact, attached to a sinuous, scaled form. A snakelike visage, branded by a plume of feathers, swung towards Horus. Its golden headdress clattering. Horus felt an atavistic chill. God or no, falcons and serpents had a bloody history. He raised his spear warily. "Stay your spear, little falcon. I do not desire your blood this day," the newcomer hissed in amusement. It paused. "Tomorrow, perhaps.. but not today." "Kukulkan," Hera said, flatly. "What are you doing here, old serpent?" "I was invited," Kukulkan said. "Remember?" The plumed serpent undulated through the air towards the Queen of the Gods, jaws slightly agape. "I did not see you among the others." She waved Argus back, as her guardian tensed. She wanted to know why Kukulkan was here. The Serpent of the Nine Winds was enigmatic - few could claim his good favour, and none seemed to know what he wanted. She had never included him in her calculations for that very reason. There were easier gods to bargain with. "Because I did not wish to be seen." Kukulkan slithered around her, his scaled not touching the floor, his gaze cool and calculated. "not by you, or anyone." "Why did you not leave with the rest?" "I was curious. And my curiosity was rewarded." He reared up over her, and Argus gave a rumble of warning. Kukulkan ignored the warrior. "Such an intriguing gathering, this.. a meeting of pantheons." "Yes. though I'd hoped our numbers would be greater." Kukulkan gave a rattling, hissing laugh. "No doubt. And whose fault is that, then?" Hera frowned. "Did you come here to simply mock me?" "Not just for that, no." He turned towards Horus. "My condolences on the demise of your father." He paused. "Who rules his stead?" "What business is that of yours?" Horus said. Again, the hissing laugh. The cold gaze turned back to Hera. "A kingdom without a king, and a queen without a kingdom. Strange bedfellows, indeed." "Speak plainly." The air rippled with heat as Ra spoke. Kukulkan glanced at him, and then back at Hera. "They will not follow you." He paused. "either of you." She stared at him. "What?" "Neither of you will be the one to bring about this golden age you both desire." Before Hera could reply, laughter filled the amphitheater. For a moment, she feared treachery. But Kukulkan swayed back, head turning, eyes narrowed. Whoever this was, they had surprised him as well. The shadows swelled and split, revealing a lean shape. "Set," Horus spat. Set applauded mockingly. "Well said, old serpent. Well said indeed." He looked at Hera. "Nothing pierces so sharp as the truth, eh?" Argus took a step towards the other god, but Hera restrained him. "Leave," she said. "Olympus is mine and you are not welcome here, traitor." She glanced at Horus, and he gave her a terse nod of thanks. "And what of me, oh queen?" a sepulchral voice intoned. "Am I not of Olympus, as much as you?" Argus snarled, and Hera turned. An ebon-winged shape crouched atop a nearby pillar, scythe in hand. "Thanatos," she said. "What do you want here, death-bringer?" "Merely to fulfill my function," Thanatos said, mockingly. "Death is abroad in the mortal lands. God wars against god. Sides are drawn and a thousand conflicts bloom anew." He brandished his scythe. "For instance, Bellona rides to war, seeking to overcome old rivals." he leaned towards her. "Such as your son." "Ares," Hera said, softly. She shook her head. Her son could fight his own battles - indeed, he would likely relish such a conflict. "And this please you both, no doubt." "Of course," Set said. "We have found a commonality of spirit, the Hand of Death and I." He leveled his bladed staff. "This world stands upon the brink of a new age. The old ways are done and dust. And you will join them, nephew. As will you, Ra - and you as well, oh queen of nothing." His red gaze slid towards the Plumed Serpent. "You are free to leave, old one. I bear you no enmity." "I am humbled by such magnanimity, oh lord of the red land." Kukulkan reared, multi-coloured scales clattering like the panoply of war. "But I am afraid I must decline your offer. I stand alongside these, against you. The sun must rise, and Kukulkan will see that it does so." Hera, somewhat surprised, said nothing. Perhaps the old serpent had not come to cause mischief at all. Set stared at Kukulkan for a moment. Then he gave a brief nod. "You would count yourself among my foes? Very well. One or a hundred, it matters not to us." "Bold words," Hera said, her anger swelling. "Is that why you're here?" She glared up at Thanatos. "To declare war on your queen?" Thanatos inclined his head, in mocking respect. "War is but the preamble of death, my lady," he said. "Immortality a perversion of the natural order. For too long, the gods have flouted the ancient laws that bind all souls." "Never fear, Thanatos.. a war among them will soon set that to rights," a high, girlish voice piped. Thanatos swept aside his wing, revealing a slim, brightly-hued goddess hovering behind him, out of sight just now. Hera's eyes widened. "Discordia," she said. "You as well?" "Of course," Discordia said. "Where else would I be?" Hera stared at the goddess of strife, wondering if Bellona's actions - the dissolution of her council - had been caused not by her own failure, or their obstinacy, but by the guiding hand of the being before her. It wouldn't be the first time Discordia - or Eris, as she had once called herself - had set god against god for her own amusement. As if reading her thoughts, Discordia smiled. She gestured and orbs of unruly magic swirled about her. "I desire to see volleys of arrows, the clashing of blades, strikes of lightning and the surging of death." Her smile became savage. "Let us be about it, shall we?"
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(Re) Positioning Lebanese Feminist Discourse: A Rhetorical Study of Al-Raida (Pioneer) Journal
This study is a feminist historiography of Al-Raida, a Lebanese feminist journal introduced in 1976 by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. This study recovers foundations of modern Lebanese feminist discourses as they are articulated in the journal by employing Foucauldian CDA as a means to trace discourse strands, or conversations, which include Family Planning, development, politics and narratives of the Lebanese civil war. This study explores, by situating each discourse strand within dominant and local historical contexts, the shifting rhetorical function of the journal through various historical moments. Tracing the dominant discourse strands within the first decade of the journal, this study rhetorically analyzes the ways in which arguments are positioned, research studies are presented, and methodologies are employed to forge viable solutions to Middle Eastern women's issues. First, the study traces the conversation on Family Planning in Lebanon and its relevance to the economic and social situation during the late 70s. Second, the study presents the shift in the early 80s towards a discourse on development and explores how Al-Raida presents the issue of development, attempts to define it, and in doing so outlines some of the concerns at this time, including illiteracy, access to health care, access to paid employment, and women's access to developmental opportunities. Third, the study presents the discourse in the mid-80s on the civil war in Lebanon and highlights Al-Raida's rhetorical function by documenting trauma and war narratives through personal interviews, testimonies, and ethnographies. The shift in the methodologies of the research articles published in the first decade, from quantitative studies towards qualitative studies, indicates the journal is rhetorically situated within both the dominant international discourse and within the local context, exhibiting an ability to respond to the nuances in the local Lebanese women's movement while simultaneously maintaining international visibility.... (more)
Khoury, Nicole Michelle (Author) / Goggin, Maureen D (Advisor) / Ali, Souad T (Advisor) / Roen, Duane (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Rhetoric / Gender studies / Middle Eastern studies / Arab / Feminism / Gender / Lebanon / Middle East / Women
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Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation
Chari, V. V. and Kehoe, Patrick J.
Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)
We develop a model in which, in order to provide managerial incentives, it is optimal to have costly bankruptcy. If benevolent governments can commit to their policies, it is optimal not to interfere with private contracts. Such policies are time inconsistent in the sense that, without commitment, governments have incentives to bail out firms by buying up the debt of distressed firms and renegotiating their contracts with managers. From an ex ante perspective, however, such bailouts are costly because they worsen incentives and thereby reduce welfare. We show that regulation in the form of limits on the debt-to-value ratio of firms mitigates the time-inconsistency problem by eliminating the incentives of governments to undertake bailouts. In terms of the cyclical properties of regulation, we show that regulation should be tightest in aggregate states in which resources lost to bankruptcy in the equilibrium without a government are largest.
Prudential regulation and Financial regulation
E60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General, G33 - Bankruptcy; Liquidation, G28 - Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation, and E61 - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
Fiscal Unions Redux
Kehoe, Patrick J. and Pastorino, Elena
Before the advent of sophisticated international financial markets, a widely accepted belief was that within a monetary union, a union-wide authority orchestrating fiscal transfers between countries is necessary to provide adequate insurance against country-specific economic fluctuations. A natural question is then: Do sophisticated international financial markets obviate the need for such an active union-wide authority? We argue that they do. Specifically, we show that in a benchmark economy with no international financial markets, an activist union-wide authority is necessary to achieve desirable outcomes. With sophisticated financial markets, however, such an authority is unnecessary if its only goal is to provide cross-country insurance. Since restricting the set of policy instruments available to member countries does not create a fiscal externality across them, this result holds in a wide variety of settings. Finally, we establish that an activist union-wide authority concerned just with providing insurance across member countries is optimal only when individual countries are either unable or unwilling to pursue desirable policies
Optimal currency area, International financial markets, Cross-country insurance, International transfers, Cross-country externalities, Cross-country transfers, and Fiscal externalities
F35 - Foreign Aid, E60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General, G15 - International Financial Markets, G33 - Bankruptcy; Liquidation, F42 - International Policy Coordination and Transmission, G28 - Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation, F33 - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions, E61 - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination, and F38 - International Financial Policy: Financial Transactions Tax; Capital Controls
Accounting for Business Cycles
Brinca, Pedro, Chari, V. V., Kehoe, Patrick J., and McGrattan, Ellen R.
We elaborate on the business cycle accounting method proposed by Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2007), clear up some misconceptions about the method, and then apply it to compare the Great Recession across OECD countries as well as to the recessions of the 1980s in these countries. We have four main
findings. First, with the notable exception of the United States, Spain, Ireland, and Iceland, the Great Recession was driven primarily by the efficiency wedge. Second, in the Great Recession, the labor wedge plays a dominant role only in the United States, and the investment wedge plays a dominant role in Spain, Ireland, and Iceland. Third, in the recessions of the 1980s, the labor wedge played a dominant role only in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and New Zealand. Finally, overall in the Great Recession the efficiency wedge played a more important role and the investment wedge played a less important role than they did in the recessions of the 1980s.
Business cycle accounting, 1982 recession, and Great Recession
Kehoe, Patrick J.3
Chari, V. V.2
Brinca, Pedro1
McGrattan, Ellen R.1
Pastorino, Elena1
Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)3
E60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General3
E61 - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination3
G28 - Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation3
G33 - Bankruptcy; Liquidation[remove]3
F33 - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions1
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FHIR® - The Basics
#Rhapsody #FHIR #Interoperability #Integration
FHIR® or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources is an IT healthcare standard that will help to improve the day to day running of community medical practices and hospitals. FHIR® can contribute to improving the care of patients by providing timely access to their electronic healthcare record.
FHIR® is one of the next generation HL7® standards in healthcare data integration and is focused on decreasing interoperability costs and unlocking innovation in healthcare. FHIR® represents a major standards upgrade that will boost access to health information and support ambitious plans for an app store for the health sector. FHIR® aims to speed application development and interoperability, plus boost information sharing in healthcare, especially on mobile platforms.
Built around the concept of “resources”, the basic unit of interoperability. In health, these could include a patient, condition, or a clinician. FHIR® covers the format of information and how data is exchanged, so it is both a Model and an API. It promises to make health information easily and securely accessed from any device, anywhere. FHIR® is an open source standard, available for all to use at no cost.
FHIR® will help to break down the information silos that exist in healthcare. For example, a lack of readily available patient health history can force doctors in emergency departments to make educated assessments about appropriate medication when there is no one to speak for the patient. FHIR® could support access to such vital data at the push of a mobile app button. It will also support the creation of an “app store” of independently developed mobile applications because it supports the collection of data and availability via APIs. APIs or Application Program Interfaces are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API specifies how software components should interact.
In 2011, the board of HL7® noted that interoperability requirements were increasing; there was a need for real-time access for APIs, especially with the uptake of mobile use. They saw a vast increase in the amount, type and source of data particularly with the increasing use of personal devices. There was a movement to include the patient in their own healthcare. In addition, data from genomics and precision medicine have increased the amount of data available to be included in a patient’s electronic health record. With aging populations and the increase in chronic diseases, the ability to data mine for analytics and to be proactive with population health management was required. To be able to do this, implementers expected a modern standard as the existing standards were lacking, and to handle this huge increase in data a fresh look was needed and so FHIR® was born.
FHIR® has proven results for the following groups
Clinicians: FHIR® improves access to a more complete, higher quality electronic healthcare record, by being able to include data both from traditional sources like laboratory results, and evolving sources like genomic information.
Patients: with more applications targeted at patient engagement FHIR® helps remove the technical barriers for data from patient engagement apps to be included in clinical systems.
Developers: familiar tooling and technologies are used. Predefined resources and APIs allow implementers to focus on the core application functionality.
Healthcare providers: vendors such as hospitals are committed to FHIR®, which is beneficial as it increases the range of applications able to be deployed, which should lead to faster deployments, lower cost interoperability, and reduced ‘vendor lock-in’.
There is enormous interest internationally in FHIR® as it promises to revolutionize sharing of healthcare information. For this reason, it is important that clinicians become actively involved in FHIR.
There is a range of open source tools used both to educate and to assist the developers of FHIR® such as clinfhir.com. which evolved in response to user need (where the users are the clinicians involved in the development of the FHIR® standard). It serves 2 main purposes:
As a training tool to help people wanting to learn more about FHIR® visualize how the parts combine to represent clinical information in a structured and coded manner.
As a development tool with features to build some of the required artifacts, particularly as an aid to learning, but also being used by some organizations.
clinFHIR is primarily an educational tool, that allows clinicians to learn how FHIR® can facilitate healthcare projects. Successful health IT can improve patient care and enable patients to become more involved. The health IT domain is complicated and FHIR® helps to reduce the complexity.
FHIR® will allow clinicians to become more involved in the delivery of health-related IT projects – it is widely recognized that clinician lead IT projects have a higher success rate than technically lead ones. FHIR® represents a major standards upgrade that will boost access to health information, which will improve access to a patient’s electronic health record.
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Dumitru Sandu
Destination Selection Among Romanian Migrants in Times of Crisis: an Origin Integrated Approach
Volume: XI Issue: 2, Pages: 145-192
https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2017.2.07
University of Bucharest, Centre for Migration Studies (CESMIG), Bucharest, Romania
dumitru.sandu@sas.unibuc.ro
The article is targeted to an understanding of transnational fields of Romanian migration from the point of view destination selection as measured by migration selectivity at different levels. Why some people from certain communities and regions of Romania go to certain countries? Are there any changes in these choices as related to the global crisis? These are the two basic questions of the study. The answer is given in terms of multilevel selectivity of migration abroad. Characteristics of personal status (age, human capital, gender, ethnicity), residence community (levels and types of local human development) and regions (urban and development regions) are especially analyzed by census data from 2011.
The seven major transnational fields of Romanian migration – towards Italy, Spain (plus Greece and Cyprus), France (plus Belgium and Portugal), Germany (plus Austria), United Kingdom (plus Ireland, USA and Canada), Nordic European countries and Hungary – are described by their regional origin in Romania and one or multi-countries destinations.
Multiple regression models are used to explain, at individual and community level, why choosing one or another destination. The complexity of studied phenomenon oblige to using multiple frames of reference for comparisons – recent international migrants versus nonmigrants of working age, internal and external temporary migrants, NUTS3 or NUTS2 regional units of analysis.
The dynamics of the seven migration fields and their causal profile are reconstituted also in time by developing a kind of migration archeology function of the periods long time emigrants abroad left the country.
Keywords: transnational migration fields, destination choice, multilevel-selectivity of migration, urban regions, local human development
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Frankfurt That Wasn’t In Our Itinerary
Our flight from Prague would connect at Frankfurt for our flight home to Kuala Lumpur. It has been raining all morning in Prague and continued so while we waited for our plane to arrive at Vaclav Havel airport. The gloomy weather apparently covered a large part of eastern Europe and has disrupted flights all around. Our Lufthansa plane finally arrived on what was supposedly been the departure time. By the time we departed, it was already a little more than an hour late. The 2 hours transit time we would have in Frankfurt for a change of plane, would now turn to be an amazing race as we would effectively have less than an hour to do so.
Gloomy evening at Prague Vaclav Havel airport.
While the weather has sort of calmed down when we departed Prague, it wasn’t so for flights across Austria and Germany. Our plane had to circle Frankfurt for a good 2 hours for a break of clear weather or probably had to wait long for it’s turn to land. By the time we got to the departure gate for our connecting flight, the gate has been closed and our plane departed on time. Presumably, it would have taken a different route to avoid the bad weather or the weather had improved.
Our flight LH1399 arriving on what supposedly to be the departure time.
OMG, we are now stuck in Frankfurt! We were instructed to go to Lufthansa counters to make arrangement for the next flight out. The line to these counters were long as Lufthansa had to make arrangement for hundreds or possibly thousands of stranded passengers. Two thoughts played in my mind. It wasn’t the airline’s fault … so, do we have to purchase new tickets AND where are we going to put up for the night? Airport chairs aren’t actually comfy.
Lining up at Lufthansa Frankfurt airport counters to get the next flight connection.
While lining up to be attended, trolleys of mineral water, fruit juice, energy bars and breads were made available and promptly replenished. Such were German efficiency. When I got up to the counter, I was told that Lufthansa will be making alternative flight arrangement for the next day at NO additional cost and we will be put up at Maritim Hotel at Lufthansa expense. To top it up, taxi and hotel meal vouchers were also handed out. This is SUPERB service.
FREE overnight stay at Maritim Hotel courtesy of Lufthansa.
Arriving at Maritim Hotel, a long line of passengers were already waiting to be attended. This stretched from the reception till outside the entrance door. The registration was smooth and by the time we got into our room, its past mid night. More passengers affected by the delays were still coming in.
Lining up again at the hotel reception for room assignment.
The room assigned to us was decently large. The amenities in the room was good, the room was quiet and the drapes kept the lights out. Naturally we had no extra clothes with us, but the bathrobes was good enough for the night. By the time I finished messaging my office about the missed flight, had my bath, it was almost 1am. This hotel with 542 rooms also caters for a number of airline crews.
King size bed. The room is decently large.
Writing table with water boiler for tea/coffee making. CTV was in another corner.
Bathroom amenities. Bathroom comes with bathtub.
At 07:30 the next morning, Frankfurt was still raining that doesn’t seem to be fading anytime soon. We had a late breakfast at 09:00 and then went up to our room to prepare for check-out at 12:00. Our flight home will be at 21:35 and upon check-out, we left our backpacks at the hotel and took advantage of the remaining time to explore Frankfurt. We had no idea where to go as we had not visited Frankfurt nor made any research of the attractions it has. Staff at the hotel reception suggested taking the underground metro nearby for a visit to Romerberg.
At 07:30 the next morning, the gloomy weather continues.
It later drizzled till late morning. That’s Marriott Hotel to the left.
Breakfast at 09:00 in the hotel.
We weren’t the only one having late breakfast.
As if the weather knew of our intentions, the rain turned into drizzle and later stopped. From the hotel, we walked a little bit to the Festhalle/Messe underground metro (U-banh). Along the way, we came across a 21-metre-tall contraption of a ‘Hammering Man‘, a reflection of the new Frankfurt reborn after WWII. The motor driven right arm hammers rhythmically on an imaginary anvil.
This contraption of a ‘Hammering Man’ was close to our hotel.
Public rental bicycles.
First experience of Frankfurt while walking to the Festhalle/Messe metro station.
Messe Frankfurt (Frankfurt Trade Fair) is the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organiser. This building is just behind the metro entrance.
Escalator down to the metro platform.
A rather simplistic Festhalle/Messe metro station.
Useful Frankfurt underground metro (U-Bahn) map.
After a couple of stops on the metro, we reached Romerberg, a public square. It is located in front of the Romer building complex, the seat of the Frankfurt city hall since 1405 to this day. The Romer are medieval buildings in the old town of Frankfurt am Main and one of the city’s important landmarks. Historic timber-framed buildings also fronts this square.
Fountain within the square at Romerberg.
Statue of the ‘Lady Of Justice’ in the fountain facing the the Romer buildings.
Historic timber-framed buildings. Towards the right, is the structure of Nokolai church.
Visitors enjoying lunch at an outdoor cafe.
Past noon, light drizzle continued on-&-off.
From Romerberg, we walked along the boulevard that leads to Galeria, a department store. This walking route will pass Haagen-Dazs and besides it, is a small square with a tall obelisk like reddish stone Liebfrauenberg fountain. Most people would just walk past it not knowing the structure dates back to 1770. There is no info board on the significance of this fountain, although there is a small bronze plaque in German.
The boulevard from Romerberg to Galeria.
Haagen-Daz is about 5 minutes walk from Romerberg.
Liebfrauenberg fountain in a square besides Haagen-Daz.
Galeria is a huge department store a further 5 minutes walk from Haagen-Dasz. Outside the building, you’ll find a contemporary sculpture of David And Goliath which is a little difficult to comprehend. Having limited time, we did not venture inside the department store.
Galeria department store is 5 minutes from Haagen-Daz.
Contemporary sculpture of David And Goliath. Which is David & which is Goliath ?
At one end of the Galeria towards our right, in the distance we noticed a structure that looks like a castle tower right in the middle of an intersection. This is Eschenheimer Turm (tower) with a height of 47m located in-front of Fleming’s Hotel. It used to serve as a city gate during the late medieval fortifications of Frankfurt am Main. The tower was erected at the beginning of the 15th century and was completed around 1428. Currently a restaurant and a bar operates there. Yet another landmark of the city with a metro stop near the base of the tower.
Eschenheimer Turm (Tower) was a city gate in the late-medieval times.
From the Galeria, walking the opposite direction (left) will take you to St Catherine church. It is the largest Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main, It was completed in 1681, damaged in 1944 during WWII and rebuilt in the 50s.
St Catherine Church, a minute’s walk from Galeria.
Across St Catherine church you’ll find Cafe Hauptbache built in 1729 originally as a guard house and prison. In late 1860s, the building became a police station and in 1904 became a cafe. Located in a busy plaza, this is the place to watch people go by and to ponder about the criminal history that took place right under your feet. It is one of Frankfurt’s most beautiful buildings albeit dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers.
Cafe Hauptbache is just across St Katharine church. Formally a guard house, now a cafe.
Walking route from Romerberg to Galeria.
Our next destination before returning to our hotel is to head to Munchener Str for lunch. This street is near Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and is where one should go to look for Halal food. A number of Halal Food outlet can be found here ranging from Turkish to Indian food. Prices are about standard across Europe ranging from €7 – €10 for a decent meal.
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof. Central train station.
After lunch we returned to Miritim Hotel to collect our backpacks and after a short rest, headed to the airport. We weren’t able to get a direct flight as it was fully booked, thus we will transit at Changi, Singapore before heading home to Kuala Lumpur. From Changi, we will be flying Singapore Airlines. All this has been pre arranged by Lufthansa. Kudos to Lufthansa for their brilliant service.
One of the lobby inside Frankfurt departure level.
The A380 that will be flying us to Changi.
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Home » Gazette » News » Katie Hill’s Open Seat Up for Grabs
Lee Barnathan | News | October 31, 2019
Just because Steve Knight might enter the race for Congress in the wake of Katie Hill’s resignation doesn’t guarantee he will win, or even automatically advance out of the primary. So says a group of local residents, mostly veterans, who insist they will continue to support Mike Garcia.
“I’ve communicated with Steve Knight on Facebook. Love you, guy, but this is unacceptable,” Bill Reynolds, a local Vietnam veteran, said. “All of my veteran pals are going to stick with Mike.”
Even Knight, who appeared on Monday ready to jump in, took a step back.
“We’re looking at the whole thing,” Knight said on KHTS. “We want to take back the seat. If that means me jumping into the race, then that’s what we’ll do, and if not, that’s OK.”
The news that Hill will resign her seat has created a ripple effect that Trish Lester, president of Santa Clarita Republican Women Federated, called “some musical chairs going on.”
Not only has Knight considered a run, Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita), who told the Gazette last month she considered running for Congress but decided she could get more done in Sacramento than Washington, announced she is also running for Hill’s seat, pleasing some Hill supporters.
Stacy Fortner, a Democratic activist, said on Facebook she’s doing “the Christy dance” with the hash tag “if you know, you know.” And podcaster Stephen Daniels said he doesn’t know a Democrat who knows policy better than Smith.
For their parts, Garcia and Angela Underwood-Jacobs said they would not leave the race even if Knight enters it. Both said they would challenge for the seat in the special election that is required to fill the seat for the rest of Hill’s term, as well as the regular primary in March (a third candidate, Mark Cripe, didn’t return numerous phone calls).
A Smith campaign spokesman also said she would run in both and maintain her Assembly seat “until she is elected to Congress.”
Then late Tuesday, former Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who was sentenced to 14 days in jail and served 12 for his role in the Russia probe, filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission.
A source said Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who was considering a run, is staying out.
According to the Constitution, House seats can only be filled by election. Once Hill leaves office – and as of press time, this date has not been announced – state law says Gov. Gavin Newsom has 14 days to call for a special election to take place on a Tuesday between 126 and 140 days after he calls for it. If Hill leaves Friday, as many believe she will, the earliest date would be March 10. The regular primary remains scheduled for March 3.
Smith’s exiting the Assembly race has left Republican challengers Suzette Valladares feeling eager and Lucie Volotzky feeling giddy.
Valladares said in a statement that she’s willing to debate the issues with anyone. “While I was looking forward to the debate of ideas against Christy Smith, I’m ready to stand up for the people of this district and challenge anyone that the Sacramento political class recruits to fill her seat,” she said.
Volotzky called Smith’s departure “a big plus.” She added, “People will pay more attention to the newcomers and what we stand for.”
Garcia, is also a newcomer, this being his first race. And he’s not going away. “I’ve been in this race since the beginning regardless of who else is running and will continue to do so,” Garcia said in a statement he texted to the Gazette. “Steve Knight served our country honorably, and he has previously earned my vote. He’s a good man, but we need a fresh voice to shake up Washington.”
Many Republicans contacted by the Gazette, some of whom live outside the area but within the 25th district, expressed similar themes: They admire and respect Knight but believe it is Garcia’s time. Many pointed to Knight’s showing in the last election, in which Hill defeated him by nine points.
“Of course, Steve Knight should not get in the race,”
Palmdale resident and veteran John Smith said. “Steve Knight doesn’t have the fire. If Katie Hill can beat him, anyone can.”
Former Congressman and Simi Valley Mayor Elton Gallegly, who once represented the area before redistricting, thinks everyone should “execute their constitutional rights and vote.” But as for him, “I worked hard for Steve Knight and got him elected. I’m supporting Mike Garcia.”
Saugus Realtor Steve Petzold said he’s looking for a candidate in the mold of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) who would support the president, and believes that is Garcia. “Steve Knight was more reluctant to support Trump doing the Russia investigation,” Petzold said. “Papadopoulos is more of a carpetbagger.”
Lester expressed concern that too many Republican candidates could fracture the community as she saw happen when Knight ran against Tony Strickland in 2014. “To have two, three, four strong candidates, I don’t think it does anybody any favors,” Lester said. “It’s going to get uglier, and it makes me sad.”
Alan Ferdman, head of the Canyon Country Advisory Committee, summed it up this way: “Both parties are going to do the same thing: Select the person they consider the most electable and pressure everyone else not to run.”
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One Response to “Katie Hill’s Open Seat Up for Grabs”
Claudia Andrade on November 3, 2019 @ 9:54 pm
Excellent analysis and reporting. The true indicator of a genuine journalist, especially a journalist covering politics, is to have no indication of their personal political bent. A rare find in today’s hyperpartisan climate. Kudos Lee for your brilliant and informative piece. You are to be trusted and respected for your superb analysis and clear reporting. Thank you for holding out as one of the few who honor genuine journalism.
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Home Pop Culture You’re so Vain, You Probably think this Article is About You.
You’re so Vain, You Probably think this Article is About You.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond have been amazed and literally aghast at the advent of unrelenting vanity in the corridors of society. Every where you go you see pictures of tight peachy asses, (Pamela Anderson thank you so much, you were wonderful down in Miami last week), actresses with their naked toned bodies (I know but we still love you Jennifer, really) that serve not to reinforce the dramatic acumen of their chosen craft but the collective narcissism that serves to reinforce her ‘glamorous’ career and by extension our glamorous selves. After all, you are what you eat, never mind if it’s healthy.
… Floundering love life aside, Jen has never been the same since beauty boy ‘Brad Pitt’ ran away to be with that other beauty girl, Angelina Jolie, never been the same but those abs, my god we do notice, but that’s the whole point right.
But why stop with Jen? Let’s look at the latest misbegotten misbehavior of our collective consciousness. Electing presidents who do not accurately reflect our current social or economic situations, thanks Dubya for making us feel glamorous until you decided to take matters a little too far and run with your vain illusions that you could not only assert a moral and leisurely aesthetic, not just to the American public, but to the Iraqis themselves. Oil and profits aside, does it ever make sense to vote for a man who is three hundred sixty degrees removed from your economic and social position? Sure in America, everything makes sense, because eventually you’re going to be just as rich, celebrated, financially adjusted, and thoroughly loved as the crew that runs in front of your TV screen. Except when you don’t…..oh well, c’est la vie, n’est pas?
We love living vacuously through our celebrated media set, their handlers and reality shows. Rest assured, Scallywag does too… but we do wonder what’s the point of blowing a hundred thousand bucks in a single evening at some flashy nightclub and declaring at the end of the fiesta in front of a page six reporter or to our friends over at Guest of a Guest that it was the best gazillion dollars you ever did spend? I mean, if it was done amongst friends we applaud you, but done for the cameras well we abhor you!
But who can blame the patrons of Bungalow 8 or 1OAK, the idea of spending six hundred bucks for a mid shelf bottle of vodka doesn’t spell travesty so much as lack of modesty. Look at me, I can spend and by extension of my surroundings approximate royalty, celebrity and the sojourn of a disco girl. We are after all collectively inspired by what we read, see, believe and misbelieve. Well that’s media for you…no that’s vanity for you, but who can blame you? After all… you are a rock star.
Let’s look at some of the latest misbehavior on show of late, is it a function of vanity, simplicity, or just misaligned principles?
Scallywag’s favorite of course is the one involving the CEO of Merrill Lynch, John Thain, see New York Times article. After having presided over the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, squandering billions of dollars he then had the taxpayer (that’s right you and I ) bail him out along with his fellow buddies at other investment banks decided that it would now be okay to pay himself a mere ten million dollar bonus this year on top of his dismal performance. That’s on top of the fifteen million dollar signing bonus earlier this year. Ask yourself when was the last time anyone ever gave you a twenty two cent bonus let alone a ten million dollar bonus for ruining a company, presiding over disastrous investment decisions, being bailed out by Henry Paulson over at the Treasury Department, and then being summoned later that evening for a sumptuous dinner in your honor with a fat check of endearment waiting in some hand pressed envelop to be opened immediately after the Cru Cognac?
Where does such behavior come from, how has our culture allowed this unabashed reckless behavior to continue? One can argue that it’s simply a few bad apples, isn’t that what W argued every time something went wrong (and you know we cant wait to hear Barack Obama’s excuses when it’s his turn…) One can argue it’s a culture of greed and misappropriated sense of entitlement especially those in the investment class. Well maybe, but I do wonder if it’s simply just a big case of misappropriated sense of vanity. After all it takes a certain ego to act the way people like Mr.Thain chooses to act, and thank god people like New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, do exist to make people like Mr.Thain back down and publicly apologize for acting like a pig.
Speaking of pigs, what about the one that could no longer stomach the guilt of running off with your money for so long? Yes, Bernard Madoff made it to the top of the charts this week too with his brilliant ponzi scheme which managed to ruin a collective of people to the tune of fifty billion dollars. yes better than Mr.Thain… way better. What allowed this gentleman, the pillar of his society, good standing, adulation and impeccable acumen to behave the way he did? Greed certainly, lack of shame, a sense of wonderful entitlement, a likely psychotic disposition as well as a unchecked vanity. You better bet your bottom dollar, actually on second thought, your better of if you didn’t!
Before we can continue this discussion, let us ponder to ourselves was it always this way? As much as we would like to believe otherwise, the answer is yes. Back then the degree of misbegotten behavior was usually reserved to rogue emperors, Caligula being one back in Ancient Rome. He’s the bloke who had a horse voted into the senate and forced the senate’s wives to work as prostitutes…scrumptious! The garden variety rogue general and/or dictator, pick one, they all excelled themselves. Joseph Stalin would be one of the more obvious choices, not only did he exterminate you or send you to an indefinite work retreat program in the alps of the Gulag chain gang, he’d then take over your plot of land and build a very nice statue of himself. In essence supplanting your existence and reinforcing his very own. We do have this today, but it goes by the celebrity/corporate circus these days, which adopts personas and belief systems for all of us to adopt and to call our very own.
So now, where this never happened fifty years ago you now have teenagers like Lindsay Lohan, well.. she is no longer a teenager but still very much acting like one. Where prima donnas feel comfortably at home to misbehave ad hoc, having public spats with their girlfriends, snorting blow in front of the cameras, running around with shaved heads, amphetamines and all behind a moving vehicle- Britney Spears, and there was Paris too, but I understand jail has tempered her.
Where do these action heroes get the chutzpa to behave the way they do? It put us all in some public peril and then continue to demand huge public fees, signing bonuses and hissy fits? Of course one can argue once you see yourself enough times in the media you begin to believe your own spin, begin to believe that you are above reproach and in this fast action paced action world called virtual reality and the internet you too can be famous and glamorous in a nanosecond.
Does vanity precede fame, or does fame precede vanity? Either way, we here at Scallywag do wonder if the two go hand in hand and allow the engendered behavior of total attention to get out of hand.
At one stage, let say in the 70’s it was cool, even artistically permissive and experimental to dye your hair red, appear as an androgynous soul, yes we are talking about David Bowie and to sing and bellow. But the art merited this behavior, it was grandstanding on a marvelous level, even if Mr. Bowie was swashbuckling on buckets of coke, the neo dandy was prolific in his work.
Talking of dandies, what about the dandies of the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire, Robert du Montesquiou, Walter Payter, Oscar Wilde who were all very conscious of their outward appearances and feminine sensinbilities…What led to their rise, after all, until then we were all living under the wrath of the church and only just getting in touch with the enlightenment period, and what followed next, call it the Modern Art movement, Surrealism, Dadaism, etc.
And these are some of the clues we need to understand the degree of unrivalled vanity in our society, the unabashed level of decadence and the hitherto concentration of vanity that even compelled the singer and songwriter Carly Simon to write a smash hit song back in the seventies called “You’re so vain you probably think this song is about you.”
With decadence comes more brave, extreme attempts to reassert oneself, one after all has to compete and if we can’t deal with our psychological disarray and morass (that always comes with the decadence) what better way to deal with oneself than to try and outdo oneself and become the supposed media star for all to see and wonder, and thus forever validating us and by extension you- our reader .
If vanity can be defined as the ubiquitous display of ones wares, supposed sensibilities then what are we to make of the all pervading symbols called corporations. Look around you, next time you look at a Nike ad think about how much that swoosh symbol has now come to supplant a vigorous approximation of self worth, achievement, athletic talent, or just talent as a whole. What would happen if we were to affix the swoosh sign onto the American flag would anyone notice, or would it just be a logical extension of living in our modern age?
What about Apple computer, that little apple symbol, it too has become conspicuous, nearly as much as McDonald’s golden arch. Maybe it’s this level of conspicuousness which allows us to collectively assume that it’s always about us, that somehow we’ve now supplanted the symbols and desires of valor, fame, beauty and every other heralded quality (perfect abs anyone) which by extension gives us immediacy and implicit permission to be the thing we consume every second of the day. After all that’s what corporations want you to do and by extension the media too, is consume and resume. After a while,, who can tell the difference, by extension by wearing that designer suit, turning up to a particular event, drinking a certain beverage or dating a certain someone we are now validated, more validated then all the coke, booze, and medicine prescriptions hiding in our bathroom.
And the truth is this article is probably about you, it’s about all of us, our desires, expectations, our brazen behavior, our misplaced sense of integrity that comes with power and decadence (it’ll be interesting to see how this translates with our current malaise….especially given the recent rejection by the public of the media’s unwavering regard for all that is celebrity and heaven).
Andy Warhol was right, one can expect fifteen minutes of fame and few of us a lifetime, but what happens when we keep pushing past those fifteen minutes with nothing positive to show for it. One can after all be famous for misbehaving, but admired? Look at the robber barons in the recent investment fiascos, are they to be admired? What for? A look is great, but substance has always turned you and me on more, or at least we hope as long as we listen to our selves from time to time.
So excuse us here at Scallywag and Vagabond as we complete our order form and buy the perfect ab machine courtesy of which ever company all the stars resort to, do our hair, make up, our bogus stunts, and turn up to your next party nearly as vain as the guy opening the door to let us in…well silly that would be you!
Christoher Berrigan December 16, 2008 at 11:40 am
“aghast at vanity? I thought you were celebrating it?”
partypants December 15, 2008 at 10:27 am
You are trapped in a perfect storm of vanity.
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Ben Mendelsohn Is Set To Menace ‘Captain Marvel’
Posted October 25th, 2017 by Jax Motes
‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ cosmic baddie, Ben Mendelsohn is taking on another cosmic baddie role. Reportedly, he is in talks to play the antagonist in ‘Captain Marvel’. (Both Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm LTD are owned by Disney.) It is unknown specifically which villain Mendelsohn will play, but Kevin Feige had previously disclosed that the villains of this film will be the shape-shifting Skrulls. Mendelsohn previously worked with directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck on the 2015 film ‘Mississippi Grind’. This will be his second comic book movie, after appearing in 2012’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’.
Brie Larson will portray the titular hero, also known as Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who gains superpowers when her body becomes fused with alien DNA after an accident. The script has undergone a few rewrites, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet handling the latest draft, after Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman have contributed.
The Skrulls first appeared in 1962’s ‘Fantastic Four’ #2. They were at the center of the classic Avengers story ‘The Kree/Skrull War’ in which Carol played a role, but which really spotlighted the original Captain Marvel, Kree soldier Mar-Vell. Though ‘Captain Marvel’ will reportedly be set in the 1990s, there may be ties to other films, including ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ which showcased the Kree, the alien race that most heavily impacted Captain Marvel. Later, during ‘Secret Invasion’, the Skrulls used their shape-shifting powers to impersonate many different heroes, creating dissension in the ranks of the super community. Since ‘Captain Marvel’ is set in the past, could we see this infiltration, thus changing the entire face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
At this point, the only character other than Carol that is known to be appearing in ‘Captain Marvel’ is Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.
As for Mendelsohn, he will next be seen in historical drama ‘The Darkest Hour’ in November. Next spring, he plays a role in Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated ‘Ready Player One‘ and next fall, he will menace Taron Egerton and Jamie Dornan as the Sheriff of Nottingham in ‘Robin Hood’.
‘Captain Marvel’ opens on March 8, 2019.
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– Data Ops Lead
About Segmatic:
Segmatic is a technology-focused digital marketing agency providing managed services, software solutions and consultancy on to a range of clients including 2K Games, TM Lewin and Photobox.
Segmatic is a performance marketing agency and technology platform established in 2014 to bring the highest level of analytical rigour to Paid Search advertising. We are building a team of exceptional, creative, analytical people who are focused on performance and eager to learn.
You’ll join colleagues in our Dublin city centre office in a team of 46 who come from a range of backgrounds and perspectives. We work hard, challenge each other, and together we achieve great things.
This role would be exclusively focused on our 2K client. They are expanding their relationship with us rapidly, including a large number of roles with the broad Analytics & Insight field.
About the Team/Role:
2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming devices and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. 2K is a leading publisher of today’s most popular gaming genres and most well-known for critically acclaimed game franchises like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.
Working with the Global Analytics and Insights team. Data is at the heart of what we (Segmatic & 2K Analytics) do. We consider ourselves to be the most rigorous, numerate & data-driven evangelists in the company & industry. This team covers all aspects of Data Engineering, Business Intelligence and Data Science for the organisation worldwide. It is dual located between San Francisco & Dublin.
At the heart of this ambitious outlook is our Data Engineering Team. From performance analytics to predictive modelling, without a solid data engineering structure analytics will fail to function. The successful candidate will be a core member of this team, and will be given the opportunity to develop original and innovative solutions to the wide range of challenging problems that stand between 2K gaming and world domination.
This position is ideal for a high-quality operator who has a number of years’ experience in a numerical environment, and who harbours an ambition to deliver high-impact solutions within a small & tight-knit team.
This position will report directly to the BI Manager in the Dublin office.
- Develop Data Ops strategy in partnership with Data engineering and analytics team.
- Act as central point person for all data assets in the data warehouse and guide the team in navigating the data warehouse.
- Identify data quality issues and work with Data engineering team towards the resolution.
- Collect and documents Data requirements from Data scientists and analysts.
- Work with Data architect to ensure all data needs are addressed and made available to stakeholders in time.
- Develop relationship with source system owners, establish communication channel and stay ahead with releases and impact to Data warehouse systems.
- Define and build Data health dashboard to provide visibility to stakeholders.
- Develop automated alerts on data quality issue on day to day operations, keep all stake holders on any outages.
- Communicate with all stakeholders on all data quality issues in time and follow through the resolution.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience in leading data operations in a fast-paced work environment with strong analytical ability.
- Experience dealing with complex data relationships, working ambiguous circumstances, and effectively communicating across a diverse team.
- Recent development experience with Tableau or similar visual analysis tool, optimization, analytics and large data sets, project management, developing visually compelling interactive dashboards.
- Hands on SQL skills in writing complex SQL queries to validate data and quickly answer
- Proactively identify the potential data quality issues and implement checks.
Role Details
The salary for this role is very competitive, and commensurate with experience. Other benefits include a company phone, gym membership, and company lunches and social events.
Apply by sending your CV and Portfolio to recruitment@segmatic.io with the subject line ‘Data Ops Lead | YOUR NAME’
Find out more about what it’s like to work with Segmatic on our careers page
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3 Title: Biostatistics for Public Health Credit Weight: 3 credit hours Position in typical PUBH 805.3 is a core required course for the Master of Public Health course sequence: degree. It must be completed within the first 24 credit hours of course
work. Typically this is in the first year of study. Term offered: Winter 2012-13
Course Coordinator: Dr. Michael Szafron Contact Information: Office: HLTH 2699 Office Hours: Faculty Instructor: Contact Information: Office Hours:
Telephone: (306) 966 - 5468 E-mail: michael.szafron@usask.ca1 Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. or by appointment Dr. Cindy Feng Office: HLTH 2716 Telephone: (306) 966 - 1948 E-mail: cindy.feng@usask.ca2 Monday: 2:30 - 6:30 p.m./Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. or by appointment Bruce McDonald and Ellen Rafferty
Teaching Assistants: Class Hours & 13 week course Location Starting January 7 and ending April 9 , 2013
Section 02: Lectures in HLTH A226: Monday and Wednesday: 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. Tutorials in HLTH A203: Monday and Wednesday: 6:00 p.m. - 7:20 p.m. Section 03: Lectures in AGRI 2D77: Monday: 9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Lectures in AGRI 1E69: Wednesday: 2:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Tutorials in HLTH A203: Monday: 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Wednesday: 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Prerequisites/ Students must have achieved a final grade of 70% or better in the Corequisites: Biostatistics portion of PUBH 804.3 or have obtained the permission of the
instructor to enroll in this course.
To communicate with the course coordinator outside of the classroom, please email him at this address. If a response is warranted, the coordinator will respond to your email within two business days (starting once he receives your message). 2 To communicate with the instructor outside of the classroom, please email her at this address. If a response is warranted, the instructor will respond to your email within two business days (starting once she receives your message).
Calendar Description:
This course is designed for students who wish to understand basic biostatistical methods and principles as they apply to public health data. The methods include descriptive statistics, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, non-parametric methods, multiple regression and logistic regression. The emphasis of the course is on applications of these methods to public health data, on correct interpretations of the resulting analyses as to be presented to both public health professionals and general lay audiences, and on critical appraisals of these methods as used in the public health literature. The course also introduces the computer software program SPSS as it applies to the statistical topics discussed in the course.
Course Goal(s) and/or Objective(s):
By the end of the course, each student should be able to: Describe the roles that biostatistics serves in public health, including epidemiological and clinical research; Identify properties of public health data sets including the level of measurement for each variable and apply descriptive statistics to summarize the data according to its measurement type; Identify and implement appropriate statistical techniques (including one and two-sample hypotheses tests, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression, logistic regression, and several nonparametric methods) for analyzing public health data; and Use a software package (such as SPSS) to generate the output relevant to the analysis required for a particular public health study and interpret this output.
Course Format:
This course is presented mainly in the classroom and tutorial sessions. In addition to the material available from the course website, students can find a wealth of information and examples in the required textbooks. The times/dates/locations of any additional help sessions will be announced in class and posted on Blackboard.
Required Materials:
1) Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences Author: Daniel, W. (Wiley, 2009, 9th Edition) Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data Authors: Green, B. G. and Salkind, N. J. (Prentice Hall, 5th Edition) The textbooks can be obtained in the following ways: 3) by purchasing it directly from the University of Saskatchewan bookstore; by following the instructions at the University of Saskatchewan bookstore website http://www.usask.ca/consumer_services/bookstore/textbooks/; through your PAWS Academics tab; or through Amazons website at http://www.amazon.ca. The computer software package: SPSS. The latest version can be purchased online through the website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/products/statistics/gradpack/.
Course Assessments/Evaluations:
1. Assignments (10%) There will be five assignments counted for credit in the course. Students will be given approximately two weeks to complete each assignment. Each assignment is to be completed within the groups assigned by the instructor. Each group will submit one copy of its completed solution to be graded. The instructor will assign a grade to each assignment and at the end of term, compute an assignment grade for each group by averaging the groups assignment scores. At the end of the term, each group member will evaluate the participation of the others in his/her group. An individual students assignment grade will then be determined by weighting the groups score by the participation score. The details of the participation evaluation will be provided in class. Late assignments will not be accepted and will receive a grade of zero. In the case that an assignment was late due to a valid reason (as determined by the instructor), the late assignment will be accepted.
2. Midterm Exams (40%) Each midterm exam will be a three hour exam. o The first exam will be worth 15% and held from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. All sections of PUBH 805.3 will write this exam on this day at this time. The exam will be written in HLTH A226. The second midterm exam will be worth 25% and held from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. All sections of PUBH 805.3 will write this exam on this day at this time. The exam will be written in HLTH A226.
Unless otherwise notified, both midterm exams will be written in HLTH A226. Both midterm exams may be comprised of anyone-and/or-all of the following formats: true/false, multiple-choice, fill in the blank, and short answer. Each exam may be written ONLY one time. There will be no make-up exams offered. A student who misses an exam without a valid reason (as determined by the instructor) will receive 0% on the missed exam. A student, who misses a midterm exam due to a valid reason (as determined by the instructor), will have the weight of the missed exam transferred to the weight of the final exam. While serious consideration has been given to the severe time and professional constrains faced by many graduate students, each midterm exam must be written as scheduled above; NO exceptions will be made. All exams are considered to be independent work, completed only by each individual student enrolled in the course. Specific instructions regarding each of the midterm exams will be given in the classroom at the time of the exam.
3. Final Exam (50%) 1. The final exam will be a three hour examination. 2. 3. The final exam may be comprised of anyone-and/or-all of the following formats: true/false, multiple-choice, fill in the blank, and short answer. The final exam will minimally constitute 50% of a students final grade.
The final exam may be taken ONLY one time. There will be no make-up final exams. In the event that a student is unable to write the final exam when scheduled, the student must follow the appropriate Deferred Examination policies. While serious consideration has been given to the severe time and professional constrains faced by many graduate students, the University schedules the day, time, and location of the final exam. Consequently NO alternate arrangements for this exam can be made. The final exam is considered to be independent work, completed only by each individual student enrolled in the course. Specific instructions regarding the final exam will be given in the classroom at the time of the exam.
Expectations:
You will be expected to: o attend all classes. o o o o complete all exams, participate fully in all class discussions, and positively contribute to the overall classroom atmosphere. bring a printed copy of the lecture outlines (available on Blackboard) to each class to assist you with taking your own lecture notes. obtain any missed notes from another student in the class. conduct yourself in a professional manner with the integrity of a public health practitioner. Plagiarism, cheating, and any other form of Academic Dishonesty will not be tolerated. Please refer to the website http://www.usask.ca/calendar/policies/studentrights/ to review the University of Saskatchewans policy with respect to Academic Dishonesty. contribute equally, and participate fully, within your assigned group. submit all materials for evaluation on their respectively assigned due dates
Tentative Course Topics:
Review o Quantitative Descriptive Statistics o One and two sample confidence intervals o One and two sample hypothesis testing Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) o Required Assumptions o One-way ANOVA o Two-way ANOVA, including randomized complete block design and two-factor factorial experiments o Repeated Measures ANOVA o Multiple comparisons using multiple range tests and prior and posterior comparisons Non-parametric Analysis o Required Assumptions o The Sign Test o The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test o The Mann-Whitney U Test o Fishers Exact Test o Kruskal-Wallis One-Way ANOVA o Friedmans Two-Way ANOVA o Spearmans Rank Correlation Coefficient Multiple Regression o Required assumptions for a multiple regression model and common public health applications o Pearsons Correlation Coefficient (Multiple R Coefficient) o Fitting the model, testing for the significance of the coefficients, and testing the significance of the fitted model o Interpreting the coefficients in the fitted model o Interaction and confounding variables o Regression diagnostics Logistic Regression o Required assumptions for a logistic regression model and common public health applications o Fitting the model, testing for the significance of the coefficients, and testing the significance of the fitted model o Interpreting the coefficients in the fitted model o Interaction and confounding variables o Odds-ratio estimation
Tentative Course Schedule:
Lecture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Topic Course Introduction Review Review Review Review ANOVA: An F-test for Independent Samples Based on a Single Factor ANOVA: Two Fixed Effects, With No Interaction ANOVA: Two Fixed Effects, With Interaction ANOVA: One Fixed Effect and One Random Effect ANOVA: Repeated Measures ANOVA: Repeated Measures Midterm Non-Parametric Statistics: The Sign Test and the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed Rank Test Non-Parametric Statistics: The Mann-Whitney U Test and Fishers Exact Test Non-Parametric Statistics: Kruskal-Wallis One-Way ANOVA and Friedmans ANOVA Midterm Multiple Regression Multiple Regression Multiple Regression Multiple Regression Logistic Regression Logistic Regression Logistic Regression Logistic Regression Logistic Regression Logistic Regression
Access to your instructors complete lecture notes will be made available during the tutorials and help sessions. Students cannot remove these notes from the tutorial and help session classrooms. At no time will these notes be made electronically available to students and under no circumstances will students be allowed to digitally reproduce these notes. Any violation of these conditions will be considered an act of academic misconduct and will be dealt with according to university policy. All assignments are to be completed within the groups assigned by the instructor. The instructor will create the groups on the first day of class. At no point in time will extra credit work be assigned. There is no point distribution or award for attendance. However, please be advised that attendance is strongly positively correlated to an individuals final grade in this course. Please note that for MPH students in the class, a grade of 70% or better is required to receive credit for this course. Final grades (and comments, if necessary) will be assigned consistent with the above Course Evaluation scheme and the policies and procedures set by the University of Saskatchewan Council (http://www.usask.ca/calendar/exams&grades/). An SPSS training video is available at: www.usask.ca/it4u/resources.html. SPSS video tutorials can be found on the website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/academic/students/tutorials.html
Academic Integrity:
Students are expected to follow the Guidelines for Academic Conduct at the University of Saskatchewan and to be aware of their rights and responsibilities. Consult the following for expectations regarding behavior, assignments and other aspects of university life: http://www.usask.ca/university_secretary/honesty/index.php Any perceived engagement in academic misconduct such as plagiarism, cheating, and any other form of Academic Dishonesty will not be tolerated. Please refer to the above website.
Students with Disabilities:
If you have, or believe you have, a disability and would benefit from classroom accommodation(s), please contact the Disability Services for Students (DSS) at http://www.usask.ca/sesd/colleges/dss/. Only students with disabilities who are registered with the DSS office are eligible to use their programs and services. In order to register with DSS, a student must provide valid and current medical documentation or a psycho-educational assessment prepared by a registered psychologist. Students are only allowed to use those supports and accommodations that are specifically outlined in the documentation provided. Registration appointments can be booked by contacting DSS. Students are encouraged to register as early in the term as possible, so that appropriate supports can be put in place and deadlines can be met. Once a student is registered, s/he only has to reregister if the disability has changed significantly, affecting the types of accommodations required. All medical information is treated confidentially.
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Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12
Cristina Artini, Riccardo Carlini, Roberto Spotorno, Fainan Failamani, Takao Mori, Paolo Mele
SIT Research Laboratories
The structural and thermoelectric properties of the filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4 Sb12 were investigated and critically compared to the ones in the Sm-containing system with the aim of unravelling the effect of double filling on filling fraction and thermal conductivity. Several samples (x = 0.50-0.90 and y = 0.15-0.48) were prepared by melting-sintering, and two of them were densified by spark plasma sintering in order to study their thermoelectric features. The crystallographic study enables the recognition of the role of the filler size in ruling the filling fraction and the compositional location of the p/n crossover: It has been found that the former lowers and the latter moves toward lower x values with the reduction of the filler ionic size, as a consequence of the progressively weaker interaction of the filler with the Sb12 cavity. The analysis of thermoelectric properties indicates that, despite the Sm3+/Gd3+ small mass difference, the contemporary presence of these ions in the 2a site significantly affects the thermal conductivity of both p- and n-compositions. This occurs by reducing its value with respect to the Sm-filled compound at each temperature considered, and making the overall thermoelectric performance of the system comparable to several multi-filled (Fe, Ni)-based skutterudites described in the literature.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152451
Structural properties
Skutterudites
Spark plasma sintering
zwittergent 3-12
Powder x-ray diffraction
Thermoelectricity
Artini, C., Carlini, R., Spotorno, R., Failamani, F., Mori, T., & Mele, P. (2019). Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12. Materials, 12(15), [2451]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152451
Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12. / Artini, Cristina; Carlini, Riccardo; Spotorno, Roberto; Failamani, Fainan; Mori, Takao; Mele, Paolo.
In: Materials, Vol. 12, No. 15, 2451, 01.08.2019.
Artini, C, Carlini, R, Spotorno, R, Failamani, F, Mori, T & Mele, P 2019, 'Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12', Materials, vol. 12, no. 15, 2451. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152451
Artini C, Carlini R, Spotorno R, Failamani F, Mori T, Mele P. Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12. Materials. 2019 Aug 1;12(15). 2451. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152451
Artini, Cristina ; Carlini, Riccardo ; Spotorno, Roberto ; Failamani, Fainan ; Mori, Takao ; Mele, Paolo. / Structural properties and thermoelectric performance of the double-filled skutterudite (Sm,Gd)y(FexNi1-x)4Sb12. In: Materials. 2019 ; Vol. 12, No. 15.
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Gilgit-Baltistan fears it will not benefit from CPEC
Fears that Gilgit-Baltistan will gain nothing out of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project loomed large at a session chaired by Senator Taj Haider in Gilgit on Tuesday evening.
Haider, who is heading a special committee of senators on CPEC, is in Gilgit along with other senators. The committee has held meetings with various stakeholders in various parts of Gilgit-Baltistan to understand the concerns of people about the project that passes through this region. The meeting was attended by activists, journalists, lawyers and members of G-B Assembly.
“There is officially no word about the share of G-B in CPEC,” said Israr Ahmed, a rights activist while speaking to the participants of the meeting.
He said G-B should be given its due share and constitutional status to win the confidence of the people.
Similarly, while sharing views, Assistant Professor Iftikhar Hussain said CPEC is like a “seal pack” for G-B’s residents as they have been kept in the dark about the details of the project for which the region serves as a gateway. “We are super patriots and it is our right to know about it and [demand] a share in it.”
Senior journalist Manzar Shigri said the federal government should end the sense of deprivation among the people of G-B as they have been left out of the mainstream politics due to its constitutional status. Dr Jalil, a retired government official, asked senators to highlight the challenges being faced by people. He added the disparity could lead to unrest in the region.
The speakers asked senators to help the G-B government prepare policies that could help generate revenue from the project that has been billed as a “fate-changer” for the country. Haider, in his remarks, said, “Hurdles in the way of CPEC projects will be removed to ensure it is completed in time.” He said reforms were needed in tourism, mining and other sectors of G-B to enable people to benefit from them.
The senator said that after a detailed visit of the area and meetings with different stakeholders, they will submit recommendations for approval in the Senate. The recommendation will be based on the aspirations of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, he added.
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IR Interview: Breeda Wool & Brett Gelman For “Mr. Mercedes” [Audience Network-S3]
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IR Film Review: IT CHAPTER 2 [Warner Brothers]
The undeniably draw of the story of IT is the narrative of the community prevailing over the tyranny. The first chapter had a dexterous draw to the children of the 80s. The archetypal structures that had made “Stranger Things” a success were fully embodied by Stephen King many years before albeit in a different time. When the miniseries was made in the 90s, it used a different reference. But, as with this film, it used the innocence and naïveté of youth to propel the story. Now with the introduction of Chapter 2, it progresses the idea to modern times…and while it does not portray an essence of exactly today, it nonetheless feels now which sometimes can interrelate too closely for a sense of closure in a narrative. Pennywise in the first film was that aspect of the unknown, that personification of fear that cannot be contained. Bill Skarsgard’s portrayal in that film was a new way to see this permutation of fear that preys upon children’s misunderstanding of the unknown. While the adult actors reflect their characters well, it is not as key to the journey.
The first movie was a quest in a way, while the second film is more about placing the puzzle pieces together. The inherent structure of the book worked more in jumping in tandem between young psychology and mature thinking. That dynamic was not possible at first as it was not guaranteed the first film would be a hit. Its connection is what drew bigger actors like Jessica Chastain, who had worked with director Andy Muschetti on her early film “Mama” as well as her longtime friend and collaborator James McAvoy. Most of the rest of the kids save for Bill Hader as Richy are unknowns per se which allows the audience to buy into the belief of them returning more fully. The most effective element here is the transition in location between the young and old versions in key sequences. These are the segments of the film that truly work without seeming that it is rushing to tie up loose ends. Sequences like those in a funhouse which should illicit more dread don’t seem as powerful as they should be. Skarsgard as Pennywise, doesn’t have as much as a presence as in the first one, and is missed in many ways as the story, in adhering to King’s narrative, uses his continual use of Native American lore more as a central context. This idiom, which at times is overused in King’s narratives, is used perhaps to plug a narrative hole in comparison to perhaps “Pet Sematary” where it was more essential to the story. And at other times, like in “Dreamcatcher”, it can work quite well. Here however it is not explained enough to make full sense to the casual viewer, or even one familiar with the world.
The aspect of the subconscious especially involving the memory of the Losers, is adequately played but not as fulfilling as it should be. The best example of all cylinders working without the filmmakers worrying too overtly about the plot is when the gang comes back together at a Chinese restaurant in Derry (this was also the scene that was teased in the recent theater re-release of the first film). This scene paints the dread of Pennywise still apparent from the first film but also perfectly encapsulates the details of the grown characters as adults. Balancing these two worlds however is tricky while also keeping to audience expectations. “It Chapter 2” tries in many ways to live up to the original but it is a different construct. It is about how people understand aspects when they are older versus perceptions when they are young. While it does an admirable job of placing those story points in play, its delivery simply does not live up to the first film, through no fault of the actors or story but simply because of the trajectory placed against it.
By Tim Wassberg
Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard, film colleges, film review, Horror, inside reel, It Chapter 2, james mcavoy, Jessica Chastain, Sirk TV, Stephen King, tim wassberg, tv colleges, warner brothers
IR Interview: Jason Clarke & John Lithgow For “Pet Sematary” [Paramount]
Tags: cable television, college television, film colleges, Horror, inside reel, John Lithgow, Paramount Pictures, Pet Sematary, Sirk TV, Stephen King, tim wassberg, tv colleges
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Softball Swept by 16th-Ranked Southern New Hampshire
Saint Michael's
#16 Southern New Hampshire
Saint Michael's (2-14, 1-5) 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
#16 Southern New Hampshire (23-4, 8-0) 4 1 3 0 X 8 12 0
Saint Michael's (2-13, 1-4) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1
#16 Southern New Hampshire (22-4, 7-0) 1 0 0 2 0 0 X 3 7 0
2B: Danielle Markowski
HR: Gabriella Vachon
2B: Hayley Craddock
2B: Maddy Barone
HR: Erin Garczynski; Emily Carbonneau
HOOKSETT, N.H. - The Saint Michael's College softball team was swept in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader by 16th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University, 3-0 and 8-0 in five innings, on Wednesday at the Southern New Hampshire Softball Field. The Penmen, whose ranking is according to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) national poll, qualified for four of the last five NCAA Tournaments.
Saint Michael's (2-14, 1-5 NE10), Southern New Hampshire (23-4, 8-0 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
Senior Aleksandra Apkarian (Butler, N.J./Butler), 2-for-3
Senior Hayley Craddock (Campbell River, British Columbia/Carihi Secondary School/Highline), 1-for-3, 2B
Junior Torie Rathwell (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland), 1-for-3; 6 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
OPPONENT LEADERS
Sophomore Shay Sauvageau, 3-for-3, RBI
Senior Erin Garczynski, 1-for-1, R, RBI, BB, HR, HP
First-year Emily Carbonneau, 1-for-3, R, RBI, HR
Junior Maddy Barone, 1-for-3, R, 2B; 7 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K
GAME FACTS
Southern New Hampshire is 16th in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) national poll.
The Penmen qualified for four of the last five NCAA Tournaments.
Saint Michael's was only outhit 7-6. Two of the Penmen's hits were solo home runs.
Three of Craddock's five hits this season in six games are doubles.
The teams opened a three-game season series, which will conclude in Colchester next Tuesday.
THE ACTION
Apkarian led off the game with a single before moving to third on Craddock's double, but Barone retired the next three Purple Knights, including the final two on popups.
After Rathwell induced two popups to start the bottom of the first, Garczynski hit a home run to left field.
Rathwell worked around three two-out base runners between the second and third innings unscathed.
Apkarian started another rally in the third with a one-out single to center, and Rathwell singled to right to put runners at the corners with two down, but the final batter grounded out.
Carbonneau led off the fourth with a homer to left, and Barone followed with a double before scoring on Sauvageau's single to make it 3-0.
Sauvageau and junior Gabriella Vachon singled with one out in a scoreless sixth.
Junior Danielle Markowski (Ellington, Conn./Ellington) led off the seventh by singling before first-year Leigh Brandenburg (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury) legged out a bunt single with two down, bringing the tying run to the plate. However, Barone clinched the win and shutout by striking out the final batter.
Markowski, 1-for-2, 2B
First-year Courtney Norton (Georgetown, Mass./Bishop Fenwick), 1-for-2
Sophomore Maggie Welling (Baltimore, Md./Maryvale Preparatory School), 1-for-2
Senior Fallon Tierney (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial), 1-for-2
Sophomore Sydney Longley (East Granby, Conn./The Ethel Walker School), 2.1 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 7 ER
Senior Molly Feeney (Valhalla, N.Y./John F. Kennedy Catholic), 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R
Sophomore Emily Critch, 3-for-3, R
Carbonneau, 2-for-3, R, 2 RBIs
Garczynski, 2-for-3, R, 2 RBIs
First-year Chloe Griffin, 2-for-3, 2 R
Vachon, 1-for-2, R, 3 RBIs, HR
Sophomore Olivia Strasser, 3 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, Win
Apkarian has batted leadoff in each of the last the games, beginning each with a hit. She made her college debut in the leadoff spot on Sunday at Merrimack College.
Longley made her first collegiate start in the circle.
Apkarian led off the game with a single, but no Purple Knight reached second base in the inning.
Southern New Hampshire plated four runs on five hits in the home half, with four different Penmen picking up an RBI.
Carbonneau's two-out RBI single pushed the lead to 5-0 in the second.
Vachon's two-run homer to center sparked a three-run third inning.
Tierney began the fourth with a single before Markowski doubled to straightaway center field, but the final three Purple Knights of the frame were retired without a runner crossing the plate.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
Saturday vs. Southern Connecticut State University, 12 p.m. doubleheader.
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Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds
P. Larson, S. D. Mahanti, M. G. Kanatzidis
Half-Heusler compounds containing Ni of the form NiMP, where M is a trivalent (Sc) or tetravelent (Ti, Zr, Hf) ion and P is a pnictide or stannide ion (Sb, Sn), are known to form semiconducting phases for M = Sc and P = Sb as well as when M=Ti,Zr,Hf and P=Sn. However, the electronic structure of these compounds depends sensitively on the relative arrangements of the atoms within the unit cell, changing from a narrow-gap semiconductor to a zero-gap semiconductor to a metal, depending on which of the three atoms lies in the octahedrally coordinated pocket of the NaCl substructure formed by the other two atoms. We have carried out extensive calculations of the total energy for these systems using an all-electron, full-potential method within density-functional theory [using both the local-density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation] to clarify some of the conflicts in earlier calculations using pseudopotential and linear muffin-tin orbital-atomic-sphere approximation methods. The minimum-energy configuration for each of these systems occurs when the Ni atom occupies the octahedrally coordinated pocket formed by the other two elements MP. By comparing the energies of the binary compounds arising from different arrangements of the atoms within the unit cell, we find that the stability of the lowest-energy configuration of the ternary system derives from the energy gained from two sources. The largest source is MP forming in the NaCl substructure rather than a diamond substructure, in agreement with the previous pseudopotential calculations of Ogut and Rabe. Also important are the Ni atoms lying in the octahedrally coordinated pockets and bonding with four M and four P nearest-neighbor atoms rather than forming a part of the NaCl substructure itself. The energies of antisite defects have been investigated by studying the supercell (NiMP)4 formed in the simple cubic structure with individual atoms moved from their ideal positions. We find that the idealized half-Heusler structure (formed by three interpenetrating fcc lattices) has the lowest energy (E0) while structures where Ni atoms move out of a fcc arrangement, but remain within the octahedrally coordinated pockets of MP, have energies of 0.5-eV/unit cell higher than E0, while structures with disorder in the MP NaCl substructure have energies about 1.5-eV/ unit cell higher than E0. Since the MP disorder and not the Ni disorder is seen experimentally at low temperatures, this Ni disorder may be annealed out while the MP disorder is quenched.
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.12754
structural stability
substructures
pseudopotentials
antisite defects
Local density approximation
Group 5A compounds
Ternary systems
Larson, P., Mahanti, S. D., & Kanatzidis, M. G. (2000). Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 62(19), 12754-12762. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.12754
Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds. / Larson, P.; Mahanti, S. D.; Kanatzidis, M. G.
In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 62, No. 19, 15.11.2000, p. 12754-12762.
Larson, P, Mahanti, SD & Kanatzidis, MG 2000, 'Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 62, no. 19, pp. 12754-12762. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.12754
Larson P, Mahanti SD, Kanatzidis MG. Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2000 Nov 15;62(19):12754-12762. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.12754
Larson, P. ; Mahanti, S. D. ; Kanatzidis, M. G. / Structural stability of Ni-containing half-Heusler compounds. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2000 ; Vol. 62, No. 19. pp. 12754-12762.
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Cheating on WoW: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Posted on May 14, 2015 by Tyler F.M. Edwards
Final Fantasy XIV has gotten something most MMOs never get: a second chance. When it launched, it was one of the great trainwrecks of MMO history, universally viewed as virtually unplayable.
But the developers went back to the drawing board, rebuilt the game from the ground up, and now, against all odds, FFXIV is a well-regarded and successful game, even managing to make a mandatory subscription work in a market where that is almost unheard of.
I decided it was time to give the game’s free trial a whirl to see how this rebuilt MMO shapes up.
A poor first impression:
Final Fantasy XIV doesn’t exactly hit the ground running. After a lengthy character creation process, including several options that seem relevant only from a role-playing perspective (which I like but which is not for everyone), I was thrown into a seemingly endless string of cutscenes.
Now, I’m a big story fan, but these cutscenes were for the most part not even particularly interesting. Many lacked voice-overs, which seems a tad archaic in this day and age.
The most frustrating part came when the wagon my character was traveling on was ambushed by inhuman raiders. I thought, “Oh, good, I get to fight them off and be the hero!”
But against all tenets of good storytelling and video game logic, the cart simply rolled on, leaving the fighting to some local guards. The tedium continued.
Once I finally got control of my character, I then moved on to a seemingly endless spree of quests involving talking to various NPCs, ferrying messages, and doing other menial and irrelevant tasks.
During this time, I also noticed some odd and irritating quirks of FFXIV. For example, unlike every other MMO I’ve ever played, giving items to an NPC involves manually trading them rather than having them automatically taken from your inventory. The world is also heavily instanced, and unlike Neverwinter or other instance-heavy games, I see no compelling gameplay reason not to have an open world.
I’m not sure why this is, but FFXIV also had far more gold spam than any MMO I’ve ever seen. Every five minutes I’d get a whisper from “dfhfk gjgrnwnd” about cheap gil, and it just never ended.
The story also failed to impress out of the gate. It breaks the age-old writing law of “show, don’t tell.” NPCs constantly talk about how the world is recovering from a catastrophe, but everything appears peaceful, happy, and prosperous, and there’s no real sense of danger to the world.
On the plus side, it doesn’t seem to be reliant on knowledge of past Final Fantasy titles. I didn’t feel at all lost or like I was missing anything important by being a Final Fantasy virgin.
It was well over an hour into my excursion into FFXIV that I finally embarked on a quest involving something I would classify as gameplay: I was tasked with killing squirrels.
Yes, seriously. Squirrels. Not even rats.
At this point, I began to wonder if this was really a game or just some incredibly elaborate, Joaqin Phoenix-esque parody of MMO tropes.
Mercifully, things did improve from there.
Final features:
Once I actually got into the meat of the game, and no longer had to murder squirrels and other small animals, my experience with FFXIV improved significantly.
At first, mostly all you’ll be doing in FFXIV is quests. These are very much in the standard “kill this/collect that” mould we’re all familiar with, but they flow well and don’t feel especially grindy or inconvenient.
There are also occasional dynamic events — bearing the awkward and seemingly random acronym of “FATEs”. These are pretty simple, but they add a nice amount of variety. On the downside, they don’t seem to be readily soloable, so they might become something of a burden once lower level zones are less populated.
Going in, my big concern about this game was that it had a 2.5 second global cooldown, as opposed to the 1.5 or one second global cooldowns used by most other MMOs. As a fan of fast combat, that sounded awful to me.
In the end, though, it didn’t feel that different. It is a bit slower, but the gorgeous skill animations help stop things from being too boring, and since some enemies have powerful telegraph skills similar to what you’d see in WildStar or The Secret World, there’s more to combat than just mindlessly spamming skills.
The only problem crops up with spell caster classes. As with many other MMOs, their casting is interrupted by movement, and that combined with a 2.5 global cooldown and fairly mobile combat makes for an absolutely miserable experience. Thankfully, melee classes and archers can move and fight.
As you level, FFXIV slowly opens up and reveals itself as an incredibly feature-rich game.
Around level ten, you’ll get access to guildleves, which are akin to daily quests with a few minor twists. In terms of gameplay, they play out a bit more like the FATEs than standard quests, and a nice quality of life perk is that they teleport you back to the quest-giver when you’re done.
Related to these are guildhests, which are short instanced challenges reminiscent of World of Warcraft’s scenarios. They’re a good way to learn basic grouping mechanics.
Around this time, I also got a quest to be introduced to the game’s player housing. This was one time where the game swung back into the realm of frustration, because it wasn’t until the very end of the quest I learned housing is only for max level characters — and only very wealthy ones, from the look of it. I don’t understand why the developers wasted my time by telling me about a feature I wouldn’t be able to use for forty levels.
Of course, FFXIV also offers a selection of dungeons. The ones I played were all fairly high quality, if a bit lacking on story and heavy on trash for my taste.
FFXIV offers an excellent automatic grouping tool — something far too many MMOs are still neglecting — for dungeons, guildhests, and other group content. From the look of it, it can even be used to do raids, which is fantastic.
There are some good social tools to help players work together, too. The game has an auto-translate dictionary full of commonly used terms that allows you to more easily communicate with players who don’t speak your language, and there’s a player commendation system where you can commend people you’ve been grouped with for being especially helpful. With enough commendations, a player can earn some nice rewards.
Why doesn’t every MMO have something like this?
There’s even more stuff later on that wasn’t included with the trial. Players can raise large birds called chocobos as combat companions, and there’s a retainer system that allows you to send NPC minions on mission, which sounds reminiscent of similar systems in Neverwinter and World of Warcraft.
FFXIV is also an incredibly beautiful game, with vibrant and detailed graphics and breathtaking environments. What most impressed me was the weather effects. Some MMOs might occasionally throw in some rain, but FFXIV offers a full battery of weather effects: fog, overcast, clear skies, rain… Coupled with the day-night cycle, it makes for a very vibrant world that is always offering new visual thrills.
The only slight downsides from a visual perspective are that certain creatures and characters have a very cartoonish anime-style appearance, which contrasts jarringly with the game’s otherwise realistic style, and it does have a fairly bad case of “female armor.”
Class warfare:
The one other noteworthy thing about Final Fantasy XIV is that it allows player to multi-class infinitely. In theory, you can learn every single class on one character.
There are incentives for doing so, too. Certain skills can transfer between classes. For example, my archer gained an extra DoT, a defensive skill, and a heal by spending a few levels each as a marauder, a lancer, and a conjurer.
The downside to this is that taking up a new class essentially involves starting over at level one. You do get a sizable boost to experience on lower level classes, but it’s definitely not trivial to develop secondary classes.
It’s still better than not being able to learn other classes at all, but I definitely prefer the systems for changing ability sets in Rift and The Secret World.
The classes also don’t seem to have a lot of mechanical variety. They all felt more or less the same to me — just with different animations.
An odd quirk is that crafting and gathering skills also count as full classes, complete with their own gear. I’m not sure what the point of this is — seems a bit unwieldy to me.
Tedious opening aside, Final Fantasy XIV is a very solid MMO. It has no shortage of options, and most of its flaws are minor.
Despite that, though, I have trouble recommending it for one simple reason: If you take away the Final Fantasy name, there’s nothing to distinguish this from Rift, Aion, World of Warcraft, or countless other similar games. There’s little FFXIV does poorly, but there’s equally little it does exceptionally, and you can get an experience of equal or greater quality from many other titles — most of which are free to play.
If you’re already a Final Fantasy fan, you should definitely play it. Otherwise, it’s just another entry in a crowded marketplace.
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9 thoughts on “Cheating on WoW: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn”
Dan on May 14, 2015 at 1:21 pm said:
Pretty good review but I have to argue against a few things that you didn’t seem to actually pick up.
1. The only quests required to do are ones with a flaming marker – while normal quests aren’t exactly fun, they are optional and skippable. Their stories are generally self contained to their plot so you rarely get quests that open up the area, so they are entirely skippable if one chooses.
2. The game has a lot of instanced zones because it is necessary for it to play one the PS3. The game can be played on the PS3, PS4, and PC all on the same server. Come the expansion in June, you’ll also be able to play on a Mac.
3. I’m kind of wondering what dungeons you played that were lacking in story though.
4. Housing is meant to be this grand goal, so it is naturally for level cap and expensive. Also, keeps gil sellers/buyers from getting them early game.
5. I find it strange you seem to remark the crafting and gathering being treated as their own class – thus treating crafters and gathers with respect and making it an actual part of gameplay – as bad.
6. FATE – Full Active Timed Events
7. I will say that the first levels of classes do feel mechanically the same but as they level, they feel a lot different. Most likely to make any class feasible to learn. It’s why they start you at level one too – so you learn your class.
8. You also skipped over another nice feature besides the payer commendations (which can only be given to randoms, not ones you enter with as a pemade), a new player bonus. Higher rewards when a new player enters so vets are generally happy to see a newbie rather than angry.
9. Finally, while it can be argued that Rift, Wildstar, WoW, etc do a better job at a featuer, FFXIV is one of the only to offer most of their features in one game at a high quality. It’s a buffet effect.
All in all though, the Free Trial is merely there to wet your whistle, and it’s not until you get past it that you really drink up the game world. You also obviously didn’t go through all of the systems – female armor except for I think four pieces is not an issue (Subligar is unisex), the armory system, attribute system, musical composition (FFXIV offers very high quality music and a variety of it – such as day time Ul’dah music being different from night time), fully customizable UI, the reccomendation list system, teleporting, well written quest text, hunting logues, etc.
I hate to say this but if you are going to review something and you aren’t timing yourself – first three hours or something (which would be real short for an MMO) – try to go through ALL of the systems first because it really sounds like you missed or didn’t touch on quite a few things.
Tyler F.M. Edwards on May 14, 2015 at 3:18 pm said:
Just to respond to a few points:
I know many quests are skippable, but that’s no excuse for tedium. The game should make you want to do every quest.
I played the first two or three dungeons. I don’t quite remember their names, as there was some delay between my writing this post and publishing it. One had an aquatic theme, one was a crypt, and another was a mine, I think.
I don’t agree that FFXIV is the only game to offer such a breadth of content. Rift, for example, has roughly as much variety, and gives you everything quicker and with less hassle.
I also somewhat resent the implication I didn’t see enough before writing my review. I spent a week playing the game, reached max level for the trial, rolled an alt, and sampled every form of content available in the trial. I was, in fact, more thorough than I normally am when writing these posts.
This is also a good time to reiterate that “the game opens up later on’ is a hallmark of poor design. Developers should not make players wait and grind in order to have fun, and players do not deserve the blame if they give up on a game because its opening hours fail to impress.
I didn’t say your review of the quests is wrong just that you misinformed anyone who reads this that not all of these quests have to be done. Past text, there are only about three quests (unless you count every person you talk to as a quest) that need to be completed within the city before it sends you out exploring. I also question what wouldn’t make side quests tedious to do at an early level though.
Sastasha, Tam-Tara, and Copperbell are the three dungeons. I’m still trying to figure out how they are light on story or do you mean lore? Because you need to talk to NPCs to get the lore.
I hate to tell you this but you barely scratched the surface of FFXIV – did you even go to the Golden Saucer? Also, faster and less hassle are not necassirly good things either, and it also depends on how you view things as a hassle.
Everything I wrote that you didn’t cover is in the trial too – I’m not saying you didn’t see them but you didn’t cover them. The teleportation system, for instance, is great for travelling around and makes questing a lot less tedious when you just have to click the teleport crystal on the map to get where you are going. The armory system is one of the biggest and best things about the game – especially being able to save whole sets. Your complaints against female armor is not true beyond your starter gear and a couple high level gear.
I also don’t say the game “opening up is poor design”. I think that’s very good design because you earn these things rather than just given them. I would argue just giving them is poor design because people burn through them and there’s less a feeling of reward for less work. It’s a common enough thing – getting your own Chocobo for instance requires a bit of work, but just about everyone is super fond of their Chocobo for it.
Also, there’s something to be said about a game opening up the more you play it – as if rewarding you for playing. These last two points are opinion, however, but I would at least add that your statements seem like you want instant gratification rather than putting effort in. While XIV has ways to progress your character no what you do, you only get better rewards as you do the harder content.
I didn’t cover things like teleportation or the ability to save gear sets because those are standard features of virtually all modern MMOs. It’s like praising a game for having a chat window.
The idea that fun should be a reward for effort is one of the biggest things holding MMOs back. It makes no sense and serves no purpose. I earned my reward through the effort of earning the money pay for games, a good computer, and an Internet connection. I want a game, not a second job. So you’re right: I do want instant gratification. It is something that every other entertainment medium offers, as do most video games. Only MMOs abide by this fallacy that having fun in a game should require work.
If those are standard fair, why does the system get praised so much then? Why do people say “One of the best things about FFXIV is the armory system”? The armory system which can be used for quick changes between classes.
Also, RPGs do not offer instant gratification. In fact very few mediums do. Watch a superhero show – you got watch a lot of humor and in some cases, character development before you see an action scene or long pauses between them. Read a book – you normally have to start at the beginning before you get to the climax don’t you? Racing game? Skins and cars and roads unlock as you play. RPGs? Unlock and go to places as you level.
There are very few games that turn on and give you everything with a “here ya go!” Even WoW doesn’t for new players. Most games that do are usually burned through quickly and left behind. A “second job” is not the same as “doing stuff to earn stuff”. It’s progression but I didn’t come here to debate with you. I merely pointed out that you didn’t say all of the features, how well done they are, and that the trial is merely meant to give you a taste for the game.
I think it is appreciating entertainment on a very shallow level if you only consider climaxes and action sequences to be enjoyable. The natural rhythm of storytelling is most definitely not analagous to the way many MMOs make you wait to get to the actual meat of the game. A better analogy to make your point might be sitting through commercials, but those only take minutes, not hours, and they’re easily avoided in the age of Netflix and DVRs.
I won’t speculate on why people are eager to praise a gear manager, but the fact remains it’s been a stock standard MMO feature for many years.
pkudude99 on May 17, 2015 at 1:11 am said:
I completely agree that the game starts slow. I got bored of it and stopped after a couple of weeks with my highest class being Weaver at level 20, and my highest combat class of Thaumaturge at level 18. After about a month away, I decided to re-sub becuz I wanted to get the chocobo mount….and something clicked with me then, becuz I’ve been continuously subbed for the 6 months since then (actually just paid for month 7 a couple of days ago) and while I’m in a bit of a slump while waiting for the expansion to drop, I’m still happily playing it at my primary focus a couple or 3 nights a week.
That said, I certainly can’t fault your criticisms. Been there, seen them, but… game’s got me hooked enough to either overlook them or be willing to just accept them.
Tyler F.M. Edwards on May 17, 2015 at 10:29 am said:
I can certainly see that it’s a quality game with a lot to offer. It just didn’t stand apart from the crowd enough to grab me.
Victory2TheWorker on October 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm said:
I played this game for over year with subscription. My hope was, as you had to pay it would keep out cheats and gil sellers who would be banned and have to pay again on the risk of being spotted early. Well, there are plenty of cheaters. So, I quit as I refuse to play AND pay, for a game where people devalue my hard effort with bots. They need to create a game were each player cannot buy or sell to other players, hard but it can be done.
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Afraid to fly
Travelers with power chairs report damage, injuries and lost opportunities
By Jayme Fraser GateHouse Media
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The first warnings about air travel came from the doctors treating Kenny Salvini for an injury that paralyzed all his limbs.
They said the same hefty, motorized wheelchair that would give him independence also was the reason he should never buy a plane ticket again.
“They basically said, ‘Don’t fly because the airlines are going to break your stuff,’” the Seattle disability advocate recalled.
Air travel poses a particular dilemma for power chair users like Salvini.
Kenny Salvini (right) had his power chair broken twice in a year during flights with two different airlines. Here he is pictured strapped into a plane’s aisle chair in 2017 while damage to his own chair is assessed. Kenny Salvini | Submitted photo
They can fly with the custom equipment they need to thrive, but that puts it at risk for damage during a flight. Or, travelers can leave their power chairs at home but compromise their health and freedom during the trip.
The third option: Don’t fly at all. And miss weddings, funerals and career opportunities.
As GateHouse Media reported in October, airlines damage or lose an average of 29 wheelchairs and scooters every day, according to new federal data collected since December 2018.
The U.S. Department of Transportation does not distinguish wheelchair types, so it’s impossible to know exactly how many power chairs were among those mishandled. New data released Thursday tallied 7,747 mobility aids that were damaged or lost in the first nine months of this year.
But dozens of travelers and workers interviewed by GateHouse Media say airlines break bulky motorized chairs and their delicate electronic parts more frequently than manual wheelchairs. And because power chairs routinely cost more than $20,000 — compared to about $2,000 for a custom-fit manual chair — repairs are more expensive and often take longer.
“I drive the chair with my head,” Salvini said. “They don’t have head-control wheelchairs just sitting around.”
Even though Kenny Salvini (second from right) has had his power chair damaged during several flights, he continues to travel and to advocate for systematic fixes that could reduce the frequency of damage. Here he is pictured with friends on a recent trip. Kenny Salvini | Submitted photo
Equipment damage is only one of several reasons people who use chairs avoid flying.
Travelers can be injured when moved from their wheelchair to a narrow aisle chair to their assigned seat on the plane. Some also risk health problems — skin shearing, headaches, blurry vision and even stroke — from spending hours in a seat not designed to accommodate their specific conditions. And then there’s the fact that only the largest, two-aisle planes have accessible bathrooms.
“They created this system where people are afraid to fly,” Salvini said. “So people just don’t do it.”
Travelers and disability advocates called on airlines and federal regulators to work with them more urgently to reduce the frequency of damage, loss and injury.
Last year, a federal funding bill included a requirement for the U.S. Access Board to study the feasibility of allowing people to roll onto planes in their own chairs and to have them strapped down during flight, an idea some say would reduce the majority of challenges faced by travelers with those mobility aids.
“We’re talking about civil liberties and civil rights,” said U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and veteran who uses a chair. “Just because you use a wheelchair or a scooter doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have access to travel on commercial aircraft.”
Heavy, yet fragile
The same power chair features enabling users to live independently break most frequently during travel.
These include full-height backrests, heavy motors, seats that lift or tilt, and electronic controls that users move by hand, head or mouth. They can weigh 300 pounds or more.
Unlike manual chairs — the kind with two big wheels that users push themselves — motorized chairs are not lightweight and only sometimes fold.
“I didn’t realize this before my dad’s injury, but power chairs come in a really wide range of features and cushion types,” said Amanda Bonman of Louisiana, whose father was paralyzed during a home invasion shooting in 2011. “Having a chair that’s suited for his needs is really important. Even pressure sores can become deadly. He’s had to have surgery for them before.”
It takes multiple baggage handlers to maneuver a power chair from the jetway to the ground and then hoist it onto a conveyor belt into the cargo hold. Tall chairs might have to be angled or disassembled to fit through cargo doors.
Cellphone videos shared by travelers with GateHouse Media and posted publicly to social media sites show handlers breaking chairs by forcing unmovable components to fold or tipping chairs on their sides, crushing critical parts. Some have fallen off conveyor belts.
Luggage that shifts during flight also can break chair parts — damage that often happens when handlers stack bags on top of mobility aids.
When Katharine Hunter-Zaworski served on recent American and Canadian panels tasked with reviewing the accessibility of air travel, the civil engineer and Oregon State University professor said panelists were surprised to learn that not all airlines secure wheelchairs in the cargo hold.
“One of the things that was staggering to everyone was the question of, ‘Well, doesn’t everyone tie them down?’” she said. “And the answer is no. We were amazed to find that air carriers don’t all tie them down in the cargo hold.”
Those that aren’t secured can be tossed against walls or tipped over by turbulence.
A May 2019 report by Hunter-Zaworski for the Canadian Transportation Agency found that manufacturers offer cargo hold securement options for all aircraft, but not all airlines choose to include them in the planes they order.
Federal rules also require disconnecting or removing certain power chair batteries before flight, creating more opportunities for something to go wrong.
For these reasons, Bonman said her father doesn’t fly. Instead, the family finds other ways to travel or skips long-distance trips like an annual Catholic conference they used to enjoy.
Bonman hopes the new federal reporting requirements will make it easier for Americans to understand the risks faced by passengers with mobility disabilities and encourage them to pressure airlines and federal leaders for action.
“Anyone can end up with a disability and rely on mobility tools like wheelchairs,” she said. “My dad’s story is proof.”
Inadequate chairs
Others who use power chairs fly anyway but leave their own chairs at home, suffering health complications and enduring lost independence as a result.
That was the choice made by Kimbrah Gonzalez of San Diego when she traveled by plane last year to participate in a research study at Stanford University. She took a folding transport chair to avoid having her customized power chair lost or damaged.
The decision cost her.
Kimbrah Gonzalez, of San Diego, posed in front of a rental Jeep while sitting in a transport wheelchair at Stanford University, where she was invited to be a research subject. Fearing her power chair would be damaged, she left it at home even though the transport chair was inadequate for her medical needs. Kimbrah Gonzalez | Submitted photo
Gonzalez, whose hypermobile joints, elastic skin and chronic fatigue severely limit her mobility, said the temporary chair exacerbated her symptoms and left her bedridden for weeks.
“The transport chair was so uncomfortable and caused my body a lot of pain,” she said. “That was really difficult when I knew I had this chair back at home that was so amazing.”
Gonzalez has twice been invited to return to Stanford to participate in additional medical research.
“I can’t do it,” she said.
Eddie and Kimbrah Gonzalez, of San Diego, pose for a recent photo. She is wearing a shirt that reads “THE FUTURE IS ACCESSIBLE” that was designed by Annie Segara to raise money for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. Kimbrah Gonzalez | Submitted photo
Flying despite the risks
In 2016, Salvini, the Seattle advocate, decided to disregard his doctors’ advice not to fly.
He wanted to participate in United Spinal’s Roll on Capitol Hill, so he and his girlfriend planned a two-week vacation. They would fly from Seattle to New York, spend a few days sightseeing and then travel to Washington D.C., exploring along their way.
That first flight did not go well.
“I had never been to the East Coast,” he said, “and suddenly I’m there with a broken wheelchair and my backside all bloody from the transfer in the aisle chair and not being able to use my cushion” in the plane’s passenger seat.
Instead of returning home immediately, Salvini got treated at a local hospital then completed the trip with rental chairs while United Airlines’ medical equipment contractor scrambled to fix his own. The first loaner was driven by a joystick he could not use. The second was an ill-fitting manual chair.
“(I had) a gait belt wrapped around my chest and my arms awkwardly propped on pillows while my caregivers and girlfriend tag-teamed joystick duties in and out of narrow entryways and elevator doors,” he wrote about the experience in New Mobility magazine. “It was equal parts uncomfortable, demoralizing and humiliating.”
In the end, it took United six months to fix and return his power chair.
Less than a year later, his chair was again broken during a flight with Alaska Airlines, which he described as responding more quickly and thoroughly to his complaint.
Wheelchair damage by the airlines by GateHouse Media
Still, Salvini flies.
These days, he and his assistants have figured out “little hacks” to take apart his chair so it’s small enough to fit through cargo hold doors without being tipped on its side or disassembled by baggage handlers. He removes bolts and some controls and makes it as modular as possible. It hasn’t been severely broken since, he said.
He worries nonetheless.
“When I get off the plane, is my chair gonna be there?” he asked. “Are all my plans going to be hijacked by that broken piece of equipment? Am I going to spend three days at a medical provider’s office getting something fixed?
“The fear,” he said, “never really goes away.”
This story is part of an ongoing series. Read more about accessible air travel and review airline report cards at stories.usatodaynetwork.com/flying-while-disabled. Contact the reporter at jfraser@gatehousemedia.com or 941-361-4923 to tell her what questions you would like answered in future pieces and to share your own experience as a traveler or airport worker.
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Text by Leila Nilipour, STRI
Through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow Jennifer Gil-Acevedo makes the world of microalgae accessible to all
When she volunteered for the Special Olympics in Greece in 2011, Puerto Rican Jennifer Gil-Acevedo became especially fond of the Panamanian team. So, when she was presented with the opportunity to develop a project in Panama while completing her master's degree in environmental sciences at Florida International University, she did not think twice. With the support of Rachel Collin, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), and thanks to a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship, the first to be awarded to a Latina, Jenny landed on the isthmus.
For nine months, she explored Panama’s two oceans and Gatun Lake, the reservoir created to feed the Panama Canal, in search of microalgae. She did three things with her samples: identify them to species, add them to a STRI database that documents the country's biodiversity and use them to educate the public. This last approach, that of communicating science, was her main objective, so she called her project “The invisible story of microalgae.”
In order to collect the microalgae, Jenny submerged a special mesh with tiny, 0.02 millimeter, holes into the ocean. She also took water samples to analyze in the laboratory. Photos by Jorge Alemán, STRI.
What is so special about these imperceptible organisms? For starters, they help us breathe, because they produce half of the oxygen on Earth. Corals also depend on microalgae to provide them with energy via photosynthesis. And they are the main nutrient source in the ocean. A large number of marine organisms feed on microalgae.
To collect them, Jenny submerged a special mesh with tiny, 0.02 millimeter, holes into the ocean. She also took water samples to analyze in the laboratory. Then, under a microscope, she observed which species occurred at each collection site.
Jenny took a microscope during her boat trip to Gatun Lake and was able to show the captain and crew the microalgae she had just collected. Credit: Rogelio Moreno
“Microalgae can be found everywhere: in rivers, lakes, the sea, even in your fish tank or where your puppy drinks water. They only need nutrients, water and sun,” explains Jenny.
Through a bilingual blog on the National Geographic platform and her Instagram account @jennymycro, she documented, on video and with microscopic photographs, her microalgae exploration process in Panama, while educating her followers about the different species she found and their importance. One day you could watch her sinking her mesh in Las Perlas, Colón, Taboga, Bocas del Toro or Gatun Lake, and the next day displaying her findings under the microscope.
With the support of musicians from the Panamanian band Afrodisiaco, the microalgae Euglena danced to its own melody. Credit: Rogelio Moreno.
At the same time, she organized events for the public to experiment with microalgae via their five senses. In addition to showing samples under the microscope, she led workshops to make soap with microalgae, which allowed the participants to smell them before and after adding essential oils. She also printed 3D models of different species in EcoStudio’s Fab Lab, to stimulate the sense of touch.
As for the sense of taste, she baked cookies with spirulina, a type of edible microalgae. Finally, and with the support of musicians from the Panamanian band Afrodisiaco, the movement of a microalgae called Euglena inspired a melody of its own.
Jenny collected microalgae in Bocas del Toro and Punta Galeta, in the Panamanian Caribbean. Credit: Rogelio Moreno.
In the Pacific Ocean, around Las Perlas archipelago and Taboga island, Jenny found a great biodiversity of microalgae. Credit: Rogelio Moreno.
This approach to educating through the senses had a lot to do with her work as a Special Olympics volunteer. So, one of these outreach events took place with visually impaired children. They not only tasted the cookies, but listened to the music, touched the 3D models and smelled the soaps.
“For me it is super important not to exclude anyone; to make sure that people with disabilities can also understand microalgae,” she says.
As part of her efforts to spread awareness about microalgae via the five senses, Jenny baked cookies made with Spirulina, a type of edible microalgae. During a workshop for children and adolescents with visual impairment, they were able to taste the cookies, touch the 3D models of the algae and smell the soaps. Photos by Jorge Alemán, STRI.
And thanks to her enthusiasm for communicating science to as many people as possible, during her collection trip to Gatun Lake in a Panama Canal Authority boat, Jenny gained one of her most memorable experiences. That day she was carrying a field microscope and took the opportunity to show the captain and his crew the microalgae she had just collected with their help.
“The captain told me that he had taken a lot of people in that boat for scientific purposes and it was the first time someone explained what they were doing. This is why I am a Digital Storytelling Fellow. I want to communicate science to everyone,” she admits.
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Art meets science at Regeneration: A Story Of Becoming
By Michelle Marufu
• July 7, 2017
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Michelle Marufu reflects on her experience at the Regeneration: A Story of Becoming exhibit.
It is rare that one thinks of science as a means of inspiration for art. This is a sweeping and likely untrue generalisation that I have made as a scientist who has never had a reason to think about art in much depth. My thought was that science is science and art is art, and they have no reason to have a conversation. However, when I attended the event ‘Regeneration: A Story Of Becoming’, at the MRC Centre For Regenerative Medicine, I realised how my lack of appreciation for art has made my perspective on science far more dull than it need be.
The event was the dissertation project of Autumn Brown, who sought to inspire and curate an entire exhibition of works created by scientists who themselves wanted to communicate their stem cell research through art.
I was amazed to find that the research scientists who had attended workshops in glassworks and screen-printing created most of the pieces displayed. The glass pieces were particularly enjoyable. There was nothing amateur about them. Most things appeared like artistic interpretation as opposed to scientific images. Looking at them, I could not help but imagine how much fun it must have been for the long-time scientists to break the mould and have a go at making art with their hands.
Colour, form, texture, geometry, order, disorder and mostly importantly function; it all made me think that nature is in fact the greatest artist and designer. And just like an artist, nature has a reason for every detail, and it is a scientist’s privilege not only to find the ‘how’ but also the ‘why.’ The answers are often uncovered by trying to view the spectacle as closely as possible, through microscopic vision, in order to deconstruct the phenomena stroke by stroke. But sometimes in science, as in art, the only thing hiding under a question is more questions.
This exhibition wasn’t just about art. It was also about science communication, so coming out of it a visitor was supposed to know more about stem cell research. Nine labels were present, and three labels in I already felt more comfortable in my understanding of what a stem cell does. There can be a lot of misperception and even anger by members of the general public when it comes to some science-related subjects like genetic modification and vaccination. But science communication can make most of us feel at ease with scientific progress. It was great to hear, from the head of science communication at the MRC centre, Dr. Robin Morton, that “there is a growing investment in science communication”. We already know that art and history are things that pique public interest, so maybe more events like ‘Regeneration: a story of becoming’, is just what we need to communicate facts about modern science.
And redacting my opening statement that scientists do not think about art, I heard that the MRC centre has an artist in residence, Hamer Dodds, who created the amazing piece you notice when enter the reception area and look up.
If you are interested in knowing more about the fusion of art and science, check out ASCUS labs in Summerhall. They provided a lot of support to Autumn Brown as she started her triumphant project. Five out five stars.
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MONTREAL: A French woman seeking permanent residency in Quebec was turned down on grounds on her French was not good enough.
Emilie Dubois, 31, has lived in the mainly French-speaking province since 2012, completed her doctoral thesis at Laval University in Quebec City in French, started a small business in the province and even passed a language test.
But all that wasn’t enough to convince Quebec officials to give her an immigration suitability certificate that is a prerequisite to gaining permanent residency.
It’s absurd,” she told AFP.
French is the official language of government, commerce and the courts in Quebec — a former French colony ceded to Britain in 1763.
But the province’s French majority has often faced criticism for its arguably heavy-handed defense of the language of Moliere.
Most recently a backlash ensued over plans to require anyone wanting services in English to prove their ancestral English roots in the province.
According to a letter from the Quebec immigration ministry, Dubois was turned down because she had not completed her dissertation entirely in French.
One chapter of her doctoral thesis on cellular and molecular biology was written in English because it was a scholarly article published in a scientific journal. But the other four chapters were written in French.
It’s absurd, but I must believe that someone just made a mistake,” said Dubois, a Francophone from Burgundy in eastern France.
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Self-propelled Gun – 2 Prototypes built
The vehicle itself started back in the late 1950’s based upon the idea of using the hull of a Centurion tank and fitted with a BL 5.5 inch QF field gun (140mm howitzer) in a built up casemate on the hull. The idea was a good one offering commonality of automotive parts with the Centurion tank which was the main tank in service with the British Army at the time. A wooden mock-up of the vehicle had met with approval and two prototypes P1 and P2 were manufactured and underwent testing.
This is the wooden mock-up of the Centurion FV3805 Artillery SPG prototype
The project eventually lost out by the early 1960’s to the FV433 self-propelled gun known commonly as the ‘Abbot’ and both prototype Centurion FV3805 SPG P1 and P2 were thought to have been sold for scrap. The Abbot was chosen because the FV3805 SPG was not air-portable and with NATO standardization of 105mm and 155mm guns the British 5.5 inch gun (140mm) was being made obsolete. With a limited traverse of the gun it was an inferior design to the smaller, lighter and more capable Abbot anyway.
The vehicle is built ‘backwards’ very similar to the WW2 Archer 17pdr SPG. The engine and gearbox are at the front and the superstructure built over the front of the machine but facing over the engine deck so would have been driven with the gun facing backward. The driver position was moved to the center of the vehicle on the left side.
Wooden mock-up of the Centurion FV3805 Artillery SPG prototype in firing position
Following the unsuccessful trials P2 had its 5.5 inch gun and mounting removed and a steel plate with vision port welded over the hole in the front of the superstructure. Centurion FV3805 SPG P2 lived on in service as an Artillery Range Observation vehicle sporting the name ‘Major Picton’s Palace’ until sometime in the 1970’s when again it has vanished from military records. Research is still trying to locate the fate of P1 which is still lost. (Information – Andrew Hills)
Centurion FV3805 artillery self-propelled gun prototype
The British BL 5.5 inch Artillery Gun
This artillery field gun was produced between 1941 to 1945. It weighed 13,647 lbs (6,190kg) and had a barrel length of 13ft 9in (4.19m). Its caliber was 5.5 inch (140mm). It fired a high explosive HE shell that weighed 100 lbs (45.5kg) and a smaller one that weighed 82 lbs (37kg). The 100 lbs shell could be fired at a maximum range of 9.2 miles (14.81 km). The lighter 82 lbs shell could be fired at a maximum range of 10.28 miles (16.55 km). The letters BL stand for ‘breach loading’.
FV3805 Centurion Artillery SPG gun crew
It was fitted with a Welin breech and Ashbury mechanism with a hydro-pneumatic recoil system. It had a rate of fire of two rounds per minute. The 100 lb shell was fired at a muzzle velocity of 1,675 feet per second (511 m/s) and the 82 lb shell was fired at 1,950 feet per second (590 m/s).
It fired two part ammunition. The high explosive HE shell was loaded first followed by the propellant charge canister that would have the correct amount of powder bags in it for the range of the target. It could also fire 100 lb smoke or colored flare marker shells. The normal HE fuze was No 117. In late 1944 a VT fuze T100 became available.
This gun was first used in the deserts of North Africa in 1941. Most British, Polish and Commonwealth forces were equipped with this gun. The normal organization was an artillery regiment of 16 guns organized into two batteries. It continued to be used during the cold war in conflicts like Korea. It was purchased by many different nations. Both Pakistan and India used this gun in their border wars. In the British Army it was replaced by the L121 FH-70 155mm towed Howitzer. It remained in UK service with Territorial Army regiments until 1980.
The 5.5 inch QF gun fitted inside the enclosed casement on the top of the Centurion tank chassis
The following information was found in an original document covering the ammunition stowage on the FV3805 SPG.
(a) At least 25 HE rounds (fused) and 5 HESH (fuzed) are to be carried in the SP. It is desired to carry 35 HE and 5 HESH.
(b) Provision shall be made fro the stowage of:-
12 Bulk packed VT Fuzes
5 Cartridges charge 2 (7 if 35 rounds HE are stowed)
12 Cartridges charge 4 (17 if 35 rounds HE are stowed)
18 Cartridges charge super (27 if 35 rounds HE are stowed)
40 Tubes P.S.A
768 rounds .303 ball SAA
288 rounds .303 tracer
The 105mm gun
At one point in 1964, the Centurion FV3805 SPG was tested with a 105mm gun. The following reference was found on official records “16.2.64. Abbot mounting fitted to 5.5in SP (P2). Proofed at K Battery at 7½°. Recoil at 14 in – steady’”
MOD Shoeburyness
The following account is from Roger Walton who actually drove the Centurion FV3805 artillery SPG prototype whilst he was in the British Army: – In 1977 whilst serving in Northern Ireland I noticed a posting requiring a driver of tracked vehicles. I loved driving so I put my name down. In February 1978 I arrived at the Army MOD Shoeburyness and Foulness Defence Evaluation and Research Agency [DERA]* weapons testing complex, near Southend-on-Sea in Essex.
It was not a glamorous posting. I was in a team of 3 drivers, a Lancer from the 16/5th, one from 3rd Royal Tank Regiment RTR and myself being Queens Own Hussars, plus REME and 120 gunners.
It was my first time in a weapons proofing establishment and I was expecting to see loads of Chieftain tanks. My first Monday at the tank workshops I was horrified to learn that they only had one Chieftain, a rare mark one which was being used to calculate various things which the civilian boffins thought we didn’t need to know.
The FV3805 being driven at the MOD Shoeburyness and Foulness Defence Evaluation and Research Agency weapons testing complex, near Southend-on-Sea in Essex
Back at the workshops, I was introduced to a number of AFV ‘funnies’ used for towing, recovery and as gun platforms. The Centurion FV3805 SPG was sat in yard. Never having seen this vehicle before I was keen to find out more so I asked after the beast.
It was explained that it was a prototype and had been intended for the artillery. At this time it was a none runner fitted with a 105mm gun from an Abbot Artillery SPG.
It was soon sanctioned by the powers that be to get it running so it could be used as an ammunition carrier whilst out on the sands firing range.
It did not take long to get her back in a running condition. I soon learned the quirkiness of this vehicle. The engine and gearbox were what I normally found in an old Centurion tank, except the drive was all reversed.
The gun was on a fixed/limited traverse facing over the engine decks. The driver sat to the left of the gun. The drivers control sticks, gear stick had all been shortened.
It didn’t drive any differently to a normal Centurion tank, but I do remember having a limited view to the front. I was totally blind due to the gun being on my right. You could see bugger all to the right. Also due to the higher than normal driving position obstacles had to be carefully negotiated. As a driver you had a small hatch which you had to be careful using due to the height from the ground.
The only obstacle on the base at this time was the sea wall. As you crested this we had to turn right to go onto the beach drive 100 yards or so to get onto the ramp onto the sands.
It was being used to carry and store ammunition for other vehicles being tested at the base. I remember one time it being used to take ammunition onto the beach to supply an American M110 that was being put through tests. After delivering the ammo the FV3805 withdrew back down the beach during the live firing of range safety rules.
*DERA is now known as QinetiQ (pronounced kinetic)
Artillery Observation Vehicle
At some point, the 5.5 inch gun was removed from the prototype FV3805 and the vehicle was converted into an artillery observation vehicle to be used on the firing ranges. The holes left by the removal of the gun were blanked off with armor plate and an observation glass panel was added instead. It was painted light blue instead of the traditional British Army olive green so it was noticeable on the firing range. It was eventually transported to Duxford when it was no longer needed where it stood out in the rain, sun and snow for a number of years.
The FV3805 Centurion (on the right) was painted light blue and used as an artillery observation vehicle after the 5.5 inch gun was removed. On the left is the FV207 Conqueror SPG prototype fitted with a 4.5 inch naval gun. Other guns were tried. The protective armoured casement has not been constructed yet.(MOD Shoeburyness beach firing range 5th June 1984.)
The Centurion FV3805 SPG P2 restoration project.
FV3805 P2 reappeared on the Isle of Wight, in Southern England at the Military Museum. Here she has sat outside in the salty air rusting away quietly and becoming rather sorry looking until 2015.
Phase 1 of the restoration; moving the vehicle under cover to dry out has been completed. The next steps will be to organize the stripping of the paint and components from the tank for restoration.
Phase 2 is getting the vehicle running. The biggest hurdle being the Rolls-Royce Meteor MkIVB engine which on inspection appears to be completely seized and likely is unrepairable. The gearbox is intact but needs an overhaul. The wheels and tracks are all complete.
Phase 3 is fitting the gun. The gun itself is problematic. There is a lack of 5.5 inch guns for sale at the moment.
The focus at the moment is on restoration of the running components so she can be shown to the public. The FV3805 Restoration Project is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FV3805
(Information – Andrew Hills)
FV3805 awaiting restoration on the Isle of Wight, England (Photos: The Mighty Jingles)
Ammunition stowage
At least 25 high explosive HE rounds (fused) and 5 HESH (fuzed) rounds are to be carried in the self-propelled gun. It is desired to carry 35 HE and 5 HESE.
Provision shall be made for the stowage of:-
5 Cartridges charge 2 (7 if 35 rounds are stowed)
18 Cartridges charge super (27 if 35 rounds HE are stowed
40 Tubes P.S.A.
288 rounds .303 tracer.
Dimensions (L-W-H) 7.82 m without gun x 3.39 m x 3 m
(25ft 7in x 11ft 1in x 9ft 9in)
Total weight, battle ready 50 tons
Crew 4 (commander, driver, gunner, loader).
Propulsion Rolls-Royce Meteor; 5-speed Merrit-Brown Z51R Mk. F gearbox 650 hp (480 kW), later BL 60, 695 bhp
Speed 48/30 km/h road/cross-country (29.82/18.64 mph)
Range/consumption 190 km (118 mi)
Armament British BL 5.5 inch Artillery Gun
Gun depression 3 degrees
Gun elevation 70 degrees
Gun traverse 30 degrees left and right from centre line
Rate of fire 3 rpm for 10min or 1 rpm for 3 hours.
Armor 35mm-195mm (17mm-58mm on cab)
Ammunition used 100 lb HE shell, 82 lb HE shell, 100 lb Smoke shell, 100 lb coloured flare shell.
Ammunition Stowage 76 shells and 96 charges
Total production 2 prototypes
Ed Francis – The FV3805 Restoration Project
The Wight Conflict and Remembrance Museum
The National Archives, Kew Memorandum TR 4/57, TR 1/58 Effect of 5.5 inch gun-muzzle blast on FV 3805
The Centurion and variants on Wikipedia
BL 5.5 inch Medium Gin on Wikipedia
Wooden mock-up of the Centurion FV3805 artillery SPG. Notice the drivers escape hatch and vision slit to the left side of the 5.5 inch gun.
Centurion FV3805 artillery SPG prototype with limited travers ‘turret’ built inside a fully covered casement.
Centurion FV3805 SPG with the 5.5 inch gun at full elevation.
Side view of the Centurion FV3805 SPG with the 5.5 inch gun.
Centurion FV3805 SPG ammo storage racks on the right side of the vehicle.
Centurion FV3805 SPG ammo storage racks behind the drivers position.
View of the rear hatch at the back of the Centurion FV3805 SPG with more ammo storage racks on both sides of the vehicle.
Centurion FV3805 artillery SPG in firing position at MOD Shoeburyness.
A photo of the Centurion FV3805 SPG showing the top/rear hatch intact and open.
Centurion FV3805 SPG showing the top/rear hatch open.
Centurion FV3805 SPG with the top/rear hatch closed.
Artillery observation vehicle centurion FV3805 with the 5.5 inch gun removed. An observation window was inserted into armour plate to fil0e the gap left by the gun’s removal
Restoration project
This photo confirms that the last remaining FV3805 Centurion PG was the P2 prototype. It is not known what happened to the P1. P2 was nicknamed ‘Major Picton’s Palace’. For many years Major Ian Picton was in charge of ‘A’ Section Trials and normally involved with Sands Shoots at MOD Shoeburyness. It was warm inside and was a good place to lurk on a rainy day.
This photograph was taken of the Centurion FV3805 SPG at IWM Duxford before it was moved to the Isle of Wight. (Photo – Ossie)
Because the Centurion FV3805 rear hatch is so large it is hoped that when the vehicle is restored to a running condition it will be the first AFV that can offer ‘tank rides’ to veterans and members of the public in wheelchairs.
The Centurion FV3805 SPG was originally painted British Army Green.
Centurion FV3805 SPG P2 at The Wight Military and Heritage Museum 2015.
May 2019 Update
Tanks Encyclopedia writer Mark Nash visited the Wight Military and Heritage Museum in May 2019 to inspect the progress in the restoration of the Centurion FV3805 self-propelled gun P2. Unfortunatly there has not been any work undertaken on the vehicle for the past four years and, in the words of a staff member “has all but ground to a halt”. It is left out in the open without any covering and spider webs cover the hull. Its condition is deteriorating. This is very sad as it is the only surviving example of this vehicle. The owner has offered to sell it but the price he is asking is very expensive. (There is also an ownership dispute that has not yet been settled). The vehicle used to run but the engine has now seized due to water getting into the engine via the exhausts. Any useful engine parts have been cannibalised.
Looking in through the rear hatch, you can see the Drivers position in the front left corner of the superstructure. (Photograph: Mark Nash Photography)
This tattered piece of tarp weight down by a pallet and old tyre is the only protection the vehicle has from the elements. (Photograph: Mark Nash Photography)
A view of the cannibilised engine through the vehicle’s rear hatch. (Photograph: Mark Nash Photography)
Illustration of the FV3805 Centurion Self Propelled Gun (SPG) prototype by Jarosław Janas
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10 replies on “FV3805 Centurion SPG”
John Tumickisays:
I thought the restoration was halfway done in late 2013? I never realized it to be still awaiting restoration…
The Mighty Jingles? Jesus what a small world.
Thanks for another interesting article
SSSmk2A4says:
I’ve read in some books that the Merkava prototype was based on Centurion, driving backwards like this one. [cmiiw]
So.. distant cousin?
Mick Van Iperensays:
Dear Moderator is There Any Way your artist will do A Rendition Of this
Blockiosays:
A gun carrier that got its gun removed and tested as artillery observation vehicle… oh the irony 😀
seth walkersays:
Is the gun facing towards the rear of the chassis?
Thomas Andersonsays:
yes, it faces over the engine deck, which is technically at the rear
-TE moderator
Roger Greenawaysays:
The other prototype was fitted with the Ordnance, QF, 25pdr. At the time, a field regiment of the Royal Artillery had 2 batteries (each with 6 guns) of 25 pdrs, and one with 5.5″ guns. NATO standardisation saw 105mm and 155mm being used, although US-built 155mm SPGs and SPHs were in use at the same time as 25pdr & 5.5″ combinations (towed regiments) until the end of the 1960s.
Bill Pitchersays:
I have some original FVDE photos of a similar vehicle but it only has five road wheels not six, apart from negative numbers on the back of the photos there’s no other info except a number stencilled on the side of the gun 5147. I’ve trawled the internet but cannot find similar photos. Anyone got any ideas?Cheers Bill
Stan Luciansays:
Could you please send us these pictures to have a look at them?
Send them at tanks.encyclopedia@gmail.com
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Nautanki Saala Movie Review by Rajeev Masand
sputnik, April 12, 2013 December 1, 2013 , Critics Reviews, Reviews, 0
Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca, Sulbha Arya, Evelyn Sharma
Director: Rohan Sippy
Nautanki Saala, directed by Rohan Sippy, hinges on the wobbly notion that if you save someone’s life, he becomes your responsibility.
Ayushmann Khurrana plays Ram Parmar, or RP, a kind-natured theatre actor who, while rushing home after work one night, notices a random stranger trying to kill himself. RP stops the fellow – a homeless, heartbroken chap named Mandar Lele (Kunal Roy Kapur) – then proceeds to straighten out the poor sap’s life, first by allowing him to crash at the home RP shares with his girlfriend, then by reuniting him with his ex, ditzy florist Nandini (Pooja Salvi). But as often tends to happen in such films, RP ends up falling for Nandini too.
Based on the 2003 French film Apres Vous, set in a Parisian restaurant, Nautanki Saala stages its comedy against the backdrop of a long-running play. Although intended as a farce, the film is never as outrageous as it needs to be, settling instead for the kind of inoffensive silliness that’s often plain boring. RP’s attempts to break up Nandini and her new lover come off as infantile, and his unwavering commitment to help Mandar is puzzling after a point.
The film works best in its most zany moments, like the portion where RP mimes words and phrases discreetly to help Mandar get through an acting audition. Or an earlier scene where RP must read Mandar’s suicide note to his cataract-afflicted grandmother, changing the words as he goes to make it more upbeat. There are some nice supporting characters too, who pop up occasionally to deliver a few laughs. Like the effete producer of RP’s play, who is at his wit’s end with Mandar during his audition, yet agrees to cast him when RP offers a sweet trade-off. Even the Malayali hospital receptionist who needs an interpreter to unscramble her rushed instructions.
But alas such genuinely inventive bits are few and far between in this muddled film that becomes a sentimental love triangle midway. What sucks the soul out of Nautanki Saala is the unfathomable casting of the vapid female lead. Newcomer Pooja Salvi is about as expressive as a sack of grains. She contributes little here, beyond batting her eyelids while seesawing from one man to another.
Ayushmann Khurrana carries forward his confidence from Vicky Donor, yet he’s exasperatingly over-animated and too slick for a character that needed to ooze a naïve sincerity. It’s Kunal Roy Kapoor as the slobbering, sloppy man-child Mandar, who wins your heart with his nicely understated performance.
Like previous films directed by Sippy, Nautanki Saala has a winning soundtrack, and unfolds across real locations in South Mumbai, a part of the city rarely seen in our movies. Still, they contribute little to the film’s slight, over-stretched premise, and the portions at the theatre are needlessly long and not particularly funny.
I’m going with two out of five for Nautanki Saala. Sippy never brings the lightness of touch needed to pull off this kind of film. Like the title suggests, it’s all empty theatrics. And wait, the film also has the unique distinction of capturing one of the longest on-screen smooches in a long time…shot in such excruciating close-up that you might throw up your lunch.
Tags: Ayushmann Khurrana Evelyn Sharma Kunal Kapoor Nautanki Saala Pooja Salvi Rajeev Masand Reviews Rohan Sippy
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the beekeeper’s lament
In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Hannah Nordhaus explores the vital role that honey bees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of our food chain, and the very future of the planet.
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honey bee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role that honey bees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of our food chain, and the very future of the planet. With an intimate focus and incisive reporting, in a book perfect for fans of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, and John McPhee's Oranges, Nordhaus's stunning exposé illuminates one of the most critical issues facing the world today, offering insight, information, and, ultimately, hope.
"The story is elegant and informative . . . Xe Sands narrates ably. . . . Highly recommended." ---Library Journal Audio Review
"A fascinating read from cover to cover." ---Associated Press
"[T]he author settles for nothing less than literature." ---Boston Globe
"A fascinating peek into the precarious business of keeping the nation's crops pollinated." ---Smithsonian
"[A] revelatory, bittersweet investigation…" ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Author's and narrator's combined efforts make beekeeping a fascinating topic . . . Listeners interested in the environment or the state of agriculture and food production will find much to enjoy in this insightful audiobook." ---AudioFile
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How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
Author Hannah Nordhaus
Narrated by Xe Sands
Running time 7 hrs 7 min
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Jorge Ivan Mendoza Marroquín
Peter J. Kirk
Ranil P. Nanayakkara, G.A.S.M Ganehiarachchi, T.G. Tharaka Kusuminda, Nilantha Vishvanath, Mathisa K. Karunaratne, Peter J. Kirk ,2019
A new species of arboreal Theraphosidae spider from the genus Poecilotheria is described. This represents the second new Poecilotheria species described from the intermediate zone in Sri Lanka. Images are presented to distinguish the new species from Sri Lankan congeners.
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019)
Another from Sri Lanka, after 126 years; Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansicklei sp. nov. (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from a fragmented forest patch in the wet zone of Sri Lanka
Ranil P. Nanayakkara, Amila Prasanna Sumanapala, Peter J. Kirk ,2019
The mygalomorph spider family Theraphosidae is represented by 980 species in 144 genera globally (World Spider Catalogue 2018). Within the family Theraphosidae sites the genus Chilobrachys. The genus Chilobrachys is found in South and East Asia, with 27 described species to date (World Spider Catalogue 2018). They are ground dwelling spiders, living in burrows lined with silk and other debris (Nanayakkara, 2013, Nanayakkara 2014b). In Sri Lanka the genus is represented by only one species, namely Nanayakkara 2014b), which also happens to be the type species (species typica) for the genus.
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Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansickleae
A new species of tiger spider, genus Poecilotheria, from northern Sri Lanka
Ranil P. Nanayakkara, Peter J. Kirk, Salindra K. Dayananda, G.A.S.M Ganehiarachchi, Nilantha Vishvanath, T.G. Tharaka Kusuminda ,2012
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Poecilotheria rajaei
A new species of Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Sri Lanka
Peter J. Kirk ,1996
Poecilotheria smithi
Avicularia purpurea, a new species of theraphosid spider from Ecuador
The following is a description of a new species of mygalomorph spider from the Amazonas region of Ecuador, South America. The spider can be classified as follows; family Theraphosidae, subfamily Aviculariinae, genus Avicularia, species purpurea.
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 6(1): 15-19
Avicularia purpurea
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Participating in the Democratic Process – I learned it on Guam
By tasithoughts August 12, 2008 Antonio B. Won Pat Ask Joyce Carlos P. Taitano chamorros Democracy democratic process election Francisco Baza Leon Guerrero Guam Guam Youth Congress Harold S. Krug Honorable Baltazar Jerome Bordallo Legislature Organic Act of Guam Politics President Harry S. Truman register to vote vote
Voting on Guam
One of the memorable parts of my growing up years was the intense political tradition of Guam. Politics runs thick on the island and as a youth I was involved and active in it. The democratic process was a living part of my life and I was taught by my family that it was a real privilege to participate in it.
I ran as a candidate and won Student Body elected offices. I also ran and won a seat for a few terms in the Guam Youth Congress. This is an elected body of young people on Guam that actually pass legislation that is forwarded to and considered by Guam’s Legislature, that if approved, can be made into laws. This was a real education for me and developed my leadership skills. It also showed me how democracy can effect change.
I am appreciative of the value of a citizenry that actively participates in their local government process. Whatever your political leanings, I hope you all will register to vote. There is no moment in our history where your voice and your vote is needed more than ever than in this election year.
My mother recently wrote an article on her perspective on politics on Guam that I included below.
Ask Joyce: I notice politics is a favorite pastime on Guam?
Yes, you are correct in your observation … especially with election just around the corner. This passion of the Chamorros became more intense after WWII. The atrocities experienced at the hands of the enemies became the catalyst for Chamorros to remain free after their liberation by the American forces in 1944. Their beliefs and loyalties to the American ideals became the torch for persistent pursuit of citizenship which became true to a certain extent in 1950 when the Organic Act of Guam was signed.During those years, Guam was under the Navy’s jurisdiction with the understanding of the Chamorros’ desire to become United States Citizens. At that time, there were men and women in what was then the Guam Congress. One key individual who played a major role was Antonio B. Won Pat, a 35-year old who later was elected as Guam’s delegate to Congress.
According to my research the Secretary of Interior, Harold S. Krug visited Guam in February 1947 to determine if the Chamorros were truly ready to be US citizens and ready to be self-governed. His report to Congress was positive and the Chamorros were joyous to hear the news. Won Pat, fearing loss of Navy support, testified “Guam’s economy would collapse without the Navy.” Assembly members walked out en masse after the great Navy and Guam Congress dispute in which a civil service employee did not respond to a subpoena.
Congress passed the Organic Act of Guam and President Harry S. Truman signed it on July 21, 1950 thus giving the Chamorros American citizenship.
This established three branches of the government in Guam: executive, legislative and judicial. Known as the godfathers of the organic act were Honorable Baltazar Jerome Bordallo (aka BJ or “Tun Kiko Zoilo”), Francisco Baza Leon Guerrero, Carlos P. Taitano, and none other than Antonio B. Won Pat, who rendered the most passionate plea to the American Senate.
The Organic Act brought about competitive election to political positions.
The whole island became over zealous in campaigning for their “gayu (rooster).” The thought just occurred to me that this is much like cockfights.
Back then it was the Territorial Party against Democratic Party and later the parties became the Republicans and the Democrats. The campaign trail was demanding and ugly at times. There were silent duels among families—many not speaking to each other for years. Then there were all the gatherings and barbecues where followers planned strategies to ensure their “gayu” wins. In the present time, families are a lot more considerate, less confrontational and go above and beyond for those they support. The bottom line is that many people work hard for their parties and possibly garner the rewards of a job if their candidate wins.
Many foresee Guam as a state. Is this far-fetched? On the other hand, is it premature to dream the impossible – to be full-fledged US citizens and be allowed to vote for the President of the United States?
Senseramente,
si Joyce I. Martratt
( Ask Joyce, The Pacific Edge)
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Ray Gibson
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Tasting It Like It Is
Honest Feedback About Food, About Travel, About Life.
Posted on February 26, 2014 by Kris
Three Rounds
“Chaque pain a son fromage”, meaning: every bread has its cheese. I often used this French saying in a romantic context, to motivate my friends when a relationship went sour. Your cheese will come, I would say. My best friend usually followed with : “I love cheese! Where is my cheese already?!” Well, New York Grilled Cheese has it, at least in the literal sense.
Hidden in Wilton Manors, New York Grilled Cheese (NYGC) is dedicated to grilled cheese sandwiches, evident through its name, with a casual and playful setting. The locale was once a frozen yogurt shop, therefore the restaurant maintained the open floor layout, as well as the bright colors. The room was consequently very inviting and appropriate for a variety of age groups. We even made friends at the circular bar, while we waited. The wait built anticipation and certified that this was NOT fast food.
My guest and I were bold enough to order three sandwiches for the two of us, which was a bit overwhelming to be frank. But being overwhelmed by food is just the type of overwhelming I like. Like my friend, I too adore cheese, but NYGC dares to add untraditional ingredients like sriracha, fries, egg and brisket to name a few. What a pleasant surprise! All sandwiches are waffle shaped, and served with a creamy tomato bisque. I could have enjoyed the soup solo, as it did not compare to the canned tomato soup served at your high school cafeteria. If it were plated in a porcelain bowl, it would have been suitable for fine dining.
Grindr & tomato bisque
To return to the three sandwiches, we started with the Wall Street Grindr Award with cheddar, French fries, bacon, caramelized onions, garlic butter, fried egg, and dill pickles, served on a country loaf. It was the perfect balance of crunchy and oozy. Despite the numerous ingredients, it was enjoyable until the last bite and was my favorite of the bunch sampled. I was astonished by the fries peaking out and by the fact that each ingredient fit perfectly. However, what brought the dish together was the soup. Dipping the sandwich in, almost led to hums from the heavens. I am not sure why I took so long to submerge my sandwich, but that bisque put mayos, aiolis, and sandwich spreads everywhere, to shame.
The MPD
The MPD melt followed. Short for Meat Packing District. These words stress the sandwich’s hardiness with contents of American cheese, cheddar, beef brisket and caramelized onions. It was thick enough, yet refined enough to be a grilled cheese. Although the beef was a bit bland for my taste, it was a manly and packed melt. I was impressed by the view but not as much by the performance.
The Yelp
The Yelp certainly put on show, however. I imagine it was named after the website and the filling lived up to Yelp’s popularity: fried chicken, sriracha, bacon, cheddar, muenster, and a pepper jam sauce. That sandwich led to a Kung Foo match in my mouth due to the flavor explosion. The crunch, the spice, and the salt woke me up immediately and led to a second bite, then a third. In fact, it may have been one of the most impressive sandwiches I have tasted, due to its complexity. Unfortunately, all great things come to an end, thus the martial arts session came to a halt. Perhaps my taste buds were exhausted. Midway through the Yelp, I felt the need to end the games early as the flavors became, excessive. I am shocked at my own words, as I am one who can never get enough. The Yelp was certainly delicious, but best enjoyed in smaller portions maybe.
I used a Belgian ale as an appropriate referee to these three rounds, from a choice of other craft beers and wines. Not to shabby for a grilled cheese joint. Thank you to my “cool” friend- you know who you are- for leading me to this hidden treasure, with gems all below $10. To all my sandwich lovers, a visit is a must!
I would like to introduce a scoring system to the blog, to help readers better understand my position. After each article, I will assign a score of 1-10 (ten being highest), with the possibility of half points when merited. This is not to be crude, but rather to summarize my opinion. Managing a restaurant takes hard work, and I would like to thank every establishment mentioned in Tasting It Like It Is, for its services during my visit.
Score- 7
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Directed by: Rachel Griffiths
Starring: Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill
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Genre: Drama/Western
Directed by: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Thomas M. Wright, Ewen Leslie, Gibson John, Natassia Gorey-Furber, Trevon Doolan, Tremayne Doolan, Matt Day, Anni Finsterer
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https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/sweet-country
Watch the official movie trailer of Sweet Country below:
Tags: Anni Finsterer, Bryan Brown, Drama, Ewen Leslie, Gibson John, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Natassia Gorey-Furber, Sam Neill, Sweet Country, TBA 2017, Thomas M. Wright, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, Warwick Thornton, Western
Tommy’s Honour
Directed by: Jason Connery
Starring: Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill
More Information at: Tommy’s Honour Trailer
https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/tommys-honour
Watch the official movie trailer of Tommy’s Honour below:
Tags: April 2017, Drama, Jack Lowden, Jason Connery, Ophelia Lovibond, Peter Mullan, Sam Neill, Tommy's Honour
Genre: Action/Science-Fiction/Thriller
Directed by: Andrew Goth
Starring: Sam Neill, Melia Kreiling, Tom Payne, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ursula Strauss, Dominique Tipper, Oliver Stark, Turlough Convery, Ryan Doyle, Pedja Bjelac, Simon Paisley-Day
More Information at: Mindgamers Trailer
https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/mindgamers
Watch the official movie trailer of Mindgamers below:
Tags: Action, Andrew Goth, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Dominique Tipper, Melia Kreiling, Mindgamers, Oliver Stark, Pedja Bjelac, Ryan Doyle, Sam Neill, Science-Fiction, Simon Paisley-Day, TBA 2017, Thriller, Tom Payne, Turlough Convery, Ursula Strauss
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Starring: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley
More Information at: Hunt for the Wilderpeople Trailer
https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/hunt-for-the-wilderpeople
Watch the official movie trailer of Hunt for the Wilderpeople below:
Tags: Adventure, Comedy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Julian Dennison, Oscar Kightley, Rachel House, Rima Te Wiata, Sam Neill, Taika Waititi, TBA 2016
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Fantasy
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Helen Mirren
More Information at: Legend of the Guardians Trailer
http://legend-of-the-guardians.movie-trailer.com/
Tags: Adventure, Animation, Emilie De Ravin, Fantasy, Geoffrey Rush, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Legend of the Guardians, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Neill, September 2010, Zack Snyder
Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction
Directed by: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill
More information: Daybreakers Trailer
http://daybreakers-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/
Tags: Daybreakers, Ethan Hawke, Horror, January 2010, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Sam Neill, Science-Fiction, Willem Dafoe
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HealthEminds
Ankita Puri
Robin Uthappa's Caffeine Venture invests in healthcare tech startup HealthEminds
Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa has invested an undisclosed amount in a healthcare technology startup HealthEminds through his fund Caffeine Ventures.Smitabalram Kumar | ET Bureau | March 29, 2016, 07:42 IST
Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa has invested an undisclosed amount in a healthcare technology startup HealthEminds through his fund Caffeine Ventures.
The company, founded by entrepreneur and former investment banker Ankita Puri and Yale-trained cardiologist-entrepreneur Sunita Maheshwari, focuses on tackling mental and emotional problems.
The company has created an online platform to connect counsellors, psychologists and coaches to individuals through video, telephonic and chat communication systems. There are currently 70 professionals across India on the platform.
“I invested in HealthEminds to help break this barrier that is holding people back from reaching their full potential,” said Uthappa. “Today, online is a great medium for people to easily reach out for help whether it is to overcome depression, blocks or break barriers in their lives with the right help.”
“It’s wonderful to have an investor on board who understands the importance of the mind in sport and in health,” said cofounder Maheshwari.
“We will be using these funds to launch our new product, increase our reach across India, and expand our operations team,” said Puri, cofounder of HealthEminds.
According to the World Health Organisation report, suicide is the third largest cause of death among 15-35 year olds in India. In the past, Uthappa invested close to Rs 1.5 crore in iTiffin.
Tags : Startups, Sunita Maheshwari, Robin Uthappa, HealthEminds, Healthcare, Ankita Puri
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Microsoft bids adieu to Groove Music Pass, embraces Spotify
Entertainment / Microsoft / Mobile / Music / Tech
While the Groove Music app isn’t being killed off, not having the ability to stream, purchase, or download music from the Microsoft Store with it puts a big limitation on what the app can do.
There are things Microsoft does really well, and then there are those that have potential but can’t seem to gain enough traction to warrant Microsoft to continue to support them. You can add Groove Music to that list alongside devices like the Zune MP3 Player and Windows Phone devices (granted the latter are still around but are all but forgotten). Groove Music first surfaced just a couple years ago and was born out of Xbox Music. The company still pushed it on the Xbox and integrated it into games like Forza Horizon 3 as an optional radio station.
If you were to ask anyone around you to name streaming music services, you’d likely hear Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, or Google Play Music. Given the competition and the fact that Spotify is now available on the Xbox One, it’s no surprise that Microsoft has decided to give up on Groove Music, more specifically the Groove Music Pass.
We will continue to invest in and update the Groove Music app on all Windows devices to support playback and management of owned music, but after December 31, 2017, the Groove Music app will no longer offer the option to stream, purchase, and download music.
So while the Groove Music app isn’t being killed off, not having the ability to stream, purchase, or download music from the Microsoft Store with it puts a big limitation on what the app can do. However, Microsoft has teamed up with Spotify to allow current Groove Music Pass subscribers to transfer their collections and curated playlists to Spotify.
Which is why we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our partnership with Spotify to bring the world’s largest music streaming service to our Groove Music Pass customers. Beginning this week*, Groove Music Pass customers can easily move all their curated playlists and collections directly into Spotify. Plus, you may be eligible for a 60-day free trial of Spotify Premium.**
The caveat being that the updated app will be rolling out to Windows Insiders this week with a general rollout following the week of October 9th. To find out if you’re eligible for the 60-day free trial of Spotify Premium — and to answer any other questions you may have — you can check the Groove Music Pass FAQ. In addition to losing streaming and the ability to purchase music, if you have received extra OneDrive storage as part of your subscription, your OneDrive storage will be reverted to the standard free tier plan on December 31 or when your Groove Music Pass subscription ends (whichever is first). There are plenty of other questions the FAQ answers as well, including what will happen to your music, OneDrive streaming, and more.
Are you a Groove Music Pass subscriber? What do you think about Microsoft shuttering the service and offering to migrate users to Spotify? Let us know in the comments below or on Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.
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20 of the UK’s leading cyber scaleups join Tech Nation Cyber growth programme
Ollie Bone, April 17, 2019 ⏱ 8 min read
After an impressive competitive group of applications and careful judging process, we are delighted to announce the 20 exceptional cyber security companies to make up the inaugural cohort of Tech Nation Cyber, the sector-specific scaleup programme.
Margot James, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, commented: “Congratulations to all the firms selected for this new programme which shows the depth of tech talent right across the country. This important scheme will not only allow promising cyber security startups to access world-class expert advice but also help us achieve our aim of making Britain the safest place in the world to be online.”
The goal of Cyber is to provide the UK’s most promising and ambitious cyber security scaleups with curated workshops, mentorships, guidance, meetups, and honest conversations, led by expert scale coaches and knowledgeable entrepreneurs. In this six-month long programme the cohort is given the help they need to navigate fundamental growth challenges. The aim is to cover everything from recruitment, scaling abroad, creating a sustainable company culture and everything in between.
Ollie Bone, Cyber Programme Lead at Tech Nation said: “A group as exciting as this has never come together in the Cyber Security sector. A community of 20 companies – chosen by our expert judging panel on scaling ability – coming together with founders from the companies that paved the way for British success in the sector. With companies from Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow its a true representation of the strength this nation has in cyber innovation.”
Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, commented: “I am delighted that Belfast-based companies SaltDNA and RepKnight will be joining the Tech Nation Cyber programme. Cyber security is one of the fastest-growing digital tech sectors in Northern Ireland and attracts record levels of global investment. There is tremendous talent on offer and world-class Universities which make Northern Ireland the ideal location for fast-growth tech companies. I look forward to seeing SaltDNA and RepKnight go from strength to strength and help cement the UK as a world leader in cybersecurity.”
The programme will entail peer-to-peer learning, kicking off at the Farncombe Estate in the Cotswolds on 2–3 May. The launch will be led by market-leading experts within the cyber security space, with speakers including: Dave Palmer, Director of Technology and Emily Orton, CMO at Darktrace, James Chappell, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Shadows, and James Hadley, CEO of Immersive Labs.
The most ambitious in Cyber
The 20 companies we have selected to join our first cohort are some of the most ambitious and talented mid-stage cyber experts from across the UK. We are delighted to have them on board and excited to see what the future will bring for them.
Rt Hon David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland, commented: “Scotland’s reputation as an innovator in technology is world renowned and I’m delighted to see us leading the way in cyber security. Finding ways to fight cyber threats is one of the world’s most pressing problems and Glasgow’s tech sector has the innovation and experience to be on the front line. The UK Government has even chosen the city to host its CyberUK 2019 conference. I am pleased to see this recognised by Tech Nation and I offer my congratulations to My1Login on being chosen to join their first national cyber security growth programme.”
Mark Darby, Founder & CEO of ISMS.Online, a part of Alliantist Limited and a member of this year’s cohort said: “We’ve achieved product market fit with growing international activity and are now ready to scale up – big time. We look forward to achieving that goal in working with Tech Nation, the other Cyber 1.0 businesses and of course the world class advisors supporting the programme too.”
Poppy Gustafsson, CEO and Co-founder of Darktrace, commented: “Cyber security is one of the biggest challenges facing modern society. Cutting edge innovations are the only way to protect our digital infrastructures and safeguard the services we rely on. Darktrace is proud to support Tech Nation’s new cyber programme, to maintain the UK’s position as a global leader in cyber defence.”
As a sector specific programme, Cyber shows an impressive range of specialities and expert areas, which reflects which services are in-demand, but also highlights more emerging technologies.
Kevin Foster, UK Government Minister for Wales, commented: “Cyber security represents an increasingly important part of our daily lives, and Wales already plays a leading role in keeping our data and systems safe while training up the next generation of experts. This programme will initially support two Welsh companies in Caerphilly and Cardiff in developing their potential and I look forward to seeing other companies from across Wales getting involved in the future.”
Ed Macnair, CEO of Censornet, said: ““I’m delighted to join this support network of industry leaders, to help the next cohort of entrepreneurs flourish in the evolving cyber security sector. Growth comes with many challenges and I hope sharing my values and offering practical advice will help the scaleups as they join the industry’s race to innovate faster than our enemy.”
Which industries do the cohort secure?
Introducing the Cyber 1.0 cohort
As Cyber is a sector programme, we are pleased with the wide range of skills and innovation the companies in this year’s cohort show. Their technology and values reflect the need for the public and democratising cyber, but also rapid innovation to compete with ever evolving and more sophisticated threats. We proudly announce our cohort.
Assuria
Reading | @AssuriaLtd
The software house Assuria develops its own cyber security software solutions for a range of different uses and sectors; Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Vulnerability Assessment and Big Data Security Analytics. These solutions are also integrated into Assuria’s Multi-tenant SOC Management Platform, which is provided to partners, enabling them to deliver enterprise-grade Managed Security Services to SME’s at affordable cost.
Awen Collective
Caerphilly | @awencollective
Awen Collective is an award-winning software company that develop digital forensics software solutions for industrial control systems, robotics and internet-of-things devices. Their products consist of “Profile”, a compliance checking software tool for critical infrastructure, and “Dot”, an asset and risk discovery tool. Awen also offers consultations, training, digital forensics and incident response in industrial environments.
Corax
London | @coraxcyber
Corax provides data, modelling and loss analytics on the cyber exposure of millions of interconnected companies worldwide. With the help of its scalable technology platform, combined with an extensive dataset and probabilistic modelling, it enables them to accurately manage and predict cyber risk exposure and provide clients with precise risk assessments.
Crypta Labs
London | @CryptaLabs
Crypta Labs is eliminating weaknesses in traditional PRNG encryption with their patent-pending Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) technology. The technology measures the photons from light to create a truly random number which can be used to seed the generation of encryption keys that secure communication between devices.
CybSafe
London | @cybsafe
CybSafe is a cyber security and data analytics company. They focus on influence, measurement and quantification of people-centric cyber security risks and resilience. Their cloud-based platform provides the world’s first intelligent cyber security awareness, behaviour and culture risk management solution, fusing psychology and behavioural science with artificial intelligence and data science.
DynaRisk
London | @dynarisk
DynaRisk wants to help the average consumer and SMEs to protect themselves online and have created the world’s first personal Cyber Security Score; the score is determined by assessing over 70 risk factors and indicates the likelihood of being defrauded or having information stolen. Alongside the score, users are given access to their own personal dashboard which contains an action plan, reports and more, tailored to their individual needs and designed to improve their safety online.
Fortium Technologies
Bridgend | @FortiumTech
Fortium keeps sensitive content secure from hackers, pirates and unintentional distribution within media and entertainment. Their software products focus on solving cyber security problems with a minimal amount of impact on the end user experience. They have become one of the most trusted providers within this space, working with the biggest film and TV studios for 20 years. Last year alone, Fortium products protected content which generated over $20bn of box-office revenue.
iProov
London | @iproov
iProov assures the genuine presence of online users and authenticates this with biometrics, in the form of face and palm authentication. Their patented Flashmark technology is unique in protecting against replays and deepfake synthetic video attacks. Their IDMatcher tool makes it possible to prove peoples identity in an online self-serving context, by matching their faces against their photo ID.
ISMS.online
Brighton and Hove | @isms_online
ISMS.online helps organisations demonstrate they can be trusted for information security management. This all-in-one place secure cloud service for ISO 27001, and much more, offers extensive end-to-end cyber security management, resilience and assurance of compliance for shareholders, customers, staff and supply chains.
Keepnet Labs
London | @keepnetlabs
Keepnet Labs protects businesses throughout the lifecycle of email-based cyber-attacks. They offer a full spectrum suite of email-based defence including threat monitoring, email threat simulation, user awareness and phishing incident response that encapsulates an integrated approach to people, processes and technology thus reducing threat in all areas of cyber risk.
LuJam Security
Bristol | @lujamcyber
LuJam is making Cyber Security more financially manageable for small to mid-sized organisations, offering Advanced Cyber Protection Service starting at £3 – £5 per seat, per month. Their state-of-the-art data science provides visibility of your network activity, automatically deals with threats and immediately alerts users of issues.
My1Login
Glasgow | @my1login
My1Login has won multiple awards for their widely compatible Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution that eliminates password-related cyber-security risks and addresses critical compliance obligations such as GDPR. The technology eliminates the need to remember and reset passwords by storing authentication data (i.e. passwords) using client-side encryption.
Novastone Media
London | @novastonemedia
Novastone built their solution from the ground up to satisfy security and operational requirements from their clients. They offer chat operating systems in the cloud or on-premise to organisations that use instant messaging internally or externally. They cater to everyone from banks to healthcare and have also integrated IM solutions for popular apps like WhatsApp.
Quant Network
London | @quant_network
Quant Network is aiming to provide solutions to build an internet we all can trust. They combine their experience in cyber security, government, industry and blockchain technology to create innovative products that will provide results, creating a secure online environment by verifying and validating the correspondence you send without leaving any personal data with them.
Red Sift
London | @redsift
Red Sift is a data-driven cybersecurity business that uses machine learning to help organisations of all sizes and sectors address day-to-day security challenges. It offers a dashboard of tools that analyse and synthesise data from core business processes, such as email, to help users to better manage their online security.
Skurio
Belfast | @SkurioC
Skurio is on a mission to reduce digital risk by identifying threats, detecting data breaches outside the network and automating response. Our Cloud based SaaS solution, BreachAlert, continuously monitors the open, deep and Dark Web to identify potential threats and discover breaches of corporate data. Tailored searches are quick and easy to set up and automatically alert security teams when data has been published, enabling effective action to be taken faster to deal with the impact, mitigate risk and minimise loss
SaltDNA
Belfast | @saltcontrol
SaltDNA builds secure enterprise mobile communication solutions. Their product provides secure voice calls, messaging, conference calls and image/file transfers. The founders of SaltDNA share a background in enterprise security, telecoms, network optimisation and mobile application development and used this experience to create the first solution for encrypted communications between devices with centralised control for the enterprise.
SE Labs
London | @selabsuk
With the goal of improving information technology security, SE Labs assesses products and services designed to detect attacks and protect against intrusions. They test a range of solutions, including endpoint software, network appliance and cloud services. The testing of commercial products makes it possible to discover areas of improvement for detection and protection.
White Bullet Solutions
White Bullet Solutions protects brands and media companies by preventing ad fraud and helping them stay IP risk compliant. Their AI analyses and scores websites or apps that may be breaching copyright on intellectual property. This enables advertisers, search engines and ISPs to avoid funding criminal sites and activity online.
XQ Cyber
Cheltenham | @XQCyber
With a vision of making cyber security available to everyone, simplified and easy to use, XQ Cyber focuses on protecting customers from cybercrime with their service, CyberScore. The automated cyber security testing and peer rating service converts technical data drawn from computer networks into a clear, concise risk rating and improvement plans.
The cyber growth programme lasts from May to late September 2019. The programme consists of carefully planned workshops, mentoring sessions with experienced founders and peer-to-peer learning that will help the cohort resolve issues companies face when scaling.
Data Analytics & Cyber security, Cyber 1.0, Early Stage, Mid Stage
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(301) 576 9910 info@swanendeleinn.com
Captain John Smith Room
Giles Brent Room
Inn Keepers
Lord Leonard Calvert Suite
Margaret & Giles Brent Suite
Margaret Brent Suite
Osprey Nest Room
Point Lookout Room
Point no Point Room
Swanendele Inn Suites
Swanendele Inn boasts two luxury suites named after the pioneers who played important roles in the development and history of St. Mary’s, MD. In 1639, the Brent’s, linear descendants of William the Conqueror, were granted the area on the Chesapeake south of St. Jerome’s Creek, where Swanendele Inn now stands. However, a deed was never registered due to political turmoil.
Lord Leonard Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore, arrived at St. Mary’s on the Dove in 1634. He was named by his brother as the first governor of St. Mary’s colony and was granted the nearby Trinity Manor in 1634. He made Margaret Brent his legal representative and executor of his estate and named her Acting Governor. She is referred to as “the first suffragette” as she was the first woman to demand a vote in the Maryland Assembly.
The Margaret & Giles Brent Suite, the Lord Calvert Suite and the Margaret Brent Suite are spacious and airy with private decks, waterfront views, natural stone (gas) fireplaces, and ceiling fans. Each suite features huge bathrooms with two-person jacuzzi, built-in champagne bucket, shower, separate toilet, and wet bar. Bathroom finishes are natural stone/marble/granite, European ceramic and oak.
The Margaret & Giles Brent Suite
The suite consists of two rooms; one is the spacious Margaret Brent sitting room, with optional king-size bed and a large private deck with a panoramic view of the Chesapeake Bay and St. Jerome’s Creek. A two-person jacuzzi with attached Champaign cooler makes a perfect place to watch the sunset over St. Jerome’s Creek. The adjoining, spacious Giles Brent bedroom has a queen-size bed, private bathroom. The Suite has built in bookshelves, ceiling fan, and natural stone gas fireplace. It offers magnificent views of the Chesapeake Bay and St. Jerome’s Creek. The total Suite, including the private deck is 983 square feet.
$550 plus applicable taxes
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All Rooms Include...
Complimentary multi course, warm breakfast served from 8 - 10am daily. Early breakfast by agreement. Monday “early bird special” for those leaving directly to work from 5:30 am.
Coffee and Tea Stations
Complimentary, help yourself coffee and tea are available at both the guest house and mezzanine wet bars. Each Suite also has a private wet bar and Keurig coffee/tea.
Complimentary parking for one vehicle per room conveniently located on site or immediate side-yard.
Enhanced wifi is provided by Atlantic Broadband and is generally accessible throughout the inn and grounds. The log-in details will be provided at check-in.
Check-in & Checkout
Check-in is after 3:00 p.m., earliest without prior arrangement. Check-out time is 11:00 a.m. We ask that you email us your approximate time of arrival within a one-hour time window and call 301-576-9910 as you turn on to Airedele Road so we can welcome you and assist with luggage.
We Are A Smoke-Free Facility
TOTAL – 100 percent prohibition on smoking or vaping indoors, including all outdoor decks. Smoking and/or “vaping” is permitted only in the designated area by the dock and fence where ash cans are provided.
Private Spaces
The innkeepers reside on the premises to make certain that your experience at Swanendele Inn will be exceptional and memorable. Access to the “private” sections of the house is not permitted. You will always be able to reach one of us on the “duty phone” any time during your stay.
We must receive 14 days’ (30 days for official holidays and multi-room bookings) notice prior to your confirmed arrival for a refund of your deposit less a $50 nonrefundable booking fee per room. Cancellations with fewer than 14 days (30 days for official holidays and multi-room bookings) notice, early check outs, and no-shows, will be charged the full amount unless the room(s) can be re-booked for the reserved dates.
Guest Responsibility and Jurisdiction
While accidents rarely happen, guests will be financially responsible for damage due to their negligence in the inn and on, or around, the decks or grounds. The parties agree that any controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to their stay, shall be settled by arbitration with St. Mary’s County, MD as the venue.
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49946 Airedele Road, RIDGE, MD 20680
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100 Years of Swansea City FC
The Vetch Field
Eileen Morgan – 1280 games
Eileen Morgan from Winch Waun
Eileen has seen approximately 1,250 home games and 30 away games. She has been a season-ticket holder since 1949 and now sits in the West Stand.
‘My first match was at the end of the 1945/6 season against Wolves. I was 11-years old and stood under the Double Decker. I didn’t see a player or a blade of grass, only the ball when it was in the air. But I was hooked and have been a supporter ever since. I didn’t see a player but Raich Carter who was one of the great footballers of all time captained Wolves that day. My Dad was home on leave from the army and kept saying “I would never have brought you if I knew there would be this many people here.”’
First away game: ‘1949 against Bristol Rovers. We were both fighting for promotion to the Second Division. It ended 1-1. The train wasn’t leaving Bristol until 10.00 after the game so my friend and I went to see Ted Ray as Buttons in Cinderella…. On the way home, youngsters who had drunk too much caused mayhem and the train had to stop so many times it was gone 4.00 am when we arrived home.’
Most vivid home memory: ‘In a Welsh Cup tie against Merthyr in 1950, the [railway] sleepers on the North Bank went on fire and we all had to run out. We waited until the fire was put out and then the game resumed.’
Most vivid away memory: ‘Going to Highbury. The stadium was so impressive and we beat Arsenal 2-0’.
Crowd trouble at home games: When we in the [old] First Division I was on my way home from the game when the Leeds supporters ran riot in the market, overturning the stall and terrifying everyone in there.’
Crowd trouble at away games: ‘At Cardiff when their fans charged at us and pelted us from behind the Bank (early 1980s). At Preston, May 1981, a brick was thrown through our coach outside the ground.’
The Vetch and The Liberty: ‘In the beginning I thought we’d lost so much of the wonderful atmosphere at the Vetch but now its really taken off at the Liberty. The facilities are so much better at the Liberty.’
Most memorable game: ‘The last game of the season against Hull City. Went with tears in my eyes thinking it may be our last league game but came out with tears of joy and no voice.’
Favourite Swans player of all time: Bob Latchford.
Favourite Swans manager of all time: Billy McCandless.
Best Swans XI of all time:
Johnny King
Rory Keane
Reg Weston
Roy Paul
Billy Lucas
Frankie Burns
Cliff Jones
Ivor Allchurch
Celebrating and recording the history of Swansea City FC, 1912-2012
Swansea-born international XI 1966
Jimmy Rimmer Testimonial
Swansea vs Arsenal 1968, the Vetch Field’s Record Attendance.
The gods are with Swansea: looking forward to the FA Cup quarterfinal 1964
1964 FA Cup quaterfinal Swans v Liverpool
Football is Culture
When the whole Swans squad refused to sign new contracts
RT @robertmdaws: #SwanseaCity @SwanseaCity100 vs #LiverpoolFC FACup 1964 https://t.co/b0e0rq90pV 11 months ago
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100 Years of Swansea City FC · Celebrating and recording the history of Swansea City FC
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24 Rescued From Six Flags Rollercoaster
Firefighters rescuing 24 riders stuck atop the Joker's Jinx roller coaster at Six Flags theme park in Prince George's County, Maryland on August 10, 2014.
Marc Bashoor—Prince George's County Maryland Fire/EMS/EPA
By Maya Rhodan
A rollercoaster at a Maryland Six Flags amusement park stopped on its tracks Sunday, stranding passengers the park’s Joker’s Jinx ride.
It took about five hours to rescue the ride’s 24 passengers, each of whom were rescued one-by-one, WJLA reports. Prince George’s County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor tweeted the rescue Sunday, sharing photos and information as it happened. None of the passengers reported injuries.
Six Flags spokesperson Debbie Evans said in a statement that the theme park is unsure why exactly the ride stopped, but that “the ride performed as it’s designed to.” WJLA reports the ride stops when its computer system detects a problem.
Joker’s Jinx is a 60 mile-per-hour ride with “over 55 twisting curves,” according to the Six Flags America website.
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This glossary began as a series of posts for the A to Z Challenge in April 2016, and a version of these articles can still be found in my main blog during that month.
I have compiled them here for alphabetical convenience, and updated them with photographs from the version of the glossary that I presented at When Words Collide in Calgary in August of 2016.
Autogyro: An autogyro, sometimes called a gyrocopter or gyroplane, is a flying machine that is neither an airplane nor a helicopter, although it is a rotorcraft. It is driven through the air by a propeller, like a plane, but has a passive rotor, more like a helicopter. The rotor is not connected to a power source, but twirls freely in the wind.
To make an autogyro take off, the pilot adds power until the propeller pulls (or pushes) the machine into motion, and as it gains airspeed, the rotor begins to turn. When it is providing enough lift, the aircraft takes to the skies. The take-off roll is usually very short, so autogyros are usually classed as STOL, Short Take-Off or Landing.
Tech Level: First flown in 1923 (just twenty years after the Wright Brothers) the main technological hurdle is a small engine, so I class the autogyro as Dieselpunk. In the seventies, ads for DIY kits appeared in magazines like Popular Mechanics.
Appeared In: In speculative fiction, you may remember autogyros from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, or the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice.
Also Doc Savage, Doctor Who and many others.
For Your Plot: The autogyro flies low and slow, so it’s good for reconnaissance or search. Long trips, not so much. Great potential for your hero to have a non-fatal accident due to engine failure, birdstrike or controlled flight into terrain. (Hit a tree, dude) An autogyro is small enough to store in a garage until after the apocalypse.
Aerostat: an aircraft that is inherently buoyant. Also referred to as Lighter Than Air, or LTA. Heavier than air machines, such as airplanes are classed as Aerodynes, a word more commonly seen in the form aerodynamic.
Balloon: One of the oldest forms of aviation pioneered by humans. There are two main kinds, the hot-air balloon popular at festivals, and the lifting-gas balloon, filled with helium or hydrogen. The former requires fuel, so duration is limited. The latter is more expensive, but better suited to longer flights such as ocean crossings. There are also hybrid designs. Balloons can be navigated by climbing and descending to take advantage of variations in the wind. This is as much art as science; balloon pilots relish the challenge.
A tethered balloon I rose in on the Kenora harbourfront, when I was an announcer at CJRL
Tech Level: The Montgolfier brothers famously flew a hot-air balloon in 1783. The principle requirement is a fine, nearly airtight fabric, such as silk or paper. The Montgolfiers used sackcloth lined with paper. I class the balloon as Clockpunk or lower.
Appeared In: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873. You can’t ask for a finer pedigree than that.
For Your Plot: Wonderful potential to take your hero to the wrong place, and ample opportunity to mess him up with minor injuries from a bad landing, or worse trouble from an unplanned landing in the water, mountains, or orc territory.
Biplane: A fixed-wing airplane with two wings, one (approximately) above the other. In its heyday during World War I, it offered designers a strong yet compact design, as the two wings could be braced together with struts and flying wires. That creates drag, so the biplane tends to be slow, and the design is all but extinct these days. A fabulously quirky example was the Sopwith Camel. It had no brakes, no throttle, and a rotary engine: the designers chose to bolt the propeller to the engine block and fix the driveshaft to the airframe. The whole engine spun while the plane stood still. Great for cooling, but no muffler, so sneaking into enemy territory was not an option. See a wonderful eight minute video here.
Tech Level: Post-industrial, because a light powerplant such as a reciprocating engine is needed. I class it as Dieselpunk.
Appeared In: Storming, by K.M. Weiland.
For Your Plot: Many biplanes had open cockpits. Subject your hero to freezing wind, hypoxia and bugsplats. Get her lost when the map is blown overboard. A stylish goggle-tan makes her stand out in the crowd.
Cannon: a large hollow tube used to accelerate a projectile, usually by means of expanding gases. While not often thought of as a means of transporting people through the atmosphere, it can be done. Circuses have been showcasing “human cannonballs” for a century and a half, but their modest devices have very limited range. More is possible. Electro-magnetic cannons use a series of powerful magnets to accelerate a metal projectile, and a big enough one could launch a capsule with human occupants.
Tech Level: Low, if you do it with gunpowder or flammable gases. High, if you do it with fancy magnets and superconductors.
Appeared In: Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon. If you think that’s more spaceflight than air travel, a more modern example is a Canadian cartoon called The Boy. A clever kid and his muscular minder were launched to trouble-spots all over the earth in a fluid-filled spherical capsule fired from an underground (steam?) cannon.
For Your Plot: Physically draining, I would imagine. Also, what if you miss the target? I hate when that happens.
Cluster Balloon: the proper name for a bunch of weather balloons tied to a lawn chair. This is aviation at its most basic, and it’s blinding in its simplicity. You just need balloons, a generous supply of helium, and nerves of steel. Kids, don’t try this at home. But lest you think this is the stuff of suicidal scofflaws, here’s a link to clusterballoon.com where you can read about record-breaking flights in an American registered aircraft of this type.
Tech Level: Low. Although the modern practitioners prefer latex weather balloons and helium, it could be done with hot air. I class it as suitable for post-apocalyptic, alternative history or time-travel. Hydrogen filled dinosaur bladders, anyone?
Appeared In: The Disney/Pixar movie Up. Trailers here. They get bonus points for using party balloons.
For Your Plot: Even more difficult to steer than a hot-air balloon, because climbing and descending are limited by how much ballast you can drop and how many individual balloons you can afford to pop. Your hero could end up anywhere. Unconsciousness and even death by hypoxia is a risk if you fly too high, and baby, it’s cold up there!
Dirigible: Also known as airships, these are essentially streamlined balloons with a propulsion system. Dirigibles come three flavours: rigid, like the Hindenburg and its rivals, which had full airframes; semi-rigid, which have a keel or other partial structure; and non-rigid, which hold their shape by gas pressure alone, like the Goodyear blimps. Dirigible use peaked between the World Wars, but they may yet make a comeback on the strength of their ability to haul massive loads by air. While hot-air dirigibles are possible, helium or hydrogen-filled ones are more common.
Tech Level: The first powered flight was in 1852, and it was—drum roll, please—a steam powered dirigible. Go Steampunk! Airships are a defining trait of this genre.
Appeared In: My favourite Spec Fic anime: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and other wonderful Hayao Miyazaki projects such as Castle in the Sky. Kenneth Oppel‘s Airborn and its sequels Skybreaker and Starclimber are all on the shelf at my right hand as I write this. Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond by Jayne Barnard is nominated in the YA Novel category for an Aurora this year.
For Your Plot: I’m biased here. Airships play a major role in my own work, where they provide trade between isolated communities on a lost colony planet. And impose trade sanctions, but that’s another story. You go write your own.
Dynastat: This term gets my award for Worst Greek Ever, because it leaves out the essential aero part. It refers to an airship that derives lift from both aerostatic and aerodynamic means; a dirigible with a lifting body shape.
Electric Aircraft: any flying machine that is propelled by an electric motor. Naturally, the first example was a dirigible (in 1883) because the lifting gas took care of the battery weight and speed wasn’t a requirement. There were some experimental conversions of airplanes in the 1970’s, mainly led by sailplanes employing electric power as a supplement, and leading to some commercially available small aircraft, but it was 21st century before solar power, improved battery chemistry and fuel cell technology began to make serious inroads. At the time of this writing, electric aircraft are still on the fringes. A small electric helicopter flew in 2011. Records are being set, but the prospect of buying a ticket on an electric airliner is decades away.
Tech Level: Steampunk, if you include dirigibles. Solarpunk could make use of either solar-powered airships or airplanes.
Appeared In: I have yet to find a definitive example. Comment if you know a good one.
For Your Plot: Electric aircraft could be anything from a reliable means of transport that lends flavour to your solarpunk world-building, to an edgy, cobbled-together means of moving about in a post-apocalyptic world.
Floatplane: A type of seaplane that has (usually two) buoyant floats to allow for take-off from and landing (alighting, if you insist) on a body of water. Believe it or not, the first racing planes were on floats. There were no long runways back in the day, so starting in 1913 the Schneiders Trophy planes were flown from the water. One notable example was the Supermarine S.6B, a floatplane forerunner of the Spitfire, and the last trophy winner in 1931. Floatplane floats are not crude pontoons, but are shaped like a boat hull on the bottom so that they can plane on the surface of the water as the airplane approaches flying speed. In some cases, floats are integral to the design of the airplane, but are nowadays more often in the form of a kit used to modify a suitable land-plane. Amphibious designs incorporating retractable wheels into the floats are possible, but the weight penalty is severe. I flew float planes for years, and in my part of Canada, bush planes are a common sight.
Me, circa 1980, with a DeHavilland Beaver
Tech Level: A reciprocating engine (or turbine) is a must, so Dieselpunk.
Appeared In: A friend has written a lovely dieselpunk example, but I cannot share it with you because A) it would be a spoiler, and B) the book isn’t out yet. Alternatively, Waterworld.
For Your Plot: Take your hero off the beaten track. Avoid airports altogether. Flee the zombie hordes.
Flying Boat: The other kind of seaplane. A flying boat is an airplane with a hull designed to act as a watercraft, and propeller placement chosen to avoid spray. Amphibious variations have less of a weight penalty than the float planes. The golden age of flying boats may have been the years between WWI & WWII. This was the era of the Pan-Am Clippers, large flying boats that took wealthy passengers across the Atlantic and, in stages, the Pacific. This is also the era when my Uncle Leonard flew a Supermarine Walrus from a Royal Navy cruiser in the Mediterranean. Hard to believe that this ugly duckling, a biplane flying boat, came from the same company as the beautiful Spitfire. The only modern flying boats of any size are water-bombers such as the Bombardier 415.
My uncle Leonard flew these in the Mediterranean before WWII
Hughes Hercules H-4, better known as the Spruce Goose.
Tech Level: Same as above, Dieselpunk. Also ripe for Alternative History.
Appeared In: More than one Adventure Story. I think I remember a sort of airborne Murder on the Orient Express thing. In Spec Fic, Ian Sales set out to write an SF short story, with interesting but unconventional results.
For Your Plot: This harks to an amazing era, when the Pan-Am Clipper was the Concorde of its day. Millionaire passengers, autocratic Captains, eastern intrigue and typhoons. Do me.
Glider: an unpowered airplane, sometimes called a sailplane. Otto Lilienthal was gliding down slopes in wood and cloth contraptions long before the Wright Brothers built the Flyer. Later gliders were good enough to gain altitude in even mild updrafts, and long-distance flights became possible, if challenging. A surprising development was the discovery that towing a glider behind a powered plane is remarkably efficient, and gliders full of troopers were towed across the channel and released to glide into France during WWII.
Tech Level: Pre-industrial. Suitable for everything from Clockpunk to Post-Apocalyptic.
Appeared In: My debut SF novel, Avians, is all about gliders and the girls that fly them, but it won’t be out until 2017. So how about Hal Clement’s Cycle of Fire? Aliens with gliders, and an imperative need for aviation.
For Your Plot: Your time-traveller can hook up with Leonardo and help him work the kinks out. No gasoline in your dystopia? Gliders are the way to go. Perils abound, many of them conveniently non-fatal.
Ground-Effect Vehicle: an aircraft designed for flight very close to the surface. (You’ll want to make that a relatively level surface, such as water or prairie.) Any airplane with wings experiences ground-effect when it flies lower than its own wingspan; efficiency increases as a bubble of air builds up between the wing and the ground. Tales abound of crippled WWII bombers limping home by skimming the waves. The Russians set out to deliberately exploit this quirk during the Cold War. They designed some planes with wings that were optimized for cupping air beneath the aircraft, and flying so low they were literally below the radar. Today, there are sport-craft versions like the Skimmer.
Tech Level: Usually Dieselpunk, because engines. However, the efficiency of ground-effect makes Steampunk a distinct possibility.
Appeared In: No clue. Maybe you can be the first.
For Your Plot: Bonus points if you tow your GEV behind a steamboat, like tubing, but in the air. Cut loose to skim over the waves and flip the bird at our alien jellyfish overlords.
Hang Glider: A simple frame and fabric glider with the pilot suspended in a harness so that the aircraft can be guided by shifting the pilot’s weight. Nowadays, hang gliders are made from aluminum tubing and nylon. Beginner flights are short and close to the ground, but experienced pilots can soar for hours. HangGliding.org
Tech Level: Low. Could be made from wood and sailcloth, so Age of Sail. Could be made of bamboo and silk, so good potential in the Tang Dynasty. Conceivably, since metal is not a requirement, Stonepunk. Wonderful for Time Travel or Alternative History.
Appeared In: Windhaven, by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle. In this book, the flyers have collapsible wings constructed of materials salvaged from their ancestors’ space ship. Fran Wilde’s Updraft and Cloudbound have hang gliders of silk and bone. Avatar: The Last Airbender, an animated series I admire for its complex characters, also featured a folding glider.
For Your Plot: Anything goes! The hang glider rivals the hot air balloon for any character that needs to go flying in a low-tech environment.
Hovercraft: A machine that uses powerful fans to float on a cushion of air. As a teenager, I crossed the English Channel in one. It was quick, but expensive. And noisy. With a ride height of a meter or more, they should have great potential for travelling over ice, water or desert terrain. They were used in Viet Nam by US marines to patrol river deltas. They seem to have fallen into decline without ever really taking off.
I crossed the English Channel in one of these as a teenager
Tech Level: High. Light powerful engines are a must. Probably most at home in SF or Military SF, where they can be used to travel alien landscapes. Might be good in climate-themed post-apocalypse tales.
Appeared In: Nope. Drawing a blank here.
For Your Plot: When global warming floods Manhattan and the starving stockbrokers turn all Waterworld on you, you could skim over the treetops of Central Park in your hovercraft. You’d be quick, but not stealthy. Watch out for currency traders on jet skis. Expect to hit stuff, hovercraft are notoriously hard to steer.
ICBM: A rocket that blasts into space and arcs back down into the atmosphere to arrive at your destination. Does it have potential as a passenger craft? Depends how tough your passengers are. The good news: it’s so fast you won’t have to worry about airline food. The bad news: you’re probably going to have to be encased in foam or liquid to survive the g-forces, so forget about asking for more pretzels. Tickets will be expensive, and insurance will be out of this world.
Haven’t got a ride in one of these yet.
Tech Level: High. The rocketry part became possible in the twentieth century. The human survivability part is still pending.
Appeared In: I’m still checking. Seems to me that one of the early SF authors proposed rocket travel between the continents, with Winnipeg as the North American terminal. Update: at Keycon 34, an audience member assured me that this was Heinlein.
For Your Plot: Accident-wise, your human character will either make it, or she won’t. Robots and cyborgs might do better. Might actually be more fun on Mars, where the gravity is lower and the distances are less. Also, the atmosphere is much thinner, making it harder for discount airlines to compete. One drawback? No continents on Mars: we might have to call it an Inter-Colony Ballistic Missile.
Jet Pack: You strap a jet engine to your back and go screaming into the sky. Perk: no one hears your cowardly cries over the screech of the jet. You get maybe thirty minutes of fuel, so don’t waste time looking for a better parking spot. Companies that are developing and demonstrating them, such as Martin Jetpack, are focusing on the emergency response market to start with.
Tech Level: High. These are just emerging now and I expect they’d be nearly impossible to fly without sophisticated computerized controls. Best genre fit: Near Future Military SF.
Appeared In: The Rocketeer. I know what you’re thinking: that wasn’t a jet pack, it was a rocket pack. However, it was fueled by alcohol only, and carried no oxygen supply. So, despite the name, it was a jet pack, and it even had a compressor stage. Dig into the TV Tropes website for more on both Jet Packs and The Rocketeer. Conversely, when I ransacked the internet looking for fictional jet packs, nearly everyone was actually using rockets. Go figure.
For Your Plot: The Martin Jetpack has a gas tank the size of a small car’s and burns through it in about half an hour, so giant plot holes destroy the space-time continuum if your hero gets two hours of flight time out of a fuel tank smaller than a motorcycle’s.
Kite: The oldest flying technology in this entire glossary. The Chinese were building elaborate kites 2300 years ago, and it didn’t take them long to launch the first aeronauts. The west caught up late in the nineteenth century, with manned kites used for military reconnaissance. With the right design, kite pilots can cut free from their tether to glide to a safe landing, and this can be seen as the origin of hang-gliding.
Tech Level: Low. Within reach of any culture with a tightly woven fabric or membrane. Well suited to Time Travel stories, Alternative History and every tech level up to Steampunk.
Appears In: AM Dellamonica’s Daughter of No Nation, as a way to launch Hang Gliders.
For Your Plot: I have an unfinished short story with a boy-lifting kite in the Age of Sail. The Royal Navy of Hornblower’s time had everything they needed except the imagination.
Levitation: A means of floating above the earth without using aerodynamic lift or aerostatic buoyancy. This might mean magic, such as a flying carpet; it could mean anti-gravity, popular in far-future SF; or most pragmatically, it could mean magnetic levitation, popularly called mag-lev. This last is the only one we actually have working examples of, and engineering them requires not just special vehicles, but special rails to run them on, and vast amounts of power.
Tech Level: High. We’re barely getting started in the 21st century. Best fit: Space Opera.
Appeared In: In the case of magical levitation, we can look all the way back to Arabian Nights. In Science Fiction circles, anti-gravity or null-grav has appeared in everything from Star Wars (Luke’s speeder) to David Weber’s (Honor Harrington) Military SF.
For Your Plot: Force fields, tractor beams, and artificial gravity exert an irresistible pull on Space Opera. Like faster than light travel, these technologies are as desirable as they are elusive. To write certain types of SF, they are just plain essential. Please keep in mind that the best magic and far-future tech have something in common: limitations. If your technology or magic is so powerful as to give your main character boundless abilities, it will be hard to pose challenges.
Motor Glider: A sailplane equipped with a small motor to allow it to take off unaided. The idea is to shut the motor down once you reach a safe altitude and proceed by soaring. The first designs date from the 1930s. The propeller usually folds away or feathers its blades to reduce drag, and fuel tanks tend to be modest in capacity. One or two models manage to stow the whole motor away. Electric versions exist, taking advantage of the need for only a few minutes of battery life. Small jet engines have also been tried.
Note the doors behind the mast to stow the whole drive-train away.
Tech Level: A wood and cloth glider with a gunpowder rocket could be pre-industrial, so it could fit Alternative History or Time Travel. I like the idea of a clockwork version, just so I can say Clockpunk. Motor gliders with electric motors or small gasoline engines need Steampunk or Dieselpunk levels of technology.
Appeared In: I’m sure I read a Post-Apocalyptic story with one of these. The hero appreciated it for its infrequent need for refueling. Sorry, I cannot remember the author or title. Search engines are frustratingly unhelpful; I wish I had the memory for books authors that Jo Walton does.
For Your Plot: A wood and fabric glider pushed to altitude by a gunpowder rocket would be huge fun, but (talk about your blaze of glory) highly flammable. A more modern version should be in every Omega Man’s toolkit. Just think of the grief Bill Masen could have avoided in Day of the Triffids if he could have just flown to the Isle of Man.
Nuclear Powered Aircraft: Just what it sounds like. The War in the Pacific made it abundantly clear to the American military that they needed a bomber with limitless range, and during the cold war, both sides tried to solve the problem with nuclear powered flight. Honest, I’m not making this up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft In the fifties, the Americans got as far as flying a converted B-36 bomber with a nuclear reactor on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H The reactor was not connected to the motors, the purpose of the test flights was to see if the lead-lined cockpit resulted in acceptable (read, survivable) levels of radiation for the crew. Jet engines powered by nuclear reactors were tested on the ground. This fascinating technology almost made it into production, but the ICBM offered an easier way to deliver nuclear weapons, and the program was shelved.
Tech Level: High. Cries out for Alternative History. Nuclear powered airship, anyone?
Appeared In: Nope, don’t think so.
For Your Plot: What if Werner Von Braun never gave the Nazi’s the V-2? Bombers would have remained at the forefront of military tech for at least a little longer. That’s all it would have taken. Imagine the civilian possibilities: non-stop flights from the US to Australia in the sixties. “Stewardesses” in lead-lined mini-skirts serving coffee laced with iodine to protect passengers against exposure. Come to think of it, airline coffee does taste funny…
Ornithopter: A machine that flies by flapping its wings. Seriously, it’s a thing. http://www.ornithopter.org/ claims the first successful flight was made in 1942. To do it with mainstream technology such as drive-belts and cams is difficult. To really fly like a bird, you need muscles like a bird. Synthetic muscles are just emerging, although this Popular Mechanics article shows how they can be made from simple monofilament fishing line. We might get there yet.
See what those wingtips are doing? Think we’re ready to build a machine that can do that? Picture from a First Nations fishing camp, where this eagle was half tamed.
Tech Level: This is tricky. Flapping wings have been tried for centuries, and they’re only just beginning to work now. Not an easy fit for Near Future SF or Dieselpunk, they might be more at home in something with more of an Alien Worlds vibe.
Appeared In: Dune, by Frank Herbert. Ornithopters were in the book but not the movie, because even if you get the computer animation right, it still looks so weird that people won’t believe it. Jayne Barnard’s Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond.
For Your Plot: I think Mr. Herbert did it because he wanted Arrakis to look regressive and technologically divergent. For something completely different, we could go back in time and build a fake fire-breathing dragon and take over some nice castles. Better yet, let’s have a woman do it, and stand all that damsel in a tower stuff on its head.
Parachute: A lightweight fabric canopy intended to slow the descent of a falling human enough for safe(ish) landing. Originally conceived as an aerodynamic device that offered only drag, the parachute soon evolved. The addition of slits or vents to a simple dome allowed for steering and some forward speed. A revolution in design in the seventies saw the round parachute replaced by the square: this was a true airfoil–with a wing shape inflated by airflow– that offered much better control of the descent and landing.
Five-cell and seven-cell square parachutes
Tech Level: Ludicrously low. You need silk. Parachutes could have been sewn in the old Chinese dynasties. Then again, you need something to jump from. Balloons or kites would be the best technological match. Fits easily into anything from Stonepunk to Military SF.
Appeared In: The Perilous Descent by Bruce Carter. This was an adventure story about an airman who parachutes onto a deserted island and finds a passage to an underground civilization. [I read it as a child. I remember learning the word fortress. What is that, a girl fort? …good times.] Amazon lists used copies of the Puffin paperback starting at a penny, and look: there’s a parachute right on the cover!
For Your Plot: Not underground adventures, it’s been done. How about Sky Ninjas, or Mulan as a paratrooper? Lovely potential for having your main character drift off course, crash land or both.
Powered Paraglider: The paraglider was an evolution of the square parachute, with a higher aspect ratio (longer wing) to improve performance. It wasn’t long before some backyard inventor attached a lawn-mower engine and a small propeller to make it ground-launchable, and the powered paraglider, umm, took off. Probably the most portable flying machine ever.
Tech Level: Although this is a recent invention, and draws on fairly sophisticated aerodynamics, the construction of a paraglider could have been done during the Chinese dynasties. They didn’t have Rotax engines or propellers, but they did have rockets. Whee! File it under Time Travel, or use a modern version in your Post-Apocalyptic zombie vampire thing.
Appeared In: Sounds like Clive Cussler’s cup of tea. Anybody know of anything more definitively Spec Fic? Update: my short story “The Emperor’s Dragon” has sold to NewMyths.com to appear in issue #39. It speculates about how the ancient Chinese could have defended the Great Wall with a form of powered flight a thousand years before the Wright brothers.
For Your Plot: Somewhat radar-stealthy, (“you can ignore that target, lieutenant, it’s just a 250 pound pelican”) but not quiet. On second thoughts, maybe don’t do the Post-Apocalyptic zombie vampire thing- Julie Kagawa got there first with her Blood of Eden series. She missed out on paragliders, but she got everything else!
Quadcopter or Quadrotor: More formally known as the quad-rotor helicopter, this kind of machine is best known in the form of those little camera-toting drones. Full-size quadcopters with human pilots on board can trace their roots back to around 1907. Regular single rotor helicopters have two basic problems: they want to spin around, and they want to tip to one side when they go forwards. The first comes from torque, and can be corrected with a tail rotor. The second comes from the advancing blade producing more lift than the retreating blade, and fancy moving parts offset this by varying the angle of the blade as it swings. Both problems go away if you use four rotors and rotate two of them in the opposite direction. I’d call it an elegant solution, but the machines usually look pretty ungainly. The Achilles’ heel of this design is the need to keep all four rotors precisely powered; a loss of lift in one corner would be disastrous.
Tech Level: Once again, the need for lightweight engines puts us at twentieth-century levels. Dieselpunk it is, with one magnificent exception: the Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter that took the AHS Sikorsky Prize was a quadcopter. It had four featherweight rotors the size of glider wings that turned very slowly. My favourite factoid about it? After the incredibly athletic pilot secured the prize with a flight of just over one minute, even his nerdiest teammates were able to get it airborne for a few seconds each.
Appeared In: Drawing a blank here. I thought I might find a quadcopter in my anime collection, because some of those artists like crazy aircraft as much as I do, but no such luck.
For Your Plot: One of those pizza-sized drones equipped with a tiny seat would be the perfect vehicle for Stuart Little. As for human-sized quadrotors, the machine has essentially the same strengths and weaknesses as a normal helicopter, so apart from a geek-chic vibe, I don’t know what it brings to your story.
Rotastat: A combination of rotary wing (helicopter) and aerostat (balloon). A conventional helicopter uses most of its power just to lift its own airframe, fuel and pilot. Not much is left for payload. What if we bolt a bunch of helicopters to an airship? The helium could support the weight of not just the airship, but the helicopter parts as well. Then 100% of the rotor thrust could go into hauling payload, and the whole craft could lower itself without the need for fooling around with ballast or venting gas. It’s been tried, but a 1986 attempt called Helistat failed when one of the altered helicopters broke free of the framework, and the whole contraption tore itself to pieces.
The Helistat used four Sikorski S58 helicopters, each with an empty weight 7900lbs, and a max gross of 14000. They were lightened by removing the tails. Also one ZPN-2 navy blimp: 1,000,000 cu ft. It had a crew of fourteen for navy use.
Cyclo-Crane. Flying football with four stalks from a central axle, and a control cab slung from the axle ends. Motors and propellers spin the whole gas-bag, with the stalks acting like a giant propeller to provide thrust, and the wings at the end of the stalks doubling the static lift when loaded, or negating it when empty.
Tech Level: Lower than you might think. The lifting power of helium (or hydrogen, for the fearless) can support a lot of weight if the airship is big enough. Power to weight ratio is less important than in other forms of powered flight. I say it’s Steampunk, or perhaps Solarpunk.
Appeared In: Well, not exactly, but Jules Verne wrote Robur the Conqueror and its sequel, Master of the World. Both books featured a multi-rotor flying machine that did not use any lifting gases.
For Your Plot: If you’d like to steal something large and heavy, like the Statue of Liberty, (225 tons) you’re going to want a Rotastat. Just don’t count on a speedy getaway.
Ski Plane: An ordinary airplane equipped with skis to land on snow or ice. Still fairly common in Canada, where I flew a few hundred hours in small bush plane variants, they must be somewhat exotic in Australia or Brazil. Nowadays, wheel-skis are more common than “straight boards,” because they offer the option of landing on dry runways with the skis raised, or on frozen lakes with the skis lowered. Kenn Borek Air, a Calgary based company that flies extensively in Antarctica has nice pictures of Twin Otters and Turbine DC-3s on skis. Even larger aircraft can be converted, up to and including the C-130 Hercules.
Tech Level: Depends more on the plane than the skis. Let’s say Dieselpunk.
Appeared In: I know I read a fictional account about a woman flying a Herc on skis on a rescue mission that involved landing and taking off in deep snow. It wasn’t really Spec Fic, but if anyone remembers the title or author, I’d love to know.
For Your Plot: Getting stuck in slush is every ski plane pilot’s nightmare. Daylight doesn’t last long in the winter, and the situation will worsen as temperatures fall overnight. It is also possible to break through the ice of a frozen lake or river if the current has worn the ice thin. Other hazards include blizzards and whiteouts.
Steam powered aircraft: The first powered aircraft to fly successfully was a steam-powered dirigible: Giffard, 1852. As mentioned before, lighter-than-air craft can carry a heavier powerplant than an airplane or helicopter, because power to weight ratios are not critical. However, a steam powered airplane is (just barely) feasible.
Tech Level: Steampunk, duh!
Appeared In: Sean McMullen’s “Steamgothic,” a short story in his Ghosts of Engines Past anthology. If you’ve been enjoying this glossary, you should check it out. An award winning Australian author, Sean was one of the first in the Steampunk field.
For Your Plot: All the hazards of fringe aviation with the added risk of lightweight boilers. I have to say I’m drawn in by the potential for a romance between a stoker on an airship’s soot-covered “black gang” and a bridge officer striving to become the first female airship captain.
Tiltrotor: An aircraft that takes off vertically like a helicopter, then rotates its two giant propellers to fly horizontally like an airplane. The concept dates from the 1930s, but the first successful prototypes didn’t fly until the 1950s. Here’s a link to a YouTube clip promoting the military Bell V-22 Osprey, because a video is worth a thousand words.
Tiltwing: Same idea, but on this variant, the entire wing rotates, not just the engine nacelles. Orienting the wing vertically for take-off reduces drag and allows for better climb performance in VTOL mode, but adds complexity and weight. I’m going to use the term tiltrotor to include both kinds.
Both formats have a size limitation that is probably insurmountable. You can only make rotors so big, so we’re not likely to see a tiltrotor much bigger than a bus. Trying to build one with more than two rotors just gets crazy.
Tech Level: High, as it works best if you have both turbine engines and computers for flight control. Best genre fit: Military or Near Future SF. Also a good choice for post-apocalyptic recovery, where humans retain a few hubs of technology and work to rescue survivors from isolated pockets.
Appeared In: The cyberpunk anime movie Ghost in the Shell and the anime series Read or Die both used tiltrotors in urban environments. The cartoon Martin Mystery (half Canadian, eh!) employed a ducted tiltrotor in wilderness settings. I think what makes the tiltrotor a favourite with animators is that it’s easier to show than tell. Where a written description of the machine’s transition from vertical to horizontal flight would be cumbersome, animation makes it instantly understandable. Also Avatar, although those ducted tiltrotors had little or no fixed wing.
For Your Plot: Vertical Take-Off is very handy for getting around without infrastructure like runways. That makes tiltrotors a natural for exploring or colonizing new worlds. Take your heroes swiftly to unexplored parts of the planet, and drop them into the places where the planetary survey charts say, “Here be dragons!”
Ultralight: A minimalist aircraft with a weight of roughly a thousand pounds or less. The United States Ultralight Association has photographs of a variety of designs. Descended from hang gliders, ultralights and microlights typically have tubular aluminum frames, fabric covered wings and open seating rather than an enclosed cockpits. They are not built for speed or comfort, but they will put a grin on your face. Rules vary from country to country, but they are generally less stringently regulated than conventional airplanes. Canadian authorities register them in a separate class; American regulations don’t require them to be registered at all. The Wright brothers would have given their teeth for one of these, or even a good look at one.
Tech Level: Fairly low, in that advanced metalworking is not required, but you do need a lightweight engine, so Dieselpunk as a starting point, with great Post-Apocalyptic potential. Human-powered ultralights are possible, which gets us off the hook for a lightweight power plant, but the tech level rises towards composite materials in other areas because of the need for a very light and efficient airframe, transmission and propeller.
Appeared In: Emergence, by David R. Palmer (1984). After a biowarfare apocalypse, a young girl discovers she is evolved beyond ordinary humans, learns to fly an ultralight, and sets out to find more of her kind. Note: when I went looking for this out of print book online, paperback editions were mainly listed for $130 and up, with some premium copies priced at over $4000.
For Your Plot: Yay! Your hero can teach himself to fly an ultralight by trial and error. While being pursued by dystopian slavers on dirt-bikes. Through the radioactive badlands, because he’ll need some rough terrain to outrun a motorcycle. And he’ll have to turn the tables on one of those bikers if he wants to refuel.
Vacuum Airship: A theoretical kind of aerostat, or lighter-than-air flying machine. Except this one, instead of displacing air with a lighter lifting gas such as helium, has a rigid hull “filled with vacuum.” Okay, that’s a silly way of putting it. The air is pumped out while the hull retains its volume. Just in case you think the A to Z Challenge has driven me crazy and I’ve become so desperate at the tail end of the alphabet that I’ve started making stuff up, here’s a link to the Wikipedia article. Naturally, a nylon or silk envelope would simply collapse, so you need something really light and strong to make a rigid vessel out of. Titanium probably couldn’t do it. Futuristic materials such as graphene might work, but what you really want is an airtight force-field. Then you build a keel with a control cab and some propellers, and just create an air-displacing vacuum volume hull above you as you go. Big load? Crank up the volume. Between cargo-hauls? Shrink it down to a streamlined shape just big enough to support the permanent mechanical parts and fly fast to your next job. For extra points, shape the vacuum hull to generate lift: an airship that does this is called a dynastat. With force-field tech, you could alter the shape of the dynastat on the fly for optimal efficiency and as you sped up and increased aerodynamic lift, you could actually shrink the vacuum hull down a little. I want one.
Tech Level: Extremely high. Might work as Solarpunk. Best suited to Far Future or Space Opera.
Appeared In: Nothing that I know of. Illuminate me. Update: Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age has a future where technology has perfected manipulating the carbon atom: vacuum airships are mentioned.
For Your Plot: On the plus side, it would be adjustable to fly on almost any planet with an atmosphere, so it would make a great scout ship for your intrepid team of exoplanet explorers. On the minus side, a power failure would be a downer.
Wingsuit: A parachutist’s jumpsuit with wings comparable to a flying squirrel’s. As early as the 1970s, some skydivers used “swoop cords” to tauten their jumpsuit from wrist to ankle, increasing their surface area and reducing their terminal velocity. The wingsuit takes this idea and runs with it. Wingsuits don’t have a very good glide ratio, but they do make lateral progress. Thrillseekers push it to the limit by flying down mountainsides. A parachute is usually used for a safe landing, but there is a video of one guy landing unhurt on a gigantic pile of cardboard boxes, so it’s only a matter of time.
Tech Level: Low, actually. Like parachutes, all you really need are fabric, a needle and thread. Fatally steep learning curve for the early adopters, though. The wingsuit is suitable for pre-industrial genres like Clockpunk, Time Travel and Alternate History, and it could also be at home in Military SF or Space Opera.
Appeared In: Umm, Rocky and Bullwinkle? And don’t try to say that Rocky was a real flying squirrel- he was a talking cartoon flying squirrel. That’s fiction. And speculative. Not good enough? How about The Man Who Fell to Earth, with David Bowie in the lead role? An awesome opening sequence shows him streaking down through the atmosphere to crash into a lake.
For Your Plot: Thrilling scenes where your hero has only seconds to choose a tolerable landing zone. Plenty of potential for death. How about a chase scene?
X-Planes: Experimental aircraft tested by US government bodies like NACA, (which later became NASA) and the US Air Force. There have been over fifty X-planes. Wikipedia has a full list, but here are some of the more notable ones:
X-1 was the first plane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight, with Chuck Yeager at the controls in 1946.
X-2 was first to exceed Mach 3 in 1952.
X-6 would have been the nuclear-powered bomber, if it had flown on reactor power. Instead, the program was cancelled in 1957.
X-13 was a VTOL jet that stood on its tail: 1955
X-14 was a VTOL jet that used vectored thrust instead: 1957
X-15 Exceeded Mach 6 and achieved spaceflight by reaching an altitude of more than 100 kilometers in 1963.
X-18 was a tiltwing: 1959
X-19 was a tandem tiltrotor (a tiltrotor and a quadrotor!): 1963
X-22 was a ducted fan quadrotor/tiltrotor in 1966.
X-49 was a gyrodyne, a helicopter with a (ducted pusher) propeller to go faster: 2007
Other X-planes had swing-wings, forward swept wings, no wings, rotors, lifting bodies, ramjets and scramjets. There are lots of different ways to get something into the air. Some of them have to be seen to be believed, and in a few cases, even a photograph leaves me wondering, “could that thing really fly?”
Tech Level: Mostly high to very high, although there’s an autogyro and a sailplane on the list. Genre-wise, it’s a mixed bag, with lots of candidates for Military SF and a few that best belong in Alternate History.
Appeared In: Spaceplanes have been a stock SF item since before they existed. Other machines on the X-plane list have probably not found a home in Spec Fic. Yet.
For Your Plot: I think some of the weirder classes of aircraft on this list could lend a nice twist to worldbuilding. Which pretty much sums up how I feel about Alternative Aviation in general.
The Sikorsky X-Wing took off with a rotary wing and then locked it in the X position once the machine was flying at speed. In order to make that work, the airfoils of the rotor had to be symmetrical. In order to make that work, the airfoils were perforated with little holes like an air hockey table and bleed air from the turbine engines altered the airflow, effectively giving the symmetrical airfoils leading and trailing edges “on the fly”.
Tech Level: developmental, to say the least.
Appeared in: No. Truth is stranger than fiction.
For Your Plot. No. See above.
Young Pilots: Up to now, I’ve focused on unusual aircraft, and taken the pilots for granted. As you do. However, there’s one class of pilot that I feel deserves special mention: children. Kids can do amazing things, and aviation is not excluded. Probably the most famous juvenile aviator was Vicki Van Meter, who started flying when she was ten, and began racking up records at eleven, when she became the youngest pilot to fly across America in 1993. She crossed the Atlantic the next year at the age of twelve. The Guinness book people subsequently closed all their categories for youngest pilots on the grounds of undesirable risk. Even so, attempts were made, and not everyone was lucky. Infamously, Jessica Dubroff died in a crash at the age of seven. At the time, her instructor was at the controls, but Jessica had received over thirty hours of flight training. After her accident, a law was enacted to prohibit underage trainees (that is, kids too young to hold a pilot’s licence or student pilot permit) from making record attempts. More recently, Haris Suleman, a seventeen year old with a freshly issued pilot licence, but perhaps as much as nine years of experience, died while attempting to fly around the world for charity. I don’t think the problem is the youth of the pilots. I think it has more to do with the pressure of trying to make challenging flights to set records, with inexperience as a contributing factor.
Tech Level: Some aircraft are much easier to fly than others, and the simplest ones are not likely to be the ugly ducklings I’ve been featuring in this glossary. Basic training aircraft work best for this sort of thing. For genre fiction, let’s say Young Adult and Middle Grade.
Appeared In: I’ve already mentioned Emergence, by David R. Palmer, which features protagonist Candida Maria Smith-Foster as the eleven year old pilot of an ultralight. In Windhaven, by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle, Flyers come of age and take their parent’s strap-on wings at the age of thirteen. I researched this topic for my own SF novel, in which glider pilots have to be light, and girls are recruited at fourteen or so. Release of Avians is scheduled for August 1st, 2017. Update: Avians is now available for pre-order from Five Rivers Publishing and major online booksellers.
For Your Plot: All the thrills of alternative aviation, plus the added risks that come with inexperience. There’s an old saying that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. Reverse engineer that, if you like.
Zeppelin: Properly, Zeppelin is a trade name of the company of the same name. However, their brand has become somewhat genericized, and is often used to refer to rigid airships of the kind they pioneered, even if built by someone else. Historically, Zeppelin not only built the two largest airships ever, the hydrogen-filled Hindenberg and Graf Zeppelin II, they also partnered with Goodyear to build the two largest helium-filled airships in history, the USS Macon and USS Akron. All in all, Zeppelin constructed 130 airships, and a successor company, Zeppelin NT is still building airships in the twenty-first century. Fun footnote: the first airline (yes, the first airline ever) was DELAG, and they began passenger service with Zeppelin airships in 1910.
ZR stands for Zeppelin Reparation: As part of the terms of the treaty ending World War I, Zeppelin built LZ-126 and gave it to the American government for research.
Tech Level: The first powered flight was made in a steam-powered dirigible in 1852, although the vessel could barely cope with a light breeze. Big rigid airships are a staple of Steampunk, although actual Zeppelins, at least the later ones, had diesel engines, so on technical grounds would more accurately fall into Dieselpunk. However, one reason airships are often featured in Steampunk has to do with their individuality. Like ocean liners, airships were one-offs, rather than mass-produced like, say, Boeing airliners. For more on the difference between Steampunk and Dieselpunk, see this blog post by my dieselpunk writing friend, Lindsay Kitson, or this one by Jason Sheehan. With airships, bigger is better: as they grow, their volume (and therefore lifting ability) rises sharply. A very large airship could carry such massive items as steam engines and coal for a long journey, or solar cells and huge batteries to fly at night, so both steampunk and solarpunk are possible.
Appeared In: Brand-name Zeppelins made multiple appearances in Indiana Jones movies. The Golden Compass, and many other Steampunk works, featured rigid airships of similar design.
For Your Plot: Rigid airships have bad history with thunderstorms, and early airships had unheated passenger cabins that were freezing cold due to the altitude. There must be a plot development or two there. Otherwise, airships are a grand way to factor aviation into alternative world-building, and you don’t have to stick with neo-Victorian.
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Chris Brown is taking his talents on the road. On Friday night, Breezy took to social media to announce that he will be embarking on "The Party Tour" with special guests 50 Cent, French Montana, Fabolous, O.T. Genasis, & Kap G.
Brown last toured North American arenas in 2015 on his "One Hell of a Nite Tour," which included special guests French Montana, Migos, Fetty Wap, Omarion, and Kid Ink.
Before he hits the stage, Breezy is expected to enter the boxing ring to face off against Soulja Boy. He has reportedly been training for the highly-publicized fight with Mike Tyson.
Unfortunately, he hasn't released any dates or any ticket info yet, but it's safe to presume this "party tour" will be a nationwide event going down all Summer long. "DATES COMING ASAP!!!! Whens the last time you've been to a show/concert and have actually been entertained??? I'll wait...!! DON'T PLAY YOURSELF. WE COMING and @casanova_2x on the tour too," Chris wrote on Instagram's caption.
Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, The Chainsmokers, Shawn Mendes, Thomas Rhett, Noah Cyrus And Big Sean Join Already Announced Performer Bruno Mars At The 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards
The 2017 Remix Awards To Be Held At The W South Beach In Miami, March 23-24
The King Of Pop Michael Jackson Keeps Making History & Breaking Records!
Singer John Preston Releases New Song "Superman Falls" To Benefit Valkyrie Initiative
OneRepublic To Headline 2017 Honda Civic Tour
Actress Julia Ling Stars In New Comedy Webseries Tactical Girl
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Signs Tori Kelly To Worldwide Publishing Deal
The National Children's Chorus Forms Partnership With USC Thornton School Of Music
Independent Marketing And Distribution Company IDC To Launch Two New Services And Many Great Releases In 2017
New Independent Music Artist Tim Drisdelle Has Launched His First Major Project As Double EP Set
Internationally Acclaimed Malaysian Singer/Songwriter Vanessa Moses Shares A Tasty Swirl Of Pop, Latin, Blues, Country And Jazz On Her Latest EP "Danish Cookies Is My Name"
STYX, REO Speedwagon & Don Felder Set To Launch "United We Rock" U.S. Summer Tour June 20 In Ridgefield, WA
JC Brooks To Release "The Neon Jungle" In April 2017
The Unlikely Candidates Release EP February 17, "Ringer" Top 35 On Alt Chart, Headline Tour
Singer/Songwriter Amanda Abizaid Releases New Project In Support Of Helpphilippineschools.org, Walking In Twos EP Ft. Legendary Stephen Stills
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Shaiya Online Review
January 6, 2013Reviewsdworkin
Shaiya Online Review: The Ultimate PvP-Focused MMO
by Dworkin, MMO Game Reviewer
With so many MMOs available for download, both free and subscription-based, it can be tough to figure out which ones are worth playing. Those looking for something a little more on the adult side may be interested in free MMO Shaiya Online.
Shaiya Online differs from other MMOs purely on style, which immediately makes it a viable contender when competing against other titles on the market, though there are several other factors that help bolster its credibility. A fantasy-based MMO, Shaiya Online has its players focus on slaying terrible beasts that plague the world.
Difficulty Options
Right off the bat, the first thing about Shaiya Online that makes it stand out from the rest of the market is the game’s Easy, Normal, Hard and Ultimate perma-death mode.
When a character dies in Ultimate mode, it’s permanent, and the player will need to start all over again from the beginning. This adds an additional element of challenge for hardcore players, and it influences players to be very careful rather than just running rampant.
Ultimate mode, which is the game’s perma-death mode, is just one of the few difficulties that one can pick—yes, it’s an MMO that offers difficulty options. Easy mode doubles earned experience but omits special skills, Normal mode offers standard earned experience but caps the level at 50, so on and so forth. Naturally, players must unlock the Hard difficulty by playing through Normal, and Ultimate must be unlocked through Hard, so it’s not possible to just start on the hardest difficulty, adding replay value to the title.
Shaiya Online graphics
The story presented in Shaiya Online is not very complicated, but it is immersive enough to make its players feel a part of a long, epic battle of sorts. The large, brutish Nordein people are warring with the elvish Dumianas after the former were removed from the throne. The humans have come in to side with the Dumianas, and the players are required to pick a side of the endless struggle: either the Alliance of Light for the Dumianas or the Union of Fury for the Nordein.
Graphics and Controls
The controls differ from the standard kind of MMO combat, instead adopting the first-person shooter key setting; players can use the WASD keys to keep moving while attacking their opponents, adding some additional skill to gameplay. Players can also tap the space bar to jump, which gives it more of a platform feel instead of using the point and click method.
The graphics are pleasant and run efficiently on a variety of different systems. The color scheme works well without relying on heavy hues to mark its environment. Though the environment seems to be lacking a little bit in life, the creatures have a decent aesthetic to them as well, so it all works out in the end. It would be wise not to expect the level of artistry that other games like Aion, but this doesn’t mean the style is poor in any way; it’s stylistic in its own way.
Short Tutorial
One thing that may please veterans but throw off new players is a rather short tutorial. Shaiya Online seems to rely heavily on a player’s self-responsibility, pushing players right into a brief tutorial that doesn’t actually tell them much of what to do. The first portion of the tutorial is triggered by starting the first quest, and the remainder only occurs when the player tries to look through the various hotkeys. At some point, the game will also suggest players go to the official website to learn more about a certain feature, so it can be a problem if a new player wants to dive right into the game. Of course, veterans to MMOs will find this satisfying as it gets much of the dull learning experience out of the way.
PvP and Blessings
During player versus player combat, players will earn a currency called Blessing points, earning a varying amount per player kill or when destroying a relic from the opposing team in a PvP zone. The difference between this and other currency is that the Blessing is earned globally for the faction rather than for the character itself, which means it will provide various bonuses at certain points. For example, enough Blessing points will increase success rate with lapis linking or reduce regeneration of health and mana points.
Shaiya Online Screenshot
Shaiya Online is rated for players 18+ only because of some (actually very little) nudity, violence (mobs bleed and somehow this is considered too much for younger players) and strong language in the player chat.
Shaiya Online may have a typical core, but it does offer its own fair share of unique mechanics that give it an edge over its competitors. As far as free to play MMOs are concerned, Aeria Games has a successful formula for its title, which means it could be around for a long time to come.
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1 fully cooked shank half ham, bone in (pre-sliced)
Ronda Chandler
I started using this recipe probably close to 20 years ago when it was in the first book I purchased by Todd Wilbur and it has been my Christmas and Easter ham glaze ever since. It has just the right flavor's and compliments the ham beautifully.
This was an excellent recipe, tasted just like the store but a third the cost. 1 suggestion use a bigger torch, faster and easier.
Red Lobster Parrot Bay Coconut Shrimp
Menu Description: "Jumbo butterflied shrimp hand-dipped in batter flavored with Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Rum & coconut flakes. Served with pina colada dipping sauce."
Fans of this dish say the best part is the pina colada dipping sauce. And it's true. That sauce is so good you could eat it with a spoon. But the coconut shrimp is pretty awesome too, just on its own. Red Lobster's secret formula includes Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay rum, which sweetens the batter and adds a great coconut flavor (plus you can whip up a nice cocktail with it while you're cooking). Panko breadcrumbs—which give a nice crunch to the shrimp—can be found in the aisle of your market where all the Asian foods are parked. This secret recipe makes two times the size of a serving you get at the Lobster, so there should be enough for everyone. The real thing comes with salsa on the side in addition to the pina colada sauce, but you may not even want to include it.
El Pollo Loco Creamy Cilantro Dressing
Sliced chicken breast, romaine lettuce, pico de gallo, tortilla strips, and cotija cheese make up El Pollo Loco's Caesar Salad, but it is the fantastic creamy cilantro dressing that gets the raves. Simply combine these basic ingredients in a bowl and you'll soon have more than 1 cup of the delicious dressing cloned and ready to pour over any of your home salad creations.
Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bushman Bread
Along with your meal at this huge national steakhouse chain, comes a freshly baked loaf of dark, sweet bread, served on its own cutting board with soft whipped butter. One distinctive feature of the bread is its color. How does the bread get so dark? Even though this recipe includes molasses and cocoa, these ingredients alone will not give the bread its dark chocolate brown color. Commercially produced breads that are this dark—such as pumpernickel or dark bran muffins–often contain caramel color, an ingredient used to darken foods. Since your local supermarket will not likely have this mostly commercial ingredient, we'll create the brown coloring from a mixture of three easy-to-find food colorings—red, yellow and blue. If you decide to leave the color out, just add an additional 1 tablespoon of warm water to the recipe. If you have a bread machine, you can use it for kneading the bread (you'll find the order in which to add the ingredients to your machine in "Tidbits"). Then, to finish the bread, divide and roll the dough in cornmeal, and bake.
Maid-Rite Loose Meat Sandwich
It's been an Iowa tradition since 1926, and today this sandwich has a huge cult following. It's similar to a traditional hamburger, but the ground beef is not formed into a patty. Instead, the lightly seasoned meat lies uncompressed on a white bun, dressed with mustard, minced onion, and dill pickles. Since the meat is loose, the sandwich is always served with a spoon for scooping up the ground beef that will inevitably fall out.
When this clone recipe for Maid-Rite was originally posted on our Web site several years ago, it elicited more e-mail than any recipe in the site's history. Numerous Midwesterners were keyboard-ready to insist that the clone was far from accurate without the inclusion of a few bizarre ingredients, the most common of which was Coca-Cola. One letter states: "You evidently have not ever had a Maid-Rite. The secret to the Maid-Rite is coke syrup. Without it you cannot come close to the taste." Another e-mail reads: "Having lived in the Midwest all of my life and knowing not only the owners of a Maid-Rite restaurant but also many people who worked there, I can tell you that one of the things you left out of your recipe is Coca-Cola. Not a lot, just enough to keep the meat moist."
On the flip side, I received comments such as this one from an Iowa fan who lived near Don Taylor's original Maid-Rite franchise: "The secret to the best Maid-Rite is the whole beef. Don had a butcher shop in his basement where he cut and ground all his beef. Some people still swear they added seasoning, but that is just not true. Not even pepper."
Back in my lab, no matter how hard I examined the meat in the original product—which was shipped to me in dry ice directly from Don Taylor's original store in Marshalltown, Iowa—I could not detect Coca-Cola. there's no sweetness to the meat at all, although the buns themselves seem to include some sugar. When the buns are chewed with the meat, the sandwich does taste mildly sweet. I finally decided that Coca-Cola syrup is not part of the recipe. If it is added to the meat in the Maid-Rite stores, it's an insignificant amount that does not have any noticeable effect on the flavor.
Also, the texture is important, so adding plenty of liquid to the simmering meat is crucial. This clone recipe requires 1 cup of water in addition to 1/4 cup of beef broth. By simmering the ground beef in this liquid for a couple hours the meat will tenderize and become infused with a little flavor, just like the real thing.
When the liquid is gone, form the ground beef into a 1/2 cup measuring scoop, dump it onto the bottom of a plain hamburger bun, then add your choice of mustard, onions, and pickles. Adding ketchup is up to you, although it's not an ingredient found in Maid-Rite stores. Many say that back in the early days "hobos" would swipe the ketchup and mix it with water to make tomato soup. Free ketchup was nixed from the restaurants way back then, and the custom has been in place ever since.
Waffle House Waffles
Two friendly Atlanta, Georgia neighbors built the first Waffle House in 1955. With the dimpled breakfast hotcake as a signature item, the privately held chain grew into 20 Southern U.S. states. Today tasty food at rock-bottom prices, plus 24-hours-a-day service, makes Waffle House a regular stop for devoted customers any time of the day or night. And don't even think about referring to your server as a waitress—they're called "associates."
For the best clone of the 50-year-old secret waffle recipe you should chill the batter overnight in the fridge, just as they do in each of the restaurants. But sometimes you can't wait. If you need instant gratification, the recipe still works if you make the waffles the same day. Wait for at least 15 to 20 minutes before using the batter so that it can thicken a bit. That'll give you time to dust off the waffle iron and heat it up.
How about some homemade Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sausage to go with those waffles? Check out all of my famous breakfast copycat recipes here.
Cheesecake Factory Pumpkin Cheesecake
While most restaurant chains attempt to keep their menus simple so as not to tax the kitchen, the Cheesecake Factory's menu contains more than 200 items on a 17-page menu. And at the end of the meal there are 40 cheesecakes to choose from for dessert, including the delicious Pumpkin Cheesecake hacked here for you.
Use an 8-inch springform pan for this recipe. If you don't have one, you should get one. They're indispensable for thick, gourmet cheesecake and several other scrumptious desserts. If you don't want to use a springform pan, this recipe will also work with two 9-inch pie plates. You'll just end up with two smaller cheesecakes.
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Tag Archives: Lincecum
Episode 105: Timmy the Angel
Hey, look at that. Brandon Belt getting hit on by a giraffe.
Download the episode here, or stream it below!
http://torturecast.podomatic.com/enclosure/2016-05-18T14_52_55-07_00.mp3
Chad and Eric are giddy about the Giants’ 6-game winning streak that is buoyed by the team’s pitching, with an ERA of 1.86 over that stretch. Cain has two consecutive great starts, and even Peavy wasn’t bad. The top three continue to dominate, all with sub-3 ERAs, and the 3 run homeruns by Peavy and Crawford were huge game-deciders.
Of course, there’s Timmy, who decided to sign with the Angels. Bochy said that he might look good in red, but we’re not so sure (*cough* 2002 *cough*).
Let’s keep this “first place” thing a thing.
Tagged as Arizona Diamondbacks, AT&T Park, baseball, Bautista, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, bruce bochy, Buster Posey, Chad King, Chicago Cubs, giants, Jake Peavy, Lincecum, Matt Cain, Odor, podcast, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Sergio Romo, SF giants, TortureCast
by TortureCast | March 24, 2015 · 12:19 AM
Episode 81: Can’t Have Sissy Hands
Stream this podcast below:
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Spring Training has not been kind to the Giants. They own the worst record, by far, in all of MLB. Hunter Pence got broke, and Bochy is actually worried about his team’s performance.
Chad, Ben and Eric try and talk each other down from the ledge, and bring some levity to the foreboding results from the Giants’ practice games thus far.
Hey, it’s an odd year, afterall.
Tagged as baseball, Casey McGehee, Chad King, giants, hunter pence, Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, Pagan, San Francisco Giants, Spring Training, TortureCast, world series
by TortureCast | October 30, 2014 · 12:19 AM
You’ll need to frame the third one, there on the left. Yeah, that one.
I really can’t write much. It’s been almost three hours since the impossible happened. Especially after that single-almost-turned-into-a-homerun took our collective breaths away.
But, Madison Bumgarner calmly stated, “I got this.”
After an improbable closing relief appearance, World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner earned the save with five innings of magical relief to preserve a 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals that secured the Giants third World Series Championship in the last five years.
I really have no words.
And I need to SCUBA dive tomorrow.
Look for a giddy podcast sometime in the next day or two. I really have no idea what’s going on. A humpback whale might appear in the Mojave desert for all I care.
God dammit I love this game, this team, this City, and all of you fine people. And I’m not even drunk.
Tagged as baseball, Buster Posey, Chad King, dynasty, giants, hunter pence, kansas city royals, Lincecum, podcast, San Francisco Giants, world series, World Series Champions
Episode 75: We’re Going to the World Series!
Unreal. The San Francisco Giants have won the National League Pennant and are in the World Series for the third time in the last five years.
You can download episode 75 here, or stream it below!
Incredibly, our boys in black and orange have done it for a third time in five years! In a rousing 4-1 NLCS win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Giants move onto the fall classic to face the young upstart Kansas City Royals beginning Tuesday night. Willie, Ben, Chad and guest Eric Nathanson review the NLCS, including the momentous homeruns hit by Michael Morse and Travis Ishikawa that have left indelible marks in Giants’ lore. In the last half of the podcast, we preview the Royals, their strengths and weaknesses, and how the Giants might exploit them. We also talk about Hunter Pence’s lack of geography knowledge, a horrible ESPN article, our favorite guys and we make series predictions (hint, all 4 of us take the Giants). Tune in for a jam-packed special World Series episode of the TortureCast!
Tagged as #WorldSeries, AT&T Park, Barry Zito, baseball, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey, Chad King, ESPN, giants, hunter pence, James Shields, Joe Panik, kansas city royals, Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, Michael Morse, MLB Playoffs, nlcs, podcast, San Francisco Giants, St Louis Cardinals, Tim Lincecum, TortureCast, Travis Ishikawa, Vogelsong, world series
Episode 74: NLCS Tied 1-1
Bumgarner has been the only true ace of the playoffs. (USA Today/Getty Images)
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A special mid-NLCS episode of the TortureCast finds the Giants and Cardinals knotted at 1 game a piece in this 7 game series. Now, the scene shifts back to our park in China Basin for games 3, 4 and 5. Willie, Ben, Chad and special returning guest, Eric Nathanson, break down games 1 and 2, including what went right (bullpen) and what went wrong (bullpen, BA w/RISP). Although the walk-off HR was soul-crushing for about a minute, we all were inspired by the tenacious Giants coming back throughout the game, including the dramatic 9th inning.
Tagged as baseball, Brandon Belt, Bruce Boch, Buster Posey, Chad King, hunter pence, Hunter Strickland, javier lopez, Jean Machi, Jeremy Affeldt, Joe Panik, Kelton Wong, Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, Matt Adams, MLB Playoffs, nlcs, San Francisco Giants, St Louis Cardinals, TortureCast
by TortureCast | September 29, 2014 · 11:22 PM
Episode 71: PLAYOFFS!
We want to see many more of these images in the playoffs.
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What does 2014 have in common with 2010 and 2012? The San Francisco Giants are in the playoffs, of course! Let’s hope the pattern extends itself to a third title. The boys break down the Giants’ wild card chances against the Pittsburgh Pirates for an hour, which is about the same amount of time you’ll be either watching commercials and relieving your bladder during wild card game on Wednesday.
We gloat over our expert prognostication of Giants wins back in March (we picked 89, 89, 88, and the Giants had 88), pick our team MVPs, and give our cliche “3 keys” for a Giants victory against the Buccos. Let’s hope this is the start of a new chapter in Giants’ lore. Who will deliver the next triple-double, stand in the rain, bust out a thong, deliver the clutch HR, or throw a strike that freezes a dominant hitter to clinch a series? We’ll find out if that road indeed lies ahead, Giants fans. Buckle up!
Tagged as baseball, Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey, giants, Gregor Blanco, hunter pence, Josh Harrison, Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, McCutchen, mlb, MLB Playoffs, MLB Wild Card, Neil Walker, Pittsburgh Pirates, playoffs, PNC Park, podcast, San Francisco Giants, starting pitching, TortureCast, wild card
by TortureCast | September 7, 2014 · 11:30 PM
Episode 70: George Kontos
Meet Mr. Kontos. He wears number 70, never shaves, and enjoys everything Chicago.
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Ben and Chad round up the last week that saw Buster Posey win the NL player of the week (.565!!) and Madison Bumgarner earned NL pitcher of the month for August, yet his monthly ERA (1.97) was actually higher than Kershaw’s ERA for the year. Yeah, we know who’s winning the Cy Young, and maybe even MVP. The Giants had a rough few days in Colorado, but bounced back nicely in Detroit, but because the Dodgers aren’t cooling off, they find themselves 3.5 games back after pulling to within 1.5 earlier in the week.
The good news is that the Giants have a 3.5 game lead in the wild card, they still have 6 games yet to play against the Dodgers, and Buster Posey found his spinach. We also talk Belt’s possible return, Morse’s injury, and how Panik and Susac are exceeding all expectations so far.
Join us for the recorded stream, a stream while we recorded on the internetz. Don’t forget, we now stream all of our podcasts LIVE on YouTube around 9:30 pm PDT every Monday. We will also have clubhouse access this Wednesday and Saturday, so we’ll be sure to take our anti-anxiety medication before we ask Hunter Pence how fluffy his shower towel is.
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Tagged as andrew susac, AT&T Park, baseball, ben, ben fried-lee, Buster Posey, Chad King, dodgers, george kontos, giants, hunter pence, interview, Jake Peavy, Joe Panik, Lincecum, Matt Cain, podcast, Posey, rockies, San Francisco Giants, Sergio Romo, tigers, tim hudson, Tim Lincecum, TortureCast, Vogelsong
by TortureCast | August 30, 2014 · 10:21 PM
Bonusode 68.1: Giants Destroy Brew-crew
The Giants took care of the Brewers in a convincing 13-2 drubbing on Friday night.
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Willie and Chad break down the 13-2 crushing of the Brewers after the game at Zeke’s. Chad also talks about his interview with Will Clark before the game, and the boys break down the Giants chances to make the playoffs down the stretch.
Don’t forget to follow us @TortureCast and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/torturecast. We also stream our podcast live every Monday here at TortureCast.com.
Tagged as AT&T Park, baseball, Buster Posey, Chad King, giants, hunter pence, Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, press box, San Francisco Giants, scutaro, Tim Lincecum, torture, TortureCast, will clark, zeke's
by TortureCast | August 26, 2014 · 12:02 AM
Episode 68: We’re Doing it Live!
It wasn’t smooth, but we did it…our first live streaming call in show.
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This is our first live call-in streaming show, ever! We apologize that Chad’s voice is a little soft for half the podcast, and we actually dropped the stream about 10 minutes in, causing mass hysteria as people couldn’t listen to us live, but we trudged through and took a couple of calls about the misfortune the Giants have faced over the last 3 games, including the Nats comeback and tonight’s inexplicable loss to the woeful Rockies. We’ll be doing it live from here on out! Don’t forget to call in at 415.799.SFG1 to let us know how sexy you think Crawford’s mane is.
Tagged as AT&T Park, baseball, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey, Chad King, dodgers, giants, hunter pence, Lincecum, live show, podcast, San Francisco Giants, Sergio Romo, Tim Lincecum, youtube
Episode 67: Doug Mirabelli +1 or Xavier Nady -1
No SF Giant has ever dared to wear this number for reasons we cannot reveal
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We knew this day would come. We finally hit a uniform number that has never graced the back of a single SF Giant.
We’ll think of it as Xavier Nady minus 1, or Doug Mirabelli plus 1. Not sure what we’ll do about 100+, if we ever get there.
Willie and Chad talk Giants baseball on this off-day that finds the Giants starting a six game road trip to Chicago and Washington, only 3.5 games back of the bums and with a hold on the second wild card spot. Hey, they were further back of the Padres at this point in 2010. Of course, the Dougie was also a popular dance then, so….
We cover the recent series, Morse’s hot bat, Panik’s hustling pinkie, Matt Cain’s season-ending surgery, Belt’s troubling concussion (and Sanchez’s), Susac, Posey, Pablo, perplexing Timmy, the second base curse, Jimmy Rollins, and what kind of player would manifest with Yaseil Puig’s raw talent with Hunter Pence’s love and respect for the game.
Also, next week around 9 pm PDT, Monday, August 25, we’ll be having our first LIVE CALL IN SHOW and will be streaming it LIVE on YouTube.
Mark it on your calendar, and be sure to call us from your phone and we’ll be sure to patch you in, even if you think Michael Morse is a bust this year.
That number is 415-799-SFG1
Again, that number: 415-799-SFG1.
Wait, I only need to repeat it on the podcast, not on this post…
Tagged as andrew susac, baseball, bochy, Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey, Cain, Chad King, concussion, dodgers, giants, Gregor Blanco, hunter pence, Jake Peavy, Joe Panik, Lincecum, Matt Cain, podcast, scutaro, torture, TortureCast, wild card
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Additional Lake Survey Reports:
Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir
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Stillhouse Hollow 2017 Survey Report (PDF 484.5 KB)
If you have difficulty accessing the information in this document, contact the TPWD Inland Fisheries Division for assistance.
Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir - 2017 Survey Report
Prepared by John Tibbs and Michael S. Baird
Inland Fisheries Division
Waco District
This is the authors' summary from a 25-page report. For a copy of the complete report, use the download link in the sidebar.
Fish populations in Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir were surveyed with one or more of the following gears annually since the last report: fall electrofishing and spring gill netting. Historical data are presented with the 2017-2018 data for comparison. This report summarizes the results of the surveys and contains a management plan for the reservoir based on those findings.
Sport fishes in Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir have always been managed with statewide regulations. Important sport fish include Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass. The management plan from the 2009 survey report included forming a partnership with the USACE to introduce native vegetation into the reservoir and post invasive species signage at access points throughout the reservoir. Low reservoir levels have prevented native vegetation plantings since the last report. However, Invasive species signage was posted at all access points during summer 2013 and zebra mussel outreach interns were hired in 2014 and 2015 to interface with boaters at Stillhouse Hollow ramps. Zebra mussels were discovered in Summer, 2016 and a reproducing population is now established in the reservoir.
Fish Community
Prey species: The forage base consisted primarily of Gizzard Shad, Bluegill and Redear Sunfish.
Channel Catfish: Channel Catfish were collected in modest numbers. Most exceeded 18 inches and were in good condition.
Black basses: Largemouth Bass catch rate was similar to previous years, with no fish larger than 18 inches collected. Smallmouth Bass are present in the reservoir but weren’t collected in the most recent electrofishing survey.
White Bass: White Bass were collected in low numbers in the 2018 gill netting survey and were generally in poor body condition.
Continue managing Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir with existing regulations.
Conduct general monitoring with electrofishing and gill netting in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Conduct aquatic vegetation and access surveys during summer 2021.
Continue efforts to educate the public about invasive species and zebra mussel issues and protect the reservoir from zebra mussel introductions.
Continue stocking Smallmouth Bass and seek opportunities to add additional habitat in the form of artificial structures.
Performance Report as required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act Texas Federal Aid Project F-221-M-3 Statewide Freshwater Fisheries Monitoring and Management Program
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By Kevin Koczwara MLS
Revolution Making Strides Despite Season's Rainy Forcast
Courtesy New England Revolution
The New England Revolution are making big moves in New England right now, despite a player strike on the horizon. Today, it was announced that the Revs have signed a season long agreement with media giant Comcast. The Revs will televise 27 of the 30 games on Comcast’s New England based channel, showing them in glorious high-definition for over 4 million viewers.
“We are very excited to partner with Comcast SportsNet to bring the Revolution in high definition to our fans across New England,” Revolution Chief Operating Officer Brian Bilello said. This move can hopefully bring the Revs to a regular television audience in high-definition, bringing in some new viewers and fans. This will also help establish the team as a staple in New England as the Summer roles in.
One of the issues I speak about often here on this blog is regular air-time and scheduling for the MLS and its teams. Not enough of the games are aired on a regular schedule, making it difficult for the layman fan or even the passionate one, to follow their team and its progress. If each team can control a piece of the media in their market or create a better viewing experience for the fan than the team can make some money and in turn make the league stronger financially.
This move to make the Revolution a part of the regular television schedule should be a positive experience for both the Revolution and its fans. I know the Krafts will still be on top of how the club is perceived and the viewer experience, they will be producing all of the regular season games till on Comcast SportsNet with their production team.
Kraft Sports Production is keeping on Brad Feldman for his 10 season as the team’s play-by-play man. Feldman will be joined by 11 year MLS veteran, former Revolution star and U.S. Men’s National Team player, Jay Heaps for color commentary. This will be Heaps, a Longmeadow, Mass. native, first season as a color commentator after retiring from the Revolution in December.
If this experiment suceeds then it will be a big step in a positive direction for a league that is looking to identify itself throughout the United States and the World as an up and coming power.
That is if the season gets under way on time.
MLS Player’s to Strike, if Needed
With the Major League Soccer Player’s Union voting unanimously to strike if an agreement is not met between them and the Owners before opening night, March 25, the players have made it clear that they intend to sit out the season if need be.
The players are holding out for more free-agent rights and more guaranteed contracts.
Now, many of us will say “wait they are just playing soccer and getting paid millions!” Not true in the MLS. It is reported that the players median salary last year was $88,000 for last year. The average salary was much higher because of a few (*cough* David Beckham *cough*) high end contracts that sine international stars hold. Many of those players don’t have guaranteed money either, and some have to work some side jobs to supplement their playing time. And when their contract runs up or the team values them as expendable, then they can’t even sign with another side without their team’s consent. It was a messy bargaining agreement that surely will not be repeated, but it was a necessary one five years ago when the leagues was struggling.
These guys are living out their dream, or trying too, and they can’t catch a break in the MLS–which is many players first and only break.
What makes this mess even worse, our league is looked down upon throughout Europe because those players are use to being able to have some pull int heir contract talks, and who wants to move to a second-rate league if you don;t get paid as much and you don;t have any freedoms? I know I wouldn’t, and I know a player like Thierry Henry won’t.
The league and players need to make some compromises and get going here before next week rolls around, or both sides will be in huge trouble. The players won’t have anywhere to play, the league will have a lot of empty seats and some major debt to work its way out of.
The players really have the owners in a bind here. A new franchise in Philadelphia will have its inaugural season, New York Red Bulls have a new soccer first stadium to fill, and other franchises have been announced for expansion int he coming years. If it all fails this eyar and we have a strike, fans could and will lose faith in the expanding league.
I know as a fan, I want this thing to be done so our National team has some match-fit players ready to fill-in for anyone who gets hurt at the World Cup as well.
Come on boys, reach an agreement this weekend so I can sleep easy next week.
Editor’s Note: The Player’s Union and Owners have reached a new five year agreement since this article was written. There will not be a player’s strike and the MLS season will start on time.
Kevin Koczwara is the editor of The Soccer Guys and can be reached at kkoczwar@gmail.com. Follow The Soccer Guys on Twitter for all your Soccer news and needs!
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Lee Je Hoon – Singles July 2016 Interview
Posted on June 24, 2016 June 24, 2016 by muchadoboutlove in interviews & articles, magazine & pictorial
I did not expect to have another pictorial of Lee Je-hoon after he concluded the promotion for his latest movie Phantom Detective last month, but Singles have been so generous to court him for another photo shoot, putting him on a plane to Hawaii earlier this month, on the day of Baeksang Arts Awards. Although he did not get to walk on the red carpet or appear at the event with Signal team, at least we get this pictorial…with his slightly longer hair. Me likey.
Lee Je-hoon’s Thirst
From the drama Signal to the movie Phantom Detective; this year, too, Lee Je-hoon does not rest. The actor, who is always pestered by his own thirst for acting, went to Hawaii’s deep jungle for a retreat, finding his own way to be happy.
The first dinner after touchdown in Hawaii. Lee Je-hoon talked about a character with Director Yoon Sung-hyun, who was sitting beside him (for this photo shoot schedule, Lee Je-hoon traveled together with the Bleak Night director, who is also his best friend). “How about letting him approach his partner like this?” After hearing the suggestion from the actor, Director Yoon answered, “That is one good way, but how about doing it like this?” Their conversations went on until the food was served. “How about a long hair?” “Will it fit the character to dress up like this?” They even talked about the characters’ styling. The staff sitting beside them also threw in their suggestions. Lee Je-hoon listened to them attentively with his round eyes wide open, an unfamiliar expression plastered across his face. It was a well-known secret that he had promised to join Director Yoon’s upcoming project, Hunting Time. The conversation seemed to be about the character in the new movie.
After the table for ten was filled with the dishes, Lee Je-hoon collected himself and did some explanation. “We were talking about how to act out a character in a romantic comedy if I get the opportunity to do it in my next project. ” He had not decided on his next project. Although it had been a little over than months after Signal wrapped up its shooting, he was still choosing his next script. Of course, the schedule for Hunting Time had not been finalized yet. He was just setting a vague image of a character in a romantic comedy. “The best way to immerse yourself into a character is of course through meeting the new character. But the, it seems that I am taking a longer time (to decide). So, I am imagining several possible characters that I can portray well in my next project.” Director Yoon interrupted, “We always meet each other over coffee and each time we meet, he will always bring up a new character to be discussed. I never thought that he will bring it all over here to Hawaii! Hahaha.” Suddenly, the phrase ‘a fool who doesn’t know anything outside acting’ crossed my mind. “Honestly speaking, I am a boring person in real life who can only think of acting and projects. Will it be any different if I have a girlfriend? I might ask her to go for a movie date every time we meet.” The 6-year solo guy Lee Je-hoon cracked a bashful smile.
Once called a ‘total no-fun’ person by fans (who??), the situation had changed nowadays. For his officially first movie lead role in Phantom Detective, he guested on several variety programs to promote his movie; unlike Park Hae-young who always frowned, he was all smiles on the screen. “I thought that while I was already at this, I might as well did it with enthusiasm. Although I started on being funny but still ended up looking all serious, I still had the desire to make people laugh.” Perhaps, his interest and concern towards doing a romantic comedy is an extension of that desire. However, he did not acquire his confidence in making people laugh through his appearance on the programs. “If the public doesn’t find my new image awkward, I want to go into a new drama or movie carrying that image with me. It is not confidence but rather the expectation (from the public).” Lee Je-hoon was an actor who did not look at the characters first. Although his answers were almost like textbook sentences, the division between main and supporting characters was not important in his thought. “When I read the test (draft), the image of the character will naturally play out on my mind, and it is the sign for me to get onto the real script. My heart will continue to beat fast when I meet that kind of project. As long as the story is interesting, it doesn’t matter what kind of role I am being offered with; even for one particular character, it will be different according to the actors portraying it.”
He shot to fame through the movie Bleak Night, but the character he was initially offered to was not the dominating friend Ki-tae; instead, it was the mature Dong-yoon who worked hard to defend his friend (the role would later be assigned to Seo Joon-young). “I look forward to new character that will unleash the new image of me through it.” However, rather than always looking forward to the new project, the fear will come to him first. “Every time the project I am working on comes to an end, ‘What is the next thing that I can do?’ That kind of anxiety will come to him. Will I be able to meet a good project again? What kind of acting should I show in my new project? Until when will I be able to choose the projects I want to work on? My head will be filled with concerns and worries.”
Lee Je-hoon’s worries started with his desire. Just like any other actors, he wanted to show a new image of him with every project he took. However, his reason was a bit different. “Since I started out late, there are still so many roles which I haven’t tried yet.” He believed that he could only portray roles with respect to his current age and image (for the time being). When he first attracted attention through his movies Bleak Night and Introduction to Architecture, he was already in his late 20s. “It was a big relief that I could fit in the roles of high school student wearing uniform and a college freshman. Still, there are a lot of empty corners (with regard to his acting), so I hope to be able to close the gap.” Up until his his enlistment day, he continued going back and forth between different filming sets, but it was not for the reason of maintaining his popularity while he was away doing his military service. Even if he had so little time left, he wanted to leave behind more projects and more characters. “Since I started out late, my thirst for projects only grow bigger. It is enough for me to go on a short vacation between projects. I like to spend the time reading and finding good scripts.” He was someone who did not want to let even one day pass just like that. He was still a youth. No, Lee Je-hoon called himself a ‘hot-blooded youth.’ “The desperation and passion I had when I first debuted still remains intact in my heart. Right now is the most important. I try to avoid having a future image. We don’t even know exactly what will happen tomorrow.” Rather than being immersed in the unclear future, the actor was someone whose focus was on the reality.
Lee Je-hoon recently gained another kind of thirst. “I have been living without being totally in love with someone all this while.” He did not date even once after he received public attention for his acting. “I had a huge concern, wondering if my private life and characters would end up overlapping in the eyes of the viewers. A serious character and a sweet relationship rumour (of the actor) don’t seem right somehow.” Such were the words spoken by a fool who did not know anything outside acting. That man now expressed his wish to date and had started searching for a good woman. “After thinking and worrying a lot about it, I started to ask around, especially to people around me. It’s because of them that I come to believe that the public will be able to see (in projects) that it’s actor Lee Je-hoon, not Lee Je-hoon who is dating someone.”
He has even changed his dating style. His thirst is quite severe. “In the past, I am someone who used to match everything with my partner. But now, I want to be able to lead in the relationship. That is with me taking the lead in order to ensure that my partner will enjoy the relationship.” However, his ideal type is still the same as ever: as obvious as in the textbook. A woman he can communicate well with and a partner who can provide a good influence in the relationship. Maybe he will be seen as a no-fun person. However, even while he was talking about his ideal type, he secretly hinted at his greed. “I hope that when I meet someone, I will like her even more and develop the desire to become a compatible man for her. That is the most ideal relationship in my opinion.” The actor believed that a relationship would also become a good chance for his growth. “But then, who would like me when I can’t even drink, and the only thing we can do for date is watching movies? If I were to take out everything related to movies and songs, there is not much to talk about.” Just like his character Seung-min in Introduction to Architecture, Lee Je-hoon broke into a shy smile while saying that. Ah, this fool who knew nothing except acting.
Back to first dinner on the first day after touchdown in Hawaii. After the meal, Lee Je-hoon and Director Yoon Sung-hyun pored over the small screen of their phones, discussing about filming techniques, different types of cameras, and other complicated things. Difficult jargon is something he is used to. “I have a lot of interest in production process for both drama and movie. I would go beside the filming staff during breaks to ask things here and there, and I learned a lot. There were instances where I followed the hidden camera director (for BTS filming) around and assisted with filming too.” Lee Je-hoon, too, wanted to make his own movie. He was also writing his own scenario secretly. “For me, it doesn’t have to be a director. I am pondering about the way to remain in the world of movies even without being an actor. Maybe being a director is my ultimate dream? But I still have a lot to prepare.” This acting fool is becoming a real part of movie world.
Then, what kind of inspiration did he gain under the blazing sky of Hawaii? “I realize it again: what a great gift it is to be able to work together with good people, and to be able to rest comfortably. It makes me happy just to be able to sit over here!” Although it was not the answer we expected, it was enough to see what matters the most to him. The reason he agreed early on to appear on Director Yoon Sung-hyun’s upcoming movie Hunting Time is not merely loyalty, closeness, or friendship, but only for the reason of being able to work together with good people, which in return be the simplest way to make himself happy. That is also the same reason why he is dreaming of making his own movie. For this acting fool who might immerse himself completely in another project soon, he has found another way to make himself happy. ❤
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21 thoughts on “Lee Je Hoon – Singles July 2016 Interview”
Pomme says:
Wow thx a lot dear!!! So happy to read this.
The more i know this acting fool ( via his interviews translated here) the more i love and respect him.
Do u know why he cant drink? I know that he cant smoke too!! What is a health concerned boy!! Thats why he looks so young like in an early 20.😊
JeHoonie…. i cant drink too, i allergic to alcohol and i dun mind that u will take me to a movie for every dating.
Saranghaeyo LJH💛💚💙💜
I’m not sure why he can’t drink much but maybe it’s because he rarely does so? I think he has low alcohol tolerance, hence he doesn’t like drinking.
His hair is a bit longer. I like it too. Lt Park hair is too short. I prefer him has a longer hair style.
He is such a good boy no drink and no smoke and only think about acting haha.
I think he did well in variety shows. I enjoyed them a lot. He is kind of innocent and witty!!.
Looking forward to his romcom drama!!! Pls let us enjoy ur sweet JeHoonie!
Hehe me too! I’m so happy that he’s keeping the hair because it’s been a while since the last time he was with longer hair 😀
lol he’s like the most ideal model boyfriend! Maybe he’ll need to make himself comfortable with dating and we’re good to go. Maybe starring in a romcom will help him? Kekekekeke
He’s awesome! My kind of man….if I was only mumble mumble years younger!
Love knows no boundary, Bel 😉 We all can love him freely!
Ahi says:
This is awesome!! Thanks for posting 😀
You’re welcome! Glad to be able to spread the love around for Lee Je-hoon ^^
Htagged says:
His enthusiasm makes me smile. Thanks for posting.
missienelly says:
I wish you can see me grinning right now! Thanks for the post! I can’t take my eyes off of him 😁
My pleasure! lol I can imagine you grinning from ear to ear XD Although Singles don’t release that many shots, at least these are more than what we usually get from the magazine. Thank God for more LJH~~~
I’m just as surprised as you are that we get to see him on the magazine even after his movie released. I’d love to see more of him regardless of his activities. You know what I mean? Say, does he have anything in his pipeline?
Kekekeke I feel you! He has always been active while promoting his projects before going MIA for several months. I hope that he will continue popping out in magazines and other shows before coming back to us with his next project (a romcom like what he dreams of?) he will choose ^o^
┐(￣ー￣)┌ (@Storia_Spirit) says:
I can’t deal with how ideal he is lololol such a cutie w his idea for a date sounds good to me lol I would be so up for just watching movies (as long as there’s nice food too) LOL thanks for the translation~
He thinks that he is so boring with his hobby but there are so many people who are like him…just like us! Hehehehe you’re welcome~ and thanks for reading! 😉
chocolatecandyfloss says:
Argh. I would happily offer myself as tribute, if only I can! I’ll watch movies every other day and we can discuss about it and listen to music and maybe go visit museums? He seems like the kind who would enjoy that too. The thing is, he’s the perfect boyfriend material but he doesn’t even realize it! I hope he’ll pick up a new project soon. I can’t stand not seeing him for too long. ):
Maybe he just feel that girls generally love doing all the cute dates thing and go out shopping. He doesn’t realize it yet that there are lots of us who prefer watching movies/dramas all day long and listening to music! Hehehehe I do hope he finds his perfect other half soon, and his next project! Even if it is a movie, I don’t mind waiting as long as I know he’s wprking happily on the set ^o^
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Thank you a lot. I found your blog yesterday and I am happy to know that someone translated all his interviews into a language that I can understand. Someone may feels he’s not interesting but I still admire him. He understood his own dream, which I am still looking for. I also want to start believing in myself and working hard towards my dream as Lee Je Hoon does. I will try more. Also hope Je Hoon will find a suitable girl, who can talk about films and musics with him all day. Looking forward to his new projects. Signal just ended but I miss him already.
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I’m happy to be able to translate his interviews, although there is still a lot to be learned when it comes to my Korean skills ^^;; I love it when he talks about his passion in acting because he knows what he is doing. Same here! I hope that he will find his perfect other half~
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Tre – a Cornish word for ‘Home/Homestead’.
Using archive film as its inspiration and ‘home’ as its theme, the Tre Project collects old cine footage, creates digital content and produces a programme of new films to screen in community venues across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We will be making films with communities from all over Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; stories of old and new Kernow.
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The Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week recently welcomed celebrated English Poet John Daniel as honoured guest for this the seventh Festival.
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As an emerging poet he was printed with other young people of promise by Faber, in his youth and became famous for his 'found poems' which were poetic arrangements of such things as a World War One diary or an advertisement for bras. As a wry commentator he has used the classical sonnet form for his caustic observations in a series called Soddits.
An enthusiast for poetry he used his Principal Lectureship in Literature to generate many creative writing groups through the South West of England amongst his students and the general public while continuing to create books of his own which won him key literary prizes.
A person of wide interests he likes to paint, to walk and cycle, and visit old sites for industrial archaeology, and to visit monuments and memorials with his mother in her nineties and wheelchair.
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Rotterdam Zoo – Blijdorp
There are quite a few interesting zoos that can be found in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is home to Artis Royal Zoo while the Rotterdam Zoo or Diergaarde Blijdorp can be found in Rotterdam. All of these zoos attract thousands of tourists every year and are also popular among the locals. The zoo has a wide collection of plants and animals native to Asia, Europe, Africa and even Australia. It’s one of the reasons why Rotterdam Zoo is one of the Netherlands’ most visited zoos.
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Diergaarde Blijdorp or Rotterdam Zoo has over 1.5 million visitors per year one of the most popular attractions in the Netherlands. Blijdorp stands for nature conservation, recreation, education and research for scientific research.
As a zoo, Blijdorp concentrates on the maintenance of most endangered species. By showing animals and plants and giving information, Blijdorp receives its visitors aware of the speciality and value of nature and the organisms. The realization of this objective involves the transformation of the old Blijdorp into a biotope garden, where visitors can discover the world’s most important biotopes on a small scale. The latest expansion is the Oceanium water exhibition.
Blijdorp is one of the few zoos in Europe with its own researchers, providing process-to-implementation, transplantation, behavior, nutrition and medical care. Eternal knowledge helps the animals grow older, stay healthier and reproduce better.
Diergaarde Blijdorp was founded in 1855 by Mr. Van der Valk and Van den Bergh. In the city centre of Rotterdam they gave a rail garden that gave space to pheasants and water birds. Just as with Artis, the zoo in the first village can only be visited by members and the well-to-do bourgeoisie. Around 1924 the zoo started to face financial problems. The high land price due to the central location in the city was a major cause. That is why, 13 years later, the zoo was moved to the Blijdorp neighbourhood. When the bombing of Rotterdam took place in 1940, the wilderness was destroyed. Many animals died and some escaped. Zebras walked the shopping street and seals swam through the canals of Rotterdam.
Diergaarde Blijdorp later climbed out of its valley and has since become a large zoo with gorillas, giraffes, flamingos, zebras, ostriches etc. There are also daily shows and there is also a botanical garden. In 2007 Diergaarde Blijdorp came in the news because one of the male gorillas ‘Bokito’ escaped. He injured a woman and destroyed parts of the restaurant. The gorilla was later enclosed and anaesthetized. After a few months were visible to the public again. A 5-meter high rock face ensures that they do not escape this time.
For the coming years, many plans have been made to make Diergaarde Blijdorp even more interesting. These are the return of the watchtower, restoration of the Rivierahal, expansion of the oceanium, and expansion of the animals. There will be more bears, hippos, the small panda and an Orangutan stay.
The Oceanium
The Oceanium is in the new part and is the largest building in all of Blijdorp. The Oceanium is largely dominated by marine life. We view the Oceanium from the new entrance. Here one starts with the outdoor enclosure for the seals. One can look through the glass windows from under water, but also from above through two elevations. When one enters the Oceanium, one arrives first at the Falkland Islands, where various puffins and starfish can be seen. Then one walks in and ends up at the North Sea. Here, a current is simulated every few minutes and one can also see the fish in the North Sea. There is a separate room for the jellyfish. You then walk through an aquarium through a glass tube. Here you can see sharks, sea turtles and rays. Through the tunnel, one enters a space where attention is paid to the pollution of the sea and then into the biolap, where among other things seahorses can be seen. After this, they continue to the Australian coral reefs. There is also a tunnel here, but a lot smaller. In the aquariums, life in the Great Barrier Reef is simulated. After these aquariums, you end up in the Caribbean Sea and the islands that belong to it. In addition to marine life, attention is also paid to live on land. Among other things, caimans can be seen. After this one continues to the penguins’ enclosure and then to the lands of the tortoises and swiftvos. Then one arrives in the desert where one finds, among other things, the rabbit owl. The last part is all about the deep sea, where the seals can be seen again.
National Plant Collection
Blijdorp is also a botanical garden and is a member of the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens. The zoo manages two families of plants, primula and Bromeliaceae. These two families belong to the National Plant Collection, a collection of plants that can be found in various gardens and parks throughout the Netherlands. The zoo also has many tropical plants that have been donated to the zoo by the Hortus botanicus Leiden, such as the coffee plant, avocado tree and a large number of ornamental plants.
Recreation & Education
Diergaarde Blijdorp is a big attraction among day visitors and tourists. Around 1.5 million people visit the zoo every year. The zoo is open all year round. The zoo does close one hour earlier in the winter than in the summer. In the spring the zoo is a very special experience since animals are mating. In the winter the zoo organizes the MidWinterZoo to attract more visitors. There is then a Winterplein with a sleigh square and a large campfire. The MidWinterZoo is annually in December and January. The zoo also has a special breakfast buffet at Christmas. High schools use the zoo to show biology lessons in real life. In addition, the zoo also has special programs for primary schools.
Breeding Programs & Research
Blijdorp participates in various breeding programs, around 70 in total. The purpose of this is to preserve species, especially those that are threatened with extinction. Among other things, the Asian elephant and the toucan are bred. In addition, the zoo also keeps pedigree books of animals, such as those for the crown pigeon. In addition, the zoo leads the breeding program for the small panda.
Restaurants, Snacks and Drinks in Blijdorp
In Blijdorp are several restaurants and places where you can buy something to eat. In the summer it is nice on the terrace, but you can also sit inside. There is a Jungle Café, the Ooievaarsnest restaurant, an African Uwaja Lodge (also with children’s menus) and the relatively new restaurant “The Gate of Asia”, which was first the Lotus Conservatory. The Poort van Asia sells Oriental dishes such as Turkish pizza and kebab. You can also buy French fries, poffertjes, churros and (gluten-free) chip twisters at the park.
History of the Rotterdam Zoo
Diergaarde Blijdorp actually came into being for two reasons. The competition between Rotterdam and Amsterdam was one reason. Amsterdam had its own zoo, Artis, so in Rotterdam more and more Rotterdammers were calling for their own zoo. In 1847, the whole of Rotterdam was being connected by rail network. Two employees, Mr. Van den Bergh and Mr. Van der Valk, decided to buy a piece of land next to one of the railway stations and called it Railway Garden. There was a lake on the piece of land and the two men were huge animal lovers and wanted to keep birds there. They put a lot of effort into the Railway Garden and many people from Rotterdam became curious about their collection. The railway station manager and his friends decided to help the two men. The adjacent garden was drawn near the railway garden, on which stood a large garden house. That way, there was more money to buy more animals and more space to house them. At that time, Rotterdam locals were very excited to visit the zoo for just ten guilders; often only the rich ones could afford it. Although the land was owned by the railway corporation, the two men were allowed to have their zoo on it. In 1856 the adjacent piece of land was permanently transferred to them. It turned out to be a huge success and soon the two Rotterdam businessmen made 300,000 guilders available for expansion and the purchase of more animals.
There’s an interesting story of how the first sea lion brought to the zoo in 1922 escaped on its first day and swam through the canals of Rotterdam. Eventually, the sea lion was caught near a pumping station. From 1924, however, the zoos had a few financial problems. One of the reasons for the problems was its location. Eventually, a new location for the zoo was searched for, and soon a site farther away from the centre; the current location.
Our Rotterdam Zoo Photo Impression
Diergaarde Blijdorp or Rotterdam Zoo is a lovely possibility for a day out with the whole family. Children love animals and Rotterdam Zoo presents them with an opportunity to see some animals that aren’t found in Europe. Here is our photo impression of Rotterdam Zoo.
A view of the Rotterdam Zoo’s Oceanium.
Ostriches can also be found in the Diergaarde Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo.
Children love paying a visit to the polar bears in the Rotterdam Zoo. Sometimes, they also swim over to say hi to the visitors.
There are also reindeers in the Rotterdam Zoo. Don’t miss them!
The Rotterdam Zoo is also home to a collection of Sumatran Tigers. These are native to Indonesia and very few can be found in Europe. Don’t forget to pay them a visit.
The Rotterdam Zoo Opening Hours
Rotterdam Zoo or Diergaarde Blijdorp is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The zoo is open every day throughout the year, including public holidays (Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Sinterklaas, King’s Day, New Year). In winter, the zoo is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and in summer from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the weekends when the clock is changed, it is open until 6 p.m.
Exceptions to opening times: Saint Nicholas Day Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve: open until 16:00 and on New Year’s Day open from 10:00.
Daily 09:00 – 18:00 ||
Winter Opening Times 09:00 – 17:00 || Summer: Closes at 18:00
On December 4, 24 09:00 – 16:00 || December 24: Opens at 10:00
Rotterdam Zoo Ticket Prices and Discounts
Tickets are available at the entrance, of the Rotterdam Zoo but they are cheaper when bought online. The regular admission price at the entrance is €24,50 for adults and €23,50 online. Babies and toddlers up to 2 years old can enter for free. For children from 3 to 12 years, it costs € 20.00 (online 19.00). Group discounts apply from 20 people.
Group discount: € 2.00 at normal cash register entrance price (€ 24.50) from 20 people
Note: children under 18 are admitted only when accompanied by an adult.
Visitors can rent a cart/stroller for € 2.50 for children who can’t walk long. The stroller offers them the chance to sit (occasionally).
Regular entrance prices at the entrance
Adults € 23,50 (€ 24.50 at the entrance)
Child 3 – 12 € 19,00 (€ 20,00 at the entrance)
Child 0 – 2 Free entrance
Group Starting at € 24,50 for groups of more than 20 people
Address, Contact Information and Route to the Rotterdam Zoo
Parking in the Rotterdam Zoo isn’t very expensive when compared with parking in the city of Rotterdam. The car is very nice of getting to the zoo because you’re there in no time and it’s also convenient, especially if you’re with little children. It is also possible to use public transport as the zoo isn’t very far from Rotterdam central station. It’s only a mere 10-minute walk. Walking is not an ideal way if you’re coming with kids and by public transport. By the time you get into the zoo, your toddlers’ legs will already be tired and then you’ll have to pay extra to get them a pram.
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Rotterdam Zoo on the City Map
Rotterdam Zoo is easily accessible both by public transport and by car. The zoo is a 10-minute walk from Rotterdam Central Station. If you would like to go by car, take the “Blijdorp” exit on the A20.
Rotterdam Zoo has its own parking area (P1) in front of the main entrance (Blijdorplaan 8). Take exit 13 “Blijdorp” on the Rotterdam ring road (north) and follow the Diergaarde Blijdorp signs for parking area P1. There are also charging points for electric cars there. Parking tickets are available at the ticket offices and ticket machines of Diergaarde Blijdorp. Visitors can pay by card or in cash.
Day ticket parking – € 9.00
Subscription holder fee – € 5.50
Teachers/supervisors who accompany school trips or school lessons € 5.50 on presentation of the school trip confirmation.
If it’s very busy then we’ll have to refer you to P2 under the A13 driveway. Visitors can also park at the Horvathweg (along the Sparta Stadium) or at the van Aerssenlaan/Bentincklaan. From Horvathweg visitors can walk to the main entrance at Blijdorplaan 8 or from Van Aerssenlaan/Bentincklaan to the entrance on Van Aerssenlaan 49.
Prices are the municipal hourly rate. Payment involves entering the registration number of the car at the parking meter and can be done by pin or credit card.
There is also a possibility for disabled parking. The disabled parking spaces can be found on the large parking lot on the Blijdorplaan, close to the main entrance. Wheelchair users may ask for a wheelchair from the staff.
Note: A limited number of wheelchairs are available for free. You need to reserve this in advance via tel. 0900 1857 (between 14:00 and 17:00). We recommend doing this well in advance during the high season. Take into account a deposit of € 50.00. A number of HandyCare wheelchairs can be borrowed at both entrances for a 1 euro throw-in (shopping cart system). These cannot be reserved. Due to limited availability, we can only accept 1 reservation per group.
Please note: the Van Aerssenlaan & Bentincklaan fall under the Environment Zone or Milieu zone.
If you’re taking the public transport from Amsterdam Central Station or Schiphol Airport, take the trains to Rotterdam Central station and from there, you only have to walk to the zoo.
With the widget below you can find accurate advice for the real-time travel times based on your current location. This application will help you when you are not sure which bus or tram you can take from your location.
Rotterdam Zoo FAQ
Can I visit the Rotterdam Zoo in a wheelchair?
Yes, the zoo is very accessible for wheelchair users and even mobility scooters.
Is there a queue for the Rotterdam Zoo?
Yes, usually there is. Especially in high season, the queue can be quite long that’s why we advice purchase your tickets here online. The queue is usually for people who don’t have a ticket yet.
Is smoking allowed in the zoo?
No, smoking isn’t allowed in the zoo. Smoke-free zones have been created on the terraces near the hospitality industry. Same also applies to the e-cigarette. Smoking is allowed in the other parts of the garden, but visitors are asked to take others into account. With the zoo’s smoking policy, they hope to create a safe and healthy environment for children in particular.
Do I have to print my e-tickets?
No, the tickets can be scanned from your mobile telephone screen, so printing it isn’t necessary.
Are bicycles allowed in the zoo?
No, bicycles, roller skates or skateboards are not allowed.
Is the Rotterdam Zoo interesting for children?
Yes, there are lots of entertainment possibilities in the zoo for children.
Are pets allowed in the Rotterdam Zoo?
In order to protect the animals in the zoo, visitors aren’t allowed to bring in their pets.
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Plan a surprise getaway
Can’t find the perfect present for a loved one? Struggling with ideas for the person who has everything? There is one gift that’s a fail-safe option for anyone – time away.
A surprise getaway is a fantastic treat; being whisked away at the spur of the moment without having to organise a thing is a real dream. Your job is to ensure the trip runs smoothly, without your loved one suspecting a thing, so it’s important to be organised. Once you’ve chosen the destination, you’ll need to book flights and hotels, arrange activities and do any necessary paperwork, such as securing visas.
Here are a few suggestions for extravagant surprise breaks…
A romantic visit to Venice
It’s impossible not to fall in love with the Italian city of Venice. Throughout history, countless couples have enjoyed romantic trysts in secret passageways that criss-cross this floating city, and it continues to charm and captivate even today.
Gondola rides are an obvious choice for a romantic break, but why not go one step further by booking a lesson to train as a gondolier? Viator.com offers several packages.
To escape the crowds, it’s worth booking accommodation on the peaceful island of Giudecca. Here, you’ll find five-star hotel Molino Stucky, which has a private boat to ferry guests to St Mark’s Square.
Venice is famous for its food and there’s even a wine-producing island on the lagoon; book an evening meal at Venissa on Mazzorbo (linked by a wooden bridge to Burano).
A friendly meet-up in Machu Picchu
There’s nothing like a shared adventure to create memories that will last forever. If you’re planning a reunion with friends, a trekking trip is the perfect escape from modern living, and a novel way to catch up. One of the most famous routes is the four-day journey to Peru’s famous lost city in the jungle, Machu Picchu.
You’ll need to book passes for the classic Inca Trail quite far in advance, so this is a trip that’s worth planning early. Various tour companies can arrange these, with camping equipment and porters (to carry kit) included.
A far more relaxing option is to take the train through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes and stay at the Casa del Sol Machu Picchu hotel. From here you can take a bus to the ancient citadel.
Visas for Peru can be collected on arrival (if required), but if you intend to do the Inca Trail, you’ll need to make sure suitcases are packed with appropriate trekking gear. Realistically, you’ll need to tell friends that your chosen meeting place is Peru. But the surprise element is the journey to Machu Picchu – whether by foot or train.
Just advise them to do a few extra training sessions in the gym before the trip, as there are some seriously high altitudes to contend with in the Andes.
A family trip to see Santa in Lapland
It’s every child’s dream to meet Santa, and seeing him in his snowy home is certainly much more exciting than a dreary shopping mall.
A number of tour companies offer packages to Kittilä in Finnish Lapland, which is traditionally regarded as being the best place to see Santa. Visits are available throughout December, and if you shop around you can get some great last minute deals. Break Sokos Hotel Levi and Hotel K5 Levi, are both close to Kittilä making them good places to stay.
You will need to pack lots of warm clothes, as temperatures can dip to minus 20 degrees Celsius!
Start the surprise by sending the kids a special postcard from the man in red, inviting them to prepare Christmas wish lists. Then bundle them into the car, and tell them you’re going to visit Santa at the local department store. Divert course to the airport, where you’ll be jumping onboard a 21st century sleigh, and once they’re on the plane, play them a DVD of Miracle on 34th Street to get everyone in the Christmas spirit.
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One Piece - Collection 13
Regular readers may have noted that we were less than impressed with One Piece Collection 12, as a set it crammed in everything that One Piece does poorly and amplified it all the way up to 11. After dragging myself through that dire collection I had been dreading the day when One Piece Collection 13 landed on my doorstep. So when that fateful day arrived and I tentatively popped the first disc in my player hopes were not high that the series could redeem itself...
Thankfully this set represents a massive improvement over the last, the pace finally kicks up as the action in Enies Lobby draws towards a close. Zoro is still battling Kaku, and Luffy is still going toe to toe with Rob Lucci, but I’m happy to report both these battles and more are finally resolved in this set, and in spectacular style. The culmination of the Ennies Lobby section sees the Buster Call in full effect and the Strawhats locked in a fierce battle with a number of marine Captains. All this is going off while Luffy and Lucci are locked in the final stages of their showdown. This section represents One Piece hitting full throttle (well, for One Piece…), with action aplenty in every episode.
Post Ennies Lobby things calm down a bit as the repercussions of recent events begin to take hold back on Water 7. There are some startling revelations to the Strawhats and Galley-La about Luffy’s lineage, as the Marines once again track down the Strawhats. The events of Ennies Lobby and beyond also open up some interesting questions about the make up of the Strawhats crew, including a final sad goodbye to an old friend.
However, not everything here is improved over the last collection. Along the way there are some less then stellar detours, including a particularly poor episode about a missing Yagara, but on the whole this set represents a massive improvement over the last. This is despite the terrible Edo Period filler, which has plagued past sets, making a reappearance here. It is thankfully limited to only one episode and isn’t nearly as bad as some of it’s forebears. All the same old complaints we’ve made time and again about the length of episode recaps and so-on still apply here, but they are at least mitigated by some genuine story progression.
Once again One Piece hits some of the highs of Collection 10 and 11, but alas can’t maintain it for the duration of the collection. All in all this collection represents a marked improvement over the last, and is up there with the best the series has to offer.
English 5.1 surround and Japanese stereo audio with English subtitles. Extras consist of commentary, textless openings and closing credits, On The Boat – Behind The Scenes feature.
One Piece almost back to it’s best.
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US Students Got Cars for Their Perseverance, While Chinese Student Got Nothing
Looks like presenting a new car to students for their perseverance is becoming a trend. How else can you explain these AMAZING acts of kindness? The Typical Student team loves telling about random acts of kindness towards students in need. Previously, we listed 7 HEARTWARMING Times Complete Strangers Helped Struggling Students. And, we’re just about to tell you more!
Alabama Student Rewarded With a New Car for Walking 20 Miles to Work
Credit: Bellhops
Walter Carr, 20, a student from Homewood, Alabama got a new car from his new boss! How did that happen? It was the night just before Walter was going to start his new job, but unlucky for him, his car broke down and he had no time to take it to the mechanic. Someone would panic from the perspective of walking 20 miles to the job, but not Mr. Carr!
Instead of wasting his precious time, Walter set off walking in the middle of the night to ensure he would be just in time for starting his first day at work! After the CEO of the company learned about Walter’s perseverance, he didn’t hesitate to present Walter with his own car and establish a GoFundMe page for him which had raised around $8,500 (£6,500).
Student from Alabama Got an SUV and $11K for Walking to Graduation
Earlier, another student from Alabama, Corey Patrick, was given a brand new SUV for getting up at 4:30 AM every morning to catch a school bus! On his graduation day, Patrick was getting late for the ceremony, so he was walking to catch a bus dressed up in his graduation attire. It so happened that the bus driver secretly took pictures of Corey walking down the road and shared his story on Facebook.
Suddenly, a famous radio DJ, Rickey Smiley, learned about Corey Patrick’s daily walking experience and decided to present a boy with a car! Want to know what happened next? Read more on the story in UNBELIEVABLE: Walking to School Got US Graduate an SUV and $11,000!
Chinese Student Takes a 4.5km Walk to School in -9°C
Source: Weibo
Speaking of perseverance, this Chinese boy took the internet by storm after his pictures had surfaced on January 10. 2018. As told by Channel NewsAsia, Wang Fuman, 8, lives 4.5km away from school has to walk to school for 1.5 hours DAILY! On the first day of his final exams, the Primary 3 boy in Yunnan, China arrived at school on foot nearly frozen. In the pictures taken by his teacher, one can see the frost coating his hair and eyebrows!
The school principal shared the boy’s pictures on Weibo, a Chinese social media website, and users were astounded! The local newspaper interviewed the principal, Fu Heng, who said: "It was -9°C in the morning and it was the first day of the final exam. The temperature had dropped in the last half an hour, and as he lives pretty far from school by the time he got to class his hair was full of frost."
It’s so sad that in modern day, kids have to walk kilometers and miles to school! Have you heard of any students who did the impossible to get to school?
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GDC 2018: HTC Launches Three Ready Player One VR Experiences Today
Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited adaptation of Ready Player One finally hits theaters next week, but you can jump into the sci-fi universe today with your HTC Vive.
HTC today announced the launch of three VR apps tying into the movie launching at 9am PT. Each of these will be available on Viveport, the company’s VR software store, though there’s no word on a launch on Steam just yet.
Each of these experiences is accessed by logging into the Oasis beta, a digital hub that shares the same name as the VR metaverse featured in the film. Every game has been developed by a different studio and takes on different mechanics. The first piece, called Battle for the Oasis, has you defeating waves of IOI Sixers on the Planet Doom and is developed by Steel Wool Studios. In Gauntlet, from Directive Games, you’ll navigate a dungeon, trying to survive the hordes of undead that are on the hunt. You can defend yourself with that most trusty of VR weapons, a bow and arrow.
Finally, Drifter Entertainment has developed Rise of the Gunters. It’s another action-focused piece in which you again take the fight to the Sixers.
More releases for the Oasis Beta are expected later down the line, but it looks like there’s plenty to get stuck into for now.
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YouTube’s New Policy Hopes To Eradicate All The Bigoted Content On Their Platform
Dane RiveraTwitterContributing Writer
YouTube has announced plans to tackle the thousands of videos and channels that support Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and other bigoted ideological groups that run rampant on their service. The move comes on the heels of criticism the platform received yesterday, after it declined to take action against prominent right-wing commentator Steven Crowder for comments he had made about Vox journalist Carlos Maza in a video on the site, in which Crowder referred to Maza as a “lispy queer.”
However, since the announcement, YouTube has reversed position on Crowder, temporarily demonetizing his content until he removes links from his channel that redirect to a website selling T-shirts that read “Socialism Is For F*gs.” A move Maza argues on his Twitter isn’t enough and fails to address both his initial complaint and what Maza sees as the real issue at hand, YouTube itself.
So the fuck what. Basically all political content gets "demonetized."
Crowder's revenue stream isn't from YouTube ads. It's from selling merch and "Socialism Is For Fags" shirts to millions of loyal customers, that @YouTube continues to drive to his channel. For free. https://t.co/ws8mqvRoKU
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 5, 2019
Demonetizing ? doesn't ? work. ?
Abusers use it as proof they're being "discriminated" against. Then they make millions off of selling merch, doing speaking gigs, and getting their followers to support them on Patreon.
The ad revenue isn't the problem. It's the platform.
YouTube’s new policy is meant to target “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion” but YouTube declined to name any current specific channels or videos that would be banned or affected in their blog post on the matter.
The New York Times reports that by Wednesday afternoon, numerous far-right content creators had already begun complaining about videos that had been deleted or stripped of monetization.
“It’s our responsibility to protect.. and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination, and violence,” the company said in a blog post.
YouTube doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to policing itself and removing videos based on certain words is tricky business. Within minutes of YouTube’s purge, they had already demonetized independent journalist Ford Fischer’s entire channel.
Within minutes of @YouTube's announcement of a new purge it appears they caught my outlet, which documents activism and extremism, in the crossfire.
I was just notified my entire channel has been demonetized. I am a journalist whose work there is used in dozens of documentaries. pic.twitter.com/HscG2S4dWh
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) June 5, 2019
Fischer’s work has appeared in numerous Oscar and Emmy-winning documentaries, and his channel News2Share focuses primarily on objective on-the-street reporting. However, it often shows nazis and those using hate speech getting confronted over their bigotry and was therefore flagged. Clearly, this is going to be a complex issue for YouTube to master, but doing so is vital to the platform’s longevity.
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Matthew Lee Video Games Columnist The Hitman game franchise has always released games that revolve around the unique concept of silent assassination ever since their first game,...
Nintendo Switch: Impactful Innovation or Fading Facade?
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Matthew Lee Video Games Columnist Nintendo unveiled a brand-new console to the world in a video trailer titled “First Look at Nintendo Switch” on Oct. 20....
New Pokémon Games Provide Fresh, Island-Inspired Take
Matthew Lee Video Game Columnist The Pokémon Company released a teaser demo for its upcoming 3DS games "Pokémon Sun & Moon" on Oct. 18. This demo was...
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Tag Archives: This Day in History
Friday, May 29, 2009 · 1:27 PM
This Day in History, May 29th: Ronald Reagan, The Hoover Dam, and Melissa Etheridge
1790- Rhode Island finally gets around to ratifying the Constituition, and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848- Wisconsin becomes the 30th U.S. state.
1886- Coke (the drink) is advertised for the first time in the Atlanta Journal.
1935- The Hoover Dam is completed.
1988- Ronald Reagan makes his first trip to Soviet Union.
1999- Space Shuttle Discovery completes its first docking with the International Space Station.
2004- The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
The Conservative Journal wishes a happy birthday to..
American rock singer Melissa Etheridge, 48.
Blair from The Facts of Life, Lisa Whelchel, 46.
Former American Idol contestant and plus-sized model Joanne Borgella, 27.
Happy International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers everyone!
To those of you that worship uner the Bahá’í Faith (Rainn Wilson/Dwight Schrute), happy Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh!
To those in Nepal, happy Republic Day!
Nigerians, happy Democracy Day!
And finally, Rhode Islanders and Wisonsinonians, happy Statehood Day!
Filed under Entertainment, This Day in History
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 · 5:22 PM
This Day in History: Octomom, Mars, and “The View”
1774- The first Continental Congress convenes.
1830- President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1859- Big Ben is delivered to the Palace of Westminster on a 16-horse carriage.
1930- The Chrylser Building, one the tallest building in the world, opens in New York.
1934- The first set of quintuplets that survive through infancy are born. Somewhere, Octomom is smirking. Look for more on the original quintuplets in today’s “Pointless Post of the Day”.
1937- The Golden Gate Bridge officially opens to vehicle traffic.
1952- Women in Greece are given the right to vote.
1964- The PLO is formed.
1996- Bill Clinton’s are convicted of fraud in the Whitewater land deal.
2002- The Mars Odyssey finds evidence of space ice.
The two surviving “original quintuplets” Cecile and Annette Dionne, 75.
“The Empress of Soul” Gladys Knight, 65.
My favorite mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, 65.
The only non-vomit-inducing member of “The View” Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Did you know her maiden name is “Filarski”? How awesome is that!), 32.
American pop singer Colbie Caillat, 24.
Happy Flag Day to those in the Philippines!
Tagged as andrew jackson, annette dione, big ben, bill clinton, California, cecile dionne, celebrities, celebrity birthdays, chrysler building, colbie caillat, Congress, conservative opinion, continental congress, dionne quintuplets, elisabeth hasselbeck, Entertainment, flag day in philippines, fun, fun facts, gladys knight, golden gate bridge, government, greece, history, indian removal act, information, life, mars, mars odyssey, NASA, New York, news, Octomom, opinion, philippines, planets, plo, Politics, quintuplets, Rudy Giuliani, space, sports, The Conservative Journal, This Day in History, united states, whitewater, whitewater land deal
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 · 10:53 AM
This Day in History: Canada, Ford, and Baseball
1813- In Canada, American forces capture Fort George as a part of the War of 1812.
1883- Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896- The F4-strength St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damages.
1907- A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1927- The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T.
1967- The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1995- Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1997- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998- Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the Oklahoma City bombing.
Australian politician Pauline Hanson because she made her own political party, 55.
ABC News anchor Cynthia McFadden, 53.
Former Houston Astros player Jeff Bagwell, 41.
Baseball champ and current free-agent Frank Thomas, 41.
Bolivian mothers: Happy Mother’s Day!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 · 1:18 PM
This Day in History: Witches, Feral Kids, and Lenny Kravitz
1293- An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1647- Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1805- Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1828- Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830- The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1964- Montana becomes a U.S. Territory.
1868- President Andrew Johnson is found not guilty in his impeachment trial by 1 vote.
1896- Charles Dow introduces the first publication of the Dow Industrial Average.
1966- British Guiana gains its independence, becoming Guyana.
1998- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mostly in New Jersey rather than New York.
2006- The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
Stevie Nicks, because I don’t want to anger anyone that might be a Wiccan*, 61.
Hank Williams Jr., his song is called “The Red, White, and Pink Slip Blues”, need I say more? 60.
Bobcat Goldthwait, clearly because of the name, 47.
American singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, 45.
*The Conservative Journal DOES NOT believe that Stevie Nicks is or has ever been a member of the Wicca Cult.
To all you Polish mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!
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This Day in History: Canes, Volcanoes, and Mexico
1807- A grand jury indicts former V.P. Arron Burr on a count of treason.
1843- Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
1848- Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1856- Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.
1906- The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine“.
1915- Lassen Peak in California erupts, joining Mt. Saint Helens as the only eruptions in the continental U.S. during the 20th century.
1942- Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.\
1947- U.S. President Harry Truman enacts the Truman Doctrine, giving $400 million of aid to fight communism in Turkey and Greece.
1960- The largest earthquake ever recorded hits southern Chile. It registered a 9.5.
1962- Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1992- After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
2008- The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between 22 May and 31 May 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
American businessman T. Boone Pickens, 81.
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski, 52.
former left handed MLB pitcher Tommy John, 66.
Also, don’t forget to go buy a banjo because today is “Buy a Musical Instrument Day”!
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This Day in History: Airplanes, Abortion, and Yemen
1851- Slavery is abolished in Columbia, South America.
1881- The American Red Cross is established.
1927- Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
1932- Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
1994- The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
1998- In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
Slow day.
The manager of my ex-favorite baseball team Bobby Cox, 68.
Al Franken even though I can’t stand him, 58.
Mr. T because he owns the mohawk, 57.
Judge Reinhold because he is in the “Santa Clause” series, the “Beethoven” series, AND Beverly Hills Cop 3, 52.
Baseball player Kent Hrbek because his name has the letters “h”, “r”, and “b” consecutively, 48.
Co-star of one of my favorite shows (House) Lisa Edelstein, 43.
Oh, and I wanted to wish everyone a happy World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, because that’s today. Don’t forget to go and buy the people that matter most a WDfCDfDaD gift!
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 · 3:40 PM
This Day in History: Earthquakes, Cuba, and Cher
May 2oth
526- A huge earthquake kills around 300,000 in Syria and Antiochia.
1609- Shakespeare’s sonnets are originally published.
1896- The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls and crushes a human.
1902- Cuba gains independence from the U.S.
1980- Quebec fails to gain independence from Canada.
1990- Romania holds it’s first election after the fall of communism in the nation.
1995- Quebec fails to gain independence from Canada. Again.
English singer Joe Coker, 65.
My personal favorite ultra-liberal and Hollywood communist Cher, 63.
Wife of the maverick Cindy McCain, 55.
Son of da bomb dot com Prez Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Jr., 51.
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This Day in History: Mexico, JFK, and Paper Mario
1780- Thick smoke and heavy cloud cover cause complete darkness to befall New England and Canada. It was big Colonial-style blackout.
1848- Mexico officiates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gives us California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day states. This ends the Mexican-American War, and all for less than $15 million out of our vault.
1921- Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act, which for the first time sets a limit on the volume of national immigration.
1962- Marilyn Monroe performs her infamous rendition of “Happy Birthday” for then President John F. Kennedy.
1991- Croatia becomes an independent nation.
The Conservative Journal wishes a happy birthday to…
former NFL football star Archie Manning, 60.
AC/DC drumer Phil Rudd, 55.
the voice of “Goombella” from the game Paper Mario Kelly Sheridan, 32.
Only the very rich and famous get a shout out from us.
In Memory of..
author Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864.
former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1994.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 · 6:09 PM
This Day in History: Vampires, Comets, and Congress
1498- Vasco de Gama reaches Calicut, India.
1652- Rhode Island passes the first laws in North America making slavery illegal.
1804- Napolean Bonaparte declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
1863- The Siege of Vicksburg begins as part of the Civil War.
1897- Dracula is first published. Twilight fans, thank Irish Author Bram Stoker for the vampire.
1910- Haley’s Comet passes through the night sky.
1969- Apollo 10 is launched.
1980- Mt. St. Helens in Alaska erupts, killing 57 and causing several billion in damages.
1992- The 27th amendment is finally ratified 202 years after initial submission. This amendment prohibits salaries of members of Congress from being raised during the term.
My favorite Luxembourgian politician and former Prime Minister, Jacques Santer, 72.
Country music singer George Strait, 57.
The brilliantly hilarious Tina Fey, 39.
Victim of the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption Harry Randall Truman, 1980.
The first female member of Congress Jeannette Rankin, 1973.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 · 8:13 PM
This Day in History: Stocks, Horses, and Gays
As part of our “Summer Streamlining” The Conservative Journal is please to introduce the latest new feature: “This Day in History”! The “This Day in History” posts will consist of the most important events that happened on that date of years in the past, as well as some less-than-important information to lighten the mood. Here’s the first “This Day in History” post, enjoy:
1792- The New York Stock Exchange formed. I wonder how much a share of Ye Olde Trading Post cost?
1849- St. Louis was nearly burnt to a crisp by a massive fire.
1875- The First Kentucky Derby is held.
1954- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously passes Brown v. Board of Education, ending segregation in public schools.
1973- Televised Senate hearings begin regarding the Watergate Scandal.
1992- The World Health Organization finally takes Homosexuality off of its list of illnesses.
2004- Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Somewhere, Barney Frank is smiling.
2007- For the first time since 1953, trains cross the 38th parallel between North and South Korea.
Famous boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, 53.
Irish folk singer Enya, 48.
Everyone’s favorite Belasurian pop singer Angelica Agurbash, 39.
San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker, 27.
James Buchanon’s vice president John C. Breckinridge, 1875.
Lawrence Welk, without him there would be no Judice on SNL, 1992.
Former Stan Lee Comics comic book artist Dave Berg, 2002.
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The Davies Brothers are Brett and Nicholas Davies, twin brothers who share a love of books, films, history and the Wales football team. They are the winners of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writers Showcase (supported by the London Book Fair). Brett lived in four different countries before settling in Japan, where he teaches English and Film Studies at a university in Tokyo. He also writes screenplays, as well as articles for a variety of publications on cinema, sports, and travel. He speaks English, Japanese and Welsh. Nicholas is a freelance writer and PhD researcher based in Cardiff. He previously worked for the Arts Council of Wales focusing on theatre and drama. He now writes screenplays, stories, and articles for The Stage and a variety of football magazines. He speaks English, Welsh and very basic Spanish. They are the authors of the novels The Phoenix Code and Hudson James and the Baker Street Legacy, and the series of mystery adventures, Sherlock Holmes: The Centurion Papers. View all posts by The Davies Brothers
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American Politics Is Now Just Civil War By Other Means
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by Jim Jatras November 5, 2018 1.3k Views 4 Comments
Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation:
In the wake of the sending of bomb-like devices of uncertain capability to prominent critics of US President Donald Trump and of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue (both Trump’s fault, of course) – plus a migrant invasion approaching the US through Mexico – there have been widespread calls for toning down harsh and “divisive” political rhetoric.
Of course given the nature of the American media and other establishment voices, these demands predictably have been aimed almost entirely against Trump and his Deplorable supporters, almost never against the same establishment that unceasingly vilifies Trump and Middle American radicals as literally Hitler, all backed up by the evil White-Nationalist-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Those appealing for more civility and a return to polite discourse can save their breath. It’s much, much too late for that.
When Trump calls the establishment media the enemies of the people, that’s because they – together with their passive NPC drones and active Antifa enforcers – are enemies, if by “the people” we mean the historic American nation. Trump’s sin is that he calls them out for what they are.
Trump didn’t cause today’s polarization, he only exacerbates it because he punches back. Good, may he continue to do so. Pining for a more well-mannered time in a country that belongs to another, long-gone era is futile.
American politics is no longer about a narrow range of governing styles or competing economic interests. It is tribal. Today’s “tribes” are defined in terms of affinity for or hostility to the founding American ethnos characterized by European, overwhelming British origin (a/k/a, “white”); Christian, mainly Protestant; and English-speaking, as augmented by members of other groups who have totally or partially assimilated to that ethnos or who at least identify with it (think of Mr. Hamadura in The Camp of the Saints).
(Unfortunately we don’t have a specific word for this core American ethnic identity to distinguish it from general references to the United States in a civic or geographic sense. (Russian, by contrast, makes a distinction between ethnic русский (russkiy) and civic/geographical российский (rossiiskiy).) Maybe we could adapt Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Usonian”? “Or Americaner,” comparable to Afrikaner? “Or Anglo-American”?)
Since the Left gave up on its original focus on industrial workers as the revolutionary class, the old bourgeois/proletarian dichotomy is out. Tribes now line up according to categories in a plural Cultural Marxist schematic of oppressor and victim pairings, with the latter claiming unlimited redress from the former. As the late Joe Sobran said, it takes a lot of clout to be a victim in America these days. The following is a helpful guide to who’s who under the new dispensation:
In most of the above categories there are variations that can increase the intensity of oppressor or victim status. For example, certified victimhood in a recognized category confers extra points, like Black Lives Matter for race (it is racist to suggest that “all lives matter”) or a defined religious group marginalized by “hate” (mainly anti-Jewish oranti-Muslim, but not something like anti-Buddhist, anti-Rastafarian, or even anti-atheist or anti-Satanist because no one bothers about them; anti-Christian victimhood is an oxymoron because “Christian” is inherently an oppressive category). In addition, meeting the criteria for more than one category confers enhanced victimhood under a principle called “intersectionality.”
In the same way, there are aggravating factors in oppressor categories, such as being a policeman (an enforcer of the structure of oppression regardless of the officer’s personal victim attributes, but worse if straight, white, Christian, etc.) or a member of a “hate” subculture (a Southerner who’s not vocally self-loathing is a presumed Klan sympathizer; thus, a diabetic, unemployed, opioid-addicted Georgia cracker is an oppressor as the beneficiary of his “white privilege” and “toxic masculinity,” notwithstanding his socio-economic and health status).Like being Southern, living while genetically Russian is also an aggravating factor.
Creatively shuffling these descriptors suggests an entertaining game like Mad Libs, or perhaps an endless series of jokes for which you could be fired if you told them at work:
Two people walk into a bar.
One is a Baptist, straight, male Virginia state trooper whose ancestors arrived at Jamestown.
The other is a one-legged, genderqueer, Somali Dervish WIC recipient illegally in the US on an expired student visa.
So the bartender says … [insert your own punch line here].
While Patrick Buchanan is right that the level of domestic violence today is not up to what the US experienced in 1968, the depth of the existential divide is much greater. This is why it’s perfectly acceptable for a homosexual, black MSM news anchor to describe “white men” collectively as a “terror threat,” but when a straight white, female counterpart makes a clumsy but mild observation about ethnic role-playing it’s a firing offense. (Note that while “female” is an assigned victim category, white females can be “gender traitors” if they are seen as putting their “racial privilege ahead of their second-class gender status”; to remain victims in good standing and an “allies” of higher-caste victim groups they need to learn to just “shut the f**k up” when POC sisters with superior oppressed status are holding forth.)
The victim side accuses its opponents of a litany of sins such as racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc., for which the solution is demographic and ideological replacement – even while denying that the replacement is going on or intended. This is no longer ordinary political competition but (in an inversion of von Clausewitz attributed to Michel Foucault) politics “as the continuation of war by other means.” In its immediate application this war is a second American civil war, but it can have immense consequences for war on the international stage as well.
To attain victory the forces of victimhood championed by the Democratic Party need to reclaim part of the apparatus of power they lost in Trump’s unexpected 2016 win. (Actually, much of the apparatus in the Executive Branch remains in Democratic hands but is only of limited utility as a “resistance” under the superficial Trumpian occupation.) As this commentary appears it is expected that on November 6 the GOP will retain control of the US Senate but the House of Representatives will flip to the Democrats.
That’s what’s “supposed” to happen, just as Hillary Clinton was “supposed” to win the White House two years ago. How things will actually play out though is anybody’s guess.
But for the sake of discussion, if the expected scenario comes to pass the last chance Trump’s election afforded to save what is left of the American nation is likely to come to an end. We can anticipate three results:
First, on the domestic political front, while Democrats and their MSM echo chamber have cooled down talk of impeaching Trump, it will return with a vengeance on November 7 (coincidentally, Great October Socialist Revolution Day) if the House changes hands. In contrast to the GOP’s dithering in the area of investigations and hearings relevant to the US-UK Deep State conspiracy to overturn the 2016 election (which will be buried forever), the Democrats will be utterly ruthless in using their power with the single-minded purpose of getting Trump out of office before 2020. They won’t waste much time on the phony Russian “collusion” story (Robert Mueller’s report will be an obscenely expensive dud), they’ll focus like a laser on getting Trump’s tax returns and dredging up anything they can from his long involvement in the sharp-elbowed, dog-eat-dog world of New York property development and construction, confident they can find something that qualifies as a high crime or misdemeanor. (Some racist language couldn’t hurt, either.) The model will be Richard Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew, who was forced out of office on charges relating to his time in Maryland politics years earlier. Even the GOP’s retention of the Senate would be far from a guarantee that Trump won’t be removed. It’s easily foreseeable that a dozen-plus Republican Senators would be thrilled to get rid of Trump and restore the party’s status quo ante with Mike Pence in the Oval Office. As with Nixon, Republicans will panic at whatever dirt the Democrats dig up and demand Trump resign for the “good of the country and the party,” as opposed to the way Democrats formed a protective phalanx around Bill Clinton. Unlike Nixon, Trump might choose to fight it out in the Senate and might even prevail. In any case, a change in control of just one chamber means an extended political crisis that will keep Trump boxed in and perpetually on the defensive.
Second, for Trump’s supporters and other dissenters from the Regime of Certified Victims, the walls will continue to close in. The digital ghettoization of alternative views to “protect our democracy” from supposed outside meddling conflated with “hate online” will accelerate, with social media a particular target for censorship. The Deep State’s intelligence and law enforcement organs will step up actions to penalize any resistance to Leftwing violence, while perpetrators of such violence will rampage with impunity. Trump has done nothing to protect free speech online or in public places while his enemies continue to contract the space for both – but things can and likely will get much, much worse if the Democrats feel the wind at their back after next week. Such vestigial protections of religion, free speech, right to bears arms, and others that we still possess – for now – aren’t likely to survive much longer as the edifice of the old America continues to crumble under the malfeasance of the very Executive, Legislative, and Judicial officials who pretend to be its custodians.
Third and most ominously, chances of a major war could increase exponentially. If Trump is fighting for his life, chances of purging his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad national security team will go from slim to none. Any hope of a national interest-based policy along the lines Trump promised in 2016 – and which still seems to be his personal preference – will be gone. Thankfully, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has run with the ball through last year’s opening and hopefully the momentum for peace in Northeast Asia will be self-sustaining. With any luck, the Khashoggi imbroglio between Washington and Riyadh will lead to America’s “downplaying and eventually abandoning the anti-Iranian obsession that has so far overshadowed our regional policy” and to an end the carnage in Yemen, even as the Syria war lurches toward resolution. Still, the US remains addicted to ever-increasing sanctions, and despite warnings from both Russia and China that they are prepared for war – warnings virtually ignored by the US media and political class – the US keeps pressing on all fronts: outer space, the Arctic, Europe (withdrawal from the INF treaty), Ukraine, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Xinjiang, and elsewhere. Trump is expected to meet with Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping following the US election, but they may have to conclude that he is not capable of restraining the war machine nominally under his command and will plan accordingly.
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Here is an interesting look at how three evangelical Christian-based groups are attempting to sway the 2018 election:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2018/11/americas-evangelicals-and-2018-midterm.html
It would seem that the Christian right is perfectly willing to vote for a candidate that their church leadership would normally regard as morally flawed.
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Don’t Waste Your Vote, Vote Tomorrow for Real Progress, Honesty and Justice Several meaningful articles have been recently published making it obvious how futile the electoral options presented in tomorrow’s United States elections are for real progressives, progressives enlightened enough to be honest with themselves. Among them are “Scum vs. Scum” in Truthdig by Chris Hedges and “If US Politics Were Real, A Massive Blue Wave Would Be 100% Certain” by Caitlin Johnstone on her blog and in many other sites. Their articles are a bit depressing if all too accurate but I believe there is something we can do… Read more »
George Hartwell
The Left has truly betrayed the people and the social issues that make a difference. That betrayal makes Trump’s day by giving him room to show that stopping illegal immigration provides job stability to the working man. That is what he has done. The Democrats violence during the Kavanaugh hearings woke people up to the amount of violent irrationality that is pent up in the new cultural-Marxist’ Left. People do not want that kind of irrationality running their nation and this motivates voters to support GOP and GOP supporters to get out and vote to stop this chaos. The mid-terms… Read more »
Interesting analysis. But, both parties desire this split – hence no action by Trump to protect free speech. The split was created by the CIA et al. Deep State to create the usual constellation of divide and rule inland as used abroad to distract people’s attention from useless wars that serve the wealth of the ruling classes.
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China deploys its first carrier, Beijing warns of Pacific naval race with US
by Alexander Mercouris January 6, 2017 2.3k Views
Whilst Russia’s carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is returning home following her operational use in the conflict in Syria, her sister ship the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (formerly the Varyag) is on her first cruise.
The Chinese Defence Ministry has described the purpose of Liaoning’s cruise as “scientific research, experiment and training.” In other words it is primarily a training exercise intended to familiarise the Chinese with naval carrier operations in preparation for the much bigger Chinese built carriers which are coming.
It is not however only that. The Chinese have intentionally deployed Liaoning to the South China Sea – the flashpoint in tensions with the US. Its presence there is obviously intended to assert Chinese claims in the South China Sea and to remind the US and other Pacific naval powers of the reality of Chinese power and resolve in this area.
That the Chinese are using Liaoning to make a political demonstration, and that they have more extensive plans for what is till their only naval carrier, has been confirmed by an editorial in the English language Chinese newspaper The Global Times, which is known to reflect the opinions of the Chinese leadership
The role of the Liaoning should not be confined to military technological experiments. It should also test the geopolitical role Chinese aircraft carriers play and the response of major world powers to China’s buildup of its navy.
Aircraft carriers are strategic tools which should be used to show China’s strength to the world and shape the outside world’s attitude toward China. It is not built for war only. Chinese aircraft carriers must set off on a long journey. China’s core interests are mainly offshore, but the range of aircraft carriers must go beyond offshore areas. The rivalry must be extended to wider areas so as to ease China’s offshore pressure.
As China’s only aircraft carrier fleet now, it should have the ability and courage to sail further. It should not only pass the first island chain, but also sail past the second island chain and go to the waters where Chinese cruise fleets have never been.
The Chinese fleet will cruise to the Eastern Pacific sooner or later. When China’s aircraft carrier fleet appears in offshore areas of the US one day, it will trigger intense thinking about maritime rules.
The distant sailing of the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet is not aimed at provoking the US nor at reshaping maritime strategic structure. But if the fleet is able to enter areas where the US has core interests, the situation when the US unilaterally imposes pressure on China will change.
China should speed up launching its new aircraft carriers so as to activate their combat.
In addition, China needs to think about setting up navy supply points in South America right now.
Chinese people love peace, but the Chinese military must be resolute. China will not be easily irritated, but once it is, it will take firm countermeasures. The Liaoning and its fleet is expected to experience the cruel geopolitical competition and become a standard bearer of the Chinese navy.
(bold italics added)
This is a straightforward warning of Chinese willingness to engage the US in a naval arms race in the Pacific, with the Chinese navy prepared to challenge the US Navy there as it has never been challenged since it defeated Japan in the Second World War. Moreover the Chinese are openly debating establishing supply points for their navy in South America (one wonders in which countries) in a way that no other power – not even the USSR or Japan – has ever done before.
Despite the editorial’s assurance that China is “not aiming to provoke the US” by these moves, it is impossible to imagine a geopolitical and military-strategic challenge likely to provoke the US more. For the first time in its modern history the US would face a direct military challenge off its own coast and in its own backyard.
There is extensive ongoing debate about the military utility of aircraft carriers, with the claim often made that they are today militarily obsolete as they have become increasingly vulnerable to anti-ship missiles.
Whilst there does appear to be some force to this claim, it arguably holds least truth in the vast area of the Pacific, where fleets are more likely to be deployed beyond the range of land based anti-ship missiles and aircraft. It was after all against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, not against Germany or the USSR in the Atlantic in the Second World War and the Cold War, that the aircraft carrier found its greatest use. Indeed on the principle that the military often prepares for the last war rather than the next one, a possibly valid criticism of the US Navy is that it built a carrier based navy during the Cold War more suitable for waging war against a trade dependent island state like Japan than the vast self sufficient continental Soviet superpower it was actually pitted against.
Whilst the threatened Chinese naval build up in the Pacific poses a challenge arguably closer to the one the US Navy has prepared itself to fight, there is a crucial difference. During the Second World War US industrial and technological resources dwarfed Japan’s. Today on the contrary it is China – the US’s Pacific rival – whose industrial resources surpass those of the US. Obviously because of its huge head start the naval balance in the Pacific still vastly favours the US. However in another later editorial The Global Times makes clear China’s resolve to build up its naval forces in the Pacific in order to achieve naval dominance even if this takes fifty years
The Liaoning is used for scientific research and in preparation for wholly Chinese-made aircraft carriers which are under construction. China has a long way to go in building up its own carrier defence. In at least half a century’s time, China will not stop building up its defence. It is clear that in the 21st century, China’s rise has become the new normal.
Given China’s greater – and growing – resources, this is a challenge the US over time simply cannot win, and the Chinese know it.
There is of course a strong element of posturing in all this. Just as Donald Trump’s moves towards Taiwan are intended to pressure China into making concessions, so Chinese warnings of a naval arms race in the Pacific are a warning to the US to come to terms with China or face the consequences. Indeed the same editorial in The Global Times actually says as much
China has become one of the most powerful countries in the West Pacific, but it does not ask for more rights. China’s core interests have not expanded, and it is open to negotiations for all disputes. China will not confront the US-Japan alliance in deep sea waters, while the two shall never challenge the bottom line of China’s core interests. China will deal a heavy blow to those who act wantonly in its near sea areas.
As China and a Trump led US prepare to square off against each other, it is a thinly veiled reminder that inside the Chinese velvet glove there is a mailed fist. Donald Trump, author of The Art of the Deal, will hopefully understand and take note.
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China didn’t start the trade war but will finish it
Europe to go it alone in trade war with US
Here’s why the US elite fear RT
DISTURBING: ‘Identity Politics’ and Chicago’s race hate crime (VIDEO)
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A Rich Tradition of Aquatic Activity & Enjoyment on the Water
FYC offers it's Members the opportunity for power boating, sailing, kayaking, and other aquatic activities. It also hosts numerous social cruises and major sailing regattas, including the 2016 USODA Southeastern Opti Championship. In addition to its year-round competition schedule, FYC’s Youth Sailing Program is active all year, with highly successful summer programs, making sailing an energetic and ubiquitous presence on the Club’s waterfront. Positioned 23 miles from the Intracoastal Waterway, FYC provides fishing and cruising enthusiasts direct access to the Atlantic Ocean.
FYC boasts two marinas that contain 73 wet slips, 18 dry lifts and 38 dry storage spots, together offering boaters space for 129 crafts, in addition to small sailboat storage. Knowledgeable Dock Master Carter Meyers is available to accommodate FYC Members’ and guests’ boating needs.
The Florida Yacht Club is committed to fostering the next generation of sailors. Under the stewardship of Waterfront Director Jodi Weinbecker and Head Coach Dustin Domer, the FYC Youth Sailing Team competes year-round in regattas both national and international. Summer sailing and waterfront programs offer your child an exciting and enriching way to get out on the water!
FYC is proud of its stature as the sailing capital of Northeast Florida, a position which is evidenced by the multitude of regattas featured at the Club each year. FYC serves as host to youth regattas such as the Equinox Regatta, the Cowford Cup, and the King’s Day Regatta. FYC also hosts national Regattas like the Orange Peel Regatta, and is often selected to host major championships such as the J-24 North American Championship.
Social Cruising
Many of the club’s boating enthusiasts gather for outings like the Offshore Fishing Tournament in St. Augustine, the trek up to Fernandina for the Shrimp Festival, the Frostbite Cruise to Black Creek in February and many more! Indeed, excitement abounds at The Florida Yacht Club for boaters of all stripes!
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The Grand Seiko Guy
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Grand Seiko 5722-9991
The 5722-9991 example of the 57GS series is, like its earlier 5722-9990 iteration, a relatively common watch to find, but it is proving increasingly hard to find these watches in good condition.
This particular example has a strong case with only minor hairline scratches (most notably on the lugs) and a good looking case back that, whilst showing its age, retains the clear model detail markings, and a good condition medallion (the 5722-9991 moved to the GS logo medallion, so we no longer have the attractive lion here).
Whilst the dial is in fantastic condition, we do suspect that it has been re-printed at some time in its history. It seems odd that it doesn’t have any tick-marks at the 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55 positions, and the printing of the alignment of the “Japan 5722-9990 T AD” in relation to the minute markers is very subtly different to what we have been able to see on other examples of this watch.
Nevertheless, it is a very attractive timepiece, currently running at around -20 seconds per day in dial-up position on a timegrapher.
The question mark regarding the likely re-printing of the dial at some point in the watch’s history is reflected in the asking price for the watch.
SKU: 1012 Categories: 57GS, Grand Seiko
In 1963, the second series of Grand Seiko, the 57GS, was introduced to the market – the so-called “Self-dater”, due to the added date complication.
Broadly speaking, there were three different iterations of the 57GS series over the course of its lifetime, being based on three different movements.
With screw down case-backs – increasing water resistance to a stated 50 meters – in addition to the iterative development mentioned above, this series eventually comprised models constructed from three different case materials. By far the most common are, as would be expected, are the stainless steel versions, but the watches were also available in “cap gold” (steel construction with a thick gold wrap), and the extremely rare and very costly solid 18K gold cases.
Focusing on the stainless steel variants, the first example of the 57GS series was a model numbered 43999, based on the 18,000 bph 430 movement. This was superseded by the 5722-9990 – typically utilising the 5722A movement, and finally the 5722-9991 rounded out the series, with its 5722B movement which now ran at 19,800 bph.
Whilst there are subtle, but easily identifiable differences – most notably in dials, crowns and casebacks – between all three variants, it does need to be highlighted you will come across a lot of “mix and match” examples of these models. Just to illustrate some examples, over the course of the last few years, we have seen all of the following case, dial and movement combinations on the market –
43999 case; 5722-9990 dial; 430 movement and 5722A movements.
5722-9990 case; 43999 dial; 430 and 5722A movements
5722-9990 case; 5722-9990 dial; all three movements
5722-9990 case; 5722-9991 dial; 5722B movement
Whether all of these examples came out of the factory in these combinations is almost impossible to know. Most 57GS watches will have been serviced (hopefully!) multiple times over the course of the last 50+ years, and, with many parts interchangeable between the different iterations, almost anything could have happened. An example to highlight this – whilst there are two different crown designs for the 57GS (see comments on individual watches for sale for details), they both have the same part number, so presumably would be considered totally interchangeable to a watchmaker undertaking a service who was not that concerned about maintaining the full originality of the watch.
However, for someone looking to build a collection of vintage Grand Seiko, it probably does make sense to look out for the “pure” iterations of the models –
43999 case-back and dial; 430 movement
5722-9990 case-back and dial; 5722A movement
5722-9991 case-back and dial, 5722B movement
(note – the 5722-9991 dial actually retains the 5722-9990 dial code, however, the dial prints between the two watches are very different)
57GSC 010
Dial code
5722-9990 TAD
Silvered sunburst
19800 bph
Suwa Seikosha
Lug to lug
Internal lug width
In stock – priced
1966 V1, 1967 V2, 1968 V1, 1968 V2
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Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex
Chang An Yu, Jia Zhi Xia, Anatoly M. Kachurin, Linda Yu, Di Xia, Hoeon Kim, Johann Deisenhofer
Green Center For Systems Biology
The method reported for isolation of ubiquinol-cytochrome-c reductase complex from submitochondrial particles was modified to yield a preparation for crystallization. The cytochrome be, complex was first crystallized in large thin plate form and diffracts X-rays to 7 A resolution in the presence of mother liquor. This crystalline complex was enzymatically active and contains ten protein subunits. It had 33 mol phospholipid and 0.6 mol ubiquinone per mol protein. With slightly modified crystallization conditions, different crystal forms were obtained. Crystals grown in the presence of 20% glycerol diffracted X-rays up to 2.9 Å resolution using a synchrotron source. Four heavy atom derivatives have been obtained. The 3-D structure of the cytochrome bc1 complex was solved to 3.4 Å resolution. Crystalline cytochrome bc1 complex is a dimer: most of the masses of core proteins I and II protrudes from the matrix side of the membrane, whereas the cytochrome b protein is located mainly within the membrane. There are 13 transmembrane helices in each monomer. Most of the mass of cytochrome c1 and iron-sulfur protein including their redox centers are located on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. The distances between these redox centers have been determined, and several electron transfer inhibitor binding sites in the complex have been located.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics
Electron Transport Complex III
Oxidation-Reduction
Submitochondrial Particles
Cytochromes c1
Iron-Sulfur Proteins
Synchrotrons
Cytochromes b
Cytochromes
Co-crystallization of cytochrome bc-cytochrome c complex
Electron transport
Inhibitor complex
Mitochondrial cytochrome bc complex
Protein crystallization
Yu, C. A., Xia, J. Z., Kachurin, A. M., Yu, L., Xia, D., Kim, H., & Deisenhofer, J. (1996). Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 1275(1-2), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-2728(96)00049-7
Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex. / Yu, Chang An; Xia, Jia Zhi; Kachurin, Anatoly M.; Yu, Linda; Xia, Di; Kim, Hoeon; Deisenhofer, Johann.
In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, Vol. 1275, No. 1-2, 18.07.1996, p. 47-53.
Yu, CA, Xia, JZ, Kachurin, AM, Yu, L, Xia, D, Kim, H & Deisenhofer, J 1996, 'Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, vol. 1275, no. 1-2, pp. 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-2728(96)00049-7
Yu CA, Xia JZ, Kachurin AM, Yu L, Xia D, Kim H et al. Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. 1996 Jul 18;1275(1-2):47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-2728(96)00049-7
Yu, Chang An ; Xia, Jia Zhi ; Kachurin, Anatoly M. ; Yu, Linda ; Xia, Di ; Kim, Hoeon ; Deisenhofer, Johann. / Crystallization and preliminary structure of beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome-bc1 complex. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. 1996 ; Vol. 1275, No. 1-2. pp. 47-53.
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"Witnessing Across Arts and Genres"
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A Theology for our times ???
valaralba / May 22, 2017
As I periodically do, I am re-reading Gregory Shaw’s gorgeous book “Theurgy and the Soul”: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus”. I first read it years ago, doing the undergrad work for my second BA, this one in Religious Studies rather than Anthropology as was the first. I remember the sense of astounding revelation of that first foray into the waters of late antiquity and into the debates and discursive battles raging in that world, of which we have but fragments – but which yet open our own horizons the wider for their prescience. Of all the works I read, it was this one, in particular, that blew my mind. And, when I get too distressed by the world, I read it again to reacquaint myself with the optimism and cosmic surety about which it speaks. It is the only “theology” I have ever read in which I could believe, for it knitted together into a coherent whole human spirit. Incarnational experience, and a cosmos of infinite dimension and intelligent Life. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that the theology I found within this book has provided the predicates for my Paganism and has filled the theological void in modern Paganism from which, to my mind, it has suffered.
Yet, within that theology, despite its sense of completeness, lies a problem. One that appeared in nascent form in that time and place but which in our own time has become a problem of staggering proportions, proportions which are expected to become even more overwhelming. Let me try to explain.
Much like Indigenous thought now, Iamblichus was convinced that every people, in their native setting, had been given by Creator, ceremonial methods through which to participate in the maintenance of the sacredness of the World – it was the loss of these methods, one might say the ceremonial “medicine”, which had precipitated the decline of the World, discord among humans, and the rupture between the human world and the natural world. For, ceremony, rite, properly performed, in full possession of its authenticity, not only attuned humans to the cosmos, upward and out, and inward, but also, into the surround – that is to say, to the sacred in nature upon which human society depended, Labinius’ Lament for the Temples is of a piece with this conviction.
But, like all empires, and more than many, Rome busted up the local, displacing populations, despoiling landscapes – sacred landscapes – even while appropriating ideas about divinity, appropriating ceremonial, and transferrring the loot to its colonized dominions. The phrase “out of context” only hints at the violence done to the spiritual connections which were severed by imperial reach,
As heirs of Rome, and of each succeeding empire, and as heirs of populations explosions, and as heirs of extractive consequences, the world’s peoples are now on the move, in crisis flight from the political, economic and ecological disasters that make their home locales close to uninhabitable. In addition, in the centuries which have intervenened since those last Pagan laments, new religions have arisen which have dealt with displacement through a universalization from which the sacredness of the World was expunged, and has only very recently – and tentatively – been restored. Our landscapes are no longer sacred, or we are no longer where we perceive sacred landscape to be – I have written elsewhere about “zionizing” – “holy lands” of our imagination, anywhere but where we are. And then, the awkwardness of trying to sacralize lands upon which we are “settlers”, importing fractured ceremonial to a surface upon which we squat without historical depth – and therefore without ancestral legacy bequeathed in ceremony, the authenticity of which is vouchsafed by its efficacy in maintaining our endowment in sacred essence. A truly “dislocated” condition.
In sum, in a world of crisis migration, what of sacred landscape? What ceremony, rite or ritual can keep us connected, by way of a Life Line, linking us, Self to Self, to Nature in our surround, to Community and World, and to Cosmos? As I re-read Iamblichus, I shall be pondering these urgent questions, for the theology that once seemed to answer my spiritual questions adequately is now found wanting in a world where sacred landscape is literally shifting beneath our feet, where as refugees we must make provisional anchor, and where authentic and efficacious rite to set that anchor deep has long been absent. We would need to walk on water to get this one.
May 22, 2017 in Uncategorized.
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Category: Essays
Naturalism in “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
“The Commodore sank. She lurched to windward, then swung afar back, righted and dove into the sea, and the rafts were suddenly swallowed by this frightful maw of the ocean. And then by the men on the ten-foot dinghy were words said that were still not words—something far beyond words. The lighthouse of Mosquito Inlet stuck up above the horizon like the point of a pin. We turned our dinghy toward the shore. The history of life in an open boat for thirty hours would no doubt be instructive for the young, but none is to be told here and now. John Kitchell of Daytona came running down the beach as he ran the air was filled with clothes. He dashed into the water and dragged the cook. Then he went after the captain, but the captain sent him to me, and then it was that he saw Billy Higgins lying with his forehead on the sand that was clear of the water, and he was dead.
This passage is how Crane describes the beginning, middle, and end of being stranded at sea after the sinking of the Commodore, a ship running contraband arms to Cuban revolutionaries. Nothing more, nothing less. This simple paragraph expanded to the 18 pages of one his most famous tales, Open Boat, leading us to the perennial, if not paradoxical question: is fiction more real than fact?
Crane is widely known as a naturalist: a movement marked by its description of realistic methods and subjects to convey a philosophical form: everything exists as a part of nature and can be explained by natural causes. He focuses on the shortcomings of human beings and the greatness of the ocean.
The cook, the oiler, the correspondent, the captain, and of course the sea are not just people against nature, they represent much more. The cook represents hope, and though the correspondent is our most relatable protagonist, he represents the folly of our reasoning against nature, and the oiler is best representing the idea of naturalism. What Crane could not explain in his article, he could convey in his short story the meat and bones of naturalism. After he paints the perfect picture of the perfect storm, a poor dinghy bobbing up and over and speeding downward then upward, over and over again, rocked by rocky-colored waves. Self-aware of this picturesque scene, the narrator denies that the characters would partake any pleasure from it: “they had no time to see it… if they had leisure, there were other things to occupy their minds”.
In the first dialogue of the story, we get a clear sense of the purpose of each character. They see land afar and the cook continues to talk hopefully about the house of refuge. The correspondent is skeptical and tells the cook all the reasons why there is no crew to rescue them on the island. The oiler then reminds them, realistically “We’re not there yet.” Here it seems that Crane is reminding us that neither worry nor hope serves as a guidance. The present is what needs to be the focus, the anchor of our mindset. Why worry about whether something is or isn’t? You’ll get there in a moment and see for yourself. There is no sense in getting emotional in anticipation of an event that hasn’t occurred.
One of the greatest example of how Crane shows us the immensity of nature against the debility of humankind is the scene with the bird which “struck them as gruesome and ominous”. It seemed as if the birds were mocking them. Stranded at sea, the four mates had to move in the most careful of ways, so as to not further rock the dinghy and capsize her. The seaweed was described as “steady islands” and the birds as “uncaring” and “restful.” The birds flew around, perched on floating seaweed, and looked at them with cold, beady eyes, probably staring at these foreign creatures with curiosity and sympathy; the crew, to the bird, is certainly pathetic. The seaweed’s ability to remain intact and steady, coupled with the bird’s ease, tortured them. The ocean is great and immense and perfectly fine without human life. Human life is so small and so weak, and so vulnerable against the greatest elements of the earth.
We pretend to know so much, we grapple to know even more, we rationalize and reason what must and must not be, and yet the omniscient narrator clarifies the matter: little did they know that there was “no life saving station within 20 miles.” This very fact inspires fear to the center of the readers core: the crew is going to die. The entire next section of the story is the futility of their efforts. “If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—-if I’m going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven made gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?….If this old ninny-woman, Fate, cannot do better than this, she should be deprived of the management of men’s fortunes. She is an old hen who knows not her intention. If she has decided to drown me, why did she not do it in the beginning and save me all this trouble. She dare not drown me. She cannot drown me. Not after all this work.” It is ridiculous on the verge of hilarious that the character confuses fate’s duty to man. Nature has no duty to man. It is like a man to think that he is entitled to some reward for his work. It is like a man to think he could “fire” nature or relieve her of her duty. What does man know of her?
As they confront death, they feel the most injustice toward the amount of hard work they had put in, only to die anyway. When people confront death, Crane argues, they first are angry, then wallow in self-pity and self-love, and finally understand their circumstance. This is naturalism. Of all the characters, only the oiler gets a name, highlight the importance of his role. His death is the only one and reinforces the idea that it is the end that meets us all.
What is Art? Part 1
People often ask me, after some time, for my definition or understanding of art. What is more important: to define or to understand? Art cannot be defined so it’s better to try and explain how it can be understood. The way I understand art is not definitive. Different kinds of artworks demand different standards and criteria, if not values. It is true for every discipline: how can you judge ballroom dancing the same way as hiphop? How can you judge a novel on the same terms as a poem? How could you compare techno to bluegrass? You can and you can’t; it is both true and unjust. Continue reading “What is Art? Part 1” →
Burnt House Items, “Barbie Q” by Sandra Cisneros
(If you’re extremely rich, please disregard this essay)
It seems like all we can ever get is the burnt house items: the items of last season or items on promotion, or items from the sales rack (shamefully hiding us in the back). So much of us pretend to afford things we can’t and when we can’t we fill our heads with the imagination of having them.
We tell the same stories over and over: new outfit, new technology, new car, new memberships, new toys. In the short story Barbie Q, when the girls first bought “Career Girl” and “Sweet Dreams” dolls, they were seen “skipping and humming” in joy, but quickly they saw “there! and there! and there! new dolls: Tutti, Todd, Skipper, and most importantly, Ken. The new dolls, in a matter of seconds, were love lost. Continue reading “Burnt House Items, “Barbie Q” by Sandra Cisneros” →
The Trouble Left Unknown, Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”
Kate Chopin describes her writing method with ease: she writes in the morning, midday, and evening (but as she gets older she holds off on evening writing); she sits by a window where she can see some trees and the blue sky; she writes with a pen and ink from a grocery store; but the greater question is: why does she write?
She doesn’t give us an answer. She gives us an answer that is more satisfactory than an answer: “To seek the source, the impulse of a story is like tearing a flower to pieces for wantonness.” She continues to say that a story, if treated like a painting, won’t get you very far: “a trick, a mannerism, a physical treat or mental characteristic go a very short way towards portraying the complete individual in real life.” In “The Storm” it is impossible. Continue reading “The Trouble Left Unknown, Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”” →
Escapism in “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather
Paul is described to be fragile in physique and in character. “Paul was tall and very thin with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest” with abnormally large pupils and a tendency to wear flowers in his shirt pocket. In class, his teachers called him defiant, disorderly, and impertinent. The issue was that he didn’t hide his contempt; they complained that he made every physical sign—twisting away from their touch, shading his eyes, smiling at the wrong time, twitching, and gazing out the window–of withdrawal. For this, they wanted to suspend him. They wanted to suspend him. They wanted to suspend Paul simply because it made them feel insulted or uncomfortable; Paul was being punished for being slightly out of touch. “I didn’t mean to be polite or impolite, either. I guess it’s a sort of way I have of saying things regardless.” Is having no regard such an offense? The teachers finally realized that the boy was no defiant but had nervous tics and consequently they felt “humiliated to have felt so vindictive toward a mere boy”. The tables turn.
Paul is an usher at the local concert hall, where he gains access to and frequently enjoys the company of Gounod, Raffaelli, Rick, Augustus, and Alexandros of Antioch. “He was a model usher; gracious and smiling…nothng was too much trouble…as if it were his greatest pleasure in life…and all the people in his section thought him charming, feeling that he remembered and admired them.” Paul felt as if he were the host and was delighted, if not proud of himself and his status.
The juxtaposition of the settings reaffirmed what a place can make a person. In one, he is a mockery where pretentious and false persons openly expose their fangs and claws to rip the young boy to pieces; in the other, the “high” society of art, history, and culture, he is loved and adored. His smile is no longer a menace but of earnestness. Ironically, Paul subsequently looks down patronizingly at his teacher (who had been invited as charity), thinking “what business had she here among all these fine people and gay colors?” He decided that she was not “appropriately dressed and must be a fool to sit downstairs in such togs.” Paul had become as caustic and false as his teachers. He, like his teachers in theirs, had become too comfortable in his realm. Continue reading “Escapism in “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather” →
The Mythology of Sexes: Secrets, Lies, and Doubt in Atwood’s “Happy Endings”
The first three sentences of “Happy Endings”:
“John and Mary meet.
If you want a happy ending, try A”
Readers, I did not read A. This essay is on the secrets, lies, and mythologies between the sexes and on what makes up the “good stuff” of writing.
Happy endings don’t make good stories. If life was a story, I’d want a good story, not a plain one, and a story in which all goes well isn’t any good, and quite short, to be frank. When I finally read “Ending A”, Atwood gathered all sources of happiness together into a basket–love, marriage, sex, great friends, great jobs, vacation, kids with help, retirement, and stimulating hobbies—and it wasn’t enough. It isn’t a story you’d read or a movie you’d watch, so how can that be considered a life worth living? Continue reading “The Mythology of Sexes: Secrets, Lies, and Doubt in Atwood’s “Happy Endings”” →
Color as Words, Anderson’s Brand in “Hands”
This essay first sheds light on how Anderson’s background in advertising influenced the climax of “Hands” and secondly, analyzes art’s influence in the shape of the writing. I’ll share how Stein (poetry) and Russman (painting) influenced Anderson, as written in “Words Not Plot Give Form to the Short Story”
Let us acknowledge that Anderson spent fourteen years of his life as an advertising copywriter. Before we get the chance to start the first sentence, the title commands us to leap into the rabbit hole of associations. What comes to mind when we think of hands? Labor. Craftsmanship. Perhaps something precious, like touching a baby’s head, or carefully performing surgery, or pressing the keys of a piano to create a nocturne.
What of their gestures? To what extent do we realize or attend to the good or evil of our hands? (Lady Macbeth comes to mind). In “Hands”, Wing Biddlebaum is the “angel” and Adolph Myers (Biddlebaum’s previous name) is the “devil”. For Wing, his hands flutter. For Adolph, they touch little boys. For Wing-Adolph, they are horror.
Anderson repeated the word “hands” ad nauseum: the word appears in all paragraphs except three. Anderson uses the word eight times in a single page: HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! HANDS! (which left me thinking to myself: WHAT ABOUT THEM, ANDERSON? TELL ME!) If this isn’t advertising strategy, I don’t know what is. Continue reading “Color as Words, Anderson’s Brand in “Hands”” →
Dialectics and Radical Acceptance in Achebe’s “Dead Man’s Path” and “Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture”
Achebe writes “Dead Man’s Path” to illustrate the folly of foreign intrusion: whether that is the white against black, the new against the old, or rather a clash in cultures. The protagonist, Michael Obi is a young, unimpressive man who has large ideas to beautify and renew the local, traditional school. He held rule over the teachers and buildings; his wife, Nancy, was concerned with her version of authority: she held dominion over the wives of the teachers and the beauty of the place (flowers, fauna, etc.,).
The conflict arises when an elderly Ani village-woman crosses the modernized campus. After denigrating the woman and casting her away, Obi obstructs the path with thick wooden beams and barbed wire to prevent further crossings. The villagers’ priest warns him and tells him to clear the path of the shrine to the burial grounds. Obi laughs and rejects the old man three times, though the priest only spoke twice, and held himself in silence for the third time: “I have no more words to say.” Obi could not let the white Supervisor see such silly rituals upon inspection, and so disregarded the omen.
The next day, Continue reading “Dialectics and Radical Acceptance in Achebe’s “Dead Man’s Path” and “Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture”” →
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Where’s Greg Gianforte?
In a little over a month, mail-in ballots for Montana’s special election will be going out. Maybe.
The bill to make this an all mail-in election is still in the Montana House Judiciary Committee and time draws nigh. Still, with the election to be held May 25, one would think the candidates for the open congressional seat would be out shaking hands and kissing babies.
Republican candidate Greg Gianforte is M.I.A.
His Facebook page for the month of March shows him marching in the Billings St. Patrick’s Day parade. That’s it and that was ten days ago. A click on his ‘events’ button says, “Greg Gianforte does not have any upcoming events.” Same with his website: nada.
Perhaps the Montana Republican Party is carrying his water but there are zero events mentioned on its site. The only thing coming up is the Park County Lincoln-Reagan Dinner with the keynote speaker — not next door neighbor Gianforte — but Mary Todd (someone channelling Honest Abe Lincoln’s wife?).
As for the media, there’s been little to no news since the Republican nominating convention held March 6. There’s a chance that Gianforte’s campaign is all meet-and-greets with party insiders and entreaties to big donors, and it’s flying below the radar. It seems like an odd strategy to build enthusiasm and momentum, get volunteers and organize a grassroots campaign.
At this point, grassroots doesn’t look like the game plan — more like massive TV buys, negative in nature, and some radio, print and mailings.
Democratic candidate Rob Quist is at least hitting the road and doing events, according to his website and Facebook page. Tonight he’s in Kalispell at a health care rally. He’s in Great Falls on Wednesday at the C.M. Russell Museum and next week in Butte at the Finlen. Last week he had public lands rallies in Billings, Kalispell and Missoula. There are also numerous phone bank and door knocking opportunities listed.
Quist has been getting media, too, although not all of it good. This too shall pass with the next news cycle although it could resurface in negative TV ads. “I don’t care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.” It’s a quote variously attributed to Mae West, P.T. Barnum, Will Rogers and W.C. Fields. We’ll see if it applies here.
One question will be: do more Montanans identify with the guy who has had some tax and debt problems associated with health issues, or with the multi-millionaire?
Another question: is the Republican Party concerned about a missing Gianforte? Quist is working the campaign trail and Gianforte is not. The larger question might be: will a grassroots, person-to-person campaign beat a big money media blitz?
We’ll know the answers to these questions on May 26.
Bob Williams says:
Mr. Gianforte does not want to be face to face compared to Mr. Quist.
The Montana GOP does not want anyone asking for a debate between Greg and Rob.
Does not want even a panel discussion involving Rob and Greg.
This campaign is about the Gianforte image and identity politics with people who like the Gianforte image!
To the giant forces of the Gianforte campaign, imaged values are more important than are real issues.
Issues are much less important.
Ignore the Quist campaign talking about issues!
Develop some killer TV images to air when Ballots are mailed out.
Many Voters will vote quick and mail in their completed Ballot,
and then not have watch/think about the last 3-4 weeks of the Special Election,
concluding May 25, 2017.
ekiedrowski says:
Exactly. Giantfarter cannot stand up to the close scrutiny of a public campaign, but the low info voters the GOP rely on will believe anything they hear on T.V. and look no further. Rob Quist should be screaming loudly for face to face debates.
Skiing? http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/jared-kushner-flew-to-aspen-same-day-as-one-of-putins-closest-confidants-whose-wife-is-pals-with-ivanka/
He’s busy winning.
On the drive home last night I heard on of his commercials. I saw at least two of his commercials on the 10:00 news last night. One promoting himself, the other with Nancy Pelosi behind Rob’s hat.
I did see Quist last week in Billings though, he gathered an excited crowd of 43 +/- people.
If this was a football game, I’d say it would be the start of the 4th Quarter, and that Team ‘D’ hasn’t been able to get their offense going. I won’t stick a fork in Quist yet, but I’m not changing my 49-39-5 prediction either.
Another way to put it, Eric: he’s busy trying to buy an election, again. We’ll see how it plays out.
Montana Mama says:
“He’s busy trying to buy an election, again” could be misconstrued. I prefer, he’s busy trying again to buy an election. And I hope it fails, again!
Mark L Wicks says:
I think your going to be off on the 5 by a fair amount. There is a third candidate http://www.wicksforfreedom.com
Gianforte is using the media to get his message out as public meetings an town halls are no longer viable due to the extremely small radical left supremacists groups that disrupt these meetings . Between these groups, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer the dems are falling into obscurity. Moderates can see through BS and will vote accordingly. Watch the 2018 election.
You crack me up, Bill, “radical left supremacists groups… ” Look, Gianforte isn’t even doing Lincoln-Reagan Dinners or Republican-only fundraising events or editorial board meetings or… Where or what is he hiding?
I think Don has the answer, here:
https://themontanapost.com/2017/03/29/forget-gianforte-for-a-moment-wheres-the-montana-press/
DGF says:
The Billings Gazette article today on Quist financial problems sure did no favors for his election chances. I’m hard pressed to understand why he would tell the Gazette week ago he had no income in 2011 but actually did 35 performances. It sure looks dishonest. I was a early supporter of Quist. I just don’t understand why he didn’t dump all the information out at beginning of the campaign. Was it his choice not to or the Montana Democratic Party. I thought the news this morning he had raised $750,000 was helpful even being outspent 3-1 by Gianforte. The articles on here regarding where has Gianforte been really won’t matter now. I feel doubt Quist can dig himself out of this hole. Still no ads and now he will be off message having to be on defense. I know many that read this site think other wise. But will take miracle now.
Gretchen Perkins says:
Actually he has been talking about is personal financial medical issues out on the campaign trail. You need to go sit in on one and listen to him.
There are three candidates on the ballot. I am Mark Wicks and I’m the Libertarian candidate. You should check me out before you vote. I am level headed and honest. I am willing to listen and will represent Montana not a political party ran by elitists. http://www.wicksforfreedom.com
Forget Gianforte for a Moment. Where’s the Montana Press?
Mail-in ballot fireworks
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Foreign Investors Pulling Out of U.S. Housing Market
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A sluggish U.S. housing market and tighter currency controls by the Chinese government caused the dollar volume of homes purchased by foreign buyers from April 2018 to March 2019 to drop 36%, according to a report by CNBC.
The information, released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), added that the decline was due to a drop in the volume and average price of purchases. Foreigners bought 183,000 properties valued at $77.9 billion, which is down from 266,800 properties valued at $121 billion in the prior year.
According to CNBC, foreigners paid an average price of $286,600 for properties, and while higher than the median for all existing homebuyers ($259,600), it is down from the average of $290,400 the previous year.
“A confluence of many factors—slower economic growth abroad, tighter capital controls in China, a stronger U.S. dollar and a low inventory of homes for sale—contributed to the pullback of foreign buyers,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s Chief Economist. “However, the magnitude of the decline is quite striking, implying less confidence in owning a property in the U.S.”
The Chinese were the leading buyers for the seventh-consecutive year, buying an estimated $13.4 billion in residential property, which is a 56% decline from the previous year. The recent political climate may also be causing the Chinese to pullback on U.S. real estate, with real estate agents in California reporting less demand from prospective Chinese buyers.
“We call it the Trump effect. It’s a combination of anti-Chinese political rhetoric, a clampdown on visa processing, and of course tariffs,” Carrie Law, CEO and Director of Juwai.com, said in a recent interview with CNBC. “The Trump effect is undercutting some of the primary drivers of Chinese demand for U.S. property, including buying homes for students who are studying in the U.S. and the country’s reputation as a safe investment.”
Canadians purchased $8 billion worth of profit, and were followed by Asian Indian ($6.9 billion), United Kingdom buyers ($3.8 billion), and Mexican buyers ($2.3 million).
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