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Do I have you totally confused at this point?
You, J and E... got it
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LadyBelle
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WildcatDen
I'm in. . .LATE! Taking notes. . . As a side note, that little red car looks a lot like a Mustang, not a Camaro.
Matt and Kelly said:
Thank you!! Yes--there is a different feel to both. I feel like French Quarter has more of a "party type" atmosphere than Riverside.
Wilderness Lodge is pretty. The lobby is quite impressive. I do wish I would have got to see more of it than what I did. I'll rely on your TR in January for that!!
Thank you both for reading!! I'm enjoying yours also!!
LadyBelle said:
I debated even sharing that bit of info b/c I figured it might throw everyone for a loop!!
WildcatDen said:
Welcome! Better late than never!! It very well could be. I know his favorite is the Camaro so maybe I just assumed that's what it is?? I know absolutely nothing about cars esp. sporty ones. Heck, I drive a Honda Pilot if that tells you anything about me.
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Minnesota disney fan
Your little guy is just adorable in his camaro hat! So cute!
Minnesota disney fan said:
Thank you!! He is a trip!!
Here's a funny one. The other day E was at my house. I gave J & M(another niece) popsicles. When they were done I wiped their hands with Wet Ones. I keep a jar with candy in the refrigerator for the kids. J & M spied the candy jar but I knew E wouldn't let him have any since he just had a popsicle. E went to go outside & J says to her, "Here, let me get the door for you." He hurries her out & closes the door then turns to me & loudly says, "Good, she's outside & I closed the door. Can I get a piece of candy?" He said it so loud that she probably heard him!! As he's going to take a bite E walks in the door. He puts his hands behind his back & keeps moving around the kitchen so she can't see behind his back. She went back outside & he says--loudly again, "Wow, that was close." He eats the Kit Kat & his hands are completely covered in chocolate from holding it What does he do? He goes outside & tells E he needs another Wet One. Really J?? Now he's going to get me in trouble!! E's asking him how his hands got dirty when he just had them wiped. I intervened & told her I'd take care of it.
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I was completely appalled to see this. That guy was fishing! They have a fishing hole there but it's nowhere in the area he is in. I think he was just trying to sneak in some casts while there weren't many people out. That's just wrong though. I have stayed at POR many times & this was the first time I ever saw someone step foot on the grass. Shame on him!! @Zipitidoda I didn't feel so funny taking this one since I was quite a bit away from him.
I'm so confused... What was he going to do, grab some kindling from the brush and cook it on a stick right there!
People..... I just don't get it. But I'm glad you got a picture this time, good job.
At this point we were ready for lunch so we headed back to WS. C's family had a FP for Soarin so we were going to meet back up with them in a bit.
The crowds were still pretty light.
And here was our destination!!
Most of us got the Croque Monsieur. It was very good!!
B wanted the Macarons also so she got those.
While we were eating I about fainted & it wasn't from the heat. It was a bird!! I am petrified of birds if they are indoors. They always seem so panicked & I'm sure it's b/c they are scared themselves but they really scare me. It flew right by me while we were eating then had the nerve to hang out right by us.
I got a good laugh b/c of this woman. It must have been her first meal in a Disney park ever. She couldn't figure out how to get the fork out of the dispenser. Finally, she got it open(as one would if they were filling it) & took one out!!
We had a FP for Frozen next. What a disaster that turned out to be. The whole way there J kept whining. All he did was repeat, "I don't want to ride Frozen." As we're in the FP line he really started carrying on so E got out of line with him. I felt bad for her. She ends up not going on quite a few things b/c he's deciding more & more that he's afraid of things.
R was a bit irritated that they put all 4 of us in one row. I knew it would be a bit tight but I didn't want to agree with him b/c it would make him feel justified in being irritated & he'd be in a bad mood then. I told him to get over it & that B & L are skinny so it wouldn't be that bad.
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You're too funny!! I was cracking up reading this!!
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You should have told R to let it go
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E had texted me to say she was at Rose & Crown. Was I surprised? Not in the least bit. She was pretty aggravated, it was pretty hot & D loves it there so I knew a visit there would be in the cards.
I normally take a picture of whoever I'm with & send it to D. I didn't have to do that today though since he was with us!!
E had ordered these chips. I was surprised that it wasn't that crowded considering how hot it was outside. I would have been content spending the rest of the afternoon there(we practically did !!)
Many moons ago the four of us took a picture in Rose & Crown. Every time we are there we recreate it!!
The British Revolution was playing at 3:00 & R wanted to see them. I know I've mentioned it in previous TR's but R gets mad if we're at Epcot & they're not playing that day.
I asked if anyone wanted to go with us. E, B, & L chose to walk around WS. They were on a mission to get henna tattoos in Morocco. J was sleeping in the stroller. E, C, & D were content staying in Rose & Crown. A was the only taker.
These CM's were having a great time dancing away. They were almost more entertaining than the actual show!!
We walked through the shops after the show. I had to take this picture of A. Any guesses as to what her name is? First & middle......
D named her.....he is a big Beatles fan!! C was fine with it. Her only stipulation was that her middle name be spelled different so that it looked more feminine.
Mary Poppins was out with only a few people in line. While we were waiting A was quietly singing "A Spoonful of Sugar". When it was our turn I mentioned that she was singing it & Mary Poppins asked her to sing it for her. She did a great job!!
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Good one!! You & @Zipitidoda have me cracking up today!!
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I have a more confusing family situation for you. Briefly: two of my Grandma's aunts (on her father's side) married brothers and 2 of my Grandma's sisters married brothers that were the sons of the 3rd brother that was the brother in law to their aunts. But Grandma married a 1st cousin (also on her fathers side) that she didn't grow up with. Grandma had another sister that married the brother to the husband that was married to her cousin/SIL. It gets even more confusing but you would need a printed family tree to understand it all LOL.
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That’s like our Lennon. My dad was born in England and was the biggest Beatles fan. He even has life size cardboard cutouts of them. When he passed away, we knew right away that a great way to honour him was to name her after his favourite band. Although she thinks it’s a boy names and prefers to be called Lenny, I’m sure she will appreciate it when she’s older.
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I think Lennon is a beautiful first name - it is unique but not “out there”. I hope she appreciates it as she gets older. And what a great way to honor your father too.
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Wait what? I'm not sure even a printed family tree would help me here. Lol
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my head hurts
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I've read this multiple times & I just can't follow it....
That is so neat!! I don't think of it as a boy name at all. Actually, I remember when I first started reading your TR's thinking to myself what a pretty name it is!!
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We went back to Rose & Crown to meet back up with the group & refresh our beverages. The girls just got back & were excited with their tattoos. They were tired & hot though. They said they walked around the whole WS & were beat from the heat.
Having fun in the a/c!!
R & I got another drink. I had the Half & Half.
R got the Leaping Leprechaun.
While we were getting our drinks I asked the bartender if Jack from Glasgow(@susan lees son) was working that day. She told me that she only knew what bartenders were working & if I was inquiring about a waiter that I would need to go outside to where you check in for the restaurant. So, outside I went. I asked & the first CM seemed kind of hesitant & said she wasn't sure. The other CM said that he was on a break right then. I asked if I could come back in a little bit. I told them I wasn't there to take up a lot of his time. I just wanted to say hello.
J's still sporting his new hat!!
About a half hour/45 minutes later I went back & inquired again. At this point I got the feeling that they thought I was a full blown stalker. They told me he was still on a break. Jokingly I said, "Wow. How long do you get for breaks around here?" They didn't really answer me. I think I was making them a bit nervous so I thanked them for their time & off I went. While we were in the bar I kept looking at the waiter's name tags when they would come near us to see if I could find him but no such luck. I was disappointed. @susan lees I was really hoping to meet him!! Please pass along my apologies if the CM's told him that some random lady was looking for him, not once but twice. I could see where he would be creeped out!!
One last photo for the road!!
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For the life of me I can't remember where C & family were eating dinner but I know where we were headed!!
R offered to check us in.
Oh....those dreaded steps. The last thing I wanted to do was climb them on a hot day. They feel like they take forever to walk up.
We were dining at.....
.....I guess R didn't get the memo b/c when we got inside he headed to Tokyo Dining!! And he checked us in how??
It had been a few years since I ate there so I was excited to be back. I've always had great meals there. B picked this restaurant. She really likes it there.
J's ready with his chopsticks!!
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Home » Researchers propose the “Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome” to address overlooked environmental risks
Researchers propose the “Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome” to address overlooked environmental risks
USC and Duke researchers say the framework illustrates how environmental and genetic factors interact.
By Jenesse Miller | September 10, 2019
University Professor Caleb Finch
Against a backdrop of disappointing Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial outcomes, two researchers are proposing a new approach for future study of the disease.
Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Alexander Kulminski of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University have outlined a framework called the Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome to address major gaps in understanding how environmental factors interact with genetic factors to increase or reduce risk for the disease. The theoretical article appears today in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
“We propose a new approach to comprehensively assess the multiple brain-body interactions that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease,” Finch said. “The importance of environmental factors in gene-environment interactions is suggested by wide individual differences in cognitive loss, particularly among people who carry genes that increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.”
How environmental and genetic risk factors interact
Increasing age is the most important known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, but many other risk factors including environmental exposures are poorly understood. The authors note that previous studies of Swedish twins by USC’s Margaret Gatz suggest that half of individual differences in Alzheimer’s disease risk may be environmental.
The two classes of Alzheimer’s disease genes are considered in the exposome model. One class called familial Alzheimer’s genes are dominant, meaning someone who inherits those genes will ultimately develop Alzheimer’s. The other class include gene variants like apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4), where risk increases along with more copies of the genes. Among carriers of APOE4, a few people reach age 100 and older without ever developing the disease – demonstrating environmental risk is contributing to that variability.
The researchers provide an “under-appreciated” example of a study that showed the onset of dementia was a decade earlier for carriers of a dominant Alzheimer’s gene living in cities and who came from lower socioeconomic backgrounds or less education.
“Environmental factors including exposure to air pollution and low socioeconomic status shifted the onset curve by ten years,” explained Finch. “It’s in the research literature but until now, no one has paid sufficient attention to it.”
More recent examples come from Finch’s recent research on the gene-environment interactions between parasitic infections and the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4. Among a pre-industrial tribe of Bolivian people called the Tsimane, the presence of the gene along with chronic parasitic infections seemed to lead to better, not worse, cognition. Finch says the startling results provide an example of how the exposome concept could lead to enhanced understanding of risks for dementia.
“Those are just some of the environmental interactions we have brought up in building a larger framework called the exposome, that lists the different types of environmental factors that are known to interact with Alzheimer’s, but haven’t been studied broadly for how they impact the Alzheimer’s-linked genes,” Finch said. “This is the story of the gene-environment interaction.”
The Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome addresses major gaps in understanding how environmental factors interact with genetic factors to increase or reduce risk for the disease (Illustration/USC News).
Exposome originally used to understand cancer risk
The exposome concept was first proposed by cancer epidemiologist Christopher Paul Wild in 2005 to draw attention to the need for more data on lifetime exposure to environmental carcinogens. The exposome is now a mainstream model, eclipsing previous characterizations of environmental factors as affecting risk “one by one.”
“Epidemiologists have been using the exposome to have a broader outlook for whether they’re studying, whether it’s lead toxicity or head trauma,” Finch said. “It’s our point that a number of things need to be considered for interaction and many effects are additive.”
The authors say the exposome concept extends and leverages the National Institute on Aging/ Alzheimer’s Association Research Framework—a consortium that follows clinical cohorts by brain imaging for biomarkers to assess neurodegeneration—to include gene-environment interactions across individual age and duration of exposure.
Endogenous and exogenous factors
The proposed AD exposome includes macrolevel external factors such as living in rural versus urban areas, exposure to pollution and socioeconomic status, along with individual external factors such as diet, cigarette smoking, exercise and infections. This external or exogenous domain overlaps and interacts with internal or endogenous factors including individual biomes, fat deposits, hormones, and traumatic brain injury, which has been observed in professional boxers who develop Alzheimer’s.
“Analysis of endogenous and exogenous environmental factors requires consideration of these interactions over time,” Finch said.
The researchers assume that some interactions can change factors of the exposome; describing, for example, a “lung-brain axis” for inhaled neurotoxicants of air pollution and cigarette smoke, and a “renal-cardiovascular disease-brain axis” for renal aging driven by diet and hypertension. Each of these axes may have different gene-environment interactions for each risk gene.
The future of Alzheimer’s research
Many studies are looking at conditions such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes with the goal of understanding of how reducing risk factors for these conditions could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Additional research—including studies where Finch is the co-principal investigator—examines how urban air pollution contribute to accelerated brain aging and dementia risk.
The authors note that large-scale initiatives such as UK Biobank and “All of Us” in the United States are generating mega-cohorts; these massive data will make possible new methods to examine interactions of multiple factors in the exposome. In addition, new computational approaches to these multi-level complexities may identify interventions for individual brain aging.
To further develop an Alzheimer’s disease “roadmap” of modifiable factors in brain aging and dementia, the authors suggest several research targets for funding agencies and policymakers for large-scale, multinational collaborative initiatives. They recommend integrating environmental data from service agencies and industry with existing data and expanding exposure data to air pollution, cigarette smoke, and household toxins using personal monitors for multiple toxic chemicals and gases.
Another suggestion is expanding studies of other age-related disorders and aging to include cognitive aging and dementia, with the authors pointing out that multi-generational cohorts with extensive information are available for the Framingham Heart Study and the Long-Life Family Study.
The study was supported by the National Institute on Aging CEF (R01-AG051521, P50-AG05142, P01-AG055367) and AMK (P01-AG043352, R01-AG047310, R01-AG061853).
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GLASS is currently led by a Steering Committee of nine members, elected each February for a one-year term. Members of the Steering Committee must be current employees of the Senate and serve in a volunteer capacity. The current Steering Committee is led by:
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Finding and Evaluating Evidence
Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based Practice
Denise E. Bronson and Tamara S. Davis
Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods
Emphasizes the search and retrieval process for both quantitative and qualitative research
Discusses the importance of both approaches for informing evidence-based social work practice
Guides readers through the key initial steps in conducting a systematic review
Evidence-based practice (EBP) promises to have a profound impact on social work practice, education, and scholarship, but adopting EBP depends on the availability and accessibility of evidence and on strategies to synthesize this information. Systematic reviews provide a comprehensive, unbiased method for retrieving and synthesizing relevant research. This pocket guide is a concise introduction that describes the steps required to complete a systematic review and the criteria that can be used to assess the quality of existing reviews.
The authors provide straightforward information on how to define a search question that captures the problem's parameters, develop a search strategy that is transparent and comprehensive, assess the quality and credibility of existing research, and summarize the available research to support EBP in social work. Providing coverage for both quantitative and qualitative synthesis methods, examples illustrate the steps and decisions associated with each approach to research synthesis. Key points and suggested readings and websites provide avenues for further study. This pocket guide is an excellent introduction to EBP and systematic reviews that will be valued by social work students, practitioners, and scholars.
1. Systematic Reviews, Evidence-based Practice, and Social Work
2. Asking the Right Questions, Preparing a Protocol, and Finding the Relevant Research
3. Critically Appraising the Quality and Credibility of Quantitative Research for Systematic Reviews
4. The Art and Science of Managing and Summarizing the Available Research
5. Systematic Reviews of Qualitative Research
6. Assessing the Quality of Systematic Reviews
Denise E. Bronson, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the MSW Program in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University.
Tamara S. Davis, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University.
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The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty
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Audrey L. Begun and Thomas K. Gregoire
Handbook of Program Evaluation for Social Work and Health Professionals
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Preparing Research Articles
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work
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3 GRCC teams win awards in MWest Challenge
Leah Nixon
lnixon@grcc.edu
May 16, 2017 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Three Grand Rapids Community College teams were winners at the recent MWest Challenge student venture competition.
Through MWest Challenge, sponsored by the West Michigan Colleges and Universities Group, students can develop and grow new ventures based on their own ideas. This year, teams from nine West Michigan colleges and universities competed for $45,000 in cash and prizes. The two-month competition also includes workshops and opportunities for students to network with investors.
All 13 GRCC teams had their executive summaries accepted for presentation during the final round of the competition on April 21. The three GRCC teams winning prizes were:
Shelby Rose received $1,500 as the second-place winner of the Innovation Showcase People's Choice Award. Her proposal, a phone app called Rose's Place, would allow domestic violence victims to unlock resources, advice and emergency contact help.
"Participating in the MWest Challenge has been one of the greatest learning experiences in my college career so far," she said. "I was able to push myself out of my comfort zone in sharing my story -- showing people that when a tragedy hits, look up and see how you can find the problem and make a change."
Rose said she got involved in the competition through her Marketing Problems course (BA 272) with Felix Pereiro, professor and head of the Business Department.
"Before the MWest Challenge, I couldn't really see myself as an entrepreneur," she said. "Now, just three short months after starting MWest, I couldn't be more excited to become an entrepreneur with a goal of helping others overcome challenges."
Mark Saint Amour and Andrew Johnson won a $750 Impact Award. Their proposal, Tabletop Entertainment, would rent out space and partner with local craft breweries to host tournaments featuring life-size versions of popular board games.
Rebecca Peterman won the $500 Impact Award for Wholesome Eats, a company that would provide healthy and affordable meals created in a client’s home. Services would include meal planning, grocery shopping, food preparation and kitchen cleanup.
Pereiro points out that the students' MWest achievements are the culmination of hours of practice and preparation.
“This is a special accomplishment for our students as they work toward their associate degree,” he said. “Shelby, Mark, Andrew, and Rebecca put in the hours necessary to compete against the very best college students in West Michigan – facing juniors, seniors and MBA students from top four-year universities in West Michigan -- and their work and dedication paid off.”
The other GRCC teams were:
Mommy Hub, with Justin Konsdorf, Alex Brown, Sydney Zeien, Ben Steenwyk and Carissa Moshauer.
Rear View Innovations, with Christopher Seeley.
K Cleaning Concepts, with Kevin Klutman.
Loop Coding Center, with Jose Meza and Angel Barreto.
Essential Life Preparation Academy, with Martin Uchendu and Brittany Glanton.
Ola’s Oatmeal, with Jalisa Hill, Margaret Yerke and Elizabeth Bush.
Blue Bridge Beer Fest, with Amanda Hadd, Catie Howe, Olivia Silveri, Travis Meyer and Ethan Nutkins.
Project C.O.O.L., with Amanda Hadd.
Play & Date for Mates, with Anna Mansfield and Olivia Brazle.
The Shop Supermarket, LLC, with Keyon Hall and Andre Shepherd.
While the teams were supported by Business Department faculty and staff, students also received valuable help from other departments, including Computer Information Systems and the business tutorial and computer lab, Pereiro said.
"Competitive events, such as MWest Challenge, help our GRCC students improve and polish their skills so they are better able to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive marketplace," he said. "They learn for themselves what entrepreneurs go through during the early startup stage and the hard work that goes into creating an outstanding executive summary and idea pitch."
GRCC's Business Department offers programs in accounting, business administration, management and supervision, marketing and office administration, and certificates in entrepreneurship and marketing.
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F&M Upended by Dickinson
Dickinson (6-1-2, 2-0-1) 3 2 5
Franklin & Marshall (1-6-1, 0-3-0) 0 2 2
1st - 15:38 - Ally Diez (Dickinson)
1st - 38:46 - Emma Moore (Dickinson)
1st - 42:11 - Jessica Kiefer (Dickinson)
2nd - 50:22 - Haley Barge (Franklin & Marshall)
2nd - 69:39 - Ally Diez (Dickinson)
2nd - 81:50 - Tara Dedrickson (Dickinson)
G: Ally Diez - 2
A: 4 Players (#2, #3, #9, #13) - 1
Sh: Tara Dedrickson - 5
Sv: Mary Katherine Brosnan - 1
G: Haley Barge - 2
Sv: Caton Raffensperger - 10
LANCASTER, Pa. - First-year forward Haley Barge scored a pair of goals, however, Franklin & Marshall's women's soccer team dropped a tough 5-2 Centennial Conference (CC) game against Dickinson on Wednesday evening in Lancaster.
The Diplomats fell to 1-6-1, 0-3 CC, while the Red Devils improved to 6-1-2, 2-0-1.
Dickinson got on the scoreboard in the 15th minute thanks to a cross into the box that led to an Ally Dietz shot into the bottom left corner of the net for the 1-0 edge.
That score held until the 39th minute when the Red Devils tacked on with a scrum in front of the net. F&M goalkeeper Caton Raffensperger made the initial stop on a header attempt from close range, but the Red Devils' Emma Moore managed to fight her way through a slew of players in front and trickle in a shot for the 2-0 lead.
Just three minutes later, Dickinson concluded its first-half scoring spree with a long cross to the far post that was hit in by Jessica Kiefer.
Following the opening 45 minutes of action, the Red Devils led in shots at 10-0 while F&M held a 1-0 advantage on corner opportunities.
The Diplomats got off to a strong start in the second half, cutting into the deficit with their first goal of the game in the 51st minute. Kirsten Heine forced a turnover in F&M's offensive third and played a ball to Barge at the top of the box. Barge fired off shot into the bottom right corner for her first career goal, making the score 3-1.
A lengthy weather delay followed due to a torrential rainstorm as well as lightening in the area, keeping the teams off the field for nearly an hour. Five minutes after play resumed, Dickinson added to its lead at 4-1 with a long cross into the box that led to Diez's second score of the game - a rocket into the left side of the net.
Barge added her second goal of the game in the 76th minute with a well-placed header off a Sarah Marsan cross to make it a two-score game. However, the Red Devils once again added on with an 82nd-minute tally en route to the three-goal win.
The overall shot count belonged to the Red Devils at 26-7, while corners favored F&M at 3-2. Diana Graziano and Barge led the Diplomats with two shots each.
Raffensberger (0-1) was dealt the loss despite registering 10 saves on the day, while Red Devils' Mary Kate Brosnan (6-1-2) earned the win with one save in 90 minutes.
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1. Son of a Gun 5:53
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4. Hell on Wheels 3:39
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From: Chris Date: September 29, 2001 at 13:17
This CD could be the next Maiden CD. "Son Of A Gun" and "Born In '58" highlight this excellent metal disc. Soaring vocals and shredding guitarwork from future Maiden guitarist Jannick Gers. Highly recommended.
From: Rockforever Date: July 22, 2002 at 11:28
This album is different in some respects to Bruce's work with Iron Maiden in the 1980s. The riffs have just as much melody as Maiden's,but aren't as fast for the most part.In fact,I agree with Bruce when he said the riff in the excellent title track is reminiscent of Rainbow. Janick Gers is a superb guitarist (later to join Maiden).Son of a Gun is almost a slow-burner,the Mott the Hoople cover is good,while Born in 58 and Gypsy Road are both very worthy tracks.
From: Drag-in-Bones Date: September 1, 2002 at 9:18
Two Iron-Madiens leave the safety of the medieval torture chamber for solo careers--guitarist Adrian Smith is gone for good, while vocalist Dickinson thought he could operate a solo career in addition to his ongoing Madian work. Yea Right!!! Thank god dickinson do's not try to ape the time-proven, internationally renowned style of Madian. 10 simple straight ahead hard-rock songs, harkening back to early-70's British glories such as vintage Purp and Heep, minus the key-boards.
"Zulu Lulu" could be an out-take from "Who Do We Think We Are". The album starts off totally solid with three great tracks in a row:"Son Of A Gun" in which a subdued verse builds to an explosive chorus in this powerful anti-gun, frountier consciousness song. After track 3 it gets a little more uneven, including a cover of "All The Young Dudes", a glitter period piece that proves to not translate so well over time, good axe arrangement though by new axeman Janick Gers, superb!!! 8 out of 10.
From: The Fizzy One Date: September 22, 2002 at 22:02
I have the new reissue with the five B-sides included, and one of 'em is a hellraising version of "Sin City" by AC/DC. That's probably my favorite on this whole disc. Agreed, this album is VERY different from Bruce's work with Maiden, and pure hard rock. Actually reminds me not a little of Y&T. Note that a lot of the things that Bruce did to annoy me in Maiden, he doesn't do here. He doesn't yodel too mich, the lyrics aren't overly academic, the songs are generally short and to the point. 7/10.
From: MALLORCA´S ROCK Date: December 3, 2002 at 9:10
es muy muy bueno, cuando lo escuché por primera vez fue una supersorpresa ReCOMEDADISIMO
From: Patrick Wegner Date: January 24, 2003 at 0:50
Man, let me tell YOU that this guy's solo career never failed to impress me. It shows this man, Bruce, has loads of talent and still sounds good outside of Iron Maiden. This particular album is a MUST HAVE for ALL BRUCE DICKINSON ENTHUSIASTS!!
From: BLITZKILL Date: April 16, 2003 at 9:18
OUTSTANDING...All hail Bruce...he is the man, often imitated, never duplicated!!!!
From: Gar Date: June 4, 2003 at 16:47
Not too bad for a solo debut. The first half of the disc is very good, but the quality of the songs slips on the second half. The re-release offers 5 additional songs which are all decent for the most part.
From: ace Date: June 8, 2003 at 23:33
this is bruce doing good ol' road rock. put the petal to the metal and let er rip. my favourite vocalist by far. by the way if you like this sound do yourself a favour and check out hammerfall. they are a newer band that rocks in the mode of dio,dokken,stryper, and maiden.UP THE IRONS MATE.
From: Blue Tequila Date: August 4, 2003 at 21:46
Love this album from start to finish with the exception of the Mott the Hoople remake. Was very curious how this would sound but Bruce went out and showed he could do something besides Maiden without really trying to prove anything, almost like he was on vacation just having a good time. Great rockers and the bonus tracks are a nice surprise, especially Sin City which alone makes getting the re-issue worth it.
From: Rycheage Date: March 3, 2004 at 0:41
Although this may have been a disappointment to some his fans, it was a great recording that proved he was a diverse lead singer with more range and flexibility than most people could have possibly imagined. This entire album stands as a masterful assemblage of rock tunes, even the cover tunes impress. "All The Young Dudes" sounds every bit as good as the Mott The Hoople version. The originals "Lickin' The Gun," "Tattooed Millionaire," and "Son Of A Gun" are model rock-pop.
From: iron-roses Date: March 16, 2004 at 19:13
Great disk of my favourite singer and enterteiner of all time!!!! don´t forget Bruce,one person love´s you in zaragoza!!!! Up The Irons!!!! the best band ever!!!!
From: Mushy Date: March 29, 2005 at 7:41
What a brill album. I listen to this about once a month and it still gets better and better after every listen. The lyrics are fab and the riffs are great too. It nothing like The Maiden, however will go down in my mind as an all time classic. The range Bruce has is out of this world.
From: jrenato - Brazil Date: August 14, 2005 at 16:15
Very different from what we should expect from Bruce but still a great one. But I must say that I rather how the songs sound live, like in the Dive!Dive!Live! video, which has not been released on dvd yet. I would give it a 8,5.
From: headbanger4life Date: January 19, 2006 at 4:39
I absolutely love this album. I think this is Bruce's best solo release. I thought my cd might have gotten warped due to the amount of play this one got. He did an excellent job on the cover of "All the Young Dudes".
From: hair metal again Date: February 12, 2010 at 1:13
come on bruce dont try to explain to the irons why you tried to shake it a little bit instead of running to the hills for your life!this is a nice hard rock try with many good songs like the aerosmith kinda like "lickin the gun",the hairy "gypsy road" ,the hard rockin "hell on wheels" and the guilty lyrics in "tattooed millionaire".ha,ha dont be ashamed bruce this is the best work you have ever done.bravo!
From: pie75 Date: July 13, 2010 at 10:17
i must admit when i heard son of a gun i thought it was another maiden album but then it became more about hard rock different to maiden but that's what it's about love the title track,born in '58,the ac/dcish hell on wheels,gypsy road and a great version of all the young dudes it's a very very good album with great guitaring from jannick gers
People seem to hate this album, I guess because it's not heavy and doesn't sound like Maiden. I kinda thought that was the point of a solo album, really. Anyway, what you get is straight-up, old-school, late-'70's/early-'80's styled hard rock. Some of the harder songs remind me of Y&T in a way. Nothing here is bad, and the album overall, while not being an all-time classic by any means, doesn't deserve all the shit that's been tossed at it. I have the 2002 reissue, with five bonus tracks, including a cover of "Sin City," a live Samson cover ("Ridin' With The Angels"), and easily the album's most striking song, the stark, guitar-and-flute ballad "Darkness Be My Friend."
From: dany69 Date: February 22, 2019 at 16:48
i think that was the beginning of the end for Maiden,,, the end about the old Maiden feeling,,??? cause on no prayer you can feel lots of influences from this great album,,not bad
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The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum has announced the winners of its 2nd Annual Short Fiction contest. Justin Lee Hunsperger of the University of Central Arkansas won first place for his story “Coming Home,” which the judge said “is a wonderfully written piece that illuminates the familial struggles of addictions of all sorts and the pains they bring to families.” Hunsperger is a junior mid-level education major, with an emphasis on language arts and science. He is a native of Missouri and spent nine years as a combat medic.
Sheree Hackworth of Lyon College and Logan Hilliard of the University of Arkansas were runners-up for the prize. Joining Hunsperger, Hackworth, and Hilliard on the shortlist are La’Teaikia Alexander (University of Arkansas), Keith Laster (University of Arkansas), Kelby Newcomb (Lyon College), and M. Jackson Tyler (John Brown University).
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Our last blog outlined just how difficult it can be to nail down the taxonomy of the hemp plant. For decades, scientists have been arguing about the nature of Cannabis. But, one thing has always been very clear: Cannabis, when grown as an industrial crop with low THC content, is not a narcotic. It cannot get you high. Not at all. So, why then is the Drug Enforcement Agency messing around with the regulation of hemp products? Let’s dive into it.
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Effective January 13, 2017, the DEA will begin using a new classification ‘code number’ for something they are calling ‘marijuana extract,’ which they define as an “extract containing one or more cannabinoids that has been derived from any plant of the genus Cannabis, other than the separated resin (whether crude or purified) obtained from the plant.” This definition, although called ‘marijuana extract,’ would include products made from hemp. Under the DEA’s ‘Final Rule’, these ‘extracts’ will be categorized as schedule I drugs, along with methamphetamine and heroin.
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“ I, Madame, am the king's majordomo! „
~ Zazu to Shenzi.
Zazu is a feisty red-billed hornbill who first appeared as a major character in Disney's 1994 film The Lion King, a supporting character in it's 1998 sequel The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, and a minor character in it's 2004 midquel The Lion King 1½.
He has served as the majordomo to Mufasa, Scar and currently Simba.
Zazu has had several voice actors portray him. Rowan Atkinson (who also played Mr. Bean, Johnny English and Edmund Blackadder) voices the character in The Lion King, while Edward Hibbert voices him in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1½. Michael Gough voices Zazu in its television series Timon and Pumbaa. Jeff Bennett provides Zazu's singing voice during the Morning Report sequence on the Platinum Edition of The Lion King DVD. Bennett currently voices Zazu in The Lion Guard (which is a sequel to the first film and midquel to the second).
Zazu has two different backstories.
According to The Lion King: Six New Adventures books, Zazu gained the title of majordomo after his mother Zuzu retired.
However, according to the book Friends In Need (which takes place years before The Lion King), an adolescent Zazu is about to be eaten by Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, but is saved by a then Prince Mufasa. As thanks for being rescued, Zazu hopes that he can be of service to the future king.
Zazu starts to follow Mufasa around, much to the young lion's annoyance as Zazu keeps disrupting his hunts and his time with his betrothed Sarabi. One day, Zazu notices vultures circling and questions Mufasa about it. However the young prince does not wish to deal with it and has a nap. Zazu goes to see what the vultures are interested in and discovers Sarabi trapped in a gorge. He goes to alert Mufasa, who uses a tree trunk Zazu points out to him to rescue his love interest.
Afterwards, Mufasa accepts that Zazu is useful and declares that when he becomes King, Zazu will be his majordomo, which happened when Mufasa became the new King of Pride Rock.
Zazu first appears when he reaches Pride Rock and bows to King Mufasa during Prince Simba's presentation. Later that day, he goes to an area of Pride Rock where Mufasa's younger brother Scar is. He berates Scar for playing with an innocent mouse whilst attempting to eat it. He then tells Scar that Mufasa is on his way to question him on why he was not at the ceremony. After the mouse escapes, an annoyed Scar tries to eat Zazu, but is stopped by Mufasa who confronts Scar over missing Simba's presentation. After Scar leaves, Zazu tells Mufasa that there's one (two in Zazu's case) in every family who manage to ruin special occasions. When Mufasa wonders what to do about Scar, Zazu jokes that Scar would make a "very handsome throw rug".
He is later seen months later giving news to Mufasa in the morning. He explains about the animals until he is pounced by Simba, who was being given a pouncing lesson by Mufasa. (In the 2002 IMAX re-release, Zazu sings his signature song "The Morning Report". During the song, he sings about what animals do, like in the scrapped song "To Be King"). Just then, a gopher appears and tells Zazu about hyenas in the Pride Lands, which the latter tells Mufasa. Zazu is then tasked by Mufasa to take Simba back to Pride Rock.
Later that day, Queen Sarabi assigns Zazu to watch over Simba and his friend Nala on their journey to the watering hole to avoid getting lost. During the journey, Zazu tells the cubs that they are betrothed, meaning one day they will be married, much to their disgust. However, Simba and Nala are actually planning to go to the Elephant Graveyard and are able to escape from Zazu by singing "I Just Can't Wait to be King".
At the Elephant Graveyard, Zazu tries to stop the cubs from checking the big elephant's skull. Just then, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed arrive and try to eat the trio. They capture Zazu and put him in a geyser, blasting him into the air like a rocket. Though not seen, it is possible that Zazu ended up being blasted back to the Pride Lands before finding Mufasa and telling him that the hyenas were going to harm Simba and Nala. Later, after saving the cubs from the hyenas, Mufasa tells Zazu to take Nala home while he teaches Simba a lesson.
The next day, Zazu is out with Mufasa and notices dust coming out of the gorge, meaning that wildebeest herd are on the move, which Mufasa finds odd. Just then, Scar arrives and tells Mufasa that a stampede is in the gorge and Simba is there. Zazu flies on ahead and into the gorge and finds Simba clinging to a tree. Zazu tells the cub that Mufasa is on the way, before going back to inform Mufasa (who has arrived at the gorge with Scar) of Simba's position. As Mufasa dives into the stampede, Zazu suggests to Scar about going back for help. However, Scar (who along with Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, planned the stampede to kill both Mufasa and Simba in order to become king), knocks him out, before killing Mufasa.
That night, following Mufasa's death and Simba's self-exile, Zazu is seen comforting Sarabi as Scar tells the pride that both Mufasa and Simba perished in the stampede, before announcing himself as the king and allows the hyenas into the Pride Lands much to Zazu's horror.
Years later, Zazu is seen locked up in a ribcage and forced to entertain Scar. He is then berated by Scar for mentioning Mufasa (as Scar had banned anyone from mentioning his brother's name in his presence). When Shenzi, Banzai and Ed arrive, complaining about lack of food, Scar tells them to eat Zazu who replies that he's too rough and gamey.
A few days later, after Simba returns to defeat Scar and reclaim his throne, Zazu begs Simba's meerkat friend Timon to let him out of his cage, but Timon goes into the cage to escape Shenzi, Banzai and Ed. Luckily, Simba's other friend; a warthog named Pumbaa arrives and frees Zazu and Timon and chases away Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed.
After Scar's death, Zazu is happy that peace is restored and bows to Simba and watches him ascend Pride Rock and roar in victory. Zazu is later seen flying in the air during Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara's birth.
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
Zazu is given a very minor role in the sequel. He is the advisor of Simba and Nala. He first appears telling Kiara about the Outsiders calling them backstabbing and murderous. He is later seen flying back to Pride Rock after Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa and two other Pridelanders rescue Kiara from the Outlands.
As Kiara is a teenager, Zazu is present at her first hunt and later assures Simba thought Kiara was going to be safe on the grasslands, but is sent to find Kiara when Simba notices fire in the distance and spots her being saved by Kovu. Afterwards, Zazu reminds Simba that due to Kovu saving Kiara, all depts must be payed.
When Kiara sees Simba return from an ambush sent on him by Kovu's mother Zira and the Outsiders, she tells Zazu to get help. That night, after Simba discovers that Kiara has ran away to find Kovu (following his exile), Zazu appears and tells him that the Outsiders are coming for war. Zazu appears again along with the reunited pride at the end of the film watching Kiara and Kovu getting married.
The Lion King 1½
Zazu makes brief appearances in this film, which centres on Timon and Pumbaa's point of view of the first film. Zazu's first appears at Simba's presentation where he tells Mufasa that the animals are kneeling where in fact, they passed out after Pumbaa farted.
His second appearance was when he accompanied Mufasa in going to The Elephant Graveyard to save Simba and Nala from Shenzi, Banzai and Ed.
Zazu makes a brief appearance in the TV film The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, which takes place in the middle of the second film and focuses on Simba and Nala's son Kion.
Zazu leads Simba, Kiara and Tiifu to Kion after Kiara told Simba that Kion put Bunga in The Lion Guard. Zazu looks on as Simba scolds Kion for not putting other lions in The Lion Guard and for treating his role as leader as a game. Following this, Zazu leaves with Simba.
Zazu makes recurring appearances in the film's follow up series The Lion Guard.
In the episode "Can't Wait to Be Queen", Zazu accompanies Simba and Nala in attending the funeral of an elephant named Amanifu (who along with his herd, where the first animals to return to the Pride Lands after Simba defeated Scar). Simba is expected to speak a line of elephantese in his tribute, but has difficulty in learning, but Zazu says he will help as he knows the language. At the funeral, Zazu and Nala become worried when Simba accidentally says "he had poop on him" instead of "he had good on him" in elephantese. Luckily Amanifu's daughter Ma Tembo and the rest of the herd don't take offence. After this, Zazu returns to Pride Rock with Simba and Nala.
Originally, Zazu was not always going to be kept by Scar in a ribcage as in a deleted scene of the film (which would later be used in the musical for The Madness of King Scar scene) he is seen walking and flying freely in the royal den. In the scene, he is questioned by Scar on what Mufasa had that he doesn't, to which Zazu lists many things. When Zazu mentions that Mufasa had a queen, Scar decides that he should have one too to have children with to carry on his legecy. Just then, Nala appears, resulting in Scar dismissing Zazu from the den so he can attempt to seduce Nala into becoming his queen.
In an earlier draft of The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Zazu was to have a girlfriend named Binti, who would later become his wife.
The Lion King Heroes
The Lion King: Simba | Nala | Timon | Pumbaa | Rafiki | Zazu | Mufasa | Sarabi | Sarafina | Pridelanders
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Kiara | Kovu | Vitani
The Lion King ½: Ma | Uncle Max
The Lion King (2019): Simba (2019) | Nala (2019) | Timon (2019) | Pumbaa (2019) | Rafiki (2019) | Zazu (2019) | Mufasa (2019) | Sarabi (2019)
The Lion Guard: Kion | Bunga | Fuli | Ono | Beshte | Jasiri | Makini | Anga
Kopa | Ahadi | Mohatu
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8-year-old finds .357 magnum while snorkeling in New Hampshire lake
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An 8-year-old boy was snorkeling with his dad at a lake in New Hampshire when he made an alarming discovery.
Usually when the pair snorkel together they find things like fishing gear and golf balls. But Tuesday, the boy found a .357 magnum in the water.
Jack Heaton said he wasn't even sure if it was a real gun.
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Jack's father called police. Police confirmed the .357 magnum was not loaded and was stolen from a home years ago.
Police say this serves as a reminder. Tell your kids to tell an adult immediately whenever and wherever they might come across a firearm.
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Why do Hoaxteaders love some paedophiles?
Here’s a question for the ages: why do so many of the Hoaxtead mob, who portray themselves as the sworn enemies of child molesters and paedophiles everwhere, seem so determined to defend certain people who’ve been accused—or convicted—of child molestation and paedophilia?
Brian Pead comes to mind: in 2010 he was convicted of having offered to pay a 14-year-old girl £300 for sex:
Brian Pead, 56, of Days Lane, Sidcup, was trapped in an online police sting by an undercover officer posing as a teenager.
The man, who worked as a therapist for a counselling agency for vulnerable youngsters, including victims of sexual abuse, in Hackney, East London, later claimed the chats were part of research for his job.
And yet, despite this conviction, his friend Sabine McNeill has stood staunchly by him, even writing a letter to the Home Secretary to plead that Mr Pead ought not to be denied contact with his grandchildren. According to Sabine, Mr Pead was not a paedophile, you see, but a noble whistleblower.
Then there’s the case of Peter Hofschroer, who is currently on trial, accused of having 36,000 child sexual abuse images on his computer.
According to the York Press:
Peter Hofschroer, 60 of no fixed address, denies 16 charges of downloading indecent images of children.
The charges relate to more than 36,000 pictures and videos on computer equipment seized from the Hofschroer family home in Rosedale Avenue, Acomb, on December 7, 2012, from a laptop carried by Peter Hofschroer at York Magistrates Court on December 1, 2014, and on computer equipment found in an Irish car driven by Peter Hofschroer in November and December 2014.
The jury has heard when some of the charges were laid, Peter Hofschroer told officers among other things: “Your police force is utterly corrupt”, “I am an investigative journalist, you are trying to stitch me up”, “have you ever tried to catch a real criminal” and “I have enough evidence to put half of you in jail.”
To hear the troofers tell it, Mr Hofschroer is yet another victim of a conspiracy, stitched up from the start because he dared to speak out against institutionalised corruption in North Yorkshire. His own family has taken part in betraying poor Peter:
[T]hey were all trying to set him up on various false charges. One was a firearms charge (he had antique weapons that could not fire), another was material allegedly found on a computer. He believed the material was planted by people wishing to protect an international paedophile ring from his exposure. He had been speaking out about North Yorkshire involvement with Jimmy Savile, and about police and council corruption.
The jury in Mr Hofschroer’s trial has heard a different story though: his nephew Martin stated that he’d had to change jobs after Mr Hofschroer contacted his employers, accusing him of being a pervert, a fraudster, and a criminal. In addition, Mr Hofschroer had been preparing to prosecute his brother Robert over a long-running dispute about the care of their elderly parents.
Hofschroer, 60, of no fixed address, denies 16 charges of downloading indecent images of children. They cover more than 36,000 videos and pictures ranging from the lowest to the most serious categories of illegal pornography.
Opening the prosecution, Mr Hampton said the defence does not dispute that the indecent images found on two computer hard drives and two computer towers in his home on December 7, 2012, on the laptop he was carrying at court on December 1, 2014, and on a laptop and a computer tower in his car, also in December 2014, were illegal.
“The ultimate question in this case is who put the images on the computers we are talking about,” Mr Hampton told the jury.
Hofschroer is expected to claim he is “the victim of an elaborate and cunning conspiracy by his brother and his nephew who have, in fact, framed him by putting those images found in 2012 on his computer equipment without his knowledge,” said the barrister.
“He will tell you he is the victim of a further conspiracy,” said Mr Hampton. “He will suggest to you that this includes police officers employed by North Yorkshire Police who have fabricated evidence against him ….. and that they did so for reasons I am sure he will explain, to discredit him.”
This makes us wonder: had a resident of Hampstead, for example, been found with more than 36,000 child sex abuse images on various computing devices, would Neelu or Butlincat have posted the following notices online? We’re thinking probably not.
So what is it about Mr Pead and/or Mr Hofschroer that makes the Hoaxtead mob hand them a free pass?
We’re guessing that it’s because both men loudly declared themselves to be ‘whistleblowers’ against systems they said were corrupt; and both claimed to have been framed for terrible crimes as a way for those corrupt establishments to shut them up. This is the kind of narrative that’s irresistible to a Hoaxteader: it sends them into an hypnotic trance, and renders allegations (or convictions) of paedophilia completely invisible to them.
Apparently if you’re a paedophile who wants to build an unquestioning following of conspiraloons, the trick to having people ignore your alleged (or confirmed) crimes is to belong to the Sooper Seekrit Society of Persecuted Whistleblowers. The secret handshake is accompanied by a cry of, “They’re all utterly corrupt!” followed by an explanation of how one could, if one wished, expose the entire vast fraudulent system and its nefarious ways.
Hey, it worked for Abraham Christie!
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Ah, the old “I didn’t download those child porn images, honest – the Illuminati put them there to frame me” ploy. Traditionally known as the Spivey defense, more recently as the Christie defense.
And lest we forget that “He Who Cannot Be Named” is close personal friends with two convicted pederastes.
And then there’s Abe himself. Nearly 70 arrests and 37 convictions for drugs, violence and fraud, an alleged rapist and a “man” who got caught with child porn on his phone and who is looking more and more likely to have molested A & G….and the hardcore hoaxers can’t stop rabidly defending him! Many of them have turned their back on him and now see him for what he is but there are still some stubborn idiots hanging in there.
the Wicked Witch of Wellfleet says:
Speaking of people turning their backs on psychos and wising up to them, I see that Kane Slater is continuing to haemorrhage supporters at a rate of knots:
Tbf the Peter H case hasn’t been concluded yet.
And i’m being fair dispute him blocking me on fb ages ago, no idea why i might add.
As for the Pead guy, he certainly looks a “weirdo”.
People are wrongly convicted but just because they say evidence is planted, doesn’t mean it was.
With you on the innocent-until-proven-guilty thing, Babs. And well said. I do, however, think we need to be very careful about assessing people’s guilt/innocence based on their appearance. A lot of perfectly decent people “look like weirdoes” and we need to avoid doing what we criticise the hoaxers for. (For instance, they’ve made a lot of serious allegations about Mr. Dearman based on nothing more than his facial expressions in that BBC interview.)
It seems a very sensitive subject for the hoax pushers, so many of them have associations with persons linked to child sex abuse, some of those associations are with convicted child sex offenders.
For example, Angie Power Disney and her “marriage” to an American paedophile
The association of McKenzie Friends and Brian Pead.
Sabine McNeil and (to quote her) “In 1988 I married Ian R McNeill who as a young man had been the Assistant Director of the Greater London Council”
McNeill was rumored to have links to PIE
Rupert and his claims with regarding wanting sex with a minor
The list goes on, but the common factor is that you do not have to look far to find such links
Folk such as Sabine McNeill and Angela Power Disney follow a worldview akin to a type of religion of the NWO being nasty to everyone, and they (Sabine) are the spiritual champions of good to reveal and destroy those evil nasties. Anyone can tap into this religion by screaming about a government conspiracy and thus get instant support from the fanatics such as Sabine McNeill.
Nothing is black and white. There is no NWO, but there is a complex network of power of individuals and groups who if threatened will use that power to deal with anyone that threatens it. During Brexit those systems of power could be seen in motion with Project Fear, but they failed because of their own hubris, they were so sure they would win, they were had made no preparations for a potential exit from EU, so now UK is suffering a big political and economic mess.
Personalities from my childhood such as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris revealed for what they are, and questions of how they got away with it so long and on the scale they did?
Peter Righton in his position of power and influence who assisted in building networks of paedophiles, getting them access to children, championing acceptability of man-child sex, and covering up crimes of associates.
One must not forget that one of the most powerful and well organized empires in the world – Rome – was on several occasions ruled over by mad men, one known as Caligula made his horse a senator.
Everyone was seduced into following Bush and Blair to a war in Iraq that should never have happened.
A UK fraudster who sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq who did ten years for the fraud, but his bomb detectors are still being used due to corruption, and thousands of people have died from car bombings as a result.
The system is only as good as its administrators, and if they are corrupt, the system is corrupt. We do not live in a black-and-white world, so the individual needs to treat each case on its own merits.
Right at the start of the Hampstead hoax I ran an intense and deep objective analysis of all the evidence to see if there was a “cult” or a paedophile ring in operation. I found no evidence of that.
From what I know of the Hofschroer case, there does not seem to have been any indicators that he has stressed or threatened the system, indeed, he has been a useful supporter of the system as a military historian. The case is still in play so he might yet produce evidence that he is a victim.
Yes I agree, you can’t say someone is guilty just because they “look in your opinion guilty”.
Pead was found guilty on the evidence I believe.
“Tbh the Peter H case hasn’t been concluded yet.”
Absolutely and I believe one should wait for the outcome. The issue though is why certain Hoaxtenders have already made their minds up and are shouting ‘INNOCENT’ before the evidence has been heard. Why do they profess to be anti paedophile and yet allow convicted and alleged paedophiles (who they don’t know personally so can’t really vouch for them) into their sphere.
I believe one should proceed with caution before waiving banners.
Yep agree there.
That’s why it irritates me the likes of Christine Sands, Angela, etc etc saying people are guilty when they haven’t heard the evidence.
It’s just their opinion…
And a fat lot of good that is Mrs. Disney.
I think Peter H. is complaining about his Mum losing her home and his brother getting the proceeds.
He Peter H. doesn’t get a 1p.
Something along those lines.
Excellent points S.V. We saw something similar during the Scottish referendum (the original Project Fear!). I know of one man who was physically threatened by members of the Orange Lodge, who told him his business was being ‘blackballed’ in the local area – and it has been! Why? – He’d signed a perfectly-respectable, organised pro-independence declaration which was published in the Glasgow Herald! There were incidents of shops (with flats above them) being set alight, disabled people having their Motability vehicles damaged simply because they had ‘yes’ stickers in the window….. Little or none of this was reported in the MSM, and where it was, it was deliberately mis-reported and played down. Whereas, in stark contrast, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth when a Unionist politician has a few eggs thrown at him and ran away crying about it!
We are very aware in these parts of a tawdry band of local council corruption that stretches from beyond Glasgow in the West through to West Lothian and Edinburgh. I know of decades-long campaigns of intimidation and abuse of power/position conducted by council officials against those who genuinely HAVE blown the whistle on them. – And yes, those are just the ‘little fleas’ of corrupt officialdom.
Sexual perversion and drug abuse very often plays a big role in this corruption. Consider the two most recent ex-leaders of Glasgow Council; A cocaine-addicted ‘gay-moll’ to certain of the city’s gangsters, very much in their pocket in the opinion of many. The City Chambers were said to be awash with white powder and rent boys! And his successor, an individual who while in office, was caught dogging in a city park! – Naturally his power and influence ensured he got away with it! It’s funny you should mention Rome because that particular individual often reminded us of Kenneth Williams’ interpretation of Caesar in the way he conducted himself and tried to run the city! I dare say a similar pattern is repeated all over the UK.
And then we find bigger and bigger and bigger fleas infesting almost all aspects of public life. The examples you provide are quite – I was going to say ‘good’ but there is nothing good about them; the examples you provide are quite sound! I wish I was in a position to publicly name the individual ( I’ve been asked not to as people DO want to see him jailed and I don’t want to jeopardise that) but I know of one corpulent piss-stinking pervert who, between the early 90s and until about three years ago made a living trading in ‘underground’ porn – including child pornography both visual and textual. That same pervert has repeatedly tried to involve himself in politics, but was rejected as being ‘too extreme’ for even the most extreme parties. He’s broken the law MANY times, been reported MANY times – but is ‘fireproof’ and never prosecuted. The reason being his ‘customer list’ and therefore his leverage includes some very high-level high profile individuals who are in a position to kill the career of any Police Officer who dares try to take him down!
We saw one locally quite recently – genuinely an ex-Army intelligence officer – now doing ten years for raping little girls. He had been reported to the local police as a potential paedophile over 18 years ago; they did NOTHING! It was only when one of his victims – now an adult with her life in ruins – came forward that they could protect him no longer. His wife, who holds an MBE for no good reason that anyone can discern, covered for him; actually hiding textual child pornography (one way perverts get round the law is not to ‘make images’) for him at her office (wait for it!) in a children’s charity! – She hasn’t been touched! another example of a Teflon-coated pervert! And notably, this is one very easily verified case that the Ickes and McKenzies of this world are running scared and steering well clear of!
And talking of McKenzie – why wasn’t this vile old trout banged-up years ago? Like the pervert bookseller or the paedo’s moll, who grants HER immunity from prosecution? The system is corrupt. Sex and drugs are used as one among many means of control, and the more perverted and/or illicit the sex is the greater the level of control. These benders range from ‘swingers’ who don’t want their bizarre rutting habits to become known, to the most dangerous of predatory paedophiles. Conflating the reality of endemic corruption with a collection of infantile fairy stories does appear to be one of the ‘approved techniques’ that has been adopted by the ‘Powers That Be’. And I do think they ‘be’ as bent as the proverbial four-pound note!
The whole NWO thing and the people promoting this sort of crap are really just blowing smoke and rolling mirrors around the place to disguise how corrupt public service actually is. And, as many note, a great deal of the noise comes from people who ARE, at some level directly involved in the corruption themselves!
Why do Hoaxteaders love some paedophiles? Because hoaxing is part of the paedophiles ‘ defence mechanism’. Many (most even?) hoaxers ARE paedophiles simply trying to deflect attention away from the reality of their disgusting lives and activities. – Witness how readily they will turn on anyone who actually DOES start drilling objectively into the truth.
Peter H ended up losing a lot of money (£10,000 I think) after being sued for libel by historian John Hussey. I’m not sure of all the details, for once the details seem to have vanished from the net.
It’s a mystery isn’t it? As long as the accused is on the side of the cult members any alleged crime they commit is forgiven or deemed a set-up by the Illuminati.
A timely reminder from Australia as well where a ghastly shock jock has been elected to a 3 year term in the powerful Senate. The new Senator elect is radio “personality” Derryn Hinch who calls his mob the Justice Party and under the rules of the Double Dissolution election (don’t bother asking) called by PM Malcolm Turnbull only half the number of votes were needed to get a cushy seat & sinecure in the Upper House.
There is a big problem here though : Hinch is a convicted criminal who has served time for breaching court orders re the identifying of convicted abusers in a case similar to Hamsptead where children were protected by privacy. The sentencing judge was particularly scathing of Hinch.
Hinch however is Peedofile Hunter and wants Australia to have a Sex Offender’s register on the internet. Something police vehemently oppose as they control a private register in the hope no-one will go underground as in the USA and who also carry out regular checks. Even more alarming, Hinch claimed in 2005 he had sex with a 15 year old girl when he was in his 30s but thought she was older. So no problem there.
http://phorums.com.au/showthread.php?116707-Hinch-slept-with-a-15-year-old-girl-(true-story)
I’ve always said : those who seem fixated on child or sex abuse and take the High Moral Ground really need to be fully investigated to see if they don;t hide their own dark secrets.
One does wonder if Belinda is protected by someone who uses her to distract the world from some sordid but banal truths. Her involvement with the 9-11 movement focused on baroque and unlikely plots involving illusions and controlled demolition; there are questions that need to be answered their but they involve failures of intelligence and some dodgy international politics.
Well said Sam….. And yes; I’ve had a weather eye on this and wondered to my self what-the-fuck is wrong with Australian law that a obvious crim like that is allowed to even stand for public office?
I came across this (greatly truncated apparently!) list of ‘foibles’ relating to some of the empty barrels that involved themselves in the Hollie Greig and Hampstead cases… Some of these ‘attributes’ can be attached to more than one bender, whilst some of the benders can have several attributes attached to them.
Struck me as a good basis for a new board game – ‘Name That Loon’
“Have you ever…
Boasted of the primary school you attended – in a manner designed to mislead the casual reader into thinking you attended Cambridge university?
Been convicted of drug offences?
Been convicted of possession of a HIGHLY illegal firearm?
Been convicted of possessing a type of ammunition for that firearm that is banned under the Geneva Convention?
Used the terrorist-favoured technique of breaking your illegal weapons down into parts then hiding those parts across several buildings?
Been convicted of raping a number of young girls, some not even past their first decade of life?
Run a scam ’employment project’ ostensibly intended to relieve poverty in one of the most deprived areas of an inner city – then embezzled the various grants and loans received?
Been convicted of beating up a disabled man with an mental age of around seven in the street because he mocked the ridiculous ‘top hat and cane’ outfit you were wearing?
Gone bankrupt because you were too stupid to realise your business partner was a con-man who held all the assets while you held all the debts?
Failed as a husband/wife/father/mother because your former partner felt you simply weren’t safe to be around your own kids?
Subsequently been banned by the authorities from contact with your own child because you were deemed a such a serious danger to them?
Coached a very young child into repeating a lurid sexual fantasy of your own creation then recorded that performance on a mobile phone?
Done time in Jail?
Been bankrolled in middle-age, by an elderly parent (after a lifetime of bumming around and non-achievement) in a property and business which you then allowed to dilapidate into a slum and go into financial freefall while you pursued the creation of various childish, self-aggrandising fantasies?
Run a business into the ground to the point where it was half-boarded up and not trading… Then tried bizarrely to project the blame for that failure onto the local council for having upgraded the local high street and promoted the town?
Expressed delight at the fatal stabbing of an innocent and perfectly respectable middle-aged woman as she shopped for clothes in a high street store?
Defamed a perfectly respectable headmaster and war-hero by falsely claiming he spanked you in a sexualised way?
Boasted that of effectively walking in the shoes of Dunblane monster Thomas Hamilton by visiting your former school with the intention of murdering your former headmaster?
Having indulged in a chilling pre-echo of the Dunblane massacre (according to your own boasts) since then publically obsessed over that tragic event?
Trawled enthusiastically in an online blog (or other media) through the deeply-personal and minute detail of the alleged sexual abuse of a disabled child? Or put another way, written up what amounts to textual pornography along those lines…
Baselessly stalked a Cheshire solicitor and harassed the man at his house?
Baselessly accused a judge of being a sexual deviant?
Stalked the Lord Advocate at her home?
Baselessly accused your child’s grandparent of being a paedophile out of spite – because the authorities had barred YOU from seeing your child due to the danger you presented to them?
Deliberately misrepresented documents and facts – even after you have been publically debunked with written evidence and checkable references – in order to promote a money-making/politically motivated hoax?
Been implicated in a £75M charity scam and subsequent ‘torching’ of the paperwork to avoid prosecution?
Subsequently been implicated in dodgy scam after dodgy scam?
Fed small children on dope?
Stalked a teenage university student, causing her to fear for her safety?
Traded in extreme pornography?
Been a drug dealer?
Stolen a van or other motor vehicle?
Robbed a house?
Mugged anyone?
Run a charity recycling scam?
Indulged in the ‘swinging’ scene?
Been involved in the making of an underground pornographic film or video?
Been a Soho stripper?
Been convicted of fraud?
Hidden textual child-pornography in your office at a children’s charity on behalf of your sexually-deviant partner whose predilection for young girls you had known about for decades?”
I’m sure at least one or two familiar faces spring to mind there….. Missing from the list is ‘have you ever mused on buggering a child just to see what it’s like?’ – Rupert the Peado Bear of course!
Yes, true.
Yes, and he’s quite agitated about it too. 🙂
You’re right that the case is in process. I think the point, though, is that the Hoaxtead mob are just fine with allegations of paedophilia, proven or otherwise, when the accused is one of their own.
I knew a newsagents who successfully took on the local authority over sunday trading laws, as a result the council officers embarked upon a long campaign of official harassment to try and destroy that business. The police and my local council are working together on a highly dubious campaign to drive some local nightclubs out of the area with making a vast number of demands upon them.
It’s strange, isn’t it?
Of course the paedophiles they know must be the paedos that are alright really. Same as racists who have a black friend for example but it’s ok because he is one of the good ones. Hypocrites of the highest order
Not only do you not have to look far to find such links JW, drill into these people and you will struggle hard to find one that has made only normal, human mistakes in life. – It’s the extreme/bizarre nature of them which marks them out.
For instance… What sort of crackpot BOASTS of their firearms convictions in an attempt to gain status? Or deals in drugs then tries to present their resulting criminal record as ‘normal’? I’m sure many people reading this have been divorced; but who would dream of setting their ex-partner up to be convicted of child abuse? What is wrong with the mind that could conceive of using their own flesh-and-blood as a pawn in such a game? What sort of woman goes to work of a morning knowing that she has hidden the manuscript of a ‘paedophile novel’ at her office? Worse still that this office is at a charity that operates to assist sick and vulnerable children!
It’s not unreasonable for a normal, average person to be concerned by something that threatens children. But which of these hoaxers lives a normal, average life where they have perhaps made only minor mistakes and transgressions – each and every one of these fruit loops is completely over the top!
I love the smell the desperation in the morning 🙂
…….Are you sure that’s desperation Norman?
I think I might defer the redoubtable Ms Dunbar on Rupert’s proposals and Angie’s bleating.
In fact, I think she has all the bases covered when it comes to the activities of the ‘hoaxing set’!
Even worse is the fact that Hinch despite being a convicted criminal,now joins a body that makes our laws yet has mocked those very same laws- he has openly flouted court orders several times, just like the Hoaxers.
## I was talking to one of his arch supporters yesterday and she listed all the things Hinch wants and says “oh he’ll get them, he won’t rest until he has”
I sadly pointed out to her that all the things Hinch wants fall under State law-bail conditions, pedo registers. (non) parole and so on. She was crushed as the Federal government cannot tell State governments what to do. they have their own parliaments.
Summed up so much today that includes what is so wrong with the Hampstead Hoax mob- massive communications with the internet yet ignorance seems even more entrenched.
That was one very smart investigator ensuring he would be paid up front as his time would be wasted and he could do little.
It doesn’t occur of course to dopey Angela that when someone asks for a large sum it’s usually to get rid of you knowing you don;t have it.
# And there she goes again posting tales that she picks up from the internet or was it the moron Rupert? 100 suspect British police say the FBI so ergo, the FBI is doing it’s job just as the British police do.
But she thinks Rupert Q the druggie dickhead film-maker wannabe is going to blow the Illuminati Baby Munching Cult out of the water?. Barking mad, nutty, insane, a loony, a crackpot and a dunce.
People might be aware of this: RIP a Satan Hunter site.
https://www.facebook.com/DearmanDoesHampstead/
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/breaking-ddh-blog-taken-offline/#comment-32797
I’d imagine asking for a substantial deposit/retainer must be fairly standard practice in the ‘P.I.’ game. – After all, there can be no guarantee of being able to tell the client what they want to hear. Particularly if what they want to hear is absolute bullshit.
One of the many things that makes me laugh about Rupert (and others) is they want to be film-makers. But they have no thought of picking up a book and learning even the very basics. They think talking incoherent shite into a webcam or some kiddies-toy is ‘film making’. We had some Primary school kids in the office the other week; one of our clients is sponsoring a little film competition for them – I’m not being remotely facetious when I say those five, six and seven year-olds had a far FAR better grasp of visual grammar and construction that Rupert, Angie or any other of these fuckwits.
That’s a news story, a real one, that is almost a decade and a half old.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1388319/FBI-exposes-British-paedophiles-on-internet.html
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/operation-candyman
Obviously anyone committing those sorts of offences, and being in a position of authority, or working with children is a very real concern. As far as I can work out it was a problem with beaurocratic inertia, and a lack of resources. People were in fact arrested, charged and convicted.
Though how anyone could admire Jacqui Farmer for viewing those sorts of images, and then post that story, baffles me.
Abraham Christie, said himself, that images of child abuse were on his phone. His story is it was a plot by people he names to put them there.
We are all under investigation, including me and four other Satanists.
https://hoaxteadresearchmessiahlawyer666.wordpress.com/
Will I need my fighting fund? Or is it all bluster and hot air?
You are fine, we are all RD.
I’d really love to know what Angela ACTUALLY thinks Rupert can do?
Q. Who the f is he?
A. A 37 year old American that like going to Italy and smokes dope is about all there is to him oh! and having a few Skype calls with the delightful Angela Power-Disney.
To the author(s)
From: https://hoaxteadresearchmessiahlawyer666.wordpress.com/about/
“One of us has a background in Psychology so was able to provide great insight into the forensic workings of deviancy: psychopaths, narcissists and sociopaths along with impacts on victims. One of us is a Lawyer and gave us great insight into the legal frameworks and also how rights operate both for victim and perpetrators. One of us is a Nurse working in a mental health crisis team, so was able to offer information regarding vulnerable people from her day-to-day job experiences. One of us is a Teacher, so was able to relay concerns to do with cyber-bullying having had to deal with situations first hand regarding children using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to continue the bullying after school hours. One of us works as an IT Analyst and we were able to understand in detail the intricacies of social media and information management. ”
ROFLMFAO!
Well, I’m here to call you a cheap, deluded fucking liar whoever wrote this bollocks….
Lawyer? My ARSE!
……ENGLISH law? As far as I and a couple of others are concerned you can shove your English law up your arses; even if you did actually know what the hell you’re talking about (it’s obvious you don’t) it’s just not relevant! – Don’t like what I’ve got to say? Sue me you sad-ass ba’bag!
‘Background in psychology’ – Oh I dare say you’ve known plenty you fucking nutjobs, but nobody in your group is a psychologist… If they were, they wouldn’t be defending a collection of wasted drug-addled scumbags, paedophiles and con-artists; which, factually, is EXACTLY what the hoaxers are!
Likewise with the ‘mental health nurse’… A sad little delusional fantasy. Roll over and take your jags you sad little basked-case!
IT analyst? – Works in PC world maybe? On the games counter on a Saturday afternoon… Funny how you’ve not the slightest fucking clue who ANY of the people you’re having a pop at are or even what country they’re in!
See you in court you bunch of shitebags! – Oh! That’s right! It’s actually very wasters you’re trying to ‘defend’ that are up in court shortly… ‘kin hysterical!
I was thinking the same, Sam. Charge them up front, knowing damn well you’ll find nothing: smart PI strategy. And making the retainer ridiculously high does tend to cull out the fruitcakes and undesirables.
I think the thing Rupert has failed to grasp is that he’s being made a fool: he’s being sent out to find evidence of a non-existent ‘paedo ring cult’, and the people who’ve been accused of belonging to that cult have had it up to the back teeth with the whole thing. One way or another, Rupert will discover that he’s going on a fool’s errand.
Jacqui Farmer/Charlotte Alton Ward’s defence: “It was because I was trying to find paedophiles online!”
Abe Christie’s defence: “I was framed, yer honour! That nasty man put the bad pictures on my phone to make me look bad!”
Interesting how these two lines of defence seem to echo those mentioned in today’s post. Apparently they’re not exactly original.
I think Angie’s real goal with Rupert is to breathe new life into the rotting corpse of this hoax. She grabs onto anyone she can think of who might be able to help do that. I think it’s called “failing to acknowledge the inevitable”.
There’s a rather funny back-story to that blog. I know who’s behind it, and I’m pretty sure I know what their game is. Working on a post about it as we speak…stay tuned!
I saw that site a few nights ago, SV. I’m in their Hall of Fame. I would’ve preferred a star on Hollywood Boulevard, hey ho…
Champion the paedophiles and slander and harass the innocent…that’s the hoaxers way and they’ve the cheek to call us paedo supporters in their rabid YT comments below videos.
Yep. Hypocrites of the highest order!
I think it shows that their worldview is more important to them than child abuse. A worldview that all authorities are bad guys, whether that be the police, social services, government, illuminati….etc. And if someone who has been accused of child abuse claims to be a whistleblower or freeman against those authorities, they are automatically innocent, and the authorities are guilty.
In contrast, if an accused is part of the establishment, then they are automatically guilty.
Luckily, courts tend to go by evidence, not that it matters to the hoax supporters.
Athena Pallas says:
OMG, it’s beyond pathetic… all those usernames…. yeah, they’ve really cracked it, run for teh hills, our cover is blown.
phillimoresarah says:
I am relieved to know that it is a ‘scientific fact’ that I am REAL. REAL I tell you.
Yes, I think we’ve all earned places there, LOL. The author is, how shall I say, informationally deprived.
I was relieved to hear this as well. I think we’ve had this discussion, but are you me? If so, your real-ness is of some deep personal importance to me.
Which one of me gets the emotional support kittens though?
How many are there? Enough to go round? I do have two cats as it is, but one can never have too many emotional support kittens.
A bundle of em
This many?
Some appear to have slipped away.
I’m looking forward to the idiots trying to doxx people who post here…. they are going to start from the premise that everything disclosed here by anons is absolutely true. Take me for example…. what do you know about me?… that I live in Glastonbury. Maybe I don’t… I might live in Wells, or Ulan Bator. So, assuming I live in Glastonbury… who am I? only about 7k people to rootle among to find me……. happy hunting! As a lizard Freemason satanist I can shapeshift to anything I want so if you fail, you can blame RD, which is my real identity. Eh, I think I’ve confused myself now.
Awww. Get the violins out…
I think we should all start using the #JeSuisRicky hashtag again. That completely befuddles them. 🙂
Tracey, do you get who Barman is now and why I was toying with him last night by using his name knowing he was watching? 😀
I think so!
Hey Barman – if you’re watching (which, let’s face it, you are), this might come in handy:
And please do keep the ill-informed hypocritical tantrums coming. They’re giving us all a great laugh and I’m sure that that nice Mr. Coyote appreciates the free advertising 🙂
Just don’t spell my name wrong! 😉
HAR-DEE-HAR-HAR !! 🙂
Remarkably transparent, that site, don’t you think? It’s your toddler brother or sister aping everything you say & do, but with no comprehension of the meaning.
And whom, other than your toddler sibling, would be interested in their detailed study of your appearance and habits? Nada, me thinks.
I really was in local authority care. Hence my annoyance with certain people. My annoyance was later magnified by seeing their antics close up and also having first hand experience of the misinformation put out by campaigners. Though seeing as I was obviously part of the Illuminati NWO Satanic Babylonian Childsnatching Protege Party stolen from my loving parents to be put in the evil SS care system in cahoots with the secret family courts, what do I know. I am also Sarah. And RD.
I don’t have kittens. That was not true.
Well now. I resemble that remark. I think we’re very interesting, and not just to that snot-nosed little kid my parents saddled me with, I’ll have you know! 🙂
p.s. #JeSuisRicky
Listen to the opening moments of this one (in fact, that’s all you’ll be able to cope with before you zone out and/or lose the will to live). Angie goes into overdrive on the begging bowl front!
By the way, is it just me or does Cathi Morgan have a really irritating voice?
YOU LIED ABOUT THE KITTENS?
I am devastated, I tell you. Devastated.
No, it’s not just you. And wow, Angie begging? Who could have predicted that?
“I’m gonna address briefly the thing of…erm…You know, it’s not a begging bowl thing…but the thing of…it’s scandalous that someone who’s work is, you know, cutting edge and…and…er…so in depth…that the website’s down and, you know, the…the…equipment’s in danger of swallowing up…er…evidence of research for years, so if…if you can donate, small or large, any amount, if you agree that this is something that makes a huge difference and needs to get out there, needs to be documented, until we get this in book form, I would really passionately implore people to donate, either through my GoFundMe…erm…you know, through which I’ll channel some funds to Cathi and…I would like to get Cathi’s website back up and secured…erm…you know…and get, perhaps, you know, more reliable equipment and new laptop or something…So if you feel like I do, as passionately, that this work is invaluable, needs to continue and needs to be disseminated…erm…your…your donations, small or large, will be hugely appreciated.”
I live at No 11, SW1P 4QY, in my lair. I have a secret tunnel so I can go and see Her Maj for a pre-lunch gin and Dubonnet. It is also vair close my bijou penthouse flat in a lovely block right on the Thames.
Bwahahahahahaha
I’m really jealous, Sarah. No one’s ever proven scientifically that I exist and frankly, I’m starting to have my doubts.
This is serious! Can’t we start a GoFundMe page to buy her a packet of fags?
I’ll get over it. Eventually.
You have a lair? I believe Frances Mulligan the 7-foot tall lizard has one of those as well. Seems to be the in thing these days.
I have ascertained through pure dead scientifical research that you are French and were produced between 1979 and 1991 – although you may be a cut-and-shut job and/or have had replacement panels (probably just a new bootlid). You are 54 inches high, 68 inches wide, 183.7 inches long and weigh somewhere between 2,789–3,351 lb…
…..No I’ve no idea why I’m up this late either! 😉
LOL! Night, Joe. 🙂
Here is a bit more info on their links https://orderoftruth.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/hampstead-child-abuse-campaign-group-shocking-links-to-renowned-paedophile-group-vipaedophile-childabuse-radio4-2/
Last line encapsulates situation to a tee:
“The self-perpetuating cult-like group will defy the law (and common sense) because they have no respect for it or anyone else.”
Thanks OOT
They are mates with another convicted child sex offender too. Brian Paed.
He was convicted of soliciting a 13 year old for sex and arranging to meet her in a hotel room. It was actually an undercover police officer.
He also tried to publish a book which contained libellous statements about his ex colleagues, but much more disturbingly identifying information about looked after children including I believe information about why they were in care and their time in care.
Lately his daughter wants nothing to do with him and wants him nowhere near the granddaughter. He was convicted of harassment and sentenced to prison for contacting them in breach of a court order I believe.
https://victims-unite.net/category/abuse-survivors/brian-pead-aka-freeman/
Look at the category. Abuse survivors.
There’s also Maurice Kirk, punched a teenage girl in the head, for no reason.
Musa family, parents whipped their children and left scars. Fraudulently claimed benefits and made the children pretend father wasn’t around. These are British kids, but these lot wanted them sent to Nigeria to live with family they had never really met and who weren’t up to the task of protecting them from their parents.
Melissa Laird. Let her dog bite her toddler son, was unconcerned, had been banned from keeping dogs because she wasn’t able to care for them, son poorly looked after, couldn’t speak due to neglect, did a flit with him (actually kidnapped from care) and went to live in caravan in Spain that ended up covered in shit because she got dogs again. Has serious mental health problems on top of that.
Are you beginning to see a pattern?
Yes, definitely a pattern. It constantly surprises me that others aren’t aware of this.
Abuse survivors? Abuser servers more like.
Brain Paedo should be on a bromide drip at the very least.
Here’s a case relating to Peter Hofschroer from just before his arrest.
http://www.5rb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Coulson-v-Wilby-2014-EWHC-3404-QB.pdf
If anyone feels like seeing him getting called cnut, frequently, there’s a thread he started on Army Rumour Service. That was going to go well!
Well, they are all fighters for justice against a corrupt state that has persecuted them, obviously.
Oh. Right. I forgot.
And lest we forget Neelu’s mate Peter Hofshroer, who’s just been found guilty of child porn charges and given a 30-month prison sentence.
Oh, good to hear!
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/sabine-neelu-trial-to-begin-tomorrow/#comment-33771
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NEARLY 200 dancers were on the stage in the finale of Haslingden High School’s Dance Show 2013.
The expressive arts school lived up to its name as parents, siblings, staff and governors packed the school’s Sixth Form Theatre on each of the three nights to enjoy the performances.
Head of Dance Liza Barrett said: “The feedback we got was excellent and we had lots of emails praising the performers.
“We did a lot of work outside of the curriculum especially for the performance and we had students from all the years up to GCSE and A level performing.
“In total 199 students took part with 40 of those from feeder primary schools Broadway and Helmshore who have been coming into school on a Thursday to a primary dance club.
“For me the highlight was the finale when we had nearly 200 dancers all on stage dancing at the same time.
“This year we had some really great performances.”
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TOWER OF SONG
NEW RELEASES, 10/4: We’ve got WILCO, THE AVETT BROTHERS, ANGEL OLSEN, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS & some sweet BEASTIE BOYS reissues!
ANGEL OLSEN, All Mirrors (crystal clear vinyl LP/CD)
Orchestras are indie rock’s new Marshall stacks. That’s fitting on a lot of levels — as a satisfying class-action appropriation of elitist cultural tropes, as a deconstruction of those same tropes, and as an elevation of collectivism over American myths of individualism and exceptionalism that’ve lately been twisted into such ugly shapes. Also: done right, orchestrations just sound dope. There’s plenty of ‘em done right on Angel Olsen’s latest, All Mirrors, her best record yet in an excellent ouevre, giving her goth-folk drama queen tendencies room to roam far and wide. Those who know Olsen from the stripped-down intimacy of Burn Your Fire For No Witness may be startled by the near-Björkian-grandeur on display here — although her 2016 My Woman clearly showed an artist whose trajectory had yet to be fully measured. Here, songs alternate vast orchestral landscapes with similarly-cinematic band tracks, Olsen’s distressed alto moving from shivering whisper to piercing wail and back again. The songs are all navigations and negotiations of love, self-interrogations included, and nothing’s simple or clear cut. “Too Easy” is a lover’s rapture rendered suspect by its title, the sound partway between Stereolab and Beach House. “Lark” builds like a roller-coaster lurching up an ascent, suggesting a betrayal and a relationship in full-blown crisis mode, with a finale that may be the most cathartic minute of music you hear this year. At one point, Olsen repeats the phrase “dream on,” more threat than Steve Tyler pep talk;then the string section dive-bombs into mass glissandos as visceral as Skrillex bass-drops, while the singer goes full-ham — “You say you love every single part/ What about my dreams ?
/ What about the heart ?
/Trouble from the start” — and the last crescendo recedes with final notes rendered in electric guitar feedback that, in the wake of the orchestra maelstrom, sounds totally puny (a provocative metaphor itself). For the string arrangements — the sonic soul of All Mirrors — Olsen worked with both co-writer/bandmate Ben Babbitt and Jherek Bischoff, the multi-tasker who’s collaborated with Amanda Palmer (notably on a tasty benefit set of Bowie covers), David Byrne (see Bischoff’s Composed, issued on The National’s Brassland label), Parenthetical Girls, and others. Some of the strings here conjure Nelson Riddle’s swaddling arrangements for Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt, others shriek and swoop like George Crumb’s Black Angels. The violins et al. on “What It Is” alternate dissonant blasts and violent sawing over a glam-rock strut, while on “New Love Cassette” they’re majestic, set against the dusty R2D2 click of a drum track, a tension Olsen mirrors with a trembling, bird-like chorus set against menacing low-register verses. The strings beneath the gutting mea culpa of “Impasse” roil like vertigo, Olsen hollering “I’m just living in my head!” like it’s both a defense and a confession. The record ends with the comparatively hushed spectacle of “Endgame,” a fully-orchestrated epic in a Julie London ’50s pop style, and “Chance,” a one-woman girl-group plea enobled by miasmic wall of sound, Olsen’s shivering voice asking her lover just to hold the space of the moment, future unwritten, as she rides off into the sunset. There’s nothing here quite so immediately hooky as her 2016 Elvis-via-Patti Smith conjuring “Shut Up, Kiss Me.” But Olsen’s up to something different here, inviting a different sort of attention to fully absorb. It’s worth the investment; the emotion’s as visceral as it is complex, and it ranks among the best sounding records this year, deserving to be cranked on a good sound system — an album to spend time with, to fall into, to shut up and let yourself be kissed by.
WILCO, Ode To Joy (LP/CD)
Wilco’s 11th studio album, apparently, is Jeff Tweedy confronting rockism (the belief that rock is the natural state of music. In short: the celebration of all things guitary and “authentic” over music that is shiny and instant). “Rockism is not intellectually an honest place to be, so this is more just a personal observation of what I don’t want to do,” he has said. Hence the abrupt step change here: bright shiny synths replace guitars, three songs are written by Charli XCX, and the songs are structured around huge singalong choruses, with Tweedy’s voice Auto-Tuned to within an inch of its life. Not really. Of course not. Because as Tweedy also said of rockism: “I’m afraid that we are not going to have any audience any more if we don’t keep perpetuating this.” So Ode to Joy will not scare away the existing fans: it’s not an experimental album at all; in fact it’s so stripped back it’s sometimes arid, with acoustic guitar and a deadened, deliberately martial and plodding drum kit the dominant sounds (don’t fret: there are some explosive Nels Cline guitar solos, too). Tweedy’s crisis is expressed lyrically, rather than musically, though it’s only the knowledge of his feelings that sends one looking for clues. “I never change / You never change / There’s no decision / Sometimes I’m just a hole for you to get in,” he sings on Bright Leaves. Is he singing about a lover, or about his fans? In One and a Half Stars, he complains: “I’m left with only my desire to change” and “I can’t escape my domain.”These are songs where the expressiveness of the lyrics and the baldness of the music – usually big, simple blocks, put together like Lego – work in tandem. The plainness of the instrumentation heightens the uncertainty and ambivalence in Tweedy’s writing, in which he seems to be searching for reasons – to justify not just Wilco, but existence itself. “Are we all in love just because?” he wonders on Hold Me Anyway. “No!” he replies. “I think it’s poetry and magic / Something too big to have a name.” Maybe the next record will be the one with the Charli XCX songs. We’ll see.
THE AVETT BROTHERS, Closer Than Together (LP/CD)
Never let it be said that the Avett Brothers aren’t afraid to tangle with the mess of the modern world. Closer Than Together positively teems with the troubles of 2019, finding Seth and Scott Avett tackling the big issues: #MeToo, gun violence, political polarization, the existential question of what it means to be an American. Heady stuff, and the Avett Brothers treat it with po-faced sincerity, singing with plaintive earnestness and not above adding an overdubbed recitation to a sweetly breezy pop tune. While the band sometimes flirts with modern sounds — witness the overheated neo-new wave beats fueling “High Steppin'” — they usually default to lilting folk-rock that shows a considerable debt to Bob Dylan. Where Dylan chose to leave questions hanging in the air, though, the Avett Brothers situation and are eager to offer possible solutions.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Up and Rolling (LP/CD)
The North Mississippi Allstars’ Up And Rolling is a decidedly tighter and more focused piece of work than their last two albums. World Boogie Is Coming and Prayer for Peace found siblings Luther and Cody Dickinson collaborating much more informally than not with a broad aggregation of musicians and singers and while the level of spontaneity remains high on this, their label debut for New West Records, the presence of a stable core lineup is as significant as the presence of Mavis Staples on “What You Gonna Do?.” In the enclosed booklet, Luther recounts the source of inspiration for this record, that is, photos of he and his brother along with like-minded Mississippi Hill Country folk, many of which adorn this mini-LP CD packaging. Taken just before the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter formed NMAS with his multi-instrumentalist brother roughly twenty years ago, it is hardly surprising that two tunes here speak directly to those past times, the titlesong and “Drunk Outdoors.” And while both tracks are equally important in autobiographical terms, it’s more significant the musicians take some time to stretch out on the former. That jam, however, isn’t so extensive as the one on “Mean Old World.” An inventive, earthy improvisation unfolds with increasingly greater intensity for six and half minutes, featuring Jason Isbell and Duane Betts on a T-Bone Walker/Little Walter tune culled from the outtakes of Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (in that form an acoustic duet between Eric Clapton and Duane Allman). No doubt it might well have gone on much longer in the Zebra Ranch Studios where engineer Kevin Houston recorded the bulk of these sessions, but the studio expertise the Dickinson Brothers learned from their late father Jim (who worked with the disparate likes of the Rolling Stones and the Replacements) stands them in good stead as they co-produce with sufficient restraint to preserve the flow of these twelve tracks. The abbreviated “Out on the Road,” features long-time mentor R.L. Burnside (who also appears on “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”), while Roosevelt Collier contributes steel guitar to “Bump That Mother” and Rev. Charles Hodges further seasons the mix with his earthy Hammond B3 sounds on “What You Gonna Do?” and “Living Free.” Such varied displays of musicianship invariably serve the respective songs on which they appear, the three-to-four minutes renditions supplying further evidence of Luther and Cody’s judicious, purposeful approach to a project in which the whole is much greater than the sum of its lively parts. A mere thirty-eight seconds of “Otha’s Bye Bye Baby” stands simultaneously as homage to Turner and an understated punctuation mark to an emphatic statement of roots. Yet even as the pair and their partners eschew a wide-open approach in favor of slightly shorter cuts such as “Peaches,” there’s some room for Luther to flashes his distinctive guitar prowess, while Cody forges a solid bond with bassist Carl Dufrene (formerly of Anders Osborne’s band) in a rhythm section as nimble as it is muscular. Reaffirming the value Sharde Thomas brought to her membership with the elder Dickinson in The Wandering and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, the granddaughter of the aforementioned Hill Country blues icon offers her pliant voice and the airy timber of fife on “Call that Gone,” thereby adding a vivacity to the proceedings that freshens an NMAS formula established back on 2000’s Grammy Award-nominated Shake Hands With Shorty. As such, Up And Rolling represent at least something of a return to the solidarity that earmarked the group’s best studio efforts records as a trio.
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Live At The Ryman (CD/LP out 11/1)
BILL FRISELL, Harmony (CD/LP)
KILLER REISSUES:
BEASTIE BOYS:
Root Down (clear vinyl LP)
Ill Communication (clear vinyl LP)
To The Five Boroughs (clear vinyl LP)
RORY GALLAGHER, Rory Gallagher (LP)
Rory Gallagher’s solo debut picks up where On The Boards left off – it’s a raucous blues rock outing with ten original tunes that were far more than skeletons for his incisive Strat picking. “Laundromat,” “Hands Up,” and “Sinner Boy”‘s distinctive riffs were early concert favorites, but the album’s ballads were some of Gallagher’s strongest. “For the Last Time,” “Just the Smile” and the acoustic “I’m Not Surprised” mixed strains of Delta blues with strong melodic sensibilities into songs of rare poignancy, especially for an artist who was best known for his scorching leads. In this respect Gallagher was an early model for Eric Clapton, whose solo career followed a similar path. He opens up on the album’s jazzy, seven-minute finale “Can’t Believe It’s You” which even features an alto sax, an instrument Gallagher all but abandoned on later albums. The reissued, remastered version of the disc includes two additional tunes, Muddy Waters’ slow Delta blues number “Gypsy Woman” and Otis Rush’s fast Chicago shuffle “It Takes Time,” both cut at the same sessions. “Gypsy Woman”‘s slashing slide guitar and vocals sound as impassioned any other track; shuffle “It Takes Time”shows how comfortable Gallagher is with straight blues. And the remastered sound is a big improvement over any existing version of this consistently superb album.
ZACHARY HUGHES takes on an Olympian task: Performing the complete BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS in a concert series at the GREENVILLE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP!
FEB 09 | 3:00 pmZACHARY HUGHES takes on an Olympian task: Performing the complete BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS in a concert series at the GREENVILLE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP!
Let us sum up the new album THE PROFESSIONALS for you: Beats by MADLIB. Raps by OH NO. Real. Rap. Sh*t. Check it out NOW on vinyl LP and CD at HORIZON RECORDS!
MADLIB is one of the most highly regarded and influential hip-hop producers (and occasional rappers) of our time, a man whose distinctive and stylized sound on classic tracks […]
The year 2020 marks LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN’s 250th birthday, and in celebration of this landmark, Julliard-trained pianist ZACHARY HUGHES will perform all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas […]
NEW RELEASES, 1/17: MARCUS KING’s solo debut, ROBERT GLASPER, BILL FAY, YANN TIERSEN and a killer PALE SAINTS reissue!
Bill Fay’s albums for Deram Records made in 1970 and 1971 and deleted shortly afterwards – got new life after endorsements from the likes of Jim O’Rourke (Tortoise) and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) led to a huge revival of interest in this vanished artist. […]
NEW RELEASES, 12/6: THE WHO, MARY J. BLIGE, SUFJAN STEVENS on CD, and killer reissues from BOB DYLAN, JOHN LEE HOOKER & more!
The first Who album in 13 years opens with a perfectly cynical Pete Townshend lyric: “I don’t care/I know you’re gonna hate this song.” But it’s kind of hard to hate something that feels so familiar. Roger Daltrey sings the lyric and the ones that follow, claiming the song isn’t […]
Marantz TT1060 semi-automatic turntable
Here’s a nice entry level table that will severely outperform any newer table even close to it’s price point. The Marantz TT1060 is a semi-automatic table which means the tonearm will return to rest at the end of play. […]
Technics TT SL 1800 turntable
Technics SL-1800 full manual direct drive turntable, circa 1977. This table is a heavy beast with a very strong motor. A new stylus has been installed on the Stanton cartridge and sounds fantastic. All tonearm features have been set correctly and the stylus tracks at a recommended 3 grams […]
Realistic Lab 430 Direct Drive Turntable
Very nice inexpensive table with the benefit of direct drive (no belts to change) and auto return. The table has been thoroughly gone through and all features work as they should. A new elliptical stylus has been mounted on the Shure cartridge and balanced correctly. […]
Sonamp 260 from SONANCE
Soooo nice! This super nice, modestly priced 100 watt per channel power amp has been all checked out and works great. It’s cost effective way to run lots of power! […]
Technics SL-210 full manual turntable
The table has been thoroughly inspected and gone through with all features working correctly. This is a full manual table, simply turn the table on and move the stylus to the record surface, no auto features to adjust or be concerned with. The new stylus sounds great, is readily available and super affordable. A nice survivor from 1978! […]
SANSUI FR-D35 SEMI-AUTOMATIC DIRECT TURNTABLE
A new stylus has been installed on the vintage AT cartridge and all features of the table work perfectly! […]
EPI A110 SPEAKERS: 2-way, classic bookshelf charmers! Sound great, woofers rebuilt like new!
2-way, classic bookshelf charmers! Sound great, woofers rebuilt like new. Circa 1980’s Epicure Productions vintage feature 8”woofers. Critically acclaimed in their day and still sound good, audiophile delivery without the high dollar price. Full-on ready, great sound, woofers rebuilt like new! […]
TASCAM 102 CASSETTE DECK!
So fresh and so clean! This deck is in great shape and sounds like a champ. Bust out those old bootlegs and mixed tapes. […]
VINTAGE RARE SAE MARK XXXI SOLID STATE STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER WORKS GREAT! SOUNDS GREAT!
Unit is in really nice physical condition. Recently gone through, tested and checked, all functions have been tested and work great! ready to rock with a pre-amp! […]
ADVENT LAUREATE Mini Tower Speakers
amazing sound, brilliant natural refined listening experience. woofers on both speakers just completely rebuilt better than new! The Advents, both large and small, sounded pretty good and gave excellent value for the money. The company was one of a long string of companies that descended from the original Acoustic Research (AR). Advents eventually lost their enormous popularity and nearly faded away. International Jensen, a company based in the Chicago suburbs, rescued Advent and resurrected it. The Advent model we tested deserves a Ph.D. Advent appropriately names it the Laureate. The Laureate overwhelmed my skepticism that a modestly priced floor-standing loudspeaker could deliver good sound […]
SANSUI SR-525 DIRECT DRIVE TURNTABLE
Excellent working and sounding Sansui SR-525 full manual direct drive turntable. A new stylus has been installed, and the cartridge has been properly aligned in the headshell according to Sansui specifications. This is a very heavy table with great Sansui build quality. […]
YAMAHA NATURAL SOUND A-700 INTEGRATED STEREO AMPLIFIER
A classic “hoss” circa 1983/84. 100 watts per channel! Has phono input. […]
Fisher REC 727 AV Receiver
This Fisher A/V receiver has phono input, remote and 200 watts! Fire it up bro! […]
Marantz REC SR 225
This super vintage budget receiver is the perfect starter unit for someone wanting to explore the world of hi fidelity sounds. It’s been all checked out and has a clean bill of health; and with phono input so it’s good to go with any classic turntable. […]
Sansui SPEAKERS SP 2000
These Sansui SP-2000 speakers from the 70s are some awesome vintage rockers! These big boys have a four way/six driver configuration plus a bass port. They have been tested and sound great. […]
BOZAK CS4000 mod speakers, omg!! these big-boys ROCK!
8 tweeters, 1 midrange and 2 woofers per. all original, very clean. extremely rare and VERY AMAZING sound! […]
BOSE 901 SERIES V SPEAKERS WITH BOSE 901 SERIES V ACTIVE EQUALIZER
The essentially crossoverless design gives the 901 an unmistakable coherence, the model’s greatest strength. Its incredibly wide dispersion comes in a close second. The Bose 901s sound great anywhere in the room, After extensive listening, the Bose 901s strike me as being damn good. They have some limitations, but don’t all $1,400 speakers? For that matter, what $10,000 speakers are perfect? They are so smooth and musical. […]
Polk Audio T15 Bookshelf Speakers, 2 way plus bass port
You can enlarge your sound while shrinking the speakers with a reliable bookshelf system. The Polk Audio T15 speakers can blend into the background while delivering impressive tone quality. It can be a superior system that offers balanced drivers and tweeters for a wide response with low distortion. […]
VINYL ME PLEASE MAGAZINE JUNE 6th 2018: Horizon Records Is The Best Record Store In South Carolina
by Andrew Gilstrap The 50 Best Record Stores In America is an essay series where we attempt to find the best record store in every state. These aren’t necessarily the record stores with the best prices or the deepest selection; you can use Yelp for […]
TRAVELING STORYTELLERS APR 20 2018: Stories Matter Season II Episode I: Horizon Records
Written and Produced by Audrey Gore “There’s nothing as Glamorous to me as a record store.” – Paul McCartney With easy access to free online music, you may have wondered why someone would pay $20 for a second-hand copy of an old vinyl that can […]
UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL Dec. 18, 2015: Sounds Familiar
by Vincent Harris, photos by Josh Weeks. Gene Berger’s musical passions have helped keep Horizon Records alive through economic downturns and a digital revolution When Gene Berger opened Horizon Records in 1975, setting up shop at 347 S. […]
SOUTHERN LIVING Apr 18, 2015: The 5 Best Record Stores in the South
by Hannah Hays Jack White’s Third Man Records may be the South’s most recognizable record store, but smaller vinyl Valhallas can be found all across the region. To name our five favorites, we asked the help of Reed Watson, a co-manager of Florence, […]
THE GREENVILLE NEWS APRIL 10, 2015: Record Store Day heralds renaissance of vinyl albums
by Donna Isbell Walker, photo by Mykal McEldowney. Record stores and the vinyl albums on their shelves may feel like a relic of 1975. In 2015, when it seems everyone carries around a cell phone or tablet stuffed with hundreds of their favorite […]
THE BOSTON GLOBE Mar 17, 2013: 3 days in Greenville, S.C.
by Diane Daniel, photos by Selina Kok This city of 62,000 halfway between Charlotte and Atlanta took a huge hit when its bustling textile manufacturing industry moved overseas in the 1960s. A decade later, then-Mayor Max Heller, a Holocaust refugee […]
HUFFINGTON POST AUGUST 3, 2011: 10 Reasons To Visit Greenville, South Carolina
by Tanja Laden, photo by Melanie Griffin. Halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, in the heart of the Deep South, there’s an unassuming but charming town filled with good, old-fashioned Southern hospitality. Greenville, South Carolina is home […]
BLACK BOX MAGAZINE, April 2010: On The Record
by Jordana Megonigal What do you get when you take a college dropout, add 30 years in a rapidly changing industry and continually declining market, and mix well with local artists, businesses and a little bit of vinyl? […]
THE GREENVILLE NEWS Nov. 18, 2005: 30 years haven’t dimmed Gene Berger’s passion for music
by Mike Foley, photos by George Gardner. Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 As corporate headquarters go, the stuffy room at the back of Horizon Records is more utilitarian than showplace. Vertical rows of vinyl record albums line the floor and cover […]
UPSTATE BUSINESS/THE GREENVILLE NEWS Dec. 24, 1995: An Independent Streak
by Jim DuPlessis, photos by Owen Riley, Jr. Horizon Records: 20 Years Of Music. Gene Berger didn’t think twice back when he agreed in 1981 to carry a single in his Greenville record store by an unsigned band from Athens, GA called R.E.M. […]
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Six Rebels to Compete in Olympics August 12 – 21
Ole Miss Track and Field at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, OR.
Photo by Joshua McCoy/Ole Miss Athletics
@olemisspix
For an athlete, there is no greater experience than being able to go compete against the best in the world at the Olympics. The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics kick off next Friday, August 5, with a grand opening ceremony.
This year the Ole Miss Rebels will have several athletes competing for their country. A record-breaking number of six Rebels will be making their Olympic dreams a reality in just a few short days.
The six qualifying track and field members for Ole Miss are Gwen Berry- USA, Antwon Hicks – Nigeria, Sam Kendricks – USA, Brittney Reese – USA, Ricky Robertson – USA and Raven Saunders – USA.
Berry will be competing in the women’s hammer throw. Hicks is going to be in the men’s 110-meter hurdles. Kendricks will be in the men’s pole vault and Reese will compete in the women’s long jump. Robertson will compete in the men’s high jump and Saunders will compete in the women’s shot put.
They will go for a medal in each of their own events starting on August 12 through August 21. Stay tuned to give them all a loud Hotty Toddy cheer!
Adam Brown is the sports editor for HottyToddy.com. He can be reached at adam.brown@hottytoddy.com.
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Bigger Than the Beatles
Joe Diffie - Bigger Than the Beatles
Interpret: Joe Diffie
Joe Diffie - Bigger Than the Beatles (text piesne)
He plays guitar at a hotel bar
For out-of-towners and business men
He struts and sings to his drum machine
But he won't make it big at the Holiday Inn
But she thinks that he looks like Elvis
When he runs his fingers through that jet black hair
And sometimes she forgets an order
'Cause she's so struck by him and she stops and stares
They got a love bigger than the Beatles
Wild and free like a Rolling Stone
They got a love takes 'em higher than the Eagles
Ain't life such a sweet, sweet song
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, yeah, yeah, yeah
She pours some drinks, loads up the sink
And dreams of bein' a movie star
Her mama said she'd knock 'em dead
But Hollywood hasn't called so far
But he thinks she's as pretty as a picture
When she wipes down tables in her apron strings
And sometimes he forgets a chorus
'Cause she Shinin' like a beauty on the silver screen
No you won't find their names on the walk of fame
But they ain't missin' much
'Cause when the lights go down on tinsel town
Third Rock From the Sun
Pickup Man
So Help Me Girl
John Deere Green
Texas Size Heartache
Ships That Don't Come In
Honky Tonk Attitude
Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox...
Is It Cold In Here
If You Want Me To
If The Devil Danced (In Empty...
New Way (To Light Up An Old...
Prop Me Upside The Jukebox...
Thrid Rock From The Sun
Pick Up Man
It's Always Something
It's Always Somethin'
C-O-U-N-T-R-Y
Cold Budweiser and a Sweet...
Back to the Cave
All Because of a Baby Boy
From Here on Out
Have Yourself a Merry Little...
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A sweet side trip to ‘Little Edo’ Kawagoe in Saitama
Known as “Little Edo,” Kawagoe is located in neighboring Saitama Prefecture and is only 30 minutes by limited express train from central Tokyo.
VIDEO| Saitama Railway Museum a treat for train fanatics
Tetsudo Hakubutsukan Museum is only a 1.5-hour train ride from Yokota Air Base.
VIDEO| Step in to Little Edo in Kawagoe, Saitama
Only a couple of hours drive from any of the U.S. military installations in Kanto Plain, Kawagoe aka “Little Edo” is an attractive city lined with traditional clay-walled warehouses, a three-tiered bell tower, a majestic castle and numerous Shinto shrines.
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Hikawa Shrine in Omiya, Saitama - One of most prestigious Shinto shrines
A short 20-minute walk from the Railway Museum, Hikawa Shrine is known as one of the most prestigious Shinto shrines in the Kanto Plain. The town of Omiya (literally, large shrine) is named after this great shrine.
Moominvalley Park: Explore the storybook land of famous TV cartoon
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Kumagaya and Gyoda – site of Rugby World Cup games
Kumagaya City, north of Tokyo, is home to some of this year’s Rugby World Cup games. Near the stadium, Shodenzan Temple, known as a national treasure, is a point of interest worth making a stop at.
Soka Senbei Garden in Saitama
You would be forgiven for thinking that senbei rice crackers were the ninja of Japanese food.
Instead of Tokyo, hop a train to Kawagoe to experience a mix of historic, contemporary
An excursion by rail to Kawagoe in Saitama prefecture opens a window to a bygone era in Japan.
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Jay and Joann's Journey
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
Mt Cook National Park
March 23, 2014 · by joannstarknelson · in New Zealand. ·
Mt Cook National Park is home to New Zealand’s highest mountains and largest glaciers. It’s signature mountain, Mt Cook, is the highest mountain in New Zealand, reaching 12,218 feet. The park is located in the middle of the South Island, in the heart of the Southern Alps.
On our way to the park, we made stops at Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki. Lake Tekapo is known for its brilliant turquoise blue color. The brilliant color comes through when the sun shines on fine particles of rock dust brought down from glaciers in the headwaters. It was too cloudy the day we were there for the color to really come out, but the waters were still brilliantly clear and beautiful.
at lake tekapo
crystal clear waters
church of the good shepherd which overlooks the lake
About 30 minutes down the road from Lake Tekapo is Lake Pukaki, which sits along the turnoff to Mt Cook National Park. From the southern shores of Lake Pukaki are fantastic views of Mt Cook and its surrounding peaks.
at lake pukaki
picture-perfect views from the lake
Next, we followed the road along Lake Pukaki to Mt Cook National Park. The scenery was spectacular.
now this is what I call a scenic drive!
soaking in the views as we make our way to the park
As we made our way to the park, we crossed a number of one-way bridges. Most of the roads in New Zealand are two-lane and become one-lane (one-way) where bridges are necessary. We’ve encountered countless one-way bridges during our travels around NZ. Thankfully, we were warned about them beforehand. At each one-way bridge a sign is posted, indicating which driver has the right of way. The red circle sign means you must give way; the blue rectangle sign means the other driver must give way.
approaching a one-way bridge
The one-way bridges didn’t seem to bother Jay much; roundabouts, however, are a different story. Those are everywhere too, and when you’re driving on the opposite side of the road from what you’re accustomed to, roundabouts can get really confusing.
When we arrived at the park, it was warm and sunny, but a storm was just starting to blow in. Not wanting to waste any time while the weather was still nice, we quickly set off to hike the Hooker Valley Track. The track leads up Hooker Valley towards Mt Cook. One hundred years ago, the entire valley was a glacier; now, you hike three miles through the valley before you see the edge of Hooker Glacier. It’s a beautiful hike; I’d consider it a “must-do” if you visit the park. From the campground trailhead, the hike takes about three hours round-trip. The trail is pretty flat, so easy on the legs, yet the views are sensational. As an added bonus, the trail crosses over three suspension bridges (called swing bridges in NZ).
at the start of the hike, windy but warm
the view as we make our way to the first suspension bridge
about to cross the bridge
crossing the first suspension bridge, over the hooker river
glacier waters of the hooker river
picture spot
non-stop views
headed toward the second suspension bridge
the hooker bluff bridge
on the bridge
stocking stream – check out the color of that water!
we see the third bridge ahead
after just over an hour, we make it to hooker glacier lake
walking along the water’s edge
glacier ice
just had to pick up a piece, it was cold!
hooker glacier lake
making our way back
On the way back, I stopped at the Alpine Memorial. It stands in memory of three people who died in an avalanche after ascending Mt Cook. In reading the sign, I realized that the following day would mark exactly 100 years ago from this tragic event.
alpine memorial
After the hike, we got settled into our campsite at the White Horse Hill campground. It was a beautiful spot, situated right next to the trailheads for the two hikes we did at the park.
white horse hill campground
a room with a view (yes, jay gave me permission to use this photo)
That evening, a powerful storm rolled in. It started raining about 6pm and continued raining until the next morning. The winds were so strong, our campervan was rocking back and forth most of the night. I was so thankful to be sleeping in a campervan and not in a tent!
a rainbow at the start of the storm
The following morning, we had planned to hike the Mueller Hut Route. The track climbs up to the divide on top of the Sealy Range. It’s a steep, 3,000 foot climb. We could see that the storm which came in overnight had left a little fresh snow at the top. I was a little apprehensive about trying to tackle this route given the weather. Although the rain had stopped, there were still 50 mph wind gusts. In the end, we decided we would give it a try and turn around if things got bad. We packed extra stuff in our packs, and I made sure I had everything I might need in mine, just in case I wanted to turn around and Jay wanted to keep going.
stretching the legs out before we start the mueller hut route
at the kea point lookout (can you tell how windy it is from my hair?)
mueller lake
After the Kea Point lookout, the track reaches the foot of the Sealy Range and that is where the steep climbing begins. The first stretch of climbing is up stairs. The stairs have been nicknamed the “Stairway to Heaven”. It’s definitely a quad burner as you make your way up, but it is all worth it for the views.
let the stairs begin
so steep that it’s easier on all fours
stopping for a picture (and a quick breather!)
view of the valley below (we can see our campsite down there)
views of mueller lake as we make our ascent
as if the stairs aren’t enough to take your breathe away, the views most certainly will
After over 1800 stairs, we reached Sealy Tarns (small mountain ponds).
sealy tarns
Shortly after Sealy Tarns, the trail becomes an alpine route. No more stairs, just rocks to scramble up. There are orange markers and rock cairns to help keep you on the right track.
no more stairs, just rocks to climb
lovin’ the views
As we made our way up, people who had stayed in the Mueller Hut overnight were making their way down. Several folks warned us about highs winds on the ridge. One lady told us (oh so eloquently with her British accent), “The winds are a bit playful when you get to the ridge…it’s navigable, but you need to stay low.” The fact that she said “a bit playful” made me laugh, since others had described it to us in not nearly as positive terms.
We continued our ascent. On the east side of the ridge were blue, sunny skies; on the west, it was dark and cloudy. The wind was blowing so hard, at times it felt like it was raining, but it wasn’t raining above us – it was rain blowing over from the other side of the ridge.
the final stretch of scrambling
After a long time climbing, we had reached the divide. The views were spectacular. We found a spot out of the wind behind some rocks to stop and eat lunch.
the view from the top – all i can say is…wow!
our break spot
After our short break, we hiked along the ridge to a lookout with sweeping views of the surrounding mountains and glaciers. The Mueller Glacier was in the foreground, and four smaller glaciers ran down the mountainside.
walking along the sealy range ridge
at the glacier lookout
under a mysterious sky…half dark, half sunny
what a view!
Along the ridge were powerful gale force winds. At times, I did get the feeling that the winds were going to knock us over, but we managed to stay on both feet. To get a sense of what it was like, check out these two short videos:
A 360 panorama from the glacier lookout: http://youtu.be/oiO9g2FqMW0
Some footage of us hiking along the ridge in gale force winds: http://youtu.be/BjIM6zJlBWs
As we made our way off the ridge and back down the mountain, the winds started to subside. The way down was just as hard on the legs, but we were rewarded with non-stop views as we made the descent.
starting our descent
can’t get enough of these views
descending the rock scramble section
it gets less rocky as we make our way down
then we’re back on the stairs for the final stretch of the descent
To sum things up, Mt Cook National Park is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. We enjoyed ever minute of our time there!
I’ll never forget this moment!
Tags: hooker valley, hooker valley track, lake pukaki, lake tekapo, mt cook national park, mueller hut, mueller hut route, new zealand, one-way bridge, sealy range, white horse hill campground
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5 responses to “Mt Cook National Park”
Aunt Becky March 23, 2014 at 12:17 pm · · Reply →
Spectacular views to say the least! I think you guys are lucky to have escaped any sprains or broken bones on all the hikes you took along these trails. I was wondering what it was like to go DOWN those steps that you mentioned were easier to come up on on all fours. How do you manage that?
joannstarknelson March 24, 2014 at 7:28 pm · · Reply →
So very thankful we escaped NZ without any injuries! Going down was easier on the lungs, but harder on the legs. We would change up how we went down (going sideways, switching from left side to right side, etc) and that seemed to help.
Jennifer March 23, 2014 at 3:42 pm · · Reply →
You weren’t kidding when you said the “last” views were going to be some of the BEST! Amazing views!! The video of you cracked me up….you look part ninja like you’re sneaking up on somebody and other part just trying to walk without falling over! I bet we only got a small ‘taste’ of how windy it was! Glad you were able to safely navigate all that terrain!
Ooo…love the “ninja like” reference. I feel so stealth! Yep, the views just kept getting better as we made our way through New Zealand. More posts to come!
Aunt Marty March 24, 2014 at 7:01 pm · · Reply →
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Latvijas prezidente Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Brīvības vārdā: Latvijas prezidente Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Book | Latvia
English title: In the Name of Freedom: President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Keyword(s): Vaira Vike-Freiberga | President of Latvia | researcher on Latvian folklore | psychologist | escape from Soviet occupation
Languages(s): English – Latvian
Biography of the first Latvian woman President. Born in Latvia, spent most of her life as a refugee in Germany, Morocco and Canada, made there an academic career as psychologist, turned to the research on Latvian folk-songs. After the collapse of USSR she returned to Latvia and served two terms as President, while being the most popular one. The author describes motivation and goals of the President’s activities including her visit to the conference Women and Democracy (Reykjavik, 1999) and her speech there; difficulties and achievements in her position as the President.
Nasilie na zenach a jeho dosledky
Eva Sopkova is one of the first specialists (psychologist) who worked in the praxis from feminist perspective. She views the violence against women as the result of power asymmetry in a patriarchal ideological system.
BiONGrafie
This book is a subjective biography of “AnA”-one of the most important women’s NGOs in Romania after 1989.
Lyčių drama
A comprehensive view of traditional and feminist understanding of sex, gender, family and personality.
Ouvriers = ouvrières?
The main contribution of this text is to question and challenge the way sociology of work “forgot” women in its analysis.
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Digital Works
SIX QUESTIONS with Craig Leonard
IOTA Gallery Pop-up (Part Un)2015
For other exhibition views, please visit the Centre Art Garage website.
* Artworks no longer available through IOTA
“Shaken Antlers” (2015), Certificate, accompanies artwork
“Shaken Antlers” (2015) 24 unique cork panels, 24″ x 36″, 300.00 CAD per panel
Framed view: Craig Leonard, “Shaken Antlers” (2015) 24 unique cork panels, 24″ x 36″, 300.00 CAD (panels sold unframed)
Craig Leonard is an artist, musician and teacher at NSCAD University. He was a resident artist at Acme studios in London UK in 2012-3 and has had solo exhibitions at Central Art Garage (Ottawa), Mercer Union (Toronto), A Space (Toronto), WWTWO ( Montreal), Anarch Gallery (London, UK) and others. He has participated in group shows, most recently at the Esker Foundation (Calgary), AGNS (Halifax), LMAK Projects (New York), Confederation Centre (Charlottetown) and Skuc Gallery (Ljubljana). Craig has been an active Board member of the Khyber Artist-Run Centre in Halifax since 2008.
Click here for Art review: Craig Leonard is messing with your mind (Ottawa Citizen, March 3, 2015)
IOTA:
What is noise and sound in your artistic practice?
Craig Leonard:
Negation and affirmation.
We’ve discussed the obscurity of poetry [as tactic?], the recipe of design [in its materials], and architecture [in a state of compression and decompression]. Why is fragmentation significant to you? Perhaps you can speak of this in the context of your solo exhibition Compact (2013), a result of the Acme Studios International Residences Programme in London?
An attitude towards participation of the particulars frees the particulars from pre-imposed expressive constraints. The fragment participates in defining the whole to which it belongs…just like the “organized meaninglessness” of “linguistic molecules” in Beckett’s Endgame that “synthesize irrevocably into that very meaning structure of the whole which is denied by the whole.”
Some of your artwork requires participation, but not always from the audience member, in what is often discussed as relational [aesthetic] art, where the viewer becomes part of the artwork in the their performance of regular interactions with interventions created by the artist for an art show. Rather, you include individuals in the decision-making of the installation and presentation of the work such as in Legacy Maple (2012), which was commissioned and first shown in a Canadian anthology exhibition Oh Canada at MASS MoCA. In this piece you’ve taken a piece of MDF, and set the rule that everyone who is involved materially or immaterially with the work’s installation becomes credited as an artist on the piece. The Legacy Maple MoCA artists for example were: John Carli, Richard Criddle, Shane DeLong, Kim Faler, Alexis L. Grisé, Chad Jagoe, Craig Leonard, Denise Markonish, Robyn Mitchell, Graeme Patterson, and Doug Stone. Every time the piece is shown again, new names are added to the list, in alphabetical order without acknowledgement of specific work done. To further the concept, you’ve also disallowed the form to be shown the same way twice. In this way the piece changes at every presentation, not only in form, but also in concept. Taking this into consideration, what is the role and meaning of resolution in the conception of your work (that is: handing over decision-making to the resolve of another)?
To embrace resolution as a temporary state revealing that even delusions of the real participate in the real.
Can you tell me about your recent research into the novella?
The novella’s always an unfinished form, which is true.
What made you want to enter into a —[blocked by the artist]— ?
I like to keep that quiet.
Glass shelves at Silke Puu in Vancouver and a book on Herbert Marcuse’s anti-modernism.
Craig Leonard
Craig Leonard is an artist, musician and teacher at NSCAD University.
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Saint Paul campus
Color photographs
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, St. Paul campus, Buildings and grounds
Exterior view of the campus at 1834 Mississippi Blvd, St. Paul (1974-1983).
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Buildings and grounds, St. Paul campus
Park Avenue campus
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Park Avenue campus, Buildings and grounds
Exterior view of the campus at 2222 Park Avenue, Minneapolis (1949-1974).
Robbinsdale clinic
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Buildings and grounds, Clinics
Exterior view of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's Robbinsdale branch clinic.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic clinic
Exterior view of one of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's satellite clinics.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic Clinic Minneapolis branch
Exterior view of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's Minneapolis branch clinic.
Nicollet Avenue campus
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Nicollet Avenue campus, Buildings and grounds
Exterior view of the location of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's first campus in the Medical Block, an office building at 608 Nicollet Avenue 1941.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic Clinic St. Paul branch
Exterior view of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's St. Paul branch clinic.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic Highland Park clinic
Exterior view of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's Highland Park branch clinic.
Exterior view of the location of Northwestern College of Chiropractic's first campus in the the Medical Block, an office building at 608 Nicollet Avenue in 1941.
Drawings (visual works)
Sketch of Park Avenue campus on the front of a Christmas card.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Buildings and grounds
Three women kneeling on the floor using buckets, mops and other cleaning supplies.
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A very warm welcome to isthereroomformetosew.com - a mixture of quilt making, old film watching, and reading. I hope you find something you like.
A Seasonal Countdown with Georgette Heyer
Picking up a needle again
Lucie Dutton, ‘Maurice Elvey, a Film about Nelson and Quilting my Research’
A quilt, a cat, and a bluebird
A Year of Quilting Differently
Sir John Martin-Harvey, The Only Way, and a Precious Piece of Fabric
Hunting for Clues
John Martin-Harvey
Shanty Quilt
Thames Quilt
The Nelson Quilt
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Quilting, Reading and the Movies
A Silent Film for the Trafalgar Sail Project
Given the inspiration that Nelson has lent to my quilting projects over the last year, I was very excited to read about a community project organised by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory. The Trafalgar Sail Project calls for contributions of small textile pieces measuring 6″ x 6″ or 6″ x 4″, which are to be joined together to form a Community Trafalgar Sail art installation in the summer of 2015.
I watched, via Twitter, contributions featuring flags, signals, hearts of oak, and Nelson himself being submitted (search for #250trafalgarsail if you would like to see them). I knew I wanted to take part but I couldn’t think of a design.
The 1 June deadline for submissions was drawing ever closer and I was floundering. But, while preparing a presentation about Maurice Elvey’s 1918 Nelson film for a forthcoming conference, inspiration struck. There, in my research notes, was one of my favourite film advertisements:
The advertisement shows a romantic couple, Donald Calthrop as Nelson and Ivy Close as Lady Nelson (not, as one might expect, Lady Hamilton, who was played by Malvina Longfellow). HMS Victory can just be seen, set against a First World War battleship – echoing one of the central motifs of the film: the development of the Royal Navy. The advert refers to “Britain’s greatest film production” about “Britain’s greatest Naval hero” – claims that are overblown in terms of the film itself, but that clearly indicate the ambition behind it. I made my first attempt at printing on to fabric – and I was off!
Printing the Nelson advert on to fabric
I don’t usually make small pieces so working on a postcard-sized quilt was quite strange but very enjoyable. I’ll be posting my contribution off to the National Museum of the Royal Navy later this week and I hope they like it. I hope also that people who see the Trafalgar Sail when it is displayed might see this tiny little piece, wonder about this film poster and think about how a silent film about Nelson, with scenes taken on HMS Victory, was made during the First World War.
17/05/2015 The Sewing Bea Film, hand sewing, HMS Victory, Maurice Elvey, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Nelson, quilting, Trafalgar Sail Project
3 thoughts on “A Silent Film for the Trafalgar Sail Project”
daniel ball says:
Hi, thanks for your contribution to the sail. at the moment we have just over 200 sections for the sail.
The Sewing Bea says:
Hi Daniel – that’s brilliant. I look forward to seeing it! Lucie
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Steve Kay, PhD
Provost Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences, Director of Convergent Bioscience
Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
KAM 500 Health Sciences Campus Los Angeles
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Dr. Steve Kay currently serves as the Director of the MESH (Medicine, Engineering, Sciences, and Humanities) Academy, the Director of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, and is a Provost Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He held the position as the 21st dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences from 2012 to 2015.
Dr. Kay is one of the world’s top experts on the genetics and genomics of circadian rhythms. Having published more than 200 papers, he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” from 2014 to 2017 and has been cited in Science magazine’s “Breakthroughs of the Year” three times since 1997. In 2008, Dr. Kay was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2009 he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2011 he was awarded the American Society of Plant Biologists’ 2011 Martin Gibbs Medal for his pioneering work in plant sciences. To learn more about the Kay Laboratory and current research visit https://kaylab.usc.edu/
Dr. Kay received his PhD and DSc from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Prior to joining USC in 2012, Dr. Kay served as dean of biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He also has held faculty positions at The Rockefeller University, University of Virginia and The Scripps Research Institute, as well as served as the VP of discovery research at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, where he focused on using high throughput technologies to push novel development candidates into the Novartis clinical pipeline. Dr. Kay served as president of The Scripps Research Institute from 2015 to 2016. In addition, he has founded several biotechnology companies.
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The Good vs The Bad: MCU Villains
May 1, 2019 by Keith
The Good vs. The Bad is a simple concept. I take a particular film, franchise, or potentially any movie-related subject and break down the three best things about it (the good) and the three worst (the bad). Like I said, simple but hopefully fun.
With “Avengers: Endgame” fresh on everyone’s mind and still blistering the box office I thought it to be the perfect time to kick off the GvB series. Today I’m looking at the best and worst of the MCU villains. You could argue that Marvel has had a tough time giving us good worthwhile antagonists. But there are a couple of instances where they definitely got it right (I should mention that Winter Soldier would without question be among the best, but there’s a little too much gray area with him). So let’s get going.
1. Loki
He’s been around for a while now, but the mischievous Loki has never worn out his welcome. What makes Loki such a great villain is his utter unpredictability. One minute he sickens you with his sneaky, vile and self-serving acts. The next minute he’s standing side-by-side with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. It also helps that he was played to perfection by Tom Hiddleston. I love me some Loki.
2. Thanos
I still get tickled at seeing Josh Brolin’s face among the heavy prosthetics and CGI. But there is no denying the impression Thanos has left on the MCU. Hints of Thanos have been tossed out for years but in “Infinity War” and “Endgame” he shows up in full force. He’s a fascinating character who I think is best described as a megalomaniacal idealist. He’s far from shallow and he is certainly unforgettable.
3. Killmonger
“Black Panther” can be praised for a number of things. High on that list would be Michael B. Jordan as Erik “Killmonger” Stevens. He’s not a galactic threat nor does he seek universal domination. His motivations are emotionally grounded and deeply personal which makes him all the more compelling. It also helps that Jordan gives such a strong performance.
1. Aldrich Killian
“Iron Man 3” had a number of issues but none were bigger than its villain. Things looked promising out of the gate with the casting of the always good Guy Pearce. But director Shane Black makes some bizarre choices in regards to his antagonist. He destroys a classic Marvel villain and exchanges him for a jacked-up, fire-breathing Killian. Such a disappointing misdirection resulting in an utterly ridiculous bad guy.
2. Yellowjacket
Here’s another case of a good actor giving a good performance but the material just isn’t there. The first “Ant-Man” was full of weird decisions that veered far away from the comics, but their version of Yellowjacket was probably the biggest. It looks really cool and Cory Stoll gives it his all, but you can only do so much with a villain who militarizes a suit of armor and offers to sell it to terrorists for what amounts to nothing more than daddy issues.
3. Ronan the Accuser
Ronan is a really cool Marvel baddie who was terribly shortchanged in 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy”. In fact, it’s funny how many people can’t even remember the villain from that film. Actor Lee Pace is a good fit for the role (notice the trend) but he’s mostly just an aimless bad guy with a personal axe to ground. There is still hope for Ronan. This year’s hit “Captain Marvel” seems to indicate that the MCU isn’t quite done with him yet. Fingers crossed.
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spurg63 says: May 1, 2019 at 1:38 pm
I guess I don’t get the love for Killmonger . To me he was very one dimensional and uninteresting to me but I did not like Black Panther as much as most . Thanos has been my fav by a country mile but I’m waiting for Galactus and Dr.Doom.
Keith says: May 1, 2019 at 1:47 pm
Personally I love how Killmonger is a mixture of personal hurt and angst. He has an ax to grind with his family, with his country, but also a sense of entitlement. I like how all of that comes together in the character. For me Loki is easily my favorite. Obviously I’m big on Thanos although I do think he becomes more of a traditional baddie in “Endgame”. But when you say Galactus and Dr. Doom you have my FULL attention. Two of my very favorites from the comics!
ninvoid99 says: May 1, 2019 at 1:52 pm
I don’t really see Loki as a villain but more of an anti-hero. Yes, he does bad things only because he was trying to get out of the shadow of his brother and win his father’s approval. In Ragnarok, we see more of a balanced side as someone that is unable to deal with the idea of his brother becoming indifferent to him as well as becoming way too predictable. Loki would redeem himself in Ragnarok but also showed a side unexpected in Infinity War.
The best villain is clearly Thanos because he’s such a brutal force who believes deep down that he’s doing the right thing to save the universe. Even if his reasoning is flawed but you can’t help but admire his determination.
I would put Kilmonger, Hela, Obidiah Stane, Red Skull, Alexander Pierce, Ego, and Ultron in that list of great villains of the MCU!!!!!
The worst can go to Emil Blonsky from The Incredible Hulk, Adrian Killich because he got his ass kicked badly by Mrs. Stark, and Malekith.
Other than that, I don’t have much complaints. God bless the MCU.
Loki definitely has that element to him but I think his track record speaks volumes. He has caused some pretty catastrophic events. But again, this isn’t necessarily a list of where they are right now but how their villainy has impacted the MCU.
Thanos is great but not a clear winner for me mainly because I felt in “Endgame” he lost a little of what made him so intriguing. He became much more of a traditional bad guy. But I don’t knock him too much because you have to take IW and Endgame together as a whole.
I loved Red Skull and he was close to making the list. Not as high on Ultron or Ego. Malekith was close to making the bad list.
Oh, there’s one villain I did forget about. Helmut Zemo from Civil War. The one man to do the impossible and that was to destroy the Avengers w/o any real powers. He hurt them badly but not for very long. I kind of hope he returns soon because I love that character as I think he’s one of the best villains in the MCU!!!!!
Their take on Baron Zemo was pretty interesting. There were moments where I wasn’t sure about him but overall he’s pretty solid.
Brittani says: May 1, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Ronan is such a bitch lol. I laughed pretty hard at him nope’ing away from Captain Marvel in her movie.
I agree with this list. My top 5 villains are easily Thanos, Killmonger, Loki, Ultron, and Hela. My worst list would look like yours too.
Yep. They haven’t done Ronan justice yet but I’m holding out hope. He has a rich comics background to pull from. Was a little mixed on Ultron but Hela was cool!
Jason says: May 1, 2019 at 10:21 pm
The problem with a lot of the MCU villains is that there one-dimensional. Not everyone fits the bill (not Thanos or Loki), but majority are thinly written. Of course, the actors behind them elevate the character from being a cliché, but even their talents can’t alter the flat villainy.
Keith says: May 2, 2019 at 12:34 am
So, so, so true. It’s as if so much early effort went into the heroes at the expensive of the villain. But there are signs of that changing. Cross your fingers!
fragglerocking says: May 2, 2019 at 3:34 am
I love Loki, as Jessica would say, he’s not bad, he’s just drawn that way! Thanos for the win!
Keith says: May 2, 2019 at 7:14 am
LOL! I think Loki has definitely….evolved. But he was very much a villain for several films. He was the guy who killed Coulson and brought the attack on New York. He’s got a rough path to where he is now. 😁
adrianvstheworld says: May 2, 2019 at 6:37 am
If you’d ask me coming right out of Iron Man 3, I’d totally agree with you about Aldrich Killian. Now, The Mandarin fake-out has kind of grown on me, and the same could be said of the film. I respect the twist because there’s simply no escaping the broad “yellow peril” racism drawn in the caricature of The Mandarin. Hell, wielding an Asian dialect as a villain identity is freaking tone-deaf.
How this escaped me as a respective Asian who, too, was looking forward to a faithful rendering of one of Iron Man’s greatest foes is still something I’m reckoning with. It took time but I came to madly appreciate Shane Black’s decision, though I do understand it’s still not a popular one among fans.
As for the good on this list, I expected to see Killmonger and I got Killmonger. This is a good list lol
I know exactly what your saying. I guess for me it still comes down to completely ruining The Mandarin whether from a bad caricature or surprise twist. And when your alternative is the angry fire-breathing scientist with an axe to grind… it still frustrates me! LOL!
Often Off Topic says: May 2, 2019 at 8:50 am
Couldn’t agree more with your picks! The bad guy has always been the one thing Marvel seems to struggle with but it’s not always that way. I’d throw in Vulture into my own list – I loved his motives.
It’s funny that you mention Vulture. I liked what we got of the character and Michael Keaton was his usual superb self. But one of my big beefs with that movie is how he just vanishes for huge chunks of it.
sati says: May 5, 2019 at 5:57 am
The Dark Elf from Thor: The Dark World was the worst for me. Talk about bland, forgettable and dragging the film down with it. The rest is fine but I will always consider Jordan’s acting to be overrated, I just don’t like this guy as an actor and don’t know what people see in him
Elfie just missed my Bad list. Yep, bland and utterly forgettable. It’s a shame too because he looks pretty cool. But he’s to shallow for me to invest in.
Natasha says: May 6, 2019 at 2:18 am
Great listing here Keith. My brother-in-law and I sat for about an hour trying to trace where Ronan initially came into the MCU after watching Captain Marvel. He seems like such a religious nut case that I hope they will give him better material in the future!
Thank you! His first role in Guardians didn’t really do the character justice. Hopefully another Captain Marvel movie will explore more with him before he became Thanos’ lackey.
abbiosbiston says: May 7, 2019 at 7:58 am
So often you get a villain that just wants to destroy everything… because of reasons!
jmshistorycorner says: July 23, 2019 at 11:18 pm
Agree with you on Loki being #1. Just watched “Thor” last night & was blown away.
Keith says: July 24, 2019 at 12:05 am
Loki is such a great character and Tom Hiddleston brings him to life so well.
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A Box of Balloons: How Nicole Moll Is Bringing Joy To Kids Across The Nation, EPISODE #14
Neil Mathweg
Monday, 19 February 2018 / Published in I Love Madison Show
Welcome back to another great episode of the I Love Madison Show! On this episode, Chris Sorenson highlights how Madison is “on-mission,” and Chris Reese interviews Dan Tinder, a local Madison resident who has a lot to say about why this city is an amazing place to live. Neil Mathweg interviews Nicole Moll, the founder of A Box of Balloons, a non-profit she started to make sure each child feels special and celebrated on their birthday! Check out this I Love Madison episode for all the details!
Neil Mathweg is about to announce the winner of the Game of Magnets for the month of January! Keep an eye on the #ILoveMadison Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you may have won some sweet prizes! @neilmathweg #ILOVEMADISON… Click To Tweet
The games continue in Madison!
Neil Mathweg is about to announce the winner of the Game of Magnets for the month of January! Keep an eye on the I Love Madison Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you may have won some sweet prizes! If you have not gotten your ILM magnet yet, reach out on social media to request one, and the hosts will mail one to you! Remember, if you see magnets around town, you can take a picture, then post them to “register” that magnet in your name!
During the month of February, the ILM hosts are looking for the best cheese curds in the city, and they need your help! If you have a favorite place that serves cheese curds, be sure to let Neil Mathweg and the team know. At the end of the month, a panel of judges will determine the winner!
“On-mission in Madison” with Chris Sorenson
When the I Love Madison show started, the hosts decided to highlight local meetups around the city. If you want to drink a beer, then run a few miles to the next bar, there is certainly a group that does that…you can find them on meetup.com. Moving forward, however, the team decided to shift the focus a little and highlight organizations around the city that are on-mission! This means that they want to talk to organizations that are helping the community in some way, whether a church, non-profit or noble cause. If you know of an organization that you feel should be featured, contact the I Love Madison show hosts, and they will work to set up a meeting!
The #ILoveMadison team has decided to highlight organizations around the city that are on-mission! This means that they want to talk to organizations that are helping the community in some way, whether a church, non-profit or noble… Click To Tweet
Chris Reese hosts the “My Move” segment with guest Dan Tinder
Dan Tinder moved to Madison fourteen years ago, to take a job as a late night radio host. Soon after, he made the nighttime top 40 list. Dan says he initially connected to his community through his work. He is currently a sales manager for JX Peterbilt and has fallen in love with the city of Madison and all it has to offer. Some of the places he recommends are L’Etoile Restaurant, a fine dining French restaurant in the downtown area, as well Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry, a great place to get a fantastic hamburger. Dan says there are so many great festivals and events to check out, including the taste of Madison and bike night. For young families, Dan says the suburbs just outside the city offer many great options for raising children in friendly, safe neighborhoods. Check out the rest of what he had to say about this city on an isthmus!
Nicole Moll Is bringing birthday joy to kids across the nation
Nicole Moll loves parties and loves to celebrate! She wants to make each child feels special and celebrated on their birthday and empower parents around the country to do the same. To do this, she started an organization called A Box of Balloons. Every child deserves to feel special, be celebrated and have a memorable party, but unfortunately, that is not possible for many families. In America, 22% of children live below the poverty level. She believes that a birthday celebration can give families the joy and hope they may be missing. For more information and ways you can volunteer with this amazing organization, listen to this episode, then check out her website in the resources section below!
In America, 22% of children live below the poverty level. Nicole Moll believes that a birthday celebration can give families the joy and hope they may be missing. Listen to this episode to learn more! @neilmathweg @nicolemoll05 #ILOVEMADISON… Click To Tweet
Outline of This Episode
[1:45] Who has the best cheese curds in Madison?
[3:00] How to play the Game of Magnets
[4:30] Chris Sorenson hosts the “on-mission’ segment
[9:30] Chris Reese hosts the “My Move” segment with guest Dan Tinder
[17:00] Nicole Mull wants to help kids celebrate their birthdays in style!
Resources & People Mentioned
L’Etoile Restaurant
Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry
Meetup.com
A Box of Balloons
Text the word “ILoveMadison” to 44222 and get all the updates from I Love Madison!
This Episode’s Sponsors:
Chris Reese of American Family Insurance
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During the month of February, the ILM hosts are looking for the best cheese curds in the city, and they need your help! If you have a favorite place that serves cheese curds, be sure to let Neil Mathweg and the team know. @neilmathweg… Click To Tweet Dan Tinder moved to #Madison fourteen years ago and has fallen in love with the city of Madison and all it has to offer. Check out the rest of what he had to say about this city on an isthmus! @neilmathweg #ILOVEMADISON… Click To Tweet
Tagged under: A Box of Balloons, Game of Magnets, Nicole Moll, On-Mission
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Perkins’ Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy
Credit: Google Maps
The parent company of Perkins and Marie Callender's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. There have already been so many Perkins locations closing and that number is bound to go up.
Restaurant Business writes that "the company, which owns or holds the franchise rights to 400 restaurants, has agreed to sell Perkins to a stalking horse company, Perkins Groups, for an amount not disclosed in the court documents." The court documents also state that they are planning on closing more Perkins and Marie Callender locations.
This bankruptcy announcement comes a day after they closed 29 Perkins and Marie Callender locations, one of the Perkins locations being in Janesville, WI. The parent company said in a statement that 19 of the locations that closed Sunday were Marie Callender's and 10 were Perkins locations.
USA Today reports that "the company said its 'continuing discussions with investors and potential buyers regarding the Marie Callender’s restaurants.'”
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Orchid Care Calendar
“Bragging Corner”
KOS History
Kentucky Orchid Society
In 1988, KOS created two awards to recognize the efforts of current members and to honor three of our past presidents. A third award was added in 1998.
Clara Fanelli Award (for standard orchids)
This award is presented to the member who has accumulated the most points for non-miniature plants entered in the ‘Show and Tell’ competition at our monthly meetings.
Henrietta and Wilbur Japs Award (for outstanding service to the KOS)
Presented to the member who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, has given the most outstanding service to KOS during the year.
Jim Topmiller Traveling Trophy (for miniature orchids)
In 1998, a third award was created to honor another past president, Jim Topmiller. This award is given to the member who has accumulated the most points for Miniature plants entered in the ‘Show and Tell’ competition at our monthly meetings. This trophy was donated by member Mrs. Shirley Topmiller in honor of her deceased husband.
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Ian Butler's Playing Journal
Ian Butler
Post subject: Ian Butler's Playing Journal
#1 Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:07 am
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A new "study journal" for a new way of looking at Go.
This is my second study journal, as I don't feel the same person anymore that started the first study journal (The Story of a Loser).
So suffice this small summary to sum up the previous one:
For the first half of 2018, I studied Go extremely intensively. I read books, played games, reviewed games, studied with a Sensei, studied with peers...
I managed to grow from about 22 kyu to SDK, not a bad achievement, I believe. It's given me the absolute basics of the game of Go.
But now things are going to be different. The reasons why are numerous, but let me state two that already make it obvious I can't/won't continue the path I've taken these past six months:
- I'm not aiming to make Go my professional career.
- I have so many interests and hobbies, some very dear friends, a very rewarding job, a high love for being outdoors...
These two facts combined make me look back on those 6 months with pride that I've learned so much, I really did. But they also keep me grounded and made me realize that way of looking at Go has come to an end.
So this journal is for the new way. What is the new way? Well, many things are going to change in my "Go career". 3 things are essential for me. These are:
Attitude about Go
While those 6 months were really great and made me improve a lot, they also brought me a certain amount of stress and pressure. In my new way of Go, I don't want any pressure from such a beautiful game. Meaning I have no (short term) goals about the game, nor any obligations towards the game. Instead I see it more as my other hobbies: I'll play when I feel like it. If I don't want to play Go for 2 weeks, that's fine. If I want to spend an entire rainy Saturday playing Go, fine too. The only stress should come from playing an actual game, where a little stress is to be expected.
Meaning I've finally done away with the "silly" I-want-to-be-such-rank-in-such-time-attitude. In fact, I'm quite unconcerned about rank entirely at the moment. Maybe it'll return with time, but now I really don't care at all what my Go rank is. I just want to enjoy the game when I play it. If I don't, I'll do something else.
Method & Philosophy of Improving
Obviously the previous also makes for a different approach to improving. While improvement is not my primary interest, it would be dishonest of me to state I don't want to improve anymore. Improvement in any discipline/hobby should be sought after. Playing my keyboard, I'm always looking for new ways to challenge myself and improve.
But it's not longer the driving factor in playing Go. My philosophy at the moment is the following: I've laid the very base for my Go playing in these past months. Now I have an entire lifetime to improve on them, (or not). If I keep playing Go as a casual player, I may still improve over the years. Maybe I'll still be as strong as I am now in 10 years, maybe I'll keep growing steadily and become quite strong. Maybe I'll go all obsessive over Go again when I go on retirement in 40 years Then again, maybe my interest in Go will only decline further and I'll play 1 game a year in a decade. All is possible, all is fine by me, if it means I'm happy about life at that point.
So how to improve, then? It's quite simple: I'm going to try to improve with a natural and intiutive method. The most ancient one of all: by doing what I want to do.
Do I want to solve some tsumego during a 10 minute wait? Then I'll do so.
Do I want to play a game? I'll do so. Want to review? Do so.
Want to play a bot before dinner? Do so.
Want to read a Go book for fun? Do so.
Don't want to play online anymore? Stop doing it.
Don't want to make an effort in Go right now? Stop doing it.
Meaning I'll make use of this site when I feel like it. Posting games for analysis has always been something that helped me improve, so I'll keep doing that. I no longer want to burden my Sensei with all the work he's done for me, but I may ask for occassional help and I believe he'll give it to me when I ask for it.
Same with this study journal. I'll use it when and how I want.
And I'm certain the above things will change constantly. For example: I'm done with online Go for now. But I can already see myself playing online games during the dark Winter months, when it's freezing and snowing outside.
The point is that it's going to be on my terms. Which sounds so damn logical it's amazing I've had to wait six months to figure that out.
Lastly, there will be one focus, sort of obligatory. One part of my Go-playing I'll have to develop.
Since I'm a teacher at school, and I do believe in the many benifits Go brings to (young) people, I will start up a Go-club at my school come September.
So in about a month, I'll be guiding young minds through their journey in Go. I want to make that commitment, I have no problem with that.
Secondly, the Go club I've started here in my town. I'll try to keep running it. Partly because it's still nice to play people face to face. Also because it brings together people, and I'm all for that.
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For now, my Go "regime" consists of the following items:
- After a break of already 3,5 weeks, I've re-acquanted with Go by replaying a commented game from 'Understanding How to Play Go' by Yuan Zhou. I may do another one in the near future.
- I'll put three Go books next to my bed, for whenever I feel like doing a little Go. These 3 are: Get Strong at Tesuji. 1001 L&D. Jump Level Up 3.
- Play face to face when the opportunity presents itself.
- Research/think about how I'll be handling the Go-club at school. Probably re-reading 'Go as Communcation' as a source of inspiration.
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You might be interested in contacting Professor Jorge Nuno Silva of the University of Lisbon, who heads a program for the use of intellectual games in the Portuguese schools. I went to a talk he gave a few years ago. IIRC, the program is used from the first grade to the twelfth. See viewtopic.php?p=195178#p195178 .
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At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
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#4 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:47 am
Thank you, Bill.
Yesterday, we had someone new at the Go club at my house and we played a round of Zen-Go. Basically you play with 3, alternating turns, meaning you end up playing both sides. It's about trying to find the best move in every situation. It's also a lot of fun when there are differences in strength (and there were!)
Anyway, a very interesting corner situation came up in the game. We pondered it for a while: can black be killed in the corner?
Actually the surrounding situation was extremely complex itself, with white threatening to be surrounded by black. The game was amazing, with groups going back and forth in the "safe - almost dead" range. This corner was a great example.
There were even ko's going on for the connection of several groups.
But that's not the point. The point is the following corner situation. I have yet to read it out deeply, or try out the variations, but my guess during the game was: black is alive at this point. But if the surrounding situation changes, black will need to answer (meaning he doesn't have 2 eyes, YET)
Here is what happened later in the game, only focus on what I write below, the game record itself is crafted and doesn't resemble the game:
black is able to block at A because of the liberty at B
was played to completely finish the corner and make it alive. The question is: was this necessary?
was played later on. Question is: does black have to react? He did in the game with 1 rather than 2. 2 is probably better because it leaves one less ko threat.
was a ko threat
was an interesting ko threat, because it was bad for white. White still needed otherwise black could link up his (by then) dead stones in the middle of white territory. Thus white makes this threat and loses the ko.
Another interesting situation that happened in the game included threat of a snapback, with a ko involved.
So in the end, a great evening and it had been like a month since I played a game. It was amazing. Makes me want to play a little more again
Tryss
#5 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:20 pm
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How about at B instead?
#6 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:29 pm
Lives in sente
Let's try.
1) I think was necessary:
Rank: AGA 5 dan
In your starting board position, B can push through at Q15 for an instant win. So to make this a real problem, you need to add a W stone around P14 (or remove the B stone at O15). To get the basic prototype for this problem, remove all of the extraneous outside stones and remove the W hane at Q19. This simplified position is one of the most important life-and-death patterns to learn, since it arises frequently in real games. Try to figure out the status of this basic pattern first. Then figure out how the status changes if B loses the outside liberty at Q15.
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Basic position:
#9 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:26 am
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#10 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:26 am
Yesterday, we had someone new at the Go club at my house and we played a round of Zen-Go. Basically you play with 3, alternating turns, meaning you end up playing both sides. It's about trying to find the best move in every situation.
What an interesting idea! I've never heard of it before. I wonder if any servers can implement it.
Go? It's like sharing two bowls of cookies, but one person gets all of them.
EdLee
#11 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:54 am
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
ZenGo ( spoilers alert ):
You play :
#12 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:51 am
daal wrote:
I can only recommend it. It's a lot of fun, it stimulates discussion and you learn a lot from it. And at the end, you're all winners & losers equally
Yesterday I played some online games. Mostly 13x13.
I lost them all
I played a 9 kyu OGS, a 10 kyu OGS and a 12 kyu OGS. (not in that order, though)
I've always been pretty bad at 13x13, and I got better every game. But the most interesting part was that I didn't really seem to mind. My go-break and new way of playing has really changed to game for me. I enjoy playing a lot more and losing doesn't upset me. I'll progress way slower because I've decreased studying to probably like 5% of what it was. But on the other hand, I won't mind the slow progress, so who cares
One negative, though, something to learn from: a 13x13 game is faster & shorter because it's a smaller field. I make the mental mistake of actually playing my moves faster, too. I should be mindful of that. Especially since mistakes are even more important on a smaller field.
I also read a very, very interesting post on reddit, where I think my playing style is explained:
In other threads (longer ago) I've advanced the argument that there are two major categories of strength in this game which are fundamentally different: tactical strength, and strategic strength.
Tactical strength concerns all of the smaller-scale, detail-oriented, calculational skills, including reading depth, reading breadth (number of variations considered at each branch), accuracy (group statuses and estimation of territory, influence, liberties, aji, and ko threats), and speed (e.g. efficiency of identifying vital points and eliminating branches unlikely to work).
On the other hand, strategic strength concerns larger-scale, big-picture skills. Things like direction of play, choices between and prioritization of objectives, knowledge of playing principles and proverbs (and their exceptions), that sort of thing.
The way I see it, tactics-focused players tend to be able to reliably accomplish the objectives they choose to pursue, but often pursue inferior objectives, while strategic-focused players tend to pursue the superior objectives but more often fail to accomplish them. Thus, players who tend to have a higher degree of tactical strength than strategic strength appear to have more "stable" play -- against a slightly stronger player they will tend to lose almost all of the time, while against a slightly weaker player they will tend to win almost all of the time, and most of their games look more representative of their rank. Whereas a player whose strength is more strategic and less tactical tends to look less "stable" -- sometimes, they appear to play far beyond their means for their rank, while other times they appear to play far below their means ... so against a slightly stronger player they will lose a majority of their games but still win a significant number, while against a slightly weaker player they will win a majority of their games but still lose a significant number.
It sounds to me like you probably are (like me) more of a strategy-oriented player. I think this is especially evidenced by the fact that you say that you often gain a lead in the opening -- where strategic concerns tend to dominate who comes out ahead -- and that you often make really big reading errors and lose that lead in the middlegame, where tactics concerns tend to decide fights and small differences in raw calculational abilities start to add up as the game progresses.
I think it's unlikely that you've "lost brainpower" or are "getting weaker" -- you probably still have all the same strategic and tactical strength that you always have had. But rather it's probably more likely that your strategy is a lot more developed than your tactics, so you tend to overperform in the opening and underperform in the middlegame, and your strength doesn't feel stable because you are often pursuing objectives that you don't have the tactical strength to see all the way through. Consequently you often feel like you've been "robbed" or "tricked," you find it easy to identify your mistakes after you've made them but hard to avoid making them during the pressure of a game, and you become concerned with how often you fail to accomplish your goals, which can be lofty (and those goals are usually "correct," just more difficult to obtain). You often lose games that you know you "shouldn't have lost."
I would recommend that you focus on developing your tactical strength, which unfortunately I think is going to feel a lot like smashing your face into your desk over and over again. The most important thing is: tsumego, tsumego, tsumego -- cram them over and over until you are absolutely sick of them, and then cram them some more. Focus on the quality of how you do them: try to solve them as thoroughly as possible, painstakingly read out every last branch to completion -- even the ones that don't work. Figure out why they don't work, be certain that you know what the vital points are and what the problem is with the shapes that don't hit those vital points right away. Don't rely on looking at an answer key ... read the problem out so thoroughly that you are confident that you know the answer without having to look. A tsumego problem is like an iceberg -- 90% of the ice is under the water (i.e. 90% of the reading is in the wrong variations, not the right ones); it doesn't matter that you're reading a right or wrong variation, it matters that you are reading it and judging it correctly whatever it is. The point of solving tsumego isn't merely to find the answer, the point of solving tsumego is to increase your abilities. It matters more that you are pushing yourself just a little bit further every time. Reading one move further. One more branch. One more counting of liberties. One more group status evaluation. It should hurt your brain. No pain, no gain -- pain is just weakness leaving the body mind. When you feel mentally exhausted and you can't take any more, that's exactly the moment when you should just push yourself a little further. Building up those reading capacities is very slow and incremental -- there's no epiphany, no breakthrough in understanding that's going to happen overnight and suddenly you won't be misreading things anymore. It's going to feel labored, like you're memorizing things by rote and not really "learning" anything, but that's not true -- you may not be gaining any new communicable knowledge that you could form into words and teach to another person, but you'll be slowly building up tacit knowledge, the kind that you gain more through experience of repeatedly doing. You're training muscle memory for your mind, which is why the learning-by-rote method will be effective. You're not learning new tricks, you're committing to mastery of old ones ... and that means doing the same old boring exercises over and over again, like practicing a kata. If it feels like homework ... well, it should, because it basically is! :p
- hikaruzero on REDDIT
I agree with a lot he says and I recognize myself completely in the class of the "strategic player". That makes me want to work on my tactical skills.
Therefor I have a new focus for the next games I'll be playing:
- focus on shape.
Of course, try to play strategically sound and whatnot, but with more and more focus on shape, tactics, local "battles".
Should be fun.
#14 Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:47 am
Next few weeks, I'm gonna focus a bit on 9x9 games. They are easy to fit in my day without a large commitment. And it'll help my tactical playing, so that's good.
Biggest thing I've learned from my last 9x9 games, is that I'm a very lazy player. I play a lot on intuition and often don't read things out properly. Up until now, my strategic thinking has given me the advantage more often than not, but I think at the level I'm coming to, reading gets more and more important. So I need to get rid of this laziness.
Which is funny, because laziness is something typical for me, but recently I've been so busy, so non-lazy, that it's great it pops back up, in my Go playing
I'm sure it'll work out. All I need is to practise. Force myself to read and take time, not to play too quickly.
Besides that, go playing still very much fun. I'm losing 80% of my games at the moment, which means I am a little rusty (or rather, I was sharper before my break). I'm sure I'll get back to that level after a while. There's no hurry.
No use making plans if you won't carry them through.
Playing 9x9 to increase my tactical playing.
Trying to get in the habit of thinking & reading before playing.
Some games. 9x9 is very hard for me, but some decent games today. I'm glad.
Game 1:
A nice victory, though I didn't play without risk. Maybe you can spot an overplay or 2 here...
Nonetheless, moves 18 and 20 were very nice to play. Move 28 settled the game.
Game 2. I had played him before, same day. I lost then. I tried a different tactic here, but komi is a bitch in 9x9. Honestly.
Game 3.
I like move 17, instinctively.
This was 40 seconds + 10 extra per move with 40s max. So quite blitz.
Happy with my quick L&D thinking up top. #Progress
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This is interesting. I might give it a try too!
One thought on move 19 in game three. Would A have worked? I played around with a it a bit and couldn't find a way for white to save the group on the left. But I haven't played 9x9 since I first learned the game
#17 Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:01 am
@BlindGroup: I really recommend it, going back to 9x9 or 13x13 at times is challenging and forces you to make the most out of every move. I like it. It's also less time consuming. If you have only 30 minutes to play, mostly I'd rather have 3 9x9 games than half a 19x19 one Depends, of course.
Anyway, success is a very subjective thing. Were I to measure my success by my ranking alone, the past month has been "uneventful". After a rather amazing rise to 10 kyu from January to July, things were bound to slow down. But combined with my new "outlook" on Go, meaning no longer obsessively studying for hours a day, it was certain to slow down A LOT.
Yet I feel I've been very successful since my "2nd" career in Go. Only playing when you feel like it means you enjoy every game.
Not caring about your rank means you explore, experiment, open up with moves you ordinarily wouldn't do, aren't afraid to accept handicap matches...
And almost contrary to that is that I've finally managed to leave DDK level behind me. This week I've won a 4H stone match against a 15 kyu, a 2 stone match against a 12 kyu and an even game against a 10 kyu. All in which I was mostly blitzing, only in the first one was my opponent blitzing, too. I feel fairly confident I'd win most of my matches against a 10 kyu in an even match. Of course, I could be mistaken, in which case it'll become obvious soon enough.
Either way, I now have 3 accounts on OGS and they are 8.1 kyu, 8.4 kyu and 9.0 kyu, so I think that says something. Also note that I just said I don't care about rank and yet I list 3 rankings here However, I use rank as an estimator of strength and see if there is improvement or not. In this case, I see that there has been improvement and I have officially surpassed the DDK-SDK mark on OGS. A small celebration is in order.
Besides that, here's what I need to be attentive about:
- I play a lot of blitz games right now. It's a fun activity in the evening to play a Go game in about half an hour. (contradicting my opening statement in this post) The danger, however, is that it'd become my standard. I'll take note of that and "force" myself to play real/non-blitz games too. Also because direction of play etc are my strong suits. Tactical playing (requires reading & time) is my weakness. So blitzing doesn't help that a lot.
- L&D with throw-ins. I need to try to kill more with throw-ins and be weary of my opponent throwing in more. I almost never take it into account and it gets me killed often.
That's it for today. I've had a good weekend with plenty of Go games, on different dimensions. I lost against a 4 kyu in a tight battle, lost heavily against a 6 kyu twice, both times creating a dragon for myself after non-sente plays that my opponent left unanswered. (learning opportunity there), won many games, too. Against DDKs, also a 9x9 game against an 8kyu, which I consider a huge victory for me, with my weak tactical skills.
I'm learning all about sente these days. Thanks to dwyrin and his basic series, I'm making healthy decisions during my games.
happy Go learning!
rikuge
#18 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 11:21 am
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Inspiring read!
How is your Go club coming along?
#19 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:36 pm
rikuge wrote:
The one at home is okay. We have some bad days (with just 1 or even no people), but yesterday for example there were 6 of us, that's pretty nice.
I played a friend, giving 6 handicap stones for the first time ever and won with 50+ points. Of course he's perhaps 10 stones weaker than me, so the handicap could be further increased, but it still felt tight for a while there. Never played against so many stones before.
The Go club at school is starting tomorrow, and I'm excited about that. We already have like 16 kids who want to participate! Hopefully we can keep most of them throughout the year!
I'm learning new things every day and that also includes Go. I've learned that playing handicap games is rather interesting. I almost always get in positions I can suddenly read out a variation that works so well for my opponent that I think: how did I get in this situation? Of course my opponent doesn't notice it and I get off scott-free, but I still got in that position.
Playing weaker players I also often get in a position where I think: had I been playing a stronger opponent, I'd surely lose the game from this position. Like I "give" them too much leeway or something?
I think it's all about concentration and knowing who you're playing. Handicap games showed me this.
I played against 6 stones. My first 20 moves where well thought out, read variations and such. As soon as I felt the handicap stones were made up for, my game slacked a bit and I get lazier in reading.
Playing an opponent you know is weaker without handicap, the game starts like that.
Maybe it's a natural thing and playing stronger players brings out the best in you. Only logical playing weaker players brings out... not a lot in you.
An observation that I'm not sure what to make of.
Make it a lesson to practise reading even in those games? Or accept that and just enjoy those games where I can practically do what I want on the board and have fun with my friends and teach them.
And I don't really care at the moment either we'll see!
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I can honestly say that I play as seriously against weaker players as against stronger ones. The big difference in handicap games is: as white you play against an excess of enemy stones on the board but your will power works better for you than for the opponent, as black you try to make the best of the excess of stones and keep your balance against the better targeted will power of the opponent. I overplay as White, but not in the sense that I play moves I know for sure don't work, rather moves where
I expect Black to back off more often when not needed or to play elsewhere when defence would be appropriate.
As Black I back off a little more than when playing even handed but not so much as to lose the advantage and certainly not when I don't see why I should answer.
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Language Politics
By Nicholas Fleisher
Clearing the way
June 14, 2015 by Nicholas Fleisher
The attack on tenure and shared governance in the UW System is now attracting national attention. A coalition of twenty-one scholarly organizations issued an open letter denouncing the proposed changes. Others have since followed suit, including the AAUP. The higher ed media recognizes it for the signal event that it is. And the national political media has jumped at the opportunity to write more stories about Scott Walker, taking a subsidiary and almost prurient interest in the fate of the University of Wisconsin, which now takes the place of public-sector unions as foil to Walker’s all-conquering political persona.
Closer to home, the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel issued a startlingly strong defense of tenure and shared governance on Friday. The party line on the proposed changes—which has been repeated by everyone from the members of JFC to the Regents to Ray Cross and Becky Blank—is that tenure protections are simply being moved from statute into Board policy. Many of us have been pointing out, to precious little avail, that this is a bit like saying that your shield will continue to protect you when your counterpart has traded in its sword for a weaponized drone. It is, frankly, amazing that the JS called bullshit here, and that they further decried Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’s “willful misreading of the whole idea of academic tenure.” To be sure, the editorial board is not nearly so kind to shared governance, which it professes to exalt while in the next breath opining that chancellors “need control over the major decisions on their campuses including what courses of study are offered.” But for its defense of tenure, and its vindication of reality in the face of willful and near-universal obfuscation from both legislators and UW administrators, the JS deserves major credit.
Largely lost in the present furor is attention to the state disinvestment that has precipitated the tenure crisis in the first place. The JFC omnibus motion attacks the UW System from all sides. And while it’s hard to argue with people’s devoting their efforts to protecting tenure and shared governance, this has shifted attention decisively away from the massive $250 million cut to the System proposed for the next two years. For all the pugnacity of the JS‘s stance on tenure, there was not a peep about money. Even the sharply worded resolution passed by the UW-Madison faculty senate last week limits itself to a call for legislators and administrators to remove “non-fiscal language” from the JFC omnibus.
The irony of this should be obvious: ideological animus notwithstanding, the major purpose of getting rid of tenure is to clear the way for more cuts. It is an absolute certainty that Wisconsin Republicans intend to continue cutting state appropriations to the UW System for the foreseeable future. This is clear when Robin Vos asks, “[D]o we need to have every major on every campus, or should we specialize more or do a more collaborative process?” (Never mind that an administrator’s efficiency is a student’s lack of opportunity; see Chuck Rybak today for more.) It is clear when our newest Regent, the son of Walker’s preeminent political patron and gubernatorial campaign chair, talks immediately about cutting degree programs and says, “I think eliminating a campus is probably a pretty high mountain to climb,” relishing the challenge as much as lamenting the impediment.
Regardless of what happens with tenure and shared governance, the cuts are coming. They will be devastating, and they will be followed by further cuts in future biennia. Ultimately, saving the UW System will require more than the preservation of tenure and shared governance. It will require a reversal of the long-standing downward trend in state funding. And it will require a mechanism for ensuring that increases in state funding benefit students in the form of reductions in tuition. That is to say, it will require a management structure that undoes the present moves to concentrate power, CEO-like, in the hands of chancellors, who, among other things, can recoup lost tuition revenue by unilaterally increasing other fees.
For the moment, the attack on tenure and shared governance is performing its tactical purpose admirably, distracting attention almost completely from this year’s $250 million cut. But the JFC omnibus motion is a multipronged attack that calls for a correspondingly multifaceted defense, of which saving tenure and shared governance is but a single part.
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NOTE: A couple months back we did animal stories at the storytellers group. On the way home, Anne told me I should do a story about Stubby, one of the bright spots of my childhood. She identifies as a storyteller and also believes in telling stories as therapy. I started to write this, and it is short because I know how it ends. There may be a time when I can tell it without tears, but until then no public performance.
I was five when Mom got married and we moved to San Jose. I could not take Stubby with me and she stayed with my grandparents.
I did not know life without Stubby. She was four months old and I was nine months old when she was brought home and given a bed underneath my crib. She was a present from the Gegleins—I think they were cousins of my grandfather on his mother’s side. Her mother was Grampa Geglein’s bulldog bitch and there were numerous suspects, mostly terriers on the surrounding farms. With her lineage and looks she might be shunned today as a pitbull but folks called her a nanny dog. She was called Stubby because there was just a stub where her tail should have been. At any rate, everyone thought a dog like that would keep me out of trouble.
I felt alone in a strange place—in a city no less—without my dog, but it was California and pets were no-nos when you rented.
We were in California for two years before moving back. And this dog and I were inseparable for the most part. We could easily have taken her when we went to Wyoming and lived in a mining camp, but the allergy doctor said no and even recommended I not live in the same house with the dog. So for the two years between Wyoming and Nebraska we lived in a cabin out back and I hiked up to the main house in the morning to meet Stubby before we went on adventures.
Talk about patience. That dog wore a circus costume and we hitched her to the Radio Flyer wagon and she would pull it for a good half hour before lying down. She would lie down a lot—when I was real young she would sleep in the yard under the maple when I was playing with my trucks or my fort. When I was in college the neighbor explained that any time anyone came in the yard, there would be a bulldog between them and me.
In the summer of ’54, just after Little Britches, I built a chute and we ran her through it to where I was waiting with a lasso. I roped and threw her which was quite a chore as she outweighed me by 15 pounds—there were no girls around to be impressed but I was 10. I got the three legs tied. I loosed it up and she disappeared. She also disappeared every time she saw me getting my ropes out—even though I just did it to practice spinning ropes like Monty Montana.
But 1954 meant she was ten years old and as those things went she was slowing down. I was not aware that her eyesight and hearing were beginning to go. She was missing the Checkers that I tossed her and eating from her bowl. She stopped following me to school and generally slept in my grandmother’s dining room. We still went after rabbits along the irrigation ditch, but she did not move as fast. When I went up to the ranch in 1955, I knew I would see her at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The first year in Nebraska I was unhappy. And when given the opportunity to write a story, I wrote an adventure tracking a badger with Stubby and Red Ryder. We actually had followed weasel tracks in the dry irrigation ditch and as I look back on it, Red fired a .177 copper plated BB and would have been of little use had we encountered a real badger. Ten year olds are not realists a and we were an underarmed kid with a mostly blind dog. But I felt good while I was writing.
And I spent part of the summer of 1956 with my grandparents. Stubby was quieter. We still walked and went places, but more slowly. No rabbits. We sat for long hours on the sofa with her head in my lap. When we got in the car to head home I hugged her and told her I would see her at Thanksgiving. Mom got the letter the last week in October—cancer. I went in the bedroom, chased my brother out, locked the door and cried for twenty minutes. And I wrote no more adventures.
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Compromise – a slippery slope?
16/11/2012 loboviejoanti-federalists, compromise, democracy, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Dialectic, gun control, Transportation Security Administration, USAPATRIOT Act Leave a comment
“Remember,” my wife said, “that this nation is built on compromise.” To a large extent that is true—we would not have the Department of Defense were it not for compromises made after World War II. We would not have the USAPATRIOT Act, the Transportation Security Administration or the Department of Homeland Security without honorable legislators compromising their principles and their Constitution.
The Department of Defense was supposed to give Congress and the administration a handle on spending—it also creates a Secretary who can resolve disputes between the military (Army and Air Force departments) and naval (the department of the Navy was left intact) forces in time of war. The only time this really was a problem was when planning the route for the invasion of Japan in 1944 when Roosevelt had the problem of mediating between the Nimitz plan (through China) and the Macarthur plan (through the Philippines). The Nimitz plan made more strategic sense, but Macarthur threatened to resign and accept the Republican nomination to run against FDR. The President folded quickly. So after the War, George Catlett Marshall worked at developing a unified defense establishment—he intended to reduce duplication and make procurement more economical, and, by the way, eliminate the Marines.
The Marines are still here—to have a UDF you really need to start without strong traditions. Three of the five largest air forces in the world are in DOD. In 1960 there was a big push for a single belt buckle across services—see above The Marines are still here. I have no idea how many extraneous layers of bureaucracy exist in that five-sided building, but I do know we fought World War II with a lot fewer General Officers and you did not have the requirement of a flag in every nuclear armed B-52. So an audit of function as well as budget—conducted by former enlisted personnel rather than officers might be a guide. Compromises generally enlarge agencies.
What else happened was that the venue for compromise was moved to an Executive Branch “superdepartment” in which the arguments about budget are “fully explored, discussed and winnowed” before being presented to Congress in the executive budget proposal. Back before Hoover, Congress did not receive a unified budget proposal—departments competed for the attention of a Congress that took its responsibility for thrift seriously and would decide whether the Army needed ten new tanks more than the Navy needed a new cruiser. Now the Department of Defense has already vetted the request and anything less than full funding of two littorals, twenty tanks, and 150 drones is unacceptable. And congressional compromise is limit to whose district will benefit.
The Transportation Security Administration is an example of a party agenda forcing a “compromise.” The Democrats told Bush the airport security program was DOA unless it included a federal jobs program. The Administration folded. Ten years out there is scant evidence that the quality of personnel has improved—further, the prohibition on unionization has been lifted and TSA employees are now in the fold. Compromises lead to further compromises. See Understanding Gradualism and the Dialectic (https://loboviejo.com/2012/07/19/understanding-…-the-dialectic/).
Back in 1998, at the request of President Clinton, Gary Hart and Warren Rudman co-chaired a Commission on 21st Century Security. The report, issued in 2001, layed out a proposal for a homeland security program at the federal level. The constitutional authority for such an endeavor is found in Article X of Amendment which reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Through a series of compromises agreed upon by the three branches of government and not seriously challenged by the states as a unified body the Commerce Clause has become sort of a general grant of powers to the Federal Government. The European model for internal security is extremely centralized—note that no western European nation encompasses six time zones (Maine to Hawaii).
The Bush administration wanted an Office of Homeland Security within the White House, a sign that the problem involved coordination between current agencies while Congressional Democrats wanted a Department. The difference is that an Office may be abolished when it is no longer necessary—a Department becomes a permanent fixture and seeks, on its own, to expand by developing its own constituency in the Congress and the press. A Department becomes a default budget item whereas an Office may be in the third or fourth tier of priority.
The result of compromise in order to achieve the Bush agenda on other matters was the Department of Homeland Security.
So where does this leave us. We are faced with a situation where there will be compromises required for the government to operate over the next four years. We need only look at Europe which is devolving to see the consequence of continued spending without the means to spend. We have a “running scared” Republican establishment thinking about the next election and what is needed to “make a comeback” and a “smugly confident” Democratic establishment that knows the way to win elections is to identify constituencies and “deliver the goods” so that the votes and the contributions come in. There is no political advantage to cutting spending—the key is to pretend to be “investing in America.” All compromises will be made in this context.
In the area of individual liberties, they have been compromised away in pursuit of the Security state. Either Ben Franklin or Richard Jackson wrote; “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” In other words there is something that should never be compromised—lest it never be regained.
As an example only, I am going to look at the issue of gun control because it is so much a matter of where the statists have worked through gradualism and compromise to get where they are currently.
Do you know that the National Firearms Act of 1934 had nothing to do with gun prohibition and was only passed as a revenue measure under the excise power of the United States? Who said that? The US Justice Department, in appealing the acquittal of Jack Miller for failing to pay a transfer fee on a five dollar shotgun that had its barrel shortened. Never mind that there was no case in controversy as Mr Miller could not be served—having disappeared into the anonymity of poverty that was most of the rural south in the 30s. Never mind the prohibition on double jeopardy. The government did not argue the fear of “gangster weapons” that dominated the congressional debates. This was a valid exercise of the excise power to raise revenue—and anyway a “sawed-off” shotgun is not a weapon of military utility. The Court made the finding of fact that such weapon had no military utility and therefore it was not a Second Amendment question.
Do you know that the 1968 gun control act was passed by compromises protecting the US firearms industry? Further, it limited prohibition of possession and transfer to individuals whose civil rights in general are infringed—it does not have a prohibition on the mentally ill but rather “(4) has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution…” The major US manufacturers bought off.
Do you know that the McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 was only passed because of a compromise prohibiting the manufacture and transfer of machine guns in the civilian market after 19 May 1986? The NRA went along with the compromise.
Recall that the anti-federalist movement, once the inevitability of ratification became apparent, made the Bill of Rights a condition precedent to participation in the Compact. There can be no compromise on that portion of the Constitution.
Election over – time to pull up the boots
07/11/2012 loboviejodemagoguery, democracy, elections, Gary Johnson, government, liberty, NDAA, politics, power, Robert Taft, Ron Paul, supreme court, UN technical treaties, USAPATRIOT Act Leave a comment
Many “conservatives” will mourn after the election of Statist Obama over Statist Romney. There are those of us with legitimate fears about Obama and gun control, but that is about it and we will have to work harder to prevail. But the truth is, that this was an election about minor tweaks in the progressive agenda, not a “liberal-conservative” matchup. To get a conservative-progressive contest you have to go back to 1964. To get a liberal-progressive contest you go back to 1972.
First of all, no matter what you read in the press or the right alternative media, there is nothing historic or unprecedented in this election. Franklin D Roosevelt was re-elected twice (1936 and 1940) with a worse economic record and unemployment rate—his third reelection came when wartime production skewed the economic reports. Only eighteen Presidents out of forty-four have failed to be reelected—sixteen if you do not count Cleveland. Both Nixon and Clinton were under a cloud of scandal when reelected.
What mistakes did Romney make?
This is the question that will keep pundits busy for about a week at most—a little longer on the alternative media websites—and then it will be limited to the alcohol assisted venues where “conservatives” whine about every election the Republicans did not win. Note: it had nothing to do with Gary Johnson. I do have some observations.
The establishment machine made sure that Ron Paul delegations did not get to the Convention and that Ron Paul delegates were not listed as winning caucuses. People you demonize in August are not real likely to support you in November. I said as much then. Whether it would have made a difference in the electoral college I am not sure, but it could have told voters Romney could be fair.
I have seen Al Gore looser than Romney.
There is a tendency on the part of politicians to share tidbits with key contributors. Unfortunately you should never say anything in any kind of gathering that you do not want known throughout the connected world. (This parallels my advice to high schoolers not to put nude pictures of themselves on facebook or send them to significant parties.) The 47percent remark, regardless of its accuracy or source, hit a nerve in the populace. This is not fair, you say, since Obama seems to be Teflon(tm). Well, the world is what it is. Any politician unaware of the parameters is fair game.
In a debate, Mitt expressed approval of NDAA and the USAPATRIOT Act. This alienated liberty voters. A very considered answer would have addressed the Fourth and Fifth Amendment concerns and been vague enough to make voters think he was considering the issue.
There was no counter to Warren Buffett. Berkshire-Hathaway acquires companies where families are forced by the tax code to divest a profitable company to pay inheritance taxes–this is not that different in strategy from Bain.
The good news is that the Republican Party is healthier down the ballot than at the top. And there is an opening for liberty minded individuals to influence what is going on. If the Republicans can shift back to the Robert Taft conservatism and pull out of military adventurism, it can start to reduce the size of the federal government.
This is small group by small group process that needs to be implemented now, not at the beginning of a campaign. And it needs to be done without Super PACs.
An agenda.
Decide what to compromise on and what not to. We have much needless gun control legislation because the NRA and other conservative organizations were desperate to compromise rather than look obstructionist. Remember, the anti-federalists forced the Bill of Rights, not as a compromise but as a condition precedent to ratification.
Target legislation for repeal with research. Most of the Homeland Security legislation is “emergency” legislation. The United States was last in a State of War in 1945.
Encourage Tenth Amendment groups in the legislature.
Be ready to force Obama to appoint “vanilla” judges to the Supreme Court. Encourage filibusters if necessary.
Be ready to oppose all UN technical treaties. Support withdrawal from NATO and other organizations which authorize military force contrary to Constitutional constraints.
Support free trade and oppose economic protectionism.
More guidance will come.
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If you didn’t think the Salt Lake City Public Library could be any more book focused, you probably haven’t attended the previous 12 Utah Humanities Book Festivals. While the beauty of most books lies in readers’ imaginations, allowing authors to speak on their works or on writing in general adds depth to literature for audiences of all ages.
Utah’s best of the best will be honored in the Main Library Auditorium during the Literary Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 21. Then, on Oct. 23, under the theme “What Kind of Idea Are You?,” more than 20 local and national authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, juvenile lit, history, biography and more will share stages for a day of interviews, discussions and book signings. Scheduled authors include Thomas McGuane, Ian Frazier (pictured, presenting Travels in Siberia), Joseph Marshall and Mark & Caralyn Buehner.
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What is your specialty area?
I have worked on a diverse range of exhibitions during my time as a curator here, acquiring objects along the way. I’ve learnt about vastly different subject areas from car fanatics to futurists design and see myself as an interpreter, using a variety of tools to tell stories.
I love the idea of the power of individuals to change the way society thinks and moves. I think an object is made more meaningful with people’s stories around its design, function, use and relationship in a broader context of culture.
How long have you been working at the Museum?
I have worked as a curator for twelve years.
Individual Favourite object in the collection?
Our collection is so vast and diverse it’s a pleasure to go to the basement or the Open Display Store at Castle Hill and discover what we have. This also makes it very difficult to have one favourite object.
For sheer beauty I love the Delphos evening dress designed in 1907 by Mariano Fortuny, not only sinuous and flowing, but it also freed women from the restrictive restraints of the corset.
For sadness and the human condition is the boys dress worn by John Marsden, 1802 – 1803, it has a family tragedy behind it. Two-year-old John was wearing the dress when he died after falling into a pot of boiling water in the Marsden’s kitchen in August 1803. His death was a heavy blow to Elizabeth Marsden, whose first son Charles died in a carriage accident two years earlier in August 1801. In a letter to Captain John Piper in August 1804, Elizabeth wrote: ‘I think I need not remind you that this is a month that has been fatal to me and mine – I have therefore made a determination not to leave home or suffer my dear children out of my sight as little as possible until this fatal month has expired…”.
And for its fantastical design appeal I love the Stanfield ‘Supreme’ Mouse-Trap Machine: the machine was built and owned by one family and also represents the Australian tradition of ‘making do’. This Stanfield machine was built from second hand parts and was used continuously in a Mascot factory, between 1942-43 and August, 2000, producing 96 million mouse traps.
What piece of research or exhibition are you most proud of in your career at the Museum?
One of the first groups of objects I acquired for the museum was for the exhibition Cars and Culture: our driving passions in 1997. We had one archive of futurist industrial designer Charles Frederick Beauvais. Through research I uncovered another archive containing a wooden model rear engine car ( I’m pictured holding it) and fabulous drawings of a futuristic city of Sydney following the Utopic idea of technology as a solution and included heli-ferries departing from Sydney’s Wynyard station.
Beauvais, originally from England gave an Australian interpretation to an international futurist movement.
A favourite experience was developing the exhibition the ‘World Cup Dream: Stories from Australia’s soccer mums and dads’. Photographer Jean –Francois Lanzarone and I investigated the role of the 2006 Socceroos’s parents, most of them post World War II migrants each with fascinating lives and stories to tell, a passion for football and endless devotion to their children, unstintingly ferrying them between training and matches.
Working on the exhibition Greening the Silver City: seeds of bush regeneration and then travelling it around NSW to ten different towns has been fantastic. I feel like a story detective and have uncovered fabulous innovative local solutions to environmental problems by communities from Broken Hill to Yamba.
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Suzy Weir says:
Hi Anni, love your work! I was excited to hear from Carola Salazar that you are wearing one of my curiously unusual artifacts. I don’t know which one though, and, as you are a fan of the object and the story behind it, I would love to give you the back story of your piece. Come by my workshop anytime for a complimentary beginner’s session in lost wax.
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S.387 SD.686 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 387) of Harriette L. Chandler, John J. Mahoney, David Paul Linsky, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to early voting in the 2020 presidential primary. Election Laws.
S.388 SD.1945 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 388) of Harriette L. Chandler, Andres X. Vargas, James B. Eldridge, Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to post-election audits. Election Laws.
S.389 SD.1949 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 389) of Harriette L. Chandler, Andres X. Vargas, Dylan A. Fernandes, Julian Cyr and other members of the General Court for legislation to ensure municipal participation of the widest eligible range. Election Laws.
S.390 SD.1951 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 390) of Harriette L. Chandler, Elizabeth A. Malia, Andres X. Vargas, Jack Patrick Lewis and other members of the General Court for legislation to extend early voting for all elections. Election Laws.
S.435 SD.1235 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 435) of Harriette L. Chandler, James B. Eldridge, Danielle W. Gregoire and Harold P. Naughton, Jr. for legislation relative to agricultural composting programs. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.436 SD.1990 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 436) of Harriette L. Chandler and Denise Provost for legislation to require the establishment of recycling programs for ionization smoke detectors. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.544 SD.289 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 544) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kevin G. Honan and David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf for legislation relative to transparency of dental benefits corporations. Financial Services.
S.545 SD.675 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 545) of Harriette L. Chandler and Kevin G. Honan for legislation relative to financial services contracts for dental benefits corporations. Financial Services.
S.546 SD.676 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 546) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kimberly N. Ferguson, Michael J. Barrett, Anne M. Gobi and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to cognitive rehabilitation. Financial Services.
S.547 SD.1183 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 547) of Harriette L. Chandler, Mary S. Keefe, David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf and Mike Connolly for legislation relative to alternatives to foreclosure. Financial Services.
S.548 SD.1946 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 548) of Harriette L. Chandler, James T. Welch, Rebecca L. Rausch, Michael J. Barrett and other members of the General Court for legislation to expand access to affordable telemedicine services. Financial Services.
S.663 SD.1222 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 663) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kate Hogan, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., Bradford Hill and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish criteria for Masshealth hardship waivers. Health Care Financing.
H.721 HD.3290 By Representative Vargas of Haverhill and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 721) of Andres X. Vargas, Harriette L. Chandler and others for legislation to authorize risk-limiting audits after certain elections. Election Laws.
S.738 SD.673 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 738) of Harriette L. Chandler, David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf, Rady Mom, Eric P. Lesser and others for legislation to ensure students' access to academic transcripts. Higher Education.
S.739 SD.1227 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 739) of Harriette L. Chandler, Michael J. Moran, William N. Brownsberger, Marjorie C. Decker and other members of the General Court for legislation to ensure tuition equity for Massachusetts residents. Higher Education.
S.779 SD.1941 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 779) of Harriette L. Chandler, Sean Garballey, John J. Lawn, Jr., William N. Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation to create a multi-family housing incentive pilot program. Housing.
S.780 SD.1944 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 780) of Harriette L. Chandler, John J. Lawn, Jr., William N. Brownsberger, Michael J. Barrett and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish a roadmap for housing solutions. Housing.
S.860 SD.665 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 860) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kay Khan, David Paul Linsky, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to obtaining relief from abuse and harassment. The Judiciary.
S.861 SD.1229 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 861) of Harriette L. Chandler, Sarah K. Peake, Jack Patrick Lewis, Maria Duaime Robinson and other members of the General Court for legislation to protect electronic privacy. The Judiciary.
S.1049 SD.1225 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1049) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kenneth I. Gordon, Lori A. Ehrlich, Jason M. Lewis and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to an employee protection act. Labor and Workforce Development.
S.1050 SD.1261 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1050) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jon Santiago, Denise Provost, Patricia D. Jehlen and others for legislation relative to physician assistant non-competes. Labor and Workforce Development.
S.1209 SD.109 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1209) of Harriette L. Chandler, Michael J. Barrett, James T. Welch, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation to remove obstacles and expand abortion access. Public Health.
S.1210 SD.672 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1210) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jason M. Lewis, Kevin G. Honan and Denise Provost for legislation relative to dentistry licensure examinations. Public Health.
S.1211 SD.674 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1211) of Harriette L. Chandler, Louis L. Kafka, James K. Hawkins and Sal N. DiDomenico for legislation relative to public health dental hygienists. Public Health.
S.1212 SD.677 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1212) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jason M. Lewis, David Paul Linsky, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the restoration of oral health benefits for MassHealth recipients. Public Health.
S.1213 SD.1218 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1213) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jason M. Lewis, Michael D. Brady, Walter F. Timilty and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to safe patient handling in certain health facilities. Public Health.
S.1214 SD.1219 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1214) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jack Patrick Lewis, José F. Tosado, Carlos Gonzalez and other members of the General Court for legislation to create an emergency nursing home task force. Public Health.
S.1215 SD.1942 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1215) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kate Hogan, Smitty Pignatelli, Jason M. Lewis and other members of the General Court for legislation to improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents. Public Health.
H.1226 HD.3788 By Representative LeBoeuf of Worcester and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1226) of David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf, Harriette L. Chandler and others relative to students' access to academic transcripts at institutions of higher education. Higher Education.
S.1377 SD.690 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1377) of Harriette L. Chandler, Elizabeth A. Malia, James B. Eldridge, Joseph A. Boncore and other members of the General Court for legislation to reduce recidivism and promote family relationships during incarceration. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
S.1604 SD.344 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1604) of Harriette L. Chandler, Sarah K. Peake, John J. Lawn, Jr., William N. Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation to provide tax relief to seniors while creating affordable housing. Revenue.
S.1605 SD.907 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1605) of Harriette L. Chandler and Daniel M. Donahue for legislation relative to excise tax repayments. Revenue.
S.1606 SD.1231 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1606) of Harriette L. Chandler, Marjorie C. Decker, Jason M. Lewis, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation to protect youth from nicotine addiction. Revenue.
S.1802 SD.668 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1802) of Harriette L. Chandler and Denise Provost for legislation to provide for 3rd party expert evaluation of scope of practice legislation. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1803 SD.1257 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1803) of Harriette L. Chandler, Tommy Vitolo, Jason M. Lewis, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation to spark the modernization of state heating systems. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1804 SD.1978 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1804) of Harriette L. Chandler, Antonio F. D. Cabral, Denise Provost, Daniel M. Donahue and other members of the General Court for legislation to limit the impact of student loans to help staff succeed. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1805 SD.2032 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1805) of Harriette L. Chandler, Jack Patrick Lewis, Maria Duaime Robinson, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to gender equality requirement in state documents. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1930 SD.1228 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1930) of Harriette L. Chandler, Paul Brodeur and Lori A. Ehrlich for legislation to promote the production of renewable power through agricultural anaerobic digestion facilities. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
S.2043 SD.667 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2043) of Harriette L. Chandler, Kay Khan, Rebecca L. Rausch, James B. Eldridge and other members of the General Court for legislation to provide identification to homeless youth and families. Transportation.
H.2695 HD.1274 By Representative Ferguson of Holden and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2695) of Kimberly N. Ferguson and Harriette L. Chandler relative to authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant a certain easement in the town of Princeton. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.3697 HD.4168 By Representative O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James J. O'Day and Harriette L. Chandler for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Denise Santos, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service.
H.3763 HD.3278 By Representative Vargas of Haverhill and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3763) of Andres X. Vargas, Harriette L. Chandler and others for legislation to establish a pilot program and for an investigation and study by a special commission (including members of the General Court) to provide for convenient voting for military personnel, their families and civilians stationed or working abroad. Election Laws.
H.4214 HD.4632 By Representative O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Chandler, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4214) of James J. O'Day and Harriette L. Chandler (by vote of the town) that the town of West Boylston be authorized to rename the board of selectmen in said town to the select board. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
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That's sick! Humans identify infected peers from a photo
Scientists combined 16 photo portraits into one composite image. On the left, the composite “sick” face, and on the right, the composite healthy one. Credit: Audrey Henderson/St Andrews University
Human beings can spot a sick person, on a photo, a mere two hours after he or she was infected by a germ, researchers said Wednesday.
Such an ability to detect infection early, and from the subtlest of facial clues, has never been demonstrated before, but is presumed to be part of a crucial survival skill called "disease avoidance", they wrote.
"An ability to detect sick people would allow people to avoid being close to sick people, and hence minimise the risk of becoming sick if the person is a carrier of contagious disease," study co-author John Axelsson of Stockholm University told AFP.
The research team experimented with 16 healthy volunteers, all Caucasian.
Each was given a shot of lipopolysaccharides (LPS)—molecules taken from bacteria.
The LPS molecules are sterile, meaning that no live bacteria is injected. But they cause a strong immune response and flu-like symptoms that lasts a few hours—mimicking someone who is "acutely sick" and fighting off infection.
It is a method commonly used to cause infections in humans and people for experimentation purposes.
On a second occasion, each participant received a placebo or "dummy" injection.
The volunteers had their photo taken about two hours after each shot—thus once in a healthy state after receiving the placebo, and once "sick".
After the LPS shot, some of the participants "felt very sick and others did not feel much sick at all" when their photo was taken, Axelsson explained.
Both pictures, healthy and sick, of all participants were then showed to a different group of people, which had to rate whether the person was sick or healthy.
Paler lips
"The raters could correctly discriminate 13 out of 16 individuals (81 percent) as being sick," said the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
This was at a rate higher than predicted by pure chance alone.
Previous research had used photos of "obviously sick people" to induce disgust, anxiety and even an immune response in people, but the participants in the latest study were photographed with neutral expressions and very shortly after infection.
There was thus no sneezing, coughing or other overt symptoms of sickness on display.
The results suggested that "humans have the ability to detect signs of illness in an early phase after exposure to infectious stimuli," the study authors concluded.
Sick individuals were rated by observers as having paler lips and skin, a more swollen face, droopier mouth corners and eyelids, redder eyes, and duller, patchier skin.
The finding could "help medical doctors and computer software to better detect sick people," said Axelsson—a potentially valuable diagnostic tool in a disease outbreak.
Further study is needed to determine whether levels of infection detection are similar across diseases and ethnic groups.
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More information: Identification of acutely sick people and facial cues of sickness, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or … .1098/rspb.2017.2430
Journal information: Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Citation: That's sick! Humans identify infected peers from a photo (2018, January 3) retrieved 19 January 2020 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-sick-humans-infected-peers-photo.html
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As a young student walks down a street of houses, she uncovers the fragmented and traumatic memory of her sexual assault.
This short film was commissioned by mental health organisation ‘Art With Impact’ and seeks to portray the realities of sexual violence and its impact on mental health. ‘Walk of Shame’ premiered at an event in LA last June, and has most recently been nominated for a ‘Best Directing’ award at ‘Underwire Festival’.
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I am an 18 year old filmmaker, who has a passion for telling important stories that challenge the way we look at ourselves and our society, through unique and underrepresented perspectives, tackling issues of social justice, feminism and societal perceptions amongst others. I received my first film commission as a writer/director at the age of 16 for UK Channel 4’s ‘Random Acts’ with my short film ‘Pas De Deux’, which tells the story of a wheelchair dancer, and is currently on the festival circuit, garnering a number of award nominations. My second commission came soon after from US Mental Health organisation, ‘Art With Impact’, for my film 'Walk of Shame', which tells the fragmented story of a sexual assault survivor. I have also worked on a number of freelance projects (music videos, commercial shorts and social media content) for brands such as 'Fairtrade HK', 'Sleeping at Last', 'Downe House School' and more. Alongside this, I have been making video content, short films and edits for around 5 years and hope to continue for many many years to come, and to make an impact on the world through film!
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GLASGOW’S UNDERGROUND WORLD
When in Glasgow:
Visit the underground world of Glasgow Central Station. The unique guide and major enthusiast, in his retirement, is otherwise employed as Network Rail’s Historian and Archivist. He used to manage this station. During his career he also managed several other major stations in London, U.K, however, he always returned to his home (and station) Glasgow Central.
Lovely Victorian Supporting Pillars
Descending into Glasgow’s historic and present transport underworld made for a tremendously engaging and educational visit, the guide, bringing to life with his words this major, solid, surviving transport hub. He spoke of the hustle and bustle of transport, for and with all sorts of people, now and in previous times. Peering into the pitch black, eyes following the slim line of a torch beam, it felt like we were intruders into someone else’s world. We saw the outline of places on platforms that were still intact where men could not go, and neither could we. Women of the 19th century waiting for trains in that gloom had the ‘comfort’ of separated waiting areas. Our way was barred for reasons of safety, which pertained to present day use.
A Disused Line
In a lower street level goods entry, (Glasgow is a city of hills) there were still signs of horse drawn transport. The resting places for the horses still exist.
Like many stations, the ‘streets’ under Glasgow Central station were put to stark use in the two major wars, (WW1 and WWII). The guide did not mince his words about many elements of the nineteenth century social history associated with this station. He felt very strongly the roles of womenfolk in life and death in this station, was and had been, totally ignored… he was definitely intent on correcting with his words what he felt was a grave neglect and a major injustice.
Preserver Of Industrial/Social Heritage
While we were in the depths exploring some unused tunnelling and were in our joint reveries sensing the spirits of the past, on a nearby spur an underground train whizzed through.
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PENALTY POINTS
Posted on April 29, 2006 by menhir1
We have our offspring visiting for the May Day holiday weekend, what is left of it following, what should have been a travelling schedule of 9.5 hours; first by bus to the station and then by rail with a connection or two thrown in for good measure.
The last train north was previously timetabled to arrive at 21.00hrs. It could never make the target time, it was usually out by 20 -30 minutes and it’s record was about 45 minutes late. Of course, that does not take into consideration anything more serious than normal weather conditions, or situatons that you would ordinarily think a train could and should be able to cope with. Passengers have been known to get stranded when brakes had ‘iced’ up at a period when temperatures were ABOVE freezing! We waited for arrivals till after midnight for that one.
The timetables were changed last year with a 30 minutes later arrival time for the last train. Guess what – we got a phone call telling us the train was running late, they were in the back of beyond, so no clue as to how much longer we would need to wait.
We were very surprised to see from our vantage position by the station platform, that there were people in the street placing luggage in car boots and yet no train had arrived. I commented to hubbie that maybe one of the City Link buses had arrived and had disgorged its passengers. Our second major surprise was to see the familiar outline of our offspring walking towards us.
Oh yes, there had been a coach; those passengers travelling to our station were taken off the train at a junction further east and bussed to their destination, thereby enabling the train to arrive at its last station on the route with a reduced, late penalty arrival time… :crazy:
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For the holidays, lets each rehabilitate some Civil War general… I call Schimmelfennig!
23 December 2015 23 December 2015 Craig Swain American Civil War, Charleston SC, Gettysburg Alexander Schimmelfennig, Charleston, Folly Island, Fort Sumter, Hale Rockets, John Dahlgren, Morris Island, Ole Peter Hansen Balling, US Grant, William T. Sherman
This being the season of giving, I ask what have we given back to the Civil War field of study? We all “take” from our studies – reading primary and secondary sources, walking the battlefields, and receiving knowledge all around. But what do we give back in return? How this season we “clean up” some corner of Civil War study that need be straightened or otherwise put in order?
Consider… Throughout the Sesquicentennial discussions we heard about some major figures from the Civil War being “rehabilitated” by historians. Most notable is George B. McClellan. We even heard mention of Joe Hooker. Though I still lean towards strict twelve step process for Little Mac… someone skipped a few steps with McClellan in my opinion. This is not a new notion for historians. During the Centennial, US Grant was “rehabilitated” to some degree, mostly by that magical prose from Bruce Catton. William T. Sherman was moved but a few shades to the good side of Lucifer himself. Though we really should recognize the work of British admirers decades earlier, who sort of threw a mirror in our American faces. However of late Grant is being “un-rehabilitated” back to a mere mortal.
What I have in mind is straight forward and altruistic – pick a figure due “historical rehabilitation.” Name any figure from the Civil War – general, politician, or other. Pick a poor figure. Someone you think has not gotten a fair shake through the historians’ collective pens. Then offer up a few paragraphs explaining why this figure is worth a second look. Think about it… are there any persons who are completely nonredeemable? Totally incompetent? Without any merit? Well… maybe there are some. But I’d submit that to be a small number within the larger sample set. Besides, even H. Judson Kilpatrick, Alfred Pleasonton, and Franz Sigel had good days to speak of!
I’ll make the first offering. This is my target for rehabilitation:
Alexander Schimmelfennig. Like most, my introduction to Schimmelfennig was the butt end of many jokes about “hiding with the hogs” at Gettysburg. Schimmelfennig’s stay at the Henry Garlach house has come to epitomize the failings and faults of the Eleventh Corps in the battle.
Over the years, I’ve learned not to add an extra n, making his name an active present tense verb, to Schimmelfennig. Though you might find more than a few cases where I’ve slipped and not corrected. Furthermore, I’ve come to recognize my characterization of Schimmelfennig’s actions were but one of many collective misunderstandings (being kind… maybe collective ignorance?) about the actions at Gettysburg. Indeed, our myopic view of that battle has caused no short list of misconceptions. Schimmelfennig is one of many receiving short treatment, and outright insult, due to the intellectual white elephant, named Gettysburg, stuck to history’s charge.
Let us first be fair about Schimmelfennig at Gettysburg. Certainly his July 1, 1863 on the field is not fodder for any great story about military prowess and proficiency. Though it was not an example of bumbling incompetence. Why was he in the Garlach back yard to start with? Well it was because, unlike many of his peers and superiors, he was not emulating General Gates’ flight from Camden in search of “high ground” south of town.
And in the two years that followed that stay in the shed, Schimmelfennig demonstrated he was indeed a very capable field commander… in the oft overlooked Department of the South. I’ve chronicled those activities during the Sesquicentennial… and will mention a few key points here. Schimmelfennig first went to the department as part of Brigadier-General George Gordon’s 1st Division, Eleventh Corps, sent as reinforcements in late July 1863. The Brigadier-General led a successful demonstration in February 1864 on John’s Island; assumed responsibility for the front against Charleston through the spring and early summer 1864, directing several bombardments of Fort Sumter, and mounting demonstrations to aid the main operations elsewhere; And played an important role in Foster’s July 1864 “demonstration” that nearly broke through to Charleston. After returning from leave (recovering from malaria), Schimmelfennig was in command of the forces that captured Charleston on February 18, 1865.
Schimmelfennig readily adapted to situations and was innovative. He successfully used of Hales rockets in an assault role and urged the troops to use rudimentary camouflage to disguise their activities. To the many USCT regiments in his command, he offered fair and complementary leadership, advocating for pay equality. The naval officers working with him, particularly Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, considered Schimmelfennig the better of the Army generals to work with at Charleston.
And we should remember, as if a name like Schimmelfennig would allow us to forget, that the general was not American-born. Thus he faced much of the institutional bias within the Federal officer corps. Schimmelfennig, a Prussian, was a veteran of the revolutions and wars of 1848. Pulling on our historian sensibilities, Schimmelfennig was a bit of a military historian himself, providing context to the conflicts between Russia and Turkey in the years leading up to the Crimean War.
Oh, and I should add, Schimmelfennig “pioneered” the use of petrochemicals to ward off mosquitoes…. Um… by smearing kerosene over his exposed skin while on duty at Folly and Morris Islands. Not exactly DEET, but you know. Fine… he was a bit far short of a renaissance man.
At any rate, you get my point – Schimmelfennig’s service is done a dis-service by overly emphasizing those three days in July 1863… or even after weighing in his (and the Eleventh Corps) performance at Chancellorsville months before. Maybe he was not among Grant’s Generals depicted in Balling’s painting, but Schimmelfennig served with distinction during the war. He is at least deserving of more consideration than “a brigade commander at Gettysburg.”
That’s my proposed target for rehabilitation. What’s yours? And why?
“Richmond cannot be saved if Charleston falls”: Grim assessment from Governor MacGrath
30 December 2014 30 December 2014 Craig Swain American Civil War, Charleston SC Andrew MacGrath, Charleston, Jefferson F. Davis, South Carolina Governor
Andrew Gordon MacGrath was among the leading secessionists in 1860. Having resigned his position as a US District Court Judge after the 1860 elections, he played a role in the South Carolina secession convention. Later he served briefly as the state’s Secretary of State. And when the Confederacy was formally established, MacGrath was for all practical purposes re-instated to his judgeship, though for a “C.S.” instead of a “U.S.” district. At a rather ominous moment in the state’s, and the Confederacy’s, history, on December 18, 1864, the South Carolina General Assembly named MacGrath the Governor of South Carolina.
Within days of MacGrath’s assumption of the office, Savannah fell. And the Federal forces there were poised to move into South Carolina next. As his predecessor, MacGrath appealed to President Jefferson Davis in Richmond for assistance. On Christmas Day, 1864, he sent a lengthy letter, by way of Colonel Henry Buist, to the Confederate president. After opening pleasantries, MacGrath put in perspective what the loss of Savannah meant to South Carolina:
The fall of Savannah has, of course, very much affected the people of this State. The question which naturally presents itself is, why the force which penetrated Georgia cannot penetrate South Carolina. And at this moment it is not an unwillingness to oppose the enemy, but a chilling apprehension of the futility of doing so, which affects the people. I am endeavoring, and I will remove that chill and dispel that apprehension; but upon you must I rely for that material aid which will assist the people of the State to make good their determined opposition. As rapidly as it can be done I am reorganizing the militia; its effective force I cannot yet estimate–I hope larger than has been supposed. If you will send us aid (although for the moment it falls short of effectual aid), if it be that aid which now foreshadows other aid to come, that spirit can be vitalized which when aroused to a certain extent supplies the place of numbers, and is of itself strength.
So, after over three years of war at its doorsteps, South Carolina’s militia was still unorganized for defense of the state? Recall the correspondence from the previous winter in which authorities in Richmond called into question the state’s practices in regard to conscription and recruiting for state regiments.
Having explained the measures he would take, MacGrath then requested support from Richmond. Specifically he wanted the South Carolina brigade from the Army of Northern Virginia, and if possible the services of Major-General Joseph Kershaw. But MacGrath knew the release of those troops was contingent on the list of priorities. So he advanced is argument that Charleston was the most important of those priorities:
You, of course, are much better informed of the number of troops on our coast and in the city of Charleston than I am. You are also aware of the necessities at other points which may control you; but it is considered that the force on the coast is not sufficient to make effectual resistance to General Sherman. If that is so, Charleston falls; if Charleston falls, Richmond follows. Richmond may fall and Charleston be saved, but Richmond cannot be saved if Charleston falls. If now I urge upon you the concentration of all available strength for the defense of Charleston I will be acquitted of all selfish consideration when I venture to remind you that two years ago, when it seemed as if then a necessity was about to arise in which you would be forced to decide between Charleston and Richmond, I gave you then the assurance of my support, however feeble, in sustaining you in the destruction of Charleston if it would accomplish the end we then desired. Now, however, I presume that, as between these places, there is no doubt that, if unable to save both, Charleston is that which from every consideration we must prefer to save.
Tastes like a cold cup of coffee in the morning for those who’ve grown fond of “Lee’s Lieutenants.” The notion that Richmond was not the cornerstone of the Confederacy? That it could be sacrificed? What a difference perspective makes!
MacGrath again pressed for men to defend South Carolina:
To save it we must have troops. It is in this connection that I must bring also to your attention the vital consequence of attending at once to Branchville as a place to be fortified and to which troops should be sent. Its strategic importance I am sure is too manifest to require from me any urgency in bringing it to your notice. There are no works there which are of the slightest consequence. I understand surveys are now making; it is difficult to understand why they were not made before this time. You will not understand from this that I wish to indulge in censure or criticism, but to indicate to you that a position of the utmost consequence is not prepared for resistance to the attempt which may be reasonably supposed will be made to possess it. If that attempt should be successful our future will be greatly clouded.
From that point, MacGrath also picked at an “interfearance” of the Confederate government into the state. Specifically he noted the number of “detailed men” working in important positions supporting the war effort, and thus except from militia service.
It matters little how they may be, except in this respect: that their absence from all appearance of military service by so much diminishes the influences with which I am now attempting to quicken and excite our people not only to effective resistance, but to that confidence in the success of that resistance which will assist me in my efforts and sustain them in their conduct.
MacGrath asked for a “show.” He wanted the detailed men to appear on public parade so their service was clearly shown to the people. This, he felt, would undercut criticism and demonstrate no favoritism was in play.
Closing, MacGrath wrote:
These suggestions I make to you with the conviction that you will assist me in every way to develop now all of our resources to aid you in the task that is before you and us. There are other matters concerning which I will at an early day communicate with you.
MacGrath had inherited a problem. And the nature of the problem was not altered as the office-holder changed. There was little he, or Davis, could do to forestall the advance that would step forward from Savannah.
(Citation from OR, Series I, Volume 44, Serial 92, pages 986-8.)
Marching Through Georgia, December 5, 1864: Drama at Ogeechee Creek ends with a fizzle
5 December 2014 26 December 2014 Craig Swain American Civil War, Charleston SC, Fort Sumter, Sherman's March Beaverdam Creek, Charleston, Coatal Plain, Fort Sumter, Henry Hitchcock, Henry Slocum, Jefferson C. Davis, John Geary, John Sprague, Joseph Mower, March to the Sea, Ogeechee Creek, Oliver GA, Oliver O. Howard, Soil, William T. Sherman, Wiregrass
Let me get all “science-y” on you to start today and talk about soils and vegetation. As Major-General William T. Sherman’s armies marched today they crossed an important line, but one not marked on their maps. Forward elements passed into the “Atlantic Coast Flatwoods” soil province:
OK, big deal? As far as the army is concerned, soil is what they march over or dig in, right? Well two points for consideration. First, as the march transited from the Piedmont, over the sand hills and fall line, to the coastal plan areas, there was less and less of the famous “Georgia clay.” Sand is the predominate soil type, but that is not to say it is not fertile. Indeed, the area was good pasture-land and for root crops. But less so for grains, except for rice. That has, of course, some implications for an army foraging its way along.
Second change due to the soil type is the natural vegetation. The soldiers’ diaries began to mention a lot of pine trees and different kind of grass. Let me borrow an image from the University of Florida:
Aristida stricta… Wiregrass. OK, but the army was not there to cultivate natural grasses. So what is the big deal? Well look at the line, “blooms only after a growing-season burn.” The eco-system of the “Atlantic Coast Flatwoods”, or shall we call it “Pine Barrens,” depended upon a cycle of wild-fires. Now with an army that is – shall we say – pre-disposed to the use of matches passing through, wild-fires were commonplace. Fires marked the path of the army. And a haze of smoke covered it. In short, soil types are important to armies, and even to historians.
The reason I am able to allocate space to talking about sand and grass is the “fizzle” to the drama that was expected on December 5, 1864. The movements of Sherman’s force centered on one critical objective – Train Station 4½, where Ogeechee Creek gave the Confederates a good defensive position to block the march. On December 4, scouts from the Seventeenth Corps reported defenders well entrenched there. And that information governed the Federal movements of the day… even though the Confederates had already withdrawn the evening prior:
Sherman’s plan was to have Seventeenth Corps confront the Confederate positions in front, while the Twentieth Corps moved up on the left, and behind the Confederate line. The Fifteenth Corps, with its pontoon train, would threaten a crossing of the Ogeechee River downstream, if necessary.
With the First Division under Major General Joseph Mower at the point, the Seventeenth Corps advanced toward Station 4½ that morning. Behind a screen of mounted men was a pioneer section, followed by Second Brigade of Brigadier-General John Sprague. Supporting that lead brigade was a battery of artillery and the corps’ pontoon train. The formation was configured to secure and improve the approaches to the creek, assuming the need to “develop” the position while other forces maneuvered on the flanks. But as the scouts approached the site of skirmishing on the previous day, they encountered no Confederates. While the train bridge over Ogeechee Creek was destroyed, a wagon bridge would allow passage of at least the vanguard. The engineers promptly went to work laying a better bridge.
Sherman, moving with the Seventeenth Corps, came forward later in the day the station. In a dispatch to Major-General Oliver O. Howard, commanding the Right Wing, he provided his assessment of the situation and amended guidance for movements to follow:
Since sending the messenger to you this morning General Blair has entered this place almost unopposed. Some field works are fresh, and, so far as I have examined, would be such as would be thrown up by 5,000 inexperienced hands. General Slocum reports he will be to-night at the point where his road next north of this intersects the one from here to Poor Robin, but he has not heard from Generals Davis and Kilpatrick since he heard their firing yesterday morning. Davis has orders to move from the point where he separated from Slocum, viz, Buck Head Church, to Halley’s Ferry, abreast of this on the Savannah, via Sylvania. I have sent a courier to General Slocum, to communicate with General Davis at once and report to me at what moment he will be ready to move on. You will observe that, with Davis at Halley’s, we threaten South Carolina, and to that extent will confuse our enemy; but I will not lose a moment, only we must move in concert, or else will get lost. You may make all the dispositions to cross at 3, but the point 2 is the true one, unless modified by local geography. I will disturb the railroad but little south of this, as we may have use for it out this far. Still, Blair can burn the bridges and culverts, and also enough cotton-gins and barns to mark the progress of his head of column. I don’t want him to start till I know Davis is abreast.
Sherman wanted to setup the next move by closing, compacting his columns. Take note here. We often read about battles in which commanders commit their forces piecemeal, or “what ifs” that center on the late or tardy arrival of formations to the battlefield. What Sherman did on December 5 is an example of how to avoid those problems. And even though the most obtuse observer could see his objective was Savannah, Sherman kept options open with threats to Charleston.
Sherman sent orders for Major-General Henry Slocum to hurry the Left Wing forward, particularly bringing the Fourteenth Corps, under Major-General Jefferson C. Davis, to close up the gap. For the day’s march, Davis recorded:
The 5th, after a hard day’s march over country roads which required much repairing, the whole corps, with Kilpatrick’s cavalry, encamped in the vicinity of Jacksonborough, the advance at Buck Creek Post-Office.
To facilitate the linkup of Brigadier-General Absalom Baird’s division and the cavalry, the engineers repaired a bridge over Beaverdam Creek during the night. And verbally orders passed down to once again pull the bridge up after the last military units crossed, in an effort to discourage the growing number of former slaves who were following the corps.
The Twentieth Corps, just to the south, also closed up its formation that day. The lead division marched only a few miles before halting. But the trail divisions labored forward on bad roads. Brigadier-General John Geary recorded:
December 5, moved at 6.30 a.m. Crossed during the day Little Horse Creek, south fork of Little Ogeechee, destroying all bridges after crossing. Much of the route to-day was through swamps, which had to be corduroyed for my trains. At the south fork of Little Ogeechee I destroyed a large saw-mill. Here we heard what the inhabitants stated to be cannon in Charleston Harbor, about 100 miles distant. Weather pleasant; country poor. Distance t0-day, twelve miles.
The next day, the Charleston Courier ran this update for the “Five Hundred and Fifteenth Day” of the siege of the city:
The agreement … for a suspension of all firing in the harbor and upon the city during the continuance of the exchange of prisoners at this point, was unintentionally violated by a sharpshooter at Fort Sumter Monday…. One of our men observing a body of men at [Battery] Gregg, fired his rifle, the ball taking effect upon one of the party and, it is believed, killing him. The enemy thereupon opened all their batteries upon Fort Sumter, and kept up a heavy fire for about an hour, firing twenty-six shots.
Soon afterward an apology silenced the guns, allowing Charlestonians, and Geary in Georgia, a quiet evening.
At Ogeechee Creek, staff-officer Major Henry Hitchcock accompanied Sherman forward. Waiting their turn to cross the creek, Sherman remarked, “This is better than having to fight those fellows in the bushes, ain’t it?” Later, as he explained how the abandoned line changed the situation, Sherman explained the military maneuvers to Hitchcock, “Now you understand what a flank movement means.” In conclusion, Hitchcock would add in his diary, “Flanking is good – very.”
Following the march by markers, today you would look again at the marker located in modern day Oliver and one where the town of Jacksonboro once stood.
(Citations from OR, Series I, Volume 44, Serial 92, pages 165, 275, and 628; Charleston Courier, December 6, 1864, page 1, column 3; Henry Hitchcock, Marching with Sherman: passages from the letters and campaign diaries of Henry Hitchcock, Yale University Press, 1927, pages 145-8.)
The Military Districts of South Carolina
22 December 2013 22 December 2013 Craig Swain American Civil War, Charleston SC Alfred Rhett, Beverly Robertson, Charleston, Fifth Military District, First Military District, Fort Sumter, Fourth Military District, Henry Wise, Johnson Hagood, Morris Island, Roswell Ripley, Second Military District, Seventh Military District, Sixth Military District, Third Military District, W.S. Walker, William Taliaferro
Call this a resource post – the boring administrative details behind the other stories and threads. For the Federals operating in the Department of the South, organization is relatively straight forward. Both the Army and the Navy forces operated, generally speaking, across the same set of boundaries. A close relation exists for the main elements of the Tenth Corps and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. While divisions operated in front of Charleston, supported by major fleet elements, brigades garrisoned other locations supported by gunboats.
General P.G.T. Beauregard’s Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida matched that of the Federal department, for the most part, in terms of geography. But let’s just say the organization of Confederate forces in the department continually required adjustment. Particularly within South Carolina. In April 1863, when the ironclads first attacked Fort Sumter, Beauregard had three military districts within South Carolina:
First Military District under Brigadier-General Roswell Ripley covering from the Stono River, at Rantowles Creek, north to North Carolina.
Second Military District under Brigadier-General Johnson Hagood, with the land between the Stono and Ashepoo River under charge.
Third Military District under Brigadier-General W.S. Walker with everything between the Ashepoo and Savannah Rivers.
Earlier in February, Beauregard consolidated the Fourth Military District, which had covered the coast between the Santee River and North Carolina, including the small port of Georgetown, into the First Military District. As such, the defense of South Carolina’s coast, from an administrative standpoint, looked liked this:
The largest of these districts, the first, included several subordinate commands (dashed lines) including James Island and St. Andrew’s Parish, Sullivan’s Island and Christ Church Parish, Morris Island, Fort Sumter, Castle Pinckney and Fort Ripley, Georgetown and vicinity, and the City of Charleston itself. While the First District contained about a division’s strength of troops, the other two districts were at best reinforced brigades.
This arrangement remained in place through July. At that point, the Federal operations necessitated some changes. The Second and Third Military Districts remained unchanged in terms of geographic coverage, but with with much reduced troop strength. With much of the infantry reallocated to defend the outer Charleston defenses, neither district retained more than a regiment strength overall, and most of that was cavalry and artillery. Beauregard reconstituted the Fourth Military District. The Fourth, likewise, was assigned mostly cavalry and artillery.
The First Military District reorganized to include five sub-divisions. On July 30 the organization was:
First Sub-Division on James Island and including St. Andrew’s Parrish.
Second Sub-Division on Sullivan’s Island and including Christ Church Parrish.
Third Sub-Division on Morris Island.
Fourth Sub-Division at Fort Sumter and including Castle Pinckney and Fort Ripley.
Fifth Sub-Division garrisoning the inner defenses of Charleston itself and including the upper reaches of Charleston Neck.
The fall of Batteries Wagner and Gregg brought on the need to re-arrange this organization. Special Orders No. 218, issued on October 22, reduced Ripley’s First Military Division in size, though not in importance. The orders carved out three new districts from the old First:
1. Fort Sumter, Sullivan’s and Long Island, and the parishes of Christ Church and Saint Thomas, under Brigadier-General Ripley, will be designated as the First Military District.
2. The city, to include the lines on the Neck, Fort Ripley, and Castle Pinckney, under Colonel [Alfred] Rhett, will be designated as the Fifth Military District.
3. The parish of Saint Andrew’s will be divided into two districts; the first, commanded by Brigadier-General [Henry] Wise, to embrace all that part south of the Ashley River and west of Wappoo Cut, and to include the têtes-de-pont at Rantowles Station and the work at Church Flats, will be designated as the Sixth Military District; the second, to include James Island, under Brigadier-General [William] Taliaferro, will be designated as the Seventh Military District.
The new arrangements looked as thus on the map:
The orders stipulated that the commanders of those three new districts would report directly to the department headquarters. Thus for the first time in the year a significant portion of the defense of Charleston lay outside the command of Ripley.
Threats to the Charleston and Savannah Railroad prompted another change in early December. Under Special Orders No. 257, the boundaries of the Second, Third, and Sixth Military Districts were adjusted to provide better defense of that valuable line:
1. The Sixth Military District, Brigadier-General Wise commanding, will extend to embrace all the country to the east bank of the North Edisto, from the mouth to Gioham’s Ferry. The headquarters of this district will be at or near Adams Run.
2. The Second Military District, brigadier-General [Beverly] Robinson commanding, will include all of the country between the western limit of the Sixth Military District and the Combahee and the Little Salkehatchie Rivers, and the southern boundary of Barnwell district to the Edisto River. Headquarters at or near the Ashepoo Railroad Bridge.
3. The Third Military District will include all between the western limits of the Second Military District an the Savannah River. Brigadier-General Walker will transfer, if necessary, his headquarters to such a point in his district as he may find best suited for the discharge of his duties.
As depicted on the map, this new arrangement, spread responsibilities for the defense of the railroad more equitably between the three districts:
An organizational report posted for December 31, 1863 indicated the following strengths within the districts:
First – 4,541 man effective strength, with fourteen field artillery pieces, and heavy artillery in the forts.
Second – 1,799 man effective strength and four pieces of artillery.
Third – 4,140 man effective strength and twenty-one artillery pieces.
Fourth – 1,186 man effective strength and six artillery pieces.
Fifth – 1,611 man effective strength with heavy guns posted in the batteries along Charleston’s waterfront.
Sixth – 2,842 man effective strength and sixteen artillery pieces.
Seventh – 6,007 man effective strength, eight field pieces, plus heavy guns in Fort Johnson and other fortifications on James Island.
The arrangement of December 2nd put Legareville within the zone controlled by the Sixth Military District. Thus the orders issued to General Wise on December 17, instead of to General Hagood, who commanded troops on nearby James Island. Importantly, Ripley, who had played a very prominent role in operations up to this time, was excluded from the activities in that critical sector.
The evolution of organization within the forces defending South Carolina begs for a more detailed treatment, down to the individual regiments, battalion, company, and battery. That should also include examination of the command assignments. But with so many changes through the year, I struggle to find a good method depicting such on a web-based platform. A challenge!
(Citations from OR, Series I, Volume 28, Part II, Serial 47, pages 441 and 538-9.)
The decline of Charleston as a blockade runner port of entry
22 November 2013 22 November 2013 Craig Swain American Civil War, Naval Blockade runner, Charleston, Frying Pan Shoals, Morris Island, Nassau, USS Lodona, Wilmington
Among the justifications for operations against Charleston was the use of the port by blockade runners. If Charleston to fall into Federal hands, of course this would close the port to such trade. But several situations well short of the city’s capture could curtail, if not stop, blockade running at the port. And that is precisely how events played out over the late summer and fall of 1863.
After the April ironclad attack on Fort Sumter, blockade running activity continued as if nothing had changed. That’s because for all practical purposes nothing had changed. The Confederates still held positions overlooking the approaches to Charleston. When the Ruby ran aground at Lighthouse Inlet on June 11, 1863, it was the treacherous waterway stopping the blockade runner, not Federal guns. Turning to Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War, and historian Stephen R. Wise’s appendices listing details of blockade runner activity by port, there were twenty-three departures from Charleston between May 1 and July 10, 1863. Two of those runners were captured after departing port and three were destroyed (including the former USS Isaac Smith) before leaving port. At the same time, twenty times runners successfully dodged the blockade to enter Charleston. So Charleston remained “open for business.”
That changed with the July 10 landings on Morris Island and the long summer siege of Confederate positions on the north end of the island. Again, turning to Wise’s appendices, the activity was:
July 20 – Margaret and Jessie arriving from Nassau.
July 22 – Alice arriving from Nassau.
July 23 – Fannie arriving from Nassau.
August 1 – Margaret and Jessie outbound for Nassau.
August 3 – Antonica outbound for Nassau.
August 15 – Alice outbound for Nassau.
August 16 – Spaulding arriving from Nassau.
August 22 – Fannie outbound for Nassau.
September 18 – Spaulding outbound for Nassau.
And that was it for the year. With Federals turning Battery Gregg into Fort Putnam, the main entrance to Charleston was under the guns. With those batteries covering the channels, the Navy could concentrate steamers to better intercept those entering port. Not until March would any blockade runners register successful calls at Charleston.
Of those runners listed above, all save one became regulars at Wilmington, North Carolina. That one, the Spaulding, was captured by Federals on October 11, 1863 while preparing a return to Charleston. There were “runs” at Charleston, but no successes. Given that situation, Wilmington rose to prominence as the main port of call for blockade runners on the Atlantic Coast.
Likewise encounters in the waters off Wilmington increased. On November 16, the USS Lodona stopped and seized the British schooner Arctic, just southwest of Frying Pan Shoals. Although the captain of the schooner maintained he was bound for Baltimore with his load of salt, Acting Lieutenant Edgar Brodhead of the Lodona thought otherwise:
Her cargo was found to be salt, and the following papers were found on board, viz: Her register at the port of Nassau, shipping articles and list of her crew, clearance from Nassau for Baltimore, a bill of lading for 450 bags of salt, a sealed document addressed to “Kirkland, Chase & Co., consignees, Baltimore,” and a seal letter to Mr. _ Jenkins, Baltimore. No long book was on board, her master stating that he had had none. Some of my crew who boarded her informed me that some of her crew stated that she had been “knocking about” the place of her capture for several days, and that they believed she intended to run the blockade.
Her position, course, etc., led me to believe that she was trying to violate the blockade of Wilmington, N.C., and that it was consequently my duty to seize her.
The Lodona was a captured blockade runner herself.
The emerging importance of Wilmington would prompt a shift of steamers in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. And of course, you are probably thinking that Truman Seymour’s plan of action against Wilmington would have been right on queue. After all, as proven at Charleston, the most effective and efficient way to blockade a port is to have a few well placed batteries at the approaches.
(Citation from ORN, Series I, Volume 15, pages 116-7.)
150 years ago: Jefferson Davis visits Charleston
2 November 2013 22 December 2013 Craig Swain American Civil War, Charleston SC Charleston, Jefferson Davis
At around 1 p.m. this afternoon 150 years ago (November 2, 1863), President Jefferson Davis arrived by train at the Saint Andrews Parish depot across the Ashley River from Charleston. Davis had visited with the Army of Tennessee in October and was returning to Richmond by way of Savannah, Charleston, and, Wilmington. According to newspaper accounts General P.G.T. Beauregard, Judge A.G. Magrath, and other dignitaries met Davis at the depot and escorted him into Charleston:
The procession, being formed, took up its line of march up Spring street to Rutledge, from Rutledge to Calhoun, up Calhoun to Meeting and down Meeting to City Hall.
The streets along the line of procession were thronged with people anxious to get a look at the President. The men cheered and the ladies waved their handkerchiefs in token of recognition.
One of the most pleasing incidents of the day, was the display which met the President and his cortege as the passed down Rutledge street. At the corner of Bee and Rutledge streets, Maj. Trezevant, commanding the Confederate States Arsenal here, had arranged a pyramid of ten-inch shell manufactured at the Arsenal. This was topped off with a beautiful “Harding” shell, called so after its inventor, Capt. Harding, also an accomplished officer connected with the arsenal. In this was the staff of an elegant battle flag, and the whole surrounded with Yankee trophies of all sizes. On each side of this striking pyramid were the sturdy artisans of the arsenal, with their aprons on, their hats off, their tools in their hands just as they had left their shops but a few moments before….
Arriving at City Hall, Mayor Charles Macbeth offered a greeting the President. Then Davis gave an address to the “large crowd present”:
He commenced by making a graceful allusion to his former visit to Charleston, when he accompanied the remains of the lamented and illustrious statesman, John C. Calhoun, back to his beloved state. If it be that the departed spirit can look down upon the events of life, with what interest can we not believe he views our present struggle, and in our trial watches over us with all a guardian angel’s care. [Davis] came because his feelings drew him here in this trying time. He desired also to confer with our commanding general, and by personal observation acquire some of that knowledge which would enable him to understand more clearly the reports which would be submitted to him….
Charleston was now singled out as a particular point of hatred to the Yankees, as the nest of the rebellion; but just in proportion to that hatred so is the love of every true son of the Confederacy gathered around us. There is no where a generous spirit in the land that does not watch our progress with the most anxious solicitude….
While they had felt this anxiety, they had not been wanting in confidence. They remembered how the Palmetto logs of Moultrie, in former times, resisted the then dreaded British fleet, and we can point to the defense now against the still more formidable attack on Sumter as but the renewal of the deeds of the past. Though crumbling in her ruins, she yet stands, and every one looks with the anxious hope that the Yankee flag will never float over it. Nobly has the little heroic garrison that now holds it responded to every expectation. The commanding officer there is worthy to be the descendant of that heroic band that defended the pass of Thermopylae, and future records will record his name as glorious, for the defense of the approach to your harbor. Whatever may be in the future, which is in the hands of the Supreme Being, we have written a proud page in our country’s history.
He hoped it would not be, as our enemies desire, that they should ever set foot upon the soil of Charleston. But should it ever be otherwise, he trusted ours would be the glory he had desired for his native country-town, Vicksburg, and the whole be left one mass of rubbish…. It is only a question whether you will leave it a heap of ruins or a prey for Yankee spoils. [Cries of “ruins, ruins.”] Such he believed to be the spirit of the land.
But he did not believe Charleston would ever be taken. It was not his expectation. Just in proportion as the enemy advanced upon us, they increase their difficulties – difficulties which they have not yet overcome. They are yet brought under a concentrated fire, and as they approach the inner lines of circumvallation their difficulties will be still further increased as they progress….
When they attempt to attack us upon every side, and beleaguer us at different points, other arms will be released, and other arms will come to your assistance. In any event, therefore, he looked forward to a glorious record of the close of the struggle for Charleston. In any probability he looked forward for her honor to be preserved. On other fields South Carolinians have already added luster to the brilliant victories of the present day and to their glories of the past….
South Carolinians, like the plume of Henry the Fourth, have been a rallying point wherever their banners were borne. We will have more glorious names to record and proud incidents for our descendants. The new has overshadowed the old. Every man has now an opportunity to carve out his own name and fame, and to be the author of his own history. We all like to trace back to the fame of our fathers and to leave some glorious record for our descendants….
He who would now seek to drag down him who is struggling, if not a traitor, is first cousin to it. For he is striking the most deadly blows that can be made in our limits. He who would attempt to promote his own personal ends; he who is not willing to take a musket and fight in the ranks, is not worthy of the Confederate liberty for which we are fighting….
After his address, Davis thanked the people and retired to the council chamber where he greeted officers, civilian leaders, and some citizens. During the day, Federal batteries on Morris Island and ironclads in the channel continued the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The big guns fired between 735 and 765 shots depending on which journal entry is referenced. During daylight hours, the rate was at least one round every three to four minutes (likely higher). So one might imagine Davis’ speech punctuated at points by the distant rumble of artillery out at the harbor’s mouth.
The following day, Beauregard showed Davis the defenses on Sullivan’s Island. And then on November 4th, the President toured James Island’s defenses. President Davis had seen the siege of Charleston, and now made his way to Wilmington.
(Newspaper account cited above is from the Memphis Appeal, at that time published in Atlanta, Georgia, for the day of November 4, 1863. The Memphis Appeal cites the Charleston Courier as the original article source.)
“Ideas of advance from North Edisto”: Confederates strengthen Saint Andrew’s Parish
24 October 2013 22 December 2013 Craig Swain American Civil War Charleston, Johnson Hagood, Saint Andrew's Parrish
Back in the spring, while going “round the horn” examining the Charleston defenses, I held off discussing the defenses to the west of Charleston in Saint Andrew’s Parish. Two very important transportation links to Savannah passed through the Parish – The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Charleston-Savannah Turnpike. To the south of the mainland part of Saint Andrew’s, the Stono River turned west and then back south. Further south, the North Edisto River meandered through the backwater to join the Stono and form a channel leading towards Charleston. These rivers ran dangerously close to the railroad and turnpike. From the time of the Federal capture of Port Royal, small garrisons screened the transportation lines in small, light batteries.
Prior to the Morris Island Campaign, the threat to St. Andrews was mostly from Federal raids. But with a large infantry force just marking time on the barrier islands, Confederate authorities assessed the risk of a little more than a raid. In early October, 1863, General P.G.T. Beauregard called upon Brigadier-General Johnson Hagood to assess that risk, in particular a Federal advance up the North Edisto River. Hagood felt such a Federal offensive might resemble that seen on Morris Island:
The enemy’s object in selecting this line would be to obtain a pointd’appui from which a sap could be pushed with decisive results against the body of the place, and at the same time to effect a practical investment of the town. Charleston Neck would be the point aimed at. In reaching this point, he would probably adopt the plan of pushing a strong column of light troops at once for a point above Bee’s Ferry, on the Ashley, where the river may be pontooned or is fordable, and effecting the investment of the town, while he would, for the purpose of securing his communications, primarily direct his main operations against our defenses in Saint Andrew’s Parish. Under the difficulties he would have to encounter in field transportation, I take it that water transportation to a point on the main in Saint Andrew’s east of Rantowles would be of the highest consequence with him.
Hagood felt the most likely line of advance would cross from Seabrook Island on the coast, up the North Edisto River, onto John’s Island. A small force could delay the advance. And a strong line of defense would use the marshes to constrain the Federals.
However, Hagood pointed out that if the Federals allocated sufficient strength, they could bypass Saint Andrew’s entirely and move around to Charleston Neck directly. But he turned that into a stratagem, “for the cardinal idea in our defense should be to compel the enemy, in his efforts get on the Neck, to swing round with as long a radius as possible, Charleston being the center.” Hagood felt the longer that line was drawn out, the more vulnerable any Federal operations. Hagood proceeded to outline three separate lines of resistance across St. Andrew’s Parrish to contest such a sweeping advance.
But in summation, Hagood complained that the command assigned to protect Saint Andrew’s Parrish – called the Second Military District in his report, but after October 22nd the Sixth Military District – lacked the resources to conduct the defensive operations he mentioned. However through October the Confederates did improve the works defending the important railroad line and approaches from the Stono River.
The same board that recommended the improved lines on James Island also called for improvements in the batteries along the Upper Stono and in Saint Andrew’s Parish. These included:
Battery Wilkes with one 24-pdr siege gun and one 18-pdr siege gun (to be rifled).
Battery Haig with two 24-pdr rifles (which needed banding).
Battery Geddes with one 24-pdr smoothbore and one 12-pdr rifle.
Turnpike “Line of Inundation” with one 32-pdr navy gun, one 24-pdr smoothbore, one 18-pdr smoothbore, and one 12-pdr smoothbore.
In addition, Battery Palmer, off my map to the west, had one 8-inch Shell Gun, two 32-pdr seacoast guns, two 24-pdr siege guns, and one 12-pdr rifle. On the inland side of these works were a set of battery positions for field pieces. The largest of these was called Fort Bull and covered a bridge over the Ashley River.
These works were sufficient to deflect a Federal raiding party. But in the face of a major offensive, would need reinforcement. While the defenses of Saint Andrew’s was never directly tested by the Federals, as we consider the plans and possibilities at Charleston the inadequacies of these works must factor in.
(Citations from OR, Series I, Volume 28, Part II, Serial 47, pages 393-395.)
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Metro Screen To Close
By metroscreen September 10, 2015 Blog
It is with deep regret and considerable sadness that the Board of Directors of Metro Screen has announced that the Sydney-based organisation will close at the end of 2015.
With Screen Australia funding to cease at the end of 2015 and no viable alternative funding available, Chair of the Metro Screen Board Kath Shelper said that the only responsible option was to wind down operations.
“Every effort has been made by Metro Screen to secure additional funding but to no avail. We need to be responsible to our staff and ensure we are able to meet our obligations to them, and therefore it is with regret that the Board has made the decision to close Metro Screen in December 2015,” Ms Shelper said.
The Screen Australia funding of $240,000 was directed solely to core operational costs (overheads). Metro Screen CEO Christina Alvarez said to cover this loss, the challenge has been to secure approximately $750,000 annually in new projects: “Whilst Metro Screen has successfully secured some significant high profile projects in the past 12 months, unfortunately the target has not been met. Financial sustainability can not be achieved through downsizing the organisation.”
The current Board Directors of Metro Screen are Kath Shelper (Chair), Stephen Boyle, Jarod Green, Cassie Jackson, Claire Morgan, Cate Smith, Gary Williams and Malinda Wink.
Ms Shelper said the Emerging Sector Working Party, which was established following the funding cut, has been guiding research about talent regeneration in the screen industry and the resulting report is expected to be released in November, with a public forum to be held soon after. Working Party members include independent producers Liz Watts, Martha Coleman and Alex White, ADG’s Kingston Anderson, SPA’s Matt Hancock, Metro Screen Board Members Jarod Green and Kath Shelper and CEO Christina Alvarez.
“Metro Screen would particularly like to acknowledge and thank Screen NSW and the City of Sydney for their unwavering support over many years but particularly over the past 18 months,” Ms Shelper said. “And the Board would also like to thank CEO Christina Alvarez and her staff for their hard work and dedication”.
Established in 1981 with funding from the Australian Film Commission, Metro Screen is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the emerging screen community. Metro Screen has grown over the past decade to manage a span of projects and activities across all screen formats, large and tiny, with a passionate commitment to supporting a diversity of voices amongst emerging practitioners with hands-on production, networking opportunities, skills development and access to equipment and facilities.
Current Metro Screen programs and activities will continue unaffected until the end of the year.
Further details about the research report and forum will be announced in October.
Tracey Mair, TM Publicity
Ph: 8333 9066 or 0419 221 493
CLOSURE FACT SHEET
In taking the decision to close Metro Screen it will be business as usual until the end of this year (2015) as follows:
The Emerging Filmmaker Fund will continue with shortlisted applicants to be contacted in early October.
The Breaks production program and Emerging Producer Placement scheme will be supported through to the end of this year as scheduled.
Current training programs will continue as scheduled. Students will receive specific details regarding graduation and internships.
Jumpstart subsidies are available until year-end.
Digital Escalator will remain open until year-end.
Film Festivals Australia members will receive a direct update on plans.
We will continue to hire equipment & facilities until December.
Please contact us on admin@metroscreen.org.au if you are currently participating in a Metro Screen activity and have a specific query.
Vicki Sowry says:
As someone who started my career at Metro Screen, this is very, very sad news. All best wishes to Christina, David, Ian and the rest of the team.
Fred Harden says:
Sad indeed, thank you for the years of encouraging and supporting filmmakers et al.
Ali Saad says:
This is very sad. Thank you for all your support and services throughout the years. It won’t be the same. Good luck to all affected by this.
Peter Giles says:
So sad to hear this news, I started my career at Metro Screen and I’m proud that I played a part in the life of this vital organisation. This is a huge loss for new and emerging filmmakers and underscores the lack of vision in Screen Australia who insist on underwriting baby boomers ahead of providing support to young talent. All the best to the team at Metro – you guys are awesome!
Jason Gee says:
Ditto on all the sadness: This is terrible news, having temporarily filled in for Ian earlier this year I know what a blow this will mean for all the great staff and the many clients that use Metro. I know how important Metro is for this city…
It is particularly sad for people like me that are in the middle of their studies. I have a couple of subjects left to finalise my Certificate IV in Screen Media and unfortunately cannot graduate by the end of 2015. At least I can say that the teachers were supportive and helpful. Best wishes to the Metro Screen Team. I am grateful for everything you have taught me. I will miss you.
Thanks for everything George Brandis. Two years of cuts to the screen and arts sectors are starting to bite.
Billy Marshall Stoneking says:
I invite everyone to come to SIFA (Randwick TAFE) and become part of our long-form drama production slates, writing, casting, producing, directing, editing, designing mixing and grading features, feature docos and television series. Our first feature is nearly finished and we are already in pre-production for the next. learn on the job making films and tv series. Mentors include me, Warren Lynch, Adrian Bilensky, Bernie Zelvis, Peter Millyn,and others.
Writers in the Park says:
Metro Screen has been one of those grass roots organisations that reflect, help and are integral to the film community – the film future for Australian creators is bleak. I guess @witpsyd has come out of a desire to have an Australian creative voice where the clan and community can gather over story and ideas. Please join us Sunday 27th Sept in @CentParklands inside the Paddington Gates #writepark
Cathy Vogan says:
My life as an artist started in this building, at the Australian Video Festival, and I spent 5 great years teaching at Metro. I am deeply saddened to hear of the schools’s demise. Around 2010, this creative space began to suffer under the stringent, corporate demands of the VET system, and we all got swamped with paperwork that hardly corresponded to what we had been doing at all, but upon which a great deal of our funding depended. New certifications of the month became obligatory, on top of our University degrees and industry qualifications, and Metro had to pour back money into this system to re-qualify us just to teach there. Brandis and Screen Australia may have dealt the death blow, but unfortunately the corporate creep had been happening for some time…
No. This is terrible news. Unbelievable. Metro TV was some of the best years of my life.
Lisa Milner says:
My thanks to all at Metro Screen. I’ve been working on and off with those great folks since 1981, and it’s truly unbelievable that the government and its bodies reckon’s it’s OK to shut down Metro Screen. A huge loss for Sydney and NSW.
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Grand Event Center | Jim Choura Featured
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From 1913 to 1969, John Choura Sr. owned and operated meat markets in Chicago, built a successful grocery market chain and developed a restaurant landmark with long lines and a short wait. The success of these properties led the Choura family to California in the late 60’s, where they emerged in Long Beach as one of Southern California’s first catering companies.
Their reputation of superior service continued through three generations by offering quality food and beverage products one guest at a time and catering events such as the first Long Beach Grand Prix.
In the late 90’s, the legacy of the iconic Elks Lodge was coming to an end and needed new vision and a restored relevancy for the community. In 1997, The Grand Long Beach Event Center was born through an overhaul of all the event spaces including the Grand Ballroom and both outdoor courtyards, while the facility received exterior repairs and interior upgrades and enhancements.
“Event space is just the beginning when planning and creating amazing events,” says Jim Choura, Chief Executive Officer of Choura Venue Services.
Today, The Grand Long Beach focuses on creating a family-oriented yet professional experience for its guests and continues its legacy of high service standards. With a talented and energetic staff of 65 full time event professionals, we are proud to produce over 1,000 truly unique events every year.
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Caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of improper contact with a victim and to providing certain rights to a victim of a criminal offense and the victim's family regarding contact by an inmate or an inmate's representative.
Author: Howard, Donna | et. al.
Committees: Criminal Jurisprudence
Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the creation of the offense of improper contact with an adult victim of a criminal offense and providing certain rights to a victim and the victim's family regarding contact by an inmate or an inmate's representative.
Author: Rodríguez, José
Committees: Criminal Justice
Last Action: Referred to Criminal Justice
82nd 1st Called Session, 2011
HR 232 (82nd 1st C.S.)
Caption: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1.
Author: Pitts, Jim
Last Action: Reported enrolled
SB 1 (82nd 1st C.S.)
Caption: Relating to certain state fiscal matters; providing penalties.
Author: Duncan, Robert | et. al.
Sponsor: Pitts, Jim
Committees: Appropriations | Finance
Last Action: See remarks for effective date
SCR 5 (82nd 1st C.S.)
Caption: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections in S.B. No. 1.
Author: Duncan, Robert
Last Action: Signed by the Governor
SR 130 (82nd 1st C.S.)
Caption: Relating to the registration of sex offenders who claim no residence.
Author: Bohac, Dwayne
Last Action: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to certain personnel policies of the Texas Department of Corrections and to certain related duties of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Author: Turner, Sylvester
Committees: Corrections
Last Action: Referred to Corrections
HB 278 (71st R.S.)
Caption: Relating to the awarding of commissary credits as work incentives for certain inmates in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Evans, Larry
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the employment of inmates in the prison industries program of the Texas Department of Corrections and to the payment of those inmates.
Caption: Relating to the training and placement of certain registered nurses who provide nursing services at the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Melton, Bob
Last Action: Reported from s/c favorably w/amdt(s)
Caption: Relating to the establishment of an intensive recovery program for inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections with a history of alcohol or drug abuse.
Author: Alexander, Clyde | et. al.
Sponsor: Edwards, Chet
Committees: Corrections | Criminal Justice
Last Action: Reported favorably w/o amendments
Caption: Relating to the entitlement of employees of the Texas Department of Corrections to retain certain vacation leave time and compensatory leave time accumulated by those employees.
Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
Caption: Relating to the imposition of fees on conviction of certain offenses for the purpose of establishing the Texas Department of Corrections construction account.
Author: Shelley, Dan
Caption: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Department of Corrections obtain a specimen of body tissue from certain inmates for possible use in future criminal investigations.
Author: Campbell, Ben
Caption: Relating to the payment of discharge money to an inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Stiles, Mark
Sponsor: Haley, Bill
Last Action: Laid on table subj. to call in comm.
Caption: Relating to awards of good conduct time to inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections who display valor or extraordinary achievement.
Last Action: Pending in committee
Caption: Relating to a requirement that each inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections capable of working be actively engaged in an agricultural or industrial program or other work program.
Author: Repp, Glenn
Caption: Relating to the establishment of an intensive alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation program in the Texas Department of Corrections and to the transfer of certain state hospitals to the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Johnson, Sam
Caption: Relating to the alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation program in the Texas Department of Corrections and to services for alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation contracted for by the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Caption: Relating to the testing of inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections, county and municipal jails, and contract correctional facilities for AIDS and HIV.
Author: Clemons, Billy
Caption: Relating to the special alternative incarceration program for probationers operated by the Texas Department of Corrections.
Sponsor: McFarland, Bob
Caption: Relating to contracts with the Texas Board of Corrections for the financing, construction, operation, maintenance, or management of secure correctional facilities.
Author: Smith, Dalton
Caption: Relating to the forfeiture to the Texas Department of Corrections of property used in the commission of criminal offenses.
Last Action: Laid on table subj. to call in s/c
Caption: Relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for projects relating to corrections institutions and Texas Youth Commission facilities and to emergency appropriations to the Texas Department of Corrections for....
Author: Hightower, Allen
Committees: Corrections | Finance
Caption: Relating to the appointment of an inmate as a trusty of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/28/89
Caption: Relating to the confidentiality of certain records created and maintained by the Texas Department of Corrections.
Sponsor: Armbrister, Kenneth
Committees: State Affairs | State Affairs
Last Action: Reported favorably w/amendments
Caption: Relating to an exemption from certain licensing requirements for inmates incarcerated in the Texas Department of Corrections who perform barbering.
Committees: Corrections | Economic Development
Caption: Relating to the creation of promotional standards for employees of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Telford, Barry
Caption: Relating to the polygraph examination of a complainant of a violent offense, certain peace officers, and employees of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Hinojosa, Juan
Sponsor: Zaffirini, Judith
Committees: Criminal Jurisprudence | Criminal Justice
Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to disciplinary procedures for certain employees of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Valigura, Keith
Caption: Relating to psychiatric inpatient beds provided by the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Swift, Dick
Caption: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Department of Human Services provide medical care for children born while the mother is imprisoned in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Sponsor: Brooks, Chet
Committees: Human Services | Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the compensation of counsel appointed to defend indigent inmates charged with criminal offenses while confined in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Parker, Jim
Committees: Appropriations
Caption: Relating to the payment by the state of expenses involved in the prosecution of certain offenses committed in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Sponsor: Caperton, Kent
Caption: Relating to contracts between counties and the Texas Board of Corrections and between counties and private vendors for the provision of correctional facilities.
Author: Schlueter, Stan
Caption: Relating to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Department of Corrections for the lease-purchase of correctional facilities.
Author: Hudson III, Samuel
Last Action: Referred to Appropriations
Caption: Relating to the payment of money to an inmate on the release of the inmate from the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Garcia, Orlando
Sponsor: Glasgow, Bob
Caption: Relating to the revolving fund of the Industry Division of the Texas Department of Corrections, and declaring an emergency.
Caption: Relating to law enforcement commissions for employees of the Texas Department of Corrections.
Committees: Public Safety | Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to the duty of the Texas Department of Corrections to accept inmates.
Author: Williamson, Richard | et. al.
Caption: Relating to an allocation to counties of bed space in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Caption: Relating to the supervision of persons released from the Texas Department of Corrections on parole or mandatory supervision.
Caption: Relating to state grants to counties to encourage counties to confine certain defendents locally in lieu of sending those defendents to the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Schlueter, Stan | et. al.
Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Corrections to release certain eligible prisoners from confinement under conditions of bond.
HCR 3 (71st R.S.)
Caption: Granting Don Alford and Alford Flying Service permission to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Hury, James
Committees: Judicial Affairs
Last Action: Withdrawn from schedule
HCR 36 (71st R.S.)
Caption: Granting Romar Supply, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas, Texas Department of Corrections and State Purchasing and General Services Commission.
HCR 149 (71st R.S.)
Caption: Granting employees of the Texas Department of Corrections and the Correctional Employees Council permission to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Oakley, Keith
Caption: Granting Lebco Constructors, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Department of Corrections.
Author: Smith, Terral
Last Action: Referred to Judicial Affairs
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Watching Haute Cuisine recently, I stepped out of the cinema with a strong yearning for truffles. It reminded me how powerfully evocative good food movies can be. This year Sydney Film Festival ups the ante even further with a Gourmet Cinema experience, combining Red Obsession - a compelling documentary about high-end Bordeaux wine - with a bespoke dinner by celebrity chef Luke Mangan at Glass Brasserie. Instead of walking out of the cinema craving a glass of red, you’ll be whisked into a sumptuous three-course meal with matching Bordeaux and Eden Road Wines, pitching old world against new world. It’s not until Tuesday June 11th, but at $140/head it’s a shoo-in to sell out quickly…
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It’s hard to believe a year has passed since Schnitzilla. In case you’re scratching your head, it was a 3.5kg food eating challenge held at Essen Restaurant, which saw 450 competitors attempt to eat it over the course of the promotion, with no winner! I’m pleased to report their new challenge, Jurassic Pork, was won on launch night! By comparison it’s an (almost) manageable 1.6kg mountain of juicy pulled pork slathered with house-made barbeque sauce and sitting on coleslaw, inside a veritable loaf of bread. It’s free (if you finish it) or $49.50 if you don’t. For the more sensible amongst us (myself included) you can munch on the JP Express, a mini-version best consumed with glazed doughnut schnapps, as you laugh and laugh…
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Macarons and Mexican seem to be two crazes that Sydney just won’t quit! If you’re after some of the former, MakMak, who opened a Xmas pop-up in Newtown, have decided to make it into a permanent feature. It’s done up like a garden to promote their latest Botanicals collection of macaron flavours. Head on down for apricot and elderflower, rhubarb and rose, or something that’s a bit more my speed – a cocktail macaron of gin, tonic and blood orange!
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Murky weather has me looking for indoor activities, and over the last week I’ve been accompanying them with Australian Brewery beer and these Wonderful Pistachios [RRP $7.99/250g]. I’m totally addicted to both the Sweet Chilli and the Salt and Pepper flavours, so I’m hoping they’ll be stocked in independent grocers some time soon. For now the only place you can buy them are the usual two... Of the two canned easy-drinking, environmentally friendly beers, I preferred The Pilsner to The Pale Ale. If you can’t find it in an independent bottle shop, I also drank it at groovy hidden bar, The Soda Factory.
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Friday, November 18, 2016 [Tweets] [Favorites]
Apple Storing iPhone Call History
Kim Zetter (via Hacker News):
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification.
The logs surreptitiously uploaded to Apple contain a list of all calls made and received on an iOS device, complete with phone numbers, dates and times, and duration. They also include missed and bypassed calls. Elcomsoft said Apple retains the data in a user’s iCloud account for up to four months, providing a boon to law enforcement who may not be able to obtain the data either from the user’s phone, if it’s encrypted with an unbreakable passcode, or from the carrier.
It’s not just regular call logs that get sent to Apple’s servers. FaceTime, which is used to make audio and video calls on iOS devices, also syncs call history to iCloud automatically, according to Elcomsoft. The company believes syncing of both regular calls and FaceTime call logs goes back to at least iOS 8.2, which Apple released in March 2015.
Dan Moren:
Apple is syncing your calls between devices logged in with your Apple ID. In theory, this is no big deal: Apple says that the idea is if you’re logged in to your iPad and your iPhone, you can see the same call record in FaceTime on both of them. Miss a call on your iPhone? You can return it from your iPad. Makes perfect sense as a feature from Apple’s perspective.
Rene Ritchie:
The Information called it “secretly” and “surreptitiously”, but it’s not only wicked obvious why Apple is syncing call history, it’s fully disclosed in Apple’s security white paper.
I’m not really bothered by this, but I would not say that it’s obvious that an item in the “Here’s what iCloud backs up” section is backed up even when iCloud Backup is off.
If call history sync concerns you, you can disable iCloud Drive in preferences and it’ll stop.
There are no separate iCloud Drive settings for Phone or FaceTime, so if this concerns you I guess your only option would be to disable iCloud Drive entirely, which is probably not feasible because it would break other apps.
n8ter#AC:
There is no option to turn it on or off. This makes it completely opaque to the user that this is being done. Also, the way the devices interact with this data can lead a user to believe this is not the case.
If I clear my call log on my iMac, it doesn’t not clear it on my iPhone, and vice versa.
In a Sync’d system, one would expect the data on all connected devices to mirror the Sync’d source, so changes are propagated across devices.
This isn’t the case for Apple devices (in a number of situations), therefore it makes complete sense that it would seem obvious to someone that Apple is not doing this, especially with their heavy “focus” on letting users know that everything stays on their device and is done locally.
Update (2016-11-18): McCloud:
You know what else syncs with catastrophic results? RESETTING NETWORK SETTINGS. Reset my iPhone, my Mac went off the radar. Couldn’t SSH.
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The Land Trust is centrally located within the Algonquin to Adirondack corridor and immediately adjacent to the Frontenac Axis Biosphere Reserve (a designated UNESCO site).
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In Lanark County alone, it still includes some 12,000 acres of County forests as well as significant parcels of Crown lands. Roads, while plentiful in the built up areas, are often limited or absent from the more remote and rugged highland areas.
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The areas away from concentrated human settlements still have relatively small population pressures and hence threats to the wilder areas are not yet as great as they are bound to become.
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Ottawa West includes a part of the City of Ottawa and contains the catchment basins of the Carp River and Constance Creek with the Carp Hills at the approximate centre. This is a rapidly urbanizing area characterized today by intense development pressures on the remaining farmland, forests and wetlands. Nature is in rapid retreat. The area still includes some rich farmland. A very small area where nature is protected is found in the beautiful Morris Island Conservation Area bordering on the Ottawa River and owned by Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority. It is located just above the Chats Hydroelectric Dam where one can enjoy a lovely nature trail through forests and river shoreline.
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The lower south side of the Madawaska River is included in our land trust. The highlands between the Mississippi and the Madawaska include some of the most spectacular scenic lookouts, such as McCreary and Evergreen Mountains, large lakes such as White Lake and some wilderness lakes such as Round and Long Schooners.
Much of the higher land is Crown and subject to cyclical logging. There are many Provincially Significant Wetlands and Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI) in this region and several are legally protected from logging and mining. Some examples would include the White Lake Wetlands Reserve where a combination of forest and wetlands provide habitat for rich biological diversity, and the Fortune-Schooner ANSI which is one of the wildest and most beautiful areas in eastern Ontario. Some private lands have outstanding natural features and would qualify for long term protection under the roof of a land trust.
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The largest part of our region includes the entire catchment basin of the Mississippi River, starting at Mazinaw Lake and Bon Echo Provincial Park in the west and extending eastward to the height of land separating the Mississippi River and the Rideau and Tay Rivers. It includes much Crown Land which is now systematically logged, a dozen larger lakes, and numerous wetlands and streams. In the days of European colonization, the area was largely cleared of its forest and repeatedly burned. Abandoned farms and regenerating forests abound. In the valleys and areas with better soils we now find a patchwork of small towns and hamlets. The region is renowned for its recreational values.
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Kanji 最上啓示
Romaji Mogami Keiji
Alias This Century's Greatest Psychic
Pudding-chan
Race Human (Esper) (former)
Status Unknown
Voice Actor(s)
Sean Chiplock
Manga Chapter 59
Anime Episode 16
Keiji Mogami (最上啓示, Mogami Keiji) is an immensely powerful evil spirit who was once an esper famous for being "The Greatest Psychic of the 20th Century."
While still alive, at his physical peak, Mogami was a regular looking man with flat dark coloured hair and small lines under his eyes. He normally wore a white shirt with green pants and a green blazer. As he got older, his age and world-weariness were visible as he started getting wrinkles.
As a spirit Mogami took on many different forms. For example, when confronting Mob for the first time in his mindscape he appeared just as he did as a human. However, oftentimes this form was underlined by hollow cheeks, dark eyes, and sluggish posture. While watching Mob in his artificial world he would manifest as different small animals such as a crow, a moth, or a caterpillar to spy on him. During his battle with Mob he also appeared as some sort of ghostly wraith of dark green smoke with red eyes, and later as a being composed completely of red and black energy. When he was released from Matsuo's canister by a Claw soldier, he briefly took on the form of the shadow of the girl he possessed, Minori Asagiri. He also temporarily created a massive tree-like body for himself out of Minegishi's plants at one point.
Originally, Keiji Mogami appeared to have a very aloof and content personality, pleased to help whoever he needed and remove any evil spirits who were possessing innocent people. However, he was doing this while being used by many of his employers, and this began to build up negativity inside Mogami. Eventually, this negativity manifested around him, affecting his mother and making her ill. After this, Mogami's morals faded when he was forced to assassinate people in order to get enough money to pay for his mother's bills. Once his mother died, she came back as an evil spirit to inform him that her illness originated all the negativity brought by Mogami, and that his job as an assassin was only making it worse. From this point on, Mogami's faith in humanity significantly deteriorated, and he became determined to gather enough spiritual energy so that when he returned as an evil spirit, he could exact revenge and punish everyone who used others and believe they would never face justice due to their power and position in society
It is because of this that Keiji Mogami became a very bitter man, sick of the greed and selfishness of humanity. Because of the private dealings he did while alive, he lost his moral compass and has become a twisted variant of his former self. After becoming an evil spirit, he vowed to use his power for his own intentions and fix the world by possessing people who appear to gather grudges around them.[1] In this sense, he can be considered an anti-hero, since he punishes corrupt people who abuse their power but still uses unethical means to punish them. However, this hatred and anger against such people develops to the point that he is willing to defeat and nearly kill several hundred psychics who he believes are simply phonies and greedy people without knowing anything about them. Additionally, his morals have become so twisted, Mogami is willing to destroy a young girl's body and brutally impale her father to achieve his whims.
Despite this depravity against many people, he appears to have a soft spot towards Shigeo Kageyama. Upon seeing the unimaginable power he possesses, he decides to bait him into Minori's body, and tells Shigeo that he's never met anyone with the power he possesses, saying he is truly blessed. After reading his emotions, he realizes that he allows other people to use him and sees himself in the child, so in order to try and steer him away from the path he went on, he puts him in a mindscape for six months where he has no powers and has to see the world in a different perspective. He nearly breaks Shigeo, but after Dimple enters the mindscape and reminds Shigeo of who he is, Shigeo snaps out of his original vengeful state, enraging Mogami because he couldn't fully turn him. After a very hard-fought battle, Mogami is eventually defeated, but instead of being angered by his defeat, he accepts it and decides to look at Shigeo's life transpire to see if his decision was the correct one. This demonstrates a sense of possible regret towards his previous answers and allowed him to regain some faith for humanity.
However, he is still very hostile towards power-hungry individuals, and after being released from Matsuo's control, is prepared to kill Minegishi, and nearly does so until he's stopped by Shigeo. He tries to tell Shigeo that there are people who never change, and that Shigeo is being naive if he thinks he can watch over them to make sure they don't do anything bad again. Alas, Shigeo says that people need to have faith in one another in order to function in society. After hearing this, Mogami lets Minegishi go, but tells Shigeo that it is necessary to be hard on people sometimes, and if he can do that, he will be invincible. From this point on, his whereabouts are unknown, but it's suggested by Dimple that he's moved on to the afterlife. This indicates that Mogami may have finally let go of his hatred against the underbelly of humanity and accepts that Shigeo is correct in his faith in humanity, finding peace within himself as well.
Mogami was born with the ability to see ghosts and other powers people dreamed of, so he initially did the world good by giving advice and helping people with their problems.[2] To that end, Mogami became one of the most famous psychics and was the first psychic to be on Japanese television.[3] However, his mother suddenly became gravely ill and the treatment was very expensive, so Mogami needed money. Due to this, outside of the spotlight, he would take on assignments from clients to solve their supernatural problems and would even take assignments from the underworld to lay death-inducing curses on others.[4][5] Despite the morally dubious assignments he was taking, he continued taking them in order to pay for his mother's treatment. His mother eventually died anyways, and she returned as an evil spirit to reveal that the reason she died was because all of Mogami's actions had gathered "demons" around him that tormented her.[6]
Since he no longer needed money, he stopped all his business with the underworld. Pondering how much of a waste his life had been, Mogami resolved to fix the world. He travelled around consuming evil spirits to cultivate his power for when he would eventually become an evil spirit himself. At one point, he encountered Dimple's group and annihilated them, with Dimple just barely escaping.[7] He committed suicide 25 years prior to the start of the series (40 years in the anime), becoming a powerful spirit in the process so that he could torment the "evil people" of the world.
Keiji Mogami Arc
One of Keiji Mogami's attacks included entering the wealthy businessman Masashi Asagiri's mansion and possessing his daughter Minori Asagiri, a callous and spoiled girl whose troublesome behavior irked him. Masashi was forced to seal Minori in a protective room and lock her into a bed.
Masashi eventually hires literally hundreds of spirit detectives to help his daughter, including Reigen and Mob. When Reigen enters the cell to talk to her, Mogami tries to get him to believe that Masashi is the one who's been possessed and is acting irrationally - this convinces many of the exorcists, but not Reigen. He notices inconsistencies in Minori's speech, such as odd changes in tone of speech and knowing Reigen was a psychic before he even introduced himself as such.
With his act being exposed, the Mogami-possessed Minori breaks out of the cell, and Dimple recognizes him from a previous fight and warns Mob. One of the espers, Kirin Jodo, attempts to exorcise Mogami from Minori's body, but Mogami is able to effortlessly stop him, deriding the esper for his pathetically weak abilities. Possessing Kirin, he attacks the espers, but Reigen strikes Kirin with a strong knee to the stomach, forcing Mogami out of Kirin's body. Several exorcists try to exorcise Mogami and fail miserably, and one of those exorcists is Banshomaru, who uses his Spirit Bind to trap Mogami, but he ables to break free and attacks the esper. Before he can attack, he is stopped by Mob, and Mogami notes that whoever is stopping him has decent telekinetic abilities. However, Mogami begins breaking Minori's body against the force of the telekinesis and forces Mob to let go of her. Mob attempts to force Mogami out of his body, which he is temporarily successful at doing, but when he unleashes a powerful psychic blast, Mogami goes back into Minori's body. The power from the psychic blast only serves to increase the psychic bond between Mogami and Minori, with Matsuo noting that they've almost fused. Mob realizes he can't exorcise Mogami from Minori from the outside, but if he is to astral project into Minori's mind, then he could have a chance. He temporarily lets Dimple have control over his body while he sends his spirit into Minori's body.
Mob momentarily overpowers Mogami
Mogami encounters Mob in a form similar to his human appearance, explaining that they are in a mind-based world of his own creation inside Minori. Mogami fires a psychic blast to test Mob's powers, and Shigeo is able to block the blast with a psychic barrier. Mogami notes this and is impressed. The evil spirit attacks Shigeo again by using a psychic technique to choke Mob. The esper is quickly able to break free of Mogami's control, and fires several bright energy beams that pierce through Mogami's body and dismembers his body. Now bloody and weakened, Mogami notes that Mob is the most powerful esper he's ever seen, and that he is truly blessed. Despite being overpowered, Mogami turns the tables on Shigeo and reveals to him that he purposefully allowed Shigeo in here to test him and to change his view of the world. Mob is powerless to fight him and is subdued, being placed inside a world identical to the real one where he is tormented and mistreated by brutal and uncaring versions of real people in his life, including Minori herself.
Mogami watches Mob in his mindscape
Over the course of six months for Mob in the mindscape, he is tortured while Mogami sends him subliminal messages through his subconscious, eagerly waiting for the boy to crack. It comes to a breaking point when Minori and her friends bully Mob, who's finally had enough and unleashes his psychic powers. After being attacked again by one of her friends, Mob finally snaps, preparing to kill the bullies and completing the transformation Mogami was waiting for. However, Dimple enters the mind world before Mob can continue any further and snaps Mob out of it. Mogami is confident that regardless of whether Shigeo regained his memories, the six months in the mindscape had changed him. While Shigeo does indeed understand now how cruel the world can be, he instead chooses to be even more grateful for the people around him and the amazing life they gave him. Mogami is disappointed by Mob's decision, while the teenage esper lectures him about his mistakes and the way people can change. Infuriated, Mogami releases the legions of evil spirits he has assimilated over the years to attack Mob, who reaches 100% Courage and fights them off in a battle that tears apart the very fabric of the mindscape. Mogami himself personally attacks Mob, and while he holds his own for a little bit, he is eventually defeated by Mob with a powerful psychic blast. However, all of his evil spirits go out of control without Mogami and his vessel to control him, and they brutally gang up on Mob again. Even Mob at 100% Courage is unable to fend off against so many evil spirits, and his physical vessel is soon destroyed as well. This awakens Mob's ???% mode, who completely erases the mindscape world, freeing Mob and Minori.
Mogami leaves Minori's body
Back in the real world, the weakened Mogami leaves Minori's body in an attempt to flee, stating he would watch from afar to see if Mob's choice was the right one, but is captured in a film canister by Matsuo. Matsuo would go on to name Mogami "Pudding-chan" and keep him as a dangerous last resort weapon. During this time, he would watch the events that transpired despite being trapped and eventually regain his strength to the point that Matsuo wasn't able to control him.
World Domination Arc
Mogami's plant form
When Matsuo appears to help Mob fight against Minegishi and a group of Claw soldiers, the container holding Mogami falls out of his jacket. Despite Matsuo's protests, one of the Claw soldiers breaks the container, releasing Mogami. The powerful spirit sucks the life out of the Claw soldiers, and while he's doing this, he derides Matsuo for trapping him and now wanting him to consume a horde of espers, marking them as lowly creatures. Minegishi wonders what they are looking at and attempts to attack Mogami using chlorokinesis, but Mogami uses his psychic powers to override their control of their plants, and uses them to form a massive tree-like monster.
Mogami talking to Mob
Mogami uses the monster to grab Minegishi, raising them into the air and slowly crushing them. Before he can finish them off, Shigeo tells Mogami to stop. Mogami asks Shigeo why he's asking him to stop, remarking that he's seen all the events transpire and has concluded none of them deserve to live. He goes on to say that there are humans who never change, but Shigeo argues that they could still change. Mogami challenges Shigeo's argument, saying that it is impossible to watch over people forever to make sure they are determined to change their ways. Mob concedes this point, but still says that it is necessary to have faith in one another in order to function through life. After hearing this, Mogami lets go of Minegishi, showing he has come to respect Mob for his noble nature and faith in humanity, but tells Shigeo that it is sometimes necessary to be hard on people. His final words are saying that if Shigeo can do that, he will truly be invincible. Mogami vanishes, leaving nothing but a large tree in his absence. His whereabouts after this incident are unknown, although Dimple suspects Mogami passed on for good.
Powers & Abilities
Mogami is one of the most powerful characters in the series, rivaled only by Mob and Toichiro. When he was alive as a psychic, he effortlessly defeated full power Dimple,[8] a high-level evil spirit; and as an evil spirit, he easily overwhelmed Minegishi, one of the Ultimate 5. Mogami left such an impression on Dimple that Dimple suggested to Mob and Reigen to just leave when he found out that the evil spirit they were dealing with was Mogami. Although false, when Mob failed to exorcise him from within Minori Asagiri's body, Mob even claimed that Mogami might be stronger than he is, and when Mogami measured Mob's power, he claimed he was still stronger than the teenager. Despite all this, Mogami was eventually defeated by Mob at 100% Courage.
Mogami's Abilities
As a spirit Mogami had the ability to possess people and take over their bodies, similar to Dimple. Like Dimple, he greatly enhances his host's abilities and he can also use his own while inside. He can root himself inside his host's body so deeply that even espers of Mob's level cannot touch him.
Skilled Hand-to-hand Combatant
Mogami has a degree of skill in hand-to-hand combat, as shown he he was possessing Asagiri. He was able to get the upper hand against Dimple, who was possessing Mob.
Poltergeist Phenomenon
Although Mogami never had telekinesis while alive, he obtained a very similar power after he became an evil spirit.[9] He can shatter windows, fling people across rooms, and even choke people from a distance.
Mental Mindscape
While possessing Asagiri's body, Mogami was able to create a mental world where everything inside was under his dominion, even Mob's psychic powers.[10] Using Mob's memories, Mogami simulated a reality where Mob never had psychic powers and Asagiri transferred to his class;[11] he claimed it to be an accurate depiction of what really might have happened, if Mob's circumstances were different. The inhabitants of the world were all evil spirits and Mogami himself manifested as various animals and insects. The anime added a dark filter and letterboxing to differentiate it from the real world.
Evil Spirit Control
Mogami can control the evil spirits that he has absorbed over his lifetime; however, there is a limit to how many.[12] He used them to attack Mob in the mental world.
Life Force Absorption
Mogami possesses the ability to forcefully drain the life force of those around him.[13] He did this to the artificial espers of Claw after being accidentally released from Matsuo's container.[14]
Chlorokinesis
Mogami was able to usurp Minegishi's control over their own plants. He then used them to create a body for himself, similar to Wriggle Wriggle.[15]
Mogami's Evil Spirits
Having absorbed them over his lifetime, Mogami's spiritual body was home to an unimaginable amount of malevolent souls. He collected so many that even he cannot control them all, and can only manipulate them if he releases them little by little.[16] When Mogami was defeated by Mob, all the spirits inside him were unleashed and went out of control. While Mob was able to hold his own for a while, the combined might of every single evil spirit was capable of overwhelming Mob at 100% Courage. Despite this, all of the spirits were swiftly defeated by ???% afterwards.
Evil Spirits' Abilities
The evil spirits can combine into larger spirits.
Energy Beam
The spirits can also launch energy beams. When enough of them are together, a single blast can devastate the fictitious Seasoning City of the mental world.
"You cannot solve all problems with your kindness. Sometimes, you need to be strict to others."[17]
In the manga, he committed suicide 25 years before the series began, while in the anime, he committed suicide 40 years ago.
The berserk evil spirits can be considered Mogami's equivalent of ???%. They were unleashed when Mob destroyed Mogami's vessel, and ??? was unleashed when the evil spirits destroyed Mob's vessel.
The berserk evil spirits are the only opponent that defeated Mob at 100%. Toichiro Suzuki came close but his fight against Mob got interrupted by him self-destructing, resulting in a draw.
His arc could be considered one of the most violent both physically and psychologically seen in the entire manga / anime compared to the rest of the arcs, due to the explicit way in which he committed his evil acts, having inhumanly damaged to Minori's body, having seriously injured and almost kills Reigen and Masashi Asagiri in a very graphic way, having tortured Mob physically in his first fight in the body of Minori and later in the alternative world in a psychological way for months to the point of almost driving him insane.
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 8 Chapter 65 (page 13).
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 8 Chapter 65 (page 9).
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 8 Chapter 65 (page 9-10).
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 8 Chapter 63 (page 4-6).
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 8 Chapters 64–65.
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 11 Chapter 87 (page 38-40).
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 11 Chapter 87 (page 39). After draining the Espers, Mogami noted that their power was weak.
↑ Mob Psycho 100 Manga — Vol. 11 Chapter 87 (page 44).
Mob Psycho 100 Characters
Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama • Arataka Reigen • Dimple • Ritsu Kageyama • Teruki Hanazawa • Sho Suzuki
Side Characters
Salt Middle School
Takane Tsubomi • Tome Kurata • Haruto Kijibayashi • Mameta Inukawa • Shirihiko Saruta • Momozo Takenaka • Musashi Goda • Hideki Yamamura • Hiroshi Kumagawa • Jun Sagawa • Ryohei Shimura • Tenga Onigawara • Ichi Mezato • Emi • Shinji Kamuro • Hikaru Tokugawa
Awakening Lab
Kenji Mitsura • Takeshi Hoshino • Go Asahi • Rei Kurosaki • Daichi Shiratori • Kaito Shiratori
Banshomaru Shinra • Kirin Jodo • Minori Asagiri • Joseph • Udo • Miguel • Fukuda • Higashio • Otsuki
Boss & Ultimate 5
Toichiro Suzuki • Katsuya Serizawa • Ryo Shimazaki • Toshiki Minegishi • Hiroshi Shibata • Nozomu Hatori
7th Division Scars
Ishiguro • Yusuke Sakurai • Megumu Koyama • Muraki • Matsuo • Terada • Tsuchiya • Mukai • Takeuchi • Muto • Miyagawa
Evil Spirits & Entities
Keiji Mogami • Psycho Helmet • The Dragger • Wriggle Wriggle • Scent-Ghoul • Boss • Ceiling Crasher • ???%
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Online Spatial Data
Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF)
Occurrence, Probably inactive
Commodities and mineralogy
Main commodities
Cu; Fe
Ore minerals
chalcopyrite; hematite; magnetite
Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale
Nearby scientific data
Find additional scientific data near this location
Location and accuracy
This occurrence is near the southeast corner of section 35, T. 32 S., R. 59 E, of the Copper River Meridian. It is at an elevation of about 1,600 feet about 0.2 miles southeast of hill '2015'. The location is from pages 3 and 4 of Herbert and Race (1965) and is considered accurate. This location apparently corresponds to location 9 in Cobb (1972 [MF 424] which is located, probably less accurately, approximately 0.5 miles to the southeast.
Geologic setting
Geologic description
The following description is summarized from Herbert and Race, 1965. Rocks in the area are metasediments, including marble and gneiss, that strike northwesterly; there is also some east-west faulting. The prospect is located on a steep cliff at the head of a talus slope that contains float of magnetite in marble and chalcopyrite with hematite in an impure schistose marble that has been partially altered to skarn. The deposit is considered to be low-grade mineralization in metamorphic rocks close to an east-west fault. Only stream sediment sample values are reported. Copper values in the vicinity of the prospect do not exceed 90 ppm copper, but 3 samples to the south varied between 120 and 130 ppm copper. The age of the mineralization is not well established, but is probably Cretaceous based on the age of the nearby intrusive rocks (Gilbert , 1988).
Geologic map unit
(-135.451838669616, 59.0496767463388)
Mineral deposit model
Skarn; disseminated, contact metasomatic (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 18d or 18b).
Mineral deposit model number
18d or 18b
Age of mineralization
The age is not well established but the deposit is probably Cretaceous based on the age of nearby intrusive rocks (Gilbert , 1988).
Alteration of deposit
Limestone partly altered to skarn (Herbert and Race, 1965).
Production and reserves
Workings or exploration
Very little information is available.
Indication of production
MRDS Number
Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous lode deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
Brew, D.A., and Ford, A.B., 1985, Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the Juneau, Taku River, Atlin, and part of the Skagway 1:250,000 quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-395, 23 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Skagway quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-424, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Mt. Fairweather and Skagway quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-316, 123 p.
Gilbert, W.G., 1988, Preliminary geology and geochemistry of the northern Chilkat Range: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 88-8, 2 sheets, scale 1:36,200.
Herbert, C.F., and Race, W.H., 1964, Geochemical investigations of selected areas in southeastern Alaska, 1964: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geochemical Report 1, 75 p.
Herbert, C.F., and Race, W.H., 1965, Geochemical investigations of selected areas in southeastern Alaska, 1964 and 1965: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geochemical Report 6, 67 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
T.C. Crafford (T. Crafford & Associates, Anchorage)
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Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space
Nikolajus Markevicius
Lithuania (as well as other “new” countries) on becoming a EU member found itself economically integrated with the countries whose economic potential was incomparably higher. At the same time Lithuania has already lost traditional, protectionist and defensive instruments of economic sovereignty. Therefore, the accession to EU not only has created new economic possibilities but also has generated complex problems concerning the protection of the economic safety. In the new global world market many traditional branches in Lithuania proved to be uncompetitive. This challenged the very basis of Lithuanian economy. The country met a difficult task to obtain a new position, and to survive in the space dominated by other economies. The country had to find its new place to become competitive. The review of economic theories dealing with the post-Soviet countries entering the EU shows that currently there exists no single theoretical ground for providing a consistent approach to economic problems encountered by Lithuania. The present paper in a certain measure attempts to bridge this gap. On the basis of the analysis of modern theories of the international integration the economic policy of low competitive states, the possibilities of economic integration with incomparably stronger economies, and the opportunities to protect national economy from destructive influence of unequal competitive struggle are discussed.
Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai
International integration
Economic potential
Low competitive economy
Markevicius, N. (2011). Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space. Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai, 2(3), 505-518.
Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space. / Markevicius, Nikolajus.
In: Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2011, p. 505-518.
Markevicius, N 2011, 'Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space', Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 505-518.
Markevicius N. Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space. Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai. 2011;2(3):505-518.
Markevicius, Nikolajus. / Low competitive economy functioning in the integrated economic space. In: Socialinių mokslų studijos: mokslo darbai. 2011 ; Vol. 2, No. 3. pp. 505-518.
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HomeActualidad y FarandulaParamount Television Gets New Title & Logo – Deadline
Paramount Television Gets New Title & Logo – Deadline
January 15, 2020 mundolatino13 Actualidad y Farandula 0
Paramount Television has added the word “Studios” to its title and has unveiled a new logo for the division (see above).
“We felt it was necessary that our name reflect our function as an independent studio within the ViacomCBS company, as well as to our external partners in the industry,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount Television Studios.
The change comes on the heels of a successful period of expansion for the division and the addition of several seasoned execs to the leadership roster. They include Jenna Santoianni, Executive Vice President of Development and Executive Vice President Cheryl Bosnak, who was hired to oversee the newly-created Current Department. Paramount Television Studios also has recently promoted Debra Bergman to Executive Vice President of Production and Ken Basin to Executive Vice President and Head of Business Affairs.
Paramount Television Studios’ current series roster includes Jack Ryan for Amazon, Catch-22 and Looking for Alaska for Hulu, The Haunting of Hill House for Netflix, The Alienist for TNT, and many more.
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After 500m app downloads, Gismart kicks off external investment with Jambl
Tags: apps Funding Gismart Jambl music creation
British music-apps developer Gismart has quietly become one of the bigger firms in the apps world, with more than 500m downloads of its products – which include Beat Maker Go, Piano Crush and DJ It. Now the company is starting to invest in external firms, starting with one of the winning music/tech startups from this summer’s Midemlab contest: Jambl.
Gismart is investing $500k in the German startup, whose iOS app helps people to create beats and melodies before adding videos and sharing them to social media. The deal is part of a wider initiative announced by Gismart in March this year, which will see it investing up to $1m in “selected developers across a wide range of product categories” including music, but also games, education and health.
In this case “Gismart will act as Jambl’s strategic partner and publisher, providing both financial support and expertise in product management, marketing and growth”. Jambl says that its initial app is the “first of many” to come, and has also announced that it is working on “an educational game within the app that would help users learn more about different music styles and to improve their skills”.
The competitive environment is interesting here: Gismart, Smule and BandLab are the big fish in this world of apps designed to be accessible to non-musicians. Independent apps like Groovepad and Endlesss are playing in this world too (although as the Jambl investment hints, they may be ripe for investment and ultimately acquisition by the bigger companies).
Over on the more educational side, companies like Yousician, JoyTunes and Fender have built their audiences, while startups like Big Ear Games eye the market too.
Also interesting: the way business models have evolved towards subscriptions for these kinds of apps. The model for almost all of these apps has been about getting a free version into people’s hands, before encouraging (with varying degrees of aggression) them to sign up to monthly, annual or – the newer thing – weekly subscriptions.
“The whole music industry is shifting, and interactive content is shifting. We’ve got kids making beats daily, and we’re already making money!” said Jambl’s CEO Gad Baruch Hinkis in his Midemlab pitch in June, at which time the app had been installed around 70k times.
A few months on, Jambl is also part of the subscriptions trend: it has been testing a $7.99-a-week sub and, now listed with Gismart as its publisher on the App Store, will clearly be using that company’s playbook as it expands from here.
TikTok was the second most-downloaded mobile app of 2019
App analytics firm Sensor Tower has published its year-end report on the apps market in 2019. Among its conclusions: TikTok was the second most-downloaded app across Apple and Google’s app stores in 2019, behind only...
People spent $115bn using WeChat ‘mini programs’ in 2019
Tencent’s messaging app WeChat is already a huge moneymaker in terms of the way people in China use it to pay for all manner of goods and services. One of the keys to this are the ‘Mini Programs’ launched by developers...
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The Engine Rule Claims Its First Victim: Valentino Rossi To Start From Pit Lane On Sunday
Submitted by David Emmett on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:00
The engine allocation rules have claimed their very first victim since their introduction during 2009 at Brno. Valentino Rossi today told the media that he and the team had decided that he would be using his 7th engine here at Aragon tomorrow, and will take the accompanying penalty by starting from pit lane, 10 seconds after the rest of the field.
The decision was forced on Rossi and his crew because the new aluminium chassis which Rossi debuted here at Aragon has an extra mounting point on the rear of the cylinder head, to accommodate the longer rear spars from the chassis. The 6th engine Rossi used at Misano already had the new mounting points fitted, but the two other GP11.1 engines Rossi had did not have them, making it impossible to use with the new chassis. After practice on Friday, Rossi and his crew had decided that the new aluminium chassis was the right direction to proceed in, and that therefore, they would decide to use the 7th engine and suffer the penalty.
Aragon was a good track to start from pit lane, Rossi and his crew believed, because the exit of pit lane joins the track in the middle of Turn 2, minimizing the damage from starting 10 seconds after the rest. The decision was made easier by Valentino Rossi's poor qualifying, a mistake while on his soft tire meaning that he only qualified in 13th. Starting from pit lane was not that much worse than starting from 13th, and so the decision was made to use the new engine during warm up, and accept the penalty at Aragon.
"I think that for tomorrow, we can use the 7th engine, and start from pit lane, because unfortunately to have two bikes in aluminium, it is not possible with the older engine," Rossi said. "Also to understand the new chassis and also for next year, it is better to have two bikes the same, and I think that for tomorrow, we will start from pit lane with the 7th engine." The new aluminium chassis was not a revolution, but it was a step forward, Rossi said. "For me, I think we are on the good way, I feel better on the bike," Rossi explained. "This track [Motorland Aragon] is a bit different, because the rear is very important, and you don't use the front a lot like in other race tracks, so is not the best track to understand the new chassis. But we have to work, we have to develop," Rossi told the media. "I feel a bit better on the bike, for sure not fantastic but it is a small improvement," Rossi continued. "So we have to continue like this, because it is also the first step for the future."
The rules surrounding the engines are clear: each rider has an allocation of 6 engines for the season. Once the rider takes a bike out on track (defined as once the engine leaves pit lane during free practice, qualifying, warm up or a race), the rider is subject to a penalty. If they use the engine for the first time during practice, then the rider is forced to start the next race from pit lane. If they use the engine for the first time during a race (either at the start or when switching bikes during a flag-to-flag race) the rider is given a ride-through penalty.
The penalty is only imposed the first time the extra engine is used. Once the penalty has been completed, the engine becomes a normal part of the rider's allocation. If the rider takes another new engine, they will be subjected to a penalty once again.
In Valentino Rossi's case, the Italian will have to start the Aragon race from pit lane once he takes the second bike with the 7th engine out of pit lane, which will almost certainly happen during warm up on Sunday. He will then be able to race and start normally, unless one of the two engines (in this case, numbers 6 and 7) should develop a fault and have to be withdrawn from the allocation. If Rossi should decide to use an 8th engine for whatever reason, he will have to start from the pit lane at the race where the 8th engine is used. This, however, is very unlikely to happen.
Motorland Aragon, Spain
I really dont ............
Wiggysan replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:12
.......... think it really matters that VR will start from the pit lane.
Its been clear for a long time now that 2011 is a development year for the GP12 machine.
Yes VR will always try his best in the races & I'm sure in his heart he wants to win races , get on the podium, set fastest laps etc, but his goal is now 2012.
With such small testing times now in GP's this is the best way of getting the 2012 machine (what ever code name they call it & what ever CC it really is ) up to speed.
I hear from Messrs Moody & Ryder that there might be rain for the race tomorrow, if so, that should add some spice to the race!
Pit lane starts, ride through's, bike swops, no doubt a few low sides ( injury free I hope ). Brilliant!
..... still wont be as fun to watch as Moto2 though.
Double weather?
briga replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:17
Yes rain could spice up MotoGP a little bit. Still for Moto2 a dry race would do the job since last rounds were quite exciting.
Team Punkass replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:17
So Rossi has to start from pit lane for the rest of the season, or is it just one race?
The penalties for violating the engine rules
I've added an extra couple of paragraphs explaining the engine rules to the story. The short answer is it is just one race for each extra engine taken. Rossi starts from pit lane at Aragon, and is back to normal after that.
What if he uses engine 8 Sunday
zdog replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 19:57
Since rain is possible Sunday, what if he starts with bike#1 and engine #7, then pulls in under white flag rules and takes out bike#2 with engine #8? Does he have to do the ride through penalty as well. If so, does engine #8 now enter his normal allocation?
Engine #7
Bike #1 has engine #6 (taken at Misano, already had the mounts), bike #2 has engine #7. So #8 is only needed if #6 or #7 blow up.
8th Engine
коля1982 replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 21:57
So why don't they set aside engine #6, keep engine #7 in bike 2, then put an 8th engine in bike #1, and make sure to ride both bikes during warmup? They're already taking the one-time penalty for running engine #7, might as well get 2 engines in under that single penalty, right?
It doesn't work like that.
It's one penalty per engine. Take two engines at Motorland Aragon, start from pit lane at Aragon and Motegi.
I was thinking rain.
Still confused about exactly when and engine is considered "allocated".
If an engine is allocated once it exits the garage and is used on track, then presumably Sunday morning Valentino could use engine #7 and if it looks like rain is at all possible for the race, fit the second bike with #8. If the white flag comes out, come back in, get on engine #8 bike and go out.
The question is whether the second penalty would be a ride through at Aragon, or a pit lane start at Motegi? If the penalty is the ride through, then they'd have nothing to lose by getting two new engines allocated in a throw-away race/season.
scamax replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:23
The 10s and starting from pit lane penalty for using a 7th engine must be only for this meeting. I say that because on Eurosport they suggested the penalty would last for the rest of the season---but surely not, unless they use a new engine at each meeting?!?!
Thanks David!
rholcomb replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 17:34
That's why we are here. You are the best source out there for main streamers like myself.
Powervalve58 replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 18:52
This whole engine allocation rule makes me sick. Can we please go back to a bunch of simple rules that put the focus on the actual racing and exciting technical developments again?
Engine allocation
Winger replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 21:53
Im with you on that Prof. I wonder just how many people WOULDN'T have bothered buying race day tickets, or would take a refund now if it was offered, had they known in advance that Ducati would be penalized in such a stupid way for simply trying to improve their chassis.
What About Hayden
NWslopoke replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 20:32
All the talk has been about Rossi but how many, if any of Hayden's engines has the mounting points for the new frame? I heard him say he plans to complete the rest on the season on his last engine but how practicle is that and what of a wet flag to flag race?
While the engine rule I think has hurt more than it's helped, any Ducati fan that doesn't know they are in a world of hurt right now can't be too much of a fan because they aren't paying attention. It's interesting Ducati have about 6 riders to draw infromation from yet Suzuki has only one and seems to be making a better improvement.
Hayden's engines
None of Hayden's engines (he is on #6) have the mounting points for the new chassis. He won't get to use it this season, he will stick with the CF chassis. He will get to test the aluminium chassis at Valencia after the last race.
Don't blame the rules
Hiroller replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 20:39
Ducati and Rossi have made the decision to do this.
They have a bunch of perfectly good engines and were party to the rule changes.
If the fans don't like it, it's hardly the fault of the rules.
The one big downside of using the engine as a stressed member of the frame is that it limits your ability to make design changes. The other makes do not have this problem. Though Suzuki did get caught out last year.
I do blame the rules
"If the fans don't like it, it's hardly the fault of the rules."
The fans are the people who who keep this sport going. With out the fans you don't have MotoGP. Some fans travel thousands of miles and spend thousands of dollars to watch their favorites race. Starting Rossi (Or any other high caliber rider) from pit lane doesn't do anything but piss the fans off. Six engines for Eighteen races including all the practice sessions, qualification, and testing is stupid. If the calander goes to Twenty races in 2013 and the allocation remains the same its even more stupid. The rules need to be change next year because in this case a high profile rider, that fans have paid good money to watch race, now get to watch him leave pit lane and chase instead. The rule was originally put in place for engine durability. This case has nothing to do with durability.
A true master doesn't blame tools or rules
Hiroller replied on Sun, 2011-09-18 01:43
Like Marquez in Moto2, Rossi has had the benefit of special parts for years to gain advantage over the field. One-off tyres, special chassis parts, and fire cracker engines. What Rossi demand he got. With leveling of equipment available there is a new skill required that Rossi and his team haven't mastered to the skill. This is the skill of managing engines and tyres. Not within a race but over a weekend and over a season. Stoner and his team (who deserve more credit than they get) have led the way with this. Coming up through satellite teams and working with limited resources at Ducati have developed their skill in working with what they have rather than just demanding and waiting for changes.
Stoner and his team have led the way with short sharp sessions on the bike, utilizing the "wrong" tires early in FP while saving the good tires for QP and the race. Rossi and his team (and too some extent even Lorenzo) have come from a period of unlimited resources and have been slow to adapt.
I don't have a problem with a limit of 6 engines. I think it is plenty for a season if you have planned for it. If you have an engine that is a stressed member of the chassis and you expect to make changes then cover it with mount points!
The one rule however, that really needs modifying is the limits on testing. Different sessions for 2011 bikes versus 2012 bikes have been pointless when parts have been interchangeable. This is the real issue for Ducati as it has forced them to use races to conduct their testing.
That the rules are hard to accept for the fair-weather fans of a single rider won't bother true fans of the sport.
This isn't the first year of
ghostdog6 replied on Sun, 2011-09-18 03:11
This isn't the first year of the six-engine rule and this isn't the first year of the spec tire rule - Rossi and his team have proven quite adept at managing those factors since they came into being in MotoGP. This has noting to do with "resource management" by Rossi's team - it has to do with Ducati choosing to make 1 component integral to two systems on the bike - and the added poor choice of making that shared component one that is available in limited quantity throughout the season. Their design does not allow for the "worst case" scenario that they are experiencing now. Poor design decisions. Rossi having had whatever he wants previously is irrelevant. Not sure what your point is here other than Rossi-bashing.
I agree with you on testing, though. They should be allowed to test as much as they want to help justify their expenditures. If someone wants to win, they should be allowed to spend enough time to do so.
Not bashing
Wasn't intending to be bashing the rider. I don't care for that kind of debate. Just using Rossi to illustrate how times have changed.
You express the Ducati design limitations really well. I recall JB making a comment along the lines that Ducati had spent too much time on what worked and not enough on what didn't work.
They don't seem to have done a full risk/scenario assesment on the design and potential changes.
Has there been any announcement on what the testing rules are for next season?
Let's hope it's somethig better.
Yep I agree with you
ghostdog6 replied on Mon, 2011-09-19 02:27
Yep I agree with you completely on that. I think the Japanese factories do a better job of covering all the bases and planning for potential outcomes and pitfalls. Or maybe it is just traditional bike design, but it didn't come to be tradition for no reason. I would be very surprised if HRC had not at least evaluated the frameless concept in the past, but decided not to pursue it for at least some of the limitations we see on the Duc.
The engine rules have
Jejunity Jay replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 22:14
The engine rules have deliberately been down played by the manufacturers and since they came into being have hardly been discussed at all with very little information released by the manufacturers themselves David is about the only journalist who provides any meaningful information.
Rossi's penalty on Sunday will change that for a lot of casual fans it will be their first exposure to the rules bar the original doomsday scenarios floated when they where first proposed a year or two ago (which where promptly forgotten about) while some people will be total Ducati/Rossi partisans not all criticism will be based on that perspective.
It was a good decision for
BrickTop replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 21:35
It was a good decision for them. Qualifying didn't go well for them and yesterday's power issues certainly didn't help either. It may make headlines but it is completely irrelevant at this stage of the season. They could take an extra engine at every round and it wouldn't matter.
I don't want to call it
ghostdog6 replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 21:36
I don't want to call it "engineering hubris" but Ducati had to have seen this possibility a while ago - I'm surprised they didn't engineer some more mounting options into Rossi's last 2 engines. Never mind the fact that they engineered themselves into a corner to begin with.
This ISN'T Ducati's fault.
This ISN'T Ducati's fault. They only react to what requests they get from teams or riders.
How do you make that step?
Rabid_Canine replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 22:28
TwoStroke, how do you figure Ducati's failure to build a bike that steers and grips is not their fault?
I'm with GhostDog - and Burgess. Hubris in that failing to see that 3 or 4 wins in the last few seasons AND 3 or 4 crashes meant that whilst they had a bike capable of winning, it was balanced on a knife endge handling-wise. They thought that replacing Stoner with Rossi would magically solve the problem.
Guess what! There is no magical silver bullet, not even one named Vali. The bike was a pig, and you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as the saying goes.
Ducati - the royal "we"
leefumi replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 22:29
I think Ghostdog6 is referring to Ducati as a whole, which by definition includes Ducati Corse. If Aprilia can build its standard engines ready to accept gear-driven cam upgrades, then surely someone in the race engineering department must have thought about the rear mountings, even if only as a back up plan? Still, what's done is done, now we all get to witness the Duc being developed by some very talented people in a most unforgiving environment - interesting times ahead!
Rules is rules (and it is Ducati's choice)
rick650 replied on Sat, 2011-09-17 23:15
but the Ducati situation doesn't seem to be one that was anticipated when the six engine rule was introduced. The intent was presumably to stop the use of "fire cracker" engines with very short lifespans, requiring constant and expensive rebuilds/part replacement.
Ducati is having to replace engines due to the need to revise frame mounting positions rather than because the internals are tired.
The end result is that the only spectator interest from Rossi's coming race will be seeing how high he can climb during the race after a disadvantage at the start. For me that is not a great outcome, nor an intended one, given that Ducati are probably not gaining any motor performance advantage from the new motor - and maybe not much from the new subframe either!
@ Rabid
TwoStroke Institute replied on Sun, 2011-09-18 04:19
Quite easily as there are 'unfixed' Ducati's going just as fast as the fixed ones. Noteably Haydens and sometimes Barbera and Abraham.No amount of '80 second fixes' seem to make the slightest difference.So it comes down to how it's ridden.Either adapt and learn how to ride it or find something else to ride. The team should have forseen the probablity of starting from pitlane long ago.
Fixed or unfixed none of the
Fixed or unfixed none of the Ducatis are as fast as the Hondas or Yamahas. I find it hard to believe that people still believe the answer is to simply "ride it faster". If they were doing single lap Superpoles that might be possible; a 30-lap race? No way to do it consistently. And that is the problem - the Ducati is not fast consistently, no matter who is on it (yes, I include Stoner in that as well).
being a newbie
windowman replied on Mon, 2011-09-19 19:30
Hi everyone only just joined ,can i say what a refreshing change to read interesting and informative blogs or whatever ,than the utter drivel and rider bashing on the site i have just kicked into touch ,keep the good work up cheers all..
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Home Other News Featured News Update on 4-H accomplishments; Meadow River Trail; CVB annual report
Update on 4-H accomplishments; Meadow River Trail; CVB annual report
By Peggy Mackenzie
Twenty-one Greenbrier County 4-H teens and pre-teens were presented to the county commissioners during the Tuesday night meeting to provide them with an update on 4-H activities, accomplishments and awards. It was also an opportunity for these young people to show what a positive impact the 4-H programs offer local students. At the outset of the introduction, 4-H leader, Robin Haynes asked the students and all others familiar with the 4-H pledge to stand and deliver. Very nearly everyone in the courtroom rose and recited the pledge, including the commissioners, each one gesturing to their head, heart and hands as part of the recitation:
I pledge my Head to clearer thinking,
my Heart to greater loyalty,
my Hands to larger service,
and my Health to better living, for my club,
my community, my country, and my world.
The effect was moving. Afterwords, Haynes directed several students to recount personal experiences in various programs they participated in at county camps, after school events or at specialty clubs. They described these activities as challenging opportunities they’ve taken on and mastered. Studies show that 4-H members do better in school, are more motivated to help others, feel safe to try new things, achieve a sense of self-esteem and develop lasting friendships.
Haynes said public speaking is a powerful leadership skill each of these students are learning. Overcoming shyness gives many of them a whole new perspective on their career goals and aspirations. “It is one of the greatest things to come from this program,” she said.
There were several parents and younger siblings in the audience. Family support was also part of the 4-H picture, said Commissioner Lowell Rose, declaring himself a former 4-H participant. “Family support makes a huge difference for these young people in their lives.”
Membership in 4-H programs offer a positive impact for Greenbrier youth on a local level. 4-H offers community clubs, specialty clubs, cloverbud clubs, county camp(s), club outings, Achievement Banquet, and more. In 4-H, youth socialize, learn, and develop life skills in a safe, educational atmosphere. There are 73,100 students in 4-H programs in West Virginia, said Haynes, which, she said, swells to 85,000 with the after school programing. There are young people involved in 4-H programing in every county in the state.
Having taken over the role of Meadow River Rail Trail team leader upon the passing of Doug Hylton last spring, Matt Ford, an organizer for several Meadow River Valley organizations, said the job turned out to be “busier that I ever anticipated.” All the same, he gave the commission a truck-load of information on what is going on in the Meadow River Valley – better known as the west-end of the county.
First off, he said the rails have been removed from the final 6.4 mile section into Rainelle and already trucks are using it. As team leader, Ford was advised that an environmental assessment of the trail showed there is still some contamination from when it was a CSX rail line. Ford was advised not to let people access the trail and he came to the GCC seeking permission for a gate to be installed until the contaminant is capped, but Commission member Tammy Shifflett-Tincher said, “It’s already up.”
He also said since the flood of 2016, there are still two bridges that remain washed out on the Fayette County side, an additional safety concern for people on the trail. An application to DOH has been submitted for design and construction on the 6.4 mile section between Rainelle and Fayette County for $150,000 to connect the two sides.
Yet another issue is complaints about timber cutting along side the trail by Weyerhaeuser, a timber industry company and primary landowner in the area. Discussions are ongoing, Ford said, to resolve concerns on both sides with the potential for the idea of a buffer zone along the trail.
“It may seem to be a long way off,” Ford said, but he anticipates the trail to be completely fixed and open in three years.
In other west end business, Ford said the Meadow River Valley Association (MRVA) has been awarded as a Blue Point Community, entitling them to receiving federally obligated funding to provide financial support for small community businesses.
New uses for the old, abandoned Rupert Elementary School are in development, Ford said. The Rupert Volunteer Fire Department is developing helicopter pads and the MARVEL Center, an early child development center, has taken over three buildings. The gymnasium has been offered as a space for Greenbrier West High School wrestling team to practice in.
Estry Park received a grant and will soon be a destination for disc golfing, and together with the Meadow River Community Park along side Rte. 60, the MRVA (or Aunt Mirva as he has come to refer to it) has become “a whole corridor of recreation.”
Executive Director of the CVB, Kara Dense offered an enthusiastic survey of the annual CVB projects, highlighting projections for the future. It was noted by Commissioner Rose that there are stronger ties of communication amongst the various tourism organizations in the county. Dense agreed the partnerships are more firmly cemented now that there are more shared representation of board members.
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What was David's motivation in Prometheus?
For me, perhaps the most interesting person aboard the Prometheus was the android, David. I'm still confused by his seeming fascination with the movie, Lawrence of Arabia. Although I couldn't make notes during the film, I believe that he quoted Peter O'toole's character, Lawrence, on more than one occasion. Was he attempting to attain a similar achievement with the Engineers as Lawrence did with the Arabs? Why did he infect the Crew leader? What was his motivation?
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+1 For me David was the most fascinating aspect of the movie, too (which is also in part to blame on Michael Fassbender, I guess). He and his character gave me more questions and things to think about than the "obvious" questions about the Engineers". – Napoleon Wilson♦ Apr 7 '13 at 1:04
There are 3 possible motives for David.
He wanted to test the black-goo to "try harder".
David was receiving orders from Weyland as he told "Try Harder!".The scene where David spikes Charlie's drink happens after the 'try harder' scene (with Vickers). David goes to Holloway, asks him how far he is willing to go to find his answers, and Holloway replies he would do whatever it takes. David takes this as an invitation to experiment with the goo on Holloway, ultimately at Weyland's request. David is simply following orders. So my guess is that, he probably wanted to test it, just in case it turned out to be what Weyland was looking for, an immortality potion or something
He wanted to kill the crew to gain his freedom .
David starts to hate the humans. Note how antagonistic Holloway had a jerk towards David.When Holloway asking David why he's wearing a suit as much to say 'you're not one of us, why are you bothering to try?'
He wanted to kill Dr. Holloway to remove him as competition for Dr. Shaw
He seemed to pay more attention to her from the start by looking in
on her dreams and taking special care of her when she awoke from cryo. I think when he tried to put her back into cryo he was trying to do what was best for her. I also thought that, at the end, when he said he was afraid she had been killed that he was being genuine.
David: I was scared you were dead.
Shaw: you know nothing about being scared, david.
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#1 is backed up by the movie's writer here. – user209 Jun 11 '12 at 21:41
I don't remember any evidence of David hating humans. And as android, he doesn't seem capable of hate. I thought he took holloway's abuse in stride. And if he hated humans, why would he help like he did at the end? – Shiz Z. Jun 17 '12 at 2:33
I'm not sure if David was trying to do what was best for Dr. Shaw. At one point he antagonizes her about the death of her father, and dryly comments about her great survival instincts. – Dante Jun 20 '12 at 1:36
David certainly is brutally honest at times. The actions he takes that could be considered harmful (contaminating Holloway and advocating Shaw enter cryo-freeze) are consistent with his mission to help Weyland contact the engineers. To me, there is no malice behind these actions -- he is just a computer obeying his programmer. – Shiz Z. Jun 22 '12 at 1:44
In fact David's urge to put Shaw back into cryo-sleep seemed to me as if he was actually trying to ship the creature inside of her back to earth. But while I could not come up with any motivation for him (or even Weyland) do this (even more so, when trying to get into contact with it, why deep-freeze it?), your 1st possibility seems the most reasonable. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Aug 23 '12 at 21:04
David has multiple motivations:
to help Weyland achieve Weyland's goal, which is to contact engineers so engineers can help Weyland cheat death. After all David is a computer with a programmed purpose: serving Weyland. ("Try harder" is Weyland telling David to keep looking for a living engineer, which David then does successfully.)
to reveal how humans were not special but instead -- like David -- were created by other intelligent beings. This is the irony underlying Holloway's insulting David.
Shiz Z.Shiz Z.
In the very beginning of the film David's hair style is different, then we see him watching the film while he is coloring the roots of his hair to match Peter's, and then he combs it so that he has the same hair style. He later repeats the phrase "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts". I think David repeats that line two or three times. I took this to imply that David's natural appearance is different including his hair color.
Is this sequence connected to David's fascination with the Engineers. Absolutely, because this scene defines a repeating theme that David tents to overly obsess over things related to the human condition. I think you have to watch Lawrence of Arabia to understand what was being implied by that scene.
Why did David infect the Doctor?
David is seen reporting to Peter Weyland that the Engineers are all dead, and he then explains that Peter Weyland ordered him to "try harder" to discover what happen to them.
Did Peter tell David to infect a crew member, or did David conceive this idea on his own? That isn't made clear in the film. Later in the film, Peter Weyland is told to take off his helmet and Elizabeth protests saying that the infection that killed the Doctor could be air born. Peter Weyland appears to not know that the Doctor is dead, and David just gives Elizabeth a look.
What was his motivation?
David says "big things have small beginnings" and then later while talking to the Doctor. He says "if you could meet your creator, what would you say?". I really feel that David understood that the dark fluid was a virus, and that it created life. In that scene David expresses a fascination with meeting ones creator, and also his disapproval of humans. I think he gave it to the Doctor, so he could destroy his creator and turn himself into a creator at the same time. While answering the question, what does this black stuff really do?
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Down-vote because virus did not create life, it mutated life as a means to destroy. Also, David does not just give Elizabeth a look -- he says something like "the virus is not airborne" which apparently causes Elizabeth to realize that David contaminated Holloway. – Shiz Z. Jun 15 '12 at 20:14
"it mutated life as a means to destroy" - Really? It is not clear this "destruction" was its actual intent. It just evolves life into something new, no matter if we like this new version or not. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Apr 7 '13 at 1:08
Here's my biggest problem with it: David knows absolutely nothing about the black goo. What would make him think that it could create, change, preserve, whatever, human life? I mean, if you happened to come across a bunch of black goo would your first thought be to feed it to some animals. Even if it contains a bunch of nutrients, eating an egg doesn't cause a chicken to start growing in my body. So he just comes up with this alien virus/embryo idea out of nowhere.
Not only that, but they have an awesome lab there, why doesn't he just use that to run some experiments on it? Why doesn't he work with the other scientists to find out more about it? Surely that would aid the old man just as much if not more than david working alone.
Even if you make the argument that he is just following orders, that just shifts the blame from him to the old man. It doesn't really change the fact that his motives make no sense whatsoever.
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This is my pet peeve too. All other posts about motives are great and all, but the vehicle of discovery used by the director just doesn't make sense at all. "Hey, some black goo! Let's randomly grab it and put it in my crew!" "Hey, I only care about rocks, too bad there's nothing for me to do here other than to cry about ancient dead aliens!" Oh wait, that's another pet peeve. Oh gosh, so many pet peeves here... Who run a science unit like that. That too probably the most expensive one ever produced. grrrr – Benny Bottema Oct 28 '18 at 19:16
My 2 Strongest theories about this are:
He turned out to hate the humans due to the actions of Dr.Holloway. To me, since the first time David and Holloway met... I always had the gut feeling that David was going to do something to Holloway sooner or later. I mean, Holloway was being such an ass towards David! Plus, not only that.. but.. to me, it seemed as if he knew that the black goo was dangerous. One reason why I believe he knew is that he didn't inform the crew about taking that black goo back with him.
He has a thing for Shaw. If you think about it, what Vijin said is true. And, I do not want to type all about it when the informations already up here, lol.
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Again, as android, isn't David incapable of hate, and incapable of having a thing for a human? David is a computer programmed to serve Weyland. – Shiz Z. Jun 17 '12 at 2:35
@ShaneFinneran While I agree that David probably didn't do fall in love with Shaw, isn't the ambiguity of David's intentions and his maybe own developing motivations what makes this character so fascinating? This extremely obvious "Good morning David" at the beginning cannot have been mere coincidence. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Aug 23 '12 at 21:14
Come on guys. Why say David cant Hate. What Has movies(I robot,Eagle Eye etc..) about robots taught us..?? "ROBOTS EVOLVE" :p lol – user3801 Jan 5 '13 at 10:43
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The TSG campaign is implemented in 19 EU countries, within the framework of the Traffic Snake Game Network (TSGN) project, co-funded by Intelligent Energy Europe Program of the European Union. The TSGN purpose is to implement the campaign, extend its impact and share experiences among participants. The campaign is promoted nationally, within the 16 participating cities, as well as at European level.
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U.S. estranged policy towards terrorists utilizing Pakistan: Backward step under Trump
leejayuk / March 24, 2018
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Terrorist and sectarian forces blight Afghanistan based on internal issues and the external intrigues of Pakistan. Hence, it is a very estranged policy by America to declare that Sunni Islamist terrorists will rarely amount to being pursued into Pakistan. Equally, the Pentagon seems to be hinting that it is in the interest of Pakistan to protect regional nations including India. Therefore, just like America’s estranged approach to Turkey, the same can be said about Pakistan.
Under the former president of America, Barack Obama, the United States went into Pakistan in hot pursuit of the Haqqani Network and the Taliban. For example, in 2010 military helicopters from the United States killed at least 50 Sunni Islamist terrorists in Pakistan, belonging to the Haqqani Network. More famously, Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad the following year on the orders of Obama.
Another major incident under Obama is when attack helicopters from the United States killed 28 members of the armed forces of Pakistan in 2011. This happened when it appeared that the Pakistan army was providing cover for retreating Sunni Islamist terrorists belonging to the Taliban.
Therefore, the estranged policy of America appearing to give the Taliban, Haqqani Network, and others, the opportunity to utilize regional areas in Pakistan defies logic. After all, it is abundantly clear that Afghanistan is being destabilized on several fronts and this notably relates to the policies of Pakistan.
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Andrews (Pajhwok Afghan News), a spokesperson at the Pentagon, said, “We have no authority to go into Pakistan.”
He continued, “Say, for example, we have troops in contact and then the Taliban forces go across the border… They are clearly inside Pakistan then. There’s no change with regards to respecting the territorial sovereignty of Pakistan.”
However, in the past American forces did enter Pakistan based on the “inherent right of self defense.” Equally important, Afghanistan wants a reassurance that Pakistan will be taken to task for its destabilization policy towards central forces based in Kabul. Therefore, with terrorist attacks being never-ending in Afghanistan along with growing sectarian attacks aimed at butchering the Shia, then the policy of America under President Donald Trump will not be welcomed by political elites based in Kabul.
Unbelievably, the Pentagon spokesperson indicated that the armed forces of America are optimistic that “Pakistan will take action because not only do we feel it is going to serve Afghanistan, but it’s going to help protect Pakistan, India and the entire region.”
The above statement will be met with scorn in many political and military circles in Afghanistan and India. After all, the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Network, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Mullah Nazir Group, and other Sunni Islamist terrorist and sectarian groups, operate openly in various parts of Pakistan. Therefore, Afghanistan and India have much to ponder based on the known intrigues of Pakistan and the estranged policy of America.
https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2018/03/20/pentagon-rules-out-hot-pursuit-terrorists-pakistan
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‘Reincarnated war hawk’ Samantha Power presses case for Syria attack to Beltway liberals
Peter Voskamp on September 7, 2013 16 Comments
Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, told an audience at the Center for American Progress in Washington Friday that there is “no risk-free door #2” in regard to Syria.
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Power was in town to repeat the administration’s pitch for military action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad for its alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21, killing an estimated 1,400 civilians, many of them children. Power is uniquely positioned to make the plea for action: she won a Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem From Hell which examined international responses to genocide in the last century, and has been an outspoken proponent for the use of force for humanitarian reasons.
Certainly the civil war in Syria fits the parameters of her book’s title, and she made a persuasive, if oft repeated, case that Assad’s use of chemical weapons was a “uniquely monstrous crime.”
Power also made the case that if there were no consequences for the use of chemical weapons, then Iran, North Korea and Hezbollah would be emboldened. She said that the U.S. must take limited military action against the use of weapons of mass destruction to “deter others in the world who may follow suit.”
“The alternative is to give a green light to outrages that will threaten our security and haunt our conscience, outrages that will eventually compel us to use force anyway down the line at far greater risk and cost to our own citizens,” Power said.
Power also said that pro-Israel organizations had come out in favor of a strike, because Israel’s security was threatened by the ongoing instability in the area.
Anti-war organization Code Pink protested outside Power’s talk.
“It’s disgusting. She’s been reincarnated as a war hawk,” Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin said, according to the Telegraph.
Coincidentally, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin wrote a post Friday praising Power and her no-nonsense calling out of Russia and China for their intransigence regarding Syria. Rubin compared Power to her predecessors Jean Kirkpatrick and John Bolton.
“First, conduct in the United Nations (as should be the case anywhere) must have consequences, whether it is Russia vetoing a Syrian resolution or the Palestinian Authority breaking numerous treaties to seek recognition unilaterally for a Palestinian state or countries taking pot shots at Israel,” wrote Rubin.
“Once we make that clear, then there might be a slight diminution of anti-West, anti-Israel bashing. We have to be able to identify miscreants, call them out and then hold them accountable in some visible way.”
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just on September 7, 2013, 7:53 am
What do Power and Rubin have to say about the ongoing Nakba and horrible Occupation of the indigenous Palestinians? Expulsion, genocide, chemical weapon attacks???
(Thanks Peter! I read Samantha’s garbage yesterday and am still wondering why she and Susan are even @ the UN……)
amigo on September 7, 2013, 8:23 am
“The U.S. even shared evidence that it believed could convince Russia or Iran, but to no avail, she added.”Samantha (Iv,e got) Power.
“That it believed could convince Russia or Iran.”
There,s a new kid in town ready and willing to do whatever is necessary to stay in power.
Power’s best known book, A Problem from Hell, does not discuss Israel.
Hmmm, anyone know why given Israel is a problem from hell.
Bruce Wolman on September 7, 2013, 9:23 am
Power left the CAP event without taking any questions.
This is considered bad form among CAP attendees. However, it is not too hard to understand her eagerness to leave unscathed.
HarryLaw on September 7, 2013, 9:37 am
First the sentence then the evidence said the Queen [Alice in wonderland]
Hostage on September 7, 2013, 1:06 pm
“The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.” [Lieutenant Scheisskopf Catch 22]
quercus on September 7, 2013, 9:49 am
Power has been whining on about Russian obduracy in the Syrian matter and how Russia is holding the security council ‘hostage’ which I seem to remember is the word she used. Her rhetoric sounds like a bad-mannered juvenile, losing a game and wants now to change the rules.
I tried to call her office at the UN to leave a sarcastic comment, but the automated message said the mailbox was full. I hope she has a whole slew of sarcastic messages. It must be made clear to these sociopaths that there are a great many of us who disbelieve the garbage they spout.
She could agree to stand on her head and set her knickers on fire and I still wouldn’t believe a frigging word she says.
seafoid on September 7, 2013, 4:26 pm
Power missed the fact that iraq changed the game and that it is now a multipolar world,
aiman on September 7, 2013, 10:27 am
Samantha Power’s raised left hand definitely resembles a hawk’s talon. Unfortunately, her ideology is the worst that humans can produce.
K Renner on September 7, 2013, 12:05 pm
What a joke. Especially the jabs at Iran and Hezbollah by putting them on par with the deluded Kim-Jong Un cult in Pyongyang.
I have no love for the Ayatollahs or the ideals of the puritanical Khomeini, but the clear fact is that Iran has been liberalizing– moreso informally then officially– and on the whole is a rapidly changing country at this point in time. Rouhani also seems to be a politically savvy and pragmatic guy from what I’ve seen so far.
Hezbollah is a byproduct of the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.
Party ideologues aside, they would be happy with no more Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty on land, on the sea, or in the air– and the idea that they’d want to play around with chemical weapons is laughable and almost provocation on the part of Power.
Jennifer Rubin is worthless, as per usual, and dare I say a liar.
Hostage on September 7, 2013, 12:36 pm
Lol! Last January the US joined Russia and China in sandbagging a request from the Swiss government and 52 other states for the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Swiss_ask_for_Syrian_war_crimes_prosecution.html?cid=34727344
The US is presumably still dragging its feet on that request, while looking after its own interests and the interests of its Arab allies. They are all supporting the rebel insurgency with funding and arms in violation of the UN Charter.
BTW, the ICJ has advised on several occasions that self-determination of a people’s political status involves a peremptory norm of international law. So there can’t be “numerous treaties” that can prevent the Palestinians from unilaterally seeking recognition of a Palestinian state:
Treaties conflicting with a peremptory norm of general international law (“jus cogens”)
A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law. — The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
— http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf
You have to be pretty screwed-up to compare efforts to obtain recognition of statehood with criminality or genocide.
The UN and the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, Paris 13 January 1993 are still waiting for the official report from its own disarmament inspection team regarding the attack in Syria. So the international community has no proof that Syria violated the international norm in question.
The Convention doesn’t assign any special role to the United States or any other party acting “unilaterally” outside the framework of the UN organization.
http://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=C1AA64D79DB3DF5FC12563EE004BD2E0
The jury is no longer out on the illegality of Israel’s actions in Gaza or in the West Bank or the impropriety of US vetoes and the supply of US made arms in the region. See the many Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly on that subject. http://www.un.org/en/ga/sessions/emergency.shtml
Israel is only paying political lip service to the idea of strike. Netanyahu has already launched several without consulting our Congress or anyone else.
radii on September 7, 2013, 3:30 pm
because I love good political intrigue and the outlandish stories it can manifest and because I am also an optimist a part of me wants to believe that Obama has been playing a long game and the Syria gambit is merely the final stage of Obama feeding israel and their Fifth Column here in the U.S. enough rope to hang themselves – they’ve gone all-in with the strategy if that is what is happening because finally, finally, the control israel has over U.S. warmaking and foreign policy is naked to the sun and can no longer be hidden and the American people don’t like it and do not want this latest war for israel’s regional superpower goals using our blood and treasure by 70%-80% depending upon your source
the cynical view is that our israeli parasite-controller wields so much power that Obama, Biden, Kerry, Power, et al will sacrifice their reputations and careers at israel’s bidding
this liberal will support impeachment for Obama if he ever commits boots on the ground in Syria
Justpassingby on September 7, 2013, 4:24 pm
Thats classy samantha, calling for war, hiding between humanitarian concerns.
Samantha Power, another warmonger put in work by warmongering Obama.
DICKERSON3870 on September 7, 2013, 5:39 pm
RE: “‘Reincarnated war hawk’ Samantha Power presses case for Syria attack to Beltway liberals”
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To our Senators and members of Congress: Do not authorize the use of American military force in Syria. With civilians being butchered and refugees suffering immensely, it is horrifying to watch the brutal civil war in Syria unfold. But U.S. military intervention is far more likely to make matters worse, not better. The U.S. should not bomb Syria. The best thing we can do is commit to holding war criminals accountable, expand humanitarian aid for refugees, and maintain constant diplomatic pressure for a negotiated end to the conflict.
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Rusty Pipes on September 7, 2013, 8:10 pm
Unfortunately, Power has been uniquely positioned in this administration to push the R2P doctrine already in regard to Libya, where the insurgent forces battling the government were categorized as civilians being slaughtered. What was billed as creating humanitarian corridors for escaping civilians was accomplished by wiping out the government’s air defenses, which contributed to the downfall of the regime, massive civilian casualties and further destabilization in North Africa. If Chris Stephens had not been killed, the R2P team in the Obama administration would have been trumpeting the Libyan intervention as an unqualified success just because Qaddafi was killed. Since the Libyan intervention, the American people have said of Syria that not only do they not want American “boots on the ground” or military supplies to the rebels, but they don’t want a “no fly zone” (enforced by US air power). With the R2P team of Power and Rice advising him, Americans have reason to be concerned that not only might the strike Obama is authorizing lead to American boots on the ground, but that the slippery slope may begin with bombs with a humanitarian stamp — an undeclared no fly zone plan gone awry.
I am sure that Powers is not happy with this:
“A European Union court ruled on Friday that the EU should lift sanctions it imposed against seven Iranian companies, dealing a new blow to Europe’s efforts to use economic pressure to rein in Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
The ruling, which can be appealed, follows similar decisions earlier this year against sanctions imposed on two of Iran’s biggest banks.
Friday’s ruling covers Post Bank Iran, Iran Insurance Company, Good Luck Shipping, Export Development Bank of Iran, Persia International Bank, Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Co and Bank Refah Kargaran.
In making its ruling, the General Court, Europe’s second-highest court, said that the EU had failed to produce sufficient evidence the listed companies were acting as front companies for Iran’s nuclear program.
“We are very disappointed by the court’s decision today,” a spokesman for the United States Treasury said in a statement. “The evidence linking these banks to Iran’s illicit nuclear activities is clear and strong, and no financial institution anywhere should allow these Iranian banks to transact with them.” ”
Again with the “evidence” and the “illicit nuclear activities”. We are not trustworthy and neither is our “intelligence” Good for the court!
traintosiberia on September 9, 2013, 8:49 am
Power is repeating the reasons provided by Israel that Iran would get emboldened by lack of any military responses to Syria. Iran would asssume per Israel that if Syria could get away with, so could Iran with development and use of CW and WMD.
Obma was pitchforked into the proverbial situation of “Red Line” .He slelepwalked into this position. He wanted to fend off any charges that he was not doing anything to Syrian regime despite pleas by his allies and demand by Israel. Obama promised that he would do something if and when Red Line were crossed. Lo and Behold! Its crossed , thanks to Isreali German deep state fabrication and doctoring of intercepted message . http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/?print=1
So Obama is being asked by his patrons and financier and future Speech opportunity providers to do something that would finish Syrian governement. Obama and Kerry and Power all have been batting for Israeli security as one of the reasons to showcase their zeal for war along with other lofty visions of ME where moderates like Saudi and Kuwaitis and Egyptian military roam free with permission of Israel and Israel call the shots when Uncle Sam wants to decide what should be decided as US core interest.
It was 1949 when Syria was assulted by US. Then as well one of the reasons provided was the issue recognition of Israel another reason was that Syria would not fall victims to Russian or Arab initiated any social awakenings. Husni al-Za’im CIA agnet like Mubarak and Siisi of recent hsitory promised to recognize Isreal and was installed.
“Syria continued to be plagued by military coups throughout the 1950′s until a parliamentary system was restore in 1954. By that time, the Syrian people were tired of US meddling and the new government turned to the Soviet Union for support.
In 1957, another CIA plot to change the Syrian government was uncovered and three CIA agents were expelled from the country. This military coup was code-named Operation Wappen, and the CIA man in change was Howard “Rocky” Stone.”
link to dailykos.com
Colin Powell toured Gulf and Arab countries and demanded that Arab countries opened up diplomatic relations with Isreal in the wake of Iraq invasion of 2003
Bernard Levy anonuced in 2011 the divined tidings to the World ( Israel and US ) that Libyan rebel would recognize Israel.
Power is retelling the same old stuff on Iran that has been debunked ( Bulgarian terrosim, South East Asia bicyle bombings, Iranain nukes activities ) repeatedly but truth does not matter to her.She knows two lies are better than one . She also does not want to delve why Iran matters to Israel. Both American and Israeli neoocns figured that out long ago when they openly admitted that Iranain nukes would handicap any Isareli hegemony and free hand and not threaten Israel in any other way.
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Growing Power adds new solar and water collectors
Urban farm center introduces sustainability systems
Will Allen, president and founder of Growing Power is pictured with a member of his team. Allen’s company has served as a national model for some of the Obama’s administration’s green initiatives. (Photo by Harry Kemp)
Growing Power Inc. will host a celebration, dedication and media conference April 22, 2010 to demonstrate two new sustainability systems at its urban farm headquarters at 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive.
To save energy on heating its greenhouses, Growing Power has installed a 10.7- kilowatt array of solar-electric panels stretching 80 feet along the front of its building.
To save treated city water and reduce stormwater runoff from its greenhouses, Growing Power has also installed an 18,000-gallon rainwater catchment system. Rain that once poured off the greenhouses and added to stormwater management problems is now being captured and used to raise fish in Growing Power’s aquaponics systems and to water plants in its vegetable production program.
The solar energy project was funded by a grant from WE Energies. The stormwater catchment project was funded by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, which is responsible for managing both sanitary sewage and stormwater throughout the Milwaukee watershed.
“We wanted to make both these projects work for us in every way they could,” said Will Allen, Growing Power’s founder and CEO. “So, the solar panels are not just mounted on the roof, where they would have shaded our No. 1 greenhouse too much anyway. Instead, we built a pergola along the front of the greenhouse, and the panels will serve as a sunshade for a new sidewalk market area.
“Likewise, we could have made the water catchment just a cistern for storing water for irrigation, but instead we created a recirculating system that will allow us to actually grow fish in the cistern, then pump the water inside to be bio-filtered through beds of watercress.
“We try to make every cubic foot productive, whether it’s on the ground, above the ground or below the ground.”
The indoor part of the water catchment system is intended to become home to some 8,000 lake perch, Milwaukee’s fish fry favorite. The outdoor tank is slated to receive up to 10,000 rainbow trout, a first for Growing Power. About 100,000 perch and tilapia are already swimming in Growing Power’s existing aquaponics systems, which also use natural biological filtration to grow both vegetables and fish in the same recirculating water – fish enrich the water with nitrates; plants use the nitrates for growth; and clean water is returned to the fish.
All these systems, new and old, of course demand some electricity to power pumps to keep the water circulating – and some of that power will now be supplied by the sun. Working together, the solar and rainwater systems will produce valuable energy in the form of food from resources that come free and renewably from the environment.
The dedication event will feature demonstrations of the two new systems, free tastings of the foods they help produce and general tours of the Growing Power facilities.
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Intranasal Oxytocin for Children with Autism
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A recent study looked at using oxytocin to improve social abilities in children with autism.1 Autism is marked by difficulty adapting to social situations, reading social cues such as facial expressions, eye contact, and body gestures, as well as a marked difficulty engaging in social relationships, often resulting in extreme anxiety and discomfort. Oxytocin, a hormone released from the posterior pituitary gland, and instrumental in relaxing the uterus during childbirth, is also well known as a principle neurohormonal modulator of various types of social bonding – most well known is maternal-infant bonding; oxytocin is well-documented to be secreted during breastfeeding. Over the past decade, oxytocin has been gaining traction as a possible contributing factor in autism.2
Research Showed Correlation Between Oxytocin Levels and Response to Intranasal Oxytocin Spray
Previous research by this same team has found that oxytocin levels vary greatly in children, regardless of whether they have autism.3 They also found that oxytocin levels are associated with social impairment, also, independent of autism status. They reasoned, that this could help explain why research on oxytocin in autism has largely shown mixed results; that baseline oxytocin levels are not being taken into account. The current study, though very small – only 32 participants – did show a correlation between baseline oxytocin levels and response to intranasal oxytocin spray. Those children with lower baseline levels, responded better to treatment. There were no adverse effects reported.
A More Interesting Finding Included Among Placebo Group
A more interesting finding of the study was seen in the response within the placebo group. Those children within the placebo group, showed slight improvement, and an actual rise in natural oxytocin levels. This hints at a possible mechanism for the placebo response seen in many randomly controlled trials, especially when psycho-social factors may contribute to the success of treatment.
Larger Study Underway
A larger study on oxytocin in autism is currently underway. Hopefully these factors will be elucidated further. For now, the researchers are hesitant to recommend oxytocin as a treatment for autism, but it is looking like testing baseline levels may be an appropriate first step for those interested in pursuing this line of therapy. It is is also likely that oral, sublingual, and intranasal administration routes will not give the same results.
Parker KJ, Oztan O, Libove RA, et al. Intranasal oxytocin treatment for social deficits and biomarkers of response in children with autism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2017
Jacob S, Brune CW, Carter CS, Leventhal BL, Lord C, Cook EH. Association of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in Caucasian children and adolescents with autism. Neurosci Lett. 2007;417(1):6-9.
Parker KJ, Garner JP, Libove RA, et al. Plasma oxytocin concentrations and OXTR polymorphisms predict social impairments in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2014;111(33):12258-63.
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Slack acquires Missions to help users automate work tasks inside chat
BY LUCAS MATNEY
As Slack continues to grow its paid business users, the company is looking for ways to help customers build integrations that make sense for the work they do.
Slack announced today that it has acquired Robots and Pencils’ Missions, an app that allows Slack users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Paid users are already big fans of Slack integrations.There are currently 1,500 apps available in the Slack app directory. The company says that 94 percent of users in that bracket use apps and integrations, while 65 percent of teams have built their own. Building an integration certainly isn’t an easy process for non-tech teams to handle; Missions is focused on a more visual flow that ditches some of the complexity.
Missions’ technology lets people create workflows for tasks that they might normally have to talk about inside Slack and then carry out the process off-chat. With Missions, Slack hopes that users can help teams boost productivity by making things more simple for a variety of repeatable processes.
Onboarding seems to be an area where Slack sees a lot of potential for this tech, ensuring that new employees know which documents they need to fill out, who in the company they need to meet and other tasks they’ll have to complete. Other potential areas for the app to help users include managing approvals and rejections in the hiring process, as well as internal ticketing.
The company says they’ll be supporting Missions’ customers for free for the next few months as they begin to build the technology into their platform. When can you start playing with this tech? The company said they’ll have more to share “later this year.”
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Sir Deian Hopkins, former Vice Chancellor of the South Bank University and currently Welsh Government Advisor on WW1 remembrance addresses the event in the House of Commons.
Nia Griffith MP has recently attended an event in the House of Commons to promote the campaign to establish a memorial to commemorate the thousands of Welsh soldiers who gave their lives during the First World War. During that conflict, in proportion to the size of its population, Wales lost more people than any other nation. Whereas Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and more recently Scotland have monuments in Flanders to honour their fallen, there is as yet no such memorial to the Welsh who lost their lives. This campaign is to make sure that there is such a memorial. The historian Sir Deian Hopkin, who originally comes from Llanelli, and is currently the Welsh Government Advisor on WW1 remembrance explained the plans.
Commenting on the event, Nia said, “ I am pleased to support this campaign. Like so many of our forefathers, my Great Uncle Ebeneser lost his life in the First World War, and it would be fitting to have a memorial to the Welsh who gave their lives on those battlefields.”
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NACLIM project is financed by European Commission through the
7th Framework Programme for Research [Theme 6 Environment, GA 308299]
[31 January 2017]
NACLIM short films
Four short documentary films were made during the 51-month project lifetime, the first film demonstrates the perspective of the project - what we need to find out (Part 1, 2013), the second film is about the monitoring activities in the Atlantic Ocean (Part 2, 2016), the third film represents some of the project outcome, theimpact of climate change on cities and our lives (Part 3, 2016)and the last filmThe North Atlantic Climate - the project and what we've learnt (Part 4, 2017)rounded up the target of the project, the effort we have made and what the project has achieved.
After 4 years of intensive work, the EU funded project NACLIM has come to an end. The project closed on the 31st of January 2017, with 60 reports to the European Commission and around 80 publications. NACLIM (02.2012 – 01.2017) stands for "The North Atlantic Climate". The project has enabled the scientists to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that control the ocean circulation in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, how these mechanisms interact with each other and how they affect global climate change. The output of the observations in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans is integrated into a surveillance system that can operate as a prediction system for the climate of 15 to 25 years ahead.
Within the project our scientists also tried to understand the phenomenon of more frequent and higher intensity extreme weather events, such as heat waves and in particular the urban heat island effect, so that the end-users (such as European cities) can prepare for this better.
The project was run by 18 research groups with over 60 scientists from 10 European countries.
This is the 3rd part of the NACLIM film. The project aims to better understand the effects of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans on global climate change. Climate change is predicted to cause more frequent and higher intensity extreme weather events, such as heat waves. Within NACLIM, scientists are trying to find out how to prepare our society for this. In particular European cities which experience the urban heat island effect are being studied.
Three European cities have been involved in the research studies. Griet Lambrechts from the municipality of Antwerp, Sara Dionísio from the city council of Almada, as well as Jörn Welsch from the senate of Berlin explain the needs and expectations of their cities. Scientific clarification is provided by our scientists Dirk Lauwaet from the Flemish Institution for Technological Research (VITO) and Catherine Stevens from GIM Belgium. Andrea Tilche from the European Commission summarises the necessary measures to enhance climate science and climate services in Europe.
This the 2nd part of the NACLIM film. In the EU funded NACLIM project, scientists from different European institutions take measurements in the ocean from Greenland to the Bahamas with concentration on 3 regions: the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, where the exchange between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas takes place, the Subpolar North Atlantic, and the Subtropical North Atlantic. The continuous observation data will form the input to improve the ability of models, and using these models future climate changes could be predicted.
In this part of the film, our scientists Barbara (Bee) Berx from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (MSS), Laura de Steur from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Gerard McCarthy from the Natural Environment Research Council UK (NERC) and the project coordinator Detlef Quadfasel at University of Hamburg (UHAM) speak about the observational activities carried out in the project and the findings so far.
This is the 1st part of the NACLIM film, a short introduction to the main challenges our researchers are facing to in their investigations on climate variability in the NACLIM project (www.naclim.eu). NACLIM stands for "The North Atlantic Climate", after the first introduction, the other 2 films will follow in 2015 and 2016 to demonstrate the monitoring system and to explain the impacts of climate variability on human health (heat stress in cities) as well as oceanic ecosystems.
In this video, one of our senior scientist, Mojib Latif of GEOMAR, explains the importance of understanding the mechanisms of climate variability in the North Atlantic area.
[28 September 2016]
International Conference on Climate Science and Climate Services
[All presentations are downloadable in the Member Only Area under "4a. Annual Meeting 2016"]
Conference programme published | The ECOMS cluster (EU FP7 Projects EUPORIAS, NACLIM and SPECS) are organising an international conference on observational programmes, climate research and climate predictions relating to the development of climate services in Europe on seasonal to interannual timescales. The conference will take place at the Met Office in Exeter, UK on 5-7 October 2016. The conference is by invitation only, for about 200 international participants.
NACLIM will hold its final general assembly prior to the international conference. Project review by core theme and work package leaders as well as 12 science talks will take place on 4th of October.
For those who are interested, please find the leaflet containing the final agenda of the international conference, the directions in Exeter and the programme of NACLIM's final GA. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at naclim@we dont want spamzmaw.de
[29 June 2016]
A new record in mixing of surface and deep ocean water in the Irminger Sea has important consequences for the Atlantic overturning circulation
NACLIM's scientists Femke de Jong and Laura de Steur of the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have shown that the recent temperature changes in the Irminger Sea between Iceland and Greenland can be explained through regional ocean-atmosphere interaction during the cold winter of 2014-2015. This rejects a hypothesis which posed that increased meltwater from Greenland weakened deep water formation and caused the cold blob. The article by de Jong and de Steur is accepted by Geophysical Research Letters and has appeared online (read full story of NIOZ press release)
[21-22 June 2016]
2 days workshop on "Urban Climate Services and User-Needs"
The 2 days workshop in the EC quarter of Brussels focused on the demonstration of the usefulness of Urban Climate Information. Project partner VITO and GIM (WP4.2) were leading the workshop. Together with the policy makers, cities and industries we discussed about the opportunities, barriers and challenges in the research and interaction among different stakeholders. Many thanks to the lively exchange among the participants, and the great contribution from the speakers of EC DG research and innovation, ECMWF Copernicus, ICLEI, GERICS as well as EU/regional projects and the city municipalities.
All presentations are downloadable in the Dissemination area.
Jürgen Preiss from City Vienna
Dr. Andrea Tilche from EC DG Research and Innovation
[02 May 2016]
Publication Update, April 2016
* Brun et al. on the predictive skill of species distribution in Global Change Biology &
* Latarius, Quadfasel about the transport of volume, heat and freshwater in the deep basins of the Nordic Seas, Deep Sea Research Part I
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[25 April 2016]
NACLIM's presentations and posters at EGU 2016 are available to download
NACLIM's work on "BlueFin Tuna in Greenland" featured in Nature
"Cold truths at the top of the world" - As it pursues independence, Greenland seeks to develop its economy without ruining one of Earth's last pristine places.
By Julia Rosen, nature
The houses of Narsaq gleam in a cheerful riot of blues, reds and yellows. The crayon-coloured town spills across a hill that separates barren mountains from a fjord filled with icebergs. But up close, grimmer details come into focus; the paint on many homes is peeling, and few signs of life stir in the narrow streets.
Established as a trading post in 1830, Narsaq long served as a hub of Greenland's fishing industry — the backbone of its economy. But in the past few decades, modernization has moved much of the fishing offshore, and many jobs in Narsaq have disappeared. The town's 1,500 residents have been struggling to find a way forward.
The same could be said of Greenland at large... read more
[03 March 2016]
Workshop Registration:
Urban Climate Services for Cities in the European Commission Programme
Brussels, 21-22 June 2016 (Go to Registration)
The EU research project NACLIM investigates the impact of the North Atlantic Ocean on European climate. As a more applied activity within the project, European climate information has been downscaled to yield local urban climate information in the form of maps. This was done for the three selected cities in Europe: Almada (PT), Antwerp (BE) and Berlin (DE). Based on the outcome, it has been shown that
(1) cities experiencetwice as many heat wave days as the nearby rural surroundings, and
(2) towards the end of the century, cities will be facing up to a tenfold increase of the number of heat wave days.
Moreover, as a demonstration of the use of local urban climate information, our scientists mapped human exposure to heat stress, and have been running scenario simulations to evaluate the impact of urban green infrastructure as a climate adaptation measure.
We believe that the methods developed and applied in NACLIM and other large scale European projects with the comparable subjects (EUPORIAS, Urabn SIS and Cities in Transition) to assess and predict urban climate are potentially very valuable for many cities and private stakeholders in Europe.
Hence, the goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the usefulness of Urban Climate Information, and to explore opportunities, barriers, and challenges with the end-users together to turn science into viable urban climate services.
The 1 - 1.5 day workshop consisting of presentations, panel and interactive discussions will be held at the Vleva building in Brussels, the location is very close to the European Institutions.If you have any questions, please get in touch with Catherine at catherine.stevens@we dont want spamgim.becatherine.stevens@we dont want spamgim.be or Chenbo at chenbo.guo@we dont want spamuni-hamburg.de.
Download the preliminary programme
2016,meetNACLIM at thefollowingevent!
* 2016 Ocean Science Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana USA, 21-26 February 2016
[go to program]
* OceanSITES 2016: 11th Steering Committee and 8th Data Management Team Meeting, NOC, Southampton, UK, 25 - 29 April 2016 [go to program]
* "Towards Urban Climate Services" workshop, Brussels BE, 21/22 June 2016 [go to program]
* ICES Annual Science Conference 2016, Riga Latvia, 19 - 23 September 2016 [go to program]:
** Theme Session I - Seasonal-to-decadal prediction of marine ecosystems [short description]
* CLIVAR Open Science Conference, Qingdao China, 18-25 September 2016 [go to program]
* NACLIM general assembly and final meeting, Exeter UK, 04 October 2016
* International ECOMS Conference, Exeter UK, 05 - 07 October 2016
Special Event: Science colloquium on "Shelf Sea Dynamics, Regional Ocean Circulation and Deep Overflows", Hamburg DE, 04 March 2016 [go to program]
[31 December 2015]
New Deliverables Published
Following Deliverables have been submitted to the Commission on 31st December 2015
D23.47 - Report on the estimate of a heat and freshwater budget for the Arctic Mediterranean and North Atlantic in relation to the main physical processes (FMI & UHAM) restricted access, go to Intranet
D42.42 - Report on the impact of predicted climate on urban societies (open accessible)
[01 November 2015]
Following Deliverables have been submitted to the Commission on 30th October 2015
D11.36 - Report on the quantification of the uncertainty in predictions of the near-future North Atlantic/Arctic ocean surface state (MPG & NERSC) restricted access, go to Intranet
D 12.37 - Assessment of the ability of climate models to reproduce response to boundary forcing (UPMC and NERSC) restricted access, go toIntranet
D13.38 - Identification of most relevant ocean mechanisms controlling S2D variability North Atlantic / Arctic Ocean surface (UPMC, UHAM and NERSC) (open accessible)
D22.44 - 3 Batch-Newly acquired & Updated time series provided to data portal for CMIP model data comparison (NIOZ) restricted access, go to Intranet
D23.46 - 3rd Batch-Updates of data sets containing time series of relevant key ocean quantities (UHAM) restricted access, go to Intranet
D31.39 - Report on hindcasts conducted with satellites information (GEOMAR) restricted access, go to Intranet
D32.40 - Report on the establishment of impact of the Arctic region initialization, and on the identification of sources of predictive skill from data withholding experiments (DMI) (open accessible)
D52.35 - End-User/Stakeholder Meetings (UHAM and GIM) (open accessible)
‘Go with the flow': Research on the current in the subpolar North Atlantic
Contribution from NIOZ1) - NACLIM - OSNAP2) | Summer 2015, a film made to demonstrate the work carried out in the subpolar gyre by scientists from various large-scale collaborative projects, and to raise social awareness of the significance of observation/the role of North Atlantic ocean in our life.
Summary about the film (NIOZ): Oceanographic research carried out in the North Atlantic Ocean is of great importance to understand the role of the ocean in our climate and future climate change. Scientists collaborate in large international projects in order to continuously measure the subpolar Atlantic at key geographical locations.
1) NIOZ: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
2) OSNAP:Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program - an international program designed to provide a continuous record of the full-water column, trans-basin fluxes of heat, mass and freshwater in the subpolar North Atlantic.
Photo: Ricardo Salomão 2015
[30. 09. - 01.10.2015]
NACLIM General Assembly 2015
NACLIM's general assembly 2015 took place in Almada, Portugal from September 30th to October 2nd, 2015. As one of the three end-user cities the City Council of Almada works closely with the work package (4.2) on the impact of seasonal to decadal-scale climate (variability) on urban areas and their populations. Almada is also the nearest city to North Atlantic among the three partner cities, which has a strong relevance to the project.
At the beginning of the annual meeting, Mayor of the city Almada Joaquim Estêvão Miguel Judas and the Head of Environment Division Catarina Freitas gave a speech to the group, it was not just a welcome speech to over 50 scientists, but also a substantial talk about climate change and challenge to human life, especially in the urbanized era.
Central topic of this year was the "Uncertainties and key problems on Observation and Modelling: for a better understanding of climate systems". There sessions with 17 talks were presented on model uncertainty, observational uncertainty and initialization of model systems and the suitability of the observational system. Following the talks of the central topic, 12 talks on various topics, especially the impact studies on ecosystems and urban systems (urban/regional heat stress and human health effects) have been presented.
33 talks fulfilled the two days annual meeting, more details can be found in the agenda (as of 2014-09-24). Scientific talks and other presentations are available to download in the intranet. If you are not part of NACLIM's community, you may get in touch with project office to ask for access to the member only area.
[21 - 24.07.2015]
NACLIM's contribution at U.S. AMOC International Science Meeting (21-24 July 2015, Bristol, U.K.): "Towards a holistic picture of the ,Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ,via observation modelling and synthesis" are available to download at Dissemination Activities
Visit RAPID for the whole programme.
From Iceland to Greenland
- a peek into the depth of the Arctic Ocean
III - Successful data recovery, Laura de Steur | 14 instruments recovered returning data on ocean temperature, salinity and velocity at selected depths between 100 m and 2900 m depth ... (more on OSNAP's Blog)
II - Maximizing the Schedule, Laura de Steur | Since we arrived at the moorings sites in the northward flowing Irminger Current on the Reykjanes Ridge, we have been working around the clock. With all 5 moorings recovered in two days, and needing to deploy those again soon, the days seemed too short... (more on OSNAP's Blog)
I - Introduction, Laura de Steur | R/V Pelagia // East Leg 2 underway // OSNAP (s. OSNAP's Blog )
NACLIM presented by Fraser MacDonald (SAMS) at the Marine Measurement Forum 56 in Liverpool, organizer of the MMF56 is the National Oceanography Centre U.K. The event focuses on interactive exchange among research institutions and commercial organizations on topics ranging from scientific research, instrumentation and survey projects of marine science. The day provides the ideal opportunity to network and share ideas with others working in the ocean industries.
View the programme or visit MMF56 for further information.
12 moorings: G: the Dutch moorings, D2: British moorings, C: German mooring, L: Dutch profiling mooring, and E1 and E3: RAFOS float deployments.
RV Pelagia underway to the Irminger Sea
* Laura de Steur | NIOZ *
After a bright sunny day of getting RV Pelagia ready in Reykjavik, we are well underway to retrieve and redeploy 12 tall oceanic moorings in the Irminger Sea which contribute to the NACLIM and OSNAP programs. We expect to arrive to the first mooring site on the Reykjanes Ridge this Friday morning to start servicing the 5 NIOZ moorings in the Irminger Current and do CTD stations and float deployments. After that we head west to collect all 5 NOC moorings in the Deep Western Boundary Current and take CTDs up to Greenland, if possible. In addition, the German CIS and Dutch LOCO2 moorings in the central gyre will be serviced. All moorings will be deployed again for another year. (Photo: Laura de Steur)
Check OSNAP's Blog for more updates~
GIM Belgien
GIM: Smart geodata map helps to identify heat wave effect on vulnerable population groups
In a city it is always a few degrees warmer than in the countryside. Extreme events such as heat waves reinforce this temperature rise and lead to health problems caused by heat stress exposure... read more
Photo: J. Greinert GEOMAR
Remarkable success with current Poseidon expedition - POS486: Most of the planned work at Denmark Strait has been done on schedule, overflow moorings recovered after 3 years in the water // follow @naclim and @stephendye from CEFAS
New publications in Geophysical Research Letters, Ocean Science, Climate and Cliamte Dynamics
Ocean Science Discuss. // Increasing transports of volume, heat,,and salt towards the Arctic in the Faroe,Current 1993–2013 by Hansen, B., Larsen, K. M. H., Hátún, H., Kristiansen, R., Mortensen, E., and Østerhus, S.
Climate // Detailed Urban Heat Island Projections for Cities Worldwide: Dynamical Downscaling CMIP5 Global Climate Models by Dirk Lauwaet, Hans Hooyberghs, Bino Maiheu, Wouter Lefebvre, Guy Driesen, Stijn Van Looy and Koen De Ridder
Climate Dynamics // Atmospheric response to the autumn sea-ice free Arctic and its detectability by Suo L, Gao Y, Guo D, Liu J, Wang H and Johannessen O.
Ocean Science // Deep drivers of mesoscale circulation in the central Rockall Trough by T. J. Sherwin, D. Aleynik, E. Dumont, and M. E. Inall
GRL // Recent changes in the freshwater composition, east of Greenland by L. de Steur, R. S. Pickart, D. J. Torres, and H. Valdimarsson
More publications (...)
The Atlantic Is Entering A Cool Phase That Will Change The World’s Weather
IFLSCIENCE | June 1, 2015 | by Gerard McCarthy and Ivan Haigh
The Atlantic Ocean’s surface temperature swings between warm and cold phases every few decades. Like its higher-frequency Pacific relative El Nino, this so-called “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” can alter weather patterns throughout the world. The warmer spell we’ve seen since the late 1990s has generally meant warmer conditions in Ireland and Britain, more North Atlantic hurricanes, and worse droughts in the US Midwest... read more
Heat stress exposure maps (WP 4.2 Impact on Urban Systems) are now available for NACLIM's stakeholders, the city of Almada Portugal, Antwerp Belgium and Berlin Germany. 51 maps represent the average number of heatwave days per year versus socio economic data per statistical unit. The average number of heatwave days per year has been modeled over the reference period 1986-2005 using the present land use / cover situation for the cities. Go to info sheets.
Enduser Newsletter Q1 2015 on UrbClim model and heat stress exposure mapping is now available.
Enduser status report Q1 2015on Urban Heat Island (UHI) user requirements and specifications updated. The aim of the quarterly report is to update the enduser cities (Almada, Berlin and Antwerp) about the progress of the work done within the WP 4.2 (climate impact on urban systems) and the planned activities for the next period.
NACLIM will be present at the U.S. AMOC International Science Meeting (21-24 July 2015, Bristol, U.K.): Towards a holistic picture of the ,Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ,via observation modelling and synthesis | Topic 4: Novel approaches to pan-Atlantic observations, modeling, analysis and synthesis. Visit RAPID for further information.
Is the Overturning Slowing Down? - No significant sign in Faroe Bank Channel and Denmark Strait
NACLIM at EGU 2015. Find Bogi Hansen (HAV) and Kerstin Jochumsen (UHAM)'s statement @
Increased oceanic heat transport in the main Atlantic inflow branch to the Nordic Seas 1993-2013 by Bogi Hansen (Download)
On the origin and propagation of Denmark Strait Overflow Water Anomalies in the Irminger Basin by Kerstin Jochumsen (Download)
Around 10 NACLIM members attended this year's EGU conference. Talks and posters addressed the North Atlantic variability, the predictability in the Nordic Seas, urban climate as well as management and outreach of EU funded research projects. The presentations and posters are available to download @ DisseminationActivities.
New Publications from NACLIM scientists in various journals
Nature Climate Change| Effects of long-term variability on projections of twenty-first-century dynamic sea level
Mohammad H. Bordbar, Thomas Martin, Mojib Latif and Wonsun Park
Progress in Oceanography| Arctic Ocean circulation, processes and water masses: A description of observations and ideas with focus on the period prior to the International Polar Year 2007-2009
Bert Rudels
Progress in Oceanography| Circulation and transformation of Atlantic water in the Eurasian Basin and the contribution of the Fram Strait inflow branch to the Arctic Ocean heat budget
Bert Rudels et al.
Journal of Climate| Influence of the North Atlantic SST Variability on the Atmospheric Circulation during the Twentieth Century
Guillaume Gastineau and Claude Frankignoul
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | On the origin and propagation of Denmark Strait overflow,water anomalies in the Irminger Basin
Kerstin Jochumsen, Manuela Köllner, Detlef Quadfasel, Stephen Dye, Bert Rudels,,and Heðinn Valdimarsson
Read more [>>]
[2 March 2015]
New Publication in Science of the Total Environment: A study of the hourly variability of the urban heat island effect in the Greater Athens Area during summer
Accepted on 17 February 2015, H. Hooyberghs and B. Maiheu from NACLIM CT4 are the co-authors.
Abstract: Measurements of air temperature and humidity in the urban canopy layer during July 2009 in 26 sites in Athens, Greece, allowed for the mapping of the hourly spatiotemporal evolution of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. City districts neighboring to the mountains to the east were the hottest during the afternoon, while being among the coolest during the early morning hours. While during the early morning some coastal sites were the hottest, the warm air plume slowly moved to the densely urbanized center of the city until 14:00–15:00, moving then further west, to the Elefsis industrial area in the afternoon. Results from the UrbClim model agree fairly well with the observations. Satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) data from AATSR, ASTER, AVHRR and MODIS, for pixels corresponding to ground stations measuring Tair, showed that LST can be up to 5 K lower than the respective Tair during nighttime, while it can be up to 15 K higher during the rest of the day. Generally, LST during late afternoon as acquired from AATSR is very near to Tair for all stations and all days, i.e., the AATSR LST afternoon retrieval can be used as a very good approximation of Tair. The hourly evolution of the spatial Tair distribution was almost the same during days with NE Etesian flow as in days with sea breeze circulation, indicating that the mean wind flow was not the main factor controlling the diurnal UHI evolution, although it influenced the temperatures attained. No unambiguous observation of the urban moisture excess (UME) phenomenon could be made.
New Publication in Urban Climate: UrbClim – A fast urban boundary layer climate model
By Koen De Ridder, Dirk Lauwaet, Bino Maiheu from CT4, accepted on 07 January 2015.
Abstract: We present a new urban climate model, further referred to as UrbClim, designed to cover agglomeration-scale domains at a spatial resolution of a few hundred metres. This model is composed of a land surface scheme containing simple urban physics, coupled to a 3-D atmospheric boundary layer module. In the land surface scheme, urban terrain is represented as an impermeable slab with appropriate parameter values for albedo, emissivity, and aerodynamic and thermal roughness length, and accounting for anthropogenic heat fluxes. The UrbClim model is subject to several validation exercises, using observations from Toulouse (France), Ghent and Antwerp (Belgium), and Bilbao (Spain), and considering turbulent energy fluxes, wind speed, and urban–rural temperatures. Despite its simplicity, UrbClim is found to be of the same level of accuracy than more sophisticated models, including for the complex terrain characterizing the Bilbao area. At the same time, it is faster than high-resolution mesoscale climate models by at least two orders of magnitude. Because of that, the model is well suited for long time integrations, in particular for applications in urban climate projections.
[3 February 2015]
New Publication in Nature Climate Change: Arctic warming will promote Atlantic–Pacific fish interchange
Published online 26 January 2015, Steffen Olsen from NACLIM CT3 is one of the co-authors. View the article at Nature Online
Warming Arctic enables exchange of fish species among Pacific and Atlantic. [The Carbon Brief] For millions of years, fish species in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans have stuck resolutely to where they belong, kept from venturing between oceans by the cold water of the Arctic.
But new research suggests a warming Arctic could soon see fish putting aside their differences and bridging this chilly divide. And this could have implications for native species and commercial fisheries, the researchers say. Read more [>>]
New Publication in Nature Communications: Wet or dry future Sahel? Difference between extra-tropical and tropical ocean warming will give the answer...
A new study entitled “Northern-hemispheric differential warming is the key to understanding the discrepancies in the projected Sahel rainfall” by Jong-yeon Park, Jürgen Bader und Daniela Matei (CT1) was recently published in Nature Communications. They considered the question of whether the Sahel will be wet or dry in the future and found out that the difference between extra-tropical and tropical ocean warming will be decisive.
The work was financially supported by the German BMBF RACE and MiKlip projects in the frame of an internal MPI-M project Tropical VIBES, with contribution from NACLIM scientist Daniela Matei.
Learn more on MPI homepage
[12-13 January 2015]
CT2 (Monitoring of North Atlantic parameters)
Meeting scheduled on 12-13 January 2015 focusing on the upcoming deliverables, Venue @ Mittelweg 177 Hamburg.
Agenda and relevant documentation are available only in the member only area
For questions please contact the project [>>] or organizer [>>]
Updated Newsletter and Status Report for End-Users online:
Newsletter Q4 2014 | Status Report Q4 2014
Updates are available quarterly, the series of newsletters and reports can be viewed at
Urban Impacts
Brochure for End-User online
The North Atlantic and Climate - The links between ocean, climate and the impacts on urban society...The data collected in NACLIM will be used to validate and run global climate models (GCM). NACLIMS's partner VITO uses the GCM data to run urban climate models with much higher resolutions and restricted spatial scales (e.g. cities). The output of the VITO urban climate model can be mapped against socioeconomic factors to create heat risk maps and understand the socioeconomic costs of heat waves in urban environment... More information about science in NACLIM and impact on urban societies can be viewed here:
[Flyer in English] or [Broschur in Deutsch]
Updates in the website!
Meeting minutes and more of End User Meeting in Berlin are now available in Intranet
All presentations of the Annual Meeting in Berlin are online [>>]
UHI of the thrid quarter 2014 report for WP4.1 end-users is now online [>>]
CT2 series on Labrador Sea western boundary current transport at 53° Nupdated[>>]
List of publications updated [>>]
Changes in the leadership of the CT2 and of the WP2.1: Karin M. H. Larsen (HAV) replacing Svein Osterhus (Unires) as lead in WP2.1.
CT2 now led by Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR) and Karin M.H. Larsen (HAV) [>>]
Changes in WP 6 project management: Chenbo Guo replacing Chiara Beazotti [>>]
Hotel Aquino, venue of the annual meeting 2014
[17 October 2014]
Annual Meeting in Berlin: talks now online
We've published online all the talks of the Berlin meeting. Thank you for joining the meeting. It was good to see you all there and to listen to the interesting talks.
[1 September 2014]
Junior-Akademie: adventures in oceanography for school pupils
Transfer of knowledge from scientists to school pupils taking place at the Junior Akademie, a summer school on oceanography.
Scientist Mirjam Glessmer tells more about this experience and the experiments in her blog: http://mirjamsophiaglessmer.wordpress.com/
Nice videos and graphics, well done Mirjam!
[23 August 2014]
Article on"Tuna follow global warming to Arctic" published by Sunday Times of London
Sunday Times journalist Jonathan Leake recently ran an article based on Brian MacKenzie and Mark Payne (DTU) research paper describing the arrival of bluefin tuna off Greenland. Download the Sunday Times article [>>]
Tuna embrace global warming with 1st Bluefins venturing into Arctic after water temps hit 11C http://t.co/eWrecNVuP2pic.twitter.com/aF5y8GOS4a
— Jonathan Leake (@Jonathan__Leake) August 23, 2014
NACLIM is on Twitter!
Follow us on Twitter, if you have an account, and we will be happy to follow you too and re-tweet your tweets. Our account is: @NACLIM
Bluefin tuna caught at east Greenland
Brian MacKenzie (DTU Aqua) "We have recently published a research paper showing that bluefin tuna were present at east Greenland in summer 2012. This location (approx. 65.5 deg. N.) is much farther north than its usual summer feeding habitat, but the warm conditions that year seemed to be suitable for the tuna. The warm water also attracted some of the tuna's favorite prey, such as Atlantic mackerel. This is the first time bluefin tuna have been reported so far north in Greenland water". For more details, go to the Media Center [>>]
Re-installing moorings in the Labrador and Irminger Sea: NACLIM group on RV THALASSA 6-26 August 2014
The NACLIM cruise MSM40 on board French vessel RV THALASSA started on the 6 August 2014 in St. Johns, Canada. 14 scientists are on board to primarily re-install a number of moorings in the Labrador and Irminger Sea. The observations contribute to the scientific analysis in the NACLIM WP2.2 (Transports in the subpolar North Atlantic), but also contribute to other efforts such as the “Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program” (OSNAP), the Canadian VITALS project, the US “Ocean Observation Initiative” (OOI) and the German “Regional Atlantic Circulation and Global Change” (RACE) project.
Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR) short report [>>]
Reports on the research expedition are available on GEOMAR website
Follow the RV THALASSA online: http://www.ifremer.fr/posnav/PosnavWeb/WFNavire.aspx?navire=thalassa
The second status report UHI (second quarter 2014) is now available
UHI stands for "User requirements and service specifications". The aim of this document is to update the NACLIM WP4.2 end-users on a quarterly basis on the progress of the work and the planned activities for the next period.
Read the report [>>]
Deliverables due on 1 October 2014: templates available
This is the list of the deliverables (& scientists in charge) to be provided to the project office by 1 October 2014:
D11.25: Yongqi Gao
D22.29: Laura de Steur
D23.30: Detlef Quadfasel (& all member of CT2)
D31.26: Mojib Latif and Wonsun Park
D32.27: Detlef Stammer and Armin Köhl
D32.28: Steffen Olsen and Gorm Dybkjær
The templates can be found in this zipped file (download)
First NACLIM progress report is available
This is a report covering the first 18 months of the project (Nov.2012-April 2014) and includes detailed information of the different work packages, the management report and update on the overall activities of the project.
The report has been sent to the EC with the financial reports in June 2014. A review of the EC on the activities and results is planned for summer 2014.
Download the report (PDF)
[6 May 2014]
New deliverables online
The latest deliverables' reports are now online:
in the intranet you find the full list and all the linked documents [>>]
In the website you find those accessible to a wider audience [>>]
NACLIM at EGU: WP4.2 presents the case studies for Antwerp, Berlin and Almada, EGU, 28-29 April 2014, Vienna (AT)
EGU abstracts of the interventions of Catherine Stevens and Bart Thomas : Download zipped file
Extraction of Urban Morphology Parameters from Generic European
Datasets: A Case Study for Antwerp, Berlin and Almada
Urban Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change
in Europe: A Case Study for Antwerp, Berlin and Almada
Joint CT1-CT3 topical meeting, 19-20 March 2014, Hamburg (DE)
The meeting was held at Max Planck and saw the participation of scientists of the core themes 1 and 3.
Goals of the meeting: providing an overview of work in progress and/or future work planned regarding 'influence of SST/sea ice on atmosphere and atmospheric predictability; atmospheric influence on SST/sea ice.
Discussing how to identify possible cross-institutional collaboration and joint studies, like extending analysis to more than one mode.
Read more and access the presentations [>>]
The North Atlantic Climate: what we need to find out... a short video-story
This video is a short introduction to the main challenges our researches face in their investigations on climate variability in the North Atlantic. This is the first video of three, the others will follow in 2014-2016 and explain the impacts of climate variability on human health (heat stress in cities) and on oceanic ecosystems.
Target audience: General public
Report on Arctic research funded by the European Union
The European Union has supported polar research through a large number of collaborative projects, among others NACLIM and THOR, read more [>>]
[12 February 2014]
3rd End-User Meeting, 10-11 February 2014, Brussels (BE)
The representatives of the three cities (Almada, Antwerp and Berlin) acting as end-users for the WP 4.2 met in our scientists for an update on thee progress in the implementation of the urban climate simulations. Presentations and reports on the event can be accessed in the intranet [>>]
Progress report on first 12 months of the project now available
This is a summary report of the progress achieved in the work packages in these first 12 months of activity (November 2012-November 2013). In addition to this, the report offers a look forward indicating the plans for the upcoming 12 months. Read the full report [>>]
New paper on the Arctic–Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
Eldevik, Tor, Jan Even Ø. Nilsen, 2013: The Arctic–Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation*. J. Climate, 26, 8698–8705. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00305.1 Abstract: The Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation is an important modulator of global climate. Its northern branch extends through the Nordic Seas to the cold Arctic, a region that appears to be particularly influenced by climate change. A thermohaline circulation is fundamentally concerned with two degrees of freedom. This is in particular the case for the inflow of warm and saline Atlantic Water through the Nordic Seas toward the Arctic that is balanced by two branches of outflow. The authors present an analytical model, rooted in observations, that constrains the strength and structure of this Arctic–Atlantic thermohaline circulation. It is found, maybe surprisingly, that the strength of Atlantic inflow is relatively insensitive to anomalous freshwater input; it mainly reflects changes in northern heat loss. Freshwater anomalies are predominantly balanced by the inflow's partition into estuarine and overturning circulation with southward polar outflow in the surface and dense overflow at depth, respectively. More quantitatively, the approach presented herein provides a relatively simple framework for making closed and consistent inference on the thermohaline circulation's response to observed or estimated past and future change in the northern seas.
IPCC Climate Change 2013, The Physical Science Basis: Summary for policy makers
WG1 Contribution to the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can be downloaded from this page of the IPCC website http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.UoNvX-KFfBI Here you can either download the full report in PDF; or access the specific chapters.
In the same page, you can also find another document (30 pages) in PDF, addressed to policy makers. This is the "Summary for policy makers", in its version of 11 November 2013. This summary follows the structure of the WG I report and the narrative is supported by a series of overarching highlighted conclusions which provide a concise summary. Main sections are introduced with a brief paragraph in italics outlining the methodological basis of the assessment.
The EU Adaptation Strategy
[MCCIP News June 2013] "Adaptation to climate change is crucial for reducing the risk and damage from current and future impacts of climate change in a cost-effective manner and to exploit potential benefits. The European Commission adopted an EU strategy on adaptation on 16 April 2013. The European Union (EU) has published its first climate adaptation strategy, based on three main themes: promoting action by member states, ‘climate proofing’ EU–level action; and providing better information to support decision–making."
Consult the EU Adaptation Strategy Package [>>]
[5 June 2013]
NACLIM Gender Panel: first interim report on gender indicators
In the first 6 project months (1 November 2012-30 April 2013), 27 women have been working for the NACLIM project. This corresponds to approx. 43% of the entire workforce employed by the project in this corresponding period.
Read the full report in the section "Deliverables & publications" [>>]
NACLIM was at the event "The Atlantic- A shared resource" 23-24 May 2013, Galway (Ireland)
Gerard McCarthy (NERC/NOC) represented the NACLIM project at the Galway event.
The objective of this event was to provide a vision for enhanced cooperation on both sides of the Atlantic and a set of jointly agreed priority actions to provide the means to achieve these goals. Recognizing the essential role of international partnership to achieve shared objectives and the potential of greater cooperation to advance our knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Presidency together with the European Commission invited the involvement of international partners in tackling the challenges confronting the citizens of the North Atlantic coastal states. Realising this potential demands not only the ability to make observations and obtain data, but an understanding of ecosystem functioning and interactions and an ability to model, forecast and predict the ocean system.
Outcome of the event, background and contacts [>>] (external link)
The Atlantic - A Shared Resource Event updates [>>]
Atlantic Action Plan 2014-2020 [>>](external link)
Download: Programme of the event - Press release of the event -Galway statement on Atlantic Ocean cooperation
-Detlef Quadfasel (scientific coordinator) and the NACLIM poster-
NACLIM poster showing at the Hamburg City Hall
A poster of the NACLIM project has been presented to the public on 29 April, day of the opening of the Europawoche in Hamburg. A PDF version of the poster can be downloaded here (in German only).
The show includes posters of all FP7 projects and ERC grants seeing the participation of institutions located in this geographical area, either as coordinator or as project partner.
All posters can be seen in the foyer of the Hamburg city hall until the end of May 2013. The exhibition is open to the general public.
Follow-up of the EGU sessions 2013: presentations and posters by NACLIM scientists
Several presentations and posters have been presented at the EGU sessions in Vienna, in early April 2013. Details and documents for download can be found here [>>]
CT1/CT3 Meeting: successfully held on 22-23 April 2013, Hamburg (DE)
Goals: Get an overview of what the different groups plan to do, identify and discuss what needs and what can be done in cross-institutional collaboration, data exchange, open access requirements
Audience: This meeting is addressed to all scientists of the CT1 and CT3
All presentations of the meeting available in the intranet [>>]
[ 5 April 2013]
Ocean Circulation in the North Atlantic: why it is important for Scotland
Our partner Marine of Scotland (MSS), April 2013 has published a new topic sheet on the Ocean circulation in the NA: the document is meant to be understandable to the wider audience and highlights MSS work and relevance to the Scottish public: download the file in PDF or visit the Marine of Scotland website http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science/Publications/TopicSheets/OceanCirc
Three cities selected for the case study on urban impacts
Three are the cities selected for the studies on the urban impacts in the WP 4.2 "Impact on urban societies". End-users have been selected in the three cities to become the NACLIM case studies. Read more [>>]
Project fact-sheet and NACLIM flyer online
We have published in February the first version of the NACLIM fact-sheet. Part of its content have been also now made available in the 2013 version of the NACLIM flyer. Both documents will be updated on a 18-month basis with the achievements of the project and are available in the Media Center section of the website [>>]
[7 Febr. 2013]
CORDEX 2013: International conference on regional climate 4-7 Nov. 2013, Brussels
The European Commission together with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and IPCC is organising his international conference. The Conference will start with a High Level Event, comprising the presentation of the IPCC WG I Report (AR5) in the presence of the EU Commissioners, for Research & Innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard. This will be followed by a Stakeholder Session, involving regional policymakers and representatives of various business sectors. The unique setting of this Conference, in particular on the first day, provides a special opportunity for participants from policy and business sectors to meet science and to discuss key issues related to climate change.
For more information and registration, please consult the webpage: http://cordex2013.wcrp-climate.org/
[25 Jan. 2013]
CT2 Meeting: 5-6 March 2013, Hamburg (DE)
We are planning a two-day NACLIM CT2 meeting in Hamburg, at the Institute of Oceanography, on 5 and 6 March 2013 to make plans for the coming field season and new publications. A more detailed agenda will follow soon.
This meeting is addressed to all scientists of the WP 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
Please confirm your attendance to: naclim@zmaw.de
[4 Jan. 2013]
Article upon NACLIM project in Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Michael Gross, science writer, published an article on the findings in the THOR project -now finalized- and the expectations for the NACLIM project in a German science magazine, Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Read the article [>>]
NACLIM project is financed by European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Theme 6 Environment, Grant Agreement 308299
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Budget allocation for education seems intriguing
Rana Latif
LAHORE - The Federal governments intention to increase allocation in education sector in the coming budget 2009-10 is intriguing. If the government increases allocation almost double than the last year of 2008-09, which was the record low of 1.25 per cent of the GDP, it is no increase because the allocation in the year 1996-97 was 2.62 and even in the year 2007-08 it was 2.49 per cent of the GDP. The government imposed almost fifty per cent cut on the percentage of allocation in education sector in the budget 2008-09 and thus the allocated amount of 1.25 per cent of the GDP was reduced to almost 0.75 per cent, the one-third of which also lapsed. In 1995-96, the allocation was 2 per cent and slightly above during the subsequent years till 1998-99 with a significant increase in 1996-97. During Gen (r) Musharrafs military regime it was reduced to 1.7 per cent and slightly above in later years till 2002-03 when the allocation increased to 2.2 in 2003-04 budget, which continued with little variation till 2007-08. The elected government again reduced it to 1.25 per cent of the GDP. The marginal increase in the past commensurated with the percentage of inflation while in actual terms there was no significant increase. This drastic reduction in allocation in the education sector resulted in deterioration of education particularly higher education which has no source of funding other than the Higher Education Commission (HEC) already undergoing recession. The more intriguing is the fact that HECs funds not only reduced but also lapsed due to the cumbersome procedures, which created uproar in public sector universities recently. Sources said that at least one-third of the allocated funds were lapsed while the rest half remained unspent. The cut in HEC grants put the students studying abroad on HEC scholarships in trouble while the domestic scho1arship schemes were also abolished. It remained no more a fund-giving agency. The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) in a recent meeting expressing strong concern over HECs performance maintained that HEC administrative functions could be performed well by the universities and their bodies like senate and syndicate themselves provided these are composed of representatives of teachers and stake-holders instead of selecting members from the chancellors and vice-chancellors lobbies. If the universities are empowered, the huge funds spent on administrative heads of the HEC could be diverted to research and academics of higher education. The HEC mainly works to grant funds to respective universities for development purposes. The universities send budget proposals to the HEC, which is never conceded in toto. The sanctioned amount is also not released in lump sum and delayed by various tactics. The expansion of funds is not sustainable and neither the projects and due to lack of sustainability, a number of projects are left half through, thus wasting precious time and energy. In some cases the cost increase and the finds become short.
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Boeing begins final assembly of first 787-10 Dreamliner
Boeing begins final assembly o...
Boeing says the 787-10 Dreamliner is 25 percent more efficient in terms of fuel per seat and emissions than the aircraft it will replace
Having finalized the model's design a year ago, Boeing has now begun the final assembly of its first 787-10 Dreamliner. The 787-10 is a mid-size, widebody passenger aircraft designed for long-range flights and is the longest member of the 787 Dreamliner family, as well as the most efficient Boeing plane so far.
The 787-10 Dreamliner is being built at Boeing South Carolina's Final Assembly facility, in a process that will see its major sections joined together, interior and exterior components fitted and power turned on. Production tests will also be carried out.
The 787-10 is the third 787 Dreamliner model and is based on the earlier 787-9, with Boeing saying that both design cost and time were able to be minimized as a result. At 224-ft (68-m) long, compared to the 206 ft (63 m) length of the 787-9, it has more room for seats and cargo, with up to 330 passengers able to be accommodated in a in a two-class configuration and 6,802 cu ft (193 cu m) of cargo space.
Boeing says the plane is 25 percent more efficient in terms of fuel per seat and emissions than the those it will replace and that is at least 10 percent more fuel efficient that its competitors. Fully fueled, the 787-10 will have a range of 6,430 nautical miles (11,910 km).
There are 154 orders from nine customers so far for the 787-10. Its first flight is set for next year and first deliveries are expected in 2018.
Source: Boeing
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More Problems for Sydney Biennale as Government Official Threatens to Cut Funding
The controversy continues.
Sarah Cascone, March 14, 2014
The Biennale of Sydney starts soon. Via Biennale of Sydney/Facebook.
Having dropped controversial sponsor Transfield Holdings after artists protested its ties to government detention centers, the beleaguered Biennale of Sydney has a new detractor. Australian arts minister George Brandis is threatening to withdraw the exhibition’s government funding.
Brandis has written to the Australia Council (which is in charge of distributing federal arts funding), arguing that the Biennale has severed ties with Transfield on “unreasonable grounds” and should be penalized by the government. The minister feels that taxpayers would be justified in wondering “If the Sydney Biennale doesn’t need Transfield’s money, why should they be asking for ours?”
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Mobile devices manufactured by a diverse set of handset makers were discovered to be loaded with malware pre-installed somewhere along the supply chain.
Check Point Software Technologies said that it found 38 Android handsets were infected with adware, information-stealing malware and ransomware, a collection of malicious code as sundry as the number of different manufacturers.
Researcher Daniel Padon said the 38 handsets belonged to Check Point customers who work for either an unidentified large telecommunications company, or multinational technology company. Padon would not identify the two companies, nor whether they were from the same country or region of the world.
The malware was added to the devices before they were in the users’ hands, and were not part of the vendor’s original ROM. For six of the devices, the attacker had system privileges for the device and the malware could not be removed without re-flashing the phone.
“We were surprised by such a number of different models; that seems strange to us,” Padon said. “When you have a large range of devices, it raises questions about how they chose to attack them and why so many different devices were infected.”
Padon speculated that the devices could have been tampered with at a retail location, and the phones were sold to the two companies. All 38 devices have been remediated through Check Point’s products, and Padon said that there are likely more devices in the wild that were similarly infected.
Padon said Check Point’s analysis determined when the original ROM was installed, and then weeks, months, or in one case, a year later, the malware was added to the ROM before the user activated it.
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Check Point said it found six devices infected with the Loki Trojan, a malicious ad network that’s been in circulation for more than a year. Loki can display ads to generate revenue, has mechanisms to maintain persistence, and it can intercept communication and exfiltrate data from an Android device. They also found devices infected with Slocker mobile ransomware, which encrypts files on the device and uses the Tor network for command and control communication.
“The main issue is the potential risk in such attacks is not something to be takes lightly because the grants such extensive capabilities,” Padon said. If an attacker has the device before it is returned to the supply chain, this opens any company or user to be infected with malware even if they’ve never clicked on a suspicious link, opened an attachment in an email or downloaded a phishing app.”
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ZTE x500
5 Asus Zenfone 2
OppoR7 plus
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#EventSpeaks: Lucy Spraggan @ Concorde 2, Brighton – 16/03/17
Check out Matt’s review of the final night of Lucy Spraggan’s 2017 tour, in support of her album, ‘I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing’…
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It was the final night of Lucy Spraggan‘s March 2017 tour, in support of her most recent album, I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing (album review here), and what an incredible show to close the tour! With support from Joe Mongan and Katie London, the night was definitely one to remember!
Joe Mongan
Joe Mongan is a singer/songwriter who warmed up the crowd nicely – he had a good voice and one or two good songs that got the crowd going; he had an understated confidence about him.
Katie London
Katie London took to the stage, exuding confidence. Her vocals were powerful and her songs catchy. She was fantastic at engaging with the crowd and used her wit and down-to-earth demeanour to charm them between songs. I can foresee great things for this stunning songstress!
Highlight: The incredible power to her vocals and her between-song banter was on point.
Lucy Spraggan
The last time I saw Lucy Spraggan perform was on her acoustic tour and so seeing her perform with a full band tonight was a whole different experience – both were amazing in their own way!
She took to the stage with huge applause and a sense of anticipation, awe and sheer adoration swept throughout the crowd. The moment ‘You’re Too Young’ began, the fans were singing every word; in fact barely a moment went by when the audience couldn’t sing along with her – they know every word of every song and hang on to every word she sings and says. The sense of fan-family is rife at any Lucy Spraggan show – they know just about every story she has to tell, screeching with joy at her anecdotes and join in with anything she asks of them.
Fan-favourites such as ‘Last Night (Beer Fear)’, ‘Unsinkable’ and new song ‘Loaded Gun’ had the crowd chanting along like mad but my favourite song of the night was ‘Wait For Me’ – already an upbeat, catchy track; it was made even more intense by bringing it back a couple of times (just when you thought it was over) and upping the tempo each time – leading it into a high-energy, frantic rendition, ending the show on one ultra, massive high. Then there were the performances of songs like ‘Dear You’ and ‘Grown Up’ which didn’t leave a dry eye in the house – that’s one of the things that makes Lucy Spraggan so special; her ability to tell stories through her lyrics is a work of art.
I myself am a big fan of Lucy Spraggan but I would defy anyone to leave one of her shows without being in total awe of her talent, appreciating her devotion to her art and captivated by her abundant energy.
Her fan interaction and dedication is just remarkable – I don’t think I’ve seen an artist with quite the relationship that Lucy Spraggan has with her fans.
The genuine gratitude she expressed to her fans for getting her most recent album (I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing) to Number 12 in the UK charts, without any major label backing!
Her superb vocals throughout the performance.
Her ability to reduce an audience to tears with her stunning performance of ‘Dear You’.
The high energy she puts into her performances – particularly ‘Don’t Know Nothing About The Blues’ and ‘Wait For Me’.
Modern Day Frankenstein (Live)
Finally, I want to say a MASSIVE thanks to Ben for having me come down and do the review – and to Lucy Spraggan for another fantastic performance!
Matt – Muzik Speaks
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#Review: Lucy Spraggan – I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing
28/01/2017 08/03/2018 Matt Wright - Muzik Speaks1 Comment
Lucy Spraggan is an outstanding singer, songwriter and all-round storyteller, most notable for her appearance on 2012’s series of X Factor. However, since then, she has built a huge following, from her debut, independent album through to this, her fourth album release. This is ‘I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing’.
The album opens with the folk-like songs, ‘Fight For It’ and ‘Loaded Guns’, the first of which has an almost Irish folksong feel to it and the latter with it’s gun sounds and interesting vocal sample, make for a superb opening to the record. ‘Grown Up’ is a very personal song with a deep appreciation of life while ‘I Don’t Live There Anymore’ is a beautiful reflection of times past.
There are three, clear, stand-out tracks on the album (which must be why they were singles!): ‘Dear You’ is brimming with personal emotion – an open letter which deals with mental health issues (the video for which features Thomas Turgoose and can be seen below); ‘Freddos Aren’t 10p’ with its retro references and nostalgia and ‘Modern Day Frankenstein’ which is a very powerful, catchy song which touches on the positives in a negative relationship.
There are other great tracks, such as ‘Hey William’ (a collaboration with The Dunwells) which is fairly indie in style with great backing vocals; ‘All That I’ve Loved (For Barbara)’ which tells a story and shows off her powerful vocals and ‘Puppy Dog Eyes’ that’s a track about the downfall of a relationship.
The entire album is filled with a strong sense of nostalgia, personal emotions, rocky relationships and her trademark story-telling. It’s what makes Lucy Spraggan such an interesting artist and means that her songs are always diverse.
The production on the album is fantastic and lead by Jon Maguire (who’s also worked with the likes of One Direction, Calum Scott, Ben Haenow and Sam Feldt)! It can be rare to find a pop album produced predominantly by one person these days, but an excellent job has been done to ensure that all the tracks are diverse in feel yet come together with a similar sound; it’s a truly brilliant record.
In summary, Lucy Spraggan has shown that she has been hard at work further developing her songwriting skills, to produce a heavily themed album but with wide variety of song styles whilst maintaining her fantastically poetic lyric-writing ability. It’s a definite, must-have album!
‘I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing’ is out now and can be downloaded from iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-hope-you-dont-mind-me-writing/id1176961001
I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing on Spotify
‘Modern Day Frankenstein’ (Official Video)
‘Dear You’ (Official Video)
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#Two4Tunesday: Muzik Speaks’ 1st Birthday Playlist
Here’s a playlist of all the #Two4Tunesday songs we’ve featured during our first year…enjoy!
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Muzik Speaks is 1 year old this week and to celebrate this milestone, we’re giving you a themed playlist, for each day this week. The playlist will contain all of the songs we’ve featured on our blog during the past year, all themed around the corresponding day.
Today, it’s #Two4Tunesday and our playlist includes:
Dappy – Beautiful Me
Frankmusik – Stabilizher
Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
Taylor Swift – Blank Space
Conor Maynard – Talking About
Marlon Roudette – When The Beat Drops Out
Years & Years – King
Angels & Airwaves – Bullets In The Wind
Jason Derulo – Want To Want Me
Lucy Spraggan – Unsinkable
Nick Jonas – Jealous
Luke Friend – Hole In The Heart
TEAM* – I Like It
New City Kings – Change
Omi – Cheerleader
Deorro – Five More Hours featuring Chris Brown
Taio Cruz – Do What You Like
Life Of Dillon – Overload
Britney Spears – Pretty Girls featuring Iggy Azalea
Prides – Higher Love
Maroon 5 – This Summer
Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance
Ryn Weaver – The Fool
Ella Eyre – Together
Aston Merrygold – Get Stupid
Little Mix – Black Magic
Passion Pit – Lifted Up (1985)
Owl City – Verge featuring Aloe Blacc
LunchMoney Lewis – Bills
Dappy – 100 (Built For This)
Frankmusik – This
Years & Years – Shine
Blonde – All Cried Out featuring Alex Newell
Sigma – Glitterball featuring Ella Henderson
Conrad Sewell – Hold Me Up
Tinie Tempah – Not Letting Go featuring Jess Glynne
Trevor Guthrie – Summertime
Jerry Orbach & Angela Lansbury – Be Our Guest (Beauty & The Beast)
Robin Williams – Friend Like Me (Aladdin)
Adriana Castelotti – With A Smile And A Song (Snow White)
Tommy Luske & Bobby Driscoll – You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! (Peter Pan)
John Newman – Come And Get It
Stefano Pain & Maury Lobina – Take Me Back
Flo Rida – I Don’t Like It, I Love It featuring Robin Thicke & Verdine White
Cash Cash – Take Me Home featuring Bebe Rexha
Prince Royce – Back It Up featuring Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull
The Score – Oh My Love
Prides – Little Danger
Digital Farm Animals – True
Robin Thicke – Back Together featuring Nicki Minaj
Pia Mia – Do It Again featuring Chris Brown
MOKS – Otherwise featuring James Arthur
Dappy – Money Can’t Buy
Ellie Goulding – On My Mind
Pentatonix – Can’t Sleep Love
Major Lazer – Lean On featuring MØ & DJ Snake
Philip George – Alone No More
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown featuring Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee & Eric Nally
KStewart – Ain’t Nobody
Melissa Steel – You Love Me? featuring Wretch 32
Aquilo – Good Girl
Olly Murs – Kiss Me
Sia – Alive
Justin Bieber – Sorry
Ben Haenow – Second Hand Heart featuring Kelly Clarkson
David Guetta – Bang My Head featuring Sia & Fetty Wap
LÉON – Treasure
Good Charlotte – Makeshift Love
Tinashe – Player featuring Chris Brown
Fleur East – Sax
St Lucia – Dancing On Glass
Hailee Steinfield – Love Myself
Craig David x Big Narstie – When The Bassline Drops
Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime
The Vamps – Wake Up
The 1975 – UGH!
Coasts – You
Matoma – Running Out featuring Astrid S
Zara Larsson – Lush Life
MKTO – Classic
Walking On Cars – Two Stones
Elle King – Ex’s & Oh’s
Izzy Bizu – White Tiger
ZAYN – PILLOWTALK
NAO – Bad Blood
Greyson Chance – Afterlife
Fleur East – More And More
KStewart – Be Without You
Sigala – Say You Do featuring Imani & DJ Fresh
Beyoncé – Formation
Rihanna – Work featuring Drake
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Kevin featuring Leon Bridges
Halsey – Colors
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#MuzikSpeaks: An Interview with Lucy Spraggan
Matt got the opportunity to interview Lucy Spraggan at The Old Market in Brighton, before her recent show there. Lucy shared her current musical tastes, who she’d like to collaborate with and answered some rather awkward ‘Would You Rather…?’ questions. Check out the hilarious interview now!
05/03/2016 06/03/2016 Matt Wright - Muzik Speaks10 Comments
Before Lucy Spraggan‘s recent show at The Old Market, Hove (Brighton), I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to meet and interview her, in person, before she took to the stage. It was a real pleasure, as she was such a genuinely nice person! We sat at in the bar area of the venue to chat and it was just fab; such a chilled interview! Here’s how it went:
So, how are you?
I’m very well thank you, a bit tired as it goes, when you’re on the road, but very well.
How far are you into the tour?
I have 3 left, so I think that means that I’ve done 16…I think!
So fairly tiring!
Obviously you’ve put out the Home EP at the moment, what’s new?
Well I just sort of wrote the last record, released the last record and I’m writing another one and I had some songs left over, so I was just like, “I might just put them out,” and just stick ’em out. Literally, I think I’ve printed 3,000, which is like, not very many at all and just chucked it online, see what happens. And yeah, people have responded really well to it, it’s really nice to see.
Yeah, I’m really enjoying it!
Oh, thank you!
Are there plans afoot for a new album?
Yeah, definitely! I’ve got a new song that I’m playing tonight, it’s called ‘Dear You’, I think I’m gonna lead the next record with it; it’s a series of letters to someone. I’m just gonna record this album, like as and when. I usually sort of focus on recording a whole album at once and I don’t think it’s worthwhile really, so I’m just gonna keep doing little bits. It should be around this summer.
What was it like going in to write the second album? Was it tough?
I didn’t find it difficult…I definitely ventured into a lot more co-writing because I really enjoy it, like I think it really pushes you as a writer…obviously if you use it in the right sort of way. I write all the lyrics and bounce melodic ideas off people; it’s really nice to do. It was different, but it was great.
Do you think there will be more pressure with the new one?
I don’t think so, I think I’m gonna stick to like doing some of my more old-school songs, like storytelling, and just do some stuff that I enjoy, so maybe it’ll be a far more self-indulgent album, to be honest.
How’s the tour going so far?
Yeah, it’s really good. Everything’s sold out…apart from Belfast (chuckles), which is weird because usually Belfast is really good and sells out first. So yeah, it’s gone really well and we’ve had some amazing shows.
I’ve had a Tweet from Jamie Fennessy (@fxnnxssy) to ask, which venue has been your favourite and why…besides Brighton of course!
Yes of course, well I haven’t played yet! It’s a big toss-up between London, Manchester and Birmingham…um…and Cambridge and Shetland. It’s really difficult to pin one down because people like shows for all different reasons. I like shows when there’s really attentive audiences and if you’re playing with a full band it’s good when you’ve got like a rocky audience but there’s different degrees of each place that’ve been really nice, so I couldn’t pin down a favourite.
Let’s take it back a bit, how did you first discover your talents for songwriting?
I just…I was an angsty teenager but that’s how everyone discovers it, so I just started writing and writing down what I felt like. I think it was poetry at first and then it just turned into writing music.
So what made you take that and journey towards X Factor?
Erm…I don’t know, you know! I think it was a series of events that just sort of led me in that direction, like meeting different people and trying to get signed to majors and not being entirely successful with those guys and just thinking, “Do you know what, I’m just gonna utilise this massive platform that’s staring everyone in the face, but I’m only gonna do it on my terms.”
Has anything really scary ever happened to you on tour?
Erm…not really. I don’t think so. I’ve had a few bras on stage, that’s about as scary as it gets!
Have you got any disgusting habits?
Errrrrm…yeah, but I’m not telling you what they are! (Laughs)
That’s fair enough! So yeah, what’s your usual process for writing?
For me, there’s not really any process, like, I’ll get an idea and if I think that’s a good idea then… I actually look in my notes (points to her phone) to see if I’ve written anything that would work…so, you know, might find like a certain tagline that you think, “Oh, I could write a song around that.” And then usually the music comes afterwards. I’m writing a lot with piano at the moment coz I’m getting a bit bored of the guitar.
OK, so we might find some more keys on the next record?
Yeah, yeah.
What really grinds your gears?
Impoliteness; people that are rude. That’s it. And sometimes, if I’m not drunk, drunk people.
But as long as you’re drunk, then it’s ok.
Yeah…obviously! (Laughs)
Is there anything, other than music, that you’re really passionate about?
I’m attempting to join the Retained Firefighters at the moment, back up where I live and that was something that I was gonna do, I was gonna be a firefighter, that was my sort of plan and then I broke my leg and thought, “I’ll have to do music from now on.” And er…yeah, I’m quite passionate about, like working with the community and stuff like that, so starting to do that more.
Nice! Can you remember the first song you ever performed live? And what was it?
I used to go to like an open mic session near my house, so I don’t even [know]… I used to write a new one every day and like go and play all the new ones every week to like, 60-year-old men, so I don’t know, you know.
What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?
(Long pause) …There’s been so many! I went to the zoo and I was with my whole family, my extended family, like step-brothers and sisters and like, obviously you don’t get on with them when you’re younger. And the tiger pissed on me through the gate. Like sprayed on me! So it’s probably that!
That is quite embarrassing! What music have you been listening to most recently? And have you got a favourite song right now?
I like Macklemore‘s new album…I loved his first album, so his second album for me is, like bangin’ as well. I like how independent he is and the style in which he releases his music. And I love Lana Del Rey, so I’ve got her new album, Honeymoon, as well.
If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be?
Probably Macklemore; he’s amazing! I love him!
I was just thinking, as soon as you mentioned him, “That would be the dream team mashup!”
Yeah, it would be SO cool!
Probably, “If you can’t be nice, then shut the fuck up……you dick!” (Laughs)
That’s good advice! Normally, I play ‘Would You Rather…’ with people, would you be up for that?
Yeah, (laughs) yeah, yeah, that’s fine!
Would you rather have a third eye or third arm?
Third arm, probably.
Would you rather be super strong or super fast?
Super strong, for sure…oh wait how fast?
Yeah fast, coz it’s almost teleportation isn’t it?
Then you wouldn’t have to sit on the tour bus for ages.
Would you rather go through life unable to ask any questions or unable to answer any questions?
Unable to ask…I’m too much of a talker, so I’d be fine with that.
Would you rather live in a Disney universe or a Looney Tunes universe?
Disney, it’s far less likely you’re gonna have an Acme piano dropped on your head outside!
Would you rather always speak your mind or never speak again?
I always speak my mind anyway…troublesome, but…
Would you rather have to listen to ‘Gangnam Style’ or ‘Harlem Shake’ for the rest of your life?
‘Harlem Shake’ probably, but I don’t know how long I’d survive doing that!
Would you rather discover life on another planet or find out if God was real?
Life on another planet, I think.
Would you rather make out with a horse or suck a cow’s udder?
Suck a cow’s udder…?
Is that the one you’re going for?
Er…yeah
Would you rather eat a live slug or drink a pint of gone-off milk?
Well…milk, I imagine…the slug thing’s pretty f**ked up!
Would you rather use sandpaper for toilet paper or vinegar for eyedrops?
Sandpaper – it’s got a smooth back!
I concluded the interview there and thanked her for her time. It honestly was an amazing experience and she was such a great person to talk to. It’s nice to see that someone who comes across as lovely in her music and on stage, is just as nice in person.
Lucy Spraggan‘s releases are all available:
To purchase on iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/lucy-spraggan/id480750298
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Enjoyed this? Check out our other interviews with:
Joe Ragosta from Patent Pending
Ali Tabatabaee from Zebrahead
Race The Horizon
Life Of Dillon
Platnum
David Ford
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#EventSpeaks: Lucy Spraggan @ The Old Market, Hove (Brighton) – 29/02/16
01/03/2016 07/03/2018 Matt Wright - Muzik Speaks2 Comments
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Last night (Monday 29th February 2016) I was given the great opportunity to see Lucy Spraggan perform at The Old Market in Brighton (well, Hove actually!) and she really was incredible; the vibe in the room was simply electric! The support was Lola Young, who has an incredible voice!
Lola Young
This incredibly talented girl, with a big, powerful voice, took to the stage at 8pm and performed for around 30 minutes. Within seconds of her first song, I felt, that this girl had something special – a great songwriting style with an insanely fantastic voice to match, but what makes her more incredible, is the fact that she’s currently just 15 years old! If she’s like that now, I wonder what she’ll be like in 5 years time?! She’s currently performing on CBBC’s Got What It Takes, talent show.
She’s most definitely one to watch out for and the performance of her final song, ‘Better Days’, can be seen below!
Highlight: The sheer power behind her voice and the stories she tells through her songs; she’s advanced beyond her years!
Lucy Spraggan took to the stage at 9pm and performed a whole heap of fan favourites, for an hour.
The stage presence Lucy has is just immense – she has this beautiful way of making every member of the audience feel special and draws them in with the intricate anecdotes behind her songs. I use the word “song” in a lose sense; they’re a lot like stories set to music and this is the beauty behind her talent. Whether sad or happy, her songs tell a tale which invite you into a piece of her life or otherwise narrate parts of someone else’s.
The audience was comprised of dedicated fans who knew the words to every single song she’s ever released and took great pleasure in belting them at the top of their lungs. Lucy’s fanbase is clearly dedicated and passionate about her music and quite rightly so; she’s incredibly talented.
Lucy often performs with a full band, but this is an acoustic tour and the vibe about is rather unique and special – just her and a keys player – and I think part of the magic of the evening, was the intimacy this offered the crowd.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Lucy perform and would love to see her again (maybe with a full band next time!) to get a difference experience. I really strongly urge everyone to check her out live; you’re in for a real treat…I promise!
Lucy’s seamless transitions between songs…avec banter!
Her song about Jeremy Kyle!
The stories she tells about certain songs.
New song, ‘Dear You’; it’s a real tearjerker and really struck a chord with everyone in the audience!
The fact she’s so smiley; performing is clearly what she loves to do.
The electricity in the audience – it has such a warm, welcoming and fun vibe.
Lighthouse*
In A State*
Dear You (NEW SONG)*
Yes, This One’s For You
London Bound
Don’t Know Nothing About The Blues (Blues Song)*
Tea & Toast*
Uninspired*
* These songs can be viewed in the YouTube playlist, below.
Lastly, I want to say a massive thanks to Lucy Spraggan, for her amazing performance and doing an interview with us, and Ben Price for putting me on the guest-list and arranging for me to do this!
Click here to read ‘An Interview with Lucy Spraggan‘.
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#Playlist: February 2016
G’day fellow Speakerz!
So, February has been just as incredible as January was! We’ve done another interview, with singer-songwriter David Ford and been to review The Japanese House‘s gig at The Haunt in Brighton as well as shared a whole heap of songs.
We hope that you have enjoyed this month’s songs and you can find both the Spotify and YouTube playlists below!
We hopefully have a couple more interviews and gig reviews lined up for March too, including Lucy Spraggan and MEST, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.
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#Top20AlbumsOf2015
Our Top 20 albums of 2015!
Muzik Speaks – Top 20 Albums of 2015
This year has been filled with some incredible albums and these are the ones we think are well worth a listen…but who’s our Number 1? Do you agree with our choices? What other albums would you have included?
20. Ryn Weaver – The Fool
19. Zebrahead – Walk The Plank
18. Fightstar – Behind The Devil’s Back
17. Chris Brown – Royalty
16. Jason Derulo – Everything Is 4
15. Owl City – Mobile Orchestra
14. Various Artists – We Love Disney
13. Chicane – The Sum Of Its Parts
12. Kelly Clarkson – Piece By Piece
11. Jess Glynne – I Cry When I Laugh
10. Lucy Spraggan – We Are
9. Fall Out Boy – American Beauty/American Psycho
8. Frankmusik – For You
7. Prides – The Way Back Up
6. Tom DeLonge – To The Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends
5. Pentatonix – Pentatonix
4. Ellie Goulding – Delirium
3. One Direction – Made In The A.M.
2. Years & Years – Communion
1. Justin Bieber – Purpose
Stand-Out Tracks: OctaHate, Pierre, Stay Low, Sail On and The Fool
Stand-Out Tracks: Worse Than This, Keep It To Myself, So What and Save Your Breath
Stand-Out Tracks: Murder All Over, Overdrive and Animal
Stand-Out Tracks: Back To Sleep, Fine By Me, Liquor, Zero, Anyway and Proof
Stand-Out Tracks: Want To Want Me, Get Ugly, Try Me and Love Me Down
Stand-Out Tracks: Verge, Thunderstruck, Unbelievable and Can’t Live Without You
Stand-Out Tracks: Friend Like Me (Ne-Yo), Part Of Your World (Jessie J), I Wan’na Be Like You (Fall Out Boy) and Let It Go (Rascal Flatts & Lucy Hale)
Stand-Out Tracks: 38 Weeks, Oxygen, One Thousand Suns and No More I Sleep
Stand-Out Tracks: Heartbeat Song, Invicible and Take You High
Stand-Out Tracks: Hold My Hand, Real Love, Ain’t Got Far To Go, Take Me Home and Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself
Stand-Out Tracks: 23, London Bound, In This Church and IOU
Stand-Out Tracks: Irresistible, Centuries, Uma Thurman, Favorite Record and Immortals
Stand-Out Tracks: I Remember, Love Again, Lexus, Cosmic Rendezvous and Say Goodbye
Stand-Out Tracks: I Should Know You Better, Messiah, Higher Love, Let It Go and Little Danger
6. Tom DeLonge – To The Stars
Stand-Out Tracks: New World, Suburban Kings, The Invisible Parade and Animals
Stand-Out Tracks: Na Na Na, Can’t Sleep Love, Sing, Ref and Cheerleader
Stand-Out Tracks: Aftertaste, Something In The Way You Move, On My Mind, Around U and Codes
Stand-Out Tracks: Drag Me Down, Perfect, Never Enough and Olivia
Stand-Out Tracks: Shine, Take Shelter, Eyes Shut, King, Desire and Without
Stand-Out Tracks: I’ll Show You, What Do You Mean?, Sorry, Company, The Feeling and Where Are Ü Now
I hope you’ve enjoyed these albums this year too and if you’ve not heard them yet, give them a good listen 🙂
Matt x
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IPS Releases Plan for Emma Donnan, Howe and Manual
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Indianapolis Public Schools laid out its plan for Emma Donnan Middle School, Emmerich Manual High School and Thomas Carr Howe Community High School during a press conference on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Central Library. The three former district schools were taken over by the state in 2012.
IPS Superintendent Aleesia Johnson and Michael O’Connor, president of the IPS Board of School Commissioners, were joined by leaders from Christel House Academy, Adelante Schools and Phalen Leadership Academies — all who are part of the district’s plan and ready to serve as school operators under IPS’ Innovation Network Model.
But first, the Indiana State Board of Education will vote on the future of Emma Donnan, Manual and Howe during a meeting on Wednesday Jan. 15.
Options could include:
Returning all three schools to IPS.
Allowing Florida-based Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) — which has been operating the schools since 2012 — to continue to operate them for another year in turnaround status without a charter. (Its current contract ends in June 2020.)
Closing the schools.
IPS is hoping its plan for the schools will be enough to show the SBOE that returning the schools to the district is the right thing to do for students, families and the school communities.
“There’s an urgency to make a decision, an explicit one, next week because the longer the decision is prolonged, the shorter time span you have to engage families and the longer you put those families in a place of limbo and ambiguity,” said Johnson.
“It is our hope that the State Board of Education is able to see and appreciate the work that Indianapolis Public Schools has done to ensure that we are able to serve our entire family of schools with high-quality partners, like the ones at this table, and that they will make the decision to return all three schools back to Indianapolis Public Schools.”
EMMERICH MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL
IPS and Christel House Academy (CHA) have already reached an Innovation Network School agreement to serve both the current Manual students as well as transition the Christel House Academy South location and Christel House DORS South, an adult dropout recovery high school, to the Manual facilities.
The namesake of Manual will remain prominent in the school name, honoring historical legacy. Manual students can graduate with a Manual diploma and Christel House will offer interviews to all current staff with the goal of hiring as many as possible to provide continuity.
Bart Peterson, president and CEO of Christel House International, touted CHA’s college and career program, which follows students five years after graduation.
“We support them as they graduate from high school, through four years of college and their first year into the workforce — or whether they choose a two-year degree, obtain certification or simply go into the workforce right after graduation. We’re focused on their success as adults and making the transition not just through K-12 school but beyond into adulthood and a productive career,” he said.
There are several other factors that led to the partnership with Christel House Academy, including:
Graduation rates that exceed Manual’s by more than 20 percentage points.
Proficiency rates on ISTEP 10+ that outperform Manual’s in all subjects, and nearly double in ELA.
Partnering with IPS would also bring two iconic southside schools together and allow CHA — which has been on city’s southside for 18 years — to expand its program by serving more students.
“All of this is possible because there is a new IPS, an organization and district that is collaborative with visionary leadership,” said Peterson. “The State Board of Education has a very big decision to make on Wednesday and our message is very simple: ‘If given the opportunity and if the school is returned to IPS, Manual has a very bright future.’”
On Saturday, the IPS Board voted to approve a five-year Innovation contract for Christel House to operate Manual — if returned to the district.
EMMA DONNAN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
Adelante Schools and Phalen Leadership Academies (PLA) are being considered as potential partners to serve Emma Donnan Elementary and Middle School as a full K-8 school. IPS has designed a community engagement process that allows families and other stakeholders to have input in the partner selection.
Both Phalen and Adelante have a proven track record of student success.
Phalen, which is an Innovation partner for two current IPS schools (Phalen Leadership Academy @ Francis Scott Key 103 and Phalen Leadership Academy @ George H. Fisher 93) has strong results increasing ISTEP proficiency at restart schools, and some of the strongest growth in the district.
“Phalen Leadership Academies has been in Indianapolis for the last four years and we are thrilled to partner with the Indianapolis Public Schools district at two of our schools. Because we are an established organization, it makes it very easy to transition into a school,” said Nicole Fama, regional director at Phalen, who noted that the school has established strong athletic and STEM programs and afterschool activities, and a new performing arts center on the city’s eastside.
“If given the opportunity, Phalen looks forward to extending our partnership with IPS,” she said.
Adelante Schools, co-founded by Eddie Rangel and Matthew Rooney, are known for their gains in student test scores. As educators, Rangel and Rooney have amassed a long list of academic accomplishments, including a 100-percent IREAD-3 pass rate for two consecutive years and ISTEP pass rates 10 points above the state average for Math ILEARN.
Adelante’s model is focused on two pillars:
Providing all students with rigorous, grade-level academics.
Developing and supporting world-class teachers.
“All kids deserve research based, rigorous, culturally-relevant curricula and data driven instruction. All teachers deserve regular feedback, personalized coaching and the resources needed to become the key to student success,” said Rangel, adding that they want to preserve the historical legacy of Emma Donnan and work in solidarity with the community to ensure it continues to be an anchor for the south side.
After a series of community meetings and information sessions to give students and families a chance to meet the applicants and provide feedback, IPS will select a partner for Emma Donnan in early February. This will ensure a level of stability for current students and staff.
THOMAS CARR HOWE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
Howe, which serves Grades 7-12, will be closed to students for the 2020-21 school year while the district, through the Howe Reuse Committee, reimagines the future of the school site. The committee will use the next year to strategically plan the best use for Howe, ensuring that feedback from a variety of stakeholders is included.
Commissioner O’Connor, whose district includes Howe, will sit on the committee.
On Saturday, Board commissioners voted (during their winter retreat) to give Howe students guaranteed enrollment into:
Four IPS-managed high schools (Arsenal Tech, George Washington, Shortridge and Crispus Attucks)
Harshman Middle School, Henry W. Longfellow Medial/STEM Middle School, or in the IPS middle school based on their home address.
Thrival Indy Academy, an IPS Innovation high school that includes a study abroad component.
“We are committed to providing students with the smoothest transition possible,” said O’Connor.
The initial decision for Howe was not to displace students. IPS did engage in conversation with several Innovation partners for the school, but did not find a match sustainable and robust for the long-term in the timeframe given.
The district will also do outreach to current Howe staff pending the January 15 decision about employment opportunities with IPS.
Johnson said what the district has sought to do over the past several months, to the extent possible, is make clear what its future plans would be if the SBOE returned Emma Donnan, Howe and Manual to IPS.
“We’ve found great partners who we believe in their ability to create an excellent educational experience for students,” said Johnson. “Families can have security in knowing that if the schools were to returned to the district, we have a plan with strong partners to continue to accelerate the achievement of students.
O’Connor said he’s confident the district is ready to bring Emma Donnan, Manual and Howe back into the IPS family of schools.
“I think if you look at where IPS was in 2012 (when the state takeover of the three schools happened) and where IPS is today, families should rest well assured that we’ll take care of students,” he said. “Our first and foremost priority is what’s in the students’ best interest.”
The State Board of Education meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, in Room 211 at the Indiana State Library, 315 W. Ohio St.
For more information about the state takeover timeline for Emma Donnan, Manual and Howe, click here.
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Game of Thrones: The Gift. Life after Sansa’s Wedding Night.
May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 ANerd A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, aemon, Boobs, bronn, Cersei, Death, Dorne, Game of Thrones, Gilly, High Sparrow, Jamie, Jon Snow, Sam Tarly, Sex Leave a comment
Everyone was in an uproar after last week’s episode that showed Sansa’s wedding night so thankfully no one else gets married this week, but we do get to hear Dany plan her own up coming nuptials. That should be a fun time too right?
So this season we’ve had a lot of misdirection with the episode names (Kill the Boy, Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken, etc) and this one has a few meanings as well. On one hand we have Jorah taking his gift to his queen, we have Dany giving the gift of the fighting pits to her people, and lastly in the books Jon offered “The Gift” or an area of land between the wall and Winterfell to the Wildlings who wanted to come over and down. They would have to answer to Winterfell and the Seven Kingdoms, but they wouldn’t have to worry about White Walkers. So although all the Watchlings out there probably assume this title is talking about Jorah giving over Tyrion, it’s totally derived from that 5 minutes you see Jon and try to remember what he’s doing right now.
Speaking of Jon we see him saying his goodbyes so he can go off and try to talk the rest of the Wildlings into either settling in the Gift or populating the abandoned castles along the wall to try to fight against the White Walkers. The Wildlings aren’t all crazy about this idea and neither are the men of the Night’s Watch. It’s very important you remember that they are super unimpressed by that and think Jon a traitor for what he’s doing. It plays a big role in things to come.
We also see Maester Aemon playing with Gilly’s baby and confusingly talking about his baby brother Egg (who later became King). You can tell Sam in worried about Aemon and it looks to be his last days. This is yet another departure from the books. In the books Jon send Maester Aemon and Sam off to the Citadel with their stories of White Walkers (and for Sam to become a maester to replace Aemon) and switches Gilly’s baby with Mance Rayder’s kid. Gilly takes this other baby off to safety with Sam and Aemon and Sam plans on telling his parents that her baby is his bastard. Gilly is heartbroken to leave her child, but eventually bonds with the other baby and the eventually bonds with Sam numerous times as well. Aemon does die in the books, but he does so on the journey while in Braavos (where Arya kills one of the men from the Night’s Watch for abandoning Sam). Sam thinks he died because the Wall and the cold were keeping him alive.
So instead of taking an epic journey Aemon just dies (in the books he is super upset that he died before reaching Dany. He heard about her during the journey and he wants to tell her things about her family– I think he wants to tell her how to control her dragons). Sam and Gilly just have sex (in the most realistic sex scene yet in the series) and Ghost for some reason isn’t with Jon (but he saves Sam’s life which is awesome).
Sansa had a rough week to say the least. Last week we saw her wedding night raping and evidently the fun hasn’t stopped for her. She’s being kept a prisoner with no contact with anyone besides Theon. In an act of desperation she gets Theon’s help signalling that old woman that offered her help before. The thing she doesn’t know is that Theon is 100% scared of Ramsey and instead of going and lighting a candle like Sansa asked he went straight to the Bastard and told on her. Which didn’t go quite so well for the old lady.
Sansa and Ramsey walk around the castle discussing their future– or really just discussing Ramsey’s future as the Lord of Winterfell. I have to admire Sansa’s guts at pointing out the obvious, but she’s crazy. You don’t call Ramsey Snow Bolton a bastard to his face. She’s given him something to think about though even if she’ll definitely pay for it later. (She did manage to grab a weapon for later on this walk about– but will she be able to use it?)
Ramsey: Call me Bastard one more time!
Seriously though– I’m pretty sure she just guaranteed a pregnant woman’s death. Do you think the Frey’s will be cool with it when it’s one of their own?
Sansa: Yeah, about him. . .I didn’t like him either.
After viewing Ramsey’s work on the old lady help I think Sansa is finally realizing what kind of person she married. As much as I cannot stand Sansa in the books and wish that she’d been killed off in place of any of the other Starks, I have to say she’s much more in control of herself on the show than in the books. In the books she’s just concerned with what is happening to her and where her next lemoncake is coming from. Of course she’s also not married to Ramsey so she has that going for her.
Stannis
Stannis is stuck in the snow trying to march on Winterfell and losing people by the day. Either deserting or dying from lack of heat and food. He’s losing before he’s even started and he can’t go back to the Wall because he will just be stuck there. Defeated. Melisandre states that she knows how to take Winterfell and that all they need to do is sacrifice someone with King’s blood. Which just happens to be his daughter who she wants to burn alive. Yeah totes sounds like good idea. I love Stannis for not only rejecting this idea but sending the Red Woman away after she suggests it. It truly is a despicable plan (and not at all in the books).
In the books she’s wanting to burn Mance’s baby which is why Jon sends the baby away from the wall. Melisandre really is a horrible person, but she might play a role in helping Jon with all those people that think he’s a traitor now so I don’t wish her dead. Yet.
Jorah
Jorah and Tyrion manage to get sold together (after some quick action on Tyrion’s part) and are headed to the fighting pit of Mereen (you know the pits that Dany just opened back up under the condition that no slaves would be used. . .yeah about that).
In the books Tyrion actually saves Jorah here. Jorah is in a somewhat in a catatonic state at this point and Tyrion is being sold with another dwarf Penny. (Be super glad they cut the whole Penny and her dog and pig show out of the series). He says that Jorah plays the bear in the act and all good acts must have a bear. They also don’t get sold into the fighting pits, but Tyrion ends up there later on and gets saved at the last minute by Dany (it’s more complicated then that, but pretty much that’s what happens).
We see Dany getting some lovin’ time with her man Daario who she claims she cannot marry because she has to marry the Master from Mereen for political purposes. Let me say though that Daario has the right idea about killing all the masters and showing people what’s up. If she did marry Daario they would make a pretty BA team. She has become too careful (and gotten a rather odd wig too).
Now we have come to a meeting between Jorah and his queen. In a scene copied from Gladiator they are all fighting in front of the queen and Jorah realizes it and runs out to fight too. I’m pretty sure Russell Crowe was in the group of fighters, but Jorah manages to kill them all. Dany is shocked and appalled by this sight and obviously is having second doubts about opening the fighting pits again (as she should). Jorah reveals himself to her at the end and before she can have him removed he tells her he has a gift for her. On cue Tyrion runs out and announces he is the gift. When asked he proclaims himself Tyrion Lannister. Oh you know just the son of the man that ordered the slaughter of your family. She seems to take it like you’d expect.
Queen of Thorns
The Queen of Thorns and the High Sparrow have words together. He seems to genuinely like her and spars verbally with her for a while. She can’t figure him out though and doesn’t exactly win this exchange. This of course frustrates her and she is obviously trying to figure out a way to bring down the High Sparrow.
She meets with Petyr who tempts her with a deal to take down the Lannisters. He’s playing all sides to make sure that he has an agreement with the winning party. . .no matter who that is.
Well, well, well. She’s still oblivious as to what is going on with the church and thinks everything is going her way. After Tommen threatens to go talk to the High Sparrow to get his wife freed Cersei steps in tells Tommen that she’ll go on his behalf to try to get her freedom.
She does visit the High Sparrow and Margeary as well. She’s super smug about what’s going on with Margeary and obviously thinks that everything is going her way. Well that is until she starts talking to the High Sparrow. He tells her about how Lancel came to them broken and slowly unburdened himself to the church. He told them about the horrible things that he did with Cersei and that gives them grounds to arrest her as well. Yeah she tries the same reasoning that Margeary did and it gets her just as far.
In the books Cersei’s plan to get rid of Tommen’s bride is much more complicated and it looks like she has framed Margeary successfully until the men she had swear that they had sex with Margeary were tortured until they admitted they were lying. I do hope they keep the punishment the same in the show as in the books though. Let’s just say that it’s very very satisfying. Plus boobs.
Back in Dorne Myrcella doesn’t want to leave because she loves her betrothed and wants to marry him. Jamie doesn’t quite know how to handle her. Bronn mocks and taunts the Sand Snakes in their cell which is amusing until one of them feels the need to make sure we see some breasts this episode. It’s totally unnecessary and ridiculous. All of you people that were up in arms last week about Sansa should be kicking up a fuss about the show’s use of naked women to keep viewer’s interest. I don’t need to see someone naked every five minutes to keep my attention. Bronn of course was poisoned by his cut and after boobs were seen he receives the antidote. Because boobs. I don’t know this whole scene is confusing. But there are boobs so I guess we’re not supposed to question it.
On the bright side– no rapes this week! Plus Cersei is getting a taste of her own medicine so it’s almost a cheerful episode even if we did lose a main character.
Supernatural: Brother’s Keeper. When we learned the Mark is [SPOILER] and other life lessons.
May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015 ANerd Supernatural Tags: Cas, Castiel, Crowley, Dean, Death, Rowena, Sam, Season 10, Season Finale, SPN, Supernatural, The Darkness 4 Comments
I’ve had theories as to how they were going to fix Dean all season long, but I have to say this episode dealt me surprise after surprise.
We start out this episode with a ranting Sam giving all the reasons they should do whatever they can to save Dean, but with Cas warning about the consequences about doing that. I know they will figure something out (they always do), but I’m going to agree a little with Cas here. Sam and Dean don’t always make the wisest decisions about each other.
First Life Lesson of the Night
Next we see Dean most assuredly not alright.
Nope you’re not good at all Dean. If any of you wake up like this in the mornings– you are also very far from good. [Insert “The More you Know” Rainbow].
Dean’s day just keeps getting better too. He starts off by calling a murdered girl a whore (which he totally missed the opportunity to make a comment about the Whore of Babylon) and the rounds it out by trying to run off the hunter that called him in on the case in the first place. His charm gets even better in a minute. When he goes to interview the dead girls parents he not only makes them so mad that the dad punches him repeatedly in the face, he also pulls a gun on the dad AND the son. Hunter of the Year right here. He did find out the location of the vampire nest though so there’s that.
Rowena doesn’t fall for bluffs
Evidently Crowley can’t find another witch for them (why has that not been asked yet?) so they are stuck with Rowena. She strong arms them into promising her freedom and the Codex in exchange for performing the spell. I’m sure this is going to go perfectly.
She reads the spell out loud telling Sam and Cas the three ingredients she’ll need to do the spell. It turns out that Dr. Seuss invented the language it was written in and that they need the forbidden fruit, the golden calf and the thing Rowena loves. A little bit of a challenging shopping list.
She looks pretty fantastic for someone chained up in a nasty dungeon-y place.
She once again establishes that she’s the worst mother ever and doesn’t love Crowley, but Cas does read her mind and finds out that she did love a boy named Oscar. After Sam gets a phone call from the Hunter that Dean was a douche to he gets Cas to go get the ingredients for the spell while he goes to find Dean.
Dean is Passing the Point of No Return
Dean makes it to the cabin where the vampires are holed up and kills one immediately then walks in to find Red Shirt Hunter Dude trapped with a knife to his throat. First off Dean is scary in this scene with his lack of desire to try to save a fellow hunter. Secondly I feel like any other hunter would have escaped that vampire while he was waiving that knife all around. So I don’t agree with the fact that Dean proceeds to mock the vampire into killing the guy, but I do think that someone with better instincts would have gotten out of the way so Dean could have chopped the bad guy’s head off. Dean cuts the hostage loose before leaving her with multiple dead bodies, but I was surprised that he didn’t check to make sure she hadn’t been turned before leaving. I half expected him to chop her head off just to be safe.
Dean may have left calmly, but everything he just did hit him hard once he got back to the hotel room as was evidenced by his temper tantrum.
If anyone can sexily destroy a seedy hotel room though it’s this guy.
The Bro Love is Strong with Crowley
So Sam just tried to kill Crowley with the help of his POS mother yet all Castiel has to do to get him to help Dean is ask nicely. That’s it and all of a sudden Crowley is back with the fruit from the tree and a piece of the Golden Calf. These boys are too close to let a little attempted murder to bother them.
I, along with everyone else, love Castiel’s literal take on everything.
Now we know things are bad
Sam finds Dean’s hotel room, but he’s gone and he left a note with the keys to the Impala saying simply, “She’s all yours.” You know that Dean is gone when he gives away the Impala. You can see how much it freaks out Sam as well to see this casual note along with the trashed hotel room.
We cut to Dean summoning something that looks dangerous and turns out to be Death. Death is one of my favorite characters. He plays by his own rules. He helped the boys beat Lucifer, but he’s not really on their side.Dean asks Death to kill him and when he refuses he asks Death to remove it (I might would have asked those things in the opposite order). Death tells Dean that he can take the Mark away if he agrees to pass it on to someone else. Why you ask? Because of course the Mark isn’t just a curse, it’s also a key to a prison that holds back “The Darkness.” That not only sounds ominous, but also sounds like the writers are running out of names for their bad guys.
Dean agrees to Death’s other deal then and calls Sam so he’ll come and meet him for one final goodbye.
Crowley is still a sad lonely little boy
Crowley is still on the hunt for something that Rowena loves, but we find out that the diner owner he was talking to last week was actually the one person that Rowena loves. So by bringing him to her to murder he’s really just happy he’s found a way to hurt her. She lied to Castiel about Oscar and pretended like he was long dead when she knew he was immortal and hanging around somewhere. So her freedom must not have meant that much too her– until she was almost made to look weak in front of her son.
Poor Crowley.
Now Rowena has everything she needs to make the spell work and Sam doesn’t know that they are performing the spell as he’s meeting Dean.
Sam and Dean still like to fight
Sam shows up and right off the bat argues with Dean over his decision. He thinks that Dean is going to go off to space with Death and leave him all alone. However, Dean’s next statement surprised and shocked me.
The thought of Dean killing Sam is so alien to me I can’t wrap my head around it and I mostly watched the rest of the episode with my mouth open unsure of how this was going to work. Also here’s an image of Dean chilling in Space like Death wanted him to:
Dean’s thought process is that Sam won’t let Dean live wherever Death has planned so Sam has to die so that Dean can live forever alone in peace. Ummm no Dean. I get what you’re saying, but no. Sam begs with him, argues with him, and then finishes it off with a fist fight. . .as brothers do.
I love so many things about this. Sam got into a fight with crazy Dean knowing that when it went too far that he could cry Uncle and get him to stop. They also have a thorough discussion of good and evil. This is something that I feel like the writers have been dancing around for a while. The boys were obviously good when this show started, but after it all are they still good? Should they be one of the monsters hunters hunt?
Sam finally agrees to let Dean kill him though. Before he completely surrenders he gives him pictures of their family as reminders of what good and love really are. It’s at this moment we see something break in Dean, but I’m still not sure how Dean can get out of killing Sam. Something I’ve worried about since he originally took the Mark.
He reaches up to bring Death’s blade down onto Sam and keeps swinging around, stabbing Death in the chest with it. Death’s blade was established as the only thing that could kill Death way back when during the Apocalypse. So now Dean has killed Death for some reason (well to save Sam, but he’s the one that called Death in the first place) and he doesn’t quite seem to know what to do next.
RIP Death. You will be missed.
As he’s trying to figure out what their next move should be Rowena finishes the spell and successfully manages to remove the Mark from Dean’s arm. The only down side to this development is that Rowena is now free and appears to have taken control of Castiel and sent him to kill Crowley.
Taking a cue from the Sopranos it cuts to black before we know if Cas goes through with it or not.
Oh yeah that too
Oh yeah “The Darkness” thing that Death was going on about now seems to be free and not wasting any time taking over the world. Ooops. I’m sure it’ll be all OK right? At least Death is dead so no one can die until a new Death takes over. . .
Game of Thrones: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. Another Wedding!
May 18, 2015 May 18, 2015 ANerd A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Arya, Dorne, Game of Thrones, Gay, Jaime, Loras, queen of thorns, Ramsey, Rape, Sansa Leave a comment
Weddings are such fun times in Westeros and Sansa’s wedding is included in that. First we will cover all the other plot movements though and then come back to Sansa.
Arya is still working on becoming A Faceless Man even though she still doesn’t quite know what that means. She’s cleaning dead bodies though and trying to figure out what they do with the bodies after. She’s also still learning how to lie. This lying game takes up a few chapters of the books and she has trouble with it. I think because she is so proud of who she is and what she’s done that she has issues denying that fact. She also gets a little child abuse going on, but that’s nothing compared to what she’s been through.
The thing they are leaving out though is that in the books her eyesight was taken from her briefly while she learned this lesson and she didn’t gain her eyesight back until she figured out who was hitting her. Which she found out by warging into a cat and looking through it’s eyes. I feel like her connection to her wolf and this ability aren’t being shown enough in the show and I feel like that’s an important character point. Arya is strong and part of her strength comes from her nightly hunts with her wolf. Nymeria rules the Riverlands and in part so does Arya.
Arya finally passes the test though, with a Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade type moment, and is taken to where they take the bodies. She gets to see a super creepy room with a ton of dead people’s faces and is told that she will get to be someone else. This part sounds nasty in the books and I assume it will be nasty in the show too.
Tyrion and Jorah
They are having a nice little hike across the world. Jorah is trying to hide his greyscale (which will surely kill him– and in the books it’s recommended that that part of your body is cut off– of course in the books he doesn’t get it, but Lord Connington does). Tyrion is doing an amazing job of getting on Jorah’s last nerve and manages to criticize Dany in a very logical fashion.
But my favorite part was when he accidentally told Mormont that his dad was not only dead, but had been murdered horrifically.
BTW your Dad is totes dead– it’s super sad. I’m glad you got to hear it from me.
Tyrion did manage to save his life and Jorah’s though and direct them in the way they were trying to go– the only down side? Now they are slaves. Yeah. . .
Petyr
After obviously teleporting to King’s Landing he runs into Lancel on his way in and finds out some of the new lay of the land. Petyr then goes and plays Cersei to get exactly what he had wanted all along. If he gets his way he’s now set up to have Sansa and Winterfell. I can not stand Petyr, but I respect his cunning both in the books and on the show. He expertly works the people around him in such a way that they think they are using him.
Everyone in Dorne
OK so everyone is mad still in Dorne that Oberyn is dead and Jaime is still trying to rescue Myrcella and the Sand Snakes are trying to kill her. So of course they all end up in the same place at the same time. This is very mixed up from the books, but so far I’m OK with it. That is as long as the Sand Snakes are imprisoned right now as well as Jaime and Co. I thought it showed great diplomacy and control that they were locked away until they were begging to do as the Prince of Dorne wished. There were a lot of good one liners in this sequence, but other than that I’m tired of this plot line as it sits.
Hey Dad. . . I mean Uncle Jaime.
Random side note: The Dornish people are what I imagined the Calormen looked like and dressed like in the Narnia Series. I keep expecting them to worship Tash. Or try to marry Queen Susan. Who kinda looks like Myrcella now that I mention it. . . .
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Margaery’s grandmother has swooped in to rescue Loras and it doesn’t go as expected. She has a nice exchange with Cersei in which she issues more insults than she receives and threatens to remove her assistance to the crown if Loras isn’t released. Cersei doesn’t take this seriously or deal with it well. She still thinks she’s in control of this situation.
Totally what she was writing.
Now that Grandma is in it’s time for Loras’ trial which doesn’t end well for the Queen or for Loras. Both of them swear under oath that Loras totes loves the ladies and then Loras’ latest boyfriend shows up and says that not only has he had sex with Loras, but Margaery walked in on them once.
His response to the accusations about him and Renly.
They are all then arrested and taken away. Margaery shouting for Tommen’s help the whole time and Tommen looking like a scared little boy while Cersei looks like a cat that just caught a mouse. I still can’t believe that Cersei doesn’t see this as troubling for Tommen’s authority.
Now we’re finally to the bride to be. She gets a nice hot bath by psycho girlfriend and then escorted to the wedding by Theon. I have to say I lost a little respect for Sansa when she didn’t offer Theon any help whatsoever. No matter what he did (or she thinks he did) he hasn’t deserved any of the stuff Ramsey has done to him.
Sansa now walks into this marriage with her eyes wide open as to what she is marrying. This is a departure from the books in that Ramsey married a fake Arya in the books and many people know that she isn’t really Arya. Ramsey does really horrible things to her and makes Theon help. So was I surprised that in the show Theon was made to watch? No not really. But I hate that Sansa after all of her character development allowed Ramsey to abuse her like that. The real Arya would have opened his guts for him and then killed Roose as well. There is a theory that Sansa will always be less than because of her lack of a wolf. It is thought that with the death of Lady that Sansa lost her compass and that’s why she’s so much weaker than everyone else.
I did love show Sansa for this:
It gives me hope that Sansa has finally realized that Tyrion wasn’t that bad and if it hadn’t been for Joffery it might have been a happy marriage. Yes he’s a dwarf and by that time he was not awesome looking, but he was better than any other option she’s been given yet.
Ramsey is by far the worst. If ever I wished that she was back in the Vale pretending to be Alayne Stone it’s now. Because no one deserves this.
So am I upset that Ramsey raped his wife? No. Am I upset that Sansa is his wife? Yes.
Supernatural: The Prisoner. Dean’s Quick Surrender to The Mark.
May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 ANerd Supernatural Tags: bisexual, Book of the Damned, Castiel, Crowley, Dean, Freddie Mercury, Rowena, Sam, Supernatural, The Mark, The Prisoner Leave a comment
For weeks now we’ve heard all about how Dean was out of control and needed to be cured and I’ve been saying that he seems totally normal. Even better than normal. Now I’m going to say that I see what all the fuss was about. Dean is full on crazy right now.
They start by trying to make us feel sorry for one of the Stynes and it kinda works. So there’s one dude out of this huge family of psychos that isn’t all bad yet and there really isn’t much he could do to get away at this point in his life. Your whole family is still a bunch of monsters though. I’m sorry you get picked on by a young Daryl Dixon and all, but cutting his arm off seems extreme.
Over in Sam and Dean world Dean is understandably upset with Sam for going behind his back and involving Cas and Charlie. I’d say he could have eventually gotten over it if Charlie hadn’t been killed last week, but she did so. . .
Thanks Han Solo.
Dean makes an impassioned speech about how he’s going to rip apart the Stynes and everything they love. I’m gonna go ahead and say that I believed him. So Dean goes off on his mission of death after tracking down where the Stynes live and manages to get arrested (on made up charges because the Stynes were waiting on him). Now he’s in custody and it looks like he’s going to be handed over to the Stynes to be used as spare parts.
Sam is off with Rowena trying to get her to read the spell for the cure with the handy dandy decoder ring that Charlie emailed him right before her death. She doesn’t want to assist until Sam follows through with his agreement to kill Crowley. That’ll go smooth right? I think we should do what Cas wants to do.
This. This is what we should do. Can’t we find another witch? Like the one that’s a hamster right now?
Back to Sam and Dean– Dean is super upset because these cops hit the Impala while they were arresting him and making Dean more upset right now is mostly a bad idea. I’m going to take a moment and address the Freddie Mercury fake ID though. It’s like the SPN writers are trying to whip up a frenzy with the Destiel shippers by throwing in a fake ID with the name of a very famous bisexual. I don’t buy into Dean being gay or bi though. I know that many of you do, but I feel like if they incorporated that into the cannon now it would be just for all the Destiel fans. I don’t think that’s how the show should work. If something the fans want works into the plot organically that’s one thing, but Dean has always been depicted as a womanizer.
Back to this episode though, Dean shows off his ability to figure his way out of any situation. Which is important again in a moment.
So much confidence. I love evil Dean.
After a quick beat down of the Sheriff he finds out where to find the Stynes and gets warned off trying by the guy that’s getting beat down.
Sam on the other hand isn’t haven’t as good of a day. He traps Crowley with a devil’s trap bullet and then places the hex bag from Rowena into Crowley’s pocket that is supposed to kill him. But here’s the thing. Crowley hasn’t been himself lately making it easy to forget that he’s the King of Hell and super scary in his own right. It appears to me that all the hex bag managed to do was remove the timidity from Crowley. Which isn’t great news for Sam.
I like Crowley better when their working relationship is rocky so it’s looking good for that right now.
Dean has made it to the Styne manor and quickly dispatches the outside guards and promptly walks into a trap. Strapped to their operating table he warns them that he will turn into a demon if they kill him, but when that doesn’t work he takes matters into his own hands.
Welcome back scary, crazy Dean. I’ve missed you.
There is a lot of gore in this episode between the Styne’s, Dean’s attack here, and then the fights at the end, but I think the fact that they don’t show Dean fighting his way to safety, but just show him covered in blood afterwards is way scarier. We don’t know what he specifically did, but we know it was bad.
Sam calls Rowena to tell her her hex bag didn’t work and we see her somewhat shaken and scared. I don’t think she knows what her son is capable of. But I have a feeling she’s about to. Cas finds the destruction at the Styne’s and tells Sam that Dean is on his way to the bunker. So they both head that way to see what is going on.
Dean was told right before he killed Papa Psycho that his home and family is about to be destroyed which sent him back to the bunker. This is the showdown that Dean has been after. Dean is now face to face with Charlie’s killer and relishes getting to tell him that he’s killed all of his family before shooting him right between the eyes.
Young Styne that is trying to not be crazy begs for his life and tries to tell Dean he doesn’t have to kill him. Dean responded the only way he could in this mind set though. Do I think he should have murdered Baby Styne? No, but I get why he did. Now there’s no one left to come after him. No loose ends.
I will say that this scene began to make me upset to my stomach. This is definitely the most violent we’ve seen Dean which is saying a whole lot. How far will he go? Well we get to see almost immediately. Cas shows up right after Dean shoots the boy and begins to berate Dean for his actions. Dean fights back pointing out that Cas has been acting behind his back and acting against his wishes. Cas finally explains it in a way that makes sense to me. Dean had seemed pretty well adjusted up to this point and Sam and Cas were just looking ahead.
My biggest question is is the Mark of Cain making Dean stronger or is Cas becoming weaker as an angel? When Dean was a demon Cas was able to grab him and take him to be tied up. Now Dean easily takes out Cas.
I wasn’t scared that Sam was going to kill Crowley or that Crowley was going to kill Sam, but I did worry that Dean was going to kill Cas. I in no way want Cas to die, but it really would have driven the point home that Dean was off his rocker. Plus even though Charlie just died, this would have been a Bobby level death.
But I’m glad it didn’t happen.
Next week it looks like Death is back (and he’s one of my favorites) and I’m curious as to his solution to the Mark. I just know one thing though:
Supernatural: Dark Dynasty. Why {Spoiler} Had to Die.
May 8, 2015 ANerd Supernatural Tags: Book of the Damned, Castiel, Charlie, Dark Dynasty, Dean, Death, Frankenstein, Mark of Cain, Rowena, Sam, Supernatural, Young Frankenstein Leave a comment
So things are looking iffy for the boys at the beginning of this episode. Sam is lying to Dean, Dean is tying to not kill everyone and some creepy doctor is scooping a chick’s eyeballs out. Rowena is manipulating Sam and can’t figure out how to use the Codex. Nobody is doing well.
We are also introduced to a new family that has spent a very long time evidently controlling the world and profiting off of it. The boys can’t find anything on them after they look back to the 1800’s and Dean thinks he’s found a connection to a case in Omaha. So now Sam has to work a case with Dean, involving the very people that are after the book he’s trying to hide. So many lies and deceptions– I’m sure this is going to be great.
Sam brings Charlie into this citing that Dean is getting worse and gets her to help Rowena break the code and figure out how to break the curse. He’s also brought in Cas to babysit them all. They are such a happy little family. Or something.
Sam gives a moving speech that makes it sound like he has a reason for lying so much to Dean. Yep– still hasn’t convinced me. But never the less they are working together for a common cause.
Sam now has to go off and work this case with Dean and they get a lucky break with some crazy high def security footage. Sam also gets plenty of awkward lies he gets to tell while trying to hide Cas’ phone calls. Dean becomes more and more suspicious of what is going on with Sam and Castiel and Charlie get more and more fed up with Rowena. Rowena finally pushes Charlie to try to get out and have some time to think alone. Even though both Sam and Castiel tell her not to leave, she runs out while Cas is distracted with Rowena.
I know people love her, but I hope Sam decides to kill her instead of Crowley.
Sam brings up the elephant in the room between him and Dean. Well, maybe not the only elephant, but one of them. Once again I will express my opinion that Dean actually seems to be doing great. Better I think then when he returned from Hell.
How is this different than normal?
Then– like everyone predicted– Castiel is a horrible liar to Dean and he becomes even more convinced that something is up. This is followed up by a bad lie from Sam to top it off.
So smooth Cas.
Dean goes out on a pizza run and gets cornered by two of the Stein boys which as we all knew ended poorly for them. Dean kills one of them and captures the other (the one that was popping out eyeballs earlier) and I have to say my one regret for this episode is that Dean didn’t torture this dude. He just spilled the beans mostly and then ripped his own arm off. I might would be more worried about Dean if we’d seen him tap into the things he learned in Hell combined with his Mark issue. However he just threatened the dude a little and then let him escape.
I’d have like to have seen it Dean.
This family reminds me of the dude they killed a while ago that was taking people’s body parts to stay immortal. I guess they’ve figured out how to do it without looking like a patchwork quilt. I was disappointed on how he pronounced Frankenstein though.
If you have not watched Young Frankenstein stop what you are doing and go watch it now.
Little Frankenstein did spill the beans that the book is impossible to destroy and that clued Dean into what Sam had been hiding.
Castiel lets Sam know that Charlie has run off and then Charlie calls Sam for help. Both boys warn Charlie to hand over all her stuff to psycho dude so he doesn’t kill her and she uploads all her info and states she can’t do that. Charlie knows what that book will do and will do anything to keep it out of their hands. The writers do throw out a tease to all you Destiel shippers out there– sooo close. . .
Cas loves you too. . .I know you were dying to have him say it.
Let me just say that my cable decided to cut out RIGHT after Charlie confronts dude in the bathroom so I didn’t know what happened. Then it came back on for the previews for next week showing the funeral. Thanks Dish Network.
The boys enter the crappy hotel room and see the blood leading into the bathroom. Not a good sign at any time, but Charlie is tough so I still held out hope (or I would have if Dish hadn’t ruined it for me) that she’d stabbed the dude in the throat. However we see Sam look like he’s going to be sick and we see Dean not handling it well either.
I’m not sure why Sam is so sick looking though. I’m pretty sure he’s done worse to others. I know he knew and loved Charlie, but I feel like anger should have been the better emotion here.
Dean proclaims that he will kill the person who did this and will destroy everything they’ve ever loved and I’m gonna say I believe him. He looks serious about this and it looks like the Mark is finally going to be let loose. Maybe now I’ll see what everyone has been scared of. I think (hope) there is a reason that Charlie had to die, but I do think the boys are really going to take this hard over all.
But now we have Charlie in Heaven with Bobby (and Ash and Jo and Ellen) and I really really would love to see them all get together and work this thing out from up there. Ash has figured out Heaven, Bobby now knows how to leave his Heaven and Charlie knows all the ins and outs of what is going on. I just think it would be awesome if this was fixed by Charlie and the only way she was able to fix it was because she died. That would make all this worth it. What do you think? Am I grasping as straws with that?
Game of Thrones: Sons of the Harpy. When Cersei Screws Herself for a Change.
May 4, 2015 May 4, 2015 ANerd A Song of Ice and Fire Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Cersei, Dany, Game of Thrones, Grey Worm, High Sparrow, Jon Snow, Jorah, Lyanna, Petyr, Rhaegar, Sansa, Ser Barristan, Sons of the Harpy, Tyrion Leave a comment
Jaime and Bronn
Once again we are in uncharted territory. In the books Jaime is off being an interesting character a peacemaker for his King and here we see him making moony eyes at Tarth and explaining that he’s doing all this for his “niece” and to avoid a war. Book Jaime would have also done everything he could to avoid war, but he didn’t do this. Bronn was off killing off his wife’s family so that she would inherit and although I loved that about him he makes a good sidekick for Jaime’s adventures.
Their stealth mission is all for nothing though because they are not only found out, but they also kill a bunch of people while doing so. I wonder if this is meant to replace the scene where Myrcella’s Kingsguard was killed and she lost an ear. I could see that, but I also have a feeling that there will be a lot of blood spilled before Jaime leaves Dorne and probably just as awesomely as it is in this episode.
and who would that be?
Cersei is busy thinking she’s super smart. She sends off daddy Tyrell after refusing his loan of gold. He’s to negotiate with The Iron Bank to get a better rate for the money they have loaned The Seven Kingdoms. The Iron Bank is kinda like borrowing money from a loan shark– that offered reasonable rates. It’s all cool as long as you’re paying it back, but if you decide not too then they break your legs. Or kill you.
She’s obviously trying to separate the Tyrells for her next move. Reinstating the Faith Militant. She sees this as a totally awesome idea. They can punish people who sin and she won’t be expected to save them. She then sets up the Tyrells for their fall. She’s not really thinking this through though. A church that is that upset about gays and fornicators probably isn’t going to be cool with a girl that cheated on her husband with her brother. Incest is totes not cool either.
Her cousin that is also had an affair with is now sporting a cool scar (ouch) and arrests Loras for his indiscretions. Yep this is going to go great Cersei.
The new King and Queen
Margaery is incensed at the actions of the church and gets Tommen to confront his mother to have Loras released. In response Cersei sends Tommen to confront the church (which if she knew what she had really created she would know that’s a horrible idea) and he isn’t allowed to talk to the High Sparrow. Tommen then learns of what happens when your wife asks for something and you don’t deliver.
Stannis’ weirdo wife talks to Stannis about how much she dislikes Jon Snow and how gross she finds her daughter. I don’t like the Red Woman, but I am glad she stood up for Shireen.
Shireen goes to see her father later and he speaks to her of his childhood and is much more personable than he ever was in the books. He talks about how he’s proud of her and how she contracted greyscale. I have to say he moved up a few pegs in my book from this speech. He’s still an ass, but a little bit less of one.
Jon is faced with having to ask Roose Bolton for help even though Roose is the one responsible for Robb and Catelyn’s deaths and so many of Jon’s other friends. He does the honorable thing of course and signs the letter.
Then in comes Melisandre to make things super uncomfortable. She asks Jon to march south to Winterfell with Stannis to help with the siege there. He states again that he’s of the Night’s Watch now and not meant to take part in the wars of the realm. Even though a creeper is asking I’m sure he’d love to go rip Roose Bolton’s throat out. She then gets uncomfortably close and undresses herself. Jon seems to be falling for it– and I for one didn’t like how far he went along with it before stopping it. The big take away from that interaction though is the statement that she made that he could cast shadows. So she sees that there is something powerful inside of Jon Snow. It is somewhat a confirmation for all of us R+L=J shippers and maybe proof that she has begun to see him in her fires now.
Because he’s totally Lyanna’s kid
She’s walking around the crypts lighting the candles talking to Petyr about her family and he offers the second R+L=J clue of the evening talking about how Rhaegar chose Lyanna at the tournament at Harrenhall. Sansa then responded with the party line that Lyanna was kidnapped and raped, but Sansa is an idiot so what does she know.
Petyr does reveal that he has somewhat of a plan to bring down Roose Bolton and warns Sansa to not trust any of them and to use Ramsey. I wonder if Petyr really is so clueless as to what kind of boy Ramsey Snow Bolton is. Roose is cunning and dangerous, but Ramsey is batsh*t crazy. Roose skins his victims in private while Ramsey does even worse things behind closed doors.
First of all–gross and secondly– pretty sure you’re already married Sansa.
The Sand Snakes
If you haven’t picked up on it they are all warriors. So in the books there are tons more of these women and they are all of Oberyn’s bastard daughters. They do try to rise up, but the Prince of Dorne crushes them and finally explains his true plans for revenge. It looks like they are taking a bloodier and different course. But who knows Jaime’s story and the Sand Snake’s story is just starting.
Jorah and Tyrion
Jorah is still trying to find his way and Tyrion is now trying to make the best of this situation. I do love that Tyrion throws it in Jorah’s face that he’s taking Tyrion to the same place that he was trying to go himself. I do think Tyrion would be good for Dany, but even in the books I doubted her ever trusting him. I do wonder if he ends up helping her with her dragon problem and winning her trust that way though. That’s just my theory.
Dany and Co.
Dany is still trying to figure out this ruling thing– evidently it’s still hard, but Barristan distracts her with a story about Rhaegar that once again show that he’s not this rapist warmonger that we were led to believe, but that he might truly be a super duper nice guy. Say a guy that would run off with a girl from the North and have a baby with her.I mean– sounds like that’s a possibility.
They then take another turn from the books and have the Sons of the Harpy attack the Unsullied to which Barristan runs to help and help he does. But with very sad results. Yes he kills way more people than you’d expect and appears to save Grey Worm’s life. However that only results in the loss of his own and Grey Worm seems to be dying as well. I’m assuming they are doing this to shake up this story line and if it makes Dany less boring I’m all for it even though I’m super sad that Ser Barristan had to die to achieve this.
So just in case I didn’t do a good job explaining it– I found this handy dandy explanation on Tumblr of all the Rhaegar and Lyanna theory confirmations:
Supernatural: Angel Heart. Wait– there are even worse Angels?
May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 ANerd Supernatural Tags: Amelia, Angel Heart, Cas, Castiel, claire, Dean, Jimmy Novak, Mark of Cain, Novak, Sam, Supernatural, theories, Winchester Leave a comment
This week we took a break from the search for the cure and were introduced to an even bigger scum bag of an Angel then we have seen previously. Well except for Metatron. This was a good solid episode where the boys aren’t just out killing everything in sight. They actually had to work through a case, do research and help an innocent.
Here are a few questions I have though:
Why can’t Cas find Claire?
I’ve never understood all the ins and outs of the angels falling. Cas can now heal people and has his Grace back soooo what else does that grant him? Does getting your Grace back just mean now that you’re a healer and that’s it? When the Angels were looking for Sam and Dean during the apocalypse they could find them through prophets and dreams. Why can’t they use Cas to help locate Claire? I can buy that Claire’s mom Amelia (they really love that name don’t they) is somehow hidden because Angels and magic and stuff. Also did the fall of Heaven affect this rouge douchbag angel at all?
Why is everyone freaking out about Dean?
Ummmm I don’t think Dean beat that dude up because of the Mark. I’m pretty sure he would have done all that Mark or no Mark. The guy was a piece of crap that hurt a little girl. I’m pretty sure that’s a good enough reason in Sam or Dean’s book. Everyone keeps bringing up how out of control Dean is getting, but really since he went crazy and killed all those people the last time they saved Claire I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary. Dean’s always been the one to shoot first and ask questions later.
I see nothing wrong with this.
I’m glad that Claire got to see the boys when they weren’t just killing people.
Yep Claire– pretty much everyone you meet in this world has a horrible back story too.
OK I know this isn’t a question about plot, but I’m glad that Claire got to see the boys and Cas in a different light. They aren’t always massacring huge groups of people or heavenly beings. Sam got to help Claire learn how to live out on her own and Dean helped her have a little fun in a scary and stressful time. The addition of Claire to Jody Mill’s household also makes me really hope there will be a spin off in that direction.
Is it just me or did Claire look proud when Dean told her Jimmy was a hero?
For all her hatred of Castiel I think she keeps coming back to him (even if she acts like she doesn’t want to) because she loved her father. So now she has confirmation that he really was the great man she remembers and not some jackass that left her and her mother for no reason. He did it to save not only her, but the world.
It was nice to see them show off their ability to survive– not just come in a slaughter.
Sam got knocked out– it looked bad for him, but we got to see him figure it out. He got out of a really bad situation and still helped save the day. And Dean figured out the guys needed help and instead of just rushing in to help he found out what he was facing and went in informed. Once again– I think Dean is doing great. Better now even than pre Mark of Cain.
Is there a reason Claire killed the angel and not Dean?
I know he’s trying to not hulk out, but would it have done something to the Mark if he’d killed an Angel? He’s killed them before– preMark, but I wondered if there was a reason Claire had the honors here. Or maybe it just gave her an opportunity to strike back against a group that tore apart her family. Metatron really wanted to make Dean kill him though so that leads me to believe that if Dean kills an Angel even if that angel is a total tool it will do something irreparable to Dean.
Is Amelia’s fake heaven that much different then her real one?
Did anyone else think it was super creepy that her fake heaven and her real heaven were so much alike? Is there something fundamentally messed up about Heaven too? Or was that just her desires were finally real? I know one thing though– Misha killed it.
I’m sure that’s not the last we’ve seen of Claire or her stolen Angel Sword, and I will just be over here holding out hope for that Jody Mills spinoff.
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A Slow Death
A 19th Century Scourge
In my gold rush research, I’ve come across a couple cases of milk sickness – a deadly disease that was common in the 19th century throughout the Ohio River Valley states. I made the erroneous assumption that this was some bacterial illness that was neutralized by pasteurization.
Rather, milk sickness was a poisoning caused by a wild plant that is endemic to that part of the country. It was slow-acting as well as lethal, which made it so insidious.
Imagine immigrants venturing into “new” territory in hopes of a better life, watching as their cow begins showing signs of sickness. The icy shroud of dread envelops the parents’ hearts as they realize the family had been consuming the cow’s tainted milk for days.
All they could do then was wait and suffer a slow, agonizing death along with their livestock.
Deadly Cases
One of the most famous milk sickness cases in U. S. history is the death of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in 1818 in Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana. Many in the tiny community were afflicted – not an uncommon circumstance, unfortunately.
Milk sickness first began appearing after pioneers crossed over the Allegheny Mountains. Their domestic animals were frequently turned loose to forage in woodlands. When other plants became unavailable due to drought or late season scarcity, the livestock would sometimes consume white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima), a fall-blooming member of the sunflower family.
In animals, the symptoms vary, but one common effect is a shaking that gave the disease the name of “The Trembles.”
William Fisher went to California with Elias D. Pierce. He survived the journey there and back only to encounter milk sickness at home in 1859. This story about his family contracting milk sickness has a slight error. One of the Fishers’ adopted sons survived. Both Gilson and his wife, the tenants, perished. The five deaths occurred over the span of nine or ten days.
One story in the annals of tremetol poisoning (the toxin in snakeroot), is that of Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby, a pioneer doctor in southern Illinois. A milk sickness epidemic ravaged her community, devastating people and animals alike, including members of her own family. Young Dr. Hobbs railed at her inability to combat this mortal foe. She sought help from eastern medics, to no avail.
Suspecting the cattle were ingesting an evil herb and passing the poison through their milk, she began scouring the local forests in the fall of 1834. She came across a Shawnee medicine woman who showed her the plant she was seeking.
Dr. Hobbs tested it, found the Indian woman to be correct, and told farmers to remove it from their fields and prevent their animals from foraging on the deadly plant. Each fall the community headed out with hoes to destroy all the snakeroot they could find.
Some people speculate that her discovery didn’t become widely known because, after all, she was a woman and couldn’t possibly know what she was talking about.
Flowers of white snakeroot (CC by Danielle Brigida)
In humans, tremetol attacks the metabolic process, preventing absorption of food, and leading to acidosis, similar to what can happen to a diabetic. Untreated, chemical starvation occurs and the acidosis leads eventually to coma and death. In the meantime, those afflicted suffered from intestinal distress, loss of appetite, lethargy, and a reddened tongue. Acetone built up in their bodies, giving a distinctive odor to their breath. Those who managed to recover experienced many weeks of muscular weakness, called “The Slows.”
It wasn’t until the 1920s that chemists finally isolated tremetol and concluded it caused milk sickness. The last known case occurred in the 1960s. Treatment can be as simple as consuming sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to counter the acidosis.
A couple factors helped greatly diminish the incidence of milk sickness in the late 1800s. First, farmers began fencing in their livestock, thereby reducing the chance they would encounter white snakeroot. Second, agricultural cooperatives began pooling their milk, thus diluting any potentially poisoned batch so it could not cause illness in humans.
The Disease Goes West
When my ancestor, Henry Zane Jenkins, and his partners left Indiana in the gold rush in 1851, they probably thought they’d left milk sickness behind. No one had heard of it occurring in California.
As winter approached, Henry and John C. Teach stocked their canvas-roofed 8′ x 12′ log cabin with provisions. These included flour, potatoes, coffee, pickles…and a 22-pound cheese wheel. It was made back east from “milk-sick” milk, they discovered, much to their distress – and that of the dog they gave some to!
Feature image: Ageratina altissima, of the Asteraceae family. (Wikimedia Commons)
Cheese image: Alexander Maasch on Unsplash
Daly, Walter J. March 2006. “The ‘Slows’: The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier.” Indiana Magazine of History, V. 102, no. 1 pp. 29 – 40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27792690?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Hardin County Historical Committee for the Centennial. 1939. History of Hardin County, Illinois. pp. 50 – 51.
Stewart, Amy. 2009. Wicked Plants: The weed that killed Lincoln’s mother & other botanical atrocities. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill. pp. 213 – 215.
The Summit County Beacon [Akron, Ohio], August 10, 1859 p. 4 – via Newspapers.com
https://www.britannica.com/science/snakeroot-poisoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima
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Ageratina altissima, Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby, Henry Zane Jenkins, Historic diseases, Illinois history, Indiana history, John C. Teach, Milk sickness, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Ohio River valley, Poisoning, Toxin, White snakeroot, William Fisher
32 thoughts on “A Slow Death”
Fascinating! One has to wonder how many other similar diseases are caused by grazing livestock.
I’m sure there must be others.
The second I read your title I knew I’d heard of this disease, but not what it was. I grew-up in central Ohio so there you go. What a fascinating, yet horrifying, disease. Life is so much better now.
I was really surprised when I started looking into it.
It is amazing these people built communities, what with all the many obstacles and challenges they faced. NOTHING was a given, and yet, they carried on. I sound like an old guy, but these lessons would be well spent in schools.
We come from some pretty tough, self-reliant people who endured some things that are just unimaginable in our modern, western life.
Those were the peeps who should’ve been uttering “The struggle is real”. Thing is, they didn’t have time to sit down and think such things up.
LOL. No, they were fairly busy just staying fed, clothed and sheltered!
You ain’t kidding! Priorities, yanno?
Wow, fascinating. I had never heard of this before. I’m not surprised that Dr. Hobbs wasn’t taken seriously. What a smart young woman to connect with a Medicine Woman who would have the knowledge.
She was pretty smart. Not that many young women were doctors back in that day, either. It’s sort of annoying that women were healers for millenia, then men invented medical school and suddenly women weren’t permitted in the profession any more.
It is annoying, and even into today’s so called enlightenment, women are not truly accepted as equals in so many professions.
CJ Hartwell says:
I read somewhere that most all of our illnesses come from when we first started either living with or eating animals. Never heard of this one and it sounds so sad! How awful for a family to realize their milk was tainted!
No doubt we also managed to eat poisonous plants and fungi, too. Live and learn, die and learn. It’s a scary world out there!
Definitely one of the most interesting pieces I’ve read recently. My compliments!
Thanks, Allen. I enjoyed writing it.
An interesting story and well researched. 👍. You’re right about our ancestors from those times being tough, something many folks just don’t give them credit for as they whinge and whine if a bus or train is late, or they have to stand in a queue for a while, or if they hear some politically incorrect speech that offends them!
I think our ancestors had more physical challenges (as well as psychological), but now we deal with psychological challenges and the stresses of unnatural surroundings and burgeoning population. It takes a different kind of toughness to be happy in our modern world. I’m glad that we tend to resolve our differences with far less violence than our ancestors did!
I think your analysis is spot on, physical vs psychological. I know what you mean in a primary sense, but the physical deprivations of labour, food shortage, infant mortality, etc must have created abnormal psychological difficulties and without help groups, counselling, medication ….
Indeed. I wasn’t downplaying the mental stresses they had.
I know, it’s hard for us to imagine but it’s what we do I guess!
Jeanne Bryan Insalaco says:
That’s a new one to me, so sad. My mother talked abt a yellow flower her dad called bitter flower that he’d pull up out of the cows field because if they ate it – it would make their milk bitter.
Probably a mustard of some sort.
It’s amazing about how we learning things — especially medically — over time. It’s still a very evolving thing!
I’m quite grateful for medical advances. Sometimes, though, I think we go a bit overboard: wanting drugs to cure everything; excessive end-of-life treatment with people dying in hospitals hooked up to machines. Certainly not how I want to go!
Yes, exactly! Our local doctor does give tips on healthy foods for certain conditions, etc. For the most part, however, they prescribe something that has enough side-effects to put you six feet under. The pharmaceutical companies control the physicians like marionettes. It’s largely about $.
It’s about money, but also about people not taking responsibility for their health.
gentraveling says:
What a fascinating post! Thanks for all your research. I also enjoyed reading everyone’s comments! Especially Sorryless’s …in my mind, I read “Those were the peeps who should’ve been “UDDERING” “The struggle is real”. Haha! {I’m just weird and punny like that though, yanno!?) :o)
Oh, he’d like that! Sorryless is a genius wordsmith, IMO.
Jessica (Diverting Journeys) says:
How interesting! I’d heard of milk sickness before, but like you, assumed it was a bacterial thing, like how people used to get tuberculosis from milk. Bizarre that it’s caused by a specific plant, and it’s a shame they didn’t realise it could be treated with baking soda sooner, since I think that was fairly readily available from the 1850s or so onward.
Yeah, I don’t know when they learned about baking soda to treat it. Probably not until the 20th century.
So interesting!
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Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev shied away from labeling their relationship for months after they began dating, but the Total Bellas star is finally ready to let her fans know that they’re officially boyfriend and girlfriend!
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"The main reason why we did this dance is ... I guess to tell everyone, like, I guess that we're like, we're boyfriend and girlfriend," the former WWE star explained.
The brunette beauty continued, "I literally was joking with him that I wanted the title of our dance to be '#Official' because everyone was writing on social media lately like, 'No labels, just be #official.' And so, I was like, oh my gosh, I'm totally gonna play that up, what everyone's talking about on social media. And then Brie reminded me that that was very corny to name a dance '#Official,' and she told me that like five or six times."
The Dancing with the Stars pro didn't hold back when Bella asked him what he liked best about her.
"Oh my God. You know what, I think the best way of describing it would be, everything what women stand for nowadays, I think you're like a perfect example of that. You're strong, you're powerful, you're very independent, you have the career you're so driven about. You're just like an amazing human being," he gushed.
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The Loss of Individuality The peak of a writers career should exhibit their most profound works of literature. In the case of Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is by far his most renowned novel. Aldous Huxley is a European-born writer who, in the midst of his career, moved to the United States and settled in California. While in California, he began to have visions aided by his usage of hallucinatory drugs. His visions were of a utopian society surviving here on earth. In his literature, Huxley wanted to make this utopian society as much a reality as possible. In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. This quote, written by Aristotle, perfectly describes Huxleys attitude towards the creation of his imaginary utopia. His only problem was establishing a value system that would not seem too unattainable. Huxley has two novels that have the theme of utopia, Brave New World and Island. Brave New World , which was written before Island , has ideas that are quite far-fetched, but in Huxleys eyes, still close to reality. Huxleys first portrait of utopia involves having a controlled society of people all being alike. The year is A.F. 632 (After Ford; Ford is the equivalent to God in Brave New World ) and with the available technology, citizens are mass produced. Island is a product of the rethinking of Huxleys utopia. The ideas are a lot more real because the people are just ordinary human beings. Both of these novels have an underlying theme in common. The stability of Huxleys utopian societies are centered around the loss of individualism. Individuals are considered a threat in Huxleys utopian novels. In the novel Island, the utopian society is on a small island, named Pala. The leader of the utopian society, Murugan, is an individual apart from the community. His plans are to modernize and charge the way the people of Pala live. The reason he has thoughts that are different from the rest of the community is that he was raised outside of Pala. He grew up in Switzerland and the neighboring island Rendag, both of which have been modernized and corrupted by the outside world. Therefore, Murugans mind has been corrupted by his staying in those two places. Pala is thus threatened by the outside world, explains critic Frank Magill, because Murugan is introducing the modern way of life to this small island and it is damaging the stability of the community. Rendag was once the same as Pala but since it has ports for ships to embark, it was exposed to the outside world much more quickly. Pala has no ports so it was safe from the invasions of the Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch and English, which Pendag fell victim to. There are five times types of people made in Brave New World. Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gamma, and Epsilons. Bernard Marx, the main character of Brave New World is an Alpha. Alphas are supposed to be the smartest, most well-built, most intellectual, and well-conditioned of all the five of the groups made. Yet Bernard speaks with individualistic ideas that are unheard of in this society molded around the loss of being a unique person. Bernards friend, Helmholtz Watson is also one who threatens the utopia of Brave New World. Huxley explains the friendship of the two men: What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals. They are the only characters which openly discuss their personal ideas. Ideas that in a sense are considered sinful in their society. In the end Bernard and Helmholtz are ejected from society by being shipped off to some foreign island so that they will finally be free to expose their individualism. Through mass production of people, individualism is lost. In Brave New World, all of the people are products of mass production. Racks upon racks of numbered test tubes.#, p. 5 is the only way to describe them before their actual birth. They have no family to give them a background different from anyone elses. They all come from the same green bottles. Even when they are born, all they are given is a name chosen out of a
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Seminar: Buddhism and The West, hosted by Richard Pope
Reading assignment: “A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real,” by Glenn Wallis, pgs 17 – 43.
Secondary reading: https://speculativenonbuddhism.com/. Glenn Wallis developed many of his ideas on this blog, especially in its early – mid history. This reading assignment is not necessary, but will serve as a good compliment to our discussion of “A Critique of Western Buddhism.”
We’ll be teleconferencing with Glenn during an upcoming meeting, I believe on 1/30.
Reach out to ThePeoplesColloquiumPDX@gmail.com if you would like to attend but cannot afford a copy of the book.
Group Description:
What is Buddhist truth? How is Buddhism evolving as it takes root and grows in the United States and the west?
These are the two fundamental questions that this group seeks to answer. We’ll approach these questions from the perspective that there is something both timeless and transcendent about the truth Buddhism describes, but also that the practice and expression of Buddhism is both time-bound and culturally-dependent. Participants are encouraged to form their own answers to the above questions, which for the purpose of our discussion will be perpetually regarded as “open.”
The global moment is unique for Buddhism, which “encounters itself anew” as its major branches converge after 100s or even 1,000s of years of separation, while simultaneously being powerfully influenced by: western ideologies such as romanticism, nihilism, and postmodernism; scientific-materialism and its offshoots such as quantum physics and the brain sciences; popular culture and world-cultures; consumerism and spiritual-consumerism; and countless other forces both overt and subtle, which we shall spend no small amount of time attempting to elucidate during our discussions.
Our method is to meet each week to discuss a text. We’ll split our efforts between reading (1) primary texts from the three major Buddhist lineages (Theravada, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism); (2) primary texts of western philosophers who’ve been influenced by Buddhism or who have ideas compatible with Buddhist philosophy; (3) secondary texts of recent scholarship that offer insights relevant to our endeavor; and (4) tertiary texts of a wide variety of related and not-so-related topics as the group sees fit and which align with our trajectory, wherever it may ultimately take us.
Readings will likely be between 20-50 pages per week, depending on the difficulty of the text and its “discussion potential.”
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“A Letter Communicated By Prince Federick Duke Of Halsatia & Sleswick Concerning An Adept And Relates Things Strange And Unheard Of”
THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS COMMUNICATED BY THE MOST SERENE PRINCE FREDERICK DUKE OF HOLSATIA AND SLESWICK, AND RELATES THINGS STRANGE AND UNHEARD-OF
You have desired of me an account of the Life and Death, Inheritance and Heirs of my Master B.J. of happy memory: I return you this Answer, in Latine, as yours to me was, though I be not exactly skilled in it.
He was by Nation a Jew, by Religion a Christian, for he believed in Christ the Saviour, and openly made profession of the same: He was a man of great Honesty, and gave great Alms in secret: He lived chastly a Batchelor, and took me when I was about twenty years of Age, out of the House where Orphans are maintained by the Publick, and caused me to be instructed in the Latine, French, and Italian Tongues; to which I afterwards by use added the Jewish or Hebrew. He made use of me, so far as I was capable, in his Laboratory, for he had great skill in Physick, and cured most desperate Diseases. When I was twenty five years of Age, he called me into his Parlour, and made me swear to him, that I would never marry without his consent and knowledge; which I promised, and have religiously kept.
When I was thirty years of Age, on a morning he sends for me into his Parlour, and said very lovingly to me, My Son, I perceive that the Balsom of my Life, by reason of extreme old Age coming on, (for he was eighty eight years of Age) is well-nigh wasted, and that consequently my Death is at the door: wherefore I have writ my last Will and Testament, for the use and benefit of my Brothers Sons, and of you, and have laid it upon the Table of my Closet, whither neither you nor any mortal ever entered: for you durst not so much as knock at the door, during the hours set apart for my Devotion. Having said this, he went to the double door of his Closet, and daubed over the joynings thereof with a certain transparent and Crystalline Matter, which he wrought with his fingers till it became soft and yielding like Wax, and imprinted his Golden Seal upon it; the said Matter was immediately hardened by the cold Air, so that without defacing the Seal, the door could no way be opened.
Then he took the Keys of the Closet, and shut them up in a small Cabinet, and sealed the same as before with the said Crystalline Matter, and delivered the said Cabinet, after he had sealed it, into my hands, and charged me to deliver the same to none but his Brothers Sons, Mr. Jesse, Abrah, and Solomon Joelha, who at that time lived in Switzerland, the eldestof them being a Batchelor.
After this he returned with me into the Parlour, and in my presence dropped the Golden Seal he had made use of, into a glass of clear Water, in which the said Seal was immediately dissolved, like Ice in hot Water, a white Powder settling to the bottom, and the Liquor was ting’d with pale red of a Provence Rose. Then he closed the said Glass Vial, with the above-mentioned transparent Matter, and charged me to deliver the said Vial, together with the Keys, to Mr. Jesse.
This being done, he repeated upon his bended knees some of Davids Psalms in Hebrew, and betook himself to his Couch, where he was used to sleep after Dinner, and commanded me to bring him a Glass of Malaga, which now and then he sparingly made use of: As soon as he had drank off his Wine, he bid me come to him, and leaning his head upon my shoulders, he fell into a quiet sleep, and after half an hours time fetched a very deep sigh, and so yielded his Soul to God, to my great astonishment.
Upon this I according to my promise writ into Switzerland, to give notice of his death to his Nephews; and to my great wonder, the very day after my blessed Master died, I received a Letter from Mr. Jesse, wherein he enquired whether my Master were dead or alive, as if he had known every thing that had passed; as indeed he did, by means of a certain Instrument, of which hereafter I shall make mention.
A little after his Nephews came, to whom I gave an account of what had passed; all which Mr. Jesse heard with a smile, but the other Brother not without astonishment and wonder. I gave him the Keys, together with the Glass in which was the aforesaid Golden Solution; but they refused then to meddle with anything that day being tired with their Journey, but on the morrow, after I had carefully shut all the doors of the house, and none but they and I being present, Mr. Jesse took the Glass Vial, and broke it over a China-dish, which might receive the inclosed Liquor and put it upon the transparent Matter, with which the Cabinet was sealed, and immediately the Matter which before was hard as chrystal, was resolved into a thickish Water; so he opened the Cabinet, and took thence the Keys of the Closet.
Then we came to the door of the Closet, where Mr. Jesse having seen the Seal, he wetted it as formerly with the forementioned Liquor, which immediately gave way; and so he opened the said double door, but shut it again, and falling down upon his knees, prayed, as we also did; then we entered, and shut the doors upon us. Here I saw great Miracles.
In the midst of the Closet stood a Table, whose Frame was of Ebony: the Table it self was round, and of the same Wood, but covered with Plates of beaten Gold; before the Table was placed a low Footstool, for to kneel upon; in the midst of the Table stood an instrument of a strange and wonderful contrivance, the lower part of it or Pedestal was of pure Gold, the middle part was of most transparent Crystal, in which was inclosed an incombustible and perpetually-shining Fire; the upper part of it was likewise of pure Gold, made in the form of a small Cup, or Vial.
Just above this Instrument hung down a Chain of Gold, to which was fastned an artificial Crystal, of an Oval form, filled with the aforesaid perpetual Fire.
On the right side of the Table we took notice of a Golden Box, and upon the same a little Spoon: this Box contained a Balsom of a Scarlet colour.
On the left side we saw a little Desk of Massie Gold, upon which was laid a Book containing twelve leaves of pure beaten Gold, being tractable and flexible as Paper; in the midst of the leaves were several Characters engraved, as likewise in the Corners of the said leaves, but in the space between the Center and corners of the leaves, were filled with Holy Prayers.
Under the Desk we found the last Will of my deceased Master; whilst we were in the Closet, Mr. Jesse Kneeled down, leaning upon the Desk, and with most humble devotion repeated some of the forementioned Prayers, and then with the little spoon took up a small quantity of the aforesaid Balsom and put it into the top of the Instrument which was in the midst of the Table, and instantly a most grateful Fume ascending which with it most pleasing odour did most sensibly refresh us: but that which to me seem’d miraculous was, that the said Fume ascending, caused the perpetual Fire enclosed in the hanging Crystal, to flash and blaze terribly, like some great star or Lightning.
After this, Mr. Jesse read the Will, wherein he bequeathed to Mr. Jesse all his Instruments and Books of Wisdom, and the rest of his Goods to be equally divided between him and his Brother; besides he left me a Legacy of 6000 Golden Ducatoons, as an acknowledgment of my fidelity.
And accordingly first enquiry was made for the Instruments and Books of Wisdom; of those that were on and about the Table, I have spoken already: in the right side of the Closet stood a Chest of Ebony, whose inside was all covered with Plates of beaten Gold, and contained twelve Characters engraven upon them.
From thence we went to view a large Chest, containing twelve lookingglasses not made of Glass, but of a certain wonderful unknown Matter; the Center of the said Looking-glasses were filled with wonderful Characters, the Brims of them were inclosed in pure Gold, and between the said Brims and center they were polished, looking-glasses receiving all opposite Images.
After this we opened a very large Chest or Case, in which we found a most capacious looking-glass, which Mr. Jesse told us was Solomons Lookingglass, and the Miracle of the whole World; in which the Characterisms of the whole Universe were united.
We saw also in a Box of Ebony, a Globe made of a wonderful Matter; Mr. Jesse told us, that in the said Globe was shut up the Fire and Soul of the World, and that therefore the said Globe of it self performed all its motions, in an exact Harmony and Agreement with those of the Universe.
Upon this Box forementioned stood another, which contained an Instrument1 resembling a Clock-Dial, but instead of the Figures of the 12 hours, the Letters of the Alphabet were placed around this, with a Hand or Index turning and pointing at them. Mr. Jesse told us, that this Instrument would move of it self, upon the motion of a Corresponding and Sympathetick Instrument, which he had at home, and that by means of this Instrument, my happy Master had signified to him his approaching death; and that after this signification, finding that this Instrument remained without motion, he concluded my Master was dead.
Last of all we came to the Books of Wisdom, which he opened not; near the said Books was placed a Box of Gold, full of a most ponderous Powder of a deep Scarlet colour, which Mr. Jesse smiling took and put up.
Near to the Closet where we were, was another Closet adjoyning, which we entered into, and there found four large Chests full of small Ingots of most pure Gold, out of which they gave me my Legacy of 6000 Golden Ducatoons in a double proportion. But Mr. Jesse refused to take for himself any of the said Gold; for he said, that those things which were afore bequeathed to him, did fully content him, for he was skill’d in my Masters Art, and therefore ordered his part of the Gold to be bestowed upon several poor Virgins, of kin to them, to make up their Portions. I my self married one of these, and had with her a good Portion out of the said Gold; she embraced the Christian Religion, and is yet alive.
See this Instrument described in a Book called Arts Notoria, Printed in Latine or English, page 136.
Mr. Jesse packed up all his things, and carried them home with him into Switzerland, though since that he hath chose himself a quiet and well-tempered place in the East-Indies, from whence he writ to me last year, offering me to adopt my eldest Son, whom I have accordingly sent to him.
During the time we were in the Closet, I saw strange Miracles effected by the motions of the said Instruments of Wisdom, which I neither can nor dare set down in writing. Thus much, my intimate Friend, I was willing you should know, more I cannot add.
Farewell.
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1. Guillen, Melinda. Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice.
Degree: Master of Public Art Studies /MA, Public Art Studies, 2011, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/456578/rec/4471
► This paper is an urgent call for a collaborative form of art criticism in the assessment of social practice as a contemporary feminist issue. This… (more)
▼ This paper is an urgent call for a collaborative form of art criticism in the assessment of social practice as a contemporary feminist issue. This study evaluates the recent institutional inclusion, increasing popularity and expanding theorizations on socially engaged practices by elucidating a relationship between feminist art critical methodologies and the current conception of social practice art, focused on the attribution of collaboration this form of practice purports. Through a comparative analysis of collaboration in two art historical precursors to social practice, evidenced by texts from Arlene Raven and Suzanne Lacy from the Los Angeles Woman’s Building in the 1970s and 1980s and Lucy Lippard and the Art Workers’ Coalition from 1969; to the 2004 moment of elevated discourse by art historians and critics Claire Bishop, Grant Kester and Miwon Kwon. This study endeavors to bring explicit feminist art critical methodologies to bear on recent discursive activity comprising social practice. Advisors/Committee Members: Anastas, Rhea (Committee Chair), Kester, Grant (Committee Member), Decter, Joshua (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: social practice art; feminist art criticism; collaborative art; Los Angeles Woman'; s Building; Suzanne Lacy; Lucy Lippard; Art Workers' Coalition
Guillen, M. (2011). Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice . (Masters Thesis). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/456578/rec/4471
Guillen, Melinda. “Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/456578/rec/4471.
Guillen, Melinda. “Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Guillen M. Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Southern California; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/456578/rec/4471.
Guillen M. Now. Not now. And now: Toward a feminist critical envisioning of social practice. [Masters Thesis]. University of Southern California; 2011. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/456578/rec/4471
2. Dufort-Cuccioletta, Majorie. Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies.
Degree: 2011, Université du Québec à Montréal
URL: http://archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
► Cette recherche propose une étude sur les affiches politiques américaines produites durant la guerre du Vietnam, plus particulièrement sur l'œuvre du Art Worker's coalition, Q.… (more)
▼ Cette recherche propose une étude sur les affiches politiques américaines produites durant la guerre du Vietnam, plus particulièrement sur l'œuvre du Art Worker's coalition, Q. And babies? A. And babies, une affiche/photomontage qui a servi le mouvement de protestation contre la guerre. Représentant les résultats de l'offensive de l'armée américaine, dans le village de My Lai, où les soldats américains s'engagent dans une tuerie de plus de 300 villageois dont des femmes et des enfants, l'affiche Q. And babies? A. And babies établit des liens avec les débats sociopolitiques des années soixante. À cette époque, aux États-Unis, la contestation contre la guerre du Vietnam touche l'ensemble des tranches de la société : les vétérans de la guerre, les membres de la communauté afro-américaine, les étudiants, les travailleurs et les artistes. Les débats sociaux, dont la lutte pour les droits civiques et l'émergence de la contre-culture ont également un impact sur le mouvement de protestation. Pour une des premières fois dans l'histoire, des membres de la jeune génération deviennent les catalyseurs des changements sociaux et politiques. Les reportages à la télévision (la guerre du Vietnam étant le premier conflit diffusé à l'aide de la télévision) et dans les journaux, remettent en cause la légitimité du conflit et le peuple américain questionne le comportement des soldats. Le monde de l'art participe également à cette contestation, en particulier le Art Worker's Coalition, une organisation regroupant des artistes, des critiques et des historiens de l'art. Dans les années soixante, l'activisme politique dans le travail de l'artiste n'est pas nouveau, mais il prend de l'ampleur avec l'avènement des nouveaux paradigmes esthétiques comme la performance et le happening et avec l'utilisation des médias de masse comme la photographie et l'affiche. L'affiche politique américaine, dans les années soixante, marque une rupture avec le passé, d'une part, dans sa technique avec l'abandon du dessin au profit de la photographie et, d'autre part, dans son contenu, où les symboles populaires américains sont transformés en symboles de dérision. Les affiches rompent avec l'iconographie traditionnelle et utilisent un vocabulaire formel nouveau. Les artistes ont participé de façon consciente, à l'aide du médium de l'affiche, à la protestation contre la guerre du Vietnam et ont ainsi participé aux nombreux débats durant les années soixante aux États-Unis. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Affiche politique, Art worker's coalition, guerre du Vietnam, activisme politique, médias de masse, Q. And babies? A. And babies.
Subjects/Keywords: Art Workers Coalition; Activisme; Affiche politique; Guerre du Viêt-nam (1961-1975); Mass-média
Dufort-Cuccioletta, M. (2011). Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies . (Thesis). Université du Québec à Montréal. Retrieved from http://archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
Dufort-Cuccioletta, Majorie. “Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies.” 2011. Thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf.
Dufort-Cuccioletta, Majorie. “Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Dufort-Cuccioletta M. Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies. [Internet] [Thesis]. Université du Québec à Montréal; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf.
Dufort-Cuccioletta M. Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies. [Thesis]. Université du Québec à Montréal; 2011. Available from: http://archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
URL: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
Dufort-Cuccioletta, M. (2011). Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies . (Thesis). Université du Québec à Montréal. Retrieved from http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
Dufort-Cuccioletta, Majorie. “Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies.” 2011. Thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf.
Dufort-Cuccioletta M. Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies. [Internet] [Thesis]. Université du Québec à Montréal; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf.
Dufort-Cuccioletta M. Les affiches politiques américaines durant la guerre du Vietnam : le Art Worker's Coalition et l'affiche Q. and babies? A. and babies. [Thesis]. Université du Québec à Montréal; 2011. Available from: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4560/1/M12312.pdf
4. Tompkins, Adam. Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011.
Degree: PhD, History, 2011, Arizona State University
URL: http://repository.asu.edu/items/9276
► Growers and the USDA showed increasing favor for agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control through the first half of the twentieth… (more)
▼ Growers and the USDA showed increasing favor for agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control through the first half of the twentieth century. With the introduction of DDT and other synthetic chemicals to commercial markets in the post-World War II era, pesticides became entrenched as the primary form of pest control in the industrial agriculture production system. Despite accumulating evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and government exercised path-dependent behavior in the development and implementation of pest control strategies. As pests developed resistance to regimens of agricultural chemicals, growers applied pesticides with greater toxicity in higher volumes to their fields with little consideration for the unintended consequences of using the economic poisons. Consequently, pressure from non-governmental organizations proved a necessary predicate for pesticide reform. This dissertation uses a series of case studies to examine the role of non-governmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, in pesticide reform from 1962 to 2011. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on human health and environment to the public, and built support for the amendment of pesticide policies and the alteration of pesticide use practices. Their efforts led to the passage of more stringent regulations to better protect farmworkers, the public, and the environment. Environmental organizations and farmworker groups also acted as watchdogs, monitoring the activity of regulatory agencies and bringing suit when necessary to ensure that they fulfilled their responsibilities to the public. This dissertation will build on previous scholarly work to show increasing collaboration between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. It argues that the organizations shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health, which enabled bridge-builders within the disparate organizations to foster cooperative relationships. Bridge-building proved a mutually beneficial exercise. Variance in organizational strategies and the timing of different reform efforts limited, but did not eliminate, opportunities for collaboration. Coalitions formed when groups came together temporarily, and then drifted apart when a reform effort reached its terminus, leaving future collaboration still possible.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Environmental Studies; Environmental Law; coalition; environmentalists; farmworkers; pesticides; social movement; United Farm Workers
Tompkins, A. (2011). Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011 . (Doctoral Dissertation). Arizona State University. Retrieved from http://repository.asu.edu/items/9276
Tompkins, Adam. “Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://repository.asu.edu/items/9276.
Tompkins, Adam. “Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Tompkins A. Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/9276.
Tompkins A. Ghostworkers and Greens: Collaborative Engagements in Pesticide Reform, 1962-2011. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2011. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/9276
5. Glomm, Anna Sandaker. Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS .
Degree: 2012, University of St. Andrews
► This thesis examines the relationship between the three artists’ workshops Røde Mor (Red Mother), Folkets Ateljé (The People’s Studio) and GRAS, who worked between 1968… (more)
▼ This thesis examines the relationship between the three artists’ workshops Røde Mor (Red Mother), Folkets Ateljé (The People’s Studio) and GRAS, who worked between 1968 and 1975 in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Røde Mor was from the outset an articulated Communist graphic workshop loosely organised around collective exhibitions. It developed into a highly productive and professionalised group of artists that made posters by commission for political and social movements. Its artists developed a familiar and popular artistic language characterised by imaginative realism and socialist imagery. Folkets Ateljé, which has never been studied before, was a close knit underground group which created quick and immediate responses to concurrent political issues. This group was founded on the example of Atelier Populaire in France and is strongly related to its practices. Within this comparative study it is the group that comes closest to collective practises around 1968 outside Scandinavia, namely the democratic assembly. The silkscreen workshop GRAS stemmed from the idea of economic and artistic freedom, although socially motivated and politically involved, the group never implemented any doctrine for participation. The aim of this transnational study is to reveal common denominators to the three groups’ poster art as it was produced in connection with a Scandinavian experience of 1968. By ‘1968’ it is meant the period from the late 1960s till the end of the 1970s. It examines the socio-political conditions under which the groups flourished and shows how these groups operated in conjunction with the political environment of 1968. The thesis explores the relationship between political movements and the collective art making process as it appeared in Scandinavia. To present a comprehensible picture of the impact of 1968 on these groups, their artworks, manifestos, and activities outside of the collective space have been discussed. The argument has presented itself that even though these groups had very similar ideological stances, their posters and techniques differ. This has impacted the artists involved to different degrees, yet made it possible to express the same political goals. It is suggested to be linked with the Scandinavian social democracies and common experience of the radicalisation that took place mostly in the aftermath of 1968 proper. By comparing these three groups’ it has been uncovered that even with the same socio-political circumstances and ideological stance divergent styles did develop to embrace these issue. Advisors/Committee Members: Howard, Jeremy (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Poster art in the twentieth-century; Political art; Propaganda; Social realism; Socialist realism; Røde Mor; GRAS; Folkets Ateljé; Norwegian twentieth-century art; Danish twentieth-century art; Swedish twentieth-century art; Scandinavian twentieth-century art; Pop art; Conceptual art; Figuration; Abstraction; 1968; Popular movements; Transnational study; Op-art; EEC 1972; Communism and art; Marxist-Leninism and art; Underground and sub culture; 1970s Scandinavia; Marxism and art; Grassroot movements; Collectivism; Graphic art; Silkscreen; Serigraphy; Lino-cuts; Offset print; Linoleum print; Atelier Populaire; Art Workers Coalition; Modernism; Postmodernism; Social art history; Russian avant garde poster art; Neo-avant garde; Activism and art; Comparative study of art; Non-figuration; Scandinavian 1968; European 1968; Political pop-art; Youth rebellion and uprising; Capitalism and art; Street art; Scandinavian model and art; Nordic model and art; Social democracy and art; Globalisation; Chinese Cultural Revolution; Third World and anti-imperialism
Glomm, A. S. (2012). Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS . (Thesis). University of St. Andrews. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3171
Glomm, Anna Sandaker. “Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS .” 2012. Thesis, University of St. Andrews. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3171.
Glomm, Anna Sandaker. “Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS .” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Glomm AS. Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of St. Andrews; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3171.
Glomm AS. Graphic revolt! Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS . [Thesis]. University of St. Andrews; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3171
6. Anway, Maureen Kathryn. Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages.
Degree: Master of Public Affairs, Public affairs (MPAff), 2016, University of Texas – Austin
► This report describes farmworker wages since 1989 and assess what factors affect these wages. Two questions are answered: (1) What factors affect farmworker wage? (2)… (more)
▼ This report describes farmworker wages since 1989 and assess what factors affect these wages. Two questions are answered: (1) What factors affect farmworker wage? (2) And what steps can the Department of Labor take to ensure equitable wages? The research found that several factors affect farmworker wages including gender, race, citizenship, legal exemptions, and the historical normalization of low wages paid on farms. The report concludes with recommendations for the Department of Labor on further research and policy solutions. Advisors/Committee Members: Lentz, Erin (advisor), Evans, Angela (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Farmworker; Department of Labor; DOL; Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Wage; H-2A; Wage and Hour Division; WHD; Piece rate
Anway, M. K. (2016). Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages . (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/45732
Anway, Maureen Kathryn. “Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/45732.
Anway, Maureen Kathryn. “Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages.” 2016. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Anway MK. Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/45732.
Anway MK. Analysis of the Department of Labor's role in advancing farmworker wages. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/45732
7. Matalon, Rebecca. Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving".
Degree: MA, Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere, 2013, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/311588/rec/4915
► This essay examines the activities of the New-York-based artist-run organization Parasite (1997-1998). Dedicated to proposing alternate economies for project work—a mode of contemporary artistic practice… (more)
▼ This essay examines the activities of the New-York-based artist-run organization Parasite (1997-1998). Dedicated to proposing alternate economies for project work—a mode of contemporary artistic practice that is often interdisciplinary, context-specific, and involves labor in excess of material production—Parasite aimed to create support structures outside of the museum and commercial gallery system. While motivated by concerns particular to the 1990s, for Parasite, project work related primarily to a history of minimalist, conceptualist, post-studio, and site specific critiques of the 1960s and 1970s. The revolving group of twenty-five artists included Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Michael Clegg, Renée Green, Ben Kinmont, Christian Marclay, Nils Norman, and Jason Simon, among many others, During a period of less than two years, Parasite sustained a private practice of weekly meetings; organized programs in the form of artist lectures, roundtables, screenings and exhibitions at two Lower Manhattan art organizations; and built an archive of historical and contemporary materials related to project work. The recent recovery of this archive, officially named the Parasite Document Collection, has allowed for an in-depth reconsideration of the activities of the relatively unknown self-organized collective. ❧ Looking to Parasite’s three primary aims of “supporting, documenting, and presenting” project work as self-defined categorizing frameworks, this essay addresses the group’s initial private self-conception as an artists’ advocacy group (support), the Parasite archive and the history traced therein (document), and the group’s re-staging of Mel Bochner’s Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed as Art (1966) in 1998 (present). This study asks, what modes of production and reception did Parasite propose and how might these modes correspond and/or diverge from dominant forms of critical interpretation and valuation of artistic works? Advisors/Committee Members: Anastas, Rhea (Committee Chair), Butler, Connie (Committee Member), Tain, John (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Parasite; Parasite 1997-1998; project work; project art; artist-run; collective; post-studio; site-specificity; institutional critique; conceptualism; conceptual art; art activism; self-organized; analytic intervention; alternative economy; performative discourse; re-presentation; re-performance; critical art practice; counter practice; archive; archives; activist archiving; Parasite archive; document collection; Parasite Document Collection; Art Workers' Coalition; AWC; Clocktower Gallery; Drawing Room; Drawing Center; art history; Julie Ault; Martin Beck; Tom Burr; Michael Clegg; Mark Dion; Andrea Fraser; Renée Green; Ben Kinmont; Silvia Kolbowski; Simon Leung; Christian Marclay; Nils Norman; Christian Philipp Müller; Fred Wilson; Mel Bochner; Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art; 1966
Matalon, R. (2013). Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving" . (Masters Thesis). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/311588/rec/4915
Matalon, Rebecca. “Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving".” 2013. Masters Thesis, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/311588/rec/4915.
Matalon, Rebecca. “Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving".” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Matalon R. Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving". [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Southern California; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/311588/rec/4915.
Matalon R. Parasite 1997-1998: "It's always while looking at the part that the whole is seen to be moving". [Masters Thesis]. University of Southern California; 2013. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/311588/rec/4915
8. Tumennasan, Norovsambuu. Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2009, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:150/
► Human beings live in societies, yet we are self centered. Therefore, the collective decision making problem is, as well as being complex, of great importance.… (more)
▼ Human beings live in societies, yet we are self centered. Therefore, the collective decision making problem is, as well as being complex, of great importance. The first two chapters of my dissertation deal with two aspects of collective decision making: coalition formation and implementation. The first chapter investigates how moral hazard affects coalitional structures in the context of an economy with a stochastic production process. Moral hazard is known to undermine efficiency, so it has been universally considered undesirable. However, this paper demonstrates that in some instances moral hazard helps teams to form and survive, and so could in fact be desirable. The second chapter investigates the implementation problem in a setting with boundedly rational players. To capture that the players are boundedly rational, we consider implementation in Limit logit Quantal Response Equilibria (LLQRE). LQRE is an equilibrium concept in which the players mistakenly play non-optimal strategies with a probability that is decreasing in both the size of the mistake and the parameterized level of rationality. Therefore, LLQRE can be considered as an infinitesimal perturbation of Nash equilibria in the direction of less rationality. The paper finds that Quasimonotonicity and No Worst Alternative conditions are necessary for implementation in restricted LLQRE and, conversely, that these conditions jointly with No Veto Power are sufficient for LLQRE implementation in environments with no fewer than three agents. The third chapter studies how price matching affects the market price if firms can choose their capacity. We use the setting of Kreps and Scheinkman (1983), i.e., each firm installs their capacities in the first period and chooses its price along with the price matching option in the second period. We show that price matching which is widely believed to have an anti-competition affect could hurt consumers if and only if the total Cournot quantity with an installation cost exceeds the Monopolistic quantity with zero cost. Advisors/Committee Members: Serrano, Roberto (director), de Clippel, Geoffroy (reader), Turner, Sergio (reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Coalition formation
Tumennasan, N. (2009). Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching . (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:150/
Tumennasan, Norovsambuu. “Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:150/.
Tumennasan, Norovsambuu. “Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching.” 2009. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Tumennasan N. Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:150/.
Tumennasan N. Essays in Collective Decision Making and Price Matching. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2009. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:150/
Texas State University – San Marcos
9. Walkes, Skyller D. Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection.
Degree: PhD, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, 2018, Texas State University – San Marcos
URL: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7475
► This research explores how Afro-Latinx individuals in Cuba understand and attempt to reconcile the intersections of their identities to combat experiences of racism. Further-more, this… (more)
▼ This research explores how Afro-Latinx individuals in Cuba understand and attempt to reconcile the intersections of their identities to combat experiences of racism. Further-more, this research contends that moving beyond identity politics and towards the libera-tory processes of coalition-building with collective consciousness through art activism, art activists can work together to promote change within their respective communities. Advisors/Committee Members: Brooks, Ann K. (advisor), Ross-Gordon, Jovita M. (committee member), O'Malley, Michael P. (committee member), Busey, Christopher L. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Art; Activism; Afro-Latinx; Intersectionality; Racism; Cuba; Coalition-building; Cuba – Race relations; Blacks – Race identity – Cuba; Latin Americans – Race identity – Cuba; Performance art – Political aspects; Art and social action
Walkes, S. D. (2018). Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas State University – San Marcos. Retrieved from https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7475
Walkes, Skyller D. “Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas State University – San Marcos. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7475.
Walkes, Skyller D. “Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection.” 2018. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Walkes SD. Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7475.
Walkes SD. Activism Through Art in an Afro-Cuban Community: Centering Voices at the Intersection. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas State University – San Marcos; 2018. Available from: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/7475
10. Turi, Lorraine. FieldWork.
Degree: 2013, East Carolina University
► My work is a visual photographic exploration, which considers the migration from the field to the factory and the consequences of that shift on the… (more)
▼ My work is a visual photographic exploration, which considers the migration from the field to the factory and the consequences of that shift on the American worker. Since the Industrial Revolution, large corporations have formed that monopolize industries such as farming and manufacturing. These monstrous companies have slowly conquered the American workers' ability to be self-sustaining and to compete in today's economic market. Staging my photographs in a field, I use the worker as a mechanism to contemplate the complex relationship between the individual worker and American industry in contemporary society.
Subjects/Keywords: Fine arts; Art; Photography; Photography, Artistic; Blue collar workers
Turi, L. (2013). FieldWork . (Thesis). East Carolina University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1767
Turi, Lorraine. “FieldWork.” 2013. Thesis, East Carolina University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1767.
Turi, Lorraine. “FieldWork.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Turi L. FieldWork. [Internet] [Thesis]. East Carolina University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1767.
Turi L. FieldWork. [Thesis]. East Carolina University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1767
University of Namibia
11. Kandjii, M. Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia .
Degree: 2016, University of Namibia
► The purpose of the study was to assess the perception of social workers on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in… (more)
▼ The purpose of the study was to assess the perception of social workers on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia. The study investigated the achievements and challenges social workers at the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) experience in the implementation of the CORD programme. The study also obtained detailed information about the inputs, activities, and processes of the programme in order to uncover the achievements and challenges experienced during the programme implementation, the adequacy of resource allocation, and the availability and transparency of programme documentation. The main aim of the study was to collect data to assess the implementation of the CORD programme in preventing and mitigating alcohol abuse in Namibia by evaluating the opinions and perceptions of social workers who work directly with it. A quantitative research approach using a descriptive research design was adopted. A pilot study was conducted with ten (10) respondents in order to identify shortcomings and to correct the questionnaire. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire that involved closed ended and open-ended questions in order to gather more detailed and complex information from the respondents. Sixty-four respondents were identified as the sample population. The questionnaire was mailed to the respondents. Fifty-five respondents returned a completed questionnaire. The study found that the CORD programme implementation is very important for the Ministry of Health and Social Services, the community and the stakeholders involved in its implementation. The study also found that there is a shortage of social workers to implement the programme. Furthermore there is a lack of necessary resources, as well as a monitoring and evaluation tool. The study also established that individual counselling is mainly used to help people with alcohol problems, whilst there is a low referral of people who are addicted to alcohol to rehabilitation centers. Based on the findings of the study, it is suggested that more social workers be recruited and stakeholder involvement be strengthened. There is also a need to avail the necessary resources, such as funds and transport that can enhance the implementation of the planned activities. A monitoring and evaluation tool needs to be developed to monitor the progress of the implementation of activities. There is a need to operationalise and establish alcohol and drug rehabilitation services for treatment of people with alcohol addiction problems and aftercare services to ensure sobriety of rehabilitated clients.
Subjects/Keywords: Coalition ; Responsible drinking
Kandjii, M. (2016). Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia . (Thesis). University of Namibia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1657
Kandjii, M. “Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia .” 2016. Thesis, University of Namibia. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1657.
Kandjii, M. “Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia .” 2016. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Kandjii M. Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1657.
Kandjii M. Social workers' perceptions on the implementation of the coalition on responsible drinking (CORD) programme in Namibia . [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1657
12. Dubyak, Erin A. "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth.
Degree: MA, Women Studies, 2012, Oregon State University
► Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner,… (more)
▼ Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted in a movement to end commercial sexual exploitation of children (also known as "child trafficking)". Feminist activists have mobilized around this issue seeking recourse for youth who have been victims of exploitation. This thesis presents a study of a prevention/early intervention program, the "Girls Coalition," founded for adjudicated girls who are deemed "high risk" for commercial sexual exploitation. The Youth Resource Center, a non-profit organization, began the Girls Coalition in order to prevent exploitation by empowering the youth to better their lives. While not an openly identified feminist organization, the Girls Coalition does espouse feminist goals and its mission emulates feminist processes. Through qualitative methods my study explores how the staff understand their role in the lives of the youth they serve as well as the organization in which they work. Findings reveal themes centered on feminist management and organizational functioning, which includes the processes and dynamics present within the running of the organization. Results also reveal themes that include how participants enact ethics of care and empowerment of the youth whom the Girls Coalition serves. Advisors/Committee Members: Lee, Janet (advisor), Duncan, Patti (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Women; Girls' Coalition
Dubyak, E. A. (2012). "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth . (Masters Thesis). Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29499
Dubyak, Erin A. “"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Oregon State University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29499.
Dubyak, Erin A. “"Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Dubyak EA. "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Oregon State University; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29499.
Dubyak EA. "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth. [Masters Thesis]. Oregon State University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29499
13. Chen, Mindy Minyi. Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign.
Degree: Social Welfare, 2017, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mv8q8c9
► Since 2008, a coalition known as the CLEAN Carwash Campaign has been organizing car wash workers in Los Angeles. How did CLEAN manage the divergent… (more)
▼ Since 2008, a coalition known as the CLEAN Carwash Campaign has been organizing car wash workers in Los Angeles. How did CLEAN manage the divergent interests of its coalition members and strategize? What is it about CLEAN that led the labor-community coalition to achieve gains for carwasheros when conventional wisdom dictates that low wage immigrant workers were too vulnerable to be unionized? Given the dearth of empirical research into how social movement coalitions strategize and how campaign strategies link to outcomes, this dissertation seeks to add to the understanding of social movement strategies by examining the CLEAN Carwash Campaign to answer the following three questions:� What are the strategies used by the CLEAN Carwash Campaign?� How are CLEAN’s strategies determined?� How do strategies relate to outcomes?For the dissertation research, I conducted comparative case studies of four local campaigns undertaken by the CLEAN Carwash Campaign in two distinct regions of Los Angeles—the Westside and South LA. A two-by-two case study design across two victorious and two failed cases was used to understand CLEAN’s campaign strategy development and subsequent outcomes. Findings suggest that strategy setting is influenced by a complex array of structural factors including interaction with targets, workers, and allies that shape available tactical options. Outcomes of victories and losses demonstrate the challenges for campaign leadership in pursuing choices that take advantage of target vulnerabilities, foster worker ownership and commitment in organizing, rally community and coalition support, and capitalize contextual political opportunities.
Subjects/Keywords: Social work; Sociology; Labor relations; Coalition; Community Organizing; Immigrant Workers; Social Movements; Strategy; Union Organizing
…workers and formed an informal coalition to advocate on their behalf (Garea & Stern, 2010… …representing oil refinery workers. 5 As of 2014, the CLEAN Carwash Campaign coalition comprised… …workers. When considering how a coalition such as CLEAN might arrive at its strategies… …Dissertation Title: Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative… …within the CLEAN Labor-Community Coalition.” Association for Research on Nonprofit…
Chen, M. M. (2017). Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign . (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mv8q8c9
Chen, Mindy Minyi. “Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign.” 2017. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mv8q8c9.
Chen, Mindy Minyi. “Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Chen MM. Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mv8q8c9.
Chen MM. Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights through Labor-Community Coalition: Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2017. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mv8q8c9
14. Oliveira, Vítor Silveira Lima. A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional.
Degree: Mestrado, Ciência Política, 2014, University of São Paulo
URL: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-21052015-121736/ ;
O primeiro presidente eleito diretamente após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988 lidou com uma série de informações institucionais novas, muitas das quais fundamentais para… (more)
O primeiro presidente eleito diretamente após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988 lidou com uma série de informações institucionais novas, muitas das quais fundamentais para o processo de modificação do status quo com base no que se convencionou chamar de presidencialismo de coalizão. Partindo deste contexto político-institucional, o presente estudo tem por objetivo demonstrar a existência da ineficiência na absorção deste novo conjunto de informações, capaz de desviar as ações estratégicas dos atores racionais do que seria esperado em equilíbrio, durante o processo de formação de coalizões. Mobilizada em conjunto à literatura mais recente sobre o sistema político brasileiro, a hipótese da ineficiência informacional passa a ser uma explicação alternativa para os níveis relativamente mais baixos de coordenação política verificados durante o governo Collor (1990-92), o qual incorporou parte do modus operandi do sistema político brasileiro dali em diante, mas com diferenças marcantes na compatibilização dos poderes legislativos da presidência com o da maioria no legislativo, bem como na gestão do governo da coalizão. As evidências iniciais aqui apresentadas corroboram a existência da ineficiência informacional no processo de formação das diferentes coalizões dentro de uma mesma presidência, mas contingentes à qualidade dos modelos existentes para predizer seu resultado de equilíbrio, quando a hipótese da ineficiência é testada de uma presidência para a outra.
The first Brazilian President elected directly after the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988 has dealt with a series of new institutional information, many of which are fundamental to the process of modifying the status quo, based on the so-called coalition presidentialism. Given this political and institutional context, the present study aims to show the existence of inefficiency in the absorption of this new set of information, which led to different strategic actions by the rational actors than the results expected in equilibrium, during the process of forming coalitions. When jointly mobilized with explanations about Brazilian political system, the informational inefficiency hypothesis turns out as a reasonable explanation for the relatively lower levels of political coordination verified during Collors mandate as President (1990-92). By lacking important aspects of the Brazilian politics modus operandi, his government was unable to promote the compatibility of legislative powers of the Presidency and legislative majority as well as in important aspects of coalition Government management. The initial evidence presented here confirms the existence of the informational inefficiency in the making of different coalitions within the same Presidency, but has little to say about the inefficiency hypothesis when considering the passage from a Presidency to the next one, given the poor quality of existing models to determine equilibrium conditions in government making.
Advisors/Committee Members: Arantes, Rogério Bastos.
Subjects/Keywords: Coalition; Coalizão; Presidencialismo; Presidentialism
Oliveira, V. S. L. (2014). A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional . (Masters Thesis). University of São Paulo. Retrieved from http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-21052015-121736/ ;
Oliveira, Vítor Silveira Lima. “A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of São Paulo. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-21052015-121736/ ;.
Oliveira, Vítor Silveira Lima. “A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Oliveira VSL. A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of São Paulo; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-21052015-121736/ ;.
Oliveira VSL. A implantação do presidencialismo da coalizão e a ineficiência informacional. [Masters Thesis]. University of São Paulo; 2014. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-21052015-121736/ ;
15. Stone-Wiggins, Brenda. Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems.
Degree: PhD, Psychology, 2009, North Carolina State University
► ABSTRACT STONE-WIGGINS, BRENDA PATRICIA. Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utilizing Technical Assistance Support Systems (Under the direction of Roger E. Mitchell.) Objective: Technical… (more)
▼ ABSTRACT STONE-WIGGINS, BRENDA PATRICIA. Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utilizing Technical Assistance Support Systems (Under the direction of Roger E. Mitchell.) Objective: Technical assistance (TA) systems have emerged as an important capacity-building strategy to increase the effectiveness of community prevention coalitions. However, the availability of TA does not necessarily translate into utilization. This study explored whether coalition members’ interest in utilizing TA is predicted by coalition member characteristics (i.e., age, education, gender, commitment, perceived skills, perceived benefits of participation, perceived coalition strength), coalition leader characteristics (i.e., leader’s interest in TA), and coalition functioning (i.e., effectiveness with regard to structure, collaboration and programming). Methods: This cross-sectional study utilized existing data from coalition members (n=168), coalition leaders (n=22), and ratings of coalition programming from community key informants (n=141), all of which were associated with 22 health-oriented, community prevention coalitions. The dependent variable was the coalition members’ self-identified interest in TA. Principal component analysis confirmed that the 13-item Interest in TA scale represented a single factor. Analysis: Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analyses indicated that 12% of the variance in member interest in TA was due to group level factors. HLM was used to examine the relationships among the predictors and members’ interest in TA. Results: Members’ perceived skills was significantly related to members’ interest in TA (T=3.48, df=160, p=0.001) as predicted. Commitment was also significantly and positively related to interest in TA (T=2.38, df=160, p=0.019). In addition, members who perceived their coalition as weak were significantly more likely to be interested in TA (T=-2.63, df=160, p=0.010). Coalitions weaker in structure, collaboration and programming (as rated by leaders and key informants) were also more likely to have members interested in TA, although not at a level that reached significance. The small number of cases at the coalition level may have limited statistical power. Conclusion: Members who perceived their coalition as weak were more interested in TA, suggesting that weaker coalitions may be accessible to TA providers. However, members with lower commitment and skills had less interest in utilizing TA. Suggestions for future research and intervention are discussed. Advisors/Committee Members: Roger E. Mitchell, Committee Chair (advisor), Craig C. Brookins, Committee Member (advisor), Debra J. Holden, Committee Member (advisor), Jacquelyn W. McClelland, Committee Member (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: HLM; coalition; technical assistance
Stone-Wiggins, B. (2009). Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems . (Doctoral Dissertation). North Carolina State University. Retrieved from http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/3136
Stone-Wiggins, Brenda. “Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, North Carolina State University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/3136.
Stone-Wiggins, Brenda. “Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems.” 2009. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Stone-Wiggins B. Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. North Carolina State University; 2009. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/3136.
Stone-Wiggins B. Predicting the Interest of Coalition Members in Utlizing Technical Assistance Support Systems. [Doctoral Dissertation]. North Carolina State University; 2009. Available from: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/3136
16. Christel Arlette, Zunneberg. The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union.
Degree: 2017, Leiden University
This study set about answering the question what significance the bilateral relationship between the Netherlands and Germany has for consensus- and coalition-building within the EU. Advisors/Committee Members: Rood, Jan Prof. Dr (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: EU coalition-building; Netherlands; Germany
Christel Arlette, Z. (2017). The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union . (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/52833
Christel Arlette, Zunneberg. “The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/52833.
Christel Arlette, Zunneberg. “The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Christel Arlette Z. The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/52833.
Christel Arlette Z. The multilateral effect of Dutch-German bilateralism in the European Union. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/52833
17. Schnose, Viktoryia. Mainstreaming the Radical Right.
Degree: PhD, Political Science, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis
URL: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/894
► Radical right parties are on the rise. The once despised pariahs of the political world now emerge as policy makers in governing coalitions across… (more)
▼ Radical right parties are on the rise. The once despised pariahs of the political world now emerge as policy makers in governing coalitions across Europe: from the volatile democracies of Eastern Europe to the well-established Nordic welfare states. Despite an impressive collection of theoretical and empirical studies explaining the rise of the radical right, this literature has largely overlooked the variation in government participation of these parties. This leaves several important questions unanswered: why do well established mainstream parties accept radical right parties that often promote extreme anti-liberal and anti-democratic platforms as coalition partners in some countries but not in others? how long do the coalitions that contain radical right parties last? what kind of ministerial portfolios are the radical right parties allocated once the enter governing coalitions? In my dissertation, I argue that the probability of radical right parties getting into government, securing cabinet portfolios and remaining part of the coalition, all depend on their ideological position on the economic dimension and is not hampered by their extremism on the socio-cultural dimension. The reason being that radical right parties place high importance on the socio-cultural dimension and low value on the economic dimension, which is orthogonal to dimension saliencies of mainstream parties. This allows radical right parties to be more flexible in finding compromise with the rest of the coalition partners. I show that while all radical right parties maintain extreme positions on the socio-cultural dimension, they display a great deal of variation on the economic dimension. While some espouse ultra-neoliberal economic programs, others champion protectionism, welfare chauvinism, and openly reject capitalism. Radical right parties that position themselves close to the rest of the coalition's ideal point on the economic dimension are able to oer its coalition partners valuable policy compromises. I employ a multi-method approach that includes both large N analyses as well as case studies to test my theory in a series of three articles. In the first article, I test how the probability of the radical right parties entering cabinet depends on their ideological positioning on different dimensions. In the second article, I argue that radical right parties are often over-compensated with portfolios due to coalition stability considerations and lower costs of some portfolios. The lower costs are the direct result of dimension orthogonality and party position's on the economic dimension. Finally, in the third article, I extend my argument to show that the distance on the economic dimension between the formateur and the radical right party is an important factor that affects durability of such coalitions: the smaller the distance, the longer the coalition is likely to survive. I also find that coalitions containing a radical right party with a moderate economic platform are not… Advisors/Committee Members: Margit Tavits, Matthew Gabel, Jacob Montgomery, Brian Crisp, Thomas Konig.
Subjects/Keywords: coalition government; parties; radical right
Schnose, V. (2016). Mainstreaming the Radical Right . (Doctoral Dissertation). Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved from https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/894
Schnose, Viktoryia. “Mainstreaming the Radical Right.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/894.
Schnose, Viktoryia. “Mainstreaming the Radical Right.” 2016. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Schnose V. Mainstreaming the Radical Right. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington University in St. Louis; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/894.
Schnose V. Mainstreaming the Radical Right. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Washington University in St. Louis; 2016. Available from: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/894
18. Nelson, Patricia Ann. Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause .
Degree: 1985, University of British Columbia
► This thesis is a case study of the Solidarity Coalition, a social protest movement which united labour and community groups In opposition to right-wing restraint… (more)
▼ This thesis is a case study of the Solidarity Coalition, a social protest movement which united labour and community groups In opposition to right-wing restraint legislation. It considers why this unprecedented extra parliamentary force failed to persuade the government to withdraw the offending legislation and attempts to explain the dominance of the labour agenda in the modest successes it did achieve. Interviews with participants in the Coalition and other significant political actors provide the information used in the analysis of this protest phenomena. The thesis incorporates a detailed study of the evolution of the Coalition and its organizational structure and Internal processes within the context of the larger political system and with reference to theoretical literature concerning protest movements. I argue that the emergence of the Coalition as a diverse and broad based movement in reaction to a right wing attack on the social contract is predictable, however, the outcomes of the protest action are less so. Analysis of the Coalition suggests that organizational contradictions within its structure, external and unforseen circumstances, and the strength of government intransigence were influential factors shaping both the development of the protest movement and the outcomes of its actions. The commitment to common cause, fuelled by moral outrage and espoused by labour and community groups, was not sufficient to withstand the divisive tendencies inherent in the structure of the Coalition, or the Inertia that must be overcome by large groups to achieve collective goods. Labour proved to be the more powerful actor within the Coalition due to its financial and organizational resources and its significant noticeabilIty factor as a member of the CoalItion. I argue that consistent with the theory of the logic of collective action that the labour agenda eventually dominated within the Coalition, influencing the parameters of the settlement achieved, and in part, accounting for the failure of the Coalition to meet Its collective goal of withdrawal of the restraint legislation.
Subjects/Keywords: Solidarity Coalition
Nelson, P. A. (1985). Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause . (Thesis). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25477
Nelson, Patricia Ann. “Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause .” 1985. Thesis, University of British Columbia. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25477.
Nelson, Patricia Ann. “Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause .” 1985. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Nelson PA. Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1985. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25477.
Nelson PA. Solidarity Coalition : the struggle for common cause . [Thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1985. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25477
19. Sekine, Daisuke. Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building.
Degree: PhD, 2011, University of Wollongong
URL: ; https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3565
► Seapower can be an ambiguous concept, difficult to understand and research, because it is composed of a number of factors across specialized areas, which… (more)
▼ Seapower can be an ambiguous concept, difficult to understand and research, because it is composed of a number of factors across specialized areas, which mutually affect each other. It is a difficult duty for governments, which need national support to weave the components of seapower into a national engine for the sake of developing seapower in defence of national interests. It can be said that alliance strategy can exert a strong influence on a state. In the Japan context, there are a lot of benefits and risks brought by an alliance. For sea powers, it may be no exaggeration to say that whether to contribute to maritime-oriented coalitions as a member nation seriously influences the fate of the nation. Each state is able to increase mutual trust thorough the operation of maritime coalitions. It would reduce the possibility of conflicts over maritime interests between member states and contribute to good order at sea. There are several external sources of instability for the Japanese islands from neighbouring countries. The location of Japan is on the frontline facing the rimland of the Eurasian Continent in which the great sea power and the great land power have to stand face to face. The United States, as the offshore balancer, has thus placed special emphasis on Japan and its geopolitical location. The security frameworks of maritime coalitions that Japan joins or even leads are effective tools in the fight against various threats to the Japanese islands and its sea lines of communication (SLOC). The Japanese government is currently forming maritime coalitions through the activities of its navy and the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), but a fact that Japan is unable to exercise the right to collective security and places legal limitations on its maritime forces’ operations are major stumbling blocks in efforts to establish and develop the firm bond of maritime coalitions.
Subjects/Keywords: Japan; coalition; security; maritime; sea
Sekine, D. (2011). Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Wollongong. Retrieved from ; https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3565
Sekine, Daisuke. “Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wollongong. Accessed January 19, 2020. ; https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3565.
Sekine, Daisuke. “Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Sekine D. Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Wollongong; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: ; https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3565.
Sekine D. Seapower and Japan's martime coalition building. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Wollongong; 2011. Available from: ; https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3565
20. Lin, Cheng-Nan. The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies.
Degree: PhD, Social Sciences, 2015, Rice University
► This dissertation examines the interaction between voters and party elites in parliamentary democracies, particularly those with multiparty governments. In the first half of the dissertation… (more)
▼ This dissertation examines the interaction between voters and party elites in parliamentary democracies, particularly those with multiparty governments. In the first half of the dissertation I focus on individual party supporters and explore their reactions to coalition policymaking. I develop a heuristic model that explains voters' preferences for coalition governance and the consequent impact of their preferences on voting behavior. I contend that party voters' preferences for coalition governance are associated with two simple heuristics: cabinet membership and their own ideological locations relative to parties in a coalition on the left-right policy spectrum. I find that party supporters who perceive themselves to be located between coalition partners are less likely to cast a punishing vote. This is because voters expect that policy compromise essentially brings cabinet parties closer to their own ideal points. In the second half of my dissertation, I derive a behavioral implication from the theory regarding the collaborative behavior of party elites. I argue that rational politicians should be able to predict the potential cost of coalition participation by gauging the size of ideological interior voters (i.e., party supporters located in between a pair of parties) they share with other parties, and that they can respond to this information by acting strategically. Specifically, political parties are more likely to cooperate with one another when they share more interior supporters than when they do not. This is because parties in such a situation face a lower cost of collaboration if they chose to partner with each other. I then examine this implication empirically by using data on parliamentary speeches and coalition partnerships. The empirical investigations show results that are consistent with my argument. I find party elites to be less likely to engage in lengthy floor debates on government policies and to be more likely to govern together when they share more interior voters. Taking all these findings together, this dissertation enhances our understanding of citizens' preferences for collective policymaking and of the connection between voters and political elites in parliamentary democracies. Advisors/Committee Members: Martin, Lanny W. (advisor), Stevenson, Randolph T. (committee member), Carroll, Royce (committee member), Lewis, Steven W. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Cost of Coalition; Parliamentary Behavior; Voting Behavior, Coalition Governance
Lin, C. (2015). The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies . (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88099
Lin, Cheng-Nan. “The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88099.
Lin, Cheng-Nan. “The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Lin C. The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88099.
Lin C. The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88099
21. Maafa, Khaled. Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects.
Degree: Docteur es, Informatique, 2018, Clermont Auvergne
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAC069
Dans cette thèse, nous avons étudié quelques problèmes qui émergent des interactions entre la théorie des jeux et la théorie des treillis. Nous avons introduit… (more)
Dans cette thèse, nous avons étudié quelques problèmes qui émergent des interactions entre la théorie des jeux et la théorie des treillis. Nous avons introduit la nouvelle notion de jeu multicritère avec interactions entre critères et proposé comme solution pour ces jeux le concept d'équilibre de Choquet-Nash. Nous avons aussi étudié le calcul de la valeur de Shapley d'un jeu coopératif sur un treillis. Plusieurs algorithmes ont été proposés. Un cas polynomial a été mis en exergue : celui des jeux de graphe pondéré sur un produit de chaînes. Nous avons également introduit le modèle de jeu coopératif sur un ordre colore.
In this thesis, we have studied some problems that emerge from the interactions between game theory and lattice theory. We introduced the new notion of multi-criteria game with interactions between criteria and proposed as a solution for these games the concept of Choquet-Nash equilibrium. We studied the computation of the Shapley value of a cooperative game on a lattice. Several algorithms have been proposed for this purpose. A polynomial case was highlighted : that of weighted graph games on a product of chains. We have also introduced the notion of a cooperative game on a set-coloured poset.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nourine, Lhouari (thesis director), Radjef, Mohammed Said (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Jeu; Treillis; Coalition; Valeur de Shapley; Game; Lattice; Coalition; Shapley value
Maafa, K. (2018). Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects . (Doctoral Dissertation). Clermont Auvergne. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAC069
Maafa, Khaled. “Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Clermont Auvergne. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAC069.
Maafa, Khaled. “Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects.” 2018. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Maafa K. Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Clermont Auvergne; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAC069.
Maafa K. Jeux et treillis : aspects algorithmiques : Games and lattices : algorithmic aspects. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Clermont Auvergne; 2018. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAC069
22. Joaquim, Ana Maria Manuel. The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique .
► In response to the increasing burden with regard to treatment of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, the Ministry of Health has developed a national strategic plan for… (more)
▼ In response to the increasing burden with regard to treatment of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, the Ministry of Health has developed a national strategic plan for HIV and AIDS. This provided for broader access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) by decentralizing and integrating ART services into the essential services provided at the primary care level. In keeping with this initiative,medical technicians are now responsible for first-line ART prescription and management at primary-level care health centres in the country. The ART programme was introduced in Mozambique in 2003 alongside other health services offered in hospitals; it was decentralized to PHC health centres in 2006.This study aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of medical technicians regarding the decentralization and integration of ART services into PHC health centres in Beira. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted using in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions. A sample of 15 medical technicians was distributed across two focus groups for the purpose of discussion. In addition there were four in-depth individual follow-up interviews with four medical technicians, drawn from the two focus groups. Three key informant interviews were also held to collect data. The data was analysed using content analysis.The study revealed that the decentralization process was viewed by many of the medical technicians as a very positive initiative for the country. However a number of operational and managerial issues need to be addressed to ensure the effectiveness of the comprehensive approach that was institutionalized and adopted by all PHC health centres. Key amongst the issues that needed to be addressed were the workloads of the health care personnel, and of medical technicians in particular. Their workloads have increased without any corresponding increase in the health workforce needed to manage the patient load. The medical technicians felt that this adversely affected the quality of care they were able to provide to patients, and specifically to those requiring ART medication. The recommendations that emerge from the study are intended to promote the development of policy that will improve of working conditions and assist medical technicians to provide a better service to their patients. Advisors/Committee Members: Schaay, Nichola (advisor), Dgedge, Martinho (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: HIV/AIDS; ART; Decentralization; Public sector health services; Health Workers; Medical Technicians; Workload; Job Satisfaction; Human Resources for Health; Mozambique
Joaquim, A. M. M. (2012). The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique . (Thesis). University of the Western Cape. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4044
Joaquim, Ana Maria Manuel. “The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique .” 2012. Thesis, University of the Western Cape. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4044.
Joaquim, Ana Maria Manuel. “The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique .” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Joaquim AMM. The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4044.
Joaquim AMM. The perceptions and experiences of medical technicians of the decentralization of the art programme in Mozambique . [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4044
23. Pequito, Maria de Lurdes Ferreira Lourenço. Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes).
URL: https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/9942
Doutoramento em Antropologia
A pesquisa identifica mecanismos de construção de memória da técnica no grupo barragista. Este grupo, que fez parte da multidão de trabalhadores… (more)
A pesquisa identifica mecanismos de construção de memória da técnica no grupo barragista. Este grupo, que fez parte da multidão de trabalhadores que construíram barragens em Portugal, construiu identidade no trânsito de uma obra para outra: o estaleiro foi o território onde se reconfiguraram crenças e costumes. As dinâmicas observadas, semelhantes a outras movimentações de trabalhadores em obras de grande escala, articulam-se com os processos laborais globais. Os trabalhadores migrantes constroem as suas referências identitárias no trânsito, cruzando dimensões transnacionais, nacionais, regionais e locais, conforme estudado pelo antropólogo brasileiro Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (construção de Brasília e da barragem binacional de Yacyretá). Os processos de construção de memória barragista estruturaram-se em livros, encontros e comemorações: o bairro do Barrocal do Douro, construído propositadamente para apoio ao aproveitamento hidroelétrico de Picote é um importante locus de memória. O estudo do grupo barragista foi também ocasião para identificação de movimentos cívicos a propósito do uso dos recursos hídricos. Se, nos anos 1950, a construção de barragens se enquadrava no combate pela industrialização do país, nos anos 1990 o movimento cívico criado a partir da descoberta arte rupestre, da região do rio Côa, foi ocasião de maior participação neste debate, reivindicando agora os valores da cultura contra o “império do betão”. O conflito entre aquilo que deve ser lembrado e o que deve ser esquecido adquiriu novas significações. A conclusão retoma os três derivados identitários: barragistas, protagonistas da construção política da paisagem tecnológica e ativistas em defesa do património arqueológico do vale do rio Côa.
The research identifies processes of memory of technology in a group of dam workers: barragista group. This group, which was part of the crowd of workers who built dams in Portugal, built its identitary mechanisms in the migration processes from a job to another: the yard was the place where beliefs and customs were reconfigured. The observed dynamics, similar to other movements of workers in large-scale works, is integrated with the global work processes. Migrant workers build their identity references in migratory processes, crossing transnational, national, regional and local dimensions, as studied by the Brazilian anthropologist Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (construction of Brasilia and the binational dam Yacyretá). The barragista construction of memory is structured in books, meetings and celebrations: the Douro Barrocal neighbourhood, built to support Picote hydroelectric dam is an important memory locus. The study of the barragista group also allows to identify civic movements concerning the use of water resources. If, in the 1950s, construction of dams fell within the struggle for the country's industrialization, in the 1990s the civic movement created from the rock art discovery, in the Coa River region, was an opportunity for a greater debate, the claim of cultural values…
Advisors/Committee Members: Branco, Jorge Costa Freitas.
Subjects/Keywords: Hidroeletricidade; Picote; Barragistas; Cidadania; Memória; Técnica; Foz Côa; Arte rupestre; Hydroeletric power; Picote; Dam workers; Citizenship; Memory; Technology; Rock art
Pequito, M. d. L. F. L. (2015). Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes) . (Thesis). RCAAP. Retrieved from https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/9942
Pequito, Maria de Lurdes Ferreira Lourenço. “Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes).” 2015. Thesis, RCAAP. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/9942.
Pequito, Maria de Lurdes Ferreira Lourenço. “Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes).” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Pequito MdLFL. Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes). [Internet] [Thesis]. RCAAP; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/9942.
Pequito MdLFL. Hidroeletricidade e identidade social: a técnica como memória barragista (Picote, Trás-os-Montes). [Thesis]. RCAAP; 2015. Available from: https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/9942
University of Hawaii – Manoa
24. Jandoc, Karl Robert. Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment.
Degree: 2017, University of Hawaii – Manoa
Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2016.
The chapters included in this dissertation represents an attempt to incorporate the notion of power in examining stability… (more)
The chapters included in this dissertation represents an attempt to incorporate the notion of power in examining stability in coalition formation games. Power can emanate from different sources: wealth, military might, or political influence. Whatever the source, power is used by agents to impose their preferences on the rest of society. In the coalition formation games presented in this study, agents who are endowed with power compete for a divisible resource by forming coalitions with other agents. The coalition with the greatest power wins the resource and divides it among its members. Over time, coalitions form and disintegrate and different coalitions yield different payoffs for agents. Which coalitions will ultimately form when agents have heterogenous power? Can we find rules to select coalitions that are stable once formed and at the same time gives its members their highest payoff? The chapters in this study employ an axiomatic approach of searching for these rules that satisfy two main desirable properties: self-enforcement, which requires that no further deviation happens after a coalition has formed, and rationality, which requires that agents pick the coalition that gives them their highest payoff. The existence of these rules may be sensitive to the different features introduced in our coalition formation game. This dissertation and its key results are organized as follows. Chapter 1 enumerates the various applications of coalition formation in some key areas such as industrial organization, trade and international economics, public economics, environmental and resource economics, and political economy. It also introduces the two main approaches that is used in modelling how agents form coalitions. Chapter 2 investigates the implication of power dynamics, where power changes according to the resource share. The main findings show that self-enforcement may not be satisfied in some specific cases, and restrictions on the domain of power or the types of coalitions that can form are needed to satisfy self-enforcement and rationality simultaneously. Chapter 3 disallows power accumulation and investigates the sensitivity of these rules to different ways of dividing the prize (sharing rules). The main findings reveal that, in general, sharing rules may cause disagreements among agents on which coalitions should form. The chapter provides the sufficient and necessary conditions of the sharing rule parameter under which these disagreements can be ruled out. Chapter 4 conducts an economic experiment using a simplified version of a coalition formation game to investigate possible behavioral factors that may explain deviations from theoretical predictions. The main findings show that agents display rational behavior when forming coalitions, especially when they know that a large proportion of their opponents play myopic strategies in the beginning. Over time, however, agents learn to behave more strategically and even more rationally, and thus enables agents to…
Subjects/Keywords: Coalition Formation; Self-enforcement; Sharing Rules; Experiment
Jandoc, K. R. (2017). Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment . (Thesis). University of Hawaii – Manoa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/51492
Jandoc, Karl Robert. “Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment.” 2017. Thesis, University of Hawaii – Manoa. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/51492.
Jandoc, Karl Robert. “Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment.” 2017. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Jandoc KR. Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/51492.
Jandoc KR. Power, Sharing Rules, and Stability in Coalition Formation: Theory and Experiment. [Thesis]. University of Hawaii – Manoa; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/51492
Université de Lorraine
25. Mathieu, Romain. Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics.
Degree: Docteur es, Science politique, 2015, Université de Lorraine
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0155
La gauche radicale est étudiée comme un espace relativement autonome dans le champ politique, faisant sens pour un nombre restreint d’acteurs politiques. Il s’agit de… (more)
La gauche radicale est étudiée comme un espace relativement autonome dans le champ politique, faisant sens pour un nombre restreint d’acteurs politiques. Il s’agit de saisir les effets des dynamiques d’interactions entre entreprises partisanes, parfois alliées mais toujours rivales, sur la recomposition des offres politiques. La thèse associe une approche « par le haut » à une analyse localisée des relations intra et inter-partisanes. Tout d’abord, la première partie opère un retour sur les conditions d’émergence d’une coalition – investie d’une pluralité de sens et d’intérêts par les acteurs – dans un espace politique fragmenté et concurrentiel. Ensuite, dans une deuxième partie, il s’agit d’étudier et de comparer les traits structurants de la sociologie des militants des principaux partis de gauche radicale. Enfin, la troisième partie est consacrée aux interactions et interdépendances entre ces acteurs, à la fois dans l’espace de la gauche radicale et dans le processus d’institutionnalisation conflictuelle d’une coalition partisane. La méthodologie repose sur des données plurielles : exploitation de sources écrites, réalisation de soixante-dix entretiens semi-directifs auprès de dirigeants et militants actifs, recours à des observations directes et réalisation d’une enquête par questionnaire auprès des participants aux congrès du PG (novembre 2010), du NPA (février 2011) et à la conférence nationale du PCF (juin 2011)
The radical left is studied as a relatively autonomous space in the political field, with a clear meaning for a limited number of political actors. The aim is to comprehend the effects of dynamic interactions between political parties, sometimes allies but always rivals, on the recomposition of political offers. The thesis combines a top-down approach and localized analysis of internal and inter-partisan relations. The first part analyzes the conditions for the emergence of a coalition – invested with a plurality of meanings and interests by actors – in a fragmented and competitive political space. In the second part, the structural features of the sociology of activists of the main radical left parties are studied and compared. Finally, the third part deals with the interactions and interdependencies between actors, both in the space of the radical left and the conflictual institutionalization process of a coalition of parties. The methodology is based on various data, including written sources, seventy interviews with leaders and activists, direct observations and a statistical survey conducted at the congresses of the Left Party (Parti de Gauche) in November 2010 and of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste) in February 2011, as well as at the conference of the French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français) in June 2011.
Advisors/Committee Members: Criqui, Étienne (thesis director), Andolfatto, Dominique (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Gauche radicale; Coalition; Dissidence; 324.244 07
Mathieu, R. (2015). Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics . (Doctoral Dissertation). Université de Lorraine. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0155
Mathieu, Romain. “Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Université de Lorraine. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0155.
Mathieu, Romain. “Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Mathieu R. Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université de Lorraine; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0155.
Mathieu R. Tous ensemble !" ? Les dynamiques de tranformation de la gauche radicale française : "Tous ensemble !" ? The French Radical Left transformation dynamics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Université de Lorraine; 2015. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0155
26. Eck, A. van. Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland.
Degree: 2011, Universiteit Utrecht
URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/205909
► Veel ruimtelijke projecten in het Nederlandse platteland worden duurzaam genoemd. Het begrip duurzaamheid is echter ontwikkeld tot een containerbegrip, waardoor het geen eenduidige betekenis heeft.… (more)
▼ Veel ruimtelijke projecten in het Nederlandse platteland worden duurzaam genoemd. Het begrip duurzaamheid is echter ontwikkeld tot een containerbegrip, waardoor het geen eenduidige betekenis heeft. Om duurzaamheid betekenis te geven, is een politieke afweging op waardenniveau nodig. In dit onderzoek is een waardenkader ontwikkeld, bestaande uit zeven waarden die onderdeel zijn van duurzaamheid. Met behulp van dit kader wordt in drie casestudies onderzocht welke waarden actoren hebben, en hoe duurzaamheid betekenis krijgt. Het proces van betekenis krijgen wordt onderzocht met behulp van theoretische aanknopingspunten uit het advocacy coalition framework. Advisors/Committee Members: Spit, Prof T..
Subjects/Keywords: Geowetenschappen; duurzaamheid, waarden, buitengebied, advocacy coalition framework
Eck, A. v. (2011). Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland . (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/205909
Eck, A van. “Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/205909.
Eck, A van. “Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Eck Av. Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/205909.
Eck Av. Waarden van Duurzaamheid. De betekenis van duurzaamheid in ruimtelijke projecten op het Nederlandse platteland. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2011. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/205909
27. West, SG. Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania.
Degree: 2018, University of Tasmania
URL: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29593/1/West_whole_thesis.pdf ; West, SG ORCID: 0000-0001-7738-9390 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-9390> 2018 , 'Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania.
► In 2010 the Federal Government made a major funding commitment that enabled a local radiation therapy service to be built in North West Tasmania. This… (more)
▼ In 2010 the Federal Government made a major funding commitment that enabled a local radiation therapy service to be built in North West Tasmania. This changed the geographic accessibility of radiation therapy services for the region’s residents as well as the overall design of cancer services for North West Tasmania. The establishment of this service came about despite the North West’s small population, proximity to existing radiation therapy services in the North, long-standing issues with recruitment and retention of specialist health staff, and strong opposition from health professional groups. The aim of this research was therefore to examine how and why public policy responded to the issue of geographic accessibility of radiation therapy services in regional North West Tasmania, with particular regard to the establishment of the North West Regional Cancer Centre. To understand this policy change, a policy analysis framework – the Advocacy Coalition Framework, developed by Paul Sabatier – was utilised and its hypotheses tested against the case study of radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania. The Advocacy Coalition Framework is premised on actors forming coalitions with others based on shared policy beliefs, and it is these coalitions that engage in non-trivial action to influence policy outcomes. The research was based on a descriptive case study using document analysis and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and patients and their family. This yielded 137 relevant documents for analysis and interviews with 38 participants. An analysis of documents and interview transcripts was done using the Advocacy Coalition Framework to ascribe beliefs and thereby determine the coalitions involved in the debate over radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania. The findings indicated the clear presence of one coalition, comprising of state health policy actors and health professionals. This coalition shared a core belief of advocating for safety and sustainability of radiation therapy services, with a North West service considered largely unfeasible prior to the 2010 funding commitment. There was no evidence to indicate a second coalition comprising of identifiable actors engaged together in non-trivial action to advocate for a North West service. The findings did indicate a strong role for the media as well as intervention by the Federal Government in an area of State responsibility. The results suggest that political strategy, brought about by internal and external subsystem events, was the impetus for policy change in regard to radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania. It also found that local sentiments and a boundedly rational decision-making process added to this outcome by giving weight to the desire for a local radiation therapy service in policy decision-making rather than alternative means to deliver such a service to the patients in that region. This research was limited by geographical region, looking solely at patients who reside or resided or resided in North West…
Subjects/Keywords: Advocacy coalition framework; health policy; cancer services
West, S. (2018). Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania . (Thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved from https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29593/1/West_whole_thesis.pdf ; West, SG ORCID: 0000-0001-7738-9390 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-9390> 2018 , 'Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania.
West, SG. “Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania.” 2018. Thesis, University of Tasmania. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29593/1/West_whole_thesis.pdf ; West, SG ORCID: 0000-0001-7738-9390 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-9390> 2018 , 'Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania..
West, SG. “Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania.” 2018. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
West S. Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29593/1/West_whole_thesis.pdf ; West, SG ORCID: 0000-0001-7738-9390 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-9390> 2018 , 'Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania..
West S. Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania. [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2018. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/29593/1/West_whole_thesis.pdf ; West, SG ORCID: 0000-0001-7738-9390 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-9390> 2018 , 'Policy, politics and patients : public policy and radiation therapy services in North West Tasmania', PhD thesis, University of Tasmania.
28. Pfeiffer, Georgia. Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem .
► Policy making, at its core, occurs across networks of policy stakeholders as they communicate, debate, learn, compromise, and fight in an effort to promote their… (more)
▼ Policy making, at its core, occurs across networks of policy stakeholders as they communicate, debate, learn, compromise, and fight in an effort to promote their views. The ways in which policy networks form and persist has a tremendous impact on the opportunities available to stakeholders as they undertake policy advocacy activities. In this dissertation, we focus on a key network characteristic, segregation according to beliefs, and study its presence and impacts in the United States environmental risk management subsystem. The Advocacy Coalition Framework provides a theoretical foundation for our expectations surrounding belief segregation and motivates the research questions investigated. This dissertation presents three distinct studies that contribute to the study of belief segregation in policy networks. The first study is a comparison of the policy networks in the United States environmental risk management subsystem in 1984 and 2014. The second investigates the interaction of advocacy coalition membership, which is partially determined by shared beliefs, and policy activity coordination. The third study explores the Distribution of Egocentric Correlations method for detecting heterogeneous preferences for segregation. Advisors/Committee Members: Henry, Adam D (advisor), Milward, Hendree B. (committeemember), Baldwin, Elizabeth (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Advocacy Coalition Framework; Network Homophily; Policy Networks
Pfeiffer, G. (2019). Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632997
Pfeiffer, Georgia. “Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem .” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632997.
Pfeiffer, Georgia. “Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem .” 2019. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Pfeiffer G. Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632997.
Pfeiffer G. Understanding Advocacy Coalitions: Coordination and Belief Segregation in the United States Environmental Risk Management Subsystem . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632997
29. Nibigira, Carmen. Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries?.
Degree: PhD, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, 2019, Clemson University
URL: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2356
► Marketing and developing tourism within regional economic blocs is a growing phenomenon at a time when globalization is at the center stage of geopolitics,… (more)
▼ Marketing and developing tourism within regional economic blocs is a growing phenomenon at a time when globalization is at the center stage of geopolitics, trade wars, and scientific revolutions. However, this development is occurring haphazardly, with little attention to managing existing socioeconomic inequalities and differing political interests among member states. This absence heightens the need for a shared tourism agenda among member states. Using the case of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, this study investigates whether tourism development within the East Africa Community (EAC) region – with the exception of South Sudan, another member of the same community – is a shared agenda. Specifically, the study investigates conditions under which tourism policy makers within the EAC cooperate; the role that East Africa Tourism Platform (EATP) plays in creating a shared tourism agenda within the EAC; political, social, and economic realities that should be addressed in order to develop a shared tourism agenda within the EAC; and the opportunities that can be harnessed within the EAC to promote creating a shared tourism agenda. The results reveal that protectionism is a major cause for differences exhibited by some partner states in the development of a shared tourism agenda. A summary statement among participants suggests that: “Everyone is pushing for their interests at the expense of regional projects and programs.” Findings, however, provide the conclusion that policymakers are willing to cooperate if the following four conditions are met: (1) regularizing policymaker meetings; (2) developing regional destination development and a marketing action plan; (3) synchronizing calendars of marketing activities; and (4) developing an EAC marketing strategy while advancing the ideals of reciprocity, fairness, mutual trust, and openness. The study recommends that partner states should harmonize their tourism laws and align them with an EAC treaty. An East Africa Tourism Platform, on the other hand, should maintain neutrality and abstain from brokering for any country-specific agenda while pursing the objectives of building synergies amongst partner states. Advisors/Committee Members: Sheila J Backman, Brett A Wright, Kenneth F Backman, Bruce Ransom, Harold Cheatham.
Subjects/Keywords: Advocacy Coalition; Public Policy; Regional Tourism
Nibigira, C. (2019). Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries? . (Doctoral Dissertation). Clemson University. Retrieved from https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2356
Nibigira, Carmen. “Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries?.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Clemson University. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2356.
Nibigira, Carmen. “Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries?.” 2019. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Nibigira C. Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries?. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Clemson University; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2356.
Nibigira C. Tourism Development in the East Africa Community Region: Why Is Tourism Development a Shared Agenda Among Only Some EAC Countries?. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Clemson University; 2019. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2356
30. Ono, Yoshikuni. Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties.
Degree: PhD, Political Science, 2010, University of Michigan
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75937
► In parliamentary democracies, cabinet ministers hold very important positions because they make policies and oversee the implementation of policy on behalf of the government. This… (more)
▼ In parliamentary democracies, cabinet ministers hold very important positions because they make policies and oversee the implementation of policy on behalf of the government. This dissertation introduces a theoretical framework that accounts for the allocation of cabinet portfolios as a product of a prime minister’s “political strategy.” The prime minister is concerned about productive policy-making as well as the long-term survival of the government. These concerns affect the bargains that the prime minister will choose to strike with potential and existing coalition partners. From this theoretical framework, I develop a game-theoretic model that articulates the circumstances under which the prime minister of a coalition government is likely to surrender various numbers of portfolios. I then evaluate the model’s predictions by drawing on data from coalition governments in thirteen Western European countries. The empirical work demonstrates that the prime minister uses portfolio allocation as an instrument to defuse tensions among coalition partners as well as to reward them for joining the ruling coalition. I find that the prime minister’s party surrenders more portfolios not only as its bargaining power in assembling a coalition declines, but also as the policy preferences of coalition partners become more divergent. Since bargaining over cabinet portfolios also takes place within parties, I further extend my theoretical framework to explain portfolio allocation among party factions. Party leaders decide how to allocate portfolios among their party’s members, but many do so while cognizant of internal divisions among their party’s factions. To explore how the dynamics of portfolio allocation work within parties, I examine an important case in Japan where the long tenure in power of the Liberal Democratic Party allows us to investigate systematic variation in allocation outcomes. The empirical findings suggest that substantial variance exists in allocation outcomes over time because, similar to prime ministers in coalition governments, party leaders also allocate cabinet portfolios among factions as a means of preventing defections and challenges from internal rivals. The resulting portfolio allocation reflects the bargaining dynamics within the party and affects the extent to which party members are willing to behave in a disciplined manner in the parliament. Advisors/Committee Members: Lupia, Arthur (committee member), Clark, William Robert (committee member), Grzymala-Busse, Anna (committee member), Kedar, Orit (committee member), Nakajima, Daisuke (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Coalition Government; Cabinet; Political Science; Social Sciences
Ono, Y. (2010). Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75937
Ono, Yoshikuni. “Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75937.
Ono, Yoshikuni. “Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties.” 2010. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Ono Y. Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75937.
Ono Y. Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75937
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Odisha Migrant Labourer’s Fingers, Toes Chopped Off By Agent In Maharashtra
Edited By BIkram Keshari Jena Published By Subadh Kumar Nayak On Oct 5, 2019 - 11:09 PM
Nuapada: In a barbaric incident, two agents allegedly chopped off fingers and toes of a migrant labourer from Odisha in Maharashtra’s Nagpur recently. The incident came to the fore after the family members of the worker filed a complaint in this regard with the Komna Police station following the victim’s return.
One Chamaru Paharia of Tikirapada village in Nuapada district of Odisha had gone to Nagpur along with two middlemen Dala Satnami and Bidesi Sunani during the Rath Yatra this year. The middlemen had engaged Paharia to work in a building construction site.
Satnami and Sunani allegedly offered liquor to Paharia and allegedly chopped off three fingers of his right hand and five toes of his right leg when he asked for wages. Later, they dumped him at the Nagpur Railway Station.
A team of Railway Protection Force (RPF) rescued Paharia in a critical condition and admitted him at a nearby hospital. Later, Paharia was discharged from the hospital and sent back to his village.
“Satnami and Sunani had taken me to work in Nagpur some months ago. However, when I asked them for money they attacked me and chopped off my fingers and toes,” alleged Paharia.
Komna Police, meanwhile, have started an investigation into the matter.
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A Young Preacher’s Thoughts on John Frame’s “Escondido Theology”
Close to this time last year, the most controversial book in the evangelical world was Rob Bell’s Love Wins (or at least, the most controversial anticipated book release). This year, John Frame’s Escondido Theology: A Reformed Response to Two Kingdom Theology (hereafter, ET) has garnered a reaction from almost everyone in the Reformed community. There has already been an entire response released from Westminster Seminary California (WSCal) written by Robert Godfrey, a response by Michael Horton, and a couple of blog posts from Daryl G. Hart.
The following is not a full-fledged review, but it is a collection of thoughts on the book by a young preacher in the Reformed tradition (my own denomination is the ARP Church). I provide a summary of Frame’s main contentions, some helpful quotes, and my own analysis at points. Overall, I am in agreement with Frame where he critiques ET, but that doesn’t mean he himself can’t be more balanced or is immune to critique.
Prelimary Comments
The book suffers from some immediate problems that might frustrate a serious reader. First, the content of ET is book reviews, most of which have been published online or elsewhere. Thus, unless you think a few new book reviews are worth $25, the book is a bit expensive. (Though I do think the introductory chapter is worth a lot to one who is interested in this debate.)
Second, Frame’s critique of ET is limited in two significant ways. He is only critiquing three full-time professors at WSCal (Hart is an adjunct), and the critiques aren’t comprehensive. Indeed, it is probably the case that Horton, Clark, and VanDrunen have views that are, for the most part, shared by their colleagues. However, this isn’t necessarily clear from reading ET. Yet, if only three full-time faculty are being critiqued, is it fair to call their views the “Escondido Theology” and perhaps implicate the rest of WSCal’s faculty? Maybe the label “Klinean Theology” would be better, or perhaps HorClarDrunen Theology (only half kidding). It would be a shame for all WSCal faculty to have a negative reputation. I have personally benefited from certain full-time (Dennis Johnson) and part-time (Edward Welch, David Powlison, Timothy Lane) faculty.
In addition, whatever one thinks of Frame’s book reviews, a critique of someone’s thought should include a more comprehensive critique that spans most of the major works of the one being critiqued. In taking Horton, for example, Frame only critiques three of Horton’s books (Christless Christianity, Covenant and Eschatology, and a very brief critique of A Better Way). Yet, other works by Horton may need examination to offer a more competent critique (e.g. Where in the World is the Church, People and Place, The Gospel Commission, The Christian Faith, The Law of Perfect Freedom, etc.). This would require an entire restructuring of the book, and Frame notes how he values book reviews. Still, a different format with a more comprehensive critique of ET theologians might better serve the Reformed community.
Third, as Frame admits (p. xl-xliii), his personal history with the men critiqued and the school examined makes him a target to be accused of allowing unfair bias to color his theological critique. Reading Frame’s testimony of his departure from WSCal is saddening to the reader. Yet, throughout the book, Frame gives details of his tenure at WSCal that border on hearsay. I wish Frame would have left the issue alone after the introductory chapter as his comments don’t promote unity, and they may drive away some readers. (Frame also seems less than charitable a few places in the book. His critique of Horton’s academic climate is a bit harsh (p. 199-200), as is his handling of Hart’s book, A Secular Faith, where on p. 249, Frame asserts that Hart would call non-2k views heretical.)
Despite these setbacks, ET is a very interesting read, and I think it is an important book which covers an important theological debate. I’ll limit the rest of my comments in examining how Frame approaches the various themes of ET.
Worship, Confessionalism, Ecclesiology
Perhaps the issue that hits home with Frame the most has to do with the doctrine of the church, ecclesiology. Within ecclesiology are other debatable topics that Frame takes on such as worship, confessionalism, preaching, and contextualization.
The logic of Two Kingdoms extends pretty well to the above mentioned topics, and Frame often notes the logical connections for the reader. In sum, if 2K (in the Klinean/Escondido sense) is true, then the visible church has its own isolated, separate existence from other earthly affairs. This means that its corporate worship should be a culture unto itself, should emphasize the “not of the world” over the “in this world” motif, should concern itself with proclamation and redemptive-historical preaching, being gathered over being scattered, etc.
Another central disagreement between Frame and ET theologians is how “Reformed” is defined. Clark in his Recovering the Reformed Confession gives a much narrower views of “Reformed” than Frame. Frame states, “What Clark does in this book is to advocate a kind of Reformed theology and church life that appeals to him more than the recent versions…I would propose understanding the Reformed community as a historical community that began as Clark describes, but which no longer follows the original pattern in detail.” On top of p. 73, Frame correctly asserts that the original Reformed community wasn’t uniform on everything, and greater diversity entered later. Indeed, the amazing story of Reformed Orthodoxy is that there is much uniformity and many issues of theology, but the seeming unity that Clark describes is a stretch. This is why the word “Reformed” has “fuzzy boundaries” (p. 74), not in the sense that any content may be poured into the term, but that no Christian theological tradition ever maintains its monolithic structure for very long. I think many, including ET theologians, would benefit from William B. Evans’ thoughts on confessional hermeneutics.
I agree with Frame that Clark and others would seem to violate their strong stance on confessionalism. First, issues that ET seems to make a priority for Reformed folk are not talked about in the Reformed confessions (RH preaching, law-gospel dichotomy, 2K theology, etc.). Second, 2K theology as construed in ET is in contradiction to the original 1647 WCF in 23.2-3 (p. 87). Even the revised versions in America, 23.3 would seem to contradict 2K theology in speaking of the civil magistrate as a “nursing father” to the church. Frame’s point is not that 2K is necessarily wrong, or that Clark’s view of confessionalism is wrong (though he does think they are wrong). Rather, Frame is pointing out the glaring inconsistency in ET and that history is not on their side (see Frame’s critique of Hart on this matter, p. 268-69).
Regarding contextualization in ministry, worship, and preaching, Frame goes after Horton pretty hard, though he paints all of ET as being against communicating the gospel in a relevant manner (p. 16). At one point, Frame takes Horton’s critique of contextualization as a confusion over the relationship between God’s sovereignty of human moral responsibility (p. 20, n18). (Which itself is a confessional issue.)
While Horton’s language regarding relevance, contextualization, and communication is wrong at worst, and confusing at best, I wonder if Horton really dislikes contextualization as such but is reacting against certain movements in their attempts at contextualization (seeker-sensitive, emergent, etc.). Frame does note Horton’s concern for communication on some level (p. 278).
I will cover some aspects on the debate over preaching later in this review, but I found Andrew Sandlin’s appendix to chapter 2 to be helpful. In sum, Sandlin claims that Frame’s case against Horton’s view that preaching should be less about practical application, felt needs, subjective response, etc. and more about the objective work of Christ in the gospel. Horton promotes a redemptive-historical model of preaching that some would classify as a monoredemptive-historical homiletic. Yet, as Sandlin points out, the NT has examples of exemplary exegesis, calling the reader to positively imitate OT saints, etc. Though Frame/Sandlin are correct, I think even they should give WSCal a little more credit with what they are trying to do. A preacher might preach a text, and he could apply it in its micro, macro, or meta (i.e. canonical, Christ-centered) sense. Sandlin/Frame are upset that the micro (and even macro) are swallowed up by the meta in Horton’s homiletic. In my reading of Horton (as well as Dennis Johnson, WSCal’s preaching professor) there is an affirmation of the micro, but it should never be preached apart from the meta (the indicative –> imperative paradigm). Obviously, the overall thrust of the NT would have us emphasize the meta and not the isolated micro, but Frame/Sandlin are correct to point out that there is no written rule in the Bible which says the preacher of a text must always give such emphasis to the meta. I myself think the approach of WSCal is very helpful and produces great sermons (obviously, when done well, e.g. Tim Keller). But Sandlin/Frame win the debate in terms of precision. (Interestingly, Horton has recently published a blog on “Application in Sermons” which is very different from his rhetoric in Christless Christianity. Although, he is still off point when he claims that a sermon must never end with an exhortation or imperative, but rather must go back to the indicative of the gospel. In general, I think ending with Christ and the gospel is the best and most affection-rousing means to end a sermon, but the Bible never states such a requirement either explicitly or implicitly.)
Two Kingdoms and Politics
Frame notes the confusing and contradictory quality of Hart and others in claiming strong historical precedent for their position while also admitting their position is contrary to the Reformers who thought through these issues within the context of Christendom (p. 4). Indeed, Frame is correct in his critique of Clark’s book, Recovering the Reformed Confession, that 2K political theology is a distinctly American, not European, phenomenon (p. 5). Though Kline’s exegesis provides a basis for this theology, it seems to me that 2K theology as construed in ET is a reaction to the Religious Right and other evangelical political movements.
Much of the appeal of 2K is found in David VanDrunen’s case for natural law as distinct from supernatural revelation and that natural law is both sufficient and reasonably knowable apart from Scripture. Frame obviously disagrees with this assessment, and I would side with Frame. Most anyone who considers themselves “Van Tilian” would lean toward Frame in this debate. Frame agrees with VanDrunen as to the existence of natural law, but not its use (p. 128). He also makes the excellent point that supernatural revelation is not just for sinners who need a Savior, but God gave supernatural revelation to Adam and Eve in their prefall state, even in revealing his law (p. 129).
Two problems with VanDrunen’s view of 2K that Frame points out are worth noting. First, Frame makes a comparison between VanDrunen’s 2K and how biblical errantists claim that the Bible only speaks to spiritual matters. (p. 132) Now, to be fair to ET 2K proponents, especially VanDrunen, they do not use the language of “limited inerrantists” or errantists, but the implication of the comparison is that 2Kers may be closer to Barthianism than Reformed theology when it comes to Scripture’s application. Its a critique worth considering. Second, VanDrunen’s biblical-covenantal hermeneutic in support of 2K theory, Frame thinks, reads too much into the biblical text. (p. 140) As Frame noted with Hart, I wonder if our American political context influences VanDrunen’s exegesis. It seems that an important question to ask is what is the chance that a particular relation between two kingdoms taught in God’s Word is finally realized in human history over the last two hundred years? Did God himself presuppose “the secular” before there was a “secular”. (Don’t tell John Milbank. He would be crushed.)
A more balanced view of relating natural and special revelation is summarized by Frame, “God designed us to gain moral knowledge, not by supernatural revelation alone or natural revelation alone, but by an organic combination of the two.” Many have called this a “two books” model of Christian epistemology (p. 132). I think VanDrunen (and ET as a whole) would be better suited to argue, ala Calvin, a distinction between God as Creator and God as Redeemer, and allow Scripture to help decipher the content for each of those categories rather than the simplistic natural law perspective of VanDrunen. This perspective could still preserves religious liberty, separation of church and state, etc. Also, I would commend all readers to read James Anderson’s critique of VanDrunen.
Law-Gospel
For me, this is the most confusing issue in the debate over ET. I will hear from ET the law-gospel dichotomy hermeneutic, but when I search for any quotes from them that affirm the third use of the law, I find them. In wanting to apply the principle of charity, I should affirm ET theologians and claim that they hold to the third use of the law.
So, is Frame wrong to say that ET is “Lutheran” in its construal of law-gospel? Frame himself “backtracks” (p. 58) and offers an important clarifying point, “Horton here again is arguing for an emphasis, certainly; I cannot believe he intends to absolutely prohibit the use of Scripture to guide us in our ‘secular’ activies. But as he presents his argument, he gives no encouragement at all to Christians who are seeking to apply their faith to the world in which they live.” (p. 52) Perhaps this is the essential problem with ET, a lack of biblical balance. The reactionary nature of theology and philosophy can doom many a persons. I am thankful for the pithy saying I learned in my own seminary studies, “Be as balanced as the Bible is balanced.” I think it is safe to say that Horton is imbalanced in his discussion of law-gospel. Frame offers, in my view, a more balanced view of “gospel” in relation to other emphases that has some overlap with ET writings but , again, provides more balance (p. 297-98). (On p. 312 in a footnote, Frame makes the all important point that there is a difference between emphasis and antithesis.)
First, much of this debate gets back to key disagreements between Cornelius Van Til and Meredith Kline. Frame sets up this dichotomy early in the book. In reading Frame’s review of Kline’s Kingom Prologue, it struck me that Kline’s change in theology came in the 1970s (or at least began to manifest itself more in that decade) – the same time that Christian Reconstructionism/Theonomy was on the rise. Kline’s biblical and covenantal theology, which became foundation to ET, was in contrast to theonomy. I wonder if the root cause of this theological disagreement with ET has to do with the rise of theonomy in American Reformed theology and the attempt to see it defeated in all its forms?
Second, I am sympathetic to Frame’s goal for the book. Early on, Frame writes, “I hope to remove forever the perception that the Escondido theology is a standard of orthodoxy, or more orthodox than other forms of Reformed theology.” (p. 16) Frame isn’t necessarily wanting his reader to primarily come away from reading this book as a Framean on preaching, worship, culture, etc. In a surprise to some, Frame admits that certain positions of ET are “within the bounds of Reformed orthodoxy.” (p. 18) In reading Frame on this, I thought back to his article “Penultimate Thoughts on Theonomy” where he is most critical not of theonomy’s propositions, but of theonomy’s posture. Or, rather, Frame is critical of the posture of theonomists. In my reading of Horton, Hart, Clark, and others, I would have to agree with Frame that these theologians haven’t presented their distinctive views in the most winsome manner, and I’m afraid the reputation of WSCal has suffered for it. (Thankfully, Clark removed is often controversial blog, The Heidelblog, though Hart still writes on his Old Life blog, mainly against Frame, The Gospel Coalition, and other overtly evangelical perspectives.) Perhaps, if Tim Keller is right, there is a softening of the Escondido edge and more unity is being forged, at least when it comes to the Christ and culture debate.
Third, Frame’s precisionist mindset and method is a partial cause of his dissonance with Horton, Hart, and Clark. In his critique of Christless Christianity, Frame continually critiques Horton’s lack of precision (p. 26-27). Indeed, the academic theologian Horton is a different writer than popular writer Horton (p. 199), as is the case with most theologians who are blessed with different reading audience demographics. Like Frame, I prefer the academic theologian Horton since that Horton is more precise and nuanced. Horton’s other work, though, is mostly polemical (certainly less irenic), and in the end, Horton’s reactionary theology leaves him wide open for critique. This is why Frame goes after Horton’s critique of Joel Osteen. Disappointingly, many, including Horton and Clark, have claimed that Frame defends Osteen, when in reality Frame offers his own strong critique of Osteen (p. 30, 37). I am upset that many Reformed folk, including scholars, have misread Frame on this issue.
In my own reading of Horton’s popular books, I’ve tried to be charitable and ask if he is defining terms in a manner that is less denotative and more connotative. Two words that come to mind, again, are contextualization/relevance and subjectivity. Its possible that Frame is correct in his strong rebuke of Horton’s handling of these concepts and terms, but I wonder if Horton is reacting to certain functions of these terms and lacks clarity to the reader. Perhaps Frame could have (maybe should have) asked Horton for clarity, but the strained relationship between these men contributes to their lack of conversation. (Though Frame admits in a footnote on p. 245 that Horton may be working with different definitions of these terms. Yet, I still agree with Frame that Horton would be of better service to readers of his popular books to provide a definition of these terms if he is abandoning the more common usage of them.) In the end, Frame rightly notes that ET theologians, like Horton, would be better off to provide examples and analysis of relevance/contextualization so that there would be less confusion as to where Horton and others stand on the issue (p. 296).
Also, Frame takes Clark to task for his lack of clarity and charity (p. 77). I wonder if Clark and others were more charitable and had more clarity if there would be more Christlike conversation between Frame and ET theologians. Then again, part of this lack of unity may be due to Horton and Frame’s disagreement as to how the Reformed community relates to evangelical Christians with Horton’s “Village Green” analogy (p.155).
While I don’t suspect that this book will foster greater unity between the scholars involved in this debate, perhaps the goal of Frame’s book will fulfilled (i.e. younger theologians not viewing ET as the only Reformed option). I myself know young men in seminary who used to agree with ET theologians on these controversial issues, but now they would offer a critique in the same way Frame does (at least on some issues). So, I don’t see WSCal recruiting and influencing young pastors and young men to their “tribe” as well as other sectors in the American Reformed context are doing.
20 thoughts on “A Young Preacher’s Thoughts on John Frame’s “Escondido Theology””
cavman said:
Thanks. I was wondering about this and knew there was some strong push back from Westminster West.
I admit to being very frustrated when I read Escondido guys like Clark, Stedman and Horton’s more polemical works (he can be quite good when he’s not being critical). They focus on the kingdom of God and don’t really address how to live in the kingdom of God.
Just Sunday we were talking about this at church and the push back to theonomy was raised. I also agree they pick the wrong things to be “confessional” about- often majoring in the minors while playing willy nilly with things actually in the WCF (this was particularly true of Clark’s book). They seem like a Reformed-Lutheran hybrid. Perhaps because they serve in more Continental Reformed groups than Puritan/Presbyterian branches of the Reformed Heritage (Hart & Stedman excepted).
I guess Frame’s own humanity (fallen) is revealed as he allows the personal history to perhaps color things. I know things there ended in an ugly fashion. Gossip is like a tasty morsel, but I need not know the details of it.
Hope you’re weathering all the changes well.
Thanks for your insights Steve. I hope that better, more unifying, days are ahead for the Reformed community, and the evangelical church.
Our changes for our family are going well. We are moving to Rock Hill, SC this Saturday and will begin our ministry officially on April 1, assuming everything goes well at presbytery on March 13.
Ambrose said:
Great review Daniel. I have not read Frame’s book, but I have read a bit of Horton on the two kingdom issue. I do wish that, given Frame’s history with Westminster West, that someone else could have written this book. This is an important debate. Horton can be quite polemic and therefore he tends to draw his lines in the two kingdom debate a bit narrowly. How does he see these issues working out in the church? I like DeYoung’s What is the Mission of the Church better. He seems to take a two kingdom view, but is willing to be a bit more flexible in his working out of the issues in a real church with real people living in a real culture. I agree with your observation that Horton is probably fighting against some abuses that he sees in Reformed circles where the church can do almost anything and call it Kingdom work. And, he also understands that this can lead the church away from its primary goal of Gospel proclamation in Word ministry. There is a great video somewhere of Horton and Keller conversing on this.
truthunites said:
“I myself know young men in seminary who used to agree with ET theologians on these controversial issues, but now they would offer a critique in the same way Frame does (at least on some issues). So, I don’t see WSCal recruiting and influencing young pastors and young men to their “tribe” as well as other sectors in the American Reformed context are doing.”
I really do hope that you’re right, Daniel Wells!
Congratulations on your first baby!!
Andrew Compton said:
Good review. Fair, thorough, clearly willing to take stances on different sides of different issues without towing some kind of party line. I appreciate your approach, even though we disagree on some matters.
As I am a WSC alum – and one at that who feels greatly blessed by his time studying with the *entire* faculty (yes, even Horton, Clark and VanDrunen!) – hopefully my compliment will speak to the care and thoughtfulness of your review.
Thank you posting this!
Andrew, thank you for your kind words. Also glad to hear you had a positive experience at WSC. My first seminary class ever was with Horton (he taught “Ministry in a Postmodern Context” at RTS Charlotte in summer 2008). Great experience. Also pretty cool to have pizza lunch with a well-known scholar.
jamesswan1 said:
“but when I search for any quotes from them that affirm the third use of the law, I find them”
Typo?
R. Scott Clark said:
We certainly do, to a man, teach the third use of the law. We held a conference on this topic. The audio is here:
http://bookstore.wscal.edu/products/the-law-of-god-and-the-christian
John Fesko published a book on it, as has Horton and VanDrunen. There were at least two chapters in Recovering the Reformed Confession arguing for the confessional doctrine and practice of the 2nd and 4th commandments.
Dr. Clark,
Thanks for the comment and (I assume) reading my post. Any projects (books, papers) you working on at the moment?
Just marking MA thesis chapters, Office Hours (http://wscal.edu/officehours), and editing the Classic Reformed Theology series.
Cavman, where exactly is RRC untrue to the WCF? The intent of the book is to get folk to take the standards seriously.
Why isn’t this a defense of some of Osteen’s health & wealth theology?
“I think the word “entirely” overstates Osteen’s position, but certainly he does believe that our attitudes, actions, and obedience are necessary to receive the full blessings of God’s grace. Here I think Osteen is quite right, though Horton associates his position with Pelagianism and Gnosticism. Scripture often teaches that obedience is the road to the fullness of God’s blessing, indeed that obedience is the mark of a living faith. See Matt. 5:1-12, 43-45, 6:2-6, Gal. 5:6, James 2:14-26. Paul presents the proper balance:
…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Phil. 2:12b-13).”
It is true that Frame defends an aspect of Osteen’s practice over and against what he perceives to be an overreaction from Horton. But if you look on pages 30 and 37 of Frame’s book, you see that he is also critical of Osteen. My point is that we shouldn’t present Frame as “defending Osteen’s theology” as if Frame buys into the whole product. Frame seems to be merely doing the work of a systematician and logician in being more nuanced in his critique. Certainly, Horton comes at it from a more polemical angle. Perhaps unlike Frame, I have nothing against this approach, but I think it explains where Frame and Horton are missing each other.
Indeed, theological dialogue demands charity in our interpretation of another’s work. I must take Frame at his word when he offers a significant critique of Osteen, even while he also claims that not every ‘jot and tittle’ from Osteen is bad.
With all due respect (and I mean that) it is quite telling that John chooses to defend Osteen on this point. This is at the heart of Osteen’s health and wealth theology.
Is it true that our “attitudes, actions, and obedience are necessary to receive the full blessings of God’s grace”? Really? Under what covenant? By God’s free, unconditional favor (grace) I am in a covenant of grace (as defined). My reception of God’s “full blessings” is not contingent on my “attitudes, actions, and obedience.” Were it so, grace would no longer be grace! (Rom 11:6 “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.”).
So, not only does John concur with Osteen’s confusion of works and grace (which, doubtless, connects to John’s ardent defense of Norman Shepherd’s doctrine of justification through grace and faithfulness, a doctrine that most of the confessional Reformed denominations, including John’s own, have judged to be contrary to God’s Word) but it is the very crassest form of the prosperity gospel.
I’m not a bigot. I’m willing to admit if Osteen gets something right but he hasn’t done it yet.
Isn’t this a case of John being so opposed to Horton (and other Reformed confessionalists) that he’s blind to Osteen’s gross errors in his attempt to find a place from which to criticize Horton, whom he knows a priori to be wrong.
Why is it that John is more hostile to and sharper in his criticisms of folk, however frail they may be, who are trying to be faithful to God’s Word as confessed by the Reformed churches and so accommodating to the worst manifestations of evangelical excess like Osteen?
Why does multi-perspectivalism seem only to work in favor of the Osteen’s of the world (and the theonomists and the federal visionists et al) and not the confessionalists? Doesn’t that tell us something both about the nature of the method and its chief practitioner?
I’ll respond to the first half of your comment as the second half seems to border on some of the personal issues between Frame and WSCal, and I don’t want to get involved in that discussion. My personal opinion is that some sort of mediated session needs to take place for confession of sin, repentance, and reconciliation.
Regarding whether our “attitudes, actions, and obedience are necessary to receive the full blessings of God’s grace”, I think it depends on how we define ‘full blessings of God’s grace.’ In context, Frame seems to be less concerned with justification or glorification, but more concerned with sanctification (though with regard to glorification, Frame could cite WCF 13.1). And, he could cite WCF 13.3; 16.2-3, 6; 18:3-4 as evidence of believers growing in grace, in part, through obedience wrought by the Spirit. WCF 18 on assurance especially notes discipline/punishment for those who go astray for a time as well as coming into the grace of assurance at a point in their Christian walk.
Also, if you want to bring in WSCal’s particular stance on covenant, law/gospel, that is fine. Just know that many Reformed scholars and pastors who might disagree with Frame’s views on worship, evangelicalism, etc. would side with him on covenant and law/gospel. I’m not making a ruling on the issues myself, but it needs to be pointed out that those issues aren’t intrinsically tied to Frame’s view of Horton and Osteen, as if one will favor Osteen if they differ with WSCal profs on law/gospel and covenant.
I didn’t intend to be personal. I appreciated John as a prof and continue to appreciate aspects of his work but I do think we have to face squarely that he has publicly supported movements that are at odds with confessional Reformed theology and practice. Observing those facts is not personal. I’m asking: what makes it possible for him to do so and to be so critical of Reformed confessionalism? Has he been as charitable toward confessionalism as he has been toward the FV? Is that a fair question?
At least part of “full blessings” entails health and wealth. Again, the question is how John can support that. John taught us in our Christian Life (ethics) course that there is a relation between our obedience and material blessings. John knows his own mind and he genuinely agrees with Osteen on this.
What WSC “particular stance”? The Westminster Standards are not a peculiar property of Westminster Seminary California are they? The covenants of redemption (pactum salutis), works, and grace are the common property of all Reformed folk for centuries.
I’m saying that, by making the “full blessings” John and Osteen have placed believers under a covenant of works. Now, to be sure, I think that civil life, including employment is a sort of covenant of works (2 Thess 3:10) but we don’t confess, do we, that God blesses us proportionally to our obedience? Were that so wouldn’t we all starve?
While you know Frame better than I do, in my reading of his works I have seen him be critical of theonomy, Federal Vision, Norman Shepherd, etc. If you and others want to complain that he isn’t as critical of them as he is of ‘confessionalists’ as you define them, that isn’t my issue or the concern of my review. I’m sure Frame’s debate with certain professors of WSCal plays into that, which is unfortunate in some measure, though understandable in a way.
I have never picked up in Frame’s work that his view of “full blessings” does ‘entail’ health and wealth as Osteen and others would present it. For the third time, I would point you to pages 30 and 37 of Escondido Theology and see Frame’s critique of Osteen. Again, it is important to read other theologians in context and be charitable in interpretation.
How does Frame conclude that just because a believer can obey God with their heart, mind, soul and strength that they may grow in grace and in God’s blessing (which may or may not include temporal blessings, such is up to God’s providence), he is placing them under the covenant of works? Again, go back to my previous comment where the WCF speaks of believers being blessed and punished by God according to their obedience. The issue is once of sanctification in those sections of the confession.
Part of the confusion and disagreement may be due to different views of the covenant of works being recapitulated in the Mosaic covenant, which is a debated issue in Reformed circles today.
1) I’m not sure that the doctrine of republication is entirely relevant. Even so it’s not an WSC peculiarity. Versions of it were taught widely in both the 16 and 17th centuries and thereafter (e.g., Boston). The idea that the Mosaic, old covenant was a legal covenant, if only to illustrate the first use of the law, was virtually universally taught. The fact that it’s considered idiosyncratic today says more about our relative ignorance of the Reformed tradition than it does about the doctrine itself. One finds the same situation relative to the Pactum Salutis. Just because some modern Reformed writers (e.g., Berkouwer) expressed disdain doesn’t mean that it’s not a historic Reformed view.
2) I wonder if you appreciate how strongly John has defended Norm Shepherd’s right to revise the doctrine of justification. John was on Norm’s side during the original controversy and has published repeatedly in defense of the right of the self-described Federal Visionists to teach their doctrine. A few years back he described, in print, as “stupid” those who dare say that the Shepherd/FV is a denial of the gospel. That makes the URCs, the OPC report, the PCA GA et al “stupid.”
Ron Marlin said:
Perhaps Dr. Frame is defending evangelicals against the dogmatic assertions of the Christian “elite” who profess to have the purist version of the truth and make everyone who disagrees with them 2nd class citizens of the kingdom on the Village Green?
Do you want to let Osteen on the green? Is he an “evangelical”? I’m not an elitist, I’m a confessionalist. I’m a member of and a minister in the Reformed churches who confess a certain understanding of God’s Word. John is also one of those but he doesn’t seem to feel bound by those confessions in the same way I do. He’s tolerant of what the Reformed churches have judged as error on justification and on the 2nd commandment, to name just two.
Why is democratic v elitist the right category for this discussion? Why not right and wrong or confessional and unconfessional?
A confessionalist’s “certain understanding of God’s Word” should not be confused with God’s Word itself. This is the heart of the matter. Those who hold to the essentials of the faith, but have an insufficient understanding of lesser matters are not 2nd class citizens of the kingdom. He whom Christ has received I will not reject, and He doesn’t only receive those who hold to the WCF. Only loving, respecting, recognizing, and serving those who do is elitist. None of us have it perfectly right, and what does each one of us have (confession of faith included) that we did not receive?
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Raumfahrt - US Postdienst Ehrungen für NASA Planeten Entdeckungen mit 2016 Briefmarken
Astronomie - Galaktische Strukturen
Astronomie - Dieser Weiße Zwerg ist mit 250.000 Grad Celsius heißer als der Rest
Luftfahrt-History - 1923: Helikopter Flug
Raumfahrt - ULA America´s Ride to Space
Planet Erde - Die aktuelle starken El-Niño-Ausläufer im Pazifischen Ozean zeigen keine Anzeichen der Abnahme
Raumfahrt - ALLtag auf ISS: ESA-Principia-Mission mit Astronaut Tim Peake Update
Astronomie - Ältestes Teleskop soll saniert werden; Verbessertes UH Observatorium könnte mit Hubble konkurrieren
Raumfahrt - Spekulationen über Elon Musk Plan für SpaceX Mars Colonial Transporter
Luftfahrt-History - 1913: Informationen gesucht!
Raumfahrt - Russische Raumfahrtbehörde streicht die meisten Projekte zur Mond-Erforschung
Planet Erde - ISS Top 15 Erde Bilder 2015
Astronomie - Sonnen-Flare Richtung Erde: Silvester Sturm?
Planet Erde - Geheimnis des Wärmeverlustes aus der Erdkruste wurde gelöst
UFO-Forschung - Neue IFO-Akten von der CENAP UFO-Meldestelle und Fotoabteilung
UFO-Forschung - Blick in die düstere Welt der Verschwörungstheorie, um zu sehen, was NASA im Jahr 2015 versteckte.
Luftfahrt-History - 1958: Lockheed´s flying saucers...
Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2015 - 13:16 Uhr
The U.S. Postal Service has previewed the New Year’s series of stamps highlighting NASA’s Planetary Science program, including a do-over of a famous Pluto stamp commemorating the NASA New Horizons’ historic 2015 flyby.
Pluto Explored! In 2006, NASA placed a 29-cent 1991 ‘Pluto: Not Yet Explored’ stamp in the New Horizons spacecraft. In 2015 the spacecraft carried the stamp on its history-making mission to Pluto and beyond. With this stamp, the Postal Service recognizes the first reconnaissance of Pluto in 2015 by NASA’s New Horizon mission. The souvenir sheet of four stamps contains two new stamps appearing twice. The first stamp shows an artists’ rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft and the second shows the spacecraft’s enhanced color image of Pluto taken near closest approach.
Credits: USPS/Antonio Alcalá © 2016 USPS
The Postal Service on Wednesday released a preview of its new 2016 stamps, which include an image of Pluto and the New Horizons spacecraft, eight new colorful Forever stamps of NASA images of solar system planets, a Global Forever stamp dedicated to Earth’s moon as well as another postal treat for space fans: a tribute to 50 years of Star Trek.
“U.S. Postal stamps express the enthusiasm and personality of senders to favorite themes in our society. From Mercury to Neptune, Pluto and Star Trek, it’s exciting to see that planetary science and space exploration are being celebrated in these new 2016 stamps,” said John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science in Washington. “On behalf of NASA scientists across the nation, we’re honored that the U.S. Postal Service has chosen to highlight NASA’s New Horizons and 50 years of planetary exploration with these iconic images.”
Pluto Explored. (left to right): New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado; New Horizons’ Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Young, SwRI; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Director Ralph Semmel; Annette Tombaugh, daughter of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930; and New Horizons Co-Investigator Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona hold a print of the 1991 Pluto stamp –with their suggested update – on July 14 at APL in Laurel, Maryland.
Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Pluto stamps are of special significance to NASA and the New Horizons team, which placed a 29-cent 1991 “Pluto: Not Yet Explored” stamp on board the spacecraft. On July 14, New Horizons carried the tiny postage stamp on its history-making journey to Pluto and beyond, as members of the mission team celebrated with a large print, striking the words “not yet.”
“The New Horizons project is proud to have such an important honor from the U.S. Postal Service,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “Since the early 1990s the old, ‘Pluto Not Explored’ stamp served as a rallying cry for many who wanted to mount this historic mission of space exploration. Now that NASA’s New Horizons has accomplished that goal, it’s a wonderful feeling to see these new stamps join others commemorating first explorations of the planets.”
The souvenir sheet of four stamps contains two new stamps appearing twice. The first stamp shows an artist’s rendering of NASA’s New Horizons Pluto flyby spacecraft and the second shows the spacecraft’s enhanced color image of Pluto taken by New Horizons near its closest approach to Pluto.
The view — which is color enhanced to highlight surface texture and composition — is a composite of images from New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), combined with color data from the imaging instrument Ralph that clearly reveals the now-famous heart-shaped feature stretched across Pluto’s surface; this feature has been named Tombaugh Regio in honor of Pluto’s discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. Antonio Alcalá of Alexandria, Virginia was the art director for these stamp designs.
“Our stamps articulate the American experience through miniature works of art,” said Acting Stamp Services Director Mary-Anne Penner. “Our diverse stamp topics for 2016 are sure to appeal to everyone, and with the New Year just around the corner, now is a perfect time to get started in stamp collecting. It’s an educational hobby the entire family can enjoy.”
The “Pluto Explored!” stamps will be dedicated in late May of 2016 at the World Stamp Show in New York.
Other space-themed stamps highlighting NASA images of the solar system planets, Earth’s moon, and popular culture in the 2016 collection include:
Views of Our Planets
With this pane of 16 Forever stamps, the Postal Service showcases some of the more visually compelling historic, full-disk images of the planets obtained during the last half-century of space exploration. Eight new colorful Forever stamps, each shown twice, feature Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Some show the planets’ “true color” — what one might see if traveling through space. Others use colors to represent and visualize certain features of a planet based in imaging data. Still others use the near-infrared spectrum to show things that cannot be seen by the human eye.
Taken as the full moon rises, the image captures the brilliant surface of Earth’s only natural satellite. Issued at the price of $1.20, this Global Forever stamp can be used to mail a one-ounce letter to any country to which First-Class Mail International service is available.
Credits: USPS/Greg Breeding under the art direction of William Gicker © 2016 USPS
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the television premiere, the new Star Trek Forever stamps showcase four digital illustrations inspired by the television program: the Starship Enterprise inside the outline of a Starfleet insignia against a gold background, the silhouette of a crewman in a transporter against a red background, the silhouette of the Enterprise from above against a green background, and the Enterprise inside the outline of the Vulcan statue against a blue background. The words “Space…the Final Frontier,” from Captain Kirk’s famous voice-over appear against a background of stars.
Credits: USPS/Heads of State under the art direction of Antonio Alcalá © 2016 USPS
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Worst. Bond. Girl. Ever.
By Jarett Wieselman
June 24, 2008 | 1:20pm
Brace yourself, world, apparently “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” is just the beginning of Kim’s acting career. The “celebrity,” who is as round as she is tall, easily snagged a role in the upcoming spoof film, “Disaster Movie” (the title says it all, no?) but I think she’s setting her sights a little too high claiming her next step is to land a part in a James Bond movie.
“I want to be a Bond Girl and film a love scene with Daniel Craig after he’s rescued me,” Kim said. “I would be drowning, wearing a bikini with a gun in a sachet, and he would dive in and get me – that would be really sexy.”
Yeah, I’m good with the drowning part, but just thinking about Kim in a Bond film makes me dizzy.
And what would they call this landmark movie? Why, “C-ass-ino Royale,” of course!
Bad News "Grease 2" Fans
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Five more days for Man Asian Literary Prize submissions
Submissions for the 2010 Man Asian Literary prize will be accepted up until the end of the month! Remember, submissions must be of published English-language translations of books by Asian citizens, and must be submitted by publishers. If you're a translator (or Asian-citizen-author) with a novel you're proud of, bug your publisher now!
Romancing the Office Chair
I planned to write a bit about whatever translation-related issues of interest cropped up in the midst of Notes of Civil Servant, and as it happened I barely got through the preface before I reached the first hard-to-crack nut. So here is Imponderable Number One: the word 官场 (guānchǎng), guan indicating government officials or officialdom, chang here meaning "field" or "arena". I suspect that this term is a derivation of 战场 (zhànchǎng), "battlefield", which gave birth elsewhere to 职场 (zhíchǎng), "professional arena" or, as we prosaic Westerners might call it, the employment market.
It's precisely the touch of martial romance inherent in the term that is significant. Your typical North American or Western European civil servant is anything but romantic. Dull of eye and stunted of fancy, clad in the sober weeds of duty, they do one thing and they do it, if not well, at least doggedly. They are cogs in the machine, possessing perhaps even less moral agency in their day-to-day decisions than your average voter/taxpayer.
Yingelish
Here comes a rather impressive dispatch from the far reaches of linguistic brain-bendery: Johnathan Stalling's Yingelish, a poem written in Chinese characters, which can be read aloud (in Chinese) to create a completely different story in Chinese-sounding English. As if that weren't impressive enough, the whole thing was rendered last week as a "Sinophonic English Opera" at the University of Yunnan, where the text was sung, acted out, and accompanied by a dizzying array of musical instruments. Download the flyer for the event, or see a few pictures here (Chinese only).
Cha: Call for Submissions
By Eric Abrahamsen, July 17, '10
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (http://asiancha.com/) iis now accepting submissions for "The China Issue", an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about contemporary China. The issue, which will be published in June 2011, will feature poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, scholarly works and visual art exploring the modern Middle Kingdom. We are looking for submissions from a wide range of Chinese and international voices on the social, political and cultural forces which are shaping the country. If you have something interesting, opinionated or fresh to say about China today, we would like to hear from you. Please note that we can only accept submissions in English. More information here: http://asiancha.blogspot.com/2010/07/call-for-submissions-china-issue.html
University of Iowa: Life of Discovery
The University of Iowa's "Life of Discovery" program concluded recently: this was the second annual installation of a joint program between Iowa's International Writing Program and the China Writers Association, bringing American and Chinese writers together for a little road-trip bonding. Besides the official webpage above, you can peruse their blog, where the writers (Americans only?) posted photos and blogged their bewilderment. The event consisted of two parts: a week in Iowa last May, and a couple of weeks in China, mostly Kunming, which ended July 9.
This year's participants, on the Chinese side:
Liu Zhenyun 刘震云
Peng Xueming 彭学明
Fan Jizu 范继祖
He Xiaomei 和晓梅
Lu Qin 禄琴
Yang Guoqing 杨国庆
Zhang Gencui 张根粹
Interestingly, nearly all the Chinese participants were ethnic minorities, mostly poets. The Americans:
Christopher Merrill
Vu Tran
Kiki Petrosino
Amanda Nadelberg
Kyle Dargan
Great to see these kinds of events going on!
Event: Chun Shu talks about her new book
By Eric Abrahamsen, June 23, '10
Next Tuesday (June 29) Chun Shu will be giving a talk at the Trends Lounge in Beijing about her new book, Light Year American Dream, as part of the Trends Lounge's Cosmo Women's Reading Salon series.
Time: June 29 (Tuesday), 7-9pm Venue: Trends Lounge, 2F The Place (世贸天地), Beijing
2010 PEN Translation Prize Winners
The winners of PEN's annual translation prize have been announced. Among many worthy winners in many worthy languages, our own particular bias has been satisfied in the form of David Hull's translation of Waverings (presumably 动摇), a novel by Mao Dun. See their official announcement. Congrats to David Hull, a grad student at UCLA.
Nice to see attention paid to the old worthies!
Nicky Harman to translate Jin Shan/Gold Mountain Blues
A little Monday-morning horn-tootling: Our very own Nicky Harman has been chosen to translate Jin Shan, aka Gold Mountain Blues, by Zhang Ling.
Nicky's situation is a little unusual in that her translation is being commissioned and published by multiple publishing houses in various regions simultaneously, rather than the usual practice of a single commissioning publisher who then sells the rights on. Hopefully this will result in slightly better terms for Nicky.
Gold Mountain Blues will come out with Atlantic in the UK/Commonwealth and Penguin in Canada, and is scheduled to appear in late 2011/early 2012. It has also sold into eight other languages/territories.
Congratulations, Nicky, and we look forward to reading it!
6/5 Event: Jiang Yitan, Ge Fei, Li Er, Bei Cun, Qiu Huadong
By Eric Abrahamsen, May 31, '10
What looks like a great event at the One Way Bookstore this Saturday, 3-5pm. Jiang Yitan discussing his new book Lu Xun's Beard (鲁迅的胡子), in an event themed "Reading Quiet Fiction in an Unquiet Age". Also speaking are Li Er, one of our favorites, Ge Fei, often considered Li Er's mentor, Bei Cun, and Qiu Huadong, a writer of urban fiction to watch.
The One Way Street Bookstore's website appears to be down, here are the details:
Date/Time: June 5 (Saturday), 3-5pm
Address: Beijing, Solana (蓝色港湾), building 11, number 16
Those who can't do…
For the past couple months I've spent my Thursdays teaching literary translation classes to translation-studies majors at the Beijing Foreign Languages University. When they first came calling about this program, I suspected that it was of a piece with the government's plan to train an army of domestic Chinese-English translators, thereby liberating Chinese literature from the hands of fickle foreign translators with their imperfect comprehension and questionable loyalties (the final step of this plan is to train an even larger army of domestic readers to consume these domestically-produced English translations, whereupon the whole of Chinese culture will fold up and disappear with a "Foop!", leaving a blank space that can be filled with 喜羊羊 re-runs), and I was leery. They assured me that it was simply a cunning plan to use literary translation to improve the students' English, banking on the old chestnut that there is no more careful reader of a text than its translator, and I agreed.
By Eric Abrahamsen, May 2, '10
For those of you reading via RSS: we've recently added a new Publishing Industry News section to Paper Republic, providing regular updates on… the publishing industry in China! There's a dedicated RSS feed for the news, and you can also write to us at news@paper-republic.org with any news, queries or requests of your own.
Along with the general tweaking we've also added one central page where you can see all the translation samples available for download on PR — read and enjoy!
Mai Jia vs The Web
The latest (very small) controversy in the Chinese literary world is author Mai Jia's comments to the effect that "99.9% of online literature in China is garbage", and that if he were given the power he would do away with the internet altogether.
This sparked a lot of huffing and puffing, even attracting notice abroad, and now Mai Jia has posted a clarification on his seldom-updated blog.
The clarification is long-winded and hardly clarifying, but the excerpt he posts from his actual speech makes it pretty clear that he wasn't saying anything all that radical. The line about "exterminating" (消灭) the internet if he had the power (he's been quoted as saying he wants to get rid of all internet writing, but from the speech it seems clear that he means the whole internet) was obviously a throwaway joke (an earlier part of the blog post discusses what a pain the internet has been to him with regards to his thirteen-year-old son).
The second part, about 99.9% of internet literature being garbage and only 0.1% worth reading, is pretty much exactly what he said. But he then goes on to say that the most important and exciting thing about internet literature is that it is a free-for-all, with no artificial barriers to entry or readership, and that the literary greats of China's future are bound to arise online.
So his inflammatory comments, in summary: "There's a lot of crap on the web, but it's still the future."
No argument here.
By Eric Abrahamsen, April 5, '10
On the New Yorker blog Evan Osnos wrote a few days ago about how the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, a website dedicated to tracking censorship and its deleterious effects, had been represented in the Chinese media as a pro censorship body, effectively reversing the truth in order to give Chinese viewers the impression that Chinese-style censorship is common all over the world. Osnos' question was: "I wonder what this says about the decision-making apparatus. Do some of China’s top technology-policy planners really misunderstand the state of play in the West?"
He invited responses, so this is mine: I think there's no question that this was done deliberately, as a part of a larger campaign to lightly confuse the Chinese people as to just how unnatural their government appears to most non-Chinese observers. Both the government and its people are deeply concerned that China should appear to be a "normal" country (never mind that it be a normal country) and much manipulation of public opinion goes into supporting this illusion. The only thing a little surprising about this case is how baldly the facts were reversed.
Beijing International Literary Festival: Sights and Sounds
By Eric Abrahamsen, March 29, '10
The third annual Beijing International Literary Festival ended about ten days ago; among a pretty outstanding roster of international authors were eight Chinese writers, photographs of whose events the Beijing Bookworm has kindly provided. Podcasts were made from some of the events as well, we've linked where appropriate.
Mo Yan Q&A with Russian Fans of Chinese Lit
The Chinese writer Mo Yan has kindly agreed to answer questions by Oriental Hemisphere (Vostochnoye Polushariye), Russia's biggest website on the day-to-day life, history and culture of the Far East and South East Asia, in connection with forthcoming publication of Mo Yan's 酒国 (The Republic of Wine) translated into Russian by Igor Yegorov (aka yeguofu). English translation courtesy of Igor Yegorov.
Question: Has your recent visit to Russia left you with new impressions? Has your notion of the country changed, compared to that of the past?
Answer: I visited Russia for the first time in summer of 1996. It was a two-day tour in a small town next to the Chinese frontier city of Manzhouli. My impressions of that day fitted badly with the notion of Russia that I had formed while reading books by Russian authors. It was not until 2007 when I went to Moscow to take part in the Year of China Book Exhibition that I fully appreciated the space and grandeur of the country. The vast Russian expanses which seem to have no boundaries, conceal the boldness and a big way of the country combined with its delicacy and soft beauty.
Q: What do you feel about Russian literature and who is your favorite Russian author?
A: Russian literature was first of all foreign literatures that I got acquainted with. When still a child I read The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish by Pushkin in my elder brother's school textbook, then I went through The Childhood (My Universities) by Gorky. Of course, like any Chinese youth of those times, I read How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky. My favorite Russian author, Mikhail Sholokhov, and his novel Quiet Flows the Don have added a lot to my formation as a writer.
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Venom 29.1
Tattletale stirred. I could see the usual confusion that went with waking up in unfamiliar surroundings. She adjusted faster than most. There was no flailing about for a point of reference so everything could start to make sense again. Her power supplied it.
“Hey,” she said.
“Hey,” I replied.
“Think the world’s going to end today?” she asked, as she stretched, still lying down.
“World already ended, if we’re talking about our world. Too much damage done.”
“Maybe,” she said. “Humans are resourceful. Resourceful and stubborn. But you kind of live that, don’t you?”
I nodded. “Guess so.”
Tattletale picked a bit of grit out of the corner of her eye with a fingernail. “You didn’t sleep.”
“I’ve learned to deal. Pulled enough stakeouts to adapt.”
“Idiot,” Tattletale said again. She raised herself to a sitting position. “You need to be in top fighting shape.”
“I slept for three days after getting cut in half,” I protested.
“Only shows how much you needed the sleep,” she said.
“The Simurgh was being eerie, singing you a lullaby. You really expect me to sleep after that?”
“The lullaby wasn’t for me,” Tattletale said. “And I didn’t sense any hostile intent.”
I turned my head. My expression was hidden, but she read my confusion anyways.
“I mean, I think some of it was for my benefit, but it didn’t fit like that was the be-all and end-all of the singing. She was doing something else.”
“Neither do I. But she’s not exactly an easy one to get. Who knows what she sees? Maybe she’s singing for a reason that isn’t apparent yet?”
That was unsettling. I thought of what the Simurgh had said.
It didn’t serve to keep secrets right now. It’d be disastrous in the worst case scenario, and Tattletale was the best person to go to when I needed answers. “She apologized.”
“The Simurgh?” Tattletale asked. She gave me a funny look.
“Believe it or not. She said ‘I’m sorry’.”
“She doesn’t talk,” Tattletale said.
“I know. But I heard it.”
“Anyways, she isn’t sorry,” Tattletale said. “I’d put money on it. I’ve got a lot of money to put on it, if anyone’s willing to take the bet. Couple million in liquid assets.”
I shook my head. “I won’t take that bet. Look, just keep it in mind.”
“Filed away,” Tattletale promised.
“For now though, we should mobilize,” I said, as if I could distract myself. “Get everyone on the same page, start putting heads and powers together.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Tattletale responded. She pulled off a glove, then reached into her belt to get a small tin from one pouch. “Two minutes to get myself presentable. Could do with a shower, but I think people are a little past that right now.”
I nodded. Most of the capes I’d seen were just a little rougher around the edges. The shine gone from their costumes, a little dustier, their hair greasier, chins unshaven. Psychologically, it was much the same.
This had hit all of us hard. I liked to think I was rolling with it better than some, if only because I’d had two years to anticipate it. Then again, I was good at self-delusion.
I thought about Clockblocker, his optimism. When I’d been talking about expecting the worst, he’d argued for the opposite. I didn’t want to diminish what I felt about him being dead in the general sense by thinking about something so petty, but a part of me was disappointed I couldn’t talk to him now, after the fact, and see how he was doing. If he was coping better than I had.
It wasn’t that I was coping, exactly. I wasn’t happy, confident or unafraid. The only thing I could say was that I’d been able to brace myself. I’d bought into Dinah’s prophecy more than just about anyone else. I’d braced myself and I’d nearly broken, regardless. I could tell myself that the point where I’d been floating over the ocean by New Brockton Bay had only been a desire to get away, nothing darker, but I wasn’t sure I was telling myself the truth. I could think back to the point where I’d snapped after being cut in half by Scion and tell myself I was lucid, but I wasn’t sure that was true either.
Hard to say I’d held my own when I wasn’t sure how much of it was me and how much was the adrenaline at work. Or other things.
Any opinion, passenger? I asked. We’re going up against your maker. You going to hold back or are you going to go all-out?
No response, of course.
Tattletale was smearing black greasepaint around her eyes. She’d finished the hardest part, around the eyelashes, and spoke up as she filled the rest in, “You get in touch with everyone you wanted to talk to?”
“Almost everyone.”
“Ah. I can guess who you didn’t actively look for. This denial worries me.”
“No use dwelling on it. Your decision in the end. Let’s move on to a happier topic. You ever think we’d make it this far?”
“To the end of the world?” That’s a happier topic?
“To the top of the heap. As far up there as we could hope to be.”
“We’re not big leaguers, Tattletale. Not the most powerful capes out there.”
“But we’re talked about around the world. We’re on speaking terms with some of the biggest and scariest motherfuckers out there.” Tattletale gestured towards the window. Towards the Simurgh. “We’d be front page news, if the news still existed.”
“I’m not sure being news would be a good thing,” I said. “Which isn’t to say word isn’t getting around, you know. Charlotte knew.”
“Charlotte’s connected to Sierra and the rest of our infrastructure in Gimel. That doesn’t really surprise me,” Tattletale said. She pulled her hair out of the loose ponytail she’d had it in, then combed her fingers through it to get it more or less straight. It still had kinks and waves where it had been braided. Something she would have fixed before going out in costume in more ordinary circumstances, for caution’s sake.
“Mm,” I acknowledged her. Maybe I was tired. My thoughts were wandering some.
“I tried to set things up so we’d have some way of maintaining communications and getting some information in, getting information out. Like, I told people about what you said about Scion hating duplication powers. Anyways, only the very high tech and very low tech have really survived. Satellites and hard copies.” She lifted one of the files I’d stacked on the floor, as if to give evidence to the point. “Reading up?”
I picked up a file as well, leafing through it. “I wasn’t sleeping, so while you were out, I got in touch with Defiant and one of your minions, arranged for only the most essential status updates to come in on paper. I figured I could update you after you got up. The deliveries stopped a good bit ago, but one of the last status updates was about Dragon, so I guess she’s handling her old duties while Defiant recuperates from the last few days.”
“Guess so,” Tattletale said. I turned my head to see what she was doing, but she was already crossing the room.
“Doormaker is napping as well, I guess,” I said. “He just decided to leave one open, and he hasn’t been responding. I double checked the portal, making sure he wasn’t trying to tip us off to anything important, but it opens to a pretty remote area of Earth Bet.”
Tattletale went still, “Doormaker doesn’t sleep.”
I raised my eyebrows, realized Tattletale couldn’t see them, and cocked my head quizzically instead.
“There’re lots of capes who don’t sleep. About a year ago, I started digging into the PRT files. Hired the Red Hands to steal a more up to date set, even. I was looking into clues for understanding this whole thing, y’know? Best leads at the time were memories and dreams. Clues popping up here and there, relating to people’s dreams, or gaps in memories. Dreaming differently, seeing things instead of dreaming, case fifty-threes suffering from their amnesia… Well, there are a number of ‘Noctis’ cases. Named after a vigilante hero that was up at all hours. The opposite of what I was looking for, but a good data point anyways: capes who don’t dream because they don’t sleep. PRT confirmed a few members of their own, Miss Militia included, as examples. Others have only been marked down as guesses. Doormaker and Contessa were among them, they said, going by the times the ‘bogeyman’ was showing up.”
“So if he doesn’t sleep, why leave a door open and ignore us?” Tattletale asked.
I shook my head a little.
“Doorway,” Tattletale tried.
There was no response. No portal, no door.
“Door? Portal? Open sesame?” I tried.
“That’s worrisome,” Tattletale said, keeping her voice low. She clipped on her belt, tapping each of the pockets, as if to check the contents were still there. She drew her gun and checked it for bullets.
“We should go,” I said.
“We’re definitely going,” Tattletale said, but she didn’t budge as she double-checked her gun, pulling the slide back. I resisted the urge to comment on just how useless a gun was, considering what we were up against; I could remember how she’d fared when the assassin targeted her, Accord and Chevalier.
There were other threats.
“Right,” Tattletale said, finally finishing, grabbing her laptop and tucking it under one arm.
That was our go signal. We broke into stride.
We passed a soldier, and Tattletale signaled him, raising a finger. He stopped and wheeled around, following.
“We’re going,” Tattletale said. “Ship up, move out. If we come back and settle in here, then so be it, but let’s not plan on it.”
“Get someone to collect my things. All the files, the computers, the food. Everything. Get it all to the far side of the little doorway…” Tattletale looked at me. “Where’s the doorway?”
“A bit outside the front doors,” I said.
“What she said,” Tattletale told her mercenary. “If we’re gone, just hold position. If we’re still gone after twenty four hours, assume we’re dead. Get my data and the backups of my notes to someone who matters, then consider the job done, collect your payment, go on your merry way.”
“I’ll make sure everyone’s informed.”
“Do,” she said. Then, as if to offset the curt command, she added, “Thanks, Tug.”
He gave us a sloppy salute as he broke away, turning down a different corridor.
I had my phone out before I was outside. My bugs let me navigate the stairs without taking my eyes from the screen, as I input commands. It was cold out, almost cold enough it would impair my bugs, and a heavy fog hung in the open clearing. The stout military building stood in an open, overgrown grassland, encircled by evergreen trees.
No reception. Not a surprise, but inconvenient. I watched as we got closer to the portal Doormaker had left open.
Tattletale, for her part, turned around, walking backwards as we reached the bottom of the steps. With the phone still dark, I took a moment to look in the same direction. I was treated to the intimidating image of the Simurgh passing over the building. She moved as if she were as light as a feather, but I knew that wasn’t true. She was heavier than she looked, by a considerable margin. Had she set her full weight on the roof, she would plunge through.
Like someone playing hopscotch on the moon, the Simurgh set one foot down on the roof, hopping forward, set another foot on the very edge and pushed herself off. She floated down to the space beside the portal, then unfolded her wings, drawing the halo out to its full breadth. The movements sent swirls of dust and fog rippling across the edges of the clearing, stopping only as they crashed into the line of trees.
“She changed the guns?” I observed.
“She did,” Tattletale observed, “Cosmetic changes.”
Each of the Simurgh’s guns had been streamlined, the outer casings, barrels and handles reworked into wings. Three concentric circles of interconnected guns, all redesigned to appear like an extension of her own wings, behind her.
“Why cosmetic?”
“Way I understand it, she needs to have a tinker in her sphere of influence to borrow their schematics, or a specific device, if she wants to copy it. Thinkers, too, I think she borrows their perception powers as long as she’s tapped into them. Might be why she’s attached to me. Either way, she didn’t have schematics or anything she’d need to modify the guns.”
“Or she can modify them, and it’s a card she’s been keeping up her sleeve for the last while. I mean, it was only three years ago or whatever that she really showed off her ability to copy a tinker’s work wholesale.”
Tattletale nodded. She frowned. “I don’t like being in the dark. But that’s the gist of it. She made cosmetic changes because she couldn’t make concrete ones.”
“Well, it’s unnerving to think about, but anything about the Simurgh is,” I commented. “When I asked about the aesthetics, though, I wasn’t asking about the why so much as the…”
“So much as the why?” Tattletale asked, emphasizing the word.
“Yeah,” I said, lamely. “Why does she care?”
“Why does she have feathers and wings? For all intents and purposes, she could be a crystal that floats here and there. The end result is pretty much the same. A few less weapons. Behemoth? I mean, you saw what he was, when we reduced him to a bare skeleton. All the extra flesh, it’s decorative. He doesn’t really need any particular parts, except legs to move around.”
“It’s there to dress them up so they make better terror weapons,” I said.
“Basically,” Tattletale said.
“That’s not a good omen,” I said. “Because Scion doesn’t feel fear. I’m pretty sure.”
“Maybe he doesn’t, and this is a little embellishment for our sake, for when she turns on us,” Tattletale said.
“Can you not spell that out when she’s standing twenty feet away?” I asked. My pulse picked up a little at the idea, my heart kicking a little in my chest as it switched to a different gear.
“She knows we’re thinking it,” Tattletale said. “And she knows there’s another explanation we could make. Maybe it’s a clue. A hint.”
“About what?” I asked. “About Scion?”
“About Scion,” she said.
A hint that he can feel fear? It didn’t ring true, but I preferred it to the alternative.
“Let’s go through and…” I said. I couldn’t bring myself to say I hoped. “…Maybe the Simurgh can make her way through the portal, and maybe we’ll find out.”
“Yep,” Tattletale said, smiling a little. She probably knew the reasoning behind my word choice.
For that matter, it was very possible the Simurgh did too.
Which left me with the question of why I’d even bothered.
Going through, I thought. Hopefully there’s people on the other side that can’t read me like a book.
My phone lit up as a connection was established to a satellite.
A moment later, the connection was secured.
The clock changed, followed by a time zone and a symbol. Four forty-six, Eastern standard time, Earth Bet.
I stared at the world that stretched out before us, and it was wrong. Perspective was skewed. Lines bent where they should have been straight, and the expanse to our left was somehow more extensive than the space to our right.
The horizon should have been straight, or at least a gentle curve to accomodate the planet’s natural curvature, but it was almost a wavy line.
“The fuck?” I muttered.
“Vista,” Tattletale said, very matter-of-factly.
The Simurgh reached the portal. I was reminded of Leviathan breaking into the shelter beneath the library as I saw her put one hand on each side of the portal. She wasn’t quite as large as he was, until you added up the wings and wingspan. Put all the wings together, and her mass was probably equivalent to her older brother’s.
She passed through with little effort, dropping almost to her knees to get her head through. The wings followed, each wing stretched all the way behind her. The feathers rasped against the boundaries of the portal as she floated forward.
The outer edges wavered a fraction, as if the stress threatened to bring the portal down entirely.
Then she was through. She flexed her wings, then folded them around herself. The halo came through in pieces.
“That answers that,” Tattletale said. She added a very unenthusiastic, “Yay.”
The Dragonfly made its way to us, stopping no less than four times. With each stop, it descended to the ground and refused all incoming commands. A minute would pass, and then it would take off again.
It took me a bit to realize why.
Vista. The autopilot didn’t seem to like her power.
“Just how much area is she manipulating?” I asked.
“She was only ever held back by the Manton effect,” Tattletale said. “Number of people in the area.”
“And there’s not many people left in Bet,” I spoke my thoughts aloud, as I made the connection.
“Consider it a bonus,” Tattletale said, raising her head as the Dragonfly came into view, “In a sad, not-really-a-bonus sort of way. Empty earth makes for a convenient battleground. If we’re able to fight here, that is.”
The Dragonfly set down, the ramp opening before it was even on terra firma.
It took a minute to plot out the route the Dragonfly should take, looking at what the cameras had tracked, seeing where the distortions were.
“Something’s really wrong,” Tattletale said.
“With the distortions?”
“The distortions are a band-aid. Vista’s trying to fix something that’s gotten fucked up,” she said. “How do you plot the course?”
I mapped out a course to take us to the Gimel portal.
Tattletale changed the course, adjusting it to match the distortions we’d mapped and some we hadn’t.
It took several minutes, all in all, but the resulting trip was fast. The Dragonfly’s onboard system kept trying to calculating the remaining time for the trip based on our location, only to get tripped up by the folded and pinched space.
Then we hit Silkroad’s power, and accelerated to nearly three times the speed. Tattletale was caught off guard, standing beside my chair, and fell, dropping her laptop onto the hard floor.
Both the distortion and Silkroad’s power stopped when we were a distance from the portal. The effect was disorienting.
Corridors of folded space with the dim pink corridors of Silkroad’s power stretched out in every direction. Connecting points.
Towers surrounded Brockton Bay, set on mountaintops and high ground within the city itself. It necessitated a careful approach. As we passed between two, I saw that they were communication towers, crafted to put satellite dishes at high points rather than provide shelter.
The craft settled down, and we climbed out. They’d finished the ramp leading up to the portal, and it was easy enough to make our way up. I opted to walk beside Tattletale instead of use up my jetpack’s fuel.
Twelve percent capacity remaining. An hour or two of flight.
Vista stood at the top of the platform, on our side of the portal. A Chinese woman in an elaborate Sari-style dress stood beside her, as did a man I recognized as the Knave of Hearts from the Suits. Others were nearby, but seemed less like part of the group and more like bystanders. Kid Win was sitting at the edge of the platform, tools and a gun in his lap, abandoned as he stared at the Simurgh.
The Knave of Hearts muttered something in what I was guessing was Dutch. Louder, he commented, “They weren’t joking.”
“What happened?” I asked, the second we had their attention.
“Cauldron’s running with their tail between their legs,” Vista said. “Big promises, excuses about having all the power and being the only ones who can really put the screws to Scion, and then they run at the last minute.”
“Let us not be hasty,” the Knave of Hearts said. “It is possible Scion hit their headquarters. We won’t know until we have more information.”
“We can’t get information,” Vista said. “Because they never gave us a better way of getting in contact, and they never told us where their headquarters are.”
“Yes,” Knave said. He looked at me. “We have no portals but the ones that were left open. We cannot communicate by opening a door and talking to the other person. Vista, Silk Road and I are attempting to patch together an answer.”
“A workaround,” Vista said.
“Fast transportation between key areas,” Tattletale observed. “Your power and Silk Road’s to make the corridors…”
“I am handling communication and pinpointing the other portal locations,” Knave said. “The Hearts of the Suits have good relations with other teams and places.”
“I can give you the coordinates,” Tattletale said.
“We have the coordinates,” Knave said, sounding annoyed. “All but the concealed portals.”
“I think I know where those are,” Tattletale said.
Knave looked even more annoyed at that, but he nodded. “Step through, talk to the guys at the station, they’ll get you set up. We’ll handle the ones we know about while we wait.”
The station was on the other side of the portal. A way to keep the civilians from trying to go back to Bet to loot and getting themselves killed or stranded, and a place where they could organize things.
Tattletale and I both gave up our phones. The technicians on the other end changed settings to bring them on board with the hodgepodge arrays they’d put up on both Bet and Gimel.
Tattletale reclaimed her phone, then paged through the contents, checking settings. When she was satisfied, she looked at me. “I don’t expect you to hang around while I’m doing the geek thing and pointing those guys to the right places.”
I nodded. “I’ll see how the others are doing and get back to you.”
Getting the Endbringers on board had marked the point we’d stopped reeling and started preparing again. I could see the results. The Gimel settlement was swiftly transforming from a sprawling refugee camp to a standing ground. Refugees were being escorted or transported to other locations, packing up tents and possessions and climbing into trucks and helicopters. It made room for the capes that were here.
Miss Militia was at the center of it, giving orders, managing the capes and the civilians in charge.
Squads were organized, many from the Protectorate, not in rank and file, but clustering according to their respective teams or organization. Here and there, they’d gathered in more specialized groups.
I could see Rachel, Imp, Foil and Parian with the Chicago Wards, sitting or lying on the closed bins that held supplies for the settlement. Only Golem was absent.
I felt a moment’s trepidation. I had doubts, regrets, even a kind of shame, when it came to the Chicago teams.
I’d said it out loud, but I’d never really faced the decision I’d made: giving up on being a hero.
Still, I found myself walking up to them.
“Here she is,” Grace said. “Make your way here okay, Weaver?”
“Doormaker left a door open for us,” I said.
“He left doors open for everyone,” Tecton said. “But navigation’s a little tricky. Can’t always make it from point A to point B.”
“We did okay,” I said. “Vista was saying this is a cut and run on Cauldron’s part, but I can’t imagine this as something malicious or cowardly. They wouldn’t have left the portals here if it was.”
“I agree,” Tecton said.
“Who’s looking into it?” I asked.
“Satyr and the other ex-Vegas capes,” Grace replied.
“Isn’t that like sending the fucking fox to guard the henhouse?” Romp asked. “Except it’s sending the confusing mind-game head-fuckers to answer the confusing, fucked-up riddle?”
“Yes,” Imp said. “Totally. God, it’s nice to finally have someone who can explain situations clearly.”
“More like,” Foil said, “sending a group that’s very well versed in conspiracy and subterfuge to deal with the sort of thing they’re very good at handling.”
“Now you’re being confusing,” Imp said.
“Where’s Tattletale?” Rachel asked.
“Outside. Helping Vista and Silk Road to put together new rapid-travel routes.”
“Okay,” she said.
“Do you miss her?” Imp asked, turning around. “Like, actually?”
“She’s a member of the team.”
“But you miss her! That’s awesome!”
“I don’t,” Rachel said. Then, after a moment’s thought, she added, “And that means it isn’t awesome.”
“I thought you couldn’t stand her.”
“I can stand her, and it took a long time to get that far. That’s all it is,” Rachel said.
“But you asked. Like, for the first time ever.”
“I have a question for her. That’s all.”
Romp looked at her teammates, turning to Grace, then Tecton. “Am I the only one who hears these guys talk and wonders how the fuck they ever got to be in charge of a city?”
“Don’t fucking swear,” Grace said, saying the line as if it were reflexive by now. Romp looked annoyed, but Cuff smiled, and I could see Tecton looking away, as if he was forgetting that people couldn’t see his face while he had the helmet on. I, too, smiled. Romp was completely unware about why it was funny that Grace was admonishing her on the swearing.
I turned to Rachel, “What’s the question? Something I can help with?”
She shrugged. “This dork with Miss Militia was telling me some tinker was wanting to try something with my power. Give my dog some drug shit a rat made? I didn’t follow, and he kept talking to me like I have brain damage, which I don’t, so I didn’t listen.”
“Which made the guy step it up even more,” Imp commented. “Until it sounded like he was talking to a five year old.”
“I walked away,” Rachel said.
“Stuff a rat made?” I asked.
“Lab Rat,” Imp said.
“Wouldn’t work,” I said. “Her power burns up toxins and chemicals in the dog’s systems.”
“I said that when they said they wanted to use drugs,” Rachel said.
“They know that already,” Imp said. “They wanted to try anyways. Have some things left over from the previous fight.
Dosing mutated dogs with Lab Rat’s leftover transformation serums?
Would the gains be additive?
“The drugs they’re talking about are the only reason I’m still here,” I said. “Honestly, I’m seeing only two outcomes. Three, maybe: the effects stack up and Rachel’s dog gets even tougher or more versatile; the dog ceases to be a dog while the serum’s active and Rachel’s power stops working; or it’s made for humans and not dogs, and we get a negative reaction.”
“Two out of three odds,” Romp said.
“Actually,” Tecton said, “Nothing’s guaranteeing that the odds of any result are even. Could be a ten percent chance of the first, five percent chance of the second and an eighty-five percent chance of the last one.”
“And a five percent chance it’s something else entirely,” Imp said, sagely.
Tecton shook his head. “That doesn’t add up.”
“Ignore her,” Parian said.
“The numbers don’t mean anything to me,” Rachel said. She frowned, making eye contact with me. “You think I should?”
“I do. Anything and everything we can think of to mix things up or combine powers is good. I really like that there are people out there thinking outside the box. It’s exactly what we need right now.”
“Right,” Rachel said. She hopped down from the lid of the supply container. “Going to go talk to her then. If that guy tries baby-talking to me again, I’m going to make Bastard bite him.”
“No way. You gotta fuck with his head,” Imp said.
“Biting people is more satisfying,” Rachel responded.
“No, look… uh… Tecton. You gotta give me something really smart and scientific sounding. Like, say what Taylor said, but in smart-guy words.”
“Critical mistake here: you’re implying Tecton is smart,” Romp said.
Tecton sat up straighter. “Hey. Just because I’m not your team leader anymore-”
“-You’re totally not the one who gets to order me around,” Romp replied. “Deal with it.”
“Run a lap,” Grace said, her voice quiet.
Romp turned around, eyebrows raised.
“A lap?”
“Two laps,” Grace said, her voice quiet, cold and dangerous. “For not moving the second I gave the order.”
“What am I supposed to fucking run around?”
“Three laps for swearing, four because you’re still here. We can do five if you don’t move now. Start running, and if you don’t pick a big enough area to run around, I can give you another few laps.”
“This is balls,” Romp said, hopping down from the bin’s lid.
“Five laps, then,” Grace said.
“I know I’m getting more laps by talking, but I needed to state the truth for the record.” She kept talking, speaking with each footfall. “Balls, balls, balls.”
The moment she was out of earshot, Grace and the others broke into laughter. Foil was the only member of the Undersiders who seemed to get it, her shoulders shaking in silent laughter.
“I can’t believe she actually went,” Cuff said.
“Don’t let her exhaust herself,” Tecton said.
Grace shook her head, still smiling. “I’ll stop her after she finishes the first lap.”
“Okay, I need something to write on,” Imp said. “Anyone?”
“Here,” I said, getting a notepad from my belt. I handed it to her. “Why?”
She handed the notepad to Tecton. “So Tecton can write something down. And I hold it up, like a cue card, and Rachel recites it, sounding like a genius, and we blow dr. baby-talk’s mind. And if he turns around, I use my power, so he’s never the wiser.”
Tecton nodded, “I can do that.”
I winced. “There’s a flaw in that.”
“It’s brilliant,” Imp said. She looked around, turning to Parian and Foil.
Parian only extended a hand towards Rachel.
“What?” Imp asked.
Parian gestured again, pointing.
“I don’t get it… Rachel… oh.”
“I don’t read much,” Rachel said, blunt.
“Annnd now I feel like a dick,” Imp said.
“I don’t care,” Rachel said.
She probably doesn’t.
“That doesn’t make me any less of a dick. How often do I get reminders about the reading thing?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Rachel said. She looked annoyed. “This is why I don’t talk to people. Why are we still talking about this?”
She was more irritated at the fact that Imp wasn’t dropping it than the fact that her illiteracy had been brought up.
“Maybe if I come with?” Tecton offered. “I’ll distract whoever Dr. baby-talk is, and you can talk to Miss Militia about dosing your dogs.”
“Or you can tell me what you were going to write down and I memorize it,” Rachel said.
A few people in the group exchanged glances.
“Really simple solution,” Rachel said. Except now she was talking to us like we were the idiots.
“I’m not sure I could memorize it,” Tecton confessed.
“The kid that’s running the lap said you weren’t that smart,” Rachel answered. “Try me.”
“Okay, uh. ‘I see three possible outcomes’…”
Rachel repeated what he’d said.
They continued, Imp leaning forward and kicking her legs where they dangled from the edge of the bin.
Grace interrupted my observations. “You’re wearing black.”
I felt a bit of guilt welling. No, guilt wasn’t the right word. I was at peace with my decision.
I just felt a little ashamed that I hadn’t been more upfront about it, with the people I’d spent years working with.
“I suppose you’re not going to get around to having that meeting with the PRT guys, getting yourself moved up from the Wards to the Protectorate? Unless I’m reading too much into the costume choice.”
“You’re not,” I said. “No, I suppose I’m not going to have that meeting.”
“Is it that we failed with the Jack thing?”
“That’s not the entirety of it,” I said.
“But it’s part of it, right? Isn’t that unfair? We had, like, a four percent chance of success going in, and we didn’t stop it from coming to pass, so you bail?”
“I said it’s only part of it,” I repeated myself.
“I know,” she said. I could see Tecton and Rachel pause, catching something in Grace’s tone.
When Grace and I remained silent, they resumed. “…the cross species interactions…”
“…the cross species interactions.”
“I know,” Grace said, after a pause. “I get that. I get that there’s other reasons. Like the fact that you love those guys and you never loved us. Cool. Makes sense.”
“I liked you guys.”
“But you didn’t love us.”
“I get all that. But Golem’s pulling away too, and I know that’s because that we had only that fucking four percent chance and we failed. So I draw a connection, think maybe you’re more bothered about that than you let on.”
I looked at Cuff, who was watching me intently. She looked even more intent and focused than Grace did.
Then again, she was a little more invested in how Golem was doing than most.
“Yeah,” I said. “Probably.”
“It’s shitty,” she said. “Both Golem and you, drifting away.”
“I know, and it feels shitty,” I said.
“Then that’s consolation enough, for me,” Grace said. She relaxed a little, then glanced at Cuff.
“I’m not really the type to nurse grudges,” Cuff said. “I just want Golem thinking straight again. He took it hard. So you’ll get my forgiveness if you go talk to him.”
“I think that’s something I can do,” I answered her.
She smiled. “He’s at the phone bank, near the station, if you want to find him.”
But Cuff was smiling, looking so intent.
Weaponized niceness.
“Right,” I said. I turned to go.
And I could see people moving, running.
I felt a pit swell in my stomach.
“No,” Imp said, following my line of sight. She could see squads getting into formation. In the distance, the aircraft that had been moving refugees were turning around, coming back to us. “No, no. We had such a good joke going, don’t you dare ruin it.”
Romp returned to us, breaking into a run to close the remainder of the distance. “Someone’s saying he’s hitting Samech. It’s one of the Earths Cauldron was going to watch over. There’s only Dragon, the Guild and some Protectorate guys there.”
“Let’s move,” I said. “Through the portal. We’ll use the Dragonfly. Faster than waiting for another ship. Rachel, look for doctor baby-talk, if we can grab something from him before we leave, great, but let’s not dawdle.”
There were nods all around.
I could see the other heroes. Miss Militia and Glaistig Uaine. Revel and Exalt. Protectorate teams, sub-teams of the Suits, including the non-combat teams of the Hearts and Cups.
People hurried to organize, pulling on costume pieces they’d left off and checking weapons, clearing out of the open spaces where shadows grew as the aircraft descended.
One by one, the ships began to take off, flying through the tall, narrow portal.
Three ships, then four.
But the fifth didn’t take off. I reached out with my swarm, trying to catch what people were talking about, to make sense of the situation, but everyone important was already on a ship.
King of Hearts was the only person of any meaningful rank who spoke the same language I did and who wasn’t mobilizing to leave. The leader of the Meisters, Vornehm, was giving orders in German. A scary-looking Master class cape with an army of clay men carrying tinker weapons was ordering other people around with the same harsh voice he was commanding his own troops.
But there was no explanation of why more ships weren’t taking off.
Had the fight already ended?
“Keep moving,” I said, ordering the teams forward. Tattletale will know.
As confusion descended, people started falling back into their previous state, gathering in clusters of familiar people. It almost seemed like we were the only group with direction, pushing against a milling crowd. We weren’t, but the illusion was there.
And that same effect made it possible to see when the crowd did find direction, a common, mutual interest. Heads turned, chins raised. People found postures where their feet were set apart, as if ready to move at a moment’s notice.
Scion. Here. Floating above the bay like he’d floated above the ocean in his first appearance.
He’s targeting us, I realized. Two of our organized settlements in as many minutes?
His hands hung at his sides. The golden light that radiated from him cleaned his clothes and hair, but there was enough blood on his costume that the light wasn’t rendering it as pristine as it should. His eye sockets were dark, with the way his forehead blocked the sun’s light. That same sunlight made the edges of his hair and body glow with the light that wasn’t completely blocked.
He didn’t even raise his hand before he fired. Lights no bigger than basketballs streaked forward, leaving trails glittering behind them.
Two of Dragon’s ships detonated violently. Occupants dead or grievously injured, people in the area of the craft wounded by the fallout.
By the time I’d turned my head to see his follow-up, Scion had closed the distance, moving right into our midst.
Capes with reflexes better than mine were already reacting, throwing a multitude of effects in his way. He plunged through the defenses like they weren’t even there.
Something got in his way, but he flew around it without a second thought. He stopped right in front of a cape. Quite possibly the cape that had stalled him momentarily. A dark-skinned man in gray.
A swirling gray effect swelled between him and the target. He struck it with a glowing hand, and the effect distorted, growing thin. Another strike, and the effect dissipated.
Other capes were hurling effects at him. Most glanced off.
He caught his target around the throat. Didn’t squeeze.
But the golden light began to eat into the target’s body and costume. Scion let the man drop.
Not a scream. Only twitching, frantic thrashing as the golden light continued to consume.
Foil raised her arbalest. I could see our entire group tense as she raised it, Parian’s hands going to her mouth.
A moment later, Parian’s cloth was unfurling from behind her back. Rachel was making her dogs grow, while Cuff was manipulating a shotput into a blade like the one from a circular saw.
For my part, I began drawing the bugs into decoys, sending them into the air.
Oblivious to it all, Foil took aim, then ran her hand along the bolt she’d loaded in place.
I could see her draw in a breath. I’d taken marksmanship classes. Squeeze the trigger as you exhale.
The shot flew through the air.
Scion wheeled around and caught it.
It wasn’t just his costume, I could see. All the lines of his body, his hands, lines that made it so he didn’t look wholly artificial, they were filled with the detritus of smoke and blood and other grit, and the golden light had only washed the surface clean. The deepest cracks held the remainder. It made fine lines look more like crags.
I was almost glad that it took away from his human appearance.
He let the arbalest’s bolt drop to the ground.
His eyes were on Foil.
A golden light swelled in his hand.
We spread out, but Foil didn’t even flinch. Even as Cuff backed away, Foil reached out to touch the sawblade, imbuing it with power.
Scion reached out, and Parian used her power, encircling Foil with the end of a length of cloth. Not an animal, only an arm.
In the instant Scion loosed the bolt of light, Parian flung Foil away. Not a simple throw, but a reckless, inhumanly strong one.
Foil was removed from the battle. Sent beyond what would have been the outskirts of the city, if we were in Bet, cast out in the direction of the Bay itself, until she was only a speck.
The bolt hit ground, fifty or sixty feet behind us. Other people died instead. People I didn’t know.
No longer interested in Foil, Scion turned to the nearest cape, lunging.
Cuff threw her circular blade. Without even looking, Scion batted it aside, striking an unaffected part towards the middle. His attention was on a cape, and he swiped a glowing hand through the cape’s abdomen.
What didn’t burn spilled forth. His screams were joined by that of a friend, another cape who screamed in horror over what had happened to him. Scion very deliberately walked past this other cape to attack someone else.
Picking us off, choosing targets.
Maximizing pain and suffering over raw destruction.
Experimenting.
And there was precious little we could do about it.
Precious little I could do about it. My bugs formed into more decoys. Other bugs searched for the key players. Where was the man Rachel had described? The one with the serums? Where was Miss Milita?
The Simurgh was passing through the portal, and people who’d been trying to flee to Earth Bet were now scattering, trying to flee both the Endbringer and Scion at the same time.
Horribly timed, as entrances went. Our best hope was that he’d keep toying with us, that enough time would pass that capes stationed at the other major portals could use the fast-travel routes to get to us.
Something like an Endbringer was all too likely to change his mind.
It’s the beginning of the end.
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273 thoughts on “Venom 29.1”
Among the least fun chapters to get done, panic inducing from a purely IRL perspective.
Apparently some phone tech was working on the phone box to fix someone else’s problem, and cut both my phone and internet line.
So my ‘net wasn’t available through all of yesterday until six this afternoon. I was very unsure if I’d be able to get it live. Was considering going to the university to use their library, but that’s travel time & I’m not sure when it closes – I can’t call or google to find out the hours, can I?
But I got it done anyways, woohoo!
And in the 30 hours my ‘net was down, I got record views! Woohoo! 20k views in one day, 22k today, and I broke 4k unique views in one day (that is, 4k unique addresses, or 4k people, who viewed a total of 22k pages between them). So happy. So nice to see after the mingled anger, frustration, horror and despair that any self respecting nerd knows is part and parcel with any internet outage. Thank you to everyone who’s spreading the word.
And thanks to the rest of you for reading. See you Saturday.
packbat on September 19, 2013 at 00:30 said:
Vote on Top Web Fiction.
Naeddyr on September 19, 2013 at 01:27 said:
The views might be thanks to someone posting about Worm on Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/132055/Doing-the-wrong-things-for-the-right-reasons
alexanderthesoso on September 19, 2013 at 16:15 said:
GAHHH! waiting for saturday… well, friday night! update will be waiting when I get off work!
Tom_D on September 19, 2013 at 18:50 said:
Very happy to get the update on time. (Read it and crashed.)
Double glad that you got through the time of no net. You’re a survivor!
Can’t wait for the Saturday update!
So around five and a half page views per person, per day?
Firstly that confirms that, yup, I’m slow. D:
Secondly it implies a lot of new readers (or, I guess, re-readers). Pretty cool that interest is still growing at such a late stage of the story…
Charles Borner on September 19, 2013 at 00:05 said:
Greeting gentle folk…
This is the thread to deposit messages to the author regarding typographical errors and awkward usage.
Please use it at your convenience.
notes on September 19, 2013 at 00:23 said:
Where was Miss MilitIa – missing an I.
Cerberi on September 19, 2013 at 00:25 said:
“Your power and Silk Road’s to make the cor/ridors…”
like someone PLAYING hopscotch on the moon.
{“I know it’s five laps, but I needed to state the truth for the record. She kept talking, speaking with each footfall. “Balls, balls, balls.”}
Missing quotation mark.
{and we blow dr. baby-talk’s mind. And if he turns around, I use my power, so he’s never the wiser.”}
Dr. should be capitalized.
{“I’ll distract whoever Dr. baby-talk is, andyou can talk to Miss Militia about dosing your dogs.”}
Missing space between ‘and’ and ‘you’.
AMR on September 19, 2013 at 01:05 said:
You use her in reference to Lab Rat.
“today?” she asked, ” Extra space.
“An Chinese woman” A.
“baby-talk is, andyou can ” missing space.
Philippe Saner on September 19, 2013 at 02:01 said:
“Had she set her full weight on the roof, she would plunge through.”
That mixes the hypothetical and the actual. Which sounds wrong to me. Pretty sure it should be something like “would have plunged” or “If she set”.
“Like someone hopscotch on the moon, the Simurgh set one foot down on the roof, hopping forward, set another foot on the very edge and pushed herself off.”
I think that should be “playing hopscotch” or something like that.
TapiocaTalks on September 19, 2013 at 04:45 said:
one of the last status updates was about Dragon, so I guess she’s handling her old duties
–> from Dragon?
“We can’t get information, Vista said.
–> quotation mark
technicans
–> technicians
andyou can talk to Miss Militia
–> and you
over what had happened to him Scion very
–> him. Scion
Lobo on September 19, 2013 at 04:48 said:
““Fast transportation between key areas,” Tattletale observed. “Your power and Silk Road’s to make the cor/ridors…””
Corridors!
Still going awesomely…
greatwyrmgold on September 21, 2013 at 15:13 said:
“The Gimel settlement was swiftly transforming from a sprawling refugee camp to a standing ground.”
Should that be staging ground?
Mister Tulip on June 6, 2014 at 14:36 said:
“The Dragonfly’s onboard system kept trying to calculating the remaining time”
“calculating” should be “calculate”.
Romp was completely unware about why it was funny that Grace was admonishing her on the swearing. –> unaware
I should just reread this, I had no idea why that was funny First gonna finish it tho
Willy (@Willy591) on September 19, 2013 at 00:10 said:
Great chapter except for the interactions between the Wards and Taylor. Literally skipped that part, I found it pretty boring.
Alathon on September 19, 2013 at 00:35 said:
Why would you do such a thing?
El_Sock on September 19, 2013 at 00:46 said:
BOOOO!!! BOO FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY!
(Just kidding. But you’re definitely missing out on the full experience. 😉
At least we know Golem has a chance with Cuff after all.
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on September 19, 2013 at 08:56 said:
With Scion on the scene? I’d be careful with the present tense there.
Well Scion seems to have killed only people Taylor doesn’t know. Which apparently makes it all ok.
He killed her Dad, I’d say that counts as killing someone she knows.
I was referring to what happened here. Parian throws Foil away and Scion hit some unnamed extras instead. Taylor doesn’t care because she doesn’t know them. Common human reaction but still rather callous.
I think it’s a mischaracterization to say “Which apparently makes it all ok.”
There’s nothing in Scion’s rampage that’s depicted as being “ok” or even “no big deal”.
It WAS meant to be a bit tongue in cheek. :p .
But checking it again, what reason did Taylor have to specify that she didn’t know the people that got hit by the shot intended for Foil, if not to stress that those guys aren’t as important as Foil, whom she knows personally?
ReallyNotAJAPH on February 21, 2014 at 14:21 said:
I believe it was to emphasize the “common human reaction” that people you know are deemed more important than (unnamed) people you don’t know by your silly primate brain.
Taylor is acknowledging that she *should* feel bad about the numerous unknown-to-her capes that just got killed, but the badness is overshadowed by relief that known-to-her Foil is (probably and relatively) okay.
dpara on September 19, 2013 at 11:44 said:
Dunno, if I would call it boring. But I really expected that someone would/should call on Taylor about the “So where is your endbringer?” thingy. Dunno that seemed kinda forgotten.
Suitably grim, but the Endbringers haven’t tried anything yet either, and the assembled capes haven’t tried anything organized yet either.
Foil is probably somewhere between crippled and dead without intervention – you don’t get hurled until you’re a speck on the horizon and land softly – and it being water won’t help at that speed. Plausible intervention candidates – Legend, Simurgh, Leviathan. Scion does seem to respect Foil’s power, but unless he can be held in place, it’s not likely to hit him.
The beats with the Chicago Wards and Undersiders were solid.
Grue is palpable in his absence.
Kid Win’s modular systems affinity is probably being put to use by the Simurgh. Subtle, but there.
Flipnash on September 19, 2013 at 12:37 said:
kid win also has an affinity for signals and frequencies.
scoti on September 19, 2013 at 22:24 said:
I thought that was Hero?
If Tattletale’s right that there’s a hint in the Simurgh’s cosmetic modifications, it’s about Scion’s perceptions. He may not feel fear, but he can be misled by appearances.
theant87 on September 19, 2013 at 00:45 said:
Well the Traveler’s arc showed that Scion was fooled by the Simurgh making a copy of snow, so he can’t feel them like he can with parahumans.
negadarkwing on September 19, 2013 at 08:13 said:
God damn, you torment me. Dragon and Defiant were on an earth targeted by Scion, so we don’t know what happened to them. And both Foil and Parian’s fates are unclear. I’m not sure if Parian got hit by the shot, and as stated above, things could be bad for Foil. Next chapter we can get started on the Chicago Wards and the rest of the Undersiders.
Aname on September 19, 2013 at 10:58 said:
Of course Scion respects Foil’s power. Didn’t his interlude mention that hers was the stinger power his species used to kill each other?
farmerbob1 on September 19, 2013 at 11:18 said:
Ah, You remember that Foil’s partner is Parian, right? There’s a pretty damn good chance that this was something planned between Parian, Foil, and Cuff. Direct attack, evasion, and secondary unexpected attack. My guess is that Foil is wearing a Parian-made parachute.
What we need now is a non-cape lawn darts player with some skill to pick up Foil’s discarded bolt and throw it at Scion. Hopefully Scion pays as little attention to non-capes as Jack did.
I’m hoping that Foil and others might have considered that approach and prepared a few humans with foil-imbued weapons.
Reveen on September 19, 2013 at 17:09 said:
Yeah. I’m pretty sure after the first two times Foil nearly got killed they would have worked something out by now. Besides, with Foils reflexes she might even be able to get a non bone crushing landing as long as she hits some treetops.
JN on September 19, 2013 at 23:57 said:
Just wondering if that would then be a Pariachute…
Get out.
Does the Foil effect last indefinitely? I’m figuring if they could’ve done that, they would’ve…
Foil can also use her power on herself, though that takes more time than is viable in combat (but probably works while falling). Don’t know if that would help, but I think her interlude said it made her frictionless.
Love the Imp/Rachel interactions, here.
I love that Rachel was willing to go along with Imp’s plan. They’re not exactly prank buddies the way Regent and Imp were but they can be on the same page sometimes.
Asmora on September 19, 2013 at 15:13 said:
I like to imagine that Rachel doesn’t really understand she’s involved in a prank. Imp says, “We should do this! It would be cool.” and Rachel’s just like, “I don’t understand why we would do that… but I don’t understand why would do like 80% of what you guys say we should do, and it tends to work out better when I just go along with it. So… sure, we’ll do this thing. I’m sure you have a good reason.”
Rachel may be somewhat ignorant, as well as mentally handicapped by not comprehending human interactions normally, but she is NOT stupid
ShawnMorgan on September 19, 2013 at 23:15 said:
“why don’t I memorise it?” Rachel is cunning and has savvy. and awww, she cares about TT. she wouldn’t have bothered learning to tolerate her if she didn’t care a tad…
Kytin on September 19, 2013 at 00:29 said:
Taylor is worried that bringing in an endbringer might cause Scion to escalate too quickly for them to bring everything else they have to bear. But if there’s one endbringer that can think tactically, it’s the Simurgh. She has to know that other capes (and probably endbringers) will be arriving in the future. And I rather doubt that she will consider saving the lives of people here to be worth putting herself at risk.
Unless he goes after Tattletale pehaps.
Well, she’s presumably got a few baseballs on ballistic trajectory — given that Scion is a bit of a difficulty for her, I can see why she might opt to take a quick look and make sure the key ones aren’t knocked off course.
Except that she is ‘present-blind’, and depending on how her ‘past viewing’ works she may not even need to be nearby to know what is going on.
But she may need to be nearby to protect her assets.
Are they assets? We still know nothing about the Smurf and last chapter showed that she has been manipulating Tattletale in small ways so she doesn’t notice her glass cylinder. She may just be doing what she always has. Control the Endbringers to be in right place and the right time with the right people to get the outcome she wants. For all we know she knows killing Scion rids other parahumans of their powers.
Mmmm…dat asset.
The Smurf may be blind to Scion, but she can see his effects, and I would imagine can do that in the past. Hell if she just sees what happened a split second ago, she’s pretty well set.
Man does anyone remember when we were hoping Scion would kill the Endbringers?
Landis963 on September 19, 2013 at 17:52 said:
Yeah, I remember. XD Of course, none of us caught the fact that Scion would go off the deep end, so it all balances out.
Isn’t that a problem Tattletales power pretty much solves?
Point A in the past is like that Point C in the future like this, therefore B is now between.
Robert on September 20, 2013 at 08:26 said:
Pretty sure this is why she’s hanging around Tattletale. Might be that she can’t even do it herself normally, or it might be that tapping Tattletale’s power just lets her do it better or quicker. Filling in the gaps, extrapolating from known information … perfect for overcoming a blind spot in your omniscience.
So Rachel didn’t become friends with Tattletale, and Taylor has decided to never become a “hero” but to remain with the Undersiders. Curious about the Suit’s chain of command. Does every suit have a king/queen who is in charge or is an Ace in charge? Who leads? Okay I admit to not getting the joke with Romp. Still curious about what else happened to the Chicago wards during the timeskip and just what happened between them and Taylor. Anyone else predicting Grue making like Han Solo and coming in for a quick rescue with his darkness?
Re: the joke with Romp: Grace said “Don’t fucking swear.” What’s wrong with this picture?
DasNiveau on September 19, 2013 at 02:01 said:
*ba* *dum* *tish*
I got that, I just thought that was a way for Grace to illustrate who was in charge. She can swear all she likes, but Romp can’t just because Grace told her she can’t. Sort of like telling a recruit to give you 50 pushups in the hot sun, while casually relaxing in the shade with a glass of water next to them. I read too much into things.
For example I just read interviewing Trey and how the Jack of Knaves organizes his henchman with a card theme. He doesn’t use face cards or Aces. Shouldn’t the suits be led by an Ace since it is technically the highest card?
throwaawy on September 19, 2013 at 01:01 said:
psssh, ace’s mean (1)
Yeah as in Number One in charge. Jack, Queen, King, than Ace to start the cycle over again. I always thought of the Ace card as both the highest and lowest card at the same time. If I’m ever a supervillain with a card theme the Aces would be the leaders. Now I’m curious about how Psycho Gecko would organize his henchmen. By number like the Monarch with the lower the number the higher the status, by committee like AIM, or like the joker where only the most insane, bloodthirsty, or obedient would be in charge. Tattletale has her mercenaries into squads with team leaders that report to her, Rachel has her few minions who basically operate like a pack with her in charge, Taylor had a second in command but didn’t have an organization, and who knows how the Heartbroken follow Imp. Just stupid thoughts in my head.
Ace is often interchangeably the highest card of a suit and the lowest, like in poker and in blackjack. Some people stick with the lowest interpretation.
They are European and in a lot of our card games the Knave/Jack/Bube/Under is the most valuable card. Not from points but from special features.
If I were a card themed villian Ace would be the best field agent, not the leader. The ace is the trump card, but being the best at kicking ass does not make you the best at leading.
I’d put the King in charge, with the Ace as the heaviest hitter or otherwise most useful power that isn’t necessarily suited for leadership.
acediamonds on September 19, 2013 at 21:30 said:
I thought that was the joke. Grace getting Romp to run laps and showing her whose the boss here is something they do in the Wards, which is why only the only people who laughed were/are in the Wards.
I read it as swearing being so incredibly casual to Romp that she doesn’t even notice if someone’s doing it or not…
Tagg on September 19, 2013 at 00:39 said:
Looks like Foil is blasting off again.
somewhere, foil is making use of her superhuman timing so that her arbalest catches the sun and reflects a ‘ping’
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time, ’til touchdown brings her once again to find, she’s not the cape they think she is at home, no no. She’s a rocket Foil! Burning out her fuse up there alone.
Earth Beta ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, Scion’s made it hell. And there’s no one there to raise them… if you did.
Cephalo the Pod on September 19, 2013 at 22:33 said:
Has she blasted off before?
razorsmile on September 19, 2013 at 00:40 said:
– Scion, you asshole! You ruined the joke!
– there is anecdotal evidence that the advent of literacy reduced our mnemonic capabilities. Nice touch, what you did with Rachel there.
– holy shit, Foil’s power can actually hurt him! Holy shit!
– I wonder if Ms. Militia’s can too if she replicates the right tinker weapon (G-Driver, anyone?). She got her power from the dying entity’s castoffs before Scion could start nerfing them. Her power is unnerfed. This means something.
– they really need to get Operation Talk To Scion off the ground. Preferably before he puts them all *in* said ground.
– why is he using such scaled down attacks? Either he’s being experimentally sadistic as Taylor theorized or he’s running low on juice. Notice how his golden light didn’t clean up the blood and dirt as quickly as normal
– save us, Simurgh!
… dear God they’re fucked.
krustacean on September 19, 2013 at 01:09 said:
“She got her power from the dying entity’s castoffs before Scion could start nerfing them. Her power is unnerfed.”
Where’d you get that from? I don’t doubt it, I’m probably just not remembering.
Razor’s trying to pass speculation off as fact!
No mercy. Draw him!
But, but, it makes SO MUCH sense.Unlike others MM vision has sickly, dying entities. Despite Scion putting mental blocks her power gives her eidetic memory that allows her to remember her trigger event.
Can’t we just chop off his right hand?
Ah, I had wondered about that at the time but never really thought about it again after we got the new info in Scion’s interlude. That does make a good deal of sense.
Now, back to the matter at… hand. We must have justice after all.
Scolopendra on September 20, 2013 at 15:11 said:
Krustacean, can you do us a favor and close your sketchbook and tell us what’s on the cover? Does it by chance say “Death Note” on it?
No, nonono. He’s an artist, “Death Note” makes little sense.
He’s clearly using a Death-A-Sketch.
It’s almost exactly like its predecessor the Etch-a-Sketch, but with one crucial difference.
That being better battery life, of course.
Well, at least it had that until he drew her…
Still open to speculation. We don’t know if MM got her powers from Scion or his mate after all nor the timeline. Scion is responsible for half of the world’s superpowers but is he technically responsible for all of them after his mate’s death?
How do you know he isn’t a southpaw?
Fine, fine, let’s chop his DOMINANT hand. You bloodthirsty savages.
Now excuse me, all this talk of blood has made me hungry.
Blood sausage! Get your blood sausage here!
Larks’ tongues. Wrens’ livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars’ earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get ’em while they’re hot. They’re lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany fried bats.
…it’s priest. Have a little priest.
Is it really good?
Sir, it’s too good, at least. Then again, they don’t commit sins of the flesh, so it’s pretty fresh.
Awful lot of fat.
Only where it sat.
Haven’t you got poet, or something like that?
No you see the trouble with poet is how do you know it’s deceased? Stick to priest.
Heavenly! Not as hearty as bishop, perhaps, but then again, not as bland as curate either.
Half? Even as an estimation, isn’t there a third entity in okay here? Re: Scion’s interlude.
Bah, you trying to scare me? Bet you never ate the kidneys and testicles of a lamb.
Ehm, wrong comment. It was meant in response to DasNiveau’s above.n Sorry.
That was just a Monty Python quote (Life of Brian) 😉
And no, i don’t have eaten that.
En on September 19, 2013 at 05:23 said:
methinks the boar doth protests too much… razorsmile might be on to something there 😉
It’s speculation but it’s supportable speculation.
– Her particular trigger event showed an entity shedding shards, one of which connected to her. Scion’s interlude talked about Counterpart dropping shards before pre-Scion figured out there was a problem.
– She remembers her trigger event when most capes don’t because a Stranger effect is in place on the memories. Scion tells us that said memory suppression is, along with the Manton Effect, calculated to prevent the hosts from ever challenging the Passengers.
A case could be made but I freely admit it is speculation. Don’t draw me, thank you very much. I’d like to live to see the end of this story 🙂
Very very interesting, now I must go reread her interlude. I think I like this theory.
“Don’t draw me, thank you very much. I’d like to live to see the end of this story 🙂 ”
This pleased me immensely, so you survive. Now I feel like I’m slacking… If school weren’t eating my time and soul I’d totally have killed off all the villains by now 😛
First you’d have to elaborate on at least a half dozen whacky rules to using your Death Sketchpad though.
Hyperdramatic Potato Chip not included.
You could be one hell of a police sketch artist.
Yeah but only for Wanted: Dead or Alive posters. And who gets the bounty then? These are important questions, and I must know.
Razorsmile, the idea seems to be that, as the need to memorize information has become less important, we’ve simply stopped making use of our ability to memorize quite so much. Some see this is a bad thing, but it’s merely an adaption to a world that became increasingly literate and then capable of storing information on computers.
Yes, it’s true we are unlikely to remember the oral history of a particular tribe for the last 500 years. However, we have the ability at our fingertips to call up the unbiased history of hundreds of tribes all over the world for the past 1,000 years.
On the other hand not bieng able to remember our grocery list without checking our cellphones is sorta a bad thing.
Yes, we are evolving into a dependency on technology. Nature abhors a vacuum, so as we develop tools that allow us to be less dependent on memory for survival, it’s more likely that those with lesser ability to memorize will reproduce. Just like people with deadly allergies now survive childhood when they could never have survived to adulthood before modern medicine. And children born with crippling physical defects that are surgically correctable with modern medicine, but would have resulted in death before modern technology.
My grandfather learned the periodic table in the sixth grade. He recited it to me once when he was around 80 years old. All 90 of them… When I looked confused because he left out some that I knew he had missed, he chuckled and said that was all there were when he was in school. Me, however, I have terrible rote memory, but I am very good when you throw a bunch of pieces of a problem in front of me and let me sort through the pieces and clues to determine what happened and why. My grandfather was not very imaginative, but even very late in life, you didn’t challenge his memory without a very strong chance of being proven wrong.
It makes me chuckle when I hear people try to explain that evolution no longer shapes humanity.
imsomeone on September 19, 2013 at 15:46 said:
I think memory is more learned then genetic to be honest.
What I find funny is an evolutionists view on homosexuals. If society discriminates them, more homosexuals deny their tendencies and live a heterosexual lifestyle. And reproduce.
I don’t know what this evolutionism is, as I’m not aware of some sort of religious group based around the Theory of Evolution. It’s like calling someone a gravitist or an atomist or a germist.
As it stands, though, heterosexual couples have homosexual children as well. It may simply be one of those strategies like birds that never leave the nest and find a mate of their own and instead help pass on their genes via helping parents raise their siblings and giving them a better chance of surviving and reproducing. Or like the Mosuo, who don’t marry. Instead, a man helps raise his sister’s children because he can’t necessarily be sure the kids his girlfriend has will be his, but he knows for a fact that his sister’s children are his relatives.
And it’s not really a laughing matter to suggest that a part of someone’s identity be violently repressed to reproduce more, especially when it suggests that the person suggesting this lacks a complete understanding of what the hell they’re talking about.
I assume that an evolutionist is to evolution as a physicist is to physics – a scientist who focusses on that particular area of we’ll-established scientific knowledge.
I… really don’t get how that’s funny? Is it that when bigoted, closed-minded people try to repress homosexuality they only serve to increase their numbers?
I guess that *is* funny in a bitter irony sort of way.
Though personally I question the assumption. If society discriminated against you for wanting to sleep with members of the opposite sex, would you just go “Oh well” and start sleeping with members of the same sex instead? I kinda doubt it. So why would the reverse be true?
There was an interesting TED talk about how it’s shaping people nowadays, mentioning a couple of feats only accomplished by humans with certain genes. Like no one had been an Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting without this gene and nobody had ever climbed up this mountain without additional oxygen without this other gene.
Of course, a lot of blindness to the idea that it no longer shapes humanity is because so many people don’t think it’s happening at all. You know, people who think that if it were real, then their grandpa would have been a different species, because they don’t actually understand the amounts of time involved in it all.
As I said. Nature abhors a vacuum. If the Grandpa thing was aimed at me, you completely understood what I intended.
My grandfather expressed high retention memory because it was a survival requirement for him. I probably have (or had when I was a child) the capability to develop a memory nearly as good as his was, but I didn’t need it, so I didn’t develop it.
For younger generations, pattern matching and analysis is being expressed more than memory retention. My grandfather, certainly could have been raised in such a way that they depended less on memorization and more on problem analysis, which would probably led to him having a less good memory and a better ability to solve complex problems. But he was a farmer. Memory served him well. He didn’t have a big enough picture of the world for his experiences to get better answers from problem solving than from memory.
Now move forward 1000 generations of people needing problem solving more than they need memory. Yes, there will be changes in how the human brain is optimized, especially if there is a statistically greater chance that good pattern matchers will have more kids than good memorizers.
As for the other examples I gave, that IS fast track evolution. When you allow deadly genetics to propagate by using medical tools to prevent death long enough for another generation to be born, you will very quickly (in an evolutionary sense) become dependent on said medical tools. We’re GOING to do it. Those are our kids. It’s the price we pay for being intelligent tool users – we become dependent on them for survival.
I wasn’t referring to your grandpa right then and there. I was referring to real life people who think that evolution means someone really close in their family tree would have been a chimp or something like that. I’m not sure where you’re from, but I’ve seen my fair share of people who are clueless about evolution.
Thing is, civilization is generally user-friendly, so even if his memory hadn’t been as good back then, he’d have likely still survived to pass on his genes. For a couple hundred, anyone can find a mate for at least a short amount of time.
Still, I think that same TED talk also discussed autism cases seen as being on the rise in the middle of a time when we’re exposed to more information than ever before. It’s certainly a lot to consider, but I’m wary of people who might confuse it with a mindset similar to Jack’s or Shadow Stalker’s.
And nature may abhor a vacuum, but space hates mops, so there.
I keep referring to it but I can’t even remember if that’s the same talk I considered far too optimistic about the development of body modification. One of them made it seem like immortality would be achievable in our lifetimes. Way too optimistic of a guy.
To reply to PG below –
(*sigh* If someone could delete the posted early version of this above, that would be awesome, please.).
In reply to PG, immortality *may* well be available in our lifetimes (though I doubt the average person would benefit from it in our lifetimes). The thing about breakthroughs is that they’re really hard to predict. In 1900 we had no idea that we’d have viable heavier-than-air aircraft within our lifetimes. There are still people alive today to whom the idea of computers would’ve seemed magic. And now we may or may not have invented the reaction less drive.
We’re discovering new things at an ever-increasing rate. And we don’t know if the key discovery which leads to immortality (if there is one) is a billion discoveries away or a dozen.
Penicillin wasn’t even on the radar until the *day* it was discovered. So who knows…
Evolution definitely still shapes humanity, but it tends to be a much longer term thing. What you’re describing is really just the difference between someone investing effort to develop an inherent potential vs not.
And there’s really no reason that potential should atrophy in humanity over time. Nature is full of species with features that are no longer strictly necessary, but haven’t been lost because there’s no evolutionary advantage to losing them.
Though honestly, the ability to remember stuff is so useful that I suspect it will still be selected for, no matter how technological we get. In fact it’s probably *more* useful now than ever, since we have so much technology to wrap our heads around! :O
I can’t see that change short of direct brain-internet interfaces.
Personally, I suspect that what has changed in the last few generations is not that our memories are poorer, but that we spread our focus a lot thinner. I bet if we stopped focussing on a dozen things at once and dedicated our concentration solely to memorising a table, we’d be just as good at it as your grandparents was. But we almost never want to nowadays.
There’s no such thing as “unbiased.”
@PG and a muscle fibre that is appears to be predominant in West Africans thereby enhancing speed. If I can find the article again, I will gladly link it.
Jack would be so proud of Scion right now. No more impersonal city-wide destruction but actual evisceration (or burning or other slow deaths) while looking at his victims in the eyes. He probably would frown at the all caked in blood thing. Jack was always well groomed when he participated in mass murder. Also, Scion showed up just as they were deciding to inject Bitch’s dogs with potentially dangerous formulas. He’s still saving the dogs!
So, it seems that Foil is an actual threat to Scion ( the entity is another part) and Parian saved her from certain death by,hmm, sending her to almost certain death. That’s love, folks!
Knave of Hearts is Dutch? Then the Suits are a European organisation not just an UK one. Or maybe Taylor just confused British English with Dutch? 🙂 .
Liked that moment of bitterest companionship between Taylor, the Wards and the Undersiders.
Silkroad is a great name for a Chinese cape with the power to make fast corridors. And I’m saying this because after finally deciding to start writing about my own superhero-world I realised how difficult it is to come with names that don’t sound corny or lame or even damn cliché. And yet, with the possible exception of Raymancer , who was even ribbed in-universe about it, wildbow manages to pull it off. It’s a small thing, but it’s another thing i want to congratulate him for.
*it’s bittersweet not bitterest there before companionship. Bitterest would give that a completely different meaning.
Bitter! Bitter!
Yeah, I’m sure that’s a reference LOTS of people will get.
The naming of capes in Worm has always majorly impressed me. Seriously, we’ve got things like Eidolon, Regent and Othello (my personal favorite names in Worm) in a genre dominated by “______-Man”.
The naming is great.
But Vornehm ticks me of Wrong … thats not a name a german cape would give itself.
The Meisters – “Die Meister” is great as a groups name.
but Vornehm (genteel, elegant, refined) … germans don’t name themselfs so.
Der Vornehme or Vornehmer would do but not just an adjective alone.
Epsilon Rose on September 19, 2013 at 03:26 said:
It could be Taylor or the English press that are getting it wrong. Maybe his actual name is Der Vornehme and non-germans who are looking to shorten it just lop of the Der (which is sad, because it sounds much better that way). Or, alternatively, Vornehme himself isn’t a native speaker and he’s had the name too long to correct it.
Likely the first. Taylor is calling them “Meisters” instead of “Die Meister” too.
You know I like all these Watsonian explanation for the rather boring Doylist answer that wildbow, while all kinds of awesome, probably isn’t a polyglot. I believe some South Africans readers pointed out he made some mistakes with the Afrikaans back when Moord Nag was introduced.
Oh and since I’m here and I don’t want to sound like a spoilsport, maybe Vornehm realised that being grammatically correct was a bother when people were calling his name in the middle of a fight. Die Vornehme is sort of a mouthful. 🙂 .
“Die Vornehme” which would be female 😉
wildbow don’t have to be a polyglot. He has a lot of fans that would help him, >>later<< on. (Thats actually a offer, Mr. Writer) English names are as abstract to me than german names are to him.
Ouch. That should teach me not to butt in when i don’t know anything about the language.
Anyway since DasNiveau already volunteered, I also offer my expertise if you ever need help with Italian names for capes. Seriously, you can’t have just the Brits and the Germans saving the day. Unless the European community sees us as a joke even in the Wormverse.
And since I’m already rambling, I always wanted to ask: does the European Union exist in the Wormverse?
inventorfrog on March 5, 2016 at 00:38 said:
It did just occur to me that Vornehm’s gender wasn’t specified. So if it is an error in translation, it could just as easily be Vornehmerin or Die Vornehme.
Possible explanation: he ended up like Taylor and was given a name by the local organization of asshole hero capes. She didn’t exactly choose the name Skitter, but she accepted it for a while nonetheless.
will408914 on September 20, 2013 at 19:44 said:
Exalt is an verb. I don’t see a lot of difference there, besides the grammatical usage.
inventorfrog on February 27, 2016 at 22:43 said:
Why wouldn’t it work? There are American capes with names like Gallant and Brandish. Capes have a habit of giving themselves clever names that aren’t always nouns.
If it’s actually a difference between German and English I’m interested to hear it — I’m learning German, but I’m not at the point where I can make native-level judgements on things like the quality of names.
Presumably Jack’s out there in the chaos somewhere still looking. I wonder if Scion will come back for him eventually, and what he’ll do to him when/if he does…
No One in Particular on September 19, 2013 at 02:40 said:
Y’know, I keep thinking things can’t get any worse. But they keep getting exponentially worse. Things have gotten so bad, I kinda wanna make a chart measuring how much worse things have gotten. Five “oh hell’s”? Thirty “wham’s”? Fifteen “well at least things can’t get any worse oh shoot it’s lunchtime’s”?
In other news, it just hit me that, after the whole Endbringer thing and crossing the Godzilla Threshold, the long wait for the Birdcage to opened seems like not too big a deal anymore.
Yeah, it’s a case of “we were dreading World War III for decades, but then the sun swelled up and swallowed the Earth and those worries seemed kinda quaint.”
LoL, yeah, remember when everyone was freaking out ‘cos they had to deal with Bakuda? Now they’re all “Remember when we only had super-powered mad bombers to worry about? Boy we had it good…” xD
Nourjan on September 19, 2013 at 02:46 said:
Screw those Case 53 !!(excluding Weld and those that that hold to him,and tried to stop them).When it comes to it they shown that they are even less noble than Cauldron,Saint or even Tagg,at least those guys were doing bad and wrong things for GOOD reasons(revenge isn’t one of them).
veekie on September 19, 2013 at 04:33 said:
Not really. The Case 53s are just being very human. They have no great agenda in mind, just revenge, because doom is certain anyway. They’ve given up, that’s all.
The only reason why the decide to off her now instead of after the final battle was because they were worried that they won’t be the ones the finish her .They were driven by their personal need for vengeance.
“Personal isn’t the same as important”.You know who else put their personal needs above everyone else?Cody and Krouse, and like these guys they ending up screwing people big time.
I would put those Case 53 in the same category as the Yangban,the Elites and the rest of the idiots that Taylor is wiling to sic and Endbringer on(in this case they deserve it).
Defiant is willing to work with Saint(he had every reason to pummel him to mush,hope he does his eventually) who unlike Teacher have no safeguard against him ,but of course the fate of the human race took greater importance.
So yeah, these Case 53s are worse than anyone misguided sods who thought they were trying to do the right thing(Cauldron, Saint,Tagg,The Triumvirate etc).
Saint killed Defiant’s girlfriend.
Cauldron stole people from their lives and families, turned them into monsters, tortured them until they agreed to let themselves be experimented upon to study their powers and then got brainwashed so they forgot about their previous life.
Perspective is important, sometimes. And always thinking about the greater good is what turned Doctor Mother (and Alexandria) into what she is now.
As I said in the previous chapter, had the Irregulars limited themselves in killing Doctor I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. Smashing Doormaker’s head against a wall, however, was morally wrong (he’s as much a victim of Cauldron as the Case 53), stupid (the cohordination of the anti-Scion league just went to shambles) and unnecesary (they are 50 parahumans capable of taking out Contessa and the Custodian against a normal human, two brainwashed capes and two hired goons with no aggressive powers ).
Saint didn’t just “killed” his girlfriend , he causes untold amount of death and destruction in his mishandling of the”Dragon Threat” both by taking her out at that particular moment and his fumbling with the control of the Dragon network afterwards.Cauldron took people who are destined to certain death in a crapsack world/circumstances and gave them at least some chance of survival(arguably many of them would prefer death had they knew what was coming).Both these people thought they were doing what was necessary for the greater good,both were wrong(although until we find out the Cauldron’s full game plan, the jury is till out on them)
I’m not saying they should be absolved , they all need to answer for they crimes but there a time and place for that. What those Case 53s did was unnecessary.The only way this could turned out good is if Weld manage to take back control of the situation and restore the support that Cauldron was providing to the Scionic defence.
Saint didn’t kill Dragon – she’s still around.
And yeah, the Case 53s kinda *did* need to take out Doormaker. Unless they wanted to kill Doctor Mother instantly (and were confident of doing so flawlessly before she could speak) they needed to cut off her means of escape first. That goes double if they wanted to hold and interrogate her. Hard to do that with someone who could just say “Paris” and be teleport to… well, probably a smoking crater in the ground, but you get the point…
You reap what you sow though. Cauldron laid the seeds of very very ugly payback long long ago. In a sense this outcome is Contessa and Doctor Mother’s fault, they made Cauldron the lynchpin of everything, so that they can control the maximum factors and direct the fight. They operated with a plan based on precognition, directed against an opponent immune to precognition.
Arguably, without Cauldron acting to scatter and crush independent operatives that threaten to take control of their plan, the more decentralized parahuman world would be less vulnerable to a decapitation strike. The Case 53s seeking payback was inevitable and entirely predictable. That they’d succeed was not.
Cauldron stopped trying to take out people interfering with their plans for quite a while(they believe it was hardly a point that matters any more)now .They wouldn’t be any decapitating strike as there is nothing to decapitate, these Case 53s already have that head in a bag. What Cauldron was providing(which these dolts took out) was essentially the only thing that made humanity last this long against Scion.
If you’re talking about the portals then Doctor Mother isn’t necessary. Doormaker is a vegetable that opens doors whenever someone tells him to. As I said bashing his head in was wrong both on the moral and the utilitarian level.
The Irregulars killing Doctor is, IMO, opinion far more understandable than,say, Tagg telling a surrendering 16 years old that if he could get away with it he’d put a bullet in her head then and there.
Until we knew what her endgame is,we don’t know how essential she is to the equation.We both could agree that taking out Doormaker is extremely unnecessary.
I could actually understand both Tagg and these Case 53s reasoning behind their action and I find Tagg to a lot less reprehensible of the lot (to the uninitiated ,Taylor could seems just be as bad as Jack Slash).Besides both Jack Slash and Grey Boy were pretty much children when they casually stroll past the moral event horizon.
Except, the ENTIRE scenario was their doing in the first place. Large numbers of vengeance seeking Case 53s. Lack of organization and information in the resistance groups.They took the whole world in their hands on the assumption that they can handle what comes.
And they can’t.
Absolutely none of those justify betraying humanity for personal vengeance or else Cody would be completely in the right (Accord is asshole, he deserve it right?Oh wait,he also sabotage the Delhi defence too).Now thanks to the Case 53s selfserving idiocy,the resistance is in a far worse shape.
Not that their care though,they seems to believe the fight against Scion is already lost any way.
Exactly. Hell, even the people going to the fight think it’s impossible. Taylor and co want to go down struggling even if all hope seems lost. The Case 53s decided their revenge was more important than a largely symbolic attempt to spit in Scion’s face before they go.
Ironically, this would never have happened if Cauldron had been the ice cold monsters everyone credits them as and just killed the Case 53s to start with instead of the much more cumbersome and risky business of wiping their memories and setting them free.
They didn’t *have* to have the Nemesis program. They were never needing cash.
The only rationale I can see is that Cauldron felt bad for the Case 53s and wanted to at least let them have some chance at a life.
This uncharacteristic empathy came back to bite them on the butt…
#irreverant,Cauldron was cold,but they believed in their purpose,they wanted more capes out there,which is why they were reluctant to kill capes.
irrevenant on May 2, 2015 at 21:00 said:
Yup. And there’s little so dangerous as people with an apparently noble purpose and a willingness to do absolutely anything to achieve it.
Cauldron’s pigheaded unwillingness to even *consider* that they were headed down the wrong path was their undoing. Given that their entire plan was based on one very shaky assumption – that the way to defeat Scion was by amassing a large enough army, they really did have more confidence in it than they had any right to. See my later comments on this issue though, when you get to that point. 🙂
Good point about why they let the Case 53s live – I hadn’t thought of it that way.
And BTW, it’s “Irrevenant”. The base word is “revenant” as in undead. 🙂
irrevenant,irreverant,its irrelevant as long as no revenant becomes soon relevant,due to there being more irreverent ways to talk about undead or ghost things,it is irrelevant to be reverent about a renevant,lest you wish to turn renegade by your reverent feelings for undead,and once you go renegate,you never go irrenegade,so be irreverent on your feelings about revenants,irrevenant but not irreverant.On second thought how could I,a reverent person,call you irreverant instead of irrevenant,irrevenant,when there is no meaning to the word reverant,but a clear one for the word revenant,from which you,irrevenant,take your name,while being reverent to beings the likes of which you should not be reverent,if you wish to stay relevant,and not become irrelevant,irreverant.
Meh,the renegade one was bad,and I should have used irrelevant more
Elias N Vasylenko on September 19, 2013 at 06:41 said:
Their selfishness and pettiness may literally kill all remaining humans. Who gives a shit what their agenda is? It’s the fact that they’re apparently *not* giving any sort of a shit about the consequences of their actions which is a problem!
The problem with Revenge is how it creates new victims. Kill the man who killed your family before your eyes? Well too bad you did it in front of his son, who will come back in 15 years to kill you or your family for revenge. Decide to get revenge on the man your wife ran off with by raising the daughter said wife returned with and gave to you right before dying, by making her grow up to be a drug addicted prostitue? Well you’ve just revealed all this to him, and why is he laughing? What does he mean it’s not his daughter? Then who’s is… Oh Shit! You want justice you get another party to administer it. You want revenge, you’d better make damn sure you don’t cause others to seek it on you.
“Make damn sure you don’t cause others to seek it on you.” is what a lot of characters *think* they’re accomplishing. Few (if any) pull it off.
Better advice: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Or as David Xanatos said “Revenge is a losers game.”
“Right, one for the big chick, one for the little chick.” -Tallahassee
The solution? Kill everyone.
You see what Scion is doing here? That is duuuuuuumb.
“Dorian had forgotten the first rule about killing innocents. One always survives.”
Eh, if Cauldron really had something that powerful to use against Scion, do you think they’d have easily fallen to the Case 53s in the first place? Anything they can do, he can do better, it’s just a matter of when he gets around to doing it.
They even had to buy an Endbringer from Teacher. For a group that’s been planning for all this, they aren’t making a good showing of themselves.
Vista is… seriously badass here. I wonder how much of the Earth is she warping.
I also found interesting the part where Taylor likes the wards, but loves the undersiders… Leaving aside the shipping, at least for now, it’s telling that she loves the people who she met before “hardening”. And before her shard matured.
And finally, the chapter went from relaxed to extremely chaotic and disorganized in a heartbeat. The general feeling of “wtf is happening” and disorganization was very well done.
In order: Defiant, Chevalier, Legend, Weld.
Are there any other interesting male capes remaining?
No, wait, let me rephrase that: Are there any other interesting male characters remaining? That are not canis lupus?
Forrest has too little screentime, but maybe counts. I’m not even considering Grue, Krouse is braindead, #36 is missing, Saint is only interesting because he’s Dragon’s foil, Aidan is nowhere to be found… is Leviathan a he?
Lung has Chechov’s Gunman written on him in giant white letters. Marquis may also have his chance to shine (again he was built up as this uber-badass). I won’t exclude Grue pulling a “he’s back!” moment but I admit it’s unlikely. Tecton is still there.
If we’re counting villains, then Teacher just jumped to number one threat after Scion and nobody mentioned the Number Man during the raid on Cauldron. And now I’m picturing Number Man in a (completely out of character) Roaring Rampage of Revenge, mowing down the Irregulars with a giant tinker-made (seriously Cauldron must have some tinkers somewhere) machine gun.
You’re right, both Marquis and Lung are interesting, despite the small screentime.
Teacher and Saint, while threats (present and past), are not interesting at all imho.
Number man is… an odd duck out. The cape is interesting, but the character is boring, if it makes some sense.
You find Number Man boring, really?
This is the guy who was best pals with Jack Slash, helped him kill King (whose power is essentially to be unkillable), walked out of the S9 as if he were walking out of a basketball team, was recruited by Doctor Mother and helped found Cauldron. All of this while he was still a TEENAGER (Taylor doesn’t sound so impressive anymore, huh?). He’s the secret mastermind behind pretty much any financial transaction made by capes, villains and heroes alike, worldwide. He outwitted one of Richter’s AIs. When one of Cauldron’s experiments tries to escape he beats them up with the power of super-maths and threatens to shatter their skulls with a pen. All the while musing such charming thoughts on how morality, ethic and friendship are lies and embellishments civilisation tells itself to avoid facing the truth. Only numbers are real. Oh and he beats his clones (the ones that curbstomped the best the Protectorate could offer) by purposefully giving them an opening for a lethal shot, knowing that if they take it Contessa will kill them all. COME ON!
By the way I also think he’s one of the most chilling and creepy “bad guy” to appear in Worm. I like the CHARACTER, I don’t admire the person.
Sorry for the double post but just wanted to add that, while I agree that Saint is there only for his connection to Dragon, teacher is, IMO, an interesting villain that may have suffered a little because of a too-late introduction/day in the limelight. He’s a more civilised version of Jack: screwing everyone just to show he can.
Another Number Man, fan, eh? 🙂 .
langer101 on September 19, 2013 at 07:08 said:
…after your summary +1 🙂
I think he makes for an interesting character, though I have to mentally edit him to have at least a little bit of superhuman physiology too since “Super Maths” automatically equaling “Bad Ass Fighter” have grated on my nerves ever since “The Clock King” episode of the Batman Animated Series.
To be fair, Clock King was a middle-aged man who somehow could evade Batman’s punches because he was obsessed with being on time, whereas Number Man has a bonafide superhuman ability to see the numbers in…well everything. I can see why it can be annoying, though, hence why I like that wildbow had him acknowledge that he prefers shooting people from a distance rather than engage in melee.
Haven’t seen the Clock King’s appearance in Batman, but he was badass in both Arrow and JLU.
Totally agree about the hand-to-hand thing, though: being able to get a feel for an opponent’s rhythm is one thing. Being able to respond fast enough with enough force to do something with that information is another.
There’s a character called Speed-0 (yes, deliberate pun. :P) in the Dasien webcomic who riffs off this idea. He has the ability to perceive things at superhuman speed and has spent his life honing his body to be fast and strong enough to take at least *some* advantage of it…
I think it’s also mentioned that it’s suspected he has perfect control over his own body movements.
Number Man fans unite!
I hope he was conveniently not at Cauldron HQ when the Irregulars stormed the place. They didn’t mention him as being taken care of so there’s hope.
I just really want him to arrive at this Scion fight in a sweater vest and dorky glasses with some hidden Cauldron super weapon.
taliesinskye on September 19, 2013 at 07:26 said:
Tecton comes to mind as interesting.
Nobody has mentioned Golem? I mean he spent the last two years with the wieght of the world on his shoulders. He knew that if the end of the world was going to be averted, he was going to be one of the key people for doing it. And he failed. His little sister, who was one of his anchors was killed. And he knows it was probably a friend that did it.
Seems there are tons of interesting male characters. Somewhere else.
Thank you! I was beginning to wonder if Theo had died and I missed it! O_O
To answer everyone at once:
First of all, I’m happy for Wildbow that other people find all the characters mentioned interesting. It means he’s doing things right.
Personally, however, I find theacher, golem, tecton, the number man extremely flat characters.
The last one has some depth only in relation to Jack, by himself I do not find him interesting at all. His gimmick is nice, but Harbinger’s backstory was maybe a bit rushed for my tastes, dunno.
If I manage to find out exactly why I find him flat I’ll post.
Ok, after this I’ll stop because I don’t want to sound like Number Man’s greatest fan (I like him but there’s people I like more, say Chevalier, Lung, Marquis, Eidolon just to mention some male characters) or, God forbid, his apologist.
Just wanted to say this: you think his backstory was rushed, I think it was done on purpose. We know he was Harbinger, he left after killing King, joined Caulron and disappeared from the face of the Earth. It’s supposed to be a mystery, one that probably won’t ever be answered, even after getting an entire chapter in his head. And i think it’s even lampshades in-story. Remember what Riley was doing before meeting Contessa? Going to the library to do some research on Harbinger because she wanted to give all the clones personalities matching the originals but not even Jack could help her in that regard. And then when Golem fights the Harbingers clones, what does he think? That the reason they’re so dangerous it’s because nobody even managed to start guessing what Harbinger’s power was before he disappeared leaving no trace.
But as I said, I rest my case. Worm as lots of characters, i wouldn’t be surprised if everyone had a different favourite. 🙂 .
It occurs to me that Vista could easily end the world if she wanted to do so. She showed during the S9K arc that she could warp holes through solid objects, and here she showed that she can act over a huge area. I imagine she could fairly easily warp a hole straight down into the Earth’s mantle and cause a supervolcanic eruption that could end all life.
PORTAL TO CAULDRON. Still think Taylor suffered brain damage after Scion first attacked them and, even if Panacea can restore neurons and the brain, Taylor seemed to be better at making connections before. If they really need to get to Cauldron, hunt down Faultline’s crew. I think Cauldron’s headquarters was the first connection they made to another Earth (when Alexandria tensed before they found the Travelers’ dimension).
Yeah, except she has no idea where Labyrinth and Scrub are because they have been relying too much on simply having to say “To Faultline” to go and have a chat.
Er, wrong post!
Allan on November 5, 2019 at 13:45 said:
Or…you know, Taylor is an actual character here! She is an actual person living on this world.
Characters don’t have every single piece of information given to them like you do.
Tattletale: “Taylor didn’t sleep a wink last night.”
Imp: “Oh?”
Tattletale: “Yeah, Simurgh kept her awake all night.”
You know, a part of me worries about what it says about the inherent sexism in constantly shipping female characters together. It could be argued we do so less frequently because the cast’s focus is predominantly on the women now, but in the interest of fairness:
Miss Militia: “How’s working with Leviathan going?”
Hoyden: “Ugh, total sea-sausage fest. Do you know how hard it is to keep him from hosing down Rawhide?”
Miss Militia: “That bad, huh?”
Hoyden: “Worse. All sorts of things wash up from Leviathan now. Turns out the Japanese were wrong about all the naughty sea creatures wanting girls. I now know for a fact that octopi prefer a macho man to cling to. And to cling inside of.”
Don’t blame Leviathan. He’s just lonely since Behemoth died. They used to meet up near those oceanic volcanoes, and pour all that heat into that watery abyss.
Dude ,this picture is so wrong!!
Those guys were like siblings.
BTW, is Hoyden still alive?I thought the Harbinger clones got her.
They were going after her, but I don’t think her death was confirmed.
There’s a really perverted joke in “I thought the Harbinger clones got her.”
They covered all the angles.
She’s Possessed. HARBINGER ASSUMED DIRECT CNTROL
“You know, a part of me worries about what it says about the inherent sexism in constantly shipping female characters together.”
I do find this interesting.
I do think there is a problematic and sexist element to lesbian shipping. There is something objectifying about it. Still, I have known real lesbians who frequently ship lesbian couples in works of media, up to writing lemon fanfics, though whether or not this implies the behavior is less sexist is up for debate.
Personally, I do tend to see more relationship chemistry among female characters than male ones, but it’s not an absolute thing. I suspect part of it is just that women are socialized with more intimacy in their friendships. There’s also something to be said for seeing both members of a couple as attractive and hence seeing how they would see each other as attractive?
I think there are valid feminist objections to lesbian shipping, but I don’t think it’s an especially problematic one as long as it’s done with respect towards the agency of the characters involved.
pidgey on September 19, 2013 at 14:05 said:
Shipping in general is objectifying. It’s pretty ridiculous to say that one arbitrary kind of shipping is worse or more gratuitous than another kind when all ships start off with the intention to be gratuitous objectification.
But please remember that this is a work of fiction. People are allowed to do things to fictional characters that they would never consider doing in real life, and it’s totally okay. How many people have been shot to death in video games by people who would be horrified at the thought of actually murdering someone? Fictional torture and fictional sex and fictionally breaking the law and fictional objectification has little to no correlation with a person’s tendency to do those things to actual people, so who cares? Being judgmental for the sake of being judgmental does no one any favors.
There’s also a bit of self projection I think with Shipping. Or maybe it’s like bieng someones meddeling mother. The one who keeps setting you up with her friends daughters for dates because “She’s such a nice girl, and you’ll be so happy together.” You tend to want happiness for characters you like, and a happy relationship is something that can be part of that.
Ack on September 19, 2013 at 08:43 said:
And the awesome just keeps on coming.
Well Scion has moved from “wiping out the anthill to build a house” to “Kicking over the anthill because he’s upset” and is now at “Using a magnifying glass and pulling off the legs”. In short he’s gotten crueler and more evil.
Sadly, given what he was before, that probably still counts as “growth” for him.
That makes Scion and Jack Slash the only truly irredeemable bad guys still alive a this point.
Psh, Jack’s still trapped in that time loop. I’d hesitate to call that state “alive.” Besides, Scion hit New York, dead-on, with a beam whose shockwaves devastated Brockton Bay. Depending on how close the final S9x9 showdown was to New York, he may be actually dead by this point.
Err, Jack’s Groups were in LA. Bonesaw’s team were fighting in New York.
Derp. :C Well he’s been entirely forgotten about, and good riddance. So it amounts to the same thing.
It’s weird to suggest this but I can see a story thread where Scion growing crueler and more evil winds up leading to his ‘redemption’.
Jack’s irredeemable in the sense that he already knows why what he’s doing is wrong and that’s why he loves doing it. He’s actively choosing to be evil.
Scion though? He’s “innocent” in the the definition of the word which reads “free from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil”. Previously, Scion didn’t seem to be much more than a blob of power with a fuzzy set of directions on it. “Good” was “fulfilling the worm lifecycle”. Then his mate died and “Good” as he understood it became impossible. Kevin Norton railed at him and he shrugged and tried accepting another set of external criteria as a definition of “Good”. Time passed though and being “Good” wasn’t doing anything for him.
Now he’s trying a new set of behavior and it’s being directed from within. It’s ridiculously, unforgivably evil behavior but it’s his own behavior. That’s a very tiny peg to hang a redemption off but it is something. Where before he didn’t really have a “self” to be good or evil, he’s at least started to grow a bit beyond his initial programming and if he can change himself to be “evil”, that opens the door to him discovering concepts like “Empathy” and being able to change himself to someone who’s actually good.
Ya, I can see that.
Anger Is destructive and ultimately negative, but it’s a step up the ladder from apathy and depression because at least it’s *motivation*. It’s an attempt to change things.
The pendulum always swings too far one way then the other before we find balance. Must of us don’t have the capacity to destroy entire planets while adjusting, though…
Kessler on September 19, 2013 at 13:39 said:
But is Scion different from Endbringers only in scope of the destruction?
Hrm. How about this idea. Jack Slash saves what’s left of the world. After he learns a bit from killing 90% of the populations of all worlds, Scion pays a visit to Jack, who tells him that there’s a better way to do it. Now that he can understand terror and fear in others, he needs to cultivate it. Allow humans to rebuild and repopulate. Strike silently and from hiding, rarely, but for maximum psychological effect. Create a multiverse of worlds where all humans are in constant terror that they might be one of a few Scion victims each year on each world, and over the next couple thousand years, he would develop into an artist.
How about it Scion? Free Jack, heal him, and let him teach you to be a truly scary boogeyman, rather than just an unstoppable force of nature.
Jack saves the world by making the Wormverse even MORE dark.
Aww Cuff and Golem ended up dating after all.
There’s a high chance both of them are going to die horribly very soon but still.
Hey there’s a high chance of everyone dying horribly soon. Well okay, somebody is going to live because Wildbow did state he was going to do charecter epilouge interludes.
Hrm. I wonder. Chevalier is going to try to wear some sort of Endbringer-material gear.
Maybe Golem could also use Endbringer bits? He grows materials independent of available mass, so give him Endbringer bits and he can make huge arms and legs out of them, stacked and positioned around a large area.
But I’m still in favor of Jack Slash saving the rest of humanity so he can teach Scion how to better terrorize humans and grow as a monster. That’s pretty high up the list of “Doing the right things for the wrong reasons.”
He seems to only be able to work with non-living material, so he could only use cut-off Endbringer bits. That’s one limitation. Also, he has to have a like surface to extrude his hand out of, so he couldn’t just grow Endbringer bits willy-nilly: another limitation.
Aside from that, though, I think he’s good to go, probably. He sticks his hand into one end of Leviathan’s severed leg or whatever Chevy got, and a huge hand made of Leviathan bone comes out of it. Repeat, and another huge hand comes out of that one. He can generate an unlimited amount of said material, limited only by his endurance. For all we know, that’s where he is right now, making a mountain of the stuff for Chevy to stick in his armor.
On the other hand, there’s a decent chance that the nature of the material puts it outside the ability of his power to replicate. He may only be able to create material that follows Euclidean geometry and/or the laws of physics.
Endbringers technically aren’t alive. I forget, did we ever find out one way or the other if they’re covered by the Manton Effect?
Didn’t realize this before, but man Foil is a fucking badass. Scion is staring her down, right after she saw him give another cape a painful death, and she calmly stands her ground.
That takes balls so big they warp space.
Too bad they aren’t quite big enough to warp Scion’s attacks away from her.
I can at least hope they’re big enough to help cushion her fall a little.
Enough weed will take the edge off bouncing on them: youtube.com/watch?v=gCHQzk2okoc
sarah penguin on September 19, 2013 at 16:02 said:
Another excellent update.
It’s telling they lose all contact to Cauldron and think they’ve ditched them instead of Cauldron got killed of, is under attack or otherwise occupied.
Comes with constantly ditching the heroes, leaving no call back adress, almost always seeming under control, getting the last word and Contessa.
Takin’ all bets! Takin’ all bets! Spooky feathered fiend versus the golden skinned master of disaster! Heavyweight match for the fate of the multiverse!
This may just be my inability to take a hint that everything goes wrong in Worm, but I got a good feeling about this. Scion just comes swaggering in like he owns the place, killing people like he don’t give a fuck. Even in Worm something like this is a sign that someone’s gonna get their ass handed to them.
Of course, that won’t exactly comfort the schmucks that get killed in the crossfire.
Also, I bet you anything Foil’s getaway was less a desperation move by Parian and more a crazy-ass flying squirrel escape strategy. Maybe, depends if Foil took some of the cloth with her.
Veloren on September 19, 2013 at 17:54 said:
I got a pack of milkduds and a squirrel on The Admin-bringer team. Scion’s tough, but he’s new to the Heel biz. GIVE ‘EM THE CHAIR, SMURFY!
BEST. TEAM NAME. EVER!
Estimated end of story is the next arc. Which means Scion either gets taken down this arc, the end-of-chapter interlude, or something got fouled up in the planning and it takes a few more arcs. Assuming of course that Taylor and co. are allowed a chance to breathe and rebuild at the end, instead of just dying.
Also, I noticed that you may have weasel-worded your way around saying the magic phrase that gets all of Taylor’s enemies killed. (I’m not going to say it either, if only because Taylor’s power is kind of undermatched vs. Scion)
Completely by accident!
Actually, here it’s more like “Meh, I can take her, and him, and him, and them, that guy too, aaaand all of you…”
So basically he’s the guy playing blackjack who just keeps hitting.
Makes sense. There’s only one person at the blackjack table with that kind of luck. Remember that as far as shards go, he’s the dealer.
Except in this case, if we don’t bet against the house, we die slower.
dragonus45 on September 20, 2013 at 06:01 said:
wait? what magic word?
“Meh, I can take her”, I believe.
The one Worm meme that survived the story and even ascended to canon hood what with Jack actually saying it to Taylor.
SOooo… The capes need to hold off scion long enough and survive until an Endrbinger can show up to reinforce them…
“We need more Endbringers!!!”
Well, if GU has Eidolon’s shard, maybe she can make more…
After seeing inside Ziz’s mind I’m very certain that Eidolon never made them in the first place.
I don’t see compelling evidence one way or the other. She thinks in an alien way. But she has an alien brain to think with and a set of goals that are alien as well.
I don’t see how she’s fundamentally something Eidolon’s passenger couldn’t have spun up for him to play with – especially since the discussion was never that he consciously designed them.
I’m going with the theory that they were just a part of the system, independent shards who were supposed to create more conflict but broken in some way by the death of the second entity, which is why they don’t know about scion. Perhaps the issues with them would be linked to the third entity, that would still fulfill the truth of the need for worthy opponents.
I was thinking the internet outage really threw me for a loop, but holy crap, I’ve not updated the donation tracker in ten days. That’s really falling behind.
Thank you to Andres, Jeremiah, Siddarth, Mark, Nicholas, Stephen, Jeff, David R, David B, Simon and Vladimir for their donations.
An especially big thank-you going out to Mike G for his.
I’ve queued another chapter.
You guys are fuckin’ awesome. Thanks. 😀
And so are you. I fact you are so awesome that your words have reached critical mass and taken on a life of their own and you may actually doomed our very own home reality!
I mean there I was in this Manchester and I see a warning about Zion! Apparently he turned up because of the smurfs’ (sic) attack. It;s a good jb the Birdcage was already empty…
What? you guys want proof? Alright then… coming soon once I can figure out how to attach photographto these emails…
I think you’ll need to host it somewhere and then link to the hosting site.
Don’t beat yourself up about it. Cross-dimensional blogging is hard enough.
On the other hand, Mr. Neil Patrick Harris, I am not getting stopped by heroes reading my blog.
But, as Wildbow needs to be reminded, Wildbow is indeed awesome. This work is “da bomb”. It’s like hella ill, son. Word to your homeboy. Lookie here. I can dig grease’n chompin’ on some buns and draggin’ through the garden.
But let’s save the rest of the jive turkey for Thanksgiving. Must have been a good donation to get Wildbow cussing and smiling. That or he’s been imbibing alcohol.
Makes me wish I had donations enabled. Of course, one of the reasons it works out so much better for Wildbow aside from the larger audience is also the donation incentives. I don’t know whether our porcine overlord has set the bar too high or too low. It depends on if we’re talking Olympic pole vault or Olympic limbo.
One way or another I shall manage this.
1) http://shawnmorgan.deviantart.com/art/Image-Zion-401648028?ga_submit_new=10%253A1379730683
2) http://shawnmorgan.deviantart.com/art/Image-Birdcage-401649139?ga_submit_new=10%253A1379730973
Zion is shorter than I always pictured him.
Mike G. on September 21, 2013 at 17:25 said:
You’re welcome, and thank you!
Now if only there was an official Kindle version available, it would be easier to get my friends hooked^H^H^H^H^H^Hstarted 🙂
nohat on September 20, 2013 at 04:57 said:
The irregulars have just lapped saint on my seriously annoyed at list. Taking out Contessa (killed?) and the door maker? Wow way to screw humanity over. Cauldron is annoying, but having a bunch of super powerful precogs working for you takes away almost all of the criticisms you can level against extreme methods. If you are willing to accept even a little consequentialism, Cauldron is right. The irregulars are just petty – way worse than the elite or even the yangban. I hope Weaver sics Simurg on them for breaking the truce. In contrast I appreciated that Saint was legitimately afraid of what dragon could do. He showed that he had a big bias and against her and AI’s in general (all the machines can’t love talk). Sad considering a self improving AI might be the only thing to save them (disregarding the meta perspective for the moment). So he might be wrong, but at least he wasn’t purely selfish.
I’m going to put some thoughts I had on the series as a whole here since this is where I got current.
I really enjoyed the whole story. Great, interesting characters. I love that she fights much more powerful things and comes out ahead (or at least not dead) by being smart. The praise section really ought to be much longer than the criticism section, but criticisms are what niggle, even if there’s a hundred great things to each little niggle.
So these aren’t exactly criticisms, just things that bothered me a little or which I was expectant of throughout the story and haven’t yet seen.
The timing strikes me as too fast. She’s only with the Undersiders for 2-3 months IIRC. It strikes me as unnecessary. I love a fast pace, but if you look at how many serious fights she has in such a short time… she’s fighting an all out war. It also means that she has ‘owned’ the city for a ridiculously short time to start bragging about it – or even treat it as a meaningful part of her life. Furthermore I think she develops her combat skills and mindset too fast. She jumps straight into combat veteran – in something like 2 weeks. I think it would be more realistic to have a few more months with the Undersiders, maybe even a year and take that out of the time in the wards that’s skipped. I don’t mean insert filler, just let it be clear that occasionally a week goes by where she does her ‘mundane’ work without three life threatening events.
It’s noticeable when several different characters use copacetic and headspace. These are unusual words. I like having Taylor use headspace and Lisa use copacetic, it says something about how they think. But the shrink using headspace? Doesn’t jibe – headspace is a rare, unprofessional, internet specific word. Frame of mind would be more appropriate.
The bullying is kinda annoying (she writes it all down but doesn’t record it)? Teachers offer help that she doesn’t accept? I get that passive victims are realistic – they don’t fight back because they’re afraid the bullies will escalate. The bullies will pick on the people who let themselves get picked on. However stories with pathetic protagonists are irritating. Taylor is far from pathetic except in this one instance. I would expect her to research it some. It just seems a bit ridiculous that for years she’s trained herself not to fight back ( or even talk back), and then with minimal transition she starts fighting freaking Lung in hand to hand. Obviously the story developed past this issue, and the resolution acted as good character development. Still was irritating enough in the early chapters that I felt I should mention it.
I’m surprised she hasn’t tried to develop control of more complicated brains – or at least picked at that definition. As a complex and difficult to define restriction I suspect she could have found a loophole or at least realized the artificial nature of the limitation. For a morally questionable option: could she control severely brain damaged people or creatures? I was expecting a moment with giant crabs or some other small brained but intimidating underwater creature marching out in a miniature godzilla attack.
The first three things I thought of when I learned her power was controlling bugs: poison (nerve gas?) delivery, camera/microphone carriers, explosives, and miniature tools made for bugs. She did capacin delivery so I’ll assume she considers other artificial venoms too dangerous. She did cameras. She hasn’t done explosives or miniature tools. I was excited when we learn about Bakuda’s mini bombs because I was sure she would use them for suicide bomber beetles. Simply piling up the plastic explosive a bit at a time would be pretty effective too. Her multitasking realization made miniature tools even more viable (why chew when you can use your razor sharp mandible saw)!
1. Tohu missing is a potential clue. Her powers seemed very similar to Eidolon’s. Maybe she’s on a covert mission for Simurg? I strongly suspect that this is an alliance of convenience for Simurg, but it depends whether her programming included ‘scare humanity, but don’t wipe it out.’ Possibly it’s just that she’s supposed to provoke non-lethal fights with powerful enemies (so doesn’t kill Eidilon, but when scion starts killing they back off).
2. Why do Bonesaw’s clones have the same passenger? They shouldn’t from what we know. Why would her cloning technique clone the shards? Is it somehow forcing the shard to fragment? We thought that was a natural process when the shard had lots of info, but maybe the S9 have enough conflict info to fragment a lot. Regardless it seems kinda odd that they aren’t replicating Bonesaw’s experiments to get a hundred legends or something.
2. Because it wasn’t Bonesaw’s work. It was mostly Blasto with a touch of Cranial. Once Defiant torched the labs down, all their notes and instruments were lost forever.
Pretty sure it was explained somewhere that the clones were similar enough to the originals that the passengers of the originals decided to bond with the clones. It’s the reason how Dragon’s passenger connects to her every time she comes back.
Quick question, did they say that the Travelers dimension had zero super heroes or just very very few. I was rereading the scion interlude and i noticed that the first plan had the worms going to separate dimensions first. The plan was to have shards fight each other first, then fight each other.
I’m starting to wonder if perhaps cauldron is from the world the dead worm landed. That would explain quite a bit.
Aleph (Travelers’ world) started to get parahumans (few and rather weak) after the first contact with Bet (Taylor’s world). the common theory is that the shards spread from one world to the other thanks to the same portals that allowed communication (and ONLY communication) between them.
We haven’t heard anything from Bonesaw recently. I wonder if she’s off in a corner sewing Lung and the Number Man together.
I’m betting Bonesaw isn’t being mentioned much as a way to misdirect from what the Simurgh was doing with that glass tube. Bonesaw is known to steal the work from other tinkers to incorporate into her projects. Bonesaw is a bio-tinker who was known to have made a great many superbugs. I think the Simurgh has made some sort of plague cannon there. It almost certainly wouldn’t affect Scion, but everyone pretty much feels that it’s not a matter of if the Endbringers will turn on humanity, but when.
Panacea’s acting as her watchdog.
You know, I don’t know how to feel about “surprise” (non-Tues/Sat) updates. On one hand, more Worm! On the other hand, I typically miss them until the next Saturday or so.
Great wyrmgold, since I notice this is not the first time you have missed a bonus Thursday I wanted to tell you that if you click on the “Donate” button at the top of the page it will tell you when the next bonus update will be. For example, the next one will be on the 26th, next Thursday. Hope it helps.
Or just drop by on Thursdays and see if there’s a new chapter 🙂
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:
” Like the fact that you love those guys and you never loved us.”
This really really really needs to be explained when you go over this story with your editor.
Schumi23 on November 24, 2013 at 00:15 said:
Well, I just started playing around with text mining software (specifically KH Coder) and have been using this chapter to play around.
Using only the frequency, before I have read the chapter, I am guessing this about it:
Something bad happened, probably with Scion, possibly with the Simurgh, though she could just be important in another area, and Tattletale discusses the effect will have on people. It is bad.
(TattleTale is the most used Proper Noun, 42 times, Scion is third at 17 times. Simurgh is at 13 times; People is the most used noun at 23 utterances, way has 16 uses, effect and guy has 9; Portal was used 16 times. Adjectives used are little, good, better, annoyed, golden, possible, second, and best (Among the most used of relevance); Adverbs used are really, just, probably, maybe, fast. Most used verbs are say, make, look, think, know, in that order.)
Now to read and see how correct I was.
But first some more data analysis with a graph of word co-occurence, suggests Tattletale and Rachel discuss something, not certain, probably pertaining to an action;
Something happens with Grace and Tecton, non-aggresive.
Imp is up to her usual deviousness,
Scion uses his power and they want to make him stop. Reinforces what I thought earlier. He will do something bad.
The Simurgh tries something with the portal. NOW I read.
Interesting. I was right about Tt and Rachel.
And Grace and Tecton, but for the wrong reason (Graph connected Grace tecton and Romp together, Grace was connected to “Lap” – I interpreted it as a physical lap of a person.
Simurgh I was sorta right, but less than I thought.
I was right on Scion. Also I just noticed Scion was slightly connected to Hand and Light which would make me sure he would be present attacking.
I think I did fairly well.
greatwyrmgold on January 3, 2014 at 12:13 said:
Simurgh? Horribly timed? It’s possible, since Scion blocks her sight, but I doubt it…
Okay, it could well be horribly-timed for some people, but whatever Simurgh’s goal is, she wants her toys. Probably. She won’t let the big golden bully break them all.
Averus on October 1, 2014 at 08:29 said:
Guessing “live” should be “love”?
I’m guessing it’s right as is. “You kind of live that, don’t you?” indicates that Taylor’s life recently is the perfect example of resourceful and stubborn – she lives that.
srave on January 2, 2015 at 07:27 said:
“unware about why it was funny that Grace was admonishing her on the swearing.”
Should be ‘unaware’.
Jonah on October 7, 2016 at 12:45 said:
“They wanted to try anyways. Have some things left over from the previous fight.
Missing the ending quotation mark.
“we blow dr. baby-talk’s mind”
Wildbow, did you proofread these later chapters at all? There should be capitalization in here. Also, you WAY overuse the word “sagely” when talking about Imp. It gets very grating. You seemed like a fantastic writer for the first 2/3 or so of this story, but toward the end you’ve gotten pretty lazy.
If you want to publish this in book format, you will need to brush up on these things.
Kanigami on May 23, 2018 at 16:32 said:
“I opted to walk beside Tattletale instead of use up my jetpack’s fuel.” –> using
Blub on November 26, 2018 at 20:47 said:
Miss Milita does not sleep? I am pretty sure that we saw her sleep in her chapter.
Who is Romp?
Why are they laughing about Grace mimicing Bonesaw?
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