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Vladimir (Roman) of Classis and St. Julius Island
Revision as of 11:24, October 2, 2013 by Pistevo (talk | contribs) (moved Vladimir of Classis and St. Julius Island to Vladimir (Roman) of Classis and St. Julius Island: OW:SM for bishop's surnames.)
Vladimir (secular name Maurice Roman; (Greek) Ο Βλαντιμίρ, Επίσκοπος της Ιεράς Πόλεως Κλάσης και του νησιού Αγίου Ιουλίου της Αίγινας) is the Bishop of Civitas Classis-Ravenna and St. Julius Island of the Holy Synod of Milan[1]
Maurice Roman was born in Milan in 1962. He is an Archeologist by background, having studied the History of Classical Antiquity, Archeology, Byzantine History and History of the Church. He wrote his dissertation in Byzantine Canon and Civil Law at the Institute of Byzantine History (Dafist) at a prestigious Italian university
As a young boy, he was part of a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate [1] directed by Archimandrite Evloghij.
He was tonsured rasophore monk in 1984 than lector, subdeacon - later in 1985 was ordained deacon and priest as Hieromonk (by Bishop Evloghij of Milan), later in 1992 he became Hegumen, in 1993 Kathegumen and in 1995 Archimandrite.
Metropolita Evloghios consecrated Vladika Vladimir as bishop of St. Julius Island (in Orta San Giulio) with Archbishop Vigile of Paris and Bishop Vassilij of Osta.
Metropolitan Evloghios, Archbishop Lazar, Archbishop Vigile and Metropolitan Filaret in Kiev for the funeral service of Patriarch Volodymir'
Archbishop Vigil of Paris with Patriarch Volodimir in Kiev
He was consecrated bishop on 6 December o.s./19 December n.s. 1995, Feast of St. Nicholas in the Cathedral of Milan, by Archbishop Evloghij, Archbishop Vigil of Paris and Bishop Vassilij of Ostia under the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Milan, Western Europe and Canada - Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. Archbishop Lazar (Puhalo) of Ottawa, who knew him in Kiev, sent as member of the Holy Synod of Autonomous Orthodox Church of Milan, Western Europe and Canada (Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate) his agreement for the consecration. Vladyka Vladimir was in the same Holy Synod with Vladyka Lazar (Puhalo) of Ottawa and Vladyka Varlaam (Novakshonoff) of Vancouver, consecrated by Metropolitan Evloghios under his Omophor as the Head of the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Milan, Western Europe and Canada - Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate on 19 September / 2 October 1994 (See the Grammata at the end of the page [2]).
In 2004 he left his mother Church and went to another jurisdiction. He later repented and was readmitted to the Holy Synod of Milan with penance which included a forced retirement. There he remained until June of 2013 as a retired bishop by will of the Holy Synod of Milan. After years of retired life and study, the Holy Synod of Milan reconsidered his position and accepted the request of Vladyka Vladimir to return to the status of an active bishop no longer in forced retirement.
Since June, 2013, he is part of the Holy Synod of Milan serving as "Bishop of St. Julius Island" of Egina (Julius of Novara in Orta San Giulio).
He is a member of the Synod of Milan and is the head of the "Department of Liturgy" and of the "Department of Canon Law".
In Saturday september 1, 2013 (old style)- beginning of the church's years, Bishop Vladmir is promoted to the title of Bishop of Civitas Classis and St. Julius Island.
In Sunday september 2, 2013 (old style), Vladyka Vladimir was promoted to the rank of Archbishop of Classis-Ravenna and St. Julius Island.
Saint Julius Island
Vladyka Vladimir is responsible for the Holy Synod of Milan's review of academic books of Eastern Canon Law, Byzantine History and is the Head of the DEPARTMENT FOR EXTERNAL CHURCH RELATION of The Holy Synod of Milan.[2]
↑ Arcidiocesi Ortodossa di Milano e di Longobardia: METROPOLIA DI AQUILEIA E DELL'EUROPA OCCIDENTALE – OFFICIAL Website: Holy Synod. Retrieved: 2013-08-14.
↑ http://mediolanum.me/department-for-external-church-relation/
Arcidiocesi Ortodossa di Milano e di Longobardia: METROPOLIA DI AQUILEIA E DELL'EUROPA OCCIDENTALE – OFFICIAL Website: Holy Synod. Retrieved: 2013-08-14.
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Origin: Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active: 1983 – present
Members:Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante, Flea, Chad Smith
Former members:Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons, Cliff Martinez, Jack Sherman, Chuck Biscuits,
D. H. Peligro, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, Jesse Tobias, Arik Marshall, Dave Navarro
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California,
In 1983. For most of its career, the band has consisted of vocalist Anthony Kiedis,
Guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith.
The band's varied musical style has fused traditional rock and heavy metal with various
Elements of funk, punk rock, and psychedelic rock.
In addition to Kiedis and Flea, the group originally featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer
Jack Irons. However, Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988, resulting in Irons resigning.
Irons was replaced briefly by D. H. Peligro, former Dead Kennedys drummer, before the band
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Found a permanent replacement in Chad Smith, while Slovak was replaced by up-and-coming
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#LG Chem
(LEAD) LG Chem, GM to set up EV battery JV in U.S.
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By Kim Kwang-tae
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Yonhap) -- LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's leading chemical company, said Friday it will establish a 50:50 joint venture with General Motors to build a battery cell assembly plant in the world's most important automobile market amid a global push for zero emissions.
LG Chem and GM said they will invest up to a total of US$2.3 billion through the joint venture company.
The joint venture will set up a battery cell assembly plant in the Lordstown area of northeast Ohio. Groundbreaking is expected to take place in mid-2020.
Battery cells to be produced at the plant will be supplied to GM's battery-electric vehicles, according to LG Chem.
The plant's annual production capacity will reach more than 30 gigawatt hours (GWh), which is enough to supply batteries for 500,000 electric vehicles.
LG Chem Vice Chairman and CEO Shin Hak-cheol said the joint venture is more than just a mere collaboration.
"It marks the beginning of a great journey that will create an emission-free society and transform the global automotive market into an eco-friendly era," Shin said in a ceremony at the GM Global Tech Center in Michigan, according to the company.
The EV battery market has been on a roll as automakers around the world race to go electric and eco-friendly due to tightened regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say are to blame for global warming.
GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said that GM looks forward to collaborating with LG Chem on future cell technologies.
"Combining our manufacturing expertise with LG Chem's leading battery-cell technology will help accelerate our pursuit of an all-electric future. That will continue to improve the value we deliver to our customers," Barra said in comments posted on the company's website.
The latest investment could help strengthen LG Chem's position as a global market leader in the EV battery sector.
An electric vehicle equipped with LG Chem batteries can travel about 380 kilometers on a single charge, according to LG Chem.
LG Chem has supplied batteries to more than 2.7 million electric vehicles, including those of GM, Ford, Renault, Volvo, Audi, Volkswagen and Dailmer, as well as South Korea's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor Co., and its smaller affiliate, Kia Motors Corp.
Shin said LG Chem would have a combined global capacity of 70 GWh by the end of the year and 100 GWh global capacity by 2020.
LG Chem has another electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan. It also operates electric vehicle battery plants in China, Poland and South Korea.
Shares in LG Chem were trading at 294,500 won ($248) as of 10:35 a.m., up 0.34 percent from the previous session's close.
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘Vampire Diaries’
By Tanja Saric. 10 Sep 2019 10:00 AM
Today — September 10 — marks exactly 10 years since the first episode of “The Vampire Diaries” aired. In honour of eight blood-quenching seasons full of hot vampires, witches, werewolves, and hybrids, here are 10 fun facts Elena was probably hiding in her diary.
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A lot of the cast members can speak different languages.
Nina Dobrev can speak Bulgarian, Paul Wesley can speak Polish, and Kat Graham can speak Spanish, French, and Hebrew.
Coupling Up
Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder weren't the only "Vampire Diaries" actors to have a relationship IRL.
Zach Roerig and Candice Accola dated in 2011. Paul Wesley married Torrey DeVitto also in 2011, though they unfortunately divorced in 2013. Shortly after, Wesley dated Phoebe Tonkin, who appeared on the show for a few episodes as Hayley Marshall and "The Vampire Diaries" spinoff "The Originals". The couple split after nearly four years of dating. Wesley is now married to Ines de Ramon.
Mystic Falls Or Fell's Church?
While in the TV show the town that Elena, Damon, and Stefan live in is called Mystic Falls, it's actually called Fell's Church in the book series.
Stephen Amell Auditioned For Two Parts
Actor Stephen Amell auditioned for two parts on "Vampire Diaries": Elijah and Mason.
While he wasn't cast on this show, he is no stranger to the CW as he appeared on "90210" and "Arrow".
The Actor Who Plays Matt Donovan Is A Dad
Actor Zach Roerig, who plays Matt Donovan, is a dad in real life.
Back in 2013, Roerig won full custody of his daughter after her mother was sentenced to federal prison.
Isobel Flemming's Phone Number Actually Worked
In season 2 of the show, we are introduced to Isobel Flemming, Elena's biological mother. In one episode, Elena dials Isobel's phone number after finding it on someone else's phone.
What a lot of fans didn't know, though, is that the phone number actually worked. Fans could call it and hear a recording by Elena, Stefan, and Damon.
Elena Is Supposed To Have A Sister
In the TV adaptation of "Vampire Diaries" the only sibling Elena has is Jeremy.
In the books by L.J. Smith, Elena also has a four-year-old sister named Margaret, whom she visits as a vampire after she dies.
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The McQueens
Jeremy Gilbert is the coolest and most protective little brother we've ever seen.
Actor Steven R. McQueen, who plays Jeremy, also comes from a cool family. His grandfather is the legendary Steve "King of Cool" McQueen.
No wonder he's such a stud.
The Salvatore Brothers Were Almost The Whitmore Brothers
Whether you were Team Damon or Team Stefan, you can admit that "Vampire Diaries" would not be the same without the Salvatore brothers.
According to reports, the CW producers almost changed the brothers' last name to Whitmore because they thought Salvatore was "too Italian." In the end, though, they decided to keep the original name in L.J. Smith's books.
Ashley Tisdale As Elena Gilbert?
Our favourite female vampire Elena Gilbert was almost played by Ashley Tisdale.
The "High School Musical" alum was initially offered the part but turned it down for a lead role in the CW's "Hellcats", which only lasted one season.
While we love the idea of a Sharpay Evans-esque vampire, we can't imagine anyone but Nina Dobrev playing the part.
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Deinove to licence antibiotic leads form RedX Pharma
Acinetobacter baumanii, © CDC
French antibiotics player Deinove has inked a licence option agreement with Redx Pharma plc concerning a new class of synthetic preclinical topoisomerase blockers to treat infections caused by Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens.
Redx Pharma said it wanted to licence its programme because the company decided to put its development focus on cancer and fibrosis candidates. Deinove indicated that Redx Pharma’s preclinical anti-infective portfolio would complement its own early-stage pipleline of naturally-derived compounds, which is driven forward within the AGIR (Antibiotics Against Resistant Infectious Germs) project, which has been granted €10.4m by BPI France.
In 2016, Redx pharma presented promising preclinical results of three „novel“ topoisomerase IV, topoisomerase II and DNA gyrase blockers in antibiotic-resistant E. coli and Acinetobacter baumanii strains, whose binding sites are adjacent to the binding site of quinolones and showed no cross-resistance to them. According to Redx, which participated in the €85m ENABLE programme of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and got a €1m fund from the CARB-X, the novel drug group significantly decreased infection levels against the multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacterial strains when compared with tigecycline, a current drug-of-last-resort used in treating antibiotic resistant bacteria while triggering only few mutations..
The novel bacterial topoisomerase inhibitors (NBTI) complement Deinove’s antibiotics screening programme in rare bacteria. According to Deinove, which did not disclose any financial details of the option agreement, the to-be licenced NBTI programme only covers those candidates targeting bacterial type II topoisomerase. Currently, it is undergoing lead optimisation and in vivo evaluation confirming its potential in terms of both efficacy and safety. Deinove said, it would continue the optimisation and selection work for a possible regulatory preclinical entry of one or more molecules.
Deinove now has nine months to confirm its interest in this series of molecules and exercise the option. The transaction includes an upfront payment and a supplement to the exercise of the option.
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Senate Hearing Uncovers Sexploitation in Apps and Social Media
Statement by Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of NCOSE
Washington, DC – On July 9, The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing with twelve senators and a packed room on the topic of “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World” in order to talk about the predatory targeting, grooming, sex trafficking, hardcore pornography, and more that makes up the experience of so many young users of platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation submitted written testimony, including screenshots of proof, for this hearing.
“The age of abandoning parents to alone navigate child protection in the digital age is coming to a close,” said Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). “On popular apps like Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and more, children are routinely groomed for sexual abuse, child pornography, sexual extortion, and even sex trafficking. Tragically, I recently met with several 15 year old girls in DC who were sex trafficked through Instagram. The experience of most young users on these platforms includes exposure to hardcore pornography, messages from strangers soliciting sex acts, and relentless sexual harassment. It’s time for a larger conversation and to hold technology companies accountable for creating safe spaces for minors. The problem is too vast for parents to handle alone, and too many children without stable families will be left vulnerable until these companies take a more proactive approach to protection.”
“Congressional leadership is urgently needed to hold technology companies accountable for developing solutions to these complex problems created by their platforms. Solutions like an independent app ratings board, default settings based on the age of the user, or updating the Children’s Online Protection Act or the Children’s Internet Protection Act, or a Congressional study on these issues would significantly help in creating a safer online world for kids in America. We would like to especially thank Chairman Graham, who noted that default settings for devices based on a user’s age need to become a reality,” concluded Hawkins.
If you would like to schedule an interview, please contact Jake Roberson at (202) 393-7245 or press@ncose.com.
Founded in 1962, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is the leading national organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health crisis of pornography.
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy
National Skill Development Fund (NSDF)
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
Power Minister Piyush Goyal and Skill Dev Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy sign MoU for skill development in Bihar
According to the agreement, NSDC through its Approved Training Partners will facilitate providing quality training and placement to the trainees through its Training Partner network, with focus on self-employment related training where relevant.June 27, 2015, 05:37 IST
June 26: An agreement between NTPC, National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) was signed in the presence of Power Minister Piyush Goyal and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy in Patna today, NTPC said in a statement.
NTPC has signed its second MOU in a span of two months with National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The MOU is a corporate responsibility initiative towards Skilling India.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, “It gives me immense pleasure to see how big organizations are coming up to support the skill initiative in the country and thus aiding in the achievement of our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of a Skilled India. Agreements like these will empower the youth and make them employment ready. I would also like to thank my colleague Piyush Goyal for coming forward and recognising the importance of skilled workforce in the country.”
Under the tripartite agreement NTPC will contribute its CSR funds to support a project to skill 25000 persons. All programs offered will be aligned to the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), which organizes qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude, added the statement.
The tripartite MoU was signed by Ms. Jyotna Sitling, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, (NSDF), U.P. Pani Director (HR), NTPC and Dilip H Chenoy, MD & CEO, NSDC. Dr Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD NTPC was also present.
Speaking on the occasion, Piyush Goyal said, “We are committed to the people of our country. Skilled workforce is the backbone for every industry as we cannot progress until unless we have skilled workforce. I would like to congratulate Rudy on the kind of work his ministry is doing. We expect his ministry to work at the grass-root level and polish all the talent in the country to be job ready for not only industries under my ministry but across sectors. We collectively want to set an example for others to follow through this MoU.”
According to the agreement, NSDC through its Approved Training Partners will facilitate providing quality training and placement to the trainees through its Training Partner network, with focus on self-employment related training where relevant.
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What’s the Evidence? Determining where Govan Cureton was born!
Posted on May 27, 2014 by familytreegirl
Govan Cureton is an African American who is the son of Ambrose and Eliza (unknown) Cureton. Govan was born between 1865-1871. I have seen him in several different locations and dates for his birth. The quest is to determine where Govan Cureton was actually born; was he born in Tennessee, South Carolina or North Carolina? What documentation as a genealogist should I rely on? We all know the difference between primary and secondary sources. I drafted a timeline on Govan listing everything in date order. I first began simply writing down what I know about my great grandfather Govan. My intentions were to locate as much information as I could to provide evidence to determine where he was born. A good way to begin is reviewing the federal population census. The first one I found listed Govan in the 1870 Federal Population Census for Cocke County, Tennessee. Govan is listed as a 5 year old in the household of Ambrose Cureton and Eliza Cureton and it says he is born in North Carolina. The census also listed a sister (an assumption) named Elizabeth.
1870 Federal Census Cocke County, Tennessee
1880 Federal Population Census (1880; Census Place: Loudon, Loudon, Tennessee; Roll: 1267; Family History Film: 1255267; Page: 357B; Enumeration District: 213.) Govan is in the house with his father and stepmother and siblings. I love the challenge of figuring out the name of the children in this household -all of them; except for Govan have initials for their first names. Govan is listed as being born in North Carolina, now being born in 1868.
1887 Marriage Record “Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780-2002” Govan marries Hattie Russell, daughter of Anderson Russell. They lived in a houseboat in Loudon County, Tennessee.
Marriage Certificate, Loudon County, TN 30 Dec 1887
1891 Voter Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 about Govan Cureton.
Name: Govan Cureton
County: Loudon County
Township: Dist. 1 Male Voters
Database: TN 1891 Voters List
Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA
1900 Federal Census Govan Cureton London County, Tennessee. I just love the spelling of this family-Tovar Curncton, but Govan is the head of the household, wife Hattie, son Carl, daughters Viola (my grandmother), Jennie, and Ire Russell. (The census was too light to put a picture in so I pulled this from Ancestry.com)
1910 Federal Census Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee-So Govan and his family has moved to Knoxville, why, there could be various reasons. Govan is head of the household, now born in Tennessee, wife Hattie, Carrie, Viola and two boarders; Clifford & William Graham.
So far it appears that the Cureton’s moved to Ft. Wayne sometime in 1917.
1920 Federal Census Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Govan is head of the household, wife Hattie, son Carl, grandson Floyd, daughter Viola, Boarder Robert Johnson and Winston William. Govan was a janitor at the Court House.
Another note-Govan’s son, Carl was married to his second wife in 1924 in Allen County, Indiana, he lists his father as being born in Norfolk, VA. Now where did that come from?
1928- Govan Cureton passed away 2nd day of March, Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Note he says Govan was born in South Carolina and Govan’s wife Hattie is the informant and he died at 529 Holman St.
While attending the International Black Genealogy Summit (IBGS, 2009) in Ft. Wayne, I pulled this Obit from the Ft. Wayne newspaper (Allen County Public Library, Genealogy room) and visited the cemetery where Govan was buried. Note that he is now born in Greenville South Carolina (I was so excited).
Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1860 to 1975 – Old Negro Section: Cureton Govan Mar 2, 1928 57y 5m 22d Greenville, SC Fort Wayne Mar 5, 1. The person that provided the information to the funeral home was Hattie, Govan’s wife. This cemetery has over 69,000 graves (http://www.dignitymemorial.com/lindenwood-cemetery/en-us/history.page)
In the local newspaper the following Obit was listed. This provided personal information on Govan such as being a member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church (where my grandfather William C. Murphy, was an Associate Pastor. William married Viola, Govan’s daughter), he was a member of the American Woodmen and he had a sister name Stella Thomas and “one” brother William from Cincinnati, Ohio.
This is a cemetery record, note birthplace of Govan is South Carolina and birthdate now is 5 Sept 1870, and his father was born in South Carolina and Govan’s mother is unknown. There is no indication of who provided this information, but it is assumed Hattie provided it.
In addition, to locating the obit and visiting the cemetery I visited the African, African-American Historical Museum (http://www.myblackinfo.com/african_americanfw.htm).
At the museum I found some journals by William E. Warfield. The museum website says there is a William E. Warfield Room and “Mr. Warfield, a leading citizen of the community, published the first Black Newspaper in the city called Fort Wayne Weekly Vindicator. He named the Indian Village Addition (west of Brooklyn Avenue). He kept diaries for 27 years. The museum has the complete set of these diaries, which contain accurate information of the day-to-day account of local events, from 1909 to 1936″.
Here are my notes from Mr. Warfield journals on the day my great grandfather passed: ” Friday, March 2, 1928, Mr. Govan Cureton died this morning in Mr. Collier’s house on Holman Street and Mrs. Cureton will move I suppose he will move back into his own house.
Monday, March 5, 1928, Mr. Govan Cureton was buried this afternoon from Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Rev Pugh officiated.
While surfing one evening I located a death record. Finally! It is a death record for Jenny Mable Cureton (Jennie), she is the daughter of Govan according to the death record. We only saw her in the 1900 census. My mother (Verna (Worden), says Mother Vi (short for Viola Cureton) who is my father’s mother said she had a sister who died as a teen, but did not remember her name. Per the record Jennie was born in 1910, and was 17 when she passed. The death record states that she was born in Loudon County, Tennessee. Noting who was listed as her parents I knew it was the same family. As we learned at Midwestern African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) in St. Louis in the Methods and Strategies Track, as researchers, we have to analyze all records. We understand that records create other records. We had fun with a short drill of “Murphy’s So What” concept using a Death record. The record literally was picked apart, section by section and asking each piece of information-“So What”…asking to what good is this information, how will it help me, is it telling me where to go next? This allowed us to begin drafting a research plan. Based on this document I believe Govan was born in Cocke County, Tennessee-why, because he was the INFORMANT. I can safely say he should of known where he was born, better than his wife.
Some take aways; it is a must that genealogist research the whole family, not just the head of the household. The references to South Carolina and North Carolina could actually be where his father might of came from? It is necessary to research the whole family. A little bit of oral history as I remember from my Uncle Carl Cureton (Govan’s only son) that Govan’s father, Ambrose, was a 9 year old slave child when he arrived in America, arriving in one of the Carolina’s. He came from the French West Indies. He says a Cureton family brought him and they relocated to Tennessee. Bottom line, I have lots more research to do on this line, locating daughter Carrie and siblings of Govan, I have no indication of a brother named William. Also, is there a death record for Eliza Cureton, Govan’s mother. I would also love to see a picture of Govan Cureton.
Dr. Shelley Murphy, aka “familytreegirl”, keli1@aol.com 11/1/13
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Can Turkey Learn Tolerance?
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Turkish Government Ridiculed over Armenian City
Blogian on 26 Nov 2008
A liberal Turkish newspaper is making fun of their government. According to Radical, Turkey’s government has opened a website titled There is No Armenian Ani.
The sarcastic news is actually confronting the Turkish government for launching a website about the historic Armenian city of Ani – now on Turkish territory. The website features information about Ani’s churches and archaeology.
But the word “Armenian” is absent from the entire content of http://www.ani.gov.tr/, except for some bibliography sources.
hipeter924
Well, its not in English so I doubt that the people who believe in genocide denial/denial of history will be able to read it.
There is No Armenian Ani = Epic Fail!
Edoman
This goes in line with changing names of animals, plants and such to remove any trace of Armenian influence. Hey, whatever makes Turks happy right?
Hipeter924, welcome to this website, I am new myself.
I love your country mate, can’t wait to go back for a visit. I used to live in Australia.
Hey BTW, does anybody in Turkey even pay attention to these liberal News sources?
Originally posted by Edoman View Post
I have lived in Australia and NZ, in Australia I liked Melbourne, but for NZ I like where I am now.
hipeter924. Hey I lived in Melbourne, the suburbs of Bundoora. Melbournians are superior to Sydneysiders.
I think Sydney is a bit ugly looking, and the people there not so great. Then I never visited Sydney,lol.
hipeter924. No Sydney is very beautiful especially Darling Harbor, the opera house, and Sydney Bridge. I would say it is gorgeous. The people there are however not as likable as the Aussies in Melbourne.
Melbournians are more laid back. I don’t know if you know the story but long time ago Australia was undecided as to where to put their capitol. Sydneysiders would claim that it should in Sydney (the state of New South Wales) because the city itself is an icon of Australia and a historical port. Melbournians argued that no, it should be Melbourne (In the state of Victoria) because it is the symbol of Australian industrial complex. These arguments got very hot with rivalry between the two states that has lasted to even today.
The Government finally decided to tell them both and put the capitol in Canberra, between the two states.
TURKISH "NATION STATE" PRECONDITIONS
Ruben Melkonyan
http://www.noravank.am/en/?page=analitics&nid=1498
In the beginning of November of the current year the Turkish Defense
Minister Vecdi Gonul paid an official visit to Brussels to take part
in the meeting of the European Union Defense Ministers. The latter
one made a speech in the ceremony in commemoration of Ataturk held
on November 10 in the Turkish embassy in Brussels and expressed a
very noteworthy and, at the same time, scandalous idea connected with
Turkish "nation state."
According to him, for the homogeneous form of up-to-date Turkey they
are obliged to a number of circumstances - the exchange of population
between Turkey and Greece in 1923, according to which the Greeks
inhabited in Turkey were exiled to Greece, and the Muslim Turks in
there - to Turkey. During that exchange, according to different
sources, for about 1.5 - 2.5 million Greeks moved to Greece and
350-500 thousand Turks moved from Greece to Turkey. By the way,
the Turkish Defense Minister said, "Today if Greeks went on living
in the Aegean Sea basin and Armenians - in many places in Turkey,
would we be able to be the same nation state. I don't know how to
explain how important the exchange of Greeks was."
In reality these words hide a whole ideology of the present day
Turkish state, the roots of which are long enough to reach the Ottoman
Empire. According to that ideology, Turks cannot peacefully coexist
with Armenians, Greeks or other non-Muslims in the same state and,
as they say, be a "nation state."
In perhaps inconsiderate words of the Defense Minister is also hidden
the traditional approach of the Turkish ruling elite, that's to
say, Armenians, Greeks and other non-Muslims are to be annihilated,
assimilated or exiled from the country. At the same time this honest
confession about ethnic discriminations made us reconsider the issue
of peaceful coexistence with Turks, because, as a matter of fact,
the Turkish officials themselves directly or indirectly prove that
these propagandas are either false or have no value for them.
The Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul has also emphasized the importance of
the principles the Turkish Republic applied in its formation period
- "nation building" and economy: "I used to work in the Chamber of
Commerce in Izmir, and there wasn't even one Muslim among the chamber
founders, they all were Europeans. Before the Republic was established
in Ankara there were four districts in Ankara, which belonged to
Armenians, Greeks, Jews and Muslims. The fertile lands of Aegean
Sea were in the hands of minority." Criticizing the "sad" past the
Turkish Defense Minister must be very happy with the present condition,
as the picture today is quite different from the past. The Minister
Gonul spoke positively about expulsion of non-Muslims from economy.
The ides of the Minister Gonul found a wide respond both in
Turkey and above its boarders. For example, a well-known Turkish
political scientist Professor Baskin Oran estimates the population
exchange of 1923 as ethnic and religious cleansing and considers
that this exchange and "1915 exile of Armenians destroyed Turkey's
multiformity." According to the Professor, all these did a lot of harm
to Turkey, at that, in different spheres. Oran has also considered that
the expression of these ideas, especially in abroad, is wrong: "These
words have been told in abroad. I first think what the foreigners must
have said at this. It is right, the exchange of Greeks by the Turkish
Republic was not bloody, like in case of the Ottoman Empire, however,
how expedient it is to say it in the presence of foreigners. These
words are culturally, economically and politically wrong."
A number of Armenians from Constantinople wrote an open letter
concerning to the Minister's words to the Turkish Prime-Minister
and were supported for about 20 intellectual-scientists. According to
them, the Minister was proud and was boasting of ethnic discriminations
practiced in their country, as a result of which millions of people had
been exiled from places they were inhabited for thousands of years. The
official Athens=2 0also responded to the Minister's words: the Press
Speaker of Greece's Foreign Ministry Yorgus Kumuchakos estimated it in
the following way. "One can notice dangerous and unacceptable logic in
the Minister's announcement." In the Turkish "Zaman" newspaper Ihsan
Daghin asks a truthful question - Is the Minister Gonul the member of
the ruling Justice and Development Party or the Committee for Union
and Progress of Young Turks? And he thinks that the confession of
Enver Pasha's our day successor may become an important trump card in
the issue of the "Armenian exile," certainly, not in favor of Turkey.
Many people blame the Minister that he had made a serious mistake to
say these words, which will be used by Turkey's enemies, and first of
all by the Armenian Diaspora. The Turkish "Solidarity for Human Rights
and Persecutions" organization brought an action against the words
of the Minister, saying that there were clearly expressed elements
of ethnic discrimination in his words.
After the clamor resulted by the words of Gonul, the Defense Minister
made a few unsuccessful efforts to proofread his words, saying that
he didn't mean our days, but the events which happened 80 years
ago. However, isn't the picture today the depiction of what had
happened at the beginning of the century?
Just like it was fairly mentioned by the Turkish sci entist Cengiz
Aktar, "It was God who made Gonul speak" and these words have been
defined to be confession. And really, it may be considered to be
a confessing announcement about the state adopted policy, as, as a
result of the Armenian Genocide, massacres of Greeks and Assyrians,
the successor of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, has
inherited incomparably less number of communities of national-religion
minorities, however, the state policy and attitude adopted to them has
remained the same - the minorities are dangerous, enemy and strange.
One can state as a fact that from the very first day the Turkish
republic was establish, national minorities has been subject to
different persecutions and pressures, although their rights were
theoretically protected by the Lausanne Treaty. A whole complex
of pressures was exerted in the Turkish Republic to non-Muslims -
exile, assimilation, religious, political, economic persecutions,
and all these directed to form a homogenous, "national" Turkey. A
number of components of the persecution policy adopted by Turkey,
such as tax of Property1, military draft of 20 classes2, the events3
of September 6-7, 1955, actions of "compatriot, speak Turkish4" etc.,
were serving this objective.
1In the beginning of WWII (1942) the Turkish government headed by
the Prime Minister Sukru Saracoglu submitted the so called law on
"Property tax" for=2 0approval of the Great National Assembly, which
was adopted on November 11, 1942 by unanimous voting of 350 deputies of
the Parliament session. Even with the naked eye it is obvious that the
law is directed against national-religious minorities. "Property tax"
divides tax-payers into 4 groups - according to religious belonging
a)Muslims, b)non-Muslims, c) apostates d) foreign subjects. As a matter
of fact, by this was violated the regulation of the Constitution
according to which all the citizens, including non-Muslims, were
enjoying equal rights in Turkey, and it was more reminding the period
of the Ottoman state, when non-Muslims paid taxes quite different
from the ones of Muslims. Not including the apostates into the group
of Muslims, the Turkish state once more demonstrated that it didn't
trust that group and didn't perceive it as "true Muslims." There are
also facts that some Armenian, Greeks and Jews who adopted Islam paid
taxes not like Muslims or apostates, but like non-Muslims.
In the law it was envisaged that Muslims and foreign subjects had to
pay taxes at the rate of 12.5%, non-Muslims- 50%, apostates (i.e. the
ones Islamized) - 25% of the whole property. As in Turkey of that
period the biggest non-Muslim communities were Armenian, Greek and
Jewish ones, it is quite natural, that the tax was mainly directed
against them.
To determine the rate of the tax and its collectio n, was established a
special commission. Special attention was devoted to all the commission
members to be pure-blooded Turks. It is not to be given secondary
importance to the issue that there were many former Ittihads. One of
the illegal clauses of the law was the fact that the commission itself
determined the extent of the tax, i.e. there were no clear criteria.
However, illegal clauses were not limited by this: the other norm
roughly violating human rights was that the tax-payer had no right
to bear a complain against the extent of the tax, i.e. the tax rate
willfully fixed by the commission was final. While determining the tax
rates the commission did not take into consideration real incomes and
means of a tax-prayer and he was taxed approximately, at will and mood.
In the process of collecting taxes there was another important
detail, to which we would like to attract attention. The Turkish
authorities also made a difference among non-Muslims and Armenians,
who, in comparison with other non-Muslims, were taxed at the highest
percents. So, for example, a Turkish tradesman was to pay 4.7%,
Greek-156%, Jew - 232% and Armenian - 232% of his annual income, and,
as a matter of fact, the Greek tradesman, in comparison with the Turk,
paid 31, the Jew - 36 and the Armenian 47 times more. 15 days-long
term was fixed for the tax to be paid, which was later on prolonged to
30 days. If, during this period the tax-payer could not pay the tax,
his movables and immovables was alienated and sold by auction at low
prices: but before that the tax-payers themselves tried to pay their
belongings at low prices. Let's also mention that in case there were
short of money, the belongings of his relatives were also subject
to confiscation and selling. And, if this money was not enough too,
the taxpayers were condemned to penal servitude to work and pay their
"debt" to the state. The main place for servitude was Ashkale province
in Erzurum district famous for its cold climate, which was also called
"Turkish Siberia".
At the Turkish governmental session held on November 7, 1943 was
adopted a regulation of labor liability under19288 including the
following articles: according to I article, were classified tax-payers
condemned to forced labor. First of all labor camps were to be sent
those who hadn't paid taxes at all, than the ones who paid partially
and so on. It was envisage to pay the convict certain number of money
making 250 kurushes a day, 60 kurushes of which were to be kept for
nourishment, dwelling and other expenses and the other part was to
be kept for paying debts for "Property Tax." According to the 15th
article, the tax-payer was to work till all his debts for "Property
Tax" were paid. However, this article made an absurd situation for
many tax payers, and perhaps meant life-long penal servitude. Thus,
for example, the tax-payers who had 400-500 liras and more debts had
to work 1600 years to pay their debts with their salaries. In 1869
the tax-payers sent to camps were from Istanbul, 889 - from Izmir, 100
-from Baku. According to the official data 1400 non-Muslim tax-payers
were sent only to Ashkale, 1229 of which were from Istanbul. 21 out
of them (according to another data) died in Ashkale.
It was also important the issue to whom the belongings taken from
nationalists and sold by auction passed on: as the facts have come
to prove all these belongings were at very low prices bought by
Turkish businessmen, organizations and banks. As a matter of fact,
"Property tax" carried out its mission - to hand all the economy of
the country over to Turks.
Only after material, moral, spiritual and physical devastation of
national minorities, the Turkish authorities, also yielding to foreign
pressure, canceled "property tax" as a manifestation of "good will."
2Among other persecutions registered in different periods of the
history of the Republic of Turkey little importance is devoted or is
completely ignored the so called conscription of 20 classes draft
in 1941 (according to some sources, from May 1-15) to non-Muslim
inhabitants by Turkish authorities. At the height of WWII Turkish
authorities hurriedly declared conscription : according to 20 classes
the adult men representatives of national minorities from 18-60,
Armenians, Greeks, Jews, were sent to "army."
Everybody was conscripted without any exceptions, even the ones
who had just returned from military service. The peculiarity of the
conscription was the fact that it was applied only to non-Muslims
citizens. Another important nuance was that the conscription was not
declared about beforehand: potential conscripts were gathered within
several hours, without prior notification.
Turkish sources accentuate that the decision about conscription was
thought over thoroughly: special efforts were made for no one to know
about this decision but corresponding authorities. This conscription
was notable as the male non-Muslims conscripts were not solders: they
did not get military education, they were not given arms and military
uniform. These unarmed "solders" did construction works. After the
conscription they did not obey the Ministry of Defense, but the
Ministry of Public Works in Turkey.
The non-Muslim conscripts were mainly inhabited in camps located in the
country's eastern regions, where because of extremely bad conditions
were spread diseases becoming the reason of death and disablement
of many people. In spite of the fact that there aren't nay official
figures left about the number of ones perished, according to eye
witnesses and many sources, there were many of them.
In one of=2 0the sources is mentioned an extremely important fact:
together with non-Muslims, Islamized Armenians were also taken to
"service." It has come to prove that the conscription of 20 classes had
a clearly defined ethnic shade, and even forcedly Islamized Armenians
were source of danger for Turkish authorities. This fact has also
came to prove that the state structures, from the very beginning of
Islamization, kept them under their rapt attention and controlled
everything happening in their surrounding.
After all there were not considered to be Muslims in reality.
While speaking about the reasons and aims of the conscription of 20
classes, it is to be mentioned that a little number of sources and the
stories of witnesses confirm that this, along with other derivative
goals, was directed at ethnic cleansing. An important reason of
conscription is considered that in those years, getting ready to
the possible war, the Turkish authorities in advance gathered and
neutralized national minorities called "The 5th Column." Different
sources mention that by this conscription the state also had an
objective of removing non-Muslims from the sphere of trade, where
they had serious positions.
3On September 6-7 of 1955 Greek and Armenian inhabitants of Istanbul
and Izmir became subject to hooligan assaults prepared on the state
level beforehand. The cause of it became news spread by the state
about firing the house of Ataturk who was in Salonika. After that
furious mobs assaulted Greek and Armenian blocks, robed and fired
houses, shops, and churches; tortured, raped and killed people. But to
this Turkish authorities reacted only a day later, when the work was
done. The facts unfolded later on in course of court investigation
proved that the assault was organized by the state, under direct
participation of high ranking state officials.
4In different periods of the history of the Turkish Republic (for
example ,in 1930, to 1960) were carried out so called actions
"Compatriot speak Turkish," the main targets of which were again
national minorities.
Groups of young people were mainly walking through blocks
mainly inhabited by national minorities and claiming them to
speak only Turkish: In case of disobedience the consequences
were unpredictable. In reality, it was the continuation of the
centuries-long policy of language assimilation.
General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”
ardakilic
Referring tu the article above:
Also Muslims are persecuted at the hands of state. More than 2000 historical mosques were collapsed or converted to bawdy house, bar, storehold. Many religious leader were hanged, imprisoned or exiled...
Because, according to state, Muslims are dangerous too. They demand a citizen type, most intellectuals call it LMST (Laik-Müslüman-Sünni-Türk) as WASP for USA.
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Bees and beekeepers keep busy during the spring
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Beekeeping, Insects
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Spring is a busy time for bees and beekeepers, as longer days and warmer weather bring the first flowers into bloom.
Jeff Harris, Mississippi State University Extension bee specialist and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researcher, said bees are growing rapidly during the months of February and March.
“Bees are growing at a quick pace leading up to spring-time, especially in the southern third of the state,” he said. “However, even in Starkville, if the weather is good, important spring plants bloom and provide the nutrition that bee colonies need to raise new bees.”
During the winter, a colony will not produce new bees, and all colonies dwindle in size during this time. They begin to recover when maples, dandelions and henbit begin to bloom in February.
“If March is warm, tons of flowers bloom, and colony growth can be explosive,” he said.
“This is a critical time for bee colonies to recover from the winter and grow to be strong enough to secure a honey crop.”
Harris said it is essential for beekeepers to make sure that their bees do not starve during February and early March.
“Beekeepers can feed sugar solutions or candy to save bees from starving if necessary,” he said. “They can also feed them protein supplements to help stimulate the raising of new bee larvae. This helps jump-start bee growth in the spring.”
The figures for 2014 are not yet available, but Harris said they should be comparable to 2013.
“In 2013, about 18,000 colonies of bees produced, on average, about 118 pounds of honey per colony for a total yield of 2.124 million pounds at a total value of $3.759 million,” he said. “Mississippi beekeepers averaged about $1.77 per pound of honey. Mississippi producers produce quite a bit more honey per colony than average because soybean honey production is a large contributor of the state’s total honey production.”
Harry Fulton, former state entomologist with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, said the winter of 2014-2015 has been fine for bees, but it could have been better.
“This winter would have been better if more days with the temperature above 55 degrees had occurred, allowing the bees to fly more,” he said. “The weather through mid-March is critical. The population can drop drastically in February and March, when the older bees in the cluster begin dying. Winter is not over for beekeepers until the bees have young bees emerging to build up the population at this critical time -- a time when they can start flying and making a living gathering food so beekeepers do not have to feed them.”
Fulton said the demand for bees has increased, which increases the need for bee breeders.
“Anyone willing to work in beekeeping can make a good living once he or she is established and set up with 500 or more colonies,” he said. “My guess, based on my experience, is that a six-figure gross income is not out of the question for a commercial beekeeper.”
Fulton said honey bees affect the economy in several different ways.
“Honey, beeswax, royal jelly and pollen are products of bee colonies,” Fulton said. “However, the greatest value to our economy is from pollination of many crops for food and fiber. More than 100 crops are dependent on honey bees for varying degrees of pollination.”
For the past five years, Mississippi has been the highest among the states in the pounds of honey produced per colony.
“In Mississippi a big portion of our income in beekeeping is from the sale of honey-bees as package bees, nucleus starter hives and queen honey bees to other beekeepers,” he said.
For more information on beekeeping, visit the Mississippi Beekeepers Association website at http://www.mshoneybee.org.
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Characters voiced by Tara Strong
Age: 10 or 11
Hair color: Yellow
Popular Kids
School Body Co-President
The Gold Jack-O-Bot
A Wish Too Far
The End of the Universe-ity
Tad is one of the two popular boys at Dimmsdale Elementary School, along with look-a-like friend Chad, who dislike unpopular kids, and are oftentimes seen publicly ridiculing them in front of other classmates. They live in San Francisco.
Tad is often seen hanging with other rich and popular students, notably Chad, Trixie Tang and Veronica, and encouraging others to scorn Timmy and the other unpopular students. Because Tad and Chad are mostly referred together instead of individually, there are so far only three episodes where it's possible to tell which one is Chad and which one is Tad. Those episodes are "Hail To The Chief", where they call each other by name (and their title as co-President of the Student Council); "Movie Magic", where Chad wears a cap with the letter C on it and Tad wears a similar cap with a T instead of Chad's C; and "Scary Godparents", where Chad makes a nasty comment to Tad about Elmer.
Tad has blond hair and wears a purple shirt and sunglasses. He and Chad's attire is considered stylish, and Timmy wore a similar get up when he wished for popular clothes in "A Wish Too Far". It should also be noted that the popular kids' Bouncer wears similar clothing, and all three all wear their sunglasses all the time (even indoors). It is unknown whether or not the two boys and the Bouncer are related in any way. Tad speaks in a very pretentious manner much like Remy Buxaplenty.
He likes to pick on characters that are not rich, such as Timmy and his friends Chester and A.J. and other unpopular students. Tad and Chad tend to throw parties on their yachts along with the other popular students Trixie and Veronica, the latter of whom also is not always safe from Tad and Chad's snide remarks and public humiliation.[1]
"Co-president Chad, do you hear some non-student body president talking?"
— Tad
"No, I don't Co-president Tad, but I do know this: Student body presidents get first in line privileges."
— Chad
"Oh yeah? What about me? The common student? What do I get?"
— Timmy Turner, seconds before a Bouncer throws him in the trash.
Tad and Chad were introduced in the episode, "A Wish Too Far!". They are seen sitting together on the bus, greeting Trixie Tang as she strolls to her bus seat. She returns their greeting, causing Tad and Chad to sigh in admiration. They sit together along with Trixie and Veronica at the popular kid's lunch table, and glare at Timmy Turner when he tries to be polite to Trixie. After Timmy wishes himself popular clothes, he befriends the popular kids and is accepted into their group, although Tad and Chad do not seem entirely won over by him until he invites them to a party at his "mansion". At the party, Timmy relents on his shallow ways, and cancels the party when his classmates show up, telling them that he regrets having friends that only want him for his stuff. Tad and Chad are not impressed, and promptly ditch Timmy and his old friends for a party on Chad's yacht.
In the episode, "Hail To The Chief", Tad and Chad are the student body co-Presidents. They abuse their powers, which lead to the kids voting for Timmy instead, but when Timmy did not like the attention the position brought he resigned from office and Tad and Chad were re-elected in his place. In sports, they go out of their way to pick Timmy last. They tend to buy expensive gadgets, such as jet packs to get away from Mr. Crocker on March 15, Segways to help them move around when they became obese when Timmy wished for desserts all the time everyone ate. and expensive Halloween costumes that transform into a planet-destroying robot on behalf of one of Timmy's wishes.
Tad was a villain in the Halloween special, "Scary Godparents". After bribing contest judges in order to win top of the line Jack-O-Bot costumes, Tad, Chad, Trixie Tang, and Veronica were awarded the costumes. They were given the best candy and treats from whomever they visited. Timmy was angry that his crummy costume was not earning him anything, so he wished for everyone's costume to be real, turning Tad, Chad, and the other popular kids into evil robots that tried to destroy the Earth by joining together into the Pumpkinator. After they were stopped and turned back to normal, they landed on top of each other in a pile and lost all the candy they had been gathering.
Tad and Chad were involved in the Dimmadance Film Festival in the episode, "Movie Magic", hoping to make a film to impress Trixie with. They created a high budget movie involving Arnold Schwartzengerman as Hamlet. The action movie was impressive to the audience, but at the Dimmy award ceremony, Timmy's film ending up winning an award for comedy. It is never mentioned whether Tad and Chad won for a different category or at all, but they seem slightly resentful toward Timmy, remarking that they only made a movie in the first place because they were bored and rich. Tad and Chad announce that they now are becoming rock stars, and Trixie switches her love toward rock stars suddenly, much to Timmy's annoyance.
In the episode, "Most Wanted Wish", Tad and Chad make a point to pick Chester, A.J., and finally Timmy last in a playground team game, calling them insulting names based on their wealth rather than their real names. This frustrates Timmy along with other events making him feel unwanted, so he wishes that he was the most wanted kid in the world. The next day, Tad and Chad argue and then have a fencing match over who gets Timmy on their team.
Tad and Chad had a brief appearance in the episode, "Mr. Right!". When Timmy had wished that he was always right no matter what he said, he calls Tad and Chad dweebs after they insult him, turning them into real dweebs that even Elmer wouldn't sit next to on the bus.
After the birth of Poof, Tad and Chad rarely appeared again in the series, although they had brief appearances in "Hairicane" and "The End of the Universe-ity", menacing Timmy as they did in the past seasons.
↑ "Class Clown". The Fairly OddParents. Nickelodeon.
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2016 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix
By MBKF1, March 17, 2016 in World of Motorsport
MBKF1 91
The first race of the season is finally here!
I think we discuss this every year, but who's staying up for practice and who's gonna sleep?!
I've got to be at work for 8am tomorrow so I need sleep lol. I'm going to set an alarm for 6am and skip through both sessions in time for 7am so I can get ready to go.
I would love to stay up and watch it if I had the day off, but also it looks like the practice is going to be wet, so if they don't do any running then it'll be a complete waste of time.
onetwothree 0
I'm staying up for practice.
Body is 12 characters too short.
buttonfan 5
I'm staying up (or at least I'll try :p )
Mexicola 9
I honestly think this first race could decide the championship. If Nico wins, then he's got a shot. If Lewis gets the upperhand, psychologically he's finished - dead and buried.
I'm rooting for Palmer. His dad's cool, he seems cool and he looks like a cross between Paul Banks from Interpol and Ed O'Brien from Radiohead.
Chadwick8505 0
I'm staying up but in America it's only 930pm, so perfect time to watch F1 haha
Syn 2
Chadwick8505 said:
Currently watching as well.
RevolvingPrawn 1
SynGamer said:
Just past 3am here now :| As much as I love Albert Park being the opening race, I sometimes wish it wasn't!
Pretty boring session because of the weather. No real issues for anyone (except Sainz apparently). Great to see an American F1 team, hopefully they have something. Renault may have gone with a boring livery... But damn does yellow look good on track.
No no one really got to show what they really have yet, maybe in FP2.
VetteIfan 0
Mexicola said:
I think I'm just rooting for Renault in general. Two very likeable drivers, a livery with some colour and the fact it's just glorious to see a team with such a long racing heritage back in competition.
To be fair, and to not make it seem like I'm just jumping on a bandwagon, I have been a big detractor of Renault over the past few years. Clearly they have not had a strong start to the hybrid era. But I sincerely hope they can turn it around.
f1since08 58
I'm having an interweb ban tomorrow morning until the qualifying highlights have been on C4!
I'm gonna watch the Sky coverage of Qualifying tomorrow as I have to be up for 6am anyway as I'm going out early, but I'll definitely record C4's highlights and give them a watch when I get home. Really looking forward to their coverage, they've been doing a lot of good things by the look of it.
Jiggy 5
This new quali format is hilarious. It's also retarded, but it's hilarious. They also need to get rid of it ASAP, but it's hilarious.
Haas would've been quick though.
Okay, it's official, the 2016 season is going to be absolutely trash as well.
GoldenColt 1
The new quali format is crap. I expect it to be scrapped alltogether until Bahrain.
In other news: 50th pole for Lewis and Mercedes looking as dominant as ever. :p
ImDyingYouIdiot 0
Yep, that was absolute and complete trash. Mucking up the one thing that works in F1 is an achievement in itself though.
That was a lot worse than I thought it was going to be. If that makes the end of the season then I'll be very surprised.
Yep, awful. Instead of bringing about surprising results, if anything it just distances the field as the top guys can just do one lap and save all their tyres.
The Ferrari was 1.4 seconds off Mercedes' in qualifying here last year. This year it's 8 tenths. So I'm going to use McLaren logic and say they've got closer and that's promising for the race pace. But, more than likely, congratulations to Lewis Hamilton on his 4th world title. Spectacular acheivment.
The one happiness I can take from that session is Toro Rosso. After the 2nd test I predicted they might have the 4th best car. They actually look like they have the 3rd best car. And that is close to where they would've been throughout last year if they had a decent engine. Very much looking forward to seeing Verstappen and Sainz in that car this season now they can fight on the straights.
Lewis' pole lap was only 0,3 off Vettel's 2011 EBD-assisted pole. And back then, they were allowed to use DRS everywhere during quali. These cars are seriously fast. Imagine proper tyres being fitted to them.
I think Verstappen or Sainz might actually win a race with some luck. It's like the 1997 Jordan line-up, with the difference that Verstappen and Sainz are a lot more smarter and composed than Fisichella and R. Schumacher.
GoldenColt said:
2011 lap was on softs, today's lap was on super soft. Plus the engines now are some 150-200bhp ahead of the power limited V8's, which more than makes up for the unlimited use of DRS. Cars are also different weights. So it's kind of like comparing apples with oranges, but the pace is certainly strong.
Bear in mind the 2017 rule changes are apparently going to make the cars 2-3 seconds faster as well. Frightening.
But weren't the 2011 tyres softer than the 2016 ones? You're right about the engines though, but then again, the cars also weigh considerably more than they did back then.
Hughesy 251
First things first, what a lap from Hamilton! Whoever came up with this new qualifying format deserves to be shot in the bollocks, actually shoot each ball individually for maximum pain! Bloody awful, hope they go back to the old format as nothing was wrong with it.....
MBKF1 said:
If it makes it to the next race I won't be watching qualifying.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/711146056956911616
Anybody surprised? No? Thought so.
Let's hope the only change will be to revert back to the old quali-format.
Seriously, the guy that designed it should be taken to a dark room and get the creativity beaten out of him.
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Martin Earns Volleyball Academic All-America Selection
GREENWOOD, Ind. - Florida Southern College volleyball junior Rachael Martin was named an Academic All-America Third Team selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Tuesday afternoon. The selection is the first in Martin's career and is the only Academic All-America award winner in volleyball for the Sunshine State Conference this season.
Formilan Finishes Top Five in Program History for Digs as Volleyball Falls 3-1 to Barry
MIAMI SHORES, Fla. - Sophomore libero Beatrice Formilan cemented herself in the top five in program history for digs per set in a season as Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-1 in its season finale to Barry University on Saturday night at the Health and Sports Center. The Moccasins (7-30, 3-17 SSC) kept the match close in the first three sets but could not stage the comeback as the Buccaneers (20-11, 13-7 SSC) hit .457 in the fourth set to take the series sweep.
Volleyball Falls 3-1 to Sailfish
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-1 to Palm Beach Atlantic University on Friday night at the Rubin Arena. The Moccasins (7-22, 3-16 SSC) rallied to take set three but could not stop a potent Sailfish (17-13, 9-10 SSC) offense that hit just short of .300 for the night.
Volleyball Drops SSC Road Contest at Lynn
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball struggled to find its offensive groove as it fell to Lynn, 3-0, in a Sunshine State Conference road contest on Saturday at the de Hoernle Center.
Volleyball Falls 3-1 to Sharks
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Martin Earns Volleyball Academic All-District Selection
GREENWOOD, Ind. - Florida Southern College volleyball junior Rachael Martin was named an Academic all-District selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday afternoon. The selection is the first in Martin's career.
Seniors Strike Fear as Mocs Volleyball Tops Tars
LAKELAND, Fla. – Ali Travis, Annie Collins and Lena Bondar all had career nights as Florida Southern College volleyball won a five-set thriller, 3-2, over Rollins College on Senior Night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House on Thursday evening. The Moccasins (7-19, 3-13 SSC) earned the season sweep over the Tars (8-18, 3-13 SSC) for the sixth-straight season. The match was the last home match for seniors Collins, Courtney Charneco, Buse Ene and Anica Popadic and graduate student Bondar.
Mocs Volleyball Falls 3-1 to Spartans
LAKELAND, Fla. – Florida Southern College volleyball took a set against defending NCAA DII National Champion Tampa but fell 3-1 on Tuesday night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (6-19, 2-13 SSC) hit well early against the Spartans (20-6, 13-2 SSC) but fell behind in the final sets. The Mocs will play the last home match of the season against Rollins on Thursday, Nov. 7 on Senior Night.
Volleyball Drops 3-0 Contest to Eagles
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-0 to Embry-Riddle on Saturday afternoon at the ICI Center. The Moccasins (6-18, 2-12 SSC) played a close first set against the Eagles (17-3, 10-3 SSC) but could hold off the conference heavyweight. The Mocs will play the last two home matches of the season against Tampa (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and against Rollins (Thursday, Nov. 7), the latter of which will be senior night.
Formilan, Moccasin Volleyball Set Dig Records in Reverse Sweep of Panthers
MELBOURNE, Fla. - Beatrice Formilan and Florida Southern College volleyball had a historic night at the Clemente Center on the digs front as the Moccasins pulled the reverse sweep against Florida Tech on Friday night, winning 3-2. The Moccasins (6-17, 2-11 SSC) recorded 122 digs the Panthers (4-20, 1-12 SSC), the second-highest single-match performance in school history. Formilan thrived with 35 digs, the sixth-most in program history for a single match. The Mocs will have another road contest on Saturday against Embry-Riddle before the last two home matches of the season against Tampa (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and Senior Night against Rollins (Thursday, Nov. 7).
Mocs Volleyball Falls to Lions on Throwback Night
LAKELAND, Fla. – Rachael Martin had a career night defensively but a stingy Saint Leo defense contained Florida Southern College women’s volleyball as the Moccasins fell, 3-1, on Tuesday night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House on Throwback Night. The Mocs (5-17, 1-11 SSC) tallied ten blocks but could not overcome an equally-intimidating Lions (17-6, 8-4 SSC) defense. The Mocs will hit the road for contests on Friday against Florida Tech and on Saturday against Embry-Riddle before the last two home matches of the season against Tampa (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and Senior Night against Rollins (Thursday, Nov. 7).
Charneco and Travis Shine as Moccasins Drop 3-1 Contest to Sailfish
LAKELAND, Fla. – Courtney Charneco earned nine blocks and Ali Travis exploded offensively with 22 kills as Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-1 to Palm Beach Atlantic on Saturday afternoon at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Fieldhouse. The Moccasins (5-16, 1-10 SSC) and the Sailfish (13-9, 5-6 SSC) combined for 34 tie scores and 25 lead changes throughout four sets as the Moccasins never lost a set by more than four points and rallied in the third set to earn a 28-26 set victory. The Mocs end their four-match homestand on Tuesday at 7 p.m. against Saint Leo in a Throwback Night matchup.
Mocs Fall to Barry at Home
LAKELAND, Fla. – Rachael Martin continued her offensive prowess but Florida Southern College volleyball fell to Barry, 3-0, on Friday night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (5-15, 1-9 SSC) fought valiantly in the third set but were unable to prevent the Buccaneers (14-7, 7-3 SSC) from taking the first matchup between the two sides this season. The Mocs continue SSC play at home on Saturday at 4 p.m. against Palm Beach Atlantic and end their four-match homestand on Tuesday at 7 p.m. against Saint Leo.
Mocs Fall to Tritons at Home
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball had nine members record kills but were unable to overcome a hot-hitting Eckerd team as they fell, 3-0, on Tuesday night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (5-14, 1-8 SSC) started out strong in the first set but could not stop the Tritons (14-6, 5-4 SSC) as they heated up offensively throughout the night. The Mocs continue SSC play at home on Friday at 7 p.m. against Barry and Saturday at 4 p.m. against Palm Beach Atlantic. HOW IT HAPPENED
Mocs Dominate in Day Two of South Region Crossover
HOOVER, Ala. - Florida Southern College volleyball cruised in the second day of South Region Crossover action at the Finley Center on Saturday, sweeping Christian Brothers and earning its second 3-1 victory over Lee this season. The Moccasins (5-13) earned their first sweep of 2019 with a 3-0 victory over the Buccaneers (5-16) before holding the Flames (9-13) to a sub-.100 hitting percentage performance to go undefeated for the day. The Mocs return to Lakeland for four-straight home matches in the next 10 days as they host Eckerd (Oct. 22), Barry (Oct. 25), Palm Beach Atlantic (Oct. 26) and Saint Leo (Oct. 29). HOW IT HAPPENED AGAINST CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
Mocs Fall In First Match of South Region Crossover
HOOVER, Ala. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell in its opening match of the South Region Crossover on Friday afternoon, dropping a 3-1 contest to Shorter at the Finley Center. The Moccasins (3-13) overcame a first-set Hawks (7-13) win with a second-set victory but fell in sets three and four to give the Gulf South Conference foe the match. The Mocs will look to rebound tomorrow as they take on Christian Brothers (9 a.m.) and Lee (4:45 p.m.).
Florida Southern Places in Top-10 Percent of Division II With Academic Success Rate of 90 Percent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Florida Southern College athletics continues to promote student-athlete success in the classroom as the department earned a Division II Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90 for the 2012 cohort, the NCAA released on Wednesday. The 90 percent mark is tied for the highest mark that the department has ever earned, with the previous record set during the 2010 six-year cohort.
Eight Moccasins Record Kills as Volleyball Falls to Nova Southeastern
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball saw eight players record kills on Saturday afternoon at the Streamline Sale Arena, but were unable to overcome a strong defensive outing from Nova Southeastern in a 3-0 loss. The Moccasins (3-12, 1-6 SSC) recorded only five kills less than the Sharks (10-6, 3-5 SSC), but were overpowered by a 12-block outing from the away side in three sets. The Mocs will travel to Birmingham, Ala. for three matches at the South Region Crossover on Oct. 18-19.
Mocs Drop Close Conference Contest to Fighting Knights
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball battled fiercely against conference heavyweight Lynn University but lost a tightly-contested 3-0 match on Friday night at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (3-11, 1-6 SSC) lost the match to the Fighting Knights (12-3, 5-2 SSC) by only nine points total, including a 26-24 second set and a 25-22 third set. The Mocs will finish their two-game homestand on Saturday as they host Nova Southeastern at 4 p.m. HOW IT HAPPENED
Moccasins Earn First Conference Win of the Season, Defeat Tars in 100th Meeting
WINTER PARK, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball earned its first conference win of the season on Saturday afternoon at the Warden Arena, winning 3-1 over Rollins College in the 100th meeting between the two teams. The Moccasins (3-10, 1-5 SSC) tallied 10 blocks in four sets against the Tars (4-10, 1-5 SSC) and held the home side to a .128 hitting percentage for the day. The Moccasins will be back in action next weekend at home against Lynn and Nova Southeastern.
Volleyball Drops Conference Contest to Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-0 to the reigning national champion University of Tampa on Tuesday night at the Martinez Center. The Moccasins (2-10, 0-5 SSC) were unable to contain a potent offensive outing from the Spartans (7-6, 3-2 SSC) that saw them hit .427 for the night. The Mocs will hit the road again on Saturday for a conference matchup against Rollins at 4 p.m.
Moccasins Fall to Panthers at Home
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell 3-0 on Saturday afternoon to Florida Tech at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (2-9, 0-4 SSC) battled but could not outhit a powerful Panther squad (2-10, 1-3 SSC). The Mocs will now hit the road for two conference matches at Tampa on Tuesday at 7 p.m. and at Rollins on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Moccasins Fall in Conference Home Opener to Undefeated Eagles
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell in its conference home opener on Friday night, dropping a 3-0 contest to Embry-Riddle at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (2-8, 0-3 SSC) were unable to contain a potent Eagles (7-0, 3-0 SSC) offense that hit .494 for the evening. The Mocs will conclude their opening weekend of home conference action on Saturday at 4 p.m. against Florida Tech.
Mocs Win First Set But Fall 3-1 to Tritons
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball dropped its second conference match of the season on Saturday afternoon, dropping a 3-1 contest to Eckerd at the McArthur Center. The Moccasins (2-7, 0-2 SSC) won the first set but were unable to stop a surge from the Tritons (8-2, 1-1 SSC) as they won three-straight sets and the match. The Mocs will have their home conference opener on Friday, Sept. 27 when they host Embry-Riddle.
Volleyball Falls to Saint Leo in Conference Opener
SAINT LEO, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell in its conference opener on Friday night, dropping a 3-0 contest to Saint Leo at the Marion Bowman Activities Center. The Moccasins (2-6, 0-1) could not overcome strong hitting from the Lions (6-2, 1-0), with the latter finishing the night with a .418 hitting percentage. The Mocs will look to rebound on Saturday afternoon when they travel to St. Petersburg to take on Eckerd.
Moccasins Split Matches on Final Day of USC Aiken Invitational
AIKEN, S.C. - Florida Southern College volleyball split a pair of matches on Saturday at the USC Aiken Convocation Center, defeating Lee, 3-1, and falling to Lander, 3-0. The Moccasins (2-5) had a strong defensive outing against the Flames (4-2), but struggled to find their footing offensively against Lander (5-1). The Moccasins will now turn their attention to the opening weekend of conference action against Saint Leo on Sept. 20 and Eckerd on Sept. 21.
Volleyball Drops Close Match to Pacers
AIKEN, S.C. - Florida Southern College volleyball fell in its opening match of the USC Aiken Invitational as they lost 3-0 to the tournament host on Friday night at the USC Aiken Convocation Center. The Moccasins (1-4) battled the Pacers (5-0) in every set, dropping the first set 27-25 and the second and third sets by identical 25-21 scorelines. The Mocs will look to rebound tomorrow as they take on Lee (10 a.m.) and Lander (3 p.m.).
Moccasins Earn First Win of the Season, Fall in Tournament Finale at Terrace Hotel Classic
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball earned their first win of the season against Indiana (Pa.) and dropped the last match of the Terrace Hotel Classic against No. 17 Central Missouri on Saturday at the Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Moccasins (1-3) emerged victorious over the Crimson Hawks (0-3) in a 3-2, five-set thriller in the morning before falling 3-0 to the Jennies (3-1) in the tournament finale.
Volleyball Drops Two Matches on Opening Day
LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern College volleyball had a tough start to the 2019 season on Friday night, as the Moccasins lost in two 3-1 contests to No. 5 Concordia-St. Paul and Hillsdale on the first day of the Terrace Hotel Classic at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House. The Mocs (0-2) faced two quality opponents in the No. 5 Golden Bears (1-1) and the Chargers (2-0), the latter of which upset Concordia-St. Paul in the first match of the tournament in a five-set thriller.
Volleyball Opens 2019 Campaign with Terrace Hotel Classic on Friday
LAKELAND, Fla. – The Florida Southern College volleyball team will open the 2019 season at Streamline Sale Arena at Jenkins Field House on Sept. 6 as they host No. 5 Concordia-St. Paul at 3 p.m. and Hillsdale at 7 p.m. The second day of the Terrace Hotel Classic will see two more matches for the Moccasins against Indiana (Pa.) and No. 17 Central Missouri at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively. The Mocs are entering their second year under head coach Chris Keen, who led his squad to a 22-11 record and a South Region semifinal appearance in his first year at the helm.
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MargaretVille in Singapore
Posted on January 19, 2018 by Leslie Powell
A 99 years condo will be standing along Margaret Drive, just next to Commonwealth Avenue. It is no other than Margaret Ville. It will have connectivity to Queenway and between Commonwealth and Queenstown MRT Station. About 275 1 to 4 bedroom units would be included in this condominium under the MCL Land. The site is within URA’s Queenstown Planning area. Comparative developments in the area includes Queens Peak, Queens, One North, Commonwealth Towers, Metropolitan, and Ascentia Sky. Your shopping, entertainment and dining choices are just within your reach as a resident of Margaret Ville. Thanks to a convenient transport connectivity, a resident can easily get to close by institutions such as the lately launched Alexandra Central, Queensway Shopping Centre, and IKEA Alexandra.
The development will contain small investor-grade units from 1br to larger family-sized units. Once the government approves the final information, it will be available to the public. Queenstown is planned with an intensive range of amenities to meet the demands of residents. These include housing, shops, universities, libraries, sports facilities, community clubs and parks – all essential in making sure a liveable, self-sufficient town. The Margaret Ville floor plan can be downloaded at the official website. An well-established transport network enables good accessibility to such amenities. Several commercial nodes, industrial estates and business parks are also standing in the area of Queenstown. With the introduction of Margaret Ville Condo Singapore approaching soon, excitement and hype are developing for this new launch condo.
The upcoming Margaret Ville showflat is expected to have crowds of people who would like to see the different units of the condo and people who are interested to buy them. The team behind the development has got a know-how in the investment outlook of Singapore and in the area’s housing developments. A 99-year leasehold site owned by MCL Land has a land area of 4,809.8 square metres. One can find the land parcel along Margaret Drive in the area of Queenstown Planning Area. The site is easy to access from Commonwealth and Queenstown MRT Stations, that are about 500m away. The vicinity is the location of prestigious schools like Anglo-Chinese School (International) and Crescent Girls’ School.
MCL Land (Regency) is now developing Margaret Ville Condo. There are other new developments seen in an established HBD estate apart from this condominium. From its location between Margaret Drive and Commonwealth Avenue, residents can take a few-minute drive to reach Holland Village in Singapore. The condo land parcel at Margaret Drive was valued $238.39 million as a best offer f or the 22,195 square meter residential land – Press Release for Margaret Drive. The mentioned land was purchased by established MCL Land (Regency). The land’s price just shows the strong demand for it. After CNY 2018, the public will know concerning the price psf. If you wish to know the hottest updates about the condo, contact the Margaret Drive Official Developer Team for an early registration. For now, we are certain there would be at least 1 to family bedroom options, with a total of 275 units. MCL Land really wants to establish competitive costs of the units so the estimated psf will just be close to the prices of close by condominiums.
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Miyamoto Doesn’t Believe in Creating Games with a Specific Age Group in Mind
By Alex Hawkins March 18, 2015
Nintendo games seem to appeal to an incredibly wide range of audience members. From children to full-grown adults, people of all ages seem to find some love for a Nintendo game. Why is that though? How does Nintendo approach game development when tackling a certain age group? In a recent interview with TIME magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto shared how he creates games without appealing to a certain age group:
“Ideally we should be making things that can be enjoyed by the widest possible range of people. I like to watch theatrical performances and go to theme parks—things which are appealing to a wide range of people—and observe as a game creator. Of course, there are the dramas and movies that I am personally fond of, and I always appreciate the way these creators make their works by focusing on specific tastes. When they try to appeal to a specific group of people with their creations, however, I think they first discover an interesting theme to work on and, only afterward, determine that they should focus upon the specific audience in order to work on the theme, not vice versa. Even when we make something that we want children to enjoy, we always aim to achieve a level of quality and content that even adults can appreciate, so in other words, making something for children might even be more difficult than making something specifically for an adult audience.” — Shigeru Miyamoto
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Author: Rietstap, Johannes Baptiste
Publication Date: 1884, 1887, 1950
Reprint Date: 2003
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The Armorial General series, described hereunder, is a multi-volume work on the coats of arms of the world; it is both monumental and without equal, and is the most exhaustive undertaking of its kind. Needless to say the volumes are in French, but the information is stereotyped, and easily understood.
The Armorial General is the most authoritative work on the coats of arms in the world. The descriptions of the arms cover those of more than 100,000 families, alphabetically arranged and accurately described. The work was compiled from hundreds of armorials and it contains an extensive glossary of terms. In addition to a full description of the arms, most entries identify the nationality of the arms bearer, his title, and the date his title was conferred. The basic text was established with the publication of the second edition, corrected and enlarged, of 1884-1887. In 1950 a reprint was published in a limited edition of 250 copies, with a new Preface and new Additions and Corrections. The present reprint is an exact reproduction of this 1950 edition. It is the best edition available and the first to appear in America.
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Reading Notes on “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers
This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.
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This book surpassed the expectations set during my reading of Becky Chambers’ first book back in April.
Both The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit are built around relationships that create a found family. A Closed and Common Orbit takes it further, bursting at the seams with themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, trying to heal together, gender fluidity, to name just a handful. All these themes are dealt with various degrees of success, but in my opinion the book's choices with all these themes are interesting and valuable.
Comparing the sequel to Chamber's first novel, if there were any shortcomings I found upon my rereading of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, they were primarily structural. TLWTASAP does have what I would call an ending problem. The action is so (delightfully) slow going for the first half of the novel, that the sudden pedal to the metal increase in pace in the last quarter of the book can give a reader whiplash. Especially noticeable upon rereading is that Chambers relies heavily on her dialogue for the exposition of her world — which can make some dialogue feel particularly artificial, undermining otherwise strong characterizations. But, TLWTASAP's compelling characters and such wonderful worldbuilding that it more than makes up for these issues. Bottom line: I just really loved that book.
Falling once again into the universe of A Closed and Common Orbit was great. The second book learns from the first by having a stronger structure to help move the reader along. And the two protagonists, Pepper and Sidra (the AI formerly known as Lovelace in the first novel), are intrinsically (and thematically) connected by this structure. Essentially, the novel's orbital structure is explicitly setup in the very first chapter, showing how the book is going to unfold both Pepper and Sidra’s emotional arcs:
‘Why are you doing this? Why do this for me?’
Pepper chewed her lip. ‘It was the right thing to do. And I guess — I dunno. It’s one of those weird times when things balance out.’ She shrugged and turned back to the console, gesturing commands.
‘What do you mean?’ Lovelace asked.
There was a pause, three seconds. Pepper’s eyes were on her hands, but she didn’t seem to be looking at them. ‘You’re an AI,’ she said.
‘And?’
‘And… I was raised by one.’
In a universe where the personhood of AI is not recognized and they are literally designed to be nothing better than machines, this book turns to the question of how AI feel, and how they deal with trauma, and their relationships. And these aren’t necessarily new questions to science fiction. What really differentiates (for example) Mass Effect’s EDI (don't judge me, Bioware is my wonderful trash) from this novel’s OWL and Sidra, is that the two AI characters' trauma and emotional spectra are fully developped and explored in this book, in my opinion to great effect. I don’t want to spoil the book too much, but essentially, the book shows how important (and difficult) relationships and mutual care are to countering trauma and isolation. Owl and Pepper’s familial relationship paves the way for Sidra and Pepper’s future friendship, eventually coming full circle by the end.
Each chapter alternates between showing Sidra’s current struggles in her new body kit and adjusting to life offship, and a chapter showing Pepper’s early childhood as a genetically modified slave. Often when books have this bifurcated structure, I get frustrated with one storyline because I tend to pick a favourite and rush through whichever one I deem deficient. But I personally found this structure used to great effect in ACACO. It kept me reading onwards without frustration. I finished the book in record time, happily connecting the dots and noticing the parallels (and sometimes contrasts) between the two storylines.
Now, one thing I will note is that the ultimate chapters of A Closed and Common Orbit do start to… rush. Suddenly the tension ramps up — I don't think it was as abrupt as in the first novel, but I still felt like I would have preferred more scenes between a handful of characters to build up their relationships and to have brought the plot and character arcs to their conclusion. I think Chambers’ trusted her readers to fill in a lot of blanks, or perhaps she wanted to keep the focus on Pepper and Sidra without getting bogged down in the tertiary characters. (On that note, arguably one of the more important secondary characters, Blue, felt underdevelopped.)
But there were a lot of aspects about the ending that I would have loved to see unfold slightly differently — especially in the novel's dealing with structural elements near the end. Here’s what I’m trying to say: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet never really flinched when showing its readers the inexorable nature of the governmental and regulatory systems that rule the universe (and fail the protagonists). Yet I can't help but feel like the final chapters of A Closed and Common Orbit actually undermined the constant, propulsive tension created by the threat of the structural systems and laws of the society that the characters live under. If you’ve read the book and want to talk about this in more detail, do feel free to find me in the comments or on social media. I’d love to know what you think (especially if you disagree!)
Here are some small notes on other things I loved about this book:
Tattoos as a method of reclaiming and recreating a relationship between yourself and your body.
Romance was utterly secondary in this book to the close and supportive friendships between the characters.
The ‘epistolary’ nature of a few chapters, where logs of IRC channels and correspondences between certain characters where included — I love that in science-fiction!
Character who kept changing pronouns (he/she/xyr) as they are an alien who cycles through various genders throughout the seasons.
There are scenes that take place within a videogame system, and is meant to show us the importance of stories to allow us to grow, articulate our emotion, curb isolation. Those scenes were really cool.
Also, well, this book made me cry. A lot. I was basically sobbing from the midpoint onwards. I think it just grabbed hold of a few very particular dynamics that arrested me and made me feel all of my emotions simultaneously. It’s funny because as much as I loved reading the first book, I didn’t find it so moving that I was suddenly submerged in my feelings. But this one really did.
Especially the scenes with OWL.
I love OWL.
I’m tearing up just thinking about her now.
Anyways, have you read the book? What did you think?
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Split Tooth, Lettres en forêt urbaine, All Systems Red, Les brutes et la punaise, and more: there have been so many good books read this year!
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Remembering my great, great uncle: 3047 Private Robert Dewar, 55th Battalion of the Australian Infantry
Posted in history, personal, tagged anzacs, Dewar, herbert henry harris, me, peter lycett, remembrance, Remembrance Sunday, robert dewar, World War One, WWI on November 9, 2014| 1 Comment »
The Battle of the Somme lasted from the 1st July 1916 until 18th November 1916. To help advance Allied objectives, on the 19th July, having postponed for 24 hours, the Australian 5th Division, under the command of Major General J. W. McCay, began their assault on the ‘Sugerloaf’ at Fromelles, a salient held by German forces. It had been identified as an objective whose capture would divert German attention from Allied troops attacking elsewhere.
Among the soldiers serving in the 5th division was 3047 Private Robert Dewar, my great, great uncle. Assigned to the 55th Battalion, which in turn was assigned to the 14th Brigade, part of the 5th Division, Fromelles was the first engagement of the war for the 55th Battalion and so the first engagement for Robert. When the 14th Brigade attacked at 6pm on the 19th, hundreds of soldiers were mown down by German machine gunners whose commanders had realised the attack was merely intended as a feint. Robert and his comrades in the 55th Batallion were initially held in reserve, but, as the assault began to go horrifically wrong, they were ordered to provide a rearguard for the initial assault troops. The result was a catastrophic failure.
The Battle of Fromelles as been described ‘the worst 24 hours in Australia’s entire history.’ The 5th Australian Division suffered 5,533 casualties, rendering it unable to engage in offensive operations for many months. 1,717 of those casualties were in the 14th Brigade. Robert was among them.
Identifying the remains of soldiers who died at Fromelles has been a priority for the Australian Army in the guise of The Fromelles Project. So far, 144 soldiers have been identified. Robert, in 2010, was one of the first, with my family providing DNA samples. On the 5th October 2014, just before dusk, Robert’s name was the eighth read out at the Tower of London in the moving Roll of Honour.
Tim Lycett’s book Fromelles: The Final Chapter contains a fascinating few paragraphs about Robert, describing how he came to be at Fromelles as well as his last moments. Over sixteen million people perished in World War One. Lycett reminds us that each one of those deaths was a tragedy, a life ripped out of a fabric of family, friends and ambitions:
Robert Dewar was born in London to a family with a long international maritime history. His father, also called Robert, was a very capable ship’s chief engineer of forty years’ experience and had been fortunate to survive the Volturno disaster in 1913, when a ship caught fire in the middle of a storm as it conveyed passengers – mostly immigrants – from Rotterdam to the United States. (Although several ships came to its rescue, the gale was too fierce and they were helpless to reach the stricken vessel until the sea had calmed. By then, approximately 135 people had died.)
The young Robert left England for Australia in 1907 as an unassisted immigrant and upon arrival took up a position as a tramway conductor in Sydney. Enlisting in late 1915, he embarked for Egypt just before Christmas. At the same time, Robert’s father was serving on troop transports in the Mediterranean. In June 1916, a few days before Robert sailed for France, father and son had a chance encounter at Port Said. They had not seen each other for nearly nine years, and the surprise reunion may have seemed like a good omen.
It’s highly likely that Robert Dewar Snr was the last parent of all the Australians killed at Fromelles to see his son alive.
On the night of 19th July, Private Robert Dewar was attached to the 55th Battalion’s prisoner guard, but when the situation became desperate, he was ordered forward to support the weakening Australian line. As reinforcements for the battered 53rd Battalion, Dewar and the 55th fought hard to repel German counter-attacks, even conducting a bayonet charge. Unfortunately, they were not able to restrain the Germans for long.
It was approaching morning when they finally realised their position was untenable and that withdrawal was the only option. As Dewar was returning to the Australian line, a shell burst close to him and, according to a witness, he was ‘knocked about a lot’ and killed.
Identifying Robert’s descendants was astonishingly simple. A Google search of his name yielded a website about the Volturno disaster. At that stage we weren’t sure what we were looking at, but we were delighted to discover it contained a great deal of information about Robert’s father and a relatively detailed biography. All we had to do then was email the website creator, who graciously forwarded our message of introduction, and in no time at all we had made contact with a living descendant in England who was more than happy to help.
It was our first search, but compared to many searches to come it was also, unfortunately, an exception to the rule.
One man who survived the Battle of Fromelles and indeed the whole war, returning to Australia in 1919, was Herbert Henry Harris, another private in the 55th Battalion. I wonder if Henry and Robert knew each other, perhaps sharing stories of back home, wondering what on earth they were doing in the mud and horror of France. Henry’s diary has been transcribed. His entries for the 17th to 21st July 1916 make for particularly poignant reading for me, knowing that it was when Robert died (the text is as written, the layout edited to make it easier to read and to remove non-chronological entries):
July 17/16
off to night to big battle Trust to God that I come through all right.
have not been paid since last entry so amount owing to me now is £2-9-1 to date with defferred pay 10.7-0. making £12-16.1 all told so I hope the wife gets it if I pass out. It promises to be worse than the other night.
was out there this morning carrying ammunitions. 5 miles out & 5 back & about 1 mile to Trenches did two trips
feel tired & hardly fit for what is in front of us, but its no use not being fit you have just got to do it
Good Bye Nell & Boys, Viv, Jean Syd Arthur Mary & Walter & Kate & all Friends hope it is only Au revoir.
A lot of the Boys have promised to send this diary on if I get knocked, am sure you will get something interesting out of it besides knowing that my thoughts have been with You & the Boys in every situation I have found myself. Write or get Tony to do so to Auntie Lucy & give her a summary of my adventures as well as Vivs, who bye the way has not joined us yet
9. p.m. Flaubeux is the name of the place where we were bombarded.
am writing this not 100 yds from our guns which are shelling the germs. & they are sending them in wholesale, its wonderful how any thing can live under them when the burst.
am on munition carrying again & it is a dangerous game, not knowing any minute when a shell will burst here.
The big thing did not come off last night as expected & dont know when it will.
Got letter from Willie Stewart last night
was out carrying munitions all day 60 lb Bombs etc am now out here again & the shells are flying round like ants its awful this is the big day & God knows how many of us will come out of it alive.
Thank god I am still alive and not wounded except for slight Bang on the finger from splinter of shell. My Steel Helmet saved me five times & how many escapes I had could not be counted
& if any man was thankful for his safety from such a hell I am he.
Nearly all our officers are dead or wounded & the Batallion is about half a company Batallion now.
the sights I saw will never be forgotten it was like a butchers shop the 53rd lost their Colonel, Major & Adjutant nearly all our Lieutenants are gone also our Sergeants & corporals
could you see the remnants of the Brigade eating Bread & cheese etc on the road side it would make you cry
of the 54th Batallion about 200 are left & they died like heroes every one of them. There are some Prisoners but we took about 200 germans so equalised that way.
We look a sorry crowd covered with mud from head to foot arms, legs, eyes, noses, fingers bound up. Yes by hell we caught it & those who think this war is nearly over are in for some surprises I give it another 2 years at the least.
One narrow escape I had. 3 of us were taking shelter from shells with our backs against a Trench island when a shell plumped right into the island shoving the dirt up against our backs but did not explode, if that was not Providence I dont know what is for had it exploded the 3 of us would be just about ready for cemertry by now.
It was a ghastly night stepping over the dead men in the trenches some of them being only half there a lot of my chums are gone & I can only account for 3 out of my section of 12.
We were highly complimented on the way in which we charged & fought & the Colonel said we were magnificent
the General was awfully pleased & said that the attack was done just as it was desired & that it was a feint to draw the Germans from the Somme front.
it succeeded alright & we took 200 Prisoners, some of the Boys got helmets & all sorts of things
We are away from the firing line & all done up & going to bed I dont want such an awful experience again & dread another battle, all our nerves are unstrung & the roar of the guns has deafened a lot of us, again Thanks to God for bringing me threw such a shambles.
We have hardly any officers left so have to be reorganised. I cant help the feeling that mother is interseeding for me, when the shells are bursting all around me & over me I get this thought into my brain, how I wish I could be the man she wanted me to be.
have not been paid yet so they owe me £2-12-1. & the amount to date now with deferred pay is £13-2-1.
7. am. all around me sleeping exhausted men, some moaning & others talking, the events of the last two days seem like some bad nightmare, if it hadn’t been for their marvellous Artillery we would have gone through the huns like a dose of salts when we got amongst them with the Bayonette they threw up their hands & howled for mercy or cleared for their lives & its certain that if we could only get them on the run it would soon be over they had with them 3 regiments of the Prussian guards but that made no difference to us. Our fellows went right through them & had they been supported would now hold their trenches & have taken thousands of prisoners. This is the third time these Trenches have been assaulted. The Tommies & Indians, & the Canadians & New Zers tried to take them but could do nothing
we took them but could not hold them a great feather in our cap.
now that I can calmly look back on the affair it seems simply a miracle that any of us came out of it unwounded.
The huns have been here two years & know our trenches as well as they know their own so could shell us when they liked.
I suppose there is some small report in the papers about it this morning it wont be much I’ll bet.
Just got two letters from Nell & Jack they still think am in Egypt wish I was. Shall answer Nells to day may be the last.
had a Roll call just now. I am the only one in 9 section & there are 9 in the Platoon we muster about ½ of a Company all told in A. the others likewise.
All my chums are dead or wounded & the guns are still Booming about 1 ½ miles away.
We are shifting again this morning farther away
should see Viv today or Tomorrow as the reinforcements are coming up.
Our poor Lieutenant Mendleson must have felt some premonition of being killed so he left a case of comforts to us 3 Platoon in case of his death & they are dividing it out now as we are only a handful & are sharing it with the rest
Just having tea & the shells are flying over our heads you dont know when you are out of danger here, the Planes are flying about & the enemy guns are firing at him, how long I wonder will this continue. A Hun Prisoner says the war will be over in August I hope he is not a liar.
We are all scattered about in little groups discussing the event & telling one another about this one gone and that one wounded its almost unbelievable to think of fellows with us a day ago & now, in the cemetry.
Expect to go back into the firing line Tomorrow night.
Below is a picture of Robert Dewar. His parents were Robert and Kate Dewar, who lived in a very ordinary suburban house at 700 Barking Road, Plaistow, London, England. I imagine Robert growing up there, playing in the garden, dreaming of adventures on the other side of the world. I imagine, too, that neither he nor his parents imagined that one day he would die in France in the most terrifying of circumstances.
A triptych is a work of art usually divided into three pieces. Typically, in a painting, the central panel is larger and flanked by two smaller, related panels. I wrote the following three poems inspired by the memory of Robert Dewar, those like him who gave their lives – and those they left behind.
The Solider
He left her with a kiss,
Whistling Roses of Picardy,
And telling her he would be
Home by Christmas.
Before he climbed aboard
The clanking train, in
Swirls of coal smoke
And hissing steam,
He damped her eyes, his
Hanky soaked with tears,
Not blood, not yet,
And brushed her hair with
Hands that tilled earth,
That tied corn in sheaves,
That loosed rabbits from
Snares and made bread.
Young love, they agreed,
Proud and defiant,
Would win out and, in
Years to come, they would
tell their children the
Old tales of foreign lands,
Recalling the camaraderie
Of war and the ache
They shared in those
Brief months of parting.
They lie entombed in clay, cold and still,
Six feet under Belgian fields or
Broken-limbed beneath French meadows.
They kept no portrait in the attic,
But the years grind on without them,
Their worm-chewed bones tangled in
The roots of snowdrops and celandine.
They fell and not once since have known
That caress of soft sea breezes, nor
The bright slant of morning light that
Cuts its angles in the dust of books,
Nor the chill kiss of November’s dusk.
They were young men, mostly, fine
Sons and brothers ripped from time,
Dropped with holes in their skulls
In the darkest, loneliest hells.
Butchers, bakers, farmers, teachers,
Doctors, farriers, clerks, sweeps,
Blacksmiths, shipwrights, thieves,
Husbands, lovers, all the same,
Levelled by serge wool tunics and
Brass buttons and puttees strapped
To hobnailed ammunition boots procured
By flat-footed clerks in Woolwich.
Now, still rotting in a foreign soil,
Some as yet unknown or lost,
We remember men who laughed
On Sunday afternoons, who drank
Beer with friends and hoped for
Fine things on their wedding day.
And those we knew who loved them
Now rest, too, in gentler graves,
Freed from their empty years,
From that pain born on the day
That love was stolen with bullets
Made in Essen by girls with dreams.
She watched him leave,
Remembering strong arms
That lifted her from
The apple tree and held
Her tight when night
Gnawed her fingers
With cold teeth.
She had never heard of
Picardy, but she knew
Roses and the thorns
Lying hidden beneath
Beauty’s velvet folds,
The prick that draws
A bloody tear and lays
A pain far greater than
Might be thought fair
Or even possible.
The letter came as
He had attested,
Regrets and honour –
The deepest sympathy;
And when his watch and
buttons arrived, she wept,
And left them on the
Mantelpiece: a plain
Memorial to love now lost.
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Obamacare Fine Print: Beware the Medicaid and Medi-Cal Clawbacks and Liens
Mike "Mish" Shedlock September 1, 2014
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid coverage, but there is a hidden gotcha that may come back and haunt your heirs for benefits you receive from age 55-64.
This is not new news, but few read and understand the “fine print”.
In a warning about the “fine print” and in response to Moral Dilemma: Should a Libertarian Who Does Not Need Food Stamps, but Qualifies for Them, Take Them?, reader “TL” writes …
Hello Mish,
Your friend Steven may want to carefully research taking Medi-Cal benefits.
Medi-Cal, and many other state Medicaid programs include a ‘claw-back’ provision for recovery of costs incurred by the state to provide medical care. While there is much variation in particulars from one state to another, the bottom line is these costs include a monthly ‘administrative fee.’
The ‘claw-back’ mechanism functions via the state placing ‘liens’ on individual assets at the point the Medicaid recipient reaches age 55, then recovers the money at the point the Medicaid recipient dies by ‘seizing’ the money from the estate.
When first put into effect, these ‘claw-back’ provisions were primarily intended to recover costs to the state of providing long-term nursing home care for older recipients.
ObamaCare’s expanded Medicaid has, of course, now waived the assets portion of the ‘means test.’ But under current law, those assets are subject to ‘claw-back.’
At the moment, the monthly ‘administrative fee’ amount for Medi-Cal is $611. Those who sign up for Medicaid may not be doing themselves any favors.
Medi-Cal Clawbacks and Liens
The California Healthcare Foundation explains the rules in Estate Recovery Under Medi-Cal
Medi-Cal estate recovery refers to state action to reclaim certain Medi-Cal costs from the estates of beneficiaries after their death. This program, which has been in place for decades, has received renewed attention from policymakers because of reports that some individuals newly eligible for Medi-Cal as expanded under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may not enroll for fear that their house and assets could later be seized.
… States also have the option to take a more expansive approach and seek recovery of costs for other covered services, not just LTSS, provided to beneficiaries age 55 and older. California has chosen this option and seeks recovery of Medi-Cal costs for all covered services provided to beneficiaries age 55 and over, with the exception of personal care services provided through the state’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. California has elected to use property liens to protect its claim in cases where the beneficiary was permanently institutionalized and not expected to return home. Medi-Cal places a lien against the beneficiary’s property while the beneficiary is still alive so it can seek recovery when the individual passes away or when the property is sold.
Medicaid Fine Print
The Seattle Times discusses the fine print in Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death
With an estimated 223,000 adults seeking health insurance headed toward Washington’s expanded Medicaid program over the next three years, the state’s estate-recovery rules, which allow collection of nearly all medical expenses, have come under fire.
Medicaid, in keeping with federal policy, has long tapped into estates. But because most low-income adults without disabilities could not qualify for typical medical coverage through Medicaid, recovery primarily involved expenses for nursing homes and other long-term care.
The federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) changed that. Now many more low-income residents will qualify for Medicaid, called Apple Health in Washington state.
But if they qualify for Medicaid, they’re not eligible for tax credits to subsidize a private health plan under the ACA, which requires all adults to have health insurance by March 31.
Unclear rules
One reason this snafu has become so troublesome is that ACA rules appear to give those who qualify for Medicaid little choice but to accept the coverage.
People cannot receive a tax credit to subsidize their purchase of a private health plan if their income qualifies them for Medicaid, said Bethany Frey, spokeswoman for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange.
Obama Care “Final Payment”
Paul Craig Roberts chimes in with Obamacare: The Final Payment–Raiding the Assets of Low-Income and Poor Americans
Kevin Knauss highlights Expanded Medi-Cal costs $611 per member per month
California Math
Under California recovery rules, $611 per month for 10 years (age 55-64), amounts to $73,320 (minimum) that would come from the estate.
Those signing up thinking Medicaid is free, better learn the rules.
It appears that Steven, who now gets foods stamps, is also trapped in a Medi-Cal program with claw-back rules, when he would simply prefer his prior medical plan, at his old rate.
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About SWGE, maybe it’s just me, but...
Thread starter JusticeDisney
JusticeDisney
...I think the place is going to be freaking phenomenal. Based upon what I’ve read and some of the pictures I’ve seen online, and more importantly based on what little I could observe when I was at HS a couple weeks ago, I can’t wait til it opens. IMHO, this land is going to be a total game changer.
Anyway, just my $.02. Figured I would share since it seems like there are a lot of people already complaining about it, which seems quite weird to me given that the place isn’t even open yet.
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I think its going to be really great as well. One if the things I have often thought about is how they are going to be able to maintain these deeply immersive projects.
We had our first return trip to Pandora this summer after having visited in 2017. It may have just been me but it seemed to be fading a bit, color vibrancy. If Star Wars land is as complex I wonder how cost to keep up will impact future experience.
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FettFan
JusticeDisney said:
I think the main thing is that Disneyland and WDW are essentially apples and oranges.
Galaxy’s Edge at DL might not be the smash hit mouse House was expecting, but that’s not necessarily a bad omen for the Vacation Kingdom of the World.
Besides I’m pretty sure the worst actual park experience in Orlando is Fast and Furious Supercharged.
No way could Galaxy’s Edge ever come close to that level of disappointment.
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Well it kind of has opened, the DL version is pretty much the same thing. Could a few things change? Maybe a bit. But I think we have a good idea of what to expect, aside from rise of the resistance.
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Smiley/OCD
I agree...having NEVER seen any of the SW movies (including the original 3), the area looks awesome! As far as the complainers goes, you've been on here long enough...that's how some people on here like to roll...
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It's going to be a flop the day after it opens - Doom and Gloomers
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erasure fan1 said:
I hear what you’re saying, but that’s almost like saying Magic Kingdom and Disneyland are the same thing.
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Smiley/OCD said:
the area looks awesome! As far as the complainers goes, you've been on here long enough...that's how some people on here like to roll..
Looking awesome is the overwhelming positive of the land.Of all the concerns (1 ok ride too many paid experiences, no restaurant, no OT...) everyone seems to love the way it looks. The other things are genuine concerns in my eyes. I think too many people are quick to call people who are questioning some of the decisions, complainers. Calling out the fact that no sit down restaurant was a mistake, isn't complaining, it was smart. And now it looks like it will be fixed. But why wasn't it done in the first place.
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But both SWGE are the same, they are almost exact clones of each other. It was meant to be that way. Neither land will have anything unique when it opens in WDW.
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KevinPage
WDW will have Chapek much further away from it, so less chance for his evil Sith powers to meddle in it on a daily basis
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HongKongFu
The two Galaxy Edges will be, for the most part, identical.
This is not a great parallel to draw with DL and MK. Those two parks have noticeable and significant differences in age, size, and attraction lineups/menu, perhaps maintenance too.
Both Galaxy Edges will be the same with subtle differences to account for the placement in the existing parks. Strong chance you will not appreciate the differences among the two.
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HongKongFu said:
Both Galaxy Edges will be the same with subtle differences to account for the placement in the existing parks. You will not notice any appreciable differences among the two.
I can appreciate what you’re saying. And you’re definitely correct. Maybe it’s just something personal to me, but I get a different (and much better) feel in WDW than I do in DL, even if I am experiencing something that is identical in the two parks.
I think it will all depend on how much of a fan of Star Wars you are. I didn't much care for Avatar, as I thought it was just preachy green weenie garbage so I never really cared for the Pandora part of AK... I can see people that aren't great fans of Star Wars feeling the same way. If it had opened maybe 20 year ago I would have loved it and probably tried to be there on opening day... But after Lucas barfed up those god awful prequels and now Disney has stuck their overly PC hands on the franchise - I just don't care anymore about Star Wars. I'll always have a soft spot for the first three films... but between Lucas and Disney trying to milk as much money out of the franchise as they possibly can, they have pretty much killed my desire to really see it. I'm sure I'll see it at some point simply because I'll be there anyways, but I won't be making any trip special for it regardless of how well they may have done it.
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thomas998 said:
I feel exactly as you do about the Star Wars and Avatar movies. But for me, for some reason, that has zero impact on how much I enjoy the parks (well, at least with respect to Pandora anyway). But your points are very well taken.
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2bornot2be
We really can't compare WDW to DL crowd levels for attractions. Toy Story Mania at California Adventure constantly has a shorter queue then HS and this is a similar ride.
DL is not a tourist destination like WDW and annual passes for DL are currently blacked out. So the crowds in the parks are a little lower right now. Tourist were expecting larger crowds so planned on avoiding DL mid summer.
The opening of Galaxy Edge at WDW will be different!!!
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joshjoned
2bornot2be said:
This. Although ironically, DL is the second busiest park in the world after MK, well ahead of Studios.
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I'm with you there. I hate Avatar, but really enjoy the land in DAK. As for Star Wars, I love the first two (Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back), and could care less about the prequels, or the dreck that followed, but I'm VERY excited for SWGE, and I think SWGE will be the most successful "land" Disney has done to date.
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Agree with the OP. We havent yet seen the bulk of people coming into WDW for a completed SW land. I know many many people who are waiting impatiently for everything to be opened, then they will visit. Why go now and waste a trip when youll only get to do a part of whats coming. Then wait another year or two to go back for part 2?? Dont underestimate the fan power thats coming.
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Bleed0range
JIMINYCR said:
Yes I think SWGE at WDW will get a much bigger response once everything is opened. Also, WDW is more of a destination park for the rest of the world while DL is a southern Californian thing.
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Hmmmm...so why would you love it then? It’s mostly just scenery. If you aren’t a fan of Star Wars...how does scenery translate to “awesome”
You’re argument applies more to avatar...because nobody remembered much about the movie before the land opened anyway
That is “like” in a definition not yet published by webster’s Where “like” means “not like much at all”
But here’s the problem with “look”. There’s no substance to it. In the end, the rides, shows, food and to a lesser degree shops are what you HAVE to have for longterm success.
The DL has started off not good on all fronts. The second ride will help...but can it compensate for known design flaws now?
Wdw will have the exact same flaws in a park that can’t handle capacity...by the way.
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Since E & I decided to meet at 6 instead of 6:30 to walk it was still dark when I headed out.
The quiet pool outside of our room.
We veered off the walking path a bit & walked through the parking lots at FQ.
Then we cut through the lobby. It was so quiet--not a soul(other than CM's)was in there.
I just love Riverside!!
I came back & showered. Then I woke R & B up. I told them the plan was to leave in about an hour. R was irritated & said that didn't give him enough time to get ready. Ummm--I didn't know I was his personal alarm clock.
I went to The Riverside Mill while they were getting ready. I got R his apples & juice. B wanted chocolate chip pancakes with bacon. I didn't think they had them with chocolate chips to which she said she would have plain ones. But, regardless of whether they were chocolate chip or plain she stressed that she needed butter & syrup.
When I saw how much food was in B's meal I decided not to get anything for myself. I knew she would never eat all that. They did have chocolate chip pancakes!! She only ate 1 of the 3 pancakes & one piece of bacon. As for the syrup & butter--she never opened any of them. I ended up having a couple strips of bacon & one of the pancakes.
E & her crew got on an earlier bus than us. I was really pushing for us to get there b/c we had a 9:25 FP for EE. We needed to use our FP's right away b/c we were meeting a friend of mine for the 10:00 FotLK show. It was 8:40 when we got on the bus. On the way there I had to listen to R still complaining about how I should have woke him up earlier We were almost at AK & it hit me like a ton of bricks--I didn't take my meds before I left. I told R what I just realized. He disagreed with me & said that he saw me taking the meds out of the refrigerator so I must have taken it. I had to clarify that I did take the refrigerated meds(I have MS & I give myself a shot once a week) but I didn't take my regular 8 pills/vitamins that I take every morning. Thinking about that make me realize that I didn't take a pill the evening before that I was supposed to take. R asked if I wanted to go back so I could take them. I told him no. I thought about the meds--everything could wait until later that day. I told him there were only 2 that I was somewhat concerned about--my high blood pressure & my heart rate pills. I told him that without those a ride on Everest might do me in for sure!!
We arrived at AK. R said he really didn't want to go on EE b/c he doesn't like when it goes backwards. Since we were in a hurry I asked him to take my bag so B & I could go through the line for guests without bags. He did & off we went.
On the way in we saw Divine. I told B to stand by her so I could get a picture. I think she was a bit creeped out & told me that she didn't want to!
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I'm with ya on the mediocre food at Sci-Fi and the service was so lacking a couple year back when we went, that we decided to take it off our must eat at list of restaurants. They actually lost our reservation and kept calling all these families that had checked in after us so when I finally brought it to their attention, they get us seated in the drive in which is not a car! They said they didn't have anything left. Ugh, I was not a happy camper. Sorry that you had so much rain on this trip but you all seemed to make the most of it and enjoyed yourselves anyway.
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Back here at home E & I meet every morning at 6:00(as long as I don't have to work super early--sometimes I have to start at 4:00) and walk 3 miles. Since L was staying with her & would be in the room with J E said she would still like to walk at POR. This first day we decided to meet at 6:30. After that day we moved the time back to 6 b/c 6:30 didn't give us enough time & we felt too rushed.
The view from the front of our building.
Our room--2nd floor.
Look at this beautiful rainbow!! It was simply amazing & perfect!! I took tons of pictures but they're all pretty much the same so I'm just going to share a few.
What a great way to start the day!! @Minnesota disney fan isn't it beautiful?
We went down to FQ.
When we were done I went back with E to her room. She had placed an order through Garden Grocer & had got R a weeks supply of bananas(remember that he has to have one every day).
This was the view from her room.
R's bananas. E said she felt bad b/c they were so small. I told her not to feel bad. It's not like she grew them!!
I was so bummed when I looked at my watch. It had stopped I absolutely HAVE TO WEAR A WATCH. I don't like to look at my phone for the time, I like to look at my watch. Now, I had to go for a whole week not knowing what time it was. I still wore the watch most of the week b/c I feel weird not having it on.This isn't the first time this has happened to me on vacation either. I went to Key West & it had stopped on the day I got there. I like looking at a clock also. At work I'm always turning & looking over my shoulder at the clock on the wall even though the computer(that's right in front of my face)tells me the time. I guess I'm a bit old school!!
I had stopped at The Riverside Mill to get R his apples & juice. B got a cinnamon roll & I got a yogurt parfait.
Try a Citizen Ecodrive-
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So I learned today why sometimes they don't show up. There are 2 RIFD chips in the bands. One is for close range, like purchasing, getting into the park, scanning FP+ (this one continues working) the other is for farther away like ride photos and location at BOG, and has to have a battery. If the band is over 2 years old, the battery could be dead, and that's why the ride photos aren't showing up.
This is why my HM ride pictures didn't show up. I need to sort my magic bands by old & new.
The skies weren't looking too promising after dinner.
We were supposed to meet up with the rest of the family for our Mine Train FP's. I got a text from my niece, E that they were heading out b/c there was a storm coming. We decided to do the same.
Pretty rainbow!!
We stopped in The Confectionary to get some jelly beans. Those few minutes in there cost us b/c when we came out the heavens were coming down on us. It was a drenching rain.
By the time we made it to the bus stop we were thoroughly soaked. On the bright side there was a Riverside bus there waiting.
J's smiling b/c he has jelly beans!!
B wasn't too thrilled with how wet she was--I didn't blame her!!
I would have rolled the dice on the mine train FP's. You got the worst of both - no mine train, and got wet. We brought our raincoats when we were there the week earlier and got good use out of them!
I was standing on the MK boat dock to get to ft wilderness when the tornado warning happened. Probably the most terrifying experience we’ve had at Disney. There really was nowhere for us to go! We ended up on one of the large boats that pulled up, they advised us it was our best option. We were stuck on the boat for about 45 minutes, luckily we did make it to HDDR on time, but soaked!
I would have been so scared. I am absolutely terrified to be outside or in a car while there is thunder & lightening so to be out during a tornado warning would probably have pushed me over the edge. Glad you made it to HDDR. I hope you enjoyed it!!
That stinks--I would have been quite irritated. To show how different people can be: Last year when we ate there they went to seat us & as we got to the table the CM realized that the table hadn't been cleared from the people before us. She kept apologizing & I told her it was not a big deal in the least bit. She offered each one of us a free appetizer for our inconvenience. I told her that was absolutely not necessary.
The rain is a bummer but a rainy day in Disney is better than a rainy day here!! And, in true Pittsburgh fashion, it's pouring here right now!!
wdw93 said:
Very wise idea!! I will have to look into that!!
winstongator said:
It was closed at that point. It probably did open later but none of us felt like sticking around. I did feel bad for L b/c she had never been on it. We went on later in the trip so it was all good!! After our HS day the rain was pretty much non existent. At that point I was wishing for it to rain--the heat became unbearable!
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Yes! While the rain was getting old to deal with, it did cool it down some. According to my phone, though you weren't on property yet, on the Sunday (16th) the temp dropped into the 70s after a rain!
B & I headed to Everest as quickly as we could. Since it was early the crowds were light so it was pretty quick getting there.
Hi J!!
E informed me that J kept saying he didn't feel well & had to puke. She kept a bag out just in case.
The sun was so bright & strong already. We knew it would be a hot day. My phone started ringing--it was R. He was lost I had given him specific directions on how to get to Everest along with telling him to follow the signs to Asia. He said he had no clue were he was. After he explained his current surroundings I realized he was near the Maharajah Jungle Trek.
R finally found his way & decided that he didn't want to go on Everest b/c he doesn't like the part where it goes backwards. E & L used R & J's bands and rode again!!
R & J were waiting for us when we came off the ride. Thank goodness they didn't wander around--they might have got lost!! Then again, it was J who helped navigate R through HS so R would have been in good hands with him!!
That would have been so welcomed!! I know it's June & going to be hot but it was unbearable. Even the kids were feeling it & it normally doesn't bother them.
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As it turned out my friend & her family had a change of plans & ended up going to Epcot. They were going to come to AK later. We said we'd try to meet up. We decided to still see the 10:00 FotLK show.
I was loving the low crowds!!
J looks like he's on a mission. He was feeling a bit better at that point.
I was amazed at how much available seating there was in the theater. I would have to assume it's b/c it was the first show of the day & it wasn't that crowded in the park yet.
After the show R got a lemonade. He gets kidney stones quite frequently & his doctor recommends drinking lemonade. A few weeks before we left he ended up in the ER b/c he was in so much pain. He normally passes them & while it's painful it normally doesn't warrant a trip to the ER. They did a scan & told him he currently had 3 stones. He ended up passing one that evening. Then he went through a full week of sheer torture until he finally passed a 5.4 mm stone!! For anyone that knows anything about kidney stones you know a stone that size is going to cause issues. I kept telling him if he didn't pass it by the time we left he would have to keep riding BTMRR over & over again. I had read articles where it was proven that the ride helped people to pass stones. Fortunately for him though he passed it before we left. He probably wouldn't have ended up coming on the trip had he not passed it b/c the pain is so intense.
He also got a button since he donated to the Disney Conservation Fund.
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Up next we had a FP for Kilimanjaro Safaris--a favorite of J's. They made a change to the stroller parking & IMO it wasn't for the good. You used to take the stroller through the line & shortly before boarding there was an area to drop your stroller off. Now, if you have a FP you have to park the stroller at the beginning of the attraction. If you're in the standby line you do it the old way With the old way everyone was dropping off their strollers at the same spot. So now as you're walking through the FP line people are cutting across you so they can drop off their strollers since the drop off point is to the right of the FP line. It made no sense & it was completely disorganized. I hope they make some modifications to that.
I didn't take too many pictures but I never noticed this waterfall before.
Our guide told us it was a treat to see the giraffes sitting b/c it's something they rarely do.
This one got a bit close!! I loved it!!
Afterwards R saw a PP photographer & wanted to stop & get a picture. He asked her if it was alright to hold the sign above his head. Ok, then......
This has to be the most ridiculous picture I have ever seen. She told us to pretend like we were walking. I assumed it would be some kind of magic shot but I guess I was wrong?? Or maybe the "magic part" somehow didn't make it into the photo. Who knows but it looks ridiculous.
susan lees
J doesn't look very impressed lol. Fun picture though.
The guy in the green shirt in front of you on Everest! Lol
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Kidney stones are no joke! I've had them twice and it's the worst pain I've ever had in my life, and I've had 3 children!
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I've heard how horrible the pain for kidney stones can be so I'm glad R was able to pass them before the trip! I think the PP photographer was trying to imitate the scene on R's Hakuna Matata shirt.
susan lees said:
No, he doesn't. Maybe he was still feeling a little under the weather??
That's what I hear--the worst pain. The nurse had a hard time getting an IV in him b/c he was sweating so bad from the pain. Once he got the pain meds he was a totally different person. It's amazing something so small can cause so much pain.
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I was glad too--I was tired of listening to him whine!! JK--I felt bad for him. He's passed around 10 stones over the years & as long as they are on the smaller end it's not as bad but is still painful. He's had a few that were questionable if he would be able to pass them b/c of their size. He was scheduled for surgery one time & he miraculously ended up passing it a few hours before surgery was due to start!!
You might be right about the scene on the shirt!!
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We worked up such an appetite from our "walking photo" that we were hungry for lunch. We were going to go to Flame Tree but given what our dinner plans were we thought the food was too similar to what we would be eating later so we headed to Yak & Yeti.
I pretty much always get the same thing--an egg roll & chicken fried rice.
There's the star of the show though--a Safari Amber!! R & I split it which was a big mistake b/c he ended up really liking it so that was less for me to have.
Either J still wasn't feeling good or he was incredibly bored. I can't recall.
After lunch we headed to our next FP for Dinosaur. The ride must have been down earlier b/c here was the start of the FP line!!
E is scared to death of this ride. She's the one that I torture by taking photos of this & sending them to her. I know, I'm such a mean aunt. She decided today was the day she was going to conquer her fear & keep her eyes open the whole time!! She even wore that shirt for the occasion. She also said she wanted to sit next to me. I told her we needed to get our picture together to document this important event!!
While in the never ending FP line it started to pour & we had literally nowhere to go. Then the guy in front of us(he was with his son) was told "Access Denied"!! He didn't speak English & didn't understand what the CM was trying to tell him. The bottom line was his FP was for FOP, not Dinosaur. This kept going on & on--the worst part was we were getting more soaked by the second b/c of him. Finally we were told to go around them.
Imagine my surprise when I turned around to see him behind us in line(blue shirt)! I guess the CM gave up & let them in. Now, don't get me wrong, I love Dinosaur but..... Maybe he hadn't been on FOP yet & didn't know what he was missing. I hope they enjoyed their ride back in time & didn't end up waiting standby for FOP at some point!!
While we were in line A decided on how the seating arrangements should go. She didn't tell E but she told me that she wanted her older sister to sit on the end closest to the big dino so she could be scared more. Not very nice A, but funny!! I was to go next then it would be A then B.
E's all smiles--for now!!
The amount of times this happens are few & far between......
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...but not this time!! I feel like it's been forever since a ride pic from Dinosaur has found it's way into my PP account. So, E ended up handling it quite well. She may not look thrilled but at least her eyes are open!! A shouldn't have been making fun of her sister b/c she is obviously a scaredy cat herself--look at her arms wrapped around mine!! Then there's D--he has the "thinking" look going on.
While we were in prehistoric times J caught up with some friends.
Upon leaving Dinosaur I saw that Pluto was out with only a few people in line. I asked who wanted to stop to meet him. Everyone kept walking except R & E(I think they felt bad for me that's why they stuck around). After a few minutes in line the CM said that Pluto would only be out for 5 more minutes. No big deal--I knew we would make it. Until, that is, the two women in front of us took their turn. Listen, I get it, everyone pays their admission & deserves to have a good time. But, knowing that he was going to be leaving wouldn't you be courteous enough to make sure everyone in line was going to get a turn & not take up a ton of his time? What made it worse was that these 2 grown women talked to him in voices like they were talking to a 1 month old puppy. Then things escalated to a whole new level. They started making him do tricks like he was a real dog. Then they got down on their hands & knees and were asking him to do tricks with them & were barking like they were dogs. Not only was it rude to take up that much time but WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS DOWNRIGHT CREEPY!!! I felt so sorry for whoever it was in that costume. I really wanted to take a few pics but it would have been way too obvious so I didn't.
Fortunately, there was still time for us.
We got a quick picture & left so the poor guy could go take a well earned break.
Walking through Dinoland we saw that Goofy didn't have many people in line to see him so we got in. I'm glad we did--this is the only other PP whole group photo we got during this trip other than the one we took the first day in front of BTMRR.
Goofy was all about the fist pounds!!
E got one too!!
No--that baby is not part of our group....
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Alexander Hamilton Papers
Documents filtered by: Correspondent="Hamilton, Alexander"
From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Anspach, 5 December 1789
To Peter Anspach1
Treasury Department.
Decr 5. 1789
Enclosed you will receive a Letter from Colo. Pickering2 late Quarter Master General of the Army: in which he desires you to make out a Statement of the Debts intended to have been provided for by the Anticipation made for the use of his Department, by the late Super Intendant of the Finances; and of the Claims remaining Unsatisfied under it. I have to desire that you would furnish me with a Copy of this Statement as soon as possible; and transmit the Original to Colo. Pickering in order that the same, if approved of and Countersigned by him, may be transmitted to me in his late official Capacity. It is of Importance to ascertain with as much Precision as possible, what, if any Part of these Debts have been taken up by the Respective State Commissioners, or settled as3 the Treasury by the Issue of Certificates. For which Purpose, you may (should you find it Necessary) have access to any papers in the Office of the Treasury, which may be proper for this Investigation. As the next Sessions of the Legislature (when this Paper will be Necessary) approaches fast, I wish to have it as soon as possible.
I am Sir, Your obedt. Hble. Servt.
A. Hamilton
Secy of the Treasury
To. Mr. Peter Anspatch.
late an Assistant to
Colo Pickering Dep: Quar: Master General &a. &c.
LS, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts; copy, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
1. Anspach, who had been assistant quartermaster general, was engaged in settling the accounts of the department of the quartermaster general.
2. Timothy Pickering to H, November 25, 1789.
3. In the copy this word is “by.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0011
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
Hamilton Papers
Anspach, Peter
“From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Anspach, 5 December 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0011. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 6–7.]
From Anspach to Hamilton [30 December 1789]
All correspondence between Anspach and Hamilton
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MICHELLE | KATHLEEN | NEILLIZA
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The Fall Up
Reviewed by: Michelle
"I was still falling at unstoppable speeds- only in his arms, as his body claimed me without a single word spoken, I was suddenly falling....up"
Aly Martinez... If you wanted me to fall, then you have succeeded. I have indeed fallen. Fallen in love with your writing, stories, characters, and the raw emotions that you evoked through your words. And I will continue to fall for your books every single time. Aly's books has been somewhat an addiction for me. She never fails in delivering books that can grip you to the core, strip you naked and make you FEEL. And in her newest standalone, The Fall Up, Aly Martinez DELIVERED. She more than delivered. She held me HOSTAGE as she drowned me in one of the most heartfelt, beautiful, touching stories that I have read.
"No words were exchanged. Everything had been said as we both came on the gasp of the other's name. I'd claimed her. And, in turn, she owned me. It was almost as exhilarating as it was terrifying. Almost."
The Fall Up is truly one of those reads that you want to savor and re-read again. In this spellbinding tale, Aly perfectly weaves a romance like no other. A romance that was palpable and tangible right from the start when two strangers meet on the ledge of a bridge. An unconventional meeting of two broken people. A young woman who is lost in her guilt, pain, and loss. And a man who feels the need to help with his Spiderman complex.
"She wasn't the princess. And I wasn't the pauper. She was just a sad girl who liked to write songs. And I was nothing more than a simple guy who was lucky enough to have made her fall in love with him."
On a cold rainy night in San Francisco, Levee Williams meets a tattooed stranger, who saves her. Saves her from taking that jump. The jump to end it all. When Sam interrupts Levee from these thoughts to jump, he saves her in more ways than he knows. Whenever he sees Sam on the bridge, he continues to disrupt her and forms a special friendship with her. When Levee finally takes Sam offer to get a late night snack, she finally lets her guard down. As Sam learns of her true identity as Levee Williams, the pop star celebrity, he doesn't seem faze of her celebrity status. All he sees is Levee. Levee, the beautiful brown eye girl who stole his heart the moment he laid eyes on her. The girl who has bewitched him with her beauty, honesty, witty personality and vulnerability.
"Levee, I'll tell you anything you want to know as long as it means you're with me to keep asking."
As Sam and Levee embark on a relationship, a connection is formed. A deep raw tangible bond where there are not enough words to describe this connection they feel for another. A connection of peace, of hope, of love, and new beginnings. As they continue to fall for each other, Levee must face with the realization of the truth. The truth that she needs help. If she wants any chance to have a real relationship with Sam, Levee goes to a rehab facility to help deal with her anxiety and depression. As Levee undergoes her treatment, will it be enough to keep her off the ledge? Will she let her issues prevent her from truly living her life and the possible chance at love? Or will she find herself falling in love with Sam Rivers?
"Hell, I could probably pretend for the rest of my life if he continued to hold me the way he did. Kiss me the way he did. Touch me the way he did. Save me the way he did."
The Fall Up has to be one of my favorite books that Aly has written. Aly has once again perfectly weaved an emotional and heartfelt story-line with witty humor and of course sexy steamy scenes. This book is definitely a book that needs to be read, experienced, and savored. I loved every aspect of this book from the raw and flawed characters to the emotional heartstrings that can tug your heart. As I stated earlier in my review, Aly Martinez will hold your hearts and attention hostage. She will grip you with a love story that will leave you breathless. A story that will make you want a real life Sam Rivers to catch your fall. So if you are looking for a book where the author tackles an important issue in such a deep and profound way, you NEED to READ this book.
4.5 Smoking Hot Stars
The Fall Up is a story about the unconventional love between Sam and Levee. They meet when Levee is about to commit suicide, but Sam stops her. Sam is the man with the bad boy exterior, but has the heart of a hero. Levee is the celebrity with her own inner demons. They continue to encounter each other at the bridge, and learn each other's stories. By the learning each other's story they form a bond that goes beyond a typical romance.
I enjoy Aly's writing because she knows how to deliver a relatable story through captivating writing. From personal experience I know how it truly feels to feel like it's the end of everything; like everything is closing in on you that it's suffocating. Anxiety can be controlled if you get the right help and surround yourself with positive vibes and push away all the negativity to be able to move forward and not live in the pass.
Another great novel by Aly! I recommend this story to anyone looking for an emotional love story that lives a good cry.
Reviewed by: Neilliza
**ARC provided by author, in return for an honest review.**
☆☆☆☆ 4.5 Stars ☆☆☆☆
The Fall Up is deals with a sensitive issue, that will make you feel for both characters. The way Levee and Sam met was very unconventional. They met at the lowest points of their lives, but was also the time when they needed someone to save them the most. As Levee was lost in her messy life, thinking that falling was the only way to go. Sam made her feel that he came at the perfect time of her life. She needed to be rescued and that’s exactly what he did. As she was falling deeper and deeper into her darkness, Sam was her light that made her feel alive again. As Sam and Levee started the next chapter of their lives together, they became each other’s rock. But the more Levee relied on Sam, the much harder it was to save her. Sam maybe Levee’s savior, but is he enough to get her out of her darkness forever? Read and find out.
Come and joined Levee as they live their complicated lives together. As they push and pull each other to the right direction, as they get lost in each others touches, fall in love with their sweet romances, as they find their true self with each others help. Come live the moment we all wish we could. Love is always worth fighting for.
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Customizing a WORD Document
Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination
Université Emory
This course will assist you with recreating work that a previous coworker completed, revisiting a project you abandoned some time ago, or simply reproducing a document with a consistent format and workflow. Incomplete information about how the work was done, where the files are, and which is the most recent version can give rise to many complications. This course focuses on the proper documentation creation process, allowing you and your colleagues to easily reproduce the components of your workflow. Throughout this course, you'll receive helpful demonstrations of RStudio and the R Markdown language and engage in active learning opportunities to help you build a professional online portfolio.
R Markdown Templates: Processing and Customizing
This module goes further with R Markdown to help turn documents, reports, and presentations into templates for easier automation, reproducibility, and customization.
Week 3 Introduction1:58
Customizing an HTML Document20:35
Customizing a WORD Document8:47
Customizing Other Document Formats10:32
Melinda Higgins
Research Professor/Senior Biostatistician
In the previous lesson, we worked on customizing an HTML document. Next, we're going to explore the options available for customizing a Word docx document. We're going to be referring throughout this lesson to the information contained in the R Markdown website for the word_doc format. Let's continue working with the GitHub repository for module three, and RStudio project for module three. If you don't already have it open, open RStudio, and open the module three, R project. So, now that you have the project open, and we're connected to GitHub via Git, let's create a new R Markdown document. In RStudio, click File, New File, R Markdown. But, this time, instead of choosing the HTML format, we're going to choose the Word format. Let's put in a title, Module 3 Word Document. Similar to the HTML document options, we can change the figure width and height for Word documents. We can either type these settings into the YAML header directly, or we can click the gear icon and select Output Options. We click on the Figures tab, we can change the figure width and height shown here. Let's change both of these to five and click OK, and you'll notice that the YAML header was updated automatically. Go ahead and click Save. We'll name your file, Word Document. Click Save. Now, click Knit, and Knit to Word. The preview window opens here and you can see your Word document. The next section of this lesson is optional, and it assumes that you have Microsoft Word installed on your computer. However, you should be able to work with docx formatted files in Google Docs and other open source document editors. To really change the style and appearance of a Word document, we're going to need to create a reference document. This reference document will be applied similar to how we applied the CSS or Cascading Style Sheets to HTML documents. Let's go through the steps for creating a reference document. So, outside of RStudio, let's open Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word, go ahead and open the docx format that you just created, word_document.docx. Let's go ahead and save this under a different filename. Click File, Save As, and instead of it just being a plain document, we're going to make this be your styles reference document. So, we'll call it word_styles_reference.docx, and click Save. Let's walk through the document and change the styles of the formatting for the title and the headers. First, we're going to change the title. So, let's highlight the title and we'll change the style. Let's change this from sort of a blue font to a red font. Now, click on the button up here at the top for Styles and we're going to scroll down for the formatting shown here for Title. If we click the down arrow, there's an option that says Update Title to Match Selection. You'll notice if I leave my mouse highlighted over title, it says that it has information on the font, it's in current Calibri, 18 point, Bold, font color is now red. That's what you want to see. So, let's also change the level two header. So, let's highlight R Markdown shown here, and we're going to change the color of this text to purple. Again, in the Styles Menu, we're going to scroll down and find the option here for Heading 2. If I click the down arrow and say Update Heading 2 to Match Selection. You'll notice that the font color has indeed changed to purple, and in the current document shown here, the second level two header has also been automatically updated to purple. So, let's save this and we'll exit Microsoft Word. Go back to RStudio, and in the Word document, add the option reference_docx and put in the file name of the word reference document that you just created. The code that I'm going to show you assumes that this style's reference document is in the same folder as your Word document. So, after Word document, we add reference_docx, and we need the name of the file. We need the name of the reference file that you just created, word_styles_reference.docx, go ahead and click Save, and we'll Knit to Word. Now, when the preview window opens, you should see that your title is in red, and you're level two headers are all in purple. Feel free to take some time now to experiment with making custom Word templates and applying them to your Word documents. You can more and more on the R Markdown website for the Word document format shown here. There's a link here for style reference that shows the application of the YAML header options that we just did. There's also a link for an article on doing this in more detail. And, the title of this article is Happy collaboration with Rmd to docx. Take a few minutes and read through this article to get some more ideas on how to create these reference documents for applying templates in Microsoft Word. Let's try one more customization. This is for the printing and display of tables. There is an option that you can set in YAML, called df_print. It can be set to kable to make data frames print better. Data frames are the most common data structure in R. For example, the built in data set of cars and pressure are both data frames. This df_print option works in other formats besides Word document. It's going to also work in HTML and PDF documents. But for right now, let's try it here in this Word document. Let's create a new section and we're going to add a code chunk to look at the head of the car's data dataset. This is going to generate a data frame object to be printed in the final outputted document. So, let's create a new section here to look at the top of the cars dataset. We're going to click on the little icon here for insert R code chunk, and we're going to type in the command head for cars. After you get the section added, click Save. And, let's go ahead Knit to Word without changing the YAML header just yet. You can see what this looks like without applying the df_print option. If we scroll down to the bottom of our document, you'll notice that it just simply prints out the top six rows of the cars dataset. For right now, the output here just looks like a computer-generated output. So let's close this, and we'll go back and add the df_print option to the YAML header. So, after the Word document keyword, we're going to add df_print, and set the option to kable. This is going to use the knitter kable function to actually print out the data frame in a table format. So, let's click Save, and we'll Knit to Word one more time. Now, when I scroll to the bottom of the document, the head of the cars dataset is now shown in table format. This feature is very helpful for cleaning up your R code chunk outputs for better formatting in your final document, at least for R code that generates data frame-based output. Let's go ahead and back everything up to your GitHub account. Open the Git BASH window, make sure that you're in the module three directory, and we're going to add all of the file changes and commit them. Add a comment, it will push everything up to the repository. Check Git status just to be sure everything worked. You can go back to your GitHub repository for module three, click Refresh, and you should now see that you got your Word documents and the Word styles reference document added here.
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Nostalgia: Bill Hicks, the NME and me
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‘Nostalgia – it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.’ Don Draper, ‘Mad Men’
You can experience nostalgia in the most unlikely places. Yesterday it was when Lou Reed’s ‘Satellite of Love’ came on the radio, a song my circle of friends listened to incessantly when we were 18 but I’ve hardly heard since. Like ‘Debris’ by the Faces, it’s a song can instantly take me back in time and space, 16 years and to the kitchen of my best friend Scott, when we all had curtain haircuts, smoked like chimneys and were terrifyingly sincere about everything all the time.
A couple of months ago the potent twinge in my heart came when I went to a screening of the new Bill Hicks documentary ‘American’.
When you go and see a film about Bill Hicks you probably expect to come out laughing or enraged or saddened, but I emerged wistful, contemplative and swamped by memories.
I hadn’t thought about Hicks a great deal since 1992, but suddenly it all came flooding back. Staying in to watch Hicks on ‘Clive Anderson Talks Back’ or being interviewed at the Montreal Comedy Festival as C4 surfed the wave of having the hippest comedy content on the block. Reading about Hicks in the NME on the bus to school, enthralled by this astonishing man who called himself a comedian but was sandwiched between features on the Lemonheads, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney and never looked out of place. You couldn’t do that with Jasper Carrot.
C4 comedy and the NME were the two key cultural influences for me at the time, so it’s little surprise that Hicks and his performances should have seemed so important, and also that they should be so easily forgotten, as what we most value in late adolescence is often the first thing that gets abandoned on the roadside during the long march to maturity.
I wrote an article exploring some of this in the context of British love for Hicks in the Independent on Sunday, but can’t help wondering the extent to which I am projecting my own memories of Hicks onto a wider canvas.
Are these memories entirely personal and therefore largely irrelevent, or are there other people my age who place Hicks in the same C4/NME bracket? In a sense, I don’t really want to know, because this is my nostalgia, not yours, but at the same, like everybody else, Hicks included (and why else did he love the UK so much?), I desire vindication, some confirmation that my nostalgia isn’t just a ‘twinge’, but something that has real cultural value beyond that. So come on people, vindicate me.
Posted in Comedy, History, Journalism, Uncategorized
Tagged American, Bill Hicks, Independent On Sunday, NME, nostalgia
London disaster porn, or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the flood
I bought this book the other day. How could I not? Everything from the cover to the title to the name of the author screams ‘BUY ME!’, and so I did.
The Big Wave: The Day London Collapsed is, as you might have guessed, about a tsunami that destroys London. Here is a choice paragraph:
Somewhere twenty or so feet below us, under uncountable tons of debris, was the street we had once known as Haymarket; the grey hill to our right was largely the remains of Canada House; the ravine in front would be Sussex Place and beyond that – at the moment not visible – would be the National Gallery. The city we knew had been buried, the streets engulfed by debris, wiped out of existence. I stared at the grey and broken landscape attempting to absorb the scale of the disaster. It was too much. It was too big.
Hot stuff, huh?
And it got me thinking. Not about the danger of a seismic episode taking place ten miles off the Thames Estuary, sending shock waves through the city, felling major landmarks and preempting a giant tidal wave that turns the entire London basin into a corpse-riddled swamp, but about authors who love destroying London.
Will Self’s The Book Of Dave, Richard Jeffries’s After London and JG Ballard’s The Drowned World all take place in a London destroyed by flood (interestingly, Conrad Voss Bark’s The Big Wave is the only book I own that actually describes the flood taking place), and all are marked by a relish in seeing the city brought low. It’s all very Biblical.
‘The deserted and utterly extinct city of London was under his foot,’ writes Jeffries in After London, an almost unreadable Victorian novel. ‘He had penetrated into the midst of that dreadful place…’ We never find out what has destroyed London other than some sort of catastrophic flood, but Jeffries carefully draws an entirely new, almost medieval, world, which he clearly prefers to the Victorian one he has demolished. It’s a bit like John Christopher’s Prince In Waiting trilogy, only nowhere near as good.
Ballard’s dense and difficult 1963 novel The Drowned World is little better. Again, after catastrophic flooding, London has been replaced by a fetid swamp, something that Ballard seems remarkably sanguine about, as this spot of dialogue makes clear.
‘Do you know where we are, the name of this city?’ he asked.
‘Part of it used to be called London; not that it matters.’
Later, in the book’s most evocative passages, the characters walk through drained streets around Leicester Square. ‘Dying fish and marine plants expired in the centre of the roadways… they stood in the entrance to one of the huge cinemas, sea urchins and cucumbers flickering faintly across the tiled floor.’
Both these books were obvious influences for Self’s recent The Book Of Dave, which takes places on the island of Ham. This is Self’s name for the high-lying remains of Hampstead Heath, which overlook a London that has been replaced by a lagoon after, you guessed it, catastrophic flooding. Self doesn’t exhibit quite so much glee at the demise of London, although he draw a strong contrast between the idyllic, unquestioning life of those on Ham and the manic contemporary Londoners, brains overfilled with unnecessary knowledge, that we meet in flashback. One of them, the titular Dave, has been driven insane by the intensity of modern living.
So all three, in their different ways, present the London-free future as being preferable to the present. And if they are accurate predictions of the future, perhaps the following shouldn’t freak me out quite as much as it does.
Pleasant dreams!
Posted in Books, London
Tagged Ballard, Catastrophic floods, don't leave the tap on, Post-apocalyptic London, Self
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, who has a glass eye…
Like many people, I will watch the leaders’ TV debate tonight for a mixture of reasons. Guilt that I am otherwise taking so little interest in the election, mild interest in whether they will say anything I really believe, curiosity at what Nick Clegg actually looks like. But I will also watch in the blind anticipation that Gordon Brown finally makes use of his key electoral asset and whips out his glass eye.
It is my belief that future generations will look back in amazement, astonished and perhaps even aghast that we had a Prime Minister with a glass eye and nobody really seemed to know anything about it.
It is not too late for this to change. For starters, every article about the PM should start, ‘Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, who has a glass eye…’ to really reinforce the point. And in the debate, Brown, the Prime Minister, who has a glass eye, should make a much stronger attempt to use the eye to his advantage.
A few suggestions. He could pop it out and stick it on the lectern looking up at Cameron while the Tory is talking. Or toss it casually from hand to hand while delivering his own speeches. Perhaps he could bounce it against his flexed bicep and into his outstretched hand in a flamboyant gesture that would manage to be both insouciant and intimidating. Watch his poll ratings climb! A namby-pamby nanny-bred nincompoop like Cameron would be terrified.
Better still, Brown could keep the eye in, take a dart to the debate and then just tap it casually against the glass eye whenever Cameron is speaking. How cool would that be?
It would leave Cameron with only one option. Lop off a hand, and replace it with a hook.
Now, I don’t want to suggest our political leaders should get involved in an ever-sicker whirlpool of deliberate self-mutilation in a vain bid to impress the voters… well, actually I do.
Let the freak show commence!
Posted in Politics, Talks
Tagged glass eye, Gordon Brown, Whimsy
A new free newspaper for London
London’s latest free newspaper will launch next month. Snipe is a fortnightly arts and listings newspaper that will be available in selected bars, restaurants, clubs and shops from May 15, with an initial print run of around 10,000 – although this is set to rise. The website launches on Friday April 15.
Don’t worry though, London Weekly it most certainly ain’t.
Snipe‘s founder, Darren Atwater, is a Canadian and small newspaper nut with considerable editorial experience in his native Vancouver. We met up a couple of months ago and he explained that he was basing Snipe on the free community papers that are available in most US cities. This is a concept that has always impressed me. These independent enterprises survive through classified and small-business advertising and at their best can be tremendous, vital local newspapers with a real grip on what is going on in their city. In some cases, they are the glue that holds a city’s diverse scenes together, with passion and knowledge of their subjects married to a genuinely independent and non-commercial spirit. Yes, websites can cover this sort of ground – see the excellent Londonist, for example – but there is still nothing better than print for making a real, concrete imprint on a city.
I have often wondered why London has never produced an answer to a paper like the Austin Chronicle, an essential alternative newspaper that is free, useful, cool, politically engaged, culturally confident, intelligent and easy t0 find. Atwater wondered the same, and then decided to do something about it.
London has had some terrible experience with free newspapers recently, but this is something different altogether, an enterprise that all London-based lovers of arts and newspapers should get behind.
Posted in Journalism, London
Tagged arts and entertainment fortnightly, Darren Atwater, Snipe
Beer for a year
The other day, somebody delivered this box to my door.
I opened it.
And this is what was inside.
Beer! Thirteen bottles of the stuff.
I get four of these boxes each year, my Christmas present from Ms Great Wen. They are supplied by a company called MyBreweryTap.com, a new company that specialises in finding obscure real ales from microbreweries in every corner of the country and delivering them to anybody who fancies trying new and different beers. I am a member of the 52 Week Beer Club, which means I get a different bottle for every week of the year. Included in this quarter’s box is an alcoholic ginger beer, and something called Undertaker from Wincle, which must be good for so many reasons.
I am not a heavy drinker and I’m not a CAMRA nerd, but I like a fine ale. So this is perfect.
Ed Turner, the founder, started the company after sampling a brilliant beer in the Lake District and then realising that nobody else in the country could get hold of it, because the means of supply were beyond the tiny brewery’s budget. They now deliver beer from dozens of small breweries, including Clapham’s Sambrook’s. Last year, Ed took me on a tour of Sambrook’s, followed by a tasting session about which I remembered little other than the website of the company, which I then passed on to my missus accompanied by some large and appropriate hints.
So there you go. If you like beer, this is for you. Tonight, I plan to try the Unpronouncable IPA from Crown Brewery, a ‘punchy 7 per cent’ the tasting notes inform me.
Posted in Food, Pubs
Tagged Beer, hic!, mybrewerytap
My finest achievements No 1: Wikipedia
No, I didn’t invent it, but I do now appear on it, in this entry on the No 68 bus.
Impressive huh?
Wikipedia and buses are two of my favourite things, so this pleases me greatly.
It is also far better than my previous appearance on Wiki, when I ‘used’ an entry about Longest Streets In London as the basis for a piece in Time Out. Somebody then ‘used’ my piece in Time Out as the official reference for an entry on Wiki about the Longest Streets In London, which was a classic example of why Wiki doesn’t always work, or at least it was until somebody deleted it.
If you appear somewhere on Wiki, please share it here.
Posted in London, Transport
Tagged No 68 buses, reasons the internet is brilliant, Wikipedia
I should be so lucky: blackmailed by a poet
My interview with the writer Michael Horovitz appeared in the Times on Saturday. You can read it here.
This piece had a curious gestation. I contacted Michael in December as part of my ongoing attempts to track down a lost London counterculture magazine of the 1970s to which Michael had contributed.
I asked him to help, and he said he would, but only if I first wrote a feature about him based on the many anniversaries he was about to celebrate, including his own 75th birthday. It was blackmail, but of the nicest sort because Horovitz is an extraordinary figure, who I had great fun interviewing and writing about. He also has a fridge packed with some of the most delightful cupcakes I have tasted in years (and I have tasted a lot of cupcakes). The piece then proved to be a surprisingly easy sell to the Times and has directly led to a couple of other pieces that are now in the pipeline. To all of which, I say ‘Hurrah!’
Michael has worked with artists and writers as distinct as William Burroughs, Paul McCartney, Lenny Bruce, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, Joe Strummer, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith, and of his many achievements, the one I sadly didn’t get space to write about in the Times was the part he played in the unexpected cultural renaissance of Kylie Minogue.
It was at one of Michael’s Poetry Olympics events at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996 that Kylie first shook off her Stock, Aitken and Waterman pop image when she performed a tongue-in-cheek spoken word version of ‘I Should Be So Lucky’. ‘Indie Kylie’, the NME star, was born.
Michael currently has an exhibition of his paintings on display at Art@42 in Notting Hill Gate until the end of April, and a documentary about his life was broadcast on Sunday on BBC Radio 4, which you can listen to here.
Posted in Art, Books, Journalism
Tagged Cupcakes, Kylie Minogue, Michael Horovitz, Poetry Olympics, Royal Albert Hall
Improving Standard: the return of Andrew Martin
One of the delights for me about the improving Evening Standard has been the return of old hand Andrew Martin, with his unorthodox but smart tales from the underground, now called Man On The Tube (and only intermittently available online).
This used to be called Tube Talk and was my favourite feature of the old ES magazine in the late-90s when that mag was a great supplement. Martin’s column was the chief influence behind my own bus column at Time Out, where I endeavoured to catch every London bus in numerical order and write about the journey each week.
Martin had this knack of finding fascinating weekly stories about the Tube (something Annie Mole has been doing for the last few years), and writing them up with wit and skill. He’s a fantastic writer and a real London enthusiast; it’s great to have him back.
Posted in Journalism, London, Transport
Tagged Andrew Martin, Evening Standard, London Underground
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At the close of the 1960s leading black American musicians associated with the “free jazz” scenes of New York and Chicago left for Paris. Weary of a poisoned U.S. political climate and eager to work, they would spend months or even years in the French capital seeking new opportunities to perform and record, often alongside […]
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CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER AT GOOGLE’S [X] (2015-2018).
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Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the former Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Gawdat manages Google’s business in over 50 countries with his background as an Engineer, paired with an MBA degree from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands.
[X] is Google’s secret innovation lab responsible for many of breakthrough innovations such as Self-Driving cars, Project Loon, Google Brain, among many others. Its approach to radical innovation and moonshots enabled Google to address some of the biggest challenges facing human kind and [X]’s focus on building an innovation factory process resulted in a predictable pipeline of breakthrough inventions and mega size businesses.
Mo Gawdat joined Google in 2007 and continues to focus on his biggest passion: Emerging Markets and the vast degree of diversity and challenges they face. Over the years, Gawdat has started close to half of Google’s operations worldwide. Gawdat contributed significantly to establish the model of operation that is now considered the gold standard in technology innovation around the world, and to land the radical moonshots started as rational successful businesses that are accepted in our day to day world.
Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. He is the author of «Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy» – a book dedicated to his son Ali Gawdat who died in 2014, the book outlines methods for managing and preventing disappointment.
Mo Gawdat is also a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than 15 businesses in his career. He actively serves as a Board Member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods start-ups as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Mo Gawdat shares his valuable knowledge of innovation and the changing fundamentals of business in every field and country globally. His also tells the story of his personal journey to find happiness through “the happiness equation.” Mo Gawdat speaks Arabic, English, German as well as some Turkish and Russian.
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SOLVE FOR HAPPY: ENGINEERING YOUR PATH TO JOY.
Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.
In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness.
Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier.
In Solve for Happy Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths.
No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.
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Law and disorder in Kashmir
The Raiders get their plane!
Flybe lands life-line deal
No sign of missing man since Saturday
COMMENT: School leaders warn against delay
Hopes of progress in the Sarah Groves murder trial were once again dashed due to law and order issues in Kashmir.
Two hearings, the 163rd and 164th in the trial, had been scheduled for this week.
However, the first one of those scheduled hearings has proved a let down for the family of Sarah, who was killed on a houseboat in India in 2013.
"The two hearings scheduled for earlier this month resulted in no progress whatsoever in the trial," said Sarah's father, Vic. "Hopes and expectations were high that the two hearings scheduled for this week would yield better results.
"Unfortunately, today’s scheduled hearing did not do so due to law and order issues in Kashmir. No under-trial prisoners were transported from jail to court today due to a lack of available Police resource. No witnesses appeared in court.
"The prosecution sought and was granted an adjournment until tomorrow, the second of the two scheduled hearing dates this week.
"Once again, a disappointing outcome after two weeks of anticipation."
There was, however, one positive to be taken from proceedings. Following representations to the new Judge, who had been insisting that court papers were issued in Urdu, it was agreed to return to issuing papers in English.
Pictured top: Left, Sarah Groves, and right, the man accused of murdering her, Richard de Wit.
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Catalogue of Artworks: “Alquimia” by Georgina Ciotti
Filled as Blog, New Art, Things We Love
“Alquimia” is the new exhibition by Georgina Ciotti at UNION Gallery. In this, her first solo show, the artist contemplates the dichotomy of human nature and animal instinct in a striking collection of original artworks which center on alchemy as a metaphor for a transformative process.
In these artworks, human figures twist and merge with the Saí and Ocelote, animals indigenous to Misiones, Argentina, creating a striking contrast between the pictorial elements in a palette of bold cobalt and the symbolism of delicate gold leaf, which floats over the coal-tinged black background.
Georgina Ciotti is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has spanned muralism, sculpture, design, illustration and special effects. Currently specializing in muralism, she has previously worked extensively in art and special effects for cinema, publicity and theatre with directors like Peter Greenaway, Pedro Almodóvar and Spike Lee, among others. Ciotti also participated as conceptual designer in cinema for: DOOM by Andzei Bartkowiak, Hellboy I, Hellboy II, and was a member of the Oscar winning team for best special effects makeup in Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro.
View and download the catalogue of artworks here.
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Dominic Davies, Founder of Pink Therapy in the UK, discusses with leading colleagues the growing expansion of the LGBT umbrella to include multi-faceted sexual and gender minorities.
GAY & BISEXUAL MEN
LIVING WITH PROSTATE CANCER
From Diagnosis to Recovery
Jane M. Ussher
Janette Perz
B.R. Simon Rosser
This book provides an overview of research and practice dealing with the specific needs of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, as well as the special psychosocial needs of their partners. The intention is twofold: to provide insight into the unique experiences and concerns of gay or bisexual men living with prostate cancer in order to inform and assist future research, clinical practice and supportive care, and policy; and to ensure that the needs of gay and bisexual men are recognized
and advanced on the mainstream prostate cancer agenda. Featuring both cutting-edge research and powerful portraits of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, this book will be indispensable for health care, oncology, and mental health practitioners who seek to address their specific experiences and challenges.
Jonathan Bergman and Mark S. Litwin
Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and B.R. Simon Rosser
SECTION ONE: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Prostate Cancer: What Does Research Tell Us?
1. Understanding Prostate Cancer in Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have
Sex with Men and Transgender Women: A Review of the Literature
B.R. Simon Rosser, Shanda L. Hunt, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Nidhi Kohli, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, Kristine M. Talley, and William West
2. Threat to Gay Identity and Sexual Relationships: The Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men
Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, Duncan Rose, Gary W. Dowsett, and David M. Latini
3. Integrating Post-Prostatectomy Sexuality: The Couple’s Journey
Daniela Wittmann
4. “My partner is my family”: An Interdependence and Communal Coping Approach to Understanding Prostate Cancer in Same-Sex Male Couples
Charles Kamen and Lynae Darbes
5. Psychological Adjustment in Gay and Bisexual Men after Prostate Cancer
Michael A. Hoyt and Brett M. Millar
6. The Social Dimensions of Prostate Cancer in Gay Men’s Sexuality
Gary W. Dowsett, Duane Duncan, Andrea Waling, Daniel R. du Plooy, and Garrett P. Prestage
7. Gay Men and Prostate Cancer: Learning from the Voices of a Hidden Population
Murray Drummond, James Smith, and Shaun Filiault
SECTION TWO: Cancer Care and Support For Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer
8. Lack of Information and Unmet Needs: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Sexual Communication with Healthcare Professionals about Sex after Prostate Cancer
Duncan Rose, Jane M. Ussher, and Janette Perz
9. Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision-Making and Survivorship Considerations among Gay and Bisexual Men: Implications for Sexual Roles and Functioning
Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Matthew B. Schabath, and Clement K. Gwede
10. Sexual Aids for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women after Prostate Cancer Treatments
Erik Wibowo and Richard Wassersug
11. Experiences of Sexual Rehabilitation after Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Gay and Bisexual Men with Heterosexual Men
Jane M. Ussher, Duncan Rose, Janette Perz, Gary W. Dowsett, and Andrew Kellett
12. Illness Intrusiveness and Social Support in Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer
Tae L. Hart, Crystal Hare, and David M. Latini
13. The Effects of Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer on Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Mental Health, Sexual Functioning and Behavior, Sexual Identity, and Relationships
William West, B. R. Simon Rosser, Benjamin D. Capistrant, BeatrizTorres, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, and Kristine M. Talley
14. Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Prostate Cancer Care Inclusive of Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women
Donald Allensworth-Davies, Thomas O. Blank, Brian de Vries, and Emilia Lombardi
15. Malecare: Twenty Years of Innovation and Service to Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women with Prostate Cancer
Darryl Mitteldorf
SECTION THREE: Personal Experiences
16. “Losing My Chestnut”: One Gay Man’s Wrangle with Prostate Cancer — Ten Years On
Gary W. Dowsett
17. What about Me?
Ross Henderson
18. An Invader in the Pleasure Dome
Perry Brass
19. Looking Back: Engaging Prostate Cancer as a Gay Man at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Gerald Perlman
20. A Shared Decision-Making Approach to Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk: A Gay Diary Case Study
B. R. Simon Rosser, William West, and Badrinath R. Konety
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Madison Beer’s “Hurts Like Hell,” Lil Duval’s “Smile B*tch” Enter Top 50 At Pop Radio
“Smile B*tch,” “I Found You,” “Wake Up In The Sky” Enter Top 55 At Pop Radio
Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE” Spends 3rd Week As Rhythmic Radio’s #1 Song
Cardi B & Kehlani’s “Ring” Officially Reaches #1 At Urban Radio
Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE” Remains #1 At Rhythmic Radio
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Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE” Reaches #1 At Rhythmic & Urban Radio
Drake’s “Nonstop” Stays #1 At Urban Radio, Reaches #1 At Rhythmic Radio
Drake’s “Nonstop” Reaches #1 At Urban Radio
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Yella Beezy’s “That’s On Me” Reaches #1 At Urban Radio
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Tyga & Offset’s “Taste” Stays #1 At Rhythmic Radio, Reaches #1 At Urban Radio
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Syro-Malabar Community Honors Father Of The Faith
Posted on July 19, 2018 by Christine
Syro-Malabar Community Honors Father Of The Faith By Antonina Zielinska (With Slideshow)
Vibrantly colored umbrellas, women dressed in Indian garb and people radiating with the love of God could be seen and heard as a procession headed out of Guardian Angel Church onto Ocean Parkway July 1.
Syro-Malabar Indian Catholics were giving glory to God and honoring their patron in Brighton Beach.
“We come to celebrate St. Thomas the Apostle, the father of our faith,” said Father Shiju Chittattukara, S.D.V., director of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Mission at Guardian Angel Church.
It is believed that St. Thomas the Apostle made his way to India to spread the Gospel there in 52 A.D. The Syro-Malabar people from Kerala, India, trace their roots back through generations to St. Thomas. They continue their traditions in their Eastern rite while remaining in full communion with Rome and the pope.
In New York, most of the Syro-Malabar priests also fill positions as priests in the local diocese including as pastors and vicars of the Roman Catholic churches.
Read more and view pictures of the Feast of St. Thomas…
Del Escritorio del Párroco
Posted on July 8, 2016 July 8, 2016 by Christine
St. Thomas the Apostle pray for our Indian Community as well all our Parishioners
Muy estimados hermanos y hermanas en el Señor, lo importante en estos momentos es que, estamos celebrando el domingo 14 del Tiempo Ordinario. El Señor nos invita a la Misión, y a tener mucha confianza en los medios espirituales que él nos ha dejado en su Evangelio; por eso, confiemos en el poder de la oración, de la proclamación autentica del Evangelio, la sabiduría y amor del Espíritu Santo; También, celebramos en comunión con la comunidad India al Gran Apóstol Santo Tomas (3 de Julio), a Santa María Goretti (6 de Julio) en el contexto del Año de la Misericordia (y el Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos).
Es por todo eso que, pienso que nuestras pasiones legitimas (como el deporte), y para mí y mis compatriotas, la pérdida de nuestra querida Selección Nacional de Futbol contra un fuerte rival no debe mancillar, ni menoscabar la alegría en el Señor; es por eso que San Pablo nos pide “Alégrense en el Señor” (Fl 2). El Padre Francisco
Saint Mary Goretti
Posted on July 8, 2016 by Christine
She was the daughter of a poor Italian tenant farmer and grew up in Nettuno (Italy). On a hot afternoon in July, Maria was sitting at the top of the stairs of her house, mending a shirt. She was not quite 12 years old, but physically mature. A cart stopped outside, and a neighbor, Alessandro, 18 years old, ran up the stairs. He seized her and pulled her into a bedroom. She struggled and tried to call for help. “No, God does not wish it,” she cried out. “It is a sin. You would go to hell for it.” Alessandro began striking at her blindly with a long dagger.
She was taken to a hospital. Her last hours were marked by the usual simple compassion of the good—concern about where her mother would sleep, forgiveness of her murderer and her devout welcoming of Viaticum, her last Holy Communion. She died about 24 hours after the attack. Her murderer was sentenced to 30 years in prison. When he was released after 27 years, his first act was to go to beg the forgiveness of Maria’s mother.
Devotion to the young martyr grew, miracles were worked, and in less than half a century she was canonized. At her beatification in 1947, her mother (then 82), two sisters and a brother appeared with Pope Pius XII on the balcony of St. Peter’s. Three years later, at her canonization, a 66- year-old Alessandro Serenelli knelt among the quarter-million people and cried tears of joy.
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Open-Source Security Advantage
Open source is the most effective method for developing secure and reliable software on the planet. It is inherently secure by design because it relies on a transparent exchange of information, technology, and collaborative development. Because Guardian Digital is a pioneer in open-source software, enterprise email solutions, and cyber security, it is committed to open-source development and innovation. Our enterprise email security solutions are more flexible and more effective as a result.
Real-time Enterprise Cloud Email Solutions
Because Guardian Digital’s solutions are built on our advanced cloud platform that combines open-source technologies with the security expertise of our engineers, the result is a system that updates rapidly and learns over time to protect your business email from advanced and persistent threats. Our worldwide network of systems works cohesively to collect billions of data points using big data analytics, our own algorithms, and machine learning to update systems with the latest real-time information. This reduces the exposure to zero-day threats as well as the largest spam campaigns around the globe.
Open-source development also allows Guardian Digital to customize your email security platform to your specific needs. Better yet, it allows us to do this without jeopardizing your bottom line.
Our Open-Source Commitment
We are proud to be a citizen of the open-source community. We know, from decades of open-source development expertise, that using open-source methodology for securing digital information creates a more robust and secure platform precisely because its core components have been subjected to rigorous peer review for decades.
Since its inception in 1999, Guardian Digital has recognized that the open-source model provides the best approach to the problem of maintaining security in the relentlessly dynamic environment of the internet.
The ideals that the open-source community follows and hold dear — community engagement, openness, collaboration — are also the ideals that Guardian Digital holds among its main tenets. It’s a reflection of an environment that is highly collaborative, and where the best solution always comes out ahead. In this environment — where flexibility, choice, and an affordable costs are built into the process — Guardian Digital customers win.
Open-Source Collaboration
Our collaborative open-source development approach:
Fosters rapid innovation as a competitive advantage, with ideas coming from multiple independent sources
Provides design diversity as a strategy
Promotes an inclusive environment and values diverse perspectives
Improves reliability through much larger deployments
Reduces the total cost of ownership
Best in Class Email Security Solution
Guardian Digital is the first email security company to take the best-in-class tools of the Linux community and integrate them into enterprise email solutions with an intense focus on security and unrivaled customer support.
We have engineered an unprecedented level of open-source security that has made Guardian Digital a pioneer in business email protection and trusted by clients worldwide for almost twenty years.
Guardian Digital continues to innovate, while constantly improving our existing software and service offerings. Towards that end, we created LinuxSecurity.com, the internet's central source of news, insights, security advisories and other information about Linux and open-source security issues. Check out its re-launched new look, here.
Open Source Security Projects
Guardian Digital has been an open-source innovator since the beginning, when its founder and CEO, Dave Wreski, realized that open-source software was the means to create a more secure system because of its versatility and collaborative development. Vetted by the world’s most innovative software engineers, an open-source infrastructure creates solid and adaptable systems that evolve with our changing technologies. Read more about the programs that Guardian Digital uses to create our unique email security solution, including its underlying foundation, EnGarde Secure Linux.
Debunking Open-Source Myths
Myths and misconceptions surround open source — find out why it’s the most innovative and secure way to engineer software.
6 Reasons Why You Want Open-Source Email Security for Your Business
Innovative, secure, affordable: open source is how you safeguard your business email.
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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Investigating the effect of oil spills on the environment and public health.
Scientists Awarded $50 Million to Study Effects of Oil on Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) is pleased to announce the 31 awardees of the program’s final two-year grants to support research on effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Calls for Research Proposals
$65 million in grant funding to support research by individuals and consortia. RFP-VI will provide funding for Individual Investigator/Collaborations and Research Consortia for up to two years (2018-2019).
An Ocean Oil Spill Science Legacy
There have been two large scale oil spills over the past 4 decades in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ixtoc I spill in 1979 off the coast of Carmen, Mexico released 3.5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf, and the Macondo wellhead blowout off the coast of Louisiana, USA in 2010 released 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
$38 Million Awarded to Study Effects of Oil on Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Research Board announced today that it will award nearly $38 million to individuals and teams studying the effects of oil on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and public health. A total of 22 research proposals are being funded under this most recent GoMRI program.
Capping Off the First Five Years of Scientific Research
Oil Spill Research Makes Great Strides with Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Funding
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Awards $140 Million to Support Research
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) has selected 12 research consortia to conduct scientific studies of the impacts of oil, dispersed oil, and dispersant on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and public health.
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Issues Call for Research Proposals
About $27 million will support research on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident on Gulf ecosystems, public health.
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Announces New Grant Competition
GoMRI announced today that it plans to award up to $105 million to support research consortia investigating the effect, and the potential associated impact, of hydrocarbon releases on the environment and public health
Researchers Gather Environmental Samples Following Hercules Natural Gas Well Blowout in Gulf of Mexico
GoMRI funding is building research capacity in Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Research Board Welcomes New Member
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Research Board Welcomes New Member: Dr. Richard Shaw appointed by Gulf of Mexico Alliance to fill vacant seat
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Hip Hop Week In Review: Tekashi 6ix9ine's Testimony Aids In Conviction Of Nine Trey Gang Members
October 6, 2019 | 4:33 PM
by Cherise Johnson
HipHopDX – This week in Hip Hop, Tekashi 6ix9ine’s testimony against his fellow Nine Trey Gangsta Blood members led to a guilty verdict. Also, Kanye West‘s Jesus Is King was never released, but a fan attending his listening session recorded it. Lastly, Nas paid his respects to Belly actor Louie Rankin, who passed away in a car accident.
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Alleged Kidnapper Found Guilty
Nine Trey Gangsta Blood member Anthony “Harv” Ellison was found guilty in the kidnapping of Tekashi 6ix9ine. He and fellow gang member Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack were also convicted of racketeering, among other charges. 6ix9ine’s three-day testimony at their trial played a significant role in the conviction, according to TMZ.
The controversial rapper has received major backlash for testifying from Hip Hop notables such as Snoop Dogg and The Game. 6ix9ine reportedly believes they are just jealous haters.
6ix9ine hopes to be released from jail next year with plans of continuing his rap career. Many are wondering if he can really pick up where he left off after being labeled a snitch. Page Kennedy examined the situation in the latest episode of HipHopDX’s The Breakdown.
Read more about Tekashi 6ix9ine here.
Fan Records Kanye West’s “Jesus Is King” At NYC Listening Event
One fan in attendance of Kanye West’s Jesus Is King listening event in New York recorded his album and uploaded it to YouTube. The video was quickly taken down but not before some fans got to hear it.
Jesus Is King was originally supposed to release on September 27 but never did. Kim Kardashian then claimed it was coming out on September 29, which also didn’t happen. Now, the release date is TBA.
Read more about Kanye West’s Jesus Is King here.
“Belly” Actor Louie Rankin Passes Away
Louie Rankin. Great working with this man. A legend. In Belly you stole the show. “ You Wana Rump with bombaclot me??!” In @djkhaled video Nas Album Done, your presence was super live wire much needed. RIP Don Dada
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On Monday (September 30), Jamaican dancehall musician and actor Louie “Original Don Dada” Rankin tragically lost his life in a car accident.
Rankin was known for his riveting role as Jamaican drug kingpin “Ox” in the 1998 cult classic film Belly, which also starred Nas, DMX, Method Man and T-Boz, among others.
In 2016, Rankin reunited with Nas for DJ Khaled’s “Nas Album Done” video. Upon learning of Rankin’s passing, Nas paid his respects on Instagram.
“Louie Rankin,” Nas began his caption. “Great working with this man. A legend. In Belly you stole the show. “ You Wana Rump with bombaclot me??!” In @djkhaled video Nas Album Done, your presence was super live wire much needed. RIP Don Dada.”
Read more about Louie Rankin’s passing here.
– Ghostface Killah — Ghostface Killahs
– Luh Soldier — NAW FR
– Shoreline Mafia — Party Pack Vol. 2
– Ameer Vann — Emmanuel
#DXclusives: Public Enemy, Nick Cannon & Trouble
Chuck D’s Manager Responds to Flavor Flav’s VladTV Interview About Lawsuit Claims
Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav recently sat down for an interview with VladTV where he discussed suing Chuck D over royalties. In response, Chuck’s manager Lorrie Boula took the time to address it with HipHopDX.
“We have chosen not to respond to Flavor Flav’s multiple statements about litigation claims against Chuck D but feel it’s necessary to set the record straight this time,” Boula told DX. “The facts are that Flavor Flav did attempt to sue Chuck D, but the court threw out his lawsuit in January 2019.”
Read the full explanation here.
Nick Cannon On The Art Of Ambition
In a recent interview with DX, Nick Cannon spoke about his ambition to make it big, starting with his hustle on Nickelodeon’s All That.
“With Nickelodeon, I was making five hundred dollars a week, and that was everything at that time; I thought I was rich,” Cannon recalled. “I was now able to help put gas in [my parents’] car to make trips up to LA. I could buy food. I could buy an outfit and pay my mom’s rent. That was a dream come true. It was always that idea of wanting to provide for my mother, and for others in the family. The more I began to work, the more I was able to do that.”
Check out the entire Nick Cannon interview here.
Inside Trouble’s Brick Road To Def Jam
Trouble talked to DX about how he ended up signing with the legendary Def Jam Recordings.
“I actually ended up going to New York,” Trouble said. “They flew me up there, we had a sitdown. And after I was able to just sit with everybody face to face from the head honchos all the way down to the intern. It was just a bool feeling, and it just was great vibes. And, it just felt genuine. So, for me, I was like, man, shit, let’s do it. And they was talking about everything I was talking about. They was ready to put music out whenever I was ready to.”
Read the full Trouble interview here.
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2017 May 19 Space Exploration Signature Auction - DallasAuction #6173
Apollo 14 Flown PF63 Cameo NGC Silver Franklin Mint Medallion, Serial Number 0119, Originally from the Personal Collection of ...
Franklin Mint medal flown to the moon
Apollo 14 Flown PF63 Cameo NGC Silver Franklin Mint Medallion, Serial Number 0119, Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell, Initialed and Certified on Original Holder, with Handwritten and Signed LOA. The obverse of this 39mm medal (one of two hundred minted) bears the mission insignia depicting an Astronaut Pin flying to the moon. The reverse depicts the surface of the moon with the inscription "Spacecraft/ Kitty Hawk & Antares/ Destination/ Fra Mauro - 1971". Each of the three Apollo 14 crewmembers carried sixty-five of these in their Command Module PPKs (for a total of 195 flown). After the mission, as many as fifty of them were returned to the Franklin Mint and melted down toward the production of the Apollo 14 commemorative mini-coins that were sent to Franklin Mint subscribers in 1971. The rest were retained by the crewmembers themselves. This Franklin Mint medal with Mitchell's handwritten provenance is a particularly desirable item. Dr. Mitchell has signed on the front of this medal's original 2x2 holder: "Flown - 'Kittyhawk'/ No. 0119/ EM" which is included. A beautiful medal.
Included with this lot is a handwritten, signed Certificate of Authenticity dated November 17, 2007, on his personal letterhead stating, in part: "This letter will certify that Apollo 14 silver Franklin Mint Medallion, serial number 0119 was flown to the moon aboard the spacecraft Kittyhawk on the mission January 31 - February 9, 1971... This is one of the original 195 flown medallions accounted for in the crew PPK inventory. Edgar Mitchell. Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot."
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Diphtheria is a serious disease caused by a toxin (poison) from the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Diphtheria usually affects the respiratory tract (parts of the body that help with breathing). It causes a thick coating in the back of the nose or throat that makes it hard to breathe or swallow. Less commonly, diphtheria can cause cutaneous (skin), vaginal, eye, or ear infections. Cutaneous infections caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae are more frequent in tropical areas and among the urban homeless.
Complications from diphtheria may include:
Blocking of the airway
Damage to the heart muscle (myocarditis)
Nerve damage (polyneuropathy)
Loss of the ability to move (paralysis)
Lung infection (respiratory failure or pneumonia)
For some people, diphtheria can lead to death. Even with treatment, about 1 out of 10 diphtheria patients die. Without treatment, as many as 1 out of 2 patients can die from the disease. In children younger than 5 years old, as many as 1 out of 5 children who get diphtheria dies.
When Corynebacterium diphtheriae get into and attach to the lining of the respiratory tract, they produce a toxin that can cause:
Swollen glands in the neck
The toxin destroys healthy tissues in the respiratory system. Within two to three days, the dead tissue forms a thick, gray coating that can build up in the throat or nose, making it very hard to breathe and swallow. The toxin may also get into the blood stream and cause damage to the heart, kidneys, and nerves.
Diphtheria is spread from person to person, when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Rarely, people can get sick from touching open sores (skin lesions) or clothes that touched open sores of someone sick with diphtheria. A person can also get diphtheria by coming in contact with an object, such as a toy, that has Corynebacterium diphtheriae on it.
A person with diphtheria who does not receive treatment can spread the disease for about 2 weeks after infection.
Doctors usually decide if a person has diphtheria by looking for common signs and symptoms. They can use a swab from the back of the throat and test it for Corynebacterium diphtheriae. A doctor can also take a sample from a skin lesion (like a sore) and try to grow the bacteria to be sure a patient has diphtheria.
Getting treatment quickly for diphtheria is important. Treatment should start right away if a doctor suspects diphtheria and should not wait for laboratory tests to confirm disease.
Diphtheria treatment involves:
Using diphtheria antitoxin to stop the toxin produced by the bacteria from damaging the body
Using antibiotics to kill and get rid of the bacteria
Persons with diphtheria may need help with their airway and breathing.
For cutaneous (skin) diphtheria, thorough cleansing of the lesion with soap and water and administration of an appropriate antimicrobial agent for 10 days are recommended.
Diphtheria patients should be kept in isolation until they are no longer contagious. This usually takes about 48 hours after starting antibiotics. It is important to finish taking the full course of antibiotics to make sure the bacteria are completely removed from the body. After the patient finishes taking the antibiotic, the doctor will run tests to make sure the bacteria are not in the patient’s body anymore.
Close contacts of persons with diphtheria, especially household contacts, should be given a diphtheria booster vaccine (see Prevention). Contacts should also receive antibiotics and should be closely watched for signs of illness.
Unimmunized or underimmunized persons with diphtheria should be vaccinated when they are getting better, because disease does not necessarily provide protection in the future.
The best way to prevent diphtheria is to get vaccinated. Diphtheria vaccination is recommended for all babies, children, teens, and adults. There are four vaccines used in the United States to prevent diphtheria, all of which are combined with vaccines for other diseases:
Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) vaccines
Diphtheria and tetanus (DT) vaccines
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccines
Tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccines
Each of these vaccines prevents diphtheria and tetanus; DTaP and Tdap also help to prevent pertussis (whooping cough). DTaP and DT are given to children younger than 7 years old. Tdap and Td are given to children 7 years and older, teens, and adults.
Infants and children need 5 doses of DTaP vaccine for maximum protection, at ages 2, 4, 6, 15-18 months, and at 4-6 years. DT can be given instead of DTaP for children who should not get pertussis vaccines.
Preteens need a booster dose of Tdap vaccine at age 11-12 years.
Teens or adults who didn’t receive Tdap as a preteen should receive one dose. Td vaccine is recommended every 10 years.
Diphtheria vaccines are estimated to work well for people who receive the primary series (three doses for people 7 years old or older and four doses for children younger than 7 years). Nearly all people (95 out of 100) who receive the primary series are protected against diphtheria for approximately 10 years. Protection decreases over time, so preteens should receive a Tdap vaccination at age 11-12 years and adults need to get a Td booster shot every 10 years to stay protected.
Hawaii State Department of Health Diphtheria Factsheet (PDF)
Vaccine Information Statements:
DTaP Vaccine
Tdap Vaccine
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Vaccine Locators:
Hawaii Department of Health Disease Reporting
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Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Collection Spotlight for December 2018
Among other subjects, the exhibit, Yua : Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit, celebrates the traditions of Yup’ik masks and dancing while sharing the influence of those customs on the culture. Reflecting upon that exhibit has inspired the topic for this month’s collection spotlight – dance! Understanding the need to, the desire for and the choice of dance for people throughout history may turn out to be as complicated as some dance routines themselves. However, most every culture includes some form of social expression typified in dance. For the Yup’ik culture, as well as numerous American Indian communities, dance is a noteworthy part of their cultural heritage and provides a shared experience within the community. The following four selections from the Library collection demonstrate the critical role of dance in American Indian cultures. These examples examining the enduring history of dance are currently on display in the public reading area of the Library. Please feel free to visit the Library to review these or any other items of interest in the Library and Archives collections. For more details or additional collection information, click on the link labeled Library Catalog Search located in the pull-down menu of the Library tab on the Heard website.
Krystal, Matthew
Indigenous dance and dancing Indian : contested representation in the global era
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2012
Heard call number E98.D2 K89 2012
Mann, Kristin Dutcher
The power of song : music and dance in the missions communities of Northern New Spain, 1590-1810
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press ; Berkeley, Calif. : Academy of American Franciscan History, 2010
Heard call number ML210.7.N6 M36 2010
Shea Murphy, Jacqueline
The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007
Heard call number E98.D2 S46 2007
Lucy’s dance
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2011
Heard call number PS3572.A645 L83 2011
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
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Elizabeth, Ifeanyi Okowa Sister-in-law Freed By Kidnappers After Ransom Payment
Elizabeth, younger sister to the wife of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, who was kidnapped last week in Asaba, the state capital, has regained her freedom.
A source at the Government House in Asaba, who confirmed the release, told our correspondent that the victim was freed in the early hours of Thursday following the payment of N200m ransom.
It would be recalled that Elizabeth was accosted by a gang of five stern-looking young men along the popular Anwai Road, near Temple Clinic Restaurant Junction, few metres away from the Government House gate and was whisked away in a waiting vehicle.
Confiding in our correspondent, a senior police office in the Delta State Command, who pleaded for anonymity, disclosed that, “The negotiations for the release of the young lady was kept top secret but she was released by 2:00am on Thursday after huge ransom was paid.
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HONG, Guo 洪果
(Lab) N23-6005
E-mail ghong
Group Website: https://ghong5.wixsite.com/letme
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2011.
B.S. Material Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2006.
2018 – present Vice President, the Physical Society of Macao, Macao SAR
2018 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao SAR
2017 – present Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Macao SAR
2016 Deputy director, Research Institute, BTR New Energy Materials Inc, China
2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
2011 – 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Carbon nanotube, graphene and other two-dimensional materials
Electronics, optoelectronics, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics
Flexible devices
GEGA021 Green energy for global society
X. Gong, Y. Liu, H. Xiang, H. Liu, Z. Liu, X. Zhao, J. Li, H. Li, G. Hong, T. S. Hu, H. Chen, S. Liu and G. Yu, Membraneless reproducible MoS2 field-effect transistor biosensor for high sensitive and selective detection of FGF21. Science China Materials doi.org/10.1007/s40843-019-9444-y (2019)
Wei, X. J. Li, C. Liang, Z. P. Zhang, J. Guo, G. Hong, G. C. Xing, W. Huang, Recent progresses in metal halide perovskite micro- and nanolasers. Advanced Optical Materials 1900080 (2019)
G. Li, D. Dong, G. Hong, L. Yan, X. T. Zhang, W. H. Song, High-efficiency cryo-thermocells assembled with anisotropic holey graphene aerogel electrodes and a eutectic redox electrolyte. Advanced Materials 1901403 (2019)
H. Sun, J. G. Li, L. Lv, Z. Li, X. Ao, C. Xu, X. Xue, G. Hong, C. D. Wang, Engineering hierarchical CoSe/NiFe Layered-double hydroxide nanarrays as high efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting. Journal of Power Sources 425, 138-146. (2019)
L. Han, Y. L. Zhong, Y. Su, L. T. Wang, L. S. Zhu, X. F. Fei, Y. Z. Dong, G. Hong, Y. T. Zhou, D. Fang, Nanocomposites based on 3D macroporous biomass carbon with SnS2 nanosheets hierarchical structure for efficient removal of hexavalent chromium. Chemical Engineering Journal 369, 1138-1149. (2019)
Q. Yan, Y. Su, X. Fei, L. Zhu, L. Han, G. Hong, H. Zhu, D. Fang, Ag3PO4@Ni3S2 core/shell nanorod arrays for visible light degradation of organic contaminants. Materials Research Express 6, 065009. (2019)
X. Wu, G. Hong, X. Zhang, Electroless plating of graphene aerogel fibers for electrothermal and electromagnetic applications. Langmuir 35, 3814-3821. (2019)
L. Han, Y. L. Zhong, K. Lei, D. Mao, Y. Z. Dong, G. Hong, Y. T. Zhou, D. Fang, Carbon dots-SnS2 heterojunction photocatalyst for photoreduction of Cr(VI) under visible light: a combined experimental and first-principles DFT study. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 2398-2409. (2019)
Luo, X. Ao, Z. S. Li, L. Lv, J. G. Li, G. Hong, Q. H. Wu, C. D. Wang, Imbedding ultrafine Sb2S3 nanoparticles in mesoporous carbon sphere for high-performance lithium-ion battery. Electrochimica Acta 290, 185-192 (2018)
X. H. Wu, J. Lyu, G. Hong, X. C. Liu, X. T. Zhang, Inner surface functionalized graphene aerogel microgranules with static microwave attenuation and dynamic infrared shielding. Langmuir 34, 9004-9014 (2018)
Y. L. Zhong, L. Han, X. Q. Yin, H. F. Li, D. Fang, G. Hong, Three dimensional functionalized carbon/tin(IV) sulfide biofoam for photocatalytical purification of chromium(VI)-containing wastewater. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6, 10660-10667 (2018)
G. Y. Li, G. Hong, D. P. Dong, W. H. Song, X. T. Zhang, Multiresponsive Graphene-Aerogel-Directed Phase-Change Smart Fibers. Advanced Materials 30, 1801754 (2018)
M. C. Zhang, K. Chen, C. Y. Wang, M. Q. Jian, Z. Yin, Z. L. Liu, G. Hong, Z. F. Liu, Y .Y. Zhang, Mineral-templated three-dimensional graphene architectures for energy-efficient electrodes. Small 14, 1801009 (2018)
J. Sun, P. Man, Q. Zhang, Z. Zhou, C. Li, X. Wang, J. Guo, J. Zhao, L. Xie, Q. Li, J. Sun, G. Hong, Y. Yao, Hierarchically-structured Co3O4 nanowire arrays grown on carbon nanotube fibers as novel cathodes for high-performance wearable fiber-shaped asymmetric supercapacitors. Applied Surface Science 447, 795-801 (2018)
Z. Li, L. Lv, J. Wang, X. Ao, Y. Ruan, D. Zha, G. Hong, Q. Wu, Y. Lan, C. Wang, J. Jiang, M. Liu, Engineering phosphorus-doped LaFeO3-δ perovskite oxide as robust bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts in alkaline solutions. Nano Energy. 47, 199-209 (2018)
R. Straessle, S. Zimmermann, L. D. Carro, J. Zurcher, G. Schlottig, A. Achen, G. Hong, D. Poulikakos, T. Brunschwiler, Thermally conductive composite material with percolating microparticles applied as underfill. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2017.2775154 (2017)
X. C. Wang, G. Y. Li, G. Hong, Q. Guo, X. T. Zhang, Graphene aerogel templated fabrication of phase change microspheres as thermal buffers in microelectronic devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 41323-41331 (2017)
G. Hong, The surface property of graphene. Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology 2, 000118 (2017)
G. Hong, Y. Han, T. M. Schutzius, Y. M. Wang, Y. Pan, M. Hu, J. S. Jie, C. S. Sharma, U. Muller, D. Poulikakos, On the mechanism of hydrophilicity of graphene. Nano Letters 16, 4447-4453 (2016)
Y. Pan, G. Tagliabue, C. Holler, S. Droscher, H. Eghlidi, G. Hong, D. Poulikakos, A rapid response thin-film plasmonic-thermoelectric light flux detector. Scientific Reports 6 37564 (2016)
G. Hong, T. M. Schutzius, S. Zimmermann, B. R. Burg, J. Zücher, T. Brunschwiler, G. Tagliabue, B. Michel, D. Poulikakos, In situ assembly in confined spaces of coated particle scaffolds as thermal underfills with extraordinary thermal conductivity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 838-844 (2015)
Y. Pan, G. Hong, S. N. Raja, S. Zimmermann, M. K. Tiwari, D. Poulikakos, Significant thermal conductivity reduction of silicon nanowire forests through facile discrete surface doping of germanium. Applied Physics Letters 106, 093102 (2015)
G. Hong, Q. H. Wu, J. G. Ren, C. D. Wang, W. J. Zhang, S. T. Lee, Recent progress in organic molecule/graphene interfaces. Nano Today 8, 388-402 (2013)
G. Hong, Q. H. Wu, C. D. Wang, J. G. Ren, T. T. Xu, W. J. Zhang, S. T. Lee, Surface doping of nitrogen atoms on graphene via molecular precursor. Applied Physics Letters 102, 051610 (2013)
Q. H. Wu, G. Hong, S. T. Lee, Modification of CuPc/graphene interfacial electronic structure with F16CuPc. Organic Electronics 14, 542-547 (2013)
J. G. Ren, Q. H. Wu, G. Hong, W. J. Zhang, H. M. Wu, K. Amine, J. B. Yang, S. T. Lee, Silicon-graphene composite anodes for high-energy lithium batteries. Energy Technology 1, 77-84 (2013)
Q. H. Wu, Y. Q. Zhao, G. Hong, J. G. Ren, C. D. Wang, W. J. Zhang, S. T. Lee, Electronic structure of MoO3-x/graphene interface. Carbon 65, 46-52 (2013)
J. G. Ren, Q. H. Wu, H. Tang, G. Hong, W. J. Zhang, S. T. Lee, Germanium-graphene composite anode for high-energy lithium batteries with long cycle life. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1, 1821-1826 (2013)
C. D. Wang, Y. A. Zhou, L. F. He, T. W, Ng, G. Hong, Q. H. Wu, F. Gao, C. S. Lee, W. J. Zhang, In situ nitrogen-doped graphene grown from polydimethylsiloxane by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Nanoscale 5, 600-605 (2013)
G. Hong, Q. H. Wu, J. G. Ren, S. T. Lee, Mechanism of non-metal catalytic growth of graphene on silicon. Applied Physics Letters 100, 231604 (2012)
G. Hong, P. Li, Y. B. Chen, J. Zhang, Controlling the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on surface using metal and non-metal catalysts. Carbon 50, 2067-2082 (2012)
Q. H. Wu, G. Hong, T. W. Ng, S. T. Lee, Substrate effect on the electronic structures of CuPc/graphene interfaces. Applied Physics Letters 100, 161603 (2012)
G. Hong, M. Zhou, R. X. Zhang, S. M. Hou, W. Choi, Y. S. Woo, J. Y. Choi, Z. F. Liu, J. Zhang, Separation of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube arrays by “scotch tape”. Angewandte Chemie 50, 6819-6823 (2011)
G. Hong, B. Zhang, B. H. Peng, J. Zhang, W. M. Choi, J. Y. Choi, J. M. Kim, Z. F. Liu, Direct growth of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube array. Journal of American Chemical Society 131, 14642–14643 (2009)
B. Zhang, G. Hong, B. H. Peng, J. Zhang, W. Choi, J. M. Kim, J. Y. Choi, Z. F. Liu, Grow single-walled carbon nanotubes cross-bar in one batch. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113, 5341-5344 (2009)
Dr. Dan Liu UM Postdoc Fellowship (2018)
1. Ph. D. Positions (Open)
We have two Ph. D. openings in the area of graphene/low dimensional materials, flexible devices and energy storage for the fall semester of 2020. The scholarship (20000MOP/month or 12500MOP/month) will be determined according to the quality of applicants. Interested candidates should send Prof. G. Hong via e-mail a cover letter and CV.
Interested candidates can apply through Early Admission (for undergraduates) and Regular Admission (for undergraduates and postgraduates). Please visit the graduate school for detailed information (https://grs.um.edu.mo/index.php/prospective-students/registration/)
Minimum Requirements: Graduate from top universities (一流大学建设高校 or 一流学科建设高校)
2. Postdoc Position (Closed)
We have one postdoc opportunity in the area of graphene/low dimensional materials and/or flexible electronics or energy storage. The candidate should have received a PhD degree in an internationally recognized institution, typically in one of the following areas: materials science, physics, chemistry, and/or chemical engineering. Optimally, candidates with extensive knowledge of nanomaterials and energy storage are sought. Qualified candidate will receive a gross salary of 240,000~300,000 MOP with a tax of ~5%. The starting date is January 2019. Interested candidates should send email to Prof. G. Hong including a cover letter, CV, and the contact information of two references.
3. Advanced Postdoc Opportunity (Open)
UM Postdoc Fellowship: The gross salary of UM Postdoc Fellowship winner is 500,000 MOP/year for two years. Interested candidates should send email to Prof. G. Hong including a cover letter and CV before application. Please visit UM news for detailed information (https://www.um.edu.mo/news-centre/news-and-events/news-and-press-releases/detail/47191/)
Minimum Requirements: graduate from top universities (985 or equivalent), one publication with IF>10
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7digital What we said: Buoyed by the success of 2012’s Mercury Prize-nominated, Ivor Novello-approved Given To The Wild, The Maccabees bounded back into their South London studio with the aim of producing a swift follow-up. Six months of scrapped ideas later, it became clear that the five-piece would require a lengthier gestation period and a total change of tack creatively to conquer their writers’ block. Marks To Prove It bears the battle scars of that process in the best possible sense, setting emotions of frustration, hurt and hope amongst much cleaner arrangements that were clearly designed with live performance in mind. It’s this subtle evolution of their sound that makes all the difference, most notably on the beautifully-atmospheric ‘Kamakura’ and ‘Spit It Out’.
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IEA Legislative Update – February 17, 2017
Governor’s Budget Address
Gov. Rauner gave his Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget address on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Although the governor did not offer any specifics, he did state that education was a high priority. Consistent with that message, Gov. Rauner said he was offering a budget with full funding for General State Aid at the $6,119 level. He also addressed the need for full-funding for regular and vocational transportation. For higher education he said he supported an increase of 10 percent in funding to MAP (Monetary Assistance Program).
Despite those few highlights, there were a number of education cuts that the governor failed to address specifically. The result is a budget that is nearly $4.5 billion out of balance. The governor expressed hope the proposals in the senate package of bills would make up the difference. We will see.
FY18 Budget
The budget proposed called for spending of $37.3 million based on projected revenues of $32.7 million for FY18.
The governor proposed a state General Revenue Fund (GRF) appropriation of $7.7 billion to the Illinois State Board of Education for PreK-12 education, which is an increase of $262 million in GRF over FY17. Appropriations include:
Fully funding General State Aid at the current foundation level.
$145 million increase in regular/vocational transportation which will end proration.
$38 million increase for bilingual education which will end proration.
$50 million increase in the Early Childhood Block Grant which is in keeping with the commitment the state has made to leverage additional federal funding for early childhood education.
$5 million investment for district broadband expansion in order to leverage federal funds for technology.
Gov. Rauner proposed a $1.8 billion higher education budget, which is inclusive of community colleges, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, individual universities and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Appropriations include:
$1.08 billion to individual universities, which is equal to about 90 percent of the FY15 funding levels.
$363 million to the Illinois Community College Board, which includes $221.7 million to individual community colleges through the base equalization grant.
Performance based funding for both individual universities and community colleges which, according to the governor’s budget, “moves the state towards a funding model which recognizes the differences between each university rather than funding them all the same.”
A 10 percent, or $36 million increase in MAP grants for low-income students which can provide more than 12,000 additional grant awards.
In his budget, the governor proposed sweeping cuts to the pensions of active educators that participate in the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) and the State Universities Retirement System (SURS). His proposal mirrors the recently failed SB 11, sponsored by Senate President Cullerton (D-Chicago). The legislation failed in the Illinois Senate by a vote of 18-29-10. The legislation and the governor’s proposal would force current active employees that participate in TRS and SURS to choose between either giving up their 3 percent compounded retirement cost of living adjustment (COLA) to allow for future salary increases to continue to be pensionable, or keeping their COLA while future salary increases would not be used to calculate their future pension annuity.
The IEA, along with the We Are One Illinois Coalition, are firmly opposed to this proposal and believe these changes would be ruled unconstitutional as was the 2013 pension cutting bill, SB 1.
IEA is Protecting Funding for TRS, SURS and the Teachers’ Retirement Insurance Program (TRIP/TRAIL)
In the governor’s budget proposal he listed reductions to the required appropriations to TRS and SURS, and completely eliminated funding for TRIP/TRAIL. It is important to note that while the governor proposed reductions to TRS and SURS, along with the complete elimination of funding for TRIP/TRAIL, this is actually the third budget proposal in a row that he has made these types of budgetary proposals. The IEA is firmly committed to ensuring that the State meets its full funding obligations to these three items and will fight to protect the State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriations Act from being changed, since it requires the State to fully fund these three very important items regardless what the budget contains. The IEA has been successful at beating back these dramatic funding cuts in the past and will continue to work to do so moving forward.
Action is Needed
There has been a discussion about shifting the normal cost of pensions for TRS and SURS. The governor’s proposed budget included a provision that would shift pension costs from the state onto suburban/downstate school districts, universities and community colleges statewide. IEA is firmly opposed to this idea since it will further erode educational opportunities for students by diverting local dollars away from classrooms.
Help the IEA defeat this proposal by asking your state representative to co-sponsor HR 27 (McSweeney, R-Cary) and HR 38 (Skillicorn, R-Crystal Lake). Your local legislators contact information can be accessed here. Click here to view a fact sheet for these resolutions. A Senate resolution opposing the pension cost-shift will soon be introduced.
Bills Introduced but not Assigned to Committee
SB 1719 (Biss, D-Skokie) / HB 3393 (Welch, D-Westchester) imposes a privilege tax for hedge fund managers and private equity traders. PreK-12 education would receive $437 million from the tax revenue.
HB3522 (Martwick, D-Chicago) establishes a clear and increased funding stream for K-12, higher education and pensions through the resetting of sales, property and income taxes.
HB 3871 (Martwick, D-Chicago) provides that during times of fiscal distress the comptroller should prioritize education and human services payments ahead of financial services.
Mar. 17 – Bills out of Committee (Senate)
Mar. 31 – Bills out of Committee (House)
Apr. 28 – 3rd Reading deadline (both chambers)
May 12 – Deadline for House bills to get out of Senate Committee
May 19 – Deadline for Senate bills to get out of House Committee
May 26 – Final 3rd Reading deadline (both chambers)
May 31 – Adjournment
A schedule for each chamber can be found on the General Assembly website.
IEA Government Relations staff track education, revenue, pensions and labor bills through a variety of committees in the General Assembly. A list of the House and Senate Committees and members can be found on the General Assembly website.
The House will next be in session Wednesday, Feb. 22, when we anticipate legislative hearings to begin in earnest. To be connected to the latest information, “like” IEA on Facebook, follow IEANEA on Twitter and bookmark the IEA website.
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'''Dirk Bruere''' is an established UK based transhumanist with a history of involvement in affiliated projects and initiatives.
In the early 2000's he ran as a local political candidate for a futurist political party known as [[The Consensus]]. A founding member of [[Zero State]], he is interested in many of the philosophical and spirital implications of Transhumanism which he explored in his book [[The Praxis]] and [[TechnoMage]].
In the early 2000's he ran as a local political candidate for a futurist political party known as [[The Consensus]]. A co-founding member of [[Zero State]] with [[Amon Twyman]], he is interested in many of the philosophical and spirital implications of Transhumanism which he explored in his books [[The Praxis]] and [[TechnoMage]].
Today's projects include contributions to the [[Wave Chronicle]] and party secretary of [[Transhumanist Party (UK)]].
Today's projects include contributions to the [[Wave Chronicle]] and former party secretary of [[Transhumanist Party (UK)]].
He is an avid martial arts practitioner.
His background and journey with transhumanism are laid out in [https://medium.com/@dirk.bruere/why-i-am-a-transhumanist-2196e5ae2a7c#.j862hs8lx this blog post].
* [http://www.neopax.com/ neopax.com] - Personal site and projects index
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Today's projects include contributions to the Wave Chronicle and former party secretary of Transhumanist Party (UK).
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Apple iTunes to play last song
June 4, 2019 humaneafrica 0
Apple on Monday announced the demise of its groundbreaking iTunes platform in favor of three more tailored apps, as it refines its offerings to be a stage for digital music, films, podcasts and more.
iTunes transformed the way people buy and listen to music after its launch in 2001, but is now being phased out, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi said, while helping kick off the technology giant’s annual gathering of developers in Silicon Valley.
“The future of iTunes is not one app, it’s three,” Federighi said.
“Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.”
Since the launch of iTunes, lifestyles have shifted to streaming music, video and more from the internet cloud as online data centers and high-bandwidth connections gave rise to on-demand entertainment expectations.
The iTunes software let users manage and listen to music collections as well as buy digital versions of songs.
“There is no reason for iTunes to exist, period.” said Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi.
“If I want music, I have an the app. If I want TV, I have the app. That is how people are thinking today.”
The transformation of iTunes into three separate apps comes with Apple preparing the international launch of an eponymous TV+ later this year.
The new content will be available on an upgraded Apple TV app, which will be on smart television sets and third-party platforms including Roku and Amazon’s Fire TV.
The California company showed off its podcast app on Monday as well, and said that service would be tailored to work independently on its smartwatch.
Some features from iTunes will be melded into the other Apple apps.
It remains to be seen what will become of the iTunes version tailored for Windows-powered computers, or how people will be able to move music libraries they have amassed.
Software innovations and improvements revealed at the opening day of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) touched the company’s entire line-up from wrist-wear to iPhones and Car Play along with smart assistant Siri.
The innovations come as Apple shifts to emphasize digital content and other services to offset a pullback in the once-sizzling smartphone market, and with many news organizations struggling to monetize their online services.
Apple is aiming to leverage its position with about 900 million people worldwide who use at least one of its devices.
The packed WWDC audience cheered when executives spoke of improvements that promised to make it easier for one app to work across the array of devices.
Apple is apparently trying to get app makers looking beyond the iPhone to the company’s family of hardware with a message of “better together,” Milanesi reasoned.
“It is about the breadth of those devices together,” the analyst said.
As high-end Android-powered phones made by Google become more attractive to iPhone users, having apps that extend experiences across Apple Watch, iPad, TV and Mac help keep them loyal to the brand, according to Milanesi.
“Not only are you driving more engagement with Apple, you are lowering the risk of having users go elsewhere,” she said.
Next-generation iOS software powering iPhones coming out later this year was reworked “top to bottom” to be faster, according to Federighi.
Apple chief Tim Cook and other executives focused on privacy features of improved software across the range of devices.
Protections being added to iOS mobile operating software included the option of giving apps permission to access location just once, instead of all the time, and letting users know when apps are tracking their whereabouts.
A new “Sign In With Apple” feature will be launched as an alternative to logging in using Facebook or Google accounts.
“This can be convenient, but it can also come at the cost of your privacy,” Federighi said.
“These log-ins can be used to track you.”
The iOS log-in feature will let people sign into apps using AppleID information, but provides the option of masking user names or email addresses with randomly generated information.
“The entire experience is meant to help you have control over your data,” Federighi said, to applause.
“A lot of love for random addresses here.”
Apple also announced changes that will make iPads easier to use as auxiliary screens for Mac computers, and even perform a bit more like laptops themselves with capabilities like multiple windows operating simultaneously.
The company unveiled a new Mac Pro high-performance desktop computer aimed at professionals, with a starting price of $5,999.
Apple previewed its iOS 13 for mobile devices, which includes a “dark mode” display, an upgraded maps application and faster access through its facial recognition sign-on.
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Welcome to IHP!
Welcome to the Future of Health Caring (5:23)
The World Needs You (24:52)
How to Move Through the IHP Certification (21:16)
What You Will Be Mastering (38:02)
Do This - Not That (8:05)
Support When You Need It (9:21)
The 7 Branches of IHP (55:09)
Diet Bio-Individualization
Clearing the Confusion Around Diet (39:28)
The Foundation of All Diets (48:45)
Weight Loss Diet Plans (37:30)
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Advanced Fasting Protocols (36:09)
Protocols for Rebuilding Digestion (25:52)
Food Sensitivity Desensitization (22:54)
Module 2 Quiz: Diet
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Introduction to Exercise Programming (20:15)
The 7 Benefits of Exercise (27:24)
The Exercise Dilemma (31:01)
Individual Exercise Program Overviews (15:10)
What Type of Exercise to Recommend (GEP) (39:45)
Choosing the Right Program (41:33)
Module 3 Quiz: Exercise
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The 3 Causes of Stress (19:01)
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The Steroidal Hormone Pathway Explained (31:55)
How Stress Short Circuits the Female Hormones (21:25)
How Stress Shuts Down the Thyroid (19:44)
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At-Home Stress Testing & Functional Medicine Labs (31:01)
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Why Toxins Matter More Than Ever (37:43)
What Toxins to Watch Out For (30:19)
Use This, Not That (Product Reviews) (48:07)
The Main Benefits of Removing Toxins (41:40)
How to Remove Stored Toxins Safely (42:24)
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The Autonomic Nervous System Explained (40:49)
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How the Nervous Disrupts Digestion & The Gut (31:28)
The Reason the SNS & Brain Burns Out the Body (45:10)
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Where Do Rhinos Stand After CITES CoP 18?
Date: September 9, 2019Author: rhinosirf 0 Comments
RHINO RECAP
Spirited and sometimes heated discussions wrapped up last week at the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES. Representatives from nearly every country on Earth gathered in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss trade issues pertaining not only to charismatic megavertebrates like rhinos and elephants, but also to species ranging from otters to sturgeons to corals and a variety of plants. The Parties also devoted significant time to discuss combating wildlife crime.
WHAT IS CITES AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
Global cooperation is essential for monitoring and regulating trade for critically endangered species, like rhino. Illegal wildlife trade involves multiple countries and enforcing laws across shared borders. The US, the UK, and a number of other countries have elevated wildlife crime to the same level as terrorism and other high-profile international crimes.
There are 183 country signatories to CITES. The Conference of the Parties (CoP) convenes every 3 years, and includes the signatory countries as well as non-voting observers like the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), TRAFFIC, IRF, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and others. The European Union votes as regional block of 28, with great influence on proposal approval.
CITES signatory nations are legally bound by CoP agreements, which means that they must uphold CITES recommendations by enacting and enforcing their country’s laws to control and manage wildlife trade.
CITES oversees international agreements on trade for more than 35,000 plant and animal species, based on specific criteria.
CITES breaks down the degree of trade regulation based on three Appendices:
Appendix I: all trade in these species is illegal because trade could lead to extinction (example: tigers).
Appendix II: these species are not necessarily immediately threatened with extinction, but unregulated trade could risk their survival in the wild (example: American ginseng).
Appendix III: these species are listed because one country has asked CITES for assistance in controlling the trade (example: alligator snapping turtles in the U.S.)
Black (Dicerorhinus bircornis spp.), greater one-horned (Rhinoceros unicornis), Javan (Rhinoceros sondaicus), and Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) are afforded protection under CITES Appendix I. White rhinos are protected under Appendix II.
The CITES Standing Committee is responsible for providing general policy and operational direction to the CITES Secretariat regarding implementation of CITES. In preparation for the CoP, the Standing Committee, along with TRAFFIC and the IUCN African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups develops critical rhino-related reports that cover conservation and horn trade information for each of the five rhino species, and which draw numerous conclusions. Click here to read the full report of the CITES Standing Committee and the joint TRAFFIC/IUCN document on rhinoceros.
CoP 18 RHINO PROPOSALS
Three rhino proposals were brought before the Parties by Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Namibia, and South Africa:
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to allow Eswatini unrestricted international commercial trade in all specimens of its white rhino population, their horn and products. The population is currently included in Appendix II.
Eswatini holds white rhinos in its Hlane Royal National Park and Mkhaya Game Reserve. A brutal 3-year drought caused the population to plummet from 90 animals in 2015 to 66 today. The country’s white rhinos were moved to an annotated CITES Appendix II in 2004. Eswatini proposed that proceeds from horn trade would be used to protect the country’s rhino populations against criminal poaching networks; to improve park staff remuneration; fund additional infrastructure and equipment, range expansion, to pay for supplementary food during periods of drought; and to provide for sustainable long-term development to strengthen species protection and other nature conservation initiatives, while also benefiting local communities.
DECISION: Rejected, 202 to 25, with seven abstentions.
to allow Namibia to conduct live trade in southern white rhinos to appropriate destinations.
At the end of 2017, Namibia held 975 southern white rhinos – the second largest population in Africa. Namibia’s white rhino population continues to grow at a rate of 6.7% each year (including imports).Namibia’s proposal requested that CITES to change the status of its white rhino population from Appendix I to Appendix II. This change, according to the proposal, would allow the international trade in “live animals to appropriate and acceptable destinations” and legally hunted trophies.
DECISION: Rejected, 82 to 39. Some Southern African Development Community (SADC), including Namibia and Botswana, have threatened to withdraw from CITES because of the influence of non-state players. SADC has 16 member states which include Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among others.
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to allow South Africa to change its trophy hunting system for black rhinos.
South Africa’s three black rhino subspecies have increased from approximately 800 animals in 1992 to 2,046 at the end of 2017. To-date, however, rhino population numbers for 2018 and 2019 have not been publicly released by South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs. A number of experts question the accuracy of the survey methodology (block counts) and, this proposal hinges on accurate population counts. The proposal requests that South Africa’s export quota for black rhino (Diceros bicornis spp.) hunting trophies be changed from five adult males to a total number of adult males not exceeding 0.5% of the country’s total black rhino population.South Africa noted their objectives for the quota increase:1. Expanding the species’ range in South Africa through incentivizing the keeping and protection of viable populations of black rhino.2. Increasing/maintaining productive population growth rates through the offtake of surplus males.
DECISION: Approved with amendments. This establishes an annual export quota of five hunting trophies of adult male black rhinoceros and a total number of hunting trophies of adult males not exceeding 0.5% of the country’s current total black rhino population in the year of the export (equally applied to all three subspecies, essentially 0.5% of the total population of each of the three subspecies); South Africa will set a minimum science-based threshold for black rhinoceros populations, below which the above quota shall not apply (no detail was provided as to how the threshold is to be calculated).
Ensure that governments are held accountable for their commitments as CITES signatories by writing to your legislators, or your country’s national management authority contact (found here).
For people living in the United States, write or call your congressional representatives (search here) urging more serious efforts to impose trade sanctions under the Pelly Amendment, against countries that are not doing enough to block illegal wildlife trade. Pelly Amendment petitions are currently under review by the US government for Vietnam and Mozambique for their roles in illegal wildlife trade.
Encourage your representatives to consider that maintaining land for wildlife in Africa requires substantial funding which, if it is not coming from contentious land-use options such as trading animal products or safari hunting rhinos and other charismatic species, needs to come from greater financial commitments from developed countries such as the US and European nations.
You can also support IRF in its efforts to fight rhino poaching and the illegal wildlife trade.
Thank you, as ever, for your belief in our work.
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Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF
Zhe Chen, William D. Singer, Clark Wells, Stephen R. Sprang, Paul C. Sternweis
Structural requirements for function of the Rho GEF (guanine nucleotide exchange factor) regulator of G protein signaling (rgRGS) domains of p115RhoGEF and homologous exchange factors differ from those of the classical RGS domains. An extensive mutagenesis analysis of the p115RhoGEF rgRGS domain was undertaken to determine its functional interface with the Gα13 subunit. Results indicate that there is global resemblance between the interaction surface of the rgRGS domain with Gα13 and the interactions of RGS4 and RGS9 with their Gα substrates. However, there are distinct differences in the distribution of functionally critical residues between these structurally similar surfaces and an additional essential requirement for a cluster of negatively charged residues at the N terminus of rgRGS. Lack of sequence conservation within the N terminus may also explain the lack of GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity in a subset of the rgRGS domains. For all mutations, loss of functional GAP activity is paralleled by decreases in binding to Gα13. The same mutations, when placed in the context of the p115RhoGEF molecule, produce deficiencies in GAP activity as observed with the rgRGS domain alone but show no attenuation of the regulation of Rho exchange activity by Gα13. This suggests that the rgRGS domain may serve a structural or allosteric role in the regulation of the nucleotide exchange activity of p115RhoGEF on Rho by Gα13.
Journal of Biological Chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M212695200
Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
GTP-Binding Protein Regulators
GTP-Binding Proteins
GTPase-Activating Proteins
Protein Domains
Chen, Z., Singer, W. D., Wells, C., Sprang, S. R., & Sternweis, P. C. (2003). Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(11), 9912-9919. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M212695200
Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF. / Chen, Zhe; Singer, William D.; Wells, Clark; Sprang, Stephen R.; Sternweis, Paul C.
In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 278, No. 11, 14.03.2003, p. 9912-9919.
Chen, Z, Singer, WD, Wells, C, Sprang, SR & Sternweis, PC 2003, 'Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 278, no. 11, pp. 9912-9919. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M212695200
Chen Z, Singer WD, Wells C, Sprang SR, Sternweis PC. Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003 Mar 14;278(11):9912-9919. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M212695200
Chen, Zhe ; Singer, William D. ; Wells, Clark ; Sprang, Stephen R. ; Sternweis, Paul C. / Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003 ; Vol. 278, No. 11. pp. 9912-9919.
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abstract = "Structural requirements for function of the Rho GEF (guanine nucleotide exchange factor) regulator of G protein signaling (rgRGS) domains of p115RhoGEF and homologous exchange factors differ from those of the classical RGS domains. An extensive mutagenesis analysis of the p115RhoGEF rgRGS domain was undertaken to determine its functional interface with the Gα13 subunit. Results indicate that there is global resemblance between the interaction surface of the rgRGS domain with Gα13 and the interactions of RGS4 and RGS9 with their Gα substrates. However, there are distinct differences in the distribution of functionally critical residues between these structurally similar surfaces and an additional essential requirement for a cluster of negatively charged residues at the N terminus of rgRGS. Lack of sequence conservation within the N terminus may also explain the lack of GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity in a subset of the rgRGS domains. For all mutations, loss of functional GAP activity is paralleled by decreases in binding to Gα13. The same mutations, when placed in the context of the p115RhoGEF molecule, produce deficiencies in GAP activity as observed with the rgRGS domain alone but show no attenuation of the regulation of Rho exchange activity by Gα13. This suggests that the rgRGS domain may serve a structural or allosteric role in the regulation of the nucleotide exchange activity of p115RhoGEF on Rho by Gα13.",
author = "Zhe Chen and Singer, {William D.} and Clark Wells and Sprang, {Stephen R.} and Sternweis, {Paul C.}",
publisher = "American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc.",
T1 - Mapping the Gα13 binding interface of the rgRGS domain of p115RhoGEF
AU - Chen, Zhe
AU - Singer, William D.
AU - Wells, Clark
AU - Sprang, Stephen R.
AU - Sternweis, Paul C.
N2 - Structural requirements for function of the Rho GEF (guanine nucleotide exchange factor) regulator of G protein signaling (rgRGS) domains of p115RhoGEF and homologous exchange factors differ from those of the classical RGS domains. An extensive mutagenesis analysis of the p115RhoGEF rgRGS domain was undertaken to determine its functional interface with the Gα13 subunit. Results indicate that there is global resemblance between the interaction surface of the rgRGS domain with Gα13 and the interactions of RGS4 and RGS9 with their Gα substrates. However, there are distinct differences in the distribution of functionally critical residues between these structurally similar surfaces and an additional essential requirement for a cluster of negatively charged residues at the N terminus of rgRGS. Lack of sequence conservation within the N terminus may also explain the lack of GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity in a subset of the rgRGS domains. For all mutations, loss of functional GAP activity is paralleled by decreases in binding to Gα13. The same mutations, when placed in the context of the p115RhoGEF molecule, produce deficiencies in GAP activity as observed with the rgRGS domain alone but show no attenuation of the regulation of Rho exchange activity by Gα13. This suggests that the rgRGS domain may serve a structural or allosteric role in the regulation of the nucleotide exchange activity of p115RhoGEF on Rho by Gα13.
AB - Structural requirements for function of the Rho GEF (guanine nucleotide exchange factor) regulator of G protein signaling (rgRGS) domains of p115RhoGEF and homologous exchange factors differ from those of the classical RGS domains. An extensive mutagenesis analysis of the p115RhoGEF rgRGS domain was undertaken to determine its functional interface with the Gα13 subunit. Results indicate that there is global resemblance between the interaction surface of the rgRGS domain with Gα13 and the interactions of RGS4 and RGS9 with their Gα substrates. However, there are distinct differences in the distribution of functionally critical residues between these structurally similar surfaces and an additional essential requirement for a cluster of negatively charged residues at the N terminus of rgRGS. Lack of sequence conservation within the N terminus may also explain the lack of GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity in a subset of the rgRGS domains. For all mutations, loss of functional GAP activity is paralleled by decreases in binding to Gα13. The same mutations, when placed in the context of the p115RhoGEF molecule, produce deficiencies in GAP activity as observed with the rgRGS domain alone but show no attenuation of the regulation of Rho exchange activity by Gα13. This suggests that the rgRGS domain may serve a structural or allosteric role in the regulation of the nucleotide exchange activity of p115RhoGEF on Rho by Gα13.
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Modern Behavioral Traits
Defining behavioral modernity depends on the consideration that behaviorally modern traits are based off of records derived from Western Europe during the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic eras (Nowell 2010: 440). Therefore, they are not universal and there has been considerable protest against applying them universally because these traits do not hold true for Africa at this same time period. It is because of this distinction that this paper will focus on behavioral modernity in the genus Homo as directly associated with the application of symbolic behaviors and technological innovativeness.
McBrearty and Brooks (2000) suggest that behavior drove the anatomical changes seen in the archaeological record, and that behaviors developed gradually over time and space. They list four characteristics that are inherently modern behaviors: [1] Abstract thinking, the ability to act with reference to abstract concepts not limited in time or space. [2] Planning depth, the ability to formulate strategies based on past experience and to act upon them in a group context. [3] Behavioral, economic and technological innovativeness. 4] Symbolic behavior, the ability to represent objects, people, and abstract concepts with arbitrary symbols, vocal or visual, and to reify such symbols in cultural practice [McBrearty & Brooks 2000:492]. It is this last trait (symbolic behavior) that the majority of scholars define as modern behavior (Nowell 2010: 441), however some like Mellars (1989) place emphasis on technological innovativeness. The archaeological evidence of these traits can be divided into four groups: ecology, technology, economic and social organization, and symbolic behavior.
Ecology consists of extending range usage and increasing diet breadth. Technology consists of “use of new materials such as bone, standardization of tool forms, evidence of hafting, and composite tools; the development of specialized tools” (Nowell 2010: 440). Economic and social organization would include long distance trading. Symbolic behavior includes personal adornment, art, “and burials with grave goods” (Nowell 2010: 440). Tangible evidence in the archaeological record support the behavioral shifts toward modernity mentioned above.
Ties to “hominid cognitive and cultural capabilities” (McBrearty & Brooks 2000: 492) further evidential support. To support the statement above a discussion on the development of these traits is necessary. Planning depth is demonstrated through emergence of abilities such as manipulating new environments to perceived needs while combined use of technological features demonstrates inventiveness and logical thinking. Symbolic features imbue meaning to abstract concepts and experiences. Other economic and social features demonstrate the ability to draw on experience, both group and individual.
These experiences aid in the formulation of constructing formalized relationships, and understanding, as well as, predicting the future. Technological Innovativeness The greatest piece of technology associated with the development of modern humans is stone tools. Homo sapiens introduced tools to the European Upper Paleolithic when they migrated to Europe. Stone tools are considered a key ingredient in the “Human Revolution Model”. “In South Africa, the makers of MSA industries routinely manufactured blades from a variety of core types.
This technology was clearly in place by 120kya, but its beginnings are poorly constrained temporally” (McBrearty and Brooks 2000: 495). During the African MSA, many regional point styles are represented, and in tropical areas predate those of Europe. In addition to the use of stone tools, MSA people had greater planning depth and intensified their use of resources. There was a progressive expansion in diet breadth between MSA and LSA, as a response to increased population. Through the proliferation of stone tools throughout history overtime they become specialized.
April Nowell presents Mellars (1989: 340-45) argument emphasizing technological innovativeness, listing the following traits: A transition from flake to blade technologies, the appearance of specialized tool types such as burins and endscrapers, the rapid proliferation of novel tool types, the extensive use of artifacts from nonlithic materials (e. g. , bone, antler, ivory), and an increase in the degree of the standardization of tool types” [Nowell 2010: 440]. These changes in tool technology occurred in a multitude of environments, no longer limited to areas near water.
Each of Mellars’ traits listed for technological innovativeness occur through specialization of tools. Symbolic Behavior Wadley (2001) believed that it was “symbolic use of space and material culture to define social relationships” (201). Chase (1999, 2001, 2006) agrees with this sentiment and adds that it is at this point when symbolic behaviors affect material culture that the shift is detectable. Symbolic behavior presents in various forms: The creation of art, caring for the ill, and the intentional burial of the dead.
All of these symbolic practices can be evidenced in the archeological record, for example; art is seen in cave drawings. Caring for the ill can be seen in the skeletal record when an individual is shown to have some kind of malformation but lives to a ripe old age. Symbolic burial is seen in the presence of grave goods and other symbols that imply an intentional burial for reasons other than hiding the smell. The earliest evidence for symbolic burial dates to 350,000 years ago, a pink axe.
The discovery of this pink axe made of quartzite rock that gives it its distinct color was found in a burial of Homo heidelbergensis in northern Spain. Some theorists do not fully accept this claim of symbolic association because it is possible that the material is secondary deposit, possibly deposited there because of mudflow. If deposited by mudflow than the pink axe is simply another type of tool and not evidence for symbolic thinking. This evidence suggests that abstract thinking occurred long before previously thought; it was previously believed that abstract thought began with Homo neandertalensis. (Rincon 2003).
It is believed that the creation of the pink axe can be viewed as the first evidence of symbolic (ritual) behavior, because of the color; the color was something that was not readily available. In addition to the pink axe there are other examples in the archaeological record supporting abstract or symbolic thought through burials. “In Africa, deliberate burials of Middle Pleistocene hominids are absent. The cut marks on the temporal bone of the Bodo cranium, however, indicate defleshing with a stone tool (White, 1986), and suggest either cannibalism or a post mortem ritualized treatment of the skull” (McBrearty and Brooks 2000: 520).
Overall, symbolic behavior can manifest in many ways; from intentional burials to grave goods to other forms of art and caring for the ill. Conclusion Behavioral modernity in the genus Homo consists of different traits depending on whom you ask. According to McBrearty and Brooks four traits are seen as behaviorally modern: abstract thinking, planning depth, technological innovativeness, and symbolic behavior. These characteristics attributed to modernity by McBrearty and Brooks are in agreement with other scholars; however emphasis varies.
In addition, to scholarly thought the archaeological record also supports these characteristics. Technological innovativeness was presented in the context of tool usage as considered one of the main points signifying modern behavior. The other modern behavior for the genus Homo presented here was symbolic behavior. Symbolic behavior is represented in the archaeological record primarily through burials, in both the representation of grave goods and intentional burial. It has become clear that what we consider behavioral modernity began much further back in history than previously thought.
In addition, there is still no consensus on which traits are more important and whether one can be considered behaviorally modern if they posses only some of the traits and not all. Bibliography Chase, P. G. 1999 Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture. In The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View, ed. RIM Dunbar, C Knight, C Power, pp. 34-99. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2001 “Symbolism” is two different phenomena: implications for archaeology and paleontology. In Humanity From African Naissance to Coming in Millennia, Colloquia in Human Biology and Paleoanthropology, ed.
PV Tobias, MA Raath, J Moggi-Cecchi, GA Doyle, pp. 199-212. Florence: Firenze University Press. 2006 The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life. New York: Springer Clark, Geoffrey. 2002. Paul Anthony Mellars- an Appreciation. McBrearty, Sally and Brooks, Alison. 2000. The revolution that wasn’t: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 453-563. Mellars, P. 1989 Technological Changes at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in south- west France. In The Explanation of Culture-Change, ed.
C Renfrew, pp. 255- 76, London: Duckworth. Novell, April 2010 Defining Behavioral Modernity in the Context of Neandertal and Anatomically Modern Human Populations. Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 437-52. Rincon, Paul 2003 Evidence of Earliest Human Burial. BBC News 26 March. Wadley, L. 2001 What is cultural modernity? A general view and a South African perspective from Rose Cottage Cave. Cambr. Archaeology Journal 11 (2): 201-21. White, T. D. 1986 Cutmarks on the Bodo cranium: a case of prehistoric defleshing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69: 503-509.
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Poetry in crisis
Rob Halpern and Keston Sutherland
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Common Place
Rob Halpern
Ugly Duckling Presse 2015, 168 pages, $14.00 ISBN 978-1937027384
Poetical Works 1999–2015
Keston Sutherland
Enitharmon Press 2015, 382 pages, £20.00 ISBN 978-1907587900
Stuart Hall, Brian Roberts, John Clarke, et al. write in Policing the Crisis (1978) that during the slow unfolding of crisis there is “a stripping away of the masks of neutrality.”[1] With the masks slipping off in our respective post-Trump and Brexit horizons, liberal commentators on both sides of the Atlantic stammer about how to put all this excess hatred back in the box, as if we could just return to business as usual. As liberal governance makes way for increasingly authoritarian rule, the specter of the outsider can be understood as the projection of the cause of suffering onto the wrong object. However, the state is not only upheld by the legal and extra-legal violence of its border and police systems, but also by the control exercised through the extremity of exceptional violence. There was an important precedent to our current moment. Contained at great distance, the exclusion and detainment at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib served, and serves, to strengthen the imperial might of Western sovereign power. Only the state can have a legal monopoly on violence. Everything else is the terror of disorder.[2]
How to write a poetry that faces the continual crisis and extremity of violence within contemporary capitalism? This is a question that orients the work of two writers, the US poet Rob Halpern and the British poet Keston Sutherland. If capitalism enforces a system of competition that unleashes intense hatred onto the dispossessed rather than the dispossessors, both Halpern and Sutherland have written work that ruminates on what it means to attempt to love a “wrong” object. Their work asks, what does it mean to love in a world that is conditioned by exceptional violence? Halpern and Sutherland are both indebted to Marxian and psychoanalytic understandings of the relation between the libido and economy, often explored through the extremity of violence in contemporary imperial conquests. This is what Halpern terms in Common Place the complicity of “military cargo my skin / Now shares.”[3] Or, as Keston Sutherland writes in “Song of The Wanking Iraqi” (2004), collected in Poetical Works 1999–2015, “the army is the tongue you stick out.”[4]
Whilst their work has its important and significant distinctions, they attend to the extremities of the overlapping drives of Eros and Thanatos. A key way of understanding their respective work is that they aim at a poetics of intensity. This could be imagined as the playing out of libidinal drives in meter. Their work switches through the ardent release at the threshold of instinctual renunciation. This intensity, however, is often not solely that of the biographical figure of the poet. Their poetry often works through the imagined and misplaced “incorrect” desires that could be said to both characterize and critique the contradictions of power in class society. To give just one example, in “Roger Ailes” from Sutherland’s Neocosis (2004): “I get down to the unspoiled protoplasm of his eros” (192), “his” being that of the now-deceased former head of Fox News and general purveyor of hatred named in the poem’s title. What the poem works through is how “all my / life is possession, and possession I know is a lie” (197).
Halpern’s Common Place continues the conceptual drive of his previous collections, including Music for Porn (2012) and Disaster Suites (2009),by setting up a lyric relation towards an imagined love object. After Music for Porn explored the desire for the body of the American soldier, Common Place predominantly contains and holds the “Gitmo” detainee as the object of its lyric attention. In the section “Correspondences” there is a series of letter-poems to named detainees, such as:
Dear Muhammed Ahmad ~
There must be a total incompatibility between the idea
Of sending you this letter and the dream of the poem it
-self annuls the difference btwn realist & utopian desire
Being no difference at all I keep dreaming of objects they
Bewilder me a cop a soldier a detainee love’s radical promise
Blocked at the site of its deviation a square a cell a sentence (100)
The address locates the poem in the realm of realism, which the second line of the poem immediately ruptures. The rest of the poem could be seen as calling into question the very ideal form of lyric address it simultaneously constructs, to work through how desire for a love object is complicit with systems of power. Across Halpern’s work the named and unnamed love object functions as a placeholder for any possible social relation as such. In “A Note on These Proceedings” desire is articulated as “if love’s realization implies a revolution in the very structure of our life-world signaling the end of a truth whose universality forever false hangs on the death of every particular, then his body demands a love I can barely even intimate” (71–72). The intense erotic desire for “my detainee” is a highly ambivalent one (73). There is a common misconception in the reading of this work that the desire held for the wrong object is imagined to be a corrective; through “true” love for an incorrect object a world of universal falsehood can be overcome through a utopian desire.[5] In this kind of reading queer desire is a double negative. It is perhaps rather the case that the expression of desire for the imagined body is worked through in a poetic language that serves to use the lyric standpoint to reveal Eros’s entanglement with power. Rather than there existing “true” and “false” desires, desire as such is as equally imbricated with utopian potentiality as it is with the trappings of power and oppression. Even though the imago of the detainee is still imagined from the remnants of real brutality — as Halpern writes, “My bladder floats in the same somatic void from which his meat’s been drawn, quartered and sublimed into a medium where love destroys its object, failing to distinguish opposites” (39) — this love demanding intimacy is aware it is an obliterative one. The lesson for social transformation in Halpern’s poetry is that striving toward the promise of a better world will necessitate navigating and escaping regimes of power; these regimes may even be reproduced in our own behavior.
While the conceptual imagining of a love object is not the professed lynchpin of a poetic project in Sutherland’s work, several of the collections collated in Poetical Works 1999–2015 similarly work through the lyrical exertions of desire within the world of global capitalist supply chains. In Stress Position, syntax is reconfigured as a kind of torturous endurance. The collection includes a section where one of the speakers of the poem is sexually assaulted by skinheads in the toilet of a McDonald’s, possibly in Iraq’s Green Zone — “I alone will / forever dream the loss of you, my analgesic fascists” (242). In “Falling in Love Cream Crab” from Neocosis — a poem that presents its ambiguous relation to the wrong in the grammar of its title — this world is “a life aflame in the shark shit, / only now forever” (190). Sutherland’s breakthrough collection is the 2007 long poem Hot White Andy (J. H. Prynne gave it perhaps the rather backhanded compliment of calling it “The Waste Land”of the twenty-first century), which takes as its romantic focus Andy Cheng, a factory floor manager from the city of Wuhan, China, found by the poet using Google. Having written many poems focusing on US imperial might in Antifreeze and Neocosis, China demarcates the supposed waning of US hegemony as a way for Sutherland to attempt to switch the focus of his poetry. In Hot White Andy the lyric voice expresses “I need / but will not have you” (227) and “I speak to you. You are impossible to forget, / the face ecstasy screams under / lighting the world you damage and repossess” (227). This impossible love object is the haunting memory of, presumably, a former love and also the universal damage of a dispossessing force.
For Sutherland, love is “the provisional end until death; / TL61P its unconditional perfected shadow / opposite” (308). In both Halpern’s and Sutherland’s work, the shadowy underside of the ends of love and death is the universal rule of commodities, where, as Marx put it, “persons exist for one another merely as representatives of, and, therefore as owners of, commodities.”[6] This false universality enforces the condition of competition and the violence that are necessary to maintain the rule of capital. In Sutherland’s The Odes to TL61P the product code for an obsolete tumble dryer is a stand-in (or, in Halpern’s words, a placeholder) for the mediation of human desire by the universal rule of the commodity form as such. These urges overspill into emphatic proclamations of love, such as in section II of ode 2, where
[…] for all the time you wait and break or mend to die will only make the memory of difficult passionate love still more occult and tender faces disappear as lost mist leaves a mirror clear to vanish permanently diminish not so passingly as love must in a slighted head shut up in dreams admired instead of shed like jobs to multiply the way out by the inward cry for fleecy care or finny drove or feather’d youth or all my love or scaly breed since with that shit Iraq in general must grit its icy core of heart and mind in not just spectral abstract rind but profit for the vested rim who mass produce the phantom limb rip open markets in despair mock cannibals who bite the air rinse spit and flush their sacred founts and whine about the body counts. (308)
Whereas parts of the book are in meter, in this section the poetry is arranged into justified prose blocks. Within these prose blocks are the crushed remnants of poetic tradition, like Alfred Prufrock trapped and screaming in a refuse compactor. It is a common feature of Sutherland’s poetry that it stretches and works through an identified literary history. Bits of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Pope, and many others work their way into his verse and are subjected to various kinds of détournement. In this section the identifiable end-rhyme scheme compacted in the prose block “haunts” the reader’s attention as if it were a phantom limb of poetic tradition. The form speeds up the reading process. The lack of punctuation forces the eye from one clause to the next. This accelerated verse produces an intensity whereby the reader struggles to follow the pileup of images. The echoes of internal rhyme create a dissonance between the words’ aural quality and their referents. This rhyme implies a Pope-influenced Georgic — a poetic style from a period of nascent capitalism — crossmatched with images from the violence of Iraq as imperial conquest: “profit for the vested rim who mass produce the phantom limb.” All of this creates a shadowy agency of compounded objectivity and subjectivity, what Marx described as a “bewitched, distorted and upside-down world,” where people are ruled by things.[7]
Across his oeuvre, Sutherland’s poetry works by abrading the poignancy of the particular through a comic and abject bathos. Consider the opening lines of “Reindeer” from The Stats on Infinity:
It’s late Spring, and the spiraling
sun leaves a glow across the thriving earth
and eight million reindeer head north
loose through dark snow
to mate with eight million zombies on ecstasy
who will not eat you because they are not hungry
to mutter of old men’s voices,
and we waste our smart bombs on the wedding carpet (289)
A clear influence on the style of this poem is Frank O’Hara. The declarative and descriptive tone sets the poem in a phantasmagorical scenario, which then gets broken by the interjection of the increasingly banal or absurd. In distinction to O’Hara, this tone of the ridiculous is broken by a fiercer inference of political violence: “we waste our smart bombs on the wedding carpet” is a phrase wrought with a grimacing irony, one where there is no payoff for “getting it.” Poets such as Ezra Pound or J. H. Prynne have similarly reprimanded the barbarisms of modernity, the horror of war, or the stupidity of exchange. However, throughout Pound’s work, among the descriptions of horror and stupefaction, there are threads of a Dantean light. This stress on the beauty of the particular is what Sutherland’s bathetic humorous insistence on “a life aflame in the shark shit” works to undermine. This is because this poetry aims to make the reader aware how complicit all of their possible actions or relations to the world are with an extremely complex and violent divisions of labor. The poetry of Prynne, Sutherland’s former teacher, urges an ethic certainty such that the reader is compelled to take a stand towards reality that depends upon exercising vigilance. This is related to poetry as a form of knowledge production, a certain kind of understanding of the world formed through the reader’s attention. For Sutherland an adequate understanding of the world — as a particular kind of poetic knowledge production — is never enough because, as Marx argued, it is marked in the very fetish-character of the commodity, that understanding it does not make any moves towards overcoming its cruelty. Like O’Hara’s work, there is a generosity in Sutherland’s poetry in that it does not require full comprehension for the reader to find a way in (although there may be no escape route).
Alongside the use of bathos, in Sutherland’s work the stress on the beauty of the particular, or the necessity of ethic vigilance, is replaced by an ambivalent Romantic ardency, one of subjective overextension. The Odes to TL61P represents a poet’s attempt to put as much of their uninhibited thinking into a poem as is possible. The work is accordingly fascinated with the presentation of all kinds of wrong desires, forbidden thoughts, and sexuality at the borderline. Through doing so, it has arguably constructed an impasse in his writing; one that he has been unable, to date, to work through. There is a searing, bathetic intensity to Neocosis, Hot White Andy, and Stress Position that is not maintained in The Odes to TL61P. I would argue that perhaps there is an eager slip into an unabashed, Romantic ode form that lacks the self-imposed metrical restraint of the preceding work; this exaggeration of the perversity of subjective desire, rather than holding a mirror to exploitation and oppression, can risk celebrating the fact of wrong desires as such.
In Halpern’s work the selection of a wrong object is a way of working through how and what kind of intimacy might be possible in a world of universal falsehood, what capacity for love as “A haptic rose, my dead giveaway” (65). Two tensions abrade each other in these lines, the romantic gift of bloodshot intensity and the revelation of a morbid fantasy for a corpse. Halpern wrote some sections of Common Place having worked through the autopsy reports of a Guantanamo detainee who committed suicide — “The body viewed thru a cell window where he lay / Not breathing” (138). The commonness of this body is its distinction; it is an open secret of our shared condition. Occurring out of sight, it is an image detained, where its suspension is a sexual secret, the perversity of hatred’s musculature. Like Sutherland, Halpern wants the reader to be put into a circulation of images of violence where one’s own complicity with such violence is inescapable. However, the desire for love as an erotic relation of commonality within conditions of violence draws upon barely mentioned histories of specifically queer experience (the AIDS crisis is part of the condition from which this work has emerged). There is in his work a “hapticality”— as Fred Moten and Stefano Harney call “the capacity to feel through others” — of capital’s rhythm against bodies, the laying hold of skin upon skin.[8] This intimacy rests in Moten and Harney’s understanding of the haptic’s ambiguous relation to violence. In a politics of blackness or queerness, violence is the inaugural condition of subjectivity as such, but even within that violence there must be a true intimacy or care, some possible commonality. In Halpern’s work, however, there is a push beyond Moten and Harney’s haptic. Among this violence, need for care, and manipulation of need, the question that hangs suspended from it is what do we do with our hatred?
Halpern’s poetry contains a metadiscursive critique of subjective expression. The lyric voice takes a step back from its wildly impulsive erotic and phallocentric thrust to express doubt at these urges having any kind of resistance to domination at all. At the beginning of “Demon of Analogy” the voice expresses, “Now that I’ve written these things, I’m beginning to realize that my detainee is but one in a series of substitutes for someone else” (90). Halpern’s more recent poetry in Touching Voids In Sense (2017) starts to raise questions more directly about what it means to be queer and to have survived or outlived the sick through traversing how his work has depended on the logic of substitution. It is one of the strengths of Common Place that performatively wrong desire can be subjected to scrutiny after the point of its expression. The writing could be seen as a charting of how desire and political critique may be imagined to coexist outside as well as inside poetry. Poetry like that of Halpern and Sutherland urges us to think through how if we really do demand and desire an end to a world of universal falsity and domination, we must be capable of confronting the fact that it will take both our impulsive urges and their regulation and self-critique to overcome it. As Theodor Adorno said, there is no possibility for right life within the wrong, but as is often missed with the parroting of this phrase, for those who wish to end the reign of wrong life there must be a standpoint towards the wrong that demands an end to suffering. The world is full of damaged subjects expressing wrong desires. Emancipatory politics must work out the extent to which toward wrong desires may be symptomatic of the wrong, and scaled up and down class relations. But to purport that subjectivity is identical to wrongness is surely to eternalize domination, the domination of human life by private property.
While the work of Halpern and Sutherland could be reproached for saying too much, for overstepping ethical boundaries, what is significant with any such criticism of this work is that it is made in its context. It is often the case that the work of both poets builds up to dizzying intensity of proclamation, of an ardent belief or revolutionary desire for overcoming the wrong world. This is often undone within the poems through ethical failure as a kind of self-sabotage. Furthermore, as both poets explore the relation between capitalism and sexual desire as a condition of fantasy, the desire for a wrong love object could be seen as a form of work — one bound to the social necessity of work as such, and the violence that enforces it. The poem becomes a space where fantasies of wrong desire are expressed, renounced, and strained against. The poetry of both Halpern and Sutherland does not reproduce the violence of the world for easy thrills. It recasts this violence within the second-order system of poetry so as to create a space in which to think through it. We may have questions about the particular ways in which their writing fails to adequate itself to this violence (one might argue that it will always fail but it also must try). However, in a world where Theresa May can say that what makes her most angry in the world is injustice while she oversees a border regime that makes people disappear, it would be a fallacy to suggest that the most ethical relation that poetry can take towards violence is to not speak of it at all.[9]
1. Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, Brian Roberts et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State, and Law and Order (London: Macmillan Press, 1982), 214.
2. This can be seen in how activists are now frequently arrested under counterterrorism charges. In the UK fifteen activists grounded a flight at Stansted Airport that was due to deport people who had been in detention. They have been found guilty but the case is currently on appeal. See Damien Gayle, “Anti-deportation activists to go on trial over Stansted blockade,” The Guardian, March 16, 2018.
3. Rob Halpern, Common Place (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), 54.
4. Keston Sutherland, Poetical Works 1999–2015 (London: Enitharmon Press, 2015), 167.
5. See Ed Luker, “True Love, True Labour: Rob Halpern’s Music for Porn,” in Hix Eros Poetry Review 6 (August 2015).
6. Karl Marx, Capital Volume I, trans. Ben Fowkes (London: Penguin Books, 1990), 178–79.
7. Karl Marx, Capital Volume III, trans. David Fernbach (London: Penguin Books, 1991),969.
8. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (New York: Minor Compositions, 2013), 98.
9. See Aftab Ali, “Theresa May ‘wrongly deported 48,000 students’ after BBC Panorama exposes TOEIC scam,” The Independent, March 29, 2016.
'Perfect losses we can't mourn'
Review of ‘Mincemeat Seesaw’
The posthumous now
On Hillary Gravendyk's 'The Soluble Hour'
Rodney Koeneke
Photo of Gravendyk (right) courtesy of Benjamin Burrill.
How do we read the work of poets who die young? Recent books by Joan Murray and Max Ritvo have me thinking about the question with a special intensity. Ritvo died of Ewing’s sarcoma in 2016 at just twenty-five, with two posthumous volumes — The Final Voicemails: Poems and Letters from Max — published last year. Murray, who won the Yale Younger Poets award, died at nearly the same age, in 1942; Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry has just been painstakingly edited by Farnoosh Fathi and published by NYRB Poets.
How do we read the work of poets who die young? Recent books by Joan Murray and Max Ritvo have me thinking about the question with a special intensity.
Black/women are alive after tomorrow
A review of 'Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing'
Tyrone Williams
Above: detail from cover art of ‘Letters to the Future.’
The most provocative mark in this anthology may be the virgule or forward slash that separates the last quarter of the title — Radical Writing — from the opening three quarters of the title — Letters to the Future: Black Women. I’ve analyzed elsewhere the function of the colon, a staple in academic article and book titles, so I won’t discuss that here.
Geoffrey G. O'Brien's subjunctive 'dividuals
'Experience in Groups'
Simona Schneider
The scholar's blush
Shame as method in 'Lyric Shame'
Jess Shollenberger
A review of 'Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry'
Celia Bland
Spelling for humanity
A review of 'Spells,' edited by Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás
Robert Eric Shoemaker
Thus I am inwardly my police
A review of Daniel Poppick's 'The Police'
Emily Barton Altman
Politics and time
The continued relevance of Edward Dorn's 'Gunslinger'
Joe Safdie
Messing with your head
A review of 'Insolvency, Insolvency!' by Jeremy Hoevenaar
Alan Davies
Elysian weather
A review of Joyelle McSweeney's 'The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults'
Toby Altman
Against the modular mind
Jena Osman's 'Motion Studies'
'mend the world'
A review of Joseph Lease's 'The Body Ghost'
Andrew S. Nicholson
Razor feminine
A review of 'Small Siren'
Shamala Gallagher
'The woman is here to stay'
A review of 'A Doll for Throwing' by Mary Jo Bang
Lynley Edmeades
Snap! Blow! The consensus of thinking
yasser elhariry
Of what use these memorials
A review of Henry Wei Leung's 'Goddess of Democracy: An Occupy Lyric'
Ryo Yamaguchi
Will wonders never cease?
Laynie Browne's 'You Envelop Me'
Aakash Suchak
Under the beach, the office
On 'The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization'
Nate Preus
The poetry of a New York hour
A thousand singers on a mile-long stage
Stan Tymorek
Glimpsing the new normal
On Kristen Gallagher’s ‘85% True/Minor Ecologies’
Andy Martrich
New South new North
A review of 'América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets'
Riccardo Boglione
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Shinedown’s Barry Kerch Has One Tattoo Regret
'The Needle and the Damage Done' is a tattoo series produced by Loudwire and presented by the Inkcarceration Music and Tattoo Festival. Each episode was shot on site at the festival's location in Mansfield, Ohio, at the Ohio State Reformatory, which is also where scenes from the 'Shawshank Redemption' were filmed. Here, artists reflect on the artwork scrawled into their flesh, recollecting their first tattoos, the most painful ones, deeper meanings and, of course, the stories behind them all. Enjoy while you anxiously await the announcement of next year's lineup. Keep an eye out because tickets go on sale in December!
Shinedown drummer Barry Kerch is unlike our other guests so far in Season 2 of The Needle and the Damage Done, in that he's not completely covered in tattoos. While he has at least one he regrets getting done, most of the others hold a deeper and significant meaning.
Let's get to the regret — it's nothing major, it's "just a bad skull" he got on the road, which he advised against. Kerch had another note for tattoo artists, which was not to talk so much while you're working.
Some deeper tattoos involve a tribute to his grandmother and his favorite city, fourth century era Celtic writing on his forearm and, finally, a newly done chest piece that was done in tribute to his daughter, Stella, who would rather tell her friends her dad is a pirate than let them know he's a rock star.
Watch the full episode at the top of the page and follow Shinedown on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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International Day of Forests-Teaching kids about the endless benefits of forests
The 2019 theme for the International Day of Forests is ‘Forests and Education’ and we want the world to know how we educate children and youth about the importance of trees and forests. Today, when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and are increasingly disconnected from nature…
Food Tank is highlighting 20 tools to recognize innovations changing agriculture and improving technology access worldwide through AI and Big Data.
Food Tank is highlighting 20 tools to recognize innovations changing agriculture and improving technology access worldwide through AI and Big Data. On fields across the world, phones, tablets, drones, and other technologies are changing how food is grown. Through these devices, artificial…
Converting just 1% of land to renewable energy production can provide EU's electricity consumption
A new JRC dataset shows where in the EU there is a lot of potential to produce large quantities of energy from renewables.If renewable energy was the primary energy source in the EU, what would that look like? Would PV panels and wind turbines cover every square meter of land?No, say the authors of…
Importing goods from sustainable production countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint
A new study has analysed how to reduce the environmental footprint of EU trade by preferentially importing goods from countries that have greener production processes. The study concludes that the environmental impacts of 200 product groups imported into the EU could be considerably reduced in this…
Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: Linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems
Stakeholder Engagement for Inclusive Water Governance: “Practicing What We Preach” with the OECD Water Governance Initiative (Water-open access)
There is a lack of evidence-based assessment on how engagement processes contribute to water governance objectives. This article addresses this research gap by presenting key findings and policy guidance from a study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on…
Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: Linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems (Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 151, 15 March 2015, Pages 472-485)
This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land management through the development of economic mechanisms.
No Net Land Take by 2050? What measures can avoid, reduce or compensate for land take?
Land and soil are limited natural resources essential to all human life. One of the major environmental challenges facing Europe is an increasing demand for development, which threatens these ecosystem services, such as water recycling and purification, carbon storage, and food and fuel — as well as…
World Soil Day 2016 focused on the special role of pulses in preserving soils. The benefits of pulses to soil mean that they can also help combat land degradation.
The benefits of pulses to soil mean that they can also help combat land degradation. Healthy soil not only makes food more nutritious it also helps keep carbon out of the atmosphere by storing it underground. Pulses include peas, beans, chickpeas and lentils. They are particularly popular in South…
Global assessment of Sand and Dust Storms
Large sand and dust storms, which result from a combination of strong winds and loose dry soil surfaces in arid and semiarid areas, are detrimental to human health, agricultural land, infrastructure, and transport. Every year, an estimated 2,000 million tons of dust is emitted into the atmosphere…
Tanzania Adopts New Policy To Curb Land Grabbing – Analysis
Tanzania has adopted a new national land policy which, among others, lowers the ceiling under which foreign investors can lease land from the current 99 to 33 years. The new policy comes barely months after the East African nation embarked on a campaign to seize “idle” land and deter “rogue…
Land Degradation Neutrality: Will Africa Achieve It? Institutional Solutions to Land Degradation and Restoration in Africa
Land Degradation Neutrality: Will Africa Achieve It? Institutional Solutions to Land Degradation and Restoration in Africa, chapter 5 from the recently published: "Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture"
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Demo: Using the R API to Explore Text Documents
Using SAS Viya REST APIs with Python and R
SAS Viya is an in-memory distributed environment used to analyze big data quickly and efficiently. In this course, you’ll learn how to use the SAS Viya APIs to take control of SAS Cloud Analytic Services from a Jupyter Notebook using R or Python. You’ll learn to upload data into the cloud, analyze data, and create predictive models with SAS Viya using familiar open source functionality via the SWAT package -- the SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer. You’ll learn how to create both machine learning and deep learning models to tackle a variety of data sets and complex problems. And once SAS Viya has done the heavy lifting, you’ll be able to download data to the client and use native open source syntax to compare results and create graphics.
In this module you learn how natural language processing is used to analyze collections of text documents. You also learn how to turn blocks of unstructured text into numeric inputs suitable for predictive modeling.
Natural and Formal Languages1:49
Processing Words1:41
Processing Context2:05
Processing Concepts1:30
Extracting Information from the Term-Document Matrix3:37
Word Embedding3:06
Demo: Using the R API to Explore Text Documents15:13
Demo: Using the Python API to Explore Text Documents15:23
Jordan Bakerman
Analytical Training Consultant
Ari Zitin
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In this demonstration, we apply Text Analytics in SAS Viya to complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We mine the complaints to find common terms and topics to learn from the raw text. The data are in the CFPB_COMPLAINTS SAS file and have two variables. The data contain consumer-submitted complaints and also a binary variable named Dispute that has a value of 1 if the consumer disputed the company response and 0 otherwise. In the next lesson, we use the text within the complaint variable to predict when a consumer will dispute the company's response to the complaint. To begin, let's first load the SWAT package as always, and let's also load ggplot2 to create local graphics and the repr package to set the default plot dimensions. Next, connect to CAS with all the same arguments as before and create the conn connection object to be used throughout the session. To load the SAS data set to the CAS server, we'll use the upload action, and you'll notice that it has all the same arguments as the read csv wrapper we used before. We first specify the location and file name, and in the casout argument, we'll change the name on the server to just cfpb for consumer financial protection bureau and replace any instances of data on the server with the same name. The variable indata will again just be a placeholder for the CAS data table name. Now because we read the data onto the server using the upload action and not a SWAT function, we need to create a CAS table reference manually to use SWAT functionality on the in-memory data. So as expected, we'll just use the defCasTable function to create the reference. Now that I have the CAS table reference, I'll use the SWAT package to print the dimension and first two rows of the CFPB table. There are 10,000 filed complaints in this data set and only the two variables, Dispute and Complaint. You'll notice that each complaint is the raw text filed by a consumer. It contains misspellings, punctuation, and colloquialisms like you would expect in any language. The only alteration on the text is that some information has been replaced with four Xs to hide private information. In any text analytics project, it's necessary to clean the data before creating text features for predictive modeling, and the level of text cleaning depends on the task at hand. For now, in this exploratory phase of the complaints text, we'll give the data a quick clean using DATA step functionality. Later, we'll give the data a heavier cleaning when we create deep learning features. First, we load the dataStep action set, and then we can write our DATA step to clean the data in the runCode action. Notice I'm using the same CAS server data name, cfpb, in the DATA and SET statements to overwrite the CAS table with the following changes. First, I am using the LOWCASE function to reduce all text casing to lowercase. This avoids duplicate words due to casing when we find word counts. The COMPRESS function is used to remove specified characters from a string, or in this case, the Complaint variable. In the second argument of the COMPRESS function, I've listed the characters to keep in the string: all letters, the period, exclamation point, and question mark punctuation, numbers, and of course space between words. The K parameter in the third argument requests that we keep the characters in the list specified instead of removing them, and the I is used to ignore casing during the process. The next statement in the DATA step uses the TRANWRD function to remove all instances of the four Xs in the complaints. Finally, we use a sum statement to add a sequence to the table named docid, which simply gives a unique identifier to each document in the corpus which will be needed when we begin parsing the documents. We'll run the DATA step and use the fetch action to make sure the changes have taken effect. So now the complaints are entirely in lowercase, with special characters removed, and the four Xs anonymous identifier have been removed as well. The DATA step is also an easy way to search for documents with specific terms. In this DATA step, we're searching for all documents with the word debt and storing those documents in a new table named Debt. The FIND function simply returns a value of 1 if the specified string is present anywhere in the input string. If the newvar variable is greater than zero, then the document is stored in the new table. I'll run this DATA step and also print the total number of documents it found with the word debt and a few observations from the new table. So in this data set, it found 938 documents with the word debt, which is almost 10% of our total data, and you can read through some of these complaints to see how they mention debt. The next cell is almost equivalent to the previous one except this time we're searching for all documents with the word lawyer. In this case, there were only 427 documents with the term of interest, but you can find whichever terms are important for your project and subset the data accordingly. Next, we'll load the textParse action set to do just as the name implies: parse the text using natural language processing techniques. In the tpParse action, we configure the parsing algorithm. We first specify the data table and provide the sequence variable as the unique document ID, and the text here is the Complaint variable in the data set. We set the stemming argument equal to TRUE to reduce terms to their root words so they can be evaluated according to a common term. For example, jumping, jumped, and jumps should all be reduced to the word jump in order to consider all terms a single term. We set nounGroups equal to FALSE to avoid extracting additional information regarding nouns in the documents. For example, a noun group could be the software company as opposed to treating each of the three words separately. I'll set entities equal to none to avoid extracting entities information. You could instead extract standard entities such as postal addresses, currency, or dates to name a few. We set tagging equal to FALSE to avoid using parts of speech in the parsing process. And finally we save the parse configuration and offset tables, and we'll print both using the fetch action. The config table is only one row and holds only the hyperparameters of the parsing algorithm. For example, here it shows the default language is English and then our decisions for using stemming, tagging, noun groups, and entities in the parsing process. The offset table, which has more than 2 million rows, is massive compared to the original 10,000-row table. It holds positional information for all the parsed terms in our input table. Parsing is really just a first step though. We can use this offset table to accumulate parsing results in the documents. But before we accumulate terms, we want to generate a stop word list to remove the most common terms from the documents: terms like a, is, and the that are unlikely to provide predictive power or additional context. I've saved a stop word list as stop_words.csv, which we'll load using the read CSV wrapper and save as stoplist on the CAS server. This list is based on the System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text, or SMART for short, developed at Cornell University. There are several stop lists in the literature that you can use, but this is one of the more common, or general, ones for natural language processing. Next, we print the number of stop words and also the list. So here there are 571 stop words listed alphabetically, terms such as a, as, able, about, above, and so on. Now we can use the tpAccumulate action to aggregate the offset information. We'll first pass the stop list we just loaded to the action, and we'll set stemming to TRUE again and tagging to FALSE. Reduce is used to specify the minimum number of documents which a term should be in to be retained by the action. So setting it equal to 1 means if the term shows up in any document, retain its information. Next, we pass it the offset table created previously, and we'll exclude dropped terms from the output table. Last, we'll save the parent, child, and terms output tables. The parent and child tables are compressed representations of the term-by-document matrix with raw counts and weighted counts respectively. These tables are used behind the scenes of the action to distinguish and account for terms, as well as conduct singular value decomposition to find topics. The terms table provides information about each term in the table. For example, it shows the frequency of each term in the corpus and the number of documents it appeared in, as well as how the term is mapped to the parent table. The attribute column describes the characters that compose the term. For example, Alpha indicates all the characters are letters, and Mixed is a combination of letters, numbers, punctuation, and white space. The terms table contains duplicate terms because terms can be identified as multiple parts of speech. For example, the term fair can be either a noun or an adjective depending on the sentence. People go to the county fair in October versus The team had a fair referee tonight. To find the total number of unique terms in the terms table, we'll first create a reference to the CAS table terms and then use the unique function on the table. Out of 26,698 terms, there are only 23,915 unique terms. To subset the terms table to only the unique terms, we can use a DATA step. We'll create the table terms_unique by pulling from the terms table. By each unique term in the table, we'll keep only the last term, without regard to the part of speech. So we could be subsetting the noun term versus the verb term and vice versa. Next, we'll load the fedSql action set and query the unique terms table to find the top 250 terms according to frequency within the corpus. We'll create the table top_terms, select only the term and frequency variables from the terms_unique table, order them by frequency in descending order, and use the LIMIT option to keep only the top 250 terms. Then, we'll create a reference to this new queried table and download it to the client. Using the HEAD function, we can see that payment was the most used term in the corpus followed by loan, then mortgage, and so on. To go one step further, we can create a bar chart of these top terms since this data is on the client. In the bar chart, we can see the top three terms are used about twice as much as the next seven terms. You could also create word clouds or other graphical representations of the text to explore the corpus. So far, we've seen how to give the data a quick clean, find specific terms, parse the raw text, accumulate parsing results, find unique terms, and pull summary information to the client to explore the text graphically. Next, we'll find topics in our complaints data that can be used to categorize documents. The textMining action set is actually a more powerful action set than the textParse action set because it contains the necessary functionality to reproduce the parsing and accumulation actions, as well as create topics from the data. Inside the tmMine action, the arguments documents, docid, text, noun groups, tagging, stemming, stoplist and reduce are equivalent to the previous actions. In this action, the argument K specifies the number of topics to derive, or in SVD terms, the number of dimensions to extract. Here I have requested 10, but the number of topics needed to accurately categorize new documents should be tuned by the user. The numLabels argument specifies the number of terms to use in the label for each topic. Again, here I just chose 10. topicDecision is set to TRUE to show how the training data would be categorized according to the derived topics. The next five arguments are output tables we've created before, which we can also request in this action: the parseConfig, offset, parent, child, and terms tables. The final six output tables we'll save are unique to this action. The termTopics table shows the most likely topic that individual terms would be assigned to, but when actually categorizing the topic, it uses the entire document text to do so. The wordpro table contains the projections of the terms using the SVD extraction, and the docpro table contains the SVD projections of the documents. The topics table contains the actual topics and labels for the topics discovered, and the final two tables contain SVD information. We'll run this action and print the first five topics that are extracted. The first topic looks like it's a loan topic with terms such as pmi and coverage. The third looks like a lawyer topic with terms such as assignment, plaintiff, and exhibit. The other topics look a little more challenging to generalize. The plus symbol next to some of the topic terms means the term has been stemmed. You can then use these extracted topics and document cutoff rules to categorize new documents, or in this case consumer complaints. One final analysis we can conduct here with the text mining output is to find similarity scores between terms. The tmFindSimilar action applies a cosine similarity calculation to the wordpro output table, and because the term projections are based on the co-occurrence patterns in the corpus, a high similarity score between terms means the terms have closely related occurrence patterns in the corpus. First we'll load the textUtil action set, which contains the tmFindSimilar action. Next, we'll use SQL to query the unique terms table created earlier to find the unique term number identifier for the term loan, and we'll save the term number as the variable termnum. In this case, the term loan is identified by the number 13382. Next, we'll pass in the wordpro table from the tmMine action set and the term number we just saved into the tmFindSimilar action. The num_svd argument specifies how many dimensions of the SVD projections are used in the similarity computation, and the prefix argument is for the variables that contain the SVD projections located in the wordpro table. We'll save the similarity scores for the loan term in the similar CAS table. You'll notice that the output table contains only term numbers for similarity scores instead of the actual term, but we can remedy this by merging the terms and term numbers. Inside the runCode action of the dataStep action set, we create the table similar_terms with only the variables term, term number, and similarity number by merging the terms_unqiue table and the similar table we just created by the unique identifier termnum variable. Finally, we can use SQL to print the terms that are most similar to the term loan and order them in descending order. In this data set, the terms conversation, receive, letter, and modification are the most similar terms to loan. In the next demonstration, which is the second part of this notebook, we'll transition from exploratory text analytics to deep learning using text features. We'll use the same data set and build a recurrent neural network to predict whether the consumer disputed the company's response to the complaint.
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Blooming Prairie Rides Defense, Big Plays to State Title
An amazing game. A fantastic season. An awesome team. Blooming Prairie is the state champion after winning the Class A Prep Bowl Friday at US Bank Stadium 41-15 over BOLD for their first football title. BP's defense was stellar, dominating the top-ranked team in a collision of powerhouse programs.
Gabe Hagen caught eight passes for 125 yards and two touchdowns, one of which landed on the ESPN Top Ten list. On defense he tipped a pass from the BOLD quarterback to himself and ran it in for an 18-yard interception return touchdown for the opening score of the game. In the post game television interview, coach Chad Gimbel said big players need to make big plays in a game like this one.
Hagen is recognized as an H & R Block Stat Sheet Stuffer for his efforts. H & R Block Owatonna, Faribault, Lakeville. Upfront Transparent Pricing: The Way Tax Preparation Should Be.
Defensive lineman Jarrett Larson was named the MSHSL Most Valuable Teammate award winner for BP after a magnificent game with multiple sacks. The team sacked BOLD's Jordan Sagedahl, a Mr. Football finalist, six times in the first half alone. On offense, the BP line protected Kaden Thomas to allow him to throw for four touchdowns.
While it took a while to get the ground game going for Blooming Prairie, they were able to salt away most of the fourth quarter, leading to Matthew Pryor's second touchdown to put an exclamation point on the victory.
Hagen's interception return put the Blossoms up 7-0 barely two minutes into the game. BOLD later took a short-lived 8-7 lead with 4:35 to go in the opening quarter. BP responded three-and-half-minutes later with a middle screen to Pryor for a nine-yard touchdown. A big pass to Mitchell Fiebiger set up the score. BP went up 14-8 and never trailed again.
Blooming Prairie extended the lead to 21-8 with about four minutes to go in the first half on a Thomas-to-Hagen connection from about 25 yards that included Hagen breaking a tackle. BOLD's ensuing drive was helped along by a penalty that negated back-to-back sacks and the Warriors pulled within 21-15 at halftime.
Dylan Nirk and other members of the BP defensive line spent plenty of time in the offensive backfield making sacks and tackles for a loss. BOLD had minus-17 yards rushing in the first half.
Just before the second half, Gimbel said they wanted to keep pushing the pace and wear out the BOLD defensive line. BP briefly knocked Sagedahl out of the game early in the second half. Pryor made a great play while breaking up a pass in the red zone shortly after that.
BP took over on downs and drove the field. Bradley Simon made a big catch along the way. The drive ended with the Play of the Game. Hagen, who will play Division II football at Minnesota State University-Mankato, jumped in the air to fight a defended for the ball, then fell to his back on the turf in the end zone and tipped the ball to himself, securing it with his left hand for the touchdown. BP's lead grew to 28-15 with 5:44 to go in the third quarter with the play, which earned a spot on ESPN's nightly countdown.
The Awesome Blossoms added a Thomas-to-Karson Vigeland 11-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter for a 34-15 lead.
On Saturday's KRFO Coaches Show, Gimbel mentioned Zach Weber did a great job defending BOLD's top offensive threat at receiver.
The title is the third team championship for Blooming Prairie High School, joining the 1984 girls track team and 2013 fast pitch softball team in the school's trophy case.
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Characterisation of esterase genes in the genomes of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Streptomyces avermitilis
Sameh Soror
Esterases and lipases are widely used as industrial enzymes and for the synthesis of chiral drugs. Because of their rich secondary metabolism, Streptomyces species offer a relatively untapped source of interesting esterases and lipases. S. coelicolor and S. avermitilis contain 51 genes annotated as esterases and/or lipases. In this study I have cloned 14 different genes encoding for lipolytic enzymes from S. coelicolor (11 genes) and S. avermitilis (four genes). Some of these genes were over-expressed in E. coli. Three of the produced enzymes, which were produced by the genes SCO 7131, SCO6966 and SCO3644, were characterized biochemically and one of them was subjected for directed evolution. The gene estA (locus SCO 7131) was annotated as a putative lipase/esterase in the genome sequence of S. coelicolor A3(2), but does not have a homologue in the genome sequence of S. avermitilis or in other known Streptomyces sequences. estA was cloned and expressed in E. coli as a His-tagged protein. The protein was purified and could be recovered in its non-tagged form after digestion with factor Xa. The relative molecular weight was estimated to be 35.5kDa. The enzyme was only active towards acetate esters and not on larger substrates. It had a stereospecificity towards α-naphathylacetate. It was thermostable, with a half-life at 50C of 4.5 hours. Est A showed stability over pH range 5.5-10, and had optimum pH of 7.5. Its activity was drastically decreased when it was pre-incubated in 10mM PMSF, Cu+2 and Hg+2. It was not very stable in most organic solvents and had only slight enantioselectivity. Est A belongs to the HSL family whose founder member is the human hormone-sensitive lipase. I have developed a protein profile for the HSL family modifying the conserved motifs found by Arpigny and Jaeger (1999). Due to the presence of several HSL members with known 3D structure and good homology to Est A, I was able to make a homology model of Est A. Five different mutants of Est A were produced through site directed mutagenesis: W87F, V158A, W87F/V158A, M162L and S163A. The mutants M162L and S163A did not produce a significant change either in substrate specificity or enzyme kinetics. The mutants V158A and W87F/V158A could act on the larger substrates p-nitrophenylbutyrate and caproate and tributyrin. The mutant V158A had improved thermostability and its t1/2 at 50ºC increased to 24h. The affinity of V158A towards p-nitrophenyacetate increased 6-fold when compared with the wild type, whereas the affinity of W87F decreased 4-fold. Directed evolution of Est A was done through random mutagenesis and ER-PCR. A library of 6336 mutants was constructed and screened for mutants with a broader spectrum of substrate specificity. The mutant XXVF7 did show alteration in the substrate specificity of Est A. The mutant XXVF7 had 5 amino acids changes L76R, L146P, S196G, W213R and L267R. The gene locus SCO 6966 (estB gene) was cloned and expressed in E. coli as a His-tagged protein. It was not possible to remove the His-tag using factor Xa. The tagged protein had a molecular weight 31.9kDa. Est B was active against short chain fatty acid esters (C2-C6). Its optimum temperature was 30ºC and was stable for 1h at temperatures up to 37ºC. The enzyme had maximum activity at pH 8-8.5 and was stable over pH range 7.5-11 for 24h. It was highly sensitive for PMSF, Cu+2 and Hg+2. The enzymatic activity deceased in presence of organic solvents, however it was fairly stable for 1h in 20% organic solvents solutions. A third esterase was produced from the gene locus SCO 3644. This esterase was a thermosensitive one with optimum temperature of 35ºC. The three characterized enzymes included a thermophilic, mesophilic and psychrophilic ones. This indicates the high variation in the characters of Streptomyces lipolytic enzymes and highlighting Streptomyces as a source for esterases and lipases of interesting catalytic activity. This study was an initial trial to provide a strategy for a comprehensive use of genome data.
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Streptomyces; biochemical characterisation; esterases; lipases
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Selective Scratchers
An Analysis of Grizzly Bear Rub Tree Characteristics in SW Alberta
Adam Scharnau* University of Lethbridge
Mike Verhage University of Lethbridge
Cameron Goater University of Lethbridge
Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos) have been shown to exhibit rubbing behavior on “rub trees” as a form of intra-specific communication. By leaving chemical cues on trees, the signaling individual can convey information in the absence of physical contact with conspecifics. The criteria that bears use to select rub trees is unclear, especially within characteristic bear habitats in SW Alberta. We surveyed rub tree characteristics in Alberta’s BMA5 (1685km2), near Crowsnest Pass. Analyses of these characteristics showed that the majority of rub trees were located on flat ground, with a slight south-facing orientation (58.7%) and within 3.3m of a trail. Bear hair was found on 99.4% of trees, with 88% featuring discoloured and smooth bark. The most common rub tree species was Lodgepole Pine (56.3%), followed by White Spruce (15.9%) and Engelmann Spruce (8.7%). By comparing rub tree characteristics to those of trees in adjacent stands, we found the presence of “rare” rub tree species. The most common rare rub tree species was Lodgepole Pine (8.6% gross species composition), followed by White Spruce (7.4%) and Subalpine Fir (6.1%). Overall, 30.2% of all rub trees were rare in their stand, demonstrating a significant selection for conspicuous tree species. The results of this study show that Grizzly Bears in SW Alberta rely primarily on well-used trails and uncommon tree species to ensure an increased probability of scent transmission.
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A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
No 11 (2014): Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City
No 11 (2014)
Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City
Ekim Tan
https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2014.11
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An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized bottom-up or top-down. This conceptualization of cities as complex systems calls for new collaborative city-making methods: a combination of collaborative planning (which already embraces various agencies and derives decision-making from negotiations between them) and collaborative design (existing methods rely on rule-based iterative processes which control spatial outcomes). While current collaborative planning methods are open and interactive, they fail to simulate realistic power negotiations in the evolution of the physical environments they plan; collaborative design methods fall short in modelling the decision-making mechanisms of the physical environments they control. This research is dedicated to building an open negotiation and design method for cities as self-organizing systems that bridges this gap.
Gaming as a tool for knowledge creation and negotiation serves as an interface between the more abstract decision-making and material city-making. Rarely involved in the creation of our environment, it has the unexplored potential of combining the socio-spatial dimensions of self-organizing urban processes. Diverse agents, the collaborations and conflicts within and between interest groups, and the parameters provided by topological data can all be combined in an operational form in gaming: potentially a great unifier of multiple stakeholder negotiations and individual design aspirations through which to generate popularly informed policies or design.
The simple language and rules of games will allow jargon-free communication between stakeholders, experts and non-experts alike. The interactive and iterative nature of city gaming encourages the development of collective intelligence, derived from the real lives of players to be redeployed in their real urban futures. Vitally, city gaming enables the negotiation of this future, as players with conflicting interests are given an opportunity to develop compatible, even shared, visions. By transforming serious issues into a playful and engaging (although no less serious) experience, city gaming unlocks difficult conversations and helps to build communities in the long term. The urban design, policy and action plans generated collaboratively through gaming will increase social coherence and local agency, as well as cutting costs and time in urban development processes.
This thesis proposes Generative City Gaming as an innovative urban planning and design method built on the tradition of serious gaming. Going beyond the educational scope of other serious games, the ultimate aim of city gaming is to become operational in urban processes – a goal in the process of making a reality since 2008, when Generative City Gaming was first applied to a real urban questions in the Netherlands, later expanding to Istanbul, Tirana, Brussels, and Cape Town. “Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City” reports on six of the twelve city games played to date which were instrumental in the evolution of the method: Play Almere Haven tested whether a game based on self-organizing mechanisms could provide an urban order; Play Rotterdam questioned whether game-derived design could be implemented in urban renewal of a central Rotterdam neighborhood; Yap-Yaşa was played with real urban stakeholders for transforming Istanbul’s self-built neighbourhoods; Play Noord investigated a masterplan on hold could be fixed by unconventional stakeholders; Play Oosterwold jumped up a scale to test the rules of a flexible urban expansion plan for 4500 hectares; Play Van Gendthallen, was the first to enable stakeholders to make the leap from design to reality within the game process.
The Generative City Gaming method evolves continuously. Every new case tests and proves the applicability of city gaming to a specific urban complexity, while challenging the method to adapt itself and develop new features tailored to tackle each unique urban question. Through use, this gaming method is finding its place within existing city-making procedures in a number of countries. The next big question is whether cyclical and open-ended city gaming can move beyond being a consultancy and research tool to become the principal medium of processing and executing city planning.
An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized bottom-up or top-down. This conceptualization of cities as complex systems calls for new collaborative city-making methods: a combination of collaborative planning (which already embraces various agencies and derives decision-making from negotiations between them) and collaborative design (existing methods rely on rule-based iterative processes which control spatial outcomes). While current collaborative planning methods are open and interactive, they fail to simulate realistic power negotiations in the evolution of the physical environments they plan; collaborative design methods fall short in modelling the decision-making mechanisms of the physical environments they control. This research is...
An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized...
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#TBT – Cornershop “Brimful of Asha”
Rumnique Nannar April 3, 2014
We’re reminiscing about the song that started off the “Asian Cool” era in the 90s. The deceptively subtle “Brimful of Asha” plays tribute to Asha Bhosle and Cornershops’s anti-establishment politics.
Story by Rumnique Nannar
Cornershop came onto the scene in 1993, but “Brimful of Asha” truly skyrocketed them to the mainstream, with their fusion of British Indie rock, Punjabi roots, and anti-racist politics. Cornershop was formed by Tijinder Singh and Ben Ayres, who took the common stereotype that all Indians run small grocery shops as their moniker.
“Brimful of Asha” didn’t make a huge impact on its first release in 1997, but when Fatboy Slim remixed it in 1998, the band skyrocketed to success by opening for Oasis’ American tour and landing their killer album, “When I was Born for the 7th Time” as Spin Magazine’s album of the year.
The song was a cultural touchstone for many British Asians at the time, with its tongue-in-cheek lyrics that poked fun at Bollywood conventions: “Everybody bosom for a pillow/everybody needs a bosom.” The video was everywhere too with its colourful and mod look, and the young girl bopping around to Cornershop vinyls perfectly encapsulates us when dancing to this track!
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Rap up: My favorite hip hop albums of 2019
Kyle Atkinson
During the 2010s decade, we had a lot of years that could be considered legendary for hip hop. By legendary I mean that big artists dropped albums, the news was interesting, new artists popped onto the scene, etc. One year that falls into this vein is 2013, with the release of Kanye West’s Yeezus, Mac Miller’s Watching Movies With The Sound Off, J. Cole’s Born Sinner, Drake’s Nothing Was The Same, and more.
Other years that fall into this category would include 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. You can find more information on these years by Google searching “2016 hip hop albums” for example. You will find many classic or near-classic albums in these lists as far as this decade goes.
Sadly, 2019 was not one of the most memorable hip hop years in my opinion. But even if it wasn’t as great as the years I mentioned, it still had plenty of great music. I’ve learned to accept that not every year will top the last, and that is especially true this year. I’m okay with it and was still able to find stuff that I enjoyed. Continue reading below for my take on some of the best and my personal favorite albums of 2019.
Favorite 2019 albums
IGOR – Tyler The Creator
This album has been discussed quite a bit by the Hip Hop Drip crew and for good reason. It is simply one of the best of the year and has some of my favorite songs. It just works so well together and I appreciate everything that Tyler tried on it. He is only getting better artistically and I’ll continue listening to this album as he works on his next release. Check out some of K-UTE’s coverage of the album at these links from our own Jameson Williams.
Ventura – Anderson .Paak
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Anderson .Paak is an absolutely amazing artist. He has so many different styles and vibes in his music that it’s really remarkable. Ventura consists of 11 tracks and not one of them is ever skipped by me. .Paak’s mix of soul, R&B, hip hop, and more really makes this an interesting listen. The vibes are positive throughout and I’m very glad that this album saw the light of day. Some of my standout songs from this album include “Come Home”, “Make It Better”, and “Chosen One”. Read my full review right here!
So Much Fun – Young Thug
I’ll be honest, after listening to 2018’s Slime Language I was nervous for this project from Young Thug. That project was a label compilation but I don’t think Thug’s verses were up to par with his old work. However, So Much Fun is the polar opposite of Slime Language. Every Thug verse hits hard and brings so much variety. I’d recommend this album if you haven’t heard it because it is one of the best trap releases of 2019. My favorite tracks from the album include “Bad Bad Bad”, “Lil Baby”, and “Mannequin Challenge”.
Live on Ice – Tobi Lou
Tobi Lou is without a doubt my favorite artist that I discovered in 2019. I started out by listening to the loose singles that he released; I even wrote an artist spotlight on him. He dropped his first full length project Live on Ice in August and that changed everything for me. The project is full of good vibes and is perfect for a long car ride in the summer. I urge you to listen to it if you haven’t yet as it’ll put you in a good mood instantly. Check out my review of his concert in SLC from September 2019.
Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial – Roddy Ricch
Another dope artist that I started listening to in 2019 is Compton’s Roddy Ricch. I first heard about him through his 2018 mixtape Feed Tha Streets II. He popped up everywhere in 2019 and is quickly becoming a household name. His debut album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial really put him on the map for most people. His hit “The Box” is a definite standout and a fast rising song at the moment. Check this album out if you like melodic trap rappers in the vein of Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, and Gunna.
Bandana – Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Bandana is the long-awaited follow up album to 2014’s classic Pinata. The latter was very well-received and set a precedent for sample-heavy production in the 2010s decade. Bandana picks up right where its counterpart left off with beautiful production and great flows from Freddie Gibbs. This is without a doubt one of the best albums of 2019 and possibly the decade. The quality dropoff from Pinata to Bandana is nonexistent. Check out our review of Bandana from earlier this year!
I’m Him – Kevin Gates
I’ll be honest right now, this album didn’t get a lot of attention when it was released. That could be due to the fact that Gates has been in and out of jail the last few years. But in my eyes, he picked right back up where he left off on Islah in 2016. This joint may not have the hits that Islah had, but every track is an earworm that is worth a listen. Kevin Gates uses his voice in so many different ways that it doesn’t get boring to listen to. I’d for sure recommend this one as it is a great body of work. Some of my favorite tracks from his second album are “By My Lonely”, “Walls Talking”, and “Betta For You”.
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Chasing Summer – SiR
Brandon Banks – Maxo Kream
1UP – T-Pain
Bad Habits – Nav
After writing this list, I would say that 2019 was a pretty decent year. However, I don’t think any of these albums will be remembered long term as classics except for maybe IGOR. All of them will still be in my rotation for years and I’ll continue to enjoy them.
If you have not listened to any of these projects, please check at least a few of them out. Follow me on my Instagram @youngthuggamanekyle for more music recommendations as I’m constantly posting 2019 music as well as the newest music.
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Justia Lawyer Directory Search for "Jason R. Abel"
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Jason Abraham
Milwaukee, WI Attorney
(414) 223-4800 111 East Kilbourn Ave
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Marquette University Law School and University of Wisconsin Law School
In 1993 Jason F. Abraham began his career with Hupy and Abraham S.C. and in six years he became a shareholder. Due to his high level of expertise in personal injury law Jason F. Abraham has lectured across numerous states regarding the matter. He has tried over 160 million dollars in cases and has won many million dollar cases.
Jason Abel
Detroit, MI Lawyer with 18 years experience
(313) 465-7302 660 Woodward Avenue
Columbia University School of Law
(202) 224-6542 WASHINGTON, DC 20510
Jason Abraham Nagi
New York, NY Lawyer with 19 years experience
(212) 659-4989 New York, NY 10022
Jason Abraham Manoogian
Sacramento, CA Attorney with 21 years experience
(916) 875-6569 3331 Power Inn Rd #350
Jason Abe Otto
Jason Abraham Beardsley
(212) 310-8914 767 5th Ave
Abraham Jason Northy
Los Angeles, CA Attorney
(323) 712-8300 1569 Helen Dr
Jason Oxner
Cypress, TX Lawyer with 5 years experience
(346) 327-9500 12300 Dundee Ct #116
Business, Consumer, Estate Planning and Real Estate
St. John's University School of Law and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Attorney Jason Oxner graduated Summa Cum Laude in the top 5% and currently holds a Law Degree and Masters of Law Degree. During law school, Jason was an associate editor on Law Review, elected as Mr. Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and taught Real Property for two years.
Jason Oxner is a Canadian citizen who moved to Massachusetts on an academic and athletic (hockey & rowing) scholarship at the Groton School in 2002. Jason continued with his rowing career at Trinity College in Connecticut where he graduated with his Bachelor of Arts and served as an assistant coach to the...
Barhoum Abe Abed
Elk Grove, CA Attorney
(415) 545-8009 10033 Van Ruiten Ln
Claimed Lawyer ProfileLII Gold
Kenneth A. Abraham
Chicago, IL Lawyer with 50 years experience
(630) 333-0000 Chicago, IL 60606
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Products Liability
DePaul University and University of Illinois College of Law
KENNETH A. ABRAHAM, RETIRED JUDGE Following 15 years of service as a judge, Ken has joined DiTommaso as a litigation consultant and a dispute resolution specialist heading DiTommaso's arbitration and mediation practices. Bringing his almost 40 years of experience as both an attorney and trial judge, Ken knows his way around the courtroom as well as techniques to aid clients in avoiding expensive and resource-draining litigation. Ken's philosophy is that litigation should be commenced only after thoroughly exploring all options, including arbitration and mediation.
Christopher Abel
Flower Mound, TX Attorney with 15 years experience
(972) 584-7837 2609 Sagebrush Drive, Suite 202
Baylor Law School
Chris Abel is an experienced, professional criminal defense attorney that focuses on protecting the citizens of Denton County and Tarrant County from unlawful and overzealous arrests. If you or someone that you know has been arrested or charged with a crime, let Chris Abel defend your rights and fight for you. What Separates Chris Abel from Others Chris Abel graduated from Baylor Law School and was a moot court semifinalist in the appellate advocacy track. As a law student he argued in front of nine appellate judges, and out of 75 teams in the competition Mr. Abel was...
Matthew Abraham
Fenton, MI Attorney with 26 years experience
(810) 750-0440 16237 Jennings Road
Bankruptcy, Estate Planning, Landlord Tenant and Trademarks
Matthew Abraham is an entrepreneurial business attorney practicing in Michigan, United States. He has been practicing since 1993 developing a law practice geared toward serving the new business owner and entrepreneur. Matt has counseled on a broad spectrum of imperatives from complex mergers and acquisitions of service, manufacturing and other companies to routine commerce and transactional law matters and business related contracts. He has advised numerous private companies, established businesses and start-ups, developers and users of technology, and both old and new economy businesses. Abraham|Law provides business law services to clients in a broad range of...
Andrew Abraham
Taunton, MA Lawyer with 25 years experience
(508) 500-1188 122 Dean St
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Andrew Abraham is the founding partner of the Boston personal injury law firm, Abraham & Associates, P.C. Attorney Abraham has been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers® lists of 2010-2013. In addition, he is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Massachusetts Brain Injury Association, and the North American Brain Injury Society. With nearly 20 years of experience, Mr. Abraham has the knowledge and resources necessary to take on even the most complex cases. To learn more about working with Attorney Abraham, contact Abraham & Associates, P.C. today.
Edwin Abel
Oklahoma City, OK Lawyer with 54 years experience
(405) 239-7046 900 NE 63rd St
Free ConsultationConstruction, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
Ed Abel is an experienced personal injury, products liability and medical negligence attorney. Abel earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Oklahoma and his Juris Doctor Degree from The University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he was selected as class president and graduated eighth in his class. Abel has received many prestigious awards and honors, such as "Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers." Aside from being a lawyer, Abel also frequently lectures at the Oklahoma University School of Law as well as the Oklahoma Bar Association.
T. Luke Abel
(405) 239-7046 900 NE 63rd Street
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Luke Abel's practice is limited to personal injury cases representing people who have been injured through the fault (or negligence) of others. This involves motor vehicle accidents, product failures, medical malpractice cases and various others. Involved in the Oklahoma Bar Association, American Bar Association, Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma Association for Justice, American Association for Justice, Oklahoma Legal Aid and Oklahoma Lawyers for Children.
Sheba Abraham
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
(239) 461-5508 1533 Hendry St
Fort Myers, FL Attorney with 7 years experience
Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
University of Florida Levin School of Law
Sheba Abraham is an attorney and Partner at Goldberg Noone, LLC. She focuses her practice to complex civil litigation involving personal injury, wrongful death, negligent security, and premises liability. Ms. Abraham is a proud Florida Gator, having earned her Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida. Ms. Abraham is admitted to practice in all state courts of Florida and New York, as well as before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Wade H Abed II
Mankato, MN Attorney with 10 years experience
(507) 344-8888 196 St Andrews Dr #100
Free ConsultationBusiness and Real Estate
Wade Abed’s practice focuses on businesses, real estate, estates, and vaccine injuries. The majority of Wade's practice involves helping small and medium-sized businesses establish plans for future growth. Wade's worked in business and real estate for over ten years. His experience in business and real estate helps him embrace opportunities to help his clients achieve their goals through strategy, persistence, and advanced planning. As a business owner, Wade understands first-hand the challenges and opportunities that many businesses face. He empathizes with his business owner clients because he has personally experienced many of the same challenges. Wade believes a little...
Isaac Abraham
Forest Hills, NY Attorney
(646) 397-9529 118-35 Queens Blvd Suite 1205
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Criminal, DUI & DWI, Real Estate and Traffic Tickets
Touro College and The City University of New York School of Law
Since 2010, Isaac Abraham have been helping motorists fight speeding tickets, suspended licenses, DWI offenses and all other traffic violations in NY state. Call Isaac for a free consultation today.
Matthew Abel
(313) 446-2235 2930 E. Jefferson Avenue
Business, Cannabis Law, Criminal and DUI & DWI
Wayne State University Law School
Matthew Abel has been a lawyer in Michigan for over 30 years, and is Executive Director of Michigan NORML. Matthew founded Cannabis Counsel, P.L.C., a five-attorney Detroit, Michigan law firm entirely devoted to cannabis clients and cases, providing both business advice and legal counseling as well as criminal defense in marijuana cases throughout Michigan. Since passage of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act in 2008, the practice has rapidly grown to include not only business clients and issues, but also employment, drug testing, probation, family law, contract, real estate, landlord-tenant, and other issues surrounding cannabis. Cannabis Counsel P.L.C. is...
Alfred Abel
Jenkintown, PA Lawyer with 38 years experience
(215) 517-8500 801 Old York Rd, Suite 313
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Bankruptcy and Personal Injury
Alfred M. Abel, Attorney at Law I am Alfred M. Abel. Prior to becoming a lawyer, I ran a family-owned business in Northeast Pennsylvania that was sold to investors. As a result of that experience, I am familiar with the concerns of business owners, especially the attention to the bottom line, and to the value they deserve from the people who get their business. I coordinated with investigators, accountants, adjusters, appraisers, auctioneers and attorneys with other expertise, and a number of other professionals to provide a wide range of services while keeping the personal contact, value and attention of a smaller...
William Turner Abel
West Palm Beach, FL Attorney with 23 years experience
(561) 659-4020 525 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 1700
William "Bill" Abel received his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law, with honors, and served as Executive Editor of the Inter-American Law Review. Bill is board certified as a specialist in civil trial law by The Florida Bar and is also rated "AV" by Martindale Hubbell. An "AV" rating distinguishes Bill as having very high general ethical standards and legal ability as evaluated by his peers. Bill limits his practice to representing individuals and families who have suffered serious personal injury or wrongful death. For fifteen years, Bill represented the interests of insurance companies and big...
Bruce David Abel
Palm Desrt, CA Attorney with 37 years experience
(760) 601-5092 77711 Flora Road, Suite 310
Palm Desrt, CA 92211
Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction, Employment and Real Estate
Southwestern Law School
Anthony M. Abraham Esq.
(877) 430-4877 445 Park Ave
Free ConsultationSecurities and Stockbroker Fraud
Arend J. Abel
Indianapolis, IN Attorney with 34 years experience
(317) 636-6481 One Indiana Square
Appeals, Business and Employment
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Sally M. Abel
Mountain View, CA Lawyer
(650) 988-8500 801 California St
IP and Trademarks
UCLA School of Law
Gregg W. Abel
Sarasota, FL Lawyer with 30 years experience
(941) 922-0828 3859 Bee Ridge Road, Suite 101
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Jennifer Abel
Los Angeles, CA Lawyer with 18 years experience
(213) 615-2645 700 South Flower Street
Asbestos, Construction, Products Liability and Real Estate
Steven Abel
(503) 294-9599 900 Southwest 5th Avenue
Energy and Real Estate
Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College
Yumiko Abe
Minato City, T?ky?-to Attorney with 16 years experience
(813) 622-9615 1, Akasaka
Minato City, T?KY?-TO 107-6090
Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Business and International
New York University School of Law
Charles Abraham
Parsippany, NJ Lawyer with 34 years experience
(973) 966-6300 One Jefferson Road
Estate Planning and Tax
New York Law School
Business, Construction and Real Estate
Temple University School of Law
Michael Adam Abel
Jacksonville, FL Lawyer with 24 years experience
(904) 798-7252 50 North Laura Street
Kyle Abraham
Portland, OR Lawyer with 14 years experience
kyletabraham@gmail.com
Administrative, Arbitration & Mediation, Employment and Military
Willamette University College of Law
Norfolk, VA Attorney
(757) 687-7535 150 West Main Street
Ashley Abel
Greenville, SC Attorney with 33 years experience
(864) 232-7000 55 Beattie Place
Kevin Abel
St. Louis, MO Attorney with 40 years experience
(314) 259-2704 St. Louis, MO 63102
CPA Jason
Rochester, NY Lawyer
(585) 263-1563 1100 Clinton Square
Elizabeth Abraham
Washington, DC Lawyer
Business, Communications and International
Joseph Michael Abraham
(212) 336-2773 1133 Avenue of the Americas
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The Laurel Hill School Foundation
a not-for-profit entity supporting the goals of The Laurel Hill School
STEAM2 Outdoor Education
Mindfulness Matters™ in Schools
Family Heritage Feast
Winter Gala 2018
“Heart of Education” Fundraiser
LHS Circle of Friends
VIEW FROM THE HILL
The Laurel Hill School is a Long Island private school serving students in pre-K through 8th grade.
201 Old Town Rd, East Setauket, NY 11733 | 631-751-1154
LaurelHillSchool.org
Best wishes to our 2018 Grads!
Happy Summer to all!
The Laurel Hill School Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) corporation funded by generous contributions from Laurel Hill families.
© 2018 The Laurel Hill School Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 749, East Setauket, NY 11733
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About MacGillivray
Supporting Peel Memorial
The new Peel Memorial Urgent Care Centre has now opened its doors to the public.
The partners of our firm are proud to announce to that they have committed to fund the cost of the equipment needed for one of the new emergency rooms.
We are proud to give back to our community, especially for such a wonderful new facility.
MacGillivray
6605 Hurontario Street
L5T 0A3
Mon - Fri: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Sat: By appointment
Sun: Closed
Book an appointment with one of our Chartered Professional Accountants or Business Advisors. Book An appointment
Co-op & Careers
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Consumer Rights, but not in Victoria
Bureaucratic practices restrict reasonable rights!
NDIS places consumers front and centre, but not Victoria’s bureaucrats
Those who live in shared supported accommodation group homes for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities, throughout Victoria, are some of our most vulnerable citizens.
They are unable to properly and effectively represent themselves per se, and especially within a very closed and restricted environment and lifestyle of a group home. Such was the case in institutions, but more so - conditions were often shocking.
Community opinion finally broke some of the bureaucratic restrictive practices which maintained the poor conditions for the vulnerable residents of institutions, to allow some insight by the new concept - official visitors. Despite the word ‘official’, official visitors had no legal standing and few rights.
Finally, in 1986, public opinion achieved legislative approval for public insight in the form of the community visitor program under the Intellectually Disabled Persons’ Services Act 1986. Community visitors are now under the Disability Act 2006.
Community visitors are volunteers from the community with the legislative power to visit residential accommodation services funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) without notice or approval – like police with a warrant.
When the program first started, well trained community visitors were actively encouraged and supported to look into every aspect of shared supported accommodation services. They were especially encouraged to speak confidentially with those residents who could, and with the stakeholders (Parents, families, etc) of those who had little or no expressive communications and/or intellectual capacity to evaluate the support services they were receiving or were intended to receive.
Initial community visitors were provided with business cards having a provision for their personal phone number, and with large posters to promote the program and themselves. The main intention being to give vulnerable people and their stakeholders assurance they were being offered help from unbiased community people – not officialdom from entrenched bureaucrats.
Disappointingly, the program was soon watered down by bureaucrats of the Office of the Public Advocate that community visitors no longer, following their group home inspection visit, contact stakeholders of those residents who do not have the level of ability necessary to properly and fully evaluate the complex support service they are receiving or are intended to receive.
Consequently, inspection reports for such group homes, which community visitors present to the service provider on the completion of the inspection, do not contain service evaluation from the users of the service - the consumers (residents and their stakeholders).
We have seen so many community visitor reports, obtained under FOI, which bear little relationship to the reality of the support services being received or intended to be received by the consumer. This is an infringement of reasonable human rights and social justice.
The matter of the consumer not being the centre of service evaluation was placed before the VEOHRC (Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission) who, after six months of deliberation, gave up.
This infringement of human rights and social justice in Victoria will not be solved in the foreseeable future through service being funded by the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), as their “National Service Quality and Safeguarding Framework” and their “Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) will not be operationally available for at least two years.
In which time, NDIS funded service providers will be subject to existing state regulations and regulators. It is, therefore, very much business as usual for such pseudo state government departments as the Office of the Public Advocate and their community visitor program ignoring consumers – the very people who should be front and centre.
Extra 1: Monitoring the disability sector is flawed
Extra 2: Parents raise concerns
Extra 4: Protecting Group Home Residents
Extra 3: Care Quality Commission - UK
Tel: 03-9434-3810: Email: info@lisainc.com.au or vk3qq@optusnet.com.au
NOTE: We are always interested in feedback and information; general,
specific, good or bad. If you wish anonymously: Our mail address is,
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Central NY Man Straps ATV to Roof of Four-Door Sedan
No trailer? No pick-up truck? No problem. A Central New York man was ticketed for transporting his ATV in an unusual way.
Wanna Learn To Be an "Outdoors Woman?" Take a Class in CNY
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U-Haul Trailer Missing for 14 Years Re-Appears in CNY
No one has figured out why it took 14 years to be returned or who returned it.
No Matter Where You Go, You'll Find Ties to Central New York
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5 Reasons Why Cortaca Is the Best Rivalry in America
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Meth is like one of those, “I give up on life totally” drugs.
Crank is filled with sleazebags, rapists, absent fathers and drug addicts who drive their girlfriends to suicide. It was hard enough to find anyone of value. So here’s Chase, the only real good guy from “Crank.” Let’s see how good he really is.
About Chase
takes drugs
pimply
has somewhat of a future
He is in love with a girl
who is pregnant with another man’s baby
and she’s addicted to meth
he might be addicted, but probably not
jury is out on this one.
From Faces of Meth. These photos were taken 2.5 years apart. TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
doesn’t want to have sex with a girl who was just raped
like, cares about her state of mind
is willing to stay with her even though she’s having another man’s baby
he doesn’t really make Kristina go to the doctor
or the cops
after the rape
I mean he just kind of is like
maybe we should wait a week before having sex
he also takes meth with her
and introduces her to a bunch of other drugs
like E.
He seems like he could potentially be a decent guy, and he probably is, for his age. But he’s a little too passive and a little too destructive, and I’m not seeing a whole lot of stunning qualities. He is willing to stay with his girlfriend through her pregnancy, but the book ends before we can see if he really sticks it out. Rating: Meth is bad. Do not date boys who take meth.
Get Crank on Amazon.
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Wow, someone made a sexy Mr. Tumnus. I may have to do this next. Damn.
I first had to read this book when I was in Catholic school. I don’t want to hear about how Aslan symbolizes Jesus, or how having sex with animals is wrong. We all know Aslan the Lion is supposed to be a badass rugged dude. And, since he’s sentient and self-aware and all that, I’m going to count him as human, not animal.
About Aslan
He’s a lion
he’s supposed to rule Narnia
but he’s not there for some reason
kinda like Simba in The Lion King.
he’s a savior
so he’s doomed to die
but he wants to or something
This was actually the tamest sexy fanart I could find. I found this other one where the beast was having sex with Scar, but it was a little much.
he’s this rugged, self-sacrificing, giant lion
who is smart
so it’s totally fine to be in love with him
hey, you all saw Beauty and the Beast
you all know she had sex with a lion
so don’t pretend this is weird.
he gave up himself to the witch
to save Edmund
the little boy
who was kind of a little shit
lets the witch take control for a while
and that prevents Christmas from happening
even though like,
if Aslan was just there the whole time
Christmas would continue on
don’t really understand why he was gone for so long
letting Narnia go to hell and all.
He also makes Peter a knight
and he’s a little kid
way to use child soldiers, Aslan
came back from the dead
I’m a little weird about screwing things that were once dead
it’s not entirely a deal breaker, though
It would have been cool and self-sacrificing if Aslan really gave himself up to save Edmund. But really, Aslan knew there was a “deeper magic” or whatever, so he already knew that if the witch killed him in Edmund’s place, that he’d come back.
So it’s like, he didn’t really sacrifice himself, because he knew he would come back to life. So that whole sentimental thing was phony.
Rating: Boner-Killer. Not because he’s a lion, or Jesus, but because he’s a phony at the end of the day.
Haven’t read it? You can fix that.
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Faulkner’s Advice For Reading His Novels
Faulkner is a badass, but do you think this mentality holds up given the abundance of content on the Internet today? Do you think people will still wade through tough works, when there are so many attention-grabbing headlines promising instant gratification?
I guess this means I need to read The Sound and the Fury three more times to get it.
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Hagrid from the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
LEGO HAGRID YES.
I’m not interested in Harry because he’s like, a child for most of the series. That’s a little too creepy. While we all know Harry ends up becoming a grown ass hottie, I can’t in good faith analyze things he did when he was 10.
So who was an adult at the start? Who hasn’t been done to death?
Fuckin’ Hagrid.
About Hagrid:
saves Harry from an abusive relationship
introduces him to his secret wizard-ing life
he’s basically the bouncer of Hogwarts.
Generally monster-like, misunderstood, coarse and potentially unlovable.
He’s just…a little TOO big.
I like the whole, saving a kid from an abusive foster home
and then giving him lots of money
and helping him save the world and stuff
and how he can take care of dragons
he’s half-human, half-giant
and I’m a mixed kid
basically the same, right?
oh, and he’s always carrying people
so that’s nice, he could like
save me from a burning building
bathing?
communicating?
inside voice maybe?
shaving?
he cries too much
I can’t understand WTF he’s saying.
if he’s five times as wide as a normal man…
there’s such a thing as “too big.”
there’s definitely a sort of
haven’t you heard of the law of diminishing returns?
I think we should just be friends partially because having sex with you would feel like childbirth. Rating: You Can Go Down on Me But That’s It.
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J.K. Rowling admits Hermione should’ve ended up with Harry, not Ron
Hermione should have ditched both of those dudes, to be honest. I mean, Harry kept bossing her around and putting her in mortal danger, and you just know Ron was having awkward boners all the time.
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Home / Bollywood / Haunted havelis, desi vampires, scary shower scenes: The Ramsay brothers are back
Haunted havelis, desi vampires, scary shower scenes: The Ramsay brothers are back
The Ramsay’s are planning a comeback on the big screen. So we spoke to them about some lesser known facts, incidents from their films and the mystery to where Jasmine from Veerana had disappeared.
By Kabir Singh Bhandari
Ghosts, possessed demon statues and spooky mansions, the Ramsay movies had it all. (YouTube)
Don ‘t Disturb the Dead: The Story of the Ramsay Brothers by Shamya Dasgupta (HarperCollins India), releasing this month, is about the pioneers of the horror genre in India, the Ramsay brothers, as they came to be popularly known.
We spoke to director Shyam Ramsay, his daughter Saasha Ramsay and Satish Shah, who starred in many of their horror movies.
Shyam Ramsay directed cult movies such as Veerana (1988), Purana Mandir (1984) and Band Darwaza (1990), commented on what he thinks of scary movies these days.
“We made all the films for the single screens- for the masses. Now the generation has changed, even now people are making horror films for the masses. But I’ve noticed that the main horror factor, the fear is missing. I’m starting a new film called House, which will be like Conjuring. I really enjoyed that movie and ended up watching it three times. The makers depicted the fear of the unknown very well in the movie. In most of the horror films being made nowadays, the production value and everything is great, but they are not being able to recreate the fear factor. When I used to make films it used to be masala films for the masses- there were sex and horror both. For the horror factor we depended a lot on make up at that time rather than VFX.
Nowadays the youngsters are doing a good job, but the fear factor is missing. Abhi tak koi darr paida nahi kar paaya hai. Except Ram Gopal Varma in Bhoot (2003) and Raat and Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz part 1(2002),” says Shyam.
Shyam Ramsay tells Saasha Ramsay: Woh dekho beta, chudail chandelier kei andar baithi hai.
Then he makes a point which really captures what is going wrong with a lot of Hollywood horror films.
“Today filmmakers should try to recreate real, authentic horror, but the audience should also enjoy it at the same time. It should not be boring and neither should it be a very dark or depressing film. People have enough worries in their life anyways, so horror films should be enjoyable and thrilling, like when the Ghost is chasing the girl. Like Wrong Turn (2003) was a very gory film but Omen 1 (1976) had an undercurrent of horror.”
Did you feel offended when people refer to the Ramsay horror films as cheesy?
“That was a pattern we followed purposely because people expected certain things from a Ramsay film- the horror, sleaze, sex, the typical bathroom shower scenes, it had become a brand. Just like people used to see Dada Kondke’s films for the double meaning comedies, they came to see Ramsay films for the horror and sex.Woh zamana alag tha. I will not make those kind of movies today since today’s audience will not identify with it.
I shall make a movie with an Indian context. Vampire films might not work in India, but there is a folklore about a woman who comes in the night near the Godavari river, she’s a witch.”
I tell him that this is reminding me of his film Veerana (1988).
“Veerana was a perfect film. Even people of the current generation shall like the film. I’m making a sequel to it but I need the proper girl for that role, like I had Jasmine in Veerana.”
Jasmine in Veerana. The Ramsay ghosts were also famous shampoo chors. ( YouTube )
Then I ask him something whose answer neither Google nor YouTube has been able to give me. Where is Jasmine (also her name in the movie), the leading lady of Veerana who turns into a witch and kills the men who fall for her. I tell him about the rumours which say that she went away to the U.S or that she started getting a lot of calls from the underworld after the movie became a success and hence she chose to stay away from the limelight.
“Jasmine is very much in Mumbai. Her mother had passed away, who she was extremely close to, which really affected her, and she took a backseat and no longer associated herself with the film world. In fact, we shall be making a sequel to Veerana, and then definitely I shall get Jasmine to play as a mother to the new girl who shall be playing Jasmine.”
But what about the actors? Some of whom were repeated in many of their films. What was their experience like? To find this out, we spoke to Satish Shah.
“The Ramsay brothers have always been very enterprising; I was rather fond of them. People thought they were ‘C’ grade movies but I had a ball working with them. And I always thought Shyam Ramsay was very talented. I wouldn’t name them but there were some duffer actors around, and Shyam used to actually show them with his actions how to go about a certain scenes,” said Shah.
I remind him about Purana Mandir (1984), where he played Sanga the woodcutter.
“Yes, those were my struggling days; they gave me a baisakhi (crutches) and burnt half my face (make up). I had scenes along with Sadashiv Amrapurkar. It was his second film after Ardh Satya (1983) hence he could dictate some terms. Now the Ramsays wanted him to burn his face, but then he refused to do that and they transferred it to me. Then they gave him the baisakhi, but he didn’t want that too, so that too was passed on to me. I never forgave him for that.”
I tell that after he is possessed with the spirit of Saamri in the movie, his walk reminded me of the way Michael Jackson danced in Thriller.
“I have no idea! I don’t remember an inch of footage from that movie because I was so disgusted because of the makeup they applied on me and the time it took to put on that. It’s a bad memory. The palace they were shooting in at the time happened to belong to a very close friend of mine. So I arranged that for them and probably thought they were bribing me by giving me that role.
But Veerana (1988) was fun. I’ll tell you something about the Ramsay’s- the workload was very evenly distributed amongst all the brothers and family members. I feel Shyam Ramsay is one of the finest directors and has a great sense of film making except that he had to cater to a certain audience, so he couldn’t get away from that image. But he is far above what he has done. So is Gangu Ramsay, he could turn a swan into a vulture with his cinematography skills.”
These scary effects didn’t spare even Shyam’s own daughter, Saasha Ramsay.
“I have a very clear memory of Purana Mandir (1984), I was 10 at the time, and we were playing in the garden by the palace. So the person playing the ghost of Saamri was just stepping out of the green room and was standing behind me. I turned around and saw him and it completely freaked me out to the extent I was got fever,” remembers Saasha.
“The next day my dad took me to the sets when the ghost’s make up was being done which is when I understood that it was just a man underneath.”
I then ask her about the web series they did (with 101India), which didn’t really strike the kind of chord which one has come to associate with the Ramsay horror films, but at the same time one must laud 101India for giving all the avid horror fans a shot at what they had been wanting for a long time, a glimpse of the Ramsay’s back in action.
“The web series was nice, but it could have been way better. For example one of the short films I shot was titled A Halloween Night. But when it was uploaded, a lot of scenes were cut without my knowledge and they titled it Besabar Kabar. So that was very disheartening and upsetting. There was another one which was about vampires, called Illusion, but when it went up it was called Khoon Ki Pyaas. So as a result, I just stopped talking about this series because I can’t really go up to people and say, “Hey, you know I’m the next kid on the block, go and watch Khoon Ki Pyaas.”
Anirudh Agarwal as Navela (Dracula) and Aruna Irani as his follower in Band Darwaza (1990). ( YouTube )
Well, here’s looking forward to Veerana 2, and the Ramsays who were kind enough to import vampires to India, and at the same time made sure that even they practiced Hinduism. Otherwise, how could Navla from Band Darwaza have been vanquished with the Om sign on a cross?
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World Bank defends treatment of tea garden labourers in India amid fears of exploitation
The tea industry in Assam, the world’s largest growing area, has been in crisis for years with accusations of slave labour and trade unions demanding better wages while tea estate owners refused
By Reuters, Reuters, New Delhi
Tea plantation workers pick leaves in a tea garden in Jorhat, Assam. (AFP file photo)
The World Bank group has defended the treatment of tea pickers at an Indian project it funds with the multinational Tata Global Beverages, dismissing criticism that thousands of workers were living in poor conditions.
Four charities this week said little progress had been made to protect workers at India’s second largest tea producer in the northeast state of Assam - despite the World Bank group’s own watchdog raising concerns over low wages and poor housing.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) - which is part of the World Bank group - invested $7.8 million in the $87 million project to help preserve jobs and raise standards for workers, but had been criticised for failing to do this.
However an IFC spokesman said more funds have been allocated to improve living standards, and employee councils formed to address complaints and boost workers’ say in company decisions.
“There are the long-standing challenges within the tea industry in India. Across Assam and other tea plantations, poverty is deeply entrenched,” Frederick Jones told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“Despite the many challenges, Tata and IFC remain forces for good in the sector,” he added in an emailed statement.
The tea industry in Assam, the world’s largest growing area, has been in crisis for years with accusations of slave labour and trade unions demanding better wages while tea estate owners refused. Tea estates have faced closures due to various reasons, including labour disputes.
Around 30,000 tea workers are employed by Amalgamated Plantations Private Ltd (APPL) - a joint venture with the IFC and Tata Global Beverages (TGB).
APPL was set up in 2009 to acquire and manage tea plantations previously owned by TGB, which owns Tetley, the second-largest tea brand in the world.
Investigation into conditions
TGB owns just less than half of APPL and the IFC 20 percent, while the remainder is held by workers and smaller firms.
Complaints by charities and unions about exploitation of tea pickers prompted an IFC watchdog probe in 2014.
The watchdog’s findings in November last year found APPL had failed to identify and address complaints of low wages, poor housing and sanitation, and exposure to hazardous pesticides without adequate protection.
The investigation also found IFC’s investment supported an employee share-purchase programme in which APPL misrepresented the risks of buying stock, resulting in workers incurring debts.
Despite promises to improve conditions, a report this week by four civil society groups - PAJHRA, PAD, Nazdeek and Accountability Counsel - said little has changed.
“Living conditions continue to remain oppressive and unsafe for tea workers, with crumbling housing, squalid sanitation, the absence of toilets and unclean drinking water,” said Stephen Ekka, Director of PAJHRA, an Assam-based charity.
The IFC and APPL have also failed to provide safety training or ensure basic protection gear for pesticides, he said.
APPL dismissed the report’s findings as inaccurate.
A company statement said wages were in line with salary laws for the sector and safety and medical care provisions in place.
TGB said despite problems faced by India’s tea industry, APPL was committed to better the lives of its workers.
“APPL faces the same financial challenges as the rest of the tea industry in India,” said an emailed statement from TGB.
“However, that has not impeded its efforts to bring about a positive change in the tea plantations ecosystem ... in which APPL has invested a substantial amount both in terms of capital investment as well as operating expenses.”
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Selena Gomez is a multi-talented person. She is a talented actress, fashion designer, singer as well as a philanthropist. She stepped in to the acting world via Barney and Friends in 2000. The year 2007 led her to acting prominence letting her to appear in Wizards of Waverly Place. She also started her own band Selena Gomez & the Scene and released numbers of albums: Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain and When the Sun Goes Down. She has started her own fashion line and also launched a perfume in her name. She has also released solo albums: Star Dance and Revival.
Selena Gomez was born Selena Marie Gomez on July 22, in Grand Prairie, Texas, U.S. She is the daughter of Ricardo Joel Gomez and former stage actress Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Cornett. She is American and as far as her ethnicity concerned she is Mexican descent from her father side and Italian ancestry from her mother side.
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Any plan to pardon American war criminals would dishonor the memory of ‘Nam hero Hugh Thompson and his gunners
May 24, 2019 by tomaswell
Without getting into an overall critique of the Trump administration (I am already on record as to my feelings about him, so no need to repeat myself), I nevertheless feel compelled to address an issue that has arisen in recent days.
The Trump Justice Department, at his direction, is exploring the possibility of PARDONING military personnel convicted of war crimes in the Mideast, including SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher, Green Beret Major Matthew Golsteyn, a former Blackwater contractor and others.
Trump took up the matter supposedly after FAUX NEWS host ROGER HEGSETH repeatedly urged him to take the action.
No doubt such a move would get the approval of National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Setting policy on the advice of news reporters (and that includes ALL pundits whose job it is to report news, not make it) is bad enough, but this proposed action is ill-advised on so many levels that even U.S. military veterans are DISGUSTED by the very thought.
A former platoon leader in Iraq has also weighed in on the debate in a WASHINGTON POST story. And please, even if you agree with Trump about the Post, try to put those feelings aside and think about what is considered acceptable and unacceptable in the manner in which civilians are to be treated in wartime. This is an issue that transcends—should transcend—politics.
To issue pardons would send the wrong message about what this country stands for.
We are not Nazi Germany.
We are not Japanese soldiers slaughtering American GIs on the Bataan peninsula.
We’re better than that. At least, we’re supposed to be.
There’s another reason for opposing this insane line of action:
To uphold the heroics and to honor the memory of Hugh Thompson.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1943, Hugh Thompson was the Army warrant officer who flew helicopters in Vietnam.
After the war, he settled in Lafayette, Louisiana, and flew ‘copters for Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (PHI). He died of cancer in January 2006 in the VA Hospital in Pineville.
If you read nothing else in your life, read THIS ACCOUNT of The Forgotten Hero of My Lai and then decide for yourself if pardons are a good idea for war criminals.
If you don’t recognize his name, perhaps you’ll remember the name of LT. WILLIAM CALLEY.
The two men crossed paths on March 16, 1968, in what has become one of the darkest chapters of an ill-advised war that had no victors, only survivors.
Thompson happened upon the mass slaughter of Vietnamese civilians by Charlie Company of the U.S. Army’s 1st Platoon. He landed his helicopter and the following exchange took place between him and platoon commander Calley:
Thompson: What’s going on here, Lieutenant?
Calley: This is my business.
Thompson: What is this?
Calley: Just following orders.
Thompson: Orders?
Whose orders?
Calley: Just following…
Thompson: But these are human beings, unarmed civilians, sir.
Calley: Look Thompson, this is my show. I’m in charge here. It ain’t your concern.
Thompson: Yeah, great job.
Calley: You better get back in that chopper and mind your own business.
Thompson: You ain’t heard the last of this!
Thompson subsequently left but returned and set his helicopter down between fleeing Vietnamese civilians and the pursuing Americans. He instructed his door gunners Specialists Lawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta to train their M-60 machine guns on the Americans and to cover him. “If these bastards open up on me or these people, you open up on them.”
His actions not only save the lives of 11 civilians at the scene, but when he reported the incident upon his return to base, his commander ordered Charlie Company to “knock off the killing.” His actions saved the lives of hundreds more Vietnamese.
So, was Thompson recognized as a war hero?
Nope. He was pilloried by members of the House Armed Services Committee, especially so by committee Chairman Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), who actually proclaimed that Thompson was the only soldier at My Lai who should be punished and then attempted to have him court martialed. All the committee was interested in was covering up a massacre by American troops.
As Thompson told Calley, great job. Rep. Rivers and your fellow committee members
Thompson began receiving hate mail, death threats and mutilated animals on his doorstep.
It wasn’t until precisely 30 years later that Thompson, Andreotta and Colburn were awarded the Soldier’s Medal (Andreotta posthumously), the Army’s highest award for bravery not involving direct contact with the enemy. “It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did,” then-Major General Michael Ackerman said at the 1998 ceremony.
Calley, for his part, was eventually charged with the premeditated MURDER of 109 Vietnamese civilians. As it turned out, he was the ONLY ONE found guilty of murdering 22 civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence that was reduced first to 20 years and then to 10 by the Secretary of the Army. He was paroled by Nixon in 1974 after serving only about three years.
Incredibly, he was considered by much of the public as a scapegoat in the entire affair.
Incredibly, National Security Adviser BOLTON for years has campaigned to convince other countries to sign the Article 98 agreements which says that the countries would not cooperate with the world court in the prosecution of American military personnel at the expense of American foreign aid if they did cooperate.
The Nazis would’ve loved to have had Bolton as their advocate at the NUREMBERG TRIALS.
And just so you know, Bolton, the quintessential war-monger who is constantly rattling swords, like Trump, was in reality, a DRAFT-DODGER during the Vietnam War, even writing in his Yale 25th reunion book, “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.” So, to him, it’s okay to send others to die for his political ambitions so long as he doesn’t have to answer the bell himself.
That would qualify him as a chicken hawk.
But I digress. To pardon these war criminals would be to dishonor the courage of Hugh Thompson and his two gunners, Lawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta.
They deserve better.
In the immortal words of Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
on May 24, 2019 at 10:56 am | Reply Lance Hill
Thanks for this story. Trump would love an obedient military that follows his orders regardless of their morality.
on May 24, 2019 at 11:51 am | Reply Too jaded to care
The Secretary of Education’s brother owns Blackwater. I wonder if money might have something to do with Trump’s interest in pardoning war criminals.Trump said he could fire a gun on 5th Ave. in the middle of the day and not lose support. Pardoning war criminals doesn’t seem so egregious given everything we know about the current White House Oval Office occupant.
on May 24, 2019 at 4:21 pm | Reply tomaswell
Yes, Betsy Devos’s brother did own Blackwater, but does no more. I think the heat got to be a little too much for him.
on May 24, 2019 at 12:08 pm | Reply C.J.G.
Yes, John Bolton, a member of the Bush administration along with Cheney and the other Neo-Cons who got us into the Iraq war and the subsequent catastrophic consequences. And now itching to get us into a war with Iran. Surprisingly even Trump, so far, has ignored him.
on May 24, 2019 at 2:28 pm | Reply Goose Gosnell
Have you ever been to war sir?
You have no idea what goes on to those, who all by the way are sent by their superiors to do a job they were trained to do.
I was in the military during Vietnam. I did not go to ‘Nam, but I also did not dodge the draft. And I lost a friend in Vietnam, so don’t try to lecture me.
And let me tell you something right now, Mr. Super Patriot, it doesn’t matter a damn bit if I’ve been to war or not—war crimes are war crimes. Killing is killing and rape is rape, no matter which side does it. The tone you take seems to defend the Bataan Death March and Nazi war crimes—or do you reserve the absolution of unwarranted killing just for Americans? If so, you’re a hypocrite.
Yes, our soldiers were sent there to do a job but that was NOT part of their job description. As a matter of fact, the defense given by the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg was that they were “just following orders.”
Don’t you dare try to defend those people for what they did. That makes you no better than them.
And as Americans, we’re supposed to stand for a little more than that.
on May 24, 2019 at 2:41 pm | Reply Pam F
Tom thanks for this post. My husband and I along with two friends were talking about this massacre just yesterday. A sad commentary in our nation’s history.
on May 30, 2019 at 3:08 pm | Reply James M
Tom reply to Goose “I was in the military during Vietnam. I did not go to ‘Nam, but I also did not dodge the draft. And I lost a friend in Vietnam, so don’t try to lecture me”.
I do not agree with this article or your reply, I thank you for your service and I’m sorry for your loss but you have no idea what happens in a combat situation especially under the circumstances these men where in. Each individual’s situation is different and you’re putting it under one and that’s not fair at all.
on May 30, 2019 at 3:19 pm | Reply tractorshedcommunication
Thanks and I cried again, thinking of Chief Warrant Thompson, no kin. The latest incident with the Navy crew on USS Wasp is beyond belief, (patch,”Make Aircrew Great Again” with Trump’s pic) and all within 24 hours, the story of moving The carrier John McCain, makes me mad as hell. I am writing my Coward Congressman, Ralph the Christian Abraham, who is still 100% behind Trump requesting he keep me informed of the Navy investigation of these clearly illegal actions. If there is a “cover-up”, look no further than our own GOP Congressional delegation. ron thompson
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Installment 4 of How I Met My Client/Agent
Posted: August 4, 2016 in new release, Uncategorized
Tags: angels, conspiracy of angels, contemporary fantasy, harsh gods, how I met my agent, how i met my client, michelle belanger, paranormal, shadowside, Titan Books, urban fantasy
I’m pleased to bring you the fourth installment of How I Met My Client/How I Met My Agent, featuring Michelle Belanger, author of CONSPIRACY OF ANGELS and HARSH GODS (coming August 30th)! Michelle is running a giveaway right now with swag packs and signed copies of HARSH GODS, so you might want to check it out if you haven’t already!
How I Met My Client
I met Michelle in the usual way—she sent me a query. Her name rang a bell and as I read her query, I realized why. I’d seen her before, probably more than once, but almost certainly on the History Channel’s The Secret Lives of Vampires. Although it could have been from Vampire Secrets (A&E) or Truebloodlines (HBO) or any number of shows in which she was called upon to provide her expertise. I didn’t watch Paranormal State, but that was a big one for Michelle, and in her query letter she described herself as, “that psychic lady from the show — the really tall one all in black”. Sure enough, she was. Michelle is a little hard to miss.
Her experience and the way in which the Shadowside series came about really intrigued me. Also from her query: “This series grew out of my work on Paranormal State as we traveled the country investigating possession and driving out angry ghosts. So many strange and breathless things happened both on camera and off, I wondered what kind of powers we might have if our lives were part of somebody’s novel. Eventually these thoughts blossomed into a world close to our own where all the paranormal elements that appealed to our fans (and to us) were given free reign. The Shadowside Series, starting with CONSPIRACY OF ANGELS, was the result. Fans of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files and Kat Richardson’s Greywalker Series will find a lot to love in these books. My main character Zack is tough, witty, and speaks fluent geek (like any too-smart-for-his-own-good fellow raised in the 80s). It doesn’t hurt that he’s got some magic he can sling as well.”
She wasn’t kidding about Zack. I fell in love with him right from the start. CONSPIRACY OF ANGELS opened:
They were after me. I didn’t know who, and I didn’t know why, but I had to get away.
Classic way to start a novel, right? Jump right into the middle of things. Hook the reader. Well, I was hooked. She continued…
There was no other thought.
I fell through darkness till direction lost all meaning. My seizing lungs burned. When I fully breached the surface, I saw water and no shore. Pain chewed my awareness—pain and a wrenching sense of loss like a freshly severed limb. I groped for meaning, but it fled.
I had to keep reading. Now, Zack has some serious issues going on, not least of which is the identity crisis to end all identity crises, but his voice, his character came through loud and clear. I connected with him. It’s not just that he lives in a place full of shelves overstuffed with books. Or that he decorates with pages of illuminated manuscripts. Or his endearing Starbuck action figure (the Katee Sackhoff era). It’s his warmth and his smarts.
And he has to be strong not to be upstaged by Lil, who is beyond a force of nature and who could alone “tip the cosmic scale of snark”. Yup, you sort of have to love Lil…or else.
So yes, I fell for Zack and Lil and the rest of Michelle’s crazy cast of characters, as well as the wonderful, rich mythos presented in the Shadowside series. And we found a great editor at Titan Books, Steve Saffel, who shared our love and our vision for the books. Now, I’m pleased to say, CONSPIRACY OF ANGELS is on shelves and the sequel, HARSH GODS, is coming out at the end of August (though hint, hint it’s available for pre-order now). A third book is forthcoming, along with shorter Shadowside stories that will be released electronically to whet the appetite between times!
How I Met My Agent by Michelle Belanger
I came at all of this backwards and upside-down.
Like so many, I’d tried the get-an-agent dance before and given up. This was back in the late 80s and early 90s, when I was an impatient kid hungry to share my stories with the world — not an ideal recipe for surviving the industry grind.
It was my impatience that did me in. Back then, everything went through snail mail, and while I stalwartly weathered the rejections when they arrived, the waiting itself ate at me. It could take as long as six months to hear back from anyone, and I often had a new book written before I learned that someone hadn’t liked the first one. Mostly, I got told to stop writing about vampires and the paranormal (which is hilarious now, in retrospect), but those were the things I loved writing about. Young me quickly hit the point of “fuck it,” so I started publishing things myself.
Little did I know at the time, that decision would land me here — albeit through a long and circuitous route.
The 90s saw a profusion of underground presses and amateur magazines, off-beat labors of love often copied at places like Kinko’s, hand-assembled, and distributed through the mail. We called them ‘zines. My offering to this movement was Shadowdance, a Gothic literary journal that published all the vampire fiction and dark fantasy stories that my rejection letters kept telling me the big publishers didn’t really want.
We had a blast. Shadowdance ran from 1991 through 1996 and through it, I met a number of professionals I continue to work with to this day. One of them was Dr. J. Gordon Melton, whose inclusion of my work in his Vampire Book: Encyclopedia of the Undead lit the tinder of my unintended career as a writer of non-fiction. All the research I’d done into the folklore and mythology of vampires, as it turned out, held interest for a great many readers.
Half a dozen books later, I found myself getting invited to speak on paranormal topics for documentaries on the History Channel, A&E, and even HBO. That lead to my stint on A&E’s hit Paranormal State, where I often wandered haunted houses and abandoned prisons blindfolded and in high heels.
All of this was rewarding, not to mention great fun. But I never lost the itch to tell stories woven from the rich fabric of my folkloric interests. Several ideas for novels got jotted down in between flights to new and interesting hauntings as I worked with Paranormal State, MonsterQuest, and Monsters and Mysteries in America, but little came of them until this one scene got me in its teeth and wouldn’t let me go. It was a lone guy speeding at night toward the Cleveland skyline — nothing but him and his motorcycle and a soul-wrenching need for answers. His name was Zack, short for Zaquiel. He was the angel of memory — and he’d forgotten everything.
I had to tell that story. But I knew, if I wanted to share it with the world, I’d have to do the grind again and try to find an agent. All the non-fiction books in the world wouldn’t sell me to a publisher of fiction.
And here is where I feel like I cheated a little, even though I know I paid my dues through those twenty years of other work that led me to this point.
Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency was the first agent I picked after my initial research to relearn the shape of the industry over on the novel writers’ side of the fence. Totally cold, I shot her an email with my pitch — and I heard back fast enough to make my head spin.
She recognized my name from The Secret Lives of Vampires.
I wasn’t expecting that, and I frankly hadn’t intended to use my appearances as my platform. Chasing ghosts on reality TV for four years was hardly proof I could write a good book. And, ultimately, it was my pitch for the Shadowside Series itself that opened the door — dour Zack on his search for answers, the sharp-tongued Lil with her spirit menagerie, and over-the-top Saliriel in all her Machiavellian glory. But that name recognition made my knock just a bit louder — loud enough that it got the right attention.
And, thanks to that, I get to share Zack’s story.
Select series quotes:
“A darkly vivid world… Her characters are intriguing, her pacing swift. More, please!”—Jim Butcher, creator of The Dresden Files
“Horrors that will send a chill up your spine.”—The Absolute
“A singular reading experience.”—Laurell K. Hamilton, bestselling creator of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Other Installments of How I Met My Client/Agent:
Amy Christine Parker
Carol Berg
Awesome New Releases
Posted: June 30, 2016 in book birthday, new release, nocturne, Uncategorized
Tags: alli sinclair, fantasy, great library, ink and bone, karen whiddon, midnight serenade, paper and fire, paranormal, rachel caine, romance, shapeshifter, tempting the dragon, women's fiction, ya, young adult
I have three very different but all awesome new releases coming out next week. Since it’s a holiday weekend coming up, I wanted to spread the word early (often is good too!).
All to be found in the wild on July 5th:
PAPER AND FIRE by Rachel Caine (US, UK), sequel to INK AND BONE, which was one of Barnes & Nobles’ Best Science Fiction and Fantasy novels of 2015
In Ink and Bone, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library—and rewrite history…
With an iron fist, The Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion, forbidding the personal ownership of books in the name of the greater good. Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever. His best friend is lost, and Morgan, the girl he loves, is locked away in the Iron Tower and doomed to a life apart. Embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies make one wrong move and suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library’s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria, all the way to London. But Jess’s home isn’t safe anymore. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon, Jess must choose between his friends, his family, or the Library willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control…
MIDNIGHT SERENADE by Alli Sinclair (Called LUNA TANGO in Australia, where it won 2014 Book of the Year in the AusRom Today Readers’ Choice Awards and the author won Best New Romance Author at the Australian Romance Readers Association Convention)
On the sultry streets of Buenos Aires, the daughter of a world class tango diva searches for answers about the mother who abandoned her-and uncovers decades of lies and deception… After twenty years of wondering why her mother chose the tango over her, Dani McKenna finally travels to Argentina. What was it about this beautiful, mysterious land that enticed one woman away from her own child-and broke another’s heart? As a journalist, Dani may have the opportunity to find out. And an enigmatic tango dancer may hold the key to her quest-if she can break down his defensive walls. Carlos Escudero had been Dani’s mother’s protege. Tragedy ended his career and he refuses to be interviewed. But he will give Dani some insights, on one condition: she must agree to his tango lessons. As the two begin the intricate dance of passion, Dani’s quiet, logical world is exchanged for one of music, motion-and mystery. For the clues to a tango legend’s murder may lead Dani to the truth about the past and its impact on her family-and free her to move toward a future she can claim as her own at last…”
TEMPTING THE DRAGON by Karen Whiddon
Investigative reporter Rance Sleighter had promised to prove the mythical Lake Creature existed. But its protector had already given him a heap of trouble, as well as inspired one too many hot fantasies. If Rance was going to get some answers, he’d have to get on the gorgeous Jade Burnett’s good side…and keep her away from his bed!
For generations, Jade’s shape-shifting pack had kept the Creature safe. Now Rance’s appearance had her rethinking all her vows. She’d seen him in her dreams, knew he was a shifter and that they possibly shared a life-changing bond. Yet could she find the courage to trust the dragon with the truth…and her own fragile heart?
Dixie Lyle’s new Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot mystery series
Tags: animal, dixie lyle, foxtrot, mystery, new release, paranormal, st. martin's, tango, whiskey
The Quillery has a great interview of Dixie Lyle and a write up of the new Whiskey, Tango & Foxtrot mystery series from St. Martin’s! That and the brand new release of the second in the series, TO DIE FUR (following on the heels of A TASTE FUR MURDER, which you can right now check out in digital for only $2.99!) gives me the perfect chance to, er, crow about this fabulous new series!
A TASTE FUR MURDER:
Introducing an animal-loving Gal Friday with a telepathic cat, a shapeshifting dog, and a ghost of a chance of solving supernatural crime…
Meet Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster. Trusted employee of eccentric zillionairess Zelda Zoransky, Foxtrot manages a mansion, a private zoo, and anything else that strikes her boss’s fancy. Her job title is Administrative Assistant, but chaos handler would be more accurate. Especially after she glimpses a giant ghost-beast in Zelda’s pet cemetery. For some strange reason, Foxtrot is seeing animal spirits. And, ready or not, in this mystery from Dixie Lyle, the fur’s about to hit the fan…
Still reeling, Foxtrot comes home to find her cat Tango—her dead cat Tango—alive and well and communicating telepathically. But that’s not all: There’s an ectoplasmic dog named Tiny who changes breeds with a shake of his tail…and can sniff out a clue like nobody’s business. So when a coworker drops dead while organizing closets, Tiny is on the case. Can Foxtrot and her new companions ferret out the killer among a menagerie of suspects—human and otherwise—before death takes another bite?
TO DIE FUR:
Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster is back. With trusted companions Whiskey and Tango, she’s on the prowl for a brand-new predator…
Deirdre has her hands full, as usual. Working as a Jill-of-all-trades for a zany billionaire like Zelda Zoransky means the daily grind is closer to a juggling act, and this week is no exception—especially when her side job is directing spiritual traffic in Zelda’s pet cemetery. With ZZ hosting a party for some of the world’s wealthiest animal collectors and a rare albino liger named Augustus in residence at the private zoo, Foxtrot is ready for trouble to take a big bite out of her schedule…
She doesn’t have to wait long. The half-ton big cat is dead, and there’s a houseful of colorful suspects, each one wackier than the next. But if they were all bidding to buy him, who would want Augustus dead? With the help of Tango’s feline telepathy and Whiskey the canine shapeshifter, Foxtrot learns that there’s much more to Augustus than meets the eye. Now they just have to sniff out a killer before any more fur flies…
MARKED FUR MURDER: Coming March 2015
“A clever new series that deftly blends cozy mystery with the paranormal, and that is sure to please readers of both genres. Dixie Lyle’s debut, A TASTE FUR MURDER, is original and witty, with a twisting plot that contains more than a few ‘shocks’. I’m looking forward to more adventures featuring the Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot gang.” —Ali Brandon, author of the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series
“A delightful, funny mystery filled with eccentric and colorful characters, be they humans, animals or spirits. Dixie Lyle will entertain the reader page after page!” —Leann Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Cats in Trouble Mysteries
“excellently written, a joy to read, and had a murder plot so fantastical that it was a mystery to the very end.” —Murder by Death
“Dixie Lyle is my new favorite detective author!” —Of Thoughts and Words
“This is wonderfully charming, unique, and delightfully original mystery; with bite.” —King’s River Life
“A TASTE FUR MURDER is the first in a new series that animal lovers will adore! Dixie Lyle incorporates the best elements of the cozy and paranormal genres to craft a book that is delightfully entertaining and twisted.” —Fresh Fiction
“Mingling fact with fiction, Ms. Lyle spins an interesting and engrossing tale that drew me in and kept me interested… A very good read and recommended for anyone who enjoys paranormal in their novels. I eagerly await the next in the series.” —Open Book Society
Posted: July 30, 2014 in Uncategorized
Tags: August, cal leandros, carol berg, chicagoland vampires, chloe neill, contests, fantasy, midgard, new releases, paranormal, prizes, rob thurman, susan krinard
Since I’m going to be on a plane for Australia this coming Thursday – Sydney for the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia Conference! – I’m posting about my exciting releases over the next couple of weeks today. I do hope to have at least some access to social media while I’m gone (otherwise, withdrawal symptoms will set in), I want to be absolutely sure to spread the word on these fabulous new releases.
Coming August 5th:
DUST AND LIGHT by Carol Berg
National bestselling author Carol Berg returns to the world of her award-winning Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone with an all-new tale of magic, mystery, and corruption….
How much must one pay for an hour of youthful folly? The Pureblood Registry accused Lucian de Remeni-Masson of “unseemly involvement with ordinaries,” which meant only that he spoke with a young woman not of his own kind, allowed her to see his face unmasked, worked a bit of magic for her….After that one mistake, Lucian’s grandsire excised half his magic and savage Harrowers massacred his family. Now the Registry has contracted his art to a common coroner. His extraordinary gift for portraiture is restricted to dead ordinaries—beggars or starvelings hauled from the streets.
But sketching the truth of dead men’s souls brings unforeseen consequences. Sensations not his own. Truths he cannot possibly know and dares not believe. The coroner calls him a cheat and says he is trying to weasel out of a humiliating contract. The Registry will call him mad—and mad sorcerers are very dangerous….
(*Check out the Author’s blog for contests and appearances!)
BLOOD GAMES by Chloe Neill (#10 in the New York Times bestselling Chicagoland Vampires series)
“IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A VAMPIRIC ROLE MODEL, YOU COULDN’T DO ANY BETTER THAN MERIT….CHICAGO IS LUCKY TO HAVE HER.”—#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Charlaine Harris
While Merit didn’t choose to become a vampire or Sentinel of Cadogan House, she vowed to fight for her House and its Master, and she’s managed to forge strong alliances with powerful supernaturals across Chicago. But even though Merit has had wild adventures, this may be her deadliest yet….
A killer is stalking Chicago, preying on humans and leaving his victims with magical souvenirs. The CPD hasn’t been able to track the assailant, and as the body count rises, the city is running out of options. Vampires and humans aren’t on great terms, but murder makes for strange bedfellows. Can Merit find the killer before she becomes a target?
(*Chloe Neill is running a big giveaway right now, including a grand prize of a Kindle Paperwhite, audiobooks and all kinds of Cadogan House swag. Check it out!)
DOWNFALL by Rob Thurman (#9 in the New York Times bestselling Cal Leandros series)
I let it go—all of it. Everything I’d been saving up all my life, building and growing inside me, too much to hold in one half-human body. It pushed and fought to be free with a force that turned me into a bomb with a timer vibrating on zero. I was free.
But so was everything I’d fought so hard not to be….
Brothers Cal and Niko Leandros know trouble when they see it—and then proceed to wipe the floor with it. But now it seems their whole world is falling to pieces. Cal’s nightmarish monster side is growing ever stronger, changing Cal physically as well as mentally. Which is exactly what Grimm—Cal’s savage doppelgänger—wants. And when a covert supernatural organization decides that it’s time to put Cal down before he threatens pretty much everything else in existence, the brothers find themselves in a fight they actually might lose. But the dark temptations Cal has denied all his life may prove to be exactly what can save them.
Even if he must fall forever
(*The author is running a fabulous contest until August 9th for signed copies and prints of some special character pics.)
Coming August 12th:
BLACK ICE by Susan Krinard (#2 in the Midgard Series, which started with MIST and the novella FREEZE WARNING)
New York Times bestselling author Susan Krinard continues the thrilling urban fantasy series that began with Mist in Black Ice.
Centuries ago, all was lost in the Last Battle when the Norse gods and goddesses went to war. The elves, the giants, and the gods and goddesses themselves were all destroyed, leaving the Valkyrie known as Mist one of the only survivors.
Or so she thought.
The trickster god Loki has reappeared in San Francisco, and he has big plans for modern-day Earth. With few allies and fewer resources—but the eyes of the gods and goddesses of an old world upon her—it’s up to Mist to stop him before history repeats itself.
Book news!
Posted: February 27, 2014 in Uncategorized
Tags: cozy, dixie lyle, humor, knight agency, luck in the shadows, lynn flewelling, mysteries, new releases, paranormal, taste fur murder
Some very exciting book news! First, happy book birthday to Dixie Lyle for the first in the Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot mystery series. If you like the weird and wonderful, the dangerous and deadly, dogs and cats and ghostly gators, oh my! This might be the book for you (more below).
In other news, the book that started off Lynn Flewelling’s award-winning and long-running Nightrunner series of spies, thieves, skullduggery and intrigue, LUCK IN THE SHADOWS, is just $.99 for a limited time for Nook and Kindle, so you might want to grab that while it’s hot!
And last, but not least, the new Knight Agency newsletter is out. Those of you following along at home can view it here.
A TASTE FUR MURDER by Dixie Lyle
Happy Book Birthdays!
Tags: debra mullins, erotica, fall of night, jasmine haynes, karen whiddon, lovers' lies, morganville vampires, paranormal, prodigal son, rachel caine, romance, texas secrets, the naughty corner, ya, young adult
I’m so pleased to wish happy book birthdays to Debra Mullins, Jasmine Haynes, Karen Whiddon and Rachel Caine for their new titles below!
PRODIGAL SON by Debra Mullins (Tor Romance trade paperback)
“Mullins (Too Wicked to Love) weaves a believable, spicy tapestry of love, intrigue, and family ties in this splendid paranormal romance… Well paced and tightly plotted, this enthralling page-turner matches a strong yet vulnerable heroine with a flawed alpha male to create a deliciously engrossing story. Suspense and romance are wrapped together in such a way that neither overwhelms the other—and they combine beautifully with intriguing secondary characters, sensual passion, and powerful themes of trust and loyalty.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Prodigal Son—the new paranormal romance from acclaimed historical romance author Debra Mullins
Bounty hunter Rafe Montana is a Seer, descended from the fabled Atlanteans. He uses his inherited power to “see” criminals across the globe and track them down, and he’s just started on a new case. Danny Cangialosi is accused of disappearing with a stolen car…but for the first time in his life, when Rafe goes looking, he is unable to “see” him. Instead, his search leads him to Danny’s stubborn, meddling, and very cute stepsister, Cara McGaffigan.
Cara is looking for Danny, too, but not to turn him in. He is her brother, after all, and she’s convinced he has a good heart. If she can just find him before the cops do, she’ll figure out a way to get him out of this. But Cara didn’t count on a scorching-hot bounty hunter getting in her way.
Despite instant chemistry, Rafe and Cara know they’re never going to see eye-to-eye when it comes to Danny. What they don’t know is that Danny didn’t just steal a car—he stole a precious stone, a stone right out of the legends of Atlantis. It holds powers they can only dream of…and its owner wants it back.
THE NAUGHTY CORNER by Jasmine Haynes (Berkley trade paperback)
“the fun these two have as their sexual relationship progresses is a breath of fresh air.”
—Romantic Times Book Reviews (4 stars)
Somebody’s been a bad girl…
Writer Lola Cook is on a deadline. Meeting it gets twice as difficult when she finds herself in the unwelcome role of babysitter for her nephews. Two months with the twin teenage terrors is too much for Lola—until she has a brilliant idea: send the boys to football camp. That’ll at least get them out of her hair for five hours every day. Perfect.
Divorced father Gray Barnett has coached summer football camp long enough to know he’ll get saddled with misfits, but William and Harry exceed all expectations. They’re impossible, they’re disruptive, and when he meets their hot aunt Lola, they’re worth the trouble. That is, if Lola accepts Gray’s conditions.
Every time the twins misbehave, it’s Lola who must take their punishment. With every naughty infraction, Lola gets more and more accepting—of the penalties. She has no idea just how bad a girl she can be—or how much fun she’ll have getting what she deserves.
TEXAS SECRETS, LOVERS’ LIES by Karen Whiddon (Harlequin Romantic Suspense mass market)
Every time Brock McCauley locks eyes with Zoe Onella, his heart aches. Though Zoe explains why she skipped town, leaving him at the altar years ago, Brock refuses to go down that road again. After all, she’s only back in Anniversary, Texas, to help investigate the bizarre disappearance of her best friend, Shayna.
The sooner they find Shayna, the sooner Zoe can return to New York. But Brock can’t stop thinking about the hot passion they once shared. And when danger surrounds Zoe, he must protect the only woman he’s ever loved. Even if it costs him everything.
FALL OF NIGHT by Rachel Caine (Berkley trade paperback, reprint from the hardcover, Book 14 in the Morganville Vampires series)
“Fall of Night was absolutely, amazingly, stunningly awesome!” —Literal Addiction
“An absolute treat for fans of the series, FALL OF NIGHT is not to be missed!”—A Book Obsession
Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t the only town with vampire trouble
Claire never thought she’d get to leave Morganville, but she can’t pass up the chance to finally attend her dream school, MIT. After all, getting to invent anti-vamp devices with Professor Anderson—a Morganville exile herself—sounds like a dream come true
until Claire realizes that there are sinister forces in play, and she’s not the only one with a vampire-related agenda.
Without her friends Shane, Eve and Michael, surviving a killer schedule may be hard
but with them, it might turn out to be impossible.
Interview with Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Tags: diana rodriguez wallach, ebooks, mirror mirror, paranormal, reflecting amy, short stories, ya, young adult
I’m happy to have Girlfriends Cyber Sister Diana Rodriguez Wallach here today talking about her latest release REFLECTING AMY!
REFLECTING EMMY Back Cover Copy
Eighteen-year-old Emmy is in the family business-trapping vapid narcissistic souls into her silver compact mirror for all eternity. It’s what the Rhamnusia family has been doing for thousands of years, all under the direction of Great Grandmother. Only Emmy’s latest assignment, Nara, is about to prove more challenging than she ever expected.
Gorgeous and self-absorbed, Nara is unflinchingly cruel to her classmates. Even her boyfriend, Luke, can no longer tolerate her actions–much to Emmy’s relief since she finds Luke a little more than intriguing. But when Emmy tricks Nara into gazing into her mystical mirror, what she finds there is not what she’s expecting.
Background About REFLECTING EMMY and the MIRROR, MIRROR Trilogy
Diana Rodriguez Wallach, author of the award-winning YA series Amor and Summer Secrets, has created a modern take on the myths of Narcissus and Nemesis in a contemporary teen setting.
Her Mirror, Mirror trilogy debuts September 3rd with “Reflecting Emmy,” followed by “Nara Gazing” in October, and “Shattering GiGi” in November. Each title will be a $0.99 short story sold in digital ebook format for Kindle, nook, and kobo. The titles will be combined to create the complete Mirror, Mirror trilogy, along with bonus materials and a prequel short story, in December 2013.
In early 2014, Diana’s Mirror, Mirror trilogy will be combined with the works of YA authors Jammie Kern and Magda Knight to create the Mythology High anthology, available in ebook and paperback through Buzz Books.
“A fun, fresh and thoroughly entertaining modern twist on the Narcissus myth. Readers will love Emmy and her (mis)adventures. Wallach packs a lot of story into a small packing–romance, friendship and the power of one person to make a difference. The only thing missing… is more!” ~ Tera Lynn Childs, award-winning author of Oh. My. Gods., Forgive My Fins, and Sweet Venom.
“Diana Rodriguez Wallach’s Mythology High is too much fun. Emmy collects narcissistic souls for the family business but after making one tiny little mistake she finds her life turned upside down. These three stories are a must for anyone who loves Greek mythology, feisty heroines and second chances. My only complaint is that I didn’t want them to finish.” –Amanda Ashby, author of Fairy Bad Day and Demonosity
Interview with Diana Wallach:
1. What is your writing process like? Are you a plotter or a pantser? Do you schedule time to write each day or are you a spree writer?
I used to be an organic writer, and I wrote my first three books by the seat of my pants. But now I’m an outliner. The difference is, I became a mom, so my writing schedule is more sporadic than I’d like and an outline helps keep me on track. Though I wrote Reflecting Emmy, the first short story in the Mirror, Mirror trilogy, organically in less than two hours while sitting in a coffee shop in Philly. I wish all writing could go that smoothly.
2. What is the hardest part about the publishing process for you and how do you get through it? (For me, it’s copyediting and sour cream and onion chips.)
Being on submission. I’m not a patient person and I hate waiting to hear what editors might think.
3. We drop your hero or heroine on a deserted island. Quick, what are the three things he or she can’t live without?
Emmy can’t live without her silver compact mirror, which she uses it to trap Narcissistic teens for all eternity; her purse, which is where she keeps her mirror, and her “targets” held captive; her iPod, she moves a lot with her job and going to concerts is her favorite pastime.
4. If your story were a film, who would you cast?
For Emmy, the paranormal secret agent who traps teen Narcissistic souls for a living, I’d cast Vanessa Hudgens. Emmy’s Greek, a decedent of the goddess Nemesis, and I think Vanessa has that Mediterranean look.
For Nara, the shallow, narcissistic girl whom Emmy is targeting, I’d cast Molly Quinn (the daughter from Castle). Nara is a strawberry blond beauty just like the actress.
5. Are there any contests or upcoming appearances/interviews/etc. you’d like to plug?
Reflecting Emmy is the first short story in my Mirror, Mirror trilogy. It’s different from your typical book release. Each of my short stories—Reflecting Emmy, Nara Gazing, and Shattering GiGi—will be released individually as ebooks in September, October, and November, respectively. Then they will be compiled together to create the Mirror, Mirror trilogy, with a prequel short story and bonus material, which will be released in December. THEN, my stories will be added with two other authors—Jammie Kern and Magda Knight—to create the Mythology High anthology in January 2014. Whew, that’s a lot of releases. So keep an eye out for all of them!
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Kispert, No. 8 Gonzaga top Southern Miss 94-69 at Atlantis
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Joel Ayayi added 21 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulldogs (7-0), who had no trouble against a team picked to finish last in Conference USA.
Killian Tillie, a preseason all-West Coast Conference pick, didn’t play. He recently made his season debut after knee surgery and said Tuesday he was still working his way back to full strength at the start of a three-games-in-three days tournament at the Atlantis resort.
It didn’t matter on Wednesday night as Gonzaga made 20 of 29 shots (69%) and 7 of 10 3s in the opening half to lead 53-32 by the break against the Golden Eagles (2-4).
Kispert, a 6-foot-7 junior, had made just 3 of 24 shots and 2 of 17 3-pointers in the past three games. But he had four 3s by halftime and kept knocking them down, offering a smile toward the Gonzaga bench on at least one occasion after swishing yet another 3.
LaDavius Draine shook free of his own outside shooting struggles for Southern Miss, scoring 19 points and making 5 of 9 3-pointers after connecting on 6 of 26 through the team’s first five games.
Southern Miss: First-year coach Jay Ladner arrived knowing his team faced a step up in competition. The Golden Eagles got down big in this one, though they shot better (46%) after halftime and made 11 of 22 3s for the game.
Gonzaga: Getting Kispert going was a needed boost. He finished 9 of 11 from the field and 7 of 8 from behind the arc. The hope for coach Mark Few is that it carries over into Thursday and Friday.
Southern Miss: The Golden Eagles moved to the losers’ bracket to face the Oregon-Seton Hall loser on Thursday.
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs advanced to the winners’ bracket to face the Oregon-Seton Hall winner on Thursday.
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Bullying President Obama: Shame on Mr Romney!
Posted by michelinewalker in United States
Arab World, Barack Obama, Daniel Craig, Israel, Middle East, Mitt Romney, Obama, United State
Famous posthumous portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As I reported in my last blog, Mitt Romney seems to have entered into some alliance with Israel, which is dangerous. For the Arab World, Israel is an American presence in the Near and Middle East. As a result, hatred for the US is immense. Therefore, the US cannot take sides. It has to work with the support of the world in order to eliminate nuclear threat everywhere. This would protect Israel.
The Second Debate
With respect to the second debate (16 October 2012), I have written that Mitt Romney acted in a Machiavellian fashion. This approach is a “do-anything-to-become-President-of-the-United States.” The end justifies the means.
Some people have not had the opportunity to read Machiavelli. I will therefore introduce a word everyone will understand: bullying. It appears Mitt Romney is a bully and bullies can break people. I have discovered that others consider Mr Romney a bully. I’m not alone.
President Obama’s ethnicity
I will have to do a little digging on this issue, but I recall a statement on the part of Mr Romney to the effect that his ethnicity would give him an edge over President Obama. It had to do with Mr Romney’s ability to understand people better, white people I believe. This is a statement he made in the UK.
Combined with voter suppression, this statement leads me to believe that Mr Romney hasn’t much use for persons of color. In fact, even if my memory does not serve me well regarding the UK remark, voter suppression alone would indicate that Mitt Romney does not respect persons of colour sufficiently to be elected into the office of President of the United States. At any rate, his poor opinion of persons of colour would make it easier for him to bully President Obama.
Interrupting the debate
If the next debate turns into a quarrel, as moderator of that debate, I would end it.
Daniel Craig [James Bond] declare[d] his support for President Obama: ‘I trust him.’ (see deGrio.com). I’m with Daniel Craig. I trust President Obama.
Micheline Walker©
The Presidential Election: Mr Romney and Mr Netanyahu (michelinewalker.com)
Once A Bully…A Few Thoughts On The Ohio Presidential Debate (lezgetreal.com)
Mark Hamill on Romney repeatedly interrupting President Obama: ‘It’s bullying of the highest degree’ (current.com)
4 thoughts on “Bullying President Obama: Shame on Mr Romney!”
Stefania said:
October 23, 2012 at 7:05 pm10
Micheline, my dear, I again witnessed the confrontation of the two presidential candidates, both as it was broadcast on our TV channels and my final conclusion is that, President Obama defeated in this battle seconded by Mr. Romney and tangible examples and discussions about the Middle East, but also in discussions about the country’s economy!
I hope the American people to elect their president the best!
Mr. Obama is the best!
Have a wonderful day, my dear Micheline! Big hugs always with love, Stefania! 🙂
michelinewalker said:
October 24, 2012 at 7:05 am10
Thank you Stefania. Yes Mr Obama is the best. He cares for the people of his country and he is promoting peace in the Middle East. Mr Romney doesn’t seem to know what the role of a president of the United States is. He seems to think he can rule the world. Thank you for writing. I am now finishing a short post on yesterday’s debate. I waited before writing so I could be objective. But, once again it’s Shame on Mr Romney. Big hugs and be blessed. As always, Micheline
kateshrewsday said:
What an interesting picture of Machiavelli. Micheline. I could stare at it for ages.
Kate, Machiavelli had to deal with the merciless Medici family, in Florence. So the advice he gives his Prince is the advice a prince would need in a terrible environment. Machiavelli was not a monster. I think this can be seen in the portrait. You are very perceptive. Thank you for comment. Best, Micheline
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Bikini Kill
March 30, 2017 April 7, 2017 Medicine I Didn't Know I NeededBikini Kill, Carnival, College, D.J., DJ, Feminism, Riot Grrrl, Zero FeeneyLeave a comment
By Zero Feeney
During my second sophomore year in college I had a show on the school radio station. (I actually had three sophomore years. It’s a long story.) But during my second, I was on KLC, Lewis and Clark radio. We had the same radio frequency as Reed College. Their station could be received over most of the Portland metropolitan area. Ours could be received from inside some of the closer dorms on campus. Then just from inside the student union building. Then just from the closed speakers to the booth. Then one of the speakers broke.
However, nobody seemed to know this at the time or perhaps they didn’t care, or at least didn’t care to tell me. So I showed up on the day in question, nervous, excited, and ten minutes early like the passionate student DJ I was. I got my spiral notebook out of my bag and opened it to look over my song list but found it difficult to concentrate because the best punk song ever recorded was coming out of the speaker from the booth. (I am tempted to qualify this part and call it my favorite punk song, or one of the best punk songs, or an important punk song, but I owe it to you and to the song itself not to soft pedal it for once. It’s just the best.) That was the first time I heard it and it was rapture. I stared at the steel speaker in the wall, simultaneously frozen and on fire.
When it was over I just stood there, paralyzed for a long time. Then I turned and looked into the booth while the DJ played her last two songs. After this it would be time for me to go in and set up. I was excited but I was also scared. I had to ask her what the song was but I was intimidated. You see, the other DJ was really cool. She, like, did stuff. She was Macrobiotic before anybody even knew what that was. But on the other hand I couldn’t not do it; I couldn’t not ask her. So when she was wrapped up and her sign–off song was playing I asked her what that song third from last had been. Her face lit up like a bright light.
“It’s called Carnival by Bikini Kill. Isn’t it incredible?”
“Yeah, It’s unbelievable. Who are they? Where are they, like… from?”
“They’re students! From this art school up in Washington. They just played downtown on Saturday at the X-ray Cafe!”
“Oh… well too bad. I guess I missed it.”
“No! They’ll be back at the end of their tour in a few weeks. You could totally see them.”
I know she told me more but I can’t remember any of it. In my memory her voice fades away.
This is the part of the story were I would love to tell you that I went to the show. That when the room was howling and they brought the girls to the front it gave me that magical feeling of seeing justice be done and maybe feeling like I was part of it. That it helped me become a more vocal feminist and not a semi-closeted one.
But none of that happened. I played the song on my show every week; I looked at the cover of the EP; I played the other songs. But I didn’t do anything else. I never went to a show. And then the band was gone. Forever.
I never saw Bikini Kill because in that moment, talking the cool DJ in the doorway of the booth, I didn’t believe her. I couldn’t believe her. I couldn’t believe that anything that good, that sharp, that pure could come from people that you could actually go and see. Who you could talk to. Who were just across town or down the hall. Things like that song—incredible things—were from far away. From big cities on the far side of a screen where someone like me would never be on the list. I felt that she must have wanted to deceive me somehow or had made some mistake. She must have gotten it wrong.
So I didn’t go and I have always regretted it. I hope that someday I will somehow rectify that mistake and stand up and cheer for the music I love so much.
Now you may think that this is a sad story but actually it’s not. Because that song taught me a lesson and taught that lesson deep. Since then, whenever I see a show or a play, listen to music being played in front of me or hear a demo tape that an accountant made over the weekend, I can hear it. I can really hear it. I can listen with everything I have. Because the best things, the perfect things can happen, are bound to happen just down the street or right here, right now, in front of someone, in front of you, in your real life.
Art is for, and comes from, and belongs to, everyone.
Especially when the transmitter is broken.
Like I said, it’s a really good song.
March 24, 2017 March 27, 2017 Medicine I Didn't Know I NeededDavid Bowie, drag, Kurt Cobain, Lemon Peralta, Nirvana, transgenderLeave a comment
By Lemon Peralta
Yes, I know it’s a Bowie song. But our dear departed Man Who Fell to Earth, Thin White Duke, Supermodel husband and Space Oddity is unfortunately not dancing on the tinfoil surface of my brain right now. There are some people who have so much inside them that they outgrow each persona like last year’s lace-up bodysuit. Bowie contained universes. Our dear departed Kurt, God bless him, never gave himself the chance to explore much beyond the feedback squeal of his acid-gargling grunge laments. The 90’s must have been hard for him, because damn, they were hard for me.
Bowie in a dress
Think back to the 90’s. Has there been another recent decade more drenched in hairy upper-lip, sweaty armpit, semen-stained testosterone? Bruce Willis was big, Horn-dog Clinton was in office, and unshaven Grunge was on the radio.
But I have no problem with Kurt. It was his flannel-frocked fans who were the problem. It was his flannel-frocked fans who moshed in the mosh pit and who banged their heads and who locked me in my locker when they realized I was petite enough to fit in there.
My brother was one of these fans.
I won’t go into it, but I don’t talk to my brother anymore. But my brother is the focus of this memory, my brother who somehow got the hairy upper-lip, sweaty armpit, semen-stained genes in the family. My brother who was a member of the Field Hockey team. My brother who left pubes in the soap and skid marked chonies on the bedroom floor. My brother liked Nirvana. And one day I walked in on him strutting around our shared bedroom to this song, wearing our sister’s dress just like Kurt on the cover of The Face.
In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m trans.
Cobain in a dress
First thing for all you straight girls and boys who may not be familiar, I have to clarify that drag and trans are not the same thing. Girls in drag are always at their best. Because drag is about putting on a show. Drag is about the false eyelashes, the sequins, the MAC Cosmetics. Drag is tucking and pushing-up and hairspray and neon. Drag is about a night out.
Trans is the opposite. Trans is about living every day. Trans is about running out into the street in the piss-yellow light of six a.m. in flip-flops and three-day-old leg stubble when you realize you forgot to park the car out of the street sweeper zone because your desk shift at the clinic ran long when someone ransacked the supply closet and the manager thought it must be you. (Hint: it wasn’t me.) Trans is wearing dirty sweat pants to the emergency room when you cut your arm open on a jagged can of three-bean salad.
So whether I’m talking about my brother strutting around in our sister’s dress to the strains of Nirvana or Miss Thang in a hot-pink bouffant at Ray-Ray’s on a Friday night lip-syncing to the strains of Gloria Gaynor, I know they’re as different from what I am as a pancake from a prostitute. And there have been times when this has really pissed me off.
Billy Corgan in a dress
Don’t get me wrong. I like my caramel-colored skin and my size nine feet. But there have been times when I’ve boiled over watching straight boys putting on eyeliner to go to the Smashing Pumpkins concert, or bachelorette parties going to the drag club lining up outside the drag club. These things have pissed me off exactly as much as the white boy who used to drive down my street every evening in his Subaru Outback blasting Public Enemy. These kids get to play at being black or being trans, but without the downside. And the downsides are many.
When trans people (I prefer the term “Fantabulistix”) talk about gender, or when people of color (I prefer the term “Exquisitudinians”) talk about race, straight white people think that’s all we can think about. That’s because it’s always there on the surface, like that delicious froth which rises to the top of all those straight white people’s Americanos. And that can be a burden, even if you like Americanos.
But what I now know, at the wise old age of 26, is this: it’s culture as much as legislation that legitimizes the Fantabulistic Exquisitudinians. It’s the Bowies and the Kurts, God bless ’em.
When I was a kid I always wondered why there were no blue M&Ms. My mom said it was because the blue dye was cancerous. Well, it turns out the blue dye is not cancerous, it’s just that people think it’s unnatural. But you know what? These days kids eat the blue M&Ms without thinking twice about it.
I could never hate Bowie or Kurt as much as I hated my brother that day. But what I’ve learned, I guess, is that by enacting these fantasies, the straight white dudes who might otherwise shove me in a locker are getting to experience just a little bit of what I’ve experienced. And tasting a blue M&M can never be a bad thing.
March 17, 2017 Medicine I Didn't Know I NeededAndrew Fort, My Funny Valentine, Novel Excerpt, Rodgers and Hart, The Emerald BallroomLeave a comment
Excerpt from The Emerald Ballroom
by Andrew Fort
The air was dense with smoke. A mask of moisture appeared on her face almost immediately. Anna clutched her bowling ball bag and pushed through the crowd. She considered finding a table and going through the articles in the bag, but the music was too numbing. Instead she wandered through the crowd. She lost track of time. She had a dozen or more listless, bored conversations with listless, bored people who swayed rhythmlessly to the music and whose eyes wandered around the room as if they’d rather be talking to anyone else. The band played one miasma of a song after another. Anna’s senses were dulled. Occasionally the colored lights shifted; red became blue or blue became dirty yellow. At some point in the evening, while talking to a man in a leather jacket who claimed to be an “Assassin of the Establishment,” she momentarily forgot where she was and what she was doing there. She slipped through the crowd into the bathroom and looked at her face in the mirror. It was a face she had long since studied into meaninglessness. She squeezed an emergent pimple.
The woman in the stall directly behind her began to cough violently and Anna caught sight of something red. There was a sound of water splashing. Eventually the woman emerged from the bathroom stall and stuffed something that looked like a length of surgical tubing into the garbage can. She had the face of a junkie. Anna watched her go. The bass from the band made the latch on the bathroom stall buzz like a dying beetle. She suddenly despaired for everything she had left behind. Numb and unsure of where else to go, she left the bathroom.
She wove her way through the complicated screen of clubbers to the other end of the room. When she reached the door, she stood for a moment with her hand on the handle. The lights went from blue to yellow and the pianist pounded a sickening, unresolved chord and let it resound. It sounded premonitory. Anna saw her own shadow change color on the door. She turned on instinct to see the stage illuminated by a single spotlight, under which Ferrian was standing.
“O,” Anna said. She did an unintentional double-take, looking back at her colored shadow on the exit door and then at Ferrian as the piano introduction continued, pulsing and dissonant. Ferrian swayed along. She was dressed in a kinky ensemble of black fishnet stockings and a white poet’s shirt which stopped in a ruffle high on the thigh. Anna felt as if she had been tricked; she had come to the club looking for M. and meaning had stepped in sideways.
The piano introduction continued, jazzy and a little perverse, with a bass line that descended stubbornly until it had reached the bottom keys. There was an effect of deepening, of widening. When the bass ran out of places to go, it began descent on a new note. Ferrian’s face was transported. Her eyes were closed. There was a flush of fever on her cheeks. She began to sing, her voice surprisingly deep and resonant and drawn out of her slowly, so that every note verged on expiring before it became the next.
Sweet comic valentine…
You make me smile with my heart.
Her eyes were closed, her voice deep and regretful, and so deadly serious it could only have been ironic, or so ironic it could only have been deadly serious. The little parenthesis appeared at the side of her mouth. The bass line continued to descend, hinting at richness, at profundity.
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you’re my favorite work
Of art…
Anna felt betrayed by coincidence. Were she following a different trail, Ferrian’s performance might have meant something. As it was, she couldn’t connect it to anything she was looking for. But there was still a sense in which the performance conjured some of the richness which had been missing from the club itself.
She moved back through the crowd towards the stage. At that moment Ferrian opened her eyes in a sideways glance to the pianist and caught sight of something which shook her. It might have been Anna. She gave a self-conscious wink, but something had shaken her. She cocked her head slightly as if trying to forget—she sang “weak” for “Greek.” The pianist continued but Ferrian had fallen behind and couldn’t or wouldn’t keep up. Anna stopped where she was. Suddenly it seemed an impossible weight, the complex construction of self and a world where self could function. Meaning kept creeping in the side door, revising itself.
There was something fake about the club. The yellow light became red. Anna watched as Ferrian attempted to laugh her mistake off but the laughter shattered the spell of the music and it was impossible to find the thread of melody amidst the pianist’s cacophonous playing. Ferrian glanced behind her, panicked. She clutched the microphone stand. Anna could feel her face growing hot. People pushed up against her. Everything in the club felt fake and it seemed impossible that Ferrian would be able to recapture the richness of before. Her face convulsed, tightened. It looked drawn, like the face of the junkie in the bathroom. The bass began to descend again. Miraculously, Ferrian found her footing, almost stumbling on the correct phrase. The solemnity was even deeper for having survived that near-death. Anna watched, drawn in as Ferrian regained confidence and began to eerily sway, to cock her wrists and, Kewpie-like, swing in tiny arcs first the left then the right, even as the music reached a fearful clamorous pitch, the pianist pounding with both hands.
Halfway through the next phrase Ferrian looked behind her and an expression of paranoia, panic, came to her face. The song became unbearably tense. Anna saw a desperation in Ferrian’s face that mirrored her own. How could she construct a self when coincidence kept creeping in, skewing things? She felt herself going hot and shaky. She felt as if everyone were watching her. She self-consciously scanned the room. Ferrian sang the final phrase, her eyes wide in terror, as the pianist brought the song to a shockingly tonal close. Her expression faded from terror to acceptance. The pianist played a few final strains and the blood which had seemed to make Ferrian’s complexion so ruddy suddenly drained, leaking in a blackish trickle out one side of her mouth. It was an over-the-top touch, but utterly convincing and in keeping with the inherent camp value of the song.
There was a smattering of applause. Anna didn’t want to look at the Inferno; she knew that Ferrian’s performance had communicated the essence of the place more eloquently than the colored lights or the velvet curtain. It had communicated a complete world, a world somehow richer than her own. Perhaps it was only a world of the junkie on taking her first hit. She bumped into a listlessly swaying man in her haste to get out. Already the world was fading. She tried to hold a picture in her mind of Ferrian singing. She zigzagged through the meandering black shapes of the clubbers, trying to hold on to at least a scrap of melody. By the time she made it to the door and out into the cold, salt air, the only thing she heard with any certainty was the persistent clanking of the buoys.
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Tear or Beat
A Remembrance in Six Scenes
by Lara Shelton
INT. INDUSTRIAL CLUB NIGHT
Lots of PVC and latex, shaved heads and mohawks. LARA is not exactly out of place in her strategically ripped KMFDM t-shirt and black eyeliner, but there is something studied about her abandon. MIREILLE is more at home with her studded dog collar and mesh shirt and writhes to every angular synthesized beat as if Skinny Puppy had orchestrated an epileptic seizure just for her. The song is so loud that it nearly overwhelms all other sensation, but camera cuts to a CLOSE UP as LARA pauses for a moment to watch MIREILLE with an expression which is half-envious, half-admiring.
INT. LARA’S BEDROOM MORNING
The room is an eleven-year-old’s dream. Unfortunately, LARA is seventeen. The late summer sun penetrates lace curtains, rippling shadows across pastel walls. LARA lies in bed, fully awake, staring at the ceiling. She is still wearing the KMFDM t-shirt and her black eyeliner has smeared into raccoon-like shadows.
LARA’S MOTHER, unseen, knocks on the door. We hear only her voice.
LARA’S MOTHER (insitent): I came back for lunch. I left it in the fridge.
LARA doesn’t answer. We can hear LARA’S MOTHER walking down the hall to the kitchen, opening the refrigerator, walking back to LARA’S door, tapping again.
LARA’S MOTHER: Do you have work today?
LARA doesn’t look away from the ceiling.
LARA: I set my alarm for two o’clock.
LARA’S MOTHER: I put your uniform in the dryer. I needed to wash some towels.
There is a silence during which LARA covers her head with the pillow. For a moment we think her mother has left, until she knocks again.
LARA’S MOTHER: I left my tuna salad in the fridge. I’ll be back around five-thirty. (She pauses, considering her words.) But you won’t be here. (She taps on the door again.) There’s a message on the phone. From Mireille?
LARA: What did she say?
LARA’S MOTHER (tentatively): Is she okay?
LARA: How would I know?
LARA’S MOTHER: She said her dog died.
LARA: She doesn’t have a dog.
LARA’S MOTHER pauses, taps on the door again.
LARA’S MOTHER: Call me if you’re going out.
When LARA’S MOTHER leaves, LARA gets out of bed, wrapping the comforter around her shoulders. She goes into the kitchen. Everything is at least ten years out of date: Harvest Gold refrigerator, Formica counter top, dust-covered copper gelatin molds hanging on the walls. She presses the “PLAY” button on the answering machine. While she listens, we can see the kitchen in a series of CLOSE UPS.
MIRELLE (Voice-Over): Hey. My dog died.
MIREILLE laughs, or cries. It’s hard to tell.
MIREILLE (Voice-Over): Come over tonight. I need to dance. Or something. I need to shake of my skin. This dog’s skin. (Laughter again, or crying.) I’m such a bitch.
INT. LARA’S APARTMENT NIGHT
It’s eight years later. LARA is now twenty-five. Her boyfriend, RICK, is puttering around in the kitchen. Rick is a typical nice-guy whose niceness turns out to be a mask for an unsavory soup of neuroses, insecurities, and offhand cruelties. But LARA doesn’t know this yet. At the moment, they are a Rom-Com version of a happy couple and their apartment could have come out of a Pottery Barn catalog.
RICK puts his arm around Lara’s waist and nuzzles her hair.
RICK: What time is she getting here?
LARA: Eight-thirty, she said. She’s always been late.
RICK: I want to meet her. She sounds wild.
LARA: She is. She was. I haven’t seen her for years.
LARA is clearly nervous. She extracts herself from Rick’s embrace.
LARA: There’s some hummus. I think she’s Vegan.
RICK takes her meaning and goes to the refrigerator. He grabs a container of hummus and puts it on the kitchen table.
LARA (calling): Also the vegetables. I cut them up.
RICK (from the kitchen): Relax. Either she comes or she doesn’t.
LARA: I think you should be upstairs.
RICK (appearing with the vegetables): Can’t I meet her?
LARA: Okay. But you have work to do upstairs.
There’s a knock on the door. RICK rushes to the door to answer it and LARA watches him, as if for the first time she has noticed something in him to disapprove of. MIREILLE still has a shaved head, but it’s now covered with a scarf, and her eyes have a hunted look which was always present, but disguised by youth. Despite the multiple piercings she resembles a chemo patient more than a punk. RICK welcomes her, his nice-guy enthusiasm falling flat when he leans in for a hug. LARA watches with satisfaction as his body visibly deflates.
RICK glances at LARA, helpless, and LARA rushes to the door to rescue him, but her own hug gets no better reaction. MIRIELLE accepts it as if it were a heavy yoke and she were a beleaguered ox.
MIREILLE: I’m not a hugger.
LARA: It’s okay.
MIREILLE: I’m more of a cocksucker.
RICK erupts in shocked laughter, but LARA shoots him a look. It’s clear that MIREILLE was being derogatory, rather than funny.
LARA: What are you doing in California?
MIREILLE blinks her large, liquid eyes.
MIREILLE: Sucking cock, I told you.
LARA pauses, uncertain if it’s a joke.
LARA: You mean…?
MIREILLE: My brother died.
LARA: How?
MIREILLE: On a diving board.
LARA pauses, glancing at RICK. RICK looks her way, a wry smile on his face.
RICK: Nice to meet you, Mireille. I have work to do upstairs.
LARA watches him go. MIREILLE is meanwhile taking in the apartment, and LARA can feel her judgment descending on her Pottery Barn lifestyle. She moves into the dining area.
LARA: Sit down.
MIREILLE follows, but stands at the table, her hands resting on the back of the chair. She is like a hunted animal, unable to calm down.
MIREILLE: In the hills. It was a porn shoot. He fell back. It snapped his neck in half.
LARA: My God.
LARA pauses, takes a carrot from the tray and dips it in the hummus. The CRUNCH of the carrot seems deafening.
LARA: So you’re here for the funeral?
MIREILLE blinks her large, liquid eyes, as if she were a camera taking photographic evidence of a crime scene. LARA pauses, the baby carrot still raised halfway to her mouth, caught in the act of seeming content.
MIREILLE: It was good to see you.
MIREILLE wraps the scarf around her head, and before LARA can stop her, she has left.
RICK comes out from the stairwell, where he has been listening.
RICK: Jesus.
EXT. SUBURBAN BACKYARD NIGHT
A large house in what was once the nicest part of Duluth. Numerous people in their 30s are gathered around an illuminated swimming pool, lifting red plastic cups to their mouths. It’s a party, but a somber one. A lone plastic ring drifts forlornly across the surface of the water. LARA opens the sliding glass door, dressed in her KMFDM t-shirt but carrying a knock-off Gucci bag. DANE, a young man with an unmistakable resemblance to MIREILLE, hops up to hug her, give her a beer.
DANE: Look at you! How is California. She said you had a Silicon Valley boyfriend.
LARA shrugs. That relationship has ended badly.
LARA: She told me you were dead. That you broke your neck on a diving board.
DANE: She always says that.
DANE takes her by the hand and they sit on the edge of the pool, dangling their feet in the water.
DANE: Did she tell you she was a hooker too?
PARTY GUEST #1 raises her beer.
PARTY GUEST #1: She told me that.
PARTY GUEST #2: She told me she was a dominatrix.
PARTY GUEST # 2 pours a little of her drink into the pool.
PARTY GUEST #3: She told me she was a Satanist.
PARTY GUEST #3 pours his drink into the pool. The rest of the party joins in. LARA looks from DANE to her bottle. She has been compulsively peeling the label.
PARTY GUEST #2: You never told us exactly how…
DANE laughs, but it is an uncomfortable laugh, as if he is on the verge of hysteria.
DANE: It was the only way. We always knew it.
PARTY GUEST #1: But I mean it was heroin, right?
DANE shakes his head. He chucks his empty beer bottle at the poured concrete fence, where it shatters, then gets up and leaves, slamming the sliding glass door shut so hard that LARA winces.
PARTY GUEST #3: You always were an idiot, Steve.
INT. KITCHEN NIGHT
LARA’s childhood home. She puts her Gucci knock-off purse down on the counter.
MIREILLE (Voice-Over): Hey. My dog died.
MIREILLE laughs, or cries. It’s hard to tell. The camera cuts to CLOSE UPS of the Harvest Gold refrigerator, the Formica counters.
LARA takes her phone from her purse, carefully unlooping the earbuds as she walks down the hall.
INT. LARA’S BEDROOM NIGHT
The same bedroom from when she was nineteen, which is the same bedroom from when she was fifteen, and the same bedroom from when she was twelve. LARA puts her earbuds on with the same solemn sense of ritual that an executioner uses when preparing the needles for a lethal injection. She presses play. The sound of Skinny Puppy fills the soundtrack, and LARA begins to dance.
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Race, White Privilege & Taking a Seat at the Table.
I feel oddly drawn to Candice Braithwaite, partly because of her energy, but also because she has moved out to a village in Buckinghamshire close to where I grew I up. While I have made South London, where she was raised, my home. For some reason I find that dynamic fascinating (there is definitely a more articulate and highbrow way I could explain that, but words fail me currently, sorry).
Candice has opened my eyes to many things, not least owning your story and being bold in your ambitions. She has also shed light on issues that had otherwise not been on my radar. Here she talks about that in more detail:
I always knew I was black. But it wasn’t until I was about six or seven that I noticed my complexion. My best friend was a light skinned girl called Jadell Mcleish. All the boys played kiss chase with her.
My first obvious experience of race relations was the OJ Simpson trial. My grandad would allow me to watch bits and pieces as he believed it would be ‘the case of the century’ (he wasn’t far off)
One of my fondest and most heartbreaking memories of my father was him telling me he always wanted to be a writer but it was a far fetched dream for a young black boy coming up in the 70’s, so he settled for banking instead.
I’m the eldest of three siblings and the darkest in complexion. My mother never made me feel as though I wasn’t pretty enough but now when we speak as adults it’s clear that colourism affected my life in a way that it did not for them.
Most recently I was featured in Stylist in magazine talking about colourism and most recently I received a message basically saying that I was making an issue out of nothing and that no one sees colour. If I were an extra in Hogwarts this is the kind of thinking I’d use my magic wand to erase.
When I was eleven I distinctly remember Joanna Jeffrey’s dad telling her that she shouldn’t be friends with ‘people like that’. She never invited me to her house again. Nor was Aisha. It took me a while to put two and two together. We are friends on Facebook though.
I spent my teenage years being rebuffed by most boys that looked like me. So in my late teens to early twenties I went through a heavy ‘Jungle Fever’ phase. I’ve believe as humans we end up going where the love is.
Unfortunately many of the dudes I ended up with only saw black woman as a fetish and never good enough to take home to meet mother. That was a shock to the system.
None of the above has left me salty it was actually very educational. I learned that some black men being conditioned to believe that the woman who looks the most like him is repulsive and some white men seeing black women as sexual trophies are weapons of thinking that were used during times of slavery to ensure the break down of black families and they are problems which will take more than my own experience to undo.
On a lighter note, my friends now are so shocked that my husband is Nigerian. They all believed I was going to pull a Harry* on them.
Being with a black man who grew up in Nigeria is a true revelation. Through his eyes I’m able to see the confidence that can come from being the majority. It’s wonderful.
We always toyed with the idea of living outside of London. But personally I couldn’t see beyond the multi cultural melting pot which had become like a safety net.
I just knew RJ was going to be a boy. And bringing up a black boy in London is scary. My brother is 16 and tells me first hand that every time he leaves home, he is anxious. Whatever I could do to alleviate such future fears, I was willing to try.
But of course now in more ways than one my children are now the minority. Since leaving London, Esmé has become the only black child at school.
Honestly sometimes I wonder if the trade off will be worth it. As I remember being her age and starting to learn self acceptance. Hopefully their Dad’s confidence will rub off on them.
Esmé was four when she first mentioned her skin colour. She said ‘mummy, brown girls can’t be princesses’ I think it’s a statement that will stick with me to the grave.
I work hard to ensure that she can see herself reflected in books, toys and multimedia. It’s a hard and sometimes expensive task (black dolls are always at least £10 more expensive than white dolls. Must be the dye they use I guess)
Creating something like Make Motherhood Diverse is my tiny contribution to the ocean of changes that need to keep happening in order for all of us to see ourselves equally represented.
I once wanted to share a video of RJ in a baby grow which resembled an old school striped prison jumpsuit with Akon’s ‘locked up’ playing in the background. Then I thought about how the media already portray young black boys and thought better of it.
Although it’s more often than not a difficult conversation to have I urge white people to not shy away or dismiss white privilege. The first step in dismantling it, is admission. The second is step is making space.
Whilst I hand on heart believe I can achieve anything, I don’t think we can use the Oprah’s of the world to try and pacify the rightful feelings of others. For every Oprah, there are ten Letterman’s. Even if it can be done, it doesn’t mean the race is always fair.
But it’s wonderful to live in a time where I can see people crossing the finish line. Virgil, Enninful, DuVernay and a host of other talents and visionaries are doing things I wish my father were alive to see.
But for every victory, there is another shooting of an unarmed black man, a celebrity tweeting racist bile and constant social micro aggressions. It can all get a bit much.
I’ve often spoken about ‘seats at the table’ in terms of the world, it seems like very few ‘seats’ or positions of privilege are reserved for people of colour.
In my mind the privileged table has a variety of Michelin star food and great wine. Other tables have leftover pizza and water. Of course it will keep you alive. But there is more to eat elsewhere.
For a long time I wrongly assumed that I had to wait to be offered a seat at the table or just get used to one serving a pretty lacklustre menu.
But having the courage to just walk up to a table and sit down without invitation has taught me that waiting to be offered a seat was the wrong move. More often than not, you just have to take what you want.
It’s also important that those with easy access to the table send out invites and pull out chairs for those who have more hurdles to jump due to racism and classism. This doesn’t mean having one token POC as a friend but it means actually doing the work to ensure that the spaces around you are diverse and inclusive.
Lastly I guess one could ask, why do you always bang on about race and diversity? I’m in a rare position where I have a platform that may encourage some to listen. That in itself is my privilege. And I intend to use it.
*’pulling a Harry’ means doing the complete opposite of what was expected of you
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Reply Ann July 15, 2018 at 9:45 am
I loved this article , so true. WE must all do our ‘bit’ to bit , so your brother is not afraid , so your can be a princess. x
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The Lode
Debate: Which is better — Marvel or DC?
Side 1: Recently there’s been a lot of hype about Marvel, but is it really all that everyone claims it to be? Not quite. Marvel’s recent popularity seems to be caused by its crazy flood of recent movies, which is going to make them seem more popular because they have more viewers in a given time frame, even if they were to get the same amount, or less, viewers per movie when compared to DC ones. Meanwhile, DC has been going crazy with TV shows for ages, and many of them are pretty popular, while Marvel seems to have only recently gotten into this area. This, of course, does not in itself make DC better, but the fact that they have had so many popular TV shows at all says something about their storytelling and animation. It also helps that DC hasn’t had to worry about copyright issues when creating their TV shows and movies, which is something that has limited Marvel quite a bit. This gives them more freedom of creativity and plot creation, thus making it easier to produce high-quality entertainment.
Side 2: Although DC has made a few great movies, usually involving Batman, they can’t hold a candle compared to the list of hits Marvel has put out. We need to remember the 2002 Sam Raimi Spiderman films were huge contributors to the current superhero movie phenomenon. I worked in a movie theater for a few years, and I asked the owners what their busiest movie was; they told me when the original Spiderman movie came out they had a line out the door and wrapping around the parking lot. Marvel has managed to make something that was once either purely children’s entertainment or the hobby for nerds into a mainstream sensation. As far as TV shows are concerned, DC may have more live action dramas than Marvel, but I’d bet way more people will recognize an animated Spiderman or Hulk than the live action Arrow stars. To put it simply, Marvel just has a way better image than DC. Even their worst movies are better than Batman vs Superman.
Side 1: To say that Marvel has the most recognizable characters is a bit simplistic. Yes, maybe more people would recognize Spiderman before they would recognize the Green Arrow, but that same argument could be reversed. More people are likely to know who Superman is than they would know Hawkeye. Plus, it’s a common belief that Superman is the original superhero in terms of defining what a superhero is. If that’s not a point in DC’s favor, I don’t know what is. Also, in terms of villains, whose are the most well known? DC’s villains. The Joker, Harley Quinn, The Riddler, all of these are names that most kids grew up hearing, while, until recently, Marvel’s villains were not quite as infamous. Why would they be so well known if they weren’t great villains? In this area, DC has done much better for far longer than Marvel has. Marvel may be the current fad, but the question of who will remain superior is something that only time will show, and that is something DC has been pretty good at keeping up with.
Side 2: Marvel didn’t just change how modern cinema portrays comic heroes. They revolutionized modern television writing in general. Marvel was a pioneer of crafting connected worlds that impact each other, something DC is trying to catch up to. By writing their films in a way that even the most minor character in some sequel can come back in an Avengers title, Marvel is able to increase audience engagement, even if it’s in the third Thor movie. What’s more important, is that their movies generally star characters that all ages can enjoy. Recently DC has tried to make their movies way too dark. I’m sorry, but you can’t have your main character wear a red spandex and cape then try and have a serious plotline. Not to mention the fact that Marvel movies almost always have way better special effects. I think it speaks for itself that their biggest villain is a large, wrinkly chinned, purple giant with a magic glove, and I still totally believed he was actually walking around on set.
Side 1 argued by Rebecca Barkdoll and Side 2 argued by David Disney
5 Responses to “Debate: Which is better — Marvel or DC?”
Dick on September 24th, 2019 8:34 am
I think that marvel is better than DC
Umang Katiyar on October 1st, 2019 12:20 pm
I think marvel is better than dc but after the release of wonder woman dceu has grown stronger. If dceu wants to take over mcu then it has give great movies like wonder woman in future and it also needs to work upon its dark tone in its movies. And marvel is continuing to give the best light toned superhero movies which the audience appreciates.
Umang Katiyar on October 2nd, 2019 1:46 am
I think marvel and dc are both working differently. Marvel keeps its tone light with some jokes while dc keeps its tone a bit dark with a more realistic approach.They both have grown differently, marvel growed more while dc is trying its best to take over marvel.
Umang katiyar
Corinne on October 5th, 2019 2:35 pm
DC has a much more devoloped charcters including supervillans. In Marvel sometimes they meet the bad guy and is like oh we have to kill them. In DC there super villans and super heros go way back. Also DC characters are a little more relatable because they are not bad nor good. Sure they take that to an extreme but still. For Example Batman does some questionable things that you think ‘He is supposed to be the good guy’ but he never kills on purpose. Then uou look at Jocker and yes he is super insane but he has reasons why that almost reminds you that he is human not a mad man with no feelings. I can admit the DC’s movies are too dark but at least there characters are not goody two shoes jumping around with a hammer or shield fighting a guy who is purple.
Mia on October 5th, 2019 5:46 pm
I think marvel is better than DC because they have better and more powerful characters and their characters are easier to relate to because they go through harder issues than any DC character has ever had to go through.
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How much of the recent Dakota Access Pipeline protest taking place in North Dakota has been fueled by oil or petroleum byproducts?
Quite a bit actually.
In a recent Bloomberg post, Ethan Bellamy, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Denver said, “Unless those protesters drove electric cars to the construction site, or those celebrities rode horses from Hollywood to North Dakota, I’d ask them how else they’d like to move goods, services and people around the world.”
Not only when it comes to transportation does this protest require the use of fossil fuels, but many of the products being used at the protest site, from plastic bags, to tarps and tents, to medicine, and even to the PVC pipe used to chain a protester to an excavator. All of those products are made using fossil fuel byproducts created through the refining process.
A North Dakota protester using PVC pipe to hold himself to an excavator. Photo Credit: KFYR.
The reality is that everyone relies on the products made from oil, and in order to get to the refining process oil must be transported from the source of production to a refinery. Pipelines like Dakota Access make that possible. So whether it’s powering farming machinery, or bagging groceries at the supermarket, or installing new plumbing in your house, petroleum products are what make modern life possible.
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A Briefcase Computer For Your Hacking Needs
May 31, 2019 Robert Hackaday
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Decent laptop computers have been available for decades now. Despite this, there’s still something charming and enigmatic about a computer hidden within a briefcase. [MakeFailRepeat] wanted just such a rig, so did the maker thing and built one.
The project began when [MakeFailRepeat] was donated a 15″ monitor that ran …read more
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Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4
May 31, 2019 Robert Slashdot
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samleecole writes: Apple’s AirPods are a tragedy. Ecologically, socially, economically — they’re a capitalist disaster. The opposite of AirPods, then, is this extremely punk pair of DIY wireless earbuds that someone on Reddit hacked together using an old pair of wired Apple headphones and some hot glue. “I started this project roughly two months ago when my friend got a new pair of AirPods for his birthday and I thought to myself, ‘that’s quite a lot of money for something I can make at home,'” Sam Cashbook, who is 15, told Motherboard in a Reddit message.
Cashook started watching videos of people making their own AirPods, but mostly found people chopping the wires off of Apple headphones as a joke. He decided to take his own approach. He bought a hands-free bone conduction headset from eBay, and took apart the casing to reveal the electronics. Then, he desoldered the wires from the original speaker in the headset, and connected his old Apple earbud speaker to the headset’s printed circuit board. Maybe a little uglier, but the headphones work well, he said. The set has buttons for power, pausing music, volume controls and skipping tracks, and the battery is rechargeable.
Apple bumps the App Store cell connection download cap up to 200 MB
May 31, 2019 Robert TechCrunch
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Good news: Apple now allows you to download bigger apps over a cellular connection than it used to. Bad news: there’s still a cap, and you still can’t bypass it. As noticed by 9to5Mac, the iOS App Store now lets you download apps up to 200 MB in size while on a cell network; anything […]
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May 31, 2019 Robert Boing Boing
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Roky Erickson, the pioneering psychedelic musician behind the 13th Floor Elevators, has died at age 71. A brilliant legend of Texas garage rock who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse, Erickson’s far out lyrics, songs, and life had a tremendous influence on countless punk, psych, experimental, and avant-garde bands. Erickson moved culture. In 1966, Erickson unleashed the quintessential psych classic “You’re Gonna Miss Me.” He was right. RIP, Roky.
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Make Your Own Old School LED Displays
We live in an era in which all manner of displays are cheap and readily available. A few dollars spent online can net you a two-line alphanumeric LCD, a graphical OLED screen, or all manner of other options. Years ago however, people made do with little monolithic LED devices. [sjm4306] …read more
David Silverberg’s “Terms and Conditionals”: the things you just agreed to
[David Silverberg’s As Close to the Edge Without Going Over is a new book of genre poetry from Canadian speciality press ChiZine (previously). I was tickled by his poem “Terms and Conditionals” (for reasons that will be immediately obvious) and I asked him if we could reprint it here — he graciously assented. -Cory]
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.NET 5 Is the Future of .NET: What Every .Net Developer Must Know
May 31, 2019 Robert DZone Python
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Microsoft announced the new .NET 5 (future of .NET) at the Build 2019 conference. .NET 5 will be the single unified platform for building applications that runs on all platforms(Windows, Linux) and devices (IoT, Mobile).
If you are .NET developer currently supporting enterprise applications developed in .NET framework, you need to know how the .NET 5 is going to affect your current enterprise application in the long run. .Net 5 is based on .Net Standard which means not every .Net framework features will be available in .Net 5. Also, there are some technology stacks like web forms, WCF and WWF is not porting into .Net 5. We will look into the details of what is not covered in .Net 5 and what are the alternatives.
Hackaday Podcast Ep21: Chasing Rockets, Tripping on Vintage Synthesizers, a Spectacular IoT Security Fail, and Early Alzheimers Detection via VR
Mike Szczys is on a well-deserved vacation this week, so staff writer Dan Maloney joins managing editor Elliot Williams for a look at all the great hacks of the week. On this episode we’re talking about licensing fees for MIDI 2.0, a two-way fail while snooping on employees, and the …read more
Daily Crunch: Leap Motion waves goodbye
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Once poised to kill the mouse and keyboard, Leap Motion plays its final hand Leap Motion raised nearly $94 million for […]
Battery-powered 1950s lamp beautifully restored
This 1950s era Wonder lamp was purchased at a flea market in France. It’s fun to watch this guy restore it to sparkling condition, but now I really want a sandblaster.
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A dog collar with owls on it
I put a collar emblazoned with owls on my Cavalier King Charles spaniel, thus combining two things I love.
I can’t get a good shot of said owl collar on Zuul, cause she is too fuzzy. They come in sizes for many, if not all, dogs.
The Pyrenees got some gingham bs my kid choose, but it looks good on him.
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Circling the USS Enterprise in ‘Star Trek The Motion Picture’
Who needs V’ger? This scene of Kirk and Scotty made the entire movie for me. Read the rest
Vergecast: the weird laptops of Computex, new Intel and AMD chips, and a WWDC preview
May 31, 2019 Robert The Verge
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This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller discuss all the new laptops revealed at Computex 2019, the new processor chips from Intel and AMD, and what were expecting at Apples WWDC next week.
In between all of that, we give you updates on the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, 5G connectivity, and Pauls weekly segment ATX? more like late-TX, so keep listening to stay informed.
Stories discussed this week:
Laptops are getting weird and wonderful
Twin River is Intels attempt to build a dual-screen laptop out of fabric
Did Intel just nail the dual-screen gaming laptop?
Asus put two 4K screens on its extravagant ZenBook Pro Duo laptop
Intel, AMD, and ARM each see our computing future differently
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Still Ill: 25 Years of Ill Communication by the Beastie Boys
This fantastic documentary must be watched. I love these guys. Read the rest
Driving Formula Es game-changing electric racecar
Nearly five years after all-electric racing series Formula E made a thrilling debut, the book is about to close on its fifth season. Crucially, this was also the first season with Formula Es game-changing second-generation electric racecar, which is faster, lasts longer, and could help propel the series into more legitimate motorsport territory.
In April, I drove one on a racetrack.
I actually drove the seriess first-generation car back in 2017, but Ive had the urge to try the new one ever since it was announced in 2018. Not only does it look totally bonkers, but its a significant upgrade in just about every way. The old car had a max power output of 200kW or about 268 horsepower. The second-generation car (or Gen2 car, as…
This weekend, compare the TV and film versions of DC Comics Swamp Thing
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Swamp Thing, Wes Cravens 1982 movie about DCs Swamp Thing, a comic book character created in 1971 by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson. The film stars Ray Wise as Alec Holland, a scientist whose covert, government-funded work on the untapped potential of plant life as both a food source and a bioweapon draws the attention of a…
Spotify is building shared queue Social Listening
Want to rock out together even when you’re apart? Spotify has prototyped an unreleased feature called “Social Listening” that lets multiple people add songs to a queue they can all listen to. You just all scan one friend’s QR-style Spotify Social Listening code, and then anyone can add songs to the real-time playlist. Spotify could […]
Footage of Chernobyl liquidators
Chernobyl, the five-part HBO/Sky dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, is filled with more dread, tension and horror than any Hollywood movie I’ve seen in years. The most unsettling part of it is knowing that it adheres closely to the truth, right down to the details. Yet I’m still startled to see just how exacting the production design is, as demonstrated by this footage from one of the plant roofs where “liquidators” struggled to remove irradiated debris by hurling it back into the open core of the reactor. Jump to about 7:45 for the roof work.
Compare to the “roof” scene from the show, which integrates the true footage so cleverly you wouldn’t know it if you hadn’t seen it for yourself:
If you still need convincing that you should check out this amazing show, here’s the scene from Ep. 1 where three young plant workers inspect the reactor hall after the explosion. They know what they’re afraid of finding, but they don’t know that it’s going to be… well, you watch it and see for yourself.
Embedded below, a hapless engineer is ordered onto the roof so that managers can debunk claims that the reactor is exposed to the open air. He knows he’s dead as soon as he sees the satanic cloud of smoke billowing from the ruin. He knows the guard escorting him up there is dead, tooand that guy doesn’t even have to go up to the edge and look down into it. The guard doesn’t have to go back to the managers and get yelled at again, either. Read the rest
To reduce plastic packaging, ship products in solid form
There’s no one way to solve the plastic waste problem, but in the packaged goods sector, an enormous amount of plastic is used in order to surround and protect simple solutions of some agent dissolved in water, from toothpaste to window cleaner to shampoo.
Treehugger’s Katherine Martinko surveys a slate of companies that are shipping dehydrated, solid products that outperform their pre-mixed cousins, while costing less and using far less plastic, like Blueland, whose Windex-beating window cleaner ships as a $2 tablet that you add to a spray-bottle (the bottle comes in a starter kit and you only have to buy one).
Obviously, this won’t solve the problem, but it represents a substantial advance on the status quo.
When you stop to think about it, much of what we’re shipping around the world is water. Whether it’s cleaning products or personal care products, these are mostly made up of water, with ingredients mixed in to clean, moisturize, color, or do whatever task you need.
Now imagine if we could remove the water and only ship the additive. It could come in dry tablet or bar form and, depending on its use, could be dissolved in water to create a product just as strong as anything you’d buy at the store, or used in bar form directly on your body. This would save money, hassle (who loves lugging heavy jugs of detergent home from the store?), and environmental impact (think of the carbon emissions required to get that jug from its manufacturer to your home).
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When The President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal
By Josh Patashnik
You may have been wondering: Just how shoddy did John Yoo's legal advice to the Bush administration have to be for even a conservative lawyer like Jack Goldsmith to be taken aback by it? Answer: very. Full text of Yoo's newly declassified Justice Department memos on detainee treatment here (part one) and here (part two). Emily Bazelon:
What takes my breath away about the Yoo memos, now that we can finally read them, is their air of utter certainty. One after another, complex questions of constitutional law are dispatched as if there's no cause for any debate. The president has all the war making power. Congress has none. The president's commander-in-chief powers extend to interrogations (no matter how far in space and time from the battlefield they take place). Guantanamo Bay and enemy aliens enjoy no constitutional protections. ... Congress cannot prohibit any sort of treatment that the president chooses to allow. No wonder Jack Goldsmith thought Yoo was reaching far beyond where he needed to go, not to mention what the state of the law would actually support.
It'll be interesting to see how Republicans in Congress (and John McCain) react to this. When you think about it, it's somewhat breathtaking that, as a group, they were--and remain--so docile, willing to embrace (or, at least, quietly tolerate) a constitutional theory that renders them toothless. Our system relies pretty heavily on the assumption that naked self-interest will make Congress reluctant to just roll over and cede power to the executive, but heightened partisanship might be making that notion obsolete.
Update: Goldsmith has a piece in Slate today with some worthwhile recommendations for how the next president should conduct the war on terror. Not surprisingly he favors retroactive immunity for telecom companies who helped with the administration's wiretapping program, but he also calls for greater declassification of intelligence documents, closer collaboration between Congress and the White House, closing Guantanamo, and establishing a new national-security court for trying terrorists (as TNR contributor Ben Wittes also recommends).
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Let’s go for some euphoria inducing house music by French producer Kartell. Turn Over is a glistening first single off his upcoming Sapphire EP out on January 6 on Roche. The track samples off of 90’s Avant song Separated. Turn over is a sleek specimen filled with endless, soulful groove and a Disclosure like aesthetic. If that bass line doesn’t make you want to dance, I don’t know what will. For another captivating track by Kartell off the coming EP, check out It’s You below. This one’s just as sexy, but it’s a slow burning, downtempo tune.
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French hip hop and electronic producer Stwo is really stirring things up lately with his outstanding remixes. We’ve heard his remix of BASECAMP’s Emmanual and his amazing Syrup (Three 6 Mafia), among other awesome tracks. Today, he’s doing it again with a remix of Norwegian producer Cashmere Cat’s huge tune With Me. I’m insanely fond of the rich and luscious With Me, and Stwo’s distorted, extra choppy and explosive rendition is a welcome and fresh approach.
Tags:ambient trap, Cashmere Cat, electronic, future trap, hip hop, indie, indie music, music, producer, remix, song, Stwo, trap, With Me
I have much respect for Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth, who made quite some waves this past year with his debut EP and full length album. For holiday fun and as a thank you offering to his fans, he dropped a mixtape on Soundcloud last week titled RYANPACKv.1. On it is this atmospheric, delicious Lorde remix. Ryan calls it the “Ribs (Let’s Have A Sleepover Version)”. Ribs happens to be one of my favorite tracks off Lorde’s hit debut album Pure Heroine. Lorde’s dark pop and Ryan Hemsworth’s production go together like bread and butter. Or peanut butter and jelly. Or… you know what I mean.
Tags:alt, alt pop, dark pop, electronic, glitch, hip hop, indie, indie pop, Lorde, mixtape, music, remix, ribs, Ryan Hemsworth, song
Out of London comes another fresh new band with silken vocals and a debut single that’s intoxicating and addicting. Their name is Jakil, and Look Like Gold is a stunning introduction to the five piece originally from Scotland. It’s a lush, soulful beauty that starts out sounding like many alt pop tunes that have flooded our earholes lately, but wait for the heavenly horns and guitar licks! Jakil is working on their debut album for 2014, and there’s no doubt we’ll be hearing more about them.
Tags:alt, alt pop, alternative, debut single, indie, indie music, indie pop, indie rock, Jakil, look like gold, music, song
Introducing: Lolawolf
The internet works in mysterious ways when you’re deeply buried in music obsession. Case in point, I was traversing the music scenery on YouTube over the weekend and I discovered a band named Lolawolf. Come Sunday night, I tweeted something about Brooklyn band Reputante (whom I love), and who favorites the tweet? Lolawolf! The band is a Brooklyn four piece signed to Innit Recordings. They have a self titled debut EP dropping come February 4, 2014, and they count Zoe Kravitz as band member and lead vocalist. Yes, the actress Zoe Kravitz who is the daughter of Lenny Kravitz! She lends her sultry, smoky vocals to some fantastic, haunting, and synthy alt pop tunes. Turns out Lolawolf shares some band members with Reputante, so the tweet favoritism makes a whole lot of sense now. Watch their recent video for Wanna Have Fun below and listen to a couple other stand out electronic pop tracks, including the infectious, elastic What Love Is and the hazy, moodier Drive (Los Angeles).
Tags:alt, alt pop, alternative, Drive, electronic pop, electropop, indie, indie music, indie pop, innuit recordings, Lolawolf, music, music video, pop, reputante, song, synthpop, wanna have fun, what love is
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Your Favorite Artist May Have Recently Swapped Galleries—Here’s a Rundown of the Season’s Musical Chairs
Jacolby Satterwhite, Charles Gaines, Anthea Hamilton, and others do the gallery hop.
Caroline Goldstein, September 11, 2018
From left: Amy Sherald, Jacolby Satterwhite, Fernanda Gomes, Danh Vo, Maren Hassinger, and Anthea Hamilton.
As the seasons turn, so too do artists and their galleries. Since it’s not always easy to keep up with the revolving rosters of gallery representation, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most notable artist swaps—and sometimes coups—in recent months.
Light and space painter Mary Corse has been snagged up by behemoth Pace Gallery for representation in Asia, though she’ll stay with her LA gallerist Kayne Griffin Corcoran, as well as Lehmann Maupin in New York and Lisson Gallery in London.
Charles Gaines decamped from Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Paula Cooper in New York to join mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, where he’ll have his debut show in 2019. Gaines will still show with Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin.
Painter Amy Sherald, who immortalized former first lady Michelle Obama for her official portrait, also joined forces with Hauser & Wirth this past spring after beginning her career with Chicago’s Monique Meloche.
Following his Guggenheim show earlier this spring, Danh Vo has joined White Cube, which operates spaces in Hong Kong and London.
Marina Abramović’s longtime former collaborator Ulay has joined the roster at Richard Saltoun Gallery.
Peter Fetterman Gallery of Santa Monica, California, has added photographer Noell Oszvald to its artist list.
British artist Mary Webb joined Hales Gallery, where her first solo exhibition with the space, titled “Reverie,” will open on September 13.
Joan Mitchell‘s estate is now exclusively represented by David Zwirner, after decades of working with Cheim & Read, which is now closing its Chelsea gallery. But it is having one last exhibition of Mitchell’s work, spanning 1953–1962, through November 3.
David Zwirner also now represents the estate of Roy DeCarava, whose black and white photography documented life in New York City from the 1940s until his death in 2009, at the age of 89. This fall, David Zwirner Books will re-issue the 1955 collaborative work The Sweet Flypaper of Life, that juxtaposed DeCarava’s images with text by Langston Hughes.
Susan Inglett Gallery has added artist Maren Hassinger to its roster, following her show “Maren Hassinger: As One” held at the gallery in June. Hassinger is known for her sculpture and public works, often using everyday materials to create otherworldly installations.
Turner Prize-nominated artist Anthea Hamilton, known for her playful sculptures, will now show with Thomas Dane Gallery.
Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis has joined Blum & Poe, which has galleries in New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. He will continue to show with Shane Campbell Gallery and Massimo De Carlo. Lewis’s work “Anthology” is on view now at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Matthew Ritchie has joined James Cohan in New York. He was formerly represented by Andrea Rosen, who closed her gallery last year.
Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya is having his first European solo exhibition at Foam Museum in Amsterdam, he is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in NY, Document in Chicago, and joined José Freire’s Team gallery in LA.
Cuban artist Ricardo Brey joined Alexander Gray Associates. His first solo show in the New York gallery will open in 2019.
Jacolby Satterwhite is now represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash. His video Avenue B debuted at the gallery’s summer film series in July, and his first solo presentation there will open in 2019.
Wentrup Gallery now represents Thomas Grünfeld, a German artist best known for his series of hybridized taxidermied animals.
Peter Freeman Inc. now represents the Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes in New York. She is represented in Brazil by Galeria Luisa Strina and by Alison Jacques Gallery in London. She currently has a show on view at Museo Jumex in Mexico City.
Almine Rech Gallery will now represent the estate of Vivian Springford.
Huma Bhabha joined David Kordanksy’s rapidly expanding program, along with Lauren Halsey.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who continues her meteoric rise, is now represented by David Zwirner Gallery in New York, and will retain representation by Victoria Miro in the UK.
Mega-gallery Pace has launched a ‘partnership’ with Christo.
Kader Attia joined up with Regen Projects, based in Los Angeles.
The abstract artist Jennifer Bartlett is now represented dually by Marianne Boesky and Paula Cooper Galleries.
Ruby Neri has signed on with Salon 94 for East Coast representation; David Kordansky Gallery will continue to rep the ceramicist in the West Coast.
Gonzalo Lebrija, the Mexican-based artist joined up with Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
Andrew Edlin Gallery has added Duke Riley to their roster, with a large-scale work coming to Art Basel in Miami Beach this December.
Theaster Gates has signed on with Gagosian Gallery in New York, and will continue to work with Regen Projects in Los Angeles and White Cube in London. Gates is working on think tank for black artists that will debut at the Park Avenue Armory next year, in addition to his forthcoming show at the gallery.
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COD Modern Warfare Season 1 Has the Most Freebies Ever
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is really shaking things up for the series. This time, the series is dropping season passes, exclusive content. Instead, everyone gets everything at once. Also, its battle pass will include all sorts of free items. As Activision noted, this is “the biggest free content drop in Call of Duty history.” It will roll out on December 3, 2019, though the company did acknowledge that a slight delay could happen at launch.
People already have an idea of what will be a part of this free Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season one content drop. A lot of these new additions will be maps. Multiplayer will get three: Crash, Shipment, and Vacant. Each one of them originally appeared in the first Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Shipment will also be a Gunfight map. The two new 2v2 Gunfight maps that will be immediately available are Atrium and Cargo, though more will appear during Modern Warfare season one. Finally, Port will be a Ground War map.
But people won’t only get maps in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season one. Lots of other items will appear. The Holger-26 LMG rifle and Ram-7 assault rifle will both be added to the game. The Infected mode will force you to try and survive. The Reinforce mode is a Dom and S&D mode focused about controlling three flags while preserving your only life. On Site Procurement will be a Gunfight mode with no equipment but your fists at the start. More modes will show up eventually, though. Not to mention Bomb Squad, Grounded, Just Reward, and Pitch Black Special Ops Experiences will appear, with more showing up later.
This is only the start of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season one rollout. More information will be provided when it arrives on December 3, 2019. For example, that’s when the 100 tier battle pass for this season will be fully revealed. Basically, people should make time to play next month.
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Carnival Announces Leadership Changes
Posted by Eric Haun August 10, 2015
Carnival Corporation names Michael Ungerer to new Chief Operations Officer Role for Asia, also appoints Felix Eichhorn as President of AIDA Cruises
Carnival Corporation & plc announced that Michael Ungerer, currently President of Germany-based AIDA Cruises, has been appointed Chief Operations Officer-Shared Services for Carnival Asia, effective September 1, 2015. Ungerer will relocate to Shanghai, China, and directly support each of the Carnival Corporation brands operating in the region to leverage the company's industry-leading presence and scale in the region.
Ungerer will jointly report to Michael Thamm, CEO of the Costa Group, which includes AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises, and to a China steering committee comprising the Carnival Corporation brands operating in the region.
In addition, longtime AIDA senior executive Felix Eichhorn has been named president of AIDA Cruises. He will also report to Thamm.
"The moves are an important part of our growth strategy in Asia," said Alan Buckelew, Chief Operations Officer for Carnival Corporation. "We thank Michael for his nearly two decades of exceptional leadership in helping develop AIDA into one of our most profitable and popular cruise brands and the market leader in Germany. We have every confidence that Michael's leadership will have a major impact in his new role for Carnival Corporation in Asia, where we are the leading cruise company and expect significant growth opportunities, especially in China."
Thamm added, "We also look forward to adding Felix to our senior leadership team and having him continue the great momentum that AIDA Cruiseshas established as one of the top cruise lines in the world."
Ungerer joined AIDA Cruises in 1997 and has been President of AIDA Cruises since July 2012. From July 2004 to June 2012, he served as AIDA Cruises' Senior Vice President-Operations, responsible for marine operations, new ship builds, guest services, shoreside operations, entertainment and purchasing. He played an important role in the company's product development, as well as further developing AIDA Cruises' high standards of quality for providing a world-class guest experience.
Eichhorn started his career at AIDA Cruises while studying business administration. In the following years, he worked in a variety of increasingly responsible positions ashore and onboard before taking on the role of senior vice president of sales, yield management and flight operations. He assumed responsibility for the sales and revenue management of AIDA Cruises and Costa Germany in 2013.
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EuroTech Information Sessions Scheduled
Wednesday, September 13, 2017, By J.D. Ross
internationalSchool of Information StudiesStudents
Fall information sessions for the 2017 EuroTech Immersion Experience trip hosted by the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been scheduled.
London is one of the cities that EuroTech students will visit.
This three-credit traveling seminar exposes students to some of the largest global corporations so they can see first-hand how these institutions use information to address global technology challenges. Participants will get an inside view of the top global corporations across Europe while visiting historical and cultural highlights along the way. Students will also have free time to explore each city on their own, as well as visit cultural attractions as a group.
The EuroTech trip is a 17-day seminar in May and June of 2018 that visits London, Bruges, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Munich, Venice and Rome. The EuroTech webpage has additional information about the trip.
The trip is open to all Syracuse University students, and there are no prerequisites. Program applications are due on Oct. 15, 2017.
Information sessions will be held in 347 Hinds Hall (Katzer Room) on the following days:
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 27, noon
Thursday, Sept. 28, 5 p.m.
Questions can be directed to Kathy Allen, assistant dean of student and dareer services at the iSchool.
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The Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries is hosting a free International Startup Workshop for the international and innovation community on Jan. 22 from 3-5 p.m., in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library. The workshop…
University College Announces New Associate Dean
Ryan O. Williams, Ph.D., has joined University College as associate dean of academic affairs. Williams will serve as chief academic officer providing leadership for and coordination of the college’s academic mission. He will be responsible for researching, developing and launching…
Matt Shumer ’22 Selected to Showcase His Innovations in Several National Events
Matt Shumer ’22, founder of Visos, has been selected to showcase his innovative enterprise virtual reality system in several national events this spring. Shumer, who is a student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, is a Rubin Family…
LaunchPad Student Teams Sweep Award Competitions, Winning Nearly $80,000 in Fall 2019
Numerous student startup teams from the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars in Bird Library (LaunchPad) have won business competitions and prizes totaling $79,500 during the Fall 2019 semester. The LaunchPad is Syracuse University’s innovation hub, connecting the entire University’s resource-rich…
Whitman School Appoints Meghan Florkowski Director of the WISE Women’s Business Center
Meghan Florkowski has been named director of the WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Women’s Business Center. Her appointment was effective Nov. 11. “Meghan brings a positive attitude, strong work ethic, an ability to lead collaboration among diverse stakeholder…
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