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From In The Trenches, to #Occupy The World
October 16, 2011 by Rosa Say
The headline of our local paper’s Sunday edition was, “#Occupy The World: Wall Street Protests Go Global in Asia, Africa, Europe” and so the bold printing, coupled with the fact that he got a Sabbath’s leisurely day off, triggered the first time my working-in-the-trenches husband brought it up and into our conversation in any great detail. He was aware of the Occupy Wall Street protesting, but very off-handedly up to now, for he is more luddite in his habits, and prefers to keep it that way (he thought the # hashtag mark was a typo :).
However current affairs are hard to ignore when tipping points happen — the “hundreds of thousands” participating in the grassroots Occupy Wall Street protest is quite a movement. We both hope it can remain peaceful as passions continue to flare.
“In the trenches” has long meant “hands on”
Our conversation got me thinking about those I think of as “my peeps” too — in the trenches managers who do try to be aware of everything going on with “the big picture” and in “a global world” today, but who are much closer to having my husband’s habits than having mine. They are managers who I wish I could talk to on blogs, on Twitter, or on LinkedIn, but they aren’t there. They are managers who I wish I could reblog and tag on Tumblr as a better collection of our voices, but they aren’t there either. They are in their trenches, working by their Ho‘ohana, and managing with Aloha too, but in a more hands-on way than I do as a manager/ writer/ coach/ having the luxury of more knowledge work than physical work, and choosing virtual teams and tribes in addition to my geographic ones.
In reality though, ‘luxury’ is the wrong word. Each kind of work has its own pros and cons, its own pressure-cooker times, its own slow-down times. Each kind of work can be in the trenches. We are all Working in today’s ‘Knowledge Economy.’
Work happens wherever you are, and whenever you decide you’ll do it.
Work happens why you want it to, and why you need it to.
Work also happens in whatever you feel is your logical progression for it to happen. More often than not, it’s according to a personal hierarchy of needs (like Maslow articulated for us), but that’s my convenient point of reference, and my habitual one, and others may not think about it at all. They stay in their trenches, and they ho‘omau; they persist.
They concentrate on the work at hand. It’s the work of their own hand, and they concentrate on making it good. On making it both worthy (to the world) and worthwhile (to them).
You are the leader of your work
This is one of the up sides to Occupy Wall Street being a leaderless movement: Every single participant has a much greater freedom with defining what the best-case scenario of good followership is for them. Every single participant can be unencumbered, and can make a difference of some kind, so this very pervasive movement tips from frustration to worthy action.
When we consider work in larger context, it becomes easier to see how even protesting — the best single word I can think of for the Occupy Wall Street movement — can be a person’s chosen work too. I’d bet that every person who has chosen to letter a sign, march in one of the protests, or otherwise participate in one of the Occupy encampments, would say without hesitation, “I’m working in the trenches too.”
So when I think about all those “hundreds of thousands” participating in an ‘Occupy’ protest of some kind, my wish for them is the value alignment of Ho‘ohana — I hope the work they have presently chosen gets streamlined and focused in a very personal way for them, where it becomes a very clear intention for worthwhile work. This is one of those crucible times, where people can more clearly discern their purpose or calling.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
The Occupy Wall Street movement represents an amazing amount of human energy. It deserves the significance of Ho‘ohana.
Related Reading in the archives: Following is NOT a Passive Activity.
‘Occupy the Tundra’: One woman’s lonely vigil in bush Alaska. Click on the photo for the story at the LA Times.
Filed Under: MWA Key 2: Ho‘ohana, MWA Key 3: Value Alignment Tagged With: calling, current affairs, followership, Ho‘ohana, Ho‘omau, movement, Occupy Wall Street, protest, purpose, worthwhile work
Rosa Say says
This is new for me, thinking about protest as valid work. I have had to be more open-minded about it, and have done some reading outside my norm, so I can better understand the values at play. Isn’t protest just another way to turn up the volume and be heard? | Turn up the Volume and Manage Loudly.
For instance, Chris Hedges, political and cultural writer, and author of Death of the Liberal Class, wrote this in an essay for Truthdig last November, a good ten months before the September kick-off to Occupy Wall Street:
Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corporations. The judiciary has been corrupted and bought. The press shuts out the most important voices in the country and feeds us the banal and the absurd…
…Our worst premonitions are becoming reality. Our intuition has proved correct. We are reaching the breaking point. An explosion, unless we halt the increased pressure, seems inevitable. And what is left for those of us who cannot embrace the contaminants of violence? If the system shuts us out how can we influence it through nonviolent mechanisms of popular protest? How can we restore a civil society? How can we battle back against those who will mobilize hatred to cement into place an American fascism?
I do not know if we can win this battle. I suspect we cannot. But I do know that if we stop resisting, if we stop rebelling, something fundamental will die within us. As the corporate vise tightens, as the vast corporate system begins to break down with fossil fuel decline, extreme climate change and the expansion of global poverty, even mundane and ordinary acts to assert our common humanity and justice will be condemned as subversive.
It is time to think of resistance in a new way, something that is no longer carried out to reform a system but as an end in itself. African-Americans understood this during the long night of slavery. German opposition leaders understood it under the Nazis. Dissidents in the former Soviet Union knew this during the nightmare of communism. Resistance in these closed systems was local and often solitary. It was done with the understanding that evil must always be defied. The tiny acts of rebellion—day after day, month after month, year after year and decade after decade—exposed to everyone who witnessed them the heartlessness, cruelty and inhumanity of the oppressor. They were acts of truth and beauty. We must take to the street. We must jam as many wrenches into the corporate system as we can. We must not make it easy for them. But we also must no longer live in self-delusion. This is a battle that will outlive us. And if we fight, even with this tragic vision, we will lead lives worth living and keep alive another way of being.
Talking Story: Alaka‘i Leadership, Chiefs and Indians says:
I find myself thinking about leadership an awful lot lately. I’m craving it. Our upcoming state and federal elections have a lot to do with my craving, though I personally don’t think of any elections as “upcoming” as our curren…
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Holiday Hijinks is Out!
This year has been full of challenges, so I wanted to bring a little humour to its close. That was where the conception for Holiday Hijinks happened. To bring some joy and laughter into everyone's homes this Christmas. We have Adze and Archie trying to get away from the pack and relaxing, but of course, for Adze, things never seem to go the way he plans.
The new Hounds book is already available at my publisher, Mischief Corner Books, and at Amazon. I will share the links as they come up so watch my twitter and/or Facebook accounts. Print will be coming a bit later.
From my family to yours, I hope you have the very best Christmas... and no demon stowaways in your baggage. Even Adze had trouble with that one.
It's been a while! Or, Hello Again
I know it's been some time since I've made an update. I do try to keep the website up to date, but I know an actual announcement now and again is helpful.
This year has had its up and downs for me. It was exciting to have the newly rebuilt Hounds of the Hunt taking the world by storm — and having Joel Leslie voice my boys was beyond thrilling. And it was also exciting to have my Atherton Pack break into the translations market with RB picking up the series and translating them into French.
My personal life has had its fill this year, which has affected my creative output. The EDJ has needed a lot of my time, and being a single mum, so has the child due to various circumstances. Between the two my creative output hit a wall.
Things are changing and looking up. I have a Christmas story, Holiday Hijinks that is a more light-hearted affair, with the hellhounds coming out next month, and the juices are flowing, so I am going to dig right into Nicor's story next. The hang-ups there have been unkinked and I'm looking forward to bringing everyone more stories from my hellhound universe.
I am also NZ to attend Wham Bam Author Jam! this month, and it always excites me when I get to met my readers. I hope to see as many of you there as I can! And to leave you with a goody, here is the cover of the next Hounds of the Hunt book (cover art by the fabulous Lou Harper).
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This year the holidays seem to be rubbing Archie the wrong way. He can't stand that damn happy music blasting in the stores and all over the radio. The decorations went up far too early—and don't even get Archie started on how cheery everyone is.
Seeing the holidays cause Archie to slip back into a depression, Adze decides to take matters into his own hands. The one thing his mate has always wanted is to see the Tudor houses in England. Besides, it’s the perfect time to escape the humdrum heat in Melbourne. Adze can’t think of anything better than curling up in front of a roaring fire with his mate while snow falls outside.
Of course, life would never be that easy. Baby demon stowaways and Christmas Krampuses hell-bent on doing good leave the pair wondering just where things went wrong.
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Coming January 13th - A Bears Bear - Book 3 in the Smokey Mountain Bears series.
Blurb: Matthew Warner's been a Chicago Bears fan as far back as he can remember. What other team was a young bear shifter from the Smokey Mountains supposed to root for? When his college friend gets tickets to the next home game, Matthew jumps at the chance for a holiday. It's his favorite time of year and Nic promises him pumpkin carving and a visit to the world's largest corn maze, what more could he want?
What Matthew doesn’t expect is finding out the defensive tackle for the Bears is his mate. Between fainting at the realization, meeting family, and dealing with the media fallout of his mate's coming out Matthew is in for a hell of a rocky Halloween.
"Matthew," Christian said, his voice low and deep. The power in it sent shivers down Matthew's spine.
"Yes?" he squeaked. Matthew cleared his throat before trying again. "Yes?" This time his voice only shook a little.
Christian smiled knowingly at him. "I was wondering if you and I could have a word in private?"
Private? What the hell had he done? Matthew racked his brain, trying to think of anything he might have forgotten recently that might have angered or annoyed his Alpha. He couldn't come up with anything.
"Sure." Matthew stood and closed the lid to the ice chest. Christian placed his hand on Matthew's shoulder, leading him inside. Matthew looked around fanatically for someone to stop them, but no one seemed to be paying them the slightest bit of attention. He swallowed the lump in his throat and resigned himself to his fate, whatever it might be.
Christian led Matthew to his office. Matthew had never had cause to be in this room before. The mahogany desk with matching wood and leather chairs sat pride of place in the center of the room, and off to one side was a bookcase filled with books. Matthew could see several of them had Christian's mate's name on them—Vincent Marsden.
"Take a seat," Christian said as he closed the door behind them. The Alpha was acting strangely, especially when he checked the hall just before the door closed. Christian walked over to where Matthew was sitting. Instead of taking a seat behind the desk as Matthew would have expected, Christian hiked a leg and leaned against the edge of the desk just to the side of him.
"Thank you for taking a minute to speak with me."
"Anything you need, Alpha." Matthew nodded. His hands were already sweating. Matthew rubbed them back and forth on his pants, hoping to dry them.
"There's no reason to be nervous," Christian assured him, chuckling lightly. "You've done nothing wrong."
Matthew nodded as he sighed in relief.
"I know we don't know each other very well," Christian started and Matthew nodded again. "However, you've known my younger brother for years."
"I have. He's a good guy."
"He is. Can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but I love him nonetheless." Christian chuckled.
Matthew was too nervous to do anything more than smile.
"Anyway, I happened to overhear a conversation you had earlier on the phone."
Matthew swallowed and fisted the denim of his jeans in his hands. Would Christian stop him from going on vacation? Was there a sleuth in Chicago? Did he need to notify them of his travel plans?
"Yes?" he asked quietly.
"You're planning to travel to Chicago, is that correct?"
Matthew nodded slowly.
"Excellent."
Matthew furrowed his brows. Why on earth would Christian think his travel plans were excellent? "I don't understand."
"I was wondering if you wouldn't mind doing me a favor."
"A favor? Me?"
Christian nodded. "I'm trying to go through the sleuth, one by one, and get to know everyone as the Alpha. But Bobby trusts you. And I was hoping I could too."
Trust me? To do what? Matthew went back to rubbing his hands on his pants. If he could comfortably put them in his pockets sitting down, he would have, but he couldn't.
When Matthew didn't say anything, Christian smiled kindly at him and continued. "I have an item that I plan on purchasing that I don't feel comfortable with the postal system handling. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind picking it up while you're in Chicago and bringing it back for me."
Matthew's mind raced. What exactly was his new Alpha into? Surely it wouldn't be anything illegal; drugs and guns were just a couple of the things that popped into his mind. Matthew shook his head. There was no way Christian would put a member of his sleuth in danger like that, but he couldn't help but ask.
"I won't get into trouble for doing this, will I?"
"No." Christian laughed. "Although if Vinnie finds out, he might have a few words to say to you.
"Vincent?" Why would Christian's mate want to talk to him if he did this?
"The item in question is from Tiffany's," Christian said, raising his brow.
Matthew's eyes widened as everything suddenly made sense. Oh wow! "Yes," he blurted. "Yes, sure, okay, I would be honored. Anything you need."
Christian chuckled, placed a hand on his shoulder, and squeezed. "Thank you. You can understand why I don't want an item such as this being posted or even couriered to me."
"I can. I'm touched that you trust me to collect it and deliver it into your hands."
"You're of my sleuth. I would trust you with my life."
Matthew's eyes teared up at the absolute sincerity he felt from his Alpha. No one before had ever had so much faith in him.
"Thank you. I won't let you down."
"I didn't think you would. When do you travel?"
Matthew informed Christian of his plans so far and told him that he'd let him know as soon as things were more concrete.
"Great. I'll organize everything from my end and send the details you'll need to collect the item on my behalf. You'll require some form of identification I'm sure."
"Yeah, won't be a problem."
"I heard you're planning on going to the Bears game while you're there."
Had Christian overheard his entire conversation? "Yeah, my friend got us a couple of tickets."
"That's great. I have a friend from college, Hudson Rose. I'll give him a call and see if he can meet you and your friend after the game. Show you around a little."
Matthew's heart skipped a beat, and his mouth hung open in astonishment. "Hud-Hudson Rose?" Matthew spluttered. Surely Christian couldn't be talking about whom Matthew thought. "The Hudson Rose? Defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears Hudson Rose?"
Christian's smile was indulgent. "One and the same."
Matthew thought he might faint. Hudson Rose was one of the best defensive tackles in the league. The Bears had managed to hold on to him for the last three years, and Matthew had heard Hudson had just signed another three-year deal with the club worth more money than Matthew could contemplate spending in several lifetimes. The fact that the man was also hot as fuck and regularly graced the pages of the top eligible bachelors in the country had his mouth going dry at the mere prospect of meeting Hudson.
"Really?" His voice squeaked. Matthew needed to see someone about that.
"Yes, I'll give him a call tomorrow, see if he can spare an hour or two after the game."
Matthew nodded, not sure what else to do. His brain had just about shut down. How was he supposed to concentrate with Hudson Rose hanging over his head?
They chatted for another couple of minutes, ironing out a few details, and then Christian stood. "I don't have to tell you this is to be kept on the DL?"
"Not at all, he won't hear about it from me."
"Great, now I think it's time we rejoin the party. Grab another beer and get something to eat before there's nothing left." Christian walked to the door, Matthew following along behind him.
"Sounds good."
They managed to slip back outside without drawing attention to themselves. Matthew headed back to the ice chest and pulled out the beers he needed. He found his group still standing on the lawn, all four of them laughing uproariously.
Bobby looked at him and grabbed a beer. "What took you so long, man? A person could die of thirst waiting for you."
"Yeah, sorry." Matthew handed out the other beers, then opened his own and took a long swig. His afternoon certainly hadn't gone as he'd expected.
He looked forward to the announcement between his Alpha and his mate. Matthew was happy with the small part that he was able to play in making Christian's wishes come true.
Now if only he could find someone of his own to spend the rest of his life with. Matthew sighed and turned his attention back to the group, smiling at the story Clayton was retelling. For now, he was happy right where he was.
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Unexpected Mate Audio Giveaway
My publisher, Mischief Corner Books, is in the process of branching out into foreign translations and Audio (I'm so excited about this). I've been very lucky. Unexpected Mate, Holland Brothers book 1 is the first Audio to be released. I love the job Narrator Dominic M McCartney did on bringing my boys to life.
To celebrate this momentous occasion I'm giving two people the chance to win a free cope of the Unexpected Mate Audio book. Simply Comment and let me know who your favourite narrator is and which book you love listening to.
I'll announce the winners on Sunday.
As I mentioned the other day on Facebook A Bear in the woods has been taken off the shelves. Don't worry if you're yet to get a copy, it will be back out on the 20th June. ABITW has undergone a couple of changes as an anniversary gift, one of which is the stunning facelift. Thanks go to the very talented Catherine Dair who has kindly agreed to create the covers for all the stories in my Smokey Mountain Bear series... I absolutely love what she did with this cover. Vinnie is just perfect and poor Christian is passed out cold.
Hop against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Today, May 17, is the international Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. I'm proud to take part in the Hop today to try and bring a little awareness to this awesome campaign.
You can visit the Official site of the movement here: http://dayagainsthomophobia.org
and the Hop site here: http://hopagainsthomophobia.blogspot.com.au
I wanted to touch briefly on the subject of gay marriage. As most of you know I'm an Aussie. I'm proud to be Australian, I love my country and the people in it. I also believe that every person deserves the right to marry the one they love. It shouldn't matter what form the couples come in M/F, M/M, F/F, or what gender the individuals started their life as. Love is Love.
Currently here in Australia it is illegal for anyone but a man and a woman to marry. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in October 2013 passed legislation in their parliament allowing gays to marry in the ACT. The was a historic moment for out country. The first marriages were performed on December 7th. However, on December 12 the federal parliament butted in. With the help of our illustrious leader they took the matter to the high court and a unanimous vote found that the ACT's Same sex marriage act was inconsistent with the federal marriage act.
It is believed that if change is to happen it can't take place on a state level, instead it's one that will have to be decided in federal parliament.
What I want to know is why isn't our federal ministers listening to their voters.
In a Galaxy research poll conducted between 2009-2012 the following was found:
64% of Australians support marriage equality.
76% of Coalition voters want our PM (Abbott) to allow a conscience vote on the subject.
81% of young Australians between 18-24 support marriage equality.
Hopefully with these figures and more, showing the resounding support of the Australian public for marriage equality for all, the government will pull their heads out of their asses and finally step into the twenty first century.
You can find out more about Marriage Equality in Australia here: http://www.australianmarriageequality.org/
Today I'm giving away a signed paperback of one of my books and an e-book copy of any of my backlist. As well as these prizes you'll also have the chance to with a Catherine Dair Skip & Pip T-Shirt, Freddy MacKay signed paperback and e-book, Angel Martinez T-Shirt and e-book, $15 Amazon gift card from MCB and 2 paperback MCB Anthologies. Enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win.
Below is a list of all the amazing people (Authors, publishers, artists, bloggers, reviewers) who are taking place in the Hop. Be sure to stop by their blogs and check out their posts.
Corey - Atherton Pack 3
So It's been a while since I've used my blog. *slaps wrist* Sorry.
Corey, Book 3 in my Atherton Pack series is releasing tomorrow. With the release of Corey he marks the end of my long journey to re release all my works after the debacle that was Silver Publishing. Now that all my works have been re released everything else you will get from me this year will be NEW!!! YAY. I can't wait to start working on continuing many of my series'.
But for Now we have the last re release. Corey underwent some major re writes and expansion of roughly 13k. It took me a while to work my way through Corey, but I got there in the end.
So for now here's an excerpt for you to tide you over until tomorrow's release.
Corey Jones has always maintained he didn't want a mate. After falling for his college professor and having his heart broken, he vowed to never go there again. Now, his decision to remain single is put to the test when he meets his Alpha's new personal assistant, Ethan Davies, and discovers the man is his mate.
After growing up in the foster care system all Ethan ever wanted was a home and someone to love him. He's overjoyed that his recent move has brought him to his mate. Ethan's happiness soon turns to devastation when Corey walks away from him and their bond.
Ethan is forced to walk a fine line between respecting his mate's wishes and refusing to give up on the one thing he's wanted his entire life. With Ethan's determination, an interfering brother, and pack members too interested in his personal life, Corey may not stand a chance.
A knock on his office door brought Ethan back to what he was supposed to be doing.
“Come in,” he called out.
Tommy opened the door and took a couple of steps into the room. He stood with both hands protectively holding his stomach, as if he expected something bad to happen to his baby at any minute. Tommy looked down at his watch, then pointedly at Ethan.
“It’s six o’clock on a Monday evening. Why in the world are you still working?”
Ethan looked at the clock on his computer screen and sure enough, the damn thing flashed 6:01 pm. He glanced back at Tommy and smiled sheepishly.
“Got lost in the work I was doing, didn’t even realize how late it was.”
“Well, it’s time to stop. Tonight’s poker night and it’s our turn to host, which means you need to get out of this office and clean up a little before everyone starts arriving. Ben will want to introduce you to some of his mates.” That knowing glint was back in Tommy’s eyes again.
“What aren’t you telling me?” he asked, staring at the Alpha mate.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Tommy replied with a huff and turned to leave.
Ethan didn’t miss the huge grin that broke out on the guy’s face, though.
“You better get a move on. Wouldn’t want to be late or anything.” Tommy chuckled as if he’d said something funny and then flounced—well, at least that’s what Ethan assumed the man had been trying to pull off—from the room and left Ethan staring at a now empty doorway.
Shaking his head at Tommy’s behaviour, Ethan turned back to his computer. He silently wondered if the man was always like this or whether the pregnancy caused his weirdness.
He’d been on the job for an entire week now. Being Ben’s personal assistant and helping the Alpha to manage all the packs across the country was an interesting job, Ethan looked forward to work every day.
The day after he’d interviewed for the position, Ethan had flown home to Newcastle and packed his things. It had taken Ethan a month to pack up his apartment, serve out his notice at his job, put his house up for sale, and have everything moved to Atherton. All he’d wanted the entire time he was in Newcastle was to get back to Atherton and start his new role.
Making the decision to apply for the job had been easy, but Ethan never thought in a million years that he would actually get it. Deciding to accept and move halfway across the country was one of the scariest things he’d ever had to do. Seeing as how Ethan had grown up a child of the foster care system, he’d seen some pretty scary shit in his life.
Ben had been nice enough to pay for his belongings to go into storage until he found a place to live. Ethan had tried to argue that it wasn’t necessary, but Ben wouldn’t take no for an answer. Ethan had just planned to find a place and have his stuff shipped there so he could unpack when he arrived, but both Ben and Tommy had talked him out of it. Their main argument had been that he really needed to inspect the property personally, as he didn’t want to be stuck in a place he hated because he’d signed the contract sight unseen.
Ethan had reluctantly agreed, and for the last week he’d been searching for something that was within his price range and suited his needs. He didn’t have a great deal of stuff.
Ben had been more than kind to him and offered Ethan the use of one of his spare rooms until he found somewhere more permanent. The knowing grin Ben and Tommy both sported when they discussed it annoyed Ethan slightly. It was obvious the pair was keeping something from him, but for the life of him, Ethan couldn’t think what it might be.
After the way Tommy had acted when they’d first met, Ethan had been surprised the man was all right with him being in such close proximity to Ben any more than he absolutely had to. Tommy had been ready to rip his throat out when Ethan had walked out of Ben’s office after his initial interview. Something had changed dramatically since then, but whatever it was, Ethan had been kept in the dark about it.
Ethan could remember something else he’d been kept in the dark over. He’d been shocked as shit when Ben had explained to him about the ability for male wolves to fall pregnant. If it wasn’t for the fact that Tommy was the size of a bloody house when Ethan had returned to Atherton, he would probably still think the Pennaeth Alpha a little crazy.
There was no doubt about it, though; Tommy was pregnant. This was obvious, not just by the basketball-sized lump in his belly but by everything else that went along with pregnancy.
Tommy had the widest-ranging mood swings Ethan had ever seen. Ethan chuckled as he remembered one instance the previous Friday when he had been in Ben’s office discussing one of the South Australian packs and Tommy had walked in and started stripping off his clothes. Ethan had been too shocked to move and had watched as Tommy sat in his mate’s lap and had started to ravage the man.
Just when Ethan had gotten his senses back and stood to leave, Tommy had burst out into tears and started to hit Ben weakly in the chest. Ben tried to soothe his emotional mate, and Ethan had bolted, wanting out of there as fast as possible.
Ethan knew seeing the Alpha mate like this wasn’t exactly ideal, but it gave Ethan a great deal of insight into what a relationship based on love and friendship looked like. He’d never had anything even remotely close to what the Alpha pair had, but God, Ethan wanted it badly.
He didn’t know if he wanted the kids, the swollen feet, mood swings, and weird-ass cravings at all times of the day or night, but the love of a man who stood by him, no matter what? Yeah, he wanted that.
Now he just had to find his mate, and the chances of that happening here in Atherton were probably not that high. Ethan was only twenty-four, but after an entire life with no one to love him, Ethan was ready for more. He figured after he stuck it out here for a couple of years working for Ben, then he could move on and start his search for the man fated to be his and, with his mate, finally get the comforts of home he hadn’t had since his parents died.
Ethan shook his head and looked at his watch. If he didn’t get a move on, Tommy would kill him. He saved the files he was working on, then shut down the computer. Ethan tidied everything on the desk in preparation for coming back tomorrow morning, then closed the office door behind him and headed to his room.
As he walked across the hall, he heard the doorbell chime and swore softly. The last thing he wanted to do was be late. Ben and Tommy had explained about their poker nights to him, and he’d been invited along to last week’s, which had been held at one of Ben’s friend’s houses. Seeing as how Ethan had only arrived late the night before after several long days of driving and was starting the new job the next day, he’d begged off, stating all he wanted to do was collapse on his bed and sleep for a week.
Now, though, he didn’t have any excuses, and both Ben and Tommy were expecting him downstairs. To tell the truth, Ethan was kind of looking forward to meeting some new people. He’d met several over the course of the last week as pack members came for meetings with Ben on different subjects. He’d also spoken with a great number on the phone, but it was always nice to put a face to the name.
Apparently, the guys downstairs were Ben’s closest friends. Ethan would meet the rest of the pack at the next group get-together, which was scheduled in a few weeks—on the night of the full moon. He’d just missed the last one.
Ethan was couldn't wait to run with the pack. He had been on a couple of little solo jaunts since he’d been here, but there was supposed to be no better feeling than running with your pack.
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Lexi Ander is visiting today.
The talented Lexi Ander is visiting with me today and has graciously agreed to give away a free e-book copy of her latest release Keeping Faith to a lucky commenter.
I want to thank Toni for hosting me on her blog. :-) She was a godsend when life overwhelmed me and I realized that I hadn't made plans for my November release. Thank you for being an angel, Toni!!
Keeping Faith was released on November 28th. It's the sequel to the free story, Playing for Keeps. The Unshakable series started small. I noticed a story prompt at the GoodReads M/M Romance group's annual Don't Write In The Closet event. The author of the picture prompt wanted a story about an established relationship between three young men. The picture was what made me stop and read the request and I really liked the idea.
Most ménage a trios stories are about the beginning of the relationship where the characters meet and fall in love. Awesome… but what happens next? How do they handle life events? What trials do they run into? How is the way they live different than that of a two person relationship? The story may have a happily-ever-after ending, but do they really have sixty years of bliss or do they travel the same bumpy road the rest of us do?
Playing For Keeps, the story of AJ, Trent, and Brock, began two years into their relationship. They were young men in the last year of college. So far they'd hid their relationship but someone was threatening to expose them. What would be the cost if others became aware of their unconventional relationship? It's a sweet novella about the strength of their love and commitment… and I thought when I finished that would be it. No mas.
It's strange how the enthusiasm of readers and comments like "this needs to have a sequel" will spark ideas in me. Why did I think I was finished with the guys? I typically don't write contemporary stories. Fantasy/Sci-Fi is where I'm most comfortable but I couldn't pass up the challenge of the plot because I love polyamorous stories regardless of the setting.
As a reader, I need more to the plot than relationship issues and sexual tension. This is why I don't write contemporary stories. I love puzzles and antiheros and heart-stopping action/adventure and humor. I didn't know if I could write more about AJ, Trent, and Brock. What more did they have to tell me. What issues did they have to face after the end of Playing For Keeps? What was their lives like? *drums fingers on the desk*
In the first book Trent's father, William Harte, makes demands of Trent followed by threats. I only hinted at things that William didn't want to go public. He was tangled up in some nasty, dangerous business that wouldn't have any good consequences. That situation was what I brought over into Keeping Faith. Even though the story is set in the holiday season and the guys are going about their own seasonal traditions, the actions of Trent's father darken their doorway. As my editor put it, "The story was—darker? Edgier?—than I expected…"
But Keeping Faith isn't only about the sins of the father being visited up on the son. I included all my favorite things: puzzles, an antihero, heart-stopping moments, heartache, humor, the excitement of the season, and a view of the life AJ, Trent, and Brock are building together. It's about needing to believe—to keep faith—in something when logic warns that the outcome won't lead to a happy ending.
Happy Holidays and thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoy the exclusive excerpt.
Side Note: If you haven't read Playing For Keeps, it is a free read that you can find on Fireborn's website or over at All Romance (ARe). I would suggest reading it first before jumping into Keeping Faith.
Today's excerpt is from the prologue which introduces some new characters but also gives you an idea of how much trouble Trent's father is in. If you follow this (very short) blog tour, each day there will be a new excerpt tailored to the blog post.
Trent, Brock, and AJ are excited to spend Christmas together in their new home but secrets and dark dealings by Trent's estranged father interrupt their plans. Brock is kidnapped and Trent and AJ scramble to find a way to get Brock back before it is too late.
Several months after Trent Harte was drafted into the NFL, he, AJ Barnes, and Brock Everette are settling into their new home in Miami. Christmas is approaching and they are excited to share another holiday season with each other. Unbeknownst to them, William Harte, Trent's estranged father double-crossed a deadly adversary and then disappeared. To draw William out of hiding, Trent becomes a target. In a horrible twist of fate, the kidnappers grab Brock instead leaving AJ and Trent scrambling to find a way get Brock back. Detectives believe Trent is responsible, and with each passing hour the likelihood of Brock returning home alive dwindles.
Brock traded his safety to ensure his lovers were out of harm's way. He would do it again even knowing he'd end up captured and restrained in a part of town that no one in their right mind would willingly go. The kidnappers are terrifying, but Brock is a fighter, holding onto hope with both hands. He must decide to either wait to be rescued or find a way to escape. Stuck between the wills of a ruthless assassin and an insane mob thug, something needs to happen soon or he'll never see Trent and AJ again.
Paul held out a manicured hand to her. Sammy forced her feet to move, loathing to touch him, even if only briefly.
Once her palm slid against his, he pulled her down into his lap. "I already explained last night it wasn't your fault. William Harte will pay for what he made me do." He ran a knuckle under the covered bruise on her cheek.
His cell phone rang and after glancing at the name on the screen he answered. "Your status?"
Sammy wanted to move from his lap but his firm grip on her hip told her to stay. He would tell her when he wanted her to get up.
"What do you mean he hasn't touched his accounts? Harte is a pampered elitist. He doesn't know the meaning of going without. He must have other accounts you haven't discovered. Dig deeper, I want the man found!"
She scanned the desk. A silver five by seven framed photo of Paul's elegant wife, Patricia, sat next to the computer monitor. At first Sammy had been guilt ridden when she discovered Paul was married, until she met Paul's wife. Patricia came from an influential family in Europe. For two weeks every year, Patricia came to the States to visit with Paul. On one such visit, Patricia had walked into Sammy's suite of rooms in a flourish of expensive silk and designer accessories. She appraised Sammy as if she were an item up for auction. "You're a pert one, aren't you? As always, Paul, your taste is impeccable." With a pat on the cheek, Patricia accepted Paul's proffered elbow, the two leaving Sammy standing in the middle of the room in stunned silence.
Paul hung up the phone with an angry growl.
"Sweetheart, I'm going to miss my plane."
Sammy refrained from trying to wiggle away. Patience was the key when dealing with Paul.
"I won't be joining you in Miami with this unfinished business with Harte. You will cut your trip short and be back here on Christmas Eve." Paul stroked her thigh, his fingers stopping at the edge of the dress's hem.
"Of course," she replied as if it were already a given.
Paul patted her leg, the signal for her to rise. Dutifully she leaned forward to give him a kiss. He caught her chin. "Not now, you're wearing lipstick and I'll never get all of it off." He grasped her chin and turned her head where he pecked her on the cheek. "Now, go."
Sammy moved from his lap and adjusted her skirt so it fell properly. "I'll call you when I arrive," she promised. Not that she would be returning.
Paul grunted in acknowledgement. He had already mentally dismissed her, the manila folder opened once more. Before she could cross the room again, the oak door opened and a man only known as The Gentleman, Gent for short, entered the room. He paused upon seeing Sammy. Her steps faltered. Of all the people to run into before leaving.
She was one of a handful of people who knew Gent's name and his relationship to Paul. Sammy never ever let on she knew their secret for it was something they closely guarded. She doubted she'd live long if they suspected she knew Paul's personal assassin was his sister's only child, Aldrich.
Sammy's heart pounded in her chest. Even knowing what she did, she couldn't bring herself to dislike him too much. Aldrich had always been kind and courteous. She'd heard the rumors he was dangerous, bits of conversation here and there hinting at the viciousness of Paul's "dog". Maybe she'd spent too much time living in this world of ambiguous morals, black deeds, and cutthroat business. When she looked at Aldrich she didn't see the monster others claimed him to be. She guessed him to be around her age of twenty-seven but she couldn't be sure. She found she'd miss seeing him even if he sometimes scared the hell out of her. Not because of what people said about him but because of everyone who associated with Paul, Aldrich was the only one who could possibly discover her true identity and why she had become Paul's mistress.
"Samantha, I'm glad I caught you before you left."
She held out both of her hands, a ritual since she’d first met him four years ago. A head taller than her, he bent at the waist slightly to kiss the backs of both of her hands. A lock of wiry dark brown hair fell to cover one of his crystal blue eyes as the soft hair of his close-cropped beard brushed her knuckles. She held her breath as his thumb brushed the cuff of her sleeve, barely revealing a purple bruise. He stared for a second before his lips brushed the discolored skin, his thumb covering up the blemish as he straightened. Whereas Paul wore a dark blue pinstripe three-piece suit, Aldrich wore a tan Gucci jacket and vest, with a plaid button-up shirt and a blue and red striped tie. His white trousers were rolled up at the ankle to reveal he wore no socks with his two-tone brown and white wingtips. Paul detested his nephew's choice of clothing and she suspected Aldrich dressed this way to annoy Paul.
Those light blue eyes pinned her when he pressed a small slip of paper into her palm. "This place won't be the same without you around. You do bring a ray of sunshine to this tomb."
"Quit flirting with Samantha, she needs to catch a plane and doesn't have time to dawdle with you." Paul sighed in exasperation.
Aldrich squinted slightly as the back of his knuckles grazed her sore cheek under the hidden bruise. For a breath, his eyes turned to ice and just as quickly the look disappeared. She couldn't stop the shiver crawling up her spine.
"I won't keep you. Have a safe trip." His low voice held a hint of warmth Sammy dared not analyze.
"It was nice seeing you," she replied before leaving the room. The butler stood in the foyer and opened the door for her. The Mercedes waited at the bottom of the steps, with her bodyguard holding open the rear door. Gracefully she slid onto the buttery soft leather seat. She didn't dare glance at the note until she sat on the plane.
"Don't come back" was written in an elegant hand along with a bank name and an account number. She tucked the slip of paper into her purse, swallowing down the nausea that threatened her suddenly delicate stomach.
Publisher: Firborn Publishing, LLC
Tentative Release Date: November 28th, 2014
Genre: Action/Adventure, ADVISORY- Contains moderate violence, Category Length Novel, Comedy/Humor, Contemporary, Family Drama, Happy Ending, HEAT, Holiday-Winter, Male/Male, Ménage, Mystery/Suspense, Part of Series, Romance
Heat Level: 3 Flames
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Playing For Keeps Blurb:
College running back, Trent Harte, has been living with his lovers, AJ Barnes and Brock Everett, for two years. Caught in a compromising position, rumors abound. It's hard enough to be an openly gay football player, but gossip and snide comments only add to his stress. Threats against his partners causes Trent to wonder if he should step back from the relationship.
AJ and Brock know there is something wrong when Trent begins to pull away. A call from Trent's father only adds to his distress. AJ and Brock refuse to let him shoulder the responsibility alone and they call for help. Will Trent find the strength to withstand the pressure and hold on to those he loves? Or will AJ and Brock be too late to convince Trent that they are playing for keeps?
The (very short) Tour Schedule:
12/1 – Toni Griffin's blog (http://www.tonigriffin.net/blog)
12/2 – Hearts On Fire Reviews (http://heartsonfirereviews.com/)
12/3 – Angel Martinez's blog (http://angelmartinezauthor.weebly.com/)
12/4 – World of Diversity Fiction (http://www.wodfreview.com/)
12/5 – Lexi Ander's blog (I know, this is like cheating!) (http://lexiander.blogspot.com/)
Lexi has always been an avid reader, and at a young age started reading (secretly) her mother’s romances (the ones she was told not to touch). She was the only teenager she knew of who would be grounded from reading. Later, with a pencil and a note book, she wrote her own stories and shared them with friends because she loved to see their reactions. A Texas transplant, Lexi now kicks her boots up in the Midwest with her Yankee husband and her eighty-pound puppies named after vacuum cleaners.
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My GRL experience
GRL is officially over for yet another year, and I'm sad. I've been looking forward to attending for so long now, that it just doesn't seem like there was enough time... The conference seemed to fly by. Now everyone is looking toward next year, which will be held in San Diego. It's a little too soon to tell whether or not I will be able to attend in 2015, I can tell you that I want to, finances and family situations willing.
So I thought I would share with you some of my pics and highlights from the conference.
The location - Indian Lakes Hotel
The lobby where many a conversation was had.
The fireplace lounge in the conference centre, where a poor Territorian was able to go to warm up on many an occasion.
So that's the hotel... There wasn't a single straight line anywhere and the rooms weren't square, however, I loved it. The food could have been nicer, but that's about the only thing I would improve.
I was so excited when I officially registered and picked up my GRL packet... Look... that's me... OMG
As for the people that attended GRL. HOLY COW... I've never met a nicer bunch of people anywhere. Everyone went out of their way to make you feel welcome and comfortable. There were a lot of newbies at this GRL, just like me and not once did I feel left out or overwhelmed by things.
I had several fan girl moments when I was able to meet my favourite authors. I unfortunately didn't get a pic with them all. Charlie Cochet and Andrew Grey being two of them. Here's a couple of the pics I did get.
Wade Kelly
BG Thomas
Mary Calmes
Freddy MacKay
Silvia Violet
The amazingly talented artist Catherine Dair, who joined the MCB crew in their Star Trek themed dress for the costume party on the last night of GRL
I attended several of the panels. The author Spotlights with the RJ Scott, Amber Kell and Stephanie Hecht where they discussed flawed heros was a lot of fun. As was the Mary Calmes, Poppy Dennison and Lynn Lorenz panel where the topic of choice was once close to my heart. Shifters. I also attended a Reading where Silvia Violet, JP Barnaby and Zahra Owens read from their works.
I had a great deal of fun interacting with not only other writers but with the readers as well. It's still a little mind boggling for me when readers would come up to me and tell me they loved my books. They were all so wonderful, and it was great finally being able to put faces to names.
The swag room and the Author signing for me were a great deal of fun. Having that time to chat with the readers and discuss your books was incredible. The entire thing was very surreal to me.
My 2 foot section in the swag room.
My table at the book signing... Notice Sir Reginald Barkley Plattingsworth III made the trip to the US with me.
I was lucky and got to share a signing table with the incredibly talented Angel Martinez.
It was wonderful to be able to meet my eXtasy publishers, Tina Haveman & Jay Austin. I had a great time.
I want to send a big shout out to all the hubbies that attended. RJ's Hubby, Mr Amber Kell, Silvia Violet's Hubby Brent & Christy Thomas's hubby ET. It was fabulous that you all came and it was awesome seeing some of you again and meeting others for the first time.
Inquisitive little squirrel going hunting for nuts.
Silvia & Brent
RJ's Hubby taking part in the panel and reading an excerpt from Texas 6
Christy & ET
All in all I had an absolute blast. Do I wish the conference went for longer, yes. I ad such an amazing time I didn't want it to end. Was it worth the expense of flying from Australia to the United States? You betcha. Would I do it again? In a heart beat.
A big thank you goes out to Carol Lynn, Ethan Day, Reese Dante, Teresa Emil and the other organisers of this fantastic event. I have nothing to really compare it with, but I thought you did an amazing job and I can't wait to come back and attend a future GRL.
Thanks to all the readers who came up to me and talked about my books. And a big thank you to the other Authors who let me go all fan girl on them.
Winner - Liam
Whoops... So with everything going on in my life, I may have forgotten to announce the winner of Liam. The winner is Shorty Chelle.
If you've already purchased this story then you can chose something from my backlist or one of my coming soon books.
Please email me at info@tonigriffin.net and let me know what story you would like and the file format you prefer. Most stories available in PDF, ePub & Mobi.
Toni Griffin
Toni Griffin lives in Darwin, the smallest of Australia's capital cities. Born
and raised in the state she's a Territorian through and through. Growing up
Toni hated english with a passion (as her editors can probably attest to) and
found her strength lies with numbers.
Now, though, she loves escaping to the worlds she creates and hopes to continue
to do so for many years to come. She's a single mother of one and works full
time. When she's not writing you can just about guarantee that she will be
reading one of the many MM authors she loves.
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ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FAMOUS & THE UNIQUE
About Victoria Giraud
March on Washington – a brush with history
by Victoria Giraud.
“How’d you like to see some movie stars?” a retired Navy pilot asked me on a summer day in 1963, shortly before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington event. It was the summer before my senior year of college, and I was working for Operations at what was then Washington National Airport on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia.
I was the only female among six retired Navy and Air Force officers, all former pilots, and our offices were on the field level of the airport. Even though the men had done their twenty years in the service and were drawing their retirement pay, they were only in their forties. They had opted to keep working by getting a government job, which kept them in the same place for a change.
The fellows in Operations, who were all cocky and full of charm and humor, would make sure takeoffs and landings were going smoothly. They were in charge of monitoring aborted flight departures or problems with arrivals because of engine trouble or whatever else might go wrong and did. Potential mishaps, depending upon the severity, were labeled either “Standby at the station” if it was mild—as with a plane coming in with less than all engines operating—or “Standby on the field” if it looked more serious—faulty landing gear, for instance. These competent but seemingly relaxed men were privy to what was going on around the airport in general.
As a lowly clerk-typist, GS-3, I was responsible for answering phones and typing whatever documents needed typing—monthly reports of the flights in and out of the airport, for instance. Our oak-paneled offices were nicely appointed and were historic, having been used by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his long presidency, and on our wall there was a photo of him sitting in this office. I enjoyed the job because my flirtatious but well-mannered bosses were fun to work for; there was never a dull moment if they were around. I was their built-in audience and they let me in on their little jokes. One of the them, who resembled old-time movie actor Robert Taylor, would request that I bring him his coffee just like his women—“hot, dark and sweet.” A former Navy pilot, whose crewcut was getting sparse on top, claimed his hair was guilty of mutiny—they were all deserting the ship.
I was only dimly aware of the growing civil rights movement, which was beginning to heat up at that time. I attended William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and we had no African-American students. Although integration within Virginia schools was mandatory, it had yet to become widespread. In 1963 Viet Nam action consisted of American military “advisors” and was very much an unknown factor; it was August 1964 before the US began a substantial military build-up, which escalated into a war.
Washington National Airport was a hub of activity in those casual days before extensive security checks and terrorism. Getting on and off planes was easy; no one cared what a traveler had in his luggage. If my bosses, who seldom stayed around the office except to have coffee or tell me a joke, spotted anyone famous in the airport, they’d tell me, especially if there was time for me to go sneak a peek. Renowned Spanish painter, Salvador Dali, with his distinctive long curling mustache, was once spotted in time for me to look him over. One of my bosses was very excited when he caught sight of NBC television news anchor Chet Huntley, who had probably flown on the Eastern Airlines Shuttle—their gate was close to our office. I enjoyed my peek at the handsome, bushy brown-haired Huntley, who was based in New York City; his co-anchor, David Brinkley reported from Washington. Their famous Huntley-Brinkley Report was a highly popular news program of that day and broadcast from 1956 to 1970, when Huntley retired.
None of these celebrities compared to the mix of stars who were coming for the March on Washington, a massive protest for jobs and civil rights headed by Dr. Martin Luther King and his supporters. Since then I’ve learned much about that milestone and about King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. At that time, all I knew was that King’s celebrity supporters would all be gathering at the private aviation terminal, not far from the main terminal. My bosses didn’t know who would be there, but they’d be delighted to drive me and a friend to the Butler Aviation Terminal. We just had to act like we belonged there.
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USC notched its second victory over a team from a power-five conference in a 70-68 victory over LSU on Saturday at the Staples Center.
USC cruises past Pepperdine to keep season perfect
Freshman forward “Big O” (Onyeka Okungwu) opened up for the Trojans with a two-pointer in the first 13 seconds of the game to give the Trojans a head start. He was closely followed by senior guard Jonah Matthews adding another two-pointer to pump up the team.
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USC opened its season with a dominating 77-48 victory against Florida A&M University. The Trojans started slow but found their rhythm for a dominating second-half performance.
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After their 41-14 win over Arizona, the Trojans are buckling down to keep the momentum going. The defense has been putting in extra reps before practice to stare down the horns of its opponent, the Colorado Buffaloes.
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The USC Men’s swimming and diving team showed a promising start to its regular season at the three-session Trojan Swimming Invitational last Friday and Saturday at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center.
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The USC women’s tennis team posted strong individual showings at the Milwaukee Classic. Held from Sept. 20-23, the Milwaukee Classic hosted its 44th annual Intercollegiate Tennis Association gold-level national intercollegiate tournament at the Milwaukee Country Club.
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow
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The Reverence of Approach
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Reclaiming Our Indigenous Soul
"The indigenous soul lives close to the ground, to moss, river and loon. It moves in springs and wind, is close to the breath of coyotes. It is scratched on rock walls around the planet, is seen dancing around firelight and is heard in stories told under the canopy of stars. The indigenous soul is the thread of our humanness woven inextricably with the world. Where all things meet and exchange the vitality that is life, there is soul."
For several million years we have been shaped by the landscape, by wind and mist, wolf howl and sunset. We were inseparable from nature and knew ourselves only in relationship with all our kin. We shared this world with an astonishing array of animals, birds, insects and plants, surrounded by trees, rivers and mountains. We were one among many, finding our way in common among those with whom we shared this sentient terrain. The indigenous soul carries the long evolutionary story of our species set intimately in the context of the wild world. It is the part of our psychic life that we hold in communion with the life that moves around us.
It was this setting that gave the soul its shape. Our psychic lives were made here, on the plains, in woodlands, near lakes and hills. Our original spirituality emerged along with a growing awareness that all things were bound together in a seamless web of life. Chief Seattle reminds us and modern physics affirms that, “All things are connected.” When we walk in nature, some piece of us quickens and knows the truth of this fact. We are connected with all things and they are our kin.
The indigenous soul lives close to the ground, to moss, river and loon. It moves in springs and wind, is close to the breath of coyotes. It is scratched on rock walls around the planet, is seen dancing around firelight and is heard in stories told under the canopy of stars. The indigenous soul is the thread of our humanness woven inextricably with the world. Where all things meet and exchange the vitality that is life, there is soul.
The recovery of the indigenous soul is imperative. We are in serious trouble as a people. Nearly every biological system is in peril: our watersheds, oceans and topsoil are experiencing rapid deterioration. We face a future that will be seriously impacted by radical changes in our climate. We are also witnessing the daily loss of the wild as we encroach ever further into wetlands and forests. We have forgotten our place in the world. And this woe is not confined to us alone; it extends to the others with whom we share this world. Many species find themselves threatened by these changes: grizzlies, blue fin tuna, spotted owls, coral reefs, Atlantic salmon, autumn buttercup, golden-cheeked wood warbler, Baker’s cypress. This list goes on and on. There are 2,269 endangered species in the United States alone. They are caught in a cascading net of sorrows, powerless to change or adapt. We must reconnect with this ancient ground of being that is our indigenous soul and recall that we are all of the earth.
We are living, you and I, with only the remotest memory of life intimately lived with the earth. Our progress has taken us away from the green world and landed us squarely on asphalt and concrete, microchip and mall. My soul cries out from this loss, this ripping us away from the primal matrix. I know I feel different, quieter, when I sit and let the sounds of wind, rain, birdsong and cricket wash my ears with the deep song our ancestors recognized as the eternal music of the world. When I walk in the woods, or along the ocean, my soul comes forward and breathes deeply, sighs and comes once again into contact with the living earth. It is in this state of permeability that I actually feel the world, register its many and varied presences, and come into the full radiance of this shimmering terrain. I am moved daily by the play of light on the hills across the valley, the songs of robins and towhees, and the sweet fragrance of morning dew on the dry grasses of summer.
Laurens van der Post writes, “We cannot, today, recreate the original ‘wilderness man’ in shape, form and habitat. But we can recover him, because he exists in us. He is the foundation in spirit or psyche on which we build, and we are not complete until we have recovered him.”(1) We are not complete until we have recovered this part of our being. The ground of the indigenous soul is the foundation upon which we build our lives in this world. This is the basis of who we are, the root structures that guide our everyday movement through the world, through instincts and emotions, intuitions and sensations. This is a very different perspective from trying to deny, control or repress our natural desires to connect and live within the folds of the world.
Our soul is designed to feel kinship with the living world. Watch children enraptured by the vitality of life found in nature. They become fully absorbed in the moment, a presence that rivals any meditation master. Holding a salamander, a stone, a frog, they are emptied of everything save for what has opened their minds and captured their attentions. Everything about this world engenders awe, a pervasive and encompassing feeling of love for this life: the beauty of wildflowers, the hum of bees and the sweet taste of honey, all cause our spirits to swell with joy.
We have become accustomed to monotony and depression. In fact, the number of people taking anti-depressants has doubled over the last decade.(2) Nearly thirty million individuals are now taking medications to deal with their depression. (Many others medicate with alcohol, drugs, TV, food, shopping or any number of anesthetics for their pain.) As someone who works with many depressed individuals, I know the life-saving quality that these medications can serve. However, the deeper question that we need to be asking is why so many of our people are depressed. How is it that we have shaped a culture that leaves so many of our people feeling empty, flattened and disheartened? Every day I see someone in my office carrying the weight of these symptoms. It crushes the spirit, leaves us breathless and unable to drink in the beauty of the world.
We must come back to life, in both meanings of that phrase: back to that which shaped us and made us thrum with aliveness and back from this state of pre-death where our sense of who we are and what holds meaning has been torn from our hearts by a narrowing of our attention and a preoccupation with survival only.
I know we were made to live here happily. Everything about our makeup says so. We are carriers of connection. Our psychic and physical design makes us a giant receptor site for engagement. We were made to take the world into us, to digest her astonishing beauty with our senses. Then, in the quiet of our inner world of reflection, intuition and thought, in the places where intimacy is registered, our affections are meant to be returned to the world. This erotic leap between our senses and the world deepens our connection and affection for the world. Even something as ordinary as our daily meals provides moments when we can pause and sense this reality. Eating is such a sensuous experience. Let the juice of the peach linger for a bit on your lips. Celebrate the sweetness of the cantaloupe or the salty satisfaction of cashews on your tongue. These are the simple blessings offered to us every day. My poem, “Day to Day Devotions” speaks about this opportunity for engagement.
Imagine making of your life a prayer,
A worship, a devotion. Imagine moving
through the world in celebration
casting alms by the sure presence
of your faith in life.
Imagine waking and rising to
be an invocation, a gifting
in which what is most
precious to you is invited
into the world.
Imagine eating and bathing as
sacramental, a communion with
the sacred other, a remembrance
of all our relations whereby
our own self is given form.
Imagine breathing and walking,
touching and holding to be the
movements of your soul as it
feels its way into your
arms and legs, those
“inlets of soul in our age” as Blake reminds us.
Imagine talking and listening
as rituals of meeting
where who you are is
welcomed into the
heart of another.
Imagine these day to day devotions
as the purest chance you have
of redemption. Imagine
these simple gestures as
God’s sweetest blessing.
I have been intrigued with indigenous cultures for many years. One of the frequently reported comments from those that witnessed these cultures was the amount of laughter, humor and joy they encountered. I want that in my life, in my community, for my son and those others whom I love–joy that is infectious and that keeps our hearts fed during hard times; joy that enables us to step back from the feeding trough of consumerist society. Jean Liedloff, author of the Continuum Concept, has suggested that happiness has ceased to be a condition of being alive and instead has become a goal. I’ll be happy when . . .What? I retire? I get this new TV? I get my shit together? And on and on. This is what we’ve come to call the pursuit of happiness.
This pursuit is endless. We are, as one of my mentors said, climbing the ladder of success only to find it leaning against the wrong building! Living as we do in the belly of a soul-eating culture, we must consistently strive to discover ways to get back to the ground of our indigenous soul. By doing what matters most to the soul, we are drawn closer into our lives. We feel the allure of village life, that genuine experience of community that circulates around a shared commitment to one another’s soul life. The village is where we feel welcomed, where who we are is invited into the conversation and where what we have to offer to the community is received.In the village everyone is “spiritually employed,” meaning everyone is needed and everyone has a particular gift to offer the community. We long to feel a part of a circle that offers this full reception.
We will also feel ourselves responding to the pull of nature and find our feet walking deliberately into the woods and mountains, along singing rivers and blue-green turquoise seas. We find ourselves falling into the arms of the living earth. These primary satisfactions are what feed the soul and satisfy our deepest needs for connection and intimacy with the life around us.
The indigenous soul is immense. That is why we come alive when we move near the energies that inhabit the world: rivers, deserts, mountains, woodlands. Some arc leaps from our being and creates a link with this otherness, reminding us of our closeness to the living world and with one another. Our loneliness is tied up entirely with our loss of contact with these deeper truths. We can never be lonely in this world once we relearn how to continually feel our deep connection with it. When the finches sing, our ears become enamored with their beautiful call, and if we have but ears to hear, we know and feel the corresponding cadence in our soul and offer our song back to the world.
Recovering this deep song in my soul has made all the difference in my existence. I feel at home, at ease in my life and body. The earth is longing for our return. One young woman with whom I worked could not feed herself in a nourishing way. She would consistently deprive herself of good food, as if she was not worthy of nourishment. One day I reached out to her, took her hand, led her out of the office and brought her into the yard outside the building. I cleared away some leaves and grass, revealing the naked earth. I brought her over, knelt down with her and placed her hands on the ground, and I asked her to tell the earth about her struggle with food: A torrent of tears unleashed long lingering grief about her feelings of worthlessness. Her tears fell to the earth and she felt the benevolent pulse of the ground beneath her hands. This was a moment of healing, restoration through the grace of the indigenous soul knowing its deep affiliation with this world. Her relationship to her own indigenous soul was re-established, and she is now the loving mother of her own beautiful, well-fed daughter.
This sweet medicine is available to each of us, offered by the earth without reservation or deserving. There is no earning of this grace, no reward for doing it right. It is a matter of connecting and feeling into the fullness of this constant connection. Our welcome is not predicated on measuring up or being on the right side. It is a matter of intimacy, of relationship with this world as it is.
Somehow along the way, very recently in our human story, a perception emerged that suggested that this world was not holy enough for the soul. The earth was seen as inferior and only heaven or some state of transcendence from this lowly life was acceptable. Our souls were seen or imagined as being ill at ease in the world. This world was a veil of sorrows to be transcended as soon as possible. I simply cannot accept that perception. I feel with my entire being that soul is in love with this magnificent world, that it takes absolute delight in the endless variety of shapes, colors, textures and scents. Jesus himself declared that the kingdom of heaven is spread over the earth, but we do not see it. It is here, adorned in every possible way by nature and this adornment calls the soul out to play. This was the lap from which we emerged and in which we are still held. Herman Hesse writes,
Sometimes, when a bird cries out,
Or the wind sweeps through a tree,
Or a dog howls in a far off farm,
I hold still and listen for a long time.
My soul turns and goes back to the place
Where, a thousand forgotten years ago,
The bird and the blowing wind
Were like me, and were my brothers.
My soul turns into a tree,
And an animal, and a cloud bank.
Then changed and odd it comes home
And asks me questions.
What should I reply?
Translated by Robert Bly(3)
Our reply must be to step back into the embrace, into intimate relations with the world where we still feel ourselves turning into trees and animals and cloudbanks. This is not an abstract idea. I am referring to the watersheds and woodlands around our homes, to knowing whose migratory pathways we have entered or have built our homes beneath. Our soul is in love with the singularities, the particular expression of a gnarled cypress, the one-eared feral gray cat on the hillside, this iris and its amazing beard of blue. Love finds itself in the specific. Thus, our efforts to save the world must begin within the scale of what our indigenous soul relates to. We will save the world from our mass overlay of ideologies by loving the world tangibly, with our hands and eyes and our whole bodies. Love is never abstract. It requires bulk and substance, feelings, sensations, quickening in muscle and bone where the anticipation of the other is felt across the surface of the skin.
This is where each of us has an opportunity to decipher how we can experience this love in our own lives. I feel we are coded genetically for relations on a multitude of scales, with the stars, forests and communities, as well as with the smallest circles: a lover, a child or ourselves. We are supremely crafted for intimacy with this world. How else do you think we survived for so many millennia? I talk about intimacy not in some romantic fashion, but in that sense of being penetrated by some great force, engaged in the “constant conversation” that the Persian poet Rumi attests to. This soul dialogue with wind and blackberry binds us to the world.
I was talking with a group of men, engaged in the deep work of initiation, about the role of love in a man’s life and how we have placed such confinement on this capacity in our nature. What I mean by that is that when we love another, we also are being invited to love the world more deeply. Rather than focusing on a single individual, a finite point where love congeals, our loving is meant to move through our beloved and then outward into the greater world itself. Imagine falling in love with the blue of the sky, the scent of honeysuckle. And why not? Why should our love be cloistered, reserved only for others like us? When I leave here, I want to know that I loved this world wholly and by so doing I helped feed the belly of the world; I wasn’t simply a point of extraction, someone who took and took without ever giving back.
I see manifestations of the indigenous soul in eruptions of celebration, enthusiastic expressions of gratitude and rituals of kinship, in shared times of grieving, all acknowledging the abiding connection between the human and the more-than-human world. The annual cycle of rituals that we have developed locally over the years has made it clear that our relationship with the world is deepened and affirmed by these actions. These gatherings strengthen our sense of connection with all life. For example, our annual “Gratitude For All That Is Thanksgiving Ritual” is a three-day celebration that addresses our intimate and primary bond with all creation. We gather in late November as the colors of fall are yielding to the rainy season in California. During our time together we sing, make offerings of clay, share food and stories and we build a beautiful gratitude shrine. Then together, mid-day on Saturday, we enter ritual space where we make offerings of corn meal, agates, clay figures and tobacco in gratitude. This is done one-by-one, much to the delight of the children as they crawl in and out of the shrine where the offerings are placed. On Saturday evening we share a Thanksgiving feast with a bounty of toasts, laughter, wine and delicious desserts brought by every participant. And then we dance for hours in celebration of our togetherness. On Sunday morning we gather the gifts to the earth, to the ancestors and Spirit from the shrine and they are placed into the belly of the earth by the children. It is an amazing celebration that binds the community to one another and deepens our connection with the living earth.
When we pause, even for a brief time and realize our affection for the world, we live a more inclusive and relational life. We remember our place as one among many–at home, sacred and blessed.
Gestures such as these confirm what was self-evident to earth-based traditions: that we are inseparably linked to nature. We ARE nature. In this language older than words(4) we uttered the speech of the indigenous soul and the most notable word in that language was kinship.
The indigenous soul lives in a sea of intimacies, at home with earthworms and eagles, mountain vistas and marshlands. This extensive ground of kinship offered our ancestors a continuing affirmation of the seamless web connecting their spiritual life with the mystery of this world. What we moderns often experience as existential anxiety stands in stark contrast with what is found when the ground of connection is solid beneath our feet. When this wider array of connection is established, we find individuals who feel assured, carrying a soul confidence that enables them to know that they are wanted and desired by the earth. They realize that they carry something of value for the world and it is their spiritual responsibility to offer that medicine. They have entered the great story of life on earth and have remembered who they are, where they belong and what is sacred. I feel this emerging in my own life. My sense of belonging and kinship feels settled, and I feel my soul unwrapping the gifts it came here to offer.
1 Van der Post, Laurens, in A Testament to the Wilderness. The Lapis Press, Santa Monica 1985 Pg. 56.
2 Archives of General Psychiatry, 2009; 66(8): 848-856.
3 Hesse, Herman, in News of the Universe: poems of twofold consciousness. Edited by Robert Bly. Sierra Club Books. San Francisco. 1980 Pg. 86.
4 Jensen, Derrick, A Language Older Than Words. Context Books, NY 2000.
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A. About Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM)
• What is the background of XMUM?
Upon the invitation of the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, Xiamen University (XMU) accepted the offer and thus, XMUM was established. We began in earnest to build our first offshore campus in Malaysia and became the pioneer university from China to establish a branch campus in Malaysia.
• What is the main focus of XMUM?
Xiamen University Malaysia aspires to become a university with a distinct global outlook, featuring first-class teaching and research, and embracing cultural diversity. It is committed to nurturing young talents with dignity and wisdom, helping them become responsible, steadfast members of society who will be able to contribute to the people, as well as to the social progress of Malaysia, China and Southeast Asia.
• What is the motto of XMUM?
The motto of XMUM is "Pursuing Excellence, Striving for Perfection".
• How is XMUM’s parent university –XMU ranked in China, Asia and globally?
XMU, founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, was the first Chinese higher educational institution established by an overseas Chinese. According to The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016, XMU is ranked 9th among more than 2000 universities in China. In "2016 Best Global Universities Rankings" published by US News, XMU is ranked 37th in Asia and 275th globally.
• Where is XMUM located?
XMUM is located at Jalan Sunsuria, Bandar Sunsuria, Sepang, only a 5-minute drive from ERL Salak Tinggi, a 10-minute drive from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and a 15-minute drive from the Government Administrative Center - Putrajaya.
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• How is the campus of XMUM?
XMUM has a purpose-built campus occupying an area of 150 acres with an estimated total investment of RM 1.3 billion. The maximum capacity of the campus is 10,000 students.
• What are the facilities available to students?
XMUM is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, such as multimedia lecture halls, seminar rooms, tutorial rooms, multi-purpose student activity center with Olympic-sized swimming pool, gym, library, and labs.
B. About Teaching & Learning
• What are the programmes offered? What are the most popular programmes of XMUM?
Each programme is endowed with its own merits and students have the liberty to choose the programmes that piques their interests. For more information about programmes, click here.
• How many semesters are there in each academic year?
There are three semesters per academic year for all programmes. As for the academic calendar, please refer to: http://www.xmu.edu.my/14702/list.htm
• What is the medium of instruction?
Except for some Chinese Studies and Traditional Chinese Medicine courses conducted in Chinese, all the other programmes will be delivered in English.
• Where are the teaching faculty from?
About 30% of our professors are from Xiamen University in China while the rest of the faculty are recruited from around the globe. 80% of our academic staff are doctoral degree holders.
• Are the programmes at XMUM recognised internationally?
Yes, all the programmes offered are recognised internationally, with dual accreditation by both the Malaysian and Chinese governments.
• Are the foundation programmes of other colleges recognised by XMUM?
Yes, we recognise foundation programmes of other institutions approved by MOHE Malaysia. Admission is subject to a stringent internal evaluation process.
• What do students need to do if they want to transfer credits of their previous studies?
Students need to complete the Credit Transfer Application Form, provide transcripts and detailed syllabi of their previous studies for us to make assessment. Only when the similarity of the two courses reaches 80% can credit transfer be considered. In such case, students may exempt qualified courses and gain corresponding fee waiver. The application for credit transfer will only be processed after the students have been admitted to XMUM.
• How long does it take to complete a degree?
The duration for bachelor degree programmes of arts, management and economics is three years while it takes four years to complete the engineering and science degree progammes. The traditional Chinese medicine programme is 5-year in length.
• What is the average class size?
About 20 - 40 students per class.
• What is the teacher /student ratio like?
We have a teacher student ratio of 1: 15 for core courses.
• Could student re-sit the final examination or do they have to repeat a course?
Re-sit is only allowed for quarantined students (with Dengue fever, SARS, etc.). These students have to submit a formal application together with supporting evidence to the Examination Board. If a student receives a ‘Fail’ grade in a course, it is compulsory to retake the same course except in cases when there is no requirement to do so. If a student attains a ‘Pass’ but would like to improve his or her grade, he or she may repeat the course once. Only the higher grade obtained in the two attempts will be used for the calculation of CGPA.
*No fee will be imposed for the first retake, but a fee will be charged for the second retake based on credit hours. One course can only be taken twice.
• How many credit hours do I need to complete for graduation?
The minimum credits for graduation vary for different programmes. Only when a student fulfils the minimum credits required and attains at least a CGPA of 2.0, can he or she be conferred a degree .
• Do students have opportunities to study abroad?
XMU has 28 schools and 76 departments, as well as over 300 foreign partner universities and colleges for exchange and cooperation, which provides students opportunities to carry out their internships or further their studies in China or other countries. The international recognition of qualification also ensures a solid start to a bright career for graduates.
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• How to apply to study at XMUM?
To study here, the applicant can submit an online application, an email application or a paper application.
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• What is the entry requirement for each programme?
To be eligible for XMUM’s undergraduate programmes, the applicant needs to possess either of the following qualifications - STPM, UEC, matriculation, foundation, A-level, diploma, etc.
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• How many intakes are there in one year?
For undergraduate programmes, the intakes are in February, April and September. For foundation programmes, the intakes are in April and August.
• After gaining a letter of acceptance, what should an applicant do next?
The applicant needs to sign the Student Acceptance Slip and email the scanned copy or return the original copy to the Admissions Office.
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• How much does a degree cost?
The tuition fees range from RM 23,000 to 25,000 per year. For more information, please click here.
• Does XMUM provide any scholarships? What are the minimum requirements for receiving the scholarships?
Merit-based scholarships are available based on the academic achievements of students, Study grant are provided to students with siblings studying at XMUM or students whose parents are teachers. Please refer to the following website for more information: http://www.xmu.edu.my/14695/list.htm
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• Is on-campus accommodation provided?
XMUM provides on-campus accommodation to all registered students. Students are encouraged to live in campus residences, as living on campus fosters a spirit of cooperation and camaraderie that develops into lifelong friendships, and facilitates participation in extra-curricular activities through various cultural, recreational and social programmes. For more information, click here.
• How much is the rental?
The rental ranges from RM 340 to RM 390 per month. Each of the registered student who lives in the campus residences is required to pay a deposit of RM500 (refundable) together with one-semester rental upon check-in. For more details, click here.
• What security precautions does the University take on campus?
The hostel is guarded by security guards and is under 24 hour CCTV surveillance every day. We have also installed access controller for main entrances of each hostel block and students need to get through by their Student ID card. Unauthorized guests are barred from entering or staying in the compound of student hostels including rooms and communal areas.
• Do students need to observe any curfew regulation?
The curfew set for the residences is 12:00 am. Residents who wish to leave or return to the campus ground after 12:00 am must report at the guardhouse with their student IDs.
• Are there any laundry facilities available?
Yes, there is a laundry room on the ground floor of each block, providing high-efficiency and fully automatic washing machines and dryers. The machines are coin-operated (RM 4 per barrel).
• Are students allowed to stay in the hostel during semester breaks?
Yes, students can stay on campus during semester breaks.
• Do students need to bring their own cleaning supplies to clean their rooms?
Yes, students need to bring cleaning supplies, as they are responsible for the tidiness and cleanliness of their own bedrooms.
• Is mattress provided in the room?
Yes, we provide quality mattress. However, students need to bring their own pillows and other necessary bedding items.
• Is electric fan allowed to be used in the hostel room?
There is an air-conditioner in each room. If it is necessary, students may bring their own electric fan.
F. About Daily Service & Support
• Is there a variety of food offered at XMUM canteen?
Yes, there are different vendors selling different types of food, catering to the different needs of students.
• What kind of sports facilities does XMUM provide?
We have indoor and outdoor basketball courts, an Olympic-sized football field, a track, a gymnasium, a table tennis room, a badminton court, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a gymnastic room, a martial arts room, a yoga room, etc.
Currently, all of the facilities above are free and accessible to all the staff and students.
• Are there any student insurance plans available?
XMUM purchases student insurance plan to provide adequate coverage for all the registered students. The medical insurance covers the cost of hospitalization. However, students need to pay the difference if the medical charges exceed the maximum coverage amount.
• Where can students get medical assistance?
There are a few clinics and hospitals nearby. Clinics are usually open during office hours while hospital operates 24 hours a day. There is also on-demand medical care conveniently delivered to XMUM staff and students by appointment.
• In an event of an emergency, who should be contacted?
In an event of an emergency, students should call the 24-hour XMUM Emergency Helpline - 0193489999. They could also contact the police stations in Sepang, Dengkil and Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, by calling the numbers 03-31421222, 03-87686222 and 03-87774484 respectively.
• Are there counselling services available to students?
Yes, we have a counseling Center which provides a range of free and strictly confidential services to promote the intellectual, emotional, social growth and development of XMUM students. The range of services include Individual counselling, group counselling, psychological testing, etc. For more information, please visit the following website. http://www.xmu.edu.my/5b/b8/c14709a285624/page.htm
• Does XMUM provide shuttle bus service for students and staff?
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Trash Story
The screen adaptation of Trash Story is a horror film about a haunted house in which the demons of history torture the current residents. In a small town in the Regained Territories (land taken from Germany and given to Poland after World War II) there stands an old house, previously inhabited by Germans. In it there meet the Mother, the Widow, the Son – and the ghost of a little German girl who lived in the house with her family, and who died along with them near the end of the war. Their meeting is a story made up of individual fates, letters, testimonies. The Son, a conscientious objector, comes to visit his mother and his sister-in-law, the Widow. His older brother, a professional soldier fighting with the Polish mission in Afghanistan, died several years ago in unclear circumstances. Despite the tragedy, the family celebrates his birthday every year. But it’s not an ordinary birthday celebration; it’s more of a séance meant to call up the spirit of the dead man, whose death remains a mystery. Until now. The tragic history of the people who lived in the house during the war is overlaid by the tragedy of those who live there today.
CAST: Aleksandra Justa, Iza Kuna, Eryk Kulm, Piotr Ligienza, Marta Subda, Kamila Worobiej, with special appearance by Piotr Fronczewski.
DIRECTOR: Marta Miłoszewska DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jolanta Dylewska P.S.C. PRODUCTION DESIGN AND COSTUMES: Ewa Kochańska EDITING: Wojciech Łebkowski MUSIC: Bartosz Chajdecki SOUND: Tomasz Wieczorek PRODUCTION MANAGER: Paweł Mantorski
PROGRAM COUNCIL: Zenon Butkiewicz, Krzysztof Domagalik, Maciej Wojtyszko
PRODUCER: Włodzimierz Niderhaus
Running time: 56”
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Lobster Love
Is it just me or are lobsters everywhere? Clothes, toys, stationery, home decor, etc...
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Amanda the Couch Saturday, 19 April, 2008
I love the lobsters, they're so cape cod chic. Little Spence has a stuffed lobster just like that one.
neffgang Saturday, 19 April, 2008
shocked that you didn't include any Kate Spade Lobster key chains!
Pedaling Sunday, 20 April, 2008
rock lobster!!
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Evan Vanfossen Hansis (born 25 September 1981) is an Emmy nominated American actor. Hansis, who uses the name Van professionally, currently stars on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Luke Snyder, the son of one of the show's signature supercouples, Holden and Lily Snyder (played by Jon Hensley and Martha Byrne) - although his biological father is Damian Grimaldi. He made his first appearance on 14 December 2005, taking over the role from Jake Weary. Shortly after taking over the role of Luke, the character came out as a gay man in a storyline in spring 2006.
Hansis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. Prior to joining ATWT, Hansis starred in the Broadway play The Laramie Project, among other stage shows. In 2006 he also starred in the short film The Time Machine.
He is good friends with co-star Elena Goode, who played his cousin and former faux love interest, Jade Taylor.
Van Hansis was born September 25, 1981. Originally from Greenfield, MA, Van began acting in theater camp as a kid.
He received a BFA in Acting from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked professionally at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, in productions of On the Razzle, Twelfth Night, and The Indian Wants the Bronx.
Van has traveled extensively, having studied theatre in Moscow during his time at Carnegie Mellon. He also visited various countries in Latin America as a child.
He joined the cast of As the World Turns on December 14, 2005, taking over the role of Luke Snyder.
A recent transplant to New York City, Van bike rides around his new city, every chance he gets. He is also teaching himself to cook.
In an Out Magazine interview, he mentioned a few of his favorite "gay things": He admires Ian McKellen, thinks Rufus Wainwright writes the best lyrics, counts Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt as his favorite musician, and thinks Velvet Goldmine is a great movie.
Posted by daedal at 00:59
Labels: actor, evan vanfossen hansis, van hansis
I might not have seen a lot of gay acting but Evan's way of showing emotions on screen it's magical... there's a lot to learn you straight guys out there!!!! :)
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EP review: Honest Engines - 'The French Song EP'
Posted by Sasha Geffen
Having mastered the three-song concept EP with their 2009 release Captain's Log, Honest Engines return for round two with a similarly succinct little record. This time, The French Song EP takes us to a darker place, diverging from the epic ambitions of the debut EP and tinging its tightly written pop with a melancholic defeatism.
The EP sets off with its title track, a wistful, uptempo song that cuts its guitars with occasional synth and light sampling. "El Jardin," the record's centerpiece, is driven by a palpable ennui and a sullen regard for time's passing. "I used to be strong; now I'm just tired," remark the lyrics. Like it was strange to hear Neil Young muse that he was "getting old" in his early twenties, this remorse at aging coming from such a young band feels slightly ironic. But it's our twenties that first make us start to feel old, and Honest Engines splendidly captures that passive regret for days gone by.
"Sunny Setting Sun" infuses the record with a fresh optimism with its swooping background vocals and jangly guitars. It's a delightfully catchy finish, but it almost sounds like a conclusion to a bigger record, one that we've not yet heard. It feels as though there are some missing reels between each of the EP's three tracks. Each is a solid song that plays a bold move, but the tonal leaps make it seem as though there could be more content here. Compared to Captain's Log, French Song is a little disparate, without the arc that made Honest Engines' debut so successful. And that arc is essential to making a three-song EP sound like a record and not just a teaser for one.
As a fan of their debut, I'm still glad to hear Honest Engines evolve from the active desperation of Captain's Log to a more complex tone. You won't find the hooking, singalong quality of the prior EP's title track, but it goes to show that Honest Engines can mold their sound with time. Having departed from the enormous theatricality of Captain's Log, they've arrived at a quieter but more interesting place. It just happens to be a place that deserves more exploration than you can fit in three songs. Here's hoping they stick it out for a longer release. Until then, these three tracks are still well worth your time.
The French Song EP will be released via Tandem Shop Records on May 3rd. You can pre-order the disc now at their online store.
Check out "French Song" below:
TS006 Honest Engines - "French Song" by Tandem Shop
Check out more record reviews:
The Palace Flophouse - Bad Friends Forever
Pet Lions - Houses
The Pear Traps - S/T
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons - Mysterious Power
Briar Rabbit - Briar Rabbit and the Company You keep
Posted by Sasha on Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Labels: Chicago CD review, honest engines, the french song ep
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Congratulations to BILiNE Nominees!
Congratulations to the following contributors whom The Worcester Review has nominated for inclusion in Best Indie Literature in New England (BILiNE), Volume 2.
Nominees had to be published between July 2012 and June 2014, which for us means from volumes 33 and 34. The nominees are:
Dmitry Berenson -- "The Fishing Village, Vol 34
Colin Dekeersgieter -- "Gutting," Vol 34
Judy Ireland -- "My Pillow, a Stone," Vol 33
Phillip Lloyd -- "Big Tom," Vol 33
Brian Simoneau -- "From Too Much Dwelling on What Has Been," Vol 34
Lisa C. Taylor -- "Cathedral of Shadows," Vol 34
Timothy Mudie -- "When the Aliens Come Back," Vol 33
Douglas Margeson -- "Barton's Pipe," Vol 33
Karen Nunley -- "Thirteenth Summer," Vol 34
Best of luck to all the nominees! We hope to see your works republished in BILiNE in early 2015.
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Press Release: The Worcester Review announces Volume 35
Contact: Diane Mulligan, twr.diane@gmail.com
WORCESTER, MA. Please join us on November 16 to celebrate the release of the newest issue of The Worcester Review, Volume XXXV: Michael Harper Sacred Geometries. Celebrations will begin with a reading of Michael Harper’s poetry, followed by a Q&A and panel discussion. Come meet the editors and contributors to our feature section. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.
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Tag: 1908 Course
From the Luttgen Album: Driver Foxhall Keene Taking the Turn at Colyers Corner in Plainview
This is another gem from the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race album of driver William Luttgen provided by his grandson Robert Luttgen. It is the first documented Vanderbilt Cup Race photo discovered that was taken at Colyers Corner in Plainview.
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #48: Plainview Road Bridge in Central Park (Bethpage)
The 48th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Plainview Road Bridge in Central Park (now Bethpage). It was one of the original bridges built for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
Then & Now: The Bethpage Bikeway Section of the Motor Parkway in Old Bethpage
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has completed their extension of the 1/2 mile section of the Bethpage Bikeway in Bethpage State Park.
Bethpage Plainview Road Curve on the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
Harley: "I know there was a very sharp curve north right at Route 135, which then heads north before appearing to cross to Bethpage Park. When I saw it 20 years ago, it appeared to be banked. Sincere thanks for your labor of love on the Parkway."
Archives: 1908 Course
Links to related posts on the 1908 Course on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: October 31, 2011):
The Public Roads of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
J, you are correct, the 1908 course ended at the then western terminus of the Motor Parkway near the Bethpage Lodge at Round Swamp Road. The drivers made a left turn and went about 200 feet on Round Swamp Road before turning on to Manetto Hill Road (now called Old Bethpage Road).
Linking the Vanderbilt Cup Race Course from Ellison Road to the Motor Parkway
The fourth set of 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race photos from the Hayden Allen Collection focuses on a stretch of the course that connected Ellison Road with the Motor Parkway just west of Merrick Avenue.
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Slasher Studios Countdown: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Horror Movies
June 25, 2013 May 17, 2016 Slasher Studios*Top Ten
We all have our guilty pleasures. Movies we know that are terrible and yet we can’t help but fall in love with them. These movies are no good for us and yet we keep coming back for more. Below are our favorite guilty pleasure horror movies. Movies that are bad to the bone but they are never boring and THAT my dear readers is the worst crime a horror movie can commit. Can we all agree on that? Also, what movies makes YOUR guilty pleasure list?
#5 Poltergeist III (1988)
“Poltergeist III” is, by all means, a film that I should hate. It’s a sequel with only two returning characters (Carol Ann and the ever reliable Tangina), it’s PG-13, and it’s supernatural. By all means, this should be on my worst list of horror sequels. Hell, that’s where most other horror fans would put it. But it’s a good film and it’s a film that I will defend until the day I die. To be honest, I just don’t understand the hate for this film. The mirror effects are surprisingly effective and the film attempts to bring closure to the story (even though there are only two returning cast members, it is surprisingly faithful to the original two films). The film is just plain fun from beginning to end and what the film lacks in logic it more than makes up for in inventive special effects. Sadly, this is young Heather O’Rourke’s (Carol Anne) last film as she would pass away shortly after filming would commence. Sure they may say Carol Ann about a hundred times too many but it really just adds to the fun of the film. Have a few drinks and do a toast to Miss O’Rourke, one of the genre’s youngest scream queens that was taken far too soon.
#4 Humongous (1982)
“Humongous” is a fun, homage filled 80′s slasher that rips off a dozen other, better slasher films but still manages to be a lot of fun. Remember the scene at the end of “Friday the 13th Part 2″ where Amy Steel pretends to be Jason’s mother? This film sure does as the exact scene is repeated here to lesser effect. That being said, the kills are fun and characters are a tad bit better developed than most of the other 80′s slashers out there. David Wallace is particular is quite strong as our lead twin Eric. Most of the time in 80′s slasher, guys are given nothing to do but not so here. He almost becomes the film girl by being smart, likable, and even given a chance to emote. Lead Janet Julian possesses similar qualities and has a lot of fun with her “last girl standing” appearance. This is a must watch for fans of the early 80′s slasher genre. I can’t say that everyone is going to enjoy the film as much as I did as the film is quite slow and repetitive at times. Nonetheless, it is one of the better examples from the under-appreciated genre.
#3 Warlock Moon (1974)
“Warlock Moon” isn’t a movie that always plays fair. It tries to combine slasher elements (creepy guys with axes at the spa) and supernatural elements (an old bride who was suppose to be married at the spa but was killed and eaten on her wedding day) to a troubling twist ending that doesn’t quite provide the shock that it should. So why is “Warlock Moon” a masterpiece? This is the kind of movie that would never be made today. It is independent filmmaking at its rawest. This is the sort of film in which the filmmakers and actors wear their hearts on their sleeves. It may be too ambitious but it has a sense of dread, atmosphere, and suspense that is sorely missing from horror today. The cherry on top of the sundae? A hilarious commentary featuring the wonderful Joe Bob Briggs who goes to great detail to tell why witches are misunderstood today as well as why “Warlock Moon” is the worst title for a horror movie ever. It’s a hilarious listen but the movie is well worth checking out as well.
#2 Girlfriend From Hell (1990)
The devil is on the run and being pursued by God’s assistant, a devil chaser named Chaser (played with pitch-perfect comic timing by an underrated Dana Ashbrook). When the devil makes a wrong turn to a high school birthday party, the devil takes over the body of innocent and painfully shy Maggie (wonderfully played by Liane Curtis who displays the perfect amount of tart sweetness to the role). Maggie is on the blind date from..err…hell. The bodies pile up and the fun begins as we have assault rifle nuns, soul stolen during sex, a journey throughout time, and a religious woman holding onto her dead life by a floating cheeto. Seriously. “Girlfriend from Hell” never takes itself too seriously and is never boring. It is actually a lot of fun with a clever script and a breezy pace.
#1 Sorority Girls & the Creature From Hell (1990)
The “plot” surrounds a group of sorority girls who decide to take a trip up to a cabin in the woods accompanied by some boys. To their dismay, there is an escaped convict on the loose as well as the uncle of one of the girls. It’s too bad that Uncle Ray is possessed by an Indian spirit turning him into a monster with a need for human blood. Sound a bit convoluted? It sure is but it is also one of the most entertaining horror movies that I’ve seen in quite a while. This film isn’t for everyone and horror fans looking for less cheese and more thrills should look elsewhere. That said, the lovely Debra Dutch (star of underrated cheese classic Hard to Die) steals the show as our resourceful final girl and the film never takes itself too seriously. That’s more than can be said for most films today.
Tagged Girlfriend from Hell, Guilty Pleasure, Horror, Poltergeist, slasher, Sorority Girls, Warlock Moon
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Bryan Dame says:
There isn't really much in favor for Poltergeist III because its lacking in every department, except for the f/x which are well done. My biggest gripe was the way Carol Anne was treated throughout the movie – like the classic unwanted redheaded stepchild. Everybody literally takes a dump on her. Not cool. P3 is a mess no matter how you look at it, but I can dig people liking it as a guilty pleasure. Even I own it on Blu-ray (German release).
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Dialectical engineering
"Poisoned Door Handle Hints at High-Level Plot to Kill Spy, U.K. Officials Say". It is hilarious to watch these 'journalists' try to handle the various major holes in the latest iteration of the whopper of an Official Story told by the liars in the British government.
"Yulia Skripal's social media page accessed while she was reportedly in critical condition", Somebody in British 'intelligence' forgot to tell her that she was supposed to be in a coma, or dead.
Tweet (Socialist Voice):
"The Jeremy Corbyn smear infrastructure"
No worries about Brexit hurting the British economy as the slack can be taken up by the Khazar anti-Corbyn industry.
"Passover 2018: London vs. Gaza (video)" (Atzmon). Really well done!
"CNN". "Killing Palestinian protesters turns into a PR debacle for Israel" (Weiss). Or rather, it would be a PR debacle of anybody in the (((mainstream media))) actually mentioned it. "Will Israel pay a price for its latest Gaza massacre?" (Abunimah). "NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians" (Johnson) (“Be kind; it’s live radio.”!!!). Obviously, obsessing about a phony massacre that didn't occur - no mention of it in the (((mainstream media))), unless it is to spread IDF PR - is just Jew-hatred.
"The Serial Interventionists Unhinged by Willy B". The oil, goyim, what about the oil you we stole? Pro tip - a guy named Josh Rogin isn't actually interested in the oil, or American national interest, for that matter. He is, however, really, really, really interested in Yinon.
The requisite interview with the concentration camp guard!: "Saudi Crown Prince: Iran's Supreme Leader 'Makes Hitler Look Good'". Bonus reference to Hitler! "Saudi de facto leader meets leaders of pro-Israeli lobbies in US". Funny when the robes disappear.
"Western Rhetoric and discourse on Palestine: Human Rights Watch and others" (Angry Arab). At this point it is just ridiculous to criticize Roth and Human Rights Watch for being blood-pouring-from-the-fangs Zionists. That's what they were set up to be. The Khazars have known for a long time that there were going to be massive inconsistencies between 'human rights' and what they planned to do, so they set up the entire official system of 'human rights' to deal with the problem. The only people who don't have 'human rights' are those in the way of the Khazar land theft project.
A deal to circumvent the international law on refugees that applies to everybody else - as we all know, international law doesn't apply to Jews, as that would be bigotry - was cancelled by Bibi due to complaints from the Israeli right: "Israel Announces Deal To Resettle African Migrants In Western Countries; Hours Later Netanyahu Walks Back".
"Was Vietnam a Holocaust for Zion?" (Guyénot). Yikes! - the Vietnam War as a diversion from the Khazar land theft project. Solid, solid thinking of a kind you, naturally, never see (my emphasis in red):
"Many of the leading figures of the anti-war movement were also Jewish. But soon after the leaking of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, with the help of Anthony Russo, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn (all Jewish by birth), other liberal Jewish intellectuals made a 180-degree turn and became leading advocate of the war: they called themselves “neoconservatives”. We have here a fine example of dialectical engineering of history: as Jewish leftists like Noam Chomsky started to protest against the war, former Jewish leftists like Irving Kristol started to protest against the protesters. Meanwhile, Israel could be pushed out of the headlines. Kristol wrote in the magazine of the American Jewish Congress in 1972 that it was necessary to fight against George McGovern’s proposal to reduce the military budget by 30 percent: “This is to drive a knife into the heart of Israel. […] Jews don’t like a big military budget, but it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States. […] American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.”[20]
Against McGovern’s demand for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, Kristol could have added: “American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don’t want to withdraw from Vietnam, it is important to pursue the genocide of the Vietnamese, so that America’s youthful idealists will protest against their own government rather than against Israel’s violation of international law.”"
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25 PHOTOS FROM 2005
click above to see all on one page
Posted by ZS at 8:30 PM 1 comments
As many of you know, I have had non-stop issues with the powerpoint and have asked for help. After seeking endless advice, I have just bought DVD Studio Pro 4, Aperture and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 to redo the existing slide shows, which should be time consuming but not impossible.
I am ready to bring these motherfuckers home.
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South Philly Xmas Eve Day
I have made a vow, no, not to mix southern rock and county like Travis Tritt, but to photograph in South Philly on Christmas eve day. I was in line with most of the others out in our world, waiting to buy bread or rolls or desert and I was bleary having just woken up and driven to Cacia's, but next year, I'm on it with the photos.
I would say about 40% of the people walking around in South Philadelphia have actual pajamas on while out in the world on Christmas eve morning. I am one of those people, wearing actual matching pajamas purchased from Target. I wear sneakers and my coat with this outfit.
The look of South Philly ranges from casual to dressed on Christmas eve morning with a number of outfits that fit into 4 different categories.
1. Pajamas- clothes you have slept in. This could be sweat clothes or actual pajamas.
2. Around the House Clothes- sweatpants (or separate pajama bottoms for women) and a sweat shirt or coat over a tshirt. You could clean the house or just lay around in this outfit.
3. Around the House Clothes II- the exact same outfit but without stains or paint and is more likely to be from Old Navy as opposed to Hanes. You could visit in this outfit and leave the neighborhood.
4. Dressy Sweat Clothes- Sean John, bootleg Juicy Couture or real Juicy Couture, Baby Phat, Phat Farm.
Over 60 women- house coats
Over 60 men- at least one item that has been obtained for free, eg, Resorts casino baseball hat.
Slight Cultural Differences in Christmas Eve Day Footwear-
African-American men are more likely to wear slides and socks. Vietnamese men and women are more likely to wear flipflops with no socks. White women are more likely to rock slippers outside.
Of course, every group wears every possible combination.
(1945) Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
When you walk through a storm
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
I am fascinated with the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel. I don't know the musical Carousel at all, but I'll be renting it sometime soon.
How does a intense connection to a pop music song move about in the world? And how is a song organically reconfigured to fit the needs of the listeners and mean so much to them out of the original context? What resonates so strongly that this song evokes true emotion and representation to unrelated groups in the world?
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, TELL ME!
I know the Gerry and the Pacemakers version best. Apparently, the first time Gerry and the Pacemakers played it in Liverpool, the crowd was mesmerized. From that point it became an anthem for the Liverpool Football Club.
This is from a Gerry and the Pacemakers site.
"A Rodgers & Hammerstein song, 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which had enthralled Gerry Marsden since he saw the film Carousel in his youth, was their biggest hit. For three decades it has remained the anthem of the crowds at Liverpool Football Club, played before kick-off every Saturday, inscribed on the club gates and always the most popular concert request."
Go to this site and scroll down to You'll Never Walk Alone to hear a stadium filled with Liverpool supporters singing it.
Among many, many other singers Nina Simone performed You'll Never Walk Alone.
Jerry Lewis sings You'll Never Walk Alone at the end of every MD telephon.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
Gerry and the Pacemakers
This brings me to my favorite song placement in a film ever; "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey in Monster.
Second is undoubtedly, "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger in Boogie Nights.
Patriot Act renewal fails in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators, demanding increased protection of civil liberties, defied President George W. Bush on Friday by blocking renewal of the USA Patriot Act, a centerpiece of his war on terrorism.
ABOUT TIME!
As I have mentioned about 9000 times, I am searching for a studio and I put a bid in on a house at 9th and Snyder today. It's a little farther than I wanted, but it's on a good, solid block, neighbors were friendly and the actual house is perfect. Read, "not a shell." And also, Francis Albert Sinatra montage on a mirror would be included in the house sale and that's not a mistake.
Anyway, in signing the paperwork to put the bid in, I had to sign a new form that is a direct result of the patriot act. It is essentially a form that records my social security number for easy tracking. Fuck you.
Patriot act, goodbye.
Bush Authorized Domestic Spying.
- from the Washington Post.
Philadelphia Accents
I have noticed that my brother suddenly has a pronounced Philadelphia accent. Both of my grandparents had a Philadelphia accent but my mother has a much, much less pronounced accent and my siblings and I have accents similar to my mother's.
So why, WHY, does my brother has a sudden accent? Because it's in all of us and could surface at any time.
As an aside, when my lady was a girl her family went to Niagara Falls and when one of them asked for "water" in a restaurant up there, the waitress brought them butter.
Check Out this article by A.D. Amorosi
A.D. wrote the first article about the 95 project. That's my man.
Thanks for the shout out A.D.!
Dude, I'm getting back to you
OK, these last 2 weeks I have been completely frozen- I have not returned phone calls or emails that I absolutely must return. I am working, but at an extremely sluggish pace and spending quite a bit of time staring. Just staring.
Not to worry, I'm already all doped up on Zoloft so there's no depression issues, it's just a matter of me being completely overwhelmed.
The new studio search is taking a tremendous amount of time and I'm freaking out because I need to be in a spot ASAP to get my work done for 95, ICA and the Whitney. I should have already begun the basic reordering of 2006 I-95 including about 10 new photos from the last 6 months, and that work doesn't even include the stuff I've got to do for Whitney and the ICA.
So, everyone, following Christmas I will be back up to regular speed.
Prepare for my return to normalcy.
Let me put this out.
I've got a lot going on with the editing process.
Here's how it works-
1. I make the photos.
2. I go through the photos and decide which ones are strong enough to print as 4x6 images or to show online as the first draft of editing.
When I was all 35mm, it was just print them. Now with this digital and all, it's possible for me to color correct and crop the images, which adds a significant amount of time pre printing.
The photo below is appropriate to show as one of the images I made in the South, but it's extremely unlikely that I will include it in the slide shows, in fact I didn't include it in the "New Gulf Coast Blues" slide show this year. It's even less likely that I will include it in 95. It's a fair representation of that moment and helps to put the other photos into a larger context, but as an image unto itself, it doesn't hold it's own to me. At this point, I haven't printed it and don't think I ever will.
Often I will put photos like this one up on my blog or on the flickr site, photos that I've taken that I don't consider to be a part of my work. They're photos not intended for art.
Sometimes I will post a series of photos with slight cropping and color differences. I am just beginning to think about those images in my editing process.
3. Then I work on where the photos fit into the larger projects. I slate some of the images for I-95 consideration, some for slide show consideration and most as reference.
I originally had this in the "New Gulf" slide show this year. It's a fair image and has a few layers of meaning but I eventually took it out of the slide show because I couldn't fit it in the right place. I printed this image and made color copies of it, but it's a long, long, longshot to make it into the 95 installation this year.
4. The photos are then color copied so I can get a sense of how they formally fit with the other photos in the larger projects. The slideshows have evolved into something more than their original intent, which was a tool to help me see the ordering of photos for 95 in a different format. At this point, I see some images fitting into the slide shows and not 95. A part of choosing the digital slide show format was to really see the images in succession, which has really helped me to see a little further than if I worked in the same gridded format for setting up the 95 show.
5. At this point, serious editing begins. I decide what goes into the 95 show or the slide show. This process takes months and is intuitive, intellectual and obsessive/compulsive. Thematically and formally, each image has to fit.
6. The complete yearly 95 project and the slideshows are the last drafts in the continuing editing process. The final editing of the photos will be done at the last 95 show, which is 5 years from now. Each year photos get kicked out and new ones come in. Sometimes I'll sit on a photo for 2 or 3 years and decide that it has a place in the larger installation but generally I can go up until a month before the show to put the last of the year's photos in.
All of these steps are happening simultaneously. I make new work throughout the year and start this process with all of the photos I shoot, so I am always at all of these places in the continuum of my work.
It's important to me to allow folks to see the full editing process as integral part of my larger project. I am completely confident in my work and not afraid to show images that I will later reject.
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ain't a damn thing changed
Zoe Strauss and Cosmo Baker
Camden, Part III
I'm thinking about these 2. I don't think they'll make it into 95. Right now I think there's something too composed and banal about them, but I might change my mind tomorrow. There's also something to them that makes me keep thinking about them, and, like with a few other photos of mine, it will take a little time to figure out if it's an aspect of the photo that I think is strong or want to avoid.
ADDENDUM-The next day. I think I love these 2 photos.
ADDENDUM ADDENDUM- If I ever say ADDENDUM aloud, I add an extra "D" ie "add-a-den-dum." I have some problem with word pronunciation. Not just a Philadelphia accent, "gas" pronounced "gaz," but some genuine block between reading and verbalizing. For many years I pronounced the "gaz" station "Citgo" as "Sit-i-go," with an extra short "i." I apparently just like to put an extra letter in sometimes.
Camden, Part II
When I was in Nicaragua, one of my Sandinista tour guides was from Camden. He and his family were originally from Managua and he moved back to Nicaragua from Camden in the early 80s to support the Sandinistas. His American culture was frozen in 1983, his style was still early 80s in the mid to late 80s and his #1 jam was still by the Sugarhill Gang, "a pow-wow, just rock it out,
finger poppin to the break of dawn"
He had a homemade tattoo on his forearm, a thick line dagger with "N" on the handle. The "N" stood for North Camden and he would straighten out his arm and yell, "Norte!"
I am not that familiar with North Camden. I mainly know South Camden and the strip of Broadway from downtown to the Walt Whitman bridge. Hopefully, I will get to know North Camden a little better this year.
The Pain of Uniform City
This building's exterior sign says, "Uniform City." There is another sign, a vinyl printed sign underneath the word "City" which breaks up the lines and doesn't allow for a good photo with the full text, "Uniform City." It's possible that one day the vinyl sign advertising Dickies and clogs will be down and the photo can be made. I have driven by this building at least 20 times in the last 4 years with hopes that I can get a good shot one day.
Don't Miss Mr. Manny Dominguez's Show at the Bean
Camden Ranked Most Dangerous City in US
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
New York Ship Building Corporation, also known as the New York Shipyards, was located in Camden NJ, across the Delaware River from downtown Philadelphia. This south New Jersey facility closed in 1967. The USS Kitty Hawk, launched in 1961, was one of the last major shipbuilding projects at the yard.
Camden City, located in the southwestern section of New Jersey, is the seventh largest City in the state. The nearby Audubon Park community was created for New York Shipyard employees in 1941. Camden was once self-sufficient, a thriving metropolis turning out battleships during World War II from the New York Shipyard that employed thousands in the city. Campbell Soup and RCA Victor were there, too. But the shipyard closed; RCA merged, diversified and eventually sold out; and Campbell has closed the plant where it once made soup. Camden is faced with a dwindling tax base and a dearth of industry and commerce.
"Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night!"
"I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the
beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end"
"The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife
at the stall in the market,
I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down."
"Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire."
"The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut
eyes bent sideways,
As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for
the shore-going passengers,
The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it
off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne
her first child'
The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the
factory or mill,
The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead
flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering
with blue and gold,
The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his
desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread"
"The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute-hand of the clock
moves slowly,
The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just-open'd lips,
The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and
pimpled neck,
The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to
each other"
The Walt Whitman House is located at 328 Mickle Boulevard, between 3rd & 4th Streets, Camden, New Jersey. The House is 2 blocks east of the Camden Waterfront.
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By Mark A. Shreve 10/18/2016
Michael Peoples
Position: RHSP
Level: Double-A
Affiliate: Mesa Solar Sox
League: Arizona Fall League
Born: 09/05/1991 (Age: 28)
B/T: Right / Right
Acquired: 14th Rd., 2012 MLB First-Year Player Draft (CLE)
MiLB Page Link
Prospect Spotlight
Peoples, the Indians’ 14th-rounder in the 2012 Draft, and has been steadily building innings as a starter since 2014, reaching 27 starts and 165 innings this year for the Tribe. The 6’5” righty has a thin, athletic build with good coordination and some room to get stronger in his upper half.
He has the most success when he is spotting his four-pitch mix down in the zone and pitching to contact, but he struggled with his command in my view on October 11, tossing 2.2 innings and giving up five hits and three runs, pairing two walks with four strikeouts.
Peoples’ delivery has a high leg kick with an inverted W when he separates with some shoulder tilt to help generate solid downhill plane. His fastball was a sitting 88-to-90 mph and it showed some moderate arm side run, but it was hit hard when left up in the zone. (It should be noted that he’s been up to T94 during the season, so there may be a fatigue factor playing into that velo after his solid 165 IP this year). His sinker is average and plays up a bit because of the downhill plane he gets, sitting in the 86-to-89 range. He gets some good downer action on it and he showed average command to both sides of the plate. When both offerings are kept down, there is enough variance in the movement to be effective, and both offerings are coming from the same ¾ slot to give some deception out of hand, but any lapses in command can lead to a big inning, as it did in this start.
His curveball was a fringy offering, in the 78-to-81 mph range, showing more of a gradual, rolling break that at times lacked teeth in the zone, but he did show some feel for the pitch in snapping off a tighter-breaking version for a called strikeout. He also flashed a changeup with some late tumble that played well when following his sinker, getting some swing and miss on the offering, but he threw just four of them in this view and had some potential.
Peoples controlled the running game well, flashing a quick-turn pickoff move to first base that caught Ryan O’Hearn in the first inning, and had solid 1.2-1.25 second delivery times with runners on.
Zeroing in on commanding his repertoire in the lower third, developing his secondaries and improving his sequencing of the four-pitch mix is probably why he’s getting some extra work this fall. End-of-season fatigue aside, the Indians likely want to see if Peoples is bumping up against his ceiling, or if there is more to come. He’s a good bet to get an early test at the Triple-A level to start 2017, hoping that the change or the curve will grow into an average pitch and that he can take that next step.
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BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY Operates as a transfer school for youngsters aged 16-20 who are unable to function in a traditional high school. Provides individualized guidance and support through workshops, seminars, independent living skills training, paid internships, community service and college and employment counseling. BROOKLYN DEMOCRACY ACADEMY JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION
CAMILLA G. BELSER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Offers a $2,500 annual renewable scholarship to low-moderate income high school seniors who will be attending either Nassau or Suffolk Community College for 2 years. United Way staff works with the students for two years to assure their graduation. Suffolk CAMILLA G. BELSER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Supports career development in the healthcare professional arena. Activities include high school Shadow Days, where interested students are paired with a hospital employee to observe and learn about this particular career path. Call for further information. Suffolk CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM STONY BROOK EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL
CAREER PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL Offers an alternative high school that focuses on the social, emotional, prevocational and academic needs of students who come to Career Prep with a variety of behavioral difficulties accompanied by learning disabilities. There is a high staff-to-student ratio to better address the individual needs of each student in self-contained classroom settings (9:1:2 or 6:1:2). The instructional program is aligned to the New York State Common Core Learning Standards and addresses students' cognitive levels and learning styles. All students are given the opportunity to earn a New York State Regents diploma or other state approved high school diploma. Students also have the opportunity of earning college credits through a partnership with Farmingdale State College SUNY. Instructional and work-based learning opportunities required for the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential are also provided. A select group of students are also afforded the opportunity to participate a character education and life skills curriculum using horses to facilitate growth and learning. Career Prep also offers the Farmingdale Program at Farmingdale State College SUNY and the Career Extension Program at Hofstra University. These community-based programs provide a transitional atmosphere for mature students to experience a college environment and explore post-secondary school options. Consideration and acceptance into both of these less restrictive (9:1:2) programs are based on an internal screening process and the student's success in the program. Middle School classes are also offered at Career Prep for students age 12 to 14 in need of a highly structured, safe and supportive educational setting where they can realize the value of school and better prepare to enter high school. Career Prep students are encouraged to make the transition from adolescence to a productive adulthood by developing self-esteem and raising their expectations for success in the future. All students participate in individual and group counseling sessions with a focus on the development of prosocial behaviors including conflict resolution skills, moral development, interpersonal communication skills, self-awareness and self-esteem enhancement. Call for more detailed information. Nassau CAREER PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL NASSAU BOCES DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
CLASSP & ADVANCED CLASSP Offers paid internships and college credit(s) experience working in the Butler Special Needs Center. Program provides, introduction to the opportunitu of working with the populations of special needs. Training and education provided at no cost. Suffolk CLASSP & ADVANCED CLASSP SUFFOLK Y-JCC
DESIGN AND BUILD CAMP Offers a summer camp for students who will be entering 7th, 8th or 9th grade in September. Design and build a security system, a night light, traffic light, board games, 3-D printed objects, and more through hands-on engineering, programming, and mathematical tools.At the end of the program, a family show case will be held, and certificates will be distributed. For additional information or questions, please e-mail engineering_camp_ece@stonybrook.edu. Suffolk DESIGN AND BUILD CAMP STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
DIVERSIFIED CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION Provides supervised Career Education work experience and internships. This work based learning program helps make the important connection between what students learn in school and how it relates to their work experience. Students attend their high school for related instruction and are placed and supervised in internships with local businesses and industries. Students can earn a CTE sequence or additional credits towards a sequence. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk DIVERSIFIED CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
DREAMS FOR YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM/DREAMS FOR YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD Scholarship Awards are made in two areas: academic and enrichment. Academic and enrichment scholarships awarded to support eligible youth. Community service grants are made to youth-serving agencies and schools that are mentoring a group of 7th-12th grade youth on a community service project. A Youth Advisory Board, led by teen volunteers from Long Island schools, works with United Way to review all applications and make scholarship award recommendations. Suffolk DREAMS FOR YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM/DREAMS FOR YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND
DRIVER AND TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION Offers driver and traffic safety courses. Course offerings include: Driver and Traffic Safety Education. Those high school students who successfully complete the non-credit, state-certified Driver and Traffic Safety Education course will receive a MV-285 “Student Certificate Completion” issued by the Motor Vehicle Department. Those who receive the “MV-285” will be eligible for a rate reduction in their automobile insurance and a senior license at the age of 17. Courses vary each semester and are held at various locations. Call for details and a brochure. To receive an application, contact the Office of Continuing Education at (631)451-4399. Suffolk DRIVER AND TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
DRIVER EDUCATION Offers a safe driving skills and defensive driving awareness program for students who wish to earn the MV 285 “Blue Card” which gives eligibility for 10%-15% discount on insurance premiums with most companies. This course qualifies those who successfully complete the course to apply for a senior driver's license at age 17. Courses and course locations may vary each semester. Call for more information. Nassau DRIVER EDUCATION NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF EXTENDED EDUCATION
DRIVERS EDUCATION A complete, professionally taught Driver Education Course that will provide all students with a comprehensive introduction to the driving experience. At the end of all sessions, students will have received 24 hours of classroom instruction and 24 hours of in-the-car driving related to "rules of the road," traffic safety concerns, defensive driving, proper handling of vehicle, parking, driving in traffic and problems of substance abuse as related to driving. Students who complete the program with a passing grade of 65 in each category will receive the Certificate of Completion (MV-285), the opportunity of a senior driver's license (Class 5) at age 17, and an insurance reduction according to the policies of your insurance carrier. Students must obtain from DMV the 50 hour completion form for graduated licensing requirements. Call for more detailed information. Nassau DRIVERS EDUCATION LIU-SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM Offers an opportunity for high school juniors and seniors who attend our partner school districts to earn college credits while having an experience of college life. Students enroll in college classes and interact with college faculty, staff and other students. ECP students can earn college-level credits while continuing to complete high school. All classes are taught by college professors, and ECP students are integrated into classes with college students. Each program participant is assigned an ECP counselor. With guidance from the College’s Program staff, students select classes from the general education program or take a sequence of courses in a particular curriculum. Enrollment in courses through Suffolk’s Early College Program generates an official Suffolk academic transcript for each student. Successfully earned credits are accepted at Suffolk or can be transferred to a multitude of other colleges and universities. Acceptance of credit for college-level course work is under the domain of the receiving colleges and universities with general acceptance within State University of New York (SUNY) institutions. Graduates of the program have gone on to notable two and four-year institutions, including Suffolk County Community College and are strong candidates for their Honor’s Program. Students attending Early College Program [ECP] participating high schools who are interested in discussing how to apply to the program can contact the Early College Program counselor at their partnering College Campus. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
EMPIRE STATE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM Provides academic support in math, literacy and ENL for newly emigrated Hempstead High School Students (grades 9-12). Offers their parents ESL classes and parent education workshops. Call for more information. Nassau EMPIRE STATE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM HISPANIC COUNSELING CENTER
EXAM PREPARATION Offers exam preparation courses. Sample course offerings include: Civil Service Preparation; Notary Public Preparation; Preparation for College Math Placement Exams; SAT Preparation Course; NYPD Police Officer Entrance Exam Preparation; Chemistry Review For Biology Students; Preparation For Introductory Science Courses; Math Review For Introductory Science Courses; Preparation For Organic Chemistry and Essential Review For Anatomy & Physiology. Courses vary each semester and are located at various locations. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk EXAM PREPARATION SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
IACS COMPUTES! Offering a 10-day programming workshop for high school students who will be juniors or seniors in the fall. Students must be 15 years old or older by the time of the camp. This hands-on camp introduces students to the programming skills and software/computer technologies that drive advances in science, industry, business and society. Starting with no assumed prior knowledge of programming, the camp introduces programming using the Python language and emphasizes development of algorithmic thinking and problem solving. From faculty and graduate students, participants will learn about using big-data analytics and high-performance computing to solve problems in science and engineering, and will then participate in team projects motivated by these same research challenges. By the end of the camp, students will have sufficient programming skills and awareness of the field to pursue further independent study and to inform future choices for education and careers. Ideally students will use their own laptops (Macs, PCs or Linux are acceptable; a few are available for loan) so they can continue to use the camp's open-source software programming environment and tools. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk IACS COMPUTES! STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
INTERNSHIPS Offers opportunities to currently matriculating undergraduate and graduate students interested in a career in television to gain hands-on experience in non-profit management, fundraising, graphic arts, publicity, website development, community outreach events, marketing, engineering, production or programming. Volunteer opportunities are also available for anyone over 16 and to organizations who want to donate their time. Training will be provided. Nassau INTERNSHIPS WLIW NEW YORK PUBLIC TELEVISION
IRIS WOLFSON HIGH SCHOOL Provides a nurturing and academically invigorating environment for students who have experienced difficulty relating to peers and/or adults in a traditional school setting due to their social and emotional needs. Iris Wolfson fosters acceptance, stimulates academic achievement, encourages self-reliance, practices tolerance, and motivates students to meet their highest potential and strive toward post-secondary options while earning a Regents diploma. Upwards of half of our students are college-bound yet require a personalized learning environment that includes school-based counseling two times a week with clinically trained school psychologists. The least restrictive of the Nassau BOCES Special Education settings, Iris Wolfson is modeled after mainstream educational settings. Courses are departmentalized and the instructional program is aligned to the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. Students have the opportunity of earning college credits through a partnership with Farmingdale State College SUNY. All students are expected to earn a New York State Regents diploma while information on the local diploma requirements still available to students with disabilities when appropriate is provided. Various electives are offered to stimulate thought, meet graduation requirements, reinforce content material, foster independent living, and develop personal management skills. Iris Wolfson primarily serves students with emotional disabilities (i.e. Generalized Anxiety Disorders and Depression), assorted learning disabilities, and spectrum disorders whose needs most closely resemble those found in district-based programs. Instruction is modified and individualized to addresses students' cognitive levels and learning styles. Instructional and work-based learning opportunities are also provided to assist students pursue a Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Commencement Credential. Vocational counseling is provided to assist students and families as they begin to access important post-secondary supports and services. Middle School classes are also offered for students ages 11 to 14 in need of a structured, safe and supportive educational setting. Like our high school, all middle school students receive school-based counseling to help them identify and overcome obstacles that impede upon their academic, social and emotional development. Classes are departmentalized and middle school commencement requirements are offered to students before moving onto high school. Call for more detailed information. Nassau IRIS WOLFSON HIGH SCHOOL NASSAU BOCES DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
ISLIP ACADEMIC CENTER Provides specialized, individually structured, standards-based education deeply embedded in the Common Core, while integrating CDOS standards into classroom and community based and service learning activities. Career assessment, level one interviews and transition planning interface with school-to-work learning. Career-based training and related internship experiences provide students with participation in the community. Our commitment to a safe and nurturing environment allows students to access these opportunities based on their individual needs. We offer our students academic and employability skills with social growth opportunities and real world connections, while preparing them for challenges of the future. This multifaceted academic program at Islip Academic Center is available to secondary special education and non-classified "at-risk" students ages 14-21 in grades 9th-12th with severe behavioral concerns and limited anger management skills. The Islip Academic Center offers both a 6-1-1 modified program and an 8-1-1 departmentalized program based on the New York State Regents Curriculum. All students receive weekly counseling at least one time individually and one time in a group setting to address social skills and behavior management needs. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk ISLIP ACADEMIC CENTER EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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PARTNERS IN PREVENTION PROGRAM Offers a substance abuse prevention program for high school students enrolled in participating Nassau County schools districts. Presents four evidence-based workshops including Too Good for Drugs, Life Skills, Strengthening Families and Teen Intervene aimed at curtailing heroin abuse. Nassau PARTNERS IN PREVENTION PROGRAM HISPANIC COUNSELING CENTER
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ROBERT W. GREENE SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISTS Offers an intensive, seven-day residential summer workshop at Stony Brook University which is designed for current Long Island and NYC high school sophomores and juniors considering careers in journalism. The workshop introduces students to basic skills in news reporting, writing and editing and the use of video and still photography. Classes are taught by professional journalists. Students will live at the University and work in the School of Journalism’s multimedia newsroom. As a culminating activity, students will produce original work across several media platforms. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk ROBERT W. GREENE SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISTS STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
SHARING AND CARING PROGRAM Provides a high school diploma program for pregnant and parenting teens throughout Nassau County in a small, structured, nurturing environment. Classes are one to one and in small groups and require some level of motivation on the part of the student. Support services are provided including case management services and advocacy. Services are provided at no cost to the home district or to the parents. Nassau SHARING AND CARING PROGRAM LONG BEACH REACH, INC.
SOUTH OAKS PROGRAM Provides a hospital program located at South Oaks in Amityville which offers an educational program for hospitalized adolescents. Both disabled and non-disabled students can enroll in this program. Close contact is established initially with each child's home school guidance counselor to identify the level of instruction needed. The education program at South Oaks, consisting of basic high school subjects in English, social studies, mathematics and science, and is considered an integral part of the treatment program by hospital administration. The educational staff works in partnership with doctors, nurses and psychologists to facilitate comprehensive treatment. Call for more detailed information. Suffolk SOUTH OAKS PROGRAM WESTERN SUFFOLK BOCES SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
STUDENT INTERNSHIPS Provides opportunities for college and H.S. students majoring in Criminal Justice, criminology, business, information technology and social science-related fields of study to participate in a law enforcement environment. Suffolk STUDENT INTERNSHIPS SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
SUMMER CAMP Provides up to eight weeks of activities including trips for member students in grades K-12. Registration form completion is required and scholarships are available based on need. Registration fees apply. Also offers a half-day Mini Member program for members ages 3-4 who are potty trained and not yet in Kindergarten. Nassau SUMMER CAMP BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY/EAST NORWICH
SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS Offers week-long day camps will focuses on developing ensemble skills (chamber, jazz, and choir) which help young performers build confidence and acquire critical musicianship skills that can make them better soloists. Each day of the camp, participants will receive coachings and take part in daily seminars/demonstrations led by professional musicians and music teachers. The camp will culminate with each group performing on a final concert that will be open to the public. Camp offerings include: Youth Strings Camp (Entering Grades 4-7); Youth Choir Camp (Entering Grades 5-7); Chamber Strings Camp (Entering Grades 7-12); Jazz Camp (Entering Grades 7-12); Extensions (One Week, Afternoons); Artventures (Entering Grades 4-7) and Composition (Entering Grades 8-12). Call for detailed information. Suffolk SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
SUSS (STUDENTS UNITED FOR SAFE SCHOOLS) Uses the power of peer influence to change school culture. Provides training and guidance to teams of students to empower the recognition of bullying, harassment and discrimination in the school environment. Encourages these students to reach out to peers through school-wide program initiatives aimed at helping all students feel valued and respected. Call for additional information. Nassau SUSS (STUDENTS UNITED FOR SAFE SCHOOLS) CAPS-CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION SERVICES
TEST PREPARATION Offers a number of test preparation programs through classroom/online instruction throughout the year. A list of the classroom programs are as follows: SAT Review for High School Students; Regents Review for high school and middle school students and Catholic High School Entrance Exam (CHSEE) Prep. Online test preparation courses are also offered in the following areas: GED Preparation; GRE Prep Series; GMAT Preparation and LSAT Preparation. Call for detailed information. Nassau TEST PREPARATION MOLLOY COLLEGE-DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
TWILIGHT ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL Provides an alternative setting in the late afternoon for students who have not succeeded in the traditional educational setting. The program gives teenagers the necessary tools to either return successfully to their home high schools, or to complete their high school requirements, while helping them prepare for post-secondary education or employment. Students attend this Regents-based program in the late afternoon in their home school district. Students receive strong educational support, as classes are small and largely focused on the students. Programs are currently available in: Baldwin; Bellmore-Merrick (HSE Only); East Rockaway; Freeport; Glen Cove (HSE and ELL Only); Hewlett-Woodmere; Hicksville; Massapequa and Uniondale. Call for more detailed information. Nassau TWILIGHT ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL NASSAU BOCES DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS
VOLUNTEERING Volunteers assist in patient-related and non-patient related activities in various service areas and departments of the Hospital. Applicants must meet hospital's basic health and immunization standards. Nassau VOLUNTEERING WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES SILO needs volunteers who enjoy being part of a team of all different people. Volunteers should have some of the following skills: Technology: Keep our IT running as efficiently as possible. Tasks include PC repair, networking, publication layout, and Web development. Maintenance: Keeping our space clean and professional for everyone. Whether you scrub desks, sweep floors, landscape, help with the trash, you are a valued member of our team. Park And Trails Assessment: Determining the accessibility of local parks and trails. This opportunity is for those who love the outdoors. Will train. Special Projects: Assist us in helping the Town of Brookhaven determine their access. Fund Raising Assistants/Development: Help SILO fulfill and expand its mission of delivering the most comprehensive services available. No experience necessary, must have enthusiasm and call us. Suffolk VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES SUFFOLK INDEPENDENT LIVING ORGANIZATION (SILO)
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES United Cerebral Palsy of Long Island(UCP-LI) Children's Center-Volunteers assist teacher with children in the classroom. Weekdays from 8:30 am-2:30pm in our Commack Location. UCP-LI Residential Services Program- Volunteers accompany individuals we serve on recreational trips, assist with leisure-time and generally act as a companion to individuals with disabilities. Weekdays from 3:00pm-9:00pm, Weekdays 10:00am-7:00pm. Request commitment of 2 hours per week. High School, College as well as Adults. UCP-LI Volunteers needed for Funding Events at UCP-LI Special Events(Golf, Dinner Dance, 5K Walk etc.)-Volunteers may be called upon to handle registration, raffles, material distribution.Dates and times may vary by event. Minimal time commitment of 4hrs. High School, College-age and Adults needed. Suffolk VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES UCP OF LONG ISLAND
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Portrayed by Olga Kurylenko
Classification Bond girl
Movie Quantum of Solace
Affiliation Bolivian Intelligence
Played by Olga Kurylenko
Similar Natalya Simonova, Strawberry Fields, Kara Milovy, Stacey Sutton, Solange Dimitrios
Camille Montes Rivero is a fictional character in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace portrayed by actress Olga Kurylenko.
In film
Camille is a Bolivian national. She first meets Bond in Haiti, where she intends to kill General Medrano, who murdered her entire family when she was a child (shooting her father in the head, then raping her mother and older sister before strangling them to death). She sleeps with Quantum member Dominic Greene to get to Medrano, but Greene soon grows suspicious of her and plans to kill her.
Camille arranges a meeting with a geologist selling classified information that is detrimental to Greene's business. However, Greene has already hired an assassin named Mr. Slate to pose as the geologist (who Camille has not met in person) and kill Camille. Bond intercepts Slate and takes Slate's suitcase without knowing the contents. Camille spots Bond on the street with the suitcase and believes he is the geologist. Bond opens the suitcase and unwittingly reveals Slate's gun and documents that show Camille as a target. Believing Bond has come to kill her, Camille attempts to shoot him before fleeing. She returns to Greene, intent on being introduced to Medrano, formerly head of the Bolivian Army. When Greene betrays Camille, Bond rescues her, and they team up to go after Greene and Medrano.
Bond leaves Camille for a short period of time after she is knocked unconscious during an intense boat chase in Haiti to follow Greene to Austria, tracking him to a performance of Tosca. Camille soon appears at Greene's formal fundraising party to ruin it. Greene attempts to push her from a balcony but, once again, Bond saves her life.
Bond intervenes and takes her away from Greene, using MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields as a distraction, to prevent Greene's associate from following Bond and Camille as they leave the party; this costs Fields her life. Camille watches Bond as he kills Bolivian police officers in cold blood as revenge for shooting his ally Rene Mathis.
Camille and Bond trace Greene and Medrano to a desert eco-hotel. While Bond goes to fight Greene and his men, Camille faces Medrano, who attempts to rape and kill her. Camille gets the upper hand, however, and kills the dictator with a single shot to the head. As the hotel collapses around them, Bond shields Camille from the fire, and helps her escape. Bond leaves Greene in the middle of the desert and drives Camille to a train station so she can go back to her home. The two share a quick kiss, and Camille wishes Bond luck in conquering his personal demons.
Barbara Broccoli said that she intended for Camille to return for Skyfall or a future film. The character did not appear in Skyfall, however, or the subsequent Bond film, Spectre.
Camille Montes Wikipedia
Natalya Simonova
Stacey Sutton
The Ballad of the Sad Café (film)
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Halimi Family Order of Kedah
Type Order
Sovereign Abdul Halim of Kedah
Status Currently constituted
Grades Member (DKH)
Awarded for Members of the Royal Family only
The Most Illustrious Halimi Family Order of Kedah (Bahasa Melayu: Darjah Kerabat Halimi Yang Amat Mulia Kedah) is an honorific order of the Sultanate of Kedah
Notable recipients
Lists of recipients
It was founded by Sultan 'Abdu'l Halim Mu'azzam Shah of Kedah in January 1973.
The Darjah Kerabat Halimi is conferred at the express wish of the Sultan and is reserved for members of the Royal Family only.
It is awarded in one class:
Darjah Kerabat Halimi or member - DKH
The men's insignia consist of a sash, a neck chain and a star (Photo).
The women's insignia consist of a chest knot, a neck chain and a star (Photo).
Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah:
Founding Grand Master and Member of the Halimi Family Order of Kedah (DKH, since January 1973)
Members of the Royal Family of Kedah :
Member of the Halimi Family Order of Kedah :
late Tuanku Bahiyah DMN SMN DK DKH SPMK (1st wife of the Sultan Abdul Halim) (DKH, 1.1976)
Sultanah Haminah of Kedah DMN DK DKH (current wife of the Sultan) (DKH, 16.7.2008)
Princess Intan Safinaz PSM DKH SSDK SHMS JP PAT (Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah and Tuanku Bahiyah's daughter and Mbr of the Regency Council 2011) (DKH, 16.7.2008)
Tunku Abdul Malik, Raja Muda DK DKH DMK SPMK PSB (1st younger brother of the Sultan and heir prince of Kedah) (DKH, 22.2.1976)
Tunku Annuar, Tunku Bendahara PSM DKH DMK SPMK SSDK PSB (2nd ygr br. of the Sultan and head of the Regency Council 2011) (DKH, 16.7.2008)
List of honours of the Kedah Royal Family by country
List of Honours of Kedah awarded to Heads of State and Royals
Category: Members of the Halimi Family Order of Kedah
Halimi Family Order of Kedah Wikipedia
The Hellstrom Chronicle
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Chandler Fenner
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Words on the Word
Blog by Abram K-J
The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary
Abram K-J Reviews March 17, 2014 March 15, 2014 6 Minutes
Craig S. Keener’s Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary utilizes two particular approaches to Matthew:
[A]nalysis of the social-historical contexts of Matthew and his traditions on one hand, and pericope-by-pericope suggestions concerning the nature of Matthew’s exhortations to his Christian audience on the other.
Keener is behind the ever-useful IVP Bible Background Commentary, now in a revised edition. And his exegetical commentary on the first two chapters of Acts is more than 1,000 pages, not counting the bibliography and indeces. Quantity does not always mean quality–it’s harder to write less than more, most of the time–but one can rightly expect Keener to be both thorough and insightful.
Let me jump right in with why I like (and trust) his Matthew commentary.
Layout Matters
The Gospel of Matthew is one of the best laid out commentaries I’ve used. The section on the Lord’s Prayer (“The Kingdom Prayer,” as Keener has it) is a good example. There’s a bold heading with an introduction to the prayer. Here Keener compares the prayer in Matthew to the version in Luke, while offering explanations as to why the two forms differ slightly. Then Keener goes through the passage phrase-by-phrase in eight parts, with the summary statement for each of the parts in bold.
For example, he writes, “Second, the prayer seeks first God’s glory, not the petitioner’s own needs….” Then he uses italics for key questions or insights in each of the eight parts of the prayer. As here: “What did it mean in a first-century Jewish context for God’s name to be hallowed in the future?”
The result is a commentary that is highly scannable and readable. Just the simple use of bold and italics, throughout the book, helps orient the reader to what Keener is doing–not to mention offers some really good ideas for how to preach or teach on the text. The layout also makes it easy to get a quick, cursory overview of how Keener understands a given passage.
Matthew, According to Keener
Keener’s humility is refreshing, as he writes that, “in contrast to [his] earlier opinion,” he is:
therefore presently inclined to accept the possibility of Matthean authorship on some level, although with admitted uncertainty. Perhaps the most probable scenario that incorporates the best of all the currently available evidence is the presence of at least a significant deposit of Matthean tradition in this Gospel, edited by the sort of Matthean school scholars have often suggested (though I believe the final product is the work of a single author, not a “committee”).
His judicious weighing of the consideration for and against actual Matthean authorship will allow the reader to have an informed opinion. Does it matter?
Yet what we do conclude about the author does affect our understanding of the Gospel. Matthew is clearly Jewish, in dialogue with contemporary Jewish thought, and skilled in traditional Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament…. Matthew also knows the context of his citations much better than many modern readers have supposed…, and he demonstrates familiarity with a variety of text-types….
On author and intended audience, Keener concludes:
Concurring with the perspectives of what is still probably the minority view, I find in the Gospel an author and audience intensely committed to their heritage in Judaism while struggling with those they believe to be its illegitimate spokespersons. On this reading, Matthew writes to Jewish Christians who, in addition to being part of their assemblies as believers in Jesus, are fighting to remain part of their local synagogue communities.
The introductory material covers the rest of the expected territory: dating, rhetoric, social settings, Gospel sources, the use of narratives in the early church, structure, and more. I found the introductory sections on Jesus (as teacher, as prophet-healer, as Messiah/King, as Son of God) especially illuminating for understanding Matthew as a whole. Keener also has a couple pages upfront about Matthew’s important “Kingdom of Heaven” theme, including this gem:
In short, the present significance of the future kingdom in early Christian teaching was thus that God’s people in the present age were citizens of the coming age, people whose identity was determined by what Jesus had done and what they would be, not by what they had been or by their status in the world.
Though the commentary is academic in nature, it also “will preach” pretty well, as Keener’s lines above make clear.
A Few More Highlights
As soon as picking up the commentary, one will want to read the Excursus on Pharisees (p. 538) and Excursus: Was Jesus Executed on Passover? (p. 622).
One should not expect to find lexical or grammatical comments on each keyword or phrase in Matthew. The comments on Matthew 6:25-34, for example, do not address the meaning of the oft-repeated “worry.” Keener points out that Jesus utilizes the Jewish qal wahomer (“How much more?”) argument to show God’s care for “people in his image and for his own beloved children.” That insight itself is in most commentaries already, but Keener goes further and covers yet more rhetorical territory:
Greek philosophers sometimes disdained such bodily needs altogether, complaining that their bodies were prisons because they were dependent on food and drink (Epict. Disc. 1.9.12) and advising that one turn one’s mind to higher pursuits (Marc. Aur. 7.16). …Jesus never condemns people for recognizing these basic needs…. Yet he calls them to depend on God for their daily sustenance, a provision that Jewish people considered one of God’s greatest miracles….
Keener consistently breaks passages down into main points, which helped me see both the flow of Matthew’s narrative and think about how I could apply each passage. For example, in Matthew 20:29-34 (“Persistent Prayer”) two blind men receive their sight when Jesus’ compassion leads him to heal them. Keener’s four sentences in bold (with a paragraph explanation after each) are:
First, these suppliants recognized the identity and authority of the one whose help they entreated (20:30).
Second, they refused to let others’ priorities deter them (20:31).
Third, Jesus’ compassion was the ultimate motivation for his acting (20:34).
Finally, recipients of Jesus’ gifts should follow him (20:34).
This 2009 edition is not essentially different from Keener’s 1999 Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. (I.e., the Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is not a revised edition, per se.) There is, however, an addendum at the front of the commentary called, “Matthew and Greco-Roman Rhetoric.” Here Keener goes chapter-by-chapter through the book of Matthew and adds his recent insights into how Jesus and Matthew make use of known rhetorical practices in their teaching and writing, respectively. In the end, though, Keener finds that Jewish rhetoric offers “much closer analogies…than Greek or Roman rhetorical handbooks do.”
Finally, if you’ll permit me one more quotation of Prof. Keener, here is an example of the inspiring nature of his commentary:
But above all the teaching towers the figure of Jesus himself: King, Messiah, Son of Man, the rightful Lord of Israel whom their people would one day acknowledge (1:21; 23:39). The final judge, the true revelation of the Father (11:27), was the meek and lowly One who had walked among the first disciples and died for his people (11:29; 20:28; 21:5), the One who would also empower Matthew’s readers to fulfill the task he had given them (10:19-20; 11:28-30).
Bonus: The Bibliography
It may be strange to praise a book for its bibliography, but Keener offers 150 pages of bibliography on Matthew. Keener seems to not leave any stone unturned, whether it’s another commentary, monographs, or journal articles. He writes, “The purpose of this commentary does not allow me to summarize and interact in detail with all secondary sources on Matthean research.” And yet one would be hard-pressed to find a more thorough list of secondary sources for Matthew elsewhere. In this regard, Keener is successful in offering a commentary that “will contribute to further research.”
The reader should realize that, as noted above, though this commentary was published in 2009, it was not really a revision of the 1999 volume, so the bibliography has not been brought into the 21st century with any updates. (So Nolland and France, for example, are not listed.)
The commentary’s Index of Ancient Sources is 142 pages, taken “from a variety of narrative genres to illustrate Matthew’s narrative techniques, with special attention to ancient biography and historiography.” Copious references throughout the commentary give the researcher multiple good leads.
For all of Keener’s thoroughness, the use of bold and italics for main points keeps the commentary well-organized, so that the research does not become overwhelming. Keener’s heart seems to be pastoral, and his reverence toward the Jesus of Matthew is clear and an inspiration throughout the commentary.
You don’t need any Greek to use this commentary, but a good cup of coffee and a full night’s rest might help, as it can be dense and detailed (but not impenetrable) in places. The reader of Matthew who is willing to work at Keener’s commentary will be rewarded. This volume has already vaulted its way into my top four Matthew commentaries.
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Tag: hormones
Alternate Birth Control
Hormonal birth control was a world changing invention that gave women a lot of new freedom and power. I am so, so glad it was invented. I am less glad that we as a society somehow got stuck on hormones as the ultimate way to prevent babies. Hormones are weird and unpredictable and involved in every part of metabolism. It would be extremely weird if they didn’t have side effects beyond preventing ovulation. And yet the past 40 years of contraceptive history are mostly people refining hormones, rather than inventing something more awesome.
If you want permanent birth control there are some very good options, but temporary and reversible options are pretty scarce. There’s condoms, which are amazing at some things and cause inconveniences way less than those caused by hormones, but more than zero. There vagina based barrier + spermicide methods, which are more convenient but less effective, and regularly putting anti-microbials in the vagina has its own health costs. There’s the copper IUD, which is great at preventing pregnancy but causes horrendous cramping in the vast majority of users.
This is how I got interested in fertility tracking. There are actually only a few days each cycle sex can lead to pregnancy. If it’s more than 5 days before ovulation or 1 day after, you can put all the sperm you want anywhere in the body, and it’s not going to cause a pregnancy. The old way to try and find these days was “counting”, but that doesn’t account for inter- and intra- person variation in cycle length and has a subsequently high failure rate. Luckily (?) there’s a lot of changes in the body that precede and follow ovulation, because ovulation is caused by hormones which are as previously mentioned extremely complicated and involved in a lot of different things. These include temperature, cervical mucous, and saliva electrolyte level (seriously). Tracking all of those still seems like a lot of work, especially since they need to be done first thing on waking up to avoid contaminating the very subtle signals by doing something like moving. But there are some newer options on the market that ovulation with a lot less work, and those seemed worth investigating.
The first of these is to directly measure hormone changes in the urine to detect imminent ovulation. Conveniently, there are hormonal changes that start 5-6 days before actual ovulation. There is no way to do this yourself.
The second option is temperature monitoring. Your temperature dips right before ovulation, and is slightly higher for the ~two weeks after ovulation than the ~two weeks before. For years if not decades, people have tracked this themselves using regular thermometers and paper, and it theoretically works, but you have to do it the second you wake up to dodge the wake up temperature increase, and I personally don’t want to stake contraception on my ability to do fine motor work and record three significant digits exactly when I wake up.
There’s a few other scattered options including monitoring cervical mucus, cervical position, and the shape your saliva dries in (no, seriously). But science x capitalism have provided me with magic computers to track the first two things, and not the any of these, so I’m going to ignore them. Science has patented a toothbrush that will look at your spit for you (no, seriously), but capitalism has yet to put it into production. There are also tools that could be combined with graph paper to turn them from fertility devices to contraception devices, but I’m going to focus on the options that require the least thought possible.
Note that none of these devices are available in the US for the purposes of contraception. You can buy hormone tests to predict ovulation for the purposes of creating babies, but not preventing them. Purely for educational value I’ve looked up the prices on amazon.co.uk, but you should definitely not circumvent the wise and benevolent FDA by ordering from them.
Persona tracks hormones alone. It costs 52 pounds (~$76) for a starter kit and an additional 13 pounds (~$20) per month. It requires peeing on a stick 16 mornings out of your first month and 8 on subsequent months, and you have a good six hour window in which to do it. You feed the sticks into the magic computer machine and it tells you when you are close enough to ovulation that you should abstain from unprotected sex. It reports 94% success rate.
Lady Comp tracks temperature alone. It costs 415 pounds and claims 99.3% rate. That’s higher than a hormonal IUD, which does everything short of going back in time and murdering your partner’s mother to prevent pregnancy, and it seems unlikely that that could be matched by something that could be confused by me using my mattress heating pad.*
Cyclotest is tracks temperature and optionally several other indicators. It costs 150 pounds (~$220 dollars). You need to monitor your temperature for approximately half your cycle. It allows you to enter your cervical mucus viscosity and cervical position to provide additional data but declines to teach you how to do so. Its display is nuanced enough to be used both for contraception and trying to conceive, and if you’re trying to conceive you can supplement the temperature data with hormone tests (~15 pounds/month). It too reports a 94-99% success rate, which makes me think that is either the hard limit of predicting ovulation (maybe failures come from super long lived gametes rather than bad timing), or that Persona and Cyclotest are using the same data to support their different methods.
Of these three, Cyclotest was my favorite before I even looked at the data, because Cyclotest’s website explains both the science of how it works and the mechanics of using their system, whereas Persona organizes it very counterintuitively and Lady Comp just repeats Natural and No Side Effects until your ears bleed. I think I went to amazon to find out what it actually did.
I managed to find the study Lady-Comp must have gotten their 99.3% success rate from. To be fair, that is what it says (full text PDF). And it’s the real world success rate, not the theoretical rate. But it was a retrospective study, meaning they just reached out to people who have previously purchased the device and asked them if they had gotten pregnant. A number of people were unreachable, and not all that were reachable returned the survey. They don’t even report the full number of surveys they sent out, which makes the data completely unusuable. The paper also indicates Lady-Comp requires significantly more data than temperature alone, which would sure be a good thing to indicate on the website.
Persona has a publications section on their webpage, but their contraception page only has articles on awareness, not efficacy, so really this is just one more reason to hate the word awareness. I was unable to find the source of their quoted 94% success rate, but I did find a paper criticizing it.
Cyclotest’s quoted 1-6% failure rate is as good or better than condoms, which surprises me. This paper doesn’t give an absolute failure rate but does say it misidentified fertile periods as non-fertile a vanishingly small percent of the time, which would be more impressive if that were based on hormones or actual conception rates rather than simple calendar checks.. This paper puts the actual failure rate of temperature only methods at up to 3% per month, which is way too high, but not necessarily worse than actual use rates of other methods.
This paper puts the correct use pregnancy rate of an unknown computer aided system at 2%/year and the actual use rate at 12%/year. It’s always hard to parse the real world failure rates. Take condoms. I don’t think someone simply forgoing condoms half the time counts as a strike against condoms. But “correct” use of condoms is actually a lot of work, and at a certain point I feel like condom manufacturers are just trying to pass the buck. Using lube to reduce friction to prevent breakage is a reasonable action you either do or don’t, but no one has ever defined for me exactly how much “vigorous or prolonged thrusting” necessitates changing a condom. And it’s just bad design to have something break exactly when people are least likely to want to check or fix it.
I was really hoping for better than this. Another beautiful theory, killed by an ugly gang of facts
*Which is, side note, the best thing ever and you should totally get one.
Author Aceso Under GlassPosted on March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 Tags hormones, medical
Now I’m learning about hypothalamusing
Lots of people, including HAES subscribers, believe human beings have a set point or range where their weight will always be. It takes great effort to get your weight above or below your set point, although repeated attempts can probably raise it. If there is a set point, one likely candidate for its controller is the hypothalamus. It comes up enough that it seems worth my time to find out what the hypothalamus is.
The hypothalamus is part of the brain.* It translates the electrical impulses in your brain into signals to endocrine glands to produce and release hormones, which signal the rest of your organs to do their thing. In this way, the brain is like general. It dictates orders to its secretary, the hypothalamus. The secretary than copies all the orders and sends them to the relevant lieutenant generals (glands), who respond by releasing the appropriate hormones. For example, it coordinates the ebb and flow of melatonin (produced by the pineal gland) and cortisol (produced primarily by the adrenal glands), so that you can wake up in the morning and fall asleep at night. It also translates from hormones to the brain, turning “I’m hungry” into cooking, or “I’m horny” into hitting on someone.
What does this have to do with food and weight? If I had a definitive answer to that I would be rich (and better nourished). Damaging specific parts of the hypothalamus while keeping environment constant causes weight change in rats that previously maintained a stable weight. Damaging other parts causes the rat’s weight to be more affected by an environment (i.e. before damage they previously maintained a particular weight regardless of what food was offered. After damage they lost weight when food was unpalatable and gained weight when it was more palatable). And we’ve tracked several hormones that communicate status between the hypothalamus, adipose tissue, and digestive organs, in ways too complicated to fit into this overview post.
In summary, the hypothalamus is the connection point between the brain and your hormones, and no one really knows what either one is saying.
*One thing that always bugs me when I hear the phrase “part of the brain” is “how sharp is the distinction between this part and other parts? Can there be cells where it’s a matter of judgement which section they fall into? Can you just look at an arbitrary brain and say “there, that’s the hypothalamus”?” I eventually found this video, which very explicitly detailed how each part of the brain is separated, except for the hypothalamus, which he just sort of gestured around. As we’ll read later, scientists are able to precisely destroy sub sections of of the hypothalamus so I guess its boundaries are pretty sharp.
Author Aceso Under GlassPosted on November 24, 2014 November 21, 2014 Tags digestion, hormones, medical2 Comments on Now I’m learning about hypothalamusing
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The Only Sailor Who Survived Both Titanic and Lusitania
Before people were able to take their overseas vacays by plane, they had to take the long way around; that meant boarding a ship. And – let’s face it, a magnificent ocean voyage was as luxurious as it could get. But you see, a lot of things can go wrong when large ships did transatlantic crossings – especially during the early 1900s.
The passengers weren’t aware of the dangers at the time; at least not as much as the sailors and crew members. And luckily enough, some of them survived to share their harrowing stories. George William Beauchamp was the legendary sailor who survived two major ship disasters at the beginning of the 20th century…
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– George William Beauchamp was the legendary sailor who survived two major ship disasters at the beginning of the 20th century.
– George Beauchamp was born in Hampshire, England in 1888, and he was the middle child among 4 other siblings. He was fascinated by the sea so much that he was determined to turn it into a career.
– George was really looking forward to working on board the “unsinkable” ship that we all know as Titanic. George was 42 years old, and he needed to be younger, so he lied about his age and claimed that he was 32.
– It seems like they had so much confidence that the Titanic was unsinkable, they never even did a boat drill, so almost no-one knew what to do in this situation.
– His mission was to try and save as many women and children as he could, and he did that successfully on boat number 13.
– We all know that Titanic sunk at 2:20 in the morning, but the Carpathia – which was the ship who came to their rescue, didn’t pick up Georges’ boat until 9:50 the next morning.
– George had had working experience at sea for more than 10 years when he boarded the Titanic, and when the unfortunate event happened, he thought that it’d be the last time he’d have to deal with such a tragedy.
– The Lusitania was travelling parallel to the south coast of Ireland when it was spotted by a German U-boat at 2:10 in the afternoon. This caused an explosion at the point of contact, and the ship began to take in water at an alarming speed.
– Less than half of the people on board survived, and among those was George.
– Right after he experienced the second major sinking disaster in his life, he told his family that he was officially done with working on large ships.
– After he retired, he moved to Southampton in the UK, where he spent the rest of his days close to the sea.
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Posted on September 25, 2019 Updated on September 25, 2019
Danny’s dad is a dark curly haired handsome Greek with beautiful brown eyes, gorgeous olive skin and dashing smile. It’s where we get the last name Govatos from, and we are very proud of it. We made contact with our family that lives in Epidavros, which is located in the eastern part of Argoils Peninsula. Our drive over from Athens was absolutely gorgeous.
Olive, almond and fig trees dot the landscape everywhere, mixed with pine, pomegranate and jacaranda, and the Aegean Sea is an inviting blue the color of peace. We passed several fish farms, where sea bass and sea bream, are farmed.
We passed by Old Epidavros, which was a scene that will never leave my mind – sailboats in the bay and a quiet town nestled in the olive trees.
Kathy and Richard are some of the biggest hearted, generous, beautiful people I know, and we had so much fun spending time with them.
They live in a beautiful home with a breathtaking view of citrus orchids, olive trees, the quaint town of New Epidavros down in the valley, with the Aegean Sea and Greek Isles as a backdrop.
When we awoke from an amazing nights sleep in a beautiful suite in their home, we were greeted by Kathy with home made coffee cake, greek yoghurt with honey and delicious juices. Richard took us out to the back yard to pick fresh purple figs, which were standing healthy and tall amidst olive trees and grape vines. Heaven on earth! The figs were sweeter than any I’ve tasted!
We drove to the Epidaurus Ancient Theater, where in the 4th Century, 34 rows were built to seat admirers of dramatic performances.
In Roman times, another 21 rows were added, making it possible for 14000 people to be seated.
As we walked the rows and sat on the seats, Danny and I imagined the people, their clothing, voices and performances – all there right where we sat. What incredible history!
Large rectangular arches mark the entrance and exits, and in the center of the arena, a gentleman stood and sang opera just to see and feel what it would have been like all those years ago. It sounded beautiful and was easy to see why this theater was admired so much for its acoustics. The view and breeze up high was wonderful.
We sat and quietly chatted, trying to absorb it all, then continued in to the museum close by.
Several statues and sculptures lined the walls, including remnants of columns and artifacts.
Our next stop was Napflia, which according to mythology, is a beautiful little town founded by Napflios, the son of Poseidon and the daughter of Danaus Anymone.
Not far off shore is Bourtzi, a picturesque Venetian fortress that was at one point connected to the main palace by a huge metal chain, which secured the fort against enemy ships.
The view of Napflia can be seen from high roads that reach beautiful towers,
and looking over into the bay on the backside of the peninsula, more beautiful shoreline continues on for miles.
The town of Napflia is gorgeous, with old buildings overflowing with character and the smell of delicious foods in the air. Together we enjoyed a meal from heaven, overlooking the inviting clear waters.
There’s never enough time to spend with family, and it was difficult to say ‘see you later’ to Kathy and Richard. But, we’ll be back for sure, and when we return, we know that view will still be there, and more importantly, those wonderful warm hugs.
The Acropolis eclipses all else, demanding complete attention as it monopolizes the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
A winding rock path of well worn slippery marble meanders up a hill through olive trees and dry dirt, and a sense of reverence and awe hangs heavily in the air.
The first structure we encountered was the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. Philosopher, Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes built it as a memorial for his wife in 160 AD. The 3 stories of arches, windows and columns are incredibly beautiful, with Athens as a spectacular backdrop, and the theater can seat about 5000 people.
Farther up the winding path, are stairs and more stairs that lead to several impressive ancient structures including the Parthenon.
The Parthenon is massive (101ft wide and 228ft long), and was designed in an incredibly genius way: Tilting each column 6 cm inward, which causes it to look even more grand than it already is!
While walking the grounds, it was interesting to imagine what it would have been like in 438 BC when it was built. The back breaking, finger smashing, sweat pouring grunts and groans that went into day after day for nine years.
The Erectheion, Temple of Athena Nike, The Propylaea and several other structures are also at the Acropolis.
Acropolis means ‘summit of the city’, and due to it’s setting up on the highest hill, it was considered the perfect location for safety.
It was believed that Poseidon struck the rock of the Acropolis with his trident, and water appeared, streaming out to provide water for the people in the city, and that a horse leaped out from the point where the trident struck. Athena then responded by striking a nearby rock with her spear, and an olive tree sprouted from the ground. The olive would later become a source of wealth for Attica.
It was judged that Athena, who is the Goddess of wisdom and courage, won the contest between the two, and she became the protector of the city.
The cities name was changed from Kekropia to Athina to honor her.
Incredible work continues to be done to preserve these amazing monuments as three main focuses are constantly monitors and worked on: Mechanical damage, caused by earthquakes, explosions, fires, and freezing; Chemical damage, a result of acid rain and air pollution which has eroded the marble; and Biological damage, caused by plant roots, molds, and bird dropping etc.
It makes me happy to know that each day as we are busy with our lives – running errands, working on projects, meeting with loved ones, the Acropolis is still there – being restored, cherished and admired, and we can always come bak and once again feel the beautiful energy.
Greece is incredibly striking due to the contrast between desert and the beautiful clear waters of the Aegean Sea.
Our friends, Alex and Jen, were kind enough to let us stay with them in Athens, and during that time, one of the places we explored was the Temple of Poseidon. On our way there we drove along the coastline and came to a gorgeous beach. The water was calm and cool and a perfect breeze dried the perspiration on our faces. We watched as elderly people made their way into the water on a lift that gently slid them into the turquoise Aegean Sea.
We knew we wanted to swim at some point but decided that it’d be best to wait till after walking around the Temple of Poseidon, but I did want to stroll the shore just for a second first. Perfect smooth pebbles in a variety of colors, littered the shore, and the water felt so wonderful on my legs. I wandered past where people were swimming and once secluded, stripped down to my underwear and plunged in. I simply couldn’t resist! Danny commented that he knew all along that I wouldn’t be able to as he smiled at the wet patches seeping through my clothes.
Many ruins still stand tall across the country side, keeping the rich feeling of history, sacrifice and hard work, in the forefront.
The Temple of Poseidon is on a hill overlooking the Cape of Sounion, and was considered a sacred area dating back to the Bronze Age, but the structure was built between 444 and 440 BC.
The large marble columns are about 20 ft tall and 3 ft in diameter, and the entire structure is approximately 90ft X 40ft. It is difficult to imagine the amount of work that went into cutting away and forming each of the huge blocks that are stacked as foundation as well as walls around the grounds, and the detailed carving on each column.
The view from the temple is exquisite. The deep blue of the Aegean Sea surrounds two thirds of hill, and the town of Sounion lays peacefully at its base.
After hiking around and admiring the temple, Danny and I walked down to a little restaurant below, and enjoyed a simple yet incredible meal of freshly baked bread, mounds of tzatziki and bowls of blood red tomato, thinly sliced green bell pepper and purple onion, kalamata olives and a fat slab of fresh feta.
The view from our comfortable seats in the shade were of the Temple of Poseidon, and I could just imagine the Greek God and his brother Zeus, wrestling in the surf , breaking boulders and shifting dirt, creating the beautiful alcoves we admired as we drove in.
The craziest thing happened! Without knowing, my wonderful friend Elayne, traveled to Zurich within just a few hours of Danny and I. She didn’t know – we didn’t know, and we hadn’t seen each other in five years.
So, we found each other, finally met her wonderful sweetheart, Eric, and spent the day exploring Luzern (AKA Lucerne), which is a 45 minute drive from Zurich.
Luzern is the most populous town in central Switzerland, and is so picturesque on the Reuss River. One of it’s famous landmarks is Chapel Bridge, which was built in the 14th century.
Part of the bridge, is an octagonal 113ft tall Wasserturm, which translates to water tower. The tower existed about 30 years before the bridge did, and has been used as a prison, torture chamber, and municipal archive as well as a local treasury.
The beautiful bridge Kapellbrucke, is a footbridge that spans the Reuss River, overflowing with red geraniums, and was named the Chapel Bridge because St Peter’s Chapel is on the river close to it.
In the distance behind Luzern Jesuit Church, is Mount Pilatus which is part of the Swiss Alps.
Construction of the baroque Jesuit Church began in 1667, and was consecrated in 1677, though some parts of the interior were not completed yet. Upon entering the front doors we became speechless, as our minds and vision were whisk away by angelic choirs and intricate art.
Rich milk chocolate wood pews neatly lined the floor and various shades of peach paint rose up from floor to ceiling in breathtaking detail, accented with gold.
Every inch of every detail molded, filed and painted to perfection, and brilliant chandeliers illuminate each masterpiece as if each were the only treasure.
Our eyes were drawn heavenward and found above us a ceiling covered in perfectly framed murals – each containing detail and color of scenes like the Glory of Saint Francis Xavier, who was a patron of Luzern’s Jesuit Church.
Marble side altars – each a perfect work of art, are displayed within each of the arches on either side of the main chapel.
The streets and alleys of Luzern are also works of art. Lush ivy and cobblestone streets frame each scene.
Incredible rich paintings decorate the exterior walls of already amazing architecture – an overwhelming buffet of color and texture creating a mood of reverence even in the streets.
Many of these beautiful buildings have quaint restaurants beneath them, serving nothing but deliciousness like fondu, baguettes, hundreds of cheeses, Raclette and Älplermagronen, accompanied by fines wines and freshly brewed beers.
Clock towers, hotels that look like castles and ancient steeples add to the romance,
each with their own perfect door and threshold.
Our day in Luzern is one that will be fondly remembered and spoken about years from now…and one day, we will bring our grandchildren and walk the same cobbled streets and they will feel the beauty and be left standing in awe, too.
Posted on September 9, 2019 Updated on September 9, 2019
Remember the scene in Mary Poppins where she jumps into a painting and is instantly immerse in a magical scene…well, the countryside in Switzerland, actually everywhere in Switzerland, feels that way. Everywhere you look is beautiful. Greens are greener, the sky has more character, flowers are fuller, and crops growing are large and healthy. It’s jaw dropping. Overwhelming. Breathtaking.
Danny and I went for a drive just a few miles out of picturesque Zurich, and found ourselves in a the countryside. Most of the fields were so lush it just seemed unreal! Old farm houses were like those from picture books with splashes of color in every scene.
Beautiful homes with bulging window boxes filled with geranium, sweet potato vines and aster, complete each glance in a thousand directions, so magically.
Tiny villages dot the landscape, each with their own history of families living and working together to create their bliss.
Churches with beautiful steeples stand proud and tall, holding within them memories of beautiful brides, grand sermons and weeping mothers.
Even a lonesome weathered cross seemed perfectly placed…the spot where a loved one lays overlooking the endless beauty.
Though three quarters of cultivated areas are flowing with thick meadows and pasture, sugar beets, wheat, apples, grapes, carrots and potatoes are the main crops of Switzerland. Like patchwork quilts, we looked over fields of varying color and texture of leafy greens and onions.
Just around the bend we were met by a thick grove of hornbeam trees, forming an irresistible tunnel leading to a perfect light.
The feeling of peace in the woods was overwhelming, and just when we emerged on the other side feeling like our surroundings couldn’t be any more peaceful or beautiful, a farm immersed in flowers lay before us.
Endless rows of gladiolus reached heavenward like a rainbow of angels, and sunflowers gathered in a congregation of yellow heads humbly watching their sermon from the sun.
Switzerland is a spiritual experience. Its the whole meal including appetizers, drinks and a delicious dessert. I love this place. Where else, does a bicycle leaning up against a home complete an already perfect picture?
Not even 48 hours before leaving for Switzerland, did I know I was going. Danny received a last minute email requesting he fly the BBJ to Switzerland for maintenance, so he booked me a ticket to meet him, and the two of us are celebrating our birthdays a month early by exploring this beautiful country, and then flying on to Greece to explore it too.
Zurich is so picturesque! Every street we wander down, is overflowing with beautiful architecture,
perfectly placed window boxes and cascading vines,
Incredible exterior paint jobs…
and perfect attention to detail around every corner.
I have fallen in love with Switzerland. I love the vibe, the history and the people, and everything makes sense and is peaceful and relaxed.
Zurich is a global center for banking and finance and is sprawled out along the Limmat River.
It was settled over 2000 years ago by the Romans, who named it Turicum, but some settlements in the are date back over 6400 years.
German is the official language of Switzerland but the main language spoken is a variant of an Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
We walked the streets admiring quaint alley ways,
Bookstores that looked like they had been in business for centuries,
and enjoyed brat with delicious fresh bread and mustard. For dinner we feasted on fondu.
I feel so at home here as I walk through places where just maybe, some of my ancestors walked before crossing the ocean to Africa in 1652.
I told Danny I just want to stay. Live in the country and have a cow for fresh milk. Make my own cheese and butter, sew quilts, bake breads and grow vegetables, and go on a photo expedition every day!
It’s comforting to know that no matter how crazy things get in the world, there are still calm, peaceful places like this existence…
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Aloe arborescens and aloe vera are the most common and best-known kinds of the aloe plant that is otherwise known as sibr, or sabbar. There are over 300 classified varieties, growing wild in the desert, though they can also be cultivated in gardens and pots.
The succulent thorny green plant is known here as sabbar, deriving from the word sabr, meaning patience in Arabic for its capability to sustain drought and heat in the harsh climate of the desert. The transparent gel-like sap (over 90 percent water) is used for remedial purposes. The resin, which is left to dry, is called sibr in Arabic. It comes in round solid reddish-brown hard patties, available in the herb and spice market.
Sibr was noted in the memoires of the British adventurer Sir Richard Burton on his celebrated pilgrimage to the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah in 1853. The plant was often grown in Muslim graveyards. Its popularity comes from the fact that it requires minimum watering and sustains extreme heat and cold climates.
Travelers and camels crossing the desert quench their thirst and nourish their bodies with the life-saving aloe gel and its juice. It does not only replace water but also food due to its high nutritional value.
The succulent plant grows a tall majestic flowering stalk in its center during the winter season. The green thorny thick leaves, or branches, envelop a transparent viscous resin. The gel is valued in this part of the world for its potency and medicinal qualities.
Traditionally, sibr, the dark brown dried sap, is prescribed for diabetics to lower blood sugar levels. It is also applied to heal stubborn wounds, in its fresh or dried form. It is taken orally as a laxative to relieve constipation; cleanse the intestines; regulate bowel movement; and soothe digestive disorders. Dried aloe is diluted in water and taken on empty stomach to control elevated blood sugar levels and cleanse the digestive tract. It is believed in Hejaz, the Western region of Saudi Arabia, that oral overuse can cause damage to the liver in the elderly.
Wounds and cuts get washed with water and applied with the gel or the diluted dried cake to cleanse and speed healing. Sometimes, a little alum (shabba), or myrrh (murrah in Arabic) is added to stop profuse bleeding and to promote healing. It is also used to cool burns and enhance healing and recovery. Most sunburn gels contain aloe today.
Externally, the gel-like sap is applied to the hair to enhance growth and texture; increase shine; and minimize hair loss. Traditionally, it is mixed with henna (a natural hair coloring plant), garlic, and coconut and a little castor oil. The mixture should be left for some time on the hair. Warning: if your hair is white or blond, henna may give it a ginger red tinge. The mixture can be used without the henna. Most modern beauty products contain aloe; either to improve skin or hair conditions.
It is said that ancient Egyptians may have used aloe to embalm their mummies, which have lasted thousands of years. To protect her skin from the sun, the famous Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, applied the gel as sunscreen (coconut and sesame oils give the same effect). It was also applied to soothe and heal severe sunburns and burns. The ancient Egyptians used aloe to cleanse the digestive tract and detoxify the body. The Persians used it for its laxative effect, too.
The well-known Arab philosopher and physician Al-Kindi wrote about aloe’s anti-inflammatory properties in his medical encyclopedia. He recommended it for eye infections and orally for inflammatory and depressive conditions as well as for detoxification.
Modern science has revealed aloe’s secret of active, healing, and effective ingredients, supporting Al-Kindi’s theory. The plant contains polysaccharides and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients that are healing and detoxifying. They are found in abundance in the water-soluble transparent resin of the thick thorny green leaf.
The aloe gel offers complex carbohydrate molecules (polysaccharides), which act as natural skin moisturizers. Its astringent and emollient effects help maintain a healthy skin. They also heal wounds, sunburns, bedsores, and burns; stimulate cell regeneration; and reduce inflammation and repair damaged tissues caused by radiation therapy. The components also eradicate warts without leaving scars.
Aloe’s antifungal effect makes it ideal for treating yeast infections when taken orally or applied directly on the skin or nails. It also has anti-viral properties. When taken internally as juice, it lowers cholesterol; promotes blood circulation in the lower parts of the body; relieves and coats stomach ulcers; aids in the process of elimination; and soothes hemorrhoids.
Dentists recommend aloe mouth rinse for dental, gum and oral surgeries and diseases. Aloe is also effective on insect bites and skin irritation or allergies.
In health stores, aloe is found in the forms of juice and supplement. Due to its healing virtues, aloe is found in the composition of many cosmetics, skin lotions, hair treatment products, toothpastes, gargles, and creams for sunburns, rashes and skin irritations.
Aloe may sometimes produce skin allergic reactions in certain people. If you are one of them, apply a small amount behind the ears or under the arm. Stop using it, should a rash appear or stinging sensation is felt. Pregnant women should not take aloe orally, due to its purgative effect that could trigger miscarriage or induce labor.
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Jenny Offill - book author
Jenny Offill is an American author born in Massachusetts. Her first novel Last Things was published in 1999 was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award.
She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books She teaches in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Queens University.
Jenny Offill is the author of books: Dept. of Speculation, Sparky!, 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore, 11 Experiments That Failed, Last Things, The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away, Weather, While You Were Napping, Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune, De laatste dingen
Dept. of Speculation
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art.
With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.
Sparky!
The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet who has more to offer than meets the eye. When our narrator orders a sloth through the mail, the creature that arrives isn't good at tricks or hide-and-seek . . . or much of anything. Still, there's something about Sparky that is irresistible.
Winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award
17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore
This "Parenting Magazine" Best Book of the Year and Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year features a kid full of fun ideas. For example, in the morning, gluing her brother's bunny slippers to the floor sounds like a good plan. But now she's not allowed to use glue anymore. And what about when she shows Joey Whipple her underpants--they're only underpants, right? Turns out she's not allowed to do that again, either. And isn't broccoli the perfect gift for any brother? It's just too bad her parents don't think so. But she has the last laugh in this humerous picture book about not-so-great behavior. And don't miss the companion book to "17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore: ""11 Experiments that Failed," a zany exploration of the scientific method by everyone's favorite troublemaking protagonist.
11 Experiments That Failed
"This is a most joyful and clever whimsy, the kind that lightens the heart and puts a shine on the day," raved Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup—and nothing else—all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step instructions, kids can discover the answers to such all-important questions along with the book's curious narrator. Here are 12 "hypotheses," as well as lists of "what you need," "what to do," and "what happened" that are sure to make young readers laugh out loud as they learn how to conduct science experiments (really!).
Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter—the ingenious pair that brought you 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore—have outdone themselves in this brilliant and outrageously funny book.
Last Things
Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is slowly unraveling because her family is coming apart before her eyes. Now eight-year-old Grace must choose between her two very different, very flawed parents, a choice that will take her on a dizzying journey, away from her home in Vermont to the boozy, flooded streets of New Orleans--and into the equally wondrous and frightening realm of her own imagination.
With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers like Francine Prose, Katie Roiphe, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Hood, Diana Abu Jabar, Vivian Gornick, Helen Schulman, and many others. Some write of friends who have drifted away, others of sudden breakups that took them by surprise. Some even celebrate their liberation from unhealthy or destructive relationships. Yet at the heart of each story is the recognition of a loss that will never be forgotten.
From stories about friendships that dissolved when one person revealed a hidden self or moved into a different world, to tales of relationships sabotaged by competition, personal ambition, or careless indifference, THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY casts new light on the meaning and nature of women’s friendships. Katie Roiphe writes with regret about the period in her life when even close friends seemed expendable compared to men and sex. Mary Morris reveals how a loan led to the unraveling of a lifelong friendship. Vivian Gornick explores how intellectual differences eroded the bond between once inseparable companions. And two contributors, once best friends, tell both sides of the story that led to their painful breakup.
Written especially for this anthology and touched with humor, sadness, and sometimes anger, these extraordinary pieces simultaneously evoke the uniqueness of each situation and illuminate the universal emotions evoked by the loss of a friend.
From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience--but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
While You Were Napping
In this hilarious read-aloud featuring robots, fire trucks, and pirates, meet an older sister who’s more than happy to fill her little brother in on all he missed while he was napping. Since none of the other neighborhood kids had to nap, they came over. Then came the robots, and of course the astronauts. It was tons of fun . . . and luckily for the boy (right?!), he slept through it all!
Here’s a picture book that is sure to ring true in every family with more than one child. With minimal text and raucous illustrations, this laugh-out-loud, spot-on picture book is also a perfect portrait of a mischievous kid at her imaginative best.
Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships.
Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore the complicated role money has played in their lives, whether they’re hiding from creditors or hiding a trust fund. This collection will touch a nerve with anyone who’s ever been afraid to reveal their bank balance.
In these wide-ranging personal essays, Daniel Handler, Walter Kirn, Jill McCorkle, Meera Nair, Henry Alford, Susan Choi, and other acclaimed authors write with startling candor about how money has strengthened or undermined their closest relationships. Isabel Rose talks about the trials and tribulations of dating as an heiress. Tony Serra explains what led him to take a forty-year vow of poverty. September 11 widow Marian Fontana illuminates the heartbreak and moral complexities of victim compensation. Jonathan Dee reveals the debt that nearly did him in. And in paired essays, Fred Leebron and his wife Katherine Rhett discuss the way fights over money have shaken their marriage to the core again and again.
We talk openly about our romantic disasters and family dramas, our problems at work and our battles with addiction. But when it comes to what is or is not in our wallets, we remain determinedly mum. Until now, that is. Money Changes Everything is the first anthology of its kind—an unflinching and on-the-record collection of essays filled with entertaining and enlightening insights into why we spend, save, and steal.
The pieces in Money Changes Everything range from the comic to the harrowing, yet they all reveal the complex, emotionally charged role money plays in our lives by shattering the wall of silence that has long surrounded this topic.
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Wrongfully Convicted Alumnus Wins Marshall Scholarship to Study Comparative Social Policy at Oxford
Georgetown alumnus Brian Ferguson (C’18), once wrongfully incarcerated for homicide and exonerated after serving 11 years of a life sentence, has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master’s of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford.
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Amy Fong (B’92) found fulfillment when she left the world of finance in 2015 and started a new career as CEO of Save the Children Hong Kong.
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What's in My White Coat?
Michelle Roett, MD, MPH (M'03), chair of the department of family medicine at Georgetown. "My lucky stethoscope!" laughs Michelle Roett, MD, MPH (M'03), chair of the department of family medicine at...
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The Creative Spark
Adam Green teamed up with cognitive neurologist and neuroscientist Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center, seeking interdisciplinary answers.
The Mind on Music
Researchers at Georgetown are studying how and why music is so neurologically dominant. “We want to understand how music resides in the brain and the body.”...
Picturing the Future: The faces of medicine are getting a makeover
Medical student demographics are shifting. As recently as 2015, white matriculants comprised just half of the student body. In 2017, the American Association of Medical Colleges reported that for the...
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Resilient Baby Brains
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Tracking "Silent" Deaths
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Beating Ewing Sarcoma - Minus the Side Effects?
Because the disease often affects teens, side effects like infertility from current treatments are hard to bear. New research at Georgetown offers hope for an alternative.
Spring/Summer 2018: The Healing Arts
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Eating soy foods and cruciferous vegetables may reduce treatment side effects in breast cancer survivors, say a team of scientists led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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An American in Bosnia
Discovering Ancient History in Clay, Stone, Water, Tunnels, Pyramids, Tumuli, and other Ancient Materials and Structures in and near Visoko, Bosnia and Engaging the Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations Worldwide
MEGASPHERE: The Stone Ball that Wouldn’t Roll Away: Archaeology Magazine Ignored the March 2016 Discovery of the Most Massive Stone Sphere in the World . . . But It’s Still There
September 24, 2016 January 3, 2018 / jockwilliamdoubleday
by Jock Doubleday
***UPDATE January 1, 2018 ***
Archaeology magazine continues its 11-year-moratorium on Bosnian archaeology — an archaeology which includes the most astonishing archaeological discoveries of the new millennium: the estimated 34,000-year-old Bosnian Pyramid Complex in Visoko, Bosnia and the likely similarly ancient Megasphere in Zavidovici, Bosnia — while at the same time publishing archaeological non-news about a 106-year-old fruitcake found in Antarctica.
Desperate to distract us from the truth about humanity’s astonishing past on Earth, and in particular from the mountain of scientific evidence recently unearthed about an ancient civilization in Bosnia, in 2016 Archaeology magazine published another non-story, in a series of non-stories, about the discovery of artifacts associated with a quilter who was murdered in 1826. You heard it right. “On the evening of January 3, 1826, someone entered the Northumberland home of Joseph Hedley — known locally as ‘Joe the Quilter’ for his great skill with needle and thread — and brutally murdered the lonely old man.”
“Megasphere”
Suad Keserovic excavates a giant stone ball in 2016 in Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje village, near Zavidovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It’s a mystery.
Archaeology magazine, the top magazine in the field of archaeology, has remained silent about a megasphere discovered in Bosnia.
Archaeology magazine, the most prestigious archaeology magazine in the world, has made no mention, in six months, of the March 2016 discovery of the most massive ancient stone sphere ever found.
Question: Why would the top magazine in the field of archaeology ignore what may be the most astonishing find of the decade, a mega-sphere found in Bosnia?
Another question: Why did the same magazine ignore what is certainly the find of the century (so far): the discovery of a prehistoric pyramid complex in Visoko, Bosnia?
Let’s keep these questions in mind as a Bosnian mega-sphere’s story unfolds.
A Megaspheric Discovery
The story of this mega-stone — the “megasphere,” as I call it — broke worldwide in April 2016, capturing the attention of major media all over the globe.
Major Media Mega-Coverage of the Megasphere:
The Telegraph (UK) April 11, 2016
Daily Mail (UK) April 7, 2016
The Mirror (UK) April 15, 2016
ABC News (US) April 14, 2016
Fox News (US) April 15, 2016
Yahoo News (US) April 14, 2016
Huffington Post (US edition) April 25, 2016
news.com (Australia) April 14, 2016
Yahoo (Canada) April 11, 2016
Russia Today (UK) April 14, 2016
International Business Times April 13, 2016
DNA (Daily News and Analysis) India April 12, 2016
EuroNews April 16, updated April 18, 2016
Dr. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids in Visoko, Bosnia and founder of Stone Spheres Park near Zavidovici, Bosnia, stands next to the megasphere, the largest ancient artificial stone ball excavated so far in Stone Spheres Park.
Oddly, the editors of Archaeology magazine completely ignored the megasphere’s discovery, making no mention of the astonishing find 1) in their print publication, 2) in their online publication, and 3) on their Facebook page.
In the last several years, Archaeology‘s Facebook page has run two “balls-topic” stories.
Two looted Roman sling stones returned to an Israeli museum. The “story” was posted on Archaeology magazine’s Facebook page on July 13, 2015.
These two stories may be the most ho-hum, dreary stories ever written in the annals of archaeology.
Archaeology‘s first balls-topic story is:
“Two looted Roman sling stones were anonymously returned to an Israeli museum. . . . A museum employee found the stones in a bag in the museum’s courtyard with a note that read, ‘These are two roman ballista balls from Gamla, from a residential quarter at the foot of the summit. I stole them in July 1995 and since then they have brought me nothing but trouble. Please, do not steal antiquities!'”
Archaeology‘s second “balls-topic” story in the last several years, a micro-story about micro-balls, is about musket balls:
Unfired musket balls, allegedly from the Battle of Waterloo, a micro-story run by Archaeology magazine’s Facebook page. But the story of the most massive stone ball in the world being found in Bosnia, a mega-story about a mega-ball, was ignored by Archaeology magazine’s Facebook page and by both its online and its print publication.
“In Belgium, archaeologists have unearthed musket balls that might be from some of the first shots fired in the Battle of Waterloo.”
Archaeology magazine’s micro-articles about alleged Roman “sling stones” and Waterloo musket balls do not challenge or change anything we know about human history. Yet these two stories were the “balls stories” of choice for editors at Archaeology magazine over the last several years.
Archaeology‘s online publication reproduced and expanded the Facebook “sling stones” story and faithfully gave their readers a “musket balls” micro-story, though the online story was set in Massachusetts.
Instead of running a story about the most massive stone sphere ever discovered on the planet, the existence of which substantially challenges our understanding of human history, Archaeology magazine was happy to serve its readers pebble fare, scientific pabulum, thin orthodoxical wafers.
The Archaeological Orthodoxy: Gatekeepers of Archaeological Information
Who are the gatekeepers of archaeological information in the 21st century?
What are the names of the people at Archaeology magazine, who, for instance, in the spring of 2016, endeavored (and failed) to excise from archaeological history a 37-ton sphere? What is their education? What is their training? What is their aim? What, dare we ask, is their agenda?
Archaeology magazine Editor-in-Chief Claudia Valentino, with a degree in Magazine Journalism
Let’s look at the Top Four executives and editors at Archaeology magazine.
1) Editor-in-Chief Claudia Valentino. Ms. Valentino’s archaeology background is nonexistent. She holds a B.A. in Magazine Journalism from New York University.
What has been Ms. Valentino’s performance at the helm of this prestigious magazine? Ms. Valentino has ignored communication about Bosnian archaeology for four years. Specifically, she has steadfastly failed to respond to emails regarding new findings in Bosnian archaeology, since January 5, 2013.
What does Editor-in-Chief Claudia Valentino believe is more important than an ancient megasphere (and prehistoric megalithic pyramids and other structures) in Bosnia? Her magazine’s annual Top 10 Discoveries include “Colonial Cannibalism” (2013), and “World’s Oldest Pretzels” (2015).
Archaeology magazine Executive Editor Jarrett A. Lobell, with a BA (?) in Classics, Archaeology; no photo available on the entire public internet (?). Mr. Lobell publishes occasional articles on the ancient history of Greece, Crete, and other cultures. One recent article Mr. Lobell penned is: “Pompeii’s Dead Reimagined,” which is about an artist bizarrely recreating the dead people of Pompeii, “interpretations” of human suffering while being smothered to death and/or burned alive by hot ash.
2) Archaeology magazine Executive Editor Jarrett A. Lobell has a BA in Classics, Archaeology. Mr. Lobell publishes occasional articles like “Medieval Fashion Statement.” He writes: “There are numerous medieval written sources that describe bras as ‘breastbags,’ but until this discovery no one had any idea what these garments looked like. . . . The discovery will enable archaeologists . . . to learn more about tailoring by women.”
Lace-decorated linen bra, circa 1390 A.D.
Archaeology magazine Senior Editor Daniel Weiss, with a degree in Journalism; previously editor at Pharmacy Times (?)
3) Archaeology magazine Senior Editor Daniel Weiss has a degree in Journalism and experience as editor at Pharmacy Times. Mr. Weiss’s archaeological education is zero. Two of Mr. Weiss’s recent articles are “Heart Attack of the Mummies,” which states that 50-year-old Ötzi the Iceman might have had a heart attack if he had lived to age 80 (uh, what?), and “Memo to science nerds: Learn improv,” which conjectures that improv class helps science presenters be more “vivid and expressive.”
4) Finally, we come to the mysterious Peter Herdrich.
Archaeology magazine publisher Peter Herdrich, CEO at AIA (Archaeological Institute of America), unknown studies at Colombia University with graduate work (degree?) in Arts Administration.
Peter Herdrich is the publisher of Archaeology magazine. For many years, Mr. Herdrich was CEO at AIA (Archaeological Institute of America). How he obtained this position with his educational background is unknown. Mr. Herdrich studied at Colombia University but did not complete his studies. He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Germany but received no publicly available certificate or degree. Peter did graduate work at the School of the Arts at Columbia University (in Arts Administration) but again did not complete his studies.
Peter Herdrich’s publicly available, though not easily discoverable, CV is here. Mr. Herdrich’s current LinkedIn profile photo is below.
Archaeology magazine publisher Peter Herdrich biographical information: “Before moving into the not-for-profit world, Peter enjoyed long success in commercial television, primarily in news programming. He worked as a producer and writer at ABC, CBS Television Distribution, Disney, Fox, and NBC. . . . After finishing his undergraduate work at Columbia University (degree ?) and studying at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany (degree ?), Peter did graduate work at the School of the Arts at Columbia University in arts administration (degree?).”
As we have seen, only one of the four persons mentioned above has a degree in archaeology. Although obviously a university degree assures us of nothing, it is strange that persons without any education in archaeology have three of the top spots at this prestigious publication.
Question: Why is Peter Herdrich, whose experience is in commercial television production, in charge of publishing a magazine about archaeology?
Question: Why is Jarrett A. Lobell, who has only a B.A. in archaeology, Executive Editor at Archaeology magazine?
Question: Why is Claudia Valentino, whose education and experience has no relation to archaeology, Editor-in-Chief at Archaeology magazine?
Question: Why is Daniel Weiss, whose education and experience has no relation to archaeology, Senior Editor at Archaeology magazine?
Why are these four persons running the most prestigious archaeology magazine in the world?
A Bosnian Megasphere
Did you know that a giant stone sphere, the most massive ancient artificial stone sphere ever found, was discovered earlier this year in a country called Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Ancient history enthusiast Shawn Rateau stands by the megasphere, a giant artificially created stone sphere excavated in 2016 in Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje, Bosnia. (Photo taken September 18, 2016 by Christoffer Kindmark.)
You wouldn’t know this fact if Archaeology magazine were your only source of information about archaeological finds on this planet. (More later about Archaeology magazine’s bizarre 10-year moratorium on Bosnian archaeology.)
Fortunately, although Archaeology magazine attempted to bury the discovery of the Bosnian megasphere under a mountain of silence, mega-news outlet Russia Today made a big deal about the Bosnian discovery.
RT sent their own people to a creek strewn with ancient stone spheres in a sleepy village called Podubravlje, Bosnia.
In fact, it was here in Podubravlje that, years earlier, Dr. Sam Osmanagich established Stone Spheres Park. Yes it’s true: Many ancient artificial stone spheres had already been found in the Zavidovici area before the ancient megasphere was discovered in 2016 (as can be seen in this video, “Trek to Stone Spheres Park in Zavidovici, Bosnia, June 21, 2015”).
Astonishingly, 80 stone spheres came out of a hill in Podubravlje in a rainstorm in 1936. Forty of the stone spheres floated down the creek to the River Bosna and disappeared during the original rainstorm in 1936. Today, only 18 stone spheres (some whole, some broken) remain in Stone Spheres Park.
Dr. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., founder of Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje, Bosnia, talks with Field Archaeologist Anela Podrug (right) and a visitor (left) on a visit to the park on June 21, 2015. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
Dr. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., founder of Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje, Bosnia, waits for visitors to assemble for a short lecture about the stone spheres on June 21, 2015. Less than a year later, in early 2016, excavation on the megasphere (not pictured here) would begin. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
Many of the spheres in Stone Spheres Park were deliberately broken open by gold seekers in the 1960s. No gold was found. Pictured are volunteers for Archaeological Park Foundation. More photos of Archaeological Park Foundation volunteers can be found here. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
A visitor reaches down to touch a partially buried stone sphere in Stone Spheres Park, June 21, 2015. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
Ancient artificially created stone sphere lies in dappled sunlight in Stone Spheres Park. (Photo taken September 18, 2016, by Shawn Rateau.)
Ancient artificial stone spheres line the creek below a hill out of which they rolled during a rainstorm in 1936. This section of the creek is part of Stone Spheres Park in Bosnia. (Photo by Shawn Rateau, September 18, 2016.)
A stone sphere (not the megasphere), one of many ancient artificial stone spheres lining the creek below a hill out of which the spheres rolled during a rainstorm in 1936. The creek is part of Stone Spheres Park in Bosnia. (Photo by Shawn Rateau, September 18, 2016.)
The remaining 18 spheres (some pictured to the left and above), whole or broken, are undaunted survivors of extraordinary vandalism that occurred in the 1960s, when rumors that the spheres contained gold inspired Bosnian natives to begin taking sledge-hammers to the ancient stone balls — and/or to drill into the stone spheres and use dynamite to break them apart. No gold was found in the Bosnian stone spheres or in any of the stone spheres of Costa Rica — or in any other stone spheres across the globe in which it was presumed gold was hidden. Eventually, gold-seekers’ vandalism stopped worldwide.
Interestingly, the newly unearthed megasphere was actually discovered, in part, many years ago. According to an email sent to me by Dr. Osmanagich on September 1, 2016:
“Part of the stone ball [megasphere] was sticking out (approx. 50 cm radius [= 20 inch radius = 40 inch diameter = an area a little over 3 feet in diameter]) for the longest time. Only beginning of March [2016] two local men started clearing. They informed me at the very beginning so I suggested to keep working until my first visit in March.” Because no one knew how big the megasphere was, excavation had not been not pursued.
Suad Keserovic excavates the megasphere in Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje village, near Zavidovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Why did Russia Today need to come to the rescue of archaeological science in the case of a gigantic stone sphere found in the Balkans? It’s a good question, and we’ll be pursuing that question later in the article. But whatever the reason(s) for Archaeology magazine’s disinterest, Russia Today was kind enough, and smart enough, to immediately fill the profound scientific vacuum created by Archaeology magazine’s inaction.
Russia Today wrote, plainly, lucidly, on April 14, 2016: “This may be the largest and oldest sphere carved by human hands in Europe. Its origins are still a mystery . . . The stone sphere has a diametre of around 10 feet and an estimated weight of 70,000 pounds. Hundreds of tourists from around the world have already descended onto the forest near the town of Zavidovici, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to see the sphere.” Russia Today also made a real-time video of the continuing excavation of the sphere:
Russia Today made one understandable error in its text. RT wrote that the megasphere was “carved by human hands.” Although some stone spheres around the world may have been carved or sculpted, as opposed to molded, we know from scientific analysis that spheres in Stone Spheres Park similar to (though smaller than), and in the near vicinity of, the recently discovered megasphere were molded, not carved.
What Are the Bosnian Stone Spheres Made Of?
As Dr. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D., told a group of visitors to Stone Spheres Park on June 21, 2015:
Dr. Sam Osmanagich waits patiently for tourists to gather for a short lecture about the history of the stone balls in Stone Spheres Park, June 21, 2015 — nine months before the discovery of the megasphere. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
“We are the first . . . who actually analyzed the stone balls. We took traces from four of the stone balls, and one [sample] from the natural stone material. We did chemical and physical analysis. This is what we found out. Nine elements are exactly the same in the case of the stone balls and natural stone. And then one element only the natural stone has: SiO2 silicon dioxide. The stone balls don’t have it. They have two elements instead. One is manganese [Mn]. Manganese we use today to give the hardness to the material. And the second one is calcium carbonate [CaCO3], a binder. So, our conclusion: The builders of the stone balls were using natural stone, then melting it, adding the additives, to get the extreme hardness, and then pouring into the molds to get this spherical shape. And when they got dry, they got very hard and solid.”
– Dr. Semir Osmanagich, Bosnian Stone Spheres Park, Zavidovici, Bosnia, June 21, 2015
How Heavy Is the Bosnian Megasphere?
The Bosnian megasphere, an ancient stone ball found in Stone Spheres Park, has not been put on a scale, for reasons that are obvious. The stone is too heavy to lift by conventional and financially affordable means, and therefore the weight of this mega-stone must be deduced from its 1) size and 2) composition.
Interestingly, the Bosnian megasphere has a higher concentration of iron than the other stone spheres in the near vicinity in Stone Spheres Park. This higher iron concentration makes it, among other things, heavier. Why did the ancients want to make the largest sphere (so far found) in the vicinity the most iron-rich and therefore the heaviest? Unknown.
Laboratory chemical analysis was performed in September 2016 on two samples taken from the megasphere.
Certificate of laboratory analysis of the megasphere, courtesy of the University of Tuzla, Bosnia.
The Faculty of Mining, Construction and Geology at the University of Tuzla in Bosnia conducted the analysis. Master of Geology Mersudin Hodzic signed a statement in which he determined that the megasphere’s particle density (the ratio of particle mass to volume) is 2.64 grams / m3 (per cubic meter).
The weight of the megasphere, in kilograms, can be determined by multiplying particle density, or “specific gravity” (= 2.64 grams / m3) times volume (= 14.14 m3).
The weight of the megasphere found in Podubravlje is therefore an estimated 37.33 metric tons. (One metric ton = 1,000 kilograms.)
This estimated weight makes the megasphere the most massive stone ball ever found on Earth.
Ancient history enthusiast Shawn Rateau stands by the megasphere, at 37.33 metric tons the most massive stone of its kind yet discovered on planet earth, a giant artificially created (molded) ancient stone sphere partially excavated in 2016 in Stone Spheres Park in Podubravlje, Bosnia. (Photo by Christoffer Kindmark.)
As a comparison, we can look at the weight of other ancient stone balls found around the planet. The largest stone balls in Costa Rica (made out of a granodiorite, a mineral composite that reaches a 6 on the hardness scale) reach a top weight of 16 tons (article in Spanish). In western Mexico, near a town called Ahualulco, volcanic stone balls reach a weight of 35 tons, according to official on-site information.
Visiting Stone Spheres Park near Zavidovici, Bosnia
Question: How often does Dr. Sam Osmanagich personally take groups by luxury tour bus from the Sarajevo starting point to see Stone Spheres Park?
Answer: Dr. Osmanagich takes three groups per year, with 50 to 70 people in each group.
Question: What was the total number of Archaeological Park Foundation bus trips made from Saravejo in 2015 and 2016, with or without Dr. Osmanagich as tour guide?
Answer: Fifteen trips in 2015, and nine trips so far in 2016.
Question: Will the trip to Stone Spheres Park continue to be part of the Volunteering with Expeditions package in 2017?
Answer: Yes, it’s part of the Adventure package.
Question: How much does it cost a regular tourist (non-volunteer) to take the Stone Spheres Park tour by bus from Sarajevo?
Answer: Twenty-five euros.
A Bosnian Moratorium
If a giant ancient alien spaceship were discovered buried in the šuma (forests) of Bosnia, would Archaeology magazine cover the story?
Archaeology magazine has had a bizarre, indeed chilling, moratorium on Bosnian archaeology beginning a little more than one year after Dr. Sam Osmanagich discovered ancient pyramids in Visoko, Bosnia.
Bird’s-eye view photos of the Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids taken from a DJI Phantom quadcopter (aka microlight drone) by Andre de Smet, September 9, 2014.
Could there be some ideological (or other) agenda on the part of Archaeology magazine that we’re not aware of?
If you visit Archaeology magazine’s official site, http://www.archaeology.org/ and type “bosnia” into the Search box, your results will include Bosnia-related articles only from 2005 and 2006 — all of which stridently and vociferously deny the possibility of the existence of pyramids in Bosnia. (One can also perform a Google search for “archaeology magazine” bosnia.)
Please note that no one at Archaeology magazine has ever published a statement to the effect of, “Further excavation in Visoko needs to be done for scientists to know the truth about the structures in Visoko, Bosnia.” Instead, Archaeology magazine’s reaction was 1) immediate and 2) negative. Should a science magazine declare an absolute negative before significant excavation has been performed?
Excavated inclined structural stone terrace on the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon. (Photo taken by Jock Doubleday on December 4, 2014. More photos from the Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon here.)
The only mention by Archaeology magazine of Bosnian archaeology after 2006 is a two-line mention in October 2008: “Businessman Semir Osmanagic continues to dig up Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in search of pyramids, ‘despite ridicule.’ University of Sarajevo archaeologist Enver Imamovic likens Osmanagic’s project to ‘letting me . . . perform surgery.'”
Shawn Rateau examines an ancient artificial construction concrete slab excavated by volunteers on the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun in the Bosnian Pyramid Complex. (Photo taken by Jock Doubleday in Visoko, Bosnia on August 7, 2015. More photos here.)
In 7 years of Facebook postings, Archaeology magazine has failed to mention Bosnia once. (Neighboring Croatia has six mentions for four separate articles.)
Archaeology magazine’s Facebook page hasn’t mentioned Bosnia once in seven years.
A study of eleven years of Archaeology magazine articles allows us to conclude that Archaeology magazine editors, specifically Editor-in-Chief Claudia Valentino and Executive Editor Jarrett A. Lobell, perhaps at the behest of unknown persons, have attempted (and, thankfully, failed) to keep the lid on the biggest archaeological discovery of the 21st century: the discovery of gargantuan ancient pyramids and other structures in Bosnia.
It cannot be asserted that Archaeology magazine editors have not been aware of the continuous stream of scientific information emerging from the excavation and study of the Bosnian Pyramid Complex since mid-2005. On October 16, 2011, I emailed a detailed letter to the editor of Archaeology, the full text of which is reproduced here (in a blog titled, “Letter to the Editor of Archaeology Magazine”).
For ten years, Archaeology magazine has ignored not only Bosnian pyramid science but all archaeological discoveries from the country of Bosnia. This astonishing fact — the fact of deliberate silence on the part of the most prestigious print publication representative of mainstream academic archaeology — speaks volumes.
Archaeological Park Foundation volunteers help to excavate the megasphere, the most massive stone of its kind ever discovered, an ancient artificial stone sphere located in Stone Spheres Park in Central Bosnia, September 2016.
A Rejuvenating Science Vs. a Moribund Silence
While the Bosnian megasphere continues to be unearthed and all the ancient spheres in Stone Spheres Park studied — the science surrounding these mysterious objects continually refreshed, replenished, revitalized — Archaeology magazine’s moratorium on Bosnian archaeology gets older, frailer, more rigid, unquestionably morbid.
The halls of archaeological academia have had a dank smell of death about them for decades — while independent researchers not tethered to universities have gone out into the field and made astonishing discovery after astonishing discovery after astonishing discovery.
Around the world, the dry offerings of mainstream archaeology — thin, tasteless orthodoxical wafers — slowly become staler and staler, until one day it will be impossible for anyone of sane mind to even consider consuming them.
Tourists meditate on an ancient stone ball in Stone Spheres Park near Zavidovici, Bosnia, June 21, 2015. (Photo by Jock Doubleday.)
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Bosnian Pyramids enthusiast Vesna Anastasia Bozovic feels the energetic influence of an ancient stone sphere in Stone Spheres Park near Zavidovici, Bosnia, September 2013.
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From the article’s author: One needs an intelligent hand to replace silicon dioxide with a hardening agent and a binder. No one knows who made these spheres, but they are confirmed to be artificial constructions, not natural creations.
Laboratory analysis of similar stone spheres found in the vicinity of the megasphere concluded that the material was slightly different from that of the surrounding stones. The stone spheres had had a hardening agent added (manganese) and a binding agent added (calcium carbonate). Interestingly, the megasphere has a higher concentration of iron than the other spheres in the vicinity in Stone Spheres Park.
“We are the first one who actually analyzed the stone balls. We took traces from four of the stone balls, and one [sample] from the natural stone material. We did chemical and physical analysis. This is what we found out. Nine elements are exactly the same in the case of the stone balls and natural stone. And then one element only the natural stone has: SiO2 silicon dioxide. The stone balls don’t have it. They have two elements instead. One is Manganese [Mn]. Manganese we use today to give the hardness to the material. And the second one is calcium carbonate [CaCO3], a binder. So, our conclusion: The builders of the stone balls were using natural stone, then melting it, adding the additives, to get the extreme hardness, and then pouring into the molds to get this spherical shape. And when they got dry, they got very hard and solid.”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.hr/2015/06/trek-to-stone-spheres-park-in.html
Therefore, we are looking at prehistoric archaeological finds, not geologic accidents.
Jock Doubleday
Author, “The Mysterious Anti-Scientific Agenda of Robert Schoch – Part 1: The Bosnian Pyramid Complex”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.ba/2013/03/the-mysterious-anti-scientific-agenda_455.html
“The Mysterious Anti-Scientific Agenda of Robert Schoch: Part 1 – The Bosnian Pyramid Complex”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.rs/2013/03/the-mysterious-anti-scientific-agenda_455.html
“The Mysterious Anti-Scientific Agenda of Robert Schoch: Part 2 – The Yonaguni Monument 与那国記念碑”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-mysterious-anti-scientific-agenda.html
“Witchcraft Cartography and Clairvoyant Archaeology: A Review of Robert M. Schoch’s ‘Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations'”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.com/2013/03/witchcraft-cartography-and-clairvoyant.html
All of the stone spheres found in Stone Spheres Park in Zavidovici are composed of artificial sandstone – which is to say, sandstone that has been melted and then had extra elements added (see excerpt below) before being formed into spheres.
However, this new larger stone sphere has “high content of iron” – and its chemical makeup is not fully known – according to Dr. Sam Osmanagich on March 24, 2016. Laboratory analysis will be performed on this new stone and results published as soon as possible
Below is an excerpt from a talk by Dr. Sam Osmanagich at Stone Spheres Park in 2015 in which he discusses the chemical makeup of stone spheres found previously.
Dr. Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D. (last year, June 21, 2015): “We did chemical and physical analysis. This is what we found out. Nine elements are exactly the same in the case of the stone balls and natural stone. And then one element only the natural stone has: SiO2 silicon dioxide. The stone balls don’t have it. They have two elements instead. One is Manganese [Mn]. Manganese we use today to give the hardness to the material. And the second one is calcium carbonate [CaCO3], a binder. So, our conclusion: The builders of the stone balls were using natural stone, then melting it, adding the additives, to get the extreme hardness, and then pouring into the molds to get this spherical shape. And when they got dry, they got very hard and solid.”
http://anamericaninbosnia.blogspot.rs/2015/06/trek-to-stone-spheres-park-in.html
Now the question is, why is there a huge hill composed of stone balls that it took modern rainstorm deluges to reveal?
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Take the tank off of the water supply, and then using your wrench, unscrew the tank from its connection to the bowl. The bolts which hold the tank in place can be found at the bottom of the toilet water tank, and if you have difficulty in getting a good grip with your wrench, try placing your screwdriver in the heads of the bolts while the nut is being turned.
Step 3 - Fixing the Tank
Once you have the tank on the floor, you can remove the gasket, which is cone-shaped and at the bottom of the tank. Even if it looks to be in good condition, replace it with a new one. You should also replace the rubber gaskets on the bolts, as these should be replaced every year. You should also look at the washers, and replace any that appear damaged.
Step 4 - Returning the Tank
When this is done, you can return the tank to its rightful position. In positioning the tank over the bowl, make sure that you drop the cone-shaped gasket into the bowl entrance. Replace the bolts, and then screw the nuts tightly into place. Wrap duct tape around the water inlet pipe to prevent leakage, and then make sure that the water hose is also tightened. Reactivate the water supply, and watch the tank filling up. Check for leaks.
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Gross Domestic Product: Private Industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting for United States Metropolitan Portion (NGMPAGRUSMP)
2018: 84,819.842 | Millions of Dollars | Annual | Updated: Dec 12, 2019
2018: 84,819.842 (+ more)
2018: 84,819.842
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Gross Domestic Product: Private Industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting for United States Metropolitan Portion 2016-01-03 2019-12-12
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Industries in the Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting NAICS sector include establishments primarily engaged in growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, harvesting fish and other animals from a farm, ranch or their natural habitats. These establishments are often described as farms, ranches, dairies, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards or hatcheries. The sector includes two basic activities: crop and animal production (farms) and forestry, fishing, and related activities.
Consists of all counties in a state that are parts of metropolitan statistical areas.
For more information about this release go to http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/gdp_metro_newsrelease.htm.
Gross Domestic Product: Private Industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting: Forestry, Fishing, and Related Activities for United States Metropolitan Portion
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TODD GLASSMAN ACHIEVES CHILD REPRESENTATIVE/GUARDIAN AD LITEM DESIGNATION
November 13, 2019 | Category: News Releases
Chicago, IL – Allen & Glassman, Chartered, is pleased to announce that Todd Glassman was recently approved as a Child Representative by the Cook County, Illinois Court System. Child Representatives and/or Guardians Ad Litem (GAL), are attorneys appointed to represent a minor child in a family law case as the eyes and ears of the court and are involved in all court proceedings that have to do with the minor child.
Todd’s efforts only further Allen & Glassman’s mission in helping children and their families through an incredibly difficult stage in their lives,” stated Allen & Glassman Founding Partner, Gemma Allen. “This is one more way in which our firm can make a difference for a child and in a family’s life.”
To the credit of the Honorable Grace Dickler, the Presiding Judge of the Domestic Relations Division, the process in Cook County to become a Child Rep/GAL is a rigorous one. It requires a formal written application to the Chief Judge of the Domestic Relations Division followed by an interview before a committee of other experienced Cook County Child Rep/GAL’s for approval. Following the interview process, the confirmed candidate attends separate training sessions with other experienced Cook County Child Rep/GAL’s. For the court system and the parents, a skilled attorney for a child can have a significant impact on their life. Doing that job well is Todd’s pledge for himself and for the firm.
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All Saints Considered
Year-Round New Orleans Saints Coverage
A Look at the Supplemental Draft
by All Saints Considered Staff
The NFL Supplemental Draft is approaching July 11 of 2018. Most people have heard of it, but may not fully know what it is and how it differs from the annual draft in April. The supplemental draft usually takes place during the summer to offer an opportunity to players who may, for whatever reason, not be eligible to play in to coming season. Differing from the normal draft which has over 200+ players selected; the supplemental draft usually ranges from 0-5 players total. The draft is usually done via email instead of a big venue where phone calls and draft cards are sent in. Usually no big name players are involved, but Josh Gordon found his way into the draft and made himself an effective weapon for the Browns. This year there are 5 prospects that have draft potential. 3 being defensive backs; Adonis Alexander, Sam Beal, and Brandon Bryant. 1 an OLB, Bright Ugwoegbu and, the most recent, Martayveus Carter, RB.
Adonis Alexander is an ACC cornerback out of Virginia Tech. He is hard to miss at 6’3 209 pounds. He was ruled academically ineligible, and got in trouble for marijuana possession. These are 2 red flags that the scouts are doing there homework on as we speak. 3 years of playing allowed him to harvest 125 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 17 pass breakups, and 7 interceptions. Not terrible stats, but in my opinion the tape is always where you find the true story about a player. He is fun to watch because of his size (go figure). He may be limited initially versus smaller and quicker receivers, but he does specialize in playing physical which is great for throwing off offensive timing, and setting the tone. He ran a 4.60 at his pro day which may have hurt his stock a little bit, but if teams like his game film and feel comfortable with his red flags, then he may get selected. He has been projected 4th round or later.
Sam Beal another cornerback out of Western Michigan also had the academic ineligibility tag. He checks off the size box as well at 6’1 190 pounds. He is estimated to have a forty time in the 4.45-4.50 range, which is good enough to compete. He was picked 1st team All MAC by Pro Football Focus which is encouraging. Also encouraging is he got plenty of quality reps versus Titans receiver Corey Davis when they where teammates in college. Corey was a top 10 draft pick with a huge ceiling. Sam corralled 2 interceptions and 10 pass breakups for the 2017 season. Some people may see those stats as bad, but if he is good enough to where quarterbacks don’t want to test him, then he has done his job already. He has shown projections of round 3 or later which says he may be pretty good.
Brandon Bryant of Mississippi State is the 3rd defensive back prospect that has a chance to get picked. He is the safety of the group measuring 5’11 200 points. He was reported to run a 4.24 forty at some point. I am not sure who timed him or how official the timing was, but if I ran that fast, I would rob a bank without a car (joke). He ended up running a 4.45 time at his pre-draft workout which is still above average for his position. You cannot deny him of facing bad competition coming from the SEC. He is projected in the later rounds to going unpicked, which would result in him becoming a free agent and being able to choose his destiny.
Updated June 30 1:23 AM: Oregon State OLB Bright Ugwoegbu has declared for the supplemental draft.
A tardy addition to the supplemental draft is weakside linebacker Bright Ugwoegbu of Oregon State. He was suspended by the team this past April of 2018. In his recent workout Bright measured 6’1 205 pounds. He also ran a 40 yard dash time of 4.97. Being the size of a defensive back and running at lineman speed is alarming, but I have never been one to look exclusively at measurement. Film tells the story in my opinion. If you run a 7 flat 40 time but still rack up tackles for loss then I won’t question your ability. I would anticipate him going undrafted, but probably will still get a look as a free agent. All he needs is an opportunity, even if it is just on special teams.
Updated June 30 9:50 AM: Grand Valley State RB Marty Carter has declared for the supplemental draft
Grand Valley State, known as a small town school has a few players in the league including Charles Johnson, Brandon Carr, and Matt Judon. Most notably in New Orleans though, it’s the alma mater of former Saints Guard Tim Lelito. Martayveus “Marty” Carter is the next in line with an opportunity to make the jump. His school website lists him at 6’0 200 pounds which is not bad at al for a running back. His 2016 season was really good as far as stats go. He lead Division II football by accumulating 1,908 rushing and 20 touchdowns. He also earned National Offensive Player of the Year honors which will help get the attention of teams. His workout numbers aren’t known as of right now, but I wouldn’t worry about them too much. The brief tape I watched of him, I thought he had a similar running style and build to Clinton Portis. Not saying he will be as good, just trying paint a small picture of how he looks. If he gets drafted it will probably be later, but he will get looked at regardless.
The supplemental draft has 5 players who may not have 1st round grades, but all of them have potential none the less. The Saints could use one if they feel comfortable with them now, and how they may develop with good coaching. Depth and special teams are always a need. In a league that is passing more and more you can never have too many good defensive backs. All Saints fans know injuries can happen at the worst times (knock on wood). Like I said, the game film, not highlights tells the story of a player, so see if you can find some for these guys. If we select a player, whatever round we pick them, than the pick is lost in the next year draft; so keep your eyes peeled on July 11.
if you want more info on the supplemental draft, you can check out Bob Rose’s article here.
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Open-source Big Compute for Life Sciences
Felipe Ayora Sr. Program Manager, Azure Compute
In collaboration with Dr. Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect and Tech Manager, Microsoft Research.
The amazing rate of scientific progress is increasingly enabled by advances in big data and big compute technology. We at Microsoft are excited to be working with the global scientific community to make the best use of cloud computing through our Azure for Research program. Everyday we’re learning how researchers across all domains, such as computer science, engineering, and life sciences, are able to accelerate their projects’ progress with the cloud.
Genetics, genomics and life on Earth
Some of the most profound developments in science are centered on harnessing our knowledge of genetics; changing the way we think about biology, medicine and all living things. By mapping genomes through DNA sequencing techniques and bioinformatics, we are making huge strides in our understanding and exploitation of genetics. The cost of gene sequencing is falling faster than Moore’s Law, meaning we can gather more genomic data at a faster rate than ever before, but having access to more data is only half the story. More data means more storage, processing and analysis; often it’s difficult to keep up with the computing power needed. We’ve been working with genomics researchers around the world, and the experiences of Simon O’Hanlon and Professor Matthew Fisher at Imperial College London are typical of how Azure Big Compute can help with this bioinformatics computing challenge.
The Challenge: Hunting a serial killer using next-generation sequencing
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a technique that massively parallelizes the process for obtaining genetic data. The current, most popular approach to NGS is to perform ‘sequencing by synthesis’, which is a slow but ‘embarrassingly parallel’ process. Typically researchers split genomic DNA into small fragments (tens to hundreds of nucleotides long) and sequence between millions and billions of these pieces simultaneously. This process can take several days but produces a very large amount of sequence data.
NGS is transforming work in biological sciences but poses significant computational challenges. Azure is helping researchers to speed-up their NGS pipelines, from working towards a cure for cancer to diagnosing rare diseases. In addition to well-known threats to human health there are many diseases that originate from other animal species first. It’s critical that we understand this ‘zoonotic pool’ of pathogens that may transfer from animals to humans, to prevent future outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola, Bird Flu and BSE (mad cow disease). One of the most virulent pathogens for vertebrates is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungal infection that causes chytridiomycosis in amphibians. Bd has been shown to infect over 500 species of amphibians, and is responsible for the decline or extinction of over 200 of these. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) declared in 2005 that chytridiomycosis, "is the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates in terms of the number of species impacted, and its propensity to drive them to extinction."
Matthew and Simon at Imperial College London are at the frontline of combatting this severe amphibian threat. They are using NGS to understand the origins and spread of Bd, and require large amounts of computing power to do this. While NGS is fast, it produces an overwhelming amount of data of varying quality. The small fragments of DNA sequenced by NGS machines must first be reassembled into a complete genome in a process analogous to piecing together a very large jigsaw. There are a bewildering array of evolutionary and environmental processes which may affect rates of genetic change and advanced techniques such as machine learning are needed to make most sense of it. Traditionally, bioinformaticians have used on-premises computing to number-crunch and search their sequences, but NGS means it is becoming harder to match local computing capability with the deluge of data coming from the sequencing machines, as Simon explains,
“At Imperial we are lucky enough to have access to some great computational resources at both Institutional level and departmental level. Our departmental cluster is powerful and runs Windows which works out fantastic for those people whose toolchains are written for that environment, but we needed a more Linux-centric solution as many of our tools are Unix-based. The central HPC service is great, but there are limits on computational resources, and of course time spent queuing jobs to be run when there are many concurrent users.”
The Contender: Azure Big Compute for open-source solutions
There are thousands of researchers around the world working on genomics, creating a rich ecosystem of tools and technologies to choose from. Most of these use open-source frameworks leveraging Linux and are used on everything from a laptop to a supercomputer. Teams such as Matthew’s have access to many University compute resources, but the everyday experience with these is not always ideal. Azure Big Compute provides two major advantages: Powerful Virtual Machines and no waiting.
Azure’s powerful A11 compute instances, with 16 fast cores and 112GB of RAM, give Simon a real boost to run through his genomics processing pipeline. Having instant access to a personal Azure cluster with 256 or more cores, means he is able to be in full control of his work, as he explains:
“Azure for me was perfect. I could scale my compute capability with my current computational needs. What is also great is that as we didn’t have to outlay any capital investment in a particular architecture I could also change up the physical makeup of my cluster as required. For instance, for some problems I might need nodes with large amounts of RAM and processors (such as Azure A11). At other times I might need faster SSD storage and faster interconnects between nodes on my cluster. I can do all this from the Azure web portal or more usually, programmatically using the Azure command line tools. I can set up a whole new cluster with just a few lines of script code. Once I had set up my cluster it was easy to run a few short scripts to set up an open source Grid Engine job scheduler to distribute computational jobs across my cluster. The best thing about having your own cluster though, is of course no wait times in queues!”
The Solution: A genomics time machine, doing a week’s work in an afternoon
Simon is used to running his computations from the command-line, so he was quickly able to make use of Azure without changing his working habits. The Linux Command-Line Interface (CLI) enabled him to easily setup and manage virtual machines that he could configure for his workflow. This included setting up the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) on Azure for variant calling, and coupling this with RaxML for maximum likelihood calculations. Simon then installed Grid Engine on his cluster of Ubuntu 14.04 Azure VMs to manage his job runs to make use of MPI and OpenMP across A11 compute nodes.
“Using Azure VMs allowed me to port my workflow directly from my local setup at Imperial straight into the cloud, with almost no tweaking required. The Azure command line tools are also great. They really helped manage the workflow for both cluster setup and subsequent management. Since cluster use is billed per minute its essential to have great tools to spin up and shut down your resources efficiently, simply and reliably. You are of course also admin on your cluster which gave me ultimate flexibility to instantly install and update whatever tools and software I needed, or just wanted to test out. I could organize my workflow and environment in a way that was right for me."
On the surface of it, this setup looks pretty similar to what was already available, and THAT is the point. Simon was able to easily recreate his complex working environment in Azure using familiar open-source tools and without re-architecting it. With this in place he now has access to huge amounts of computing that is, importantly, available on-demand.
For his latest set of genome sequencing data, Simon was able to reduce his time to solution from a week to an afternoon!
For many researchers, the runtime on the cluster can be fast, but waiting in a queue is not only time-consuming, but also unpredictable. Azure Big Compute provides a compelling combination of fast, big memory VMs and no queuing, making it a huge time-saver for researchers.
This is a great example showing how adept Azure is for running compute-intensive Linux and OSS workloads. It shows how some of the biggest and most complex processes can be easily moved to the cloud, to take advantage of bigger VMs and on-demand scalability. The experience of doing this was even smoother than might be imagined, with Azure truly becoming an extension of the desktop, seamlessly supporting standard OSS software stacks.
When Big Compute was launched we coupled fast processors and big memory, with Infiniband QDR low-latency, high-bandwidth network interconnect. Subsequently we have found that users like Simon and Matthew want powerful compute instances, but are happy to use standard Gigabit Ethernet networking. It’s nice to see that the A10 and A11 instances can accelerate these complex workloads beyond what is possible otherwise.
Some final words
We’ve loved working with Simon and Matthew to see how Azure could help them. So we want to hear from you about how your workloads can be accelerated with Azure. Both the Big Compute team, and we here in Microsoft Research, are here to support you. For Simon, finishing a week’s work in an afternoon is great, and scaling that up means running a year’s worth of computing in less than a month. Just imagine how that kind of speed-up can help you.
To learn more about Big Compute solutions on Azure, see:
Big Compute: HPC and Batch
About the A8, A9, A10, and A11 compute-intensive instances
To learn more about Linux and OSS on Azure, see:
Linux and open-source computing on Azure
To learn more about Azure for Research, see:
Microsoft Azure for Research
To learn more about Genomics at Microsoft, see:
Our GitHub Repository
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New York Yankees Need To Go Full Bore To Start 2016: Seek Reinforcements Midway Through If Need Be
The Yankees were almost flawless in their 1st 33 games to start the 2015 campaign. Quick starts by Teixeira and A-Rod fueled the offense, while Miller and Betances did not yield a run in this stretch either. Pineda was 5 – 0, Tanaka was healthy, and their duo of Ellsbury and Gardner were hitting north of .300. The club was able to coast for the last 129 games of the year when injuries and age caught up to them. Considering they spent no real money in the winter, they should go for bore early in the season, and then bring in a boatload of people late via trade to compensate for injuries that will probably occur to their roster.
On May.11, 2015 – the New York Yankees had just finished an 11 – 5 drubbing of the Tampa Bay Rays – and this led to a record of 21 – 12 to start their first 33 games. It would be important on so many levels in completing the campaign.
You see – in the next 129 games the club would go just 66 – 63 to secure the 1st Wild Card Berth.
Mark Teixeira had clubbed 11 HRs over the wall with 27 RBI. Alex Rodriguez had 8 big fly’s with many of them giving the Bronx Bombers a shot in the arm for victory.
Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances both had not yielded a run to that point. Michael Pineda was a brilliant 5 – 0, and that was about the time that Masahiro Tanaka began having health issues.
You throw in Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner both hitting well over .300 – and it was easy to see how the Pinstripers had taken off to a great start. Read the rest of this entry →
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New York Yankees State Of The Union For 2016
The 2015 New York Yankees started off extremely strong at 21 – 12, before they finished the last 129 Games at just 66 – 63. With surprising years from Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira, the club still made the Wild Card Game with 87 wins. The club has done a couple of nice winter moves in picking up Starlin Castro and Aaron Hicks for backup players, however the Bullpen is weaker, and the Starting Rotation has many health concerns. New York will need to address those before the season opener.
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Okay so one of the things that happens when you own a website is you lose some of the hardcore enthusiasm for the team you love the most. This is my story with he Yankees. Don’t get me wrong, they are still my favorite club, it is just I cover all 30 MLB teams a lot more than I used to.
Having said this, I have been railing on the Yankees for a long time on how they have conducted themselves. I traced it back to 2014, when they could have rest the Luxury Tax Threshold by trading Ichiro Suzuki, Hiroki Kuroda and Brett Gardner at the Deadline.
Instead, the club went for a half ass attempt to make the playoffs with Derek Jeter in his last season as Shortstop.
I do give Brian Cashman some credit in 2015 for the club making the postseason. I maintain that his building of the team was still flawed.
Bullpen withstanding, he has known his Starting Pitching situation has been in health peril since Masahiro Tanaka was diagnosed with a UCL injury in July of 2014.
Joe Girardi squeezed every ounce of the Veteran Lineup that he could last year. Who would have predicted the squad would have had 30+ Homer years from Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira?
That helped the club jump out to a fantastic start, and then coasted with a .500 record for the last 4 plus months to the 1st playoff Wild Card spot. They lost to the Houston Astros in that game at Yankee Stadium.
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Bay Heritage Consultants Wellington
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Cultural Landscapes v Development
Posted by Elizabeth Cox on June 10, 2016 June 14, 2016
A recent Environment Court ruling seems to me to have the potential to have a real chilling effect on the effectiveness of the ability of Heritage New Zealand to protect heritage places of importance to Maori.
The case was about a site in Taranaki which Greymouth Petroleum wants to dig up for oil at its Kowhai D site in the Waitara Valley in north Taranaki. The local Te Atiawa hapu, Otaraua, objected to the drilling, saying that the site was the burial ground of Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake, Te Atiawa leader, principal chief at Waitara in the lead up to the Taranaki Wars – surely one of the most important men in 19th century New Zealand history.
As part of the project, the company wanted to establish a oil well site, access way and an underground pipeline in the area. Evidence was given by an hapu member that the site was Kingi’s secret burial site, based on information he had been given by his grandfather before he died. Heritage New Zealand said the land was an important wider cultural landscape of significance to Maori, and so declined permission to dig, under the archaeological provisions of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014. However, the Environment Court stated that in fact the Act only allows the orgnisation to investigate the implications of the drilling on any archaeological sites physically affected, not on the wider landscape. It also argued that the processes followed by the organisation were not robust.
Oral history vs. written history
The Court also went on to determine that, although the Otaraua hapu honestly believed that the evidence it had given was true, it did not agree, in the face of written evidence about his burial site, that the oral evidence was true. The Court also said that even if it was was true, that the distance of the burial site from Kowhai D meant that it was not appropriate to decline the archaeological authority.
The Environment Court has ordered that Heritage New Zealand pay court costs of $110,000 to the oil company, which is an extraordinary amount of money to pay for a small and cash-strapped Crown Entity, with so many calls on its resources. I can only imagine the concern of the Board of Heritage New Zealand – how is the organisation to continue to make decisions in the face of development proposals if costs are going to be awarded against it in this way?
See further: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80041499/environment-court-awards-oil-company-more-than-110k-in-costs
Images: Possibly Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake. Unknown photographer, Ref: 1/2-022668-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22677852; Main image: nearby Kowhai C well, Tikorangi, from Abbie Jury’s website http://www.jury.co.nz
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Spin-off: Ambassadors for Moon
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Daily Telegraph Highlights Exorcism Course In Rome
Posted on May 11, 2014 by Richard Bartholomew
The Daily Telegraph reports on a course in Rome that
…aims to train about 200 Roman Catholic priests from more than 30 countries in how to cast out evil from people who believe themselves to be in thrall to the Devil.
The conference, “Exorcism and Prayers of Liberation”, has also attracted psychiatrists, sociologists, doctors and criminologists in what the Church called a “multi-disciplinary” approach to exorcisms.
Giuseppe Ferrari, from GRIS, a Catholic research group that organised the conference, said there was an ever growing need for priests to be trained to perform exorcisms because of the increasing number of lay people tempted to dabble in black magic, paganism and the occult.
This is barely news: the course has been running for nine years. Matt Baglio’s The Rite: The Making of a Modern-Day Exorcist (2009) has the background:
According to Doctor Ferrari, the idea came about in 2003 when he met with a priest from the diocese of Imola who told him that a growing number of his fellow clerics were being inundated by parishoners suffering from problems related to the occult…
Ferrari decided there was a need for a university-level course that would cover “a wide variety of historical, theological, sociological, and medical topics, in order to go beyond the superficial and sensationalist aspect of of exorcism.” One wonders what Ferrari will make of the Daily Telegraph‘s take, which is illustrated by a ludicrous and grotesque cartoon apparition of the devil as drawn by George Cruikshank.
Baglio adds that Fr Paolo Scarafoni arranged for the course to be held at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, which is run by the (scandal-plagued) Legionaries of Christ. The course’s website shows that registration is through the university’s Istituto Sacerdos, which is turn “a program of Mission Network, Inc.”
GRIS, meanwhile, stands for Gruppo di Ricerca e Informazione Socio-Religiosa. As well as the exorcism course, it is also currently advertising a one-day conference in collaboration with the Bar Council of Acqui Terme on “Satanism, magic and destructive cults.”
However, GRIS and Ferrari are controversial; I noted one critical source in 2005, which claimed that
…on January 1997… L’Osservatore Romano (the official Vatican daily paper) started to publish a series of articles about the dangers of Satanism. This series was edited by Giuseppe Ferrari, the president of the GRIS. Ferrari himself wrote the first piece, titled ‘The Phenomenon Of Satanism In The Contemporary Society’. He described Satanism as an absolute emergency, drawing alarmist conclusions from a hopeless mess of rumours, cliches and urban myths. No specific examples, no precedents, no statistics. Moreover, Ferrari extended to excess the definition of ‘Satanism’, including ‘other groups that do not intend to present themselves as Satanists and, for example, claim to practice pagan rituals in order to harmonize with the occult powers of nature. As a matter of fact, these groups are suspect and we can include them in the multi-form world of Satanism’. Such a mysterious sentence was aimed at accusing a whole constellation of various movements, cults and philosophies.
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nino, on May 12, 2014 at 10:47 am said:
Until recently the official position of the Church has been that satanic possession is extremely rare and other factors have to be seriously considered first such as the physical and mental health of a person or even fraud. Sadly since the “saitnly” reign of John Paul II a large number of fundamentalist and fanatical cults have grown in Italy involving apparitions of Madonnas and frequent exorcisms at the rate of at least every five minutes during their meetings. I think the Vatican now wishes to give credence to these fraudulent cults mostly because they attract large numbers of people and gather tons of dosh. Something about bread butter and side perhaps and rationality and caution is handily thrown out of the window.
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Study: How to give up your cake and eat it too
A new study shows how reciprocal generosity can benefit you.
Researchers studied what people do when distributing items of unequal value.
You may be more likely to get the item you want if you let the other person decide.
Reciprocal generosity can let you "give up your cake and eat it too".
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Take it or leave it: How to control a negotiation like a game theorist
Negotiation looks on the outside to be extremely difficult. But if you're confident enough to have some patience from the outset, it's as simple as telling the other person to "take it or leave it."
Kevin Zollman
If you want to be an expert negotiator — or even a savvy game theorist — you must master one thing. Patience. Kevin Zollman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the leading game theorists in America today, offers us some insight into how to gain the upper hand when it comes to negotiating. Game theory comes in handy in many facets of life, from buying a car to asking for a raise. Zollman even goes as far to tell us not only how to attain negotiating power but how to sustain it, by simply telling the other other party to "take it or leave it." Kevin Zollman and Paul Raeburn are the authors of The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids.
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How to win a negotiation? Decode the subtext of people’s demands
Haggling over a number? That's a terrible way for people to negotiate, says Harvard International Negotiation Project head honcho Dan Shapiro.
Dan Shapiro
Negotiation is part of life. Whether we're talking about something as grandiose as healthcare or as personal as buying a car, we often spend the vast majority of the negotiation process haggling over the numbers. This is often a bad way to look at it, says Dan Shapiro. And he should know: he's head of the Harvard International Negotiation Project and knows an awful lot about getting two opposing sides to see eye to eye. So what's the best way to do so? Perhaps talking about why each party wants what they want and negotiating from there. When polarized debates come to a head over "use vs them" mentalities, looking at it from this angle—i.e. the nuts and bolts of a position and less so the end result—can humanize each side to the other. Dan Shapiro's latest book is Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts.
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Become a Smarter Negotiator By Using Prospect Theory
Want to make someone an offer they can't refuse? Understand how our minds are hung up on loss aversion, says former FBI negotiator Chris Voss.
In 2002, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky won the Nobel Prize in Economics for a behavioral theory they created and refined between 1979 and 1992: prospect theory. It explained how people weigh up risks in decision making, and part of its findings revealed that we are inherently loss averse, meaning we give at least twice as much decision-making weight to the idea of losses than gains. Losing $5, explains former FBI negotiator Chris Voss, feels like losing $10, and the prospect of gaining $5 will feel joyless coompared to the fear of losing $5. This can be leveraged in negotiations simply by pointing out what is going to be lost if a deal isn’t made, or something isn’t done. The "crazy mathematics" we do in our heads isn’t rational, but understanding it will give you an upper hand in your next negotiation. Chris Voss's book is Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended On It.
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2.0: Rajinikanth & Mahesh Babu to come together but with a difference!
Neena Gupta to play Akshay Kumar’s mother in Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi!
Miss World Manushi Chhillar to make her debut with Akshay Kumar’s Prithviraj Chauhan biopic!
Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu will soon inaugurate his multiplex AMB Cinemas in association with Asian cinemas in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. The multiplex was reportedly said to be opened with Aamir Khan’s Thugs of Hindostan. Now, according to the latest news, the first movie to be screened at the multiplex will be Rajnikanth’s much anticipated science fiction 2.0.
As per a source which was quoted saying to a daily, “At the moment, Mahesh Babu is a creative partner in the project. AMB is a one-off partnership-project between Mahesh Babu and Asian Cinemas. But if the multiplex is a success, Mahesh Babu is open to further partnerships in the movie-theatre business. However at the moment, the AMB multiplex is a one-off project. Though it’s being reported that Mahesh Babu is looking at expanding in the multiplex business, this not the truth at the moment.”
It is also said that ANB Cineplex is looking at a “premium placement” among movie theaters in Hyderabad. Talking about it, the source added, “Mahesh Babu’s fans should feel they are in for a special treat when they come to AMB.”
For 2.0, Mahesh will personally invite Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar at the theater.
Stick to this space for the latest updates!
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Shah Rukh Khan reveals how Abram reacted to the Zero trailer and it’s too cute!
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Kindling Flames Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
From the best-selling author of Kindling Flames, comes a boxed set of the first 3 full-length Kindling Flames books. This boxed set includes exclusive bonus content and offers the reader a discount over purchasing each novel individually.
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The Ancient Fire Series (Also known as the Kindling Flames Novels) is a paranormal romance saga with over 2,300 five-star reviews on Goodreads. Dive into a series filled with sexy vampires, werewolves, shifters, Fae folk, and more. Science fiction and urban fantasy romance lovers unite because this series has seven exciting books that readers have compared to other popular vampire romance novels such as: A Shade of Vampire Series by Bella Forest, the Immortals After Dark Series by Kresley Cole, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (True Blood) by Charlaine Harris, The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, and The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward.
BOOK ONE-
Kindling Flames: Gathering Tinder
After landing a job as assistant to a handsome CEO, Victoria Westernly feels like her life is finally on the right track. But when she discovers her new boss is the city's most powerful vampire, she'll have to decide whether her attraction to him is worth the risk…
BOOK TWO-
Kindling Flames: Flying Sparks
When Vicky becomes the target of a serial arsonist plaguing the city, Darien calls on the supernatural community to help. Pulling the creatures of the night together to cooperate on any project is troublesome at the best of times. The fact that the one responsible for the city's woes is a being of fire and magic leads the reluctant groups to a truce that makes Vicky start to think that her job might be a bit more than one normal human can handle.
BOOK THREE-
Kindling Flames: Smoke Rising
Is there such a thing as a normal life when you live with an ancient vampire and a temperamental hellhound? Victoria Westernly was just starting to think so. With Samhain just around the corner and the promise of a Halloween Ball, her life was looking good. Even the addition of a new master vampire couldn't bring her down. When Victoria and Darien become the victims of a series of unfortunate accidents, they know something's up. Where there's smoke, there's fire. But, the question is… who is burning what?
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Gone fishing, polar bears hit the ice
By Aura Carlson
Courtesy of Jane Chang
CATCH OF THE DAY: Jane Chang ’20 holds a freshly caught bass.
Last Saturday, a group of 12 Bowdoin students went to six-mile-long Pleasant Pond in Litchfield, Maine to go ice fishing. This is no Outing Club or official club trip; just a bunch of students who love to fish. Though some of the anglers prefer fly fishing or spin fishing, ice fishing is their go-to weekend activity during the winter.
Pleasant Pond is the ice fishers’ favorite place to go and less than 30 minutes from campus. It’s typical to spend around four to five hours on the ice, but smaller trips are offered, too, that last approximately three hours.
Jane Chang ’20 and Kenny Lamm ’20, both avid fishermen, praise the guidance and support of Macauley Lord ’77—self-proclaimed “fish-crazed Bowdoin alum” and previous department head at L.L. Bean for fly fishing. In 2012, Lord received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of Fly Fishers—the highest distinction in the fly casting world.
Chang says the alumnus often sends out emails to a big list of Bowdoin students inviting them to go fishing and bringing them to the best spots.
“You can even see him at Thorne eating dinner with students sometimes,” Chang said. “He’s a really generous guy and he loves to teach people. Ice fishing is made possible because of him,” added Lamm.
Lamm has been ice fishing since seventh grade and admits that, while it can be boring sometimes, there’s more to the sport than what meets the eye.
“It’s surprisingly social,” said Lamm. “All you’re doing is sitting there in the freezing cold and just talk[ing] to people.”
Students ice fish either by using a jig—a flexible fishing pole about 18 inches long—or tip ups.
“Tip ups are basically traps, and when the fish takes the bait and starts pulling the line, the flag will pop-up,” Lamm said.
Since tip ups do not need individual supervision, students set up as many as 50 at a time to improve their chances.
“There’s this huge rush of excitement [when a flag pops up],” Chang said. “Everyone’s running up to the flag to see what they caught. It could be something really cool, like a pike which has super sharp teeth and are pretty big, or it could be a perch or a bass.”
The most common fish students catch is the panfish, a narrow fish that resembles a plate. Sometimes they catch larger and rarer fish such as the largemouth bass, perch and the smallmouth bass. While most of the trips are catch and release, the students occasionally have a good haul and celebrate with a big fish fry.
“They’re pretty small so you can fry them pretty fast,” Lamm said.
The first time Lamm went fishing at Bowdoin he caught a six-pound largemouth bass.
“We didn’t know it was going to be a bass because it was pulling so hard,” Lamm said. “Luckily we were using the hole that was 10 inches wide. The standard is usually six to eight inches, so if it had been six inches the fish wouldn’t have fit through because it was so big and thick.”
However amidst all the fun, the danger of falling through the ice is real in the Northeast. Lake and pond ice conditions are typically safe for use in January, but Lamm pointed out that ice fishing season can begin even earlier in parts of Maine.
“As long as the ice is thick enough, you can go whenever you want,” Lamm said. “They say four inches is necessary for walking. The thing that’s dangerous though is it could be four inches where you are standing but a foot away it could be two inches and you have no idea. Ideally you should have at least six inches of ice to be safe.”
Lamm and Chang love the sport and introducing newcomers to it. Unlike fly or spin fishing, it has few technical aspects that could prevent students with no experience from joining. In the last few months of winter, the group hopes to expand its membership and encourage fishing across campus.
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Out of Her Depth (audiobook)
Indiana housewife Wynne Seally is determined to put her life back together after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Traveling alone to Aruba and learning to scuba dive seem like big steps in that direction. However, Wynne plunges in over her head when an underwater discovery turns out to be a clue in a high-profile murder case. With the help of handsome insurance investigator Ronan Gale, she soon finds herself embroiled in unraveling clues that could set an accused man free...or get her killed.
“No fear” was her new motto. But she never expected to be targeted for murder. Indiana housewife Wynne Seally is determined to put her life back together after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Traveling alone to Aruba and learning to scuba dive seem like big steps in that direction. However, Wynne plunges in over her head when an underwater discovery turns out to be a clue in a high-profile murder case. With the help of handsome insurance investigator Ronan Gale, she soon finds herself embroiled in unraveling clues that could set an accused man free…or get her killed.
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Bits | Facebook Readies Timeline Takeover
Facebook Readies Timeline Takeover
By Jenna Wortham
January 24, 2012 5:54 pm January 24, 2012 5:54 pm
Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would begin the global rollout of Timeline, a profile-page makeover that displays a user’s entire history of photos, links and other things shared on Facebook in chronological order, making them accessible with a single click.
Until now, the feature has only been available to a limited number of users. But Paul McDonald, an engineer at Facebook, said in a blog post that within the next few weeks, all of the site’s 800 million members would have access to the new layout. And soon, switching over will be mandatory for all users.
“When you get Timeline, you’ll have seven days to preview what’s there now,” Mr. McDonald said. “This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it.”
Already, some users are balking at the company’s move.
On Twitter, a user named Niki Kaplan wrote: “Booooooo I don’t want to be forced to getting the Timeline on Facebook.” Sidra Rizvi, another Twitter user, called the upgrade a “stupid idea.”
On Facebook, a member by the name of Beth Niquette wrote in a comment on Facebook’s blog post: “Timeline is a messy, cluttered set up. It bothers my eyes. I wish you had given us a choice between the old set up and this new one. Why you would make these changes, when there is so much objection, is anyone’s guess.”
The tone of the reactions, given the history of Facebook, is not a surprise. Many of Facebook’s major site shuffles, including the introduction of the now-iconic News Feed and, most recently, a news ticker that tries to pick the most important updates and stories to show each user on logging in, have been met with frustration and resistance from the site’s users. Last summer, unrest stemming from adjustments to Facebook’s privacy settings drove some users to quit or deactivate their accounts.
But will these changes, the largest site-wide redesign in the company’s history, bring on the same response?
Many early responses to and reviews of the new format have been favorable. Gizmodo, a technology blog, called the revamped look of the site “beautiful.”
Readers, share your thoughts in the comments section below. Are you dreading the new layout? Or have you already turned on Timeline?
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Border Country Melanie Friend
Melanie Friend began work on Border Country in 2003. Since then, more than 25,000 individuals per year have been held for some period in immigration detention in the UK. Over this time, male detainees have comprised approximately 85% of the immigration detainee population in the UK and the vast majority of interviewees in Border Country are male.
Friend photographed in eight Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) in England: Dover, Colnbrook and Harmondsworth (near Heathrow), Lindholme (near Doncaster), Tinsley House (near Gatwick), Campsfield House (near Oxford), Yarl’s Wood (near Bedford) and Haslar (near Portsmouth). Although Friend was eventually given permission to photograph visits rooms in all eight IRCs, the religious spaces at Dover and some landscapes, she was not given access to detainees’ living quarters.
In his essay for the publication which accompanied the exhibition, Mark Durden stated ‘In Border Country, Melanie Friend gives us the voices of people without any home or belonging, trapped within an inhumane system they cannot fully understand. The act of listening to those caught waiting, uncertain of their future — deportation or asylum — breaks the silence and invisibility surrounding these centres and those who are kept inside.’
Publication Border Country
The publication Border Country includes 19 images, essays by Mark Durden, Alex Hall and Melanie Friend and the complete exhibition soundtrack (75 mins.) on an audio CD. It is co-published by Belfast Exposed Photography and The Winchester Gallery.
Visit www.melaniefriend.com for more info.
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Home News Here Are All the 5G Supported Regions Across the World
Here Are All the 5G Supported Regions Across the World
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5G is the new buzzword in the tech industry. Smartphone brands are adding support for 5G in their smartphones to be future-ready and major countries are striving to implement 5G on a large scale as soon as possible. With that said, have you ever wondered how far the connectivity of 5G has reached so far?
Well, you have come to the right place. Popular internet speed test platform Ookla has added a 5G Map on its website to list all the regions where 5G has gained support.
“The interactive Ookla 5G Map tracks 5G rollouts in cities across the globe. Updated weekly from verified public sources and Ookla data”, states Ookla on its website.
At the time of writing this article, Ookla’s 5G map lists 1444 5G deployments from 95 5G operators across the globe. These deployments are further classified into “Commercial Availability”, “Limited Availability”, and “Pre-Release.
The website allows you to filter these deployments so that you can easily find the commercial 5G deployments in and around your region. Cool, right?
Notably, 1250 of the 1444 5G deployments are available for commercial usage while 29 deployments are accessible only to select customers. 165 pre-release deployments are also present, which are currently undergoing testing and are not available to customers yet.
In case your 5G-supported region is not included in the map, you may request adding your region by sending details including the deployment type and relevant proof here.
As Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping says, 5G will be the “new electricity” in the years to come. So, are you ready to embrace 5G technology? Let us know in the comments.
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Home News Samsung Brings New QLED, UHD and Concert Series TVs in India, Starting...
Samsung Brings New QLED, UHD and Concert Series TVs in India, Starting at Rs 27,500
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The smartphone market is not the only segment where established brands such as Samsung are facing stiff competition from emerging companies like Xiaomi, the domain of TVs is also a hotly contested one. To tackle Xiaomi’s aggressively-priced offerings, Samsung has today launched the 2018 line-up of TVs across different price brackets in the high-end QLED and UHD TV series as well as the affordable Concert series marketed as part of the ‘Made in India’ initiative.
The new range of Samsung TVs launched in India starts at Rs. 27,500 and come with updated specs and some new lucrative launch offers.
You can also get a free Galaxy S9 along with 10-year No Screen Burn In warranty with the purchase of the 2018 QLED TVs, and a free soundbar or speaker with select other TV models.
Samsung’s 2018 QLED TV line-up comprises of 8 new models ranging from 55-inch to 75-inch in size that will be available in flat panel as well as curved screen variants starting at Rs. 2,45,000.
The 2018 QLED TV line-up brings the new Ambient Mode which allows the TV’s display to blend with the wall background by mimicking its visual pattern. Moreover, the updated QLED TV line-up features a bezel-less design encased in a sleek metallic body and comes with the S-voice technology which allows users to control the device via voice commands and
Samsung has also added 16 new models to the 2018 UHD series of TVs which are claimed to a provide a superior visual experience, thanks to the Dynamic Crystal Color technology which provides higher brightness levels, deeper contrasts and a superior amount of details. The new UHD series TVs also comes with features such a smart Hub and Smart Convergence and start at Rs. 64,900.
Samsung has also launched new TVs in the affordable Concert series which are claimed to deliver a cinematic surround audio experience, thanks to the upgraded audio hardware which consists of 4 speakers capable of a 10W sound output per channel. TVs in the Concert series will be available in 32-inch, 43-inch, and 49-inch models and will start at Rs. 27,500.
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Dad dances at daughter's wedding despite wheelchair disability
SPRING CITY, Pa. (WPVI) -- The Mirror Ball trophy was awarded Monday night to Bindi Irwin of this season's "Dancing With The Stars."
But as we know, dancing isn't just for able-bodied people, and one local bride's dancing story shows that in touching fashion.
As a child, Brittany Dejean of Spring City, Chester County, loved to dance.
You could say it ran in her family.
Family video from years ago shows her father, Paul Martin, swinging and stepping across a dance floor.
So when Brittany got engaged to the love of her life, like most brides, she looked forward to the father-daughter dance.
But there was an obstacle.
Her father is now in a wheelchair, after being paralyzed 17 years ago in an accident.
"I at first told her I was going to pass it off because I didn't think I would be able to dance. It's something people in wheelchairs don't do," Martin told Action News.
Or so he thought.
But with the help of instructor Diane at RollCall WheelChair Dance, Brittany's dad found a way to dance again.
"She moved us through the motions, small motions first, and built on each individual program," he recalls.
It led to a moment Brittany says she'll cherish forever.
"I remember telling myself to consciously be in that moment because it was easy to let it go by so quickly," she says, reveling in memories of that time.
"It was fantastic," Martin says.
Not only did he dance with his daughter, he kept dancing, the entire night.
"I don't know if it was very pretty but I had a heck of a lot of fun," he says with a smile.
Brittany hopes their story can inspire others.
She started 'Able Thrive,' a website that collects and presents articles and videos from around the world to show how people can live well with a disability.
And she and her father gave their thanks to RollCall WheelChair Dance for making their dream come true.
This area is also home to American Dance Wheels Foundation, which teaches ballroom and Latin dance, and promotes wheelchair dancing in schools and throughout the community.
It's program has been in the Philadelphia schools since 2006.
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Ohio school resource officer removed after giving principal a parking ticket
YOUNGSTOWN, OH (WPVI) -- A spat over a parking spot in Ohio is pitting a school principal against police.
At a school in Youngstown, there's a no parking zone between two handicapped spaces.
Apparently, people have been parking there illegally for a long time, including the school principal.
Police say they have had enough, so the school resource officer wrote up a ticket and left it on the principal's windshield.
"Within one hour, the superintendent had ordered two administrators to go to Jefferson and asked that the school resource officer be removed from the school," says Michael Stabile of the Warren Police Department.
That left the school without a police officer on campus during the day, and they still don't have one.
That officer doesn't want to return, and the school district is standing by the way the superintendent handled the whole thing.
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Play The Bobby Hebert Drinking Game
Scott Halleran, Getty Images
Today on 97.3 The Dawg we've got New Orleans Saints football on the air! It's the kickoff of the 2019 season as the Saints host the Houston Texans.
Pregame starts at 4:00 pm with kick-off set for 6:10 pm.
Now, as far as the pregame goes, that's basically two hours of Bobby Hebert breaking down the big matchup. If you've ever listened to a Saints broadcast on the radio in the last few years, you know that Bobby can be a hoot to listen to.
His "Bobbyisms" also led to the invention of Bruce and I coming up with our Bobby Hebert Drinking Game. Feel free to add your favorites as this list evolves over time and we'd love to add to it.
TAKE A SIP CATEGORY:
"Yeah, but no Deuce" - used in response to a question by Deuce McAllister
"Crucial" or "Crooshal" - so many things are important in the game to Bobby
"Turnover Raysho" (Ratio) - yep, Mr. Hebert, we know we need to win this to be victorious in the game
"Take a look at" - didn't know we could do that through the radio
"Who Dat" - an easy one but this one will be flying out his mouth in the post-game if we win
"LSU" - any mentions of da Fightin' Tigers
Interrupts someone then says, "I don't mean to interrupt."
GET TO CHUGGIN' IT CATEGORY:
"Snot Bubble" - that's what gets blown when the defense hits an offensive player hard
Incomprehensible utterance - again, these usually come in the post-game of a win
Any player being "a beast" - usually designated for the dreadlocked players
Bend don't break - it's the kind of defense the Saints need to have
Falclowns - or any facsimile of that which makes fun of our hated rival
"Whatchoo Got?" - caller on the line, Bobby asks them this
The NFL is a “what have you done for me lately” league
"Your punter can't be your MVP" - Well duh Bobby. (Although our punter is awesome...especially when he doesn't punt.)
Feel free to share your own Bobbyism. We'll add to the list. But don't submit too many. We want to be able to at least halfway stand by kick-off!
Filed Under: bobby hebert, drinking game, New Orleans Saints
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Published on August 7, 2019 by bwanasamaki
A silvery brown trout on my first day fishing a Spring Creek.
I walked into the Lodge, a beautiful wooden structure planted on a slope overlooking a luscious lake and jagged, snowy peaks beyond. Every seat, nook and table had been placed so that guests could drink in the Patagonian landscape and breathe its intoxicating air. The windows were tall and wide, the 180-degree view from them breath-taking, in the proper sense of the phrase. After 10 days in Tierra del Fuego’s barren Patagonian wastes, this new landscape in Argentina had a soothing, sedative kind of beauty. The Kau Taupen wilderness had forced me to tighten every physical and metaphysical nerve against the raw wildness of the ever-present wind.
But the beauty of the Tres Valles lodge had the opposite effect, of unbuttoning defences, opening up, breathing in as if airing the soul after a winter’s confinement. I had chosen it as an antidote to my sortie into Tierra del Fuego in search of giant Sea Trout. And also, because it seemed to offer regular fly fishing for trout, in which I am much more versed. A part of me saw it as compensation in case I blanked at Kau Taupen. I didn’t.
Water and wilderness, everywhere you looked
So, my first thought as I looked over the lake after a three-hour drive from Esquel airport was akin to that feeling you got on birthdays or Christmas when gift-wrapped surprises tumble into your lap, a veritable embarrassment of riches. Is this all for me? And for the dozens of baseball-capped anglers in cargo pants and rain jackets who jostled with me at the carousel for their rod tubes? Not one of them had come to Tres Valles. They had all been absorbed by other lodges, other captivating landscapes. I was alone.
IS ANYBODY HOME?
Once my bags had been dropped in my vast bedroom, I hunted around for other guests. There weren’t any, it seemed. There was nobody at home apart from some friendly kitchen staff with even less English than my Spanish. But I did manage to work out that the other six people staying there were from France, including the owner a French businessman. So I settled in on the veranda, and drank in the view while reading the Guests’ book, which was exhilarating. So many people, so many fish, so much joy.
As the sun began to set the others began to return. Bruno, the owner, his wife and small son and three other fishermen from France. We fenced around in English for a few minutes and then slipped into French, which was to become our language for an entire sociable week. I’ve never been sure of the real perceptions the two nations hold of each other. The French call the Brits les rosbifs and the Brits call the French the frogs. But I had studied French at university and have an on-off love affair with France, and once our national guards slipped, the conversation flowed easily around the fire, dinner table and veranda.
It was greatly assisted when I identified as a Brit who does not believe in Brexit. Bugger Brexit and Bugger Boris do not translate exactly into French, but it wasn’t necessary. Around the table the collective dismay at Britain’s capacity for self-harm washed over any well-chosen phrase I could utter. We were as united in our horror as we were galvanised by our love of fishing, and the fishing, they all said, was pretty good. The rivers were low but the climate stable, they said. Even a rosbif might get a few. We fenced about rugby, which both countries love; about food, which both countries love; and about trout fishing. One of men at the table regularly fished the same French waters that the legendary Charles Ritz did in the 1930s. A great deal united us in convivial enjoyment. Very little separated us.
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
I awoke in a vast bed with my curtains open on a slice of landscape that resembled views in Switzerland, Rwanda and Scotland. Hills rolled and I knew there would be streams in the folds between; clouds played peek-a-boo with mountain tops; the lodge lawn sloped gently to a vast lake. At the edges, there was the occasional dimple from a rising trout.
Dinner had been a common sizing-up, as happens at any fishing lodge around the first drink or meal. And we had found commonality in a love of landscape and fishing, and the ease that comes with being settled in, and at the mercy of, nature all around us. We were different heights, girths, ages and nationalities, but we were happy to be together in this place, each one at ease with its boundless beauty and possibilities.
The first day with a fishing guide is much the same, probing each other for common and uncommon areas. Miguel, my guide for the week, talked to me as we drove about the Rio Pisco system and what it had to offer. We settled on our first outing on a small river with occasional pools and drove up and down well-worn tracks, each peak offering a new people-free landscape, each trough offering glimpses of streams and creeks. It was nearly too much. There was a moment, on that first day, when I would have settled for a picnic on a hillside to gaze around at all the vast greenery and shimmering water.
But I doubt Miguel would have settled for that. He was (and is) an avid, addicted fisherman. While I was seeing paradise at every turn of the track, he was seeing fishing possibilities. One of the beauties of central Patagonia in Argentina and in Chile is the sheer abundance of fishable water. Lakes, wide rivers, small rivers, rocky streams, spring creeks, and even ditches, they all hold trout which have thrived since their introduction 50 or more years ago. Miguel gave me a bewildering choice on my first day. I opted for a river an hour’s drive away. “It’s low, but there are good pools,” he promised.
Low, but with good pools
And so it was. Low with good pools. We scrambled down a rocky hillside to a narrow river showing its bones. No fish were rising. We put a small nymph on my five-weight and walked upstream. I caught a couple of small fish on the way but, more importantly, seemed to satisfy Miguel that I was a fairly capable fisherman. And on the way back, to his delight, I nailed a beautiful three-pound brown trout. And then, in a tiny spring creek with about nine inches of water, another of more than four pounds. And then another. Even bigger. The sun shone. The air was fragrant and cool. Water music accompanied our bankside lunch. I felt no need to rush or hurry. It was a perfect first day.
A bonny first fish on the first day
THE DALAI LAMA MAKES A SURPRISE APPEARANCE
Although it’s an outdoor thing, in which the unknowns of weather, water and wind are key, an organised fishing holiday is usually assembled around the knowable, earthly business of eating three times a day. Good company and conversation are part of it. The lodges vie to describe the excellence of their cuisine (very few talk about “cooking” or “food”) and wines. But the unspoken pitch here is people around a table telling stories and enjoying the company.
Breakfast is like settling down in the theatre before the curtain rises. There is a lot of snatched and impatient conversation because the audience wants the show to start. Lunch is an interlude for reflection with the guide on the drama witnessed, a pause in which to reassess and come to conclusions that only the resumption of the play will prove true or false.
An assado dinner
Lunch on the boat
Dinner is that moment when the show is over, the curtain has fallen, and the actors acknowledge the applause and either bask in their success or go through the motions and feel, secretly in most cases, the pain of failure.
The drama was good all week, one poor day notwithstanding. That was when Miguel took me up a small and low stream to sight fish with a tiny dry fly for rising trout. I just couldn’t manage to land the fly in the right place because it’s not a style of fishing I do very often. And my eyes are as old as me.
Such was Miguel’s commitment that he took every miss, every failed cast, personally, cursed all manner of donkeys and women at the top of his voice and generally made me feel like a bumbling 69-year-old novice, which I suppose I am in many ways.
But it’s not a day that stands out in my memories. There were two lakes on the map which offered monster fish and relatively lazy fishing from his inflatable boat. On both waters I made my acquaintance with the Dalai Lama, a black streamer sometimes called the Dolly Lama. It’s apparently a fly from Alaska but, like the Dalai Lama himself, worked an awful long way from home. And in all the time I was there I never saw another fisherman on the water.
Miguel with Brookie
And with another of mine
On one lake I caught the biggest Brook Trout I have ever seen. Lots of them. They pounced out of the weeds to grab the Dalai Lama like herons snaffling fry. Each fish seemed bigger than the last and my biggest was more than five pounds. It came to the net like an innocent being dragged before a firing squad. It just never gave up on the injustice of it all. I was elated. Miguel was circumspect. “There are much bigger ones,” he said. I felt he was leaving something unspoken and let it rest there.
IN SEARCH OF MOBY BROWN
And there was a second lake which contained monster Brown and Rainbow Trout. As we rowed over the shallows in bright sunlight, I could see logs on the sand at the bottom, except that these logs had fins and moved. Miguel said there was one legendary Brown that he had seen in the shallows on our first visit.
End of another memorable day. Miguel disassembles the boat. I watch.
We called it Moby Trout. The first time I caught him he stripped line off my reel so fast that it became a blur in my hands. Then the handle of my reel caught in my jacket, the line went tight and then pinged back towards me. The Dalai Lama caught me in the chest. Miguel invoked several parts of the male anatomy, one or two deities, my mother and some farmyard animals before he calmed down.
We went back to hunt for it on my last day. A couple of “smaller” trout intervened – they were Rainbows and Browns weighing about five/six pounds, but our quarry was almost twice that size. We saw him jump once behind us and turned the boat round and edged towards the spot. I cast. I hooked it. It came out of the water like a missile and then ripped off line and backing as it headed for the reeds.
“Let it run, don’t try to stop it, let it run,” Miguel was yelling. “Keep the reel away from your jacket. Don’t touch anything, just let it go.” So I let it run and it headed for a stretch of bulrushes. “Let it go into the weeds, we can follow it,” yelled Miguel bending his back into the oars to head for the weeds and catch up with the runaway monster.
And then the line suddenly whipped back towards us both. Moby Trout was off, again. I reeled in my line apologetically, in silence. Miguel found some parts of the male anatomy that he had missed in his previous outburst. He also questioned my manhood and parental antecedents.
He leant across the boat to grab the fly. The Dalai Lama has a black body and trailing hook attached by a piece of wire. The hook was no longer there. Only half of the fly came back. The remainder was in Moby Trout’s jaws. The fly had simply snapped in half. Some kind of honour was restored. I felt reprieved. The firing squad had shot blanks. Ten minutes later I caught the biggest Rainbow Trout I have ever landed. Miguel rowed us to the shore so we could net it safely. Eight pounds? Ten pounds? I neither know nor care. I held it in the shallows until it regained its poise and with one contemptuous flick of its enormous tail, it was gone, leaving a metre of shimmering wake.
Nice doesn’t say it. Miguel poses my Rainbow
I called a halt to the fishing and Miguel rowed us across the lake to our car, where he disassembled the boat and packed our gear. I sat on a tussock looking out over the water, drinking hot coffee and smoking cigarettes. My whole body was tingling with a sense of well-being. I drank the moment as much as the coffee. In my consciousness there was not a single dark place, snag or regret where my mind could go. There was only the feeling of being enormously lucky, deeply content, and in awe of it all.
DID EINSTEIN FISH?
Months later I sat on a tussock in Essex, England, with my son Lewis. He had driven me from his home to show me all the greenery and nature that exists around the place where he and his girlfriend, Sam, have made home. It was a warm summer’s afternoon. We looked out over meadows and across forests to a distant town and said very little. Not much needed saying. He is proud at having chosen a home near London which can still boast trees and water. I am proud that these are choices he has made, but which reflect my choices too.
Lewis and Sam
Before we parted, he gave me a novel to read, a Crime/Thriller that I’d missed, and promised it would keep me occupied while I flew back to Dubai. It did. It’s one helluva good read. Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley. But in it I came across some quotes by Albert Einstein, the father of relativity, and someone I had always thought might be a bit dull and scientific. Not a bit of it. I was wrong.
“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism,” he wrote. I know I have feelings of that order when I fish, which is a key reason why I do it. I also checked out the Dalai Lama since he was so much a part of Tres Valles for me.
“We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get stable and steady happiness,” he said. He also had some words which seem appropriate in this age of greed and waste. “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Thank you: Tres Valles, the Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, and my son.
AJH/Dubai/2019
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Minnesota student test scores remain flat
Minnesota student test scores largely remained the same as last year on a key standardized exam taken in the spring, and the state's troublesome "achievement gap" persists, according to new test score data released Tuesday.
The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, or MCAs, were taken by nearly 500,000 students across the state. The tests are designed to offer a snapshot of how well students are meeting standards in reading, math and science.
Across Minnesota, about 61 percent of students proved proficient in math, the same last year. Reading scores overall ticked up from about 58 percent proficient in 2013 to nearly 59 percent. Science scores also inched up slightly from 52 percent to about 53 percent.
You can explore the test statewide data, as well as find scores for districts and individual schools with this state report card tool.
“We are seeing steady improvement in student achievement. The trend line is up, and that’s progress,” Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said in a statement. “This kind of change is exactly what we hope to see as our teachers master how to best teach our tougher standards, so each student approaches the test confident and fully prepared."
As is typically the case when new batches of test score data are released, any good news in the scores was tempered by persistent concern about the long-lingering achievement gap between white students and their minority peers. The Pioneer Press has several bar graphs that starkly tell the tale at a glance.
The Star Tribune also highlights several examples: Statewide, black students in grades 3 through 8 were 35 percent proficient in math, compared to a 71 percent proficiency rate for white students.
In reading, black students had a 33 percent proficiency, compared to 67 percent for white students.
Minnesota education officials have vowed to cut the achievement gap in half by 2017, and data released last spring indicated the state was on track to do that, they said.
Still, the scores further underline a need for more innovative ways to narrow the gap, observers say.
“I think we can say that no one in this community is happy with where [the achievement gap] is at,” Jonathan May, an official with the group Generation Next, told the Star Tribune. The group is a metro-based initiative led by former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak aimed at erasing the achievement gap.
Minneapolis, St. Paul scores
The Star Tribune notes that the state's two biggest school districts had largely the same scores as last year overall.
In Minneapolis, 42 percent of students were proficient in reading, the same as last year. In math, 44 percent were proficient, a 1 percent increase from 2013.
In St. Paul, 38 percent of students were proficient in reading, a 1 percent increase. Math scores dipped 2 percentage points to 42 percent proficient. The Pioneer Press and Star Tribune detail how major restructuring in the St. Paul schools has presented transitional challenges for students there.
For more info on the MCAs, here is a parent fact sheet about the tests, who takes them and how students prepare (pdf).
Cassellius was expected to discuss the latest round of scores on MPR's "Daily Circuit" show Tuesday at about 11 a.m.
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Data released by the Minnesota Department of Education Wednesday revealed that reading and test scores among students in the state have remained relatively flat over previous years. Also, while the scores showed a wide achievement gap between white students and students of color, state officials are hoping a change in how testing data is evaluated will help them fix the persistent disparity.
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Shhhhhhhh! (the quest for silence)
On September 30, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, cities, domestic life, Health, life, travel, urban design, urban life17 Comments
By Caitlin Kelly
Next to attention, it’s becoming a rare and precious resource.
Complete silence.
No phones.
No airplanes or helicopters.
No drones.
No one yelling.
No motorized boats or snowmobiles.
No cars or trucks.
The irony?
I bet people in previous centuries had similar complaints — the clattering of horses’ hooves on cobblestones! The clamor of crowds in narrow urban alleys!
Here’s an interesting piece from The New York Times about one man’s quest for blessed silence in New Hampshire:
Connoisseurs of quiet say it is increasingly difficult, even in the wilderness, to escape the sounds of vehicles, industries, voices. A study published last year in the academic journal Science found that noise pollution was doubling sound levels in much of the nation’s conserved land, like national parks and areas preserved by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
Noise that humans create can be annoying but also dangerous to animals who rely on hearing to seek their prey and avoid predators. “We’re really starting to understand the consequences of noise and the importance of natural sound,” said Rachel Buxton, a conservation biologist at Colorado State University who worked on the study.
I’ve been lucky enough to experience total silence — and it is profound and oddly disorienting. I once stood in a place so totally quiet — a friend’s enormous ranch in New Mexico — that I could hear myself digesting.
Ironically, there really are some spots in the city of Manhattan where you can enjoy near-silence, while my suburban street echoes almost constantly with birdsong, night-time coyotes (!), leaf-blowers and construction work.
What’s the quietest place you’ve ever been?
The only body we have…
On September 27, 2018 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, Health, life, seniors, sports, women18 Comments
This is a heartbreaking essay, by a woman writer, about 50 years of hating her own body, from Medium:
Sandwiched between two ruthless brothers in a household where verbal cruelty was a competition sport, I was easy game. My parents — the should’ve-been referees — were, instead, the audience. With the rebuttal they should’ve been providing to my brothers’ barrage of relentless brutal nowhere to be found, I had nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. In the void of any contradiction, every harsh word became truth.
Few events will make you as deeply, weepingly grateful for your body’s health and strength than than the loss of some of it — or the potential loss of all of it.
I say this with the hindsight of someone who, before the age of 40, never saw a damn doctor for anything more intense (ouch!) than an annual mammogram and Pap smear. Since then I’ve had both knees “scoped” — i.e. arthroscopy — which removed torn cartilage (the price of decades of squash games, now verboten), a right shoulder repaired (minor) and my left hip fully replaced.
It’s a funny moment when — as I was being wheeled into our local hospital’s OR for my breast lumpectomy in July — the female, Hispanic (so cool!) head of anesthesiology recognized me and vice versa. That’s comforting, but also a bit too much surgery.
I really hit my limits in March 2017 when I arrived at the hospital with chest pain so intense I could barely tolerate the seatbelt worn for only 20 minutes to get to the ER. Turned out I had a 104 degree temperature and pneumonia I had been ignoring. That meant three days in the hospital on an IV and coughing so hard I thought I might pass out.
I sweated so much I was thrilled to be able to shower there.
I apologized out loud to my exhausted body, the one I’d been abusing and taking so for granted.
Never again!
As someone who came of age during second-wave feminism and in Canada, I never spent a lot of time fussing about my body and how it looked. I like to be stylish and attractive and have always loved fashion. But freaking out about the shape or size of my body?
I care most, still, about being healthy, strong and flexible.
I love being able to hit a softball to the outfield and savored my four years being a nationally ranked saber fencer — in my late 30s. I hope to get back to downhill skiing, horseback riding, hiking.
Social media has made the endless and relentless scrutiny of our bodies even worse than it’s always been — policing our size and shape is such a useful way to distract us from essential issues like the size of our paycheck.
Shaming women for being fat(ter) than someone would prefer us to be (MDs only, thanks) is just another way to undermine us in a culture that demands insane “productivity” and only makes beautiful clothes for women smaller than a size 10 — when the average American woman is now a size 14.
Some of the most “beautiful” women I’ve met — those externally chic and spotless — have been ruthless and unkind.
So my definition of beauty, and human value attached to a body, isn’t only rooted in what we see on the outside.
How do you feel about your body?
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Life in cancerland: 18 tips
On September 23, 2018 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, domestic life, family, Health, life, love, Medicine, parenting, seniors, women32 Comments
Some reflections on my having entered — as of June 2018 — a new and sometimes overwhelming world; if useful, please share!
You may certainly feel it as you reel with shock and try to make sense of what will happen to you next. My early June diagnosis of DCIS, (a sort of pre-cancer, even though the word carcinoma does mean cancer!) is one shared annually by 44,000 American women.
You will likely be in shock and feel utterly disoriented
Even if your prognosis, as mine is, is excellent, you’re stunned.
One minute, you assumed you were healthy, the next…you’ve entered cancerland, filled with sights and sounds and sensations both foreign and unwanted, that you may never have experienced.
What the hell is an aromatase inhibitor?
What are my eight tattoos for exactly?
How tired and ill will treatment make me feel?
You face a learning curve
Until you’ve had a biopsy, you don’t know what it feels like, during and afterward. Same for chemo and radiation and other things likely to happen. It’s all new and unfamiliar and a lot to process, physically, emotionally, intellectually — and, in the United States — financially.
Ask as many questions as many times, of as many medical staff — including technicians — as you need, and take notes
It’s complicated stuff!
Don’t ever feel stupid or intimidated or rushed or that your concerns are unimportant. Health care includes feeling cared for, not just surgery and medications.
People who have never had experience with cancer may behave in hurtful ways
Even with the most loving intentions, people may say things (oh, it’s not that bad!) or do things (send you books about cancer, unasked for) that can leave you even more anxious, scared or disoriented.
They may also tell you to “fight” and “battle” — when (if they don’t know the details) this might not even be necessary, or might not be possible. Ignore them!
This is not what you want!
Get off the Internet and listen to your MDs
The first advice my gynecologist gave me — who told me the news by phone — was to not start reading about this on the Internet.
I didn’t and have not and will not.
But I make my living seeking and processing vast amounts of complex information as a journalist — how could I behave this way?
Because I’m human and had to process enough new information as it is!
I also have avoided any detailed conversations about this unless with fellow patients, and not even a lot of that.
Some people will flee
This can be painful. It’s them, not you. As one friend (whose wife died of lung cancer) said: “You don’t know what their vulnerabilities are.”
Some people will step up unexpectedly
This is a great gift.
You will need to let some new people in, even when that feels weird to you
I find this difficult, as someone who’s always been quite private. But without allowing others to know the details of your situation and to comfort you, it’s too hard.
Some people will over-share and overwhelm you with their medical story
Shut them down.
This is not the time for you to hear, process and empathize with others’ details and fears. This is the time for you to focus on your needs. That may feel unkind, even brutal. Just do it.
If at all possible, find a medical team and hospital you like and trust
You will be spending a lot of time in their offices, possibly daily, weekly, monthly and for many years to come. If you like, trust and respect them, you will feel safe — literally — in their hands.
If you have doubts, find a team you feel good about; this is more difficult if you live in a rural area or have poor health insurance, I know.
You’ll be seeing, and see and be touched by, a lot of people you have never met
That’s another stressor right there.
So far, I’ve seen more than a dozen different MDs, multiple technicians and been to two different hospitals. It’s a lot of new people, and different personalities, to cope with at once — in addition to your diagnosis and treatment.
As one friend told me, you’re spending a lot of emotional capital.
Ignore (most) others’ advice!
People will rush to give you all sorts of advice, leads, insights and tips. Everyone’s body is different. Everyone’s tolerance for pain is different.
Just because they or someone they know had a better/worse/horrific/painful outcome, this may not be your experience.
Don’t let their possibly frightening, unhelpful or inaccurate data bombard you while in a weakened physical or emotional state.
Educate a few people about your cancer — and let them do the talking for you
It’s time to conserve all your resources, especially time and energy. People who have not faced cancer, and your specific kind of it (what stage, where are you in treatment, invasive, recurring, metastatic, ER+, etc.) have no clue.
Having to keep explaining things to them can be too tiring and upsetting.
Do whatever comforts you most deeply
That might mean withdrawing from most social events to save your energy. Hugging your kids or pets. Knitting or playing video games or binge-watching TV, prayer and meditation.
Rest as much as possible
Your mind and body are under assault. Naps are your best friend.
You don’t have to be “brave”
People will tell you how brave you are.
You’re just doing what you have to to stay alive, even if (as I have) you might be fearful and crying a lot to a few people. Even a good diagnosis is enough to shake you hard.
Ask for help — and don’t think twice about it!
You may need help getting to and from medical appointments — tests, bloodwork, chemo, whatever. Even if you’re not feeling tired or weak, it is deeply comforting to have a friend or loved one waiting for you when you emerge from whatever it is you faced that day.
Having someone to drive you there and back is a real blessing. Ask for it, and accept it with relief and gratitude. Same for dog-walking, babysitting, food shopping, cooking, laundry.
Love is action.
Why we need more apologies
On September 21, 2018 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, business, domestic life, family, life, love, men, parenting, women19 Comments
Time doesn’t heal all wounds. A sincere apology is a lot better!
Years ago, I had a job that was, to put it plainly, a brutal experience — alternating between being bullied and ignored by bosses and colleagues alike. It was at a Big American Newspaper, one now half its size, but then a very big deal and a well-paid job in a dying industry.
But I wasn’t about to quit, no matter how terrible it was to survive.
Then, years after I left, I met one of those former bosses again in another situation, and was quite nervous about how he might behave.
To my shock — and gratitude — he apologized if he’d made things worse for me.
How rare it is to receive an apology!
Here’s a great piece on the subject from Elle magazine, which I found thanks to this blog:
I have never spoken this phrase. To anyone. Not a lover, not a friend. Not a bad boss or a vindictive colleague. This is not for lack of opportunity. I’m a black woman in America. I have been owed plenty of apologies.
I just never believed I deserved to demand one.
In the instant that I watched Serena’s firm command, I anxiously searched my consciousness to determine why, in my 33 years of living, I had never demanded an apology I believed I was owed. I have certainly expressed personal and professional grievances; I have given voice to hurt feelings and frustrated moments with greater intention as I’ve grown in confidence—a confidence which is hard earned.
But the idea that someone would need to affirm responsibility for their actions and impact on me had just never occurred to me. I have quietly carried the scars of apologies desired but never received, seething with resentment but never questioning why I didn’t demand an apology in the first place. I have always known, as seemingly all Black mothers say, that “closed mouths don’t get fed,” and that it is rare that anyone receives that which they do not ask for. Still, I had not formed my lips to utter the words: you owe me an apology.
How many times in your life have you just sat there, seething, when we should have demanded an immediate apology for someone else’s shitty behavior?
Most recently, I sat beside a woman at someone’s landmark birthday party (hardly the time for a confrontation!) who scared the hell out of me about the upcoming radiation for my DCIS.
I was a bit shell-shocked by her attitude (she’s a naturopath); we’re often slow and deeply reluctant to demand an apology since we don’t want to make a scene in public (oh, how bullies count on this!) and react like deer in the headlights, inwardly appalled, but passive and stunned in the moment.
Too stunned to say “Excuse me?!!!”
Not to mention all the powerful people, usually male, who set and enforce the rules. It’s damn near impossible to “demand” anything when your survival depends on shutting up and putting up with appalling behavior.
There’s a lot of Internet conversation right now about the many men — shunned for harassing women sexually at work — now crawling back demanding our forgiveness and more of our attention, like Canadian former broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi, American comedian Louis C.K. .and American broadcaster John Hockenberry.
I don’t really care for excuses, like “I don’t remember” because, unfortunately, I can’t forget some of the worst moments from my own life.
You can wait a long time, maybe forever, for some people to apologize, but it doesn’t mean giving other miscreants a pass just because it’s become your default.
Here’s a recent piece from The Atlantic about having a high school friend-turned-would-be-rapist eventually apologize:
A few minutes later, I saw him coming back; it was the boy who’d tried to rape me. He had tears in his eyes, and he seemed almost overwrought. And right there—in the A&S department store in the Smith Haven Mall—he apologized profusely.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” I kept saying to him. “I forgive you, don’t worry.” It was a weird ambush of intense guilt and apology, and it was the wrong place and time—but the thing was, I really did forgive him. My life had moved on, and things were better. It felt good to get the apology and—as it always does—even better to forgive him. He’d done a terrible thing, but he’d done what he could to make it right.
Have you ever demanded an apology?
Did you receive it?
Was it sincere?
Cooking up a storm!
On September 18, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, domestic life, family, food, life, parenting, Style, women24 Comments
It was a veritable frenzy — a combination of impending medical anxiety, again, no work to produce and fall’s slightly cooler temperatures that make our small, un-ventilated galley kitchen more bearable.
In the space of 24 hours I made: curried corn soup, pork chops with red onion and red peppers, (both from a Gordon Ramsay cookbook), morning glory muffins, (a NYT recipe, so good — filled with carrot, walnuts, raisins, coconuts, apple), lemon roasted potatoes and a lemon loaf.
I really enjoy cooking, and went through two sweat-soaked T-shirts and bandanas to produce it all. Cooking is physical! All that slicing and chopping and grating and mixing and peeling.
I love having a fridge filled with ingredients — fresh dill, eggs, unsalted butter — and reaching for my baking pantry of flours, baking soda, baking powder, spices and sugars. To make it easier, we have a dishwasher, multiple sets of measuring spoons and cups, multiple mixing bowls, a hand mixer and a small blender; (the poor Cuisinart stays in the garage as there is NO room for it in the apartment.)
The left is before; the right is after. I designed the kitchen myself
I play loud music on the radio or stereo and off I go. Our stove/oven is a four-burner Bertazzoni and still burns hot. Our kitchen counters are stone, so I sometimes cut directly on them.
I’ve been collecting recipes for decades and have a good collection of cookbooks — favorites include oldies like Patricia Wells’ Bistro Cooking, The Vegetarian Epicure Part Two, The Silver Palate and Barefoot Contessa. But I also clip recipes all the time from papers and magazines — I made mince tarts last year for the first time, thanks to one in the weekend FT, our preferred weekend read.
When it all turns out well — and it usually does — we sit, light candles, pour wine, and savor what we happily call “restaurant food”, carefully thought out and prepared with care and energy.
I know that, for some people — those with fussy kids or eating disorders or medically restricted diets — food can be a source of frustration and stress. I know I need to lose at least 30 pounds, too, but my intense pleasure at eating a delicious meal is a constant challenge in that regard.
Do you enjoy planning a meal, prepping and cooking?
What do you like to make?
Fireside’s secret? Connecting, quickly
On September 15, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, business, culture, design, education, Technology, work10 Comments
I’ve been home from Fireside now for only four days…but like many of my fellow attendees, here in NY, in Toronto and beyond, I’ve been chatting with many of them via our Slack channel, Twitter, FB, LinkedIn and email.
Talk about connection!
I’m still processing so much of what I saw, heard, felt and shared, both emotionally and intellectually.
Here’s a great piece about it by one of my cabin-mates, Michelle Manafy, for Inc.com:
being away from the safe and familiar surroundings of home helps campers build new strengths that empower them in whatever they do.
At Fireside, attendees not only have to live without the reassuring buzz of their phones, they also have to forgo conference hotels to share cabins with strangers, sleep on bunks made for kids, without heat in weather that dips into the teens at night. Despite excellent food and well-stocked campfires it is, without doubt, both physically and technologically, uncomfortable.
Yet what occurs is nothing short of magic, warmed by campfire light and reflected in the kind of star-filled sky you only see far from the pervasive light of so-called civilization. People make eye contact. They introduce themselves. They watch speakers without the distraction of tweets or email. They walk and talk in twos and groups, reflecting on what they’ve seen and heard.
So why did this brief stay in the woods create such quick, powerful connections?
Egos checked
Without the usual conference trappings of badges and lanyards proclaiming your cool/hip/prestigious affiliation(s), without the status-signifiers of the right clothes/shoes/handbag, we were all just..people.
You couldn’t pull the usual thing (so rude!) of looking over someone’s shoulder for the more important contact because the person talking to you might, in fact, be it.
As one man said — “Everyone here is an onion.”
Long face to face conversations
So much of our lives are now relentlessly tech-intermediated — whether emojis, texts, Snapchat, Instagram, Slack, FB, FaceTime, Skype. It’s now radical indeed to just sit, maybe for an entire hour — as I did several times there, and others did as well — and speak at length face to face with someone you’d never met before.
Truth-telling
It’s also a radical act — in an era of relentless, isolating and demoralizingly competitive social media preening — to just speak openly and honestly about your real struggles, whether emotional, financial, physical or professional, maybe all of these!
During the conference, even the most successful among us spoke bravely and boldly about their frequent battles with anxiety and depression, their need to appear 10000 percent strong and in charge of it all, for fear of losing employees, investors, sales and street cred.
Few things are as powerful as truth and trust.
Being outdoors night and day
Dusty shoes, mosquito bites, sunburned noses. (You should see the bruise on my left calf from ungracefully exiting the canoe!)
Just being outside, not staring into damn screens all the time, in fresh air, smelling wood-smoke and pine needles and watching a sunset and hearing a loon’s haunting call…so restorative!
Campfires, literal and physical
It’s pretty primal stuff to sit around a fire, blazing or glowing, and stare into its embers. We’ve been doing it as a species for millennia, yet how often do we do it with strangers? It’s harder to bullshit and posture when the smoke is in your eyes and someone just handed you a gooey marshmallow on a stick.
One of the ways the conference organized us was into “campfires” where a group of experts would gather in a public spot and just…extemporize. We were all there to be resources for one another.
That takes expertise and confidence in your skills and social poise (I did one, with several other journalists) but it’s also down-to-earth and freeing — no mic, no video, no lectern, no notes.
Willingness to brave something completely unfamiliar
I was really nervous!
This was not my usual crowd (all journalists and writers of non-fiction) but a wild mix of ages — 20s to 60s — and included start-ups, a few billionaires, tech bro’s and people I had to talk to (giving presentations) and with. What if they were cold or dismissive? (not!)
It was a long long drive from my home an hour north of NYC to the camp, about four hours’ drive north of Toronto. What if the food was lousy? (it wasn’t!)
I think many of us first-timers had to be a little brave. You couldn’t just flee and go catch a movie or flick through your Insta account for distracting comfort.
Props to the two young Toronto lawyers, Daniel Levine and Steve Pulver, who invented this thing.
4 days’ inspiration: the Fireside Conference
On September 11, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, business, culture, education, entertainment, life, Technology, work21 Comments
Imagine the smartest and most interesting people you’ve ever met.
Four hundred of them.
In the woods, sleeping for three nights in unheated cabins at a summer camp more than three hours’ drive north of Toronto, on a huge private lake.
I just spent the most tiring, intense, exhausting, interesting four days of my life — and, maybe like you, I’ve been to many conferences over the years.
None remotely like this one.
This is invitation only, and I was invited (free), waiving the $2,500 (Canadian) standard fee; I spoke twice during the event on how to tell stories, as many of the attendees run their own companies, many of them start-ups and many have no idea how to find and work with the media to promote their products and services.
The age range was 20s to 60s, about 70 per cent male and probably 60 to 70 percent Canadian, from all across the country. One man came from Cyprus and others from far away in the U.S. , even Spain.
It was a wildly eclectic mix of talents and skills — from a male performance artist to a young female cryptocurrency business owner, from the female Alabama owner of a pet-sitting company to about eight other journalists.
Of the 400, about 150 were returning from prior Fireside Conferences.
Because it’s held at a camp, the remote wooded 750-acre setting is simply gorgeous and the amenities fairly basic — the cabins have no heat and it was cold (like 40 degrees F) at night.
We all ate breakfast and dinner in the dining hall; unlike camp, there was plenty of free alcohol provided by sponsors. We were woken up at 8:15 by music broadcast through speakers and at night many of us congregated around small stone-ringed campfires and made s’mores.
And the stars! I hadn’t seen the Milky Way in years.
Our cabin — I shared it with three other women, all of them strangers (now good friends!) — no heat!!! Bunk beds.
No one wore a badge or lanyard. Almost no speakers used or needed a mic — instead we sat on a bench or on the grass to listen, creating an intimacy that was immediate, unusual and powerful as we often engaged in long, private, sometimes very personal conversations.
Unless you’d been there before, you probably arrived, as I did, a little nervous — and didn’t know who anyone was, meaning you just had to engage in conversation and you could be speaking to a self-made millionaire or a grad student, a musician or a photographer or a mother of four.
Egos checked!
The other secret?
No wifi!
There was a cabin where you could access it but this meant tremendous personal interaction without the absurd constant distraction of cell phones and notifications.
We could also — in addition to dozens of speakers and panels — enjoy classic camp activities: sailing, canoeing, kayaking, water skiing, archery, tetherball. I canoed solo for a bit.
My brain is swirling — I was invited to, also did, a podcast there, and may be invited to speak at some other conferences thanks to some contacts I made.
And so many new friends.
Taking a needed breather
On September 5, 2018 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, domestic life, life17 Comments
Time for a break!
Luckily, I have good friends in Toronto willing to host me for a week, and I’ve been enjoying time away from the endless toxicity of American politics, work and health issues.
Late summer is a good time to visit this city, as winter can be bitter and midwinter days depressingly gray. (My husband, Jose, is busy right now photo editing the U.S. Open Tennis, ending his work shift as late as 1 or even 2:00 a.m. after the final evening match.)
I arrived here bringing champagne and chocolate and books. I try hard to be a low-maintenance guest, since we have often hosted friends in our one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, and I know it can feel overwhelming. My friends have a large enough house we can all disappear when needed — and one sign of a good friendship is the ability to do so, and no one feels offended, since everyone needs quiet time alone.
I grew up in Toronto, ages five to 30, so I still have many deep friendships and lots of memories here — I usually return once or twice a year, the last time in April with Jose.
This visit I shared a friend’s 70th birthday celebrations, caught up with five more of my friends and just enjoyed some badly needed downtime; (several more local pals were posting FB photos of their trips to Paris and Prague.)
Like most of my visits, it was filled with reminders of my history here. One of the party guests knew me as a baby (!) and hadn’t seen me since. Another knew me from fifth grade at a Toronto girls’ school. And I worked with yet another at Canadian Press — in January 1982.
I slept in, visited with my hosts and binge-watched The Alienist. Shopped at my favorite store, Gravity Pope. Ate a few good meals.
What a gift to detach from work and all things medical for a while!
A few images…
Every Toronto summer ends with the Canadian National Exhibition, aka The Ex, which closes on Labor Day. I hadn’t been in about eight or nine years, met a good friend there and wandered. But it’s gotten stupidly expensive ($20 admission alone) and too commercial for my taste.
My friend’s party had such delicious food — ribs and salmon and corn and caprese salad and lots of wine and this amazing pavlova for dessert, made by one of his daughters. Yum!
It’s trendy as hell, but a good spot for a cold beer and lunch on a scorchingly hot day.
I’m total and unrepentant fan of all things aviation related, so the CNE air show was so so so cool! It was a little terrifying to hear the thundering of jets flying low over downtown, but what skills!
Four women comedians
On September 3, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, books, culture, entertainment, film, life, television, women17 Comments
It’s been a rough summer: illness, too many friends dying, lost work…
So I’ve been watching comedy specials on television, most recently three women: Tig Notaro, Hannah Gadsby and Michelle Wolf.
Tig, who’s gay and married and a survivor of breast cancer, is the oldest at 47, and her show is radically different from the hyper, smiling Wolf — who’s 33. Notaro, halfway though her hour-long TV special filmed in Boston, removes her elegant navy blazer and crisp white cotton shirt — and performs the second half naked from the waist up.
Her delivery is slower, more thoughtful, less frenzied. She’s angry, but in a quieter and more moderated way. You can tell she’s been doing comedy a long time, and feels in control.
Wolf is wild and dirty — with endless references to penises and periods. She grins a feral grin.
Gadsby is the outlier, Australian, earnest, furious. What begins as comedy morphs into something deeper and much more personal:
Ms. Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of “Nanette,” a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and queer people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look “other,” get treated, dismissed and silenced. She is unflinching about the abuse that they — that she — endured, and the cultural norms that enabled it. She calls out men, powerful and otherwise.
In stark personal terms, she reveals her own gender and sexual trauma, and doesn’t invite people to laugh at it. “Nanette” is an international sensation, the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years, exquisitely timed to the #MeToo era. And in its success Ms. Gadsby has perhaps pointed the art form of stand-up in an altogether new direction, even as she has repeatedly vowed, onstage, to quit the business.
“I have built a career out of self-deprecating humor, and I don’t want to do that anymore,” she says in the special. “Because do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility. It’s humiliation.”
The fourth is a British woman, Viv Groskop, (a coaching client of mine), who recently played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, who writes an advice column and who has a new book — pictured above.
Viv, of course, is Cambridge educated and speaks fluent Russian.
Do you have a favorite female comedian?
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New Motorcycles • MX
2019 KTM 250 SX • $8,199
EXHILARATING POWER AND CONTROL
Whether its power-to-weight or power and control, the KTM 250 SX is the perfect combination of all that counts. Featuring the latest high-performance 2-stroke engine fitted within a state-of-the-art chassis, this powerhouse is undoubtedly the fastest 250cc 2-stroke on track. This proven race weapon is the right choice for those who thrive on that glorious 2-stroke sound while smashing out one hot lap after the next.
Bodywork and Graphics
BODYWORK & GRAPHICS: The KTM 250 SX has become an icon amongst 2-stroke fanatics, but for this bike, the classic sound it produces is where the nostalgia ends. A combined effort between KTM's factory riders, KTM R&D and Kiska Design has resulted in a highly effective modern-looking motorcycle with bodywork that achieves complete harmony between rider and bike. When designing the 2019 SX range, the main goal was to provide the perfect contact points for the rider, allowing maximum freedom of movement and improved motorcycle control. Examples of the intelligent design can be seen in the Ibeam structure of the front and rear fenders, which guarantee maximum stability and the lowest possible weight. The modern design and graphics ensure that it is not only about function, but an impressively fast and aggressive look that sends a clear message to the competition.
DECALS: New graphics convey the READY TO RACE character of the 2017 SX model line.
CHASSIS: The chassis forms an integral part of the feeling a rider has with his bike. The new chassis on the KTM 250 SX is designed to provide accurate feedback between the track and the rider, while also reducing the harshness of typical motocross terrain. The new lightweight, high-tech steel frame is made from chrome-moly and features optimized flex characteristics that soak up those big hits while also delivering excellent agility and high-speed stability. For 2019, the engine has been raised in the frame by 1° around the swing arm pivot, improving the handling and the grip of the front wheel. The refinements on this new chassis ensure the KTM 250 SX remains one of the most thrilling rides out there.
FRAME: The high-tech, lightweight chrome-moly steel frame has a knack for easy handling, outlandish rideability, precise cornering and excellent stability. You can also count on high torsional rigidity and low longitudinal stiffness. This results in better absorption of the energy created from the front and rear suspension, sucking up jumps and bumps. In short: more comfort and less rider fatigue. Laterally attached, lightweight aluminum engine head stays (the connection between cylinder head and frame) contribute to precise cornering and a reduced vibration level. The engineers were able to pull off all that, while making their frame 2.2 pounds lighter than that of the lightest competitor on the market. In addition, it is easier to maintain, easier to work on and supplies more space for the tank and other components. The bike also features an extra-light subframe made of aluminum, which tiptoes the scales at less than 2 pounds.
SWINGARM: The cast aluminum design offers low weight and a perfect flex behavior. The single-component casting process eliminates any inconsistencies and inherent weak points created by welding. It’s better looking as well.
WHEELS: Featuring lightweight, CNC machined hubs and high-end Excel rims, they guarantee maximum stability and minimal unsprung weight. The wheels are shod with the latest Dunlop Geomax MX 3S tires.
FRONT SUSPENSION: All full-size SX models are fitted with the super-lightweight WP AER 48 front fork. It is a 48 mm USD air-sprung fork with separate functions for each fork leg, meaning damping functions are on the right side and the air spring is on the left. The left leg features a two-chamber system with a capsuled air cartridge, helping prevent loss of air pressure. Essentially, this means that in the rare case of a leaking outer seal, the internal cartridge pressure keeps the bike in a normal position. The air spring is exceptionally easy to use and can be adjusted to any rider weight via a single air valve and the air pump that is supplied with the bike. The right fork leg integrates a damping cartridge to fit single damping leg requirements and can be adjusted to the track conditions and the rider's preferences. (compression from top, rebound from bottom, 30 clicks each). For 2019, new settings on the damping side have improved the damping characteristics, providing great front end feel and control.
REAR SUSPENSION: The WP shock absorber has been developed with the entire frame and swingarm architecture in mind, including the linkage and the WP AER 48 front fork. It features machined and black anodized components and is a valuable, high-end product compared to roughcast reservoirs. A new, confidence inspiring setting with improved damping characteristics perfectly matches the front-end setup and its striking WP color scheme lets everyone know you have excellent taste in suspension.
TRIPLE CLAMP: Top quality, CNC machined triple clamps have been a KTM trademark for years to ensure precise handling. For 2017, the upper triple clamp specifically features a redesign in conjunction with the new fork tubes. The rubber damped handlebar mount has also been reworked and the lower handlebar clamps are now separated, while on the upper side a new bridge-type clamp guarantees more torsional stiffness and can easily be replaced in case it gets twisted due to a crash. In addition, an hour meter is fitted at the upper triple clamp in order to let the rider know it’s time for a service.
BRAKES: You can’t brake any harder, better, faster or stronger. These high-tech Brembo babies are combined with lightweight wave discs made by Galfer. For 2017, the rear brake features a 10mm longer brake pedal and you get new, less aggressive brake pads all round.
FUEL TANK: A lightweight polyethylene tank with a capacity of 1.85 gallons. The fuel tank cap has an inside thread, which makes for easy and reliable closure.
AIRBOX: The airbox design offers maximum protection of the air filter while ensuring maximum airflow. The large twin-air filter is mounted in a stiff cage, which at the same time holds the system in place. This design is so simple you could still pop a fresh one in with a face full of mud. Without tools. In seconds.
ENGINE & EXHAUST: The engine of the KTM 250 SX features the latest 2-stroke technology with a counter-balance shaft for low engine vibration, as well as a reliable hydraulically operated DDS clutch. It has a twin-valve controlled-power-valve, which is a major factor in making the KTM 250 SX engine the most competitive 2-stroke in its class. Further refinements to the cylinder and exhaust, make powering through its 5-speed transmission a truly exhilarating experience.
CYLINDER: The newly developed cylinder of the 250 SX - with a bore of 66.4mm - has all-new ports and is fitted with an overhauled power valve system. This system features a sophisticated mechanism for the lateral support exhaust ports, providing smooth and controllable power on tap. Furthermore, it’s possible to change the bike’s power delivery in seconds thanks to two supplied powervalve springs. Limitless settings for different tracks and preferences are up for grabs. Throw everything you have at it; new water jackets in the cylinder and head will take care of excess heat and reworked lateral cylinder head brackets allow a more efficient fixation of the engine to the frame via lightweight head stays. Yes, this is a serious piece of kit.
CRANKCASES AND ENGINE COVERS: These all-new die-cast engine cases feature an 4mm higher clutch shaft and a 19.5mm higher crankshaft, resulting in better mass centralization and quicker handling. In addition, it allows the implementation of a counter balance shaft. So your ride will be as relaxed as it is rapid. Plus, your new favorite engine will keep looking as fresh as the day you bought it with redesigned engine covers featuring a smart surface structure in order to reduce the wear caused by the rider’s boots.
TRANSMISSION: A robust 5-speed transmission, its gear ratios perfectly in sync with the 250’s power band. An advanced ´No Dirt´ gear shift lever design prevents mud and sand from jamming the joint of the lever and guarantees trouble-free shifting.
CLUTCH: The 250 SX employs the KTM-developed DDS clutch (damped diaphragm steel) with a wear-free steel basket and extremely heat resistant clutch plates. This clever design employs a diaphragm spring instead of the usual coil springs, making for considerably easier clutch action. A diaphragm spring also leaves sufficient space for a damping system to be integrated into the clutch hub. The goal is traction, but durability is as well. A lighter basket, a reworked inner hub and a pressure plate providing better oil supply and unsurpassed cooling up the longevity of the DDS clutch. Light operation and telepathic amounts of control are standard with this hydraulic Brembo actuated clutch.
CARBURETOR: The KTM 250 SX is fitted with a MIKUNI TMX carburetor. This 38mm flat slide carb lives to provide smooth and controllable power all the way up to the rev limitation. With a new intake manifold the carburetor is turned 7° in order to reduce the overflow of fuel. And it’s less sensitive to different altitudes and temperatures, so you can pin it wherever, whenever.
IGNITION: Its 72mm stroke is the same, the rest is brand new. The 250 SX’s crank has been rebalanced, revamped and set-up with a counter balance shaft to kill vibrations, not your vibe.
CRANKSHAFT: This reliable piece of engineering has been skillfully balanced to guarantee minimal vibrations. In its latest form, it allows a decrease of the displacement to 125cm3 just by replacing cylinder, piston and head. There’s no longer the need to change the crankshaft if you want to change displacement. Two-in-one in no time.
COOLING: KTM’s proven cooling system routes the coolant from the cylinder head through the frame triangle, directly to aluminum radiators made by WP. A new filler cap system and are stiffer alloy construction increase the durability and reliability of the cooling system. Due to flow optimized internal circulation and CFD-calculated air ventilation, the system is superbly efficient. In addition, well thought-out radiator guards integrated in the front part of the shrouds provide protection in a crash.
EXHAUST: The engineers meticulously tuned the resonator chamber for maximum torque and power, so this screamer is as tough as it is strong.
Ergonomics and Comfort
ERGONOMICS & COMFORT: A rider's ability to work in unison with his bike depends on how quickly and effectively he can shift his weight around the motorcycle. KTM has focused extensively on creating bodywork and ergonomics that allow for the highest levels of performance. This ensures the natural riding position offers the best possible control and, through various handlebar positions, can also be adjusted to suit every rider and condition. A rider's main connection to the motorcycle comes through the seat, footpegs and handlebars and these three touch points play a vital role in maintaining balance and control. A rider is always looking for a fast and competitive motorcycle with a great feeling of controlled agility. The 2019 KTM 250 SX, like the entire SX range, ticks all the right boxes, especially when it comes to race-ready ergonomics.
SEAT: All SX models have a newly shaped seat, designed to match the improved ergonomics. The seat cover features newly developed silicone strips that provide better feel and grip for the rider. The seat is conveniently fixed to the bike using one long, lateral screw, making it safe and easy to handle.
HANDLEBAR: KTM engineers sure know how to handle handlebars. This tapered one, made of high-strength aluminum by NEKEN, is fixed in damped rubber mounts and has two different positions. From 2017 onwards, the lower handlebar clamps are separated, while on the upper side a new bridge-type clamp guarantees more torsional stiffness. It’s also easier to replace the bar in case it gets twisted in a nasty crash. ODI lock-on grips make grip changes easy which does not require any wire or glue to be secured.
FOOTPEGS: Sophisticated ´No Dirt´ footpegs prevent smudging up the pegs, even when digging in deep ruts. Looking for a higher riding position? Then just mount the footpegs of the 2018 EXC models, which are 6mm higher than the SX versions.
Software and Electronics
SOFTWARE & ELECTRONICS: Absolute performance purity is the name of the game when it comes to electronics and the new KTM 250 SX. Undiluted 2-stroke simplicity, with an hour meter to keep a check on how long you've been shredding and an optional rev counter to assist with perfect setup.
Front/Rear - 220 mm Disc
Chain - 5/8 x 1/4 in.
Wet multi-disc, hydraulically actuated
EMS - Kokusan
38 mm Mikuni TMX flat slide
25CrMo4 steel central-tube
Front - WP - USD, AER 48, Ø 48 mm
Rear - WP shock absorber with linkage
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Tag Archives: maryland terrapins
Things are all rosy in Baton Rouge.
So what did we learn in college football this week?
Your top two teams in college football are from, dun dun dun…. The SEC. LSU’s late blowout of West Virginia and Alabama’s drubbing of Arkansas put both teams at numbers 1 & 2 in the coaches poll and have set up our first “playoff” scenario of the 2011 season. One of these two teams will be playing for the national title this year no doubt it and one can knock the other out of the race for the title on November 5th when they clash in Tuscaloosa. I’m not shocked by Alabama’s performance as much as I am LSU’s. With so much controversy surrounding the Tigers at the beginning of the season with the incident involving Jordan Jefferson the Tigers have put it in the rearview and put together impressive victories against Oregon in Dallas and West Virginia in Morgantown. If there was an NCAA comeback player of the year award then it should go to Jarrett Lee. Lee was a one-time starter before the arrival of Jefferson. Ever since Jefferson was suspended for the season opener Lee got his job back and has a strangle hold on it. Also let’s give Les Miles some credit. We call him the ‘Mad Hatter” due to his questionable decision making on the sidelines but he has had his boys ready to play for a full 60 this year. they play their best ball late in games as well as the scored the last 20 points in the 4th quarter to put WVU away and 24 straight in the second half against Oregon. LSU and Alabama play tough ones against Florida in the next month, but nothing should stop them from a possible 1 vs. 2 matchup in Saban Bowl 3. Mark your calendars folks.
If Texas A&M can’t put away an Oklahoma State team that plays absolutely no defense then what will they accomplish in the SEC? after Saturday’s 30-29 loss to the Cowboys you have to wonder just what will happen to the Aggies once they begin SEC play. It’s been well documented that Oklahoma State plays no defense but that didn’t stop the Cowboys from shutting down the Aggies for almost 2 quarters as Oklahoma State score 27 unanswered after being down 20-3 in the third quarter on the road. Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon were stellar once again in leading the Cowboys back from the dead. However, the focus is on Texas A&M’s lackluster finish. if they couldn’t put away the Cowboys and were turnover prone against their defense what will happen next year when they face LSU, Auburn and Alabama? Mike Sherman’s bunch had an opportunity to make the Aggies last year in the Big 12 a memorable one; instead the Aggies are staring uncertainty in the face as they make their departure.
Before all is said and done the Arizona State Sun Devils may have a say in the Pac-12 race. Their 43-22 win over USC featured a tremendous performance by their defense, which put Matt Barkley in bad positions all day forcing him into two interceptions and 4 turnovers overall for the Trojans. Running back Cameron Marshall finally got the running game going with a 3 touchdown, 141 yard performance to match Brock Oswilers passing proficiency. After a slipup in Champaign, Illinois last week the Sun Devils were able to right the ship in impressive fashion. The road for the Devils doesn’t get any easier with trips to Salt Lake City to face Utah and then they head to Eugene the next week to face the Ducks. They might not win the Pac-12 but they will be a team to watch.
The Big Ten, like most conferences had its top tier, middle of the road and bottom feeder teams. That was more than on display this weekend as the upper echelons strived, the middle of the pack struggles and the bottom feeders looked bad. Wisconsin, Michigan State, Michigan and Iowa all rolled to victory, So did Ohio State but their passing game looked ineffective and Illinois had trouble putting Western Michigan away. Then there was Indiana and Indiana who lost to North Texas and North Dakota State… yep. As conference play begins this weekend it will be clear to see who belongs where in this conference.
You should put Houston Nutt on the ax watch. Ole Miss is 1-3 with losses to BYU and Georgia at home and an embarrassing showing at Vanderbilt last week. Nutt was
No Houston they're not walking you out of Oxford... yet.
impressive in his first season leading the Rebels to a 10 win season and a Cotton Bowl win. Ever since then it has been one disappointment after another. If Ole Miss could fire a coach after a 10 win season (hi Ed Oregeron) how do you think they will treat Nutt?
Florida’s run game. They have been a pass oriented program for the last few years but not against Kentucky last weekend. The Gators ran for over 400 yards including 157 from Jeff Demps and 105 from Chris Rainey in a 48-10 beat down.
Pittsburgh’s offensive line (I meant the school but after last night’s win in Indy you could include the Steelers too). They gave up 6 sacks to Notre Dame in a 15-12 defeat. Todd Sunseri had no time to throw and the Panthers suffered for it.
This is usually reserved for the Maryland Terrapins uniforms (and they were hideous) but how about some hate for the actual game play. Falling behind 31-0 to Temple… TEMPLE!!!??? Yeah Pitt and Syracuse made a great decision in joining the ACC.
LaMichael James, Oregon: 23 carries, 288 yards and 2 TD’s in Oregon’s 56-31 stomping of Arizona.
EMBARASSMENT OF THE WEEK
To the referees in the Toledo-Syracuse game… everyone saw that extra point for Syracuse sail wide left and you called it good even after replay confirmed that you were wrong? Even that call would’ve been made properly then Toledo would’ve had a win. Looks like the Big East officials are practicing ACC standards already.
After further review... it's still no good.
ALBAMA
KELLEN MOORE, BOISE STATE
ANDREW LUCK, STANFORD
LANDRY JONES, OKLAHOMA
TRENT RICHARDSON, ALABAMA
LAMICHAEL JAMES, OREGON
Next week has some interesting matchups on tap. Texas A&M takes on Arkansas in the TEXARKANA battle at Cowboys Stadium, Nevada travels to Boise as the Broncos look for revenge for last year’s BCS busting loss at Reno. Michigan State takes on Ohio State in the Big Ten opener for both. Clemson travels to Virginia Tech in a ACC battle. But the two big ones are Florida-Alabama and Nebraska-Wisconsin both at night.
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Higher Learning Week 1 CFB
Yep... It's us again.
So to fully analyze the silliness that is college football I’ve decided to dedicate a weekly recap entitled “Higher Learning.” Get it? college? Learning? Education?… well it’s cool to me so deal with it. so let’s start it off shall we with five things I learned this weekend:
As if we needed anymore proof that Boise State is a powerhouse program they gave us a new reason to be afraid of them… they beat an SEC team… in SEC country… and it wasn’t even close. Boise’s 35-21 beat down in the ATL was as impressive of a performance offensively and defensively as I’ve seen from them. They weren’t intimidated by the SEC name, the partisan crowd or the fact that they lost a ton of experience on both offense and defense. Fact is that as long as Kellen Moore is under center then it really doesn’t matter who’s there. Moore led a balanced attacked up and down the Georgia dome and the defense was stellar save for an 80 yard touchdown run by Brandon Boykin. Boise looks like they’re primed to make another BCS run and doesn’t look like it’ll be tested seriously until October 7th when they face up with Pat Hill’s always pesky Fresno State squad. Let the Boise hype begin.
How about the Big 12 putting the Texas A&M controversy and the concerns about the future of the conference to the side and putting together a 10-0 weekend including Baylor’s 50-48 upset of then #14th ranked TCU . The conference flexed its offensive muscle as 7 of the 10 teams scored 42 points or more and looked unaffected by the constant banter surrounding the conference. It gets to flex more muscle this week as Oklahoma State faces a good Arizona team, Missouri takes on Arizona State, Texas faces BYU coming off of a win against Mississippi in Oxford and the battle for the Cy-Hawk trophy in Ames, Iowa between Iowa and Iowa State.
LSU might be the team to beat in the SEC. Florida, Alabama and Auburn all won this weekend (Auburn barely) but LSU was the most impressive team this weekend. Jarrett Lee made Jordan Jefferson seem expendable with his performance against Oregon as he led the Tigers to 24 straight points in route to a 40-27 route at Cowboys Stadium. However, what was very impressive was the LSU front four that gave LaMichael James and the Ducks no room to run and stuffed them at every turn. If they can get by two tough road games against Mississippi State and West Virginia then we could be talking about LSU playing for the National Championship in New Orleans for the third straight time.
I wouldn’t pencil in Alabama into the National Championship just yet. even after a sound 48-7 beating of Kent State you have to be very concerned of their QB situation. AJ McCarron and Phillip Sims threw two picks each and looked shaky at times. I can imagine how shaky they will be when facing 107,000 rabid Nittany Lions fans this weekend at Beaver Stadium. The Tide should roll to victory this weekend but not without some mistakes under center.
The weather needs to calm down after this weekend. Lightning caused delays during games in Morgantown, South Bend and Ann Arbor and caused one fan serious injury in Morgantown. Hopefully mother nature will be on her best behavior going forward and people will be safe… and games can get finished in less than 8 hours.
Cincinnati beat up Austin Peay University 72-10 racking up 561 total yards and putting up the most points this weekend of any FBS team in the country.
TCU’s defense. Gary Patterson’s bunch has been a force on the defensive end in the last few seasons ranking in the top ten nationally. Against Baylor they resembled the Bad News Bears allowing 50 points, 564 total yards and giving Patterson an aneurysm.
Maryland’s uniforms… yuck.
Kellen Moore: 28-34, 261 yards and 3 TD’s in a 35-21 beat down of Georgia.
Notre Dame’s effort against South Florida. Dayne Crist could be permanently benched, the offense looked stagnant and Brian Kelly dropped about 30 F-Bombs on NBC… oops.
Looking ahead to this weekend’s best matchups Alabama faces Penn State at State College, and Notre Dame heads to Ann Arbor to play Michigan under the lights at The Big House.
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Your Scandal-Free College Football Preview
Way to continue the trend Jordan.
You know why I started to watch sports as a kid? Because every time I watched the regular news all I saw was murder, poverty and scandal. After a while you get sick of looking at poor kids starving in Africa, someone shot in Brooklyn or some greedy CEO going to jail for screwing over his company.
In my head sports was simple and true. Just guys scoring goals, touchdowns and making shots. There was no greed in athletics, no horrible occurrences and no death. Was I naïve? Of course I was but I hadn’t hit 10 yet.
The harsh reality of sports hit me in 1992 when Mike Tyson went to jail for rape. I couldn’t really fathom how it happened and even today still can’t. How can an athlete do something wrong I thought? All he does is box. What does rape have to do with sports and who would do something like that?
Once Tyson went to jail Michael Irvin got caught with cocaine, Rae Carruth killed his baby mother and hid in his trunk and the steroid scandal began. Naivety went out of the window, sports is no different than any other thing in life. Athletes and institutions screw up just as much as the guy that robbed the 7-11 last night and looked into the camera, that’s just a reality.
The worst culprit of all I’ve come to realize is college sports in particular college football. As much as I love the pageantry and craziness of football on Saturdays it might be the most corrupt association in all of sports.
I’ve given the notion that no school is clean and everyone cheats. With all that’s at stake in job security, getting the best players and getting to a BCS game AD’s, boosters, coaches and players do what they can to make sure that they win whether it’s pay for play, turning the other cheek when your players commit crimes, taking benefits or whatever. You have to win, winning keeps you employed, winning makes recruits want to come there, then when they get there they have to be happy hence the benefits of cars, tattoos and free bar tabs.
I’ve come to accept this in the last ten years or so, but honestly after this year it is getting out of control.
Even without the guy on the right Luck has Stanford ready to compete.
How many scandals can the NCAA have in one year? dating back to October of 2010 Auburn has had a pay for play scandal with Cam Newton, Georgia and Florida have had issues with arrests, USC was sanctioned for the Reggie Bush scandal, Tennessee has had ongoing investigations due to violations under Lane Kiffin, Ohio State… (I won’t get into this any further 5 blogs on them is enough), Oregon suspended its top corner Cliff Harris after an arrest, North Carolina is still awaiting its punishment for its players receiving improper benefits, Miami’s scandal looks like an episode of Miami Vice and now LSU is in hot water after Jordan Jefferson and company got into a huge bar far in Baton Rouge and he’ll miss time including opening night versus Oregon…
AND THIS IS IN ONE YEAR!!!
College football is at its opening weekend and there is barely any talk of the games being played but the scandal that surrounds it. Big time matchups will not have marquee names, the eye of the NCAA is fixed everywhere and honestly, I’m watching ESPN everyday to see who slips up next.
This year could be a wide open year as far as the race for a national champion goes and you wouldn’t even know it. Florida State is back in the top 10, Nebraska is in the Big Ten, Utah is in the Pac-12, Texas A&M is acting like a spoiled child, Syracuse might be back, Oklahoma could run the table and it’s all about scandal.
Well I’m sick of it. let’s talk about the football people because that’s all that matters. this is a scandal-free college football preview where football is the only discussion. let’s talk about who’s number one, who can contend and who can take down the SEC (hopefully someone because I’m sick of the SEC.)
The conference is the worst of the big 6 (yes worse than the Big East), however it looks to get better this season.
Florida State is back in the top 5 coming off of a 10-3 season and has high hopes for a run at the national title behind QB E.J. Manuel. Once mainstays in title hunt the Seminoles have had it rough in the last ten few seasons but clearly have the edge in the conference this year.
One team to look out for is Maryland. Returning QB Danny O’ Brian is a beast under center and new head coach Randy Edsall should whip this defense into shape.
It’s still a weak conference (hi Wake Forest and Duke) but Florida State’s returning star power should give the conference something to hang its hat on
Non-conference game of the year: FSU-OKLAHOMA
Conference game of the year: Conf Champ. Game VT-FSU
Conference winner: FSU
Player of the Year: Danny O’ Brian
You all know I’m overly geeked that Syracuse is good again (and you especially know this after they came back to beat Wake Forest last night) but the conference is on its way up again with TCU entering next season.
Yeah, I'm excited for SYracuse football too.
West Virginia returns QB Geno Smith, who is a dark horse candidate for the Heisman trophy and Louisville may finally have a defense that can keep up with its offense.
The key to the success of the conference this year lies in its top 4 though. West Virginia, Pittsburgh, South Florida and Syracuse have big non-conference games that can showcase whether or not this conference is truly worth being a BCS conference.
However… THE CUSE IS BACK!!!
Give me reason to have hope after a 8-5 season, a huge win last night and the possibility that Ryan Nassib can have some magic in that arm of his. In a conference that has been mired in mediocrity it needs Syracuse to be good again. The Orange may be neck and neck with West Virginia for best football history in the conference and it needs to rekindle its rivalries with WVU and Penn State. You have to cheer for the Cuse to come back the conference needs it.
Non conference game of the year: Syracuse-USC, South Florida-Notre Dame, West Virginia-LSU, Pitt-Iowa
Conference game of the year: Pitt-WVU
Conference winner: WVU
Best Player: Geno Smith
The best team in the country resides in Norman, Oklahoma; the best offense resides in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The team that could make noise more than any school is in College Station, Texas. Sure the conference cut two teams, but it made the conference better.
Oklahoma at number one followed by Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, combined with an underrated Missouri, a comeback year for Texas and a growing threat in Texas Tech makes this the second best conference in the country.
They have the best arms in the nation in Landry Jones and Brandon Weeden, a great hybrid QB in Robert Griffin and don’t forget about Kansas State getting Bryce Brown, who transferred from Tennessee.
The question is can anybody in the conference finally play some defense?
Texas A&M lost standout linebacker Von Miller, Oklahoma won’t have its leading tackler Travis Lewis for Florida State and the Cowboys (and every other team in the conference for that matter) can’t stop anyone.
Catch us if you can.
If the Big 12 wants to climb past the SEC and be the big dog on Saturdays then one of these teams has to allow less than 35 points a game and get physical up front. Until that happens, as much as I like this Oklahoma team, I can’t pick them to win the national title… but I can pick them to get there.
Non-conference game of the year: FSU-Oklahoma, Texas A&M-Arkansas
Conference game of the year: Texas A&M-Oklahoma
Conference winner: Oklahoma
Best player: Landry Jones
The Big Ten has been Ohio State’s personal punching bag for the last ten years… not anymore.
With Nebraska and monster defensive tackle Jared Crick coming to the conference it’s a new day in the Midwest. Nebraska comes off a disappointing finish to last year where it looked like the Cornhuskers were going to ride Taylor Martinez to the Fiesta Bowl. However, as with most freshmen QB’s he faded.
This year however he and the Huskers are reloaded and ready to contend for a national title… if they can get by Wisconsin.
After watching last night’s beat down of UNLV it looks like new QB Russell Wilson will fit right in at Madison. Behind a monster offensive line and Monte Ball in the backfield the Badgers, if they don’t make it to New Orleans, could still find themselves in Pasadena.
Watch out for Northwestern too (yes, Northwestern) they are primed to make a run to the top with Dan Persa returning from an Achilles injury. Also, Michigan might be making a comeback with new coach Brady Hoke at the helm. The days of a punch less Michigan defense might be over.
(Ok so I have to say a few words about Ohio State. This year is such a disappointment already even though there hasn’t been a game played yet. when Joe Bauserman was named the starter yesterday it hit me that this is what’s left at Ohio State.
The scandal has left the team spinning and it hasn’t stopped. Three more players were suspended for the opener against Akron for accepting improper benefits adding to the four suspended starters from the tattoo scandal and Terrelle Pryor going AWOL to the NFL. All that’s left is Carlos Hyde, Bauserman and Block O.
It’s been such an embarrassing turn of events leading into what was supposed to be a legendary new beginning to the Big Ten. The Buckeyes were supposed to collide head on with the Huskers for supremacy of the conference early on. It was supposed to be a new rivalry brewing that would decide the Big Ten for the next however many years. Now Ohio State is a non-factor., an afterthought, and it’s hard to swallow.
College scandals were way easier to deal with when it wasn’t the school that you went to.)
Non-conference game of the year: Penn State-Alabama
Conference game of the year: Wisconsin-Nebraska
Conference winner: Nebraska
Best player: Jared Crick
LaHeisman?
Welcome to the conference Colorado and Utah… now watch Oregon blow by all of you.
Much to the contrary belief that this is a two team race I highly disagree. Stanford is highly overrated thanks in part to Andrew Luck (though it is a good reason because Luck is a beast). Stanford lost a lot on both sides of the ball and they may need Luck to throw up 40 points a game to have a chance at winning 10 games…
And 40 won’t be enough to beat Oregon.
They only lose Jeff Maehl on the outside and Casey Matthews on defense, however LaMichael James, Chip Kelly’s silly cards and the most high octane offense in the NCAA is all back. Getting through the Pac-12 will be a little bit of a problem, but just a little problem.
Non-conference game of the year: Oregon-LSU
Conference game of the year: Oregon-Stanford
Conference winner: Oregon
Best player: Andrew Luck
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY SEC
Were the 2 mighty’s necessary? Um… they’ve won the last five national titles so yes. I’ve finally given in and given the SEC its props and rightfully so. It’s the best conference in the country by a mile, no one recruits as good as them, is as fast them or as tough on defense as them.
Their top 6 teams year in and out could win any conference by a game or two, they routinely run over competition and make the best in another conference look bad (hi, Big 10 and Big 12) and they are bigger and faster than anyone in the nation.
However there are some concerns all over the conference. Besides the LSU hiccups there are issues in Georgia as they come off of their first losing season since the 80’s, Florida adjusts to a new coach in Will Muschamp and people in Gainesville are still skeptical of John Brantley, Auburn and Alabama have to replace national champion QB’s and Tennessee is still trying to climb its way back to respectability.
However the news is all rosy in Starkville, Mississippi and Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Bulldogs are looking to build on a 9-4 season as Dan Mullen enters his third year as coach, and the Razorbacks are a dark horse national title pick. Bobby Petrino has to reload at QB after losing Ryan Mallett but Tyler Wilson should ease some concern for fans of the Hogs if his year mirrors his 332 yard 4 TD performance versus Auburn last year.
The wildcard here is South Carolina. Steve Spurrier after 6 years finally has the Gamecocks in position to win the SEC and make a claim as one of the best teams in the conference as well as the nation. Troubled QB Stephen Garcia looks like he’s getting his last shot at redemption and with the help of the best defense in the SEC (which gets better with the freakish Jadeveon Clowney coming to Columbia, SC) and Marcus Lattimore who is gaining buzz for a run at the Heisman.
If South Carolina can survive road tests “Between the Hedges” and at Arkansas then they should be dancing to Atlanta for the SEC title game and to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl.
Non-conference game of the year: Arkansas-Texas A&M, LSU-Oregon, Florida-Florida State
Conference game of the year: LSU-Arkansas
Conference winner: South Carolina
Best player: Marcus Lattimore
South Carolina may finally be the cream of the SEC crop.
As for the Non-AQ schools it’s all about Boise State. TCU is in its last year in the Mountain West before runs through the Big East and Boise looks like the only challenger to a BCS bowl game. However, a number 5 ranking after losing Titus Young, Austin Pettis and half of your defense is tough. As much as I like the Broncos (and Kellen Moore especially) I don’t see them getting to the BCS this year even if they beat Georgia this Saturday. TCU even without Andy Dalton is still no slouch and they have to travel to Fresno to take on a always frisky Bulldog team. it looks like this will be the first year without a BCS buster in sometime.
So with all that said who plays in the national title game? Oregon and Oklahoma.
Yeah I know the SEC is the best conference and that they’ve won the last five titles but it’s got to end at some point. Last year while watching Oregon-Auburn I saw Oregon not only keep up with the Tigers but they beat them in certain areas. If that game were played a week or two after the end of the season then the Ducks would’ve been national champs.
I like the Sooners but I don’t know if they can stop anybody outside of their conference on defense. Landry Jones will have a huge year and look like a first round draft pick under center, but do they have the speed to keep up with a team from the SEC or Oregon? I don’t think so.
So there it is the Oregon Ducks will win the national title and Puddles the Duck will be doing celebratory pushups in New Orleans. Hopefully that’s what we’ll remember this season for is the action that takes place on the field and not the calamity and chaos that happens off of it.
ACC- FLORIDA STATE (DARK HORSE- MARYLAND)
BIG EAST- WEST VIRGINIA (SYRACUSE)
BIG 12- OKLAHOMA (OKLAHOMA STATE)
BIG 10- NEBRASKA (NORTHWESTERN)
PAC 12- OREGON (UTAH)
SEC- SOUTH CAROLINA (FLORIDA)
HEISMAN- LAMICHAEL JAMES
BCS CHAMP GAME- OREGON VS. OKLAHOMA
ROSE BOWL- NEBRASKA VS. STANFORD
SUGAR BOWL- SOUTH CAROLINA VS. WEST VIRGINIA
ORANGE BOWL- FLORIDA STATE VS. WISCONSIN
FIESTA BOWL- TEXAS A&M VS. FLORIDA
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Maryland Makes A Statement
When it was all said and done, the Maryland Terrapins made more noise than what expected going into last night’s tilt with the Duke Blue Devils. In the Terps 77-69 victory, they out played out hustled and beat up a Duke team with more than a few worries headed into the NCAA tournament.
The Terps jumped on Duke early with quick shots and great defense. Even though they lost their lead momentarily, they never lost their fight. They made Duke a three man team (more on that later) and overpowered them with balance from their starters, including Jordan Williams who was outplayed by Brian Zoubek in the first game but got the better of the matchup this time, and Dino Gregory and Adrian Bowie off of the bench.
Vazquez basks in his glory
The star of course was Greivis Vazquez who cemented his candidacy for ACC player of the year with a 20 point, five assist outing, which included an amazing off-balanced shot that was eventually the undoing of the Blue Devils. Last night’s game personified Vazquez’s career at Maryland. He is a player who plays with his heart on his sleeve and with reckless abandon. He comes of cocky (and he is) and even talks himself into corners that he can’t get out of, yet Vazquez has always been a fearless competitor that plays every game like it’s his last.
It was also vindication of sorts for Gary Williams. Williams has been getting a lot of heat in the last few years (and rightfully so for his horrible recruiting) and there was even talk of him being fired two years ago during Maryland’s second consecutive NIT trip. This year has been his best coaching job since that 2003 national championship team with Juan Dixon and company. Williams has put together a team of overachievers and little know recruiters and has turned them into the most dangerous team heading into the tournament. Tell me this; would you want to play a team that has won 8 straight, heading into a weak ACC tournament where they can pick up more steam? If you’re Kansas, Syracuse or Kentucky then the answer is no.
The really intriguing thing about last night’s game was not just that Maryland won, but they may have finally exposed weaknesses that Duke had been able to avoid all year. One, The Dukies can’t seem to get any scoring from guys other than Kyle Singler, Jon Scheyer, and Nolan Smith. In last night’s game Duke took 66 shots, 14 of them came from the other 6 players in their rotation; Maryland meanwhile had six players with 5 or more shots taken. At times you could see Smith and Scheyer pressing because they know that if they can’t get it done then no one will. It leads to their second problem which is consistency. The Plumlee brothers have been terrible down the stretch watching their minutes decrease nightly, while Brian Zoubek has been hot and cold all year as well. It has to concern Coach K that he doesn’t know what he’s going to get on any given night from guys that aren’t part of the big 3. If Duke wants to go deep in the tournament, and avoid another sweet 16 letdown, then someone other than SIngler, Scheyer or Smith has to step it up.
What else Duke has to worry about is their seeding in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Maryland is making a strong case for a possible two-seed in the tournament with their play of late while Duke may have just played out of a number one seed. It opens the door for a team like Ohio State that recently clinched the Big Ten title and plays in a stronger conference that Duke.
Maryland just made the tourney committee’s next few weeks a little more interesting, and made them a force to be reckoned with. Maryland is not back at the top, but they have returned to being a respected team in the landscape of college basketball. Teams will watch the Terps very close over the next two weeks and hope that maybe there is a chance that maybe their momentum can be slowed in the ACC tournament. However, this looks like a team on a mission with something to prove. Fear the turtle indeed.
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September 12, 2018 / 3:38 PM / a year ago
Bubbling Bolt toasts zero-gravity with champagne
REIMS, France (Reuters) - Usain Bolt sprinted through thin air and sipped champagne floating on his back as he enjoyed near zero-gravity conditions in an aircraft performing stomach-lurching parabola dives.
The eight-times Olympic champion grinned as he experienced weightlessness in the modified plane normally used for scientific research, but on this occasion to showcase a champagne bottle that will allow astronauts to drink bubbles in space.
Bolt called it a “mindblowing” experience.
“I was nervous but as soon as the first one (parabola) goes you kind of go ‘oh my God, what’s happening’. But after the third one I was like ‘yeah, it’s crazy’,” Bolt told Reuters TV.
The bottle was designed by champagne-maker Mumm. In time the company hopes to capitalize on the advent of space tourism.
Billionaires Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon Inc, and Richard Branson are locked in a race to send wealthy tourists into suborbital space, high enough to see the curvature of the earth. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has ambitions to send paying passengers around the moon.
They may want to toast their adventures.
“The tourists will be enjoying the view of the earth, the view of space, weightlessness, and they will celebrate. So maybe there is not a market for a lot of bottles in space, but there is a market for some bottles,” said Jean-Francois Clervoy, a French former astronaut who accompanied Bolt on his flight.
Reporting by Reuters TV; writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Janet Lawrence
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Main characters, Female characters, The Reef Circle members,
Students at Pacific High North
Female surfers
The Reef Circle
Heidi Jett
Brody Nelson
Aaron Moore
Lena Leakes
Faye Winter
Elliot Winter
Portrayer:
Shelley Hennig
Heidi Pauline Jett is a main character on California Dreamin'. She is the black sheep of the group, and enjoys skateboarding and graffiti just as much as surfing with her friends.
Heidi is portrayed by Shelley Hennig and made her debut in the series premiere, Pilot.
Unlike the others, Heidi didn't have a great childhood. She was born in New Jersey to a physically abusive father and a mother who had to live with him. Her parents divorced when Heidi was six and her mother moved the family to California, far, far away from her father. Her mother forced her to take part in surfing after locking herself in her room for years and she reluctantly tried it, and actually ended up loving it.
Heidi is a badass from head to toe. She loves skateboarding and graffiti, yet still loves surfing with her friends. She's tried drugs in the past and has drank alcohol and she admits to it. Heidi is openly bisexual
Heidi was long curled brown hair and dark almond shaped brown eyes. Her skin is a fair tone and she stands at 5'7". Her clothes are very badass and sometimes revealing. Most of her wardrobe consists of mostly black and she has a tomboy look with a sexy twist to it.
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Pilot Edit
Heidi's portrayer Shelley Hennig, and Asia Nelson's portrayer Britt Robertson, previously starred on The CW show, The Secret Circle together.
Originally, the character was named Anee Hart and was portrayed by Selena Gomez. Later, the character was portrayed by Nina Dobrev. After that, the character's name changed to Heidi Jett, her backstory was modified slightly, and she was portrayed by Pixie Lott. Finally, she was portrayed by Shelley Hennig.
Other actresses considered for the modified role included Phoebe Tonkin and Katerina Graham.
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Evolving with Evidence and Celebrating a Decade of FNP
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Building Blocks Study
Family Nurse Partnership
Last Thursday myself and Julia Sanders attended a celebration of 10 years of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in the Attlee Suite at Portcullis House, Westminster. In fact this was our second visit of the week to Westminster.
Wide range of expertise
On Monday, members of the Building Blocks team (Kerry Hood, Sue Channon, Julia and myself) went to the third and final of a series of round table discussion groups organised by The Foundation Years Information and Research group and chaired by Karen Buck MP. The meeting series has explored the introduction of innovative early intervention schemes to the UK setting and featured work led by Cardiff University’s Building Blocks team in addition to expert contributors from other parts of the UK, Holland, Germany and Australia. I previously blogged following the first meeting back in January 2017 but was unable to get to the second in February. Organisers and contributors to the meeting now plan to develop guidance to support innovation in the development and adaptation of programmes to support families. I’m sure that gathering together the expertise from around the table and forming into guidance will be a creative and fascinating exercise.
English experience of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)
On Thursday though, the focus was solely on the English experience of FNP and the event was hosted by the FNP National Unit led by Ailsa Swarbrick. Over the past 10 years the specialist home visiting programme, which originated in the US has been adapted for use in the English healthcare setting, undergone a formal implementation evaluation, expanded in delivery to around 100 sites and was formally trialled by Cardiff University. Adaptations to the scheme indicated by our findings are now being implemented and further evaluated while the delivery of the service has also moved to local authorities as part of broader changes in public health provision in England. The programme is shortly due to deliver its one millionth client visit! The FNP National Unit has responded to the trial findings on their website. The importance to FNP of our current follow-on study, Building Blocks 2-6 that will establish medium-term programme impact is also clear. The FNP’s current ADAPT programme which is informed by Building Blocks findings is currently testing modifications intended to address issues such as smoking cessation and personalisation of FNP, for example, by better targeting of clients.
Strong support for early initiatives
It is fair to say that our trial results in addition to other major structural changes over the last ten years referred to by Ailsa – such as the financial crash – have significantly challenged but also shaped how FNP has changed and continues to develop. The consistent policy support for FNP was reflected by the speakers at the event – the labour MP, Graham Allen, Nicola Blackwood (current Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation) and Prof Viv Bennett, the Director of Nursing, Public Health England. It is encouraging to note the broad political alliance in this area of policy and practice with the importance of the period between conception and children’s second birthday reflected in cross-party manifesto initiatives such as The 1001 Critical Days campaign.
For me the two most important contributions to the FNP celebration event were from an FNP supervisor and a former client (‘graduate’) who both described how the scheme continued to inspire and influence them. Julia and I also had the pleasure of talking informally and in some depth to another scheme graduate and her family nurse about being part of the programme and also about some of the continued innovation supporting new families (e.g. video feedback to promote positive parenting). As we continue to add to the evidence base for FNP through our Building Blocks 2-6 study, it is a privilege and a motivation to spend time in the company of those who have led its introduction, who deliver FNP in practice and who have brought their first child up with the encouragement and support of local FNP nurses.
The food looked great too but we had a train to catch back to Cardiff!
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Hawaii accelerates past 10,000 electric vehicles
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Car washes statewide join ‘clean transportation’ future by celebrating 10K milestone with $10 EV wash specials
HONOLULU — The number of registered electric vehicles (EVs) in Hawaii surpassed 10,000 last month, with more residents throughout the Islands choosing the cleaner, less fossil fuel-dependent, and increasingly more economical form of transportation.
To mark the “clean transportation” milestone, the Drive Electric Hawaii coalition is partnering with The Car Parlor in Honolulu to salute individuals who have made the choice to drive electric, offering free car washes for EVs all day on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.
In addition, car washes across the state are joining in to recognize the environmental, economic and societal benefits of EVs by offering a month-long $10 car wash special to EV drivers from Oct. 10 to Nov. 10, 2019. To take advantage of the $10 car wash special, EV drivers must download a coupon from the Drive Electric Hawaii website, which they can then present at participating locations. (Offer is valid for vehicles equipped with a government-issued “Electric Vehicle” license plate.) Participating locations include:
The Car Parlor, 1111 Kapiolani Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96814; thecarparlor.com
McKinley Car Wash, 1139 Kapiolani Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96815;
www.mckinleycarwashhonolulu.com
Hilo Express Car Wash, 1089 Kilauea Ave., Hilo; www.lexbrodiescarwash.com
Kona Express Car Wash, 75-5570 Kuakini Hwy., Kailua-Kona; www.lexbrodiescarwash.com
Wash It Hawaii, 1203 Keawe St., Lahaina, Maui, HI 96761; www.washithawaii.com
It’s no mistake that car washes are supportive of cleaner forms of transportation.
“One of the best ways to minimize the effect washing a car has on the environment is to use a commercial car wash, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” said Judy Kim-Sugita, owner and operator of The Car Parlor. “Many commercial car washes use less than half of what the average person uses to wash a vehicle at home, most locations reuse wash water several times.”
“The role EVs play in the future of ground transportation and our state’s ambitious energy goals is widely recognized,” said Greg Gaug, senior vice president of investments and analytics at Ulupono Initiative. “However, EVs still represent less than 1% of all passenger vehicles in the state. Increasing adoption will only accelerate and expand the benefits that EVs bring to our communities, including reducing our fossil fuel dependence and providing cleaner air for our keiki to enjoy.”
“Hawaiian Electric’s Electrification of Transportation (EoT) Strategic Roadmap details how the increased adoption of EVs will allow us to integrate even more renewables into our grid by encouraging EV charging during periods of the day when solar energy is abundant,” said Jimmy Yao, director, electrification of transportation, at Hawaiian Electric Company. “Our Electric Vehicle Critical Backbone Study will help to identify areas where public EV charging options can create a ‘critical backbone’ to support EV-driving commuters and tourists and help optimize operation of the electric grid.”
“EVs are a key part of breaking down barriers to transformative clean transportation options and policies that reduce the use of petroleum for getting around,” said Lauren Reichelt, who directs Blue Planet Foundation’s clean transportation programs and serves as the Clean Cities coordinator for the Sustainable Transportation Coalition of Hawaii (STCH).
According to the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s “Monthly Energy Trend Highlights September 2019” report, the number of registered passenger EVs in the state was 10,003 as of Sept. 19, 2019, an increase of 2,205 vehicles (28.3%) from September last year. However, EVs still account for less than 1% (0.92%) of the 1,083,258 total registered passenger vehicles in the state.
As EVs become mainstream, vehicle costs are increasingly becoming comparable to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. Car manufacturers have announced their commitments to going electric or expanding their electric lineup soon, including Audi, Ford, GM, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Tesla, Volkswagen and Volvo. The cost of owning and maintaining an EV is also significantly lower than ICE cars. Though residing in a state with some of the highest electricity rates in the country, a Hawaii EV owner will save on average $507 per year by switching from gas to electricity for fuel, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. In addition, increasing number and longevity of EVs means there are more opportunities for used EVs to return to the market. Like other secondhand cars, these vehicles are offered at a more affordable price, making EVs more accessible to a wider audience.
About Drive Electric Hawaii
Formed in 2016, Drive Electric Hawaii seeks to promote the use of electric vehicles, cut fossil-fuel-transportation and add more renewable energy through collaboration on education, promotion, advocacy, and infrastructure to make electric mobility easier for all. The coalition of public, private, and nonprofit organizations includes Blue Planet Foundation, the four island counties, Hawaiian Electric Companies, Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, Rocky Mountain Institute, Hawaii State Energy Office, Hawai‘i State Department of Transportation, State Division of Consumer Advocacy, and Ulupono Initiative. For more information, visit: driveelectrichi.com.
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More Freud, less football coach: Schultz on Richt
While I suppose it was inevitable that the Crowell dismissal would be the inspiration for another Jeff Schultz column in which he appoints himself Mark Richt’s scold, yesterday’s piece took a slightly different tack from where Schultz usually goes when the criminal element rears its ugly head in Athens town.
That may be the consequence, as Schultz concedes, of the fact that nobody can accuse Richt of sitting on his hands anymore when a player, even one as important as Crowell was, crosses a line.
Richt, to his credit, no longer responds to players’ criminal or just plain stupid actions by merely making them run stadium steps or suspending their dessert privileges. He has come a long way from enabling Odell Thurman. He suspends players. He kicks them out. He tries to make them understand that getting four or five stars stamped on your forehead by a recruiting site and the ego trip of a signing-day news conference shouldn’t be accompanied by a sense of entitlement (even if it too often does).
Or, it may be because certain issues are both beyond Richt’s control and not matters that Richt’s peers need address, again, as Schultz concedes: “Some of Georgia’s problems can be attributed to having a tougher drug-and-alcohol policy than other schools.”
But seven kids are gone, gone, gone from Georgia’s vaunted Dream Team class. And that means somebody’s got to shake a vigorous finger in Richt’s direction. Jeff Schultz is more than happy to supply that finger. It’s just that instead of tut-tutting about an out of control program, it’s now about not winning enough.
The problem now is that too many of the players Georgia is recruiting should be red-lined. The line of risk needs to be pulled back.
Obviously, Richt and his staff are getting a lot right. The Bulldogs are favored to win the SEC East. They’re projected to open the season as a top-10 team.
But imagine if they actually had everybody there.
So Richt’s a guy who needs to be held accountable when he tolerates bad behavior, and he’s also a guy who needs to be held accountable when he doesn’t. How does that work exactly? Well, it would seem to start by weeding out the bad seeds before they ever get to campus.
Have the negative headlines of this offseason given him reason to pay closer attention to a recruit’s personal blemishes?
“We do find out as much as we possibly can,” he said. “There are rules on how many times we can call a kid and see him in person. We try to maximize those things.”
Sorry. But losing seven of 26 kids from one recruiting class in one year screams that there’s a need for a better filter.
What sort of filter? Schultz doesn’t have an answer – and again concedes that there probably isn’t an easy one.
Richt was accurate when he said, “To say that issues aren’t happening around the country isn’t really realistic.”
Every major program in the country wanted Isaiah Crowell coming out of high school. There wasn’t a one of them which wouldn’t have taken his signature on the dotted line had it been offered. And there wasn’t a word of warning when Crowell hoisted that puppy in the air that Richt was making a serious mistake in signing him. Indeed, Schultz himself had this to say after Ealey and King left the program: “Fact is, the Dogs were going to rise or fall next season on the strength of freshman Isaiah Crowell, any way.”
So somehow Mark Richt is supposed to be able to reach into the hearts and minds of men (well, seventeen-year old men, anyway) and divine an evil purpose that no one else can see. In other words, Mark Richt’s biggest flaw as a head coach is that he’s not the greatest amateur psychiatrist on the planet.
That’s not a standard Schultz has failed to deploy before. If you’ll recall, he was very critical of Richt’s search for a replacement for Willie Martinez, not because Grantham was a poor choice, but because Richt got used during the search process by the likes of Foster, Chavis and Smart to get better contracts from their existing employers. As I pointed out at the time, that premise ignores the way the hiring process works. But in Schultz’ mind, it should have been obvious to Richt than none of those men were ever serious about coming to Georgia.
Of course, the beautiful thing here is that none of us know if Richt and his staff have turned down certain kids who they felt were too big a risk (although given Georgia’s alarming number of open scholarships, I suspect that’s been the case more than we suspect), kids who indeed went on to become problems in college. But I bet Jeff Schultz could write a doozy of a column about a talented kid whom Richt wouldn’t take a chance on, then went on to college and managed to become a success on and off the field. (I’m looking at you, Deion Bonner.)
Speaking of Bonner, maybe Schultz thinks it would be a good idea for Richt to avoid recruiting Columbus Carver entirely. After all, Bonner and Crowell make for two pretty significant flame outs in a short time. Here’s how another Carver grad might answer that:
“I hear that a lot. It ain’t Carver. It’s not Carver It’s the individual,” Jones said. “There’s a lot of great players that that have went on from Carver: Oklahoma State, Duke University, Ole Miss. I mean we’ve got a lot of players in Division I football. It’s the individual that makes mistakes. … It’s never the school, it’s the players.”
Jones, of course, is one of those players that has avoided trouble, despite a rough upbringing.
That’s why you take a risk, if you’re Mark Richt. It’s not just because you have to recruit where the talent takes you, although that’s certainly a large part of it. It’s also, though, because you honestly believe you can make a difference with the kids you bring into the program. You’re not always going to be right about that. But I don’t think that means you should give up altogether.
UPDATE: Michael Felder has a succinct rebuttal to Schultz – “Georgia doesn’t have a discipline issue. They have a getting caught issue.”
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74 responses to “More Freud, less football coach: Schultz on Richt”
The same attrition takes place other places. It’s just they plan for the attrition at Alabama and LSU and sign 25 players for 18 slots, knowing 7 players will a) do something criminal along the way, b) screw up academically, or c) have significant injuries.
Richt can’t control the actions of everyone on his team, but he can control the number of athletes he has at his disposal.
With the luck UGA has had over the last several years, I have no doubt that the first time Richt does that, not a single kid will get injured or arrested.
Then the ones that don’t contribute should have to go elsewhere. Where in the US Constitution does it say that everybody is entitled to a spot on UGA’s roster for the whole 4 years? Actually, that is part of the problem. At Bama, for example, everybody knows that if he doesn’t bust his ass somebody else who will is going to take his scholarship. But not at UGA, nooooo. Show up, don’t get caught smoking dope or fondling girls who don’t want to be fondled or with a gun, and you got it made for 4 years (5 if you redshirt). What do you think would happen to YOUR job if you didn’t really contribute? What are we teaching the kids on the Georgia team with a policy that accepts them as members of the team even when they don’t contribute either because of lack of effort or because it turns out they really don’t possess the skills to help out? What does that evoke in the players who DO bust their asses to contribute, seeing others who don’t contribute, still there and on the team? 69 scholarship players on the roster and we haven’t even had any injuries because fall practice hasn’t started yet. Roster mismanagement is the single biggest mistake that CMR commits, over and over and over and over…………
Come on Mayor, that’s grade A bullshit and you know it. The problem with taking that stance is you start obfuscating the true mission of a University (higher education) with the success of the football team.
Let’s say a kid that earns a scholarship to UGA out of high school based on his athletic merits comes in and never cracks the two-deep. This kid busts his ass every day at practice, but for whatever reason he never develops beyond what he was coming in from high school and rides the pine. Let’s also say that this kid is an exemplary student – never misses a class, is going to graduate on time with good grades, and has never once run afoul of John Q. Law. Can you say with a straight face that there is a legitimate reason for cutting that kid’s scholarship because he fit the definition of a college student to a Tee, but just couldn’t cut it on the football field?
The problem is that there is no objective manner to assess whether this kid’s scholarship should get cut. At least with academic based scholarships there is a set criteria that a student knows he/she must achieve to maintain the scholarship. With athletic scholarships, it’s all subjective judgment based on the head coach’s evaluation which I think is far more power than any one person should have over a kid’s education. I think it’s utter bullshit that anybody could justify cutting some kid’s scholarship because he didn’t pan out as a great football player, but is doing everything else expected of him as a college student and represents the University well. I’m not sure that’s water I want my alma mater to start treading in. Of course, YMMV.
Well-said.
Let me clarify that I have no problem with cutting a kid that is doing all the wrong things (i.e.not going to class, not getting grades, getting in trouble with the law, etc.). Ultimately, there needs to be a set objective criteria that could cause one to lose his athletic scholarship and takes some of the leverage away from coaches in the relationship.
Sooooo, you are OK with getting rid of kids that don’t meet YOUR criteria but are not OK with getting rid of kids that don’t meet somebody else’s criteria. Right. Got it. This reminds me of the old joke about asking a woman: “Would you sleep with me if I gave you $10,000,000?” After a “yes” answer then offering $5. When she says: “NO! What type of girl do you think I am?” then the retort is : “We’ve already established that, now we’re just haggling over the price.”
No, try re-reading that. I’m okay with getting rid of a kid’s scholarship when said kid doesn’t meet an OBJECTIVE criteria over somebody’s (the coach) SUBJECTIVE criteria. I can objectively measure whether a kid is going to class, getting appropriate grades, or how many arrests he has.
I cannot objectively measure how good a kid is performing on the football field. That is in the eye of the beholder and a coach shouldn’t have that type of power over a kid’s education. He should have to prove, without a doubt, that objective parameters of the scholarship were violated before revoking it.
Far too long the coaches have held this power over kids and abuse it everyday. Until there is a transparent, objective criteria set forth on scholarship offers, I will continue to support a player when he is shuffled out the door by the likes of Saban/Spurrier/Miles just because he wasn’t good enough on the football field.
Just to play devil’s advocate here but there’s not as big a distinction between you and the Mayor’s criteria in certain situations, say in a hypothetical situation where all of a University’s classes are graded on a curve. In that case losing your scholarship because you couldn’t crack the two deep would be as objective as losing your scholarship because you couldn’t crack the top 25% of your class.
Back to the discussion at hand, first, i think we can all agree even if Georgia commits to scholarships for a full 4 years for everyone, We need to start using up all of our scholarships. Having only 70 scholarship players not counting former walk ons is absurd. Second, I wouldn’t have a problem, with cutting a guy’s scholarship if the coach deems the player can’t contribute on the field. Provided a few conditions. 1) the player knew that was a possibility when he signed 2) the player can transfer elsewhere without sitting out any time at all, and 3) the player can remain on academic scholarship without counting towards the team’s limit so as to continue his education. Yeah i know these aren’t realistic but I’m talking ideal hypothical situation here.
#3 is the big one for me. I completely agree with those conditions, though. It’s the transparency in the system that has to improve before I will trust a coach over a player. Coaches use the power play on kids by threatening scholarships because they know they can and there’s nothing a kid can do about it.
Also entirely agree on using up all the available scholarships. There’s got to be a better way to get to the 85 number than what we’re doing now. Honestly, I don’t disagree with the Mayor at all with respect to roster management issues. I take issue with his assertion that we should just freely run kids off that are basically dead weight from a football perspective, but could be perfectly productive students/members of the UGA community.
+1 on the using all available scholarships. How Saban accomplishes #3 apparently is by saying that the kid is permanently injured and arranging for the kid to keep his scholarship via a medical hardship. I think the former player has to continue to do something with the team such as work as a manager or some such. Does anyone out there in blogland know?
Don’t worry, Bonner is in “pre-trail” intervention, according to the AJC. Not sure what that entails.
Seriously, though, what is a coach supposed to do here? Rock, meet hard place.
DawgFaithful
I read this crap yesterday. Schultz is an F—-ing moron. We’re recruiting the same kids that everyone else in the country is. Crowell was the #1 RB in America and was from GA. If he would have gone to Alabama and won the Heisman, Shultz would have written an article bashing Richt for letting the top players in the state get away. Furthermore he takes a shot at the “dream Team” for losing 7 of its members to attrition. I think the Dream Team has worked out pretty well: Corey Moore, Malcolm Mitchell, John Jenkins, Ray Drew, Chris Conley(Fla. Game), Jay Rome, Amarlo Herrera, Ramik Wilson etc. All contributors and current/future starters. I’d say that was a pretty good haul. 1 of the kids that was dismissed for theft was Nick Marshall. He broke every QB record in GA his senior year. Were we not supposed to go after an athlete like that? What red flags was Richt supposed to see there? We recruited him as a DB but it was well known that Paul Johnson was recruiting him hard at QB. Nick Marshall said that Johnson told him if he came to Tech he would make him a Heisman winning QB. If he’d gone to Tech and gotten himself kicked off their team, do you think Shultz would have written a few paragraphs of swill condemning Johnson for his recruiting methods? I think not. Just look at this guy’s picture in the paper. He looks like the biggest Dbag on earth. Probably got his ass kicked regularly growing up. What else could have turned this moron into the Swill Merchant that he is today.
More evidence of his idiociy…
“He has come a long way from enabling Odell Thurman. He suspends players. He kicks them out.”
You mean the Odell Thurman who was suspended multiple times. Or the Odell Thurman who got kicked out of the program and had to spend a year at Ga Military before being allowed back? Yeah, Mark Richt’s willingness to suspended or kick off a star player has come along way since the time when he was willing to suspend and kick out star players.
Worst. Newspaper. Columnist. Ever.
Be careful now with that “worst ever” stuff. You either don’t remember, or have forgotten about Terrance Moore.
Here’s the question I was expecting you to ask in this piece, Senator, and the question I’d like to see Jeff Schultz answer. He references “recruiting risks” in this piece, intimating that there were some sorts of warning signs about Isaiah Crowell or some of the other players Georgia has recruited over the years who have seen early exits from Athens.
I want to know exactly what warning signs there were. Certainly, they weren’t readily apparenty to Schultz, since he neither he nor any other sportswriters covering Georgia (the school or the state) took the chance to write about them. I recall Crowell’s commitment being hailed as a Georgia victory. Certainly, all the other schools out there were recruiting his ass, so they must have missed or ignored these supposed warning signs, too.
What indications were there that the Marshall, Sanders, and Seay would end up trying to steal stuff? Were there any? All accounts I read of those young men said they were going to be assets to the school.
It’s been well documented that UGA’s policies on certain offenses are tougher than other schools and it’s been well documented that UGA is a lot more free with information than other schools. Perhaps we just hear about UGA’s problems more than those at other schools? Regardless, I want to know: How were any of these players undue risks? And how does he account for the players that Georgia DID take a pass on because of worries about their backgrounds? Let’s hear it, Jeff. What were the signs? Because if being from a poor neighborhood and impoverished family makes you a risk, then a LOT of colleges are taking flyers one risky athletes. And if that’s the only “risk” you see, then you need to re-evaluate some of your attitudes.
And that’s saying NOTHING about the borderling slanderous idea that Richt was soft on discipline at any point in his tenure. I expected to lose at Clemson in 2003, for example, because half of the damn team was suspended. Player discipline was NEVER limited to “running stairs or losing dessert privileges.” Enabling Odell Thurman? Richt kicked his ass off the team after a fight and then let him come back *a year later*… he was arrested for underage alcohol (shocker in a college town) and suspended for that. Then, Richt suspended him for three games in 2004 (including a crucial conference game against South Carolina) for another offense. Richt wasn’t enabling anyone, he was disciplining him. Odell screwed up in post-collegiate life.
Rambo offered by Bama and almost every other SEC team
Ogletree…ditto
Branden Smith….ditto
Crowell…ditto (plus half the country)
Commings…South Carolina
Pretty weak, but then again, it is Schultz. As much as I dislike Bobby Petrino, Schultz’s questions for John L. Smith on Wednesday were disgraceful.
Amen. Schultz loves to ignore evidence and rewrite history. He loves to say someone is doing something wrong but never has any helpful insight into what they’re dong right. In short, Schultz is nothing more than the bullhorn of the frustrated idiot class of football fans.
I would do anything for him to come onto this message board and defend himself, though I doubt very seriously he can find a defense of his position. He was avoiding criticism in the comments of the AJC while playfully responding.
I really loathe that guy’s writing. Circular logic all over the place and snark that isn’t even funny. It’s a terrible combination.
REVEREND THOMAS JOHNSON
Haven’t bought a copy of AJC in 10 years – seems my life has been a little brighter ever since. http://www.wedgeorgia.com
+1 Rev. Going on 20 years for me.
Everyone recruits the smae kids, the only thing you can control is your discipline standards once they’re on campus as well as how many kids you sign. The only thing Richt needs to do differently is sign more kids and be more discreet and I would argue be a little laxer in how he punishes them as well. Or basically the complete opposite of what Schultz thinks is the problem.
JoeDawg
Why do we even waste our time talking about this guy? Schultz is a troll.
ZerPointZero
Reading Schultz makes you stupider. I don’t read him because he is 1. Not at all funny and 2. Brings nothing to the table.
I am baffled that he has a job.
He could write all nice things about UGA and I would feel the same way.
He is a hired D-Bag. I feel sorry for his lack of talent.
Schultz is a gaseous fuckwit. What about the hundreds of players under Richt that have not done stupid things, but instead have done great ones? What about Matt Stafford, #1 NFL pick and who seems like a pretty charitable dude? Thomas Brown, who is coaching now? Nothing about them?
Young men do stupid things all the time, particularly if they don’t have stabilizing influences at home, this is hardly limited to the Georgia program. Schultz is basically slamming Richt for not having a crystal ball and divining Crowell’s idiotic choices.
the pity of schultzie isn’t that he’s dumb, it’s that he’s lazy. when he was the thrashers beat writer one could read his articles and actually learn something. too much proximity to the dipshittery of mark bradley and deluded personal piety make for a nasty mix on deadline.
I gave up reading the shallow, poorly thought out columns from Schultz years ago. He’s a “don’t do this” object lesson for critical thinking.
No one buys newspapers anymore. Jeff has been hired to write whatever it takes to get eyeballs on a website so advertisers will pay to hawk their wares. It’s the equivalent of the talk show host who panders to our most prurient interests to get people to listen. Newspapers are not in business to sell news or stories anymore than radio and television are in the business of entertainment. They’re all in the advertising business. Period. They need to sell ads or they become unemployed. Period. He’s simply doing what he gets paid to do. We shouldn’t expect anything else. More importantly, we shouldn’t contribute to it by sending folks over there to see what he wrote. Ignore him. Us getting worked up only gets Jeff a raise.
True to all dat. Unfortunately, I can’t tear myself away from following the Blog (and its incidental risks ie. Shultz) especially in the dark and pigskin-less days of July.
Go 30 days cold turkey. I promise you won’t miss anything about the AJC. Seriously. There is nothing of value on their site.
This. Spend a little time with out them, and you’ll wonder why you ever gave a damn about that rag soon enough.
I meant THIS august blog — haven’t touched the AJC production in years.
What we all have to do in unison and across the board—do NOT click on links that lead to Schultz or anybody else at the AJC. Every time we do that we reward them for the asinine tripe they print. I actually wish the Senator wouldn’t include the link to that nonsense on this blog. Tell us what the moron said but do NOT reward that dope with the gift of a link.
These revisionist, hindsight observations are sickening. As many above have pointed out, UGA recruited the same athletes as all other SEC schools, the difference is UGA actually enforces standards the others choose not to employ. If they had forgiven the transgressions those of those seven athletes from the Dream Team, would that make UGA and Richt a better program? It is so dumb as to not be worthy as a discussion point.
The better journalist might look deeper into the tragic circumstances of unwed births and broken homes that haunt the black community nationally, or the permissive society/schools that ignores the damages broken homes inflict on these young people, be they white, or black. To attack a man with the character of Mark Richt while ignoring the real issues surrounding these problems is cowardly and shallow. Someone should haul Schultz outside the AJC offices and whale the hell out of him. Better yet, his bosses at the much despised AJC should ask him for the “rest of the story” about other programs’ policies, or identify what steps are being taken to address a national shame are. Short of those additional paragraphs, they should fire his sorry ass for making another “Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious” piece designed only to fill space while imparting no new information while tearing into one of the few positive people in these guys lives. Never buy an AJC, and never click on their links, the paper has done enough damage in its time.
He has to feed the AJC comment page trolls. It is what drives the clicks and their revenue stream these days.
You had to know this was coming from the AJC. Like I posted about Towers and the context /article of the writer from the Birmingham News, today’s alleged sportswriters do not write about sports but about themselves. They like to attack coaches, players, and universites like many journalist do today. They pick and select the programs and coaches they like. They buy into the liberal elities and shelter the Penn States / Paterno plus faculty and the Dukes / Duke faculty / President.
The AJC is a liberal, yellow, newspaper. Look at every writer they have.
If I was the AD I’d have a long talk in Athens about how they report on the sports at UGA. That article is one in a long list of articles highly critical of UGA. CMR does what he can do for the University, the players, the team, and the overall program at Georgia. He has done a very good job. UGA has a great system in place for discipline. It is fair and it is even handed. No coach is more sincere, honest, and genuinely interested in athletes and students at UGA than Mark Richt.
Crowell is an edge player. He demonstrated that at Carver and in the play-offs when UGA stepped up its push. Did the coahces at UGA misjudge him, perhaps…that is the complaint some of us have about the RB position coach. Most fans who follow teams and regions in the lower half of the state understand the set-up in Columbus. One school has all the football players, another all the baseball players, and another the basketball players. Compare Columbus to any other town in Georgia and their high school program. Now why does Schultz address that situation as to whether it is factual or not, or what Carver does. That would be too hard for a Jeff Schultz…like all those writers who failed to see the early signs at PSU or at Duke.
So what does it all mean. Crowell you messed up and wasted a great opportunity. Maturity. Can you coach that?. Perhaps, but anybody who has ever had a 15 to early 20’s son knows it is rough. You hug them one moment and the next you want to kick their butt. And then you think back to your own life. And CMR has a staff, an alumni base, and almost 100 young men who work out every day. Those guys are always on the edge. Crowell’s a good guy, but he was immature and for whatever reason he never understood where he was at at this point in his life.
CMR has these qualities that a Jeff Schultz does not have but feels free to rake CMR on a consistent basis. LIfe experiences in football as a player at top program that has had its issues. A highly regarded OC under one of the most respected coaches in the NCAA D1. A program the set in the top 5 for years. A man deeply rooted in Judeo-Christian faith. An outstanding family man. An outstanding employee and ambassador for the University and athletics at UGA.
Jeffl Schultz is immature. He is a piss poor sports writer. He has a job for life at a piss poor newspaper. He is aware of both of those facts. He is so conflicted about it he can not stand the success of any coach or player. He revels in these kind of situations.
Crowell was dismissed. No one will dismiss Schultz at the AJC. But the AD can sure revoke his press pass. If he wants to write, let him buy a seaon ticket and make a contribution ot the Bulldogs.
Three outstanding players at Hoover, and not one word or sentence about these outstanding young men and their commitment to themselves and their team mates. That never crosses the mind of a Jeff Schultz…a poor, bitter sportswriter from the AJC…one in a long list of them.
Well said, Will. I do not for the life of me understand why CMR, McGarity and the rest of the at Butts-Mehre put up with Schultz or anyone else at the AJC. I hate to say it but Corch had it right. If they were saying negative things about his program they didn’t get access. McGarity of all people should understand this.
The more I read their moronic babble, the better chances those clown dicks get to keep their jobs and keep writing biased, anit-UGA stories. I don’t read the AJC anymore, because the more I read their moronic babble, the better chances those clown dicks get to keep their jobs and keep writing biased, anit-UGA stories. I don’t read the AJC anymore…
Ugh, see, it’s a vicious cycle and just gets me even more irritated. And then I get this weird vein popping out of my forehead, and my wife is like “whats wrong with your head?” And I’m like “this terd-licker at the AJC said this about the Dawgs and…” And she gives me this look like, who the hell is Jeff Shultz, and why do you even care what he writes?
Exactly… why do I care what he writes.
As far as passing on kids who may be potential trouble, Dexter Moody also comes to mind.
http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-state-sports/2012/03/27/dexter-moody-suspended-indefinitely/
I’m guessing “Scoop” Schultz is unaware that Odell was arrested for a traffic violation during his redshirt year and as a result was kicked off team and sent to GMC for awhile.
I believe he was actually kicked off for a fight in addition to that. Then had two suspensions during meaningful games. Odell wasn’t enabled at Georgia.
Wish folks would stop defending Mark Richt, when Richt gets criticism that he deserves. Less than 70 scholarship players? No sugar coating, that’s inept management, name another SEC team with that. Yes, Richt doesn’t know ghow to stop it, and has no clue as to what’s causing it. Wake up homers.
That’s justified criticism, and I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is having an AJC columnist spin things in ways that aren’t true and writing things that simply aren’t the case; I have a problem with Jeff Schultz writing that Mark Richt was soft on discipline and that he has enabled these players. 70 scholarship players isn’t soft on discipline. If anything, it’s tough on discipline, because he is showing the door to players we need.
However, TAdams, I’ll ask you the same thing that I asked above: what warning signs did Richt supposedly miss? We’ve passed on players with character issues in the past, and these players supposedly came highly referred and with no previous legal issues. What could Richt have done differently? Certainly, he has laid down the law that future transgressions will get people kicked out. What else is there to do, outside of changing UGA’s policies that force his hand whereas the Alabamas of the world don’t have the same problem?
Fools/tools like him don’t have answers, in fact that don’t really have thoughts. Just like to sit in the weeds and bitch and attack. Don’t really get how we have fans that better belong with a Bama, tosu, Barn, TN, etc. where all that matters is winning….even if you have to sacrifice any integrity or principles that true winners have. Be thankful for the good man we have at the helm. It isn’t that you have to agree with every decision or policy he makes, or every play call, just knwing he is committed to doing things the right way and will always represent us in a way that makes us proud is all I need from him. That is what makes you want to be a homer, I just wish we had a way to get those who don’t like our home out of the bunker. Guys like that don’t fit the R&B I know and love.
R u talking about Schultz or SkepticDawg or TAdams?
Newspaper Conspiracy theory–out to get Mark Richt? Really man? Jeff Schultz won an award for top 10 sports jourbnalist in the country, he knows more about football than whoever runs this blog, sure man, aliens are real too 🙂 Or hmm, for the rational sports fans out there, not fanatics, maybe Jeff Schultz has a point??????
So tell me, Mr. Rational Sports Fan, since I’m obviously too stupid to figure it out on my own, how would you screen the bad apples out?
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Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
The other Billy Mumy!
HobnailedBoots
I’d take “whoever runs this blog” in an intellectual cage match over Jeff Schultz any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
Thrice on Saturdays?
We need you to tell us more wise one.
Oh, Jeff, we see right through that user name.
Re: Jeff Schultz Award Winning Sports Journalist–Janet Cooke won the Pulitzer Prize while at the Washington Post for a story that later was established to have been a complete and utter fabrication. Just sayin.’
LOL. Yeah, like winning an “award” is reason enough to take everything Schultz says as fact. That one made me nearly spit my beer all over my monitor I laughed so hard. This guy must jerk off to Oscar and Emmy award actors too, huh?
Isaiah Crowell would still be playing for Saban, Chizik, Dooley, Spurrier, Meyer, and Miles. Not one of those guys would have pulled the plug at the point that Richt did.
And ditto for Mettenberger.
Indeed, Mett is playing for Les Miles as we speak. And a kid who stole from UGA players’ lockers last fall has a full ride to Clemson University. Not everyone passes on some of the players that UGA either passes on or shows the door.
Eh, I’m going to have to disagree there. I don’t think the football coach has much say in the matter once a kid gets popped for felony weapons charges. However, I don’t think there’s any way in hell this would have happened in Tuscaloosa because Saban micro-manages that program so much that a football player wouldn’t be driving around at 3AM on a Thursday without a chaperone or somebody from the program watching him.
You may be right, especially about Saban not having a player in the situation that Isaiah was in.
Saban doesn’t allow his players to emerge from an alley or ride in Mudcat’s car? I honestly believe if Crowell and company had gone through a roadblock in Tuscaloosa, Saban would have been the first person called. I wish I knew who the football player was that Jimmy Williamson caught screwing his wife/mom/daughter or whatever. Dude harbors more of a grudge than Spurrier does.
Umm, did I just agree completely with something in the Bleacher Report? [Head Explodes]
Mike Cooley
No surprise here. Schultz doing what Schultz does. Sensationalism and agitating. That’s the only thing that gets his articles hits on the ajc’s site. People read it for the same reason some folks flip over to MSNBC from time to time. It’s like a train wreck. Schultz hates UGA because it, and more strangely and incongruously represents two demographics that he holds in contempt. Well to do Southerners and middle to lower middle class Souterners (in his mind those awful people who drive pick up trucks), almost exclusively conservative and nothing like him. See, Schultz isn’t the only one who can play the amateure shrink game.
Any high school student-athlete, with even the most impressive and clean resume, who passes every evaluation with flying colors, is perfectly capable of a tragic mistake while in college. As an old theologian once said, there is no limit to the depth to which we are able to fall. True for you and me, true for adolescent males. Point being – there is no exact science to reading the heart of a young man, and what may lurk beneath. Senator is right – Richt is no Freud. Even Freud would have embraced Crowell on signing day and hoped for great things from the young man, and known deep down (with Richt) that it could all be undone in a moment of weakness and foolishness.
Profound. Indeed profound.
Ed Kilgore
To weigh in on the “crappy journalism” issue rather than the “bad apple” issue, I have to say the inverted quality gap between MSM sportswriters and sports bloggers–nearly all of whom are unpaid–continues to amaze me. And the thing is: Schultz is hardly the worst sportswriter at the AJC, and the AJC does not have the worst sports section of the remaining major metro newspapers. It does make me crazy that the AJC used to train its best talent in the sports section (going back to Roy Blount, Jr., and before that, all the way back to Ralph McGill), and still somehow can’t, in the most incredibly employer-controlled labor market in an incredibly employer-controlled economy, find better writers than the people they have. But the problem seems to go well beyond Atlanta, and obviously infects the MSM TV networks as well.
As an online journalist myself, I know we’re all living in hell right now, until such time as the economics of the industry get sorted out and/or the world ends. But sports journalism is particularly screwed up, which is why we should all give daily thanks that folks like the Senator are willing to do this as sidelines.
This was probably the worst article I’ve ever read.
As someone said previously, the idiots at the Urinal & Constipation would have been killing Richt if he hadn’t signed Isaiah or the Dream Team. Now they get to kill him because a bunch of college kids do stupid stuff (surprise surprise).
Why doesn’t Schultz write an article about Nick Saban not being a good enough parent, or devoting too much time to football (instead of kids), since apparently his daughter kicked the shit out of her sorority sister OVER A YEAR AGO, A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED, and the first anyone hears about it was when a lawsuit was filed last week?!?!?! But no one in the media will write that story, because they know the odds of getting any interviews or access to Saban or Alabama after a story like that are about -1000%; but they can trash our coach, and our players, and our former players, with impunity….
I wouldn’t wipe my ass with yesterday’s sports section….
Man vs Man. Richt vs Schultz. Coach vs local sportswriter. If you want to lay out a comparison as a basis for Schultz to hammer CMR again, then why omit the coaching record and awards CMR has in his resume, then think about the intangibles. The young men who have left the program, played well, individual accomplishments of players, the support fans and alumni have poured into the university, the inspiration CMR provides people in this state, and etc.
I’m alum of UGA. I give to the funds. I had my roommate from metro Atlanta flunk out after two quarters becuase he partied every night. Now did the Admissions office misjudge him. No. He meet the requirements. He did not have the motivation or desire to compete in a classroom with his peers. He lacked maturity. A lot of us fans see that in kids on both sides of the field. Crowell showed that several times as a freshman. Other kids in that recruiting class who remain meet the same requirements are playing. CMR’s fault. I think not. These guys have to start taking responsibility for themselves and their team. Crowell has no shame or character. He was lazy. How many kids would love to play in that program and attend classes in colleges that are very good. Walk off campus with a degree and a high recommendation from a man like Richt.
I’ll test Schultz accomplishments in a few weeks on Friday night in the stadiums of football class 1-AAAAAA [that be Valdost, Lowndes, Camden Colquittt County, and company]. I’ll ask those fans if they know Jeff and his world class awards. I would dare say right now not one soul will know who in the hell this guy is give a damn about his trophies or framed paper.
Closing, I doubt if CMR cares about any individual awards he has or will recieved. He is not than kind of man. The man cares about faith, determination, and growth. I’ve never heard any kid who was dismissed or suspended complain about CMR.
But I did not see Schultz write one word about those three young players who were at Hoover. Schultz used that opportunity, Media Days, to attack CMR rather than write about the players who were there, their play, and their development under CMR..
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This is all I've come here for.
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>Literally was going to post this just now.
>:/
Just post it tomorrow, nobody will notice lol. Anyways, bye
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Haven't seen you in a few years Lucid. I hope all is ok bud
Trying to maintain my interest in Sonic is just getting harder and harder. It feels like a decade since I last felt any sort of interest towards 3D Sonic games even though it's been hardly a year since I played Sonic Generations. Sonic Forces... isn't helping.
Would you guys want the custom character return in future sonic games?
Lucid Dream replied to Framerate's topic in Green Grove Zone
Yea sure whatever so long as the next mainline Sonic game is actually good and doesn't feel like a disappointment before it even comes out.
I kinda want to make a smell bank of nice smelling soaps and other stuff that smells nice.
I never knew I loved smells so much. It's a shame that the smell of alcohol is so disturbing for me. At least places like Lush use less alcohol and have other stuff that smell nice.
Whoop, getting my first paycheck tomorrow
Time to immediately waste it all on some crap.
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JosepHenry
Buy a Switch for me.
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MightyRay
Congrats man! Enjoy your money!
TailsTellsTales
Nice! I always say splurge on that first paycheck. Then from there on out be sure to save something from each one even if it’s just a little bit. You won’t regret it.
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Confirmed: Sega are not issuing review codes for Sonic Forces
Lucid Dream replied to Badnik Mechanic's topic in Green Grove Zone
Well, that's promising. Really promising. It's possible that Sega just decided to not give IGN a pre-release review code because of the "sonic was never good" fiasco, but that would be really petty. It could also just be a communication error on Sega's part. I mean this guy apparently got one
Yey I got emplyed
Now I gotta think of something to waste my first paycheck on. Games or Lush...
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Sonic Forces SPOILER Thread
Lucid Dream replied to Ellipsis-Ultima's topic in Green Grove Zone
I think we all expect to be babied for a while into the game. The demo looked extraordinarily easy too after all. I suspect the game will have whole chunks of automation throughout.
What is the absolute most annoying part about the Sonic the Hedgehog fanbase for you?
Lucid Dream replied to nilesdobbs's topic in Green Grove Zone
I think some people can be too judgemental over other people's interests. That can range from just enjoying an unpopular Sonic game to being a furry. Debating is great, but some people get really emotionally charged and start to personally attack and hold a grudge over other people due to their interests and opinions. There's nothing wrong with liking any Sonic game or having a different opinion or being a furry. As long as you aren't harming anyone or being forceful, there's really no need for anyone to get upset or judgemental.
Blaze is confirmed to not be in Sonic Forces
Lucid Dream replied to Sgt Nate V's topic in Green Grove Zone
I wonder if Blaze will ever show up in any more Sonic games. Her backstory has been completely ruined by Sonic 06 and, even though that game may be considered non-canon, the idea that Blaze and Silver are partners seems to be more popular than Blaze and Sonic being counterparts. It'll be great if Blaze could feature in another Sonic Rush style game with Sonic as her counterpart, but at this point, I doubt it'll happen. As for Sonic forces, I'm sure there'll be some kind of awesome Blaze mod that some kind Sonic fan will make. I can't imagine how Blaze would feature in Sonic Forces without further fragmenting her story anyway.
ARTWORK: Can Mightyray draw? Let's find out.
Lucid Dream replied to MightyRay's topic in Showcase
Wow, you've improved so much! Your drawings look really nice now, I really love their expressions too. It's wonderful to see you improve and develop and contribute to the community so well. Also thank you so much for that Mami drawing! I feel so bad for not coming sooner to see it. I'm so happy you drew it. It's also really nice to see Ray in different outfits too (he looks so cute ).
I know I'm super late, but I'm soooo happy Fang appeared in Sonic Mania. Looking at him bouncing around makes me so happy. Glad to see the trio are back in some form.
I gotta finish Sonic Mania already... Oil Ocean put me off a little.
Also hi! Glad to see everyone doing well
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Glad you're having fun with Mania! I haven't bought it yet. hehe
Ah Oopsie. I didn't mean to spoil anything for you
Nah, it's O.K.! I usually spoil myself on things anyway so it's no big deal. Oh did you see the pic of Mami I drew for you a while ago?
OH my god you did that? No I havn't, I must check it out asap! Thank you so much for that.
@Mightyray you might want to get on that my friend. ?
Mania being awesome aside, there isn't anything deemed to be a spoiler with the game now that's it's been officially released for 2 months now so mentioning anything about it sans spoiler tags is fair game now.
Confess Your First Hit, Death, and Game Over in Sonic Mania
Lucid Dream replied to SpongicX's topic in Green Grove Zone
Got hit on the first few spikes in GHZ, died first in Green hill zone act 2 against the boss since it took me a while to figure out how to beat him and got my first game over in Flying Fortress act 2 against the boss (I died a lot on that stage, and then I got crushed to death by the spikes against the boss). Yea, I know I suck. Eh, it's still fun.
Ahh Sonic Mania is so fun. I just finished Chemical plant Zone 2 and it really reminded me of Portal 2 with all the gels and gel tubes. I guess if there's this kind of innovation for all of the old levels, I don't mind the nostalgia zones too much.
Finished my final exam and with that, it's the end of school. Even though my official graduation was a while ago, it's only really starting to hit me now that my exams are all done. It's a weird feeling.
At least I'm getting a PS4 soon. That's something to look forward too.
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I hope you pass all your exams!
Sonic Forces has create-a-character
Lucid Dream replied to CrystalStorm51's topic in Green Grove Zone
Pointless. I guess it's one way to sidestep making an actual new character or using any of the established cast. I hope it actually has decent customization and gameplay.
Sega is releasing a brand new, revolutionary game. Nothing competes.
http://sega.jp/special/aprilfool/
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I decided to catch up on SSMB and see if there was any new news while I was walking around, and I accidently walked into the girls bathroom and stayed there staring at my phone for a few minutes as a result.
The girls were understanding (although quite giggly), but that was quite embarrassing. There was nothing new here either.
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This made my night.
Oh sure. You were looking at your phone. In camera mode LOL
Oh damn, thinking about it that way it would have been really easy for a girl to attack me for it. Even though my phone was facing down, and it was obvious I went in by accident.
Some people are evil enough to try to twist anything into a sexual harassment/rape case. I have to be careful...
In this day and age? Yeah. Panic Planet. That oughta be a Sonic stage
Solkia
Who TF stands around in a public bathroom texting
Late reply, but I thought I went through a hallway. I don't go to public toilets.
I know it was really stupid.
Would you say shows like Panty and Stocking or Avatar are anime or cartoons? What's the distinction for you?
Well, the unofficial term for Western animated shows that look like anime is called animesque. Avatar and a few other cartoons (The Boondocks, Marathon shows like Totally Spies!, etc.) are usually described as that category.
PSG (Panty and Stocking) would essentially be the inverse of that, but I don't think there's a term for that though.
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Oh, well that's pretty simple. Probably easier to call PSG, Dead leaves, etc cartoonesque then. Even if it's not a proper term, I'm sure the sentiment gets through.
Mr Loopone
For me, Avatar (and Korra) is a cartoon influenced by Japanese [and a bit of Chinese?] work and Panty & Stocking is an anime influenced by American work. So the former as a cartoon while the latter is an anime. It is a bit of a strange thing in general but I call anime Japanese cartoons for simplistic reasons, just that Panty & Stocking as well as say Lupin the 3rd are more Western influenced than usual by the animation/art style. Plus anime being so niche where I am (it's just Pokemon on TV) that only students would known what an anime is.
It just depends whether the writers/production team and the original work is American/Canadian or Japanese. Those examples are clear enough. It gets a bit harder by co-productions though like many French-Japanese or Spanish/Italian-Japanese stuff though. I don't know if Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon or an anime as an example. Besides many cartoons and anime to a smaller extent have their animation done in South Korea or China.
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That's a great question. I think as long as it's still the same style, it's anime.
Technically, Boondocks is anime too
Sonic Forces | PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC "The Next Generations"
I don't think the point is that Japan is bad at making games (I sincerely doubt anybody could even dare think that with Nintendo around). Rather, it's that it could be harder for a Japanese based company to make a game appealing to the west when Japanese and Western cultures and interests in games are so different. I'd disagree to some degree anyway, considering Sonic isn't some anime styled game and platforming is a pretty universally popular genre. But either way, I really doubt the sentiment here is racist. I think it's a bit unfair to be so critical of Sega for hiring Pontac and Graff. They are professional freelance writers, who have written moderately successful shows and have some involvement with writing stories for games. I don't blame Sonic Team for thinking that they might be well fitted for Sonic. They should have had kept much closer tabs on Pontac and Graff to make sure they did their research, but that's pretty hard when you're so far away, not familiar with English and have some faith in professionals. On that note, has Pontac and Graff been confirmed to be working on Sonic Forces?
Jesus christ, London is still safe people. We've had much worse happen before, our police know what to do.
Stop blowing things way out of proportion. None of us are in any more danger than usual.
I don't think anyone is overreacting here. Just expressing concern for what is still a terrible thing to have happened even though it's on a lesser degree to other incidents and I have no idea why you have a problem with this.
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Wishing for people's safety is not overblowing anything.
We should be giving our condolences to the victims. Not jumping to conclusions and assuming London is unsafe and that we're all in danger.
This is what terrorist attackers want, for people to think London is dangerous now.
I feel like you're looking way into this. We can do both, and it's implied and should go without saying our condolences
Like what, you want people to not bat an eye at this, af not have basic human reactions?
London has good security, it's as safe as it can be. Nothing is ever truly safe.
People have been expressing their condolences as well as their wishes for everyone to be safe. If one life is lost due to someone's total malice and respect for life it's one life too many and we have no idea how much farther this could go. Hence the concern which is something we humans should display towards one another especially in times of distress.
That said I really don't understand your stance here. I don't understand it at all.
Athena Cykes
I mean, you can still wish people to stay safe given the current situation over there.
It's pretty obvious that I'm referring to people who think London is in some kind of extreme danger when I say "blowing out of proportion". A lot of people seem to think London is in a lot of danger.
@Kiah my point is quite clear. I'm saying that we aren't in danger and that you don't need to worry for us unnecessarily. Just send condolences to the victims.
It's just suspicious how people are acting like we're in so much danger. It's being treated like a terrorist attack, but it's not confirmed yet.
Hoping for the best is very different to immediately jumping to conclusions, assuming we
Again, why can't we wish safety for people? If one person in my city all the way on the other side got killed by someone and the killer was on the loose, I'd still express condolences and safety for people even if they were nowebere near the attack. I don't think it's hard to process expressing people be careful or safe = assumptions that the place is some danger zone where killings always happen
No ones jumping to conclusions by saying that stuff
"It's pretty obvious that I'm referring to people who think London is in some kind of extreme danger"
Good for you if you don't think London is a danger zone. If you look around a little you'll see a lot of people saying Europe and the UK is under threat. I'm not just talking about people here.
Your point isn't clear to me and it never will be mainly in part due to being a very sympathetic person. If I am concerned about the well-being and safety of others no matter what the circumstances or the said scale of said circumstances are behind it then by all means I will feel it and express it like I always have.
If you think I or anyone else is overreacting due to feeling concern for others then that's on you. Seriously I don't know what to say about that and I still don't know why this is bothering you so much. And no one here is saying nor implying that London is in "extreme danger" but enough had happened for some of us to feel concerned and express that said concern.
I think what he's trying to say is that people are acting as though London just fell victim to a 9/11 scale attack when they weren't. He's not complaining about people expressing sympathy for the victims, but expressing discontent for the people trying to paint the incident as a much greater than it is and spreading fear beyond what is rational for the context of the incident.
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I can understand the need to put up a stiff-upper lip and carry on as normal. That's the best way to beat them. Besides, the terror threat level has been like this for a few years, so its been "in extreme danger". People can carry on but there's no harm in showing concern. I, myself, am going to London soon.
@KiahThe reason you're not understanding my point is because you're only thinking about yourself. Stop twisting my words.
The second paragraph isn't aimed at you if you're just giving condolences. This is aimed towards people who think terrorists are invading Britain. That's extreme danger. Not everything is about you lot.
Basically what @Tara said. I've repeated this point several times, it's not just about you.
I'm doing no such thing so I suggest you get off the selfish kick. You're the one twisting my words saying I'm making this about me and that's just wrong. It's because of my concern for others that I said what I said among many other things.
You came across as being dismissive towards those expressing concern and per other comments here I wasn't the only one that thought this. You didn't make your point clear in addition to the implications otherwise this status update wouldn't of gone the route it did. Tara's comment cleared things up thankfully.
One one hand, I give condolences to the people who were lost during the hit and run as well the attacked police officer. It'll be a bit weary and security might be tightened for the week so it'll make London a bit edgy however worse has happened. It is thankful that the police arrested the man that did this.
Remains me of the time when I went to London for a school trip then a month later the 7/7 bombings happened, a terrible event that killed a lot of people.
On the other hand, I completely get what @Lucid Dream is saying. If it was done where I live (London by comparison is safer, at least for a majority of areas) or nearby Bradford that happens a lot more often with hit & runs (I was a victim myself and luckily on got a scratch on the arm) and attempted police killers it'll be shrugged off, it also wouldn't be on national news either. Maybe 5 minutes worth and front page of the day on local news at most. Axing over 2 hours worth of TV programming for this event on 2 major channels is a bit overblown just because it happened in London and not anywhere else in the country. Honestly I thought until I looked it up that something much worse happened.
Hooray for new year money! I got a nice amount of monies to dump on a nice, pricey game.
So, what game should I get? I'm thinking devil survivor 2 or Nier Automata, but I'm open to suggestions.
I really enjoy Shadow of Mordor and personally can't wait for shadow of War to come out
Let's put it this way. If you love Lord of the Rings, and Assassin's Creed, this is the game for you
I decided to watch Panty and Stocking to see how a Cartoon based anime would be like.
I'm disgusted and amazed at the same time. It's an experience.
Crow the BOOLET
Its a blessing
Panty and Stocking is my fav vulgar cartoon/anime thing.
CottonCandy
It's one of funniest and most offensive anime I've ever seen. The action is fantastic as well.
Panty and Stocking started showing up in my related videos on Youtube again, so I decided to give it another whirl. I loved it then and I love it even more now. For such a vulgar and offensive show, it's ... honest about it? Like it doesn't even try to pretend it has any morally redeeming values, and it's complete disregard for absolutely fucking everything makes it so bad it actually becomes surprisingly endearing.
The action's fun too, and I love it every time they blow up those silly little models of the ghost monsters.
The characters are very refreshing. I love how much of an irredemably disgusting asshole Panty is and how much of a hypocritical bitch Stocking is. It's charming in it's honesty and style. It feels empowering in a strange way.
I think the characters are my favourite thing about the entire show. Especcially Knee Socks.
So I just learnt that a childhood friend of mine that I lost contact with was also a huge Sonic fan.
Well, I doubt it would've changed much. Still, it would've been nice to talk about it. None of my friends play games now...
Psht. I know how it is. Everybody i know stopped playing like after Dreamcast
you could say they grew up and became functional adults
(just a joke lol)
Sonic Forces better have some ultra graphics settings for PC. I don't want to rely on mods to improve the graphics again.
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Discussion in 'Non Star Wars Fan Fiction' started by WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Sep 16, 2018.
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha Game Host Who Loves Fanfics & RPGs VIP - Game Host
by WNSA
Disclaimer: Borrowing for fun and with love!
Characters: Various, OCs and ECs
AN: Using a selection of some of the MMM Spoonful Prompts. Will be in sets of 3-5.
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"Warm"
Audrey hadn't known what to expect when she met Cynara. Would there be a frosty tension? It would not have surprised her if there had been. But surprisingly, they had gotten along more than well. They had things in common as to pastimes and values.
Audrey had long come to terms with her parents' temporary fraught times, and she saw no reason to take any residual resentment out on Cynara, who was as much a "victim" of past choices as she was. All they could do was move on from now.
Cynara's lively sense of humor and warm vivacity made that easy.
"Sweet"
When Nyota was pregnant, her sweet tooth became more ... intense, it was not a matter of switching tastes and preferences. The quantity increased. Afterwards, the quantity tapered and leveled off to a sane degree, but it did not disappear.
She devoured a cream-filled pastry and smiled at her sister: "Any child in there will have a strong preference for Bavarian cream, chocolate, and caramel!"
Kashore laughed. She nibbled since she was not pregnant. "My thing was shellfish. That's why our kids love everything that has shrimp, oysters, scallops!"
"Snuggle"
I hope the kids never grow out of loving to snuggle, Nyota thought, as she watched holofilms with the kids. She knew they would, however, so she treasured every second of the times now!
Her bondmate claimed to be mystified by the whole rationale behind snuggling and cuddling.
It was, Nyota laughingly pointed out, its own reward, especially with him.
"I shall take your word for it." He rejoined, making her laugh all the more.
@Mira_Jade
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Sep 16, 2018
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Ack! How did I let this go so long without a comment??? I can't believe how I dropped the ball on this one - forgive me.
These snippets were such a treat so saver! I will never get over the inclusion of Audrey and the family that beings by extension. She's just part of canon to me now. It's sweet to see her bond with her sister here.
Then, I loved the sisters bonding as much as I love the subject! The kids have inherited good taste, it seems.
The third one took the cake for me, though! I'm such a sucker for my favourite characters cuddling - but especially when its with those who'd otherwise claim to be unmoved! And then the kids! Just too sweet!
These were lovely! I can't to see what further sweet treats your muse has to share.
Mira_Jade , Sep 24, 2018
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Using "Together & Because"
Pairing: Sarek/T'Mai, my OC
T'Mai did not waste time wondering over the whys of her affinity with Sarek. It was self-evident. His intelligence, compassion, & wry sense of humor were enough to make him a standout among her colleagues and friends. His tact was a skill he had acquired during his career, but it also sprang from his very nature.
"Amanda must have appreciated your acumen with words." She observed on one occasion, since they were close enough friends that there was a comfort in speaking fondly of Amanda. T'Mai did not feel an irrational sense of competitiveness. She and Amanda were too dissimilar, for one thing.
Sarek gave a noncommittal shrug, and T'Mai felt a ripple of amusement. It was as good as an admission that tact and compromise had been an essential part of their relationship.
No, what made a surge of wonder flow through T'Mai, was the why of Sarek's mutual regard for her, not just as a valued friend and work associate, but more? When had the tide turned. What "reasons" did he give for their being together?
When she posed this question on a whim of curiosity, he had merely remarked: "Our relationship, T'Mai, is its own rationale. You are gentle & considerate, intuitive & intelligent."
His path with her would be as different from his with Amanda's as it was possible to be, but it would be just as fulfilling.
Last edited: Jan 16, 2020 at 4:34 AM
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Oct 1, 2018
Oh, you know what a soft spot I have for T'Mai! Of course it isn't going to be the same as it was with Amanda, but these two compliment each other in another way and there's peace and healing to be found for both of them moving on. Just beautiful.
Mira_Jade , Oct 2, 2018
"Feel" & "Believe"
Jim never doubted his feelings for Audrey, even when she was away & he attempted dating. It was more in the way of a backup just in case she never came back, although in his heart of hearts he hoped she would.
He felt that somehow he had to regain her trust, help her believe in them again.
"Quite the uphill battle." He confided to McCoy who said: "Yes, Jim. But you'll have to convince her that you care, even if you have to "start from scratch."
Jim laughed. "I would hate to miss out on a renewed relationship out of fear of a perhaps/maybe of rejection." He said thoughtfully.
"You have no control over what choice Audrey eventually makes, but you'd never forgive yourself if you let her slip away."
Jim agreed with that wholeheartedly.
When Audrey assented to give them a second chance, he felt so incredibly grateful, because she really did not have to.
He told her this at one point, and she grinned and said: "Jim, I had to take another go at us. It felt right, what I needed to do."
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Some very mature, thoughtful decisions being made all around here! Yep, it may definitely be an uphill battle to 'start from scratch', as it were, but its a battle worth fighting with such a sweet reward at the end! I love McCoy's insights and counsel, and Audrey's reaction in retrospect! Even with the roundabout road they took, they're right where they were meant to be!
"Baffled & Hopeful" Shannon/Demitri OCs on the Excelsior
He had always been solicitous, as a friend, but when she was recovering from a bout with the flu, Demitri was even more so, comming her and regaling her with humorous anecdotes. During away missions, he seemed to keep an especial eye on her status, in a way that seemed to be on the brink of more than professional. What's up with that? Shannon wondered. He wasn't obnoxiously hovering, but still ...
When a chance came to socialize on a welcome shore leave, she said casually that he and Kimiko should take in one of the local museums; both liked that sort of thing, it was not her forte. She was more into live theater.
Demitri gave her a baffled look as if to say You trying to fix me up?
Demitri invited Shannon to meet his family on Crete. She delightedly accepted. That was one location she had always wanted to visit.
During a moonlit stroll along the wine-dark sea, Shannon caught him looking at her. "Your hair is the color of sunsets, you know that?"
She laughed. "And my eyes are the color of emeralds... great skies, Demitri!"
"I'm serious, Shannon."
He was, she realized with a rush and spontaneously kissed him in thanks. It wasn't the "like kissing a cousin" type thing. It actually zinged between them. Wow! Shannon thought, wow!
Demitri could tell she had felt something, as he had. It gave him hope...
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"Listen & Learn"
Nyota's affinity for music and languages went hand in hand. The lilting sounds of strange syntax and classic melodies flowed with equal ease. The skill with languages was a window into cultures for her. The love of music soothed and uplifted those who were blessed to hear her perfect voice. She used beautiful words to affirm and express her love for family and friends.
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Oct 12, 2018
Aww!! I loved the Shannon and Dimitri ficlet. The best relationships are the ones that grow from friendship. I adore her finally understanding the spark between them, and wanting to see if it will go anywhere! And his bemusement when she tried to push him towards Kimiko! Too cute. You know how much I love this crew you've developed.
Then, that was as fine and lyrical a character study for Nyota as any! I loved the observation about language and music going hand in hand - and what she uses that to express. Just lovely.
Mira_Jade , Oct 14, 2018
earlybird-obi-wan Force Ghost
loved the three I have read only now. Sarek had to find a new love and Jim and Audrey are a pair
earlybird-obi-wan, Oct 26, 2018
AN: The second one is definitely a wannado of mine! LOL
"Breathe & Exhale" S/U
Whenever he was on an away mission, until he returned, safe and relatively none the worse for the unpredictable, Uhura could breathe again.
She could literally exhale, release the breath she hadn't realized she was holding.
She told her sister in a message one time that it probably wasn't the other way around, at least, (laughing emogie) not overtly.
Out of curiosity, she asked him about this, and he did not deny that he felt more than a qualm on her behalf when they were not on an away team together. "It is fortunate that our Security detail is so exemplary." Was his only comment on the matter, and she beamed.
"Pacific Coast Highway"
Jim liked vintage transportation, but this was going way, way back, before air-cars. He had a red convertible with black racing stripes. It went very, very fast, in under a minute. Skylar loved it, as they zipped along the oceanside.
Audrey loved the sensation of speed as well and the boyish gleam in Jim's hazel eyes.
"Boyish" being the operative word, since her lifemate apparently hadn't outgrown a youth's love of fast and fancy rides!
The lovely vista of the sparkling majestic waves glinting in the sunlight was nothing to miss, either, whether in the midst of a sunny afternoon or on the brink of sunset.
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Nov 6, 2018
Oh! What a sweet pair of drabbles to start the morning off with.
First: Yep - I can't say that I blame Nyota for holding her breath! They certainly have a line of work fraught with . . . adventure, shall we say. I loved Spock's very IC way of expressing his own concerns. It's certainly good their security detail is so thorough, indeed.
Then: Oh! What a wonderful way to bring things full circle with the opening scene of the reboot films. The classic car and the scenery and the family! I adored the picture you painted with this one - it was so vivid in my mind's eye!
These snippets were absolutely wonderful, as always.
Mira_Jade , Nov 7, 2018
Love those two drabbles. Red-shirts are great to have and a red convertible sure does it for Jim and Audrey
earlybird-obi-wan, Nov 8, 2018
AN: Inspired by one recent post/entry in "Venting Plasma"
"No One Has Love Greater"
The memorial for Spock Prime was a moving thing, indeed.
Nyota spoke words of fondness: "He was a wonderful mentor and friend. He shared pivotal moments and sacrifices that were made by himself and others in the other timestream. No one has love greater than this that he should surrender his life for his friends. This is true literally and otherwise. We are fortunate that we had reclaimed him from the jaws of voracious Death, as Lazarus was … but now we have lost him for a while. But he is in our memories and hearts, a testament to what is treasured with the love of a son and colleague and friend."
"That was lovely!" Audrey exclaimed, hugging Nyota. "You are eloquent with the spoken, as well as the sung word."
Nyota smiled and hugged her back. "It was easy to speak so." She answered and glanced over to her bondmate. "I am blessed, as is my own Spock to have one another, in such a unique and precious way."
"I bet you find a moment to be grateful for that, every day." Audrey observed knowingly.
Nyota laughed. "I bask unabashedly!"
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Nov 11, 2018
Oh, what a beautiful eulogy! That is one of my favourite verses, and such a good source of inspiration - as you well proved here! I loved the warmth of Nyota's regard for Spock Prime, and her own Spock, too! And seeing her friendship with Audrey is, as always, another blessing all its own.
Mira_Jade , Nov 12, 2018
Using Wishful Thinking with Pleasant Surprises and then Ripples
Christine smiled as she bade farewell to the last of her patients. "Having a joint practice was always a choice I wanted to eventually make, and now I find it a pleasant surprise." She commented to Nyota in a letter. "I find the gentle pacing of "family practice" so much more rewarding than the hectic chaos I'd have as chief of a triage unit. You get to know your patients as friends in a family practice."
Nyota smiled as she read Chris' note. Their practice was in a lovely community in Vermont. A more beautiful location it would be hard to find, as it was blessed with all 4 seasons, even though the winter could be quite brutal. Spring and autumn more than made up for that.
**~~~
Jim discovered that command decisions had a definite ripples effect. Some were expected and welcome, others quite unpredictable and disappointing.
But under-running all were the life-long friendships he'd forged. He'd trod the delicate line between respected leader and "buddy" by being firm when needed, approachable and accessible when desired.
And there were those few who were always friends first, like McCoy, Spock, and Nyota; those 3 were resourceful and courageous and unfailing confidantes.
Aw! I'm happy to see Christine so content in her new practice - there's no more beautiful a place to settle down and just enjoy interacting with her patients!
And I really appreciated the thoughtful, mature introspection on Jim's part in the second drabble. He really has come so far, and he has a fantastic few friends at his back every step of the way.
AN: I had to add to and incorporate the nummy of a way back from Mira -- "Not all is Sunshine in Space."
Her piece was written in the gorgeous "You" point of view, which I adore.
Summary: Jim and Nyota run afoul of zealots and she acts instinctively and courageously, taking a life to save a life. there are, of course, ramifications. But she is amazing!
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Did You Know You Were My Hero...
Nyota is entertaining with songs after shift one evening when Jim shares a pivotal moment in the Enterprise tour.
When Jim recalls their 3rd mission, (and when he tells Audrey of it over chocolate mousse cake), he does not stint on the details.
"We ran into a bunch of crazy zealots in a labyrinth." He recounts. "There was a shot and my heart was in my throat because I thought Nyota had been injured, at the very least."
Audrey's eyes widen, enthralled.
"Uhura took down one of the thugs, in an instantaneous fashion. She was completely efficient, as I had come to expect. It rattled her greatly though, understandably."
"I'll just bet." Audrey's eyes are full of empathy for her friend Nyota and gratitude for that swift action.
Jim had given Nyota moral support, resulting in her offhand quip: "Be careful, now. We'll have McCoy grumbling for a month if he has to patch you back together."
Audrey laughs as he repeats this tease of Nyota's.
"She is incredible!" Jim says. "She's all Jedi and Mando all rolled into one."
Audrey grins. "Twi'lek too. Like Hera... like a graceful Twi'lek dancer, giving her soulmate a sweet eyeful."
Nyota comes up to their table at this juncture and hears this. "Don't assume it's all one-sided. I get delightful glimpses during his fencing matches."
Jim tells Nyota what he had been sharing with Audrey, and Nyota's eyes grow dark with the memory. "That was an intense event!" She admits.
Upon their return, she had been helped immeasurably by a soft and gentle meld with her love, who had taken the brunt of the harsher feelings away and left her with a sense of peace that she had done the necessary thing and with a pervasive knowing of how much he admired her.
This had touched her and soothed her ragged emotions.
"I'm blessed to have you." She had whispered with ineffable tenderness.
Now, Nyota eyes the last piece of cake. "May I?" She asks and before either of them can accede, she grabs it and takes a big bite. "Mmm!" She sighs. "Delicious! Chocolate is the very best snack there is, a treat for the tongue and the soul!"
Audrey suggests: "I want to hear you sing "Got the World on a String" and "Night and Day."
Nyota's eyes beam. "The best of the best by the inimitable Sinatra. You've got it, Audrey!"
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Jan 31, 2019
Aw!! This one brought back memories something fierce, lemme tell you! That viggie really was quite a long time ago, wasn't it? But I'm still fond of that bunny - just as I appreciate the care and renewed TLC you've given it here now. There was so much honest affection and emotion in this ficlet, between all of the characters! No matter how awful that event may have been in the moment, it's a source of affirmation in retrospect! Nyota has such a beautiful support system - and something to protect that made the tough choice worth it in the end!!
Mira_Jade , Feb 1, 2019
"Ribbon in the Sky"
Time: During Ny's Academy Days
Nyota loves the curtain of shimmery lights of varying shades of green, red, pinks, and magentas of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis.
She enthuses about this to her sister when she finds time-lapsed 'stills on the 'net.
During one of her impromptu stop-overs at Spock's office, she describes this fascination.
He is struck by her vivacious enjoyment, and how it lights up her liquid eyes.
He knows the wherewithal of how the colors and shapes of the "Northern" and "Southern" lights arise, and this does nothing to mitigate his own wonder as he gazes at the display Nyota has captured on her datapadd.
When he sees a bracelet of rare stones with similar colors, he thinks of her and buys it, dare one say on a whim?
He presents it to her the next time they meet, in a very casual, offhand way, one friend to another.
Nyota is stirred by the spontaneity and the beauty of the gift. Her smile hugs him where she does not dare to do so.
"Oh, thank you! It's lovely!" She exclaims with unapologetic delight.
He is pleased by her reaction.
The aurora is not merely a ribbon in the sky; nor is this gesture strictly speaking a token of "just friendship."
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Feb 7, 2019
Only now the time to read this and they are yummy. Love the present Ny is getting. There are stones with that lovely hue (and shells too)
earlybird-obi-wan, Feb 7, 2019
"Soft Epilogue"
Nyota watched her younglings frolic with her parents. First they insisted on playing "starfighter and TIE pilot" and then they begged for fudge - "extra gooey" Jenessa pleaded while Khi'ori added extra caramel sprinkles. Grayson just smothered his fudge slice in vanilla ice cream.
"I see your kids have inherited your sweet tooth." Ny's father teased her. He looked with deep affection at his daughter, whose laughing eyes were full of a profound contentment.
Nyota grinned. "I am completely not sorry!"
"I can believe it." He added with satisfaction, "It brings your mom and me no small amount of pleasure to see you so happy and fulfilled."
Nyota beamed.
She shared this later with her bondmate who looked at her speculatively. "Our family is flourishing I daresay. It is a delicate balance nurturing the children intellectually and emotionally, while pursuing our careers."
Nyota agreed. "Yes. Some few of their age-mates are in troubled families. It's not an easy thing, but you have to prioritize your family. We've done that as a couple and as parents." She winked. "You make it easy, so very easy."
He reached to embrace her, and she snuggled close and sighed happily. "We have definitely achieved a soft epilogue, my darling." She breathed in loving gratitude.
SQUEEEEEEEE!
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Feb 18, 2019
And that should be with every family
earlybird-obi-wan, Feb 18, 2019
Using Lost, Then Found
Audrey watched Jim with Valory and Amber. She had often thought if he felt like he'd lost too much giving up a life devoted to the "front lines", where he landed in the midst of grand discoveries and adventures, accidentally on purpose more often than not. But watching him now, with a love so undeniable in his every glance and movement, she felt her heart lift with certainty. No, he had been ready for this latest "adventure"; what they had each found was worth anything they had transitioned away from.
Nyota beamed as she joined Audrey in the doorway of the living room, as Jim handed Amber to her bondmate.
"After 3 younglings, Spock is no longer so … self-conscious, dare I put it that way? around babes, and although I know full well he wouldn't admit it, he finds the whole experience as irresistibly endearing as you, Jim, and I do!"
"In his inimitable way." Audrey quipped.
Nyota's eyes were soft. "Kashore said having younglings is as fun as making them, and she's right, though in a different way. That's why being adoptive parents, as well as natural ones, is so rewarding for her & Dajan."
"Yes, we found that with Skylar." Audrey agreed.
"Having younglings is a definite shift for me." Jim confided. "A different mind-set, completely different from command decisions and putting in motion choices and actions that have far-reaching, unknown consequences, frequently for entire worlds. Somehow, I think the personal level is more intimidating."
"It can be daunting, grappling with all of the what-ifs of parenthood. As so often occurs, the vast majority of those never materialize, and the rewards outweigh all the anxieties."
"So true! And then having grandparents to fuss over your babies is a true treat!" Jim laughed good-naturedly.
Spock reflected that it had been true in his and Nyota's case, as well. Nyota's parents had been unabashedly exuberant over each new arrival, and the affection had simply grown from that point.
Even Sarek had been quietly, unapologetically jubilant, with undertones of soft wistful gratitude. Now, with T'Mai added to the family mix, it was a jumble and tumble, as Nyota would call it, of tangled emotions, longing for Amanda to know her grandlings, but pleased that T'Mai could have the unique experience.
"It's okay to wish for one while celebrating the other." Nyota had assured. She was very adept at doing such things, unraveling the unsaid and touching the heart of the situation with compassion and understanding. Part of that was her training in the verbal and nonverbals of language, the rest, the large balance of it, was her innate nature.
Nyota & Audrey moved into the room, as Nyota caught the tenor of Spock's thoughts and reflections. "Thinking of me, I suppose?" She whispered with glowing eyes.
"Now, whyever would you think that?" He rejoined, handing Amber To Audrey in order to slide an arm around Nyota's shoulders.
"Oh, I don't know …" She laughed, "Just a hunch."
He kissed her gently, and she sighed into it with pleasure.
Jim and Audrey watched them with unfeigned delight.
"It looks like none of us have lost a thing but have actually found an abundance." Jim commented to Audrey, with a knowing wink.
"I know that's right." She answered happily.
WarmNyota_SweetAyesha, Mar 6, 2019
A lovely use of the prompt. Families and children and loved by grandparents
earlybird-obi-wan, Mar 6, 2019
Aw! These have been lovely, heartwarming responses to the new prompts.
Ribbon In the Sky: The aurora is not merely a ribbon in the sky; nor is this gesture strictly speaking a token of "just friendship."
Aw!! That was such a lovely line to tie this ficlet together. So much was unspoken here, true, but managed to speak volumes regardless.
Soft Epilogue: Oh! That is indeed the softest of epilogues, and just what these dear characters deserve. Beautiful!
Lost, then Found: They certainly have family in abundance, in a beautiful way! This was a wonderful reflection on family, in all its different shapes and sizes. I can't tell you what a smile I had on my face while reading this. It was just what the soul needed today.
Wonderful work, as always, my friend!
Mira_Jade , Mar 12, 2019
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The Officer's Wife
Author: VAULT & 11Alive
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In April 2016, hours after an argument with his wife Jessica, Griffin, Georgia police officer Matthew Boynton radios for assistance and reports hearing two gunshots coming from inside his home. Officers rush to the scene to find Jessica Boynton inside a locked closet, with an apparent gunshot wound to her head. Underneath her body, officers find her husband's service weapon. But this story of small-town romance gone wrong was far from over. The investigation into what really happened inside that closet and what happened next would captivate a small town and change the lives of one family forever. The Officer's Wife is a VAULT Studios production in collaboration with 11Alive in Atlanta.
Trailer: Introducing The Officer's Wife
The Officer's Wife premieres January 13, 2020.
Jessica and Matthew Boynton's marriage was in trouble. But on April 14, 2016, shots were fired inside a closet in the couple's Griffin, Georgia apartment and their lives would be forever altered.
A Messy Affair
In the early morning hours of April 15, 2016 Jessica Boynton is found with a gunshot wound to her head. Investigators start digging into the details of that night...and the volatile marriage that seemed to fuel whatever happened inside the closet.
Jacob Lukaszek
when is next episode?
Wicked Lil Pixie
I will never believe Jessica did this. Matthew is a murderer.
Jeremy Burns
He did it!
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Video: Teen nails Michael Jackson routine at talent show
By John-Henry Perera on May 22, 2014 at 10:56 PM
A 17-year-old student got in touch with his inner “King of Pop” and has become a viral sensation, Sacramento’s KBET-TV reports.
Pop superstar Michael Jackson performing at the Super Bowl in Pasadena, California, in 1993. (Photo by Rusty Kennedy / Associated Press)
Brett Nichols did a Michael Jackson routine to “Billie Jean,” one of the singer’s megahits, during a talent show at Pittman High School in Turlock, California. The two-minute performance included some near-flawless copies of Jackson’s signature moves, including the moonwalk.
And surprise: It was all recorded and posted on YouTube. The video has since gone on to claim more than 5 million views as of Thursday.
And how did Nichols emulate Jackson’s signature moves so well?
“YouTube came around and you could find all the videos and songs I remembered hearing,” Nichols told KBET-TV. “Then it was possible to see the choreography, it inspired me. And then I thought, ‘Why isn’t this something I can do?’ Then it was practice, practice, watch, learn and take notes.”
He credits the video’s popularity to the fact that people still miss the pop artist and that younger generations still appreciate Jackson’s work.
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Episode 165: THE LIGHTHOUSE & THE WITCH with Robert Eggers!
The gang are back, or at least Rob Galluzzo and Elric Kane, from several weeks of traveling and are reporting on the movies they've seen at Salem Horror Fest and the Knoxville Horror Film Fest! Also reviewed: THE FURIES on Shudder, IN THE TALL GRASS on Netflix, Rodman Flender's latest EAT BRAINS LOVE, TAMMY & THE T-REX and more! Then we welcome to the show writer/director Robert Eggers in a rare West Coast appearance to talk about his latest feature THE LIGHTHOUSE, as well as his surprise hit THE WITCH! It's a fascinating candid chat with one of the most unique genre filmmakers working today, and where he draws his inspirations from. Is a remake of NOSFERATU in his future? Tune in for all the answers!
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UPDATE: Both suspects in Hadiya Pendleton case convicted of murder
Hadiyah Pendleton’s killer convicted of first degree murder
Crusader staff report
Kenneth Williams, a big-time gang member who drove the getaway car after 15-year -old Hadiyah Pendleton was fatally shot in the back in 2013, was convicted of first degree murder by a Cook County jury on Wednesday, August 22.
Kenneth Williams, a big-time gang member who drove the getaway car after 15-year-old Hadiyah Pendleton was fatally shot in the back in 2013, was convicted of first degree murder by a Cook County jury on Wednesday, August 22.
His accomplice, Micheail Ward, the man who fatally shot Hadiyah Pendleton five years ago at Harsh Park, was convicted of first degree murder on Thursday, August 24.
The verdict brought to an end years of waiting for justice for Pendleton’s mother, Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley. She wept at a news conference that was held after the verdict was announced.
Ward remained stoic as he learned his fate.
Micheail Ward
Prosecutors said Williams 25, drove the car after his co-defendant sprayed bullets into a crowd at Harsh Park in Kenwood. Police said the group was mistaken for a rival gang in a retaliation shooting.
Witnesses during the trial denied or said they never saw Williams or Ward during the shooting, despite sworn statements they made in pre-trial hearings. Prosecutors read their statements to the jury, hoping jurors would accept the witnesses’ original, written testimony.
Hadiya was an honor student and majorette at King College Prep High School. She was gunned down one week after she performed for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
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Wal-Mart CEO Lists his Top Six Reads for 2016
In it, McMillon posted a photo of the six tomes that “taught and inspired” him. They range from works about Chinese politics, how best to pay workers and how to nourish the human soul. And it looks like one piece may have been something McMillon read many times before.
Sam Walton: Made in America, by Sam Walton, details how the author (and Wal-Mart founder) went from milking cows and delivering newspapers during the Great Depression to building one of the biggest retail empires in the world.
Apparently, McMillon discovered that the Walton book, which he goes back to frequently, shared features with Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, a work on management strategy by General Stanley McChrystal.
“The six tomes that “taught and inspired” McMillon range from works about Chinese politics, how best to pay workers and how to nourish the human soul.”
“It seems they learned some similar things about what works when it comes to leading teams. For example, fostering a shared consciousness and empowering execution delivers results,” McMillon said.
Also among his recommendations was Chinese Politics in the Xi JingpingEra: Reassessing Collective Leadership, by Cheng Li. Wal-Mart has hundreds of stores in China and wants to add more over the coming years, so this choice makes sense.
A little more offbeat perhaps was McMillon’s selection of Soul Keeping by John Ortberg, which pledges to “help you discover your soul and take your relationship with God to the next level.”
Rounding out the six were two books on management strategy. One, Change in Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, by Tim Brown, offers advice on how organizations can be inspired to innovate.
Meanwhile, The Good Jobs Strategy, by Zeynep Ton, argues that even in low-cost settings, leaving employees behind—with bad jobs and low wages—is a choice, not a necessity. That’s an interesting choice of reading, given that McMillon last year announced Wal-Mart would raise all employees’ wages to at least $10 per hour, above the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
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Students Raise More Than $900K Through Dance Marathon Program
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College students engage in peer-to-peer fundraising to support patients and families at Children’s National through nationally-recognized Dance Marathon program. Read more about the program’ on the local and national level.
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Varsylvia James, a Costco employee since 1999, supports Children’s National through the company’s annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals fundraising campaign to honor her 4-year-old grandson Chace, who was treated for a cleft lip, cleft palate, and scoliosis. Read about the company’s May campaign, which raised more than $2 million for Children’s National.
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The Veterans Memorial of Boone County was conceived in 1995 when H.B. Deatherage, a Viet Nam veteran, was deeply moved by the fact that veterans in Boone County had no place to heal wounds and memories of war. The names and etchings were brought to the forefront with beautiful black granite, making up the memorial honoring WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, and the most recent “War on Terror.” The sacred ground has six fully lit flagpoles, including ground lights. It also has a Congressional Medal of Honor granite bench honoring Charles Fleek, who was killed in Viet Nam, and four additional granite benches.
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Conscious Capitalism, Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by John Mackey & Raj Sisodia
At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future.
Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue that both business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use some of today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Tata to Costco, Panera, Google, the Container Store, and Amazon, today’s organizations are creating value for all stakeholders—including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.
Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.
Firms of Endearment by: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
by Raj Sisodia
Today’s best companies get it. From retail to finance and industries in between, the organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they’re doing it for all their stakeholders. Not because it’s simply politically correct, because it’s the only path to long-term competitive advantage.
These are the firms of endearment. Companies people love doing business with, working for and collaborating with as partners. Since the publication of the First Edition, the concept of corporate social responsibility has become embraced as a valid, important, and profitable business model. It is a trend that has transformed the workplace and corporate world. This Second Edition updates the examples, cases, and applications from the original edition, giving readers insight into how this hallmark of the modern organization is practiced today.
Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values
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Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. Conscious Business presents breakthrough techniques to help you and the people in your company create a workplace founded in unconditional responsibility and unflinching integrity, anchored by authentic communication and impeccable commitments, and guided by right leadership. Here is a definitive resource for maximizing profit and potential in the workplace and beyond.
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In this groundbreaking book, the author shows that every time, in the past, when humanity has shifted to a new stage of consciousness, it has achieved extraordinary breakthroughs in collaboration. A new shift in consciousness is currently underway. Could it help us invent a more soulful and purposeful way to run our businesses and nonprofits, schools and hospitals?
It’s Just Good Business: The Emergence of Conscious Capitalism & the Practice of Working for Good
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It’s Just Good Business provides a clear, concise and compelling introduction to the emerging Conscious Capitalism movement and to the practice of Working for Good. It’s Just Good Business is an inspiring and informative “quick read” filled with quotes, stories and pathways to action.
“This book is absolutely terrific! It is brief with minimal text and lots of graphics and quotes – an easy read on a relatively deep topic. I love the descriptions of companies that exemplify Conscious Capitalism!! And, I absolutely love the call to action sections in the latter part of the book!” ~ Scott McIntosh, MAC6, Angel Entrepreneur
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What these workers created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years—an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream.
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We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science–the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works–offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists “for free.” It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.
Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You’ll learn that:
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• Life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required
• Chaos and change are the only route to transformation
In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.
The Living Organization: Transforming Business to Create Extraordinary Results
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The pressure on CEOs and other leaders to create results, while balancing an increasing diversity of opposing demands, is reaching oppressive levels. New leaders sense the breakdown of our existing business. The framework that was used to guide their efforts no longer produces the same results.
First and foremost, The Living Organization deepens our understanding of how any living organization creates the results it desires. Norman Wolfe draws on decades of experience both leading and consulting with organizations to unravel the mystery of creating results. Based on scientific, philosophical and spiritual truths, The Living Organization® model explores how three distinct yet highly interdependent fields of energy influence and determine what results will and will not be created.
Most organizations fail because they focus only on activities and reduce organizations to simple machines of production, machines whose sole purpose is to produce money. But machines are, by their very nature, soulless and everything this paradigm touches turns soulless and lifeless. By contrast, The Living Organization brings life to an organization’s activity. It is energized by relationships, and brings meaning and purpose to activities. The Living Organization creates and is in harmony with its environment, growing and developing as it contributes to and enhances all members of its ecosystem.
The Living Organization teaches leaders how to succeed by consciously using all of the energy fields to create results. This essential tool is for all leaders who want to successfully navigate the varied dynamics impacting their organizations.
The Living Organization presents the foundation of a new business model and provides a new, more detailed map to navigate the complex business world of this century. This evolutionary perspective is a fresh way to understand how organizations develop, grow and evolve. It will challenge the way you think and interact.
Deeply personal, brimming with compelling stories from real-life challenges, and packed with powerful insights, tools, and practices, The Living Organization is a potent resource for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned business leaders alike.
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by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins
On its first publication 10 years ago, Natural Capitalism rocked the world of business with its innovative new approach – an approach that fused ecological integrity with business acumen using the radical concept of natural capitalism. This 10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by Amory B. Lovins and Paul Hawken which updates the story to include the successes of the last decade. It clearly sets out the path that we must now take to ensure the future prosperity of our civilisation and our planet.
Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living
The words “business” and “social change” may seem contradictory, but the fact is a successful business may be the most powerful force for positive change in the world today. In Working for Good, Jeff Klein, one of the visionaries and driving forces behind Spinning, Seeds of Change, Chi Running, and other forward-thinking brands presents a how-to guidebook for becoming a “conscious entrepreneur”–one who addresses social issues while running a profitable business based on integrity and self-actualization. Putting the tools of conscious business development firmly in our hands, Jeff Klein takes readers step by step through the five keys to Working for Good, showing how to:
Express your humanity through full awareness and embodiment while engaging others with your work
Establish purpose grounded in principles that sustain both your business and your virtues
Generate rich experiences in and outside of work through a network of spirited connection and collaboration For anyone who has yearned to make a comfortable living in service of real social change, Jeff Klein offers an essential read that is at once deeply inspirational and wholly practical: Working for Good.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion & Purpose
by Tony Hsieh
Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit
Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department
Focus on company culture as the #1 priority
Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business
Help employees grow-both personally and professionally
Seek to change the world
Oh, and make money too . . .
Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.
In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Fast-paced and down-to-earth, DELIVERING HAPPINESS shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success-and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own.
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by Chip Conely
After fifteen years of rising to the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley’s company was suddenly undercapitalized and overexposed in the post-dot.com, post-9/11 economy. For relief and inspiration, Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s iconic Hierarchy of Needs. This book explores how Conley’s company “the second largest boutique hotelier in the world” overcame the storm that hit the travel industry by applying Maslow’s theory to what Conley identifies as the key Relationship Truths in business with Employees, Customers and Investors.
Part memoir, part theory, and part application, the book tells of Joie de Vivre’s remarkable transformation while providing real world examples from other companies and showing how readers can bring about similar changes in their work and personal lives. Conley explains how to understand the motivations of employees, customers, bosses, and investors, and use that understanding to foster better relationships and build an enduring and profitable corporate culture.
Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live
by Danah Zohar & Ian Marshall
Spiritual Capital presents a new vision of capitalist society that transcends the greed, materialism, and meaninglessness so rampant today. It offers an idea of wealth, profit, and capital that’s about more than simply money. “”Profit,”” under this system, would be not merely for private gain but would be used in part for public good. “”Wealth”” would be that which enriches the deeper aspects of our lives, gained by drawing upon our most fundamental purposes and highest motivations and finding a way to embed these in our work. “”Capital”” is amassed by serving – in corporate philosophy and practice – the pressing concerns of our world. The author’s dream of getting a critical mass of people and organizations to act for what’s right rather than for self-serving reasons. Ideally, spiritual capital would reflect a values-based business culture. Instead of emphasizing shareholder value, it would promote “”stakeholder value,”” where stakeholders include the whole human race and the planet itself.
The Purpose Economy
by Aaron Hurst
A series of shifts are happening in our economy: Millennials are trading in conventional career paths to launch tech start-ups, start small businesses that are rooted in local communities, or freelance their expertise. We are sharing everything, from bikes and cars, to extra rooms in our homes. We now create, buy and sell handcrafted products in our local communities with ease.
Globally recognized entrepreneur, founder of Taproot Foundation and CEO of Imperative, Aaron Hurst, argues in his latest book that while these developments seem unrelated at first, taken together they reveal a powerful pattern that points to purpose as the new driver of the American economy.
Like the Information Economy, which has driven innovation and economic growth until now, Hurst argues that our new economic era is driven by connecting people to their purpose. It’s an economy where value lies in establishing purpose for employees and customers through serving needs greater than their own, enabling personal growth and building community. Based on interviews with thousands of entrepreneurs, Hurst shows this new era is already fueling demand for a whole host of products and services and transforming how millennials view their careers. A new breed of startups like Etsy, Zaarly, Tough Mudder, Kickstarter, and Airbnb are finding new ways to create value by connecting us with our local communities. At the same time, companies like Tesla and Whole Foods are making the march from just appealing to affluent buyers to becoming mainstream brands. Hurst calls these companies, along with the pioneering entrepreneurs who founded them, the Purpose Economy’s taste-makers.
This book is at once a personal memoir of Aaron Hurst’s own awakening as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, when he left a well-paying tech job in 2001 to launch Taproot, creating a pathway for millions of professionals and Fortune 500 companies to volunteer for nonprofits. It’s also a blueprint for a new economic era that is transforming companies, markets and our careers to better serve people and the world.
The Shareholder Value Myth
by Lynn Stout
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well, leading managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings; discouraging investment and innovation; harming employees, customers, and communities; and causing companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and irresponsible behaviors. And she looks at new models of corporate purpose that better serve the needs of investors, corporations, and society.
The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years
by Yvon Chouinard
Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years’ experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of current efforts by other companies – to articulate the elements of responsible business for our time.
Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery.
In plain, compelling prose, the authors describe the current impact of manufacturing and commerce on the planet’s natural systems and human communities, and how that impact now forces business to change its ways. The Responsible Company shows companies how to reduce the harm they cause, improve the quality of their business, and provide the kind of meaningful work everyone seeks. It concludes with specific, practical steps every business can undertake, as well as advice on what to do, in what order.
This is the first book to show companies how to thread their way through economic sea change and slow the drift toward ecological bankruptcy. Its advice is simple but powerful: reduce your environmental footprint (and its skyrocketing cost), make legitimate products that last, reclaim deep knowledge of your business and its supply chain to make the most of opportunities in the years to come, and earn the trust you’ll need by treating your workers, customers and communities with respect.
Screw Business as Usual
by Richard Branson
RICHARD BRANSON, one of the world’s most famous and admired business leaders, argues that it’s time to turn capitalism upside down-to shift our values from an exclusive focus on profit to also caring for people, communities and the planet
As he writes:
“It’s a vibrant and definite sea change from the way business was always done, when financial profit was a driving force. Today, people aren’t afraid to say, Screw business as usual!-and show they mean it.
“… this book isn’t just about fun and adventure and exceeding one’s wildest dreams. It’s a different kind of business book. It’s about revolution. My message is a simple one: business as usual isn’t working. In fact, business as usual is wrecking this planet. Resources are being used up; the air, the sea, the land are all heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation or because they can’t afford a dollar a day for lifesaving medicine.
“But my message is not all doom and gloom. I will describe how I think business can help fix things and create a more prosperous world for everyone. I happen to believe in business because I believe that business is a force for good. By that I mean that doing good is good for business.
“Doing the right thing can be profitable. I will show how this works step by step in the following pages. It’s the core message of this book. I often say, ‘Have fun and the money will come.’ I still believe that, but now I am saying, ‘Do good, have fun and the money will come.'”
Books on Leadership
The Essential Drucker: The Best of 60 Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
by Peter Drucker
Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of The Box
by Arbinger Institute
Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness
by Robert Greenleaf & Larry Spears
Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership
by Dan & Linda Anderson
by Bill George
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
by Bill George & Peter Sims
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
by Dave Logan & John King
Other Great Books
StrengthFinder 2.0
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Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More than IQ
by Daniel Goleman
by Patricia Aburdene
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
by Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica
The Experiment – Discover the Revolutionary Way to Manage Stress and Achieve Work-Life Balance
by R. Michael Anderson, M.B.A., M.A.
Helping People Win at Work
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The Next Evolution of Business
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How Open is ‘Open’ ?
by Paul Miller on 2 July, 2009 • 14:17 • 1 Comment
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
There has been a recent burst of enthusiasm for making raw data produced by and for Government more ‘open,’ and this must surely be welcomed. Long-running grass-roots efforts such as Tom Steinberg’s mySociety and The Guardian‘s Free Our Data campaign continue to innovate, but in an environment that is suddenly more receptive to their ideas. Edge-case adoptions of RDFa and other ‘semantic’ specifications, perhaps, are at last moving from being merely the preserve of a few isolated enthusiasts.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee now walks the corridors of power in London and Washington and elected officials (and even the Opposition parties) at least claim to be listening to his call for ‘Raw Data, Now!’ and his talk of Linked Data, URIs, and the rest. How far we have come, but we have much further still to go.
‘Open’ and ‘Transparent’ Government is nothing new. It’s been talked about for a very long time, and there has been some progress. Part of the issue, I think, comes down to interpretations of ‘open.’ Just because it’s possible to download some Government data doesn’t necessarily mean it’s practical for most interested parties to do so.
If a national library puts all of its catalogue online for free, but requires you to query it via an obscure industry protocol, is that ‘open’ ? If they then throttle access so that it would take an inordinately long period of time to ‘copy’ their catalogue, is that ‘open’ ?
If a National Statistics agency makes all of their research freely available, and provides access to thousands of opaquely named csv files by listing them on a web page, is that ‘open’ ?
If a Government department makes all its research reports available online as Microsoft Word files, is that ‘open’ ?
A purist might strenuously assert that none of these are ‘open.’ Most, certainly, are far from ideal… but they still serve a real purpose in making the innards of Government more accountable. How good should be good enough in 2009?
Going the other way, does a Health Authority have to make my medical records visible to the world before it can be called ‘open’ ? It seems almost unthinkable, but extremes of viewpoint do have an annoying habit of quickly becoming that absurd.
The current enthusiasm for ‘Open’ is closely associated to Tim Berners-Lee’s talk of Linked Data and the newly pragmatic Semantic Web, and Berners-Lee provided a short note last week on his current views. Contrast Tim’s discussion of the ways in which Government data should be linkable with the Sunlight Foundation’s attack on the US Federal Government‘s transparency flagship, Recovery.gov, for not making any real data available in the first place.
If we can’t even get the existing raw data out of Government as often as we’d like, there’s a long way to go before Berners-Lee’s grander vision can be achieved. He recognises this, of course, writing;
“Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data. Start with the ‘low-hanging fruit’. Whatever else, the raw data should be made available as soon as possible. Preferably, it should be put up as Linked Data. As a third priority, it should be linked to other sources. As a lower priority, nice user interfaces should be made to it — if interested communities outside government have not already done it.”
To get much further, and to make that progress sustainable, there’s a requirement for a very real shift in attitudes at the heart of Government. Openness (of data or anything else) shouldn’t be a tactic to distract from worse news elsewhere, or a short lived knee-jerk response to the latest embarrassment. Rather, it should be a deep-seated presumption to underpin policy, systems design and more.
Data from Government should, quite simply, be freely and easily available. As a matter of course, and without prevarication. Unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise.
For all the talk of ‘open,’ that is very far from being true today. The presumption is ‘closed.’ The mindset is (largely) ‘closed.’ ‘Open’ has to be fought for, and ‘Open’ has to be justified. ‘Open’ has to be championed, endlessly, tirelessly, thanklessly.
The exact opposite should be true. Then (and maybe only then?) Berners-Lee and his colleagues can build something wonderful.
Open government and Linked Data; now it’s time to draft… (johnbreslin.com)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee talks to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones about Linked Data (cloudofdata.com)
A World Where Everybody Has Put their Data on the Web (futurechat.in)
Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web (readwriteweb.com)
Linked Data in Health Care (ehealth.johnwsharp.com)
Sir Tim, the web and silos (bbc.co.uk)
SemTech2009 impressions (ivan-herman.name)
Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care (readwriteweb.com)
Reflections on SemTech 2009 (w3.org)
UK Government Moves to Put Data on the Web (w3.org)
Tim Berners-Lee: “We need data on the Web to work better together” (semantic-web.at)
Talis Connected Commons: Linked open data repository opens up shop (mndoci.com)
Happy Birthday, Web of Documents. Now bring on the Web of Data! (cloudofdata.com)
Tags: Linked Data, Open Data, open government, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee
Categories: Linked Data, Web 3.0
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It's kinda echoey in here
michael2572ON
Advanced Derbyer
It's been some time since the last update, so I thought I'd talk a bit and hopefully you'll find this interesting. It's not hard to tell there's not much happening here, so I wanted to reiterate that I have no plans to shut down at all. In its current state Crash 'n Burn can continue to remain online without issue.
We are here because people don't stick around. Despite forum/social media posts, a referral program, in-game registration, an email newsletter, SA:MP forum advertisements, and of course the SA:MP hosted list, there is just no interest.
The hosted list used to be a great source of players. While we did get new players from the list, 90% of them played only once and never returned.
Why? Well, during the first phase of CnB, our server load was mostly maxed out in any 24-hour period, and now it's the opposite. I invite you to compare server load between 2011 and 2018: https://imgur.com/a/0gSAMnc
There is discussion that the community is dying, but I'm not too sure. Depends on server size. Players are drawn to popularity, naturally the big ones have absorbed the remnants. As a result, I'm guessing a niche server like CnB needs a community centralized on something more broad to sustain popularity.
Finally, there is the new separate version of SA:MP, but it requires time that I doubt is worth spending with our disengaged playerbase.
So, that's that. Happy holidays/new years, to whoever out there still reads this stuff!
7 months about 1 year
If I may;
SA-MP mostly switched to 0.3 DL (Atleast, as far as the big servers are concerned, and that's where the majority of the people are located at).
Also give people something to strive for, something like I did with DDerby in terms of achievements. Give them a reason to stick around, like a perfect achievement record and so on..
Rookie Crasher
Yeah, would be nice to see it moved so as to get some players~
I really miss this server and it's sad to see it so dead, I agree with Athena too, it needed something to strive for.
It was fun fighting for the 1st spot with KingSlay3r back then but it was at the end before it started dying-
Fair enough. Server is now live on 0.3 DL!
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Osun Osunniyi
Lofton leads St. Bonaventure over Fordham 64-44
SAINT BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Kyle Lofton scored 13 of his 17 points in the first half and Saint Bonaventure pulled away in the second half to beat Fordham 64...
St. Bonnaventure takes out George Washington 71-66
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Osun Osunniyi made all eight of his shots from field and had a career-high 20 points as Saint Bonaventure beat George Washington 71-66...
St. Bonaventure rallies to sneak past Middle. Tenn. 66-65
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Osun Osunniyi had 15 points to lead five Saint Bonaventure players in double figures as the Bonnies stretched their win streak to...
Welch, Vasquez lead St. Bonaventure past Niagara 87-70
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Dominick Welch scored 17 points to lead six Saint Bonaventure players in double figures as the Bonnies defeated Niagara 87-70 on...
English lifts St. Bonaventure over Hofstra 73-45
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Jaren English had 17 points as Saint Bonaventure rolled past Hofstra 73-45 on Saturday. Dominick Welch had 17...
Welch, Osunniyi help St. Bonaventure beat San Diego 70-61
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Dominick scored 16 points, Osun Osunniyi had a double-double, and St. Bonaventure beat San Diego 70-61 at the Boca Raton Beach Classic...
St. Bonaventure beats Mercer with late free throws, 56-51
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Osun Osunniyi scored 15 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as St. Bonaventure used free throws to hold off Mercer, 56-51 in a Boca...
Saint Louis Billikens at St. Bonaventure Bonnies 3/17/2019
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Bonnies rout Rhode Island to reach A-10 championship game
By Denis P. Gorman Mar. 16, 2019 03:40 PM EDT
Grady lifts Davidson past St. Bonaventure 64-46
DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP) — Kellan Grady had 23 points as Davidson topped Saint Bonaventure 64-46 on Wednesday night. Jon Axel Gudmundsson had 17 points and...
St. Bonaventure defeats George Washington 64-58
Associated Press Mar. 02, 2019 06:24 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Osun Osunniyi recorded 18 points and 16 rebounds to carry St. Bonaventure to a 64-58 win over George Washington on Saturday. LaDarien...
Stockard leads St. Bonaventure past Duquesne 68-47
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Courtney Stockard had 21 points as Saint Bonaventure easily beat Duquesne 68-47 on Wednesday night. LaDarien Griffin had...
Lofton jumper lifts St. Bonaventure past La Salle, 62-60
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Kyle Loften knocked down a jumper with 3 seconds left to lift St. Bonaventure to a 62-60 victory over La Salle on Wednesday night. ...
Lofton lifts St. Bonaventure past George Mason 79-56
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Kyle Lofton had a season-high 32 points as Saint Bonaventure rolled past George Mason 79-56 on Sunday. Lofton made 7 of 8...
Griffin carries St. Bonaventure over St. Joseph's 76-51
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — LaDarien Griffin recorded 16 points and 10 rebounds to lead Saint Bonaventure to a 76-51 win over Saint Joseph's on Tuesday night. ...
Bonnies top Duquesne 51-49 as Osunniyi snares 22 rebounds
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kyle Lofton scored 16 points, Osun Osunniyi grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds with six blocks and St. Bonaventure held on to defeat Duquesne 51-49...
St. Bonaventure closes strong to beat Richmond 66-57
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Kyle Lofton scored 21 points, Courtney Stockard added 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and St. Bonaventure beat Richmond 66-57 on...
Lofton leads St. Bonaventure past UMass 65-51
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Freshman Kyle Lofton scored a career-best 24 points to lead St. Bonaventure in a 65-51 win over Massachusetts on Wednesday night. ...
Griffin, Osunniyi lead St. Bonaventure past Saint Joseph's
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — LaDarien Griffin scored 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting and freshman Osun Osunniyi had his second double-double of the season to help St....
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A propos de l'IFLA
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What Makes a Good Reader: International Findings from PIRLS 2016
By IEA Boston College
Fifty countries from around the world participated in the PIRLS 2016 international assessment of reading comprehension at the fourth grade, and in every country there was a wide range of reading achievement from basic skills to advanced comprehension. The fourth grade students in the Russian Federation and Singapore had the highest reading achievement on average. These two countries also had more than one-fourth of their students reaching the PIRLS Advanced International Benchmark. Students reaching this level interpreted, integrated, and evaluated story plots and information in relatively complex texts. Hong Kong SAR, Ireland, Finland, Poland, and Northern Ireland also performed very well, with approximately one-fifth of their students reaching the Advanced Benchmark.
Results Pirls 2016
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2019, Blog, International
CHEF DARREN TEOH: IDENTIFYING LOCAL PRODUCE IN MODERN MALAY COOKING
Written by David J Constable
Photos courtesy of Chef Darren Teoh
As chefs make a conscious effort to move away from the importing of luxury items, turning their attention towards the sourcing of more regional, “local” ingredients, it seems almost inescapable nowadays to find a restaurant that isn’t pushing, poking and promoting the local label. At a time when competitive chefs are striving for our attention, bombarding us with Instagram photos and popping up on our television screens, they continue to implement what they can for their fifteen minutes of fame. Others, however, in this time of overwhelming media deluge have chosen a different pathway; choosing instead to visit the exact source and revert to the student; open and accessible to new knowledge. More importantly, they appear to have given themselves over to education from those who know far more than they do.
Temuan chocolate with jaggery ice cream
In Malaysia, food has long had a convoluted appearance, influenced by the country’s multiethnic cluster of people whose pallets dance between the traditions and practices of the indigenous Sabah and Sarawak people to the Peranakan and Eurasian creole communities, as well as a significant number of foreign workers and expatriates. In fact, what one would perhaps call “modern Malay” cuisine, can be boiled down to a melange of traditions from its Malay, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and ethnic Bornean citizens, ineffable and impossible to categorise. This has made Malaysian food challenging to define, which is precisely why Chef Darren Teoh of Dewakan in Kuala Lumpur seeks to put endemic produce – or ingredients which are either native or naturalised to the land – on the dining table.
The dining room at Dewakan
The menu at Dewakan is a geographical journey through the biodiverse layers of the Malaysian habitats, a culinary run through of all that is good from the land, the sea, and the verdant jungles of Peninsular and East Malaysia. As a country split into two regions – separated by the South China Sea – it means an ultra-diverse ecosystem thrives, supported by both land and sea. Peninsular Malaysia shares a common history with Singapore, therefore, it is not uncommon to find the same version of dishes, such as chicken rice and laksa; however, because of its proximity and historical migrations with Indonesia, expect also to see the likes of rendang and sambal. Where Darren comes in, is somewhere more panoptic, bringing his experience from the kitchens of Les Amis in Singapore and his education in haute cuisine-style cooking and presentation, to incorporate a catalogue of ingredients from in and around his Malaysian home.
“The restaurant began with a simple idea,” Darren explains, “to use local ingredients. But then, just stopping with the ingredients revealed a missing piece of the vocabulary. We needed to apply local technique, as well, and, because I was trained in the European style, it occurred to me that I needed to step back and look at how I could use native produce to their full potential”. By visiting communities in all corners of the country, Darren and his team have re-energised many lost or forgotten ingredients, such as ulam raja microgreens, buah kampung, and chocolate made from foraged cocoa beans by the Temuan orang asli community, who are indigenous to western parts of Peninsular Malaysia.
Prawn umai with bunga kantan and ketumpang air
“It’s no longer a novelty to source these types of ingredients, but necessary to support these communities and utilise local produce”, says Darren. “If using these new ingredients means re-training our palates, then so be it, a lot of cooking and being creative is about challenging yourself.” Challenging indeed, not merely in the procurement of such items – the research, field-trip visits and driving over an hour and a half to collect ingredients – but when diners have certain expectations and require convincing that these rare ingredients are worth paying for. “Sure, that can be difficult, but my team and I are there to educate and transfer that message of humanism”.
Darren continues, “The previous government suppressed the lives of many people, especially those Malaysians in the countryside and forests. They were robbed of their ancestral lands, forced to live in poverty. We can’t talk about sourcing these products from such places for a fancy restaurant, without talking about these people. Dewakan is a celebration of the people and everything that’s great about our land”.
Dewakan
Lower Ground Floor
KDU University College,
Utropolis Glenmarie
Jalan Kontraktor
U1/14, Seksyen U1,
40150 Shah Alam, Selangor,
dewakan@kdu.edu.mywww.dewakan.my
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Columbia theatre community honored in 25th annual Black Theatre Alliance Awards
By Mateusz Janik, Staff Reporter
Courtesy Michael Brosilow
AnJi White (pictured) was nominated for The Ethel Waters Award for Best Actress in an Ensemble for her role in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.”
Editor’s Note: In addition to her nomination for the show “Caroline, or Change,” Breanne Jacobs works as a media sales rep for the Chronicle.
AnJi White was not aware of the Black Theatre Alliance Awards until she was a first-time nominee in 2016 for the Ruby Dee Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.
“I don’t tend to really focus on that. I just focus on the work, and if that happens, that’s nice,” White said.
This year’s nominees for the 25th annual awards include: AnJi White, former acting major; Michael Pogue, 2006 acting alumnus; Therese Ritchie, 2018 theatre design alumna; Breanne Jacobs, senior musical theatre major; and Jacqueline Penrod, associate chair and associate professor in the Theatre Department.
The awards ceremony will be hosted by Columbia in the Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Monday, Oct. 14.
Founded in 1995 by Vincent Williams, a 2003 performing arts management alumnus, the Black Theatre Alliance Awards honor excellence in theatre, dance and technical arts by African Americans and Chicago performers.
AnJi White, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf”
White was nominated for The Ethel Waters Award for Best Actress in an Ensemble for her role in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” which is also nominated separately for a Target Community Relations Award for Best Ensemble.
“[‘For Colored Girls’] deserves recognition because the eight of us really put ourselves in vulnerable situations,” White said.
Produced by Court Theatre at the University of Chicago, 5535 S. Ellis Ave., the show follows the story of seven women who experience the challenges of being women of color through movement, music, and poetry.
Michael Pogue, “The Recommendation”
Pogue is nominated for The Sidney Poitier Award for Best Leading Actor for his role in “The Recommendation,” produced by Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Road.
Pogue said Columbia’s networking opportunities helped him to receive more roles and nominations.
“As soon as I started auditioning and doing a few understudying roles on a professional level while attending school, [that] was around the first time that I started hearing about the BTAAs and other actors getting nominations,” Pogue said.
Breanne Jacobs, “Caroline, or Change”
Jacobs is nominated for The Phylicia Rashad Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in “Caroline, or Change,” produced by Firebrand Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave., and TimeLine Theatre Company.
“Breanne Jacobs is the definition of a hard worker to me,” said Caitlin Dobbins, senior musical theatre major and Jacob’s former roommate. “[Jacobs] came [to] Chicago with no connections … and she has done so much within the four years that she has been here. There’s no one [else] that I would ever think that wouldn’t deserve something like this.”
Therese Ritchie, “No Child…”
For recent graduate Ritchie—nominated for the Ed Burbidge Award for Best Set Design in “No Child…,” produced by Definition Theatre Company—Columbia provided hands-on experience in theatre design.
“I started going to Columbia in 2015. It was my third college because I was in New York for a hot second, dropped out [and then] went to a local university closer to back home,” Ritchie said.
Now, she is currently attending graduate school at Northern Illinois University where she said other graduate students with BFAs do not have the same skill set as her.
Jaqueline Penrod, “Eclipsed”
Ritchie also happens to be nominated alongside her mentor, Jacqueline Penrod, associate chair and associate professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia.
Penrod—nominated for the Ed Burbidge Award for her work in “Eclipsed,” produced by Pegasus Theatre, 1105 W. Chicago Ave.—said she appreciates the acknowledgment from the Black Theatre Alliance Awards, but said she does not need the attention to know if her work is good.
“It’s both a nice thing [and] not the thing that’s gonna make my season,” Penrod said. “[I’m] more focused on storytelling and theatre-making.”
Black Theatre Alliance Awards
Mateusz Janik, Staff Reporter
mjanik@columbiachronicle.com
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Mapping Armageddon Again?
The rush to make a graphic point by mistakenly overlaying concentric circles atop a Web Mercator projection helps to render increasing fears of the range of North Korea’s powerful ballistic missiles. As much as suggest the global import of the confrontation about North Korean missiles through their violent potential to target overseas lands, the effect is to abstract the peculiar stand-ff of a divided country that is a remnant disfigured by the Cold War as if it can be isolated from the division of the peninsula, and viewed as a focus of global attention. But is the isolation of North Korea that they effectively underscore in such cartographically dramatic terms also not a cause for concern? How can the intentions of the opaque government of Pyongyang even be understood save in a close focus on the local dynamics of the Korean peninsula? If North Korea is increasingly effectively a proxy of China–cast as an enabler of the North Korean state, together with Russia–the country is shown, isolated, as if the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, DPRK, were the last remaining theater for conducting the cold war in a post-Cold War world. A familiar geography of generals suddenly migrated to the media as the confrontation with North Korea was begun to be processed in maps.
The current migration of this mapping of a global vision of generals to the media presents a problem of the survival of a mental imaginary, able to compromise the pragmatics of a real problem of international relations in dangerous ways. For by magnifying the isolation and marginality of the DPRK in relation to the globe, the maps urge us to focus on the risks that the development of intercontinental missiles pose to world peace. To be sure, they also risk reflecting the very barbed rhetoric of triumphalism and destruction of Pyongyang–a regime that has expressed its eagerness to deliver prophesies of “a merciless sledgehammer blow to U.S. imperialists.” The threats of Kim Jong-un are especially embodied by the creation and possession of his country, for the first time, of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, and seems to create a narrative less motivated by actual actors, but a drama of atomic, nuclear, or ICBM strikes that is driven by disembodied geopolitical exigencies in a political theater that we don’t know where it will end, but ramps up an all too familiar cartography of fear.
These maps resurrect and resonate with the invocation of previous threats of war during the Cold War–when the fear of atomic attack was widely diffused by the U.S. Government as a basis to justify an arms race. Indeed, by rehabilitating a Cold War imaginary of impending conflict able to escalate into nuclear war, maps seem to activate a similar mental imaginary of polarity–albeit disproportionate one, between North Korea and the United States–that reflect one of the few areas in the world where that rhetoric is still alive of identifying the role of the state in promoting nuclear war–leading Kim to praise the “thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power” as made entirely “”by our own efforts and technology and designed to exceed the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima. In this context, the fear of a “global threat” can be rehabilitated as destabilizing global balances of power.
The first scenario of an attack on the United States–cast in fearful and unresolved terms–was diffused in terrifying detail shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, as if in a surge of guilt, by the emigre Hungarian graphic artist Aleksander Leydenfrost, in a bifold spread that appeared in the extremely popular Life magazine, perhaps asking readers to feel a sense of guilt at the destruction caused by dropping two powerful atomic bombs in the Pacific theater of war, that illustrated a memorandum that the commander of the Air Force in the Pacific Theater, Harold “Hap” Arnold, in a “Report to the Army” he wrote in the late summer of 1945. Arnold cautioned against the next war as an episode that would last but thirty-six hours, and for which the United States military must begin to prepare itself, if not to confront the unprecedented scale of destruction that the United States landscape–which war had of course not touched, thankfully–must now take time to prepare itself to face. And the sustained campaign of firebombing Japanese cities after the massive destruction of the second atomic bomb, Fat Man, that was roapped on the port city of Nagasaki unleashed a level of violence that had followed the instant incineration in that city alone of 70,000 had created a landscape of destruction that Leydenfrost’s somber image led Americans to imagine as inflicted on the major cities of the United States, not by the delivery of airborne bombs but the arrival of intercontinental ballistic missiles–what we now call ICBM’s–launched without pilots, akin to German V-2 rockets, but able to reach across the Atlantic, in ways that would redefine what we know as a “theater of war” in globalized terms for the first time. The nightmare of unmanned missiles, viewed from the empyrean heights above the Pacific, seemed to seek o terrify viewers to suggest how quickly and silently an attack could arrive.
The resurrection of what might be called a map designed by generals such as Harold “Hap” Arnold filled a new need to map the power of destruction that the atom bomb unleashed, and represented both a sort of spin as well as a notion of the stewardship of public debate. Arnold wrote in a context where seemingly responsible “scientific men” were entrusted by the US government to explain to the public the scope of the horrific new power that the atomic bomb unleashed, and to rationalize the devastation of the total destruction of a city destroyed to devastating effects unprecedented in their violence as a decision of the nation, men like James Conant or Vannevar Bush, trusted to create consensus about the use of atomic bombs and the pragmatic basis for atomic policy in a postwar world, at the same time as the popular press quickly predicted the conduct of future wars which minimized all human agency, and perhaps responsibility, by pilotless “robot planes” able to span transoceanic distances and increase the vulnerability of all American cities and industry in the very manner of Japan from a “hail of atomic charges” in 1945.
Leydenfrost’s image, designed for a public announcement of Arnold’s letter, captured this anxiety. It reveals, in a futuristic manner akin to H.G. Wells or recent science fiction, how close to the surface it was as an image of future destruction, able to be harnessed for clear ends as a narrative of imminent fear, even if one that lacked any clear narrative finality as a story which we could ever see as having clear winners. The “revolution in warfare” Conant detected after the destruction of Hiroshima and obliteration of many of the buildings of Nagasaki brought strategies of management of threats in a new global imaginary. Conant quickly acknowledged that there was no real possibility of defense against such a “surprise attack by atomic bombs,” as he dryly put it. Yet the government tried to reorient attention to the immediate problem of survival of the fearful eventuality of an atomic attack. “We are living in a very different world since the explosion of the A-bomb,” Conant began, addressing the problem of what could be done in the event “much of our present civilization” was threatened with extinction. Conant pondered with incredible detachment pondered how “much of our present civilization” was threatened after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nd to contemplate ways to save the achievements of the United States against such imminent destruction by buried repositories of microfilm,–as if such a parallel responsibility were adequate to the development of the atom bomb. In contrast, Arnold’s “Report to the Army” emphasized the need of responding to a remote atomic strike in ways that created an image of vulnerability to missile strikes that quickly burned into our collective unconscious. Its inheritance might well be reexamined in the light of the fears of global threat of strike from North Korea that has emerged in the very first months of the Presidential administration of Donald J. Trump.
The power of the ICBM warheads that North Korea has developed have, rather eerily, just achieved the level of power of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, enabling exactly the sort of scenario Aleksander Leydenfrost, no doubt with editorial help, was able to so concretely map from a position over the Pacific, which oddly renders North America as an island-like target, as if it could echoe the many flights of United States bombers over Japan. These unmanned rockets, shot from an unspecified country in Africa where the rocket launchers of a nemesis were placed, described the phantasm of the or mental image of the next stage in warfare, rather than an actual map. But the concreteness of the map allowed readers to envision the proximity of a potential strike in particularly powerful ways. And they have been triggered again in the azimuthal equidistant projections that project North Korea at their center, and map the ability of powerful missiles to strike the more populated cities of the United States.
1. Although graphics that render the potentiality of newly powerful missiles developed by Pyongyang work to grab viewers’ attention, they draw attention to the danger of North Korea as if from a general’s point of view. The rush to map the striking range of North Korean missiles, as in the header to this post, often were created by overlays so quickly to perpetuate a sense of a flat earth–particularly embarrassing in an age of web-based maps and spatial tracking. The egregious mis-mapping of a nuclear threat occasioned a volley of objections to the distortions of maps that foreground their danger, and the innocent position of many who are endangered by their missiles, while mismapping their true range. In order to come to terms with the global import of Korea’s generation of ballistic missiles’ of ever greater striking range, web Mercator may irresponsibly effectively shrink the distances missiles travel, with geopolitical consequences, but the mapping of the range of missiles privileges a narrative of overweening nuclear ambitions and aggressive acts that runs the risk of magnifying the military threat posed by Pyongyang, and giving an opportunity for Kim Jong-un to magnify his own sense of grandiosity on a global stage, even in ways that seek to justify the need for a pre-emptive military strike against a North Korean threat. The focus on the hypothetical expansion of missile range and the eagerness to trumpet the new status of North Korean military as able to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear strike–long desired by Pyongyang as a sort of metric of global respectability and renown–is a danger but one that repeated exaggerated mipmapping can only magnify.
For in suggesting the blameless nature of other nations before this threat, they direct focus on the aberrant nature of North Korea and its leaders as needing to be contained, and many indeed justify the importance of a “preventive” pre-emptive nuclear strike. The maps open a possibility of alternative narratives, some particularly deadly and undesirable in the extreme, of an immediate launch of warheads not only at American military stationed in South Korea, Japan (especially in Okinawa) or Guam but at the United States as as never before. Indeed, the public statements and postures that Kim Jong-un is “begging for war” seems to map the need for a nuclear confrontation, filled with the frustrated saber-rattling that while “war is never something the United States wants” the “outrageous” testing of a hydrogen bomb only tests its “limited” patience, as North Korea vows its ability to perform a “surprise launch of an ICBM in any place and region at any time,” seeking to prove that “the whole US mainland is within the firing range of DPRK missiles,” as the national news agency KCNA has affirmed.
The recent explosion of a bomb with the explosive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by North Korea on the eve its independence celebration provides an illustration of Kim Jong-un’s leadership, even if it is doubted that what seems a thermonuclear device would be able to be attached to a ballistic missile with any reliability. But the expansion of maps of intercontinental range in the global press seems to magnify the threat of immanent attack or aggression from North Korea, as if in a presence to justify what would be an utterly irresponsible decision to launch a military exercise of any limited sort. All too widely reproduced images of the growing range of North Korean missile strikes create an all too real cartography of fear that seem to escalate the danger of a threat and the need for an aggressive military response.
As the actions of Pyongyang have been repeatedly cast as a “global threat” by the Trump administration, from Steven Miller to Rex Tillerson, provoking not so veiled threats of the need to respond with a “precision strike” missiles into nearby waters off the east coast of the peninsula or to strike at the missile test sites, maps of the n this game shifting estimates of the outermost reaches of NK missile strikes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea have provided something of a basis to reveal exactly what the states of that provocation would be and proof of the global threat that North Korea’s missile pose over the unsuspecting and innocent inhabitants of multiple continents. Although the outermost reach of the radius of missile firing is openly acknowledged in the BBC graphic below to be not operational, the claims to have created an ICBM able of intercontinental strikes would place North Korean arms far closer to the United States citizens–as well as to United sates troops stationed in South Korea or Guam–in ways that have been a long aspiration of North Korean governments.
The new justifications of nuclear attack in the aftermath of the apparent explosion of a hydrogen bomb by Pyongyang–and the unrestrained bullying of the North Koreans that “they only understand one thing!”–have pushed the problem of military confrontation to the front pages, with Trump warning of the possibility of a “massive military response” and suggesting if not indeed mapping a targeted nuclear strike of North Korea’s nuclear and missiles sites, as if their destruction could occur without any harm to the world. The threat that Kim Jong-un poses is being cast as a potentially aggressive act–needing to be met with immediate and massive force–even without mapping what his intentions or strategy–as the explosion of a fusion bomb of comparable size to that dropped on Hiroshima is increasingly mapped as a potentially aggressive strike on American cities. The appearance of these charts in the global media no doubt give huge satisfaction to Kim Jong-un, whose dream of seeing his nation as a global power has been realized, as his country suddenly occupies the position of a major threat that the Soviet Union, no less, had occupied in the Cold War.
Indeed, as President Trump responds to questions of his military intentions with North Korea with a shrug intended to be menacing–“We’ll see!”–in a particularly troubling lack of restraint, he seems to be inviting audiences to map the danger signs emanating from North Korea, rather than to establish the security of his own political restraint, by perpetuating myths of the aggressive nature of North Korea. As headlines such as “North Korea Raises the Stakes” have repeated since early July, if not from the first announcement of improving missile technology to complete the construction of an actual ICBM–intercontinental missile–of the sort it has long sought, as if to escape its isolated status, even as South Korea cautioned a proclivity for overstatement of achievement of re-entry technologies, the tenor of recent claims that North Korea raises the stakes may have shifted the metaphor of this test of wills from over thought moves in a game of chess to a contest of truth or dare or to a global game of Russian roulette.
2. Although the maps raise red alarms as they show long-range missiles able to strike the United States, the rush to use a tool plagued with distortions on a global scale is bound to create distortions or suggest the persistence to flat-earth thinking, rather than warp the striking range to acknowledge the spatial distortions of the earth’s surface within theMercator projection. But the readiness to map the ranges of newly tested missiles–and even missiles in development–suggest a rush to affirm a “direct threat to the United States”–as former CIA analyst Bruce Klingner puts it–that threaten to extend the missile range of missiles in development to beyond 13,000 km, which would place the entire United States within its striking range and endanger all who live in the expanded radius. In facing such often unsourced if impressive figures deriving from Japanese news outlets or South Korea, the interests of the maps that derive from such figures demand critical review; ties alleged between military contractors and agencies that create such maps not only terrify, but trigger a powerful memory theater of rapid strikes of an increasingly broad array of long-range missiles, reminiscent of a cartography of fear tracking missiles’ arrival in United States territory from the Cold War.
As North Korea continues to profess commitment to a nuclear deterrent in the face of American bases in South Korea and Guam, charging “persistent moves to launch a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula,” and indeed the precareity of North Korea to American strikes, many visualizations of the growth based on fired missiles public South Korean statements provide a basis to foreground global tensions with an alleged objectivity that invest missiles’ striking range with an unprecedented of accuracy. They may lack such accuracy–despite their imminent danger–but the cartography of fear that they create surely seems to escalate their threat and the rapidity of their possible arrival–even if they may well exaggerate the likelihood of their striking range, without noting how operational even the most recent Hwasong-12 medium long-range missile is.
3. But in mapping the extent of such “striking range” to cover most–or indeed almost all–of the United States, such graphics manufacture an all too real danger by cartographic artifice alone, given the range of missile strikes a reality that they may well not be able to achieve in terms of either atmospheric re-entry or precision targeting, although this is an objection which we surely don’t want to have to test to find out.
The implied danger of provoking such a strike–or allowing such a strike not to be defended against–has in fact undoubtedly interested the Heritage Foundation, a conservative educational institution once prominent in setting the agenda for the nation in the Reagan administration, and now eager to bill itself again as an institution able to “transform America” by being at the forefront of conservative thinking, from the curtailing of “excessive” environmental regulations, to the use of tax reform to “grow” the economy, to the end of universal health insurance, to the distribution of military gear to local police. The interest of increasing the military budget in the Trump years is promoted through the mapping of an impending and immanent nuclear threat from North Korea–
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–that is abstracted from the military presence of the United States in the Korean peninsula, or indeed the political dynamics of the peninsula itself and the region, in particularly dangerous and short-sighted ways. The notions of a nuclear terror that such images accentuate–ignoring the question of whenter such missiles are perpetuate all too familiar narratives of the victimhood of those whose lives are endangered by the growing reach of bombs are particularly canny in their use of the objective rhetoric of cartography to make an unsubtle point, and suggest a sense of inevitability in the expanding ranges that North Korean missiles are able to target cities. The sense of such strikes–and the narratives of inevitability and a needed response that they trigger–have a long history, even if they are meant to describe actualities. For they have worked to help rationalize such a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as FOX experts speculated if “it may be time for a preemptive strike” if America should “risk Los Angeles,” imagining the waves of regret if a missile approaching the United States should a missile interceptors located at US bases not work in the thirty minutes before it arrives, in a landscape we have seen evoked before.
It did not, in fact, take long at all from the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the General leading the American Air Force to imagine the new landscape of mutually assured destruction that defined the landscape of fear of the Cold War. Even though intercontinental ballistic missiles did not yet exist, save as imagined threats, or on the drawing board, the vision of strike from atom bombs arriving from overseas was presented an immediate fear to Americans, and enlisted as a compelling basis for justifying the expansion of the post-war military budget–and even equipping the nation with underground silos for storing and firing missiles able to respond to impending missile attacks. Within months after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the ICBM’s that haunt the current global landscape–Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles–did not actually exist, save as imagined threats, the powerful images of destruction in what was assured to be a coming “Thirty-Six Hour War” begun by atomic bombs descending on the United States engraved a fearsome image of the danger of the first unprovoked first strike of the atomic age.
The mapping of an atomic threat to the United States invited Americans to envision the possibility of attack. A similar spatial imaginary seems, indeed, resurgent in the nuclear standoff with North Korea, cannot help but recall the imminent arrival of those arcs of already fired atomic warheads or bombs, which smoothly move toward American cities through the night sky to target an unsuspecting population lying in bed at night, even if the projections of missile ranges of the missiles being tested by the North Korean army and their leader, Kim Jong-un, do not arc so elegantly over a landscape. The same landscape haunts both images. If the escalation of tensions between North Korea–N.K.–and the U.S. is mapped to process the threat of the increasing power of rockets carrying nuclear warheads, the maps advance threats of a nuclear strike on the United States in the header to this post that mirror those designed to instill panic and escalate defenses shortly after World War II, and are an odd throwback to the Cold War imaginary. But it seems to have reignited a Cold War imagery of threatened attacks on cities of North America, all too reminiscent of Cold War maps of missile range strikes.
While it is terrifying to not know the intentions of Pyongyang, or the ever-smiling Kim Jong-un, the image of a Cold War spatial imaginary seems to mediate Donald Trump’s geopolitics, and the increased fear that Trump may not disavow a nuclear first strike, not so long ago condemned by Republicans as revealing liberal naiveté on issues of national defense–even if agreement against first-use of nuclear arms has been broad world-wide and recently won broad endorsement as a needed means of controlling nuclear weapons. It is important to note that the map of impending missile strikes far more conditioned the United States than the North Korean government’s response. But the spatial imaginary of missile threats has helped enable a rhetoric of confrontation and saber-rattling that Donald Trump has enjoyed effectively conjuring the threat of an immanent nuclear conflict more than Pyongyang, although the sense that an over-sensitive North Korea was only saber rattling may have been overestimated. The odd symbolic form used for mapping of the range of NK missiles as a target centered on Pyongyang in public media sources, however, keyed o the Nodong, Taepodong-1, Musudan, and Taepodong-2 missiles, suggests the two-fold message of such maps, even more than the maps from Graphiq, which similarly placed Alaska in rapid striking range.
Although these maps tend to fail to distinguish clearly between missiles that have been observed or are in development–as most of the ICBM’s capable of striking the United States were believed to be–the range of US military bases within striking distance of NK missiles are both increasingly aggressive, and seem almost desperate attempts to come to terms with the rapid growth of their rockets’ power. Images that hypothesize the expanded ranges of rockets register the shock of North Korea’s creation of intercontinental missiles and process fears of impending missile strikes from its expanded nuclear arsenal. Such fears were of course foregrounded in North Korean media’s showcasing of Kim Jong-un’s apparent delight in the use of maps to suggest the range of those missiles he has developed at considerable sacrifices for his country–
Kim Jong-un studying the flight of the Hwasong-12, which reached an altitude of 1,312 feet Reuters/KCNA (May 14, 2017)
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Melbourne Beth Din appoints new Registrar
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Published Tuesday August 4, 2009
The Melbourne Beth Din has recently appointed Ari Morris as its new Registrar, replacing the outgoing Registrar, Rabbi Edward Belfer. The appointment was made by the Board of Melbourne Beth Din Nominees Ltd with the approval of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria.
With a background in law and community work, Mr Morris brings an array of experience and talent to the position. His demonstrated commitment to the Jewish community coupled with his successful involvement in private enterprise has equipped him with the knowledge and skills to further enhance the important work carried out by the Melbourne Beth Din (MBD).
Mr Morris looks forward to working with the board and dayanim of the MBD on expanding the role of the Beth Din and modernising its facilities. He is particularly keen to enhance the efficiency of the MBD’s operations so as to provide the best possible service to the Victorian Jewish Community.
Mr Romy Leibler, President of Melbourne Beth Din Nominees Ltd, in welcoming Mr Morris to the position stated that “we are delighted with Ari’s appointment. We have a number of exciting proposals for the growth of the MBD planned for the year ahead and we look forward to working with Ari to advance the MBD’s objectives”.
Mr Leibler also thanked the outgoing Registrar, Rabbi Belfer, for his “excellent service over recent years. We wish him and his family much success in their future endeavours and send them our sincerest blessings”, he said.
Mr Morris is also currently the Executive Director of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria. He previously worked as a solicitor and as Executive Officer at the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission. He spent fourteen months studying at Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem in 2007 and is married with one child.
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February 5, 2016 Bill Weinberg
by Rahim Hamid, Middle East Eye
The appalling human rights situation in Iran has not improved since Hassan Rouhani—touted in some circles in the West as a "moderate" and a "reformer"—became president of the Islamic Republic in 2013. Since taking office, more than 2,000 people have been hanged under Rouhani's watch, the biggest scale of executions in the past 25 years, adding to the black pages of the regime's history of human rights violations since the revolution of 1979.
The execution spree in the first half of 2015 was not missed by the human rights group Amnesty International, which noted that "death sentences in Iran are particularly disturbing because they are invariably imposed by courts that are completely lacking in independence and impartiality." The rights group added: "They are imposed either for vaguely worded or overly broad offences, or acts that should not be criminalised at all, let alone attract the death penalty. Trials in Iran are deeply flawed, detainees are often denied access to lawyers in the investigative stage, and there are inadequate procedures for appeal, pardon and commutation."
As a result, Iran became the top country committing executions per capita—again under Rouhani's watch.
Any use of the term "moderate" in connection with Rouhani's administration is ludicrous hyperbole; he is simply the president elected from the list of candidates chosen for the position by the Guardian Council, consisting of 12 Islamic theologians and jurists, in accordance with the Iranian constitution. Secular or non-Shia candidates have little chance of securing an approval from the Guardian Council; nor do presidential hopefuls whose loyalty to the ideology of the revolution is not impeccable.
The odds of being "elected" to parliament are relatively better, but the Majlis has little power over the regime's religious courts to stop or even slow down the rate of executions. The courts routinely issue verdicts without even hearing evidence or investigating the charges against accused individuals.
One example of the Iranian regime's legal system is the common charge of "muharebeh" or "enmity to God," routinely used against human rights activists and dissidents and which invariably receives the death penalty, sometimes administered in public by mass hangings from cranes—although even stoning is not ruled out legally. Many of those hanged take up to 20 minutes to die, slowly and painfully. The victims' bodies are left for some time before being removed as a way of intimidating the public into silence.
Many of those who are executed come from minority communities such as the Ahwazi Arabs—who are predominately Shia—as well as Kurdish and Baluchi Sunnis. The targeting of minorities has not changed since the coming of Rouhani to office.
Over the past decade, many Ahwazi Arab political prisoners—ranging from poets and teachers to bloggers and human rights activists—have been executed on trumped-up charges in kangaroo courts. Again, nothing has improved under Rouhani.
Rather than finding reasonable evidence for the commission of a crime, judges generally rely on confessions, which have been drawn out from the accused through physical torture and psychological duress. Meanwhile, friends and relatives of the accused are kept in the dark, often not informed of where their loved ones have been imprisoned, or even buried.
As I've previously argued, the rush to a nuclear deal with Iran has left human rights issues sidelined.
Never mind that Iran is one of the few countries that continue to execute juvenile offenders, where according to the UN at least 160 are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18. The number of child offenders executed in 2014-15 —that is, under Rouhani's watch—is higher than at any time during the past five years.
According to an Amnesty International report released a few days ago, Iran's authorities have sought to "whitewash their continuing violations of children's rights and deflect criticism of their appalling record as one of the world’s last executioners of juvenile offenders."
These youths are "robbed of valuable years of their lives—often after being sentenced to death following unfair trials, including those based on forced confessions extracted through torture and other ill-treatment," according to Said Boumedouha, deputy director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
The report has not stopped Rouhani receiving a warm welcome on his Europe tour, as he met with top politicians as well as the Pope. Much of the world wants do business with Iran, and they don't want a fuss over trivial things like the human rights of the people of Iran—not even prominent opposition voices in the West, who often complain about their governments' disregard of rights violations committed by their valuable trade partners.
When it comes to Iran, those hypocrites would happily sacrifice Iranian blood—not for wealth or the wellbeing of Western citizens but for mere political expediency.
Rahim Hamid is a freelance journalist and human rights advocate who writes about the plight of his community—the Ahwazi Arabs—and other ethnic minorities in Iran.
This story first ran Jan. 29 on Middle East Eye. Used with permission.
Photo: AFP via Middle East Eye
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Ahwazi Arabs charge Iran with 'ethnocide'
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US embraces Iran as (ironic) 'peace' partner in Syria
World War 4 Report, Oct. 28, 2015
Iran regime executes Kurdish activist
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UN experts condemn increase in Iran executions
World War 4 Report, May 9, 2015
Iran executes Kurdish juvenile offender
World War 4 Report, Feb. 24, 2015
Iran hangs 16 after Baluch border clash
Iran: human rights lawyer released from prison
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What’s Open, What’s Closed for Easter Weekend
From Good Friday through Easter Sunday, various government offices, businesses and organizations are open are closed. Here’s a list for openings, closings and schedule changes in and around Darien.
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Darien town government offices
Connecticut state offices
Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (reopening on Saturday)
YWCA of Darien-Norwalk
Pear Tree Point School
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U.S. government offices
U.S. Post Offices
Darien Transfer Station/Recycling Center (that is, The Dump)
The Darien Y will be open from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. “Group fitness classes will still be held, please see the schedule in Y News” on the website. “There will be no other lessons or programs held, with the exception of Holly Pond Enrichment.”
Maritime Aquarium
Johnny’s Records is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Johnny’s Records is open 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Palmer’s Market
Costco in Norwalk
Meatball & Co. will be closed both Sunday and Monday.
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Stop & Shop: “All stores will be open until 5 p.m. on Easter Sunday, March 27th.
Pharmacies will be open normal business hours.”
Trader Joe’s — open until 5 p.m.
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Why Too Much Talking Is Detrimental To Your Success
One of my favorite things in the world is talking. I’ve always been like that.
I remember one time, when I was 14, me and a friend watched Fight Club twice in a row because our minds were blown away. We talked about that movie for hours. We started somewhere in the evening and didn’t finish until 5AM.
It was awesome. And I’ve had many other all-night long talks with friends, girlfriends, family, about almost everything (except for the news, politics, and religion—those subjects I always avoid)
Talking really stimulates my mind. And deep conversation is like sex for the brain.
But here’s thing: Too much talking is bad habit for two reasons.
1. Talking Keeps Your Ears Closed
My obsession for talking turned me into a person who always wanted to say something.
When I was with friends, or during meetings, or even at the dentist — I always had something to say. But when you talk too much, you don’t listen. You only listen to your own voice.
And it’s dangerous to become in love with your own voice because you can learn more from others than from yourself. So instead of talking — why not ask questions? And listen.
Lou Holtz, College Football Hall of Fame coach, put it best:
“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”
Too much talk is also a sign of immatureness and a lack of emotional intelligence. Why do you always want to speak? It’s often when you feel insecure and want to show other people how smart or capable you are.
But the opposite is true in the eye of others. If you try too hard, it will come across as fake.
Years ago, one of my mentors made me aware of how much I talked. He said:
“Talk less. Ask more. And listen more.”
I still like to talk. But what I like more nowadays is to ask questions — and after I ask, I listen.
Only by listening you can get to know people and build relationships. And that’s what will eventually bring you further in life—and it will also make you happier.
2.Talking Keeps You From Doing
Walt Disney once said:
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Just in the past month, people I’ve met told me these things:
I want to build an app
I want to get a publishing deal
I want to make a movie
I want to help other people
I want to buy a Ferrari
I want to run a marathon
I want to start a blog
Ambition is great. And so are goals. I love to meet people who are working on their goals.
But you know what’s better than talking about things? Doing them. So fucking do it!
When you’re in bed, what do you think about? Do you think about crossing the finish line of the NYC marathon? Or, do you think about tomorrow’s training session?
You can apply that analogy to everything that is going on in your life. Do you think about buying the car? Or do you think about what you’re going to do tomorrow to earn the money you need to buy that car?
It’s the difference between focusing on the reward vs the process.
Talking about doing things is almost as real as doing them, right? When you think about doing things, and tell other people about it, your brain starts to believe it.
It becomes real in your mind. But you and I both know that it’s not real at all. So don’t fool yourself.
Want success? Talk less. Do more.
One more thing: People who do stuff don’t even have the time to talk about it.
So next time you catch some idiot boasting about his big goals (online or offline), don’t feel bad about yourself, just laugh it off and understand they’re full of shit.
You know better. So let’s get back to work.
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Bienvenido a España - PART 2
By Renu Singh-Joseph, 22 May, 2018
My second stop in Spain was the stunningly beautiful city of Madrid. The nation’s capital is surrounded by mountains and natural parks, and is the perfect city to walk around and take in the historic sights.
It had been 20 years since my last adventure in España, and this sun-kissed nation celebrated for its fine wine, paella and tapas, flamenco and football and forward-thinking architecture was calling my name and I couldn’t resist! After spending a few days in Barcelona, as illustrated in my first installment, it was time to travel from the coast to Spain’s interior to its historic capital city of Madrid.
I had forgotten how stunningly beautiful Madrid was, but coming back after two decades, I quickly remembered. The buildings, fountains, monuments and grand plazas are architecturally decadent and rich in detail. Home to the Spanish royal family and government, Madrid is the largest and most populated city in Spain with 3.5 million people. This modern metropolitan city is surrounded by mountains and natural parks, and is the perfect city to walk around and take in the historic sights.
Sights to See in Madrid
Madrid is home to a plethora of museums and galleries, but if you can only add one to your to-do list, visit the renowned Museo del Prado. Celebrating its 200th year anniversary in 2019, the Prado describes itself as a “museum of painters, not paintings.” The Prado’s permanent collection offers multiple styles, time periods and artists. Famed works include paintings from Bosch to Velazquez and Goya.
Take a few hours to visit the sprawling Royal Palace of Madrid and its manicured, surrounding gardens and parks; the beautiful Cathedral of the Almudena, dedicated to the Virgin Mary; the grandiose arcaded Plaza Mayor, located in the heart of the old city, is home to cultural buildings, restaurants and the famed bronze statue of King Philip III atop his horse; and Puerta del Sol, the Times Square of Madrid, is home to famous buildings and landmarks like its clock tower. An interesting fact, Puerta del Sol is at the very heart of Madrid at Kilometre Zero – the official starting point for Spain’s six national roads.
Madrid is known for its churros and calamari sandwiches, and a great place to visit is the wrought-iron-and-glass Mercado de San Miguel. This lively, bustling market featuring 33 stalls offers a smorgasbord of culinary delights from Spain’s traditional foods like paella and tapas to delicacies like caviar and stuffed sea urchins.
One of my favourite places in Madrid is Plaza de Santa Ana, a perfect blend of elegant architecture, electrifying energy and diverse restaurants and cafes with outdoor patios within the plaza’s square. As you sip on a specialty cocktail made with fresh ingredients at Lateral restaurant, you can admire Teatro Español and statues of writers Calderón de la Barca and Federíco García Lorca.
Finally, if you’re a football fan, Madrid is home to two world-class football clubs – Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid. These clubs have some of the best and brightest players from Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale to Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa. It would be exciting to watch a match at either Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (Real Madrid) or Wanda Metropolitano stadium (Atlético Madrid).
ME Madrid Reina Victoria
Walking through Plaza de Santa Ana towards ME Madrid Reina Victoria, you stop and pause to admire its presence – this iconic, luxury hotel is an architectural masterpiece built by modernist architect Jesús Carrasco y Encina reflecting gorgeous Spanish details alongside its signature tower.
“ME Madrid is a lifestyle hotel with personality, which merges an innovative style with Spanish artistry captivating both guests and locals alike,” says Chiara Visconti, Director of Sales. “Our hotel showcases contemporary art and design, an international restaurant ‘Ana la Santa’ and musical offerings from around the world.”
After a total renovation, ME Madrid re-opened in April 2017. This stylish, artistic hotel is not only warm and inviting, but it’s all about the service and experience. In fact, the ME Madrid staff and its Aura team, a personal concierge service, go above and beyond to ensure their guests’ needs and expectations are met in a seamless fashion and
most importantly, their stay is unforgettable!
A home away from home, ME Madrid is a sought-after destination for guests from all around the world, including politicians, footballers and celebrities. While staying at the hotel, you’ll want to check out its rooftop terrace, home to the award-winning RADIO ME Madrid Rooftop Bar – voted the best hotel club in Spain for 2017. Located on the 7th floor, this Madrid hot spot showcases an exotic and elegant design with incredible panoramic views of historic buildings and Plaza de Santa Ana.
Barcelona’s Arts & Cultural Scene
After spending time in Madrid, we headed back to Barcelona for the last portion of our Spanish adventure. Barcelona has a thriving arts and cultural scene, a few highlights to add to your to-do list are:
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it,” said Pablo Picasso. As an admirer of Picasso, I couldn’t go to Barcelona and not visit the magnificent Museu Picasso, which houses one of the most extensive collections of Picasso’s art in the world. Showcasing more than 4,300 works from paintings and ceramics to a photographic archive, the museum takes you on a journey of Picasso’s formative years and provides a glimpse into the life of this artistic genius.
Tablao Flamenco Cordobes
A visit to Spain would be incomplete without experiencing the brilliance of flamenco. When I was in Barcelona 20 years ago, I experienced an incredible flamenco performance at Tablao Flamenco Cordobes. And on this recent trip, I definitely had to re-visit this establishment, founded in 1970 and run by a family of artists. “We are the best kept secret in Barcelona,” says María Rosa Pérez Casares, CEO and daughter of the founder. “We welcome you to join us and experience all that flamenco has to offer.”
This time, I chose to do the Gastronomic Tour – a dining and dance experience. Before the performance, you are treated to a delectable gourmet dinner offering 44 specialties of Spanish and Catalan cuisine. After this, you enter the vaulted tablao – a dramatic, yet perfect setting for flamenco – that can seat up to 180 guests.
Flamenco is a Spanish art form that combines dance, song and guitar playing. Tablao’s flamenco dancers, both male and female, exude strength, vulnerability and beauty. As you sit and watch, you are captivated by the singers and guitar players and truly mesmerized by the brilliant dancers – an unforgettable evening!
Club Jamboree, Harlem Jazz Club & Sidecar Factory Club
Club Jamboree has been a “part of Barcelona’s cultural heritage since 1960” and its stage has been graced by national and international musicians alike. We experienced an amazing jazz concert in Jamboree’s intimate setting featuring renowned Catalan musician Joan Chamorro and his promising musical prodigies – a night to remember!
Harlem Jazz Club, a musical hot spot in Barcelona for the last 30 years, showcases both up-and-coming and established musicians. This quaint club offers smooth sounds to upbeat, foot-tapping music in a sultry setting. On the night that we visited, we were in for a real treat – a musical extravaganza featuring Ray Cuza and Septeto Sazonando (a Cuban singer and band) – who had you moving and dancing to their soulful music.
Dance the night away to electro/funk/disco beats at Sidecar Factory Club, a Barcelona staple since 1982. A fun experience with people of all ages, a refreshing change to North American clubs.
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Do Not Underestimate Europe’s AI Innovators
Fred van Beuningen · October 17, 2019
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Which are the AI startups that are innovating in Europe? Why is the world so skeptic about AI innovation in Europe? From where will the next wave of innovation come? Read on.
Pundits say that Europe is losing the race for artificial intelligence (AI). Their perspective is suspiciously dire and misses an obvious point: Europe is not the U.S. or China.
Our AI champions will not resemble Google and Facebook or Baidu and Tencent—and that is for the best. Europe will not tolerate AI innovators who violate individual privacy or further government coercion.
As an AI and robotics investor based in Delft (Netherlands), I acknowledge the concerns about European AI. However, I meet regularly with entrepreneurs who ought to give alarmists pause. Our AI founders are not media superstars touting multibillion-dollar valuations, but their potential should be not underestimated, least of all by their American and Chinese competitors.
In response to the pessimists, I’d like to convince you that the seeds of an AI revolution are planted in Europe. But like any seed, it must grow from the ground up, not from the top down.
The AI Panic
When AI investor Kai-Fu Lee said the EU isn’t even in the running for the bronze medal in AI, he was preaching to a growing choir—of which I am not a member. “Europe is not keeping up” with North American and China, says an open letter from the ELLIS Society, which seeks to create a research and entrepreneurial network for European AI.
CLAIRE, another research network, says that “If Europe were to fall behind in AI technology, we would be likely to face challenging economic consequences, academic brain drain, reduced transparency, and increasing dependency on foreign technologies, products and values.”
And on it goes. The European Council on Foreign Relations warns that “Europe has not yet taken all the steps it needs to benefit from these advances or to protect itself from AI’s potentially dangerous aspects.” Geopoliticians worry that EU militaries see little need for AI strategies. Meanwhile, though Vladimir Putin claims that the dominant player in AI “will be the ruler of the world.”
The EU seems to be losing the AI race, but there is no finish line, and no one has defined what it would mean to catch up. Meanwhile, our AI innovators fly under the radar, uncelebrated and often underfunded.
Pockets of Excellence
Europe has pockets of AI excellence. I happen to live near one at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The UK, Germany, France, and Spain are home to the bulk of Europe’s AI startups. The problem is that most European AI startups have dug themselves into niches. They seem to copy the Silicon Valley model, which commands innovators to define a startup as the singular solution to a singular problem. That, perhaps, is why the world has more than 7,000 marketing technology companies.
One-trick companies limit their potential. Imagine if Google had stuck to search only, or if Amazon only sold books. They would not be the world-shifting AI pioneers they are today.
Therein lies the concern for Europe. Although companies must hyperspecialize when they first attack the market, they need the ambition—and capital—to expand. Otherwise, their best financial outcome is to cash out quickly through an acquisition by an American company.
The task, then, is not just to fund AI innovation. It is to fund AI technologies that have a pathway from their beachhead to a diversity of applications and markets. A few startups have pursued that strategy.
Multidisciplinary AI
In no particular order, I’ll present several startups that seem to grasp the future of AI. I presently have no financial ties to these firms. They exemplify the multi-industry AI strategy that we need more of in Europe.
Let’s start with Rotterdam-based Widget Brain. Companies entering the AI game used to have two options: hire expensive data scientists to make homegrown AI, or buy conventional software with built-in, black-box AI. Instead, Widget Brain builds applied AI on top of its “Algorithm Factory,” which trains, runs, and manages its AI services in the cloud and delivers “AI-in-a-box” to the market.
Widget Brain’s first successful AI service predicts labour needs and automatically schedules employees according to local labours laws. That same Algorithm Factory now runs pick/pack optimization-as-a-service to reduce pick times for online retailers. The company is also developing AI services to predict breakdowns and automatically schedule preventative maintenance.
Widget Brain isn’t stuck in one industry because it figured out how to deliver AI at scale. However, Widget Brain will have to demonstrate that AI in a box delivers value to large organizations sceptical of this approach
UK-based Graphcore likewise has multidisciplinary value. It develops semiconductors called intelligent processing units (IPUs) that accelerate AI and machine learning applications. From robotic factories and autonomous vehicles to emergency room technologies and cybersecurity, plenty of use cases demand faster processing speeds than what conventional chips offer.
Hence, Graphcore’s $1.7 billion valuation. As The Economist notes, Graphcore is well-positioned for an AI chip industry projected to be worth $30 billion by 2022.
This roundup owes a nod to Germany, which has as many patents for autonomous vehicles as China and America combined. By one count, Germany has 71 autonomous driving startups deploying €180 million in venture capital funding.
While U.S. companies worry about how to show advertisements in your self-driving car, Germany’s Enway is developing autonomous vehicles for street cleaning, waste collection, agriculture, and construction. You’ll find their autonomous street sweeper in the pedestrian zones of Darmstadt, Germany.
Again, I highlight Enway because it’s not stuck in one niche. It recognizes that one autonomous vehicle platform can transform multiple industries.
Seed to Tree
Europe has the seeds for an AI revolution, though pessimists may accuse me of not seeing the forest for the trees. It’s a faulty analogy. In the startup world, the forest of early-stage companies largely dies out, leaving a few trees standing to seed the next generation. Companies like Widget Brain, Graphcore, and Enway show the potential for European AI champions to stay independent and nourish a wide range of industries.
By the numbers, Europe is trailing the U.S. and China in AI. But let’s not discount our bottom-up innovators. It is they, not just Europe’s universities, industrial juggernauts, and public research consortiums, that will develop a competitive AI economy.
We have untapped talent, capital, and collaborators spanning the private and public sector. Let’s fund AI projects that will be too valuable to sell off to Silicon Valley.
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A Novel De Novo Mutation of the TITF1/NKX2-1 Gene Causing Ataxia, Benign Hereditary Chorea, Hypothyroidism and a Pituitary Mass in a UK Family and Review of the Literature.
Veneziano, L; Parkinson, MH; Mantuano, E; Frontali, M; Bhatia, KP; Giunti, P; (2014) A Novel De Novo Mutation of the TITF1/NKX2-1 Gene Causing Ataxia, Benign Hereditary Chorea, Hypothyroidism and a Pituitary Mass in a UK Family and Review of the Literature. Cerebellum , 13 (5) pp. 588-595. 10.1007/s12311-014-0570-7.
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Benign hereditary chorea (BHC) is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterized by early onset, non-progressive chorea, usually caused by mutations in the thyroid transcription factor-1 gene (TITF1). We describe a novel mutation arising de novo in a proband presenting in infancy with delayed walking and ataxia. She later developed chorea, then hypothyroidism and a large cystic pituitary mass. Her daughter presented in infancy with delayed walking and ataxia and went on to develop non-progressive chorea and a hormonally inactive cystic pituitary mass. Mutational analysis of the whole coding region of the TITF1 gene was undertaken and compared with a population study of 160 control subjects. This showed that both affected subjects have a heterozygous A > T substitution at nucleotide 727 of the TITF1 gene changing lysine to a stop codon at residue 211. Genetic analysis of parents and siblings of the proband confirmed that the mutation arose de novo in the proband. The mutated lysine is an evolutionarily highly conserved amino acid in the protein homoeodomain (HD) where most point mutations associated with BHC are located. The range of mutations in BHC is reviewed with particular emphasis on pituitary abnormalities. Cystic pituitary masses and abnormalities of the sella turcica are reported in just 6.4 % of published cases. This is a new nonsense mutation associated with ataxia, benign chorea and pituitary abnormalities which further extends the phenotype of this condition. Mutational screening of TITF1 is important in cases of sporadic or dominant juvenile-onset ataxia, with mild chorea where no other cause is found, particularly if pituitary abnormalities are seen on imaging.
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Benign hereditary chorea ; Ataxia ; Hypothyroidism ; Pituitary gland ; Thyroid transcription factor 1
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MILTON WORKSHOP WRITERS TO PERFORM POST-HALLOWEEN READINGS NOV. 3
MILTON, DE, November 1, 2017 – Writers from The Milton Workshop, a local writing group formed in March 2015 by author and instructor Dianne Pearce, will perform their first live reading event at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, at Milton Public Library, 121 Union St., Milton.
The event, titled Halloween’s Not Over Yet, will consist largely of adult horror fiction appearing in The Workshop’s debut anthology “Halloween Party 2017,” published in October 2017 by Devil’s Party Press. William F. Crandell, David Dutton, TJ Lewes, Bayne Northern, Dianne Pearce, Mark Polo, Judith Speizer Crandell, Carrie Sz Keane and David Yurkovich will each perform short readings. Pearce will also emcee the event which is scheduled to run for approximately two hours.
Yurkovich coordinated the event with Pamela Batten, assistant director, Milton Public Library. “We look forward to hosting the writers of The Milton Workshop in their first-ever public reading event,” said Batten.
“We’re delighted to be making our public debut at The Milton Library,” said Yurkovich. This year he was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship, Emerging Professional Literature: Fiction, from the Delaware Division of the Arts.
Author David Dutton is a former DDOA Artist Fellow. The workshop recently participated in its first in-store signing, held Oct. 28 at Biblion Books in Lewes, in support of the library event.
The event is open to the public. Parents are advised that some of the works being presented contain language and themes that are not suitable for children.
For more information, go to the Milton Public Library Calendar of Events at de.evanced.info/delaware/lib/eventcalendar.asp.
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“'... For a great man has fallen. A warrior, a chieftain, a father, a friend'”
―Gobber at Stoick's funeral [src]
Stoick the Vast (also known as Stoick) is Hiccup's father and secondary tritagonist in How to Train Your Dragon series and the TV series. He is the leader of the village of Berk. He is played by Gerard Butler.
Having led the viking village, Stoick had a strained relationship with his son, as Stoick believes that Hiccup does not having the qualities of a true viking like himself.Because of this deep disparity in personality, Stoick is often highly critical of his son. Moreover, Hiccup's inability to kill or even battle, a dragon was ultimately one of the main reasons why Stoick leaves berk in search of the dragon nest. Besides all of this, Stoick still have hope in Hiccup as he will become the strongest of them all of Vikings.
In the film, Stoick is pictured as the perfect leader of the tribe of Vikings on the island of Berk: strong, big and stubborn. Unfortunately, Hiccup, his overzealous son, is almost the exact opposite and often causes grief for the villagers when his desire to slay a dragon like the others gets the better of him. Stoick is pictured as being uncertain about what to do with him.
During a dragon raid on the village, Hiccup inadvertently causes the hoard of dragons that are attacking to escape with the Viking's livestock while attempting to shoot down the dreaded Night Fury. As he attracts the attention of a Monstrous Nightmare, Stoick has to beat it himself to stop it from killing Hiccup. Disappointed in his son, Stoick wishes to find the Dragons' Nest so that the dragons tormenting his village will leave once and for all. Before leaving to search for the Nest, he confers with Gobber about what to do with Hiccup. Gobber believes that since Hiccup wants to slay a dragon so much, he should be put into training. After getting over some initial hesitation, Stoick agrees. He makes Hiccup promise him that he will one day kill a dragon and places him into the class before he leaves to finish off the dragons once and for all.
After a few weeks, Stoick and the other Vikings return home in their ravaged ships, having been unable to successfully locate the Nest. Despite this, however, he is overjoyed when he hears that Hiccup has blossomed into the most promising dragon slayer in his class and when he is later given the honor of slaying his first dragon in front of the entire village. Unbeknownst to Stoick, however, Hiccup's sudden emergence as a dragon slaying savant stems from the time he has spent with Toothless, the Night Fury he shot down and subsequently became close friends with, even learning to fly on Toothless' back with the help of an artificial tail created by the former. Unaware, but still eager to reconnect with his son, Stoick takes the opportunity to speak with Hiccup where he gives him his own Viking helmet crafted from his mother's breastplate.
The following day, the village is invited to watch Stoick's new-found pride and joy take his final dragon training exam against a Monstrous Nightmare. However, when Hiccup attempts to explain that dragons are not at fault for their seemingly malicious actions mid-fight and tame the beast, Stoick angrily slams his hammer against the metal cage surrounding the arena to silence him, frightening the dragon into attacking Hiccup. Toothless, hearing Hiccup scream from the cove in which he hides, swiftly comes to his human's aid and defeats the Monstrous Nightmare, incurring the wrath of the rest of the fearful village.
Stoick is enraged when he realizes that Hiccup has been spending his time with Toothless all this time, going back on their deal to have Hiccup kill a dragon. Hiccup attempts to reason with Stoick but accidentally reveals that Toothless knows the location of the Dragons' Nest and that he has been there himself. Stoick promptly denounces Hiccup as his son for siding with the dragons and orders the village to set sail, ignoring Hiccup's warning of the monstrous Red Death waiting in the Nest. With Toothless strapped down in the center ship to guide them to the Dragons' Nest, Stoick sails away.
Stoick and the Vikings reach the Nest through directions from Toothless and break into the mountain housing the dragons within. However, when Stoick attempts to attack the dragons inside, he is surprised to see that they are all fleeing from the scene. The Red Death then smashes its way out of the mountainside and immediately sets fire to their ships (with Toothless still bound to the center ship), stranding the Vikings. Stoick and Gobber decide to sacrifice themselves to buy enough time for the villagers to reach shelter on the other side of the island when Hiccup and the others arrive on dragon-back, much to Stoick's amazement.
When the Red Death's rampage causes the ship to which Toothless is chained to sink into the sea, Hiccup dives into the water in a desperate attempts to free Toothless. After he almost drowns with his dragon, Stoick, realizing his mistake earlier, swims down and carries Hiccup out of the water. He then dives back in to break the chains binding Toothless apart, to which Toothless swiftly takes Stoick to the surface. As Hiccup mounts Toothless to fight the Red Death, Stoick apologizes to Hiccup for not listening to him and tells him he doesn't have to partake in the battle. When Hiccup repeats his father's words: "We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard," Stoick tells him how proud he is to call Hiccup his son. Toothless and Hiccup then quickly take to the skies to take down the Red Death.
After the Red Death has been destroyed, Stoick seeks out Hiccup, but only finds Toothless lying on the ground with his saddle and tail-fin burned and scorched. Stoick bows his head, believing that Hiccup died in the fight and blaming himself for letting it happen. Toothless sees Stoick's grief and opens his wings, revealing an unconscious Hiccup. Stoick places his ear on Hiccup's chest and finds out that Hiccup has survived, to his joy and relief. Stoick thanks Toothless for bringing back his son in one piece, rejecting his initial beliefs that dragons are simply violent beasts. After the battle at the Dragons' Nest, Stoick welcomes the dragons to live in the village as companions and becomes proud of his son of who he is and what he has become.
Stoick was seen with Gobber talking about their ancestors, what will they think of the people on Berk when they had change their ways of thinking differently of the dragons. Stoick was very exctied about this having no more years of war against dragons anymore. But when a majority of dragons were flying in the air, he looked around and was seeing all their dragons starting to leave in the rush. Stoick was worried, thinking the dragons will never come back. As his people ran up to his son asking him questions and making him nervous, he came to tell them to give him a chance to speak. He listened to his son, not knowing what is going on with the dragons. He and the people on Berk were then at the Great Hall, telling them with no dragons we will still be fine for having the winter hoilday. Later, after Toothless flew away, he was told by his son about Toothless never coming back. Stoick gave his son advice telling about his mother as he felt about looseing someone special in your life.
After witnessing the eggs explode at people's houses, he was very upset thinking that this hoilday was a complete disaster. Later, when the people were rebuilding their damaged homes, everyone started to stare at the Sky, as to see a large boat carried by dragons that was returning, to later reveal their babies. As Stoick made speech about, a first time, Viking and dragon Snoggletog, was the best Snoggletog they ever had!
In the television series, Stoick continues in his role as chief of Berk, which has been made more complicated by the addition of the dragons.
The trouble caused by the dragons (and the Viking's subsequent outrage) force Stoick to order them confined. After Hiccup and his friends prove how useful the dragons can be, Stoick gives Hiccup the use of the old arena to convert into a "Dragon Training Academy."
A series of supposed dragon attacks force Stoick to have them exiled. When Hiccup comes to him later, saying that Mildew framed the dragons, Stoick believes his son, but tells him he can't do anything without proof.
Alvin the Treacherous returns to Berk and takes Hiccup, believing him to be the "Dragon conqueror". Stoick fights Alvin personally, throwing him off his own ship. On the group return to Berk, Stoick, acknowledging the dragons' help, allows them to return much to Mildew's anger.
Stoick is taken flying on Toothless with Hiccup to convince him that becoming a dragon rider would be very helpful in his duties as chief. He enjoys the experience so much, he
Stoick and Thornado.
"borrows" Toothless for a day until Hiccup insists Stoick find a dragon of his own. After dismissing all the available dragon species, Stoick comes into contact with a rogue Thunderdrum that has recently been attacking Berk's fishing boats for their catch. While fighting it, Stoick is impressed by the dragon's strength, and captures it in hopes of claiming it for his own. At first, he wants Hiccup to train it for him, but gradually learns that being a rider is a partnership, and not simply being in command as he is used to. The Thunderdrum escapes, and Stoick and Hiccup follow, discovering that it was attacking ships in order to feed a wounded friend. While Hiccup and Toothless go for help, Stoick defends the Thunderdrum's friend from a herd of wild boar. Fighting side by side, they form a bond, and after the Thunderdrum's friend is taken to Gobber for treatment, Stoick and his new dragon fly into action together. Becoming a rider and owning a dragon himself gives him new insight on the true nature of dragons in general. According to Hiccup, Stoick weighs 400 pounds. Stoick and Hiccup have their portrait painted. Stoick is very proud, as he
A portrait of the young Stoick and his father.
still holds his own portrait with his father in great esteem. When Bucket unveils the finished painting, Stoick doesn't seem to notice that Hiccup has been painted as more muscular then he really is. He is oblivious to Hiccup's discomfort regarding the painting. When he learns that Hiccup and his friends have found one of Hamish II's treasure maps, he and Gobber go after them. It seems they arrived too late when a cave collapses on Hiccup and Toothless. The two get out, however, and Stoick gratefully hugs his son. Later, Stoick has Bucket paint a more accurate portrait of himself and Hiccup, letting his son know he's proud of him just the way he is.
Stoick reveals that he finally chose his dragon's name, or rather the dragon accepted the name "Thornado". After the two return from a trip to the Shivering Shores, his dragon also falls ill due to poisoning by Blue Oleanders that Mildew purposely planted. He remarks to himself that he's killed dragons all his life, only to find himself now comforting a "Dragon warrior" of his own. Without hesitation, he joins a dangerous expedition his son plans in order to collect venom from the deadly Scauldron as a cure. He forces Mildew, who created the problem, to come along, and commands the crew in getting the venom. He stays with his dragon after the venom is administered and is very pleased when Thornado recovers from the poisoning.
When Mildew accuses Toothless, as "the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself" as the old folklore says, of bringing down Thor's fury in the form of lightning strikes onto the village. While no one knows why the lightning is occurring, Stoick is blunt in his belief that Toothless could not possibly be responsible. Unlike before in "How to Start a Dragon Academy" or "In Dragons We Trust", he refuses a mob's demands to exile Toothless; it is only when it becomes an issue of Toothless's personal safety does he stall the mob so that Hiccup can escape with Toothless. After the mob captures the dragon, he stands in front of Toothless to protect him and even pulls out a sword to defend the dragon from the mob.
Stoick tells Hiccup to hide the village dragons from the visiting Berserker tribe, who are coming for the signing of their annual peace treaty. Even if their chief, Oswald the Agreeable is a reasonable Viking, the dragons could have been misconstrued as a possible threat. This comes to be a well-thought out decision as Oswald's son, the appropriately titled Dagur the Deranged has taken over the tribe. Stoick claims that the Hooligans do still kill dragons for the sake of the treaty, but when Barf and Belch are captured and in danger of being beheaded for their blood, Stoick decides that enough is enough. In a complete turn around from the old ways that he had let go of not that long ago, Stoick is unwilling to let one innocent dragon die for the treaty. Telling Gobber "if it means war, it means war", he prepared to attack Dagur with his sword, perhaps even kill him, to save Barf and Belch. Luckily, right before he can strike Dagur, the dragon trainers stage a dragon attack with the other dragons, saving Barf and Belch and the treaty.
After Hiccup and Toothless were rescued from the Outcasts, Stoick banned flying in an attempt to keep his son safe. However, he still flew on Thornado to patrol the island. He was unaware that Hiccup and the other riders formed a secret dragon flight club to continue their training. One night, Stoick saw the twins on their dragons' head sticking out of the clouds. When he tried to chase them down, he only managed to get Fishlegs. After Fishlegs refused to give up his friends, Hiccup warned his dad that the Outcasts were approaching Berk, which also revealed he was secretly flying. Stoick reminded his son about the ban, only for Hiccup to question his own father about it. Put in an awkward position, Stoick says they'll talk about it later. After working with Hiccup and the other teenagers to defeat the Outcasts, Stoick apologized for banning flying, as he was just being a father. He and Hiccup then talk about the Dragon Flight Club.
Stoick then let Thornado go when 3 baby Thunderdrums needed protection and a father's care.
Stoick then had Alvin imprisoned for his acts of treachery. However, Stoick was saved by him when he blocked a sword. However, Stoick was then taken prisoner by Dagur, his berserker and outcast solders. He was then rescued by Hiccup, Alvin, Mildew and the other riders. He then made his peace with Alvin. He then heard complaints from Silent Sven, who broke his silence.
Stoick leaves Hiccup in charge of Berk as he is preparing for the annual Regatta boat race. When he returns to see that there are no Regatta decorations, Hiccup explains to Stoick that he has replaced the Regatta with Dragon Races because he has to make tough choices for the good of the people. Stoick allows Hiccup to run the Dragon Races, but only to do it right. Stoick then has all the riders put on face paint, per his idea, as it adds a warrior feeling to them, and offered the prize of a portrait and a feast in the great hall for the race winners.
Stoick, now 50, has also changed ever since the war with the dragons ended. He now has a Rumblehorn named Skullcrusher after setting Thornado free. It is revealed that he would like to retire and is confident that Hiccup is ready to become the next Chieftain of Berk, due his great deeds. Hiccup, however, isn't happy about these new responsibilities and avoids his father as much as possible. When Hiccup tells him about dragon trappers working for Drago Bludvist, Stoick had all the dragons grounded and ordered the island to be fortified, despite Hiccups objections. Stoick, Gobber and the other riders then when after him finding him on Eret's ship, where he told them of his first meeting with Drago where he killed all the chiefs except him. Despite this, his son continues on his mission.
When Hiccup disappears, staying in Valka's Ice Cave, Stoick tracks him by using Skullcrusher to pick up his scent. After finding Hiccup, he is overjoyed that Valka is still alive, claiming she is 'As beautiful as the day he lost her'. After rekindling their love for one another, Stoick asks if Valka will be his wife once more, coming with her to Berk. Valka agrees with this, but before they can, Drago attacks with his Army. Drago's Bewilderbeast defeats the Alpha, thereby ending the fight by becoming the new Alpha and taking control over all the dragons, including Toothless, who has now been hypnotized by the Alpha and will not respond to Hiccup's command. Drago gives the order for the Alpha to kill Hiccup, and it decides to send Toothless. Drago leaves Hiccup to his fate as he prepares his now larger army for the invasion of Berk. Even Stormfly, Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf and Belch, Cloudjumper, Grump and Skullcrusher succumb to the Alpha and joined Drago's army.
Stoick and Valka see Hiccup in trouble and rushes to rescue him. Toothless prepares to fire a fatal plasma blast at Hiccup while the latter tries to smack the former out of its trance but fails. As the fire lights up within Toothless's mouth, Stoick cries out and leaps in front of the possessed Night Fury. Toothless lets loose the huge blast of plasma, killing Stoick instantly. Valka and the other dragon riders rush over to Hiccup and Stoick; after Valka listens to Stoick's chest, the look of sadness on her face reveals that she couldn't hear his heart beat. Toothless is released from the Bewilderbeast's control. The Night Fury then attempts to help Stoick but is told to leave by an angry and grief-blinded Hiccup. The Alpha gains control over Toothless again and Drago rides Toothless to lead the final invasion of Berk. Hiccup, Valka, the dragon riders and Eret hold a Viking funeral for Stoick as Gobber conducts the service. Hiccup, now filled with regret at the loss of his father and capture of his dragon respectively, decides that they will fly back to Berk and defeat Drago once and for all.
Once on Berk, Drago announces to the Berkians that Stoick is dead, much to their shock and sadness.
After the Battle of Berk, Hiccup looks over the horizon in remembrance of Stoick and decides to carry on his father's legacy. He is officially appointed chief by Gothi the Elder and Gobber proclaims that the chief has finally come home as he villagers cheer. At the ending, Skullcrusher bonds with Eret and a monument in Stoick's honor is in the process of being chiseled out of the cliff outside the entrance of the Great Hall, even as the village is being repaired.
Stoick will appear in the upcoming third and final film, but due to his death in the previous film, Stoick may just appear in flashbacks.
Stoick's Legacy
DreamWorks Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Stoick the Vast.
It was revealed that he will be resurrected in How To Train Your Dragon 3, as in his voice will be included, most likely for flashbacks.
In the books, Stoick has a tattoo on his left arm.
Stoick seems to have a knack for naming dragons (Torch, Thornado, Skullcrusher, etc.).
In the trailer of the second movie, Stoick is seen riding a new dragon, a Rumblehorn named *Skullcrusher, because he sadly had to set Thornado free to take care of Bing, Bam and Boom, three adolescent Thunderdrum dragons.
Stoick is fully aware and seems to support Hiccup's relationship with Astrid, calling her his future daughter-in-law.
In the coloring and activity books based off the Original Film, Stoick's dragon was a Monstrous Nightmare.
Stoick is the first Viking to release his dragon.
Stoick shown to defeated two dragons with his incredible strength as seen so far in the movie and series.
He was able to defeat Monstrous Nightmare with four hits by jumping to use both of his feet to attack it away from Hiccup, two punches, and another kick in short fight.
He defeated Thunderdrum in few seconds with only two punches that was powerful enough to do great distance off the ground.
Films: How to Train Your Dragon • How to Train Your Dragon 2 • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Shorts: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon • Gift of the Night Fury • Book of Dragons • Dawn of the Dragon Racers
Spin-off series: DreamWorks Dragons (Episode List)
Video games: How to Train Your Dragon
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III • Astrid Hofferson • Stoick the Vast • Valka • Gobber the Belch • Fishlegs Ingerman • Snotlout Jorgenson • Ruffnut Thorston • Tuffnut Thorston • Eret, Son of Eret • Gothi • Spitelout Jorgenson • Drago Bludvist • Grimmel the Grisly
Spin-off Characters: Dagur the Deranged • Mala • Heather • Heather's Parents • Atali • Gustav Larson • Minden • Bucket • Mulch • Silent Sven • Trader Johann • Alvin the Treacherous • Viggo Grimborn • Ryker Grimborn • Mildew • Captain Vorg • Krogan
Dragon Characters: Toothless • Stormfly • Meatlug • Barf and Belch • Hookfang • Cloudjumper • Skullcrusher • Grump • Red Death • Toothless' Rival • Scauldy • Bing, Bam and Boom • Windshear • Shattermaster • Valka's Bewilderbeast • Drago's Bewilderbeast • Torch • Thornado • Light Fury
Dragon Species: Night Fury • Deadly Nadder • Gronckle • Monstrous Nightmare • Hideous Zippleback • Typhoomerang • Thunderdrum • Hotburple • Fireworm • Scauldron • Whispering Death • Smothering Smokebreath • Changewing • Screaming Death • Fireworm Queen • Flightmare • Skrill • Lead Stinger • Speed Stingers • Stormcutter • Bewilderbeast • Seashocker • Razorwhip
How to Train Your Dragon: Sticks and Stones
How to Train Your Dragon 2: For The Dancing And The Dreaming • Where No One Goes • Into A Fantasy
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: Together From Afar
Berk • Itchy Armpit
Hiccup's Shield • Dragon Blade
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February 6, 2016 February 6, 2017 by dksheets
The three R’s of Twitter literacy
media, social media
media literacy, microblogs, social media, twitter
Look around. It’s easy to see. From home to school, from work to play, we’re witnessing a disturbing change in America, 140 characters at a time.
That change, heralded by microblogs and trumpeted by our president, demands immediate satisfaction with digital communications, such that we’re compelled to tell networks of virtual “friends” what we’re doing minute by minute and expect the same in return.
Evidence of this abounds as people meander down busy sidewalks with heads bent and eyes focused on their smartphones. Even in groups, we prefer meeting each other through our digital devices instead of face to face.
Twitter alone has attracted an audience of well over 300 million people tapping out an estimated 6,000 tweets per second. Americans are tops at tweeting, constituting 30 percent of all Twitter users.
We could write off this behavior as endemic to a social species requiring engagement to survive and thrive. Instead, such time-consuming, attention-diverting devotion to information that is at once pertinent and pedantic softens society, inserts more space between ourselves and the world, and achieves the opposite of what we had hoped to accomplish through our amazing digital devices.
What would it take to disrupt this spreading inattentiveness before we’re reduced to letting technology do all the talking for us? Analysts say a refined Twitter temperament that fosters mature social networking is essential to sounding literate online, and the core curricula of that literacy can be boiled down to three R’s:
Restraint — We perceive our portals to the internet to be one-way mirrors when in fact there are hundreds of thousands of eyes peering back at us. Couple that with social media enticing users to give up details about themselves in the name of “brand awareness,” and little about us will remain private. This is why so many Twitter users tweet every thought they have every minute they have them. They wax lengthy on food and fashion choices, spill secrets and tell lies, and they do these things either unaware of or indifferent to their network’s varied interests.
The result: Instead of growing their networks, they lose followers, and their networks shrink.
The best tweeters are not so random or careless. Sree Sreenivasan, New York’s chief digital officer, says he will wait a full six minutes between tweets to ponder what he’s saying, how he’s saying it, and the possible reception from his followers. The alternative is a message that misses the mark and bruises his brand.
“I delete much more than I tweet,” he told the Society of Professional Journalists.
Research — Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “When you know better, you do better.”
If only the Twitterverse were as insightful.
Instead, Twitter’s mix of immediacy and intimacy often blunts good sense. The tweets can circulate widely outside through hashtags and retweets, which entices users to announce rather than report on the notion that an authoritative-sounding tweet can grow their networks.
Proven knowledge — the kind based on unimpeachable evidence — gives each tweet more chirp because it demonstrates the sender’s diligence in pursuit of authenticity. Like quotes and facts in a newspaper article, embedded links pointing to legitimate, apolitical sources shore up the authority of tweets and improve the credibility of whoever sends them.
“It’s not just about knowing how,” says noted social critic and modern media analyst Howard Rheingold. “It’s about knowing how and knowing who knows who knows what. … Know-how is where the difference lies.”
Reciprocity — Social media’s best quality appears in its name. We’re drawn to tools such as Twitter because they’re both personal and public; some part of us and our followers threads its way through every exchange, intended or not. Moreover, Twitter’s easy accessibility encourages users to reach beyond their circles of close friends to network with anyone harboring vast reserves of knowledge and experience.
But to get real value from Twitter, that value must be exchanged.
“I think successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people you follow,” Rheingold says. “… If you don’t put out, you don’t get back.”
Of course, one of the greatest benefits of being part of a social network is staying up to date on current events and updates and providing social followers with information that is relevant and popular. Better still is sharing unique information – original, authentic content no one else has generated. Twitter users who do that are certain to attract a flock of loyal followers.
(Editor’s note: A version of this post first appeared on the Gateway Media Literacy Partners website.)
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Title: Beyond altruism: British football and charity, 1877-1914
Author(s): Kay, Joyce
Vamplew, Wray
Contact Email: joyce.kay@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Football
Victorian Britain
Issue Date: May-2010
Citation: Kay J & Vamplew W (2010) Beyond altruism: British football and charity, 1877-1914, Soccer and Society, 11 (3), pp. 181-197.
Abstract: Football charity matches and tournaments played a significant part in the development of the sport in Britain, overlapping the era of friendly games and the advent of competitive leagues. The football community prided itself on its contributions to charity, raising more money than any other sport before 1914, and stakeholders within the game – associations, clubs, players and patrons – gained considerable kudos for this perceived altruism. However, this paper will demonstrate that amounts donated, though welcome, were relatively minor sources of revenue for both institutions and individuals, and that the charity match became less important to clubs in a professional, and increasingly commercial, era.
DOI Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660971003619453
Rights: Published in Soccer & Society by Taylor & Francis (Routledge).; This is an electronic version of an article published in Soccer & Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2010, pp. 181 - 197. Soccer & Society is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1466-0970&volume=11&issue=3&spage=181
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Man sentenced to community corrections in robbery, police pursuit
Michael Wilson was charged with multiple felonies
By Mia Rupani Police & courts reporter
Friday, March 9, 2018 2:09 PM
A La Plata County man was sentenced Friday to three years in community corrections after leading police on a multi-hour pursuit north of Bayfield.
Michael Fisher Wilson was charged with aggravated motor vehicle theft, criminal attempt to commit robbery, vehicular eluding, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and second-degree burglary.
Events unfolded the morning of Oct. 30 at the Grocery Store at Bayfield, 381 E. Colorado Drive, where Wilson attempted to rob the store’s owner, Paul Peeples.
When the robbery was unsuccessful, Wilson led police on a 20-mile chase north of Bayfield in a car stolen from his mother, reaching speeds of 80 mph, and a multi-hour foot pursuit.
He abandoned the car a couple of miles north of Vallecito Reservoir and broke into a Vallecito resident’s home, where a woman inside persuaded him to leave before calling police.
On Friday, Dianne Paxton recounted her morning commute when Wilson’s reckless driving forced her off the road.
“He made that vehicle into a 3,000-pound deadly weapon,” she said. “Within split seconds, I had to swerve my car to avoid being hit. He exhibited an extreme disregard for human life that day.”
Annie Woods, Wilson’s public defender, said the incident “does not define Michael.”
She attributed his actions to a difficult childhood, including an abusive, drug-addicted mother, and mental illness.
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Witness in the Convex Mirror
TinFish Press’ Book Page
Distributors: TinFish Press, Amazon, SPD, among others.
On SPD Recommended List, April 2019
Advance Words
“You don’t write poems like he does,” the speaker says in Eileen Tabios’ poem “Tense Past Tense.” We, the readers, immediately notice the vertigo, the joie de vivre of a playful but incisive sense of the text. She does not write like Stephane Mallarme but you can hear the sounds of his dice rolling in the poems. She does not write like John Ashbery and yet the complexity and opacity tumble in tune to the music of those sentences. WITNESS IN THE CONVEX MIRROR is Eileen Tabios’ modus opus and it should find a place in every public or private library
—Nick Carbó, author of Secret Asian Man and editor of Returning the Borrowed Tongue
Eileen Tabios cracks open Ashbery’s convex mirror to reveal a secret history of our times. Her virtuoso riffs on Ashbery’s masterwork are no mere exercise, but open up into unexpected vistas—these poems “say ‘convex’ for widening / the gaze.” That gaze is directed both inward and outward, offering glimpses of the quotidian life of those who find “mortality gazing back / at us from the bathroom mirror,” but also pulling back for a wide-angle view of a planet in crisis, chronicling “the body’s deterioration, ours and earth’s.” These pages, like Ashbery’s, are filled with the pleasures of poetry, but Tabios resists the “preening that / negates the subject matter,” unafraid to peer behind the scenes of our lives in “the dim shadows / of a movie forged from the margins / of capitalism.” The swerve of the convex mirror, allowing us a (brief) respite from confronting ourselves, is gradually replaced with an awareness of our complicity in the world reflected in the poem: “No one is / innocent in empire.” What’s left to the poet is to be “the spy / in the house,” as Tabios’s formal inventions dig behind enemy lines to open up, however briefly, a space of plentitude: “I came into being, capacious and singing.”
— Timothy Yu, author of Race and the Avant-garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965
To read Eileen R. Tabios’ WITNESS IN THE CONVEX MIRROR is “to Ashbery,” which, to paraphrase John Ashbery—arguably the greatest American poet of the 20th century—means to “imitate the way knowledge comes, by fits and starts and by indirection.” Ms. Tabios begins each poem with 1-2 lines from Mr. Ashbery’s oeuvre, before pivoting to Asia and Asian themes: “It happened while you were inside, asleep. / The penguins now grieve over the escalation / of silt in their bath. A mother begs a child, / ‘Let go. I won’t survive, but you can!’ But…” In her new book, Ms. Tabios addresses super typhoons and modern-day slavery, and homonyms and reduplicative words such as wagwag and pagpag, with aplomb and intense imagination, permanently and expertly connecting these with the hermetic nature in John Ashbery’s poetry. Read these poems as through a fish eye mirror, where the field of view is ever more expansive, and objects are always closer than they appear.
—Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto, San Mateo County Poet Laureate and author of The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems
TinFish Press Description
When John Ashbery died in September, 2017, all the obituaries noted that he had been a member of the New York School of poets, that his roots were in western New York and that, despite living for a decade in Paris, his career had unfolded over many decades in the City. Ashbery was, indeed, something of a local poet, constantly using references from the places he had lived. Lost in the very local memorials, however, was the fact that Ashbery’s work also influenced writers in the Pacific, including writers of color. Eileen Tabios has taken up Ashbery’s influence and engaged in a project of “the browning of John Ashbery,” as she told Tinfish’s editor once. Using one or two lines at a time from Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” (1976), Tabios inhabits Ashbery’s mode, while moving our focus of attention many thousands of miles west of New York City. Tabios, who grew up in the Philippines, studied and worked in New York City, and has lived in California for many years, appropriates Ashbery to her own ends. These include cultural appropriation, genocide, militarism, sexual and racial violence, art history, and many other interests she shared—or did not share—with the older white male poet. Witness in the Convex Mirror is a tense act of homage, one that draws Ashbery away from the region that is most comfortable with him, and into a place where the discomfort is palpable, but extremely generative.
In poems like “Email to a Young Poet of Color,” “The Now of Heaven,” and “Eco Echo,” Tabios doesn’t shy away from blunt reactions to the political and environmental struggles we face. She writes, “As if the ill-educated parent / will not bear ill-educated children. As if billionaires would / still contribute to charities without tax-deductions.” The collection is strikingly frank. “The Optimists Ciphertext” quips, “Clarity, as lives of quiet / desperation imply, is untrustworthy.” Readers follow the speaker as she searches for something more reliable than clarity. The poems focus in and out on current culture from a precise but unforgiving angle.
Overall, the collection reads like a social proclamation, one many will champion, though others might read as deliberately deadpan. Fans of Ashbery’s Portrait will likely enjoy the echoes of his work paired with Tabios’s take on the vantage of the convex mirror. In short, Witness in the Convex Mirror offers a biographical approach to poetry from a successful and well-published poet.
—Jeanna Paden, Harbor Review
The use of two of Ashbery’s lines to begin new poems is bold and courageous. Tabios has never been a poet to conform, she shatters the mirror. Its shards of images and words, both beautiful and harsh, of the comfortable and uncomfortable glitter like diamonds spilled out upon the floor.
—g emil reutter, North of Oxford
Although Tabios has always been to some extent political, be it the Filipino diaspora, 9/11 and the world ever since, or the complexities of gender or adoption for adopter and adoptee, I found Witness in the Convex Mirror to take it to a new level. And the clue is in the substitution of Witness for Self-Portrait. As many a wise and wizened soul has told us, to Witness is to be responsible to Speak. And speak Tabios does, on a variety of pressing subjects in a hurting and hurtful world. / …tackles gender, race, and other political complexities through the modern lens. We have Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman; Scarlet(t) Johansson’s turn as an Asian character in Ghost in the Shell (as I was writing this she defended her right to play any kind of human—or an animal or tree); struggles in the Sudan and the bombing of Syria; riffs on an article from The Atlantic and a report about the CDC from the Washington Post; the poverty politics of government cheese (which was a staple of my childhood family meals one particularly desperate year); irresponsibility and the environment; and rape politics and sex dolls (which are already overlapping).
—from “An Innovator, Always” by Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews, July 18, 2019
It is not surprising that Eileen Tabios should compose a book referencing the great American poet John Ashbery – 1927 -2017 – yet in doing so she unveils an even more resplendent aspect of her art. This book is one that should be experienced by all lovers of fine poetry…
—Grady Harp, Goodreads
Tabios extends Ashbery’s narrative of seeking truths in self-reflection while using current events to expose the human condition. Alex Tizon’s story, “My Family’s Slave,” inspires the predicament of one woman taking the punishment meant for another in “Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Avatar;” “Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Pathos” gives us “men collecting rubber sex dolls – yes / one is not sufficient” in Japan, triggering this uncomfortable vision: “One man’s daughter receives / the doll’s hand-me-down clothes.”
—Erica Goss, Sticks & Stones Newsletter on Love in a Time of Belligerence’s poems that appear in Witness in the Convex Mirror
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…the more I (irresistibly) enter the poems, the more dazzled I am. Zounds. These are wonderful.
—Sheila Murphy
Excellent book. It’s absolutely fascinating to see how Eileen Tabios broadened Ashbery’s work
I read this as one pissed-off book. I read this as hugely concerned with the world, and with everyone on it. Not just concerned with, but concerned about. Worried about, angry with …
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This tool lets you bequeath your Google account to a trusted person when you die — here's how to set it up
If you’ve ever worried about what would befall your Gmail, photos, documents, YouTube videos, and other digital data in the event of a terrible accident or your own death, you’re not alone.
It’s a little dark to think about, but the good news is that Google has your back.
The service offers a feature that will bequeath your Google account and all of its contents to up to 10 pre-selected trustees, and even let you set your account to self-delete after an extended period of inactivity.
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To get started, you’ll want to make sure you’re logged in to your Google account, and find your Account settings.
Click on the tile menu, and “Account” should be the very first module in the drop-down window.
From your the landing page for your account settings, you’ll want to click “Personal info and privacy.”
Google doesn’t really advertise this feature, and bury it pretty deeply among the dozens of other account customizations, making it feel like the morbid needle in a settings haystack.
From here, you’ll have to scroll almost all the way down the page, until you see the section titled “Assign an account Trustee.” On the right side, you’ll see an entry to the “Inactive Account Manager.” Go ahead and click “CHANGE THIS SETTING” to set it up.
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