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__label__cc | 0.703115 | 0.296885 | REVIEW: A Most Precious Pearl by Piper Huguley
JayneB- ReviewsAfrican American / Historical / inspirational / journalist / post WWI / Samhain-publishing / World War I2 Comments
Caldwell returned from the Great War with nothing to show for it—as in nothingbelow his left knee. Forget about the journalism career he loved. His story is over. Done. Yet he finds the strength to journey to Winslow, Georgia, to get Ruby Bledsoe Morson’s sister out of trouble. Before he can bring Mags Bledsoe home, though, a spate of mysterious attacks reawakens his investigative instincts.
During the war, Mags did her duty to God and country by stepping into a management role at the textile mill. Now she’s been shuffled back to the rank and file—and Asa has her hard-earned job. Not only is the infernal man doing everything wrong, her plan for revenge against the mill owner who lynched her childhood sweetheart is farther out of reach than ever. As they clash over almost everything, Mags begins to set fire to Asa’s soul, bright enough to dim the memory of the killing fields of France. Enough to give him a new mission in life—to make her feel the same way.
Dear Ms. Huguley,
When the previous book in the series, “A Virtuous Ruby” ended, the eldest sister of the Bledsoe clan, Ruby, was on her way north and free of the darkness of Winslow, Georgia. Well, when this one starts, she’s still as much a pistol (if you’ll pardon my saying so given how she orders Asa around) four years later. Now she’s going to get Asa doing what she wants and what she wants is her sister Margaret Ruth – or Mags as the family calls her – in Pittsburgh after Asa brings her there. Asa doesn’t stand a chance.
Asa knows he’s going down into an area of the country where Jim Crow rules and Negroes have to be careful of everything they do or say for fear of the dire consequences. As a reporter, Asa is determined to brings first hand news of this to the rest of the country but first he has to face Mags. She and Asa clash from the first – not only about the fact that Asa takes her job which she earned and did well at while the men were off fighting in Europe but also how the job is done and about his efforts to change things at the mill.
Mags has seen – up close and personal – the horrific results of Negroes asking for their basic rights and the things due to them. But at least her worry about Asa being naïve about the way things are down South is unfounded. He’s heard of the lynchings and beatings and – after she tells him – about what was done to Ruby to stop her trying to organize a chapter of the NAACP there.
Asa enjoys rattling Mags’s composure a bit though he quickly gets her to see that they’re both on the same side. It might take Mags a little while to calm down about it all but eventually when she learns who Asa really is, she does see the need for him to be there and is determined to help bring his reporting voice back as a way to help the race. But with Winslow and his minions already watching the family based on Ruby’s actions, can they avoid stirring up a hornet’s nest?
There are external conflicts galore to go with the internal ones. But for me the personal ones between Mags and Asa kept repeating too much. One main character changes like a weathervane per chapter. There’s lots of talking between them but still miscommunications abound. It got wearing. Yet on the other hand, I did like how Asa opened Mags’s eyes to new possibilities beyond Winslow and got her to understand her worth. Just as Mags helped Asa to finally understand he’s more than man enough for her despite his war injury.
The danger and ever present menace for Negroes in the South is palpable. They have to think of and consider things that at first Asa doesn’t even register outside of a clinical way. But for the Southerners, it’s a real and present threat for even gathering together outside of worship. I barely breathed the whole time I was reading the final confrontation scene at the train, you made it so real. Even I felt more at ease once they reached Pittsburgh. It was like I could finally relax my tense shoulders and take a deep breath.
Mags was determined to make Paul Winslow pay for what happened to Travis. In the end, I think she makes the correct choice of what to do and right choice for her own soul and well being. She won’t have anything on her conscience about how she acted. Brother Carver and Sister Jane are back. Yay! Religion and spiritual life is very important to this community and the families. Something always seems to happen at that yearly Revival, though.
I agree with Asa that Mag’s amazement at how she’s treated once they’re in PA is sad. But bless her heart at her reception from Asa’s mother Elodie. Poor Mags faces prejudice in both places but she sets Elodie straight soon enough, Church leader though Elodie is. After her sister – and I do admire Ruby’s determination – and Adam do some scheming with Asa, Mags doesn’t stand a chance, herself. Happy sigh at the end.
Though it can be emotionally hard to read, I appreciate the fact that you don’t pull punches with this series. To do so would have watered down the reality of the people who lived during these times and troubles. I see at your website that information on the next “Migrations of the Heart” book is already out and the cover looks amazing. I’ll be waiting to see how the middle Bledsoe sister finds her HEA. B-
~Jayne
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I really enjoyed the first book and the look into a part of history I didn’t know much about.
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The BUZZ about Florida’s voter purge…
From news reports Sunday…
The Guardian—Florida will defy order to stop purging voter list amid calls of ‘suppression’
“Floridasays it will defy an order from theUSjustice department to stop purging its voter roll of people the state claims may not be American citizens. The justice department has warned that the practice, which critics describe as “voter suppression” byFlorida’s Republican administration aimed at stripping the ballot from people more likely to support Democrats, is illegal under federal laws. It has given the state until Wednesday to agree to halt the purge, something officials inFloridasay they have no intention of doing.”
Reuters—Florida weighs warning against voter purge
“The warning issued this week by the head of the Justice Department’s voting section said the effort appeared to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities. It demanded a response by Wednesday. A spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said the state must make certain that only eligible voters cast ballots. “We have a year-round obligation to ensure the integrity ofFlorida’s elections. We will be responding to (the Justice Department’s) concerns next week,” Chris Cate said in an email message. Cate said in a subsequent telephone call that the state was still formulating its response.”
Newsmax—Florida to Continue Voter Purge in Defiance of DOJ
“Florida, a keyU.S.electoral battleground where the 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred ballots, will defy the U.S. Justice Department’s warning to stop its effort to purge ineligible voters, a state spokesman said on Saturday.
The warning issued this week by the head of the Justice Department’s voting section said the move to purge voters appeared to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities. It demanded a response by Wednesday. But a spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said the state must ensure only eligible voters cast ballots, and intends to go forward with the campaign.”
Tampa Bay Times—Gov. Rick Scott: Florida is “absolutely not” targeting minorities in noncitizen voter purge
“On Friday, county elections supervisors showed so little faith in the state-led purge that their state association said they shouldn’t cooperate. The announcement came just hours after the U.S. Justice Department orderedFloridato stop its effort due to two federal voting rights laws, partly because the purge could disproportionately affect minorities. Florida Gov. Rick Scott wouldn’t rule out fighting the Justice Department in court. ‘We want fair elections,’ Scott said. ‘We want people who have the right to vote go out there and vote.’”
Tampa Bay Times—Feds step in to protect Florida voters
“It takes the federal courts and the U.S. Justice Department to defend democracy and protect Floridians from their governor and Legislature who are determined to suppress the vote.”
Orlando Sentinal—Florida should modernize its flawed voter-purge system
“These large-scale voter-purge programs end up being such disasters because they are conducted without the proper procedures and checks in place to avoid the erroneous removal of eligible voters. For example, the 2000 purge process was so imprecise that aFloridavoter named John Michaels could be removed from the voter rolls because his name was similar to that of Californian John Michaelson, who had a criminal conviction.”
Digital Journal—Florida officials defy federal warning to stop voter purge
“Despite warnings from the Department of Justice and objections from county elections officials,Florida’s Secretary of State plans to continue the effort to scrub the state’s voter registration rolls.”
The Miami Herald—Purge the purge list
OUR OPINION: Scott administration should focus on access to voters, not impose obstacles. The Scott administration’s attempt to purge the voting rolls of suspected noncitizens violates federal civil rights laws, the Justice Department warns, and the GOP-led Legislature’s law imposing a 48-hour deadline on the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote and other third-party groups that hold voter registration drives is a bust, a federal judge rules. Democrats cry voter suppression. Republicans insist they’re simply trying to prevent voter fraud. Who’s right? The problem is the way state GOP leaders inFlorida (and various other GOP-led states) are going about it. They want to “prevent” a problem that there’s no evidence even exists.
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__label__wiki | 0.752495 | 0.752495 | Episode 522: Brother From Another
November 14, 2014 June 1968, Sam Hallavant-garde, dan, dracula, eccentric, impostor, never drink wine, portraits, theremin, tricksterDanny Horn
“Angelique has no blood brother. But a brother spirit, a brother devil…”
Here’s where we are: Cassandra, the lunatic sorceress from Martinique posing as Roger’s new wife, has been cast into darkness by the spirit of Reverend Trask, an 18th-century witch hunter raised from the dead — or from the Old House cellar, which is more or less the same thing. She hasn’t been seen for a couple days, and Barnabas and Julia have just discovered that her magic portrait has turned white and faded. Ding dong, presumably, the witch is dead.
But things are never that simple, especially on this show. There’s a knock at the door, and a dapper man in a hat introduces himself as Nicholas Blair — Cassandra’s brother.
So the question for today is: Who the Hell is this guy?
This is Humbert Allen Astredo, a new cast member who’ll be with the show on and off for the rest of the run. He’s another in the long line of eccentric actors unleashed on the show in the last year, brought in to stir up trouble on a series that’s already pretty heavily stirred.
Executive producer Dan Curtis had a particular genius for casting, and recasting. The guy who played Matthew Morgan was replaced after three episodes by the marvelous Thayer David; the guy who played Willie Loomis was ditched after four episodes and replaced by John Karlen; and the original choice to play Dr. Julia Hoffman was let go before she was even on the air, and Grayson Hall was her last-minute replacement.
Basically, Dan’s approach was to keep throwing people at the show until you find the most interesting actor available, and then you hang on to them. Humbert Allen Astredo is one of the interesting ones.
Nicholas invites himself in, and runs his eyes over the decor with a proprietary air, as if he plans to inherit it someday.
“I am glad to see Collinwood!” he smiles. “Cassandra has written me so much about it.”
Barnabas and Julia share a puzzled look. Cassandra is an alias for Angelique, a centuries-old evil spirit. Something wicked this way is.
Nicholas walks into the drawing room and comes to a stop in a corner — keeping himself at an awkward distance from the others, so they’re forced to turn and focus on him.
“I hope you don’t mind my late arrival,” he says.
Roger is quick to say, “Oh, of course not.”
“I thought you wouldn’t,” Nicholas purrs. “And it seemed a perfect time to surprise Cassandra. She isn’t asleep, is she?”
This is a well-known trick — invoking and taking advantage of social conventions, to coerce the rubes into letting you do whatever you want. It’s basically step #1 for fictional con men and mythopoetic trickster figures.
Here comes step #2.
Roger: Could I get you a drink?
Nicholas: Oh, no. No, thank you.
Roger: Are you sure?
Nicholas: I don’t have little vices, Mr. Collins.
And then he smiles, up to but not including his eyes.
This is a mischievous little Dracula tease borrowed from the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, when Count Dracula assures his guest, “I never drink… wine.” This is the signal — as if we needed one — that this man is not what he seems. Actually, I take that back; he’s exactly what he seems. He just isn’t the thing that he’s pretending that he wants Roger to think that he is.
Nicholas settles into a chair, calmly maintaining his grip on the scene.
This is Humbert Allen Astredo’s first role on television, by the way. Here’s what I know about him, from the excellent book Barnabas & Company: The Cast of the TV Classic Dark Shadows.
Astredo originally thought that he’d be a lawyer, but he was so terrified of the public speaking class that he dropped out of law school. To bolster his confidence, he took acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he studied the classics — Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen and Oedipus Rex.
He was drafted in the early 1950s, and served in the Korean War as a member of the USO, putting on live shows to entertain the American troops. He had a lively sense of humor, and he became the troupe’s comedian and MC. After the war, he came back to California and managed a theater in Los Angeles for a while. He moved to New York in 1963, where he appeared in Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park productions, and worked with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.
So, yeah, it’s his first appearance on television. But nothing scares this man anymore.
Let the cat-and-mouse games begin.
Barnabas asks, “Where are you from, Mr. Blair?”
Nicholas says, “I’ve just come from Martinique, Mr. Collins,” and he shoots Barnabas a look. “Have you been there?”
That’s another bit of “never drink wine” code, for faithful Dark Shadows viewers. Barnabas met Josette in Martinique, and had a shameful fling with her maid that has haunted him ever since.
Nicholas is absolutely still, watching Barnabas intently.
Barnabas: Not… recently.
Roger: Really, Barnabas — I never knew you’d been there. You’ve never mentioned it.
Barnabas: I remember it very well.
Nicholas: Yes. It is a hard island to forget.
Oh, he’s so cool. He’s been on the show for less than three minutes, and I like him already.
Next, we get to watch him make Roger sweat.
Nicholas: Oh, Mr. Collins — when you go to get Cassandra, don’t tell her that I’m here; I do want to see the expression on her face when she sees me.
Roger: Well, um… actually, Cassandra is not here.
Nicholas: Oh, dear. My timing is bad, isn’t it. When will she be back?
Roger is forced to admit that Cassandra has disappeared. Nicholas takes this in stride, because obviously he knows that something has happened to her. That’s why he’s here.
He gets up and paces around the room, like a detective in an Agatha Christie mystery, casually questioning the suspects.
Nicholas: Someone in this house didn’t like her, did they?
He turns, and focuses on Julia.
Nicholas: Was it you?
Julia: I beg your pardon?
Nicholas: Did you like my sister?
Julia: Oh, I… barely knew her.
Nicholas: In other words, you did not. (He smiles.) Understandable. Cassandra is not well liked by many women.
He moves to Barnabas, gliding to a stop just a little too close, and stares directly into his eyes. He speaks in a measured purr.
Nicholas: And you, sir. You seem to be a man who knows his feelings.
Barnabas: You think so?
Nicholas: I know so, by the way you have been watching me. Did you “barely know” my sister, too?
It’s almost unfair. Nicholas has everything today — the intriguing mystery man with a wry sense of humor. Louis Edmonds and Grayson Hall usually get all the jokes, but not today.
Obviously, Roger has to invite the man to stay, and he brings Nicholas upstairs to find a bedroom. As they go, we hear Nicholas saying, “Such an interesting house, very European. I seem to sense all the secrets it must be hiding…” He talks like that pretty much nonstop.
Barnabas and Julia are left behind in the drawing room, trying to figure out what just happened. “Angelique has no blood brother,” Barnabas says. “But a brother spirit, a brother devil…”
Upstairs, Roger babbles apologetically about Cassandra going AWOL, saying that he hopes Nicholas hasn’t gotten the impression that his sister was mistreated by the family. Nicholas has stopped listening.
He’s discovered Angelique’s portrait, which is magically connected to the witch herself. It’s faded badly, so that you can hardly see the figure.
Nicholas says that he’d like to try to fix it. He’s done restorations before.
Left alone with the portrait, Nicholas stares into Angelique’s eyes, reaching out through the spirit world.
“You’ve gotten yourself into a mess this time, my lovely Angelique,” he says. “Where are you? Whisper to me, if you can, where you are… Give me a sign that you still exist!”
We hear a snatch of theremin music, Angelique’s sorcery music cue — and he can hear it, too. His eyes dart around the room.
“How shall I find you? Here, in this house?”
The music cuts off, abruptly.
“Where Barnabas lives?”
And the music cue starts up again, indicating a yes.
So here’s a new character who can apparently communicate directly with the soundtrack. This is actually terribly avant-garde; it’s dialogue as musique concrète. Technically, everyone in the audience should be wearing a beret at this point.
Nicholas strolls over to the Old House and just walks right in, with his dapper suit and gloves and umbrella, fully the aristocrat.
Willie’s in the cellar, and Nicholas spots him through the grill in the basement door. Nicholas uses his command voice.
Nicholas: You there!
Willie: Me?
Nicholas: Yes, didn’t you hear me knock?
Willie: What?
Nicholas: Come out here!
And so, as Nicholas slips in and takes hypnotic control of both Willie and the audience, let’s dip into his Barnabas & Company biography one more time:
“Humbert’s agent lined up the audition with Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis. ‘I went in and read for a part — I don’t recall which one. And evidently Dan was impressed,’ he said.
“‘I was later told by one of the writers that Dan said, “Write a part for this guy.” They put me on a “right of first refusal” contract, and six months later they wrote Nicholas Blair for me.'”
The book doesn’t say which part Astredo tried out for, but six months ago, they were casting Reverend Trask — a part that you can easily imagine him playing.
Instead of casting a new actor in that role, they decided to go in-house and use Jerry Lacy, who had recently joined the show and didn’t have a part yet in the 18th-century time travel story. Lacy was absolutely perfect as Trask — another great moment of casting inspiration — but Dan was smart enough to keep Astredo on call.
So here he is, six months later, confronting the role he didn’t get. He sizes up the Reverend’s decayed skeleton, daring it to start something, and another piece of strange magic is loosed upon the world.
Tomorrow: The Devil You Know.
When Willie is in the cellar preparing to fix the brick wall around Trask’s skeleton, a stagehand takes a step backward, and into the shot. He realizes his mistake, and quickly steps out of the frame again.
All the biographical info in today’s entry was taken from Barnabas & Company, which I really can’t recommend highly enough. It’s currently selling for four bucks on Kindle, and you will absolutely love it.
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17 thoughts on “Episode 522: Brother From Another”
I second the recommendation for Barnabas & Company. It’s not a book you would read in sequential order from cover to cover the way you would a typical book. The main cast bios are presented as short chapters and in alphabetical order, so you will likely choose your favorites first and go back and forth before you finish that part of the book. I have also discovered facts about the cast I never knew before: For instance, a small art house movie theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts (the Brattle Theatre), that I’ve been going to for decades was actually co-founded by a Dark Shadows cast member (Thayer David).
As for Humbert Allen Astredo, he reminds me, both in voice and mannerism, of an actor who came decades later: Kevin Kline. Astredo has the same comedic flair and sense of timing, and his portrayal of Nicholas Blair is comically menacing without being camp. When he first shows up at the front door of Collinwood with that hat and umbrella, he looks as though he’s dressed for a Vaudeville routine. And when he just walks in and makes himself at home, it’s as if he’s saying, with that self-assured and calculating smile, “It’s alright, I’m here now, and WE’LL be taking over.” He is the first such houseguest/interloper since Jason McGuire–but unlike McGuire, he can’t be killed off for discovering the most guarded secrets that Collinwood has to hold.
Pedro Cabezuelo (@PCabezuelo) says:
Danny, your blog today made me love Nicholas Blair (and Humbert) even more than I already do.
Excellent. My work is done for the day.
It’s interesting to watch the early indications that Blair might in fact be the Devil himself. This is quickly shifted to his being a “middle manager” from hell.
Once Blair meets Adam, he becomes slightly less interesting, as his overall “plan” (master race loyal to the Devil — though, really, doesn’t that basically describe us?) lacks any grounding in physical or emotional reality. Revenge will motivate Judah Zachary/Gerard, and basic self-interest for Petofi. But their actual goals are at least somewhat tangible (mastery of Collinwood/destruction of Quentin Collins and an escape to the “future” respectively). Forcing the creation of a mate for Adam (with the unspoken but understood goal of their copulating and producing children) just sort of makes Nicholas an evil Neil Warren from eHarmony.. or, well, Neil Warren.
I mentioned before that there’s a missed opportunity with Cassandra that the 2012 film, despite its other flaws, at least explores: Angelique goes after the Collins family. She is a supernatural Burke Devlin. But Nicholas bears no grudge against the Collins and has no material interests. It’s the same problem we have when he returns to the series.
Yet, it’s the side plot with Maggie Evans that actually makes Nicholas a compelling villain to me. Here, he does a standard soap opera heavy move: Destroy the relationship of the “nice” couple and manipulate the mostly clueless ingenue into loving him. His “femme fatale” in this case is a vampire but the effect is the same. Watching Joe Haskell sink further and further, past any hope, is almost painful to watch but it’s riveting nonetheless. Perhaps right after Sara Collins, it’s the worst thing Angelique has ever done to anyone, and as she’ll later admit, she doesn’t particularly even care.
Adriana Pena says:
Nicholas brings something to the show which is focus. The show has been running from storyline to storyline, leaving them half done, in a desperate attempt to try both to continue the 1967 storyline while making us forget about it. It lurches, it starts and goes nowhere, and it goes for the next shock.
Nicholas can put it into focus. Alas, he gets lost into a silly “take over the world” routine… And does not even have a Pinky.
I agree, Adriana, that Nicholas is a much more focused antagonist. Angelique’s only goal was to curse Barnabas — somehow in a longer and more convoluted way than before. Nicholas’s plans are larger and threaten everyone in Collinsport, It’s a shame that half his IQ vanishes when he moves into the House by the Sea — he keeps giving Angelique second chances and the only thing that ruins his scheme is his decision to create Eve with the life force of the “most evil woman who ever lived” (based in the faultiest logic possible — it’s sometimes difficult controlling Adam, who has the emotional maturity of a teenage boy, so somehow it’ll be easier to control a complete psychopath).
What I really like about Nicholas is you’re never really quite sure what he’s going to do next. Angelique is great, but she’s somewhat predictable and it’s pretty easy to guess how she’s going to react to any given situation. Nicholas is far more of a wild card and this makes him a very interesting character.
And said ‘psycho’ also was in a relationship with Jeff Clark (that in itself should have been a warning sign that she was nuts). Also why her after they fail with ‘good girls’ Carolyn (naive but well meaning) and Maggie (a despicable suggestion on Barnabas’ part after Adam killed her father – now ‘she’ is supposed to die in order to create a mate for Adam, all to basically keep Barnabas alive (as far as he is concerned). I think compared to this motive Nicholas’ plans are actually more easy to accept.
Is it stated outright that Maggie would die during the experiment? Or that she’d only provide the life force, as Barnabas did? We never really see the experiment work as it should — Barnabas was a vampire and Leona Eltridge didn’t really exist.
Not stated outright, but Julia cautions that this is a likely risk. In the original outline of the experiment, Barnabas was suppose to die and then “become” Adam. The only reason he didn’t die was because Julia cut the process short, thus animating Adam with only a part of Barnabas’ life force and leaving Barnabas intact. But if they try this again with Maggie, there is a chance that she would die and “become” the other being as the life force is transferred.
I think it was alluded to that there was a chance Maggie would not survive the ‘procedure’. Thank goodness for Willy’s conscience in not wanting Maggie to go through any more suffering when he ‘kidnapped’ her. Also wasn’t there a story when ‘Eve’ goes back to 1795/6 (as part of a bargain she made with Angelique to reclaim her lost love Peter Bradford, after she saw his 1968 counterpart Jeff Clark?
Yep, and this time Barnabas could not put the blame on the curse and Angelique, but just on his own jerky self.
It’s too bad that Nicholas wasn’t in the 1795 story – it would make a lot of sense for the following reasons: he was around Martinique (as he alluded to Barnabas) – he could have very possibly been the ‘warlock’ who gave Barnabas the ‘key to the universe’ and then could have clouded Barnabas memory so he wouldn’t recognize him. Nicolas could have also been the one playing ‘tricks’ on Angelique (i.e. bringing Z-Jay back to life to annoy her) and Nicholas could have also been responsible for that weird ‘Jeremiah’ apparition that appeared to Barnabas during his search for his runaway bride Josette. Also Humbert Allen Astredo also reminds me of the late actor Jack Cassidy, mostly during his later appearahces in the the show where he appears ‘older’ …
lakeplacidskater says:
I’m pretty sure Nicholas Blair is my favorite character on the show. He has the suave self assuredness Barnabas projected during his first few episodes (before he started the “______ must die” stuff) with the added benefit of being smarter and two steps ahead of everyone else. And he’s funny as well! Of course, he didn’t make the best choices as the character progressed, but I still found myself wishing he would return multiple times…while Humbert A.A.’s other characters on the show were similar, none matched the original. Glad that others share my appreciation! 🙂
Didn’t he play The Master on Doctor Who?
He did not, but he would have been WONDERFUL!
When Trask and Blair first meet, Trask wonders out loud whether Blair is the Devil himself, but Blair laughs most sincerely and tells Trask not to flatter himself.
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__label__wiki | 0.97099 | 0.97099 | Fresh strikes on Syria militant enclave kill 15
Clashes in northwest Syria kill 35 fighters: monitor
More than 150,000 displaced in northwest Syria in one week: UN
Gaza-Israel violence flares into second day
12 killed in pro-regime attacks on northwestern Syria
Russia, Syrian army step up attacks on rebel-held northwestern Syria: residents, medics
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Smoke billows during reported Syrian government forces' bombardments on the village of Sheikh Mustafa in the southern countryside of the jihadist-held Idlib province
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The latest strikes in the fiercest wave of regime bombardment on a militant enclave in northwestern Syria killed at least 15 civilians on Wednesday, a war monitor said, despite calls to halt the attacks.
Air strikes by Russian and government warplanes, some using barrel bombs, and shelling have claimed a mounting civilian death toll over the past few weeks.
The violence, which comes despite a truce deal brokered by Moscow and Ankara in September, has caused mass displacement and heightened fears of the worst humanitarian catastrophe in Syria's eight-year conflict.
The United States and the United Nations demanded an end to the bombardment on Tuesday, as strikes by Damascus killed 27 people -- the single highest civilian death toll in the region since the regime increased its attacks in late April.
But the aerial bombardment on Wednesday did not relent against Idlib province, most of which is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group dominated by former members of Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate.
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring organisation, seven of Wednesday's victims were killed in an air raid on the village of Sarja.
A father and his three children were killed in the village of Bara and four other civilians died in strikes in the towns of Hbeit and Areen, said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
‘The bombardment by the regime and Russia continues to be intense on several areas. The Russian strikes are focused on Khan Sheikhun but have not caused any casualties for now,’ he said.
Syrian state news agency SANA reported one woman was killed by jihadist shelling on northern Hama.
- 'Spare no effort'-
The civilian death toll has mounted in and around Idlib in recent days, reaching more than 270 over the past month, according to the Observatory.
In villages struck by regime raids, excavators have dug new graves and civilians buried the dead stealthily at dusk to avoid being targeted by more air raids.
Despite the surge in attacks the government has not announced an all-out offensive to retake the entire jihadist enclave, a large area which is home to almost three million people.
Analysts predict that President Bashar al-Assad and his allies will continue to chip away at the area but not unleash a major assault that would create chaos on Turkey's doorstep.
The regime is likely to continue applying sustained military pressure whilst attempting to preserve the fragile truce agreement reached in Russia last year to spare the region a large-scale humanitarian disaster.
On Tuesday, Syria's UN envoy Bashar Jaafari said Damascus ‘will spare no effort’ to end the jihadist control of Idlib, according to comments carried by SANA.
UN deputy aid chief Ursula Mueller, however, told the Security Council that a further escalation would threaten humanitarian assistance for the region's residents.
She said some 270,000 people had been displaced by the fighting in Idlib since late April.
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At least 23 medical facilities have been hit since April 28, including two medical facilities that have been attacked twice, said David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian office.
Five health workers have died and 7 others were injured as a result, he told AFP on Wednesday.
The United States has said that ‘indiscriminate attacks on civilians and public infrastructure such as schools, markets and hospitals is a reckless escalation.’
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December 26, 2017 December 26, 2017 Dr. Celucien Joseph Uncategorized
My post-Christmas reading is another excellent text on theological ethics and anthropology, “Saved by Faith and Hospitality” by Joshua Jipp
“The God of the Christian Scriptures is a God of hospitality, a God who extends hospitality to his people and who requires that his people embody hospitality to others. Stated simply, God’s hospitality to us is the basis of our hospitality to one another. God’s relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, as God makes space for “the other,” for his people, by inviting humanity into relationship with him. This experience of God’s hospitality is at the very heart of the church’s identity. We are God’s guests and friends. And it is because of God’s extension of hospitality and friendship to us that the church can offer hospitality to one another and to those seemingly outside the reach of our faith communities. Just as God extends welcome and hospitality toward his people, so also God’s people extend hospitality to one another, and as we imitate God, we offer hospitality–particularly to “the other,” the one who is not like us, the one outside.” –Joshua Jipp
I love when a Biblical scholar or theologian writes with great theological precision and conviction, and with the church in mind.
My personal position on theology is that good theological doctrines and beliefs should constructively transform the theologian himself, on both moral ground and ethical praxis, in the same way these shared theological beliefs and traditions should influence the church to change toward an alternative way to living and embodying the Gospel.
In the spirit of Jipp’s text, contemporary churches in America and Evangelical Christians need to practice and live the Gospel of faith and the Gospel of hospitality, because “God’s hospitality creates a community that embodies hospitality in its practices and also in its composition.” When that happens, contemporary American churches and Evangelical Christians would be able to overcome tribalism, xenophobia, greed, racism, bullying, hypocrisy, etc.
One of the major problems in the church today is the absence (or the lack of) of a biblically-rooted ethical system and its ignorance of a biblically-centered moral virtues, both in life and practice. The American church is and has been trapped in an ethical system and cultural worldview that promote and sustain aggressive capitalism, militarism, inclusive nationalism, anti-Gospel public policies, aggressive immigration policies, and a politically-charged ethical framework that leads to social death and correspondingly, one that is against the poor, the fatherless, the widow, the immigrant, and the economically-disadvantaged individuals and families in our society.
The Gospel is more than a set of beliefs and theological propositions followers of Jesus Christ embrace; real and existential life issues are integral in the Good news of God revealed in the pages of Christian Scriptures and in the person and work of Jesus Christ. The demands of the Gospel are radical requests that invade every sphere of human existence–the cultural, political, economic, the educational, and the moral life.
“Saved by Faith and Hospitality” is a must-read book that I recommend to every Christian minister, pastor, and church leader. Every church should own a copy of this book. It can be used in small group settings. There are reflective and practical questions at the end of every chapter to generate (moral, ethical, and responsible) Gospel-centered conversations on the subject covered in the chapter.
“Christmas Eve at Jesus Center”
“For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”– Isaiah 9:6
December 15, 2017 Dr. Celucien Joseph Uncategorized
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Morning Chat and Coffee/Tea at Jesus Center
I’m going to be in the church’s office this morning for pastoral counseling and prayer (10:00 am to 2:00 pm). if anyone wants to stop by to chat or for some coffee, please do so.
I would be happy to see you.
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Pastor Joseph
Healthcare and its Unfair Cost: What Shall the Poor Do? How Shall they live?
Let’s talk about healthcare and its inhumane cost in this country.
I was talking to a friend of mine last week. He asked me how much do you pay for health insurance at your job. I told him almost $ 700.00 a month, just for me, which does not include my wife and our four children. I told him to be exact I pay $ 334.89 semi-monthly, which covers medical ($313.50), dental ($10.75), vision ($ 3.38), life insurance ( $ 10.64).
On the other hand, at her job, my wife pays about $ 600.00 every two weeks; the coverage includes our four children, not me.
I said to him: dude, we pay $ 1600 a month for just health coverage, which estimates to $ 19, 200 a year. ( He was incredibly shocked) This almost $ 20, 000 my family pays annually for healthcare. How can anyone save any money?
Do you see why our healthcare system must change for individuals and families in this country? The cost for American healthcare is not only immoral, it is devastating for the American poor and dangerously sinful. Life necessities like healthcare is probably worst for the American poor and underrepresented families in this country. How shall the working class and underclass live in this country. ( Do you understand the implication why the American poor and working class American patients with high-risked and life-threatening diseases such as (terminal) cancer, HIV AIDS die quickly because they can’t afford the ridiculous cost of the medical treatment.) Do you also see the implication of that and how unfair public policies could be detrimental to the well-being of the American poor, the underclass, and those living in the margins of society? Those in the capacity to serve the American public in the government and have the privilege to make laws and regulate public policies must think critically about the possible outcome and implications of their actions and bill execution; particularly, they should be concerned about how their actions could help alleviate the suffering of the poor and the working class as well as contribute to the human flourishing in this society or contribute to a more difficult life for them.
As Paulo Freire has stated int the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” (1968), “Love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause-like the cause of liberation. And this commitment, because it is loving, is dialogical. As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise, it is not love. Only abolishing the situation of oppression it it possible to restore to the love which that situation made impossible. ” The most effective way a public servant and politician could show love in the public is to do justice to the American poor and working class. Be the voice of the voiceless and the fatherless, the widow, the marginalized, the oppressed, the hungry, the naked— even when you are behind the closed doors making important decisions for this country.
No wonder even those of us with reasonably well-paid careers and professions in this country could easily die poor and live pay check by pay check. Unfair public policies are detrimental to the well-being of those living in the margins in this country; they contribute more suffering and a hard life for the American poor and the working class. We must have a heart for the poor and be moved by compassion when reaching out to them; solidarity with the poor and defending the rights of the least among us is nothing less than the good news announced to them. We can no longer ignore the suffering and pain of those who live a block down from us, even those who are not members of our social and educated class.
*** Last year, I went to the (for 3 wisdom teeth) done.( I don’t like gaps in the back of my mouth. Lol) With my insurance, they asked me to pay $2600 in addition to what my dental plan will cover.
***Now, you know the reason why I am a poor professor and poor pastor (razè in Haitian Creole; broke in American English), but I still manage to wear a bow tie to work every day 🙂
Guess what? I am not going to complain. I’m thankful that the great Lord has blessed me and my wife with a job and always provides for our needs despite the odds of this life.
Just wanted to share this thought with you.
The Great Moral Crisis in the American Society
Three big issues weakening American Democracy and American Religious Life today:
1. The prominence of sexual sin in public offices.
2. The prominence of sexual sin in American (Cultural) Evangelicalism.
3. The close rapport between contemporary American politics and contemporary American Evangelical Culture through active participation in sexual transgressions and shared political worldviews.
Hence, sexual sin has become the new unifying link between religion and politics in American society. This is a great moral crisis in today’s culture that continues to have a tremendous impact on political leadership, family dynamics, relationships at the workplace, and human relationships in churches.
Friends (i.e.male friends): Please guard your heart💓; cultivate pure motives and intentions toward the opposite/same sex; and keep your hands to yourself!
A Very Troubled American Christianity
In this country, once a politician claims to be an Evangelical or a Christian, the character, actions, and political views and policies of that individual do not matter. Unfortunately, American Evangelicalism/Christianity has become a smokescreen for sexual predators, womanizers, rapists, racists, pedophiles, anti-poor and anti-immigrant advocates.
What has happened to the (Virtue) ethics of Christ in American Christianity?
As a follower of Christ and minister, I’m deeply troubled about the current state and future of Christianity in America and American Evangelicalism
“Viv Manno Charlemagne, Long Live the Haitian Poor”
My tribute to Emmanuel “Manno” Charlemagne is published in L’ union Suite.
http://www.lunionsuite.com/manno-charlemagne/
Haiti has lost one of the most important human rights advocates, freedom fighters, public intellectuals, and anti-dictator and American Empire thinkers in the second half of the twentieth-century. Emmanuel Charlemagne (1948-2017) was a political activist and gifted musician who sang boldly the resilience and hope of the Haitian people in the midst of political tragedy and despair, cultural alienation, and imperial interruptions.
As a young man growing up in Haiti, it was through Manno’s musical lyrics that I learned about America’s hegemony in the world and the danger of the American empire, and global capitalism. I learned about the corruption, abuses, and false promises of Haitian government. Manno also taught me about the long-suffering and courage of the Haitian people; through his lyrics, I became aware of the importance of democracy and justice, and the ethics of individual responsibility and collective mobilization toward human flourishing and the common good in the Haitian society. Consider the following verse from the album “La Fimen” (The Smoke) (1994), in which Manno laments about the state of the Haitian society and failure of the Haitian state after 200 years of independence:
Dwa de lòm se konsa l rele
Lamayòt pou ti moun fronte
Apre 200 zan sa n regle
Nèg vle fè n konnen ke solèy se Bondye
Men dyab la ap vini pa pale
Labib son w bagay ki sakre
Yon patay ki pa byen regle
Blan yo pran tè ya
Yo bann bib la n aksepte tande
Correspondingly, as an anticolonial thinker, Manno confronts white supremacy and colonization with poetic rigor and aggressiveness: “Blan yo pran tè ya /Yo bann bib la n aksepte tande.” The white man took the land and gave us the Bible, and he forced it upon us.
In his revolutionary song, “Oganizasyon Mondyal,” Manno denounces the global class systems and the dominant class that exploits the underclass and mistreats the wretched of the earth. Not only, Manno makes a clarion call to the people (“Lè pèp anba zam tout peyi tout kote”) revolt against the various groups, forces, and institutions that oppress the poor and common people, he informs us the goal of the dominant class is to destroy and kill.
Laklas dominant entelijan ke l ye
An prensip konnen ke l an minorite
L konn ki jan pou l jwe
Pozisyon de klas li se sa ki konte
La fè lenposib la kraze la brize
Pou l elimine ti moun ki lan ze
Nap goumen jouk mayi mi jouk tan nou libere
Pran konfyans lan lit lòt pèp yo ki pa pè tonbe
Delivrans yo se jefò yo lan san ki ap koule
Grenn doktè ta vle preskri yo voye sa jete
For Manno, the Haitian people must continue to fight until they all become free, yet their freedom is in their shed blood. Freedom is costly, and liberty demands the collective sacrifice of the people. Through his revolutionary songs, Manno spoke about the predicament of the Haitian poor and working class and defended their right of existence and freedom, and correspondingly, their right to work and harvest the fruit of their own labor. He awakened the consciousness of the Haitian Youth in the second half of the twentieth-century. I was young (perhaps 9 or 10 yrs. old) and did not understand fully all you were singing about, but somewhat I understood that you were speaking truth, beauty, justice, and love, and the power to the Haitian people and self-agency for the Haitian poor and oppressed class. In “Banm Yon Ti Limyè” (1990), Manno’s cri de coeur for justice, equality, and a better life for all Haitians challenge the powers and political authorities that sustain the suffering and domination of the Haitian people:
Ban m yon ti limyè mèt
Ban m yon ti limyè pou m wè sa k’ap pase
Ban m yon ti limyè souple pou m ka wè
Poukisa se nèg yo fè soufri
Poukisa se nèg yo fè sòt
Poukisa nèg paka manje
Poukisa yo mande lanmò
In this lyric, Manno is in the search to find light (limyè) or to be enlightened about the living conditions of black people in the world. He articulates the international suffering and plight of black people in a series of provocative questions:
Why are the black people suffering?
Why can they find food?
Why are they asking for death?
Manno: You championed the cause of the Haitian poor and oppressed, and the victims of the Duvalier regime and Haitian bourgeoisie and political elite class. You advocated total justice in the Haitian civil and political society. You portrayed yourself as the voice for the voiceless and through your songs, you raised the Haitian consciousness about the plight of the Haitian people and underrepresented Haitian families, and the miscarriage of justice in our society and in the world.
Manno: You were also my historian; from you, I became acquainted with a host of Haitian freedom fighters, both Haitian men and women, and was aware of the infinite worth of our glorious Haitian revolution and national heroes and heroines, and the imperative for us to plan collaboratively our future and destiny, and to live together as a people and as a nation.
May You never die in the hearts of the Haitian people!
May the Haitian soul never forget your revolutionary songs of freedom and justice you wrote on their behalf!
Ban m yon ti limyè souple
Ban m yon ti limye tonè
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Faith In America: Southern Baptist Leader Must Apologize; Compared Gay-affirming Americans To Nazis
May4 by D Gregory Smith
Faith in America is calling upon Bryant Wright, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, to apologize for incendiary speech that compared affirmation of gay and lesbian people to Nazi propaganda during World War II.
“It is really inconceivable that a person of such prominence within one of America’s largest Christian denominations could utter such a comparison,” said Brent Childers, executive director of Faith in America. “It is beyond shameful and it makes a mockery of the faith he professes.”
In a Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 sermon entitled “When Homosexual Behavior is a Big Issue”, Wright stated that anyone who believes same-sex sexual orientation is God-given or that sexual orientation can’t be changed is believing a “lie of the devil” that has been repeated so much that now a majority of the public believes it – saying that was a lesson learned from Nazi Germany.
In his sermon, Wright said it makes him “really shudder” at the thought of faith leaders who affirm the dignity of gay and lesbian people, saying they are teaching “what God says is evil is really good.” In addition, he makes the following statements:
“When man all of a sudden decides what God says is sin or evil is really good, that is blasphemous behavior. That is calling God a liar.”
“When man says that homosexual desires are God-given and that a person can no more be changed than you could change the color of their skin, this is one of those common lies of the devil that is repeated so much over and over again that now the majority of American public believe it is true. We learned from the Nazis in World War II in how they approached propaganda. They believed wholeheartedly that if you repeat an outrageous lie over and over again it becomes more and more believable to where the public as a whole finally will embrace it. We saw that in World War II.”
Yesterday, CNN and a number of other media outlets reported on a pastor of a Baptist church in North Carolina who had apologized for his comment in a sermon that said boys who appear effeminate should have their wrists broken.
Childers said he understands how a pastor might say something in a sermon that they may not want communicated on the media airwaves but that the posting of Wright’s sermon on his web site demonstrates that Wright apparently has no problem with espousing such rhetoric to the public. He said Wright, as a national religious figure, must be held accountable for publicly espousing and promoting that kind of hostility toward gay and lesbian people, especially the rejection and hostility faced by LGBT youth and families.
“Wright’s association of those who affirm lesbian and gay people with Nazis is intentional, even if perhaps unconscious,” Childers said. “He obviously wants to paint those who affirm gay and lesbian people to be about as bad as possible, as bad as Nazis.”
“But think for a moment what the parent of a gay or lesbian child hears. They hear that treating their child as a natural, wonderfully created child is somehow of the devil and that to embrace their child’s sexual orientation is as evil as Hitler. And that if they believe otherwise, they are calling God a liar.
“So parents hear that they must reject their children. Kids hear that it is OK to bully their evil gay or lesbian peers? And young gay kids hear that suicide would be better than a life of rejection and condemnation. This is the kind of physical, emotional and spiritual violence that Wright is inciting within our society.
“Bringing such violence to bear on our neighbors makes a mockery of a faith that emphasizes love and compassion above all else. If Wright feels like shuddering, he should think about the consequences of bringing such violence against children and families.”
Last year at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz., Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler stated before convention delegates that he did not believe sexual orientation was a matter of mere choice and that “we as Christian churches have not done well on this issue.”
“I wonder if Wright considers his colleague Albert Mohler someone who is spreading “outrageous” lies as the Nazis did?” Childers asked. “And I wonder if Mohler would consider Wright’s words a job well done?”
Faith in America is a nonprofit organization that works nationally to educate the public about the harm caused to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, especially LGBT youth and families, when religious teaching is misused to justify stigma and hostility. Brent Childers, who serves as executive director, is a former Southern Baptist and former Religious Right adherent.
NOTE: Wright’s reference to Nazis can be viewed at the following web page beginning at the 29:30 mark:
http://rightfromtheheart.org/series/the-everest-of-christian-belief-part-1
Mohler’s comments from the 2011 SBC annual meeting can be viewed here:
http://hereiblog.com/transcript-commentary-al-mohler-on-homosexuality-sbc/
US Methodists uphold stance on same-sex relationships (independent.co.uk)
John Shelby Spong: A Manifesto (tyragan.wordpress.com)
Liberal Baptists Poised for Paradigm Shift on Sexual Issues? (kiwianglo.wordpress.com)
‘I didn’t come out to shut up’: Lesbian country music star Chely Wright to receive Miami gay film festival award (miamiherald.typepad.com)
Posted in Christianity, Civil Rights, LGBT Tagged Albert Mohler, Baptist, Bryant Wright, Faith in America, gay, LGBT, Mitchell Gold, Nazi, Southern Baptist Convention, World War II, Wright
Comment Leads To Action?
Jul20 by D Gregory Smith
Last week I posted a video of human rights activist Mitchell Gold taking on smug Christian fundamentalist Peter Sprigg. Got quite a lot of hits, and some interesting comments. One of the comments, from reader Teresa, got me thinking. I’ve edited it for ease of reading (not content) and added hyperlinks to the text she refers to:
I clicked on the Faith in America link and came across this great document, “A Report by Faith in America: Addressing Religious Arguments to Achieve LGBT Equality.”
I found this in the document.
“In 2006, the organization began a series of four-week educational campaigns in a number of communities across America with print newspaper ads, billboards and radio ads with polling conducted prior to the start and several weeks after each campaign – which had closed with a community meeting to discuss religion-based bigotry toward the LGBT community. Polling in each campaign showed positive movement in acceptance levels.”
How do we go about doing this in Montana before the next legislative session?
How indeed?
I think it’s very important to remember that unchallenged religious views are among the most damaging forces to human equality. Many of the fundamental negative things people believe about gay people aren’t scriptural- they’re anecdotal, anti-scientific, anti-experiential and don’t hold up under scrutiny. And I’m sick of people hiding behind Christian belief in order to promote their intolerance.
Maybe it’s time to challenge them on a broader level in Montana.
Anybody own a billboard?
Posted in Christianity, LGBT, Montana Tagged billboard, campaign, Christianist, Faith in America, Mitchell Gold, Montana, religious intolerance
Mitchell Gold takes on Peter Sprigg
From Faith In America:
… longtime LGBT advocate and Faith in America Founder Mitchell Gold disarms one of the most vitriolic voices within the anti-gay religious industry. This is how we confront religion-based bigotry toward the LGBT community and the hostility the Religious Right and its anti-gay organizations promote toward our community.
Watch as Mitchell takes on the semi-psychotic hysteria of Peter Sprigg. Mitchell’s reasoned, measured and firm responses are just one of the reasons that this guy is one of my heroes.
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Has a BBC documentary ever been so eagerly and angrily anticipated by British farmers? At 9pm on Monday night I switched over to catch the BBC One ident and the announcer warning of scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
I pictured Britain’s livestock farmers reaching for their phones, eyes narrowed, fingers hovering over the Twitter app like a gunslinger in a spaghetti western – ready to draw (or type furiously) at the first hint of anti-meat bias (#farmerbashing).
And, boy, did meat get a grilling. ‘Meat: A Threat To Our Planet?’ came out all guns blazing. The most positive thing presenter Liz Bonnin had to say about beef is that people like eating it.
I had to come off social media in the build up to this documentary. The anger – already palpable in the days before broadcast – was too stressful even to observe.
The Meat or No Meat debate reminds me very much of current day politics. Entrenched camps of bitter division, polarised to the extremes. It’s like a gunfight where everyone thinks they’re Clint Eastwood (i.e. ‘The Good’).
British farmers are pointing a gun at the ‘Bad’ BBC. The BBC is pointing a gun at ‘Ugly’ global agriculture (a faceless behemoth with a distinctly American/Brazilian accent) and the Americans, for once, don’t have a gun.
They’re just pointing a big juicy steak at Great Britain in the hope of a free trade deal post-Brexit (served with or without hormones, ma’am?)
Who’s ‘the bad’?
So which of our gunslingers is Clint Eastwood? Who came out as ‘The Good’? And who won the gunfight?
Well, Bonnin and the BBC definitely think they deserve to be Clint – for producing a documentary that exposes, so movingly, the environmental consequences of the world’s mindless appetite for commodity meat.
But they only fired a shot in the air. It made a big bang but the bullets didn’t really change anything, or land a killer blow. And besides, there’s another gunfight next week about something entirely different – so they’ve moved on.
The British beef farmers definitely think they deserve to be Clint – for producing sustainable, mostly grass-fed beef and lamb on a rainy island where grass grows in magnificent, natural abundance. A world away from burning rainforests and stinking feedlots.
They want to shoot the BBC for presenting meat as a problem and they want to shoot the Americans for presenting us with meat which is a problem…oh, wait…hang on. Scratching their heads, tied up in knots, the British farmer doesn’t know where to aim. So they don’t win the gunfight either.
The American cattle ranchers definitely think they deserve to be Clint – for producing the food that sits at the very heart of American cultural identity.
Eaten and enjoyed by millions every day. Big juicy steaks, burgers and prime rib from animals reared on the wide open prairies by generations of hard-working ranching families. Grain-fed and finished for the finest marbling and taste – just wait until the Brits try it. They don’t even need to fire a shot – because they feel bulletproof.
Confused, but jolted for good?
My point is – the whole debate was framed in a way that made every tribe feel like they’re Clint Eastwood. That they’re right. And I’m not sure that’s how we make positive change happen.
I doubt any farmer – British, American or Brazilian – would have watched that documentary and thought: “That’s me. I’m the evil beef producer.”
They were more likely to think: “That’s someone else’s problem. I don’t farm like that.”
Meanwhile the rest of us are running around, losing our heads like the poor chicken that got bonked on the head with a random plank of wood, thinking: “Oh my god, beef is evil! Beef is terrible! What kind of person am I for ever eating beef?”
The documentary presented us with extreme examples to shock us – and that’s good. The world could use a shock. We do need to wake up to the impact of our meaty diets on the environment.
I don’t buy into this outrage that the BBC has committed some act of gross betrayal for daring to make a documentary that questions the sustainability of meat.
And it’s naive to expect programme makers to continually parrot that “we do things differently in the UK”. Imagine if David Attenborough went down that road? “The Sumatran rhinoceros is on the brink of extinction but don’t worry – we don’t have them in the UK anyway.”
Balance and big business
We all share the same planet and we’re more plugged into the global food system than perhaps we care to admit to ourselves. My dad, a small scale beef farmer, finishes a few bulls on grain. That Brazilian soy even makes its way to our tiny patch of land on the Welsh borders.
The environment is the defining issue of our generation and meat is part of the debate whether you like it or not. Buckle up – because there’s plenty more of this stuff to come (George Monbiot has already plugged his upcoming film for Channel 4 which promises to dig even “deeper”).
But lasting, positive change isn’t built on shocking examples of terrifying extremes – because we can’t see ourselves reflected in that kind of mirror. We don’t see ourselves reflected in horror – we always see someone else. Are we really going to fundamentally change our diets just because Liz Bonnin told us to?
After we’d turned the telly off, I asked my boyfriend Alex what he thought of the documentary. I trust his objectivity more than mine on this kind of thing – he’s just your average consumer, no farming background, a bit of a townie really and very, very laid back.
But he was angry. Not at the pictures of deforestation or orphaned penguins or lagoons of pig muck – but the Welsh smallholder.
“It just pissed me off,” he said. “They went from one huge extreme, like, a massive cattle ranch in America to a hippy farmer in Wales with a few chickens. It just felt like an afterthought – like some TV commissioner had said, ‘Let’s go back to basics caveman-style’. They should have just gone to an average family farm and showed what they’re doing.”
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I had to agree it felt a little ridiculous. A muscly vet-turned-smallholder is not going to feed the world. This is where we needed to see a pasture-based British beef system and finally make the point about carbon storage/sequestration and the incredibly basic point that cows turn grass, which we can’t eat, into food we can eat.
And the even more basic point – the world needs animal manure! The best and most natural fertiliser for all those nutritious crops we need to grow. Pulses need poo man! That was a big miss in my view.
Alex wasn’t too happy with the choice of presenter either.
“Liz Bonnin is a conservationist,” he said (she’s actually a biologist), “and that was clearly her drive. She wasn’t very impartial and her face was a picture.”
Bonnin did walk around with a permanent look of disgust and was given remarkable free reign to editorialise and, well…preach.
I noticed she did not put a single challenging question to any of the environmentalists, but was quite happy to talk all over the woman from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). I mean, I get the programme’s premise but the slightest nod towards impartiality would have been more becoming of the BBC.
As we did the washing up, I asked Alex if the documentary would make him eat less meat.
“Nope,” he said. “But it does make me want to support farmers more.”
I was surprised by this (I promise it had nothing to with me!) I asked him why and jotted down the answer.
He said: “Well, it made me think about the big money drivers of the world. The big companies who don’t give a crap about the environment and the people who just want to make big money.
“The big companies that are connected to farming – they’re the ones who are causing all this. That documentary showed farmers in a really bad light but the farmers I’ve met and spoken to are actually doing really good things for the world.”
So there’s one average viewer who came away blaming the system – not the cows or the farmers. And to be fair, I think that’s what the BBC was aiming for.
Ultimately, I think we’re all a mixture of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We’ve all got a bit of Clint in us but maybe, also, we need to accept our inner Lee Van Cleef. Because vast areas of our planet are turning ugly and only by working together can we save it.
Oh, and Liz? I can love the planet and still eat beef.
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Chapter 164 Tradesmen Licensing
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Municipality of Kingston 5-4-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-4.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
Building construction — See Ch. 60.
Electrical standards — See Ch. 84.
Mechanical standards — See Ch. 121.
Plumbing — See Ch. 133.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 135.
Sewers and drains — See Ch. 147.
Editor's Note: The provisions of this ordinance were originally adopted as Ch. 85, but were renumbered to maintain the alphabetical organization of the Code.
This chapter shall be known as the "Tradesmen Licensing Code."
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BUREAU OF INSPECTION
The Department of Licenses and Inspection.
GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR
A tradesman who engages in construction and remodeling of residential or commercial structures, not including the provision of electrical, plumbing or HVAC services.
HEATING VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC) TRADESMAN
A tradesman who regularly engages in and works in the trade of providing climate control to residential or commercial structures.
MASTER PLUMBER
A master plumber is a person who regularly engages in and works at the plumbing trade, who employs and directs journeyman plumbers and apprentice plumbers, and who is entitled to secure permits for the installation or repair of plumbing.
JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER
A journeyman plumber is a person who regularly engages in and works at the plumbing trade and is employed and supervised by a licensed master plumber.
APPRENTICE PLUMBER
An apprentice plumber is a person who is learning the plumbing trade and is employed and supervised by a licensed master plumber.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in the business or occupations of plumber, HVAC or general building contractor shall apply to the Bureau of Inspection for a license and registration as herein required.
An individual applying to the Bureau of Inspection for a license and registration to engage in the business or occupation of plumber or HVAC professional shall provide evidence of licensing from a first, second or third class city in Pennsylvania, Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, or such other jurisdiction that shall have administered testing evidencing knowledge of necessary and appropriate codes and proficiency in the aforementioned trades. The Bureau of Licensing shall determine the adequacy and sufficiency of the credentials and the testing jurisdiction.
Furthermore, said applicant shall supply the Bureau of Inspection with a copy of his or her public liability and property damage insurance policy or policies indicating coverage in the amount of $300,000 and $500,000 for public liability and $50,000 for property damage. The applicant shall pay the Municipality of Kingston the fee identified in this chapter, upon which payment a license shall be issued for a period of one year.
An individual seeking a license as a general building contractor in the Municipality of Kingston shall present himself or herself before the Bureau of Inspection at a time and place fixed by the Bureau, wherein his or her qualifications and knowledge shall be inquired into. If the Bureau of Inspection shall find, upon due examination, that the applicant presenting himself or herself has a reasonable knowledge of construction codes and proper building techniques and skills and is possessed of skill and knowledge in matters pertaining to the construction of residential and/or commercial structures, then the Bureau of Inspection upon proof of the payment of the fee herein provided, and upon filing with the Bureau of Inspection a copy of his or her public liability and property damage insurance policy or policies indicating coverage in the amount of $300,000 and $500,000 for public liability and $50,000 for property damage shall issue to said person a general building contractors license.
Application for licenses shall be accompanied by proof that the proper fee, has been paid to the Borough Treasury as follows:
General building contractor license
HVAC professional
All licenses shall expire December 31 of the year issued.
Any applicant who is unsuccessful in passing the examination prescribed by the Bureau of Inspection will be permitted to take a reexamination not less than 30 days after the date of the unsuccessful examination.
Any licensee desiring to continue to practice the profession or trade for the year following the expiration of the current license shall, between the first and 31st day of December of each and every year, surrender the current license for the then-current year to the Bureau of Inspection, which shall forthwith, upon proof of the payment of the proper fee hereinafter provided, filing of a copy of current required insurance policy or policies regarding public liability and property damage, issue to the applicant a license for the ensuing year.
An appeal from any decision of the Bureau of Inspection may be taken to the Appeals Board. Such board shall be the same board as established as an Appeals Board relating to the uniform construction code. Such appeal shall be made in writing within 10 days after such decision has been made, shall be verified by affidavit and filed with the Municipal Secretary. A hearing shall be scheduled by the Appeals Board within 30 days after the appeal has been filed. The appellant or his representative shall have the right to appear and be heard, if such right is requested in the written appeal. The decision on such appeal should be made by the Appeals Board within 10 days after the hearing. The decision of the Appeals Board on such appeals shall be in writing, copies of which shall be served on the Board of Licensing and the appellant.
A fee of $50 shall be payable in advance to the Municipal Treasurer for each appeal taken to the Appeals Board from a decision of the Board of Licensing to cover the cost of notices and hearing of the appeal. This fee shall be refundable to the appellant in such instances when the Appeals Board reverses the decision of the Board of Licensing.
Any person who shall perform any work as a tradesman subject to licensing of this provision, or who shall fail to comply with the lawful regulations, order and direction of the Board of Licensing shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a fine or penalty not exceeding $300 for each and every offense, or undergo imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both; and, whenever such person shall have been notified by the Board of Licensing, or by service of summons in prosecution, or in any other way, that he or she is committing such violations of this chapter, each day in which he or she shall continue such violations after such notification shall constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty. Such fines or penalties shall be collected as like fines or penalties are now by law collected.
The provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable, and if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections, sentences, clauses or phrases of this chapter, but the same shall remain in full force and effect, it being the intent that this chapter shall stand, notwithstanding the invalidity of any part thereof. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1193 |
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Network Working Group N. Freed Request for Comments: 2278 Innosoft BCP: 19 J. Postel Category: Best Current Practice ISI January 1998 IANA Charset Registration Procedures Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
MIME [RFC-2045, RFC-2046, RFC-2047, RFC-2184] and various other modern Internet protocols are capable of using many different charsets. This in turn means that the ability to label different charsets is essential. This registration procedure exists solely to associate a specific name or names with a given charset and to give an indication of whether or not a given charset can be used in MIME text objects. In particular, the general applicability and appropriateness of a given registered charset is a protocol issue, not a registration issue, and is not dealt with by this registration procedure.
2. Definitions and Notation
The following sections define various terms used in this document.
2.1. Requirements Notation
This document occasionally uses terms that appear in capital letters. When the terms "MUST", "SHOULD", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD NOT", and "MAY" appear capitalized, they are being used to indicate particular requirements of this specification. A discussion of the meanings of these terms appears in [RFC-2119]. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 1]
RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998
2.2. Character
A member of a set of elements used for the organisation, control, or representation of data.
2.3. Charset
The term "charset" (see historical note below) is used here to refer to a method of converting a sequence of octets into a sequence of characters. This conversion may also optionally produce additional control information such as directionality indicators. Note that unconditional and unambiguous conversion in the other direction is not required, in that not all characters may be representable by a given charset and a charset may provide more than one sequence of octets to represent a particular sequence of characters. This definition is intended to allow charsets to be defined in a variety of different ways, from simple single-table mappings such as US-ASCII to complex table switching methods such as those that use ISO 2022's techniques, to be used as charsets. However, the definition associated with a charset name must fully specify the mapping to be performed. In particular, use of external profiling information to determine the exact mapping is not permitted. HISTORICAL NOTE: The term "character set" was originally used in MIME to describe such straightforward schemes as US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 which consist of a small set of characters and a simple one-to-one mapping from single octets to single characters. Multi-octet character encoding schemes and switching techniques make the situation much more complex. As such, the definition of this term was revised to emphasize both the conversion aspect of the process, and the term itself has been changed to "charset" to emphasize that it is not, after all, just a set of characters. A discussion of these issues as well as specification of standard terminology for use in the IETF appears in RFC 2130.
2.4. Coded Character Set
A Coded Character Set (CCS) is a mapping from a set of abstract characters to a set of integers. Examples of coded character sets are ISO 10646 [ISO-10646], US-ASCII [US-ASCII], and the ISO-8859 series [ISO-8859]. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 2]
2.5. Character Encoding Scheme
A Character Encoding Scheme (CES) is a mapping from a Coded Character Set or several coded character sets to a set of octets. A given CES is typically associated with a single CCS; for example, UTF-8 applies only to ISO 10646.
3. Registration Requirements
Registered charsets are expected to conform to a number of requirements as described below.
3.1. Required Characteristics
Registered charsets MUST conform to the definition of a "charset" given above. In addition, charsets intended for use in MIME content types under the "text" top-level type must conform to the restrictions on that type described in RFC 2045. All registered charsets MUST note whether or not they are suitable for use in MIME. All charsets which are constructed as a composition of a CCS and a CES MUST either include the CCS and CES they are based on in their registration or else cite a definition of their CCS and CES that appears elsewhere. All registered charsets MUST be specified in a stable, openly available specification. Registration of charsets whose specifications aren't stable and openly available is forbidden.
3.2. New Charsets
This registration mechanism is not intended to be a vehicle for the definition of entirely new charsets. This is due to the fact that the registration process does NOT contain adequate review mechanisims for such undertakings. As such, only charsets defined by other processes and standards bodies, or specific profiles of such charsets, are eligible for registration.
3.3. Naming Requirements
One or more names MUST be assigned to all registered charsets. Multiple names for the same charset are permitted, but if multiple names are assigned a single primary name for the charset MUST be identified. All other names are considered to be aliases for the primary name and use of the primary name is preferred over use of any of the aliases. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 3]
RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998 Each assigned name MUST uniquely identify a single charset. All charset names MUST be suitable for use as the value of a MIME content type charset parameter and hence MUST conform to MIME parameter value syntax. This applies even if the specific charset being registered is not suitable for use with the "text" media type. Finally, charsets being registered for use with the "text" media type MUST have a primary name that conforms to the more restrictive syntax of the charset field in MIME encoded-words [RFC-2047, RFC-2184] and MIME extended parameter values [RFC-2184]. A combined ABNF definition for such names is as follows: mime-charset = 1*<Any CHAR except SPACE, CTLs, and cspecials> cspecials = "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" / "," / ";" / ":" / " <"> / "/" / "[" / "]" / "?" / "." / "=" / "*" CHAR = <any ASCII character> ; ( 0-177, 0.-127.) SPACE = <ASCII SP, space> ; ( 40, 32.) CTL = <any ASCII control ; ( 0- 37, 0.- 31.) character and DEL> ; ( 177, 127.)
3.4. Functionality Requirement
Charsets must function as actual charsets: Registration of things that are better thought of as a transfer encoding, as a media type, or as a collection of separate entities of another type, is not allowed. For example, although HTML could theoretically be thought of as a charset, it is really better thought of as a media type and as such it cannot be registered as a charset.
3.5. Usage and Implementation Requirements
Use of a large number of charsets in a given protocol may hamper interoperability. However, the use of a large number of undocumented and/or unlabelled charsets hampers interoperability even more. A charset should therefore be registered ONLY if it adds significant functionality that is valuable to a large community, OR if it documents existing practice in a large community. Note that charsets registered for the second reason should be explicitly marked as being of limited or specialized use and should only be used in Internet messages with prior bilateral agreement.
3.6. Publication Requirements
Charset registrations can be published in RFCs, however, RFC publication is not required to register a new charset. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 4]
RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998 The registration of a charset does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the IANA, IESG, or IETF, or even certification that the specification is adequate. It is expected that applicability statements for particular applications will be published from time to time that recommend implementation of, and support for, charsets that have proven particularly useful in those contexts.
3.7. MIBenum Requirements
Each registered charset MUST also be assigned a unique enumerated integer value. These "MIBenum" values are defined by and used in the Printer MIB [RFC-1759]. A MIBenum value for each charset will be assigned by IANA at the time of registration.
4. Registration Procedure
The following procedure has been implemented by the IANA for review and approval of new charsets. This is not a formal standards process, but rather an administrative procedure intended to allow community comment and sanity checking without excessive time delay.
4.1. Present the Charset to the Community
Send the proposed charset registration to the "ietf- charsets@iana.org" mailing list. This mailing list has been established for the sole purpose of reviewing proposed charset registrations. Proposed charsets are not formally registered and must not be used; the "x-" prefix specified in RFC 2045 can be used until registration is complete. The intent of the public posting is to solicit comments and feedback on the definition of the charset and the name chosen for it over a two week period.
4.2. Charset Reviewer
When the two week period has passed and the registration proposer is convinced that consensus has been achieved, the registration application should be submitted to IANA and the charset reviewer. The charset reviewer, who is appointed by the IETF Applications Area Director(s), either approves the request for registration or rejects it. Rejection may occur because of significant objections raised on the list or objections raised externally. If the charset reviewer considers the registration sufficiently important and controversial, a last call for comments may be issued to the full IETF. The charset Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 5]
RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998 reviewer may also recommend standards track processing (before or after registration) when that appears appropriate and the level of specification of the charset is adequate. Decisions made by the reviewer must be posted to the ietf-charsets mailing list within 14 days. Decisions made by the reviewer may be appealed to the IESG.
4.3. IANA Registration
Provided that the charset registration has either passed review or has been successfully appealed to the IESG, the IANA will register the charset, assign a MIBenum value, and make its registration available to the community.
5. Location of Registered Charset List
Charset registrations will be posted in the anonymous FTP file "ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets" and all registered charsets will be listed in the periodically issued "Assigned Numbers" RFC [currently RFC-1700]. The description of the charset may also be published as an Informational RFC by sending it to "rfc-editor@isi.edu" (please follow the instructions to RFC authors [RFC-2223]).
6. Registration Template
To: ietf-charsets@iana.org Subject: Registration of new charset Charset name(s): (All names must be suitable for use as the value of a MIME content- type parameter.) Published specification(s): (A specification for the charset must be openly available that accurately describes what is being registered. If a charset is defined as a composition of a CCS and a CES then these defintions must either be included or referenced.) Person & email address to contact for further information: Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 6]
This registration procedure is not known to raise any sort of security considerations that are appreciably different from those already existing in the protocols that employ registered charsets.
[ISO-2022] International Standard -- Information Processing -- Character Code Structure and Extension Techniques, ISO/IEC 2022:1994, 4th ed. [ISO-8859] International Standard -- Information Processing -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Part 1: Latin Alphabet No. 1, ISO 8859-1:1987, 1st ed. - Part 2: Latin Alphabet No. 2, ISO 8859-2:1987, 1st ed. - Part 3: Latin Alphabet No. 3, ISO 8859-3:1988, 1st ed. - Part 4: Latin Alphabet No. 4, ISO 8859-4:1988, 1st ed. - Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic Alphabet, ISO 8859-5:1988, 1st ed. - Part 6: Latin/Arabic Alphabet, ISO 8859-6:1987, 1st ed. - Part 7: Latin/Greek Alphabet, ISO 8859-7:1987, 1st ed. - Part 8: Latin/Hebrew Alphabet, ISO 8859-8:1988, 1st ed. - Part 9: Latin Alphabet No. 5, ISO/IEC 8859-9:1989, 1st ed. International Standard -- Information Technology -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Part 10: Latin Alphabet No. 6, ISO/IEC 8859-10:1992, 1st ed. [ISO-10646] ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993(E), "Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane", JTC1/SC2, 1993. [RFC-2048] Freed, N., Klensin, J., and J. Postel, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures", RFC 2048, November 1996. [RFC-1700] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC 1700, October 1994. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 7]
RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998 [RFC-1759] Smith, R., Wright, F., Hastings, T., Zilles, S., and J. Gyllenskog, "Printer MIB", RFC 1759, March 1995. [RFC-2045] Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996. [RFC-2046] Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046, November 1996. [RFC-2047] Moore, K., "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Representation of Non-Ascii Text in Internet Message Headers", RFC 2047, November 1996. [RFC-2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC-2130] Weider, C., Preston, C., Simonsen, K., Alvestrand, H., Atkinson, R., Crispin, M., and P. Svanberg, "Report from the IAB Character Set Workshop", RFC 2130, April 1997. [RFC-2184] Freed, N., and K. Moore, "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations", RFC 2184, August 1997. [US-ASCII] Coded Character Set -- 7-Bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986. Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 8]
9. Authors' Addresses
Ned Freed Innosoft International, Inc. 1050 Lakes Drive West Covina, CA 91790 USA Phone: +1 626 919 3600 Fax: +1 626 919 3614 EMail: ned.freed@innosoft.com Jon Postel USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA Phone: +1 310 822 1511 Fax: +1 310 823 6714 EMail: Postel@ISI.EDU Freed & Postel Best Current Practice [Page 9]
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__label__wiki | 0.516233 | 0.516233 | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvMTkwNzIyOS1vdmVydmlldw==\nDrugs & Diseases > Sports Medicine\nAuthor: Craig C Young, MD; Chief Editor: Sherwin SW Ho, MD more...\nSections Ankle Sprain\nEvaluation for Chronic Instability\nWorkup\nApproach Considerations\nPlain Radiographic Imaging\nStress-View Radiographic Imaging\nComputed Tomography Scanning\nArthrographic Imaging\nBone Scanning\nConservative Therapy for Acute Sprain\nAnkle taping\nPain Control for Acute Sprain\nConservative Therapy for Chronic Sprain\nIndications for Surgical Intervention\nWhen to Return to Normal Activity\nLong-Term Complications\nMedication Summary\nNonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs\nAn ankle sprain is usually that of an inversion-type twist of the foot, followed by pain and swelling. The most commonly injured site is the lateral ankle complex, which is composed of the anterior talofibular, calcaneofibular, and posterior talofibular ligaments. [1, 2, 3, 4]\nSigns and symptoms of an ankle sprain include the following:\nPain/tenderness\nCold foot or paresthesia (possible neurovascular compromise) [1]\nSee Clinical Presentation for more detail.\nThe physical examination confirms a diagnosis made on the basis of patient history and differentiates an ankle sprain from a fracture. Examination in patients may include the following tests:\nAnterior drawer test: To assess for ankle instability (see the image below)\nAnterior drawer test.\nProne anterior drawer test: Also tests for ligamentous instability\nTalar tilt test (or inversion stress maneuver): To assess integrity of the calcaneofibular ligament (see the image below)\nTalar tilt test.\nExternal rotation test: To evaluate the integrity of the syndesmotic ligaments\nKleiger test: Variation of the external rotation test; to assess the integrity of the deltoid ligament\nSqueeze test (or fibular compression test): To evaluate for syndesmotic or fibular injury\nNeurovascular evaluation: To assess neurovascular status of the affected limb\nImaging studies\nThe following radiologic studies may be used to evaluate ankle sprains:\nPlain radiography: Guided by the Ottawa Ankle Rules to diagnose ankle or foot fractures\nStress-view radiography: May provide further assessment for ankle stability; accuracy of study increases with use of local anesthesia\nComputed tomography scanning: May be indicated for imaging of soft tissues or for bone imaging beyond radiography; useful for evaluating osteochondritis dissecans and stress fractures\nMagnetic resonance imaging: May be useful to assess a suspected syndesmotic or high ankle sprain or if osteochondrosis or meniscoid injury is suspected in patients with a history of recurrent ankle sprains and chronic pain [5, 6]\nAnkle arthrography: May be useful for determining capsular damage and the number of ankle ligaments damaged\nBone scanning: To detect subtle bone abnormalities (eg, stress fracture, osteochondral defects) and syndesmotic disruptions\nSee Workup for more detail.\nConservative therapy\nConservative therapy for acute ankle sprains may be described by the acronyms RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) and PRICES (combination of protection, relative rest, ice, compression, elevation, and support). Protective devices include air splints or plastic and Velcro braces. Ankle taping can also increase ankle stability, but its effectiveness is highly dependent on the expertise of the individual who performs the taping.\nPhysical therapy during the recovery phase is aimed at the patient regaining full range of motion, strength, and proprioceptive abilities, and may include the following:\nStrengthening exercises: Starts with isometric exercises, then advances to use of elastic bands or surgical tubing\nProprioception rehabilitation: Starts with single-leg-stance exercise in a single plane, then progresses to multiplanar exercises\nOther exercises: Uses a balance or tilt board, then advances to functional drills, jogging, sprinting, and cutting, and then progresses to figure-of-eight and carioca drills [7]\nThe following medications are used in the management of ankle sprain:\nAnalgesics (eg, acetaminophen)\nNonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (eg, ibuprofen, naproxen)\nIn most patients, there is no improved outcome with operative repair of third-degree anterior talofibular ligament tears and medial ankle ligament tears.\nIndications for operative intervention in patients with an ankle sprain include the following:\nDistal talofibular ligament third-degree sprain that causes widening of the ankle mortise\nDeltoid sprain with the deltoid ligament caught intra-articularly and with widening of the medial ankle mortise\nIn selected young patients with high athletic demands who have both anterior talofibular and calcaneofibular complete ruptures\nSurgical procedures for chronic ankle instability and sprains include the Watson-Jones procedure, the Evans procedure, and the Chrisman-Snook procedure.\nSee Treatment and Medication for more detail.\nThe history of an ankle sprain is usually that of an inversion-type twist of the foot followed by pain and swelling. An individual with an ankle sprain can almost always walk on the foot, albeit carefully and with pain.\nIn an individual with normal local sensation and cerebral function, the ability to walk on the foot usually excludes a fracture. (See Clinical Presentation.) Suspect neurovascular compromise if the patient reports a cold foot or describes paresthesias. [1] Bone tenderness in the posterior half of the lower 6 cm of the fibula or tibia and the inability to bear weight immediately after the injury and in the emergency department are indications to obtain radiographic imaging. These Ottawa ankle rules have been validated for patients aged 5-55 years. [8, 9]\nAnkle sprains are classified into the following 3 grades:\nGrade 1 injuries involve a stretch of the ligament with microscopic tearing but not macroscopic tearing. Generally, little swelling is present, with little or no functional loss and no joint instability. The patient is able to fully or partially bear weight.\nGrade 2 injuries stretch the ligament with partial tearing, moderate-to-severe swelling, ecchymosis, moderate functional loss, and mild-to-moderate joint instability. Patients usually have difficulty bearing weight.\nGrade 3 injuries involve complete rupture of the ligament, with immediate and severe swelling, ecchymosis, an inability to bear weight, and moderate-to-severe instability of the joint. Typically, patients cannot bear weight without experiencing severe pain.\nDrawer and talar tilt examination techniques are used to assess ankle instability; however, the use of these techniques in acute injuries is in question because of pain, edema, and muscle spasm.\nPain reduction is essential, but improvement of any loss of motion, strength, and/or proprioception is equally important. [10, 11, 12] Rest, ice, compression, and elevation (ie, RICE) are the mainstays of acute treatment; more comprehensively, the combination of protection, relative rest, ice, compression, elevation, and support (PRICES) is used. [1] (See Treatment.)\nPhysical therapy during the recovery phase is aimed at the patient regaining full range of motion (ROM), strength, and proprioceptive abilities.\nFor recurrent lateral ankle sprains, treatment should begin with a trial of conservative therapy for approximately 2-3 months. The recurrence rate for lateral ankle sprains has been reported to be as high as 80%. [13, 14]\nIt is generally accepted that for most patients, operative repair of third-degree anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) tears and medial ankle ligament tears does not contribute to an improved outcome. One of the few absolute indications for surgery in patients with a sprained ankle is a distal talofibular ligament third-degree sprain that causes widening of the ankle mortise. A second indication is a deltoid sprain with the deltoid ligament caught intra-articularly and with widening of the medial ankle mortise.\nThe ankle joint is a hinged synovial joint with primarily up-and-down movement (plantar flexion and dorsiflexion). The other joints around the ankle are responsible for other movements, giving the ankle a total range of motion (ROM) comparable to that of a ball and socket. The combined movement in the dorsiflexion and plantarflexion directions is greater than 100°; bone-on-bone abutment beyond this range protects the anterior and posterior ankle capsular ligaments from injury. The anterior and posterior ankle capsular ligaments are relatively thin compared with the medial and lateral ankle ligaments.\nThe lateral ankle complex, which is composed of the anterior talofibular, calcaneofibular, and posterior talofibular ligaments, is the most commonly injured site. [1, 2, 3, 4] Approximately 85% of such sprains are inversion sprains of the lateral ligaments, 5% are eversion sprains of the deltoid or medial ligament, and 10% are syndesmotic injuries. The ATFL is the most likely component of the lateral ankle complex to be injured in a lateral ankle sprain. Osteochondral or chondral injuries of the talar dome should be considered when diagnosing an ankle injury.\nDuring forced dorsiflexion, the PTFL can rupture. With forced internal rotation, ATFL rupture is followed by injury to the PTFL. Extreme external rotation disrupts the deep deltoid ligament on the medial side, and adduction in neutral and dorsiflexed positions can disrupt the CFL. In plantarflexion, the ATFL can be injured.\nThe strongest ankle capsule-ligament complex is the deltoid ligament, which has 2 parts: the superficial component and the deep component. The superficial component runs the farthest from the medial malleolus to the medial aspect of the calcaneus, posteriorly. The medial malleolus usually fractures before the deltoid ligament fails mechanically.\nAnkle spurs may occur at any of the bony ligament attachments. On lateral radiographs, it is not uncommon to see an anterior spur at the neck of the talus, where the anterior ankle capsule attaches. This is caused by ossification of the hematoma organization associated with anterior ligament sprains.\nBecause of its great strength, the syndesmotic ligament, which has a deep portion between the bones and superficial, anterior, and posterior portions, is rarely sprained. This distal tibiofibular ligament holds the distal tibia and fibular bones together at the ankle joint and maintains the integrity of the ankle mortise. It takes a great amount of force to strain this ligament, which normally does not have much excursion. A significant tear of this ligament requires surgical treatment. Severe posttraumatic arthritis of the tibiotalar joint (ankle) can result quickly if a syndesmosis tear remains unrecognized and untreated. A syndesmotic ligament tear is usually a part of an ankle fracture that needs to be treated specifically. This is not generally true of the other ankle ligament tears.\nMechanical forces exceeding the tensile limits of the ankle joint capsule and supportive ligaments cause ankle sprains.\nThere are a number of contributing factors, which can be classified as either predisposing or provocative, as follows:\nPredisposing factors can result from a lack of physical conditioning; they include poor muscle tone and shortened and/or contracted joint capsule or tendons. Poor proprioception can also be a factor, as can inadequate training or experience with the physical activity being performed.\nProvocative factors include accidents and other unforeseen circumstances that result in mechanical stresses that exceed the tensile limits of the ankle joint capsule and ligaments. Obesity can contribute to sprains by increasing kinetic energy to a point that exceeds joint-design stress limits.\nA cohort study analyzed risk factors in ankle injuries from the Cadet Illness and Injury Tracking System (CIITS) database at the United States Military Academy (USMA) from 2005-2009. The results found higher risk of syndesmotic ankle sprains in males who performed at a higher level of athletic competition; male athletes were 3 times more likely to experience medial ankle sprains than female athletes. [15]\nRecurrent sprains\nThe exact etiology of recurrent ankle sprains is unknown; however, many factors may play a role.\nOne possibility is that recurrent sprains result primarily from ligaments healing in a lengthened position due to scar tissue filling in the gap between the torn, separated ends. Furthermore, the weakness of the healed ligament may be due to the inherent weakness of the scar.\nIn a study by Bosien et al, 22% of patients with recurrent ankle sprains had persistent peroneal weakness. [16] The authors believed that this contributed to recurrent injury, especially in incompletely rehabilitated ankle sprains.\nAn unrecognized disruption of the distal tibiofibular ligament has been cited as a potential culprit. This condition is diagnosed based on tenderness over the anterior syndesmosis and pain when the fibula is squeezed against the tibia at midshaft, with dorsiflexion and external rotation or with excessive medial-lateral motion of the tibiotalar joint.\nFreeman et al suspected that functional instability that resulted in recurrent sprains was secondary to loss of proprioception in the foot. [17] Mechanoreceptors and their afferent nerve fibers have been shown to exist in the ligaments and capsule of the ankle. Furthermore, disruption of the ligaments and joint capsule with a grade 3 sprain (a complete ligament tear; see Clinical Presentation) leads to impairment of the reflex stabilization of the foot, causing the foot to give way. [18] In addition, dysfunction of the peroneal nerve can result in delayed muscle response, causing a delay in the activation of the peroneal muscles and leading to functional instability.\nImpingement by the distal fascicle of the AITF ligament and/or impingement of the capsular scar tissue in the talofibular joint is another cause, and hereditary hypermobility of joints is an additional suggested etiologic factor.\nMost ankle sprains are probably self-treated and are never reported to a health care provider; therefore, many ankle sprains are not documented. Sprained ankles have been estimated to constitute up to 30% of injuries seen in sports medicine clinics and are the most frequently seen musculoskeletal injury seen by primary care providers. [19] More than 23,000 people per day in the United States, including athletes and nonathletes, require medical care for ankle sprains. Stated another way, incident cases have been estimated at 1 case per 10,000 persons per day. [20] A U.S. Army study found that ankle sprains are the most common foot and ankle injury in active-duty Army personal with a rate of 103 sprains per 1000 persons per year. [21]\nFemale athletes are 25% more likely to sustain ankle injuries than male athletes. Female basketball players are at a higher risk of a first-time inversion injury than those participating in other sports. [22] Soccer and volleyball are other leading causes of ankle sprains in high school and college female athletes. [23, 24] Some studies attribute a higher incidence of ankle injuries in high school football, basketball, and soccer players. [23, 25, 26] Other studies conclude that in college men, the risk of suffering an ankle sprain appears to be similar with basketball, soccer, and football. [22]\nAnkle injuries are very common, with ankle sprain being the most common injury. Most individuals have complete recovery; however, a substantial number have chronic problems that usually lead to modification of physical activity. [27]\nThe prognosis for isolated and adequately treated ankle sprains is excellent. The prognosis for a patient with ankle sprains and other traumatic injuries is related to the prognosis for the other injuries.\nIn a systematic literature review, 36-85% of patients with acute ankle sprains reported full recovery at 2 weeks to 36 months, independent of the initial grade of sprain, [28] with most recovery occurring within the first 6 months. [29] After 12 months, the risk of recurrent ankle sprain returns to preinjury levels. [30] However, 3-34% of patients reported re-sprains at 2 weeks to 96 months after the initial injury. Furthermore, after 3 years, some patients still had residual pain and instability. One risk factor for residual symptoms seems to be participation in competitive sports. [28]\nIf recurrent ankle sprains are treated early and appropriate rehabilitation is initiated, the prognosis is excellent with conservative treatment. [31, 32, 33] The prognosis becomes even more important to consider for patients who require surgical correction. Reconstructive procedures can vary significantly in their ability to correct any persistent instability.\nWith respect to chronic syndesmotic sprains, long-term outcome studies are few in number. In a study conducted at West Point, all patients who were studied returned to full duty without further problems. One of these patients was surgically treated, and all had full ROM of the ankle. [34]\nIn 6 cases of frank diastasis over 4- to 60-month follow-up, 4 cases had good results, and 2 had fair results in that the patients had residual mild ankle pain and restricted ROM, according to Edwards and DeLee. There was 1 case of postoperative skin slough that healed uneventfully, and 1 fixation device failed. [35]\nIn 5 patients with subacute or chronic syndesmotic injury, all of the affected ankles achieved fusion with no complications within 10 weeks, in a study by Katznelson et al. Each patient was treated with operative stabilization and bone grafting to the tibiofibular joint, which formed a synostosis. One patient developed traumaticosteoporosis that resolved in 6 months; this patient had mild loss of dorsiflexion. [36]\nResults are limited for subtalar instability, because this condition is mostly recognized during surgery for chronic lateral ligamentous instability. Most of the available results are intermingled with the results of lateral ankle procedures.\nChrisman and Snook had 3 patients with subtalar and ankle instability that were treated by their eponymous procedure. [37] One patient had a failed Watson-Jones procedure with persistent instability. The 3 patients with subtalar instability had a 20° limitation of inversion compared with the opposite, normal side. These patients had no symptoms of instability at 2- to 6 year follow-up. [38]\nPosttraumatic osteoarthritis is common in patients with repetitive ankle injuries. One study estimates that approximately 12% of the overall prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) is in fact posttraumatic OA of the hip, knee, or ankle. The financial burden is significant, estimated at $3.06 billion dollars annually. [39]\nReview the self-care techniques of acute sprain with patients so that they can take an active part in their care. Teach them the mnemonic PRICES, as follows:\nRelative rest\nProvide patients with information on when to call for advice. 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Courtesy of Swede-O, Inc.\nExample of a brace that can be used for functional purposes. Courtesy of Swede-O, Inc.\nExample of a brace secured with Velcro straps. Courtesy of Swede-O, Inc.\nExample of a lace-up ankle support brace with figure-8 straps. Courtesy of Swede-O, Inc.\nCraig C Young, MD Professor, Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Community and Family Medicine, Medical Director of Sports Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin\nCraig C Young, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Sports Medicine, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa\nSherwin SW Ho, MD Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Section of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences, The Pritzker School of Medicine\nSherwin SW Ho, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, Herodicus Society, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine\nDisclosure: Received consulting fee from Biomet, Inc. for speaking and teaching; Received grant/research funds from Smith and Nephew for fellowship funding; Received grant/research funds from DJ Ortho for course funding; Received grant/research funds from Athletico Physical Therapy for course, research funding; Received royalty from Biomet, Inc. for consulting.\nMichael T Andary, MD, MS Professor, Residency Program Director, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine\nMichael T Andary, MD, MS is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Medical Association, and Association of Academic Physiatrists\nDisclosure: Allergan Honoraria Speaking and teaching\nDavid T Bernhardt, MD Director of Adolescent and Sports Medicine Fellowship, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics/Ortho and Rehab, Division of Sports Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health\nDavid T Bernhardt, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Sports Medicine, and American Medical Society for Sports Medicine\nEdward Bessman, MD, MBA Chairman and Clinical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; 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__label__wiki | 0.534298 | 0.534298 | This is the iPhone 6
By alexchoros
Apple today announced the latest iterations of its flagship smartphone, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. As rumoured, Apple announced both a 4.7-inch iPhone 6, and a 5.5-inch iPhone, now officially known as the iPhone 6 Plus.
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Both handsets feature "Retina HD" resolution displays; the iPhone 6 will boast a resolution of 1334 x 750 pixels, where as the iPhone 6 Plus's resolution is 1920 x 1080 – full HD.
The two new phones are the thinnest iPhones Apple has made; the iPhone 6 is just 6.9mm thin, and the iPhone 6 Plus is a mere .2mm thicker. The iPhone 5s was 7.6mm thick.
In Apple's keynote, the iPhone 6 was described as having a processor 50 times faster than that featured in the original iPhone, and graphic capabilities that are 84 times faster. Battery life of the iPhone 6 was described as being better or equal to that of the iPhone 5s: 14 hours of talk time, 10 days of standby, 10 hours of internet usage, 11 of video playback and 50 of audio playback. The iPhone 6 Plus is said to provide 24 hours of talk, 16 days of standby, 12 hours of internet usage, 14 of video playback and 80 of audio playback.
Other improvements include NFC for Apple's newly introduced mobile payments solution, improved front and back facing cameras, and faster 4G connectivity.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available for pre-order from September 12, and will go on sale September 19. Australian pricing is as follows:
16GB iPhone 6 – $869.00
128GB iPhone 6 – $1,129.00
16GB iPhone 6 Plus – $999.00
64GB iPhone 6 Plus – $1,190.00
128GB iPhone 6 Plus – $1,249.00
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__label__wiki | 0.566613 | 0.566613 | You’ve Come a Long Way Peggy Olson
By sallyedelstein / July 1, 2013 / Consumers, Women / 5 comments
Mad Men’s Peggy Olson Big Time Career Girl (R) Vintage DC Comics
“This is the big chance I’ve been waiting for! I mustn’t fail this time! Not love or anything else is going to keep me from success!”
We have watched with pride as Mad Men’s Peggy Olson has risen from the ranks of treading water in the secretarial pool to swimming with the big fishes on Madison Avenue. As the Mad Men at Sterling Cooper & Partners implode all around her, Peggy’s star is rising. Last seen sitting behind Don Draper’s vacant desk, one wonders, who’s wearing the polyester pant suit now?
You’ve come a long way, Peggy Olson, from Miss Deaver’s Secretarial School to head copywriter at SP & Partners.
You’ve Come A Long Way Baby?
In season 5 when Peggy became the new chief copywriter at a rival Madison Avenue agency after leaving Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in the dust, she was handed Phillip Morris’s latest offering to the world of smoking -a cigarette especially for m’lady.
It was a top, secret as yet unnamed women’s cigarette which of course we all know would be the Virginia Slims Cigarette account. These new cigarettes were slimmer than the fat cigarettes men smoke, and were tailored slim to fit a lady’s hand, her lips, and her purse.
This Nov 1968 ad for Virginia Slims with its picture of a turn of the century woman sneaking a smoke, presents the following scenario; “In 1915, Mrs. Cynthia Robinson was caught smoking in the cellar behind the preserves. Although she was 34, her husband sent her straight to her room.”
This was the beginning of Madison Avenue attempt to pander to the “New Woman.”
Mirroring the burgeoning women’s liberation movement , the early campaign themes of feminism and women’s lib carried the slogan “You’ve come a long way baby.”
This September 1968 vintage advertisement for Virginia Slims explains just what this extra long cigarette for women is. The text for the vintage photo of early 20th century women is as follows: “1. Mrs Violet Anderson claims to have smoked her first cigarette on May 19, 1910…in the attic of her grandfathers farmhouse. 2.Cynthia Irene Bell smoked her first cigarette behind the old barn out back on Jan. 4, 1912. It was cold. 3. Myrna F. Phillips confesses she smoked March 4 or 5, 1911 out in the country where only a squirrel and a bird could see her. The others offered ‘no comment.’ You’ve come a long way.”
The formulaic ads followed the same theme-bold images of a glamorous, fashionably dressed liberated woman contrasting with pictures of early 20th century women being reprimanded for being caught smoking by their husband or some other men.
Since it was marketed for the young professional gal, who better to manage this up and coming account than up and comer young professional Peggy Olson, who being single would be willing to work weekends, evenings and holidays.
Vixen by Night
Peggy’s In the Drivers Seat! (R) Vintage ad Body Bu Fisher 1968
But it wasn’t all work for single career girls like Peggy.
Making the scene in groovy go-togethers, her eyes smudged as if with crayolas in iridescent jewel tones of turquoise and sea green, her Yardley slickered lips wet and wild, we got a glimpse this season of Peggy Olson as Vixen by Night. It was clear she was ready to get uninhibited, get liberated and go –go completely Mad!
Coming Attractions 1969
“My place, or yours? Or right here?”
Playboy Magazine Cartoon by John Dempsy
Fast forward to the final season of Mad Men. It will be 1969 and the sexual revolution was about to get into full swing. Romance and motherhood would become so so passé. You’ve come a long way baby…and babies were definitely not in the picture.
Wake up sister, there was a whole new world out there.
Suddenly it was a liberated world of New Freedom and Peggy would be ready to dive right in to the swinging world of singles. Busting out of her cocoon, and swinging in a butterfly sleeved-A lined mini skirt, Peggy would have her pick from the plethora of dimly lit, Tiffany lamped, singles bars that lined Second and First Avenue on the Upper East side of NY, foregoing the watering holes of the wild, wild west of her own Upper West Side neighborhood.
You’ve come a long way from Bay Ridge Brooklyn, Peggy.
Liberated Ladies
Vintage DC Romance Comics
These new liberated ladies were shedding their inhibitions as quickly as they shed their polyester clothes.
There was no place for squares- virginal Sleeping Beauties were a thing of the past. Gone was the bad girl the one who went all the way and wrecked her whole life. Suddenly it seemed it was a Cold War world of Cosmo girls ready to shake your world, a strange new world of pills and panaceas, of living together, of vibrations and of sexual openness.
(L) Cover Cosmopolitan Magazine model Samantha Jones shot by Francesco Scavullo Dec. 1968 (R) Book- The Sensuous New Yorker by Bernhardt Hurwood Award Books
Uninhibited, stepping out in a leggy little Mary Quant slick and shiny vinyl miniskirts these chicks were girdle-free-garter-free-free-to be you-and-me: they were part of the new freedom generation, a beltless, pinless, fussless generation.
Puffing on her pretty as a picture New Eve cigarettes ( like Virginia Slims, cancer made especially for the ladies) the liberated lady lit her own cigarettes and opened her own doors.
On the go, these sensuous women had no time for pregnancy and no time for cramps. With their birth control pills in one hand, their Midol in the other, these grooving chicks in eye-catching EZ care Quiana polyester in get-him-and-keep-him colors were ready for anything in their quest looking for Mr Goodbar in any of the dozens of crowded single bars that sprouted up in cities everywhere
Women’s New Freedom
Women’s Liberation (L) Cover Newsweek Magazine March 1970 “Women in Revolt”
(R) Vintage ad for Massengil Feminine Deodorant Spray “Freedom Now! The ad claimed their product was the better way to be free to enjoy being a woman.” You like freedom don’t you?” they asked.
It didn’t take long before companies began creating products and marketing strategies that exploited the idea of the liberated “new woman.”
A seasoned copywriter and smart cookie like Peggy would likely snag onto the hottest new products being marketed to the liberated lady in 1969. Feminine Hygiene Products. The newly liberated Cosmo Girl could come on strong.
Sexual freedom came at a price.
The drug and cosmetic industry expanded from the underarm deodorant to a more private part of the body. The most “girl part” as they described it. The problem that had no name only 5 years earlier now had a slew on products to help a liberated gal feel confident and feminine.
Feminism and Femininity
(L) Vintage ad for FDS 1969 “This new product will be as essential to you as your toothbrush” (R) DC Romance Comics
By 1969 being confidently close was never nicer. “It’s a freer, more natural, more out in the open world and we’re on you’re side,” the makers of new Feminine Hygiene sprays assured women.
In the body to body environment of the singles scene, competition was fierce.”We know it’s a rough race. And we want you to win!” promised another Feminine spray ad. “Lets face up to the problem like it is. The days of hush-hush are over. Today single and married women have been liberated-in their attire…in their attitudes…in their relationships”
(L) New answer for the intimate embarrassing problems married women face- Vintage 1966 ad for Norforms tiny germicidal suppositories to keep the Mrs. fresh as a daisy
The age-old problem of “intimate embarrassing odor problems” once faced only by married women whose husbands wanted their wife to be feminine…in every sense of the word, was now the sexually active liberated ladies dilemma too.
This was the dawning of the age of FDS.
A welcome new addition to the world of feminine freshness, was this personal deodorant for the ultimate social security. It was, manufacturers were hoping, to become as essential to the new woman’s daily life as a bath and shower.
“Today’s young woman…committed to total femininity is entitled to total confidence,” the ads stated boldly. “With the creation of FDS a whole new era of feminine confidence begins”
Why take a chance Make this your passport to popularity…and to your peace of mind about being a girl. An attractive, nice-to- be- with girl.”
(L) Vintage Ad 1969 Feminique Feminine Hygiene Spray (R) Vintage ad White Horse 1968
Making the scene with FDS was Feminique. Their full-page ad announced provocatively: “ Five years ago most women would have been too embarrassed to read this page”.
“This is a page that will tell you about an external vaginal deodorant spray. A product that would have made your grandmother faint and your mother blush. All it should do to you is make you happy. Very happy.”
“Because now that ‘The Pill’ has freed you from worry, The Spray will help make all that freedom worthwhile.”
“The spray is called Feminique. The name is feminine which is precisely what this product will make you. Feminine in every sense of the word.”
Woman’s New Freedom-Pristeen Is Part Of It
Vintage Pristeen Ads 1969
No one marketed Feminine Hygiene Sprays more aggressively than Pristeen made by Warner Lambert pharmaceuticals.
In 1969 they ran a series of bold ads for the little lady with the headline “Unfortunately the trickiest problem a girl has isn’t under her pretty little arms”.
The text continues: “That was solved a long time ago. The real problem, as you may very well know, is how to keep the most girl part of you- the vaginal area- fresh and free of any worry-making odors.”
“Now finally there is a way. It’s called Pristeen. A brand new vaginal spray deodorant that’s been especially developed to cope with the problem. “(Or create a problem when none really existed)
Vintage Pristeen Ads 1970 Judith Crist talks about woman’s new freedom
The following year in 1970 Pristeen enlisted highly respected movie critic Judith Crist to talk about “woman’s new freedom” and naturally Pristeen is a part of it. As Ms. Crist espouses on the portrayal of the new woman in films, the ad somehow manages to fit Pristeen into the picture with a starring role. “Now that women have the ‘courage’ to look a little different” to behave a bit more honestly”, they want products to do just that…products that didn’t exist even 5 years ago”
By 1970 there were 30 brands of feminine deodorant sprays on the market and Americans were spending well over $67 million annually in an attempt to be more “feminine”.
Copyright (©) 20013 Sally Edelstein All Rights Reserved
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As a young woman ~ in her early to mid-teens ~ in the beginning of the 70’s, I was confused at this sudden onslaught of advertising slapping us right in the face about an “odor problem” that hadn’t existed just a few years prior. Even at 14, I was savvy enough to know that if there was a noticeable (by me, anyway) “odor problem” that didn’t get taken care of by a daily shower allowing the liberal application of soap and water, it was time to go to a doctor, not the topical spray department at the pharmacy. I pretty much figured it was going to be a LONG time before any male was going to have any business being that “up close and personal” or any right to comment on something so incredibly private. Say, after the legal application of the plain gold wedding band, and I had a LOT of things to do before that was going to happen! Besides, if the good Lord had intended for us to smell like a Florist’s Shop “down there” He would have taken care of that from the beginning. Underarms were a little different ~ they were much closer to nose-level than our “whatsits”! So, I never bought into all that floral nonsense, and probably saved myself a whole lot of money and self-inflicted gynecological woes in the process!
I guess I was just blessed with a healthy dose of Common Sense that many of my more self-conscious “Sisters” were not.
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Review: Seahawks 36, Cardinals 6
To be honest I thought we had a very slim chance to win this game. Instead the Seahawks dominated all three phases of the game and delivered an even worse beat down to the Arizona Cardinals than last year’s matchup at University of Phoenix Stadium. I could not be happier to be wrong. The Seahawks ended the regular season on a high note, defeating the Cardinals 36-6 in a game that was never really that close. The Seahawks finish the 2015 regular season 10-6 and will face either the Minnesota Vikings or the Washington Redskins in next week’s Wild-Card playoff game. The Cardinals finish their regular season 13-3 and are locked into the #2 seed in the NFC. They will host a Divisional round playoff game in two weeks. Here now are some brief thoughts about today’s game, as well as my thoughts as we head into the second season.
Bouncing Back and Breaking Records: Although quarterback Russell Wilson only threw for 197 yards, he had yet another three touchdown/no interception day. Wilson completed 68 percent of his passes and had a passer rating of 123.7. Keep in mind he was pulled from the game after only 3 quarters. Wilson also broke two Seahawks records on Sunday. He broke Dave Krieg’s single-season touchdown pass record, ending his regular season with 34 touchdown passes. Wilson also became the first quarterback in franchise history to throw for over 4,000 yards in a season. I am extremely confident in Wilson’s ability to win in the postseason as we enter next week. What will help is the possible return of running back Marshawn Lynch. Wilson has been putting up stats and winning games without a running game. Add Lynch into the fold and even without a weapon like Jimmy Graham our offense now becomes perhaps the strongest it’s been all season.
Defense Forces Turnovers: Jeremy Lane, Earl Thomas, and DeShawn Shead all recorded interceptions on Sunday which gave the Seahawks a +3 turnover differential on the day. Turnovers and the ability to stop Arizona on third down were my two pregame defensive keys and our defense did a tremendous job making both these things happen effectively. The Cardinals finished the day with a third down conversion percentage of 41.6. There was one thing that worried me early on, when the Cardinals had the ball 3rd and 10 in the first quarter. The Seahawks rushed only three guys and Carson Palmer had a clean pocket to work with. He connected with Larry Fitzgerald for 11 yards and a first down. The Seahawks then changed their blitz packages for the rest of the game and rushed no more than 4 guys on any given Arizona third down opportunity. I was glad to see Kris Richard and the defense adjust as the game went on in order to maximize our chances to get the ball back.
Thoughts on Lockett: Today is yet another example of why the Seahawks traded three draft picks to move up in order to draft Tyler Lockett back in May. Lockett became the first player since 2002 to return three punts for at least 30 yards on Sunday. His 139 return yards on the day is the best single-game punt return total for Lockett all season. It really surprised me to see Cardinals punter Drew Butler continually kicking to Lockett. I would have thought after Lockett’s second punt return Arizona may want to start punting the ball out of bounds. Big punt returns will go to great lengths in helping Seattle advance in the playoffs. Let’s hope Lockett keeps this up.
Thoughts on Arizona: Going into this game I thought that if the Seahawks playoff run was going to end short of Super Bowl 50, it would end in Glendale at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals, most likely in a potential NFC Championship Game. After today however, those fears have been erased. Although we steamrolled the Cardinals, more importantly we proved that this team is definitely beatable in Arizona. The Cardinals are a much better team than their effort today showed. This team is still a serious Super Bowl contender and if the Seahawks can stay hot I think there is a very good chance we will be heading back to Glendale later this month.
Random Thoughts: There is something magical about our wolf grey uniforms. We are now 7-0 all-time wearing this combination and we have won those 7 games by an average of 16 points… Cardinals fans seemed to do a better job drowning out the blue and green this season. At the beginning of the game the presence of the 12’s in Arizona wasn’t very noticeable and there was more red in the stands then in prior matchups. Of course, that went away by halftime when the Seahawks had a commanding lead. By the time the game ended it was all Seahawks fans on the lower level it looked like… It’s now playoff time! This is going to be a very fun week(s).
What’s Next: Like I previously noted, the Seahawks will play the Minnesota Vikings or the Washington Redskins next weekend in the Wild-Card round. If the Seahawks are scheduled to play on Saturday, look out for my Wild-Card game preview on Friday morning. If we are scheduled to play Sunday, my preview will be published on Saturday morning.
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, Carson Palmer, Dave Krieg, DeShawn Shead, Drew Butler, Earl Thomas, Jeremy Lane, Jimmy Graham, Kris Richard, Larry Fitzgerald, marshawn lynch, Minnesota Vikings, NFL, NFL Playoffs, Russell Wilson, Seahawks Uniforms, seattle seahawks, Super Bowl 50, Tyler Lockett, University of Phoenix Stadium, Washington Redskins
#10for10 Game #1: The Tip (Seahawks vs. 49ers, 2013 NFC Championship Game)
*To commemorate my 10th season as a Seahawks season ticket holder, I am telling the stories of the top 10 home games I have attended in the past 10 years*
Photo Credit: seahawksdraftblog.com
The Seahawks 2013 season was one nobody in the Pacific Northwest will ever forget. After going 13-3 in the regular season, we advanced all the way to Super Bowl XLVIII. There we defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 to claim our first NFL world championship. If it wasn’t for the events of two weeks prior to the Super Bowl however, the Seahawks would still be Lombardi-less today. The 2013 NFC Championship had it all: Action, suspense, and when it was all said and done, a storybook ending. This is the story of the best Seahawks game I have ever been to.
The day was January 19th, 2014. The Seahawks were hosting the second NFC Championship Game in franchise history and we were one win away from a trip to New York City for the Super Bowl. Game time was slated for 3:30pm and I was taking my dad to the game, so we decided to skip the bar scene on this pivotal Sunday. We headed downtown around 10am and went straight to the Pyramid Alehouse for lunch. The place was already packed so we stood at a table inside the bar. I sipped on a few Pyramid Hefeweizens and enjoyed a plate of fish and chips. We watched the first half of the AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos and were joined in the late afternoon once again by my friend James and his brother Lane. James and I had airfare and hotel reservations to New York already booked just in case the Seahawks won. As we watched the game we talked about how excited we were to potentially head east for the Super Bowl and we briefly discussed things we might want to do when back there. I don’t call this overconfidence but when the opportunity presented itself we couldn’t help but talk about our potential vacation. We left Pyramid shortly before 2pm and headed straight into the stadium. Once we got our tickets scanned were all given a white “We Are 12” rally towel. My dad and I departed James and Lane and the two of us headed straight up to my seats.
James and I on the main concourse prior to kickoff
When we hosted the NFC Championship Game 8 years prior I distinctly remember every fan being in their seats before the Seahawks had even ended pregame warmups and this game was no different. The Seahawks huddled up before heading back to the locker room one last time and 68,000 fans hollered to ear-shattering levels while waving their towels. We were ready. The Seahawks went the extra mile to pump up the crowd. Before the Seahawks were introduced, they played the Derrick Coleman Duracell commercial on the video screens. Towards the end of the commercial Coleman, who narrates the commercial says “and now I’m here with the loudest fans in the NFL cheering me on… and I can hear them all.” The video got the fans even more crazed. To this day I have scoured YouTube and various video websites to try to find video of the Coleman commercial played before the game and I have not been successful. It is a moment that will be difficult for me to forget.
After the 49ers took the field the Seahawks were introduced and the starting defense got their chance to run out of the tunnel individually. Richard Sherman was the first member of the Legion of Boom to take the field and deafening roar of the crowd lasted through the introductions of Byron Maxwell, Kam Chancellor, and Earl Thomas. After Heart’s Ann Wilson performed the national anthem, owner Paul Allen raised the 12th Man flag just like he did before the ’05 NFC title game. The Seahawks were going to start the game with the ball.
On the first play of the game the Seahawks wanted to go for it all. The call was a play action pass. Russell Wilson faked the handoff to Marshawn Lynch and dropped back seven, looking deep down the field. He scrambled to his left and as he tried to tuck the ball away it was stripped and recovered by the 49ers Aldon Smith. After one play the Seahawks had turned the ball over deep inside San Francisco territory. I remember having a blank stare on my face and everyone around me had the exact same expression. “What the f**k was that?” was what was on my mind and multiple people in my vicinity shouted that exact same thought for everyone to hear. Fortunately Colin Kaepernick could not put the 49ers in the endzone following the turnover. We held the 49ers to a field goal and they took a 3-0 lead. Things did not get any better for the Seahawks on our next possession as San Francisco forced us into a 3 and out. After trading punts San Francisco got the ball again to start the second quarter. A 58-yard scramble by Kaepernick gave the 49ers a goal-to-go situation. After three failed attempts to get the ball into the endzone the 49ers elected to go for it on 4th down. In front of a raucous 12th Man Kaepernick handed the ball to Anthony Dixon who plowed ahead into the endzone. The touchdown gave the 49ers a 10-0 lead with 10:03 left in the first half. The Seahawks cut the lead to 10-3 on their next drive thanks in part to a 51-yard pass from Russell Wilson to Doug Baldwin. Seattle headed into the locker room at halftime down by 7 and although it was disappointing we were not leading there was renewed optimism when, of all things, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took the stage for a halftime performance.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis played their hits singles “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” and at the end of the show Macklemore declared that “Seattle sports history will be made tonight.” This declaration left the 12th Man including myself jacked up. We as fans were ready to do everything we possibly could to help push the Seahawks to a comeback and a victory.
After forcing the 49ers to punt on their first possession of the second half the Seahawks got the ball with excellent field position. On the fourth play of the drive the Seahawks were facing 3rd and 1. Darrell Bevell called up “17 power,” the same play as the Marshawn Lynch Beast Quake run. Marshawn shed two blocks and broke away towards the front right corner of the endzone. As soon as he got out of the second tackle I could see the space he had to run and immediately went crazy. At about the 10-yard line Lynch tripped but his momentum carried him into the endzone anyway for the score. Skittles rained down in all corners of the stadium and I jumped up and down in unison with my dad and the folks around me. The game was tied 10-10 and it felt like a whole new football game was about to start.
The 49ers took the next drive 83 yards and with 6:29 left in the third quarter the Seahawks faced yet another deficit, 17-10. After this the Seahawks took full control of the game. After a Steven Hauschka field goal made it a 17-13 ballgame, the Seahawks forced another San Francisco punt. Heading into the fourth quarter the Seahawks had the ball on the 49ers 35-yard line facing 4th down. The following sequence will never be forgotten as a pivotal cog in the Seahawks 2013 Super Bowl season. Hauschka lined up for a field goal but with the kick heading into the wind, he was hesitant to go through with the attempt. Pete Carroll called timeout to go over their options and ultimately decided to send the offense back on the field to go for it. With the Seahawks in the huddle I sat down in my seat briefly, leaned over, and said a quick prayer. The Seahawks broke the huddle and I jumped up to stand. Wilson was able to draw San Francisco offsides and knowing he had a free play, Wilson launched a pass into the endzone which was caught by Jermaine Kearse. The stadium went crazy. For the first time all afternoon the Seahawks had the lead 20-17. There was still 13:44 left in the game and a lot could happen but what has happened time and time again at home, once we corral a lead, the 12th Man will make it awfully difficult for the opposing team to come back.
Everyone was back in the game. With Lil Jon’s “Outta Your Mind” on full blast before the next kickoff, every fan was screaming, waiving their rally towels, and jumping up and down. On the 7th play of the series and facing third down, Colin Kaepernick was flushed out of the pocket to his left. As he tried to cock the ball back it was stripped out of his hand by Cliff Avril and picked up by Michael Bennett. Bennett returned the ball to the 49ers 6-yard line. This was the loudest it had gotten inside CenturyLink Field all day. The 49ers were unraveling and if the Seahawks could score a touchdown and go up by 10 points, the game may be out of reach. Unfortunately the drive resulted in no points, as Russell Wilson fumbled a 4th and goal attempt from the 1-yard line, turning the ball over to the 49ers. After an interception by Kam Chancellor which was translated into a field goal the Seahawks held a 23-17 lead with 3:37 remaining. If Seattle could stop the 49ers one more time, they would be the NFC champions.
The Seahawks forced San Francisco into a 4th and 2 situation with 2:01 left in the game. The 49ers converted on a pass from Kaepernick to Frank Gore for 17 yards. After the next play, a 4 yard run by Kaepernick, the 49ers elected to let the clock run. After two more completions the 49ers had the ball 1st and 10 from the Seahawks 29-yard line. 55 seconds remained. After a pass to Vernon Davis the 49ers let the clock run down once more. With every second off the clock came more and more stress. The 49ers were getting dangerously close to the endzone and with them draining the clock, a touchdown would pretty much seal San Francisco’s second consecutive trip to the Super Bowl. The fans tried to stay loud to try to throw the 49ers off but you could hear the worry and panic in the noise, a feeling that has never happened in my 10 years as a season ticket holder. There have been stressful moments but not like this; not with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
Then everything changed. Then came the single greatest play in the history of the Seattle Seahawks.
1st and 10 for the 49ers. 18-yard line. 30 seconds remaining. Colin Kaepernick drops back and throws a fade into the right side of the endzone. The ball is tipped into the air by Richard Sherman and falls right into the waiting hands of Malcolm Smith. The Seahawks had made the tip drill a common routine throughout 2013 and with no other 49ers receiver in the area, from my angle as soon as the ball was tipped I knew it was going to be intercepted. It was the most emotional I had ever been at a Seahawks game. I dropped to my knees because I was emotionally drained. With everyone in the stadium going crazy, after a few moments I got back up, hugged my dad, and the reality of the moment really started to settle in. “WE’RE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!” I exclaimed as Russell Wilson took three knees to win the game. With “Can’t Hold Us” playing over the speakers the teams met in the middle of the field and as the clock hit zero I pulled out my phone. I had a text I needed to send to James. That text, which I will never forget, simply said “PACK YOUR BAGS, BROTHER.” We were going to New York for the Super Bowl.
John Nordstrom, the original owner of the Seahawks, presented Paul Allen with the George Halas trophy and after several on-field speeches the fans left the stadium one last time to the sounds of Frank Sinatra’s classic hit “New York, New York.”
The rest is history. The Seahawks went on to win their very first world championship two weeks later. Without Jermaine Kearse’s 4th down touchdown and Richard Sherman’s tip, there is a very good chance the Seahawks would still be a championship-less franchise. From 2006-2012 the Seahawks season came to an end short of us being able to host an NFC Championship Game, the biggest game a team can host. Those long years waiting made this day absolutely worth it. There is no doubt this is the greatest Seahawks home game I have ever attended and going forward it will be extremely difficult to top.
Tags: #10for10, 12th Man, 12th Man Flag, Aldon Smith, Ann Wilson, Anthony Dixon, Beast Quake, Byron Maxwell, CenturyLink Field, Cliff Avril, Colin Kaepernick, Darrell Bevell, Denver Broncos, Derrick Coleman, doug baldwin, Duracell, Earl Thomas, Frank Gore, Frank Sinatra, George Halas Trophy, Jermaine Kearse, John Nordstrom, Kam Chancellor, Legion of Boom, Lil Jon, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Malcolm Smith, marshawn lynch, Michael Bennett, New England Patriots, NFC Championship Game, NFL, Paul Allen, Pete Carroll, Pyramid Alehouse, Richard Sherman, Russell Wilson, San Francisco 49ers, seattle seahawks, Steven Hauschka, Super Bowl XLVIII, Vernon Davis
Review: Cardinals 39, Seahawks 32
Photo Credit: azcardinals.com
I will keep this brief because I will probably just get angrier and more frustrated the more I type. After getting off to an embarrassingly slow start the Seahawks found a way to come back and take a lead late in the game. The Seahawks unfortunately squandered the opportunity to put the Arizona Cardinals away. Penalties kept Arizona drives alive late and the Cardinals came away with a 39-32 win over the Seahawks. The win is Arizona’s second win in Seattle in a three year span. The victory also gives the Cardinals a 7-2 record and a three game lead in the NFC West, which is essentially a four game lead if you count the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Seahawks. Seattle falls to 4-5 and has lost a fourth quarter lead in an NFL record six consecutive losses dating back to Super Bowl XLIX. After building momentum in our last two games, everything seemed to unravel. Here is what I took out of this game.
Penalties the Primary Culprit: The Seahawks committed 14 penalties for a staggering 131 yards and not only were some of them inopportune, but the holding penalties on our offensive line were the foundation of our horrible first half of football. At the start of three of our first 4 drives the Seahawks were called for offensive holding. Two of those drives resulted in punts and one resulted in a Cardinals safety. On the ensuing Arizona possessions the Cardinals scored each time, jumping out to an early 19-0 lead. These penalties took the juice right out of the Seahawks offense for pretty much the entire night. If it wasn’t for our defense the Seahawks would have been dead in the water. Unfortunately the penalty bug came back to bite Seattle in the butt again twice in the fourth quarter.
The first call came on 3rd and 4 from the Seattle 39. With the Seahawks clinging onto a 29-25 lead, Carson Palmer threw left intended for Brittan Golden and it fell incomplete which would have brought up 4th down and forced Arizona to punt. Instead free safety Earl Thomas was called for illegal contact which gave the Cardinals a fresh set of downs. Five plays later Palmer threw deep in the direction of Golden again which fell incomplete. Instead of 4th and 10 and a short punt or long field goal attempt coming, middle linebacker Bobby Wagner was called for a very ticky-tacky illegal contact penalty, giving the Cardinals yet another first down. Two plays later Arizona took the lead for good on a touchdown pass from Palmer to tight end Jermaine Gresham (which looked to be the same play Seattle was burned on against both Cincinnati and Carolina). Take either of those two penalties away and the Seahawks may have escaped with the win.
From Munster to Swiss: Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was kept completely clean in our last game against Dallas. The performance two weeks ago from our offensive line led many including myself to believe that we were making steady progress and that our chemistry was finally coming together. This notion took several giant steps backwards on Sunday Night. Wilson was sacked only twice but was consistently under pressure. It never felt like he had a clean pocket to work from. Wilson’s protection correlates directly to his production; 14/32 (43.7 completion percentage), one touchdown, and one interception. Proper credit goes to Arizona’s pass rush for being able to penetrate the line of scrimmage so effectively but matters along the offensive line must go back all the way to the meeting rooms early this upcoming week. I am running out of things to talk about in regards to this position group. The long and short of it is this, we simply do not have the talent to be able to adequately protect the quarterback on a consistent basis.
The Positives: Our defense deserves a lot of credit for forcing three Cardinals turnovers, two of which lead to touchdowns. The defensive player of the game goes to Cliff Avril who recorded three quarterback hits, two tackles for loss, and one sack. The resiliency our defense showed in the second half leaves me feeling remotely optimistic going forward. On offense Doug Baldwin did a great job getting separation down the field. Baldwin finished the night with 7 catches for 134 yards and a touchdown. Those catch and yardage marks are season highs for Baldwin.
Thoughts on Arizona: I knew it. You hopefully knew it. Knowledgeable football fans around the country hopefully knew it too. In a primetime atmosphere, up against the 12th Man, and against Seattle’s defense it was going to be difficult for Arizona to come away victorious. However they were still looked at by some as favorites to win this game. They came into town and took care of business. I hate to say it but Arizona is the superior team in the division and may be the team to beat for supremacy in the NFC. Barring a 2014-style injury barrage and subsequent collapse the Arizona Cardinals will win the NFC West in 2015. If they can keep winning and earn at least a first round bye in the playoffs we may be seeing these birds in Santa Clara come February.
Random Thoughts: Even though it was surprisingly sunny it was very cold on Sunday night. Probably the coldest I’ve been during a game for at least a few years… A word to the wise, always drink THEN eat. If you do it in reverse like I did on Sunday you will feel sick… Fun to share my pictures and stories from my trips to San Francisco and Dallas with the people around me. It makes me smile that they remembered I told them I was going and sincerely cared about hearing of my adventures… The Seahawks defense allowed 39 points for the first time since December 12th, 2010. That’s crazy.
What’s Next: The #4 game of my #10for10 series will be published on Thursday. Look out for my preview of next week’s game against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday.
Tags: Arizona Cardinals, Bobby Wagner, Brittan Golden, Carson Palmer, Cliff Avril, doug baldwin, Earl Thomas, Jermaine Gresham, NFC West, NFL, Russell Wilson, San Francisco 49ers, seattle seahawks, Sunday Night Football, Super Bowl XLIX
Panthers/Seahawks Preview
Photo Credit: Panthers.com
Matchup: Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks
For the second straight week the Seahawks will face off against an undefeated opponent, this time at the friendly confines of CenturyLink Field. The defending NFC South champion Carolina Panthers come to town to take on the Seahawks in what will be their 4th straight season meeting in the regular season. The Panthers have gotten off to a 4-0 start and control first place in the NFC South. The Seahawks of course are 2-3 after losing a heartbreaker in Cincinnati last Sunday. The Seahawks lead the all-time series with the Panthers 7-2. Their last meeting came back in January when the Seahawks dismantled Carolina 31-17 in the NFC Divisional Playoffs. Before the season many 12’s would have rolled their eyes at this matchup and assumed a win was imminent. Instead this will be a very difficult game for the Seahawks to win and they are going to have to earn it. Here are some points of emphasis I will be looking at in this game.
Last week before the Seahawks defense collapsed late in the game the Seahawks offensive line did a decent job of protecting quarterback Russell Wilson. With no personnel changes coming along the line this week, I expect more improvement from this unit. It will be a challenge because once again the Seahawks will face one of the best defenses in the league. Last week the Seahawks offense found success especially in the long passing game. Jermaine Kearse and Doug Baldwin in particular had very productive days. Against Carolina expect to see more of what worked against the Bengals, including deep shots, and intermediate passes in the middle of the field. Running back Marshawn Lynch is also expected to be back this week which should bolster Seattle’s offensive game plan. Keep in mind however that in his last 4 games against Carolina, Lynch has run for an average of only 62 yards per game. The Seahawks will be in good shape if they can score at least 24 points on Sunday.
This week on defense the Seahawks must play a clean game. My eye will be on Michael Bennett in particular. Last week Bennett was flagged for a personal foul penalty at the end of the first half and he also jumped offsides once, something that has unfortunately become his trademark. Eliminating penalties will go a long way in making sure we have a successful day on defense.
The evolution of Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has steadily progressed in 2015. With limited resources around him at the skill positions, Newton has had to take the game into his own hands to make big plays happen. Newton should absolutely be the Seahawks defense’s number one priority. The Seahawks have yet to face a duel-threat quarterback this season but have done an excellent job in stopping Newton in prior matchups. This season Newton has only thrown for 200 or more yards one time, and he is averaging 49 yards per game on the ground. In his career against the Seahawks however Newton has averaged only 171 yards per game passing and 35 yards per game running. Shutting Newton down will mean the Seahawks will likely come out of this week with a win.
As I said above, the Carolina Panthers offense is missing key playmakers due to injury. Starting wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin is out for the season with a torn ACL and receiver Stephen Hill is also unavailable. In the passing game it will be up to rookie Devin Funchess and veteran tight end Greg Olsen among others to get open for Newton to be effective through the air. It will be an extremely difficult task, but in my eyes the best way for the Panthers to be successful on offense is to pound the rock with running back Jonathan Stewart. Stewart is now the lone option in the backfield after the departure of DeAngelo Williams. Using the read-option with Stewart could take a lot of pressure off of Newton. Keep in mind however that Stewart has not scored a touchdown yet this season and is only averaging 55 yards per game on the ground. Misdirection must be a key component for the Carolina offense in order to trick the Seahawks defense for yards and possibly even points.
Of all the defenses the Seahawks have faced so far this season, no unit may be better as a whole when healthy than the Carolina Panthers defense. This week the Panthers will be close to full strength with the return of all-pro middle linebacker Luke Kuechly from a month-long concussion. Outside linebackers Thomas Davis and rookie Shaq Thompson have combined for 37 tackles and a pair of sacks in their first 4 games and the secondary is anchored by Josh Norman at cornerback who has averaged in interception in each game thus far. Defensive end Jared Allen was traded to Carolina from the Chicago Bears two days after Allen suited up for the Bears in Seattle against the Seahawks in our home opener on September 27th. Although he has been ruled out with a back injury, Allen should have a fresh memory of what he went up against three weeks ago so his expertise and mentoring of the rest of Carolina’s defensive personnel could give them a leg up in game preparation. My X-Factor Player to Watch for the Panthers is likely the primary beneficiary of Allen’s injury, defensive end Mario Addison. After recording two sacks in their season opener, Addison has made minimal impact rushing the passer. His season high for tackles is 4 back in week 3 and he did not show up on the stat line in their last game against Tampa Bay. With the help of Allen in the film room however, do not be surprised if Addison makes a big impact in this game.
Random Thoughts: All navy everything for the Seahawks this week. The Panthers will wear white tops and silver pants… Sam Rosen and John Lynch have the call for FOX with Pam Oliver reporting from the sidelines. Rosen takes over play-by-play duties from Kevin Burkhardt who is currently covering the Major League Baseball postseason for FOX. This is normally the #2 FOX broadcast crew… This is the first of two 1:05pm kickoffs at home this season. A public service announcement to those attending; please be aware that kickoff comes 20 minutes earlier than the Chicago game. Make sure you leave the bars and tailgates a little earlier so you’ll be in your seats with time to spare… Terry McAulay is the referee this week. McAulay previously called the NFC Divisional Playoff between these two teams back in January… This week I will be tailgating in the sky. I’m taking a friend who lives in the Stadium Place apartments in the CenturyLink Field North lot. We’ll be on the roof hovering over those making their way into the stadium. It should be fun. I was up there before the preseason game against Oakland but the roof was completely empty. Maybe things will be spiced up since this is a regular season game… What I like about the view from his building is that you can eavesdrop into the stadium hours before the gates even open, so you get kind of a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at the gameday presentation rehearsals. After this game there will be a 28 day gap between home games. Normally that would be brutal but good thing I’m going on a couple of trips in between to dull the pain.
Prediction: The Panthers always play us tough and this week will be no different. Russell Wilson will throw a touchdown to Jimmy Graham and Marshawn Lynch will run one in from 25 yards out. The Seahawks defense will be faced with a similar situation from last week and will redeem themselves. Needing a touchdown to take the lead, Cam Newton will be intercepted by Earl Thomas with less than two minutes left, clinching the Seattle victory. The Seahawks will get to 3-3, the same record they had after 6 games a season ago.
Seahawks 20, Panthers 16
Tags: 12's, Cam Newton, Carolina Panthers, CenturyLink Field, Chicago Bears, DeAngelo Williams, Devin Funchess, doug baldwin, Earl Thomas, Greg Olsen, Jared Allen, Jermaine Kearse, Jimmy Graham, John Lynch, Jonathan Stewart, Josh Norman, Kelvin Benjamin, Kevin Burkhardt, Luke Kuechly, Major League Baseball, Mario Addison, marshawn lynch, Michael Bennett, NFC South, NFL, NFL On Fox, Pam Oliver, Panthers Uniforms, Russell Wilson, Sam Rosen, Seahawks Uniforms, seattle seahawks, Shaq Thompson, Stephen Hill, Terry McAulay, Thomas Davis
Raiders/Seahawks Preview
Matchup: Oakland Raiders at Seattle Seahawks
We are so close to the season opener in St. Louis. The only thing standing in the Seahawks way is the preseason finale. On Thursday, for the 10th consecutive season, the Seahawks conclude their preseason slate against the Oakland Raiders. This is the final job interview for many players fighting to make our week one roster. The starters may play the first series of the game, if that, and then their nights will be done. The spotlight in the fourth week of the preseason is on the young guys. This week I will be focused on position battles. In this preview, I will gloss over what our opening day starting units may look like while noting which battles may be important to watch this week at each position. Let’s get to it.
Quarterbacks: If Tarvaris Jackson is able to play this week, the plans at the quarterback position will surely be set. If he can play, which to me is unlikely, Jackson may see a little bit of playing time before R.J. Archer takes over. If Jackson cannot go, then Archer will likely play almost the entire game. In the grand scheme of things, if Jackson is healthy enough to play this week that makes R.J. Archer’s performance extremely important. During the Pete Carroll era the Seahawks only carry two active quarterbacks on the roster with a third quarterback on the practice squad. Archer’s performance against the Raiders will be the difference between him making the active roster and him getting cut and re-signed to the practice squad.
Running Backs: If Thomas Rawls has any chance to steal Christine Michael’s or even Robert Turbin’s roster spot he must ball out on Thursday. It may be next to impossible for Rawls to make the team now that we know the Seahawks have interest in signing free agent running back Fred Jackson. Rawls started the preseason strong but has been overshadowed by the strong play of Michael the past two weeks. Michael and Rawls will both see a lot of playing time but I believe that Rawls will have to bust off several huge runs and at least one touchdown to even have a chance at earning a roster spot.
Wide Receivers: The trade of Kevin Norwood to the Carolina Panthers on Monday makes the wide receiver competition something to watch very closely this week. I believe 6 roster spots will go to wide receivers. I believe Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Kearse, Tyler Lockett, and Ricardo Lockette will all have jobs on this team this year. With Paul Richardson starting the season on the PUP list, that means there are four receivers to watch in this game that are fighting for two spots. What will make the coaches decisions difficult is that they all play special teams. B.J. Daniels and Kevin Smith have seen their share of playing time on punt and kickoff returns while Kasen Williams has made a couple of clutch catches including one which set up Steven Hauschka’s game-winning field goal last week. Chris Matthews showed his potential in Super Bowl XLIX but has been a ghost in relation to these other players so far this preseason. Keep a tab on the number of snaps each of these guys see on offense this week. Their presence on the field alone could be a major indicator of who has the lead on the final wide receiver spots.
Tight Ends: Jimmy Graham and Luke Willson are locks to make the team. The final tight end spot will go to either Cooper Helfet or Anthony McCoy. Given that McCoy has battled injuries over the past three seasons, and that Helfet had a solid season in 2014 it would make sense if it is Helfet’s job to lose. It very well may be. McCoy will get the opportunity to prove his worth this week. This is one spot that I think could go to either player.
Offensive Line: The release of Lemuel Jeanpierre affirms our starting offensive line going into the season. From left to right our starting line will be Russell Okung, Justin Britt, Drew Nowak, J.R. Sweezy, and Garry Gilliam. This week will give us a chance to see what our depth looks like along the offensive line. One guy to keep an eye on this week is undrafted rookie Kristjan Sokoli. Sokoli has made fantastic progress during training camp and is a favorite of Coach Carroll and offensive line coach Tom Cable. Unfortunately he is listed as our fourth string left guard, likely because he is still working on converting from defensive tackle to offensive guard (similar to J.R. Sweezy). Due to his standing on the depth chart Sokoli may be destined for a possible practice squad spot. Backup linemen Mark Glowinski and Terry Poole are our drafted rookies who are listed as the backups to Sweezy and Gilliam respectively. Expect to see them on the field a lot.
Defensive Line: The feel-good story of the offseason and training camp was the comeback of defensive tackle Jesse Williams. The third year lineman had a cancerous kidney removed back in May and amazingly has returned to game action this preseason; a remarkable recovery indeed. Unfortunately Williams has a very real chance of not making the team since he is listed as a fourth string defensive tackle. Along the defensive line on Thursday look for Williams, David King and Julius Warmsley. I believe one of these three players will claim one of the Seahawks musical chairs. The others will be left out once the music stops.
Linebackers: I am putting the “you never know” label on the backup middle linebacker job. Brock Coyle won this job last year and he is probably going to earn his job back in 2015. Alex Singleton however refuses to back down without a fight. Singleton has been on the field a lot this preseason, appearing solely in the second half. I get a hunch that our coaching staff likes Singleton a lot but even a great outing on Thursday still makes him a longshot to earn a roster spot but like I said, you never know.
Cornerbacks: I get a weird feeling that surprises are on the horizon in this group. Cary Williams has struggled this preseason and if he did not make so much money I think he would be a serious candidate to be cut. Williams will make the team due to his cap number which puts pressure on our backups. Tharold Simon has played well thus far and Marcus Burley has seen his fair share of playing time with the starters. Two guys to watch are Will Blackmon and Tye Smith. Blackmon is a veteran who has bounced around the league and found himself back with the Seahawks for training camp. Smith is a rookie who was drafted in the 5th round back in May and has impressed me thus far. My guess is that we will keep 5 cornerbacks. One of these guys will make the team and the other will not.
Safeties: The free safety position is settled in my mind. Earl Thomas starts, Steven Terrell backs him up. Strong safety is still up in the air at this point but I believe the breakdown is simple. If Kam Chancellor does not report to the team by the time our roster is trimmed to 53, Dion Bailey will make the team as the presumed backup to starter DeShawn Shead. If Chancellor does report, Bailey will be left out of the picture. This is the only position on the team where the simple presence of one player will likely determine the fate of another player.
Random Thoughts: All College Navy everything for the Seahawks this week. The Raiders will wear white jerseys with silver pants… Curt Menefee and Brock Huard will have the call one last time this preseason. The game will be broadcast on Q13 FOX… Lunch at Tat’s Delicatessen before the game. I’ve never been there but by the looks of the menu I’ll probably enjoy their Philly cheesesteak… Pregame location is to be determined but I wouldn’t be surprised if we make our way to Hawks Nest for the first time this season… Off the top of my head I cannot remember a preseason which included terrible weather for both of our home games. The forecast is calling temperatures in the mid 60’s and a 50/50 chance of rain.
Prediction: The nice way we will be describing this game after the fact is that it will be a “defense battle.” Russell Wilson will fail to lead a scoring drive on his one possession of the game. R.J. Archer will once again struggle to lead touchdown drives but will progress as the game wears on. On defense the Seahawks backups will slightly outplay the Raiders defensive backups which will keep us in the game. The Seahawks will win another close game in the fourth quarter and will finish the preseason 2-2.
Seahawks 16, Raiders 13
Tags: Alex Singleton, Anthony McCoy, B.J. Daniels, Brock Coyle, Brock Huard, Carolina Panthers, Cary Williams, CenturyLink Field, Chris Matthews, Christine Michael, Cooper Helfet, Curt Menefee, David King, DeShawn Shead, Dion Bailey, doug baldwin, Drew Nowak, Earl Thomas, Fred Jackson, Garry Gilliam, Hawks Nest Bar and Grill, J.R. Sweezy, Jermaine Kearse, Jesse Williams, Jimmy Graham, Julius Warmsley, Justin Britt, Kam Chancellor, Kasen Williams, Kevin Norwood, Kevin Smith, Kristjan Sokoli, Lemuel Jeanpierre, Luke Willson, Marcus Burley, Mark Glowinski, NFL, NFL Preseason, Oakland Raiders, Paul Richardson, Pete Carroll, Q13 FOX, R.J. Archer, Raiders Uniforms, Ricardo Lockette, Robert Turbin, Russell Okung, Russell Wilson, Seahawks Uniforms, seattle seahawks, Steven Hauschka, Steven Terrell, Super Bowl XLIX, Tarvaris Jackson, Tat's Delicatessen, Terry Poole, Tharold Simon, Thomas Rawls, Tom Cable, Tye Smith, Tyler Lockett, Will Blackmon
Review: Seahawks 16, Chargers 15
Photo Credit: KOMO 4 News- Seattle
It was not pretty by any stretch of the imagination, but the Seahawks finally got into the preseason win column. The Seahawks resiliency showed as they pulled out a 16-15 victory over the San Diego Chargers on the leg of Steven Hauschka. The Seahawks may have won, but it has been 30 days since training camp opened and there are still areas on both sides of the ball that concern me. For now however, here are my thoughts following our first win since last year’s NFC Championship Game.
Offense Starts Slow, But Picks Up When It Needs To: If I were to give the Seahawks starting offense a letter grade for their performance this week, I would give them a C. Russell Wilson finished the day 7/15 for 56 yards but once again was unable to lead a touchdown drive. If you take away Tyler Lockett’s punt return touchdown (I’ll discuss this below), the Seahawks put up only 6 points in 6 drives under Wilson’s command. If I could highlight one of our drives it would be our 5th of the game just before the end of the first half. With only 47 seconds remaining in the half, Wilson led a no-huddle drive 40 yards in 5 plays to set up a 40-yard field goal by Hauschka. This drive makes me feel better about our offense going forward but to be honest it is Wilson himself who may need to improve the most. Although the offensive line play was average at best, Wilson made several erratic throws. He overthrew Jimmy Graham twice and missed on a floater into the endzone intended for Jermaine Kearse. If he plays next week against Oakland, Wilson will likely only play the first series of the game. If he does not play at all his final line for the preseason looks like this: 12 drives, 12 points (4 field goals), 0 touchdowns. This has me very worried.
We May Be Witnesses to Something Special: The Seahawks have scored 4 touchdowns so far this preseason. Half of them belong to rookie wide receiver/kick returner/punt returner/speed demon Tyler Lockett. Lockett stole the show once again on Saturday, returning a second quarter punt 67 yards for a touchdown, giving the Seahawks a 7-3 lead. In a way it is unfortunate that Lockett has broken out in the preseason because now opposing teams will have a definite strategy to avoid kicking to him, but what we have seen so far from Lockett is very Devin Hester-esque. What I am curious to know is if tonight’s display gives Lockett the leg up on both the kick AND punt return jobs. It would certainly look like that will be the case. I believe we are in the presence of a very special player and like I tweeted out during the game, it is going to be a very fun season with Tyler Lockett returning kicks.
Defense is Just About Ready: Even without multiple defensive starters, the Seahawks played a very sound game defensively on Saturday. Unlike the starting offense who played into the second half, the starting defense was done after the first half. All in all they only allowed 3 points, a positive sign of potential great things to come once the regular season starts. After our great play in San Diego I am daydreaming about what our defense will look like when everyone is out there together, including Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor. One thing we must improve on however is the short passing game and 3rd down defense. The CBS broadcast showed footage of two of our games last season, against San Diego and the Super Bowl against New England. In both games Philip Rivers and Tom Brady respectively picked our defense apart with an array of short passes. The strategy was wildly effective and we lost both of those games. Rivers stuck to the short passing strategy on Saturday night and it worked very well especially on third downs. Although the Chargers were only 44 percent effective on 3rd down with Rivers under center, it felt like that percentage was higher.
The Final Drive: In our first two preseason games backup quarterback R.J. Archer had the opportunity to lead game winning drives on our final possession. He was sacked on the final play in both of those games. Tonight however, Archer proved he could learn from his mistakes. With no timeouts and two minutes to work with, Archer led our final drive 44 yards and Steven Hauschka connected on a 60-yard field goal attempt to give the Seahawks a 16-15 lead with 21 seconds to play. Archer did not do anything fancy. He threw only high percentage passes, including a clutch 22 yarder to Kasen Williams on 4th down. Archer definitely showed his potential on this night.
Random Thoughts: My prediction was correct. College Navy pants for the Seahawks this week… It sounded like there were tons of 12’s down there in San Diego. To all the fans who went down for the game, job well done!… You know how I said I was happy this game was on national television because we weren’t going to be subjected to the local commentators. I redact that statement. Phil Simms really got on my nerves with his mispronunciations and mistakes. Among his mistakes, pronouncing Cassius Marsh’s name as “Cassius March” and calling our defense the “Legion of Doom” twice. You would think a respectable record breaking defense with a nickname that football fans around the country know well would be called by their proper nickname. You don’t see people calling the “Steel Curtain” the “Iron Curtain” or something. Okay rant over… Don’t get me wrong I love Russell Wilson to death but for God sakes man would it kill you to be a little less cliché? His sideline interviews truly are soooo boring. Okay rant over.
What’s Next: The Seahawks have until 1pm Tuesday to cut 15 players to get the roster down to 75 players. As I have done the past few years, I will hop back on the blog tomorrow with my predictions as to who will be the 15 players released by the Seahawks before Tuesday’s deadline.
Tags: 12's, Earl Thomas, Jermaine Kearse, Jimmy Graham, Kam Chancellor, Kasen Williams, Legion of Boom, New England Patriots, NFL, NFL Preseason, Oakland Raiders, Phil Simms, Philip Rivers, R.J. Archer, Russell Wilson, San Diego Chargers, Seahawks Uniforms, seattle seahawks, Steel Curtain, Steven Hauschka, Tom Brady, Tyler Lockett
Seahawks/Chargers Preview
Matchup: Seattle Seahawks at San Diego Chargers
Site: Qualcomm Stadium (San Diego, California)
The third week of the preseason is often tabbed “dress rehearsal week” in the NFL and for the Seahawks there is an awful lot of show that the 12’s need to see. After two disappointing outings, the Seahawks look to show significant improvement this week as they take on the San Diego Chargers. The starting units will likely play the entire first half and a series or more into the third quarter. This will give us the best look of where our team stands before the regular season starts. Here are the areas I will be closely watching this week.
It is my hope that the starting defense, the front seven in particular, can build on their success from last week in Kansas City. The pass rush was very effective in penetrating the line and getting to the backfield. This week I am looking for Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett to put continuing pressure on Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers. With Bruce Irvin possibly out this week after suffering a concussion last week, my X-Factor Player to Watch, second year man Kevin Pierre-Louis, may start at outside linebacker this week. Pierre-Louis has backed up both Irvin and K.J. Wright this preseason but it will be interesting to see how he plays. Irvin is best used for rushing the passer while Wright plays in coverage. Pierre-Louis got hurt last year so I have not seen nearly enough tape on him to truly know what his strengths and weaknesses are in the second level. KPL is certainly the one guy on defense this week to have your eye on.
I am looking for two key improvements by the front seven this week. First off, last week we struggled mightily at getting off the field because of penalties. Alex Smith’s one touchdown drive last week benefitted from the Seahawks inability to get off the field. After ranting about the continuing penalty problem I am hopeful that the Seahawks spent a lot of time in practice this past week to correct it. Secondly, third down and short has been a problem so far this preseason. I am looking for big stops, specifically in the running game on third and short. Our defense must be able to stay fresh. Stopping Melvin Gordon, Danny Woodhead, and Branden Oliver in short yardage situations will go a long way towards the Seahawks defense playing a much more consistent game.
This week the secondary will be the closest thing to the Legion of Boom we will see until the regular season starts. Richard Sherman will likely start at corner opposite of Cary Williams. Earl Thomas may start at free safety but it would not be a surprise if he is held out until he is a little bit healthier. Kam Chancellor is the only starter of the Legion on Boom who will not play for sure, as he continues his holdout. I would like to see Rivers test the secondary this week to see where we stand. I thought our defensive backs had a very below-average outing against the Chiefs last week unlike how the defensive line and linebackers showed significant improvement. If the Chargers complete long passes and the cornerbacks and safeties struggle I will be teetering on terrified for the start of the season.
It is no surprise what I want to see out of the Seattle offense this week. In a little over one full half of playing time so far this preseason, the Seahawks starting offense has this to show for it: 6 drives, 6 points, 0 touchdowns. Russell Wilson will lead the offense for this amount of time in this week’s game alone and it is time to settle our nerves about the functionality of this unit. My expectation is two touchdown drives in the first half and three total scoring drives before R.J. Archer takes over in the third quarter. For this to happen everything has to be in sync; the pass protection must be on point, the running game must be able to take pressure off of Wilson, and I would also like to see the playbook opened up a little bit. 17 points is my hope for the Seahawks by the time the reserves take the field in the second half.
Random Thoughts: Seahawks will wear white this week. My prediction for pant color is college navy. San Diego will wear navy blue jerseys and white pants most likely… Greg Gumbel and Phil Simms have the call for CBS this week. When we are good, the Seahawks are good for one nationally televised preseason game. Luckily this year it comes on the road, which means I am not forced to watch a local broadcast production and listen to local commentators. This will probably the best game to watch on television this preseason… Tony Corrente is the referee for this week’s game… Due to the national TV broadcast this game does not start at a traditional local start time. Usually if we played San Diego in the preseason the game would start at 7pm but because CBS is broadcasting the game it starts at 5pm which I really prefer… It is disappointing that this could be the final season of Chargers football as we know it. If you didn’t already know, the Chargers are one of three NFL franchises who are looking to relocate to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. Many believe that San Diego may in fact be the frontrunner to be heading to Tinseltown. The Seahawks and Chargers were rivals in the AFC West for 23 years. The franchise has been in San Diego for over 55 years. It would be a complete shame for San Diego to lose the Chargers but we of all cities know what it takes to keep a professional sports franchise in town. Qualcomm Stadium is a concrete dungeon and without plans for new digs, the Chargers will absolutely be heading to LA. Here is a very interesting stat to note, which goes to show you how fast the economic climate can change in professional sports. The city of San Diego hosted Super Bowl XXXVII 13 years ago. Among other reasons, Super Bowls are awarded to cities that have economically viable stadiums, which was the case with San Diego 13 years ago. The NFL would never let San Diego host a Super Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium today. Seattle’s KeyArena reopened after a “state of the art” remodel in 1995. In the exact same amount of time, 13 years, KeyArena became economically obsolete which was one of the factors why the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008. I would love to see the Chargers get something done at the 11th hour in San Diego. The “Los Angeles Chargers” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as the “San Diego Chargers” does.
Prediction: Russell Wilson will lead scoring drives resulting in 10 points in the first half. With Wilson at the helm to start the second half, the Seahawks will drive into field goal range and Steven Hauschka will kick another field goal. The Seahawks defense will have a very solid game and several defensive players fighting for a roster spot will make big plays, making their final audition next Thursday that much tougher for the coaching staff to determine their fates. I predict 3 takeaways by the defense in this game. The Seahawks will finally get into the preseason win column, eeking out a close victory.
Seahawks 23, Chargers 21
Tags: Branden Oliver, Bruce Irvin, Cary Williams, CBS, Chargers Uniforms, Cliff Avril, Danny Woodhead, Earl Thomas, Greg Gumbel, K.J. Wright, Kam Chancellor, Kevin Pierre-Louis, KeyArena, Legion of Boom, Los Angeles Chargers, Melvin Gordon, Michael Bennett, NFL, NFL Preseason, Phil Simms, Philip Rivers, Qualcomm Stadium, R.J. Archer, Richard Sherman, Russell Wilson, San Diego Chargers, Seahawks Uniforms, seattle seahawks, Seattle SuperSonics, Steven Hauschka, Super Bowl XXXVII, Tony Corrente | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1234 |
__label__wiki | 0.875932 | 0.875932 | Child of Light Coming to PS Vita
Child of Light Coming to…
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Today, Ubisoft announced that Child of Light, the turn-based RPG set in the magical world of Lemuria, will release digitally on PlayStation Vita on July 2nd at the price of €14.99. It will also release on PlayStation Vita in a retail Complete Edition on the same day. This boxed edition will contain all additional game contents, including a bonus quest, a new character and a pack of collectibles.
Child of Light is a re-imagining of classic fairytales set against a picturesque background inspired by the watercolor artworks of The Golden Age of Illustration. As a playable poem, Child of Light takes players on an extraordinary journey through the mystical world of Lemuria by putting them in the shoes of Aurora, a young princess who must win back the sun, the moon and the stars held captive by the mysterious Queen of the Night. A return to the classic JRPG, Child of Light blends together platforming and turn-based combat along while providing a rich storyline, robust soundtrack and beautifully-rendered hand drawn art style.
Child of Light was created by a small team of developers in Montreal using Ubisoft’s UbiArt Framework, a powerful engine that lets programmers and artists bring their art to life by allowing original concept art to be inserted directly into the game world. In Child of Light, the effect is that playing becomes akin to stepping into an interactive painting.
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Child of Light is now available to download on Xbox LIVE for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, the eShop from Nintendo for the Wii U, and PC Digital, at the price of €14.99. Child of Light™ is also available in retail as a Complete Edition on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and on Windows PC.
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By Krist Duro May 20, 2014
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Author: Krist Duro
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__label__cc | 0.646556 | 0.353444 | Weekly read round-up 5th June
fanofacertainage 5th Jun 2019 fandom, manga, reviews
Hey, I do actually do more than just watch anime! I’m trying out a couple of different ideas for regular features, including links to works by other Fans Of A Certain Age, and reviews of queer-friendly works that might have slipped under the radar.
This week, I finished reading volume 1 of ‘Escape Journey’, a BL manga I briefly mentioned in a previous post. It was originally released in Japan in 2015, so it’s not brand spanking new, but it’s a recent addition to the manga shelves in the UK, at least.
I think it’s fair to say that BL and Yaoi have fallen out of favour with a lot of western fans in recent years due to the problematic nature of queer stories that aren’t written by or for queer audiences. The regular romanticisation of rape and dub-con, the persistent use of the ‘bastard boyfriend’ archetype, and the negative outlook on het relationships that these stories are known for don’t exactly send positive messages to LGBTQIA readers. Where my usual manga stockists used to have entire shelves devoted to BL, now I tend to find only the odd one or two books tucked away amongst multiple copies of shounen battle-manga and light-novel adaptations. It’s great that they can be on the same shelves as moe m/w romance, but it’s a rare day that I see more than three titles available in my local Waterstones. The independent comic shops don’t seem to have room for them, their shelves loaded with copies of ‘Bleach’ and ‘One Piece’.
But as this article shows, recent shifts in outlook regarding same-gender relationships in Japan have resulted in BL being seen as less of a niche genre and more acceptable for straight readers, including men. Whether that translates to more acceptable for LGBTQIA readers, I couldn’t say. But I would like to try some regular reviews of contemporary BL stories, to see how much things have changed.
‘Escape Journey’ follows college freshman Naoto, who unexpectedly reunites with his high-school boyfriend Taichi. The two parted on poor terms, with Taichi insisting they’d only ever been fuck-buddies despite Naoto’s romantic feelings.
They try to navigate first simply being around each other after finding they have friends in common, then adjusting to a tentative friendship when Naoto is asked to set Taichi up with a female friend. But of course Naoto’s old feelings resurface and they inevitably fall back into bed, and struggle to figure out what they actually mean to each other.
What really grabbed me about the story was the conviction both men have that they can’t ever be more than lovers – whereas any relationship they might have with women could progress to marriage and family, Naoto laments the fact that he and Taichi can’t make a family no matter how they feel about each other.
For someone who lives in a country where same-sex marriage is legal and fairly common, this was a tough concept to wrap my head around, but it does make the story that little bit more heart-breaking (presumably the kind of ‘obstacle’ that makes BL appealing to straight female readers). It does add an intriguing extra layer to the characters’ struggle to find more of a solid base to their relationship – the idea that their feelings for each other can’t count for much because they can’t ever be seen as a family is heartbreaking, and I can’t imagine what the pressure feels like in a society that is openly lamenting a drastic decrease in birth-rates due to people actually choosing not to marry or have children. But it does give the story a more relatable feeling than older BL where the stigma was simply ‘we can’t be together because we’re both men’. There’s no gay panic here, and no one ever says anything like, ‘we shouldn’t, this is wrong, I’m not like you’.
The character designs are much more richly detailed than th BL I remember from over a decade ago – no yaoi hands here! The pages are also densely packed, with some having five or six panels of dialogue or action, so it makes for a lengthy read (important when you’re paying upwards of £9 a book – no one wants to breeze through an entire book in half an hour!). The flashback scenes are probably my favourites, showing the initial development of Naoto and Taichi’s relationship, and the sweet first tentative steps as they connect over Taichi’s family drama actually made me cry. Be aware, the sex scenes (and there are several) are quite explicit, with some interesting sound effects liberally splattered all over the page, and there is one dub-con scene partway through. It’s probably not a book to read on the bus.
The whole story runs for three volumes, and I think I will most likely track down volume 2 to see how Naoto and Taichi handle an actual relationship – as much as I live for get-together stories, I’m invested enough in these two that I want to know what happens next.
Fandom-wise, I’ve been reading a lot of Reigen/Serizawa fic lately. I included Reigen Arataka from ‘Mob Psycho 100’ in my recent list of favourite designated grown-ups, and it’s refreshing to see so much fan content focused on characters older than 25. The two have an interesting dynamic, with the older character being the one with much less real-world experience, and the younger one being the confident charmer. Although, the pairing does have the extra layer of Reigen’s apparent lack of social life (and presumably lack of relationship history) to make him once again dependent on his ‘fake it ‘til you make it’ approach while showing a pleasing vulnerability and sensitivity.
‘And They Were Roommates…’ by sofia_estrella is a WIP set after the manga, when Reigen is forced to room with Serizawa after the destruction of his apartment, which does a good job of showing how adults navigate living in close-quarters and work through needing space while enjoying each other’s company.
‘Points of Contact’ by flecksofpoppy is a lovely one-shot about Serizawa becoming aware of certain things he’s missed by being a shut-in for so long, and alternates flashbacks to his time with the Ultimate 5 with his budding relationship with Reigen. ‘Touch-starved’ is a tag I’ll often search for when I’m looking for good reads in a new fandom, and touch-starved Serizawa is usually a must-read for me.
Finally, ‘In Desperation, Hope’ is another WIP I’m currently enjoying, in which Reigen suddenly gains powers that don’t actually belong to him, while something strange is also happening to Serizawa. It starts with an established relationship but does have interesting flashbacks to earlier points in their relationship which add depth to both characters and to the plot.
I’ve also been reading a bit of ‘Sarazanmai’ meta. This far into the season, there’s already a ton of stuff out there, even ignoring the current debates about who it’s okay to like and who you’re apparently a terrible person for liking (and I do ignore them, because it is tiring and I have better things to do). This article focusing primarily on episodes 7 and 8, also has some noteworthy points about Ikuhara’s style as it’s developed from previous works, and has some great insight into how the director has used supplemental material to expand on the already jam-packed episodes.
Would you be interested in reading more contemporary BL manga reviews? Or would you like to see more focus on fan-works that feature older characters? Let me know in the comments – this is still a relatively new blog, after all, so I’m still testing out ideas, and it would be helpful to know what kind of content people want to see.
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“Farmak promotes healthy lifestyle, not only among its staff, but their children as well. By way of tradition, with the Company’s support, FarmakKids took part in the competitions “We Are the Champions”. Farmak assigned 10 teams, while the total registered number was 43 from various companies: Alfa-Bank, Dominos Pizza, Allo, Lifecell, FUIB, Ukrtransgas, etc.
The organizers prepared 3 complex relay races:
In the first competition, the kids threw the basketball into the basket. The throwing distance was set according to age.
The next was a frisbee relay, where FarmakKids showed their agility in throwing the plates into the ring.
At the end was a golf relay. This was the most complicated task, but the kids coped with it well.
We congratulate our little champions and wish them strength to take part in competitions next year.
Intercompany competition for kids of pharmacists “We are Champions!”
Farmak’s participation in the inter-corporate children’s sports competition “We are Champions” is not out of the ordinary since the children of the company employees are a part of the healthy lifestyle together with their parents.
The project organizes competitions twice a year for children aged from 6 to 13 years. More than 25 Ukrainian companies have already joined the sports initiative. The main element of the program are sports relay races. Participants are encouraged to demonstrate their speed, accuracy and agility. All relay races are developed by olympic and professional sports players. The project includes 7 types of competitions with elements of the most popular sports: football, basketball, tennis, hockey, golf, rugby and target practice.
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Interest in a realism mod? +simple modding guide
adishee replied to Titan Uranus's topic in General Discussions
I know your post is 2+ years old, but I think I may have something for you. Version 1 of my submod for the J&P mod is almost complete and one of its main goals was to address these issues. I've just now seen your post as I look for help with hex editing, and it's nice to see some people who were thinking exactly along the same lines. Hope you're still around, plus could use a little help with hex editing some of the weapons. (FYI, the other main edit of my submod is unit sizes, with an emphasis on regiment-sized units rather than "brigade" sized. Also, I have completely altered skirmisher behavior to fire at will/continuously rather than volley-fire, opening a real use case for authentic repeater rifle behavior [perhaps as skirmisher-only weapons].) @Titan Uranus
mod J & P Rebalance Mod by JonnyH13 and Pandakraut 7/11/2019 1.25.1 Hotfix
adishee replied to JonnyH13's topic in General Discussions
I've found success with 24#ers with horse arty perk during mid-/late-game, as a specialized unit for assault support for highly trained assault troops. But the gun crews must also have very high stats. Def not a unit for most battles.
J&P have voiced their concerns with sharpshooters' op-ness. I personally had the idea that sharpshooters get a perk which increases their likelihood of killing an enemy officer; and Panda has also kicked around the idea of making enemy officer kills visible to the player via a message, if their recon level is high enough. I think this would be more in line with their historical roles. I think an increase in morale damage, rather than physical damage, would also seem appropriate.
Engaging at 1300 yards. ^ More range, far fewer rifles!
Noooo! If anything it has too short range. IMO the fix for the WWTS should be vast reduction in availability for CSA. As I've mentioned often, there weren't more than 200 of them around in the whole war (apparently). I think one gifting of 100 of them from the government should suffice. That's my house rule on CSA, anyway.
I wouldn't mind seeing it, if it's possible!
Units do already march in column if you order them to move a long distance. And I personally direct my units to use roads if they are available, or any open ground, for movement. I'm positive that the modders can't modify pathing logic.
@pandakraut Is there any way to disable the battlefield visual effects, eg shell craters and bodies? For performance issues.
I'm excited to see where this mod goes in future, PK. I wish I had the know-how to help.
My beloved tactical batteries.
Oh I see, I hadn't considered that. Thank you. I mostly do the $5k trickle method as described by you and Fiasco.
So the damage curve is in fact a smooth gradient? I had been wondering about that.
Have you tried using decent guns with experienced gun crews? It can be very effective.
The experience slider adjusts with the add-manpower slider, so you can clearly see when you will lose a perk by adding too many recruits. What is the problem? PK can't change any core mechanics of the game, and this sounds like just the sort of interface mechanic he wouldn't be able to change. A little trick: add recruits until just before it takes a star, and then add nothing but veterans.
On the topic of skirmishers and damage output, I'm wondering why repeating rifles' reload rates are so low? The Henry for example is 130. I would expect these revolutionary weapons to pour down a continuous stream of fire. I'm toying with figuring out how to do it myself and changing it to about 300. (And on the broader topic, I find it annoying that weapons' descriptions sometimes specify if they are single shot, cylinder, whatever, but in fact they all fire just one shot without any exception. Shouldn't a revolver fire six shots and then reload? Is there a way to effect this?) Also, is it possible to change the fire pattern of skirmishers -- or any unit -- to a kind of "fire at will" firing style? I think you can see this when routing troops are falling back, they fire without cohesion unless I'm mistaken (and if I understand correctly, in J&P this fire is very ineffective?). Would there be a way to select this fire pattern for units? It seems to me (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) that skirmishers would have been likely to fight in this sporadic way.
Stating my case for multiplayer campaigns.
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Hi all. I recently rediscovered the UG series after having played UGG briefly a few years ago. I don't game that much anymore, partially because I am laptop-bound now, which has prevented me from playing the only thing I have really wanted to lately: the Europa Barbarorum 2 mod for M2TW (I've played EB off and on for ten+ years now). (UGCW runs on modest hardware.) I think this game, UGCW, is absolutely brilliant (especially with the J&P mod). I am completely in love with it, and I think it's perhaps the best tactical wargame I've ever played, along with Close Combat which I think has a similar feel (despite the obvious disparity in scale). I guess I don't need to sit here and sing UGCW's praises too much, as you all are already here and get it. I'm writing to express my fervent hope that the developers are not quite finished with UGCW -- or failing that, with the UG series expanded into other conflicts (perhaps in Europe in the 19th century, of which there were many). Specifically, I am tantalised by the prospect of playing multiplayer campaigns. I don't just want individual multiplayer battles, although this would be a leap on its own. Because while the tactical mechanics in UGCW are fantastic to the point of being, in my mind, close to perfect, I've come to find just as much if not more enjoyment and addiction in the careful curation and development of my corps, divisions, brigades, pickets, batteries and squads. It's a testament to the game that I can't actually figure out which part I like more, and I don't want to. I spend hours poring through unit and equipment stats, moving officers around and growing their careers, and trying to eek out enough kit and units to take on the next battle -- and trying desperately to keep as many alive during the battles as I possibly can. Even carefully constructing a naming convention that is both entertaining and useful -- or whatever else you want it to be (roleplaying, historical) -- has become a great enjoyment. Because of how carefully and delicately we treat the Camp screen in this game (especially with J&P!), making mistakes *really* hurts in this game -- that feeling when you lose a swath of your veteran rifles from a dumb mistake hits in your gut. That is, unless you just restart the match and play "perfectly," because you will unless you're playing with house rules. This is the area where I hope UGCW's potential does not end up going to waste, by not having a multiplayer mode. What if you *couldn't* restart the match -- at least not without the consent of your opponent, which he surely will not give -- ? What if you had to own every mistake, and so did your opponent, and your carefully cultivated and considered unit gets slaughtered? I can foresee a level of tension in a multiplayer campaign that I've never before imagined from a wargame. Because YOUR carefully built units will be dying. You will really care when some of your units get killed off (or, alternatively, not care so much about the cannon fodder), and what better way to simulate the consequences of war by having our beloved units get wasted? That James battery you were finally able to field? Oh, it was flanked by speed skirmishers and melee'd to death. Oh, you finally got up a squad of two star snipers by dropping a high level colonel in to get that second perk and using your rep points to order some scoped Whitworths from the government (and went into negative morale because of it)? Oh sorry, you left them just out of cover and they got cut in half by the Union's (much better) heavy guns. And the colonel was killed. Sorry. Etc. To have two players brawling it out in a campaign, along with all the penalties and rewards that are applied to the single player campaign (withheld or rewarded forces based on victories/defeats, political points, and even randomness) instead applied to each other, I can't imagine how fun that would be. And further, how much longevity it would lend to this title. That's the kind of thing people would play for ten years or more -- even without new content, which Darth has mentioned an interest in producing! Honestly, I would beg the devs to make me buy another multplayer-only copy of the game if it meant it would actually get made, because I will gladly do it. A final note on the single player experience. Being a creation of Darth, obviously the AI is really good. It is. And with J&P, the campaigns get challenging to the point of being unbeatable -- which is fine. But I submit that they are unbeatable in a specific way: you have to stack the AI with so many advantages to get a real challenge. And you have to learn how to play more or less "perfectly" in a specific way, to juice the game into giving you experience that your troops need to progress against such stacked odds. This is not the same challenge of facing another human player, who is also desperately trying to conserve his troops, and we all know it. And on this latter point, in that case we might actually get more historically correct casualty numbers -- instead of 10x what they should be -- as players would perhaps prefer to cede a battle or two than lose all their troops as killed/wounded/surrenders. And we certainly wouldn't have the opportunity to farm experience from another human player: they wouldn't allow it. Anyway, thanks for reading, sorry for any errors. I hope Game-Labs don't miss the chance to put the final keystone in what they've already built, as it would be a real shame not to. Cheers.
Future Paid DLC/Historical Battles
adishee replied to ctiger's topic in General Discussions
@Nick Thomadis
Why no Multiplayer?
adishee replied to Blackjack Morgan's topic in General discussions
You could have multiplayer campaigns. Easy.
Lol. Nice. There is a lot to learn in this game + your fantastic mod I am slowly discovering. I'll be playing it for years (fingers crossed for expansion pack, if they still make those).
Thanks PK.
Ah, that's interesting. Thanks for the explanation. So if anything, if I wanted to handicap myself in a Union campaign further, I would actually increase the XP-gain difficulty -- because the AI would be less affected than me?
@pandakraut Is there a way to modify these values just for the AI player? Do you just add those into the AI config file?
Thanks for responding, PK. I kinda regret writing what I wrote, I was just really frustrated. Obviously the mod is meant to jack up the difficulty a lot. I absolutely love the mod in general, and the mechanics changes. I'm still tinkering with the config files + difficulty settings + some house rules to try and find a play style I like. I've watched a lot of your and Fiasco's videos, and they're instructive. I'm wondering, is there a setting in the config files to increase the AI player's experience growth? I'm playing as Union, and I'm trying to get the effect of playing a more experienced CSA army with a more numerous, recruit-heavy Union army -- kind of a historical-ish play through. I couldn't get the desired outcome tinkering with things on MG, they all just turned into SS super soldiers who still outnumbered the shit out of my forces. (One of my house rule is that I never revert to saves -- all decisions, including camp selections, are final). cheers and thank you
Well done sirwaldi. I gave up trying and edited config files. The game certainly has a lot of longevity trying to get through it on MG ... I really wish there was a multiplayer capability.
Thanks joxer. I've changed the CSA army size to something a bit more historically accurate (Union apparently outnumbered CSA after the Army of Ohio reinforcements arrived). Currently playing through it again and having a lot more fun -- still very challenging, but no more 9k-man bayonet charges on my 120-man skirmisher unit levels of absurdity. I'll change it back after I get through it. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1262 |
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Wii U? Why not?
Yep, that’s a console all right…
Whilst the telephonically-inclined are constantly refreshing their browser of choice on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to pre-order the new iPhone, those of us whose gadget yearnings extend beyond the kingdom that Steve Jobs built will be eagerly following Nintendo’s various websites, as the Japanese innovation factory announces a release date for their Wii U system.
Or the ‘Wii 2.5′ to those more cynical observers underwhelmed by the console’s purported specs and games line-up.
Other half watching TV? Continue your game on this tablet controller.
Slightly rejigged versions of “Batman: Arkham City“, “Mass Effect 3“, & “Ninja Gaiden 3” are due alongside the next “Assassin’s Creed“, “New Super Mario Bros U”, “Pikmin 3“ and the mysterious motion-control fest , “Avengers: Battle for Earth” will vie for your attention this Holiday season amongst 3o or so launch window games.
It might be rubbish shovelware, or family-friendly genius, but who wouldn’t want an “Avengers” title on their system this year.
I’m always up for a new video games system – new hotness incoming! – but I’m not inclined to jump on board this particular hype train.
For one thing – and this is key – the price of early adoption is frequently prohibitive. It’s early enough in a console’s life cycle that production costs haven’t reduced and any business worth their stock exchange listing is going to want to give their new piece of sexy consumer electronics kit a price tag which reflects its newness, desirability and perceived cool status. With games systems, unless you have a tattoo of Master Chief or proudly self-declare yourself as a devout Sony fan boy/girl, getting a console on the day that it hits the streets is going to leave you out of pocket, stuck with a bunch of rushed-to-market games and loudly cursing your consumer electronics overlords for being suckered by the PR blitz once more.
I picked up my Xbox and PS3 a good few years into their life cycle – my briefly-owned Wii some time after that – and didn’t regret the financially-motivated decision to wait awhile until decent games made their debut, online services were sorted out and I had an idea what I was buying into.
The half-this-gen, half-next-gen nature of the Wii U makes me more likely to bide my time with it, if I ever pick up one at all. As much as I love Mario and Samus, I’ve not seen anything yet from the demo footage so far shown of the system which tells me that this is anything other than a bridge between the Wii and what Nintendo come up with after seeing how the Xbox 720 and PS4 have shaken up gaming with their next disruptive iterative offerings.
Oddly enough, the Wii U really feels like a reaction rather than a singular design statement – and probably should have been with us earlier than it is – a system which can give Miyamoto-designed whimsy and blast-em-up military shooter action with a supportive suite of online services and the usual HD bells and whistles perhaps has a better chance than most at appealing to each sector of the lucrative family gaming market.
Establishing the message that your new system can handle the same fist-pumping, knuckle-dragging Bro Shooters as the other games consoles might drag in gamers for whom Nintendo is just greasy kid’s stuff but I’m not sure that they can get over the company’s image as the safe system for family gamers – and a lot of Ninty’s core audience would run a mile rather than play “Call of Duty” or “Battlefield”.
So, who is the Wii U for exactly?
Wii U Reconfirmed To Launch This Holiday Season In Europe (mynintendonews.com)
Farewell to the Wii, A Great Gaming System After All (kotaku.com)
‘Mass Effect 3’ Wii U Developer Working On Two More Games For The Console (multiplayerblog.mtv.com)
What Can Nintendo Say to Sell You on the Wii U’s Launch? (noplatform.wordpress.com)
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The transfer window has just been closed and a name that was never in the rumour mill during the summer has turned up as the one most interesting January target.
The signing of James Maddison from Norwich looks like a magnificant move and also the age of the player and his career steps is a bit of a twin of other players such as Demarai Gray, Wes Morgan and Jamie Vardy, coming from EFL teams and making the break with Leicester City.
The player in “the eye” is Blackburn Rovers midfielder Bradley Dack. Dack (24) has a background from Charlton Athletic Academy and Gilllingham before making the move to Blackburn Rovers.
Dack joined Blackburn Rovers in front of last seasons League One promotion campaign. He impressed heavily in his first season at Ewood Park and was voted EFL (1) player of the year.
The 24 year old Greenwich born, was released by Charlton Athletic at the age of 14. He moved to Kent based Corinthian before making his move to Gillingham at the age of 19.
Dack played 160 league games and scored 31 goals during his time at Priestfield, he had earlier been noticed by other clubs, but stayed until Blackburn got their man for a fee of £ 750 000.
Dack had as earlier written a great last season and the start to his first in the Championship has been sensational with 4 goals in 4 appearances, so to see Leicester’s interest is of course thrilling.
With the top six clubs hoovering the market in Premier League and also buying the best players abroad for prices not possible to compete with. Leicester City and other PL clubs ,in “the best of the rest” race, have to look elsewhere.
The Championship and League One are a bit underrated and are among the 10 to 15 best leagues in Europe. Clubs are all professional and players coming up are all interesting objects. Great to see Leicester City tracking those two leagues instead of going abroad, it makes sense.
Looking at the signings of Jamie Vardy and James Maddison from Fleetwood and Norwich and also Tottenham’s move for Dele Ali from MK Dons. You will find great talents here and in your backyard instead of using time scouting with a “moon rocket”.
You can of course find great talents out in Europe as well, but the progress of Riyad Mahrez and maybe Cesc Fabregas, is seldom seen and players who you would sign from abroad must be more finished articles, the language barrier and culture also makes it difficult to adapt and settle, so yes, go down and see what you can find in England.
Leicester City have in the past done great, signing players from lower league teams. Matt Elliott, Steve Guppy, Neil Lennon, Robbie Savage and Kasey Keller are just a few examples.
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Starting a new YouTube channel and Twitter feed
EmpireCity posted a topic in Box Office Discussion
I thought I would let everyone here know that in the next week or so will be starting a new YouTube channel and Twitter feed. Going to guess most won't give a shit, but want to get my random thoughts out there and smack down losers like Grace Randolph.
The Streaming Wars: The End of Box Office As We Know It?
EmpireCity replied to Eric Dolittle's topic in Box Office Discussion
The cinema and industry overall will look radically different in a few years if not sooner.
This gives studios even more incentive to make it harder on theaters in the near term to drive their price down and buy them for pennies on the dollar if that is where they want to go.
This is currently behind the scenes, but all movie theaters are struggling right now and it is only going to get worse in 2020. There are huge layoffs already happening, planned expansions are being put on hold, many theater locations holding on by a string hoping that the busy Holiday season will make things better. The reality is the fall of 2019 has been a disaster and the outlook for 2020 is dire. Current projections are a 10% drop in overall box office. If you add in the pressure of Disney pulling the Fox catalog and all of the major streaming services hitting, then it could get even worse. If theaters contract and can't stay open because studios are giving them even less product than before and concentrating their talent and budgets on streaming, you aren't going to see those massive numbers as you point out. The next 18 months are going to be a crucial time. No more Star Wars coming to theaters for multiple years, no more Avengers, the Avatar sequels are a shaky bet with no tech gimmick to push them.
Theaters have already largely done this. Bigger screens, laser 4k projectors, Atmos sound, luxury recliners, D-Box seating, upgraded full menu including alcohol, VIP service, no talking or texting policy, etc... None of it has truly mattered in the long run and all of it is done at an enormous cost. Short of having the stars of the movie show up at every screening and serve you, not sure how else the theaters can serve the customer.
It is depressing, but it will be fine in the long run. Things change.
That is one of the last ditch efforts, but as you can see a lot of the people that sign up for it mostly complain about the service fees and aren't happy with even a reasonable cost because moviepass conditioned them to an unreasonable price. It will help but won't save theaters. At the end of the day, owning and running theaters is incredibly expensive. Top of the line projectors, surround sound, premium recliner seating, staffing, food and beverage costs and even the normal brick and mortar costs of things like heating/cooling, electricity, insurance are all costly. Gone are the days when you could have a big screen, a relatively cost effective 35mm projector, some normal seats and only popcorn / candy / soda because everyone now expects a premium experience with upgrades everywhere for the same cost. The same time the cost of running theaters has gone through the roof, the cost and quality of home entertainment equipment has never been cheaper along with the availability and quality/quantity of streaming entertainment options. It is about 20 converging factors that don't add up to anything but negative for theaters.
Quite the opposite. Disney will make far more from Disney+ than they would from box office. If theaters disappeared tomorrow, that box office money wouldn't disappear. Disney (or any of the streaming services) would simply put their new release theatrical films on Disney+ and places like Vudu / Amazon and for an extra charge people could watch them on release or choose not to do that and wait 3-6 months for when they are included in the normal streaming price. Disney would love that. Instead of splitting that money 65/45 with movie theaters and playing a ton of money in booking and distribution logistics, they simply put it on Disney+ and with a few clicks start accepting money from credit cards already on file. They keep all the money. The other part of this that has been a dirty secret until recently is how much better this is for the studios when it comes to compensating talent. The days of most back end deals would be gone. No more having to pay Robert Downey Jr. something like $250m-$300m for his participation in the Marvel Universe. Hollywood has mostly killed off movie stars anyways, so having a further veil of unknown in how much streaming films actually make is another advantage to them.
The other thing to consider is that movie theaters have been artificially propped up and inflated as an industry for a couple decades now. Theater owners are terrified to ever move to a true model that lets the consumer decide what they really want. Their association and leverage has created something that really isn't sustainable for them. The fair market would ultimately show what the reality of theaters really are in 2019 and going forward. If you gave people a choice of buying a movie day and date for something like $20-$30 on streaming or going to the theater to see it for normal price, I think you would get a cold slap of reality that far more people would choose the streaming option. That doesn't mean theaters would disappear, but they absolutely would contract down to what the actual demand is.
Absolutely. It is the dumbest logic ever by the studios. The thought that someone won't pay for their streaming service because they are able to go to a theater and watch one of their catalog movies is absurd. It is nothing but free money for them, but some weirdo long ago came up with the "vault" concept and they are terrified to go away from it.
I wouldn't say that they are necessarily ok with it, and I don't think theaters will go completely extinct, but as a simple math equation it doesn't make a lot of sense for the studios to keep the current outdated system propped up. The other factor is all of this is happening while the stock market is booming and the United States is at nearly full employment. There is going to be another economic downturn and when it happens the pressure will really be on movie theaters unlike it ever has in history. Traditionally movie theaters have actually benefited from economic downturn as people saw them as an inexpensive escape when they couldn't afford to take a vacation or do something more expensive. That was true when tickets were $5 and sneaking in some candy and a soda you bought from CVS was the normal thing to do. Now tickets are $12+ and the theater model is dine in based more than ever. People aren't going to dump $100+ on seeing a movie and eating overpriced food when they can get Disney+ for $7 a month or HBO Max or Netflix for $15 a month and can order in some DoorDash for a fraction of the price. They also will be watching on their 75'' 4K SmartTV and nice sound instead of their crappy 27'' tube tv with bad speakers.
The new streaming services have also made the very smart decision of weekly or longer format releasing of their shows instead of dumping them all at once like Netflix has done. It is going to keep the buzz and social conversation going for a lot longer. You see it already with The Mandalorian. If they would have dumped that all at once it would have been forgotten in some form by today. Releasing 2 episodes this week and the rest once a week is going to keep the conversation going for a long time.
Correct, but the counter to that is theaters have shown and tested out those other films and they simply can't compete. Step Mom is a good movie, but it isn't even in the realm of Sound of Music. A Wonderful Life is largely already shown and demand wouldn't go up much with more showings. You are correct, and that is the current rumor/fear is that Warner Bros. is going to likely pull their catalog.
I also wanted to add that if this happens, it won't fully go into effect until Disney+ and HBO Max are set up around the world. Theaters still have the leverage of overseas box office.
Cool. I will check that out.
I truly believe it will be a modified version of that with everything being available on both streaming and theaters day and date or as close of a window to that as possible. The best NATO can hope for is maybe they can preserve a 2 week or 4 week window.
The other factor that is killing movie theaters, especially smaller and independent ones, is that Disney has almost fully pulled the Fox catalog. No more filling theaters with Die Hard during the Holidays. No more sold out theaters of Moulin Rouge on Valentine's week. No more Sound of Music on Mother's Day. Many more examples of how much this hurts theaters that depended on that 10%-15% of their business that often filled lonely Tuesday or Wednesday nights during slow times.
I meant more of the logistics of it, not the actual overall "will theaters be eliminated" part.
Hello, everyone. I come in peace. Wanted to post some thoughts about the landscape change taking place going forward and how it affects movie theaters, box office, studio relations an more. At first you may think this is some hot take based off Disney+, but it isn't. This is something that has been on my mind for a long time but recent events have, in my opinion, have confirmed what I have been seeing build up for years. Movie theaters and box office as we know it is going to drastically change. NATO has always had the upper hand when it came to protecting the 90 day release window. They carried a $10b-$12b hammer called the box office and weren't afraid to use it. Studios would float the idea of breaking that window, but at the end of the day no studio dared break it. Then Netflix came along with quality films and the big 3 of course wouldn't comply with their shunning of the 90 day release window, but smaller and independent theaters have broken ranks. They need the product and revenue to fill screens and can't pass up things like Roma and The Irishman, especially when Netflix is offering 35% terms and Disney is offering 65% terms. The issue is that theater owners have been getting squeezed for years with rising costs. Studios keep pushing harder and harder for a bigger cut. 4K and laser projectors, Atmos sound, huge IMAX screens, and now the demand for luxury recliners in every theater have driven the cost of doing business through the roof. This is all while the cost of high quality home theater equipment has dropped to all time lows. You can hit your local Black Friday sales and grab a quality name brand 75'' 4K Smart TV for $750 and a nice soundbar with a subwoofer for $150. Theater owner costs of course are passed onto consumers in the form of higher ticket price, booking fees, $8 popcorn, $12 cocktails and an outing that might cost $100+ for a family of four to see a film. Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max and their imminent combined success is going to change everything. Disney+ alone is projecting to have $9b-$12b of revenue per year within 5 years. Compare that with the entire box office domestic take of $11.8b in 2018. Those revenues of course are split roughly 55% to studios and 45% to theater owners. Disney+ has no split and Disney keeps nearly all of it. The biggest thing these streaming service will create is a viable distribution platform that is cost effective. That was always NATO's firewall in the fight in preserving the 90 day release window. They controlled where and when the consumer could see films in high quality. These studio owned streaming platforms now eliminate all of that leverage. You see already films that were scheduled for a theatrical release like Noelle and Superintelligence heading for streaming instead of the theater. The counter point to that will be that the movies that have been pulled from theatrical and put on streaming were largely poorly test screened and larger blockbusters will certainly still hit the theater. I agree with this point, but what will change is when and how. I think within the next few years the 90 day release window will be eliminated or adjusted. The model going forward will be something like this..... Disney will release Thor: Love and Thunder day and date on Disney+ (and possibly other services like Vudu, Amazon) and in theaters. Disney+ subscribers and other streaming platforms can pay an extra $25 to see it immediately. If they choose not to, they can wait however many months Disney chooses to put it on the streaming platform as part of the regular cost. The movie will also be released in theaters for a normal ticket price. It is coming. Studios have floated this for years trying to negotiate with NATO to make it work. They never budged and had all the leverage. Now that leverage is gone. Theater owners will have no choice but to accept as not going along with it would be like cutting off their leg to save their foot. What I ultimately think for movie theaters is that there will be a large contraction over the next decade and even more mergers so they can survive. Looking forward to discussing as I think not enough of a discussion is being had on it.
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EmpireCity replied to antovolk's topic in Box Office Discussion
This was a slightly different version of what they showed at CinemCon 6 months ago. Said on here it sent chills through the room and people went crazy for it. Stand by it having a chance at both domestic records.
Weekend Thread : Asgardian #'s on p.17 ~ 19.6M Saturday
EmpireCity replied to sfran43's topic in Numbers and Data
Absolutely. Nutcracker headed to maybe $16m or so for the weekend.
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EmpireCity replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
The movie is ok, but the reviews so far are festival fever.
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It's what lazy people do when they don't have anything else to offer. I caught the same shit with Venom. Hey, maybe I will be wrong. I have been before and will be again. When you post stuff like this though, if you aren't 100% accurate on everything it gets thrown back in your face. Oh well. It's an opinion.
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FE Warriors DLC
By FoxyGrandpa, September 24, 2017 in Fire Emblem Warriors
Favorite FE: Fates: Conquest
HW packs were 8 dollars each, these are about 13 dollars each, so it sounds like we can expect more from each one. They are probably trying to make the cast as expansive as possible, which I'm glad about.
It DOES make me worried about the amount of movesets in the main game. But overall, the total number of movesets available to play with isn't the most important part of the game. I just hope this means any history maps they give us are really substantial.
Etrurian emperor
Favorite FE: Blazing Sword
13 minutes ago, Lau said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this fandom doesn't deserve anything with how it is nowadays. IS has tried and tried again, with Heroes, with Echoes, and the infamous Awakening, and even with Conquest's gameplay, to try and unite the fandom, but the fanbase just isn't having it.
This time around they didn't seem to have tried at all though. They're just betting on the new fans in full force and aside from some token representation the older fans are told by the devs to just go play in the corner while the new fans get all their attention. Even the always favored Shadow dragon isn't treated all that well compared to the newer games.
Though that may be more on Koei then on IS.
I feel like people tend to talk really cynically about the idea of the much larger side of the fandom (that is the only reason the franchise is afloat) being marketed to more. I get being disappointed if you don't like those games as much, but a lot of people are making it sound like IS is selling out or ignoring their fanbase. Seriously? Awakening/Fates fans ARE their fanbase. Why do you guys deserve to be catered to more?
This isn't aimed at everyone who's disappointed, and honestly on this site people are the best about this kind of thing. But the twisted expectations some people have are weird.
Reese Balaski
Favorite FE: Fates
2 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:
It pretty much is. IS has been pretty good about being representative of all the games lately. The only times I can think where they specifically gave favoritism to the newer crowd were the spring and summer banners, but even then that's pretty minuscule.
And even if we don't, why are you all acting like it's the end of the world? You're just going to have to wait for a potential sequel, if the game sells well. Oh, but according to you lot, it won't, due to a 'phantom audience' like what the hell? Just let the people who are genuinely excited for the game, be excited.
Its possible that the game sells well but with so much controversial around it its also possibly that it will fail which means there isn't going to be a potential sequel. If there's no sequel and if the older characters don't get in through DLC then that's pretty much the end of a Fire emblem Warriors with proper representation.
Perhaps the complainers may be just a vocal minority but a niche series crossed with another niche series can't really afford to alienate that much people.
Its okay to be exited for this game but those people should realize that if only one part of the fanbase gets its wishes granted that the people who are and remain exited naturally grows smaller and smaller.
Favorite FE: Awakening
I'm not sure what on earth you're talking about. Yes, I also get the impression that the Fire Emblem fanbase is a bit more negative than a lot of other game fandoms, but this statement doesn't even begin to make sense. First of all, both on Serenes and on the subreddit, Heroes is widely appreciated, and in large part because you can play around with your favorites across the entire series and more are constantly being added, which is primarily what people wanted out of Warriors. It has also made Intelligent Systems truckloads of money.
More importantly, however, the fanbase doesn't owe Intelligent Systems or Koei Tecmo anything. We're consumers who pay them for a service they provide; we're not biting the hand that feeds us. We're fully entitled to our opinions, and if the response is so overwhelmingly negative like with Warriors, then it's more than likely that it's the developers and their PR who are at fault, not random gamers.
10 minutes ago, TheSS said:
I think that if the representation of the newer games is merely bigger that most fans would be pretty understanding about that. But that's not the situation we are currently in. We are in a situation where the newer fans get catered to while the older fans get practically nothing. Everything from Valentia to Tellius just isn't present, aside from one token guest for Valantia and Elibe.
Its much more extreme in Warriors then in Heroes but its worth noting that tellius has been almost completely absence from heroes up till now. Even now I think the special costumes of the newer characters outnumber the Tellius, the Jugdral and the Magvel casts. Heroes managed to get a good representation from large part of the series but its not perfect just yet.
If the representation favored the newer games while still being fair about it then things wouldn't have gotten so bitter. In Heroes things seem more or less fair, even with the gaps in the representation but in Warriors that's not the case at all.
Edited September 24, 2017 by Etrurian emperor
The DanMan
Overanalytic Analyzer with too many pet peeves
Location: PA, USA
Favorite FE: Shadow Dragon
The season pass costs the exact same for both and ended up $20 for HW; when we get the translated info, the packs will probably cost the same as well.
Edited September 24, 2017 by The DanMan
NoirCore
Lover of anime, sports, and bad puns
Location: West PA
Favorite FE: Path of Radiance
WELP.
I mean, here's hoping more DLC will be on the way, but starting off with DLC from the focus games is...questionable of a decision, not to mention makes the PR look like blatant liars.
Regardless, I'll still get the game; for my new Switch, no less! And I'll decide whether to buy DLC based on a process a YouTuber/Twitch streamer named Tom Fawkes once shown:
1) Play the base game for awhile.
2a) If you want to keep playing, buy the DLC.
2b) If you don't, don't buy it.
ChickenBits
Location: The moon.
Favorite FE: Sacred Stones
It's true that the awakening/fates fans make up the bulk of the fan base but it's not like the older fans disappeared over night. They deserve more for being with the series for so long.
omegaxis1
I already decided that I would get the DLC after the game. But wait, they;re gonna have a bride Lucina? I mean, I don't mind too much since I love Lucina, but... why? Why not have other characters instead of another version of an existing one? It makes no sense.
Favorite FE: Shadows of Valentia
4 minutes ago, Thane said:
I'm not blaming the gamers, I agree that the developers are, to some extent, at fault. But what I'm trying to say is that there is no end to the complaining in this fanbase. It's so divided, and while it may be a vocal minority, it's too vocal, and it's everywhere. Maybe I was...hasty, to say that this fanbase doesn't deserve anything, but it gets frustrating. You're excited for something, and you think, oh, nobody I know likes this, let's go on a forum and talk about it, only to see so much negativity.
I get it, I do. The PR has been god awful for Warriors, the roster is predictable, it's the same old arguments over and over again. It's tiring, it's irritating, so forgive me if I get a tad too frustrated over this.
As for what I listed...Heroes has been ragged on for having a lot of Fates and Awakening characters at launch, and people are saying it's being shoved in their faces, but besides Bride!Charlotte and a few variants, they haven't gotten exclusive banners at all. Conquest's gameplay was an attempt to emulate the older titles, but again, it's caused a divide. This is mainly due to it being a 'branching path' and the poor story, but do you at least see where I'm coming from? Echoes was a remake of Gaiden, but you have people hating it due to no avatars, S-ranks, etc, as well as people complaining about poor gameplay. There's no uniting this fanbase, and it's god awful.
Solaris998
2 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
It's just a costume for her not an entirely different character/moveset. It's a bonus for buying the Season Pass like the Dark Link costume was for Hyrule Warriors
Edited September 24, 2017 by Solaris998
Favorite FE: New Mystery of the Emblem
It a costume, not a new playable fighter.
1 minute ago, Hardin said:
Moondrag
My biggest worry for this DLC is that they will have the characters show up in the story, but not be playable/NPCs until the DLC. They did this with the Samurai Warriors games from 2 onwards with it's Xtreme Legends expansions with the characters appearing, but only having a generic commander moveset until the expansion was released. I worry that they will do that with some of the characters here (Like Navarre. He appears in the story, thank you EU trailer, but he might not be playable until the DLC, since no trailer yet)...I hope I'm wrong though.
They said a Thief will be in the game in some capacity during TGS. Do you think they meant DLC, or in the base game?
Awakening is my favorite game in the series; I know all about people hating on something you love. But at the end of the day, those are just random people on the internet. You've got to detach yourself from it.
When compared to other gaming communities I've been a part of, Fire Emblem ranks pretty high in negativity, I agree, but I must say I understand why a lot of people are disappointed now. This series spans almost 30 years and 15 games, yet we're only focusing on a fraction of them and the characters involved in a crossover game that should celebrate the entire seies. That's no small issue to have with a game.
This is all strictly anecdotal. I've seen people complain about reasonable things in Heroes, like natures and occasionally an overrepresentation of new characters for the seasonal banners, but overall the the community around that game is probably more positive than any other in the series.
As for Echoes, I've literally never seen anyone complaining about no avatars or a lack of S-ranks. If you think people being upset about the gameplay is annoying, then I don't know what to tell you, because I personally found it borderline comedic how little they updated in an experimental game made 25 years ago. This is a forum; people are going to have a lot of thoughts and opinions, both negative and positive.
Edited September 24, 2017 by Thane
1 minute ago, Thane said:
As for Echoes, I've literally never seen anyone complaining about no avatars or a lack of S-ranks. If you think people are upset about the gameplay is annoying, then I don't know what to tell you, because I personally found it borderline comedic how little they updated in an experimental game made 25 years ago. This is a forum; people are going to have a lot of thoughts and opinions, both negative and positive.
You're right, and I guess I am getting a little too worked up (I'm just passionate don't mind me), but yeah. I just think it's all getting blown out of proportion.
I am of the small group that believes that picking three games to focus on is a good idea, though Koei really screwed that up. At this point I don't care about weapon balance, heck, when the game was announced, I wanted a lord fest plus Anna, no matter how many swords there were.
Ah well. I'm just going to have to let it go, I've calmed down a bit now anyways. It's jjst the waiting game again now. :)
W.F.Jiel
Favorite FE: Fates: Revelation
55 minutes ago, ChickenBits said:
Soooooo, after all this who is still planning on buying the game? I still do but just in case I'll look if there's any secrets in the Japanese game once it's released. I need know what's the dealio with Navarre.
Im still buying it even if its really sad that they focus only on 3 games (but can't really blame it they want to focus on the game who boost the series popularity) im sure the TGS didn't show us everything
Also for the peoples who wish the game to fail, you really need to chill.
Thany
unmarried bride
Location: in the outrealms alone...
1 hour ago, ChickenBits said:
If by some magical Miracle I get enough money for both mario oddysse and fire emblem warriors. Ill totally get them both.
familyplayer
Favorite FE: Genealogy of the Holy War
On 9/24/2017 at 11:44 AM, flare9 said:
If the game is a success there could be a fire emblem warriors 2 with double the rooster
No one wants to wait 1 1/2+ years to see a possibly not even going to happen sequel that may not even have the characters they want in it.
On 9/24/2017 at 0:32 PM, ChickenBits said:
As I've said to someone before, the old fans are, at the least, a large minority of ~30% (my guess anyway).
MODEDIT: yo don't doublepost
3 minutes ago, Thany said:
Ah..... Mario slipped my mind. Oh dear time to get more shifts.
Tolvir
Favorite FE: Radiant Dawn
I'm still buying. Can't wait for it actually. I don't have an issue with the roster itself, I have an issue with Koei's PR. As far as the game itself goes, it still looks amazing to me. Can't wait to play it.
I'm still buying. It's Fire Emblem, and a crossover that I've wanted to boot. It's got Marth, Caeda and Tiki, the music and graphics are amazing, and the voice acting is nice. Tensions are high, but I just need to calm down.
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From William Jones
Navy Depmt Sept. 11. 1813
I enclose a copy of captn Perrys letter of the 2d Inst received this day.1
You will perceive he has returned to Sandusky waiting for the movements of Genl Harrison. The following is an extract from Genl Boyds private letter to the War Depmt recd this day. It is dated 5th. Inst. at F’ George.
“Gen Wilkinson arrived late last evening—the fleet is also here—the British fleet in sight.” Official accounts received at the Depmt of State from Consul Hill in Brasil state the certainty of the Essex Frigate being in the Pacific Ocean or the coast of Peru. He had captured disarmed and sent into Lima a Spanish Privateer commissioned as it would appear to capture ⟨Ameri⟩can Vessels many of which had been capt⟨ured⟩ capt Porter it is said remonstrated and demanded redress of the Governor. Mr Hill refers to a letter from Captain Porter which he says he had enclosed to the Depmt of State but which has not come to hand.2 On the subject of the retaliation for the outrage committed on the person of Penny—The Secretary of State and commissary Gen of Prisoners being both absent I have not the means of carrying into effect the retaliatory measure.3
So soon as Gen Mason returns it shall be immediately attended to. Very sincerely and respectfully your Obdt Servt
W Jones
The impression of peace seems to strengthen in our commercial cities. I hope it will have a good effect upon the loan.
British Bills cannot now be had at 15 pCt. dist. Lord Cochran it appears is coming out to command the Naval forces on the American Station.4
RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). Enclosure not found, but see n. 1.
1. In his 2 Sept. 1813 letter to Jones (DNA: RG 45, Letters from Commanders; printed in Dudley, Naval War of 1812, 2:553), Oliver H. Perry reported that after sailing to Malden twice and gaining information on the British fleet there, he had anchored his squadron off Sandusky Bay “for the purpose of communicating with Genl. Harrison,” that the ships’ crews were suffering “from a complaint occasioned, it is supposed, by the water,” and that he himself had recovered from a “severe Indisposition.”
2. Henry Hill’s dispatches recounting David Porter’s exploits off the Peruvian coast have not been found, but Porter’s 2 July 1813 letter to Paul Hamilton (postmarked at Newport, 8 Dec.) stated that on 26 Mar. 1813 he had disarmed the Nereyda, a Peruvian privateer that had been capturing American whaling ships, and had sent it to Lima with a letter for the viceroy requesting that its captain “meet with such punishment … as his offence may deserve” (DNA: RG 45, Captains’ Letters; printed in Dudley, Naval War of 1812, 2:692, 697–99).
3. For the case of Joshua Penny, see JM to Jones, 6 Sept. 1813, and n. 1.
4. Vice Admiral Sir Alexander F. I. Cochrane replaced Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren as commander of British naval forces on the North American station on 1 Apr. 1814 (Dudley, Naval War of 1812, 3:38).
“To James Madison from William Jones, 11 September 1813,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0592. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 8 February–24 October 1813, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Anne Mandeville Colony, Mary Parke Johnson, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, p. 614.]
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A bio assay for screening host mediated proximal mutagens in agriculture
Gentile, J. M. & Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1975, In : Mutation Research. 31, 5, 1 p.
Mutagens
Altered fatty acid concentrations in a temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in cell division and respiration
Gentile, J. M. & Plewa, M. J., Jun 1975, In : Plant Science Letters. 4, 6, p. 343-352 10 p.
Mutagenicity of atrazine: A maize-microbe bioassay
Plewa, M. J. & Gentile, J. M., Aug 1976, In : Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects. 38, 4, p. 287-292 6 p.
Plant activation of herbicides into mutagens; the mutagenicity of field applied atrazine on maize germ cells
Plewa, M. J. & Gentile, J. M., Jan 1 1976, In : Mutation Research. 38, 6
Germ Cells
The detection of weak recombinogenic activities in the herbicides alachlor and propachlor using a plant-activation bioassay
Gentile, J. M., Wagner, E. D. & Plewa, M. J., Jan 1977, In : Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 48, 1, p. 113-115 3 p.
A comprehensive analysis of the mutagenic properties of pesticides used in commercial maize production
Gentile, J. M., Wagner, E. D. & Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1978, In : Mutation Research. 53, 1, p. No. 81
Activation of chemicals into mutagens by green plants: A preliminary discussion
Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1978, In : Environmental Health Perspectives. Vol. 27, p. 45-50 6 p.
Viridiplantae
Simazine
Evidence for in situ environmental mutagenesis and other toxic effects from a lead smelting operation
Lower, W. & Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1978, In : Mutation Research. 53, 1
Selective synthesis of alcohol dehydrogenase during anaerobic treatment of maize
Sachs, M. M. & Freeling, M., Jan 1 1978, In : MGG Molecular & General Genetics. 161, 2, p. 111-115 5 p.
Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Anaerobiosis
Enthalpy changes during the photochemical cycle of bacteriorhodopsin
Ort, D. R. & Parson, W. W., Jan 1 1979, In : Biophysical journal. 25, 2, p. 355-364 10 p.
Bacteriorhodopsins
Purple Membrane
The quantum yield of flash-induced proton release by bacteriorhodopsin-containing membrane fragments
The anaerobic proteins of maize
Sachs, M. M., Freeling, M. & Okimoto, R., Jan 1 1980, In : Cell. 20, 3, p. 761-767 7 p.
ANATOMICAL VARIATION ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE ZEA MA YS LEAF IN RELATION TO PHOTOSYNTHESIS
MIRANDA, VALENTINE., BAKER, NEIL. R. & LONG, STEPHEN. P., Aug 1981, In : New Phytologist. 88, 4, p. 595-605 11 p.
Plant Leaves
Germinal cell mutagenesis in specially designed maize genotypes
Plewa, M. J. & Wagner, E. D., Jan 1 1981, In : Environmental health perspectives. Vol.37, p. 61-73 13 p.
Maleic Hydrazide
Glycogen Synthase
Plant Proteins
LIMITATIONS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE ZEA MAYS LEAF
MIRANDA, VALENTINE., BAKER, NEIL. R. & LONG, STEPHEN. P., Oct 1981, In : New Phytologist. 89, 2, p. 179-190 12 p.
assimilation (physiology)
Isomerases
Mutagenicity of municipal water obtained from an agricultural area
Heartlein, M. W., Demarini, D. M., Katz, A. J., Brockman, H. E., Means, J. C. & Plewa, M. J., 1981, In : Environmental Mutagenesis. 3, 5, p. 519-530 12 p.
5-Methylthioribose kinase activity in plants
Kushad, M. M., Richardson, D. G. & Ferro, A. J., Sep 16 1982, In : Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 108, 1, p. 167-173 7 p.
Absence of genotoxicity induced by 3H and 14C label in Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus subtilus
Gentile, J. M., Gaff, S., Gentile, G. J., Townsend, S., Means, J. C. & Plewa, M. J., Apr 1982, In : Mutation Research Letters. 104, 1-3, p. 29-33 5 p.
Carbon Radioisotopes
Radiation Dose-Response Relationship
Mutagenicity Tests
An evaluation of the genotoxic properties of insecticides following plant and animal activation
Gentile, J. M., Gentile, G. J., Bultman, J., Sechriest, R., Wagner, E. D. & Plewa, M. J., Mar 1982, In : Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology. 101, 1, p. 19-29 11 p.
Chlordan
Multitechnique Screening of Chicago Municipal Sewage Sludge for Mutagenic Activity
Hopke, P. K., Plewa, M. J., Johnston, J. B., Weaver, D., Wood, S. G., Larson, R. A. & Hinesly, T., Jan 1 1982, In : Environmental Science and Technology. 16, 3, p. 140-147 8 p.
Sewage sludge
Specific-locus mutation assay in Zea may. A report of the U.S. environmental protection agency Gene-Tox program
Plewa, M. J., Nov 1982, In : Mutation Research/Reviews in Genetic Toxicology. 99, 3, p. 317-337 21 p.
The activation of chemicals into mutagens by green plants
Plewa, M. J. & Gentile, J. M., Jan 1 1982, In : Chemical Mutagens. Vol. 7, p. 401-420 20 p.
Use of four short-term tests to evaluate the mutagenicity of municipal water
Demarini, D. M., Plewa, M. J. & Brockman, H. E., Jan 1982, In : Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 9, 1, p. 127-140 14 p.
Activation of 2-aminofluorene by cultured plant cells
Plewa, M. J., Weaver, D. L., Blair, L. C. & Gentile, J. M., Jan 1 1983, In : Science. 219, 4591, p. 1427-1429 3 p.
Plant Cells
Cultured Cells
Ca lectin gene insertion has the structural features of a transposable element
Vodkin, L. O., Rhodes, P. R. & Goldberg, R. B., Oct 1983, In : Cell. 34, 3, p. 1023-1031 9 p.
DNA Transposable Elements
Insertional Mutagenesis
An evaluation of the genotoxic properties of herbicides following plant and animal activation
Plewa, M. J., Wagner, E. D., Gentile, G. J. & Gentile, J. M., Jun 1984, In : Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology. 136, 3, p. 233-245 13 p.
Calibration of the maize yg2 assay using gamma radiation and ethylmethanesulfonate
Plewa, M. J., Dowd, P. A. & Wagner, E. D., 1984, In : Environmental Mutagenesis. 6, 6, p. 781-795 15 p.
Mutation Rate
Characterization of the solubilized plasma membrane ATPase of red beet
Briskin, D. P. & Poole, R. J., Jan 1 1984, In : Plant physiology. 76, 1, p. 26-30 5 p.
adenosinetriphosphatase
Comparison of the Mutagenicity of Sewage Sludges
Hopke, P. K., Plewa, M. J., Stapleton, P. L. & Weaver, D. L., Dec 1984, In : Environmental Science and Technology. 18, 12, p. 909-916 8 p.
mutagenicity
Deferral of senescence and abscission by chemical inhibition of ethylene synthesis and action in bean explants
Kushad, M. M. & Poovaiah, B. W., Jan 1 1984, In : Plant physiology. 76, 2, p. 293-296 4 p.
abscission
aminoethoxyvinylglycine
explants
Effect of nodulation on assimilate remobilization in soybean
Crafts-Brandner, S. J., Below, F. E., Harper, J. E. & Hageman, R. H., Jan 1 1984, In : Plant physiology. 76, 2, p. 452-455 4 p.
nodulation
EFFECT OF SOIL ON THE MUTAGENIC PROPERTIES OF WASTE WATER.
Plewa, M. J. & Hopke, P. K., Dec 1 1984, Research Report - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Water Resources Center. 195 ed.
Investigation of the apparent inefficiency of the coupling between Photosystem II electron transfer and ATP formation
Flores, S. & Ort, D. R., Jan 1 1984, In : Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. 766, 2, p. 289-302 14 p.
Photosystem II Protein Complex
Rates of sulfide oxidation in cotton, carrot, and tobacco cultured plant cells measured with a model aromatic alkyl-sulfide
Blair, L. C., Slife, F. W., Felsot, A. & Plewa, M. J., Jun 1984, In : Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 21, 3, p. 291-300 10 p.
Search for an endotherm in chloroplast lamellar membranes associated with chilling-inhibition of photosynthesis
Low, P. S., Ort, D. R., Cramer, W. A., Whitmarsh, J. & Martin, B., Jun 1984, In : Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 231, 2, p. 336-344 9 p.
Lycopersicon esculentum
Selection and characterization of a carrot cell line tolerant to glyphosate
Nafziger, E. D., Widholm, J. M., Steinrücken, H. C. & Killmer, J. L., Jan 1 1984, In : Plant physiology. 76, 3, p. 571-574 4 p.
Cooperation among electron‐transfer complexes in ATP synthesis in chloroplasts
HANGARTER, R. & Ort, D. R., Jun 1985, In : European Journal of Biochemistry. 149, 3, p. 503-510 8 p.
Thylakoids
Induction of forward mutation at the yg2 locus in maize by ethylnitrosourea
Schy, W. E. & Plewa, M. J., 1985, In : Environmental Mutagenesis. 7, 2, p. 155-162 8 p.
Ethylnitrosourea
Induction of micronuclei in maize root‐tip cells and a correlation with forward mutation at the yg2 locus
Wagner, E. D. & Plewa, M. J., 1985, In : Environmental Mutagenesis. 7, 6, p. 821-832 12 p.
Micronucleus Tests
In vitro enhancement of the mutagenicity of 4‐nitro‐o‐phenylenediamine by plant S‐9
Gentile, J. M., Gentile, G. J., Townsend, S. & Plewa, M. J., 1985, In : Environmental Mutagenesis. 7, 1, p. 73-85 13 p.
Chloride Peroxidase
Lactoperoxidase
Mutagen testing with maize.
Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1985, In : Basic life sciences. 34, p. 323-328 6 p.
Plant genetic assays and their use in studies on environmental mutagenesis in developing countries.
Plewa, M. J., Jan 1 1985, In : Basic life sciences. 34, p. 249-268 20 p.
Plasma membrane ATPase of sugarbeet
Briskin, D. P. & Thornley, W. R., Nov 26 1985, In : Phytochemistry. 24, 12, p. 2797-2802 6 p.
Structural relatedness of three ion-transport adenosine triphosphatases around their active sites of phosphorylation
Walderhaug, M. O., Post, R. L., Saccomani, G., Leonard, R. T. & Briskin, D. P., Jun 26 1985, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 260, 6, p. 3852-3859 8 p.
Ion Transport
Target molecular size of the red beet plasma membrane ATPase
Briskin, D. P., Thornley, W. R. & Roti-Roti, J. L., Jan 1 1985, In : Plant physiology. 78, 3, p. 642-644 3 p.
The recovery of photosynthesis in tomato subsequent to chilling exposure
Martin, B. & Ort, D. R., Jan 1 1985, In : Photosynthesis research. 6, 2, p. 121-132 12 p.
Vanadate-dependent NADH oxidation in microsomal membranes of sugar beet
Briskin, D. P., Thornley, W. R. & Poole, R. J., Jan 1985, In : Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 236, 1, p. 228-237 10 p.
Vanadates
Vanadate-dependent NADPH oxidation in rat liver microsomal membranes
Coulombe, R. A., Briskin, D. P., Keller, R. J. & Sharma, R. P., Jan 1 1985, In : Federation Proceedings. 44, 4, p. No. 5490
An assessment of saltmarsh erosion in Essex, England, with reference to the Dengie Peninsula
Harmsworth, G. C. & Long, S. P., 1986, In : Biological Conservation. 35, 4, p. 377-387 11 p.
salt marshes
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“Kill!”
In a twinkling of an eye, the others finally reacted and went round to Wuchi together.
They didn’t do it before, just because they thought Wu Chi and Luo Kun couldn’t be rivals, there was no need to intervene. Now the situation is obviously somewhat wrong, where can we continue to see, really let Luo Kun suffer losses, none of them can fall well.
When these people move, the people of Tiejianmen naturally follow suit. Although they are not as powerful as the others, they may not be unable to compete with each other.
Although there are many people on the other side, Luo Kun is undoubtedly the core. Now Wuchi can block Luo Kun, even suppress the other side, so naturally there will be a chance of World War I.
After being frustrated in Wuchi, Luo Kun was already a little crazy. He took out a sword charm from his body in spite of his heartache.
“Sword out of Tianshan Mountain!”
At the exit of the four words, a red glow suddenly burst out above the sword charm, and the sharp shadow of the sword fell from the breath.
Sword is flying high!
The horrible sword exploded and crushed down toward Wuchi. This is not the half of Luo Kun’s swordsmanship, but the swordsmanship that is really comparable to that of the strongest Taoist.
This is a real life-saving thing. Before Luo Kun went down the hill, his master specially made it for Luo Kun, which was sealed with a sword of his master. The power is even more terrible than the sword charm symbolizing the identity of the core disciples of Tianshan Mountain.
Most importantly, this sword charm can not only protect the body, but also be released voluntarily.
Luo Kun was also angry, which released the sword.
Instantly, Wu Chi’s heart gave birth to a sense of powerlessness! That terrible sword shadow, like the arrival of heaven’s prestige, has never been resisted at all. This is a gap in absolute strength that can not even be avoided.
Although Chengying Shenjian is powerful, Wuchi nowadays can’t exert its power at all.
In Wuchi’s despair, a thick figure suddenly blocked Wuchi’s front, a touch of blood exploded, turned into a blood-colored sword shadow, ushered in the horrible sword charm.
Holding Wu Chi’s shoulder, the old man dragged Wu Chi into a shadow and disappeared in the hall in a flash.
“Buzz!”
The sword in his hand pierced the ground so hard that Luo Kun was almost mad with anger and his eyes were full of killers.
“Give up your sword! Damn it! You can’t escape. Wherever you go, I swear I’ll kill you.
Dragged by the old man, he escaped from the iron sword gate and landed in the back hill. Only then did Wu Chi see the old man’s condition.
As if in a few decades of age, the old man’s face was wrinkled, his eyebrows showed a trace of gray, his sword was full of cracks, as if they could collapse completely.
“Master!”
Kneeling in front of the old man, Wuchi’s face was full of tears.
“Good boy!” Reaching out and touching Wuchi’s head, the old man opened his mouth with a smile.
“Sorry, Master, I’m sorry! It’s me who made a mistake.
If it weren’t for involvement in Jianying Villa, Luo Kun would not have been involved, let alone the disaster of iron sword gate.
“Silly boy, you just did what you should do, you’re not wrong! Master thinks you are proud!” Shaking his head slightly, the old man whispered, his eyes full of encouragement.
Not to mention the relationship between us and Jianying Villa, the people who fix the sword should have the spirit of pulling out the sword to help each other. It’s good that you stick to your heart’s sword.
After a pause, the old man continued, “Master is very happy to see you return from Kunlun in the end. It’s good that you can still keep your book in mind under such a promising choice. It’s better than I thought. Master is very happy.
“Master!” Tears fell and Wu Chi choked and shook his head.
“Your temperament has been lazy, unwilling to study hard and practice, has been mixing food and other dead talk. Master was worried that you were not strong-minded, but now it seems that you are doing better than anyone else in the face of big or small issues.
“Master, stop talking. You have a good rest first. I have the medicine.” Seeing that the old man was getting weaker and weaker, Wu Chi took out all kinds of Dandao from his body and handed it to the old man, which Zhou Boyan gave him. Now he even could not distinguish the medicine, and took it out one by one.
“It’s no use.” Shaking his head, the old man said calmly: “I used the sacrificial sword, life has been cut off, no amount of natural resources and treasures can save. Master has little time left. Listen to me carefully.
Give up your sword!
Hearing these three words, Wu Chi burst into tears. Although he would not sacrifice his sword, he knew the horror of it.
Give oneself up to the sword, burn all the vitality and Shouyuan, the strongest sword in exchange, this is the real last desperate means of sword repair.
Wuchi, when the iron sword gate is destroyed, you need not be sad. In this world, there is no ever-lasting clan. Even if it is better than Kunlun and Tianshan, it has been invaded by evil ways and may not be doomed in the future.
“You can get revenge, but don’t go blindly to desperate, let alone let hatred blindfold your eyes.”
The old man’s voice was getting lighter and lighter, but his tone was very grave. Even at the end of his life, he was still worried about his disciples.
“Master, I understand!”
At this moment, Wu Chi really understood Zhou Boyan’s mood when Jianying Villa was destroyed. And he himself was equally powerless.
“Remember that sentence, why hold the sword?” Again the old man asked.
“Remember!” Wu Chi nodded vigorously.
There was a trace of memory in his eyes, and the old man whispered, “At that time, you said you were fighting for freedom from bullying! Now, Master asks you again.
“Why do you hold your sword?”
When Wu Chi was young, he didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence. Now he was asked this question again. Numerous thoughts flashed through Wu Chi’s mind, but it seemed that he could not find a real answer.
For revenge? To protect the people around you? For the sake of righteousness and justice, for the sake of defending fencing? Or as a child, in order not to be bullied?
There are too many grand answers! If on weekdays, Wu Chi can open his mouth and come, but now, by the old man’s expectation of staring at, perfunctory words, Wu Chi can not say a word.
At this moment, Wu Chi remembered the moment when he drew his sword from his brother in order to stay at Jianying Villa.
Think of seeing Zhou Boyan’s tearful face, his momentary heartache.
Remembering the destruction of Jianying Villa, Luo Kun threatened to insult Zhou Boyan’s momentary killing masterpiece.
When I recalled the dream of returning to ancient times, that figure was determined to hold swords for the people.
It also reminds me of the boiling blood when I rushed out of the sword pavilion to face the people’s encirclement and killing.
Wu Chi remembered too many pictures, and all of them turned into a simple sentence.
Looking up at the old man, Wu Chi slowly opened his mouth and said, “Disciples hold swords for their own sake!”
Hold to your heart!
These four words are easy to say, but much harder than anything else.
There are too many choices, opportunities and crises to face in one’s life, and it’s almost
There are too many choices, opportunities and crises to face in one’s life, and it’s almost impossible to stick to one’s heart all the time.
But Wu Chi is very serious at this moment, which is his answer.
“What a man who sticks to his heart!” There was a happy smile on the old man’s face. “Wuchi, remember what you said today! Also remember, the man who fixes a sword, sex should be like a sword, rather bend than bend!
After the last sentence, the old man passed away with a strong smile on his face.
“Master!!!”
“Luo Shao, everybody’s already caught up. What should we do now?”
Apart from Li Peiyuan fled with Wu Chi, all the other disciples were arrested, and all the lives and deaths were between Luo Kun’s thoughts.
With a sneer, Luo Kunsenran said, “All the brothers and sisters in Wuchi have tortured me to extort confessions. Anything can be done. I’d like to see how hard their bones can be.” In addition, contact the people in the dark auction house, and release the news that Wu Chi betrayed Shimen and was afraid to hide in the Jianying Villa to capture the truth of Shenjian Chengying, killing Shizun, imprisoning Shi brother, Shi sister, and the great evil!!
After a pause, Luo Kun continued, “There are other disciples of Tiejianmen, including miscellaneous service, who tortured me severely. If they refuse to speak as we like, they will all be killed and taken away!” Within three days, I want the news that Wuchi betrayed Shimen to spread all over the eastern city.
“Will someone be sent to trace the whereabouts of Wuchi and the old man?”
“No one can save the old man with his sword! As for Wuchi, why should we look for him? With his brothers and sisters in hand, I wait for him to come back and die! Next time, I’ll see who else can save him!”
“Luo Shao calculates!” With a compliment, the man then said dogleggly, “Yes, his sister of the three divisions, though strong in temper, is also handsome and tight, Luo Shao, do you want it?”
“Intense? I like women with strong temperament!” With a ruthless look in his eyes, Luo Kun ordered in a cold voice, “Send her to my room and I’ll interrogate her in person.”
Luo Kun was distressed to think that two sword symbols had been destroyed on Wuchi.
In a good situation, Wuchi was destroyed. Now, once things get bigger, even if Wuchi can be killed, Shenjian Chengyin will not fall into his hands, which is damn.
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes his team can be the main challengers to Mercedes next season off the back of strong showings from Max Verstappen and Honda this year.
Daniel Ricciardo left for Renault ahead of 2019 at the same time that Red Bull switched to the Japanese engine manufacturer, leaving Verstappen to step up as the more experienced driver alongside first Pierre Gasly and then Alex Albon. Verstappen won three races and took two pole positions – losing a third in Mexico due to a penalty – and Horner sees the performances of both driver and power unit supplier as setting Red Bull up for 2020.
“I think it’s been Max’s strongest year in Formula 1,” Horner said. “I think it’s been a transition year for the team. It was always going to be. The first engine change we’ve had in 13 years – and the partnership with Honda has worked tremendously well, from the first race, the podium in Melbourne.
“With each engine [that] has been introduced, we’re getting better and better. Reliability has been been strong. We’ve only had one mechanical DNF this year in Azerbaijan, and with each engine introduction, we’ve got closer and closer to the pace.
“The three pole positions, albeit we only kept two of them, three victories, nine podiums is a really impressive performance this year, with stability of the regulations going into 2020, hopefully we can be the challenger team next year. Mercedes has had another very strong year, very much the benchmark still, and it feels like we’re definitely getting closer.”
Horner attributes the combination of his team’s own car development as well as Honda’s progress as being key to a strong end to the season where Verstappen won in Brazil and finished second in Abu Dhabi.
“I think generally we’ve developed the car well this year,” he said. “I think Honda has done a great job with each each introduction on the on the power unit, but we know there’s still a gap to close to Mercedes and we have to keep pushing.”
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UNLUCKY WEATHER IN MOORESVILLE, INDIANA (In-Class Exercise)
On St. Patrick’s Day, the weather in Mooresville, Indiana hasn’t been so lucky. The highest the temperature was 61* Celsius in 2016 while the lowest was last year with 44 degrees. What were the other years temperature? Read and find out.
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COFFEE SHOPS FOR THE BEST DOUGHNUTS (In-Class Exercise)
In Muncie, Indiana, there are five coffee shops that one could eat doughnuts at. One of the coffee shops that is close to Ball State is The Cup. At The Cup, one could buy a Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin, which is like a cinnamon roll. The other locations are in and around Muncie.
Map of all of the coffee shop locations around Ball State. There are five coffee shops in Muncie, Indiana. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A_7dLyO7LnDysUhjozui0fEO90oileVG&usp=sharing
A CATS STATS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (Assignment)
The University of Kentucky has been thought to be by some as a diverse campus. But recent statistics has shown that it’s not very diverse. There are three demographic groups that were examined: diversity among college students, male to female ratio and Master’s degrees compared to Bachelor’s. All of these components have been added together to show the complete picture of Kentucky.
At the University of Kentucky, there are 24,448 college students. In recent years, this university hasn’t been very diverse. https://infogram.com/university-of-kentuckys-enrollment-1hzj4oe8e30p2pw?live
POOL HALLS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WANT TO PLAY AGAINST COMPETITIVE POOL PLAYERS (Assignment)
Around Ball State’s campus, there are five bars in Muncie where one can join an American Poolplayers Association (APA) team. There are 15 combined 8-ball and 9-ball teams in Muncie. These bars are only for those who are 21-years-old and older.
Locations of five of the places for people to play pool at in Muncie, Indiana. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eXtfTRhyu5LEsH_2WNaD6G0NlGMwjSB0&usp=sharing
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Category: Philosophy
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Rancière leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals toward the moment, perhaps always suspended, when the word finds its flesh. That is what he, a valiant and good-humored companion to these texts, goes questing for through seven essays examining a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar works. A text is always a commencement, the word setting out on its excursions through the implausible vicissitudes of narrative and the bizarre phantasmagorias of imagery, Don Quixote's unsent letter reaching us through generous Balzac, lovely Rimbaud, demonic Althusser. The word is on its way to an incarnation that always lies ahead of the writer and the reader both, in this anguished democracy of language where the word is always taking on its flesh.
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In the Flesh of the Text
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Author: Peter Broome
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This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of France’s foremost contemporary woman poets. Marie-Claire Bancquart’s work explores, primarily through the vulnerabilities and sensitivities of the body (hence this book’s ‘carnal’ title), the possibility of releasing a cry: a salvation of language and spirit from indifference, abstraction and dehumanisation, a celebration of a moment’s reunion with the recreative vitality of the physical universe, an act of love in its most private yet cosmic expression. Bancquart has described her language as a ‘braille of the living’: minimal, interrupted and riddled with obscurities and gaps of the unsayable, but apprehending the world and composing its significance in a singularly tactile translation. This study will appeal to those keen to discover one of the most original voices of present-day European poetry, the distinctive poetic resonances of one of its most self-aware and vibrant female sensibilities, and the provocative orientations of ‘new writing’ traversed by the dilemmas and paradoxes of our own era.
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The Flesh of an Orange
Author: Ronald Guidry
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Ronald Guidry is a poet who works within the strict discipline of oral magic in poetry. This is amply supported by a mastery of images and their built-in emotive impact. The refinements in The Flesh of an Orange, Guidrys first and very much welcome book, are such that they evoke sensations not normally found even in poetry. One of these refinements is the ability of the poet to evoke, as an example, the tart, astringent smell of an orange when its skin is broken. Readers will find much to savor in Guidrys lambent new collection, clad in gold out of nature and standing on pedestals of masterpiece.
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Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory. In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty’s often misunderstood notion of “flesh” was another way to signify what he also called “Visibility.” Considering vision as creative voyance, in the visionary sense of creating as a particular presence something which, as such, had not been present before, Carbone proposes original connections between Merleau-Ponty and Paul Gauguin, and articulates his own further development of the “new idea of light” that the French philosopher was beginning to elaborate at the time of his sudden death. Carbone connects these ideas to Merleau-Ponty’s continuous interest in cinema—an interest that has been traditionally neglected or circumscribed. Focusing on Merleau-Ponty’s later writings, including unpublished course notes and documents not yet available in English, Carbone demonstrates both that Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film was sustained and philosophically crucial, and also that his thinking provides an important resource for illuminating our contemporary relationship to images, with profound implications for the future of philosophy and aesthetics. Building on his earlier work on Marcel Proust and considering ongoing developments in optical and media technologies, Carbone adds his own philosophical insight into understanding the visual today.
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Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the style of the realist novel changes as its epistemological horizons narrow.
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Author: David Ross
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The text is a conversation between the author and himself mediated by the text of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The text is a pre-text, a reading both before and after that frames the art work. What is that? Let us say, in the spirit of inquiry, that of knowing thyself. What, then, of this strange hyphenation? The present text is a pre-text because it is before the Text, the text which the author is always writing but which manifests itself, in sporadic, impulsive bursts, in the form of actual works. The book is the pre-text because it is an excuse, a rationale, a piece of pretension. The book is not about Nietzsche but what it is for someone to read Nietzsche’s text, a book for everyone and no one. How then does one read a book meant for oneself, if oneself is everyone, and not at all for oneself, if oneself is none? Or is it that the real task of reading is for the reader to read what reading is? Then again, need one distinguish between book and text? Perhaps, it is impossible to read a book such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra without invoking the text --or even sub-text – that continually slips away. If one can read a book, one cannot the text for this reason: the text is what the reader has to write through the reading. This has been my experience with Nietzsche’s text, an experience I share with my readers. The very possibility of reading invokes the need to re-write the text. Only in the space between reading and writing can the reader/re-writer hope to stand and understand the discursive grounds. Is that the play which this couplet performs? There, does not the reader enters upon the playground. Read then and play! The author's thanks go to Mr. Andrew Fuyarchuk for the fine editing job that he did. His contribution allowed further clarifications of the argument.
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Mute Speech
Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Rancière's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Rancière argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarmé, and Proust, Rancière demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention.
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Flaring tensions over Jerusalem's Temple Mount have led to the complete structural collapse of the Dome of the Rock. Prophesied for millennia, the final terror is at hand, followed by seven long years of apocalyptic warfare locked in stalemate. And then the war is over. Or so it would seem. From out of nowhere, and to the cheers of an exhausted globe, a charismatic teacher and mystic calling himself Janus Philio has crowned himself King of kings in Jerusalem. World-healing miracles ensue, but is he the second coming of Jesus Christ-which he refuses to call himself-or another in a seemingly endless series of Antichrists? Meanwhile, rising from obscurity in plague-ravaged Los Angeles, preacher's son and former NFL superstar Julian "the Mighty" Quinn leads a grassroots rebellion that topples the war-happy government in Washington, propelling him to the pinnacle of American political power. Viewed as the only counterweight to Philio's heresy, Quinn soon falls under the spell of a secret society known only as "the Guardians" set on assassinating the King of kings to hasten a return to traditional values. It's after Armageddon that the ultimate battle over the future of mankind on Earth begins.
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A brand new rail terminal! ‘Best Container Terminal in Europe’! How can the Port of Felixstowe get better? There is now news that the container terminal is to expand one of its berthing stations.
Berth 9 which was recently opened in 2011, along with Berth 8, is due to be extended by 190 metres. This will allow Berths 8 & 9 to handle 2 18,000 teu vessels simultaneously. This will add 1 million teu capacity to Britain’s busiest port.
In 2003 when the plans for the construction of Berths 8 & 9 were submitted, they were designed to unload 2 of the largest containerships at the same time. However, 18,000 teu containerships were not planned for the foreseeable future back then. Therefore in order to allow theses gigantic containerships to dock and be simultaneously unloaded at Berths 8 & 9, 190 metres needs to be added on Berth 9.
It is understood that the Port of Felixstowe plan to start work on Berth 9 next year, with construction due to take over 11 months to complete. This will involve building a new quay wall and dredging.
This news comes as the port celebrates reaching the 70 million teu container milestone, which was loaded onto the MSC Bettina by the UK Secretary of State for Transport – Patrick McLoughlin. The Port of Felixstowe has also being named ‘Best Container Terminal in Europe’ at the Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards, and has expanded its rail services by the construction of a new rail terminal.
With more money being invested into the Port of Felixstowe, we at FWD Freight Services Ltd. can see a bright future for the port and how it will benefit the UK economy.
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Jülich, 29 July 2019 – Implementing quantum materials in computer chips provides access to fundamentally new technologies. To build high-performance quantum computers, for example, topological insulators have to be combined with superconductors. This fabrication step is associated with a number of challenges that have now been solved by researchers from Jülich. Their results are presented in the current issue of the journal "Nature Nanotechnology".
Already the Incas used knots in cords in their ancient writing "Quipu" to encode and store information. The advantage: Unlike ink on a sheet of paper, the information stored in the knots is robust against external destructive influences such as water. Novel quantum computers should also be able to store information robustly in the form of knots. For this, however, no cord is knotted, but so-called quasiparticles in space and time.
What you need to build such a quantum-knot-machine are new materials, so called quantum materials. Experts speak of topological insulators and superconductors. The processing of these materials into components for quantum computers is a challenge in itself, especially because topological insulators are very air-sensitive.
Scientists at the Forschungszentrum Jülich have now developed a novel process that makes it possible to structure quantum materials without exposing them to air during processing. The so-called "Jülich process" makes it possible to combine superconductors and topological insulators in the ultra-high vacuum and thereby produce complex components.
First measurements in their devices show indications of Majorana states. "Majoranas" are precisely the promising quasiparticles that are to be knotted in the shown networks of topological insulators and superconductors in order to enable robust quantum computing. In a next step, the researchers at the Peter-Grünberg Institute, together with their colleagues from Aachen, the Netherlands and China, will equip their networks with read-out and control electronics in order to make the quantum materials accessible for application.
a) Scanning electron micrograph taken during the Jülich process: Shown is a die during fabrication. The topological insulator (indicated in red) has already been deposited selectively. In a next fabrication step, the superconductor is deposited via shadow mask evaporation. In black and white various mask systems can be identified. These masks make it possible to manufacture the desired quantum devices completely under ultra-high vacuum conditions. b) In such networks, researchers aim at shifting so-called Majorana modes (represented by stars) along the traces defined by the topological insulators in order to perform topologically protected quantum operations. While the blue and violet Majorana stay at the same position (x,y) in space, the green and white Majorana twist around each other during time, performing a knot in space-time.
Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Peter Schüffelgen
Original publication: 'Selective area growth and stencil lithography for in situ fabricated quantum devices' by Peter Schüffelgen, Daniel Rosenbach, Chuan Li, Tobias W. Schmitt, Michael Schleenvoigt, Abdur R. Jalil, Sarah Schmitt, Jonas Kölzer, Meng Wang, Benjamin Bennemann, Umut Parlak, Lidia Kibkalo, Stefan Trellenkamp, Thomas Grap, Doris Meertens, Martina Luysberg, Gregor Mussler, Erwin Berenschot, Niels Tas, Alexander A. Golubov, Alexander Brinkman, Thomas Schäpers and Detlev Grützmacher
Nature Nanotechnology, 29 July 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0506-y
Peter-Grünberg-Institut, Halbleiter-Nanoelektronik (PGI-9)
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Chesley Sullenberger, of Hudson River plane landing fame, touts new book on the Daily Show
by Jamie Rhein on Oct 14, 2009
Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, was the guest of last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart, with the energy akin to an adolescent Golden Labrador, gave Sullenberger– one of the more reserved and modest people on the planet, a venue to talk about his new book and rehash details about that day and its aftermath.
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters is not only about that day back in January. It’s about all the moments that led up to the point when Sullenberger decided to go for the river landing. For Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles, that decision changed how they view their purpose in life.
As Sullenberger says, the plane landing was much needed good news for people. Last January, when the river event happened, the economy was in shambles. Job loss and foreclosures were taking up much of the news and producing a sense of hopelessness. The plane landing gave a boost towards hopeful thinking.
As a result of that day, and the response afterwards, both Sullenberger and Skiles have looked for ways to continue to make positive contributions–in essence to keep hope alive.
Along with highlighting Sullenberger’s book and rehashing the details of that remarkable airplane landing, the interview with Sullenberger was seasoned with Stewart’s brand of wacky fun. Pick a situation and Stewart can find the absurd.
For example, the spot on the Hudson where the plane landed is close to where The Daily Show is filmed. Also being filmed that day at a close by location was an episode of Law and Order. When folks at The Daily Show saw the commotion caused by the plane, they thought it had to do with Law and Order and were impressed with how much effort was being put into making the episode look realistic.
Stewart also wondered if when Sullengberger landed the plane he thought about how Jon Stewart was just a block away.
Stewart also joked about passengers who might have complained that the plane hadn’t landed closer to the section of New York where they lived–as in why didn’t Sullenberger land it in a more convenient location for them to get home more easily.
During Stewart’s banter, Sullenberger mostly smiled, made a few comments, and seemed generally unsure about how to josh along with Jon. A kidder he is not. Not being a kidding type did come in handy back in January.
Stewart and Sullenberger also talked about how the plane’s manual used to be published with tab markers for the various sections which made it easier to use. As a cost cutting measure, the manuals aren’t published with the tab markers anymore.
That meant that Skiles had to rapidly leaf through the book looking for the pages that had the details about making a water landing. Sullenberger’s years of training kicked in to help him land the plane, but checking the manual was a double check.
As the interview’s last point, before Stewart gave Highest Duty one more plug, both Sullengerger and Stewart agreed that those tabs need to be put back on the manuals.
To watch last night’s full episode, click here.
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Mostafa Hossam / Updates / Need for Speed: Heat, PC, PS4, Xbox One /
Although lootboxes are a reliable business model and help studios maintain a steady flow of income after release, it is usually frowned upon once they affect progression or give paying players an unfair advantage in multiplayer modes.
Well, the newly announced Need for Speed Heat won’t feature any lootboxes. However, the studio will release post-launch content in the form of car packs, in addition to “time-save pack.” The latter will help players spot collectables around the game’s world.
We plan to have post launch paid-DLC in the form of car packs. Later this year, we’ll introduce a time-save pack, that will show all collectables on the map. Honestly, that’s it. […] There are no loot boxes in NFS Heat and there won’t be.
Not only that, the studio confirmed all of the customisation options are up for grabs if you are skilled enough to race for them and win.
Customisation options are earned through the completion of in-game events. For example, you spot a street race on your map and notice it has a new performance part up for grabs. Win the race, win the part. Speed cards from NFS Payback are gone.
Need for Speed Heat releases on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 8th.
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Tweet Many changes, events, and attitudes defined the s. In fact, 70s culture was — by the end of the decade — far different than that of the previous decade, when the hippie culture dominated the scene, especially in the United States.
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As the 60s became the 70s, women were making their way out of the kitchen and into the workplace. But even though mothers were heading out to work each morning, the family unit was still an essential element of 70s culture, though what the family looked like certainly began to change.
The divorce rate began to skyrocket towards the end of the decade. Technology entered the picture in the s as well and affected the way people spent their leisure time.
Americans of all ages were awed by new-fangled video games that first appeared at arcades and then invaded the house, hooked up to the family television. Music was also a huge part of 70s culture.
The Rock and Roll genre that took the 60s by storm continued to burgeon and had a great influence on the youth of the decade. All sorts of Rock sub-genres emerged and much of it had adults shaking their heads and wondering what would become of their kids if they kept listening to this loud music with the undistinguishable lyrics.
And at the end of the decade, young adults found a new kind of music and a new way to have fun. Disco music prompted the opening of hundreds of dance clubs around the country, even in small towns but especially in large U.
Though disco music would disappear by the end of the decade, it would have a huge impact on many aspects of life in the 70s including movies and fashion. But regardless of the changes, people of the 70s pretty much wanted the same thing as those who came before — a happy life.
Perhaps, however, they tried a little harder to get it, protesting wars and promoting peace both within the U.
People became free thinkers, questioning government and demanding that their voices be heard.In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we’re rounding up 16 moments from pop culture that made us smile, laugh, or cheer at some point this year.
Because hey, it's the little things we need to hold on to — and there is no better way to combat negativity than with a laugh or a good memory.
Pop Culture Quiz Are you a pop culture trivia expert? This quiz will test your pop culture IQ. Because you know you're a genius when it comes to what really matters: movies, TV and music! 70s Culture, People in the s, Changes and Events in the 70s, Growth of Women's rights, Technology in the 70s, Music was a part of 70s Culture, 70s was the Me Decade.
Home > 70s Culture. 70s Culture. Tweet. Many changes, events, and attitudes defined the s. In fact, 70s culture was – by the end of the decade – far different than that. Teen Pop is essentially dance-pop, pop, and urban ballads that are marketed to teens.
Teen Pop Music Genre Overview | AllMusic
Often, it's performed by teens, as well. Of course, music made for teenagers has been around since the dawn of the modern recording industry, from the bobby-socked girls that swooned for Sinatra to the legions of fans of Fabian or the Bay City Rollers, but teen pop is the teen music made during the late '80s.
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Third Plenary: Reflections From Different Religious Traditions on How Poverty Affects Children
Professor Dr. Anis Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of the Riphah International
University, Pakistan
Poverty is perhaps the most deadly and wide spread of all diseases. A Prophetic statement regards it as a threat to true faith. Its suffering and pain makes dependence inevitable. Its removal brings glimmer of hope, optimism, success and peace.
Is it simply an economic issue? Is it a natural consequence of a capitalistic mindset, or do all materialistic ideologies ultimately lead to economic disparity and control of resources by a few, reflected in the social conduct of the deprived and the marginalized?
How to alleviate poverty, particularly in the context of youth: what is the role of religious teachings and leader in saving the future citizens of the world from poverty, disease and corruption is the basic issue we discuss in this brief paper.
The paper suggests an ethical and moral paradigm shift in order to create peace within and peace without at a global level.
Poverty and lack of education is one major challenge in the developing world. Future of peace in the world is directly related with it. If youth of today are allowed to remain marginalized, their innate energies are about to take a rebellious course. Their spiritual and valuational vacuum shall be filled with terror, extremisms, violence and destructive ideas. Proper understanding of their needs, appropriate strategies to empower them ethically and engaging them in building a peaceful, just, and fair social order is the key to a sustainable future of mankind.
Lack of education, know-how, skills and techniques, presence of economic imbalance, unjust distribution of wealth ,exploitation and greed created by capitalist world order have made the present world a highly insecure place to live. Peace at the global level cannot be created by hollow slogans, it requires concrete, tangible and workable solutions. Children are the most directly hit part of the world community from poverty. Child labor, sexploitation of children, their use as mercenaries in ethnic and tribal wars adds to their misery. Since poverty has no religion, it can drag them into deviant behavior like drug addiction. Leaders of faith communities have a moral obligation to look critically into this situation and come forward with viable solutions.
Islam, a world faith, literally means peace, but do we experience this peace, in many Muslim societies? How does the Quran and Prophet (peace be upon him) respond to the challenge of global poverty, disease and ignorance. Can we apply Islamic solutions in this age of technology? What sort of guidance do we get from the hadith and the Quran in order to get rid of poverty is one of our major concern. In a hadith qudsi we find Allah s.w.t., in the day of reckoning, engaged in a dialogue with one of His servants. It relates directly with our topic: Allah s.w.t. will say on the day of Resurrection;
O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord and how should I visited You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant, so-and-so had fallen ill and you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would have found Me with him?
O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: did you not know that My servant so-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found Me with him?
O son of Adam, I asked you to give me to drink and you gave Me not to drink. He will say: O Lord, how should I give You to drink when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: My servant so-and-so, asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink you would have surely found Me with him. (narrated by Abu Hurayrah reported by Muslim).13
The hadith underscores three social issues directly related with poverty i.e. non- availability of drinking water to the poor, hunger and taking care of the sick. Success of a believer in the life hereafter, in this hadith, is linked with social responsibility. It calls for making effort for better health care, provision of fresh water and food to the hungry and underprivileged as a requirement of faith in Allah s.w.t.
Taking a proactive remedial position the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: No one has ever eaten better food than what he eats as a result of labor of his hand. And verily, Allahs Prophet Dawud (peace be upon him) used to eat by the work of his hand.14 Self reliance, learning skills, acquiring knowledge and to become an entrepreneur, in order to remove poverty, is the message conveyed by the hadith.
Renunciation of material benefits and comforts has been often associated with piety and spirituality. Islamic spirituality is not associated with asceticism, self- mortification or starving human body of food, sleep, rest and comfort. The Prophet (peace be upon him) in one hadith says: Allah I seek refuge against poverty; and I seek Your refuge from paucity and humiliation and I seek Your refuge that I do wrong or wrong is done to me.15 Seeking material benefit through ethical means, is considered a desirable activity. Poverty has to be alleviated at any cost.
In another hadith the Prophet (peace be upon him) seeks Allahs refuge from infidelity and destitution (faqr). And when asked mentions that shirk and faqr are equal.16 Underscoring the value of work and earning with ones hand, the Prophet (peace be upon him) condemns vegarism and begging. When a man is always begging from people he would meet Allah (in a state) that there would be no flesh on his face.17 Considered collectively these Prophetic statements persuade a believer to earn livelihood with ones own hand as an entrepreneur. He compares poverty with associationism (shirk) which is opposite of tawhid, the basis of Islam. This simply means poverty can lead a person to lose state of tawhid and bring near to the boundaries of polytheism because poverty stricken person may be compelled to act unethically.
All world religions, in one way or another, recommend giving away, sharing with others and making offerings to get redemption or please their God. Islam builds its faith on five pillars, in which, one pillar is zakah. Faith cannot be complete unless one declares Allah as the Ultimate Authority in all personal, social, political and economic matters and the Prophet as the only role model for living an ethical life. This is called shahadah. Second pillar is salah or five times daily prayer in congregation, which brings cohesiveness, brotherhood, and unity in the community of the believers and an effective means to alleviate poverty. Third pillar is zakah, an obligatory contribution to be made by every believer on yearly savings. The Quran does not calls it a charity nor a favor but a right of the poor and needy, in the wealth of the better off. And in their wealth there was a rightful share for him who would ask and for the destitute.18 It further commands: Give to the near of kin his due, and also to the needy and the wayfarer.19 The Quran refers to zakah in conjunction with salah at around seventy places, to ensure its importance and its role in eradication of poverty, development of self-reliance and reduction of gap between the poor and rich. It fights against poverty at a spiritual, social, economic and cultural level.
The institution of zakah has been, unfortunately neither understood properly by common people, nor introduced appropriately at state level due to inheriting a colonized mind-set by Muslim rulers. They are made to understand that zakah is a matter of religion and personal faith while state has no role in religious matters. The Quran if ever read with an open mind states clearly (they are) those who, if we give them power in the land, establish regular prayers, and (system of ) regular zakah, enjoin the right and forbid wrong. With Allah rests the end of (all) affairs.20 Here the Quran makes the state responsible to collect zakah, which is not a tax but a mean of spiritual enhancement, a worship (ibadah), disciplining of mean of earning and spending, and a pre-requisite to complete ones faith.
An often overlooked aspect of zakah is their persuasive roles in educating those on the receiving end to use it for self- reliance and economic development and within shortest possible time try to achieve financial stability in order to complete faith by becoming able to pay zakah. If one is only on receiving end the pro-active role of zakah shall not be achieved. Help given in the form of zakah is not a charity but a seed money needed for economic self-reliance of the poor. This in built mechanism is unfortunately not followed by many Muslim states under the influence of secular ideologies, which confine faith to personal life of the faithful. Islam rejects this colonialist approach. It wants faith to be reflected in money matters, public policy and in international relations. If children and people with old age are suffering from hunger not only in Muslim society but also in the farthest corner of the world, it is an Islamic obligation to feed them and relieve them from their suffering; it is not a matter of charity.
Faith in practice means taking care of the hungry, poor, uneducated, oppressed and marginalized. It never means personal salvation alone. It calls for a protective approach and development of strategy for eradication of poverty and hunger in youth.
It is to develop a comprehensive, concrete and viable remedial strategy, to offer necessary education to the future citizen of the world, to teach them how to live life with dignity, honor, self-respect and with an attitude of giving away. Unfortunately, due to lack of proper understanding of dynamic teachings of Islam and presence of a colonial baggage Muslim countries, in Africa and Asia, lag behind in education and in holistic understanding of their faith as agent of social, economic and political change. On the contrary global media, secularized elite and statesmen invariably accuse religion of inculcating extremism, violence and terrorism. Those who blame religion for rise of terrorism never look critically on global tragedies caused by the so-called secular, modernized and civilized world. Terrorization of the Iraqis was not done by religious fanatics but by the so-called champions of human rights who killed over six million innocent children, old age people and youth in the name of exporting western secular democracy.
Religion on the contrary, has always been the most effective source of peace, compassion, dignity of man and unity of mankind. Secular fundamentalism by assuming secularity as the ultimate truth, has done more harm to the world community than collective harm claimed to have been done by people with true holistic faith.
Ethical social change
First concrete step to be taken is to educate people in true dimensions of faith as agent for ethical social change. This shall have to be done by introducing moral and ethical principles universally recognized in world religion. Ethical social change is possible when family values are introduced in early life of youth. The techno-culture we have introduced, in our society has encouraged a self-centered world view. Individualism, personal glory, and glamour becomes the objective of life. Care, love, sharing, sacrifice, mutuality, which are universal ethical values inculcated as constituent values of the family are set aside in favor of individual satisfaction and pleasure. Success story means accumulation of wealth and power. It is new view from the perspective of giving away and family proud and thankful after sacrificing for fellow human being, may it be a blood relation or a stranger.
Ethical social change calls for revival of family values in order to give future generation a sense of responsibility and ethical accountability in fear of Allah, the Creator of mankind. Curricular modifications shall have to be made and instead of projecting Tom and Jerry or Micky Mouse as childrens role model, which, in my view are one major source of inculcation of violence in the soul and mind of children, we shall have to introduce humanistic, compassionate, upright and dignified role models, from different religious cultural traditions.
Second, value to be inculcated is to earn with ones own hand, and not to stretch hand for aid, even toward so-called World Bank or other such blood sucking institutions. No foreigner has ever helped in removing misery of the poor and wretched of the earth. All aid packages have added more to the gap between the poor and the rich.
What is more vital in my view is, not just removal of hunger and poverty but more importantly poverty of soul and mind and heart. If we succeed in removing poverty of mind, and soul and heart we shall have achieved a major part of our target of building a new generation who do not look toward others for help but who observe a culture of giving which Islam calls infaq, sadaqat and auqaf. All three categories stand for giving away as a religious obligation. With the marginalization of religious world view due to secularization of space, and time, the inner urge to do good for the sake of pleasing Allah, with whatever name one may call him, has been marginalized and a utilitarian mind, a self-centered, individualistic, rather selfish world view has taken over the otherwise humanistic self of mankind.
Religious scholars have a moral obligation to correct this disoriented vision of life and guide the youth in search of meaning of life, goal of life and goal of mankind. Peace within alone can bring peace without. The dilemma of post-modern youth is loss of trust in his own being. Escalation in suicide rate in youth, juvenile crime, sex related deviations, drug culture, street violence, alarming divorce rate, are only a few indications of absence of peace within. No billions of money can bring this inner peace. It is only though an ethical paradigm shift youth and others can have a taste of inner peace. Inner peace does not mean withdrawal from society to join a solitary spiritual journeys. It on the contrary means drawing satisfaction from serving Allahs creations only for His sake and pleasure and not for any recognition or reward in this world.
In the Muslim societies, ethical and moral teachings of the Quran and Prophet (peace be upon him) dealing with interpersonal human relations, economic and social behavior, political and public policy should be made part of curriculum. Lecturing on these areas is not enough unless an activities based curriculum is introduced. Youth volunteer force should be mobilized at national level in order to let youth take active part in conflict resolution, and offer their helping hand to others, while joining confidence to stand on their own feet.
A five years strategy for youth with a target each one teach one can lead to remarkable results. Teaching means more than pedagogy. It means sharing values, ethical conduct, inculcation of peace, justice, dignity, faith and discipline in youth, through informal and formal means. Every year the month of Ramadan, is dedicated to excel in performance of obligatory prayers, contributing financially to projects for the needy, offering breakfast at pre-dawn and at sunset to neighbors, friends and even strangers. In this month special effort is made to identify needy persons in society and be as much generous as possible. This whole month providing training to mind, soul and body to respond to hunger, thirst, needs of the marginalized and the poor.
For this year one practiced step the Muslim communities can easily take is to offer, not only to those who fast during the month, but any poor and hungry in the community to join in dinner. This can be institutionalized by offering one dish hot dinner to the poor in society irrespective of their faith. Community masjid can become the meeting point and those who join in congregational prayers can contribute mutually toward this cause. If a middle class family feeds only one more person a small community of hundred households can easily feed one hundred hungry persons.
Once we start this act of virtue, it shall motivate many others to come forward and contribute their share in eradication of hunger, poverty and ultimately extremism from society. An ethical and moral revolution of this nature alone can save mankinds future from extremism, violence, hunger, terrorism and hollowness of the soul of post-modern man.
The Quran summarizes the strategy for social change in one rather long ayah (sentence) of chapter two al-Baqarah:
Righteousness does not consist in turning your faces towards the east or towards west; true righteousness consists in belief in angels, the Book and the Prophets, and in giving away ones property in love of Him to ones kinsmen, the orphans, the poor and the wayfarer, and to those who ask for help, and in freeing the necks of slaves, and in establishing prayer and dispensing zakah, (true righteousness is achieved by those) who are faithful to their promise once they have made it and by those who remain steadfast in adversity and affliction and at the time of battle (between Truth and falsehood). Such are the truthful ones, such are the Allah fearing. (emphasis added).
The above commandants are not specific to the Muslims, these have direct relevance to the human condition we are facing today. Righteousness, religiosity and spirituality is not a matter of facing toward Makka or Rome, but faith coupled with an ethical social behavior and fulfillment of obligations toward the poor, illiterate and those suffering from physical, moral, and spiritual ailments.
The recipe lies in action, in translating ethics into practice through a humble beginning like plantation of a date seed in a desert. The small kernel that sprouts faces many hardships in a desert yet survives, straightens and becomes a strong tree which, in due time, produces plenty of delicious dates.
To take lead in doing good to humanity is highly underscored by the Quran. As for those who had believed and did good in the world, they shall be admitted to the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Then with the leave of Allah, they shall abide forever, and will be greeted with “Peace� (salamun). Do you not see how Allah has given the example of a good word (kalma tayyiba). It is like a good tree, whose roots are firmly fixed and whose branches ever yielding its fruit in every season with the leave of its Lord. Allah gives examples for mankind that they may take heed.22
A small initiative taken with sincerity to remove pain from one person, poverty of one individual, sickness of one fellow human being shall multiply peace, love, justice and care at not only national but global level. Let poverty and ignorance be removed with the humble efforts of those who are conscious of their social responsibility and do not expect any reward for their work except from the Lord of the universe.
Wama tawfiqi illa, bi Allah, wa Allahu
Alamu bi alsawab.
13 Ezzedin Ibrahim, translated and selected, Forty Hadith Qudsi, Beirut, Dar-al-Koran al- Karim, 1980, P. 88-90.
14 Reported by al-Miqdam, Sahih of Bukhari, Book 34, Ch. 15.
15. Reported by Abu Hurayrah Sahih of Muslim, Book 47, hadith 25
16 Nisai, Sunan, Book 50 Chapter 19, reported by
Abi Said al Khudri
17 Narrated by Hamza son of Abdullah, Reported by Muslim in his Sahih, Book 12, hadith 130 also Bukhari, Book 24, Chapter 52
18 The Quran, al-Dhariyat 51:19
19 Bani Israil 17:26
20 The Quran al-Hajj 22:41
21 The Quran, al-Baqarah 2:177
22 The Quran, Ibrahim 14:23-25
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This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One article for each year.
I am only going to select one featured song for each article, which makes it hard. I am going to try and select a different artist for each year.
For many people, and I include myself, you tend to still like the tunes you heard during childhood, which your parents often played. So rather than just pick the top 10 hits of each year, I shall let you know what they were, but also the tunes of that year not necessarily in the top 10 or so, what were in my view classics. I also add a couple of events in history for that year, it helps bring back memories, and hopefully happy ones.
Not everyone will like my choices of course, and you may remember some from each particular year that you feel should have been included, so do please post a link to the song.
So, on we go with memories from 1973: (Thank you Wiki)
This year was about: Joining in the ECC, more Cod Wars, IRA bombings, even more strikes and at the end of the year the *3 day week*, not exactly happy days, but at least the music was great.
What was I doing in this year? – I was 17, I had not long started proper work as an upholstery cutter, earning money was good. I had my first proper girlfriend and lost something, sometimes 5 or more times a night. I was now living with my sister and basically a live-in baby-sitter. David, my new brother in law used to take me out every Friday, 4 pints of the local Shipstones Ales and a decent pint of Double Diamond (Works wonders) in the pub nearest home, saw me very tired and emotional. Happy days, but I was bored, I needed more.
TV programmes included:
The UK and world record breaking long-running comedy series Last of the Summer Wine starts as a 30-minute pilot on BBC1’s Comedy Playhouse show. The first series run starts on 12 November and the programme runs for 37 years until August 2010. I liked this. The Wombles, Are you being served started, Open All Hours airs with Ronnie Barker’s. BBC Television series The Ascent of Man, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Possibly the first “memorable” advert, Smash Martians advertising campaign launches on ITV. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, That’s Life started and a particular favourite of mine Casanova started (usually at least one pair of boobies on show). Come on, I was 17, what do you expect.
Prime Minister – Edward Heath (Conservative)
1 January – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark entered the European Economic Community.
22 January – British share values fell by £4 billion in one day.
27 February – Rail workers and civil servants went on strike.
1 March – Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, the all-time best-selling album by British artists.
1 April – Value-added tax (VAT) came into effect in the UK.
1 May – 1.6 million workers went on strike over government pay restraints.
20 May – The Royal Navy sent three frigates to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic ships in the Cod War dispute.
29 May – The Princess Royal announced her engagement to Mark Phillips.
23 June – A fire at a house in Hull which killed a 6-year-old boy is initially thought to be an accident, but it later emerged as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdal
6 July – The James Bond film Live and Let Die was released in British cinemas, with the spy being played by 45-year-old The Saint star Roger Moore.
30 July – Markham Colliery disaster: eighteen coal miners were killed at the coal mine near Staveley, Derbyshire, when the brake mechanism on their cage fails.
30 July – £20 million compensation was paid to victims of Thalidomide following an 11-year court case.
21 August – The coroner in the Bloody Sunday inquest accused the British army of “sheer unadulterated murder” after the jury returns an open verdict – twat
8 September – The IRA detonated bombs in Manchester and Victoria Station in London.
10 September – IRA bombs at King’s Cross and Euston railway stations in London injured 13 people.
12 September – Further IRA bombs exploded in Oxford Street and Sloane Square
October – Prime minister Edward Heath announced government proposals for its counter-inflationary Price and Pay Code Stage Three (continuing to July 1974), including limiting pay rises to 7%, restricting price rises, and paying £10 bonuses to pensioners before Christmas – a move which would cost around £80 million, funded by a 9 pence rise in National Insurance contributions.
8 November The Second Cod War between Britain and Iceland ended.
14 November – Eight members of the Provisional IRA were convicted of the March bombings in London.
14 November – The Princess Royal married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.
5 December – The speed limit on motorways was reduced to 50 mph from 70 mph until further notice.
31 December – As a result of coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure – the Three-Day Week, announced on 17 December – came into force at midnight. This was a bummer for me, however we started doing 12 hour shifts to get the hours in, so not too bad overall, earned about the same amount but more time off.
The Top 10 Singles with a You Tube hyperlink on the title:
Top Hits of 1973
1 Dawn Tie A Yellow Ribbon
2 Simon Park Orchestra Eye Level
3 Peters & Lee Welcome Home
4 The Sweet Blockbuster
5 Slade Cum On Feel The Noize
6 Gary Glitter I Love You Love Me Love
7 Wizzard See My Baby Jive
8 Gary Glitter I’m The Leader Of The Gang
9 Donny Osmond The Twelfth of Never
10 David Cassidy Daydreamer
Yes, I am aware that GG was a wrong un, but this is about the era and you cannot change history.
What a year for Dawn and Tony Orlando, Sweet, Wizzard, Gary Glitter. Suzi Quatro came on the scene, Slade continued their great run of hits. Fleetwood Mac (No longer Peter Green, released Albatross, Alvin Stardust started and the first single from one of my favourites 70’s band Mud came out, Bowie producing some great tunes. Thin Lizzy with Whisky in the Jar. Wizzard also came out with I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, sorry.
The tune: “Rubber Bullets” is a song by the English band 10cc from their self-titled debut album. Written by Kevin Godley, Lol Creme, and Graham Gouldman and produced by 10cc, “Rubber Bullets” was the band’s first number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending one week at the top in June 1973. It also reached No. 1 in Ireland and No. 3 in Australia, but it fared relatively poorly in the United States where it peaked at only No. 73. A tongue in cheek homage to the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock with a Beach Boys influence, the song attracted some controversy at the time because of the British Army’s use of rubber bullets to quell rioting in Northern Ireland. It was amazing that the BBC never banned the track, although they limited its airplay, because they thought it was about the ongoing Northern Ireland conflicts. In fact, it was about an Attica State Prison riot like the ones in the old James Cagney films.
More writings on this song here: Rubber Bullets
In my view the best songs of the year, after the featured track and most of the above top ten are:
Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody – It had to be done, first time around in 1973 for this. I think we will be hearing this on the radio for yet another 50 years at least.
So why I am at it:
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Promise, no more Christmas ones.
Sweet – The Ballroom Blitz – Are you ready? Let’s go.. And the girl in the corner is everybody’s mourner – she could kill you with a wink of here eye! Sing along, I know you want to.
Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limit – I defy you to not tap your feet
The Rolling Stones – Angie – Always liked this, one of their best in my view.
The Faces – Cindy Incidentally – Rod again.
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Get Down – Always like Gilbert
Alvin Stardust – My Coo Ca Choo – If you put some black gloves on you are very, very ghey
Nazareth – This Flight Tonight – yet another classic
Medicine Head – One and one is one
Dave Edmunds – Born To Be With You – I have always liked Dave, bet you do not remember this until you start playing it.
Suzi Quatro – Can The Can – She is awesome
Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash
Roger Daltrey – Giving it all away – Written for, and gifted to Roger Daltrey by the great Leo Sayer
David Bowie – Life On Mars?
The O’Jays – Love Train
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar – Possibly the best opening guitar ever.
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Ghey level – Emperor Palpatinen
David Essex – Rock On – Ghey level – Sith Lord
Status Quo – Caroline – What a classic to get your air guitar out.
Slade – My Friend Stan – TOTP introduced by Kenny
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross – This is the extended version.
MUD –Dynamite – First of many great tunes.
Detroit Emeralds – Feel the need in me
New Seekers – You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me – Always liked their stuff.
Strawbs – Part of the union
Focus – Sylvia – pleasant instrumental
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain – This is such a great tune.
Limme The Family Cooking – You Can Do Magic
Roberta Flack – Killing me softly with his song – have linked the one with lyrics showing.
Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You – Classic Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.
Perry Como – For The Good Times – Soppy old me
Barry Blue – Dancing On A Saturday Night – Gheyness level – Jedi
Barry Blue – Do You Wanna Dance
Wizzard (Roy Wood) – Angel Fingers
David Bowie – Sorrow
Fun song: Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers – Monster Mash
Fun song: The Hotshots – Snoopy Vs the Red Baron – Bloody hell, just putting the links in to this and playing it and I still remember all the words.
39 songs for 1973 in my favourite lists. I think for the next couple of years at least, it gets better and better.
Hat tips to:
http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/ these give the top 100 selling charts for each year
http://www.everyhit.com/chart1.html these give the top 10 songs for each year
https://www.youtube.com/ you know them.
Next Time 1974.
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Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) announced $3.5 million in new federal funding for the airport authorized through the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program (FAA AIP).
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“The Dunkirk Airport facility has the potential to be a key piece of regional infrastructure as we continue to seek ways to improve and grow the local economy. Another key to continued economic growth in this region is the leadership and vision of Congressman Higgins and our entire congressional delegation who I commend for their foresight in obtaining this vitally important funding,” said City of Dunkirk Mayor Richard L. Frey.
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How To Use Garlic Barrier
Garlic Barrier is a liquid that must be mixed with water and applied to the plants with a sprayer of some kind. It is important to mix the material exactly as prescribed on the label, not because it is dangerous but because a lot of effort has gone into getting just the right strength to be effective.
Garlic Barrier will leave an odor of garlic after use, but it disappears usually within hours. What is very strange but true is that when Garlic Barrier is sprayed on a food crop such as lettuce, it works very well as a repellent but does not leave any trace of garlic taste in the lettuce when it is harvested.
The key to success with Garlic Barrier is timing. You want to get the spray on the plants before the pest insect arrives if that is possible. There have been many reports that even after a pest has infested a plant, Garlic Barrier has been successful in ridding the plant of that pest in two or three days. Nevertheless, the product works best if it sitting there waiting for the target pest insect to arrive.
Many gardeners report success with just one application of Garlic Barrier in the mid to late spring. Most of the farmers have found that two sprays, one early and one in mid season is even better is keeping the pests away.
Like most insect sprays, it is very important to get the Garlic Barrier on the undersides of the plant leaves as well as on the top. Spray enough material so the spray is almost going to begin running off the leaves. The material will dry in a few hours and does not wash off when it rains.
Treating Turfgrass
The greenbug, Schizaphis graminum, is an aphid or plant louse that is one of the most destructive insect pests of small grains in the Midwest. Although it usually attacks wheat and oats, it also feeds on Kentucky bluegrass lawns. Areas of discolored grass, ranging from pale green to yellow to burnt orange, under shade trees or in sunny areas, may be caused by the feeding of these small sucking insects. In heavy infestations, as many as 30 of the little bugs may be found on a grass blade. Using a hose_end_sprayer ,[781 500] spray grass blades thoroughly with the Garlic Barrier, covering all surfaces every.
Garlic Barrier can be used to repel two turf pests, sodwebworms and chinch bugs. The Garlic Barrier is applied to the area that is suspect and if those pests are present, they will show up on the top of the grass blades trying to get away from the garlic. Then other control methods are used to stop the problem.
Treating Flowers & Vegetables
Adjust the Garlic Barrier sprayer_bottle [781 600] for a strong pressure with medium droplet size. Thoroughly wet all plant leaf and stem surfaces top to bottom. It is especially important to spray the undersides of leaves, where most pests congregate.
Treating Trees & Shrubs
It is more difficult to reach both the tops and the bottoms of tree foliage, especially on trees over 5 feet tall. In these cases, wear eye protection and cover bare skin when spraying. Better yet, hire a professional arborist to do the job properly.
Treating Fruit Trees
If a tree with pest insect problems is currently bearing fruit, avoid over-spraying and avoid spraying on foggy or very humid days when it takes longer for the Garlic Barrier to dry. This is because prolonged exposure to Garlic Barrier on fruit such as apples, pears, and citrus may cause spotting or russetting of the skins. Follow guidelines on the product package.
Treating Houseplants
Garlic Barrier is an excellent repellent for most of the common insects that attack houseplants, such as scale, whiteflies and spider mites. Move plants to an outside area on a nice day or to the sink or tub to minimize Garlic spray on household appointments. Spray plants thoroughly, taking care that the garlic solution penetrates dense foliage to wet all infested surfaces.
Checking For Results
Garlic Barrier will be working as a repellent immediately after application. The test of success will be if no pest insects appear at all, or in small enough numbers to be insignicant If you use Garlic Barrier on a plant with the pest insect already present, then you must wait a bit to see if there is any progress. To determine if significant inroads have been made in the existing pest insect population, examine the affected plant three days after spraying the garlic. Remember, you do not need to eliminate 100% of the pests. If the population is reduced to 10% to 20% of where it was, the survivors will serve as food for beneficial insects, which will then keep the pests at that acceptable low level. From that point on, the Garlic Barrier is repelling new arrivals.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest World Heritage area and the biggest tropical marine reserve. Only the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserves in the Australian sub-Antarctic are larger. It is approximately 347,800 square kilometres in area and approximately 2,300 kilometres long, running from just north of Frazer Island near Bundaburg through to the tip of the Cape York Peninsula. When it comes to length, the Belize Barrier Reef (off the Caribbean coast of Belize) is a distant second at only 290 kilometres and Ningaloo Reef, off the coast of Western Australia, is just 280 kilometres.
The reef contains over 2,900 reefs which includes 760 fringing reefs, and 300 coral cays. There are also 618 continental islands, which were once part of the mainland.
As the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, the Great Barrier Reef is home to approximately 1,500 species of fish, 400 species of corals, 4,000 species of molluscs, 500 species of seaweed, 215 species of birds, 16 species of sea snake, six of the world’s seven species of threatened marine turtles and some of the largest populations of dugong in the world.
There are more different species of animals and plants in a cubic metre of the Great Barrier Reef, than in any other environment in the world, including tropical rainforests.
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Coral spawning Biggest but also the youngest
How are coral reefs formed? When is a reef not a reef?
Species of the Great Barrier Reef Natural threats to the Great Barrier Reef
Human Threats to the Great Barrier Reef
Every year over one third of the reef’s 350 species of coral reproduce sexually during a mass spawning event. The majority of inner reefs spawn around November with the outer reefs spawning later in December. Spawning always takes place at night, and follows any time up to six days after the full moon. Eggs and sperm are released into the water where they eventually combine to form a free swimming planktonic larval stage.
“Biggest but also the youngest”
The Great Barrier Reef may be the biggest coral reef system in the world but it’s also the youngest. The Reef’s underlying basement began growing about 18 million years ago in the north and two million years ago in the south. The current Great Barrier Reef structure grew on top of the older platform about 18 000 years ago. Many of the places that support reefs today were part of the land during the Ice Age. As global temperatures increased, and the ice melted and retreated to the poles and mountain tops, sea levels rose to their present levels, creating ideal conditions for corals to develop along the tops of what were formerly low coastal hills. Turtles and sharks are the marine ‘dinosaurs’ of the Great Barrier Reef. Turtles have been swimming around in its water for 150 million years while sharks have been around for 400 million years – that’s 100 times longer than humans.
How are coral reefs formed?
Reefs are masses of limestone made from skeletons of millions upon millions of tiny marine animals and plants. Colonies of tiny, living coral polyps grow on a reef’s surface. These animals are the main reef builders. They extract dissolved limestone from the water and, with the help of singlecelled plants living inside them, lay it down as hard limestone around the lower half of their bodies. Polyps can pull their whole bodies inside these limestone cups for protection, if necessary. The combined skeletons of many colonies of polyps form the large corals that can be seen on reefs. When coral polyps die, their limestone skeletons and the remains of other animals and plants are added to the framework of the reef.
When is a reef not a reef?
Only about five percent of the area of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area is taken up by coral reefs. Islands also represent a small proportion, and most of the remaining 95 percent is seabed between reefs. This seabed is ecologically complex and comprises many different types of habitat but, generally, can be divided into the inter-reef area and the lagoon.
SPECIES GALLERY
Hard corals:
Each no bigger than a fingernail, hard corals build reefs by growing atop the stony skeletons of previous coral colonies. Assuming such shapes as plates, domes, and branches, coral colonies have created the largest structures ever made by living things. But like any masterpiece, a coral reef takes time, growing about a half inch (1.3 centimetres) a year. Armed with tentacles that help them “fish” for meals of minute plankton, the individual corals, or polyps, are tubelike animals related to jellyfish and sea anemones. Unlike most of their cousins, though, corals harbour their own built-in food factories. Inside corals’ clear outer tissues live microscopic algae, which transform sunlight into sugars through photosynthesis. The hosts help themselves to some of the sugars and even gain a bit of added colour.
Nudibranch
Psychedelic skin tones tell predators this shell-less snail packs a poisonous punch. But most nudibranchs weren’t born toxic. Nudibranchs snack on sea squirts, sponges, and hydroids that are poisonous to other animals. But instead of breaking down their preys’ toxins, nudibranchs incorporate them into their own armories. And that’s not all they can recycle. So-called solar-powered nudibranchs eat soft corals, which generally have algae living in their tissues. When solar-powered nudibranchs eat soft corals, they don’t digest the algae, they keep them in their outer tissues. There the algae continue photosynthesizing, converting sunlight into food for themselves and their new host.
Titan triggerfish
At up to 2.5 feet (75 centimetres) long, titans are the largest of the triggerfish, which wield an intimidating arsenal of hunting behaviours. Squirting water from their mouths and flapping their fins, triggerfish “dig” for crabs, worms, and other prey. When attacking sea urchins, triggers often flip them over, exposing their less spiny undersides. It all adds up to a predator so successful that smaller fish swim in its wake and survive on its scraps. The trigger is equally resourceful, and tenacious, when it comes to egg rearing. After female triggers lay their eggs in nests on the seafloor—a rarity among reef fish—they continually blow water on them to ensure a good oxygen supply. They’re also known to put the bite on approaching fish or photographers swimming in for a close-up.
After sniffing out worms and other prey on the seafloor with its tubelike siphon, this toxic mollusc extends a sharp, spear like tooth at the end of an organ called a proboscis. When the fang finds its mark, the cone snail injects a neurotoxin that induces immediate muscle spasms and quick death. The same fate may await humans who encounter especially venomous species of cone snails, though deaths are rare.
Sea anemone and anemone fish
The stinging tentacles of a sea anemone offer the immune anemone fish shelter and a safe place to lay eggs. In return the anemone gains a “guard dog.” Anemone fish prune harmful parasites from their hosts and drive off fish that prey on anemones, such as some butterfly fish. After a day of feeding on plankton, an anemone gathers itself into a bunch for the night. Anemone fish, protected by a mucus on their skin, snuggle into the stinging mass, protected till daybreak.
HUMAN THREATS
This type of grouper may be overfished in some parts of the Great Barrier—at least partly due to its popularity in Asia, where diners often order it live from restaurant aquariums. Concerns for the coral trout aside, fishing is strictly regulated on the Great Barrier, but countless other reefs aren’t so lucky. Elsewhere many are obliterated by blast fishing—in which reefs are often blown to bits in hopes of an easy catch—and cyanide poisoning, the dark secret of the aquarium trade. In cyanide fishing, divers generally squirt the toxin onto coral reefs, then search the newly dead reef for live-but-stunned fish—or so they hope. More than half of all fish caught this way die in the poisoning process or in shipping.
Croplands (as on this farm near the town of Cairns) and development along north-eastern Australia’s coastal plain have replaced many seaside wetlands, the natural filters for fresh water coming from the continent. Coupled with deforestation, overgrazing by livestock, and runoff from towns, farms, and industries upstream, this sends more sediments and nutrients flowing out toward the Great Barrier. The total has quadrupled since colonial times. Corals can persist in surprisingly murky water as long as tides and currents periodically sweep the sediments off. It’s the nutrients that wreck a reef. Anything beyond moderate levels of nitrogen hurts growth and reproduction in corals while fertilizing free-floating algae that can smother their neighbours.
—Text adapted from “Kingdom of Coral” (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine, January 2001)
NATURAL THREATS
Crown-of-thorns sea star
Armed with poison spikes and an appetite for hard coral, adult crown-of-thorns sea stars can kill a reef. By projecting their stomachs out of their mouths and wrapping them around coral, they slowly devour it—or not so slowly if they’re out in force, which is increasingly the case. No one’s quite sure why crown-of-thorns epidemics are on the rise. Some believe they’re part of a natural cycle, like wildfires. Others think humans inspire the outbreaks, possibly by overfishing species that cull juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars. Divers are sometimes trained to kill sea stars at popular dive sites, but there doesn’t seem to be a large-scale, responsible weapon against crown-of-thorns epidemics. For now, conservationists watch and wait—and hope afflicted areas bounce back.
When stressed, corals expel the algae that live in their transparent outer tissues, exposing the corals’ limestone skeletons. The most common cause of this bleaching is abnormally high ocean temperatures. Other culprits: inflows of fresh water, high ultraviolet radiation, and changes in salinity. Bleached coral isn’t necessarily dead coral, though, and it often regains its healthy colour when conditions return to normal. But prolonged bleaching can lead to coral death—one more way global warming and periodic climate shifts such as El Niño can change the face of the Earth.You just can’t beat snorkelling and scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, Queensland Australia. It’s one of the most amazing and diverse scuba diving locations in the world. From beginners to experienced divers, snorkellers and non-swimmers, there are dive trips and great barrier reef tours available to suit all budgets and levels of experience.For personalised help with organising your ‘Great Barrier Reef Experience’ please contact us
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Q: The Bosses like going to top notch holiday cottages but most aren’t dog-friendly so I’m not allowed, and they usually have to stick me in boarding kennels. Your places are pretty special with lots of Stars, so would you really let me come?
A: Yes! (Although you’d have to bring at least one human with you). Why not? You’ve been well trained, so you’re not going to chew things or go in the bedrooms are you? If you’re used to being on the sofa at home, then you’ll need to ask your humans to bring some big throws to cover our sofas for you.
And when you arrive you’ll find a Bonio waiting for you, and a special tag to wear that shows you’re on holiday at our dog-friendly cottages. (It also has our contact details on it in case you happen to wander off, but it’s really to show other dogs that you’re staying somewhere special. Honestly.)
Q: But at most places they seem to worry about me leaving hairs on their carpets – don’t you?
A: We have hard floors throughout, so no carpets, just the odd rug that’s easy to clean. (We’d like to pretend we did that just for you, but really it’s because we have underfloor heating which makes our cottages nice and cosy for humans. And dogs, of course.)
Q: How much extra are you going to charge for me to come? If it’s cheaper for me to stay in kennels, guess where I’ll end up?
A: We ask your owners to spend a bit of time cleaning up and removing any of your hairs, which reduces our extra work, but there’s always some extra cleaning work to do after we’ve had a dog guest. Our cleaners are very good, but they don’t work for free so we pay them for the extra work and charge your owners for this. It’s not much, currently £10, but don’t you think you’re worth it?
Q: How far do I have to go before we get to somewhere nice for a walk and a game?
A: The end of our drive, which is about 50 yards. Right outside there’s open land; no cars, just lots of land. Miles of it. Sometimes there’s sheep around and you might need to go a bit further to be away from them. (They’re stupid animals and seem to be afraid of dogs.)
Q: So can I get really muddy, and maybe splash around in a bit of water?
A: Yes to both! There’s usually mud around, even if humans can’t find it dogs always do, and if you like water there’s a beck (you might call it a stream, depending on where you come from). When you get back, you’ll find we’ve provided a bucket, sponge and towel so you can have a nice wash. (Sorry….)
Q: Can I have a bit of space without the Bosses coming out with me? There are some things I just don’t like doing on a lead.
A: Yes. Our cottages each have their own small enclosed area where you can be out on your own; you just have to promise not to disturb other guests (okay?). Oh, and you have to make sure your owners clear up after you. They’ll be used to that, anyway.
Q: Can the Bosses leave me behind when they go out?
A: No, that’s something we don’t allow. Lots of dogs get upset in a strange place if their owners are out. The exception is if you’re happy and content to stay in your own cage for a relatively short time, and aren’t going to howl or make a fuss or disturb other guests (as if you would).
Q: So does that mean the Bosses won’t be able to go out for a meal? They like doing that.
A: We’re very lucky here; there are two pubs in the village that both serve really good food, and both are dog-friendly in their bar areas. You can’t go in the restaurants, but they serve the same menu in the bar anyway. (Steaks are good. So are the sausages.)
Q: I’ve heard something about dogs being put on trial in your area, which is a bit of a worry. What did they do?
A: That would be the famous Sheepdog Trials, which is Border Collies showing off and competing for prizes. There’s nothing for you to worry about. They also like to pose by riding around on the backs of quad bikes. Just ignore them.
Q: It sounds wonderful! How do I book?
A: You’ll have to ask your owners. Try one of those imploring looks that never fail. They’ll thank you.
Some bullet points for humans:
Q: How many dogs do you accept?
A: Both The Byre and The Haystore are fine for two dogs of pretty much any size and The Carthouse has room for three. We can take more, but the suitability of each cottage will depend on the breed/size and temperament of the dogs and if they all get on. Please get in touch to discuss – we want to be sure our accommodation matches your needs.
Q: Will you accept a puppy?
A: We have to maintain very high standards of presentation of furnishings and as a general rule we can’t accept dogs under 12 months old. However, if your puppy is crate trained and fully house trained, and not prone to chewing, please get in touch to discuss.
Q: Are there any breeds you won’t accept?
A: We cannot accept dogs that are on the current official list of prohibited breeds, otherwise we welcome all breeds. We have other guests and it is your responsibility to ensure that your dog(s) are not a genuine threat to them.
Q: What restrictions are there on where in the property dogs can go?
A: We have to respect the requirements of all our guests and we therefore don’t allow dogs in bedrooms. In The Byre and The Haystore the sleeping space for dogs is immediately outside the bedrooms (see the floorplans for each cottage). If you want to allow your dog on our lounge sofas, please bring plenty of your own throws to cover them. We provide stairgates so you can restrict where your dog can go while you’re asleep.
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Giorgio Armani will be presented with the Outstanding Achievement accolade at the 2019 Fashion Awards later this year. The legendary designer will be honoured during a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in December.
Armani will be recognised for “his outstanding contribution to the global fashion industry, his creativity and vision of timeless style and care for detail, that have provided such inspiration to so many in the industry,” reads a press release from the British Fashion Council (BFC).
As creative director of the Emporio and Giorgio Armani labels, as well as chairman and CEO of the Armani Group, the designer and businessman is directly involved in all strategic decisions within the company concerning style and design, and has overseen the growth of the label from a ready-to-wear brand to a luxury fashion empire over the past 40 years.
“Giorgio Armani is a legendary maestro, with a signature style that has defined Hollywood, as well as fashion,” says Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Justine Picardie. “Just think of the era-defining image of Richard Gere wearing Armani in American Gigolo – the embodiment of sensual fluidity – and you can understand how that subtle, sophisticated tailoring was as compelling for women as it was for men.
“Armani not only revolutionised what we think of as power-dressing, but also created a vision of alluringly understated elegance on the red carpet. Less is more with Mr Armani – yet his apparently effortless minimalism is based on decades of experience and masterful expertise in the fine art of fashion.”
Armani with Lauren Hutton at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in 2017
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Armani originally studied medicine before moving to Milan and working as a buyer for department store La Rinascente. He then began to work as a freelance designer at several Italian companies and eventually decided to create his own label in 1975, launching with both men’s and women’s ready-to-wear. His brand of sophisticated and timeless clothing quickly became a hit with customers eager to adopt his androgynous, elegant aesthetic – with A-list stars lining up to wear his designs on the red carpet. Notable fans include Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, Lauren Hutton and Nicole Kidman.
Nicole Kidman wearing Armani Privé at the 2019 Critics’ Choice Awards
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His first fragrance followed in 1982, followed by his debut homeware collection in 2000 and Haute Couture in 2005. In 2010, the first Armani/Hotel opened in Dubai, followed by a second in Milan in 2011.
“We are thrilled to be honouring Giorgio Armani with the Outstanding Achievement Award,” says BFC chief executive Caroline Rush. “With more than four decades in the business, Mr Armani’s contribution to the fashion industry is indeed outstanding. Renowned for his timeless vision of style and the brands’ ability to stay relevant, he has led the way where other brands have followed. We look forward to celebrating with him in London in December.”
Of course, Armani’s significant contributions extend beyond the fashion industry; in 2016 the designer announced the creation of the Giorgio Armani Foundation to implement projects of public and social interest. The designer has always been involved in the support of humanitarian efforts, including UNICEF and the Green Cross.
Giorgio Armani backstage with his SS19 models
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Previous winners of the Outstanding Achievement accolade include Miuccia Prada, Ralph Lauren, Karl Lagerfeld and Manolo Blahnik, putting him in esteemed company indeed.
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Department of Public Safety officials report a decrease in traffic fatalities for the month of July 2011. Fatalities were down by eighteen in July with a total of 62 compared to 80 in the same month last year.
There were eight motorcyclist and four pedestrians who died in crashes during July. The highest daily fatality numbers include 19 deaths on Sundays, dropping to 13 on Wednesdays. There were five deathless days in the month of July.
Two of the fatality crashes were alcohol-related, in the opinion of the investigating state, county or municipal officer. Fifty-four fatality victims were Oklahoma residents and eight were non-residents. There were 47 male and 15 female victims.
Eleven of the fatality victims were age 20 or under. The leading number of fatalities by age group were 12 in the 31-40, olds dropping to, ten in the 21 to 30 and the 41-to 50 year-olds. Tulsa County led the state in fatalities with a fatality count of six, followed by Payne and Pittsburg Counties with five fatalities each.
The highest number of fatality crashes were on State Highways with 24. There were 10 fatalities on US Highways and city streets.
Fifty-four percent of those who died in traffic collisions were not wearing safety belts at the time of the crash, according to DPS statistics.
Year to date fatalities through August 29, 2011 – – – 437
Year to date fatalities through August 29 , 2010 – – – 434
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If you suffer from migraines, it might be time to kick that coffee habit.
Researchers have found that drinking three or more cups a day substantially increases the risk of an attack.
The study tracked 98 sufferers of ‘episodic’ migraines – defined as having the debilitating headaches on up to 14 days a month.
They found that drinking up to two cups of coffee or other caffeinated drinks made no difference to their chance of a migraine.
But when they drank three cups, the risk of having an attack the same day went up by 40 per cent. If they had five cups, it rose by 161 per cent.
Study leader Elizabeth Mostofsky, of Harvard University, said: “Drinking one or two caffeinated beverages in a day does not appear to be linked to developing a migraine but three or more servings may be associated with higher odds of developing a headache.”
The problem affects more people than diabetes; asthma and epilepsy combined, and is the sixth most common cause of disability in the world.
The researchers, whose findings are published in the American Journal of Medicine, said the impact of caffeine on migraines is complex because it depends on dose and frequency. And while it may trigger an attack, it can also have a painkilling effect.
Participants completed diaries twice a day for six weeks reporting on the frequency and severity of migraines and their intake of caffeinated drinks.
Fellow researcher Dr. Suzanne Bertisch said: “There have been few studies on the immediate risk of migraines with daily changes in caffeine intake.”
The cause of migraines is not fully understood. They are thought to occur when abnormal brain activity affects nerve signals, chemicals and blood vessels in the brain. Other potential triggers include stress, anxiety, depression, poor-quality sleep or hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle.
Dehydration, drinking too much alcohol and missed meals may also cause them.
Basic painkillers are often an effective treatment, although sleeping or lying down in a dark room are also recommended techniques.
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By By SETH BORENSTEIN and CAIN BURDEAU (AP)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Want to know the future of the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico ecosystem? Look first to its muddy, polluted past.
The recent ecological history of the Gulf gives scientists reason for hope. In an extensive survey of Gulf of Mexico researchers by The Associated Press, at least 10 of them separately volunteered the same word to describe the body of water: "resilient."
This is buttressed by a government report that claims that all but 53 million gallons of the leaked oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon well are gone. The report issued Wednesday says the cleanup extracted a lot of it, but the natural processes that break up, evaporate and dissolve oil took care of 84 million gallons — more than twice the amount human efforts removed.
At the same time, more progress was made in sealing the well for good as BP finished pumping cement into it on Thursday.
EDITOR’S NOTE — It will take time to see the full effects of one of history’s largest oil spills on the Gulf of Mexico, but a survey of 75 scientists offers reason for hope. First in an occasional series, "Gulf Survival."
The Gulf’s impressive self-cleanup makes sense given its history and makeup. The Gulf regularly absorbs environmental insults: overfishing, trawlers raking sea floors, frequent hurricanes. And then there’s the dead zone, an area starved of oxygen because 40 percent of America’s runoff pours from the Mississippi River into the Gulf.
And yet the Gulf remains America’s most biologically diverse place, with 15,419 species. It is the nation’s buffet of life as well as its gas station and septic tank.
It’s too soon to know the full effects of the BP disaster. But to get a sense of where the Gulf has been and where it’s going, the AP surveyed 75 scientists about the health of the Gulf of Mexico before the spill. On a 0-to-100 scale, the scientists graded its general health a 71 on average. That’s a respectable C, considering 100 would be considered pristine and untouched by civilization.
"If having a strong system in place pre-spill makes a difference, and I think it might, then I think the system may bounce back sooner than expected," said Brian Crother, a Southeastern Louisiana University wetlands biologist.
But nothing about the Gulf is simple. Just as often as scientists use the word "resilient," they use the word "stress."
"The Gulf of Mexico has been fairly resilient, but it’s been under stress," Michael Carron, director of the Northern Gulf Institute, said as he steered his boat around the Bay St. Louis waters.
In the survey, which was sent to scientists through several research institutions and scientific societies, sea turtles, manatees, wetlands and water quality hovered around or below the failing point. Doing well were beaches and birds, including the once-endangered brown pelican, Louisiana’s state bird.
While others are optimistic, Jeremy Jackson, director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is worried.
"You have an ecosystem that’s already severely stressed, then you add this major disturbance," he said. "We’re going to pay for our sins double-time because we’ve neglected the environment of the northern Gulf so badly for so long."
Yet the Gulf’s water is warm, which is good for microbes that eat oil. The currents and drainage are right to flush and dilute tainted water. And the Gulf has long been exposed to natural gas, oil and a host of other contaminants.
While BP’s well dumped 172 million gallons into the Gulf over three months, the muddy Mississippi brings in 198 million gallons of water — replete with urban and farm runoff — every minute. The National Research Council estimates that 41 million gallons a year of oil naturally seep into the Gulf from below.
A thriving microbial ecosystem has developed to consume the oil.
"The Gulf has been immunized many times by environmental insults," said Larry McKinney, director of a Gulf research center at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. "Because of that resilience we see here — and not in other places — it also may be the best place" to cope with a gigantic spill.
It’s still early in damage assessments, but so far about 600 miles of coast has been fouled with oil. The official government death toll so far: 3,606 birds, 508 endangered sea turtles and 67 marine mammals. More than 2,100 birds, turtles and marine mammals have been found oiled, but alive.
But those are only the losses seen. Scientists suspect many more animals have died, but their bodies have not been found.
Federal and BP officials are scurrying to conduct damage assessments from the spill. The first and crucial step to such assessments is figuring out the condition of the Gulf before the spill. It’s also key in calculating just how much BP will have to pay.
"A baseline is the medical history of the environment," said Smithsonian scientist Nancy Knowlton. "Without a baseline you can’t say anything about what the impact of anything is."
What makes the Gulf so rich in marine life is what surrounds the Gulf: river wetlands. And yet those wetlands are among the most troubled aspects of the Gulf, ranking an unhealthy 65 on the AP survey.
For the past century, Louisiana’s wetlands have been chopped of cypress and tupelo, drained for farms and split by oil canals. On average, Louisiana loses about 25 to 35 square miles a year of wetlands.
Another worsening problem, the dead zone, starts with the farms of the Midwest and fertilizer runoff that carries too much nitrogen. It goes into the Mississippi and then into the Gulf. That heavy dose of nitrogen every summer encourages algae to grow, which results in a huge feast for bacteria that use up oxygen there, leaving little for fish or anything else.
"It’s getting bigger over the years, and it’s extending more into Texas," said Nancy Rabalais, director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
This year’s Dead Zone is the size of Massachusetts, not quite as large as the biggest ever, which was in 2002.
"Organisms are resilient," said John Dindo of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. "Habitats are not. Habitats do not bounce back as fast as organisms."
The Gulf of Mexico averages three times more species per square mile than the seas around Hawaii, according to the Census of Marine Life.
Among those creatures are shrimp, which are still plentiful in the Gulf and have not shown any early signs of oil damage.
"The reputation of (the Gulf) being a sportsman’s paradise is not far off the mark," said Rusty Gaude of Louisiana State University’s agricultural center. If anyone living along the Gulf coast goes hungry, "it is his own fault," he jokes.
Twenty-nine Gulf species are on the endangered list, and nine others are on the threatened list. They include five species of sea turtles. Scientists in the AP survey ranked sea turtles as among the species struggling most in the Gulf.
After a cold winter that killed hundreds of turtles in Florida, the BP spill hit at the worst time and place for sea turtles both young and old, said Karen Bjorndal of the University of Florida. That’s because the young turtles often are caught up in the parts of the water where the oil is and can’t easily escape, while the older turtles that spend more time under water get covered with oil when they come up for air, she said.
The most vulnerable species of sea turtle is the loggerhead, and its nests have drastically declined in recent years, but scientists don’t know why. There are loggerheads around the world, but the oil spill could drive the Florida or Alabama populations to zero, Bjorndal said.
As for delicate and threatened coral, coral in the Florida Keys is on the decline, while the Flower Garden Banks coral in deep waters off the coast of Texas is far healthier than most of the world’s reefs, said C. Mark Eakin, who runs the federal government’s coral reef watch.
Ocean scientist and explorer Sylvia Earle said one key indicator of the health of the Gulf is the bluefin tuna. It has been in trouble worldwide from overfishing, and the Gulf is one of its two primary spawning grounds. Because of its timing, the spill could devastate this year’s spawn of bluefin, NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco said Wednesday.
Other fish species that during the 20th century were overfished and dropping to near dangerous levels have started to come back, such as king mackerel and red snapper, said Clay Porch, director of sustainable fisheries for NOAA’s Southeast division.
The lasting image of the spill has been oiled birds. Yet, overall, birds along the Gulf are in good shape, earning a seemingly robust grade of 76 from scientists in the survey.
"There are still lots of healthy birds there," said Marc Dantzker, a Cornell University ornithologist. "At this point the system has a good chance of a strong recovery."
An analogy that many of the experts said is apt for the entire Gulf is one of a champion boxer who takes devastating hits.
The Gulf "keeps getting knocked down. You can only get knocked down so many times before you don’t get back up," Texas A&M’s McKinney said. "The Gulf has gotten knocked down many, many times. You’ve got dead zones, habitat loss, you’ve got overfishing. You’ve got hurricanes keep coming. At what point do you get the tipping point?"
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Published: June 26, 2014 16:31 By Gulf News readers
World War I: Humans create clashes
Austria and Hungary sent an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia however, with no clear diplomatic direction, the two countries waged a war that turned into World War I. Almost one hundred years ago, on June 28, 1919, the countries signed the Treaty of Versailles.
During the past century, numerous other conflicts have taken place that prove if people keep killing each other and countries keep invading other countries, even a hundred treaties cannot keep the world safe from wars.
The Cold War, the Iran-Iraq war, the US war in Afghanistan, and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) crisis in Iraq proves that countries and extremist factions have been waging wars without knowing the consequences of their actions. Treaties do end wars, but humans are the ones who create clashes for ideological, religious, and economic reasons.
From Mr Mohammad Omar Iftikhar
Constructive discussions
The world indeed has learnt a lesson on war, even though it keeps happening.
Today, the superpower nations are more sensible and they meet often to talk about nuclear arms treaties and embargos.
Leaders are more aware of the powerful weapons of mass destruction each country has and as soon as there is some major blow-out expected between two nations, there is a meeting called and discussions take place.
From Ms Priti Mackinnon
Lessons forgotten
Well, the world might have had learnt soon after World War II to form the United Nations (UN), but if we see current scenarios, it seems that the world has forgotten all the lessons.
There are dozens of unsolved internationally recognized issues that have been going on for decades. It seems every one is defending and supporting their own interests regardless of their stand whether it’s right or wrong. The role of the UN should be more effective and powerful based on justice because injustice always triggers and pushes violence and terrorism.
From Mr Ahmad Eftekhar
Devastating aftermath
I don’t think there’s any justification for war in this world. The only outcome is turmoil and destruction of the planet and the people. So much is lost culturally and within families in the aftermath. Where is the love of all people and nationalities to become one? To me, it is so sad for the future generations.
From Ms Sandra Jane Peters
Silverdale, UK
Needing human values
The comment ‘The devolving of children’ by Jerin George, is very thought provoking and highlights the need of the day (‘Readers Views’, Gulf News, June 22). Many young men and women are suffering the indifferent and callous behaviour of their offspring. Certainly the whole human touch has been modified during the past two decades with the advancements in digital and electronic technology. The computer has become a dominant monster that has devoured humanity and instantly wiping out culture, etiquette and proper expression in one swipe.
Good values and proper courteous language have been the first victims of the internet. Polite and expressive language is becoming a thing of the past. Movies and videos have completely replaced the personal and gregarious interactions, damaging the sibling and parental bonding.
There is still time for parents to persuade their children to revert back to superior values through moderation in the use of the internet, computers and movies. Personal interactions, outdoor games, sports and community activities are essential to imbibe human values.
From Mr Aftab Ahmad
Garnering support
It is impressive and highly promising to note the increased production forecast for UAE farm produce in the coming season (‘10,000 tonnes more vegetables grown at Abu Dhabi farms,’ Gulf News, June 23). The effort and amount of technology expertise added with financial support is huge and each of the participating farmers should be highly praised to keep the interest in the field of agriculture ongoing.
With the weather conditions not in favour, it is of great importance to encourage more people to come forward and actively participate in agriculture that suits the nation. With regards to garnering additional support, the produce should be allocated to special areas at all the leading supermarkets and be given prominence in terms of pricing and marketing.
From Mr Ramesh Menon
Difficult to enforce
I worry that if parents don’t enforce seat belt usage; children will never use them when effectively unsupervised on a bus (‘Seat belts in all Dubai school buses considered by RTA,’ Gulf News, June 23). Whether they are asked to or not, this will be difficult to enforce.
From Mr Adam Davidson
Not enough room
Seatbelts will be difficult to use with the huge school bags children have. How will they fit on the seat belts? As it is, there is not much place to sit.
From Ms Alefiya Aziz
Will this listen?
My nephew is driving me crazy because he won’t listen to me to wear his seatbelt while we are driving. How can two bus patrollers control over 30 students!?
From Mr Aloko Xai
Ramadan is a time where people work less hours (‘Muslims in UAE to fast for 15 hours in Ramadan,’ Gulf News, June 23). That means that there will be more personal time at hand. But, fasting for this long is truly commendable. What the people of this country do, is worthy of praise.
From Ms J. N. Ivz
Education will help
It is absolutely inhuman and barbaric of these attackers to have chopped off the victim’s arm over his love affair with a local girl (‘Attackers escape with man’s chopped-off arm in India,’ Gulf News, June 23). Nobody deserves to be punished over such trivial matters. It is a matter of shame that such cases of revenge seeking are common even in today’s modern era where the world has advanced in so many ways. In my opinion, such brutality and hatred can only be eradicated with education. It’s the only way to help change the conservative and outdated mentality of villagers.
From Ms Fatima Suhail
Recognising greatness
The news story that the great Pele is being shunned by the World Cup makes for unhappy reading (‘Pele seems shunned as Cup rolls on,’ Gulf News, June 23). His place has been taken away by the super model Gisele Bundchen, which sounds rather silly to football lovers round the world. Greatness must be always recognized.
From Mr Thomas Matthew Parackel
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On March 28, 2019 By Jeremy KohIn Reviews
I’ll be honest: the thought of returning to Grave of the Fireflies caused me enough anxiety as to make me nauseous. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not because the movie is bad. Instead the reason I had only seen this movie once prior to this review is because it is easily amongst the most emotionally devastating movies I have ever seen. When I watched it the first time I spent a good couple of hours in deep silence simply because I was struggling to process the immense sadness of what I had just seen. Under most circumstances I would have declared this a movie I’d watch only once in my lifetime. But then for some stupid blog-related reason (of which I solely all of the editorial decisions) I decided to run through the Studio Ghibli catalogue and write about it. And so last week I had to brace myself to seeing this tragedy again. And let the record show that once again I am left emotionally wrecked.
Let’s get the obvious SPOILER out of the way: This is not a hopeful movie. It centers on Seita, a teenage boy, and his sister Setsuko, who I would guess is less than 5, who are trying to survive in Japan in the twilight months of World War II after both of their parents die. And, to put it bluntly, though they sure do try their hardest none of them survive. And seeing that story unfold (in my case, seeing it unfold again) is as devastating as it sounds.
Isao Takahata grants us a small grace in that we can intuit Seita and Setsuko’s fate from the movie’s opening. The first shot shows Seita dead from starvation in a train station with no sister nearby and with that all false expectations of hope are safely extinguished. From this prologue we land in Kobe in the dying months of the war where Seita and Setsuko try to survive the latest barrage of bombs being dropped on the city; their mother is not so fortunate as she burns to death in front of Seita’s eyes. With their father away in the Japanese army and presumed dead, it falls then on Seita to try and protect Setsuko and keep both of them alive.
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Perhaps no movie in the Studio Ghibli catalogue shows just how important the studio’s existence is better that Grave of the Fireflies. It is hard to imagine a conventional studio green-lighting a movie this bleak and complicated, let alone an animated movie about the effects of war. While Hayao Miyazaki’s movies represents the public face of the company with calling cards like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away entering the public consciousness, I think it is Isao Takahata’s filmography that represents the freedom this studio afforded its artists. His filmography ranges wildly in terms of themes (he follows this movie with the sedate homecoming drama Only Yesterday) and art-styles (his final work The Tale of Princess Kaguya is basically a feature length animated waterpainting); it even allowed him to take a leisurely decade or so between projects. So perhaps it is no surprise that a studio who allowed Takahata such freedom would let him craft his harrowing war film that is at some level aimed at the kids in the audience.
It is precisely the fact that this is a children’s movie that makes Grave of the Fireflies so devastating. In grand Studio Ghibli tradition, Seita and Setsuko are remarkably accurate depictions of children, which in turn makes it naturally easy for other children to identify with. Seita is protective of his baby sister and possesses the self-confidence of a young boy who does not yet grasp his own mortality, qualities that will both his strength and downfall; Setsuko meanwhile is simply an innocent child. Neither one of them is incapable of fully processing the war’s horrors and yet they are forced to experience it nonetheless. Whether it is in evading bombs falling down from the sky, witnessing burnt bodies on the ground, or even trying to find food to survive, it is impossible not to feel the weight of their enormous personal tragedy; nobody should experience these horrors, but especially not children.
But the haunting power of this movie is not that it continues to pound us with tragedy, it is that it also provides us with life-affirming moments of grace. The love that Seita and Setsuko have are tangible and authentic, all of their interactions are remarkably human. Whether it is a brother helping his sister get some candy out of a box or a little sister being awed by some fireflies had trapped for her, these human moments provide us brief moments of levity amidst their bleak situation. But ultimately they also serve as gut punches when the cruelty of the war catches up to them.
It would be incredibly easy for a movie of this enormous gravity to paint some easy villains in order to give the audience an easy release valve for their righteous anger. But Takahata refuses and instead apportions the blame to many parties, including in some sense us. As a Japanese movie, it could have made the Americans bombing the innocent villagers the evil ones, yet they remain a faceless evil at best and Takahata seems equally critical of the Japanese soldiers who blindingly swear fidelity to the emperor while cities and its citizens burn When the sojourning Seita and Setsuko leave the confines of their emotionally abusive aunt, it could be tempting to cast her the villain especially given where Seita and Setsuko inevitably end up but with dwindling resources and the panic of the end of the war, her predicament is at least understandable. Even Seita himself is not spared blame as his selfishness and stubbornness create as many problems as they solve; one cannot help but wonder if they would have survived had he swallowed his pride. Only Setsuko remains heartbreakingly innocent and it is no surprise that she cannot survive this world. Grave of the Fireflies is nothing short of a condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of war and the immorality of the ones who would glory in it. It is also a reminder that human cruelty and selfishness knows no political and national allegiance.
The movie is without a doubt one of the most tragic ever put onscreen and it well deserves its reputation as a movie you only see once (or if you are an idiot like me, you self-flagellate your heart in order to watch it again for a review you chose to put on your writing schedule). This is a shame because it is also in its own bleak way an absolutely beautifully crafted film. After two fantastical films in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky, this represents the first Studio Ghibli movie to be set in the real world. It is to the animator’s credit that they depict the world with such accuracy that frequently I had to remind myself I was watching an animated film. Takahata allows scenes to breathe at a meditative pace, filling whole scenes with near silence as we get to observe the minute but meaningful moments these two siblings share. Like the fireflies that surround this film, he invites us to witness Seita and Setsuko’s struggle and to know firsthand the fragility of life. By the time we reach the movie’s close we have become so entwined with Seita and Setsuko that their final tragic end carries with it the emotional wallop their lives deserve. Witnessing their end is not an easy task for us as viewers, but it is a necessary one.
(And now I can return to never seeing this movie again)
Previous installments:
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Date: 23 settembre 2019Author: Dr. Pianale 6 Commenti
2020 Honda CR-V: America’s Most Popular CUV Gets New U.S.-Built Hybrid-Electric Version, Standard Honda Sensing® and Freshened Styling
CR-V is America’s most popular CUV over the past 22 years
Honda’s first hybrid-electric SUV leads plan to electrify light trucks
New investments and jobs to build 2020 CR-V Hybrid in Indiana
America’s best-selling crossover of the past two decades gets a major boost with the introduction of the 2020 Honda CR-V, sporting freshened styling, new features and upgraded powertrains—including a new CR-V Hybrid to be built in the company’s Greensburg, Indiana plant1. The 2020 CR-V Hybrid is the first electrified SUV from the Honda brand in America, joining the Accord Hybrid and Insight as the third electrified Honda manufactured in the U.S. as the company moves to apply its advanced two-motor hybrid-electric system to all of its core U.S. models in the years ahead.
In addition to the new hybrid-electric variant, major upgrades to the 2020 CR-V include bolder front and rear styling, re-designed wheels and standard Honda Sensing® safety and driver-assistive technology (previously available only on EX and above trims). All non-hybrid 2020 CR-V models are now powered by the 1.5-liter VTEC™ Turbo engine, previously available only in EX and above trims. The 2020 CR-V will go on sale at Honda dealerships nationwide this fall, followed by the launch of the all-new CR-V Hybrid in early 2020.
Production of the CR-V Hybrid for the U.S. market will take place at Honda’s Greensburg, Indiana plant alongside CR-V and the Insight hybrid sedan. The company will invest $4.2 million and add 34 new jobs in the plant to support production of the CR-V Hybrid. Honda’s Russells Point, Ohio, plant will manufacture the CR-V Hybrid’s two-motor power unit, and the company’s Anna, Ohio, engine plant will produce its 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine.
“The Honda CR-V is the best-selling CUV over the past two decades and the updates we’ve made to the 2020 model, including a new hybrid-electric variant, solidify its position as a leader in the compact SUV market,” said Henio Arcangeli, Jr., senior vice president of Automobile Sales at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. “The CR-V Hybrid also signifies our direction to bring Honda hybrid-electric technology to all core models and to invest in the production of electrified vehicles in America.”
Honda Electrification Initiative
Honda is targeting two-thirds of its global automobile sales to come from electrified vehicles by 2030. In North America, Honda is focusing on the expanded application of its advanced two-motor hybrid-electric technology as the most effective means to meet customer needs while realizing significant near-term gains in fuel efficiency and accompanying reductions in CO2 emissions that contribute to global climate change.
U.S. sales of electrified Honda vehicles are on track for a third consecutive year of growth. For the first eight months of 2019, sales of Accord Hybrid, Insight and Clarity have reached 42,270 combined sales, propelling Honda electrified vehicle sales to year-over-year gains of 67.9 percent. In 2018, Honda set a new record of 49,914 electrified vehicle sales in the U.S., which were nearly double 2017 results.
Advanced Powertrains
The 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid promises substantially improved fuel efficiency while maintaining CR-V’s award-winning balance of interior space, driving dynamics and comfort that has made CR-V such a success with American buyers. The CR-V’s advanced two-motor hybrid powertrain, shared with the current Accord Hybrid, combines two electric motors with a 2.0-liter, 16-valve DOHC Atkinson cycle engine with greater than 40 percent thermal efficiency, the highest for any mass-produced Honda engine.
The CR-V’s two-motor system operates without the need for a conventional automatic transmission for smooth and seamless power delivery similar to a pure electric vehicle, and boasts a broad range of electric-only operation. The compact intelligent power unit (IPU), containing the hybrid battery pack and its control systems, is mounted under the cargo floor, allowing the new CR-V Hybrid to retain excellent cargo utility, including a 60/40 split rear seatback with a flat load floor. Peak total system horsepower is 212, up from 190 HP on the CR-V, along with an anticipated 50 percent increase in the EPA city fuel economy rating compared to the CR-V.
The CR-V Hybrid also marks the first application of all-wheel drive to Honda’s two-motor hybrid system in the U.S. When available traction is low, an electronic clutch activates, sending the appropriate level of power from the electric motor to the rear wheels. Detailed specifications on the new CR-V Hybrid, including EPA fuel economy ratings, will be provided closer to on-sale timing early in 2020.
Also for 2020, all non-hybrid CR-V models, including LX, are powered by the efficient 1.5-liter DOHC, direct-injected VTEC™ Turbo powerplant rated at 190 horsepower (SAE net), with responsive and refined performance across the engine’s full operating range. Available in front- or all-wheel drive configurations, power is transmitted through a smooth yet sporty continuously variable transmission (CVT) with Honda G-Shift control logic.
Sophisticated Interior and Exterior Styling
Exterior styling updates to the 2020 Honda CR-V result in a more upscale and rugged appearance. In front, broad openings for the fog lights are fully integrated into the bumper, giving the 2020 CR-V a more aggressive look, while the chrome grille is more pronounced. CR-V EX, EX-L and Touring trims get round LED fog lights, while CR-V Hybrid models in the same trims get distinctive bar-type fog lights with five LEDs.
CR-V Hybrid models will also get hybrid badging and a distinctive blue Honda logo in the center of the grille. In the rear, all CR-V trims feature sophisticated new dark-tinted taillights and a new dark chrome treatment for the garnish below the rear glass, better integrated with the more darkly tinted rear window. In addition to hybrid badges on the hatch, CR-V Hybrid Touring trims receive a unique rear bumper. CR-V Hybrid also has a hidden tailpipe, while non-hybrid CR-V Touring trims get new chrome exhaust finishers for a sporty appearance. All CR-V EX and EX-L trims, including Hybrid, get newly designed 18-inch wheels with a dark gray and machined finish, and Touring trims get a new, larger 19-inch wheel and tire (+1 inch).
Three new exterior colors are available for 2020: Sonic Gray Pearl and Radiant Red Metallic on standard and Hybrid models, and new Aegean Blue Metallic is available exclusively on non-hybrid models.
Inside, the new CR-V Hybrid is distinguished from non-hybrid models through its unique interior trim. Most apparent is the new push-button gear selector flanked by three switches for Econ, Sport or EV mode. Econ mode alters throttle inputs to help driver’s maximize fuel efficiency, while Sport enhances throttle response for a more aggressive feel, with the engine sound enhanced by Active Sound Control for a sportier note. EV Mode allows the CR-V Hybrid to operate under electric-only power when the hybrid battery has a sufficient charge.
The instrument panel also is unique to CR-V Hybrid models, and features a display for power/charge status, as well as a driver-selectable display for power distribution and regeneration. CR-V Hybrid models also receive deceleration selector paddles on the steering wheel. By clicking the left paddle, drivers can increase the amount of regenerative braking from the hybrid system’s electric motor when decelerating.
All 2020 Honda CR-V models and trims benefit from a redesigned center console bin that is easier to use and offers more flexible storage options, and CR-V Touring trims now come standard with Qi-compatible wireless cell phone charging. Additional in-vehicle technology includes a color TFT driver-information interface (DII) center meter display, available 7-inch touchscreen Display Audio interface with Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™ integration, and an available Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System™. Also available are remote engine start, dual-zone climate control, an Electric Parking Brake (EPB), rear USB charging ports, front passenger seat with 4-way power adjustment, driver’s seat with 8-way power adjustment and 4-way power lumbar support, and heated front seats. All CR-V models, including the hybrid model, continue to offer top-class interior space with legendary Honda versatility.
Advanced Safety and Driver-Assistive Technology
With the 2020 model year, all Honda CR-Vs now come standard with the Honda Sensing® suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies, including:
Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and pedestrian sensing capability
Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) with Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with low-speed follow
Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS)
Additional driver-assistive technologies include the available blind spot information (BSI), Rear Cross Traffic Monitor (CTM) and Auto High Beam headlights.
CR-V Hybrid models benefit from a new Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) designed to increase awareness by pedestrians when travelling under electric-only power. A speaker mounted in the front bumper generates a distinct audible alert that varies in volume depending on vehicle speed and is easily noticeable to pedestrians, but nearly inaudible to the driver or passengers under most circumstances.
The 2020 Honda CR-V also incorporates Honda’s next-generation Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, helping CR-V achieve the highest possible collision safety ratings, including an NCAP 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and targeting a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Chassis Technology
The 2020 Honda CR-V and CR-V Hybrid maintain the same agile and confident handling, greater refinement, additional ground clearance and superior overall versatility versus its competition. Its front MacPherson strut and rear multi-link suspension use specially tuned low-friction dampers, with both FWD and AWD models including tubular front and solid rear stabilizer bars that promote responsive turn-in and flatter cornering. Dual-pinion, variable ratio Electric Power Steering (EPS) also contributes to the CR-V’s direct and satisfying steering feel. For CR-V Hybrid, an electronic servo brake pedal maintains a firm and linear brake feel like its non-hybrid sibling.
About CR-V
With U.S. retail sales of the Honda CR-V approaching 5 million units since its U.S. launch in 1997, the CR-V has been America’s best-selling crossover SUV over the past 22 years. The current-model, 5th-generation CR-V is manufactured in plants in North America, in Marysville and East Liberty, Ohio; Greensburg, Indiana; and Ontario, Canada. Retail sales of CR-V this year tally more than 200-thousand units, putting CR-V on-pace for its seventh year in a row for sales of 300-thousand units or more.
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__label__wiki | 0.588978 | 0.588978 | Top 10 Seiyuu with the Cutest Voice
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Isn’t it awesome when you start watching an anime and you realize that one of the characters has a strangely familiar voice? Don’t you just love the fact that Haruhi Suzumiya, Konata Izumi and Misa Misa are portrayed by the same voice actress (Aya Hirano, although 99% of you already knew that)? Everyone loves a good voice actor or seiyuu, because these people are the ones who breathe life into anime characters.
Today, we’ll pay tribute to some of the best seiyuu with the cutest voices in the industry. Since there are so many incredible voice actors out there, we’ll narrow our scope a bit and we’ll only deal with those who have the cutest voices. You know, those who make us go “aww :3” by merely listening to them, especially as they go “onii-chaaaan!!”. Yeah, you can bet we’re going to have a bunch of lolis in here. This is our Top 10 seiyuu with the cutest voices!
10. Haruka Tomatsu
Haruka Tomatsu has had several main roles ever since she began her career as seiyuu in 2007. She has played major roles such as the charming (although spooky) Megumi Shimizu from Shiki, the more recent Rena Kariu from ReLIFE and even the legendary Gintoki from Gintama°. These roles are evidence enough to prove Haruka is one of the best voice actresses in the industry.
Still, what makes her one of the cutest voices out there are definitely her roles as two of the most adorable and beloved young girls in anime. We’re clearly talking about Lala Satalin from ToLOVE-Ru and the unmatched Asuna from SAO. Those are some girly performances indeed, and Haruka Tomatsu’s cute voice was certainly up to the challenge.
9. Nazuka Kaori
Nazuka Kaori is an amazing voice actress who can adapt to all kinds of roles. She has performed on shows FMAB as the lovely Maria Ross and on Soul Eater as the charming Tsubaki Nakatsukasa. However, Nazuka Kaori’s greatest works have been giving life to adorable characters such as Miyu Edelfelt from Fate/kaleid and Kisa Souma from Fruits Basket.
This talented artist can seriously make such characters sound super kawaii. Besides, who can forget about the beautiful and charming Nunnally Lamperouge from Code Geass and her sweet angel voice. Nazuka’s voice can really make us fall in love with her characters whether they are sexy ladies, cute lolis or the sweetest girl who ever rode a wheelchair.
8. Aki Toyosaki
Aki Toyosaki is an expert when it comes to giving life to sweet young girls. Most of her roles are either little kawaii girls or the shy and fragile type of sexy babes. Among her numerous works we can find Momo Belia from To LOVE-Ru, Izana Shinatose from Sidonia no Kishi, Suu from Shugo Chara, YunYun from KonoSuba and the list goes on and on.
Still, none of her roles are nearly as lovely and charming as her role in K-ON, where she plays the delightful Yui Hirasawa. Seriously, there’s hardly anything as cute as hearing Yui Hirasawa’s cover of “Hey Jude”. Aki Toyosaki’s voice is so damn kawaii!
7. Yukari Tamura
Yukari Tamura has such a sweet and special voice that she’s worked in all of Key’s masterpieces. She had a major role on Kanon as Mai Kawasumi, a supporting role on Air as Michiru and an unforgettable role on Clannad as the adorable Mei Sunohara. Hmm… could it be a coincidence that Yukari Tamura has worked in all the anime adaptations of Key’s major productions?
Of course, not! Yukari Tamura’s voice is ideal for these kind of melancholic high school dramas. She knows very well how to portray cute and lovely characters, as we can also judge from one of her most exceptional works as Rika Furude from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Yukari Tamura definitely has a sweet and lovely voice that fits perfectly well in any innocent girl character.
6. Aoi Yuuki
Aoi Yuuki is a 24 year old voice actress who has given life to over a hundred different anime characters. She is mostly famous for her roles as the lovely Fremy Speeddraw from Rokka no Yuusha, Yuuki Konno from SAO2 and the adorable psycho girl Tatsumaki from One Punch Man. Aoi Yuuki’s beautiful voice allows her to take many different roles, as she’s also worked on Tokyo Ghoul √A and Overlord.
However, it is due to her ability to pull a super cute voice that she generally plays little girl roles. The best and most recent example of her talent is the lovely Hinazuki Kayo from ERASED. It’s surely not an easy task to voice this cute and introverted 10 year old girl who was physically abused by her parents. That poor little girl just melted our hearts, and her voice contributed a lot into achieving that effect.
5. Suzuki Keiko
Suzuki Keiko is one seiyuu that is not yet among the most famous names in anime, but that is certainly on her way to the top. She’s had some interesting roles in Clannad and Little Busters, apart from a couple works on some hentai shows (yup, she can be quite versatile). Still, Suzuki’s most interesting roles are the most recent ones. She has played no other than the absolutely charming Yumemi Hoshino from Planetarian and one particular loli that could easily become the loli of the year, Shizuru Nakatsu from Rewrite.
Suzuki Keiko has a particularly cheerful and sweet voice that really contributes to making us fall for her characters. For instance, Yumemi Hoshino’s final wistful soliloquy in Planetarian is the absolute climax of the show and her sweet breathtaking voice is indeed a key element of that scene in particular. Suzuki certainly made many of us cry with that role.
4. Ayana Taketatsu
Ayana Taketatsu is a major star in the anime industry and she has worked in several massively popular shows. She’s especially good at giving her voice to cute and lovely girls such as Kotori Itsuka from Date A Live, Koneko Toujou from High School DxD, Azusa Nakano from K-ON, Ako Suminoe from Kiss x Sis and Mio Isurugi from MM!. Those are indeed some big names in the world of cute and captivating anime girls.
Still, this charming voice actress has recently gained even more popularity thanks to her fantastic role as the gorgeous sweet tooth Hotaru Shidare from Dagashi Kashi. This is probably one of Ayana’s best acting roles as she not only has the right cute girl voice, but she was also capable of providing that smug tsundere tone that characterizes the beautiful Hotaru Shidare. Ayana’s sweet voice goes perfectly well with this lovely candy queen.
3. Aimi Tanaka
Now, Aimi Tanaka takes cuteness to a whole new level. True, she’s not a big name in the anime industry and she’s not really one of the most relevant voice actresses at the moment. Still, she’s had some interesting roles and she has the potential to be a famous seiyuu.
Why do we say this? Well, because she’s the voice of the ultra kawaii Umaru-chan from Himouto! Umaru-chan! If there is one character in anime that represents sheer cuteness then that is the irresistibly adorable Umaru Doma. Aimi Tanaka did a marvelous job at portraying Umaru in all of her tantrums and her silly adventures. That alone is more than enough to earn her a nice spot at the top 3 of our list.
2. Ai Kayano
Ai Kayano is a major star in the anime industry, as she has given her voice to numerous characters in dozens of shows. Since she has a very sweet and soft voice she usually plays young cute girls. Some examples of this are her roles in Ao Haru Ride, Golden Time, Guilty Crown, Kamisama Dolls, Ro-Kyu-Bu, Your Lie in April and her fantastic performance as the lovely Shiro in No Game No Life.
As you can see, Ai Kayano’s super kawaii voice is just everywhere. Her most recent works include even more charming and cute girls such as Chizuru Hishiro from ReLIFE and Darkness from KonoSuba. Yes, they’re pretty much opposites from each other, but still, both the awkwardly social nerdy girl and the sadistic sexy paladin are innocent, pure and fragile women who just need someone to love them and take care of them. That’s exactly what Ai Kayano’s angelic voice conveys in most of her roles.
1. Kana Hanazawa
This former idol is simply huge in the world of anime. Kana Hanazawa is one of the best and most popular seiyuu out there. Chances are you’ve already heard her voice in several different anime. She’s the voice of Shiro from Deadman Wonderland, Nadeko Sengoku from Monogatari, Tenshi from Angel Beats, Hana from Prison School, Anri from Durarara and even of Rize Kamishiro from Tokyo Ghoul.
That’s right, Kana Hanazawa portrays many of the cutest and most charming ladies in anime. Her most recent works are as the mysterious gothic loli Kagari on Rewrite and as the nicest girl ever, Naho Takamiya on Orange. These are by far two of the most kawaii characters of the season, if not of the year, (especially the impossible-not-to-fall-in-love-with Naho) and it’s really no surprise that Kana Hanazawa has been the producers’ choice to play such roles. This cutie of a seiyuu has without a doubt one of the sweetest and most captivating voices ever!
This is the end of our list of cutest voice seiyuu. We hope you’ve liked it and that you’ve learned some of the names that give voice and life to some of your favorite characters. I bet many of you were shocked to know how many awesome characters share the same voice actress. Who knows? Perhaps you may have just found your new favorite seiyuu.
We’d like to know what you think. Did you know any of these people? How much do you appreciate their work? Can you think of any other seiyuu (male or female) with a really cute voice that we may have missed? Let us know in the comments! ˆ-ˆ
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Popular culture professes that computer hackers are evil. Some are: the blackhats who break into websites and steal our identities. There are others: whitehats, hackers of good intent who try to prevent the chaos caused by their anonymous adversaries.
And rising above them all is elite hacker and social engineer, Brody Taylor, who is both white hat and black hat. In the wild west of cyberspace, he upholds the law by breaking the law.
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Your private life is streamed live to a global audience. But no one told you about the cameras hidden in your home. And now a killer is watching, learning, planning . . .
DI Jenny Price, talented and ambitious police detective, leads the investigation into the murder of a beautiful young cellist. Baffled by the killer’s intimate knowledge of the girl's dreams and desires the case begins to run out of steam.
Out of leads, Jenny reluctantly accepts the aid of attractive but mysterious witness Brody Taylor, who has come forward with a bizarre story about webcams hidden in thousands of homes across the country. But Jenny is unaware that the charming Brody is under cover on his own covert operation.
An up-to-the-minute crime thriller that exposes the dark side of the connected world in which we now live.
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When Brody Taylor receives a 'death letter’ from a fellow elite hacker, sent a week after his murder, its contents present Brody with an offer he can't refuse. But the murder investigation is being led by Brody’s girlfriend, talented police detective Jenny Price. Unaware of the victim’s true profession, Jenny is stumped. Why would a disabled Afghan war veteran be poisoned in his own home by one of the world’s most deadly snakes. And where is the snake?
Working side-by-side once more, but with very different objectives, Brody and Jenny uncover a cyberterrorist conspiracy targeting innocent people. For Brody and Jenny to prevent the cyberweapon from releasing its deadly payload, Brody realises he'll need to lie to Jenny once again, knowing the truth will destroy their relationship. But with tens of thousands of lives scheduled to die within 24 hours, does he have any choice?
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Brody Taylor exploits the weakest link in all computer systems. Humans. If he's hired to break into your network, he will target the weakest point. You.
The problem with always manipulating people is that even those closest to you don’t trust you.
And Brody’s just fallen for Melanie, a beautiful, zany animal rights activist. But she’s in love with the character he’s trapped himself in, not the real Brody, social engineer and computer hacker. Can Brody social engineer his way to the truth and save his relationship with Melanie?
A novella that introduces Brody Taylor in a suspense filled standalone adventure. At 60 pages, SOCIAL ENGINEER can be read in under two hours!
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While many in the U.S. were taking the day off in celebration of Independence Day, officials in Europe have been busy addressing a number of privacy issues this week. For one, the newly minted European Data Protection Board provided an update after it held its second plenary meeting July 4 and 5 about a slate of pressing data protection topics.
Top of mind for the EDPB is the state of play of its consistency and cooperation mechanisms now that the EU General Data Protection Regulation is in effect. According to a press release from the group of EU data protection authorities, officials discussed their experiences so far with the one-stop-shop mechanism, the performance of the Internal Market Information System — an IT platform that facilitates exchanges on cross-border issues — as well as compliance questions the EDPB has received since the GDPR's enactment.
Notably, most DPAs in the EDPB have reported an increase in complaints since May 25 and report that approximately 30 cross-border complaints, initiated under the IMIS, are currently under investigation.
Andrea Jelinek, chairwoman of the EDPB, said, "Despite the sharp increase in the number of cases in the last month, the Members of the EDPB report that the workload is manageable at the moment, in large part thanks to a thorough preparation of the [the Article 29 Working Party] in the past two years. The GDPR does not offer a quick fix in case of a complaint but we are confident the procedures detailing the way in which the authorities work together under the consistency mechanism are robust and efficient."
The IAPP recently reached out to the DPAs of all 28 member states and catalogued the number of GDPR complaints they have received since May 25. Though not all DPAs responded, the IAPP was able to compile data on a number of complaints, including those received by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office.
In parallel with the European Parliament, which voted July 5 to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework if the U.S. is not fully compliant by Sept. 1, the EDPB also addressed the transatlantic agreement. Top concerns for the EDPB are the appointment of a permanent ombudsperson and the formal appointments of officials to the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The EDPB also pointed out a lack of additional information about how the ombudsperson interacts with U.S. intelligence agencies.
During the plenary, the group also met with Ambassador Judith Garber, the acting U.S. ombudsperson responsible for processing national security complaints under Shield. Though the meeting with Garber was "interesting and collegial," the discussion "did not provide a conclusive answer to these concerns and that these issues will remain on top of the agenda during the Second Annual Review (scheduled for October 2018)," the press release stated. The EDPB noted that similar concerns will be addressed by the Court of Justice of the European Union in pending cases "to which the EDPB offers to contribute its view, if invited by the CJEU."
The EDPB also addressed the privacy issues surrounding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers with regard to the WHOIS data. Accordingly, the EDPB adopted a letter addressed to ICANN "providing guidance to enable ICANN to develop a GDPR-compliant model for access to personal data processed in the context of WHOIS." The letter touches upon purpose specification, collection of WHOIS data, registration of legal persons, data retention, codes of conduct, and accreditation, among others. The DPAs expect ICANN to implement a model that will balance legitimate use — particularly for law enforcement access — while also complying with the GDPR.
Finally, the EDPB adopted a letter addressed to Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld on the revised Payment Services Directive. According to the press release, "the EDPB sheds further light on 'silent party data' by Third Party Providers, the procedures with regard to giving and withdrawing consent, the Regulatory Technical Standards, the cooperation between banks and the European Commission, EDPS and WP29 and what remains to be done to close any remaining data protection gaps."
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Code Anno. Third degree assault on a family or household member Domestic Battering and Assault Application to Indian tribes Note : Consent of the minor is not a defense. This includes: Sexual intercourse with a person without consent of that person, or Sexual contact with intentional thigd ejaculation with a person without consent of that person.
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What is an Assault Charge? Thank You! Additionally, a person may be charged with third degree sexual assault if he sexually assaulted a member of his household, a relative, or a person over which he has some type of authority. He may even be charged with assault if he merely threatens another person as long as he seems capable of causing physical harm. This includes: Sexual intercourse with a person without consent of that person, or Sexual contact with intentional penile ejaculation with a person without consent of that person. Third, there is violent non-consensual sexual contact aided Assault degree sexual third another person, such as in the case of gang rape. Section She got a ticket and she got charged with 3rd degree assault. Now she has problems sleeping, she's jumpy and the school says the two girls who started Tank pipe nipple all have a right to get a proper education. I called his bus driver to ask him what happened but he just yelled Assault degree sexual third at me and told me that he was a minder.
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Wisconsin sexual assault laws and penalties are complex and challenging to navigate.
In many jurisdictions, assault is further subdivided into degrees.
Third degree sexual assault occurs when a person subjects another to sexual contact without consent. Third degree sexual assault also occurs when there is sexual touching of a person who is incapable of consent. While the more serious crime of first-degree sexual assault requires some type of penetration, third degree sexual assault only requires sexual contact.
Our proven methods of defense can be applied to your case to have your charges reduced or dropped. Third degree sexual assault can also be charged as a felony if the alleged victim is a minor.
If the sexual contact causes serious personal injury, it will be charged as second degree sexual assault which is a felony and carries up to 4 years in prison. Individuals registered as sex offenders are excluded from careers in several lucrative professions.
Berry Law Firm can help you fight the charges that have been made against you. Unlike first degree sexual assault, third degree sexual assault cases often lack physical evidence because they rarely involve DNA. Furthermore, because third degree sexual assault cases are misdemeanors, investigations of these cases are much less extensive than those of first degree sexual assault cases. An effective sexual assault defense may require an explanation as to what actually happened between the accuser and the accused.
Other times, the best strategy is arguing that the government failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant may find that the best defense is arguing that the contact was accidental. In other cases, alibi can be used as a defense.
If you need to fight third degree sexual assault charges, contact our experienced, nationally recognized attorneys at Berry Law Firm. Please leave this field empty. Defense in Lincoln for Charges of Third Degree Sexual Assault Unlike first degree sexual assault, third degree sexual assault cases often lack physical evidence because they rarely involve DNA.
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He can't just harass you without punishment. What is Sexual Abuse? Real Estate. The degrees are based upon the amount of force used by the perpetrator and the harm done to the victim. I was jumped by five boys on the wrestling team and larger than me in school after my sports project.
Assault degree sexual third. Notes of Decisions
The actions that lead to a charge of third degree assault may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In many places, however, a person is guilty of third degree sexual assault if he has sexual intercourse or contact with a person without consent, but the circumstances of the crime do not translate into a first or second degree charge — sexual assault that does not involve the use of a deadly weapon, for example, may result in this lesser charge.
Often, sexual assault results in a third degree charge when it does not involve the severe physical harm of the victim. While any type of sexual assault harms the victim in some way, there are some cases in which a victim is severely beaten or hurt enough to impair the proper functioning of his body.
Likewise, some victims suffer harm that requires surgical treatment. In the absence of this level of harm, a criminal may be charged with third degree sexual assault if other jurisdiction-specific conditions are met. In many cases, first and second degree charges are assessed if a person commits sexual assault with a weapon that is deadly or capable of causing severe bodily harm.
For example, these charges may apply if a gun is used while committing this crime. Interestingly, a person may be charged with first or second degree assault if he uses a makeshift weapon and his victim thought it was capable of killing him or inflicting severe bodily harm.
In the absence of such weapons, a sexual assault incident may result in a third degree charge. A person may also be charged with third degree sexual assault in the event that his crime involves a minor who is above a certain age. For example, in some cases, sexual assaults that do not meet the criteria for first or third degree charges and involve children over the age of 12 result in third degree sexual assault charges.
Likewise, these charges may apply if the victim lacked the mental capacity to give consent. Additionally, a person may be charged with third degree sexual assault if he sexually assaulted a member of his household, a relative, or a person over which he has some type of authority. One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK!
I got accused of third degree assault due to me throwing my cell phone against the wall. It was during an argument with my girlfriend. The phone proceeded to bounce off the wall and hit her kid in the forehead.
The kid needed stitches but is OK now. My girlfriend saw me throw my phone and told the police I did not try to throw it at either of them. I am currently in the military and go to college, I am trying so very hard to have a decent life, well until this came about.
Hopefully the courts reduce the charge. Actually, we hit each other, but I got arrested because the cops scared her into admitting what happened and I did not want her to go to jail because of her health issues where she would not survive a day in jail. She did not press charges, and stood by me during every phase of the proceedings. My attorney did a good job even though the police exaggerated the case and I was let go with no jail time, no probation, no community service - just a four-month class which I completed.
I feel terrible to this day for the meltdown I had that day. A year later, we had a child together and got separated after another five years. She is a chronic addict and has serious health issues. She tried to have me convicted of false abuse accusations in a misdemeanor and a felony. I was arrested and later acquitted at trial on both cases. She got nowhere and has only gotten worse with her addictions and health issues.
A few doctors have already said she is not going to see our child graduate. I need to stay in this country for the sake of my only child and my only family. I don't want him to end up in a foster home.
Are there any grounds for ineligibility I am a green card holder? I don't have any criminal record prior to and was acquitted of the false accusation charges at trial in Please advise how I should proceed. He came home from school holding his ear with both hands and crying. He was swollen, from his ear to the bottom of his cheek.
I called his bus driver to ask him what happened but he just yelled back at me and told me that he was a minder. I asked to speak to the minder, he refused.
The doctor examined him and discovered that he was smacked really hard and his ear was perforated. Can you please advise how to take action?
I know it is horrible and I really regret it. Before that I never had an issue with the law, and after that I haven't had any other issues either. I finished my probation period actually in less time because of good behavior, and I paid everything I had to pay, went to anger management classes, did 72 hours of community service, and even donated money to the abused women association.
After that, I kept on going to school, and finished my bachelor's degree in computer information systems. It has been three years already and as I said before, I have not had any other problems with the law.
I don't smoke, don't use drugs, and don't drink. This was a mistake. I did it when I was younger and I couldn't control myself because I saw my partner with someone else. I understand my reaction was not the correct reaction.
I regret it and I really want to move on and fix my life, but now that I have finished college, I cannot find a job, because of my criminal background issue, and I am tired of being told that I am the best candidate and that they want to hire me and then after the background check everything collapses, and the job offer is removed.
Please, I need help. I want to live a normal life and make my parents proud again. They are working on pressing charges. Right now, the officers say third degree assault. She got a ticket and she got charged with 3rd degree assault. My daughter is constantly looking over her shoulder because it happened at school. Now she has problems sleeping, she's jumpy and the school says the two girls who started it all have a right to get a proper education.
Doesn't my daughter? Collect all the proof you can and take it to the police and tell them what's going on. He can't just harass you without punishment. Restraining orders only apply to law abiding, moral US citizens. TimeTheorist Post 2 anon - You would definitely be able to take legal action against him. Like the article says, which charges you would want to seek out depend on where you are. His actions absolutely qualify as harassment however, and you should seek legal counsel to figure out exactly how to pursue a restraining order.
With all the evidence you have though, assuming you've held on to some of the stuff he's mailed you, you should have more than enough evidence for a relatively simple case.
What he has done is wrong, and you are well within your bounds to take legal action. Good luck. Over a year ago I met a costumer in the club where I worked and I had an outside relationship with him apart from just the club. He appeared to be an educated decent gentlemen we shared a lot of history and had a lot in common. However, he began to degrade me and lash out in bipolar tantrums so I dismissed his friendship.
Well since then, he has continued to harass me by mailing letters and booklets he makes of me and my personal information, including pictures of my children and the club where I work.
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Section The degrees are based upon the amount of force used by the perpetrator and the harm done to the victim. First, second and third degree sexual assaults are felonies; fourth degree sexual assault is a misdemeanor. First Degree Sexual Assault: A person can be imprisoned not more than 40 years for committing first degree sexual assault. This includes:. Consent: The law defines the word consent as words or overt actions by a person who is competent to give consent indicating a freely given agreement to have sexual intercourse or sexual contact.
B3 East Hathorn Hall. If you are unable to retrieve web content in an accessible format please contact ability. A-Z Search. Falcon Sync. Sexual Assault: Section This includes: Sexual intercourse or sexual contact without consent which inflicts great bodily harm or pregnancy, or Sexual intercourse or sexual contact without consent accomplished by using or threatening to use a dangerous weapon, or Sexual intercourse or sexual contact without consent while aided by one of more persons by use of threat of force or violence, or Sexual intercourse or sexual contact, with or without consent, with a person under the age of This includes: Sexual intercourse with a person without consent of that person, or Sexual contact with intentional penile ejaculation with a person without consent of that person.
This includes: Having sexual contact with a person without that person's consent.
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GREAT as were Frater P.'s accomplishments in the ancient sciences of the East, swiftly and securely as he had passed in a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in a lifetime, satisfied as himself was ___ in a sense ___ with his own progress, it was yet not by these paths that he was destined to reach the Sublime Threshold of the Mystic Temple. For thought it is written, “To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift,” yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however persevering could attain the immortal shore. As it is written in the Fifteenth Chapter of St Luke's Gospel, “And when he was yet afar off, his Father saw him and ran.” Had it not been so, the weary Prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the House of his Father.
One little point St Luke unaccountably omitted. When a man is as hungry and weary as was the Prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. He is apt to clasp shadows to him and cry: “Father!” And, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the Prodigal to have some test of truth. {69}
Some great mystics have laid down the law, “Accept no messenger of God,” banish all, until at last the Father himself comes forth. A counsel of perfection. The Father does send messengers, as we learn in St Mark xii.; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the son himself when he is sent.
So that is no vain counsel of “St John” (1 John iv. 1), “Try the spirits, whether they be of God,” no mistake when “St Paul” claims the discernment of Spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 Cor. xii. 10).
Now how should Frater P. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the Most High? On the astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the Pentagram, the Elemental Weapons, the Robes, the God- forms, and such childish toys. We set phantoms to chase phantoms. We make our Scin-Laeca pure and hard and glittering, all glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the King; yet she is but the King's daughter, the Nephesch adorned: she is not the King himself, the Holy Ruach or mind of man. And as we have seen in our chapter on Yoga, this mind is a very aspen; and as we may see in the last chapter of Captain Fuller's “Star in the West,” this mind is a very cockpit of contradiction.
What then is the standard of truth? What tests shall we apply to revelation, when our tests of experience are found wanting? If I must doubt my eyes that have served me (well, on the whole) for so many years, must I not much more doubt my spiritual vision, my vision just open like a babe's, my vision untested by comparison and uncriticized by reason? {70}
Fortunately, there is one science that can aid us, a science that, properly understood by the initiated mind, is as absolute as mathematics, more self- supporting than philosophy, a science of the spirit itself, whose teacher is god, whose method is simple as the divine Light, and subtle as the divine Fire, Whose results are limpid as the divine Water, all-embracing as the divine Air, and solid as the divine Earth. Truth is the source, and Economy the course, of that marvellous stream that pours its living waters into the Ocean of apodeictic certainty, the Truth that is infinite in its infinity as the primal Truth with which it is identical is infinite in its Unity.
Need we say that we speak of the Holy Qabalah? O science secret, subtle, and sublime, who shall name thee without veneration, without prostration of soul, spirit, and body before thy divine Author, without exaltation of soul, spirit, and body as by His favour they bathe in His lustral and illimitable Light?
It must first here be spoken of the Exoteric Qabalah to be found in books, a shell of that perfect fruit of the Tree of Life. Next we will deal with the esoteric teachings of it, as Frater P. was able to understand them. And of these we shall give examples, showing the falsity and absurdity of the uninitiated path, the pure truth and reasonableness of the hidden Way.
For the student unacquainted with the rudiments of the Qabalah we recommend the study of S. L. Mathers' “Introduction”1 to his translation of the three principal books of the Zohar,2 and Westcott's “Introduction to the Study of the Qabalah.” We venture to append a few quotations from the {71} former document, which will show the elementary principles of calculation. Dr Westcott's little book is principally valuable for its able defence of the Qabalah as against exotericism and literalism.
The literal Qabalah … is divided into three parts: GMTRIA, Gematria; NVTRIQVN, Notariqon; and ThMVRH, Temura.
Gematria is a metathesis of the Greek word γραμματεια . It is based on the relative numerical values of words. Words of similar numerical values are considered to be explanatory of each other, and this theory is extended to phrases. Thus the letter Shin, Sh, is 300, and is equivalent to the number obtained by adding up the numerical values of the letters of the words RVCh ALHIM, Ruach Elohim, the spirit of Elohim; and it is there fore a symbol of the spirit of Elohim. For % = 200, V = 6, Ch = 8, A = 1, L = 30, H = 5, I = 10, M = 40; total = 300. Similarly, the words AChD, Achad, Unity, One, and AHBH, Ahebah, love, each = 13; for A =1, Ch = 8, D = 4, total = 13; and A = 1, H = 5, B = 2, H = 5, total = 13. Again, the name of the angel MTTRVN, Metatron or Methraton, and the name of the Deity, ShDI, Shaddai, each make 314;3 so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. The angel Metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of Israel through the wilderness, of whom God says, “My name is in him.” With regard to Gematria of phases (Gen. xlix. 10), IBA ShILH, Yeba Shiloh, “Sjhiloh shall come” = 358, which is the numeration of the word MShICh, Messiah. Thus also the passage, Gen. xviii. 2, VHNH ShLShH, Vehenna Shalisha, “And lo, three men,” equals in numerical value ALV MIKAL GBRIAL VRPAL, Elo Mikhale Gabriel Ve-Raphael, “These are Mikhael, Gabriel and Raphael”; for each phrase = 701. I think these instance will suffice to make clear the nature of Gematria.
Notariqon is derived from the Latin word notarius, a shorthand writer. Of Notariqon there are two forms. In the first every letter of a word is taken from the initial or abbreviation of another word, so that from the letters of a word a sentence may be formed. Thus every letter of the word BRAShITH, Berashith, the first word in Genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain BRAShITh RAH ALHIM ShIQBLV IShRAL ThVRH, Berashith Rahi Elohim Sheyequebelo Israel Torah; “In the beginning Elohim saw that Israel would accept the law.” In this connection I may give six very interesting specimens of Notariqon formed from this same word BRAShITh by Solomon Meir Ben Moses, a Jewish Qabalist, who embraced the Christian faith in 1665, and took the name of Prosper Rugere. These have all a Christian tendency, {72} and by their means Prosper converted another Jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to Christianity. The first is, BN RVCh AB ShLVShThM IChD ThMIM, Ben, Ruach, Ab, Shaloshethem Yechad Thaubodo: “The Son, the Spirit, the Father, ye shall equally worship Their Trinity.” The third is BKVRI RAShVNI AShR ShMV IShVO ThOBVDV, Bekori Rashuni Asher Shamo Yeshuah Thaubodo: “Ye shall worship My first-born, My first, Whose name is Jesus.” The fourth is, BBVA RBN AShR ShMV IShVO ThOBVDV, Beboa Rabban Asher Shamo Yeshuah Thaubodo: “When the Master shall come Whose Name is Jesus ye shall worship.” The fifth is, BThVLH RAVIH ABChR ShthLD ISh VO THAShRVH, Bethulh Raviah Abachar Shethaled Yeshuah Thashroah: “I will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth Jesus, and ye shall call her belssed.” The sixth is, BOVGTh RTzPIM ASThThR ShGVPI IShVO ThAKLV, Beaugoth Ratzephim Asattar Shgopi Yeshuah Thakelo: “I will hid myself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat Jesus, My Body.”
The Qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of Christianity can hardly be overrated.
The second form of the Notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. By this the initials or finals, or both, or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to form a word or words. Thus the Qabalah is called ChKMH NSThRH, Chokhmah Nesthrah, “the secret wisdom”; and if we take the initials of these two words Ch and N, we form by the second king of Notariqon the word ChN, Chen, “gracce.” Similarly, from the initials and finals of the words MI IOLH LNV HShMIMH, Mi Iaulah Leno Ha-Shamayimah, “Who shall go up for us to heaven?” (Deut. xxx. 120, are formed MILH, Milah, “circumcision,” and IHVH, the Tetragrammaton, implying that God hath ordained circumcision as the way to heaven.
Temura is permutation.4 According to certain rules, one letter is substituted for another letter preceding or following it in the alphabet, and thus from one word another word of totally different orthography may be formed. Thus the alphabet is bent exactly in half, in the middle, and one half is put over the other; and then by changing alternately the first letter or the first two letters at the beginning of the second line, twenty-two commutations are produced. These are called the “Table of the Combinations of TzIRVP,” Tzirup. For example's sake, I will give the method called ALBTh, Albath, thus: —
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
K I T Ch Z V H D G B A
M N S O P Tz Q R Sh Th L
Each method takes its name from he first two pairs composing it, the system {73} of pairs of letters being the groundwork of the the whole, as either letter in a pair is substituted for the other letter. Thus, by Albath, from RVCh, Ruach, is formed DTzO, Detzau. The names of the other twenty-one methods are: ABGTh, AGDTh, ADBG, AHBD, AVBH, AZBY, AChBZ, ATBCh, AIBT, AKBI, ALBK, AMBL, ANBM, ASBN, AOBS, APBO, ATzBP, AQSTz, ARBQ, AShBR, AND AThBSh. To these must be added the modes ABGD and ALBM. Then comes the “Rational Table of Tziruph,” another set of twenty-two combination. There are also three “Tables of the commutations,” known respectively as the Right, the Averse, and the Irregular. To make any of these, a square, containing 484 squares, should be made,and the letters written in. For the “Right Table” write the alphabet across from right to left; in the second row of squares do the same, but begin with B and end with A; in the third begin with G and end with B; and so on. For the “Averse Table” write the alphabet from right to left backwards, beginning with Th and ending with A; in the second row begin with Sh and end with Th, &c. The “Irregular Table” would take too long to describe. Besides all these, there is the method called ThShRQ, Thashraq, which is simply writing a word backwards. There is one more very important form called the “Qabalah of the Nine Chambers” or AIQ BKR, Aiq Bekar. It is thus formed:
Ú___________________Â____________________Â____________________¿
³ 300 30 3 ³ 200 20 2 ³ 100 10 1 ³
³ Sh L G ³ R K B ³ Q I A ³
Ã___________________Å____________________Å____________________´
³ M final S V ³ K final N H ³ Th M D ³
³Tz final Tz T ³ P final P Ch ³ N final O Z ³
À___________________Á____________________Á____________________Ù
I have put the numeration of each letter above to show the affinity between the letters in each chamber. ?sometimes this is used as a cipher, by taking the portions of the figure to show the letters they contain, putting one point for the first letter, two for the second, &c. Thus the right angle, containing AIQ, will answer for the letter Q if it have three dots or points within it. Again a square will answer for H, H, or K final, according to whether it has one, two, or three points respectively placed within it. so also with regard to the other letters. But there are many other ways of employing the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which I have not space to describe. I will merely mention as an example, that by the mode of Temura called {74} AThBsH, Athbash, it is found that in Jeremiah xxv. 26, the word ShShK, Sheshakh, symbolises BBL, Babel.
Besides all these rules,there are certain meanings hidden in the shape of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; in the form of a particular letter at the end of a word being different from that which it generally bears when it is a final letter, or in a letter being written in the middle of a word in a character generally used only at the end; in any letters or letter being written in a size smaller or larger than the rest of the manuscript, or in a letter being written upside down; in the variations found in the spelling of certain words, which have a letter more in some places than they have in others; in peculiarities observed in the position of any of the points or accents, and in certain expressions supposed to be elliptic or redundant.
For example the shape of the Hebrew letter Aleph, A, is said to symbolize a Vau, V, between a Yod, I, and a Daleth, D; and thus the letter itself represents the word IVD, Yod. Similarly the shape of the letter He, H, represents a Daleth, D, with a Yod, I, written at the lower left-hand corner, &c.
In Isaiah ix. 6, 7, the word LMRBH, Lemarbah, “for multiplying,” is written with the character for M final in the middle of the word, instead of with the ordinary initial and medial M. The consequence of this is that the total numerical value of the word, instead of being 30 + 40 + 200 + 2 + 5 = 277, is 30 + 600 + 200 + 2 + 5 = 837 = by Gematria ThTh ZL, Tet Zal, the profuse Giver. Thus by writing the M final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning.
It is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the Bible, BRAShITH, that the first three letters, BRA, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the Trinity: BN, Ben the Son; RVCh, Ruach, the Spirit; and AB, Ab the Father. Furthermore the first letter of the Bible is B, which is the initial letter of BRKH, Berakhah, blessing; and not A, which is that of ARR, Arar, cursing. Again, the letters of Berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of the years between the Creation and the birth of Christ, thus: B = 2,000, R = 200, A - 1,000, Sh = 300, I = 10, and Th = 400; total = 3910 years, being the time in round numbers. Picus de Mirandola gives the following working out of BRAShITh, Berashith: — By joining the third letter, A, to the first, B, AB, Ab = Father, is obtained. If to the first letter B, doubled, the second letter, R, be added, it makes BBR, Bebar - in or through the Son. If all the letters be read except the first, it makes RAShITh, Rashith = the beginning. If the fourth letter, Sh, the first B and the last Th be connected, it makes ShBTh, Shebeth = the end or rest. {75} If the first three letters be taken, they make BRA, Bera = created. If, omitting the first, the three following be taken, they make RASh, Rash = head. If the fourth and the last be joined, they give ShTh, Sheth = foundation. Again if the second letter be put before the first, it makes RB, Rab = great. If after the third be placed the fifth and the fourth, it gives AISh, Aish = man. If to the two first be joined the two last, they give BRITh, Berith = covenant. And if the first be added to the last, it gives ThB, Theb, which is sometimes used for TVB, Thob = good.
There are three qabalistical veils of the negative existence, and in themselves they formulate the hidden ideas of the Sephiroth not yet called into being, and they are concentrated in Kether, which in this sense is the Malkuth of hidden ideas of the Sephiroth. I will explain this. The first veil of the negative existence is the AIN, Ain, Negativity. This word consists of three letters, which thus shadow forth the first three Sephiroth or numbers. The second veil is the AIN SVP, the limitless. This title consists of six letters, and shadows forth the idea of the first six Sephiroth or numbers. The third veil is the AIN SVP AVR, Ain Soph Aur, the Limitless Light. This again consists of nine letters, and suymbolises the first nine Sephiroth, but of course in their hidden idea only. But when we reach the number nine we cannot progress farther without returning to the unity, or the number one, for the number ten is but a repetition of unity freshly derived from the negative, as is evident from a glance at its ordinary representation in Arabic numerals, where the circle O represents the Negative and the I the Unity. Thus, then, the limitless ocean of negative light does not proceed from a centre, for it is centreless, but it concentrates a centre, which is the number one of of the Sephiroth, Kether, the Crown, the First Sephira; which therefore may be said to be the Malkuth or the number ten of the hidden Sephiroth. Thus “Kether is in Malkuth and Malkuth is in Kether.” Or as an alchemical author of great repute (Thomas Vaughan, better known as Eugenius Philalethes) says, apparently quoting from Proclus; “That the heaven is in the earth, but after an earthly manner; and that the earth is in the heaven, but after a heavenly manner.” But inasmuch as negative existence is the subject incapable of definition, as I have before shown, it is rather considered by the Qabalists as depending back from the number of unity than as a separate consideration therefrom; therefore they frequently apply the same terms and epithets indiscriminately to either. Such epithets are “The concealed of the Concealed,” “The Ancient of the Ancient Ones,” the “Most Holy Ancient One,” etc. {76}
I must now explain the real meaning of the terms Sephira and Sephiroth. The first is singular, the second is plural. The best rendering of the word is “numerical emanation.” There are ten Sephiroth, which are the most abstract forms of the ten numbers of the decimal scale — “i.e.”, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Therefore, as in the higher mathematics we reason of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the Qabalah we reason of the Deity by the abstract forms of the numbers in other words, by the SPIRVTh, Sephiroth. it was from this ancient Oriental theory that Pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.
Among the Sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of God. Of these some are male and some female. Now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the Bible have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the Deity is both masculine and feminine. They have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word Elohim. They have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in Genesis iv, 26: “And Elohim said: Let Us make man.” Again (v. 27), who could Adam be made in the image of Elohim, male and female, unless the Elohim were male and female also? The word Elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular ALH, Eloh, by adding IM to word. But inasmuch as IM is usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word Elohim the sense of a female potency united to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. How, we hear much of the Father and the Son, but we hear nothing of the Mother in the ordinary religions of the day. But in the Qabalah we find that the Ancient of Days conforms Himself simultaneously into the Father and the Mother, and thus begets the son. Now, this Mother is Elohim. Again, we are usually told that the Holy Spirit is masculine. But the word RVCh, Ruach, Spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the Sepher Yetzirah: “AChTh RVCh ALHIM ChIIM, Achath (feminine, not Achad, masculine) Ruach Elohim Chimm: One is She the Spirit of the Elohim of Life.”
Now, we find that before he Deity conformed Himself thus — “i.e.”, as male and female — that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of Genesis, “The earth was formless and void.” These prior worlds are considered to be symbolised by the “kings who reigned in Edom before there reigned a king in Israel,” and they are therefore spoken of in the Qabalah as the “Edomite kings.” This will be found fully explained in various parts of this work.
we now come to the consideration of the first Sephira, or the Number One, the Monad of Pythagoras. In this number are the other nine hidden. It is {77} indivisible, it is also incapable of multiplication; divide 1 by itself and it still remains 1, multiply 1 by itself and it is still 1 and unchanged. Thus it is a fitting representative of the unchangeable Father of all. Now this number of unity has a twofold nature, and thus forms, as it were, the link between the negative and the positive. In its unchangeable one-ness it is scarcely a number; but in its property of capability of addition it may be called the first number of a numerical series. Now, the zero, 0, is incapable even of addition, just as also is negative existence. How, then, if 1 can neither be multiplied nor divided, is another 1 to be obtained to add to it; in other words how is the number 2 to be found? By reflection of itself. For thought 0 be incapable of definition, 1 is definable. And the effect of a definition is to form an Eidolon, duplicate, or image, of the thing defined. Thus, then, we obtain a duad composed of 1 and its reflection. Now also we have the commencement of a vibration established, for the number 1 vibrates alternately from changelessness to definition, and back to changelessness again. Thus, then, it is the father of all numbers, and a fitting type of the Father of all things.
The name of the first Sephira is KThR, Kether, the Crown. The Divine Name attributed to it is the Name of the Father given in Exod. iii. 4: AHIH, Eheieh, I am. It signifies Existence.
The first Sephira contains nine, and produces them in succession thus: —
The number 2 or the Duad. The name of the second Sephira is ChKMHm, Chokmah, Wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from Kether, as I have before explained. this Sephira is the active and evident Father, to whom the Mother is united, who is the number 3. This second Sephira is represented by the Divine Names, IH, Yah, and IHVHY; and the angelic hosts by AVPNIM, Auphanim, the Wheels (Ezek. i.). It is also called AB, Ab, the Father.
The third Sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called BINH, Binah, the Understanding, who is co-equal with Chokmah. For Chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines which can never enclose a space, and therefore it is powerless till the number 3 forms a triangle. Thus this Sephira completes and makes evident the supernal Trinity. It is also called AMA, Ama, Mother, and AIMA, Mima, the great productive Mother, who is eternally conjoined with AB, the Father, for the maintenance of the universe in order. There fore is she the most evident form in whom we can know the Father, and therefore is she worthy of all honour. She is the supernal Mother, co-equal with Chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the Elohim, in whose image man and woman are created, according to the teaching of the Qabalah, equal before God. Woman is equal with man, and certainly not {78} inferior to him, as it has been the persistent endeavour of so-called Christians to make her. Aima is the woman described in the Apocalypse (chap. xii.). This third Sephira is also sometimes called the Great Sea. To her are attribute the Divine names, ALHIM, Elohim, and IHVH ALHIM; and the angelic order, ARALIM, Aralim, the Thrones. She is the Supernal Mother as distinguished from Malkuth, the inferior Mother, Bride, and Queen.
The number 4. This union of the second and third Sephiroth produced ChSD, Chesed, Mercy or Love, also called GDVLH, Gedulah, Greatness or Magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the Divine Name AL, EL, the Mighty One, and the angelic name, ChShMLIM, Chashmalim, Scintillating Flames (Ezek. iv. 4).
The number 5. From this emanated the feminine passive potency GBVRH, Geburah, strength or fortitude; or DIN, Deen, Justice; represented by the Divine Names, ALHIM GBVR, and ALH, Eloh, and the angelic name ShRPIM, Seraphim (Isa. vi. 6). This Sephira is also called PChD, Pachad, Fear.
The number 6. And from these two issued the uniting Sephira, ThPARTh, Tiphereth, Beauty or Mildness, represented by the Divine Name ALVH VDOTh, Eloah Va-Daath, and the angelic names, Shinanim, ShNANIM (Ps. lxviii. 18), or MLKIM, Melakim, kings. Thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty or clemency, and the second trinity of the Sephiroth is complete. This Sephira, or “Path,” or “Numeration” — for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called — together with the fourth, fifth, seventh eighth, and ninth Sephiroth, is spoken of as ZOIR ANPIN, Zaur Anpin, the Lesser Countenance, Microprosopus, by way of antithesis to Macroprosopus, or the Vast Countenance, which is one of the names of Kether, the first Sephira. The six Sephiroth of which Zauir Anpin is composed, are then called His six members. He is also called MLK, Melekh the King.
The number 7. The seventh Sephira is NTzCh, Netzach, or Firmness and Victory, corresponding to he Divine Name Jehovah Tzabaoth, IHVH TzBAVTh, the Lord of Armies, and the angelic names ALHIM, Elohim, gods, and ThRShIShIM, Tharshishim, the brilliant ones (Dan. x. 6)5.
The number 8. Thence proceeded the feminine passive potency HVD, Hod, Splendour, answering to the Divine Name ALHIM TzBAVTh, Elohim Tzabaoth, the God of Armies, and among the angels to BNI ALHIM, Beni Elohim, the sons of the Gods (Gen. vi. 4).
The number 9. These two produced ISVD, Yesod, the Foundation or Basis, represented by AL ChI, El Chai, the Mighty Living One, and ShDI, Shaddai; and among the angels by AShIM, Aishim, the Flames (Ps. civ. 5), yielding the third Trinity of the Sephiroth. {79}
The number 10. From this ninth Sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. It is called MLVth, Malkuth, the Kingdom, and also the Queen, Matrona, the inferior Mother, the Bride of Microprosopus; and ShKINH, Shekinah, represented by the Divine Name Adonai, ADNI, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, KRVBIM. Now, each of these Sephiroth will be in a certain degree androgynous, for it will be feminine or receptive with regard to the Sephira which immediately precedes it in the sephirotic scale, and masculine or transmissive with regard to the Sephira which immediately follows it. But there is no Sephira anterior to Kether, nor is there a Sephira which succeeds Malkuth. By these remarks it will be understood how Chokmah is a feminine noun, though marking a masculine Sephira. the connecting-link of the Sephiroth is the Ruach, spirit, Mezla, the hidden influence.
I will how add a few more remarks on the qabalistical meaning of the term MThQLA, Metheqla, balance. In each of the three trinities or triads of the Sephiroth is a duad of opposite sexes, and a uniting intelligence which is the result. In this, the masculine and feminine potencies are regarded as the two scales of the balance, and the uniting Sephira as the beam that joins them. Thus, then, the term balance maybe said to symbolise the Triune, Trinity in Unity, and the Unity represented by the central point of the beam. But, again, in the Sephiroth there is a triple Trinity, the upper, lower, and middle. Now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, by the Crown, Kether; the middle by the King, and the inferior by the Queen; which will be the greatest trinity. And the earthy correlatives of these will be the primum mobile, the sun and the moon. Here we at once find alchemical symbolism.
The Sephiroth are futher divided into three pillars — the right-hand Pillar of Mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand Pillar of Judgment, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and the middle Pillar of Mildness, consisting of the first, sixth, ninth, and tenth emanations.
In their totality and unity the ten Sephiroth represent the archetypal man, ADM QDMVN, Adam Qadmon, the Protogonos. In looking at the Sephiroth constituting the first triad, it is evident that they represent the intellect; and hence this triad is called the intellectual world, OVLM MVShKL, Olahm Mevshekal. The second triad corresponds to the moral world, OVLM MVRGSh, Olahm Morgash. The third represents power and stability, and is therefore called the material world, OLVM HMVTHBO, Olahm Ha-Mevethau. These three aspect are called the faces, ANPIN, Anpin. Thus is the tree of life, OTz ChIIM, Otz Chaiim, formed; the first triad being placed above, the {80} second and third below, in such a manner that the three masculine Sephiroth are on the right, the three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting Sephiroth occupy the centre. This is the qabalistical “tree of life,” on which all things depend. There is considerable analogy between this and the tree Yggdrasil of the Scandinavians. I have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the Sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen. (In some senses this is the Christian Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which in their highest Divine nature are symbolised by the first three Sephiroth, Kether, Chokmah, and Binah.) It is the Trinity which created the world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. But according to the Qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten Sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial world created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbalanced force and destroyed. These primordial worlds are called the “kings of ancient time” and the “kings of Edom who reigned before the monarchs of Israel.” In this sense, Edom is the world of unbalanced force, and Israel is the balanced Sephiroth (Gen. xxxvi. 31.). This important fact, that worlds were created and destroyed prior to the present creation, is again and again reiterated in the Zohar.
Now the Sephiroth are also called the World of Emanations, or the Atziluthic World, or the archetypal world, OVLM ATzILUTh, Olahm Atziloth; and this world gave birth to three other worlds each containing a repetition of the Sephiroth, but in a descending scale of brightness.
The second world is the Briatic world, OVLM HBRIAH, Olahm Ha-Briah, the world of creation, also called KVRSIA, Khorsia, the throne. It is an immediate emanation from the world of Atziloth, whose ten Sephiroth are reflected herein, and are consequently more limited, though they are still of the purest nature, and without any admixture of matter.
The third is the Jetziratic world, OVLM HITzIRAH, Olahm Ha-Yetzirah, or world of formation and of angels, which proceeds from Briah, and, though less refined in substance, is still without matter. It is in this angelic world that reside those intelligent and incorporeal beings who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear unto man.
The fourth is the Asiatic world, OVLM HOShIH, Olahm Ha-Asiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, OVLM HQLIPVTh, Olahm Ha-Qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. In it is also the abode of the evil spirits, which are called “the shells” by the Qabalah, QLIPVTh, Qliphoth, material shells. The devils are also divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations. (See Tables in “777.”) {81}
The demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. Their ten degrees answer to the decad of the Sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. The two first are nothing but absence of visible form and organisation. The third is the abode of darkness. Next follow seven Hells occupied by those demons which represent incarnate human vices, and those who have given themselves up to such vices in earth-life. Their prince is Samael, SMAL, the angel of poison and death.. His wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom, AShTh ZNVNIM, Isheth Zennuim; and united they are called the beast, CHIVA, Chioa. Thus the infernal trinity is completed which is, so to speak,the averse and caricature of the supernal Creative One. Samael is considered to be identical with Satan.
The name of the Deity, which we call Jehovah, is in Hebrew ad name of four letters, IHVH; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. I myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. The true pronunciation of it is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets. “He who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe.” Therefore when a devout Jew comes upon it in reading the Scripture, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name Adonai, ADNI, Lord. The radical meaning of the word is “to be,” and it is thus, like AHIH, Eheieh, a glyph of existence. It is capable of twelve transpositions, which all convey the meaning of “to be”; it is the only word that will bear so many transpositions without its meaning being altered. They are called the “twelve banners of the mighty name,” and are said by some to rule the twelve signs of the Zodiac. These are the twelve banners: — IHVH, IHHV, IVHH, HVHI, HVIH, HHIV, VHHI, VIHH, VHIH, HIHV, HIVH, HHVI. There are three other tetragrammatic names, which are AHIH, Eheieh, existence; ADNI, Adonai, Lord; and AGLA. This last is not properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence, AThH GBVR LOVLM ADNI, Steh Gebor Le0Olahm Adonai: “Thou art might, for ever, O Lord!” A brief explanation of Agla is this; A, the one first; A, the one last; G, the Trinity in Unity; L, the completion of the great work.
But IHVH, the Tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the Sephiroth with the exception of Kether, and specially signifies the Lesser Countenance, Microprosopus, the King of the qabalistical Sephirotic greatest Trinity,and the Son in His human incarnation, in the Christian acceptation of the Trinity. Therefore, as the Son reveals the Father, so does IHVH, Jehovah, reveal AHIH, Eheieh. And ADNI is the Queen, by whom alone Tetragrammaton {82} can be grasped, whose exaltation into Binah is found in the Christian assumption of the Virgin.
The Tetragrammaton IHVH is referred to the Sephiroth, thus: the upper-most point of the letter Yod, I, is said to refer to Kether; the letter I itself to Chokmah, the father of Microprosopus; the letter H, or “the supernal He,” to Binah, the supernal Mother; the letter V to the next six Sephiroth, which are called the six members of Microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of V, the Hebrew Vau); lastly, the letter H, the “inferior He,” to Malkuth, the tenth Sephira, the bride of Microprosopus.
Advanced students should then go to the fountain head, Knorr von Rosenroth's “Kabbala denudata,” and study for themselves. It should not prove easy; Frater P., after years of study, confessed: “I cannot get much out of Rosenroth”; and we may add that only the best minds are likely to obtain more than an academic knowledge of a system which we suspect von Rosenroth himself never understood in any deeper sense. As a book of reference to the hierarchical correspondences of the Qabalah, of course “777” stands alone an unrivalled.
The graphic Qabalah has been already fully illustrated in this treatise. See Illustrations 2, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82.
By far the best and most concise account of the method of the Qabalah is that by an unknown author, which Mr. Aleister Crowley has printed at the end of the first volume of his Collected Works, and which we here reprint in full.
QABALISTIC DOGMA
The Evolution of Things is thus described by the Qabalists.
First is Nothing, or the Absence of Things, ןיא , which does not and cannot mean Negatively Existing (if such an Idea can be said to mean anything), as S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers, who misread the Text and stultified the {83} Commentary by the Light of his own Ignorance of Hebrew and Philosophy, pretends in his Translation of v. Rosenroth.
Second is Without Limit ףוס ןי a {WEH NOTE: Corrected, original text had ףומ }, “i.e.”, Infinite Space.
This is the primal Dualism of Infinity; the infinitely small and the infinitely great. The Clash of these produces a finite positive Idea which happens (see תישארב , in “The Sword of song,” for a more careful study, though I must not be understood to indorse every Word in our Poet-Philosopher's Thesis) to be Light, רוא . This word רוא is most important. It symbolises the Universe immediately after Chaos, the confusion or Clash of the infinite Opposites. א is the Egg of Matter; י is Taurus, the Bull, or Energy-Motion; and ר is the Sun, or organised and moving System of Orbs. The three Letters of רוא thus repeat the three Ideas. The Nature of רוא is thus analysed, under the figure of the ten Numbers and the 22 Letters which together compose what the Rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of Minutum Mundom. It will be noticed that every Number and Letter has its “Correspondence” in Ideas of every Sort; so that any given Object can be analysed in Terms of the 32. If I see a blue Star, I should regard it as a Manifestation of Chesed, Water, the Moon, Salt the Alchemical Principle, Sagittarius or What not, in respect of its Blueness —- one would have to decide which from other Data — and refer it to the XVIIth Key of the Taro in Respect of its Starriness.
The Use of these Attributions is lengthy and various: I cannot dwell upon it: but I will give one Example.
If I wish to visit the Sphere of Geburah, I use the Colours and Forces appropriate: I go there: if the Objects which then appear to my spiritual Vision are harmonious therewith, it is one Test of their Truth.
so also, to construct a Talisman, or to invoke a Spirit.
The methods of discovering Dogma from sacred Words are also numerous and important: I may mention: —
(“a)” The Doctrine of Sympathies: drawn from the total Numeration of a Word, when identical with, or a Multiple of Submultiple of, or a Metathesis of, that of another Word.
(“b)” The Method of finding the Least Number of a Word, by adding (and re- adding) the Digits of its total Number, and taking the corresponding Key of the Taro as a Key to the Meaning of the Word.
(“c”) The Method of Analogies drawn from the Shape of the Letters.
(“d”) The Method of Deductions drawn from the Meanings and Correspondences of the letters.
(“e”) The Method of Acrostics drawn from the Letters. This Mode is only valid for Adepts of the highest Grades, and then under quite exceptional and rare Conditions. {84}
(“f”) The Method of Transpositions and Transmutations of the Letters, which suggest Analogies, even when they fail to explain in direct Fashion.
All these and their Varieties and Combinations, with some other more abstruse or less important Methods, may be used to unlock the Secret of a Word.
Of course with Powers so wide it is easy for the Partisan to find his favourite Meaning in any Word. Even the formal Proof 0 = 1 = 2 = 3 = 4 = 5 = ……. = n is possible.
But the Adept who worked out this Theorem, with the very Intent to discredit the Qabalistic Mode of Research, was suddenly dumfounded by the Fact that he had actually stumbled upon the Qabalistic Proof of Pantheism or Monism.
What really happens is that the Adept sits down and performs many useless Tricks with the Figures, without Result.
Suddenly the Lux dawns, and the Problem is solved.
The Rationalist explains this by Inspiration, the superstitious Man by Mathematics.
I give an Example of the Way in which one works. Let us take IAO, one of the “Barbarous Names of Evocation,” of which those who have wished to conceal their own Glory by adopting the Authority of Zarathustra have said that in the holy Ceremonies it has ineffable Power.
But what Kind of Power? By the Qabalah we can found out the Force of the Name IAO.
We can spell it in Hebrew ואי or עאי . The Qabalah will even tell us which is the true Way. Let us however suppose that it is spelt ואי . This adds up to 17.
But first of all it strikes us that I, A, and O are the three Letters associated with the three Letters ה in the great Name of Six Letters, הוהיהא , which combines הוהא and הוהי {WEH NOTE: sic. Should be: היהא and הוהי }, Macroprosopus and Microprosopus. Now these feminine Letters ה conceal the “Three Mothers” of the Alphabet, א , מ , and ש . Replace these, and we get אומישא , which adds up to 358, the Number alike of שחנ , the Serpent of Genesis, and the Messiah. We thus look for redeeming Power in IAO, and for the Masculine Aspect of that Poser.
Now we will see how that Power works. We have a curious Dictionary, which was made by a very learned Man, in which the Numbers 1 to 10,000 fill the left hand Column, in Order, and opposite them are written all the sacred or important Words which add up to each Number.
We take this Book, and look at 17. We find that 17 is the number of Squares in the Swastika, which is the Whirling Disc or Thunderbolt. Also there is נוח , a Circle or Orbit;דוז , to seethe or boil; and some other Words, {85} which we will neglect in this Example, thought we should not dart to do so if we were really trying to find out a Thing we none of us knew. To help our Deduction about Redemption, too, we find הדה {WEH NOTE: sic, should be: הדח }, to brighten or make glad.
We also work in another Way. I is the Straight Line or Central Pillar of the Temple of Life; also it stands for Unity, and for the Generative Force. A Circle from which everything came, also Nothingness, and the Female, who absorbs the Male. The Progress of the Name shows then the Way from Life to Nirvana by means of the Will: and is a Hieroglyph of the Great Work.
Look at all our Meanings! Every one shows that the Name, if it has any Power at all, and that we must try, has the Power to redeem us from the Love of Life which is the Cause of Life, by its masculine Whirlings, and to gladden us and to being us to the bosom of the Great Mother, Death.
Before what is known a the Equinox of the Gods, a little While ago, there was an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not eternal, any more than God; and it would be but a poor God that could not and did not alter his Ways at his Pleasure.
This Formula was used to pen the Vault of the Mystic Mountain of Abiegnus, within which lay (so the Ceremony of Initiation supposed) the body of our Father Christian Rosen Creutz, to be discovered by the Brethren with the Postulant as said in the Book called Fama Fraternitatis.
There are three Officers, and they repeat the Analysis of the Word as follows: —
Chief. Let us analyse the Key Word --- I.
2nd. N.
3rd. R.
All. I.
Chief. Yod. י .
2nd. Nun. נ .
3rd. Resh. ר .
All. Yod, י .
Chief. Virgo (Virgo) Isis, Mighty Mother.
2nd. Scorpio (Scorpio) Apophis, Destroyer.
3rd. Sol (Sun) Osiris, slain and risen.
All. Isis, Apophis, Osiris, IAO.
All spread Arms as if on a cross, and say: ---
The Sign of Osiris slain! {86}
Chief bows his Head to the Left, rises his Right Arm, and lowers his Left
keeping the Elbow at right Angles,thus forming the letter L (also the
Swastika).
The Sign of the Mourning of Isis.
2nd. With erect Head, rises his Arms to form a V (but really to form the
triple tongue of Flame, the Spirit), and says: ---
The Sign of Apophis and Typhon.
3rd. Bows his Head and crosses his Arms on his Breast (to form the
Pentagram).
The Sign of Osiris risen.
All give the Sign of the Cross, and say: ---
Then the Sign of Osiris risen, and say: ---
Lux, the Light of the Cross.
This formula, on which one may meditate for Years without exhausting its wonderful Harmonies, gives an excellent Idea of the Way in which Qabalistic Analysis is conducted.
First, the Letters have been written in Hebrew Characters.
Then the Attributions of them to the Zodiac an to Planets are substituted, and the Names of Egyptian Gods belonging to these are invoked.
The Christian Idea of I.N.R.I. is confirmed by these, while their Initials form the sacred Word of the Gnostics. That is, IAO. From the Character of the Deities and their Functions are deduced their Signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the Word Lux (רוא ), which itself is contained in the Cross.
A careful Study of these Ideas,and of the Table of Correspondences, which one of our English Brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great Deal of Matter for Thought in these Poems which an untutored Person would pass by.
To return to the general Dogma of the Qabalists.
The Figure of Minutum Mundum will show how they suppose one Quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure God-World Atziluth, then in the Angel-World Briah, and so on down to the Demon-Worlds, which are however not thus organised. They are rather Material that was shed off in the Course of Evolution, like theSloughs of a Serpent, from which comes their Name of Shells, or Husks.
Apart from silly Questions as to whether the Order of the Emanations is {87} confirmed by Palaeontology, a Question it is quite impertinent to discuss, there is no Doubt that the Sephiroth are types of Evolution as opposed to Catastrophe and Creation.
The great Charge against this Philosophy is founded on its alleged Affinities with Scholastic Realism. But the Charge is not very true. No Doubt but they did suppose vast Storehouses of “Things of one Kind: from which, pure or mingled, all other Things did proceed.
Since ג , a Camel, refers to the moon, they did say that a Camel and the Moon were sympathetic, and came, that Part of them, from a common Principole: and that a Camel being yellow brown, it partook of the Earth Nature, to which that Colour is given.
Thence they said that by taking all the Natures involved, and by blending them in the just Proportions, on might have a Camel.
But this is no more than is said by the Upholders of the Atomic Theory.
They have their Storehouses of Carbon, Oxygen, and such (not in one Place, but no more is Geburah in one Place), and what is Organic Chemistry but the Production of useful Compounds whose Nature is deduced absolutely from theoretical Considerations long before it is ever produced in the Laboratory?
The difference, you will say, is that the Qabalists maintain a Mind of each Kind behind each Class of Things on one Kind; but so did Berkeley, and his Argument in that Respect is, as the great Huxley showed, irrefragable. For by the Universe I mean the Sensible; any other is not to be Known; and the Sensible is dependent upon Mind. Nay, though the Sensible is said to be an Argument of a Universe Insensible, the latter becomes sensible to Mind as soon as the Argument is accepted, and disappears with its Rejection.
Nor is the Qabalah dependent upon its Realism, and its Application to the Works magical — but I am defending a Philosophy which I was asked to describe, and this is not lawful.
A great Deal may be learned from the Translation of the Zohar by S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers, and his Introduction thereto, though for those who have Latin and some acquaintance with Hebrew it is better to study the Kabbala Denudata of Knoor von Rosenroth, in Despite of the heavy Price; for the Translator has distorted the Text and its Comment to suit his belief in a supreme Personal God, and in that degraded Form of the Doctrine of Feminism which is so popular with the Emasculate.
The Sephiroth are grouped in various Ways. There is a Superior Triad or Trinity; a Hexad; and Malkuth: the Crown, the Father, and the Mother; the Son or King; and the Bride.
Also, a Division into seven Palaces, seven Planes, three Pillars or Columns, and the like. {88}
The Flashing Sword follows the Course of the Numbers; and the Serpent Nechushtan or of Wisdom crawls up the Paths which join them upon the Tree of Life, namely the Letters.
It is important to explain the Position of Daath or Knowledge upon the Tree. It is called the Child of Chokmah and Binah, but it hath no Place. But it is really the Apex of a Pyramid of which the three first Numbers for the Base.
Now the Tree, or Minutum Mundum, is a Figure in a Plane of a solid Universe. Daath, being above the Plane, is therefore a Figure of a Force in four Dimensions, and thus it is the Object of the Magnum Opus. The three Paths which connect it with the First Trinity are the three lost Letters or Fathers of the Hebrew Alphabet.
In Daath is said to be the Head of the great Serpent Nechesh or Leviathan, called Evil to conceal its Holiness. (שחנ = 358 = חישמ , the Messiah or Redeemer, and ךתיול = 496 = תוכלמ , the Bride.) It is identical with he Kundalini of the Hindu Philosophy, the Kwan-se-on of the Mongolian Peoples, and means the magical Force in Man, which is the sexual Force applied to the Brain, Heart, and other Organs, and redeemeth him.
The gradual Disclosure of these magical Secrets to the Poet may be traced in these Volumes, which it has been my Privilege to be asked to explain. It has been impossible to do more than place in the Hands of any intelligent Person the Keys which will permit him to unlock the many Beautiful Chambers of Holiness in these Palaces and Gardens of Beauty and Pleasure.
Of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the EQUINOX (Vol {I, No.) II. pp. 163-185), “A Note on Genesis” by V. H. Fra. I. A.
From this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-lived-happy-ever-after view let us turn for a moment to the critical aspect. Let us demolish in turn the qabalistic methods of exegesis; and then, if we can, discover a true basis upon which to erect an abiding Temple of Truth.
1. Gematria.
The number 777 affords a good example of the legitimate and illegitimate deductions to be drawn. It represents the sentence AChTh RVCh ALHIM ChIIM, “One is the Spirit {89} of the Living God,” and also OLAHM H-QLPVTh, “The world of the Shells (excrements — the demon-world).”
Now it is wrong to say that this idea of the unity of the divine spirit is identical with this idea of the muddle of chaos — unless in that exalted grade in which “the One is the Many.” But the compiler of Liber 777 was a great Qabalist when he thus entitled his book; for he meant to imply, “One is the Spirit of the Living God,” “i.e.” I have in this book unified all the diverse symbols of the world; and also, “the world of shells,” “i.e.” this book is full of mere dead symbols; do not mistake them for the living Truth. Further, he had an academic reason for his choice of a number; for the tabulation of the book is from Kether to Malkuth, the course of the Flaming Sword; and if this sword be drawn upon the Tree of Life, the numeration of the Paths over which it passes (taking ג , 3, as the non-existent path from Binah to Chesed, since it connects Macroprosopus and Microprosopus) is 777. [See Diagrams 2 and 12.]
To take another example, it is no mere coincidence that 463, the Staff of Moses, is ת , ס , ג , the paths of the Middle Pillar; no mere coincidence that 26, הוהי , is 1 + 6 + 9 + 10, the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar. But ought we not to have some supreme name for 489, their sum, the Middle Pillar perfect? Yet the Sepher Sephiroth is silent. (We find only 489 = MShLM GMVL, the avenger. Ed.)
Again, 111 is Aleph, the Unity, but also APL, thick Darkness, and ASN, Sudden Death. This can only be interpreted as meaning the annihilation of the individual in the Unity, and the Darkness which is the Threshold of the Unity; in other words, one must be an expert in Samadhi {90} before this simple Gematria has any proper meaning. How, then, can it serve the student in his research? The uninitiated would expect Life and Light in the One; only by experience can he know that to man the Godhead must be expressed by those things which most he fears.
We hare purposely avoid dwelling on the mere silliness of many Gematria correspondences, “e.g.”, the equality of the Qliphoth of one sign with the Intelligence of another. Such misses are more frequent than such hits as AChD, Unity, 13 = AHBH, Love, 13.
The argument is an argument in a circle. “Only an adept can understand the Qabalah,” just as (in Buddhism) Sakyamuni said, “Only an Arahat can understand the Dhamma.”
In this light, indeed, the Qabalah seems little more than a convenient language for recording experience.
We may mention in passing that Frater P. never acquiesced in the obvious “cook” of arguing: “x” = “y” + 1 ∴ “x” = “y”, by assuming that “x” should add one to itself “for the concealed unity.” Why shouldn't “y” have a little concealed unity of its own?
That this method should ever have been accepted by any Qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. In all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods!
2. Notariqon.
The absurdity of this method needs little indication. The most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from Mr Mathers' Jew, converted by the Notariqons of “Berashith.” True, F.I.A.T. is Flatus, Ignis, Aqua, Terra; showing the Creator as Tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; {91} showing the Eternal Fiat as the equilibrated powers of Nature. But what forbids Fecit Ignavus Animan Terrae, or any other convenient blasphemy, such as Buddha would applaud?
Why not take our converted Jew and restore him to the Ghetto with Ben, Ruach, Ab, Sheol! — IHVH, Thora? why not take the sacred 'Iota chi theta upsilon sigma of the Christian who thought it meant 'Iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma Chi rho iota sigma tau omicron sigma Theta epsilon omicron upsilon 'Upsilon iota omicron sigma Sigma omega tau eta rho and make him a pagan with ”'Iota sigma kappa delta omicron sigma Chi alpha rho iota sigma Theta eta sigma alpha upsilon rho omicron sigma 'Upsilon iota omega nu Sigma omicron phi iota alpha sigma “?
Why not argue that Christ in cursing the fig, F.I.G.., wished to attack Kant's dogmas of Freewill, Immortality, God?
3. Temurah.
Here again the multiplicity of our methods makes our method too pliable to be reliable. Should we argue that BBL = ShShK (620) by the method of Athbash, and that therefore BBL symbolises Kether (620)? Why, BBL is confusion, the very opposite of Kether.
Why Athbash? Why not Abshath? or Agrath? or any other of the possible combinations?
About the only useful Temurah is Aiq Bkr, given above. In this we do find a suggestive reasoning. For example, we find it in the attribution of ALHIM to the pentagram which gives pi . [See EQUINOX, No. II. p. 184] Here we write Elohim, the creative deities, round a pentagram, and read it reverse beginning with ל , Libra, the letter of equilibrium, and obtain an approximation to pi 3.1415 (good enough for the benighted Hebrews), as if thereby the finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of he Creator.
Yes: but why should not Berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, “e”? The only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! {92}
The Rational Table of Tzirup should, we agree with Fra. P., be left to the Rationalist Press Association, and we may present the Irregular Table of Commutations to Irregular Masons.
4. To the less important methods we may apply the same criticism.
We may glance in passing at the Yetziratic, Tarot, and significatory methods of investigating any word. But though Frater P. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical Qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. The attributions are given in “777”. Thus א in the Yetziratic world is “Air,” by Tarot “the Fool,” and by signification “an ox.” Thus we have the famous I.N.R.I. = י , נ , ר , י = Virgo, Scorpio, Sun, Virgo; the Virgin, the Evil Serpent, the Sun, suggesting the story of Genesis ii. and of the Gospel. The initials of the Egyptian names Isis, Apophis, Osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the Ineffable Name IAO; thus we say that the Ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Christ; and further the Sings of Mourning of the Mother, Triumph of the Destroyer, and Rising of the Son, give by shape the letters L.U.X., Lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the Cross
..L V \/
: ∴ /\ the Light of the Cross. Further examples will be found in “A
Note on Genesis.” One of the most famous is the Mene, Tekel, Upharsin of Daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under Belshazzar the imaginary king.
MNA. The Hanged Man, Death, the Fool = "Sacrificed
to Death by thy Folly." {93}
ThKL. The Universe, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice =
"Thy kingdom's fortune is in the Balance."
PRSh. The Blasted Tower, the Sun, the Last Judgment
= "Ruined is thy glory, and finished."
But we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard
We could more easily read
MNA. To sacrifice to death is folly.
ThKL. Thy kingdom shall be fortunate, for it is just.
PRSh. The Tower of thy glory shall endure until the Last Day.
There! that didn't take two minutes; and Belshazzar would have exalted us
above Daniel.
Similarly AL, God, may be may be interpreted, "His folly is justice," as it
is written: "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."
Or, by Yetzirah: "The air is His balance," as it is written: "God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament."
Or, by meaning: "The ox and the goad," "i.e.", "He is both matter and
motion."
We here append a sketch MS. by Frater P., giving his explanation by Tarot,
etc., of the letters of the alphabet spelt in full.
MYSTIC READINGS OF THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET
(“See” TAROT CARDS, “AND MEDITATE”)
ALP. Folly's Doom is Ruin.
BITh. The Juggler with the Secret of the Universe.
GML. The Holy Guardian Angel is attained by Self-Sacrifice and Equilibrium.
DLTh. The Gate of the Equilibrium of the Universe. (Note D, the highest
reciprocal path.)
HH. The Mother is the Daughter; and the Daughter is the mother.
VV. The Son is (but) the Son. (These two letters show the true doctrine
of Initiation as given in Liber 418; opposed to Protestant
Exotericism.)
ZIN. The answer of the Oracles is always Death.
ChITh. The Chariot of the Secret of the Universe.
TITH. She who rules the Secret Force of the Universe.
IVD. The Secret of the Gate of Initiation.
KP. In the Whirlings is War.
LMD. By Equilibrium and Self-Sacrifice, the Gate!
MIM. The Secret is hidden between the Waters that are above and the
Waters that are beneath. (Symbol, the Ark containing the secret
of Life borne upon the Bosom of the Deluge beneath the
Clouds.)
NVN. Initiation is guarded on both sides by death.
SMK. Self-control and Self-sacrifice govern the Wheel.
OIN. The Secret of Generation is Death.
PH. The Fortress of the Most High. (Note P, the lowest reciprocal
path).
TzDI. In the Star is the Gate of the Sanctuary.
QVP. Illusionary is the Initiation of Disorder.
RISh. In the Sun (Osiris) is the Secret of the Spirit.
ShIN. Resurrection is hidden in Death.
ThV. The Universe is the Hexagram.
(Other meanings suit other planes and other grades.)
Truly there is no en to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers,
"With all these methods one ought to be able to make everything our of
nothing," the Qabalist smiles back the sublime retort, "With these methods One
did make everything out of nothing."
Besides these, there is still one more method --- a method of some little
importance to students of the Siphra Dzenioutha, namely, the analogies drawn
from the shapes of letters; {95} these are often interesting enough. א ,
for example, is a ו between י and י , making 26. Thus
הוהי 26 = א , 1. Therefore Jehovah is One. But it would be as
pertinent to continue 26 x 2 x 13, and 13 = Achad = 1, and therefore Jehovah
is Two.
This then is an absurdity. Yes; but it is also an arcanum!
How wonderful is the Qabalah! How great is its security from the profane;
how splendid its secrets to the initiate!
Verily and Amen! yet here we are at the old dilemma, that one must know
Truth before one can rely upon the Qabalah to show Truth.
Like the immortal burglar:
"Bill wouldn't hurt a baby --- he's a pal as you can trust,
He's all right when yer know 'im; but yer've got to know 'im fust."
So those who have committed themselves to academic study of its mysteries
have found but a dry stick: those who have understood (favoured of God!) have
found therein Aaron's rod that budded, the Staff of Life itself, yea, the
venerable Lingam of Mahasiva!
It is for us to trace the researches of Frater P. in the Qabalah, to show
how from this storehouse of child's puzzles, of contradictions and
incongruities, of paradoxes and trivialities, he discovered the very canon of
Truth, the authentic key of the Temple, the Word of that mighty Combination
which unlocks the Treasure-Chamber of the King.
And this following is the Manuscript which he has let for our instruction.
AN ESSAY UPON NUMBER
(May the Holy One mitigate His severities toward His servant in respect of
the haste wherewith this essay hath been composed!
When I travelled with the venerable Iehi Aour in search of Truth, we
encountered a certain wise and holy man, Shri Parananda. Children! said he,
for two years must ye study with me before ye fully comprehend our Law.
"Venerable Sir!" answered Frater I.A., "the first verse of "Our" Law contains
but seven words. For seven years did I study that verse by day and by night;
and at the end of that time did I presume --- may the Dweller of Eternity
pardon me! -=-- to write a monograph upon the first word of those seven
words."
"Venerable Sir!" quoth I: "that First Word of our law contains but six
letters. For six years did I study that word by day and by night; and at the
end of that time did I not dare to utter the first letter of those six
letters."
Thus humbling myself did I abash both the holy Yogi and my venerable Frater
I. A. But alas! Tegragrammaton! Alas! Adonai! the hour of my silence is
past. May the hour of my silence return! Amen.)
THE UNIVERSE AS IT IS
0. The Negative --- the Infinite --- the Circle, or the Point.
1. The Unity --- the Positive --- the Finite --- the Line, derived from 0
by extension. The divine Being.
2. The Dyad --- the Superficies, derived from 1 by reflection 1/1, or by
revolution of the line around its end. The Demiurge. The divine Will.
3. The Triad, the solid, derived from 1 and 2 by addition. Matter. The
divine Intelligence.
4. The Quaternary, the solid existing in Time, matter as we know it.
Derived from 2 by multiplication. The divine Repose.
5. The Quinary, Force or Motion. The interplay of the divine Will with
matter. Derived from 2 and 3 by addition.
6. The Senary, Mind. Derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication.
7. The Septenary, Desire. Derived from 3 and 4 by addition. (There is
{97} however a secondary attribution of 7, making it the holiest and most
perfect of the numbers.)
8. The Ogdoad, Intellect (also Change in Stability). Derived from 2 and 3
by multiplication, 8 = 23.
9. The Ennead, Stability in Change. Derived from 2 and 3 by
multiplication, 9 = 32.
(Note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the
order of the figures is shifted.)
10. The Decad, the divine End. Represents the 1 returning to the 0.
Derived from 1 + 2 + 3 + 4.
11. The Hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine
Tree. 1 + 1 = 2, in its evil sense of not being 1.
0. The Cosmic Egg.
1. The Self of Deity, beyond Fatherhood and Motherhood.
2. The Father.
3. The Mother.
4. The Father made flesh --- authoritative and paternal.
5. The Mother made flesh --- fierce and active.
6. The Son --- partaking of all these natures.
7. The Mother degraded to mere animal emotion.
8. The Father degraded to mere animal reason.
9. The Son degraded to mere animal life.
10. The Daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells.
It will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive
degeneration --- which we are compelled to think of as evil. In the human
organism the same arrangement will be noticed.
0. The Pleroma of which our individuality is the monad: the "All-Self."
1. The Self --- the divine Ego of which man is rarely conscious.
2. The Ego; that which thinks "I" --- a falsehood, because to think "I" is
to deny "not-I" and thus to create the Dyad.
3. The Soul; since 3 reconciles 2 and 1, here are placed the aspirations to
divinity. It is also the receptive as 2 is the assertive self.
4-9. The intellectual Self, with its branches:
4. Memory. {98}
5. Will.
6. Imagination.
7. Desire.
8. Reason.
9. Animal being.
6. The Conscious Self of the Normal Man: thinking itself free, and really
the toy of its surroundings.
9. The Unconscious Self of the Normal Man. Reflex actions, circulation,
breathing , digestion, etc., all pertain here.
10. The illusory physical envelope; the scaffolding of the building.
Having compared these attributions with those to be found in 777, studied
them, assimilated them so thoroughly that it is natural and needs no effort to
think "Binah, Mother, Great Sea, Throne, Saturn, Black Myrrh, Sorrow,
Intelligence, etc. etc. etc.," in a flash whenever the number 3 is mentioned
or seen, we may profitably proceed to go through the most important of he
higher numbers. For this purpose I have removed myself from books of
reference; only those things which have become fixed in my mind (from their
importance) deserve place in the simplicity of this essay.
12. HVA, "He," a title of Kether, identifying Kether with the Zodiac, and
"home of the 12 stars" and their correspondences. See 777.
13. AChD, Unity, and AHBH Love. A scale of unity; thus 13 x 1 = 1; 26 = 13
x 2 = 2; 91 = 13 x 7 = 7; so that we may find in 26 and 91 elaboration of the
Dyad and the Septenary respectively.
14. An "elaboration" of 5 (1 + 4 = 5), Force; a "concentration" or 86 ( 8
+ 6 = 14) Elohim, the 5 elements.
15. IH, Jah, one of the ineffable names; the Father and Mother united.
Mystic number of Geburah: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5.
17. The number of squares in the Swastika, which by shape is Aleph, א .
Hence 17 recalls 1. Also IAV, IAO, the triune Father. See 32 and 358.
18. ChI, Life. An "elaboration" of 9.
20. IVD, Yod, the letter of the Father.
21. AHIH, existence, a title of Keter, Note 3 x 7 = 21. Also IHV, the
first 3 (active) letters of IHVH. Mystic number of Tiphereth.
22. The number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet; and of the paths on the
Tree. Hence suggests completion of imperfection. Finality, the fatal
finality. Note 2 x 11 = 22, the accursed Dyad at play with the Shells.
24. Number of the Elders; and 72 ö 3. 72 is the "divided Name." {99}
26. IHVH. Jehovah, as the Dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible God, the
lesser Countenance. The God of Nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless.
28. Mystic number of Netzach, KCh, "Power."
31. LA, "not"; and AL, "God." In this Part I. ("Nature as it is") the
number is rather forbidding. For AL is the God-name of Chesed, mercy; and so
the number seems to deny that Name.
32. Number of Sephiroth and Paths, 10 + 22. Hence is completion of
perfection. Finality: things as they are in their totality. AHIHVH, the
combined AHIH and IHVH, Macroprosopus, and Microprosopus, is here. If we
suppose the 3 female letters H to conceal the 3 mothers A, M, Sh, we obtain
the number 358, Messiach, q.v. Note 32 = 25, the divine Will extended through
motion. 64 = 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first
cube, squared. So we find it a Mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter
was in truth eternal change.
35. AGLA, a name of God = Ateh Gibor Le Olahm Adonai. "To Thee by the
Power unto the Ages, O my Lord!" 35 = 5 x 7. 7 = Divinity, 5 = Power.
36. A Solar Number. ALH. Otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic number
of Mercury.
37. IChIDH. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to Kether. Note
37 = 111 ö 3.
38. Note 38 x 11 = 418 q.v. in Part II.
39. IHVH AChD, Jehovah is one. 39 = 13 x 3. This is then the affirmation
of the aspiring soul.
40. A "dead" number of fixed law, 4 x 10, Tetragrammaton, the lesser
countenance immutable in the heaviness of Malkuth.
41. AM, the Mother, unfertilised and unenlightened.
42. AMA, the Mother, still dark. Here are the 42 judges of the dead in
Amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the Creative God. See Liber 418.
44. DM, blood. See Part II. Here 4 x 11 = the corruption of the created
45. MH, a secret title of Yetzirah, the Formative World. ADM, Adam, man,
the species (not "the first man"). A is Air, the divine breath which stirs
DM, blood, into being.
49. A number useful in the calculations of Dr. Dee, and a mystic number of
Venus.
50. The number of the Gates of Binah, whose name id Death (50 = נ = by
Tarot, "Death").
51. AN, pain. NA, failure. ADVM, Edom, the country of the demon kings.
There is much in the Qabalah about these kings and their dukes; it never meant
much to me, somehow. But 51 is 1 short of 52. {100}
52. AIMA, the fertilised Mother, the Phallus (י ) thrust into AMA.
Also BN, the Son. Note 52 = 13 x 4, 4 being Mercy and the influence of the
60. Samekh, which in full spells 60 x 2 = 120 (q.v.), just as Yod, 10 in
full spells 10 x 2 = 20. In general, the tens are "solidifications" of the
ideas of the units which they multiply. Thus 50 is Death, the Force of Change
in its final and most earthy aspect. Samekh is "Temperance" in the Tarot: the
6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is
"restriction."
61. AIN, the Negative. ANI, Ego. A number rather like 31, q.v.
64. DIN and DNI, intelligences (the twins) of Mercury. See also 32.
65. ADNI. In Roman characters LXV = LVX, the redeeming light. See the 5ø
= 6ø ritual and "Konx om Pax." Note 65 = 13 x 5, the most spiritual form
of force, just as 10 x 5 was its most material form. Note HS, "Keep silence!"
and HIKL, the palace; as if it were said "Silence is the House of Adonai."
67. BINH the Great Mother. Note 6 + 7 = 13, uniting the ideas of Binah and
Kether. A number of the aspiration.
70. The Sanhedrin and the precepts of the Law. The Divine 7 in its most
material aspect.
72. ChSD, Mercy. The number of the Shemhamphorasch, as if affirming God as
merciful. For details of Shemhamphorasch, see 777 and other classical books
of reference. Note especially I + IH + IHV _ IHVH = 72.
73. ChKMH, Wisdom. Also GML, Gimel, the path unitingKether and Tiphereth.
But Gimel, "the Priestess of the Silver Star," is the Female Hierophant, the
Moon; and Chokmah is the Logos, or male initiator. See Liber 418 for much
information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of Part II.
78. MZLA, the influence from Kether. The number of the cards of the
Tarot, and of the 13 paths of the Beard of Macroprosopus. Note 78 = 13 x 6.
Also AIVAS, the messenger. See Part II.
80. The number of פ , the "lightning-struck Tower" of the Tarot. 8 =
Intellect, Mercury; its most material form is Ruin, as Intellect in the end is
divided against itself.
81. A mystic number of the Moon.
84. A number chiefly important in Buddhism. 84 = 7 x 12.
85. PH, the letter P. 85 = 5 x 17: even the highest unity, if it move or
energise, means War.
86. ALHIM. See "A Note on Genesis," EQUINOX, No. II.
90. Number of Tzaddi, a fishhook = Tanha, the clinging of man to life (9),
the trap in which man is caught as a fish is caught by a hook. The most
material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also
MIM, Water. {101}
91. 91 = 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the Septenary. AMN, Amen, the
holiest title of God; the Amoun of the Egyptians. It equals IHVH ADNI
(IAHDVNHI, interlaced), the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8.
Note that AMN (reckoning N as final, 700) = 741 = AMThSh, the letters of the
elements; and is thus a form of Tetragrammaton, a form unveiled.
100. The number of ק , the perfect illusion, 10 x 10. also ףכ ,
Kaph, the Wheel of fortune. The identity is that of matter, fatality, change,
illusion. It seems the Buddhist view of the Samsara-Cakkram.
106. NVN, Nun, a fish. The number of death. Death in the Tarot bears a
cross-handled scythe; hence the Fish as the symbol of the Redeemer.
ΙΧΘΥΣ = Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
108. Chiefly interesting because 108 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 = the square of 2
playing with the cube of 3. Hence the Buddhists hailed it with acclamation,
and make their rosaries of this number of beads.
111. AChD HVA ALHIM, "He is One God."
ALP, Aleph, and ox, a thousand. The redeeming Bull. By shape the
Swastika, and so the Lightning. "As the lightning lighteneth out of the East
even unto the West, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man." An allusion to
the descent of Shiva upon Shakti in Samahdi. The Roman A shows the same
through the shape of the Pentagram, which it imitates.
ASN, ruin, destruction, sudden death. "Scil.", of the personality in
Samadhi.
APL, thick darkness. "Cf." St John of the Cross, who describes these
phenomena in great detail.
AMO, the Hindu Aum or Om.
MHVLL, mad --- the destruction of Reason by Illumination.
OVLH, a holocaust. "Cf." ASN.
PLA, the Hidden Wonder, a title of Kether.
114. DMO, a tear. The age of Christian Rosencreutz.
120. SMK, Samech, a prop. Also MVSDI, basis, foundation. 120 = 1 x 2 x 3
x 4 x 5, and is thus a synthesis of the power of the pentagram. [Also 1 + 2 +
... + 15 = 120.] Hence its importance in the 5 = 6 ritual , q.v. "supra"
EQUINOX, No. III. I however disagree in part; it seems to me to symbolise a
lesser redemption than that associated with Tiphereth. Compare at least the
numbers 0.12 and 210 in Liber Legis and Liber 418, and extol their
superiority. For while the first is the sublime formula of the infinite
surging into finity, and the latter the supreme rolling-up of fi9nity into
infinity, the 120 can symbolise at the best a sort of intermediate condition
of stability. For how can one proceed from the 2 to the 0? 120 is also ON, a
very important name of God.
124. ODN, Eden.
131. SMAL, Satan so-called, but really only Samael, the accuser of the
{120} brethren,. unpopular with the Rabbis because their consciences were not
clear. Samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses
intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual
accuser upon the Threshold, without whom the Sanctuary might be profaned. We
must defeat him, it is true; but how should we abuse and blame him, without
abuse and blame of Him that set him there?
136. A mystic number of Jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers.
144. A square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. Hence the
numbers in the Apocapyse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the
Zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of Israel) x 12, "i.e." settled x 1-000,
"i.e." on the grand scale.
148. MAZNIM, Scales of Justice.
156. BABALON. See Liber 418. This number is chiefly important for Part
II. It is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic Qabalah. Yet it is 12 x 13,
the most spiritual form, 13, of the most perfect number, 12, HVA. [It is
TzIVN, Zion, the City of the Pyramids. --- ED.]
175. A mystic number of Venus.
203. ABR, initials of AB, BN, RVCh, the Trinity.
206. DBR, Speech, "the Word of Power."
207. AVR, Light. Contrast with AVB, 9, the astral light, and AVD, 11, the
Magical Light. Aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft ("cf." Obi, Obeah); Aud
is almost = the Kundalini force ("Odic" force). This illustrates well the
difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11.
210. Pertains to Part II. See Liber 418.
214. RVCh, the air, the mind.
220. Pertains to Part II. The number of verses in Liber Legis.
231. The sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the Key-Numbers
of the Tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v.
270. I.N.R.I. See 5 = 6 ritual.
280. The sum of the "five letters of severity," those which have a final
form --- Kaph, Men, Nun, Pe, Tzaddi. Also the number of the squares on the
sides of the Vault 7 x 40; see 5 = 6 ritual. Also RP = terror.
300. The letter ש , meaning "tooth," and suggesting by its shape a
triple flame. Refers Yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the Holy
Spirit, RVCh ALHIM = 300. Hence the letter of the Spirit. Descending into
the midst of IHVH, the four inferior elements, we get IHShVH Jeheshua, the
Saviour, symbolised by the Pentagram.
301. ASH, Fire.
314. ShDI, the Almighty, a name of God attributed to Yesod. {103}
325. A mystic number of Mars. BRTzBAL, the spirit of Mars, and GRAPIAL,
the intelligence of Mars.
326. IHShVH, Jesus --- see 300.
333. ChVRVNZVN, see Liber 418, 10th Aethry. It is surprising that this
large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. There is
doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of Matter
summ¢. 333 = 37 x 9 the accursd.
340. ShM --- the Name.
341. The sum of the "3 mothers," Aleph, Mem, and Shin.
345. MShH, Moses. Note that by transposition we have 543, AHIH AShR
AHIEH, "Existence is Existence," "I am that I am," a sublime title of Kether.
Moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular
manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name.
358. See 32. MShICh, Messiah, and NChSh, the serpent of Genesis. The
dogma is that the head of the serpent (N) is "bruised," being replaced by M,
the letter of Sacrifice, and god, the letter alike of virginity (י = Virgo)
and of original deity (י = the foundation or type of all the letters).
Thus the word may be read:
"The Sacrifice of the Virgin-born Divine One triumphant (ח , the
Chariot) through the Spirit," while NChSh reads "Death entering the (realm of
the) Spirit."
But the conception of the Serpent as the Redeemer is truer. See my
explanation of 5 = 6 ritual (EQUINOX, No. III.).
361. ADNI HARTz, the Lord of the Earth. Note 361 denotes the 3 Supernals,
the 6 members of Ruach, and Malkuth. This name of God therefore embraces all
the 10 Sephiroth.
365. An important number, though not in the pure Qabalah. See "The
Cannon." ΜΕΙΘΡΑΣ and ΑΒΡΑΧΑΣ in Greek.
370. Really more important for Part II. OSh, Creation. The Sabbatic Goat
in his highest aspect. This shows the whole of Creation as matter and spirit.
The material 3, the spiritual 7, and all cancelling to Zero. also ShLM =
400. The letter ת , "The Universe." It is the square of 20, "The Wheel
of fortune," and shows the Universe therefore as the Sphere of Fortune --- the
Samsara-Cakkram, where Karma, which fools call chance, rules.
400 is the total number of he Sephiroth, each of the 10 containing 210 in
itself and being repeated in the 4 worlds of Atziluth, Briah, yetzirah, and
Assiah. These four worlds are themselves attributed to IHVH, which is
therefore not the name of a tribal fetish, but the formula of a system.
401. ATh, "The" emphatic, meaning "essence of," for A and Th are first and
last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, as Alpha and Omega are of the Greek, and A
and Z of the Latin. Hence the Word Azoth, not to be confused with Azote {104}
(lifeless, asotos), the old name for nitrogen. Azoth means the sum and
essence of all, conceived as One.
406. ThV, the letter Tau (see 400), also AThH, "Thou." Note that AHA (7),
the divine name of Venus (7), gives the initials of Ani, Hua, Ateh --- I, He,
Thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in
three ways: viz. (1) with averted face; (2) with prostration; (3) with
418. Pertains principally to Part., q.v.
419. TITh, the letter Teth.
434. DLTh, the letter Daleth.
440. ThLI, the great dragon.
441. AMTh, Truth. Note 441 = 21 x 21. 21 is AHIH, the God of Kether,
whose Will is Truth.
450. ThN, the great dragon.
463. NTH HShQD, Moses' Wand, a rod of Almond. 3 + 60 + 400, the paths of
the middle pillar.
474. DVTh, {WEH NOTE: sic, should be DOTh in the substitutions used in
text} Knowledge, the Sephira that is not a Sephira. In one aspect the child
of Chokmah and
Binah; in another the Eighth Head of the Stooping Dragon, raised up when the
Tree of Life was shattered, and Macroposopus set cherubim against
Microposopus. See 4 = 7 ritual "supra." Also, and very specially, Liber 418.
It is the demon that purely intellectual or rational religions take as their
God. The special danger of Hinayana Buddhism.
480. LILITh, the demon-queen of Malkuth.
543. AHIH AShR AHIH, "I am that I am."
666. Last of the mystic numbers of the sun. SVRTh, the spirit of Sol.
Also OMMV SThH, Ommo Satan, the Satanic Trinity of Typhon, Apophis, and Besz;
also ShM IHShVH, the name of Jesus. The names of Nero, Napoleon, W. E.
Gladstone, and any person that you may happen to dislike, add up the this
number. In reality it is the final extension of the number 6, both because 6
x 111 (ALPh = 111 = 1) = 6 and because the Sun, whose greatest number it is,
is 6.
(I here interpolate a note on the "mystic numbers" of the planets. The
first is that of the planet itself, "e.g." Saturn, 3. The second is that of the
number of squares in the square of the planet, "e.g." Saturn 9. The third is
that of the figures in each line of the "magic square" of the planet, "e.g."
Saturn 15. A "magic square" is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add
to the same number, "e.g." Saturn is 816, 357, 492, each square being filled in
with the numbers from 1 upwards.
The last of the magic numbers is the sum of the whole of the figures in the
square, "e.g." Saturn 45. The complete list is thus:
Saturn 3, 9, 15, 45.
Jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136. {105}
Mars 5, 25, 65, 325.
sol 6, 36, 111, 666.
Venus 7, 49, 175, 1225.
Mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080.
Luna 9, 81, 369, 3321.
Generally speaking, the first number gives a divine name, the second an
archangelic or angelic name, the third a name pertaining to the Formative
world, the fourth a name of a "spirit" or "blind force." For example, Mercury
has AZ and DD (love) for 8, DIN and DNI for 64, TIRIAL for 260, and
ThPThRThRTh for 2090. But in the earlier numbers this is not so well carried
out. 136 is both IVPhIL, the Intelligence of Jupiter, and HSMAL, the Spirit.
The "mystic numbers" of the Sephiroth are simply the sums of the numbers
from 1 to their own numbers.
Thus (1) Kether = 1.
(2) Chokmah = 1 + 2 = 3.
(3) Binah = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
(4) Chesed = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.
(5) Geburah = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15.
(6) Tiphereth = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21.
(7) Netzach = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28.
(8) Hod = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36.
(9) Yesod = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45.
(10) Malkuth = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = 55.
The most important attributions of 666, however, pertain to the second
part, q.v.
671. ThORA the Law, ThROA the Gate, AThOR the Lady of the Path of Daleth,
RPThA the Wheel. Also ALPH, DLTh, NUN, IVD, Adeonai (see 65) spelt in full.
This important number marks the identity of the Augoeides with the Way
itself ("I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life") and shows the Taro as a key;
and that the Law itself is nothing else than this. For this reason the outer
College of the A ∴ A ∴ is crowned by this "knowledge and conversation of
the Holy Guardian Angel."
This number too is that of the Ritual of Neophyte. See Liber XIII.
741. AMThSh, the four letters of the elements. AMN, counting the N final
as 700, the supreme Name of the Concealed One. The dogma is that the Highest
is but the Four Elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond
Tetragrammaton. This dogma is most admirably portrayed by Lord Dunsany in a
tale called "The Wanderings of Shaun." {106}
777. "Vide supra."
800. AShTh, the Rainbow. The Promise of Redemption (8) --- 8 as Mercury,
Intellect, the Ruach, Microprosopus, the Redeeming Son --- in its most
material form.
811. Iota Alpha Omega (Greek numeration).
888. Jesus (Greek numeration).
913. BRAShITh, the Beginning. See "A Note on Genesis." This list6 will
enable the student to follow most of the arguments of the dogmatic Qabalah.
It is useful for him to go through the arguments by which one can prove that
any given number is the supreme. It is the case, the many being but veils of
the One; and the course of argument leads one to knowledge and worship of each
number in turn. For example.
Thesis. The Number Nine is the highest and worthiest of the numbers.
Scholion alpha . "The number nine is sacred, and attains the summits of
philosophy," Zoroaster.
Scholion beta . Nine is the best symbol of the Unchangeable One, since by
whatever number it is multiplied,the sum of the figures is always 9, "e.g." 9 x
487 = 4383. 4 + 3 + 8 + 3 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9.
Scholion gamma . 9 = ט , a serpent. And the Serpent is the holy Uraeus,
upon the crown of the Gods.
Scholion delta . 9 = IX = the Hermit of the Tarot, the Ancient One with Lamp
(Giver of Light) and Staff (the Middle Pillar of the Sephiroth). This, too,
is the same Ancient as in 0, Aleph.
"The Fool" and Aleph = 1.
Scholion epsilon . 9 = ISVD = 80 = P = Mars = 5 = ה =
= G =GML = 73 = ChKMH =
the Mother = Binah = 3 { = AB = The Father =
= ( 1 + 2 ) Mystic Number of Chokmah =
= Chokmah = 2 = B = the Magus = I = 1.
Scholion digamma . 9 = the foundation of all things = the Foundation of the alphabet = Yod = 10 = Malkuth = Kether = 1. Scholion zeta . 9 = IX = The Hermit = Yod = 10 = X = The Wheel of Fortune = K = 20 = XX = The Last Judgment = Sh = 300 = 30 = L = Justice = VIII = 8 = Ch = The Chariot = VII = 7 = Z = The Lovers = VI = 6 = V (Vau) = The Pope = V = 5 = H = The Emperor = IV = 4 = D = The Empress = III = 3 = G = The High Priestess = II = 2 = B = The Magus = I = 1 = A = The Fool = 0. {107} Scholion eta . 9 = Luna = G _ 3, etc., as before. Ú Indigo ¿ Scholion theta . 9 = ´ à Saturn = 3, etc., as before. À Lead Ù There are many other lines of argument. This form of reasoning reminds one of the riddle “Why is a story like a ghost?” Answer. “A story's a tale; a tail's a brush; a brush is a broom; a brougham's a carriage; a carriage is a gig; a gig's a trap; a trap's a snare; a snare's a gin; gin's a spirit; and a spirit's a ghost.” But our identities are not thus false; meditation reveals their truth. Further, as I shall explain fully later, 9 is not equal to 1 for the neophyte. These equivalences are dogmatic, and only true by favour of Him in whom All is Truth. In practice each equivalence is a magical operation to be carried out by the aspirant. PART II THE UNIVERSE AS WE SEEK TO MAKE IT 6 The complete dictionary, begun by Fra. I.A., continued by Fra. P. and revise by Fra. A. e. G. and others, will shortly be published by authority of the A ∴ A ∴ In the first part we have seen all numbers as Veils of the One, emanations of and therefore corruptions of the One. It is the Universe as we know it, the static Universe. Now the Aspirant to Magic is displeased with this state of things. He finds himself but a creature, the farthest removed from the Creator, a number so complex and involved that he can scarcely imagine, must less dare to hope for, its reduction to the One. The numbers useful to him, therefore, will be those which are subversive of this state of sorrow. So the number 2 represents to him the Magus (the great Magician Mayan who has created the illusion of Maya) as seen in the 2nd Aethyr. And considering himself as the Ego who posits the Non-Ego (Fichte) he hates this Magus. It is only the beginner who regards this Magus as the Wonder-worker — as the thing he wants to be. For the adept such little consolation as he may win is rather to be found by regarding the Magus as B = Mercury = 8 = Ch = 418 = ABRAHADABRA, the great Word, the “Word of Double Power in the voice of the Master” which unites the 5 and the 6, the Rose and the Cross, the Circle and the Square. And also B is the Path from Binah to Kether; but that is only important for him who is already in Binah, the “Master of the Temple.” He finds no satisfaction in contemplating the Tree of Life, and theorderly arrangement of the numbers; rather does he enjoy the Qabalah as a means of juggling with these numbers. He can leave nothing undisturbed; he is the Anarchist of Philosophy. He refuses to acquiesce in merely formal proofs of {108} the Excellence of things, “He doeth all things well,” “Were the World understood Ye would see it was good,” “Whatever is, is right,” and so on. To him, on the contrary, whatever is, is wrong. It is part of the painful duty of a Master of the Temple to understand everything. Only he can excuse the apparent cruelty and fatuity of things. he is of the supernals; he sees things from above; yet, having come from below, he can sympathise with all. And he does not expect the Neophyte to share his views. Indeed, they are not true to a Neophyte. The silliness of the New-Thought zanies in passionately affirming “I am healthy! I am opulent! I am well-dressed! I am happy,” when in truth they are “poor and miserable and blind and naked,” is not a philosophical but a practical silliness. Nothing exists, says the Magister Templi, but perfection. True; yet their consciousness is imperfect. Ergo, it does not exist. For the M.T. this is so: he has “cancelled out” the complexities of the mathematical expression called existence, and the answer is zero. But for the beginner his pain and another's joy do not balance; his pain hurts him, and his brother may go hang. The Magister Templi, too, understands why Zero must plunge through all finite numbers to express itself; why it must write itself as “n - n” instead of 0; what gain there is in such writing. And this understanding will be found expressed in Liber 418 (Episode of Chaos and His Daughter) and Liber Legis (i. 28-30). But it must never be forgotten that everyone must begin at the beginning. And in the beginning the Aspirant is a rebel, even though he feel himself to be that most dangerous type of rebel, a King Dethroned.7 hence he will worship any number which seems to him to promise to overturn the Tree of Life. He will even deny and blaspheme the One — whom, after all, it is his ambition to be — because of its simplicity and aloofness. He is tempted to “curse God and die.” Atheists are of three kinds. 1. The mere stupid man. (Often he is very clever, as Bolingbroke, Bradlaugh and Foote were clever.) He has found out one of the minor arcana, and hugs it and despises those who see more than himself, or who regard things 7 And of course, if his revolt succeeds, he will acquiesce in order. The first condition of gaining a grade is to be dissatisfied with the one that you have. And so when you reach the end you find order as at first; but also that the law is that you must rebel to conquer. from a different standpoint. Hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance. 2. The despairing wretch, who, having sought God everywhere, and failed to hind Him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed — he, the seeker after truth! — it is because there is no goal. In his cry there is {109} pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction. Both are diseased Egos. 3. The philosophical adept, who, knowing God, says “There is No God,” meaning “God is Zero,” as qabalistically He is. he holds atheism as a philosophical speculation as good as any other, and perhaps less likely to mislead mankind and do other practical damage than any other. Him you may know by his equanimity, enthusiasm, and devotion. I again refer to Liber 418 for an explanation of this mystery. The nine religions are crowned by the ring of adepts whose password is “There is No God,” so inflected that even the Magister when received among them had not wisdom toe interpret it. 1. Mr Daw, K.C.: M'lud, I respectfully submit that there is no such creature as a peacock. 2. Oedipus at Colonus: Alas! there is no sun! I, even I, have looked and found it not. 3. Dixit Sultus in corde suo: “Ain Elohim.” There is a fourth kind of atheist, not really an atheist at all. He is but a traveller in the Land of No God, and knows that it is but a stage on his journey — and a stage, moreover, no far from the goal. Daath is not on the Tree of Life; and in Daath there is no God as there is in the Sephiroth, for Daath cannot understand unity at all. If he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see Liber 418. 10th Aethyr. I may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on Advanced Qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to Advanced Students)). This atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. He has done with the illusions of dogma. From a Knight of the Royal Mystery he has risen to understand with the members of the Sovereign Sanctuary that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the Jugglery of the Magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungred and athirst seeks a seat at the Table of Adepts, and a portion of the Bread of Spiritual Experience, and a draught of the wine of Ecstasy. It is then thoroughly understood that the Aspirant is seeking to solve the great Problem. And he may conceive, as various Schools of Adepts in the ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms. 1. I am not God. I wish to become God. This is the Hindu conception. I am Malkuth. I wish to become Kether. This is the qabalistic equivalent. {110} 2. I am a fallen creature. I wish to be redeemed. This is the Christian conception. I am Malkuth, the fallen daughter. I wish to be set upon the throne of Binah my supernal mother. This is the qabalistic equivalent. 3. I am the finite square; I wish to be one with the infinite circle. This is the Unsectarian conception. I am the Cross of Extension; I wish to be one with the infinite Rose. This is the qabalistic equivalent. The answer of the Adept to the first form of the problem is for the Hindu “Thou art That” (see previous chapter, “The Yogi”); for the Qabalist “Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth,” or “That which is below is like that which is above” or simply “Yod.” (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising Malkuth.) The answer of the Adept to the second form of the problem is for the Christian all the familiar teaching of the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse concerning the Bride of Christ.8 For the Qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the Zohar and elsewhere. Otherwise, he may simply answer “H‚” (the letter alike of mother and daughter in IHVH). See Liber 418 for lengthy disquisition on this symbolic basis. The answer of the Adept to the third form of the problem is given by pi , implying that an infinite factor must be employed. For the Qabalist it is usually symbolised by the Rosy Cross, or by such formulae as 5 = 6. That they concealed a Word answering this problem is also true. My discovery of this word is the main subject of this article. All the foregoing exposition has been intended to show why I sought a word to fulfil the conditions, and by what standards of truth I could measure things. {111} But before proceeding to this Word, it is first necessary to explain further in what way one expects a number to assist one in the search for truth, or the redemption of the soul, or the formulation of the Rosy Cross. (I am supposing that the treader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a name by its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited, it may be interpreted.) Thus if I ask “What is knowledge?” and receive the answer “DOTh,” I read it Daleth the door, O matter, Th darkness, by various columns of 777 (To choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. Solvitur ambulando). But here I am only dealing with the “Trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of God.” Suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from God is granted to me. The Angel declares his name. I add it up. It comes to 65. An excellent number! a blessed angel! Not necessarily. suppose he is of a Mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of Mars. Then I conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. The Devil does not understand the Qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. But suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the Qabalah — your own researches in the Qabalah — as well as you do, but is able to show you truths, qabalistic truths, which you had sought for long and vainly! Then you receive him with honour and his message with obedience. It is as if a beggar sought audience of a general, and showed beneath his rags the signet of the King. When an Indian servant shows me “chits” signed by Colonel This and Captain That written in ill-spelt Babu English, one knows what to do. On the contrary the Man Who Was Lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own. In spiritual dealings, the Qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are only known to yourself and God, forms the grip, sing, token and password that assure you that the Lodge is properly tiled. 8 This Christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. The Bride (the soul) is united, though only be marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the Father and Mother or Holy Spirit. These four then complete Tetragrammaton. But the Bride is never united to the Father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch Tiphereth and so receive the ray from Chokmah. Whereas even St John makes his Son say “I and my Father are one.” And we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in Truth) more than one; this Christian dogma says “never less that four.” Hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols. It is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. And it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grade. Probably it was in this manner that Dee and Kelly were so often deceived. A reference to this little dictionary of numbers will show that 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 45, 52, 65, 67, 73, 78, 91, 111, 120, 207, 231, 270, 300, 326, 358, 361, 370, 401, 406, 434, 474, 666, 671, 741, 913, were for me numbers of peculiar importance and sanctity. Most of them are venerable, referring to or harmonious with the One. Only a few — “e.g.” 120 — refer to the means. There {112} are many others — any others — just as good; but not for me. god in dealing with me would show me the signs which I should have intelligence enough to understand. it is a condition of all intellectual intercourse. Now I preferred to formulate the practical problem in this shape; “How shall I unite the 5 and the 6, Microcosm and Macrocosm?” And these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem. 1. Is the goal, not the means. Too simple to serve a magician's purpose. 2. “Vide supra.” 3. Still too simple to work with, especially as 3 = 1 so easily. But, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire. 4. The terrible number of Tetragrammaton, the great enemy. The number of the weapons of the Evil Magician. The Dyad made Law. 5. The Pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of ALHIM = 3.1415, symbol of man's will, of the evil 4 dominated by man's spirit. Also Pentagrammaton, Jeheshua, the Saviour. Hence the Beginning of the Great Work. 6. The Hexagram, symbol of the Macrocosm and Microcosm interlaced, and hence of the End of the Great Work. (Pentagram on breast, Hexagram on back, of Probationer's Robe.) Yet it also symbolises the Ruach, 214, q.v., and so is as evil “in viƒ” as it is good “in termino.” 7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack. 8. The great number of redemption, because Ch = ChITh = 418, q.v. this only develops in importance as my analysis proceeds. A priori it was of n{o} great importance. 9. Most Evil, because of its stability. AVB, witchcraft, the false moon of the sorceress. 10. Evil, memorial of our sorrow. Yet holy, as hiding in itself the return to the negative. 11. The great magical number, as uniting the antitheses of 5 and 6 etc. AVD the magic force itself. 12. Useless. Mere symbol of the Goal. 13. Helpful, since if we can reduce our formula to 13, it becomes 1 without further trouble. 17. Useful, because though it symbolises 1, it does so under the form of a thunderbolt. “Here is a magic disk for me to hurl, and win heaven by violence,” says the Aspirant. 21. As bad, nearly, as 7. 26. Accursed. As bad as 4. Only useful when it is a weapon in your hand; then — “if Satan be divided against Satan,” etc. {113} 28. Attainable; and so, useful. “My victory,” “My power,” says the Philosophus. 30. The Balance — Truth. Most useful. 31. LA the reply to AL, who is the god of Chesed, 4. The passionate denial of God, useful when other methods fail. 32. Admirable, in spite of its perfection, because it is the perfection which all from 1 to 10 and Aleph to Tau, share. Also connects with 6, through AHIHVH. 37. Man's crown. 44. Useful to me chiefly because I had never examined it and so had acquiesced in it as accursed. When it was brought by a messenger whose words proved true I then understood it as an attack on the 4 by the 11. “Without shedding of blood (DM = 44) there is no remission.” Also since the messenger could teach this, and prophesy, it added credit to the Adept who sent the message. 45. Useful as the number of man, ADM, identified with MH, Yetzirah, the World of Formation to which man aspires as next above Assiah. Thus 45 baffles the accuser, but only by affirmation of progress. It cannot help that progress. 52. AIMA and BN. But orthodoxy conceives these as external saviours; therefore they serve no useful purpose. 60. Like 30, but weaker. “Temperance” is only an inferior balance. 120, its extension, gives a better force. 65. Fully dealt with in “Knox om Pax,” q.v. 72. Almost as bad as 4 and 26; yet being bigger and therefore further from 1 it is more assailable. Also it does spell ChSD, Mercy, and this is sometimes useful. 73. The two ways to Kether, Gimel and Chokmah. Hence venerable, but not much good to the beginner. 74. LMD, Lamed, an expansion of 30. Reads “By equilibrium and self- scrifice, the Gate!” Thus useful. Also 74 = 37 x 2. So we see 37 x 1 = 37, Man's crown, Jechidah, the highest Soul — “in termino.” 37 x 2 = 74, The Balance, 2 being the symbol “in viƒ.” 37 x 3 = 111, Aleph, etc., 3 being the Mother, the nurse of the soul. 37 x 4 = 148, “The Balances,: and so on. I have not yet worked out all the numbers of this important scale. 77. OZ, the Goat, “scil.” of the Sabbath of the Adepts. The Baphomet of the Templars, the idol set up to defy and overthrow the false god — though it is understood that he himself is false, not an end, but a means. Note the 77 = 7 x 11, magical power in perfection. {114} 78. Most venerable because MZLA is shown as the influence descending from On High, whose key is the Tarot: and we possess the Tarot. The proper number of the name of the Messenger of the Most Exalted One. [The account of AIVAS follows in its proper place. — ED.] 85. Good, since 85 = 5 x 17. 86. Elohim, the original mischief. But good, since it is a key of the Pentagram, 5 = 1 + 4 - 14 - 8 + 6 = 86. 91. Merely venerable. 111. Priceless, because of its 37 x 3 sumbolism, its explanation of Aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the Unity may be found in “Thick darkness” and in “Sudden death.” This is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing Samadhi and the Destruction of the Ego as gates of our final victory. 120. See Part I. and references. 124. ODN, Eden. The narrow gate or path between Death and the Devil. 156. BABALON. This most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in Liber 418. Notice 12 x 13 = 156. This was a name given and ratified by Qabalah; 156 is not one of the … priori helpful numbers. It is rather a case of the Qabalah illuminating St John's intentional obscurity. 165. 11 x XV should be a number Capricorni Pneumatici. Not yet fulfilled. 201. AR, Light (Chaldee). Note 201 = 3 x 67, Binah, as if it were said, “Light is concealed as a child in the womb of its mother.” The occult retort of the Chaldean Magi to the Hebrew sorcerers who affirmed AVR, Light, 207, is holy enough. 206. DBR, the Word of Power. A useful acquisition = “The Gateway of the Word of Light.” 210. Upon this holiest number it is not fitting to dilate. We may refer Zelatores to Liber VII. Cap. I., Liber Legis Cap. I., and Liber 418. But this was only revealed later. At first I only had ABRAHA, the Lord of the Adepts. “Cf.” Abraha-Melin. 214. RVCh is one of the most seductive numbers to the beginner. Yet its crown is Daath, and later one learns to regard it as the great obstacle. Look at its promise 21, ending in the fearful curse of 4! Calamity! 216. I once hoped much from this number, as it is the cube of 6. But I fear it only expresses the fixity of mind. Anyhow it all came to no good. But we have DBIR, connected with DBR, adding the Secret Phallic Power. 220. This is the number of the verses of Liber Legis. It represents 10 x 22, {115} “i.e.” the whole of the Law welded into one. Hence we may be sure that the Law shall stand as it is without a syllable of addition. Note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars. See “Two new worlds.” 222. The grand scale of 2; may one day be of value. 256. The Eighth power of 2; should should be useful. 280. A grand number, the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the Charioteer who bears the Cup of Babalon. See Liber 418, 12th Aethyr. See also 280 in Part I. 300. Venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the Trident, and the Flame on the Altar. too stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far as it is fire. 333. See Part I. 340. Connects with 6 through ShM, the fire and the water conjoined to make the Name. Thus useful as a hint in ceremonial. 358. See Part I. 361. See Part I. Connects with the Caduceus; as 3 is the supernal fire, 6 the Ruach, 1 Malkuth. See illustration of Caduceus in EQUINOX No. II. 370. Most venerable (see Part I.). It delivers the secret of creation into the hand of the Magician. See Liber Capricorni Pneumatici. 400. Useful only as finality or material basis. Being 20 x 20, it shows the fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20 = K, the Wheel of Fortune). 401. See Part I. But Azoth is the Elixir prepared and perfect; the Neophyte has not got it yet. 406. See Part I. 414. HGVTh, Meditation, the 1 dividing the accursed 4. Also AIN SVP AVR, the Limitless Light. 418. CHITh, Cheth. ABRAHADABRA, the great Magic Word, the Word of the Aeon. Note the 11 letters, 5 A identical, and 6 diverse. Thus it interlocks Pentagram and Hexagram. BITh HA, the House of H‚ the Pentagram; see Idra Zuta Gadisha, 694. “For H formeth K, but Ch formeth IVD.” Both equal 20. Note 4 + 1 + 8 = 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418 = Ch = 8. By Aiq Bkr ABRAHADABRA = 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 22. Also 418 = 22 x 19 Manifestation. Hence the word manifests the 22 Keys of Rota. It means by translation Abraha Deber, the Voice of the Chief Seer. It resolves into Pentagram and Hexagram as follows: — {116} A / \ [This is by taking the 5 middle letters.] R—–B A The pentagram is 12, HVA, Macroprosopus. / \ H D The hexagram is 406, AThH, Microprosopus. \ / A-A B—R Thus it connotes the Great Work. \ / A Note ABR, initials of the Supernals, Ab, Ben, Ruach. (2) A [This is by separating the One (Aleph) from the Many / \ / \ (diverse letters).] A A R H ¿ “The Vision and the Voice,” a \ / | | BRH = 207, Aur, Light à phrase which meant much A-A B D DBR = 206, Deber, Voice ³ to me at the moment of dis- \ / Ù covering this Word. R (3) A A / \ / \ A A B A \ / | | [By taking each alternate letter.] R-B H D \ / R 205 = GBR, mighty. ¿ à This shows Abrahadabra as 213 = ABIR, mighty. Ù the Word of Double Power, another phrase that meant much to me at the time. AAB at the top of the Hexagram gives AB, AIMA, BN, Father, Mother, Child. HDR by Yetzirah gives Horus, Isis, Osiris, again Father, Mother , Child. This Hexagram is again the human Triad. Dividing into 3 and 8 we get the Triangle of Horus dominating the Stooping Dragon of 8 Heads, the Supernals bursting the Head of Daath. Also A / \ The Supernals are supported upon two squares — R—B A–B A–H ABAD = DD, Love, 8. | | | | A–D R–A AHRA = AVR, Light, 207. Now 8 x 207 = 1656 = ChI, Living, and 207 = 9 x 23, ChIH, Life. At this time “Licht, Liebe, Leben” was the mystic name of the Mother-Temple of the G∴ D∴ {117} The five letters used in the word are A, the Crown; B, the Wand; D, the Cup; H, the Sword; R, the Rosy Cross; and refer further to Amoun the Father, Thoth His messenger, and Isis, Horus, Osiris, the divine-human triad. Also 418 = ATh IAV, the Essence of IAO, q.v. This short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the Expression of the Goal and the Exposition of the Path. 419. Teth, the number of the “laughing lion” on whom BABALON rideth. See Liber 418. Note 419 + 156 = 23 x 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. Blessed be His holy Name, the Interpreter of his own Mystery! 434. Daleth, the holy letter of the Mother, in glory as Queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (D = 4 = Venus = 7), thus connects with 28. Mystic number of Netzach (Venus), Victory. Note the 3 sundering the two fours. This is the feminine victory; she is in one sense the Delilah to the divine Samson. Hence we adore her from full hearts. It ought to be remembered, by the way, that the 4 is not so evil when it has ceased to oppress us. The square identified with the circle is as good as the circle. 441. Truth, the square of 21. Hence it is the nearest that our dualistic consciousness can conceive of 21, AHIH, the God of Kether, 1. Thus Truth is our chiefest weapon, our rule. Woe to whosoever is false to himself (or to another, since in 441 that other is himself), and seven times woe to him that swerves from his magical obligation in thought, word or deed! By my side as I write wallows in exhaustion following an age of torment one who did not understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least tittle of a magical oath. 463. Shows that the Wand ought to represent. Not 364; so we should hold it by the lower end. The Wand is also Will, straight and inflexible, pertaining to Chokmah (2) as a Wand has two ends. 474. See Part I. To the beginner, though, Daath seems very helpful. He is glad that the Stooping Dragon attacks the Sanctuary. He is doing it himself. hence Buddhists make Ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten fetters. But in truth Knowledge implies a Knower and a Thing Known, the accursed Dyad which is the prime cause of misery. 480. Lilith. See Liber 418. So the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime Zero. “And therefore their breaths stink.” 543. Good, but only carries us back to the Mother. 666. Chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in Part I., partly for the reasons given in the Apocalypse. I took the Beast to be the Lion (Leo my rising sign) and Sol, 6,666, the Lord of Leo on which Babalon should ride. And there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary {118} to enter upon in this place. Note however that the Tarot card of Leo, Strength, bears the number XI., the great number of the Magnum Opus, and its interchange with Justice, VIII.; and the key of 8 is 418. This all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when I was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the Qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. I must insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key to my standard of Truth, the test-numbrs which I applied to the discernment of the Messenger from the Sanctuary. That such truths may seem trivial I am well aware; let it be remembered that the discovery of an identity may represent a year's toil. But this is the final test; repeat my researches, obtain your own holy numbers; then, and not before, will you gully understand their Validity, and the infinite wisdom of the Grand Arithmetician of the Universe. 671. Useful, as shown in Part I. 741. Useful chiefly as a denial of the Unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair. 777. Useful in a similar way, as affirming that the Unity is the Qliphoth. But a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove Man out of Eden. A burnt child dreads the fire. “The devils also believe, and tremble.” Worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt. Also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the Kundalini, the female magical soul. Note 7 as the meeting-place of 3, the Mother, and 10, the Daughter; whence Netzach is the Woman, married but no more. 800. Useful only in 5 = 6 symbolism, p.v. 888. The grad scale of 8. In Greek numeration therefore Iota Eta Sigma Omicron Upsilon Sigma the Redeemer, connecting with 6 because of its 6 letters. This links Greek and Hebrew symbolism; but remember that the mystic Iesous and Yeheshua have no more to do with the legendary Jesus of the Synoptics and the Methodists than the mystic IHVH has to do with the false God who commanded the murder of innocent children. The 13 of the Sun and the Zodiac was perhaps responsible for Buddha and his 12 disciples, Christ and his 12 disciples, Charlemagne and his 12 peers, &c., &c., but to disbelieve in Christ or Charlemagne is not to alter the number of the signs of the Zodiac. Veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for Napoleon and Gladstone. I may close this paper by expressing a hope that I may have the indulgence of students. The subject is incomparably difficult; it is almost an unworked {119} vein of thought; and my expression must be limited and thin. It is important that every identity should be most thoroughly understood. No mere perusal will serve. This paper must be studied line by line, and even to a great extent committed to memory. And that memory should already be furnished with a thorough knowledge of the chief correspondences of 777. It is hard to “suffer gladly” the particular type of fool who expects with a twenty-third- rate idle brain to assimilate in an hour the knowledge that it has cost me twelve years to acquire. I may add that nobody will ever understand this method of knowledge without himself undertaking research. Once he has experienced the joy connecting (say) 131 and 480 though 15, he will understand. Further, it is the work itself, not merely the results, that is of service. We teach Greek and Latin, though nobody speaks either language. And thus I close: Benedictus sit Dominus Deus Noster qui nobis dedit Scientiam Summam. Amen! We may now return to Frater P.'s experiences. It will be remembered that he found Yoga practices of any kind very difficult in the cold climate of his home; for he was now sufficiently advanced to need long spells of continuous concentration — very different from the early days of practice when twenty minutes in the morning and again in the evening sufficed fro the day. Further, he had entered on the third stage of life, and from a Brahmachari became a householder. It was in the course of the journey undertaken by him shortly after his marriage that occurred the event which we shall proceed to relate. And to that end we must ask the reader to accompany us in imagination to the sovereign nursery of wisdom and initiation, to the holy land of the Uraeus serpent, to the land of Isis and Osiris, of the Pyramids and the Nile, even to Khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory. {120}
1 WEH NOTE: Plagiarized entire from Ginsburg's “The Kabbalah”.
2 WEH NOTE: Better: His purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the Zohar.
3 WEH NOTE: This observation led Mathers to miss-identify a picture of Moses as Metatron in his edition (not translation, the MSS were in English!) of “The Greater Key of Solomon.”
4 WEH NOTE: Strictly speaking, no. Temura is substitution code, with 24 principal tables. Crowley tended to use simple permutation of the letters in some instances, calling it Temura.
5 WEH NOTE: Tharshisim. Literally the “ships of Tarshish”. Isaiah, II, 16: “And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.” See also Isaiah XXIII, 1. Mathers copies Ginsburg's “The Kabbalah” with a reference to Daniel X,6 for this angelic order, but all that is found there is a description of an angel. The figuration of “Brass” in the description is all that can be directly found to unite to Netzach — in as much as Brass contains Copper, the metal commonly attributed to Netzach. One could just as well attribute to Hod, Brass being a mixed metal.
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Peter Parker and his (not) dad.
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Iron Man, Thanos, Ant-Man, Star-Lord’s weird planet dad. The Marvel Studios movies love, love, love fathers.
In a new video, Wisecrack explores the philosophical underpinning of Spider-Man: Far From Home and its preoccupation with fathers. Like a lot of the movies in the Marvel canon, it’s a narrative that’s deeply invested in ideas of legacy and fatherhood, with Tony Stark occupying the film as Peter Parker’s father figure (sorry, Uncle Ben) and multiple characters competing within the narrative to take on Tony’s legacy. If it’s even a legacy worth taking on, that is.
The MCU’s daddy issues are pervasive, and Wisecrack does a great job of exploring the surprisingly complex way Spider-Man: Far From Home handles them. Who’s Marvel’s real dad? And could Spider-Man ever age into the role, given he’s allowed to be in the MCU that long? Also, why is the whole thing so patriarchal? All questions certainly worth thinking about.
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By Brianna Ehley
The White House is facing legal backlash from 11 Republican attorneys general who say the President is breaking the law by making changes to Obamacare without first going through Congress.
6 Comments on 11 GOP Attorneys General Say Obamacare Fix Is Illegal
TSUNAMI January 3, 2014 at 12:18 pm
This shit-for-brains manufactured imposition of a “law” is already DOA.
Anyone with any sense can see this.
The focus shouldn’t be on fixing it, it should be on prosecuting the assholes that developed it and thrusted it onto the world.
messup January 3, 2014 at 12:51 pm
Bloomberg TV 01/03/2014 on Friday’s Rick Santelli segment from Chicago’s trading floor said USA’s growth in 2014 is estimated to hit only 1.5% with an average employment of approximately 180,000 to 200,000 per month. This is worse than 1936’s Financial Crisis. And The White House is doubting millennials signing up for ACA (Obamacare). Once again, this is: 1) defend, 2) deflect, and 3) Disinforming all Americans about the true state of America’s economic future and impact Obamacare will have on this metric. This is Joseph Goebbels’ program planning for a Dictatorship. Wake-up America, this is worse than colonial America’s Revolution. Join A Tea Party, urgently. Pray. Amen. This 1.5% GNP growth for all of 2014 doesn’t even have Obamacare’s dead-weight calculated into it…GNP could be lower.
Commissar M January 3, 2014 at 1:33 pm
The whole f***ing thing is illegal but enough Americans empower it with their votes and support of the propaganda ministry that lies to them, so there you have it!
Franklin is supposed to have said “A Republic, if you can keep it” when asked what sort of government we had formed. Looks like we couldn’t keep it.
greetingsfromyonkers January 3, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Hope and change?
Yeah, hope that O’care won’t kill you and that you might have a little change left after you fork out the premiums.
jclady January 3, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Sam Olens rocks!
The GA Attorney General was also a participant in the original States’ lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court. (Shame on John Roberts!)
I attended a conference last year where he explained why Georgia was NOT establishing a state exchange — the cost to the State would rise by $1.7B over the next ten years and the only way to cover that increase would be additional taxes on citizens.
It’s nice to be in a Red State, for as long as it lasts….
bitterclinger January 3, 2014 at 6:50 pm
50 attys generals could call all the fixes as well as the original law illegal and we’d still get the same thing from this badministration: crickets.
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Inner Traditions – Bear & Company, a publishing firm based out in Rochester, Vermont in the United States has been the flag bearer for many best-selling books and authors ranging from new age spiritualism, astrology, alternative medicines and other related genres over the last four decades and more. Started back in 1975 now has 11 imprints and, as of January 2009, more than 1,200 titles in print across a wide and eclectic range of subjects. The company is considered one of the largest and oldest publishing houses in the world devoted exclusively to the subjects of spirituality, esotericism, and alternative health and healing. With a progressive mindset the firm moved onto eCommerce nearly two decades ago.
IOVISTA ROLE
As time progressed and technology advanced, the site from a technical perspective had become borderline obsolescence. The consequences of archaic technology were plenty; many processes were manually performed which led to inefficiencies that produced a high overhead. Maintaining an accurate inventory system was virtually impossible. Marketing to customers presented a huge challenge. The look and feel was irrelevant by today’s standards.
The primary goal of Inner Tradition’s eCommerce was to re-invent their website by building a technically advanced online destination to better represent their brand’s long lasting goodwill earned over the last four decades and also meet the growing needs of their loyal customers.
Inner Traditions’ desire of transforming their primitive custom commerce system and giving it a complete face-lift included migration of their extremely large set of customer and order data while leveraging their brand with superlative technology and best eCommerce practices. To address all the challenges and issues, ioVista developed and implemented a custom designed responsive Magento site that provided a flexible yet stable and scalable experience for Inner Traditions customers. Some of the actions taken have been highlighted.
Employed modern and clean UI interfaces and responsive web-template with well-positioned web-content and other collateral.
Mapping and migration of legacy data including customer and related information, archived orders, catalog of the titles from the ERP system.
Integration with the existing ERP system for maintaining the sales, transaction and customer records with a two-way synchronization.
Complete revamping of the catalog structure to achieve a more precise navigation eliminating redundant legacy data.
Enabling greater accuracy in search of vast records of books and author data with a robust search component.
Dedicated author showcase section – helping customers to get up close and personal with all of author’s information from their bio, books and testimonials.
A fully automated system to propagate and send emails for abandoned cart and promotional activities.
The newly launched eCommerce platform delivered a unified experience across the sales channels of Inner Traditions with consistent book titles, centralized stock levels and consolidated customer information. The website has delivered a perfect mix of enhanced book buying and browsing experience which has improved Inner Traditions’ long lasting brand value and by extension an increase in online sales. It was a very effective move that benefits the client moving from Joomla CMS to Magento eCommerce.
“ioVista took our Joomla website and transformed it into a Magento based commerce site. They did a wonderful job designing and executing on our new web initiative with stellar results. We now have a state of the art web site with custom imports and exports linked to our ERP that give us a new and powerful revenue source.”
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The next EuroMillions Superdraw will take place on Friday 20th April, with a guaranteed jackpot of €130 million, no matter what happens in the previous draw. The news comes after a weekend that saw an Ireland Only Raffle player secure a €1 million payday.
EuroMillions Superdraw
EuroMillions Superdraws, also known as Megadraws, offer fixed nine-figure jackpots on specific dates throughout the year. They are funded by the game’s Booster Fund, which receives a slice of every draw’s prize pool. Its main objective is to ensure the jackpot never drops below €17 million, but when it runs at an excess, the participating countries can agree to hold a Superdraw.
Even if someone wins the top prize in the draw prior to the Superdraw, the jackpot is fixed at €130 million. If no one matches the five main numbers and two Lucky Stars on the night of the special event, it rolls over to an even larger amount for the next draw and continues to roll until someone hits the jackpot.
Previous EuroMillions Superdraws
The first Superdraw took place on 9th February 2007 and was won by a Belgian ticket holder. The most recent Superdraw took place on Friday 15th September 2017, rolling over on the night and eventually growing to €190 million on Friday 6th October, when a Spanish player claimed the full amount.
There have been 19 Superdraws so far, plus one draw in June 2014 when a Superdraw was called but was then postponed after the jackpot rose above the advertised €100 million in advance. The next event will be the first ever to be held in an April.
Ireland Only Raffle Winner
Friday night’s EuroMillions draw was a memorable one for a Dublin ticket holder, who won €1 million in a special Ireland Only Raffle draw. The player bought their EuroMillions ticket at a Costcutter in Windy Arbour in Dundrum in the capital and matched the winning code I-DLR-55064 to wake up as a millionaire on St Patrick’s Day.
The Ireland Only Raffle is a supplementary game that all Irish EuroMillions ticket holders are automatically entered into when they play. Usually it provides ten prizes of €5,000, but occasionally there is a boosted €1 million award added on to one winner’s haul.
Friday’s winner has 90 days from the date of the draw to claim their prize.
In the main EuroMillions draw, the winning line was 4, 17, 24, 27 and 31 with Lucky Stars 10 and 11. There was no jackpot winner and the biggest prize won in Ireland was €31,260 for matching all five main numbers. Find the full prize breakdown, along with the winning Ireland Only Raffle codes at the EuroMillions Results page.
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The event, which was held at the 92nd Street Y, better known for poetry readings and chamber music concerts, was a classic Moynihan performance.
Local Boy Makes Good It's being announced the day this appears on the Web, Friday, March 28, that Slate's poetry editor, Robert Pinsky, has been selected as the next poet laureate of the United States.
At this point, if you read the poem in high school or college, you may remember deadly questions intruding from the poetry anthologies: "Does the sea represent language?
Anyone who actually sends a poetry review is automatically disqualified.
These authors all moved on to other, larger publishers in later years, as the publishing scene opened up and the mainstream poetry publishers began to become more aware of the new culture.
Jill soon meets Mickey's poetry teacher, Diana (Kelly McGillis).
The shortlist for the £10,000 prize for the best published poetry collection also includes Ian Duhig, Ciaran Carson, Lavinia Greenlaw and Paul Muldoon.
Poetry submissions should be mailed to Slate , Robert Pinsky, Poetry Editor, Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215.
PS586.F57 1987 The first American poetry disc [videorecording] / produced and edited by Sander Zulauf.
Watch for poetry events that bring verse alive in your town on Friday 11 July 2003.
The title and theme for the evening came from a class poetry exercise in which the students were asked to take the words suspended and donkey and use them as a basis for two pieces of writing.
Haiku pathway around the back of the town centre and along the Uretara Stream becomes a pathway of discovery with giant boulders carved with poetry inscriptions and each person interpreting the poems in their own way.
The world's oldest and largest university press--Oxford--has just announced that it is canceling its poetry list.
Like-minded poetry lovers meet monthly for readings and discussions.
Visit the Poetry page- Click here >> To get the creative juices flowing the following is one of the many already received.
The volume Ladders of Rain won the Commonwealth Poetry prize in 1'978; Beyond was winner of the NZ Book Award for Poetry in 1993, and his most recent collection, Taking Off, was shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards in 2002.
[Poetry proceeds] by mentioning the individual componehtsw of beauty, and these are separated from one another by time, so that time itself interposes a forgetting between them .
Numerous poetry publications, and his first book is The Sunshine Mine Disaster 1995.
Traditional Irish music is also alive and well, especially in the pubs, and there has been a revival of storytelling, poetry reading, and traditional dancing.
Established by an Austrian in 1919, the schools place imagination at the center of the learning process and emphasize art projects, oral presentations, poetry recitations, and discussion.
Project supported by the University of Auckland Library to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in New Zealand and the Pacific region.
However, the publisher with the third best poetry results is Steel Roberts with 1 winner, 1 short-listing, and 1 best first book - a long way back from the two winners.
Edmond attributes this to the increased interest in American poetry and to the instigation of the magazine The Word is Freed, which provided a voice for the young poetry scene: 621880
The Saints, Spirituality, Theology, Philosophy, Biography, History, General, Novels, and Poetry sections are at the back of the church.
Where applicable Yes/no Have I read the poetry sheet?
(Here is a page of links to slam poetry sites.)
... and the Living Arts The Modern Language Association has commissioned a documentary on the history of oral performance, from Homer to poetry slams--raucous readings in which the quality of poems is judged by the ferocity of audience response.
To join in the discussion, just go to "The Fray" poetry thread Friday, Oct. 29 at 3 p.m.
Literature (20 points) 10 points--number of weeks that literary books were on the New York Times best-seller list (1997 = 295) 5 points--number of full-length poetry titles published (1997 = 942) 5 points--number of Penguin classics sold (1997 = 3.95 million) The only book question on the NEA survey is "Have you read any literature in the past year?"
What the Changes Mean: AAP: "The board is more representative of the many things going on in poetry today," says President Jonathan Galassi.
In other news, I've completely failed to write anything for my poetry workshop with Hinemoana tomorrow.
The Complete Tang Poetry anthologizes more than 50,000 poems composed by more than 2,200 poets.
A site by a gA group of pagan poetry writers.
Poetry assessors What is NZAMA?
Her first book, published when she was twelve, became the best selling poetry book of all time in Sweden, followed by nine more volumes of prose and poetry.
Stevens, securely employed for much of his adult life by the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., could afford to laugh aloud at the pretensions of the poetry business.
Leahy now runs a poetry cafe in London, playing in the London Improvisers Orchestra and mixing with some of the heavyweights of British free jazz such as Evan Parker.
The winner of the poetry category will be announced on 28 June.
Poetry celebrations are part of the run to Awards night for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2002.
We run annual speech and poetry competitions and compete successfully for the North Canterbury debating cup.
Musical rhythms were traditionally matched to the complex cadences of the epic poetry of Greece.
In Wild Man Eyes he performs a half dozen of them (mostly from his award-winning book, Stray Thoughts and Nose Bleeds), in a strange and successful cross between stand-up comedy and performance poetry.
We welcome individuals poetry and stories of their journeys through life.
The last part of the course will be devoted to contemporary manifestations of women's poetry and ethnic minority poetry, including work by Carol Ann Duffy, Jean Binta Breeze, and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
DAVID EGGLETON'S VERSIFIER EYE 018 release of music poetry is currently being mastered at Kog in Auckland, with Leighton Anderson and David putting together artwork/booklet ideas as you read, looking toward a release in a month or so.
The Prose Poem.An International journal of contemporary prose poetry (Web del Sol).
Despite Davis' well-known militancy, he didn't care to set his music to civil rights poetry or to compose preacherly anthems in the manner of Coltrane.
Try some war poetry - thats always good for dead white guys.
Yes it is; this is what poetry is.
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(Keats, for example, was ridiculed for writing "Cockney poetry.")
And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.
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Paradip:
A 22-year-old man in Paradip died after his mobile phone, which was being charged, exploded while he was sleeping, police said.
The incident took place late on Sunday night when the man, identified as Kuna Pradhan, who worked as a mason, was sleeping along with three other workers inside a room at a construction site at Atharabanki area, Inspector-in-Charge of Paradip police station RK Samal said.
The mobile phone, which was being charged near his bed exploded when the four were asleep. He died on the spot, the police officer said.
The mason, who is from Ranpur area of Nayagarh district, was engaged in the construction of a temple in Paradip undertaken by an association of truck owners.
On being informed, the police reached the spot and sent the body to a hospital for autopsy.
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My decision to join the post of a District Education Officer in a district far away from the State capital was received with disbelief, derision and disapproval by my colleagues, friends, relatives and well-wishers. “Has he gone mad?” the Principal asked my colleagues. “Why did you go abroad for higher studies in literature if your ultimate aim was to be cog in the machine in the Education Department?” my colleagues questioned me. “Wants to mint money,” remarked the righteous relatives, “There’s enough money to loot,” they whispered at my back. ‘What a shame!” lamented the friends, “From the seat of higher learning to the bastion of corruption and nepotism!”
Braving the adverse criticism of my ‘well-wishers’, I accepted the offer and made all the arrangements to proceed to the District assigned to me. On the preceding day of my departure, on the advice of a senior officer of the Education directorate, I went to meet the Education Minister. It was my first visit to a minister’s bungalow. After all the formalities of a security check, I was ushered into the air-conditioned room in which the Minister was busy reading newspapers. “Come in, come in,” the Minister welcomed me with a smiling face. “You’ve decided to join, right?” the Minister asked me . “ Yes, Sir ” I replied. I was in a shock. How could he know my predicament? “From the ivory tower to the open field!” I don’t remember if it was spoken in jest or in earnest.
I was with the Minister for about 30 minutes and when I was about to leave the room, he said, “Go and join, but don’t go to office every day.” Being startled, I exclaimed, ”Sorry, can’t follow you.” A Minister asking me not to go to office every day! “Yes,” he said emphatically. “At least, for the first month. You will get a jeep and a driver. Go and visit as many schools as possible. They need you. If you sit in the office the whole day, you will be too busy in transfer, posting, court cases and trivial complaints pouring in every day. Visit all the elementary schools of the district in the first month itself and have a rapport with the teachers, not with the middlemen.” Thanking the Minister, I left his room. “Go and join, but don’t go to office every day!” What a peculiar instruction, I told myself.
On the first day, soon after reaching the office, I was flooded by fifty or sixty letters kept on a tray of my table. A Grade IV employee of the office had opened the envelops and put the letters on my table for my perusal. So many letters on a single day! Not knowing what to do with these letters which seemed like arrows aimed at a hapless new officer, I summoned the Bara Babu, the Head Assistant. The nice, all knowing Bara Babu allayed my fear with a smiling face. “Sir, you have nothing to do. Please put your initial with the date on the top of the letter, read the subject line and mark it for the concerned assistant. If it is related to ‘Midday meal’, mark it to Mr XX, if it is related to finance, mark it to Mr. DB, if it is about disciplinary action against a teacher, mark it to Mr.SB and if it is about any data required by the Government, mark it to Mr, CKB, the Statistical Assistant. The letters will be processed by the concerned assistants. They are very trusted people, Sir. You can approve their drafts without any hesitation. Your predecessor must have briefed you while handing over the charge!” The Head Assistant stopped with a mischievous smile. “But, what about the letters regarding academic matters? I enquired, “Who handles letters related to academic matters?” “Academic matters?” the Head Assistant stared at me, “All matters are academic in this office, Sir. We don’t do anything non-academic” It was my turn to stare at him.
Streams of visitors came pouring in. The two Deputy Inspectors of schools and the twelve Block Elementary Officers of the District came one by one to pay their obeisance to the district head. The two Deputy Inspectors of Schools were on the verge of retirement. They knew the names of all the schools of their subdivisions. The Block Elementary Officers were quite impressive in their attire. Some of them knew their rule books by heart but not the names of the textbooks used in the schools. I was happy to know that they were well qualified, trained and experienced. All of them had been working in the district for a pretty long time and had a very good rapport with my predecessor. In spite of the hardships faced by them they were committed to their duties, they claimed. Some of the leaders of the teachers’ unions were not good and I should be cautious, they told me rather casually. As a new comer to the district, I should seek the opinion of the local people and the local MLAs, they opined in a rather roundabout way.”Don’t worry, Sir. Please call us whenever you need any help.” they assured me while departing with a handshake which did not seem very warm.
It was a very spacious room. There was a big map of the district decorating the wall in front of me. It showed the location of the schools. As there was no Google map in those days, I could not figure out the distance of the schools. I memorized the names of a few schools and dialed the number of the Deputy Inspector of Schools whose office was just on the other side of the road. Knowing my intention of visiting two randomly selected schools next day, the Deputy Inspector said, “Don’t worry, Sir. I’ll inform them. Your driver knows the route. He will take you straight.” “No, no. Please don’t inform them. It should be a surprise visit. I would like to find out how a school runs on a normal day.” “ A normal day!” my subordinate officer exclaimed. “Normal is abnormal and abnormal is normal, Sir”. What an amazing statement. “Do you write poetry?” I asked. “Why are you asking such a question, Sir?” the Deputy Inspector of School was shocked, it seemed. A District Educator Officer talks of poetry? How to tell him what happens when the opposition between two words is neutralised. Deviation is a stylistic feature for me , not for my poor official at the sub divisional level whose life revolves round the files. (to be continued)
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Christopher Weaver, James B. Jones, Carey D. Chisholm, Michael J. Foley, Beverly K. Giles, Geoffrey G. Somerville, Edward J. Brizendine, William H. Cordell
To determine if droperidol i.v. is as effective as prochlorperazine i.v. in the emergency department (ED) treatment of uncomplicated headache, a randomized, controlled, blinded study was conducted in the Emergency Departments of two urban teaching hospitals. Patients ≥ 18 years old with crescendo-onset headache were eligible for inclusion. Ninety-six patients (48 in each group) were randomized to receive droperidol 2.5 mg i.v. or prochlorperazine 10 mg i.v. Baseline characteristics were similar between the two study groups. For the main study outcome, 83.3% in the droperidol group and 72.3% in the prochlorperazine group reported 50% pain reduction at 30 min (p < .01; one-sided test of equivalence). The mean decrease in headache intensity was 79.1% (SD 28.5%) in the droperidol group and 72.1% (SD 28.0%) in the prochlorperazine group (p = .23). It is concluded that droperidol i.v. provided a similar reduction of headache as achieved with prochlorperazine i.v. with a similar incidence of akathisia.
Journal of Emergency Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2003.05.005
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Weaver, C., Jones, J. B., Chisholm, C. D., Foley, M. J., Giles, B. K., Somerville, G. G., ... Cordell, W. H. (2004). Droperidol vs. prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute headache. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 26(2), 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2003.05.005
Droperidol vs. prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute headache. / Weaver, Christopher; Jones, James B.; Chisholm, Carey D.; Foley, Michael J.; Giles, Beverly K.; Somerville, Geoffrey G.; Brizendine, Edward J.; Cordell, William H.
In: Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 2, 02.2004, p. 145-150.
Weaver, C, Jones, JB, Chisholm, CD, Foley, MJ, Giles, BK, Somerville, GG, Brizendine, EJ & Cordell, WH 2004, 'Droperidol vs. prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute headache', Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2003.05.005
Weaver C, Jones JB, Chisholm CD, Foley MJ, Giles BK, Somerville GG et al. Droperidol vs. prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute headache. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2004 Feb;26(2):145-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2003.05.005
Weaver, Christopher ; Jones, James B. ; Chisholm, Carey D. ; Foley, Michael J. ; Giles, Beverly K. ; Somerville, Geoffrey G. ; Brizendine, Edward J. ; Cordell, William H. / Droperidol vs. prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute headache. In: Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2004 ; Vol. 26, No. 2. pp. 145-150.
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Facial Onset Sensory and Motor Neuropathy Presented with Bilateral Neurotrophic Keratopathy
Maryam Naser MD1*, Amy Patel MD2, Guy Massry MD2 and Nafiseh Hashemi MD1
1Department of Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic, Hashemi Eye Care, USA
2Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
We report a rare case of Facial Onset Sensory and Motor Neuropathy (FOSMN) which was diagnosed with superior ophthalmic nerve biopsy. Facial pain and paresthesia improved after treatment with Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG).
Received Date: August 22, 2019; Published Date: August 27, 2019
An 83-year-old female with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, and hyperlipidemia presented with ocular and trigeminal region pain initially presented to an outside general physician for right sided frontal pain, facial weakness and eye pain that started on one side and subsequently progressed to the contralateral side. Upon initial ophthalmologic examination, she was noted to have trigeminal neuropathy with loss of sensation in the v1, v2 and v3 distribution bilaterally. In addition, she was noted to have partial facial nerve paralysis with orbicularis weakness, difficulty with speech, hoarseness and difficulty swallowing. Her visual acuity was significantly reduced to count finger bilaterally due to corneal scarring and epithelial defects were noted. Given extensive findings of involvement of cranial nerve 5th and 7th, a workup to rule out inflammatory, infectious, auto-immune, vascular or neuropathic causes was initiated. An extensive laboratory test (ESR, CRP, ANA, ds-DNA AB, scleroderma AB, ENA AB, cardiolipin IGG/IGM, IGA, lysozyme, ACE, c-ANCA, p-ANCA, SS-B, SS-A) was all negative. In addition, neuroimaging was performed to rule out compressive lesions. MRI of the brain demonstrated small vessel atrophy. MRA brain demonstrated 40-50% stenosis of the left carotid artery. An MRI C-spine demonstrated normal spinal degenerative age-related changes. A temporal artery biopsy was performed and negative for pathologic changes consistent with giant cell arteritis. A supraorbital nerve biopsy was performed and demonstrated axonal degeneration with demyelination.
These findings were consistent with Facial Onset Sensory and Motor Neuropathy syndrome (FOSMN). The patient received amniotic membrane for treatment of neurotrophic keratopathy as well as medications for treatment of neuropathic pain. She started to lose weight and had weakness on her extremities. IVIG 40-gram dose of Octagam (approximately 1g/kg) helped with generalized pain and weakness and she was able to walk again. Her vision loss stayed stable (Figure 1).
FOSMN is a rare and slowly progressive motor neuron disorders.
A search in English articles from 2006 to 2018 showed that only 38 cases of FOSMN have been reported since it was first reported in 2006. FOSMN typically presents with slowly progressive numbness of the face followed by arms and neck weakness. Absent or reduced corneal and blink reflexes are the main pathognomonic ophthalmic presentation of this syndrome [1]. Vucic S [2] reported 4 patients diagnosed with FOSMN. The symptoms started with developed paresthesia and numbness in trigeminal nerve distribution, later involved the scalp, neck, upper trunk and upper limbs in sequential order. Motor involvement may cause cramps, fasciculations, dysphagia, and muscle weakness or atrophy. Neurologists and ophthalmologists should pay attention while visiting Patients presenting with bilateral trigeminal neuralgia associated with hypoesthesia of the face. One should consider to differentiate between trigeminal isolated sensory neuropathy (TISN), a benign and purely trigeminal neuropathy, and facial-onset sensory motor neuronopathy (FOSMN), a malignant life-threatening condition. No diagnostic criteria can yet differentiate the two conditions at their onset. Follow up on 13 patients with recent onset of trigeminal hypoesthesia and pain demonstrated the progression of five patients to FOSMN, while the other eight patients remained stable [3]. In both group of patients with TISN and FOSMN, neurological and histological examination documented a trigeminal nerve damage.
Although no clinical diagnostic criteria can distinguish TISN and FOSMN at onset, neurophysiological and nerve-biopsy findings show that in both diseases, trigeminal nerve damage affecting myelinated fibers and sparing unmyelinated fibers, which explain similar pathophysiological mechanisms in both. In 1959, Spillane and Wells reported 16 patients with a purely sensory, unilateral or bilateral trigeminal neuropathy [4]. later, Lecky and colleagues described 13 patients with idiopathic sensory disorders limited to the trigeminal region and referred to this condition as “idiopathic trigeminal sensory neuropathy” [5]. Recently, Vucic and colleagues indicated that in patients with bilateral trigeminal neuropathy a severe motor involvement may develop [2,6]. The treatment for this rare disease has stayed controversial. IVIG and plasmapheresis was recommended. We are reporting a rare case of FOSMN to increase neurologist and ophthalmologist’s awareness and knowledge. Early diagnosis and prompt attention to wellbeing of cornea may prevent blindness from neurotrophic keratopathy. Clinical research over the pathophysiology and treatment of this rare but disabling disease may improve the patients’ quality of life.
In patient with bilateral facial sensory motor neuropathy, ophthalmologist should consider FOSMN as one of the rare diseases that may cause this condition. Supraorbital nerve biopsy is necessary for diagnosis; demonstrating axonal degeneration with demyelination. Early treatment of neurotrophic keratopathy is essential. IVIG may help alleviating the generalized symptoms.
No conflict of interest.
Zheng Q, Chu L,Tan L, Zhang H (2016) Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy. Neurol Sci 37(12): 1905-1909.
Vucic S, Tian D, Chong PS (2006) Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy (FOSMN syndrome): a novel syndrome in neurology. Brain 129(12): 3384-3390.
Cruccu G, Pennisi EM (2014) Trigeminal isolated sensory neuropathy (TISN) and FOSMN syndrome: despite a dissimilar disease course do they share common pathophysiological mechanisms. BMC Neurol 14: 248.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13833346Spillane JD, Wells CE (1959) Isolated trigeminal neuropathy. A report of 16 cases. Brain 82: 391-416.
Lecky BR, Hughes RA, Murray NM (1987) Trigeminal sensory neuropathy. A study of 22 cases. Brain 110(6): 1463-1485.
Vucic S, Stein TD, Hedley Whyte (2012) ET FOSMN syndrome: novel insight into disease pathophysiology. Neurology 79(1): 73-79.
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Maryam Naser MD, Amy Patel MD, Guy Massry MD, Nafiseh Hashemi MD. Facial Onset Sensory and Motor Neuropathy Presented with Bilateral Neurotrophic Keratopathy. W J Opthalmol & Vision Res. 2(4): 2019. WJOVR.MS.ID.000543.
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Albwardy Damen receives MASTECH award for the new Damen Multibuster 8020
Albwardy Damen has received an award for its innovative design of the new Damen Multibuster 8020 shallow draught, multi-purpose vessel. The award was presented at the MASTECH international marine technical conference, held on board the iconic QE2 floating hotel in the UAE.
Albwardy Damen has been developing the Multibuster 8020 offshore workboat for the past two years in close consultation with a number of oil majors, operators and potential clients in the Gulf region. Over that time the size of the vessel has grown as clients have sought additional capability. While the Multibuster 8020 is 80 metres in length, making it the largest vessel to be built at Albwardy Damen Sharjah to date, it will also be available in 60 and 70 metre versions.
The award was based on a number of factors that make this vessel highly unusual. Its design draught of just 3.5 metres is exceptional for a vessel of this size and makes it ideal for the shallow waters of the Arabian Gulf as well as elsewhere in the world. It also stands out for having a deck strength between the stern roller and the anchor handling and tow winch, 800 m² in total, of 10 or even 20 tonnes per square metre as standard, in comparison to the usual 3 to 5 tonnes. The rationale for this is that it saves time and expense by making the deck ready to take any equipment or fulfil any operation without further modification, whether it be the installation of a walk-to-work gangway, a heavy crane or a 14-metre cable carousel.
And that’s not all. Albwardy Damen has taken the innovation a stage further by specifying a corresponding cofferdam below decks. This protection means that steel cutting and welding on the working deck above can be carried out without draining and or degassing the fuel tanks first – an operation that can take several days – and so further speeds up the mobilisation of new equipment. Special attention has also been given to the working deck sides. These are free of obstacles over the full deck length, resulting in maximum operational flexibility for the end-user.
The design offers spacious living and working interior spaces for 60 persons including SPS personal. The SPS personnel will find that the design offers a dedicated mission control room, a client office / meeting room and SPS day room. The design also has a gym with substantial head room, a prayer room, luggage store, a spacious changing room with adjacent laundry room, a ship’s office, multiple stores / linen stores, and a spacious multifunction mess room.
The diesel-electric, DP2 classed vessel is outfitted with a retractable azimuth bow thruster that results in low noise and vibration levels under DP conditions and good fuel economy when standing-by.
The design also ensures maximum visibility from the bridge of the foredeck and the aft working deck. The working deck includes direct access to multiple large deck stores, a deck workshop and two below-deck mission holds.
The diesel electric engine room is prepared for the future, and as such can be retrofitted with SCR systems and urea tanks.
Additional options include propulsion alternatives that can deliver a bollard pull from 45 to 95 tonnes, with the higher ranges aimed at potential clients who have indicated that they would use the vessel for towing and anchor handling. DP2 and a 1,000 tonne/ metre crane are also readily available. In all, the Multibuster’s high levels of operational flexibility will allow it to carry out a wide range of tasks across the renewables, oil and gas, marine contracting and dredging industries.
The vessel design has also been prepared for multiple deck equipment options including a 4-point anchoring system, A-frame, stern roller, dry cement bulk capability, and with deck space reserved for additional auxiliary craft.
The FiFi-2 classed vessel can be upgraded to FiFi-3 or FiFi-4 with minimal impact on the design.
The design and engineering partner engaged by Albwardy Damen for the Multibuster 8020 project was the ship designer and marine consulting agency OSD-IMT, which specialises in custom, one-off designs across a wide range of vessel types.
“At Damen we have been extremely successful with shallow draft workboats, notably our Shoalbuster and Multicat ranges,” says Pascal Slingerland, Regional Director Middle East for Damen. “These boats were originally mainly used in the dredging industry but have since became very popular in the oil and gas industry as well. The new Multibuster is a combination of the functionality found on both Shoalbusters and Multicats, but on a much larger and even more versatile, shallow draught workboat.”
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We are excited to announce that we’re launching the next phase of our long-term strategy for growth on CoinPoker: Community Contributions.
Community Contributions help us continue to deliver as more members join our community, and will come in the form of a percentage on cash games and tournaments. These numbers will be incredibly low for the individual player, but collectively contribute to big community-centric efforts including bigger promotions, overlays, CHP token burning, and more.
Learn more about how Community Contributions on CoinPoker will work and what it means for players by clicking the link below.
Community Contributions Explained
Launching Community Contributions on CoinPoker
Since starting in 2017, CoinPoker has been operating as a commission-free platform in order to encourage users to test and try crypto poker. In order to continue to progress and deliver value to the community, CoinPoker will introduce low community contribution rates to cash and tournament tables, as well as initiate token burning practices to boost CHP value.
Traditional poker rooms both online and brick and mortar sustain themselves with revenue from table commissions. While keeping CoinPoker low-cost and easy-to-access for everyone is still a priority, growing and delivering more value is also the key to moving forward. Community contributions make value-driving activities like token burning possible and deliver the means to attract potential partners and advertisers as we continue to scale.
There is no commercial incentive behind this, and all contributions are reinvested into CoinPoker with the aim of continuing to build a thriving community and ensuring the value growth of CHP.
50% of Contributions to Be Burned
While it may sound like a destructive process, token burning is a common practice by token-holding companies like Binance, who burns tokens every quarter, and Eidoo, who burned tokens post-ICO and after generating revenue. In accordance with the economic law of supply and demand, by destroying or “burning” tokens you reduce the supply on the market, thereby increasing demand and monetary value.
While the initial allocation for tokens to be burned is relatively low, our advisors, and avid cryptocurrency experts, explains why it is an essential step in a long-term growth strategy for CHP.
While the best strategy for increasing token price is delivering user value through your product, burning a small percentage of tokens collected from community contributions will allow us to test and develop technical ways to drive up CHP price.
The token burning is done by transferring a certain number of tokens to what is called an “eater address”, which is also referred to as a black hole. The explanation behind the name is that these addresses are inaccessible, rendering all coins sent to them permanently off the market.
Burned CHP tokens will also be reported along with a transaction number, allowing anyone in our community to view and verify the tokens burned on the Ethereum blockchain. Community contributions are designed for our players, which is why transparency is integral to the success of this new phase of our long-term growth strategy.
50% Returned to Players
Community contributions have been a part of our roadmap since CoinPoker’s ICO stage, and while our plans have evolved and adjusted over time, the overall goal remains the same. While 50% of contributions will contribute to token burning, the remaining CHP will be returned to the community in the form of community-centric promotional activities, partnerships, and more.
Community contributions on cash games are currently set at 2% with a cap of 3 big blinds, while tournament contributions are set at 5%, CC for OFC games is 1% and CC for Push or Fold is 0.4%. These figures are subject to change depending on community feedback, which will be monitored closely. For now, the CC caps for cash games are as follows:
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The Growth Opportunities Community Contributions Represent
Introducing contributions from the community is a big move, yet CoinPoker will still have one of the lowest collection policies on the planet as far as online poker rooms go.
In addition to delivering community incentives in the form of a better gaming experience and higher token value for investors, community contributions can also be put towards attracting more partners and advertisers, which is also an essential part of building a thriving community.
During the first stages of implementation, we will carefully review player feedback, after which we may adjust the percentage to accommodate bigger campaigns and attract partners and audiences interested in joining the CoinPoker community. These campaigns would be geared towards incentivizing advertisers and influencers to promote CoinPoker and help us spread our vision of crypto poker to all corners of the world. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1432 |
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Drivers with over 50 penalty points on their licence are still on the roads after taking advantage of a loophole in the system, shocking new figures have revealed.
Analysis of DVLA data shows a whopping 10,964 have managed to avoid a driving ban despite racking up more than 12 penalty points, a number that would normally see their licence revoked.
The country’s worst offender was identified as an unnamed male driver living in the West Midlands, who has an astonishing 54 points on his licence and yet still remains on the road.
The figures also show that 254 drivers have accrued over 20 points, while 30 motorists have totted up at least 30 points on their licence.
Hugely concerning figures
Road safety campaigners Brake called the fact that so many offenders remain on the roads “hugely concerning” and called for an end to exploitation of the loophole.
Joshua Harris, Director of Campaigns at Brake, accused both the Government and the courts of being “complicit” in letting these drivers remain on the road.
He said: “By ignoring the exploitation of the ‘exceptional hardship’ loophole that allows unsafe drivers to remain on our roads, the Government and courts are complicit in increasing the risk to the public.
“This dangerous loophole must be dealt with as a matter of urgency so that drivers who reach 12 points are automatically disqualified, protecting the general public from harm.
“Driving is a privilege, not a right and if that privilege is not exercised responsibly, it must be taken away.”
Dangers for motorists
Drivers who face bans can avoid having their licence revoked by convincing magistrates that disqualification would cause “exceptional hardship” for them or someone close to them.
Motorists pick up penalty points, also known as endorsements, for committing a range of driving offences with these points then staying on their licences for a certain time period.
Speeding or failing to stop at a crossing could land drivers with three points on their licence for three years, while drink driving could result in 11 penalty points on their licence for 11 years.
If drivers get 12 or more points in three years they will normally be given a driving ban — which then wipes the points off their licence — unless they can convince magistrates.
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The New York Metro Transit Authority sent millions to three upstate ski resorts last year instead of allocating that money to repair a subway on the verge of collapse. Because, priorities.
The state agency sent a $4.9 million check in March 2016 directly to the Olympic Regional Development Authority that operates the three ski resorts, currently facing financial troubles from global warming (no, seriously). The MTA owed the money to the state, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the money be sent directly to ORDA, according to a New York Daily News report:
Critics questioned the decision and whether it was part of Cuomo’s attempt to off-load spending to keep state budget increases under a 2% cap. They argued the state also could have just let the financially troubled MTA keep the money.
“It’s terrible optics,” said a one-time gubernatorial aide. “They’re stealing from one bankrupt place to prop up another bankrupt place.”
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New York City’s transit breaks down more and more each day, leading to horrible consequences for everyday New Yorkers like injuries and lost jobs. Cuomo recently declared a state of emergency on the MTA and promised $1 billion in additional funding, but he’s yet to actually cough up the change. Most MTA executives and board members themselves aren’t even in tune to the breakdown since they don’t even ride the subway.
While the transit system undergoes a crisis of historic proportion, the state failed to adequately aid the MTA, said NY State Sen. Michael Gianaris in an interview with Jalopnik.
“It’s nonsensical, and it speaks to the complete lack of proper priorities at the state level,” Gianaris said with regard to the ski resort aid money.
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MTA spokesperson Shams Tarek said in a statement that the $4.9 million constitutes a payment to the state’s support of the MTA: “Simply as an accounting function, the state requested that our payments be sent to ORDA instead of the Division of Budget – which we complied with.”
NYS Division of Budget spokesperson Morris Peters called the move an accounting measure in a statement to Jalopnik, as the state funds the MTA a total of $6.6 billion, yet the reimbursements MTA gave to the ski resorts were only $4.95 million.
Gianaris, however, still thought the move was irresponsible no matter how disproportional the amount of money was to the overall budget.
“This thought shouldn’t have crossed anyone’s mind to do because they should be thinking about how to get the MTA every spare penny they can find, not to take money away from them,” he said.
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As a member of the Institute, Israel has written and edited numerous publications concerning the future and development of Jerusalem, and participated in many planning teams, including the 1968 master plan for Jerusalem, masterplans for education systems in various local municipalities throughout the country, the national masterplan for tourism, the master plan for the education system in East Jerusalem, the master plans for the welfare system in Jerusalem, the cultural institutions of the ultra-Orthodox community, the city’s libraries, and others. Israel led the planning team for the Jerusalem District Master Plan (TMM 1/30) and took part in the Old City planning team for the Jerusalem Development Authority and in the planning team of the Kidron Valley Basin.
His main projects in the Institute are as follows: tourism, site preservation, East Jerusalem neighborhoods, population forecasts for the years 2030-2040, planning the Kidron Valley Basin, coordinating the planning team for the Jerusalem metropolis, updating the list of sites for preservation in the northern neighborhoods (on behalf of the Jerusalem Municipality), and preparation of Jerusalem master plans on the following issues: education systems in East Jerusalem, welfare institutions, the city’s libraries, the cultural institutions of the ultra-Orthodox community.
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24/01/2016 Creators2000AD, Alan Grant, Animal story, animals, Babe at St Woods, Cinderella Spiteful, Darkening Journey, Dora Dogsbody, Down To Earth Blairs, Ella on Easy Street, Have-A-Go Jo, Her Ugly Duckling, Humour, John Wagner, José Casanovas, Max Normal, Nat the Cat, Princess Tina, Running Rosie Lee, Sam Slade Robo-Hunter, Sandie, science fiction, Snobby Shirl the Shoeshine Girl!, Sophie's Secret Squeezy, Spot of Trouble, Starlord, Sue's Daily Dozen, Tammy, Tomorrow Town, Town Without Telly, Two-Faced Teesha, Wars of the Rosescomixminx
Catalan artist José Casanovas (1934 – 2009) was well-known and well-loved by lots of readers, appearing as he did in many British comics over a number of decades. His detailed, stylish, and above all fun art was distinctive and he was credited in various publications, so it is easy to pull together quite a long list of his work (though no doubt still incomplete). Many British readers think of him as a 2000AD artist – that is how I first came across his name myself – and therefore perhaps as an SF artist primarily. If you count up the stories he drew and the titles he appeared in, though, by far the majority of his work seems to be for the girls’ comics market.
The list below has been pulled together with much reference to the Catawiki database in order to fill out the non-Jinty stories, so many thanks to the contributors to that site. (I have included the numbers of episodes listed for each story as per Catawiki, to emphasize how prolific he was. I am fairly sure the records on that site are not complete but it gives a good impression of his work. Of course, please do send in further information if you have it!)
Cinderella Spiteful (1971-72) – 20 episodes
Two-Faced Teesha (1973-74) – 10 episodes
Ella on Easy Street (1974) – 8 episodes
The Town Without Telly (1974) – 12 episodes
Wars of the Roses (1975-76) – 11 episodes
Babe at St Woods (1976-77) – 39 episodes (you can see some sample pages here)
Down To Earth Blairs (1977-78) – 25 episodes
Running Rosie Lee (1980) – 10 episodes
Tomorrow Town (1982) – 10 episodes
The Nine Lives of Nat the Cat (1972-73) – 38 episodes
Princess Tina & Penelope
Have-A-Go Jo (1970) – 25 episodes
Dora Dogsbody (1974-76) – 94 episodes
Snobby Shirl the Shoeshine Girl (1976) – 13 episodes
Her Ugly Duckling – reprinted story in Jinty Annual 1976
The Darkening Journey (1977) – 20 episodes
Sue’s Daily Dozen (1980-81) – 14 episodes
Spot of Trouble (28 March 1981) – complete story
Sophie’s Secret Squeezy (1975) – 7 episodes
Pickle, Where Are You? (1979) – 10 episodes
Mistyfan has recently done a post about “Sue’s Daily Dozen” in which she made the point that Casanovas is known for science fiction. There is one science fiction story done by him in a girls’ comic, namely Tammy‘s “Tomorrow Town”, which I take the opportunity to reprint here as being a piece of art that would otherwise not be likely to get a showing on this Jinty-specific blog.
Following Casanovas’ death in 2009, Steve Holland wrote an obituary Bear Alley post here, drawing also on the Spanish-language blog Tebeosfera’s post here. (Do follow this last link to see some lovely artwork from an adaptation of Pollyanna done for the local market.) There was also an interesting comment on 2000AD fan blog the Prog Slog about Casanovas’ work in the boys’ science fiction comics market. He drew well-liked characters Max Normal (some Max Normal art by Casanovas can be seen here) and Sam Slade Robo-Hunter (after Ian Gibson had stopped drawing this latter character). He also drew a number of one-off stories in 2000AD, and a story in Starlord, and people characterise him as a 2000AD artist therefore. The Prog Slog comment here clarifies that: “Casanovas early work for 2000AD, Starlord etc. was sporadic. First appearance was a ‘Future Shock’ in Prog 70 (24 June 1978) a 1.5 pager called ‘Many Hands’. “Good morning Sheldon, I love you” was his next, a six page future shock style one-off written by John Wagner in Starlord 11 (22 July 1978). He drew another one-off Wagner [story] in Starlord 16. There’s a gap then until Progs 148 & 149 (January 1980) where he does a 2-part Ro-Jaws Robo-Tale. He then draws the 11 page Mugger’s Mile by Alan Grant, the first ever Max Normal strip (“The Pinstripe Freak (He’s Dredd’s informer)”) in the first Judge Dredd annual (1981). He goes on to draw more Future Shocks in Prog 220, 241 and 245, another Max Normal in the 1982 JD annual, and again in JD 1983 annual. In the 1982 Sci-Fi Special he draws his first Dredd proper, a 10 pager by Wagner – The Tower of Babel. His first Dredd in the weekly is the excellent “Game Show Show” 2 parter in 278/279, August 1982, Wagner again. He did the second ever ‘Time Twister’ in Prog 295, a 4 pager called Ultimate Video. And that’s as far as my data goes for now, by Prog 300 he’d done 77.5 pages: 32.5 in the weeklies, 10 in specials, 23 in annuals and 12 in Starlord. According to ‘Barney’ online (http://www.2000ad.org) his last work was in Prog 822 (Feb 1993), Robo-Hunter”. The tally of his pages for 2000AD and the like must therefore surely be far outnumbered by the 90+ episodes of his run on Dora Dogsbody in Jinty alone! | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1448 |
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June 24 - July 3, 2020 Counties Donegal, Mayo, and Clare
Sept 2 - 11, 2020 Counties Cork, Kerry, and Clare
Sept 13 - 22, 2020 Counties Mayo, Galway, and Clare
By day we hike scenic landscapes, visit old castles and abbey ruins,
and ancient graveyards.
View from the light house looking out over Dingle Bay.
We often stop at stone circles.
And by night we share music with local Irish singers and players...
some original music, some traditional, and songs by tour leaders and
anyone who wants to share a song or two.
There's lots of great music in the pubs in Doolin, Country Clare.
Here is a nice YouTube link of some of the places we visit in Ireland. Blackie, the piper, is a friend of ours and plays for many of
our groups in Doolin County Clare. Enjoy!
Trips to County Clare include the Cliffs of Moher.
There are hikes in County Galway.
We can usually find a rainbow along the way.
Some trips include a boat ride to Inishbofin Island where time has stood still.
Gorgeous cycling along one lane roads around the island.
Ancient Polnabrone
Also in County Galway is the beautiful Connemara area.
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__label__wiki | 0.888873 | 0.888873 | § 1 Volumes six and seven of The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA) mark a significant achievement for the work of the editors and contributors to the project. The omnibus project aims to provide not only colour digital images of the entire corpus of William Langland’s texts of Piers Plowman, from the medieval period through the sixteenth-century, but also electronic transcriptions of each manuscript (as explained by Duggan 2005). Volume six includes images and transcriptions from San Marino, Huntington Library Hm 128 (Hm, Hm2); volume seven includes images and transcriptions from London, British Library MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (R). Piers Plowman has traditionally received much scholarly attention, not only due to its status as a canonical poem surviving from the Middle English period, but also because Langland wrote three distinct versions of the poem (A, B, and C), and thus the poem offers much for the study of Middle English textual history, editorial theory, and reception theory.
Operating summary (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 2 Both volumes (six and seven) are intended to run on a Windows operating system. Volume six requires Windows 98 or later; volume seven requires Windows 95 or later. The disks will not work correctly on any browser other than Internet Explorer 6.1 or higher, and require at least a Pentium II processor with 215 megahertz and 256 megabytes of RAM.
§ 3 Frustratingly for Macintosh users, neither of the file browsers included (called JR and Elwood) is designed to work without the user going to what likely amounts to substantial effort, as the CD requires PC mode software. Given that one of the goals of the PPEA project is to make the Piers Plowman manuscripts and the project’s editing work available to a wide audience (as noted by Duggan 2005), this restriction is both surprising and disappointing. Interestingly, the editors appear to acknowledge the potential for Mac user disappointment in the subtle difference in wording between the minimum system requirement statements for volume six and volume seven, a change that occurs despite the requirements (Intel processors running in PC mode or Windows emulation software) being the same. Compare the two statements from each volume: Neither Elwood nor JR will run on Macintosh systems in native MacOS mode. Users whose Macs are equipped with current Intel processors can easily run either browser in PC mode, either through... (volume six) and Both the default browser JR and the Elwood Viewer will easily run on any Intel Macintosh system in native mode via Bootcamp or via emulation software... (volume seven). In essence, Mac users who purchase either volume six or volume seven eagerly anticipating the attractive self-start function available to PC users will be sorely disappointed.
Installation summary (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 4 Both volume six and seven conveniently load the Junicode fonts (designed by Peter Baker) required for display of Middle English graphs such as thorn, yogh, or manuscript punctuation marks, and the editions open automatically upon CD insertion. The editors have provided instructions for self-installation, should it be necessary, on the back jacket of both volumes. The steps for self-installation are not at all onerous, and worked as described.
Instructions for first-time users (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 5 The "Instructions for first-time users" are embedded in the table of contents. The editors fittingly urge [users] to read all of [this section] before proceeding —a sage suggestion, given the complexity of the editions and browsers. It is odd that a dedicated link to these instructions is not present on the edition’s title page, considering the importance of this section to user success and understanding. Users who attempt to begin using the editions before reading the available prefatory material may be confused as to the important difference between the JR Viewer and the Elwood Viewer (the JR browser is the default browser; the Elwood viewer offers more in the way of search and navigational tools but requires higher screen resolution). While briefly explained in the back-jacket of the CDs, the "Instructions for first-time users" articulate the differences between the navigational browsers more fully, and explains the procedures required to use the Elwood viewer.
§ 6 The beginning of the instructions includes sections detailing the system requirements ("I. System Requirements"). The second section, "General Instructions" is itself further divided into segments: "II.1 For Users running Windows95 and later operating systems," "II.11 Installing Fonts," "II.1.2 Starting the JR Browser," II. 1.3 Navigating the texts," II.14 Searching in JR," "II.1.5 Display Conventions in JR, "II.1.6 Display of Tag Contents," "II. 1.7 Color Conventions in Different Views of the Text," and "II.2 Starting the Elwood Viewer." These sections are described at appropriate levels and include some screen shots that are helpful for understanding particulars, especially navigating to sections of the text, searching, and the choices available for text presentation. The third and final section within the "Instructions for first-time users," "WWW Site for Errata, FAQs, etc." demonstrates the conscientious attitude of the editors, as it provides readers with the project Internet address necessary for submission of suggestions and corrections.
Introduction (vol. 6)
§ 7 The introduction for volume six is admirable in its scope and thoroughness. It contains six sections ("Description of the Manuscript," "The Text," "Editorial Method," "Linguistic Description," "List of Manuscript Sigils," and "Bibliography") that are further divided into appropriate subsections. Incorrectly, "List of Manuscript Sigils" and "Bibliography" are both labelled as section five.
§ 8 The first subsection, "I. Description of the Manuscript," aptly describes Hm’s physical attributes, assumed provenance, date, and contents. Importantly, other subsections also detail scribal hands, decorations, and illustrations. These sections, and the section entitled "I.9 Marginalia," are accompanied with links (indicated by a superscript blue "I") to the manuscript image of the items or sections under discussion.
§ 9 The subsection entitled "The Text" is remarkable in its method of describing what amounts to a complicated textual history, including a consideration of the fragment of the B text of Piers Plowman (Hm2) contained in the same manuscript as Hm, and the fragment’s (Hm2) importance in allowing for a comparison of orthographic tendencies with Hm. Here the editors illustrate what is possible from careful manuscript work, as they present possibilities for different manuscript relationships based on scribal hands, rubrication, spelling, and correction.
§ 10 The third section, "Editorial Method," is thorough, beginning with the "Transcription of the Manuscript." Helpfully, image links help the user understand the descriptions of abbreviations and scribal forms. As with volume seven, it is disappointing that the editors have decided not to distinguish allographic forms. Given that the PPEA uses Peter Baker’s Junicode font display programme, allograph forms could have been displayed quite easily, as each graph would, presumably, be recorded at the initial transcription stage. Current scholarly interest in scribal writing systems would benefit from such detail.
§ 11 The third and fourth subsections of "Editorial Method," "III.3 Presentation of Text: Style Sheet" and "III.4 Presentation of Text: The Annotations," solidify how the edition can be read. "Style Sheets" describes the four different style sheets: Scribal shows not only the manuscript reading but also editorial intrusion, Diplomatic shows only the manuscript text written in the text hand, Critical shows the text as it would after scribal correction, and AllTags displays the entire content of the manuscript page. "The Annotations" describes the system for indicating the levels of information (codicological, palaeographic, lexical/linguistic and textual) that can be found in the textual apparatus.
§ 12 The "Linguistic Description" comprises the fourth section of the introduction. With help from information from work done for the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, or LALME (McIntosh 1986), the editors locate Hm’s dialects to Warwickshire. Like volume 7, the linguistic details are extensive, including mostly aspects on phonology and morphology.
§ 13 Parts five and six (incorrectly marked Roman numeral V and V are usefully categorized. The "List of Manuscript Sigils" lists the manuscripts according to A, B, and C text, and the "Bibliography" is divided into a section for editions and a section for literary studies.
§ 14 The introduction for volume seven, of high scholarly standard, contain five sections ("I. Description of the Manuscript," "II. Editorial Method," "III. Linguistic Description," "IV. List of Manuscript Sigils," and "V. Bibliography") that are further divided as necessary.
§ 15 The first section, "I. Description of the Manuscript" is thorough, containing eleven subdivisions: "Date," "Physical Description," "Marginalia," "Collation," "Leaf Size and Arrangement of the Page," "Script," "Punctuation," "Decoration," "Binding," "Provenance," and "Text." All of these sections account, when necessary, for the four leaves separated from the Rawlinson manuscript and rebound with the Lansdowne manuscript. In particular, the editors deserve praise for the extensive description of the marginalia, especially that of the final verso (fol. 101) and the corresponding linked image. Too often traditional manuscript description omits such detail, presumably because it is considered extraneous to the literary text under consideration—having both a description and image of such marginalia is a thoughtful nod towards potential scholarship.
§ 16 The section entitled "Editorial Method" is, overall, scrupulous. In its first subsection, "The Color Facsimile," I was delighted to find a full description of the imaging process including camera type, resolution, and lighting. Here the Bodleian Library’s Imaging Services staff also deserve praise, as such information is not always communicated to editors of electronic texts.
§ 17 The second subsection, "II.2 Presentation of Text: Levels of Inscription," is further delineated into six parts. In these sections, the editors attempt to provide a discussion of the complicated textual history of Piers Plowman, and more specifically, of MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (R)’s role in the B manuscript tradition. It is here that the editors present their educated hypothesis that manuscript R represents the B text of the poem, separated at least twice from Langland’s own copy.
§ 18 "The Authorial Text" section is surprisingly brief, articulating the troublesome questions that persist regarding Langland’s identity and life, and that some indeterminate, but promising, links have been made between Langland and the poem’s dream-narrator. That the poem exists in three versions is stated in passing, but the editors fail to even mention that these three versions (A, B, and C) are authorial.
§ 19 In the "The B Archetype (Bx)," subdivision of "Editorial Method," and those subsections following, "The Alpha Family," "R’s Relationship with F," "The Alpha><Beta Revision Question," and "The Relationship of R to L," thorough discussions of the manuscripts under consideration, their relationship to the presumed original of the B manuscript tradition, Bx, and their relationship to each other, are presented. Here the two-manuscript "family" relationship, alpha and beta (the presumed originals of the B manuscript tradition), of B strain manuscripts is articulated. Readers may be initially bewildered at the edition proper’s citation of Bx’s readings though the reconstructed text is not yet available from the PPEA. Here in the "Introduction" the editors fairly reason that a reconstruction of Bx is outside the concerns of volume seven’s edition, yet much of the work necessary, such as transcription of the B manuscript and checks against previous collations, has enabled the editors to posit the Bx reading. This work has urged understanding of B’s manuscript tradition, even though corrections will be necessary at a later date, and so, the editors argue, it is reasonable to include the Bx readings in the textual notes. A similar rationale is provided for inclusion of alpha readings in the textual apparatus, though these are categorised as provisional . In "R’s Relationship with F," "The Alpha><Beta Revision Question," and "The Relationship of R to L," the complications of the textual history of R are addressed. Similarly, past hypotheses are discussed, and debunked, when necessary. For example, the editors are clear in their assertion that R and F were not copied from the other, and that the readings of R substantiate the precedence of L in the textual history of the B-version of Piers Plowman.
§ 20 The last two subsections of "Editorial Method" appropriately deal with the presentation of the text in the edition itself, in two further section delineations: "II.3 Presentation of the Text: Style Sheets" and "II.4 Presentation of Text: Transcriptional Policy." "Style Sheets" helpfully describes the four different style sheets. As in volume six, Scribal shows both the manuscript reading and editorial intrusion, Diplomatic shows only the manuscript text written in the text hand, Critical shows the text as it would appear after scribal correction, and AllTags displays the entire content of the manuscript page.
§ 21 The "Transcriptional Policy" reveals the meticulousness and conscientiousness of the editors. The policy is painstaking in its level of detail, just as the transcription itself proves itself to be. One disappointment, as in volume six, is the decision not to distinguish allographic forms. While the editors offer a satisfactory argument for providing graphemic, rather than graphetic, representation, asserting that a readily determinable rationale for the distribution of allographic forms is clear," the current scholarly interest in scribal writing systems and scribal identification suggests that some scholars might have found such distinction useful. Given that the PPEA uses Peter Baker’s Junicode font display programme, allograph forms could have been displayed quite easily, given that each graph would, presumably, be recorded at the initial transcription stage. Another disappointment regarding the "Transcriptional Policy is the lack of images (or links to images) accompanying the lengthy descriptions of abbreviations and suspensions. Such a practice would help the reader distinguish between forms.
§ 22 The third chapter of the "Introduction, "the "Linguistic Description, is extensive in its analysis. Its sections on phonology and morphology are thorough and would even serve as a fine introduction to Middle English forms and inflections.
§ 23 Chapters IV and V of the introduction, "Lists of Manuscript Sigils," and "Bibliography," are themselves careful, helpfully categorized for reader ease. "List of Manuscript Sigils" is divided into sub-lists for A, B, C, BA Splice, AC Splice, and ABC Splice manuscripts. The bibliography is divided into a section for editions and a section for studies.
Navigation (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 24 Both volumes are presented via the default browser called JR Viewer. The user may also choose to use the Elwood viewer, which allows for greater navigational and search facilities; however, users must first manually change the resolution of their screen (Elwood requires 1280 x 1024 pixels). Even if the user is willing to take the extra step required, not all machines offer such resolution, and so few will likely enjoy the benefits of Elwood.
§ 25 JR Viewer functions only in Internet Explorer 6.1 or higher, and only on a Windows computer. The viewer is functional, but does little to accentuate the admirable scholarly work offered by both volumes in the text files, whose use are restricted by the JR browser itself. JR executes the style sheet choices for each volume, and supplies the navigational menus in an Internet Explorer window. The navigational menus consist of seven buttons. "Back" takes the user to the previous screen, "Forward" returns the user to the original screen, and "Prev Pass" and "Next Pass" navigate to the primus passus, secondus passus, and so on. The "Style Sheets" button presents the four choices (Scribal, Diplomatic, Critical and All Tags), in a drop-down menu, along with a choice for "Show/Hide XML Tags." The "Navigator" button provides a drop-down menu with all passus of the poem. The "Contents" button is a bit confusing, as in volume six a drop-down menu of three appears, but only one choice, "Appendices" is labelled, while in volume seven a drop-down of four appears, but only two choices, "Text and notes with color facsimile in passus files," and "Appendices" are labelled. The unlabelled areas, still, successfully link to choices related to editorial matter.
§ 26 Sadly, and this is especially true given the quality of the images, the only method for obtaining a manuscript image is to click on a link (indicated by a superscript blue "I") in the transcription window. There is no procedure for navigating from one image to another—this is an absence users will surely miss. Each folio image appears in a separate Internet Explorer window, which makes a comparison with the transcription tedious, as the user has to relocate and resize the windows for possible comparison, and this method also means that it is likely that the notes on the right of the transcription window will be concealed. This method must, then, unhelpfully be repeated for each new folio or passus under consideration.
Texts (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 27 Each volume offers four different transcription versions: "Scribal," "Diplomatic," "Critical," and "All Tags," among which the differences are described in the "Introduction." Thorough investigation of each transcription version, and its underlying XML document, shows that each is scrupulously detailed and all appear highly correct (I have spot-proofed them). Each transcription contains icons which provide the hyperlink for notes to the edition, which themselves are thoroughly detailed, following a system where a red superscript "T" indicates a textual note, a red superscript "C," a codicological note, a red superscript "P," a palaeographic note, and a red "L," provides for a linguistic note.
§ 28 The texts also use colours that indicate either ink colour used in the manuscript itself, as is the case with red or blue, or colours that indicate editorial moments — aqua, grey, lime, olive, pink, purple, and violet signify different editorial interventions. Though a key is provided in the "Instructions for first-time users," I found it sometimes difficult to remember which colour signified what editorial function. Unfortunately, it is not possible to view the key while viewing the text, and so reading and understanding the text itself was unnecessarily prolonged and required some practice.
Images (vols. 6 & 7)
§ 29 In each volume, the images of the manuscripts are outstanding, making the absence of a method for scrolling through the image files via the JR Viewer even more frustrating. The user can, of course, view the images in a photo viewer and perhaps find scroll functions there. This method also proved useful in finding the image properties, especially for volume six, whose image details of Hm are disappointingly not detailed in the "Introduction."
§ 30 The images for San Marino, Huntington Library Hm 128 (Hm, Hm2 in volume six) are JPG files mostly in the range of 1 to 3 MB at a resolution of 300 dpi. Oddly, it seems that only the flyleaf images include a cm scale and a grey-scale and colour strip. This tool would be useful if it had been included in all images.
§ 31 The images for London, British Library 398 and Oxford Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (R, in volume seven) are JPG files in the 2 to 3 MB range, at a resolution of 600 dpi. A cm scale and grey-scale and colour strip accompany every image.
§ 32 The work represented by both volumes six and seven of the PPEA is of exceeding value to the scholarly community. The editions themselves are invaluable contributions to Middle English textual scholarship, and represent a worthy achievement in the field of digital editing. The introductory materials present textual and linguistic analyses that are significant achievements in work on the textual history of Piers Plowman, and should be read by scholars and students of Middle English literature, manuscripts, and textual history, as they illustrate the sort of insight that can be garnered by such diligent work. The limitations of the volumes are due to those of default browser (JR) and the system requirements. I sincerely hope the PPEA will explore implementing functionality for Mac users in addition to already serving Windows users, and implementing a choice of web-browser, or at least using one that is better appreciated by users. Additionally, the scholarly community would be well served if the PPEA were to examine the longevity issues related to publication via CD and explore possible solutions. Middle English literary and textual scholarship would become deficient should the contents on these discs become unusable. It is paramount that such advanced and worthy scholarship remains available for Middle English students and scholars.
Duggan, Hoyt N., with a contribution by Eugene W. Lyman. 2005. A Progress report on the Piers Plowman electronic archive. Digital Medievalist 1.1. http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/duggan/
McIntosh, Angus, M.L. Samuels, and M. Benskin. 1986. Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1459 |
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Steal This Headline!
The last month's excitement in the Plame investigation has left all sorts of Loose Ends and Stories Unpursued. With a slow news month looming before us, enterprising journalists (and bloggers!) might be able to turn some of the following ideas into bylines. Here we go:
"Russert - "I Told Libby About Plame": Ok, why would Tim Russert let a rival reporter break this news? Good question. Maybe he would like to avoid the awkwardness of outing himself on his own show; maybe no one ever cared enough to ask. (Maybe it's not true - let's find out).
In any case, Russert let NBC release a weaselly denial after he testified to Fitzgerald under circumstances that caught the imagination of Adam Liptak of the Times:
Mr. Russert's testimony last August provides intriguing clues. A statement issued by NBC at the time suggests that Mr. Libby had told Mr. Fitzgerald that he had heard about Ms. Wilson from Mr. Russert.
According to the statement, lawyers for Mr. Russert and Mr. Fitzgerald reached an agreement under which Mr. Fitzgerald questioned Mr. Russert only about Mr. Russert's end of a conversation in early July 2003 with Mr. Libby. That would be an unusual way to go about pursuing a leak inquiry, but it is consistent with an attempt to try to establish that Mr. Russert provided information to Mr. Libby.
Mr. Russert, however, according to the NBC statement, said "he did not know Ms. Plame's name or that she was a C.I.A. operative and that he did not provide that information to Mr. Libby." Indeed, the statement said, Mr. Russert first learned the information from Mr. Novak's column.
A spokeswoman for NBC declined to elaborate on the statement yesterday.
"He did not know her name?" And he didn't call her an operative. Well, that covers it!
Mr. Russert was virtually speechless two weeks ago when the subject arose on his own show - maybe a reporter could pry a story out of him.
"Joe Wilson Interviewed By Fitzgerald": the case can be made that Joe Wilson has been interviewed by Fitzgerald's investigators. Well - did the investigators ask about the forgeries that baffled the Senate? Or, for our friends on the left, was Wilson able to infer any targets of the investigation?
And why do we think that Wilson has chatted with Fitzgerald's people? Elementary - per the WaPo, Fitzgerald has taken testimony from a fellow mentioned (but not named) in Wilson's book. Presumably, Fitzgerald would want confirmation of the person's identity and a contemporaneous account from Wilson. It appears that Wilson spoke to the WaPo for their story, so he is not incommunicado.
And a side note - in the WaPo, it says that "Novak told the person that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA as a specialist in weapons of mass destruction and had arranged her husband's trip to Niger, Wilson said." And no doubt he did. But in his book, Wilson quoted Novak as saying "Wilson's an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She's a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him".
Hmm - "sent" is not as strong as "arranged", especially following the broad "The CIA sent him". And where is the word "operative", which appeared in Novak's column?
Lots of questions for Mr. Wilson, if anyone cares to ask.
[UPDATE: In an Aug 4 radio appearance, Wilson says this:
JOSEPH WILSON: I have not spoken to Pat Fitzgerald for almost a year-and-a-half. I was interviewed by him once early in his tenure. My wife was interviewed by him once early in his tenure in a separate interview from mine, and neither of us have spoken to him since. We have not been before the Grand Jury. We're not part of this case. And, of course, he has appropriately not shared with us any information he might have. So anything that I might know would be just pure speculation.
Oh, well.]
While on the subject of Joe Wilson's secret friend, here is another possible headline - "Eason Jordan, formerly of CNN, Cooperated With Fitzgerald's Investigation". Again, we are guessing, but in Wilson's book, he says that after he learned from his friend that Novak was contemplating a column mentioning his wife, he called Eason Jordan of CNN (Novak's "titular boss") to urge Mr. Jordan to dissuade Novak. My strong impression is that Special Counsel Fitzgerald is running down every detail, so what did he ask Mr. Jordan, and how would Mr. Jordan characterize his chat with the investigators?
It is similar in theme to the Eason Jordan story, but different versions of this headline might capture attention: [Well Known Reporter] Cooperated With Plame Investigation. How many reporters have given evidence? Good question - let's watch the NY Times puzzle with it:
Adam Liptak, July 16:
Four reporters have testified in the investigation: Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post, Tim Russert of NBC News and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine.
Mr. Liptak notes that Novak's status is not known, and that Judy Miller is in jail for civil contempt.
Anne Kornblut, July 27:
Few if any reporters who traveled with Mr. Fleischer, Mr. Bartlett and the White House entourage that week have been called to testify before the grand jury.
Douglas Jehl, July 28
In addition to Mr. Pincus, the reporters known to have been pursued by the special prosecutor include Mr. Novak, whose column of July 14, 2003, was the first to identify Ms. Wilson, by her maiden name, Valerie Plame; Mr. Cooper, who testified before a grand jury on the matter earlier this month; Tim Russert, the Washington bureau chief of NBC News, and who was interviewed by the prosecutor last year; Glenn Kessler, a diplomatic reporter for The Post, who was also interviewed last year, and Judith Miller of The New York Times, who is now in jail for refusing to testify about the matter. It is not known whether Mr. Novak has testified or been interviewed on the matter.
Emphasis added - evidently, the Times has become less certain of this point over the last two weeks.
So, what other reporters might have caught the attention of the Special Counsel? Per this list from Newsday from March 2004, we see quite a few names that appeared in the White House phone logs. Now, an entry in the phone logs does not mean a conversation occurred - sometimes it is just a message that the reporter called, but the person at the White House end never calls back. However, this seems like the sort of detail Fitzgerald would want to verify. Consequently, all of these reporters should have been contacted by investigators - have they been (or has no one asked?)?
And for what it's worth, rather than trouble us with a list of names which included Kristof, Sanger, and Miller of the Times, here is how the Times covered that revelation last March 2004; the WaPo at least mentioned that "approximately 25 [reporters]... were specified by name".
OK, two more places to look for a story, we are in the home stretch!
Conservative Journalist Confirms Plame Spy ID Was Widely Known: In the "Trust, but Verify" folder, we see that Cliff May, writing at the National Review Online, told us in Sept 2003 that:
I had been told that [Ms. Plame was a CIA operative] — but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of.
It may well be that insiders were well aware of her employment at the CIA. However, almost two years have passed and none of these insiders have come forward to say so. If Mr. May could amplify or clarify his anecdote, there is no time like the present.
And while on that point, we have yet to see a clear transcript or public citation of Andrea Mitchell making a similar admission in July 2005.
[However, hiding in plain sight at the NBC News blog is Ms. Mitchell writing on July 15:
One of a number of intriguing questions: During that 10-day period in July 2003, how many reporters were circulating information about Wilson's wife to administration officials? More than a few, but clearly some failed to realize how seriously the CIA would take the disclosure of a covert officer's identity. Nor, clearly, did at least two administration officials who were the sources for Novak's column.
"More than a few"?!? If we count Russert (to Libby), Cooper (to Libby), Novak (to Rove) and Miller (to Libby), is that "more than a few", or does Ms. Mitchell have more reporters in mind? And by the way, is she a reporter, or a contestant on "20 Questions" - maybe she could clear this puzzle up for her audience *without* our prompting her.]
Finally, "Former CIA Spokesman Documents Warning To Novak": Bill Harlow, former CIA spokesperson, warned Novak not to publish information about Ms. Plame when Novak checked with the CIA in July 2003. Ahh, but how forcefully did he warn him, and why did Novak ignore him?
We don't know, but we know this - Wilson claims, again, in his book, that his wife alerted the CIA press office [on July 10] after the secret friend talked with Novak on July 8.
[Mini UPDATE: Per Wilson's book, on July 8, Wilson asked Eason Jordan to have Novak call him; Novak called Wilson on July 9, and they played phone tag until they finally spoke on July 10. From Wilson's book:
Novak had still been trolling for sources when we spoke on the telephone, so I assumed that he did not have the confirmations he would need from the CIA to publish the story. I told Valerie, who alerted the press liason at the CIA, and we were left with the reasonable expectation that any reference to her would be dropped, since he would have no way of confirming the information - unless, of course, he got confirmations from another part of the government, such as the White House.
Or if the CIA press liason confirmed that she worked at the CIA, I guess that could do the trick. Why Wilson called Eason Jordan right away but waited two days to tell his wife and the CIA press liason is left as a guess for the reader.]
We also know that in a typical bureaucracy, a monumental miscommunication of this magnitude - nationally syndicated columnist ignores CIA press officer and outs covert agent - would have resulted in some internal soul searching, which would have led to memos or minutes with themes of "What Went Wrong" and "How We Will Improve".
We also know that, when the CIA is not comfortable with the cooperation they are getting from a reporter, they are not shy about calling his editor or publisher. That did not seem to happen here, based on Howard Kurtz's quotes from two of Novak's editors.
However, we have no doubt that, if the CIA was as agitated in July 2003 as Mr. Harlow describes it to have been, there will be plenty of evidence to document it. Someone ought to ask him about that.
Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler has been tireless on the weak effort undertaken by Mr. Harlow to warn Mr. Novak off. Here is his Tuesday installment.
OK, lots to do while we sit and wait for Novak (or Pincus, or Libby, or Rove, or Tenet) to have their Perry Mason moment, break down in tears, and confess.
UPDATE: An extract from a brutal, easily verified comment by a regular here:
There is a procedure to follow if the spokesman or anyone from the public affairs dept (or whatever the CIA calls it) is asked to confirm any information involving someone's employment by the CIA. He must immediately check the status of that individual. If he doesn't, or if he does and the employee is undercover, he is to neither confirm or deny that information.
Harlow confirmed that Valery worked at the CIA. THEN he looked up her status. He blew it.
At that point all he could do is request that Novak not print, but the horse was already out of the barn.
Well, if the CIA press office really did get a heads-up from Ms. Plame about Novak on July 8 July 10 (and why would Wilson be wrong about this? [Hmmph, why would I be wrong about this - make it July 10]), then Harlow has no excuse at all for not having apprised himself of Ms. Plame's status prior to speaking with Novak. Instead, based on what he told the WaPo, he talked with Novak, then double-checked her status, then called Novak back. Did he not get the heads-up? Is my commenter's description of CIA procedure wrong? Or are there serious problems with Harlow's story?
However, I still say the barn door could have been re-locked simply by calling Novak's editor.
In any case, reporters ought to know, or the CIA press office ought to be willing to say, what the standard CIA procedures are. Calling Pincus and VandeHei!
Posted by Tom Maguire on August 02, 2005 | Permalink
Jeff - if you are having trouble with the image of Cheney sitting in his office being told that the CIA knows nothing more, then smiling and saying, "well, next order of business", I have to admit - that doesn't sound like our boy.
OTOH, regardless of wht it was that confused Cambell Brown's pretty little head, she does sound funny saying "BROWN: Hey, look, come on. I talked to him. I interviewed him right after his...".
Now, lots of newsies were confused about just what Wilson was alleging - I ran the Wolf Blitzer quote from , too " BLITZER: Supposedly, it came at the request of the vice president.". But that can't all be blamed on Admin spin and Strawman Creationism, after Wilson's phony chats with Kristof and Pincus.
As to the "enforced leave of absence" - maybe that means something else to the Brits, like "fixing the intelligence".
But the SSCI report came out July 9, 2004, one year ago. And the Telegraph says:
While Miller languishes in jail, Mrs Wilson has quietly returned to work at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a year's unpaid leave. Her work remains classified, although she is no longer a covert operative.
She spent much of her enforced leave of absence helping to counsel women suffering from postnatal depression...
from which we infer she has gone back recently. Odd coincidence.
Posted by: TM | August 04, 2005 at 12:32 PM
PATRICK: "Wilson had been spending months talking to reporters ... went public himself ... the truth was going to come out, and Valerie Plame's role was part of it."
Irrelevant, with regard to the behavior of Rove et al. Even if one accepts the idea that both Wilson and Plame are creeps, liars and traitors (or even, horror of horrors, Democrats), none of that gives Rove a free pass to out an agent.
For Rove to claim "Wilson was already outing Plame, so I figured I could do it too" is like a teacher saying "I saw a kid throwing rocks at the school bus, so I figured I could do it too."
"it [Wilson's oped] withheld from readers what the CIA thought was the single most important bit of info he'd brought back from Niger."
If the CIA thought the 1999 matter was so important then it's hard to explain why Tenet reacted to Wilson's oped by admitting that the 16 words never should have been in the SOTU. Likewise for why the CIA moved to remove similar words from Bush's earlier speech (October, Ohio).
By the way, Wilson explained why the 1999 matter didn't add up to much (pdf): "The fact that there was a meeting or a visit in which uranium was not discussed does not translate into purchased a significant quantities of uranium. The fact that there was a meeting that was not taken, that was not held, but had it been held, one of the participants opines that perhaps uranium might have been one of the things that this guy might have wanted to discuss, does not suggest uranium sales or significant quantities of uranium from Niger to Iraq. So, those were both--I thought those were both really red herrings."
"evidence to support allegations that Iraq was seeking uranium"
We've been through this. "Seeking" implies currently, as Bush approached by saying "recently." The idea that Saddam might have once done it a long time ago is not support for "seeking." And even Bush in his SOTU did not claim "seeking." He said "sought."
In other words, part of what Wilson said is this (paraphrase): "as far as I can tell, Saddam is not currently seeking uranium from Niger." This in itself is not a direct challenge to Bush, since Bush did not say "Saddam is currently seeking uranium from Niger." Bush came damn close to that, though (by saying "recently").
You're taking exactly the same kind of propagandistic approach to semantics that is used to defend Bush for saying "he wouldn't let them in" (as if it was OK to pretend that this continued to always be true, merely because it was once true some time ago).
Posted by: jukeboxgrad | August 04, 2005 at 12:33 PM
GOY: "IIRC, there was pervasive opinion within the CIA that favored a hands-off approach to Iraq, wasn't there?"
Pre-war, Bush et al complained that CIA was too soft on Iraq. Now Bush et al want to put the blame on CIA for being too hard on Iraq. Not impressive.
"Why should the WH have graced Wilson's accusations with a direct response?"
It's not as if the White House is claiming that Wilson's oped was unimportant. If they did make such a claim, you might have a point. But they didn't. On the contrary. The White House claims that Wilson's oped was important and wrong, and that the White House needed to set the record straight. So why not set the record straight by simply presenting facts which were contrary to Wilson's findings? Answer: because they didn't have any.
"And how was his character 'assassinated' by the WH?"
By essentially calling him a liar (example), and almost exclusively with regard to issues which at best were only indirectly related to what really mattered, which is the factual content of his report.
"Do you think UN inspectors spent all those fruitless months in Iraq"
What's all this about inspectors? Are you really sure there were inspectors there? Because Bush told us (on at least two occasions) that "he [Saddam] wouldn't let them in." Sen. Roberts said essentially the same thing. So I think you should check your facts. Bush wouldn't lie about something like this, would he?
Patrick - What I'm talking about are the discrepancies within the SSCI itself between what Wilson told the Committee staff and what the intelligence report based on his trip, drafted by others, said. If you look at the SSCI report pp. 43-44, it's clearly true that Wilson thought, and told the Committee, that his trip refuted the possibility that, as least with regard to the allegations at that point, Iraq sought urnaium in Niger. The intelligence report hung a lot on one comment from a third party and how the report reported the former Nigerian Prime Minister interpreted that remark at the time, apparently leaving out what actually happened at the meeting, which had nothing to do with uranium, a futher fact that Wilson had to supply to the committee. There was, evidently, little or no discussion of trade of any kind. One interesting question, then, is why did what the intelligence report said and what Wilson said differ? Did the DO officers who drafted the report selectively use and interpret contra Wilson's own intentions what he told them on March 5 2002?
Posted by: Jeff | August 04, 2005 at 12:37 PM
RALPH: "The British still stand by that claim"
The British have shown nothing resembling proof. The best they can do is "trust me." Now that most Americans believe Bush misled us (with UK collusion), "trust me" doesn't cut it anymore.
"The White House never claimed that yellowcake had been purchased."
Bush did indeed make a claim regarding "recently" and "significant quantities." I guess I should add you to the long list of people who have failed to show any meaningful basis for those words.
By the way, Bush hiding behind "don't blame me, I only quoted the British" is very much like Power Line saying (implicitly) "don't blame me, I only quoted Hilail Gildin." It's almost like Bush and PL are working from the same "How to Be a Republican Propagandist in Ten Easy Steps" playbook.
"that does not make the Administration's words a 'lie.'"
That's not exactly what Wilson said, at least not at first. Wilson made this somewhat different claim, which I find moderate and appropriate: "if the president had been referring to Niger, then his conclusion was not borne out by the facts as I understood them."
BORIS: "Since the PDBs did not mention teams of suicide terrorists weilding box cutters killing the pilots and flying into buildings"
The PDB also didn't specify flight numbers and seat numbers. So what? There had indeed been a prior warning about suicide terrorists flying planes into those exact buildings. And there had been one or more previous attempts regarding suicide terrorists using commercial planes as a missile. So the PDB was a serious warning, and it was not treated as such. It's not just that Bush didn't prevent 9/11. It's that there's no sign that he even held a single meeting to discuss the various warnings that were being circulated. Too busy clearing brush.
"at the time boxcutters were not considered a security problem"
The "boxcutters" story is fiction (link).
"enforced leave of absence"
Maybe May is somehow referring to what was mentioned here weeks ago (Mac also mentioned this). And more about "unpaid leave" here.
TM: "My idea is that, if I bug them enough, the Powerguys, or somebody, will respond."
I wonder if your idea of bugging them includes holding them accountable for failing to run a correction/update.
Then again, there's your own missing update regarding the CIA/airline story, so I guess I shouldn't hold my breath.
Caution: if you do the right thing (on either of these points), your hard-earned status as a partisan hack might be endangered.
"Ms. Mitchel was admitting that *after* Wilson ID'ed himself, lots of reporters learned about his wife?"
Not sure where you're going with this, but I want to point out again that even _if_ Wilson was careless (or worse), that was not a free pass for Rove to out Plame.
"this 'what are you going to believe, me or your lying ears' exchange is a classic."
I have no idea what about that exchange you find presumably damaging to Wilson.
Mrs. Wilson's disclosure of suffering from post-partum depression could have had some implications as to the status of her own clearance and presumably if her clearance was in question the whole issue of cover would probably follow as well. Total speculation on my part, but, hey, a little more grist for the rumor mill.
Posted by: Joe | August 04, 2005 at 12:47 PM
TM - From my experience here, it is difficult to get righties to acknowledge that Wilson's trip was triggered by and responsive to question(s) about Niger-Iraq-uranium asked by Cheney (and perhaps his office). I presume that is because once you admit that, then Wilson's claim that Cheney asked a question and his trip was part of answering it is pretty difficult to deny -- and the issue of whether Cheney either specifically requested that Wilson go to Niger or even that anyone take a trip to Niger becomes basically irrelevant. Cheney wanted more information on the alleged deal or the alleged seeking of a deal -- which is how both the CIA and the INR understood it. Wilson was highlighting the fact that his trip was caused by the Vice President's interest. What difference does it make whether the VP said, send someone or send Wilson to Niger? Evidently, newsies didn't make the distinction. But, again, so what?
On the output side, as I have begun tirelessly repeating, we still don't know what Cheney (or someone in his office) actually learned of the info gathered from Wilson, and when he knew it. Wilson is right that it should have gotten to Cheney, and he was on good grounds in assuming it did. Now, if the White House had said, those 16 words never should have appeared in the SOTU, but in fact Joe Wilson is wrong, no word of the results of Wilson's trip ever reached us, which is a monumental screw-up, and here's how it happened -- then, fine. But instead they went on their twin attacks of Wilson, bringing in the utterly irrelevant business about his wife, and on the CIA.
CATHYF: "the notion that a guy [Saddam] who has stolen 20-some billion-with-a-b dollars can't buy whatever he wants [uranium] in a poverty-struck 3rd-world country is PIMP laughable."
It isn't necessarily that Wilson was claiming Saddam _couldn't_ do it. Wilson was claiming that Saddam couldn't do it (spirit away several weeks or months worth of Niger's uranium production, which is what is implied by "significant quantities;" note that 500 tons would be two months of production, for all of Niger) without being _found out_, promptly and easily. I haven't seen anyone present a serious argument contrary to this.
"So the February 23, 1998 al Qeda Fatwah gives as causus belli the invasion of Iraq"
The document you cite is explicitly signed by groups based in Egypt, Pakistan and Bangla Desh. But because one of things it complains about is our ostensible "aggression against the Iraqi people," this is tantamount to proving that Iraq was behind 9/11? This is way over my head. Maybe you can explain this huge leap you've taken.
This would be like if McVeigh claimed he was upset by anti-Catholicism, so we decide to respond to Oklahome City by razing the Vatican. Logical, right?
ETIENNE: "Bush's decision to include unverified rumors in such an important SOTU"
Yes. And it is often overlooked that similar words were wisely removed from an earlier speech, and then they mysteriously crept back in, apparently due to suspiciously convenient memory lapses. And then Rice "disassembled" in her description of what happened (link).
JIM E: "That quote -- even if written in jest -- pretty much exemplifies the tribal nature of many of the right-wingers on this website."
You were referring to this from Kim: "If he can find his way through the maze to find Joe as the villain, we'll declare him intelligent."
That goes hand-in-hand with this from Kim: "If you can't accept my sweeping declarations as truth, despite repitition, then I'll hope you can change."
TOMMY: "You could use unedifying as something other than distasteful depending on the dictionary you use."
A bit of an understatement. I'm having a hard time finding any dictionary that provides support for the claim you seem to still be making, that "unedifying" is, even sometimes, some kind of a synonym for "distasteful." Just curious if you actually have such a dictionary.
"You're still harping about 'mission accomplished'?"
It's not "harping." It's appropriately calling attention to a major example of how Bush et al are outlandishly out-of-touch with reality ("last throes," anyone?).
"I've been reading you for a while and I still have no idea what you believe other than if Bush does it, you don't like it."
I've been reading you for a while and I still have no idea what you believe other than if Bush does it, you're likely to make a knee-jerk defense of it.
"So even if Wilson concluded ... who and what exacty was he correcting?"
He was making an important comment about "recently" and "significant quantities" (I realize those words had not yet been said publicly, but the specious ideas behind those words were already floating around, at the time he returned from Niger). He was also underlining what many in the IC already knew: that even if Saddam had made attempts, or did make attempts, he was unlikely to succeed because there were significant barriers (especially barriers to doing it without getting caught). This is something important that Bush et al never got around to mentioning, for some strange reason.
"If my memory serves that [Plame sent Wilson] was never Cheney's assertion."
It appears to have been Rove's assertion. Last time I checked Rove and Cheney were on the same team (to say the least).
JEFF: "Cheney clarifies his role in Niger-Iraq fiasco"
Very nice job taking a close look at Cheney's weasel-words on this subject.
"it makes no difference whether in her professional capacity his wife played some, apparently minor role in the trip -- which, moreover, Wilson would have been bound by law not to reveal, right?"
Good point, which is consistently overlooked. It should also be understood that Wilson did acknowledge in his book (p. 5) that Plame played a minor role.
(For some reason those amazon links eventually go stale, but it's easy enough to find the page.)
STEVEN J: "It's in HTML so text functions like 'find' work on it, unlike the PDF for the SSCI."
There's a SSCI pdf floating around that is not text-searchable. However, this one is.
I realize the html version might have certain advantages, nevertheless.
Speaking of text-searchable, Wilson's book is on Amazon in that form.
jukeboxgrad:
However, I think it's not necesarily helpful to go too far in the direction of treating Novak's call as something routine (and therefore easy to handle via generic guidelines).
But you can also interpret Harlow's statement as the call was too routine. Novak called Harlow and asked if Plame worked for the CIA, and Harlow, knowing that she was an WMD analyst, just assumed she was non-covert. Since Harlow is (obviously) a non-covert CIA employee, we know that he would eat in the non-covert-employee cafeteria. If he saw Plame-Wilson there all the time, too, even had lunch at the same table a couple of times, then that would be another thing that would naturally make him assume that she was non-covert.
We have this little mystery of Harlow's own description of his actions -- first he told Novak that Plame was CIA in the process of telling him that the "Plame sent Wilson" story was wrong, and then he went back and "confirmed" that Plame was undercover by checking. And THEN he called Novak back to ask him not to publish her CIA connection. If what happened is that he just assumed that she was not covert because she was an analyst and because she didn't act covert, and then when he checked discovered that she was (inexplicably) still classified as undercover, then he was sh***ing in his pants because he knew he had disclosed classified info.
It also fits what has been Novak's story from the beginning -- that he knew Plame was an analyst and it never occurred to him she was undercover until Joe Wilson started sqawking, and that when he used the word "operative" he meant "hack bureaucrat" not "secret agent." Yes, yes, I understand that Novak may not have the highest credibility around, and the story is obviously self-serving. But on the other hand, the "it was all a freak accident because I used the word 'operative' and this set Joe Wilson off and then we all started wondering if she was covert and figured out that she was" story has its own rather simple credibility in and of itself. As Billy Occam taught me, I always prefer an explanation of sloppiness and misunderstanding as opposed to a complex evil-genius conspiracy.
Posted by: cathyf | August 04, 2005 at 01:22 PM
which had nothing to do with uranium ... There was, evidently, little or no discussion of trade of any kind.
So which is it? little ... or no ?
Funny how this poster knows that a mystery inquiry between Iraq and a country who's most notable export is uranium ore, has nothing to do with that particular export.
What was the inquiry about ??? don't know
Possibly uranium ??? definately not
How do you know ??? because if had been about uranium we would know that and since we don't know, it couldn't have been
What kind of kook logic is that ??? because nothing is as it seems
I am always skeptical about what someone with an agenda "fails to report evidence of".
Posted by: boris | August 04, 2005 at 01:31 PM
Oh my God, Juke. Stop. You are killing the conversation.
You do not get points for length. It does not somehow add to your credibility.
Posted by: Tommy V | August 04, 2005 at 01:44 PM
boris - It's unclear to me what "inquiry" you're talking about, and I suspect once again you've simply bought in, as authoritative, to certain right-wing spin. Look at the SSCI report, p. 44: Wilson clarifies what appears from p. 43 to be a rather misleading characterization in the intellegence report based on his trip, which makes it sound like the meeting whose substance concerned expanding trade relations, interpreted to be about uranium, took place. On p.44, Wilson makes clear that at the meeting between the Nigerien and Iraqis there was no discussion of uranium -- at least, that's how I interpret the line that Mayaki and the Iraqis "never discussed what was meant by 'expanded commercial relations'," which, remember, was never uttered by the Iraqis from what we can tell, but only by a third party. When I said that there was little or no talk of trade at all, I was being careful in how I characterized what Wilson said Mayaki said about what was said in the meeting. Mayaki made a successful effort to steer the conversation away from a discussion of trade with the Iraqi delegation. Does that mean that Mayaki opened the door and said, "Welcome, gentlemen and -women, let's talk about how how regard we have for Iraq as the cradle of civiliation etc etc"? Or did the Iraqis say, "We're here to talk about trade," at which point Mayaki said, "Isn't it hot in Iraq this time of year? How's the air conditioning there? How is Dear Leader? etc etc" In either case, what Wilson says means, it seems pretty clear, that there was little or no talk of trade in general, and none about uranium. From the ISG report, it sounds like the Iraqis may wanted to invite the Nigeriens to Iraq, since they had been willing to travel to Libya under sanctions. And it sounds like when there was talk of trade later -- in 2001 in Iraq -- it was the Nigeriens looking for assistance in obtaining petroleum products, with no discussion of anything other than cash payments.
Cliff May at the corner points to curious employment of Plame via the London Telegraph...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/10/wcia10.xml
"...Mrs Wilson has quietly returned to work at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a year's unpaid leave. Her work remains classified, although she is no longer a covert operative.
She spent much of her enforced leave of absence..."
Here is C. Mays post
"NEW CLUES IN THE MYSTERY OF VALERIE PLAME [Cliff May]
A recent article in the London Telegraph reports that Valerie Plame has been on an “enforced leave of absence” -- that she has been on “unpaid leave for a year.”
Now at first you might think, OK, sure, after Bob Novak wrote that she was a “CIA operative” and the Nation’s David Corn wrote that she had been a “top-secret” agent -- providing details about her work and even her cover story -- the CIA would give her a vacation.
But Novak and Corn wrote about Plame in July 2003.
If the Telegraph is correct, she was not put on “unpaid leave of absence” until a full year later, around July 2004. Why?
One also might think she voluntarily decided to take some time off but then it wouldn’t be an “enforced leave of absence,“ would it?
There also is this intriguing tidbit: According to The New York Times, a former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, is filing a lawsuit against the agency because he was dismissed in 2004 – the same year that Plame was put on “enforced leave of absence.”
What’s more, the fired CIA officer “worked in the same unit of the agency” as Plame. And his lawyer “likened his client's situation to that of Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame.”
I don’t claim to know how to put these pieces together. You have any bright ideas, Dr. Watson?"
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_07_31_corner-archive.asp#071961
Posted by: peapies | August 04, 2005 at 02:22 PM
Wilson Makes News! Responsive to TM's plea? Talked to Fitzgerald
Wilson today on Democracy Now, along with Waas:
I mean, I – again, I haven't seen the special prosecutor for almost a year-and-a-half.
Still reading for more.
I'd be a little skeptical of anything the Telegraph reports. They broke the Alexandra Polier/John Kerry story, complete with faked quotes.
Posted by: Steven J. | August 04, 2005 at 02:46 PM
I characterized what Wilson said Mayaki said about what was said in the meeting.
so .... basically right wingers are not credible but this is ???
there was a meeting yes? yes
no further questions
CATHYF: "Harlow, knowing that she was an WMD analyst, just assumed she was non-covert"
Is there any basis (aside from pure speculation on your part) that Harlow ever "assumed," or said, or acted as if, Plame was "non-covert?"
"when he [Novak] used the word 'operative' he meant 'hack bureaucrat' not 'secret agent.'"
This is a quite a tooth-fairy story, since when you look up the word in the dictionary you don't see "hack bureaucrat," but you do see "secret agent."
Some very interesting research on Novak's historical use of the word "operative" is here, also demontrating that Novak said what he meant and meant what he said.
"it was all a freak accident"
Rove told Cooper Plame was CIA, and worked in WMD. This was far from an accident.
"I always prefer an explanation of sloppiness and misunderstanding as opposed to a complex evil-genius conspiracy."
Those two perspectives are far from mutually exclusive. By the way, if it was all just an innocent misunderstanding, it's hard to understand why Rove said something like "double super secret background." It's also hard to understand why the White House covered this up for a couple of years.
boris -- ooh, there was a meeting, case closed. Seriously, what on earth do you take the fact that there was a meeting between Mayaki and an Iraqi delegation to show?
Seriously, what on earth ...
After 911 connecting dots was considered a good thing. It's a dot.
First of all, it was not a dot. The whole question was whether it was a dot. Wilson judged it was not -- and, to paraphrase Judith Miller, he was proved fucking right. What's more, this judgment made perfect sense at the moment. Second, your first sentence effectively describes the stance of the Bush administration: they wanted the dots of Iraq and 9-11 connected, and so they pushed hard to find dots connected with issues connected with either of those, and then to connect them. That is just no way to run a foreign policy.
Well, Harlow told Novak that Plame was employed by the CIA. I call that acting as if she was non-covert.
Posted by: J Mann | August 04, 2005 at 04:29 PM
Jeff says: "From my experience here, it is difficult to get righties to acknowledge that Wilson's trip was triggered by and responsive to question(s) about Niger-Iraq-uranium asked by Cheney . . ."
I asked before, and I'll ask again: Why does it matter whether Cheney sent Wilson?
As far as I can see there are only two reasons. First, if the VP's office was involved in selecting him, they, in a sense, vouched for his credibility. Second, if the VP's office sent him, it would be hard to deny that they were apprised of his conclusions.
If, on the other hand, Wilson was sent on the mission without the approval or knowledge of the VP, even if the trip was "triggered by and responsive" to some questions posed at some time by Cheney, neither of these reasons for mattering apply. So, what does it prove?
Posted by: MJW | August 04, 2005 at 04:42 PM
First of all, it was not a dot. The whole question was whether it was a dot. Wilson judged it was not
In hindsight what is and is not a dot is a lot easier to determine. At the time I would have considered it a dot, but then I'm a right winger. If you don't want right wingers deciding what is or isn't a dot then you shouldn't vote for them. When you lose elections you don't get to decide how things get done.
After 911 ... Iraq ... Niger ... meeting ... DOT
Coals-to-Newcastle-like, juke hauls in more impaired logic:
'Even if one accepts the idea that both Wilson and Plame are creeps, liars and traitors (or even, horror of horrors, Democrats), none of that gives Rove a free pass to out an agent.'
Nice serving of red herring. Rove's story is that he told one journalist what other journalists had told him. That's no crime, even if it turned out that Plame was covert.
' For Rove to claim "Wilson was already outing Plame, so I figured I could do it too" is like a teacher saying "I saw a kid throwing rocks at the school bus, so I figured I could do it too." '
No, Once Plame's CIA job was out in the open, she's a 'public good', like a radio broadcast that, if one person can hear it, everyone can. Throwing rocks at school bus is 'rival and excludable', hence each discreet act is new damage. (And, I fully expect that Samuelsonian analysis to go over your head)
'If the CIA thought the 1999 matter was so important...'
They didn't. They only thought it the best bit of info Wilson returned with. Read the SSCI report, "No one" thought he had much of anything, so his information was not transmitted to the VP.
'... then it's hard to explain why Tenet reacted to Wilson's oped by admitting that the 16 words never should have been in the SOTU.'
It's not hard to explain, but it was stupid of him to do so.
'By the way, Wilson explained why the 1999 matter didn't add up to much...'
Backing and filling.
' "The fact that there was a meeting or a visit in which uranium was not discussed does not translate into purchased a significant quantities of uranium.'
Right there Wilson is changing his ground. Bush didn't say, 'purchased'. He said 'sought'. Personal friend of Al Gore,Bob Somerby, even saw through that.
'...The fact that there was a meeting that was not taken, that was not held, but had it been held, one of the participants opines that perhaps uranium might have been one of the things...'
And the other thing Baghdad Bob wanted to buy was...goat's milk?
' "Seeking" implies currently'
The phrase 'was seeking' is past tense. 'Is seeking', present. But, Bush said 'sought'.
'... The idea that Saddam might have once done it a long time ago is not support for "seeking." And even Bush in his SOTU did not claim "seeking." He said "sought." '
Meaning Wilson is really, really stupid.
'In other words, part of what Wilson said is this (paraphrase): "as far as I can tell, Saddam is not currently seeking uranium from Niger."'
Which isn't what he was sent to to look for. Nor, was it his job to come to a conclusion. He was supposed to gather information, and leave it to the pros to analyze it. Which they did, and their conclusions were different from his (again, read the SSCI FACTS).
'This in itself is not a direct challenge to Bush, since Bush did not say "Saddam is currently seeking uranium from Niger." Bush came damn close to that, though (by saying "recently").'
Which is followed by a nice bit of projection on your part:
'You're taking exactly the same kind of propagandistic approach to semantics...'
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | August 04, 2005 at 05:12 PM
'If you look at the SSCI report pp. 43-44, it's clearly true that Wilson thought, and told the Committee, that his trip refuted the possibility...'
About which, he was wrong, and the analysts who saw his debriefing knew it. Speaking of reading the SSCI report.
'...The intelligence report hung a lot on one comment from a third party...'
Otherwise known as Wilson's source. But, the report DIDN'T put a lot into that. READ THE DAMN SSCI report, it said that no one thought Wilson found out much, but that the one thing he did bring back that was new was the meeting with an Iraqi (later identified as Baghdad Bob) who wanted to talk about 'trade'--which would mean uranium.
'...why did what the intelligence report said and what Wilson said differ? Did the DO officers who drafted the report selectively use and interpret contra Wilson's own intentions what he told them on March 5 2002?'
DUMBKOPF, Wilson wasn't the analyst, he was a mere data gatherer. They didn't ask him to make a conclusion, that was their job. All this proves is that Wilson is an egomaniac living in a Walter Mitty dreamworld where he's the only thing standing between civilization and Bushitler.
'From my experience here, it is difficult to get righties to acknowledge that Wilson's trip was triggered by and responsive to question(s) about Niger-Iraq-uranium asked by Cheney . . .'
That's because the righties have better command of the facts and logic. Wilson's trip was 'triggered' by reports of a sale of uranium. The embassy in Niger send a cable saying it ought to be looked into.
That PRECEEDED Cheney's inquiries, so making a big deal out of Cheney's interest is clearly gratuitous. Unless you're a Kerry supporting, Bush-Cheney hating, washed up third rate former diplomat who'd like to get a foreign policy in a Kerry White House because you're a hero to them.
J MANN: "Harlow told Novak that Plame was employed by the CIA"
As far as I can tell, Harlow didn't issue a denial when Novak said he already knew Plame was at the CIA. Is this for you the equivalent of "Harlow told Novak that Plame was employed by the CIA," or do you have some other basis for your assertion?
PATRICK: "Rove's story is that he told one journalist what other journalists had told him."
On the output side, I think it's pretty clear that Rove talked with at least Novak and Cooper, so I don't know where you get "one."
On the input side ("what other journalists had told him"), you're still insisting that it matters where Rove heard it. It doesn't, because "Classified information shall not be declassified automatically as a result of any unauthorized disclosure of identical or similar information" (link).
By the way, you're even twisting "Rove's story." In its latest of various incarnations, he says he might have heard from another SAO, who in turn may have heard it from a journalist. Not exactly what you said.
"Once Plame's CIA job was out in the open, she's a 'public good', like a radio broadcast"
Let me know which part of SF-312 supports your argument, or how your argument takes precedence over the SF-312 language I cited. Aside from that, the idea (assuming it's true) that a small number of unauthorized persons knew Plame's status is hardly the equivalent of "out in the open," or "a radio broadcast." That's the whole point of the SF-312 language I cited.
"it was stupid of him [Tenet] to do so [retract the 16 words]"
Maybe you'd like to explain why Bush gives medals to people who do stupid things.
"And the other thing Baghdad Bob wanted to buy was...goat's milk?"
Iraq was trying to gain support for fighting sanctions, and this included trying to achieve closer relations with several African countries, including trade in both directions.
" ... leave it to the pros to analyze it [Wilson's report]. Which they did, and their conclusions were different from his"
I guess you must be talking about this pro: "An INR analyst said when he saw the report he believed that it corroborated the INR's position." This position had previously been expressed as follows: "INR explained its skepticism that the alleged uranium contract could possibly be carried out due to the fact that it would be very difficult to hide such a large shipment of yellowcake and because 'the French appear to have control of the uranium mining, milling and transport process, and would seem to have little interest in selling uranium to the Iraqis.'"
By the way, which "pros" cited in SSCI seem to be convinced that Wilson's report was a basis for making a claim such as "recently" and "significant quantities?" That page seems to be redacted in my copy.
"The embassy in Niger send a cable saying it ought to be looked into. That PRECEEDED Cheney's inquiries"
I don't know what cable you're talking about. SSCI (p. 40) mentions a cable on 2/18/02. This was after Cheney's inquiry (one way we know this is that Plame's memo was dated 2/12).
Presumably you're not talking about a cable of 11/20/01 (see p. 37) which indicated "there was no possibility" that Niger had diverted any yellowcake.
Anyway, SSCI makes it clear (p. 39) that Wilson's trip came as a result of Cheney's inquiry. Again, you should share the redacted pages in your version which tell the story your way.
"righties have better command of the facts"
Heh, as the Instahack says.
"READ THE DAMN SSCI report"
So Novak is now totally losing it on national television, cursing and stalking off the set.
Wilson always looks cool, calm, and collected.
Can appearances be as deceiving as the White House?
Posted by: jerkweed | August 04, 2005 at 07:06 PM
You have failed to demonstrate a sense of humor, JBG, repeatedly misconstruing a joke of mine. You've also forgotten your own locution and accused me of it. You have a peculiar, and twisted, understanding of these events. But I've still managed to have a couple of good conversations with you. I have an exercise: Try imagining we're right and you're wrong. It might help you to further understanding.
Posted by: kim | August 04, 2005 at 08:50 PM
As I predicted Paul Samuelson's distinction was totally lost on juke:
'Let me know which part of SF-312 supports your argument, or how your argument takes precedence over the SF-312 language I cited. Aside from that, the idea (assuming it's true) that a small number of unauthorized persons knew Plame's status is hardly the equivalent of "out in the open," or "a radio broadcast." That's the whole point of the SF-312 language I cited.'
SF-312 is irrelevant, because--if Rove's story has been reported accurately--he did not know, nor could he have known, that Plame's status at CIA was classified information when several journalists told him where she worked. There is no law, as I say, against discussing that.
And, this is like a radio broadcast, because it was going to appear in a NEWSPAPER COLUMN--and, by July 11, when Rove told Cooper, it already had gone out on the wire and Rove seemed to know that.
Though, I must say I'm stunned to see that juke can't count in single digits:
'PATRICK: "Rove's story is that he told one journalist what other journalists had told him."
'On the output side, I think it's pretty clear that Rove talked with at least Novak and Cooper, so I don't know where you get "one." '
Cooper is ONE journalist Rove told what he'd heard FROM other journalists including Novak (and likely J. Miller). That's not a crime. He didn't TELL Novak, he was TOLD BY Novak.
'Iraq was trying to gain support for fighting sanctions, and this included trying to achieve closer relations with several African countries, including trade in both directions.'
I ask again the question you tried to finesse with the above: "And the other thing Baghdad Bob wanted to buy was...goat's milk?"
'I guess you must be talking about this pro: "An INR analyst said when he saw the report...'
Nice try, but you know I'm talking about the pros who WROTE THE REPORT, not someone who 'saw' it. And, who, btw, said it could be read in different ways.
'SSCI makes it clear (p. 39) that Wilson's trip came as a result of Cheney's inquiry.'
Which came about because of REPORTS that existed before Cheney could ask about them. And anyway, Kristof was told by Wilson that he was sent at the 'behest' of Cheney, which is clearly not true.
Glad to see you finally got your verb tenses straight.
Sometimes you need to actually be watching the tube when the words are said. Half of the story is in the facial expressions, nods, etc.
That is what I saw the one time with Andrea. I also saw the interview with Brown and the lawyer. She was disgusted with the spin the lawyer was feeding her. If you had seen her face, you would know she tried hard to interrupt him and say she knew different because Wilson told her.
Wilson knew his wife arranged his visit. Wilson outed his own wife. Dunno why exactly but he had to have known she would be "outed" if he put his face before every camera. I can't move beyond anyone not believing that Wilson did this deliberately. I doubt if it is everyday that a husband outs his own wife. So why did he do it?
Posted by: owl | August 04, 2005 at 09:55 PM
I've wondered for awhile if Val is co-villain or victim.
So why did he do it?
Dunno, but it is tempting to suggest that the contortions of logic and devious shenanigans that moonbats ascribe to Rove is actually projection.
KIM: "repeatedly misconstruing a joke of mine"
I never said you weren't funny. Some fine examples can be found here ("if you can't accept my sweeping declarations as truth, despite repitition, then I'll hope you can change"), here ("if he can find his way through the maze to find Joe as the villain, we'll declare him intelligent") and here ("try imagining we're right and you're wrong. It might help you to further understanding").
"You've also forgotten your own locution ... "
No. Here I acknowledged that I said it first.
" ... and accused me of it"
It's not my fault that you picked up the ball and ran with it. It's quite remarkable that you insist on acting as if you didn't.
Posted by: jukeboxgrad | August 05, 2005 at 12:41 AM
PATRICK: "he did not know, nor could he have known, that Plame's status at CIA was classified information when several journalists told him where she worked."
It's extraordinary how you can hardly get through a sentence without pulling something out of your hat. "Several?" At most, Rove claimed (indirectly, via leaks by Luskin) he heard from two journalists (Novak and someone else Rove mysteriously couldn't remember). This is documented here: "Rove told the grand jury that by the time Novak had called him, he believes he had similar information about Wilson's wife from another member of the news media but he could not recall which reporter had told him about it first, the person said."
Maybe in your dictionary, several means "two." But wait a minute, don't blink, Rove changed his story. Now it looks like this: "Rove testified early in the investigation that his information about Plame came from Novak, his attorney said. Rove testified he also may have heard about her from another reporter or administration official who had heard it from a reporter, but he could not recall the second source of his information, his attorney said."
So now Rove is even more vague. Maybe his second source was a reporter, and maybe not. Anyway, nice job with your weasel-word "several."
As far as "nor could he have known ... Plame's status ... when ... journalists told him," you're doing a nice job of bringing up something irrelevant. Let's assume for a moment that "journalists told him," and let's assume for a moment that Rove didn't know Plame's status at that exact moment. Trouble is, that's not the point. No one is claiming that Rove behaved improperly in the act of listening to what anyone said to him. Rove's misbehavior wasn't done with his ears. It was done with his mouth.
So the question is not what he knew, or could have known, "when ... journalists told him." The question is what he knew, or could have known, when he outed Plame to Cooper. And the simple, obvious truth is that he "could have," prior to his conversation with Cooper, done exactly what Novak did, i.e., put a dime in the phone and check with the CIA regarding Plame's status. And in fact he had an explicit duty to do so (unless he was certain Plame's identity was not classified, and it seems highly doubtful that he was in a position to be certain about that). Rove signed a form that said: "I understand that if I am uncertain about the classification status of information I am required to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassified before I may disclose it" (link).
"There is no law ... against discussing that."
Another nice weasel-word from you: "discussing," which seems to be designed to elide the important distinction between listening and speaking. As I said, no one is claiming that Rove did something wrong by listening to a reporter say things about Plame (if that's indeed what happened). However, Rove did indeed do something wrong by telling a reporter (Cooper, at the very least) about Plame.
As far as "no law," I'm not particularly interested in a legalistic discussion about whether or not this was a criminal act (Rove outing Plame to Cooper). However, it was clearly a violation of SF-312, which specifies that a leak of classified information is still a leak of classified information, even if your source was an unauthorized person (e.g., a reporter).
It's remarkable that you're still sticking with the premise you stated weeks ago: "it is not illegal to tell one reporter what another reporter knows." Here you stated the same nonsense in a slightly different form: "information given to Rove by a reporter is not classified information." Here I provided a simple example to illustrate the obvious absurdity of this notion. You're coming up with enough new nonsense that you don't need to also be recycling the same nonsense you peddled weeks ago.
"this is like a radio broadcast, because it was going to appear in a NEWSPAPER COLUMN--and, by July 11, when Rove told Cooper, it already had gone out on the wire"
I notice you have a hard time deciding which story you want to tell. "Going to appear" and "it already had gone out" are two different perspectives. Which is it? If it's "going to appear," please indicate the part of SF-312 that says "it's OK to leak classified info if you believe someone else is going to be doing it soon anyway." And even if "it already had gone out," SF-312 plainly indicates that it's still not OK to compound the damage by adding confirmation.
Aside from all that, your assertion "by July 11, when Rove told Cooper, it already had gone out on the wire" deserves a closer look. Novak's column appeared on Monday 7/14. Cooper and Rove talked on Friday 7/11. We know this conversation happened before 11:07 am, because that's the time on an email Cooper wrote, describing the conversation. Various people have pointed out that Novak's column was distributed via wire service before it was printed, and perhaps as early as Friday. But as far as I know, no one has confirmed that it was available prior to 11:07 am. I think it's safe to assume that if this were true, we would have heard Luskin crowing about it a long time ago.
So if you have any sort of proof for your assertion ("it already had gone out"), I think Luskin is waiting by the phone. But you don't have proof, and this is something else you've pulled right out of your hat. By the way, this was all discussed weeks ago, here.
"He didn't TELL Novak, he was TOLD BY Novak."
Rove's story seems to be at odds with Novak's story, who claimed he heard it from two SAO. But even if you take Rove's story at face value, he's still not off the hook with regard to Novak. Even Rove does not claim that he was only "TOLD" things by Novak. Rove acknowledges that he said "I heard that too." "I heard that too" is a form of confirmation (albeit a coy form), and confirmation is a form of unauthorized disclosure: "Information remains classified until it has been officially declassified ... before disseminating the information elsewhere or _confirming_ the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, further dissemination of the information or _confirmation_ of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure" (link; emphasis added).
"I ask again the question you tried to finesse with the above: 'And the other thing Baghdad Bob wanted to buy was...goat's milk?'"
It's not a question of "finesse," it's just a question of you being unable to grasp the obvious: Iraqis attempting to initiate trade are not necessarily interested in buying something: they might be interested in selling something.
"I'm talking about the pros who WROTE THE REPORT, not someone who 'saw' it"
I ask again the question you tried to finesse with the above: which "pros" cited in SSCI seem to be convinced that Wilson's report was a basis for making a claim such as "recently" and "significant quantities?"
"[Wilson's trip] Which came about because of REPORTS that existed before Cheney could ask about them"
What's your point? Everyone understands there were certain reports, and Cheney asked about them, and this led to Wilson's trip.
Anyway, nice job hoping that everyone forgets your nonsense about cables that travel backward in time ("The embassy in Niger send a cable saying it ought to be looked into. That PRECEEDED Cheney's inquiries").
OWL: "Wilson outed his own wife."
I guess that why Fitz just called in a couple of people who worked for Rove. Those darn Republican special counsels. Then again, maybe he's going to great lengths to lull Wilson into a false sense of complacency, and then Fitz can head in for the kill.
What? No link to you resenting my pointing out to you that your recollection of the origin of 'sweeping generalization' was yours and its use was self apt. Got over it so quickly?
And I notice your criticism of my argument has degenerated into illustrations and criticisms of style preferences. Look, you shouldn't crab about style when you can't even recognize your own words. That's why it was so immeditely obvious to me that you had incorrectly attributed those words to me. Get a style you can recognize later; it can be useful.
Your links don't create a symphony masterfully conducted. Why don't you just say what you mean instead having the links say it for you? If you have linked in pursuit of truth, what you say instead will end up true anyway, so why bother with the distractions of links? You do want to speak the truth, don't you? Or are you the despicable variety of sophist, rhetorician for hire, now covering for a liar?
Posted by: kim | August 05, 2005 at 01:02 AM
"No link to you resenting my pointing out to you that your recollection of the origin of 'sweeping generalization' was yours and its use was self apt."
Huh? Try English next time.
"I notice your criticism of my argument"
You're giving yourself way too much credit by claiming that what you do rises to the level of "argument."
Patrick R. Sullivan said
Patrick, I know that there are good reasons to doubt various aspects of the SSCI report. But what cable that preceded Cheney's inquiries are you talking about? I can find no mention of this cable that you use to justify your claim that Cheney's inquiries did not trigger Wilson's trip in the SSCI report. Could you also explain why you doubt what is contained on p. 39 of the SSCI report, where CPD discussed ways to respond to the VP's questions, along with State's and DoD's; and where by Feb. 13, the day after the Vice President's question(s), CPD was already sending a cable out requesting somebody's concurrence on sending Wilson to Niger.
Otherwise, are you willing to change your mind, just a little bit?
As for your other abusive response, it's tempting just to say, man, are you schmucky. But I'll add that in speaking of the differences between what Wilson evidently came up with in Niger and what apparently made it into the intelligence report, I was not talking about the difference between data and analysis of the data, but rather facts and their characterization -- it appears from the SSCI report that some relevant facts were left out by the officers who composed the report, and it also appears from the SSCI report, in any case, that there was a misleading characterization of facts in the report. If that's so, it's not such a stretch to seek an explanation in the well-known disagreements among the different individuals and agencies involved over Iraq.
The one other thing is that talking about trade did not equal talking about uranium, as we learn from both the Butler Report and the ISG Report. What's more, not even trade was discussed much, if at all. All you had was that third party -- not Wilson's source, but rather a third party whom Wilson heard about second-hand from his source -- telling Wilson's source prospectively that the Iraqis wanted to talk trade. And once the meeting actually happened, according to Wilson's source, it was pretty easy to change the subject, or not have the subject come up at all.
Man, are you schmucky.
Posted by: Jeff | August 05, 2005 at 02:13 AM
MJW - If I understand your point, I would say that Wilson certainly was never trying to tie himself to Cheney in order to up his credibility. Truly. I'm sure from his perspective his own experience, as well as the fact that the CIA chose him, was enough. And I do think your second reason is right on target, in the sense that Wilson emphasized the role the Vice President played in causing his trip in order to make it harder to deny that the VP was apprised of the information he gathered, because harder to imagine otherwise. But if Wilson really were claiming that the VP sent him, then he wouldn't have to go through that other rigamarole of explaining how things are supposed to work in government, what standard operating procedure is, and so on. Which he did go through. To make his case that it was hard to imagine Cheney did not learn of the results of his trip, Wilson has to supplement his claim about the VP's question triggering his trip with a claim about the answer the VP should have gotten. He wouldn't go through that additional step if he could just say, the VP sent me. In order to make your second reason apply, as you say, he had to say something more and other than what he said about the VP's role in the origins of the trip -- otherwise, as you say, that reason does not apply.
I didn't expeact you to understand the english phrase 'self-apt'.
I wanted you to read last Saturday's Daily Howler, because Bob Somerby took up my 'argument' about you.
I have a fair amount of faith that my 'argument' of the development and denouement of this affair will end up closer to the truth than your journey into the maze of press illusion, the minutiae of 'he said, she said', and the paranoia of Bushatred. You might notice that I'v been hammering on Yellow Cake and Joe Wilson for a month, and there is more curiosity about that now than when the Rove-Cooper stuff came out then.
Jeff, speaking of the minutiae of 'he said, she said", I'd like you to reread your last post and stop and think how much you are just speculating about people's motives and unheard words. You are making that up. Is it soothing to see it in print?
"I didn't expeact you to understand the english phrase 'self-apt'."
Oddly enough, searching for that phrase on google (either "self-apt" or "self apt") returns lots of lines of computer code (e.g., "def make_appointment(self, apt, attendees)") and apartment listings (e.g., "Thomas N · Hamilton, Self/apt Rentals, $200, 2004-10-22"), but nothing along the lines of the usage you've created.
So you deserve credit for being original. As the saying goes, they broke the mold before they made you.
"Bob Somerby took up my 'argument' about you."
Somerby's writing about JBG? Wow!
Posted by: Jim E. | August 05, 2005 at 11:36 AM
Making one more comment before I quit this endless loop.
I am not a detective but I am a witness. I repeat, I saw (more than heard) Andrea Mitchell agree it was an open secret around town. I did not get the impression she meant AFTER. She meant BEFORE. Only heard her once, but seemed to back off of it on later shows.
I was a witness to the Brown/lawyer interview. A piece of that transcript is posted here. Now if you just read that transcript, you could disagree on what was actually said. If you were a witness, you know that transcript does not even begin to tell what happened in that interview. You can't see her facial expressions but you can notice something important. Look for (CROSSTALK). She was disgusted. She tried to tell him to stop because she knew better than what he was saying because Wilson, himself, had told her.
I'd suggest that juke read the material he links to, but I suspect he has, and simply can't understand it:
' A party to the SF 312, SF 189 or SF 189-A may be liable for disclosing "classified information" only if he or she knows or reasonably should know that: (a) the marked or unmarked information is classified, or meets the standards for classification and is in the process of a classification determination; and (b) his or her action will result, or reasonably could result in the unauthorized disclosure of that information. In no instance may a party to the SF 312, SF 189 or SF 189-A be liable for violating its nondisclosure provisions by disclosing information when, at the time of the disclosure, there is no basis to suggest, other than pure speculation, that the information is classified or in the process of a classification determination.'
And there are plenty of other provisions in the paper clearly saying that it is only information you had access to by virtue of your security clearance that can't be disclosed. Which Rove did not, because he did not have a 'need to know' about covert CIA operatives.
Karl Rove did nothing wrong by talking with reporters about something he learned outside of any access to classified information. Besides, it isn't clear that he even had a security clearance in July 2003.
He didn't get his current Homeland Security gig until February 2005 (iirc).
JIM E: "Somerby's writing about JBG? Wow!"
It's more than enough that Kim's writing about me. Having attained that, who could ask for anything more?
OWL: "I saw ... Andrea Mitchell agree it was an open secret around town."
I'm not at all suggesting you're a liar. You saw what you saw. However, if it was indeed "an open secret around town," it's peculiar to notice a distinct absence of a single, credible, named source ready, willing and able to make a clear statement about that, such as: "I was at a party on date X and I heard person Y say Z about Plame." (And Rustmann's words don't rise to that level.)
By the way, I'm not suggesting that absolutely no one knew. That's unrealistic. But if it was a significant number of people (as in "open secret"), it's hard to understand the absence of such proof, especially at this late date.
All you have to do is look up 'self' and 'apt', look at the context, and, if you are clever, you'll see that 'self apt' means that you were making a sweeping generalization when you accused me of making sweeping generalizations. A dictionary, my man, the context, and a well-trained mind; that's what's needed to make sense of an English phrase.
Google? Yes there is information there, but why you thought that would help you understand my sentence I fail to see. Do you suppose googling might help me figure out what you're thinking?
Are you tired of defending Joe Wilson yet? Wait'll you hear what his wife thinks of him.
PATRICK: "only if he or she knows or reasonably should know"
Given that "as many as one-third of the CIA's approximately 20,000 employees are undercover or have worked in that capacity at some point in their careers" (link), Rove "reasonably should know" (or should have known) that Plame's identity might be classified information. Especially since SF-312 also says "I understand that if I am uncertain about the classification status of information I am required to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassified before I may disclose it" (link).
"no basis to suggest, other than pure speculation, that the information is classified"
Since a non-trivial number of CIA employees are undercover, there was indeed "basis to suggest," going far beyond "pure speculation," that Plame's identity might be classified information. Especially since SF-312 also says "I understand that if I am uncertain ... ."
Why are you citing evidence which is contrary to the specious point you're trying to make? I guess because there's a lack of evidence to support your point, so maybe you figure that contrary evidence is better then no evidence at all. I suppose there's a certain exquisitely perverse logic to that.
"there are plenty of other provisions in the paper clearly saying that it is only information you had access to by virtue of your security clearance that can't be disclosed"
If "there are plenty of other provisions ... " it's odd that you don't cite any of them. Anyway, it's pretty clear that since your recent arguments have fallen apart you're dredging up another one that's just as idiotic. I have a feeling this is something you read on a blog somewhere. I even have a feeling I know which blog it was. And I clearly demonstrated the insanity of this particular proposition a couple of weeks ago, here.
"it isn't clear that he even had a security clearance in July 2003."
Rove was a "regular participant" in the "White House Iraq Group" (link). According to some reports, he chaired this group. It's extremely hard to imagine he did this with no security clearance. If that's true, it's perhaps an even bigger scandal.
By the way, here is some additional information underlining Rove's obligation to protect classified information even if it had already been published in a public source. This is relevant to your earlier assertion that Novak's story was already available via wire service at the time Novak outed Plame to Cooper. In other words, your assertion is not just wrong, but also irrelevant.
Speaking of pulling unsubstantiated assertions out of your hat ("it already had gone out on the wire;" link), we're still waiting for you to clear up the nonsense about mysterious cables that travel backwards in time ("The embassy in Niger send a cable saying it ought to be looked into. That PRECEEDED Cheney's inquiries;" link). I assume you'll continue to entertain us by making things up.
JBG, what an ignorant thought. Do you suppose people who did hear are going to run around and tell everyone now that they heard it from so and so. Sometimes I wonder about you.
KIM: "if you are clever"
Not clever enough to make sense out of you.
"Do you suppose people who did hear are going to run around and tell everyone now that they heard it from so and so."
If it was "common knowledge," why not? Especially because there isn't anything particularly wrong with passively receiving classified information, or gossip; the misbehavior is primarily and appropriately assigned to the transmitter, not the receiver. So someone could come forward and admit no wrongdoing: "at a party on date X I heard person Y say Z about Plame, but I never repeated this to anyone until today, because I'm not the kind of person who transmits gossip or rumors."
Why haven't we heard anyone make such a statement? By the way, depending on the identity and role of person Y, it's quite possible that person has no moral or legal liability. For example, if they are not a government employee who signed SF-312, they arguably have little or no responsibility for protecting Plame's identity.
By the way, we haven't even heard this more moderate statement: "at a party on date X I heard a person say Z about Plame; I am choosing to protect the identity of the person who made the statement."
And here's yet another variation: a source who makes a statement along the lines of one of these examples, but does it "on background." In other words, their own identity is protected.
Why hasn't even that happened?
Bang, Bang, Maxwell Silver Subpoena come knocking on your door.
True, no one wants to get a phone call from the FBI. But if it was "common knowledge," then surely one of the scores of people who knew was a Republican. Even if one assumes the DC press corps is mostly libruls, there are at least a few rightys sprinkled in (e.g., Novak, Moonie Times, Fox, WSJ etc.). Surely there we would be at least one person, perhaps someone young, underemployed, ambitious, with Gannonesque aspirations, who would like to help the team and have their 15 minutes of fame (sort of like Kato Kaelin). And they would not necessarily be implicating themselves or anyone else in a crime, so a little grilling from Fitz would not be such a big deal, given the bigger picture. Their memory could be Rovistically vague: "I heard it at a party, but I don't remember who said it." Or "I heard it on the subway, or while waiting in line at the movies." Or "it came up in a casual conversation I had with a total stranger walking down the street" (kind of like Novak spilling his guts to Wilson's pal).
If it was "common knowledge," how come we still haven't heard from a single person, along these lines?
Given my obsessive need to show that a lot of people figured out Plame in early July, or should have, I'll agree that the lack of evidence is curious.
But to the should have. Why wouldn't thousands, if not tens of thousands, suddenly get curious about Joe's connections to the CIA? I simply think that scenario is a lot more plausible than the 'single source' leak model.
Here's another thought. The White House may well have a number of such witnesses lined up for the defense, if necessary. The ones with real data wouldn't want to be telegraphing it now, but I wouldn't be surprised if Fitz knows about them or suspects their existence.
"The ones with real data wouldn't want to be telegraphing it now"
I can't imagine why not. Luskin has been anything but reticent with regard to trying to spin press coverage.
Defense won't and need not inform the prosecution.
"Here's another thought. The White House may well have a number of such witnesses lined up for the defense, if necessary."
Looks like kim has "telegraphed" her own talking points for the future. It doesn't matter if anyone in the White House is indicted, because they'll have a bitchin' defense ready to go at the criminal trial! Even if Turd Blossom is convicted, kim will be confident that his appeal will be successful. If kim's not a nutty true believer, I don't know who is.
Posted by: Jim E. | August 06, 2005 at 02:22 PM
So you think they haven't thought of that defense?
And speaking of nutty true believer, you and a few others I could mention sure have some meaty credulity bound up in your vision of an evil White House, on awfully thin evidence.
Again from juke's own source:
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Question 19: If information that a signer of the SF 312 knows to have been classified appears in a public source, for example, in a newspaper article, may the signer assume that the information has been declassified and disseminate it elsewhere?
Answer: No. Information remains classified until it has been officially declassified. Its disclosure in a public source does not declassify the information. Of course, merely quoting the public source in the abstract is not a second unauthorized disclosure. However, before disseminating the information elsewhere or confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, further dissemination of the information or confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure.
---------enquote---------
Since juke is obviously reading impaired, let's highlight: 'If information that a signer of the SF 312 *knows to have been classified* appears in a public source...'
And also: 'merely quoting the public source in the abstract is not a second unauthorized disclosure'.
Perhaps you should change your name to jukeboxtoast?
Please point me to something specific that I've written that will be discredited. I've never called this White House "evil" or predicted indictments or any such thing. You and Machos are the ones making bold predictions (and putting your own credibility -- what little there is of it, anyways -- on the line) on the basis of thin evidence, not me.
You think that language HELPS your argument? In what "public" source was it disclosed that Plame worked for the CIA prior to Novak's column? Please provide it. Besides, the last two sentences of the paragraph you quoted aren't very helpful to Rove and Co. either. Toast, indeed.
It is true I have confused your positions with those of JBG and others. And I agree I'm also making predictions on little fact. Why are we all so sure of the certainty of our beliefs? There is precious little evidence.
In what "public" source was it disclosed
My interpretation; this is an example which would also apply to discussions with the press, Miller, Cooper, and Novak. Your interpretation seems to be that this is in a strict literal sense the one and only exception.
Wow ... A new characteristic symptom of the double posting bug !!
Jim E, the argument (beginning, I believe, with Tim Russert on MTP) is that Rove was obligated to tell Novak, 'No comment' rather than, 'I heard that too". That's clearly not what the official handbook that juke has thoughtfully provided for us, says.
And Novak, not having a security clearance is a 'public source'.
I think your suggested headline pertaining to Wilson should be: "Wilson's 'secret friend' revealed to be xxxxxxxxxx."
The secret friend is clearly in the media (who else would Novak be talking to about a column he was working on?). The secret friend obviously knew about Plame's employment and status with the CIA (why else would this 'friend' be probing Novak?). The secret friend was clearly troubled by the thought of this going public (why else would this 'friend' do Wilson's bidding?).
It seems like this 'secret friend' is in the middle of everything.
As per an earlier comment here and my post (http://pamillerblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/column-for-week-of-717-well-we-asked.html) of a couple weeks ago, I think all roads lead right back to ... Joe Wilson.
Posted by: Paul A. Miller | August 06, 2005 at 06:19 PM
PATRICK: "Novak, not having a security clearance is a 'public source'."
You're posting the same nonsense in multiple places. I've answered you here.
kim wrote: "Why are we all so sure of the certainty of our beliefs?"
"We all"? Speak for yourself, not "we all," please.
Patrick wrote: "That's clearly not what the official handbook ... says."
Really? What does this mean to you?:
"Before disseminating the information elsewhere . . . the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, further dissemination of the information or confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure."
Rove was a confirming source. Yet there's zero evidence that Rove did any due dilegence. Without Rove, the Novak article presumably wouldn't have mention Plame or her alleged role. (I say "presumably" because responsible journalists are supposed to have more than one source. It's debatable whether Novak acted responsibly.)
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For Sunday Reardon, once an A-list actress, leaving the spotlight, hectic schedules and tabloid gossips behind for the quiet tranquility of her hometown was the best decision she ever made. She’s surrounded by her family, her gardens and has everything she needs. Except the love of her life, a past co-star who offered so many promises years ago, only to break them all.
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“God, you feel so amazing in my arms. I wish you could come with me.”
Eyes closed, she nodded. “I can’t. I’m sorry.” Opening her eyes, she gazed at him. “Once the editing is finished, I need to get away from all this. I can’t deal with it any longer. And you know my dad’s having hip surgery. I need to help my mom.”
Shifting his stance, he slid his hands over the globes of her ass, urging her closer. “I know, babe. It’s okay. I won’t be gone long.”
She dug her fingers into the hair at the nape of his neck. “Nine months seems likes forever. You won’t forget me will you?”
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Josh lifted his head, his forest green eyes bore into hers. She could drown in his loving and hungry gaze. He knew her better than anyone else. While filming, they’d enjoyed so many secreted-away moments, revealing hopes and dreams and shared childhood stories imparting laughter. He was everything she’d ever need. And she couldn’t wait to tell the world.
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“I know my leaving, since filming of my next movie is starting sooner, throws a kink in what we’d planned, but I promise, babe, I’ll be back as fast as I can. I’d rather be with you, starting our journey toward what I think will be a great future together. If I had any other choice—”
Understanding about commitments and responsibility, she covered his lips with her hand. “I know. It’s okay. We have time. We do. I’ll be waiting for you.”
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She smiled, her heart booming with happiness. “And I love you.”
His cell phone vibrated. He yanked it from his pocket and groaned. “Damn, I have to go. They’re looking for me. Our flight leaves in forty-five.” His lips captured hers.
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“I miss you already,” Josh whispered when he stepped back. His gaze travelled over her face as if memorizing every facet. Then he leaned down for his duffel bag. Straightening, he said, “I love you, Sunni.”
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As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here.
BY RANDY GRAGG
FROM THE MARCH 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
A city of hilltops and lakes bracketed by two mountain ranges, Seattle owns a surplus of views. But none quite matches the grandness of the Rainier Vista. John Charles Olmsted captured it in his plan for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, guiding the era’s standard, plaster-and-wood City Beautiful architecture to frame Mount Rainier in a compressed perspective sliced through the thick forest. As the University of Washington, the site’s owner, grew, it kept the vista as a front yard, building its early collegiate gothic edifices to bracket the burly 14,400-foot volcano. Take that, Ivy League.
But then came the era of the auto and midcentury campus planning.
Olmsted shaped the grand axis as the exposition’s entrance from railroad and ferry stops at its foot. But he sketched nothing beyond the great fair’s grounds. Thus the view’s foreground became a visual ellipsis petering out in the forest and marshes beyond. That lower terminus (known as the Montlake Triangle) and its surroundings sprouted a clutter of buildings and infrastructure: widening roads, giant underground pipes for steam and sewage, and a barely buried parking garage. As UW’s medical research arm grew into one of the country’s most muscular, a second campus of beige, Lego-set buildings rose at the vista’s end. And as the UW Huskies became a Pac-12 football powerhouse, their stadium surged to the east with 70,000 seats and home-game Saturdays that clog the surrounding roads for miles. Meantime, the onetime Burlington Northern Railroad at the vista’s foot in 1978 became one of the country’s first and busiest rail-to-trail paths, the Burke-Gilman Trail. But the university plowed a service road down the vista’s midsection.
“The surroundings became the boring-edge, white-space infrastructure area, a surplus space,” says Shannon Nichol, FASLA, a cofounder of GGN, the firm given the job to resuscitate Rainier Vista. “The view ended like a foggy distance in a painting rather than being really designed as valuable space. There was nothing interesting coming out of the land.” (more…)
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Reformulating a historic agenda after half a century.
FROM THE MAY 2016 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia in June of 1966, Ian McHarg, Grady Clay, Campbell Miller, Charles R. Hammond, George E. Patton, and John O. Simonds presented “A Declaration of Concern” on behalf of landscape architecture, reproduced below. It was a statement on the growing crisis in the natural environment and the claim of landscape architects in averting the environment’s total destruction. To the degree the declaration was dramatic and self-regarding, it was also true. It preceded much of the formal regulatory protection—preventive, punitive, and remedial—of resources that we know now. The declaration’s alarm over pollution and ecological ruin speaks for itself, but it managed to be both critical and optimistic. Its hope lay in the ability of landscape architects to figure out across disciplines how to make nature and society work as a whole, healthy system.
In 2016, the Landscape Architecture Foundation marked the half century of “A Declaration of Concern” with “The New Landscape Declaration,” a gathering of landscape architects, scholars, and advocates at the University of Pennsylvania in June of that year. The foundation, which was also turning 50, asked a number of participants to write declarations of their own for the occasion as latter-day responses to the original. Five are linked to below. Landscape architects have by no means retired the threats of 50 years ago, and other threats have proliferated around them, but the moral vision of the profession conceived at the midcentury has enlarged accordingly.
“A Declaration of Concern—June 1966”
We urge a new, collaborative effort to improve the American environment and to train a new generation of Americans equipped by education, inspiring example, and improved organizations to help create that environment.
A sense of crisis has brought us together. What is merely offensive or disturbing today threatens life itself tomorrow. We are concerned over misuse of the environment and development which has lost all contact with the basic processes of nature. Lake Erie is becoming septic, New York City is short of water, the Delaware River is infused with salt, the Potomac River with sewage and silt. Air is polluted in major cities and their citizens breathe and see with difficulty. Most urban Americans are being separated from visual and physical contact with nature in any form. All too soon life in such polluted environments will be the national human experience. (more…)
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BY SARAH COWLES
Designers find new ways to tell communities about climate change.
FROM THE DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
In the early 1920s, leaders of the Soviet Union had a communication problem: how to relay the abstract and complex communist ideology and economy to their scattered constituents across several nations, languages, and varying literacy levels. Enter the agit-train, a multimedia spectacle covered with constructivist supergraphics that drew crowds at every stop. The agit-trains carried agitprop (agitation propaganda) acting troupes, movie theaters, printing presses, pamphlets, and posters.
Today, leaders of coastal cities are facing an urgent communication issue: how to draw public attention to the looming threats of climate change and sea-level rise. Last winter, 10 teams in the San Francisco Bay area were selected to participate in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, “a yearlong collaborative design challenge bringing together local residents, public officials, and local, national, and international experts to develop innovative, community-based solutions that will strengthen our region’s resilience to sea-level rise, severe storms, flooding, and earthquakes.” Resilient by Design, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, built on the success of the Rebuild by Design initiative, which focused on the post-Hurricane Sandy landscape of New York and New Jersey. Each team was assigned to a swath of bay lands, where a confection of urbanization, predevelopment remnants, and infrastructure collide. A significant component of the initiative was public outreach, to address the issues germane to the most vulnerable communities that are already facing pressure from gentrification.
A significant, and perhaps unexpected, outcome within the Resilient by Design process was a revolution in public outreach, one that echoes Soviet agitprop methods. Three teams, Field Operations, Bionic, and HASSELL+, designed new physical devices, events, or spaces that kick-started public participation in the design process and informed residents on methods of climate change adaptation. Bionic and Field Operations wrapped vehicles with supergraphics to create a striking visual presence at community events, while the HASSELL+ team repurposed a former bank as an info shop. Their agitprop works were especially suited to the constraints of Instagram. The supergraphics make striking backgrounds for selfies, and all teams made liberal use of hashtags. These bold environments prompted action in real and virtual communities.
The Field Operations concept for urban resilience is simple: (more…)
DOCOMOMO AWARDS FOCUS ON LANDSCAPE
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BY ZACH MORTICE
The plan by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates retains the fundamental elements of Dan Kiley’s original design. Photo by Nic Lehoux.
The protection of modernist design is a relatively new topic in preservationist circles. And in many cases, landscapes have lagged behind modern architecture in receiving formal recognition and valuation.
But over the past several years, the modernism preservation nonprofit Docomomo US has used its primary awards program to bring visibility to the vulnerability and value of historic modern landscapes. The projects recognized by Docomomo US’s sixth annual Modernism in America Awards show the ways that all disciplines of the designed environment come together as a defining element of modernism: architecture, landscape architecture, art, interior design, and more. That’s been a recurring theme through the years, though this year’s awards were the first time it was “expressed so clearly or comprehensively,” says awards juror and Docomomo US President Theodore Prudon. Several projects honored put the preservation of historic modernist landscapes front and center: the rehabilitation of Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, honored with a Design Award of Excellence, and the restoration of Olav Hammarstrom’s Pond House in Massachusetts, which received a Design Citation of Merit. (more…)
ASLA HONORS: TIME FOR 2019 NOMINATIONS
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Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, accepts the 2018 ASLA Design Medal. EPNAC.
Every year, ASLA presents a number of honors to individuals and groups for their service to the landscape architecture profession and its ideals in the public realm. They include the ASLA Medal, the highest honor conferred by the Society; the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, given to a distinguished educator; and the Landscape Architecture Firm Award, given to an office that has built a distinguished body of work. ASLA also bestows honorary membership to nonmembers nominated for their service to the profession. (more…)
MEET US IN CHICAGO!
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It’s that time of year again, and the Landscape Architecture Magazine team is off to sweet home Chicago [Many LAM staff hail from Chicago.—Ed.] for the 2015 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO. Here are just a few places to find us during the meeting:
Editor Brad McKee will be a panelist on From the Editor’s Desk: Navigating the Modern Media (SUN-A08), at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, 11/8. He will also be moderating Hybrid Practices (FRI-B02), at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, 11/6, and Inside the LA Studio with Hollander Design (SAT-A02), at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday 11/7.
The staff will also be attending the Landscape Architecture Magazine Advertising Awards (aka the”LAMMYs”) on Friday, 11/6, the ASLA Student and Professional Awards Ceremony on Monday, 11/9, and the second annual Edible Landscape Celebration on Saturday, 11/7. Tickets are still available for this event, but it will sell out.
LAM editors will be on hand for Meet the Editors in the EXPO hall on Saturday and Sunday to hear about those new projects and story ideas, so sign up if you’d like to pitch your project. New to Meet the Editors this year is LAM Art Director Chris McGee, who will be available for photography reviews. There are still a few spots left, so be sure to snag yours before they’re all gone!
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Published: Feb 22, 2019 By: Steve Orlando Category: University of Florida, UF Health, College of Medicine, McKnight Brain Institute, UF Health Cancer Center
The University of Florida has rec eived a $12 million gift from Orlando hotel magnate Harris Rosen and The Harris Rosen Foundation to advance innovative brain tumor immunotherapy research and care at UF Health and to launch an unprecedented partnership for the development of novel brain tumor treatments.
The Rosen gift is the cornerstone of a $100 million fundraising commitment to support the ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors, a groundbreaking, collaborative initiative led by UF that will unite world-leading neuro-oncology physicians and scientists in dynamic research and clinical trials.
The gift was announced Friday, Feb. 22, before the inaugural ReMission Summit for Brain Tumors at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando. The UF-organized Summit brings together more than 100 experts in neuro-oncology, tumor immunology, genetics, artificial intelligence, neuroimaging and bioinformatics to form an elite research community focused on achieving transformative outcomes for patients with brain tumors over the next decade. The ReMission Summit also serves as the public forum for the debut of the ReMission Alliance, a multi-institutional research collaborative focused on the advancement of novel immunotherapies for adult and pediatric brain cancer.
“I am extremely grateful that Harris Rosen and his family share our vision to make a transformative impact on outcomes for patients with brain tumors,” said Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of UF’s Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy and director of the ReMission Alliance. “Their support of our research, patient care initiatives and the ReMission Alliance will allow us to leverage the power of the immune system to combat invasive brain cancers to dramatically improve the lives of brain tumor patients, here at UF and abroad.”
The ReMission Alliance’s work builds on the success and growth of UF’s Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy and collaborative research partnerships fostered over several years by Mitchell and his colleagues. Over the past five years, the center has undergone dramatic growth and established itself as a leader for brain tumor treatment and research. Along with William Friedman, M.D., co-director of the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center, Mitchell and his team will support several bold research projects and clinical trials coordinated with principal partners from among the world’s best research institutes and hospitals.
“Thanks to the generosity and support of Harris Rosen and his family, we are able to pursue research breakthroughs that result in real change,” UF President Kent Fuchs said. “I am confident that, together, we can advance the work necessary to provide extraordinary outcomes for patients suffering from malignant brain tumors and improve their survival rates and quality of life. The ReMission Alliance embodies UF’s commitment to the greater good.”
This work — to organize multidisciplinary, collaborative research efforts among groups of skilled researchers and physicians — resonated deeply with Harris Rosen. His son, Adam, who received care at UF Health, died in November after a prolonged fight with brain cancer. Harris was impressed by the UF Health clinical team’s professionalism, skill and commitment to making Adam and his family as comfortable as possible.
“It was obvious how dedicated they are to improving the quality of life for their patients,” Rosen said. “The team at UF is already doing extraordinary work, and the Alliance will enhance their progress and improve outcomes for patients well beyond Florida. A collaboration like this is difficult and lofty, but my family and I support this vision to rewrite the story of brain cancer.”
The Rosen gift will bolster ongoing research efforts at UF Health and provide vital seed funding for the ReMission Alliance. The suite that houses the UF Health Neuromedicine practice at the UF Health Neuromedicine Hospital and the neuro-oncology laboratories within UF’s Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute will be named in honor of Adam Michael Rosen. This investment by the Rosen family adds considerably to the UF Health Cancer Center’s growing resources to combat deadly malignant diseases. Mitchell serves as co-leader of the UFHCC Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response, or CTHR, program.
“Programs like the CTHR bring researchers from numerous UF colleges, departments, centers and institutes together, working in tandem to advance the development of new cancer therapies for resistant cancers,” said Jonathan D. Licht, M.D., director of the UFHCC. “Initiatives at the Cancer Center have become a centerpiece of UF Health’s overall research portfolio, which includes approximately $200 million per year in NIH funding and totals $450 million in sponsored program expenditures.”
David Nelson, M.D., UF’s interim senior vice president for health affairs, added his appreciation for the Harris Rosen Foundation gift.
“This contribution to the groundbreaking work and collaboration that our team at UF Health is undertaking is a significant vote of confidence that our efforts will make a profound impact on the people and communities we serve,” Nelson said. “Our physicians and researchers are fueling scientific discovery while developing new, promising pathways for patient care. Through the collaboration that this gift catalyzes, our impact will be even greater.”
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May 18th, 2013 by Pedro & filed under News Review.
Morning party people. How’s the head? Good? Ok, that’s excellent news. Shall we crack on?
Firstly, who saw the Barcelona fight pictures? Alex Song reaching in to slap Piqué. Seems like he’s having fun over there eh? What did I tell you about his attitude? I’d love to know what Piqué said to deserve the slap. Something we’ve all dreamed of. You do have to ask questions of Song though… who is he to behave like that? On an open top bus parade. What a twonk.
Lots of anger about the Sanogo deal yesterday. I can understand it. Dealing with a French under 21 with injury problems considering our record of late is a touch neglectful. Arsene Wenger first got his taste for injury prone players when he signed Marc Overmars in 97ish. The speed demon came to us at a knock down rate and he flourished. He was one of my favourites… still is. That’s goal at Old Trafford will live in my memory forever. The deal for Overmars was so good, we sold him to Barca with Petit for £25m. Two years later he was ruined.
That first taste of ‘injury prone player turned good’ is kind of like the person who makes a bet for the first time and win big. It’s all down hill after the initial big win. Sure there have been players that have worked out. Kanu came over from Inter and played a decent half season. Amaury Bischoff obviously worked out. One player I can maybe draw comparisons with is Gael Clichy. He was crocked all through his teens… but eventually came good. You could say the same about Theo.
Look, I’m not saying this guy is the answer to our striking issues. In fact, he certainly isn’t. But it’s about having a squad. If we have Giroud, Sanogo and something a bit world class… then that’s not a bad place to be. I don’t mind having an Anelka like punt as third choice. Well, an Adebayor like punt should I say… and lets be honest, we’ve missed a powerful pacey forward who can bully defences with work rate.
On the keeper front, the rumblings are firmly around Caesar, now, that means either we are interested in him. Or, his agents are really keen to move him over to us. Now, I like the Brazilian, who when on form, he’s easily up there with the best in the league. My only issue is some of his form has been shoddy at QPR, and height wise, he isn’t exactly dominant. It’s another risky punt when really, we need to make a sound long term move.
Begovic is my number one target, he’s the perfect physical specimen when it comes to being a keeper, he’s agile, a great shot stopper and he’s had the Stoke treatment with crosses. He’d be a step in the right direction. It’d be nice if Jens was his coach. Binning off the keeping coach might be a step too far for Wenger… despite his appalling record over the last 5 years.
So what about this playoff? I know it’s a long shot… but if there is a 3rd place playoff… shouldn’t there be a trophy? Seriously. There should be. It’s a one off game, with a prize. So there should be a trophy? People… the top four trophy is dead. 3rd place could actually be our first piece of silverware. Plus, we’d be the first name on it ever. Think about how mega that would be…
Tomorrow is on my mind, but we’ll talk about it later. Don’t listen to Wenger saying he’s not thinking about the summer either. The club have been working on players for weeks. Wenger is just keeping his warchest close to his… Errr… chest?
Have a good one…
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261 Responses to “There could be a trophy | Sanogo rage | Keeper linked again, not sure he’s right”
sam May 18, 2013 18:04:28
Nasri,
you should know how arsene operates by now.
If there is a player he really wants he will rush quickly to sign him before everyone else to avoid competition. as soon as the window opens , agents start parading their clients any player we are linked with will end up to the highest bidder and we lose out. are you trying to tell me that if man city or chelsea wants Jovetic wenger will still hang around? nope, he will shy away till the last day of transfer window to try to pick up bargains.
its nothing new, there is 95% chance that freebie Sanogo will be our only summer signing. Well if no agent refuse to talk to him on deadline day we can still parade diaby as new signing.
ooops! I meant no agent will agree to talk to him
GUNNER786 May 18, 2013 18:08:39
I’m going to throw a party to celebrate Spurs qualifying for the CL.
Guess what? Your name will be at the very top.
Kushagra May 18, 2013 18:09:32
Higuain and Ozil’s knack of missing chance after chance after chance is exemplary.
Whenever I open the TV in some random channel in some random match Higuain is missing a chance .It’s the same old story. Rooney over him any day
Mayank May 18, 2013 18:10:33
Oezil is a bottler.
Thomas May 18, 2013 18:19:00
Has the cunt been sacked yet?
If you want to see players like Cavani,Falcao, Lewandowski etc then hope that Spurs go through tomorrrow.
Gooby obviously doesnt!! He is quite happy with Denilson, Diaby and Gervinho.
Dannyboy May 18, 2013 18:19:40
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/call-collymore/130518/arsenal-are-joke-piers-morgan-delivers-his-damning-vedict-197878?
Piers wants us to lose 14-0 tomorrow…
Inter YourGran May 18, 2013 18:20:11
It does make me laugh. The fans who turn their nose up at Rooney tell everyone else that Yaya Sonogo could be our Benteke….
the worst arsenal fans on the planet are;
Stewart Robson
Osama… oh wait he’d dead 😆
he’s*
Gunner786 – can you explain how spurs getting in the CL at our expense means we’ll buy players like falcao, cavani etc?
Nasri's Mouth May 18, 2013 18:23:06
Sam: there is 95% chance that freebie Sanogo will be our only summer signing
How did you get to the figure of 95%? You made it up didn’t you? Go on, you can tell me.
Inter, you missed out Johnty79 and Gunner786…
TOLI83 May 18, 2013 18:25:11
What I don’t get is why are we buying this guy if we got Joel Campbell and others who can be 3rd striker etc. So does this mean we’re going to ship out the others? Not sustainable…
Think we’ll be alright tomorrow. Start Giroud and Jack.
Benzema, Higuain, Ozil (who was a dream player), Di Maria so may players have plateaued under Maureen . The same may happen to the likes of Oscar. 27+ year olds are better suited to his style of management..
GUNNER786: If you want to see players like Cavani,Falcao, Lewandowski etc then hope that Spurs go through tomorrrow.
Absolutely clueless statement. You think they’ll all be desperately banging at our door to sign for a team playing in the europa league?
Same goes for Piers Morgan, the bloke’s a twat
dannyboy – gunner786 is a spurs fan and a muppet. As he’s not an arsenal fan i didn’t include him.
Dan Ahern May 18, 2013 18:26:35
Oezil and Higuain are wasters? Jesus Christ guys…. get a grip.
@BB KING
Well, let’s just wait and see. I believe my points to be legitimate reasons. You don’t. No point in arguing anymore 🙂
I don’t know why guys pay attention to a spud bot like 786. He ain’t no human..
Arsenal 1886-2006 May 18, 2013 18:28:11
think your being a bit tough on Osama there.
He already said Its priority is to keep the players he has
they did a great job, they work hard all season.
do you even follow what wenger says?
he’s giving you a hint that he’s not bothered with the transfer market. he’s happy with his current playerd.
Higuain definitely is Ozil has plateaued need to start afresh in a new club IMO. Maureen ruined them both with his uni-dimensional tactics also one of the reasons he didn’t win shit..
The players at Madrid were never suited to the rope-a-dope tactics Maureen excel in.
With a striker in the caliber of Cavani, Falcao Madrid would have won a lot more IMO..
Mental Strength May 18, 2013 18:44:32
Ozil might be a bottler, but he is a world class bottler.
Sam: do you even follow what wenger says?
Do you even understand that almost everything Wenger says has an agenda behind it? Clearly you don’t.
Kiyoshi Ito May 18, 2013 18:57:58
Why don’t you shut up,you patronising prick..!!
You are a bigger prick,than Piers Morgan & that’s saying something..
Everyday,you pollute this blog,with utter drivel!!
Oh Vix,
I warned you about thinking about my arse didn’t I? I told you you’d get all frustrated again. And what happened?
Off you go and have a cold shower. Quick now.
Absolute prick
JJ May 18, 2013 19:04:59
I think the big name we are after is Benzema. Not sure we will get him though.
No source. Just gut feeling.
There are 2 benzemas.
one plays for real madrid and might cost a fortune he’s the benzema we all know and hope he joins us.
and the young brother, a promising 20 yrs old Gressy benzema who plays in french second division, he could come on the cheap or free.
tough choice huh?
Oh please, Mourinho played fucking Kareem Benzema ahead of Higuain nearly all the time. Kareem Benzema, man. Your confidence/consistency would be shaken too.
He’s still a great forward. His converts twice as well as anybody in our whole team. He has over 100 goals in La Liga and he’s 25.
I’m sorry you personally don’t rate him for whatever reason, but he’s good.
Kurt F May 18, 2013 19:17:57
Think you misunderstood my comment Mayank – when I say the best player he can possibly have, I’m not calling for fantasy football Ronaldo / Falcao signings. What I mean is that Wenger should have been looking his previous squads and thinking: is there anyone I can (realistically) get who is better than Gervinho, Rosicky, Szczesney, Ramsay, Giroud etc – and I think a quick glance round the markets past and present confirms the answer was / is clearly ‘yes’.
For too long we’ve seen glaring weaknesses in our squad go unaddressed – this summer will hopefully be different but the great fear among fans is that Wenger is simply too stubborn to change. Not making signings because it would ‘kill a player’s career’ is an exercise in stupidity: if a better player is available he should be bought – the fans buy their season tickets to see a team that has the best possible chance of winning now, not eight years down the line. Wenger’s ‘killing development’ attitude also leads to a situation where you end up with a number of first team players who become complacent because there’s no competition for first team places.
I don’t like to make the comparison, but while Fergie was constantly making world class signings to strengthen his (already trophy winning) squads, Wenger was busy buying Squillacis, Sylvestres, Chamakhs, Parks and Gervinhos and telling us that next year his group of players would come good because of their mental strength and added experience…..
*Karim
Higuain’s ability in bottling big games scares me the most . Won’t rely on him against Manure in the month of April
UGooner May 18, 2013 20:00:33
I don’t understand the whole Sanogo thing. He’s obviously not going to be our only signing. Personally, I think I am the only one hoping the deal get’s done, because people seem to forget the deal’s not done yet. I was worried we would only sign the one quality striker we are all anticipating, and then maybe focus on other positions.
God knows the Arsenal world will go crazy if we miss out on that Jovetic, Higuain, Rooney? quality we are all crying out for. As fr the particular player, I really don’t even know who I would want or who to expect.
There’s a time we would all have gone mental if we got Torres. I would still take him now as an option but I wouldn’t really be excited about it. So who’s the right player. We can sit here and speculate but really it’s not so easy. We all complain that the club dont break the bank, But is it the price that determines the quality? Quality players may be expensive but not all expensive players are of suitable quality.
I suppose many of us will just be happier if we take more chances on high priced proven talents. I know I wouldn’t want another Gervinho either. One’s just enough.
Well, the way I look at it, even if your accusation is correct, he’s still head and shoulder above our current strike options. We manage to bottle SMALL games. What’s worse?
The season is 38 games, and all of them are worth 3 points.
Let’s also keep in mind:
Nobody is saying Higuain is the one and only signing we need to fix us. Like you said, it’d be cool to bring in him plus Jovetic. To me, we have a number of positions that need work. Getting Higuain MASSIVELY upgrades the strike department, and we can move on to getting things like a top midfielder, a goalie, a dynamic winger, a CB if Verm’s out the door, etc.
Santos May 18, 2013 20:08:23
Wenger is a big fool if he does not see this time as an opportunity to review his ways. I even thought he was going to be chasing Lewandowski and Rooney, instead he’s going after a ligue 2 player who is not even measurable with upcoming English talents here. 3 league titles in seventeen years. He’s the biggest failure in football history. 46 major trophies we’ve misses out on and counting. Add the 24 we’ve missed out too, that gives you 70 trophies. Note carefully I haven’t said we should have won all, but some would have made us rather not gloomy. Some of you who still see greatness in this man are very big fools equally
Sorry 42 total trophies****+ lol. What a hyperbole!
Santos: instead he’s going after a ligue 2 player who is not even measurable with upcoming English talents here
You don’t think he could be going after both a ligue 2 player AND a top class player?
Higuain will be a sign of ambition. Add Rooney to that and we will trash Bayern Munich in the CL final
You summed up well
I’ll end it by saying if there is an option btw choosing a dynamic winger or Higuain . I will go for the winger..
That cliché about a leopard changing his spot not. Arsene’s methods are predictable. He won’t sign a top class player, unless he’s forced by the guys upstairs. He is a miserly man who is keen on contributing money o the French economy
Cheers Kush, night.
lamia May 18, 2013 20:40:23
Did you ever think he would go after 2 top class strikers and not bother with the ligue 2 player. Now that would send out a message to the cynics like that he is serious about making serious contenders. We have heard the same pro wenger protestations for the past 8 years. Can you really criticise people like Gunner 786 who have heard all this before.
azed May 18, 2013 20:44:19
As for those wondering why there’s so much noise about Diaby v2, Well just cast your mind back to the statement Wenger made when he signed Slyvestre.
@lamia
I said the other day, I expect us to sign quite a few players this summer. 6+ of which 2 or 3 will be starters.
We’ll be clearing out a lot of players (a lot have already gone), and we’ll be bringing in a fair few more.
Johnty79 May 18, 2013 20:56:15
@dannyboy 18.43 I take great offence to you calling me one of arsenals worst fans…I have been consistent. I have called for wenger to be sacked on and off since 2001 after a home defeat to 1:3 to Newcastle….if he followed my advice we would have won 2 European cups, 3 more league titles…wenger should have left after the 2007-8 season. Through the title away.
Herkules May 18, 2013 20:58:34
Everyone talk about strikers, and i suspect Jovetic will be the one we get… But the truth is we really need midfield help.. Al least two to shore up our side. Wilshire, Arteta, and Ramsey are not good enough over 38 games to allow us to compete.
useroz May 18, 2013 21:04:10
Someone said we released 16 youth players? Where was it….sorry I missed the great piece of news!
If sanogo were the 3rd striker God helps us/ Wenger.
http://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/what-next-for-the-academy-after-meade-heads-list-of-15-departures/
Cesc Appeal May 18, 2013 21:15:43
In terms of middle we need a CDM and a bigger CAM than Cazorla, bigger literally. Cazorla doesn’t have pitch presence.
That way you can have your CDM, Wilshere can be the box to box guy and then we need a CAM.
Gooby May 18, 2013 21:21:30
Guess we’ll have to wait and see now.
I has been much more encouraging last summer and even the one before when we got mertezaker and arteta who have played a major part since they came in, they’ve been brilliant. We talk a lot about park, we did take a gamble on this one, I honestly though he would be decent, he was great for monaco but it didn’t work. It happens.
Last season on the other hand we got cazorla, poldi, giroud all major signings, they all did pretty well, I know giroud is frustrating at times but he still got 17 goals and 11 assists, good outcome after all, same with poldi. No need to comment cazorla’s season he’s been a star.
Problem is, we lost major players every time.
Onto this summer:
I don’t believe sanogo will prevent us from going after our main targets, we are getting him because he’s a talent, we love to bring in young talents, it’s part of wenger policy and it won’t change anytime soon (walcott,jenkinson, oxlade, coquelin…) we have to accept that it doesn’t work every single time, that’s impossible. Let’s wait and see what this kid is made of, he looks promising: tall, quick, eye for the goal, good technique…
I also think we won’t be losing any major player this season bar maybe sagna, so it might be the summer that will take us forward (finally) to higher goals than just the CL places.
Wenger ain’t stupid nor the board member, he’s doing the job he’s been ask to do, otherwise he would have been sacked long ago.
Cesc Appeal 21:15:43
I’m interested in hearing who you have in mind.
CA – Wow, I almost never disagree with you, but Cazorla is the one piece in the team I have complete confidence in and wouldn’t swap out. I will say, he does fine from left. But I think he’s better being a de facto AM. He’s just better, smarter, quicker, and more technical than all the others. If you put two athletic mids behind him it’s problem solved. At a minimum our midfield should be Arteta and a power DM supporting Caz.
Here’s what a nice setup could look like:
—-Strootman—-Capoue—-
Theo—-Higuain—-Jovetic
kwik fit May 18, 2013 22:04:18
If Arsenal don’t win the Eurovision Wenger must go!
I don’t think we’re buying a CAM.
Wenger’s plan seems to be wilshere in that position. I think cazorla’s brilliant and we might need a strong DM to go with ramsey or arteta and a striker obviously.
Do you believe we might actually get 2 of them like higuain and jovetic?
16 completely crap youth players that never had a cance of making it…Liam Brady totally lost it towards te end. I understand this cull has knocked 3.1 million off the wage bill. Thank god.
dialsquare May 18, 2013 22:12:30
I don’t want Walcott in the Team he’s a rookie and will remain a rookie.
Completely agree with Cesc… Height and presence is needed in the midfield. For all of Wilshire’s talent he can never be Lampard or Yaya, because he’s simply not genetically big enough.
And Ramsey works incredibly hard.. Love the effort… But he simply lacks the technique that i don’t think can be learned.
They’re both strong squad players… But not enough to play week in and week out on a Top team.
Gooby – Do I BELIEVE we’ll get 2? No.
Do I think we’ll get a couple good players? Yes.
Maybe hope is better word than think.
I have to disagree with Wenger’s vision if it’s for JW to be AM. He should be Arteta’s understudy right now. Eventually he will be our box-to-box spiritual leader. But AM? I don’t think he quite has the right skill set to do his best there.
dialsquare — I was already being overly optimistic that we’d import 4 starters. But yeah, I think we could do better than Theo. My position has always been that we should sell him. I’ve softened on that a little because he is genuinely good in the right situations. But you can’t be a great player 25% of the time.
(And jesus fucking christ, stop taking free kicks!!)
Wilshere would walk in any first 11 in the league, he’s that good.
This kid is going to be better than all the lampards ad gerrards
Herkules — That’s simply not true. There are so many good small midfielders. The key is having balance. If you have a small fry and you play 4-3-3, you better have a big body backing him up (or at least good size but strong/aggressive and fast).
HP May 18, 2013 22:37:28
We aren’t getting either Jovetic or Higuain, I swear you guys never learn….
Gooby and Dan… I’m not really disagreeing with either of you… Silva is great (and small) because he has yaya for cover. Chelsea have a few smaller guys because Luiz can cover… And yes Wilshire is talented… BUT.. A midfield of Arteta, Wilshire, Ramsey is not good enough to beat the big teams (or physical enough).
Herkules — True. Arteta/Wilshere/Ramsey: pick one. Add DM.
GoobyMay 18, 2013 22:24:59
Herkules Wilshere would walk in any first 11 in the league, he’s that good. This kid is going to be better than all the lampards ad gerrards
hahahahahaha no he would not.
He won’t be better than lampard or gerrard
He won’t be around for more than 3-4 years anyway
sami May 18, 2013 22:59:46
did anyone hear about mike ashlee giving 1mil to non footballing staff if newcastle beat us?
http://todosobrecamisetas.blogspot.com/2013/05/arsenal-nike-home-kit-20132014-leaked.html
HP, aren’t you the guy that kept saying we’d lose to Wigan 100% ?
Nasri’s MouthMay 18, 2013 23:03:22
Yup I did, I thought Wigan would find a way out like they always do but not this time(main reason was that it was their 4th game in 11 days), just like how its going to be with us tommorow and our failure to get CL qualification
NM — Yeah it’s quite nice, isn’t it? Hope that is indeed the kit. Very classic. One thing I really like about it–I am presuming here–is that Emirates has allowed their logo to be in the kit colours. You don’t get the disgusting clash that you see on a lot of shirts these days.
yes i agree we should have a big DM who can concentrate only on defending
Doublegooner May 19, 2013 00:00:38
Tomorrow is a cup final.
We always bottle in finals.
Will tomorrow be any different with that rich grob Ashley The spud offering £1m bonus to beat us.
You’re delusional mate.
Mental Strength:
You wont find a bigger doubter than me of Wenger & his ordinary team, but you’re wrong about Jack. The guy has all the ingredients to be something special.
All he lacks is the right manager & team.
I see Ramsey as a O’shea/Wes Brown/Cleverly type player, not good enough for the first team, but is willing to be second choice and will put in a decent performance when called upon.
6th-is-a-new-trophy May 19, 2013 00:15:45
Jack is currently “promising”. If he stories are to be believed he has some pharmaceutical challenges ahead.
But unfortunately not a world beater.
Mukongo emodulu May 19, 2013 00:29:11
Please arsene wenger can you sign calvani and fhalco, and sellgerveenyo . I shall pray for my prayers to b answered, gunna4lyfe,
Mukongo
Breaking news: City have met Falcao buy out clause of £54m.
Aussie Gooner Dave May 19, 2013 01:16:10
I would be glad to miss out on CL football if it meant the end of Wenger. What’s the big deal with CL qualification? It’s not like we stand a chance of winning it! It’s all about the money and as we all know, Wenger just doesn’t like spending it, he just likes piling it up in the bank so he gets his fat bonus at the end of the year. Time for a change, Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke out now!
AGD, we simply can’t afford to miss out with Wenger in charge, cos that would give him the perfect excuse not to spend.
Danish Gooner May 19, 2013 02:07:40
if Sanogo had half a leg he would still be signed, as long as he is cheap.
Wilshere has done little, injury or not. We need way more than those. 2, 3 yard sideway flicks. He may be promising so let’s count him in ehen he gets there. Meanwhile some ready to go top MF creative player is needed…..oh, over 5’10” and no skinny type please……
We can’t have anymore midgets or skinny matchsticks if we want to compete next year.
Lol useroz,
we are signing yaya sanogo and he’s 6’3 don’t be surprised when you are told he’s the new yaya toure
arsene knows!!!!!!!!!!!
My observations on Arsenal are usually superficial generalisations but on this point i will make an exception.
I see Wenger as a limited, conceited and deluded old man who can’t see the wood for the trees and spend his way out of trouble.
Bade May 19, 2013 04:40:52
I totally agree with Arsene regarding the inclusion of CL drop outs into the Europa league …..
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1453287?&cc=4716
So Falcao to City, wenger better pull some rabbits out of the hat or we can look forward to fighting for the glorious 4th again next season.
What scares me is wenger will look at our goals scored this season and settle for this young crock from france.
You just know what he is thinking when it comes to competing for the financial prudence trophy.
Good night and see you all for the inquest about 6 tomorrow afternoon.
Bade.
‘Wenger: Europa League rewards ‘failure’
And the ‘Champions’ league doesn’t? This from a person that classes 4th as a trophy.
Definitely shutting off the laptop before I chuck it through the window after reading that headline.
The F*****G cheek of the man, jeeezzzz.
Wenger is saying he finally has a STABLE because everyone he wants to keep will stay. This is hilarious….Tell you what, Arsene, you managed to sell everyone worth their salt and we are left with people no one wanted…keep them idiot. Who wants to pay what you pay these guys???
*stable squad
Ryan May 19, 2013 08:01:53
Just read a price in the daily mail..
Wenger saying no world class players will leave arsenal this summer.. For once he right!! Reason: we have none!
David May 19, 2013 09:09:34
Feelin’ like I’m about throw up before this day is over..
reggie 57 May 19, 2013 09:15:23
Wish the old senile fool would keep his trap shut and stop embarrassing OUR club…
Moray May 19, 2013 09:36:22
well, for all his faults, at least Wenger has kept it interesting for us until the last day of the season. Just wish we were in a position to send Newcastle down by beating them today!
SUGA3 May 19, 2013 09:42:38
Moray,
give me a title won with a few games to spare any day…
haha SUGA3, just trying to look on the bright. You could also say he’s done well to get us a chance at CL qualification considering we went into the season with only one striker and no defensive training training…but it wouldn’t tell the full story.
Wengers Plastic Bottle May 19, 2013 09:46:34
Fuming.com
Last day of the season some kid decides to have a John Smith’ Hav it’ moment
and boots a ball and smashes my sky dish. No satelite
Laptop jst isnt the same……..
gnarleygeorge9 May 19, 2013 09:57:36
“He we are today, happy as can be, all good chums & jolly good company”
one has to give credit where the credit is due: our defensive record has improved no end!
I really did not give this team much of a chance once RvP was sold and said at the beginning of the season that our only hope was repeating the 07/08 season when the players played with freedom once Henry left…
the difference is that this squad has much less talent overall than that team, hence we were never in the title race in the first place, but I have to give Wenger credit for weathering the storm if we manage a win against Newcastle…
still, progress is needed and it should not manifest itself in the shape of buying another bunch of hopefuls and maybes…
Today is the day we drop out of the CL and truly begin our descent into mid table mediocrity.
SUGA3, I agree. However I think we need to re-think our style of play. It is not working, and we are caught out against the better teams. We need to step up a gear for next season, Wenger or no Wenger.
This is the kind of quality we’re up against (from the Guardian):
spurs, unbeaten in seven matches, can muster a Premier League high of 72 points by beating Sunderland and still find themselves fifth,
SurferX May 19, 2013 10:29:08
Lol @ Gnarley…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx_uKCsNwlc
Jump to 1:10.
Feeling good about today… A 2-1 victory for us, 1-0 victory for Everton. Sorted.
afturburn May 19, 2013 17:34:34
oh my. still need the win but would love if spurs end up bottling this LOL
i fucking knew i’d end up jinxing it.
but st totteringham’s day lives on!
Ashwin Gunner May 20, 2013 10:20:24
Firstly I am glad. Not because we reached top 4, but more glad the St. Totteringham’s day lives on.
On targets..
There are too many speculations. Be it Higuain, or Begovic. or even Rooney for that matter.
I am not reading too much into it. Every year from the day transfer window opens to the last day, Wenger keeps saying that we are active in the market, and on the final day he will buy Gervinho’s brother.
I think we need a striker who is stong and can shoot from who can shoot from 30 yards range. Giroud fits the bill, but his form is very inconsistent. There should be some one who scores goals more consistently and who can keep Giroud on his toes.
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Spencer suffered from central apnea, a compression around the cervical spine that cuts off oxygen and blood flow to his brain, which is a complication of his condition. Spencer underwent life-saving neurosurgery to correct the issue, which didn’t cause any long-term effects. He’s since had a dozen surgeries including multiple eye and ear surgeries, as well as leg straightening.
No matter the complexity of the surgery, Spencer doesn’t skip a beat.
“He never complains,” said mom, Brianna Beal. “He just gets on with things and calms everyone down around him by flashing that beautiful smile.”
The leg straightening procedure to correct Spencer’s bowed legs was particularly intense, requiring a large incision in each leg, realigning the bone and muscle with rods and pins. It’s a grueling procedure and recovery, but with Spencer’s 100-watt smile, you’d never know all the young boy has been through.
With every hurdle Spencer has overcome, his condition is relentless in throwing up another one. He’s suffered nearly every complication associated with his condition – motor skill development, compression of the spinal cord, hearing and respiratory issues, vision problems and pain.
In support, Spencer is monitored for his growth and development every 3-6 months at the Skeletal Dysplasia Center where he receives a comprehensive visit with geneticists, pediatricians, orthopedic surgeons, dieticians and therapists. The team has been closely monitoring Spencer for curvature of the spine, a common side effect of his condition, and, so far, he’s been able to avoid back surgery.
“I honestly don’t know what we’d do without Dr. Weiner and his staff,” said Brianna. “To think we have a world-renowned center for Spencer’s condition in our backyard is just amazing and such a gift.”
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__label__cc | 0.654162 | 0.345838 | anti-corruption, ethical practice, ethics, maritime anti-corruption network, transparency
Ethics, transparency get recognition
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) gets the SAFETY4SEA Sustainability Award, sponsored by UMAR, for working towards the vision of a maritime industry free of corruption that enables fair trade, creating a culture of integrity within the maritime community.
Presenting the award Thrasos Tsangarides, Group CEO, UMAR, said: the MACN understands that economic and technological growth often come at a cost. And corruption often tests ethical business practices. It is a major problem that costs trillions in bribes every year.
He said that corruption distorts competition, deters free market and delays further development of social and economic growth.
According to him, the answer lies in developing corporate cultures with strong business values. These values must include ethical behaviour and transparency, which actually add competitive advantages. Additionally, it also enables more trustworthy business relationships and lower costs.
Accepting the award on behalf of MACN, Dimitris Balamatsias, DPA & HSQE Manager, Neptune Lines, stated corruption is a real threat to the people who work on ships. Certainly, it damages business and reputation. However, shipping is not alone in facing this enormous problem. People often excused corruption as too hard to solve. Or it is brushed off as the way things have always been done.
He added that with shipping companies working together, it is more effective in fighting corruption. This is relatively better than any regulation or press expose.
The organiser announced the winners on 2 October 2018 at the Yacht Club of Greece.
The awards focus exclusively on initiatives and individuals who foster Safety Excellence & Sustainable Shipping, following a combination of open nomination and audience-vote.
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__label__cc | 0.537055 | 0.462945 | lucyfurleaps in architecture, childhood, community, environment, family, fitness, fun, hastings, health, history, holiday, love, motherhood, music, parenting, place, psychogeography, scooting, single parent, swimming, Uncategorized, wtf August 30, 2017 343 Words
#SourcePark Hastings
A week staying in a tiny cottage in Hastings Old Town took on a new significance for my scooter-obsessed son when we discovered, on our second day here, that a 20 minute walk along the promenade would take us to The Source Park – the world’s largest underground skatepark.
The Source building was originally the White Rock swimming baths, including a Turkish bath and individual baths back in Victorian times. Its popularity waxed and waned, and over the years the building was modified and became an ice rink and a cinema. Eventually it closed and was derelict for several years.
The skatepark opened in 2016, after gaining funding in 2014, and the White Rock baths underwent a massive overhaul in being fitted out as a skatepark. But what is fascinating about the building now, apart from it being a great place for all ages of scooter / BMX / skateboarder to go and ride, is that in transforming it, many of the original features of the pool have been kept, and are wonderful to see.
This would seem a fitting tribute not only to the original architects and designers of the White Rock pool, but also to the original development of skateboarding, and its anarchic roots in the riding of backyard swimming pools back in the 1970s, as shown in the seminal documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, about the pioneering Zephyr team, whose skateboarding started as an extension of surfing.
As the mum of an enthusiastic 10 year old boy scooterer (is that a word?), I am pleased to have somewhere cool to take him, which is also a pleasure for me to spend time in, has a great cafe, and as a writer about place, is not too smoothed over. It feels honest. The music is great too!
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4 thoughts on “#SourcePark Hastings”
trish gant says:
Know it well. lovely energetic place.
carolynoconnell says:
Reblogged this on Carolyn O' Connell and commented:
What an amazing transformation
A great transformation and use. Know Hastings and it’s a good use for the building
lucyfurleaps says:
Yes! It’s been done so well and such a great resource for kids. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line1552 |
__label__wiki | 0.634128 | 0.634128 | Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Georges Didier
Andrzej Seweryn
Bernadette Lafont
Monique Mélinand
Hubert Saint-Macary
Verret
Jean-Yves Gautier
Mathieu Amalric
Camila Mora-Scheihing
(as Camila Mora)
Jean Badin
Brigitte Sy
Laurence Clément
Aline, la secrétaire
André Engel
Psychiatre 1
Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer
10 July 2002 | fisherforrest
| Can the surreal be made to seem real?
Briefly, a woman lawyer for a young man accused of killing his psychiatrist aunt gets him acquitted, falls in love with him (?), becomes his victim for blackmail, and finally kills him, apparently along with all of his friends. What I am about to say further reveals a sort of "surprise" ending, so please don't read on until you have seen the film!
It's all a flashback, as the lawyer tells her lawyer the story while in prison awaiting trial. On the surface, that's the story, but be warned that when you venture on this film, you enter a nightmare world where little is what it seems; all is indefinite. The adjective "surreal" is apropos, but the writer seems at once to be poking fun at the "science" of psychoanalysis, while "psychoanalysing" the audience. One of the "psycoanalysts" (I omitted the "h" intentionally)opines that everyone acts out a story from the past that is endlessly repeated. He summarises from an old story: the lawyer was the ghost of the aunt, seeking revenge on the man who killed her.
Catherine Deneuve is certainly fascinating enough to be both quick and dead, but is there any real sense to all of this? Probably not. I think the director was poking fun at all of us, while indulging in some wild and fascinating camera perspectives. If this sort of thing delights you, you'll love this film. Frankly, it's not my cup of tea, and I rated it a 5 of 10.
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