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[[Image:Digital - Love Story, A - W32 - Title Card.png|thumb|256x256px|The official Web site title card.]] '''''Digital: A Love Story''''' is a video game that mixes a [[desktop simulator]] with an [[interactive novel]]. It was developed and published by [[Christine Love]] for [[Linux]], [[Macintosh]], and [[Windows]] on February 2010. The game was created using [[Ren'Py]]. The game is set in 1988 and you play a lone hacker who uses pre-Internet Bulletin Board Systems to uncover a conspiracy and find love. I found this game because it was highly ranked on JayIsGames. After beating it, my overall feel was an unfinished game that could have been a better with a lot more polish. ==Status== The game is free. I beat it on 2019-09-19. ==Review== {{Video Game Review|4|4|3|7|2|40%|Windows}} {{Spoilers}} ===Good=== * The game does a fairly decent job of emulating the feel of a pre-Internet computer which had access to basically nothing. * Although strong [[artificial intelligence|AI]] wasn't really plausible in the late 1980s, I still liked the idea of the story. * I like the implied reply mechanic where you have to figure out what you wrote based on the replies. * The game has pretty great MOD music. * I enjoyed the BBS chatter about sci-fi and fantasy books, shows, and amateur fiction, and liked the title pages. ===Bad=== * I never really felt much of an attachment to Emilia. There just wasn't enough character expansion for me to appreciate her, so the ending didn't mean much to me. There needed to be more flirting, and it would help if she sent you a "picture" of herself. * The developer missed a lot of opportunities to add puzzles into the game. Password cracking, brute forcing long distance codes, debugging your C compiler, upgrading your OS, etc. These could have all been gamified, but they just happen without any effort on the player's behalf. I understand that visual novels rarely have gaming elements, but the way this was setup, it seemed like it should have had them. * The UI is pretty limited (you can't move the windows, clicking off the dialer cancels it, etc.) and a little buggy (you can click through windows and hit the buttons behind them). It would have been nice if these were cleaned up. * I would have liked to see more images. The game is severely graphically challenged. The [[Amiga]], which the UI is designed to emulate, was actually pretty graphically strong for the time. * I didn't quite see the point of being able to send individual private messages when you could send them all at once. It confused me if I needed to send them manually each time. Also, I don't know why you can download messages manually when you still have to be connected to the BBS to retrieve them. I only saw a use for it on The Underground Library BBS that disconnected you. * As you reach the ending, the messages seem to outpace the game. For example, I was getting messages about *Reaper taking out servers before I even noticed the servers were down. * Another [[damsel in distress]], but at least she becomes a heroine in her own right. * 1980s computers used bitmap fonts which always had a full set for their codepage. This means, you would never see a missing glyph (the box with the x in it) that is displayed in the error screen. This is a minor issue, but it hurt the immersion. ===Ugly=== * Having to manually dial all of the numbers over and over... and over again was really tedious. While I was fun doing it once and hearing the old modem sounds again, but even in the 1980s, programs existed to let you auto-dial numbers, and the game should have worked this in. ==Media== ===Videos=== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJvZ3TdTts youtube.com/watch?v=0HJvZ3TdTts] - Longplay. ==Download== * [[Media:Digital - Love Story, A v1.1.zip|Download]] ([[:File:Digital - Love Story, A v1.1.zip|Info]]) - v1.1. ==Links== {{Link|MobyGames|https://www.mobygames.com/game/digital-a-love-story}} {{Link|Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital:_A_Love_Story}} {{Link|Official|http://scoutshonour.com/digital}} [[Category: Games]] [[Category: Video Games]] [[Category: Video Game Prime Order - Adventure, Strategy, Action]] [[Category: Video Game Genre - Simulator]] [[Category: Video Game Genre - Interactive Novel]] [[Category: Trope - Artificial Intelligence]] [[Category: Trope - Damsel In Distress]] [[Category: Linux Games]] [[Category: Macintosh Games]] [[Category: Windows Games]] [[Category: Games I've Beaten]]
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ESPN FC’s Ligue 1 correspondent Julien Laurens examines the reports that Adrien Rabiot is headed to Juve on a free, while Leonardo Bonucci departs for PSG.
Mina Rzouki breaks down the key reasons Juventus have emerged as the likely landing spot for Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt.
With Juventus the reported front-runners to land Matthijs de Ligt, ESPN FC’s Sid Lowe examines whether or not Barcelona will give up their chase.
ESPN FC’s Gab Marcotti questions whether Maurizio Sarri will be able to implement “Sarri-ball” at Juventus, after leaving Chelsea for the Italian club.
Gianluigi Buffon has agreed a one-year deal to re-join Juventus after leaving Paris Saint-Germain, a source has told ESPN FC.
The former Italy goalkeeper left Juve for PSG last summer after winning eight Serie A titles in a row. He moved to the French capital in the hope of helping them win the Champions League.
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However, despite comfortably winning Ligue 1, it was an underwhelming campaign for the Parisians, who lost in the Coupe de France final and were knocked out of the Coupe de la Ligue at the quarterfinal stage.
But the low point of the campaign for the 41-year-old came during the Champions League round-of-16 clash with Manchester United, where PSG, having won 2-0 at Old Trafford, lost 3-1 at home — with Buffon at fault for one of the goals — to crash out at the first knockout stage for the third consecutive season.
The club announced he was leaving after 12 months, having spent the season sharing the starting spot with France international Alphonse Areola and PSG are in talks with AC Milan over a move for Gianluigi Donnarumma as a replacement for Buffon.
At Juventus, Buffon is expected to arrive as back-up to Wojciech Szczesny, with Mattia Perin likely to leave.
Buffon first signed for the Bianconeri from Parma in 2001 and stayed for 17 years, winning the Serie A title on 12 occasions — though two were later taken away following the Calciopoli scandal.
In his final four seasons, he won the league and cup double in each, but lost two Champions League finals in three season from 2015-2017 as Europe’s premier competition continued to elude Buffon. He was also a losing finalist with Juve in 2003.
A source has told ESPN FC that reports Buffon will become a director at Juve once his 12-month contract expires are premature.
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Discussing regulatory issues impacting professionals in the securities industry
FORM 13F: FILINGS DUE AUGUST 15
The August 15 deadline for investment advisers to make Form 13F filings to report equity security securities holdings of their managed accounts is approaching. Form 13F must be filed within 45 days of the end of a calendar quarter.
As required by Section 13(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and rule 13f-1, Institutional investment managers ( which includes investment advisers) must file Form 13F with the SEC if they exercise investment discretion for accounts holding Section 13(f) securities. Section 13(f) securities are defined in the rules as securities having an aggregate fair market vaule of at least $100 million on the last trading day of any month of any calendar year.
What types of securities are Section 13F securities? The SEC has said that “[s]ection 13(f) securities generally include equity securities that trade on an exchange (including the Nasdaq National Market System), certain equity options and warrants, shares of closed-end investment companies, and certain convertible debt securities. The shares of open-end investment companies (i.e., mutual funds) are not Section 13(f) securities.” Advisers can find Section 13(f) securities on the Official List of Section 13(f) Securities. An updated list of 13(f) securities is published on a quarterly basis.
Advisers can also find valuable information about the filing’s requirements in the Frequently Asked Questions About Form 13F.
Author Dexter JohnsonPosted on July 30, 2013 Categories Chief Compliance Officers, Hedge Fund Regulation, Regulatory GuidanceTags August 15 filings, Form 13F, institutional investment managers, SEC, Section 13(f), Section 13(f) securities
SEC ANNOUNCES REGIONAL COMPLIANCE OUTREACH SEMINARS
The SEC has announced its schedule for the upcoming Compliance Outreach Program regional seminars to be held in Chicago, New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. Investment adviser and investment company senior officers, including chief compliance officers (CCOs) are invited to register and attend. The first meeting will occur in Chicago on August 28.
This years’ Compliance Outreach Program, which started off in Boston in May, will likely include panel discussions with SEC staff from the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), Division of Investment Management, and Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit. Topics will vary depending on location. For example, the Chicago seminar will address traded and non-traded real estate investment trusts, investment companies with special emphasis on alternative investment funds and money market funds, and current enforcement actions in the investment management industry. The New York seminar will focus more on newly registered investment advisers, dual registrants and to investment advisers affiliated broker-dealers, and will topics like the SEC’s examination process, priorities, risk surveillance, and examination selection process.
As we’ve alerted our audience in previous blogs, investment advisers should attend these meetings because “[t]he seminars highlight areas of focus for compliance professionals. They provide an opportunity for the SEC staff to identify common issues found in related examinations or investigations and discuss industry practices, including how compliance professionals have addressed such matters.”
Registration information about the regional seminars is available at:
http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539720572#.Uef5kdK1Eec
Author Dexter JohnsonPosted on July 18, 2013 Categories Chief Compliance Officers, Inspections & Investigations, Investment Company, Regulatory GuidanceTags Chief Compliance Officers, Compliance Outreach Program, Division of Enforcement Asset Management Unit, National Exam Program, OCIE, Regional Seminars
Time For Quarterly Transaction Reports
A reminder to advisers, the code of ethics you adopted probably requires quarterly reports to be prepared for all personal securities transactions made by access persons. If it doesn’t there are two possible reasons (1) chances are you haven’t read it, or (2) you don’t have one — in which case you need to first read Rule 204A-1 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
The Timing of Transaction Reports
Under Rule 204A-1(b)(2), these reports are due no later than 30 days after the close of the calendar quarter. Access persons who would be submitting duplicate information contained in trade confirmations or account statements that an adviser holds in its records (provided the adviser has received those confirmations or statements not later than 30 days after the close of the calendar quarter in which the transaction takes place) may be excused by their investment advisers from submitting transaction reports.
Who is an access person?
Rule 204A-1(e)(1) defines an access person as a supervised person who has access to nonpublic information regarding clients’ purchase or sale of securities, is involved in making securities recommendations to clients or who has access to such recommendations that are nonpublic. Further, a supervised person who has access to nonpublic information regarding the portfolio holdings of affiliated mutual funds is also an access person, but only to the extent they make, participate in, or obtain information regarding, the purchase and sale of the fund’s securities, or if their functions relate to the making of any recommendations for such transactions.
This definition is broad enough to include, for example,
(i) portfolio management personnel and, in some organizations, client service representatives who communicate investment advice to clients;
(ii) administrative, technical, and clerical personnel if their functions or duties give them access to nonpublic information;
(iii) organizations where employees may have broad responsibilities, and fewer information barriers are in place to prevent access to nonpublic information. On the other hand, as the SEC has noted, organizations that keep strict controls on sensitive information may have fewer access persons; and
(iv) presumably if the firm’s primary business is providing investment advice, then all of its directors, officers and partners would be access persons.
When must access persons report personal securities transactions?
Under Rule 204A-1(b), each of an adviser’s access persons must report his securities holdings at the time that the person becomes an access person and at least once annually thereafter. Further, they must make to the adviser’s Chief Compliance Officer or other designated person a report at least once quarterly of all personal securities transactions in reportable securities.
What are “reportable securities”?
Rule 204A-1 treats all securities as reportable securities, but list five exceptions designed to exclude securities that appear to present little opportunity for the type of improper trading that the access person reports are designed to uncover. These include transactions and holdings in:
direct obligations of the Government of the United States.
money market instruments — bankers’ acceptances, bank certificates of deposit, commercial paper, repurchase agreements and other high quality short-term debt instruments.
shares of money market funds.
shares of other types of mutual funds, unless the adviser or a control affiliate acts as the investment adviser or principal underwriter for the fund.
units of a unit investment trust if the unit investment trust is invested exclusively in unaffiliated mutual funds.
There are other exceptions. For example, under Rule 204A-1, no reports are required for transactions effected under an automatic investment plan; No reports are required for securities held in accounts over which the access person has no direct or indirect influence or control; and finally, under Rule 204A-1(d), no report is required in the case of an advisory firm that has only one access person, so long as the firm maintains records of the holdings and transactions that rule 204A-1 would otherwise require be reported.
There are other requirements in Rule 204A-1, the Code of Ethics Rule, covering access persons transactions and holdings that advisers should review. These includes such issues as pre-approval of certain investments, review of personal holdings and transaction reports, procedures to address personal trading and reporting of violations.
Author Dexter JohnsonPosted on July 10, 2013 July 18, 2013 Categories Chief Compliance Officers, Featured, Registration/Licensing, Regulatory GuidanceTags access persons, Code of Ethics, holdings reports, quarterly transaction reports, reportable securities, Rule 204A-1
A Lesson From Ameriprise: Risk Mitigation With Third-Party Prospectus Delivery
Broker-dealers and other financial service firms using third-party service vendors, whether to reduce costs, enhance performance, and obtain access to specific expertise, and perform vital functions, sounds good in most instances. But doing so is not without risks.
FINRA’s recent disciplinary action against Ameriprise, tagging it with a censure and fine of $525,000, is a reminder of inherent risks when firms fail to monitor outsourced service work to third parties. In settling with Ameriprise (through an Acceptance Waiver and Consent, FINRA Case # 2011029100301) FINRA found that Ameriprise, in approximately 580,000 transactions, failed to timely deliver mutual fund prospectuses to its customers within three business days of their purchases. FINRA also found Ameriprise to have failed to establish and maintain adequate supervisory systems and written supervisory procedures that should have reasonably monitored and ensured the timely delivery of mutual fund prospectuses — a requirement of Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.
As FINRA noted, Rule 10b-10, promulgated under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, requires a broker-dealer to provide to the customer, in writing, certain information “at or before completion of such transaction” and that transactions are complete when they settle. Rule 15c6-l(a) provides that securities transactions settle in three business days, unless otherwise specified. Consequently, a broker-dealer must deliver a prospectus to a customer who has purchased a mutual fund no later than three business days after the transaction.
What are the compliance takeaways from the Ameriprise action? How does a firm avoid or mitigate legal, reputational and operational risks to its business when dealing with outside vendors?
First, firms should make sure they hire qualified vendors and that such relationship are structured to avoid operational problems. Expectations on both sides need to be clearly articulated. Second, monitor frequently and document that the outsourced activity is being properly managed.* Appropriate oversight ensures that the third-party program is meeting its regulatory purpose. Third, document and make sure that the third-party has adequate internal controls. Finally, make sure that the vendor has a contingency plan in the event of a disruption, and make sure that you do the same.
In the end, while day-to-day management of a service like sending the prospectus can, in some instances, be transferred to a third party, ultimate responsibility for any compliance requirement cannot be delegated and remains with the financial service firm.
*Outsourcing Financial Services Activities: Industry Practices to Mitigate Risks, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, October 1999, p. 5, available online.; Outsourcing By Financial Services Firms, Broker-Dealer Regulation (Second Edition) Practicing Law Institute, C.E. Kirsch.
Author Dexter JohnsonPosted on July 8, 2013 Categories Chief Compliance Officers, Regulatory Actions, Regulatory GuidanceTags Acceptance Waiver and Consent, Ameriprise, AWC, censure, Prospectus delivery, Risks, Rule 10b-10, Rule 15c6-1(a)
This blog identifies and discusses new and developing regulatory issues that impact investment advisers, broker-dealers, corporations and individuals who either work in the securities industry or who are impacted by its regulations.
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Sweden: Truth Teller On ISlam Sentenced, 1000 Euros in Fines and probation…….
Courtesy of Gates of Vienna: I posted a couple of times last month about Åsa Westerberg, the Swedish anti-sharia activist who was brutalized by the police,…
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Finland: Court Rejects Bid By State Broadcasting ‘Journalist’ Jessikka Aro To Violate Opposition Free Speech Rights…….
It’s not to say some Finns have been downright rude and offensive to Aro, but when holding a mirror up to her is considered…
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Bruce Bawer: Norway: A Fake “Translation”…….
Same in Finland I’m told, with Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila’s bastardized version that supposedly soft peddles the traditional Arabic text… Norway: A Fake “Translation” by Bruce Bawer…
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Germany: Totaliarian Angela Merkel insists on ‘right’ to crush opposing views…….
Take away their power or else we won’t be free… It’s unnerving what these people actually say, let alone think. It’s all been…
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Organization of Islamic Cooperation chief demands international law to criminalize “Islamofauxbia”…….
Some 12 years ago I confronted the (then) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu after his speech in Helsinki concerning the supposed “right not to be offended.”…
Finnish Police Tasked With Job In Investigating Old Television Comedy Shows That Might Have “Incited Against Ethnic Groups”…….
How to murder society: First, convict all your comics… In essence, comedy is no longer fun nor funny. The arbitrators of what is permissible…
Finnish prosecutor general insists quoting the bible can be a crime if it’s understood to be offensive…….
When “giving offense” can be turned into a crime, the state can be accurately described as abusive and tyrannical… So telling someone that…
Kristiansand Norway: Stop The Islamization of Norway Burns koran, irate Muslims leap over security fences…….
UPDATE: A better version of the happening is here: Norway hasn’t been in the news as of late, but it should be… …
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Elisbeth Sabadtisch-Wolff: The Truth Shall Get You Jailed……..
That’s been the modus operandi of the Finnish Injustice Dept… The Truth Shall Get You Jailed Posted on October 31, 2019 by Eeyore Excerpt from the article…
Finland: Judge rejects Finns politician’s appeal of conviction for simply repeating quotes already in public domain……..
This entire scenario is an unconscionable, disgusting display of the abuse of power… Sharing quotes by Jussi Halla-aho brought conviction to an Espoo…
Finnish writer who penned novel of life events during Soviet occupation of Estonia goes all in for combating ‘hate-speech’…….
I used to have a modicum of respect for the heavily weighted purple head of Sofia Oksanen, but not anymore… You would think…
FB’s Nordic Communication Chief Peter Münster refuses to state what Tommy Robinson said or did to be banned……..
Statist totalitarians don’t believe that they need to show any evidence, “the guilty” are condemned for the mere fact of being outside of what…
Finland: Jussi Halla-aho: Islam, Immigration and Sexual Minorities are the New Soviet Union…….
This all goes back to Halla-aho’s own case, in which he was wrongfully convicted and fined for seeking an answer to the question of…
Netherlands: Dutch debate on free speech online between Wilders’ MP colleague and a marxist and an Islamonazi…….
It’s a real freakshow when you have totalitarians weighing in on what’s acceptable speech… The former journalist and now MP, Martin Bosma, holds…
UK: The Guardian: “Free Speech Isn’t Under Assault, But Some Speech Should Be Shut Down…….
? Free speech isn’t under threat. It just suits bigots and boors to suggest so Martha Gill (…) Free speech advocates…
Finland: Helsinki Court fines former TV news anchor for “hate speech” for disparaging Somalis, Muslims on Facebook…….
All speech is to be protected, not just that speech with which you agree… Tyranny reigns in Finland. Ex-news anchor convicted of…
Lutheran Bishops bloviate on speech laws, proving that they do not know anything at all on what they’re talking about…….
So who exactly are these angels in society to be trusted with regulating our speech..? Look at how lame-brained this guy’s argument: Mäkinen…
Bosch Fawstin creates print in response to Facebook’s latest purge of so-called “dangerous” individuals…….
I agree with Bosch. Jew-hating Farrakhan was added only to give a sense of balance, and moral equivocation with the main targets of FaceBook’s…
YouTube Restricts Tundra Tabloids’ Father Gabriel Naddaf Video Blessing Tommy Robinson For Fighting Against Extremist Muslims…….
I received the following in the mailbox today: There is nothing controversial about what this priest is saying. This video was…
Conservatives take to social media to defend prominent personalities labeled as “dangerous” and banned from Facebook…….
I don’t care who the voice is, as long as they are not calling for immediate violence against another human being, they shouldn’t be…
Twitter in election interference move, removes Tommy Robinson campaign account…….
The very essence of election interference… But the jackasses at Twitter still allow the Jew-hating demagogue Louis Farrakhan’s account to remain unmolested. Gateway…
Brian of London on Tommy Robinson being removed from Snapchat…..
Tommy Robinson on Telegram //t.co/1kAEdD8Zqk latest censorship news. //t.co/UvJr4d5L45 — 🇮🇱Dr Brian of London (@brianoflondon) April 5, 2019
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Tyranny: Youtube essentially bans Tommy Robinson…….
What does comes up in the search window at YT is ever single negative video about Tommy by the enemedia…
US: President Trump Signs Executive Order to Defend Free Speech on Campus, meaning no money for failure to protect free speech for conservatives…….
This is a very big deal… Sending a message/warning to every single establishment of higher learning that in order to keep your subsidies…
ECHR rejects final appeal by Elisabeth Sabadtisch-Wolff, lawyer receives notice in the mail…….
Elisabeth’s final appeal has been rejected by the ECHR court, the unjust verdict stands, free speech is officially no longer protected in Europe… …
UK university forces Katie Hopkins to sign paper limiting her right to speak before speaking event…….
It’s something that they wouldn’t dream of doing to a visiting Islamonazi propagandist, let’s say, like Hamas… They really are a fiefdom of tyranny on…
Judith Bergman at Gatestone: EU Going Full Orwell…….
They’re using Orwell’s epic book “1984” as a training manual… EU: Going Full Orwell by Judith Bergman February 5, 2019 at 5:00 am //www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13532/eu-full-orwell…
Gatestone: The European Court of Human Rights Does Not Deserve Its Name……
It’s an ‘Orwellian’ court, so expect ‘Orwellian’ rulings… The European Court of Human Rights Does Not Deserve Its Name by Saied Shoaaib • January 30, 2019…
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff requests to refer her case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights…
This is not over, the last appeal… To the Grand Chamber European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg cedex France 22.01.2019/2/27 AZ…
Finland: Katie Hopkins and Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at the Finnish House of Parliament during live sessions…….
Today went off without a hitch… Starting our day we arrived at the Helsinki District Court on the western side of the town,…
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Finland: Facebook accounts of Finns Party members and candidates being frozen prior to national elections…….
No, this has nothing to do with Russian hackers or Bulgarian trolling farms, this is happening due to Finnish Leftists controlling the levers of…
Matthew Hausman: Those supporting anti-blasphemy restrictions under guise of hate-speech regulation do not truly respect/understand freedoms that characterize western society…….
One very smart and intellectually honest man, brother of Rabbi Jonathon Hausman… Please visit Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s donation page, and contributions are tax-deductible, and…
Extremely important Tucker Carlson show segment…….
Finnish news website UusiSuomi suspends Finns Party MP’s blogging rights over Islam criticism, offended over accurate depiction…….
I’m not going to blog post at the Uusi Suomi (New Finland) news site anymore. An MP’s pre-censorship is straight from the Cold War period…
Bosch Fawstin: Islam Got Your Tongue?
We have allowed the forces of Islamo-evil to control us through self-inflicted censorship… ISLAM GOT YOUR TONGUE? We’re censoring ourselves, and so endangering ourselves.…
Daughter of Dinesh D’Souza interviews Laura Loomer protesting at Twitter building over unfair censoring of conservatives…….
LAURA LOOMER IS CHAINED TO TWITTER’S DOOR IN NYC //t.co/qhc5ZN2lvg — Danielle D'Souza Gill (@danielledsouzag) November 29, 2018
Twitter indefinitely suspends account of Australian defender of classical liberalism Sheik Yer’ Mami of Winds of Jihad blog……
The Sheik (pbuh) tells me that: “I just got suspended from Twitter, indefinitely. No reason given.” This has become a regular trend on…
Facebook is doomed because it doesn’t know Hebrew…….
Ha’aretz, for once, has published something important and true. The whole article is essential reading (but paywalled)so I’ll try to summarise and pull the…
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Sanity found at the Guardian: None of us should enjoy the right to have our beliefs shielded from abuse…….
It’s plainly obvious that the political elite are using ancient laws on the books in order to stave off outrage by Muslim communities that…
Petition to defend the Right to Criticize Islam in Europe…….
It’s shocking that in this day and age, after all that’s happened, we need a petition to demand the right to criticize Islam… …
Bruce Bawer: “The ECHR has totally capitulated to Islam. It has dealt a major blow to freedom of speech in Europe. At this point, indeed, the ECHR might as well be a sharia court.”…….
More proof that the EU is working against Enlightenment principles and your and my liberty… The bottom line here is grimly clear. The…
Andrew McCArthy: In Europe, Free Speech Bows to Sharia …….
Elisabeth’s press release, given to the TT in as an exclusive. In Europe, Free Speech Bows to Sharia By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY October 27,…
Douglas Murray: Should it be illegal to call Mohammed a paedophile…….?
Yes, it should be… Should it be illegal to call Mohammed a paedophile? The ECHR have decided that truth is not a justification…
UKIP’s Gerard Batten slams Euro Court’s bow to sharia law in Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s “blasphemy case”……..
Totally disgusting to see Europe’s Western civilizational values crushed in such a demonstrable way… UKIP Leader Slams ‘Blasphemy Law by the Back Door’ as…
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Tucker Carlson show highlights ECHR’s ruling against free speech: Ruling demolished key principles of the Enlightenment…….
That being the freedom to question, even to mock political and religious authority… For Islam it’s a twofer, being both, but mostly of…
Exclusive: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s press release on recent ECHR court verdict supporting sharia blasphemy laws…….
I just received this from Elisabeth… Press release Re Ruling E.S v ECHR On Thursday, 25 October the ECHR ruled that my conviction…
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EU ‘Justice Commish’ says media must be regulated to prevent hate…….
More government hard-fisted overreach with a smile… EU Justice Commissioner Says Media Must Be Regulated to Prevent ‘Hate’ BY MICHAEL WALSH SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 The…
Center for Security Policy slams clamp down on free speech at OSCE meetings by ODIHR…….
These Europeans act as if the US is not a member of the OSCE… The Gates of Vienna has the full story: …
Finland: Sister of former Finns presidential candidate has an excellent piece on freedom of expression…….
Bright as her sister Laura… I suggest that Saara review what Flemming Rose spoke about on Finnish state TV concerning the topic. Perhaps…
Finnish ‘hate speech’ cop says US authorities are helping to obtain private social media details of Finns supposedly promoting ‘hate speech’ online…….
This is big… Yes, you read that right, US officials are aiding and abetting Finnish anti-free speech government authorities in tracking people down ‘guilty’ of…
YouTube comic Markus ‘Count Dankula’ Meechan has vowed to defy Scottish judiciary after attempts to appeal conviction for teaching girlfriend’s pug dog to seig heil salute…….
There’s nothing he has done that hasn’t been done before on UK state TV… ‘I Will NOT Bend the Knee’ – ‘Nazi…
Finland: Marxist professor Vesa Puuronen wants to limit free speech, introduce harsher punishments…….
He’s the exact type of cog who have enjoyed privileged lives in the brutal regimes of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and any other…
#FreeTommyRobinson : Australian senator and Dutch MP call on the UK to release Tommy from jail…….
The supposed ‘vanguards of free speech’ in the UK sit idly by twiddling their thumbs while the state conducts the most draconian, Orwellian politically…
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Jordan Laguerre
At UMass
2011-12 Freshman year
Pre-UMass
Prep School / High School
Seasons: 2011-12
Number: 12
Height: 6' 2“
Hometown: Manchester, NH
High School: Trinity H.S. (NH)
Prep School: New Hampton (NH)
Transfer From: none
Left school after the 2011-12 year, without having played a game for the Minutemen.1)
Prior to the start of the 2011-2012 season, the NCAA determined that Laguerre was a partial academic qualfier.2) He will be eligible to practice with the team during the season but he will not be able to participate in competition or travel with the team. He will take a redshirt season and will have four years of eligibility remaining.
Throughout season, Laguerre “seldom practiced” due to stress fracture.3)
Started official practices in October with stress fracture in his shin and will be out “for a little while” according to Head Coach Derek Kellogg.4)
Explosive guard that can get anywhere he wants on the court.
Lightning quick on both ends of floor.
Quick handle with array of finishes around the rim.
Can make shots in bunches behind the arc.
Creates space with good step-back in mid-range situations.
Relentless defender with super high motor.
Played two seasons at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire.
Led New Hampton to a 21-12 record in 2010-11 and trip and a trip to the NEPSAC AAA title game.
Averaged 14 points per game as a junior in 2009-10.
Played three years at Trinity High School, leading the Pioneers to a combined record of 55-6, including a 20-1 mark and league championship.
In November 2010, Laguerre signed a National Letter of Intent to attend UMass.5) Comments from Head Coach Derek Kellogg: “I am excited to have Jordan join our growing UMass basketball family,” said third-year head coach Derek Kellogg. “I have truly enjoyed watching Jordan play over the last few years as he has become quite a player and a person. Jordan has a tremendous competitive nature and an intensity on the floor that will push us to win basketball games. He is a great addition to the building process of UMass basketball both on and off the court.”
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Twitter - Jordan Laguerre
Players, Jersey # 12, Guards, Players from New Hampshire, Played for Derek Kellogg, Prep School New Hampton School (NH)
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http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/04/11/lalanne039s-surgery-a-success
http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/10/12/forward-thinking
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Gayby
By Dustin Jansick @DJansick on January 9, 2013
Up until the dreadful ending, the film was a breath of fresh air to the indie gay-comedy genre with its playful yet witty humor.
A lot of sitcoms start with the same premise as Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, biological alarm clocks go off and suddenly everyone is infected with baby fever. This lightweight indie comedy takes that exact plot a couple steps further while treading (but never crossing) the thin line of an exaggerated story. Circumstances that arise in the film are actually happening more and more in today’s society of alternative parenting. Except briefly in one scene, the film wisely stays away preaching a political agenda. Gayby is not without its fault though, most of which show up in the film’s final act, which in the end alters the trajectory of where the film could have landed.
Within the first five minutes the tent poles of the story are up, Jenn (Jenn Harris) and Matt (Matthew Wilkas) are thirty-something friends who are desperately single. They made a pact in college if they did not have a baby by the time they were in their thirties that they would have one together. This sounds fairly straightforward until two curveballs are thrown. The first one being that she is straight and he is gay. But the real kicker though is that she wants to make the baby “the old fashioned way”.
As with any couple trying to conceive a baby (or in this case a gayby), problems arise. Even though the two engage in intercourse at the most opportune times according to Jenn’s ovulating schedule, he fails to impregnate her. Looking to point the finger at anything but herself; Jenn blames her apartment’s energy to be off because of the sterile paint job.
The bedroom scenes are without a doubt the funniest scenes in the film. At the same time, it handles the awkward procedure with relative ease. The dynamic between the two leads make the whole situation feel more plausible than it may seem on paper. Because the comedic timing and chemistry thrive when the two share the screen, they succeed in carrying the production even at the weakest points.
Gayby takes cues from the HBO’s hit show, Girls, by showcasing the complications of being a single girl (and a gay guy) in New York City. Just like Lean Dunham does in the show, Jenn Harris is a wise-cracking woman who always seems to find the wrong guys. Moreover, the film even borrows two of the shows stars, Adam Driver and Alex Karpovsky. One major difference between these two is that the film replaces hipster culture for gay culture, but the results are equally as hilarious.
Because the first two acts of Gayby were sensational, it makes the third act that much more disappointing when all of the built up steam runs out. Up until the dreadful ending, the film was a breath of fresh air to the indie gay-comedy genre with its playful yet witty humor. What makes the film so great is whether you are; straight or gay, male or female, parent or not, you can find most of the film pleasing. It is too bad that the film itself was not premature in its own delivery because that ending should not have arrived at all.
Gayby Movie review
Isolation is the name of the game in Peter Strickland’s new thriller Berberian Sound Studio. The film concerns itself with a British man Gilderoy, played perfectly by Toby Jones, a
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Nebraska Highway 12 Wetland Delineation
Niobrara, NE
Nebraska Highway 12 near the town of Niobrara, runs parallel to the Missouri River. The distance between the highway and the bank of the river is only 2,000-3,000 feet in some areas, with standing water covering much of the area between the highway and the river. Water levels in the area have been rising due to the silting of the river, resulting in periodic flooding of the highway.
Benesch assisted NDOR in the wetland delineation and section 404 permit for two proposed alignments for Highway 12. The NEPA Environmental review requires that several alternatives be evaluated. Benesch deployed three two-man teams to survey wetlands and waterways along two different proposed alignments. Each alignment was approximately 13 miles long. Field crews surveyed for 3.5 weeks to complete delineation. Findings were documented in a wetland delineation report.
Benesch is also assisting NDOR in planning and roadway design. Benesch has prepared conceptual designs for approximately 12 miles of rural highway to be raised an average of eight feet. NDOR is currently evaluating the alternatives to determine which will be carried forward to final design. Other services that Benesch provided was a hydrology and hydraulics study and geotechnical exploration to provide recommendations for subbase stabilization.
404 Permitting for two proposed alignments
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Readers Have Never Paid for the News
British commentator Libby Purves has become the latest veteran journalist to declare that Internet freeloaders are ruining the newspaper business and they need to start paying for the media they consume, or else trained professionals like her will take their inverted pyramid and go home. In response to the switch of London's Evening Standard to free circulation, Purves writes:
Call me a reactionary, call me a Murdoch lackey, but the fact is that, after a vague flirtation with the concept that "information wants to be free" and years of internet surfing, I feel a sense of revolt.
It's been fun: like a jammed fruit machine spewing free tokens or a whisky-galore shipwreck. But it's got to stop. Content -- whether music, films, pictures, news or prose -- can't be free and flourish. The music and movie industries are fighting: journalism, after the ego trip of gaining millions of online readers, is following. It has to. There is no alternative.
The labourer is worthy of his hire, time is money, pay peanuts and you get monkeys. Pay nothing and you get dumb (or worse, venal) monkeys. Nothing costs nothing.
Whenever I read an unhappy rant like this from a journalist, it makes me wonder how they could know so little about where their paycheck is coming from. Newspaper readers have never paid for their news, outside of rare exceptions like the Wall Street Journal and trade publications such as Variety. Daily newspapers derive most of their revenue from advertisers. Lauren Rich Fine, a former newspaper industry analyst with Merrill Lynch, estimated that historically, subscriptions generated 20 percent of a newspaper's revenue and the other 80 percent came from classifieds and display advertising.
So back in the glory days of newspapers before the Internet ruined everything, readers were getting their journalism at a steep discount paid for by advertisers. Newspapers were the biggest game in town for local classifieds and department store ads and papers enjoyed extremely fat profit margins because of it. But if there's one thing that a journalist should be in a position to know, it's the fact that times change.
Even today, Internet freeloaders aren't getting their news for free. Nine different ads are running on the page that includes Purves' Times of London column.
The real issue here is that online ads aren't generating the kind of revenue that other ads did for decades, so it's an extremely rough time for the industry. But placing the blame on readers for being cheapskates is extremely misguided. We've always gotten the news at a price much lower than the cost of reporting it.
Credits: The photo of the Evening Standard van by Oxyman is available under a Creative Commons license.
-- Rogers Cadenhead
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money money and money. I wonder today when the government comes and money required for the air we breathe
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BRIGHT LIGHTS AND RUNWAYS........
Inside my soul was always this hidden desire to reach the top where fame and fortune would coincide with all the pleasures that I desired at the time. I thought that all that I would want would be mine and nothing would step in the way of my ideals. As a teen you can see the bright lights beaming their way toward you and pulling you in with temptation and a hidden false sense of security. I would always search for that beam in the faint twilight of most every evening and as usual it would appear in my head and give me one more day that passed on my journey to "stardom".
I always believed that by dreaming that I would get down that road as swiftly as Dorothy's ruby slippers took her home, only mine were not made of rubies and I see now that converse tennis shoes and bass wee gin penny loafers didn't make the spark to send me flying anywhere. Just the same I still clicked my heels and waited for instructions on where to land.
When I did finally make it on a stage and sang for many people, my reality into the world of fame was quite a shock to my system. I realized early on that I cherished my solitude too much to be invaded by people and hounded by press. Yet still the entertainment bug kept biting me. I reached out for different venues that would put me in the spotlight and then I could walk away and have enough for the moment until it was time to be satiated with more applause wrapping around me for the music and show that I gave the audience. I encouraged any and all to join in my fun and what an experience and workout that turned out to be. Among the talented people who shared in my fun was one who stood out from all the rest.
SHE was a knockout, not only in the looks department but also with a voice that could melt steel. She had an interest in singing secretly hidden, so I made it my goal to pull out notes from her throat that would alter her view of natural raw talent. The problem with that awareness was her lack of confidence, and no matter how you hope to bring security to a living soul, it has to come from within.
On our first approach to singing together, I approached it quite candidly and gave her a song that we both loved and chanced it as a duet. The days of beginning vocal workouts were grueling and her pointed tongue and insecurities made it hell. It was within those early rehearsals that I brought to the forefront of her mind the actualities of a voice that had been hidden within and showed the possibilities that could come from taking chances.
We debuted at a private party and she surprised everyone. We looked around as all the many guests were stunned to hear the alluring sounds emanate from her mouth. I too was taken aback at how easily it all came off. Those weeks of rehearsals opened up a Pandora's box of vocal delights. We merged together on that evening which would take us both on a musical journey to understanding each other and learning the things that would put us on our defense of self preservation.
As a duo we were a strong force and our presence in any gathering stood us out from the crowd. Most times people would speak of the envy that they had due in part to the allegiance that we held for each other. Most all of our time was spent working on our future singing plans. When we were not recording our music we were divulging information to each other of personal interest's and the insecurities that we held for people in general. The latter made it sort of a struggle to keep our patience with people who seemed to annoy us just by being. This attitude was due in part by our insidious nature of feeling above the rest while the others never seemed to get us or fit in to our very closed circuitry of thought waves. It truly did not matter who may have been around us as we only were tuned in to one station that held one spot on the dial of Dynamic Duo Radio.
We were young and realized early on that we were bound by karmic ties that superseded the actual realities of the present day. In other words the ties that bind were not going to come loose anytime soon, at least not in this round of life experiences. Her singing was lilting but her direct candor was venomous yet alluring like honey, you just could not get enough. Pure honesty is a blessed attribute, but for some people it would feel like an merciless beating unprepared for. My attraction to her was a mirror image of myself which made it even more challenging when faced with each others personal feelings on a subject that did not blend easily. OUCH!
We started production on our first foray into local theatre by putting together a variety show, based on a theme that we both loved. It was overwhelming to be in charge of such a group of people who all seemed scattered in their focus. It took some pointed rehearsing but we came together and gave a super performance much to the delight of the audiences that paid to see it all. The "duo" was pointed out as the standout performances of the show, and in hindsight I can understand why. We were in tune more than the rest because we had put our time and energy into the show from the beginning which created a performance based on months of mind rehearsing it all. From that crazy fun show, it spun off many more performances and a constant swing of engagements both private and public. It was amazing for me to watch her become this personality that ignited as soon as the spot was aimed in her direction. The confidence that seemed so elusive appeared when illuminated, only to disappear as soon as the song or performance ended. The enigma of it all left me at times confused and dazed but it became a recognizable trait within her personality.
It was very apparent that we held between us a blend of previous life experiences that got in the way of the reality of "the now of then". There would be a bevy of roads that would have to be traveled which led us to different crossroads. I took a left when SHE took a right, and vice-versa. Whatever road was walked solitarily we would always book that return flight back home to each other to check in and await the next song to be sung. Experiences together and separately would make us realize that life really was a stage and we each got to play our part as the roles were given out. The many people who stood with us on our stage during certain scenes from our lives all seem to have faded into the background and yet the faint hue from the hidden stage lights still illuminate the memories of those times that we shared with them.
Some of our songs got ovations while others left us with lyrics in our heads that shaped the futures that laid ahead of us. Love songs made us cry and inspirational songs filled our hearts with the hope that we strive for everyday. When I think about it,really...... we are still appearing daily on life's theatre stage, and we are still waiting for that one song to be sung together again. The script still has some rewrites and the author needs to make some adjustments.....but all in all....that spotlight still is aimed at us and we will appear once again in the sequel that is yet to be named but is definitely in the works.
As a matter of fact, I am almost certain the flight arrangements are being made as I sit here and write this...
INCOMING SIGNALS
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT
RETURN FLIGHT TO THE HOMEFRONT
CATCHING THE LAST FLIGHT OUT
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409 Vet Air: Flying Veterans in Need of Medical Care
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Providing veterans with air transportation to and from healthcare facilities, an around-the-world record attempt, Air Force to use enlisted airmen as RPA pilots, FAA encourages GA aircraft owners to voluntarily install safety equipment, a cable break during a carrier landing, and growing military aircraft in chemical vats. Plus, a report on the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.
Karen and Vet Air’s Jesus Pereira
Jesus Pereira founded Vet Air in 2015 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity that uses volunteer pilots and GA airplanes to provide veterans with air transportation to and from healthcare facilities, as well as flights for compassionate reasons.
Having joined the Massachusetts Army National Guard in February 1996, Jesus attended basic training at Fort Jackson South Carolina, and received his Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lee Virginia as a Petroleum Supply Specialist. He is currently serving with HHC 126th BSB with the grade of E-7, Sergeant First Class. He has one deployment to Kuwait in 2010 where he served with the Army Aviation Task Force.
Jesus with therapy dogs Gizmo and Bella
Jesus is currently a Veteran Service Officer for the Town of Longmeadow in Massachusetts. His primary function is to provide Veterans with MGL Chapter 115 benefits and assistance with federal VA benefits. Jesus holds a private pilot certificate with complex, high performance, and tailwheel endorsements.
Learn more at VetAir.org, and on the VetAir Facebook page.
Teen pilot Lachlan Smart on track for world record
Eighteen year old Lachlan Smart wants to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a single-engine aircraft, and he plans to make 24 stops in his Cirrus SR22 doing it. Follow his journey at Wings Around the World.
Air Force plans 100 enlisted drone pilots by 2020
The Air Force expects to graduate the first class of enlisted airmen in 2017 for remotely piloted aircraft, specifically unarmed RQ-4 Global Hawks used for high-altitude reconnaissance missions. The graduates would become the first Air Force enlisted pilots since World War II.
FAA Policy Helps Modernize GA Airplanes and Helicopters
FAA Policy No: PS-AIR-21.8-1602 [PDF] “encourages general aviation aircraft owners to voluntarily install safety equipment on airplanes and helicopters that is not required by the agency’s regulations.”
Navy: Human error to blame for March cable break aboard USS Eisenhower flight deck
An arresting cable broke when an E2-C Hawkeye attempted to make a carrier landing, injuring eight sailors. The video shows the dramatic recovery by the pilot of the Hawkeye.
Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
BAE Systems wants to grow military aircraft in chemical vats
BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow are working on a manufacturing method that utilizes a “Chemputer” at the molecular level to assemble objects. Originally developed for pharmaceuticals, this might allow the construction of small UAVs or components for large manned aircraft.
Growing UAVs Through Chemistry
The ‘chemputer’ that could print out any drug
Making matter come alive
Print your own medicine
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall
David attended the opening of the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. We hear opening remarks from Dr. Bob van der Linden, Chairman of the Aeronautics Department, and Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, a curator in the Space History Department.
We then hear David’s interview with Bob van der Linden, who describes some of the changes made, the visitor experience, and the special photo op with the Spirit of St. Louis and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM).
Next, David talks with Vicki Portway and Sarah Banks from the social media team about how the museum is reaching out and transforming itself through the “experience loop.” We also hear about the new GO FLIGHT: National Air and Space Museum app for iOS and Android. The app lets you connect to the museum from wherever you are.
Routehappy job page.
Intro music courtesy Brother Love from his Album Of The Year CD. Outtro by Bruno Misonne from The Sound of Flaps
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged BAE Systems, Boeing, charitable, drone, FAA, NASM, USAF on July 13, 2016 by maxflight.
AirplaneGeeks 327 Dogs and Drones
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Dogs and other animals that fly, an update on unmanned aerial vehicles, charitable aviation organizations that provide transportation to those in need, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway, and flying GA in the US and Europe.
Victoria Zajko is a pilot and she works in the aviation insurance business, supporting general, corporate, and business aviation needs. She is a Co-Host on the Stuck Mic AvCast, blogs at The Pixie Pilot, and is Coauthor of the new Turbo the Flying Dog book series.
Turbo flies everywhere with her, and the dog has a Facebook page and is on Twitter. Victoria thought the adventures of Turbo would make a good children’s book that focused on family and overcoming fears. Now we have Turbo the Flying Dog, the first book in a series.
We talk about crowdfunding the book, hurdles to publishing, and the positive role of social media and the aviation community.
FAA on drones: Security always a concern
In this CNN video, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta talks about security threats from commercial drones, especially to planes.
CNBC on Drones
A discussion between Jetwhine Publisher Rob Mark and Duke University professor Missy Cummings about whether or not drones pose a safety problem to passenger carrying aircraft.
Senators don’t like where the FAA’s headed on drones
U.S. lawmakers want the FAA to speed up the integration of drones into the national airspace.
Huerta Says UAS Rules Stress Certification, Pilot Standards
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told CNN’s State of the Union that the NPRM planned for this month on sUAS will focus on aircraft certification and “qualifications” of pilots.
Endangered Sea Turtles Need GA Transport
Migratory turtles spend the summer in the waters off New England, then swim south in winter. But this year, wind and water temperatures have stranded more than 400 of them along beaches on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
According to Leslie Weinstein, a board member for the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research at the University of Florida, they need transportation to aquariums. Weinstein is working an aviation rescue effort with the Air National Guard, but also with volunteer groups like Pilots N Paws to solicit help from general aviation pilots.
Wrigley heiress charters private jet to fly Marine’s dogs home
This 2013 article describes a Marine serving in Afghanistan who rescued two Anatolian Shepherd mixes, Dusty and Wyatt. He was able to get the dogs to the U.S with the assistance of an animal rescue organization when his tour of duty ended.
Later, the Marine was transferred across the country and the airlines were unable to provide transportation. Wrigley gum heiress Helen A. Rosburg stepped in and chartered a private jet. Rosburg is the founder of animal rescue organization, On the Wings of Angels Rescue.
Op-Ed: Media and industry sneering at service animals must stop
By Contributing Editor John Walton on the RunwayGirl Network.
NATA And Its Members Raise More Than $30,000 For Our Nation’s Veterans
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) announced the donation of more than $30,000 to veterans’ organizations raised through the 2014 NATA Flag Pins for Veterans Project. Earlier this year, NATA and its members developed the project to expand our support of our Nation’s veterans. Donations from this year’s project will support the Veterans Airlift Command and the Medal of Honor Foundation.
SMAC083 – Live From The National Business Aviation Association Convention 2014
Carl Valeri talks to the volunteer Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) which transports post-9/11 veterans for medical and other compassionate reasons outside the airline system. Carl also spoke with a veteran and passenger of Veterans Airlift Command.
The Australia News Desk
Wirraway A20-10 by @canvaswings
Back in September, the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin in Victoria, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the first flight of their CAC (Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation) Wirraway.
The museum’s Wirraway (A20-10) was built in 1939 and saw service as a trainer for the RAAF for nearly two decades. We sent Anthony “The Infrequent Flyer” Simmons (Max’s favourite Australian) out to chat with Ewan McArthur and James Kightly about the significance of this particular aircraft
Pieter talks with Neil Bradon, once a student pilot on the show back in 2011 and now a well respected GA pilot in both Europe and the USA. Neil has returned from living and working in the USA to Ireland where he explains the differences in the GA sector and offers some advice based upon his experiences. Neil blogs at getmyppl.blogspot.com.
Some charitable aviation organizations:
Pilots and Paws
Angel Flight
Angel Flight Australia
Air Care Alliance
Volunteer Pilots Association
Corporate Angel Network
Hope Air
Find Max’s list at airplanegeeks.com/charity.
Aviation Geekfest 2015 – February 21st and 22nd, 2015 in Seattle.
SkyFunder – Crowdfunding just for aviation purposes.
ZZ331 Royal Air Force Airbus KC2 Voyager (A330-243MRRT), CPH Departure [HD]
Royal Air Force Airbus KC2 Voyager
Opening and closing music courtesy Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at brotherloverocks.com.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged Book, charitable, drone, FAA, service animals on December 3, 2014 by maxflight.
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More SoundClowning Around
Thanks for the continued conversation re: the limits to your love. I enjoy plotting to create better possible futures with y’all, and I <3 how the discussions here get amplified and “shopped” around. Ahem~
To keep the discussion moving (for I really don’t want the iron to cool too much, lest we lose our fire entirely), I want to talk about a couple interesting uploads I came across this week on SoundCloud.
Briefly, let me preface by noting that I’ve found it pretty remarkable throughout SoundCloud’s relatively short existence that I rarely if ever run across an example of flagrantly unauthorized filesharing. Some users occasionally upload other people’s tracks without explicit consent but more typically as a form of decentralized (and courted) promotional activity than in a yes-you-can-find-that-on-YouTube fashion. To me this seemed like evidence of a good faith approach, wherein SoundCloud was taking a gentle, supportive hand to remixed, DJ-mixed, and otherwise recontextualized music (including as part of field recordings) and balancing that strong stance toward fair use by vigorously removing any blatant examples of bald, untransformative filesharing.
Of course, December’s wave of automated take-downs let the air out of any dream of a concerted, coherent, or particularly robust defense of fair use on SoundCloud at the corporate level. Nevertheless, users of SoundCloud continue — both unintentionally and purposefully — to challenge terms of service, copyright law, practices of attribution, and notions of ownership. I’d like to examine here one example from each camp: the accidental and the intentional. (And, given the fraught status of each, we’ll see how long before this blogpost becomes yet another web2.0 graveyard.)
Here’s one that I would characterize as unintentional, though as I’ll explore, the lines get blurry:
Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single Part 1 by mjs538
Pop archivist and professor Hugo Keesing, building on the work of radio DJ Mark Ford (post-post update: see here for a detailed parsing of the tape’s twists and turns), spliced together the audio “embedded” in the player up there, just below his portrait in triplicate. It’s a piece he named Chartsweep back when in the pre-Napster 90s, an hour-plus collage comprising short, recognizable samples of every #1 hit in the US from 1956 to 1992 (according to Billboard/Whitburn).
Apparently, the montage, which may or may not have been made from reel-to-reel recordings and/or 45s (see some mythology here [and again, here]), circulated informally and anonymously among radio heads for many years before someone finally solved the mystery and tracked down Keesing. [Though to update again, according to this, the piece was “heard in national syndication, annually, by millions and millions of listeners,” so obviously, and interestingly (given this week’s amnesiac reception), it has enjoyed a massive audience in the past.]
Keesing discusses the project, and his background, in this interview with Jon Nelson. Allow me to excerpt a bit to show how the assemblage, which Nelson says he “couldn’t help but think of as art,” emerges both out of Keesing’s capacious love for popular music and his embrace of mashup poetics, if you’ll permit the anachronism, as a form of multimedia pedagogy:
The concept and term “Chartsweep” both originated in the late 60s with a syndicated radio show called “The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” I listened to it on WOR-FM in New York and recorded portions of it on an old Wollensack reel-to-reel tape recorder. As you know, the ‘sweep presented segments of every Billboard #1 single starting with “Memories Are Made of This” (Jan 1956). I don’t recall where it stopped, but it was around 1968/69. Six years later I began teaching an American Studies course at the University of Maryland called “Popular Music in American Society.” To provide a setting for each class I dusted off the concept, took it back to January 1950, added a number of songs based on Joel Whitburn’s re-definition of #1 songs, and continued where the original had stopped. I added each new #1 until fall, 1991 when I stopped teaching the course. “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” was the 900th. At the start of each class I played a portion of the ‘sweep that corresponded to the years we were covering that night. To accompany the tape I made 35mm slides of either the original sheet music, 45 rpm record sleeve or something similar, so that students could see as well as hear the pop music history. Copies of each night’s tape went to the undergraduate library. I assume that an enterprising student or two made their own copies and it is a copy of a copy of a copy that remains in circulation. That’s the story in a nutshell.
But, of course, the saga continues. In the last week Chartsweep has risen to “viral” prominence after a complicated — and possibly incestuous — round of re-posting and re-blogging and re-posting and re-blogging. Although uploaded to SoundCloud just two days ago, as of this writing, the two parts have cumulatively garnered nearly 150k plays!
Key to this unprecedented explosion of exposure is, of course, the unauthorized uploading of Chartsweep to SoundCloud, the special affordances of which — namely, embeddability and scalability — make it a lot easier for Keesing’s collage to travel and be heard and shared than if it were simply residing as mp3s on a server here or there.
Precisely because Chartsweep has been around for years, enjoying a more modest audience and addressing a narrower public, the piece’s performance on the so-called platforms of web 2.0 could prove instructive as we dispute what constitutes fair use, and what doesn’t, in an age of “automated diminishment.” At the moment, it remains to be seen what — and whether/when — Audible Magic will have to say about all the unauthorized samples it sniffs in this.
The samples are sitting there, clear as day. Here’s part 2, stretching from Men At Work’s “Land Down Under” (itself embroiled in silly copyright wrangling) to the fitting closer, Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”:
Now, Chartsweep It may not be the sort of thing you’d like to listen to all the time, and it’s certainly not a replacement for any, never mind all, of the songs it includes. I feel little need to explain why this sort of thing has the right to exist. The answer to that question is audible and obvious. Indeed, just a glance at the reactions Chartsweep elicits, whether at SoundCloud or on blogs, turns up a great variety of ways that such a transparently derivative and transformative work can reveal, uniquely even, all manner of things about pop and charts and us. Among other things it nicely demonstrates, as one commenter notes, “This is so awesome…you can actually hear the British Invasion happening in 1964″ (emphasis mine).
But what about questions of attribution and fair use and ownership not with regard to the maker of the montage but the uploader of the audio? It’s notable that mjs538 provided no information about who put the piece together — or anything else. Indeed, he even gave it a misleading (and erroneous) new title, “Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single.” But despite these possibly suspect procedures, plenty of listeners recognized Chartsweep immediately, and some — like DJ Empirical — felt compelled to leave a comment providing proper attribution. (The confusion here seems to stem from a case of lazy reblogging and meta-data erasure by the very same affective laborer, Matt Stopera, who (re)posted it here — where he oddly indicates that it was “Made by” Ubuweb, who have merely done the simple, if awesome, [& actually, slightly misleading] service of re-archiving the audio and interview — and who also re-blogs stuff like “The 30 Best Pictures Of Asians Wearing Engrish Shirts” — clearly a man of taste and honor.)
Can we imagine a better set of practices for sharing Chartsweep with a new set of publics? I suspect we can. Would as many people have heard it this week if such a system were somehow automated? Doubtful, at least at this point. Does that matter?
These thorny questions echo in the second example I’d like to discuss here…
Earlier this week, Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson took to his website, Facebook, eager amplifiers like Mad Decent and Resident Advisor, and, yes, SoundCloud, in order to clown a couple Italian producers who centrally employ an obvious sample of Saunderson’s 1987 classic, “The Sound,” without giving credit (or publishing for that matter) where due. In response, Saunderson is giving away digital copies of the original track while posting a copy of the offending track to SoundCloud — for free, without Supernova’s permission, and in 82mb wav file splendor (not that it’s such a splendiferous track, a rather wan paint-by-numbers production rightly derided in comments as “beatport minimal” and “ableton techno”).
Here’s the story according to Saunderson (& hear the original here, if you don’t want to download it c/o his righteous largess); note the nuance in Saunderson’s position here — this is hardly copyright extremism:
I recorded “The Sound” back in 1987 and released it on my own KMS Records label. It was a massive hit at New York’s Paradise Garage and in Chicago and of course Detroit. Once it hit the UK it became one of the earliest Detroit anthems right acround Europe, a huge underground record across the globe – a true desert island techno track. It is such a special record to me because it was one of my first really successful productions and I hope that you all will enjoy this free, fresh digital download of my original 1987 version.
The reason I have decided to give this track away for free is because of a situation that recently developed involving the unauthorized sampling of “The Sound” by Italian producers Giacomo Godi & Emiliano Nencioni (Supernova) in their release “Beat Me Back” on Nirvana Recordings. It came to my attention that they are licensing and selling, with considerable success, this track which is nothing more than a continuous loop of the main hook from “The Sound.”
For me to hear ‘Supernova’ taking an extended loop of “The Sound” and claiming that this is their own original composition and production is both dishonest and disrespectful. My first thought was that they were perhaps naïve, but as they have apparently been recording together since 2002 this seems unlikely. In any event this is completely unacceptable, we cannot continue to let this kind of wholesale rip off go unchallenged and tolerate “artists” who completely sample recordings, add nothing of their own and then release the results as their own work.
I have a huge affection for sampling, it’s how some of the most inspiring and ground breaking tracks of our times were created. We’ve pretty much all sampled records at some time, and cleared the sample so we can use it on our releases, but it is just not cool to take someone else’s music, create a big old loop of it and then put your name on it and try to have success entirely off the back of another artist’s efforts. This really has got to stop. For this reason, I have uploaded the Godi/Nencioni version of “The Sound” to Soundcloud so that you all can download this for free if you so wish. These producers and their record label should not be profiting from my back catalogue… this is not their track to sell.
Here it is (and do note the title!), though I recommend clicking over to SoundCloud to check the convo happening there (and over at RA too):
The Sound rip off/now called Beat Me Back By Supernova, what the hell by Kevinsaunderson
As of this writing Saunderson’s instantiation of “Beat Me Back” at SoundCloud has been listened to over 10k times and downloaded almost 2k times. I can only hope that the original will enjoy a lush new life despite the strange circumstances of its revival. It’s definitely vexing that someone like Saunderson — who can be credibly described as an architect of the very sound, the very aesthetic conventions (never mind specific bassline), that Supernova are working in — might find himself so rudely excluded from deserved techno dividends in the age of Beatport. And I quite support the sort of public gesture he’s making.
I also look forward to hearing, if anything, what happens to something like this on SoundCloud. Will Supernova sue? Will they settle? Will SoundCloud / Audible Magic intervene first? It’s tricky terrain, to be sure. But I suspect there are plenty of “brave” lawyers ready to leap into the breach.
But before this seems like another round of ammunition for the copyright wars, I want to return to the importance of nuance and context when we make efforts to distinguish between fair and unfair uses of musical recordings. While I am sympathetic to Saunderson (and would happily help him make his case), I don’t think it’s so simple as to say that any track built on a loop in this way is necessarily subject to the kinds of ownership claims he’s making. In contrast, I can think of any number of hip-hop tracks that are similarly loop-based and yet still stand as undeniably “original” and perhaps even deserving of commercial (and, of course, non-commercial) lives of their own.
As it happens, this very example offers a fine test case, for Supernova are not the first to build a track around a central sample of “The Sound.” Way back in 1988, just months after “The Sound” started hitting clubs across the burgeoning post-disco diaspora, New York’s Todd Terry enlisted its distinctive bassline for one of his trademark sample-laced burners, “Back to the Beat” —
Listening to the three versions alongside each other, we’re invited to think about whether “Back to the Beat” > “Beat Me Back” — or, more precisely, what makes one loop hackish (and hence disrespectable) and another inspired (and thus tolerated). Note how this commenter on another instantiation attempts to tease out what Terry has borrowed from what he has created:
Of course, the amazingly amazing and idiosyncratic bassline was sampled from Reese & Santonio’s Detroit classic “The Sound” just as the the choirish sound has Kraftwerk circa anno? 1986 and “Electric Cafe” written all over it. However, the heavy rhythm, the eclectic melange of samples from everythere and – yes – the stuttering quality is very characteristic of Todd Terry productions.
I really appreciate the way a sense of community norms — however local or contested they may be — undergirds a comment like this, and it’s that sort of community-wide interpretation and peer-level censure (or approval) that should be at the heart of how we collectively regulate public culture in an age of click-and-drag remediation.
1. Jon Leidecker | February 24th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Hi. Love your blog. And thanks for the words on Chart Sweep, which I consider to be a true american masterpiece.
Because of copyright issues, it’s been released, and therefore its provenance has been obscured. It’s very important to note that the bulk and the genesis of the piece, 1955-1977, is actually the creation of editor Mark Ford, while working for Drake-Chenault.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rock_and_Roll
Ford’s final version of the Time Sweep goes through 1981, and it was meticulously created by crossfading between sources to a reel to reel master which was then seamlessly spliced together. You can hear when it switches to Keesing’s extensions, who used a mechanical pause button on a tape deck.
It was released on vinyl once for direct distribution to syndicated radio stations, disc 53 in a 53 LP set. I do not know how many copies were pressed.
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=120615229214
-jon
2. wayneandwax | February 24th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Thanks much for the comment, Jon. Before finding your comment in my spam folder (probably due to multiple links), I stumbled across the same info over at ilxor, and I’ve updated the post above to better reflect this part of the story — which further complicates questions of authorship and attribution, to be sure!
Fascinating too, to hear that it was released, and in such circumstances. A niche product with mass appeal!
3. wayneandwax.com » L&hellip | February 25th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
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4. Oz | March 2nd, 2011 at 5:17 am
Great post, inspiring thanks for the Chartsweep, never knw about it,
Soundcloud is totally on my shit list right now, killing the people that built their site.
other alternatives and suggestions? (seems like as soon as something gets popular and useful they start pulling tings down)
respek
5. wayneandwax.com » G&hellip | March 4th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
[…] fellow Detroiter and techno trailblazer Kevin Saunderson (as recounted here), Craig has taken to SoundCloud to stage a playful response to his discovery that a classic […]
6. Mike Brown | March 14th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Not much to see at http://soundcloud.com/kevinsaunderson these days. That sure didn’t take long.
7. wayneandwax | March 14th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Thanks for the tip! That was quick indeed. I wonder what the story is behind the take-down — i.e., who in particular compelled Saunderson to remove the track.
Just, FYI, and for posterity, here’s how it looks now:
8. wayneandwax | March 21st, 2011 at 10:43 am
see DJ Food’s blog for a nice roundup of the Chart Sweep saga:
http://www.djfood.org/djfood/chart-sweep-time-sweep
he also points to yet another effort in this vein: an attempt to extend the sweep from 1993 to 2011, itself inspired by the misleading/erroneous upload by mjs538:
5 Seconds of Every #1 Billboard Hot 100 Hit From 1993-2011 by AnthonyDC
9. id | April 8th, 2011 at 7:46 am
thought i’d throw in my 2c (actually it turned out more like 3 or 4c) on this issue – from the point of view of someone who produces, runs a label, has a blog, DJs, blah blah. thought you might find something of interest!
http://bassmusicblog.com/soundcloud-copyright-fair-use-creative-common#more
10. wayneandwax | April 8th, 2011 at 11:11 am
thanks for contributing to the conversation, id. we appear to genuinely disagree about some things, but before i address those, i want to point to one thing you wrote in your post —
it’s overly reductive to just say ‘wah wah wah fair use’
um, yeah, it is. so why reduce other people’s arguments in such a way yourself?
now, i know you’re not necessarily referring to me there, and i appreciate that you describe my post as “nuanced.” but you would do better to actually quote the passages/authors with which you differ rather than cast vague aspersions at strawmen. even setting the irony of that statement aside, the substance also seems off the mark. critics like ripley and i haven’t argued that soundcloud should be so easily subject to US law — quite the opposite actually.
but this is very tangled turf, as you note. (bearing in mind, of course, that most countries are party to WIPO, which “harmonizes” a lot of this stuff, and disseminates more-or-less US-style copyright around the world.) you seem to hue closer to a european model of copyright, which tends to include strong protections of so-called moral rights — the right to deny permission to others to make transformative works. under that doctrine, it’s well within your rights to sue someone for any unauthorized use. if you determine, that is, that it’s in your economic interests to take on that expense and burden.
but even if protection were perfect — which would require nothing short of a surveillance state — what sort of musical culture does that produce? not a healthy, vigorous culture, in my view. and i think perhaps your concern, and experience, with the commercial sphere is a big part of the problem.
why should we expect that commerce would be the ideal engine for sustaining music (and the lives of musicians)? i’m glad that you discuss things like the falling value of musical commodities and DJ labor, but we needn’t be so attached to those models — models which have long been captured, if not developed, by an unnecessary, parasitical managerial class. i believe we can imagine other ways to develop sustainable music cultures, ways that treat the digital turn as a feature rather than a bug (even if that means that ideas about originality and integrity have to change too, again — after all, we haven’t always carried such romantic notions).
i have to admit that moral rights make little sense to me, either intuitively or as compared to the picture of commonplace cultural practice i attempt to develop on this blog. if you don’t want people to make your work a part of their cultural milieu (and all that that entails with regard to its “integrity”) then the choice is simple: do. not. publish.
once something has been published, kiss it goodbye. and wish it well. if it’s good enough to inspire others to work with it, it essentially becomes part of the public domain, regardless what the law says.
finally, speaking as a US citizen (which i’m often loathe to do), i want to proceed with a confidence that i can defend my “uses” as fair. someone from another country can attempt to sue me in their jurisdiction, i suppose, and perhaps deprive me of that line of defense, but if that were happening, i’d probably be super rich, having made mad cheddar by exploiting someone else’s work, so it wouldn’t really matter.
11. id | April 8th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
haha yes you’ve got me bang to rights on that first point! I wrote the post over a few days, starting one evening when i wasn’t in the best of moods; apologies, should have reworded! Though indeed it wasn’t directed specifically at you. The ‘fair use’ argument often seems a default (and sole) position for many, especially below the line in comments pages, even though I’ve never seen anyone suggest how it might be applied internationally (I’m not a lawyer though, maybe it can be) – which can often make the authors seem idealistic but not practical. To me, anyway.
The more I think about it though, the thornier it gets; i guess i do support the right to deny people permission to make transformative works – on principle, really – even though i’m not sure I would enforce it myself. And I wouldn’t necessarily expect most individuals to do so either (*yes there’s a large major-label shaped elephant in this particular room) – but at the same time I wonder if that’s only due to the frequent lack of attribution/royalties, which makes things harder for working musicians/producers at a time when they’re tough enough already. (and there’s such a hazy definition of what a transformative work is anyway). Maybe if we had a better idea of what a future economic model for musicians might look like, I’d be less fussed? I’m willing to admit this probably looks like naked self-interest. Because that’s kind of what it is…
“if you don’t want people to make your work a part of their cultural milieu (and all that that entails with regard to its “integrity”) then the choice is simple: do. not. publish.”
now this, i have to admit, is extremely tempting. in fact it’s something i’ve been mulling over for some months; what if a full copy of your music was not available at all? barring some short clips on youtube or soundcloud, if people wanted to hear the whole thing they would need to come see you live; you could even release partial track stems so that people/producers could assemble a rough version of your work, but not the whole thing… given that in underground dance music, the proportion of people who make basically $0 from a vinyl release is increasing very rapidly, it certainly looks worth a go at some point.
i guess also we need to look at the idea of commerce as a sustaining force because i’ll need to get a proper job otherwise the alternatives are currently very nebulous. As I hinted in the post, I think the cloud is going to whip the rug out from under the industry in its current shape, and spotify royalty rates won’t remotely make up the shortfall. There will be alternatives, sure – merchandising, sponsorship, live, although all these are commerce I guess. You mention models having “been captured… by an unnecessary, parasitical managerial class….”
…Which is something I very rarely see – from this end of the industry, pretty much everyone involved lives and breathes it already. DJs who sleep at the promoters’ house, record deals that offer 50/50 profit splits, clubs in different citites sharing the costs of flights so they can bring a performer over. It’s pretty lean, and in general, the view from down here is that there aren’t too many middlemen creaming off an undeserved profit.
And I do think the majors have had their day to be honest – i suspect we’re drifting towards a much wider, flatter ‘industry’ where there’s less money, the companies (barring the infrastructure crew like soundcloud, software companies and so on) get smaller, but the number of participants grows.
“which would require nothing short of a surveillance state — what sort of musical culture does that produce? not a healthy, vigorous culture, in my view. ”
perhaps not, but i think we’re past the point of no return on that one. Youtube have been on the case for a while, now Soundcloud too; now that Yahoo have started the online storage game I think it will be ever easier to analyse and watermark.
which is, i agree, pretty scary.
well, that wasn’t very focused. I’m rambling a bit now, but thanks for taking time to give your thoughts on what i wrote, it’s appreciated!
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The company has been expanding its customized vertical focused family of frameworks,SONNETS,on Microsoft Business Solutions-Axapta and Microsoft Business Solutions CRM.The first wave of solution frameworks is targeted to address the unique requirements of the Consumer Packaged Goods(CPG) and Independent Software Vendors(ISV) verticals. With this expansion of SONNETS,the company is in business applications space. During 2004-05 the company has setup its 3rd development center in Bangalore and this was setup as a new STP unit with a total area of 35000 sq.feet with a capacity of almost 300 people. Further the company has setup a new STP unit in Hyderabad with a total area of 78,000 Sq.feet with a capacity of 800 people. During October 2004 the company has setup Sonata Software GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary in Frankfurt, Germany. In October 2005 the company has setup a offshore development center for Cramer and under this agreement the company will provide development,testing, product maintenance and customer support services to Cramer. In 2006, The company has set-up new Campus/Development Center in Poppalguda, Hyderabad. The Andhra Pradesh Government was allotted eight acre land at poppalguda, Hyderabad.
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Academic Research Collections
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe.
Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical S...
By: Royal Astronomical Society Library; Library, Royal Astronomical Society
Selected Papers and Proceedings - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
By: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature
By: Royal Astronomical Society Library, Library, Royal Astronomical Society
The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered : Volume 1
By: ilson, John, Writer In Astronomy.
Microfiche de l'exemplaire de l'édition originale se trouvant à la Bibliothèque des Archives publiques du Canada
Registres de l'état civil (Droit canonique) ; Registres ecclésiastiques ; Church records and registers ; Registers of births, etc. (Canon law) ; Film/Fiche is presented as orginally captured.
Conférence faite par M.A. Gilbert de Voisins au Salon de la Libre Esthétique le 3 mars 1903.--p. [3] ; Limited edition of 100 copies.
Régnier, Henri de, 1864-1936
Règles de pratique ; Court rules ; Film/Fiche is presented as orginally captured.
The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered
Rego Barros, Joa~o do
Celestial Mechanics. A Survey of the Status of the Determinationof...
By: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Celestial Mechanics; Leuschner, Armin Otto, B. 1868
An Elementary Astronomy for Academies and Schools : Illustrated by...
By: Hiram Mattison, Mattison's Elementary Astronomy for Academies and Schools
Benutzte litertur: p. [166]-186 ;
Mollusks ; Achatinella
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Mollusks -- Yugoslavia
Report of the Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal So...
By: Royal Society (Great Britain). Committee of Physics and Meteorology, Royal Society (Great Britain), Committee of Physics and Meteorology
Scale of earth, sun, galaxy and universe : Scale of the Galaxy
By: Sal Khan
Scale of the Galaxy
Things in our universe can be unimaginably large and small. In this topic, we'll try to imagine the unimaginable!
From Nebula to Nebula : Being an Expansion of the Principle of Uni...
By: George Henry Lepper
From Nebula to Nebula
By: Lepper, George Henry
By: Royal Astronomical Society
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; Title from vol. title page; Imprint varies: Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications, (1980-); Issues (1 Nov. 1987-) include separately paged section c
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Sepomana 2013 Recap
by Diane Martin on April 29, 2013
Posted in: Concert, Music, News
It’s been three weeks since Sepomana 2013, but we can’t stop taking about it at the station. Sepomana this year was a huge success. We sold over 400 tickets (a WRMC record!) and filled up McCullough Social Space before student musician Will Cuneo and his band opened the show.
Delicate Steve, a WRMC favorite, took the stage next and played an energetic set, getting the crowd excited and ready for the rest of the evening. They got the crowd to fall silent for the buildup in “Don’t Get Stuck (Proud Elephants)” and had everyone jumping up and down with their hands up in the air for hits like “Butterfly” and “Wondervisions.”
Baths came on next for his first set in support of his new album, Obsidian. He kicked his set off with fan favorites including “Maximalist” and “Aminals” and ended the show by giving the crowd a sneak peak at some brand new songs. In the middle of the set Baths said Middlebury was the “sexiest college audience” he’s played for. Good job, everyone.
Rubblebucket ended an already incredible night of music with one of the wildest sets WRMC has ever witnessed. Their performance came complete with neon lights, dancing robots, and a special guest appearance from the members of Delicate Steve dancing in what looked like glittery sleeping bags. The highlight of the night came during “Came Out of a Lady,” when the lead singer and trombone player jumped off the stage and played the rest of the song while dancing through the crowd. Meanwhile, their trumpet player was being carried through the crowd on an audience member’s shoulders.
Thanks to Will Cuneo (and friends), Delicate Steve, Baths, and Rubblebucket for an awesome night of music and thanks to Patrick Freeman for capturing it all on camera!
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“Hilton Head Island Farmers Market”… It’s GREEN! Enjoy the bounty. »
Pecans ready for harvest.
A brief history of pecans.
The pecan is native to North America and generally speaking follows the Cotton Belt from the Carolinas to Texas. Pecans are not grown commercially on any other continent.
The history of pecans can be traced back to the 16th century. The only major tree nut that grows naturally in North America, the pecan is considered one of the most valuable North American nut species. The name “pecan” is a Native American word of Algonquin origin that was used to describe “all nuts requiring a stone to crack.” The American Indian used pecans as a major foodstuff long before the advent of the white man. The famous explorer DeSoto made mention of the pecan as early as 1541. Many other explorers recorded information about this American nut with the “fine and delicate” taste.
Because wild pecans were readily available, many Native American tribes in the U.S. and Mexico used the wild pecan as a major food source during autumn. It is speculated that pecans were used to produce a fermented intoxicating drink called “Powcohicora” (where the word “hickory” comes from). It also is said that Native Americans first cultivated the pecan tree.
The first record of pecans being sent from the Deep South to the North appears in 1799 when, on the twelfth of November, Daniel Clark of New Orleans sent a box of pecans to Thomas Jefferson, then Vice-President.
There seems to be no definite record as to when cultivated pecan trees were first planted; although many believe this to have taken place in the 1780’s. Cultivated pecans are the large paper shell nuts grown in the southeastern United States.
In 1822, Abner Landrum of South Carolina discovered a pecan budding technique, which provided a way to graft plants derived from superior wild selections (or, in other words, to unite with a growing plant by placing in close contact). However, this invention was lost or overlooked until 1876 when an African-American slave gardener from Louisiana (named Antoine) successfully propagated pecans by grafting a superior wild pecan to seedling pecan stocks. Antoine’s clone was named “Centennial” because it won the Best Pecan Exhibited award at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. His 1876 planting, which eventually became 126 Centennial trees, was the first official planting of improved pecans
From the time of the early explorers to the commercially cultivated orchards of today, the pecan remains the unique American nut and has moved forward to become one of America’s great horticulture crops.
There are over 1,000 varieties of pecans. Many are named for Native American Indian tribes, including Cheyenne, Mohawk, Sioux, Choctaw and Shawnee.
Pecans could improve your love life? If the body does not get enough zinc, it may have difficulty producing testosterone – a key hormone in initiating sexual desire in both men and women. Pecans provide nearly 10 percent of the recommended Daily Value for zinc. So, pass on the oysters and reach for a handful of pecans!
Research from Loma Linda University published in the August 2006 issue of Nutrition Research showed that adding just a handful of pecans(3oz) to your diet each day may help inhibit unwanted oxidation of blood lipids, thus helping prevent coronary heart disease. The researchers suggest that this positive effect was in part due to the pecans’ significant content of vitamin E. Oxidation of lipids in the body – a process akin to rusting – is detrimental to health.
In addition, landmark research published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry (June 2004) found that pecans rank highest among all nuts and are among the top category of foods to contain the highest antioxidant capacity, meaning pecans may decrease the risk of cancer, coronary heart disease, and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s. A review of pecan and other nut research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (September 2003), suggests that nuts like pecans may aid in weight loss and maintenance. The review cited studies indicating that nut consumption may increase metabolic rates and enhance satiety.
The Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company in Kiln, Mississippi, has produced a variety of beer using pecans rather than hops.
Pecans are a good source of protein and unsaturated fats. Like walnuts (which pecans resemble), pecans are rich inomega-6 fatty acids, although pecans contain about half as much omega-6 as walnuts.
A diet rich in seeds can lower the risk of gallstones in women.The antioxidants and plant sterols found in pecans reduce high cholesterol by reducing the “bad” LDL cholesterol levels.
Clinical research published in the Journal of Nutrition (September 2001) found that eating about a handful of pecans each day may help lower cholesterol levels similar to what is often seen with cholesterol-lowering medications. Research conducted at the University of Georgia has also confirmed that pecans contain plant sterols, which are known for their cholesterol-lowering ability. Pecans may also play a role in neurological health. Eating pecans daily may delay age-related muscle nerve degeneration, according to a study conducted at the University of Massachusetts and published in Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research.
Herb Pecan Snack Mix
5 c. cereal (any combination of bite-size, rice or corn squares; round toasted oat cereal; and crispy corn or rice cereal bites)
1½ c. small pretzels and/or Sesame sticks (or dark Rye bread chips)
2 cup pecan halves or pieces, 1/2 c. Almonds and/or Peanuts
1/3 c. butter or olive oil smart balance butter (melted) & 2 T. Extra virgin olive oil
1 T dried parsley flakes, ½ t. celery salt
1 t. dried thyme (crushed)
1 t. Smoked Paprika, 1 T. Worcestershire Sauce
½ t. onion powder
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine cereals, pretzels (or Sesame sticks) and pecans in a 13x9x2” baking pan. In a bowl, stir melted butter (or margarine) and remaining ingredients together. Pour over cereal mixture, tossing gently until well coated. Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes, stirring once or twice. Spread in a large shallow pan or on foil to cool before serving.
. Quality of Pecan Varieties Suitable for Home Plantings
Dichogamy*
Kernel Quality
Scab Resistance
*Type I = protandrous (pollen sheds before the female flowers are receptive); Type II = protogynous (pollen sheds after the female flowers are receptive). See “Flowering and Fruiting Habit” section for a more detailed explanation. To cross pollinate you need at least 2-3 trees.
Care of Bearing Trees
Fertilizing: Fertilization is one of the most important practices for bearing trees. If the trees are to produce a good crop, terminal growth should be 6 inches each year. In the absence of a leaf tissue analysis or soil test, broadcast 4 pounds of a complete fertilizer such as 10-10-10 for each inch of trunk diameter (measured 4½ feet above soil level). This fertilizer should be applied in mid- to late February.
Zinc nutrition is especially important in pecan production. Zinc deficiency is called rosette. The most common and noticeable symptoms of rosette are bronzing and mottling of leaves; early defoliation; dead twigs in tops of trees; abnormally small nuts; small yellowish, chlorotic leaves; and short, thin twigs growing on older scaffold branches with rosettes of small yellowish-green leaves at the tips.
Zinc needs are best determined by a laboratory analysis of leaf samples taken in late July or early August. Kits and instructions for taking leaf samples are available from any Clemson Extension office. The leaf tissue analysis report will tell you how much zinc to apply. In the absence of a tissue analysis, apply 1 pound of zinc sulfate to young trees and 3 to 5 pounds for large trees each year. A soil pH of 6.0 to 6.5 assures the availability of essential nutrients. If the pH is too low or too high, uptake and use of nutrients is impaired. Apply lime as suggested in the soil test report to correct low pH.
Pecans are mature and ready to harvest anytime after the shuck begins to open, this is usually in the fall, but regions vary. See picture above.
Insect Pests of Pecans and Controls
Aphids and mites Wash off leaves with a high pressure hose sprayer. Wash as high as possible in tree. Repeat at least twice per week. Using an insecticidal soap may aid control. Insecticide use may make these problems worse.
Hickory shuckworms Sanitation is very important. Clean up and destroy all old Shucks and debris.
Twig girdlers Pick up and discard girdled twigs and limbs. Many girdled twigs do not fall from the tree. Remove as many of these as possible.
Fall webworms Remove and destroy webs when they are first noticed.
Pecan weevils Pick up and destroy infested nuts as they fall. Nuts should be picked up at least twice per week.
Cape Fear I Large Good Resistant Very good
Curtis II Small Good Very resistant Very good
Elliott II Small Good Very resistant Very good
Gloria Grande II Large Excellent Resistant Very good
Stuart II Large Excellent Resistant Very good
Summer II Large Excellent Resistant Very good
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Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites
Guest Author - Erik Moeller
Last week a mysterious fireball was seen streaking across the skies of north central Texas. It also generated a sonic boom. Originally it was believed that the fireball might be debris from two communication satellites that had collided in space earlier in the week. It was later determined that the fireball was in fact a meteor.
Was it a meteoroid, a meteor or a meteorite? Was it metallic or non-metallic? There are lots of things to learn about this fireball.
Actually it was a meteoroid, a.meteor and a meteorite. All three can describe the same “piece of rock,” it just depends on where it is. If it is traveling around in our solar system a long way from Earth, it is a meteoroid. The fireball flashing across the sky was a meteor. That is what our piece of rock becomes when it enter Earth’s stratosphere. When debris from the fireball landed on Earth, it became a meteorite.
Non-metallic meteors are the most common but they are more porous and tend to burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface of the Earth. The meteor over Texas was the metallic type. With the aid of a local farmer two astronomers from the University of North Texas located two pecan size pieces of the meteorite near West, Texas. This is between The Dallas/ Fort Worth area and Waco. According to Ron DiLulio, one of the U.S. astronomers, the meteoritic pieces they discovered were described as: “It's black like charcoal. Underneath this crust the color of the rock is concrete like gray.” [ABC News/Associated Press: "Texas Astronomers Say They Found Remains of Meteor."] DiLulio added, "The pieces that we found have beautiful ablation crust," which describes how the meteors form a crust by the extreme temperatures of entering the Earth’s atmosphere.”
Based on the size and material of the pieces that have been found, estimates on the size of the meteor make it about the size of a basketball. The brightness of the fireball was probably caused by the meteor breaking up into numerous pieces.
This meteor was seen during the daylight hours. If you are planning a camping trip and want to have the best opportunity to see meteor showers at night, when is the best time to plan your campout? The best time to see a lot of meteors is August 12 to 13. This is the Perseids shower with as many as 60 per hour. For brightness try July 29 to 30. This is the Capricornids shower. While often only about 15 per hour, these showers often produce brilliant fireballs.
There is a lot of excitement in the night sky. Try to arrange a campout or a night of stargazing to coincide with one of these events.
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Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog
I am a dealer, specialising in Russian Area and East European Philately. You can contact me at patemantrevor@gmail.com You can also find material from my specialised stock in the regular online auction at www.filateliapalvelu.com There are over 500 Posts on this Blog but no advertising, no Pop Ups.Nothing on the Blog is cut & paste from other Blogs.
Was There A Post Office?
In my areas of philatelic specialism the question is often asked, Were these stamps really issued?
To answer this, you need answers to several other questions:
Was there a post office or post offices?
Were these stamps “available at the counter” – even if only for a short period of time – and would they have been used to frank mail brought in by “an ordinary member of the public”?
What did the post office/s do with the letters franked with the stamps? Did they have the ability to put them into a mail delivery system – and was that system local, regional, national or international?
A key part of this set of questions is played by the “ordinary member of the public”. If the stamps will only be brought out for known philatelists (dealers or collectors) or, say, for the local military commander who has ordered their production, then in the ordinary sense of the word, they are not a regular issue. They are stamps produced by or for favours. On the other hand, the stamps may have franking validity and may succeed in getting a letter carried from A to B in which case one might say that they had a “limited issue”.
For many stamp issues, the vast majority of used stamps are found on (obviously) philatelic mail. The British Empire used to control many small and remote islands – still does – and issued stamps for them. But in some cases as many as 99% of all covers now existing are philatelic.
But what counts is the 1% of non-philatelic mail – the same stamps were available to “ordinary members of the public” (maybe there were just two of them) as well as philatelists.
That is why the 1% (or even the 0.1%) is so important. For example, it is the 1% or less which shows that the stamps of the Northern Army and the North West Army were issued. There clearly exist cards and covers which were not sent for philatelic motives. It’s true that the distances they travelled are mostly quite limited – backwards into Estonia, most notably. But a few made it as far as Finland and in that case you have an even stronger case for saying that the stamps were issued and served to get mail put into a mail distribution system. Similarly, though their period of use in December-January 1918-19 was very short, the original map stamps of Latvia saw limited non-philatelic postal use, both on internal mail and on mail to Germany.
The really difficult questions arise with stamps which appear to have been issued but for which evidence of ordinary postal use is now missing. In some cases, there are not even philatelic covers. There are undoubtedly stamps which were officially prepared and would have had postal validity if used but which went straight from post office counter to waiting philatelists who bought everything for onward sale as mint stamps, none even stuck on philatelic covers. This would be true of an unknown proportion of the combinations of stamp and overprint issued by Dashnak Armenia which could have been used but weren't.
The only really clever guy in the confusing postal history in which I specialise was Dr Ivan Cherniavsky who produced the 1919 CMT overprints of Kolomea in co-operation with the occupying Romanian military commander. Cherniavsky required that quantities of the stamps be distributed to the post offices which the Romanian authorities controlled. These post offices actually served very few people in a widely illiterate countryside. But they did serve local lawyers who were always sending petitions to the district court in Kolomea, and the stamps got used on their registered mail.
Dr Cherniavsky was in charge of the district court in Kolomea. His clerks simply passed to him the one hundred percent genuine commercially used envelopes which brought petitions to the court. Cherniavsky was an unusual collector. He was interested in ordinary commercial mail.... He took a chance that no one out in those small towns and villages would spot the opportunity to buy the CMT stamps for onward sale. As far as I know, only at one office did some other collector/dealer get to secure part of the issue. Elsewhere, it seems that everything went to the lawyers and back to Kolomea, as Cherniavasky intended.
Posted by Trevor Pateman at 12:19
Labels: Dr Ivan Cherniavsky, genuine use of North West Army stamps, genuinely issued stamps, Kolomya overprints, Northern Army in Gdov 1919, Romania CMT overprints
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Minigun Barrel Replacements
RB Models M134 Minigun 6 x 7.62mm Barrels set for Minigun
by: Al LaFleche [ AJLAFLECHE ]
Back in the American Civil War, in the 1860s, the armies of the Union and Confederacy were looking for ways to increase firepower beyond the muzzle-loading rifled muskets of the time. Several less than successful creations came out. The best of the bunch was Richard Jordan Gatling’s six-barreled crank operated gun. This early machine-gun was fed initially from a round magazine and in later iterations, straight magazines. It was the size of a small cannon, mounted on a caisson and prone to jamming. There was minimal traverse in the barrels. Its cumbersome nature prompted Lt. Col. Custer to leave his behind in the last days of his fateful expedition in June 1876. It was still in use in Cuba during the Spanish American War of the late 1890s, but soon was replaced by the early modern machine-guns from Maxim, Browning and others.
Fast-forward to the 1950s when GE developed the 20mm Vulcan Gatling Gun. They then scaled this down to 7.62 mm for use in helicopter gunships, such as the AH-1 Cobra. Other helicopters carried these in pods or door mounts. It was used in pods and fixed mounts in a number of aircraft, most famously in the AC-47 gunships. Gun truck crews scavenged and liberated these guns for use in their modified transports for convoy duty. Currently, these guns are used in naval patrol boats, on various wheeled vehicles and a can be set up on a tripod.
To date, all the M134 kits have been in plastic or resin, usually as part of a kit, though Legend’s resin kits of the early XM134 and the more recent M134 with flash suppressor are sold as separate kits. All of these present the problem of molding six barrels as one piece of plastic or resin. Enter RB Models of Poland with their M134 brass barrel kit.
The kit consists of three each of two very slightly different barrels, two pins whose exact purpose is unclear, an optional flash suppressor with vents, and a ring extension for one of the barrel guides. These guides are represented with PE brass. There are three guides with a slit for three of the barrels. (One of these is a spare) and three more barrel guides, each a different size to be used small to large, front to rear.
The kit is packed in a zip lock bag. I got mine from an EBay dealer and it arrived very well packed. Lucky Model also caries this at a retail of about $10. There are no instructions with the kit, though Lucky Model has several photographs suggesting assembly.
One must first identify the three initial barrels…these have slightly more gap in the two middle flanges. You’ll need magnifiers to identify these. These are attached into slits of two of the guides. I used Zap-A-Gap, but a more flexible adhesive would be better. Once these are locked into place, the remaining three barrels are added to the locator holes. A note of caution here: the holes are slightly undersized requiring a very small drill bit be used to increase their diameter. Test fitting before beginning assembly would be good. Learn from my difficulties. I’d strongly recommend using something to hold the tiny parts down, a commercial product called Dycem would work though I have some semi-adhesive pads from a show several years ago that I used. Also, I was working in a large tray to reduce the probability of dropping the tiny parts to the floor.
Once the second set of three barrels are secure, add the two front guides and the extender to the furthest back ring before attaching the barrels to the base ring. I added the shorter of the two pins to the inside of the base guide to help splay out the barrels to fit the base.
In working with this, I had to disassemble it about 2/3 of the way through as the barrels weren’t aligning right. In doing this, I bent a couple of the first set of barrels, but was able to get them straightened using a set of needle nose pliers. In total, it took me maybe two hours to get this completed.
Is it worth the money, time and effort? The final results have a much more realistic appearance than any plastic or resin Minigun I’ve seen, so for me, yes.
Highs: Excellent representation of a six barreled gun
Lows: Fiddly parts, undersized holes in the guides, no real instructions included.
Verdict: Overall, a great improvement over any of the plastic or resin representations of the Minigun barrels.
Mfg. ID: 35B123
Suggested Retail: 4.54 Euro
Related Link: http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx
NATIONALITY: United States
About Al LaFleche (AJLaFleche)
FROM: MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES
Copyright ©2020 text by Al LaFleche [ AJLAFLECHE ]. All rights reserved.
Grumpyoldman
Nice review Al.
APR 16, 2012 - 01:50 PM
Thank you for the review on an item I have looked at several times.
ptruhe
Nice. Something for M163 Vulcan would be great. Pul
90designer
Hi, if you go to the RB website, you can view ( and download ) pics of the assembly - of ALL the RB barrels http://www.rbmodel.com/index.php?action=products&cat=c_bm&sub=35B Dave
AJLaFleche
Italeri's Vulcan gun is not bad.
ChrisDM
Hi Al, its an odd question but I happen to working on a scifi doohickey at the moment that has a multi barrel gun and its a bit ropey if you know what I mean. This oculd be a good replacement, but it depends on the size. Can you tell me the diameter at the base end of the RB models minigun? Thanks Chris
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Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization (SBHC 5)
K. Marsengill
Portraits and Icons: Between Reality and Spirituality in Byzantine Art
XI+463 p., 31 b/w ill. + 84 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2013
This book examines the phenomena of portraits and icons from late antiquity until the end of the Byzantine period, and the cultural and theological perceptions that guided its reception.
This book examines the phenomena of portraits and icons, and spans from late antiquity through the end of the Byzantine period. Engaging a wide range of material, it addresses persistent themes in the creation of a distinctly Christianized portraiture while analyzing the cultural and theological perceptions that guided its reception. Christian Rome inherited from antiquity its traditions and beliefs regarding portraits. Though altered for its new Christian context, these perceptions did not disappear. This study proves that within Christian portraiture, the icon is not reserved for saints alone. Instead, one must imagine the Byzantine world as one where sacred and secular art intermingled, and portraits of Christ and the saints, emperors, bishops, and holy men existed side by side in visual messages of hierarchal authority. Indeed, in the portrayal of power and holiness, there existed a range of images that can be classified as icons. Certain individuals of high-ranking status, though not saints, were portrayed in ways that recall images of saints because their spiritual or divine authority ranked them closer to God. Their positions further up the hierarchy enabled them to help others in their spiritual ascent and daily needs. Viewers in turn understood these elevated members of their community to be efficacious intercessors and their portraits to be worthy of veneration.
Katherine Marsengill received her PhD in Byzantine Art from Princeton University in 2010. Since completion of her degree, she has taught at Princeton and been a research and educational advisor for the exhibition Transitions to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd – 7th Century AD at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York (December 2011 – May 2012). Her main fields of interest are the processes of artistic change during Late Antiquity, especially concerning portraiture, the rise of icons in Eastern Christianity, issues related to the representation of holy persons as well as the perception of sacred spaces in Byzantium.
"This substantial book on Byzantine portraits and icons is commendable for the extensive use of the latest editions and translations of primary and secondary sources written in numerous ancient and modern languages and which are painstakingly devised from mutiple disciplines in addition to art historical works to include various theological, philosophical, historical and literary studies. Marsengill's comprehensive treatment of portraits cannot be only and simply called "donor" or "imperial portraits" and that belong to both Constantinopolitan and wider circles under Byzantine cultural domain is exemplary. Such juxtaposition of well-known and rarely examined examples provides an impressive springboard for further refined studies of both portraiture and icons in the Byzantine world." (Jelena Bogdanović, in: Byzantininsche Zeitschrift, Bd. 107/1, 2014, p. 270)
« Katherine Marsengill présente donc dans cet ouvrage une riche analyse critique de l’historiographie de l'icône byzantine (…), qui la mène à des remarques intéressantes sur la réception des œuvres maitresses de cet art. » (Brigitte Pitarakis, Revue des Études Byzantines, 75, 2017, p. 356)
“One cannot but admire this pioneering and intellectually challenging work of scholarship, along with the fascinating insights brought forward by the author(…)” (Rev. Maximos Constas, in Religion and the Arts, 21, 2017, p. 677)
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Tag Archives: North Finchley Arts Depot
reviewed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 14 November
A forest of furled umbrellas, topped with bowler hats. A stepped pyramid of portmanteaux and suitcases. A clock ticking relentlessly behind a jumble of station sounds. One of those 19th century maps where splodges of imperial red mottle the globe. This is the work of designer Lis Evans.
This is the background to the Stoke-on-Trent New Vic’s tour of Laura Eason’s version of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. A multi-talented, multi-skilled cast of nine whirl us through the adventures of Phineas Fogg (Andrew Pollard) and his resourceful but accident-prone valet Passepartout (Michael Hugo).
Hugo is undoubtedly the star of the show, wooing the audience and apparently endowed with more than the usual allocation of flexible joints. Pollard gives Fogg a precise combination of certainty (he’s a Victorian gentleman completely assured of his place in society) and selfless generosity, as when he and Passepartout rescue Mrs Arouda (Kirsten Foster) from her husband’s funeral pyre.
Then there’s Inspector Fix (Dennis Herdman). He’s single-mindedly in pursuit of a daring bnk robber. Not only does he grasp eagerly at the wrong end of every stick which pokes itself into his limited vision, he resorts to skullduggery on a thoroughly nasty scale. By which time, Herdman very properly enters and leaves stage left, as a villain should – and is heartily booed for his wrong-doings.
Darting in and out of multiple characterisations are the rest of the cast, demonstrating circus skills as well as mime and dance. The use of props is clever and beautifully timed. Movement director Beverley Norris Edmunds deserves equal billing with the show’s director Theresa Heskins. The soundscapes of composer James Atherton and designer James Earls-Davis are equally commendable. It all ads up to a thorough-going theatrical delight.
Five star rating.
Around the World in 80 Days continues at the Cambridge Arts Theatre until 18 November with matinées on 16 and 18 November. The tour also includes the North Finchley Arts Depot (29 November-3 December) and the Norwich Theatre Royal (16-20 January 2018).
Filed under Family & children's shows, Plays, Reviews 2017
Tagged as Andrew Pollard, Around the Wold in 80 Days (staged version), Arts Depot North Finchley, Arts Theatre Cambridge, Berverley Norris Edmunds, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Dennis Herdman, James Atherton, James Earls-Davis, Jules Verne, Kirsten Foster, Laura Eason, Lis Evans, Michael Hugo, New Vic Theatre Stoke-on-Trent, North Finchley Arts Depot, Norwich Theatre Royal, Stoke-on-Trent New Vic Theatre, Theatre Royal Norwich, Theresa Heskins
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Tag Archives: Philip Franks
The Habit of Art
reviewed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich on 8 October
When does a poet or composer know when he has come to the end of his powers? Is it the brain or the body which dictates the time? Does he just lay down his pen and opt for garnered laurels in a comfortable semi-retirement?
That’s the issue in Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art, a play within a play focusing on poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten at the end of their days. The fictional playwright has made Humphrey Carpenter (biographer of both Auden and Britten) into a framing device.
We’re in a typically chaotic rehearsal room Adrian Linford is the designer) with the stage manager standing in for the absentee director and the intense young author of Caliban’s Day increasingly paranoid about what the actors are doing with his carefully honed script.
Not only is the elderly actor playing Auden missing cues and needing endless prompts, but a couple of the younger cast members feel that they can bring more, much more, to the characters they play.
You can see why this is not one of Bennett’s most revived plays, but it rewards attention, as much as to what is unspoken as to what is actually said. Neither poet nor composer feel that their long-term partners (Kallman and Pears respectively) are as supportive as they want (or indeed, need).
The actors taking these parts, as well as the satellite cast, are equally dissatisfied in their individual ways. So Matthew Kelly’s superb Auden accepts his comfortable sinecure at Christ Church, Oxford while Fitz (the actor playing him) settles for supermarket voice-overs.
Donald, who takes the Carpenter rôle (John Wark), wants to build up his part. Auden’s rent-boy Stuart (Benjamin Chandler) feels that he also can add something to the production. Robert Mountford’s Neil, the playwright, just wants his script to be performed uncut with the emphases which he, not the director, dictates.
Trying to hold it all together are no-nonsense company stage manager Kay, to whom Veronica Roberts gives precisely the right combination of sympathy and authority and ASM George, played by Alexandra Guelff as a dogsbody with yearning to perform.
In the background until the second act is David Yelland’s Henry, playing Britten. He knows that Death in Venice will be his swan-song in many ways, a paean to vanished youth and the brightness of expectations. It’s a remarkable, unselfish performance, suggesting layers of masking as well as built-up sadness.
Director Philip Franks makes all Bennett’s tiers of make-belief and sadness credible for an audience which is not necessarily fully conversant with Auden’s or Britten’s work. You do need to concentrate, but that’s a good thing in the theatre. After all, all life’s a stage.
Four and a half-star rating.
The Habit of Art runs at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 13 October with matinées on 10 and 13 October. The tour also includes the Cambridge Arts Theatre (29 October-3 November) and the Palace Theatre, Westcliff (19-24 November).
Tagged as Adrian Linford, Alan Bennett, Alexandra Guelff, Arts Theatre Cambridge, Benjamin Britten, Benjamin Chandler, Cambridge Arts Theatre, David Yelland, Himphrey Carpenter, Ipswich New Wolsey Theatre, John Wark, Matthew Kelly, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Palace Theatre Westcliff, Philip Franks, Robert Mountford, The Habit of Art, Veronica Roberts, Westcliff Palace Theatre, WH Auden
Flare Path
(reviewed at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge on 28 September)
Getting the on-stage nuances right for any historical period is a triple effort, shared between director (Justin Audibert in this case), designer (Hayley Grindle) and – above all – the cast. Rattigan’s 1942 drama Flare Path takes place in the lounge of a hotel near an airfield, from which bomber and fighter pilots take off for their nightly flights over Germany. It’s a mission from which far too many will never return.
The officers and senior crew members use it as a sort of club, an alternative to the cramped messes and briefing-rooms of the station. Wives also take up residence, both short- and long-term, to snatch a few precious days with their menfolk. Enter a film star, predatory cockerel in this hen-roost, though with his intentions aimed purely at one particular resident.
This is where the production lets itself down somewhat. Leon Ockenden fails to radiate the tinsel-town alpha male glamour of Peter Kyle – think Clark Gable or Errol Flynn – of the expatriate leading man who is seeing his studio’s reliance on his box-office drawing powers fading rapidly. The girl he wants is actress Patricia Warren (Olivia Hallinan), with whom he has had a passionate on-off affair and who is now married to Fl Teddy Graham (Alastair Whatley, the artistic director of production company Original Theatre).
Whatley makes much of his second-act admission to the terrible effect which the bombing raids are having on him, both for the physical danger he encounters and through the regular loss of men who have become more than usually close comrades. I was less convinced by Hallinan’s posturing; one never quite believed in the character as an actress or in her obvious appeal to two such very different men.
The smaller rôles are well taken, notably by Siobhan O’Kelly as Doris, the barmaid now married to a Polish count who lost his original family to the Nazis and is, understandably, focussed on revenge. Simon Darwen’s Sgt Miller, Philip Franks’ Sq Ldr Swanson and Adam Best’s Count Skriczevinsky are also well-rounded portraits of people as well as of types.
Hayley Grindle’s costumes look right for the clothes and uniforms of the period and her sts is an effective blend of naturalism and symbolism. The central acting area gives us the by now slightly battered lounge, backed by an enormous red-curtained window and with a realistic fire in the footlights-level hearth. But this isn’t a box set, such as Rattigan would have envisaged for the original prodction. Instead it’s flanked by a suggestion of twisted, blackened metal and a bare-branched tree. Dominic Bilkey’s soundscape is almost frighteningly three-dimensional as the aircraft take off – but don’t always land successfully.
Flare Path continues at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge until 3 October. It also plays at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich between 19 and 24 October and at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff from 16 to 21 November.
Tagged as Adam Best, Alastair Whatley, Arts Theatre Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Dominic Bilkey, Flare Path, Hayley Grindle, Ipswich New Wolsey Theatre, Justin Audibert, Leon Ockenden, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Olivia Hallinan, Original Theatre Company, Palace Theatre Westcliff, Philip Franks, Simon Darwen, Siobhan O'Kelly, Terence Rattigan, Westcliff Palace Theatre
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Allahu Akbar! Muhammad's War Cry
"Allahu Akbar" is an Arabic phrase that means "Allah is greater." In Islam, the expression signifies that Allah is greater than anything else, especially the gods of unbelievers. Muhammad himself would shout "Allahu Akbar" when attacking non-Muslims, including the Jews of Khaybar. In this video, I respond to attempts by CNN, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times to ignore the violent history of the phrase.
Posted by David Wood at 1:18 AM
Labels: Allahu Akbar
Not only in America !!!
Even in Australia, where the Sky Chanel is actually the hope for conservatives, one of their main political program hosts translated "it" as "God is Great". The mistranslations have infected even formerly healthy brains (let alone the empty ones), just like Islam seems to infect everything on its way of conquest.
Here is an insight into the "Jihadists" and their "motivations" which you might find interesting.
http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/jihad-that-kills-racism-that-slaughters.html
Samuel Green said...
Great video. Here are some other references to the adhan coming from a revelation from someone else.
Narrated AbuUmayr ibn Anas: AbuUmayr reported on the authority of his uncle who was from the Ansar (the helpers of the Prophet): The Prophet (ﷺ) was anxious as to how to gather the people for prayer. The people told him: Hoist a flag at the time of prayer; when they see it, they will inform one another. But he (the Prophet) did not like it. Then someone mentioned to him the horn. Ziyad said: A horn of the Jews. He (the Prophet) did not like it. He said: This is the matter of the Jews. Then they mentioned to him the bell of the Christians. He said: This is the matter of the Christians. Abdullah ibn Zayd returned anxiously from there because of the anxiety of the Apostle (ﷺ). He was then taught the call to prayer in his dream. Next day he came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and informed him about it. He said: Messenger of Allah, I was between sleep and wakefulness; all of a sudden a newcomer came (to me) and taught me the call to prayer. Umar ibn al-Khattab had also seen it in his dream before, but he kept it hidden for twenty days. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me (Umar): What did prevent you from saying it to me? He said: Abdullah ibn Zayd had already told you about it before me: hence I was ashamed. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Bilal, stand up, see what Abdullah ibn Zayd tells you (to do), then do it. Bilal then called them to prayer. AbuBishr reported on the authority of AbuUmayr: The Ansar thought that if Abdullah ibn Zayd had not been ill on that day, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would have made him mu'adhdhin.
Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 498
In-book reference : Book 2, Hadith 108
English translation : Book 2, Hadith 498
It was narrated from Salim, from his father, that: The Prophet consulted the people as to how he could call them to the prayer. They suggested a horn, but he disliked that because of the Jews (because the Jews used a horn). Then they suggested a bell but he disliked that because of the Christians (because the Christians used a bell). Then that night the call to the prayer was shown in a dream to a man among the Ansar whose name was 'Abdullah bin Zaid, and to 'Umar bin Khattab. The Ansari man came to the Messenger of Allah at night, and the Messenger of Allah commanded Bilal to give the call to the prayer. (Da'if)Zuhri said: "Bilal added the phrase "As-salatu khairum minan-nawm (the prayer is better than sleep)" to the call for the morning prayer, and the Messenger of Allah approved of that." 'Umar said: "O Messenger of Allah, I saw the same as he did, but he beat me to it."
Reference : Sunan Ibn Majah 707
In-book reference : Book 3, Hadith 2
English translation : Vol. 1, Book 3, Hadith 707
Sahih al-Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 234:
Narrated Anas: The Prophet reached Khaibar in the morning, while the people were coming out carrying their spades over their shoulders. When they saw him they said, "This is Muhammad and his army! Muhammad and his army!" So, they took refuge in the fort. The Prophet raised both his hands and said, "Allahu Akbar, Khaibar is ruined, for when we approach a nation (i.e. enemy to fight) then miserable is the morning of the warned ones." Then we found some donkeys which we (killed and) cooked: The announcer of the Prophet announced: "Allah and His Apostle forbid you to eat donkey's meat." So, all the pots including their contents were turned upside down.
"Allahu Akbar is an Arabic phrase meaning God is greater"
Sorry David, I have to correct you. The phrase means "Allah is greater". A specific god - namely "Allah". This god existed in the birthplace of Muhammad, elevated to the supreme god above all the other gods in Mecca, (or Petra which was probably Muhammad's birthplace, as per the current evidence).
That is why Muslims are so particular about the name of their god. It is Allah, Muhammad's god, the pagan god of the Nabateans.
MUSLIMS ARE IGNORANT OF THEIR ZIONIST ARABIAN PROPHET!
THE ZIONIST ARABIAN PROPHET:
This must be the most bizarre title you have ever seen.
To the Arabs & Muslims, this is tantamount to BLASPHEMY!
Has humanity been deceived for the last 700 years into accepting Arab & Muslim propaganda regarding Palestine as FACT?
Let us explore this issue based entirely upon Muhammad's Quran and no other.
Anyone who has read the Quran let alone studied it would know the following:
1. The chapters of the Quran are not written in the order of their alleged revelations to Muhammad. For example, the first verse of the Quran is actually in Sura 96 and not one or two!
Sura Al Alaq 96:1
"Proclaim! (or Read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher Who created…"
2. The verses and story lines are boringly repetitive.
3. The names of the Hebrew Biblical characters appear all of a sudden, without any indication as to which country they lived, in which era and in what context.
4. Without references to the Hebrew Bible, no reader of the otherwise incoherent Quran could possibly know the full story of any and ALL of the Hebrew Biblical characters mentioned therein.
Moreover, their stories in the Quran are based upon Rabbinic & Apocryphal traditions and not upon their originals in the Torah.
5. The Quran as a whole has no beginning, no middle and no ending, totally unlike the Hebrew Bible.
6. The stories in the chapters of the Quran, jump from one Hebrew Biblical character in one verse, to a completely different and unrelated character in a completely different era in the next verse, without rhyme, reason or logic.
7. To compile the story of what we are about to reveal to you, we have had to ferret out all the relevant verses, scattered over many chapters of the Quran, and put them in a coherent order as faithful to the original story in the Hebrew Bible as possible.
8. And that is why over the last 1400 years, no follower of Muhammad who has not read the Hebrew Bible, could possibly understand, let alone know, the whole story in a consistent manner.
Before revealing the Quran's Zionism, it is very important of course, to explain what Zionism means and is NOT according to Arab and Muslim distorted propaganda, but to facts.
Believers and Unbelieving Kuffar, please be aware, that the immense majority of the followers of Muhammad, recognize the words Zionist and Zionism, but have absolutely no understanding of either the meaning or the concept of these words.
In Hebrew, Zion is pronounced Tsion, a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia.
Originally, it was the name of a Canaanite fortress on top of Mount Tsion, which is near Jerusalem, which was captured by King David.
David made it a royal residence to start with, and his son Solomon, built the first Temple on top of it. Henceforth, the whole hill was named Tsion. Thereafter, the name of the hill and the city of Jerusalem became synonymous.
In many Hebrew Biblical verses, the Israelites were called the people, sons or daughters of Zion.
The word Zionism is derived from, & associated with, the word Tsion or Zion.
ARABIAN ZIONIST
Zionism is actually the national revival movement for the return of the Jewish Diaspora to their homeland of Judea & Samaria, and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, the Promised Land, their birth place.
Zionism was self-consciously the Jewish analogue of European national liberation movements of the nineteenth century. In the modern world it manifests itself as support for the principle and absolute right of the Jews to live securely in their own homeland Israel as they did over a millennia in ancient times as well as on and off over the centuries ever since.
I shall begin with the most important example of Zionism in the Quran, which is the Quran's version of the Exodus story starting with Allah's instruction to Moses and Aaron to go to Pharaoh asking him to release the tribes of Israel from bondage.
I shall recite only the relevant verses from the chapters in such a way as to make the storyline similar in manner to its original in the Torah. I shall jump over verses that are either repetitive or not relevant to the flow of the story.
Please pay particular attention as to how - without our collation in a coherent sequence - the relevant verses of the Quran actually jump from one chapter to a completely different one, since they are scattered all over the chapters of the Quran and hence, by themselves do not make a coherent tale.
Those who want the complete verses can read them in the Quran as I shall be giving you chapter & verse where to find them.
Sura Ta Ha 20: 47
"So go ye both to him (Pharaoh) and say `Verily we are apostles sent by thy Lord: send forth therefore the Children of Israel with us and afflict them not: with a Sign indeed have we come from thy Lord! And peace to all who follow guidance!
Sura Al Aaraf 7: 104
"Moses said: "O Pharaoh! I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds.
Sura Al Aaraf 7:130
"We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of drought) and shortness of crops; that they might receive admonition.
132 They said (to Moses): "whatever be the signs thou bringest to work there with the sorcery on us, we shall never believe in thee."
133 So We sent (plagues) on them, Wholesale Death, Locusts, Lice, Frogs and Blood: signs openly Self-explained; but they were steeped in arrogance a people given to sin.
134 Every time the penalty fell on them they said: "O Moses! On
our behalf, call on thy Lord in virtue of his promise to thee: if thou wilt remove the penalty from us, we shall truly believe in thee and we shall send away the Children of Israel with thee.
135 But every time We removed the penalty from them, according to a fixed term which they had to fulfill, Behold! they broke their word!
136 So We exacted retribution from them: We drowned them in the sea because they rejected Our signs and failed to take warning from them.
*** Anyone who has read the Hebrew Biblical original, would know, that what was allegedly revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel, is completely different both in sequence and context ***
"We sent an inspiration to Moses: "Travel by night with my servants ( the Israelites) and strike a dry path for them through the (Red) sea without fear of being overtaken (by Pharaoh) and without (any other) fear."
78 Then Pharaoh pursued them with his forces but the waters completely overwhelmed them and covered them up.
79 Pharaoh led his people astray instead of leading them aright.
"We took the Children of Israel (with safety) across the sea…
*** To recap the story thus far: By Allah's instructions, Moses & Aaron requested the release of the Israelite Tribes from bondage. Pharaoh refused. Allah punished him with a plague. Pharaoh recanted & asked forgiveness BUT when the plague was lifted he again disobeyed Allah. This continued until TEN plagues were visited upon Pharaoh and Egypt.
Finally Pharaoh allowed the Israelites to leave, but he regretted his decision and pursued them into the Red Sea where Pharaoh & his troops were drowned by Allah thus saving Moses & the Israelites.
So far, the storyline of the EXODUS, as we have rearranged it from the different chapters of the Quran, is relatively faithful to that of the Torah
Sura Ta Ha 20:80 :
"O ye Children of Israel! We delivered you from your enemy and We made a Covenant with you on the side of Mount (Sinai) and We sent down to you Manna and quails:
Sura Al Israa 17: 2:
"We gave Moses the Book (Torah) and made it a Guide to the Children of Israel (commanding): "Take not other than Me as Disposer of (your) affairs."
Sura Al Aaraf 7: 137:
"And We made a people (Israelites) considered weak (and of no account) inheritors of lands in both east and west lands, where on We sent down our blessings. The fair promise of the Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy and We leveled to the ground the great works and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride).
***" inheritors of lands in both east and west lands" is actually the Promised Land of the Israelites on BOTH sides of the Jordan River***
Sura Al Israa 17: 104
"And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.
*** Allah, in very clear Arabic, asserts that he fulfilled his promise to reward the People of Israel with the Promised Land, the same land that the later conquering hordes of Muslim Arabs claim as exclusively theirs CONTRARY to their own Quran ***
Sura Al Maida 5: 12
"Allah did aforetime take a Covenant from the Children of Israel, and We appointed twelve captains among them and Allah said: "I am with you: if ye establish regular prayers, practice regular charity, believe in My apostles, honor and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, verily I shall wipe out from you your evils and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you after this resists faith he hath truly wandered from the path of rectitude."
*** Once again, does the Quran assert the close relationship between Allah, the People of Israel and his promise for the Land ***
Sura Yunus 10: 93
"We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place (the Promised Land) and provided for them sustenance of the best: it was after knowledge had been granted to them that they fell into schisms. Verily Allah will judge between them as to the schisms amongst them on the Day of Judgment.
94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book (Torah) from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in nowise of those in doubt.
*** Allah is clearly instructing the followers of Muhammad that if they were in doubt about the veracity of what Muhammad was revealing to them, and then they should ask the Jews who read the Torah that Allah revealed to Moses.
This SINGULAR verse, DESTROYS and NEGATES all the LIES and DECEPTIONS by the LATER followers of Muhammad regarding the authenticity and DIVINE origin of the Torah since had it been ALTERED or tampered with by the Jews, Allah would NOT have used it as a WITNESS to the veracity of the Quran***
Sura Al Baqara 2: 40
"O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon you and fulfill your covenant with Me as I fulfill My covenant with you and fear none but Me"
Al Baqara 2: 47
"O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon You and that 50 And remember, We divided the (Red) sea for you and saved you and drowned Pharaoh's people within your very sight.
51 And remember, We appointed forty nights for Moses and in his absence you took the calf (for worship) and ye did grievous wrong.
52 Even then, We did forgive you; there was a chance for you to be grateful"
*** Without a shadow of a doubt, the Quran in clear Arabic asserts that it was Allah who CHOSE the Israelites above all other nations and made a mutual covenant with them.
Furthermore, verse 2:52 is remarkable in its assertion that Allah also FORGAVE their transgression.
This verse in particular, ABROGATES, Overturns and overrides the LIES and PERVERSIONS by the followers of Muhammad, that tell Arabic IGNORAMOUS peoples that Allah had NOT forgiven the sin of the People of Israel ***
Sura Al Baqara 2: 122
"O Children of Israel! call to mind the special favor which I bestowed upon you and that I preferred you above the whole world!
*** Once more in this verse does Allah assert that the Israelites are his CHOSEN PEOPLE***
Sura Al Sajda 32: 23
We did indeed aforetime give the Book (Torah) to Moses: be not then in doubt of its reaching (thee): and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel"
*** Allah is telling the followers of Muhammad that he gave the Torah ONLY to the People of Israel as a guide ***
Sura Al Mu'min 40: 53
"We did a foretime give Moses the (Book of) Guidance and We gave the Book (Torah) in inheritance to the Children of Israel"
*** "We gave the Book (Torah) in inheritance to the Children of Israel" means to them and their generations AFTER them ***
Sura Al Dukhan 44: 30
"We did deliver a foretime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment
31 Inflicted by Pharaoh for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.
32 And We chose them aforetime above all the nations knowingly
Sura Al Jathiyah 45: 16
"We did a foretime grant to the Children of Israel the Book (Torah), the Power of Command and Prophethood; We gave them for Sustenance things good and pure; and We favored them above all the nations"
***Believers and Unbelievers, please be aware, that the Quran, in verse after verse, repeatedly and unambiguously asserts, that it was Allah and ONLY Allah who did the Choosing, contrary to the Hatemongering declarations by Muslims, that it is the RACIST and ARROGANT Israelites and Jews who declare themselves the Chosen People***
Sura Al Ahqaf 46: 12
"And before this was the Book (Torah) of Moses as a guide and a mercy; and this Book (Quran) confirms (it) in the Arabic tongue; to admonish the unjust and as Glad Tidings to those who do right.
"We did indeed aforetime give the Book (Torah) to Moses: be not then in doubt of its reaching (thee): and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel.
Sura Al Maida 5:44
"It was We who revealed the law (Torah to Moses); therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews by the Prophet who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah's will by the Rabbis and the doctors of Law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah's Book (Torah) and they were witnesses thereto:
Sura Al Saffat 37: 114
"Again! We bestowed Our favor on Moses and Aaron.
115 And We delivered them and their people from (their) Great Calamity;
116 And We helped them so they overcame (their troubles);
117 And We gave them the Book (Torah) which helps to make things clear;
118 And We guided them to the Straight Way.
119 And We left (this blessing) for them among generations (to come) in later times:
120 "Peace and salutation to Moses and Aaron!"
*** It should be pointed out that not once in these very important verses did Allah instruct the Children of Israel to pass on his Book (the Torah) to any other human group CONTRATY to the Malicious accusations that the Israelites hid the Torah from other peoples***
And last but not least ' icing on the cake' verse:
"O my people! enter the holy land (al Arth al Muqaddassah) which Allah hath assigned unto you and turn not back ignominiously for then will ye be overthrown to your own ruin."
Based upon all what we have revealed, how can any sane person accept the wild and unsubstantiated claims, that the loose leaf and arbitrary collection of the Quran is CORRECT, whereas the older Hebrew Book, the Torah, whose pages, chapters and verses are in correct order and upon which the Quran's foundations are rooted, is not?
It is obvious that Muhammad did not realize that his loose-leaf notes had fully captured and preserved - though somewhat scrambled up from the more ancient accounts - actually verified with detailed accounts, that the Israelites and the Jews had lived many centuries before him, settled and made their homeland as a nation in the very state of modern Israel & territories that have since been restored. These are the very lands that his followers absurdly deny had ever previously belonged to anyone else but themselves?
In conclusion, based upon all the above, it is crystal clear, that contrary to the untested beliefs of hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world today, their Quran in fact, fully supports and verifies the claims of the Jews for the Land of Israel as their ancient and rightful home and nation.
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13 Rare map of the Russo-Japanese War. 209
Description: The Times: “The Times†Map of the Russo-Japanese War.
Banks & Bain London c1905
colour printed map; map overall 95 x 67 cm, booklet 21,5 x 10,5 cm. folds as issued; linen backed; some discolouration; booklet some wear and tear.
Japan - Korea - The Times
£400.00
A rare map of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 -1905 which was fought between the Russian and Japanese Empire over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea. The map is very detailed and has several insets. It was published for The Times.
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2011 Vintage Ports
The 2011 vintage ports, the first widely declared port vintage since 2007, arrived in the market with great fanfare. Are they as good as advertised? Two words: Oh yes. The better wines have it all: concentration, finesse, aromatic purity and complexity, flavor intensity, vibrancy and grip. Most of the wines I tasted avoid obvious signs of overripe fruit and spirity unabsorbed alcohol. Best of all, they possess substantial ripe tannins and the power and balance to support graceful evolution in bottle. For those looking to commemorate the birth of a child or some other momentous event in 2011, this set of wines is a no-brainer. And, in the modern style, they won't hurt your teeth in the early going.
By most accounts, the 2011 growing season was as close to ideal as the weather gets in the Douro Valley. Heavy rains that fell during late fall and early winter provided enough water reserves in the soil to get the vines through a long, dry summer, which is exactly how it turned out, as January through much of August (especially from early May onward) brought near-drought conditions, with precipitation down close to 40% from the average.
But with the exception of a short heat spike in late June, the dry summer did not see extreme temperatures, and a clement August allowed for strong and steady build-up of grape sugars and good retention of acidity in the grapes. Due to the very dry conditions, phenolic maturity trailed sugar maturity by the second half of August and many growers were concerned about the ripeness and quality of the tannins. But two substantial rain storms, on August 21 and September 1, were perfectly timed to get the vines in sync. Most growers then waited a week or more to harvest, bringing in their crops mostly by the end of September, taking advantage of dry days and cool nights.
Yields were lower than average owing to the extended drought during the spring and summer. Interestingly, the Symington Group (Graham, Dow, Warre et al.) bottled significantly less wine in 2011 than they did in 2007, while the Fladgate Partnership group (Taylor, Fonseca, Croft) [ reported more typical production. Thanks to the consistent weather conditions, shippers had greater than normal flexibility in making their flagship blends. Most of their quintas (estates) ripened their fruit successfully, and in some instances they were able to make more complex wines by using grape varieties that rarely ripen ideally, either to add acid backbone to their wines or to fill in their middle palates. A number of shippers made limited quantities of high-end bottlings, in many cases from their top quintas. In the end, virtually everyone declared the 2011 vintage.
Christian Seely describes the 2011 vintage as "probably the best I have known in my 20 years at Quinta do Noval." He's convinced that the best 2011s have decades of development ahead of them, owing to "their balance, harmony, intense fruit and great tannic structure." He went on: "It's true that they are more attractive now than vintage ports used to be, but I have never accepted the idea that a wine has to be hard to like in its youth in order to be destined for future greatness--or the contrary idea that if a wine is seductive while young it must necessarily lack staying power. I think these wines have it all."
Strong demand for these wines has given the port region a shot in the arm, even though production of vintage port remains a tiny percentage of the area's overall production. Those who want to have the 2011s in their cellar should snap them up now before the wines become harder to find and prices move up further. These are some of the wine world's most reliable agers, and they are now underpriced compared to most other collectible red wines (especially when you venture beyond a handful of scarce and pricier single-quinta wines) in an outstanding vintage like 2011.
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Wild Swans, the novel published in 1991, traverses an incredibly wide array of detail in the telling of the lives for four generations of women in China. Written by Jung Chang, it is a narrative recording of her family's history on her mother's side and gives detailed credence to the cultural underpinnings of the time belonging to each woman.
Chang begins with her great-grandmother, who came from a family of tanners and who was married, at the age of twenty to a boy six years younger. She was named, "Number Two Girl," which was a normal type of name for millions of Chinese girls at the time.
Young females from non-wealthy nor intellectual families were simply not given names. Number Two Girl was expected to raise her husband who was an only son and the family's treasure. His was a family of felt-makers, whose women sacrificed their eyes and overall health by taking in extra sewing for local tailors and dressmakers, working late into the night they would turn their oil lamps down to the minimum.
But, he did go to a good school and passed examinations to become a Mandarin, which was a type of government official. For, "Without power or money, no Chinese could feel safe from the depredations of officialdom or random violence. There had never been a proper legal system. Justice was arbitrary and cruelty was both institutionalized and capricious. An official with power was the law. Becoming a mandarin was the only way a child of a non-noble family could escape this cycle of injustice and fear."
His first child came when he was 15 years old, as Chang's grandmother was born, "on the fifth day of the fifth moon, in early summer 1909." The baby was given a step up in the world as she "was actually given a name," which was Yu-Fang. Yu was the generational name throughout China and it means, jade. Fang was the independent part of her name and it means, fragrant flowers.
Yu-Fang was a child in a precarious world, without centralized government and encroaching Japanese powers in Manchuria. She was also to become among the last of women throughout China to have her feet bound. Her older sister escaped the torment, that she suffered as her feet were broken with blocks when she was two and wrapped to form, "three-inch golden lilies," that were considered ideal for women who were to be respected in society.
Perhaps the look of a tottering lady brought a sort of allure to withhold any male watchers, but the reality was also that their broken feet would try to regrow at any chance once unwrapped and so had to remain restrained constantly in order to keep the effect. They also stank once uncovered as the toenails would grow into the sole and the unnatural morphing of the flesh would cause the foot to rot. The mother-in-law of a young bride would often lift up the edges of a dress to see the young woman's feet, and if they were more than about four inches, she would throw down the skirt in obvious scorn and leave, so that the bride would be left to face the contempt of guests and their mean spirited muttering amongst each other.
Despite the pain she suffered, Yu-Fang consistently retained a good nature throughout her life and she was a beauty. "She had an oval face, with rosy cheeks and lustrous skin. Her long, shiny black hair was woven into a thick plait reaching down to her waist. She could be demure when the occasion demanded, which was most of the time, but underneath her composed exterior she was bursting with suppressed energy. She was petite, about five feet three inches, with a slender figure and sloping shoulders, which were considered the ideal."
Her beauty was also considered a main asset by her father, who nearly bankrupted himself orchestrating meetings between his daughter and a warlord general. But his bet paid off as the general was quite taken by the elegance of the rural girl and asked her father to have her as his concubine which included an elaborate wedding ceremony and gifts for the bride's family that would enable the father to take concubines for himself, which he had wanted for a long time.
For Yu-Fang, suicide would be the only way to say: no. The wedding was held, with great ceremony for the whole village to see. She tried to love her husband though she knew she was not his only wife. He stayed with her for a short while and she played music for him and massaged his feet. Though, he left not many weeks after their wedding, but not without telling her a tale of what happened to one of his concubines who cheated on him. She was bound and gagged, then raw alcohol was soaked into the cloth that was stuck in her mouth so that she slowly choked to death. Her lover was merely and mercifully shot.
He came back six years after he left and upon their second union Chang's mother was conceived. The world of feudal finery was soon to be lost to the stark ravages of communism after the Kuomintang lost power. Both of Chang's parents were high communist officials but this did not mean they were not to suffer incredibly under the veil of Mao, who lead the country in a truly bizarre form of mass delusion. The wide spread financial system turned from one based on agriculture and essentially tribal exchanges of wealth that trickled down throughout the classes, to a vastly implemented command economy with nonsensical outputs.
Under Mao, the entirety of China was supposed to be this miracle country all the time. Crops were planted from one field to another, to produce doubled and tripled, "miracle harvests" to show to officials so that there would not be negative repercussions for the working peasants. Though the transplanted crop would die fairly quickly as did millions of people throughout the vast nation, from starvation and over-work related illnesses. There was no clean medical system for decades and medicines were in constantly short supply.
The grandmother, Yu-Fang, had all but a few pieces of her jewelry stolen because it, according to officials, belonged to the people. And when she grew sick and her grandchildren took her to the hospital there was no method by which to diagnose her much less treat her. Her suffering was not unique.
Education was scorned and communism was a bullying system where people like Chang's mother, who were elegantly mannered and unusually well educated, were beaten down consistently for having more than other people. Instead of there being a system where every person has access to a reasonable quality of life, it was literally considered that all people were created equally and anyone with more owed everyone else.
Chang's father suffered considerably trying to protect his family under such unbelievably violent and ridiculous circumstances. Both her parents were unusually intelligent and fostered education within their children. Chang, herself after working a series of seemingly unrelated positions including being a sort of doctor (she was told to treat people after being given a single manual to read) and a peasant, eventually won a scholarship to study outside of China.
"I have made London my home. For ten years, I avoided thinking about the China I had left behind. Then in 1988, my mother came to England to visit me. For the first time, she told me the story of her life and that of my grandmother."
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Edwardian Era
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Global North
Her Name Is Sabrine
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Jean Craighead George
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Lady Audley's Secret
Lion In Winter
Lost German Slave Girl
Lucy Kemp Welch
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Nickelback Live Presented by Mercury Insurance | Premieres Nov. 15
AXS TV Concerts Presented by Mercury Insurance | Nickelback Live
Nickelback, one of the best-selling rock bands of all time, takes the stage at the historic Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. The band performs a wide array of hits from their breakout album featuring “How You Remind Me,” and “Someday,” to their newest release “Feed The Machine,” in an unforgettable rock performance. Watch the premiere of Nickelback Live Presented by Mercury Insurance on Wednesday, November 15th at 10/9c only on AXS TV!
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way. On her way she met a copy. The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country. But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her.
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Manitoba at Bemidji State | October 04, 2015
1 03:41 BSU O'Connor, Charlie (Harms, Brendan , Bauman, Kyle)
1 04:53 BSU Soucier, Mike (Pedan, Ruslan , Dickman, Jay)
1 18:47 BSU Harms, Brendan (Gerbrandt, Markus , Roo, T.J.)
2 18:22 BSU Eichstadt, Dillon (Ward, Cory )
3 05:05 BSU Fitzgerald, Gerry (Dickman, Jay , McCormack, Graeme)
3 06:17 BSU Roo, T.J. (Beauvais, Brett , Gerbrandt, Markus)
3 18:15 MAN Dylan Kelly (Adam Henry )
MAN Justin Paulic 43:44 4 0 17
MAN Dasan Sydora 16:16 2 0 5
BSU Bitzer, Michael 20:00 0 0 9
BSU Mimmack, Reid 19:38 0 0 3
BSU Wilkins, Jesse 19:51 1 0 7
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Bemidji, Minn.
Beavers drop Manitoba, 6-1, in exhibition opener
BEMIDJI, Minn. (Sanford Center) -- Led by Brendan Harms and T.J. Roo, who each had a goal an assist, the Bemidji State University men's hockey team defeated the University of Manitoba, 6-1, Sunday afternoon at Sanford Center.
Bemidji State needed only 3:41 to light their half of the scoreboard and would not look back, taking a 3-0 lead into the dressing room after 20 minutes of play. Charlie O'Connor was the first Beaver to score, taking a pass from Harms and Kyle Bauman for an even-strength goal. Mike Soucier, a freshman in his first game as a Beaver, beat the UM goaltender 1:12 minutes later to put BUS up 2-0 and Harms netted his second point of the game with 1:13 left in the period.
Fourteen of the 21 skaters dressed for the exhibition found their way to the score sheet, including four of the eight newcomers. The Beavers logged five even-strength goals and converted 1-of-4 power-play chances, a Dillon Eichstadt tally from the top of the slot.
BSU's trio of goaltenders each took 20 minutes in net and combined for 17 saves. Michael Bitzer started the game and made nine saves in the first period to gain the win. Reid Mimmack added three saves in the second, before Jesse Wilkins made his return to the crease after sitting out all of 2014-15 due to injury, posting seven saves and allowed the Bisons' only goal.
Bemidji State will official lift the lid on the 2015-16 campaign Friday when it travels to Duluth, Minn. for a 7:07 p.m. nonconference match up at AMSOIL Arena to open a home-and-home series with the University of Minnesota Duluth. Saturday, the Bulldogs make a return trip to Sanford Center for a 7:07 p.m. game to open the BSU home season.
Nestled in Northern Minnesota’s wooded region and located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men’s and women’s hockey membership in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
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Why English at BU?
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Robert Chodat
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Title Professor, Chair Department of English
Email rchodat@bu.edu
Education BA, MA, McGill University
PhD, Stanford University
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My research focuses on post-WWII American fiction, the relation between literature and philosophy, and the intersection of these two areas. In particular I’ve been interested in how the language of agency and purpose survives in a reductively naturalistic culture, and how different authors, texts, and genres talk about varying levels of meaningful behavior—from particular utterances and acts to individual lives to collective projects and cultural practices.
My published work includes The Matter of High Words: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage (Oxford, 2017) and Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo (Cornell, 2008), as well as articles on Richard Powers, Lorrie Moore, Philip Roth, Stanley Cavell, Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and evolutionary and cognitive theory.
I have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2013-14); the BU Center for the Humanities (2009-10); the Humboldt Foundation (2006-7); and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2003-4). My teaching covers a wide range of twentieth-century literature, theory, and intellectual history, and includes “Philosophical Fictions,” “Irony and Postwar Literature,” “The Sixties in Fiction and Theory,” “Fictions of the Fifties,” “Reading After Wittgenstein,” and “Knowing, Feeling, Judging (Kant and 20th Century Aesthetics).” I have also taught surveys of post-WWII American fiction and the history of criticism and theory from Plato to Freud.
Since 2018, I have also been the organizer of the BU Workshop on Literature, Philosophy, and Aesthetics, an annual meeting of literary scholars and philosophers: http://sites.bu.edu/litphilworkshop/
The Matter of High Words: Naturalism, Norms, and the Postwar Sage(2017)
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo(2008)
“Is a Narrative a Something or a Nothing?” Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding (2016)
“That Horeb, That Kansas: Evolution and the Modernity of Marilynne Robinson.” American Literary History (2016).
“The Novel,” in Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Literature (2016)
“Is Style Information?” Partial Answers (2013)
“The American Evasion of Pragmatism: Minds, Souls, and the Case of Walker Percy.” nonsite 3.1 (2011)
“Empiricism, Exhaustion, and Meaning What We Say: Cavell and Contemporary Fiction.” Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism (2011)
“Philosophy and the American Novel,” Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011)
“Evolution and Explanation: Biology, Aesthetics, Pragmatism,” Contemporary Pragmatism (2010)
“A Commitment to the Meaningful,” Twentieth-Century Literature (2008)
“Naturalism and Narrative, or, What Computers and Human Beings Can’t Do,” New Literary History (2007)
“Jokes, Fiction, and Lorrie Moore,” Twentieth-Century Literature (2006)
“Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth,”Contemporary Literature (2005)
“Sense, Science, and the Interpretations of Gertrude Stein,” Modernism/Modernity (2005)
Honors, Grants, and Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2013-14
BU Humanities Foundation Fellowship (2008–9)
Humboldt Research Fellowship (2006–7)
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003–4)
Mabel McLeod Lewis Fellowship (2002–3)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium (1999)
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Tibetan Lama introduces Brock to buddhism
by Amanda Roth, Brock Press, Oct 15, 2008
St. Catharines, Ontario, (Canada) -- Brock, On Oct.7, Brock was visited by Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, a spiritual teacher who travels across the globe to guide in practices such as Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, yoga, art, culture and history. He is an artist and a thangka painter, as well as a practitioner of Tibetan medicine.
Lama Lhanang was born in northeastern Tibet at the base of the Himalayan Mountains. He grew up surrounded by the majestic scenery, studying at the local monastery.
Upon arriving in North America, Lama Lhanang had enormous cultural and language barriers to overcome. He has lived in North America for 14 years, travelling and teaching.
About 20 people attended Lama Lhanang's introduction to Tibetan Buddhism in the Rita Welch Meditation Centre in the Mackenzie Chown Complex.
As members of the audience began to arrive, Lama Lhanang remained still, hands fingering a set of wooden beads. As everyone took their seats and fell silent, Lama Lhanang surveyed the audience, and with a brilliant smile, introduced himself.
The event began with the reciting of a mantra, during which the room remained completely silent.
Afterwards, Lama Lhanang continued with an introduction of himself. He discussed the difficulties he came upon when he moved across the world to North America: the language, cultural barriers and the search for work.
Eventually he discovered the joy of spreading his vast knowledge of Tibetan culture and Buddhism to the citizens of western culture. He achieved this by way of the Wisdom Path Centres, which are placed worldwide.
Independently run by Dharma centers and non-profit organizations, these centres were inspired by Lama Lhanang's vision and created for the purpose of spreading this vision throughout their respective communities.
He continued his presentation with an introduction to the history of Tibetan Buddhism, discussing the birth of Buddha, who is the central figure of worship within Tibetan Buddhism.
With every step this religious figure took, a lotus grew. The lotus, an elegant aquatic flower, represents the wisdom and compassion that Buddhism, and the Buddha, spreads across the world.
The Buddha came to earth to teach the masses how to reach enlightenment and world peace through inner peace.
After Lama Lhanang's brief introduction to the historical aspect of Tibetan Buddhism, he opened the room to a question period, during which those who attended were able to confirm any ambiguities they had about Tibetan Buddhism. This question period turned into an educational discussion, digging much deeper into aspects of the religion not yet touched upon.
Eventually, the audiences questions diminished, and Lama Lhanang began a group meditation, which the whole audience took part in.
Concluding the meditation session, copies of a peace prayer, written by Lama Lhanang himself, were passed around and recited by the audience in unison.
Lama Lhanang has about a weeks stay in St. Catharines, where he will be visiting various events based on his teaching. He will return to Brock this week, on Oct.15, from 7-9 p.m., once again in the Rita Welch Meditation Center, for a Refuge Ceremony and Ngondro Teaching.
For more information regarding Lama Lhanang Rinpoche and his teachings, please visit his Web site at wisdompath.org.
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A brighter future for coral reefs?
Kara Watson July 18, 2016
Could there yet be a brighter future for coral reefs? Scientists have recently discovered something that could bring more hope: there are genes found in symbiotic algae that could provide protection against coral bleaching.
Climate change has many devastating effects on many different habitats, something we have heard a lot about in recent years. One of the habitats climate change disturbs most noticeably is coral reefs. These beautiful natural ecosystems house about 25% of all marine species despite only occupying 0.1% of the ocean’s surface. Many threats face them, meaning any change in the ecosystem can have dramatic effects on all the creatures living there. Threats such as ocean acidification, invasive species and overfishing all have an effect, but the most serious is the global rise of ocean temperatures and subsequent coral bleaching.
What is coral bleaching?
Corals gain their wonderful, bright colours from a symbiotic relationship with algae, specifically the Symbiodinium species. The algae live inside the corals to gain shelter and protection. In return, they give the corals food made from photosynthesis. In fact, the algae can provide the coral with about 90% of their food intake. This makes this relationship essential for the coral’s survival. However, when the water temperature rises, this puts the algae under stress and triggers the algae to release toxins called reactive oxygen species (ROS). These toxins, which include substances like peroxide, cause damage to both the algae and the coral. In order to protect itself, the coral expels the algae but in doing so it leaves itself vulnerable due to decreased food intake. If the water temperature does not decrease and the coral isn’t recolonised by new algae, the coral will die.
A staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) has been bleached in the middle because of the loss of its symbiotic algae (Gavin Bain/Flickr)
The loss of the algae is what causes the bleached look, as all colour is lost from the coral. This stress can severely damage coral populations and so a solution is needed to protect them. Recent research from the University of New South Wales in Australia provides insight into how genetics might be able to help us take a step towards an answer.
Protective genes
The research looked at two different types of algae living in the Great Barrier Reef, one that was temperature-sensitive and another that lived in a slightly warmer climate and so was more temperature resistant. Under heat stress, the warmer climate algae starting releasing ROS at higher temperatures than the colder climate algae, showing their greater resistance to higher temperatures. But it was also found that these more resistant algae also produced proteins as well that neutralised the ROS and so negated any damage that would usually occur, preventing bleaching from occurring.
All these algae did was switch on a few genes and it allows them to stop the coral from expelling them and so survive at higher ocean temperatures. The researchers also found that both types of algae switch from asexual reproduction (when there is only one parent) to sexual reproduction under heat stress. Sexual reproduction can help speed up evolution due to the mixing of two parent’s genes which gives genetic variation to the offspring. Genetic variation allows for a higher likelihood of advantageous genes to be passed on and so gives better adaptability. So the switch these algae make to sexual reproduction could help them to adapt to the rising ocean temperatures.
The Great Barrier Reef. The largest coral reef system in the world and the largest structure made by living organisms is under threat. (Kyle Taylor/Flickr)
This understanding of how these algae species react under stress is valuable, and could possibly be utilised in aid of vulnerable corals, for example, it could be used to monitor coral’s risk of bleaching. By using these adaptive genes as a marker, looking at which algae possess these genes could allow an assessment of the risk of bleaching each area of coral has. By identifying the most susceptible areas, we can direct our efforts to help accordingly. With 93% of the Great Barrier Reef undergoing bleaching just from earlier this year, leading to a loss of 1/4 of corals, it is hoped that we will soon find a way to reduce the effect of warming oceans, and that this research is a step in the right direction.
Levin, R. A., Beltran, V. H., Hill, R., Kjelleberg, S., McDougald, D., Steinberg, P. D., & van Oppen, M. J. (2016). Sex, Scavengers, and Chaperones: Transcriptome Secrets of Divergent Symbiodinium Thermal Tolerances.Molecular Biology and Evolution, DOI:10.1093/molbev/msw119
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Stolen Land: Western Mohegan Nation Seeks President Obama's Intervention For Justice
Posr A. PosrFebruary 24,2015
Posr A. Posr
[Open Letter]
WESTERN MOHEGAN TRIBE AND NATION OF NEW YORK AND VERMONT
By: Posr A. Posr; Attorney General [Western Mohegan]
posrposr@gmail.com
Dear President Obama,
Dated: 2015 Feb 17
Only the President, enforcing Executive Order 13061, of 1997 Sep 11 [fn 1], with a specifically worded Executive Order can prevent the unfair and unjust extinction of the Mohegan Tribe that has remained in their original New York homeland after having successfully aided General George Washington in the Revolutionary War.
Please directly direct the Publisher of the Federal Register, or the Interior Department, to publish notice of the tribal status of the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation of New York, and please direct the publishing of “ Chief Golden Eagle, aka Ronald Roberts”, in the Office of Federal Acknowledgement’s “Chief’s Directory” as of 1997 Jul 03 when the Supreme Court of the State of New York adjudicated our sovereignty or as of 1998 Oct 27 when President Clinton acknowledged our sovereignty by letter.
After $2 million of our tribal dollars were taken in exchange for part of our tribal land back in Ulster County, after Ulster County passed a unanimous Resolution declaring our sovereignty, after Ulster County entered into a contract binding itself to our sovereignty, after the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the Dier Decision adjudicated our sovereignty, after a federal Bankruptcy Judge approved our sovereignty in contract with Ulster County, after the U.S. Army declared Schodack Island as our “ tribal “ burial ground pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 2338, after President Clinton recognized our sovereignty [and the Departments of Defense, Justice and Interior did not oppose President Clinton’s recognition] in the context of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, our land was taken without Congressional approval, without the N.Y. Legislature’s authority and consent, without giving us our money back and all of a sudden we are not a tribe anymore.
In short, while the seller did have a legitimate lien on our property until we paid a $622,462.58 debt for the land. We paid that debt in full as the seller’s Bankruptcy Disclosure Report [fn 2] indicates: “ ...Western paid the...balance of $622.462.58 at the second closing that was held on October 16, 2001.”
However, the seller, without our knowledge or consent, with the assistance of our own lawyer, transferred the lien to someone else even though we paid the seller fully. Our own lawyer then acquired the lien and sold our property for $489,000.
This lien transfer to a third party was falsely legitimized in the Courts by the claim that the deed was transferred free and clear and then we just gave the lien to the seller after we partially paid the debt.
Not only is that ridiculous because partial payment for a free and clear deed is an unsound business practice, but technically, a deed that has a lien written into and onto its face can never be transferred free and clear until the lien is extinguished or assigned to the buyer.
As a lawyer Mr. President, you know that if a lien is written into the face of a deed and transferred then;
[a] That deed is not transferred free and clear of the lien written into the deed, and
[b] That deed will not be transferred free and clear until and unless the lien is either:
[b1] Extinguished or
[b2] Transferred to the buyer.
The Courts from Ulster County to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in their papers are refusing to acknowledge:
[a] The lien written into and onto the face of the deed,
[b] The lack of the lien’s extinguishment or transfer to us after we paid $2 million, and
[c] The recognition of our sovereignty by numerous official entities.
Most disturbing, is the refusal of those official entities to honor the U.S. Army’s Tribal Burial Ground declaration pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 2338 and an explicit “ government-to-government” letter by the U.S. Department of the Army [fn 3].
It appears, although the U.S. Supreme Court is still available to us, that the President is our only hope to avoid what appears to be certain extinction. The President, under 25 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 9, is fully authorized and morally correct to right this great injustice. The Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation of New York appeals to the President to right this by issuing a specifically worded Executive Order extending back to at least 1998 Oct 27, but in the nature of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, back to 1997 Jul 03, the date of the Dier Decision adjudicating our sovereignty.
THE HISTORY OF PRESIDENT CLINTON’S RECOGNITION OF THE TRIBAL STATUS OF THE WESTERN MOHEGAN TRIBE AND NATION OF NEW YORK
On 1997 Jun 25 Governor Pataki recognized the Western Mohegan. [fn 4]. On 1997 Jul 03 Hon. John G. Dier, Supreme Court of the State of New York declared that:
“ ...Ronald A. Roberts is the Chief of the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation.” [fn5]
On 1997 Aug 20, Chief Roberts wrote President Clinton. Chief Roberts’ first sentence in that letter to President Clinton was:
“ ...I am writing to request a letter from you acknowledging the existence of the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation of New York so that we can fulfill our rightful role as participants in the life of the Hudson River valley. “ [fn 6]
President Clinton did not immediately acknowledge the tribal status of the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation, but a mere twenty two days after Chief Roberts’ request for tribal acknowledgment, on 1997 Sep 11, President Clinton issued Executive Order 13061 [fn 7] .
The American Heritage Rivers Initiative has three objectives, one of which consists of the ”historic and cultural preservation” of the Hudson River. President Clinton preserved the history and culture of the Hudson River with a letter, on his behalf, that preserved the tribal status of the Western Mohegan’s relationship with the Hudson River and General George Washington.
On 1998 Jan 20 the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service Field Supervisor, Sherry Morgan, acknowledged the tribal status of the Western Mohegan in a letter addressed to “Golden Eagle, Ronald Roberts, Sachem “ stating:
“ We look forward to continued coordination with the Mohegan Nation. “
Field Supervisor Morgan forwarded that acknowledgment to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior. Field Supervisor Morgan’s tribal 1998 Jan 20th acknowledgment was never opposed by either federal agency [fn 8].
On 1998 Jul 30 Chief Roberts, by invitation, spoke to the assembled at the inaugural event of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative [footnote 9]. At the inaugural the Executive Agent for the Department of Defense Army Secretary Westphal introduced the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Louis J. Caldera who reposed acknowledgment of the tribal status of the Western Mohegan and Chief Roberts, by name, in the public memory of the assembled [fn 10].
Eighteen days later, on 1998 Aug 17, Senators Alphonse M. D’Amato and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in addition to House Representatives Benjamin A. Gilman and Maurice D. Hinchey, urged President Clinton to issue an explicit reaffirmation of the tribal status of the Western Mohegan [fn 11].
Two months later, on 1998 Oct 17, President Clinton satisfied Chief Roberts’ 1997 Aug 20 letter requesting President Clinton to acknowledge the tribality of the Western Mohegan [fn 12].
However neither Chief Roberts’ nor the joint Senator/House letter directly requested President Clinton to issue an Executive Order specifically directing the Publisher of the Federal Register, pursuant to either 25 U.S.C. §§ 2 or 9 to publish notice of our tribal status.
By letter dated 1999 Oct 14, the Secretary of the Army, recognizing the Western Mohegan tribe’s wise aboriginal use of the land for thousands of years, granted the tribe a property right to enter onto our ancestral burial grounds at Houghtalling Island in Greene County, New York to conduct prayers, rituals and honor our heritage and ancestors [fn 13].
The Secretary of the Army’s 1999 Oct 14 grant of a tribal property right to enter our ancestral burial grounds occurred pursuant to [a] 33 USC §§ 1 and 2338, and [b] in the context of President Clinton’s Executive Order 13061 and [c] President Clinton’s letter dated 1998 Oct 17.
On 2000 Dec 07 the Ulster County Legislature of the State of New York unanimously resolved to recognize the tribal status of the Western Mohegan [fn 14]. The Governor of Vermont has recognized the Western Mohegan, although I do not possess that letter presently.
On 2000 Dec 12 the Western Mohegan entered into a land-sale contract with a corporation Neil’s Mazel, Inc. which occurred on the basis of the tribe’s sovereignty [fn 15].
By letter dated 2001 Jan 11 the Secretary of the Army recognized the “government-to-government” status of our relationship with the United States [fn 16].
On 2001 Mar 06, by Order of the late Hon. Conrad B. Duberstein, our tribal status, in the Western Mohegan land-sale contract with Neil’s Mazel, was recognized and authorized by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York [fn 17].
On 2001 Jun 28 the Western Mohegan amended the original land-sale contract which again occurred on the basis of the tribe’s sovereignty fn 18].
On 2001 Jul 03 Judge Duberstein again authorized and recognized the Western Mohegan’s tribal status by Order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York [fn 19].
On 2001 Jul 10 Ulster County acknowledged full payment by the Western Mohegan in Ulster County’s Quit Claim deed [fn 20]. On 2001 Jul 10 Neil’s Mazel transferred its deed, with a lien written into and onto the face of the deed, to the Western Mohegan in exchange for a total promised payment of $950,000 on 2001 Oct 16 [fn 21].
The lien in the deed was written as “ other valuable consideration “ on page 2 of the deed.
“ other valuable consideration “ was defined in the Amended Mohegan / Mazel contract as:
“ NOW, THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY AGREED.....in consideration of ...other good and valuable considerations, as follows;...a promissory note...collateralized by a confession of judgment...” [which was the lien]. [fn 22].
On 2001 Oct 16 the Western Mohegan lived up to its promise and paid Neil’s Mazel the final Installment on $950,000 as evidenced by Neil’s Mazel’s Disclosure Statement to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York [fn 23]. In the face of mountains of evidence of our tribal status, contrary to a combination of New York and federal law our self-chosen representative is ignored and denied standing to represent us in court in a land dispute.
On 2010 Dec 16 the President remarked that: “ ...so long as [he] held office, never again would Native Americans be forgotten or ignored. (Applause) ”. Mr. President you also appeared proud to “..announce that the United States is lending its support to this declaration. (Applause). “
On 2012 Nov 01 the White House released a Presidential Proclamation in which it was said: “ For centuries, Native Americans faced cruelty, injustice, and broken promises.”
No doubt some of that injustice occurred in the court’s themselves by lawyers for the tribes themselves. The Western Mohegan faces one more of those broken promises and our representation is being ignored in spite all our federal agency letters and a property grant acknowledging our tribal status.Our chosen and trusted representative is not permitted to represent us in court in spite of the Administration’s unopposed support for Article 18 of the United Nations Declaration which says:
“ Indigenous people have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representative chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.”
We therefore ask the President for a second Executive Order. The second Executive Order should also direct federal agencies to recognize non-bar-admitted Tribal representation because:
[a] New York Indian Law § 11-a permits a Headman of a New York tribe to maintain a court action or proceeding in the tribe’s name to recover possession of lands unlawfully occupied and
[b] There is no federal law that directly legislates Native representation in court actions, and
[c] Who may represent whom has its source in state law, and
[d] 88 stat. 1931 directs when no federal law on a subject exists, state law provides the Federal Rule of Decision,
It appears that the position and policy of the Executive Branch that Headmen of New York tribes is, unless there is some prior agreement or superseding federal or state law, non-bar-admitted headmen or trustees are lawfully permitted in federal court to represent the tribe in recovering possession of lands unlawfully occupied.
Simply because we did not directly and concretely ask for an Executive Order directing the Publisher of the Federal Register to publish [a] the tribal status of the Western Mohegan and [b] Chief Roberts’ name in the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Chief’s Directory and non-bar-admitted respect, we continue to suffer.
We believe, Mr. President, in light of [a] 25 U.S.C. §§ 2 or 9 or [b] Army recognition pursuant to 33 USC §§ 1 and 2338 or [c] Presidential recognition pursuant to Executive Order 13160 or [d] Department of Interior recognition by Supervisor Morgan or [e] the Congressional recognition letter of 1998 Aug 17 or [f] the combined weight of all these federal authorities that we merit three Executive Orders directing [a] The publishing our tribal status in the Federal Register and [b] The publishing of Chief Roberts name in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Chief’s Directory and [c] The policy and legal position of the United States is that under New York and federal law, tribes recognized by the State of New York are legally entitled to and possess standing to represent the tribe in recovering the possession of lands unlawfully occupied, unless there is a prior contractual agreement or unless a statute is enacted effectively repealing New York Indian law § 11-a..
In Chief Roberts’ speech before Secretary Caldera at the inaugural event of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative on 1998 Jul 30 at West Point, Chief Roberts, a direct descendant of this country’s Revolutionary War Veteran Force, referred to presenting the unity paddle to the President symbolizing the coming together of the races.
In 1783 George Washington wrote to all of us in this time and, in our respectful opinion, any President issuing an Executive Order directing the publishing of the formal recognition of the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation of New York can, under 25 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 9, stand firmly, morally, rationally and lawfully on these words:
“ the Muheakunnuk tribe of Indians have remained firmly attached to us and have fought and bled by our side; that we consider them as our friends and brothers, and as a peace is now established between all the powers who were at war, we do recommend it to all the different tribes of Indians as well as all other persons inhabiting the western country, not to molest them in any manner but to consider them as friends and subjects to the United States of America.”
The Muheakunnuk appreciate your time and consideration in this urgent matter.
[Enclosed To The President]
1 Exhibit 2 is President Clinton’s Executive Order 13160 dated 1997 Sep 11
2 Exhibit 19, Disclosure Statement, filed 2002 May 17 USBC EDNY, Ind. No. 00-22010, pg 5
3 Exhibit 13
4 Exhibit 3 is Governor Pataki’s recognition of the tribe thru attorney Judith Hard, the Governor’s Second Assistant Counsel, dated 1997 Jun 25
5 Exhibit 4 is the Memorandum Decision and Order recognizing the tribe, dated 1997 Jul 03
6 Exhibit 5 is Chief Roberts’ letter to President Clinton dated 1997 Aug 20
8 Exhibit 6 is the DOI’s acknowledgment of the tribal status of the Western Mohegan dated 1998 Jan 20
9 Exhibit 7 contains Chief Roberts’ speech at West Point.
10 See Exhibit 7
11 Exhibit 8 is a joint Congressional letter to President Clinton dated 1998 Aug 17
12 Exhibit 9 is President Clinton’s formal acknowledgment of the tribal status of the Western Mohegan.
13 Exhibit 10 is a Federal Agency granted property right to enter our ancestral burial grounds at Houghtalling Island, Greene County, New York pursuant to 33 USC §§ 1 and 2338, dated 1999 Oct 14
14 Exhibit 11 is the unanimous Ulster County Resolution resolving the property to be “Indian Country”
15 Exhibit 12 is the Western Mohegan land sale contract on the basis of tribal status. 2000 Dec 12
16 Exhibit 13 , Army “government-to-government” relations letter dated 2001 Jan 11
17 Exhibit 14 is Judge Duberstein’s Sale Order directly recognizing the Western Mohegan, 2001 Mar 06
18 Exhibit 15 is the Western Mohegan land sale contract on the basis of tribal status. 2001 Jun 28
19 Exhibit 16 is Judge Duberstein’s second recognition of our tribal status dated 2001 Jul 03
20 Exhibit 17 is Ulster County’s certified deeded release of its land interest and acknowledgment of our $900,000 payment, Liber 3189 pg 191, dated 2001 Jul 10
21 Exhibit 18 is the certified deed transfer, dated 2001 Jul 10, to the tribe for the valuable consideration of a promise to pay a total of $950,000 by 2001 Oct 16
22 Exhibit 15, pgs 1 and 2
23 Exhibit 19 contains pages 4 - 5 of Neil’s Mazel’s Disclosure Statement acknowledging full payment of $950,000 to Neil’s Mazel, Inc., by the Western Mohegan, dated 2002 May 15
WESTERN MOHEGAN TRIBE
NATION OF NEW YORK AND VERMONT
Posr A. Posr; Attorney General
of 1997 Sep 11
General George Washington
or the Interior Department
“ Chief Golden Eagle
aka Ronald Roberts”
President Clinton
Schodack Island
“ tribal “ burial ground
WESTERN MOHEGAN TRIBE AND NATION OF NEW YORK
American Heritage Rivers Initiative
Sherry Morgan
Ulster County Legislature
Hon. Conrad B. Duberstein
Neil’s Mazel
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Cash empowers the individual through data protection
By providing a high degree of privacy in payments, cash helps to slow the growing information asymmetry between consumers and companies as well as between citizens and public authorities. As knowledge about your counterparty is power, privacy is crucial for individuals to safeguard their position when dealing with organisations which are more powerful than a single person. [more]
Video: Global digital leadership: A two-horse race?
In the competition for global leadership in technologies like artificial intelligence, most observers see a two-horse race – between China and the United States. But what about Europe? Can it ever catch up to the galloping favorites? It won’t be easy. The digital economy in the United States has big advantages: a large domestic market, a risk-taking investment culture, and plenty of innovative companies and world-class universities. US tech giants were first-movers out of the gates, and used the network effects of the platform economy to dominate not only the US, but many other markets worldwide. [more]
UN Climate Summit: The most inconvenient message remains unsaid
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Ahead of and during the UN Climate Summit at Katowice, the usual warnings were heard, saying that a reduction in global carbon emissions was urgently necessary. However, these political calls are much too vague. Instead, the most inconvenient message remains unsaid: The technologies which are available today and in the foreseeable future will, in all probability, prove insufficient to counteract climate change to the necessary extent and with the necessary speed and, at the same time, allow households to stick to their consumption patterns and continue with the well-established division of labour along international production chains. [more]
The multiple stages of the blockchain revolution – or into the crypto future and back
Jochen Moebert
Since the rally in 2017, the buzzwords bitcoin and blockchain have been omnipresent in the public. Still, the understanding of how much potential the technology actually offers is often rudimentary. To shed more light onto the discussion, we discuss the manifold technological facets as well as the social changes that might come on the heels of the technology. After outlining the utopia, we point out the technical as well as the social hurdles that are standing in the way of the revolution. [more]
Air transport and tourism: more and more serious growing pains
Eric Heymann, Marcel Stechert
Steady growth in air transport is leading to capacity bottlenecks, both in terms of available planes and at individual airports. Capacities will need to be increased, which means that more money must be earmarked for fixed-asset investments as well as labour and operating expenses. Taken together, the growing pains in the aviation sector and the rise in jet fuel prices may prove an overwhelming chal-lenge for some market participants. Air transport growth has also resulted in higher capacity utilisation in related sectors, such as tourism (the “overtourism” phenomenon comes to mind). There are, in fact, discussions about limiting or redirecting visitor flows. [more]
More difficult international environment dampens export outlook
German exporters have had to deal with numerous challenges over the last few years. Exports to the UK, Russia and Turkey have been unusually volatile and trended downwards. Nevertheless, aggregate German exports rose by more than 3% p.a. in real terms between 2012 and 2017. Since the beginning of 2018, the trade conflict between the US and China has steadily intensified. The challenges might spread and turn into a global problem if the US begins to levy import tariffs on additional imports from China and/or increases existing tariffs. Doing so would probably cause the Chinese authorities to respond in kind. [more]
Understanding the blockchain revolution!
When reporting on bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies these days, the speaker is faced with the question: Shall he discuss the technology or move directly to the presentation of the social and economic implications? Conveying a complex technology in just a few minutes is risky. In Alice's rabbit burrow, the speaker and his audience quickly lose track of each other. But the audience may also be left clueless by the direct presentation of the potentially revolutionary implications. In the face of this dilemma and the complexity of cryptosystems, we will try to shed light on the issue by means of metaphors. We hope you will join us on our journey into the blockchain universe. [more]
Digital economics: How AI and robotics are changing our work and our lives
Banking and financial markets, Digital, Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics, Sectors and resources
Eric Heymann, Kevin Koerner, Marc Schattenberg
Developments in artificial intelligence and robotics have far-reaching economic and sociopolitical consequences, with some of them already materialising today. Still, the implications of further progress in these fields are not well understood. Economies around the world are likely to be impacted differently by the diffusion of AI technologies and robotics as wealthy industrial countries might increasingly “re-shore” production. To forge ahead and maximise the benefits for economies and societies, a balance needs to be found globally between successfully promoting key technologies and industries and avoiding the risk of rising protectionism and "knowledge wars". As the pace of technological change and the related launch of new business models are unlikely to slow, the ability of the state and regulators to keep pace is challenged. [more]
German trade surplus with the US in key industrial sectors
In 2017, Germany ran a trade surplus of around EUR 50 bn with the US. Exports came to roughly EUR 111 bn, compared with imports of around EUR 61 bn. It was the second-largest surplus in German-US merchandise trade. Relative to 2011, Germany’s trade surplus with the US roughly doubled. [more]
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The Highlands Region of Pennsylvania comprises 13 counties in the southeast part of the state. The area sits in the Appalachian Mountains and is known for its endearing landscapes and rural vacationing adventures. The Appalachian Mountain Club is even planning a trail network to help protect the natural beauty of the Highlands and connect them to trails in New York and New Jersey.
An easy drive from the Philadelphia area, these fishing destinations offer an idyllic escape from the hustle and bustle of the city:
Minsi Lake
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission was forced to repair the dam spillway at Minsi Lake in early 2013 after the Environmental Protection Agency deemed it a "high hazard." All repairs were completed in late August and authorities refilled the 117-acre lake to its normal water levels.
Phhoto by Nicholas_T via Flickr
Minsi Lake, located in Upper Mount Bethel Township, is stocked with juvenile walleye several times throughout the year. Largemouth bass, perch and rainbow trout are also abundant. All boats must be registered or have a launch permit issued by the boating commission or the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The nearby picnic pavilion and archery complex can keep you busy between catches.
Hibernia County Park
Located in Wagontown, Hibernia offers anglers variety that is difficult to match. The West Branch of Brandywine Creek is its best known and most popular fishing spot. The three-mile long brooklet is stocked with both brown and rainbow trout by the West Cain Sportsmen's Club. Smallmouth bass and sunfish are also known to bite.
Photo by Hagley Museum and Library via Wikimedia Commons
Chambers Lake is another spot in Hibernia for anglers to test. The 90-acre lake is a Panfish Enhancement Area and requires bass fishermen to catch-and-release throughout much of the spring. Chambers is also home to channel catfish and chain pickerel. The best part is that you can get started as early or late as you want. Fishing is permitted 24 hours per day.
Lake Nockamixon
Bucks County is bordered on two sides by the Delaware River, making it a prime spot for both walleye and bass fishing. The 1,450-acre Lake Nockamixon offers a complete fishing experience. It features weed beds and drop-offs, along with boating ramps. Carp, muskellunge, pickerel and bass are just a few of the numerous species of fish that bite.
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Nockamixon State Park offers cabins, hiking and picnic areas to provide fun for the whole family. Heck, rent an apartment and visit any time of year for cold and hot weather fishing. Swimming is prohibited in the lake, but the half-acre pool complete with two watersides more than makes up for it. There are six launching areas for boats, all of which are open 24 hours. You can bring your own boat or rent a canoe, kayak or motorboat from the concession area.
This list is nowhere near complete with regards to all the best fishing spots in the Highlands. Make certain to ask the locals about any seasonal events going on while you're there.
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Roses are red, violets are blue but according to the latest understanding these colours are really an illusion. One that you create yourself. Horizon reveals a surprising truth about how we all see the world. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colours you see may not always be the same as the colours I see. Your age, sex and even mood can affect how you experience colours. Scientists have unlocked the hidden power that colours can have over your life - how red can make you a winner, how blue makes time speed up. Watch an experiment where for people in a blue pod, a minute lasts 11 seconds shorter.
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AJ Hobbs
Album: Too Much Is Never Enough
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Website: http://www.ajhobbsmusic.com
'Too Much Is Never Enough' is the first full-length album from country musician AJ Hobbs. However, he is no newcomer and is yet another journeyman musician who plied his trade for many years before giving up his day job to pursue the dream.
AJ put his first band together in 2013 and after opening for Shooter Jennings, he was not only asked back but also started to forge a productive, working relationship with Shooter's bassist Ted Russell Kamp.
Prior to this record, AJ had released two EP's, the second co-produced by Kamp.
AJ Hobbs sound has been described as something that 'brings the spirit and storytelling of the great country outlaws and melds it with a sweet soulful sound inspired by Texas music, R&B and gospel'. He calls this style and stew of music 'Outlaw Soul'.
'Too Much Is Never Enough' was recorded variously at Bedrock Recording Studio, Station House Studios and The Den, mixed by Eric Rennaker, mastered by Pete Lyman and co-produce by Ted Russell Kamp and AJ Hobbs himself.
The twelve tracks comprise of ten originals, including two co-writes and covers of Ted Russell Kamp's 'A Whole Lot of You and Me' and the Merle Haggard tune, 'The Bottle Let Me Down'.
On the album, Hobbs supplies lead guitar, vocals, and Kamp bass, whilst other musicians are something of a 'who's who' from the top brass of country music players and far too many to mention by name here. Clearly AJ Hobbs is well connected!
Opening and title track 'To Much Is Never Enough' comes driving in, all boogie-woogie rhythm and classic bar room swagger as the lyrics tumble out. AJ has a strong, almost archetypal country voice that is more Sturgill Simpson than Chris Stapleton to my ears. The band playing here really is outstanding as well; full of lovely little fills, trills and runs while never missing a beat. In and out at just over two minutes thirty seconds, this is the way to grab the listener's attention.
'Life Without You' is a slower, more reflective number whilst 'The Loser' is another defiant statement of intent charting AJ's decision to give up the 'day job' and pursue a musical life on the road.
Up next is Merle Haggard's 'The Bottle Let Me Down' and features yet another great ensemble performance with almost 'The Band' type moments when AJ's vocal sounded distinctly Levon Holmes like. Great stuff indeed.
'Daddy Loved The Lord' is touted as the lead track and understandably so. A strong 'first person' story from AJ spanning Jesus, the Devil and his father in under three minutes fifty which is no mean feat in itself. Fine backing vocals lend an almost gospel feel to the chorus and the rounding up couplet of 'Daddy loved the Lord just a little bit more than he loved my mamma and me' is just classic country.
Another much-referenced song is 'Shit Just Got Real' that made an appearance on one of his earlier EP's and is reworked here. I particularly like the electric guitar solo in the middle, really gritty, discordant and overdriven, more rock than country but a pedal steel then cleverly ushers back into the verse and familiar terrain.
Moving towards the latter stages of the album the Ted Kamp song, 'A Whole Lot Of You And Me' makes an appearance. It shuffles in sweetly on an acoustic strum, fiddle and restrained drums and features probably AJ's most reflective vocal on the album, showing a subtler side of his voice to great effect.
The record ends with 'Tomorrow I'll Be Hurtin' and is a great way of signing out. This track also comes in with an acoustic rhythm and tight drums and straddles themes of loss, hope and defiance and boasts another great couplet, 'So help me if you can and put something in my jar, tomorrow I'll be hurting, tonight I'll be a star'.
This is a very good album where AJ Hobbs really takes the opportunity to set out his musical stall for all to see. His sound cleverly captures a contemporary twist on the country traditions where he never strays far from the ubiquitous themes of drinking, travelling, loss and redemption, yet never sounds anything less than current and relevant.
Add in some great original songs, inspired covers, a country voice to die for and stellar playing by everyone involved, all recorded to perfection and you have an object lesson in how to make a debut album.
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College of Isis - Difference Between Iseums and Lyceums
Lawrence Durdin-Robertson and Olivia Robertson with a new Hierophant. Photo © John Merron.
The Difference Between Iseums and Lyceums
One of the questions most frequently asked is in regard to the difference between Iseums and Lyceums. These two terms, of all in the Fellowship of Isis become confused one with the other because of the similarity of the sound of their names, and some similarities in function.
Iseums
Iseums are also called "Hearths of the Goddess". An Iseum is founded in a home where the Goddess is honored. “Iseum” literally translates as “Home of Isis” - in this case Isis of Ten Thousand Names, the patroness Deity of the Fellowship of Isis. Iseums may be founded by any member within the Fellowship.
The member may be solitary and found an Iseum with a membership of one.
An Iseum may be founded by an FOI member who has formed a local group, and offer gatherings or seasonal rituals, meditations or classes.
An Iseum may offer Priestess/Priest Training, but only if the head of the Iseum is an ordained Priestess or Priest.
Iseums are not required to offer coursework. They may operate purely as devotional centers.
There is a coursework guideline called The “Spiral of the Adepti” that lists FOI rituals that may be used toward eventual Initiation as an Adept. An Adept within the Fellowship of Isis offers a specific Specialty to the Goddess, such as herbalism, holistic therapy, etc. An Adepti has earned at least four Initiations from the Spiral of Adepti rites through study within an Iseum that is headed by an Adepti. Once an Adepti has gained four Initiations and been consecrated by the Consecration of an Adepti rite, they are qualified to teach the Adepti system within their own Iseum. This coursework may be taught by the head of an Iseum only if they are an Adept. Becoming an Adept does not make someone a member of the FOI Priesthood. Those offering training for Adepts do not have to be members of the FOI Priesthood. Members may join more than one Iseum. Members need to study adepti degree training with only one Iseum at a time.
The word "Lyceum" is an archaic name for a place of learning. The original Lyceum stood on a site near Athens and was the home of a philosophical school founded by Aristotle. A Lyceum is founded after a FOI Priestess/Priesthood member has attained four Magi degrees through a Lyceum of the College of Isis. The purpose of a Lyceum is to provide a structured course of study based on the FOI Liturgy rituals listed within the guidelines created by FOI Co-Founders Olivia Robertson and her brother Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, as inspired by Isis at the time of the founding of the College of Isis. Lyceums are only founded by a Hierophant of the FOI Priestess/Priesthood. A Hierophant is someone who has attained four magi degrees and has been certified through a Lyceum. A Hierophant is someone who has undergone much preparation and study. "Hierophant" literally means "one who shows forth." The purpose of a Lyceum is much more focused and specialized when compared to the work of Iseums. A Lyceum may also offer training towards ordination into the FOI Priestess/Priesthood as well as magi degree training. A person may belong to more than one Lyceum, but members need to study magi degree training with only one Lyceum at a time.
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1. A History of Excellence
The top private clubs have been around for a long time. Many were founded over a century ago. Some, from their inception, and many others through accumulated passage of time, have been recognized by all who know them as being domiciles of excellence. Whether this heritage is perpetuated in a formal mission statement or informally passed along within its membership and staff, it is deeply imbued in the fortunate who belong or work there. The membership and staff alike consider the perpetuation of this history of excellence as a mission.
2. The Quality of Membership
No club can be great without having great members. This means a membership that represents the best qualities of those communities in which the club exists. Acceptance and compatibility transcend all discriminating issues. Members like each other and the staff that serves them. They are knowledgeable about matters that affect the club and treat the facilities as though they were their own – which, in a real sense, they are. Great members care so much about their club that they work hard to attract prospective new members who are equally great.
3. The Condition of its Facilities
A celebrated golf course or magnificent clubhouse by themselves do not make a club great. Rather it is the total array of facilities, their general excellence and fulfillment of member needs in every area of function and activity. These clubs invest on a regular and planned basis in the maintenance, supervision, and replacement of the grounds, plant, and equipment. They ensure that each piece of equipment and every facility is well maintained. They do not have to be brand new.
4. The Caliber of its Professional Staff
Many is the club with rich heritage and renowned amenities that does not qualify as a great club. Without a staff of equally high quality, such a club is missing on its most important cylinders. This excellence must be as well exhibited by the newest dishwasher or waiter as it is by the club’s longest tenured staff. The club will be recognized in its community as a good place to work, where the pay, benefits, environment of work, and job security are attested to as excellent year after year. Ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen is a maxim of the finest clubs.
5. Enlightened and Consistent Governance
Great clubs are led by presidents, owners, and directors who understand that their roles are strategic and policy setting. It is the professional staff that carries out the policies and day-to-day operations. Boards of this caliber work hard at ensuring that there is continuity of effort and direction, term after term. The nominating committee or owner takes their work seriously, ensuring that the best qualified members serve on the board – and that the board itself is broadly representative of the club membership as a whole.
6. Adaptable to Changing Times
As social institutions, clubs themselves undergo change – gradual as they will be. A club that resists this, sometimes because of restrictive by-laws or the resistance of elements on the board or in the membership, will slowly wither and eventually perish as members join more vital clubs or quit. Great clubs work at anticipating their members – and prospective new members – needs and interests. Such clubs have a mission statement that says who they are and a strategic plan that says where they want to be. Great clubs view this plan not simply as a document to put on the shelf and refer to periodically but as a road map that they are now moving along.
7. Member Devotion to their Club’s Distinctive Culture
Great clubs celebrate their heritage and religiously observe their time-honored traditions. They know that the member/guest golf event is always the third weekend in June, that the general manager gets dunked at the year-end pool party, and that all the ladies at the annual president’s ball must be wearing yellow rose corsages. There is pride and togetherness in observing traditions and practices handed down through generations of members – oftentimes the older and more non-sensical they seem, the better. There is a true cult of culture in great clubs and it is stringently observed.
8. A Spirit of Generosity in its Community
Many of America’s premier private clubs were founded around a spirit of giving to its community or the nation. This is particularly true of great clubs such as the Union League Club of Chicago and the Union League of Philadelphia. Others have developed their philanthropic and participatory relationships with cause and community through the caring nature of members and over the passage of time. Their motivations for acts of generosity are not done to generate overt publicity for themselves but in the spirit of genuine care – with as little publicity as possible.
9. Prudent Fiscal Management
No institution of any kind can go through decades and generations without from time to time encountering serious financial challenges. Many a great club barely survived the Great Depression or the dues deductibility issue of the late 1980’s. Great clubs have had the wisdom to plan well and invest well. Initiation fees go into a capital, not operating, fund. Dues and other costs are set to fund operations, improvements, and depreciation, so that member services and facilities are maintained at an affordable and exceptional level. Their boards understand the need for regular dues increases and occasional assessments.
10. Universal Acknowledgement of Greatness
Great clubs are widely known as such by the strata of American society that frequent private clubs and are well traveled. They tout them universally. This perception extends well beyond a club’s community or the venue (i.e., a great golf course, etc.) for which it is best known. From time to time a great club will have a poor leader or board – or even a bad apple or two in the membership – but the truly great clubs are like great families. They possess the wisdom to progress, cope, and have fun being together. The future for any great club is what it always has been: The ability to attract and retain the greatest new members it possibly can.
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Within the Group's CSR roadmap , five priorities have been identified to enable Eramet to be – tomorrow even more so than today – a responsible economic player that can respond to the challenges of its time.
1. Become one of the leaders in the metals of the energy transition
From the Lithium project to an R&D program on recycling lithium-ion batteries and a development project in nickel sulfate production, diversifying the Group's activities – particularly in favor of electric mobility batteries – is a priority focus of the Group's development strategy for the coming years.
2023 objective: commitment to diversifying Eramet's activity portfolio in the electric mobility battery supply chain
2. Actively contribute to the circular economy
Demand for metals will grow 2.5-fold by 2060, according to the OECD. Because they are infinitely recyclable, metals are particularly suited to the development of the circular economy. Eramet has long been active in optimizing the repurposing of these resources, and many flows are already recycled in the Group's plants. To move beyond this achieved performance, new targets have been set. To this end, a Circular Economy Action Group has been set up to foster the emergence of actions contributing to this goal, one of the main aims being to verify their compliance in terms of material repurposing and environmental footprint.
2023 objective: repurpose over 2 million tons of tailings and low-grade ore, as well as 10,000 tons of waste
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2023 objective: be recognized for our application of the United Nations Guiding Principles, measured by achieving a mature level according to the UNGP Reporting Framework (Shift-Mazars).
4. Be a preferred ethical partner
Eramet is taking a variety of initiatives to meet the strictest ethical standards, including on-site actions, appointing ambassadors, internal and external training campaigns and e-learning training dedicated to the Ethics Charter.
2023 objective: all of the Sales and Purchasing teams given anti-corruption training every year
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Suppliers and customers assessed as being at-risk means third parties deemed "critical and/or sensitive" (in terms of Eramet importance or CSR risk – depending on the activity or country). The latter need to be compliant, in accordance with the results of CSR/Ethics assessments, with the Group's commitments on these subjects. If these assessments show a gap between expectations and results, the Group fosters dialog and support, and retains the right to terminate the business relationship.
2023 objective: All of the Group's suppliers and customers assessed as at-risk comply with the Eramet CSR/Ethics commitments.
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The Three C’s (Computers, Crime, and Corrections)
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HELP: A Pokémon Is After Me!
I am not sure if any of you have witnessed the recent craze that started in July called Pokémon GO, which has individuals using their Smart Phones to search and capture imaginary creatures in the real world. No I am not making this up. Some are forecasting a “flood” of more games to come, capitalizing on this concept which is more specifically referred to as augmented reality gaming. As with any new technological development, there can be a dark side, which has already been exploited by those who look to victimize others.
Before delving into this discussion, let me first explain a little further about Pokémon Go. The game is aimed at players age 10 and up and at least initially the developers did not see fit to put perimeters on where the “creatures” could be located. Individuals were finding the creatures in clearly inappropriate places for children playing a game, such as The Holocaust Museum, funeral homes, and adult themed stores.
Not long after game was released, a NY state senator expressed concern that the game could be used by “higher-level sex offenders” to gain access to children. The senator observed an informal investigation revealed 57 Pokémon creatures were located near 100 addresses of registered sex offenders across New York City. The senator advocated and apparently obtained earlier this week a parole condition for MOST sex offenders in NY that reflects:
“I understand that I shall not download, access, or otherwise engage in any internet-enabled gaming activities to include Pokémon Go.”
I find this very interesting. I have long stressed that Internet gaming held the potential for sex offenders to engage in grooming activities and therefore was an appropriate supervision prohibition. After all playing a game does not educate or help someone get employment. However, I tended to focus on games children victims would most likely be playing. Children are the ones who are the grooming targets of pedophiles. However, the prohibition reflects “any Internet-enabled gaming.” That clearly applies to Pokémon Go. But does it also apply to online Chess and games less likely to be played by children? A more specific example is the American Association of Retired Persons, which has games for the over 50 crowd to play. Is an elderly, maybe disabled sex offender under supervision in NY now prohibited from this activity? There is a real potential to widen the net here beyond what is needed.
One thing that kind of dropped by the wayside was a recommendation by this same senator to require these game developers to exclude locations where registered sex offenders reside. The state of NY has a shown a willingness to share sex offender registration information for such purposes. Gee, that would exclude a much larger sex offender population then just those under parole supervision. I think though from a developers’ standpoint it may make it bit more challenging to have these augmented reality games function in large areas that are off limits due to sex offenders in the community. (Yes, people, not all sex offenders are in prison and they do live in our communities.)
I mean, what is the acceptable distance from a sex offender and Pokémon creature, 100 feet, or like school restrictions, a 1,000 to 2,000 feet from the sex offender’s residence? Additionally sex offenders are allowed to move, which requires them to update their registration. This would require the gaming company to periodically update their “exclusion zones.” At a minimum this might require a monthly reconciliation but more likely a weekly update to make sure the zones are properly excluded. Also, people we are just taking about keeping the residences of sex offenders off the gaming zones. What about where they work or go to school? This information is also part of the registration. Should the gaming grid also exclude these locations to make sure kids are safe? Maybe from a developer’s standpoint, they hold no responsibility to make sure the players are safe. That is up to the Government, right?
The Government only has control over those who are currently under supervision. Many sex offenders aren’t on supervision. Additionally, there are obviously those who have absconded and are wanted. No parent should throw caution to the wind because there are parole conditions that prohibit supervised sex offenders from using these games. Allowing their children to run free, unsupervised, and possibly alone, while playing Pokémon Go or any other augmented reality game is asking for trouble.
By the way, to date the biggest offender group to exploit Pokémon Go, appears not to be in the sex offender population. At a minimum there have been reports in California, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, Maryland, and Texas where adults playing this game have been robbed at gun point. (I found maybe two examples of sex offenders missing using this particular gaming application) Basically, victims find themselves distracted by the game, in areas they probably should not be in, during times when they should be there. It doesn’t help that they are holding expensive electronic devices in the open. Should we start barring parolees who committed robbery from playing these games too? Maybe they should not be in the close vacancy of a Pokémon creature.
It seems we need to do a better job of balancing these parole restrictions to the risk and tailored to the needs of the case. Additionally, it probably is appropriate to require software/gaming companies to develop products that minimize the potential for harm to users. For starters they should focus on game grids in the real world that are as free from risk areas as possible and where law enforcement regularly patrols. They should also have built in controls that prohibit any users from adding creatures or game tokens to locations that have not been approved. They might also consider requiring users that are given such powers to be properly vetted. Finally, we as consumers, either as individuals or parents need to start thinking about how we are ultimately responsible for our own safety and that of our loved ones and quit relying solely on the private sector and Government to make us safe. On that note, I left a cigar lit somewhere (Hopefully some stray Pokémon hasn’t taken off with it.). Be safe out there!
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1. Epstein T, Saltzman-Benaiah J, O’Hare A, Goll JC, Tuck S. Associated features of Asperger Syndrome and their relationship to parenting stress. Child Care Health Dev ;2008 (Jul) ;34(4):503-511.
BACKGROUND : Studies have shown an increased level of stress in parents of autistic children relative to parents of non-autistic children. Few studies have examined parenting stress specifically within the Asperger Syndrome (AS) population. Children with AS often have associated difficulties such as sensory sensitivities and problems with executive functioning (i.e. planning, inhibiting, shifting set). This study was designed to study parenting stress as well as to consider the relationship between parenting stress and some of the associated difficulties of AS. More specifically, the aims of this study were to demonstrate the following : that, as a group, parents of children with AS would report elevated levels of parenting stress, a finding which may be more significant for mothers than fathers ; that children with AS show impairment in executive functioning as well as heightened sensory sensitivity according to parent report ; that parent report of their child’s demanding characteristics would be positively associated with their self-reported levels of parenting stress. METHODS : Participants in this study were the parents of 39 children between the ages of 5 and 12 years, reflecting a 71% response rate, in the Lothian region of Scotland who completed The Parenting Stress Index, the Behavioural Rating Inventory of Executive Function and the Short Sensory Profile. RESULTS : The study revealed that both mothers and fathers of AS children reported elevated levels of parenting stress. There was a significant positive correlation between mother’s parenting stress and the child’s level of impairment, both with respect to executive dysfunction as well as sensory difficulties. CONCLUSION : The challenges of parenting a child with AS should not be underestimated. Further study is needed to explore the causative role that child impairments play in parenting stress and what types of interventions may prove most helpful to these families.
2. Gargus JJ. Genetic calcium signaling abnormalities in the central nervous system : seizures, migraine, and autism. Ann N Y Acad Sci ;2009 (Jan) ;1151:133-156.
The calcium ion is one of the most versatile, ancient, and universal of biological signaling molecules, known to regulate physiological systems at every level from membrane potential and ion transporters to kinases and transcription factors. Disruptions of intracellular calcium homeostasis underlie a host of emerging diseases, the calciumopathies. Cytosolic calcium signals originate either as extracellular calcium enters through plasma membrane ion channels or from the release of an intracellular store in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via inositol triphosphate receptor and ryanodine receptor channels. Therefore, to a large extent, calciumopathies represent a subset of the channelopathies, but include regulatory pathways and the mitochondria, the major intracellular calcium repository that dynamically participates with the ER stores in calcium signaling, thereby integrating cellular energy metabolism into these pathways, a process of emerging importance in the analysis of the neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Many of the calciumopathies are common complex polygenic diseases, but leads to their understanding come most prominently from rare monogenic channelopathy paradigms. Monogenic forms of common neuronal disease phenotypes-such as seizures, ataxia, and migraine-produce a constitutionally hyperexcitable tissue that is susceptible to periodic decompensations. The gene families and genetic lesions underlying familial hemiplegic migraine, FHM1/CACNA1A, FHM2/ATP1A2, and FHM3/SCN1A, and monogenic mitochondrial migraine syndromes, provide a robust platform from which genes, such as CACNA1C, which encodes the calcium channel mutated in Timothy syndrome, can be evaluated for their role in autism and bipolar disease.
3. Mosconi MW, Kay M, D’Cruz AM, Seidenfeld A, Guter S, Stanford LD, Sweeney JA. Impaired inhibitory control is associated with higher-order repetitive behaviors in autism spectrum disorders. Psychol Med ;2009 (Jan 21):1-8.
BACKGROUND : Impairments in executive cognitive control, including a reduced ability to inhibit prepotent responses, have been reported in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). These deficits may underlie patterns of repetitive behaviors associated with the disorder.MethodEighteen individuals with ASD and 15 age- and IQ-matched healthy individuals performed an antisaccade task and a visually guided saccade control task, each with gap and overlap conditions. Measures of repetitive behaviors were obtained using the Autism Diagnostic Inventory - Revised (ADI-R) and examined in relation to neurocognitive task performance. RESULTS : Individuals with an ASD showed increased rates of prosaccade errors (failures to inhibit prepotent responses) on the antisaccade task regardless of task condition (gap/overlap). Prosaccade error rates were associated with the level of higher-order (e.g. compulsions, preoccupations) but not sensorimotor repetitive behaviors in ASD. CONCLUSIONS : Neurocognitive disturbances in voluntary behavioral control suggest that alterations in frontostriatal systems contribute to higher-order repetitive behaviors in ASD.
4. Shultz SR, Macfabe DF, Martin S, Jackson J, Taylor R, Boon F, Ossenkopp KP, Cain DP. Intracerebroventricular injections of the enteric bacterial metabolic product propionic acid impair cognition and sensorimotor ability in the Long-Evans rat : Further development of a rodent model of autism. Behav Brain Res ;2008 (Dec 30)
Propionic acid (PPA) is a dietary short chain fatty acid and a metabolic end-product of enteric bacteria. Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of PPA can result in brain and behavioral abnormalities in rats similar to those seen in humans suffering from autism. To evaluate cognition and sensorimotor ability in the PPA model, male Long-Evans hooded rats received ICV injection of PPA or control compounds prior to behavioral testing in water maze and beam tasks. Compared to controls, PPA-treated rats were impaired in the water maze task as indicated by an unusual pattern of mild or no impairment during spatial acquisition training, but marked impairment during spatial reversal training. PPA-treated rats were also impaired on the beam task. Neuropathological analysis from PPA-treated rats revealed an innate neuroinflammatory response. These findings add to evidence that PPA can change the brain and behavior in the laboratory rat consistent with symptoms of human autism.
5. Smith M, Spence MA, Flodman P. Nuclear and mitochondrial genome defects in autisms. Ann N Y Acad Sci ;2009 (Jan) ;1151:102-132.
In this review we will evaluate evidence that altered gene dosage and structure impacts neurodevelopment and neural connectivity through deleterious effects on synaptic structure and function, and evidence that the latter are key contributors to the risk for autism. We will review information on alterations of structure of mitochondrial DNA and abnormal mitochondrial function in autism and indications that interactions of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes may play a role in autism pathogenesis. In a final section we will present data derived using Affymetrix SNP 6.0 microarray analysis of DNA of a number of subjects and parents recruited to our autism spectrum disorders project. We include data on two sets of monozygotic twins. Collectively these data provide additional evidence of nuclear and mitochondrial genome imbalance in autism and evidence of specific candidate genes in autism. We present data on dosage changes in genes that map on the X chromosomes and the Y chromosome. Precise analyses of Y located genes are often difficult because of the high degree of homology of X- and Y-related genes. However, continued efforts to analyze the latter are important, given the consistent evidence for a 4:1 ratio of males to females affected by autism. It is also important to consider whether environmental factors play a role in generating the nuclear and mitochondrial genomic instability we have observed. The study of autism will benefit from a move to analysis of pathways and multigene clusters for identification of subtypes that share a specific genetic etiology.
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The Notorious Bettie Page
More clever than insightful, [but] Harron makes the most of that humorously earnest style ripped from the pin-up pages.
90 min. Picturehouse. Director: Mary Harron. Cast: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Cara Seymour.
In real life, iconic '50s pin-up girl Bettie Page gave acting the old college try with none other than legendary acting teacher Herbert Berghof. As conjured by co-writer/director Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol) and star Gretchen Mol, Page plays scenes from George Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. The allusion is apt: like Shakespeare's muse, Page sure as h-e-double-hockey-sticks had the certain something to captivate a man, and her impact on American erotica continues to be felt today.
An HBO Film promoted to a theatrical release, The Notorious Bettie Page sets the stage but feels narratively underformed, like an out-of-town try-out. Harron succeeds on sheer filmmaking skill and force-of-will, immersing herself in '50s style (the essentials? "Clothes, pose, and expression," or so Bettie is told). Harron employs black-and-white photography, and brief color passages, so expertly as seamlessly to integrate stock footage of the era.
The screenplay, by Harron and Guinevere Turner, speedily establishes how southern belle (and confused Christian) Page was repeatedly burned by men, making her eventual sexual notoriety all the more ironic (as one gobsmacked boyfriend says, "Doctors write books about this sort of thing"). Naïvely hopeful, Page forges onward, looking for the right man and the right vocation. She stumbles into a career as a pin-up model, eventually posing in increasingly risqué situations. Her nude and bondage shots—branded "smut," "evil," "insidious filth"—get her subpoenaed by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver (David Strathairn).
Harron presents Page—at times to the point of frustration—as an enigmatic innocent simply at odds with two polar forces: genuine perversion and sexual repression. If The Notorious Bettie Page is more clever than insightful, Harron makes the most of that humorously earnest style ripped from the pin-up pages (dig the recreations of photographer Bunny Yeager's jungle mock-ups and Bettie's infamous "Clown Dance"). In a fine performance, Mol believably represents the kitschy pursuits and born-again faith of the raven-haired beauty—it's only a shame that Turner and Harron leave unturned so many of the painful stones in Page's life.
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More Than Motion
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Stereohype’s fifth, and debut full-length, studio album, More Than Motion, is loaded with hits. The title track, More Than Motion, as well as Loco Motive and No Heroes can be heard on the band’s MySpace page. Other tracks include Blackout, The One, Times Like These, and Stockholm.
In the past one of Stereohype’s hits was a drinking song and they didn’t let us down with this new album. More Than Motion is filled with drinking songs and references. If you have ever had a few too many drinks and found love in a bar Blackout is the song for you; and if you haven’t, its catchy chorus is still a lot of fun to sing along to.
The One starts off with very popular rock runs and then falls into full-on trumpets. No album is complete without at least one broken-hearted song, and although there are multiple on this album, The One will most definitely be a favorite with its “emo” lyrics, heavy rock drums and even a screamo line made original with the bands signature ska flair pumping the chorus.
Given that Stereohype’s genre is ska expect to hear various musical stylings intertwined throughout their songs. Times Like These starts off very reggae with blues overtones, but proves itself rock before the theatrical rap mid way through the song.
Showing the guy’s humor, Stockholm’s clever lyrics are a prime example of the cliché that a guitarist’s axe is his girl. Chase Thomes vocals, mixed with the guitars, drums and horn line, showcase a jazzy funk style that only a southern-bred band could pull off appropriately.
Every song on this album is high voltage, demanding you to get up and dance (or skank in ska terms). No matter the situation, More Than Motion has you covered; after listening to a song or two you’ll be driven to get out there and live life to your fullest. Despite your preferred genre or Stereohype’s unsigned status, this album is a must listen for 2009. The album’s May ninth release date, however, is now uncertain. A car ran a red light and struck guitarist, trumpet player and vocalist Nicholas Rohde on his motorcycle after the band’s victorious participation in a battle of the bands at the Hard Rock Casino.
Rohde is in good spirits. While having sustained serious injuries that may inhibit his ability to play and perform, he was wearing a helmet and padded riding jacket that may have helped save his life. Hopefully, he will make a full recovery and can return to what he does so well–making great music.
The driver who struck Rohde was uninsured, leaving Rohde with the burden of medical expenses, etc. If you are interested in donating to the Nic Rohde benefit you can either go in person to Hancock Bank and make a deposit to the credit of: BENEFIT FOR NICHOLAS ROHDE 044288920 or attend the benefit show at Nate’s Sports Bar and Grill on May 8th.
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Bill O'Reilly Warns Obama "All Hell Will Break Loose" if You "Backdoor" ObamaCare through the House - Video 3/16/10
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Here is video of Bill O'Reilly telling liberal Ellis Henican last night that "all hell will break loose" if President Obama "backdoors" the Senate Health Care bill through the House.
Henican did not think it would matter three weeks later. In other words, Democrats like Henican believe Americans are just too stupid to understand or care. It appears, this belief is leading Democrats to be emboldened to use whatever tactics they choose.
However, Americans are engaged in this fight. The most motivated voters - who tend to vote in midterms - do understand and are paying attention.
Labels: Bill O' Reilly, Ellis Henican, Government Health Care, Senate Health Care Bill
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Breitling Navitimer 1 Automatic 38
This 38mm is a smaller steel-cased version of the world's most recognisable pilot's watch, with cleaner looks thanks to the absence of the usual chronograph sub-dials (and functions.) It works a treat. The movement is chronometer-certified and there are black, blue or silver dialled versions all on alligator leather straps. Photo: Supplied
Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre 16
The Carrera is celebrating its 55th anniversary this year so no surprise this celebratory chrono has a vintage feel. There are two versions; black, mounted on a black strap or steel bracelet, and – ticking the boxes for us – this sporty option with touches of red and blue. The case is 41mm, water resistant to 100 metres, the bezel scratch-resistant ceramic, the movement self-winding. Photo: Supplied
Rolex GMT-Master ll
Rolex's revamp of the GMT-Master was the talk of both Baselworld and the enthusiast world, proving desire lies firmly in the details. Those new details include a blue and red 'Pepsi' Cerachrome bezel, an upgraded movement with 70 hours power reserve and for the first time on a modern sports Rolex, a so-called 'Jubilee' bracelet tailored to fit just this model. Photo: Supplied
Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Berluti Scritto
When it comes to watches blue was the new black at Baselworld, with brand after brand releasing models with blue dials. Hublot unsurprisingly took things even further, fashioning the dial of this Berlutti Scritto model in the same leather as the band. You can choose your case in gold or, as shown here, titanium. Photo: Supplied
Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph
Baselworld saw Patek debuting this steel-cased chronograph, the first in their Aquanaut range. To make sure we all noticed it comes not only in basic black but also in striking orange livery. The strap replicates the dial's embossed pattern, but it's the 308-part flyback movement – visible through a crystal case-back – that's equally appealing to buffs. Photo: Supplied
Tudor Black Bay GMT
Offering Rolex-like looks for less than half the price, Tudor's first GMT boasts a red and blue 'Pepsi' bezel, choice of straps (steel rivet-style bracelet to leather or fabric number,) and a chronometer-certified self-winding movement with 70 hours power reserve. Spanning a wearable 41 mm, it's water resistant to 200 metres Photo: Supplied
Oris Carl Brashear Chronograph Limited Edition
Oris's Brashear models honour the US Navy's first African American and first amputee Master Diver, and this year sees this limited edition (2000 pieces world-wide) self-winding chronograph succeed the original three-hand time-teller. Based on the Sixty-Five dive model it's cased in bronze with two sub-dials on a blue dial under a seductively domed crystal. Photo: Supplied
Seiko Prospex 1968 Automatic Diver's Re-creation
This beefy diver combines vintage looks with a 'hi-beat' movement and polishing and finishing that's second to none. Like its 300 metre forebear it features a massive one-piece case, good this time around for saturation diving, while a dual-curved sapphire crystal ensures legibility up top or down below. Just 1500 will be produced. Photo: Supplied
Welcome to Baselworld, the most important annual fair for the luxury watch industry held each March in Basel, Switzerland. It's like the Cannes Film Festival for chronographs, where huge brands meet for the unveiling of intricate 'novelties' – headline-grabbing timepiece to be released in the year ahead – and do serious business with international watch retailers and commentators.
The main hall is like the Birdcage at the Melbourne Cup meets an airport shopping centre, with enormous temporary activations – or 'booths' – erected for each brand.
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Luxury powerhouse LVMH is at the top of the track, with TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith the first addresses on the main thoroughfare, followed by Rolex and Tudor, Patek Philippe, Blancpain, Omega and Longines. Further back, there is a maze of shimmering structures carefully reflecting a brand's DNA: Breitling's booth is the picture of masculine cool in marble, wood and steel, while Chanel glimmers like a lacquered black jewellery box.
Inside Baselworld. Photo: Christophe Chammartin
Time apart
It's a who's who of wildly expensive watch makers, but there are several players missing from luxury group Richemont, which holds its own rival fair, SIHH, in Geneva each January proffering Cartier, IWC, Panerai and more.
"There is a split between Geneva and Basel, in the beginning everything was together," says Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe. This is his 23rd Baselworld. "I don't think [the fair] has changed enough. That's the problem of Baselworld: they should do more. Give more access to the public for instance, it needs to be more accessible … The challenge is to maintain the excitement."
The norm is boring … Personalisation is a cornerstone of the future of watchmaking.
George Bamford
Fairfax watch editor Bani McSpedden agress the fair has its flaws. "The tease of the giant Baselworld fair is that despite the attendance of some 650 brands it's the last place in the world to buy a watch," he says. "Yes, attending distributors and retailers can order them for delivery in the coming months, but nothing is available for a visitor to purchase. Given there are more than 100,000 watch lovers passing through the fair's doors, this must be a giant missed opportunity."
The word is that SIHH has the edge with a more glamorous, less trade-focused event. This year, Baselworld lost around half of its exhibitors – 700 compared to 1300 in 2017 – and reduced the duration by two days. Nonetheless, while overall watch sales fell last year, more expensive watches are on the up. Swiss watch exports increased 12.8 per cent in the first two months of the year, with the Chinese market rising around 30 per cent.
"The Chinese are the biggest luxury consumers in the world by far, not only in watches but in other products," says Guadalupe. "For Hublot there's been maybe a 40 or 50 per cent growth in the business [in Asia], which is eight per cent of our total business."
Leave it to Biver
Hublot is arguably one of the most disruptive brands in Swiss watchmaking, and has been an agitator for over 30 years, says LVMH's watch and jewellery CEO, Jean-Claude Biver. Mr Biver is a legend at Baselworld, like the Richard Branson of the watch business. The ex-hippy reinvented Hublot, then was handed the keys to TAG Heuer and Zenith, where he has made massive inroads in recent years.
"I believe very much in disruption, it's always part of the future," Mr Biver tells Executive Style. "When a new generation comes, they always disrupt the old one. The hippies disrupted the old generation, the rappers have disrupted the music, street painters have disrupted impressionists. Every new generation brings a disruption, and that's how they go into the future. It doesn't mean that the past will not remain, the past keeps its value. But disruption is the only way to move to the future."
At a press conference inside TAG Heuer's impressive booth, which has been ruptured down the middle as if by an earthquake to reflect the brand's catch phrase #dontcrackunderpressure, Biver spontaneously bursts into a rendition of the Beatles' Yesterday. He is 'yesterday', he says, while young people are the future. "If I was 20 years old I would not need to work with young people," he says. "Because I am 69, I need to learn. I cannot be onto the trends like the young. They are doing the trends, I am watching the trends."
Ground breakers
This is no doubt why Mr Biver secured the services of the young-ish George Bamford, arch disruptor of the modern watch industry. The story goes that the 36-year-old Brit was given a Rolex by his father for his 16th birthday – his father happens to be billionaire Sir Anthony Bamford – but was dismayed to find his school friends already had the exact same watch. A desire for difference spawned his own enterprise, Bamford Watch Department, which customises high end timepieces with one-of-a-kind materials, from glowing numbers to engraved bracelets.
Orlinsky's Classic Fusion. Photo: Supplied
"People were mad at him because he was painting steel in black. But that's wrong with that?" says Mr Biver. "He is born as a disruptor, and he has been the enemy. People say 'oh we don't like him, he is changing my watch'. So what? It's like painting a car in military green. Maybe the brands say that is not their colour, but if the the customer wants this colour, you don't fight it."
Bamford has collaborated with TAG Heuer for a limited edition Monaco customised with carbon fibre case, a full black dial and aqua blue chronometers, limited to only 500 pieces priced at a $10,600.
It's a dream come true for Bamford, who grew up wearing the brand on his wrist. "My first ever watch was a cheap Formula 1 with a plastic bezel and a luminous dial," he says. "I used to love how that luminous dial worked at night, it just exploded. I thought 'this is cool', but I feel very sad about it now because I gave it to my ex-girlfriend and I've been trying to get it back ever since."
George Bamford is shaking the watch industry. Photo: Ivan Simeon
Feeding the frenzy
The charismatic Bamford is spearheading a new appetite for customised luxury, where individuality is key – something many brands don't appreciate as much as TAG Heuer (Rolex reportedly blacklisted him). "You have to always disrupt to make something different, to make something exciting," Bamford says. "I used to hate the word disruption but now I think of it as changing the norm, and the norm is becoming a bit more like George Orwell's 1984. The norm is becoming very normal. We're becoming clones."
Bamford is astonished at how technology has changed the way we consume luxury. "A lot of people are becoming very knowledgeable in a very short period of time," he says. "I think personalisation and disruption is a big part of that … Personalisation is a cornerstone of the future of watchmaking and making the customer right is going to be the key."
Hublot boss Guadalupe agrees that individuality is paramount when his customers are willing to drop tens of thousands of dollars on a watch. "The round watch with two hands has less of a future for me," he says. "I believe you must have a piece of art on your wrist, it must be a spectacle. There must be a show on your wrist."
The art of time
Guadalupe enlisted French artist Richard Orlinsky to create a series of watches. The bestselling French sculptor and musician was in Basel promoting his Classic Fusion Aerofusion Chronograph, limited to 400 pieces and selling for $48,800 in gold or $24,300 in black ceramic.
Orlinsky insists his creation is about far more than telling the time. "You can see the hour on your phone," he says. "But this is the only jewellery a man can wear, generally speaking. We have no jewellery for men in the mainstream, we only have the watch, so it's a very important piece."
He gazes at the intricate timepiece on his writes.
"I didn't want to do a watch, I wanted to do a sculpture which reflects something of my work," he explains. "The watch business is really like the art business."
The writer travelled to Basel with assistance from LVMH.
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The Western world is saturated with images. Hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute and there are more than one billion unique visitors each month. 200 million photos are uploaded to Facebook each day. The streaming film and TV service Netflix uses up nearly a third of the bandwidth in Northern America. Mobile phones, tablets and portable computers give us access to these services wherever we are, and we are immersed in media to a point where the discussion concerning virtual reality becomes nearly ubiqiutous as we are always potentially virtually present. Furthermore, as international corporate conglomerates are producing as well as controlling the flow of media, the ``superconductive of illusion and non-meaning'' as Jean Baudrillard calls it , we are all part of the same aesthetic effectively eliminating local variation and cultural diversity. For Paul Virilio the photographic snapshot and the optical illusion of cinema are part of the ``sensory deprivations we owe to the technological and industrial wastage of our perceptual capacities'', ironically producing what Walter Benjamin dubbed the image illiterates and from where we adopted the working title for our project. (Benjamin is likely to have picked this idea up from the Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who predicted that the illiterates of the future will be those ignorant to both the pen and the camera. The question today is wether the overload of visual stimuli leads to a better understanding of the visual language or, the opposite, to a lack of understanding for its nuances.
Wether this development is good or bad is not our concern here, we have no wish to value communication strategies in media, nor their social and cultural consequences. As artists working with media, however, we need to relate to the situation, not the least since the enormous focus on moving images affects the way our audince approaches our work. In the 80's artists could work with Virtual Reality and create works that were not only artistically impressive but also technically elaborate. Today, while there appears to be an infinite number of amateur videos shot with low resolution cameras, suggesting that quality is by far superceded by content, the technical quality and manpower put into producing the big blockbuster movies is far from what can be done in an artists studio, and the level and sophistication of interactivity in some aspects of computer games overreaches what is possible to achieve even in large artistic research groups. The changing landscape of media consumption and the altered means of production clearly influences also the dramaturgy and the narrative stance. What is the role of intermedia art in the context of present day entertinment consumption? How can we communicate with our audience, cirumventing the many pitfalls of commercial film and TV production? How can we approach and make use of dramatic concepts common to film, media and music without losing our artistic integrity? Our hypthesis is that by drawing on some of the traits of media we will be able to understand and contextualize our own work within this quickly changing landscape while at the same time create a potential interface to our work for the audience.
In our projects we are interested in entering this field asking questions concerning the roles of music and video in coexistence. Our method is to deconstruct the narrative of the themes we chose as our working material in order to find a common ground on which we can found both the music and the video. In a twisted version of the \emph{the common third} we allow a common aspect of the work to be the negotiator between the two elements. In our previous work we have used the narrative as our third element. In this sense the work itself is merely the carrier, the media, through which the thematic contents, non-narrative or narrative, temporal or a-temporal, are communicated. In our previous work this is the way we have approached the task, but in the proposed project, and through the etudes, we will work with others. These can range from concepts specific to one of the mediums such as dramaturgy, counterpoint and logic but can also aproach phenomena or specific techniques such as cliffhanger, visuality and synchronicity. Our overarching goal is to allow both the music and the video to transcend the boundaries of their respective idiomatics and become interdependent narrative players in the evolving drama.
The exact process may be altered as we go along, but in essence we are interested in continuing to explore a set of well known dramas or myths and reenact these in different ways, using some of the techniques discussed above. Iterating through our chosen material we might eventually begin combining some of the etudes in larger works, but most of all, this will build working material and exsxperience for a larger artistic project in 2015.
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The collaboration started in the spring of 2006 with the main ambition to create a foundation for a meeting between two different musical cultures on equal terms. An other ambition has been to reach beyond merely a superimposition of elements and strive for a more coherent and experimentally oriented sound. From this point of departure Henrik Frisk has composed a trio for Dan Tranh, Dan Bau, banjo, e-bow, 10-stringed guitar and electronics. Frisk’s new work for 10-stringed guitar (Repetition Repeats all other Repetitions), also part of the program, uses a transcription of a first, aleatoric version of the trio as its material.
Our latest project, Tri Minh and The Six Tones, is touring in 2013. Tri Minh and The Six Tones brings the lively and innovative new music scene in Hanoi in dialogue with experimental Western music and the traditional music of Vietnam. Below is a link to an info sheet about this project, as well as some music examples (The Six Tones and Tri Minh - ReMix)
Watch our October 2006 concert in Hanoi here.
Download press release for spring 2007 tour: [pdf]
www.thesixtones.net
With only my hands (2013-05-15)
The Six Tones and Tri Minh - ReMix 1 (2012-11-14)
The Six Tones at Atalante, Göteborg (2009-05-20)
The Six Tones (2007-06-03)
Traditional (2006-10-20)
Khoi Truong-Chi (2006-10-20)
The development of jazz and improvised music, like that of many other genres that rest on originality and personal expression, rests on a sound relation between administering the tradition and developing the new. Obviously, a too firm focus on restating the past will bring the development to a halt, while context serves most improvised music well. All three; restating the past, administering the tradition and recreating the new, may be artistically intriguing and display great aesthetic integrity. Nevertheless, the aesthetic discussion, and to some extent the understanding of the artistic expression in question, depends on the context and the context depends on the expression’s dialectics and meta-level.
One of the main purposes of expEAR is to attempt to map out the potential openness and opacity of contemporary jazz and improvised music, and the method is to seek out musicians and artists that have a long and particular experience of developing a unique voice in music. Together we them we will attack questions concerning the possibilities for openings for freedom from, and the closing of the structure. Or, phrased differently, how can improvisation be structured without loosing its freedom. Over the last few decades similar investigations have been performed by Paul Berliner and Ingrid Monson, and to some extent within the large trans-disciplinary Canadian project iCast, taking a musicological stance. Our take will be to perform the investigation in our own artistic practice and through our informers practice.
Since the 70s jazz is a natural part of any music education in Europe and Northern America but jazz theory is still rooted in the bebop tradition with little or no relevance to the music of musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell or Anthony Braxton. This is only one reason that this project needs to take place in the rehearsal room as well as on the stage: at the place where the actual development takes place, in a musical dialogue rather than a theoretical. Historically we have reached a point in the music history where the senior defining forces are no longer musicians that started their careers in the 40s, 50s and 60s, but rather eclectic artists like John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier and Rita Marcotulli whose relation to the jazz history is of a different kind than Freddie Hubbard’s for example.
Together with musicians such as Drew Gress and Katt Hernandez we will attempt to re-enact some of the methods that they have been used in the past. Combining intense rehearsals, live concerts and recordings along with documentation and discussions we are looking forward to present a large and varied material for others to take part of and further develop.
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expEAR with Katt Hernandez (2019-08-01)
Frendin/Frisk
Together with Swedish violist Henrik Frendin, I perform contemporary composed and improvised music. We work extensively with real time electronics. We have performed in Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Denmark and USA. Henrik Frendin plays Viola, Viola d'amore and his custom built Electric Viola Grande - a five string electric viola. Depending on the program, I play Saxophones and LapTop.
Here are some musical examples.
Drive, one of my compositions. A video from the recording of Viola con Forza
This is a concert recording from Fasching, Stockholm, where we played with Danish drummer Lars Juul. At this concert Frendin played piano and keyboards, as well as viola.
Download our technical rider here.
Frendin/Frisk Duo live in Halmstad (2012-11-17)
Frendin/Frisk duo (2007-09-26)
Drive (2003-10-20)
Listen and read more about etherSound on the site dedicated to it.
etherSound: Pantokrator (2009-01-15)
etherSound: Luc:)Knallal (2009-01-15)
etherSound: Emancipation (2009-01-15)
etherSound (2005-05-11)
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Amanda Palmer & The Young Punx
Map Of Tasmania
Provocative, irreverent, controversial, entertaining and artistic. Amanda Palmer continues to push the boundaries as the Queen of Punk Cabaret. She is a fearless singer, songwriter and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of composition. Produced and directed by Michael Pope, the outrageously clever euphemistic “Map Of Tasmania” video will be sure to get your pulse thumping and bring you to your feet!
Yelle
Yelle has a knack for making songs with banger beats with lyrics that can lean toward something more silly, including their biggest hit, 2008's "Je Veux Te Voir". #4 in their native France and an indie hit stateside, the track is racked in subtle feminist taunting, calling out French rap group TTC on their proclivities. If you aren't a speaker of the language, the electro pop sounds too fun to be comparing, ahem, men parts to potatoes, but that's what makes Yelle so great—ability to draw the uncanny in their lyrics without detracting from danceability. "Safari Disco Club" is about just that—a place for the the giraffes and elephants to get their groove on. It's just as playful as "Je Veux Te Voir", but a lot more whimsy and even tinged with a little bit of melancholia, yet still a heavy feet-mover. That's the theme for their second album, Safari Disco Club—knowing that sometimes the dancefloor might also be a place to cry. Find it March 21 on V2.
Yelle - Safari Disco Club.mp3
Mine Is Yours (Passion Pit remix)
"Mine Is Yours" is Cold War Kids' classic Long Beach cool with still a little bit of a tug on the heartstrings. Passion Pit add their power of pop to the remix, crafting it into a Night Under The Stars school dance—the slick black dress, an orchid corsage and an even-closing twirl with the cutie from your earth science class (or, creative writing seminar, if you're a right side of your brain-er). Cold War Kids' new album Mine Is Yours is out January 25 on Downtown.
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (Passion Pit remix).mp3
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Three-dimensional drugs: A new era in the pharmaceutical development p. 417
Harish Kumar, Ajay Prakash, Phulen Sarma, Bikash Medhi
DOI:10.4103/ijp.IJP_119_18 PMID:29674795
Prescriber and dispenser perceptions about antibiotic use in acute uncomplicated childhood diarrhea and upper respiratory tract infection in New Delhi: Qualitative study p. 419
Anita Kotwani, PC Joshi, Urmila Jhamb, Kathleen Holloway
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to explore the prescribing practices, knowledge, and attitudes of primary care doctors and community pharmacists, regarding antibiotic use in acute upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and diarrhea in children to better understand causes of misuse and identify provider suggestions to change such behavior. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Two focus group discussions (FGDs) each were conducted with primary care government doctors (GDs), private general practitioners (GPs), pediatricians, and community pharmacists in Delhi. Each FGD had 8–12 participants and lasted 2 h. Furthermore, 22 individual face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with providers of varying type and experience at their workplaces. Thematic and summative qualitative content analysis was done. RESULTS: All groups admitted to overusing antibiotics, GPs appearing to use more antibiotics than GDs and pediatricians for URTI and diarrhea in children. Pharmacists copy the prescribing of neighborhood doctors. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) knowledge was poor for all stakeholders except pediatricians. Causes for prescribing antibiotics were patient pressure, profit motive, lack of follow-up and in addition for GDs, workload, no diagnostic facility, and pressure to use near-expiry medicines. Knowledge was gained through self-experience, copying others, information from pharmaceutical companies, and for some, training, continuous medical education/conferences. All groups blamed other professional groups/quacks for antibiotic overuse. Interventions suggested were sensitizing and empowering prescribers through training of providers and the public about the appropriate antibiotic use and AMR and implementing stricter regulations. CONCLUSIONS: A package of interventions targeting providers and consumers is urgently needed for awareness and change in behavior to reduce inappropriate community antibiotic use.
Adverse drug reactions at adverse drug reaction monitoring center in Raipur: Analysis of spontaneous reports during 1 year p. 432
Preeti Singh, Manju Agrawal, Rajesh Hishikar, Usha Joshi, Basant Maheshwari, Ajay Halwai
BACKGROUND: India is a developing country and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) influence most of the diseases in our population, and monitoring is required due to the paucity of ADRs. The present study was done to analyze the ADRs at the ADR monitoring center (AMC) of tertiary care hospital in Raipur during 1 year. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Study of ADR monitoring of outpatient and inpatient was a prospective and observational study carried out between September 2015 and August 2016. The ADRs in the form of Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) was sent to the Indian database (Vigiflow®). RESULTS: Total ICSRs reported to Vigiflow® were 232 during 1 year. Among them, 63.79% were found to be nonserious and 36.21% were serious. Nearly 45% of ADRs were implicated only due to antimicrobials, which is highest among all other groups of drugs. A maximum number of ADRs were observed in 31–60 years of age group (52.15%). In causality assessment, the probable cases had a higher incidence (67.24%), followed by possible (27.58%) and certain (4.74%). The frequency of ADR reporting at our AMC was low (0.043%) compared to national average. Our AMC shared 0.35% of total ICSRs, which is insignificant (P < 0.001) compared to the JSS, Mysore and PGIMER, Chandigarh, AMCs, which have shared most of the ICSRs in Vigiflow®. CONCLUSIONS: The frequencies of ADRs reporting in our study are less compared to those reported with other similar studies. Underreporting is a very serious concern in Raipur, and Pharmacovigilance Programme of India must intercede to pick up ADRs across the country.
Switching of antihypertensive drugs at tertiary care government hospital, Hyderabad, India: A cross-sectional retrospective investigation p. 438
Varsha Varakantham, Ashok Kumar Kurakula Sailoo, Venkaiah Kodali, Dinesh Kumar Bharatraj
OBJECTIVE: Switching of antihypertensive drugs is attributed to uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) which imposes a great burden on health economics. But again, switching leads to accomplishment of the goal BP, thereby improving the health status. Such studies are well documented in developed nations but rarely reported in developing countries, especially in India. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate various factors associated with switching of antihypertensive drugs. METHODS: A cross-sectional retrospective investigation was performed using a standardized schedule adapting the World Health Organization indicators for drug utilization in a tertiary care government hospital, Hyderabad, India. A total of 429 prescriptions were monitored for a switchover to a different antihypertensive drug in 180 days. RESULTS: The results revealed that the duration of hypertension (HTN) >5–10 years (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 3.73, P < 0.05), two or more symptoms of HTN (aOR = 3.42, P < 0.05), 2014 prescriptions (aOR = 4.54, P < 0.001), polytherapy (aOR = 2.85, P < 0.001), noncompliance to National List of Essential Medicine (NLEM) (aOR = 1.631, P < 0.05), and systolic BP (SBP) (aOR = 1.77, P < 0.05) were the predictors, which were highly likely to switch (38.5%) the antihypertensive drugs. Diuretics (0.7%) were poorly prescribed, the first line of therapy suggested by Seventh Joint National Committee (JNC VII). Stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed, the calendar year 2014 (odds ratio [OR] = 3.23, P < 0.001), polytherapy (OR = 2.5, P < 0.001), and the level of SBP ≥140 mmHg (OR = 1.82, P < 0.01) as the three major predictors which showed a likelihood of switching medication. CONCLUSIONS: Findings of the study reveals predictors of the switchover like uncontrolled SBP, duration of HTN, compliance with the list of NLEM drugs, polytherapy, enabling the clinicians to critically analyze the patients' profile, and hence, reach target BP soon, i.e., decreased cardiovascular risk.
Assessment of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use pattern using world health organization indicators: A cross-sectional study in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Chhattisgarh p. 445
PR R. Vaishnavi, Nitin Gaikwad, SP Dhaneria
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess drug utilization pattern of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional observational study was conducted in the outpatient department during 2-month period. After informed consent, the patients visiting pharmacy shop with a prescription were enrolled in the study. Their demographic details and prescription data were recorded in a case record form. The data were analyzed to determine the drug utilization pattern of NSAIDs, using the World Health Organization (WHO) prescribing indicators. RESULTS: A total of 600 prescriptions were analyzed. Of them, NSAIDs were prescribed in 30.83% encounters. In general, nonselective COX inhibitors were most commonly prescribed. The most commonly prescribed form of NSAID was paracetamol (39.45%). The percentage of NSAIDs prescribed with generic names were almost identical (91.15%), whereas the percentage of NSAIDs prescribed from the National List of Essential Medicine (India) – 2015 (49.72%) was not identical with the WHO standard (100%) which serves as an ideal. In 13.51% encounters, a fixed-dose combination (FDC) of NSAIDs was prescribed. Co-administration of gastroprotective agent with NSAIDs was observed in 24.32% encounters. CONCLUSION: The prescribing practices of NSAIDs indicate some deviation from the WHO standard. In addition, FDCs of NSAIDs with gastroprotective agents as well as other NSAIDs was also prescribed, which are irrational. This baseline data will be useful to plan further targeted research and to improve prescribing practices at the center. Various strategies such as face-to-face periodic training programs of prescribers, establishing drug and therapeutic committee; drug information centers; and drug bulletins can serve beneficial in improving prescribing practices.
Olanzapine versus aprepitant for the prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in breast cancer patients receiving doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide regimen: A prospective, nonrandomized, open-label study p. 451
G Shivaprakash, Karthik S Udupa, V Sarayu, Joseph Thomas, Vishal Gupta, LC Pallavi, Sudhakar Pemminati
OBJECTIVE: Despite the guideline-directed therapy, complete absence of nausea was noted only in 33% of breast cancer patients on anthracycline-cyclophosphamide regimen. Hence, we sought to compare the efficacy of aprepitant (APT) versus olanzapine (OLP) in preventing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in breast cancer patients on doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide regimen. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective, open-label, nonrandomized study was conducted at the Department of Oncology. Eighty-three patients completed the study with 43 in the APT group and 40 in OLP group. Data about nausea and vomiting were collected using Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Antiemesis Tool (MAT). The severity of nausea and vomiting was assessed by the MAT and Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.03, respectively. RESULTS: Complete response (no emesis and no rescue medication) was achieved in 81% of the patients in APT group and 85% in the OLP group in the acute period (P = 0.661); 74% of patients in APT group and 85% in OLP group had no nausea during the same period (P = 0.233). Among the OLP patients who had nausea, 67% had moderately severe and 33% had Severe grade, and in the APT group, severity was equally distributed in mild, moderate, and severe grades. Among the patients who had vomiting, severe (CTCAE) vomiting was noticed in 81% of patients who were treated with APT compared to 50% in OLP group. CONCLUSION: OLP was found to be an equally effective alternative to APT in the antiemetic prophylaxis of CINV in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy with doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide regimen.
Immunomodulatory properties of titanium dioxide nanostructural materials p. 458
T Sree Latha, Madhava C Reddy, Prasad V R. Durbaka, Shankar V Muthukonda, Dakshayani Lomada
OBJECTIVES: Although titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructural materials have been widely used in Biology and Medicine, very little is known about immunomodulation mechanism of these materials. Objectives of this study are to investigate in vitro immunomodulatory effects of TiO2.Immunosuppressant may lower immune responses and are helpful for the treatment of graft versus host diseases and autoimmune disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, we used H2Ti3O7titanium dioxide nanotubes (TNT) nanotubes along with commercial TiO2nanoparticles (TNP) and TiO2fine particles (TFP). We investigated the in vitro immunomodulatory effects of TNP, TNT, and TFP using mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR). Suppression was studied by 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2yl)-2, 5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Cytokine profile was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The results from this study illustrated that the TiO2nanostructural materials strongly suppressed splenocytes proliferation in MLR. For TNP and TNT, at 50 μg/ml suppression of 20%–25% and 30%–35%, respectively, and for TFP at 100 μg/ml suppression was 25%–30% was observed. Suppression of splenocytes proliferation in the presence of TNP, TNT, and TFP demonstrated that these nanostructural materials probably block T-cell-mediated responses in vitro. Our ELISA results confirmed that significantly lower levels of Th1 type cytokines (interleukin-2, interferon-γ) in the 48 h MLR culture supernatants. Our data suggest that TiO2nanostructural materials suppress splenocytes proliferation by suppressing Th1 cytokines.
Dried urine spots for detection of benzodiazepines p. 465
Raka Jain, Rizwana Quraishi, Atul Ambekar, Arpita Verma, Pratibha Gupta
Background and Aim: Benzodiazepines (BZD) are widely prescribed to substance users. However, the nonmedical use of prescription BZD often leads to abuse and dependence. Therefore, it is important to detect BZD among substance users seeking treatment. The aim of the present study was to develop an efficient method for testing BZD on dried urine spot (DUS) and evaluating its clinical applicability. Methods: This involved optimization of conditions for the detection, recovery, and stability of BZD from dried urine, spotted on filter paper. Enzyme linked immuno-sorbent assay was used for screening whereas confirmation was done by gas chromatography. For clinical applicability, urine samples of BZD users were tested. Results: The recovery was found to be 99.7% in de-ionized water from 20 μl spotted urine samples. Limit of detection, inter-day and intra-day CV were found to be 100 ng/ml, 4.22% and 3.83%, respectively. BZD were found stable in DUS for 3 weeks at room temperature, and for 3 months at 4°C and −20°C. All the urine samples of benzodiazepine users were found positive by conventional method as well as the DUS method. Conclusion: DUS method proved to be efficient for BZD testing with advantages of ease of collection, transportation, minimal invasiveness and small sample volume. It offers a useful alternative for BZD testing especially in developing countries where logistics of sample collection and transportation could be an important concern.
Iatrogenic metrorrhagia after the use of itraconazole for onychomycosis p. 470
Piotr Brzezinski, Sandra Jerkovic Gulin, Dario Gulin, Anca Chiriac
We present first case report on itraconazole, a drug very commonly used for onychomycosis, used along with simvastatin that caused metrorrhagia. The suggested probable mechanism is the inhibition of steroidogenesis, especially estrogens that resulted in low-estrogen breakthrough bleeding. This article emphasizes the importance of drug interaction check prior the initiation of onychomycosis treatment.
Prof. K. P. Gupta: An exemplary pharmacologist of India p. 472
Syed Ziaur Rahman
DOI:10.4103/ijp.IJP_203_17
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Why you trippin’?
With the Philippines banking so much on tourism, having crowd-sourced travel website TripAdvisor declare the Philippines fourth on a list of top 10 Asian “destinations on the rise” is good news. Or, at the very least, big news, going by these stories on the Philippine Star and on DZMM TeleRadyo.
The DZMM story goes, and no translation will be provided:
Sinabi pa ng report na ang naturang pagkilala sa Metro Manila ay matapos mailunsad ng Department of Tourism (DOT) ang bago nitong campaign na “It’s More Fun in the Philippines,” kung saan pinapakita na maraming maaaring gawin sa Ka-Maynilaan tulad ng shopping, clubbing, dining at iba pang entertainment at lifestyle offerings.
To be fair, the Yahoo news report that both the Philippine Star and DZMM cite did not say that. The story merely said the “recent accolade for Manila comes as the Department of Tourism on Wednesday launched a new international television campaign promoting entertainment and lifestyle offerings in Metro Manila. ” What it also does not say is why inclusion on the TripAdvisor list is an accolade for Manila, or if it is one at all. Neither does it say how TripAdvisor came up with the list.
Not, you know, that that’s important or anything. Maybe it’s because we’ve been investing, or promising to invest, in better airports. Maybe it’s because things are looking up for our economy. Maybe it’s because we have two Catholic saints now instead of just one. Maybe tourist volume has been rising. Maybe there’s a huge influx of international flights coming into Ninoy Aquino International. It’s certainly not because Philippine aviation has been upgraded on aviation safety lists.
This report on USAToday explains how Manila made it to the list of “destinations on the rise” in Asia. Apparently, winners were chosen based on “an algorithm that took into account factors including traveler feedback quality through reviews and opinions on destination accommodations, restaurants, attractions as well as interest through clicks on TripAdvisor, and ‘want to go’ pins placed by travelers on the TripAdvisor Cities I’ve Visited Facebook app.” That sounds totally legit.
Hostage-taking ex-cop actually was an extortionist
Ex-cop Rolando Mendoza, who took tourists hostage last year to protest charges of extortion, which he said were used to extort money from him, actually was an extortionist, says the Court of Appeals.
In a 19-page decision, penned by Associate Justice Francisco Acosta, the CA’s Thirteenth Division, eventually cleared the names of (former ombudsman Merceditas) Gutierrez and (former deputy ombudsman Emilio) Gonzalez after it affirmed their ruling that Mendoza, who was killed during the hostage-taking, and his men were indeed “extortionists” which warranted their dismissal from the service.
The appellate court has junked the petition for review filed by petitioners Mendoza, P/ Insp. Nelson Lagasca, SPO1 Nestor David, PO3 Wilson Gavino and PO2 Roderick Lopeña.
Mendoza insisted he was innocent (of extortion, at least) and that his dismissal from the service was unjust. He was killed in a failed rescue attempt that night. Gonzalez lost his job after the incident for supposedly delaying action on Mendoza’s appeal and for supposedly trying to extort P150,000 from the dismissed cop.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., who signed the order dismissing Gonzalez, said: “The circumstances surrounding the charges of gross neglect of duty and gross misconduct lent credence to Mendoza’s accusation during the hostage-taking incident that Gonzalez was extorting P150,000 from him in exchange for a favorable decision.”
Now, this development doesn’t mean Gonzalez didn’t try to extort money from Mendoza but it does sort of demolish the narrative that Mendoza was an honest man forced by a corrupt system to take over a bus of tourists to protest that corrupt system. Mendoza was, apparently, dismissed from the service for cause. Gonzalez was removed over, in the end, nothing.
The appellate court ruled that the Office of the Ombudsman was correct in ruling that Mendoza and their men should be sacked from the PNP roster.
“Besides, questions remain unanswered: We could not understand why the petitioners extendedly kept or detained Kalaw in the police station when the purported basis was just a mere traffic violation, i.e., illegal parking and/or driving without required license; and why the petitioners put so much attention on Kalaw’s alleged traffic violations when primarily it is their job to apprehend traffic violators in the City of Manila,” the decision stated.
Gutierrez resigned as ombudsman in March after she was impeached by the House of Representatives for her supposed lack of action on corruption cases, especially those concerning former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Gutierrez defended and cleared Gonzalez of any wrongdoing.
Well...this is awkward, isn't it?
House reps response to water crisis: absolutely nothing
Members of the House of Representatives have called on President Benigno Aquino III to initiate sterner measures to solve the water crisis in Metro Manila. Specifically, the declaration of a state of calamity that will do absolutely nothing.
Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro said “there is already a need for the President to declare a state of calamity to strengthen and empower the government agencies concerned.” Forgetting, however, that strengthening government agencies is something that is done in anticipation of crises, not when you’re in the middle of one.
“(An) action plan towards mitigating effects of climate change should already be put in play as we are clearly experiencing the effects of global warming,” Compostela Valley Representative Maria Carmen Apsay said, adding nothing to the discussion.
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Karnataka garment workers demand agreed minimum wage
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19 September, 2019Karnataka government’s long delay in announcing minimum wages triggered massive protests on 12 September at Bengaluru. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been waiting for the new minimum wage since February last year.
Frustration among garment workers in Karnataka has been growing as a government proposal of minimum wage revision in February in 2018 from Rs 8,346 (US$117) to Rs 12250 (US$ 171) per month was withdrawn within a month after intense lobby from the employers. Since then, there has been no progress and more than 350,000 garment workers, 85 per cent of which are women, are losing money due to the government’s inaction.
Meanwhile, the government has announced minimum wage revisions for 73 scheduled employment, while excluding workers in the garment industry.
Apoorva Kaiwar, IndustriALL South Asia regional secretary says:
“We are disappointed at the government of Karnataka’s lack of commitment towards the welfare of women garment workers. The government should announce the just revision of minimum wages without delay.”
Prathibha, president of Garment and Textile Workers Union (GATWU), says:
“Garment workers in Karnataka face enormous hardships. Delaying the wage hike is not the way to promote women empowerment in India.
“Who will compensate our loss after the withdrawn proposal? Delay in implementing wage revision is wage theft and it is pushing workers into poverty. We demand that the government immediately announces and implements the wage revision.”
GATWU is demanding that the government incorporate food and clothing, house rent, electricity and water needs, children’s education, and healthcare in the minimum wage calculation, and that the benchmark of family be raised from three units to five, by including parents as dependents in the family.
According to the union's calculation, workers need at least Rs 24,000 (US$ 336) per month to live a dignified life. GATWU maintains that, until a decent living wage is established, garment workers’ minimum wage should be at least of Rs 11,557 (US$162), which has been provided to other scheduled employment.
Karnataka’s garment industry contributes to about 20 per cent of India’s garment exports. Many of the leading brands, including H&M, Inditex, Walmart, Old Navy, JC Penny, Target, Khols source from the Karnataka garment factories.
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Kayakoy- Oludeniz
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Great walk with stunning views all the way. The trekking route from Kayaköy to Ölüdeniz is a memorable experience. It starts from the ruins of Kayaköy ( Ghost Town ) and goes all the way to the famous beach of Ölüdeniz. Catch your first glimpse of the blue lagoon from the Lycian Way high above, one of the most famous sights on the Lycian Way. There are plenty of spots with fantastic of views to photograph.
Kayakoy Originally built in the 1700s, the town called Karmylassos in Greek was home to as many as 20,000 Greek Orthodox residents by the early twentieth century. The messy fallout of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire led to the land grabs of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
In Kayakoy, approximately 350 homes now sit empty and mostly roofless, along with two Greek Orthodox churches and the fountains and cisterns that watered the city. Harsh winters and strong winds have stripped the buildings down to ruins, making the town look ancient.
The residents of Kayakoy, who had thus far lived peacefully with their Turkish neighbors, abandoned the town and went to Greece, which was struggling to find places for the nearly 200,000 refugees of the exchange, added to the more than a million former Turkish residents who had fled before the official exchange. Over 300,000 Turks were forcibly removed from Greece to a war-ravaged, but land-rich, Turkey in exchange. The polar explorer and Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen was assigned the task of organizing the exchange.
Total Hiking Time : 3.5 – 4 Hours
Day 1,Kayakoy - Oludeniz
Great walk with stunning views all the way. The trekking route from Kayaköy to Ölüdeniz is a memorable experience. It starts from the ruins of Kayaköy ( Ghost Town ) and goes all the way to the famous beach of Ölüdeniz. Catch your first glimpse of the blue lagoon from the Lycian Way high above, one of the most famous sights on the Lycian Way. There are plenty of spots with fantastic of views to photograph. Kayakoy Originally built in the 1700s, the town called Karmylassos in Greek was home to as many as 20,000 Greek Orthodox residents by the early twentieth century. The messy fallout of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire led to the land grabs of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). In Kayakoy, approximately 350 homes now sit empty and mostly roofless, along with two Greek Orthodox churches and the fountains and cisterns that watered the city. Harsh winters and strong winds have stripped the buildings down to ruins, making the town look ancient. The residents of Kayakoy, who had thus far lived peacefully with their Turkish neighbors, abandoned the town and went to Greece, which was struggling to find places for the nearly 200,000 refugees of the exchange, added to the more than a million former Turkish residents who had fled before the official exchange. Over 300,000 Turks were forcibly removed from Greece to a war-ravaged, but land-rich, Turkey in exchange. The polar explorer and Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen was assigned the task of organizing the exchange.Total Hiking Time : 3.5 - 4 Hours
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“Nigerian Identity” is a series of photographic portraits in which all people are presented in a uniform manner: photographed on a white seamless background, looking directly into the lens, and enhanced so that their skin tones are virtually identical. The idea behind this discipline stems from Mfon experiences living in America. “Black” has always been used as a generic descriptive label. “The angry black guy", “The new black sitcom”. The homogenization of the skin tones in this project is Mfon's personal commentary on the tendency to reduce people to just a color. “In these images, the skin tones are rich, deep and beautiful to celebrate our beautiful skin, for which we are often oppressed and marginalized. Drawing inspiration from photographers who have created typologies of their subjects, including the German August Sander, the American Richard Avedon, and the Nigerian photographer J.D ‘Okhai Ojeikere, I use a plain background to eliminate any cultural or ethnic context, whether of urban disrepair or African wilderness. I want to contest the superficial travel or tourist photography approach to peoples who may be unfamiliar to the photographs’ viewers.”
Ima Mfon is a Nigerian photographer born and raised in Lagos. Inspired by his experiences living in different countries, Ima Mfon uses portrait photography to explore issues of social and cultural identity. Ima recently earned his Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography from New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Klompgching Gallery in New York and also published in Blink Magazine.
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The Judas Scar by Amanda Jennings
Scars. We all carry them. Some are mere scratches. Others run deeper.
At a school rife with bullying, Will and his best friend Luke are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving.
Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of Will's painful childhood come flooding back to haunt him. His wife, Harmony, who is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, wishes Will would open up about his experiences. But while Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husband s past, and soon all three are caught in a tangled web of guilt, desire, betrayal and revenge.
The minute I read the prologue for The Judas Scar, I was gripped. I needed to know what had happened that had got the unknown man into the dangerous position he was in.
I have read a similar novel to this recently in that people are never who you think they are on the outside. We all have a secret hiding beneath the surface, it's just a case of when it will come to light. I can happily say that this one did not disappoint!
Will and Harmony seem perfectly happy in their marriage but as the title of this book tells us, there are scars lurking underneath and a chance encounter with an old school 'friend' brings those scars right back to the surface again and some shocking truths are revealed.
Each character was incredibly intricate and especially Will. He has so much bottled up and hidden in his past, it's no wonder he has not truly moved on, but I could never truly sympathise with him. I felt more sorry for his wife Harmony on the other hand as because of Will, it prevents her from being truly happy.
I like trying to unpick the title of a book and when I discovered why it was called the Judas Scar, I thought it was really clever!
The book starts off at quite a steady pace but then it rapidly picks up momentum and then everything starts to surface.
There was a lot of tension in this and you are constantly just waiting for it to go bang! Amanda's writing keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The Judas Scar is available from Amazon UK
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Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana
Oh no, I thought. Another book about the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Horror of horrors. Why did I request this title on NetGalley, what was I thinking, etc. (Have I mentioned my pessimistic side likes to crawl out of its hole after bad experiences with books?)
I have taken damage when it comes to adapting The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in YA. Let’s call it “emotional reader trauma suffered from a bad book.” There’s another series on the market that deals with the haunting and the Hessian and takes place in Sleepy Hollow cemetery that I absolutely despise (which will go unnamed) but it broke me the first time I read it, and I’ve had a hard time trying to pull myself back together since.
You hear me? It. Broke. Me.
It’s been a long, difficult road back from that book, but I think I may have found the cure:
I wished for Wake the Hollow by Gabby Triana on NetGalley because it was about to hit the market, and generally speaking, if its YA Horror with legend tripping or legend hacking, I really want to shed my previous negative experiences and try to rekindle my affection for the lore that fuels many a contemporary take on an old classic.
I requested it blindly. I did not have high hopes. I was very surprised indeed, because I really enjoyed Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana. I enjoyed it so much that I read it all in one sitting.
That “other book that broke me” was a bad experience, but Wake the Hollow has rekindled my interest (and as a result I’m reading a biography on Mary Shelly, which I didn’t expect to be doing directly after finishing Wake the Hollow. I thought, as planned, I’d start on The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco, or maybe Dawn Kurtagich’s latest, And the Trees Crept In. Surprise surprise: I was so inspired by finishing Wake the Hollow that I’ve gone down a completely different direction with my reading because I feel like a) I need to know more about the history that inspired the fiction b) I wasn’t aware — at all — that Washington Irving and Mary Shelly were rumoured to be “a thing.”
And yeah, there are ghosts in the book, and it’s creepy, and the atmosphere is lovely and grim, and the protagonist is of Cuban descent (so refreshing!), and the Hessian plays a part, and there’s a cemetery, and a derelict house belonging to the protagonist’s mother, and there are mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother’s death, and a cat named Coconut, and — I could go on. So much to love.
All the things I didn’t know about Washington Irving
I am not a huge Washington Irving fan. My recollection of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is fuelled by the Disney adaptation which scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.
I recognize that there’s a place in New York called Sleepy Hollow which influenced the story, and I know Johnny Depp played Ichabod Crane in a super creepy adaptation by Tim Burton (which I have in my DVD collection someplace.)
I did not know that Washington Irving and Mary Shelly had a tryst (currently fact-checking this; don’t quote me on it.) I did not know that Irving’s infatuation with Spanish culture had him living in Spain for a time, nor did I know I could be so entertained by the gossip of long-dead authors.
In case you don’t know either of these people: Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein back in the 19th century, and Washington Irving is famous for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: that story with Icabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel and a headless horseman throwing flaming pumpkins around.
About the story
The mesh of the real world and the presuppositions that all these sordid things went on a hundred years back colours the current circumstances as we follow the protagonist, Micaela Burgos, as she arrives back in her birthplace of Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, New York from Miami where she’d lived with her father for several years following her parents’ divorce. Her mom stayed behind because her work and passions were rooted in the small town, and it’s with some reluctance that Micaela discovers she hasn’t returned to settle her mom’s affairs, but to discover how she actually died.
Micaela, unfortunately, suffers from hallucinations that are triggered by the town. The instant she sets foot on Sleepy Hollow soil, she starts seeing and hearing things: specters that aren’t there… but aren’t they really?
The story moves along at a quick clip, opening up multiple cans of worms that keep you wondering as the hallucinations become more real, and we are confronted with a multi-layered haunting and a genealogical treasure trove that feels like authorial speculation: did Washington Irving have an illegitimate child, and did he and Mary Shelly really get it on way back in the day?
There are former flames being fanned, former friends being jerks, and the shady townsfolk who have their own sordid dealings afoot.
Add a fun twist or two and some historical reference, and I went cavorting right through this story with joyous abandon. Tons of fun with just enough creepy to root it in the horror category, headless horseman included (but not so scary that even the most sensitive readers will have nightmares: then again, I’m hardened, so what do I know about sensitivity and horror? More ghosts! More rattling chains! Bring it on!)
I give it a jubilant three and a half stars, and I look forward to seeing what the author, Gaby Triana, comes up with next.
Wake The Hollow by Gaby Triana: Book Information
Published by Entangled: Teen on August 2nd 2016
Format: Mobi
Forget the ghosts, Mica. It’s real, live people you should fear.
Tragedy has brought Micaela Burgos back to her hometown of Sleepy Hollow. It’s been six years since she chose to live with her father in Miami instead of her eccentric mother. And now her mother is dead.
This town will suck you in and not let go.
Sleepy Hollow may be famous for its fabled headless horseman, but the town is real. So are its prejudices and hatred, targeting Mica’s family as outsiders. But ghostly voices carry on the wind, whispering that her mother’s death was based on hate…not an accident at all. With the help of two very different guys—who pull at her heart in very different ways—Micaela must awaken the hidden secret of Sleepy Hollow…before she meets her mother’s fate.
Find the answers.
Unless, of course, the answers find you first.
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Regulator delays decision on delisting Kolon TissueGene
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By Jeong Sae-im
The Korea Exchange said it has delayed its decision whether to delist Kolon TissueGene.
The KRX’ Kosdaq Market Committee said it would extend the deadline of its review on Kolon TissueGene by 15 more business days from Sept. 18, under Paragraphs 2 and 10 of the Article 33 of the Kosdaq Listing Regulations.
The delay pushed the deadline to Oct. 11.
The KRX reportedly decided to delay the decision to see whether the U.S. regulator will approve the resumption of phase-3 trials on Invossa-K, the suspended gene therapy developed by Kolon TissueGene, and how the prosecution’s investigation into the mislabeled drug unfolds.
Kolon TissueGene has submitted additional data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to resume the phase-3 study on the suspended osteoarthritis treatment. The FDA is likely to announce the review result in late September at the earliest.
The KRX's Corporate Review Committee decided to delist Kolon TissueGene on Aug. 26.
The corporate review board ruled that the company did not mention the mislabeling in the document submitted to the KRX even though it received a notice from a contract manufacturer in March 2017, before listing, that the second fluid of Invossa contained kidney-derived (GP2-293) cells, not cartilage-derived cells as labeled.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revoked the license of Invossa due to a false document submitted to the ministry.
The company requested a court to suspend the government’s decision to nullify the Invossa license, but the court turned down the request.
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Show #4431 - Monday, December 8, 2003
Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Patrick Fernan, a government manager from Madison, Wisconsin
Mindy Steinberg, a public affairs program assistant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Renie Sotiropoulos, a high school teacher from Crownsville, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,400)
EAST ON THE MAP
A BRITISH MONOPOLY SET
PREFIXES YOU CAN COUNT ON
This waterway separates Manhattan from Long Island
This city's Nuggets have never won an NBA title since joining the league in 1976
The body's central nervous system is made up of the brain & this "cord"
Pass Go & you collect this salary
He had the last people in Washington's Cabinet stay on a while as his cabinet
Hey, way to go.
Cheech Marin played a movie character born in this title area
(I'm Kurt Warner.) In 2000 I set a Super Bowl record by passing for 414 yards against this team once known as the Oilers
Also a type of small mammal, it's a raised area of brown pigment in the skin
The "stations" on the British board are equivalent to these on the American board
It was the last war we fought while we had separate Secretaries of the Navy & War
It certainly has the right to bear arms ... or is it legs?
Walter Ulbricht had his fingers in this country's strudel for over 20 years
Marvis, son of this heavyweight boxing champ known as "Smokin' Joe", fought for the title in 1983
It's the name for the tough band of fibrous connective tissue that unites a muscle to a bone
Between a Chance space & Trafalgar Square you'll find this street, home to a demon barber
This President, a former Navy man, appointed the first Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
We got the point ... and hope you do
This city with a 2-word name grew around Michigan State University
This Pittsburgh Penguins owner & player captained Canada's ice hockey team to the Olympic gold medal in 2002
This important internal organ is enclosed in a sac called the pericardium
You won't find a circus on Marvin Gardens, but there's a famous one on this equivalent square in England
The last Cabinet official to sit before a Senate Court of this was William Belknap, Grant's Secretary of War
It certainly gets a leg up on the competition
As a geopolitical term it was coined in 1902 by U.S. Naval Officer Alfred Mahan to describe an Asian-African area
Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000, this catcher hit a dramatic homer in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series
The outermost muscles of this body part are scientifically known as the gluteus maximus
After passing Go, the first property on the British board is Old Kent Road; on the American board, it's this
Under Teddy Roosevelt, George Cortelyou was the first Secretary of this "& Labor"
The example of one of these, seen here, is hobbit-forming
Renie Mindy Patrick
CLASSICAL CLASSICS
THE TOTEM POLE VAULT
SHORT HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES
BE BITTER
ABOUT "IT"
His odd-numbered symphonies tend to be weighty; the evens, like 1814's Eighth, more jolly
A romance developed between Sir Lancelot & this wife of King Arthur
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Sitka Cultural Center)The paints used to color totem poles are made by mixing natural pigment with the eggs of this fish, like the sockeye
Michelle Phillips' marriage to this star of "Easy Rider" cruised to all of 8 days in 1970
In a popular tongue twister, it's what Betty bought that was bitter
Roger Ebert is a movie one
Jeremiah Clarke is best remembered for his "voluntary" for this brass instrument
He occupied the Siege Perilous, the seat at the Round Table reserved for the most pure knight
"Crest" totem poles give the ancestry of a particular one of these subdivisions of a clan
Life was no longer a cabaret in 2003 for David Gest & this singer who separated after 16 months of marriage
An Army doctor stationed at this village in Venezuela invented a type of bitters now found in bars worldwide
One of these saw the crime & can give a firsthand account
In 1749 audiences craned their necks to Handel's "Music for" these
Some stories suggest that King Arthur didn't die at the hand of Mordred but fled to this island to heal his wounds
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Sitka Cultural Center)The straight beak indicates it'll be this common symbolic creature, also associated with a classic 1845 poem
She lasted 30 days with Jeremy Thomas & 5 months, 4 days with Tom Green
The Clue Crew demo of prussic acid ended before it began when they smelled this distinct odor
In "Spy Kids 2" Carmen covers a cuss opportunity by referring to these mushrooms
Mendelssohn wrote overtures to Victor Hugo's play "Ruy Blas" &, more famously, to this Shakespeare comedy
Totem poles are traditionally carved in the red type of this wood, also used in chests, because of its durability
After only 32 days of marriage in 1964, there was no business like divorce business for Ernest Borgnine & her
This phrase used since the 1500s refers to something unpleasant to accept
Neil Diamond made the Top 100 twice singing about this "man"
He composed the following aria not long before his death in 1924
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska) The Katlian totem pole pays tribute to the bravery of quixotic Tlingit Indian against this invading Slavic group
In 1993 she wed Ashley Hamilton after only knowing him 2 weeks, then divorced him 5 months later
The last clue in the category, it's something to "hold out to"
At the hotel, conference goers can enjoy a drink, a bit of food & maybe a bit of schmoozing in this "suite"
$6,800 $6,300 $12,800
The last major party Presidential candidate to lose twice to the same individual
$1 $299 $11,999
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $11,999
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Why So Many Israelis Can’t Stand Obama
Months ago I tried to explain why Israelis don't get Barack Obama. Read about it here. In the meantime, it has gone from bad to worse. I feel the hate, or at least contempt, every day. Read the talkbacks in the online editions of the press, and you will see what I mean.
For one thing, Israelis are traditionally cynical about politics and politicians. Just yesterday two former government ministers were sent to jail with multiple-year sentences for bribery and corruption; the current foreign minister is under investigation for corruption, the last prime minister may stand trial for corruption, and there were corruption allegations against the trhee prime ministers before him. And did I mention that the former President of Israel will soon stand trial for rape and sexual assault?) Obama's belief in hope, change, and government ethics reform, holds up a mirror to the ugliness of the political culture in Israel. And nobody wants to look ugly.
But most of all, Obama is the Other that many Israelis fear – black, educated, with the middle name Hussein and with a preacher like Jeremiah Wright. Before the election many Israelis projected their own ethnic tribalism on America by claiming that Obama could never get elected. And then when he did get elected, and showed that there is a democracy where politics and nationalism can, on rare occasion, transcend race and ethnicity, their shame and discomfort turned to racism and hate.
And this was before Obama's speech in Cairo, and his tough talk on the settlements. Now, the mood is pretty grim. I mean, what Israeli wants a black American telling them what to do? Maybe that last line is too much. After all, they hate Jimmy Carter even worse.
I won't even link to the latest diatribe against Obama in today's Haaretz by Ari Shavit, the Krauthammer wannabe, who writes that Obama's only political idea is to be anti-Bush.
But the reason I am blogging about it is that one "talkback" to the Shavit screed that originated from America caught my eye:
The author is "largey" from Palo Alto.
I find it amazing how deeply Ari Shavit misunderstands the Obama phenomenon.
Do you really think that a leader that is simply "anti-Bush" or "Bush-negative" would have been so popular as Shavit points out?
Ari, you simply do not have the tools, the cultural background to explain Obama.
This is a revolutionary leader, proposing reforms in so many fields of American life that you simply do not understand, because you do not understand America.
That about sums up my feeling about Shavit, and the many other anti-Obama Israelis. According to a recent poll, only 6% of Jewish Israelis think that Obama is pro-Israel. Of course, that is not the same as saying that only 6% of Jewish Israelis support Obama, of course, and I have met a few who are supporters
But we have all felt the hate against Obama in Jerusalem in Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana's video. (Youtube keeps taking it down, and folks keep uploading it, so just google it.) That video is representative of the sort of bums America sends to Israel (you want real hate; look at some of the videos of settlers.) But many more Israelis don't like Obama. That crummy video made at Bar Ilan of the Other Israelis that the Hasbarah folks have been hawking is SOO unrepresentative. I was on the Bar Ilan faculty for 13 years, and I know whereof I speak.
Should the reactions of Israeli society to Obama, the snide and condescending comments in the media, surprise us?
Maimonides wrote in his law code that people who are ill taste bitter things as sweet, and sweet things as bitter. He was a physician and he knew. I may add that the same applies to societies.
Israelis' attitudes toward Obama speak volumes about the fundamental maladie of Israeli society.
Blessed be the exceptions. Whether at Bar Ilan U or not.
Posted by Jerry Haber at 12:41 PM
I must have been naive to think on the third anniversary of Gilad Shalit's captivity you would have found time to comment.
They hate Obama because despite the fact he isn't wearing a silly mustache this time, and this time he has quite a tan, they still recognize him.
Please to meet you, we have guessed your name. What is bothering us is the nature of your game!
Why done you "Get" Obama?
Can't you see he is evil?
He really is evil.
Did you look into the history of Raila Odinga and how he used racial violence to stay in power?
Jerry, you are a hypocrite of the worst kind.
And you have no sense of evil. You can't see evil when it is staring you in the face.
Most Israelis though aren't like you. They know evil when they see it.
I say people who can't recognize evil or in your case I think it is more that you won't recognize evil even though deep down you probably can sense it, are evil themselves.
Yes, Jerry that makes you evil. In a banal kind of way but evil nonetheless.
And did I mention that the former President of Israel will soon stand trial for rape and sexual assault?
So, that's to Israel's credit. There was a former US President who committed sexual assault when he was the Arkansas governor and he never went on trial for it. He got away with it.
So, again you prove yourself an hypocrite and an ugly excuse of an human being. You have no ethics. You just have an agenda.
loveitallabove said...
your thoughts and overall position are welcome and necessary, and your words belie a deep spirit of inquiry and spiritual calm. thanks for writing what you do.
Eric Mendelsohn said...
When one invokes , the Holocaust, moral equivalency, or Gilad Shavit, it is an admission you have lost the argument and all you can do is howl and name-call.
Printe said...
Dear Anonymous - what's your point? Want more objectivity? If so, what's your comment on Shalit?
Jerry Haber said...
Note to Readers: I did not invent the Anonymous comments to demonstrate my point.
So thanks to the guy(s) out there who did it for me.
By the way, I didn't say that Katzav raped anybody, only that he was being tried for rape. So why wasn't Clinton tried for rape or sexual assault? There was no prima facie evidence that he did it. So don't forget to put "alleged" sexual assault in your comment.
Having said that, Clinton's sex life was a blight on the presidency, which I personally thought he disgraced with the Lewinsky affair.
And I should also like to say a good word for the Israeli State's Attorney Office that (usually) takes corruption charges seriously, and for the Supreme Court that put the crooks away -- and at the same time to criticize the Police for their flood of leaks to the press.
By the way, that is the same State's Attorney Office and Supreme Court that the last Minister of Justice, Daniel Friedmann, tried to castrate.
Avram said...
Anonymous (if you're the same person) - Next time you want to have a go at Jerry, why don't you formulate one articulate response so he can at least respond to you and the discussion can be civil? Just a thought.
Eric - I think when Jews mention the 'Holocaust', it shows we're scared. Many Jews are (rightly or wrongly) scared of Obama and what they THINK he's going to do (or force Israel to do). I just wish they'd realize there's nothing similar about Nazi Germany & the US, bar the increasingly growing assimilation rate of Jews that is. I don't think Gilad ShaLit is relevant to your post.
Jerry -
"Note to Readers: I did not invent the Anonymous comments to demonstrate my point. "
Did anyone even insinuate you did?
"I think when Jews mention the 'Holocaust', it shows we're scared." Avrum said.
The whole point to the Zionist exercise was to create in the Jew a place where, and a sensibility so they would not be trapped in the 2000 year cycle of fear and victimhood.
What the invoking of the Holocaust in political arguments does, is prove that, for now, Zionism is a failure, despite Israel's existence.
"What the invoking of the Holocaust in political arguments does, is prove that, for now, Zionism is a failure, despite Israel's existence."
If you say so Eruc. Zionism, as an ideology, has many things to still work out - be it to find a way to wrong past wrongs, or to develop a 'future strategy' - but to say it's a failure is ridiculous. But alas, to each his own.
Y. Ben-David said...
Put me down on the list of those Israelis who despise Obama. Please don't put words in my mouth in saying that I feel this way because he is black.
He is a master post-Modern dissembler and an idiot, at least when it comes to foreign policy. He hid Samantha Powers, Jimmy Carter, Bill Ayres, and other disreputable types during the campaign, then he trots them (or at least some of them) out when he gets elected.
His speech in Cairo was full of obvious symbols to a Muslim audience saying "yes, I am one of you" (referring to the "holy" Quran, referring to its "revelation", and IIRC adding "peace be upon him" to Muhammed's name). YES, I KNOW HE SAID HE IS A CHRISTIAN. Add to this the photo released of him talking to Netanyahu on the phone with his feet on the desk, facing the camera. This is clearly meant as an insult to Netanyahu and Israel , and is meant for the Muslim audience to see it that way. Then there is the bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. Then there is the clear implication in the speech that Israel was created "because of the Holocaust" and that the US must support Israel, but this support is due to artificial, internal American political pressures. Then there are the loud public demands for unilateral concessions from us, whereas I don't see him making any such parallel demands from any other country in the world.
In spite of this, I am glad he is President. The last two Presidents both had the title "the best friend we ever had in the White House", which is bunk. During that period we had Oslo foisted on us, we saw the biggest wave of terror ever launched against us while our "friends in the White House" were hectoring us not to respond to the violence and to continue making concessions to Arafat and the PA . Then we lost Gush Katif in return for vague promises that Obama now says never existed. Sharon kept justifying his lack of action against Palestinian terror by saying "I promised our friend in the White Houste that we wouldn't respond". We now have someone who will break this sick depedency our leaders have developed on the US and we will stand on our own feet. No President can force us to do what we know is detremental to our national interests, so by cutting us loose, Obama will be proclaiming Israeli's renewed indepedence.
Y. Ben David,
Zionism was not created because of the Holocaust. Israel was. See my post on that.
Bottom line: you and I will be both happy when the US cuts its financial aid to Israel. Will you also be happy when the the world imposes sanctions on Israel? I can't imagine of a better way for Israel to show its independence. With nobody in the world supporting Israel, we don't need to trust goyishe princes, only Hashem
I am not worried about massive international sanctions. Most of the world understands the true situation here, i.e. it is the Arabs who refuse to make peace with Israel. Israel is an attractive trading partner for many countries, particularly in the states of the former USSR, the former Communist Bloc and the Far East. None of these people care about settlements or the "Palestinians lack of self-determination" (which is self-inflicted). Look how hostile Russia used to be and how much they claimed to care about the Palestnians. We get along fine with them now. Same with China. Same with India...and those three are big, powerful countries. They don't care about the Palestinians at all.
From what I understand most people in Europe are indifferent about the whole thing as well. Yes, there is considerable anti-Israel influence due to Muslim immigrants and radical anarchists, Communists and others who are allied with traditionalist antisemitic groups that are making a lot of noise. It still remains to be seen whether these groups will succeed in making boycotts against Israel, because as I said most people (and I mean a large majority) in Europe don't care, but since there isn't a large pro-Israel group to counter them in these countries, there could be real political pressure to downgrade relations. We'll just have to wait and see.
Taiwan is a country that is pretty much "illegitimate" in the international arena, far more than Israel is, and they are doing fine. They make products people want to buy, so if we can do the same thing, even in the worst case scenario, we will also survive and prosper, and the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world will continue to fall further and further behind us.
As Ben-Gurion said..."anyone in Israel who doesn't believe in miracles isn't being realistic".
I feel I must clarify what I said about Obama signaling the Arab world that he is indeed a Muslim...The United States has no religious test for candidates for office, a Muslim has every right to run for office (a Muslim was elected to Congress) and the American people have every right to elect a Muslim as President. The problem is that he did not tell anyone he was a Muslim, he vehemently denied it and kept Muslims away from appearing with him. In Cairo, he suddenly tells them that he is indeed a Muslim, showing he was deceiving everyone. Now, since he says he is a Christian, what does he mean? That is hard to tell...perhaps he is a Muslim the way Benjamin Disraeli was a Jew....an identity obtained at birth and with continuing fraternal feelings with his fellow Jews, even though he nominally is practicing another religion for political reasons, or perhaps he is working "underground". Time will tell.
"Zionism was not created because of the Holocaust."
What created Zionism in your eyes sir? (and I'm assuming you mean Alkalai's, but Herzl's)
"you and I will be both happy when the US cuts its financial aid to Israel ... we don't need to trust goyishe princes, only Hashem"
The sad thing about this statement is that you're assuming all that you want for both people to come true when this happens actually comes true. What, may I ask, happens if it all goes wrong (If the '1 state' or '2 state' vision you hope will come if the above happens goes horribly wrong)?
You may be right on the realpolitik issue, at least in the short term.
You are aware that the Quartet (including Russia, of course) has backed Obama's call for a settlement freeze.
Cut off American aid to Israel; even cut of loan guarantees, and you will find that some of Israel's biggest trading partners will follow suit.
Read Bernard Avishai's book, the chapter on the business of integration, and you will see how fragile Israel's economy will be if even moderate pressure is applied. He may be wrong, but he is an economist, and he has a strong blurb from the CEO of Intel on the back.
I was unaware that Obama said in Cairo that he was a Muslim. So he said, "Holy Qur'an" and "Peace Be Upon Him" Ever heard a Reform Jew speak to Muslims? He was a liberal, being polite.
He is "worse" than a Musim, YBD; he is a Christian who likes Muslims.
But again, I am skeptical that much will change
Obama supported the Dictator in Hondurans.
He is indeed evil!
Jews should recognize the fact that Hitler has been reincarnated!
Obama is not a Christian.
Have you heard his pastor?
That church doesn't preach Christianity.
That church preaches hate.
"In Cairo, he suddenly tells them that he is indeed a Muslim"
Y. - I don't think he said that at all.
Jerry-
Do you believe Muhammed was the final prophet? No you don't. Do you believe that the Qur'an was "revealed" to him? No you don't. If you were giving a lecture to people about the Muslims you would refer to Muhammed as a personage important to history as a religious innovator, but you would not refer to him yourself as a prophet. You would say that the the Muslims refer to him as a prophet. Similarly, you would not say the Qur'an was "revealed" (implying divine origin), you would say the Qur'an "appeared", or that "the Muslims say was 'revealed'".
Verbal and symbolic codes are very important in Middle Eastern cultures (the real effect of curses and blessings, or the shoe throwing incident in Iraq, for example) and he sent direct, clear messsages to his Muslim audience that he, indeed, identifies as a Muslim. As I said, that is fine, a President of the US can be a Muslim, but he clearly denied it before the election, so what does this all mean?
Personally, I believe he is as religious as a stone, he is an opportunist and he lets every audience believe what it wants about him (this is what I was alluding to with Disraeli) although his distaste for Israel is no doubt sincere and legitimate, (although negative from my point of view) but this was also hidden before the election), but such a person is quite problematic for such a powerful position.
Regarding the Russian support for a settlement freeze, this is a natural response to Arab political pressure, not deeply felt. The Arabs go around demanding everyone in the world parrot their positions and because of their immense wealth due to oil, many dance to their tune, at least outwardly. Do you seriously believe that the average Russian, who supported crushing Chechnya really cares about settlements?
Anonymous - you're being an idiot, seriously. Can you please stop?
When I said Zionism was a failure I meant up to now--it could succeed if those who wish to spread lies about Obama and spread Hitler victim fears in the Jewish community were so marginalized that they were regarded flat-earthers or Sabbateans. It may succeed but not until the generation of the desert (Those Holocaust,Shavit, Moral equivalence, Obama is Hitler) voices are only heard together with Korakh murmuring in some cave in the desert where Hashem (whom I call God) has condemned them.
Peter Drubetskoy said...
Yeah, and Clinton revealed himself as a hidden Jew and a Communist to boot with his "Shalom, khaver"...
C'mon, YBD, what's up with the loony comments? Been reading too much Pam Geller or not getting enough sleep? (I am not, but I have got a newborn...)
I mean, yeah, sure, there is a chance that Obama is a secret Muslim, but if this is your evidence, then it is ridiculous. You just keep seeing things in the only perspective that fits with your preconceived ideas, even when it requires drawing such far-fetched conclusions..
Frankly, it seems to me Obama is an agnostic.
Congrats on your 2nd kid Peter - Mazal Tov.
I don't think Obama is agnostic btw - he's either Christian or Muslim but I don't think whichever he is dictates how he's acting, or defines him much as a person.
JES said...
Jerry, I think that you are drawing a lot of unwarranted conclusions here about Israelis and their views toward Obama - particularly by inserting racism into the mix. (And if you have to rely on the "talkbacks" for a sampling of opinion... well I think that's pretty pitiful.)
You see, I think that your problem is that you need to fashion an irrational hate out of a legitimate disagreement to justify your own position (which also, come to think of it, borders on the pathetic). From where I sit - and that isn't in the American/Liberal enclaves Bakaa or Emek Refaim - I don't see what you see at all. So, I guess that makes it my word against yours.
Just one last note while we're generalizing about Obama. Could you tell me why it is that his supporters feel they need to constantly drum it into everyone's head that He is the "Second Coming"? (Remember, about 47% of Americans did not vote for Obama!)
Thanks, Avram.
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By a unanimous vote, the five-person commission moved to issue two notices of inquiry regarding the industry, but the commissioners made it plain that they differ on how deeply the government should involve itself.
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The FCC's inquiry came as welcome news to critics of the wireless industry such as Herb Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Senate antitrust subcommittee. Kohl has been leading the charge against carriers' rate increases for texting, holding a hearing on the matter in June.
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Spectrum policy figures to be a central feature of the commission's inquiry. Current policies that limit carriers' access to wireless spectrum pose an "ongoing challenge and handicap on wireless innovation," Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said at today's meeting.
The commissioners noted that the ascendancy of mobile devices as a gateway to the Web has given a new urgency to spectrum reform and other issues surrounding the wireless market.
"With the advent of remarkable new mobile devices like the iPhone, the Pre, Blackberry we are at a pivotal moment in this industry," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.
The rise of the smartphone, and the accompanying developer platforms, has sparked a series of debates over the veto power that carriers and device makers have used to block certain applications.
On Friday, the FCC received responses from Apple, AT&T and Google to an inquiry involving the rejection of Google's Voice application for the iPhone. VoIP provider Skype has a petition pending with the FCC asking it to impose the same open access requirements that govern the wireline industry to the mobile sector.
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Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah:
"Allah's Apostle sent an army towards the east coast and appointed Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah as their chief, and the army consisted of three-hundred men including myself. We marched on till we reached a place where our food was about to finish. Abu- 'Ubaida ordered us to collect all the journey food and it was collected. My (our) journey food was dates. Abu 'Ubaida kept on giving us our daily ration in small amounts from it, till it was exhausted. The share of everyone of us used to be one date only." I said, "How could one date benefit you?" Jabir replied, "We came to know its value when even that too finished." Jabir added, "When we reached the sea-shore, we saw a huge fish which was like a small mountain. The army ate from it for eighteen days. Then Abu 'Ubaida ordered that two of its ribs be fixed and they were fixed in the ground. Then he ordered that a she-camel be ridden and it passed under the two ribs (forming an arch) without touching them."
Narrated Salama:
Once the journey food diminished and the people were reduced to poverty. They went to the Prophet and asked his permission to slaughter their camels, and he agreed. 'Umar met them and they told him about it, and he said, "How would you survive after slaughtering your camels?" Then he went to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! How would they survive after slaughtering their camels?" Allah's Apostle ordered 'Umar, "Call upon the people to bring what has remained of their food." A leather sheet was spread and al I the journey food was collected and heaped over it. Allah's Apostle stood up and invoked Allah to bless it, and then directed all the people to come with their utensils, and they started taking from it till all of them got what was sufficient for them. Allah's Apostle then said, "I testify that None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and I am His Apostle. "
Narrated Rafi bin Khadij:
We used to offer the 'Asr prayer with the Prophet and slaughter a camel, the meat of which would be divided in ten parts. We would eat the cooked meat before sunset.
The Prophet said, "When the people of Ash'ari tribe ran short of food during the holy battles, or the food of their families in Medina ran short, they would collect all their remaining food in one sheet and then distribute it among themselves equally by measuring it with a bowl. So, these people are from me, and I am from them."
Narrated Anas:
that Abu Bakr As-Siddiq wrote to him the law of Zakat which was made obligatory by Allah's Apostle. He wrote: 'Partners possessing joint property (sheep) have to pay its Zakat equally.
Narrated 'Abaya bin Rafa'a bin Raft' bin Khadij:
My grandfather said, "We were in the company of the Prophet at Dhul-Hulaifa. The people felt hungry and captured some camels and sheep (as booty). The Prophet was behind the people. They hurried and slaughtered the animals and put their meat in pots and started cooking it. (When the Prophet came) he ordered the pots to be upset and then he distributed the animals (of the booty), regarding ten sheep as equal to one camel. One of the camels fled and the people ran after it till they were exhausted. At that time there were few horses. A man threw an arrow at the camel, and Allah stopped the camel with it. The Prophet said, "Some of these animals are like wild animals, so if you lose control over one of these animals, treat it in this way (i.e. shoot it with an arrow)." Before distributing them among the soldiers my grandfather said, "We may meet the enemies in the future and have no knives; can we slaughter the animals with reeds?" The Prophet said, "Use whatever causes blood to flow, and eat the animals if the name of Allah has been mentioned on slaughtering them. Do not slaughter with teeth or fingernails and I will tell you why: It is because teeth are bones (i.e. cannot cut properly) and fingernails are the tools used by the Ethiopians (whom we should not imitate for they are infidels)."
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet decreed that one should not eat two dates together at a time unless he gets the permission from his companions (sharing the meal with him).
Narrated Jabala:
"While at Medina we were struck with famine. Ibn Az-Zubair used to provide us with dates as our food. Ibn 'Umar used to pass by us and say, "Don't eat two dates together at a time as the Prophet has forbidden eating two dates together at a time (in a gathering) unless one takes the permission of one's companion brother."
Narrated Nafi:
Ibn 'Umar said, "Allah's Apostle said, 'If one manumits his share of a jointly possessed slave, and can afford the price of the other shares according to the adequate price of the slave, the slave will be completely manumitted; otherwise he will be partially manumitted.' " (Aiyub, a sub-narrator is not sure whether the saying " ... otherwise he will be partially manumitted" was said by Nafi' or the Prophet.)
The Prophet said, "Whoever manumits his share of a jointly possessed slave, it is imperative for him to get that slave manumitted completely by paying the remaining price, and if he does not have sufficient money to manumit him, then the price of the slave should be estimated justly, and he is to be allowed to work and earn the amount that will manumit him (without overburdening him)".
Narrated An-Nu'man bin Bashir:
The Prophet said, "The example of the person abiding by Allah's order and restrictions in comparison to those who violate them is like the example of those persons who drew lots for their seats in a boat. Some of them got seats in the upper part, and the others in the lower. When the latter needed water, they had to go up to bring water (and that troubled the others), so they said, 'Let us make a hole in our share of the ship (and get water) saving those who are above us from troubling them. So, if the people in the upper part left the others do what they had suggested, all the people of the ship would be destroyed, but if they prevented them, both parties would be safe."
Narrated 'Urwa bin Az-Zubair:
That he had asked 'Aisha about the meaning of the Statement of Allah: "If you fear that you shall not Be able to deal justly With the orphan girls, then Marry (Other) women of your choice Two or three or four." (4.3)
She said, "O my nephew! This is about the orphan girl who lives with her guardian and shares his property. Her wealth and beauty may tempt him to marry her without giving her an adequate Mahr (bridal-money) which might have been given by another suitor. So, such guardians were forbidden to marry such orphan girls unless they treated them justly and gave them the most suitable Mahr; otherwise they were ordered to marry any other woman." 'Aisha further said, "After that verse the people again asked the Prophet (about the marriage with orphan 'girls), so Allah revealed the following verses:-- 'They ask your instruction Concerning the women. Say: Allah Instructs you about them And about what is Recited unto you In the Book, concerning The orphan girls to whom You give not the prescribed portions and yet whom you Desire to marry..." (4.127)
What is meant by Allah's Saying:-- 'And about what is Recited unto you is the former verse which goes:-- 'If you fear that you shall not Be able to deal justly With the orphan girls, then Marry (other) women of your choice.' (4.3) 'Aisha said, "Allah's saying in the other verse:--'Yet whom you desire to marry' (4.127) means the desire of the guardian to marry an orphan girl under his supervision when she has not much property or beauty (in which case he should treat her justly). The guardians were forbidden to marry their orphan girls possessing property and beauty without being just to them, as they generally refrain from marrying them (when they are neither beautiful nor wealthy)."
The Prophet established the right of Shu'fa (i.e. Pre-emption) in joint properties; but when the land is divided and the ways are demarcated, then there is no pre-emption.
The Prophet said, "The right of pre-emption is valid in every joint property, but when the land is divided and the way is demarcated, then there is no right of pre-emption."
Narrated Sulaiman bin Abu Muslim:
I asked Abu Minhal about money exchange from hand to hand. He said, "I and a partner of mine bought something partly in cash and partly on credit." Al-Bara' bin 'Azib passed by us and we asked about it. He replied, "I and my partner Zaid bin Al-Arqam did the same and then went to the Prophet and asked him about it. He said, 'Take what was from hand to hand and leave what was on credit.' "
Narrated Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle rented the land of Khaibar to the Jews on the condition that they would work on it and cultivate it and take half of its yield.
Narrated 'Uqba bin 'Amir:
that Allah's Apostle gave him some sheep to distribute among his companions in order to sacrifice them and a kid was left. He told the Prophet about it and the Prophet said to him, "Sacrifice it on your behalf."
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Hisham:
that his mother Zainab bint Humaid took him to the Prophet and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Take the pledge of allegiance from him." But he said, "He is still too young for the pledge," and passed his hand on his (i.e. 'Abdullah's) head and invoked for Allah's blessing for him. Zuhra bin Ma'bad stated that he used to go with his grandfather, 'Abdullah bin Hisham, to the market to buy foodstuff. Ibn 'Umar and Ibn Az-Zubair would meet him and say to him, "Be our partner, as the Prophet invoked Allah to bless you." So, he would be their partner, and very often he would win a camel's load and send it home.
The Prophet said, "Whoever manumits his share o a jointly possessed slave, it is imperative on him to manumit the slave completely if he has sufficient money to pay the rest of its price which is to be estimated justly. He should pay his partners their shares and release him (the freed one).
The Prophet said, "Whoever manumits his share of a jointly possessed slave, it is essential for him to manumit the slave completely if he has sufficient money. Otherwise he should look for some work for the slave (to earn what would enable him to emancipate himself), without overburdening him with work."
The Prophet (along with his companions) reached Mecca in the morning of the fourth of Dhul-Hijja assuming Ihram for Hajj only. So when we arrived at Mecca, the Prophet ordered us to change our intentions of the Ihram for'Umra and that we could finish our Ihram after performing the 'Umra and could go to our wives (for sexual intercourse). The people began talking about that. Jabir said surprisingly, "Shall we go to Mina while semen is dribbling from our male organs?" Jabir moved his hand while saying so. When this news reached the Prophet he delivered a sermon and said, "I have been informed that some peoples were saying so and so; By Allah I fear Allah more than you do, and am more obedient to Him than you. If I had known what I know now, I would not have brought the Hadi (sacrifice) with me and had the Hadi not been with me, I would have finished the Ihram." At that Suraqa bin Malik stood up and asked "O Allah's Apostle! Is this permission for us only or is it forever?" The Prophet replied, "It is forever." In the meantime 'Ali bin Abu Talib came from Yemen and was saying Labbaik for what the Prophet has intended. (According to another man, 'Ali was saying Labbaik for Hajj similar to Allah's Apostle's). The Prophet told him to keep on the Ihram and let him share the Hadi with him.
Narrated Abaya bin Rifaa:
My grandfather, Rafi bin Khadij said, "We were in the valley of Dhul-Hulaifa of Tuhama in the company of the Prophet and had some camels and sheep (of the booty). The people hurried (in slaughtering the animals) and put their meat in the pots and started cooking. Allah's Apostle came and ordered them to upset the pots, and distributed the booty considering one camel as equal to ten sheep. One of the camels fled and the people had only a few horses, so they got worried. (The camel was chased and) a man slopped the camel by throwing an arrow at it. Allah's Apostle said, 'Some of these animals are untamed like wild animals, so if anyone of them went out of your control, then you should treat it as you have done now.' " My grandfather said, "O Allah's Apostle! We fear that we may meet our enemy tomorrow and we have no knives, could we slaughter the animals with reeds?" The Prophet said, "Yes, or you can use what would make blood flow (slaughter) and you can eat what is slaughtered and the Name of Allah is mentioned at the time of slaughtering. But don't use teeth or fingernails (in slaughtering). I will tell you why, as for teeth, they are bones, and fingernails are used by Ethiopians for slaughtering. (See Hadith 668)
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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityEthiopian MK: Police Chief's comments harm us
Ethiopian MK: Police Chief's comments harm us
'The Police Chief called me to explain his comments; I told him he should apologize and put an end to the story.'
Ido Ben Porat, 31/08/16 16:03
Likud MK Avraham Neguise
Eliran Aharon
Likud MK and chairman of the Knesset’s Aliyah and Absorption Committee Avraham Neguise weighed in on the ongoing controversy regarding comments by Israel’s Chief of Police Roni Alshich relating to crime among Ethiopian Jews in Israel.
On Tuesday, Alshich spoke to the Israeli Bar Association, touching upon the problem of crime in the Arab sector and among immigrants from Ethiopia and their descendants. In attempting to describe his department’s efforts to improve relations between the police and Ethiopian Jews, Alshich said it was “natural” for officers to be more suspicious of Ethiopian immigrants, given the higher crime rates in their communities.
The Police Chief added that he was working to reduce friction and overlook minor offenses to improve relations between the Ethiopian population and the police.
“I am for closing cases where there is friction, and which don't include any serious crimes," Alshich said. "The confidence Israelis of Ethiopian origin have in the police is growing, and I am happy that there is leadership in the community. The goal is to reduce crime, not fill the jails."
By Wednesday, however, Alshich’s comments had stirred a major controversy, with accusations of insensitivity and even racism.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva Wednesday afternoon, MK Neguise, a native of Gondar, Ethiopia, spoke out on the controversy, rejecting claims of racism while emphasizing that Alshich had phrased his comments poorly.
Neguise noted that following the outcry, Alshich had called him to explain his statements.
“The Police Chief called me last night to explain what he had meant and that his comments had been misinterpreted and that he had no intention of offending anyone,” said Neguise.
“I saw a recording of his speech; you can understand the Police Chief’s explanation on a professional level, but he did not need to say what he did. He erred in how he phrased his comments, and I told him he should apologize. There’s no embarrassment in saying ‘I phrased my statement poorly and I apologize to the community and Israeli people’; it won’t hurt him [to say it].”
The MK also pointed out the possible damage Alshich’s comments could have if misinterpreted by officers encountering Ethiopian youths.
“How will a street cop interpret that [statement] while on duty? The Ethiopian community is harmed. I’m worried that after his comments there will be more policing against Ethiopians.”
“It’s a shame that today, when there are efforts to bring people together and strengthen the relationship between the community and the police, there comes a statement like this that breaks the trust and ups [the level] of policing. I call upon the Chief of Police to apologize and end this whole story.”
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We are a group of automotive enthusiasts
who enjoy vintage automobiles of all types.
Our club was formed in 1989 in Milton, PA
and was named “Pride and Joy”. In 1991,
it moved to Hughesville, and was renamed
the “Keystone Cruisers”. The club is now
based in Williamsport, PA. Currently, we host seasonal, monthly Cruise Nights at the Maynard Street Burger King, Williamsport, PA. Dates and details are listed on our Events page.
We welcome new members who are willing to attend and assist with our monthly Cruise Nights and other group activities. To apply for membership, please use our Contacts page to print an application.
Our Cruise Nights produce money to operate the club and to support local charities. We also do a canned food/paper goods drive twice a year to support local soup kicthens. Members of our group often travel to other car shows, participate in parades, and participate in cruise-ins operated by other clubs in the area. Our primary activity is the operation of the Burger King Cruise Nights the first Saturday of the month, May to October. From January through April, while our cars are in storage, or getting the next upgrade, we meet at the Burger King on Maynard Street for monthly dinner meetings.
Burger King Cruise-In
The Burger King Cruise Night is held the first Saturday of every month starting in May, beginning at 6:00 PM. Cruise Nights are weather permitting, but we will have some rain dates each year. See our events page for details. Due to the number of cars that show up every month, we are forced to turn away vehicles once the lot is full, so space is limited to the first 140 cars; however, overflow parking is now available across the street. If you have a car you love to show, old or new, even if it is just in the project stage, you are welcome to attend and share it with us! If you don’t have a car and just like car shows, stop in and see some great vehicles!
Members’ Rides Area
Our site has a Member’s Rides section where we post photos of club members’ cars. Please check it out!
Gene Duke - President
Harry Boyer - Vice President
Shelly Karschner - Treasurer
Betty Duke - Secretary
Jeff Thomas – Webmaster
WELCOME TO THE KEYSTONE CRUISER'S WEBSITE!
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Stephen Merchant and Sheridan Smith to star in The Barking Murders on BBC One
Stephen Merchant and Sheridan Smith will star in new BBC One drama The Barking Murders, which is due to commence filming this spring.
From Jeff Pope and Neil McKay, the award-winning team behind The Moorside and Appropriate Adult, the new factual drama will go beneath the headlines to shed new light on this story by telling it from the point of view of the families of Stephen Port’s victims, focusing on their fight to uncover the truth about what had happened to their lost sons and brothers in the face of a now widely-criticised police investigation.
Stephen Merchant (Fighting With My Family, Extras, The Office) will play Stephen Port, and Sheridan Smith (The Moorside, Care, Mrs Biggs) will play Sarah Sak, the mother of Anthony Walgate. Also joining the cast is Jaime Winstone (Five Daughters, Babs) as Donna Taylor, one of the sisters of Jack Taylor. The director is David Blair (Care, Reg).
On joining the cast, Stephen Merchant says: “This is a story that can’t be ignored - how four young lives were lost and their families’ brave attempt to uncover what happened. This factual drama will shed light on their story, so it’s a privilege to be a part of telling it with the brilliant combination of Jeff Pope, Neil McKay and the BBC.”
Sheridan Smith adds: “‘I love playing real life characters - especially an inspirational woman like Sarah Sak - but with it comes responsibility. Along with the other families, Sarah went through so much heartache and it would have been easy for her to just accept what she was being told by the police, but something inside made her keep fighting for her son.”
Writer, Neil McKay, says: "Four young men with their entire future ahead of them lost their lives in a brutal and tragic way. This is a story not only of the consequences of that loss but also of the extraordinary courage and resilience shown by those who loved them as they sought truth and justice. It is a privilege to be able to tell it."
Jeff Pope, Executive Producer, ITV Studios, says: "I think this is an opportunity to say something about how we don't always have to accept what we are told by those in authority, and how determination, sheer bloody-mindedness and - above all else - love, will always triumph."
Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, says: “The Stephen Port murders have shone a light not just on the life of one deeply disturbed individual but into the plight of the four innocent young gay men who fell foul of him. Jeff and Neil will go behind the headlines to tell the story from a fresh perspective considering the impact of these crimes rather than the crimes themselves and will explore the challenges the police faced in identifying the serial nature of the killings. We are thrilled with the cast which has been assembled to tell this story and look forward to bringing this difficult but very timely story to BBC One.”
Written by Neil McKay, the 3x60’ drama will be directed by David Blair, produced by Serena Cullen and executive produced by Jeff Pope for ITV Studios, Head of Factual Drama, Neil McKay, and Lucy Richer for the BBC. The drama has been commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content for BBC One. It will be co-produced by BritBox, where it will premiere in the US.
Jeff Pope and Neil McKay worked together on The Moorside, which told the story of the community impacted by the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, and Appropriate Adult, which looked at the story of serial killer Fred West from the point of view of trainee social worker Janet Leach. They have a reputation for factual drama based on detailed research that focuses not on the crime itself but those affected by the events, whose perspective gives a fresh eye on these important news stories.
This drama tells the story of four victims of Stephen Port: Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor and their families and friends who worked tirelessly to find out what happened to them.
Stephen Port received a life sentence with a whole life order in November 2016.
Posted by JD at 11:00
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William Mortlock [1778 - 1833]
The Mortlock Tablet in Meldreth Holy Trinity Church
photo by Tim Gane
Map showing the positions of Lots 1 and 5
Detail of the sale of William Mortlock's Wine Cellar
Born in Edgware, Middx, William Mortlock moved to Meldreth in 1815 where he lived until his death in 1833.
By Tim Gane
The story of the Mortlock family here in Meldreth begins with William Mortlock, the grandfather of Meldreth’s ‘famous son’, John George Mortlock. William was born in 1778, the son of William Mortlock and Elizabeth White.
By 1802 William and his brother John were partners in the family china business but soon after their father’s death in 1807 the brothers dissolved their partnership leaving William to carry on the business alone.
William, in the meantime, married Elizabeth Evans in London in 1800 and in 1815, they moved down from St Marylebone in London to live in Manting House in Meldreth. William and Elizabeth had ten children although only the last, Thomas Samuel, was actually born in Meldreth.
Elizabeth Mortlock passed away in 1832 aged 56. William died the very next year aged just 55 (note: the parish records show his age as 65 but this is incorrect). Both are buried here in Meldreth Church in the Mortlock family vault. There is a stone tablet on the wall in the Church commemorating the life of William Mortlock, his wife Elizabeth, their daughter Elizabeth (aged 19), son Charles (aged 8) and William’s mother, also Elizabeth, aged 82.
William Mortlock's will instructed that all his manors, titles, farms, land etc. were to be auctioned. This auction took place at The Bull Inn in Royston on July 17th and 18th 1833.
Displayed here is some of the auction detail. Lot 1 is the present Manting House plus Brewery Farm and some 56 acres of land. It was bought by William Burr for £4,599.
Lot 5 is the farm tenanted by William's cousin Simeon Mortlock. Simeon successfully purchased it at a cost of £210. The Warren is presently situated on this land.
William obviously had a very well stocked wine cellar with a particular liking for Maderia as the detail of the sale catalogue shows 14 dozen bottles. They fetched 3 shillings (15p) per bottle!
This page was added by Tim Gane on 04/01/2011.
The Mortlocks of Meldreth
Introduction to the Mortlock Family and Meldreth Parish Records
John Mortlock (1807 - 1888)
The China Mortlocks
The Mortlock China Company
Mortlock Memorials in Meldreth Holy Trinity Church
Property Owned by the Mortlock Family in Meldreth
Portrait of Elizabeth Mortlock
William Mortlock Palmer MD FSA of Linton
William, James and Simeon Mortlock
John George Mortlock [1835 - 1917]
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Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee’ Appeared On Centric In Honor Of MLK Day
For more than a half century, audiences have been mesmerized by the love story between Hollywood legends Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. After a highly successful Kickstarter campaign and the race against time, now, their grandson Muta’Ali unearths the foundation of this unbreakable bond in the documentary ‘Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee,’ which premiered on Centric TV Sunday, January 17,2016 at 3:00pm EST, in honor of Martin Luther King Day.
As I watched ‘Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee,’ it blew me away!! The film is stylistically beautiful and packed with exclusive video footage, family photos and memorabilia. In addition, a host of celebrity friends like Angela Bassett, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Hill Harper, Samuel Jackson, Spike Lee, S. Epatha Merkerson, Phylicia Rashad, Glynn Turman, Dr. Cornel West, Sonia Sanchez and Malik Yoba, share eyewitness accounts of this American legacy. What a treat!!
To give you a little back story,’I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Director, Muta’Ali and Producer Jevon “NJ” Frank, for an exclusive interview.
Muta’Ali, you narrative and appeared in the film, was that pressure??
It was very difficult because I was doing it while knowing her mortality. To include a conversation between a grandchild and a grandson was a love story. To have had another person do it, the intimacy would have been lost.
Muta’Ali, what is Life’s Essentials about??
It’s about the passing down our values and principals. It’s really an inside look on how Gram Ruby passes down Love Art & Activism. As her grandchild, you will see what I want you to learn. What I wanted you to know about them and not just on a superficial level. This documentary forces the viewer to juxtapose where they stand, against the people that they admire stand.
Muta’Ali, did you ask Gram Ruby all that you should have??
I did get to ask her all that I needed to ask in 2014. When we were doing the audio mix to premiere at ABFF, Gram Ruby passed away. When I look at the old footage I feel a sense of calm. That heart aching regret is nowhere to be found. It was one of the best journeys I’ve gone on.
Muta’Ali, why did you call her Gram Ruby instead of grandma??
It’s a funny story and there are different accounts of how it came about. As I recal, Gram Ruby, was not quite getting comfortable with us calling her grandma when she was on the red carpet. We definitely weren’t calling her Ruby either, so we mixed the two together and it stuck.
Muta’Ali, was having a famous all that we imagined it would be??
It was a really a blessing and an eye opener. It never struck me as abnormal until reflecting on it. It was wonderful to meet the people we got to meet and watching them interact with others. I felt that I was a witness to how people treated them. It was exciting. There were so many fun things that we got to do.
Muta’Ali, was Gram Ruby a cookies and milk grandmother??
She was very fond of discipline. She was raised in a very strict household. Out of love, her mother was very much on top of Gram Ruby’s life to make sure she stayed on the straight and narrow. She lectured me growing up and even when I was grown. She will set you straight!!
Muta’Ali, the rumored open marriage thing came up, how was it discussing that??
It was not an open marriage. Gram Ruby never called it an open marriage. However, I did need to talk to her about that because they still had an understanding that was an exciting possibility that would allow me to have sexual partners without destroying love in my life; that is more important to me. I needed to do it because I needed to know. My grandparents are speakers of the truth when it comes to promoting justice and their love life. So to them, cheating on someone is contradictory to their truth. They wanted to always be truthful. I enjoyed learning how to handle that possibility.
Jevon “NJ” Frank, Stylistically the film was beautiful!! Talk about that??
Early on in the development stage, we had a plan that the archival would be a character in the film; to see the rich content we had. It narrows your focus on what Muta’Ali is discussing.
Jevon “NJ” Frank we must talk about funding??
Early on, we started with our own equipment then we went to Kickstarter and ran a campaign in 2015. We set out to raise 50,000 to do Ms. Ruby Dee’s 90th birthday celebration. We fundraised throughout the production of the film. It was an ongoing struggle every day. Luckily most of the content was owned by the family, so we didn’t have to pay for rights to most of the archival materials.
I know some seasoned filmmakers that take nine years to complete a documentary but it took us two years from the point of the Kickstarter campaign. The pace was at a record pace because we were racing against time to get this done before Gram Ruby passed away. We want to shout out Jasmine McCullough, our associate producer and Sonya Denise, our co-producer, who were also instrumental in helping make the film a success.
Jevon “NJ” Frank, what challenges did you face during the production of the film?
Most of the film was produced by myself and Muta’Ali, because of the lack of funds in the beginning of filming. It took a little over three years to complete, which was frustrating, but looking back on it, it was completed at the right time.
Muta’Ali, what do you hope audiences take away from this film??
I’d like people to smile as they think about Ruby Dee. I want them to be inspired by a grandparent who sits down with their grandchild. And where they stand in having a voice in their community.
The film will also be available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play February 1st in time for Black History Month. For info. visit http://rubydee.lifesessentialsdocs.com/
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The Glamour and Grime of a Foreign TV Correspondent
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Mario Biasetti with Sandinista Rebels in Chontales jungle of Nicaragua.
PART III – THE GLAMOUR AND GRIME OF A FOREIGN TELEVISION CORRESPONDENT
After proving his talent in Boston, CBS decided to send Mario off to the Sierra Maestra moutains to follow Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the Cuban revolutionaries.
Mario left my mouth hanging open when he told me casually, “I interviewed Castro at least three times, he was a cowboy and a gentleman.”
Mario said Che Guevara would tease him saying “Tu habla spaghetti espagnolo.”
6) Bluffing your way through enemy lines… I know endless stories of journalists in war situations– from the Balkans to East Africa– using clever little tricks, bluffing their way through enemy lines, or government checkpoints. It is part of the job.
Mario was a pro at crossing enemy lines while he was working in Cuba. At one point-after Castro was in power- the foreign editor in NY called and said there’d been rumors of a landing by anti-Castro forces and asked Mario to check it out… His sources told him the Sierra Maestra that had been declared an OFF LIMITS area by Fidel Castro.
Mario got himself a mule, a guide, brought along his CBS cases and headed into the mountains. At every check-point he would greet the soldiers with, “Que tal Chico?” (How’s it going young man?) and when the soldiers asked him “Where are you going?” Mario would answer, “to see the boss, naturally.”
As he got close to the top of the mountain heavy gun fire broke out. Mario and his guide threw themselves in a ditch and waited until the shooting stopped. Soon after an army patrol found them and demanded to know what they were doing there as the area was OFF LIMITS. “I’ve come to interview el Presidente”, said Mario. The officer looked at his watch and said, “el presidente Fidel should be here in half an hour.”
Dozens of armed men toting all kinds of weapons were regrouping and officers yelled orders. Half an hour later a tiny 2-man bubble helicopter landed in a recently cleared patch near where Mario stood. Mario notes, “he was such a cowboy he always travelled in his bubble helicopter like it was his horse. He even took the bubble helicopter to come to the pool at the Hotel Nazionale in Havana where I always stayed.”
Fidel jumped out, noticed Mario filming and screamed, “What the F… are you doing here? Get off the mountain! NO, wait… I’ll be in Santiago in 4 days and I want to talk to you.”
“Si Señor”, said Mario, and left.
7) When you are surrounded by lots of armed men and their leader tells you to leave and not film, do it. You can only bluff so far, no story is worth your life.
Four days later in Santiago Mario got the interview with Castro in which the Cuban leader said he wanted to talk to President Eisenhower about tensions between the US and Cuba. “If the President is too busy I’d be willing to talk to the Secretary of State.” Castro told Mario.
Mario explains that it was well known in those days that Eisenhower spent lots of time on the golf course and Fidel wanted to add a subtle diplomatic dig by saying he’d talk to the Secretary of State, Christian Herter. Following the CBS News broadcast with Mario’s interview, Mario says the answer from the State Department was quick and undiplomatic: “If President Castro has anything to say we have an Embassy in Havana.” A diplomatic hand-slap for Castro.
Two days later Mario says two men showed up at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, hauled him to police headquarters where they photographed, fingerprinted him and then locked him up in a little room. All the while, thinking that there’d been a mistake, Mario kept repeating to his jailers, “When el Jefe finds out (Fidel, the boss) it’ll be your ass.” Little did Mario know that it had been Fidel that had ordered his expulsion from Cuba and that he be declared persona non grata.
The next day, Mario was driven at breakneck speed to Jose Marti airport and an hour later he arrived in Miami, never again to return to Cuba.
8) The old rule of getting back on the horse is true for TV journalists, you get kicked out a country, your film gets ruined, you miss the story… don’t worry, it happens to the best of journalists, get back up and try again.
Mario was persona non grata in Cuba, but the contacts he had made, the language and reporting skills he had acquired there were useful for his future work in Nicaragua.
CBS News sent Mario to Nicaragua, after Sandinista rebels coming from Cuba–the ones he had seen training in the Sierra Maesta– landed in the jungle of the Chontales region. The desk called Mario, “first available,” Landing in Managua, Mario took a cab and headed for the city. The driver told him machine gun fire had been going on all morning in the center of the city. And in fact, repeated short bursts of fire could be heard from inside the cab as they reached closer to town. Mario asked the driver to head in the direction of the fire but the driver refused. “I’m not crazy,” he said. But he agreed to take him close to where the shooting was and would drop his bags at the hotel.
Mario’s story in Nicaragua reminds me of a similar experience in the Philipines in August 1987 when a group of soldiers launched a coup attempt against the government of President Cory Aquino. As I tried to get to the military headquarters that the rebels had captured and were holding, my taxi driver got steadily more anxious. Oddly, he began giggling uncontrollably. Finally I had to get out of the taxi and walk to the headquarters where I managed to slip in the back gate with some other journalists. I ended up spending six hours crouching on a bathroom floor in that headquarters when government soldiers launched an attack to re-take the camp.
9) When the taxi driver is too afraid to go any further, realize you may be risking your life before you go on.
But back to Mario’s Nicaragua tale.
In the center of Managua soldiers of the Guardia Nacional had surrounded an area of several blocks and there was heavy gunfire. Mario lay on his belly recording the action with his trusted Bell and Howell camera when an officer of Somoza’s Guardia Nacional thundered, “who are you” “periodista yankee.” answered Mario. The officer had seen the yankee newsman filming the action, and over the din of gunfire screamed “you’re under arrest.” Two soldiers in front, two in the back and the officer on the side, all marched uphill on the way to division headquarters.
Thinking of what a great shot it would be, Mario turned the camera on himself just as one of the soldiers cracked him over the head with the butt of his gun. With blood streaming from the back of his head, Mario repeatedly yelled “embajada Americana, embajada Americana…” in the hope that someone in the nearby houses would hear him and call the US embassy. At headquarters Mario was shoved in a prison cell. There was a cot, a sink and a toilet. There was also a stool with which he was able to reach a slit in the wall and filmed army units in the courtyard getting ready for the front lines. The next morning a captain released him with apologies, claiming a mistake had been made.
10) When you are being dragged off somewhere by armed men, first think of how you might save your tail and if you can also keep your head and continue shoot you are likely to get powerful material.
Mario says someone must have alerted the American embassy because when he got back to his hotel there was a message to call the embassy. The Ambassador expressed regrets for what had happened, the US and Nicaragua had good relations, there was a war going on and things happen, and he asked Mario not to report the incident. “But, Mr. Ambassador, I’m a journalist.” said Mario, ” how can I not file a report about what has happened. “
I imagine a film about the life of CBS Newsman Mario Biasetti and I would love to just see this line delivered, “Mr. Ambassador, I am a journalist.”
11) When a bureaucrat asks you not to file a report because you might make some waves, ignore him. A journalist’s job is to make some waves.
Turns out though that the Ambassador was willing to give Mario a hand. He asked the Nicaraguan government to give Mario a Laissez-Passer to go into combat zones.
The following day a letter with the letterhead of the Guardia Nacional was sent to the hotel: “This will introduce Mr. Mario Biasetti, an American reporter for CBS News. You will extend full cooperation to him and facilitate his work and needs as a reporter.” Signed, General Somoza (the President’s brother).
He got the letter when he was holed up in his hotel room recording a voice-track to go with his previous days’ shoot of the firefight. The government had sent two agents to keep an eye on him and Mario wondered how he was going to get the film out of the country.
Mario knew that a Pan Am flight crew would be checking into the hotel, so he put two film rolls and a cassette in his jacket pocket and headed to the lobby at the time the crew usually arrived. The Nicaraguan agents sat in their lounge chairs reading magazines and doing their best to look like tourists. As the captain and crew went to the reception desk Mario nonchalantly strode by and whispered, “Captain, please, the boys room.”
During a quick exchange in the bathroom, Mario explained who he was and said, “I’ve got two rolls of film that I need to get to NY” The Pilot did not hesitate.
“When you get to Miami give the rolls to the immigration officer or to customs. They know what to do. There’s a phone number for them to call.” The Captain took the film and left.
A little 007 spy maneuvers and that was that. The Pan Am Pilot took the material back and CBS aired it.
If I think today that we send our video edits from the field in minutes using our lap-tops and USB phone cards, I am amazed at the energy, inventiveness and determination needed to deliver a TV News story in the 1950s.
For the next few days the two agents followed Mario wherever he went. Mario met a Cuban photographer who was there to cover the war as well, and one night, while the agents slept, they sneaked out the back door of the hotel and headed for the Chontales region where the fighting was raging. A mile or so before jungle terrain begins, they met a brigade commander of the Guardia Nacional. Mario showed him the letter signed by General Somoza and asked for a guide, food, clothing and a mule. “Mule OK, food OK, clothing Ok, guide OK.” said the Commander. However, what was not OK to Mario was the fact that the guide was an army sergeant, with a gun, and the clothing was an army uniform. Mario couldn’t go for that. “That’s all I’ve got.” toned the Commander. So Mario acquiesced.
Jungle terrain was tough going. The sergeant led with the mule and the Cuban photographer and Mario followed. One night, at about 3am, Mario asked the sergeant which direction the Guardia Nacional was. He said LEFT. And the rebel forces? RIGHT. Mario said, “we go right.” “No señor, Guardia Nacional is LEFT.” “OK, we go RIGHT” repeated Mario. “But señor, usted es loco, si?” “But sir, you’re crazy, yes?” An hour later Mario asked the sergeant how far they were from rebel positions. He said, “very close.” So Mario began yelling and singing in Italian, English, Spanish and whatever else he knew. The sergeant was terrified, fearing an ambush as the rebels would hear them.
12) If you are a non-combatant and you don’t want to get attacked, let the enemy know you are coming. I remember my family getting the same advice from a Forest Ranger in the Canadian Rockies as we were heading down a wooded trail. “Lot’s of Grizzlies in these parts, I suggest you talk loudly, sing and let them know you are coming. If you surpise them, the might attack. If you let them know, they probably won’t bother you.”
At 5am, still dark, the group stumbled on a clearing with a small wooden hut and campesinos inside, asleep. When they saw the sergeant with the gun they feared the worst. They offered their beds, but the Cuban, the sergeant and Mario, wet and tired as they were, chose to sleep on the wooden porch, outside. Suddenly, as if there’d been an earthquake, the hut shook with dozens of rebel soldiers scrambling all over the place. They’d seen the sergeant’s uniform of the Guardia Nacional hanging up to dry, his gun, and thought the three of them were all Guardia Nacional! Mario found himself with a machine gun pressing on his belly. Mario screamed “periodista Yanqui.”. The bearded young man, in perfect English, said, “prove it.” Mario gently asked that the gun be removed from his belly and opened his CBS case where he kept his passport, films and cartons of cigarettes. In that period, Mario smoked 3 packs a day. The man barely looked at the passport and grabbed the cartons of cigarettes, gleeful as if it were Christmas. Mario begged the rebel leader to leave him some. He handed Mario one cigarette.
Mario Biasetti filming Sandinista Rebels in Chontales jungle of Nicaragua 1959.
The English-speaking leader of that rebel group was Pedro Joaquim Chamorro, editor of “La Prensa”, Nicaragua’s opposition newspaper. (Mario explains that Chamorro’s wife Violeta Chamorro later went on to become the the president of Nicaragua in 1990). Chamorro’s band of soldiers was bedraggled and hungry. They thought they were fighting a hopeless battle and wanted to surrender. After much debate, it was agreed that Mario would lead those who wanted to surrender back into government territory together with the group’s chaplain. Pedro Joaquim Chamorro and the other fighters headed back into the jungle.
Mario showed me an article from “The Boston Daily Globe” on his experience in Nicaragua. The date is Wednesday, July 22, 1959 and the headline “Captured by Nicaraguan Rebels, Back Bay Man Effects Surrender.”
An interesting sidebar to that story, Mario said he nearly died on his way back through the jungle with the surrendering rebels. They had smoked all of his cigarettes and he was hopelessly addicted. He said in his desperation he ended up smoking some leaves he found in the jungle and poisoned himself. He said he was close to death, but managed to survive. He vowed he would never touch another cigarette again, and he has not.
In 1959, 31-year-old Mario Biasseti won the pretigious Robert Capa journalism award for his coverage of both sides of the fighting in Nicaragua.
Tomorrow: Part IV: Covering the Congo: Danger, Death and Diamonds
Elspeth Slayter
Wow. This man is amazing! Super interesting post – no wonder Gustavo didn’t want you to go to Sierra Leone that time…
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It's Hard Not To Love The Horde In The First-Ever 'Warcraft' Footage
This movie will have you more pumped than Leeroy Jenkins.
Victoria McNally 07/11/2015
After years in development, "Warcraft" is finally bringing the world of Azeroth from the massively popular video game "World of Warcraft" to the big screen. But while you'll have to wait until 2016 to see the Alliance and the Horde do battle against one another, the lucky crowd at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H got an amazing first glimpse of how the film will look.
Earlier today (July 11) before the panel, Twitter fans first got an eyeful at two of the film's warriors in these Comic-Con exclusive character posters: Lothar (Travis Fimmel), the film's protagonist for the Alliance, and Durotan (Toby Kebbel), an orc from the Horde.
https://twitter.com/warcraftmovie/status/619903038262620160
But that was nothing compared to what they showed Hall H later in the afternoon! The entire cast of "Warcraft" came out -- Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbel, Ben Foster, Rob Kasinsky, Ben Schnetzer, Clancy Brown, Ruth Negga, and Daniel Wu -- while intense, quick clips from the movie played on the front screen, along with character posters of the Alliance and Horde that stretched all the way around the hall in an amazing immersive experience.
https://twitter.com/mtvcomics/status/619996490468077568
After a brief chat with all of the actors, we were treated to even more footage from the film. It was, in a word, incredible -- and VERY sympathetic to the Horde.
We opened on Durotan’s tribe, including his pregnant wife, traveling across the desert towards a barren "Mad Max"-style orc settlement. Their planet is dying; they need food and water, and they believe they’ve found a portal to another greener world... Azeroth. The problem is, they need the life energy of "living slaves" to power Gul’Dan's (Daniel Wu) magic and keep the portal open. So the orcs barrel right into Azeroth to find themselves some prisoners and take over a new world in order to survive.
Next we followed them through the portal (where things are HAPPENING to Durotan's wife -- maybe she's giving birth?), as King Llane (Dominic Cooper) flies across Azeroth on his giant gryphon in lush, gorgeous landscapes. There were shots of group of white haired elves at a council, a dwarf brandishing a gun at the camera, snow-capped mountains and beautiful castles. And then Durotan's clan stumbles upon a hunting party led by King Ilane, and ALL heck breaks loose. “They’re beasts. They should be destroyed,” Ilane says further into the footage, which Lothar appears to question.
We also saw flashes of Durotan's wife sending her babe into the river like Moses, powerful magic being cast by Medivh (Ben Foster), Lady Taria (Ruth Negga) looking on at her kingdom, the half-human half-orc slave Garona (Paula Patton) looking on mournfully, more of that amazing griffin, and lots of other orcs and magical creatures. The movie appears to heavily rely on CGI, but the scenes we watched honestly looked pretty good -- I was reminded much more of the raw, practical realness of "Lord of The Rings" than the glossier effects of "The Hobbit," which is a very good thing.
And no part of the footage we saw was as raw and awesome as the final sequence, which showed a GIANT battle between the Alliance and the Horde. And I mean giant -- the camera panned ALL the way back as the fighting tore across the screens that surrounded Hall H.
All in all, it seems like we're in for a real epic showdown when this movie comes out in March. Here's to hoping Legendary releases a trailer online too. I just got out of the panel and I already want to see it again.
"Warcraft" will hit theaters on March 11, 2016.
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Invigoratingly Natural
Van Beinum
conducts Mahler -
'... a tad less frenetic ...'
This Mahler's Fourth emerged among the most interesting recorded readings after Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra committed it to disc in 1947. It's also available (recorded April/May 1952?), coupled with En Saga, Op 9 of Sibelius (London Japan -- London 4590).
Eduard Van Beinum, conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra (1945-1959), was the antithesis of former 'tyrant' conductors, such as Mengelberg, Mravinsky and George Szell, and his performances often reflected a more amiable style....
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It is perhaps not surprising that the Hamburg-born composer Detlev Glanert should count Hans Werner Henze as one of the formative influences on his work - he did, after all, study with him between 1984 to 1988.
Death in Venice at Deutsche Oper Berlin
This death in Venice is not the end, but the beginning.
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FT Reviews The Greek Passion
The Greek Passion, Royal Opera House, London By Andrew Clark Published: September 17 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 17 2004 03:00 All human life is here: prayer and pageant, self-sacrifice and self-righteousness, humour and hypocrisy, feast and famine. Opera...
The Greek Passion, Royal Opera House, London
By Andrew Clark
Published: September 17 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 17 2004 03:00
All human life is here: prayer and pageant, self-sacrifice and self-righteousness, humour and hypocrisy, feast and famine.
Opera often deals with extremes of human nature but it is not usually as close to the bone as The Greek Passion, nor does it make us feel so complicit or complacent.
In Martinu's richly musicked theatrical parable, we are initially invited to identify with Manolios, the Christ-figure in the village passion play, who inhabits his role to the point of giving up his life for refugees seeking food and shelter.
But by the end Martinu makes us realise we are more likely to be the cowards and hypocrites who reject the incomers.
When The Greek Passion was taken into the Royal Opera's repertoire in 2000, it emerged as a masterpiece of moral self-examination. Now, on its first revival, the effect is even more overwhelming.
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Maryland Senate Makes History
Today, by a vote of 29 to 18, the Maryland Senate approved the Healthy Working Families Act, which would establish a paid sick days standard for the state and help approximately 750,000 hardworking Marylanders who currently cannot earn a single hour of paid sick time. This is the closest Maryland has come to joining the nearly 40 jurisdictions across the country – including Montgomery County, Md. – with paid sick days laws, making it a historic advance.
The Healthy Working Families Act would allow Maryland workers to earn one hour of job-protected sick time for every 30 hours worked. For businesses employing 15 or more employees, that time would be paid. Accrued time could be used to recover from illness, get preventive care, seek assistance related to domestic violence or sexual assault, or care for a sick family member.
Legislators must now act swiftly to advance this bill. And Gov. Hogan should show he understands the needs and demands of Maryland workers and families by signing it when it gets to his desk.
Congratulations to the Working Matters coalition for its tireless efforts to win paid sick days in Maryland! Stay tuned for additional updates.
The Maryland Senate has approved a statewide paid sick days standard, bringing the state the closest it has ever been to joining the nearly 40 jurisdictions across the country with paid sick days laws. This is a historic advance for Marylanders, as well as advocates and lawmakers who have been working for years to secure such a standard.
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Pollença, a place with stories to share
Few places on this beautiful island can offer you so much art, music, heritage, nature and cuisine as the town of Pollença can. We’re not the first to realise this, that’s for sure: look at luminaries such as famed British violinist Philip Newman who spotted the town’s artistic and musical potential when he fell in love with Pollença and turned it into a world epicentre of classical music, creating a festival that has been held ever since 1962. What’s more, Winston Churchill chose to holiday here, Spanish painter Anglada Camarsa was drawn to the area by its stunning beauty, and in 1932 British writer Agatha Christie was inspired by the bay and ended up reflecting it in her classic “Problem at Pollensa Bay”.
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Local poet Costa i Llobera masterfully transmitted the beauty and classical resonance of “The Pine Tree of Formentor”, which is still revered at the Literary Conversations held since 1959 at the present-day Hotel Barceló Formentor. In a similar vein, the town’s commitment to the world of culture remains firm to this very day. Tales that are within your reach to listen to, feel, experience or share with whoever you may wish. If you’d like to receive alerts about free activities, concerts or specific shows, or you’d like further information on any of the content on this site, all you have to do is sign up. Start planning your holidays right now!
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Pollença, a place with stories to tell
Picture a place where verdant pine-clad mountains descend to meet an intensely turquoise sea. A town where stunning backdrops, a fascinating past and friendly locals are part of everything you do.
Imagine for a moment the authentic character of a dynamic town, with lively and creative people making Pollença a place with a full of content.
The town, with its old quarter, is the hub of social activities. Outlying resorts round off the destination: the Port, with excellent accommodation and tourist amenities, and Cala Sant Vicenç, with some of the best hotels on the island.
And, of course, the Formentor peninsula. Its famous hotel, its viewing point or its lighthouse have been sources of inspiration for politicians, artists and thinkers alike. Now you can discover them too.
Welcome to Pollença, a place with stories to tell.
How to get to Pollença
The distance from Palma Airport to the town is 60km and the journey should take around 45 minutes.
- Leave the airport and follow signs for Palma on the Ma-19 motorway.
- After just over 4km, turn off at Exit 3 and join the westbound lane of the Ma-20 motorway.
- After 2.6km, on the outskirts of Palma, turn off at Exit 3 and join the Ma-13 following signs for Inca/Port d'Alcúdia.
- After almost 40km, turn off at Exit 40 (signposted Pollença), cross the bridge over the motorway and join the final 10km stretch of road to Pollença.
- At Palma Airport there are taxi stands and coach stops with information about fares and routes.
- A taxi costs around 70 euros, slightly less if leaving from central Palma.
- The website of the local public transport company (TIB) has information about coach routes and timetables:
> TIB
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Don’t forget: Pollença is for visiting, experiencing and enjoying, but also for sharing.
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An exhilarating route that runs, in large part, parallel to the island’s north coast, taking you to the furthest north-easterly point at Cala Rajada. This is the most important urban area in the municipality of Capdepera, and is one of the main tourist destinations in this part of the island. The town has a lovely lighthouse, from where on the clearest of days you can see the island of Menorca. Visits to the castles of Capdepera and Artà are also recommended because of their historical and cultural significance.
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The Race of Champions (ROC) is a series that was created in 1988 with the aim of pitting the WRC champions against each other and crown the Champion of the Champions.
This shootout idea grew, and gradually top drivers from other racing disciplines were invited to join the ROC. In 1989, the ROC format changed to a parallel track layout, and has been this way ever since.
Drivers from F1, DTM, Indycar, MotoGP and more race series made their way to the ROC to get a shot at the title with only one aim in mind: to get the bragging rights of being the ultimate champion.
The event grew in diversity too, with the addition of more cars for the drivers to play with. This year, the cars given to the drivers were the Volkswagen Scirocco…
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The Audi R8 LMS…
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The brand new Toyota 86, fully decked by TRD…
And the ROC Car, a 1.1L, 170hp custom-made buggy that tips the scale at a mere 450kg. Imagine what fun it is to drive that toy!
The 2012 ROC was held on the Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th December in Bangkok Thailand, with superstars Michael Schumacher (F1), Sebastian Vettel (F1), David Coulthard (ex-F1, DTM), Mick Doohan (MotoGP), Ryan Hunter-Reay (IndyCar), Jamie Whincup (V8 Supercar), Jorge Lorenzo (MotoGP), Tom Kristensen (Le Mans, DTM), Andy Priaulx (FIA World Touring Car Championship), Sébastien Ogier (WRC), Romain Grosjean (GP2, GP2 Asia, F1) and Benito Guerra (WRC) lining up to fight for the title.
While the superstar drivers were to take the stage on Saturday and Sunday, the Friday was reserved for the ROC Thailand and ROC Asia. The former race selected the top 2 Thai drivers who would then compete in the main ROC event, while the later event selected 2 Asian drivers to fill the last entry of the Nations Cup.
The ROC Thailand was won by Toyota Team Thailand’s Nattavude Charoensukawattana and Tin Sritrai. These 2 drivers represented Thailand’s voice in the Nations Cup and main ROC event on Sunday.
ROC Asia was won by Team India’s Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok, who completed the driver selection for the ROC 2012.
Thanks to Toyota Asia, I was able to fly to Bangkok and witness the ROC 2012 in person. In the following days, I will share with you how the Nations Cup and ROC went down, as seen through my lens.
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GO to Pune!
A conference in Pune. Attending conferences and making paper presentations are often a part of my profession. I sent in an entry for the paper presentation and it got approved. I was undecided whether to go or not until a few days before the conference when a senior person in my department encouraged me to attend the program. After confirming my registrations, it was time to hunt for tickets and accommodation. I booked a room using a famous travel portal (which I later cancelled and rebooked in a different hotel) and then began the hunt for the travel tickets. I hadn't still decided whether to attend the entire conference or only the main part of it - and hence I first booked my return ticket. Then the search for the outward ticket started - I had two options - Indigo and Go. Since I had never been on Go, I selected a Go Air Flight to Pune, departing at 0545hrs on November 29, 2014.
The day prior to my journey was quite busy, and I reached home quite late. Some guests at home meant I slept very late - I hit bed past 2300hrs - and I had set an alarm for 0200hrs! I had booked a cab with a pick-up time of 0300hrs. With hardly 2.5 hours of sleep, I was all set for my first flight with Go Air.
My day started off answering a phone call from the cab driver asking for directions to reach my place. I realised that I was already running late as I disconnected the call - I had probably turned off the alarm when it rang. I was ready for the journey after rushing through the morning formalties and walked out of my home at 0300hrs - just after the cab guy informed me that he was waiting outside. A trusty Toyota Etios stood outside my apartment complex to ferry me to the Airport - close to 45 kms away. The driver confirmed my flight timings as he started off. The empty roads of Bangalore meant we had a stable cruise all the way to the airport. While the roads in the City were empty, the Airport road was exactly the opposite - recklessly driven cabs and private cars made for a turbulent ride to the Airport. But I must say - my cabbie maintained steady pace and did not try doing heroics on the road. I was dropped at the Airport at 0400hrs.
I was quite hungry and headed straight to Maiyyas outside the departure gate for a light breakfast. After breakfast, I walked into the terminal - the CISF personnel directed me to a random scanning line - where my check-in bag was scanned and my ticket details noted down. I then headed to the check-in counters. Go Air was using 6 counters for check-in, Counters #8 to 13. Only 5 of them were active, and one among them were kept for GoBusiness check-ins and for special passengers (mothers with infants, elderly, etc). Check-ins for two flight were in progress - one to Mumbai, and the second mine (to Pune, Nagpur, Kolkata). Loads seemed fairly good for both the flights. It took about 8 minutes to get my boarding pass. I expected longer queues at Security check, and rushed to the upper level for security - The queue there wasn't very long (thankfully) and I managed to complete checking by 0435hrs.
Date of Journey: November 29, 2014
Flight No: G8-283 || Seat: 21F
Aircraft type: Airbus 320-200 || Regn: VT-GOP
STD: 0545hrs, ATD: 0545hrs
STA: 0705hrs, ATA: 0704hrs
Boarding for my flight was announced from Gate #09, and boading time on my Boarding pass was 0505hrs. Gates 1 through 3 were empty - there were none to board from there. There were some passengers waiting near Gate #09 - I took a seat there and got busy browsing on FR24 to make an informed guess about my aircraft. On my way to the gate, I had seen a Go Air A320 (Later identified as VT-GOR) parked at a jetway. I got tired sitting at the gate and decided to have a stroll - just then I noticed that the aircraft for my flight had been brought to the gate - it was VT-GOP, an Airbus 320-200 delivered to Go Air in 2013. Boarding hadn't yet commenced since the Go Air Agent hadn't come yet. An agent came in sharp at 0505, but he did not start boarding. CISF personnel to came in, and the gate was unlocked and prepared for boarding. The deck and cabin crew came in, and about five minutes after they came, the first boarding call was made (the agent at the gate shouted for passengers traveling to Pune/Nagpur by G8-283). I was the second passenger to board (was infact the first in the queue, but a unruly fellow jumped the queue in truly Indian style). I was inside the aircraft at 0518.
The aircraft : VT-GOP (image courtesy: Nishant Rao @ JetPhotos.net)
The boarding pass..
This was my first experience being on the first flight of the day for an aircraft - the cabin crew were just settling, securing their baggage, et al. Just as the first passenger walked in, they just put off what they were doing and warmly welcomed passengers. The first two rows were earmarked as GoBusiness, while the remaining 28 rows were Economy. Seats had a dark grey theme. I headed straight to my seat at the back (#21F) - a seat on the right side, purposefully chosen to have a nice view of the sunrise. Recorded announcements welcoming passengers to Go Air were being played as boarding was in progress - they also made announcements asking passengers not to block the aisle so that we could finish boarding earlier. Boarding was completed at 0539hrs. Capt Anup Ghosh (Commander) came on the PA system and made a brief announcement welcoming passengers to the flight and giving out some information about the flight. He introduced the passengers to the First Office, Capt. Amrut, and also named the cabin crew - led by Fauzan, assisted by Kanchan, Tishu and Nutei. He congratulated passengers for choosing Go Air, specifically the early morning departure, and he gave out the flying details. He informed that we'd be Pune an hour and 10 minutes after push-off.
Waiting to be pushed off....
We were pushed back at 0545hrs. In the mean time, the other GO Air departure (to Mumbai) started its taxi to the runway. Another Go Air aircraft was sleeping off at a parking stand. Safety demonstration was made soon after push off. We started taxiing at 0549, and headed straight towards Rwy09. Right behind us was a Jet Airways ATR (to Kochi?). We took off at 0557hrs. For some reason, this take-off felt very special to me - this was my first with Go Air, first early morning departure. We took off straight to the east, and turned towards our north-west direction. It was still dark, but signs of the sunrise were evident. Buy-on-board service commenced soon after seat-belt signs were switched off. Majority of the announcements were pre-recorded ones. They had a lot of Britannia products on sale - since I had a light breakfast earlier, did not buy anything on board. Passengers who had a pre-booked meal got another serving free! Loads on this flight were very good - the seat next to me was empty, and there were a couple more empty seats - but the rest were occupied.
In-flight...
One more...
The captain came on the PA system once again (sometime around 0641) and announced out descent to Pune. His sounded quite enthusiastic about his job - he sounded happy as well. He gave some info about the flight - that we were cruising at FL320. This was my first flight to Pune, and I was quite engrossed in absorbing the surroundings. We flew over an assortment of fields interspersed with apartment complexes. We finally touched down on Rwy28, at 0702hrs - the IAF apron was quite busy. A smooth touchdown, followed by a quick braking. The exitway from the runway is near the apron, and hence we did not have to spend time taxiing - we parked at Gate #1 (#4 of arrivals) at 0704. The apron was quite busy at the time - we were accompanied by an Air India A320 (VT-ESF, in Star Alliance livery), an Indigo A320 (VT-INS), and SpiceJet B737 (VT-SZJ, landed right behind us). De-boarding took some time, since they had opened only the front exit (due to checking of boarding passes, since the aircraft flies to NAG and CCU afterwards). I was out of the aircraft at 0712. It took some time for the baggages to come out - and I was out of the airport by 0725hrs.
At Pune Lohegaon Airport
Go Air is a Budget airline floated by the Wadia Group, and commenced operations in 2005. They've been a no-nonsense airline, and have been going about strengthening their operations by remaining stable and not expanding too rapidly. They operate all of 19 aircrafts, and have been around for 9 years now. I liked their service - purely no-nonsense. The crew were professional in what they did. The buy-on-board service wasn't really great - they did not bother offering items to all the passengers. But they did respond to passenger requests. The check-in experience was good - it was a bit slow though. Most of the announcements, except the flight specific ones, were pre-recorded announcements - that ensured clarity of information. The fact that the captain announced flight details himself made for an interesting flight - it gave a very personal touch.
Check-in: 5/5
Cleanliness: 5/5
Punctuality: 5/5
Crew: 4.5/5 (losing points for the B-o-B service)
On-Board Service: Did not use.
Overall: 4.9/5
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First ride on Airavat Diamond Class: Bangalore to Thrissur
Scania was launched in India about two years back. The initial product as only the 14.5M variant, followed by the 12M and the 13.7M variants. The first institutional buyer to purchase the 13.7m variant was the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. KSRTC went in for a new brand name for the Scanias, and called them the Airavat Diamond Class. The basic question, like everyone asked, was - what is the difference between the Diamond Class and the Club Class. One primary difference was that Club Class used Volvo B9Rs and Mercedes Benz Multi-Axle buses, while Diamond Class used newer Scania Metrolink HD 13.7m multi-axle buses. Club Class buses have a seating capacity of 49 (44 semi-sleeper seats and 5 regular 'executive' seats), while Diamond Class buses have only 46 seats - all semi-sleeper. The fares are the same in both the classes.
Airavat Diamond Class was first inducted into the KSRTC fleet sometime during the end of June 2015. They initially replaced the first set of M…
What is "Kallada G4"?
I have often received questions on my photos asking what is the difference between "Kallada" and "Kallada G4". Both are travel operators operating from Bangalore to Kerala, and belong to the same family. Out of curiosity, I managed to dig out some information from some connected people, which gave me a lot of information. So thought of sharing it with all..
The Kallada Group was founded in 1975 by Kallada Ramakrishnan. Mr. Ramakrishnan has 5 sons. Kallada Group was split into two after the death of Kallada Ramakrishnan in 2003. One of the five brothers, one brother, Mr. Suresh Kallada, started his own travels business, while the other four brothers established themselves in other fields. "Kallada Tours and Travels" operated by Suresh Kallada established themselves in the business - they have very good presence in all routes running out of Bangalore to Kerala (mainly south Kerala). The Kallada Group (run by the 4 brothers) established themselves in various…
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Introduction To Bulgaria
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Assen`s Fortress
You could reach that beautiful place by driving south from Plovdiv into the Rhodope mountains to the town of Assenovgrad. When just going out of Assenovgrad take the road to your right. This is the road which would brings you along with the thousands of tourists each winter eventually to the Pamporovo Ski Resort up in the mountains.
Your first wish to stop at the Assen`s Fortress is due to the fact that you simply can pass it by without its capturing all of your attention. (After being here, you could visit the Bachkovo Monastery, another sacred place for all the Bulgarians). The fortress as well as the neighbouring town itself (Assenovgrad - meaning Assen`s Town) are both bearing te name of one of the greatest rulers Bulgaria ever had - Tsar Ivan Asen II.
It was under the reign of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II (1218-1241, son of Tsar Assen I and a nephew to Tsar Kaloyan), that the Second Bulgarian Kingdom reached its peak. Bulgaria expanded to three Seas and extended over Thrace, Macedonia and part of Albania.
Ivan Assen II signed a peace treaty with the Kingdom of the Magyars (i.e. Hungary) and married the Magyar princess. In 1230, he was victorious in the battle against the Byzantines led by Theodorus Komnin near the village of Klokotnitza, destroying the enemys army. The captured soldiers were set free, and this generous act made a favourable impression to everyone.
Tsar Ivan Assen II ruled with a significant statesmanship and diplomacy, successfully marrying all of his sisters, daughters and female cousins to the strong rulers of all the neighbouring lands, thus guaranteeing peace to his country. By means of his strategic and diplomatic attitude, he ensured political, economic, military and cultural prosperity to Bulgaria. Ivan Assens sincere religious faith endeared him even to his foes. He restored the autonomy of the Bulgarian Church and established a centralised administration.
Now, with some understanding of the history, join our photo exploration of the Assens Fortress (known in Bulgarian as Assenova Krepost). What remains intact from that fortress is the church, called Holy Virgin of Petrich. It was partially restored in the 20th century, primarily to prevent further deterioration.
It is one of the most valuable representations of sacral architecture in Bulgaria. Inside you will see preserved small bits of wall-paintings dated from the 14th and 19th centuries. The thumbnail images below are linked to larger images, which will lead you through a photo-tour of this part of the Bulgarian history.
The Guard of the Pass
The Guard of the PassStanding proudly on a high Rhodopean hill, the Assen's Fortress has guarded for ages the main entrance to the heart of the mountain.
The Fortress inside
The inside of the fortress Assen's Fortress is a medieval Bulgarian fortress, built on a steep rocky hillside, towering over the left bank of the picturesque Assenitsa River. It covers an area of about 1.5 hectares and creates the impression of unique architectural structure. The stone construction is preserved 15 m high at places, and features a feudal castle, 30 premises for warriors with a chapel, a tower, two water reservoirs, and a castle church.
Every inch was used
Every inch was usedThe stronghold was built in the 6th century to guard the strategically important Aegean Pass of any approaches. The small size of the land and the steep terrain had forced the builders into a rather dence construction, and made them effectively use every inch of land.
The two-storey chapel
The two-storey chapelThe chapel, built on top of an old Thracian sanctuary, as well as the different buildings are joined by narrow, steep streets and pathways. The fortress houses the bolyar's palace, a two-storey chapel, the water reservoirs and other structures important for the life of the people.
The Tsar’s inscription
The Tsar Ivan Assen II's inscriptionAn eight-lined inscription by Ivan Assen II, cut out in 1231 in one of the entrance rocks, testifies to this reconstruction: "In the year 739 (i.e. 1231), Indication 4th, I, Ivan Assen, by God's will raised (into a kingdom) Tsar of Bulgarians and Greeks, and also to other lands, promoted Alexis Sebastos and built this fortress". That very inscription led to naming the fortress after Ivan Assen II (Assen's Fortress) early in the 19th century, as well as later on, in 1934, giving the town of Stanimaka the wonderful name of Assenovgrad (i.e. Assen's town).
The Fortress entrance
The fortress entranceThe entrance to the Assen's Fortress.
A view from the Fortress
A view from the Assen's FortressA view from above to the town of Assenovgrad - the medieval meets contemporary photograph.
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Solar power is coming along. This afternoon I drove to Grahamstwon and photographed a Japanese made solar vehicle capable of reaching 160km/h. It uses, literally, space age tech. The solar panels are 0.3mm thin, literally paper thin. It's the stuff they use on satellites where space is very limited. The Solar Challenge this year is a 4100km circuit of South Africa involving 5 teams. The Japanese are not streets ahead in this, but highways. Part of their advantage no doubt is the budget to use lithium batteries, whereas the South African teams are using inferior battery tech including petrol and hydrogen hybrids.
In any event when I went to photograph the above vehicle all of the other 4 teams were still on the road, and an hour later had still not arrived.
In the end I left, drove 20 km on the N2 towards the other vehicles and still did not see them! Maybe solar power is coming along, but South Africa is a way behind. Organisers say they expect around 20 teams at the next challenge; hopefully we'll see a continued increase in quality as the quantity of competing teams increase.
Interestingly, the Japanese team were charging the battery for the entire time I was there. This is in case tomorrow's weather is not sunny. This afternoon's sunshine then provides the impetus for their journey tomorrow, even if the sun doesn't shine.
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By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll, Ap Religion Writer – Tue Sep 28, 12:02 am ET
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.
Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.
More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.
The survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life aimed to test a broad range of religious knowledge, including understanding of the Bible, core teachings of different faiths and major figures in religious history. The U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the developed world, especially compared to largely secular Western Europe, but faith leaders and educators have long lamented that Americans still know relatively little about religion.
Respondents to the survey were asked 32 questions with a range of difficulty, including whether they could name the Islamic holy book and the first book of the Bible, or say what century the Mormon religion was founded. On average, participants in the survey answered correctly overall for half of the survey questions.
Atheists and agnostics scored highest, with an average of 21 correct answers, while Jews and Mormons followed with about 20 accurate responses. Protestants overall averaged 16 correct answers, while Catholics followed with a score of about 15.
SHOOT: They should do a survey on Christians to assess how many Christians have studied how their bible was written, and how the language evolved. For example many will be surprised to learn that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. This is possibly where the saying 'it's all Greek to me originated'. And perhaps it should have remained so.
Another fascinating insight into the bible is that the story of Joseph is considered one of the oldest works of fiction [almost like a novel] in history, and was conceived in order to connect the first five books [or Pentateuch] of the bible into a more cohesive whole.
And I find it interesting that of the Jews living in Israel, a majority are atheists, and there are more Muslim Christians than Jewish Christians. Jews know their own religion is a con, but the biggest suckers of all are the Christians who took on a religion 'made for' Jews and expanded the chosen people theme to themselves. While the bible may be filled with ironies and subjectivity's, it is a mistake to dismiss it as unimportant. It may not be the truth the way we hoped or believe it was, but the cultural impact of humanity is, of course, enormous, and in that respect alone deserves a modicum of respect.
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Life in nature is quite hard - by Nick van der Leek
I'm at Shamwari Game Reserve, and my routine is based around 3 hour game drives. After the third game drive [around 9 hours exposure to the wilderness] you start to appreciate what survival entails. It means spending most of the day foraging for food, and dealing with the elements, whether it be cold or heat or dry, or in today's case, wind. The animals are out there whatever the weather. When the sun goes down, they're still out there, and here's where it gets particularly tricky. The cat and mouse [lion versus impala or leopard versus kudu or badger versus snake or cheetah versus eland] games don't stop when it's bedtime. Imagine a life where snoozing too lightly [and thus being sleep deprived] could cost you your life because you've lost the edge to your usual state of alert. On the other hand, sleep to soundly and you're just as likely to be a nocturnal snack.
You may think predators have an easier life than their prey. But consider a leopard in a game park. In Kruger for example all the territories have been claimed; all territories are taken. That means if a new leopard enters an area he has to fight another leopard and these tussles are often fatal. A leopard that has to exit one territory then finds himself in another one, and a fresh encounter awaits him there. Territory defence is one way nature has kept the best of the best leopard predators in the hunt for natural and sexual selection.
In nature the name of the game is staying invisible, being quiet and subtle about one's activities, and doing some strutting vis-a-vis competitors and the opposite sex. Again, do too little and you risk going hungry or going without a mate, do too much and you risk being run down and susceptible to a range of maladies floating in the air [and remember, you live permanently outdoors, permanently exposed to the elements].
This provides an interesting contrast to human beings who do their best to be seen. In our world the most dangerous creature is another human being, and commonly, another human being in a vehicle is a deadly combination, often capable of slaughtering handfuls of people at seemingly random intervals. Even so, these slaughters are reasonably few and far between. Man though has a bunch of 'stuff' to deal with which animals are probably grateful they don't. For example, man is the only animal that lives his [or her] life with the knowledge that death is part of the game, no matter how cleverly the game is executed [granted many if not most human beings suspend this belief, this knowledge, either indefinitely or at least until the next funeral they attend]. Equally, man is also capable of humor. And irony.
Shamwari is an exceptional environment and I've been privileged to visit and encounter animals as diverse and compelling as leopard, cheetah, lion, hippo and rhino. Earlier today we heard a rhino calf shadowing his large father uttering a plaintiff cry that sounds much like a dolphin, a wheezy noise that elicits a balloon noisily by lyrically losing air. There are too many encounters to describe [for the purposes of this blog post] but, suffice it to say, these experiences leave an impression on the inner human being.
I have come to Shamwari on my own despite extending invitations to one or two of people. Beyond the monetary value of experience, the nourishing impact of these nature experiences are invaluable, I feel refreshed, and buzzing with ideas. And also, infused with a better sense of my place in the world. And this seems to be one of the strangest casualties of our consumerist age - nobody really knows what to do, what to be and worse, why one choice is better than another. Oh, other than in 'money terms'. The few people who turned their nose up at joining me [for free] on this trip, it seems to me, reflect a sense of being 'spoilt'. Spoilt because we are either to busy to appreciate something, or too caught up in distractions to know the value of something meaningful when it arrives at the door on a silver platter.
It is wonderful for me to be able to live out my dream; to follow my passions, to investigate the stories, experiences and realities of this world in a way that seems to address my personal set of 'what is meaningful'. When we are 'spoilt' we know longer recognise the gifts or fruits or blessings of this world. Through our individual obsessions we have not only lost our connections with a greater community, but also our immediate neighbours, and so it shouldn't be a surprise that we feel empty, miserable and finally depressed for the course of much of our lives. Nature is where beauty and truth resides, it is where we find ourselves and understand ourselves including in terms greater than ourselves. We gain a proportion of the size and wonder and difficulty of things, not only for ourselves and others but for a wider spectrum of life. I for one hope that I can maintain my appreciation, this gratitude for the wonder of things. Being spoilt literally spoils the experience of life for you and those that cross your path. The antidote is compassion and gratitude. It's how we learn to love and celebrate life, and hopefully I can stay on track to do just that.
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SHOOT: Pretty incredible stuff. Even though you see this thing flapping its wings it's hard to believe.
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The Sun Kings in the Marais
The Marais, the most stylish neighborhood in 17th century Paris, would never be the same after the reign of Louis XIV. The Sun King, who did so much to make France the power in Europe, inadvertently cast a shadow on the Marais.
Louis’s reign was defined by prestige, glamour and glory. In deciding to move to Versailles, he shifted the center of power southwest, about 30 kilometers from Paris, to his magnificent palace, showcasing splendid gardens and fountains, a stunning hall of mirrors, but above all, his absolute power. Versailles became the hub of refinement. And the king was at its center.
As time went on, Parisian high-society began to flock to the Left Bank, an easier commute to Versailles. This was toward the end of the 17th century, after the king officially moved his court in 1682. And so the elegant quarter of the 18th century sprang up around the grand and incongruent church of St. Sulpice and its surroundings and the Marais went into decline.
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However, the Marais remained a nucleus of culture during the 17th century. Aristocrats attended salons to banter and parry their wit. An ambitious host or hostess would open their townhouse to the smart set. Amusement was the aim, along with refining tastes and gaining knowledge through clever conversation and readings. Unexpectedly, however, the Marais and the salon soon became the breeding ground for one of the king’s most notorious vices: his mistresses.
Two of Louis’s long-term mistresses, Athénaïs de Montespan and Françoise Scarron, later Mme de Maintenon, would meet at the Hôtel d’Albret (31, rue des Francs Bourgeois). This elegant townhouse still stands. The sinuous street, rue Franc Bourgeois, lined with one mansion after another, was the Park Avenue of its day. And it is no surprise that the Hôtel d’Albret was one of the finest gathering places for the well-heeled. Athénaïs was a regular when she was already Louis’s mistress. Françoise, a bit down-on-her-luck, was also gravitating to this world.
For a royal, marriage in the 17th century was rarely an affair of the heart. The arrangement usually came with some political alliance. When Louis was married to the Infanta of Spain (Maria-Thérèse) in 1660, peace between the two great powers was assured. However, it was said that Louis blanched at the sight of his new bride. No great beauty, she was Louis’s first cousin and looked slightly inbred. The Infanta was dumpy, had stubby black teeth and stumpy legs. She always spoke French with a thick Spanish accent, and worst of all, she lacked wit! The king made do, and always treated her respectfully. After the King had provided an heir to the throne, his attentions began to wander...
Louis’s first serious affair of the heart was Louise de la Vallière. His mother, Anne of Austria, engineered the meeting. Anne, concerned that Louis was showing interest in Henriette, the wife of Louis’s flamboyant homosexual brother, came up with a distraction. She had several attractive single women fluttering around Louis during meals. Her ploy worked. Louis became smitten with the lovely Louise.
As a young adult, the Sun King was somewhat shy. The sweet, unsophisticated Louise was his first initiation into love and historians cast this bond as an idyllic affair. However, the callow Louise always felt uncomfortable in her role as the titular mistress. Everyone’s favorite 17th century gossip, the Marquise de Sévigné, dubbed Louise “a shrinking violet.” Perhaps Louise’s greatest error was to choose as friend and confidante (someone to shield herself from the back-biting court), the sultry Athénaïs de Montespan.
Françoise Athénaïs de Mortemart, Madame de Montespan, was a tempestuous creature. An exquisitely beautiful woman, one courtier called her “the rare masterpiece of the gods.” Voluptuous, clever and charming, she had sex appeal. And the king noticed.
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Athénaïs held the king’s attentions for an incredible 12 years, having seven illegitimate children thanks to his ardent affections. This was precisely the problem. Athénaïs was already married, so the children needed to be brought up with prudence and in secrecy.
Mme de Montespan’s choice of governess was clear from the outset. She wanted someone who would pose no threat in terms of Louis’s affections as she herself had with Louise. She immediately thought of her friend, the Widow Scarron, her chum from the Albret home.
In an ironic twist, however, each of Louis’s long-term mistresses would be provided unwittingly by the previous one. This is precisely what happened with Widow Scarron.
A bright, extremely Catholic and reserved woman, Françoise d’Aubigny was attractive, but not alluring like Athénaïs. At first, the King was not fond of her, but he soon grew to appreciate her kindness to his children and her discretion.
Hers was an incredible destiny filled with reversals. Born in a debtor’s prison, Françoise d’Aubigny came from a noble, but penniless family. She lost her parents early on. Without a proper dowry, the nunnery seemed her only option. However the bawdy wit Paul Scarron, a twisted invalid in a new-fangled wheelchair, offered her marriage. He held court at his salon in the Marais (his mansion no longer exists), and it was there Françoise met great artists and intellects of the day. She mingled with the upper crust and learned to make herself indispensable to them.
This was a wise move on her part, because when Scarron died, he left her nothing but debts. The wealthy came to her aid and she was given a small allowance by the King’s mother, Anne of Austria. During this period she spent a lot of time at the Albret home and met Athénaïs. She would eventually receive the job offer of a lifetime: secret governess to the king’s “royal bastards.”
Bringing these children up in the utmost secrecy was not an easy task, but the Widow Scarron fulfilled her role. In time, the king legitimized the children and moved them to apartments at Versailles along with Françoise, on whom he bestowed the title: Madame de Maintenon.
Perhaps she was a woman with a mission. As a pious Catholic, Madame de Maintenon wanted to save the king’s soul. This was no easy feat. Even the King’s confessor, Père la Chaise, the priest associated with the Baroque church St. Paul in the Marais (rue St. Antoine) had to take his leave when he saw a situation looming that would be tricky to absolve.
And in retrospect, even while the king was head-over-heels in love with Athénaïs, he had countless passing fancies: Madame de Ludre, Mademoiselle des Oeillets, Mme de Thiange (Athénaïs’s sister), the Princess Soubise (eventually she built the largest mansion in the Marais thanks to her liaison with the king), and Mademoiselle de Fontange are the most notable.
Clearly, the king had powerful lusts when it came to food, sex and building. His appetites could hardly be quelled and polygamy seemed to be the rule. At one point, his mother criticized him for his philandering, saying he was a poor role model. The king actually broke down, but claimed he couldn’t help himself.
Later he began to lose interest in Athénaïs. Her weight gain was one of the causes. The King also grew tired of her explosive fits. And her implication in the Affair of the Poisons was probably the fatal blow.
Wags at court had a field day as it became obvious the king was infatuated with Madame de Maintenon. They would say the king was with the “has-been” and the “now” (the name “Maintenon” is a homonym for the word “maintenant” meaning “now” in French).
Eventually Athénaïs had no choice but to retire from court. And when the Queen, Marie-Therese, died in 1683, everyone wondered who the most powerful man in Europe would wed? What Royal would have him? It turned out to be Madame de Maintenon. They married in a secret ceremony. Louis was faithful to her in the end. So much so, that Françoise complained of having to perform her marital duties into her 70s. Yet the king’s devotion to her was touching and he called her “my solidity.”
And so the extraordinary story of the Sun King, his many loves, the Marais and Versailles comes to a close.
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Poison and Passion in the Marais
The year : 1676.
The place : the Marais.
Hub of the aristocracy and the elegant stomping grounds for the upper crust, the Marais was the place to live for everybody who was anybody! And one of its very own residents, a high-society lady, the Marquise de Brinvilliers, was discovered to have been poisoning her family. Who would have thought? Not her brothers or her father. They were the first to be expedited by her powders.
When the news broke, people were stunned. The word spread like wildfire since it was sensational news of the day -- almost tantamount to a modern-day O.J. Simpson media event.
Many believed Brinvilliers practiced how to effectively use poison when she had volunteered at the Hôtel Dieu (literally God’s Hospital -- Paris’ oldest hospital dating from the 7th century still stands, albeit rebuilt in the 19th century).
It was said she administered her poisons to observe the effects on the unfortunate patients. With an average of three to a bed, and not a fabulous recovery rate, certainly nobody would have noticed anyway. Athough there is no evidence of Brinvilliers doing such things, people still thought her guilty.
The origins of Brinvilliers’s crimes can be traced to her father, the Marquis de Brinvilliers, marrying her off to a man she didn't particularly love. So naturally she began to have an affair – not a stunning deviation from the norm in France.
When St. Croix was released from prison, he and Brinvilliers resumed their affair and, using his newfound knowledge, they set to work poisoning her family. Her father was first to go. Brinvilliers claimed when she was eventually brought to trial that ‘he deserved it’. Then it was her brothers’ turn. She hoped to inherit their money. Her husband was next in line. However, Godon de St.Croix, concerned he might be stuck with Brinvilliers, visited the husband and gave him an antidote. The history books record that the husband survived, but with a seriously damaged digestive tract.
Then Godon de St. Croix died... supposedly of natural causes. Brinvilliers inadvertently brought attention to herself when she persistently tried to obtain a casket taken into police custody that was filled with compromising letters and recipes describing the poisons and their effects. Brinvilliers had no other choice but to flee – first to England, then Belgium. After great effort on the part of the first Police Lieutenant of Paris, la Reynie, she was brought back to Paris. Justice had to be rendered, so she was tried (or, more accurately, tortured at the Conciergerie).
She admitted her crimes and was taken to Hotel de Ville where she was executed. However, because she was a noble lady, she was first beheaded and her body then burned as she was considered a heretic by law.
The Marquise de Sévigné (one of the Marais’ most elegant ladies, famous for her witty letters) attended the execution, renting a window in a house on the bridge Notre Dame. The execution was one of the most highly attended in France. Sévigné’s now-famous quip was recorded for posterity. She wrote to her daughter, “Well, it’s all over and done with. Brinvilliers is in the air. Her poor little body was thrown after the execution into a very big fire, and the ashes to the winds, so that we shall breathe her, and through the communication of the subtle spirits, we shall develop some poisoning urge which will astonish us all..."
Perhaps it was a prophetic statement, or maybe she was in-the-know. In any case, Sévigné was right, because in 1680, just four years after the Brinvilliers scandal, it came to light that other noble women had been dispatching their unwanted husbands to a higher realm. The poisons they purchased were known as "poudres de succession.” The highest echelons of society were using this technique, including at least one of King Louis 14th’s mistresses.
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Annie Dillard’s Fictions to Live By
by Bruce A. Ronda
Dr. Ronda is associate professor of American studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
This article appeared in the Christian Century November 14, 1984, p. 1062. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Annie Dillard takes us on a remarkable journey, out from naïve unreflection into nature, suffering and despair, into an adventure with subjectivity and out the other end into commitment to others and the Other.
Buckminster Fuller once suggested that the purpose of people is to counteract the slide toward entropy described in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Human beings put things together, and this keeps the universe from falling apart. This notion, says Annie Dillard, appealed to her, and she elaborated on it, taking Fuller “to mean something even he probably did not intend: that imaginative acts actually weigh in the balance of physical processes. Thoughts count. A completed novel in a trunk in the attic is an order added to the sum of the universe’s order. It remakes its share of undoing” (Living by Fiction [Harper & Row, 1982], p. 124).
This passage illustrates Dillard’s distinctive voice. In 1982 she published two books, Living by Fiction and Teaching a Stone to Talk (Harper & Row). The humor, the light touch with serious intent, the provocative linking of opposites are all marks of her style. Fuller’s is the kind of notion that attracts Dillard in all her work, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to Teaching: a metaphor to describe the human encounter with nature. In this article I look at her two most recent works, hoping to put them in context with the earlier ones, locating some unifying threads, and identifying some new departures as well.
Living by Fiction is apparently a discussion of modern and postmodern fiction. But it is actually less a contribution to critical theory than a continuation of several themes from earlier books, including the search for a metaphor or bridge from the self to the physical world. Living by Fiction is also an extreme book, one that troubled me and seems to have troubled Dillard greatly. Its ambiguities, evasions and general lack of enthusiasm suggest that she was working out questions beyond or behind the ostensible subject of her book.
Reimagining the human place in creation and seeking to overcome the alienation of the modern self were major 19th-century romantic projects. Together with Christian faith, romanticism is the heritage Dillard claims; knowing that is essential in order to understand Living. In “The Uses of Natural History” (1883), Ralph Waldo Emerson recounted the experience of going through a collection of preserved animals in the laboratory of a French scientist. Emerson was stirred by a feeling of common creatureliness, and felt that he was simply the latest link in a chain that included these specimens. His sense of that link was largely intuitive: “We feel that there is an occult [hidden, mysterious] relation between the very worm, the crawling scorpions and man” (Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson [Harvard University Press, 1961], I, 10).
In her first two books Annie Dillard approached this question of the relation of self to nature experientially and rhythmically, entering and then withdrawing from the natural environment. She frequently responded to nature’s brutality, mindlessness, struggle and appalling death with her own suffering. Her pain took her deeper into nature’s grandeur and agony, and her deeper reflection led to more dis-ease, but to intense creativity as well, if these books are any indication. Dillard re-enacts the journey of many 19th-century English and American romantics who sought to construct a poetry of nature that was actually a record of their own interior lives stimulated or prompted by encounters with nature. The intensity of her first two books, and especially of Pilgrim, arises from the way in which Dillard sticks close to her own experience, rarely needing a theory to handle the tough questions she poses. The bridging from self to nature in her early works is a bridge made of the self’s suffering, vulnerability and intense feeling.
Constructing a bridge to nature is the theme of Living by Fiction as well, although that might not be immediately apparent. On first reading, we see that Dillard wants to account for the fascination with surfaces, with play, with the mixing of genres in postmodern fiction, and she wants to know why those traits fascinate her so much. She tells us, in a historical review, that by the end of the past century, increasing awareness among intellectuals that rationality was only a tiny sliver of the whole of human consciousness prompted artists in several fields to break up and reshuffle the continuities of time, place, plot and character. Contemporary modernists like Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon and Gass offer works that are, in Dillard’s estimate, nearly completely artifactual, objects of wonder, amusement or contemplation, but not to be taken in any sense as mirroring reality “out there.”
The world of writers, texts and audiences has been kept from succumbing entirely to this new emphasis on technique by two factors, says Dillard. Many authors, including some of our most popular, prolific and respected, still insist on writing novels of ideas. And the presence of a mass market inclines fiction toward the mixing of genres. We eagerly read stories that pretend to make sense of the wider world. So “the fact that fiction is not the prerogative of specialists militates in favor of its traditional virtues simply because nonspecialists prefer depth to abstract surface. Specialists are interested in form; nonspecialists like lots of realized content’’ (p. 77).
Whether a work features the kaleidoscope of broken and rearranged images or reminds us of 19th-century novels, Dillard wishes to judge fiction on its own internal integrity: Do the parts cohere? Is there an order? Does it make sense, according to its own inner logic?
While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity. She delights in the idea of Octavio Paz that criticism is the contemporary version of religion, springing from the faith that the object of inquiry is intelligible. She extends this insight to all products of human consciousness: politics, oil tankers, superhighways, codes on the groceries. They are subject to interpretation since they are human products, and only in humanity and its creations may we search for meaning. In fact, says Dillard, we may divide up the world of inquiry into interpreters and scientists. In their operation on the natural world and on humanity as biological creatures, scientists are interested not in discovering meaning but in discovering truth. On the other hand, questions of value, intent and consequence apply to humanity and its cultures in ways we do not and cannot apply to nature. This gives rise to Dillard’s fundamental distinction in Living by Fiction: “The boundaries of sense are actually quite clear. We commonly (if tacitly) agree that the human world has human meaning, which we can discover, and the given natural world does not.” Thus, we live not by nature but by fiction. If we confuse this distinction and look to “raw nature” for meaning, “[We] will have regressed historically” to the period before Protestantism, modern science and the Enlightenment, before the time when
Christianity and science, which on big issues go hand in hand intellectually as well as historically, everywhere raised the standard of living and cut down on the fun. Everywhere Christianity and science hushed the bushes and gagged the rocks. They razed the sacred groves, killed the priests, and drained the flow of meaning right off the planet. They built schools; they taught people to measure and add, to write, and to pray to an absent God. The direction of recent history is toward desacralization, the unhinging of materials from meaning [p. 136].
Is there anyone left to speak for nature, given this way of thinking? For Dillard, scientists properly refuse to make value judgments on the objects of their inquiry. Many religiously minded people speak uncritically of nature as a revelation of God, but, Dillard suggests, quickly abandon nature to the prerogatives of science if challenged. In her scheme, writers of fiction are the last remaining commentators on the physical world. Out of materials drawn directly and intuitively from the world around them, they construct models of it. These miniatures are interpretable as human products, and so we can “examine the small world to gain insight into the great one” (p. 175).
So, for Dillard, art does not so much represent as present “an ordered alternative built of materials of this world” (p. 175). But, she asks, do artists invent the order, the context, or do they discover it? It may be, she suggests, that this question is irrelevant; the purpose of humanity from a biological point of view, our successful adaptation, has been to make meaning.
Even this answer, however, does not satisfy her. She circles back again and again, looking for a clue to the relation. She ends Living this way: “Which shall it be? Do art’s complex and balanced relationships among all parts, its purpose, significance, and harmony, exist in nature? Is nature whole, like a completed thought? Is history purposeful? Is the universe of matter significant? I am sorry; I do not know” (p. 185).
It has seemed clear all along that Dillard is interested in something besides an account of trends in modern fiction. A book about fiction that is really about culture is really about metaphysics. This is her confession in the introduction: “This is, ultimately, a book about the world. It inquires about the world’s meaning. It attempts to do unlicensed metaphysics in a teacup. The teacup at hand, in this case, is contemporary fiction” (p. 11). We should not expect that the historical and critical aspects of the book will abide by the rules, either: “Although my critical training and competence, such as it is, is as a careful textual critic, I have here flung this sensible approach aside in favor of enthusiasm, free speculation, blind assertion, dumb joking, and diatribe” (pp. 14-15).
Living is, in fact, a kind of experiment in extremism. Dillard wants to know how far she can go in stripping the physical world of any inherent meaning, and where the resources might lie to build it up again. Unlike Pilgrim, with its several moments of intense oneness with nature, or Holy the Firm, with its more complex treatment of nature as a site of worship, Dillard here is bound by the project of the book, which has to do with human design and artifice, to see how far she can go in resisting all humanizing of nature.
This is not to say that Dillard is very happy with her experiment. Living cannot decide what kind of book it wants to be. Is it a history, even personal and informal, of contemporary criticism? The reader is barely introduced to structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response theory and the intricacies of the various Marxist schools. Is its purpose to share Dillard’s appreciation of contemporary fiction? Her description of it as geometric sounds faint and unenthusiastic: “It dissects the living, articulated joints and arranges the bright bones in the ground” (Living, p. 62). Is it a celebration of the human ability to make meaning, to impose order? Our doing this as a function of our evolutionary status -- “Our brains secrete bright ideas and forms of order; armored insects secrete wax from their backs” (p. 182) -- hardly seems cause for rejoicing. It is no wonder that the book ends on such a note of doubt and ambiguity: “I am sorry; I do not know.”
For me, one of the most troubling features of Living by Fiction is the way Dillard has taken her search for the bridge between self and nature down a long dead-end path, attempting to make the bridge out of the materials of one’s own life. Dillard edges toward the trap of subjectivity, a trap largel of her own making. Does the art object necessarily resemble the larger world? We cannot know. And if “fiction” and “art” are shorthand for all works of human culture, then the connections between all human cultural life and the physical life of nature are also unknowable. Dillard recognizes this unhappy position: “By those lights, there is not order anywhere but in our brains, which are uniquely adapted for inventing and for handling complex abstractions. . . . The only significance and value which obtain anywhere are in the mind’s discernment of these fictive qualities in its own manufactured models. . . . This is the most dismal view -- of art and everything -- I can imagine” (pp. 181-82).
Fortunately for her growing audience, Dillard’s imagination outstrips her theory. Her most recent book, Teaching a Stone to Talk, is very much connected in theme and style to her earlier ones, but there are some important new directions as well.
The human desire to put off death, to slow the pace of time, links this most recent book to the others. Awareness of mortality sets humanity off from the rest of creation. In an essay called “Aces and Eights,” Dillard recounts taking a nine-year-old girl for a weekend in the Appalachians. In the mountains, they visit a local eccentric, Noah Very, descendant of the Transcendentalist poet Jones Very. Very tells them that once when his own children were small and playing outside the house where they now sit, he said to himself: “‘Noah, now you remember this sight, the children being so young together and playing by the river this particular morning. You remember it.’ And I remember it as if it happened this morning. It must have been summer. There are another twenty years in there I don’t remember at all” (p. 173).
At the close of the essay, Dillard returns to the sense of loss that accompanies the passing of time. As they leave the cabin,
a ripple of wind comes down from the woods and across the clearing toward us. We see a wave of shadow and gloss, where the short grass bends and the cottage eaves tremble. It hits us in the back. It is a single gust, a sport, a rogue breeze out of the north . . . Fall! Who authorized this intrusion? Stop or I’ll shoot. It is an entirely misplaced air -- fail, that I have utterly forgotten, that could be here again, another fall, and here it is only July. I thought I was younger and would have more time. The breeze just crosses the river then blackens the water where it passes, like a finger closing slats [p. 177].
Such an awareness of the implications of time seems to be solely a human trait. In all her work, we can see the way Dillard deliberately sets humanity apart from the rest of nature. In Pilgrim, it was ethical issues that seemed intrusive yet unavoidable; in Holy the Firm, it was human suffering that led to mystic insight; in Living, the construction of fictions; and in Teaching, it is the awful silence of nature, or at best, its “hum,” which is all we hear from the rest of creation these days.
But Teaching goes beyond her earlier works as well. The sometimes intense individualism of the earlier books is complemented here by the presence of other people, so that a kind of tension is created between personal vision and collective insight. Two essays in particular convey this new dialogue.
In “An Expedition to the Pole,” Dillard sets polar exploration next to the worship of a small Catholic parish to see what this juxtaposition might produce. Polar explorers, she found, were almost uniformly high-spirited, heroic and incredibly ignorant of the silent and wasted landscape they would encounter. The Franklin expedition of 1845, for instance, took no special equipment for Arctic conditions. Instead, they took the trappings of Victorian civilization: an organ, china, silver service, glassware, and dress uniforms. Years later skeletons clutching these objects could be found scattered across the Arctic Sea.
Her fellow worshipers at mass likewise struck her as singularly unprepared for encountering the unknown. The miracle of the incarnation was being reenacted on one occasion while the pianist pounded out tunes from “The Sound of Music.” Plunging into the abyss of the polar regions, explorers were stripped of their pretensions, reduced to essentials. They sought the sublime, she writes; ‘‘perfection” and ‘‘eternity’’ were recurrent words in their journals. Similarly at mass, the inept folk group who demanded that the congregation sing with them prompted in Dillard the feeling that this too was a descent into mystery, the well of the absurd, where one sacrificed education, dignity, distance and propriety for the sake of a glimpse of the sacred.
The linked descriptions of diseased and snow-blinded explorers and her fellow worshipers are brilliant. Toward the end of the essay, she imagines leaping onto an immense shiplike floe, the church as frozen ark. At the bow, several clowns are lashed down. At the stern are families around cooking fires; among them wander polar explorers from the past, including Sir John Franklin and his crew, resplendent in their impractical uniforms. As the ship/floe nears the Pole, the author sings loudly, with the rest, banging a tambourine she finds in her hand.
Strongly reminiscent of the metaphysical poets’ discordia concors, the linking of opposites, “Expedition to the Pole” suggests a new direction for Dillard. Dialogues among self and others, self and God, self and nature generate rich possibilities that go beyond the individualism and subjectivity seen in Living.
In another essay, Dillard pursues the theme of self and others in a natural setting. “Total Eclipse’’ tells of Dillard’s witness of that awesome event. Gathered on a mountain in Washington State, she and a group of observers wait for the moment. As the sun disappears, the people, the mountain, all appear in an unearthly platinum hue. Dillard feels as if time were unraveling back toward prehistory, to the darkness before consciousness. “There was no world. We were the world’s dead people rotating and orbiting around and around. . . . Our minds were light-years distant, forgetful of almost everything. Only an extraordinary act of will could recall to us our former, living selves and our contexts in matter and time. We had, it seems, loved the planet and loved our lives, but could no longer remember the way of them. . . . It was all over” (p. 93).
Just before the shadow of the moon snapped into place over the sun, the witnesses on the hillside, including the author, screamed. The reason, she explained, was “the wall of dark shadow . . . speeding at us. We no sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. . . . This was the universe about which we have read so much and never before felt: the universe as a clockwork of loose spheres flung at stupefying, unauthorized speeds. How could anything moving so fast not crash, not veer from its orbit amok like a car out of control on a turn?” (pp. 100-101).
While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other books, and is the foundation insight in Living by Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place with others. And it is, surely, not a very comfortable place. This eclipse reminds us of nothing so much as a prophecy of nuclear devastation, the gathered observers reminiscent of those awaiting the end of the world. In such a moment, she suggests, she wishes to be with others.
Dillard need not have fought her way through Hegel and hermeneutics in Living to reach such a point in Teaching. From her very first book, she has identified herself as one who seeks, however ambivalently, the Christian community. But Dillard is not just a Christian meditative writer; she is also a romantic. A working out of these two tendencies requires long struggle.
In Pilgrim, she detaches herself from the ordinary, conventional human world, plunging into nature to wrestle with the question of nature’s ethics. In Holy the Firm, she wades into the issue of human suffering. Here we see her as a woman on the edge of despair, cursing God for dishing up so much pain so arbitrarily. In Living, she uses the language of criticism to make the paths we choose to walk matters of individual aesthetic choice. But in Teaching, she seems to halt this movement. Neither unreflective loyalty to community or institution nor narcissistic self-absorption will do. A dialogue with the Other and others completes the incomplete self, writes the unfinished text, rounds out the group, gives voice to silent nature, humanizes an absent God. Annie Dillard takes us on a remarkable journey, out from naïve unreflection into nature, suffering and despair, into an adventure with subjectivity and out the other end into commitment to others and the Other. In such a commitment, trust and engagement may be glimpsed, touched and embraced.
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by Chris Wisniewski and Michael Koresky
Thanks in no small part to Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, most moviegoers already knew where they stood on the question Spielberg by the time Munich hit theaters in December 2005. At that point, Spielberg’s mainstream canonization was complete, due to the near universal acclaim for his “serious” World War II pictures. So sacrosanct was his public image upon Munich’s release that Time ran a cover story before most critics had even seen the film, dubbing it “Spielberg’s secret masterpiece.” Meanwhile, Spielberg’s detractors—the Jean-Luc Godards and William Goldmans and Claude Lanzmanns of the world—seemed to have all the evidence they needed that the director was guilty of tremendous overreach. By the time of Munich’s release, though, it was also clear that neither point-of-view was entirely convincing. It’s all too simple to be dazzled by Spielberg’s filmmaking, to be so overwhelmed by his set pieces, like Schindler’s liquidation of the Krakow ghetto or Ryan’s Omaha beach sequence, that one fails to scrutinize the entire design. It’s just as easy, though, to deplore his arrogance and ambition, to pronounce that whatever ground Spielberg is working on is inappropriate, and to dismiss his obvious accomplishments. But Spielberg isn’t the sort of filmmaker one just has quibbles about. For those who object to Schindler’s List, the problem isn’t just the Auschwitz gas chamber sequence but the way it reflects the reduction of historical trauma to melodrama. What to do, then, with a film like Munich, one that is, moment-to-moment, haunting, complex, and problematic, one that resists easy labels like “masterpiece” or “failure” and instead rises and falls on individual decisions, some brilliant, some confounding?
The first thing that needs to be said about Munich is that its erudite, sophisticated, and thoughtful screenplay, written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, based on George Jonas’s book Vengeance, does an improbably remarkable job of toeing the line between political complexity and emotional clarity, that it never once seems either simplistic or didactic despite taking on arguably the most fraught political conflict of the past half century. The second thing that needs to be said about Munich is that it suffers from some near-fatal structural problems: a somewhat obvious episodic narrative that takes far too long to get to its inevitable conclusion; a use of flashback that culminates in a disastrous (literal) climax, severely compromising the film’s last half hour; and, most importantly, an unrelenting reliance on the thriller form to achieve its politically and intellectually loaded effect. It plays strictly by the rules of its genre in order to undermine our expectations and question our allegiances; this is a dangerous and not altogether successful gambit.
Munich’s protagonist, Avner (Eric Bana), a former Mossad agent, is a sort of Jewish Everyman-cum-Superman, a polite and soft-spoken father-to-be with talent in the kitchen, a body to die for, and a killer smile. Avner’s an image of an image in much the same way that Oskar Schindler is. Unlike many of Spielberg’s male protagonists, though, Avner does not suffer from a fatal flaw: less an exemplar of fractured masculinity (Avner flirts with a gorgeous woman—unbeknownst to him, an assassin—in a hotel bar, but he’s too decent to act on his impulses) than an appealingly generic movie hero, Avner reverses the typical Spielberg trajectory. Munich does not tell a story of redemption but one of a generic “good man”’s unraveling. We sympathize with Avner because we’re conditioned to, filmically, and our sympathies are upended, both in Spielberg’s uncompromising depiction of Avner’s role in a series of brutal and violent assassinations and in the way the film tracks the gradual growth of Avner’s fear and self-loathing. No less than any of his other films, Munich is a carefully constructed movie-movie, but there is a historically specific conflict at its center.
Munich approaches this conflict—terrorism in the Middle East—only obliquely, much as Schindler’s List approaches the Holocaust or Saving Private Ryan World War II or Amistad American slavery. Like those films, Munich tackles historical trauma through indirect means, privileging an exception to illuminate a larger issue. It tells the story of a five-man unit, led by Avner and commissioned by the Israeli government to covertly and unofficially assassinate the Palestinian masterminds behind the abduction and eventual murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The film examines a project of counter-terrorism and retaliation. At first, the assassinations come swiftly and satisfyingly. With time, the costs become dearer, the operations more tenuous, and the psychological devastation irrevocable. All the while, though, Munich remains resolutely focused on the response to terrorism and on the effects of violence, and not on terrorism itself or its root causes; terrorism is context, justification, flashback. With the exception of two arresting monologues, one by a PLO agent and another by Avner’s mother—both making a strenuous case about having a home, a nation, a piece of land, from two diametrically opposed positions—the film avoids speechifying.
Munich is less an overtly political film about the morality of terrorism than it is a thriller—albeit one that uses the genre to make a political point. The movie is relentless in deconstructing the pressures of the hunt and the consequences of the kill; terrorism becomes the literal return of the repressed. As Avner grows more suspicious of his associates, more fearful of his life, and more disillusioned with his mission, he begins to have flashbacks to the Munich massacre. Here again the political becomes personal, but the flashbacks feel like a strain, as though Spielberg, Kushner, and Roth are desperate to smuggle the context back in. This culminates in a stupefying scene that crosscuts the film’s only depiction of the actual Munich murders with sweaty, violent sex between Avner and his wife. One can perhaps make a broad-brush case for the sequence. It echoes an early scene of sweet lovemaking between Avner and his then pregnant wife, but turns a creative act—one that reaffirms the bonds of family and belonging—into something brutal and destructive. In Munich, people are constantly arguing that murder is necessary for creation—for the making of a nation, a people. So the scene is justifiable, but it also feels fundamentally misguided, a mingling of movie sex and historical trauma that is, to put it mildly, in bad taste.
As it draws to its precarious close, Munich seems to spin out of control. If the movie’s refusal to take a stand on the political and ethical questions it raises is admirable, it also lends it a certain incoherence. What are we meant to feel about Avner’s flashbacks to the Munich massacre? Or his growing paranoia? What do we make of his commanding officer’s insistence that he should continue his work as an assassin? Or of the same commanding officer’s refusal to “break bread” with Avner and his family? And what, finally, should we feel about the final shot of the film, which connects the violence Munich depicts to the terrorist attacks of September 11? Frankly, I don’t know what we’re supposed to feel. Munich, like many a Spielberg movie, may be guilty of overreach, but it may be unique in the extent of its ambiguity: for once, a filmmaker too often accused of emotional manipulation doesn’t seem to be telling us how to feel at all. And the effect is all too disturbing. —CW
So, who is Munich made for? While we’re at it, let’s lob all the questions we possibly can at a film that by design is meant to be held up to wide public scrutiny. What is Munich supposed to say about terrorism? About the Middle East? About government-sanctioned murder? Where are Steven Spielberg’s politics supposed to lie? What are his moral responsibilities as a commercial filmmaker wading through the muck of one of the past century’s most steadfastly immutable conflicts? The questions hollered at the film are, maddeningly to some, met not with answers but with further questions. Ultimately, Munich repeatedly constructs its narrative as such: a series of ever-compounding quandaries never finding resolution. If Spielberg’s Munich had all the answers it would still be forced to concede resolution. By sheer nature of its form (thriller, mostly) and its politics (the Israel-Palestine conflict, ostensibly), Munich could get no further than a stalemate. Munich is a failure, and it’s satisfied to be so—as a thriller, it dwindles down to sweaty nubs, reaches ideological dead-ends; as a serious investigation of Middle-Eastern conflict, it throws its hands up in frustration. Yet it’s hard to imagine a more daring expression in 2005 from the world’s most successful filmmaker? Munich is dizzyingly ambitious in its mechanics and ruthlessly unwilling to satisfy. Spielberg’s need to end the film on U.S. soil should have clued everyone in to the fact that this is, above all, a film made for American viewership.
Yet in order for this high-wire act to have been deemed a success, Munich needed to be all things to all viewers: a reliably anti-PC, PC, bipartisan, nonpartisan, pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli, ultra-stylized, ultra-realist, commercial art-film. For this film, Spielberg, often condemned in a knee-jerk fashion as a thoughtless pusher of conservative family values, teamed up with Tony Kushner, accused by dyed-in-the-wool Zionists as being a Palestinian apologist, and, as if in a twilight zone, each fell under attack by the other’s watch dogs. Naturally, Munich couldn’t please either side. Spielberg’s film excels however, if it is actually watched and wrestled with, rather than contained within the personal biases of each viewer. In other words, rather than wonder about all the things Munich is not, let’s actually look at what Munich is.
Arguably, Spielberg’s greatest images are the most seemingly divergent from the film’s main narrative thrust. The first occurs in a repeated shot of the protagonist, Avner (Eric Bana), a Mossad agent hired to assassinate the Palestinian masterminds behind the murders of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, staring at a yellow and brown prefab kitchen through a Parisian department-store window. With its glistening, new countertops and cabinets the dull seventies color of maize, this paradise of Formica domesticity, behind glass, marks the fixed meeting point of Avner and his morally suspect French informant, Louis (Mathieu Amalric), who seems to know the identities and whereabouts of many of Avner’s key targets. Here, amidst the array of modern appliances, Avner finds momentary solace, both as a memory of the home he once had, a representation of the home he wishes for his people to have, and a fear that the home he took for granted may be transitory. The very idea of what constitutes a homeland is what Kushner (along with Eric Roth, who likely helped shape Kushner’s intricate philosophical discursiveness into a genre framework) seems to be most after; once the rhetoric melts, all that’s left for Avner is the seemingly unattainable kitchen, under glass, just as for a dewy-eyed PLO member with whom he tensely converses in a hostel it is the far more modest acre of olive trees to which he wishes to return.
Munich’s second strongest image, and one of the most indelible in Spielberg’s long career, occurs when Avner and his band of fellow brooding Mossad agents veer sharply from the path of vengeance laid out for them by the Israeli government. In a moment motivated not by political agenda but personal vendetta, Avner and two of his fellow hit men, Steve (Daniel Craig) and Hans (Hanns Zichler), track down Jeanette (Marie-Josée Croze), an assassin responsible for earlier seducing and killing their partner Carl (Ciaran Hinds). They enter her house. Spielberg, always able to present violence for mass consumption in a radically upsetting manner, stages the murder as an act completely drained of pride or satisfaction. In this way, it stands in for every other killing in the film: two quick, casual shots, muffled with a silencer, hit Jeanette in her chest and throat. She continues to dazedly shuffle across the floor, her robe flapping open against her nude figure, taking one moment to haphazardly clutch her cat, before collapsing in an armchair. Blood begins to gurgle out of her two wounds with a disconcertingly delayed reaction, pouring down her breasts. A quick, pummeling shot to the head, filmed from behind, her head jerking and slumping like a rag doll, and she’s gone. After one of them attempts to close the robe to cover her body, Hans declares, “Leave it open.” Like those bullets ripping holes through steel helmets in Saving Private Ryan, and the men, women, and children dragged to the foreground of the frame and shot in the head in Schindler’s List, it’s shocking—a perversity of flesh and humanity—but this time with the added acknowledgment of the assassin’s own titillation. For all of the mutilations, stabbings, shootings, and dismemberments on display in Munich, none resonates quite as much as the murder of Jeanette, showing as it does the utter intimacy of death that the hit men, with their remote-controlled explosives, try to avoid at every turn. And is it any coincidence that this killing occurs in the kitchen? The closeness of mortality, the disturbance, the blasphemy of the home intrusion; once this is broached, Avner may never return—the domicile has closed its doors as a safe haven.
“We have a place on earth at last,” says Avner’s hypnotically self-righteous mother (Gila Almagor) when her son has finally returned home from his uncompleted mission. It’s others’ intrinsic belief in an ultimate right, a purity of intent, a political certainty, that surrounds Avner’s journey throughout Munich and is articulated by most of the Israeli characters, many of them self-righteous Jewish Supermen. By sheer contrast, Avner is a man of uncertainty, and therefore intangible ethics, fully aware, as all good thriller protagonists are, of his own moral befuddlement. For some, the thought of a Mossad killing machine with a conscience is laughable. For others, the equation of Avner’s actions with that of terrorism is an unforgivable moral equivalency. For Spielberg, Roth, and Kushner, however, Avner is meant to contain the world’s confusion, a composite who must carry the political burdens of all on his broad shoulders. To Spielberg, even literal machines have consciences, and Avner, like A.I.’s robo-boy David, grows increasingly human (that is to say, hopelessly, irretrievably mortal) as the film trudges on to its dark conclusion. Seen initially clenching his fist in rage as he watches the Olympics tragedy unfold on television, Avner is a governmental weapon, a glorified agency thug with a perfect-specimen physique who will continue on his mission without asking questions. Yet as the increasingly tangled web of international self-interests becomes clearer, Avner incrementally allows his internalized fears and doubt to creep across his face. Avner the political tool resonates more than Avner the action hero, for though Spielberg’s adeptness and agility with action narrative is fully on display, the amount of Hitchcockian manipulation is the film’s major caveat. Suspense is a nifty tactic for creating audience empathy, but the genre trappings, including a search-and-destroy motley crew of assassins, sit uncomfortably with the sober material. Regardless, there’s such a genuine desire to grapple with the dubiously methodical nature of political violence (the Mossad agents, with their delicately wired bombs, are so visually paralleled with terrorists that it grows easy to forget their motivations) that every moment seems vital.
It’s become a much accepted theory that when Spielberg “goes serious” (an insufficient recurrent marker that disallows that E.T., A.I., Minority Report, and War of the Worlds are serious works), he means to encompass all the world within each film, thus putting historical finality on the Big Subjects. Thus, Schindler’s List becomes not just a Holocaust film but the Holocaust film; likewise with Amistad and slavery, Saving Private Ryan and WWII, etc. Munich throws a wrench in the works of such oversimplification: the central moral inquisition deals not with the emotional devastation of terrorism but rather with the philosophies surrounding what we can dub terrorism in our world. Munich, whose very title is a memory itself by the time the narrative takes off, is about what happens after.
The fact that this director, whose career has become in essence a search for a collective memory, ends his film by looking forward is something of a revelation, especially when coupled with a most damning final line for a Hollywood product: “No.” No to bread-breaking, no to Shabbat, no to peace. No, with the Twin Towers looming large in the background, lying in wait. For American viewers, the visual connection, open to contemplation, is vital. Whether Spielberg is drawing a direct cause-and-effect through-line matters less than that Munich is not left as safely, distantly, Middle-Eastern, European, or foreign. We’re no longer in one of those cities over there, each shot as nondescriptly as the next; this isn’t Athens, Paris, Geneva, Beirut, Tel Aviv, or London, but New York City. Most daring of all is Munich’s desire to show the ultimate instability in our own backyard. But are we safe? Safe from doubt? Safe from guilt? Safe in our own homes and kitchens? No. —MK
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Dragon Age IV News
Talk about games or general tech issues that are not Sierra related.
Re: Dragon Age IV News
Post by Tawmis » Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:19 pm
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑
I hope your party isn't like the Knights of the Dinner Table. Bob, Dave and Brian hate getting railroaded like that, and will roll up new characters just to see if they can beat the dragon.
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One group I DM for (Anita's group) is much wiser (typically). The Work Group however, still needs a few lessons in "team work."
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Post by DeadPoolX » Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:27 am
Can't say I really care. After the last two BioWare RPGs (Inquisition and Andromeda) I really don't think they know how to make a good game anymore, or rather, they don't give a damn about anything that isn't online and full of loot crates.
I didn't even finish Inquisition. The game was a constant fetch-quest, the story was lackluster, the characters forgettable, and the character graphics were awful. On the flipside, the environments were awesome. Overall, the only way to make Inquisition palatable was to use a ton of mods, which is pretty sad.
As far as an Andromeda is concerned... well, it's only a Mass Effect game in name only. It has more in common with Anthem than the ME series.
So yeah... DA4 doesn't really mean much to me at this point.
To me, the best Dragon Age game was DA2 as far as characters and storyline are concerned. That game had many technical problems and some questionable design decisions, but I felt the characters were very personable and interesting. Also, I liked the fact the story wasn't the usual "you're the special savior of the world" BS. You're just some guy in a city trying to survive and make the best out of a bad situation. I wouldn't want every RPG to be like that, but it was a nice change of pace.
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Post by Tawmis » Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:24 am
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I still have not finished Andromeda... and I got it day 1, pre-ordered, the whole 9 yards. Inquisition, I didn't mind. It was a lot of fetch-quest, but I still enjoyed the story and character. Andromeda, I can't even say that. I can't stand the character. Don't care for the story so far. I can't stand the planet I am currently on (the super dark jungle like planet, forgot the name). Every blue moon, I pick it up, play for an hour, and like, "Yeah. That's enough." I want to finish the game... I really do... but, it's an epic struggle.
I think the first Dragon Age remains my favorite. DA2 had great characters, but I still enjoyed the first one (even character wise) over the second one. Although, I did fall in love with the gypsy looking chick in DA2.
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Post by Rath Darkblade » Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:26 am
Isabella? I think I can tell why - because she has big, pretty ... eyes?
Post by Tawmis » Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:35 pm
That's her.
And also she has that dirty gypsy look to her. Rawr.
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Post by Datadog » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:54 am
A heads-up that I'm waist-deep into Andromeda right now. So far, I'm on board with the "I see where they're going with this, but it doesn't work" crowd, but coming off of DA3, I at least find the gameplay and sidequests more engaging. I wish DA3 had more jump-jets. Would have made shard collecting way more fun.
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Post by Tawmis » Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:25 am
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Andromeda is like the game I go and play, when I am feeling so great, that I know I need to ruin my mood. One of these years, I believe, I may eventually finish it between my hour sessions of playing and hating myself for even trying.
Post by DeadPoolX » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:21 pm
From what I understand, Dragon Age 4 is going to be an always-on live service built entirely around multiplayer and incorporating loot crates and micro-transactions.
(There are a lot of articles and videos about this, I just didn't feel like linking to each one, but a quick Google search will bring them up.)
Because EA is stubborn to the point of absurdity (such as using game engines for genres they aren't designed for) they're using Anthem as a blueprint. This means they're designing DA4 to be more like Anthem, despite the devs saying "we're not making Anthem with dragons."
Well... yeah, they kind of are since the plan is to favor the monetization-centric approach used in Anthem and in fact, nearly every EA game. Even if that weren't the case, they're basically abandoning the story-heavy RPG gameplay in favor of multiplayer combat.
I'm okay with multiplayer as a feature or extra, but the idea of making DA multiplayer-only is insane. It'd be like turning DOOM into a point-and-click adventure game. Sure, you could do it if you really wanted to, but it wouldn't make sense and do nothing except piss off the old/original fanbase.
But maybe that's it: the original fanbase for story-heavy RPGs with choices don't make the same sort of money (on a consistent and long-term basis) that online shooters do, and as we all know, the only thing EA is interested in is "how much money can we make?" Granted, every publisher wants to make a lot of money, but some at least have an interest in the product itself beyond dollar signs.
Unfortunately, I think we just need to accept the fact that BioWare — the company we knew and whose products we enjoyed — is dead.
Post by Rath Darkblade » Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:36 am
I looked up "jump-jet" and found pictures of fighter planes ... so, maybe a wearable jet-pack?
DPX ... sigh. Ah, well - we'll always have Oghren's dirty mind and Alistair twirling his pike!
Yes, taking DA4 and turning it into a multi-player-only-combat game sounds dreadful. That makes it a completely different kind of game - not Dragon Age, but Dragon Arena. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand in the red corner, in his trademark no-boxer-shorts-at-all, it's a Red Dragon!" *choruses of "yay" and "boo"*
Oh, well. For anyone looking for the next big-budget ultra-shiny RPG, there's always Elder Scrolls 6 ... whenever that behemoth will come out.
Post by Tawmis » Sat Apr 13, 2019 4:28 am
If this is even remotely true, I will not be picking it up - and sincerely hope it tanks, so that they see this was not the way to go.
Though they will probably just fire the team, and blame them for "a bad game."
Post by Datadog » Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:57 pm
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For me, a huge problem with the game is simply the characters. The whole team is like a watered-down version of ME1's crew, and the Pathfinder's role is so simple, I can't understand why nobody else on the Nexus can do her job. There's literally no reason for all these characters to be doing what they're doing.
I did stumble upon a sidequest last night that almost explains the whole game in some way. On the planet Kadara, Ryder answers an SOS, only to discover two stoners sent out an emergency distress to come save their marijuana plant. And one of the immediate dialogue options is "How can I help?" And that's when it hit me: Ryder is a pothead. She's been smoking blunts during loading screens and has spent the entire game high. And it's explains so much: 1) Her crazy facial acting, 2) her crazy run cycle, 3) how all her dialogue sounds laid-back and jokey, 4) how she keeps wandering into random caves and discovering ancient civilizations by mistake, and 5) why she hasn't put Peebee out an airlock yet.
And considering this game was made in Edmonton, and Alberta's always high on weed, it only stands to reason that the game's writers were high as well. This may even explain "Dragon Age IV" while we're at it.
Post by DeadPoolX » Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:33 pm
Andromeda's big issue for me is the lack of control over teammates (including their loadouts) and the inability to save when and where I want if you're involved in a story-related mission. That's complete BS too, because all the other DA and ME games allowed this. Even if you consider all the issues they had with the Frostbite engine, Inquisition was still capable of saving during a story-related mission and that came before Andromeda, so there's no excuse for this laziness.
Alberta? I'd say BC is full of idiot potheads, especially considering all the marijuana shops opening up. Victoria even has a new marijuana bakery, because that's exactly what this city needs, right? It's not like there aren't enough morons and assholes here, but now they'll also be high!
Post by Rath Darkblade » Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:47 pm
And considering this game was made in Edmonton, and Alberta's always high on weed...
It is? That's the first time I've heard of that - but of course, I'm on the other side of the world.
Just looked it up on wiki. One sentence there made me crack up laughing:
The national Canadian Cannabis Chamber is based in Alberta, and is staffed by Jonathan Denis, the province's former Justice Minister, and Rick Hanson, the former police chief of the province's largest city, Calgary.
Yup - turning the poachers into gamekeepers. That sounds familiar. Why does it remind me of "Yes, Prime Minister"?
Jim Hacker: We got to give him something, I promised.
Sir Humphrey: Well, what is he interested in? Does he watch television?
Jim Hacker: He hasn't even got a set.
Sir Humphrey: Fine, make him a Governor of the BBC.
This may even explain "Dragon Age IV" while we're at it.
Oh dear. Take a character like Varric or Isabella, and add weed-influenced dialogue/art? Sounds even more ridiculous than it already is. "Dragon Age: Now with tie dye shirts, bell-bottoms, leisuire suits, jump suits"...
Post by Tawmis » Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:00 am
Hey! What's wrong with Leisure Suits?
Post by Rath Darkblade » Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:55 am
There's nothing wrong with leisure suits, but in the proper setting. It's like asking Larry Laffer to wield a double-bladed axe, like Oghren. It won't be Larry Laffer any more. Right?
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Home Sweet Horror: FAMILY POSSESSIONS (2018) Review
February 7, 2018 Slasher StudiosFamily Possessions
After inheriting her grandmother’s house, a young woman named Rachael and her family move into it. But as they get settled in, Rachael starts to encounter strange occurrences within the house, not only this but she learns from the townspeople that her grandmother has been keeping some dark secrets.
At first glance, Family Possessions may come off as your average haunted house film. But in reality there is actually a lot more to it than that. Tommy Faircloth writes and directs this film with some very solid precision. As far as the script goes, it’s actually pretty fresh and original by today’s horror standards. While it draws from different sub genres of horror, they’re all wrapped up in this tight mystery tale that makes you think it’s going in one direction but veers into another. Although I do wish there was a little more focus on the witchcraft material since it’s really what sets much of the plot in motion, along with more insight on the visions Rachael has. Faircloth also directs this film with solid vision. The creepy scenes within the house are really well-executed and captured. The practical effects at hand are also pleasing, one scene early on in the film made my teeth hurt with how effective it was and how good the effects looked.
When it comes to scares, most of the jump scares are genuinely all in fun and don’t really take themselves too seriously. The script also features some genuinely funny moments, most especially involving Rachael’s encounters with the two bitchy baristas played by Elizabeth Mears and Mark Patton, and even Mears and Patton’s scene together are comical to watch, and the two actors just eat up the parts and clearly are having a blast doing it. In addition to them, we also have Felissa Rose as Rachael’s new friend Maggie’s bitchy alcoholic mother. Rose is also clearly having fun with her over-the-top role. Erika Edwards who plays Maggie does a fine job of making you really fall for her sweet but oddness but also makes you unsure of whether she can be trusted. Finally, we have Leah Wiseman as Rachael. Wiseman is no stranger to indie horror after stealing the screen in supporting roles with Dismembering Christmas and Irrational Fear, but this time she’s front and center, and she easily proves she’s more than capable of carrying a movie. She plays Rachel with some great wit, but also with some real humanity and relatability. Wiseman also does a great job of showing her struggle between wanting to find out the truth and trying to keep things together for her and her struggling family. For the most part the entire cast does a solid job, with only some performances that were a little weaker.
I highly recommend this indie horror film, it’s a fresh and fun mystery ride that boasts some fun performances and an extremely strong performance by Leah Wiseman.
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University tuition fees rise to £9,250 for current students
University tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started courses.
Universities minister Jo Johnson has published a statement setting out plans to link higher fees to better teaching.
The fees will increase by inflation in subsequent years.
The Liberal Democrats say they will force a vote by MPs in the autumn in a bid to stop raising the current £9,000 limit.
Labour's education spokesman Gordon Marsden said that "nothing less than a full debate" on raising fees would be acceptable and that ministers had so far "neither the guts nor the courtesy" to have an open debate on their intentions to raise fees.
Mr Marsden accused ministers of a "disgraceful" attempt to "sneak out" the increase on the last day before Parliament's summer break.
The National Union of Students and the UCU lecturers' union have announced a protest demonstration in November.
The inflation-linked rise represents a 2.8% increase and if that continued would mean fees rising above £10,000 in the next few years.
The government says the increase can apply to students who have already begun courses - but this will depend on the terms of student contracts in individual universities.
Royal Holloway and the University of Kent have to still to decide on whether to charge higher fees for current students, but expect to apply them to new students starting in 2017, if the fee limit increase goes ahead.
The University of Surrey will not increase fees for its current undergraduates, but fees will increase each year for students starting in 2017.
The government says if the fee rise is challenged in the House of Commons, there is likely to be a vote by MPs in the autumn.
The Liberal Democrats have said they will fight the plans "every step of the way".
Angela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, said "these further increases in fees will be a barrier to aspiration, making it even more difficult for those from low and middle-income families to get the best education they deserve".
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Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
J. Braz. Chem. Soc. vol.22 no.8 São Paulo Aug. 2011
Hyphenating the curtius rearrangement with Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts: synthesis of biologically active acyloins and vicinal aminoalcohols
Giovanni W. Amarante; Mayra Cavallaro; Fernando Coelho*
Laboratório de Síntese de Produtos Naturais e Fármacos, Instituto de Química, Universidade de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas-SP, Brazil
Using Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts as substrates, the Curtius rearrangement was performed in a sequence that allowed the synthesis of several hydroxy-ketones (acyloins) with great structural diversity and in good overall yields. These acyloins in turn were easily transformed into 1,2-anti aminoalcohols through a highly diastereoselective reductive amination step. The synthetic utility of these approaches was exemplified by performing the syntheses of (±)-bupropion, a drug used to treat the abstinence syndrome of smoker and (±)-spisulosine, a potent anti-tumoral compound originally isolated from a marine source.
Keywords: Curtius rearrangement, Morita-Baylis-Hillman, drugs, aminoalcohols, acyloins
Um rearranjo de Curtius, utilizando adutos de Morita-Baylis-Hillman como substrato, foi realizado em uma sequência que permitiu a síntese de várias hidroxi-cetonas (aciloínas) com uma grande diversidade estrutural e com bons rendimentos globais. Por sua vez, essas aciloínas foram transformadas em 1,2-amino-alcoóis de configuração relativa anti, através de uma etapa de aminação redutiva altamente diastereosseletiva. A utilidade sintética dessas abordagens foi demonstrada através das sínteses totais da (±)-bupropiona, fármaco utilizado no tratamento na síndrome de abstinência de fumantes e da (±)-espisulosina, um potente agente anti-tumoral isolado inicialmente de uma fonte marinha.
The formation of new C-N bonds by incorporation of a nitrogen atom into a molecule is a fundamental transformation in organic chemistry, since it allows accessing many valuable compounds.1 Basically, this can be achieved by nucleophilic substitution reactions or by electrophilic amination reactions.2
A C-N bond can also be built through rearrangement reactions. For instance, Lossen,3 Beckman,4 Schmidt5 and Curtius6 rearrangements are processes which allow the efficient formation of a new C-N bond from carbonyl containing derivative compounds.
The Curtius rearrangement is a thermal decomposition of a carbonyl azide leading to an isocyanate. This stereospecific rearrangement provides carbamates or amines in good overall yields and selectivities. Unfortunately, this rearrangement has the drawback that low molar mass acyl azides present an explosion hazard.7 This safety issue has limited the industrial use of this transformation until recently, when Am Ende et al.8 reported a new experimental protocol, which enabled the use of this reaction under safer conditions even when conducted on a large scale. This and other protocols have revived interest in this rearrangement, particularly for industrial purposes.9
Regarding the potential of this rearrangement, our group has recently reported the preparation of some carbamates from Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) adducts.10 Curtius rearrangement would be the best way to achieve our target, since the carboxyl group in this structure is needed to perform this rearrangement. Thus, when an acid derived from a MBH adduct was treated with sodium azide, heated at reflux and treated subsequently with t-butanol, the corresponding ene-carbamate was formed in good overall yield. However, in some examples it was observed the occurrence of a byproduct (ca. 12-15%) which was characterized as being an acyloin (Scheme 1).
The acyloin formation was easily explained by the presence of water (tiny amount) in the t-BuOH used to transform the intermediate ene-isocyanate into the corresponding ene-carbamate. This undesirable side reaction caught our attention, since α-hydroxyketones (acyloins) are structural motifs present in several biologically active compounds, in which the activity is closely associated with the presence of this structural pattern. Due to the synthetic and biological relevance of acyloins, several synthetic approaches have already been developed in order to prepare them. Conventionally, α-hydroxy ketones are prepared by the acyloin condensation reaction,11 oxidation of enolates or double bonds,12 or reduction of α-diketones or esters.13 Recently, a method based on ketohydroxylation of alkenes was developed to give acyloins.14 Alternatively, radical oxidation of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound with cerium salts could also be used for the preparation of acyloins.15 Most recently, a skeletal rearrangement of symmetrically α,α-disubstituted α-amino aldehyde has been reported as a new strategy for preparing acyloins.16
Beyond its biological importance, α-hydroxyketones are also an interesting synthetic platform that allows further chemical transformations. For instance, a α-hydroxyketone can be easily transformed into a α-aminoketone. This structural pattern is present in some commercial drugs, such as bupropion [(±)-α-t-butylamino-3-chloropropiophenone] (1, Figure 1), a potent synthetic inhibitor of dopamine reuptake with subtle noradrenergic reuptake.17 Bupropion is an atypical antidepressant, which has been licensed by FDA to treat the abstinence syndrome of smokers.18
Vicinal aminoalcohols (or 1,2-aminoalcohols) are structural units that currently occur in several biologically active compounds. They are also part of several chiral catalysts and new materials.
The biological and synthetic importances of this structural motif have stimulated the development of several methods to synthesize it, both in racemic and enantiomerically pure forms.19 Classically, syn-1,2-aminoalcohols can be prepared in their racemic or asymmetric versions using the aminohydroxylation strategy developed by Sharpless et al.20 Another efficient way to prepare vicinal aminoalcohols is by the opening of an epoxide ring with a suitable nitrogen source, such as amines or azide ions, to provide aminoalcohols or azidoalcohols, respectively.21,22
By using simple chemical transformations, α-hydroxyketones (acyloins) can also be used as substrates for the stereoselective preparation of 1,2-aminoalcohols.23
Spisulosine (2, Figure 1) is a sphingoid-type base which presents a long unsaturated alkyl chain (C15) and a 1,2-aminoalcohol motif in an anti relationship.24 This compound was isolated from extracts obtained from the clam Spisula polynyma and exhibits a promising activity against prostate cancer.25
In a research program directed towards the total synthesis of drugs from Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts,26 we describe herein the synthesis of α-hydroxyketones and their diastereoselective transformations into anti-1,2-aminoalcohols. To exemplify the synthetic utility of this approach, we also describe the syntheses of the drugs (+/-)-bupropion and (+/-)-spisulosine.
The present work began by preparing the MBH adducts, according to a procedure previously developed in our laboratory.27 The strategy provides the corresponding adducts in good to high yields. The results are summarized in Table 1.
Initially, the Curtius rearrangement without protection of the secondary hydroxyl group was of interesting in this work. So, adduct 3 was hydrolysed in the presence of LiOH in an acetonitrile:H2O (1:1) mixture to give a hydroxyacid in almost quantitative yield (> 98%). When this acid was treated with ethyl chloroformate, extensive degradation of our starting material was observed by TLC analysis.
In an attempt to circumvent this issue, the secondary hydroxyl group of the MBH adducts was protected, before ester hydrolysis. Thus, adducts 3-12 were treated with TBSCl or TBSOTf in DMF or dichloromethane, in the presence of imidazole or triethylamine, respectively. The silylated adducts (13-22) were obtained in good to excellent yields. Soon after, ester hydrolysis was carried out with LiOH, in an acetonitrile:H2O mixture at 60 ºC to produce acids 23-32 in excellent yields. The results of these steps are summarized in Table 2.
The Curtius rearrangement was initiated using diphenylphosphoryl azide (DPPA).28 This reagent is supposed to react with a carboxylic acid to provide an isocyanate in a single step. A solution of silyl-acid 23 in toluene was therefore treated with DPPA at reflux for 20 h. Unfortunately, it was unable to isolate any isocyanate. Instead, a complete destruction of the silylated acid was observed.
Because of this result, it was decided to perform the Curtius rearrangement by using a classical experimental protocol. Thus, an acetone solution of silylated acids was treated with ethyl chloroformate in the presence of triethylamine at 0 ºC for 5 min. After that, sodium azide was added to the reaction mixture and this mixture was vigorously stirred for 2 h. The crude products were refluxed in dry toluene for 2 h to give the corresponding isocyanates, which finally were refluxed in water to furnish a set of acyloins in good overall yield (ranging from 35 to 50% for 3 steps). The results are summarized in Table 3.
Acyloins were obtained in good overall yield in three steps from Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts. The strategy is simple and requires no special conditions such as low temperature, dry solvents or special catalysts. Moreover, it uses reagents which are routinely found in organic synthesis laboratories.
The bifunctional identity (one eletrophilic group and another nucleophilic) makes acyloins an important building block in organic synthesis. They can be converted into several different functional groups, such as alcohols, diols, epoxides, amines, hydroxylamines and haloketones. This synthetic versatility explains the frequent use of acyloins as building blocks for the synthesis of pharmaceutical compounds.29
A ketone carbonyl group can be promptly transformed into an amine by a reductive amination reaction. Applications of this reaction are widespread in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical industries, and in materials science and biotechnology.30-32
Recently, Cabral et al.33 have developed a simple method to perform a reductive amination, based on in situ formation of an iminium, followed by reduction with LiBH4. Thus, this was viewed in the present work as an attractive opportunity to test this method to prepare vicinal aminoalcohols from our acyloins.
A methanol solution of 35 was treated with LiBH4 in the presence of an excess of benzylamine (3 equiv.) at -72 ºC to give aminoalcohol 46 in 83% yield and excellent 1,2-anti diastereoselectivity (97:3 d.r., anti:syn).This simple sequence has allowed the development of a highly diastereoselective synthesis of several different aminoalcohols in good yields. The results are summarized in Table 4.
For all cases examined, the vicinal aminoalcohols were obtained in good yields and with excellent diastereoselectivities. To confirm the 1,2-anti relative stereochemistry, the silyl protecting group of aminoalcohol 44 was removed by treatment with TBAF. The unprotected vicinal aminoalcohol 55 was reacted with triphosgene to afford oxazolidinone 56, in 70% yield (Scheme 2). The coupling constant between hydrogens Ha and Hb was found to be 8.2 Hz, which it is in agreement with typical coupling constants for a cis relationship in oxazolidinones formed from a 1,2-anti aminoalcohol (Scheme 2).34
The presence of a bulky protecting group on the secondary hydroxyl group might play an important role in the iminium reduction step. Most likely the hydride attack occurs at the opposite side from the protecting group. To experimentally validate this hypothesis, silylated acyloin 35 was treated with TBAF in methanol to provide acyloin 57 in 80% yield. A methanol solution of 57 at -72 ºC was treated with LiBH4 to afford aminoalcohol 58 in 70% yield and moderate diastereoselectivity (87:13 d.r.; anti:syn) (Scheme 3).
This result shows the effect of the silyl protecting group on the diastereoselectivity of the reduction step. Besides, the lithium atom could be complexed both with the nitrogen and the oxygen lone pairs (Figure 2). This arrangement allows the hydride to approach only from the less hindered side. The oxygen atom attached to the silicon of the TBS group has a low basicity, however it is still able to establish intramolecular hydrogen bonds in order to control stereoselectivities of reactions.35
The Curtius rearrangement carried out with MBH adducts has allowed the development of a new approach to prepare α-hydroxyketones, which have been used to prepare diastereoselective 1,2-anti vicinal aminoalcohols.
Searching to demonstrate the synthetic utility of these approaches, the total synthesis of two pharmacologically active compounds is now described. (±)-Bupropion (1, Figure 1) is an aminoketone acting on CNS.36 This compound is commmercialized in its racemic form, since it racemizes very quickly in the body when administered in its enantiomerically pure form. Our target compound could be prepared from acyloin 34 (Figure 3). A 1,2-carbonyl transposition reaction is required to provide 59, which can be converted uneventfully to (±)-1.37
A direct way to perform the required 1,2-carbonyl transposition was using the Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation.38 This reaction, currently used in carbohydrate chemistry, is essentially an enolization of a sugar having a hydrogen at the α-carbon to the carbonyl group and proceeds via an enediol intermediate. Some acyloins rearrange with positions exchanged under the influence of base in this transformation. To test this alternative, the TBS group of acyloin 34 was removed by treatment with TBAF in methanol for 12 h to give the corresponding unprotected acyloin in 75% yield. A methanol solution of this acyloin was reacted with a 30% solution of NaOH at room temperature. As a result, an extensive acyloin degradation was observed even at lower temperatures (-5 and -10 ºC). We also tested the Voight amination (formation of ketoamine by treatment of an acyloin with P2O5 in the presence of a primary amine), however this reaction also failed.39
Due to these results, the synthetic approach towards the synthesis of bupropion was changed. As an alternative, the required transposition could be done in three steps. Thus, carbonyl reduction of the acyloin (±)-34 directly led to a monoprotected diol (±)-60 in almost quantitative yield. TBS removal was performed in the presence of TBAF to afford diol (±)-61 in 97% yield, as a mixture of diastereoisomers. Selective benzylic oxidation of (±)-61 with IBX in DMSO expectedly led to the 1,2-carbonyl transposition product (±)-59, as the sole product, in 85% yield (3 steps, 81% overall yield, Scheme 4).
Bupropion, in its racemic version, was obtained in 7 steps from Morita-Baylis-Hillman 4, in 27% overall yield. The sequence is facile to execute and can be scaled-up without problems.
The synthetic methods described in this paper can be combined in order to synthesize spisulosine (2, Figure 1) as a racemate. This natural anti-tumoral compound can be prepared from acyloin 42, using a diastereoselective reductive amination step (Scheme 5).
The diastereoselective total synthesis of spisulosine was accomplished from acyloin (±)-42 using a very simple and direct sequence. Reductive amination of acyloin (±)-42 was performed with an excess of benzylamine to give vicinal aminoalcohol (±)-62, with high anti diastereoselectivity (> 95:5, anti:syn), in 68% yield (Scheme 6). To quickly finish the synthesis, it was only necessary to remove the protecting groups (TBS and benzyl). For thus, a solution of (±)-62 in methanol was acidified with some drops of concentrated HCl and the mixture was poured into a hydrogenating bottle containing 10% Pd on charcoal (10 mol%). To our surprise, after several hours at 60 psi, neither of the protecting groups was removed. Perhaps, the long carbon chain favoured the formation of mycelles, which could interact with the solid catalyst.
To solve this unexpected issue, a mixture of solvents for the hydrogenation reaction was used. Thus, a mixture of (±)-62 in dichloromethane:acetic acid (1.5:1) in the presence of 10% Pd/C at 60 psi and 50 ºC was shaken for 20 h to furnish the debenzylated aminoalcohol (±)-63 in 87% yield.
Finally, the TBS group of (±)-63 was removed by the treatment with concentrated HCl (0.1 mL) in a solution of dichoromethane:methanol (1:1; 1 mL) to give (±)-spisulosine (2) in 98% yield. All spectroscopic and physical data are identical to those described in literature for natural and synthetic spisulosine (Scheme 6).24,40
Spisulosine was synthetized in 7 steps from hexadecanal with an overall yield of 10%. The strategy is very simple and requires no special conditions such as low temperature or dry solvents. If the sequence begins with adduct 12 in its enantiomerically pure form, it would allow the enantioselective synthesis of spisulosine. By using this strategy, spisulosine derivatives can also be synthesized using the sequence described herein.
In summary, the Curtius rearrangement coupled with Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts as substrate has proven to be an alternative for the preparation of interesting building blocks for organic syntheses. This combination allowed the synthesis of a set of acyloins in good overall yields for three steps. Reductive amination of these acyloins gave vicinal aminoalcohols in good overall yields and with high diastereoselectivities, in favor of the 1,2-anti isomer. Moreover, we have demonstrated that these methods can be used in the synthesis of important pharmacologically active compounds. Thus, (±)-bupropion was prepared in 7 steps from a MBH adduct, in 27% overall yield. Using this strategy we also showed a highly diastereoselective total synthesis of (±)-spisulosine which was accomplished in 7 steps from hexadecanal with an overall yield of 10%.
General procedure
The 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker at 250 and 62.5 MHz, respectively, or on an Inova instrument at 500 and 125 MHz, respectively. High resolution mass (HRMS) spectra were recorded using a Q-TOF Micromass equipment (Waters, UK). Manipulations and reactions were not performed under dry atmospheres or employing dry solvents, unless otherwise specified. In those cases CH2Cl2, DMF and triethylamine were dried over CaH2 and distilled. Purification and separations by column chromatography were performed on silica gel, using normal or flash chromatography. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) was detected by spraying with 5% ethanolic phosphomolybdic acid and heating. All the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reactions were sonicated in an ultrasonic cleaner (81 W, 40 MHz).
General procedure for the synthesis of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts
A mixture of aldehyde (3-10 mmol), methyl acrylate (excess, ca. 5 equiv.) and DABCO (0.65 equiv.) was sonicated in an ultrasound bath at 30 ºC. Reaction evolution was followed by TLC analysis. For the preparation of the MBH adducts 10 and 12 the reaction was carried out using methyl acrylate (10 equiv.), ionic liquid ([bmim]BF4; 5 drops) as an additive, at 50 ºC with stirring. The excess of methyl acrylate was removed under vaccum. The crude residue was diluted in ethyl acetate (25 mL). The organic layer was washed with distilled water (15 mL), brine (2 × 15 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was purified by flash silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate:hexanes, up to 30:70) to provide the MBH adducts in good to high yields.
(±)-Methyl 2-[hydroxy(2-nitrophenyl)methyl]prop-2-enoate (3): 92% yield, pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3469, 1716, 1630, 1528, 1352; 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.94 (dd, J 1.2/8.2 Hz, 1H), 7.78 (d, 1H, J 7.9 Hz), 7.61-7.67 (m, 1H), 7.41-7.48 (m, 1H), 6.36 (s, 1H), 6.20 (s, 1H), 5.72 (s, 1H), 3.73 (s, 3H), 3.08 (s, 1H, OH); 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.3, 148.2, 140.7, 136.0, 133.4, 128.8, 128.6, 126.4, 124.5, 67.6, 52.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H11NO5[M + Na+]: 260.0529. Found: 260.0530.
(±)-Methyl 2-[(3-chlorophenyl)(hydroxy)methyl] prop-2-enoate (4): 89% yield, colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3452, 1711, 1433, 1282, 1151, 1041; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.36 (s, 1H), 7.21-7.26 (m, 3H), 6.34 (s, 1H), 5.84 (s, 1H), 5.49 (s, 1H), 3.71 (s, 3H), 3.16 (s, 1H, OH); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.6, 143.4, 141.4, 134.3, 129.7, 127.9, 126.7, 124.8, 72.6, 52.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H11O3Cl [M + Na+]: 249.0294. Found: 249.0318.
(±)-Methyl 2-[hydroxy(phenyl)methyl]prop-2-enoate (5): 75% yield, oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3448, 2949, 1711, 1446, 1270, 1155, 1041; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.21-7.37 (m, 5H), 6.31 (s, 1H), 5.86 (s, 1H), 5.52 (s, 1H), 3.65 (s, 3H), 3.45 (s, 1H, OH); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.7, 142.1, 141.4, 128.4, 127.8, 126.7, 125.8, 72.8, 51.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H12O3 [M + Na+]: 215.0684. Found: 215.0811.
(±)-Methyl 2-[hydroxy(4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]prop-2-enoate (6): 73% yield; amorphous solid; mp 70-72 ºC; IR (KBr) νmax/cm-1: 3465, 1714, 1611, 1512, 1465, 1034; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.29 (d, 2H, J 8.5 Hz), 6.87 (d, 2H, J 8.5 Hz), 6.32 (s, 1H), 5.85 (s, 1H), 5.53 (s, 1H), 3.80 (s, 3H), 3.72 (s, 3H), 2.43 (s, 1H, OH); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.8, 159.2, 142.1, 133.4, 127.9, 125.7, 113.8, 72.8, 55.2, 51.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C12H14O4 [M + Na+]: 245.0784. Found: 245.0780.
(±)-Methyl 2-[hydroxy(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl] prop-2-enoate (7): 60% yield; amorphous solid; mp 121-123 ºC; IR (KBr) νmax/cm-1: 3464, 1712, 1613, 1514, 1463, 1036; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.54 (s, 2H), 6.27 (s, 1H), 5.81 (s, 1H), 5.44 (d, 1H, J 5.0 Hz), 3.78 (s, 6H), 3.77 (s, 3H), 3.69 (s, 3H), 3.35 (d, 1H, J 5.0 Hz); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.8, 153.1, 141.9, 137.2, 137.0, 125.9, 103.5, 72.9, 60.7, 55.9, 52.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H11O3Cl [M + Na+]: 305.0996. Found: 305.0989.
(±)-Methyl 2-[hydroxy(thiophen-2-yl)methyl]prop-2-enoate (8): 90% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3445, 2952, 1715, 1632; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.21 (dd, 1H, J 2.5/3.8 Hz), 6.90-6.93 (m, 2H), 6.32 (s, 1H), 5.95 (s, 1H), 5.73 (d, 1H, J 6,2 Hz), 3.73 (d, 1H, J 6.2 Hz), 3.70 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.5, 145.8, 141.5, 126.8, 126.0, 125.2, 124.8, 69.1, 52.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C9H11O3S [M + H]+: 199.0423. Found: 199.0417.
(±)-Methyl 2-[(2-fluorophenyl)(hydroxy)methyl]prop-2-enoate (9): 95% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3437, 1721; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.42 (dt, 1H, J 1.9/7.5 Hz), 7.21-7.28 (m, 1H), 7.10 (dt, 1H, J 1.2/7.5 Hz), 6.97-7.05 (m, 1H), 6.31 (s, 1H), 5.85 (d, 1H, J 5.5 Hz), 5.76 (s, 1H), 3.69 (s, 3H), 3.62 (d, 1H, J 5.5 Hz); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.7, 160.0 (d, J 245.5 Hz), 140.9, 129.4 (d, J 8.2 Hz), 128.4, 128.1 (d, J 3.7 Hz), 126.3, 124.1 (d, J 3.5 Hz), 115.3 (d, J 21.5 Hz), 66.7, 52.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H12FO3 [M + H]+: 211.0765. Found: 211.0762.
(±)-Methyl 3-hydroxy-2-methylenepentanoate (10): 80% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3454, 2928, 2853, 1705, 1287, 1157; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.15 (s, 1H), 5.74 (s, 1H), 4.27 (q, 1H, J 5.7 Hz), 3.69 (s, 3H), 3.00 (d, 1H, J 5.7 Hz), 1.45-1.71 (m, 2H), 0.86 (t, 3H, J 7.4 Hz); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 167.0, 142.3, 124.9, 72.4, 51.7, 29.0, 9.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C7H13O3[M + H] +: 145.0859. Found: 145.0856.
(±)-Methyl 3-hydroxy-2-methylenenonanoate (11): 76% yield; amorphous solid; mp 131-132 ºC; IR (KBr) νmax/cm-1: 3452, 2929, 2855, 1707, 1290, 1155; 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.20 (s, 1H), 5.78 (s, 1H), 4.37 (t, 1H, J 6.7 Hz), 3.77 (s, 3H), 1.54-1.71 (m, 2H), 1.19-1.50 (m, 8H), 0.86 (t, 3H, J 6.7 Hz); 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ 167.0, 142.5, 124.9, 71.7, 51.8, 36.2, 31.7, 29.0, 25.7, 22.5, 14.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H21O3 [M + H]+: 201.1485. Found: 201.1483.
(±)-Methyl-3-hydroxy-2-methyleneoctadecanoate (12): 60% yield; amorphous solid; mp 43-45 ºC; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3465, 2984, 2929, 2856, 1742, 1374, 1242, 1048; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.21 (s, 1H), 5.79 (t, 1H, J 1.0 Hz), 4.37 (q, 1H, J 6.5 Hz), 3.77 (s, 3H), 2.59 (d, 1H, J 6.5 Hz), 1.55-1.70 (m, 2H), 1.18-1.50 (m, 26H), 0.87 (t, 3H, J 6.9 Hz); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 167, 142.5, 124.9, 71.8, 51.8, 36.2, 31.9, 29.7, 29.63, 29.6, 29.5, 29.4, 29.3, 25.8, 22.7, 14.1; HRMS (ESI) Calcd. for C20H39O3[M + H]+ 327.2894; Found 327.2877.
General procedure for the silylation of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts
A mixture of MBH adduct (1-3 mmol), imidazole (2.5 equiv.), TBSCl (1.5 equiv.) and a few drops of DMSO (to facilitate stirring), under argon atmosphere, was stirred at room temperature. After 2-4 h, the crude residue was diluted in ethyl acetate (25 mL). The organic layer was washed with distilled water (15 mL), brine (2 × 15 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The crude mixture was filtered through silica gel (ethyl acetate:hexanes, 30:70) to provide the silylated compounds in good to excellent yields.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](2-fluorophenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (13): 97% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2929, 2851, 1728, 1531, 1352, 1249, 1090, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.78 (d, 1H, J 8.0 Hz), 7.68 (d, 1H, J 8.0 Hz), 7.56 (t, 1H, J 7.5 Hz), 7.37 (t, 1H, J 7.5 Hz), 6.34 (s, 1H), 6.29 (s, 1H), 5.97 (s, 1H), 3.64 (s, 3H), 0.88 (s, 9H), 0.13 (s, 3H), -0.06 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 165.2, 148.2, 143.1, 137.5, 132.6, 129.6, 128.1, 125.0, 123.9, 66.7, 51.8, 25.7, 18.1, -5.1. HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H25NO5Si [M + Na+]: 374.1394. Found: 374.1389.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](3-chlorophenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (14): > 99% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2929, 2855, 1707, 1061, 841, 780; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.35 (s, 1H), 7.17-7.32 (m, 3H), 6.28 (s, 1H), 6.10 (s, 1H), 5.58 (s, 1H), 3.69 (s, 3H), 0.88 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.08 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (75.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.1, 144.8, 143.4, 133.9, 129.3, 127.5, 127.0, 125.2, 124.4, 72.1, 51.7, 25.7, 18.1, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H25ClO3Si [M + Na+]: 363.1154. Found: 363.1150.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](phenyl) methyl}prop-2-enoate (15): > 99% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2851, 1458, 1258, 1082; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.17-7.41 (m, 5H), 6.25 (s, 1H), 6.08 (s, 1H), 5.61 (s, 1H), 3.68 (s, 3H), 0.88 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.11 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.4, 143.9, 142.6, 128.0, 127.3, 127.0, 123.8, 72.7, 51.6, 25.7, 18.1, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H26O3Si [M + Na+]: 329.1543. Found: 329.1537.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy] (4-methoxyphenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (16): > 99% yield; amorphous solid; mp 112-114 ºC; IR (KBr) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2929, 2851, 1715, 1507, 1245, 1047, 833, 771; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.27 (d, 2H, J 7.0 Hz), 6.82 (d, 2H, J 7.0 Hz), 6.22 (s, 1H), 6.06 (s, 1H), 5.56 (s, 1H), 3.78 (s, 3H), 3.67 (s, 3H), 0.87 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.11 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.4, 158.8, 144.1, 134.8, 128.2, 123.3, 113.4, 72.3, 55.1, 51.6, 25.7, 18.1, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C18H28O4Si [M + Na+]: 359.1649. Found: 359.1647.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy] (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (17): 80% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2950, 2927, 2854, 1718, 1505, 1246, 1051; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.56 (s, 2H), 6.18 (t, 1H, J 1.1 Hz), 5.95 (t, 1H, J 1.5 Hz), 5.53 (s, 1H), 3.78 (s, 6H), 3.67 (s, 3H), 0.85 (s, 9H), 0.03 (s, 3H), -0.10 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.5, 152.8, 143.9, 138.3, 137.0, 123.9, 103.7, 72.4, 60.7, 55.9, ff51.6, 25.6, 18.1, -4.9, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C20H32O6Si [M + Na+]: 419.1860. Found: 419.1855.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](thiophen2-yl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (18): 90% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2954, 2930, 2857, 1723, 1632, 1256, 1082; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.18 (dd, 1H, J 5.0/1.3 Hz), 6.83-6.98 (m, 2H), 6.28 (t, 1H, J 1.1 Hz), 6.12 (t, 1H, J 1.5 Hz), 5.89 (s, 1H), 3.73 (s, 3H), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.08 (s, 3H), -0.003 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.2, 147.3, 143.5, 126.3, 124.6, 124.4, 124.2, 68.4, 51.7, 25.7, 18.2, -5.1, -5.14; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H24O3SSi [M + Na+]: 335.1108. Found: 335.1107.
(±)-Methyl 2-{[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](2-fluorophenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoate (19): 85% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 1723; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.35 (dt, 1H, J 1.5/7.5 Hz), 7.16-7.28 (m, 1H), 6.95-7.14 (m, 2H), 6.34 (s, 1H), 6.07 (s, 1H), 5.95 (s, 1H), 3.66 (s, 3H), 0.87 (s, 9H), 0.08 (s, 3H), -0.09 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.0, 159.8 (d, J 245.7 Hz), 142.7, 129.5 (d, J 13.5 Hz), 129.1, 129.0 (d, J 6.8 Hz), 128.8, 124.8, 123.9 (d, J 3.5 Hz), 115.2 (d, J 22.2 Hz), 65.8, 51.6, 25.7, 18.1, -5.2, -5.3.
(±)-Methyl 3-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-2-methylidenepentanoate (20): 85% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2930, 2845, 1721; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.20-6.23 (m, 1H), 5.86-5.89 (m, 1H), 4.50-4.59 (m, 1H), 3.74 (s, 3H), 1.35-1.75 (m, 2H), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.85 (t, 3H, J 7.4 Hz), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.8, 143.6, 124.5, 71.0, 51.6, 30.3, 25.8, 18.1, 9.0, -4.8, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H25FO3Si [M + Na+]: 347.1449 Found: 347.1445.
(±)-Methyl 3-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]2-methylidenenonanoate (21): > 99% yield; amorphous solid; mp 102-103 ºC; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2929, 2859, 1719, 1249, 1090, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.17-6.21 (m, 1H), 5.87-5.90 (m, 1H), 4.52-4.61 (m, 1H), 3.72 (s, 3H), 1.18-1.65 (m, 10H), 0.78-0.92 (m, 12H), 0.04 (s, 3H), -0.04 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.7, 144.1, 124.2, 70.2, 51.5, 37.8, 31.8, 29.1, 25.7, 24.9, 22.6, 18.1, 14.0, -4.8, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H34O3Si [M + Na+]: 337.2169. Found: 337.2168.
(±)-Methyl-3-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-2-methyleneoctadecanoate (22): 70% yield; viscous colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2926, 2855, 1722, 1463, 1257, 1092; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.19-6.21 (m, 1H), 5.90 (t, 1H, J 1.6 Hz), 4.56-4.61 (m, 1H), 3.75 (s, 3H), 1.18-1.63 (m, 28H), 0.81-0.93 (m, 12H), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 166.7, 144.2, 124.2, 70.2, 51.6, 37.9, 31.9, 29.7, 29.63, 29.6, 29.55, 29.5, 29.3, 25.8, 22.7, 18.1, 14.1, -4.8, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C26H52O3Si [M + Na]+: 463.3578. Found: 463.3572.
General procedure for hydrolysis of silylated esters
To a solution of silylated MBH adduct (1-3 mmol) in a mixture of water:acetonitrile (1:1) was added LiOH (10 equiv.). The resulting solution was stirred for 4 h at 50-60 ºC. Then, the solvents were removed under reduced pressure and the crude mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was filtered through silica gel (ethyl acetate as solvent) to provide the corresponding carboxylic acids in almost quantitative yields, for most cases > 99%.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](2-nitrophenyl) methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (23): 97% yield; viscous pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2945, 2864, 2353, 1703, 1531, 1258, 1090, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.81 (d, 1H, J 8.0 Hz), 7.71 (d, 1H, J 8.0 Hz), 7.57 (t, 1H, J 7.5 Hz), 7.38 (t, 1H, J 7.5 Hz), 6.40 (s, 1H), 6.34 (s, 1H), 6.04 (s, 1H), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.13 (s, 3H), 0.05 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 170.4, 148.1, 142.4, 137.3, 132.7, 129.5, 128.2, 127.2, 124.0, 66.6, 25.7, 18.1, -4.9; HRMS (ESITOF) Calcd. for C16H23NO5Si [M + Na+]: 360.1238. Found: 360.1237.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](3-chlorophenyl) methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (24): 99% yield; viscous colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2929, 2851, 1691, 1437, 1254, 1074, 833, 780; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.34 (s, 1H), 7.18-7.29 (m, 3H), 6.43 (s, 1H), 6.19 (s, 1H), 5.54 (s, 1H), 0.88 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.07 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 170.1, 144.4, 142.6, 134.0, 129.4, 127.7, 127.0, 125.1, 71.9, 25.7, 18.1, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C16H23O3ClSi [M + Na+]: 349.0918. Found: 349.1003.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](phenyl)methyl} prop-2-enoic acid (25): 99% yield; yellowish oil; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.20-7.41 (m, 5H), 6.39 (s, 1H), 6.13 (s, 1H), 5.58 (s, 1H), 0.88 (s, 9H), 0.07 (s, 3H), -0.07 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 169.8, 142.9, 141.9, 128.1, 127.6, 126.8, 126.4, 72.8, 25.7, 18.2, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C16H24O3Si [M + Na+]: 315.1393. Found: 315.1338.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](4-methoxyphenyl) methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (26): 98% yield; viscous colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2953, 2925, 2847, 1691, 1507, 1245, 1074, 837, 775; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.25 (d, 2H, J 7.0 Hz), 6.82 (d, 2H, J 7.0 Hz), 6.35 (s, 1H), 6.11 (s, 1H), 5.52 (s, 1H), 3.79 (s, 3H), 0.89 (s, 9H), 0.09 (s, 3H), -0.06 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ 170.1, 158.9, 143.1, 134.2, 128.1, 126.0, 113.5, 72.4, 55.2, 25.7, 18.1, -4.9, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C17H26O4Si [M + Na+]: 345.1493. Found: 345.1490.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (27): 99% yield; viscous oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2955, 2923, 2849, 1692, 1509, 1243, 1077; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.58 (s, 2H), 6.37 (s, 1H), 6.08 (s, 1H), 5.53 (s, 1H), 3.81 (s, 9H), 0.89 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.05 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 170.9, 152.8, 143.3, 137.9, 137.1, 126.4, 103.7, 72.3, 60.8, 56.0, 25.7, 18.2, -4.9, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C19H30O6Si [M + Na+]: 405.1709. Found: 405.1566.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](thiophen-3-yl) methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (28): 99% yield; viscous colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2959, 2931, 2857, 1691, 1459, 1259, 1074, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.20 (dd, 1H, J 5.0/1.3 Hz), 6.85-6.97 (m, 2H), 6.45 (t, 1H, J 1.0 Hz), 6.23 (t, 1H, J 1.3 Hz), 5.87 (s, 1H), 0.92 (s, 9H), 0.10 (s, 3H), 0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 170.8, 146.9, 142.8, 126.9, 126.4, 124.8, 124.5, 68.3, 25.7, 18.2, -5.1, -5.14; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C14O3H22SSi [M + Na+]: 321.0957. Found: 321.0883.
(±)-2-{[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy](2-fluorophenyl) methyl}prop-2-enoic acid (29): 99% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2951, 2928, 2850, 1692, 1072, 832, 782; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 10.44 (s, 1H, COOH), 7.34 (dt, 1H, J 1.8/7.5 Hz), 7.18-7.29 (m, 1H), 6.95-7.15 (m, 2H), 6.47 (s, 1H), 6.16 (s, 1H), 5.92 (s, 1H), 0.87 (s, 9H), 0.09 (s, 3H), -0.08 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 171.0, 159.8 (d, J 246.1 Hz), 142.1, 129.3 (d, J 3.0 Hz), 129.1 (d, J 2.1 Hz), 128.8 (d, J 3.8 Hz), 127.3, 123.9 (d, J 3.5 Hz), 115.3 (d, J 22.0 Hz), 65.7, 51.6, 25.7, 18.1, -5.2, -5.24; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C16H23O3FSi [M + Na+]: 333.1298. Found: 333.1207.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-2-methylidenepentanoic acid (30): fluid oil; 99% yield; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2923, 2854, 1691, 1253, 1084; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 11.60 (s, 1H, COOH), 6.41 (d, 1H, J 1.2 Hz), 6.00 (t, 1H, J 1.5 Hz), 4.55 (t, 1H, J 5.4 Hz), 1.41-1.80 (m, 2H), 0.78-1.00 (m, 12H), 0.08 (s, 3H), 0.01 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 171.6, 142.9, 127.2, 71.2, 30.3, 29.1, 25.7, 18.1, 9.1, -4.9, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C12H24O3Si [M + H+]: 245.1573. Found: 245.1554.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-2-methylidenenonanoic acid (31): 98% yield; fluid oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2925, 2859, 1691, 1254, 1086, 833, 649; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.37 (s, 1H), 5.92 (s, 1H), 4.51-4.59 (m, 1H), 1.20-1.40 (m, 10H), 0.82-0.93 (m, 12H), 0.08 (s, 3H), 0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3), δ: 170.6, 142.9, 126.9, 71.2, 37.7, 31.7, 29.1, 25.7, 25.0, 22.6, 18.1, 14.1, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C16H32O3Si [M + H+]: 301.2199. Found: 301.2232.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-2-methyleneoctadecanoic acid (32): 99% yield; white solid; mp 45-47 ºC; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2918, 2851, 1681, 1623, 1472, 1090, 838; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.34-6.36 (m, 1H), 5.86-5.88 (m, 1H), 4.53 (t, 1H, J 5.6 Hz), 1.45-1.63 (m, 2H), 1.18-1.39 (m, 26H), 0.83-0.93 (m, 12H), 0.1 (s, 3H), 0.03 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 169.7, 142.5, 126.8, 71.8, 37.6, 31.9, 29.7, 29.64, 29.6, 29.5, 29.5, 29.4, 29.3, 25.8, 25.1, 22.7, 18.1, 14.1, -4.8, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C25H50O3Si [M + H]+: 427.3607. Found: 427.3599.
General procedure for the preparation of α-hydroxyketones (acyloins)
To a stirred 0.2 mol L-1 solution of carboxylic acid in acetone at 0 ºC was added triethylamine (2 equiv.) and ethyl chloroformate (1.5 equiv.). The mixture was stirred at 0 ºC and carbonate formation was observed by TLC after 5 min. After that, NaN3 was added (2.5 equiv.). The resulting mixture was vigorously stirred for 2 h until the formation of a slightly apolar layer (acylazide formation). Then, the crude mixture was diluted in cold dichloromethane and washed with cold water. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. To this crude material, under an argon atmosphere, dry toluene (0.1 mol L-1) was added and the mixture was refluxed for 2 h. The solvent was then removed under reduced pressure and the resulting product was diluted in water. The mixture was refluxed for 12 h. Then, the reaction mixture was coolled to room temperature and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was purified by flash silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate:hexanes, up to 25:75) to provide the required acyloins. Yields refer to 3 steps from MBH adducts.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(2-nitrophenyl) propan-2-one (33): 46% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film)νmax/cm-1: 2953, 2933, 2851, 1728, 1527, 1343, 1254, 1102, 833; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.97-8.03 (m, 1H), 7.58-7.77 (m, 2H), 7.42-7.51 (m, 1H), 5.72 (s, 1H), 2.31 (s, 3H), 0.91 (s, 9H), 0.16 (s, 3H), -0.07 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 205.8, 147.7, 135.0, 133.2, 129.2, 128.8, 124.8, 26.3, 25.6, 18.1, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H23O4NSi [M + H+]: 310.1475. Found: 310.1600.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3-chlorophenyl) propan-2-one (34): 45% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2953, 2929, 2864, 1719, 1470, 1258, 1111, 775; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.43 (s, 1H), 7.23-7.33 (m, 3H), 5.00 (s, 1H), 2.12 (s, 3H), 0.96 (s, 9H), 0.09 (s, 3H), 0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 208.5, 140.7, 134.5, 129.8, 128.2, 125.9, 123.9, 80.6, 25.7, 23.9, 18.2, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H23O2ClSi [M + Na+]: 321.1053. Found: 321.1056
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-phenylpropan-2-one (35): 50% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2929, 2855, 1711, 1258, 1102, 865, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.25-7.45 (m, 5H), 5.04 (s, 1H), 2.11 (s, 3H), 0.96 (s, 9H), 0.10 (s, 3H), 0.01 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ 209.1, 199.5, 138.6, 128.5, 128.0, 125.8, 81.2, 25.7, 23.9, 18.2, -4.9, -5.2; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H24O2Si [M + H+]: 265.1624. Found: 265.1685.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(4-methoxyphenyl)propan-2-one (36): 48% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2855, 1715, 1511, 1090, 841, 784; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.30 (d, 2H, J 6.7 Hz), 6.87 (d, 2H, J 6.7 Hz), 4.99 (s, 1H), 3.80 (s, 3H), 2.11 (s, 3H), 0.94 (s, 9H), 0.08 (s, 3H), -0.01 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 209.2, 159.4, 130.7, 127.1, 113.9, 80.8, 55.2, 25.7, 23.8, 18.2, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C16H26O3Si [M + Na+]: 317.1549. Found: 317.1505.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)propan-2-one (37): 42% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2947, 2853, 1714, 1512, 1089, 843; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.65 (s, 2H), 4.95 (s, 1H), 3.75-3.88 (m, 9H), 2.10 (s, 3H), 0.95 (s, 9H), 0.07 (s, 3H), 0.03 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 208.8, 153.3, 137.5, 134.0, 102.4, 80.9, 60.8, 56.0, 25.7, 23.7, 18.2, -4.9, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C18H30O5Si [M + Na+]: 377.1760. Found: 377.1657.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(thiophen-2-yl) propan-2-one (38): 44% yield; pale yellow oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2949, 2851, 1712, 1091; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.22-7.28 (m, 1H), 6.96-7.01 (m, 2H), 5.24 (s, 1H), 2.20 (s, 3H), 0.95 (s, 9H), 0.10 (s, 3H), 0.05 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 207.7, 153.3, 142.6, 127.1, 125.2, 124.3, 77.8, 25.6, 23.7, 18.2, -5.1, -5.2; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C13H22O2SSi [M + Na+]: 293.1007. Found: 293.0922.
(±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(2-fluorophenyl) propan-2-one (39): 41% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2951, 1720, 1471, 1256, 1109; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.47 (dt, 1H, J 1.8/7.5 Hz), 7.23-7.35 (m, 1H), 7.15 (dt, 1H, J 1.2/7.5 Hz), 7.00-7.09 (m, 1H), 5.34 (s, 1H), 2.18 (s, 3H), 0.92 (s, 9H), 0.11 (s, 3H), -0.05 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 207.1, 159.8 (d, J 245.4 Hz), 129.8 (d, J 8.1 Hz), 128.2 (d, J 3.8 Hz), 126.6 (d, J 14.3 Hz), 124.3 (d, J 3.5 Hz), 115.4 (d, J 21.5 Hz), 74.9, 25.6, 24.9, 18.1, -5.1, -5.2; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H23O2FSi [M + Na+]: 305.1349. Found: 305.1284.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]pentan-2-one (40): 46% yield; colorless oil; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.90 (dd, 1H, J 5.6/6.5 Hz), 2.13 (s, 3H), 1.50-1.71 (m, 2H), 0.77-0.93 (m, 12H), 0.04 (s, 3H), 0.03 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 212.5, 79.9, 27.8, 25.3, 18.0, 9.1, -5.0, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C11H24O2Si [M + H+]: 217.1624. Found: 217.1608.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]nonan-2-one (41): 42% yield; pale yellow oil; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.92-4.03 (m, 1H), 2.15 (s, 3H), 1.18-1.45 (m, 10H), 0.82-1.09 (m, 12H), 0.05 (s, 6H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 212.8, 79.0, 34.8, 31.7, 29.2, 25.7, 25.2, 24.7, 22.6, 18.1, 14.1, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H32O2Si [M + Na+]: 295.4887. Found: 295.4849.
(±)-3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]octadecan-2-one (42): 40% yield; colorless viscous oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2926, 2855, 1719, 1465, 1253, 1104; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.97 (dd, 1H, J 5.3/6.9 Hz), 2.15 (s, 3H), 1.46-1.55 (m, 2H), 1.17-1.40 (m, 26H), 0.83-0.97 (m, 12H), 0.06 (s, 3H), 0.05 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 212.7, 79.0, 34.8, 31.9, 29.7, 29.64, 29.6, 29.5, 29.4, 29.3, 25.7, 25.2, 24.7, 22.7, 18.1, 14.1, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C24H50O2Si [M + Na+]: 421.3478. Found: 421.3453.
General procedure for the diastereoselective preparation of vicinal alcohols
To a 0.2 mol L-1 methanolic solution of acyloins was added an amine (3 equiv.). The resulting solution was vigorously stirred at room temperature for 1 h. After, the solution was cooled to -78 ºC and LiBH4 (1.2 equiv.) was added. The mixture was then warmed to room temperature and stirred for 12 h. Then, the medium was diluted with ethyl acetate (15 mL) and the organic phase was washed with water (5 × 7 mL), brine (10 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was purified through silica gel (solvent: hexanes:ethyl acetate, up to 65:35) to provide the corresponding vicinal aminoalcohols, in good yields and in high diastereoselectivities.
(±)-1,2-anti-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3-chlorophenyl)propan-2-yl](2-phenylethyl)amine (43): 79% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2955, 2929, 2857, 1471, 1254, 1075, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.08-7.32 (m, 9H), 4.55 (d, 1H, J 4.7 Hz), 2.62-2.99 (m, 5H), 0.98 (d, 3H, J 6.4 Hz), 0.86 (s, 9H), -0.003 (s, 3H), -0.20 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 145.1, 139.9, 133.9, 129.2, 128.6, 128.4, 127.3, 126.8, 126.1, 124.8, 77.0, 59.7, 48.6, 36.5, 25.8, 18.1, 14.9, -4.6, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C23H34ClNOSi [M + H+]: 404.2177. Found: 404.1996.
(±)-1,2-anti-Benzyl-[1-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3-chlorophenyl)propan-2-yl]amine (44): 77% yield; yellowish oil. IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2929, 2857, 1471, 1255, 1075, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.12-7.37 (m, 9H), 4.63 (d, 1H, J 4.8 Hz), 3.82 (d, 1H, J 13.5 Hz), 3.71 (d, 1H, J 13.5 Hz), 2.77 (dq, 1H, J 4.8/6.4 Hz), 1.02 (d, 3H, J 6.4 Hz), 0.89 (s, 9H), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.16 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 145.2, 140.4, 133.9, 129.2, 128.3, 127.8, 127.3, 127.0, 126.8, 125.0, 77.1, 58.6, 51.0, 25.8, 18.1, 15.1, -4.6, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C22H32ONClSi [M + H+]: 390.2020. Found: 370.1797.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]1-phenylpropan-2-yl}(2-phenylethyl)amine (45): 85% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2928, 2857, 1453, 1255, 1063, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.09-7.32 (m, 10H), 4.58 (d, 1H, J 5.0 Hz), 2.61-2.99 (m, 5H), 1.02 (d, 3H, J 6.4 Hz), 0.86 (s, 9H), -0.001 (s, 3H), -0.22 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 142.9, 140.0, 128.6, 128.4, 127.9, 127.1, 126.7, 126.0, 77.6, 59.8, 48.7, 36.6, 25.8, 18.1, 15.1, -4.6, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C23H35ONSi [M + H+]: 370.2566. Found: 370.2747.
(±)-1,2-anti-Benzyl({1-[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-phenylpropan-2-yl})amine (46): 83% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2956, 2929, 2857, 1493, 1254, 1063, 1028, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.12-7.38 (m, 10H), 4.64 (d, 1H, J 5.1 Hz), 3.81 (d, 1H, J 13.5 Hz), 3.72 (d, 1H, J 13.5 Hz), 2.80 (dq, 1H, J5.1/6.4 Hz), 1.05 (d, 3H, J 6.4 Hz), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.18 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 142.9, 140.6, 128.3, 127.9, 127.8, 127.1, 126.9, 126.7, 77.8, 58.7, 51.0, 25.8, 18.2, 15.4, -4.5, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C22H33ONSi [M + H+]: 356.2410. Found: 356.2561.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-phenylpropan-2-yl}(prop-2-en-1-yl)amine (47): 82% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2956, 2929, 2857, 1471, 1255, 1063, 867, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.17-7.42 (m, 5H), 5.73-5.95 (m, 1H), 5.00-5.21 (m, 2H), 4.65 (d, 1H, J 4.8 Hz), 3.12-3.39 (m, 2H), 2.80 (dq, 1H, J 4.8/6.4 Hz), 0.99 (d, 3H, J 6.4 Hz), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.19 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 142.9, 137.0, 128.3, 127.9, 127.1, 126.7, 115.4, 77.3, 58.9, 49.6, 25.8, 18.2, 14.9, -4.5, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C18H31ONSi [M + H+]: 306.2253. Found: 306.2394.
(±)-1,2-anti-N-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-phenylpropan-2-yl}cyclohexanamine (48): 80% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2928, 2855, 1451, 1255, 1066, 862, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.15-7.40 (m, 5H), 4.61 (d, 1H, J 4.7 Hz), 2.89 (dq, 1H, J4.7/6.3 Hz), 2.41-2.60 (m, 1H), 1.50-1.92 (m, 6H), 1.09-1.35 (m, 4H), 0.97 (d, 3H, J 6.3 Hz), 0.90 (s, 9H), 0.04 (s, 3H), -0.20 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 143.3, 127.8, 127.0, 77.5, 55.8, 52.9, 34.1, 33.1, 26.2, 25.6, 25.0, 24.9, 18.2, 15.5, -4.5, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C21H37ONSi [M + H+]: 348.2723. Found: 348.2834.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)propan-2-yl}(2-phenylethyl) amine (49): 81% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2933, 1592, 1455, 1321, 1128, 836, 776; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.05-7.27 (m, 5H), 6.48 (s, 2H), 4.45 (d, 1H, J 5.4 Hz), 3.84 (s, 3H), 3.81 (s, 6H), 2.62-3.00 (m, 5H), 1.05 (d, 3H, J 6.1 Hz), 0.86 (s, 9H), 0.01 (s, 3H), -0.19 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 152.8, 139.8, 138.6, 136.8, 128.5, 128.4, 126.1, 103.4, 77.9, 60.9, 59.9, 56.0, 48.6, 36.4, 25.8, 18.1, 15.3, -4.5, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C26H41O4NSi [M + H+]: 460.2805. Found: 460.2871.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)propan-2-yl}(prop-2-en-1-yl)amine (50): 80% yield; colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2930, 2857, 1592, 1420, 1330, 1130, 869, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 6.54 (s, 2H), 5.75-5.92 (m, 1H), 5.01-5.17 (m, 2H), 4.55 (d, 1H, J 5.0 Hz), 3.84 (s, 9H), 3.10-3.37 (m, 2H), 2.80 (dq, 1H, J 5.0/6.3 Hz), 1.03 (d, 3H, J 6.3 Hz), 0.91 (s, 9H), 0.06 (s, 3H), -0.14 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 152.8, 138.7, 136.9, 136.8, 115.4, 103.4, 77.6, 60.9, 59.0, 56.0, 49.6, 25.8, 18.2, 15.1, -4.5, -5.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C21H37O4NSi [M + H+]: 396.2570. Found: 396.2693.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(thiophen-2-yl)propan-2-yl}(2-phenylethyl)amine (51): 82% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2955, 2929, 2857, 1471, 1253, 1075, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.09-7.27 (m, 6H), 6.80-6.93 (m, 2H), 4.76 (d, J 5.6 Hz, 1H), 2.63-2.99 (m, 5H), 1.08 (d, 3H, J 6.3 Hz), 0.85 (s, 9H), 0.02 (s, 3H), -0.15 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 146.9, 140.0, 128.6, 128.4, 126.002, 126.0, 124.5, 124.3, 74.7, 60.1, 48.7, 36.5, 25.7, 18.1, 15.9, -4.6, -5.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C21H33ONSSi [M + H+]: 376.2130. Found: 376.2141.
(±)-1,2-anti-{1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(2-fluorophenyl)propan-2-yl}(2-phenylethyl)amine (52): 78% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2857, 1486, 1254, 1033, 837; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.43 (dt, 1H, J1 1.8, J2 7.5 Hz), 7.05-7.35 (m, 8H), 6.90-7.01 (m, 1H), 5.07 (d, 1H, J 3.9 Hz), 2.62-2.99 (m, 5H), 0.97 (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz), 0.87 (s, 9H), 0.02 (s, 3H), 0.01 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 159.4 (d, J 242.8 Hz), 140.2, 130.0 (d, J 13.3 Hz), 128.8 (m, C-Ar), 128.4 (m, C-Ar), 126.0, 123.7 (d, J 3.4 Hz), 114.8 (d, J 22.0 Hz), 70.0, 58.3, 48.7, 36.7, 25.8, 18.1, 14.8, -4.8, -5.2; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C23H34ONFSi [M + H+]: 388.2472. Found: 388.2512.
(±)-1,2-anti-{3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]pentan2-yl}(2-phenylethyl)amine (53): 73% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2958, 2930, 2857, 1470, 1254, 1007, 835; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.12-7.37 (m, 5H), 3.49-3.60 (m, 1H), 2.60-2.99 (m, 5H), 1.38-1.52 (m, 2H), 0.98 (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz), 0.78-0.90 (m, 12H), 0.03 (s, 3H), -0.01 (s, 3H); 13C RMN (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 140.2, 128.7, 128.4, 126.1, 76.6, 56.9, 49.3, 36.9, 25.8, 25.3, 18.0, 15.0, 10.4, -4.4, -4.5; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C19H35ONSi [M + H+]: 322.2566. Found: 322.2550.
(±)-1,2-anti-{3-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]pentan-2-yl}(decyl)amine (54): 71% yield; yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2958, 2928, 2855, 1463, 1254, 836; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.50-3.61 (m, 1H), 2.54-2.71 (m, 2H), 2.38-2.51 (m, 1H), 1.38-1.60 (m, 6H), 1.26 (br, 16H), 0.96 (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz), 0.81-0.91 (m, 12H), 0.05 (s, 6H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 76.6, 56.9, 47.8, 31.9, 30.4, 29.6, 29.5, 29.3, 27.5, 25.8, 25.2, 22.6, 18.1, 15.1, 14.1, 10.5, -4.4, -4.42; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C21H47NOSi[M + H+]: 358.3505. Found: 358.3428.
Synthesis of (±)-1-[(tert-Butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1-(3-chlorophenyl)propan-2-ol (60)
To a solution of acyloin 34 (170 mg, 0.57 mmol) in anhydrous methanol (10 mL), under argon atmosphere and at 0 ºC was added NaBH4 (108.3 mg, 2.85 mmol). The resulting mixture was stirred for 10 min, after that 1 mL of water was added and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The residue was diluted with ethyl acetate (15 mL) and the organic phase was washed with brine (5 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum to provide the alcohol 60, in almost quantitative yield. Thus, it was used to the next step without purification. Colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3448, 2949, 2933, 2851, 1462, 1254, 1070, 833, 775; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ (mixture of diastereomers) 7.12-7.35 (m, 6H), 4.52 (d, J 4.7 Hz, Ha'), 4.28 (d, J 6.5 Hz, Ha), 3.80 (q, J 4.7 Hz, Hb'), 3.70 (q, J 6.5 Hz, Hb), 2.36 (s, 1H), 1.06 (d3H,, J 6.5 Hz, CH3'), 1.00, (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz, CH3), 0.89 (s, 9H), 0.05 (s, 3H), -0.12 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (75.4 MHz, CDCl3): δ (diastereomeric mixture) 143.7, 143.3, 134.1, 133.9, 129.5, 129.3, 127.9, 127.7, 127.1, 125.2, 125.1, 80.0, 78.2, 72.4, 71.9, 25.8, 18.2, 18.1, 17.9, 17.6, -4.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C15H25ClO2Si [M + H+]: 301.1391. Found: 301.1577.
Synthesis of (±)-1-(3-chlorophenyl)propane-1,2-diol (61)
To a solution of alcohol (±)-60 (100 mg, 0.34 mmol) in THF (6 mL) at 0º C was added a solution of TBAF (0.41 mL, 1 mol L-1 in toluene). The mixture was stirred for 5 min and was warmed to room temperature. After 2 h, a mixture of water (5 mL) and ethyl acetate (15 mL) was added to the reaction medium. The organic phase was separated, washed with brine (5 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was filtered through silica gel (solvent: ethyl acetate) to provide the diol (±)-61, in 97% yield. Colorless oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3395, 2978, 2876, 1569, 1426, 1082, 1037, 780, 694; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ (diastereomeric mixture) 7.16-7.39 (m, 6H), 4.67 (d, J 4.0 Hz, Ha'), 4.33 (d, J 7.1 Hz, Ha), 3.92-4.07 (m, Hb'), 3.81 (q, J 7.1 Hz, Hb), 2.62 (s, 3H, OH), 1.00-1.13 (m, 5H, CH3); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ (diastereomeric mixture) 143.1, 142.4, 134.4, 129.7, 129.5, 128.2, 127.8, 127.0, 126.7, 125.1, 124.8, 78.6, 77.2, 71.9, 71.0, 18.7, 16.9; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C9H11O2Cl [M + Na+]: 209.6252. Found: 209.6223.
Synthesis of (±)-1-(3-chlorophenyl)-2-hydroxypropan-1-one (59)
To a solution of diol (±)-61 (70 mg, 0.38 mmol) in DMSO (1 mL) was slowly added 45% IBX (236.4 mg, 0.38 mmol) at room temperature. Caution: addition time 15 h, faster addition will give a diketone product. The mixture was stirred for 30 h. After that, the reaction medium was diluted with water (5 mL) and ethyl acetate (15 mL). The organic phase was separated, washed with brine (5 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (solvent: hexanes:ethyl acetate, up to 60:40) to provide the acyloin (±)-59, in 85% yield. Yellowish oil; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3436, 2982, 2921, 2843, 1687, 1569, 1262, 1123, 1070, 1033, 739; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.91 (s, 1H), 7.77-7.82 (m, 1H), 7.57-7.62 (m, 1H), 7.46 (t, 1H, J 7.9 Hz), 5.12 (q, 1H, J 7.0 Hz, CH), 1.45 (d, 3H, J 7.0 Hz, CH3); 13C NMR (75.4 MHz, CDCl3): δ 201.3, 135.3, 134.9, 133.9, 130.2, 128.7, 126.6, 77.2, 69.5, 22.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C9H9O2Cl [M + Na+]: 207.6093. Found: 207.6075.
Synthesis of (±)-2-(tert-butylamino)-1-(3-chlorophenyl) propan-1-one (bupropion) (1)
To a solution of acyloin (±)-59 (30 mg, 0.16 mmol) in 3 mL of anhydrous CH2Cl2, at -78 ˚C, was added triflic anhydride (50 mg, 0.177 mmol, 29.81 µL) and 2,6-lutidine (26 mg, 0.24 mmol, 28.26 µL). The resulting mixture was cooled to -40 ºC and stirred for 30 min. After that, the organic phase was washed with brine (5 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was immediately dissolved in dry CH2Cl2 and the solution was cooled to -40 ºC. Then tert-butylamine (29.6 mg, 0.41 mmol, 42.5 µL) was added. The mixture was stirred for 2 h at -40 ºC, warmed to 0 ºC and kept at this final temperature for 12 h. After, the reaction medium was diluted with dichloromethane (10 mL). The organic phase was separated, washed with sodium bicarbonate (5 mL), water (5 mL), brine (5 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The residue was purified through silica gel (solvent: hexanes:ethyl acetate, up to 60:40) to provide (±)-1 as a white solid, in 75% yield; mp 233-234 ºC (as hydrochloride;41 233-234 ºC); 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.83-7.90 (m, 1H), 8.03-8.11 (m, 1H), 7.97-7.99 (m, 1H), 6.11 (q, 1H, J 7.0 Hz, CH), 4.65 (s, 1H, NH), 1.67 (t, 3H, J 7.0 Hz, CH3), 1.44 (s, 9H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 195.7, 136.0, 135.2, 133.5, 130.1, 128.6, 126.5, 71.9, 58.1, 30.3, 17.0; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C13H18OClN [M + Na+]: 262.7309. Found: 262.7299.
Synthesis of (±) -1,2 -anti-benzyl({3 -[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]octadecan-2-yl})amine (62)
To a stirred mixture of acyloin (±)-42 (0.2 g, 0.502 mmol) and molecular sieves (4 Å) in anhydrous dichloromethane (3 mL), under an argon atmosphere, was added distilled benzylamine (0.268 g, 0.27 mL, 2.51 mmol). The resulting mixture was kept at 40 ºC for 7 h. Then, the reaction was cooled to 0 ºC and NaBH3CN (0.038 g, 0.6 mmol) was added in three small portions at 40 min. intervals. The reaction was warmed to room temperature and stirred for 12 h. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure and the residue was dissolved with ethyl acetate. The organic phase was filtered, washed with distilled water (3 × 10 mL), brine (15 mL), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and evaporated. The crude residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate:hexane, 25:75) to provide anti aminoalcohol 62 (0.19 g), as a viscous colorless oil, in 70% yield; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 2925, 2854, 1463, 1254, 1030; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 7.22-7.32 (m, 5H), 3.89 (d, 1H, J 13.2 Hz), 3.67 (d, 1H, J 13.2 Hz), 3.54 (q, 1H, J 4.6 Hz), 2.69 (q, 1H, J 6.0 Hz), 1.32-1.48 (m, 2H), 1.17-1.35 (m, 26H), 1.02 (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz), 0.82-0.92 (m, 12H), 0.04 (s, 3H), -0.02 (s, 3H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 140.6, 128.3, 128.14, 128.1, 126.8, 75.4, 56.3, 51.5, 32.1, 31.9, 29.8, 29.7, 29.65, 29.6, 29.4, 26.1, 25.9, 22.7, 18.1, 15.2, 14.1, -4.3, -4.4; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C31H59NOSi [M + H]+: 490.4439. Found: 490.4434.
Synthesis of (±)-1,2-anti-[(2-aminooctadecan-3-yl)oxy] (tert-butyl)dimethylsilane (63)
To a stirred solution of aminoalcohol (±)-62 (0.025 g, 0.05 mmol) in a mixture of dichloromethane (1.5 mL) and acetic acid (1.0 mL) was added 10% Pd/C (0.006 g). The resulting suspension was purged twice with hydrogen gas and kept under a hydrogen atmosphere. Then, the reaction was warmed at 50 ºC and stirred for 20 h under hydrogen atmosphere. After that time, the reaction mixture was diluted with dichloromethane (10 mL) and the organic phase was washed with a saturated solution of NaHCO3 (8 mL), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and evaporated. The crude residue was filtered over a plug of silica gel (dichloromethane:methanol, 97:3, as eluent) to provide silylated aminoalcohol (±)-63 (0.018 g), as a viscous colorless oil, in 90% yield; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3409, 2926, 2855, 1682, 1465, 1255, 1084; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.45-3.60 (m, 1H), 2.85-2.99 (m, 1H), 1.10-1.45 (m, 28H), 1.01 (d, 3H, J 6.6 Hz), 0.80-0.91 (m, 12H), 0.0-0.10 (m, 6H); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 77.2, 56.3, 50.8, 31.9, 31.6, 29.8, 29.7, 29.6, 29.3, 25.9, 25.7, 22.7, 18.1, 17.9, 14.1, -4.3, -4.4; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C24H53NOSi [M + H]+: 400.3964. Found: 400.3960.
Synthesis of (±)-1,2-anti-2-aminooctadecan-3-ol (spisulosine) (2)
To a stirred solution of aminoalcohol (±)-63 (0.01 g,0.025 mmol) in a mixture of dichloromethane (0.5 mL) and methanol (0.5 mL) was added a solution of concentrated hydrochloric acid (0.1 mL). The resulting mixture was warmed to 50 ºC and stirred for 20 h. Then, the solvents were removed under reduced pressure and the residue was dissolved in dichloromethane (5 mL). To the stirred organic phase was added a saturated sodium bicarbonate solution (5 mL) and the resulting mixture was vigorously stirred for 30 min. The organic phase was separated, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and removed under reduced pressure. The crude residue was filtered over a plug of Florisil® to provide (±)-spisulosine (1, 7 mg), as a white solid, in 98% yield; mp 58-59 ºC; IR (film) νmax/cm-1: 3348, 3297, 2955, 2919, 2851, 1607, 1471; 1H NMR (250 MHz, CDCl3): δ 3.39-3.47 (m, 1H), 2.88-3.06 (m, 1H), 1.64-1.88 (bs, 3H), 1.20-1.40 (m, 28H), 1.01 (d, 3H, J 6.5 Hz), 0.88 (t, 3H, J 7.0 Hz); 13C NMR (62.5 MHz, CDCl3): δ 74.7, 50.3, 32.4, 31.9, 29.8, 29.7, 29.6, 29.3, 26.2, 22.7, 16.8, 14.1; HRMS (ESI TOF) Calcd. for C18H40NO [M + H]+: 286.3110; Found 286.3088.
All the spectra of the synthesized compounds in this paper are available as supplementary file and are free of charge at http/jbcs.sbq.org.br as pdf file.
Authors thank Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) for financial support. G. W. A. and M. C. thank FAPESP for fellowships. The authors are grateful to Prof. C. H. Collins for English revision of this text.
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Submitted: February 8, 2011
Published online: May 17, 2011
FAPESP has sponsored the publication of this article.
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The 1H and 13C spectra were recorded on Bruker at 250 MHz and 62.5 MHz respectively. The 1H and 13C spectra were also recorded on Inova instrument at 500 MHz and 125 MHz, respectively. The high resolution mass spectra were recorded using a Q-TOF Micromass equipment (Waters, UK).
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Campagne closed a year ago to reopen as Marché last fall, with only middling success. On the bright side: The expanded bar is quite a good place to meet a friend for wine, outstanding pomme frites ($5) and a slab of chunky pork hock terrine ($8) dotted with pistachios and served on a wood plank.
Pulled-Pork Pizza
I have an old friend who insists that a pizza with anything fancy, anything beyond pepperoni and cheese, is “lasagna.” His head would surely explode if confronted with the awesome pulled-pork pizza at The Flying Squirrel: piled high with tender braised pork hunks, sprinkled with fresh cilantro and Cotija cheese, a few ribbons of red onion and then, right before it comes to the
Build Your Own Soup at King Noodle
If you’re a menu customizer—always asking for this or that on the side, extra veggies and such—get thee to King Noodle, stat! You’ll be presented with a two-sided menu to fill in: a choice of noodles (I like the chewy egg noodles and the wontons) and of broth (the chicken is delicious, but you can opt for spicy broth—another great option—fish broth or other selections).
Hestia Cellars
Hestia, the Greek goddess of hearth and home, is a fitting symbol for Hestia Cellars. Winemaker and owner Shannon Jones came up with the name to honor the strong ties to Greece on his mother’s side of the family and the celebrations of his youth, complete with roasted lamb, wine and dancing.
Chino's on Capitol Hill
STREET TIKI
Reuse, Recyle, Retreat!
Looking out the bus window on her commute into work at King County Parks’ downtown Seattle headquarters, Sujata Goel kept noticing more and more shipping containers piling up on the outskirts of the city’s sprawling port complex.
Does Seattle Need to Go to Transportation Fat Camp?
I came across an ad in The Seattle Times from 1962 touting the advantages of going to Portland by train instead of car. “More fun and a lot safer,” reads the ad.
Crime Central: Can Belltown Make a Comeback?
When Tim Gaydos takes visitors on a walking tour of Belltown, where he lives with his wife and two small children, he’s always a half-step ahead at a pace that can leave an out-of-shape companion gasping.
Hunting the Wild Stinging Nettle
Imagine our early hominid ancestors exploring outside the cave after a long, cold winter and enough jerked mammoth to convert the first vegetarians. The snow has melted, yet the ground is still brown—except for those fetching emerald shoots down by the river. Craving fresh greens, the hominids rush to pick these first signs of spring. But wait!
The Ladies Behind BroVo's "Lady-Made" Liquor
With backgrounds in marketing and sales, Mhairi Voelsgen and Erin Brophy may not be your typical team of craft distillers, but then, their self-described “lady-made liquor” is not your usual Jack-and-Coke happy-hour drink.
Goodies Made with Green Tea
HIROKI
Seattle's German Food Invasion
Seattle’s German-pub-loving Chris Navarra—owner of popular bier destinations Feierabend and Prost!—is in good company these days. German hot spots are cropping up all over town, saving you a trek to Leavenworth (or Berlin) for German grub.
Greenwood's Made Sewing Studio
Sewing shouldn’t be just for pros—or just for those who own fancy equipment. So say the creators of Made, a fully equipped sewing studio and retail space in Greenwood (8408 Greenwood Ave. N; 206.552.9632; madesewing.com).
Burn Design Lab's Eco Stoves
In a design studio on Vashon Island, Peter Scott is cooking up solutions to big problems. His company, Burn Design Lab, is on a mission to reduce global warming and respiratory illness by creating highly efficient and affordable stoves that can replace the open-fire cooking pits used in developing countries.
Personalized Pillows from PillowMob
Forget Photoshop: If you can’t be there for family photos at the reunion this summer, send a head-size pillow with your face on it instead. Open since August and headquartered on Capitol Hill, PillowMob puts a high-res image of your lovely mug on a circular- or oval-shaped pillow ($25, includes shipping), sewn on-site.
A Real Tricorder on the Horizon?
Proving once again that science fiction can generate science fact (given enough time and money), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently partnered with Grand Challenges Canada (a nonprofit health organization) to pony up $38.5 million to fund the invention of a health diagnostic tool not unlike Dr.
Jean Griffith, Seattle’s Patron Saint of Pottery
If you’ve ever considered taking a pottery class, heed this gentle warning from local clay maven Jean Griffith: “All you have to do is touch it and you’re hooked.”
Bird Lovers: Head to Sequim this Spring
WHERE: Sequim, Washington.
Real Estate: Three Seattle Craftsman Homes
Craftsman homes first started appearing in Seattle around 1900 as an offshoot of the British Arts and Crafts movement, which emphasized the handmade over the mass-produced, and design simplicity over the ornate Victorian homes of the era.
Melissa Vail’s Cheeky New Bracelets
Go giddy piling on Ballard-based crafter (and former Seattle mag publisher) Melissa Vail Coffman’s “badminton bracelets,” a cheeky take on the classic gilded tennis design.
Wraphabillement's Wundercoat!
When Elizabeth Roberts, a former Microsoft recruiter, philanthropist and busy mom of three, added yet another accolade to her résumé with a fashion line late in 2011, she blamed it on her iPhone.
“Our phones work harder than ever and do so many different things,” she explains. “I started to wonder why none of my coats seemed to multitask as well.”
Deals on Rosanna Dishes
Rosanna tableware fans, take a deep, cleansing breath: For years, Rosanna Bowles’ flash sales on her popular dishware sets have been the stuff of shopping legend. Legions of fans line up early to snag deals on glassware, mug gift sets and dinnerware—all while trying to avoid flying elbows.
A Yarn Bomb Hits Redmond
If you spent any time in Pioneer Square’s Occidental Park last summer, you noticed the trees were a bit warmer and cozier than usual, their trunks wrapped in brightly striped sweaters. The trend—known as “yarn bombing”—is happening nationally, with avant-garde crafters knitting thousands of rows with which to wrap utility poles, parking meters, park benches and outdoor sculpture.
Film: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Seattle Jewish Film Festival (3/15–3/25), seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
Irish Reels (3/17–3/18), irishreels.org
Seattle Deaf Film Festival (3/30–4/1), deafspotlight.com/SDFF
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (4/26–4/29), nffty.org
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (4/14–4/22), lhaaff.tumblr.com
Theater: Spring Arts Preview 2012
First Date: A New Musical
Visual Art: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Gary Hill
Literature: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Louise Glück: Acclaimed New York poet. Known for: Winning a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, serving as U.S. poet laureate (2003–2004) and penning unflinching, gorgeous poems. Reading: As part of Seattle Arts & Lectures. 3/15. 7:30 p.m. Prices vary. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St.; 206.621.2230; lectures.org
Comedy: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Funny ladies are in full force this spring, offering comedic readings, performances, dance and discussions on subjects ranging from smarty-pants to the deliciously strange.
Music: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Superstar soprano Renée Fleming joins the Seattle Symphony to stun the audience with her spectacular vocals (conducted by music director Ludovic Morlot) on a diverse mix of compositions by Maurice Ravel, Ben Gibbard, Leonard Cohen and others.
3/16. Times and prices vary. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St.; 206.215.4747; seattlesymphony.org
Border Crossings and Curveballs: Spring Arts Preview 2012
Marvel at splendid Egyptian artifacts excavated from the tomb of TUTANKHAMUN: THE GOLDEN KING AND THE GREAT PHARAOHS (5/24–1/6. Times and prices vary. Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave. N; 206.443.2001; pacificsciencecenter.org).
Dance: Spring Arts Preview 2012
On the Stage at On the Boards
Contemporary dance fans may as well camp out at On the Boards this season—it’ll be easier than driving home and coming back and finding parking for each of these stellar performances.
Local Rock Stars of Clay
For the first time, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) is convening in Seattle (3/28–3/31), which means approximately 5,000 ceramics fanatics are descending on our city.
So Long, Viaduct. Hello, Ultimate Boring Machine!
A Wrecking Brawl
Transportation Solutions to Look Forward To
Solutions for Stressed Seattle Commuters
ELECTRIC COMPANY
Charging stations are popping up all over the city, making it easier for Seattleites to turn to green, clean electric-powered cars.
How to Find Parking in Seattle
With peak-hour downtown parking meter fees now as much as $4 an hour, Seattle is the sixth-most-expensive city in the nation in which to park a car, according to a 2011 Colliers International survey (an average of more than $24/day, behind Manhattan, Boston and Chicago).
Gotcha! 3 Parking Rules to Remember
Every month, 97 Seattle Police Department parking enforcement officers print around 45,000 citations (about 7 percent of the city’s total population). While most tickets are for commonsense infractions—the most common: not paying or letting your time expire—there are a few lesser-known ways to end up with the dreaded envelope tucked under your wiper.
Worst Traffic Spots in Seattle
It usually feels like the worst traffic spot in Seattle is the one you’re stuck in, but during peak traffic hours (6–9 a.m. and 3–6 p.m.), SDOT says these locations officially rack up some of the most stop-and-go traffic—sometimes minus the go.
Why the Monorail is Still the Best Ride in Town
Is there any form of transportation in the Northwest more bizarrely storied than the monorail?
The Big Idea: Transportation Edition
If money were no object, what single thing would you do to improve transportation in the region? We put that question to dozens of local transportation thinkers and limited their responses to 150 words—short answers to a long-debated question. Here are a few; add your own idea in the comments section below, or write to editor@tigeroak.com.
The Evolution of Seattle's 520 Bridge
Just when you thought cross-lake commuting couldn’t get any more fun, tolling on the S.R. 520 bridge went into effect. Now, crossing the floating bridge can set you back as much as $5 one way, depending on the time of day and whether you have a prepaid “Good to Go!” pass affixed to your windshield.
Seattle Gridlock by the Numbers
Seeing the Bigger Picture in Seattle's Transporation Conundrums
“Seattle process” aside, most of the decisions we make around here are really driven by economic imperatives that are nearly impossible to ignore.
Is Seattle its Own Greatest Road Block?
It’s almost too good to imagine: The year is 2016, and burly guys in hardhats and blaze-orange vests have swept up the last of the dust from all of Seattle’s transportation construction megaprojects. The State Route 99 tunnel under downtown, the new State Route 520 floating bridge and the University Link light rail extension to the University of Washington are open.
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Jam of the Day | Frankie Rose - Know Me
We alerted you guys to Brooklyn’s Frankie Rose way back in the day when she was playing with her all girl pop-posse, The Outs. Back then, in the days of yore, she seemed to be going down the road of eternal shoegaze damnation. Doomed to a career of fuzzy guitars and rickety rhythms, she would be swallowed up into a stormy black sea of thousands of bands before her.
But luckily, it sounds as if she has thrown herself a musical life-preserver, since the songs we’ve heard from her new LP, Interstellar, seem to be about 125 degrees from her previous works. Clean and crafted, our Jam of the Day, “Know Me,” glistens with pop goodness that pulls no punches by trying to be too cool, or fit into a genre that’s immediately identifiable as anti-mainstream.
Check it out below and go pick up Interstellar when you're done by clicking right here.
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Tags: Frankie Rose and the Outs, JOTD
[ALBUM REVIEW] Brandi Carlile - By The Way, I Forgive You
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Commonwealth Games - Stars of the Future
30 March 2018 / 13:42
Barely a few days remain until the Commonwealth Games get underway with athletes from all around the world busy fine-tuning preparations on Australia’s Gold Coast.
We’ve already taken a look at our ten to watch but the XXI Commonwealth Games will also see a whole host of new talent come to the fore when competition gets underway on Thursday.
So without further ado, here are our ten emerging talents to keep an eye on both now and in the future.
Lauren Bate – England, cycling
There’s not much better than travelling the world to ride your bike, especially when it brings you to Australia ☀️🌊🚴🏼♀️ #TeamEngland pic.twitter.com/oPqctjwEoc
— Lauren Bate (@LaurenBatee) March 28, 2018
Lauren Bate is in the infancy of her cycling career but that hasn’t stopped her already tasting success on the big stage.
Indeed 2017 saw two world junior medals added to the 18-year-old’s palmares, backing up team sprint bronze with individual silver in Italy last year to add to her four junior European medals.
Latalia Bevan – Wales, gymnastics/trampolining
Training hard💪🏻🇦🇺 #teamwales @TeamWales @WelshGymnastics pic.twitter.com/iDdb9W5n8t
— latalia bevan (@bevan_latalia) March 28, 2018
Gymnast Latalia Bevan’s career has already been full of promise, with plenty of big-competition experience despite only just switching from junior to senior level.
A School Games veteran, the 17-year-old helped Great Britain to silver in the Olympic Hopes Cup en route to her first Commonwealth Games.
Jack Carlin – Scotland, cycling
Cycling was a sport Jack Carlin only got into because of rehab and injury but now it’s taken the 20-year-old to his very first Commonwealth Games.
The Scot arrives on the Gold Coast with plenty of success on his palmares too, becoming a double World Championships medallist in 2018 to add to his two World Cup gold medals.
Zoey Clark – Scotland, athletics
Zoey Clark was part of the British 4x400m relay team that won silver at the 2017 World Championships, celebrating a first global medal on the home track.
And the home success continued into 2018 for the 23-year-old, winning relay bronze at the World Indoor Championships, in Birmingham.
Eleanor Dickinson – England, cycling
Success has followed Eleanor Dickinson around in her nascent career – already a World Championship silver medallist before reaching her 20th birthday.
That came earlier this year in the team pursuit in Apeldoorn, teaming up with Emily Nelson, Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker – the latter two forming Scottish and Welsh opposition respectively on the Gold Coast.
Anna Hursey – Wales, table tennis
The Team are ready@Clopingpong @charlcareytt @annaLhursey @JoshuaStacey1
GOLD COAST 5-15th April 2018 pic.twitter.com/0ESNcI0rQE
— Table Tennis Wales (@walesTT) March 30, 2018
Eleven years and 286 days – that’s how old Welsh table tennis starlet Anna Hursey will be at the opening ceremony of her Commonwealth Games debut.
Not even born when the Games were last held in Australia, in 2006, Hursey is thought to be the youngest person to represent Wales at any sport at senior level.
Ben Lane – England, badminton
So proud and happy to say I’ll be heading out to Australia with the rest of team England to compete in my first Commonwealth games. Excitedddddddd 🇦🇺 🍤
A post shared by Ben Lane (@benlane012) on Feb 8, 2018 at 5:46am PST
Ben Lane has become something of a doubles specialist, teaming up with Jess Pugh in the mixed in successful fashion when notching the Italian International title last year.
The 20-year-old has also played his part in team success, helping England to men’s team European silver earlier this year.
Rhys McClenaghan – Northern Ireland, gymnastics
Loving the whole atmosphere at the #GC2018 games so far 🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/gj4p2EmNqg
— Rhys Mcclenaghan (@McClenaghanRhys) March 27, 2018
Rhys McClenaghan may only be 18 but he has already made his mark in history, winning Ireland’s first European Championship medal when securing junior silver on the pommel horse in 2016.
That came in Switzerland but home apparatus has also suited the teenager, part of the Irish team that won the all-around title at the 2015 Northern European Championships.
Liam Sanford – England, hockey
European bronze medal-winning hockey player Liam Sanford plies his trade for both England and Great Britain, playing a big role in England’s first European or World Cup medal for six years in 2017.
Before that, Sanford became the first Bath Buccaneers player to feature for England, with Premier League side Reading now enjoying the 22-year-old’s services.
Courtney Tulloch – England, gymnastics
Artistic gymnast Courtney Tulloch can boast a European junior title on his CV, on the still rings in 2015, two years before earning a senior European silver medal on the same apparatus.
But that wasn’t his only continental success, part of the British silver-winning seniors team in Bern, in 2016.
Join the Team GB club today, check it out right here
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<< Uriah Valeria Varkas >>
Star: Tensyo
Events: Gate Rune Wars, Dunan Unification War
Position: One of the Six Great Generals
Valeria was born in a small village in the Great Forest. She always wished to make it big in the real world and has been practicing swordsmanship since her youth. By luck she was able to study the Falcon Style Fencing under master Roundier Haia in [Kanakan] and perfected the style. After that, she entered the Scarlet Moon Army and was placed under Kwanda Rosman as a Lieutenant.
However, when Kwanda started burning the forest with the Burning Mirror, Valeria decided to defect and tried to convince the Elves to stand up against him. However, she was instead captured and imprisoned by the elves. In prison she mets Tir and decided to join forces with the Liberation Army. The party escaped with the help of Sylvina and they were able to win the trust of the Dwarves. As the party was heading back to [Toran Lake Castle], they were ambushed by Imperial Soldiers. The soldiers demanded that the rebels hand over Valeria and Valeria volunteered to leave. However, the Imperial Soldiers broke the agreement and tried to capture Tir. Just when all hope was lost, Mathiu Silverberg brought the Liberation Army with him to attack Pannu Yakuta. The Imperial Soldiers scurried off in terror. Valeria was freed and after the Liberation Army defeated Kwanda's army in battle, Valeria volunteered to enter Pannu Yakuta to defeat Kwanda Rosman. Shortly after, Pannu Yakuta was liberated.
Since then, Valeria was a powerful force within the Liberation Army and after they were victorious, Valeria was named as one of the new Six Great Generals for the Toran Republic. In her new capacity, she participated in Toran's war against Tinto and South Window and was also chosen as the general for the military aid sent to the Dunan Allied Forces by the orders of President Lepant. After she came to Dunan, she met with her rival, Anita. Anita was also a student of Roundier Haia and the two often got into fights due to their different ideas on being a swordmistress. However, they could always be found in the bar, drinking together. After the Dunan Unification War, Valeria went back to Toran to continue her duties. - Blue Moon
Gameplay Information for Suikoden
How to Recruit: Joins automatically before going to the Village of the Dwarves.
Weapon LVL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Weapon Strength 5 7 9 12 16 20 33 40 48 59 70 80 102 115 134 150
Weapon Name Star Sword Seven Star Sword Conqueror Star Sword
Gameplay Information for Suikoden II
How to Recruit: Select her as the general President Lepant provides.
Note: You cannot recruit both Kasumi and Valeria.
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