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Dad’s Miracle Healing!
My father’s life was work.
He love working, but there was one day when he came home from work, looking very discouraged (I was 11 at that time).
Mom asked him what was wrong?
He said that the doctor at the factory told him he had holes in his lungs and would no longer be allowed to work.
He asked mom what was he now going to do?
Mom had been a Christian since her healing at a Kathryn Kuhlman’s meeting a couple years earlier.
She had, at that time, become the first and only Christian in our family.
She was standing on the promise in Acts chapter 16 verse 31 telling that if she believed, not only would she be saved, but also her whole family.
She told Dad he had to go to the miracle service that night in Carnegie auditorium in Pittsburgh where Kathryn Kuhlman was preaching.
He told her that he was not a believer.
She said it did not matter, she was a believer and that she would be praying for him.
He asked her if she was going to go with him?
She said that she could not go, that she had to stay home with the baby but she answered that Sonny can go with him. (that was my nickname when I was small).
I knew that Christians carried a book to church, so I ran into my room and got two comic books. I believe it was Donald Duck and Superman.
So off to the auditorium we went that night, Dad parked the car and we walked across the street to the auditorium.
It was next door to the museum. Dad stopped and told me to look at the auditorium.
He asked me what I saw?
I told Dad that the place looks like it’s packed out and people are hanging out the windows and the doors.
He had a big smile on his face and told me to make sure that I remembered what I saw, to tell Mom.
As we turned to go back to the car, not thinking we could get inside the auditorium, we heard a shout from an upstairs window "Tony, Tony”.
We turned and looked and there was a man, hanging out one of the windows, shouting my Dad’s name, telling us to wait for him.
He evidently was a fellow worker of my father. The man rushed to my dad and told him he had been praying for him and how happy he was to see my dad there.
Dad had a big smile and said, “Yes, we came to the meeting but as you see there’s no room for us to get in as the place is overflowing."
The man said, not to worry that he could get us in.
Dad's smile now became a frown.
He took my dad by the hand while dad held unto me.
He took us through the side of the museum. He, having a key, opened the door and shoved us into the balcony that was packed like sardines.
Dad and I were leaning against the back wall and as we shimmied over to the windowsill where he lifted me up and told me to sit there. Do not fall out, as your mother wouldn’t like it.
They were singing and so I opened up one of my comic books.
A child is able to do many things at the same time. A child can be doing homework, watching television and listening to everything mother and dad are saying in the kitchen at the same time.
As I was reading my comic book, I heard Kathryn Kuhlman say that there’s a man here with holes in his lungs. "Where is that man?”
I looked at my dad and I poked him I and said, "Dad, that is you.”
He looked at me and said, "Be quiet.”
Again Kathryn Kuhlman said, “Where is that man? If you don’t acknowledge, you will lose your healing. Raise your hand.”
Dad slipped his hand halfway up and I don’t know how anyone could possibly have seen it.
Then a elderly woman saw dad’s hand and shouted, “Here he is Kathryn.”
Kathryn Kuhlman, then made eye contact with my father and said, “You’re the man.”
My father shook his head to say yes.
She said to him, "You have holes in your lungs and they told you that today?”
Dad shook his head in the affirmative.
She then told him, “You’re not a believer, are you? Your wife is at home praying for you. Is that right?”
Dad once again shook his head, yes. “You are Jewish?”
Once again, dad shook his head.
"Do you receive your healing?"
Dad shook his head, yes.
I could hardly wait to get home to tell mom. I jumped out of the car and ran into the house, saying “mom, mom, guess what happened?”
She said, “Jesus healed daddy.”
I said “How do you know, we don’t have a telephone?"
No one in the neighborhood had a phone. How did she know?
Then I thought how did Kathryn Kuhlman know everything?
Of course now we know. It was by the gift of the Spirit.
Mom asked dad what he was going to do now?
He said, "I don’t know."
She told him, “You’re going back to the doctor tomorrow.”
Dad said “What am I going to say?”
She told him to say that your wife wants you to have another examination.
Of course, when the doctor asked why, as they had just taken them the day before, he said, if there's one good reason, he would.
Dad told him his wife said so and he told dad he understood, he had a wife too.
They ended up taking x-rays twice and they could find no holes in his lungs.
The doctor told dad that they must have made a mistake.
The new x-rays showed he had the lungs of a young man.
God did a miracle!
This was no mistake.
This miracle was the second miracle that took place in my life before I came to know Jesus Christ as my personal Savior six years later.
Even though God did this miracle for my dad, it would take more than 10 years before dad also came to Christ.
That is another miracle testimony!
On behalf of this generation,
Your friends in the service of Christ,
Tony and Marge Abram
www.tonyabram.com or www.abundantlifecrusades.com
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Iraq in Fragments
Posted August 30th, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton
The movie to watch tomorrow after Obama’s speech: James Longley’s documentary Iraq in Fragments, more timely than ever and yet timeless.
I saw it when it first came out in 2006, but maybe I was too focused then on the ‘now-ness’ of documentaries, or I was blinded by my own imagined ‘expertise’ on Iraq as I worked on After the Prophet. I remember thinking it a good movie, but somehow it didn’t imprint itself on my over-researched brain.
But now the President’s about to declare an end to the American combat mission in Iraq – and to do it even as the violence ramps up again, despite strangely other-worldly assurances from D.C. that it‘s lessened. Now everyone’s breathing easier because we’re “getting out” of Iraq (we aren’t, of course — we’re just rebranding some combat troops as support-and-assist troops, adding a huge number of Blackwater/Xe-type mercenaries paid by the State Department instead of the Pentagon (as though that will make all the difference), and moving other combat units out of the Iraqi frying pan into the Afghanistan fire). So it seemed a good time to rent the DVD of Longley’s movie and take a second look.
And this time it both took my breath away and just about broke my heart.
Where was my head in 2006? How was I not haunted as I now am by the fear and desperate hope in the eyes of Muhammad, the eleven-year-old Sunni boy living a Dickensian working life in a filthy auto-parts repair shop in Baghdad as American helicopters thunder overhead?
How did the pleas of the blindfolded and beaten men accused by Muqtada al-Sadr’s fired-up Shia followers of selling alcohol in the southern city of Nasariya not echo in my ears?
How did I blank out the elderly father dreaming of an independent Kurdistan in a small village in the north, even as his son surrenders his dreams of medical school for work at the local brick oven, shown belching huge plumes of oily smoke into a Ken-Burns-gorgeous sunset?
These are the real lives and dreams affected by America’s war in Iraq, though there’s no attempt to push that point in the three parts of this movie. In fact there’s no omniscient narrator at all. The only voice-over narration is that of the Iraqis Longley follows with his camera, and they speak about themselves from a place deep inside. They let him in, trusting him to not to judge, and he doesn’t. Instead, he makes their stories both utterly of the place and yet universal.
‘Iraq in Fragments’ has been called – rightly – a documentary masterpiece (acknowledged by, among others, Sundance awards for directing, cinematography, and editing, and a nomination for best documentary at the Oscars, where the young Muhammad lost out to Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth). But its power is all the greater by contrast with the best-known “Iraq war movie” – best-picture Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, which presented itself as a fictionalized documentary.
Trouble is, ‘The Hurt Locker’ wasn’t really about Iraq. It was yet another in the long series of American movies where “the meaning of war” is seen entirely through American eyes. Iraq was all but incidental to ‘The Hurt Locker,’ as were Iraqis. The place and the people were merely a stage on which Americans played their drama. ‘Iraq in Fragments,’ by contrast, takes you behind the stage, and quietly and devastatingly shows the effect on those who were merely ‘The Hurt Locker’s’ scenery.
So by all means watch the President’s speech tomorrow, but then be a mensch, and watch this movie.
By way of a coda to both Obama’s speech and ‘Iraq in Fragments,’ you could do worse than consider what General Ray Odierno, the departing commander of American forces in Iraq, said in the NYT today:
“We came in very naïve about what the problems were in Iraq; I don’t think we understood what I call the societal devastation that occurred,” he said, citing the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war and the international sanctions from 1990 to 2003 that wiped out the middle class. “And then we attacked to overthrow the government,” he said.
The same went for the country’s ethnic and sectarian divisions, he said: “We just didn’t understand it.”
To advocates of the counterinsurgency strategy that General Odierno has, in part, come to symbolize, the learning curve might highlight the military’s adaptiveness. Critics of a conflict that killed an estimated 100,000 Iraqis, perhaps far more, and more than 4,400 American soldiers might see the acknowledgment as evidence of the war’s folly.
Asked if the United States had made the country’s divisions worse, General Odierno said, “I don’t know.”
“There’s all these issues that we didn’t understand and that we had to work our way through,” he said. “And did maybe that cause it to get worse? Maybe.”
File under: art, Middle East, war | Tagged: Tags: 'end of combat mission', Baghdad, documentary, Iraq war, James Longley, Kurdistan, Nasariya, President Obama, Shia, Sunni | 2 Comments
Robert Corbett says:
There was a good interview about Iraq on Weekday this morning. http://kuow.org/program.php?id=21217. The first speaker was very good at explaining how inside Iraq the voices were (and are) multiplex. And the LRB had a scary piece about the sanctions recently, the link for which I could dig up.
Lesley Hazleton says:
Thanks for the KUOW link, Robert — and yes, if you find that London Review of Books piece on sanctions, could you post the link as another comment? Thanks again — L.
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Keanu Reeves actioner John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum has been leaked by Tamilrockers. This really doesn’t come as a surprise since the website has been uploading new Hollywood releases for quite a while now.
From the horror flick Pet Sematary to Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers: Endgame, Tamilrockers has been on an uploading spree of late.
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“Reeves is at his fighting best, making the most of his long locks, his impeccable suit that never comes off (even in the desert), and his talent for action sequences. These are astonishingly choreographed sequences, longer than any you might have seen, remarkable as much for their utmost clarity and precision, as their absolute lack of hesitation in inflicting bodily injury. There is a hint here of the similarity of that jousting — fighting at its most carnal — with the discipline, poise and self-punishment of a ballet. Spurring along that thought is Huston in the brief but lingering role of the director, among other things, of one such ballet,” read a section of her review.
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Milwaukee demonstrators denounce John Chisholm for Corey Stingley decision
A group of protesters march Friday outside of District Attorney John Chisholm’s office. Credit: Gary Porter
Archive: JSOnline coverage of Corey Stingley
By Jesse Garza of the Journal Sentinel
Jan. 17, 2014 0
About 100 demonstrators rallied Friday outside the Safety Building to denounce Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for his decision not to issue charges in the death of Corey Stingley.
Stingley, a 16-year-old West Allis Hale High School student, died of positional asphyxia Dec. 29, 2012 — 15 days after struggling with three customers at a West Allis convenience store where he had attempted to shoplift alcoholic beverages.
Positional asphyxia is the inability to breathe because of the position of the body and can be caused by physical restraint.
Chisholm said he could not charge the three men — Jesse Cole, 27; Robert Berringer, 55; and Mario Lauman, 57 — because the three had no intent to harm Stingley and there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove they were aware their actions created a substantial and unreasonable risk of great bodily harm.
The demonstrators vowed to organize and vote Chisholm out of office and lambasted the three men involved in the teenager's death.
Also Friday, Milwaukee County Supervisors Khalif Rainey of the 2nd District and Russell Stamper II of the5th District said Stingley's death was especially painful for the county's African-American community.
Stingley was black; Cole, Berringer and Lauman are white.
"For the African-American community this incident, when combined with countless others, only compounds distrust in the very institutions meant to protect our citizens," Rainey and Stamper said in a statement.
The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office ruled that Stingley's death was a homicide, meaning death at the hands of another.
However, the criminal charge of homicide has a different standard that takes into account intent and risk of harm.
About Jesse Garza
Jesse Garza is a general assignment reporter whose coverage areas include crime and breaking news.
jgarza@journalsentinel.com
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Germany’s Latest Plan to Enslave the World
U.S. Government Gets Copy of Amazing Plan That Has Been Formulated to Seize the Trade of the World After the War
Germany’s Latest Plan to Enslave the World September 1 1918
A BOOK has been published in Germany which discloses the plan that has been formulated in Berlin for the conquest of the trade of the world after the war. A single copy was smuggled out of Germany and reached the United States Government. It will soon be published and distributed that the world may be awakened to the full danger of German design and in the mean time a digest from the pen of Ralph W. Page is appearing in World’s Work. The plan is designated as “amazing” and “sinister” by those who have read the details and it clearly shows how impossible it will be to make peace with Germany until her power is broken. Part of the plan is based upon demands which the Germans expect to incorporate in their peace terms and the rest consists of a scheme for secret organization in Germany. The book which gives the plan in full was intended for German consumption only and the means by which the copy was obtained will some day be told and will make a very readable story. The nefarious volume bears the harmless title of “The Future of German Industrial Exports” and is by one S. Herzog, termed by World’s Work “The Trade Bernhardi.” Follows a brief summary of this astonishing plan:
i Admitting blandly that "the par value of treaties has reached nil and will not immediately recover from its slump” and that j “to reckon in future upon the security of treaties, to build upon their loyal observance, would be more than improvident” the report still relies upon them as the foundation of the import trade, stating in characteristic fashion that “the future commercial treaties will be written in blood.”
Among other things that these compacts, to be dictated on the battlefield, are to stipulate, with regard to the products of thei allied countries are:
“An unlimited opportunity to acquire the sites needed for winning the raw materials in question, and an unlimited right to get them out by German enterprises. It must preclude any restriction. , . .”
“The Government of the country in question can be permitted to exercise its right of requisitioning them (i.e., its own materials) only with the consent of the proper German officials. To guarantee the fulfilment of these demands certain pledges must be given.”
“The amount of raw materials turned out can never be permitted to decrease artificially because of a selfish desire to charge a higher price, nor can their quantity be reduced. . . . Therefore, it must
be made possible for the German Government to interfere without foreign countries protesting that their sovereignty is violated.”
"It will not alone suffice to demand unlimited opportunities to secure raw mate1 rials in foreign countries .... for ; their price, by the time they reach Germany may have been raised to inadmissible amounts by export or transit charges, freight rates, the refusal of export premiums which are granted to other foreign business of a similar kind, and by other petty forms of chicanery . . . (for instance, a refusal to build connecting railways, or to recognize the expropriation rights of German enterprises, etc.) The commercial treaty must place an absolute bar to such arbitrary advances in the final price of raw materials. . . . The retaliatory measures to be applied in case of infringement must be determined upon beforehand with all severity.”
“Provision must be made in advance that foreign officials employ all the force at their command against the originators, promoters, and participants in boycotting movements which injure our export trade, and that in such cases the German Government have a right to be consulted, and to share in deciding the measures of opposition.”
“That stolen rights of ownership (in German patents) are restored to their former owners unimpaired, that full compensation is made for the financial loss incurred up to the time when the property is restored, and that a priority right in hostile countries is assured to the German patents during the war; but the treatymust also make certain that special statutory measures make occurrences of this sort impossible again.”
Proceeding with the terms of the treaties, which Herr Herzog emphasizes as being “only a selected few from among the points which suggest themselves in this connection, and that they represent the minimum demands,” this adviser of the German Government proceeds to lay down that except where they are absolutely indispensable “it must be expected that German technical skill will be excluded from supplying our present enemies. Such a condition as this would be insufferable. It must be prevented from arising.. The commercial treaty must stipulate that German shippers are eligible wherever foreign material" and foreign workmanship are patronized at all. It must be absolutely impossible for manufacturers from countries now allied against Germany to enjoy under any form or pretext whatsoever a preference in competing for state work. But no confidence can be placed upon paper concessions alone. On the basis of statistical data, we must specify the proportion in which German products have to be included in official
consignments from foreign countries.....
Purchases according to this proportion must be guaranteed by the state which is a party to the treaty.”
“The objection will then be made,” plaintively complains this German arbiter of our domestic business, “that such a demand is an attempted intrusion upon the sovereignty of the state.” Undoubtedly the United States might raise that objection. Well, he has a familiar answer all ready—the usual German answer to everything. “The patience of Germany before the war was stretched further than was really well, it was exercised only to keep the peace. We have gained nothing by generously yielding a point time after time, instead of insisting upon our rights. ... It must be a matter of figures and put down in black and white. The duty of the guarantors will be to see that the pledged security goes unforfeited because the guarantee is fulfilled.”
Another item that this Prussian sabre is to cut out of us is set forth thus:
“As an integral constituent of the commercial treaty, there must be an import guarantee given by the foreign power in figures for each individual kind of German industry (the figure understood as the percentage of German goods to all other imported goods of the same industry).
To conclude, it is laid down that all German governmental or commercial agencies established in any country to oversee and enforce these “minimum demands” remain unhampered and tax free.
German reports do not make light summer reading. But it seems essential that they should be presented verbatim to the business world, and that they be taken in detail for careful study. They embody clearer than anything else the present and unrelinquished purpose of the German people not only to take by force and upon their own terms whatever we have which of use to them, but to compel us to build up their commercial—and incidentally thereto their military—power upon orders permanently given in Berlin.
It is small wonder that the German chancellors all insist upon revealing their peace terms only in secret. To publish such demands as these baldly and plainly, as they have them drawn up, would be to add fury and flame to the already universal determination not to treat with them at all, any basis.
The proposed treaties can be met with the bayonet. They really constitute menace of commercial slavery, for the reason that they are purely military adjuncts. If the Germans can enforce them, then they can enforce anything, for they will own the earth. But they reveal the ultimate goal of the commercial warfare.
But in this coming commercial warfare the German preparation provides an ternative and supplementary plan of operations which leaves no conceivable weapon, trick, or contingency out of its calcula-
This consists in the maintenance of industries whose output is to be absolutely indispensable to foreign customers—the “shock troops” of the commercial invasion, called by Herr Herzog “unsurpassable goods” of “protective industries.” The German Government is to keep a monopoly these by every means, fair or foul, lenient or oppressive, that can be conceived by the mind of man. And with these products a club, a wide open market for all German exports is to be assured in every corner the globe—hostile countries in particular.
At the outset it is naively admitted Herr Herzog’s illuminating book that “German export trade must enter hatred as liability” and that it will meet the “passive resistance of her present enemies, whom there are, to be sure, more than necessary or profitable.”
To meet this German plan of conquest, Herzog declares that’ German houses are open their campaign through neutral countries: the German “make-up” is to be discarded for an American or English masquerade in appearance and in inscription —the German looms, presumably will turning out the “Abraham Lincoln Liberty Petticoat.” Great stress is laid upon the necessity for German agents not only speaking and writing English, but in disguising themselves as “natives” down to the last cocktail and baseball game.
With this humorous suggestion, and chapter devoted to entirely praiseworthy emphasis upon the necessity for good workmanship, the best materials, and scrupulous honesty in commercial dealings, the programme turns from legitimate to Teutonic methods of competition.
The foundation of the offensive is to be a Bureau of Trade Statistics. Every German abroad, whether ambassador, paid spy, drummer, traveler, professor, or workman, is to be enrolled in this service. Reporting upon uniform blanks, the result is to be an accurate and up-to-date return from all fronts, showing exactly what German pro? ducts are normally, or ought normally, to be taken by every country, and which are “indispensable.” The General Staff can then tell every day “whether, and to what degree, the proportional amounts are being altered by the open or concealed attacks of foreign countries” or firms. And it can thereby decide “what German products foreign countries can not do without, and for what ones they substitute (openly or secretly) the products of (other) foreign countries.”
The very foundation nnd heart of the whole plan is based upon a military control of all industry and of every German by the Government. Americans cannot too often be warned that every single German is to be under orders from Berlin, and is to act as a spy and Government agent. The success of the whole scheme depends upon immediate and accurate information from the front. Nor are trade statistics the least of it. Every German inventor or chemist, every laboratory and plant in the empire are to be under the orders of the General Staff-the Commercial Federation -and are to be kept working constantly improvising substitutes for raw material, and improved methods and processes. Every individual connected with any of this work, including all workmen, managers, directors and financiers of the “Indispensable Industries” are to be guarded under military authority, and absolutely prevented from giving or divulging anything whatever outside the empire. On the other hand all members of the “foreign brigade” are to report in minutest detail every discovery, invention, innovation of process or sign of progress in every foreign industry throughout the world. If it be true that the Intelligence Service is the backbone of battle, we are to be checkmated at the outset. They are to have all our plans— we are to have none of theirs.
With this information in hand, the General Staff is to prepare for invasion by mobilizing under five great organizations the entire commercial strength of the country. This is not to be a trust or combination. It is to be an army of manufacturers and miners and bankers, under command of a staff composed of the heads of the trades and the state officials and controlled by the Government. It is to be the business of this “Union” to see to it that the “Indispensable Industries” are made indispensable. And then to conduct the warfare based thereon.
Any one who believes the scheme chimerical will do well to observe the process by which these industries are to be made and maintained “indispensable.” Under our system it simply cannot be met by private business.
Every business in the empire will be called upon to contribute to a “guarantee fund.” This fund, which will be made as large as is needed, will be used to provide these offensive industries with a corps of technical experts and experimenters free of charge. It will be used to subsidize these industries to whatever limit and in whatever form is necessary to keep their costs below all possible rivalry. This is worked out to the last comma.
They are to obtain priority supplies of raw materials, on a par with government war orders. The fund is to be used in every case to reduce the price of raw materials where they seem too high, and to lay in huge stocks where there seems any danger of their being curtailed. The workmen in these plants are to enlist for life, as in an army, and “under no circumstances” be allowed to strike or halt the business, even for a day. If need be their pay will be higher than others. If so, the guarantee fund is all ready. Capital in these concerns, limited to German control, is also enlisted at the pleasure of the Government, and may not be transferred. And all the capital necessary is absolutely assured by the blessed guarantee fund. When the “screws are turned on” and an embargo upon some of these necessities is declared to bring us “to our senses” the guarantee fund will serve to keep the enterprises going, accumulating a surplus stock against the time when a hungry world will capitulate and call for them.
This Union will determine the government policy in granting freight rebates and export premiums, and in remitting taxes to any of these businesses that need it in order to “throttle” competition.
It is not expected that any of this guarantee fund will be lost. For by utterly routing all competition in the Indispensable Industries, and thereafter with their invincible help compelling all foreign nations to purchase the output of all German factories, it is presumed that the ledger will show a handsome profit in the end.
The methods they propose to employ to make sure that none of these “weapons' of protection” or their secrets are ever transplanted to any other soil are illuminative of their whole conception of busine and conduct of every affair under the st
“All persons who are employed in indi tries of protective value must be enter in special lists by the body controlli manufacturing processes, so as to sai guard these industries. From the genei lists a special list is to be drawn up whi contains the names of employees in proti tive industries, who work with manufaci ing methods or procedures, over which fc eign countries hostile to our exports ha no control. . . . These persons wheth they are directors, operating or scienti officers, or laborers, must be subject state organization similar to that of t army. Without permission of this orgai zation no emigration of persons in the lists can take place. They are subject especially strict rules for safeguardi manufacturing secrets and methods. Fc eigners can not be permitted to find e: ployment in concerns of this sort. . . There will always be deserters. They mi expect severe punishment meted out accoi ing to the amount of responsibility attac ed to the post which they left.”
The same military tribunal is to ha final authority over all transfers of ownc ship or shares in these industries.
“The exclusive maintenance of such i dustries for the empire demands a furth control which extends to change in own«
The state control will limit itself ascertaining-whether the future owner e hibits those peculiarities which in a mai rial, technical, and moral connection ofi a guarantee that the industry in questi will remain at its former height and caf city for development, and banish all pc sibility of its being transplanted to fc eign countries by the new owner. . . The exclusion of foreigners is important all cases.”
Let us suppose a great factory to established in Germany making its fi ished products out of raw material al obtainable in Germany, and that it is ope ated upon some technical secret procc making some universally used product. A then let us suppose that ail the raw mai rial it can use is supplied to it and at own price before any one else in Germa obtains any, regardless of the market; t>i every chemist, mechanic and inventor in t empire is required to report to it every ! vention and improvement he makes, a that a world-wide corps of expert spi report the same from every country unci the sun and that these improvements, pi ented or not, are at the disposal of tl factory for nothing. More than that, tl every process or machine it uses is bei worked upon for improvement by the be experts in the country, free of charge, a that every new invention is put into opei tion at once, regardless of the cost scrapping other new machinery; that tl factory has a full complement of skill labor that never leaves for any other e: ployment, and never under any circu stances strikes; that none of its process or methods can possibly reach the ears any competitor; that in case it has t slightest fear of competition every indi try in Germany instantly contributes make good any loss from cutting price that it has the right to fix its.own freig rates, its own export premium, its oi taxes, its own tariff upon any needed su plies it may import; and that in case need it can instantly call upon the Germ Ambassador in the United States to three en any action by the German Governme or army that might induce Uncle Sam remove any impediments to its busine developing in America. Imagine such concern, and voila!—you have precise one of these industries with which v shall have to compete after the war.
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Bonsai Philosophy - Japanese/Chinese/Western Ideas
Andrew Quah
Post subject: Bonsai Philosophy - Japanese/Chinese/Western Ideas
I would like your thoughts on the issue of Bonsai philosophy - specifically whether Japanese philosophy has "more rights" than Chinese philosophy. I hope this does not become a discussion as to which philosophy is superior (though my biases should be quite obvious), but rather a discussion as to use of the word "bonsai", and its application in our various communities. About a year ago, I started a discussion on this issue at the bonsaitalk forums, from which I found myself banned from participating at that website. I hope this thread does not lead to the same conclusion.
1) At this year's Sydney Royal Easter Show the bonsai category was met with greater controversy than normal, with conflict between the Chinese and Japanese schools. As guest presenter for the Easter Show, I was at odds with the Japanese-influenced Bonsai Society and Bonsai Federation members, who felt that what I was teaching to the public was flawed. The term used by a notable member of the Australian bonsai community actually referred to the defecation of a bull, and hearing a distinguished old, old, old lady swearing at me in front of an audience of school children was both amusing and horrifying. In this year's bonsai competition, entries from both the Japanese school and the Chinese school sat side by side, and because the judge is of the Japanese school, no Chinese bonsai received a prize higher than Second in any of the 11 categories.
2) Nurseries such as mine use the Japanese word "bonsai", in place of our own Chinese word "pensai", and we do so for commercial reasons. Has the term "bonsai" evolved, in western culture, into an umbrella term that includes the tree-pot philosophies of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam? Or is "Chinese bonsai" an unacceptable term?
3) Are Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese-school growers misleading students when we teach bonsai based on the teachings of our own cultures, rather than that of Japan? Does the beginner off the street come to learn bonsai as a medium of expression, or bonsai as a Japanese artform?
So, let's try and tie these together. I am considered an "expert of bonsai". I've lectured and presented, and I'm working on a book. But I do not create bonsai in the Japanese sense. My works do not have a "front view" (I often use lazy susans in my displays, and I may change the front view several times during a display), and I do not necessarily encourage smaller leaves if big (disproportionate to a full size tree) leaves make a better visual statement. I suppose if there's one question that sums up all these points, it is "Am I a Bonsai grower?"
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Quoting Andrew: " Nurseries such as mine use the Japanese word "bonsai", in place of our own Chinese word "pensai", and we do so for commercial reasons. Has the term "bonsai" evolved, in western culture, into an umbrella term that includes the tree-pot philosophies of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam?"
Andrew, I think that the term "bonsai" in the West is somewhat generic, such as "coke", referring to a cola drink, and not necessarily Coca-Cola"
Being as I'm a Californian, and have been involved in bonsai for over 30 years, I recognize that the Japanese influence has, in the past, been all pervasive. My first teacher was a Japanese-American, Bob Kato. He taught, of course, Japanese style.
Quoting again: "Are Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese-school growers misleading students when we teach bonsai based on the teachings of our own cultures, rather than that of Japan? Does the beginner off the street come to learn bonsai as a medium of expression, or bonsai as a Japanese artform?"
This is a difficult question to answer without knowing how you present the subject. Are you specific with the students as to the origin of your teaching style, or is it presented in a generic manner as an Asian horticultural art form? Or should it matter? I don't have the answer. I do find it revolting that you were cursed in a public gathering. That's inexcusable.
One of the big influences on my bonsai style and technique was the American, Dan Robinson. I saw his chainsaw styling demonstration at the 1980 Golden State Bonsai Federation convention. As soon as I got home, I bought a small chainsaw and went to work.
Dan was publicly excoriated by one of the best known Japanese-American bonsai masters who shall remain nameless here. However, after the first Kimura book hit these shores, big changes came about. The great master took up the use of power tools.
I have loved the penjing style for many years. I believe that Qingquan Zhao and Robert Steven are masters equal to any.
In the world of "artistic potted trees", we're all in the same boat. We should study and respect all cultures and ethnicities. There's much to learn from all.
Attila Soos
To your questions, I would use an analogy that I think it would answer all of them in the same time.
Bonsai is in many aspects, just like religion. It is practiced in countless ways, according to one's belief system. Religion has an aesthetic side. It also has a moral side. It has tradition, style and it has a protocol. Each relgion has a set or "rules" and it also has a history, featuring a number of people representing it.
The question you are asking is "is there a particular religion that is better than the rest?"
The answer is obvious.
Now about the part where you wonder whether is appropriate to teach bonsai that is not inspired by the Japanese tradition: we can only teach others what we know best. The most important thing is to be honest to ourselves as well as to others about what we believe in. If you practice bonsai using elements of the Chinese tradition, that's what you have to teach to others. I think that it is important to give the beginner an overview of how bonsai is practiced in the different parts of the world, and then give a broad overview of what you personally believe in. By doing this, you won't mislead the student, and you also give him a choice to follow you or an other teacher.
It is also a good practice to make the student aware that although you prefer doing things in a certain way, there are other people who do things in a different way. Here you can explain why you believe in the choices you are making.
I've found that more often than not, the problem is not about what you teach, but about what people expect from you. If you make your position clear from the beginning, then people won't have false expectations. Case in point about the lady who cussed at you: she's probably had a very strong expectation about what she wanted to hear from you. When she didn't get that, she got upset. I am not defending her actions, but I believe that false expectation is almost always the reason behind discontent.
Bonsai is about love, compassion, and tolerance. Without these three, there is no bonsai. So, your teachings should reflect that in every way.
Actually, the dissatisfied lecturer actually said quite a bit more, comparing my Chinese bonsai philosophies to a "bad take-away" trying to compete with the "top-quality restaurant" of Japanese bonsai. This sort of attitude is exactly the sort of thing I dislike about what I perceive to be the "more Japanese than the Japanese" mentality of the Australian Jap-bonsai community.
It occured to me today that the term "bonsai" has indeed become an umbrella term, if only because most people in western culture who come to the world of bonsai are not looking specifically for the unique characteristics of Japanese bonsai. They come looking for "pretty trees in pots", and little else. To be honest, I believe that the idea that "Japanese bonsai" is more correct than "Chinese bonsai" is only perpetuated by those who seek to be more Japanese than the Japanese.
Will Heath
Location: Michigan USA
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Location: Upstate New York
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The Tuesday Numpty, Can’t flush won’t fly, MiG mystery, Gaudy giveaway, Numpty number two and a bit of good news
I think it is going to be one of those days, even one of those weeks, today I feel about 150, nothing works and the place is a tip. But I have my nice young lady coming to cut my hair, I then have to go out to do some errands.
Thursday I have a check up at the dentist, more expense and pain with a nice twenty mile round trip to look forward to, basically I have the hump, but there are always people worse off.
Keep it in your trousers and your mouth shut
From Oslo-A 28-year-old Norwegian man was fined after he complained to police that he had been cheated by a prostitute.
The Nordlys newspaper says he has been fined 8,000 kroner as the first person in northern Norway’s Troms Province charged under a new law forbidding the purchase of sexual services. The law went into effect in January.
Station Chief Kurt Pettersen tells the paper that the man had given partial payment to a Russian prostitute in the northern city of Tromsoe but she left with the cash when they failed to agree on a final price.
Pettersen says “he contacted the police because he felt his did not get the services he paid for.”
The incident took place in February but was not reported until Monday.
See it does pay to watch the news, Numpty.
My Jet's all clogged up
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines said a flight from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to London was delayed for 10 hours due to clogged toilets.
Airline officials said workers spent two hours Sunday clearing the plane's five toilets, which were clogged with paper cups and other garbage flushed by passengers, and the flight was delayed by a further eight hours to comply with a night flight ban at london's heathrow airport.
"Passengers threw bottles, cups, tissue papers and female sanitary napkins into all five toilets of the Biman aircraft," said Wing Commander Asaduzzaman, director of engineering for the carrier.
"This solid material blocked the toilets and there was a jumble in the pneumatic toilet suction system.
It was a passenger-created problem. There was no mechanical fault."
That is a bit of a surprise, normally the suction in the loos on a plane is so strong you have to brace yourself against the sides of the cubicle, and you end up with your bowels dragging on the floor when you leave.
WMDs found in Serbia
Iraqi authorities are seeking the return of 19 fighter jets that were sent to Serbia in the late 1980s for servicing.
Officials have been trying to trace what the former dictator Saddam Hussein did with the country's military assets.
They have discovered a total of 19 MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighters were sent to the then-Yugoslavia in 1989 for maintenance, and were left there because of an embargo.
An Iraqi delegation is heading to Belgrade to negotiate their return, but Serbian officials say most of the jets are in pieces and are useless.
Of the handful still intact, one has been stored in Belgrade's aircraft museum.
See Tony you were looking in the wrong place.
99p shop, not on our high street
The owners of a 99p shop in Lymington, the affluent Hampshire town once said to be “too posh” for an Argos store, have been ordered to remove their sign by a council because the display is “too gaudy”.
The family-run bargain store, founded by Nadir Lalani, has been told the sign is “not sympathetic” to the traditions of the town's Georgian High Street.
The sign, which includes the 99p Stores logo and the slogan 'quality products under a pound', can be seen on the company’s shop fronts elsewhere in Britain.
Chris Elliott, head of planning at New Forest District Council, said: "Our judgement is that the sign is pretty awful and we will give them a brief opportunity to voluntarily remove it before we begin prosecution proceedings.
"The company will not be invited to submit a planning application for its retention because we do not believe that will be successful."
Three years ago, residents campaigned against an Argos store amid fears it would “lower the tone” of the town.
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What is it with pilots?
Yet another Numpty Pilot, this one though had too much “fuel” on board.
An intoxicated pilot had to be guided in to land by a rescue helicopter, the 65-year-old amateur pilot allegedly tanked up on beer and wine before taking to the skies above the eastern German state of Thuringia in his Cessna light aircraft on Saturday afternoon.
Once airborne, he served himself some more cocktails while at the controls.
Two hours later he was apparently so inebriated that he was unable to read the instruments telling him where the Schoengleida airfield was.
"Come on, I know you're down there," he radioed. "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?"
Control tower staff say he also sang a few songs cracked a mother-in-law joke and told them to "pull their fingers out as I've got a party to go to". Fearing instrument failure, the tower scrambled a rescue helicopter stationed at the airfield.
It homed in on the man in clear blue skies some 50 miles west of the airport and gave instructions for the pilot to follow it back.
Officials at Schoengleida said the pilot, who has not been named, made a safe landing.
The man was unsteady on his feet as he wobbled from the cockpit to his parked car. Concerned airfield authorities alerted police.
He was stopped on the way home, breathalysed and found to be nearly four times over the legal limit for driving.
Now he has lost his driving licence - and his pilot's licence.
He is lucky he didn’t lose his life, and take a few other people with him-Numpty of the first order.
A disabled yachtswoman has become the first female quadriplegic to sail solo around Britain.
Hilary Lister, 37, was applauded as she sailed into Dover harbour, in her home county of Kent.
On arrival, she declared: "I'm so relieved to be home but looking forward to the next challenge."
Mrs Lister began her voyage in May but had to be treated in hospital a month later, having been rescued from rough seas off Pembrokeshire.
She had delayed the start of her trip, from Plymouth, after being taken to hospital with breathing difficulties.
Mrs Lister also abandoned a similar attempt last year after being hit by bad weather, technical trouble and injuries to members of her support crew.
Her spokesman, Paul Taroni, described the journey as "an amazing triumph over adversity".
Mrs Lister, an Oxford biochemistry graduate from Faversham, is disabled from the neck down.
Her specially-adapted vessel, an Artemis 20 called Me Too, was designed to be operated through three "straws".
They allowed her to control the boat using a "sip-and-puff" system. Mrs Lister said she was "hugely proud" of the six strong team who provided back-up throughout her series of 40 day-long sails.
"[They] worked so hard for four months without a day off," she said.
Mrs Lister described the highlight of her challenge as being able to see the marine wildlife at close quarters sailing alongside her.
"Seeing whales, 35-foot long, fully breached out of the water was incredible. Two of them jumped like dolphins, it was amazing," she said.
The challenge has so far raised £30,000 for Mrs Lister's charity, Hilary's Dream Trust, which exists to provide assistance to disabled and disadvantaged adults who want to sail.
A lady with more courage than me.
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my ajeossi has passed away
The Korean side of my family is flung far and wide. My mother's older sister ("Emo" or "Imo") and younger brother (John) live in Texas. Emo's husband, my Uncle Ed, died well over a decade ago. Emo has two children, my cousins Marie and Mark. Both have kids of their own. Uncle John also has a wife and two kids, both adults. His daughter married a Chinese-American guy a few years ago. As far as I know, all of John's family is still in Texas. Mom and Dad left Texas for Virginia way back in the 1970s, thus establishing the Virginia branch of our family, which includes my two brothers. My father's brother Pete, Pete's wife, and their four daughters all live in California. The Korean and Caucasian branches of the extended family have never met. My mother's four first cousins, all old and gray now, live in Korea, as I do.
I privately refer to these cousins, in descending order of age, as #1, #2, #3, and #4 Ajeossis. Each one is, according to the inevitable Korean pattern, married and a father. #1 Ajeossi lives in Chang-dong, in the northern part of Seoul, not too far from the Hanguk University of Foreign Studies. I actually have no clue where #2 and #4 Ajeossis live. #3 Ajeossi lived in Garak-dong, in southeast Seoul not far from me, with his wife. Their two sons have been on interesting life-paths; the elder brother studied music in Germany for a while, then came back, got married, and became a professional singer and private tutor. The younger son also went to Germany to study German as well as to live and work in the country; he's become more or less fluent in German, and he's now married to a Korean-German gyopo he met there. Both of these distant cousins have kids.
#3 Ajeossi is the one who was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last year. I got the news today, from #3 Ajumma, that he had passed away. I don't know how long ago it happened, but I knew back in September that he was terminal. I also feel very guilty for not having visited more often, and part of me is a bit miffed that, even though I had asked Ajumma for frequent updates about Ajeossi's condition, she never once gave them. I'll be visiting her tonight, I hope. Of course, I don't plan to bring up my resentment at not being more in the loop. That would be crass and selfish, and given my own negligence, there's no moral high ground, here. But I'll be doing what I should have done while #3 Ajeossi was still alive: I'll be visiting.
Here's a family pic that got taken when #3 Ajeossi became a granddad thanks to his elder son and his daughter-in-law. This was before the younger son's wife was visibly pregnant; she has since given birth. #3 Ajeossi was a granddad twice over before he passed.
Pictured on the left side, from top to bottom: Gi-yeol (elder son), Jeong-min (wife), #3 Ajumma, baby.
Pictured on the right side, from top to bottom: Jae-yeol (younger son), wife (don't know her name), and #3 Ajeossi.
PERSONAL NOTE: #3 Ajeossi and I weren't all that close, but he was a fixture from my youth, from right around high school, I think. If I recall correctly, the first time I'd ever met him was back in 1986, when we went to Korea as a family for the first time. It was between my junior and senior years in high school, and this was my first time ever traveling internationally. (My month-long stay in Carquefou, France, happened later that same summer, so it was a dizzying, international double-whammy for me.) Ajeossi was quiet and soft-spoken, preferring to listen to conversations instead of participating in them. His wife, my #3 Ajumma, did most of the talking. For the longest time, #3 Ajeossi and his family were the only practicing Christians among Mom's four cousins, but sometime in the 1990s, #2 Ajeossi, the CEO of his own company, suddenly converted, and his family with him. I know some Koreans go Christian merely as a networking strategy (like elsewhere, Christianity is big business in Korea; there's no shortage of rich Christians in this country); it's hard not to be cynical in #2 Ajeossi's case. #3 Ajeossi and Ajumma, by contrast, have been dedicated, pious Christians since I've known them. Ajeossi went from being a deacon to eventually becoming an elder (ironically, in my PCUSA congregation, I became an elder before Ajeossi did; in Korea, a youthful elder is unimaginable); his wife was involved with singing and the decoration of the church with fresh flowers every week; their elder son, a natural singer at a young age, became a member of the choir and eventually was its conductor (he still is, as far as I know).
Back around 1993, when I was visiting Korea on my own for a few weeks, #3 Ajeossi and I did a road trip down to Daejeon to see the Daejeon Expo, a festival of scientific and technological achievements. As we were driving to Daejeon, a dump truck in front of us hit a bump, and a huge clump of dirt bounced out of the truck and landed smack on our car's windshield, cracking it dramatically. Ajeossi, who normally has no temper, gunned the engine, pulled alongside the truck, and waved the driver over to the side. What followed was an agitated conversation once both drivers were out of their vehicles and on the street; it was obvious the trucker didn't know what had happened. I assume the conversation ended with a promise of payment of some sort, perhaps via insurance.
We must have gotten to the expo at a quiet time because the place was a ghost town. Only a handful of tourists could be seen, dwarfed by the large structures and exhibits around them. In the 90s, my Korean was almost nonexistent, so Ajeossi and I said very little to each other the entire trip. It was all a bit boring and very, very awkward. While at the expo, Ajeossi and I rode a simulated roller coaster: the idea was that you go into a domed cinema with a 180-degree projection screen; you sit in chairs that have a limited range of movement to help you feel the twists and turns of the visuals before you. The chair comes equipped with ear-level speakers so that you're immersed in Dolby-quality sound. The visuals included a roller coaster and a spaceship that flew among asteroids and landed in some alien ocean in which, thanks to our chairs, we bobbed heavily up and down. We may have left the cinema and sampled some "international" street food that wasn't all that international. I remember very little else from that awkward, awful trip.
In the years since, I picked up more Korean and was able to say more during family conversations, but #3 Ajeossi was as taciturn as ever. Meanwhile, it was Ajumma who would call me often, and in recent years, she's been texting me. Ajeossi texted me maybe two or three times. I may still have those text messages, in fact; they were little more than cheerfully worded pieces of spam that he had felt it necessary to pass along.
And now, he's gone. I'm still processing this. I knew he was going to step through the Great Door sometime soon, but that doesn't make it any less surprising when death happens. I wonder how Ajumma is taking this. She spent so many years yelling at Ajeossi for being too quiet and passive. That said, I doubt she feels anything approaching relief or vindication now that Ajeossi is gone. If her situation is anything like mine was in 2010, she's feeling as if a limb had been ripped away, leaving a torn and empty space in her very being. And now, she's going to have to deal with the silence that comes with his absence. If she believes in spirits and souls—as I know she does—she might take comfort in the idea that Ajeossi is still, somehow, around. But I've personally never found that thought very comforting. It's no substitute for an actual hug. And when I remember my mother's hugs—how warm she felt, how comforting she smelled, how right the universe was in those moments—the thought that "she's with me now" feels somewhat sad and empty. I don't envy Ajumma what she's going to have to deal with now. As a woman in her seventies, she confronts a new and difficult burden. Ajeossi may have had his faults, but he was a good man—a very good man, with no vices like smoking and drinking and overeating, and he left us all much earlier than he should have.
Pronunciation note: Ajeossi is pronounced somewhere between "AH-jaw-shee" and "AH-juh-shee." Ajumma, meanwhile, is pronounced "AH-joom-mah."
Close or not, I am sorry for your loss.
Condolences. It sounds like he had a well-lived life. I hope the family finds comfort in that.
Horace Jeffery Hodges said...
My condolences, Kevin.
Thanks, John and Jeff.
Ave, John Mac!
where to get a poncho, then?
test walk: 37,816 steps
his worthiest opponent is... himself
visit prep for #3 Ajumma
movies in a queue, movies un-reviewed
Political Compass self-check
"Sorry to Bother You": review
#Hilarious but also #SadButTrue
directed at America, applicable to Korea
flipping the "logic" of the MAGA-hat hysteria
hubbub at the National Assembly
my friends and their (mis)adventures
my one, lone thankful student
that Gillette "toxic masculinity" ad
"Bohemian Rhapsody": review
Hari Seldon reads my mind
a scary trip down the PoMo rabbit hole
my genius country
another meme
Jon Miller is en fuego
not to put too fine a point on it...
gumbo with humor and flair
more coverage of the Covington blowup
a joke seen on Gab
parodying the heroes
hilariously cynical
Styx on those evil, evil Covington High School kid...
"John Adams" (2008): an impressionistic review
going artisanal
involved in some birfday celebrations
son of it is accomplished
your five favorite authors?
présenté sans commentaire
analyzing Don Davis's "The Matrix" score
somehow escaping the #MeToo hate
rest in peace, my friend
getting schooled on onions
more cartoons via Bill
okra quest
always looking foodward
Sokal Hoax, 2019 version
history as fodder for standup
this is just sad
the gumbo lunch
nearing final prep
sausage, pudding, and rice
PJW on the gilets jaunes
the best "wall" argument
and the pet war continues
today's Eric André earworm
keep this in mind
hat tip to Bill Keezer
"Ralph Breaks the Internet": review
"worshipped as a god"
all in all, it's just a....
aventure matinale
changement de plan
"politically motivated hate"
I guess I'm committed
shut up and know your place
yet the center holds for now
gi-il (忌日, 기일)
conservative infighting
the saddest thing
appearing and disappearing
let's see if this routine flies at a US college
a revised weekend schedule
your Saturday yuks
excellent rant from Jonathan Pie
the forgotten card
Mitt Romney's attempt at relevancy
on the brute fact of death (Alan Watts)
"Venom": two-paragraph review
demographic shift
if you're looking for a good cry
an update on my problems leaving comments
a Korean mom visits Korea after 40 years
ALERT: unable to comment on some Blogger blogs
PJW on Louis CK's latest bit of trouble
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BigInsights Data Innovation Awards
Why The Aviation Industry Needs to Hurry Up With IoT Implementation
State of Innovation Nation
Awards to recognise Innovation in Data Analytics and IoT
BigInsights has announced the first-ever data awards to recognise companies and startups in the APAC region and the rest of the world that have used data analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to innovate their business.
The ‘BigInsights Data Innovation Awards’ will be specifically focused on recognising teams & end users that are doing ground-breaking work using Data Analytics & IoT to deliver business outcomes. (www.dataawards.org)
Australia’s Federal Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science, The Hon Craig Laundy MP will present the BigInsights Data Innovation Awards 2016 on 6th December at an event in Sydney.
The awards program is designed to identify companies that have clearly demonstrated best practices in developing and deploying analytics or IoT techniques. While one winner will be named in every category, the judges may declare more than one under special circumstances.
Best Industry Application of Data Analytics
Best Industry Application of IoT
Best Industry Application of AI/Cognitive
Best Customer Insights
Best Start-Up
Nominations are now open for companies wishing to pitch for the awards. The last date for entry is November 16, 2016. Companies, startups, vendors or consultants who have completed a data analytics or IoT implementation that is delivering business value, and think their efforts deserve recognition by their peers, can fill in the entry form in the above categories. Entry form available by sending an email to consensus@dataawards.org
The entries will be judged by a panel of senior experts in the world of data analytic and IT world. Winners will get global recognition and be presented the Award at the 6th December ceremony by the Assistant Minister of Industry, Innovation and Science, Hon Craig Laundy MP.
While the ability to use Data, IoT and Machine Learning/AI has been talked about extensively, little has been discussed about benefits being realised by the early pioneers in industry and startups. So we decided to acknowledge these pioneers in startups and enterprises that are using technology for driving better decision making. In the ‘BIG’ world of Data, it is imperative to support a vibrant and exciting industry, hence our decision to institute this award
The inaugural awards is supported by Australian Consensus Technology Association(ACTA), TiE, and The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI). Hitachi is a key sponsor.
The full details of the BigInsights Data Innovation Awards can be found at www.dataawards.org including the terms and conditions to submit entries. For further information please contact: Julian Day, CONSENSUS Tel: +61 413 309 056 or julian.day@consensus.com.au
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Priyanka Chopra Biography, Personal Life, Height, Boyfriend
by Gaurav Singh Negi · Published May 4, 2014 · Updated December 4, 2014
Priyanka Chopra is the most beautiful and elegant actress of Bollywood. She is multi talented actress with beautiful voice and acting. She is one of the highest paid Indian Actresses. Priyanka Chopra is a very hard working actress and has fulfilled her dreams to a large extent. She has done various Tamil movies and bollywood movies and also did International songs with Hollywood singers. Priyanka Chopra has also been awarded various awards for her acting in the movies. She usually keeps herself away from any controversies and affairs with her co-stars. Chopra is admired in the bollywood and also in Hollywood because of her charming personality. She has groomed herself and her personality in the recent times. She is the heart beat of many boys and is hot and sexy. You must read Priyanka Chopra wiki biography and know more about her.
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Priyanka Chopra date of birth is 18 July, 1982. She was born in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Priyanka Chopra father Ashok Chopra was a doctor by profession. Priyanka Chopra mother Madhu Chopra is a gynaecologist. She had beautiful nicknames in her childhood- Sunshine, Piggy chops, and Mimi. Her zodiac sign is Cancer. She has her real younger brother Siddharth Chopra and her 3 cousins, Parineeti Chopra, Sahaj, and Shivang. You can know more about Priyanka Chopra family background by reading complete biography of Priyanka Chopra. Priyanka Chopra parents were working in Indian Army. Her father passed away last year in June, 2013.
She had beautiful nicknames in her childhood- Sunshine, Piggy chops, and Mimi. Her zodiac sign is Cancer. She has her real younger brother Siddharth Chopra and her 3 cousins, Parineeti Chopra, Sahaj, and Shivang.
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Priyanka Chopra Bollywood Career
She started her journey towards Indian film Industry in year 2002. Her first movie was a Tamil Movie Thamizhan released in 2002. She then made the bollywood debut in the movie- The Hero: Love story of Spy as a supporting actress in year 2003. For this, she won the Filmfare award for Best Female Debut in 2003. She then did many bollywood movies. In year 2004, after giving three average movies on Box Office, she gave a superhit movie of the year- Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. The year 2005 was a hard time for her, in which she gave almost 6 flop movies. She returned with hit movies like Waqt and Bluffmaster in the same year. From that time till now, she had not given a flop movie on box office. She had now become one of the most paid actresses of Bollywood. She had worked with many superstars of Indian cinema like Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Arjun Kapoor and many more. She is a strong supporter of Narendra Modi. Soon Chopras might rule Bollywood like Khans and Kapoors as Parineeti Chopra, Meera Chopra, and Barbie Handa had already entered to Indian Cinema.
She also loves singing and her craziness for singing made her create her own albums that gained popularity. Now people are waiting for Priyanka Chopra upcoming albums too along with upcoming movies of Priyanka Chopra. Priyanka Chopra song album is Exotic and other one is untitled. Her first song was ‘In My City’ released on 12 September, 2012. Her second album ‘Exotic’ was launched by Universal Music India.
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Priyanka Chopra Debut Telugu Movie is ‘Neeyallam Nalla Varuvada’, in which her cousin sister Barbie Handa had also acted. Barbie had debuted in Indian adult movie ‘Zid’ with Karanvir Sharma and Shraddha Das.
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Interesting Facts about Priyanka Chopra
The father of Priyanka Chopra spoke Punjabi and her mother has a good command over Bihari language.
After completing her 10th class education, she wanted to become a criminal psychologist or a software engineer.
Priyanka Chopra is the Sexiest woman of Asia according to ‘Eastern Eye’, the UK’s Magazine.
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turriff Post Office
Photograph © J Thomas via Geograph and licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons licence
James Duncan & Son
People's Journal (Aberdeen) 22 Apr 1899, p. 8 (illustrated)
Peterhead Sentinel and Buchan Journal
16 Dec 1899, p. 5
Opened: 13 Dec 1899
Current use: Museum ("The Auld Post Office Museum")
From: Peterhead Sentinel and Buchan Journal 16 December 1899, p. 5
On Wednesday there was opened at Turriff a commodious and well-appointed Post Office, in the erection which the workmen have for some time been busy, the work having been pushed on with a view to the Postmaster, Mr Stewart, and his staff being thoroughly settled down in the new premises in time for the Christmas pressure. The new office is very conveniently situated on the opposite side of High Street from the old one. The site was originally occupied by grain store: but the original building has been completely remodelled at a cost of over £l000; and the architects, Messrs James Duncan & Son, Turriff, have provided a handsome, pleasant, and convenient building for the money. The ground floor accommodation comprises the public office, sorting room, which measures 20 feet by 30; telegraph and telephone rooms. These rooms have a height of feet from 18ft from floor or to ceiling. On the upstairs floor are storerooms, rooms for the female assistants, etc.. The Post Office employees number 22 in all, consisting of 15 postmen, 2 telegraph messengers, 4 members of the indoor staff, and the postmaster,. The contractors on the work were: - Mason, Messrs P. Christie & Son ; carpenters, Messrs Joseph & Son ; plasterer, Mr Alex Ross; painter, Mr William Black ; plumber and gas fitter, Mr Charles Duthie ; and slater, Mr James Gillespie.
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History of the Jews in Buczacz (cont.)
Dr. N. M. Gelber, Translated by Adam Prager
At the outset of Austrian rule, the district administrator Kulmanhueber cancelled all the taxes that the Jews paid to the town owner Count Piotr Potocki according to Polish law, and also the right to collect certification fees for the election of the Buczacz rabbi. Austrian law did not permit collection of such fees by town owners.Potocki protested a number of times at the Kaiser's court.The Lvov governor advised him not to disturb the Kaiser's court in such a matter. However, he finally succeeded in his appeal; the Lvov governor was ordered to investigate and in the meantime to continue as in the past. [23]
Web www.buchach.org
According to the statutes of Josef the 2nd from May the 27th 1785 it was determined that the rabbi of Buczacz would be the regional rabbi. Of course the Jews of Buczacz suffered from the new statutes that reduced their financial possibilities. Especially harmful was the prohibition of estate, and winery leasing that was enacted in 1784. They were also prohibited to lease taverns (propinacje). In June 1778 the community appealed to the authorities for protection against the "the cruel persecutions of the estate owner Count Peter Potocki." At the time Potocki requested from the central authorities to permit him to collect taxes from the butchers that were due to him by right of the statute and his being the town owner. He also requested that the heads of the community provide him with only the taxes concerning kosher meat. In July 1778 the governor replied that the situation would stay as it is until the final arrangement is decided upon.
Despite this reply, Potocki requested in September 1778 to hasten the conclusion of this dispute between the community and himself since the community was collecting sums that belonged to him, thus causing him great losses.
Despite attempts made by his attorney Patsintski to solve the matter, the dispute went on for some years. In the summer of 1786 Potocki once again appealed to the central authorities to decide upon the matter, for the community was collecting the krupka [grain] taxes, thus causing him great financial losses. He demanded that he be compensated retroactively and that he be allowed to collect taxes in the future. The Governor replied on December the 6th 1786, stating that he must wait for the final arrangement concerning the community's debts and their liquidation.
Meanwhile, Potocki reached a "secret arrangement" with the Jews concerning leasing, which by law was forbidden to the Jews. This became known to the authorities and in 1787 the town owner Potocki was fined for giving leasing privileges to the Jews of Buczacz. His sentence was printed out and sent to all the courts of law "that all shall see and beware." [24]
At the same time, the Jewish population of Buczacz grew, since many Jews were leaving the villages for the towns.They were forced to leave their homes because by the law of 1789 Jews who did not engage in agriculture were not authorized to live in the country, However they were permitted to deal in any craft and to trade. At the head of the Buczacz Jews stood three men who received authorization from the authorities. As part of the reforms that the Austrian government initiated among the Jews of Galicia (following Herts Homberg's appointment as the Inspector of Galician Jewish schools), 48 elementary schools were opened in 1788. One was a boy's school in Buczacz that existed until 1806.(Homberg's family in Krakow took the family name Autor.)
During these years, there lived in Buczacz R' Pinkhas Eliyahu Horovits author of Sefer HaBrit. His father Meir and his mother Yente were from Vilna. In 1776 their son was born in Lvov, through which they were passing on their way to Buczacz, where they wished to settle. [25] However, they called him "Vilna" after his father's descent. During his youth he wandered throughout Galicia and Germany and later on moved to Buczacz.Here he lived for some years, and started writing the book which was to stimulate the young to study secular subjects. He was one of the first heralds of general education in Galicia and Poland. His book also found acclaim among Jewish circles in other countries, and due to its clear and popular style was even translated into Judezmo in the Middle East. In spite of his inclination toward secular sciences, he stayed faithful to religion and tradition and stated this in his book.His sole purpose was to encourage Jews to study general studies, which he saw as necessary for the full understanding of Jewish texts. In the early 1790s he left Buczacz because of an eye condition attributed to eye strain caused by overwork on his book. He moved to Buva and after some years went to Pressburg, where he finished his book; it was published in Brin in 1797. His book is actually a popular encyclopedia of sorts for general knowledge, dealing especially with natural history. In the second part of his book "Divrey Emet" [Words of Truth], one can find correct views regarding Jewish life in Poland. He especially gave a realistic description regarding the dismal condition the Jews were in and preached in favor of changing their economic structure by means of productivisation.This would erase idleness and unemployment, and would raise their status vis a vis the gentiles.His book played an important role in furthering general knowledge among Jewish youth, which read the work in secret and drew from it their secular education. Pinkhas Eliyahu Horovits died in Krakow on April the 21st, 1821.
During this period heavy taxes were levied on the Jews.Particularly onerous were the taxes on kosher meat and on candles. According to the law of August 28th 1787, Galician Jews were ordered to take German family names by the first of January 1788.With this there began the process of the germanizing of the Jews; rabbis were commanded to conduct all their affairs in the German language alone.
The head of the community at this time was Rabbi Meir Schneier.He not only conducted the affairs of his own congregation with great energy, but carried out many important tasks for the benefit of all Galician Jews; they recognized him as one of their chief representatives. Taken by surprize by the law issued in Vienna on February 18th 1787 which made Jews individually liable to serve in the military, representatives of all the communities (at the initiative of the Lvov community) decided to propose to the central government the payment of a ransom sum in place of personal military service.For this purpose a three-man delegation was sent to Vienna: the Lvov rabbi Rabbi Tsvi Hirsh Rozanes, the representative of the Brody Jews, Rabbi Yaakovka Landa, son of the Gaon R' Yekhezkl Landa (author of Noda be-Yehuda), and R' Meir Schneier of Buczacz – proof of how greatly the Buczacz community was honored among Galician Jews.
In June 1790 the above-mentioned representatives traveled to Vienna and presented their appeal for the easing of restrictions on the practice of their occupations and businesses, for the return of their right to sell alcoholic beverages in towns and villages (abolished in 1797 with the consequent economic ruination of thousands of Jews), for the restoration of their jurisdiction (through the rabbinical courts) over matters of religious law such as marriage and divorce, and for instituting, in place of conscription, a system of paying a recruit-tax, it being difficult for Jews to observe their religious duties while serving in the military; the Jews are ready to pay a ransom-sum to replace conscription.
After making two more appeals in July, repeating their earlier requests, they were successful in their intercession.On July 29, 1790, Kaiser Leopold issued an order exempting Jews from military service, but stipulating that the community supply the required number of recruits from local volunteers or from abroad, or pay the sum of 30 florins per head so that the authorities could purchase other recruits. [26]
In May 1790 gymnasium [high school] students were accused of attacking Moshe Berkovits, a Jew, and stealing some of his belongings.The municipality, together with the community representatives Berish Hofman and Reuven Shternbaum, investigated the charge and concluded that the students were innocent. [27]
At the outset of the 19th century, the Jewish population increased considerably. In 1812 there were 352 Jews in Buczacz, 696 men and 768 women. Altogether, there were 1464 persons. [28] Most of the Jews dealt in trade and tavern keeping, occupations in which, however, Jews were under serious restrictions. Also in this period Buczacz was the commercial center of the estates.Here was concentrated all crop and cattle trade along with trade in all other agricultural products, all run by Jews. The community was in debt from the days of autonomy in Poland, but slowly managed to pay off the sum of 10,675 gulden. Eventually, they became administratively sound. In 1831 a cholera epidemic caused the death of 600 Jews. This was also the year in which the great synagogue burned to the ground. [29] With the help of Mikolai Potocki the synagogue was rebuilt in the town's center. However, on July 29th, 1865 a huge fire burst out in which the synagogue together with 220 houses were destroyed.
The community did not suffer from domestic conflicts between the misnagdim and the hasidim on the one hand, and between the above two and the maskilim on the other.
A distinguished and highly moral individual who had great influence over the community was R' Avraham David Ben-Asher Wahrman, who served as Buczacz's rabbi from 1813. R' Avraham David Wahrman, whose father was Anshil (Asher), son of R' David and whose mother was Rekhl, daughter of R' Avraham Rekhlis, was born on the sixth day of Adar 1771 in Nadvorne. His father was a man of his word, hence his nickname, Wahrman, later became his surname. R' Asher was a great scholar and a merchant, a distinguished citizen in his land. In addition to Jewish studies, his son was taught arithmetic, German and Polish. It proved difficult to find a teacher for the son by the time he reached the age of nine – he was that advanced. (Another young man at the time who excelled in his studies was Shlomo Kopler, who years later became a tax farmer with control of the candle tax and oppressed Galician Jews no end.)In 1780 the Gaon Meshulam Igra visited Nadvorne and was amazed at the boy's knowledge of the Talmud and predicted a great future for him as a Gaon. At the time, word about the boy came to the ears of R' Tsvi Hirsh Kara of Buczacz who wanted R' Avraham David for a son-in-law and visited Nadvorne to arrange for a marriage agreement with the boy's father. After his marriage, while staying at his father-in-law's house, R' Avraham David befriended Rabbi Khayim, who was later appointed head of the Czernowicz rabbinic court (author of Be'er mayim khayim on the Torah).
Already in his youth R' Avraham David corresponded with R' Yaakov of Lisa (author of Khavot daat ), who was known for his critical acuity and who found fault in all the contemporary authorities.However, he greatly respected R' Avraham David as well as the Gaon R' Neta, head of the Podheytse rabbinic court and a well known cabalist. R' Avraham David delved deeply into the Kabala. In 1791 he was appointed rabbi of Biazlovits, where he broadened his studies not only in the sea of talmudics and exegetics, but also studied mathematics, astronomy and natural history. He did so, in his words, to answer heretics – the early talmudists also did not neglect worldly subjects and useful sciences.
With particular devotion he also gave himself to the study of cabala. During the period in which he occupied the Biazlovits pulpit, he became acquainted with R' Levi-Yitskhak of Barditshev who visited the nearby village of Romalov and was deeply impressed by R' Avraham David's personality and belief. R' Avraham David was one of the Tsadik R' Moshe Leyb of Sasov's students, and one of his followers.
The influence of hasidism was strongly felt in his writings, especially in Birkat David (published in 1805).
In 1814, after the death of his father-in-law, he inherited the former's rabbinical post.However, the community of Biazlovits was not willing to part with him. But Buczacz townsmen came in the night with wagons and moved R' Avraham David and his household to Buczacz bodily.
In Buczacz he had lasting influence over his community, and especially on many scholars who studied under him.These included R' Shlomo, head of the rabbinic court of Skala (author of Bet Shlomo ), and R' Khayim Ben Shlomo, head of the rabbinic court of Czernowicz, supporters of Besht hasidism. He attacked R' Yekhezkl Landa (author of Noda Be-Yehuda ) for his opposition to hasidism, and the authors of Siduro shel shabat (Puritsik 1818), Be'er mayim khayim (Czernowicz 1820, 1849), Shaar hatefila (Sodilkov 1833).[?He attacked] R' Shmerl, head of the rabbinic court of Rimolov, R' Moshe of Budzanov, R' Berl, head of the rabbinic court of Bayan, R' Fayvl Schreier, head of the rabbinic court of Bohorodtsani (authors of Giduley hakodesh, Mikdash me'at, Mishmeret hakodesh, Asefat zkeynim and one of the first Khovevey Tsion [Lovers of Zion] in Galicia.
During the same period, R' Wahrman was in close contact with Efraim Zalmen Margoliot of Brody. under whose influence hasidism grew and became more entrenched in Buczacz. Because of his closeness to hasidism, R' Wahrman's status as rabbi of Buczacz was compromised.The maskilim and the misnagdim, whose numbers were large, and who were represented well in community institutions, resented R' Abraham David Wahrman's hasidic leanings. They especially resented his introduction of half-day long prayers inspired by the Ari and the Zohar. Leading the opposition to him was the community leader R' Avish Shtern, founder of a synagogue in his name, known for his scholarship and one of the wealthiest men in the land.[30]
The maskilim would make no concessions to R' Wahrman, and one of them even submitted a memorandum to the state authorities in which he described the "deceitful acts" of the Buczacz hasidim.In the memorandum it is stated that the rabbi was deposed from his post because of his hasidic sins – something we do not know from any of the descriptions of his life. [31]
He was also accused of being a healer of the sick, and of hiding deserters from military conscription, smugglers and plain thieves – all out of pity for those fleeing their pursuers.
He died on the 29th of Tishri 1841. [32] Large numbers of hasidim attended his funeral and on his grave they swore loyalty to his principles.A mausoleum of especially large dimensions was erected over his grave, to which thousands of Jews streamed.
R' Avraham David Ben Asher Wahrman wrote eleven books. [33] His life was marked by great love of the people of Israel and by great enthusiasm.He held that through Torah man comes nearer to his inner self.
The increase in the number of hasidim led to conflict with the maskilim. Seeing that the head of the town supported them and the hasidic rabbis, the maskilim turned to the state authorities and pointed out the damages the hasidim were causing to the state.
On August 1841, Yosef Tefer, a Buczacz maskil, submitted a detailed account of the doings of the hasidim in Buczacz, and especially bitter complaints against the rebbe, who was the son and heir of Rabbi R' Avraham David Wahrman. [34] The memorandum tells us that he held the key to the mausoleum of his father, R' Avraham David.Anyone who wished to visit was required to donate a sum for his widow and a contribution for Erets-Yisrael.According to Tefer, his son was the one who added the surname "Wahrman" to his original name. Tefer recommends that the authorities demand a report on all donations for Erets-Yisrael and also suggests that he be prohibited from assembling his hasidim and from conducting prayers on his father's grave, and that an end be put to the deceitful acts performed there.
For this purpose a specially authorized official should be sent to dismantle the mausoleum and to remove the gravestone which stirs the hasidim to perform their demonic dances.However, the town owner and the local authorities are indifferent to all of this, since the flow of hasidim into the town means money in its coffers. Tefer himself used to be a merchant in Buczacz, where he was born and raised, but moved to Tarnopol and is happy for having left the hasidic hell in Buczacz. But the fate of his brethren prompts his concern. The hasidim scorn work and education and they neither know how to be nor wish to be useful citizens. Their rebbe preaches sectarianism and a life of idleness, as opposed to Tarnopol, where Jews work and earn the respect of their fellow citizens.
Perceptible changes took place in the community after 1848.The influence of the maskilim led to improvements in education. While Buczacz did not play as important a role in the haskala [Enlightenment] movement as did Tarnopol. Brody, or Tishminitse [Tysmienica], it already contained many circles which encouraged aspirations towards education and cultural progress among the Jews.
Within the community, administrative control was in the hands of the haredim [Orthodox]. There were twelve synagogues in the town and thirty-six minyanim [quorums].No rabbi was appointed after R' Wahrman's death.Rabbi R' Tsadok Rinek served for several years. After 1853, Rabbi R' Avraham Ben Tsvi Hirsh Teumim, formerly rabbi in Zborov (author of Khesed le-Avraham], served as rabbi. He died in 1862. [35]
Thanks to its stratum of maskilim and to the legal status of Galician Jewry, Buczacz Jews occupied an important place in the municipal administration. Of the thirty members of the municipality, 12 representatives were Jewish; nine were Poles and nine were Ruthenians [Ukrainians].
When Jews were allowed to own real estate after 1860, Buczacz Jews also requested that they be allowed to purchase real estate.
In 1860, two Jews, Feuerstein and Hofman, asked to have estates which they had bought illegally, registered in the land registry. [36]
In the constitutional period of Austria beginning in 1867, Buczacz began to fill an important role in the life of Galician Jewry. Buczacz was united with Sniatyn and Kolomea to form a single electoral region with a large Jewish population. This made it possible to elect a Jewish representative to the Galician Sejm and, later, to the Viennese parliament. In 1868 Dr. Maximillian Landsberger was elected representative to the Sejm and from there he went as representative to the Viennese parliament. In those days delegates were not elected directly but by regional parliaments (Landtage).Dr. Landsberger completed his studies at the University of Vienna, and afterwards became a well known lawyer in Lvov, where he was active in community affairs. In 1840 he took part in founding the committee for building a reform synagogue [bet kneset leneorim 'synagogue for the enlightened'] in Lvov.But this did not prevent him from opposing the maskilim and cooperating with the Orthodox Meir Mints in 1842 in a community issue. It is no wonder that an organ of the progressive maskilim in Vienna published a report from Lvov accusing Dr. Landsberger and Dr. Mahl of having joined them out of personal motives, since the authorities had not elected them to the community council, where maskilim were the majority. In the years 1848-1863 he was a member of the Lvov city council and from 1865 also a parnas [leader] of the Lvov Jewish community.
After 1856, the year in which Mark Dobes, the Kolomea [37] -Sniatyn-Buczacz delegate to the Galician Sejm died, Dr. Landsberger was elected in his place; he was elected a second time in 1867and served until 1873. Actually he was a delegate only up to 1870. In that year the Poles left the parliament because of disagreements with the central government over Galician autonomy. Landsberger left the parliament together with the Poles, leaving Galician Jewry without representation in the Viennese parliament until 1873; in 1870 he also gave up his mandate to the Galician Sejm.
Helped by an alliance with the Ukrainians, Dr. Oswald Honigsman (1824-1880) was elected in direct balloting as delegate from Kolomea-Buczacz. He was a native of Risha who had completed his studies at the University of Vienna. In the years 1861-1866 he represented the Jews of Lvov on the Lvov municipal council together with Dr. Landsberger, Dr. Kulisher and Mark Dobes.In 1861 he was chosen to represent the progressives on the Lvov community committee and in 1867 he was selected in Brody to take the place of Meir Kalir in the Galician Sejm. In a debate in the Sejm on the abolition of restrictions upon Galician Jews, he stressed that he spoke as a Polish assimilationist. Despite such views, after his election as a parliamentary delegate he joined the other Jewish delegates from Galicia – Dr. Joachim Landa (Brody), Nathan Kalir (Brody) and Herman Mieses (Drohowic) – in the constitutional party (Verfassungpartei), not like the delegate from Krakow, Albert Mendelsburg, who joined the Polish fraction. This Jewish separatism continued until 1879. In the elections held in 1879 the Jews of Buczacz-Sniatyn-Kolomea chose as their delegate the Krakow rabbi, R' Shimon Shreiber, who joined the Polish fraction.
Following his death in 1883, a meeting of voters decided to suggest the candidacy of the renowned Viennese rabbi and author, Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch, who was born in Dokla and was famous at the time for his courageous and proud struggle against Prof. Dr. Rohling and his book “Der Talmud-Jude.” The Jewish political organization in Galicia, Shomer Yisrael [Guardian of Israel], understood this candidacy as an action against them, and turned to the Jewish voters in the Kolomea-Sniatyn-Buczaczdistrict in order to present a candidate of their own. Also the Polish press attacked Dr. Bloch's candidacy on the grounds that he was a Viennese rabbi who neither knew Galicia nor spoke Polish. [38] Dr. Bloch, on the other hand, stated that he would join the Polish faction in the Parliament. Counter to the decisions of Shomer Yisrael, the Main Voting Committee of Lvov, and the wishes of the authorities, Dr. Bloch was elected a delegate to the Viennese parliament. He received 1460 votes as opposed to the 983 votes for the university professor from Krakow Dr. Warschauer. In 1885, elections for the new parliament were held. Once again Dr. Bloch met with the opposition ofofficial circles. On May 2nd, 1885 a voting committee announced Bloch's candidacy at the Buczacz synagogue. The Central Voting Committee in Lvov put forward their candidate, Dr. Emil Bik. The election struggle was a fierce one. Dr. Bik, besides having the support of the authorities, the community leaders and the mayors, had large sums of money with which to buy votes. In Buczacz, Mayor Berish Shtern declared that Bloch would not receive over one hundred votes. [39] Dr. Bloch was promised by the Galician governor that his representative would be allowed to be present at the polling booth at the time of the elections.
When Dr. Bloch arrived in Buczacz, he was forced to stay in a private home because the district minister forbade the hotel owners from entertaining him. Berish Shtern added to the voters' list names of deceased citizens and was confident Bloch would fail. He did not hesitate to inform the Christians that Dr. Bloch was anti-Christian. Dr. Bloch writes in his memoirs about election day in Buczacz, a day on which the Jews of Galicia openly and daringly opposed the community and municipality leaders and fought for their public rights.
The delegate of the national central electoral committee, Jan Dubrzanski, a well known anti-Semite, declared at the voters' assembly: “If you vote for Dr. Bloch, you will live to regret it. Not only the town, but every single voter will feel the wrath of the entire country.”
The Jewish mayor of Buczazc told the Christian inhabitants that the Jews were defending Dr. Bloch because of his hatred of Christians and because he wanted to imprison two respectable Catholic priests. Public notices, written by Jewish lawyers, appealed to the fanatic Jew-haters to fight the battle of the Jewish delegate, Dr. Emil Bik.
“On election day and on several days preceding it, I was in Buczacz. Two days prior to the elections, Jewish voters still hadn't received any identification cards or ballot slips. During these two days (Saturday and Sunday) all the Jewish voters assembled before the town hall awaiting these papers. They did not budge for a moment. Sabbath prayers were recited under the stars. But Mr. Mayor (Shtern), who with my help was saved in the past from bankruptcy, did not want to give out a single card. Telegrams were sent to the district governor and the governor of Galicia, who gave orders to provide the voters with the proper documents.The Mayor "complied" – he handed out 20 ballot slips."
"The struggle commenced anew. Voters ran to the district governor, who ordered that they immediately be given identification cards and ballot slips -- on condition, however, that the distributed ballots all bore the name of Dr. Bik."
"One man who was acquainted with the electoral regulations went to the district governor in order to demand a copy of his identification papers. He received a slap in the face instead.
"However, the Jewish voters were not deterred and did not move from the field of battle".
"They kept on demanding identification cards and ballot slips. The gendarmes intervened and tried to drive away the grumbling crowd, but to no avail! When the gendarmes threatened with rifles, the crowd bared their chests and cried, 'Shoot!'"
"The struggle lasted two days. After repeated protests before the prime minister in Vienna and the district governor, the Jewish voters finally received 450 identification cards and ballot slips."
"On Monday morning everyone assembled at the synagogue and swore to God and their fellow townsmen that they would give their vote to the candidate of the Jews, Dr. Bloch. Everyone went to vote, not a single soul stayed behind. The results, which were counted behind closed doors, found 306 in favor of Bloch and 503 in favor of Bik. It should be stated that Buczacz had only 300 Christian voters. Mr. Shtern'strickery, once again, did not fail him. I was defeated.”[40]
However, the votes of the citizens of Kolomea were the decisive ones. Dr. Bloch won the elections by 28 votes.
In the Jewish streets of Galicia, you could witness the hustle and bustle of Jews happy and proud over their victory and Dr. Bik's defeat. For they saw Dr. Bik as a mere tool used by the Polish Galician authorities to undermine the success of a brave Jewish opponent of the anti-Semites.
These elections signaled the path of Galician Jewry in the future, and were a prelude to the national struggle of the Jewish people seeking national and civil recognition in 1907.
In 1891 Bloch again fought to gain the mandate in the district of Kolomea-Sniatyn-Buczacz.A wealthy candidate was put up against him in these elections as well. Leon Meizlish,[41] who resided in Paris and had financial means, was chosen at the advice of the rabbi of Belz, Mordechai Pelets (grandson of the Warsaw rabbi, R' Dov Berish Meizlish). He had the support of the Belz rabbi and President of the Makhzikey Hadat [Defenders of the Faith] Yitskhak Shreiber of Drohowic.Meizlish lost even though the elections cost him 800,000 gulden.He didn't dare to come to Buczacz. The assimilated Jews who grouped around the periodical Ojczyzna [Native Land] supported the candidacy of the Christian Count Starzinski
On March 4th –5th Dr. Bloch was elected. He received 2128 votes, Count Starzinski 1778, and Meizlish 97. However, on October 22nd, 1895 Dr. Bloch relinquished his parliamentary seat and Dr. Maximilian Trachtenberg, mayor of Kolomea, was chosen in his place. Trachtenberg served as a parliamentary delegate until 1901. In the last parliament prior to the amendment of the electoral law in 1907, the representative of the Jews of Kolomea-Buczacz was Dr. Nathan Zeinfeld.
In the second half of the 19th century, the Jewish population of Buczacz grew. However, their percentage in the total population decreased.
In 1870 Buczacz counted a population of 8,959, out of whom 6,077 were Jews (67.9%); in 1900 in a population of 11,755, 6,730 were Jews (57.3%).
In 1892, with the help of the Baron Hirsh Fund, a Jewish school was founded with 262 pupils. In 1907, 180 pupils studied at the Baron Hirsh Fund school. In 1908, the gymnasium [high school] had 696 pupils, of whom 216 were Jewish.
The economic picture had not changed. Most Jews made a living from various forms of commerce. Export trade (grains, agricultural produce and timber) in particular grew. Many Jews also engaged in crafts. At the end of the 19th century factories and workshops were built that provided work for many Polish Jews in the manufacture of bricks, lime, soap, candles and in operating water mills and breweries.
In the seventies, the maskilim of Buczacz founded the “Bet HaMidrash” Library and the Lacznosc [Contact] Club, which were centers for the best of the Jewish intelligentsia. Among the lovers of Hebrew literature and the maskilim in Buczazc we should mention Wolf Bik, Berish Bochheim, Abba Shtern, Ezra Danberg, Pohorila – a Hebrew author and translator, Yaakov Frenkel, Pesakh Frits, the playwright David Anderman [42] who wrote Emuna VeHaskala (Drohowic 1887). [43]
With the upsurge of the Zionist movement in Galicia in the late 1880s, even the most prominent public personalities of Jewish Buczacz were impressed with the idea of the return to Zion. From a nationalist point of view, the first seeds of national awareness were sown in the electoral struggles of 1883 and 1885.
Despite this revival, no movement was founded that could unite all Jews around theZionist movement, which was already active in other eastern Galician towns. In 1892 efforts were made to found a Zion Society and slowly the Zionist idea started to spread among all classes of Jews, especially among the young. They understood that a change in the life of the Jewish people was necessary, and in order to achieve such a goal the Jews needed to unite. In 1893, the Zion Society was founded. On April 31st, 1894, the first public meeting was held; Dr. Tsipper and David Maltz spoke, explaining the essentials of Zionism. At this meeting it was unanimously decided to broaden the Zion Society; a committee was chosen which was empowered by the executive committee headed by Wolf Tseimer to organize the society on the basis of properly written statutes.
In addition, two meetings were held at the club of the Jewish intelligentsia, “Kesher” (Lacznosc), in which Dr. Tsipper and Dr. Maltz discussed the Zionist plan and answered questions during the debate. Also attending these meetings was the head of the Jewish community, Abba Shtern [44], who was mayor from 1879.
Following this meeting, the executive committee issued a circular that was composed by the Hebrew author, Yitskhak Fernhof:
“Brothers! From the day the people of Israel went into exile and ceased to be a nation settled on its own land, ever since our dispersion among the nations, scattered to remote lands and distant islands, we have been hated and oppressed for no reason.Even in these days of freedom and liberty when there is one constitution and one law for all – on paper, we are still persecuted. For not much has changed and we continue to be exploited and fractured, harassed by the anti-Semites from without and by our own disunity from within. The people has given its support to various parties and if our enemies shoot their arrows of hate at us for doing so, at least we are not guilty.But if we allow differences among ourselves to consume us and destroy every remnant of national feeling, our sins will be beyond forgiveness. Thus to you, our brothers, we call out: 'Awake! Let us be truly united! Let us bridge the great gap that divides the tribes, that separates the younger generation – lawyers, doctors, writers, merchants – from craftsmen of all kinds. Don't scorn your neighbor, but rather with national feeling unite behind one idea as our ancestors did – which is what preserved them throughout the ages despite the hostile designs of their enemies.Let us walk hand in hand; let us learn to value ourselves, to recognize our talents.If we say to Zion, 'You are my people', no weapon will defeat us. Therefore listen to what the Zion Society says: 'Unite in every community and become one deeply unified association; help one another; feel responsible for your oppressed brothers who go up to our Holy Land to work the soil. Let every one do what he can to help his brother generally. My aim is to unite you in spreading and extolling knowledge of our national goals to our people in a wholly non-partisan manner. The means by which they can achieve this goal are as follows:
Foster the study of Hebrew and broaden knowledge of the history of the Jewish people and its literature.
Give talks and lectures on the above goals.
Celebrate anniversaries and holidays of our literary history.
Found libraries and establish reading rooms. Let us have friendship and togetherness as we move toward our goals. [45]
These words were directed also to the Jews in the vicinity, calling them to join the nationalist movement and to found Zion societies like the one in Buczacz.
At its first general meeting on June 17th, 1894, the society was already organized according to set statutes. On this occasion Dr. Gershon Tsipper and Rabbi Mendel Leibush Landa of Przemyshl spoke in Yiddish and Hebrew. Both of them succeeded in recruiting many new members. The first committee was chosen, with Wolf (Wilhelm) Tsimmer as President, Shmuel Taller as Vice-President, Yehoshua Hollander as Treasurer, the Hebrew writer Yitskhak Fernhof and Fishl Engelstein as Hebrew Secretaries, Dr. Zigmund Goldshtaub as Secretary in the Polish language, and Yaakov M. Fernhof, Moshe Wisser, Shmuel Neiman, Arnold Ringel, Shimon Hecht and Ayzik Bergshtof as committee members. [46]
In that year the Zion Society had 300 members. The society developed nicely thanks to Dr. Goldshtaub, Shmuel Neiman and Yitskhak Fernhof, who spread the Zionist idea in study houses and synagogues, as well as among circles of the Jewish intelligentsia, who were quite indifferent to Jewish matters.
The Zion Society also founded a “Bet Mikra” [study program] for high school students. They met daily for Hebrew and Jewish studies under Mordechai Kanfer, who was also a Hebrew writer, and Yitskhak Fernhof. [47] Together with the founding ofbranches of the Zion Colonization Company in Vienna, a branch called "Erets-Yisrael" was also founded in Buczacz. Its active members included Wolf Tseimer, Anzelm Muzler, Arnold Ringel, Shmuel Taller and Yitskhak Fernhof.
In 1898 there were 150 members in the Zion Society, at whose head stood Hirsh Shtern. The finest of the youth and of the Jewish intelligentsia joined the Zionist movement. In the early 1890s a workers' association was founded by Dr. Anshl Muzler, but it failed to gather the Jewish youth around it.
Buczacz became one of the most important Zionist strongholds of eastern Galicia, giving the movement many hardworking activists.
Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vienna. Galician Protocol Books 1776-1777.From September 1776 no. 48. Decret an das galizische Gubernium ado. 23 August 1776. Back
Pilleriana, 11 October 1787. Back
Gershom Bader, Medina vekhokhmeho, New York, 1934, p. 80. He reports that he heard these things from his grandfather who knew Pinkhas Pav. Back
Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vienna. vol. 4, 11 carton 2579. Back
X. Sadok Baracz, Pamiatki Buczaczkie, Lwow, 1882, p. 36. Back
Vol. 41. carton 2582, no. 143, ex October 1812. Back
X. Sadok Baracz, p. 37. Back
Rabbi Alter Meyer, "Rabbi Abraham David of Buczacz," Haaretz 17th December 1946. Back
Tefer's memorandum is given in Raphael Mahler, Der kamf tsvishn khsides un haskole in galitsye, New York, 1942, p. 248. Back
This is the inscription on his gravestone:
Crown of the Law
Gaon of Israel Hidden Light, Lofty and Mysterious
Sacred Light, Light of the World
Faithful Shepherd, Prince of Peace
Glorious Holiness, Of Infinite Knowledge
Pure Light, Sanctuary
Preacher of the Book, Emerald and Diamond
Honest and Faithful, Truthful and Complete
David King of Israel Doer of Many Deeds
His Holy Soul went forth on the 29th of Tishri, 1841
Our Holy Rabbi, Great in His Generation
Righteous Foundation of the World
Our Father Abraham David Our King
Our Teacher, May He Be Remembered Forever
He Was a Crown to the Rabbinate for Fifty Years
May His Soul Rest in Peace
(Printed in Eliyahu Tsvi Shmerlir, Sefer Toldot HaRaba"d, Lwow, 1890 [a rare book].Back
Daat kedoshim (Lwow, 1871, 3 parts on the halakhic laws regarding slaughtering and unclean animals;
Mishmeret hakodesh (Lwow, 1879);
Eshel Avraham (Lwow, 1872);
Birkat David (1805);
Makhaze Avraham (Lwow, 1872);
Imrot tehorot (Lwow, 1879);
Tfila leDavid (Lwow 1886);
Tehila leDavid (Lwow, 1872);
Divrey avot [beyur al masekhet Avot (Lwow 1876) ;
Eshel Avraham [Beyur al haHagada shel Pesakh];
Ezer mekudash [al Shulkhan HaArukh] Even haezer (Lwow).A number of manuscripts remained in the hands of the family in addition to the above items. Back
In a memorandum he is called R. Abraham David Kara, but this is an error.He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Kara.
34a. Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, 1853, no. 34, p. 426. An article from Buczacz. After the attempted assasination of Kaiser Franz Josef the First, the congregation held a prayer meeting in the synagogue.Rabbi Tsadok Rinek spoke and he printed his address in a pamphlet which he sent to the Kaiser's mother.Rinek received a letter of thanks from her. Back
He was the son of the daugher of the famous Gaon R' Jacob of Lisa. Back
Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vienna, vol. 42 Besitz. Back
After his death, the mayor and the city council of Kolomea asked the Representative for Galicia to exempt the Kolomea-Sniatyn-Buczacz region from holding elections.It could be expected that a Jewish delegate would be elected, since most of the region was Jewish.It was therefor preferable to first change the election laws and to stipulate that the results be valid only if a third of the votes were those of Christian citizens.An article from Kolomea in Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, 1865, p. 338. Back
Israelit. Lemberg, 1883, no. 9. Back
Samuel L. Bloch. Erinnerungen aus meinen Leben, Wien, 1922, p. 231. A Hebrew translation by Sh. Shalom was published in Tel-Aviv.Dr. Bloch writes in his memoirs: "On my way to Buczacz I spent several days in Stanislaw as a guest of the Halperin and Lipe Horovitz families.There I met Horace Shor, a likeable young maskil, liberal in his thinking, and a friend of that "outstanding" mayor of Buczacz, Berish Stern. This young man whispered to me: 'Honorable Dr. Bloch, why nurse illusions.What use to you are the voters if Berish Stern sits near the ballot box and counts the votes together with the District Representative.He has told me that you won't get more than a hundred votes'."(The above citation in Hebrew is found in the Shalom translation of the Bloch memoirs, vol. 1, p. 172). Back
Zikhronot [see footnote 39 above], pp. 173-4. Back
Inthese elections, the masses sang a satirical song in Yiddish.The first stanza was;
Kinderlekh getraye / Di gantse khevraye / Mir zoln ale iber a yor derlebn/Men darf shoyn geyn / Tsu Mayzles levaye / Un far Blokhen di shtim opgebn.
[Faithful fellows / The whole gang / Let's wish ourselves many happy returns / Now we have to go/ To Maizel's funeral / And to give our vote to Bloch.] Back
He moved to Brody in 1888. He died in Vienna on the 9th of Menakhem Av 1924. In 1913 he visited Erets-Yisrael. Back
The bookseller R' Alter Miller also lived in Buczacz in these years.He was the father of the well known learned orientalist Professor Ts. H. Miller (1846-1912). Back
Przyszlosc 1894, p. 151. Back
HaMagid, 1894, vol. 25, p. 205; Przyszlosc 1894, no, 19, p. 225 Back
HaMagid, 1894, vol. 25, p. 205. Back
List of Buczacz town owners.
The 1699 Statute.
Statutes regarding Jewish craftsmen.
The community's commitment to supply tallow to the Ukrainian church (1747) [this appendix is absent from this book both in Polish and in Hebrew]
A certificate of ownership from 1785.
List of Buczacz town owners
[appears in Hebrew only]
Gabriel Bucacki Starosta of Kamenets 1260.
Mikolau Viboda of Podolia.
Jerzy.
Mikhael Castellan of Halic, fell in 1438 in a battle with the Tatars.
Teodor Starosta of Kamenets, fell in the battle of Wallachia in 1450.
Jan Mikolai, also called Muzylo.
Jakob Castellan of Halic.
Mikhael Starosta of Sniatyn.
Jakob Khashman of Pluck, with whom ended the male line of Bucackis.
The town became the possession of Katerina, wife of Jan Taburovski, who died in 1547.
His son Jacob, who was calledBucacki.
His son Jan Krzishtoff (1572-1612).
His brother Jan.
Jan's wife from the Potocki family.
Stefan Potocki, died 1631.
His son Jan Potocki died in 1673.
His son Stefan gave the town and the Jews statutes.He died in 1727.
His son Mikolai left the Catholic church and joined the Ruthenian [Ukrainian] church, He died in 1782. He gave over the town in 1770 to his relative Jan Potocki.
Jan Potocki.
His twin brothers Kaytan (1751-1814) and Pavel (1751-1818).
Grandson of his brother Dominik Potocki, Adam Potocki died in 1870.
His sons Emil and Artur until the outbreak of World War One.
The 1699 Statute
[translated from the Hebrew translation of the Polish original]
Stefan Potocki, owner of Potok and Buczacz, guardian of the supreme realm, Starosta of Tarambubla, Kaniuv, etc., etc.. I hereby announce to all those who must be informed that the Jews and their community in the town of Buczacz have lost, due to the destruction brought upon by the enemy, the statutes regarding the privileges they were given by the previous town owners. I therefore am renewing them and permitting the Jews to settle in my aforementioned estates. They are allowed to live in Buczacz, to freely engage in trade and crafts according to their professions and needs.
To these Jews I hereby first of all give a winery for the period of 12 years with the condition that they are exempted from all obligation to the castle. When this period is over, they are to pay one taller for each house and half a taller for each auxiliary structure [batim akhoriim 'outhouses'?]. I permit the Jews, according to the previous statute, to use the road that passes through the church walls and the priests's house and leads to the synagogue situated by the Stripa River. I also hereby permit the Jews permanent use of this synagogue, which their fathers built at their own expense, Furthermore they may use the cemetery situated at the outskirts of town and may, if need be, enlarge it by 10 cubits and build a surrounding wall. They may also build in this cemetery in the customary manner a house, and settle in it a resident who will be exempt from all obligations and taxes.
The Jews are not subject to the town's laws and to its jurisdiction. Judgement of misdemeanors as well as of serious crimes will be made by me, and in my absence by the castle commissioner in Buczacz. The Jews must abide by his word in the case of a complaint against them until such a time as the laws and privileges are decided upon regarding all of the towns of His Excellency the King.
If it so happens that in my absence the Jews find my commissioner's ruling to be excessively harsh, they are to be given the right of appeal before me!Nor should they be forbidden recourse to the judgement of their rabbinic court, depending on the nature of the matter concerned.
Furthermore, the Jews of Buczacz are to be exempted of all duties to the castle and the economy that are usually performed by their fellow townsmen. Jewish butchers are exempt from slaughtering swine for the castle. However, it is the duty of each and every one of them to give a stone of tallow annually, and to slaughter animals [behemot 'cattle'; 'animals'] whenever so required.
They must give my podstarosta ['sub-head of castle'] in Buczacz a haunch of meat every week.
The weekly fair is not to be held on the Sabbath, nor are Jews to be tried on that day. They are not to be imprisoned in a cold cell except in cases of theft or penal crimes.
In municipal matters concerning bills and accounts, a leader of the Jewish community [parnas], elected for this purpose, is to participate. The hospital and the homes of the rabbi and cantor are exempt from all taxes. The Jews of Buczacz are also entitled to purchase houses from their Christian fellow townsmen. They may establish breweries and wineries. According to the old custom, they are to pay 6 gulden for each barrel of wine that contains 10 jugs, and 8 gulden for each barrel of beer. They are to be exempted from pasture fees as well.
They may purchase anything and engage in wholesale and retail trade. The Jew must not hinder any purchase by a Christian just as a Christian must not hinder any purchase by a Jew. Those who will hinder the affairs of another will be fined 10 grzibni.
I also hereby warn the Jews from attempting to purchase any ritual objects of the church. All other types of trade are permitted.
In times of enemy attack they must participate in the defense of the castle.
In order to give greater validity to these paragraphs and conditions, I hereby sign in my own hand with my customary signature.
Given in Buczacz on May 20th, 1699.
Stefan Potocki
Straznik* Vilki* Koronzi
* High-ranking warlord.
Statutes regarding Jewish craftsmen
(translated from the Hebrew translation of the Polish original)
Buczacz has many craftsmen of different religions, such as the Polish, the Greek and the Jewish. It has tailors, furriers, whitewashers, shoemakers, locksmiths, butchers, and those who belong to other guilds, among whom there are many Jews. Anyone is permitted to come and settle in Buczacz on the condition that he join the guild of his craft. Once a Jew becomes a guild member, he is authorized to sell any product. The Catholic and Greek are accustomed to contributing tallow and are rquired to join in church processions and requiems, from which the Jews are exempt. However, Jews who are members of a guild must pay the guild any sum that Christians are asked to pay.
They must also give donations for the purchase of tallow for the church and for all other needs.
Given in Buczacz on November 8th, 1706.
Stefen Potocki
A contractual certificate from 1785
A memorandum regarding the matter signed upon by the witnesses whose names appear below:
There appeared before us Khayim Gavriel Ben Pesakh of Tarambubla, a resident of Buczacz, who said to us: "I took from here as wife Liba Bat Yitskhak Leyb when she was still a virgin and now she is my wife – wed under the canopy according to the laws of Moses and Israel – and now that I have seen her devotion to me, I wish to increase her original dowry before the witnesses whose names appear below according to the law of possession or contractual ownership.
He declared before us that according to the original ketuba [marriage contract], he Khayim Gavriel Ben Pesakh said to his wife Liba Bat Yitskhak Leyb: "Become my wife according to the religion of Moses and Israel and I will take care of you, maintain you and provide your apparel according to Jewish custom which obligates one to provide for his wife and clothe her, and I will give you a dowry worthy of you according to the ten commandments in the amount of 200 Polish gulden for household maintenance, clothes and all your other needs as well as a pleasant home such as is fitting for the aforementioned bride Liba. What she brought with her from her father's house in the way ofmoney, home utensils and linens, Khayim Gavriel evaluates at 100 gulden, equal to 200 fine silver gulden, and now that the aforementioned Khayim Gavriel wishes to increase the dowry and in effect has increased it, and it will come to a sum of 670 gulden, excepting the 200 gulden and the jewels she brought and all the jewels and clothes which now belong to her and those she will receive in the future from her husband.
The aforementioned also agreed that he and his heirs will pay her from his entire present and future estate the above dowry and certainly the original dowry and the additional one, even including his clothingThis dowry is valid and certified according to all the rabbinical statutes.
We received these instructions from the aforementioned Khayim Gavriel for his wife Liba Bat Yitskhak Leyb with a kerchief [mitpakhat 'kerchief held by both parties to a contractual agreement'] and in order to make it valid we sign below on this day the 20th of Tammuz takm"h according to the Hebrew calendar and the 20th of August 1785 according to the Polish calendar here in Buczcaz.
Hirsh Kara, Head of the Rabbinical Court in Buczacz
Dayan [religious court judge] Akiba of Podheytser
(S. Baracz, Documents of the Buczacz Court, pp. 22-24)
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Tag: Rowena’s Anticipated Reads
Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2020
Posted January 13, 2020 by Rowena in Features | 3 Comments
The Darkest King (Lords of the Underworld #15) by Gena Showalter
A merciless prince feared by all…
Cursed by a vengeful witch, William of the Dark will die if he ever falls in love—murdered by the woman who steals his heart. His lone shot at redemption is a book filled with indecipherable code. Break the code, break the curse. Now, centuries later, he’s condemned to a string of one-night stands…until he finds the only woman in the worlds able to set him free.
A rare creature of myth and power…
One of the last living unicorn shifters, Sunday “Sunny” Lane works from the shadows as a cryptanalyst, on the run from assassins and poachers. Then the darkly seductive William abducts her, holding her captive in Hell. The closer they get, the more she hungers for his touch…and the stronger a mystical desire to kill him becomes…
Both forever doomed?
At war with his brother, Lucifer, and determined to become a king of the underworld at long last, William must resist the irreverent beauty who threatens his future. But every day Sunny tempts him more, his hunger for her unmatched. Will he risk his heart—and his life—or will the curse ensure his end?
Casee: William. Finally!
Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity #4) by Nalini Singh
Mating at first sight is a myth, a fairytale. Yet Selenka’s wolf is resolute: Ethan Night, broken Arrow and a man capable of obsessive devotion, is the mate it has chosen. Even if the mating bond is full of static and not quite as it should be. Because Selenka’s new mate has a terrible secret, his mind surging with a power that is a creature of madness and death…
Casee: I’m behind on this series, but this one sounds great.
Knight Awakening (Scorpius Syndrome #6) by Rebecca Zanetti
The Line Between Obsession and Love has Disappeared
The world has changed. Any rules that might’ve been in place before the Scorpius bacterium ripped through civilization and decreased its population are no longer in place. Obsession and survival are the new reality. So, Marcus Knight, after a hellish time in captivity that stole most of his memory and all of his soul, has one focus, and that’s keeping Dr. Penelope Kim safe in the aftermath. She’d risked her life to save him once, and she’s all that matters. For months, he’s kept his distance, protecting her from afar, because he knows that one touch—one sigh—one kiss—from her will never be enough.
Passion is a Dangerous and Deadly Temptation
Penny Kim is one of the few doctors still living, and she alone holds the key to ensuring the human race continues. Several of her friends are pregnant, and the clock is ticking down on their survival. Her days are filled with experiments and hope, while her nights are consumed with visions and dreams of the hard-bodied and powerful soldier who’s made her safety his one and only mission. She should be wary of him; she should be terrified of him. Yet all she feels is an unreal craving for his touch that gets stronger every day. Life is short, and she’s unwilling to wait, unaware of the danger already hunting them both. Some risks are worth it, even in this new and dangerous world.]
Casee: I have long awaited Penny and Marcus’ book.
Shadow Flight (Shadow Riders #5) by Christine Feehan
Nicoletta Gomez was a terrified teenager when Taviano Ferraro and his brother saved her life. Ever since, she’s been trying to rise above what was done to her, molding herself into a survivor under the protective eyes of the Ferraro family. All the while, she’s been falling hopelessly in love with the man who knows her darkest secrets.…
With one look, Taviano knew that Nicoletta was his, just as he felt their shadows connect. But no matter how much he wanted to claim her, he knew she needed time to become her own woman. When Nicoletta once again finds herself in the sights of dangerous men, a split-second decision has Taviano breaking all of the Ferraro family’s rules to keep her safe. And as far as he’s concerned, the reward is more than worth the risk.
Casee: This series isn’t for everyone, but it’s definitely for me.
The Fight for Forever (Legend Trilogy #3) by Meghan March
You can only keep what you can protect.
That’s all I’ve ever known. It’s the way I’ve lived my life.
Now, everything I never knew I needed is at risk, and I’m not letting anyone take it from me.
I won’t let anyone take her from me.
They say love is a battlefield, so I’m ready for war.
This time, it’s the fight for forever.
Casee: I’m really looking forward to the conclusion to this trilogy.
These are in no particular order. Rowena was mean and said I could only put down 5, so many are missing from this list. I was at 12 when she cut me off, and hadn’t even gotten through June yet. Still, these 5 are much anticipated by me.
A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons #1) by Milla Vane
A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stands against the return of an ancient evil—until the barbarian king and queen are slain in an act of bloody betrayal.
Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the corrupt king responsible for his parents’ murders, Maddek vows to avenge them, even if it costs him the Parsathean crown. But when he learns it was the king’s daughter who lured his parents to their deaths, the barbarian warrior is determined to make her pay.
Yet the woman Maddek captures is not what he expected. Though the last in a line of legendary warrior-queens, Yvenne is small and weak, and the sharpest weapons she wields are her mind and her tongue. Even more surprising is the marriage she proposes to unite them in their goals and to claim their thrones—because her desire for vengeance against her father burns even hotter than his own…
FINALLY we’re getting another book from Milla Vane (Meljean Brook). I can’t even begin to tell you how effing excited I am for this.
Chasing Cassandra (Vine Witch #2) by Lisa Kleypas
Everything has a price…
Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love—the one thing he can’t give.
Everything except her…
Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra has ever met, even if his heart is frozen. But she has no interest in living in the fast-paced world of a ruthless man who always plays to win.
When a newfound enemy nearly destroys Cassandra’s reputation, Severin seizes the opportunity he’s been waiting for. As always, he gets what he wants—or does he? There’s one lesson Tom Severin has yet to learn from his new bride:
Never underestimate a Ravenel.
The chase for Cassandra’s hand may be over. But the chase for her heart has only just begun…
I’m super excited to learn more about Cassandra and Tom. They were both enigmas in the previous books. Plus, it’s Lisa Kleypas.
Dragon Unleashed (Fallen Empire #2) by Grace Draven
A dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.
Magic is outlawed in the Krael Empire and punishable by death. Born with the gift of earth magic, the free trader Halani keeps her dangerous secret closely guarded. When her uncle buys a mysterious artifact, a piece of bone belonging to a long-dead draga, Halani knows it’s far more than what it seems.
Dragas haven’t been seen for more than a century, and most believe them extinct. They’re wrong. Dragas still walk among the denizens of the Empire, disguised as humans. Malachus is a draga living on borrowed time. The magic that has protected him will soon turn on him–unless he finds a key part of his heritage. He has tracked it to a group of free traders, among them a grave-robbing earth witch who fascinates him as much as she frustrates him with her many secrets.
Unbeknownst to both, the Empire’s twisted empress searches for a draga of her own, to capture and kill as a trophy. As Malachus the hunter becomes the hunted, Halani must risk herself and all she loves to save him from the Empire’s machinations and his own lethal birthright.
This book was supposed to come out last year, but it got pushed back for some reason. I really hope we’re getting it in June after all. Fingers Crossed.
Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) by Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman.
My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I’m going to need them.
Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill–until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill wreaking havoc. Only the deadliest survived.
Now one of those prisoners has escaped. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. But if it bites you, it controls you. It lives for chaos and destruction. It can make you do anything–even kill the person you love the most. Now it is here, in the Tri-Cities. In my territory.
It won’t, can’t, remain.
Not if I have anything to say about it.
Any day we get another Mercy Thompson book is a good day.
Deal with the Devil (Mercenary Librarians #1) by Kit Rocha
Orphan Black meets the post-apocalyptic Avengers in the vein of Ilona Andrews’ Hidden Legacy series by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author duo Kit Rocha
The United States went belly up 45 years ago when our power grid was wiped out. Too few live in well-protected isolation while the rest of us scrape by on the margins. The only thing that matters is survival. By any means. At any cost.
Nina is an information broker with a mission: to bring hope to the darkest corners of Atlanta. She and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to help those in need. But altruism doesn’t pay the bills—raiding vaults and collecting sensitive data is where the real money is.
Knox is a bitter, battle-weary supersoldier who leads the Silver Devils, an elite strike squad that chose to go AWOL rather than slaughter innocents. Before the Devils leave town for good, they need a biochem hacker to stabilize the experimental implants that grant their superhuman abilities.
The problem? Their hacker’s been kidnapped. And the ransom for her return is Nina. Knox has the perfect bait for a perfect trap: a lost Library of Congress server. The data could set Nina and her team up for years…
If they live that long.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Two words: Mercenary. Librarians. COME TO MAMA.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico—and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets.
He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.
Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.
And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.
I’m sneaking a 6th onto this list because that cover and blurb are going it for me.
Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan
A second chance STANDALONE romance featuring Kimba from THE KINGMAKER & THE REBEL KING.
You do NOT have to read those books to enjoy this story.
I did not know that Kimba was getting her own set of books! Finding this book while browsing for 2020 releases brought me so much joy that I had to add this book to my most anticipated reads of 2020, first.
Kimba was the best friend that Lennix could ask for. She was fiercely loyal and protective of her loved ones and I was here for all of her goodness. I cannot wait to see who her love interest is. I am not going to lie, I’m hoping and praying that it’s David. Maxim’s friend David. The minute this book becomes available, I’m going to be on it like white on rice. Bring on main character Kimba!!
Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy #5) by Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, continues her spellbinding series set in the Hidden Legacy world where magic controls everything…except the hearts of those who wield it.
As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart.
The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him from keeping her safe, even if every battle could be his last. Because Catalina won’t rest until she stops the use of the illicit, power-granting serum that’s tearing their world apart.
Squee. I cannot wait to read more books from the Hidden Legacy series. I’m ready for more Catalina. More Arabella. More Baylors. And more Alessandro. Yeah buddy, this is definitely on my most anticipated reads list.
Daring and the Duke (The Bareknuckled Bastards #3) by Sarah MacLean
New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the final book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series focusing on the third brother Duke and the sweet Grace.
Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London’s darkest corners. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best, until the man she once loved returns.
Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. A long-ago gamble may have lost her forever, but Ewan will go to any lengths to win Grace back… and make her his duchess.
Reconciliation is the last thing Grace desires. Unable to forgive the past, she vows to take her revenge. But revenge requires keeping Ewan close, and soon her enemy seems to be something else altogether―something she can’t resist, even as he threatens the world she’s built, the life she’s claimed… and the heart she swore he’d never steal again.
Dude, we’re finally getting Grace and Ewan’s book. We’re finally getting their back story. We’re going to get to know all of the nitty-gritty shenanigans that led them to now. It’s going to be filled with so much drama and I am here for it all. Come to Mama, please!
The Earl Takes a Fancy (Sins for All Seasons #5) by Lorraine Heath
New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath pens another richly satisfying romance in her Sins for all Seasons series.
She’s looking for a nobleman to wed…
Though born out of wedlock, Fancy Trewlove is determined to fulfill her mother’s wish that she marry into nobility. Fancy’s keen intellect and finishing school manners make her the perfect wife for any gentleman—if he’s willing to overlook her scandalous lineage. But Fancy’s plans are thrown into chaos when an intriguing commoner begins visiting her bookshop—and she finds herself unable to stop thinking about him.
He’s looking to escape his title…
Widowed just a year ago, the reclusive Matthew Sommersby, Earl of Rosemont, has been besieged by women hoping to become his next wife. Desperate for anonymity, he sheds Society life to search for the peace that eludes him. Fancy’s shop is his one refuge, until the night their passion erupts into a kiss that nearly leads to her ruin—and leaves both longing for much more.
Together, they discover an unlikely love…
As Fancy finds herself torn between her family’s expectations and her growing feelings for Matthew, secrets are exposed—secrets that force Fancy to question if she can trust her heart’s desire…
Fancy’s book!!! I have wanted Fancy’s book since Mick’s book but she was much too young in Mick’s book so it’s time. It’s time for us to see a grown up Fancy, living her grown up life with her family, her bookstore, and finally meeting this Earl that takes a fancy. Squee, I can’t wait to dig into this one!
Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick
A romantic K-drama duology in which a South Korean adoptee journey to Seoul to find her birth parents, but her mission threatens the position of a powerful female CEO and her heir.
It’s been a while since I’ve read anything by Jen Frederick but I’m really looking forward to reading this one. I’m not a die-hard K-Drama fan but the ones that I’ve watched, I’ve binged the shit out of them so yes, I’m mighty intrigued by this k-drama like story that Frederick is going to tell in this book. I’m so here for it.
There are plenty of other releases coming out in 2020 that didn’t make our shortlists. Which books are you most looking forward to reading in 2020? Share your most anticipated reads in the comments!
Tagged: Casee's Anticipated Reads, Holly's Anticipated Reads, Most Anticipated Books, Most Anticipated Reads, Rowena's Anticipated Reads
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16 Panels That I Don’t Think Work All That Well
April 16, 2007 CalamityJon 23 Comments
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GiantPanda
haha, awesome. I’m a frequent offender of several. Nr 1, 2, 9, 10 and especially nr 13 (feet in perspective *brrrrrr!*). The only one I don’t agree with is nr 1. I actually prefer talking heads with their mouth closed for most types of art unless there is a particular expression that is needed. For four through eight I think it’s ok to not redraw backgrounds for every panel.
Vir Bonus
I'll cede photostatting the backgrounds, but oh lord how I hate the photostatted foreground figure …
Danny Way
I think 8, when used well can convey a sense of awkwardness, however, I certainly use it quite a bit mainly due to laziness.
NeilCohn
I love this list not because of its judgments about people's usage, but because it identifies so many great patterns in the way people create panels. I wish more people would make lists of conventional patterns like this. I don't want to bogart your comments section, but if anyone's interested, I've written up a bit more about this article over at my blog.
——- Studying the Visual Language of "Comics" – http://www.emaki.net
xerexes
That's an interesting angle on Jon's comic. Folks jumping over to Neil's post unfamiliar with his previous writing might want to read through some of his Comics Theory 101 columns here at Comixpedia to understand better Neil's terms "visual language" and "art perspective".
Xaviar Xerexes
On second thought, let's not go to Comixpedia. It is a silly place.
dgwohl
Wow just about every one of those were Matt Groening's bread and butter in that series!
Max Vaehling
Damn, why didn’t I notice this earlier?
A lot of good stuff there, not so much on the these-pictures-are-stupid scale but on the this-has-been-done-a-lot field. Gotta agree with GiantPanda, though. I’ve used #1 a lot myself, for several good reasons.
One, still pistures of people with their mouths open tend to look stupid.
Then, sometimes there are two or more people talking in one panel. If they all have their mouths open, it will look as if they’re talking at the same time.
Most importantly, though: The purpose of the panel isn’t to show that someone is talking. The speech balloon covers that. The image should deliver emotional information on how the speech is delivered, and sometimes an open mouth just gives the wrong impression. Related to that, the image can focus on an entirely different action (like the Ridiculous Fight Scene mentioned in the comments). The image doesn’t follow the text or mark the moment when the text is being said. The image stands for itself, and the text illuminates an aspect of it.
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Ontos
"Had He Fallen into the Den of a Murderer?"
"Murderous London: A Story for Artists."
By W. P. Frith, R. A. (1819-1909).
First appearance: Time, November 1888.
Short short story (5 pages).
Online at Hathi Trust (HERE).
"One of them burkers lives here! he's been and tried to murder me!"
If he hadn't lived more than a century sooner, the "young man from the country" in our story could have, on reflection, taken some solace from Chesterton's observation: "The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man."
- We know from Wikipedia (HERE) that William Powell Frith was an eminent artist, the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth"; FictionMags's listing shows
four articles signed by him about his profession, so "Murderous London" may have been
his only foray into the fictionalized anecdote.
- A Bow Street Runner makes an appearance in our story; go to Wikipedia (HERE) for more about "London's first professional police force."
- For their activities William Burke and William Hare could not have escaped the notoriety that even today attaches to their names; for just about everything you'll ever need to know about these two gentlemen, see Wikipedia (HERE), The Worlds of Burke and Hare (HERE), Historic UK (HERE), and Wikipedia again (HERE) and (HERE).
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"A Bullet Starred the Plating Between the Gauges"
"The Ends of Justice."
By C. Langton Clarke (1857-1936).
First appearance: Adventure, February 1911.
Online at Archive.org (HERE).
"From back of the tender came the sound of a pistol-shot and a cry of agony."
Blood, they say, is thicker than water; sometimes, though, it can be even thicker than the iron-clad strictures of the law . . .
- FictionMags describes C. Langton Clarke: "Editor, journalist and engineer. Born in England; died in Toronto, Canada."
(Click on image to enlarge.)
- In case you're wondering what "ballast" might be, see the short article on American-Rails.com (HERE):
"Although it may just look like plain ole gravel this stone [ballast] plays a vital role in acting as a support base for the railroad ties and rails as well as allowing for proper drainage of water away from the rails (which is why the stone is always sloped downward and away from track)."
The bottom line: "For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy."
― G. K. C.
"You Didn't Happen to See Which One Cut Your Throat?"
"Support Your Local Police."
By David Magil (?-?).
First appearance: Worlds of IF, July-August 1973.
Short story (13 pages).
(Parental caution: Some mild expletives.)
"Such a disorderly young lady! How come she was working for law and order?"
Detective Mike Winsor's humdrum life is going along about as badly as could be expected until he has a very close encounter with an eye-achingly gorgeous baby-doll ("Hi") who really, truly needs ten million dollars and—perhaps more significantly—absolutely refuses
to stay dead . . .
- David Magil's minuscule ISFDb bibliography is (HERE).
"Can You Get Sherlock Holmes by Wireless?"
"The Stolen Emerald."
By Harris Merton Lyon (1881-1916).
First appearance: Hampton's Magazine, March 1912.
Short short story (6 pages, 3 illos).
Online at Hathi Trust starting (HERE) and finishing (HERE).
(Note: Use "Full Screen" for the full effect.)
"H. says he can't come, as he is working on the case of the nearsighted crown jewel thief. Look up Mr. John Raffles, of 1111 Broadway."
When it comes to finding the purloined Nero emerald, the right man for the job might not be a man at all . . .
Typo: "the trouble had began"
- FictionMags's chronological list of Harris Merton Lyon's output from 1907 to his death in 1916 (with one posthumously published tale) shows that most of it was humorous stories.
- The reference to Arsène Lupin's picking the pocket of the Sage of Baker Street is from Maurice Leblanc's "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late" (1907), online at David Stewart's collection (HERE).
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"Was There Sound, Mister, with Only a Deaf Man Living Near That Door, Passing It Twenty Times a Day"
"Cry Silence."
By Fredric Brown (1906-72).
First appearance: Black Mask, November 1948.
Reprinted in Black Mask (U.K.), April 1949; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, October 1953; and Suspense (U.K.), January 1959 (FictionMags data).
Collected in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (2010) and Miss Darkness: The Great Short Crime Fiction of
Fredric Brown (2012).
Short short short story (4 pages).
Online at SFFAudio (HERE) (PDF).
"Would you try to save your wife from a killer? Seems like a simple question, but to Mandy's husband, it was one to stump the experts."
That silent man in the train station: should he be pitied—or executed?
- For a comprehensive background article on Fredric Brown, the crime writer (as distinct from his SFFnal output), see The Thrilling Detective (HERE).
- This story is discussed by Graham Powell at Nasty. Brutish. Short. (HERE), so beware of SPOILERS: "The twist ending to this short little shocker is worth the price of admission."
- ONTOS has already had several close encounters with Fredric Brown: (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), and (HERE).
I think the echoes of his shames have deafed
The ears of heavenly justice . . .
— Palamon
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"Anything That Old Battleax Got She Deserved—Provided There's a Corpus Delicti"
"Eau de Morgue."
By Arthur T. Harris (pseudonym, ?-?).
First appearance: Fantastic Universe, June 1956.
"Vengeance can be very complete when it ends with a refrain to the tender lyric: 'All of me!'"
Let's face it: Some relationships were never meant to last; while the song tells us that break-ing up is hard to do, in this instance a four-ounce bottle of Madame Outre's Shangri-La Bath Salts makes it oh-so-easy . . .
- A very short bibliography of Arthur T. Harris's stories is on the ISFDb (HERE).
- As to the "tender lyric" mentioned above ("All of Me," 1931), it would be easier to
name the performers who haven't recorded the tune; Willie Nelson's version on
YouTube (HERE; 3 minutes 52 seconds) is no worse than most.
"I Want This 'New York Roddy'!"
"Ev'rybody Likes a Gunman."
By Max Bonter (1882-?).
First appearance: Adventure, August 18, 1921.
(Note: Be sure to use the "Full Screen" function.)
". . . if you want me, you're not goin' to get me. You won't even get as far as that door!"
It really is a small world, isn't it, when you run afoul of somebody you ran afoul of twenty years ago . . .
Guys (and a doll):
~ The chief:
"Ire, strong and ill-controlled, blazed in his deep-set eyes."
~ Blackson:
"Quickly he left the unpretentious base headquarters where society's defensive brain-force was centralized and at bay before the increasingly vicious assaults of the underworld."
~ "New York Roddy":
"New York Roddy's laughing eyes held vision as subtly sure as a cat's and the fireman sensed with unerring accuracy the nature of the potential destruction concealed in that
gray overcoat pocket."
~ "That dame":
". . . made a cool thirty-five on that transaction on a fifteen principal. Don't they learn, eh? She ought to be in Wall Street. Pays to get robbed sometimes, eh? That's why ev'rybody
likes a gunman."
Typos: "collabotaors"; "New York Ruddy".
Artwork by Harry Wickey
- Our undercover detective, pretending to be a gob (the old term for an American sailor), is frequently referred to as a "fireman," which doesn't mean "firefighter" here: "Fireman or stoker is the job title for someone whose job is to tend the fire for the running of a steam engine. On steam locomotives the term fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the term is usually stoker . . ."
— Wikipedia, "Fireman (steam engine)"
- Remember that our story takes place shortly after Prohibition went into effect; see the History.com article (HERE).
- There's almost no information about our author to be found; FictionMags's thumbnail: "Sailor. Probably from New York."
"Dead, Lying There Dead, with Marks on His Throat—Murder, All Right"
"The Right Thing."
By Ray Cummings (1887-1957).
First appearance: The Argosy, March 27, 1920.
Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select page 126
from dropdown menu).
(Note: Text is faded but readable.)
"So far as your happiness is concerned, he'd be better off dead, and I wish he was."
Thanks to Shakespeare, we all know how the course of true love doth run; toss divided loyalties into the mix, and it's no wonder that Beth is anxious about whether doing the
right thing is doing the right thing . . .
~ Beth Rollins:
"In the hand she held outstretched a bit of polished steel glistened in the lamplight."
~ Tom Hawley:
". . . standing there now by the fireplace watching her wonderingly—Tom Hawley was
a murderer?"
~ Sheriff Williams:
"It's him all right—only circumstantial evidence, but damn strong."
Typo: "Vailestown"
- We've run across uberpulpster Raymond King Cummings quite a few times; go (HERE) for those instances.
"Certainly It Was Impossible — Except That Mr. Gru Was Stone Cold Dead . . ."
WOULD YOU BELIEVE a story set a couple of centuries from now that's also a locked room mystery? Uber-editor John W. Campbell would probably scoff, but, as our sleuth says, "You were wrong about nothing having changed in the past two hundred years. This was a crime which could not have happened then."
"The Closed Door."
By Kendall [sic] Foster Crossen (1910-81).
First appearance: Amazing Stories, August-September 1953.
Reprinted in Amazing Stories (U.K.), December 1953 and Fantastic, February 1969.
Online at SFFAudio (HERE) (PDF) and Archive.org starting (HERE) and finishing (HERE).
"This is a detective story. Without, we hasten to add, private eyes, blonds, beds, bigamy or bottles of bourbon. The setting is a luxurious interplanetary hotel three hundred years in the future . . ."
They say when one door closes, another opens; in the matter of the murder of the humanoid from Sirius II, it ain't necessarily so . . .
The whos in this whodunit:
~ G. G. Gru:
"If there's one thing I can't abide, it's practical jokers."
~ Alister Chu, manager of the Planetary Rest Hotel:
". . . quickly told of the call he'd received from the guest on this floor. He explained
the whole thing in great detail, including his impression of the guest's falling apart:
'Not literally, of course.'"
~ Chief Inspector Maiset, head of the Solar Department, Terran Division, Interplanetary Criminal Police Commission:
"It's suspected murder and delicate interplanetary relations."
~ Detective Inspector Jair Calder:
"If Gideon Fell could have lived to see this . . ."
~ Sub-Inspector Aly Mordette, Provincial Police:
"Oh, we have our Twenty-second Century gadgets, but everything works just the same
as it did in the Nineteenth or Twentieth Century. You can take my word for it, Inspector."
~ James Bruce, an employee of Plasticorp and chairman of the Acrylic convention:
"'I do hope, however, that your investigation won't disturb our convention too much.
We have some pretty important men here.' He bore down on the word important just
enough."
~ Cooerl II, a Mercurian:
". . . I went to the public visiphone booth at the end of the corridor. But there was no
one there when I answered. Apparently the party had hung up, or it was a practical joke."
- Some of Kendell Foster Crossen's writing seems to have been influenced by his experiences as an insurance investigator; see Wikipedia (HERE), the SFE (HERE),
and ISFDb (HERE) for the 411 on him.
- Sundry heavenly bodies get a brief mention in the story: Acrux (HERE), Canopus
(HERE and HERE), Mercury (HERE and HERE), Algenib (HERE), Sirius (HERE
and HERE), Mars (HERE and HERE), Rigel (HERE and HERE), Aldebaran (HERE
and HERE), and Antares (HERE and HERE).
- Silicon-based life forms have been popular in SFF for a long time; see David Darling's Encyclopedia (HERE), Wikipedia (HERE), and Scientific American (HERE).
- Another story blending SFF and tec fic is Fredric Brown's "Daymare" (HERE).
"Shots Crashed and I Flopped in the Mud"
"The Ride."
By John B. Kennedy (1894-1961).
First appearance: Collier's Weekly, October 12, 1929.
Short short short story (1 page).
Online at UNZ (HERE).
"He was a decent gunman."
Like those bad guys from Japetus, these mobsters learn just a little too late that honor among thieves goes only so far—and then . . .
- John Bright Kennedy was a regular contributor to the major slicks between 1926 and 1938; FictionMags's story listing shows he switched back and forth between nonfiction articles featuring the most illustrious figures of the day and fiction.
"The City Dies If Anyone Tries to Tail Us or Pull a Double Cross"
"The Three Thieves of Japetus."
By Mark Reinsberg (1923-81).
First appearance: Imagination, June 1957.
"Murder is always a cold-blooded crime any way you look at it. But for outright cruelty and barbarism there was no equal to the actions of—The Three Thieves of Japetus."
The Bard basically nailed it when he had Falstaff complain, "A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!"
Typo: "luninescent"
- For more about SFF superfan Mark Reinsberg, see the Fancyclopedia (HERE and reference HERE) and the ISFDb (HERE).
Artwork by Bambam131
- Japetus, Titan, and Hyperion are mentioned in our story. These days the preferred spelling of Japetus, a two-toned natural satellite of Saturn, is Iapetus (HERE); quite a few science fiction writers have used Iapetus in their stories (HERE); a 3-D map of the real Iapetus is (HERE). You can read more about Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in fact (HERE) and fiction (HERE), and the same goes for Hyperion (HERE) and (HERE).
The Earth, the Moon, and (lower left) Iapetus (Japetus).
The bottom line: "The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.”
"Every Burglar in London Was Asking for His Address"
"The Great Green Diamond."
By Gilbert Floyd (1871-1935).
First appearance: The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine, March 1899.
(Note: Use the "Full Screen" function for better viewing.)
"The subsequent adventures of the great Battersby diamond may yet be traced halfway round the world, in the series of modest headstones which mark the last resting-places of its various lessees—for the jewel brought luck to no man, and people said that to possess it was to court a sudden and painful death."
A hot rock indeed, as dangerous to its possessor as the Blue Carbuncle of recent memory; however, Battersby, the present owner of the diamond ("the eighth wonder of the world"—the stone, not Battersby), evidently likes to live dangerously and remains, to all appearances, unfazed by the diamond's dire reputation—until that heart-stopping moment when it disappears, precipitating a crisis that could almost certainly spell the end of a beautiful friendship* . . .
- FictionMags informs us that Gilbert Gover Floyd used two other noms de plume; as Duncan Storm he was a regular contributor of juvenile adventure tales to The Boys' Friend for over a decade, but as Julia Storm had just one story published in Schoolgirls’ Own.
- The story, "Beating the Lights," dealt with a stone of a different hue (HERE).
* . . . which, as you probably know, is spelled t-h-e e-n-d o-f a b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l f-r-i-e-n-d-s-h-i-p.
Miscellaneous Monday—Number Twenty-five
"A curious monomaniac. The man seems to believe everybody was acquainted with his mother."
"Charles Dickens As Criminologist."
By Paul C. Squires (?-?).
First appearance: The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, July-August 1938.
Article (32 pages).
Online (HERE) (PDF).
"He is not a preacher. He is a master analyst in the field of criminology."
As you can tell from the quote just above, our author diverges somewhat from the usual appraisal of Charles Dickens's criminously-related stories (see "Resources," below), giving him high marks for his criminological acumen. Throughout the essay, Freud raises his ugly head (let's face it, Sigmund was no Adonis) in the form of his theories of psychosexual pathology as they might relate to criminality. Since Squires must needs discuss plot details of several of Dickens's books, we're issuing a SPOILERS warning at this point:
"It is our plan to take up in this paper three of the novels [Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and Our Mutual Friend] and consider
the criminalistic aspects in a systematic manner."
Just a few snippets:
They say you should write about what you know:
"That he [Charles Dickens], who knew the streets, the law courts,
the lowest haunts of London as intimately as he knew the rooms of
his own house, must have had strong convictions on this subject
cannot be doubted by anyone even casually acquainted with his
novels and miscellaneous writings. He was intensely interested
not only in the common law and chancery, but also and preemi-
nently in the criminal law of England."
To the charge that Dickens was only a caricaturist:
"The principal difficulty cast in one's way when endeavoring
to interpret Dickens's characters is this: Dickens takes a single
human trait and constructs a personality out of it. In so doing
he is not, perhaps, as far wrong as some people would try to
argue. After all, are not men and women just so many exagger-
ations of a main, central trait—variations on a theme, we might
say—which determines their destinies? The big task is to break
through the encrustation of caricature covering the dramatis
personae of Dickens, thereby revealing their true essence.
When this is once accomplished, we find that his characters
are 'all too human,' to borrow a title from Nietzsche."
Not everyone was a deep-dyed villain:
"Dickens fought for a decent measure of flexibility in the harsh
penal system of his country. He carefully distinguishes between
the various kinds of motivation leading to anti-social conduct.
He always asks himself: Is this man worth saving?"
Social improvement was always Dickens's primary aim:
"Whereas in Great Expectations we have observed the mature
Dickens at work, in Oliver Twist we see the youthful reformer
in all the white heat of his enthusiasm. Here is the sort of
realism that jarred the prudes of the Victorian era. Oliver
Twist was written not only for the purpose of holding up to
shame and universal condemnation the poorhouse system
of his day, but especially aimed to debunk crime and the
criminal."
Even the middle class couldn't escape Boz's critical gaze:
"This [Our Mutual Friend], Dickens's last completed novel,
introduces us to a criminal type differing radically from his
preceding portraitures. We refer, of course, to the school-
master Bradley Headstone. As Chesterton insightfully says,
'it was a new notion to combine a deadly criminality not
with high life or the slums (the usual haunts for villains)
but with the laborious respectability of the lower, middle
classes.' Dickens here made a notable voyage of exploration
into one of the most obscure domains of psychiatry and
criminology. His study of Headstone's mental pathology
is so remarkable as in and by itself to assure him a seat
among the great literary psychiatrists."
The author's conclusion:
"Dickens does not smear a thick, nauseating coat of varnish
over his felons and crooks, as some have done. He refuses to
wax maudlin over them. He insists on tracing out the maze
of causation which produces the individual who breaks the
tablets of the law. The criminal is, for him, a natural and
historical phenomenon."
Typo: "Whether Orlick intended to will Mrs. Joe that night"
- Project Gutenberg has Great Expectations (1861) (HERE), Oliver Twist (1837) (HERE), and Our Mutual Friend (1865) (HERE). Interestingly enough, our author doesn't even mention
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), over which much ink has been spilled since its first appearance; go (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), and (HERE).
- In a related vein, see John Marshall Gest's The Lawyer in Literature (1913) (online HERE; reviewed HERE), especially Chapters I ("The Law and Lawyers of Charles Dickens") and II ("The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick"):
"As Dickens viewed the law with profound contempt, so he regarded lawyers with scant favor. Most of the lawyers in his books are shysters, as we would call them, or narrow, mean, ignorant pettifoggers. His books are crowded with familiar specimens. . . .
"He was, as I said, sentimental and emotional; he was sympathetic also. He saw and appreciated the evils of society as they existed in his day, but he lacked the constructive faculty of suggesting practical reforms. His ability consisted in exciting compassion for the poor and oppressed, scorn and contempt for the oppressor, and derision for the laws which, at the time he wrote, favored poverty and oppression, and were the worn-out heritage of
an earlier stage of society. . . .
"I repeat that in reading Dickens's description of the law and lawyers we must bear in mind that, first and last, his aim was to ridicule, satirize and caricature all that he disliked and despised, and he saw much in the law
and lawyers of England to dislike and despise. He was not, of course, an educated lawyer. I doubt very much if he ever read any law at all."
"He'll Have Quite a Surprise in Store for Him"
"The Incomplete Theft."
By Ralph Burke (Robert Silverberg, born 1935).
(FictionMags says this story was "ghost written by Randall Garrett").
First appearance: Imagination, February 1957.
"He walked directly across the well-lighted safety area, and the guards paid not the slightest attention."
It's highly unlikely that a thief ever stops to think that whatever he has set his mind on stealing just might steal him . . .
~ Peter Blane:
"She's a real beauty. When will she be finished?"
~ John Mitchell:
"This afternoon. The boys are tightening the last bolts and putting in the final wiring now. The job's just about over, Pete."
~ Dr. Harris:
"An Earthman stepped out, an engineer named Harris who had apparently been making some last-minute adjustments on the ship."
Comment: The self-teleporting starship—a real time-saver:
"It was simple to operate; all the pilot had to do was set up the coordinates of his target, turn on the hyperkinetic generator, and press the activator button. The generator itself did the rest. The field enclosed the ship, and instantaneously the ship was a hundred or a thousand light-years away."
- Robert Silverberg has used the "Ralph Burke" alias at least thirteen times ("three times in collaboration with Randall Garrett," according to the SFE); it was just last month that we
paid a visit to Silverberg (HERE).
- Detailed discussions of teleportation reside on Wikipedia (HERE) and Atomic Rockets (HERE); the U.S. Air Force Research Lab's report (HERE) (PDF, 88 pages) actually consid-ered such a highly unlikely technical development.
"I Wouldn't Travel in That Car Not for No Money"
"The Missing Pullman Car."
By W. L. Alden (1837-1908).
First appearance: To-Day, November 10, 1894.
Short short short story (4 pages, 4 illos).
"Stealing freight cars is something that happens every day, but stealing a Pullman was something new in the stealing line."
A "killer" railroad car? Surely you jest . . .
Comment: What looks like a case of criminality can, on occasion, be the result of a concatenation of innocent events.
- Our author, William L. Alden, also wrote SFFnal fiction as well; see Wikipedia (HERE),
the SFE (HERE), and the ISFDb (HERE) for more about him and his work.
- Go (HERE) for other railway-related stories.
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1Now that the wall had been rebuilt, I had the doors set up, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites were put in charge of them. 2Over Jerusalem I placed Hanani, my brother, and Hananiah, the commander of the citadel, who was more trustworthy and God-fearing than most. 3I said to them: “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot, and while the sun is still shining they shall shut and bar the doors. Appoint as sentinels the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their watch posts, and others in front of their own houses.”
Census of the Province. 4Now, the city was quite wide and spacious, but its population was small, and none of the houses had been rebuilt. 5When my God had inspired me to gather together the nobles, the magistrates, and the people, and to examine their family records, I came upon the family list of those who had returned in the earliest period. There I found the following written:
6* a These are the inhabitants of the province who returned from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away, and who came back to Jerusalem and Judah, to their own cities: 7They returned with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.
The census of the people of Israel: 8descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; 9descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two; 10descendants of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two; 11descendants of Pahath-moab who were descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 12descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 13descendants of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five; 14descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty; 15descendants of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight; 16descendants of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight; 17descendants of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two; 18descendants of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven; 19descendants of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven; 20descendants of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five; 21descendants of Ater who were descendants of Hezekiah, ninety-eight; 22descendants of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight; 23descendants of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four; 24descendants of Hariph, one hundred and twelve; 25descendants of Gibeon, ninety-five; 26people of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight; 27people of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; 28people of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two; 29people of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three; 30people of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one; 31people of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two; 32people of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three; 33people of Nebo, fifty-two; 34descendants of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; 35descendants of Harim, three hundred and twenty; 36descendants of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five; 37descendants of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one; 38descendants of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
39The priests: descendants of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; 40descendants of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two; 41descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; 42descendants of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.
43The Levites: descendants of Jeshua, Kadmiel of the descendants of Hodeviah, seventy-four.
44The singers: descendants of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.
45The gatekeepers: descendants of Shallum, descendants of Ater, descendants of Talmon, descendants of Akkub, descendants of Hatita, descendants of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.
46The temple servants: descendants of Ziha, descendants of Hasupha, descendants of Tabbaoth, 47descendants of Keros, descendants of Sia, descendants of Padon, 48descendants of Lebana, descendants of Hagaba, descendants of Shalmai, 49descendants of Hanan, descendants of Giddel, descendants of Gahar, 50descendants of Reaiah, descendants of Rezin, descendants of Nekoda, 51descendants of Gazzam, descendants of Uzza, descendants of Paseah, 52descendants of Besai, descendants of the Meunites, descendants of the Nephusites, 53descendants of Bakbuk, descendants of Hakupha, descendants of Harhur, 54descendants of Bazlith, descendants of Mehida, descendants of Harsha, 55descendants of Barkos, descendants of Sisera, descendants of Temah, 56descendants of Neziah, descendants of Hatipha.
57Descendants of Solomon’s servants: descendants of Sotai, descendants of Sophereth, descendants of Perida, 58descendants of Jaala, descendants of Darkon, descendants of Giddel, 59descendants of Shephatiah, descendants of Hattil, descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, descendants of Amon. 60The total of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants was three hundred and ninety-two.
61The following who returned from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer were unable to prove that their ancestral houses and their descent were Israelite: 62descendants of Delaiah, descendants of Tobiah, descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. 63Also, of the priests: descendants of Hobaiah, descendants of Hakkoz, descendants of Barzillai (he had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was named after him). 64These men searched their family records, but their names could not be found written there; hence they were disqualified from the priesthood, 65and the governor* ordered them not to partake of the most holy foods until there should be a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
66The entire assembly taken together came to forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, 67not counting their male and female servants, who were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred male and female singers. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, 68their camels four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
69Certain of the heads of ancestral houses contributed to the temple service. The governor put into the treasury one thousand drachmas of gold, fifty basins, thirty vestments for priests, and five hundred minas of silver. 70Some of the heads of ancestral houses contributed to the treasury for the temple service: twenty thousand drachmas of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver. 71The contributions of the rest of the people amounted to twenty thousand drachmas of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven vestments for priests.
72The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all Israel took up residence in their cities.
* [7:6–72] See note on Ezr 2:1–67.
* [7:65, 69] The governor: see note on Ezr 2:63.
a. [7:6] Ezr 2:1–70.
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June 5, 2006 by Tony Leave a Comment
Well, even though this was widely linked last week, I’d be remiss if I didn’t comment on it as well. There was a piece in the Opinion Journal (of the WSJ.com) by Brian Anderson about video games. It’s the same mantra we’ve been hearing but it never hurts to repeat it:
Video games can also exercise the brain in remarkable ways. I recently spent (too) many late-night hours working my way through X-Men: Legends II: The Rise of Apocalypse, a game I ostensibly bought for my kids. Figuring out how to deploy a particular grouping of heroes (each of whom has special powers and weaknesses); using trial and error and hunches to learn the game’s rules and solve its puzzles; weighing short-term and long-term goals–the experience was mentally exhausting and, when my team finally beat the Apocalypse, exhilarating.
And the ever-present challenge to would be gaming-Nannies:
With the next generation of high-powered consoles on the market or soon to appear, gamers will have even richer, more complex virtual environments, many of them nonlinear, to explore. Working through these worlds alone, with friends or–in the ever more popular “massively multiplayer online role-playing games,” or MMOs–with thousands of strangers is far from a “colossal waste of time.” Video games are popular culture at its best. Critics would do better to drop the hysterical laments and pick up a joystick.
Of course, that can be favorably contrasted with this article in the Washington Times about video game legislation, that claims:
For one thing, these laws have tended to be mostly symbolic; the fact that interest in them tends to fade in the absence of newspaper headlines suggests strong elements of political theatrics at play. Second, the laws are regularly struck down by courts for their dubious constitutionality, and everyone including the scourges knows this. Third, more than 9 of 10 retailers have policies restricting the sale of such games to children anyway. All of which begs a question: Just how sincere are the proponents of these laws? Most of them are Democrats with strong interests in easy “moral values” scores. Smells like opportunism to us.
Political theatrics? Political opportunism? Perish the thought!
As an aside, the Opinion Journal mentions the study done by Dmitri Williams at the University of Illinois (which I mentioned here) which uses the game Asheron’s Call 2 for its study. I’ve never played AC2 (or the first one, for that matter), but it doesn’t seem like that game would be explicitly violent or very gory. Is it? Are the violence and gore on the same level as a Resident Evil 4 or a Grand Theft Auto? And if so, can fantasy violence really be compared to a game with more “realistic” characters? Is running over an innocent bystander with a pick-up the same as smashing a goblin with a mace? Just a thought.
Related articles can be found here.
Filed Under: Commentary Tagged With: Politics, The-Children, Violence and Video Games
But is that Legal?
Glenn Reynolds, aka The Instapundit, has a great piece on the Clinton/Lieberman/Bayh legislation that would codify the ratings assigned to video games. While IANAL, Reynolds is, so when he says this law would be unconstitutional, I would have to agree. He makes some great points, including the fact that this is blatant posturing by Clinton to position herself with parents for the upcoming 2008 election. A couple choice quotes:
Politicians — and, for that matter, journalists — tend to think there�s a difference, because a lot more of them read books than play computer games. But that�s more a reflection on how behind the times they are
We’ve said something along these lines many times before here, but it bears repeating. It’s the rock-and-roll analogy. Our grandparents didn’t like that our parents were listening to Elvis Presley because it was foreign to them and that made them resist it. This is very similar.
And since it�s hard for me to believe that a rating system for books would pass constitutional muster, I have considerable doubt that it will do so here.
This is another point. Where does the rating of the media (and our hobbies/past times) end? Everyone already ignores movie ratings (including the theaters), the Parental Advisor sticker on a CD case is the path to instant success with teenagers, and supposedly no one understands the video game rating system. Rating systems work if they’re actually meaningful, not just empty gestures with “the Children” in mind. So far they all seem to be just that.
Needless to say, go read the whole thing.
I’ve bookmarked the opinion Reynolds references for future referencing. It’s a good read (if you can navigate the legalese) and it seems at least judge Posner “gets it”:
Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low. It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.
Maybe video games are different. They are, after all, interactive. But this point is superficial, in fact erroneous. All literature (here broadly defined to include movies, television, and the other photographic media, and popular as well as highbrow literature) is interactive; the better it is, the more interactive. Literature when it is successful draws the reader into the story, makes him identify with the characters, invites him to judge them and quarrel with them, to experience their joys and sufferings as the reader’s own.
(thanks to Bobster for the link)
Filed Under: Commentary Tagged With: Politics
December 7, 2005 by Tony 3 Comments
I will probably need to add a new category for games and violence/politics at some point here on buttonmashing.com. I don’t cover them as thoroughly as Game Politics and others but I still follow it closely. (I’m little bit of a poltical junkie but I try to avoid anything too political on these pages). Anyway, this is old in blog-time, but there’s a good response to Hillary Clinton’s propsed legislation I briefly mentioned here at Tech Central Station.
I like that other people are getting into the discourse. John Luik isn’t a gamer but says something that I just love.
For some, these complaints about video games are nothing more than a reflection of the cultural and generational divide between those below and above age 40. For instance, the Economist recently noted that “The opposition to gaming springs largely from the neophobia that has pitted the old against the entertainments of the young for centuries. Most gamers are under 40, and most critics are non-games-playing over 40s.” That may well be true, though studies suggest that about half of Americans play some sort of video game. As for age and bias, I am both not a game player and rather regrettably well past 40, but the evidence leads me to side with the kids who want to play.
I also find it interesting how many people (bloggers) out there are into gaming in one form or another that aren’t “gaming bloggers”. I read a lot of gaming blogs (too many!) but I also read my fair share of blogs on other topics. I recently read this little gaming blurb on VodkaPundit about Bushnell’s comment about the number of gamers being smaller than 20 years ago. The VodkaPundit, as long as I’ve read him, doesn’t often comment on such things, so it’s cool to see others talking about it. What really amazed me where the number of comments remininscing about gaming. I think that’s a great thing and I hope it continues.
Ugggh
November 29, 2005 by Tony 2 Comments
Hello, America. I want to be your next President. Why should you vote for me? Look at all the things I’ve done for the children. Won’t you please think of the children?
Parents just have to be better parents.
July 14, 2005 by Tony 8 Comments
First off, I never wanted buttonmashing.com to become a place for political statements, so I will try to refrain from such comments as much as possible. Also, I didn’t want to talk about GTA:SA anymore. I think the game has no redeeming qualities. I respect the opinions of people who think otherwise, but for my money, GTA:SA is a poor game. That said, I really don’t want to beat dead horses (Jack Thompson is an idiot and the GTA scandal) anymore but if you throw in another horse (Hillary Clinton) and I’m game. As it’s been reported, Senator Clinton has thrown her considerable political weight behind an investigation into Rockstar’s peccancies.
Mrs. Clinton asked the commission to determine “the source of this content,” especially since the game can fall into the hands of young people. The game industry’s self-policing unit, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, is investigating whether the maker of the game violated the industry rule requiring “full disclosure of pertinent content.”
Do we really need “federal regulators to investigate” this? Whether this game should have been rated M or AO by the ESRB it should never “fall into the hands of young people.” The NY Times also seems to be sketchy on the rest of the details, but that’s beside the point. It’s troubling that an influential Senator has taken interest in this case, because it gives credence to nut-jobs like Jack Thompson.
In fact, this seems to have been Jack Thompson’s dream come true, as he is literally slobbering in this letter he purportedly sent to everyone in the video game industry.
(On a side note, as a conservative Republican, I am sad to learn that Jack Thompson also belongs to my party. But that is neither here nor there.)
As I read this letter, I had to pause numerous times and pinch myself. Certainly I had drifted into a parallel universe where logic doesn’t exist and saying things crazy-stupid is the norm. As few choice quotes from the letter:
For a month Doug Lowenstein and his ESA pretended that there was no mod, that there was no scandal, that there was no need for any action whatsoever by ESA. How wrong he was.
No, how wrong you are Mr. Thompson! It’s the ESRB, not the ESA, that needs to take action. They rated a game based on content provided to them. It is neither Lowenstein’s nor the ESA’s fault that Rockstar may have held back certain content. This is just hot air.
Doug Lowenstein could have prevented what is going to happen today, but he preferred to shoot the messengers. It is his chronic style.
I wondered if he was trained to do that in Grand Theft Shoot-the-Media. Do you think he has an option of “Shoot the Messenger” in one of his cranial menus?
News organizations don�t trust ESA because Doug Lowenstein is its head. Why should they? He treats them like dirt.
After watching 60 minutes in March, I’d say it was the other way around. They gave whackos like you all the time in the world to spout your nonsense and then gave Doug the equivalent of a couple sound bites.
When Hitler invaded Russia, opening up an Eastern offensive on the eve of winter, Britain�s Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted that �Hitler must have been rather loosely educated, not having learned the lesson of Napoleon�s autumn advance on Moscow.�
Your Doug Lowenstein is similarly �loosely educated� about the United States Constitution.
Whoops, Thompson has “jumped the shark.” When the “Hitler” comparisons are thrown around, it’s time to pick up your things and leave. Nothing to see here. If you made it that far in the article, you can stop there. Does anyone see the similarity between a madman who exterminated millions of people and a man who may have missed a simple bit of content in a video game where NO ONE DIED? I know you, smart buttonmashers, are familiar with history. I won’t belabor the point anymore. You’ve seen the diarrhea pour out of this guys mouth time and time again. There’s more of this garbage, you can read it if you are a glutton for punishment. You can make your own decision about this guy.
There is one nice little gem, though, from Mr. Thompson. It reminded me why I love George W:
The evening in January 2000 that I appeared on NBC Nightly News to talk about the link between violent games and Columbine, Tom Brokaw asked then Governor Bush about that link and what he as President would do about it? George Bush simply said �Parents just have to be better parents.�
Amen, brother! We can write all the legislation in the world, fine stores and their clerks for selling games to minors, whatever. In the end, if the parents will let little Tommy play GTA:Kill ’em All Rampage, who’s to blame, really?
Update: Here are two cents (which are actually worth more) from blogger JKL, in which he refers to Jack Thompson as Thumper. Anyone who would think of that is okay in my book.
Also keep checking out Kotaku for updates. Brian is on this case like white on rice.
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Filed Under: Commentary Tagged With: Politics, Violence and Video Games
Game Cheats as Political Speech : Kotaku
April 19, 2005 by Tony 2 Comments
This is one of the best posts I’ve seen at Kotaku. Ever. Pure awesomeness.
My buddy over at Rightank would get a big kick out of this one.
Update (4/20/05 12:53pm): As pointed out to me by Ed (in the comments), the original source to the list of “cheat codes” is the Riding Sun blog.
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Here is the paint scheme and the character shapes and sizing for Hurricane 5389. Colours shown are not representative of the actual 'Dark Earth, Dark Green and Underside Sky'. Hurricane 5389 Paint Guide. Hurricane 5389 Character Guide
1942 - Built by Canadian Car & Foundry, Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario.
Jun 10, 1942 - Noted "This aircraft has been modified before being placed in service".
Jun 23, 1942 - Taken on strength, assigned serial number RCAF 5389.
To No. 4 Training Command, BCATP, Calgary, Alberta and delivered into stored reserve.
Jul 3, 1942 - Assigned to No. 133 (Fighter) Squadron, Lethbridge, Alberta. Aircraft 5389 coded as FN*M
Oct 5, 1942 - No. 133 (F) Squadron transferred to Western Air Command and relocated to RCAF Station Boundary Bay, British Columbia for home defense.
Jul 1, 1943 - Squadron is relocated to Tofino, British Columbia.
Jul 15, 1943 - Suffered a Category 'C' crash at Tofino.
Jul 22, 1943 - To Coates Limited for repairs.
Feb 28, 1944 - Stored reserve with Western Air Command.
Aug 4, 1944 - To No. 2 Training Command, BCATP, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Dec 1, 1944 - To No. 2 Training Command, BCATP, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Feb 12, 1945 - Stored reserve.
March 12, 1945 - Flown by 170 Ferry Squadron to #8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, MB for installation of one gun and a radio.
March 14, 1945 - Flown to No. 23 EFTS, Yorkton, SK to intercept and shoot down Japanese fire balloons.
June 26, 1945 - Withdrawn from service and flown to #3 Surplus Equipment Holding Unit, Swift Current, SK for storage pending sale.
Jul 12, 1945 - Available for disposal, airframe total time: 447:30 hours.
Aug 20, 1946 - Struck from service, to War Assets Corporation for sale.
Purchased by a farmer in Southern Saskatchewan.
1962 - Purchased by Lynn Garrison, Calgary, Alberta and transported to Calgary courtesy of Wolton Lumber.
1962 - date unknown - Both Hurricanes stored disassembled in the back of Hangar 4.
1964 - Air Museum of Canada incorporated. Title of the Hurricane was not transferred to the museum.
1964 - An Air Museum of Canada program states, "They (the museum's two Hurricanes) are to be rebuilt by members of the local Ultra Lite aircraft group for display at a later date." The ultralite group was the Calgary Ultra-Lite Aircraft Association.
1964 to 1966 - Stored inside a small building occupied by 403 'City of Calgary' Squadron and used as their Pilot's Room.
Late 1960s - Aircraft relocated to RCAF Station Lincoln Park where a local Air Cadet Squadron attempts a restoration project, starting with the wood work on the fuselage.
1972 - Aircraft sold by Peter Norman (unauthorized by the owner, Lynn Garrison) to the Calgary Centennial Planetarium Association and placed on display at the Centennial Planetarium.
1988 - Stewardship transferred to the Calgary Aerospace Museum. Planned restoration as LE*A, No. 242 RAF Squadron in honour of Calgarian William "Willy" McKnight. No work accomplished.
1990 - Ownership of the City of Calgary's vintage aircraft collection is challenged in court by Lynn Garrison. The courts rule in favour of the City.
2000 - Placed into offsite storage along with a de Havilland Mosquito and Cessna Crane.
2008 - An offer is made to restore the Hurricane in exchange for ownership of the City's Mosquito.
Jul 15, 2010 - The Hurricane and Mosquito are moved to another City-owned warehouse.
Dec 8, 2010 - Community and Protective Services Committee votes to retain ownership of the Hurricane and Mosquito and to search out a local, volunteer-based organization to assume their stewardship.
Feb 14, 2011 - Calgary City Council votes to retain both the Hurricane and Mosquito and to seek out a volunteer group to oversee their restoration.
Dec 21, 2011 - The City of Calgary awards the restoration of RCAF 5389 to the Calgary Mosquito Society.
Oct 27, 2012 - Moved to Historic Aviation Services in Wetaskiwin, AB to begin its restoration.
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Demon Hunters: Back from the Dead – Page 13
by Jimmy McMichael on June 17, 2014 at 6:09 am
Chapter: Back from the Dead
Characters: Gabriel, Ichabod, Silent Jim
He said the thing! The thing from the movies!
We’ve been working on the comic since 2011. This was, in no way, a constant, productive workflow (it turns out there’s a lot of cool stuff on television and video games are super fun!). This February we decided enough was enough, and finally set a launch date–April 1st–expecting to launch with three pages and have another four in reserve. As you may have noticed, we didn’t. Instead, we launched with two pages, and had none in reserve. This means that every week is a race to complete the page before Tuesday morning. And it’s a race we’ve been losing lately. There’s just no breathing room, and any unexpected issues that crop up mean the comic won’t get posted on time. It’s frustrating, it’s stressful, and it’s not fair to you guys. Something’s gotta change.
So here’s the plan…
That’s page 13 up there, and it’s a good place to pause for a little bit. We’re gonna take a few weeks off while we build up a bit of a much-needed buffer on the comic, and finally fulfill some delayed Patreon rewards for April and May backers. The comic will return on August 5th, and barring any unexpected (or expected) dismemberments on Ben’s part, should proceed without further interruptions. Hell, even if he loses lefty, we should be able to keep to the schedule.
So the comic’s on pause til August 5th, but we’re not going dark. Tuesday is still Demon Hunters day, and I’ll be filling in with a series of short stories set in the DH universe. I’m not sure exactly what I’m gonna do yet. I don’t have anything in particular planned, but I’m eagerly taking requests! Any particular characters you’d like to hear more about? Locations? Events? Sound off in the comments! I love a challenge! Also, don’t forget that Kentucky Blue Clay will be back on July 3rd for his regularly scheduled Storytime with KBC. Be sure to take a break from freaking out my poor, nervewracked dog with your damn, noisy fireworks to check that out!
Demon Hunters returns on August 5th. We’re crazy sorry for the rain delay, folks! We promise, the comic will be SOOOOOO much better as a result!
EDIT: Ben decided to be an adult and bought a friggin’ house! That’s great for him and his family, but not so great for productivity. As a result, the hiatus is being extended a bit so Ben can dig all his drawing stuff out of their boxes and get it set up in his new home. Demon Hunters will now return on August 5th, not July 15th as previously stated. The post above has been edited to reflect this.
Gabriel, with his face freshly cleaned, closes the van's door.
GABRIEL: Alpha One's out of the question. I get that. But there's a ton of other Chapters out there that we can join up with! Or hell, we can just start a new one! Not to brag, but let's face it, any team with you and me on it is gonna be the best in the Brotherhood.
SILENT JIM: Damn straight.
GABRIEL: We'll probably need Kincaid to pull some strings, but--
Gabriel stops, turning toward Jim. He's had a frustrating realization.
GABRIEL: Aw crap, Jim! Now that you're not dead, you'll still be assigned to Alpha One!
Closeup on Jim. There's the slightest hint of a smile.
SILENT JIM: Details.
Flashforward to Alpha One's HQ. Jim holds a long-haired white cat by the scruff of its neck; legs dangling. It's soaking wet, and not loving the experience. It has surrendered to this situation and looks miserable.
CAPTION: Soon...
SILENT JIM: Ichabod. I bleached your cat.
ICHABOD (OFF): Blackie!
BLACKIE: Mrowrr
Gabriel leans against the camper van, smiling and staring into the middle distance. Jim stands next to him, arms crossed. He lives in the middle distance. Gabriel reaches into his jacket's inner pocket.
CAPTION: But anyway...
GABRIEL: What the hell, right? It's worth a shot! It's not like they can fire me twice! Let's do this! Get in the van, Jim!
Closeup on Gabriel as he puts on his sunglasses. There's that cocky, confident smile we were all missing!
GABRIEL: We ride!
Quinlan Schultz
A story about the Purple Ninja would be cool. I’d also like one about KBC- that is, a story about him, not told by him. And if you want to write something villain-y, and it’s not too early to unveil him, it would be awesome to see some Sam Hell.
Fox Winter
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! HE SAID “WE RIDE!!!!!”
unacomnacomn
The cat bit was killer!
Moritz Schubert
I applaud you for your decision. I think it’s definetely the right one.
As for short story requests: Don mentioned on facebook that the Lovecraftian universe (or at least its “monsters”) are canon in the Demon Hunter universe. I would like to learn a little more about that.
Also it would be great to see more “That’s what actually happened” stories (like you did for the Goliath and David story in the Brotherhood Orientation video):
Patric Byrd
I have been waiting for the famous “we ride” scene that I have always loved since the beginning and here it is!
Bazhell
WE NEED A STORY ABOUT THE PURPLE NINJA
everything else is also fine by me^^
Cainus
I just noticed, are you guys leaving the duct tape off the back of Gabriel’s jacket on purpose? Isn’t it necessary?
Jimmy McMichael
Good eye! It started as a mistake, but it’s become intentional. It’ll show up eventually (even the DUCT TAPE has an origin story!). As for being necessary, nope. New universe, new rules.
Matthew "Kyu Kage" Hunt
I’m loving the reboot.
This Silent Jim seems to be shaping up as a much more “lively” character.
Gabriel is getting his groove back (that doesn’t sound right).
Aaaaand there’s a whole new game that you guys have been working on.
Ben Honeycutt
Glad to hear it! When Matt Vancil first pitched the project to me, I was worried that the movie’s small but fiercely loyal cult following would want my head for some of the changes we were planning. But so far, everyone’s been really receptive and eager to see what’s new in this universe.
If you have to take a break this is a line to take it on.
This has been our most lively page so far and I haven’t even chimed in yet.
Anyway, thanks everyone for sticking with us this long. I’ll be posting a blog entry here in a day or two where I’ll talk about the comic from my perspective and what I intend to do to make it a great experience going forward.
Apparently, no, I won’t.
Fallen Hero, Suspected Traitor, and Leader of Chapter Omega Fifteen
Recent Appearance: Demon Hunters: Back from the Dead - Page 43
First Appearance: Demon Hunters: Back from the Dead - Page 2
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OUR WAR eBook Sale!
November 25, 2019 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
I’m happy to announce that OUR WAR was chosen for Hachette’s 2019 Books Not to Miss promotion. From now until December 8, 2019, the eBook editions of OUR WAR are available for just $2.99. Now is the time to get your copy if you haven’t read this book!
Get it here at Amazon.
Check out OUR WAR and the other books in the promotion also at Nook, Apple, Kobo, and Google.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll leave a review!
Filed Under: Apocalyptic, Books, Our War, Politics, The Blog
Weekend at Can-Con
October 22, 2019 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
Chris Marrs and I enjoyed a great visit with Can-Con, the Canadian Sci-Fi & Fantasy Convention, in beautiful Ottawa last weekend. ONE OF US was up for an Aurora Award for Best Novel, and while it didn’t win, we had a great time connecting with Canada’s speculative fiction writing community.
Here are the winners–check them out!
• Best Novel: Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield, ChiZine Publications
• Best YA Novel: Cross Fire: An Exo Novel by Fonda Lee, Scholastic Press
• Best Short Fiction: “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach” by Kelly Robson, Tor.com Publications
• Best Graphic Novel: It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic
• Best Poem/Song: Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld by Sarah Tolmie, On Spec issue 107 vol 28.4
• Best Related Work: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Uncanny Magazine
• Best Visual Presentation: Deadpool 2, written and produced by Ryan Reynolds, Twentieth Century Fox
• Best Artist: Samantha M. Beiko, covers for Laksa Media
• Best Fan Writing and Publication: She Wrote It But…Revisiting Joanna Russ’ “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” 35 Years Later, Krista D. Ball
• Best Fan Organizational: Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can*Con, Ottawa
• Best Fan Related Work: Edward Willett, The Worldshapers (Podcast)
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What a Real Civil War Might Look Like in America
October 1, 2019 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
Recent events have prompted more than one reader to tell me my dystopian novel Our War (Orbit, August 2019), about a second American civil war, is quickly becoming nonfiction. A 2018 Rasmussen poll found that nearly a third of Americans believed a civil war was likely to happen in the United States in the next five years. While I personally believe civil strife (defined as 25+ deaths per year) is far more likely than civil war (defined as 1,000+ combatant deaths per year), the scenario depicted in Our War, which is precipitated by the impeachment of a president who refuses to step down, is certainly plausible.
In this novel, just as in reality, American politics has become so polarized and tribalized that it gained conditions that have precipitated coups and civil wars in other countries: entrenched polarization, distrust of public institutions, violence achieving legitimacy as a way of solving problems, lack of political leadership, and divisive press coverage.
The war’s first catalyst is the president’s impeachment by the House. As in reality, right-wing commentators, militias, and even politicians warn of civil war if the Congress were to remove him. Meanwhile, thousands of people camp at the National Mall in an “Occupy the Mall” protest demanding the president resign, though the country is evenly split on whether he should be removed, and one-third unequivocally support him. After the Senate convicts the president, he refuses to leave office, triggering a Constitutional crisis. Snipers fire into the crowds at the Mall, resulting in a massacre aired on live television and a nationwide panic.
Experts have estimated that as many as 60,000 armed right-wing militia members are operating in the United States. They stage a national armed protest that snowballs into a revolution. In their view, they are fulfilling the intent of the Founding Fathers who said if the government became broken, the citizenry had a right to overthrow and replace it. While their initial goal is to protect the president against a perceived soft coup by the Deep State, eventually they aim for a Constitutional Convention that will completely rewrite the American system.
Even with swelling recruitment in the first days of the civil war, they don’t have the numbers or resources to control the entire country, but they do have enough to roll into a small town, make changes to its government, and keep going to the next. The Three Percenters militia is to an extent based on this concept, that only a small percentage of Americans is necessary to successfully overthrow the government, inspired by a belief that only three percent of Americans fought and won the American Revolution.
The government, meanwhile, dithers in response to this rapid, diffuse threat to national security. While there are some 650,000 police in the United States, many would be sympathetic or even actively join the militia side, and the majority of the rest are in cities, where the militias are indeed stopped from going further. As for the powerful U.S. military, they would find it very difficult to respond. A recent Military Times survey found that nearly four out of five active-duty service members see the military as being more politically polarized. One out of three service members is registered Republican, with the officer corps tending to be more conservative, and one out of five is registered Democrat, with the rank and file tending to be more liberal. Add to this the fact that though impeached, the president remains the commander in chief of the nation’s armed forces.
The military faces a tough choice. They could remove the president with a coup, attempt to restore order by force and risk open warfare against Americans, or safeguard life and vital infrastructure while the president and Congress, which has relocated to New York, begin talks to achieve a political solution. They decide on the latter, leaving the war’s factions to fight it out among themselves.
Civil war ensues. Eventually, the battle lines would form not between states but largely between rural (sparse population density and predominantly conservative) and urban (high population density and predominantly liberal). For example, Indianapolis, where Our War takes place a year after the war started, is a deep “blue” city in a sea of “red.” In the early days of civil strife, gunmen in ski masks attempted to cordon off sections of the city, but failed in the face of massive crowds taking to the streets demanding unity and peace. After a bomb goes off in Mile Square, followed by days of house to house fighting between police and gunmen (including rogue police officers), the city government finally secures the city only to find it surrounded by right-wing militias who regard it as the grand prize. This is very similar to Sarajevo’s experience in the 1990s.
During the siege, various organizations inside Indianapolis form their own militias, some out of simple self defense, others to achieve their own political goals as the Left becomes similarly armed and increasingly radicalized. The police department becomes the government army operated by a centrist coalition, while Leftist and other civilian militias defend their turf. While the presidential side has better training and weaponry, the Congressional side has greater numbers. As the war goes on, refugees, failing infrastructure, shortages, and even atrocities and child soldiers become common.
The executive branch and Congress meet for peace talks in Ottawa, but the president holds out, hoping for successes on the battlefield that will result in more concessions. For the presidential side, the stakes are far more than whether the president stays in office or gains immunity from prosecution if he leaves. He and his backers are aiming for a Constitutional Convention that will rewrite the Constitution, with demands including zero restrictions on gun ownership, a national ID card, elimination of the income tax, a balanced budget requirement, English as the national language, and more. The Congressional side, led by centrists, mainly wants to remove the president and resume the same system as before the war, resulting in internal conflicts with the Left, which has its own demands, such as publicly funded elections, elimination of billionaires, healthcare as a right, and more. Meanwhile, reeling from the economic shock of America tottering on the brink of collapse, the rest of the world suffers its own wave of populist movements and wars. Various countries send aid to the United States, while some supply arms to one or even both sides of the conflict.
Our War poses the above as a possible scenario for a second American civil war, resulting from entrenched polarization and gridlock as the kindling, a Constitutional crisis as the spark, and a small but well-funded and coordinated militia movement attempting to overthrow the government.
This polarization, entrenched by competing media, results in Americans with common problems having entirely different narratives about why those problems exist and how to solve them, even different sets of facts. Meanwhile, gridlock has made government ineffective and destroyed trust in public institutions; the American political system, designed to promote unity, means one party cannot get much done without either the White House along with a Congressional super-majority, or the parties being civil and compromising.
I’d like to say the solution is to simply listen more to the “other side,” or some such platitude we often hear as the answer to these problems, but the truth is I believe there is simply too much money and power invested in the polarization for it to stop without more systemic change. Just as it attempts to be nonpartisan, Our War does no preaching, being a story designed to entertain while at the same time, as a dystopian novel, provide a warning. It is up to the reader to reflect on the themes and discuss solutions on their own. What I can say is I naturally hope a civil war never occurs in America, as in many civil wars, everybody fights, and nobody wins. Enough to say Our War is speculative fiction, however much it’s starting to resemble reality; let’s hope it stays that way.
Filed Under: Apocalyptic, Books, CRAIG'S WORK, Our War, Politics, The Blog
My Interview with Sample Chapter Podcast
September 17, 2019 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
The excellent Sample Chapter podcast recently interviewed me about OUR WAR. In this interview, I talk about my fiction, creative process, and the inspiration behind OUR WAR, before reading a sample chapter. Check it out here:
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San Francisco Review of Books Reviews OUR WAR
August 26, 2019 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
The San Francisco Review of Books recently reviewed OUR WAR, writing, “Craig DiLouie’s prose is eloquent, deeply compelling, and poses a possibility that alerts us to protect our world against such possibilities as depicted in this imaginative story. It touches many chords of recognition, and that is yet another trait of a brilliant writer. Highly recommended.”
Thank you for reading OUR WAR!
Check out the complete review here.
Bookshelf Fantasies Reviews OUR WAR
Bookshelf Fantasies reviewed OUR WAR in a twofer review along with Chuck Wendig’s WANDERERS, writing:
“Where to even start describing this powerful and upsetting book? It feels all too real, as an increasingly factionalized and radicalized America is plunged into a brutal civil war… It’s scarily easy to imagine these events evolving from where we stand today… The writing here is raw and shocking and immediate, and makes for a completely gripping read.”
Thank you for reading OUR WAR, Bookshelf Fantasies! Check out the complete review here.
As for WANDERERS, I’m about a hundred pages or so into the read and having a lot of fun with it. I’ll post my own review when I’m finished.
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June 25, 2011 0 comments Article Celebrity Fashion
‘Mutton dressed as lamb’, that’s an expression you often hear bandied around a lot in today’s society. In a world where women can look half their age, thanks to surgery and ‘fabulous’ personal trainers, you’d think that age restrictions would be few and far between, especially since size is a much bigger issue. However, there Read More
John Galliano: Saint Or Sinner?
June 21, 2011 0 comments Article Fashion Design
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IT’S TIME to put the winter woollies in the back of the wardrobe because we’re about to hit the summer with a bang! Gone are the warm colours like red and purple, we’re going to follow in Henry Holland and Betsey Johnson’s footsteps and bring back the vibrancy! We’re talking pastels with a bit of Read More
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Sexy has turned over a new leaf in terms of fashion and got our heads in a spin. Gone are the days of bodycon dresses, extensions and smouldering for the camera. The Paris Hiltons, Brad Pitts and Cristiano Ronaldos of the world are no longer the fashion forward and instead, people like Carey Mulligan and Read More
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DHC-3 Otter Archive Master Index
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c/n 460
460 on the sunny ramp at Downsview - CYZD, Ontario.
Photo: Unknown photographer © March 1966 - Ruben Husberg Collection - Aird Archivess
JW 9107
CF-DIZ
• JW 9107 Ordered new for Tanzania, with this serial number. On RCAF books for acceptance testing, training and delivery, with this serial number. Delivered to Tanzania on 25 March 1966. It was crated and shipped to Tanzania, where it was re-assembled and entered service, based at Dar es Salaam.
• CF-DIZ Bannock Aerospace Ltd., Toronto. ON.
• CF-DIZ Osprey Wings. Regd 09-May-2000 & 25-May-2000 Canx 15-Feb-2016.
• CF-DIZ New Sioux Enterprises Ltd., Flin Flon, MB. Regd 10-Oct-1972.
• CF-DIZ Leased to Parsons Airways Northern Ltd., Flin Flon, MB. Oct-1972.
Incident Kadeniuk Lake, MB. 29 Jun-1975. Described as “propeller accident to person”
Accident: Riou Lake, SK. 01-Oct-1979. Lowering ceiling and visibility forced the pilot to descend to about one hundred feet over the lake. Rather than turn around, he elected to continue. At the shoreline, rising terrain exceeded the rate of climb of the Otter and it crashed into the trees. As the accident report noted: “Inadequate pre-flight preparation or planning”. Neither the pilot nor his four passengers were injured.
Note: it was retrieved by Southern Aviation Ltd., and taken south, to their base at Regina, Saskatchewan. It was assessed as being beyond economical repair, and languished at their facility for years.
C-FDIZ T.C.Leasing Ltd., Regd Mar-1996 Saskatoon, SK
Power plant: Rebuilt as a Vazar turbine Otter, Summer 1996.
C-FDIZ Osprey Wings Ltd., Missinipe, SK. Based Otter Lake, Missinipe, SK. an associated company of T.C. Leasing. Regd 09-May 2000 & 27-May-2003. Canx 15-Feb-2016.
• Status unknown •
Otter 460 was delivered to the Tanzanian Air Force on 28th March 1966 with serial JW 9107. It was crated and shipped to Tanzania, where it was re-assembled and entered service, based at Dar Es Salaam. The history of the Tanzanian Otters has been explained in relation to Otter 451. Of the eight Otters acquired, three remained in Canada and were used for training purposes. The other five, including 9107, went to Tanzania where they continued in service until April 1972, when all five were purchased by Bannock Aerospace Ltd of Toronto.
These five Otters were flown from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi-Wilson airfield, Kenya in April 1972 and during May were prepared for the long ferry flight back to Canada. They were registered to Bannock Aerospace Ltd., JW 9102 (452) becoming CF-DIO; JW 9103 (453) CF-DIV; JW 9104 (454) CF-DIY; JW 9106 (459) CF-DJA and JW 9107 (460) CF-DIZ. Four of these Otters passed through Shannon in Ireland on the delivery flight home, the fifth passing through Prestwick in Scotland. CF-DJA and CF- DIZ came through Malta together on 25th July 1972 and arrived in Shannon the following day, next stop Reykjavik, Iceland and then onwards via Greenland and Newfoundland to Toronto.
Bannock Aerospace Ltd., sold CF-DIZ on 10th October 1972 to New Sioux Enterprises Ltd., of Flin Flon, Manitoba and it was leased by them to Parsons Airways Northern Ltd, to whom it was registered that month and entered service, based at Flin Flon. An incident was recorded at Kadeniuk Lake, Manitoba on 29th June 1975 described as “propeller accident to person”. The Otter was not damaged and continued flying for Parsons Airways Northern until it crashed at Riou Lake, Saskatchewan on 1st October 1979. Lowering ceiling and visibility forced the pilot to descend to about one hundred feet over the lake. Rather than turn around, he elected to continue. At the shoreline, rising terrain exceeded the rate of climb of the Otter and it crashed into the trees. As the accident report noted : “Inadequate pre-flight preparation or planning”. Neither the pilot nor his four passengers were injured, but the accident ended the Otter's flying career for the next twenty years.
Despite the remote location of the crash site, in the very north of Saskatchewan near to Stony Rapids, and after CF-DIZ had lain where it crashed for some time, it was retrieved by Southern Aviation Ltd and taken south, to their base at Regina, Saskatchewan. It was assessed as being beyond economical repair, and languished at their facility for years, alongside Otter CF-IGM (75), which Southern Aviation had also retrieved from the bush after a crash. Over the years that followed, the price of Otter aircraft rose, so that repairing DIZ became an economic proposition. It was eventually sold to T.C. Leasing Ltd., to whom it was registered in March 1996 as C-FDIZ and taken to their base at Saskatoon where it was rebuilt as a Vazar turbine Otter.
On completion of the rebuild, the Otter was registered to Osprey Wings Ltd., of Missinipe, Saskatchewan, an associated company of T.C. Leasing, in May 2000 and entered service with Osprey Wings. It spent its first summer flying out of Otter Lake, Missinipe on fire-suppression duties, re-joining the active Otter community after a down-time of over 20 years. This work involved patrolling for forest fires, and being available to fly fire crews as close as possible to the scene of a fire. As it was a somewhat wet summer in the region, it was not too busy on that task and was therefore also used to fly fishermen and hunters to remote lodges in this beautiful region. DIZ continues in service with Osprey Wings as part of its fleet of Otters.
Full history up to 2005 courtesy of Karl E Hayes from DHC-3 Otter - A History (CD-ROM 2005).
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Daily Report Tuesday, March 13 , 2007
Daily Highlights
The Associated Press reports a train carrying liquefied propane derailed Monday morning, March 12, setting off an explosion and fire that forced evacuations from a small central New York city and shut down a section of highway. (See item 2)
The South Florida Sun−Sentinel reports the Orlando security problem suggests airports may be vulnerable against employee threats, and that strong security measures are needed for employees as well as passengers. (See item 14)
The North Central Texas Council of Governments has announced the launch of its Law Enforcement Analysis Portal, a statewide multi−jurisdictional crime analysis system designed to concurrently analyze incident and offender information from the more than 2,500 law enforcement agencies across the state of Texas. (See item 28)
7. March 09, Department of Homeland Security — National Computer Forensic Institute unveiled. The Department of Homeland Security and Alabama state officials unveiled, Friday, March 9, the National Computer Forensic Institute in Hoover, AL, that will assist in the field of computer forensics and digital evidence analysis. The institute will be developed by the U.S Secret Service and is partially funded by the department’s National Cyber Security Division. It will serve as a national cyber crimes training facility where state and local police officers, as well as prosecutors and judges, will be offered training and equipment. Law enforcement agencies routinely encounter computer or digital evidence and the level of training for state and local police departments is diverse. The facility will include classrooms, a computer forensic lab with an advanced research and development area, an evidence vault, storage and server rooms, public education exhibit space, and a conference room. Training will be based on the current U.S. Secret Service curriculum and include: basic electronic crimes investigation, network intrusion investigation and computer forensics.
Source: http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1173477460607.shtm
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector
29. March 12, Federal Computer Week — Intelligence community embraces Web 2.0 tools. The Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that the country’s 2004 terrorism prevention act mandated is beginning to take shape in a loose policy framework established by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But intelligence experts say social−networking technologies for sharing intelligence information−−wikis, blogs and mashups, for example−−are developing faster than the policies governing their use. The gap is real, said Ambassador Thomas McNamara, who leads 25 employees at ODNI headquarters and works with the Information Sharing Council, a representative board of federal departments that hold intelligence assets. “The technology is sitting there waiting to be used, but a whole series of decisions have to be made at the policy level.” In November 2006, McNamara released a long−awaited implementation plan for the ISE that reveals how the government will implement the intelligence−sharing provision of the 2004 law. McNamara said that information sharing is fairly well−established within intelligence agencies but less so among agencies. “What we’re doing is adding the next level,” he said. That requires creating standards for broader cooperation and managing access to various levels of classified information. The ISE’s information technology architecture will conform to the Office of Management and Budget’s federal enterprise architecture, McNamara said.
Source: http://www.fcw.com/article97883−03−12−07−Print
Daily Report Monday, March 12 , 2007
Reuters reports the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Thursday, March 8, the first site in over 30 years that could eventually house a new nuclear power plant, in Clinton, Illinois. (See item 2)
The Boston Globe reports scientists have discovered that a new strain of norovirus is responsible for the wave of intense gastrointestinal infections that have overwhelmed hospitals, nursing homes, and college dormitories across the nation this winter. (See item 23)
28. March 09, SC Magazine — Apple issues AirPort Extreme patch. Apple has issued a fix for its wireless networking solution, AirPort Extreme, to complement a similar patch delivered
earlier this year. The update, released Thursday, March 8, corrects a vulnerability involving an out−of−bounds memory read error that could occur when processing wireless frames. "An attacker in local proximity may be able to trigger a system crash by sending a maliciously crafted frame to an affected system," according to an Apple advisory. The flaw impacts the Core Duo version of Mac mini, MacBook and MacBook Prop computers that run on a wireless connection. Core 2 Duo versions are not affected.
Apple advisory:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305031
http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/642893/apple−issues−ai rport−extreme−patch/
Daily Report Friday, March 9 , 2007
The Associated Press reports gasoline prices have jumped above $3 a gallon in some parts of California and Hawaii, and may hit that level in other parts of the country when the busy summer driving season approaches. (See item 1)
The Los Angeles Times reports the Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will fill in seven cross−border tunnels along the California−Mexico border that critics say pose a national security risk because they could be reused by smugglers. (See item 11)
Digital Communities reports that although the administration has warned repeatedly about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack and spent more than $300 billion to protect the country, the U.S. remains ill−prepared to respond to a nuclear catastrophe. (See item 28)
29. March 09, — Trojan Bayrob targets eBay users. Named Trojan.Bayrob, the malware changes user hosts files to redirect traffic destined to numerous eBay sites, including eBay Motors, to a local proxy server and listens on localhost port 80. From there, Bayrob downloads configuration data from the eBay servers, including a number of php scripts. A spokesperson from eBay confirmed today that the auction company is aware of the problem. “We strongly encourage eBay buyers and sellers to never click on or download a link or file that is unfamiliar to them and always ensure your anti−virus software is up−to−date,” the spokesperson said.
http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/642361/trojan−bayrob−t argets−ebay−users/
30. March 07, CNET News — Bug may expose encrypted e−mail. A problem related to a widely used open−source cryptography technology could let miscreants tamper with digitally signed and encrypted e−mails. The problem lies in how certain e−mail applications display messages signed using the GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG and GPG, the GnuPG group said in a security alert Tuesday, March 6. It may not be possible to identify which part of a message is actually signed if GPG is not used correctly, it said. This poses a risk to those who use the cryptographic technology to authenticate or encrypt e−mail messages. According to security company Core Security Technologies, the affected applications include KDE's KMail, Novell's Evolution, Sylpheed, Mutt and GnuMail.org, and Enigmail. The GnuPG group has issued updates to prevent tampering with signed or encrypted messages, but it notes that individual e−mail applications might need updating as well, to correctly display signed messages after applying the GPG update. Enigmail software has already been updated.
http://news.com.com/Bug+may+expose+encrypted+e−mail/2100−1002_3−6165277.html?tag=cd.lede
Daily Report Thursday, March 8 , 2007
The Boston Globe reports Southern New England's two biggest utilities are developing plans to spend potentially $1 billion constructing 80 to 100 miles of high−voltage electric transmission lines to make the regional power grid more reliable and keep up with steadily growing energy demand. (See item 1)
The Orlando Sentinel reports an airline employee at Orlando International Airport used his security privileges on Monday, March 5, to sneak a duffle bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle, and eight pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight to San Juan. (See item 19)
33. March 07, SC Magazine — IRC bot a growing threat to enterprise networks. A new Internet relay chat (IRC) bot is building an even larger zombie family that could pose a significant threat to enterprise networks, security researchers said Wednesday, March 7. The Nirbot family is based on relatively new code and spreads after receiving instructions from the botmaster inside an IRC channel, said Jose Nazario, of Arbor Networks. The bot attempts to exploit patched vulnerabilities in Symantec anti−virus programs and the Microsoft server service function. More dangerous for enterprises, though, is that the bot preys on password weaknesses in Windows file−sharing networks, researchers said. Once launched, the bot joins the IRC server and can download arbitrary code, unleash DDoS attacks or launch an HTTP or FTP server to browse an infected PC for sensitive files, he said.
Source: http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/642351/irc−bot−growing−threat−enterprise−networks/
34. March 06, Federal Computer Week — VA to control, restrict use of mobile storage devices. In the next month, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will let employees plug into its network only those mobile storage devices issued by the chief information officer’s office. Robert Howard, the department’s CIO, said Tuesday, March 6, he will issue only 1G and 2G thumb drives and will not allow anything larger onto the network unless he approves it. The mobile storage devices also must be certified under the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Federal Information Processing Standard 140−2, he added. Besides controlling thumb drives, Howard aims to have a standard configuration for smart phones and personal digital assistants, eliminate unencrypted messages that travel on the VA’s network and reduce the number of virtual private networks by the end of fiscal 2007. The department also is relying more on public−key infrastructure (PKI) and Microsoft’s rights management system (RMS) in its Outlook e−mail system to do a better job of securing e−mail and documents.
http://www.fcw.com/article97837−03−06−07−Web
Daily Report Wednesday, March 7 , 2007
The Associated Press reports the white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 that began as a group of teenage punk−rock fans from Southern California, now deals in drugs, guns, and identity theft and is gaining clout across the West after forging an alliance with the notorious Aryan Brotherhood. (See item 6)
The Palladium Times reports the fishing industry in Upstate New York is in jeopardy because of a newly discovered Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus that has made its way into the water systems. (See item 18)
30. March 07, Government Computer News — CRS: Terrorists find fertile environment in cyberspace. Finding proof that terrorists plan to launch cyberattacks against the United States is difficult, but the accessibility and vulnerability of the Internet to attack makes it a growing threat. “The time may be approaching when a cyberattack may offer advantages that cause terrorists to act, even if the probability of success or level of effectiveness is unknown,” according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). This and other conclusions are included in a recent CRS report, titled Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack: Overview and Policy Issues, released by the Federation of American Scientists. Terrorists are using the Internet today to recruit new members, the report states. While it is highly likely that terrorist organizations are using cybercrime to finance their activities, the threat is expanding beyond credit card fraud and identity theft. The CRS report outlines the fragmented nature of the federal response to potential cyberattacks, pointing to responsibilities dispersed among the Homeland Security and Defense departments, the FBI and the intelligence community. CRS refers to international efforts to prevent cybercrime as one way to address the terrorist threat. It cites the Convention on Cybercrime, which the United States has signed but not yet ratified.
Report: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL33123.pdf
Source: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43263−1.html
31. March 06, US−CERT — Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07−065A: Apple Releases Security Updates for QuickTime. Apple QuickTime 7.1.5 resolves multiple vulnerabilities in the way different types of image and media files are handled. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by convincing a user to access a specially crafted image or media file with a vulnerable version of QuickTime. Since QuickTime configures most Web browsers to handle QuickTime media files, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities using a Web page. US−CERT Vulnerability Notes Database:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byid?searchview&query=VU%23568689,VU%23861817,VU%23642433
An upgrade to QuickTime 7.1.5 is available via Apple Update:
Source: http://www.us−cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07−065A.html
32. March 06, Government Computer News — DoD intertwines data security, interoperability challenges. The Department of Defense (DoD) is spending $2.5 billion on information assurance in fiscal 2007, and a good portion of those funds are to ensure the military can share data safely and more easily with the intelligence community. John Grimes, DOD CIO, said Monday, March 5, the key to information sharing is security. “We are looking at those two areas in our architecture and in the next generation of security technology, and how we may change the nonclassified IP router network,” he said in Orlando, FL, at the Information Processing Interagency Conference, sponsored by the Government IT Executive Conference. “The only way to get to net−centricity is to ensure we can share information and it is interoperable.” One program DoD is working on with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies is the National Command Coordination Center, which will improve information sharing among federal, state and local agencies. To ensure data interoperability, DoD is moving more toward communities of interest, including one recently set up in the maritime community with the Coast Guard, Navy and other agencies. Grimes said the Office of Management and Budget is paying close attention to how these communities succeed.
Conference Website: http://www.ipicconference.org/
33. March 06, CNET News.com — Security flaws found in fix for Firefox, SeaMonkey. Mozilla Foundation on Monday, March 5, issued a critical fix designed to address vulnerabilities in a recent security update for the Firefox browser and SeaMonkey application suite. The security flaws were discovered in Firefox 1.5.0.9 and 2.0.0.1, as well as in SeaMonkey 1.0.7, according to a security advisory posted by Mozilla. Security researchers say the initial fix, issued in mid−December, was designed to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, SeaMonkey and Mozilla's Thunderbird e−mail client. But that particular fix introduced a flaw that could allow JavaScript code from Web content to be exploited, then lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Mozilla advises Firefox users to upgrade to version 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey users to update to version 1.1.1 and 1.0.8.
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007−09:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007−09.ht ml
Source: http://news.com.com/Security+flaws+found+in+fix+for+Firefox%2C+SeaMonkey/2100−1002_3−6164702.html?tag=nefd.top
34. March 05, Federal Computer Week — OMB analyzing architecture of agency business lines. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing agency enterprise architectures with a keen eye toward how the blueprints will change mission−critical business lines. Dick Burk, OMB’s chief architect, said Monday, March 5, that his office has been meeting weekly with agency chief architects to have them focus on specific business segments, and to get the owner of that business line to sign off on the architecture. “We want the architecture to be a reflection of their business because in the past we’ve seen it be a reflection of their” information technology, Burk said here at the 2007 Information Processing Interagency Conference sponsored by the Government Information Technology Executive Conference. “If we are going to solve the problems of the agency, we need the architecture to reflect where the business wants to be in three to five years.” Burk said 25 of 26 agencies submitted their enterprise architectures for review, and OMB will have them analyzed by early April. With 93 percent of all development, modernization and enhancement funding going toward mission−critical systems, OMB thought segment architecture would be a valuable tool to improve the use of enterprise architecture, he said.
http://fcw.com/article97820−03−05−07−Web
Daily Report Tuesday, March 6 , 2007
Reuters reports US Airways Group on Monday, March 5, said it has sent extra workers to its Charlotte, North Carolina, hub after a glitch in its self−service reservation system on Sunday forced thousands to wait in lines for up to three hours. (See item 10)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating an outbreak of norovirus−associated illness linked to eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay, Texas; oyster beds in the Bay have been closed by the Texas Department of Health Services. (See item 19)
29. March 05, SC Magazine — Windows Vista firewall weakness can be corrupted by attackers. The firewall in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system (OS) can be compromised to perform prohibited functions, according to new research by Symantec. Researcher Orlando Padilla said the problem concerns the unblock button, which can be accessed by an attacker with the same privilege level as a standard user. This configuration of privileges creates a vulnerability in the firewall’s policy that can be exploited by an attacker. "[The firewall] poses a great limitation for malicious code looking to back−door a host. In effect, malicious code can automate the unblock process by simply sending a message to the firewall pop−up dialog box via the SendMessage API call," Padilla said in the Web entry.
Source: http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/637102/windows−vista−firewall−weakness−corrupted−attackers/
30. March 02, US−CERT — Vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server Client. US−CERT is aware of an unspecified vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server Client for Windows. The vulnerability exists in the way ICA connections are handled through proxy servers. By persuading a user to access a specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a Web page or an HTML email message), a remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with privileges in the context of the client process. US−CERT recommends that administrators upgrade to version 10.0 and later to mitigate the security risks.
Vulnerability Note VU#798364 − Citrix Presentation Server Client vulnerable to arbitrary code
execution: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/798364
Citrix Advisory CTX112589 − Vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server Client for Windows
could result in arbitrary code: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112589
Source: http://www.us−cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#citrix
Daily Report Monday, March 5 , 2007
The Better Business Bureau System is warning all businesses across the U.S. and Canada of a spoofing scam using the BBB name and a false BBB e−mail address to entice recipients to access potentially damaging hyperlinks. (See item 11)
USA TODAY reports United Airlines is reviewing why a California−bound flight sat full of passengers for more than seven hours at Chicago O'Hare last weekend during an ice storm. (See item 14)
Reuters reports rates of diabetes in Ontario −− Canada's most populous, most ethnically diverse province −− have already zoomed past what was predicted for 2030, which suggests the emerging global diabetes epidemic will be far worse than feared. (See item 28)
35. March 02, Reuters — Sanyo to share battery recall cost with Lenovo. Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday, March 2, it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo−made laptop battery packs that can overheat. The ThinkPad battery recall comes during an investigation of loss−making Sanyo by Japan's securities watchdog the Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission. The lithium−ion extended−life battery packs, jointly designed by Lenovo and Sanyo and tested by Lenovo, can overheat and spark if dropped hard on to the ground, the two companies said.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2099929,00.asp
36. March 02, CNET News — FCC: Local phone companies must connect Net calls. In a boost to Internet phone providers, federal regulators have ruled that local telephone companies must connect Net−based calls shuttled over broadband lines owned by wholesalers like Sprint Nextel and Verizon Communications. In a 16−page order to local telephony providers issued Thursday, March 1, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively overturned decisions by state regulators in South Carolina and Nebraska that had prevented Time Warner Cable from deploying its voice−over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service there. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said the states had misinterpreted federal telecommunications law. "Our decision will enhance consumers' choice for phone service by making clear that cable and other VoIP providers must be able to use local phone numbers and be allowed to put calls through to other phone networks," Martin said in a statement Thursday. Time Warner Cable, the nation's second−largest cable operator, had petitioned the FCC for relief about a year ago.
FCC's order:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA−07−709A 1.pdf
http://news.com.com/FCC+Local+phone+companies+must+connect+Net+calls/2100−7352_3−6163789.html?tag=nefd.top
37. March 02, ComputerWorld — Feds hope to boost business role in slowing cyberattacks. As reports of cybersecurity incidents grow, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials plan to improve their ability to work on the problem face to face with private−sector experts. The DHS plans to co−locate private−sector employees from the communications and IT industries with government workers at the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US−CERT) facility, said Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary of cybersecurity and telecommunications at DHS. The teams will work jointly on improving US−CERT's information hub for cybersecurity, Garcia said. The agency didn't specify a starting date for the program but said it will begin soon. US−CERT is a four−year−old DHS−run joint effort of the public and private sectors to protect the nation's Internet infrastructure. "It's through this co−location that we are going to build a strong trust relationship, an information−sharing relationship," said Garcia.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012132&source=rss_topic85
38. March 01, eWeek — Month of PHP bugs begins. Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open−source HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Webpages. The month−long effort is an attempt to improve the security of PHP. It follows his contentious departure in December from the PHP Security Response Team, which he founded, after he accused The PHP Group of being too slow to fix problems. Esser stressed, however, that he is not striking back at his old colleagues but is addressing legitimate security issues.
39. March 01, eWeek — March Madness expected to threaten network security. March Madness may be a great time for college basketball fans, but it can be a nightmare for enterprises when it comes to network security. Earlier in 2007, Super Bowl fans logging on to the Dolphins Stadium site faced an unwelcome surprise −− malicious code embedded in the header on the front page that when downloaded initiated a keylogging program. Researchers at Websense are warning enterprises to expect more of the same, while other security specialists urged companies to be mindful of the Web surfing habits of their employees. "Using current events as a means of deception in order to get people to visit a Website, in itself, is not anything new," said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at San Diego−based Websense. "What is compelling here is the potential for another Super Bowl incident, where attackers combine a special event with a compromise. In that case there is no need for the deception lure."
40. March 01, Information Week — Worm attack: A grudge match with Symantec? A worm is getting an awful lot of attention for a piece of malware that several anti−virus vendors have rated as a "low" threat. The Rinbot worm, which also is known as the Delbot worm, hit the computer network at the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner and parent of CNN and CNNMoney.com, according to a company spokesperson. A story on the CNN.com Website said the network was hit on Thursday, March 1. It's not clear how much the worm impacted the network. The worm, which is trying to build a botnet, also was getting quite a bit of play because it targets Symantec, a leading anti−virus software vendor. While the worm does exploit a vulnerability in Symantec client security, it also goes after Microsoft's Windows Server Service remote buffer overflow vulnerability and Microsoft's SQL Server user authentication remote buffer overflow vulnerability. Paul Moriarty, director of Internet content security at TrendMicro, notes that all three vulnerabilities have been patched. The worm can only get a foothold in company networks or individual machines if they have not been updated.
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DPMJVDEPAX0MOQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700611
41. March 01, SecurityFocus — Maynor reveals missing Apple flaw. Security researcher David Maynor got some measure of vindication at the Black Hat DC Conference this year. Six months after the security researcher and his colleague Jon Ellch claimed that Mac OS X wireless drivers were vulnerable to attack, Maynor on Wednesday, February 28, revealed the code he used to exploit a native flaw in the platform as well as e−mails showing he notified Apple as to the danger. Maynor said the flaw was in the driver for the Broadcom wireless chip. The flaw affected not only Mac OS X, but any platform that used drivers based on the Broadcom reference driver, he said. While MacBooks and PowerBooks were affected, so were Dell laptops running Windows XP. Apple fixed the flaw on September 21, but did not give Maynor or Ellch credit. The flaw could have allowed a remote attacker to compromise a vulnerable MacBook or PowerBook remotely via an overly long service set identifier.
Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11445
The Boston Globe reports that in response to credit− and debit−card theft from retailers, American financial institutions are starting to offer "smart cards" with microprocessor chips that store encrypted customer information and require a personal identification number, or PIN. (See item 10)
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday, March 1, its proposal to establish minimum standards for state−issued driver’s licenses and identification cards, in compliance with the REAL ID Act of 2005, to enhance the security and integrity of driver’s licenses. (See item 16)
The Associated Press reports heavy, wet snow and blizzard conditions hit the Plains and Midwest on Thursday, March 1, shutting down hundreds of miles of interstate highways, closing schools, and canceling flights. (See item 39)
Transportation and Border Security Sector
16. March 01, Department of Homeland Security — DHS issues proposal for states to enhance driver’s licenses. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Thursday, March 1, its proposal to establish minimum standards for state−issued driver’s licenses and identification cards in compliance with the REAL ID Act of 2005. The REAL ID requirements are a result of recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, which Congress passed into law, and will enhance the security and integrity of driver’s licenses. “Raising the security standards on driver’s licenses establishes another layer of protection to prevent terrorists from obtaining and using fake documents to plan or carry out an attack. These standards correct glaring vulnerabilities exploited by some of the 9/11 hijackers who used fraudulently obtained drivers licenses to board the airplanes in their attack against America,” said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. The department’s proposed regulations set standards for states to meet the requirements of the REAL ID Act, including: security features that must be incorporated into each card; verification of information provided by applicants to establish their identity and lawful status in the United States; and physical security standards for locations where licenses and identification cards are issued. As proposed, a REAL ID driver’s license will be required in order to access a federal facility, board federally−regulated commercial aircraft, and enter nuclear power plants.
To view the proposed regulations, go to http://www.dhs.gov/
32. March 01, eWeek — Black Hat demonstrations shatter hardware hacking myths. At the Black Hat Briefings, two breakthrough hardware hacks were demonstrated. One shocker was Coseinc Senior Security Researcher Joanna Rutkowska's demonstration of a way to subvert system memory through software −− in essence, the shattering of the long−held belief that "going to hardware" to secure incident response is a security failsafe. Security professionals at the show called it the "attainment of the holy grail," particularly since the only way to fix the system's memory corruption is to reboot −− thus erasing all tracks of the subversion. It's a digital forensic team's worst nightmare. John Heasman from NGSS proved that rootkits can persist on a device −− on firmware −− rather than on disk, and can thus survive a machine being reimaged. These hacks are esoteric, but they're proving that much of what we thought of as hardware unassailability is pure folklore.
33. March 01, IDG News Service — Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries. Months after joining other PC vendors in a massive recall of faulty notebook batteries, Lenovo Group has found a different problem with some models, and will recall 205,000 notebook batteries worldwide, the company said Thursday, March 1. Lenovo made the move after four customers complained their batteries overheated after they had dropped or hit the notebooks. The defect caused minor eye irritation for one user, and damaged the property and computers of the others, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall affects the nine−cell, extended−life version of a battery pack manufactured by Sanyo Electric, of Japan.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNlenovorecallsbat teries_1.html
34. March 01, IDG News Service — Oracle to buy Hyperion for $3 billion. Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash, it said Thursday, March 1. Oracle said it will combine Hyperion's software with its own business intelligence and analytics tools to offer customers a broad range of performance management capabilities, including planning, budgeting and operational analytics.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNoraclehyperion_1 .html
35. March 01, Sophos — Malware adopts disguises in attempt to dupe IT defenses. Sophos has revealed the most prevalent malware threats and e−mail hoaxes causing problems for computer users around the world during February 2007. The figures, compiled by Sophos' global network of monitoring stations, show that the HckPk family has had the greatest impact on computer users this month, accounting for more than half of malware seen during February. Hackers are increasingly using encryption and packer tools −− such as those belonging to the HckPk family −− to camouflage their malicious code. January's hardest−hitting worm, Dorf, plus the prevalent Dref mass−mailing worms are just two examples of the malware currently being hidden within HckPk programs. Sophos has also found that cybercriminals are constantly modifying their HckPk disguises in an attempt to bypass IT defenses.
Source: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/03/topt enfeb07.html
36. February 28, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team — US−CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07−059A: Sun Solaris Telnet Worm. A worm is exploiting a vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) on unpatched Sun Solaris systems. The vulnerability allows the worm (or any attacker) to log in via telnet (23/tcp) with elevated privileges. Further details about the vulnerability are available in Vulnerability Note VU#881872:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872
Because VU#881872 is trivial to exploit and sufficient technical detail is publicly available, any attacker, not just this worm, could exploit vulnerable systems. Sun has published information about the worm in the Security Sun Alert Feed including an inoculation script that disables the telnet daemon and reverses known changes made by the worm:
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/solaris_in_telnetd_worm_ seen
Solution: To address VU#881872, apply the appropriate patches referenced in Sun Alert Notification 102802: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1−26−102 802−1
To recover compromised systems, Sun has provided an inoculation script that disables the telnet daemon and reverses known changes made by the worm:
http://blogs.sun.com/security/resource/inoculate.local
Note that the inoculation script only recovers from this particular worm. Running the inoculation script does not guarantee system integrity. To fully recover, it may be necessary to rebuild a compromised system using trusted software sources. For more information, see Recovering from an Incident: http://www.cert.org/nav/recovering.html
Source: http://www.uscert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07−059A.html
37. February 28, CNET News — Symantec incorrectly flags Yahoo Mail as a virus. Yahoo's e−mail service is not infected with a computer virus, despite a warning from Symantec that says it is. Starting sometime on Tuesday, February 27, accessing the beta version of Yahoo Mail on a PC with Symantec's updated antivirus software caused alarm bells to go off. The security software reported finding the "Feebs" worm on the Yahoo Webpages. That warning was in error, Symantec said Wednesday. "Symantec antivirus products...triggered a false−positive alert with Yahoo Mail beta," said Vincent Weafer, a senior director at Symantec Security Response.
Source: http://news.com.com/Symantec+incorrectly+flags+Yahoo+Mail+as+a+virus/2100−1002_3−6163068.html
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, February 26, endorsed a plan to allow competitive bidding for rights to build a long−envisioned Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline. (See item 4)
The Los Angeles Times reports aircraft came too close to one another at Los Angeles International Airport twice last weekend, the first such incidents at the facility since September; a ground radar system alerted controllers to impending collisions in each case. (See item 12)
The Department of Homeland Security has released $194 million to help states and local governments prepare and implement emergency management activities through the Emergency Management Performance Grant program. (See item 33)
34. February 28, US−CERT — Worm actively exploits vulnerability in Sun Solaris Telnet Daemon. US−CERT is aware of public reports of a worm that is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in the Sun Solaris telnet daemon (in.telnetd). The worm targets Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) systems that are not patched to address this vulnerability and have enabled the telnet daemon. More information about this vulnerability is located in the following: Vulnerability Note VU#881872 − Sun Solaris telnet authentication bypass vulnerability:
Sun Alert 102802 − Security Vulnerability in the in.telnetd (1M) Daemon May Allow Unauthorized Remote Users to Gain Access to a Solaris Host:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1−26−102 802−1
Source: http://www.us−cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#sunwrme xinet
35. February 28, CNET News — PC hardware can pose rootkit threat. PC hardware components can provide a way for hackers to sneak malicious code onto a computer, a security researcher warned Wednesday, February 28. Every component in a PC, such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries, has some memory space for the software that runs it, called firmware. Miscreants could use this space to hide malicious code that would load the next time the PC boots, John Heasman, research director at NGS Software, said in a presentation at this week's Black Hat event. "This is an important area and people should be concerned about this," Heasman said. "Software security is getting better, yet we run increasingly complicated hardware. Unless we address hardware security, we're leaving an interesting avenue for attack." Malicious code delivered via the memory on hardware components poses a rootkit threat since it will run on the PC before the operating system loads, Heasman said. This likely will hide it from security software and other protection mechanisms, he added. Such low−level malicious code is known as a rootkit.
Source: http://news.com.com/PC+hardware+can+pose+rootkit+threat/2100−7349_3−6162924.html?tag=nefd.top
36. February 28, Register (UK) — Warezov worm fiends target Skype. The authors of the prolific Warezov worm are targeting users of Skype. Instead of arriving via an e−mail attachment, the latest variant of the worm spreads using a bogus Skype chat message asking users to click on a link, which points to a hacker−controlled Website hosting malicious codes. The plausibility of the attack is increased because infected messages likely come from a target's list of known contacts, though the abrupt dialogue it generates might trigger a few alarm bells. Some older Warezov variants used other Instant Messaging clients in a similar fashion, but this variant (Warezov−LY) is the first to use Skype, anti−virus firm F−secure reports.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/28/warezov_skype_im_wor m/
37. February 28, Sophos — Graphic Japanese Trojan attacks P2P file−sharing pirates. Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse that has been distributed on Japanese peer−to−peer (P2P) file−sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames−A Trojan horse has been distributed on the controversial Winny file−sharing network in Japan, posing as a screensaver. However, if P2P users download and run the program their files are overwritten by pictures of a popular comic book star who abuses them for using Winny. Programs, music files and e−mail mailboxes are amongst the files targeted by the Trojan horse.
Source: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/02/pirl ames.html
38. February 27, InfoWorld — Researchers: Worms not heading underground. During the past two years, security experts and software vendors have downplayed the threat of so−called worm viruses, but new evidence suggests that the attacks are still as dangerous, if not more so, than ever. While the enormous mass−mailing worm viruses of years past −− such as the well−known MyDoom, Sobig, and Slammer attacks −− that were aimed at crippling IT infrastructure have all but disappeared, smaller outbreaks that aim to load financially−motivated malware onto end users' computers −− such as the recent Storm Worm −− will continue to menace the Internet, according to researchers. Consensus opinion among security experts has been that as businesses and consumers improved their desktop security tools and computing habits, it became harder for malware writers to lure the same volumes of people with worms. This trend pushed the attackers away from creation of the self−propagating threats and further into financially−motivated crimeware, market watchers observed. However, the continued spread and modification of Storm Worm, which first surfaced in mid−January 2007, could illustrate an emerging breed of the attacks that is likely to trouble users in years to come.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/27/HNwormtrender_1.ht ml
39. February 27, ComputerWorld — Researcher charts new, more dangerous Oracle attack. In a paper discussed Wednesday, February 28, at the Black Hat DC 2007 conference, noted database security researcher David Litchfield outlined a new attack method against Oracle databases that boosts the danger to unpatched systems. Litchfield, the managing director of UK−based NGS Software has found a way to exploit Oracle vulnerabilities without requiring system privileges. The new tactic, which he spelled out in "Cursor Injection: A New Method for Exploiting PL/SQL Injection and Potential Defenses," increases the threat risk of many Oracle−disclosed bugs. "On occasion, Oracle in their alerts state that the ability to create a procedure or a function is required for an attacker to be able to exploit a flaw," Litchfield said in the paper. "This is not the case. All SQL injection flaws can be fully exploited without any system privilege other than CREATE SESSION and, accordingly, the risk should never be 'marked down' [in an alert]," he said. The new technique doesn't rely on a vulnerability and applies to all versions of Oracle.
Litchfield's report: http://www.databasesecurity.com/dbsec/cursor−injection.pdf
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011942&source=rss_topic85
40. February 27, ComputerWorld — Firefox, IE7 open to URL spoof. Although Mozilla Corp. patched one more Firefox bug last week than first reported, the researcher whose work has plagued the open−source browser for weeks has released details about another flaw. Firefox does not properly handle JavaScript "onUnload" events and can be tricked into taking the user to an unintended destination, said security researcher Michal Zalewski. "This flaw allows the attacker to track your footsteps and either redirect you to the URL you wanted to visit, which wouldn't be noticed at all, or to a similarly named phishing Website when you choose to visit a target of some significance," Zalewski said. The bug affects the just−released Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 updates, as well as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. JavaScript can be disabled in the browsers to block such redirects.
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Director_ Kawase Naomi
Korea 2009 34min Digi-Beta color shorts Fiction
Among the mountains which surround Nara Basin, Mt. Miwa, the beautifully conical shape is its fame, has long been revered as the sacred area since the times of Kojiki and Nihonshoki (the oldest records of the ancient nation of Japan). Never being chopped with an ax because of its sacredness as people believed divine power in every tree and grass, there stands Mt. Miwa holding the rich grove of great trees. This is a short story set in a small village called Koma in which the grove of village shrine and terraced rice fields prevail, being watched by sacred Mt. Miwa. I had been gathering the threads of this story with her faith in Mt. Miwa and by the encounter with a scroll picture she found at Chofukuji Temple in Koma; a picture of a man who resembles the king of Goguryeo in ancient Korea.
DirectorKawase Naomi
ScreenplayKawase Naomi
ProducerNaito Yuko
CinematographyYamazaki Yutaka
Art DirectorShimizu Takeshi
SoundMori Eiji
CastKitamura Kazuki, Nakamura Yuko, Uda Shigeki, Horii Mieko
Kawase Naomi
Born in 1969 in Nara, Japan. Graduated from the School of Visual Arts Osaka in 1989 and she has begun making films since her college days. In 1997, she became the youngest winner of the Camera d´Or Award in the history of Cannes Film Festival for her first feature Suzaku. In 2007, she won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival for The Mourning Forest.
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This Miracle Baby Boy Was Born 54 Days After His Mom Was Declared Brain Dead
Karla Perez and her partner desperately wanted a second baby. But during her 22nd week of pregnancy, she suffered a stroke. Doctors declared her brain dead.
This left her family and the medical team at the Methodist Hospital with a difficult choice, and an even more difficult mission:
To try and keep 22-year-old Karla alive, in order to save the baby growing inside her.
There have only been 15 recorded cases like Karla’s in history; the last time an assisted delivery was done for a brain-dead woman in the US was in 1999. Suffice to say, the procedure was risky.
“There is nothing in the books about how to provide medical care in this situation,” Dr Todd Lovgren, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, said. “That’s why our team approach was so important. We needed everyone on board with what we were trying to accomplish.”
Rewind a couple of decades earlier: a young Karla was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and was told by doctors she may never have children.
Contrary to this, Karla had her first child — a daughter — without any issues. For their second child, she decided to go off her medications in order to get pregnant.
“They really wanted this baby. A healthy pregnancy was more important than her own comfort,” the hospital said.
Karla started getting horrible headaches and on February 8, suddenly collapsed in her home in Nebraska. She had suffered a catastrophic intracranial hemorrhage, and was rushed to the hospital. When she arrived, she was declared brain dead.
It took a medical team of 100 doctors, nurses, and staff to keep Karla alive on life support just long enough so they could deliver her baby via cesarean section. When Karla hit 30 weeks, she showed signs of deterioration. The doctors knew they needed to act quickly in order to save the baby.
With the help of his guardian angels at Methodist Health System, Angel Perez was born on April 4, weighing just 2 pounds and 12.6 ounces.
Neonatologist at Methodist Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Dr Brady Kerr, said that Angel had no severe complications, though he was using a feeding tube. “It’s hard for us to know the long-term outcome due to the rarity of the situation, but we are cautiously optimistic,” Kerr said.
Karla, however, passed away two short days later.
“Angel’s first cry was bittersweet — it meant he was alive, but Karla was gone,” the hospital said.
But Karla didn’t fight the battle alone: nurses, doctors, and her family rallied behind her, cheering her on silently at her bedside.
“You can’t be a part of this team without being affected emotionally,” said Karla’s OB-GYN, Tifany Somer-Shely. “Her family’s resilience throughout this whole thing, with her grim prognosis and the reality of her situation…”
“They never stopped hoping, and they never stopped praying.”
Although baby Angel’s birth was a bittersweet moment, Karla left him both the gift of life, and a legacy of courage that will live on through him.
“I couldn’t be more proud of our medical team and the more than 100 staff who were a part of her care,” the hospital’s vice president Sue Korth said. “Karla’s loss of life was difficult, but the legacy she has left behind is remarkable.”
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REVIEW: Ms. Marvel #5 – Marvel-ous
By Cody Mudge
June 27, 2014 Reviews No comments
Written by: G. Willow Wilson
Art by: Adrian Alphona and Ian Herring
Published by: Marvel Comics
Move over Carol Danvers, there’s a new Ms. Marvel in town and there’s more than enough room on my shelf for the both of you. Having a new Ms. Marvel is great and having a female author at the helm is greater still. Accompanying writer G. Willow Wilson is the talented Adrian Alphona heading up art duties.
Ms. Marvel is one of the pleasant surprises to come out of the latest wave of Marvel titles. In Kamala Khan we see the Parker-esque formula at work. And just like the amazing Spider-Man before her, Kamala is endearing readers all over the place. We love to cheer for an underdog, there is something about it in the human psyche that makes these awkward, outcasts so compelling as characters.
Wilson is at her best when the fun-loving Kamala is discovering the width and breadth of her powers. It’s cliché in superhero stories and yet completely endearing to see this 16-year-old finally begin to discover something about herself that is entirely her own. Kamala is probably going to be the best new character in comics this year.
This series is doing a great thing, introducing a female protagonist that isn’t white. And while we still have a lot of work to do to diversify comics, we’re getting there and that’s awesome. Variety is the spice of life and comics starring more than just white guys (like me) is a welcome change because of the way it has opened up new doors for different kinds of stories. This added depth makes this series one of the books with the most to say about real-life and our own comic-culture.
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Adrian Alphona is a terrific artist. His work on Runaways with Brian K. Vaughan opened a lot of eyes, including my own, and it’s great to see him on another excellent Marvel title. Alphona has gotten even better since that run and the way he makes characters pop off the page is special. There aren’t many artists that are able to draw the eye of the reader so effectively to the characters and their terrific expressions.
Throughout this issue we get to see Alphona tackle action scenes in more abundance than previous installments. Yet the tender family moments or friendly ribbing between Kamala and Bruno (can’t they just get together already?!) look fantastic too. Ms. Marvel has an artist that can do anything he’s asked to a high level of quality. Rue the day a fill-in artist must try and step into those shoes, folks.
There is one element of the book that I struggle with though. It’s the use of the Khan family’s Islamic faith. Stick with me here, this isn’t going to denigrate into an attack on Muslims. Most comics steer well clear of religion as a pivotal starting point or touchstone for characters. It being a part of this series makes it, in my mind, something that must be discussed just like everything else. As far as Kamala is concerned I don’t see any religious faith as important to her character, so perhaps I’m overreacting (entirely possible), but this book really rubs me the wrong way when Islam becomes the focus of conversation. I don’t blame the creative team for Marvel using a Muslim main character as a marketing gimmick, I’ve no doubt that exploitation wasn’t their intention, but it’s clear that the publisher is using this to push copies. They are more than within their rights to do that but consider why they would want to do this in the first place.
Islam, more than any other religion today, is misunderstood by a majority of the people on the outside looking in. I’m sure most of us remember 9/11 and understand the impact that that event, and those succeeding it, have played in creating an unrealistic picture of what the average Muslim wants, believes or does. I appreciate what Wilson is doing, humanising a religion that’s been denigrated to the extremist bin a bit too prematurely; to a certain extent I even agree with that notion. A misconception about a massive group of people is always something to correct.
This negative stereotype has had an interesting reverse effect at the same time though. It makes any criticism that you have of the Islamic faith or teachings a bigoted attack. Now, if the familial scenes in Ms. Marvel were the exact same but the family were devote Christians, would the bulk of readers have responded in the same way? I don’t know, but I would imagine not. We understand Christianity, and its various permutations, quite well in North American society because it’s been the primary religious belief system for a few hundred years. If Ms. Marvel’s parents freaked out about her going to parties, wearing what she wants, and associating with whomever she wants, would we not have raised an eyebrow if the family bore a cross or crucifix instead of the star and crescent? I’d like to think we would, because there is something to be concerned about there. Seeing those scenes in Ms. Marvel make me feel really uncomfortable. Not uncomfortable enough to not really enjoy the book, because despite that religious peddling, I’ve grown to care a lot about Kamala, but it’s a constant barrier to my fully immersing into the story.
As a comic, “Ms. Marvel #5” is outstanding. From the start Kamala Khan has become a character that is easy to like and Wilson shows no signs of making this any less true as the series drags on. On a different level, the religious dogma that this series portrays simultaneously humanizes a mistreated peoples but also raises legitimate concerns about its treatment of women and youth. Great art is great art and none of the concerns I have about the scripting for this series prevents me from loving Alphona’s style. His ability to capture the gawky, awkwardness of youth is embarrassingly superb as you’ll find yourself reliving your less graceful formative years.
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Cougars' 1-2 Punch Delivers Victory for Women's Basketball Over Cardinals
CCBC Catonsville
Frederick Community College (8-6, 7-1) 22 16 11 18 67
CCBC Catonsville (9-8, 5-1) 17 7 16 20 60
Pts: Jone Ayers - 26
Reb: Jone Ayers - 11
Ast: Jone Ayers - 4
Pts: Chante Weedon - 22
Reb: Akirra Pullen - 18
Ast: Myah Savage - 7
Banks and Ayers Dominate In Win For FCC!
CATONSVILLE, Md.- FCC's Jone Ayers and Amiah Banks each recorded a double-double as the Cougars defeated CCBC Catonsville by the socre of 67-60. With the victory, FCC improves to 8-6 (7-1 MD JUCO) on the year. CCBC Catonsville drops to 9-8 (5-1 MD JUCO) on the season.
What a game for FCC's Jone Ayers and Amiah Banks. The dynamic duo combined for a total of 51 points and 21 rebounds in the victory. Ayers played all 40 minutes in the contest and tallied 26 points on 9-of-16 from the field. She pulled down a team-high 11 boards and dished out four assists. Banks poured in 25 points on 10-of-21 from the floor and cleaned up on the glass by pulling down 10 rebounds.
The Cougars were in control of the contest from the tip and carried a 38-24 lead into the locker room after 20 minutes of play. The Cardinals would cut the deficit to nine points after the third quarter, but the Cougars would prevail in the end!
Ayers was dialed in from long distance for FCC. She connected on 5-of-7 deep balls beyond the arc. As a team, FCC shot a stellar 11-of-24 (45.8) from 3-point land!
The Cougars will return to the hardwood on 1/23 at AACC. Tip-off is set for 5:00 P.M.
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The Call of Isis by Olivia Robertson
The Call of Isis is the spiritual autobiography of the co-founder, the Hon. Olivia Robertson, written by her in 1975, a year before the founding of the Fellowship of Isis. At her request, it was uploaded online for the first time, both in pdf and html formats, on this site. For more information about Olivia Robertson, please also see her Biography Page.
From the outside cover, 1975 edition:
"In The Call of Isis, Olivia Robertson vividly describes her adventures in the psychic, occult and mystical fields. She has worked for eleven years with groups in South Ireland and London, and has specialized in inducing psychic projection through trance. Readers will find much to interest, stimulate and amuse them in an original account that starts with the experiments involving artists, musicians, dancers, craftsmen and writers inspired by the divinity within Nature Herself. The book is divided into three parts. The first, "The Temple of the Moon", deals with psychic development and the control of the emotions through the use of trance. The second part, "The Temple of the Sun", introduces ways of using vital force for healing and creativity. The third part, "Temple of the Stars", deals with mystical experiences, and the safe development of cosmic consciousness."
Please scroll down to read the full text and see the illustrations in The Call of Isis. This book is also available in paperback form, as well as the sequel: "Isis of Fellowship, How the FOI was Founded."
Purchase The Call of Isis - Online Bookstore
By: Olivia Robertson
In Honour of the Goddess of the Divine Wisdom:
She who is crowned with the Stars,
Is robed with the Sun,
And stands upon the Moon.
Foreword: PDF Version / HTML Version
Part One: The Temple of the Moon Goddess
Chapter 1 - Through the Veil: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 2 - Of Dragons and Mares' Nests: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 3 - Inhabitants of the Psychic Sphere: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 4 - Rescue Work: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 5 - Uranus the Magician: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 6 - Initiation of the Moon: PDF Version / HTML Version
Part Two: The Temple of the Sun Goddess
Chapter 7 - The Awakening of Solar Fire: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 8 - Channels of Power: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 9 - Creative Healing: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 10 - Mixing the Elements: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 11 - The Magic of Ritual Drama: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 12 - Initiation of the Sun: PDF Version / HTML Version
Part Three: The Temple of the Star Goddess
Chapter 13 - Stones and Stars: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 14 - A Drama of Many Lives: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 15 - The Traveller at the Gateway: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 16 - A Many Coloured Pattern: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 17 - The Cosmic Spiral: PDF Version / HTML Version
Chapter 18 - Coming Down to Earth: PDF Version / HTML Version
Note: The original Call of Isis is included on the FOI Homepage Archive at the request of the author, Olivia Robertson and carries a co-copyright. Please do not duplicate. Thank you. First printed for Cesara Publications in 1975 by the Nationalist. 2nd edition printed by Dofas; 3rd ed. Neptune Press (expanded ed. with FOI member contributions); 4th ed. Dofas (original ed.); 5th ed. the Nationalist (original ed.); 6th & 7th editions. FOI-Crossroads Media (original ed.).
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Gena Roberts Hamilton
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Gena Hamilton comes from a musical family. Her mother, father and all four brothers were always playing and singing together from the time she can remember. With early roots in the South on the borders of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma she is truly a Southern Girl.
Early in life she sang in church and at church functions giving her a memorized catalog of hundreds of standard and classic hymns and other special songs.
In school Gena studied music and participated in the High School band as a flutist and as a featured vocal performer in the school choir. As a teenager, Gena was told that she sounded a lot like country singer Connie Smith. She was not familiar with her but a friend gave Gena a recording of Connie's and after listening she smiled and said, "You know, everybody sounds like someone, but ultimately, you are who you are - your own person with your individual sound."
Ultimately, Gena started to receive invitations to perform as a soloist and background singer for recordings and at various functions and musical productions locally and in the four states region. Gena became a regular on Music Country USA in Broken Bow, Oklahoma and then moved to the Oaklawn Opry in Texarkana, Texas.
Gena has recorded two Country CDs: Shuffle Back To Me and Gena Sings Tribute to Connie Smith
Gena's Trophies of His Grace CD was officially released Dec 15, 2013 at the Circle J Cowboy Church in Texarkana, Arkansas in full concert with the Trophies Band. It was officially debuted on television on March 12, 2014 on Southern Gospel Praise in Dallas, Texas on the UAN Network. By mid-July the single cut Higher Ground had reached #30 in the major charts and by August 1st had reached #1 status.
Gena is currently working on her second combo Country and Southern Gospel CD plus also a new Country Christmas CD. Gena has recently released a new Christmas single and will be releasing a new single in January with Canyon Creek Records.
Gena has opened for such traditional country stars as Jo-El Sonnier, Barbara Fairchild, Chuck Hancock, Chuck Day, Joy Roberts, Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Williamsons, The Hootens, Mary Fay Jackson, Ava Kasich, Wade Benson Landry, Tommy Horton, David Patillo, Psalm 100, Tommy Brandt, Jimmy Jack Whitiker, John Randolph, John Lanier, Jesse Reece, John Penney, Kenny Serrat, David Cook (Elvis Tribute Singer), Lonnie Spiker, Joe Stampley and George Hamilton IV.
Gena has appeared on many Branson stages, including appearances at the Branson Terry Awards, Little Branson Gospel Shows, The Baldknobbers Theater, God and Country Theater and the Doug Gabriel Theater. She's appeared on stage at The Gospel Opry in Sulphur Springs Texas, The Gape Fest, and at Singing At The Point for a Cure, as well as an Anniversary Show hosted by Joe Bielenski in Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas. She appeared with an all-star female cast at the Texas Women in Country Music's Pickin' for the Cure, held at Pearl's Historic Dance Hall in Ft. Worth, Texas. Gena has had the privilege of appearing on the Oaklawn Opry Stage with Tommy Cash (John's Brother).
Her radio and television appearances include Southern Gospel Praise TV, Marty Smith Heavens Country Radio and The Josie Show.
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Home Research > Constituencies > 1558-1603 > Petersfield
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
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7 Jan. 1559 SIR HENRY WESTON
GEORGE RITHE
1563 SIR HENRY WESTON
TOMAS DERING
1571 JOHN COWPER
ROBERT RITHE I
15 Apr. 1572 RICHARD NORTON II
RALPH BOURCHER
1572 THOMAS CHATTERTON vice Bourchier, chose to sit for Newcastle-under-Lyme
8 Nov. 1584 SIR HENRY WESTON
EDMUND MARVYN
7 Oct. 1586 EDWARD RADCLIFFE
8 Nov. 1588 BENJAMIN TICHBORNE
1593 (SIR) WALTER COVERT
RICHARD WESTON I
4 Oct 1597 WILLIAM KINGSWELL
THOMAS HANBURY
18 Oct. 1601 WILLIAM KINGSWELL
JOHN SWINNERTON
Petersfield was a non-incorporated borough, owned by the Weston family until they sold it in 1597 to Thomas Hanbury, an Exchequer official.1 Sir Henry Weston sat for Petersfield in 1559, 1563 and 1584, and his son, Richard Weston I, sat in 1593. They used their influence to return a relative by marriage, Benjamin Tichborne, in 1589, and two outsiders, Ralph Bourchier, a Yorkshire gentleman, in 1572, and (Sir) Walter Covert, a Sussex landowner, in 1593. Edward Radcliffe was a relative of the lord lieutenant of the county, the 4th Earl of Sussex, who obtained Radcliffe’s return in 1586 by arrangement with Sir Henry Weston.
Thomas Hanbury returned his son, also Thomas Hanbury, to the 1597 Parliament, the first after his acquisition of the manor of Petersfield. He also nominated John Swinnerton in 1601, and probably William Kingswell, a Hampshire country gentleman, in 1597 and 1601.
With the exception of Thomas Chatterton, who has not been identified, all the remaining MPs for this period had their own connexions with the borough. George Rithe (1559), Thomas Dering (1563), John Cowper and Robert Rithe I (1571) all owned local estates. Richard Norton II came from a Hampshire family who owned a little property near the borough. Edmund Marvyn married into a Hampshire family, and took up residence in Petersfield, representing the borough in the first Parliament after his marriage, and the two subsequent Parliaments.
Author: M.A.P.
1. VCH Hants, iii. 114-17.
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Awareness, knowledge and attitude towards informed consent among doctors in two different cultures in Asia: a cross-sectional comparative study in Malaysia and Kashmir, India
Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi and How, Soon Hin and Rasool , A G and Rehana , K (2007) Awareness, knowledge and attitude towards informed consent among doctors in two different cultures in Asia: a cross-sectional comparative study in Malaysia and Kashmir, India. Singapore Medical Journal, 48 (6). pp. 559-565. ISSN 0037-5675
Official URL: http://smj.sma.org.sg/smjcurrent.html
Introduction: Informed consent is now accepted as the cornerstone of medical practice, with reasonable patient standards typically considered to be appropriate in the developed countries; however it is still challenged in many developing countries. The objective of this descriptive study was to evaluate the perceptions and practices among attending medical professionals in matters relating to informed consent in selected hospitals. Methods: A questionnaire-based cross sec tional survey among doctors in the two tertiary care hospitals, one in Malaysia and the other in Kashmir, was performed. Results: Awareness on informed consent was universal with “reasonable physician standard” as the most popular choice. As compared to doctors in Malaysia, doctors from Kashmir showed a tendency to reservedly disclose medical information (p-value equals 0.051) and withhold it, if it was deemed potentially harmful (p-value is less than 0.001) or requested so by relatives (p-value is less than 0.023). They also withheld some information from female patients (p-value is less than 0.001). When consent was refused despite needing lifesaving intervention, the majority of both respondents (73 percent versus 80 percent) considered intervention without consent to be justifi ed. Respondents from Malaysia felt that parents could refuse treatment on their children’s behalf on the basis of their beliefs (p-value is less than 0.001). Conclusion: Despite a very high awareness of informed consent, the model chosen refl ected age-old medical paternalism. Doctors’ opinions are accorded a larger role in clinical decision-making in Kashmir. The results emphasise the need for doctors to change their attitude and acknowledge the patient’s autonomy, which is the basis of modern medical ethics, and yet still be aware of the cultural and religious views of the local population. Keywords: clinical decision-making, informed consent, medical ethics, patient autonomy Singapore Med J 2007; 48(6):559–565 INTRODUCTION
clinical decision-making, informed consent, medical ethics, patient autonomy
Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Internal Medicine
Prof Dr Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Rani
http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/4200
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Preview: Cottier Chamber Project
First published in The Herald on 25 May, 2016
No launch, no announcement. Astute observers might have noticed a trickle of June dates appearing on various websites of various groups set to perform, but otherwise there’s been scant sign of life from the Cottier Chamber Project even though opening night is less than a fortnight away. “Maybe we’ll whip up a craze of anticipation and mystery!” says artistic director Andy Saunders, always ready to put an optimistic spin on an unconventional tactic.
This entry was posted in Features on May 26, 2016 by Kate Molleson.
I’m just back from Only Connect hosted by the venerable nyMusikk and Tectonics (ie Ilan Volkov) at a swish new Oslo multiarts centre called Sentralen. Enjoyed it greatly. I was sorry to miss Asamisimasa’s concert of Laurence Crane music — it clashed with Ánde Somby yoiking in a bank vault and I was literally locked in — but otherwise my highlights were, in chronological order:
This entry was posted in Miscellaneous on May 22, 2016 by Kate Molleson.
CD review: Jürg Frey
First published in the Guardian on 19 May, 2016
Jürg Frey: Guitarist, Alone
Cristian Alvear (Another Timbre)
Not one for the impatient listener, this softly entrancing double-disc set contains all the solo guitar music by the Swiss composer Jürg Frey — and that means an awful lot of silence and not a huge number of notes. The first piece, Abendlied, contains exactly ten notes in two minutes, and that’s comparatively hectic. Frey is master of exquisite slow-fi; as a Wandelweiser artist, he considers quietness to be as expressive as noise and the way a note decays to be as crucial as the way it is struck. Apparently in preparing for this recording guitarist Cristian Alvear worked to finesse the art of making no noise whatsoever as he moved his hands over the instrument to play — these things matter in music that’s stripped back to absolute essentials. His attention to detail pays off, and he really sinks into the hypnotic pacing. There’s a sense of thoughts being worked out in real time, of musical statements being made, pondered and responded to without an iota of hurry.
This entry was posted in CD Reviews on May 22, 2016 by Kate Molleson.
CD review: Steven Osborne plays Feldman & Crumb
Feldman/Crumb: piano works
Steven Osborne (Hyperion)
“I’m involved with all the 88 notes,” Morton Feldman once said of his piano music; “I have a big, big world there.” What’s so marvellous about the way Steven Osborne plays Feldman is how he’s entirely alert to those kaleidoscopic gradations — the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it articulation in Intermission 5; the surreal percussion of the sustain pedal going down and up in Extension 3; the vibrant colours and fastidious ratios in Palais de Mari — but he never gets precious about it. This is a pianist whose recent solo discs have featured music by Schubert and Mussorgsky, and he brings something of their singing and robust tones even to the most hushed and abstract of Feldman’s lines. In his interpretation of the George Crumb pieces (the noble Processional, the strummed strings and bell-like sounds of A Little Suite for Christmas) what comes to mind is the sumptuous grandeur of his breakthrough 2002 recording of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus: mystical but grounded, muscular but ecstatic.
CD review: Concerti Bizarri
Concerti Bizarri
Irish Baroque Orchestra/Huggett (Linn)
Nowadays the job title ‘concerto soloist’ usually exempts a musician from regular orchestral duties (and has a significantly different pay grade attached) but conductor/violinist Monica Huggett makes the point that 18th century soloists were often just virtuoso ensemble principals taking their turn front-of-stage. And that’s what happens on this fine album from the Irish Baroque Orchestra. The group basically reconfigures members of various European early music outfits and makes its Linn debut with obscure concertos by Heinichen, Graupner and Fasch, as well as duo and trio concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann, all played by its own excellent rank-and-file. Not all the music is entirely scintillating — I’m struggling to recall any defining features in Fasch’s Concerto in G for oboe da caccias, violas, bassoons and continuo, despite the fact I’m listening to it as I type — but the playing is lovely, with great poise from Huggett and standout charismatic bassoon playing from Peter Whelan.
Preview: Pascal & Ami Rogé play Satie et Les Six
Ceci n’est pas un récital de piano. “Rather,” explains Pascal Rogé, one half of the renown piano duo with his wife Ami — they perform at the Perth Festival next week — “we want it to be an experience, an immersion, a kind of portal into the world of Erik Satie et Les Six.”
CD review: Mason Bates, orchestral works
First published in Gramophone, May 2016
Works for Orchestra. San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media)
Mothership. Boston Modern Orchestra Project/ Gil Rose (BMOP Sound)
A jet engine revs at the start of Mothership by Mason Bates, something like a spacecraft taking off. (At least, I assume from the movies that’s what a spaceship taking off sounds like.) Soon a cheerful groove cuts in and violins and flutes are darting about in nimble loops. We’re off. “I look to the digital world as an important 21st century expansion of the orchestral sound world,” says Bates, a 39-year-old California-based DJ and composer who in recent years has become one of the most frequently performed living composers in US orchestral music. He doesn’t exactly set out to ‘reinvent’ classical music — that dubious onus has been landed on him by various promoters, grasping at a new fix to old issues around image and audience demographics — but neither is the jet engine accidental. He wants to launch orchestral music for the digital age, and sees an incorporation of electronic sounds, samples, field recordings and techno-inspired drum beats as a natural evolution, “like valves in brass instruments once were.”
Review: The Mikado
When The Mikado premiered at the Savoy Theatre in 1885, its opening run went on and on for 672 shows. Non-devotees might well question the timelessness of mock Orientalism and flagrant misogyny, but Gilbert and Sullivan’s capital punishment rom-com has always been a money maker and Scottish Opera — styling itself as a G&S stronghold after 2013’s The Pirates of Penzance and last year’s HMS Pinafore — accordingly tours this new production right into July.
This entry was posted in Live Reviews on May 17, 2016 by Kate Molleson.
Review: Tectonics 2016
First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016
Cornelius Cardew would have turned 80 on Saturday had he not been killed in a hit-and-run car accident in 1981, possibly targeted for his Marxist-Leninist leanings. At the opening concert of this year’s Tectonics, pianist John Tilbury reminded us of the anniversary before settling into the gentle sway of Cardew’s duo piece Unintended Piano Music. He was performing with his own former student Sebastian Lexer, and together they segued from Cardew’s sublimely spacious piece into a reflective, softly insistent improvisation. It was a tender moment.
Review: Ensemble Modern at Plug
It made sense and it didn’t make sense. Securing two concerts from Ensemble Modern was a major coup for Plug, a student festival whose usual raison d’être is to test out trials and errors of trainee composers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The festival turned ten this year and invited Frankfurt’s contemporary music specialists for some celebratory clout. On the penultimate night the Ensemble tackled new student works and thanked the institution for introducing them to the composers of tomorrow. So far, so good.
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An interview with Caveman
Caveman‘s dreamy self-titled sophmore album warms with its atmospheric synthesizers and rich harmonies. Nowhere is that more apparent than on stand-out track “In The City” which quickly has become my favourite song of the summer.
Based out of New York, the band has a sound that will hopefully take them far. Though their strengths do often shine through, it is a lack of variety that holds back this most-recent album back from reaching that next level. With that said, there is a lot to love. Here’s our conversation with with lead-vocalist Matthew Iwanusa:
You played a show in Toronto last month! How’d it go? Any highlights?
Toronto’s great! I ate some amazing sushi. But I think the highlight was our good dude Mikey Jones playing with Snowden. They got added to the show so we got to see him. It was great!
I was surprised to see Julia Stiles in your slick video for “In The City”. How’d that come into being?
I met her through some friends. She likes the band and we thought it would be the perfect fit. I’m really happy she did it. It turned out great!
I saw you play at SXSW 2012. Since then, I feel your sound has broadened to an almost anthemic level, what’s precipitated that change?
That was a fun show. I remember my monitor was completely blown out so I could barely hear anything. We’ve played a lot since then. A lot of it has to do with the way we react to each other. Everyone gets excited about what each other plays. We care about a big sound.
What’s the inspiration behind the name Caveman?
They paved the way.
How have you felt like your past experiences in other bands have helped/hindered your progress as a unit?
Our other bands had a real drive just like this one. I think they helped us understand ourselves as musicians. We were all in bands that were at different levels so everyone brings something different to the table.
It’s hard to stand out in a scene like New York’s, how have you been able to overcome that?
Not really worry about it. There’s a lot of great music and musicians in NY. If you accept it, it works to your advantage. No reason to get down about it or over think it.
What are albums that you guys currently have on rotation while on tour?
Well we probably listen to the Stone Roses at least once a day. I’ve been listening to this Jacco Gardner record a lot and I love the DIIV record. Throw some Tears For Fears in there and you’re at the next city.
Freestyling is an important form of expression in hip hop. If you had to freestyle four lines about your new album, what would you say?
Listen to my shit.
It’s what you want to hear.
Then come hang after.
Help us load out the gear.
Tagged caveman, in the city, indie, live in toronto, matthew iwanusa
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Bashkir hunter shot the priest taking him for a bear
Ufa, October 3, Interfax - A priest from the Orenburg Region was injured from a hunting rifle in Zilair District of Bashkiria, press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax.
According to the interviewee of the agency, the case is being investigated, the decision will be taken after medical expertise.
"The priest was in bunches not far from the road. A local pensioner was passing by with a hunting rifle. He heard some noise in the bunches and thought it was a big animal there. He decided to shoot. The priest was taken to hospital with a wound in his leg," the informed source told the agency.
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signal slot qt/moc vs templates
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/templates.html
Why Doesn't Qt Use Templates for Signals and Slots?
Templates are a builtin mechanism in C++ that allows the compiler to generate code on the fly, depending on the type of the arguments passed. As such, templates are highly interesting to framework creators, and we do use advanced templates in many places in Qt. However, there are limitations: There are things that you can easily express with templates, and there are things that are impossible to express with templates. A generic vector container class is easily expressible, even with partial specialisation for pointer types, while a function that sets up a graphical user interface based on a XML description given as a string is not expressible as template. And then there is gray area in between. Things that you can hack with templates at the cost of code size, readability, portability, usability, extensability, robustness and ultimately design beauty. Both templates and the C preprocessor can be stretched to do incredibility smart and mind boggling things. But just because those things can be done, does not necessarily mean doing them is the right design choice.
There is an important practical challenge we have to mention: due to the inadequacies of various compilers it is still not possible to fully exploit the template mechanism in cross-platform applications. Code unfortunately is not meant to be published in books, but compiled with real-world compilers on real-world operating system. Even today, many widely used C++ compilers have problems with advanced templates. For example, you cannot safely rely on partial template specialisation, which is essential for some non-trivial problem domains. Some compilers also have limitations with regards to template member functions, which make it hard to combine generic programming with object orientated programming. However, we do not perceive these problems as a serious limitation in our work. Even if all our users had access to a fully standards compliant modern C++ compiler with excellent template support, we would not abandon the string-based approach used by our meta object compiler for a template based signals and slots system. Here are five reasons why:
Syntax matters
Syntax isn't just sugar: the syntax we use to express our algorithms can significantly affect the readability and maintainability of our code. The syntax used for Qt's signals and slots has proved very successful in practice. The syntax is intuitive, simple to use and easy to read. People learning Qt find the syntax helps them understand and utilize the signals and slots concept -- despite its highly abstract and generic nature. Furthermore, declaring signals in class definitions ensures that the signals are protected in the sense of protected C++ member functions. This helps programmers get their design right from the very beginning, without even having to think about design patterns.
Code Generators are Good
Qt's moc (Meta Object Compiler) provides a clean way to go beyond the compiled language's facilities. It does so by generating additional C++ code which can be compiled by any standard C++ compiler. The moc reads C++ source files. If it finds one or more class declarations that contain the Q_OBJECT macro, it produces another C++ source file which contains the meta object code for those classes. The C++ source file generated by the moc must be compiled and linked with the implementation of the class (or it can be #included into the class's source file). Typically moc is not called manually, but automatically by the build system, so it requires no additional effort by the programmer.
The moc is not the only code generator Qt is using. Another prominent example is the uic (User Interface Compiler). It takes a user interface description in XML and creates C++ code that sets up the form. Outside Qt, code generators are common as well. Take for example rpc and idl, that enable programs or objects to communicate over process or machine boundaries. Or the vast variety of scanner and parser generators, with lex and yacc being the most well-known ones. They take a grammar specification as input and generate code that implements a state machine. The alternatives to code generators are hacked compilers, proprietary languages or graphical programming tools with one-way dialogs or wizards that generate obscure code during design time rather than compile time. Rather than locking our customers into a proprietary C++ compiler or into a particular Integrated Development Environment, we enable them to use whatever tools they prefer. Instead of forcing programmers to add generated code into source repositories, we encourage them to add our tools to their build system: cleaner, safer and more in the spirit of UNIX.
GUIs are Dynamic
C++ is a standarized, powerful and elaborate general-purpose language. It's the only language that is exploited on such a wide range of software projects, spanning every kind of application from entire operating systems, database servers and high end graphics applications to common desktop applications. One of the keys to C++'s success is its scalable language design that focuses on maximum performance and minimal memory consumption whilst still maintaining ANSI C compatibility.
For all these advantages, there are some downsides. For C++, the static object model is a clear disadvantage over the dynamic messaging approach of Objective C when it comes to component-based graphical user interface programming. What's good for a high end database server or an operating system isn't necessarily the right design choice for a GUI frontend. With moc, we have turned this disadvantage into an advantage, and added the flexibility required to meet the challenge of safe and efficient graphical user interface programming.
Our approach goes far beyond anything you can do with templates. For example, we can have object properties. And we can have overloaded signals and slots, which feels natural when programming in a language where overloads are a key concept. Our signals add zero bytes to the size of a class instance, which means we can add new signals without breaking binary compatibility. Because we do not rely on excessive inlining as done with templates, we can keep the code size smaller. Adding new connections just expands to a simple function call rather than a complex template function.
Another benefit is that we can explore an object's signals and slots at runtime. We can establish connections using type-safe call-by-name, without having to know the exact types of the objects we are connecting. This is impossible with a template based solution. This kind of runtime introspection opens up new possibilities, for example GUIs that are generated and connected from Qt Designer's XML uifiles.
Calling Performance is Not Everything
Qt's signals and slots implementation is not as fast as a template-based solution. While emitting a signal is approximately the cost of four ordinary function calls with common template implementations, Qt requires effort comparable to about ten function calls. This is not surprising since the Qt mechanism includes a generic marshaller, introspection, queued calls between different threads, and ultimately scriptability. It does not rely on excessive inlining and code expansion and it provides unmatched runtime safety. Qt's iterators are safe while those of faster template-based systems are not. Even during the process of emitting a signal to several receivers, those receivers can be deleted safely without your program crashing. Without this safety, your application would eventually crash with a difficult to debug free'd memory read or write error.
Nonetheless, couldn't a template-based solution improve the performance of an application using signals and slots? While it is true that Qt adds a small overhead to the cost of calling a slot through a signal, the cost of the call is only a small proportion of the entire cost of a slot. Benchmarking against Qt's signals and slots system is typically done with empty slots. As soon as you do anything useful in your slots, for example a few simple string operations, the calling overhead becomes negligible. Qt's system is so optimized that anything that requires operator new or delete (for example, string operations or inserting/removing something from a template container) is significantly more expensive than emitting a signal.
Aside: If you have a signals and slots connection in a tight inner loop of a performance critical task and you identify this connection as the bottleneck, think about using the standard listener-interface pattern rather than signals and slots. In cases where this occurs, you probably only require a 1:1 connection anyway. For example, if you have an object that downloads data from the network, it's a perfectly sensible design to use a signal to indicate that the requested data arrived. But if you need to send out every single byte one by one to a consumer, use a listener interface rather than signals and slots.
Because we had the moc for signals and slots, we could add other useful things to it that could not be done with templates. Among these are scoped translations via a generated tr() function, and an advanced property system with introspection and extended runtime type information. The property system alone is a great advantage: a powerful and generic user interface design tool like Qt Designer would be a lot harder to write - if not impossible - without a powerful and introspective property system. But it does not end here. We also provide a dynamic qobject_cast() mechanism that does not rely on the system's RTTI and thus does not share its limitations. We use it to safely query interfaces from dynamically loaded components. Another application domain are dynamic meta objects. We can e.g. take ActiveX components and at runtime create a meta object around it. Or we can export Qt components as ActiveX components by exporting its meta object. You cannot do either of these things with templates.
C++ with the moc essentially gives us the flexibility of Objective-C or of a Java Runtime Environment, while maintaining C++'s unique performance and scalability advantages. It is what makes Qt the flexible and comfortable tool we have today.
Publicado por jose luis en 3:32 p. m. No hay comentarios:
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domingo, marzo 01, 2009
Linux vs BSD by Linus Tordvalds
http://www.linux.com/articles/45571
I recently asked Linus Torvalds for his thoughts on the relative strengths and weaknesses of Linux and BSD, and about how much synergy there might be between the Linux kernel and the BSDs.
I prefaced my query to Linus by recounting my observations from a Usenix conference in San Diego a few years ago. He was a speaker that day, and a group of BSD users came right down to the front row to hear him. In fact, they laughed and joked with him, and eventually gave Linus one of the beanies with horns on it they were wearing, a familiar symbol to BSD fans.
They may have been surprised by his reaction. I was. He took the beanie they offered, put it on, and wore it during his entire presentation. No big deal, the leader of the Linux kernel wearing BSD colors. He defused what could have been a contentious moment.
NewsForge: I want to ask you a few uninformed questions about the similarities, differences, and synergy -- if any -- between the Linux kernel and the BSDs.
Torvalds: I really don't much like the comparisons. In many ways they aren't even valid, since "better" always ends up depending on "for what?" and "according to what criteria?".
NF: BSD is still considered by some to be more "technically correct" than the Linux kernel. Do you think the BSDs are better technically than the Linux kernel?
Torvalds: Linux has a much wider audience, in many ways. That ranges from supporting much wider hardware (both in the driver sense and in the architecture sense) to actual uses. The BSDs tend to be focused in specific areas, while I have always personally felt that any particular focus on any particular use is a bad thing.
Which one is "better"? To me, Linux is much better, since to me, the important thing for an OS is how well it performs under different patterns, be they embedded, server, or desktop, or just some totally crazy person in a basement trying something new.
But some people disagree with me, and like to limit their work to specific areas, and like the fact that developers have one cohesive goal, and don't care about anything else. Some people consider the Linux development model "too permissive," in other words -- they want the project to concentrate on X, where X is some random area that they care about.
Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
NF: If the BSDs were better technically five years ago, has the playing field leveled since then?
Torvalds: I don't think they were better five years ago (see above), and I don't think the question really makes sense.
Are there areas where you could point to "X does Y better"? Oh, sure, that's inevitable. But exactly because Linux tries to be "good enough" for everybody, you'll find a lot of areas where Linux is better (often a lot better -- as in "it works"), and then you'll find a few narrow areas where one particular BSD version will be better.
To me, it's largely a mentality issue. I said "good enough," and that's really telling. The BSD people (and keep in mind that I'm obviously generalizing) are often perfectionists. They hone something specific for a long time, and then they frown on anything that doesn't meet their standards of perfection. The OpenBSD single-minded focus on security is a good example.
In contrast, one of my favorite mantras is "perfect is the enemy of good," and the idea is that "good enough" is actually a lot more flexible than some idealized perfection. The world simply isn't black-and-white, and I recognize a lot of grayness. I often find black-and-white people a bit stupid, truth be told.
NF: Is sharing between BSD and the Linux kernel a common occurrence? And if so, does it go both ways?
Torvalds: It's quite rare on the kernel level. It happens occasionally, mainly in drivers, and sometimes on the "idea" level (don't get me wrong -- it's not an acrimonious setting, and people do talk about things). But the fact is, it's usually more effort to share things and try to synchronize and agree on them than it is to have independent projects.
On a user level, there's obviously tons of sharing, since there you don't have the communication issues, and user projects tend to be pretty independent of each other (and the kernel) anyway.
NF: Are there parts of BSD today that you would like to see adopted in the kernel?
Torvalds: I certainly don't have any specifics, but that's not saying that I'd be against it. It just means that I don't know anything about BSD technical internals, so I'm the wrong person to ask. Ask somebody who uses both.
Note: Tune in Wednesday for the views of BSD leaders as they answer the same questions posed to Linus.
Etiquetas: gnu, informática, linux
Linux monolitickernels microkernels Linus vs Tanenbaum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum-Torvalds_debate
Sorpresa, Linus no es tan terrible
Tannenbaum inició las críticas poco constructivas
Linus respondío duramente, pero Linus trató de parar la bronca con una respuesta pública y otra privada
Graphic of a monolithic kernel running kernel space entirely in supervisor mode
Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum (ast in comp.os.minix)
While the debate initially started out as relatively moderate, with both parties involved making only basal statements about kernel design, it would get progressively more detailed and sophisticated with every round of posts. Besides just kernel design, the debate branched into several other topics, such as which microprocessor architecture would win out over others in the future. Besides Tanenbaum and Torvalds, several other people joined the debate, including Peter MacDonald, an early Linux kernel developer and creator of one of the first distributions, Softlanding Linux System, David S. Miller, one of the core developers of the Linux kernel, and Theodore Ts'o, the first North American Linux kernel developer.
[edit] “Linux is obsolete”
The first occurrence of this debate was recorded on January 29, 1992, when Tanenbaum first posted his criticism on the Linux kernel to comp.os.minix, noting how the monolithic design was detrimental to its abilities, in a post titled Linux is obsolete.[1] While he initially did not go into great technical detail to explain why he felt that the microkernel design was better, he did suggest that it was mostly related to portability, arguing that the Linux kernel was too closely tied to the x86 line of processors to be of any use in the future, as this architecture would be superseded by then. To put things into perspective, he mentioned how writing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is "a giant step back into the 1970s".
Since the criticism was posted in a public newsgroup, Torvalds was able to respond to it directly. He did so a day later, arguing that MINIX has inherent design flaws (naming the lack of multithreading as a specific example), while acknowledging that he finds the microkernel kernel design to be superior “from a theoretical and aesthetical” point of view.[4] He also claimed that since he was developing the Linux kernel in his spare time and giving it away for free (Tanenbaum's MINIX was not free at that time), Tanenbaum should not object to his efforts. Furthermore, he mentioned how he developed Linux specifically for the Intel 80386 due to the project being partly just so he could learn more about the architecture; while he argued that this made the kernel itself less portable than MINIX, it was an acceptable design principle, as it made the application programming interface much simpler and more portable. For this reason, he stated, “linux is more portable than minix. [sic]”
Microkernel architecture relies on user-space server programs
Following Linus' reply, Tanenbaum argued that the limitations of MINIX relate to him being a professor, stating the requirement for the system to be able to run on the rather limited hardware of the average student, which he noted was an Intel 8088-based computer, sometimes even without a hard drive.[11] Linux was, at that time, specifically built for the Intel 80386, a significantly more powerful (and expensive) processor. Tanenbaum also specifically states “[...] as of about 1 year ago, there were two versions [of MINIX], one for the PC (360K diskettes) and one for the 286/386 (1.2M). The PC version was outselling the 286/386 version by 2 to 1.” He noted that even though Linux was free, it wouldn't be a viable choice for his students, as they would not be able to afford the expensive hardware required to run it, and that MINIX could be used on “a regular 4.77 MHz PC with no hard disk.” To this, Kevin Brown, another user of the Usenet group, replied that Tanenbaum should not complain about Linux's ties to the 386 architecture, as it was the result of a conscious choice rather than lack of knowledge about operating system design, stating “[...] an explicit design goal of Linux was to take advantage of the special features of the 386 architecture. So what exactly is your point? Different design goals get you different designs.”[12] He also stated that designing a system specifically for cheap hardware would cause it to have portability problems in the future. Despite the fact that MINIX did not fully support the newer hardware that Linux did support, thus making Linux a better choice for those who actually owned that hardware, Tanenbaum argued that since the x86 architecture would be outdone by other architecture designs in the future, he did not need to address the issue, noting “Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.” He stated that the Linux kernel would eventually fall out of taste as hardware would progress, due to it being so closely tied to the 386 architecture.[11] (See section “Erroneous predictions” for a detailed account of this claim.)
Torvalds attempted to end the discussion at that point, stating that he felt he should not have overreacted to Tanenbaum's initial statements, and that he was composing a personal e-mail to him to apologize.[13] However, he would continue the debate at a later time.
[edit] Aftermath
Despite this debate, Torvalds and Tanenbaum appear to be on good speaking terms; Torvalds wants it understood that he holds no animosity towards Tanenbaum, and Tanenbaum underlines that disagreements about ideas or technical issues should not be interpreted as personal feuds.[14]
[edit] Erroneous predictions
When the issue and full initial debate was published in the O'Reilly Media book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution in 1999, it stated that the debate exemplifies “the way the world was thinking about OS design at the time”.[14]
The 386 processor was then the most widespread chip “by several times”, according to participant Kevin Brown, with the 486 used in high-end computers, and the 286 almost obsolete, and the World Wide Web was not yet widely used. One of Tanenbaum's arguments against Linux was that it was too closely tied to the x86 line of processors, which he claimed was “not the way to go”.[1] However, as of 2009[update], x86 remains the overwhelmingly dominant CPU architecture on desktop computers. Linux has since been ported to many other processor architectures, including x86-64, ARM, IA-64, 680x0, MIPS, POWER/PowerPC, and SPARC.
Another recurring topic in the debate discusses alternatives to Linux and MINIX, such as GNU and 4.4BSD. Tanenbaum suggested the former in his first post, stating that unlike Linux, it was a “modern” system.[1] In his second post, he mentioned that “[...] 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5”.[11] Several debaters disagreed that GNU was a suitable alternative. Kevin Brown called it vaporware, and stated that Linux would likely benefit from the x86 architecture which would continue to be common and become more accessible to a general audience. Theodore Ts'o, an early Linux contributor, said that while a microkernel approach would have benefits, “[...] Linux is here, and GNU isn't — and people have been working on Hurd for a lot longer than Linus has been working on Linux”.[15] Torvalds, aware of GNU's efforts to create a kernel, stated “If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't.”[16]
4.4BSD-Lite would not be available until two years later due to the USL v. BSDi lawsuit, filed by AT&T's subsidiary Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, which pertained to the intellectual property related to UNIX. The lawsuit slowed development of the free-software descendants of BSD for nearly two years while their legal status was in question. As Linux did not have such legal ambiguity, systems based on it gained greater support. A settlement between USL v. BSDi was reached in January 1994, and 4.4BSD was released in June. (While the final release was in 1995, several free versions based on this version have been maintained since, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.)
[edit] The Samizdat incident
On 23 March 2004, Kenneth Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, interviewed Tanenbaum. This was a prelude to the pending publication of a book by Brown titled Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code. The book claims that Linux was initially illegally copied from MINIX. Tanenbaum published a strong rebuttal, defending Torvalds,[17] and stated at that time:
I would like to close by clearing up a few misconceptions and also correcting a couple of errors. First, I REALLY am not angry with Linus. HONEST. He's not angry with me either. I am not some kind of "sore loser" who feels he has been eclipsed by Linus. MINIX was only a kind of fun hobby for me. I am a professor. I teach and do research and write books and go to conferences and do things professors do. I like my job and my students and my university. [...] I wrote MINIX because I wanted my students to have hands-on experience playing with an operating system. After AT&T forbade teaching from John Lions' book, I decided to write a UNIX-like system for my students to play with. [...] I was not trying to replace GNU/HURD or Berkeley UNIX. Heaven knows, I have said this enough times. I just wanted to show my students and other students how you could write a UNIX-like system using modern technology. A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. [...] Linus seems to be doing excellent work and I wish him much success in the future. While writing MINIX was fun, I don't really regard it as the most important thing I have ever done. It was more of a distraction than anything else. The most important thing I have done is produce a number of incredibly good students, especially Ph.D. students. See my home page for the list. They have done great things. I am as proud as a mother hen. To the extent that Linus can be counted as my student, I'm proud of him, too. Professors like it when their students go on to greater glory.[18]
Publicado por jose luis en 11:44 a. m. No hay comentarios:
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Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists
http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/
¿Linux es borde, autoritario y egocéntrico?
Discutible
Lo que es seguro es un genial programador y un tío constructivo que hace y ayuda mucho
[Posted August 23, 2007 by jake]
To: Adam Treat
Subject: Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:41:05 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: kde-core-devel-AT-kde.org
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Adam Treat wrote:
> I just watched your talk on git and wanted to ask for clarification on a
> few points. Many of us in the KDE community are interested in git and
> some even contemplate using git as the official SCM tool in the future.
As you are probably aware, some people have tried to import the whole KDE
history into git. Quite frankly, the way git works (tracking whole trees
at a time, never single files), that ends up being very painful, because
it's an "all or nothing" approach.
So I'm hoping that if you guys are seriously considering git, you'd also
split up the KDE repository so that it's not one single huge one, but with
multiple smaller repositories (ie kdelibs might be one, and each major app
would be its own), and then using the git "submodule" support to tie it
all together.
> However, I think a few issues have been confused and want to see if you
> can clarify.
> Your talk focused heavily on the evils of a central repository versus
> the benefits of a distributed model. However, I wonder if what you
> actually find distasteful is not a central repository per se, but rather
> designing an SCM that relies upon *communication* with a central
> repository to do branching/merging or offline development.
I certainly agree that almost any project will want a "central" repository
in the sense that you want to have one canonical default source base that
people think of as the "primary" source base.
But that should not be a *technical* distinction, it should be a *social*
one, if you see what I mean. The reason? Quite often, certain groups would
know that there is a primary archive, but for various reasons would want
to ignore that knowledge: the reasons can be any of
- Release management: you often want the central "development" repository
to be totally separate from the release management tree. Yes, you
approximate that with branches, but let's face it, the people involved
usually have a lot of overlap, but the overlap is not total, and the
*interest* isn't necessarily the same.
For an example of "release management", think of multiple different
vendors. They would probably always start with your "central" release
tree (which in turn may well be different from your central development
tree!), but vendors invariably have their own timetables and customer
issues, so they usually need to make decisions that may not even make
sense for the "official" tree.
Examples of this in the kernel is how my tree is the central
development tree, then we have the "stable" tree (which is a *separate*
thing, maintained totally separately, but obviously based on my
releases), and then each vendor tends to have their own "release
trees". They are all different, they all have different policies and
reasons for existence, and they are *all* "central" depending on who
looks at them.
- Branching. Yes, you can branch in a truly centralized model too, but
it's generally a "big issue" - the branches are globally visible
things, and you need permission from the maintainers of the centralized
model too.
Both of those are *horrible* mistakes: the "globally visible" part
means that if you're not sure this makes sense, you're much less likely
to begin a branch - even if it's cheap, it's still something that
everybody else will see, and as such you can't really do "throwaway"
development that way. And let's face it, many cool ideas turn out to be
totally idiotic, but it might take a long time until it's obvious that
it was a bad idea.
So you absolutely need *private* branches, that can becom "central" for
the people involved in some re-architecting, even if they never ever
show up in the "truly central" repository. That's a huge deal for
The other problem is the "permission from maintainers" thing: I have an
ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right, and in that
kind of situation it would be a total disaster if everybody had to ask
for my permission to create a branch to do some re-architecting work.
The fact that anybody can create a branch without me having to know
about it or care about it is a big issue to me: I think it keeps me
honest. Basically, the fundamental tool we use for the kernel makes
sure that if I'm not doing a good job, anybody else can show people
that they do a better job, and nobody is really "inconvenienced".
Compare that to some centralized model, and something like the gcc/egcs
fork: the centralized model made the fork so painful that it became a
huge political fight, instead of just becoming an issue of "we can do
this better"!
There are other reasons for having a *social* network that tends to have
one or two fairly central nodes, but not having a *technical* limitation
that enforces that. But the above are the two biggest and most important
reasons, I think-
> After all, your repository acts as a de-facto central repository of the
> linux kernel in as much as everyone pulls from it. Without such a
> central place to pull the linux kernel would not exist, rather what
> you'd have is a bunch of forks which perhaps merge with each other from
> time to time.
Well, I do want to make it clear that we *do* have such forks that pull
from each other too. So the kernel actually does use the technology, it's
just that you have to be involved in the particular subprojects to even
know or care about it!
So it's not strictly true that there is a single "central" one, even if
you ignore the stable tree (or the vendor trees). There are subsystems
that end up working with each other even before they hit the central tree
- but you are right that most people don't even see it. Again, it's the
difference between a technical limitation, and a social rule: people use
multiple trees for development, but because it's easier for everybody to
have one default tree, that's obviously what most people who aren't
actively developing do.
To put this in a KDE perspective: it would make tons and tons of sense to
have one central place (kde.org) that most developers know about, and
where they would fetch their sources from. But for various reasons (and
security is one of them), that may not be the main place where most "core
developers" really work. You would generally want to have separate places
that are secure, and those separate places may be *different* for
different developer groups.
For a kernel example: the "public" git tree is on the public kernel.org
servers (including "git.kernel.org"), but that is actually not a machine
that any developers really ever push to directly.
Many kernel developers use other kernel.org machines (because we have the
infrastructure), but others will use their own setups entirely, because
they might have issues like bandwidth (ie kernel.org may be reasonably
well connected, but while it has mirrors elsewhere, the main machines are
in the US, so some European developers prefer to just use servers that are
closer).
So if you look at my merge messages, for example, you'll see things like
merges from lm-sensors.org, git.kernel.dk, ftp.linux-mips.org, oss.sgi.com
etc etc. The point being that yes, there is a central place that people
know about, but at the same time, much of the *development* really happens
outside that central place!
> For any software project to exist as opposed to a bunch of forks I think
> you *have to have* a central repository from which everyone pulls, no?
> Of course many branches might exist, but those branches must pull from a
> central repository if they want to share *at least some* common code.
Practically speaking, you'd generally have one or a few central
repositories, yes. But no, it really doesn't have to be a single one. And
I'm not just talking about mirroring (which is really easy with a
distributed setup), I'm literally talking about things like some people
wanting to use the "stable" tree, and not my tree at all, or the vendor
And they are obviously *connected*, but it doesn't have to be a totally
central notion at all.
Think of the git trees as people: some people are more "central" than
others, but in the end, the kernel is actually fairly unusual (at least
for a big project) in having just *one* person that is so much in the
"center" that everybody knows about him.
In most other projects, you literally would have different groups that
handle different parts. In the KDE group, for example, there really is no
reason why the people who work on one particular application should ever
use the same "central" repository as the people who work on another app
You'd have a *separate* group (that probably also maintains some central
part like the kdelibs stuff) that might be in charge of *integrating* it
all, and that integration/core group might be seen to outsiders as the
"one central repository", but to the actual application developers, that
may actually be pretty secondary, and as with the kernel, they may
maintain their own trees at places like ftp.linux-mips.org - and then just
ask the core people to pull from them when they are reasonably ready.
See? There's really no more "one central place" any more. To the casual
observer, it *looks* like one central place (since casual users would
always go for the core/integration tree), but the developers themselves
would know better. If you wanted to develop some bleeding edge koffice
stuff, you'd use *that* tree - and it might not have been merged into the
core tree yet, because it might be really buggy at the moment!
This is one of the big advantages of true distribution: you can have that
kind of "central" tree that does integration, but it doesn't actually have
to integrate the development "as it happens". In fact, it really really
shouldn't. If you look at my merges, for example, when I merge big changes
from somebody else who actually maintains them in a git tree, they will
have often been done much earlier, and be a series of changes, and I only
merge when they are "ready".
So the core/central people should generally not necessarily even do any
real development at all: the tree that people see as the "one tree" is
really mostly just an integration thing. When the koffice/kdelibs/whatever
people decide that they are ready and stable, they can tell the
integration group to pull their changes. There's obviously going to be
overlap between developers/integrators (hopefully a *lot* of overlap), but
it doesn't have to be that way (for example, I personally do almost *only*
integration, and very little serious development).
> A central repository is also necessary for projects like KDE to enable
> things like buildbots and commit mailing lists.
Yes, you want a central build-bot and commit mailing list. But you don't
necessarily want just *one* central build-bot and commit mailing list.
There's absolutely no reason why everybody would be interested in some
random part of the tree (say, kwin), and there's no reason why the people
who really only do kwin stuff should have to listen to everybody elses
work. They may well want to have their *own* build-bot and commit mailing
So making one central one is certainly not a mistake, but making *only* a
central one is. Why shouldn't the groups that do specialized work have
specialized test-farms? The kernel does. The NFS stuff, for example, tends
to have its own test infrastructure.
Also, it's a mistake to think that one site has to do everything. That's
not what we do in the kernel, for example. Yes, we have kernel.org, and
it's reasonably central, but that doesn't mean that everything has to, or
even should, happen within that organization.
So we've had people do build-bots and performance regressions, and
specialized testing *outside* of kernel.org. For example, intel and others
have done things like performance regression testing that required
specialized hardware and software (eg TPC-C performance numbers).
So we do commit mailing lists from kernel.org, but (a) that doesn't mean
that everything else should be done from that central site and (b) it also
doesn't mean that subprojects shouldn't do their *own* commit mailing
lists. In fact, there's a "gitstat" project (which tracks the kernel, but
it's designed to be available for *any* git project), and you can see an
example of it in action at
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/gitstat
(or get the source code from sourceforge), and the point is that all of
this was done entirely *outside* the kernel.org framework.
So centralized is not at all always good. Quite the reverse: having
distributed services allows *specialized* services, and it also allows the
above kind of experimental stuff that does some (fairly simple, but maybe
it will expand) data-mining on the project!
> These tools are important to the way we work and provide for many eyes
> constantly reviewing changes to the codebase as well as regular
> regression testing across diverse platforms. In the future, whether git
> or svn, I see no advantages in getting rid of a central repository from
> which everyone pulls. I wonder whether you really disagree.
So I do disagree, but only in the sense that there's a big difference
between "a central place that people can go to" and "ONLY ONE central
place".
See? Distribution doesn't mean that you cannot have central places - but
it means that you can have *different* central places for different
things. You'd generally have one central place for "default" things
(kde.org), but other central places for more specific or specialized
services!
And whether it's specialized by project, or by things like the above
"special statistics" kind of thing, or by usage, is another matter! For
example, maybe you have kde.org as the "default central place", but then
some subgroup that specializes in mobility and small-memory-footprint
issues might use something like kde.mobile.org as _their_ central site,
and then developers would occasionally merge stuff (hopefully both ways!)
> In your talk you also focus on the evils of commit access lists,
> comparing and contrasting with the web of trust the kernel uses where
> you have no commit access lists at all. However, isn't the kernel model
> just a special case? The linux kernel has a de-facto commit access list
> of one: you.
No, really. It doesn't. It's the one you see from the outside, but the
fact is, different sub-parts of the kernel really do use their own trees,
and their own mailing lists. You, as a KDE developer, would generally
never care about it, so you only _see_ the main one.
> This might work well for the kernel, but I fail to see how this really
> reduces politics. Many are still constantly pushing and arguing to
> merge their branches upstream into your repository. Would having a
> central repository where you and all your trusted lieutenants push their
> changes really be very different?
Yes it would be. You only see the end result now. You don't see how those
lieutenants have their own development trees, and while the kernel is
fairly modular (so the different development trees seldom have to interact
with each others), they *do* interact. We've had the SCSI development tree
interact with the "block layer" development tree, and all you ever see is
the end result in my tree, but the fact is, the development happened
entirely *outside* my tree.
The networking parts, for example, merge the crypto changes, and I then
merge the end result of the crypto _and_ network changes.
Or take the powerpc people: they actually merge their basic architecture
stuff to me, but their network driver stuff goes through Jeff Garzik - and
you as a user never even realize that there was another "central" tree for
network driver development, because you would never use it unless you had
reported a bug to Jeff, and Jeff might have sent you a patch for it, or
alternatively he might have asked if you were a git user, and if so,
please pull from his 'e1000e' branch.
For an example of this, go to
http://git.kernel.org/
and look at all the projects there. There are lots of kernel subprojects
that are used by developers - exactly so that if you report a bug against
a particular driver or subsystem, the developer can tell you to test an
experimental branch that may fix it.
> The KDE community has a very large commit access list and it is quite
> easy to join. Having a central git repository with a large set of
> committers would seem to map well with our community. I fail to see any
> harm in this model. The web of trust would still exist, it would just
> be much larger and more inclusive than the model the kernel uses. I
> wonder if you disagree.
Hey, you can use your old model if you want to. git doesn't *force* you to
change. But trust me, once you start noticing how different groups can
have their own experimental branches, and can ask people to test stuff
that isn't ready for mainline yet, you'll see what the big deal is all
Centralized _works_. It's just *inferior*.
> Another sticking point is the performance implications of a git
> repository managing something the size of the KDE project. I understand
> the straightforward solution: just define content boundaries with a
> separate git repo for each submodule: kdelibs.git, kdebase.git,
> kdesupport.git, etc, etc. And then have a super git repo with hooks
> that point to these submodules. However, I think this leads to a few
> problems.
> What if I want to make a commit to kdelibs that will require changes in
> other modules for them to compile. I will no longer be able to make a
> single atomic commit with changes to multiple submodules, right?
Sure you will. It's hierarchical, though.
What happens is that you do a single commit in each submodule that is
atomic to that *private* copy of that submodule (and nobody will ever see
it on its own, since you'd not push it out), and then in the supermodule
you make *another* commit that updates the supermodule to all the changes
in each submodule.
See? It's totally atomic. Anybody that updates from the supermodule will
get one supermodule commit, when when that in turn fetches all the
submodule changes, you never have any inconsistent state.
> Also, won't we lose history when moving files/content between
> submodules?
Yes. If you move stuff between repositories, you do lose history (or
rather, it breaks it as far as git is concerned - you still obviously have
both *pieces* of history, but to see it, you'd have to manually go and
look).
The point of submodules is that they are totally independent entities in
their own right, so that you can develop on a submodule without having to
even know about or care about the supermodule.
Git actually does perform fairly well even for huge repositories (I fixed
a few nasty problems with 100,000+ file repos just a week ago), so if you
absolutely *have* to, you can consider the KDE repos to be just one single
git repository, but that unquestionably will perform worse for some things
(notably, "git annotate/blame" and friends).
But what's probably worse, a single large repository will force everybody
to always download the whole thing. That does not necessarily mean the
whole *history* - git does support the notion of "shallow clones" that
just download part of the history - but since git at a very fundamental
level tracks the whole tree, it forces you to download the whole "width"
of the tree, and you cannot say "I want just the kdelibs part".
> And how will we break up the existing history between all of these
There's a few options for that.
One is to just import the SVN history per directory in the first place,
but that makes it hard to then tie the history together in the
supermodule.
The better approach is probably to import the *whole* thing (which will
require a rather beefy machine), and then split it up from within git.
There are various tools on the git side to basically rewrite the history
in other formats, including splitting up a bigger repository (google for
"git-split", for example).
But I certainly won't lie to you: importing all the history of KDE is
going to be a fairly big project, and it will require people who have good
git knowledge to set it up. I suspect (judging by some noises I've seen on
the git mailing list and irc channel) that you have those kinds of people
already, but it may well be a good idea to _avoid_ doing it as one big
"everything at once" kind of event.
So seriously, I would suggest that if there is currently some smaller part
of the KDE SVN tree, and the people who work on that part are already more
familiar with git than most KDE people necessarily are, I suspect that the
best thing to do is to convert just that piece first, and have people
migrate in pieces. Because any SCM move is going to be a learning process
(the CVS->SVN one is much easier than most, since they really are largely
just different faces of the same coin - no real changes in how things
fundamentally work as far as the user experience is concerned).
> Finally, a couple points... CVS/SVN might be stupid and moronic, but I
> think it is good to note they are not nearly as bad as some other SCM's.
> Many SCM's used by some of the largest codebases in the world are still
> lock-based. If you think it is difficult to branch/merge using a
> central server, remember that some poor folks can't even *change a
> single file* without asking the central server for permission.
Sure. Crap exists. That doesn't make CVS/SVN _good_. It just means that
there are even worse things out there.
> It is also good to note that a free distributed SCM was not available
> until recently. The kernel community might have had a special deal with
> BitKeeper, but the same didn't apply to all open source projects AFAIK.
> When KDE moved to svn it was the best tool for the job. That might have
> changed when git became easier to use, but at the time it was simply too
> big of a barrier for new developers and too new. And from what I
> understand git support on other platforms is a recent development.
Git works pretty well on any random unix (although most users are on
Linux, with a reasonable minority on OS X - everything else tends to be
pretty spotty, and can at times require that you add compiler options
etc).
The native windows support is pretty recent, and still in flux. It's now
apparently quite usable, although I don't think there's any real
integration with any native Windows development environments (ie it's all
either command line or the "native" git visualization tools like git-gui
or gitk).
Linus Tordvals y C++
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918
Linus Tordvals no es muy político expresándose
Si añadimos que "un", le molesta en la lista de distribución con una crítica poco constructiva...
From: Linus Torvalds linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (1 year, 25 weeks, 1 day, 9 hours and 9 minutes ago)
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
> 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability,
> it's BS.
*YOU* are full of bullshit.
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles
Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come
to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be
in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss
off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using
the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other
total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
- infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me
that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full
of BS that it's not even funny)
- inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road
you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all
your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you
cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and
portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are
basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people
don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that
do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any
idiotic "object model" crap.
So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary
objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that
we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional
If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really.
They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries".
They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all
these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end
result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
But I'm sure you'd like it more than git.
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Chris Carter is officially a Buckeye
February 24, 2011 by Jeremiah (SYR) 2 Comments
Chris Carter the OL recruit who ran into some legal issues on Signing Day has finally signed his LOI. As is being reported in the Columbus Dispatch Carter signed his letter this evening as is being welcomed with open arms by The Ohio State University.
“We are excited Chris will be a Buckeye,” Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said. “He has had a great support system at home, as well as at his high school with the likes of his principal Maryum Sims, his athletic director Velma Pettiegrew, and his coach Scott Wodtly. They truly believe that Chris will have great success on and off the field at Ohio State.”
I for one will refrain from giving my opinion on this young man as no matter what you say you will upset some group of Buckeye fans. I will say I fully trust Coach Tressel to make the best decision for OSU and the player. I wish him well and hope he becomes a great Buckeye lineman and an even better citizen of the Columbus community.
February 22, 2011 by Tony (el Kaiser) 5 Comments
Man, you’d think I could keep up with this blogging thing but these news stories never stop! Don’t these people know it’s the off season?
Anyway, here are the old stories from the past couple of weeks. I’d like to do these posts more than once a week. I’ll do better in the future.
Poor Art Schlichter and even more so for the old lady he swindled. I don’t have a ton to add to this story but it kind of bums me out to see someone continually fall from grace after having so many chances to right the ship. I can only fathom the grips that this gambling addiction has on this guy.
It’s probably not politically correct to admit this, but the first thing I thought after I heard the news of Buckeye recruit Chris Carter‘s trouble was, “you have to give the kid credit. He is creative!” Then I lamented the fact that we may not see the mammoth of a man play football for Ohio State. Luckily for him (and sort of for us) it looks like he won’t be charged.
Look, we love A.J. Hawk and his Cro-Magnon chin more than most people. We also FIRMLY believe that all babies are cute, even newborns.
But we are willing to make an exception. That baby has to be the ugliest baby of all time, right? Like a baby cavebaby? Just consider the source.
At least he’s got a Super Bowl ring.
Can you actually take your talents to South Beach if your talents include pouting?
It’s never too early to start thinking about all the new faces joining the Buckeyes this fall, especially Roderick Smith, who Bruce Feldman ranks the #1 redshirt freshman ($$$) of 2011. (ESPN Insider required)
This is not Buckeye-related, but it is human being related and we must share: Eric LeGrand Makes First Public Appearance At Believe Fund Event
Finally, I’ve made a huge update to the Twittering Buckeyes page to include a bunch incoming Buckeyes from the 2011 class. Stalk them even after signing day!
OSU Men’s Basketball Weekly Wrap-up
February 20, 2011 by Tony (el Kaiser) Leave a Comment
Another week of Buckeye Basketball and another week I’m racing to get it out before the next game and the next “week” starts. I don’t want to fall behind again.
This week was kind of a downer, what with the Buckeyes losing to Wisconsin Saturday afternoon.
(1) Ohio St 67 v. (14) Wisconsin 71
Wisconsin. Why did it have to be Wisconsin?
Badgers, very dangerous. You go first.
Seriously, why did it have to be Wisconsin? If, as some fans suggest, we needed to lose a game before the tournament, a loss to Michigan State would have been much easier to swallow. But since I firmly believe Bo Ryan is a SkyNet cyborg sent from the future to kill the joy derived from basketball by essentially implementing “Tresselball” on the hard court, it’s no surprise it had to happen this way.
SHOOT. THE. FRIGGIN. BALL. ALREADY.
Michigan St 61 v. (3) Ohio St 71
This game had all the makings of another trap game (see also: Northwestern) with the Buckeyes looking like they were mired in a funk and Diebler seem rather uninterested in getting himself open for a three while Sullinger continued getting mugged as BEE ONE GEE officials seemed to take perverse satisfaction in his obvious frustration.
So it’s been one of those weeks. A few stories of interest:
So after OSU fell out of favor with the pollsters, this past week has seen Kansas (the new #1) crap itself profusely against in-state rival K-State, Texas lose to a good defensive team in Nebraska and Pitt fall to St. John’s (who, admittedly, is a bit of a giant killer in MSG). They all faltered. So when Ohio State beats Purdue today, we’re all back at square one.
Speaking of Diebler, barring some act of God like losing power at Mackey Arena, Jon Diebler should take his rightful place atop the BEE ONE GEE three point leaders, topping Penn State’s Pete Lisicky record of 332. Let’s hope Dieb’s shows interest in shooting a three-pointer or four today.
To get your ready for today’s rematch against Purdue, the BBC has you covered with their preview and you can head over their during the game for the live-chat.
Hi. I’m the New Guy.
I thought I should take a couple of minutes between filling out tax forms and wandering the halls looking for a vending machine to formally introduce myself and give you some insight into what makes me tick. Obviously, I’m a huge Buckeye fan and if you’re reading this you probably are too. If so, all that remains to be said is “O-H!”
There’s a small chance that you’re just some mischievous troll who pokes around blogs dedicated to teams other than your own looking for opportunities to take cheap potshots at whatever miscellaneous pseudo-scandal is currently plaguing them. If that’s the case, I’m glad you’re here too. Even though I’ll never understand your motivations, I like to assume that there is some value in everyone’s existence. For instance, it was recently discovered that cockroach brains produce antibiotics far more effective than current medicines. I would gladly support cracking open your skull in the name of science.
Anyway, here a few OSU-related things about me that may come in handy in the future:
1. I am 100% sold on Tresselball. Yes, it can lead to frustrating white-knucklers on a near-weekly basis, but it’s hard to argue with results. We win a lot of games this way, and the underlying principles are sound. Despite its inherent conservatism, it’s still flexible enough to take advantage of the individual talents of players. While there’s probably no way to prove this, I’d bet that most of the breakdowns under this philosophy are on the execution side rather than the scheme side.
2. I hate the BCS. And that’s an understatement. After more than a decade with the oft-tweaked system in our lives, I think it’s safe to say that it has not been a significant improvement over the old way. It has created more problems than it’s solved and turned what was once a day full of top-notch match-ups into a weeklong excuse to employ Mark May during which maybe two good games occur. It’s essentially the same thing that happens when someone at Saturday Night Live says, “We should make this into a movie.”
3. I think Sully should enter every game inside of a giant egg. Just saying.
4. I’m not sure I want Michigan to ever be good again. I know I’m supposed to want them undefeated when we play so that the win is more satisfying for us and the loss more heartbreaking for them, but have you ever actually tried to cheer for them against anyone else? I just can’t do it; the hate is too strong. There was a time when Michigan was always going to be at least good, and during that time I believed that was the best thing for the rivalry. But now that I’ve seen what it’s like when they’re pretty terrible… I kind of like it. With the new divisional format and Nebraska joining the fold, Michigan’s success may not be the requirement for national conference respect it once was.
Well, I better wrap this up and get back to orientation before I miss where they keep the highlighters.
MotSaG is growing
A quick programming note: The MotSaG staff is growing as we add another writer to the staff. Here at the site he’ll be known as “Cloud of Dust” but if you’ve been reading Men of the Scarlet and Gray for a while you’ve already read his work on the “Poll Dancing” series during football season.
I’ll let him introduce himself however he likes but we should be seeing content coming from the Cloud of Dust shortly. Join me in welcoming Jason into the fold.
We missed last week’s wrap-up, so were covering two week’s worth of exciting Ohio State basketball. 24-0 baby!
First, let’s take a break to consider how cool college athletes can be. Jared Sullinger is one of the most recognizable college basketball players and is currently living quite the charmed freshman life. It’s good to see he’s got a good sense of humor, too.
(12) Purdue 64 vs (1) Ohio St 87 – Coming off a close game against Illinois, the Buckeyes man-handled Purdue from start to finish. With a hoop looking like a hula-hoop, Ohio State hit 55% of their shots from the field, including 11-19 from behind the arc. At one point Ohio State was up by 31. This game cleared up any doubts of whether this was a #1 team or not.
(1) Ohio St 58 vs Northwestern 57 – Freaking trap games, how do they work?!
Michigan 53 vs. (1) Ohio St 62 – Michigan led Ohio State a one point by almost a touchdown. Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke are wondering what that felt like.
(1) Ohio St 82 vs. (20) Minnesota 69 – For a couple years now I’ve been meaning to put together a post about the Minnesota/Ohio State fight from back in the day. But after bullying the Gophers for forty minutes Sunday afternoon it just didn’t feel right.
Which brings us to this weekend, when the Buckeyes travel to Madison to take on the Wisconsin Badgers at the Kohl Center. 11W look at previous visits to Wisconsin with the ugly details. The BBC has a Wisconsin preview. What is it with Ohio State and struggles against Wisconsin, whether it be in football or basketball?
Call me an optimist but I sense a big win tomorrow.
Reloaded-Buckeye Recruiting
February 3, 2011 by Kade 5 Comments
There are not very many teams that can, year after year, recruit and reload like the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Buckeyes will have another top 5 class. Let’s take a look at the Buckeye’s best offensive recruit and defensive recruit.
Braxton Miller-QB
Miller is regarded as one of the best quarterback prospects to EVER come out of Ohio. I’ve watched 3 or 4 of his games and I haven’t been this excited about a prospect since… Terrelle Pryor.
He is a different animal than Pryor. Braxton is not as big as Pryor at 6’2 200lbs, but he is every bit as fast as Pryor and has much more jitter-bug quickness when compared to Pryor. In other words he can make people miss… badly.
He also has an absolute cannon for an arm. He is also much further ahead of Pryor as far as throwing the ball when compared at the same stages in their careers. Both came from spread option offenses out of the shotgun, but Miller threw the more than Pryor. Pryor has become a pass first nightmare for defensive coordinators, Miller could rewrite every passing record OSU has when it is all said and done. That is how good he is.
There is one thing that could hurt his chances to be a long term success at Ohio State and that is injuries. Miller has had a history with getting hurt. Something that Tressel will have to protect him from by making sure he doesn’t run it too much.
To me, Miller is a cross between Troy Smith and Michael Vick with a lean towards Vick. Smith could run the ball well, but is no where near as fast as Miller. Oh, and one other thing — he is enrolling at OSU early which means we should be able to see him at the Spring game!
Curtis Grant-LB
The 6’3 220lb linebacker from Richmond, Virginia will be patrolling the middle of the field in the future for the Buckeyes. Next year it should be red-shirt junior MLBer Etienne Sabino in the middle for the Buckeyes with Grant learning the ropes until he is ready to go.
Grant leads an impressive LB haul for the 2011 class. A few months ago the Buckeye’s were close to not getting a single linebacker in this class. Instead they poached Ryan Shazier, the 5th ranked OLB in the class from Florida (a tip of the cap to Urban Meyer for stepping down). Ejuan Price, who will play OLB opposite Shazier. Price was ranked 14th in the country and nearly went to Pitt before making the right decision. Then came the #1 LB in the country in Curtis Grant. Grant is a great mix of speed and power. He will want to work on his tackling as at the next level, he won’t be able to get away with standing too tall while trying to bring down ball carriers.
Roderick Smith-RB
Okay fine, he’s not a recruit for 2011 but a red-shirt from 2010. I want people to get excited about this guy. Rumor has it that during bowl practices he nearly had his red-shirt pulled. With a stable of Herron, Saine, Hall and Berry why on earth would the Buckeye coaching staff think about that for 2 seconds? Apparently he was the best player on the field and couldn’t be stopped. He has been compared to Chris Wells and Eddie George. He is a big, tall running back that had nearly 7000 yards rushing in his high school career.
With Boom Herron to sit 5 games to begin the 2011 season, look for Rod Smith to see a lot of action. Smith could very well take away carries from Herron, who proved himself a dangerous full time back in 2010.
Ohio State had another great recruiting class in 2011. Top 5 in the nation. Quick run down of all the new recruits(HS position ranking/name):
QB’s
#2 Braxton Miller
#24 Cardale Jones
#19 Evan Spencer
#29 Devin Smith
#14 Nick Vannett
#24 Jeff Heuerman
#83 Tommy Brown
#22 Antonio Underwood
#1 Brian Bobek
#8 Michael Bennet
#10 Chase Farris
#30 Joe Hale
#9 Steve Miller
#14 Ken Hayes
#1 Curtis Grant
#5 Ryan Shazier
#14 Ejuan Price
#24 Connor Crowell
#11 Ron Tanner
#30 Jeremy Cash
#5 Doran Grant
#22 Dejuan Gambrell
Long Snapper Bryce Haynes
Welcome aboard guys!
February 2, 2011 by Tony (el Kaiser) Leave a Comment
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The Dream 17: Urban Meyer’s Stranglehold on the Recruiting Game
July 28, 2016 by Richard Tongohan Leave a Comment
Here is my first installment of The Dream 17: Urban Meyer’s Stranglehold on the Recruiting Game. I will be giving you a brief summary of four (04) committed recruits over the next couple of weeks and after all are mentioned, I will go over the remaining needs for the staff and the remaining targets, then I will eventually branch off into the 2018 Class. Enjoy!
Coach Urban Meyer’s and his Ohio State Buckeyes are a team that is transitioning away from a team that has had tremendous success on the gridiron, winning 50 games against 4 losses. Coach Meyer’s success shouldn’t be measured by wins and losses, but the overall health of his football team. Success in the classroom, success on the field and most importantly, success on the recruiting trail. As of late, Urban and company have been winning at every level, and they have been winning BIG. Take a long, hard look at the current recruiting class, the class of 2017. He is lighting it up and he is clearly getting commitments from just about anyone that he wants, commits from anyone who he envisions having the Buckeye spirit. Potential prospects who demonstrate traits of the Buckeye Culture and who are willing to live the lifestyle that Coach Meyer and company want their players adopt is one reason why this class is so unique and loaded with star power at just about every tier on both offense and on defense.
JOSH MYERS:
Josh Myers out of Miamisburg, OH stands at an astonishing 6-6 and 306 pounds and looks to be a key piece on the Offensive Line. He was one of the first members of the lauded 2017 Class and he is solid on his commitment. Myers will be trouble for opposing linemen when his time comes at Ohio State. He shows the instincts that Offensive Tackles should have and the drive to finish plays until the whistle blows. He displays the tenacity and a nasty streak to finish off rushers and he has the ability to pull left or right. He will be quite the player once he figures it out, but until he proves himself to the coaches, he looks to add depth to bolster the Tackle ranks.
WYATT DAVIS:
Wyatt Davis out of Bellflower, CA was a surprise commitment that the Buckeyes managed to secure even though they started recruiting him during the latter stages of the recruiting game. Meyer secured his commitment after a month and he looks to be another firm Buckeye pledge. Davis plays Offensive Guard and he stands at 6-5, 310 pounds and looks solid on film. He showed people at the opening that he will be a solid contributor and eventual starter on the Buckeyes Offensive Line once he gets an opportunity. He flashes quick, fluid hip movement and he flat out destroys defenders who dare to come his way. He will be something special and the Buckeyes line looks to be building something special.
SHAUN WADE:
Shaun Wade committed to Ohio State during their CFB Playoff run to the top. He plays Cornerback out of Jacksonille, FL and stands at 6-1, 177. He has that Florida speed that Urban covets and the skillset to lock down opposing Wide Receivers consistently. He has the instincts and the ability to lockdown one side of the field and could be used at any corner spot. There has been a ton of negativity surrounding Wade and his potential to flip to another school. We would never know and until it is actually made official (Insert Carlton Davis situation), he is a Buckeye commit until then. He has the tools to surpass the upperclassmen above him with numerous injuries and inexperience. He has a shot at starting if he stays and puts in the work.
CHASE YOUNG:
Chase Young committed at the well-known Friday Night Lights Camp, that the Buckeye staff puts out annually to attract top tier talent to get them to compete and learn the Buckeye way. It worked with Young, who many thought had been leaning toward the hometown Terrapin team. Luckily for Coach Johnson and Coach Meyer, they secured his commitment and stole him away like Dwayne Haskins and Keandre Jones from last years class. Young is projected to become a Weakside Defensive End and he is 6-5, 225. He has the speed, the techniques and the drive to succeed at a higher level and that is why he was a top priority for the Buckeye staff. Another fine piece to pair alongside other commits along the Defensive Line.
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Two passions make up Lukaijah’s life; empowering people through his speakings and music. Both of which he put together when it came time to release his debut conscious hip hop album, Rise.
Rise serves a baker’s dozen of tracks that allow Lukaijah to freely flow his wisdom from his heart to yours from the second “Rise Up” starts through the thought evoking ways of “Imperfectly Perfect” and “Unconditional” right through the very last second of “Victory.” Whether he’s laying down resonate lines or dropping knowledge complemented by hard-hitting production, Lukaijah’s insight and attention to detail are immediately apparent as soon as play is pressed. Where most artists shy away from speaking their truth in favor of clout chasing and padding their pockets, Lukaijah stays true to self, attacking every track with passion reserved for only the most refined MCs.
Lukaijah’s experience with esoteric knowledge, bay area culture and underground hip hop all influenced his development as an artist. As Lukaijah faced various challenges in his early life, he was catapulted on a path of healing and self empowerment. After traveling the world studying with various masters in 30 countries, he became an adept healing facilitator. He developed a method of cognitive mind reprogramming and began teaching other healing facilitators and working with a growing community of students in Japan. However, after the Fukushima earthquake of 2011, Lukaijah realized he was not fully living in alignment with his true purpose and joy of music.
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The year is winding down, but these new metro Phoenix restaurants are picking up steam. Try a Scottsdale cafe’s new dinner menu, Chicago-style fried chicken and drowning tacos this December.
Just in time for the busy holiday season, metro Phoenix welcomed a trio of new restaurants worth adding to your must-try list.
The pack includes a charming spot in Old Town Scottsdale where husband-and-wife team Country and Sergio Velador have recently unveiled a new dinner menu and the first Arizona outpost of a Chicago icon — and no, we don’t mean White Castle.
Finally, there’s a new spot for tacos smothered in tomato broth and a blanket of cheese. The new Chandler spot didn’t invent the dish, but it’s an El Paso import we’re happy to have.
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Since Country and Sergio Velador expanded Super Chunk Sweets & Treats to include New Wave Market in 2017, the quirky little sweet shop/café/restaurant has made a habit of exploring new ways to serve all things delicious to the denizens of Old Town Scottsdale.
The latest wave? Full-service dinner.
This summer, the husband-and-wife duo’s mercurial little spot phased out breakfast (except for Saturday brunch), adding some heftier options at lunchtime in preparation for the launch of a 15-item dinner menu, served four nights a week.
That’s embracing a higher degree of difficulty, particularly in such a competitive neighborhood. But one month into their new dinner offerings, it’s clear the Veladors, along with chef Lester Gonzalez, can sling a lot more than sweets, salads and bagel sandwiches.
THE LATEST WAVE AT NEW WAVE: This cafe’s new dinner menu is fabulous
Details: 7120 E. Sixth Ave., Scottsdale. 602-736-2383, newwavemarket.com.
Harold’s Chicken Shack
While 70% of the city seems to be pledging fealty to the gleaming white parapets on the edge of Scottsdale, another quick service chain of yore with an equally dedicated subculture is busy raising a ruckus in south Phoenix.
Harold’s Chicken Shack is a Chicago icon. And right out of the gate, the first Arizona location is living up to its heritage.
The simple truth is this chicken is delicious. It isn’t premium local poultry carefully pan-fried by a top-rate chef, but it’s $14 for a whole bird. And with nearly 70 years of history to learn from, they’ve got the process down.
Chicago-style fried chicken, while not as unique as some of the city’s better-known foodstuffs, still bears a distinctive style. It’s seasoned and dredged with restraint — thick in spots, but more of a rough, nubby finish — set atop french fries and a single slice of white bread, then either dusted with lemon pepper or doused with hot or mild sauce.
A CHICAGO ICON:Here’s what to order at Harold’s Chicken Shack
Details: 1635 E. Baseline Road, Phoenix. 602-675-1082.
The Drowning Taco
Popular food truck The Drowning Taco — one of many that were recently displaced from their perch along Broadway Road in Mesa — has found itself a brick and mortar home in Chandler, near the corner of Arizona Avenue and Ray Road. From there, Alma Kerby slings a list of casual Mexican dishes that will be familiar to her Valley audience, with one notable exception: the restaurant’s namesake drowning tacos.
They’re all wet. And that’s all right.
The base is a trio of rolled tacos — flautas, really — a filling of seasoned shredded beef wrapped in corn tortillas and fried until crunchy. The twist, however, is the sauce — a rich, steaming hot broth twinged with tomato and a gentle chile buzz that more closely resembles a soup. The tacos are almost completely submerged, a trio of torpedoes peeking out from just beneath the surface, and they’re capped with a sprinkle of finely shredded yellow cheddar cheese that quickly turns limp and gooey in the scalding broth.
The hook is the texture.
Details: 777 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler. 480-687-8447, thedrowningtaco.com.
WHAT’S A DROWNING TACO? This spot didn’t invent the ‘drowning taco,’ but its version is so good
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Apocynum cannabinum L. (redirected from: Apocynum cannabinum var. greeneanum (Bég. & Bel.) Woods.)
Family: Apocynaceae
Indian-Hemp
[Apocynum album, more, Apocynum album var. hypericifolium A. Gray, Apocynum cannabinum var. angustifolium (Woot.) N. Holmgren, Apocynum cannabinum var. cannabinum , Apocynum cannabinum var. glaberrimum A. DC., Apocynum cannabinum var. greeneanum (Bég. & Bel.) Woods., Apocynum cannabinum var. hypericifolium A. Gray, Apocynum cannabinum var. nemorale (G.S. Mill.) Fern., Apocynum cannabinum var. pubescens (Mitchell ex R. Br.) Woods., Apocynum cannabinum var. suksdorfii (Greene) Bég. & Bel., Apocynum dictyotum , Apocynum hypericifolium Ait., Apocynum longifolium Greene, Apocynum pubescens Mitchell ex R. Br., Apocynum sibiricum Jacq., Apocynum sibiricum var. cordigerum (Greene) Fern., Apocynum sibiricum var. farwellii (Greene) Fern., Apocynum sibiricum var. salignum (Greene) Fern., Apocynum suksdorfii Greene, Apocynum suksdorfii var. angustifolium (Woot.) Woods., Apocynum suskdorfii Greene]
Perennial herb 30 cm - 1.5 m tall Leaves: opposite, erect, ascending, or sometimes wide-spreading, on short stalks (stalks of main stem leaves 0.4 - 1 cm) with glands in or above the axils. The blades are 5 - 11 cm long, oblong to broadly elliptic or oval, with an abruptly pointed spine-tip, tapered-pointed or rounded base, non-toothed edges, and sometimes with hairs on the underside, though hairless above. Inflorescence: of individually stalked, erect or ascending flowers in terminal, somewhat broad, branched clusters. The inflorescence clusters are typically surpassed in height by the leaves and lateral branches. Flowers: white or greenish white, 2 - 5 mm long, radially symmetric, egg-shaped-cylindric to urn-shaped, and quite fragrant. Sepals: five, but fused at base, then separating into triangular, pointed lobes, which are over half the length of the petal tube. Petals: five, but fused for most of their length, then separating into short, erect lobes, with the petals overall less than two times the length of the sepals. Inside, near the base of the petal tube, and opposite each lobe, is a tooth or scale. Stamens: five, with separate, short filaments attached to the inside of the petal tube, but the lance-triangular-shaped anthers fused together, surrounding and connected to the stigma, and prolonged beyond the stigma into a cone. Pistil: with two, superior ovaries, which are subtended by five nectaries, but the two ovaries sharing a single style and stigma. Fruit: of two, dry, single-chambered, many-seeded, 10 - 20 cm long, elongate, slender, sickle-shaped (with narrowed ends), capsule-like pods (follicles), which open lengthwise by a single seam. Stems: erect or ascending, branched above, and with an obvious main axis. The stems are tough, fibrous, and exude a milky, acrid juice or latex sap when cut or broken. Seeds: numerous, 3.5 - 6 mm long, narrowly elliptic to sickle-shaped, with a conspicuous tuft of 2.5 - 3 cm long hairs (coma) at one end.
Similar species: Apocynum cannabinum is incredibly similar to A. sibiricum, but that species has mostly stalkless leaves with broadly rounded to indented bases. Also quite similar is the hybrid of this species and A. androsaemifolium, A. x floribundum, except the hybrid has pale pinkish flowers, stalked leaves, inflorescence clusters that often surpass the foliage, smaller seeds (typically under 4 mm long), and shorter (up to 2 cm long) tufts of hair (coma) on the seeds. The third species in our area, A. androsaemifolium, is the least similar because it has larger flowers (0.6 - 1 cm long) on drooping stalks, the petals are obviously pinkish with spreading or recurved lobes, many of the leaves droop, the inflorescences usually extend beyond the leaves, the seeds are only up to 3 mm long, and the tufts of hair (coma) on the seeds are shorter (up to 2 cm long).
Flowering: June to early September
Habitat and ecology: Fairly uncommon, often in disturbed sites such as along railroads, in old pastures, and other somewhat open sites.
Notes: This species is highly variable in terms of the leaf shape and leaf hairiness. Some taxonomists do not believe that this species and A. sibiricum are separate species, but rather that the latter is only a variety of this, then known as A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium. However, the local floras as well as the most recent treatment of the flora of eastern North America (Gleason and Cronquist 1991) recognize both as separate species, as we do here. Hybridization is very common between this species and A. androsaemifolium. The flowers of our Apocynum species are very fragrant and attract many insects. According to Voss (1996), a particularly striking leaf-beetle, Chrysochus auratus Fabr. is often seen associating with species of Apocynum, and its larvae feed on the roots, thus it has been known commonly as the "dogbane beetle". Several species in the Apocynaceae family are used as sources of chemicals in medicine, or in poisons, and most members of the family are poisonous due to the presence of the milky latex sap. Native Americans were known to use the tough, fibrous stems of Apocynum for material fibers (Voss 1996).
Author: The Field Museum
Perennial herb 30 - 80 cm tall Leaves: opposite, erect or ascending, essentially stalkless (rarely with stalks up to 3 mm) with glands in or above the axils. The blades are 5 - 11 cm long, 1 - 5.5 cm wide, oblong to broadly elliptic or oval, with an abruptly pointed spine-tip, broadly rounded to indented or clasping base, non-toothed edges, and rarely any hairs. Inflorescence: of individually stalked, erect or ascending flowers in terminal, somewhat broad, branched clusters. The inflorescence clusters are typically surpassed in height by the leaves and lateral branches. Flowers: greenish white or pale yellow, 3 - 5 mm long, radially symmetric, cylindric to urn-shaped, and quite fragrant. Sepals: five, but fused at base, then separating into triangular, pointed lobes, which are over half the length of the petal tube. Petals: five, but fused for most of their length, then separating into short, mostly erect lobes, with the petals overall less than two times the length of the sepals. Inside, near the base of the petal tube, and opposite each lobe, is a tooth or scale. Stamens: five, with separate, short filaments attached to the inside of the petal tube, but the lance-triangular-shaped anthers fused together, surrounding and connected to the stigma, and prolonged beyond the stigma into a cone. Pistil: with two, superior ovaries, which are subtended by five nectaries, but the two ovaries sharing a single style and stigma. Fruit: of two, dry, single-chambered, many-seeded, 4 - 10 cm long, elongate, slender, somewhat straight, spindle-shaped (with narrowed ends), capsule-like pods (follicles), which open lengthwise by a single seam. Stems: erect or ascending, sometimes almost prostrate, often branched above, and usually with an obvious main axis. The always hairless stems are tough, fibrous, and exude a milky, acrid juice or latex sap when cut or broken. Seeds: numerous, 3.3 - 5.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic to sickle-shaped, with a conspicuous tuft of 1 - 2.5 cm long hairs (coma) at one end.
Similar species: Apocynum sibiricum is incredibly similar to A. cannabinum, but that species has evidently stalked leaves with tapered or rounded bases, and longer fruit (10 - 20 cm) that are also slightly curved. Also quite similar is the hybrid of this species and A. androsaemifolium, A. x floribundum, except the hybrid has pale pinkish flowers, inflorescence clusters that often surpass the foliage, smaller seeds (under 4 mm long), and stalked leaves. The third species in our area, A. androsaemifolium, is the least similar because it has larger flowers (0.6 - 1 cm long) on drooping stalks, the petals are obviously pinkish with spreading or recurved lobes, many of the stalked leaves droop, the inflorescences usually extend beyond the leaves, and the seeds are only up to 3 mm long.
Flowering: late May to late August
Habitat and ecology: Somewhat common, usually in disturbed sites such as along railroads or in old pastures, but also in other fairly open sites.
Notes: This species has often been treated as only a variety of A. cannabinum (A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium). However, the local floras as well as the most recent treatment of the flora of eastern North America (Gleason and Cronquist 1991) recognize both as separate species, as we do here. Hybridization is very common between this species and A. androsaemifolium. The flowers of our Apocynum species are very fragrant and attract many insects. According to Voss (1996), a particularly striking leaf-beetle, Chrysochus auratus Fabr. is often seen associating with species of Apocynum, and its larvae feed on the roots, thus it has been known commonly as the "dogbane beetle". Several species in the Apocynaceae family are used as sources of chemicals in medicine, or in poisons, and most members of the family are poisonous due to the presence of the milky latex sap. Native Americans were known to use the tough, fibrous stems of Apocynum for material fibers (Voss 1996).
Deam's treatment includes three varieties: var. cannabinum is a glabrous plant except for the lower leaf surfaces; var. glaberrimum is an entirely glabrous plant; and var. pubescens is hairy on both leaf surfaces and in the inflorescence.]
Variety cannabinum grows in moist or dry situations in almost all kinds of soils in all parts of the state. It is usually found in small colonies along roadsides and fences, in hayfields, fallow fields, and open woodland. I have found specimens of this and other species of the genus growing in adverse ecological conditions, that have much reduced leaves and a decumbent habit. I refer to such habitats as ballast of railroads, gravel pits, and gravel bars of streams.
Habitats and distribution [of var. glaberrimum] similar to those of the species. This variety is more frequent than either the species or the pubescent variety.
[Variety pubescens is] found in habitats and places similar to those of the species [A. cannabinum]. Infrequent. A study of our specimens shows several of them to be pubescent on the lower surface of the leaves. Our specimens vary from densely velvety-pubescent to pubescent mostly along the veins with scattered hairs between. Habitat similar to that of the other species [of Apocynum].
Wetland Indicator Status: FAC
Diagnostic Traits: Erect perennial; leaves opposite; flowers in cymes; corolla bell-shaped, white, to 5 mm long. Deam (above) as well as the "Flora of the Chicago Region" recognize multiple varieties and even species within this complex. More detailed analysis is clearly needed.
Martin and Hutchins 1980, Welsh et al. 1993, McLaughlin 1993
Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Erect or ascending stems, reddish, glabrous but tough and fibrous bark, growing to 1 m tall, producing a milky latex. Leaves: Opposite or whorled, short petiolate above, sessile below, blades ovate to lanceolate, these 2-14 cm long and 1-7 cm wide, rounded at base but narrowed, mostly ascending, they are glabrous on the upper side and pubescent below. Flowers: In terminal cymes, these with small white flowers, these 5-parted cylindrical to urceolate corollas are 2-5 mm long, slightly longer to twice as long as calyx, lobes erect or slightly spreading. Fruits: Follicle slender, terete, 10-20 cm long, with many seeds each with a tuft of hair at one end. Ecology: Found on disturbed sites, especially along streams, roads, fields, but generally in mesic soils from 3,500-7,500 ft (1067-2286 m), flowers May-September. Distribution: Ranges north throughout the United States to Canada. Notes: This plant loves a variety of mesic habitats and can reproduce asexually through its roots, so it can be found in clumps. Ethnobotany: Used as a hair tonic, used to help mothers stimulate milk production, taken as a laxative, for rheumatism, coughs, pox, whooping cough, asthma, diarrhea, stomachache, as an eye medicine, for worms, and the root was used as a universal remedy. It also has ceremonial uses, the latex was used as a chewing gum, the seeds were eaten, and the bark can make cordage and a whole range of useful things. Etymology: Apocynum is from Greek apo, away from, and kyon dog, hence dogbane, while cannabinum means help-like. Synonyms: Apocynum hypericifolium, A. pubescens, A. sibiricum, A. suskdorfii Editor: SBuckley, 2011
Erect, branched above, 0.5-1.5 m, with a well developed main axis; lvs on short but evident petioles 3-10 mm, erect or ascending, 5-11 cm, oblong-lanceolate to oval or broadly elliptic, acute to rounded at the base and mucronate apex, glabrous or hairy beneath; fls erect; cal-lobes usually reaching beyond the middle of the cor-tube; cor cylindric to urceolate, 3-6 mm, white or greenish-white, the lobes erect or slightly divergent; fr (5-)10-15(-20) cm; coma mostly 1-3 cm; 2n=16. Open places; rare or local in e. Can. and N. Engl., abundant from N.Y. to N.D., s. to Fla. and Tex., and w. occasionally to the Pacific. May-Sept. Highly variable in lf-shape and pubescence.
Erect to sometimes nearly prostrate; lvs usually glabrous beneath, sessile or on short petioles rarely to 3 mm, the base broadly obtuse to rounded or often subcordate and clasping; infl and cal usually glabrous; cor greenish-white or pale yellow; otherwise as in no. 2. Open places; Nf. to N.J. and W.Va., w. to Man. and Mo., and to the Pacific, more common westward. May-Sept. (A. hypericifolium) Perhaps better treated as A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium A. Gray.
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Yang Liu
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Yang Liu is a tenured full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He received his PhD degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology in 2007. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine translation. He has published over 80 papers in leading NLP/AI journals and conferences such as Computational Linguistics, ACL, AAAI, EMNLP, and COLING. He was the recipient of ACL 2017 Outstanding Paper Award, COLING/ACL 2006 Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award second prize. He served as Executive Committee Member of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL, Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics, and Associate Editor of ACM TALLIP.
Code and Systems
THUMT: an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation
TsinghuaAligner: an open-source statistical bilingual word alignment system
Advances in Neural Machne Translation (in Chinese). 2016. CWMT Invited Talk.
Tips on Writing Machine Translation Papers (in Chinese). 2014. CWMT Tutorial.
Statistical Machine Translation in the Big Data Era. 2013. CCF ADL Tutorial.
Tree-based and Forest-based Translation. 2010. ACL Tutorial.
Spring 2020: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2019: Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
Spring 2019: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
Fall 2018: Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
Fall 2017: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
Spring 2017: Foundations of Programming, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
Spring 2016: Foundations of Programming
Mieradilijiang Maimaiti, PhD, 2015-present (co-advising with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Jiacheng Zhang, PhD, 2015-present
Xuancheng Huang, PhD, 2017-present
Shuo Wang, PhD, 2018-present
Gang Chen, Master, 2018-present
Chi Chen, PhD, 2019-present
Yuanhang Zheng, PhD, 2019-present
Huimeng Zhang, Master, 2019-present
Yizhou Xu, Master, 2019-present
Yanzhuo Ding, Master, 2016-2019
Meng Zhang, PhD, 2013-2018 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Abudukelimu Halidanmu, PhD, 2012-2018 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Shiqi Shen, PhD, 2012-2017 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Yong Cheng, PhD, 2012-2017 (Tsinghua IIIS, co-advised with Prof. Wei Xu)
Chunyang Liu, Master, 2013-2016
Meiping Dong, Master, 2012-2015
Peng Li, PhD, 2009-2015 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Henry Loharja, Master, 2012-2014
Can Wang, Master, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Qi Liu, Master, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Shengtao Lei, Master, 2009-2012 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
Guosheng Ben (ICT/CAS), Master, 2010-2011
Selected Professional Services
Association for Computational Linguistics:
AACL: Executive Committee Member (2018-2020), Secretary (2018-2020)
SIGHAN: Information Officer (2013-present)
Chinese Information Processing Society:
Computational Linguistics Technical Committee: Vice Chair (2018-present), General Secretary (2013-present), Member (2013-present)
Youth Working Committee: Chair (2016-2018), Executive Committee Member (2012-2018), Committee Member (2012-2019)
Computational Linguistics: Editorial Board Member (2018-2020)
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing: Associate Editor (2017-2020)
ACL: Area Co-Chair (2017-2019), Best Paper Award Committee Member (2018), Local Arrangements Co-Chair (2015), Tutorial Co-Chair (2014), Faculty Advisor of Student Research Workshop (2016)
EMNLP: Area Co-Chair (2016, 2018-2019), Best Long Paper Award Committee Member (2018)
IJCAI: Senior PC member (2016, 2018-2020)
AAAI: Senior PC member (2019-2020)
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NOTOMA BUS
The principal cities of the inland prefecture in the mountainous district, Nagano and Matsumoto.
Nagano Prefecture is situated in the Chubu region and is an inland prefecture in the mountanous district in the heart of Honshu. It was where the Winter Olympics were held in 1998. Nagano and Matsumoto are principal cities in Nagano Prefecture.
Nagano is a temple town in which the prestigious Zenkoji plays a central part. It is surrounded by magnificent mountains, and Zenkoji, which has attracted pilgrims for more than 1,400 years, is said to be a place that must be visited once.
Nagano’s Zenkoji is one of the popular temples even in the whole of Japan. It was established in the 7th century and houses a Buddhist statue that was brought to Japan in the 6th century
Zenkoji is also majorly involved in the development of Nagano. Japan’s major cities developed from castle towns, temple towns, and port towns. As for Nagano, it developed as a temple town with Zenkoji playing a central part. Even now, one can experience the temple town culture from the path to Zenkoji continuing from Nagano Station.
Matsumoto is the next largest city after Nagano and, along with Nagano, is the entrance to the Japanese alps.
Matsumoto Castle is an extremely famous place and a must-visit. It is one of Japan’s oldest fortresses and, along with Himeji Castle, Hikone Castle, and Inuyama Castle, has been designated as a national treasure. Matsumoto Castle was built on flatland and a wide moat serves as its main method of defense.
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ski on powdery snow, and relax in a hot spring
Toyama Prefecture offers delicious foods from its rich nature.
Old streets with a distinct atmosphere, local gourmet foods, and Shirakawa-go, a World Heritage Site.
Kanazawa is a traditional city with arts and crafts.
Tokyo is the most populated large city in the world.
The economic center of Kansai. A city with unique charms and traditions.
A modern city undergoing rapid development
The old imperial capital and cultural heart of Japan
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Homepage » News » NHS70 Parlimentary Award win for Cumbria Health on Call (CHoC)
Posted on Thursday 12th July 2018
A local organisation, Cumbria Health on Call, has been honoured in parliament as a part of a special, one-off competition to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday.
The NHS70 Parliamentary Awards, sponsored by IBM and Teva, were launched in February to recognise the massive contribution made by the individuals who work in and alongside the NHS.
MPs in England were asked to nominate individuals and teams serving their constituents across ten categories. Regional champions were selected in May, with the national winners chosen by a panel of senior leaders representing staff and patients. There were four regions and one champion selected per award, per region.
Having been nominated by Tim Farron, John Stevenson, Trudy Harrison, Rory Stewart and Sue Hayman, MPs across Cumbria, in the Excellence in Primary Care category for providing outstanding primary care across Cumbria, Cumbria Health on Call was named Regional Champion in May, and then took home the national award at a ceremony in Parliament on Wednesday 4th July.
Susan Blakemore, Chief Executive and Hannah Mason, Executive Director of Operations, collected the Award on Wednesday 4th July on behalf of the organisation.
Susan Blakemore said:
“We are delighted to receive Parliamentary Award for Excellence in Primary Care, it is an amazing achievement which recognises the hard work and dedication of the whole CHoC team who provide outstanding and responsive care to the population of Cumbria. This is a fantastic accolade to the NHS here in Cumbria, both within CHoC and all of our partner organisations. We recognise that everyone matters, both those who use our services and those who are part of delivering them.”
CHoC were among the ten winners – selected from more than 750 nominations submitted by over 250 MPs – to receive their awards at a ceremony on the Palace of Westminster’s Terrace Pavilion, hosted by Dr Sara Kayat, NHS GP & TV Doctor. Health Select Committee Chair Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP, and the panel of judges collectively representing millions of NHS staff and patients were also on hand to pay tribute to the winners and all those shortlisted.
Wider celebrations to mark the NHS’s big birthday will include thousands of NHS Big 7Tea parties to raise money for NHS charities, whilst dozens of landmark buildings will light up blue, including York Minster, the Blackpool Tower, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, the London Eye and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The BT Tower will also run a special birthday message on its iconic infoband.
Find out more about NHS70 celebrations and how to get involved at www.nhs70.nhs.uk|.
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Pictured: (left to right) Tim Farron, Hannah Mason (Executive Director of Operations at CHoC), Susan Blakemore (Chief Executive at CHoC), Trudy Harrison and John Stevenson.
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Watch out, cotton: Tencel fibers are having a moment. If you’ve shopped for just about anything
Watch out, cotton: Tencel fibers are having a moment. If you’ve shopped for just about anything made of fabric lately – whether it’s clothing or bedding – chances are you’ve come across this fiber. You’ve probably also seen a bunch of claims tied to it, promising incredible softness and eco-friendly practices. As fiber scientists and product experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute Textiles Lab, we often have people ask us about the different types of materials they come across when they shop. So here’s the scoop on this trendy fiber you’re seeing everywhere: Tencel is a brand name for a set of fibers called lyocell and modal (think of it like Band-Aids are to bandages or Kleenex are to tissues). These fibers are known for feeling super soft and are widely used in sustainable fashion. Tencel is somewhat similar to rayon (i.e. viscose) because they’re what the industry refers to as “regenerated cellulose” fibers. Manufacturers take wood pulp, dissolve it in a chemical solvent, then push it through an extruder to form the fibers. The big difference is rayon requires more energy and chemicals to produce, which is both wasteful and toxic for the workers who make it. Tencel, on the...
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Here’s a little-known fact about the U.S. Postal Service: Since 2001 it has participated in what’s
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Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua: 8 lessons learned
Now that I’ve had a few days to digest what I saw Saturday at the Garden, it seems obvious that there are both life and boxing lessons to be learned from Andy Ruiz Jr.’s shocking seventh-round TKO of Anthony Joshua. Some of them I knew but disregarded because of my lack of belief in Ruiz’s chances. Some I had forgotten. And some only became clear to me after the fact. This, of course, is the most obvious one. Ruiz is nobody’s idea of what a professional athlete should look like, least of all a heavyweight champion. But there are some guys who are in better shape than their appearance would indicate and there are guys who are comfortable at weights that are considered obese. CC Sabathia, Bartolo Colon, Tony Gwynn and Charles Barkley have excelled in their chosen sports despite ranging between chubby and downright fat. In boxing, Buster Mathis Sr., Tony Tubbs, Tony Ayala and James Toney in his post-middleweight period come to mind. It’s obvious now that Ruiz belongs on that list. Even when they come wrapped in armor like Joshua did Saturday night, everyone’s raw materials are the same. Punches hurt muscular guys as much as non-muscular guys. Witness the body shot Ruiz landed in th...
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Over the past couple years, Free Again Wildlife Rehabilitation, in Herrin, has taken in over 800
Over the past couple years, Free Again Wildlife Rehabilitation, in Herrin, has taken in over 800 native animals to help rehabilitate them, so they could be released back into the wild. Beverly Shofstall, the founder and director, opened Free Again in 1988 after working for Central Hospital for Animals in Herrin. “The veterinarians are responsible for the domestic animals, so they didn’t really pay attention to any of the wildlife that just got dropped off,” Shofstall said. “I love wildlife, so I started taking care of them.” According to their website, Free Again is the largest and only all-animal facility in southern Illinois. Free Again is also the only facility south of I-64, which accepts large birds of prey such as eagles, owls and hawks, Shofstall said. Emily Fielden, a regular volunteer at Free Again, said the seasons dictate what kinds of animals are brought into the facility. “[In] spring, it’s all babies; raccoons, possums and bunnies,” Fielden said. “Anybody that finds [a bird] usually brings it to us.” Fielden said during peak season she’s seen a day where the facility took in 20 animals. During winter, there have been days where no animals come in. With the facility...
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From Our Gardens: Growing tomatoes? Give them the support they need with cages or stakes. | Lifestyles
Please purchase a subscription to continue. If you are a current subscriber please click Sign Up or Login to activate your digital access. If not, please click Sign Up to subscribe. Please purchase a subscription to continue. If you are a current subscriber please click Sign Up or Login to activate your digital access. If not, please click Sign Up to subscribe. Please support local journalism by becoming a digital subscriber or adding digital to your newspaper subscription. Tomato plants are either determinate or indeterminate — meaning that they can grow either to a determinate size or an indeterminate size. Tomato plants are either determinate or indeterminate — meaning that they can grow either to a determinate size or an indeterminate size. Creating and providing structures for support is necessary for several crops, such as beans, cucumbers and tomatoes. Earlier this season, my husband and I brainstormed ways we could better support our tomato plants. We only planted eight tomato plants this season, so we could afford to buy better supports for such a small number of plants. We opted for a fleet of heavy-gauge galvanized tomato cages we found at the hardware store, which a...
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Global Portable Evaporative Air Cooler Market Outlook 2019 – 2025 : Symphony(Keruilai), Aolan, Jinghui, Lianchuang, Hessaire
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Noah Lyles: I will win 3 gold medals at Tokyo Olympics
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Another Review at MyShelf.Com
Publisher: Constable (Constable & Robinson)
Format Reviewed: Hardback
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Genre: Historical Crime [1937 - London & Spain]
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Rachel A Hyde
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The More Deceived
By David Roberts
Short of a time machine or being the right age to have lived through it all, I know of no better way to experience the 1930’s than by reading a David Roberts novel.
After their sea adventure aboard the Queen Mary in Dangerous Sea, (also reviewed on this site) Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Brown are back home in London. It is still 1937, and people are of two minds as to whether a war with Germany is inevitable. Lord Edward is called upon by the Foreign Office to investigate Winston Churchill and find out how he is getting hold of confidential information about Britain’s armament program. But after being spellbound by the great man’s charisma, what he actually finds is that somebody has disappeared from his post at the Foreign Office. When he turns up murdered, Lord Edward once again has a crime to solve. Meanwhile, Verity is off to Spain and soon so is Lord Edward, but this time their destination is Guernica.
There is a story in here, but nothing like as engaging as the classic era pastiche in Dangerous Sea. Rather, it is a peg to hang all that history on, and this time the book fairly bursts with it all. Churchill’s dire predictions, the specious fascination of Communism and Fascism, Germany’s sinister rumblings and the horrors of Guernica are all in here. These vie for space with ladies’ racing at Brooklands and there is always a whiff of the extraordinary style of those days, the era of Mrs. Simpson, Amelia Earhart and the glamour of Hollywood. New and vibrant ideas crackle in the air as people expound on the twin lures of far right-and left-wing politics, and photojournalism is in its infancy.
Amongst all this, the actual plot rather gets sidelined, and the set pieces crowding one on top of another thick and fast only obscure it further. But when such an extraordinary decade is at your fingertips in such an energetic and tactile way, anything as artificial as a story seems almost superfluous. You don’t need to be an aficionado of historical crime to enjoy these books. David Roberts’ tales of “interesting times” hold up a mirror to our own times and illuminate the past. More, please.
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Monsanto's Vision of Sustainability Offers Opportunity to Redefine Society's Perception of Agriculture
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Agriculture has come under increased pressure over recent years to apply better controls and transparency internally and ultimately increase the industry’s level of sustainability. Consumer interest in the way food is produced and the environmental impacts of the products they choose to buy has never been at the level we see it at today, says Dion McBay of Monsanto, who leads the seed company’s global sustainable development team. Associate Farm Director Carson Horn recently visited with McBay about where he sees sustainability in agriculture going and what role Monsanto is playing in that vision.
“Sustainability is fundamentally what we do in agriculture. It’s part of what farmers have always done,” McBay said. “I believe any farmer that you spend time visiting with would tell you that he views it as his job to care for the land and manage it in a way that makes the absolute most with the least impact on the environment possible.”
McBay describes this as a very exciting time in agriculture where modern innovations are coming together in a way that allows farmers to do so much more with less, increasing their overall productivity and at the same time, their sustainability as well.
“Practices like no-till and reduced tillage, the use of cover crops, precision nutrient management and even the decisions that farmers are making with data science today are allowing them to make better data-based decisions that are more optimized, more efficient for the farmer,” McBay said. “We’re helping farmers though providing a number of tools, but ultimately we believe sustainability is a partnership that we’re in together.”
In the end, McBay insists the work of farmers utilizing sustainable methods, will in the years to come redefine for many, their perception of agriculture as the sustainable force for all of society.
“The world’s population is growing rapidly and the challenge is on us to secure food for that growing population,” McBay said. “As we do it, we have to do it in the most sustainable way as possible.”
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Posted by Richard Rossi on Apr 23, 2012 in Music, News, Powerpop | 1 comment
The Records rock to benefit the Scleroderma Foundation
Every once in a while a good cause and a great band come together to make for a very worthwhile effort. This is just such a time. This from John Wicks, The Records, and Joel Cherman of the Scleroderma Foundation of Southern California:
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FOLKS!!!
For the second straight year, the band and I are playing at the Annual Scleroderma Foundation Walkathon on Sunday, June 3rd at La Mirada Regional Park in La Mirada, California. My good friend Joel Cherman, lost his dad 12 years ago due to complications from Scleroderma. We’ll be playing in memory of Joel’s dad to help raise money for the foundation.
Scleroderma is a chronic, degenerative, autoimmune disease that affects the body’s connective tissue due to an overproduction of collagen. Progression of the disease occurs at different paces, frequently involving complications of the internal organs. It is a painful, life altering disease that is often fatal. The Foundation raises money to help patients and their families cope with the disease and to fund research to improve treatment and ultimately find a cure.
YOU can help the foundation by purchasing the recent re-release of “Rotate,” which includes additional tracks and a new, re-done, mega-improved version of “Starry Eyes.” For every $14.95 copy you buy at the Pay Pal link below, $5.00 will be donated to the foundation! All copies will be signed by me.
Signed copies of the CD will also be available for purchase (same deal) at the Walkathon. Come to the park on 6/3 to join the party, support the cause, and watch us play. We expect to go on sometime between 9:30 and 10:30. Hope to see you there! – John
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The Nth Power Announce Live Album and Tour Dates
Posted on September 1, 2016 by ragin_randy247
THE NTH POWER TO RELEASE ALBUM TO BE FREE – LIVE ON NOVEMBER 11, 2016
US ALBUM RELEASE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
LIVE VIDEO FEATURING “TAKE MY SOUL” FROM TO BE FREE – LIVE RELEASED TODAY
August 31, 2016 (Brooklyn, NY) — Funk and soul quartet The Nth Power are proud to announce the release of their dynamic new record, To Be Free – Live, on November 11, 2016. The band recorded the nine-track album in July during two nights of intimate live performances in Boston, MA and one night in the band’s hometown of Brooklyn, NY. Seven songs on the album represent new material for the band.
The Nth Power’s gospel-style vocals along with their soul, jazz, funk and world-beat riffs create a sound and experience that is made for a live show. At the request of their fans, the band decided to capture that energy on their latest record. The result is an album that exudes the intimacy and organic quality of a live performance paired with the profound talent of four powerhouse musicians: Nikki Glaspie (vocals, drums); Nate Edgar (bass); Nick Cassarino(vocals, guitar); and Courtney J. Mell Smith (vocals, keyboards).
“When we recorded [our debut full-length album], Abundance, we wanted to have a clean studio approach to our music; to hear it done right and done crisp,” says Nick Cassarino. “Since that release, we have been touring heavily for a year straight, and we have seen that when performed live, our energy and message seem to translate more fluidly to our audience.”To Be Free reflects that natural connection between performers and fans, representing the band’s sound in its truest state. “Every song is a journey, a story, a feeling, and an experience that we are honored to share with you,” shares Cassarino.
The band has also released a video featuring “Take My Soul”, a standout blues track from the album which was filmed live in Boston at The Bridge Sound & Stage. “”Take My Soul” is an extremely powerful song that tells a story about a runaway slave that has surrendered his soul to God as he is being pursued by his adversary,” says Nikki Glaspie. “The music is based in the blues tradition, of which, every member in the Nth Power respects and holds dear as an undeniable American Root.” Watch a preview for “Take My Soul” HERE.
To Be Free – Live will be distributed through Harmonzied Records and available for purchase exclusively at The Nth Power shows starting on October 12th. The album will then be available in record stores and via online digital and physical retailers on November 11th. Tickets for allTo Be Free – Live tour dates go on sale Wednesday, August 31 at 10 am EST.
For more information on The Nth Power, including ticket information for all shows, visitthenthpowermusic.com.
The Nth Power To Be Free – Live Tour Dates
10/12/2016 – Ardmore Music Hall – Ardmore, PA
10/13/2016 – The Dock – Ithaca, NY
10/14/2016 – The Spot – Providence, RI 10/15/2016 – Arch Street Tavern – Hartford, CT
10/16/2016 – House of Music – Portland, ME
10/18/2016 – Funk N’ Waffles – Syracuse, NY
10/19/2016 – Jewel – Manchester, NH
10/20/2016 – ArtsRiot – Burlington, VT
10/21/2016 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA
10/22/2016 – Brooklyn Comes Alive – Brooklyn, NY
11/3/2016 – Barkley Ballroom – Frisco, CO
11/4/2016 – Cervantes Other Side – Denver, CO
11/5/2016 – Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, CO
11/6/2016 – Fox Theatre – Boulder, CO
11/8/2016 – 1884 Lounge @ Minglewood Hall – Memphis, TN
11/10/2016 – Bootleg @ Atomic Cowboy – St. Louis, MO
11/11/2016 – Martyrs – Chicago, IL
11/12/2016 -The Mousetrap – Indianapolis, IN
11/13/2016 – Woodlands Tavern – Columbus, OH
The Nth Power – Live Album “To Be Free” & Fall Tour Announcement from The Nth Power on Vimeo.
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This is the S-Bahn's debut at the Spokane Oktoberfest! You'll hear traditional music and the latest Oktoberfest music while prosting with the S-Bahn.
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THE InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort and Spa scooped the Australasia’s Leading Family Resort award at the Oscars of the travel and tourism industry — the prestigious 2018 Annual World Travel Awards Asia and Australasia Gala Ceremony which was held on September 3 at the InterContinental Grand Standford Hong Kong.In a press statement issued this week, the Natadola property said since it began operations in May 2009, the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa has cemented its position as a premium holiday destination for guests of all ages with its ‘sincere commitment to excellence and enhanced luxurious guest experiences in the travel industry.’Andrew Davidson, Area general manager South Pacific at the InterContinental Fiji said specially designed resort facilities and recreational spaces allowed for personalised service, relaxed luxury and maximum comfort that contributed to making any family holiday truly exceptional.He said these included the resort’s signature Planet Trekkers childcare facility, child amenities and dining experiences — with Natadola Bay as the perfect location for sun, sand, surf, snorkelling and other outdoor activities.“Our Fijian family is well known for our unconditional and welcoming warmth when taking care of families that arrive on our shores,” he said.“To ensure that we offer the best possible experience, our childcare attendants and nannies are trained by Australian Child Wise experts to provide an exciting and fun — yet very safe environment for younger guests to enjoy.”Mr Davidson added that understanding the needs of discerning younger guests, the InterContinental Hotels Group also has a specially designed nutritional children’s menu and an engaging Planet Trekkers mobile app to excite children before, during and after their trip. “To achieve this recognition on a continental level is a fantastic honour.“This is testimony to how our team endeavours to deliver seamless service and make every guest encounter truly special; from our executive chef personally ensuring that any dietary request is catered for, to our recreations team regaling families with their personal insight into Fiji’s unique culture and history.”Heralded as the “travel industry’s equivalent to the Oscar’s” by the Wall Street Journal, The World Travel Awards were launched in 1993 to acknowledge excellence in the travel and tourism industry and are now in their 25th year.Recipients of these awards are reputed to be the fi nest in luxury and travel offerings in the travel industry. One of two iconic Fijian hotels owned by the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) that is managed by InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa provides services that go beyond the world-renowned Fijian warmth and hospitality to give guests authentic, enriching experiences and insights into the Fijian culture and way of life.InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa overlooks the azure waters of Natadola Beach — voted by CNN as one of the best beaches in the world, and Fiji’s fi nest beach.The resort is part of the InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) with more than 5000 properties and 744,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries under the InterContinental brand. The InterContinental brand has been pioneering new international destinations for decades, expanding into over 60 countries in every corner of the world.Today, with more than 180 hotels and resorts internationally, InterContinental Hotels and Resorts is the world’s largest luxury hotel brand.The post Leading Family Resort Leading Family Resort award for tourist property appeared first on Discover the South Pacific.Source: Blog read more
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By Sarah Horton, on February 6th, 2015
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago, I fairly soon wanted to find my sisters. Other women who’d shared some of my experiences and ‘been in some of the same rooms’ — those places and days of rapid diagnosis, treatment decisions and prognosis. Other women I could really talk to.
Well finding these sisters took a while, a great while. But eventually through social media, into my life they came. Americans for the most part, and an Australian living in the States, in one very particular, opinionated and lovable case. Rachel from New Jersey.
Our friendship was brief, as you’ll hear, but deep and intensely joyous. Our regular Skypes changed the sound of the house. And Rachel’s love brought the sparkle back into my eyes. A spark and a sparkle the grief of these past three years has never subsequently extinguished.
Today I am remembering my dear friend Rachel Cheetham. She died three years ago on the 6th of February. At her husband Anthony’s request I facilitated a two hour memorial service for her in New Jersey in 2012, a week after her death, with the help of our mutual friend Gayle Sulik.
I wrote the following introduction to Rachel as an exercise for my funeral celebrant training later in 2012. I’d discussed my plans with Rach to do this training, in what turned out to be our last conversation. This is how I introduced Rachel:
“The last eight years of Rachels’ life were dominated by her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2004. Despite multiple surgery and treatments, the cancer recurred twice, and proved fatal.
It’s hard for us to see any sense in seeing such a vital, forceful, dynamic person have their life cut short at age 41. Rachel had so much in her life – an international career, a loving husband, a beautiful home and garden, a devoted and much-loved dog.
Cancer may have stolen Rachel’s career, but in the last few years she used her intelligence to write her blog, and as she joked herself, ‘Who knew I’d become a world famous blogger?’ But she did.
Rachel’s death left many of us with an enormous sense of loss. She meant so much to so many people. So whilst it is hard to accept now, hopefully in time we will be able to think of her, with her acerbic wit and unfailing kindness, and say, “I’m glad I knew Rachel. My life is richer for knowing her.”
Three years on I’m now a qualified and experienced funeral celebrant. Over the last two and a half years I’ve worked with lots of families to create meaningful funerals, to say goodbye. It is an extremely enriching career and I feel enormously privileged to be doing the work. This work plugs me into the main vein of life and death, and I love it. I also feel incredibly lucky that I have an ‘afterwards’ that is so meaningful and rich, my work is hugely rewarding.
I still think about Rachel, though, a lot. As each year turns towards the gradually lightening evenings, I am reminded of 2012. Like the way the sky is, inky blue black, but somehow lighter. This time of year, the growing light, a few minutes lighter each evening, the streak of light in the west across the rooves of the houses on Queens Drive here in Liverpool, and shining just above us, Venus like a diamond.
The separation was very painful. In the weeks after Rachel died I wrote:
“And here’s the thing. This thing called grief. It is so big, so solid – it has a feel, a shape. Mine is a big hard cube, like ice – I feel it sometimes in my throat, I feel it other times pressing on my chest, and it makes my eyes water. And here’s the other thing about it – everything and anything else put next to it seems tiny and frankly insignificant.”
I have learned that this is the perspective that death gives us. Facing death, things move into their correct proportion.
Gradually, and at times painfully, the sadness of Rachel’s loss did start to leave me. I could smile again at memories. Instead of causing tears of pain and sadness, they began to cause happiness.
Rach in NYC, June 2011, wearing ‘my’ hat, bought together in Greenwich Village.
I only knew Rachel for 14 months. It seems almost impossible that we could have created such a strong connection in such a short time, even across 3,500 miles. But we did. At Rachel’s memorial service I saw photographs of her when younger – a dazzling woman with an amazing smile in a cocktail dress in NYC, a bikini clad carefree spirit on some exotic palm fringed beach on holiday, beaming with happiness with her beloved husband. She was absolutely dazzling and full of life. And although I didn’t know the Rach in those photographs, I did know an amazing and dazzling woman. She had a spark, a mischievious streak. I recall sitting with Rachel in hospital in New Jersey, as (once again) she took her place in the chemo chair, and I passed her a sweet when the saline drip was put in. A knowing weary exchange from me to her – patient to patient. No words were necessary. For amusement we ransacked the patient literature and laughed like schoolgirls as we snorted over the pithy language that only has a place for survivors. And then we went for lunch.
Rachel could never ‘transcend’ breast cancer to become the beaming ‘survivor’ that shows we can ‘beat’ breast cancer, she was Stage IV when I first met her, already terminal.
A friend who never knew Rachel asked me what she was like. This is how I described her – opinionated, articulate, intelligent, funny, irreverent, she loved nature, cooking, knitting, shopping, gardening…. and I realised I could be describing myself, and said, ‘Rach was the person most like me in the whole world.’ I delighted in the sheer pleasure of her company and her conversation. She was my intellectual equal. I always felt ‘filled up’ and enriched after a conversation with Rach, like a good meal.
And although breast cancer was our link, our key, the way we found each other – we had so much in common. Rachel loved to cook, never happier than in her own kitchen as designed by her with the lovely glass tiles round the big gas stovetop – at least five rings. When she cooked, I was quite happy to either watch her, or pass things, or be the washer up. Rachel’s exquisite taste was everywhere in her home.
Sarah and Rach, June 2011 in New Jersey.
Rachel, although eight years younger than me, always felt like my older sister, someone I could look up to and aspire to be. She admired my red lippie*. It was a mutual admiration.
(*Note: ‘lippie’ is an abbreviation for lipstick, used by UK English speakers like me, and Rachel herself especially had a knack of using the ‘ie’ ending, like doggie.)
January 2011, Rach and Sarah in ‘marathon’ Skype (Rachel’s word).
In the weeks and months after Rachel died I did things to capture her memory and spirit – it helped. Throughout the time I’d known Rachel I’d made her films – films made just for her, which showed her my world, my garden here in Liverpool, which she longed to visit, and films of walks with Ronnie. After she died I compiled a ‘best of’ film called ‘One More Spring’ (There’s a link at the end of this post). Because in my first Skype conversations with Rachel early in 2011 we’d delighted about the first daffodils, the arrival of spring. I had anticipated at least one more.
But that didn’t happen, so 2012 became a year of grief for me.
And this is how I remembered Rachel. During the summer in 2012 I went to night school, and learned how to print and bind my own edition of a book called “10,237 – a book of hours”, the number of hours I’d known Rachel.
10,237 – A book of hours
I found and planted a Wollemi pine, an Australian rarity, in her memory in my garden.
Rachel’s Wollemi pine, arriving in May 2012, and doing well in September 2014.
I walked the Cistercian Way in Southern Cumbria. I remembered Rachel.
October 2012, my memento created during my pilgrimage walk.
I also collaborated with Rachel’s mother Mandy (who lives in Australia) to produce a hardback printed version of Rachel’s blog – The Cancer Culture Chronicles, doing all the illustrations myself, a treasured keepsake for Rachel’s dearest friends. For me it was important to remember Rachel. She’d written so eloquently about the reality of being a breast cancer patient, one for whom there was no ‘after’.
Working on Rachel’s book.
Rachel’s gift to me
Recently I read ‘Late Fragments’ by Kate Gross, written as a terminal cancer patient, in her 30s. She writes that ‘little is written about sickness and death, given their universality as part of the human experience.’ Yes, that’s true.
A few weeks after Rachel’s death I’d found myself at the ‘five years’ point since my own breast cancer diagnosis. Feeling like I should have something profound to say. But I didn’t. And in the cirumstances, that is compared to Rachel dying, it seemed barely relevant or important. It just is. I know breast cancer is fickle, I’ve read the line too many times: ‘breast cancer can recur at any time’. I met a woman, who had also been treated for breast cancer, she congratulated me on reaching the ‘five year’ mark. I didn’t think it worthy of being a milestone, and when I told her my dear friend had just died of breast cancer, her response was, ’Well, we don’t need to dwell on that, do we?’
Well, actually, I think we do need to be thinking about the women who die of breast cancer. Because the fact is, that even though a woman diagnosed with invasive breast cancer gets more treatment now, she still:
‘Has about the same chances of dying from the disease as she did 50 years ago.’ (Gayle Sulik, Pink Ribbon Blues p159)
That’s not progress. Me, eight years after diagnosis. Treated, yes, and alive. But I’m just lucky. Others aren’t so lucky. It feels so random, despite the treatments we are offered, choose and endure. My friend, Rachel, was stolen from me. And from our mutual friend Gayle who wrote those words.
We called ourselves the three musketeers – that was Rachel’s name for us. I wish we’d had the chance to create more memories. But we didn’t. So I gather up the memories I do have, and bind them together, a golden thread which contains me and this amazing woman – we are eating chocolate together, we are lazing about on her boat, having ice cream at Asbury Park, we are sitting in the rose garden at the NY Botanic Garden, having sushi with Gayle in New Jersey, we are laughing and talking and all seems right with the world.
The three musketeers: Rach, Sarah and Gayle, June 2011.
Gayle’s mother took that picture of the three musketeers. She drove from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in 2011 to meet those two ‘phenomenal women’ her daughter couldn’t stop talking about. For lunch, we had juicy tomato slices with basil and fresh mozzarella, and watched Newmsie, Rachel’s dog, dig holes beneath the lemon trees. Our gathering was a moment suspended in time, and across thousands of miles. But Dorothys don’t always get to go back to Kansas just because we wish it were so. It’s hard not to keep wishing, even three years after Rachel’s death.
Gayle writes about Rachel still, in her scholarly work, on the Breast Cancer Consortium, anywhere she can talk about the power of friendship — and advocacy, and breast cancer. It doesn’t suffice. It never will. We knew we had something special in Rachel, and in each other. We were changed. But we carry on, sometimes with smiles on our faces, sometimes through tears. And we will keep remembering.
I have come to realise, that once we accept that life is temporary, it gives everything we do an unparalleled sense of urgency. And I feel that very keenly. I still find myself wanting to tell Rach something, especially when spring arrives. I see the first blossom, just after the snowdrops and I think to myself, ‘Spring is here, again, and I wanted to tell you.’ Part of grief is the loss of the things that won’t now happen. But we carry loss, we have to, we become different, and I still feel lucky even though I have lost.
And I am still surprised at how long shards of grief remain. Me and Ronnie were listening to a Paul Buchanan LP a few weeks ago. When the song ‘I remember you’ played, I burst into tears at the line: “I know exactly what you’d say, It’s still the only thing that’s true.”
Today – a few days before the anniversary of Rachel’s death – I drive up the drive to the crematorium where I so often work now. All along the drive there are snowdrops, heralding the arrival – again – of spring. Of one more spring.
Rachel. I am so glad I knew you. I would rather have one year of friendship like this, than a lifetime of casual acquaintances. I have enough memories now to sustain me.
As I wrote in my introduction to Rachel, about how I hoped that in time we could think of her in this way, I’m glad I knew Rachel. My life is richer for knowing her.
Yes, my life is, without a doubt, richer for knowing her. I will never forget you Rachel.
Special thanks to Gayle for her help in writing this.
Here is a link to the film I made ‘One More Spring’: https://vimeo.com/40714668
And here are the lyrics to I Remember You by Paul Buchanan
“I know exactly where you are
I know exactly what you do
I know exactly what you’d say
Its still the only thing that’s true
I know exactly where you’ll be
You’ll be exactly where I am
We go arm in arm
This post was published simultaneously here, on Breast Cancer Consortium, and on A Sense of Place.
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16 Questions: Friday’s First Round Games
Posted by Matt Eisenberg on March 22nd, 2019
It’s time for another exciting day of 16 games. Here are the questions I have going into Friday’s action:
The Zion Show Moves to the NCAA Tournament (USA Today Images)
1) Duke vs. 16) North Dakota State: Will Duke’s perimeter players begin the Tournament knocking down shots? Zion will be Zion, of course, but Duke will need its other players knocking down shots down the line if the Blue Devils are to cut down the nets in Minneapolis.
1) North Carolina vs. 16) Iona: Can Iona make it to the half within closer range than last year against Duke? As a #15 seed against Duke last year, Iona trailed at the half by 14 points before going on to lose by 22. While the Gaels shot a sterling 58.3 percent from inside the arc, they were just 5-of-24 from beyond the stripe. Duke, on the other hand, shot 62.2 percent from two-point range and went 13-of-30 from behind the line.
1) Virginia vs. 16) Garder-Webb: Will Virginia be quick to rid itself of last season’s nightmare? A 29-3 regular season was great, but memories of last year will surely still be on everyone’s minds as the Cavaliers’ postseason begins. Virginia scored just nine points during the opening 10 minutes against UMBC one year ago, so its first few segments of the game will be telling.
2) Tennessee vs. 15) Colgate: Will Tennessee make quick work of Colgate? Colgate comes into this game with a defensive efficiency ranking of #202, and the Raiders will be tasked with stopping the nation’s third most efficient offense led by the force that is Grant Williams. Good luck.
3) Houston vs. 14) Georgia State: Does Georgia State coach Ron Hunter have more Tournament magic up his sleeves? On the season, Houston has out-rebounded its opponents by an average of 7.7 rebounds per game, whereas Georgia State finds itself getting outmuscled by the tune of 5.3 rebounds per game. If the Panthers can survive on the glass, the duo of D’Marcus Simmonds and Devin Mitchell might be able to keep Georgia State within striking distance.
3) Texas Tech vs. 14) Northern Kentucky: Will Texas Tech’s loss to West Virginia have any carry-over effects? While Texas Tech held the Mountaineers to just 38.8 percent shooting, the Red Raiders gave up 19 offensive rebounds and 20 points at the charity stripe.
4) Kansas State vs. 13) UC Irvine: Will Kansas State be able to get any play and production out of Dean Wade? Wade did not play in the Big 12 Tournament and his status remains up in the air for today’s game. Without the big man inside, the Anteaters could be able to take advantage of its offensive rebounding prowess.
4) Virginia Tech vs. 13) Saint Louis: How will Virginia Tech work Justin Robinson back into the lineup? After missing the last 12 games of the season, Robinson is set to return for the Hokies. The senior guard averages just under 14 points per game while shooting better than 40 percent from deep.
5) Wisconsin vs. 12) Oregon: Can Wisconsin get D’Mitrik Trice and Brad Davison to knock down open shots? In Wisconsin’s five March games, the pair of Trice and Davison have gone a combined 11-of-48 from behind the three-point line. Without knocking down open shots, Oregon will be able to throw everything they have at slowing All-America center Ethan Happ.
5) Mississippi State vs. 12) Liberty: Will Liberty be overwhelmed by the Mississippi State offense? The Flames played 14 games against an opponent with an offensive efficiency ranking of 260th or worse. The Bulldogs have an offensive efficiency ranking of 56th and are led by Quinndary Weatherspoon, who shot an SEC-best 44.9 percent on three-point attempts during league play.
6) Buffalo vs. 11) Arizona State: Will Buffalo get the best of a school from Arizona again? Bobby Hurley and the Sun Devils won on Wednesday night in Dayton and are rewarded with a match-up against Hurley’s former squad. Arizona State will need more than 23 minutes of action from Remy Martin to get another victory.
6) Iowa State vs. 11) Ohio State: With Kaleb Wesson back, can Ohio State pull off the upset? The Buckeyes lost two of their last three games with Wesson back before falling in his return to the Spartans. Ohio State averaged 10 fewer points per game on the road than they did at home.
7) Cincinnati vs. 10) Iowa: Can Iowa change its late season misfortune? The Hawkeyes come into this game losers of five of their last six games. Throw in needing a pair of last second baskets to beat Northwestern and Rutgers and it’s clear Iowa is playing its worst basketball at the wrong time of the year.
8) Ole Miss vs. 9) Oklahoma: Can Ole Miss knock down enough threes to beat the Sooners? The Rebels were just 2-8 when they failed to make a third of their three-point attempts this season. On the year, Oklahoma has held opponents to a three-point average of 33.3 percent.
8) Utah State vs. 9) Washington: Can the Pac-12’s highest seed help the conference from its dismal 2018 showing in the NCAA Tournament? The Pac-12’s regular season champion scored fewer than 50 points in two of its final four games, both coming against Oregon. The Huskies’ defense does a terrific job of creating havoc, however, led by the wizardry of defensive ace Matisse Thybulle.
8) VCU vs. 9) UCF: If VCU’s Marcus Evans is not at 100 percent, will the Rams have enough firepower? Evans suffered a bone bruise in VCU’s loss to Rhode Island in last week’s Atlantic 10 tournament. The starting guard averages a team-best 13.9 points per game and VCU could be tested greatly by UCF’s stout defense — which includes the towering presence of 7’6″ Tacko Fall.
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Rushed Reactions: #2 Gonzaga 86, #15 North Dakota State 76
Posted by Andrew Murawa on March 21st, 2015
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Three Key Takeaways.
Dexter Werner: Unlikely March Hero (USA Today Images)
Physical Mismatch. Gonzaga has three guys taller than 6’10”; North Dakota State has three guys taller than 6’6”. By halftime, those three Bison had accumulated seven fouls and it could have been worse. The Bison are a quality team with fun guards that had a great season, but they never should have had a chance tonight even as Dexter Werner was putting in improbable second half buckets to get the Bison back within six down the stretch. Whenever the Bulldogs wanted to turn it on, they could just pound the ball inside and either draw fouls or get easy buckets. And hey, you wanna double any of those big guys? Good luck, as they’re all adept passers out of the post to find spot-up shooters. Gonzaga will run into teams that can bang with them down low, but tonight was not one of those times.
Defense Is A Concern. The biggest concern that has been expressed about the Zags’ chances this March is on the defensive end. Tonight, North Dakota State, a team ranked 194th in offensive efficiency nationally, scored 1.35 points per possession in the second half against the Bulldogs. Now, there were some extraordinary circumstances here and Gonzaga wasn’t exactly giving a terrific effort. But that in and of itself is a concern. This is a game that Gonzaga should have won easily without breaking a sweat, but instead they gave their fans more heartburn than anybody ever expected.
Veteran Leadership. With the physical mismatch readily apparent right out of the gate, attendees were expecting a chance to get to their cars early tonight. In fact, it looked like the Zags thought they had somewhere else they would rather be too. But whenever the Bison made it too close for comfort, there was either Kyle Wiltjer or Kevin Pangos there to turn the tide. When the Bison cut the Zags’ lead to six points with 11 minutes left, Wiltjer drilled a jumper to spearhead a quick 6-0 run. Then the Bulldogs relaxed again, Werner went to work, and you looked up at the six-minute mark and it’s a six-point game again. Pangos then stepped into a three. An overexuberant Werner runs into Pangos. The three falls, Pangos completes the four-point play, and the outcome is never seriously in doubt again. Wiltjer and Pangos combined for 41 points on a highly-efficient 22 field goal attempts.
| 2015 ncaa tournament, rushed reactions | Tagged: dave richman, dexter werner, feature, gonzaga, kevin pangos, kyle wiltjer, north dakota state
NCAA Game Analysis: Second Round, Friday Evening
Posted by RTC Staff on March 20th, 2015
In what was certainly one of the most competitive and jam-packed “opening” days in NCAA Tournament history, Friday’s slate of games will have a hard time following Thursday’s remarkable act. However, today offers a fair share of fascinating matchups as well. Here is a preview of Friday’s evening games.
#8 Oregon vs. #9 Oklahoma State – West Region First Round (at Omaha, NE) – 6:50 PM ET on TBS.
The game plan is simple when playing Oregon: Stop Joe Young. (USA TODAY Sports)
For the Ducks, it all begins and ends with Pac-12 Player of the Year Joseph Young. A deadly shooter, Young is stroking it at 36.1% from three (a career-low), 50.3% from two and 92.6% from the free throw line. He’s adept as a pull-up shooter from deep, a catch-and-shoot guy coming off a screen or on the bounce and on the attack. He’s scored 20 or more 17 different times this season. In other words: stop Young, stop the Ducks. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, they don’t appear to have a ready-made matchup for Young, unless they put 6’6” Le’Bryan Nash – ostensibly a power forward on this team – on him. On the other end of the court, the Ducks can throw a combination of Dwayne Benjamin, Elgin Cook and Dillon Brooks at Nash – the ‘Pokes leading scorer – and feel relatively comfortable, while they’ll let Young, or any of their other fresh guards, chase Phil Forte off screens and try to limit his clean three-point looks. In the end, the Cowboys are more reliant on three-point shooting, while the Ducks can score in all three ranges. Unless Forte and senior Anthony Hickey get super hot from deep, the Ducks should have the edge
The RTC Certified Pick: Oregon
#1 Duke vs. #16 Robert Morris – South Region Second Round (at Charlotte, NC) – 7:10 PM ET on CBS.
Robert Morris sprung a mild upset in Dayton on Wednesday, knocking off favored North Florida in impressive fashion. To further extend their season, the Colonials will need another unexpected victory, but quite obviously, this upset may be slightly less attainable. Duke has had their share of recent struggles in the Tournament’s second round, but stubbed toes against foes such as Mercer and Lehigh can only offer RMU so much solace. Jahlil Okafor dominated small-conference foes in November and December – the Colonials, like almost every team in America, has no player capable of slowing Duke’s freshman star. Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones have proven virtually unstoppable as a duo: stopping one is possible, but forcing poor shooting nights from both is rare. The Colonials made only 4-of-16 three-point field goals against North Florida but have shot the three-ball well this season (37.7 percent). Getting hot from long range would be a great way for Andy Toole’s team to begin the task of hanging around in this game. To finish that chore — even if it ends in defeat — Robert Morris will need to pitch a perfect game. This is the life of a #16 seed, and while it’ll be Duke moving on to face the winner of San Diego State-St. John’s, Robert Morris should head home with heads held high, a proud season in the books.
The RTC Certified Pick: Duke Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by nvr1983 on March 11th, 2015
The automatic bids are starting to fill up. In the past two days, automatic bids have gone to Northeastern (Colonial), Manhattan (Metro Atlantic), Wofford (Southern), Valparaiso (Horizon), Robert Morris (Northeast), North Dakota State (Summit), and Gonzaga (West Coast). There are obviously some big story lines from Monday night that Tommy Lemoine covered in his Bracket Prep for Wofford, Northeastern, and Wofford. We will cover last night’s story lines a little more later today, but the things that jumped out at us were St Francis-Brooklyn remaining one of only five original Division I programs to never make the NCAA Tournament (Army, Citadel, Northwestern, and William & Mary are the others) and the questions surrounding whether or not BYU will receive an at-large bid.
The coaching carousel is starting to heat up as three new positions opened up with SIU-Edwardsville firing Lennox Forrester, Illinois-Chicago firing Howard Moore, and Citadel firing Chuck Driesell. Forrester had been the coach at SIU-Edwardsville for eight seasons going 83-149 with losing seasons in each of his final seven seasons after going 17-11 in his first season, which also happened to be the school’s last year in Division II. Moore went 49-111 in five seasons with his only winning season happening in 2012-13 when he went 18-16. Driesell, the son of the legendary Lefty Driesell, had his best season in the last of his five seasons. Unfortunately, that was only 11-19 and he finished 42-113. Like the other positions we mentioned before, none of these would be what we consider big-time jobs, but the Illinois-Chicago position offers the appeal of being in one of the best basketball areas in the country and a decent conference (Horizon) to play in, which could entice a high-major assistant who might feel that he has waited long enough.
The coaching carousel might generate most of the attention in terms of movement, but be sure to keep an eye for some potentially significant transfers now that many players are having their seasons end. One of the first big ones to hit the transfer market is Evan Payne, who announced on Instagram that he would be transferring from Loyola Marymount. Payne, who averaged 18 points and 2.8 rebounds per game this past season, will probably end up at a high-major school especially since he has two more years of eligibility remaining even if he has to sit out a year as we have not heard anything about him looking for a hardship waiver.
If you thought there were grey areas with social media, just wait until we get into the crowdfunding. According to a report from Darren Rovell, FanAngel is proposing to allow fans to contribute money towards an athlete who returns to school instead of leaving to play professionally. The company would take 9% off the top as its commission. Of the remaining 91%, when the athlete completes his or her eligibility, the athlete would get 80%, the athlete’s teammates would get 10%, and the remaining 10% would put into a scholarship fund. Although this has generated quite a bit of buzz based on it being featured on ESPN.com, we have a hard time believing this will ever be approved as even the company’s founder admits that the NCAA has not signed off on it and expressed reservations about it. There are also issues with how the money gets distributed to the athlete since neither the athlete nor anybody representing him or her is supposed to contact the company before the athlete’s eligibility is complete. Given all of these issues, we have a hard time seeing how this will hold up to NCAA scrutiny.
With the start of the NCAA Tournament a little over a week away (don’t get us started on the ridiculous event in Dayton) you are going to start seeing a lot of lists talking about the best games, players, shots, etc. We doubt that you are going to see many lists like Ken Pomeroy’s most tense NCAA Tournament games since 2010. Like many things that Pomeroy does, some of these are obvious and are easily remembered by even the most casual fan while others are things you would not have remembered without his work. Now, you can question his methodology here, which is admittedly not as rigorous as his usual statistical analysis, but it is a fun trip down memory lane.
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Conference Tourney Primers: Summit League
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on March 7th, 2015
We’re in the midst of Championship Fortnight, so let’s gear up for the continuing action by breaking down each of the Other 26’s conference tournaments as they get under way.
Summit League Tournament
Dates: March 7-10
Site: Denny Sanford PREMIER Center (Sioux Falls, SD)
What to expect: South Dakota State or North Dakota State has won this tournament for three years running, a streak likely to continue in Sioux Falls after each team went 12-4 and split the regular season crown. Then again, both teams also just lost their respective Summit League finales by 16 points apiece – troubling outcomes heading into this weekend. In addition to the Jackrabbits and Bison, both IPFW and Oral Roberts are talented enough to go the distance, while Denver and South Dakota – teams which combined for three wins against the league co-champs – could play spoiler. The preseason favorite Mastodons look especially dangerous after winning eight of their final 10 games following a 1-5 start.
Favorite: South Dakota State. KenPom ranks South Dakota State 60 spots higher than any other team in the conference, thanks largely to its eight Summit victories by 15 or more points. The Jackrabbits are the most well-balanced team in the league, boast its top big man – talented and well-traveled forward Cody Larson – and reside just one hour north of Sioux Falls. There should be a lot of blue and yellow in the stands.
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Poll Critiques: Colonial, Conference USA & Summit
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on October 27th, 2014
Over the next few weeks, we’ll examine and critique some of the more intriguing preseason conference polls. Here, we take a look at the good, the bad and the weird coming out of the Colonial, Conference USA and Summit League polls.
There are plenty of question marks in the CAA this season. (Christopher Szagola/US Presswire)
The voters got it right at the top, tabbing Northeastern as the favorite in the CAA, followed by William & Mary and Hofstra. The Huskies are the one unit in this league to add more proven talent than they lost, not only bringing back the vast majority of last year’s roster – including Defensive Player of the Year and rebounding monster Scott Eatherton (15.9 PPG, 10.2 RPG, 1.8 BPG) – but also regaining Quincy Ford, who was one among the CAA’s best all-around players before missing most of last year. Still, the recent departure of fourth-leading scorer Demetrius Pollard, combined with the fact that Bill Coen’s club went just 11-21 last season, makes you wonder if Northeastern can actually live up to its top billing. William & Mary also has an argument for the number one spot after finishing third in the standings a year ago and narrowly losing the CAA title game, welcoming back the conference’s best player (Marcus Thornton) and CAA Rookie of the Year (Omar Prewitt). Hofstra is rightfully slotted at third; despite last year’s 10-23 campaign, an influx of talented transfers and recruits, including former Niagara guard Juan’ya Green (16.5 PPG), justifies the anticipated climb.
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College Basketball’s Five Best Games of 2013-14
Posted by Bennet Hayes (@HoopsTraveler) on April 15th, 2014
As we continue to sift through the memories of the 2013-14 college basketball season, we take a look back at some of the best games of the season. In order, here are the five best games from 2013-14. We covered the five best stories of the season last week, if you’re interested.
November 12: Kansas 94, Duke 83 — Two of the most anticipated freshmen in recent college hoops history matched up in the Champions Classic nightcap, and neither Wiggins (22 points, eight rebounds) nor Parker (27 points, nine rebounds ) disappointed. Kansas broke open a close game behind a late push from Wiggins and Perry Ellis (24 points, nine rebounds), in the process earning one of the season’s first true statement victories. The young Jayhawks would go on to win 25 games and the Big 12 regular season title, but their finest (and most entertaining) win may have come in their second outing of the year.
Star Freshmen Jabari Parker And Andrew Wiggins Matched Up In What Was A Memorable Champions Classic Battle. (Getty)
March 29: Wisconsin 64, Arizona 63 (OT) — The low-possession game that everyone expected came to fruition, but both the Badgers (1.05 PPP) and Wildcats (1.03 PPP) managed solid offensive efforts in this Elite Eight battle. Neither team was able to build more than a three-point lead during the final 17 minutes of play (including overtime) in a tangibly tense seesaw battle, but it was the offensive clinic put on by the Badgers’ Frank Kaminsky (28 points, 11 rebounds) that proved to be the ultimate difference. After a controversial replay review in the final seconds that gave the ball back to Arizona, Nick Johnson was unable to get up a winning shot attempt in time, and Wisconsin was headed to the Final Four for the first time under Bo Ryan. Read the rest of this entry »
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What’s Trending: NCAA Tournament First Weekend
Posted by Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) on March 24th, 2014
What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) is your weekly host.
Welcome to the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Only this meme can succinctly capture it all…
h/T @WorldOfIssac
I am not a mean person (I’m also not a Photoshop wiz). But this was very mean, despite being funny. It also felt necessary due to all the positive publicity the great Aaron Craft has received during his four years in Columbus.
Aaron Craft, March 2015, wondering how to meet his sales quota. pic.twitter.com/gFDO50mbuX
— Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) March 20, 2014
Mark Gottfried
NC State had it locked up. TJ Warren was more or less rolling and the Billikens couldn’t keep up. But some horrific free throw shooting and what appeared to be apathetic coaching doomed the Wolfpack to the cruelest of NCAA Tournament losses.
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NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.21.14 Edition
Posted by Griffin Wong on March 21st, 2014
March Madness is finally upon us, and we here at RTC are here to make everything a little bit easier for you. From the First Four until One Shining Moment, we’ll be dropping daily tidbits of knowledge regarding the teams in each region.
Due to success on the hardwood and struggles on the gridiron, Florida is becoming more and more of a basketball school. The Gators advanced to the third round yesterday with a win over Albany.
Colorado could have used their leading scorer Spencer Dinwiddie yesterday, as the Buffs were run out of the gym by Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh forward Talib Zanna dominated yesterday en route to a 77-48 rout of Colorado.
It looks like Dayton now “owns Ohio college basketball” after a nail-biting win over its in-state rival Ohio State.
Syracuse guard Trevor Cooney was able to find his stroke as the Orange rolled into the third round.
VCU begins tournament play against Stephen F. Austin today. However, no matter how the Rams do, they’ll always have to live up to 2011 Final Four team.
UCLA big men David and Travis Wear resemble a former UCLA forward who had great success in the NCAA Tournament: Ryan Hollins.
Tulsa was only 4-9 going into January, but the Golden Hurricane battled back and now looks to pull off an upset over UCLA.
New Mexico will have a chance for redemption after last year’s loss to Harvard, and don’t think the Lobos have forgotten about it.
Without Joel Embiid, Kansas is coming into the tournament with an underdog mentality.
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In #5 vs. #12 Games, Avoid the Chic Picks
Posted by Chris Johnson on March 19th, 2014
They are extremely tempting. They are the most difficult picks on your bracket to make, and history says you should pull the trigger on at least one each year. I’m talking, of course, about #5-#12 matchups. Merely seeing the number 12 next to the name of one team, a centimeter or two below the number 5, next to the name of another team, gives you pause. This is natural. Picking #12-#5 games isn’t supposed to be easy. There’s often a gap in quality between the teams placed on the #4 and #5 lines. The latter quartet is usually decent, but a clear notch below the four teams seeded one line above them. Teams seeded on the #12 line usually fall into one of two categories: 1) the quality mid-major that piles up a lot of wins against so-so competition; 2) talented major conference team with major holes in its resumé. In some instances, the #5 will overwhelm the #12. But the #12 shocks the #5 more often than you might think — it’s happened 25 times since 1999. How many #12-#5 shockers will we see this season? That’s what I’m here to help you figure out. Below you’ll find some analysis on this year’s four compelling match-ups, with an emphasis on explaining whether each #12 seed is worth picking.
With Braun leading the way, don’t be shocked if NDSU ousts Oklahoma (AP).
#5 Oklahoma vs. #12 North Dakota State. The Bison won’t be overwhelmed by a team from a major conference, as they won at Notre Dame earlier this season (when Jerian Grant was available, mind you). NDSU ranks in the nation’s top 20 in offensive efficiency and posted Summit League-highs in offensive and defensive efficiency during conference play. The Bison are shooting 56 percent from inside the arc, good for fourth in the country, and only have five percent of their shots blocked (first). Senior guard Taylor Braun (18.2 PPG, 5.5 RPG, 3.9 APG) is the Bison’s engine, and by the end of this game, you’ll definitely remember his name. To pull big upsets, smaller programs often need one guy to take over – to drop at least 20 points and hit a few big shots in crunch time — Braun’s that guy. NDSU also has one of the most efficient frontcourt players in the nation in Marshall Bjorklund, who is shooting 62 percent on his twos. Oklahoma can really score – it ranks 13th in offensive efficiency this seaon – but the Sooners haven’t been nearly as good on the defensive end. Whether NDSU pulls the upset, this game promises to be a fun watch. Don’t miss it.
Verdict: Neither NDSU nor Oklahoma play great defense. This sets up as a shootout, one I think the Bison will win.
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Somalia Population: 11,259,029
Britain withdrew from British Somaliland in 1960 to allow its protectorate to join with Italian Somaliland and form the new nation of Somalia. In 1969, a coup headed by Mohamed SIAD Barre ushered in an authoritarian socialist rule characterized by the persecution, jailing, and torture of political opponents and dissidents. After the regime's collapse early in 1991, Somalia descended into turmoil, factional fighting, and anarchy. In May 1991, northern clans declared an independent Republic of Somaliland that now includes the administrative regions of Awdal, Woqooyi Galbeed, Togdheer, Sanaag, and Sool. Although not recognized by any government, this entity has maintained a stable existence and continues efforts to establish a constitutional democracy, including holding municipal, parliamentary, and presidential elections. The regions of Bari, Nugaal, and northern Mudug comprise a neighboring semi-autonomous state of Puntland, which has been self-governing since 1998 but does not aim at independence; it has also made strides toward reconstructing a legitimate, representative government but has suffered some civil strife. Puntland disputes its border with Somaliland as it also claims the regions of Sool and Sanaag, and portions of Togdheer. Beginning in 1993, a two-year UN humanitarian effort (primarily in south-central Somalia) was able to alleviate famine conditions, but when the UN withdrew in 1995, having suffered significant casualties, order still had not been restored. In 2000, the Somalia National Peace Conference (SNPC) held in Djibouti resulted in the formation of an interim government, known as the Transitional National Government (TNG). When the TNG failed to establish adequate security or governing institutions, the Government of Kenya, under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), led a subsequent peace process that concluded in October 2004 with the election of Abdullahi YUSUF Ahmed as President of a second interim government, known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of the Somali Republic. The TFG included a 275-member parliamentary body, known as the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP). President YUSUF resigned late in 2008 while UN-sponsored talks between the TFG and the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) were underway in Djibouti. In January 2009, following the creation of a TFG-ARS unity government, Ethiopian military forces, which had entered Somalia in December 2006 to support the TFG in the face of advances by the opposition Islamic Courts Union (ICU), withdrew from the country. The TFP was doubled in size to 550 seats with the addition of 200 ARS and 75 civil society members of parliament. The expanded parliament elected Sheikh SHARIF Sheikh Ahmed, the former ICU and ARS chairman as president in January 2009. The creation of the TFG was based on the Transitional Federal Charter (TFC), which outlined a five-year mandate leading to the establishment of a new Somali constitution and a transition to a representative government following national elections. In 2009, the TFP amended the TFC to extend TFG's mandate until 2011 and in 2011 Somali principals agreed to institute political transition by August 2012. The transition process ended in September 2012 when clan elders replaced the TFP by appointing 275 members to a new parliament who subsequently elected a new president.
Strategic location on Horn of Africa along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal
Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia
water: 10,320 sq km
Size comparison: almost five times the size of Alabama; slightly smaller than Texas
Land Boundaries: total: 2,385 km border countries (3): Djibouti 61 km, Ethiopia 1640 km, Kenya 684 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 200 nm
Climate: principally desert; northeast monsoon (December to February), moderate temperatures in north and hot in south; southwest monsoon (May to October), torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot and humid periods (tangambili) between monsoons
Terrain: mostly flat to undulating plateau rising to hills in north
Natural resources: uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, natural gas, likely oil reserves
permanent crops: 0% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 68.5% (2011 est.) forest: 10.6% (2011 est.)
Natural hazards: recurring droughts; frequent dust storms over eastern plains in summer; floods during rainy season
Current Environment Issues: water scarcity; contaminated water contributes to human health problems; improper waste disposal; deforestation; land degradation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
Nationality: noun: Somali(s)
adjective: Somali
Ethnic groups: Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including 30,000 Arabs)
Languages: Somali (official, according to the 2012 Transitional Federal Charter), Arabic (official, according to the 2012 Transitional Federal Charter), Italian, English
Religions: Sunni Muslim (Islam) (official, according to the 2012 Transitional Federal Charter)
Population: 11,259,029 (July 2018 est.) note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare
65 years and over: 2.19% (male 95,845 /female 150,887) (2018 est.)
female: 18 years (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 2.082 million MOGADISHU (capital) (2018)
0-14 years: 1 male(s)/female
Infant mortality rate: total: 93 deaths/1,000 live births male: 101.4 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 53.2 years male: 51 years
HIV/AIDS - deaths: <1000 (2017 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 23% (2009)
Literacy:
Country name: conventional long form: Federal Republic of Somalia
conventional short form: Somalia
local long form: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalkaa Soomaaliya
local short form: Soomaaliya
former: Somali Republic, Somali Democratic Republic
etymology: "Land of the Somali" (ethnic group)
Capital: name: Mogadishu
geographic coordinates: 2 04 N, 45 20 E
Administrative divisions: 18 regions (plural - NA, singular - gobolka); Awdal, Bakool, Banaadir, Bari, Bay, Galguduud, Gedo, Hiiraan, Jubbada Dhexe (Middle Jubba), Jubbada Hoose (Lower Jubba), Mudug, Nugaal, Sanaag, Shabeellaha Dhexe (Middle Shabeelle), Shabeellaha Hoose (Lower Shabeelle), Sool, Togdheer, Woqooyi Galbeed
Independence: 1 July 1960 (from a merger of British Somaliland that became independent from the UK on 26 June 1960 and Italian Somaliland that became independent from the Italian-administered UN trusteeship on 1 July 1960 to form the Somali Republic)
National holiday: Foundation of the Somali Republic, 1 July (1960)note - 26 June (1960) in Somaliland
Constitution: history: previous 1961, 1979; latest drafted 12 June 2012, approved 1 August 2012 (provisional) amendments: proposed by the federal government, by members of the state governments, the Federal Parliament, or by public petition; proposals require review by a joint committee of Parliament with inclusion of public comments and state legislatures’ comments; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Parliament and approval by a majority of votes cast in a referendum; constitutional clauses on Islamic principles, the federal system, human rights and freedoms, powers and authorities of the government branches, and inclusion of women in national institutions cannot be amended (2017)
Legal system: mixed legal system of civil law, Islamic law, and customary law (referred to as Xeer)
Executive branch: chief of state: President Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed "Farmaajo" (since 8 February 2017)
head of government: Prime Minister Hassan Ali KHAYRE (since 1 March 2017)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the prime minister, approved by the House of the People elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by the Federal Parliament by two-thirds majority vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 4-year term; election last held on 8 February 2017 (previously scheduled for 30 September 2016 but postponed repeatedly); prime minister appointed by the president, approved by the House of the People
election results: Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed "Farmaajo" elected president in second round; Federal Parliament second round vote - Mohamed ABDULLAHI Mohamed "Farmaajo" (TPP) 184, HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud (PDP) 97, Sheikh SHARIF Sheikh Ahmed (ARS) 46
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Federal Parliament to consist of: Upper House (54 seats; senators indirectly elected by state assemblies to serve 4-year terms) House of the People (275 seats; members indirectly elected by electoral colleges, each consisting of 51 delegates selected by the 136 Traditional Elders in consultation with sub-clan elders; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: Upper House - first held 10 October 2016 (next NA) House of the People - first held 23 October - 10 November 2016 (next NA)
election results: Upper House - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 41, women 13, percent of women 24.1% House of the People - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - NA; composition - men 208, women 67, percent of women 24.4%; note - total Parliament percent of women 24.3% note: the inaugural House of the People was appointed in September 2012 by clan elders; in 2016 and 2017, the Federal Parliament became bicameral with elections scheduled for 10 October 2016 for the Upper House and 23 October to 10 November 2016 for the House of the People; while the elections were delayed, they were eventually held in most regions despite voting irregularities; on 27 December 2016, 41 Upper House senators and 242 House of the People members were sworn in
Judicial branch: highest courts: the provisional constitution stipulates the establishment of the Constitutional Court (consists of 5 judges, including the chief judge and deputy chief judge); note - under the terms of the 2004 Transitional National Charter, a Supreme Court based in Mogadishu and the Appeal Court were established; yet most regions have reverted to local forms of conflict resolution, either secular, traditional Somali customary law, or Islamic law judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the president upon proposal of the Judicial Service Commission, a 9-member judicial and administrative body; judge tenure NA
subordinate courts: federal courts; federal member state-level courts; military courts; sharia courts
Political parties and leaders: Cosmopolitan Democratic Party [Yarow Sharef ADEN] Daljir Party or DP [Hassan MOALIM] Democratic Green Party of Somalia or DGPS [Abdullahi Y. MAHAMOUD] Democratic Party of Somalia or DPS [Maslah Mohamed SIAD] Green Leaf for Democracy or GLED Hiil Qaran Justice and Communist Party [Mohamed NUR] Justice and Development of Democracy and Self-Respectfulness Party or CAHDI [Abdirahman Abdigani IBRAHIM Bile] Justice Party [SAKARIYE Haji] Liberal Party of Somalia National Democratic Party [Abdirashid ALI] National Unity Party (Xisbiga MIdnimo-Quaran) [Abdurahman BAADIYOW] Peace and Development Party or PDP Somali Green Party (local chapter of Federation of Green Parties of Africa) Somali National Party or SNP [Mohammed Ameen Saeed AHMED] Somali People's Party [Salad JEELE] Somali Society Unity Party [Yasin MAALIM] Tayo or TPP [Mohamed Abdullahi MOHAMED] Tiir Party [Fadhil Sheik MOHAMUD] Union for Peace and Development or UPD [HASSAN SHEIKH Mohamud] United and Democratic Party [FAUZIA Haji] United Somali Parliamentarians United Somali Republican Party [Ali TIMA-JLIC] inactive: Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia; reportedly inactive since 2009
International organization participation: ACP, AfDB, AFESD, AMF, AU, CAEU (candidate), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ITSO, ITU, LAS, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OPCW (signatory), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO
National symbol(s): leopard;
national colors: blue, white
National anthem: name: "Qolobaa Calankeed" (Every Nation Has its own Flag)
lyrics/music: lyrics/music: Abdullahi QARSHE
note: adopted 2012; written in 1959
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Run Said KORSHEL (since 16 February 2018)
chancery: 1705 DeSales Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036-4421
telephone: [1] (202) 296-0570 [1] (202) 833-1523
FAX: Email: info@somaliembassydc.net
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Kyle McCARTER (since 2 January 2019)
embassy: United Nations Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
mailing address: P.O. Box 606 Village Market 00621 Nairobi, Kenya
telephone: 254 20 363-6000
FAX: 254 20 363-6157 Note: the US Mission to Somalia operates out of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya
Despite the lack of effective national governance, Somalia maintains an informal economy largely based on livestock, remittance/money transfer companies, and telecommunications. Somalia's government lacks the ability to collect domestic revenue and external debt – mostly in arrears – was estimated at about 77% of GDP in 2017. Agriculture is the most important sector, with livestock normally accounting for about 40% of GDP and more than 50% of export earnings. Nomads and semi-pastoralists, who are dependent upon livestock for their livelihood, make up a large portion of the population. Economic activity is estimated to have increased by 2.4% in 2017 because of growth in the agriculture, construction and telecommunications sector. Somalia's small industrial sector, based on the processing of agricultural products, has largely been looted and the machinery sold as scrap metal. In recent years, Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, has witnessed the development of the city's first gas stations, supermarkets, and airline flights to Turkey since the collapse of central authority in 1991. Mogadishu's main market offers a variety of goods from food to electronic gadgets. Hotels continue to operate and are supported with private-security militias. Formalized economic growth has yet to expand outside of Mogadishu and a few regional capitals, and within the city, security concerns dominate business. Telecommunication firms provide wireless services in most major cities and offer the lowest international call rates on the continent. In the absence of a formal banking sector, money transfer/remittance services have sprouted throughout the country, handling up to $1.6 billion in remittances annually, although international concerns over the money transfers into Somalia continues to threaten these services’ ability to operate in Western nations. In 2017, Somalia elected a new president and collected a record amount of foreign aid and investment, a positive sign for economic recovery.
note: data are in 2016 US dollars
GDP (official exchange rate): $7.052 billion (2017 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $NA (2017) $NA (2016) $NA (2015) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 72.6% (2015 est.) government consumption: 8.7% (2015 est.) investment in fixed capital: 20% (2015 est.) investment in inventories: 0.8% (2016 est.) exports of goods and services: 0.3% (2015 est.) imports of goods and services: -1.6% (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 60.2% (2013 est.) industry: 7.4% (2013 est.) services: 32.5% (2013 est.)
Agriculture - products: bananas, sorghum, corn, coconuts, rice, sugarcane, mangoes, sesame seeds, beans; cattle, sheep, goats; fish
Industries: light industries, including sugar refining, textiles, wireless communication
industry: 29% industry and
services: 29% (1975)
Unemployment rate: n/a
Budget: revenues: 145.3 million (2014 est.)
expenditures: 151.1 million (2014 est.)
Fiscal year: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (2017 est.) -71.1% (2016 est.)
Current account balance: -$464 million (2017 est.) -$427 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $819 million (2014 est.) $779 million (2013 est.)
Exports - commodities: livestock, bananas, hides, fish, charcoal, scrap metal
Exports - partners: Oman 31.7%, Saudi Arabia 18.7%, UAE 16.3%, Nigeria 5.1%, Yemen 4.8%, Pakistan 4% (2017)
Imports - commodities: manufactures, petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials, qat
Imports - partners: China 17.6%, India 17.2%, Ethiopia 10.5%, Oman 10.3%, Kenya 6.9%, Turkey 5.3%, Malaysia 4.1% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $30.45 million (2014 est.)
Debt - external: $5.3 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: n/a
Exchange rates: Somali shillings (SOS) per US dollar - 23,960 (2016 est.)
Electricity - production: 339 million kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 315.3 million kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 85,000 kW (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 5,600 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 5,590 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 852,500 Mt (2017 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 60 (July 2016 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: the public telecom system was almost completely destroyed or dismantled during the civil war; private companies offer limited local fixed-line service, and private wireless companies offer service in most major cities, while charging some of the lowest rates on the continent; Al Shabaab Islamic militant group has forced closure of Internet services in some parts of the country; new telecom regulatory sector in place (2018)
domestic: seven networks compete for customers in the mobile sector; some of these mobile-service providers offer fixed-lines and Internet services; fixed-line less than 1 per 100 and mobile-cellular 60 per 100 (2018)
international: country code - 252; Mogadishu is a landing point for the EASSy fiber-optic submarine cable system linking East Africa with Europe and North America; this connection ended the country's expensive satellite-dependent Internet access; contracts signed to build DARE and G2A submarine cable systems; SEACOM cable lands in Somalia
Broadcast media: 2 private TV stations rebroadcast Al-Jazeera and CNN; Somaliland has 1 government-operated TV station and Puntland has 1 private TV station; the transitional government operates Radio Mogadishu; 1 SW and roughly 10 private FM radio stations broadcast in Mogadishu; several radio stations operate in central and southern regions; Somaliland has 1 government-operated radio station; Puntland has roughly a half-dozen private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are available (2019)
Internet country code: .so
Internet users: total: 203,366
percent of population: 1.9% (July 2016 est.)
Roadways:
by type: general cargo 1, other 4 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Berbera, Kismaayo
Military branches: National Security Force (NSF): Somali National Army (2017)
Military service age and obligation: 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2012)
Military expenditures: 0% of GDP (2016) 0% of GDP (2015) 0% of GDP (2014) 0% of GDP (2013)
Disputes - International: Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional states; "Puntland" and "Somaliland" "governments" seek international support in their secessionist aspirations and overlapping border claims; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 20,118 (Ethiopia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 12,895 (Yemen) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2019) IDPs: 2.65 million (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources; 2011 famine; insecurity because of fighting between al-Shabaab and the Transitional Federal Government's allied forces) (2019)
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THE LODGER (1944), HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
I'll probably never read the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel that gave rise to the various film versions of THE LODGER, so I've only spotty information on how close they are to the source material. I've been informed that Lowndes, though she drew upon the 1888 "Jack the Ripper" murders, renamed the killer in her short story "the Avenger," which is the name he was called in the famous Hitchcock silent adaptation, reviewed here. I commented on how exigent circumstances kept Hitchcock from following Lowndes in portraying the mysterious lodger as a killer, and how instead the same character became in Hitchcock's film an innocent victim of mob rule. A 1932 remake, THE PHANTOM FIEND, had it both ways, both indicting mob rule but providing a definite monster, in contrast to the silent work:
Hitchcock chose to diverge from the Lowndes novel by placing all of the dramatic emphasis upon the unfairly-accused lodger, and the offscreen capture of the Avenger appears as little more than an afterthought, making it possible to clear the lodger. Someone involved in the script-- possibly Novello himself, who allegedly made script-contributions-- apparently decided that the original ending didn't provide much of a payoff, and so the story is substantially altered to involve Angeloff in the capture of the Avenger. Arguably some viewers may find this development more capricious than Hitchcock's conclusion. Yet the altered ending has one advantage" the "perilous psycho" is a real presence in the film, rather than a chimera-- and for that reason the Elvey film registers in my system as belonging to the uncanny domain.
Director John Brahm and scripter Barre Lyndon dispense entirely with the victimization angle, and bring in the name "Jack the Ripper" for the first time. That said, the script doesn't seek to duplicate the particulars of the Ripper killings, least of all in his targets, who are actresses of Whitechapel rather than prostitutes. Yet from the first night that the tormented-looking Mister Slade (Laird Cregar) becomes a lodger in the private home of the Bontings, it's clear that he conflates actresses with the "scarlet women" of the Bible. To be sure, it's clear that the actresses in turn-of-the-century England are selling sex on occasion. Slade's landlady Mrs. Bonting seems to have no problems with actresses showing off their goods in racy dances like the can-can, not even when one of them is her own niece, Kitty (Merle Oberon), who resides in the same house.
Not surprisingly, while the Ripper can murder the scarlet women with impunity, it's not so easy for him once he meets Kitty personally, and begins to care for her in his demented way. At the same time, Kitty has a suitor who's a police inspector (George Sanders), following the pattern of the Hitchcock film in this regard. However, though there are references to mobs panicking over the Ripper's rampage, the film is closer to PHANTOM FIEND in emphasizing the peril of the killer. It's probably sheer coincidence, but FIEND just happens to give its lodger a twin brother who is the real Avenger. Slade also has a brother, but the brother is long dead, and Slade makes a point of showing his landlady a portrait of his beautiful but deceased sibling, as if the brother's face proved an anodyne to the charms of scarlet women. The script never explicitly identifies Slade's psychosis as arising from a homosexual fixation on his own brother. Still, if Slade is homosexual, he seems to have some hetero currents in his makeup as well. When Sanders's inspector descants on the nature of the Ripper's serial killings, the murders are made to sound much like a man satisfying himself sexually. Later, the inspector deduces that Slade's brother was "ruined" by a scarlet woman, and that after the brother killed himself, the Ripper took his first victim, the woman who brought about the adored brother's death. Nonetheless, it's not impossible, given Slade's later demonstrations of fascination with the feminine, that the motive for the first killing became subsumed by Slade's desire to kill for his (hetero)sexual pleasure.
Yet Kitty is different. As the police finally conclude Slade's true identity, they close in on him as he confronts Kitty. He clearly desires her as something more than a quick one-off, even though he wants to "cut out" the evil within her, which viewers understand to be his own evil. Recurrently Lyndon's script resorts to images of water that presage Slade's final doom, as well as his wish to escape the dark currents of his own contradictory personality.
I'm sure I'll also never read the source-novel for HANGOVER SQUARE, but then, to 20th-Century Fox the original work was merely a vehicle through which they could seek to duplicate the box-office success of THE LODGER. Purportedly this was exactly what lead-actor Cregar did not want when he lobbied for Fox to adapt the story. But once more the studio called upon the same director and scripter, Brahm and Lyndon, to convert the original thriller into the barrative of a psychologically aberrant serial killer. In addition, the setting of the novel was also changed to one much like that of THE LODGER, and George Sanders was once more tapped to play a character who eventually figures out the killer's identity.
However, if LODGER may be a little too pat about identifying the source of its killer's psychotic rages, HANGOVER avoids making any conclusions whatever. Indeed, the first killing is never really explained. For reasons unknown, classical composer George Bone (Cregar) gets into a row with a Scottish shopkeeper, later characterized as a fence for stolen goods. Bone, going into a frenzy, kills the shop-owner and starts a fire to cover the murder. After he escapes, Bone seems distracted and amnesiac, not responding when passersby see that he has a bloodied temple. Later, his friend Barbara, who knows all about his recent spate of blackouts, consoles him, even when he half-suspects that he may have done someone an injury during the recent blackout.
Little if anything is revealed about Cregar's character, except that he's known Barbara, since childhood, and that he's driven to get ahead in the musical world. Surprisingly, there's little if any sense that Barbara has any romantic interest in Bone, nor he in her. They seem more like sister and brother than anything, and they share a common love of music, as she's keen for him to finish an important concerto that can make his reputation as a composer. Bone, whose entire life seems devoted to his art, consults with Doctor Middleton (Sanders) in order to solve the problem of the blackouts. Middleton almost makes a connection between Bone and the recent murder, but the connection proves insupportable and the doctor simply recommends that Bone relax and take in some entertainment.
It's at this point that HANGOVER moves into deeper sociological waters than did THE LODGER. Bone takes in a show at a pub and becomes enthralled with a mediocre female singer, Netta (Linda Darnell). Netta for her part figures out that Bone's skill with musical composition can translate into greater money and fame for her, so she talks him into using his talents to write her popular songs.
The film doesn't spend a lot of time with this elitist theme-- that of popular entertainment sucking the life out of high art-- for its main focus seems to be that of Bone's erotic fixation upon an indifferent, conniving love-interest. It's quite as if scripter Lyndon decided to dramatize the unseen relationship of Slade's brother with an evil woman. Netta has no interest in Bone personally, finding him a bore, though she does seem to revel in her power to manipulate him. At one point, he tries to reject her, telling her that he no longer believes that she cares for him and that London is full of other songwriters. Yet Netta still tries to keep Bone within her feminine "net" a little longer, as if anticipating a better moment to destroy him.
Bone's own murderous rages aren't the result of erotic suppression alone-- in addition to the unexplained slaying of the shopkeeper, the composer also strangles a cat, though it is a creature he associates with Netta. In place of the pat psychologizing of LODGER, HANGOVER has Bone killing out of spasms of violence, loosely but not consistently connected with loud, discordant sounds. Yet Bone's own music often draws upon discordant chords, and so one wonders if Lyndon had in mind some loose parable of the artist's main problem: that of being drawn to the impure world of common life, even while seeking the sublime joys of art.
Yet. even if Lyndon's script seems slightly dismissive of popular culture, with the music-hall songs having none of the effervescence of similar numbers in LODGER, the author roots the film's most famous scene in the "pop culture" of archaic religious practices. After Bone strangles Netta, he again seeks to dispose of a body with fire, this time in a bonfire prepared for Guy Fawkes' Day. It can be fairly objected that no corpse would be more than charred by the heat of a bonfire. Still, the scene in which Bone situates the disguised corpse of the singer amidst the dummy-victims representing the fiendish anti-monarchist plotter Guy Fawkes has a special resonance. As the blaze goes up, the crowd cheers--- and even though viewers know that the ordinary citizens are not implicated in Bone's crime, the celebration still takes on the air of a pagan sacrifice, not unlike that of the Celtic Wicker Man.
The Fawkes scene, as well as a concluding scene in which the mad pianist plays his concerto in the midst of a fiery cataclysm, are the standouts, but John Brahm suffuses the entire film with a masterful use of closeups and crane shots, easily exceeding the excellence of THE LODGER. In closing I should mention that this time, in contrast to LODGER, the detective figure is more involved in abetting the madman's crimes. Middleton's recommendation that Bone take in common folk's entertainments has the fortuitous result of severing Bone from Barbara as well, giving Middleton a clear track with the young lady. Further, though Middleton is recommended to Bone by Bone's doctor, and thus the two haven't known each other long, at some point Bone conveniently reads a Middleton-authored essay on the practice of thuggee strangulation-- and this is one of the ways the mad musician uses to assault the two women in his life, though Barbara survives and Netta does not.
Labels: perilous psychos (u), the uncanny
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (2012), HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *metaphysical, psychological*
I probably wouldn't have given HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA a second look except for doing my "monster mash" series on OUROBOROS DREAMS. I remembered HOTEL's first entry as a dull-as-dirt example of a monster spoof, and a second viewing did nothing to change that opinion.
The franchise originated with comedy writer Todd Dunham, and clearly his only agenda was to turn his kid-friendly monsters into a multimedia phenomenon. With the help of the star-power of Adam Sandler and various other Hollywood "names," HOTEL is now due for its third bigscreen movie-iteration, which proves that the establishment in California isn't the only place where "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
What will never leave me is the memories of seeing Sandler's abrasive persona crossbred with the Bela Lugosi Dracula, further crossed with Lenny Bruce's stand-up imitation of Lugosi (reputedly the source of the "bleh bleh bleh" schtick that this film so tiresomely recycles). Sandler's Count Dracula becomes the epitome of that favorite trope of kid-vid: the Terminally Uncool Father. This Dracula doesn't suck on people's necks; he just sucks generally. Since in modern times monsters have become increasingly marginalized by encroaching human culture, Drac has pioneered a hotel for monsters, where they can get away from their troubles with humans. (There's no telling what these difficulties might be; the script clearly doesn't want to allude to either monsters doing monster-ish things or humans retaliating, the better to soothe easily scared rugrats).
This Count is also a one-man vampire: he married long ago, but the wife is conveniently dead, leaving Drac with one familial problem: his daughter Mavis, who's just come into her teendom by reaching the ripe old age of 118. Drac doesn't want Mavis ever to check out of the antiseptic bubble he's created for her in Hotel Transylvania, much less to have any romantic entanglements with persons of the opposite sex. Rather than being the Overbearing Father who wants his darling daughter to marry a Monster in Good Standing, Drac wants to keep Mavis a kid forever. However, a human teenaged boy, Johnny, wanders into the hotel, and Drac is forced to weave a web of lies to keep Mavis from becoming fascinated with human culture.
This predictable storyline would have been tolerable if the Bayrham-Smigel script had managed to do anything witty with the monsters. But they too are just Uncool Middle-Agers, some of whom have lots of annoying monster-rugrats-- which I assume was something that kid-viewers found enormously appealing. For this big kid, the only half-witty line appeared when one of Dracula's zombie servants tries to sneak away with a mannequin, and Drac tells him to leave the dummy alone. Presumably the scripters knew that they could get away with one quick adult joke, as long as it came and went so quickly that the kids wouldn't notice.
For many reviewers, I'm sure it must've seemed like an exercise in futility to create a feature-film version of the venerable cartoon adaptation of Doctor Seuss's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. Still, this is far from the worst remake ever.
For one thing, while the script is just as pedestrian as that of HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, the actors make some real attempt to enliven the proceedings, in part because the Price-Seaman script has to create a lot of new stuff in order to fill up two full hours of screen-time. This includes a "how the Grinch came to be" origin, including one Josh Ryan Evans as the green fellow at age eight, and-- in contrast to Seuss's original story-- some scenes in which various Whos, "both the tall and the small," aren't always as nice as they are in Seuss. Christine Baranski has some nice scenes as the Grinch's never-before-revealed Whovian inamorata, while Taylor Momsen acquits herself well as "Cindy Lou Who," who's a little more than two and given a lot more to do.
But of course, if one doesn't like the idea of Jim Carrey in this role, GRINCH is a dead loss. I'm not always a big fan of "Manic Jim Carrey," but I'm constrained to observe that by 2000 he'd proved that he could do more subtle roles-- notably 1998's THE TRUMAN SHOW-- and that there would really be no point in a toned-down version of a tall, furry green guy given to snarky humor (whose Karloffian accent comes and goes at a whim). Given how often Carrey is on film in full regalia-- often wearing other clothes on top of his furry outfit, or performing complicated physical stunts-- the comedian's sheer athleticism deserves some respect.
GRINCH isn't as touching as the original story or as amusing as the Chuck Jones cartoon, but it's never dull to look at-- and that makes it atypical for the oeuvre of director Ron Howard, one of the visually dullest long-term directors of all time. I tend to credit his art directors-- nominated in 2000 for best art direction-- for bringing Whoville to life, and even making it a little less sanctified than it is in the Seuss book. (In some ways, the Whos are a little more status-driven, perhaps closer in spirit to the good doctor's Sneetches.)
SERAPH OF THE END (2014)
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *metaphysical, psychological*
I've been finding that a lot of the fantasy/SF adventure-manga of the 2010s-- with occasional exceptions like the BLACK CLOVER series-- shows a tendency to emphasize elaborate designs over strong characterization and backstory. SERAPH OF THE END, a two-season anime show (with one OAV I have not seen), is one of these lesser entries, though at least it's not as thoroughly incoherent as DATE A LIVE.
Possibly the original SERAPH manga expounds better on the narrative's post-apoc cosmology than the anime. In any case, I suppose the showrunners didn't think anyone cared about fine details, given that the story starts out by killing off ninety percent of the human race due to a man-made virus. However, the storytelling is so slack that initially I assumed that the story's "villains," a race of effete aristocratic vampires with jokey in-names like "Tepes" and "Bathory," were created by some mutation brought on by the virus. Later episodes indicate that the vampires may have always existed in the shadow of humankind, and that the decimation allows them the chance to emerge and make human beings into their "livestock."
The principal character, Yuichiro Hyakuya, is first seen as a middle-school youth being raised in a vampire-run orphanage, wherein all of the orphans have the same surname, actually derived from that of the orphanage. Yuichiro-- "Yu" for short-- is your typical tough-talking brat, but he's strongly bonded to his fellow orphans despite his pretense to lack of fellow-feeling. However, when the vampires decide to "play with their food," Yu is the only boy who escapes the slaughter. Though there are five other kids in Yu's "family," only one, his buddy Mikaela, gets much attention-- reason being that he's the only one the narrative keeps in a semblance of vampiric life.
Providentially Yu is taken in by the Japanese Imperial Demon Army, which is attempting to break the stranglehold of the vampires' reign. Having lost his family, Yu wants to be a lone wolf striking out at his bloodsucking foes, but the teen's mentor, Guren Ichinose, insists that first Yu must learn to cooperate with a squad of experienced soldiers. The psychological myth here is pretty simple: despite his trauma from losing one family, Yu can only prosper by binding himself to another family, this time made of peers with the power to defend themselves. Further, it's later disclosed that at some point in the past, army doctors experimented on Yu to give him special powers. The experimentation has the unfortunate effect of sometimes changing Yu into a destructive berserker, and again, he has to learn discipline to protect his squad-- to say nothing of experiencing new trauma when his former friend Mikaela, who's continued to dwell with the vampires but who does not bond with their villainous ilk, shows up on Yu's radar once more.
The matter of "special powers" is the weakest link in the SERAPH cosmology. It's loosely implied that the only reason that the Demon Army can fight the vampires at all is because the soldiers have been trained to use big, bad-ass weapons-- swords, scythes, guns, bows-- which channel the power of real, supernatural demons. How humans came to channel demons through weapons is never explained, nor is their any explanaton when the viewer starts seeing vampires use the same sort of fantastic weapons. In fact, it was only through a DVD commentary that I learned that the vampires "feed" their weapons with their own blood, rather than making soul-deals with the resident weapon-demons. This would explain why so much of the serial's melodrama revolves around the human soldiers endeavoring to empower themselves against their enemies, but without turning themselves into demon-possessed vehicles, who would implicitly be just as hard on humanity as the vampires.
Despite all the melodrama, Yu and his support-cast are pretty simplistic types. There's a Loyal Friend to Yu, who duplicates some of the appeal of Mikaela in the hero's new family; there's a couple of girls interested in the ferocious loner; there's the mentor who believes in constantly busting his student's balls to make him succeed. Only one character, a guy named Shiho, doesn't feel too shopworn, in that he's the hero's rival, always quarreling with him about one thing or the other, though inevitably he and Yu become just as strongly bonded as anyone else in the squad. For that matter, the long-deferred meeting between Yu and Mikaeala doesn't really pull any dramatic heartstrings that I haven't felt in a hundred similar SF-melodramas.
Finally, the closing episodes toss in a handful of poorly conceived Judeo-Christian myth-references. Because of the special experiments performed on Yu, he is the titular "Seraph of the End," which just means that he can call upon a host of new powers. Oddly, he also becomes known as "the King of Salt" because he can turn people into salt or make weapons out of salt, which seems like a rather involved reference to the Old Testament fate of Lot's Wife.
Visually, SERAPH's action and costume design is worth watching. As a story, it's got no new tricks in its bag.
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MARVEL'S IRON FIST: EPISODES 6-13 (2017), 1-10 (2018)
Having reviewed just the first five episodes of this now cancelled series here. I don't have a whole lot to say about the remaining eight episodes of IRON FIST's Season 1. Though I disagreed with most of the prevailing fannish ire against the series, I would concur with many fans that the first season suffered in being a set-up for the DEFENDERS series, which was not capable of balancing so many disparate Marvel-Netflix characters-- to say nothing of the problematic idea of using the Hand as the "big bad" for both IF SEASON ONE and DEFENDERS.
Season 2 is at least an improvement in its handling of the Danny Rand identity of the titular hero. Throughout the first season, Rand varied from being a Taoist contemplative type a la Kwai Chang Caine to a hero given to extreme temper tantrums. With the Hand out of the way, Season Two concentrates on the more low-level exploits of Danny and his girlfriend Colleen Wing, attempting to find their place in New York's Chinatown.
The duo still fights various criminal gangs, but the "big bad" for the season is Davos, one of Iron Fist's former friends from the mystical city of K'un-Lun. In the original comics, Davos, a.k.a. "Steel Serpent," stole Danny's "Iron Fist" power from him, went berserk for a while, and then self-destructed so that the hero could get his power back. This doesn't exactly indicate a particularly complex villain, but it does allow for more development of the supporting characters. Misty Knight, originally partners with Colleen Wing in the comics, becomes bonded to Colleen in this season, and their alliance is at least decent if not quite as well-done as the original version. Typhoid Mary, one of the "ambivalent villains" from the DAREDEVIL comic, is transplanted to the IRON FIST milieu to good effect, though Joy and Ward Meacham remain useless time-killers.
There are also a few nice "shout-outs" to the comic-- Davos and Danny first duel wearing the cowls that the comics-character always wore-- but on the whole some of the scripting choices seem to have no real point beyond changing things up from the original to establish the TV-show's independence. The conclusion, which transfers the Iron Fist power to Colleen instead of back to Danny Rand, seems like little more than virtue signaling to feminists.
VAMPIRE CIRCUS, while not among the best of the seventies Hammer films in terms of its story, boasts a far stronger visual style than most films in that oeuvre. Though credited as an original story, it bears more than a little resemblance to Charles Finney's sardonic 1935 novel THE CIRCUS OF DOCTOR LAO, in that it concerns a circus full of weird beings who visit a rural town and uncover the residents' secret sins. Indeed, CIRCUS has more in common with the Finney novel than did the 1964 SEVEN FACES OF DOCTOR LAO, which translated Finney's ironic concerns into a more comical and sentimental effort (though, truth to tell, I like SEVEN on its own terms).
CIRCUS takes place in a Serbian village named Stell. The script doesn't trouble to explain the provenance of a vampire nobleman, one Count Mitterhaus, who resides in the requisite castle, and his activities seem to come as a big surprise to schoolmaster Muller. One moment he's gamboling around the countryside with his wife Anna and their little girl. The next, Anna steals away with the kid and heads straight for Mitterhaus's castle. It's not clear whether or not the count used mesmeric powers to summon Anna or not, but once she's there, she eagerly gives up her own daughter for the count to drain dry. Mitterhaus then rewards Anna with a long sex-session, while Muller rouses the local men of the town to help him invade the castle. Muller and the other locals catch Anna and Mitterhaus in flagrante delicto, but the vampire puts up a good fight before Muller stakes him. However, the Count curses the whole village of Stell as he begins to die.
At this point, the script shows the townfolk in a upright moral light. However, in the next scene the men of the town force the traitorous Anna to run a gauntlet, battering her with clubs until Muller intervenes. While Anna's actions are meant to be condemned-- and the script doesn't give her the "out" of having been mentally enslaved-- there's the sense that the townspeople have become tainted by their gratuitous act of retribution. Anna escapes to a secret room, where the dying Mitterhaus tells her to seek out his equally vampiric brother Emil, in order to avenge Mitterhaus.
Fifteen years later, a plague breaks out in Stell, and though the disease doesn't have that much impact on daily life, it moves the local constables to quarantine Stell, setting up armed men who will shoot anyone who tries to leave the plague-town. Nevertheless, a traveling circus somehow bypasses the quarantine. Thus the embattled townspeople are offered some apparent respite from their troubles, by watching the bizarre activities of the circus performers, having no idea that their leader Emil is a vampire.
Despite the title, though, there's not nearly as much vampirism on display as weird forms of circus-magic. Not only can Emil transform into a non-canonical animal-- a black panther-- there's also a tiger-woman, a magic mirror, a gypsy woman, a nasty dwarf, a strongman (David "Darth Vader" Prowse), and twin aerialists, a brother and sister whose every scene hints of "incest." One of the local young girls, Rosa, becomes intoxicated with Emil's charms, and one of the locals is killed by a black panther. CIRCUS doesn't attempt to construct one-on-one parallels between the repressions of particular residents and their "opposite numbers" among the performers. Belatedly the viewer finds out that the circus-people have an agenda beyond just causing havoc, for Anna is secretly with the group, and she plans to bleed a child over the still intact body of Count Mitterhaus in order to revive him.
If CIRCUS has an overriding fault, it's that none of the characters on either side are particularly memorable. Were I to attempt to suss out who is the "star" of the show, it wouldn't be one character, but the entire ensemble of the evil circus.
Considering the financial limitations of Young's movie-- at one point he was simply ordered to halt filming, and another employee edited the movie into its finished form-- the fact that CIRCUS holds together as well as it does makes it all the more remarkable.
SHAOLIN KUNG FU MYSTAGOGUE (1977), REVENGEFUL SWORDSWOMAN (1979)
Of these two low-budget chopsockies, SHAOLIN KUNG FU MYSTAGOGUE-- also given many other names- definitely has the best title of the two. But both are just films in which martial-arts heroes are given some paper-thin motivation to ramble around the countryside back in medieval days, getting into fights with villains wielding exotic weapons. The two flicks are also linked by the fact that the weapons are so wild that I can't even conceive a modestly probable "uncanny" explanation for them, in contrast to, say, the buzzsaw-weapons seen in BANDITS, PROSTITUTES, AND SILVER.
MYSTAGOGUE (which term means a teacher of mystical doctrines) nominally concerns the transition of power between the rightful Ming dynasty and the usurping regime of the Chings. The usurpers seek the Ming prince in order to execute him, while two skilled soldiers, Shao (Carter Wong) and his sister Fang (Hsu Feng) seek to protect said prince. One of their recurring opponents is Yeun Ming, an enforcer who boasts the film's most impressive weapons: a pair of Tibetan-made knives called "the bloody birds." Not only can Yuen cause the knives to spin about like rotary wheels when he holds them, he can also toss them like boomerangs. The knives cut human flesh or cause explosions when they hit non-living targets, but the weapons always return to their wielder. (At one point, Yuen even claims "they're magnetic!")
There are also other, more uncanny phenomena. Shao's teacher (possibly the mystagogue of the title) refuses to teach him a special Shaolin move, which can defeat any enemy but causes the death of the practitioner-- and at the climax, the Shaolin monk gets the chance to show off both the move and its costly effects. Shao and Fang get trapped in rooms filled with moving walls or weapons twice. However, neither Wong nor Feng-- who both essayed much more interesting heroes in other films-- can do more than go through the motions.
REVENGEFUL SWORDSWOMAN is far from the best film in the martial-arts repertoire of Chia Ling. Yet, even though the narrative bounces around too wildly to keep track of, at least it benefits from centering upon Chia's character Hsiang, who calls herself "the Heartless Woman."
In one of the most hard-to-follow setups, Hsiang is learning kung-fu out in the country from her sifu, until one day he decides to fling her off a 200-foot-tall cliff. She survives and chases him down for an explanation. He claims to have killed her father long ago, after which he chose to instruct her in the martial arts, but fails to reveal any reason for this contradictory behavior. He then locks her in a cage and leaves her.
A handsome young man named Ku lets Hsiang loose, and seems interested in her, though Hsiang has only bloody vengeance on her mind. Ku tags along as she begins looking for her sifu. Eventually it's revealed that the sifu was lying; that the real killer of Hsiang's father was a man named "Lord Ku," who is Young Ku's uncle. (There's also a side-plot in which Ku believes that his father was killed by the uncle, but the father turns out to be alive at the end.) While Hsiang embarks on her quest, Lord Ku sends various adversaries against her and her companion, such as a one-armed boxer (a shout-out to Jimmy Wang Yu's "one-armed swordsman" series) and a female swordswoman. However, no opponent is more impressive than Lord Ku himself, who carries around two metallic skulls on the shoulders of his outfit. When he bids them to do so, the skulls launch themselves from his shoulders, fly around and bite people. The film's budget is too low to make this memorable visual touch come alive, but the film still earns some points for coming with something other than the usual swords, whips, and flails.
ELSEWORLDS (2018)
It's far beyond the scope of this blog to address the many successes and failures of the so-called "Arrowverse," overseen by producer Greg Berlanti. My most basic overviews is that the most positive aspect of the "Berlanti-verse" is that it gets so much of the look and spirit of DC Comics right, while the greatest flaw is Berlanti's constant virtue signaling, trumpeting diversity as if it were going out of style.
There were four "crossover events" before this, but the first two focused only on bringing together the casts of ARROW and of THE FLASH. By the time the third one came about, SUPERGIRL had left CBS and was incorporated into the CW verse, even though her "universe" remained on a separate Earth from that of the other two CW heroes. The second crossover also set up the fourth CW-DC synthesis, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, and so this motley crew joined the other three heroes (and all of their ensembles) in the next two crossovers, INVASION and CRISIS ON EARTH-X. Both of these I found mildly entertaining but as badly bloated as most comic-book smorgasbords.
ELSEWORLDS changes things up in that the LEGENDS are excluded from the plot proper, although their episode aired in between parts two and three of ELSEWORLDS and the time-traveling protagonists comment about giving the annual crossover "a hard pass." This helped Crossover Number Five maintain a little more consistency, like the comic books on which they're modeled.
Those comics, though, are not those published under the ELSEWORLDS rubric, which were all in the nature of "alternate reality" stories. Instead, this crossover is closer to the model of the annual Justice League-Justice Society crossovers of the 1960s, particularly with respect to the trope of "heroes (or other people) switching powers." This was a trope that was astoundingly popular at DC Comics, meaning that the editors of the time must've thought that the buyers really grooved on figuring out, say, why an issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE showed a bunch of scruffy crooks in the costumes of the League:
The TV ELSEWORLDS starts off with a similar, reality-rewriting situation. One day both Barry Allen (Flash) and Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) wake up, and find themselves occupying one another's domiciles. Moreover, everyone in the world looks at Barry and sees Oliver, and vice versa. Further, Oliver has the powers of the Flash, while Barry has archer-abilities, and both have to figure out how the other masters these proclivities. After much comic confusion, the two heroes decide that they may get some help in another universe, and cross over (heh) into the domain of Supergirl and her cousin Superman.
The immediate culprit proves to be mad scientist John Deegan, who in the comics goes by the supervillain name "Doctor Destiny," but he's only the catspaw of an alien plotter known as the Monitor, best known in comics for his role in the world-reshuffling event known as CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. In fact, when ELSEWORLDS wraps up, Berlanti stokes fannish expectations by announcing next year's big event, which is none other than-- CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: THE TV VERSION.
LIke the comics that seem to have inspired this narrative, ELSEWORLDS is thinly plotted, so there's not much point in cogitating on each and every plot-twist. Like the regular episodes of the Berlanti shows, the main emphasis is always upon soap-operatic concerns, whether it's the current state of Green Arrow and his girlfriend or the ways in which gloomy Oliver is uncomfortable with Barry's sunny disposition. The big attraction is the way Berlanti's scripters play with the tropes of comics and the TV shows's mutations of them. DEN OF GEEK outdoes me by listing all of the Easter Eggs, thus making it possible for me to concentrate only on those I deem the best:
*The fact that the Monitor gives Doctor Destiny a "Book of Destiny." The Monitor of the comics did not operate this way, but while he's holding the book, he looks like a DC character called Destiny. He was the literal incarnation of fate, who started out as a horror-comic story-host but graduated to a major player in Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN universe.
*The brief use of the theme from SMALLVILLE, also one of Berlanti's early superhero-adaptation successes.
*The attempt of the three main heroes-- Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl-- to make contact with Batman in Gotham, and their diverse reactions to his legendary status, with Green Arrow proving rather prickly about the idea of another hardcore non-powered vigilante. In comics, of course, the Golden Age Green Arrow was a tacit knockoff of Batman, and the version of Green Arrow that appeared in SMALLVILLE was allegedly second-choice when Berlanti couldn't get the rights to Batman.
*Shout-outs to the 1966 BATMAN teleseries.
*The main heroes don't meet Batman, but they do meet Batwoman, who's scheduled to join the Legends in future. At one point, Supergirl and Batwoman have a satisfactory teamup, after which the latter remarks that it was the "World's Finest" teamup.
*The visit to Arkham and a hallucinatory sequence brought on by Scarecrow's fear gas.
*The use of the name "Trigger Twins," one of DC's old western concepts.
*Good Superman meets Evil Superman (Deegan). Former's only comment: "Nice suit."
Though it's not as good as the best of the comics-crossovers, the fact that almost everything comes off well bodes well for next year's CRISIS.
VICE ACADEMY 5 (1996); VICE ACADEMY 6 (1998)
PHENOMENALITY: (1) *marvelous,* (2) *naturalistic*
Having seen all six of these sex-and-dumb-cops flicks when they were broadcast on USA, I knew that the only reason to watch any of them was for the "babe quotient." However, the series does have one other distinction, for the series has the rare ability to make their original model, the POLICE ACADEMY series, look like the culmination of the Aristotelian unities. (Also, these two were the only one I could see for free on Amazon Prime.)
And then there's just your basic check-it-off-the-list appeal for the ardent metaphenomenalist. To the best of my recollection, the POLICE ACADEMY flicks had absurd things happen but stayed within
the realm of the isophenomemal. The VICE series-- which focuses on just two incompetent policewomen rather than an ensemble of crazy cops-- wanders back and forth between these domains, sometimes even pitting the policewomen against science-fiction menaces or supervillains.
Given that all of the films in the series have no appeal beyond hot babes and (occasionally) half-decent slapstick violence, it doesn't mean much to say that 5 is a little more inventive than most of the flicks. Candy and Tracy, whose characters boil down "the nice one" and "the bitchy one," take time out from goofing up their busts (the kind where you lock people up afterward) to investigate Heidi Ho (J.J. North), a computer game-character who translates herself into real life. Heidi's not too consistent in her motivations-- one minute she wants to screw a lot of guys for money, then she decides she wants to help a young guy (the one who called her forth) with his love life, and finally she's trying to take over the prostitution rings of the city (which are apparently made up of one pimp and two hookers). Only the performances of North and Elizabeth Kaitan, the latter playing the naive Candy, are worth watching for anything but their hottitude.
VICE 6 has no fantasy-aspects at all, and I'm stretching a point even to say that it involves any sort of "bizarre crime." The two "flatfoots-in-heels" are sent to deposit their captain's money in the bank, get ripped off by robbers, and are accused of stealing the money themselves. They're soon cleared of these charges, but bitchy Tracy decides that prison is a good fit for innocent Candy, and frames her so that she goes instantly to the lockup, without so much as a trial! There's not even as much slapstick as usual for one of these films, though for the last time in the series, the Nice Lady Cop is given the chance to beat up on the Nasty Lady Cop. However, it's not even a particularly good catfight. At least J.J. North knew how to sell a fake punch.
Labels: bizarre crimes (n), the marvelous, the naturalistic
MAD MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS; JACK O' LANTERN (both 1972)
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *metaphysical, psychological, sociological*
Though these two Rankin-Bass animated efforts share the same year-date, they appeared separately; the first as an hour-plus cartoon special, the other as an episode in a series titled FESTIVAL OF CLASSICS. Because both have monstrous characters in them, they've been issued together, both on DVD and in an Amazon Prime package (the latter being the way I saw them).
MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS has been called a "prequel of sorts" for the same company's stop-motion animation film, 1967's MAD MONSTER PARTY. In terms of structure, MMMM is essentially a reprise of one plot-trope in PARTY: a trope involving Baron Frankenstein summoning a bunch of other monsters to attend a function of his devising. Given that MMMM is only slightly over an hour, the function has to remain pretty simple. In this case, it's that the Baron has just created "the Monstress," a female version of his original Monster. The fact that MAD MONSTER PARTY shows the Frankenstein Monster and his mate as already married is probably the only reason MMMM is styled a prequel. The Baron wants all of the monsters to join him and his creations at a local hotel, "the Transylvania Astoria," to celebrate the bonds of horrific matrimony.
Though the earlier film is stop-motion rather than cell animation, generally speaking the MMMM characters are modeled on those in PARTY, particularly the Baron. In both he's drawn to resemble Boris Karloff, but whereas PARTY had the services of the real actor, MMMM makes do with the impersonation-talents of actor Bob McFadden. However, in both productions actor Allen Swift provides the majority of the voices, monstrous or otherwise.
There isn't a lot of conflict in MMMM, so the monsters here don't have much to do aside from toss off jokes, often lame puns like calling the Wolfman "Ron Chanley." Some minor conflict stems from the reactions of the hotel-personnel to all the goony creatures, but the script doesn't really set up any funny situations. Oddly, the one monster who gets some strong development has usually had, in Classic Hollywood, the status of a "monster-stooge." In a relatively original turn, the Baron's hunchbacked assistant-- predictably named Igor-- wants to abduct the Monstress for his own. (She's also one of the few re-designs in MMMM, for this time she's a slinky if green-skinned babe whose face is hidden by her hair until the very last few minutes.) Igor is clearly locked in a sibling-rivalry complex with the Monster, and the hunchback gets the best scene in the story: abducting the Bride but being foiled when he's attacked by a stray pterodactyl. Since the 1967 flick ended with a gargantuan monster, MMMM has a pair of them, one of whom is given a name reminiscent of "Godzilla" even though both of them look like titanic Bigfeet.
While the use of the term "mad" was inevitable, what we really have is more like SILLY SILLY SILLY MONSTERS. I don't know how much appeal it would hold for anyone who didn't see it as a kid, though at least it's not lumbered with a moral message like 2000's MONSTER MASH.
Whereas most of the offerings from FESTIVAL OF CLASSICS were adaptations of familiar classics like SNOW WHITE and ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the episode JACK O'LANTERN appears to be entirely original. There are some real folkloric stories about a human who gets changed into Jack O'Lantern, but none of these seem to have anything to do with this Rankin-Bass effort.
A grandfather relates the story of Jack O'Lantern to his grandkids in modern times. Back in the days when Grandpa was a boy, and had a same-age sister, the two kids are aghast to learn that their farm may be destroyed by strange phenomena that the father calls "ghosties and ghoulies." They get the idea that maybe they could drive away the apparitions if they improve on the cornfield's headless scarecrow. The kids plan to take a pumpkin, carve a jack o'lantern face on it, and stick it atop the scarecrow. However, after getting carved the pumpkin comes alive, revealing that it grew from a seed in which a leprechaun of "the Old Sod" was hibernating for the winter. The pumpkin informs the kids that his name is Jack O'Lantern, but he seems to take to the idea of being part of a scarecrow, since he promptly sticks himself onto the scarecrow-pole. He also reveals that he knows that the apparitions have been conjured forth by two sorcerers that the leprechaun knows from previous acquaintance: Zelda the Witch and her "jellyfish of a husband," Archibald the Warlock.
Jack, though given to long blarney-filled monologues, is a good guy, so he stays in the cornfield and gives battle to the phantoms of the two sorcerers. The leprechaun has access to assorted powers-- tossing lightning bolts or throwing orange needles that look like slivers of pumpkin-- but only because he possesses an internal resource, his "pot of gold." Unfortunately, the bad magicians realize that they can triumph by holding the kids hostage, forcing Jack to surrender his pot o'gold and thus losing his powers (as well as turning into a leprechaun again). However, the fortunes of Jack and his charges improve when the farm-animals (who can talk, by the way) come to the rescue.
Finally, after Jack has saved the farm, the story ends and returns to the present, at which point the unbelieving modern kids are given irrefutable evidence that Grandpa's story really happened. It's a clever little tale, which excels in its scenes of magical combat-- thus making it a combative work, unlike its silly companion piece.
BRAM STOKER'S BURIAL OF THE RATS (1995)
Speaking as a critic who makes no apologies for masculine-oriented entertainment-- which often means anything that parades around lots of sexy women-- BURIAL OF THE RATS, a Showtime cable-movie made under the rubric of "Roger Corman Presents" is an embarrassment to lovers of exploitation cinema.
Thanks to the success of 1992's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, the Irish author's name also appeared on a few low-budget adaptations of his work. The short story "Burial of the Rats" concerns a young man in Paris who runs into a bunch of scruffy beggars and witnesses a metaphorical "burial" in which a dead body is consumed by a swarm of rodents. It's pretty thin material, even for a cable flick, so it's not surprising that Corman stuffs his adaptation with all sorts of anachronistic elements.
In BURIAL, the unnamed young man in Paris is Bram Stoker himself, who tells his patrician father that he wants to be a writer some day. He's then separated from his doting dad by a gang of thong-clad raiders, all women in thongs and bikini-tops, sometimes referred to as "the Rat Women." Bram is taken to their secret lair, where he meets "The Queen" (Adrienne Barbeau). The Queen relates her feminist agenda, possibly derived from the classical myths of the Amazons, in that the Queen brings together women misused by brothels, bad husbands, and other tools of the patriarchy. (Barbeau's character alludes to having been abused by some paternal figure in her past.) Her agenda becomes a bit suspect when the viewer sees that all of these Parisian Amazons are hot model-types, but she does have the requisite man-hatred. Bram is only saved when a sympathetic "Ratbabe" named Madeleine (Maria Ford) suggests that maybe they can use Bram to spread their legend to all of Paris, and perhaps make it easier to prey on Parisian targets. However, another Ratbabe, name of Anna (Olga Kabo), secretly has lesbian designs on Madeleine, and doesn't like seeing the blooming romance between her and Bram. Oh, and there are some rats hanging around the hideout of the Rat Women, but as in the short story, they play a minimal role until the climax, where they're responsible for devouring a body with the speed of a piranha-school.
The Rat Women-- all of whom are skilled swordswomen, though nothing explains how they became so-- do get a couple of opportunities to vent their spleen on nasty men. Yet the romance between Bram and Madeleine takes priority, and effectively spells doom to this 19th-century incarnation of the Lesbian Nation. Parisian police restore the status quo by invading the Rat Women's redoubt and dueling them all to death in a series of uninspired sword-fights, and only Bram "am escaped to tell" his contemporaries of his strange if banal adventure.
Corman has shown a proclivity for soft sexploitation for decades, running from the 1956 SWAMP WOMEN to the BLACK SCORPION telefilms that also appeared in the Showtime package. But both of the Scorpion and the Swamp Women, however risible, display a certain degree of power as well as sexiness. The Rat Women, in contrast, are never more than the sum of their exploitative parts.
Labels: astounding animals (u), combative dramas, the uncanny, weird families and societies (u)
INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996), INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (2016)
In its day INDEPENDENCE DAY won a Golden Raspberry for "worst film grossing over 100 million." This seems a trifle unfair, given that most successful blockbusters are thinly plotted excuses for huge FX scenarios. In terms of depicting melodramatic characters with verve, DAY shows the writer/director/producer team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich in much better form than their previous hits STARGATE and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, to say nothing of the derivative 1998 GODZILLA.
Arguably Devlin and Emmerich are better when they focus not on one or two protagonists but on large ensembles, some of whom may get terminated in the course of the conflict. DAY is H.G. Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS for Generation X, but this time, human beings don't have to depend on germs to defeat the superior technology of the invaders. Though the aliens-- later dubbed "Harvesters"-- are a mindless swarm not unlike Wells's Martians, Devlin and Emmerich portray humans as having a more significant quality: that of adaptability. All of DAY's centric heroes show an intrinsic ability to delve into alien tech and master it with very little trouble. Some critics poked fun at the unbelievable ability of computer-nerd David Levinson to hack into the Harvesters' computer-systems, and this is a fair point. However, other characters display a similar ability to master systems with very little hassle, alien or not. Hotshot pilot Steve Hiller learns how to fly alien attack-vessels without even a run-through. Former pilot President Whitmore, having manned a desk for years as Commander in Chief, is suddenly able to call up all of his old pilot-skills with no real effort, and tragicomic victim Russell Casse becomes a hero in the war against the aliens, despite having flown only a crop-dusting plane for years. The common thread of DAY bears some resemblance to the more explicit theme of 1984's RED DAWN, which shows the ability of ordinary American teens to become "citizen-soldiers" in the face of an overwhelming menace.
Ultraliberal critics probably objected to Devlin and Emmerich's attempt to extend the ethos of the American Revolution into a worldwide principle of liberation, in which the invading aliens-- explicitly compared to a swarm of locusts-- are a menace from "outside" that brings all of the warring nations together. Nevertheless, the script brings together a wide variety of iconic images to justify the film's title. An early image of the Statue of Liberty being overshadowed by an alien vessel is one of DAY's most powerful moments. The mythology of secret government installation "Area 51" links DAY to the postwar mythology of "flying saucers," and even small references to Fourth of July celebrations, such as fireworks, fit into the greater tapestry of resisting dictatorial powers.
Of course, the Raspberry people may have downgraded DAY because it does have its share of risible moments. Shortly after the aliens destroy the White House, Levinson's quirky dad tries to play matchmaker between his son and the son's ex-wife, with the killer line, "I think there's still love there." There are other bad lines, but for me even one good line-- as when Will Smith's Hiller punches out an alien with the words, 'Welcome to Earth!"-- can outweigh all the clunkers.
The strangest thing about INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE is not just that it didn't appear until twenty years later, nor that it was, like most sequels, a rather passionless reprise of the original. What's surprising is that even though this follow-up invasion once more takes place on July 4th, the 20th anniversary of the Harvesters' victory, the script doesn't even try to duplicate any of the first film's patriotic rhetoric or its use of visual icons.
Instead, it's another military soap opera, with aliens. Dylan Hiller, stepson of the Will Smith character (written out of the series by an off-camera death), has a grudge against fellow pilot, "lone wolf" Jake Morrison. Jake lost his parents in the first invasion but has somehow managed to become the boyfriend of Patricia Whitmore, who is both a fellow pilot and the daughter of former president Whitmore. This "male bonding" is one of the sequel's weakest elements, though the romance between Jake and Patricia is at least passable. Other new characters, like an African warlord and a lady pilot from China, don't even register on the charisma-meter.
Somewhat stronger is the script's re-framing of the older characters from the first film. Russell Casse remains dead, but Doctor Okun, apparently killed in DAY, "surges" back to life, evincing a psychic rapport with the returning aliens. Thomas Whitmore, whose contact with the Harvesters in the first film was far briefer, nevertheless also feels a tingle from his "alien-vibe sense." David Levinson and his quirky dad are also back, and though I could've done less with Judd Hirsch, the other three actors-- Goldblum, Spiner and Pullman-- seem to have the most fun with their roles.
Aside from a big crowd-pleasing end-scene with a giant Harvester-queen, the invasion-FX are generally dull. There are also no standout lines of dialogue, either for good or ill. The only improvement is that, whereas as DAY tended to show women in roles of "standing by their men," RESURGENCE does put two female characters, Patricia and the Chinese pilot, into combative positions.
Though I've categorized a lot of the "alien-invasion" films I've reviewed as "dramas" because such films often focus on the "pathos" of the world's near-demise, these two films fit better into the Fryean mythos of invigorative adventure.
Where cinematic sequels are concerned, viewers are generally lucky if the follow-up is even roughly as good as the originating work. Serials are no exception to this general rule, and thus it's extremely rare to see a sequel turn out better than the original.
The 1948 SUPERMAN, while successful with viewers, seems to be little more than a thinly plotted reprise of a story written for the Superman radio serial. ATOM MAN VS. SUPERMAN was also derived from a radio chapterplay, and was executed by three of the same creative personnel who worked on the 1948 film, but the difference between the two serials is as the proverbial light/day distinction. In addition, DC editor Whitney Ellsworth represented his company's interests during both serials. Yet because the first story makes precious few attempts to emulate the mood of the comics, I hypothesize that after the 1948 serial made respectable money, Ellsworth may have had a little more clout with the Hollywood crowd, resulting in a Superman serial closer to the source material.
To be sure, Kirk Alyn's one-note portrayal of Superman is pretty much the same. However, whereas SUPERMAN played things very down-to-earth, with the hero spending most of his time rescuing Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane from the thugs of the Spider Lady, the sequel pits the Man of Steel against an "Atom Man," who wields a multitude of super-weapons fit to challenge a superhero. Further, though the Atom Man of the radio serial was not derived from the comics, in ATOM MAN the metal-masked super-villain is Superman's perpetual comic-book foe Luthor. In fact, the serial gets quite a bit of mileage from Luthor managing to convince much of the public-- though not the newspersons of the Daily Planet-- that he has reformed, and that he is actually being threatened by the New Villain on the Block. The idea of making Luthor the "secret identity" of a super-villain is one of the serial's many "shout-outs" to the primary Superman/Clark Kent mythology.
Further, this time the script goes out of its way to give Superman some larger-than-life stunts. Instead of just grabbing hoods and tossing them around, this time he rescues innocents from a burning ship, caps a blazing oil well, and gets exiled to "the empty doom" by Luthor's "space-transporter" device. In contrast to many serials, the script skillfully alternates between these spectacular feats and the more down-to-earth action (like saving Lois from falling out a window), so there's a greater sense of variety between the respective chapters. In the climactic sequence, Superman "bulldogs" Luthor's atomic rocket and sends it into the sea, and though the FX are inevitably simple, there's as much charm to this sequence as one sees in a similar climax in the 1978 SUPERMAN.
In the 1948 script, Lois Lane's primary function is to undermine Clark Kent, and her subordinate Jimmy Olsen simply goes along with whatever she tells him to do. This attitude is actually true to the first year of the SUPERMAN feature, wherein Lois felt that Clark's skill at reporting-- admittedly abetted by his super-powers-- overshadowed her own accomplishments, and she sometimes did undercut him when possible. However, Jerry Siegel didn't keep this trope running very long, at least in part because he wanted to promote a "will they-won't they" romantic feeling between Lois, Clark, and Clark's alter ego. The 1950 serial doesn't have any interest in selling romance, but ATOM MAN portrays Clark, Lois and Jimmy as colleagues who have known each other for some time. A number of small touches-- Lois celebrating her birthday at the Planet office, Jimmy asking Clark how to spell "anesthesia"-- makes the trio seem more rounded. Thus, when Superman does rescue Lois or Jimmy from peril, it no longer seems like a desperate attempt for the viewer's attention, as in the 1948 work. Further, the improved scripting gives actors Tommy Bond and Noel Neill the chance to make their characters more varied and vivacious.
In my review of the 1948 serial, I commented that its villain the Spider Lady lacked any of the charisma of the best serial villains, though actress Carol Forman had distinguished herself with a couple of much better "heavies." Lyle Talbot had played a number of heavies in his earlier films as well, but the script for ATOM MAN gives him a number of strong lines that establish his scientific wizardry and his overweening arrogance. In the last chapter, he abducts Lois and announces to her that he plans to destroy the Earth, remarking that she may soon be the last female member of the human species. Lois astutely mocks him, accusing him of wanting to create a "Noah's Ark," but Luthor calmly agrees with her assessment, showing off the spaceship on which he and his henchmen plan to escape the destruction. I suspect that this story-trope-- in which the villain more or less duplicates Superman's initiating situation of fleeing a collapsing planet-- was also original to the ATOM MAN screenplay, rather than stemming from the radio serial.
Lastly, though most serials progress erratically, leaping from one peril to another, ATOM MAN is relatively well-paced, and many if not all of the adventures proceed logically from their setups. (A particular favorite of mine is the sequence in which Lois pretends to ditch the Planet in order to work for Luthor and get the goods on him.) Even the moments that are a little on the loony side-- like Perry White insisting that Jimmy snap a picture of the oncoming atomic missile, moments before it's going to wipe out them and all of Metropolis-- seem to come about from a sense of fun, rather than poverty of imagination.
PANGA (1991)
The most interesting thing about PANGA, aside from racking up another decent if unexceptional Chris Lee perf, is that it was retitled CURSE III; BLOOD SACRIFICE, in response to the use of the "CURSE' title for two earlier but unrelated films. Of the three, PANGA's the only one that actually involves a literal curse.
In 1950's Africa, Geoff Armstrong and his pregnant wife Elizabeth oversee a sugar-cane farm. Geoff has been in Africa long enough to know the ways of the tribes, but Elizabeth is woefully ignorant, while her sister Cindy and her husband Robert are even worse. Cindy and Robert interfere with a witch doctor's ritual, which involves sacrificing a goat following the death of a tribal child. Elizabeth backs up her sister and saves the goat, but the witch doctor curses her and her family. In due time a supernatural sea-beast, incongruously armed with a machete, begins preying on the Armstrongs. Since Elizabeth is the viewpoint character, she lives after the others are killed off, partly due to the aid of local white doctor and magical expert Pearson (Lee).
Direction is competent but generally boring. Toward the end, Pearson is suspected of being involved in the killings, so he tells Elizabeth an unrelated story about how his sister slept with a Black African. The sister's pregnancy resulted in a half-black child that died, and somehow this also called forth the death-demon because no one sacrificed a goat in that instance, either. This backstory adds nothing to Pearson's character and is apparently thrown in as a last-ditch reminder that hey, colonial Europeans did some bad things to Black Africans. But since the story starts off by constructing Elizabeth as a well-meaning naif, this gesture toward real-world relevance is pathetic at best.
The SUPERMAN serial was immensely popular in its day, and today it remains historically important for a number of reasons, not least being the first time Superman was played on screen by a living actor. Further, given how often American serials played mix-and-match in adapting characters from pulps and comics, the first chapter treats the hero's origin with considerable reverence, allowing of course for the dimestore production values. And while comic-book editors were hesitant to incorporate kryptonite into Superman's mythos after its official introduction in a 1943 radio serial, the serial adapts this element (heh) from the radio-screenplay to good effect. DC introduced kryptonite into Superman's four-color adventures the year after the serial, and though the poisonous rock didn't become truly ubiquitous in the comics until the late 1950s, it's arguable that the serial played a vital role in encouraging the editors to incorporate what most fans consider an important part of the mythology.
Unfortunately, ninety percent of SUPERMAN's script is just mundane cops-and-robbers, and since the hero is too powerful to duke it out with ordinary criminals, the serial can't pull off what a crimefighting serial can do well: fights between the crooks and the crook-catchers. In addition, the serial pursues the same narrative strategy often seen in the actual comics: since Superman can't be harmed by most perils, the only way to generate suspense is to jeopardize someone the hero cares about: usually either Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen. However, even if a monthly Superman comic imperiled a support-character every single month, the stories were not coterminous, so readers may not have tired of this trope in that format. Even if I'd been watching SUPERMAN chapters once a week, as they were intended to be seen, I tend to think I'd still have become very tired of this schtick, particularly because the production values only allowed for the most basic cliffhangers. Only the charisma that actors Noel Neill and Tommy Boyd bring to the roles of Lois and Jimmy make these low-suspense perils halfway appealing.
True, the story follows that tried-and-true trope of serials: a villain trying to gain control of a super-weapon: in this case, the poorly dubbed "Reducer Ray" (actually your standard "destruction beam.") This trope always involves assorted time-killing plot-threads-- villain tries to kidnap the weapon's inventor, inventor delays villain by asking for special gizmos, which the villain's henchmen must seek out. This trope, however, only works well when the villain has a formidable appearance or when the actor playing him brings a lot of energy to the role. Though Carol Forman had played some visually striking evildoers in both THE BLACK WIDOW and BRICK BRADFORD, her "Spider Lady" just sits around barking orders at underlings and has no moxie to speak of. Her only gimmick is that in her (cheap looking) hideout, she has a big metal web mounted between two walls, in which she can electrocute those who displease her. Not surprisingly, this doesn't happen very often.
As for the guy making history as the "first Superman actor," Kirk Alyn is just fair in the role, projecting a breezy charm in his scenes as Superman. Unfortunately, most of his scenes show him as Clark Kent, and, since the script gives Alyn no help in developing a viable version of Superman's alter ego, he simply "plays down," perhaps trying to make Kent seem fairly subdued. However, Alyn's expression as Kent sometimes looks so constrained as to look constipated.
Lastly, though the early episodes of the serial are adequately scripted, the scripters apparently decided to get goofy in the final episodes. In the most ridiculous scene, Superman captures a henchman, but, instead of taking him to the cops, the hero takes the thug to the office of Perry White, so that the Daily Planet editor can interrogate the man. However, Superman then flies away, having done nothing to bind the ruthless crook. Does the editor call other employees to help him contain the thug? Of course not, and this allows the thug to beat down Perry and toss him out a high-rise window-- and only Perry being able to grab onto a ledge saves him from dying a really stupid death. By contrast, the climactic face-off of Superman and Spider Lady is ably if not spectacularly handled, ending the tedious story on a comparatively strong note.
SWIFT SHAOLIN BOXER (1978)
Unlike some stars of Hong Kong kung-fu films, Angela Mao-- probably the best-known female representative of the genre in the United States-- didn't make many films with metaphenomenal content. Moreover, of the few that had such content, some weren't even movies that featured Mao in a starring role, as with both ENTER THE DRAGON and BANDITS, PROSTITUTES AND SILVER.
SWIFT SHAOLIN BOXER is an exception to this trend, for Mao is the featured character and gets the best fights in the story, despite the presence of the iconic Lo Lieh as a villain. However, I can't call it a welcome exception, given that it's a piss-poor story comprised of little more than jumbled set-pieces-- which is probably why it barely has any current online reviews.
In yet another indeterminate medieval-Chinese setting, Mao plays Chao Lung, a woman who helps run a tavern, using her fighting-skills as the tavern's "bouncer." She's eventually revealed to be an agent of the Emperor, who is aware of a rebel movement championed by Lo Lieh's character. The incoherent film diverges from Ms. Lung to show two other warriors passing weird tests of their kung-fu skill. One man, identified on some sites as "Emerald Headband," enters some sort of temple (maybe this is the alleged "Shaolin" connection?) and fights a gang of boy acrobats garbed in gold costumes. Elsewhere, in some rural setting, a fellow named Ho Kun (Barry Chan) triumphs over four separate opponents, including a female fighter, possibly essayed by another kung-fu diva, Chia Ling, who's billed as having a cameo. When Ho Kun succeeds in his fourth test, the woman tells him he's now fit to serve the Emperor.
However, there are agents of Lo Lieh about, and one of them kills Emerald Headband, playing a flute that causes the victim to scream and die. Though this is a pretty handy super-power, we never see it again, though at least one other agent of the Emperor is also slain by the mystery assassin.
Ho Kun makes his way to Chao Lung's tavern in order to contact her, so that they can jointly investigate the murders. Chao Lung doesn't like Ho Kun, and they fight until interrupted. Later they make amends and Chao appoints an unnamed young guy to guard over Ho Kun. The villain's agents trap Ho Kun in a cage, but Chao and her buddy break him free. There's also an incomprehensible scene in which men in zombie makeup are either real or fake hopping vampires. Either way, they have nothing to do with the plot.
Finally, out of nowhere, the villain confronts Ho Kun in a countryside studded with colorful parasols. They fight, and just as Chao Lung and her aide show up, Ho Kun slays the villain. However, Ho Kun has only battled the revolutionary with the idea of taking over his operation, so Ho Kun promptly attacks the two loyal servants of the government. Maybe the traitor can't use his flute's magic under such circumstances, but the flute has weapons inside it, like a spear-point and a chain. Nevertheless, Chao kills Ho in the end, though he expresses some deathbed regrets for what might have been.
In the American movie biz, filmmakers who are good at special FX or stunt coordination sometimes graduate to the director's chair, where they usually emphasize kinetic set-pieces at the expense of narrative. Since the average HK martial arts film isn't nearly this incoherent, I'd theorize that something of this sort happened with SWIFT SHAOLIN BOXER. Still, though it's merely a bad movie without rising to the "so bad it's good" level, Angela Mao's fighting-skills lift the flick out of total worthlessness.
SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH (1943)
PHENOMENALITY: *naturalistic*
Of all of the Universal films featuring the Great Detective, SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH sports the oddest title. While a lot of Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories pose no peril to the sleuth, most if not all of the movies under this heading bring Holmes into imminent risk of his own life. Given that fact, one could almost imagine the Sherlock of FACES being forced to duel an angel of doom, or some similar specter. But FACES doesn’t even have a phony ghost, just a passing reference to an alleged spirit in the ancestral manor of the impoverished aristocratic family, the Musgraves.
Odd title aside, FACES has the distinction of being a more entertaining mystery than the Doyle story on which it’s loosely based. The case of Doyle’s “The Musgrave Ritual” is narrated to Doctor Watson by Sherlock long after the events of the case occurred, which by itself takes away some of the immediacy. Holmes’ client, a stuffy lord named Musgrave, approaches Holmes in reaction to what might be called “servant trouble.” Musgrave dismisses his butler Brunton for messing around in Musgrave’s papers, including a copy of a family catechism, the “ritual” of the title. Both Brunton and another servant disappear under mysterious circumstances, and Sherlock’s solution to the puzzle involves using the ritual to unearth an ancient English treasure.
Politically speaking, the short story pretty much adheres to the social status quo. Not so FACES. In keeping with the World War Two setting, the events at Hurlstone, the manor of the Musgraves, actually end up leveling the playing field between the classes. One change from the original story, made explicitly to appeal to wartime audiences, is that the manor has been temporarily converted into a barracks for soldiers who have returned to England to convalesce. This plot-thread doesn’t have any great impact on the mystery’s solution, but it does give the film an excuse to involve Doctor Watson with the Musgrave family. Of much more social consequence is the film’s use of the old chestnut, “young heiress wants to marry outside her class.” Thus, in place of one grumpy, landed aristocrat, we have three relatively impoverished high-class siblings, Snobbish brothers Geoffrey and Philip oppose sister Sally’s desire to marry one of the lower classes, who’s not even a native Britisher, but one of those Yanks involved in the war effort.
Though the butler Brunton still plays a key role in the mystery, the film starts off with a more momentous event: a local doctor is attacked, albeit non-fatally, on the grounds of Hurlstone. Did one of the traumatized patients go amok? But this is never really a serious possibility, especially when one Musgrave brother dies, and the other follows not long after. In fact, Philip dies in such a way as to be strongly associated with Sally-- his dead body is found in the trunk of a car when Sally’s driving it. However, given that Sally is presented as a sympathetic figure—not least because she’s marrying an American swain—Sally is also not even briefly portrayed as a possible culprit. However, the course of Sherlock’s investigations bring him into contact with the Musgrave Ritual, though in this go-round, the catechism is much more elaborate than in the short story. However, the ritual’s purpose remains the same: to pave the way to an ancient treasure, which is also the motive behind the murder. And in contradistinction to the story, where the rich are made richer by the uncovered treasure, Sally proves herself a woman of her time by casting aside the riches when it’s indicated that their use would harm the lower classes. Indeed, the film ends with Sherlock singing the praises of a new Samaritan ethic, implicitly born from the travails of the war, that will make it impossible for men to ignore one another’s suffering.
Despite some interesting visual touches—a chamber whose tiles are used as a giant chessboard, and a lightning-bolt that coincidentally causes chaos during Sally’s reading of the Musgrave Ritual—FACES is in every way a naturalistic Holmes-excursion.
Labels: bizarre crimes (n), the naturalistic
The 1936 serial FLASH GORDON, in adapting the phenomenally popular comic strip, proved to be a pivot -point between the old and the new. The world of American serials, dating back to 1912’s WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY, had made only occasional use of properties from other media, such as Tarzan and Craig Kennedy. FLASH was not by any means the first serial-adaptaation of the 1930s, but its unqualified success with the public guaranteed that American serials, until the extinction of the form in 1956, would invest heavily in franchises from comic strips, comic books, and pulp-magazine stories. At the same time, FLASH was among the last productions initiated at Universal Studios by that ambitious family, the Laemmles, before they were forced out by a new (and arguably less ambitious) new regime. Finally, in one department FLASH GORDON was both first and last, for it represents the only time in the sound era that an American serial was aimed at an adult audience, before the form became totally directed at young viewers.
Given how often Hollywood played fast and loose with adaptations of any pre-existing property—and not just with pulp-franchises like Tarzan, but also with literary types like Hemingway and Faulkner—it’s impressive that FLASH hews so closely to the strip, which had only been running for the previous two years. The principal plot-lines are derived from the two sequences I’ve described in this essay, though some chapters adapt the “invisible man” plotline seen in the later “Witch Queen” sequence that had concluded in 1935. Naturally, the serial did not attempt to reproduce the “cast of thousands” battles seen during Flash Gordon’s military conflict with Ming the Merciless, which had not concluded in the strip when the serial began filming, and which would not reach fruition until 1941. Thus the serial had to write its own end for its perfidious villain—albeit leaving an opening for his possible retu rn—as well as sending the serial’s starring heroes back to their native planet.rather than keeping them marooned on the planet Mongo. (Naturally, they, like Ming, returned for the sequels.) Yet almost every change Universal’s production team wrought upon the strip proved a fulfillment of the strip’s original appeal, and sometimes the changes were substantial improvements on the original.
Given that no in-depth interviews with the production team are extant, there’s no way to know who precisely made the decision to adapt the comic strip with almost the same tone of “high Hollywood melodrama” one could also find in contemporaneous adaptations of books and plays. Henry McRae, production head of Universal’s serials, certainly deserves some credit, though credit for FLASH’s flamboyant visual style probably should go to the German-born director of record, Frederick Stephani. Stephani never directed another serial, and it’s been suggested that he probably received aid in the production grind from the uncredited but more experienced Ray Taylor. Additonally, Stephani seems to be one of the few serial-directors who collaborated on scripting, in that he shares credit with three other scribes, including the noteworthy George Plympton. All of these talents seem to be united in the desire to translate to film, with as much gravity as melodrama would allow, the world of Alex Raymond, with its Burroughsian panoramas of medieval barbarism crossbred with science fiction gimmickery.
Obviously there were physical limitations to the state of special effects in 1936. Modern eyes, perhaps spoiled by the breakthroughs of computer graphics, are unlikely to see the aesthetic success of the serial, focusing only upon minutiae, like the fact that Stephani cannot, unlike Alex Raymond, make his live-action Hawkmen look like they have living wings that give them the power of flight. Yet even these qualified failures still convey Raymond’s vision of an exotic world wherein a fearless Earthman continually contends with people who have the powers or aspects of animals, and triumphs over them.
The actors, too, reflect the production team’s decision to pursue high melodrama with great intensity but without any condescending camp humor. I’m not alone in extolling Buster Crabbe to be one of the best possible castings in the history of cinema, period, and indeed, I’d rate his portrayal of Flash Gordon as an improvement on the Raymond original. Raymond’s Flash in the earliest strips is a one-dimensional hero. Forced into an arena, Flash wades into battle and tosses around his opponents, the ferocious monkey-men, like mere dolls. In the serial, Flash is no less stalwart and resolute. Yet in the arena-scene, Crabbe registers real fear when he faces the ape-creatures for the first time, and in his battle he has to sweat blood, so to speak, in outfighting these powerful beast-men. I’m not saying that I would’ve wanted to see Crabbe play Hamlet—his talent lay within a narrow expressive range—but he even has a few sensitive moments here. When Princess Aura tearfully confesses her love to him, trying to win him away from his beloved Dale Arden, Crabbe’s Flash shows more empathy for the woman’s emotional turmoil than the Flash Gordon of the comics could.
In the serial Ming, ably portrayed by Charles Middleton, is about the same as he is in the early strips: visually arresting but not yet possessing much character. However, Priscilla Lawson’s Princess Aura is a huge improvement over Raymond’s version. Raymond shows little empathy for Aura’s amour fou toward the Earthman, and the comics-artist tended to use her as nothing more than a plot-device. But both the script and the direction of FLASH GORDON play up Aura’s doomed passion for all it’s worth. She’s also a woman of action. On four separate occasions she witnesses Flash in peril, and while Dale Arden stands to one side, weeping or carrying on, Aura uses force or guile in order to save her man. As in the comic strip, Aura is eventually given a consolation prize in the form of the rebel prince Barin. However, as if to signify the producers’ secret preference for a Flash-Aura matchup, Barin comes off as rather bland, even after facing off against Flash in a blistering tournament-swordfight.
Other minor characters are artfully cast, with highest honors going to James Lipson for his rollicking effort as Vultan, King of the Hawkmen, and next highest to Frank Shannon as the always durable Doctor Zarkov. And with them out of the way, I can at least touch on the most significant change in the serial: the rendering of the comic strip’s plucky Dale Arden into a teary dishrag. (To be sure, actress Jean Rogers plays one of cinema’s best teary dishrags, faint praise though that may seem.) As I noted in an earlier essay, Dale in the comic strip was not an experienced warrior, but she was capable of independent action, and she outshone Princess Aura so much that sometimes Raymond made them look alike. In contrast, Stephani’s team went out of their way to visually distinguish the two characters. First off, the comics’ brunette Dale becomes a platinum blonde, as if to mirror Flash’s blonde locks. But as mentioned before, this Dale becomes every bit the “helpless femme” who can only scream hysterically when her lover is in danger.
The only character-monent Dale gets—and it’s a very odd, nuanced one for an American action-serial—appears in FLASH’s first chapter. The three Earthpeople, having crash-landed on Mongo, have been brought before Ming. Ming boasts that he plans to destroy the Earth, and Zarkov slyly buys time by talking the tyrant into conquering the planet instead. Up to this point Dale, who is of course wearing the prim clothes of a “nice girl,” hasn’t reacted to much of anything. Then Princess Aura, decked out in her pagan finery, pushes past some guards to stand beside her father. For just one shot—before Aura has even looked at Flash Gordon with lust, before she’s claimed him for her own property—Dale lifts her chin and gives Aura a hostile look, as if to say something like, “trashy slut.” Of course, for all anyone today knows, the actress might have been told to react as if Aura had already propositioned the Earthman. But as the scene stands, Dale comes off as overly proper. Given that the rest of the serial downplays Dale in order to play up Aura, this scene is in any case a harbinger of future developments.
In the comic strip, Dale pretends to romance Vultan in order to gain his trust, but only with the ulterior purpose of finding some way to rescue the imprisoned Flash. In Episode 6, Aura gives Dale the idea of makng up to Vultan, and Dale allows herself to be manipulated, even though it’s abundantly clear that Aura’s doing this to clear her own path to Flash. In Chapter 10, the serial reworks an incident from the comic strip in which the witch-queen Azura strips Flash of his memory, so that he makes love to her and forgets Dale. The serial has Aura slip Flash the memory-mickey, with the result that the stricken hero actually does choose Aura over Dale for a short time. Naturally Aura doesn’t get the chance to enjoy the fruits of her deception before that meddling Zarkov administers an antidote. Dale eventually wins the romantic battle, but only by being incredible passive. Some might assume that the serial’s makers were suggesting that female passivity was a prescriptive value. But that theory hardly holds up, given how much the film emphasizes Aura’s courage and cunning as positive virtues.
My explanation for the Dale-Aura change is no more verifiable than any other, but I think it fits the facts better. Alex Raymond’s comic strip was concocted in part to compete with BUCK ROGERS, which like its prose precursor, started out by having Caucasian heroes square off against menacing Mongolians. In FLASH GORDON Raymond throws in a little bit of Oriental claptrap, like giving his villain the name of a Chinese dynasty and dressing him in Mandarin robes. However, Raymmond was primarily interested in popularing his world with weird animal-human hybrids like Hawkmen and Lionmen. Thus after the first six months Raymond no longer refers to Ming’s people as “yellow men.” By the time the serial was in production, even characters like Ming and Barin, who had once been colored with a shade of canary-yellow, were depicted with the same Caucasian flesh-hues as everyone else.
By the time the serial FLASH GORDON films, no one in it looks particularly Asian except Ming. True, Aura is, though not specifically Asian, coded as an exotic “foreign beauty.” But this visual trope doesn’t necessarily signal, as Marxists tiresomely argue, an endorsement of Caucasian hegemony.
Raymond rather indifferently propounded a standard formula designed by please white readers: Asians may desire Caucasians, but not the other way round. Stephani and his fellow writers could not change the formula of the comic strip without displeasing the film’s audience. And yet, I believe that there’s some creative agenda on the minds of the filmmakers. Why, if one is playing to a dominantly white audience, would one downgrade the role of the lead Caucasian female character, making her seem helpless and a little simple-minded, while upgrading the image of the quasi-Asian exotic competition, making her much more dynamic than she is in the original strip?
There are two possible explanations. One is that one or more filmmakers secretly disliked all the “Yellow Peril” tropes in the film, and sought to undermine them through subtext: by making the romance between white man and not-white woman seem infinitely preferable to the more vanilla matchup. However, there seems no way to prove this. The other explanation rests more on the needs of entertainers trying to reach a particular audience. Possibly the filmmakers simply felt that they could generate greater melodramatic interest from adult filmgoers if the serial played up the tragic nature of Aura’s “love that was not meant to be.” I don’t suggest that 1936 female viewers would have wept for Aura the way they might weep, say, over the travails of STELLA DALLAS. But Aura’s sufferings were a trope that would be recognizable to an adult audience rasied on high Hollywood melodrama, so that all of the preposterous fantasy-elements might become more relatable.
For whatever reasons, there was never another American serial even ambivalently aimed at an adult audience, and the two FLASH GORDON serials—whose lack of earthy sexuality looks forward to George Lucas’s cosmos—would be just as juvenile as all the rest.
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Gary Luke: Pioneer in Publishing
As the publisher of Sasquatch Books, Gary Luke feels a sense of honor and responsibility to make his company an outlet for diverse perspectives.
“Whoever decides what gets published is, in many ways, acting as a gatekeeper. I think the culture is better served by more varied gatekeepers,” said Luke.
And in a world driven by the Internet, Luke says he doesn’t feel threatened.
“It’s less about the books and more about the reading,” he said. “At some point I’m sure much of reading will take place on some device, and that would be fine as long as people are reading. The thing is that when people stop reading, then you’re in trouble.” ♦
Meet Gary Luke on Oct. 11 at China Harbor Restaurant, 2040 Westlake Ave. N., Seattle. He is one of Northwest Asian Weekly’s nine honorees for the Asian American Pioneer Dinner. See ad on page 2 for details.
Filed Under: News, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: Asian American Pioneer Dinner, China Harbor Restaurant, Gary Luke, Northwest Asian Weekly, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, Westlake Ave, culture, vol 27 no 40 | September 27 - October 3
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Intel leak? Chinese, Russian moviegoers get first glimpse at "Battleship" in IMAX
By Kevin Lilley on April 4, 2012 Battleships, Entertainment, Navy
Keeping with the "family game night" theme, Lt. Cmdr. Dave Hecht describes the carrier George Washington's "Oujia board" to "Battleship" star Brooklyn Decker after a Monday news conference on the carrier's flight deck promoting the film. (Navy photo by MCSA Brian H. Abel)
Nations including China and Russia will get an inside look at some of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced tactics.
Specifically, how the Navy would deal with an alien invasion. If Liam Neeson ran Pacific Fleet. And if the director of “Friday Night Lights” ran everything.
It might not be much of an intel edge, but international audiences will be the first to see the Hollywood blockbuster “Battleship,” which debuts overseas in IMAX theaters April 12, according to an IMAX news release. More than 100 international theaters will screen the movie before it hits U.S. cinemas May 18. Gawker Media’s I09 website included the item in its “Morning Spoilers” report, appropriately enough.
As of early Wednesday, RottenTomatoes.com said 88 percent of its audience reviewers are eager to see the special-effects showcase — not quite the anticipation level for “The Avengers” (98 percent), but at least a little higher than “The Three Stooges” (82 percent).
Director Peter Berg and some of the film’s stars, including Rihanna, Taylor Kitsch (“John Carter”) and Brooklyn Decker (Sports Illustrated), visited troops Monday at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, and held a news conference on the carrier George Washington to promote the movie. Bookmark this link for the latest official trailers.
Kevin Lilley
Cruiser releases epic deployment video
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Scotland's Mary
An account of some events and prominent individuals in the Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Eyewitness to Execution
Eyewitness Account of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
The following is one of several eyewitness reports of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
Mary’s Death Mask
CATHOLIC REPORT OF QUEEN MARY’S EXECUTION (By an anonymous “Catholic witness” present at the execution.)
Report of the death of that rare and princely martyr Mary Stuart, late Queen of Scotland, executed for her conscience at Fotheringay Castle, the 8th of February, 1587.
First in the hall of the said castle was a stage, raised of seven feet square every way, and about five feet in height. At the two upper corners were two stools set, one for the Earl of Shrewsbury, another for the Earl of Kent; directly between the said stools was placed a block one foot high, covered with black, and before that stood a little cushion stool for the queen to sit on while her apparel was taken off. Round about the stage stood the high sheriff, with others appointed for the purpose.
About nine a.m., came that sweet saint and martyr, led like a lamb to the butchery, attired in a gown of black satin embroidered with a French kind of embroidery of black velvet; her hair seemly trussed up with a veil of white lawn, which covered her head and all her other apparel down to the foot. Being come into the hall, she stayed, and with a smiling countenance asked Shrewsbury why none of her own servants were suffered to be present. He answered that the queen his mistress had so commanded. “Alas, ” quoth she, “far meaner persons than myself have not been denied so small a favour, and I hope the queen’s majesty will not deal so hardly with me.” “Madam,” quoth Shrewsbury, “it is so appointed to avoid two inconveniences, the one that it is likely your people will shriek and make some fearful noise in the time of your execution, and so both trouble you and us, or else press with some disorder to get of your blood and keep it for a relic and minister offence that way.” “My lord,” answered she, “I pray you for my better quietness of mind let me have some of my servants about me, and I will give you my word that they shall not offend in any sort.”
Upon which promise two of her women and five of her men were sent for, who coming into the hall, and seeing the place of execution prepared and their sovereign mistress expecting death, they began to cry out in most woeful and pitiful sort; wherewith she held up her hand, willing them for her sake to forbear and be silent, “for,” quoth she, “I have passed my word to these lords that you shall be quiet and not offend them:” and presently there appeared in them a wonderful show of subjection, and loyal obedience, as to their natural prince, whom even at the instant of death they honoured with all reverence and duty. For though their breasts were seen to rise and swell as if their wounded hearts would have burst in sunder, yet did they to their double grief forbear their outward plaints to accomplish her pleasure.
As soon as she was upon the stage, there came to her a heretic, called Doctor Fletcher, dean of Peterborough, and told her how the queen his sovereign, moved with an unspeakable care of her soul, had sent him to instruct and comfort her in the true words of God. At which she somewhat turned her face towards him, saying, “Mr. Doctor, I will have nothing to do with you, nor your doctrine;” and forthwith kneeled down before the block, and began her meditation in most godly manner. Then the doctor entered also into a form of new-fashioned prayers; but the better to prevent the hearing of him, she raised her voice, and prayed so loud, as he could not be understood.
The Earl of Shrewsbury then spoke to her, and told her that he would pray with her, and for her. “My lord,” quoth she, “if you will pray for me I thank you; but, in so doing, pray secretly by yourself, for we will not pray together.” Her mediations ended, she arose up and kissed her two gentlewomen, and bowed her body towards her men, and charged them to remember her to her sweet son, to whom she sent her blessing, with promise to pray for him in heaven; and lastly to salute her friends, and so took her last farewell of her poor servants.
The executioners then began, after their rough and rude manner, to disrobe her, and while they were so doing, she looked upon the noblemen, and smilingly said, “Now truly, my lords, I never had two such grooms waiting on me before!” Then, being ready for the block, one of her women took forth a handkerchief of cambric, all wrought over with gold needlework, and tied it about her face; which done, Fletcher willed her to die in the true faith of Christ. Quoth she, “I believe firmly to be saved by the passion and blood of Jesus Christ, and therein also I believe, according to the faith of the Ancient Catholic Church of Rome, and therefore I shed my blood.” She finished her happy and blessed martyrdom to the comfort of all true Catholics, and to the shame and confusion of all heretics.
AFTER THE EXECUTION
Mary’s servants were commanded to return to their quarters. Henry Talbot a son of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was immediately sent to London with the certificate of execution.
Henry Gorman wrote the following description of what took place in London and the world upon hearing of the death of Mary Queen of Scots:
“In London, pealing church bells and blazing bonfires and wild demonstrations of joy in the streets while a haggard-eyed queen cursed Burghley, heaped obloquy on Davison and cried out that Marie had been executed against her will.
In Scotland, furious raids across the Border into England by nobles half-mad with grief while a young king ‘moved never his countenance at the rehearsal of his mother’s execution nor leaves not his pastime and hunting more than before.’
In Paris, deepest sorrow and chanting priests in the Cathedral of Notre Dame and sulphurous threats from Henri III as he refused audience to the English ambassador and arrested the couriers and despatches of Elizabeth at Dieppe and commanded an embargo on all English vessels in French ports.
In Spain, renewed activity as the spider of the Escurial gathered his fighting men and his high-powered galleons and his stores of cannon for the great blow intended to destroy Protestant England.
In Fotheringhay, “a dust-covered canopy of state lying neglected in a storeroom and upon its front in letters of fading gold: En ma fin est mon commencement.” (Translation: In my end is my beginning.)
The Dauphin
Mary & Francis’ Wedding
The Earl of Bothwell and Mary Queen of Scots
Lady Jean Gordon – Mary Queen of Scots
Lord Darnley
KIRK O’ FIELD
Darnley’s Character
Portraits & Comments
James VI & I
Mary Tudor
Marmaduke Darell Letter
Links & References
www.maryqueenofscots.net
Observation re Last Will & Testament
Mary Queen of Scots’ Original Will
Mary Queen of Scots Timeline
Historical Documents Relating to Mary Queen of Scots
The Ainslie Bond – Re Earl of Bothwell & Mary Queen of Scots
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Sex and Sensibility
About Deborah Roffman
In the News (2015- )
In the News (2010 – 2014)
Vintage Roffman
Articles by Deborah Roffman
Many consider Deborah Roffman’s articles during 2001 through 2009 to be classics in the field. This is a selection.
What Does ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Really Mean?
Deborah Roffman in The Washington Post, February 5, 2006
“We need to let boys know that, in the sexual and social arenas, we’ve been shortchanging them by setting the bar so low. We need to explain why the notion that “boys will be boys” embodies a bogus and ultimately corrupting set of expectations that are unacceptable.”
They’ll Abstain If They’re Given Good Reasons
Debbie Roffman in The Washington Post, December 12, 2004
“If 30 years of experience in this field has taught me one thing, it is that when talking with our children about sex, we need to make sure that we educate rather than dictate and that our approach is based on scientific evidence.”
“Separation of Church and School”
Debbie Roffman, Education Week, February 24, 2004
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” The issue of homosexuality and schooling is potentially a huge win-win for any community bold enough to tackle it head-on. A successful journey begins with clarity about the role of schools in children’s lives and the principles on which effective schools can, and cannot, base their policy and practice decisions.
“Way Too Much Fantasy With That Dream House”
Debbie Roffman in the Washington Post, Sunday, December 22, 2002 (Registration required)
“Ultimately, we’ll need to create a society where our children’s first and most important reference points about sexuality are families and schools, not their peers, the media or the Mattel company.”
“What Our Kids Know About Sex: All Mechanics, No Meaning”
Debbie Roffman in the Washington Post, June 9, 2002 (Registration required)
“We have never done the collective headwork required to figure out what our new contextual, moral yardsticks should be. How are we to think — to make our subjective judgments about what is right and wrong sexually — without them? ”
Debbie Roffman, on ABC News’ 20/20:
“Sex in Middle School: “Just Say No” Doesn’t Cut It in Keeping Kids from Sex”
A Report by John Stossel on Teens and Sex featuring expert advice from Deborah Roffman.
Debbie Roffman, in the Washington Post
“Abstain, Yes. But With Your Eyes Wide Open” September 2, 2001; Washington Post
“Pitching comprehensive sex education as the enemy, of abstinence is false, misleading and counterproductive, and that as long as we in the United States continue to polarize this issue, we’re kidding ourselves if we think we’re doing well by our kids.”
Debbie Roffman, in the Los Angeles Times:
“This [The Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S., Dr. David Satcher, “A Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior”] is the most important thing that has happened in the 30 years I have been working in this field. It is the first time government in any form has come out with a statement of support for various p rinciples of human sexuality and scientifically supported findings about sexuality education.”
Read the entire article: “Sex-Ed Report Pleasantly Surprises Some,” by Kathleen Kelleher. L.A. Times, 7/3/01.
Read Dr. Satcher’s complete report online.
“Freak Dancing’ Craze Generates Friction, Fears,” By Catherine Gewertz. Education Week, Feb 28 2001.
Read the article. (Subscription required)
An excerpt: To Deborah Roffman, a Baltimore-area sex educator, freak dancing illustrates how adults fall woefully short in teaching young people about sexuality. In most homes and classrooms, she said, teenagers learn that sex equals intercourse, which enables them to view other sexual acts as unimportant.
“If you think of sex as recreational, like bowling, then it is meaningless,” Ms. Roffman said. “Freak dancing is an outgrowth of that attitude. What they are doing is engaging in sexual behavior without taking responsibility for it.”
Teachers and parents need to help young people understand that all expressions of sexuality exist along a continuum, that all must be viewed as intimate, and that they must be handled with the appropriate care and responsibility, Ms. Roffman said.
Even parents of today’s adolescents, who lived through—and perhaps partook heartily of—the sexually permissive 1960s and 1970s, find themselves unable to discuss sexuality in the open and comprehensive way their children need, Ms. Roffman said.
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On August 19, 2010, Saint Joseph London opened its new replacement hospital, located just down the road from the old hospital in London, Kentucky. Both hospitals were simultaneously operational as patients were moved one-by-one to the new hospital by ambulance. 24 hours after the move, I still could not fully absorb or describe what I witnessed at Saint Joseph London, old and new.
My own training, experience and job accountabilities are about what can be better, should be next, or should be bigger. So, I was impressed watching the hospital team’s performance during the move. It wasn’t just clockwork, it was fine Swiss watch timing and precision. It was Beethoven’s 9th performed as the Boston Symphony only wishes it could.
On the morning of the move, it was very dark outside and raining heavily. The Saint Joseph London team gathered in prayer and disbursed to their stations across both campuses. The new hospital was pronounced open for patient care by Virginia Dempsey, President, at 4:55 a.m. and the transfer began. It was an honor for me to accompany the first patient from the old facility to the new. At 5:11 a.m., the new Saint Joseph London’s first patient entered her room after being given a Hollywood welcome by staff who gathered for pictures and warm greetings.
And so it went for each and every patient who followed. The team lined the new emergency department hallway awaiting each patient arrival. Peggy Green, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, provided an anointing of hands with mints for the team as they waited.
The memories I will long keep include the staff hugs and smiles and pride and tears. Behind the perspiration, staff members were glowing with pride.
The team at the command center and the tracking board were incredible: Inez, Mike and Anthony on their radios within three feet of each other executing triage and staging of all the various teams; Connie giving each patient a final check prior to EMT transport; Christy constantly updating the board as each patient was put in queue and tracked through each step of the process; the six person teams lifting each patient from bed to stretcher and back again at both locations; and especially Libby Campbell, the command center leader, for her usual leadership strength and serenity.
The team practiced and perfected this mission through countless discussions and rehearsals – this should be required textbook learning for all of us. As Mother Theresa said, “God is in the details.”
I could find no flaw, though I tried hard, in the patient rooms’ perfect layout and finish. I complimented several leaders on this and each of them, including Virginia Dempsey, gave all the praise to the staff who, through mockup rooms, were allowed to design the space. A great way to build an “own your space” culture!
As I rode back and forth in the dark morning with the EMTs, I saw two church signs on the route lighted in the night and rain. They read, “The Son always shines” and “My soul rejoices in God’s greatness.” Perfection indeed.
I was honored for the opportunity to witness this historic event and especially for the ongoing blessing that all of us have to help serve those that serve our patients.
Mark Streety
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Studio Integration
One of the biggest reasons for the personal studio's explosive growth during the 15 years EM has been around is the establishment of the MIDI specification. Before, some musicians bought a few expensive synthesizers and perhaps a step sequencer. With luck you could get your hands on a MIDI guitar, but many early units were not ready for prime time.
Different companies' products rarely worked well together, so integrating gear was a crapshoot. Synthesists had fun, but we were the few, the proud, the masochists. Manufacturers fought for sales, and they rarely agreed on anything ��� from CV values and nomenclature to the program-numbering system when programmable synths arrived.
MIDI changed that, though not all at once. It opened the door to the modern sequencing era, sound modules, programmable effects, fader boxes, and instrument controllers. Some additions to the MIDI spec ��� such as General MIDI, Standard MIDI Files, and MIDI Show Control ��� broadened MIDI control's influence considerably.
Given that MIDI opens so many doors, it should be no surprise that today's electronic musicians buy a variety of mainstream MIDI controllers ��� not just keyboards but MIDI guitars, wind controllers, and an assortment of percussion instruments. Exotic MIDI controllers are available too; we did a major article about exotic controllers (MIDI and non-MIDI) in our August 2000 cover story, ���The Outer Limits.���
EM boasts MIDI wind-controller expert Scott Wilkinson, string-controller wizard Marty Cutler, and MIDI percussionist Gino Robair. Cutler and Robair wrote the aforementioned story about exotic controllers, and they were champing at the bit to do a similar story about their favorite mainstream controllers. So I let all three editors out of their cages and sent them out to get the story of today's MIDI string, wind, and percussion controllers. I think you'll agree that their article (���In Control,��� p. 64) is a must-read for musicians interested in those types of controllers.
Such established formal standards as AES/EBU, S/PDIF, word clock, and SMPTE time code and de facto standards such as ADAT Optical and Tascam TDIF have helped fuel the digital-audio revolution. DirectX, the VST plug-in format, the WAV and MP3 audio-file formats, and ASIO audio-card drivers have been a huge help to computer-based musicians. Digidesign's TDM is the centerpiece of a thriving development community, although it is not an open standard.
All this and the concurrent growth of codevelopment alliances between manufacturers makes our lives as recording musicians a whole lot better. It also helps the music industry grow in more ways than we can count. Today it is a given that manufacturers should think about ways to make their products ���play well with others.��� Larry the O alludes to this in his ���Final Mix��� column (���Playing Card Games,��� p. 210).
But achieving tight studio integration is as much the studio owners' responsibility as it is the manufacturers'. We end users need to think in terms of purchasing gear with integration in mind. In future issues, we'll address the concept of creating a studio so well integrated that it can be treated as a single device.
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Original Cast of ‘Good Times’ Seeks $1 Million Through Kickstarter Campaign… (VIDEO)
Feb, 29 2016 | Written by ATLien
News broke last year that Sony was adapting the 70’s sitcom, ‘Good Times,’ to a feature film, but apparently the original actors had been left out of the script.
Forty years have gone by since the show ended, but the iconic show that took us into the lives of Florida & James Evans’ struggle to raise their 3 kids in a Chicago housing project, still airs today on several networks.
Ester Rolle (Florida Evans) passed away in 1998 but John Amos, Ja’Net Dubois, Jimmy Walker, Bernadette Stanis and Ralph Carter (the actors who portrayed, James, Willona, JJ, Themla and Michael) are pleading with fans to contribute to to their efforts to create a ‘Good Times’ reunion movie project.
While you would think it would be easy for the iconic sitcom stars, they’ve only managed to raise $8,470 of the $1 MILLION they are seeking and their crowd funding campaign over in just a few days.
Details below…
In a Kickstarter campaign that ends in less than 5 days, the original cast of Good Times seeks your help in making their reunion dream a reality, stating:
From the day we walked off the set of Good Times, forty years ago, all we have heard is??When are you going to have a Good Times reunion? Our audience have told us they need completion. They tell us we are not finished with the first Black T.V. family show. What happened? We want to see our favorite family show back on T.V.
Well, here it is a chance to make that happen. We as a cast have always said maybe one day, we will have a reunion. That one day is here now. It is not just up to us, it is up to our millions of fans who have the power to make it happen.
VIDEO: Good Times Cast Start Kickstarter
During these forty years as a cast we have been giving a numerous amount of scripts that were written about what happened to the Evans’ family. The ideas are countless, but as a group we have made a decision on where each character should go ?and what this long awaited script should be about.
We are bursting at the seems to bring this exciting movie to you. All that we can tell you at this point is that it will be exactly what you expect from us and more.
For the record, this project has nothing to do with the feature film adaptation of ‘Good Times’?that’s already in the works through Sony.
Deadline reported last April that?Black-Ish creator Kenya Barris was on board?to write the script for the movie version of the groundbreaking sitcom about an African-American family on the other side of the spectrum, struggling in the Chicago projects in the turbulent ?60s.
Good Times, which aired on CBS from 1974-79, was among a number of socially aware Norman Lear-created sitcoms that became hits. The show was a spinoff of Maude, which itself was a spinoff of All In The Family. Good Times followed the struggles of working-class couple James and Florida Evans, who raised three kids through financial hardship as they tried to keep their kids away from trouble during a politically and socially turbulent time in a Chicago housing project.
Whatever the case, ?James, Willona, JJ, Thelma and Michael are all gunning for a movie of their own and they apparently don’t have major funding so they need YOUR help to make it happen.
CLICK HERE to visit the Good Times kickstarter page.
What do you think of ‘Good Times’ heading to the big screen?
Smart move? or Bad Idea?
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What will the Giants do? All of the WR’s are vertically challenged!
April 7, 2009 by MarkM
The New York Giants do not have a lack of speed and big play potential when you look at their Wide Receiving core, regardless of what some morons think and write. With the speed and explosiveness of Mario Manningham and Sinorice Moss, and Ron Hixon you would have to be crazy to think that. The Giants may have some of the fastest receivers in the NFL, in truth. The only big problem for this team is the glaring shortness of these Wideouts! Without Plaxico the tallest of Eli’s targets is Hixon at a generous 6′1. And that is the one thing they had been missing all last season and still now. They need a tall athletic target to go get jump balls in crowded spaces, which was Plaxico’s specialty. Before Burress they always had the WR skilled TE, named Shockey! What the Giants need is a WR who is over 6′1 who can make some big catches in some big spots. If he can get up and catch the ball in certain situations the Giants will only need to secure a role playing wideout, in the draft. Now, there are 3 options for this team, as far as I see it.
1. They could just attempt to draft a WR with their number 1 pick and pick up a free agent who has the ability to start and garnish some respect on the field. (My choice)
2. They could trade up picks in the draft to secure Crabtree or Maclin, which is what all of New York is hoping for. Personally I am not convinced, that would be the right move, but hey I’ve been wrong before.
3. They could also decide to just go for broke and trade a good helping of players and picks over several years for Boldin or Braylon Edwards. The Giants need receivers and without a doubt Jerry Reese has his eye on these two. So much so that someone had released the story specualting Reeses’s interest to the media about Edwards, who plays a very similar game to Plaxico and seems to have less of the character flaws.
As far as I see it the GMen are in great shape if they can keep their young talent, therefore I am believe they should keep Steve Smith, Sinorce Moss, and Mario Manningham and just sign a Veteran WR who can make plays in traffic during jump ball situations. There are several great fits for this role playing type (TALL) WR out in free agency right now:
Torry Holt:
Torry Holt, is a getting a litter bit older and has had some extensive knee surgeries and problems, yet if the Giants can sign him for a short deal they can bring up their draft pick wideout the proper way letting him mature under the tutelage of a true leader, which is what Tory Holt is. The Young Giants recievers could use the Veteran leadership this signing would bring, considering they have lost Amani Toomer.
Matt Jones:
Matt Jones is 6′6 and is a super jumper and a great athlete, yet his off field issues make him a cheap buy in free agency. The Giants are notorious for taking a chance, and over the past couple of years Matt Jones has had very sub par seasons. Make no doubt about it this guy is a risk, but it could pay off if you sign low and he plays high, and I don’t mean on cocaine!
Reggie Williams:
This 6′4 physical monster can put any DB out of a position when he gets rolling. He also has had some issues over the past couple of years, and had seemed to play his way out of the 1 spot in Jacksonville. The Jaguars have however counted on Reggie for big plays and countless jump balls and his stats show it. In 2007, Reggie put up 10 TDs in only 6 starts, while only catching 35 passes for the season. He has brake away speed and he is very young and looking for a fresh start. He has low value because he just didn’t mesh well with the Jacksonville coaches and management!
Drew Carter:
Is a wide out known for his jumping ability, he was supposed to be the replacement for Johnson in Carolina, but it just didn’t work out. He has made some great plays over his career and still is relatively young. Yet the game may have passed this guy over. He is my least favorite possible free agent as I see it now.
Miles Austin:
Miles Austin has had some pretty strong showings over his short career. He had played along side TO and Roy Williams in Dallas. Miles Austin, last year would sometimes seem to out play both Owens and Williams. At 6′3 this player has the potential to be a big catch WR, who could really help replace the loss of Toomer and Burress. He has done great things in Dallas and it’s funny to think they just cut him. His knee issues must be pretty severe for Dallas to have dropped him, but if he checks out good with the doctors, I am all for this guy!
Joe Jurevicius:
I want to cry when I think about how many times this big guy has saved me from losing money. No matter what I will always bet on this guy. Joey is coming into his final seasons as a pro and I can’t think of any other wide receiver who has made as many HUGE catches as this guy without producing any real gawky stats. My friends and I have a saying, “Joey Jurevicius, the man-child from Penn State will always give you 1 big play every game for the rest of his life. Even though he might only record one catch, in the end it is going to matter”. I think the Giants would be nuts not to want him, Joey brings an positive and inspirational aura and an attitude wherever he goes. Jurevicius is a motivational figure that the Gmen may need in that Offensive huddle this season. I know he isn’t fast anymore, but he has height and great hands, and a history with the New York Giants, which could make him an easier sign!
No matter what, I cant wait to see big blue fix the issues with this WR core. I think Jerry Reese has some an up his sleeve, so lets see what cards he decides to play on draft day!
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Tagged: Boldin, Braylon Edwards, Burress Replacement, Eli Manning, Free Agency, Jerry Reese, Joe Jurevicius, Matt Jones, Miles Austin, New York Giants, NFL Draft, Plaxico's Replacement, reggie williams, torry holt, WR issues
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RP wasting $30-billion fund DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 07/01/2011
RP wasting $30-billion fund
What could be more important than writing about a key bit of information that will make the Filipino people realize they don’t need foreign funds in the national economy anymore to enable them to throw the yoke of economic colonialism immediately? All the BS that cause the inferiority complex and mendicancy of Filipinos (BS such as “we need foreign investors”; “we don’t have the funds”; “we can’t run the country without debt”; or “we can’t escape the debt trap”) will simply have to go down the toilet drain.
Several times before, we have written about this idle fund that can free us of foreign dependency right away. We placed the figure at $28 billion or P1.3 trillion and identified that fund as the Special Deposit Account (SDA) with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which was pointed out to us by economist Hiro Vaswani of KME (Kilusang Makabansang Ekonomiya). Recently, we got another confirmation of the existence and availability of this “disposable” fund kept idle only because of the treasonous streak of our BSP officials.
In a guest column by Mario Antonio Lopez in one business daily, it was reported that former Neda Chief Romulo Neri was of the opinion that “our dollar reserves of $65 billion (are) substantially above what the IMF (International Monetary Fund) considers adequate for a nation of our size and needs.”
In fact, Neri was said to believe that “we can, if we wish to, use perfectly legal means to liberate half of the fund ($30 billion) to jump-start a number of badly needed initiatives in education, agriculture, and health over and above the money currently available,” stressing that the “P40 billion requested, indeed needed, by the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) is a small amount compared to what can be made available to the three other programs which, in the process of providing the needed services, also means increased employment and livelihood opportunities.”
In other words, we don’t need the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) projects of PeNoy because this $30-billion fund is already larger than all the funding requirements for the 83 “flagship” projects under his entire term.
One report even placed the relatively miniscule “investment” requirement at “P739.78 billion under the Private-Public Partnership, 10 of which with investment requirements of P127 billion have been shortlisted and readied for rollout in 2011.”
Besides this, another reason for tapping the idle SDA is that PPP partners get unconscionable “sweeteners” such as TRO-free operations which, like in past BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) projects, effectively bar people from resorting to the courts no matter the inimical nature of these projects to public welfare or how financially abusive the project owners become. Of course, this is on top of the fact that “investor-partners” of government also get “sovereign guarantees” for their profits, which only means that they get to secure their loans risk free and their profits at exorbitant rates of return.
One of our fellow columnists in another paper, Romeo Lim, sums up the flawed logic of the PPP program (and the BOT law that preceded it): “Government (does) not have money to fund the huge investment requirements of our infrastructures program. Revenue collection (is) never enough… Government assets for sale (are) not inexhaustible, and there (are) limits to government borrowings.”
Unfortunately, that rationale, despite never being valid nor true, has gotten even the most intelligent and well-informed of our leaders either totally or partially ignorant of the existence of the huge fund that the country can use, perhaps out of a reluctance to exercise a modicum of mental or political independence.
Actually, the BSP and the country’s bankers know that this gargantuan fund is readily available for the nation’s benefit. But why is everybody silent about it? Is it because of certain shenanigans in the BSP, where officials are in cahoots with foreign fund managers to take advantage of it?
A recent news item (“BSP’s outsourced funds reach $9.8B”) reveals that a huge chunk of our reserves continues to yield management commissions or fees to almost a dozen foreign fund managers, stating, “The central bank’s externally-managed portfolios as of the end of last year totaled $9.89 billion, up by $5.94 billion from $3.95 billion third quarter of 2010 due to a shift in portfolios. (The BSP’s treasury department)… said the amount of almost $6 billion were cash infusions from the BSP’s internally-managed portfolios. The move was to shift this much amount from the internally-managed funds to externally-managed portfolios, which are funds outsourced to external managers and invested in longer-dated maturity securities, to preserve the country’s foreign currency capital. The BSP’s external fund management program started in 1997 (FVR’s time), when a portion of the gross international reserves was invested in long-term instruments. The BSP currently has 10 external fund managers including JP Morgan Chase.”
So who are the other “fund managers?” Do BSP officials receive fat commissions for subcontracting this, too?
In addition, it was revealed that “about 42 percent of Philippine funds which are US dollar hedged portfolios — are invested in the US, 33 percent in the Eurozone, 11 percent in Japan and nine percent in the United Kingdom.” BSP insiders tell us that commissions are paid out for such “investments” as well.
The Filipino people should thus wake up to the big scam that is going on with the country’s huge financial reserves. We are not as poor as those opportunistic elements in our ruling elite and financial cabals make us to be.
We, the people, should take charge of our nation’s financial resources through a People’s Bank run by our knowledgeable representatives — not by gofers of the international and local banking cartel.
(Tune in to Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m., and Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, on “Supreme Court: Supreme Injustices” with Lauro Vizconde, Dante Jimenez and Rasti Delizo of PMJ; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Recall and retaliation EDITORIAL 07/01/2011
Recall and retaliation
What was going on in the mind of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in calling a press conference to present supposed new witnesses in the unresolved Vizconde massacre case that apparently was meant to again implicate the same personalities already acquitted by the Supreme Court (SC) was too obvious: Recall and retaliation.
Recall was for her 2013 senatorial ambitions as a coup in her public career which would be most accessible by sticking to the celebrated case and digging up old bones, including those consigned to lie in peace.
Retaliation was meant for the SC that had already ruled exonerating Hubert Webb and all his other co-accused in the case. The apparent motive of De Lima was to hand the tribunal a slap on its face by bringing out the new witnesses against Webb and company after it already ruled to throw out the charges based on one dubious witness Jessica Alfaro, a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) asset..... MORE
Indecisive FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/01/2011
Indecisive
Noynoy told reporters yesterday that one Cabinet official of his may be sacked if that person does not shape up, but added that the official will be given another assignment.
He refused to identify the Cabinet official, saying that he will talk to the official, adding that the official could be transferred to a different agency if several issues are not addressed.
One suspects that Noynoy has been forced into saying this, which is clearly an iffy thing, since there are conditions attached to this official’s removal.
After his speech saying that he has at least two or three Cabinet members who always bring him the bad news which he said he dreads giving them appointments as he always wonders what bad news these officials will be bringing him, Noynoy received a lot of flak. His mouthpieces tried their hand at damage control, claiming it was all a joke, which brought even more flak. In the end, a mouthpiece came out to say that Noynoy will definitely fire officials who are incompetent, without identifying the officials..... MORE
Of padres and padrinos NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 07/01/2011
Of padres and padrinos
Armida Siguion-Reyna
Juggernaut, a regular blogger on ellentordesillas.com, asks: “so Gloria has corrupted the sc, the pcso, congress, the goccs, military — how are we to recover from this? how many years of reform must be undertaken? will one year be enough, will six years? can we undo in a year what has been done in nine? can we undo with good intentions the damage that has been done with ‘concrete monetary rewards?’”
Searching for answers, I came across one of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Chairman Margarita Juico’s many recent revelations: Seven bishops received Mitsubishi Pajeros from Gloria Arroyo, presumably in exchange for “cooperating” with her. The cooperation apparently extended to all the way up to now, for the one using a spanking new Mitsubishi Montero Sports just last month demanded P-Noy’s resignation over his “KKK” — kaklase, kaibigan at kabarilan. Almost soon after, guess who put up a press conference and blustered, “Nobody’s home?”
Not a coincidence, that.
The bishops, identified not only by their past close relationship to Gloria Arroyo, but by their going around in, yes, Pajeros, are staying tightlipped. Those who didn’t get anything are the ones denying receipt of the bounty, and perhaps, this, too, is a ruse. Dedma ang mga nakatanggap, habang maingay sa pagtanggi ang mga walang nakuha..... MORE
Impatience C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/01/2011
We can understand why most of those interviewed in the latest Pulse Asia survey (7 out of 10) were more forgiving of P-Noy and his administration than a lot of the pundits and experts in our midst. Not only are we a forgiving people we are also a very patient one. “Que sera, sera” whatever will be, will be remains a favorite among us ordinary folks. Also, in the period before taking over and even in the first month or so of his administration, P-Noy exuded a kind of folksy, forthcoming and trustworthy (Kayo and Boss Ko) air which endeared him to the public. No wang-wang became de rigeur and humility and accountability in public service and even in private transactions were expected to get back in style. Somehow, people believed that P-Noy will not only be a model of honesty and integrity but will be able to handle the demands of his office, carry on and deliver on his promises. And so, when things started to unravel across the board and finger pointing and the “blame game” became an almost daily Palace routine, the public began to take a second look at P-Noy and his crew.... MORE
‘New proof in Vizconde case inadmissible against Webb’ 07/01/2011
‘New proof in Vizconde case inadmissible against Webb’
The alleged newly discovered evidence being introduced by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against Hubert Webb in connection with the Vizconde massacre case cannot be used against him and is “inadmissible” as evidence, a lawyer yesterday told the Tribune.
Lawyer Romulo Macalintal said this was not only because of the principle against double jeopardy as Webb and his co-accused had already been acquitted by the Supreme Court (SC).
Also, Macalintal stressed, the evidence allegedly belongs under the category of “forgotten evidence” which, according to him, “is not allowed as it defeats the orderly and speedy administration of justice.”
Macalintal cited a June 27, 2006 case of “Ombudsman vs Coronel (GR164460)” wherein the court forbade the presentation of such “forgotten evidence.”.... MORE
Saudi bans Pinoy OFWs, stops work permits issuance By Michaela P. del Callar 07/01/2011
Saudi bans Pinoy OFWs, stops work permits issuance
Saudi Arabia will stop issuing work permits to Filipino domestic helpers beginning July 2, adding pressure to the Aquino government to provide more jobs at home.
Saudi imposed the deployment ban to protest the monthly wage increase from $200 to $400 being sought by the Aquino administration for Filipino maids.
Rico Fos, Foreign Affairs Director for Migrant Workers Affairs, said Manila will seek clarification from Saudi regarding the ban, which also includes Indonesia, but noted that it will not back down from negotiations seeking better pay for Filipino maids.
“The meeting will be held in July 4 in Riyadh between Philippine and Saudi officials. We hope something positive will come out of that dialog,” Fos said..... MORE
Ombudsman orders plunder raps filed vs Bolante, Lorenzo By Arlie O Calalo 07/01/2011
Ombudsman orders plunder raps filed vs Bolante, Lorenzo
By Arlie O Calalo 07/01/2011
Minutes after denying the motions for reconsderation of former Agricuture Secretary
ordered the filing of plunder cases against the two on the P723-million fertilizer fund scam.
Casimiro stood firm on his earlier order finding probable cause to indict Lorenzo, Bolante and several other high-ranking officials in connection with the fertilizer fund scam.
Aside from the main respondents, incumbent Quezon City Rep. Nanette Castelo-Daza, ex-Rep. and now Marinduque Gov. Carmencita Reyes and former Catanduanes Gov. Leandro Verceles Jr. filed separate motions which were also denied by the anti-graft office.
Charges of violation of the provisions of Republic Act 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act) were ordered filed against them before the Sandiganbayan, the acting Ombudsman yesterday said..... MORE
Senate to probe 2 more alleged anomalous deals By Angie M. Rosales 07/01/2011
Senate to probe 2 more alleged anomalous deals
Two other cases of alleged fund misuse during the Arroyo administration are slated to be investigated by the Senate, with one involving the alleged anomalous acquisition of helicopters for the Philippine National Police (PNP)’s elite Special Action Force (SAF) unit amounting to P105 million and a purported irregularity in the use of almost P9 million of Road Users’ Tax.
A twin move to probe the said issues is being pursued by Senators Panfilo Lacson and Teofisto “TG” Guingona, following their filing of Resolution Nos. 518 and 520 last Wednesday, it was gathered yesterday.
Resolution No. 518 is about the alleged misrepresentation in the acquisition of the Light Police Operational Helicopters (LPOHs) from Manila Aerospace Products Trading Corp. (Maptra) while the other is about irregularities in the Motor Vehicle Users’ Charge (MVUC), also known as the Road Users’ Tax under the past administration.
The lawmakers stressed the need to inquire into the use of P8.547 million from the MVUC to a youth “emergency employment program” as these releases “appear to be in violation of Republic Act 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act because ... all monies collected under RA 8794 should have been earmarked solely and used exclusively for the maintenance and improvement of road drainage, installation of adequate and efficient traffic lights and road safety and air pollution control, and NOT established to address underemployment or drug problems of the youth,” they said in their resolutions..... MORE
China says naval drills not linked to sea disputes 07/01/2011
China says naval drills not linked to sea disputes
BEIJING — China has said a series of recent naval drills are “routine” and unrelated to simmering tensions in the South China Sea involving a range of nations with competing territorial claims.
When asked about the six military exercises staged by the Chinese Navy in June, including a joint drill with Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun urged the media not to speculate about their purpose.
“China hopes all parties will treat the Chinese navy’s normal exercises in an objective and rational way,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted Yang as saying Wednesday. He described the drills as “routine arrangements.”
He said China expects all countries involved in the South China Sea disputes to “make the peace and stability of the region a priority and do more to contribute” to that outcome, according to Xinhua..... MORE
LFS hits back at AFP, to file charges against CRS chief By Mario J. Mallari 07/01/2011
LFS hits back at AFP, to file charges against CRS chief
The militant League of Filipino Students (LFS) yesterday lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for identifying the youth group as among the organizations that should be avoided by young students, branding such pronouncements as dangerous and irresponsible.
In a statement, LFS chairman Terry Ridon said they are holding AFP-Civil Relations Service (cRs) chief Brig. Gen. Eduardo del Rosario personally liable for deaths of their members in the future.
“The bloody intrigue against student activists continues. In fact, it has never been abandoned by the AFP. If our ranks are again felled by bullets for being suspected rebels, Brig. Gen. Eduardo del Rosario shall be personally liable for our deaths,” Ridon said..... MORE
Group to bring postponement of ARMM polls to UN court 07/01/2011
Group to bring postponement of ARMM polls to UN court
A workers and farmers political group said yesterday it would bring to the United Nations court the postponement of elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), saying the move is “a blatant violation of human rights.” At a forum in Manila, Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka (PMM) president Jose Malvar Villegas Jr. said the postponement of polls in ARMM on Aug. 8 is equivalent to “illegal cancellation of elections” as this denies people their right to choose their leaders. “President Aquino cannot just appoint officials or his allies to take over in ARMM..... MORE
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Impeach Noynoy! EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 02/16/2012
Impeach Noynoy!
The official who really should be impeached is President Aquino while the rest of his mouthpieces and other officials should be fired, and along with him, his lapdogs in the Senate and the House of Representatives thrown out of their seats.
Noynoy is one president who has, what can really be said, betrayed the public trust for committing the high crime of deliberately moving to destroy the very fabric of the tripartite Republican State which the Filipino people have decreed and ordered him, as President of the Republic, to uphold, defend and obey.
Since he has publicly shown in too many instances disobeying the decree of the Filipino people, as ratified by them of the 1987 Constitution, then he is betraying the public trust..... MORE
‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance of Health Workers
“Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee.” – Alliance of Health Workers
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
Employees in the health sector led by the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) and allied organizations under the Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) held a protest action in Mendiola, on Valentines Day, against the policy of the Benigno Aquino III administration of “cutting allocations for health services and benefits of rank and file health workers.”
(Photo by Ina Alleco Silverio / bulatlat.com)
The AHW is opposing the Department of Health (DOH) department order no. 2012-0002, which effectively reduces the subsistence and laundry allowance of health workers by P30/working day ($0 .70) and P130/month ($3.02) respectively. The group has already sought clarification from the Department of Budget and Management (BDM), but the agency insisted that the reduction of benefits was “a policy decision.”
In the meantime, the AHW is also wary against the delay in the release, or worse, the probable reduction or removal of their hard-won benefits such as hazard pay and others stipulated in the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers (RA 7305) because the DBM decided to take away the “savings” in the unfilled plantilla positions from which the benefits are sourced.
Last month on January 11, the DOH released order number 2012-0002 addressed to all undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau/service directors, medical center chiefs of all government-run hospitals regarding the payment of magna carta benefits to officials and employees of the DOH.
In it, the DOH led by secretary Enrique Ona said the subsistence allowance and laundry allowance of employees will be adjusted effective that same month. The memo also declared that the payment of hazard and longevity pay charged from any available savings of all government health offices and hospitals will be subject to the DBM’s approval.
Increase in health budget goes to contractualization,PPP schemes
AHW national president Jossel Ebesete said the Aquino government has been imposing budget cuts in the operations of most public hospitals. Since 2010, the government, Ebesete said, has been reducing allotments for direct service provisions like vaccinations, as well as removing subsidies for the hospitalization needs of indigent patients..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/16/increase-in-health-budget-deceiving-%E2%80%93-alliance-of-health-workers/
UN stalemate over Syria resolution
The UN General Assembly is due to vote on a second draft resolution stipulating the removal of President Assad to end the spiraling violence in Syria. It is the second attempt at passing a resolution after China and Russia vetoed the first document.
The new resolution supports the Arab League initiative to facilitate transition to a democratic government will be put to vote later on Thursday.
Russia objects to the paragraph demanding the resignation of President Assad and wants amendments to the draft calling for the disarmament of opposition groups as well as government forces. Arab delegations have dismissed the Russian amendments as unacceptable, claiming they undermine the draft resolution’s message..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/general-assembly-syria-resolution-assad-443/
Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption.
Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer script called the DNSChanger Trojan. Once set loose on the Web, the worm corrupted computers in upwards of 100 countries, including an estimated 500,000 in America alone. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation later stepped up by replacing the rogue Trojan with servers of their own in an attempt to remediate the damage, but the fix was only temporary. Now the FBI is expected to end use of those replacement servers as early as next month and, at that point, the Internet for millions could essentially be over..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-internet-server-servers-409/
Abortion — 1 VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/16/2012
Abortion — 1
“The State …shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception.” (Philippine Constitution: Section 12).
Thus reads the categorical State policy on the protection of the “life” of the “unborn” from the moment of “conception.” The more salient observations that can be drawn from the above cited constitutional provision are the following: That in the order of nature, the essential sequence is conception that brings forth life which in turn ushers forth the unborn — all as one composite reality. That without life, there is nothing really worth to talk about, nothing truly important to bother with. That intrinsic right of the unborn is premised on the fact that it is only there from that someone is born..... MORE
Nothing but a fairy tale
Dear Editor:
In the Feb. 13, 2012 issue of The Daily Tribune, Mr. Charlie V. Manalo alleged (Prosecution spokesman also building house in ritzy village, Page 1) that I own what he described as a multimillion-peso three-story house in Varsity Hills, Quezon City, quoting unnamed sources. A picture of said house with a specific address at 152 B.Gonzales St., Varsity Hills, Loyola Heights, Quezon City was also provided.
This is totally untrue and nothing but a fairy tale.
I do not own the mentioned property. I have never been to Varsity Hills and in fact I do not even know where it was located until yesterday morning. Neither do I, my spouse nor any of my children own a property in Xavierville or Varsity Hills Subdivision..... MORE
US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes By Michaela P. del Callar 02/16/2012
US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes
American military bases seem to be returning to the Philippines under President Aquino’s government, despite the 1987 Constitution banning the stay of foreign military bases
It is being done in such a circuitous way that circumvents the constitutional proviso on military bases.
The United States is eyeing the transfer of some of the thousands of American troops stationed in Okinawa to the Philippines as Washington reduces its military presence in the Japanese island, where residents have called for the shutdown of its large military base..... MORE
RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled 02/16/2012
RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled
Argentinian officials in Manila yesterday apologized to the Philippines after a Filipino boxer was attacked by enraged fans moments after winning over his local opponent in Buenos Aires, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said, adding a protest has already been lodged to the government of Argentina conveying its dismay over the incident.
The DFA also said Argentinian boxer Luis Alberto Lazarte, who lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-flyweight title to Johnriel Casimero in a bout Saturday, personally apologized to the Filipino boxer and his team.
Outraged Philippine senators demanded the recall of the Philippine Ambassador to Argentina Rey Carandang, accusing him of failure to protect the welfare of the Filipino boxing delegation..... MORE
PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’ By Angie M. Rosales 02/16/2012
PRESIDENT, MANAGER ORDERED TO PRODUCE PESO ACCT ORIGINALS
PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’
The presiding judge of the Senate Court has spoken and his order must be complied with by the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) officials called upon as witnesses for the prosecution.
Bank executives, appearing as witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, yesterday stood their ground in their declaration that the prosecution panel’s alleged evidence is a “fake.”
If it is proven that the documents pertaining to some alleged undisclosed bank accounts of the chief magistrate in the PSBank which two members of the House prosecution panel claimed to have been produced by an “anonymous source,” members of the lower house defending the case face serious sanctions..... MORE
Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads By Arlie O. Calalo 02/16/2012
Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads
By Arlie O. Calalo 02/16/2012
The Office of the Ombudsman said yesterday it could not be able to conduct an inquiry on the alleged non-disclosure of statements of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn) of the prosecutors involved in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona due to “lack of sufficient leads.”
The supposed probe will also involve the prosecution spokesmen as well as the senator-judges of the impeachment court, said Edgardo Diansuy, director of the Ombudsman’s media bureau.
He said in a statement emailed to Tribune that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales would not initiate an inquiry because there were no enough leads to push through with it..... MORE
Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab 02/16/2012
Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab
Retrieval operations at the landslide-hit villages in Negros Oriental province were extended up tomorrow after which the areas will be declared as common memorial sites for the 63 people who remained unaccounted for after the Feb. 6 magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Visayas region.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos said the local government officials set the retrieval operations in Guihulngan City and La libertad town until yesterday to focus more to the rehabilitation efforts.
“Until Friday, it should be today (Thursday) as requested by the mayor, so I extended it for another day tomorrow. We have not recovered additional (victims)…63 remained missing and 42 are dead,” Ramos said..... MORE
Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga By Mario J. Mallari 02/16/2012
Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga
Four brand new night-capable, combat utility helicopters arrived in the country on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing multibillion-peso capability upgrade and modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
AFP deputy chief of staff for plans and programs Maj. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said the four Polish-made Sokol utility helicopters, which are part of the eight helicopters purchased from Augusta PZL Swidnik of Italy and Poland, arrived in Clark Air Base in Pampanga.
“We are presently inspecting them…they will be assembled in Clark Air Base by our assessment of the Philippine Air Force. So, as soon as possible we could use them,” Deveraturda said..... MORE
Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012
Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop
By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012
The historic Manila Cathedral will officially close indefinitely to give way to a structural retrofitting amid concerns that the “liquefaction” in the soil on which it stands could render it at risk in a strong earthquake, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM) chief announced Monday.
At a press conference, newly appointed Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle said since last Tuesday the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception has been closed due to some structural concerns.
The 441-year-old church will not accept any bookings of weddings, christenings and funeral Masses for the next seven months or even one year..... MORE
Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally 02/16/2012
Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally
The Manila Police District (MPD) was surprised when members of militant group Gabriela stormed on Valentine’s Day the heavily secured Pandacan oil depot and staged a rally to denounce the unabated increase in petroleum prices. According to the group, the .85 centavos increase in the price of diesel products and .50 centavos in gasoline after successive price increases are too much for the poor who are the most affected.
“Linta (leeches) ang mga kumpanya ng langis kung sumipsip ng tubo mula sa mamamayang hindi na makaagapay sa pagkamahal-mahal ng langis, sa walang patid na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis ay unti-unting pinapatay ang mamamayang Pilipino,” Salvador, deputy secretary- general of Gabriela, said..... MORE
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Market and regulatory issues related to Bio-CC(U)S
Date 16th Jan, 2018 - 16th Jan, 2018
Location Albert Borschette Congress Center (CCAB), Room 1C, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels
Contact Kristin Onarheim
Email Send email
The IEA Bioenergy Task 41 Special Project on Bio-CCS and Bio-CCU is organising a workshop in cooperation with the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission on market and regulatory issues related to Bio-CC(U)S.
Over the last three years we have seen a reduction in global CO2 emissions, mainly due to boosted implementation of renewable energy and actions taken as a result of the Paris Agreement. However, this positive trend is expected to reverse and total global CO2 emissions are projected to increase to around 2% by the end of this year. The targets set out by the Paris Agreement are stringent; limiting global temperature increase to 2°C while striving for 1.5°C and turning the world climate neutral during the latter half of this century. In order to reach these targets in such a short time frame is at best challenging. Both the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) call for solutions that lead to near-zero and negative emissions in order to reach these targets.
Currently, capture and permanent underground storage of biogenic CO2 (Bio-CCS) is the only technology that can provide negative CO2 emissions by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere on a large scale. In the current EU ETS biogenic CO2 emissions are recognized as neutral, which excludes for instance the forest industry sector from the emission trading system. Recognizing permanently stored biogenic CO2 emissions as negative, on the other hand, could incentivize the implementation of Bio-CCS and thus spur the overall implementation of CCS as a climate mitigation tool.
Utilisation of biogenic CO2 (Bio-CCU) does not have a direct GHG impact, but in the long run Bio-CCU could enable a more rapid electrification of carbon intensive industry and transport sectors. This again could lead to a system level reduction of CO2 emissions, especially if additional renewable electricity is used in CO2 conversion and thus introduced to the energy system. One of the major obstacles to enable sustainable Bio-CCU is the electricity source, which in practice dictates the CO2 emissions from Bio-CCU. As a result, sustainable Bio-CCU will be dependent on how the CO2 emissions from electricity generation are calculated.
The IEA Bioenergy Special Project on Bio-CCS and Bio-CCU in cooperation with the Directorate General of the European Commission have organised this workshop to address market and regulatory issues related to large-scale industrial implementation of Bio-CC(U)S as a climate mitigating tool. The whole-day workshop featured speakers from industry, policymaking, research and NGO’s allocated to four sessions; Background and introduction, Policy perspectives, Bio-CCS, and Bio-CCU. The workshop was rounded off with a panel discussion.
For further information please contact Kristin Onarheim (Kristin.onarheim@vtt.fi) or Kyriakos Maniatis (Kyriakos.maniatis@ec.europa.eu).
Introduction to IEA Bioenergy
Kees W. Kwant, IEA Bioenergy
Session 1 Background and introduction
BECCS and BECCU in the IEA Bioenergy Roadmap
Adam Brown, IEA Bioenergy
Business Cases Based on Negative CO2 Emissions
Juha Lehtonen, Research Professor, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Carbon Cycle of Forests and Climate Change Mitigation Potential
Aleksi Lehtonen, Natural Resources Institute Finland
Session 2 Policy perspectives
Gaps and Opportunities for BECCS/U in Current Policies from a Scientific View
Uwe R. Fritsche, Scientific Director, International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS)
Legal Bottlenecks in Bio-CCS Regulation
Catherine Banet, Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Department of Energy Law, Norway
Policy and Governance Challenges of Achieving Negative Emissions with BECCS
Dr. Alison Mohr, Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham
Session 3 Bio-CCS
Carbon Capture from Waste-to-Energy in Oslo
Johnny Stuen, Fortum Oslo Varme
Recent Developments for CCUS in The Netherlands
Gerdien Breembroek, Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Potential for Bio-CCS in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Kristin Onarheim, Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd.
Delivering BioCCS
Dr. Chris Manson-Whitton, Director, Progressive Energy
Session 4 Bio-CCU
Company Perspective on Bio-CCUS in Forest Based Industries
Heikki Ilvespää, VP R&D, UPM-Kymmene
Bio-CCUS in the Paper Industry – Closing the Double Loop
Nicola Rega, Climate Change and Energy Director, CEPI European Paper Industry
Wide Horizons for Achieving Carbon Negativity Through CO2 Transport and Storage
Keith Whiriskey, Policy Manager Climate Technologies, Bellona Europa
Large Scale Micro Algae Production Plants as an Effective and Real Case of Bio-CCU Unit
Manuel Tárraga, Project Development Director, Buggypower
New discussion paper on Carbon Capture and Utilization
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Tue, 30 April 2019
Episode 551 - War of the Spark Prerelease Field Recordings
The War of the Spark is upon us! That means it's time for another Prerelease! Three of the dorks are at House of Cards in Winston-Salem, NC to go to battle! But this episode isn't just Chewie, Mike, and Brian talking about their pools! We have a variety of guests on this episode! Mike's cousin Joseph showed up for the Prerelease too! Mike & Brian both played against the lovely Chase (@ManaCurves on Twitter), so she joined us for two round recaps!
But our super special guest was none other than one Samantha Baker, who was playing in her VERY FIRST prerelease! Tara, the manager of House of Cards, took her under her wing to help her build her deck and play her games! And she even finished with a better record than one of the dorks! Holy crap!
Direct download: Episode_551_-_War_of_the_Spark_Prerelease_Field_Recordings.mp3
Episode 550 - The Atrocity Buffet
We've made it to 550! To celebrate, we apparently killed two of our hosts. Hopefully our reanimation spells will resolve before the end of the episode.
It's the end of the story of War of the Spark! We're covering all the story-focused cards we can find, so hey, spoiler warning! We're going all the way to the conclusion and talking all about it! Get ready to feel some feels, because once that's all done we're even going to mention the new Signature Spellbook that was revealed by Polygon!
War of the Spark story scenes: https://magic.wizards.com/en/content/war-story-scenes
War of the Spark Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/war-spark
Signature Spellbook reveal: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/18/18412105/magic-the-gathering-war-of-the-spark-planeswalker-death
Direct download: Episode_550_-_The_Atrocity_Buffet.mp3
Episode 549 - It's Almost Noon, What Are You Doing With Your Life?
The dorks are back with even more War of the Spark previews! We're starting off with all the cards in the Story Scenes, because the story is the whole point of this episode! Then we're jumping around to the planeswalkers we missed, the Gods (who were being previewed while we were recording), and a few other highlights.
And don't worry about the lack of Mike at the beginning, he'll show up partway through the episode. You won't have to do without the beard for an entire show!
RE: the title - it'll make sense, I promise.
Direct download: Episode_549_-_Its_Almost_Noon_What_Are_You_Doing_With_Your_Life.mp3
Mon, 8 April 2019
Episode 548 - Epic War of the Spark Previews (with Exclusives)
War of the Spark previews are upon us! And we just happen to have FIVE cards to show off! We're doing something a little different with our previews this time, we hope you enjoy it! Yay free previews!
But first Samantha joins us for a Sam Quiz! After that it's time to hit the War of the Spark mechanics and check out all the cards from the story scenes thus far! After finally finishing with all that we'll jump over to the Card Image Gallery to pick out a few more neat ones before we wrap up this epic length episode!
War of the Spark mechanics: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/war-spark-mechanics-2019-03-31
Direct download: Episode_548_-_Epic_War_of_the_Spark_Previews_with_Exclusives.mp3
Episode 547 - One Epic Flavor Fight
The dorks have a fun little episode this week, even though Dirk is missing. For...reasons. Also, we weren't able to live stream this episode because of some bizarre issues. Sorry about that.
We begin with some news, some of which is real and some of which Brian may have found in questionable corners of the internet. Then it's time for another of Brian's Magic Mad Libs, which are always a hoot. Even though there are only two of us to give him cards, we still managed to make it pretty funny.
From there we go on to what we have decided to call a Flavor Fight! We've got a bracket of creatures ready to face off in a battle of Vorthosian proportions! This one got a little out of hand since I was kind of delirious when I made up the bracket. But bear with us! It is, as the title says, an epic flavor fight!
And don't forget, next week we finally get to show our FIVE War of the Spark preview cards as part of that day's scene! For more information there's a link down below!
Oh, and I was watching the Mythic Invitational while doing the editing, so if there are any problems I apologize.
Valor's Reach: https://toucharcade.com/2019/03/22/valors-reach-announced/
War of the Spark previews will tell a story: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/war-spark-preview-season-will-tell-story-2019-03-27
Direct download: Episode_547_-_One_Epic_Flavor_Fight.mp3
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John Swan1
John Swan lived at Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandG.1
Child of John Swan
Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan+2
Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan1
Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan is the son of John Swan.2 He married Philippa Ann Glyn, daughter of Sir Richard FitzGerald Glyn, 4th/8th Bt. and Edith Hilda Hamilton-Gordon, on 24 October 1949.1
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)1 He was registered as a Member, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (M.R.C.P.E.)1 He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.)1 He graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.)1
Children of Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan and Philippa Ann Glyn
Jeremy Michael Swan2 b. 19 Jan 1952
Jocelyn Ann Swan2 b. 7 Jun 1956
Jeremy Michael Swan1
M, #421853, b. 19 January 1952
Jeremy Michael Swan was born on 19 January 1952.1 He is the son of Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan and Philippa Ann Glyn.2
He was educated at Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset, EnglandG.1
Jocelyn Ann Swan1
F, #421854, b. 7 June 1956
Jocelyn Ann Swan was born on 7 June 1956.1 She is the daughter of Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan and Philippa Ann Glyn.2
Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt.1
M, #421855, b. 7 August 1927, d. 13 April 2007
Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt. was born on 7 August 1927.2 He was the son of Sir Leonard Vyvyan Heathcote, 10th Bt. and Joyce Kathleen Willis.2 He married Victoria Wilford, daughter of Commander James Edward Rickards Wilford, on 2 June 1956.1 He died on 13 April 2007 at age 79.3
He was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, EnglandG.1 He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG.1 He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Regiment.1 He succeeded as the 11th Baronet Heathcote, of Hursley, Hampshire [G.B., 1733] on 24 June 1963.2 He lived in 2003 at Warborne Farm, Boldre, Hampshire, England.1
Children of Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt. and Victoria Wilford
Sir Timothy Gilbert Heathcote, 12th Bt.2 b. 25 May 1957
Harriet Louise Heathcote2 b. 6 Feb 1962
George Benjamin Heathcote2 b. 2 Feb 1965
[S466] Notices, The Telegraph, London, UK, 26 April 2007. Hereinafter cited as The Telegraph.
Commander James Edward Rickards Wilford1
Commander James Edward Rickards Wilford gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve.1 He was awarded the Reserve Decoration (R.D.)1 He lived at Ackland Cottage, Shirley Holms, Lymington, Hampshire, England.1
Child of Commander James Edward Rickards Wilford
Victoria Wilford+2 b. c 1928, d. 7 Feb 2012
Victoria Wilford1
F, #421857, b. circa 1928, d. 7 February 2012
Victoria Wilford was born circa 1928.2 She was the daughter of Commander James Edward Rickards Wilford.3 She married Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt., son of Sir Leonard Vyvyan Heathcote, 10th Bt. and Joyce Kathleen Willis, on 2 June 1956.1 She died on 7 February 2012 at Hampshire, England.2
From 2 June 1956, her married name became Heathcote.
Children of Victoria Wilford and Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt.
[S203] Announcements, The Times, London, U.K., 14 February 2012. Hereinafter cited as The Times.
Sir Timothy Gilbert Heathcote, 12th Bt.1
M, #421858, b. 25 May 1957
Sir Timothy Gilbert Heathcote, 12th Bt. was born on 25 May 1957.1 He is the son of Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt. and Victoria Wilford.2
He succeeded as the 12th Baronet Heathcote, of Hursley, Hampshire [G.B., 1733] on 13 April 2007.3
George Benjamin Heathcote1
M, #421859, b. 2 February 1965
George Benjamin Heathcote was born on 2 February 1965.1 He is the son of Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt. and Victoria Wilford.2
Harriet Louise Heathcote1
F, #421860, b. 6 February 1962
Harriet Louise Heathcote was born on 6 February 1962.1 She is the daughter of Sir Michael Perryman Heathcote, 11th Bt. and Victoria Wilford.2 She married Richard J. Rouse, son of Lt.-Cdr. R. J. Rouse, on 22 May 1982.1
Harriet Louise Heathcote usually went by her middle name of Louise. From 22 May 1982, her married name became Rouse.
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Your Favourite Albums of 2016
Electronic, Main, Music, R&B, rock, Spotlight, Uncharted
The People Have Spoken.
A week ago Music Editor Yasmin Brown offered up her Top Albums of 2016 but I wanted to see how your favourite albums compared. After putting a call out on social media, I pulled together your diverse and deserving collection, picked a few of my favourite comments, and ranked them. I’ve also added my two cents to each.
20. Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
You Said: “I love the 80’s feel to it. A feel-good album that will get you off your feet and dancing.”
We Said: Few albums designed to sound like a party actually play like one, but with 24K Magic, Bruno Mars has pulled it off with style.
19. Kaleo – A / B
You Said: “A Perfect combination of blues and rock. Each song is unique which makes the album so diverse.”
We Said: Kaleo hail from Mosfellsbær, Iceland, but their sound is more delta-blues. A / B covers a lot of sonic territory and is one of the finest debuts that you’ll hear all year.
18. Flume – Skin
You Said: “Flume’s sound is so far ahead as to almost be it’s own genre. With Skin he’s doing things that other EDM producers are either too afraid or unable to do.”
We Said: The breakout producer’s sophomore album reveals an artist beginning to hit his stride. It’s more mature, more memorable, and repeatedly walks between worlds – balancing hitmaking with experimentation.
17. PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
You Said: “A lean and very listenable album for PJ Harvey but unlike anything else you’ll hear in 2016.”
We Said: The Hope Six Demolition Project sees Harvey sweeping up sonic history and weaving it into a pattern of her own making. This deeply melodic album is both more relaxed and more raucous that it’s predecessor.
16. Mitski – Puberty 2
You Said: “This record feels so human and relatable. The most complete statement Mitkski has given us so far.”
We Said: Puberty 2 is an album that reflects on Mitski Miyawaki’s difficulties in navigating young adulthood. Mitski’s talent for unapologetic lyrical honesty ensures that this emotionally wrought and visceral work leaves a lasting impression.
15. ANOHNI – Hopeless
You Said: “This album is not just beautiful, but also powerful.”
We Said: Plush pop melodies meet abrasive avant-garde electronica in this epic, potentially epoch-making release. In a tumultuous year, this release will resonate with the sort of legacy few protest albums have attained.
14. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
You Said: “The most energised that Iggy Pop has sounded in years.”
We Said: Post Pop Depression is one of Iggy Pop’s most fully realised albums yet. Lean, mean, sexy, and fun – the album is a vindication of the instinct that less is more.
13. ScHoolbooy Q – Blank Face LP
You Said: “This album certainly lived up to the hype. Loved the flow, lyrics, and raw energy.”
We Said: Gloriously and unrepentantly ‘street‘, Blank Face LP is an album disinterested in crossover or concession. Shadowy, sinister, and starkly soulful, it dips low and knocks hard.
12. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
You Said: “Anderson weaves Soul, Funk, Blues, and Hip-Hop together incredibly well to make an uplifting album and full of spirit.”
We Said: Musically beautiful, lyrically poignant and thematically consistent, .Paak goes for broke on Malibu, delivering a rich and dazzling album. Anderson.Paak has truly found his voice.
11. Frank Ocean – Blonde
You Said: “One of the best albums of the year. Such raw emotion, such beautiful vocals.”
We Said: Over seventeen tracks Ocean sets out his vision for the future through this soulful, intense, and enigmatic record that is intoxicating in its depth and emotion.
10. Angel Olsen – My Woman
You Said: “I am addicted to this album. Her voice and lyrics are so unique.”
We Said: Contradictory, complex, and worthy of endless re-listens, Angel Olsen has crafted her most compelling, and most ambitious, record to date.
9. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
You Said: “Immense beautiful. A stunning album that gets better with each listen.”
We Said: A strange, beautiful, willfully obtuse album that offers listers a string of mature, thoughtful songs that emerging from their concealment, gradually revealing a little more of themselves with each play. You’ll want to live with this album for a very long time.
8. Solange – Seat at the Table
You Said: “This is Solange’s best work to date. The songs and interludes flow seemlessly together, her vocals are soft and brilliant.”
We Said: Indebted to both vintage soul and contemporary indie rock, Seat at the Table has a gorgeous sense of flow. In this album, Solange proved her voice to be just as vital as her superstar sibling’s on this spectacular neo-soul and R&B masterpiece.
7. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
You Said: “It’s an exhilaratingly joyful album that is impossible to hate.”
We Said: Chance the Rapper’s third mix-tape combines radical politics and heavenly uplift to create life-affirming music that refuses to shy away from harsh realities. It’s a soaring gospel inflected hip-hop album that gives spirituality and partying equal credence.
6. Beyoncé – Lemonade
You Said: “A real masterpiece. This is what the world needs right now.”
We Said: A breathtakingly broad work, this soul-on-fire masterpiece sees Beyoncé testify about love, rage and betrayal. A brilliant call to arms and a bold artistic statement.
5. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
You Said: “Tribe Called Quest’s album is their angriest and most politically charged yet. It’s incredibly fresh and best played loud.”
We Said: At once nostalgic and forward thinking, mournful and radical, it’s a multi-hued album with a sharp intelligence. In what will be their final work, Tribe have retaken their throne as hip-hop’s greatest band.
4. David Bowie – Blackstar
You Said: “I can’t think of any album that surpasses David Bowie’s magnum opus Blackstar. It’s a courageous, monumental gift.”
We Said: There’s never been a musical farewell anything like Blackstar: The Cracked Actor saved his bravest and boldest performance for the final curtain. It’s hard to escape the gravity of an album that offers up an artist’s farewell. But when listening to David Bowie’s final studio set, it’s important to avoid letting the singer’s death dominate your thoughts entirely — if only because Blackstar is so creatively alive.
3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
You Said: “Their finest work since Kid A, simply said this album is a somber masterpiece.”
We Said: This may not be Radiohead’s most experimental album, but it’s without a doubt their most sonically pleasing, elegant, and acoustically immaculate offering to date – and it just might be their best, too. A Moon Shaped Pool offers Radiohead’s deepest, darkest pool of devotion and doubt in a career marked by almost nothing but.
2. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
You Said: “The album is a real masterpiece, so intense and ostensibly dark.”
We Said: Recorded in the final months of Leonard Cohen’s life, You Want It Darker finds one of the world’s greatest poets putting his house in order. Stark, haunting, and beautiful, the album is a powerful final chapter in a career full of surprising left turns and achingly beautiful songs.
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
You Said: “Heartbreaking, emotional album. It’s one of his most finest creations, if not his best one so far.”
We Said: Great art, born of suffering, Skeleton Tree was recorded while Nick Cave was still reeling from the death of his 15-year-old son. The album sees the singer and his worn, world-weary voice plunge emotional depths through songs haunted by loss, confusion and the questioning of God. It’s a record of unusual rawness, honesty and intensity. If this isn’t a masterpiece… I don’t know what it is.
Surprise Omissions:
Kayne West – The Life of Pablo
KAYTRANADA – 99.9%
Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love
The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
James Blake – The Colour in Anything
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Managing Director & Entertainment Editor
Shawn has pretty diverse interests and enjoys writing on about whatever happens to take his fancy at the time. A seasoned entertainment reviewer and interviewer, Shawn has also seen every band on his 'Musicians to see before I die' list.
In Review: Pop Up Globe Farewell Summer Season – Much Ado About Nothing
ANNOUNCEMENT: Milky Chance, Auckland Show
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JOBS, JOBS, JOBS...Why can't D.C. get this message...
Talking about jobs is one thing, Acting is another...
Democrats, "Don't BLINK!!"
Talking about jobs is one thing, Acting is another
Today's job report is a hard core reminder that things are not rosy out here on Main Street. In fact, things have not changed and are getting worse. As politicians are worried about the national debt, Main Street (where the votes are) is being drowned out here.
Unemployment ticked up to 9.1% with a measly 54,000 jobs being added. That is not only pathetic but downright sad. But the D.C. politicians could care less about the people on Main Street; they are slaves to the corporations and banksters out here.
The real people, the little people? Washington, D.C. could care less about us, until they want our vote. That is a real, reality.
Unemployment rose to 9.1%, only 54,000 jobs added.
Employment rose far less than expected in May to record its weakest reading since September, while the jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent as high energy prices and the effects of Japan's earthquake bogged down the economy.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 54,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, with private employment rising 83,000, the least amount since June. Government payrolls dropped 29,000.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected payrolls to rise 150,000 and private hiring to increase 175,000 in May. The government revised employment figures for March and April to show 39,000 fewer jobs created than previously estimated.
The job creation slowdown confirmed the economic weakness already flagged by other data from consumer spending to manufacturing. It could stoke fears about the depth and duration of a slowdown that started early in the year.
Let's face it and be blunt, the time for a jobs program was when Barack Obama assumed the presidency in 2008. When President Obama walked into the Oval Office in January, 2009 the most pressing thing this country faced was the economy wrapped up with joblessness. Well, the opportunity was squandered. A stimulus package that did very little to help Main Street, which was laden with tax cuts that jump started nothing, has us all back at square one. Along with all of this, there are still over 14M upward of folk unemployed, many who have utilized their UI benefits and still don't have a job.
We also do not have politicians in Washington, D.C. with the political will to really change anything. Since, the Democrats took over in 2009 they walked in very tepid steps. With unemployment still a reality on Main Street, the fight was given to an over blown health care package that was bumbled in explanation from the very beginning. In the end, two years wasted on a health care package the public did not understand, thanks to the lack of communication from the Democrats and demagoguery from the Republicans which led to the GOP taking the House back.
And when President Obama was asked to fight more from Congressman Waxman, this is what was said:
"He was a little testy with the Waxman question. Essentially, Mr. Waxman was urging him to fight more," one legislator said. "The president reminded folks that he's the president sitting in that chair and he knows how to negotiate."
Obama also told the assembled Democrats not to count on more fiery rhetoric from the Oval Office.
"He said, 'There's a difference between me and a member of Congress,'" another lawmaker said, paraphrasing the president as saying: "When I say something the markets react, all of society reacts, other countries react. I've got to be careful with what I say. I can't just say it for brinkmanship. I've got to say it in a way so that I get what I want said, but I don't upset markets and so on."
My, scared to step on Wall Street toes, while Main Street is drowning. To read there will be no more fiery rhetoric, should be the hand writing on the wall for many Americans. There will be no job help for you. Forget about keeping your home, though you may be victim of the largest financial scam in history of this country, gas prices and food prices are not coming down soon, and folk you will just have to deal with it. It is obvious that the White House needs Wall Street money, now more than ever to win next year. We just have to deal with it.
Along with all this crap swirling around, we now have to hear of repeated DEFICIT TALKS, while the country is drowning in high gas prices, high food prices, and a housing market so FUCKED UP that it will be decades to straighten out. How can anyone possibly help us, when they want to take everything we have left away from us? And we have a Democratic President willing to negotiate on that? As long as we have a President who is willing to let taxes for the rich remain in tact, there will never be a will to do the right thing for the common man. Believe me; it is being played out in state after state, city after city, street after street. With so many houses in foreclosure there now is not enough rental property to help the massive families that need it. Another reality.
What really hurts the most is that very little has been done to help folks on Main Street. Very little. Many promises were campaigned on but families and individuals don't see it or feel it. Case and point, I was watching the news last night here in Chicagoland and there was a housing forum here to help people behind in their mortgages. Members from various banks were there, but what got me was that people lined up the night before to speak with someone to help save their homes. Over 100,000 people, estimated showed up. One Latina woman spoke to a reporter on camera and said that she voted for Obama, but have seen no change in her life. Her husband lost his job and unemployment is not enough to pay for their mortgage. Lastly, she stated that people need jobs in this country and there are no jobs.
Folks, that is what 2012 is about. Not this other irrelevant bullshit flying around but JOBS.
Finally, we better hope and pray that the Republican Party does not find a way to come together. We better hope that the Republican Party continues on the path of inner destruction. If a real candidate from the Republican Party emerges one, who can strike a chord with the American people about creation of jobs, the Democrats, especially President Obama will be in trouble.
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Portage la Prairie along the Manitoba Trans-Canada Highway
The town's name dates back to the days of de la Verendrye's days when it was the portage resting area between the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba. The town is now in the middle of the richest Manitoba farm land. The city's Chamber of Commerce offers walking tours of the city's historic buildings.
Annual events include the Strawberry Festival, Portage Industrial Exhibition (Western Canada's oldest continuous fair)
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This limestone structure was designed by Thomas Fuller, who designed the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. It was opened in 1898 and declared a historical site in 1986.
Fort la Reine Museum and Pioneer Village
Junction of hwy 1A and 26
Depicts life in the 1800s complete with a blacksmith shop, trading post, country church, schoolhouse, and several restored homes. The original fort was built in 1738 by the French explorer Peirre Gaultier de la Verendrye and served as his headquarters for 15 years. The Museum also railway caboose and the 1882 official rail car of William Van Horne, builder of the CPR. Open May to mid-September weekdays 9 am to 6 pm and weekends 10 am to 6 pm. Admission charged.
Manitoba Museum of the Titanic
Portage mall
Only museum developed to R.M.S. Titanic with one of the largest exhibits of Titanic artifacts. Over 150 items from Titanic survivors and victims inlcuding pre-voyage promotional items and a deckchair. Open April 1 to October 31, Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon - mall closing hours. Admission charged.
Portage Arts Centre & Gallery
160 Saskatchewan Avenue West
Monthly exhibits, gift gallery, art classes, and art rental program. Open year round 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday to Saturday. Free admission
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"Spice is the spice of life"
By Tim Dolbear
www.timdolbear.com
I always say "Spice is the spice of life" and that variety helps flavor our experiences, especially in audio production.
I receive many recordings into Eclectica Studios for mixing that have good intentions sprinkled all over them, but usually these good intentions do not work out as the original recording engineer had intended or hoped for.
An example would be an acoustic guitar that was tracked once, panned Left, then the audio was copied to a second track and panned Right. This second track is then delayed or moved slightly later in time to make a "Stereo sounding" part... ...Or another would be when 10 tracks of electric guitars are recorded to make the "Wall of sound" and are done by just tracking the same thing over and over again...
In the first example this is simply the same guitar part with one side coming out of the speaker a few millisecond later than the other speaker. This does not cause the illusion of 2 guitar players playing, but simply creates panning to one side when listened to through headphones. When listening with speakers, if you are anywhere but exactly in the center of the two speakers, it sounds mono and tunnel like.
The second example is even worst, if you track the same guitar player playing the same guitar and parts 10 times, you actually get a smaller sound then just two properly done takes. This is because the sound starts cancelling itself out after the first few tracks are layered.
That bring us to the topic of variations.
It's always good to layer parts that warrant it, but you do not want to simply record a part the same way twice. Lets take the electric guitar example. I find the best way to track 2 guitar parts and get them to sound big and gorgeous together is to first dial in the guitar and amp to the sound you want, mic it and track it. Then play the part again as close as possible to the way you performed it the first time and simply hard pan these take, Left/Right.
For this second track though, you want to vary the elements as much as possible; Different guitar, different amp, or maybe different speaker cabinet, different microphone, even a different preamp for the mic, any change will help.
When you swap out an element in the recording chain, even just one of the above listed elements, it changes the spectrum and tones, even the timbre of the part and therefore sits together with the first part beautifully.
The frequency spectrum of the two parts now compliment each other rather than cancel out each other due to similarities in frequencies. The more variation, the bigger the combine sound is.
When tracking acoustic guitars, I always use 2 different guitars, but often use the same ADK A51TC mic into my MANLEY preamp. Since the guitar is the main element, for me its enough to swap that out. I also usually use my solid maple Guild Dreadnought for the first take and then my Gibson J100 Extra jumbo body or even my Oscar Schmidt wood bodied Dobro for the second take. I also will capo one of the guitars at the 4th, 5th or 7th fret to make sure I play different chordal registries on the one of the takes.
When a vocalist wants to double up a part, depending on the style, I will sometimes change the mic that we are using. I may have them stand back from the mic or move closer, just to vary the tone by way of the proximity affect of the mic. Sometime turning their head to face off angle with the mic to get more 'room' sound into the take. Again, any and all variations will help because the same voice tracking the same part twice, when they come together in a mix you get a thinning out of the sound from some phase cancelling, and it's usually the lower tones. You end up with a thinner sound, while all along you were trying to make it thicker.
These same kind of principles are for mixing too. Last night I mixed a track that had 2 electric guitar rhythm parts, panned Left and Right, but they had the EXACT same sound from using the same patch on a Line6 POD.
To counter this I sent one through a UAD NEVE 1081 EQ and the other into a UAD API Channel. First I solo'd and then centered the Left guitar to hear it independently. I open the 1081 EQ and emphasis the Hi-mids and lows around 100hz. Then moved it back to Left and unsolo'd it. Next I solo'd and panned center the Right guitar and with the API Channel I High Passed at 100Hz, and dialed in more Mids around 1KHz. I then panned it Right again and unsolo'd. Now when played back together, the two guitar tracks sound fuller and compliment each other.
A key here is to use not only two different EQ settings but also 2 different EQs. These two modeled after their hardware counterparts that have their own personality and ways of affecting the sound.
Channel strips do not equal a console.
I have seen many people using the same Channel strip across their entire mix, example would be the UAD API channel strip on every channel in in a mix in order to get "That API sound". It looks good on your screen and gives you that "I am working on a console" vibe, but even though each track can be affected in a manor that is like an API console, a very big ingredient is missing; Variations in the sound from channel to channel that the hardware console exhibits.
For instance...24 channels of a real API Vision console will have 24 channels that sound basically the same, but not exactly the same due to component within the channel stip. These little variation make the overall tone and sound blend together and fill in. I have a friend who works on a SSL 4000 console and he knows which channels sound best for certain things; "Channel 6 sounds best for snare, 17 and 21 for electric guitar..." This is because as the components age and change, the sound changes too.
This is one place where Plugins are not yet emulating the hardware: Unit to unit Variations.
It goes beyond a big mixing console. I just added a Great River EQ-2NV to my master buss for mixing. Its fed by a Mytek D/A and capture with an Apogee A/D. Beyond the wonderful sounding EQ curve I get from the EQ-2NV, the sound stage or stereo image and depth are all enhanced and affected greatly. The 2 channels are discrete and therefore slightly different I am guessing, but I am sure both channels are dialed in slightly different from each other too, do to the setting of the EQ knobs on each channel by hand with no automatic recall. Just dialing them in to the best of my ability.
Regardless of what contributes to it, the variations between the Left and Right create something wonderful! It makes me wonder if any of my plugins, while running in stereo, are not simply the same mono channel that was modeled being doubled to make the two channels for a stereo instance?
My UAD MANLEY Massive Passive plugin sounds great as an EQ but does not affect the depth and stereo stage even 20% of what the Hardware Great River does, could this be why? I may research how UA models stereo units if I get a chance.
Regardless, there is a wonderful sound pallet that comes from the imperfections of analog gear.
So there you have it. Switch it up, use different elements in your productions, and then send me your tracks to Mix and master :-)
Yesterday and today...and the future of music.
Someone the other day asked me what is the future of music and music technology? I thought for a few minutes and answered:
"I believe it will continue to be more and more automatic (autotune, auto song arrangements, auto mixing, auto mastering) until its gets to the point where its not creative or enjoyable anymore for anyone at any level. And it will go back to basics, but music will only be a shell of what it once was. With no return on investment, nothing of quality will be available and Music will simply fall away as its appeal and stimulus will not keep up with humans' shortening attention spans".
To elaborate more...
Programs like MAGIX Music Maker have one click buttons for making a song; asking what style? upbeat or slow...? and then with one click the music and loops are all added to the project and the song is done. Add to that auto lyric writing, coming soon auto singer, and the song is done. There is software to mix the song to the style you want. Then you have LandR, the auto-matic mastering service that has reported to already master 1.5 million song at $9 each. All of these services and software suck at making music to put it bluntly, but they will get better and better...
"Do you want a guitar for Christmas or an Xbox?"
There are real musicians out there, but as the younger generations come up, they have less and less of a want or drive to learn instruments and music theory. I remember teaching guitar lessons years ago and having student quit because it was harder than Guitar Hero to play a real guitar. They had been perverted in their views by playing the easy and automatic video game. People would even record themselves playing Guitar Hero and put it on YouTube, as if what they did was real music, as a real musician or artist.
Labels were flooded with demos all sounding the same and using the same beats and music when Garageband first came out.
If people are willing to pay $5 for a coffee but not even 99cents for a song for an artist they like, then there is no way real musicians will continue putting out music, not because of the monetary cost, but because or the lack of return on investments and the discouragement that it brings.
We are surrounded by a flood of really bad music, YouTube is filled with a million bands and singers that are nothing special. But I say they have always been there.
The Real 1989
Back in the 80's when I was in the clubs in Los Angeles, there was a million bands out there all struggling to "Make it". But we only knew of the ones around us we could see and hear in person. We did not realize every town had hundreds if not thousands of bands all trying to "make it". So we had drive, we saw the dream as reachable feed by news of bands getting "signed' and a music world filled with Rock Stars.
Now that the days of Rock Stars are gone and the industry has completely changed, I do believe that just as many bands "make it" to the next level as always have, but its so hard to see them as nowadays EVERYONE is out there and available to been seen. In 1989, if you got to make a record, or got onto MTV, so people on the other coast could see you, you had arrived! And you did have a chance to make a career out of music. But now everyone is on YouTube, everyone records and the same pool that has always been there is now see-able as flooded. We see this flood and think "no one is making it nowadays, I know of all these people on face book and none of them are making it anywhere". Well we just did not have Facebook, let alone the internet in 1989 to see all of the others drowning in the pool. So we held on to our dreams and aspirations.
That's enough food for thought on this day in an interesting time.
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Behold, yet another story about a random person on a mission to show the world what they believe to be unusually high levels of preservatives in McDonald’s food.
The pickle has disintegrated, but otherwise, the 14-year-old burger remains relatively intact. (David Whipple)Utah resident David Whipple claims he bought a hamburger from McDonald’s in 1999 and kept it around for two months to show his friends how it would remain unchanged because of preservatives. But in an interesting twist, he says he then accidentally left the burger in his coat pocket for two years, forgetting he had it.
The result? Fourteen years later, he still has a perfectly-formed hamburger that appears without mould or an odour, yet with a disintegrated pickle.
«It wasn’t on purpose,» Whipple says after recently appearing the television show «The Doctors.»
«It ended up in a paper sack in the original sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don’t know, two or three months.»
At that point the coat got moved into the house and was forgotten about.
«My wife didn’t discover it until at least a year or two after that. And we pulled it out and said, ‘oh my gosh. I can’t believe it looks the same way.'»
Fast forward 14 years, and it still shows only minor signs of aging.
McDonald’s offers this possible explanation for the burger when asked to comment.
«Without sufficient moisture – either in the food itself or the environment in which it is held – bacteria and mould and associated decomposition, is unlikely.»
Reassuring? Maybe not. But then again it’s not as though the fast food giant should be surprised by this line of questioning. They’ve had many years of practice coming up with sound bites regarding the lack of decomposition of their food.
For those you unfamiliar with the onslaught of news stories involving McDonald’s crusaders like Whipple, here’s a refresher.
Back in 2010, New York City artist Sally Davies started photographing her McDonald’s hamburger and french fries every few weeks for her Happy Meal Art Project. The experiment is still ongoing and she recently hit her three year anniversary on April 10, 2013. To date, the burger and fries show no sign of mould or noticeable decomposition.
And then there is Bryan Marcel, who in 2011 posted a YouTube video showing the difference between one year old McDonald’s french fries and one week old organic french fries. Of course, the organic fries were covered in mould and the McDonald’s fries look virtually new.
The skeptics will be happy to know The Burger Lab blog and experiment offers specific reasons why McDonald’s food appears without mould after 25 days, and shows that other homemade burgers also look very similar.
«Well, well, well. Turns out that not only did the regular McDonald’s burgers not rot, but the home-ground burgers did not rot either. Samples one through five had shrunk a bit (especially the beef patties), but they showed no signs of decomposition,» writes blogger J. Kenji López-Alt.
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The interesting life of a Kiltmaker
nicola@thekiltmakerslaird.com
The Life of a Kilt maker
Kilts and Tartan
What’s really under the Kilt
A brief history of Tartan
The Tartan Con Men
A Brief History of the Kilt part 1
Kilts & Tartan
Well here goes, let me introduce myself. My name is Nikki and I am a kiltmaker, kiltmaking teacher and Scottish history and tartan buff.
I was born in Glasgow, Scotland. I had an unusual upbringing as my father was in the military, The Royal Highland Fusiliers. So we moved around a lot West Germany, Northern Ireland and East Germany (I’m showing my age a bit there saying East and West) We finally ended up in Edinburgh, Scotland and settled here.
Living in Edinburgh is inspirational for me. The history of the city is evident all around it just smacks you in the face. I love it and Edinburgh has become my home. However, I will always be a Glaswegian at heart, a wee bit of friendly rivalry.
When I was 15, a friend and I went up to the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. I was desperate to have my own kilt so we went into a small independent kiltmaker on the Lawnmarket and asked the price. It was a wee bit more than a teenager could afford. That was me though, I wanted to learn everything about kilts, tartan and of course Scottish history.
When I left school I got a job with R.G.Lawries/Hector Russell Kiltmakers in the Lawnmarket. Our area manager Mrs MacAlpine saw potential in me and made me study all the different tartans (she was very ‘Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ although most kids nowadays would think Professor Macgonagal form Harry Potter). It was quite an experience working there. I worked with a gentleman who thought he was descended from Bonnie Prince Charlie but more on that later.
Like most young lassies of the day I was hooked on rugby (nothing to do with the game of course), So when MacPhersons of Edinburgh, a well established traditional kiltmaker, offered me a job and said they didn’t open on Saturday afternoons I thought it was perfect! It was at Macphersons that I learned about the business side of the industry. With a love of Scottish history I also studied for get a degree in Scottish history with Open university and Dundee University. However, my main passion was always the actual kiltmaking process.
After Jean Macpherson retired I moved on to Celtic Craft Centre, whose main business was in the United States and for nearly 10 years I travelled back and forth to the USA working the Scottish Highland Games.
Then 6 years ago I became self employed making kilts in The Canongate on The Royal Mile. In the 24 years+ *cough cough* The industry has certainly changed. Increasingly the standard of kiltmaking has dropped due to poor wages and shortcuts being made in the manufacturing of the kilts. Another big problem is that the traditionally trained kiltmakers are hitting retirement age and younger generations are not coming through. This was when myself and another person decided to set up the Edinburgh Kiltmakers Academy. The goal was to train the next generation of kiltmakers and to raise the standard of hand sewn kiltmaking (and hopefully also raising wages). It has been highly successful. I have now moved on to Scotclans, a lovely family run business with high standards, a passion for our heritage and also believe in ethically paid crafts people. Here we have set up a Kiltmakery, yes a new word ;-), to help and support self employed kiltmakers and also make sure they are getting paid ethically. Take a wee look at my blog on whats under the kilt it may shock you. I am still teaching kiltmaking to the highest standard at Scotclans but now I also have an outlet to talk and write about the history of the kilt and tartan and anything else I find interesting.
So in this blog I will give you a wee insight into the life of a kiltmaker, some Scottish history, as well as history of the kilt and tartan and some of the interesting information I have gathered through the years.
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Consideration of Latvia - 1798th Meeting, 68th Session of Committee Against Torture
Delegation of Latvia
1. Mr Andris Pelšs - State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Delegation
2. Mr Jānis Kārklinš - Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations in Geneva
3. Ms Evita Kreitus - Second Secretary, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations in Geneva
4. Ms Oksana Kulakova - Deputy Head of the Prison Administration
5. Ms Kristīne Līce - Representative of Latvia before International Human Rights Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
6. Ms Inga Martinsone - Senior Expert of the Department of Social Services, Ministry of Welfare
7. Ms Laila Medina - Deputy State Secretary on Sectoral Policy, Ministry of Justice
8. Mr Valters Mūrnieks - Head of the Internal Security Bureau
9. Ms Anta Rutka-Kriškalne - Head of the Office of the Representative of Latvia before International Human Rights Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10. Ms Antra Valdmane - Acting Head of the Department of Health Care, Ministry of Health
11. Mr Artis Velšs - Deputy Head of the State Police, Head of the Main Department of the Police for Public Order
12. Mr Imants Zaķis - Deputy Head of the Department of the Sectoral Policy, Head of the Division of Policy Elaboration, Ministry of Interior
68th Session CAT
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Take a Gondola Ride / Poll Results
Weird Venice is going to take a long Memorial Day break. We'll be back on or around May 27. Unfortunately, we're not heading to Venice, but...
according to the results of our recent poll (Even though the dollar keeps falling, are you still planning to go to Venice this year?), 56% of those who responded said, "To hell with the dollar, I wouldn't miss a trip to Venice for any reason!"
15% had the opposite reaction and voted for: "No, I'm staying close to home this year."
8% said they'd go if, "My lotto numbers are picked."
Another 8% said, they couldn't afford the gas they'd need to get to the airport.
And another 8% said they were waiting to see if things got better.
The rest of you were undecided.
THANKS to everyone who answered. Vote on the current poll today!
For those of us still at home, take a gondola ride via YouTube. I looked at a lot of the videos and really liked this one.
Enjoy and Ciao! for a few days.
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Accademia Bridge to Become Permanent (Finally)
The "temporary" Accademia Bridge was opened to the public in 1933.
Now, nearly eight decades later, the original plan for a permanent stone bridge may finally be realized, according to Rumiz [Venice's public works councillor]. Municipal authorities have confirmed that bidding will open shortly on a contract for a new design and complete overhaul of the structure. ''Between the end of May and the start of June, we will open bidding on creating a new Ponte dell'Accademia,'' Ruiz told local daily La Nuova Venezia. ''The underlying iron structure will remain in place, as this is still perfectly sound. However, the entire outer covering of wood will be replaced, either by stone or perhaps with a metal alloy. We haven't decided which yet, as this is still being assessed''.
(from ANSA.it)
What do you think? Vote in the "Your Turn" box in the sidebar.
I took the photo in February 2005. As you can tell, it was a rainy day on a crowded bridge.
Venice Needs More Webcams!
Who Can Help Us Get More Webcams!!
It's pathetic. Venice is one of the most picturesque cities in the world and those of us who are not fortunate enough to live there are stuck with a few lousy webcams -- and they don't always work. So, come Venetian residents, give us more webcams. We'll help; just tell us how. Or won't some Venice-crazed tourist plant a webcam somewhere and tell us about it? I'll be happy to contribute to the cost.
GIVE US MORE WEBCAMS!!!
This photo is from the San Toma Grand Canal webcam -- none of the others seem to be working tonight and I'm not happy about it. Give us more webcams!
Ladies, Watch Your Bottoms!
For Women Only: If you've been in Venice lately, your bottom may have been snapped. Yep, your bottom. Here's an article from ShortNews.com (the story is being reported on many news sites). I couldn't think of an appropriate photo, so I just posted a random shot that I took from the window of Ca' Vidal, which I rented from Views on Venice. (It's a fantastic apartment in a great location!)
Also, don't forget to take the poll on the sidebar -- is the dollar going to keep you at home? One last important thing: I finally got my Weird Venice to accept comments! So feel free to say hi or something.
Now, here's the article:
Man Arrested for Photographing 3,000 Bottoms Around Venice
A 38-year-old Italian man has been arrested after police became suspicious of him in Venice, Italy. The man was seen following women while carrying a large bag through St Mark's Square in the city.
After he was arrested, police found that he had been following the women so as to be able to take photos of their bottoms. He had taken some 3,000 pictures through a hole in the bag. He was charged with infringement of privacy.
During his arrest, the man confessed he had been photographing the bottoms of women in short skirts for around two years, generally when they bent to pick something up. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
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Pigeon Population Falls --That was Fast!
According to the Venice city council, the ban on feeding pigeons is already working. The following article from ANSA.it explains it all. I took the photo in 2006 from the roof of the basilica and shows the piazza San Marco -- complete with pigeons, tourists and feed sellers. If the city council's plan works, this will be just a memory.
Venice pigeon population falls
City- wide ban on feeding birds working, council says
(ANSA) - Venice, May 12 -
Venice city council on Monday was celebrating the first sign that it may be winning its long battle against the city's population of pigeons, once described by mayor Massimo Cacciari as "flying rats".
According to city environment chief Pierantonio Belcaro, the number of pigeons flocking to St Mark's Square is already dropping after the council extended a bird feeding ban city-wide and forced the piazza's 19 licensed birdseed sellers to shut up shop.
"Revoking the licenses of the birdseed stalls and capturing ill birds are proving to be valid tools for the reduction of pigeon numbers, although solving the problem is likely to take two or three years." Belcaro said.
He added that on Monday a new council task force in charge of dealing with pigeons, mice and mosquitoes in the lagoon city had decided to draft in a bird of prey to help scare the pigeons away.
Falcons are already used in other Italian cities and airports to ward birds from monuments - which can be damaged by acidic guano - and prevent air strikes.
Venice has for years been trying to cut its estimated 40,000-strong pigeon population, which produces thousands of tonnes of droppings a day.
While many visitors to the lagoon city find its flocks of pigeons charming, the council says they are a public health menace and a nuisance, eroding the city's historic facades and statues.
Controversial efforts at controlling the pigeons have included trapping the birds in nets and removing them from the square.
Animal rights campaigners crossed swords with the council earlier this month following the eviction the birdseed sellers from St Mark's Square, accusing the city of a "shameful massacre" by hunger and distributing 30 kilos of birdseed to flocks of ravenous birds. Local people became less sympathetic to the pigeons' plight last year after a report by the Nomisma research group found that the presence of the birds in Venice costs each resident some 275 euros a year to clean up the mess and damage.
Some experts even claim the excrement, by eroding flagstones, has increased the risk of the "acqua alta" that puts the square under water for much of the winter.
Reducing the numbers of pigeons is just part of Venice's strategy to ensure the city stays clean and maintains its charm despite the presence of 20 million visitors a year.
Volunteer patrols of 'guardian angels' wander the city to prevent "indecorous behavior" among tourists, which the city has decided includes sitting on the pavement, eating sandwiches there or going bare-chested.
The city is working on laws to stop the sale of fast food in St Mark's Square so as to limit the amount of rubbish that accumulates there and which street cleaners can only remove once a day.
On Monday the council said it is also planning to fine beggars up to 500 euros, and confiscate their day's takings, if they are caught asking for money in tourist areas of the city.
Are You Still Going to Venice?
The dollar / job situation has forced me to rethink my plans to go back to Venice later this year. I'm wondering if anyone else is having second thoughts. Take to poll on the sidebar and let us know!
I took this photo on one of my first trips to Venice. The colors are a bit washed out because it's a negative (yes, my first trip was pre-digital!) and I've been converting them to digital.
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Weather & Currency Reports
There are two things that most people going to Venice want to know: what's the weather like and how far will my money take me? In an attempt to answer both questions, I've added a weather report and currency monitor to the sidebar. Keep an eye on them -- and hope for good reports!
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Pigeon Update
Pigeons in Piazza San Marco
A ban on feeding Venice’s pigeons took effect Wednesday, May 1. Nineteen pigeon-feed sellers on St. Mark's Square immediately went out of business. They had long been granted licenses to sell dried corn to tourists wanting to feed the pigeons and take photos of themselves covered with the birds.
A spokeswoman in Venice says people who feed the pigeons face fines the equivalent of about $80 to $775.
According to a story on the Canadian Press website, the people who profited from the pigeons were not happy. “The pigeon-feed sellers, who say they have been selling their wares on St. Mark’s Square for a century, are up in arms and protested the ban with placards on their booths aimed at the mayor, including: ‘Curse the day I voted for you’ and ‘Cacciari, what kind of Venetian are you?’”
No one knows for sure how many pigeons live in Venice’s 6.5 square kilometers, but the city estimates there are 40,000. About one-third of them pass through St. Mark's Square on any given day, according to environmental officials.
According to the following story from ANSA.it, the ban is not going over very well. The animal rights people distributed illegal feed to hungry pigeons:
Venice pigeon feeding ban flouted
(ANSA) - Venice, May 2 - Animal rights campaigners in Venice crossed swords with the city council on Friday after distributing 30 kilos of birdseed to flocks of ravenous pigeons in St Mark's Square.
The birds had gone hungry for two days after the age-old tourist tradition of feeding the pigeons in the picturesque square came to an abrupt end.
Although feeding the pigeons has long been outlawed in other parts of the lagoon city, on Wednesday Mayor Massimo Cacciari won his battle to extend the ban city-wide and force the square's 19 licensed birdseed sellers to shut up shop.
Animal rights campaigners said they were feeding the birds on Friday in an effort to stop ''the shameful massacre of the animals through hunger and capture''.
''Pigeons have lived in Venice for centuries and they have a close link with its history, its traditions and its residents: they are one of (the city's) best-known symbols around the world,'' said Cristina Romieri of the Italian Vegetarian Association.
''Now with unjustifiable alarmism the council wants to exterminate them by starving them, ignoring civilised and valid alternative methods like the administration of contraceptive medicine,'' she added.
Tourists, including children, helped the animal rights campaigners distribute the seed in the square but the morning's feeding frenzy failed to capture the attention of the municipal police.
Venice has for years been trying to cut its estimated 40,000-strong pigeon population which produces thousands of tonnes of droppings a day.
While many visitors to the lagoon city find its soaring flocks of pigeons charming, the council says they are a public health menace and a nuisance, eroding the city's historic facades and statues with their highly acidic guano.
Controversial efforts at controlling the pigeons - which Cacciari describes as ''flying rats'' - have included trapping the birds in nets and removing them from the square.
''The city council has been trying to reduce the number of birds for ten years through continuous, violent capture and indiscriminate killing, which adults and children are forced to watch,'' Romieri said.
''Every year around 20,000 pigeons are killed, at a collective cost of 850,000 euros. ''It's an unacceptable, costly and ineffective method rejected by the scientific world: the surviving pigeons continue to reproduce, finding more space and food at their disposal,'' she added.
The evicted birdseed vendors are also unhappy with the council's methods and are seeking 150 euros per day as compensation for their lost jobs.
Failing that, they want the council to issue them with permits to sell souvenirs on the square.
Local people became less sympathetic to the plight of both vendors and birds after a report by the Nomisma research group found that the presence of pigeons in Venice costs each resident some 275 euros a year to clean up the mess and damage.
Some experts even claim the excrement, by eroding flagstones, has increased the risk of the 'acqua alta' that puts the square under water for much of the winter.
The city recently banned the tradition of showering newly-wed couples with rice as part of its bid to tackle the pigeon menace.
Scenes like the one shown in the photo I took a few years ago, will disappear if the pigeons are gone. Or, will the voracious seagulls replace the pigeons? Tip: if you click on the photo, you get a super-sized version and can see all the details.
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Into this world we're thrown
Indiehitmaker Explains How New Artists Can Up their Streams & Billboard Chart Rankings
Published on October 27, 2017 in Interviews by Kevin Ewoldt
Last month I attended the Charleston Music Confab Conference in Charleston, SC, which brought record executives and artists together to talk about where the industry is headed and provide vital direction to young artists on how to standout in a sea of YouTubers and Spotifiers. One executive I had the pleasure of partying chatting with was Indiehitmaker (IHM) Founder and President, Bram Bessoff. Via narip.com,
IHM helps independent artists advance their careers by enabling them to report live venue sales to SoundScan, a service once only available to signed artists. This makes technology available, affordable and easy to use for every one of the 300,000+ independent artists currently touring and performing in the US and a way to leverage the only industry-accepted sales metric, SoundScan, to get on the Billboard Charts.
Indiehitmaker has 356 artists who are using a release plan in some way and has had 2,000 customers on their platform since their 2007 inception.
In my chat with Bram, it was clear the music industry was way more complicated than I had thought. His “Dropkick 12-step Release Plan” encompasses all the key industry parts and is broken out as such: Vision & Audience, Goals & Budget, Catalog & Royalties Setup, Document Existing Content, Choose Release Format, Create Marketing Plan, Pre-Production, Production, Live Performance Prep, Post-Production, Pre-Release, Drop Release.
Browsing the website, IHM’s platform provides so many different services, so I chatted with him further to have him break it down for me on a simpler level for me.
I think a common first question from a lot of young artists would be “How do I get more streams and what do I need to do to get on the Billboard charts?”
Bram: “There’s a difference between getting streams and making your streams count. There are two different types of charts on Billboard right now. The album sales charts tracks things that are purchased. Whether it’s CDs, downloads, or a song. Those charts are going away, so they won’t be around much longer. Every artist needs to be thinking about a hybrid consumption strategy. This is what comes into play: streaming, radio play, and sales, and there’s a very special formula, which is part of our secret sauce that makes our platform work. How many streams versus radio play does an artist need to get on a top genre list and then into the coveted top 100 and 200 charts which is cross genre. We have the #1 and #2 artists on a few album and singles sales charts right now.” [Week 40 – At time of interview]
“And then there’s momentum. A mix of digital music marketing, social media strategy, publicity, and sync licensing – getting your song into a movie, ad, or video game. When something like that hits, it takes you a whole next level.”
So you have a strategy for syncs (ad, movie song placement?)
Bram: “Yes, we have partners. Artists get a free kick off session when they join the Dropkick platform. That’s where we start talking to them about goals and open up the 12-step release plan.”
So, for goals, if an artist comes to you and said my songs are on Spotify but I have less than 1,000 streams, how do I get that to 10,000, 50,000 and more?
Bram: “Within our Momentum plan we have a group of partners. We focus on goals, budget and their audience. We create a team of Sherpas (named after the Nepalese locals that help climbers reach the peak of Mount Everest). It begins with your Drop Sherpa, main point of contact, who helps plan your release. Then depending on your goals & budget you may work with a Sherpa for SEO and your website. We have Charting Sherpas, Streaming Sherpas, Radio Sherpas, and of course Sync Sherpas. So, when you put that all together, like spokes of a wheel, you get a lot of momentum. Picking a digital aggregator is also very important. Choosing the cheapest one can sometimes get you into pitfalls with your music rights so we help consult with that as well.”
“So, now at this point how do you get people to listen to your music? You’re just one of millions and millions of tracks up on Spotify. How do you drive traffic to get to the numbers you need? I’ll tell you right now to get up on the charts you need millions of streams per week. And that might be mind-blowing for artists but we’ve done it before. And they may not be artists people know but that’s how you leverage relationships in the industry. You essentially get someone on the right playlist. And that’s how we start momentum on that side. Artists necessarily can’t afford to do that on their own so we’ll come up with an agreement and do the hard work for you to get you above the noise. Our service and Sherpas will carry you up. There are artists and labels that spend a shit ton of money upwards of tens of thousands of dollars a week to build promotions on Spotify. It’s a whole economy that makes it tough for independent artists to compete with. “
“Think of it this way. An independent artist is trying to get where they’re going on a bike. We’re a motorcycle.”
What happens when a band comes to you with music that is terrible or you don’t agree with and you have to use your personal contacts to advance them?
Bram: “So, if there’s a band that wants to spend that kind of money or give up their streaming royalties to cover costs, we will say, ‘You’re not ready for that!’ We bring them right back to step one of the release plan and start with a Drop Sherpa session. We go back and work with them to figure out their mission, vision and identify their true audience – those people that will buy into your vision and ultimately become super fans. That way we can dissect and say why their music is not ready for their goals. Then we can decide who they need to work with to get their music and brand up to speed.
There’s the whole live music production aspect as well. Ultimately, you have to get on stage and do more than play your music, you must capture and engage your audience by taking them on a journey. If you can’t, you’ll notice your crowd starts to thin after three songs. You have to beg people to come meet you at the merch stand and buy a CD versus there being a huge line to meet you at the end of the show. And wanting to be on your mailing list, which is how it should be every single night. I’m an expert on showing artists how to do that in a live situation. We call that ‘loving your audience.’ There’s a difference between performing and loving your audience.”
What is coming down the line for your platform?
Bram: “So, the big thing is an integration with PayFlock, a new payments solutions company bringing a suite of payment tools to artists. A fan integration app. Integrated advertising. Online sales. The platform will beat Square & Stripe with transactions fees less than 2.5%. We are also excited to be part of first artist friendly, fully rights protected, and affordable digital aggregation service to get your music distributed to all online music sales & streaming platforms like iTunes, Spotify, etc without any of the nasty user agreements. We’re also working with a cryptocurrency company so artists can have their own bitcoin so to speak. Digital currency.”
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Thanks Bram for the time. For any artists out there, $10-$20 a month seems like a no-brainer, especially with no long term contracts. Check it out.
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American Association of Neuropathologists
Volume 10, Number 2 May, 1999
Pre-Registration Pick-Up
Reception Saul R. Korey Lecture
Presidential Symposium
Matthew T. Moore Lecture
Diagnostic Slides
Biology of Aging Symposium
Visit the American Association of Neuropathologists and the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology web site to view Newsletters, obtain meeting information, and link to the 1999 Annual Meeting Program:
This year's meeting will take place on June 17-20 at the Portland Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The abstracts will be published in the May 1999 issue of the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. The abstracts will be available at the meeting to all registered attendees.
The American Association of Neuropathologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The American Association of Neuropathologists designates this continuing medical education activity for 17 credit hours in Category I of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
The approximate price of one-way transportation from the Airport to Downtown Portland is as follows:
Taxi ....................... $25.00
Gray Line Airport Express
Adult ...................... $12.00
Senior .................... $10.00
Hotel reservation forms were mailed with the March Newsletter. They must be received no later than 4 weeks in advance to guarantee rooms at the convention rates. After May 19, 1999, rooms will be confirmed on a space/rate available basis.
Telephone reservations can be made by calling (800) HILTONS or visiting their web site at http://www.hilton.com. Be certain to mention that the registration is for the AANP Meeting to receive the special convention rate.
A registration form was enclosed with the March newsletter. As in the past, there is no meeting registration fee for members. For non-members, registration fees are $30.00 (student/resident/ fellow) and $50.00 (faculty/staff). Course registration fees are $125.00 for all members and non-members.
If you did not receive a registration form and would like to register for the meeting, please contact the Office of Secretary-Treasurer via email at info@aanp-jnen.com.
Those who have preregistered by returning the meeting registration form and prepaid for the Special Course are encouraged to pick up their name badges, course materials, abstract booklet and registration receipt on Wednesday, June 17th, 7:00 - 9:00PM, in the Ballroom Foyer.
(Thursday, June 17, 1999)
This year's course, "Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System" has been organized by our President, Jeannette J. Townsend.
Special Course Objectives
Infectious diseases of the nervous system play a significant role in neuropathology and new methodologies have increased the ease of diagnosis and array of treatment options. This course will cover a variety of infectious diseases in order to bring to the participants an update on both the clinical and research aspects of the organisms and how they interact with the nervous system. In the last decade an increasing number of immunosuppressed patients have appeared who are vulnerable to opportunistic infections. An update on the various organisms encountered in the immunosuppressed patient will be of help to those in clinical practice. A great deal of data has been gathered on the pathophysiology of cerebral malaria and will give us new insights into the ways this worldwide parasite causes disease in humans. Viral diseases offer a significant threat to the central nervous system. Rabies and HTLV-I represent two quite different viral diseases and these differences will lead to further insight concerning viral pathogenesis. Bacterial diseases of the central nervous system are common and treatable. Several unusual bacterial infections of the nervous system will be discussed in order to update the participants on pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment. Neurosyphilis has resurfaced as a disease entity in the era of AIDS and this discussion will cover the pathology and offer an update on the disease as it presents today. Upon completion of the course, participants should have a greater understanding of infectious processes that involve the nervous system and be able to transfer this understanding to diagnostic applications.
The American Association of Neuropathologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The American Association of Neuropathologists designates the Special Course as a continuing medical education activity for 6 credit hours in Category I of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
Special Course AGENDA
8:00 - 8:10 Introduction: Jeannette J. Townsend
(Department of Pathology, University of Utah)
8:10 - 9:00 Leroy R. Sharer: Opportunistic Infections
(Department of Pathology, New Jersey Medical School)
9:00 - 9:50 Gareth D. H. Turner: Pathophysiology of Cerebral Malaria
(Dept. of Cellular Science, Oxford University, England)
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:10 Robert E. Mrak: Rabies Encephalitis in Humans
(Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas)
11:10 - 12:00 Steve Jacobson: Immunopathogenesis of HTLV-I and Associated Diseases
(Viral Immunology Section, National Institutes of Health)
1:30 - 2:20 Patricia K. Coyle: Lyme Disease and the CNS
(Department of Neurology, SUNY at Stony Brook)
2:20 - 3:10 Arthur K. Asbury: Campylobacter jejuni in the Guillain BarrÈSyndrome
(Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania)
3:10 - 3:40 Soft Drink Break
3:40 - 4:30 Roger P. Simon: Neurosyphilis in the Era of AIDS
(Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh)
(Friday and Saturday, June 18-19)
This year 236 abstracts have been accepted for platform and poster sessions. Scientific sessions will be held on Friday and Saturday and will include both poster and platform presentations. Two platform sessions will be conducted concurrently and there will be two poster sessions (morning and afternoon) on each day.
The poster surfaces available to us measure 4 feet by 8 feet. Please prepare your poster accordingly. Bring your own push-pins (preferably 5/8" long) to the meeting. Thumb tacks will not be adequate to fasten your display to the poster boards. Members are responsible for disseminating this information to their residents, fellows and guests. There will be two concurrent poster discussion sessions for both the morning and afternoon poster sessions.
NOTICE FOR AUTHORS OF ABSTRACTS: "Authors of abstracts that have been published as full length papers are reminded that they are responsible for informing the Secretary-Treasurer's office of this prior to the meeting. Abstracts of previously published papers are not eligible for the Association Awards."
(Friday evening, June 18, 6:30 PM)
A reception for the attendees and guests will be held at the Portland Hilton on Friday evening. There will be hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Admission is $10.00 and $5.00 for students/residents/fellows. Those who wish to attend may submit payment with the pre-registration form, or may purchase tickets at the time of the meeting.
Saul R. Korey Lecture
The lecture named in honor of Dr. Saul R. Korey will be given by Dr. William F. Hickey and is entitled "Key Participants in the Initiation of Inflammation in the Central Nervous System". This lecture will be held on Saturday, June 19th.
The annual business meeting, to be held on Friday, June 18, and Saturday, June 19, will begin promptly at noon on Friday and following the Korey Lecture on Saturday.
(Sunday, June 20)
President Jeannette J. Townsend has organized the symposium entitled "Pathogenesis of CNS Infections" which will be held on Sunday morning, June 20, 1999. Dr. Townsend's Presidential Address will be entitled "Herpes Simplex Virus". Dr. Diane Griffin will speak on "Sindbis Virus", and Dr. Clayton A. Wiley will discuss "Human Immunodeficiency Virus".
Presidential Symposium Schedule
8:00 - 8:15 Introduction: Jeannette J. Townsend, President
8:15 - 9:15 Matthew T. Moore Lecturer
Richard T. Johnson: Viral Pathogenesis Overview
(Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University)
9:15 - 10:00 Diane Griffin: Sindbis Virus
(Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University)
10:00 - 10:30 Awards Ceremony & Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 Clayton A. Wiley: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh)
11:15 - 11:45 Jeannette J. Townsend: Herpes Simplex Virus
As part of the Presidential Symposium, the Matthew T. Moore Distinguished Lecture is entitled "Viral Pathogenesis, an Overview" and will be presented by Dr. Richard T. Johnson of Johns Hopkins University.
Diagnostic Slide Session
(Saturday, 8:00 PM, June 19)
Protocols for the Diagnostic Slide Session will be available without charge at the registration desk. For additional information, please contact Dr. Leroy Sharer at: (973) 972-4770.
The following applications have been reviewed by the Membership Committee and submitted to the Executive Council for final approval at the Annual Meeting:
Philip Boyer
Henry Brown
Sandra Cottingham
John Donahue*
Robert Hevner
Patricia Kirby
James E. McLaughlin
Alan L. Morrison
Anders Paetau
George Perry**
Marie-Madeline Ruchoux
Tarik Tihan
Anne Vital
Claude Vital
Serge Weis Associate
Xiaodan Cai
Masako Taniike
Mark R. Matthews
Jennifer McKay
James Primavera
Mary W. Ambler
Margorie B. Lees
Haruo Okazaki
Henry DeF Webster
* From Affiliate to Active Membership
** From Associate to Active Membership
Our Committees play a pivotal role in the operation of the association during the entire year and in the success of the annual meeting. The association owes a debt of gratitude to the dedicated chairs and all of the committee members.
Barbara Crain, Chair
Venkat R. Challa
Shu G. Chen
Melinda L. Estes
Rebecca D. Folkerth
Gregory N. Fuller
Jeffery A Golden
David R. Hinton
Kurt Jellinger
Ehud Lavi
Thomas J. Montine
Miguel A. Pappolla
Cedric S. Raine
Yves Robitaille
Kevin A. Roth
Julie Schneider
Juan Troncoso
Harry V. Vinters
Constitution Committee
Christine Hulette, Chair
Thomas W. Bouldin
Thomas Montine
Henry C. Powell
Richard Laverne Davis
John. Q. Trojanowski
Bernardino Ghetti
E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte
Pierluigi Gambetti
Jonathan Fratkin, Chair
David Boudreaux
Peter Ostrow
William Pendelbury
Robert E. Mrak
John Schweitzer
Committee for Professional Affairs
Clayton Wiley, Chair
Catherine Bergeron
Mauro Dal Canto
Margaret Jones
Douglas C. Miller
Suzanne Mirra
Joseph Parisi
Gary Pearl
James Powers
Harry Vinters
Karen Weidenheim
Brad Hyman, Chair
David Louis, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Golden
James Goldman
Betty Kleinschmidt de Masters
Albee Messing
Steven Moore
The proposed changes to Article VII, Section 8, of the AANP Constitution that were sent with the March 1999 Neuropathology Newsletter should read as follows:
"The Diagnostic Slide Session is recognized and conducted as a part of the annual meeting, and a time for such presentation shall be designated and published in the program. The financial report of the Diagnostic Slide Session shall be incorporated into the financial report of the Association."
The New Biology of Aging Symposium
Announcing The New Biology of Aging Symposium, to be held September 26-29, 1999 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Sessions will be offered on genetics and the aging process, immunology of aging, mitochondrial diseases in aging, blood-brain barrier and letalloproteinases, protein turnover related to aging, systems of repair and plasticity in aging, and clinical applications and chemoprotection of aging.
The Symposium brings together nationally and internationally recognized investigators and young scientists working with current problems related to the molecular events in aging and age-related disease conditions, stimulates interactions among scientists working in diverse areas, and identifies research areas especially deserving of continued focus.
Speakers will present reports on their current research and allow time for interaction with the audience, and poster sessions are scheduled for Monday, September 27, and Tuesday, September 28, if demand warrants. Abstracts are due by July 21, 1999. For more information, contact Marvin Hunt email: info@aanp-jnen.com.
2000: Radisson Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, June 8-11.
2001: Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, Illinois, June 21-24, 2001.
NEUROPATHOLOGY NEWSLETTER
VOL. 10, NUMBER 2
American Association of Neuropathologists, Inc.
Office of the Secretary-Treasurer
Department of Lab Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Email: info@aanp-jnen.com.
Home page: www.aanp-jnen.com
Jeannette J. Townsend, President
Floyd H. Gilles, Vice-President
Suzanne S. Mirra, President-elect
Dawna L. Armstrong, Vice-President-elect
Clayton A. Wiley, Vice-President for Professional Affairs
H. Brent Clark, Secretary-Treasurer
Joseph E. Parisi, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Other Executive Council Members
Stephen J. De Armond
Michael N. Hart
John Q. Trojanowski
Awards — Barbara J. Crain
Constitution — Christine Hulette
International Congresses — Bernardino Ghetti
Membership — Jonathan D. Fratkin
Professional Affairs — Clayton A. Wiley
Program — Bradley T. Hyman
International Society of Neuropathology
Councilors
Orso Bugiani
Peter C. Burger
David N. Louis
H. Brent Clark
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Msl Conversion
The LLA to ECEF Position block converts geodetic latitude (μ ¯), longitude (ι ¯), and altitude (h ¯) above the planetary ellipsoid into a 3-by-1 vector of ECEF position (p ¯). feet above zero (“mean sea level”) in NGVD 29. RYA - Royal Yachting Association - UK National Governing Body. Compression and encoding settings. However, even the most mathematically sophisticated geoid can only approximate the real shape of the earth. State Adoption of NMLS ESB. Kg/cm3 conversion table. This conversion generally is accurate within about ± 0. 3 vector digital data Idaho USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) http://gapanalysis. ON388 - TABLE 2 PARAMETERS & UNITS (PDS Octet 9) Updated 03/24/2016 Red text depicts changes made since 08/26/2013. Information: BLM Township and Range The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cadastral survey program is responsible for the official boundary surveys for all federal agencies in the U. 5 feet higher than mean sea level for NAVD88 (far right staff). 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It is compiled from hundreds of weather observations (synoptic data) taken simultaneously around the Australian region. You can also go to the universal conversion page. The "zero" of the datum was established as the average of all hourly water surface water level readings at Pointe-au-Pere, Quebec, located on the Gulf of. However, the person recording them appears not to have enabled (or had access to) a converter to go from HAE to MSL values. 3 Conversion from implicit to parametric form. In Figure 1, mean sea level as established by NGVD29 (the far left staff) is about 2. The height of the geoid above the ellipsoid, N, is sometimes called the geoid undulation. Currently, the difference between the mean sea-level based Ordnance Survey heights and the GPS ellipsoid heights is around 50m. ESN and UIMID are valid in an 8 digit hexadecimal or 11 digit decimal format. The National Weather Service (NWS) also uses. On 5 May 1971, Geoscience Australia, on behalf of the National Mapping Council of Australia, carried out a simultaneous adjustment of 97 230 kilometres of two-way levelling. The datum that defines the MSL (also called the geoid) is a complex. It is the oldest and largest of the state's five water management districts. GTV is a digital entertainment network where you can find, watch and share video content from thousands of leading providers. However, you can view our UK 5 day forecast for an overview of the national conditions here. Like the ellipsoid, the geoid is a model of the Earth's surface. 4 Designed for XML use. Computation of SLR using volume above hydrostatic equilibrium and conversion to global mean sea level rise from global ocean surface area. Its dominant. How much?. com Nate talks about the differences between AGL (Above Ground Level) and MSL (Mean Sea Level) altitudes using real test questions from the FAA Part 107 Exam!. A list of approximations is available. 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Please consider. 3 vector digital data Idaho USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) http://gapanalysis. 0 with SiRFstarIII, the Geoid separation is now reflected in GGA field 9 to show MSL altitude. If employing this method, leave the geoid separation set to 0 in ArcPad, so that HAE values are recorded in the field. An accurate and up-to-date geoid model is available in this software. , Boston City Base, Brookline Town Base, and Cambridge City Base)* To do this, the following formulae can be used: Boston City Base (BCB) elevation = map elevation (MSL) +5. The SI unit of measurement for barometric pressure is the hectopascal (hPa) and this is adopted in respect of altimeter pressure settings in ICAO Annex 5. • Always store pipettes in an upright position when not in use. Throughout the world the definitions adopted by either the UK or the USA are in general use. 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Units of Measure: Statute Mile: the same as a standard mile as you would see driving a car Nautical Mile: defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth. SEA, CLE, PHX) from the surface up to 10,000 feet MSL. mso files? by seafox13 | February 18, 2004 3:40 PM PST. AHD (Australia height datum) This datum has been adopted by the National Mapping Council as the datum to which all vertical control for land based mapping is to be referred. Conversion Notes For optimal conversion performance we recommend that both Sage Fixed Assets and ProSystem fx Fixed Assets are installed on the same drive. Due to popular demand, we have now published a guide for bulk conversion of coordinates. However, with the MSL value, you need to add the undulation of the geoid for your area. NET to TypeScript and Java to all others. This surface is called a geoid and it fluctuates above and below the reference ellipsoid surface established by WGS 84. 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Dec 16, 2018 · The VFR weather minimum boils down to the rationale for needing greater visibility (and more distance from clouds) when flying above 10,000MSL (or, "mean sea level," which measures aviation altitude) because pilots need more time to see (and avoid) aircraft that may pop in and out of clouds. This includes psuedo ESNs (pESN), ESNs, and MEID numbers in both decimal and hexadecimal. The instrument acquires images of up to 1600 by 1200 pixels with a color quality equivalent to that of consumer digital cameras. txt and image. Jul 26, 2013 · Tips how to get msl easy. This conversion generally is accurate within about ± 0. 373 ft NAVD88 The 0. It is also equal to 1 cubic centimeter, or about 15 minims. Below is the formula for the HAE to MSL correction:. Height Conversion : See the text version of an article about VERTCON that appeared in the Professional Surveyor magazine, March 2004 Volume 24, Number 3. To convert feet to miles, multiply the foot value by 0. 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Home>Press >Unison Realty & Blue Vista Capital Acquire Hunt River Commons Shopping Center in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
25 January In Press, Unison News by John DiOrio
Unison Realty & Blue Vista Capital Acquire Hunt River Commons Shopping Center in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
BOSTON, MA (January 25, 2018) – A joint venture between Unison Realty Partners and Blue Vista Capital Management announced its purchase of Hunt River Commons, a 147,270-square foot neighborhood shopping center in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, for $15.85M.
Anchored by Stop & Shop and Marshalls, Hunt River Commons is currently 84% leased with other creditworthy tenants including Planet Fitness, GNC and Citizen’s Bank. The center was constructed in 1989 and is strategically located on Frenchtown Road, a connector road at the intersection of Highway 4, Route 403 and Route 1, with a combined average traffic volume of approximately 120,000 vehicles per day. Situated twenty minutes from Providence, Hunt River Commons serves an affluent suburban community, with over 24,000 residents earning an average annual income of more than $124,000 within a 3-mile radius.
Unison and Blue Vista have retained The Wilder Companies, a leading retail-specialist real estate services firm headquartered in Boston, as both property manager and leasing agent for the center.
“In contrast to some of the retail headlines nowadays, Hunt River Commons is the posterchild for the virtues of the neighborhood grocery-anchored retail sector,” says Jason Schwartz, Principal of Blue Vista Capital Management. “Anchored by dominant retailers Stop & Shop and Marshalls, the center is well-positioned for continued growth, and we’re excited to embark on this venture with Unison as our New England-based retail operating partner.”
The acquisition of Hunt River Commons is the first joint venture between Unison Realty Partners and Blue Vista Capital Management.
“We plan to maximize the potential of Hunt River Commons through a hands-on leasing and management approach,” says Karim Fadel, Founder and Principal of Unison Realty Partners. “We look forward to partnering with Blue Vista on the project, who has a shared vision for value-add investment opportunities in today’s middle-market real estate sector.”
Nat Heald, Executive Vice President at JLL, served as broker in this acquisition.
About Unison Realty Partners
Unison Realty Partners is a private equity real estate firm 100% dedicated to value-add retail investing. Based in Boston and founded in 2010, the firm has acquired over $200 million of shopping center space, totaling 1.6 million square feet across 15 properties since inception. As an independent owner / operator, Unison implements a value-add investment strategy throughout the Eastern U.S. Unison targets necessity-based, neighborhood and community shopping centers representing $10-$50 million in property value. Learn more at www.unisonrealtypartners.com.
About Blue Vista Capital Management
Founded in 2002, Blue Vista Capital Management, LLC is a leading real estate investment management firm focused on helping investors maximize returns in real estate through best-in-class investment strategies focused exclusively on middle market equity and debt, and student housing in the U.S. and select international markets. To date, Blue Vista has participated in direct investments and joint ventures representing approximately $7.5 billion in total capitalization and the firm has raised in excess of $2.0 billion in equity through various closed end funds and separate account relationships.
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My friend keith and I were working on getting some of my songs to Disney/Pixar, because I want to be a cartoon someday. The woman he was talking to in Virginia worked for Radio Disney. She was thrilled to find out I was writing kid’s music and had some great suggestions on how to get my songs out there into the world. She also suggested writing songs for the National Ad council. She said “He could write songs to help them, something for kids with asthma, like ‘Where’s my inhaler?’.”
When I heard about this from Keith I thought to myself “That is one of the most hilariously unwrite-able song titles I’ve ever heard.”
But sure enough, a few days later Keith and I were still giggling about it and I said, “What would even rhyme with that? Lung failure?“
I told Keith I had to hang up the phone right then, because inspiration had kicked me in the head. I was actually going to sit down and write the unwrite-able song. As it spilled out from a smile to the guitar onto the page, I realized I could probably write a song about anything!
The fun thing for me was: once I got the demo done with guitar, bass, and horns, I sent it to Emmett, Drummer Extraordinaire, and he played drums to it on his home recording studio and emailed it back. It sounds like he was right there in the studio with us, but he was actually playing in upstate New York months later! The wonders of modern technology…
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Our Indigenous Policy: to listen with honesty and act with respect.
Indigenous & Torres Strait Islander peoples have faced heartbreak and ongoing challenges since white settlement in Australia.
Politically, Indigenous & Torres Strait Islander communities have had various governments tell them what's good for them with minimal or token consultation. There have been some disastrous decisions made that have had dramatic affects upon indigenous communities and individual people. Less often there have been progressive steps, both legally and culturally that have assisted to unite Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We would like to work towards more positive outcomes, outcomes that will help our whole nation, while acknowledging the mistakes of the past.
We don't believe telling Indigenous people what is best for them is the way to go. Our policy is to facilitate listening; where we can be guided by Indigenous communities, not by imposing our views but by listening with honesty and acting with respect.
We would support a national wide dialogue, one which casts a wide net to hear the concerns and hopes of Indigenous people across Australia, so we can be advised of the best courses of action to take. In this, if it was the consensus of the various communities, we would certainly support Indigenous Parliamentary representation. However, our primary goal would be to listen and to seek the counsel of Indigenous peoples to be guided by them.
To facilitate the listening process, we would create a space for voices to be heard. This would be in the form of a national convention of community leaders of the various Indigenous nations. We envisage this as not a one-off event but an annual meeting to discuss solutions and to build the path to progress.
Our party, which sits within the non-Indigenous community, does not have the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples. We cannot possibly pretend to know what it is like to be Indigenous in Australia in 2019 nor would we impose what we thought was best for those communities. However, we would be open to be guided by them and to then advocate on their behalf, with a spirit of honesty and respect.
The issues we would like to propose to the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander communities:
Through consultation & listening, the formulation , finalisation & signing of a BINDING TREATY including recognition of the First Australians as the original & perpetual owners of Australia.
Ending the dishonest & racist Northern Territory Intervention, a retraction of the lies it was based on and a full apology.
A full enquiry into price gouging in Aboriginal communities including inflated food prices & prosecution of the perpetrators via the ACCC
Full implementation of the recommendations of the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission & Closing the Gap Inquiry, including measures to monitor progress & any necessary Legislation to realise goals & acceptable outcomes.
A full enquiry into Aboriginal health, wellbeing & housing including the misappropriation of previous funding for these purposes & prosecutions where required.
Funding for Aboriginal education including infrastructure and an Aboriginal languages & culture curriculum.
Restoration of funding for ALS & AMS and similar services including expansion into remote areas.
An scoping enquiry into tribal law & lore as an alternative to prosecution in the Courts & incarceration in prisons.
Measures to protect Indigenous & Torres Strait Islander communities from exploitation, particularly land theft by mining companies.
Returning land to original owners in pockets and of sufficient quality to give them a viable future use of this land, including services such as water storage & power.
An Indigenous & Torres Strait Islander representative seat in our House of Representative and Senate.
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Spain's Democracy on Trial
By the time Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez go on trial on February 12 they will have been in jail nearly 500 days.
The grassroots organizers for Catalonian independence will be tried by Spain’s Supreme Court on charges of rebellion and sedition, alongside 10 other defendants, including former Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras, several of his cabinet colleagues, and former Catalan parliamentary speaker Carme Forcadell. All are accused of defying the Spanish state in the fall of 2017 by mobilizing two million Catalans to vote in an unlawful referendum on secession from Spain which led to a unilateral declaration of independence by the region’s parliament.
Nine of those on trial face the sedition and rebellion charges, among the most serious crimes in the penal code. If found guilty, Junqueras could face a jail term of 25 years while Cuixart and Sànchez could receive sentences of up to 17 years.
For Spain’s judiciary and for many unionist Spaniards, this trial is the logical response to a rogue region’s outlaw actions—the restoration of law and order following a chaotic bid for independence. On Sunday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid against Catalan independence, waving Spanish flags as they demanded a tougher stance on the issue from the Socialist government. For secessionist Catalans, however, the trial is a deeply unjust bit of political theater.
The only thing both sides can agree on is that this will be the most highly awaited and politically fraught legal process modern Spain has witnessed.
In mid-January, the pro-independence grassroots organization, Òmnium Cultural, announced an international campaign to discredit the upcoming trial. The media offensive, titled “Democracy in the dock,” (Juicio a la Democracia) advances the idea that the Spanish judiciary is deeply flawed, part of a state with flimsy democratic credentials.
“We should be bringing charges against the Spanish state because of this trial,” Catalan president Quim Torra said in January, calling the process “a farce that has been organized against the independence movement.”
For several years, Catalan nationalists have argued that Spanish democracy is skin-deep and that the legacy of the 1939-75 Francisco Franco dictatorship is alive and well in the country’s institutions.
Only a few years ago, such claims were rare: Spain’s economy thrived and its territorial structure—which gave 17 regions varying degrees of self-government—appeared to function effectively. But that started to change a decade ago, as the 2008-12 economic crisis eroded many of the country’s institutions, from its corruption-plagued political parties and royal family, to its mismanaged banks and under-resourced judiciary. Support for Catalan separatism, which until then had been relatively marginal, started to swell as the Spanish state’s weaknesses were exposed. The rigid response to this phenomenon by the then conservative government of Mariano Rajoy, which refused to negotiate Catalan nationalist demands, only fueled the discontent, culminating in 2017’s chaotic referendum. Spain catapulted to international headlines, shocking a world accustomed—understandably, although somewhat myopically, given twentieth-century history—to thinking of the country as stable.
Rajoy was ousted by a no-confidence vote last summer. But his decision to treat the Catalan crisis as a legal rather than political problem had far-reaching consequences. The onus has been on Spain’s courts ever since.
A particularly contentious aspect of the legal process has been the preventive custody of Cuixart, Sánchez, Junqueras, and six others, who have all waited in jail for a trial whose date was only announced days before it was due to begin. The Spanish authorities have argued that their incarceration was due to flight risk—seven Catalan leaders fled abroad after the referendum to Belgium, Scotland and Switzerland—and to prevent continued illegal activities. But the trial delays since then have made the measure look increasingly excessive.
Another controversial feature is the rebellion charge against nine defendants. Rebellion is legally defined as “rising up, violently and publicly” against the Spanish state— the last conviction followed an attempted coup d’état in 1981. The Catalan independence movement, despite its many faults, has been characterized by peaceful protest. There have been some violent incidents, such as police cars being vandalized or a well-known unionist journalist being punched while he was live on air, but these have been rare, and never linked to the movement’s leaders themselves.
Ironically, the most violent scenes of the independence push were caused by Spanish riot police on the day of the 2017 referendum. Targeting several of the improvised voting stations, they smashed windows and doors, dragging some voters away and beating others. The Spanish interior ministry has refused to probe the actions of its police officers on that day. Barcelona’s leftist city hall has brought a lawsuit against 33 of them.
The Spanish judiciary does have a history of overreaction. The Audiencia Nacional, a court dedicated to countering terrorism and organized crime, has in the last two years issued jail sentences against several hip-hop artists due to the content of their songs and social media accounts. Among them is Josep Miquel Arenas, a young rapper known as Valtònyc, who was given a three-and-a-half-year sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy in his angry, anti-establishment songs. Shortly before beginning his sentence last year Arenas fled to Belgium. The Spanish authorities are now trying to extradite him. Rapper Pablo Hasél was given a two-year jail sentence on similar charges last year, for the content of several tweets and the lyrics to one of his songs. The sentence was subsequently reduced to nine months on appeal.
Joaquim Bosch, a magistrate and outspoken critic of the Spanish justice system, has warned of “an obvious erosion of freedom of speech” in Spain. Jueces para la Democracia (Judges for Democracy), the progressive magistrates’ association he represents, argues that Spanish laws are too vague on issues of terrorism or hate speech, giving free rein to over-zealous investigators.
The recent spate of freedom of speech cases is grist to the mill of the Catalan independence movement, which runs a slick PR machine. Arenas, for example, has been photographed several times posing with former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont—who oversaw the 2017 independence referendum and fled to Belgium shortly afterward—since they both left Spain. In addition, there have been a handful of other cases which have cast in doubt the judiciary’s independence from political interference.
In November, the Supreme Court performed an unprecedented U-turn. Having recently ruled that banks, not customers, should pay a mortgage tax, the court changed its mind, drawing accusations that it had caved in to pressures from the country’s financial powers.
Weeks later, in a separate case, Supreme Court magistrate Manuel Marchena withdrew his candidacy to head up Spain’s judicial governing body. A leaked text message from a conservative senator had emerged, apparently gloating at the fact that Marchena’s appointment would allow the right-wing Popular Party to control the court “from behind the scenes.” Marchena will nonetheless preside the panel of judges handling the Catalan independence leaders’ trial.
As a result, it has been easy for secessionists to present their conflict with Spain as one upholding democracy against repression. Yet in pursuing their dream of an independent republic, Catalan nationalists have occasionally neglected their much-vaunted democratic values.
In 2015, the pro-independence Catalan government treated a regional election as a plebiscite on the secession issue. In it, pro-independence parties won a narrow majority of seats in the regional parliament but fell short of a majority of the popular vote. Nonetheless, secessionists pushed ahead with their divisive roadmap as if they had secured an overwhelming mandate. Then, in September 2017, the pro-independence majority rode roughshod over parliamentary protocol to ram through laws laying the groundwork for the October referendum.
For Joan Coscubiela, a member of the Catalan parliament for the leftist Catalunya Sí que es Pot (Catalonia Yes We Can) coalition at the time, those parliamentary sessions “ended up installing in people’s minds the idea that democracy means the majority can do whatever they like, even if it means breaking the rules [and] trampling over the rights of the minority.”
Many Catalans have been dismayed at how the issue of separation from Spain has dominated their region’s political debate, distracting attention from more urgent matters, such as public healthcare and education.
The upcoming trial could see the figureheads of Catalonia’s failed independence bid pay a high price for such single-mindedness. But Spain’s judiciary will be up for evaluation as well. Spanish authorities have rejected calls for international observers, insisting that the justice system offers the guarantees and transparency necessary for such a high-pressure legal process. This trial’s ability to deliver on that promise could tell us a good deal about the health of Spanish democracy—and whether or not worries about it are justified.
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Hillside's Lee named AP Player of the Year
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The Associated Press voting for the North Carolina Player of the Year is complete and the winner of the award is Vad Lee from Hillside High School in Durham. Lee led his Hornet teammates to a 16-0 record and the 4A state championship.
The dual threat Lee passed for over 3,000 yards and ran for over 1,200 yards while playing a part in over 50 Hornet touchdowns this season. In the championship game against Davie, Lee threw for 264 yards and three touchdowns, all scored in the first half of a 40-0 rout.
From 2010 Football 4A High School State Title Game
The Georgia Tech commit received 11 of the possible 15 votes to win this year’s award. Marquise Williams of 4A Mallard Creek and 3A state champion West Rowan’s B. J. Sherrill also received votes.
Lee also participated in this year’s Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, starting at quarterback for North Carolina.
3A State Champion West Rowan’s Scott Young was chosen as AP Coach of the Year, edging out 4A runner-up Davie Coach Doug Illing and 4AA Champion Butler’s Mike Newsome.
Young has led his Falcons team to 3 straight 3A state titles and the nation’s current longest winning streak, 46 games.
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Sexy medieval Scottish romance!
Generations ago, the Sinclair jewels--the symbol of the clan's power--went missing. Today, the laird's daughters, who were named for the jewels themselves, are determined to hunt down their clan's missing stones and restore the Sinclairs' honor!
Meet the Sinclair Jewels, fierce heroines who meet challenges head-on, and who never expected to find love along the way:
Sweet Pearl, the youngest of the Jewels, who knows the best way to help her clan is by staying among them, no matter what her father says about a marriage contract.
Controlled Agata, the oldest of the sisters, who never knew her own strength until her new--unwanted--husband is relying on her.
Scholarly Sapphire, who is willing to go through the Devil himself if it means saving her clan and her father...even if she has to dress as a lad to do it!
Fierce Citrine, who has spent her entire life defying custom and training for the moment she can lead her clan to glory!
The Sinclair Hound
The Sinclair Hound doesn’t speak…
Hanged as a lad for stealing food, Gregor, the notorious Sinclair Hound, was spared by a merciful laird. Although emotionally damaged and forever scarred and very silent, his devotion to Clan Sinclair, and especially the laird, is unwavering... until one of the Sinclair Jewels, the youngest daughter, Pearl, challenges that devotion and forces the Hound to make a fateful choice.
Pearl is a priceless lass…
As the youngest of the Sinclair Jewels, Pearl has made a place for herself among her clan, serving her people and doing her best to care for those who need help. Unlike her sisters, she has no interest in ever leaving her family. But when she’s forced to choose between an unwanted marriage or taking holy vows, she makes a fateful mistake.
If she can’t stay with her clan, she’ll become a nun.
But once her sire tasks the Hound to escort her to the abbey, Pearl is forced to admit two things: she never really wanted to take holy vows and her fascination with the Hound can no longer be denied.
As love becomes the greatest treasure of all, can Pearl and her Hound find a way to stay together, or will violence and family secrets keep them apart forever?
The Mackenzie Regent
Four years ago, Jamie Mackenzie lost everything - the woman he loved, the use of his hands, and his honor.
Alcohol became the only thing which offered solace to Jamie and he was satisfied to drink himself into an early grave… until his older brother died, leaving his clan without a leader, and his young nephew Callan without a regent. Reluctantly, Jamie steps into the role, little realizing it would include a marriage contract.
Her mission is returning her clan’s honor.
A year ago, Agata, the oldest of the Sinclair jewels, thought herself satisfied. She was married to a cruel man, but at least he—as the Mackenzie laird—had given her a precious stepson Callan and hope for future children. Now widowed and returned to her clan, Agata has given up on her dream of a family until she finds a new mission with her sisters: finding and restoring the ancient Sinclair jewels.
Stolen generations ago from the brooch which marked the Sinclair lairds’ power, these jewels are more myth than reality, even to the Sinclair sisters who were named after the stones. When they find evidence the stones are hidden in the Mackenzie holding, Agata jumps at the chance to see little Callan again. But her mission conflicts with her personal dream when she discovers she's been contracted to marry the lad’s drunken uncle.
Is Jamie as cruel as his brother? Can Agata help him overcome his dependence on ale and learn to see himself as strong and capable…or will he spend the rest of his life focusing on what he lost?
And where exactly are the missing Sinclair jewels?
The Sutherland Devil
Everyone in the Highlands knows three things about the Sutherland laird:
1) He’s got more bastards than he can count.
2) He’s already buried three wives.
3) He’s the very Devil himself.
Which is why, when Saffy—one of the Sinclair Jewels—finds evidence that her family’s missing brooch is in the Sutherland Devil’s possession, she’s certain she’s taking her life into her own hands to reclaim it. She’s the scholar in the family, not the warrior…but how hard could it be to don a pair of braies, lop off her hair, and approach the Sutherlands as a lad?
She hadn’t planned on being accused of spying and thrown into the dungeons to starve!
Merrick Sutherland is harried from all sides: his alliances are falling apart, his children are adorable monsters, and his illegitimate brother has declared war in an attempt to claim his title. The last thing he needs is a distraction in the form of a lippy little cross-dresser, but that’s what he gets when he drags his new prisoner up from the dungeons. Is she a spy? The best way to learn her secrets is to keep her close, so Merrick makes “Saf” his squire, without revealing what he’s already learned.
Thrust into a sensual game of wits with her new master, Saffy is surprised to learn that what everyone knows about him isn’t quite true. As his squire, she’s in a prime position to search for the missing Sinclair jewels, and she’s willing to go through the very Devil himself to find them.
But will she lose her heart in the process?
The MacLeod Pirate
The Black Banner is the Western Isles’ most notorious pirate…and he’s about to meet his match!
Citrine is the last Sinclair Jewel left with any chance to save her clan, and she's not about to fail them. But when she’s a victim of mistaken identity and taken prisoner by a gorgeous—and completely maddening—pirate captain, Citrine is afraid she’s missed her opportunity. She discovers the Black Banner holds one of her family’s long-lost jewels, and he refuses to tell her why. Could their pasts--and futures--be somehow connected?
Rory MacLeod is the youngest son of a powerful laird and is happy to let others rule as he spends his life at sea…as the Scourge of the Minch, the fierce pirate known as the Black Banner. When his father signs a betrothal contract with the Sinclair laird, Rory has no intention of following through with it. Little does he realize the beautiful firebrand he’s just kidnapped is the woman he’s supposed to marry!
Together, Citrine and the Black Banner might be able to solve one mystery…but the real threat to the future of the Sinclair's is back at home.
A lifetime of secrets, a hidden identity, and a bitter hatred will all come to light in this final piece of the gripping Sinclair Jewels saga!
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Stone Helmet and Armor near Emperor Qin mausoleum
In 1998, the archeologists conducted a local discovery in an area of more than 13000 square meters of the largest size of accompanying pit about 200 meters in the southeast part of the mound of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum. They discovered 90 stone armors, 36 stone helmets and stone armors for horse. They were made of black limestone with fine texture and fine color, and they were bunched by bronze silk string after grinding and drilling. There were 800 pieces of refined armor and even better in labor than the armor on the figurines. This reflects the high development of manual manufacturing and the construction complexity of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum. The discovery of these stone armor, helmet and armor for horse vividly illustrates the Qin military protective equipment condition, make up for the lack of the literature on Qin armor and helmet, rich people’s awareness on the military question in Qin Dynasty.
To date only one set of stone armor and one stone helmet have been restored. Another painstaking achievement. The weight of the stone armor is 18 kilograms and the helmet about 3.1k which would seemingly make it very impractical to wear. Experts in the field consider that it may have been made especially as a funerary object for the tomb of Emperor Qin, rather than an item to actually wear into battle .
The Eaves Tile With Dragon Decoration
Eaves Tile with Dragon Decoration, also named as “decay cover”, is a tile in the front end of a watt. With a semicircular Tongwa overlying buckle at one end of the roof to cover the purling head, it plays a very good anti-rot protective effect. An Eave Tile with Dragon Decoration discovered in the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site showed a large semi-circular shape, with the diameter of 61 centimeters and height of 48 centimeters. The tile is with a semicircular Tongwa in length of 32 centimeters on the back side and with a decoration of Kui pattern on the front side. It fully conveys the Qin Empire Powerful ambitious aesthetic by the vigorous line. This Eave Tile with Dragon Decoration conveys important message to the people and make them be able to imagine the grand style of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum and provide more direct physical evidence to realize the size of the entire cemetery.
The Civilian Figurine
Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum underground cultural relics and sites often bring unexpected surprise to people. For example, the discovery of civilian figurine has improved people’s knowledge of the Qin Dynasty history. In 2000, 8 civilian figurines which were different from the Qin Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses Figurines were discovered in the accompanying pit about 50 meteres in the southwest part of the mound of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum. They were wearing high caps on the head, long shirts on the body, and hanging whetstone on the right side of the waist, standing with two hands in the sleeves in a civilian manner. The symbol identity of these figurines and the nature of the relic pit were still unclear, but they have great significance in realizing the connotation of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site and the politics in Qing Dynasty. At present, on the basis of the relic site, No.006 accompanying exhibition hall have been constructed and opened to the public to show the original site.
Attractions In Xi'an More
Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses
Mountain Hua
Huaqing Hot Spring
Qin Shi Huang Tomb
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