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Healer Assistant Writers' Q&A
Two assistant writers worked with Writer Song Ji-Na for Healer. They were also the namesakes for two of the Someday News reporters, No Sun-Jae and Park Chan-Young. These are some of the Q&A items that were posted on Dramada.com. Translated here with their permission.
Q: How much do assistant writers write? Which parts did you write? Writer Song Ji-Na mentioned that the Assistant Writers helped complete the elevator scene… Which part are you most proud of?
PCY: I guess the question can be interpreted in two ways: How much do assistant writers contribute in general? And to what extent did the assistant writers contribute in this work (Healer)?
It is rather difficult to generalize what an assistant writer does. It varies hugely depending on the main writer’s preferences, the work progress, the abilities of the assistant writer him/herself, etc.
Narrowing the scope of this question down to “What roles did assistant writers play in Healer?”
Well. What is this flowing from my eyes? Sweat? (A man doesn’t cry… a man doesn’t cry… especially not on the first question of the Q&A…)
We made ourselves busy by coming up with backstories, new ideas, background research, organization of meeting notes, script reviews, and so on, but I personally think we didn’t help that much! Hahaha! (Sweating continues)
Also, the miracle of us completing the elevator sequence did not happen whatsoever.
What we did was study all night on how elevators work, brief the Writer on our plan A, then upon her explaining what that wouldn’t work, revise a plan B after more studying, get rejected, come up with plan C, get rejected, rinse and repeat ad nauseam… something like that.
It occurs to me that if we had worked out a viable mechanism just a bit sooner, the Writer would have finished writing the script for episode 8 with less trouble.
NSJ: Some assistant writers write the first draft, which the main writer uses as reference to write the actual script, but in our case, because Writer Song Ji-Na has an established style and flair already, first drafts by assistant writers doesn’t really help. Of course, it’s because our writing’s no good. There are probably parts where our ideas have been incorporated somewhere in the 1-20 episodes (I’ll believe so T_T), but she wrote it all by herself. I’m just ashamed and sad that we couldn’t contribute a period she could use.
The elevator scene… we really studied all night long for that T_T.
We managed to figure out how to drop the elevator by breaking its control panel and speed regulator, then make it stop precariously at some point , and have Jung-Hoo jump in for a rescue… (The lifeline harness was the Writer’s idea)
so all that was left to do was for him to escape by grabbing the cord going up as the elevator falls down… (by artistic license! I know you can’t do that at home, but if you do, you’ll die!!)
but then, the accelerated speed would kill Jung-Hoo and Young-Shin as they hit the ceiling. Or they’d break through the ceiling and go to foreverland.
We looked up several movies that featured elevator accidents, and they were all full of errors.
So we just convinced the Writer to go with this plan. (coughs)
Because of her meticulous nature, it took us talking to her all night before she gave in.
We had to make a field trip to Cheongju the next day, so both the Writer and I went to Cheongju without having slept that night.
Still, I felt elated for having contributed to the birth of the legendary episode 8.
Episode 8 not only has good romance and events, but also the best plot!
Q: 1. What is Writer Song like when the writing flows well and when she hits a block? And the overall atmosphere of the studio?
2. Of all the dialogue of Jung-Hoo and Young-Shin, which line is the most cheesy for you to say yourself? Of all the great lines of Healer, which one had the most impact?
3. Pick someone of the opposite sex (from a given list of Healer characters) you’d take to Moru Moru Island with you and explain why.
PCY: I’ll just answer the first question since I think most people want to know more about Writer Song.
When the writing flows well, there’s nothing special. It’s not like she can type via telekinesis or she insists on having shaved ice with red beans when it’s going well. She just writes. Excitedly. Without interruptions.
The problem is when she hits a block. There are many symptoms. She often talks as she’s walking. Sometimes she messes her hair up. Etc.
Personally, what impressed me the most is that no matter how much pressure there is, even when the script writing is at halt, she smiles. She smiles in agony.
How can she smile in this situation? Even as I marvel like that, she smiles, contemplating fiercely, and arrives at an answer in the end. (The Writer always finds the answer. As usual…)
As such a person is leading the studio, I don’ t think I need to describe the atmosphere any further. She pulls the agonizing assistant writers together and heads on… is how I feel. (It’s normally the other way around, I think.)
+ regarding question 3, I’ll go with my girlfriend. I’d be in trouble if I went with any other woman.
NSJ: 1. We just still our breath and wait for the script to come out.
As the Writer always smiles and the assistant writers are easygoing, the atmosphere was always good. When she hits a block, she goes for a walk, and comes back after a lap with good ideas.
2. The Writer hates cheesy lines herself, so the romance is rather trim. I personally wanted it to be a bit cheesier. There were so many lines that made my heart fall, but personally I found Moon-Ho’s “Park Bong Soo” followed by “Are you Jung-Hoo?” in episode 11 quite impactful.
3. From the available options, I’d pick Detective Yoon, but I don’ t think he’s good for anything without his laptop. I’d pick Yoyo. He’s good at fighting, and there might be scary things on the island. And maybe Jong-Soo? He’s so easygoing, he’d adapt to and survive anywhere!
Q: What is the most important thing you learned while working with Writer Song? And what part do you feel most attached to?
PCY: I learned a lot and gained a lot, but to pick one thing, it’d be this: Rather than going with “this should happen at this point,” choosing “wouldn’t this be fun?”
In other words, instead of just going along previously installed guideposts, just fixing a guidepost somewhere in the distance. Whether you can do this or not seems to be one of the differences between a writer and an aspiring writer.
NSJ: There are so many things to learn from the Writer just by observing her. The way she creates the characters and leads on just makes me marvel. Each character is so unique… She follows the emotions of each character as she lays down her plot. Her concentration, more than anything. To think and think to the end.
We worked on background research and devising a timeline for each character, and we also made the extra materials that appeared on the broadcast such as news reports and Someday News keywords, so I find myself attached to them. Check the facts again and again in case the information is wrong… proof the character’s age and the timing of events… Even so, there were many mistakes that appeared on the broadcast that made me upset. For example, Jung-Hoo took the GED in 2005 when he was 19 (Korean) years old, so we even tracked down the dates the GED was administrated that year, but for some reason on the broadcast, it showed as 2007. I couldn’t sleep that night.
Q: Is there anything in common between the reporter characters of Someday bearing your name and yourselves?
PCY: Chief Jang says in episode 3, “You proofread it and still left 3 typos in an article?”
I don’t really make many typos. But I do make other mistakes a lot. I felt a little prick in my heart when I saw the script. Is this how I am represented in the subconscious of her mind? That must be. I’m ruined in this life.
Just joking. I don’t think there’s much in common between me and the reporter character. That’s what I believe.
NSJ: We don’t have much in common… When she was kind of flirting with Bong-Soo when she first saw him, I was like, “No way… I’m not like that.” The character’s purely created by the writer! I’d love to have her looks though!
Q: How did you come to work on Healer?
PCY: The Writer did a workshop in 2011, and she picked five final members for this workshop, and undeservingly, I got picked as the fifth member. That’s how I met the Writer, and the rest is history.
When Healer was beginning to take shape, NSJ was working as the only assistant writer. Then, as the work became more serious, there was a need for one more person. (I’m sure they’re all regretting the fact that they called me back then by now.)
NSJ: As PCY wrote already, I was a member of her workshop, and I had joined her during the last 3 weeks of Faith, and she had suggested doing the next work together, so I bit the bullet like a serpent!
Q: Which character’s creation did you help? Who is your favorite character in Healer?
PCY: There’s no character that I created by myself. What we contribute are only fragments. It was wholly the Writer herself that picked those up and brought life into the characters. There are some of my fragments that got incorporated, but nothing worth mentioning.
My favorite character is Young-Shin. She’s a modern woman. I like Jung-Hoo, too, ofcourse, but Young-Shin is my favorite. “I’ll wait. I’ll wait, but I’m also mad. Really mad.” I think that explains everything.
NSJ: The Writer had already figured out the 3 main characters, and she had the big picture of other important characters. The details were determined from our meetings. I don’t know if she still remembers, but there are names I created such as Yeo Gi-Ja (Reporter Yeo’s name is really Reporter Yeo) and Oh Gil-Han. Of course, the final decision was always the Writer’s.
I can’t just pick a favorite character, as I love them all. If I had to pick a few, I say the Hacker Lady, Detective Yoon, and the Great Benefits Ahjussi (the ex-cop that left Seo Joon-Suk’s statement on tape).
Q: What do you do in your spare time?
PCY: I watch dramas and variety shows. I like to see my friends and talk (what’s important is who I see and not whether I’m drinking tea or alcohol). I also like sinking Karaoke.
NSJ: I watch movies and read books. I had tried competitive dancing during the early days of my assistant writership, and I mean to do it again.
Q: Which parts were most challenging to write?
PCY: There were a few challenges in our discussions. Devising new traps. How to get out of those traps. Now to avoid Young-Shin becoming a nuisance. How to maintain the atmosphere unique to Healer.
Whenever we were pining in agony, the Writer would swoop in like a knight in shiny armor and fix it with simple solutions or not so simple solutions at times.
NSJ: Ah… traps… T_T
We assistant writers were gathered together in a small room digging for a trap and got ourselves trapped instead… The Cheongju airport sequence was also in a pit…
In the end, the Writer solved it all.
However, I believe that our toil was not in vain! We made all the problems very obvious…
Q: How did it feel to hear your names get called through the Someday Reporters? How did they get named after you?
PCY: To be honest, we thought they’d be really minor roles that would only appear in a couple of episodes with no dialogue and that their names would never be called.
When the script for episode 3 was being written, most the cast hadn’t been determined yet, either. When working on the synopsis, we had maybe Chif Jang, Reporter Yeo, and Jong-Soo, but nothing about Chang-Young and Sun-Jae.
So as the Writer was working on the script, she needed names for a male and a female Someday Reporters, and she just told us that she’d use our names because completely new names would be hard to remember, and we just said yes.
Back then, we had no idea that the roles would appear to the end of the drama and the names would be used so much. Had we known, we’d have come up with proper names.
When we went to the reading of scripts, the writers and the directors sat in the middle, then the actors were sitting around the table, and each person introduced him/herself in turn. I introduced myself, then NSJ did, and then later, the actors introduced themselves, “I’m Kim Dong-Gyu playing the role of Park Chang-Young” and “I’m Kim Jin-Hee playing the role of No Sun-Jae.” I’m sure nobody cared, but I felt so embarrassed and could not see the face of the actor.
A few days ago, as we were getting ready to leave the wrap-up party, NSJ and actress KJH playing Reporter NSJ ran into each other by chance, so the two of them talked, took pictures together, and I felt rather envious. I have a Reporter PCY, too! Where is actor KDG? I should have sought him out and exchanged a few words, I thought.
NSJ: We agreed to her using our names without any thoughts, not knowing that these roles would have dialogue and just thinking that the names were only needed for the script. Whenever our names came up on the broadcast, I wanted to dig a hole for myself.
Q: Who picked out the songs Young-Shin sang in the drama?
PCY: The most important one, “Give me some water” was the Writer’s pick.
When she felt a song as she was writing the script, she’d just use that song right away, and if she couldn’t think of any, she asked us what song YS should sing. We’d give her a few candidates, and she’d pick one from those.
NSJ: In addition… “Lived unaware of the world” in episode 1 (when the Pirate Broadcast team appeared), “Day by Day” in episode 5, “Gladly, gladly, let’s forget” in episode 8, and “Alleyway” in episode 9 are Writer Song’s picks.
Q: As you watched the drama, which scene came out better than you expected and which scene do you think could have been better?
PCY: Better than our expectation or imagination. That’s easy. Too easy (After Jung-Hoo’s mom.)
Ending of episode 5, the CEO Hwang’s garden sequence and ending of episode 8, the elevator sequence.
The last instruction in the script for episode 5 is “He knew Young-Shin would react this way,” and I was totally surprised at how well he executed that instruction. To be honest, I had thought it would be realistically impossible for the actual scene to be better than what I had imagined in my head after reading the script, no matter how well the directing and acting was. Later, I heard actor Ji Chang-Wook talk to the Writer that he had to put a lot of thought into it after he had received the script. They probably had to shoot it in a single take because of the scope of the scene. They’re just amazing.
Actor JCW said that he put a lot of thought into it, and the Writer responded that such instructions can’t be written without a deep trust in the actor. It felt like I was listening to a conversation of gurus.
And of course, we can’t leave out the elevator sequence of the ending of episode 8. That scene was something you could only see in movies! I was just so impressed by our directors watching that scene.
The scene that could have been better.
This one is hard to pick. As you all know, the scripts, the directing, the acting, and all of Healer are just great. In my personal opinion, to pick one, I’d say the Pirate Broadcast sequence from episode 1. As I think about it now, I feel like we could have done it differently.
NSJ: There were so many scenes that went beyond my expectations. The best of them is the elevator sequence! I had no idea that it’d turn out like a movie! It was beyond my imagination. What I feel regrettable is the ending of episode 20. It would have been better if it was the local grocery store.
Many times did I marvel at the acting of the actors. They just showed a performance beyond what I had imagined while reading the script. Jung-Hoo and his Teacher’s scene in episode 10. “My father is a murderer and I’m a thief!” Jung-Hoo and Moon-Ho’s scene in episode 12. “This guy and that guy, all lies!” The scenes where Young-Shin was dancing. The ER scene in episode 13 when she figures Jung-Hoo’s identity out. When she meets her mother for the first time. Moon-Ho at the junk yard. Myung-Hee in her seizures. Moon-Shik breaking the glass. All scenes with Min-Ja? There’s just no end to it.
The Writer had chosen to have the last ending at a local grocery store to signify that Jung-Hoo was now living an ordinary life, mingled with ordinary people. That’s why it was supposed to be a grocery store, not a rooftop.
Q: Did you watch the episodes as they were being aired? What did you focus on as you watched? What were you like as you were watching? What did you do right after watching?
PCY: Of course we did! We couldn’t miss even one episode.
There are reclining couches like what you see in the American sitcom “Friends” in the big room of the studio. The Writer, NSJ, and two assistants who joined us towards the end, Jin Han-Sae and Yoo Ah-Mi would sit there. I sit on a Chairman’s chair (I’m sure you know what I mean) behind them and watch the show. I put my legs on an office chair and recline.
After the episode, we discuss what we liked about that episode (there weren’t things we would hate, right?). In our case, as we already know what will happen as we’ve read the script, it’s difficult to watch it like a regular viewer. My focus was on how fast the time seemed to pass, and gauge whether the episode was more or less exciting based on that.
Then, at 7 in the morning, look at the viewership ratings result, think to myself that those numbers can’t be trusted these days, then went back to bed.
NSJ: We’d max out the volume and watch in intense concentration and silence. The only sound that came out from us was laughter.
Q: What are your favorite scene, line, and acting performance?
PCY: Best scene- “Give me some water” scene. I actually laughed out loud.
Best line- “I had to see those eyes.” A close second is “What you asked me earlier, you’re right. I like Chae Young-Shin. Just so you know.” but I was touched the most when I read that line.
Best acting performance: “They even offered great benefits.” I can’t just pick one from Jung-Hoo, Young-Shin, and Moon-Ho’s performance because there are just too many I like.
NSJ: As I said earlier, the ending of episode 8 starting with the elevator scene! Best acting performance was also answered above. (Plus episode 14 where Jung-Who was asking “Why? Why?” after watching his Teacher’s last words.) Best lines include “personal contact,” “I don’t know how to run away,” and just so many.
Instead of favorite lines, I want to talk about when I was touched when I first read the script. There are many scenes like that, but what I remember the most are…
In episode 15, Moon-Ho’s “We remember you.” A memorial broadcast for those not remembered…
In episode 18, Chi-Soo and Young-Shin sharing the cookie Myung-Hee made…
In episode 19, Young-Shin’s line, “If we do this broadcast, maybe that crazy old man called the Elder might fear us. I’d like him to become afraid of us.”
I felt my heart get warm and overcome with emotion when I first read them. I’d really like for those in power to become afraid of us.
Q: How were the remote conversations between Healer and the Hacker Lady shot?
PCY: We were also impressed by this part. It’s a collaboration of directing, editing, and the acting performance of actors Ji Chang-Wook and Kim Mee-Kyung.
When we watched the last episode in theater, Actress Kim Mee-Kyung said something about how she had gotten used to saying her lines by herself in a studio so that she felt awkward to be actually interacting with people in episodes 19 and 20.
NSJ: I know that the directors and the actors had a lot of discussions about this. I think they would shoot Jung-Hoo’s scenes first and then the Hacker Lady would act while watching Jung-Hoo’s scenes, but I don’t think they could do that for every scene, although I’m not sure.
[Writer SJN’s answer to this question is posted at the end of this other post.]
Q: If you could jot down some notes on Young-Shin and Jung-Hoo’s future after the ending of episode 20, what would that be?
PCY: Mr. and Mrs. Healer. I’d love to see them get into action together. The ending was such a tease.
NSJ: I’d like to see Mr. and Mrs. Healer, too. I’ll be content with the ending though. I want to savor the feelings of the ending rather than imagining.
Q: If you could have the skills of Healer, what would you want to do right now?
PCY: What are Healer’s skills? Stamina, agility, fast thinking, money, information, spatial reasoning, disguise. I don’t need all those. What I would like to have the most is Healer’s face. What would I want to do with that? No comment.
NSJ: What I want is the nature of heading straightforward! The will power to jump into action without just thinking! The determination! Courate! (It’s about time for me to stop thinking and start acting…)
But what could I do with these right now?
Q: Is there anything you couldn’t incorporate that you wanted to include?
PCY: When Jung-Hoo fakes his death in the last episode, it would have been nice to have it look realistic so that the viewers would have really fallen for it. It was something we had to give up on because of the restrictions we had in reality and in the plot. The Writer had been talking about Jung-Hoo talking a key evidence he took from the Elder and flee in an aircraft, which then explodes. Then, when everybody thought him dead, he comes back with that evidence. It’s sad that this didn’t work out.
NSJ: Things get changed as the story moves along. I’m not sure if I may say this, but when Moon-Ho is kidnapped in episode 18, the Writer had first thought of throwing an unconscious Moon-Ho into a pit at a construction site. The episode would end with a concrete-mixer slowly approaching from the distance! (We were gonna pour concrete on Moon-Ho!
Also, we had a discussion about Moon-Ho serving jail time, taking responsibility of everything for Jung-Hoo and Young-Shin. We imagined him handcuffed and in a prisoner uniform, smiling as he is being escorted. This plan was canceled because leading the story to get him handcuffed in a prisoner uniform was too difficult.
Q: Does Jung-Hoo know that his mom had left him in order to protect him?
NSJ: Episode 13 shows the past of Jung-Hoo and his mom. Jung-Hoo had forgiven her then. It didn’t matter why she left him. Maybe he didn’t know, or maybe he knew. Both of them hide a lot for each other so as not to put each other in danger, so even if he knew, he’d pretend ignorance. That’s why they could see each other again and share shaved ice with red beans.
I think that as Jung-Hoo sat on the swing and smiled, he thought back to that time and was happy with that memory.
Q: What did you think of the casting choice of Actors Ji and Park!
NSJ: At first, I thought the choice was great! And as the show progressed, what we said the most was what would we have done if we didn’t have those two actors!
PCY: In my case, I didn’t have the same level of confidence as Writer Song. At first.
I thought they were good actors, and that the cast was not bad for a miniseries. That’s what I was like back then. I could even imagine other actors playing the roles of Jung-Hoo and Young-Shin in my head.
Now? That’s impossible. Not imaginable.
Seo Jung-Hoo is basically Ji Chang-Wook himself, and Chae Young-Shin is Park Min Young herself.
This was an irreplaceable cast.
Leaving all things behind, I’m a fan of the two now. I managed to get actor Ji’s autograph at the wrap-up party, but I still regret to this day that I didn’t get one from actress Park. (Still got to take a picture with her though.)
Q: Looking at the script, I found that actor Ji often had added adlibs and changed the sentence endings to his lines. Did any of them leave a big impression on you?
NSJ: I had a lot of LOL moments with ad libs. What come to my mind now are...
episode 5, at the café, “It hurts!” and his reaction to confirm that he didn’t forget to report to the police.
episode 19, when he saw the Hacker Lady for the first time and mumbled, “You go around in that outfit?”
episode 20, when Sang-Soo hit Yoyo, “Some teamwork.” I remember them because they’re recent. There are many more, but it’s hard to look for them now, so I’ll stop here.
PCY: The way I see it, actor Ji Chang-Wook had become totally possessed by Seo Jung-Hoo, so his ad libs didn’t go overboard. Same with the sentence ending variations.
What left a big impression? I guess I also am reminded of the recent one about nice teamwork.
Q: I read in Writer Song’s Q&A that you wrote down all the fragments of ideas and organized them, did you handwrite them in notes and organize them by a certain rules, or sort them by chronological order? Or were they all digitized?
NSJ: Sometimes we’d type them on our laptop during our meetings, or take notes and then later organize them and post on the Writer Team board. We post each day’s meeting notes that day.
PCY: We work on our laptop to organize what was discussed at our meetings. Sometimes we record it on our smartphones.
Q: What do you think of Jung-Hoo’s mom’s decision?
NSJ: Although this wasn’t brought up much in the show, Joon-Seok’s lawyer was Secretary Oh under the pseudonym of Baek Seung-Jong. He approached JS like that and took care of him in the same way he did Go Sung-Chul, Hwang Jae-Gook, and Gi Young-Jae, and as Jung-Hoo’s mom was being a pain by poking everywhere to clear her husband’s name, he threatened her with an indifferent smile on his face. Moon-Shik played a role here, too.
Jung-Hoo’s mom felt like the attention of the bad guys and the media would be on Jung-Hoo if she was with him, and she thought she’d be found even if she ran away with her son, and he’d have the stigma of being a son of a murderer. So back then, she must have thought that Jung-Hoo would be safe if she left. That her leaving him and living a quiet life was the best for him. One could understand that choice or criticize her, but given those circumstances at the time, it might have been the best course of action for Jung-Hoo’s mom.
Q: Was there any acting performance of actress Park Min-Young that surprised you? I wonder if she spent a lot of time on researching her character and discussed things with the writers, too.
PCY: I personally liked actress Park Min-Young’s crying scenes. I’m the kind of viewer that thinks, “What? Why’s she crying?” if I don’t understand the emotions of that actress, but when PMY cries, I would think, “That’s right. Young-Shin is a kindhearted character indeed.”
To name a specific scene, in episode 14, when she goes, “Is he alright? Is he not alright?” then “Just where is he?! Please!” with her eyes full of tears, that moment of Young-Shin left a big impression on me.
Lastly, to add something about actress PMY,
In the beginning, both actors would often visit the studio and ask the Writer about their characters, and one day, she came with lots of ideas about YS’s attire. She had brought her tablet with lots of fashion pictures for reference. She’d say, “How about this? I was also thinking about this,” to the Writer, and as I watched from the side, I was impressed that our main actors were all very ambitious about their acting.
NSJ: Actress PMY also came to the studio several times before we started to discuss the character with the Writer. She had taken a lot of notes as she read the script, too. (Both actors would open up their notebooks as soon as they sat down and take notes so diligently.)
As the Writer had mentioned, you could see the passion in them of wanting to try, wanting to transform themselves. Judging from her speech at the KBS Drama Awards, she must have had a lot of thoughts on her acting. I had thought her acting skills had reached a certain level even before, so I was happy to see Young-Shin.
She was lovely in scenes where she was singing and dancing and when she’d cover her eyes as she explained to detective Yoon about when she met Healer, and she must have cried for real when she met her mother for the first time, as her face got really red. I couldn’t help but admit that she’s a good actress.
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mywebfoot 25 March 2015 at 19:56
Thank you thank you thank you. This was wonderful, engaging read. These two writers are witty and humble and I imagine they must be a joy to work with. What wouldn't I give to learn the craft with SJN.
i have never realised the importance of writer and their assistance until this show.. because most of previous drama, i am just please with viewing some pretty faces in the likes of Joon Won or Lee Junki or Lee Minho... and i hardly remember lines said by them... but this drama lift me up to another league, and i can never look at a kdrama with the same eyes any more. its not just admiring Ji Chang wook and Minyoung pretty faces that matter, it also help when you their acting make you forgot they are changwook and Minyoung... makes you not interested to go and re-watch empress Ki ... but the essence of whole drama also lies in the excellent lines, moving lines, witty lines, humorous lines, not just from main leads, also from ahjumma, teacher, papa chae... lines that accompanied you and tuck you into bed, unable to sleep, lines that stayed in your head the next day when you are still working... lines like "i don't know how to run away", "i Knew it", "i can live the way you want", "even if you cannot find, come back"... "things i likes...".."i need to see the eyes"..."i did not wait long, you come to me"(dad chae) "with the woman you loved, 2 kids, 1 dog, 2 cats, and 3 goldfishes".... this drama spoilt us, till we can never look at another drama with the same eyes any more... and even if changwook act in another drama... it completely different, i am still yearning for Jung Hoo and Youngshin.. this is the diff between this drama and many dramas in past, present and future. Healer, is in another league already.
Shahirah Hasbullah 22 April 2016 at 13:38
OH MY GOD. HOW HAVE I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS BLOG?! :O
Absolutely love this blog and this post and all the other posts!!
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At least two thirds of Americans want the choice of a public plan.3 Fully 73% of doctors, the people who see the moral and medical need up close every day, want a public option.4 And a majority of small-business owners, who know firsthand the economic case for health care reform, back it.5
Yet the health insurance companies—and some subset of the people who believe they've seen flying saucers—oppose it. And somehow, ridiculously, that's put the public option in danger in the Senate.
Can you send this free fax to your senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, to make sure she knows just how popular the public option is?
–Nita, Stephen, Kat, Peter, and the rest of the team
P.S. Remember last week's email "from" the public option? Well, it turns out the public option now has its own Twitter feed—@im_publicoption—for important updates and miscellaneous observations on the state of the health care fight. Check it out here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84785&rc=tw&id=17382-10220574-M4ELgSx&t=5
1. "More Americans Believe In UFOs Than Oppose A Public Option," Media Matters, September 29, 2009
http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200909290001
2. "Insurance and HMO Industries Spend Nearly $700,000 Per Day to Kill Health Care Reform Measures," Public Campaign Action Fund, September 15, 2009.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84720&id=17382-10220574-M4ELgSx&t=6
3. "In Poll, Public Wary of Obama on War and Health," The New York Times, September 24, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/us/politics/25poll.html
4. "Poll Finds Most Doctors Support Public Option," National Public Radio, September 14, 2009
5."Small Business Owners Say Cutting Health Care Costs, Need for Reform are Top Concerns," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 3, 2008
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=36550
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Sen. Schumer fighting for the public option
Sen. Schumer sits on the Senate Finance Committee, where he's fighting for the public health insurance option. Can you call to thank him and urge him to stand strong against the trigger?
Senator Charles Schumer
Report your call
There's a big vote on the public health insurance option tomorrow—can you call Senator Charles Schumer's office right away?
The Senate Finance Committee, of which Sen. Schumer is a member, is debating an awful health care bill that doesn't include the public option—the key to expanding coverage and bringing down costs.
Sen. Schumer and other progressives are proposing amendments that would add the public option to the bill, and the committee will begin voting on them tomorrow. But conservatives are countering with a bogus "trigger" amendment that would kill the public option through indefinite delay.
Can you call Sen. Schumer to thank him for fighting for a strong public health insurance option that's available immediately—and urge him to stand strong against the trigger?
Here's where to call:
Then, please report your call by clicking here:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSNY_1&cp_id=1123&id=17354-10220574-hVWVd.x&t=2
Four other congressional committees have already passed good bills that include the public option, but the Finance Committee has been dragging its feet and considering half-measures—like the trigger—that won't fix our nation's broken health care system.
Make no mistake: the trigger is a Trojan horse designed to kill the public option by delaying its availability and then offering it only in a limited number of states after certain conditions are met.
So we need to send a strong message to the Senate Finance Committee that health care reform must include a strong public health insurance option that's available immediately—not a trigger.
Can you call Sen. Schumer right now to thank him and urge him to stand strong against the trigger?
–-Nita, Wes, Kat, Joan, and the rest of the team
Our "Caught Red-Handed" ads are powerful—and will show Republicans that opposing health care reform that Americans want and need has real consequences. But to expand our ad buy, we need to raise $250,000 right away. If 3 MoveOn members in Inwood donate today, we can hit our goal—can you chip in $20?
Republicans seem to have just one goal this year: stop health care reform.
And right now, they're getting away with it—hiding behind the right-wing mobs, false arguments, and loud-mouthed pundits.
Luckily, we've got the perfect way to call them out: last week, we launched our hardest-hitting ads of the year, "Caught Red-Handed." The new ads expose Republicans for voting against reform Americans want while taking huge sums from special interests who oppose it.
We hired an independent research firm to poll voters about the ads and whether they were effective, and the results were amazing: they found that, in the context of political thinking and decision-making, "the ad delivers some of the largest shifts against the Republican targets that we have seen." In other words, they do exactly what they're supposed to do.
So we want to expand the ad buy—and fast. If we raise $250,000 immediately, we can take "Red Handed" to new districts and put more Republicans on the defensive.
To hit our goal of $250,000, 3 MoveOn members in Inwood need to donate today. Can you chip in $20?
https://political.moveon.org/donate/red_2009.html?id=17349-10220574-7xej5Nx&t=3
We know these ads work: in 2006, we ran similar "Red-Handed" ads during the election. By running these ads in districts considered long-shots for Democrats to beat Republican incumbents, we helped flip five safe GOP districts to the Democratic column.1
With this new crop of ads, we hired top-notch research and strategic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research to test them. Here's what they had to say:
The ads are successful at "turning up the heat against anti-reform incumbents [and] raising the political costs for pro-insurance incumbents."
A net total of 26 percent [of likely voters] are less likely to support the incumbents after watching this exchange...[the ads] produce some of the biggest shifts away from targeted Republicans that we have seen in a MoveOn.org web test.
On the traits, incumbents lose credibility on their honesty (20 points!)...we also see big shifts on..."cares more about helping big insurance companies than American families," "helps to make health care more accessible," and "works to lower health care costs."
These ads send Republicans a strong message: if you oppose health care reform, it's going to come back to haunt you when the next election comes around.
If we want to win on health care, we need to take it up a notch and make sure Republicans don't get away with opposing health care scot-free. Can you chip in $20 to support our campaign?
–Kat, Michael, Stephen, Ilyse, and the rest of the team
1. "Election 2006: People Powered Politics," MoveOn.org.
http://pol.moveon.org/2006report/?id=17349-10220574-7xej5Nx&t=5
Update on Dawn
Dawn's story is proof that insurance companies can't be trusted to do the right thing on their own. Dawn is fighting for answers and for a public option, so that insurers who mistreat their customers face real competition. Watch a short video from Dawn and then join her fight.
Last week, over 100,000 MoveOn members stood with Dawn Smith to demand that CIGNA cover the treatment for her brain tumor.
CIGNA had been denying Dawn's requests for two years, but when she went public, with the help of MoveOn members across the country, CIGNA reversed course. They took the first step toward resolving Dawn's case—agreeing to pay for the test she needs to determine her treatment plan. By reversing their denials, CIGNA made it clear that they didn't think their decision would stand up to public scrutiny.
But they didn't offer any explanation for all the previous denials. And they didn't guarantee that they'll approve the next step in Dawn's treatment. And for all we know, they're still doing this same thing to thousands of other people whose stories haven't caught national attention.
That's why Dawn is insisting that CIGNA explain the policies that led them to deny her care for so long. And—for herself and all the others who are suffering—she's demanding proof that they're changing those policies so this never happens again.
Dawn recorded a short message for MoveOn members. Can you watch the video and then add your voice to a statement of support?
http://pol.moveon.org/dawnsmith/?id=17338-10220574-_7a7Nux&t=5
Since Dawn went public, we've heard from hundreds of others who have been hurt by CIGNA. The stories range from simply frustrating to absolutely heartbreaking. If you or someone you know has been denied needed coverage by CIGNA, or by another insurance company, please share your story with us at:
http://pol.moveon.org/healthcare/survey/?id=17338-10220574-_7a7Nux&t=6
All of these stories paint a picture of an insurance company that, as one former CIGNA executive pointed out, has every incentive to deny coverage.
In the case of Nataline Sarkisyan, CIGNA denied a liver transplant—reversing themselves only when public pressure became too intense. Unfortunately, their decision came too late for Nataline, who died.
Christopher Hanna told us the story of his wife's battle—she had to spend "hours every week browbeating [CIGNA] over the phone," fighting to get treated for the ovarian cancer that would eventually take her life.
And of the stories we heard, there were a stunning number where CIGNA authorized a procedure but then came up with an excuse—any excuse at all—to not pay.
It's clear that Dawn's experience with CIGNA isn't unique—in fact, it isn't even out of the ordinary. And even though CIGNA would love for Dawn to just go away, she isn't backing down. She's demanding answers and proof that CIGNA is changing their policies so that their mistreatment of her and their other customers comes to an end.
Will you watch Dawn's video and sign the statement of support?
–Justin, Ilyse, Kat, Daniel, Laura, and the rest of the team
P.S. If you have a story about CIGNA or another insurance company denying needed care to you or someone you know, please share it with us at:
P.P.S. To read more about Dawn's struggle, check out her blog at:
http://www.itcouldhappentoanyone.com/
Sen. Schumer
Hi, I'm the public option, and I need your help. Can you call Sen. Schumer to thank him for his support and urge him to keep fighting against the "trigger" proposal?
Hi, I'm the public health insurance option.
People have been saying all sorts of untrue things about me lately, so I decided it was time to stand up and set the record straight.
First off: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I'm happy and healthy. And I'm proud to play a starring role in four of the five health reform bills currently on the table.
Second: I have a lot of friends. President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi support me—as do 77% of the American people.1 In fact, I'm feeling pretty popular.
But there is one area where I could use your help. Your senator, Charles Schumer, sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which is considering a "trigger" proposal that could kill me through indefinite delay.
Sen. Schumer is a strong supporter of the public health insurance option. Can you call to thank him and urge him to keep fighting against the "trigger" proposal?
Then click here to report your call:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSNY_1&cp_id=1120&id=17306-10220574-wQJ_52x&t=2
A "trigger" that would make me wait to become available is just a trap designed to kill me. As Sen. Schumer himself has pointed out, "any reasonable criteria for triggering a public plan has already been met" because insurance companies have already failed to rein in costs and expand coverage.2
Here are some other things you might not know about me:
I like candlelit dinners, overseas travel, and long walks on the beach. Whoops, sorry—wrong email.
Some people say they don't like me because I'm too expensive, but that's just a flat-out lie. Keeping me around will actually save money—I'd cost 10% less than the typical private plan.3
I'm the best way to keep insurance companies honest. Like my friend Senator Jay Rockefeller has said, "Without the steady, positive influence of a public plan option in the marketplace, we will never truly solve the health care crisis in this country. Private health insurance has a long history of cutting people off or charging too much for too little."4
Over 60 House progressives have publicly pledged to only vote for a bill that has me in it.5 So without me, health care reform doesn't have enough votes make it through Congress.
And I'm counting on your help to make it through the Senate. Can you call Sen. Schumer today?
–The public health insurance option (and the MoveOn team)
1. "New Poll: 77 Percent Support 'Choice' Of Public Option," The Huffington Post, August 20, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51799&id=17306-10220574-wQJ_52x&t=4
2."A 'trigger' for the public health insurance option? Already triggered." NOW! Blog, May 20, 2009.
3. Letter to Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Congressional Budget Office, July 14, 2009
4. "Rockefeller Unveils Public Plan Option," Office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, June 10, 2009
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=314224
5. "60 Members of Congress Say 'No Public Plan, No Conference,'" Firedoglake, August 17, 2009
Post on Facebook?
Earlier today, we sent you a funny video featuring Will Ferrell talking about the plight of insurance company executives—the "real" victims in the health care fight.
The video is catching FIRE! Already over 600,000 people have seen it, and it's on the verge of going truly viral. Can you help make sure it does by posting this as your status on Facebook, with a link to the video?
No health insurance company should have to lose one cent of their billions in profits just because sick Americans need health care. If you agree with Will Ferrell, please post this as your status for a day: http://bit.ly/kNKpA
You probably saw a couple weeks ago when a similar—but serious—status update went viral on Facebook. Let's make it happen again, this time using the power of snark to continue to spread the word about how crucial health care reform is.
And watch the video if you haven't yet! It's pretty darn funny, if we do say so ourselves. ;)
–Kat, Laura, Stephen, Marika, and the rest of the team
P.S. If you're on Twitter, can you tweet this, too?
RT @MoveOn Will Ferrell's sticking up for the "real" victims—the super-rich health insurance executives: http://bit.ly/sW8uN #sickofit
You have to check this out: Will Ferrell on health care reform, along with Jon Hamm from "Mad Men," Donald Faison from "Scrubs," Olivia Wilde from "House," and a whole cast of amazing, funny actors.
Click here to see the video—and if you like it, pass it along to your friends:
http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/?id=17290-10220574-sGF0Ajx&t=2
P.S. Special thanks to all the actors who participated in this video: Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm of "Mad Men," Olivia Wilde of "House," Thomas Lennon of "Reno 911," Robert Ben Garant of "Reno 911," Masi Oka of "Heroes," Jordana Spiro of "My Boys," Linda Cardellini of "ER," and Donald Faison of "Scrubs."
Tomorrow: "Big Insurance: Sick of It" Rally in Melville
Come to a "Big Insurance: Sick of It" Rally in Melville tomorrow!
Big Insurance is fighting to stop real health care reform. Tomorrow, we're gathering at rallies nationwide to send a strong message that we're sick of Big Insurance—and we demand a public health insurance option, now!
Where: United Healthcare in Melville (in Melville)
When: Tuesday September 22nd at 10:45 AM
What: We'll hear stories from individuals who are suffering under our broken health care system, and deliver a letter to Big Insurance, demanding that they stop denying us care.
Can you make it to the rally tomorrow?
For more info and to find other rallies in your area, click here.
New York unemployment hits 9.0%
Clicking here will sign your name:
"With unemployment on the rise, it's time to pass President Obama's clean energy jobs plan now and create 1.7 million new jobs."
This morning, the government announced the New York unemployment rate hit 9.0% in August.1
New York needs the 1.7 million jobs in President Obama's clean energy jobs plan now.2 But momentum in Congress for the plan has slowed.
Can you sign this petition urging Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer to fight for quick action on the Senate clean energy jobs bill?
Clicking here will add your name to the petition, and you can also use this link to send them a personal message:
http://www.moveon.org/pac/enoughunemployment/o.pl?id=17255-10220574-xZQMoex&t=3
Here's the text of the petition: With unemployment on the rise, it's time to pass President Obama's clean energy jobs plan now and create 1.7 million new jobs.
On the heels of this morning's news, Congress will already be feeling the heat to do something about the jobs crisis. We'll deliver the petition today, while the news is hot off the presses.
The right choice is clear. Clean energy sources like wind and solar power create two to three times more jobs than old, dirty sources like coal and oil.3 That's why it makes so much economic sense to switch to clean energy—not to mention the environmental benefits.
Of course, it could be even worse. President Obama's economic stimulus package, which included over $60 billion for clean energy, is already making a difference. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal reported recently: "U.S. Economy Gets Lift From Stimulus."4 But things are still bad, and Congress needs to do more.
But with so many still hurting, we need Congress to pass President Obama's clean energy jobs plan immediately.
Can you sign this petition and urge Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer to fight any further delays to President Obama's clean energy jobs plan? Clicking here will add your name to the petition and, if you like, you can also send them a personal message at this link:
–Steven, Anna, Ilyse, Kat, and the rest of the team
1. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employment Situation Summary," September 18, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84748&id=17255-10220574-xZQMoex&t=5
2. "The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy," Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, June 18, 2009
http://www.peri.umass.edu/economic_benefits/
3. "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy," Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 2008
http://www.peri.umass.edu/green_recovery/
4. "U.S. Economy Gets Lift From Stimulus," The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51828&id=17255-10220574-xZQMoex&t=6
Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer can fight for the public option tomorrow
Senate Democrats are having a critical meeting tomorrow on health care. Can you call Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer and tell them to speak out for the public health insurance option?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
We've just learned that Senate Democrats are meeting tomorrow about health care—and so Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer have a big opportunity to continue the fight for a public health insurance option.
The Senate Finance Committee released its health care bill this morning. It was supposed to attract support from Republicans, but not a single GOP senator is backing it so far.1
Even worse, it doesn't include a public option—so many progressive Democrats aren't willing to support it either.
This caucus meeting is the best chance for supporters of a public option to make their voices heard and show Majority Leader Harry Reid that a bill without it is unacceptable.
Thankfully, Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer strongly support the public health insurance option. Can you call and ask them to tell Majority Leader Reid that a real public option is critical to real health care reform?
Then click the link below to report your call:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSNY_2.FSNY_1&cp_id=1116&id=17239-10220574-1e5Qxkx&t=3
The Finance Committee bill has gotten a lot of press attention, but it actually has very little support on Capitol Hill—even from Democrats.
Just yesterday, a key Democrat on the committee pledged to oppose the bill. Sen. Jay Rockefeller said, "I have sat beside Max Baucus for 22 years in the Finance Committee. I'm probably his best friend on the committee. But I cannot agree with him on this bill."2
Several other senators have indicated they have problems with the bill. And in the House, over 60 progressives whose votes are needed to pass any bill have said they won't support legislation that doesn't include a public option.3
Can you ask Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer to speak out strongly for a real public health insurance option at the meeting tomorrow?
–Nita, Michael, Kat, Lenore, and the rest of the team
1. "Sen. Jay Rockefeller Dumps on Baucus' Bill and No Snowe Yet," ABC News, September 15, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84723&id=17239-10220574-1e5Qxkx&t=5
You're invited: Film premiere with Thom Yorke of Radiohead
Don't miss this important, one-time-only U.S. screening of the global warming docudrama, The Age of Stupid.
College Point Multiplex
28-55 Ulmer St
Whitestone, NY, 11357
Immediately following the film will be a special event simulcast from New York, featuring a performance by Radiohead's Thom Yorke and comments from Kofi Annan, James Hansen, Moby, as well as leading climate experts and activists.
On Monday, September 21, MoveOn members in the Inwood area have a special opportunity to watch the one-night-only premiere of an important new film called The Age of Stupid.
The film is a powerful "docudrama" set in the year 2055, after global warming has done massive damage to humanity. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a historian who "looks back" on real footage from 2008 to try to answer the question, "why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?"
In addition to the movie, the theater will simulcast a Hollywood-style premiere event from New York City.
You can purchase advance tickets by clicking here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=69303
You'll get so much more than just a great movie. The premiere event, simulcast live from a solar-powered tent in New York City to over 700 theaters in the U.S. and 50 other countries, will feature such celebrities as Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham, and Moby.
Also, MTV's Gideon Yago will interview Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kofi Annan, environmental scientist James Hansen, and The Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong. Ending the night will be a special, acoustic performance by Radiohead's Thom Yorke.
The Age of Stupid was number one at the box office in the U.K. this spring, and this one-night event is poised to break the Guinness World Record for biggest simultaneous film screening. You can watch the trailer here: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51921&id=17229-10220574-TifSBXx&t=1
Check out what critics are saying about this film:
"A captivating and constantly surprising film."—George Monbiot, The Guardian1
"Think An Inconvenient Truth but with a personality."—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times2
"Political incompetence and inaction can usher in disaster... Rome is burning, and Franny Armstrong is fiddling the right tune."—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian3
The Age of Stupid looks us right in the eye and asks what kind of future we want for our kids. Be one of the first to see this important film and help spread the word so that as many Americans as possible hear its message. We hope to see you at the theater.
–Anna, Laura, Steven, Ilyse, and the rest of the team
P.S. When you see this movie, you're really going to be inspired to act. The cool thing is that our friends at Avaaz, an international MoveOn-like organization, are putting together a "Global Wake-Up Call" day of action on September 21, the same day as the premiere of The Age of Stupid. Check out http://www.avaaz.org/tcktcktck/ to get plugged in locally.
1. "What are we not talking about now that we will be—or should be—in 2009?," The Guardian, December 27, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51923&id=17229-10220574-TifSBXx&t=2
2. "The Age of Stupid," Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2009
3. "The Age of Stupid," The Guardian, March 20, 2009
For more information go to: http://www.ageofstupid.net/
"You lie!"
Clicking here will sign your name on this message to Congress:
"Don't let right-wing extremists hold health care reform hostage. Pass President Obama's plan, including a strong public health insurance option."
Last night, President Obama challenged Congress to "meet history's test" and finally fix our broken health care system. He pledged to seek common ground between Democrats and Republicans, and assured them all: "My door is always open."
Republicans responded by heckling, booing, and hissing. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) screamed out "You lie!" as the President defended his health care plan against false right-wing attacks.
We can't afford to let right-wing extremists like Joe Wilson hold health care reform hostage. As Obama put it, "the time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."
Let's send a message to Congress, demanding swift action to pass real health care reform. Clicking here will add your name to the petition:
http://pol.moveon.org/passhealthcare/o.pl?id=17208-10220574-knpgVqx&t=3
The petition says: "Don't let right-wing extremists hold health care reform hostage. Pass President Obama's plan, including a strong public health insurance option."
The plan the president outlined last night was comprehensive, ambitious, and deeply progressive.
It would help the hundreds of millions who already have health insurance by making coverage more competitive and more secure. No one would ever be turned away because of a pre-existing condition or dropped because they got sick. And you'd never again have to worry about arbitrary caps on how much insurance would pay for your care.
For those without insurance, Obama's plan would finally offer quality, affordable coverage—including a strong public health insurance option that would keep the private insurance companies honest. And across the board, his plan would rein in skyrocketing health care costs for consumers and businesses.
Thanks to President Obama's leadership, the path is now clear. But it's up to Congress to act. Sign the petition now to make sure they're not held hostage by right-wing extremists. Clicking here will add your name:
–Justin, Lenore, Steven, Kat, and the rest of the team
New video from R.E.M. and MoveOn
Last week we asked MoveOn members to share photos showing how they and their loved ones are suffering under our broken health care system.
The responses simply blew us away. We showed the photos to recording artists R.E.M., and together we produced this incredibly powerful video.
Watch the video and share it with your friends today.
With the news that some in the White House are considering a "trigger"1—a delay tactic designed to kill the public option—it's more important than ever to get the word out that we simply can't afford to wait for real reform.
Click here to watch the video and send it to your friends today: http://pol.moveon.org/healthcare_cantwait/?id=17196-10220574-z4vonEx&t=3
–Nita, Laura, Matt, Kat, and the rest of the team
1. "White House Floating 'Snowe' Trigger," The Atlantic Politics Channel, September 2, 2009.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51839&id=17196-10220574-z4vonEx&t=4
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Moral truths
Yesterday, a new message of support for health care reform started spreading like wildfire on Facebook, with thousands of people setting their statuses as:
"No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day."
With Congress headed back to Washington to take up health care reform, this is an easy way to bring the focus back to the simple, moral truths at the heart of the debate.
If you haven't already set this as your Facebook status, can you take a moment to do it now?
And if you'd like, you can add "Sign the petition to President Obama today: http://bit.ly/QaT56."
–Nita, Marika, Carrie, Kat, and the rest of the team
P.S. Are you a fan of MoveOn on Facebook yet? Click here: http://facebook.com/MoveOn.
A crossroads
Click here to add your voice:
"President Obama, we're counting on you to fight for bold change on health care—including a strong public health insurance option. It's the key to breaking the stranglehold that private insurers have over our health care system."
News just broke that President Obama will give a major speech on health care before Congress on Wednesday where he'll lay out what he thinks needs to be in the health care bill.
What will he say? This morning, The New York Times reported that the president remains committed to a bold reform plan, including a robust public health insurance option. But the reality is that he is under immense pressure from conservatives in both parties—and some advisers—to drop it.
This is a critical crossroads and our President needs to hear from you right away.
President Obama ran a campaign based on real change—he talked about challenging the status quo, breaking the stranglehold that corporate lobbyists had over our politics, and standing up to special interests.
We know that change does not come easily. But in difficult moments throughout our history we have always looked to our leaders to push beyond politics and do what is right for our country. This is one of those times.
Can you sign this petition and let President Obama know that you're counting on him to fight hard for a bold health care reform bill which includes a public health insurance option? We need to show him we'll fight right alongside him if he does. You can send him a personal message at the link below too.
http://pol.moveon.org/hcobama/o.pl?id=17130-10220574-tvnOLex&t=3
The petition says: President Obama, we're counting on you to fight for bold change on health care—including a strong public health insurance option. It's the key to breaking the stranglehold that private insurers have over our health care system.
Making good on his campaign commitment to bring real change to Washington is the most difficult as well as the most necessary part of reforming our health care system.
HMOs and health insurance companies are fighting to kill the public health insurance option. Republicans have made it clear that they don't intend to help reform health care. And some conservative Democrats are so afraid of standing up to special interests that they are pushing for the weakest version of reform.
But the worst thing would be to pass a big reform bill that doesn't really change things. There's only one thing that's really going to cut costs, provide real security and peace of mind to the millions of Americans who are suffering, and take on the big insurance companies who have complete control of our system. That is the public health insurance option.
During his campaign, President Obama often said that he believed that change had to come from the bottom up—-not from the top down.
So right now, at this critical moment, it is up to all of us to speak out and let President Obama know what millions of Americans across the country want. Click here to tell the President that you're counting on him to do the right thing:
The public health insurance option represents the change that Americans everywhere rallied around—it's our best chance to break the stranglehold of a broken, corporate for-profit system and bring true affordable care to all Americans.
–Justin, Ilyse, Nita, Kat, and the rest of the team
Virtual vigil TODAY, vigil in The Bronx TONIGHT
Across the country and online, we're hosting "We Can't Afford to Wait" vigils for health care. Can you make it to the vigil tonight in The Bronx at 7:30 PM?
And there's a virtual vigil going on online right now, where MoveOn members are sharing stories and lighting candles for people they know who can't afford to wait.
Join the Virtual Vigil
The health care debate is the biggest political story of the year.
But what the media and Congress seem to forget is that it's not just about politics or policy minutiae. It's about real people who are really suffering under our broken health care system—and can't afford to wait any longer for real reform.
That's why, today, MoveOn members are holding health care vigils across the country—including a virtual vigil online for those who can't make it to an event. These are shaping up to be our biggest and most powerful events of the year.
Can you make it to the vigil in The Bronx tonight at 7:30 PM? Click here to get the details:
Yes, I'll be there at 7:30 PM
No, I can't make it to the event, but I'll join the virtual vigil from home
And all day today, we're holding an online virtual vigil where you can read about other MoveOn members who can't afford to wait, see their faces, and even hear their stories. Plus, you can add a candle to the online vigil for yourself or someone else you know.
Many of those who need health reform the most can't make it out of the house to attend vigils in their communities. This virtual vigil is a place for everyone to meet up and share stories about why health care reform is so important.
Check out the virtual vigil by clicking here:
http://pol.moveon.org/vv/?id=17113-10220574-NzCyMrx&t=7
Hope you can join us at one or both events, and thanks again for all you do.
–Nita, Carrie, Kat, Ilyse and the rest of the team
P.S. Can't make the in-person vigil listed above? Here are a few other vigils near you:
We Can't Afford to Wait Vigil
Journal Square Fountain, Kennedy Boulevard, between Pavonia and Sip Avenues, Jersey City at 7:30 PM—RSVP
Babylon Town Hall, Lindenhurst at 6:00 PM—RSVP
In the green space on the corner of Weaver St. and Palmer Ave, Larchmont at 5:30 PM—RSVP
Across the street from State St. Diner, Bloomfield at 7:30 PM—RSVP
Hey, we're winning
We're actually winning this health care fight. But you wouldn't know it from watching the news. We need turn the story around—fast—and we've got some really hard-hitting ads that could do just that. Can you chip in $20 to help get them on the air?
After a few weeks of health care craziness, there's good news: we're winning on the ground. Lots of town halls are now dominated by supporters of health care reform. The vast majority of Americans want the choice of a public plan.1 And a powerful bloc of progressives in the House is standing strong on real reform.
The really bad news? The media's still acting like President Obama's health care plan is on the skids.
If we don't turn the conventional wisdom around before Congress begins voting on health care, we could be in big trouble.
We've got a plan to make it happen. It starts tomorrow with major vigils across the country to bring the media's focus back to the real people suffering under the current health care system.
And then we'll shake up the media story again by going on the offensive against Republicans, with a new series of tough ads that call them out for their ties to the health insurance industry.
But to actually make a big splash, we need to raise $185,000 today—and that's going to take at least 3 donations from people in Inwood. Can you chip in $20 right now to help out?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/healthcare_ads.html?id=17087-10220574-Afu42Cx&t=3
Right now, Republicans in Congress think they can get away with viciously slandering President Obama's plan for a public health insurance option—even though 77% of Americans say they want to have the choice of a public plan.2
These Republicans need a reality check. Every member of Congress should know that opposing health care reform isn't just morally wrong—it's politically dangerous and unpopular.
That's why we're planning some very tough new TV ads. They'll let voters know exactly how much money their representatives have taken from the insurance industry, whose top goal this year is to kill the public option.
These ads are a surefire way to put Republicans on the defensive, and show that Americans want their representatives to stop siding with insurance companies by obstructing health care reform.
To hit our goal of $185,000 and get these ads on the air, we need at least 3 people in Inwood to step up. Can you chip in $20 right now to help out?
–Nita, Kat, Stephen, Joan and the rest of the team
1, 2. "New Poll: 77 Percent Support 'Choice' Of Public Option," The Huffington Post, August 20, 2009.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51799&id=17087-10220574-Afu42Cx&t=5
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On the question of the canonical ordination of Makariy Maletych
The key issue in the discussion of the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (hereinafter OCU) was and remains the question of apostolic succession of the “hierarchs” of the schismatic denominations of Ukraine, recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and lastly received “in their existing ranks”. It was in exactly this, the stumbling block in the reception or recognition of the OCU by the rest of the Autocephalic Orthodox Churches, even those which are closely connected by historical and national ties with the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
And if no one calls into doubt the former metropolitan of Kiev Filaret (Denisenko) who was originally properly consecrated as a Bishop, but subsequently deposed and anathematized, then many questions arise concerning the canonicity of the consecration of the former primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church (hereinafter UAOC).
In Ukraine, it is widely known that the “Metropolitan of Lviv,” Makariy (Maletych) and a number of “hierarchs” of the former UAOC, lead their “succession” from the self-declared impostor Vikentiy Chekalin. This fact is also known in other Local Churches, about which Archpriest Anastasius Gotsopoulos vividly writes. Constantinople’s supporters attempted to refute this information on the site “Φως Φαναρίου – Phos Phanarou” stretching the threads of continuity from Makariy to Filaret.
Similar information is disseminated in those Local Churches who doubt the canonicality of the "episcopate" of the OCU. Let us try to analyze how solidly based these theses are justified, to which the author of a publication in Phos Phanarou appeals to, defending the hierarchical dignity of Macarius (Maletich).
First of all, it should be noted that this publication is replete with a great deal of unreliable information. For example, a certain Varlaam Ilyenko, mentioned in this article is actually a mythical figure, not really existing. None of the “catacomb” denominations of Russia and Ukraine (and the lists of their “episcopates” are well known) have ever had such a “bishop” among them.
In April-May 1990, in Lviv, the former bishop Ioann (Bodnarchuk) together with Vikenty (Chekalin), who pretended to be a “bishop of the catacomb church”, “ordained” the first “hierarchs” of the UAOC: Basil (Bodnarchuk) (his brother Ioann ( Bodnarchuk)) and Andrew (Abramchuk). Shortly after the “consecration,” Vincent (Chekalin) attempted to join the Lviv Roman Catholics. The attempt failed, as it turned out that he was an imposter.
To save the “canonical status of the hierarchy” of the UAOC, Ioan (Bodnarchuk) disseminated a rumor that the canonical Archbishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye Varlaam (Ilyushchenko) secretly took part in the “ordinations”, who had in fact died in September of the same 1990, and had never shown sympathy for schismatics during his life. This ridiculous version of events has been refuted; then, among the supporters of the UAOC, a legend spread about a certain “Varlaam Ilyenko, bishop of the catacomb church,” who ordained the “episcopate” the UAOC. Documents and eyewitness accounts do not confirm this legend.
The story alleging that the so-called “Archbishop of New York” Anthony (Shcherba) (since 1995, Metropolitan of Hierapolis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate) secretly preordained the “hierarchs” of the UAOC is also not trustworthy.
1. There is no documented evidence that Anthony (Shcherba) re-ordained the “Chekalin hierarchs” of the UAOC. Not one of the researchers of the history of the hierarchy of the Ukrainian schism (archimandrite Oleksandr Drabynko, V.I. Petrushko, Archpriest Rostislav Yarema, etc.) are aware of this happening. In the official biographies of the “Chekalin hierarchs” of the UAOC (for example, Andrey (Abramchuk), only the date of the “Chekalin ordination” is indicated;
2. The hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Anthony (Fialko) and Archbishop Panteleimon (Romanovsky) were actually “ordained” by Anthony (Shcherba) in Kiev, but not in 1993, but instead in 1991. In 1992, together with a group “Hierarchs” of the schism, they returned to the canonical Church, and were re-ordained – therefore it follows that they did not consider their own previous “ordinations” valid;
3. Until 1995, Anthony (Shcherba) himself did not possess apostolic succession, as the Patriarchate of Constantinople recognized. In the process of joining with the Church of Constantinople in 1995, Metropolitan Anthony (Shcherba) like all the hierarchs and clergy of the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA” were secretly re-ordained. This, in particular, was testified to more than once by Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos during his communications with the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Constantinople never refuted this information.
Makariy (Maletych) was “ordained” as a “bishop” on November 3rdm 1996, by “Patriarch” of the UAOC Dymytriy (Yarema), and “hierarchs” of this structure “archbishop” Igor (Isichenko) and “bishop” Mefody (Kudryakov). Let’s review the line of “ordinations” among these three people.
Dymytriy(Yarema) was “ordained” on September 5th, 1993, as a “bishop” by the Chekalinites (Petro (Petrus), Mikhail (Dutkevich), Feoktis (Peresada) and Igor (Isichenko). Two days later, on September 7th, 1993, he was elected as the UAOC’s “patriarch” and the UAOC’s “enthronement of the patriarch” took place on October 14th, 1993. It is impossible to imagine that a little-known schismatic “bishop” from across the ocean could secretly “re-ordain” the newly elected “patriarch.” This fact could not be hidden in the UAOC, and Dimitri (Yarema) would never agree to that.
As for Igor (Isichekno), who participated in the “consecrations” of Dymytriy (Yarema) and Macarius (Maletich), it was his “Chekalin ordination” that prevented him from joining the Uniate Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC): based on the evidence we have, the Roman Curia did not approve of his joining the Greek Catholics due to his lack of Apostolic succession.
In 1992, “Metropolitan” Filaret (Denisenko), already in the schism and defrocked, attempting to subordinate the structure of the UAOC to himself, attempted to secretly rearrange the “Chekalin hierarchy”. But not all the hierarchs of the UAOC agreed to this (it is reliably known that Vasily (Bodnarchuk) refused), and some of them (including Dimitry (Yarema) and Igor (Isichenko) never joined with "Metropolitan" Filaret ( Denisenko).
In 1992, “Metropolitan” Filaret (Denisenko) “re-ordained” the future “patriarch” of the “Kiev Patriarchate” Vladimir (Romanyuk). Lastly on August 17, 1995, together with the “bishop” Izyaslav
(Karga) (also ordained by Filaret), they “ordained” as a “bishop” the future head of the UAOC Mefody (Kudryakov), who participated in the “ordination” of Makariy (Maletich).
Thus we can see that of the three schismatic hierarchs who “ordained” Makariy (Maletych), one of them had “succession” from the defrocked Filaret (Denisenko), and the other two did not have any other “ordinations” other than that from Chekalin.
And therefore, the “ordination” of Makariy (Meletych) did not possess apostolic succession.
The arguments of the author of the post on “Phos Phanarou” concealed ecclesiological relativism on the verge of sacrilege and banal theological illiteracy. In his opinion, “to re-ordain” schismatics with dubious consecrations is “ignorance”, which answers to “contemporary flawed ecclesiology”. He asserts no one ordained the Apostle Paul (!) which means that Apostolic succession is not so significant in this issues:
«The Church is the steward of grace, and when she says that someone is a bishop, this is without a doubt a continuation and succession of the true way of thinking of the Fathers.».
It turns out that in order to become a bishop, apolstolic succession is not necessary. The judgment of the Synod of Constantinople alone is enough
According to the opinion of the author, the desire for autocephalic independence justifies not only the “consecration” of the Russian “catacomb” churches (analogous to the Greek Old Calendarists) but even the “consecration” of Vasily Lipkovsky (he was “ordained a bishop” by lay people, deacons, and priests alone).
But such an approach does not correspond to the Tradition of the true Church, which always received into communion in the existing rank those who:
Possessed apostolic succession;
Came with repentance, renouncing heresy or schism;
Was received by his legitimate church authority, from which he had fallen away, and not through an appeal to the Patriarch of another local church.
Consequently, the former Metropolitan of Kiev Filaret (Denisenko), and much less the pseudo-Metropolitan Makariy (Maletych) can both neither claim the episcopal dignity, or even lesser degrees of the priesthood (see the 29th rule of the Council of Chalcedon). According to church canons, they don’t even dare to hope for re-ordination, since, being legally deposed from their dignities, they can no longer be raised to a holy order.
Unlike the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on the indelibility of the priesthood[1], the Orthodox Church holds that a deposed priest remains forever deprived of the right of priesthood, deprived of the name and honor of the priest, ceasing to belong to the clergy, and becomes a layman, like he was before ordination. (see also: the 21st canon of the Trullan Council; the 3rd canon of Saint Basil the Great).
Translation by Reader Matfey Shaheen
[1]Согласно католическому церковному праву, кто сделался священником, тот тем самым получил особую печать, которая никогда больше не может быть изглажена и, следовательно, какое бы преступление он ни сделал, какому бы наказанию ни подвергся, хотя бы самому большому, все же на нем останется навсегда неизгладимая печать священства (signaculum, character), подобно печати Крещения, и он никогда больше не может стать мирянином или, выражаясь словами 21-го Трулльского правила, перейти «в состояние мирян». Учение об этом современного римо-католического права J. F. Schulteвыражает следующим образом: «Печать, получаемая священником чрез рукоположение, неизгладима; правильно рукоположенный может, конечно, быть лишен всех прав, сопряженных с духовным званием, и в этом отношении низведен в разряд мирян, однако он никогда не может быть лишен полученной чрез рукоположение способности к священнодействию (Befahigung), так что все специфически священнические обязанности он и после деградации и даже отпадения от церкви или христианской веры может довлеюще исполнять. Αпотому вопрос о лаицизации духовенства относится к бесполезнейшим, стремление к омирщению церкви κ области невозможного» (SystemdesKirchenrechts. Giessen, 1856, S. 156).
The key issue in the discussion of the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (hereinafter OCU) was and remains the question of apostolic succession of the “hierarchs” of the schismatic denominations of Ukraine, recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and lastly received “in their existing ranks”.
До питання про канонічність хіротонії Миколи (Макарія) Малетича
Ключовим питанням у дискусії про так звану «Православну церкву України» (далі ПЦУ) було і залишається питання Апостольської наступності «ієрархів» основних розкольницьких деномінацій України,
Міжконфесійні конфлікти в Україні в 20-21 століттях
Згідно даних опитування Центру імені В. Разумкова, проведеного 23-28 березня 2018 року, Церква є найавторитетнішим громадським інститутом в Україні. Їй довіряють 57% громадян, які взяли участь в опитуванні.
Interconfessional Conflicts in Ukraine during the 20th to 21st Centuries
In accordance with a survey conducted from March 23rd to the 28th by the V. Razumkov center, the Church constitutes the most authoritative public institution in Ukraine. She is “trusted” by 57% of the citizens who took part in the survey. At the same time,
Про схему Церковних розколів в Україні
Створена мною схема церковних розколів є спробою відобразити ситуацію з розкольницькими рухами в Україні у відомому нам «Дереві церковних розколів».
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Wheelie bins - residents say NO!
Karen Hamilton checks out wheelie bins in Sandwell
So the Labour council has got its grant to introduce wheelie bins and what's going to happen now?
We circulated all households in Perry Barr ward over August and September and received hundreds of replies.
Overwhelmingly, by 10 to 1, residents rejected the council's wheelie bin plans.
In other areas of the city surveys are finding opposition breaks at about 3 to 1. That highlights that our area is uniquely
unsuitable for wheelie bins.
Take Cramlington Road with about 160 households. One side is raised. The households are almost all accessed by quite steep steps. Many of the residents living up these steps are quite elderly. Some householders have carved out small parking bays - but we have seen very few of these with spare space for three wheelie bins.
What about the other side of the road? It's a little flatter and most households have created front drives. Many of these slope down to the houses. You'd think they would be okay for wheelie bins on that side and indeed one or two householders have asked for them. Think again. Most householders squeeze two cars on the front drive. The cars fill up the frontage. They might store bins by their front bay window or their side shed. To get them out, they'll have to move a car off the drive and push them up the slope.
This road is typical of dozens in our ward, especially on that estate but also elsewhere.Take Rocky Lane - 400 houses, some of them perched on top of steep banks. Or Charnwood Road - one side - about 30 houses sits entirely on top of a bank accessed by steep flights of steps.
Then there is the Yew Tree estate in Aston - Village Road and Yew Tree Road in particular. As flat as a pancake. Front doors on the pavement, houses terraced with very, very few side alleys. Every now and again there is a narrow alley leading to a path behind the houses. If they store their bins on the pavements the pavement will be blocked.
Labour came into power and rushed this proposal through without consultation. We are now promised a consultation.
We found no more than two roads in our area where residents might be in favour - and one was a close call. We'll be pushing to ensure every resident is asked whether they can manage the bins. We'll also be pushing to ensure that residents who don't have them don't get a second class service.
Karen Hamilton said: “They’re not suitable for much of this area.Whatever happens the council needs to think again about its plans to impose them on this area.”
Jon Hunt reports survey returns to Council
Jon Hunt pushed the issue at the council's October meeting. He was surprised to be told that only 5% of households in Birmingham would be exempt. That's 20-25,000 households. Of those we estimate 8,000 in Perry Barr ward would need exemption.
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Tower Hill safety campaign updates
Karen Hamilton and Jon Hunt with petition outside Co-op
Karen Hamilton asked transport cabinet member Cllr Tahir Ali about progress on the Tower Hill safety petition at the monthly city council meeting yesterday.
Cllr Ali replied: "I can confirm that following the recent fatal collision at the junction of Walsall Road and Tower Hill, Highway officers have met with West Midlands Police to assist in the course of the investigation. As is the procedure in these cases, the Police will submit a report to the Coroner’s Court, with their recommendations as to potential road improvements that should be considered in light of the circumstances of the incident.
"Whilst we will need to wait until the outcome of the Coroner’s Inquiry, to understand what recommendations will be brought forward, please be assured that Highways officers are in close contact with both the Police and the Coroner’s Office, to ensure that they have our full assistance in reaching those recommendations."
* Other related developments: The city council yesterday backed a Lib Dem initiative to introduce more 20mph zones in residential areas. Ray Hassall got to speak in the debate.
* We're consulting residents about the 952 bus route. Our suggestion is to reverse the direction around the Beeches and Booths Farm estates so it does not have to stop at the top of Beeches Road. This would also help deal with some of the bottle-neck issues around the route. We've put forward the idea as Centro have announced a review of bus routes in north Birmingham. We understand that operator National Express agrees there are problems. At the moment bus drivers have to pull out from the left hand bus lane on the Walsall Road to get into the right filter for Beeches Road. They are then stuck at a bus stop preventing other right turning traffic getting down Beeches Road.
* Karen also presented more signatures from the petition to the council meeting.
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Róbert László BácsiAndrás Hajdú D.Bálint HirlingDénes MártonfaiBalázs MohaiSimon Móricz-SabjánZsófia PályiÁkos StillerÁdám UrbánLászló Végh
Móricz-Sabján Simon - Mud Country
// People living along the dirty roads say everything gets destroyed in the mud. The house, the car, the bikes and even the footwear.
// István Kiss in his home that is surrounded by dirt roads in Tömörkény. His disability pension is 140 Euros. István passed away last year.
// Widowed Balázsne Bende and her daughter Nórika live on a farm, which you can get to along an embankment built from clay.
// Janos poses with his dog at his farm in Csanytelek, Csongrád country. For the people who live along and near dirts road mud is a constant problem, just as well walking and getting around in mud.
// Luca lives with his mother and grandfather in their home in Csanytelek, Csongrád County together with her five brothers. According to the latest data almost half of young children live in poverty in Hungary.
// The wall of Lajos Kovács’ house in Csanytelek. Most of those living in “Mud Country” have great difficulties maintaining their house.
// Lajos of Csanytelek at the forefront of his house, selecting springs of mattresses for selling them as metal waste. Besides poverty the village struggles with the inconvenience of dirt roads.
// Damage caused by inland waters on the wall of the Darnai family’s house.
// Ilona is a public worker. The only other source of income for their family is her husband’s invalidity benefits of 145 Euros per month. Living on a paid job is almost impossible and eventually seems beyond hope for most of the poor. Ilona passed away last year.
// Agricultural labour in “Mud Country”. Tractors are not only of use for work in the walk-in plastic tunnel.
// Anna Sebők walks in front of her house at Csanytelek. She has been living here for the past 58 years. The majority of the youth move to nearby cities as soon as they can, resulting in a relatively high number of people living alone in “Mud Country”.
// Abandoned house at Csanytelek, Csongrád county. There are an increased number of abandoned buildings in “Mud Country” that after a time become one with nature.
// Only a few families of “Mud Country” can afford to have livestock.
// The retired Lajos Kovács in the only small room of his house.
// Lunch at the Borsos’ in Csanytelek, Hungary. Mária and József raise 6 children. Most of the families of this village must spend almost all their income for raising the children and covering their most basic needs.
// The 15-year-old Zsolt poses at his father’s farm near a farm settlement, Tömörkény.
// János’s horse on the outskirts of Tömörkény in Csongrád county
// Abandoned house at Pusztaföldvár, Békés county.
// Public workers at the village of Tömörkény.
// Cemetery in Csanytelek.
// The shepherd dogs usually get to eat the dead lambs on the farmlands of Tömörkény.
// Mária Veres, in her home that is surrounded by dirt roads. Mária’s husband died years ago. They bought the farm together on loans and ever since then the retired disable woman pays the mortgage alone.
// József and his wife in front of their hut. The pair built an own hut after many years of the homelessness in Tiszaföldvár.
// Pig slaughter at Csanytelek. Pig slaughter is an old tradition in Eastern Europe and it is still a frequent event in the countryside in winter.
// Guest having a drink of pálinka (Hungarian spirit) at the Borsos’ house. Alcohol consumption is a serious problem in Hungary, 800 thousand people of the population of 10 million is affected by alcohol dependence. The number of so-called dedicated drinkers may reach 2,5 million.
// The outer roads belong to the local municipalities; their small finances are mainly concentrated on the inner areas. And the ministries are simply not concerned with the dirt roads in the outer areas and suburbs.
People living along the dirty roads say everything gets destroyed in the mud. The house, the car, the bikes and even the footwear.
István Kiss in his home that is surrounded by dirt roads in Tömörkény. His disability pension is 140 Euros. István passed away last year.
Widowed Balázsne Bende and her daughter Nórika live on a farm, which you can get to along an embankment built from clay.
Janos poses with his dog at his farm in Csanytelek, Csongrád country. For the people who live along and near dirts road mud is a constant problem, just as well walking and getting around in mud.
Luca lives with his mother and grandfather in their home in Csanytelek, Csongrád County together with her five brothers. According to the latest data almost half of young children live in poverty in Hungary.
The wall of Lajos Kovács’ house in Csanytelek. Most of those living in “Mud Country” have great difficulties maintaining their house.
Lajos of Csanytelek at the forefront of his house, selecting springs of mattresses for selling them as metal waste. Besides poverty the village struggles with the inconvenience of dirt roads.
Damage caused by inland waters on the wall of the Darnai family’s house.
Ilona is a public worker. The only other source of income for their family is her husband’s invalidity benefits of 145 Euros per month. Living on a paid job is almost impossible and eventually seems beyond hope for most of the poor. Ilona passed away last year.
Agricultural labour in “Mud Country”. Tractors are not only of use for work in the walk-in plastic tunnel.
Anna Sebők walks in front of her house at Csanytelek. She has been living here for the past 58 years. The majority of the youth move to nearby cities as soon as they can, resulting in a relatively high number of people living alone in “Mud Country”.
Abandoned house at Csanytelek, Csongrád county. There are an increased number of abandoned buildings in "Mud Country" that after a time become one with nature.
Only a few families of “Mud Country” can afford to have livestock.
The retired Lajos Kovács in the only small room of his house.
Lunch at the Borsos’ in Csanytelek, Hungary. Mária and József raise 6 children. Most of the families of this village must spend almost all their income for raising the children and covering their most basic needs.
The 15-year-old Zsolt poses at his father’s farm near a farm settlement, Tömörkény.
János's horse on the outskirts of Tömörkény in Csongrád county
Abandoned house at Pusztaföldvár, Békés county.
Public workers at the village of Tömörkény.
Cemetery in Csanytelek.
The shepherd dogs usually get to eat the dead lambs on the farmlands of Tömörkény.
Mária Veres, in her home that is surrounded by dirt roads. Mária’s husband died years ago. They bought the farm together on loans and ever since then the retired disable woman pays the mortgage alone.
József and his wife in front of their hut. The pair built an own hut after many years of the homelessness in Tiszaföldvár.
Pig slaughter at Csanytelek. Pig slaughter is an old tradition in Eastern Europe and it is still a frequent event in the countryside in winter.
Guest having a drink of pálinka (Hungarian spirit) at the Borsos’ house. Alcohol consumption is a serious problem in Hungary, 800 thousand people of the population of 10 million is affected by alcohol dependence. The number of so-called dedicated drinkers may reach 2,5 million.
The outer roads belong to the local municipalities; their small finances are mainly concentrated on the inner areas. And the ministries are simply not concerned with the dirt roads in the outer areas and suburbs.
Mud Country
”Mud Country” is a long-term photography project that aims to provide a personal perspective for the Hungarian dirt roads beside the spreading of poverty, the mass departure of people and the local everyday problems.
The number of dirt roads is amazingly high in Hungary. Many people live habitually and inevitably along dirt roads in the rural areas of Bács Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád counties. While in Western Europe 96 percent of public roads are paved, this ratio in Hungary is only 38 percent. The difference is even greater in rural areas.
The village of Csanytelek in Csongrád county is situated by the river Tisza. More than a third of the population lives along dirt roads. In rainy weather, the ground alongside the river becomes completely impassable. Years ago they spent 6500 Euros on the design, permits and application required for preparing the renovation of three dirt streets in particularly bad condition. The local government did not win the grant, because they failed to provide traffic count data and accident statistics to prove the need for a pavement. It is impossible to provide high traffic data to justify the necessity of renovating a road that is impassable during most of the year; nor do hay carts ever collide on a street where even jeeps get stuck. Just like in other settlements similar to Csanytelek, not only is it impossible for the ambulance to reach a patient with a heart attack within 15 minutes, it is virtually beyond any chance to find a tractor that could tow the ambulance to the patient.
Depopulated farmlands, emigration and the spreading of poverty also characterize “Mud Country”. Millions living in the deepest poverty, an extremely small middle class and more and more people who cannot provide for their family despite having a job – these are the features of Hungary. One in every three Hungarians, that is 3,3 million people live in poverty. 1,2 million of them must endure extreme poverty, which is an extraordinarily high number for a country with a population of 9.9 million. Almost every second Hungarian is living in cramped conditions, every fourth flat is not properly protected against rain or has mould on the walls and almost one million households do not have electricity, heating and gas.
The “Mud Country” later on has also face the problems of the mass departure of people, which seriously affects rural villages. In Hungary already half of people between 19 and 30 would like to work abroad. A significant proportion of youth and middle-aged Hungarians desire to leave the country and have already started planning their emigration. Currently, more than 600,000 Hungarians live abroad in the European Union.
This is an ongoing project.
The Borsos family
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Julian Randall’s debut, Refuse, illustrates the mind’s ever-so-gnawing struggle with binaries, boundaries, and identity. In these poems, we see bodies split and silenced, warred and hungry. There is never a dull moment, because such is being human, such are these poems. A voice that tackles what it means to move through society as someone who is with and without language, this debut unravels. Refuse wants to know what happens to the body when the body is undefined. Randall confronts his heritage, his family, and his sexuality wholeheartedly, unashamed in his unknowing. Not only does Randall interrogate beauty, he illuminates ugliness. He writes, “I am a burden in every mouth.” He writes, “Stupid boy planned his own death / so poorly he survived.” There is a wilderness behind these poems, a wilderness that refuses to be tamed.
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RFA Contract Disputes: Gambling With The Future
It’s September 1st.
Some teams are still trying to destroy their futures. The NHL, like any ecosystem is a delicate entity. There are many moving parts, and the ratio of one part to another will impact things two or three steps removed from either. You need players on the rise, players at their peak, and ones who are on the decline. They all contribute just as moths, and blue jays, and red tailed hawks all play their parts.
Marcus Foligno is a great example of a middle six forward who gives much, and is well regarded. The Chuck Fletcher thought it was more important to sign aging Penguins discard Matt Cullen, than to secure the return for trading Scandella. CapFriendly and others currently project Landon Ferraro and Joel Eriksson Ek as making the roster, with either of them back in the AHL the Wild would have right around three million in cap space. If they decide to carry just twelve forwards it would give them an additional cushion for injuries. The issue here is do you pay him better or the same as other left wings who had similar point totals like Justin Abdelkader and Carl Hagelin who both made more than four million last year? Or do you simply try and cram him into a roster that is unlikely to go far in the playoffs?
In the last two season Bo Hovart has increased his point total year over year, jumping from third two seasons ago to first last year, and has a better faceoff win percentage in that time than team captain Henrik Sedin. Somehow with training camp close enough to feel, he is without a contract. He’s scored shorthanded, powerplay, and even strength goals. He’s played over 18 minutes a night. He’s done just about everything a setup man can do on a roster that is 80% ECHL and alumni quality to help the team win. Joe Thornton, Milan Lucic, and Jason Spezza all produced less points last year with far, far more help and hugely better compensation. Ondrej Palat was on a non-playoff team and produced the same number of points, Logan Coture had the same points total, as did Anze Kopitar and Aleksander Barkov. With all or most of the $14,000,000.00 set on fire at the feet of the Sedin twins coming off the books next year, and no other player in the system in need of a big raise cash should not be the issue. Not when they have close to nine million in cap space to work with.
David Pastrnak has been covered in depth over the summer and all that’s worth adding is that the team president said there haven’t been any talks in months.
With all the glory of last season, the Columbus Blue Jacket’s seem to have gotten a pass on Alexander Wennberg not having been hog tied to their roster yet. Year over year ye’s increased his points total twenty points twice in a row. He played in 80 of the teams games last year. Last season he stepped into the gap created by trading Johansen and ended up the team’s second leading scorer, putting up just two less points than the Nashville Predator’s second most famous Ryan. While the Blue Jackets do have a pretty dynamic cap situation with the number of impact players due contracts in the next two years, they do have to be careful. But in the ultra competitive Metropolitan division who can afford to be without their number one center?
The Detroit Red Wings roster is as run down as the Joe, and while Andreas Athanasiou isn’t the level of impact player the other forwards on the list are. That said, you don’t improve by continuing to leak talent. All players are ultimately replaceable, but alienating players for little good reason when you have a new arena to fill, and pay off is senseless. The optics are also poor when it’s time to get free agents into town, or when the next RFA is due a contract.
Damon Severson is one of three men to crack the top fifty among defensemen in scoring while playing less than twenty minutes of ice time. The other two Brady Skej, and Dmitry Orlov were both on playoff teams. The New Jersey Devils were needless to day, not quite that good. His point total eclipsed Noah Hanafin, Jake Muzzin, and Jonas Brodin. So why is a team with unlimited growth potential wasting time dithering with a solid young defensemen? It’s not like they have 299 other defenders ready to hold the line against the Persians and other NHL teams.
03Oct 2016
Post World Cup Thoughts
There are a lot of people who should be happy in the wake of the latest “best on best” tourney. The players, coaches, and fans of Canada shouldn’t lead any well drawn list, especially as they were outplayed for both final games.
The Columbus Blue Jackets should be very happy to see Bobrovsky healthy and looking to be near his peak.
The New York Islanders should be thrilled to get Seidenberg at a good rate, who even if he never plays a shift will be a steadying impact in a locker room that saw a lot of turnover.
The Boston Bruins, most obviously for the performances of Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand, but also for their captain Zdeno Chara who while he didn’t look ten years younger, was still skating, passing, and shooting better than the first three months of last season. If that translates to just three additional wins over that same time they can make the post season.
Fans, coaches, players, and management of the Minnesota Wild, Colorado Avalanche, and Edmonton Oilers who saw their players; Nino Niederreiter, Tobias Rieder, and Leon Draisaitl go through a complete playoff like run with multiple Stanley Cup champion team mates like Anze Kopitar, Marian Hossa, Zdeno Chara and more and see how they prepare before a game and compose themselves through the good and the bad in game.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, because Milan Michalek had himself a great tournament turning in a point per game over the three games. If the young players are going to make the leap into the playoffs and winning once they get there they need veterans who know how its done.
It’s going to be very, very interesting to see how the various players respond to their World Cup performance. The American players will hopefully return to the ice upset, focused, and maybe a little bit ticked off. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a vexed Patrick Kane. Last season saw him rack up 46 goals if he comes in a bit hot under the collar can number 88 hit sixty goals? Can Dustin Byfugelin and hit 30 goals or turn himself into the juggernaut defensively he is offensively? Can newly minted captain Blake Wheeler pilot the Jets back to the post season?
What about those Finns? Teuvo Teravainen has had a double header of dejection, first he was exiled from the Chicago Blackhawks to the Carolina Blackhawks, and then they washout of the Cup. The Canes finished ten points out of the playoffs last year, and it can be argued the Red Wings and Flyers aren’t as good as they were last year, is Teravainen enough to raise the Carolina Hurricanes back to a real threat?
With the number of Minnesota Wild players at the World Cup, why aren’t they better?
Conn-Smythe Watch
With each first round series begun, it is time to take our first serious look at who might be carrying around the extra hardware this summer.
Before we get to the men still playing there are some honorable mentions that had individually stellar first rounds. Out west that list is headed by pending UFA Paul Stastny who contributed not just a lot of points, but timely ones. In the east no one deserves more respect than Steve Mason who came into the second season behind a pretty porous defense and put up a more than respectable .939 Sv%.
Ryan Suter, 29:14 a night is more minutes a night than any one else still playing. His 14 hits and 15 blocked shots blocked piled up in 8 games.
Anze Kopitar, the Selke finalist leads all players in post season points with 13 through 8 games, 51.6% on the faceoff dot, and is a +5 to go with it.
Ryan Getzlaf, seven games, 9 points, 3 power play points, a shorthanded point, and a +3 say he’s doing the job in all three zones and all situations over almost 22 minutes a night is quite the workout for a forward.
Jonathan Toews, three game winning goals in seven games, 23:16 a night in TOI, and 62.5% in the faceoff circle are a step or three above good.
P.K. Subban, 6 games, 2 goals, 7 assists, 9 points, leads the Canadiens in scoring.
Torey Krug over the regular season his ice time has increased 2:30, his on ice save percentage has climbed, he’s a point per game in the most defensive minded system left in the playoffs.
Henrik Lundqvist, through eight games he’s allowed 2 or less goals in six games. His sv% is up over the regular season, and of all the goalies left, he’s the only one not playing behind someone in the top 15 in post season scoring.
Paul Martin 7 games, 8 points, three powerplay points, 2 shorthanded points, +7, 27:29 of TOI, 20 blocked shots, arguably.
Honorable mentions still playing, Evgani Malkin, Tuukka Rask, Corey Perry, Patrick Kane, Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, Lars Eller, Corey Crawford, Drew Doughty, Zach Parise, Marian Gaborik, Matt Niskanen, Marc Staal.
The Matchups: San Jose And Los Angeles
This may be the best first round matchup for hockey. The Kings have won a cup recently, as have have the Ducks. The Sharks spent half a decade as the favorites to win it and still haven’t. A first round meeting of two California teams where the winner will quite likely play the third California team is likely to catapult the youth hockey enrollment numbers. And yes, seeing guys like Carter and Richards go toe to toe with Thornton and Pavelski will be more than a bit fun to watch too.
The Sharks a very interesting mix of household names and guys no ones ever heard of. They have arguably the deepest six defensemen in the NHL, without having a guy currently at an elite level back there. Thornton and Marleau will get most of the media attention, but Vlasic, Pavelski, and Couture have worn out some boots this season getting them here.
While Joe Thornton is still the best pure passer in the NHL, he’s not getting any younger, Joe Pavelski is a different case. They younger Joe is clearly at, or possibly just reaching the height of his powers, and Marleau just keeps trucking along.
Do they want it? This team has not ever reached its potential. Some years they went into the playoffs very damaged, others they got hurt early, and some years they just showed up and expected to win. This year they need to go attack the ice like it is their last chance at glory and their only hope at salvation, because it just well may be.
Same story, different year. The Kings enter the playoffs this year with bottom tier scoring and top end defense. The backup goalie could be a starter on many teams, and the late season trade piece (in this case Gaborik) are expected to scare up offense for the whole team. If you’re looking at recent history, that was what happened their Cup year. Can it happen now? Who knows?
Jonathan Quick is having a solid, if not spectacular year, Drew Doughty is still improving in his own zone, and Jeff Carter and Anze Kopitar are the only two players who managed to break 20 goals this season. For the team to make a deep run, they are going to need help from all over the roster.
Goaltending. If Quick can regain his cup winning form, or Martin Jones goes in and makes people look as foolish as he did in the regular season, the Kings will likely be playing in May. They will still need to score goals however and that has been a problem in LA for at least half a decade.
If I Told You In September…
This is a feature that will run about every two weeks with improbable stats and situations in the National Hockey League.
that Joe Thornton would be in the top ten in the NHL in scoring when he last finished a season there in the 2009-10 season.
of the top five goal scores, Ovechkin, Steen, Perry, Kane and Kunitz, Ovechkin would have both overtime goals in the quintet.
the leagues three leaders in PIMS Derek Dorsett of the New York Rangers, Chris Neil of the Ottawa Senators, and Antoine Roussel would combine for more penalty minutes (275) than the New Jersey Devils (251) or San Jose Sharks (271) and each be playing 11:35 a night or more.
Brandon Dubinsky would be the only player over 20 points and 60 PIMS, and have a 56.1 FO%.
Mike Santorelli of the Vancouver Canucks and Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings would be tied for the NHL lead in overtime points.
last years Masterson Award winner Josh Harding would be dominating the league and have the best save percentage of any goalie with more than 1000 minutes on the season and be sitting pretty with a .938 sv% and a 16-5-3 record.
undrafted rookie goaltender Cam Talbot with ten games played would have a significantly better sv% (.934 vs .910) than teammate and the NHL’s highest paid netminder Henrik Lundqvist.
a month after losing Steven Stamkos to injury, the Tampa Bay Lightning would still be holding a top 3 spot in the Atlantic division.
on December 13th the spread betwen the 1st and 8th place teams in the east and west would be 10 in the west with 3 teams tied for 8, and 13 in the east.
to date, no team in the east would have scored 100 goals.
Of the teams in the bottom five (tie for 5th) last year in the NHL, only two would currently be in that place.
the Buffalo Sabres who are dead last in the NHL in points would have allowed just one more goal than the Chicago Blackhawks who have the most points in the league.
the Edmonton Oilers would be the only team to allow more than 4 shorthanded goals.
there would be no apparent pattern to the four teams yet to score a shorthanded goal as to date the Coyotes, Penguins, Panthers and Sabres would all be on the outside looking in.
four teams in the west would have scored 100 or more goals.
under offensive minded coach Alain Vigneault the New York Rangers would be producing over half a goal per game less than under the blueshirt’s previous bench boss in prior two seasons.
What We Know: Western Confernce
The Western Conference has run over the east so far this year. The odd thing is how concentrated the losses are, so many of the east’s teams are in complete disarray while most of the weakest of the western teams are either over performing or have finally started to turn the corner on rebuilds that their is an imbalance.
Anaheim Ducks: We know that despite injuries to Sheldon Souray, Matt Beleskey, Viktor Fasth, Jakob Silfverberg, Saku Koivu, and Sami Vatanen, no team has wracked up more points or an equal amount of wins in the six week old season.
Colorado Avalanche: We know the Avs may be led by Matt Duchene, but they are getting contributions deep into the forward pool. In 14 games (or less for some) seven forwards have at least 9 points. Matt Duchene’s 10 goals are complimented nicely by five each from Paul Stastny, Gabriel Landeskog, PA Parenteau, and Ryan O’Reilly. We know the goalies are beating the competition with silly ease in wins, neither Giguere nor Semyon Varlemov have allowed more than 2 goals in a win.
San Jose Sharks: We know that two regulation losses in sixteen games is pretty damn spiffy. We know that a certain player might be tempted to celebrate this with his rooster out. We know the Sharks defense is going to be overlooked when people point out why the team is succeeding this season. We know not to get our hopes to high about this team and the playoffs.
Chicago Blackhawks: We know that even with Toews and Kane at just under a point per game this team has another gear. We know it is nice not to be talking about the team’s powerplay. We know they team would rather not talk about their rather dismal penalty kill.
Phoenix Coyotes: We know the media stopped paying attention to this team when the arena deal went through. We know they have as many regulation or over time wins as the San Jose Sharks. We know that their powerplay is just .4 behind their Pacific division rival Sharks. We know that this team won’t get any real attention until the second round of the playoffs, and then only reluctantly from certain media outlets.
Vancouver Canucks: With 18 games played and 11 ROW’s the team is currently in the first wild card spot in the west. We know they have either played well after their adjustment to a new coach or that they are getting good puck luck with four of their last ten games going more than sixty minutes and victories in three of those.
Saint Louis Blues: We know the off season moves, and maturity (and health) are playing a big part in this teams success. We know that this should be the season Alex Pietrangelo becomes a household name. We know Vladimir Sobotka is on pace for a career season. We know Alex Steen will remember every moment of this season.
Minnesota Wild: We know that if this team were allowed just a little more offensive freedom they might just move into one of the divisional playoff spots and avoid the wild card chase. We know that Nino Niederreiter must be enjoying his escape from New York given that he’s played all 17 of the Wild’s games this year. We know being 16th in goals for and 3rd in goals against is very traditional Wild hockey and makes for a lot over very tight games.
Los Angeles Kings: We know this is one of just three teams without an overtime loss. We know that Jonathan Quick and Tim Thomas present a pretty good case for a curse of the Conn-Smythe, at least for American goaltenders. We know that hovering low in the playoff picture has been just about perfected by this team. We know Anze Kopitar’s point per game pace is pretty surprising for this team and will be ignored, again.
Nashville Predators: We know 14 points in their last 10 games should tell us a lot about how bad the Preds first few games were. We know the team is a very uncharacteristic 19th in goals against. We know that having done nothing to improve their forward pool in the off season that no one is surprised they are 21st in goals for. We know that the forward group’s lack of offensive zest will likely cost Shea Weber another Norris and could cost Seth Jones the Calder.
Dallas Stars: We know that despite adding Rich Peverley and Tyler Seguin in the off season the team is still being outscored by their opponents. We know that Valeri Nichushkin is the only draft pick from the last four drafts on the roster. We know a Lindy Ruff coached team is never going to be more than mediocre offensively so the rest of the team has to be high end and that this roster doesn’t qualify.
Calgary Flames: We know that a 6-8-2 is about where most people expected this team to be. We know Sean Monahan and Jiri Hudler are doing what heavy lifting is getting done in Calgary. We know those same two players are probably preventing the team from locking up the first overall pick that has to be the aim of the front office. We know that as bad as other teams are playing the return of Mark Giordano means management will have to come up with a better plan for tanking.
Winnipeg Jets: We know that this teams lack of a number on center and arguably of a number two center are making the shortcomings on the back end even more apparent. We know the time to burn this roster to the ground and spare no one over the age of 25 is coming real soon.
Edmonton Oilers: We know there’s just no excuse for this team to be this bad. We know they’ve had all sorts of high draft picks. We know Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, and Sam Gagner are legitimate NHL talents. We know goaltending is a big, big issue. We know that the defense as a whole can’t get out of its own way much less get the goaltender a clear view or move the puck out of their own end. We know that unless they overpay one or three of the pending UFA defensive defensemen in July, hopes should not be high for improvement any time soon. We know that less than twenty games into the season injuries have played a big part with only seven skaters playing all 17 games.
The First Five Games: Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings were cheated of much of their time in the limelight by the dragging, soul sucking lockout. They made their return to the ice with a strong regular season. Finishing seventh overall in the NHL, in a very top heavy western conference. To the surprise of no one Anze Kopitar again led the team in scoring. Jeff Carter racking up 26 goals in 48 games was eye opening and clearly signals good things to come. Dustin Brown played his usual game popping in 18 goals and dishing out 156 hits. Slava Voynov garnered further attention leading the blueline in scoring, and Drew Doughty erased the last of the viable criticisms of his defensive game.
The post season saw them and the Saint Louis Blues batter each other to bloody and bruised ruin for six games. When the first round ended it was time for a dance with the San Jose Sharks. This back and forth series sent the rivalry to a new level, and went seven games. In the western conference finals they faced the retooled Chicago Blackhawks, and were dethroned in double overtime. Very little has changed for the Kings. Jonathan Bernier was traded away while Dustin Penner and Rob Scuderi were lost to free agency.
The first five games for the Los Angeles Kings don’t contain any juggernauts, there aren’t even any trap games. They’ll open up in Minnesota against the Wild, then fly north to face the Jets. The next two games are at home against the Rangers and Senators, and they finish the opening five with a trip to Raleigh to square off with the Carolina Hurricanes. No back to back games anywhere in the opening set, and only one team with a fair chance of winning their division this year.
Number of days 1-5:
Number of cities:
Best opponent: Minnesota Wild
Weakest Opponent: Carolina Hurricanes
The Kings don’t have a particularly difficult October schedule. If they can integrate the new additions quickly, they have a better than even chance of leading the division when the month is over. Tyler Toffoli had his baptism by fire late last season and in the playoffs, but with Simon Gagne gone, and Dustin Penner elsewhere as well, he Matt Frattin, and anyone else who can earn a roster spot in camp will have an open door to making themselves a fixture of the game time roster.
Winning The Stanley Cup: Is It Bad For Young Players?
I noticed a curious trend in the last decade. Few of the young players, say twenty five and under who won the Cup seemed to be major impact players later on. At the same time, players who won a bit later were contributing again and again to at least deep runs. Take Rob Scuderi and Mark Recchi as players who won the Cup towards later, and we’ll look at a few of the players who won young below.
While injuries have played a big part in the recent history of the Pittsburgh Penguins, its hard to argue that Marc-Andre Fleury is not playing well below the level he did when they last hoisted a banner. Oddly, the Cup win represents only a mediocre set of numbers for Fluery. The year before in a loss he finished with a save percentage of .933. In winning the cup he dipped to a pedestrian .908sv% and that represents the last time he was above .900sv% in the post season the trend in games played in the post season and overall performance is not pretty either, this season his save percentage was .834 and that’s about as unlovely as it gets.
Eric Staal was in his second NHL season when the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. In that season he crushed out 100 points. On special teams he was magic, 19 powerplay goals and 4 short handed goals are more goals than most players will total in a season, the rest of his 45 goals that year came at even strength. In the playoffs he had 28 points in 25 games. Since then he’s only been in the playoffs once more, and has never again been over a point per game.
Patrick Kane peaked in the year the Chicago BlackHawks ended their drought. He had 30 regular season goals and 88 points in the regular season. In the post season on his way to sending the Philadelphia Flyers home with heads hung low he had an eye popping 28 points in 22 games. In the two seasons since he too has trended downwards. He didn’t score a single goal in this years playoffs, this isn’t what was expected when the Blackhawks brain trust drafted him.
For the Los Angeles Kings, the players who entered this season under twenty five are, Anze Kopitar, Alec Martinez, Trevor Lewis, Jordan Nolan, Dwight King, Drew Doughty, Slava Voynov, Andrei Lokitinov, Kyle Clifford. New Jersey Devils fans may or may not want to be a bit more relaxed about the question, with just Mark Fayne, Adam Henrique, Adam Larsson and Jacob Josefson having entered the season under twenty five.
Am I 100% convinced that winning the Cup at a young age is bad for players? No, but it does factor in. And you really have to ask yourself how could it not sap the motivation at least a little? You aren’t even old enough to rent a car in some states or get good car insurance rates, all your friends are still in high school or college or maybe working some entry level job and you’ve just taken home the hardest trophy to win in sports. Having won a cup you’re assured of getting multimillion dollar contracts until at least two years past the point anyone else would have been forced to retire, and you’ll have a nice piece of bling for your hand to remind you of how great you were once.
Phoenix Coyotes – LA Kings Series Wrapup
Despite the short duration, the Coyotes and Kings put on one of the best shows of this post season. This is what division mates are supposed to look like. The pace was great. The action, physical, crisp , relentless and for the most part clean.
While it will offend some folks in tinsel town, Mike Smith was the better goalie in this series. Smith had to face almost twice as many shots and still ended up with truly impressive numbers. Quick was spectacular making the flashy and the routine saves night in and night out. This one series, he was merely the second best goalie on the ice.
The biggest impact on the outcome of the series was the fact that the Kings simply have everything going right for them. The two teams split the regular season series. The Coyotes finished above the Kings by only a couple points. Both teams skated well, both teams defended smartly and attacked the net.
When it came down to crunch time in game five the Kings best players stepped up. Drew Doughty played, and expressed his (well justified) opinions to the officials, and along the way got a goal and an assist in more than 30 minutes of ice time. Mike Richards had five shots, won twelve faceoffs, and got a goal. Anze Kopitar put in over thirty minutes of ice time, blocked a shot, got five on net and one in. Jeff Carter teed up two for teamates to put past Smith. Jonathan Quick’s closest competition for the Conn-Smyth, Dustin Brown continued his What Can’t Brown Do For You? tour with ten attempted shots, one block and five hits.
That’s a hellacious amount of talent to try and contain. The Coyotes had to be beaten in overtime. You can’t help but wonder how deep the pockets of the new owners will be, and if they will try to keep this core together for another year or two and use their first few months at the reigns to go big game hunting and bring in a top forward or two to deepen the scoring.
The Kings are now faced with the unenviable task of facing the Stanley Cup finals as the avowed favorites, without the advantage of home ice. They will also be flying all the way across the country to start the series against a still unknown opponent. Of the teams staff, Dustin Penner and Rob Scuderi have hoisted the Cup. Penner as an Oiler, and Scuderi as part of the Penguins most recent win. While there has been no sign of folding under pressure in Coach Sutter’s squad to date, this is the big dance and with just three players over the age of thirty (Mitchell, Scuderi, Williams) on the entire roster there is a heightened chance for unhelpful emotional swings.
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Do It / Fallo! (2003) Tinto Brass, Sara Cosmi, Massimiliano Caroletti, William De Vito, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Tinto Brass – The maestro of Italian erotica is back! Lies, subterfuge, betrayal and mischief – FALLO! is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.
Directed by: Tinto Brass
Stars: Sara Cosmi, Massimiliano Caroletti, William De Vito
Language: English, Italian (2tracks) | Subtitles: English (embed)
Country: Italy | Ar: 16:9 | Brrip
Also known as: Fallo!, Hacelo!, All Ladies Do It!, Falo!, Faça Isto! , Vícios Privados, Private
1) “Alibi” (“Alibi”) While celebrating the seventh anniversary of marriage in a hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, Gianni convinces his wife Gianni to do a threesome with the room servant Ali.
2) “Double Trouble” (“Dupla Confusão”) While playing tennis with Bruno, Stefania has intercourse with him in the bathroom. Meanwhile, Bruno’s wife Erika does with Stefania’s husband Luigi in his office, to get the position of guest in a talk show.
3) “Two Hearts and a Hut” (“Dois Corações e Uma Cabana”) The maid Katarina is tipped with a high amount and prostitutes with a couple of sadistic & masochistic.
4) “Jolly Bangs” (“Casos”) While on the beach, Raffaella fantasizes erotic affairs to the satisfaction of her husband Ugo.
5) “Honni Soit Qui Mal y Pense” (“Que a Maldade Fique com Aquele que Pensa Maldade”) The photographer Franco wishes to have anal sex with Anna, who tells him that he can do only after marrying her. When they are invited to a party, she loses her virginity.
6) “Call me Pig, Cause..
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Reform REC
Jack Manzari
Mike Biniek
Andrea Miller
Lower Electric Bills
Phonebanks
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REC must commit to ‘fair election’
Written by Seth Heald and Mike Murphy
In 2014 Rappahannock Electric Cooperative began holding annual “Get Connected” events each May. These were open to all co-op members and featuring free dinner and entertainment such as bands and dancers. The food is good, the entertainment is top-notch, and the dinners are often very well-attended. REC rotates the Get Connected locations around the co-op’s service territory each year. And each year the co-op promotes the event heavily in the area surrounding the dinner location. REC has also always announced the dinner a month or two ahead of time in Cooperative Living, the free monthly magazine that goes to all REC members.
This year there was a subtle but important change that most REC members likely didn’t notice. The event, held on June 6 outside Winchester in an area with many thousands of REC members, was moved a few weeks later to June. And while REC promoted the dinner heavily in a few counties around Winchester, there was no advance notice in Cooperative Living.
What else was different about this year? For the first time in more than a decade (and likely much longer) all three REC board seats up for election this summer have candidates challenging incumbent board members. What’s more, three of the challengers — Mike Biniek of Rappahannock County, Jack Manzari, and Andrea Miller — are running a coordinated, issue-based campaign. That hasn’t been done before. The proxy form/ballots arrive in all co-op members’ mailboxes in just a couple of weeks with the July issue of Cooperative Living, on or around July 1. Votes can be cast by mail or online as soon as the forms arrive. So June is prime board-campaign season.
We’ve written previously how the REC board’s unusual and unfair election practices allow the incumbent board members to all but control election outcomes. And that no doubt plays a significant role in why handsomely paid incumbent board members tend to stay on the board for decades, if not life. Because of REC’s failure to announce the Get Connected dinner in Cooperative Living this year the challenging board candidates did not know about it, and thus had no opportunity to attend and mingle with voters in the upcoming election. All three incumbent board members running for re-election did attend the dinner and no doubt did plenty of meeting and greeting. Given the good food and quality entertainment, and with 1,000 people attending this year, it’s likely that this Get Connected dinner cost the cooperative $15,000 or more. (We asked REC a year ago to tell us how much the co-op spends on the Get Connected dinners. It refused to tell us.)
When asked why REC failed this year to follow its five-year practice of always announcing Get Connected dinners in Cooperative Living, a REC spokesman said “space was limited” in the magazine. Even accepting that explanation at face value, one wonders why no one in REC management or on the board notified the four challenging candidates of the dinner. The event was obviously planned months ahead of time. Management and board members knew about it well in advance. And senior management and incumbent board members recently met with the four challenging board candidates.
As a matter of basic fairness, transparency, and democracy, the four challenging board candidates should have been told of the dinner. One of the challenging candidates, Rappahannock County’s Mike Biniek, even lives in REC Board Region I, in which the dinner was held. Yet he too was not notified, and REC did not promote the event in Biniek’s portion of the heavily gerrymandered Board Region 1.
At last August’s REC annual meeting, REC CEO Kent Farmer was asked about the co-op’s practice of having incumbent board members control board election outcomes by controlling thousands of “member undesignated” proxy votes. In trying to defend the co-op’s unusual election practice Farmer said that trying to overcome the 3,000-plus vote headstart given to board-favored candidates “is the responsibility of the [challenging] candidate.” Farmer pointed out that to be successful, challenging board candidates should be “showing up at social events or civic events to let [co-op] members know, ‘hey I’m so-and-so and I’m running for a seat on Rappahannock’s board. I’d like your support and these are the things that I’d like to bring to the board.’”
No doubt REC’s three incumbent board candidates did just that at the June 11, REC-financed dinner for co-op members. The four challenging candidates didn’t have the chance.
REC still has a long way to go in living up to the core cooperative principles of genuine democracy and fair election practices. We need new board members committed to those principles, who will ensure that REC management commits to them too.
The writers are co-founders of Repower REC, a campaign to reform Rappahannock Electric Cooperative.
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The Weekend's TV: Zen, BBC1
Sunglasses and Shady Dealings
The Independent, 3 January 2011
By Tom Sutcliffe
It was an Ancient and Modern head-to-head on Sunday evening, as far as detective fiction went.
Over on ITV was Agatha Christie's 'Marple', in which the poison is generally served up with sweet sherry and antimacassars, while on BBC1 we had 'Zen', the first of three feature-length adaptations of Michael Dibdin's admired novels about a Rome detective who, on this evidence, works in the Couture Investigation Department, a branch entirely staffed by male models in excellent suits. Zen introduced itself with a stylish set of Sixties titles (complete with the noodling female vocals that became a benchmark of la dolce vita around that time) and looked initially like an extended version of one of the thousands of perfume adverts that infect the airwaves at this time of year.
Well, not quite "initially" perhaps, since only the most challengingly macho fragrance would sell itself with a scene in which a judge is murdered on a remote country road, but once that violent preamble was out of the way, it was pretty much L'Uomo Vogue all the way. The cinematographer appears to be Caravaggio, the costume designer Armani and the chief preoccupations of Zen's colleagues seemed to be extra-marital affairs, long lunches and this season's coolest sunglasses.
The violent preamble was part of a vendetta, an ex-con with a grievance working his way through the list of people he blames for his false conviction, a list that concludes with Zen himself. We, meanwhile, understood that there must be some mistake here because Zen's infuriating probity is a persistent nuisance for his boss (the excellent Stanley Townsend), who has the thankless task of ensuring that the outcome of investigations match up with the state's requirements. And in this episode Zen – played by Rufus Sewell – found himself in a particularly tricky spot. A shadowy figure from high in the ministry wanted him to exonerate a man accused of murder, in case inconvenient facts emerged during his defence testimony. But his boss simultaneously wanted him to make the conviction stick, to avoid embarrassing his immediate superiors. In both cases Zen would pay for failure with his career. He was so preoccupied that he even temporarily forgot to flirt with the gorgeous new secretary, Tania, whose immediate sexual prospects were the subject of an office sweepstake.
It looks good – the images are as sharply defined as the tailoring – and Sewell captures some of the character's melancholy (the result of an ailing mother and a broken relationship), but for anyone relishing the cynical skulduggery of Italian ministerial politics the later plot developments were something of a disappointment. Heading to the scene of the crime, which offered a classic sealed-room conundrum, Zen only had to mooch around in the shrubbery a while before he'd discovered the local wild child and the network of secret tunnels that were the key to the mystery. A drama that began with Berlusconi-style conspiracies, as dark and intense as an espresso, suddenly turned into Enid Blyton with an Italian accent, complete with swarthy villains and underground adventure. Even Zen himself sounded embarrassed: "It's incredible," he told Tania, "the case just fell open in front of me." With any luck next week's episode will get him back in Rome where he belongs, no more than five minutes from the nearest Versace outlet and some nine-to-five Machiavelli.
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Books, Printed Ephemera and Manuscripts
NINETEENTH
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[Sir William Rothenstein, artist.] Autograph Card Signed ('W. Rothenstein') to Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth, announcing that 'with some regret' he will be changing his name to 'W. Rutherston'.
Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945), painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art [Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth (1886-1967)]
'Sunday' [no date, but circa 1914]; card with letterhead of the Civic Arts Association, 28 Prince's Garden, London, S.W.
Twelve closely-written lines, on 8.5 x 11.5 cm card addressed by Rothenstein to 'The Hon. R Key-Shuttleworth | 28 Princes Garden | SW'., this being the same address as on the letterhead. In good condition, lightly aged. He begins by discussing 'Mr Booth' and his offer concerning 'the second prize', before expressing a hope that she is 'not overtiring' herself.
KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH
ROTHENSTEIN
RUTHERSTON
[Thomas Adolphus Trollope, prolific author, older brother of Anthony Trollope.] Autograph Signature ('T. Adolphus Trollope') on part of letter.
Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892), prolific author with a renowned villa in Florence, elder brother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, husband of Theodosia Trollope and Frances Eleanor Trollope
Without date or place.
On one side of 5 x 13 cm slip of paper cut from the end of a letter. In good condition, lightly aged, with central vertical fold. Laid down on piece of paper removed from album. Reads: '[...] I shall be delighted to come to you. | Yrs always faithfully | T. Adolphus Trollope'.
ADOLPHUS
TROLLOPE
[William Buckland, Dean of Westminster, theologian, geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first dinosaur description.] Autograph Note Signed ('W Buckland'), introducing his friend 'Mr Dering' ('much interested in poultry') to W. B. Tegetmeier.
William Buckland (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, theologian, geologist and palaeontologist [William Bernhardt Tegetmeier (1816-1912), naturalist, friend of Charles Darwin]
No date. 156 Albany Street, Regent's Park [London].
2pp, 12mo. Aged and worn, with one edge trimmed (on removal from mount), and closed tears to creases. Reads: 'Dear Tegetmeier | Allow me to introduce to you my friend Mr Dering who is much interested in Poultry & wishes to ask you a few questions | Yours &c | W Buckland'.
PALAEONTOLOGIST
TEGETMEIER
TREATISE
[Richard Bright, physician, 'the father of nephrology', identifier of Bright's Disease.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Richd Bright') to 'Mr Archer', explaining that he and his family are still on holiday in Wales, and his plans for his return to London.
Richard Bright (1789-1858), English physician ('the father of nephrology'), pioneer in the research of kidney disease who identified what became known as Bright's Disease
26 October 1846; Dolgelley, North Wales.
4pp, 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. The letter begins: 'My dear Mr Archer | I am sorry to be open to the reproof, which I feel contained in your very natural supposition that I am in my duties before this time, but in truth here I am till tomorrow - when I [?] Mrs Bright Children & all, we make our best speed towards Saville [sic] Row [his London address] & when I am there, towards the end of the week, I will do my best to furnish myself with the information you want & which at present I have not got'.
BRIGHT'S
[Death of Lord Bryce (Liberal politician and jurist James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont).] Autograph Letter Signed ('E. Marion Bryce') from his widow Lady Bryce [Elizabeth Marion Bryce, née Ashton] to 'Mrs Clifford', describing his death.
Lady Bryce [Elizabeth Marion Bryce, née Ashton] (1854-1939), wife of James Bryce [Lord Bryce; Viscount Bryce of Dechmont] (1838-1922), Liberal politician, historian and jurist
2pp, 12mo. On paper with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Replying to a letter of condolence from Mrs Clifford, she writes that she has been 'a good deal stunned with the shock & am still overwhelmed with a mass of unanswered letters. The blow fell, as you know, with absolute suddenness - no illness & no warning. After a day spent as usual in work, & a walk with me in the afternoon, my husband went to bed that last night apparently perfectly well, & I awoke next morning to find him gone.
DECHMONT
[Lady de Rothschild [Emma Louisa de Rothschild], wife of Lord de Rothschild [Nathaniel ('Natty') Mayer de Rothschild], 'head of Anglo-Jewry'.] Autograph Letter Signed [to Sir Francis Seymour Haden] regarding his offer to engrave a watercolour of hers
Lady de Rothschild [Emma Louisa de Rothschild] (1844-1935), wife and first cousin of Lord de Rothschild [Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild] (1840-1915), 'head of Anglo-Jewry' [Sir Francis Seymour Haden]
1 December [no year, but before the recipient's knighthood in 1894]; Hotel des Princes, Nice.
5pp, 16mo. On bifolium and with last page cross-written over fourth on reverse of second leaf. In good condition, lightly aged. Monogram letterhead printed in green and gold, with cross-written signature 'Bne Nel. de Rothschild' (i.e. 'Madame la Barone Nathaniel de Rothschild'). The recipient is only named as 'Dear Sir', but the item is from the papers of the surgeon and engraver Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910, Whistler's brother-in-law), and contains two references to his only daughter as 'Miss Haden'.
[Lord Radstock [Granville Augustus William Waldegrave], philanthropist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Radstock') to 'Baxter', giving three measures which he has put to Gladstone in a letter about 'the condition of the East [i.e. East End of London]'.
Lord Radstock [Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock] (1833-1913), philanthropist and evangelist [William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister; the East End of London]
'30 B. S. [i.e Baker Street, Portman Square, London] | Jan. 13 [no year]'.
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. He reports that he 'wrote a line to Gladstone about the condition of the East urging the Govt. to take it up either by Equalization of Poor Rates, Emigration or Alteration of License System or all of these'. He considers that 'a good case is made out' and the measures he suggests 'wd do something'. He wonders whether the recipient might be able to 'put a few statistics together'. He thinks that 'the worst part is the permanent depression of the trading class wh takes away all vitality'.
EWART
WALDEGRAVE
[Mayne Reid, Irish novelist on American themes.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'J. Froebel' [Julius Fröbel] regarding arrangements for the translation, editing and publication of his book 'Aus Amerika'.
Mayne Reid [Thomas Mayne Reid] (1818-1883), Irish novelist who lived for long periods in America and wrote on American themes [Julius Fröbel [Froebel] (1805-1893), German geologist and traveller]
23 November [1858]; Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
8pp, 12mo. On two bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Signed 'Mayne Reid', and written from the sprawling 'Rancho' which he built at Gerrards Cross, in imitation of a Mexican hacienda. The recipient is named by Reid as 'J. Froebel', i.e. Julius Froebel, and the subject is arrangements for the translation translation of his book 'Aus Amerika' (Leipzig, 1857), which would be published in London by Richard Bentley in 1859 under the title 'Seven Years' Travel in Central America, Northern Mexico, and the Far West of the United States'.
[Isaac Roberts, Welsh geologist and astronomer.] Autograph Note Signed, a presentation inscription of a book to the mathematician and geologist A. H. Green.
Isaac Roberts (1829-1904), Welsh geologist and astronomer, pioneer of astrophotography of nebulae, winner of Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal [Alexander Henry Green (1832-1896), mathematician]
June 1894; on letterhead of Starfield, Crowborough, Sussex.
1p, 12mo. On aged and creased leaf, folded once and with traces of mount on the blank reverse. Reads: 'Presented to Prof. Alexr. H. Green M.A. F.R.S. With the compliments of the author | Isaac Roberts | June 1894'. The work presented was presumably the first (1893) volume of Roberts' pioneering 'Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and Nebulae', the second appearing in 1899. The two volumes contained 125 reproductions of photographs which he had exhibited at the Royal Astronomical Society. See both men's entries in the Oxford DNB.
[John Ramsay McCulloch, Scottish economist, first Professor of Political Economy at University College London.] Autograph Note in the third person, accepting an invitation to dine with Sir James and Lady Emerson Tennent.
J. R. McCulloch [John Ramsay McCulloch] (1789-1864), Scottish economist, first Professor of Political Economy at University College London [Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869), Governor of Ceylon]
'H. M. Stationery Office, | 26th June 1860.'
See McCulloch's entry in the Oxford DNB. He was appointed Comptroller of H.M. Stationery Office in 1838. 1p, 16mo In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Reads: 'Mr. McCulloch presents compts to Sir James and Lady Em. Tennent, and begs to thank them for their kind invitation to dine with them on the 5th proxo, which he has much pleasure in accepting.'
TENNENT
VIVTORIAN
[George Henry Lewes, editor of the Fortnightly Review, 'husband' of the novelist 'George Eliot' (Mary Ann Evans).] Autograph Letter Signed ('G H Lewes'), to Reginald Stuart Poole, regarding his article on 'Pagan and Muslim Arabs'.
G. H. Lewes [George Henry Lewes] (1817-1878), critic and philosopher, editor of the Fortnightly Review, 'husband' of the novelist 'George Eliot' (Mary Ann Evans) [Reginald Stuart Poole (1832-1895)]
'Friday' (no date, but in 1865); on letterhead of The Fortnightly Review, Office, 193 Piccadilly [London].
2pp, 12mo. Twenty-seven lines of text. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. A nice item, giving an indication of Lewes's editorial principles at the Fortnightly Review (he held the position from 1865 to the following year). Addressed to 'R. S. Poole'. He begins by explaining that he only returned to England the previous night, '& found your notes & m.s awaiting me'.
[Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, German orientalist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Fleischer'), in French, to Edward William Lane, full of interesting content about orientalists, including an attack on Juynboll's edition of the 'Merasid el-ittila'.
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801-1888), German orientalist, Professor of oriental languages at the University of Leipzig [Edward William Lane (1801-1876), orientalist, translator of Arabian Nights]
23 June 1851; Leipzig.
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and worn, no thin paper, with several folds. Seventy-two lines of closely and neatly written text. Addressed by Fleischer on reverse of second leaf 'A Monsieur Edward Wm. Lane | en | Angleterre. | West Terrace, Worthing, Sussex. | par l'entremise de Mss. Williams & Norgate. | avec | Zeitschrift d. D. M. G. | T. 5, Cah. 3.' A fine letter, full of interesting content indicating a liberal attitude to the sharing of information among Victorian orientalists. He begins by writing that he received Poole's letter of 3 May a little before one from 'Mr.
FLUEGEL
JUYNBOLL
LEBERECHT
MORDTMANN
[Benjamin Bartrum, auctioneer.] Autograph household 'Inventory & Valuation' of 'the property of Thomas Harward Gardiner Esq' ('Common Brewer'), signed 'Benjn. Bartrum | Bath', containing furniture, plate, books, wearing apparel, jewels, wines.
Benjamin Bartrum [Benjamin Thomas Bartrum] (1783-1846), Bath auctioneer [Thomas Harward Gardiner (d. 1841), 'Common Brewer' of Bath; Thomas Gainsborough; Margaret Burr Gainsborough]
Bath: 'taken and made' on 26 and 27 March 1841.
11pp, folio. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice into the conventional packet. Ten-page inventory, followed by full page valuation, neatly written out on six leaves, which are stitched together, with the reverse of the last leaf carrying the title written lengthwise in conventional style for the outside of the packet: 'Inventory & Valuation of the several effects of the late Thos. Harward Gardiner Esq deceased at No. 14 Brock Street Bath | Amount £574. 8. 6', along with the word 'Copy' in red. Also on this page, in pencil in an early twentieth century hand: '?
BARTRUM
HARWARD
[Sir Frederick Corder, composer, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.] Autograph Letter Signed ('F. Corder') to Mrs Florence Russell, describing a difficult Christmas on Looe Island, Cornwall.
Sir Frederick Corder (1852-1932), composer and Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, brother of Pre-Raphaelite artist Rosa Corder [Looe Island [Enys Lann-Managh], Cornwall]
5 January 1925; on letterhead of Looe Island, Cornwall.
Corder (whose sister was the artist and forger Rosa Corder, sitter to Whistler and lover of Charles Augustus Howell) had bought Looe Island (subject of two books by its subsequent owners the Atkins sisters) in 1921 with the proceeds of the sale of his collection of first editions. The recipient Florence Russell was an official at the Royal College of Music, and other material addressed to her by the Principal Sir A. C. Mackenzie is offered separately. 2pp, 12mo.
WALFORD
[Pasquale Villari, Italian historian and politician.] Autograph Signature with greetings.
Pasquale Villari (1827-1917), Italian historian and politician
On 18 x 9 cm piece of paper. In good condition, lightly aged. Laid down on part of leaf from album. In response to a request for an autograph he has written at the head of the page: 'Con molti saluti | Pasquale Villari'. No other writing.
[Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.] Autograph Text of notes for speech given by him on the retirement of Mrs Florence Russell; and inscribed programme of a 'Social Evening' on his own.
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935), Scottish composer, for 36 years Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London
[Royal Academy of Music, London.] Speech circa 1924. Programme for 'Social Evening' on 26 March 1924.
See Mackenzie's appreciative entry in the Oxford DNB, which points out that in his day he was 'regarded as the finest ever Scottish musician'. The recipient Mrs Florence Russell worked for Mackenzie as an administrator at the Royal Academy of Music, to which he acted as principal between 1887 and his retirement in 1924, and of which she was herself a former student.
[Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.] Nine Autograph Letters Signed, with another from his daughter Maimie Mitzakis, to Mrs Florence Russell, filled with personal and professional information.
Between 1914 and 1925. Most from his London address, 15 Regent's Park Road, N.W.; some on letterheads of the Royal Academy of Music. One from Fern Nook, Ilkley, Yorkshire.
[Alfred Perceval Graves, Anglo-Irish poet, father of Robert Graves.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Alfred P Graves') sending contributions to a 'Book of Songs' and lamenting the death of his friend 'Brough'.
Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931), Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist, father of poet and critic Robert Graves
18 January 1873; without date.
2pp, 16mo (on piece of 'Savage Stationery', see below). In fair condition, aged and worn. The recipient is not named. Begins: 'Dear Sir | I trust enclosed lines may suit for your Book of Songs. If so they are very much at your service. Poor Brough was a friend of mine & I only wish I had something worthier of his memory to send you.' Postscript: 'Pray Excuse my "Savage Stationery"'.
ANGLO-IRISH
['Max O'Rell' [Léon Paul Blouet], French author and journalist.] Cabinet Card photographic portrait by Taber of San Francisco, signed 'Max O'Rell'; with Autograph Letter Signed to his lecture agent E. W. Appleton, regarding fees.
'Max O'Rell' [Léon Paul Blouet] (1847-1903), French author and journalist who wrote in English for British and American markets, crossed swords with Mark Twain [E. W. Appleton; Taber of San Francisco]
Letter to Appleton: 14 December 1885; 2 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road, W. [London] Cabinet Card by Taber, 8 Montgomery Street, 'opposite the Palace and Grand Hotels', San Francisco; undated.
ONE: Cabinet Card: 13.5 x 10 cm photographic head-and-shoulders portrait of Blouet, smartly-dressed with glasses and handlebar moustache, mounted on 16.5 x 10.5 cm card, with printed details of the photographers Taber's printed in gold below the image, and an elaborate advertisement for the firm printed in brown on the reverse. In fair condition, lightly aged. Inscribed on the base of the print: 'Yours Sincerely | Max O'Rell'. TWO: Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Appleton', i.e. E. W. Appleton. 1p, 12mo. On bifolium. 14 December 1885; 2 Lime Grove, Uxbridge Road, W.
BLOUET
LMANUSCRIPT
O'RELL
[Samuel Phelps, actor-manager, the finest King Lear of his age.] Autograph Letter Signed ('S. P.') [to his wife] describing his activities, including angling, whilst on holiday with his sons in his native West Country, and plans for his return.
Samuel Phelps (1804-1878), actor and theatre manager, the King Lear of his age, noted for his fidelity to the originals in his productions of Shakespeare plays
On letterhead of The Western Times Office, Exeter. 30 March 185[ ]'.
Phelps's entry in the Oxford DNB gives the background to the present letter, stating that Phelps 'married Sarah Cooper (1810/11–1867) on 11 August 1826; she was just sixteen. However, their marriage was very happy: they were a devoted couple, and Sarah later served as Phelps's dresser. Phelps preferred home life with her to clubs or social gatherings. His other delights were angling and shooting, and he purportedly knew every trout stream in England. They had three sons and three daughters, including William Robert (1828–1867), who became chief justice of St Helena, and Edmund (d.
SHAKESPEARIAN
[Sir John Stainer, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral, Professor of Music at Oxford.] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Stainer') to Sir W. J. Colville, giving his conclusions on examining a volume of 'Canadian songs' which Colville lent him.
Sir John Stainer (1840-1901), composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral, Professor of Music at Oxford [Col. William James Colville (1827-1903), Comptroller of the Duke of Edinburgh's Household]
12 April 1892; on letterhead of South Parks Road, Oxford.
4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. He begins by thanking him for sending him 'the Canadian songs to look at', which he finds 'most interesting'. He adds: 'I can see that you have been through them very carefully, but did you happen to find our old friend "For he's a jolly good fellow" on p.252? a tune called Malbrough. [sic]' He writes out the opening seven bars of the song, with words 'Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre &c'.
PAUL'S
STANIER
[Richard Carlile, leader of the Rotunda Radicals.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to 'Mr. Teague', i.e. John Teague, Keeper of the Giltspur Street Compter where Carlile was incarcerated, regarding editing proofs and having his head cast by phrenolog
Richard Carlile (1790-1843), publisher and writer, leader of the Rotunda Radicals, lover of Elizabeth Sharples (1803-1852), suffragist [John Teague (1779-1841), Keeper of the Giltspur Street Compter
'Compter Decr. 29. 1834'. [Giltspurt Street Compter, London]
For information on Carlile - described by E. P. Thompson as a 'Showman of Free Thought' - and his 'moral wife' the suffragist Eliza Sharples, see their entries in the Oxford DNB. At the time of writing Carlile was in prison for refusal to pay the church rates. The proofs Carlile asks to be allowed to receive in the first letter are presumably those of his journal 'The Gauntlet'. The phrenologist 'Mr. Hohn' referred to in the second of the letters - the 'Mr. Holme' of the accompanying slip - is the German-born physician and phrenologist John Diederick Holm (d.1856).
GUILTSPUR
MANIUSCRIPT
SUFFRAGIST
[Lord Liverpool as Prime Minister.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Liverpool') to 'F. Lewis Esqre', requesting him to procure a book cited in his 'first Report'.
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool [Lord Liverpool] (1770-1828), Tory Prime Minister, 1812-1827, who introduced repressive measures following the 1819 Peterloo Massacre
15 June 1825. Fife House [Whitehall, London].
1p, 4to. Aged, and with glue staining to reverse and damage to corners from mount. The recipient is named as 'F. Lewis Esqre'. Reads: 'My dear Sir | I shall be very much obliged to you if you could procure for me a Copy of the work entitled An Evangelical life of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, forming an Harmony of the four Gospels" - referred to in the note, page 98, of your first Report. | I am with great Truth | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Liverpool'.
JENKINSON
[J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearian scholar and antiquarian.] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. O. Halliwell') to Messrs Dickinson & Co., settling a bill and praising the paper supplied by them for his 'folio edition of Shakespear now completed'.
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps [James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, born James Orchard Halliwell] (1820-1889), Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and folklorist [John Dickinson & Co, papermakers]
5 May 1866; on letterhead of No. 6, St Mary's Place, West Brompton, London, S.W.
For the context see Halliwell-Phillipps's entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that in 1852 he 'offered by subscription the most elaborate Works [of Shakespeare] ever attempted: published between 1853 and 1865 in sixteen thick folio volumes, lavishly illustrated by F. W. Fairholt and limited to 150 copies, it was initially priced 2 guineas a volume.
HALLIWELL
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS
PHILLIPPS
[Louise Chandler Moulton, American author.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Louise C. Moulton') to 'Mr. Boyd', including holograph poem 'Has Spring Come Back?', which she has written that day for a party celebrating the engagement of Longfellow's daughter.
Louise Chandler Moulton [born Ellen Louise Chandler] (1835-1908), American author and poet [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet]
Letter: 31 December [1884]; 28 Rutland Square, Boston. Poem signed and dated 'S. C. M. | Dec. 31. 1884.'
A nice item, in which, writing to a friend in London, Moulton describes, and encloses a holograph copy of, the poem she has written that very day for the following day's New Year's Eve party to celebrate the engagement of Longfellow's youngest daughter Anne Allegra to Joseph Gilbert Thorp Jr. (1852-1931). 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged, worn and creased, with damage resulting in loss of a couple of words of text, due to tearing of the letter away from mount. The letter covers three pages, the last written lengthwise, and is forty-six lines long.
[Clara Montalba, British artist and suffragist, noted for her watercolours of Venice.] Autograph Signature [given in response to a request for an autograph].
Clara Montalba [Clara Federica Montalba] (1840-1929), British artist and suffragist of Swedish and English extraction, noted for her watercolours of Venice, daughter of Anthony Rubens Montalba
No date or place.
1p, 12mo. In fair condition, on discoloured paper with slight discoloration at corner as a result of removal from mount. Neatly centred on the page is 'Yours Sincerely | Clara Montalba'. No other text. The signature is florid and curliculous.
MONTALBA
WOMEN'S
[Lord Byron forgery.] Manuscript Letter, signed 'Byron', addressed to 'Capt. Hammond', on subject of Parry and the North-West Passage, purporting to be in the hand of the poet, but almost certainly by the celebrated forger 'Major Byron'.
Lord Byron forgery ['Major Byron', 'Major George Gordon De Luna Byron', 'De Gibler', 'Monsieur Memoir'] George Gordon Noel (1788-1824), 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale
Dated from Albaro [Genoa], 15 May 1823.
2pp, 4to. Thirty-nine lines of text in imitation of Lord Byron's hurried hand. On laid paper with an 1820 watermark. Once a bifolium, but with the two leaves now separated, and each bearing thin strips of white-paper mounts along one edge. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. In its unseparated form folded four times into the customary packet. Short closed tear at edge of one fold. From the celebrated autograph collection of Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton), who may have bought the item in good faith, or as an oddity.
GIBLER
[Lord John Russell, Whig Prime Minister, to William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister.] Autograph Signature 'J Russell', to Autograph address of letter to 'Right Hon | W. E. Glastone', cut from cover of envelope.
Lord John Russell [John Russell, 1st Earl Russell] (1792-1878), Whig Prime Minister [William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal Prime Minister]
On one side of 8 x 13 cm piece of wove paper, cut from front of envelope. In fair condition, lightly aged, with minor offsetting from another document on the reverse. Reads: 'Private | Right Hon | W. E. Gladstone | J Russell'. Before 1861, when Russell was elevated to the peerage.
[Sir Clements Markham, explorer in Peru, Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society.] Autograph Signature ('Clements Markham') on part of letter.
Sir Clements Markham [Sir Clements Robert Markham] (1830-1916), geographer, explorer in Peru and writer, Secretary to Royal Geographical Society, organiser of British National Antarctic Expediition
Without place or date.
On 3.5 x 9.5 cm slip of paper cut from letter. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. On one side, from the conclusion of the letter: 'Yours very truly | Clements Markham'. On the other: '[...] have failed me: so no[...] | [...] you mind my putting [...]'.
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[Spelling Bee competitions in Victorian Kennington and Guildford.] Eleven items, including an advertisement, a programme, tickets of entry and competitor's ticket, newspaper cuttings, compiled by T. W. Williams, manager of Kennington competitions.
Spelling Bee competitions in Victorian Kennington and Guildford [T. W. Williams, manager; The Impartial Spelling Bee Association, Williams & Rhodes, Kennington; F. Ridgway; J. Irving Dixon]
Competitions in Kennington and Guildford, 1876. Manager of Kennington competitions: 'Mr. T. W. Williams, 149, Lower Kennington Lane, S.E.'
The eleven items are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, laid down on two heavily-worn leaves removed from an album. An interesting slice of social history, relating to introduction into England of a phenomenon which began in the Unites States in the 1850s. Nine of the items relate to spelling bees in Kennington, managed by the compiler of the material T. W. Williams, and one to a 'Grand Spelling Bee' in Guildford.
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Book II Chapter 65: War in Thrace. Cotys betrayed.[AD 19]
Nothing made Tiberius so uneasy as an apprehension of the disturbance of any settlement. He commissioned a centurion to tell the kings not to decide their dispute by arms. Cotys at once dismissed the forces which he had prepared. Rhescuporis, with assumed modesty, asked for a place of meeting where, he said, they might settle their differences by an interview. There was little hesitation in fixing on a time, a place, finally on terms, as every point was mutually conceded and accepted, by the one out of good nature, by the other with a treacherous intent. Rhescuporis, to ratify the treaty, as he said, further proposed a banquet; and when their mirth had been prolonged far into the night, and Cotys amid the feasting and the wine was unsuspicious of danger, he loaded him with chains, though he appealed, on perceiving the perfidy, to the sacred character of a king, to the gods of their common house, and to the hospitable board. Having possessed himself of all Thrace, he wrote word to Tiberius that a plot had been formed against him, and that he had forestalled the plotter. Meanwhile, under pretext of a war against the Bastarnian and Scythian tribes he was strengthening himself with fresh forces of infantry and cavalry. He received a conciliatory answer. If there was no treachery in his conduct, he could rely on his innocence, but neither the emperor nor the Senate would decide on the right or wrong of his cause without hearing it. He was therefore to surrender Cotys, come in person transfer from himself the odium of the charge.
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Believing it “necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ...
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By DAN GREENSPAN
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Josh Bell has pulled himself out of a recent slump with some extra film study and a return to better habits as a hitter.
Not only has he found his form, Bell helped the floundering Pirates find their footing.
Bell homered and had three RBIs to help the Pirates rally for a 10-7 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night.
"It's awesome to get our bats alive," said Bell, who homered for the fourth straight interleague game to set a new Pirates record. "Hopefully it starts a new trend the next couple of weeks and hopefully we can finish this thing strong."
Jose Osuna drove in two runs, and Bryan Reynolds added a solo homer for the Pirates, who have won consecutive games for the first time since July 6-7 against Milwaukee.
Trevor Williams (5-5) allowed five runs in five innings. He was tagged for three runs in the first inning, but responded to take some pressure off Pittsburgh's bullpen and get back to .500 on the season.
Pittsburgh, which is now in position to sweep a series for the first time since June 21-23 against San Diego, can thank its offense for getting back on track. And no one has been more important to that turnaround than Bell, whose two-run shot to center tied the game at 5 as part of a four-run fifth inning.
The Pirates took a 6-5 lead on Osuna's double to left that scored Colin Moran, and Pablo Reyes drove in another run to make it 7-5 and tag Taylor Cole (2-4) with the loss.
Bell's 31st homer of the season continued a recent long-ball flurry with his fourth homer in the past three games. He is also one away from tying Bobby Bonilla's 1990 team record for homers by a switch-hitter in a season at 32.
"I think things got a little bit sped up for me there for a little bit, so I'm just trying to focus on the timing of everything ," Bell said. "If I can start early and slow I'm in a good place, I can see the ball. So I'm just trying to stay there."
Justin Upton had three RBIs and Shohei Ohtani added two for the Angels, who have lost 10 of their past 12. Albert Pujols moved into a tie for 15th place in career hits with an RBI single in the first inning.
After falling behind 4-0 on Ohtani's RBI triple in the second inning, the Pirates started their comeback in the third. Bell dropped a bloop single into left field to get Pittsburgh on the board, with Reynolds scoring and Bell reaching third on a throwing error by Angels starting pitcher Griffin Canning to pull within 4-2. Moran's double drove in Bell and cut the deficit to 4-3 before Luis Rengifo made it 5-3 with an RBI single in the bottom of the third.
Pittsburgh went up 8-5 on Osuna's sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the sixth inning. They made it 10-5 in the seventh on an RBI double by Adam Frazier, who had three hits, and Reynolds' solo homer.
"We've just connected the dots offensively," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "(Starling) Marte has three hits today and we didn't mention his name, so there's a lot going on."
Pujols tied Adrian Beltre (3,166) in career hits with his single up the middle to drive in a run as part of a three-run first inning for the Angels, with Ohtani and Upton picking up the other RBIs.
Upton had a two-run single in the ninth inning to score Mike Trout and Ohtani that pulled the Angels within 10-7 before Felipe Vazquez (22) came in to see out the game.
"Sometimes you got to believe in things you can't see," Hurdle said. "And we've had different guys step up the last two days in different areas and give us big pushes."
Marte had an outfield assist in the bottom of the fifth with his throw from deep center to Jacob Stallings, allowing the catcher to tag Kole Calhoun out at home and deny the Angels a run. Hurdle called it "one of the prettiest plays in the game," and Bell credited Marte's effort for the win.
"He was definitely the player of the game with that.," Bell said. "Got Trevor the win, and allowed our bats to take hold of the game and keep the game in our grasp."
Canning allowed three runs in four innings after being activated off the injured list for inflammation in his right elbow earlier on Tuesday. Angels manager Brad Ausmus said he would be cautious with the workload for Canning, who gave up six hits and three walks while striking out two, over the remainder of the season.
"His stuff looked really good, but the pitch count got up," Ausmus said. "A little trouble locating the ball, and the error, that hurt him. But, overall, I thought more importantly he looked healthy, looked strong."
The Angels optioned RHP Jose Rodriguez to Triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday and recalled RHP Jake Jewell from Triple-A on Tuesday. They also placed LHP Adalberto Mejia on the restricted list for personal reasons. Ausmus did not know when Mejia would rejoin the team.
Angels: RHP Noe Ramirez (viral infection) could be recalled from the injured list by Thursday following a successful rehab assignment at Single-A Inland Empire, Ausmus said. Ramirez must serve a three-game suspension for hitting Astros OF Jake Marsinick with a pitch on July 16 when he rejoins the team.
Pirates RHP Chris Archer (3-8, 5.23 ERA) has gone 11 starts without a victory, the longest winless stretch in his eight-year career. Archer is 0-3 with a 5.25 ERA since his last win on June 6. Angels LHP Dillon Peters (2-1, 3.45) has thrown 13 2/3 innings over his past two appearances, the longest outing during a two-game span in his three-year career.
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 1540 and ends at position 1596; the E-value for the HECTc domain shown below is 2e-24.
Some of the required catalytic sites were not detected in this domain. It is probably inactive! Check the literature (PubMed 22423789 ) for details.
Catalytic residues
Position Amino acid Present?
Domain Protein
N/A N/A C No
FFFPFDTRQMLFYVTAFDRDRAMQRLLDTNPEINQSDSQDSRVAPRLDRKKRTVNRE
The domain was found using the schnipsel database
HECTc
Domain Homologous to E6-AP Carboxyl Terminus with
SMART accession number:
E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases. Can bind to E2 enzymes.
The HECT (Homologous to the E6-AP Carboxyl Terminus) domain is an around 350 amino acids motif that has been identified in proteins that all belong to a particular E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase family [(PUBMED:7708685)]. HECT domain containing proteins accept ubiquitin from an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in the form of a thioester and then transfer it to lysine side chains of target proteins, and transfers additional ubiquitin molecules to the end of growing ubiquitin chains. The site of ubiquitin thioester formation is a conserved cysteine residue located in the last 32-36 aa of the HECT domain [(PUBMED:7708685)]. The amino-terminal part of the HECT domain has been involved in E2 binding [(PUBMED:9182527),(PUBMED:9153201)]. Once linked to ubiquitin, the target proteins are degraded in the 26 S proteasome.
ubiquitin-protein transferase activity (GO:0004842)
Family alignment:
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There are 23694 HECTc domains in 23671 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
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Evolution (species in which this domain is found)
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing HECTc domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with HECTc domain is also avaliable.
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Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing HECTc domain in the selected taxonomic class.
Cellular role (predicted cellular role)
Binding / catalysis: ubiquitin-protein ligase
Literature (relevant references for this domain)
Primary literature is listed below; Automatically-derived, secondary literature is also avaliable.
Schwarz SE, Rosa JL, Scheffner M
Characterization of human hect domain family members and their interaction with UbcH5 and UbcH7.
J Biol Chem. 1998; 273: 12148-54
Display abstract
The hect domain protein family was originally identified by sequence similarity of its members to the C-terminal region of E6-AP, an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase. Since the C terminus of E6-AP mediates thioester complex formation with ubiquitin, a necessary intermediate step in E6-AP-dependent ubiquitination, it was proposed that members of the hect domain family in general have E3 activity. The hect domain is approximately 350 amino acids in length, and we show here that the hect domain of E6-AP is necessary and sufficient for ubiquitin thioester adduct formation. Furthermore, the human genome encodes at least 20 different hect domain proteins, and in further support of the hypothesis that hect domain proteins represent a family of E3s, several of these are shown to form thioester complexes with ubiquitin. In addition, some hect domain proteins interact preferentially with UbcH5, whereas others interact with UbcH7, indicating that human hect domain proteins can be grouped into at least two classes based on their E2 specificity. Since E3s are thought to play a major role in substrate recognition, the presence of a large family of E3s should contribute to ensure the specificity and selectivity of ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathways.
Hatakeyama S, Jensen JP, Weissman AM
Subcellular localization and ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) interactions of mammalian HECT family ubiquitin protein ligases.
In most instances, the transfer of ubiquitin to target proteins is catalyzed by the action of ubiquitin protein ligases (E3s). Full-length cDNAs encoding murine E6-associated protein (mE6-AP) as well as Nedd-4, a protein that is homologous to E6-AP in its C terminus, were cloned. Nedd-4 and mouse E6-AP are both enzymatically active E3s and function with members of the UbcH5 family of E2s. Mouse E6-AP, like its human counterpart, ubiquitinates p53 in the presence of human papilloma virus E6 protein, while Nedd-4 does not. Consistent with its role in p53 ubiquitination, mE6-AP was found both in the nucleus and cytosol, while Nedd-4 was found only in the cytosol. Binding studies implicate a 150-amino acid region that is 40% identical between mE6-AP and Nedd-4 as a binding site for the C-terminal portion of an E2 enzyme (UbcH5B). Nedd-4 was determined to have a second nonoverlapping E2 binding site that recognizes the first 67 amino acids of UbcH5B but not the more C-terminal portion of this E2. These findings provide the first demonstration of physical interactions between mammalian E2s and E3s and establish that these interactions occur independently of ubiquitin and an intact E3 catalytic domain. Furthermore, the presence of two E2 binding sites within Nedd-4 suggests models for ubiquitination involving multiple E2 enzymes associated with E3s.
Kumar S, Kao WH, Howley PM
Physical interaction between specific E2 and Hect E3 enzymes determines functional cooperativity.
The cellular protein E6AP functions as an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase in the E6-dependent ubiquitination of p53. E6AP is a member of a family of functionally related E3 proteins that share a conserved carboxyl-terminal region called the Hect domain. Although several different E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes have been shown to function with E6AP in the E6-dependent ubiquitination of p53 in vitro, the E2s that cooperate with E6AP in the ubiquitination of its normal substrates are presently unknown. Moreover, the basis of functional cooperativity between specific E2 and Hect E3 proteins has not yet been determined. Here we report the cloning of a new human E2, designated UbcH8, that was identified in a two-hybrid screen through specific interaction with E6AP. We demonstrate that UbcH7, an E2 closely related to UbcH8, can also bind to E6AP. The region of E6AP involved in complex formation with UbcH8 and UbcH7 was mapped to its Hect domain. Furthermore, we show that UbcH5 and UbcH6, two highly homologous E2s that were deficient for interaction with E6AP, could associate efficiently with another Hect-E3 protein, RSP5. Finally, only the E6AP-interacting E2s could function in conjunction with E6AP in the ubiquitination of an E6 independent substrate of E6AP, whereas the noninteracting E2s could not. Taken together, these studies demonstrate for the first time complex formation between specific human E2s and the Hect domain family of E3 proteins and suggest that selective physical interaction between E2 and E3 enzymes forms the basis of specificity for functionally distinct E2:E3 combinations.
Nuber U, Schwarz S, Kaiser P, Schneider R, Scheffner M
Cloning of human ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes UbcH6 and UbcH7 (E2-F1) and characterization of their interaction with E6-AP and RSP5.
J Biol Chem. 1996; 271: 2795-800
E6-AP, a 100-kDa cellular protein, was originally identified through its interaction with the E6 protein of the oncogenic human papillomavirus types 16 and 18. The complex of E6-AP and E6 specifically interacts with p53 and mediates ubiquitination of p53 in concert with the E1 ubiquitin-activating enzyme and the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UbcH5. Recent results suggest that E6-AP is representative of a family of putative ubiquitin-protein ligases. Members of this family are characterized by a conserved C-terminal region, termed hect domain. In this paper, we describe the isolation of two human E2s, designated as UbcH6 and UbcH7, that in addition to UbcH5 can interact with E6-AP. UbcH6 is a novel member of an evolutionally conserved subfamily of E2s that includes UbcH5 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae UBC4. Although UbcH7 does not appear to be a member of this subfamily, UbcH7 efficiently substitutes for UbcH5 in E6-AP-dependent ubiquitination. Surprisingly, UbcH6 was only weakly active in this particular assay. In addition, UbcH5 but not UbcH6 or UbcH7 efficiently interacts with the heet protein RSP5. These results indicate that E6-AP can interact with at least two species of E2 and that different hect proteins may interact with different E2s.
Huibregtse JM, Scheffner M, Beaudenon S, Howley PM
A family of proteins structurally and functionally related to the E6-AP ubiquitin-protein ligase.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995; 92: 2563-7
E6-AP is a 100-kDa cellular protein that interacts with the E6 protein of the cancer-associated human papillomavirus types 16 and 18. The E6/E6-AP complex binds to and targets the p53 tumor-suppressor protein for ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. E6-AP is an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase which accepts ubiquitin from an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in the form of a thioester and then directly transfers the ubiquitin to targeted substrates. The amino acid sequence of E6-AP shows similarity to a number of protein sequences over an approximately 350-aa region corresponding to the carboxyl termini of both E6-AP and the E6-AP-related proteins. Of particular note is a conserved cysteine residue within the last 32-34 aa, which in E6-AP is likely to be the site of ubiquitin thioester formation. Two of the E6-AP-related proteins, a rat 100-kDa protein and a yeast 95-kDa protein (RSP5), both of previously unknown function, are shown here to form thioesters with ubiquitin. Mutation of the conserved cysteine residue of these proteins destroys their ability to accept ubiquitin. These data strongly suggest that the rat 100-kDa protein and RSP5, as well as the other E6-AP-related proteins, belong to a class of functionally related E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases, defined by a domain homologous to the E6-AP carboxyl terminus (hect domain).
Metabolism (metabolic pathways involving proteins which contain this domain)
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% proteins involved
KEGG pathway ID
35.29 map04120 Ubiquitin mediated proteolysis
29.41 map00380 Tryptophan metabolism
19.12 map05050 Dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)
16.18 map04350 TGF-beta signaling pathway
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with HECTc domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing HECTc domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
Structure (3D structures containing this domain)
3D Structures of HECTc domains in PDB
PDB code
1c4z STRUCTURE OF E6AP: INSIGHTS INTO UBIQUITINATION PATHWAY
1d5f STRUCTURE OF AN E6AP-UBCH7 COMPLEX: INSIGHTS INTO THE UBIQUITINATION PATHWAY
1nd7 Conformational Flexibility Underlies Ubiquitin Ligation Mediated by the WWP1 HECT domain E3 Ligase
1zvd Regulation of Smurf2 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity by Anchoring the E2 to the HECT domain
2oni Catalytic Domain of the Human NEDD4-like E3 Ligase
2xbb Nedd4 HECT:Ub complex
2xbf Nedd4 HECT structure
3g1n Catalytic domain of the human E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase HUWE1
3h1d Structure of the HUWE1 HECT Domain
3jvz E2~Ubiquitin-HECT
3jw0 E2~Ubiquitin-HECT
3olm Structure and Function of a Ubiquitin Binding Site within the Catalytic Domain of a HECT Ubiquitin Ligase
3pt3 Crystal structure of the C-terminal lobe of the human UBR5 HECT domain
3tug Crystal structure of the HECT domain of ITCH E3 ubiquitin ligase
4bbn NEDD4 HECT-Ub:Ub complex
4be8 NEDD4 HECT A889F structure
4lcd Structure of an Rsp5xUbxSna3 complex: Mechanism of ubiquitin ligation and lysine prioritization by a HECT E3
4y07 4Y07
5c7j 5C7J
5c7m 5C7M
5c91 5C91
5hpk 5HPK
5hpl 5HPL
5hps 5HPS
5hpt 5HPT
Links (links to other resources describing this domain)
INTERPRO IPR000569
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Penny Dunn
San Marcos police mark ‘changing of the guard’
New San Marcos Police Chief Chase Stapp presided over a badge-pinning ceremony this month commemorating the installation of a new top-level command staff as well as other recent promotions.
‘I became a better me,’ says man acquitted in fatal stabbing at Allen Street party
WITH VIDEO | Former Bowie High School football standout Brelyn Sorrells spent more than 15 months in Hays County jail before being found not guilty of murdering 20-year-old Arthur Martinez at house party on Allen Street in...
Video: Armed robbers hit Sac-N-Pac on Aquarena Springs Drive
San Marcos police are asking for help identifying two men who robbed the Sac-N-Pac convenience store at 1636 Aquarena Springs Drive at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Audio: Target of downtown shooting tells about his near-death experience
As close calls come, they don’t get much closer than it did for an 18-year-old San Marcos resident this weekend.
Man arrested in weekend shooting downtown
A San Antonio man faces attempted capital murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly trying to run down a police officer while escaping the the scene of a shooting Saturday night in downtown San Marcos.
Police report more victims of sophisticated phone scams
San Marcos police and utility officials are warning residents of a telephone scam in which a man called two elderly San Marcos residents over the weekend and demanded payment by gift card for supposed past-due utility bills,...
Police release sketches of kidnapping, rape suspects
Police today released composite sketches of three suspects in the Nov. 6 kidnapping, beating and sexual assault of a woman in the presence of her 4-year-old daughter, a brazen daytime crime that rattled the community and stoke...
Woman kidnapped in broad daylight, assaulted
San Marcos police are investigating the abduction of a woman and her 4-year-old child and the sexual assault and beating of the woman about 11:30 a.m.Wednesday, Nov. 6.
Police seek alleged bedroom creeper in sexual assault
San Marcos police are searching for Jonathan Porterie, 22, who is wanted for sexual assault of a woman at University Club Apartments on Leah Avenue that occurred at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Sex offender check nabs man for non-compliance
San Marcos police arrested a 22-year-old man earlier this month who they say failed to comply with requirements of his status as a registered sex offender.
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The Threat Of Far Right Extremism – Updated!
Published by AJStrata at 9:32 am under All General Discussions,DHS-Rightwing Extremists
Latest Update: Reader Colin from DHS comments below. Key points by which he debunks the entire shrillness emanating from the right today:
The report is labeled “Rightwing Extremismâ€. It should not have been. It should not have been because it is not an accurate statement.Â
Now, as I mentioned, this is not the first report of this type to come out of DHS. Domestic terrorist assessments were released during the Bush Administration, as well. In fact, the publishing of assessments of this nature is a fairly regualr occurrance. DHS publishes these kind of reports every few months, publishes a regular border security report, publishes assessments of radical Islamist terrorist groups, and publishes alerts on terrorist methods. Most of those are not leaked, and if they are, people don’t care. However, with Obama around, many on the right (including, often, myself) are so horrified by what he’s doing and saying, that we are just looking for a reason to feel under attack. Frankly, Obama had nothing to do with this report. The people who authorized this intelligence assessment are the same people who were authorizing assessments under Bush.
See, no conspiracy. Classic bureaucratic clumsiness, typical leftward lean to the Feds, and possibly a way for the workers to stoke some interest from the new Democrat boss in their work (and funding requests). No Michelle, they are not out to get us!Â
BTW LGF linked to this post (thanks man) and there is a helluva good discussion going on there – end update
Final Addendum: I have been watching this brush fire grow and consume nearly everyone on the right side of the political spectrum. It is truly sad, because this is worse than the claims by the left under President Bush that the NSA was spying on Americans for political reasons. Now, the right is accusing the men and women of DHS of not protecting them from violent groups but of being a political Gestapo going after conservatives (because ‘conservative’ and ‘rightwing’ mean the same thing to some!).
In my book one better have irrefutable proof that DHS is (a) ignoring its responsibility to protect this nation and its people from attack and (b) performing political oppression against constitutionally protected political activities. These are serious charges to be throwing around like the folks on the right are doing today. They better have good evidence this is the case given the slander they are slinging at the good people at DHS.
I did not like it when the left did this to the good people at NSA protecting us, and I am not liking it now with the right making wild accusations against DHS.
Addendum: Folks, there is no mention of Tea Parties in the DHS report. Tea Parties are NOT conservative events, they are grass roots broadly supported events. If these turn into GOP only (purity, remember the drive for purity!) events they will die off. But the DHS is not targeting Tea Parties – for heaven’s sake! -end update
 A little reminder of what right wing extremist terrorism brought to this country
Drama Queen Updates At End
There is a lot of hemming and hawing on conservative blogs about a threat assessment out of the Homeland Security Department which discusses the threat of violent extremism from right wing groups. Somehow the bloggers, media heads, etc think this threat assessment is about them! A strange and egotistical conclusion to be sure.
There are groups who use violence against others who do not follow their beliefs. The history of this country is replete with examples (KKK, Skinheads, Weather Underground). These groups rationalize their violent and deadly actions by using good, reasonable causes as cover. They can and have corrupted good causes on the left and right with their poisonous hate. These are historical facts.
I am not concerned about Homeland Security generating a threat analysis on these people, and I do not take it personally because some of the causes the radicals use to rationalize their violent actions happen to be causes I believe in. I know I am not them and I know their use of violence cannot make a good cause a bad cause. Killing young humans is wrong, and killing people tied to abortion clinics does not change that basic moral value.
But some on the right are acting as if the Obama administration is putting out some PR hit on conservatives! Too many are fantasizing that there are dark, secret forces in the government working to keep liberals in power by arresting and harassing conservative people (who just happen to be violent). It is the strangest and silliest crock I have ever seen. Now I understand how all those conspiracy driven liberals assumed Bush and Cheney were behind 9-11 and were using the NSA to listening in on their mad hatter ranting!
Seems some on the right are now seeing black helicopters on their tin hat mind expanding devices.
First, lets look at some of the ‘offending’ passages. The title itself seems to set the stage for martyrs on the right.
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
This is one reason I don’t like the terms ‘rightwinger’ and ‘leftwinger’, though I have occasionally used them. We need terms to separate fringe ideology (e.g., ‘far right’ and ‘far left’) from extreme and radical ideology. I am at a loss for better words, but the way the internet slings around right and left winger I can see how some could have a fleeting initial reaction this is aimed at them. But that initial effect should disappear really quick once you read on and realize this is not aimed at Rush Limbaugh or John McCain, but at truly sick people.
The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.
— (U//LES) Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts. Nevertheless, the consequences of a prolonged economic downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit—could create a fertile recruiting environment for rightwing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past.
— (U//LES) Rightwing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.
This clearly indicates this is not about your conservative PAC or GOP neighborhood planning team. To claim otherwise is to actually support the threat this report is assessing. We cannot make these radical extremists part of normal society. We cannot defend them by pretending they are us. We cannot allow people like the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers, et al) to be an example of how to solve differences in our country. There is plenty of blood on the hands of the right and left in this country from times when we did not stop violence because it was done in the name of a cause we believed in. There are those who did not turn in the neighbor, friend or family member who went off the deep end and decided they would play God and decide who should live or die. We cannot allow this to happen again.
These radicals are preying on the anger and frustration of ‘true conservatives’ – and they are doing it by pretending to believe in their heart felt causes. That is why we see this in the report:
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremists were concerned during the 1990s with the perception that illegal immigrants were taking away American jobs through their willingness to work at significantly lower wages. They also opposed free trade agreements, arguing that these arrangements resulted in Americans losing jobs to countries such as Mexico.Â
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point, and recruiting tool.
The report is clearly stating that heated anti-immigrant rhetoric is making people so angry it CAN drive them into the hands of violent radicals. It DOES NOT say that anyone opposed to immigration or illegal immigration is a rightwing extremists. To say otherwise is an outright lie.
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
(U) After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups.
This paragraph DOES NOT say our war hero veterans are rightwing radicals. It says the emotional stress on our war hero veterans makes them vulnerable to being preyed upon by rightwing radicals. The concern is these heros are being manipulated and used to give the radicals training and weapons to attack this country. To say otherwise is an outright lie.
The fact is things happened during the Clinton years which were horrible and which stained the conservative movement just as Bill Ayers is a stain on the Vietnam anti-war movement. John Kerry may have invented lies about others to make his fame as an anti-war protestor, but he did not build bombs which killed people. While what Kerry did was despicable, it wasn’t extreme and radical like Ayers. We need to understand when lines are crossed, especially among our own ranks.
During the Clinton years there were murders and attempted murders of Americans in the name of “Pro-Life”:
In the U.S., violence directed toward abortion providers has killed at least 7 people, including 3 doctors, 2 clinic employees, a security guard, and a clinic escort.[4]
March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of the year before. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Dr. Gunn’s murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
June 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside of another facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings, received a death sentence, and was executed September 3, 2003.
December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi, who prior to his arrest was distributing pamphlets from Human Life International,[5] was arrested and confessed to the killings. He committed suicide in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death at his home in Amherst, New York. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers inCanada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Dr. Slepian’s murder after finally being apprehended inFrance in 2001.
It is stunning how these incidents start with President Clinton’s election and end around the time of his impeachment. As noted in the report this was the period when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people, many children going into day care, in Oklahoma City.Â
The Homeland Security report rightfully and accurately notes this horrible period in our history as an example of what is possible today. Recall, much of this violence and killing was while the GOP held Congress. It was not the GOP who called for this to happen, but it shows how these radicals can exploit someone’s frustration with American political policy (with some emotional issues thrown in I am sure) to create havoc, and leave good causes tainted and crippled. The fear of Clinton drove a lot of people into violence.
Anyone who is simply a conservative who believes liberal policies suck eggs and Reagan and Bush were on the right path do not have pretend the focus of this report is about them. I don’t. I cannot fathom why anyone else would. And if some liberal shows up who cannot tell the difference between Timothy McVeigh and President George Bush, that is a problem with their world view. Not mine, or the intent of this report. This report is meant to identify possible threats and stop the killing of innocent Americans.Â
Conservatives, the government is not out to get you, just as the NSA was not listening in on the left but was seriously tracking down terrorists. Get a grip people, this is getting embarrassing.
Update: Speaking of embarrassing, it seems Michelle Malkin has decided she resembles rightwing extremists who bomb buildings and murder Americans:
Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives.Â
What a frigging drama queen! She even notes that DHS has done reports like this on extreme left wing groups, but she cannot help seeing herself as the victim here! This is beyond embarrassing. Is she planning to recruit our war hero veterans and manipulate them into attacking America? Damn, the need for attention with that one is strong.
Tags: DHS Report, Rightwing Extremists
71 Responses to “The Threat Of Far Right Extremism – Updated!”
CChittleborough says:
Here’s something from Colin’s excellent comment which AJ did not include in the top-of-page excerpt:
Domestic terrorism is broken up into several areas: Race/Hate groups (neo-nazis, klan-type groups), Militia Groups, Soveriegn Citizen groups, animal rights extremists, environmental extremists, anti-abortion extremists, and anarchists. The “right-wing†groups are never called right-wing, they are usually referred to, using hyphens, as Race/Hate-Milita-SovCit.
I’m sure that AJ already knows this, but the conservatives who are upset by this report don’t. Because the report (1) does not (and apparently does not even try to) distinguish between the lunatic right and mainstream conservatives and (2) is sloppily vague and unfocused, there’s a natural tendency to see it as applying very broadly. OTOH, people who know more about the extremists assume the report is narrowly focused. (And who in their right minds would study the nasty/bizarre/convoluted far right unless they had to? Well, me, but I’m strange like that.)
The proper thing for the DHS to do is withdraw this version of the report in favor of an much clearer rewritten version.
AJStrata says:
CChittleborough,
What people also don’t know is that the names of the specific groups were removed and the report made vague to protect certain ongoing government actions.
Which the conservatives probably impacted due to their victimhood drama.
Fact is, they can’t clean it up – right now.
Redteam says:
What did they leave out?
Domestic terrorism is broken up into several areas: Race/Hate groups (neo-nazis, klan-type groups), Militia Groups, Soveriegn Citizen groups, animal rights extremists, environmental extremists, anti-abortion extremists, and anarchists.
Bill Ayers, Acorn, Far Lefties, Democrats, etc.
Liberty Pundit says:
DHS Report On “Rightwing Extremists”…
I know, late to the party again, but better late than never, I suppose*.
By now, you’ve all re…
AJ wrote (at 7:32 am)
What people also don’t know is that the names of the specific groups were removed and the report made vague to protect certain ongoing government actions.
Ah-hah! That is a very important piece of information.
I’d still suggest that the report should have included some boilerplate text along the lines of “of course, the majority of people who are upset at deficits/taxation/whatever are not extremists”. But knowing why the report was so vague makes a big difference.
I suspect that most leaders of the US far right act are trying first of all to make money, second to gain power over followers, then to boost their immature egos and only after that to express an ideology. (It is possible to make a living, even a very good living, as a far right activist in the US, but not here in Australia, nor in New Zealand, nor in Canada AFAICT.) People like David Duke said last year that a President Obama would be good for their cause (ie., their businesses). No one should be surprised to see the far right working as hard as they can at recruiting followers (ie., suckers). In the midst of that, it is only to be expected that some of the true believer minority will plan something violent.
The Obama birth certificate truthers are
Err … that last sentence should be:
The Obama birth certificate truthers are a classic example of agile entrepreneurs taking up a new business opportunity while their staid competitors stay in a fading market (9-11 trutherism).
Janet Napolitano Responds To Conservative Paranoia About DHS Report - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought says:
[…] AJ Strata has a good take on this: The Threat Of Far Right Extremism – Updated! […]
mrmeangenes says:
Here’s Orly Taitz-who has jumped the shark and linked up with the Troofers and the Wingnut Militia wannabees:
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/?p=411
The Strata-Sphere » Damned “Right To Life” Extremists! says:
[…] all day long they are the victims of concern with right wing extremists, but as I pointed out when this DHS mess came out, the track record for pro lifers under democrat presidents is damn violent and conservatives would […]
A Critical Look at the DHS Report on Rightwing Extremism » cb.blog says:
[…] crowd. Informed Speculation (the erstwhile Decision ‘08) fails to understand the indignation. Strata-sphere calls the response “hemming and hawing”, and “shrillness.” Likewise, […]
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The trip took an entire week, the Ruvalk slowly being dragged across Clearwater Lake by the much smaller Rainbow Javelin. Sebastien woke up on the second day, and was beside himself, crying and lamenting their failure to protect Lady Maramos. The party was still mostly unclear on whether they actually wanted to rescue her, but obviously they didn’t say so around her assistant. Captain Bronzebeard finally plied the young man with some hard liquor and he managed to sleep after two days of despondency. Even after a good sleep, he was annoyingly persistent in asking what their next steps were, discontent with the answer “we have to see what’s going on in Rhun first” that everybody gave him, and generally beside himself with grief. Khaska found the pessimism annoying, until Sanjin pointed out that failure to protect a vampire not only could be personally heartbreaking, but also created the possibility that other vampires might seek revenge. Khaska had not considered that point, and was troubled by that possibility.
They snuck in at night and anchored the Ruvalk a few miles north of Rhun, hopefully far enough away that nobody would notice them until Rynn and Orensland finished their scouting of the village. The Alpips flew their ship to just above the treeline and tied themselves off. It would be difficult to see them through the dense foliage. Just before they left, Alpip handed Orensland a note.
“You can read it if you want,” he said. “My nephew and his wife are the only gnomes in town, so it shouldn’t be hard to find them. If you have a chance to talk with them, this will hopefully let them know you’re on the level.”
Orensland looked it over.
Wilmin and Xala,
We have been freed from Manson, as you probably already know. I can’t imagine he was happy about that. We are parked a few miles north of your town with those who freed us and are working on what we can do to help. The elf, Orensland, one of our new friends, will get this letter to you. If you can talk to him, do so. Give him what information you have about Manson and his forces. If not, that’s okay.
Love, Uncle Pippy and Aunt Hellin
Orensland nodded. “I can probably sneak it into his house. I’ll try and talk to him if I can get away with it.” With that, he and Rynn hopped onto the longboat, and Bronzebeard rowed them to the shore.
Rynn felt more at home moving through the brush than he had in a long time. This was a forest on the Death Side, and its vegetation was more sparse than the counterparts on the living side. He and Ranna moved quietly through the brush and soon the ranger could smell cooking fires and meat.
Rhun was a very small village, the log cabins all made from the evergreen trees that surrounded them. The lake provided a barrier on one side, and the forest another. It was a quiet-seeming idllic town that somewhat reminded the ranger of Silver Meadow, the small village his Juliet had come from. Orensland and Rynn arrived just before sunrise twilight, and were able to observe the village as it was winding down its day.
Unfortunately, it appeared that Manson’s followers had not abandoned it entirely. Rynn and Orensland watched from a distance for a little while (Orensland having borrowed Bronzebeard’s telescope). And after an hour or so, a few things were clear.
There was no sign of Manson or his surviving cleric friend, but there appeared to be about five or six remaining of Manson’s followers. Some of them were on guard duty, dressed in their armor. Drikdare was also still in town. Disturbingly, Skyler was present; at the moment he was not in armor. “I thought you all killed him!” Orensland said, dismayed, when he first saw him.
“Oh, he was dead all right, by Bronzebeard’s account.”
“Well, it clearly didn’t take, then!” The shadowdancer was staring through the telescope at Skyler.
“Manson is a powerful cleric. Perhaps he raised him from the dead.”
“They can do that?”
“Apparently. I would not doubt Bronzebeard’s word on the matter that Skyler was dead.”
“Well, perhaps we’ll just kill him again. Harder this time.”
Rynn snickered. “I think we killed him pretty seriously last time.” Then he got more serious. “Hopefully we can keep him dead this time.”
The sun was dipping behind Pressen, and night was falling. “Well,” said Orensland, “I’m going to take a closer look around town. I’ll meet you back here.” With that, he blended into the shadows and ghosted away.
Rynn couldn’t follow him more than a few feet before he lost him. The shadowdancer’s abilities were certainly handy for scouting.
“Well, girl,” said Rynn, reaching down to scratch Ranna’s head, “it appears that we are alone for a bit. Let’s go look around. I haven’t seen Manson yet, and I wonder if he left. Let’s go see if we can figure that out, shall we?”
Orensland snuck through the town, blended perfectly into the shadows. He and Rynn had watched for some time, but he wanted to make sure that there weren’t people that just hadn’t been outside yet.
Luckily, most of the houses didn’t have locks on their doors. The charms of living in a small village, he supposed. But after checking a few of the places he hadn’t seen people coming and going from he was pretty sure that he and Rynn had accurately surmised the situation. It appeared that the fallen whitecloaks they had seen in the village were leftovers. Manson had left, and it was unclear how many of his followers he had taken. Regardless, it seemed okay to sneak into the gnome house he saw. It was smaller-sized than the others, and he managed to peek in a window towards the back. Wilmin was finishing his dinner, and Orensland watched as Xala left to head to the back of the house. Now, how to approach them? Appearing out of thin air seemed a foolish approach. He would likely startle them and that would be that. A few screams, whitecloaks alerted to his presence. Yeah, that wouldn’t do.
The shadowdancer smiled. Best to have them read the note first, he supposed.
Wilmin was finishing his dinner when he thought he heard the front door open. He got up, grabbing a candle and moving towards the front of his house. The front room seemed colder than it should be. He checked the door, which was secure. Odd.
He turned to glance over the room. A small bookcase with a few volumes, Xala’s spinning wheel, and his rocking chair covered in furs. Nothing out of place. He sat down in the rocking chair, lighting his pipe and taking in a deep breath.
A rustling sound caught his ear and he looked down to see a piece of paper rolled up and tied with a string sitting on the stand nearby the bookcase. Odd. He picked it up, looked it over, then undid the string to unroll and read it. As he did so, his eyes widened.
“Xala!” he whispered harshly. His wife appeared, wiping her hands on her apron. “A note from Uncle Pippy!” She hurried over and read the letter. “But where is this Orensland?”
Just then there was a knock at the door, ever so faint. The two gnomes glanced at each other, and Wilmin reached to his belt and drew a dagger out. He moved to the front door and opened it.
“There’s nobody there!” Wilmin said, closing the door. “Very strange.” He turned … and there, behind his wife back in the hallway, finger on his lips to indicate being quiet, stood an elf stranger.
Wilmin glanced down at the letter.
“My dear, it appears we have a guest.”
Wilmin and Xala confirmed to Orensland his basic assessment of the situation in the town. Manson had left four days earlier with most of his followers, leaving behind a skeleton crew. Skyler was in charge. Drikdare’s family was still being held in a barn on one of the outlying farms. There were six total of Manson’s followers left behind. Three of them were on “duty” at any given moment, meaning they were to keep watch and keep their armor on. One of those on duty was to guard the centaur’s family.
Apparently, upon reappearing, Manson had the locals construct a coffin-shaped box and took all of their chains. When they left, they “borrowed” a large cart from one of the locals. It was unclear what was inside the cart, it being covered up.
Orensland said that he had a pretty good idea, but he didn’t want to share details at this point.
“My worry is that we won’t be able to free you,” he was saying. “We barely survived when Manson and his buddies attacked us on our ship. And it was just three of them!”
“Three? What happened to the fourth? A young man by the name of Harrison went with them as well,” said Xala.
“Oh, that’s right. I killed him. He had been left behind to guard your uncle and aunt, and I boarded their ship and managed to kill him.”
“Well, most of the folks left are acolytes like him,” said Wilmin. “I don’t know that any of us except maybe Jake could take them one on one. Skyler will be the problem. He is one of Manson’s most trusted advisors, and though he seemed rather sickly upon his return, he has since recovered.”
“That’s because my friends killed him. Manson must have raised him from the dead.”
“How can we free ourselves if they can raise each other from the dead?” Xala practically wailed (though quietly).
“If they’re all dead, there’s nobody left to raise them. I’ll go back to the others with this report. We’ll come up with a plan, and see what our next steps are. Is anybody in any immediate danger here?”
“Well, no,” said Wilmin. “The whitecloaks don’t really interfere that much, but they do actually provide some protection. There was a gnoll raid a few months back that was soundly repulsed by Manson and his allies. I suppose there are some advantages to them being here. Though I wish they had all gone and left us in peace.”
“Cedric seemed concerned that wherever they were going, I think Garth Calad, it might not work, so he still wanted our little village as a base of operations. He had to leave a few behind to keep it so, I guess,” Xala responded.
Orensland nodded. “He wants to get back into full fellowship with the mainstream Bringers of Light. So where do his remaining buddies sleep or hang out when not on duty?”
“Jake’s house,” Xala replied. “Right in the center of town. Something about how servants of the Gods should have the best accommodations.”
“Right,” Orensland rolled his eyes. “Self-righteous idiots.”
“Go talk to your friends,” said Wilmin. “We’ll spread the word as best we can to be prepared. You have the full support of everybody in town. I guarantee it.”
Orensland nodded. “Is there anybody out front that would see me open your door?”
“I can check,” said Xala. She took the candle to the front room and opened the door outside, letting in a blast of cold air. Even with the temperature tempering effect of the lake, it was still cold here in Rhun.
“I don’t see anybody.”
“Excellent,” said Orensland. “I’ll be in touch.” With that, he blended into the shadows again, visibly startling both of the gnomes.
“Feel free to sneak into our house anytime,” Wilmin whispered, now into thin air.
“Thank you,” came Orensland’s voice from the front room. It was unnerving. And a little cool. Such allies would hopefully be able to free them from the whitecloaks occupation.
Rynn was waiting back at their rendezvous place when Orensland reappeared. The shadowdancer gave his report, and asked what the ranger had discovered.
“Their story checks out. It appears a decent-sized group of people, including several carts, and number of horses, left a few days ago. Following their trail shouldn’t be too hard through the forest. It might get harder once we get out into the plains.”
“Shall we go report in with the others?”
“I see no reason to gather more information here. I think have enough to make our plans.”
So, to sum up Orensland and Rynn’s findings.
1. There are six whitecloaks left in Rhun.
2. One of them is Skyler, whom you slew back on the Ruvalk. Apparently he was raised from the dead. Khaska would know all about that process. Skyler is one level lower than he was when you killed him.
3. Three of the whitecloaks are fully suited up at any time. That doesn’t mean the others don’t have their weapons with them or armor on, but only three are “on duty” at any given time.
4. Drikdare, the centaur druid, is in Rhun as well. His family is being held in a barn on one of the farms at the edge of town. There is always one whitecloak guarding them.
5. You don’t know the strength of the remaining fallen whitecloaks, but Wilmin is pretty sure that Skyler is the only heavy-hitter among the group. Manson appears to have taken his other powerful allies with him.
6. The village is in a holding pattern until Manson gets back. Given that he and his entourage are walking to Garth Calad … it will be many months before he gets back.
Khaska's heartened that so few Whitecloaks are left in Rhun and that the others will be absent for months. Returning to a previous post, Khaska's preference would be to recruit the Whitecloaks to the party's mission. Given that the party literally killed their provisional leader a short while ago, this might prove somewhat difficult, but Khaska would be willing to testify regarding the party's goals under a Zone of Truth. (With the party's approval, of course. An examination could turn down unusual and improper paths. Of course, if the examination goes poorly or Skyler becomes antagonistic, the rest of the party could be on hand to attack.) One benefit to this, besides potentially making allies and turning people from Manson's service, would be to maintain a sort of garrison in Rhun, leaving it protected.
Another option—if diplomacy/recruitment isn't the way we want to go—would be to ambush the guard watching Drikdare's family to get the WCs down two: one WC and one druid, as Drikdare could join our side in an attack on the others.
Given that this group has been working with Manson, they are probably outcast Whitecloaks like him. I'm not sure they'd be the most useful allies, at least compared to the "real" Whitecloaks in Garth Calad. If we went with a diplomancy approach, I'd think that we should have an ambush or alternate plan ready, just in case.
But I'm more inclined to pick off Manson's people one by one. If only three are on duty, we might be able to do it quietly too — I'm sure that a sneak attack from Orensland wouldn't be pleasant for them, for example. If we pick a time when the other three are likely sleeping, then perhaps we can catch them unawares too. Rynn would have no compunction about taking these people out.
I agree more with Blackwolf on the picking them off one by one. While diplomacy might be the more virtuous route, it is also the least likely to work out, as well making us lose the element of surprise. Orensland would love to sneak attack someone.
Picking them off one by one might not ultimately work as we would hope, as one of them could raise the alarm and bring the other 5 running. But it would still be a good effort, and would allow us to get a few good hits in.
For the sake of not raising alarms, I would vote that we cast silence on my sword or Bronzebeard's axe. That would also prevent clerics from casting certain spells, right? Plus, whoever we attack, it should be while they're asleep. I would vote we attack Skyler off-duty (no armor) first, taking the big honcho out of the picture. Especially with Bronzebeard's help. Would he be willing to help? What does our manpower look like overall?
As another idea to throw out there, if someone wanted to impersonate a white cloak, we do have Harrison's cloak. Perhaps seek to "enlist their help" and draw several of them into an ambush. That's risky, though. Unless someone has an idea to make that plan better, taking out Skyler would be my first choice.
If the consensus is to carry out an ambush, Khaska would agree that going for Skyler first would be the prudent course of action (or perhaps attack him while he's guarding Drikdare's family? get him out of the way and free Drikdare…). Casting Silence on a weapon is also a good idea, but not on Khaska's—we'll need his spells!
Khaska still would offer the chance to the other WCs to join the party if they wanted. Perhaps we could restrain them and explain our purpose, giving a choice to join us or go into exile.
Bronzebeard is more than happy to assist you in taking these guys out, and recommends against any kind of deal or clemency. "These guys work for Manson, who was so overzealous that the zealots kicked him out. Anybody not on their side is a secret agent of devils or demons or some craziness. They won't want to talk, and besides, if you're identified as the bodyguards of a vampire … yeah, it's a noble thought, but get rid of it."
Khaska will take Bronzebeard's word for it! And will be glad for his help. Let's go after Skyler first.
Sanjin has invisibility sphere spell that should help in a sneak attack. Also he could use crushing Despair to weaken the most dangerous of the group.
The two of them stole back through the woods to the Ruvalk and Rainbow Javelin, where everybody was anxiously awaiting them.
They gave their report, and everybody seemed much relieved. Khaska was very optimistic, but had to temper his idea of recruiting the remaining followers (Orensland dubbed them “Mansonites” after a few minutes of discussion, distinguishing them from the mainstream Bringers of Light) to their cause. After all, Sebastien was still around.
The group decided that attacking at night would be the best solution. True night only lasted for about 4 hours on the death side, when the sun went behind Pressen. That would be the best time to strike. Orensland volunteered to sneak back into town to see what the situation was with the locals and talk with Wilmin and Xala. Rynn came with him, again, to see and watch the Mansonites for patterns they might have to their advantage, while Sanjin and Khaska stayed back and prepared their spells for combat.
Just as sunrise twilight began, there were enough shadows that Orensland managed to sneak into town and into the home of Xala and Wilmin. Wilmin wasn’t around, but Xala managed to fill the shadowdancer in on the details.
Most of the townspeople were scared and didn’t want to fight Manson’s minions, but they were no friends of these occupiers either. Mostly the townsfolk were content to let this play out. They wanted to be rid of the fallen whitecloaks, but were unwilling to fight against such powerful magic-users to do so.
“Whenever you plan to attack, they’ll just stay inside and hope for the best. Like I said last night, only Jake could stand up to these dolts, and probably only the acolytes. Skyler is another matter entirely,” was her final point.
“I understand,” said Orensland. “We plan to attack tonight, so make sure that everybody knows to stay inside their houses. They’ll be out of the way of the fighting then for sure, and have a good excuse to be so.”
She nodded. “I’ll pass the word along.”
Orensland snuck out again, managing to get out into the woods where, by now, the rest of the party had gathered, along with Bronzebeard. His first mate, Sebastien, and the gnomes had remained behind with the ships.
“Well,” said Sanjin, “what’s the plan?” He was gripping his Python staff tightly, itching for some action.
“It appears,” said Rynn, “from what I’ve observed and what the Wilmin told us yesterday, that Skyler sleeps in Jake’s house beginning at nightfall, which is when they change watch, and that one of the acolytes prays in the old house they’ve set up as a shrine before heading to sleep, again in Jake’s house. The third one not on duty may or may not go right to sleep. Sometimes he stays up to drink with the locals. Sometimes he joins in prayers. Sometimes he heads straight to bed.”
“I had a thought that I didn’t want to share with Sebastien around,” said Khaska. “Do you think we might be able to recruit these whitecloaks to our cause? We do serve good, as they do, after all, in a different way.”
“How do you suggest we persuade them?” Rynn asked.
Sanjin snickered. “We killed Skyler just a few days ago. I don’t think he’s going to be much for talking.”
“Certainly approaching them unarmed would give them pause, would it not?” Khaska murmured. “I would think to swear in a Zone of Truth, as was done in the Hammerdine courts, would help convince them I spoke the truth.”
“Khaska,” Bronzebeard said, “these guys work for Manson, who was so overzealous that the zealots kicked him out. Anybody not on their side is a secret agent of devils or demons or some craziness. They won't want to talk, and besides, if you're identified as the bodyguards of a vampire … yeah, it's a noble thought, but get rid of it.”
It was Bronzebeard’s comment that turned Khaska away from his thought. Dragon or not, Captain Bronzebeard was clearly well-traveled and informed, an experienced wanderer on the death side.
They discussed their options, spells, strategies, and tactics as sunrise twilight came to an end and night proper began. Skyler, a man of habit, apparently, disappeared into Jake’s house pretty much immediately. The remaining two off-duty whitecloaks went to the makeshift chapel to pray. There was, of course, one whitecloak guarding the druid’s family, and the other two paced around together with Drikdare, not following any real specific pattern. Sometimes they’d circle the village. Sometimes they would walk through it.
The villagers disappeared inside to their houses. Orensland hoped that Xala and Wilmin had been able to get the word out in the hours since he spoke to her.
But night had fallen. Soon it would be time to execute their plan.
Turns out I had a lot of extra time today on account of CUA’s libraries being closed very early for spring break, so I could write this up pretty quickly.
So … what’s the plan?
Rhun is a Hamlet, by the rules, and only has about 150 people living in it. There are therefore about 30-40 houses in the village proper, and one tavern and a few abandoned buildings. There is one farm to the south, where the druid’s family is being held, long since fallow, and one just further south of that. The people here mostly subsist off of game and fishing.
To be clear, here are the locations for each of the enemies.
1. Acolyte 1 is guarding Drikdare’s family in a barn just on the outskirts of town, on the south side.
2. Acolytes 2 and 3, with Drikdare, are patrolling both inside the hamlet and around its edges. They seem to be moving as a group.
3. Acolytes 4 and 5 are both in an unused house near the east side of the hamlet, in a makeshift shrine used for prayers and the like. They are both still in their armor and are armed.
4. Skyler is in Jake’s house, which is right in the middle of town. You know that he has full plate armor, and therefore won’t be sleeping in it.
And for anybody sneaking into the hamlet, I’ll need Hide and Move Silent checks for you. Unless you are using spells to hide and move silently, because then you’ll automatically succeed. But I’m getting ahead of myself. What’s the plan?
Game-mechanics wise, both Invisibility Sphere and Silence could theoretically encompass the entire party as well as Bronzebeard, if you all stick close together.
So, from what I gather, we have a total of 5 members for this fight. It will be 6 on 5 overall, but we have a (hypothetical) Bronze Dragon on our side. This should be good.
Just throwing this out there, it seems we agreed generally that taking Skyler out first when he's unarmed and unarmored seemed the best option. However, we may not need to send everyone at once to do so. If Bronzebeard's in that fight, it seems reasonable to assume he'd wipe the floor with a pretty defenseless and powerless (silence, no spell casting) Skyler, making it so he doesn't require much backup.
Feel free to offer ideas or disagreements, but here's the order of priorities for hitting targets as I see it:
1. Skyler.
2. Acolyte 1, freeing the druid's family and making his aid a ready possibility. Perhaps the family could give us a token he would recognize, or be willing to come from a safe distance to prove they've been set free.
3. Acolytes 4 and 5, for reasons described in the 4th priority.
4. Acolytes 2 and 3. Being the last two standing, we can use the dead bodies of our previous targets to our advantage. We can prove that there is nobody to guard the druid's family, proving they are free and thereby turning him on our side, and we can demonstrate to the remaining two acolytes that surrender is their best option. Being zealots, they may not take that chance, but we may as well offer them the chance to live. It goes in line with Khaska's morality on the subject, at least. Plus we'd have a druid on our side to make up for whatever damage we accumulated in our previous battles.
I feel like we have 2 ways of going about this. Option 1: move together as one unit from target to target, overwhelming them with our numbers. Option 2: Divide and conquer. I'm leaning toward Option 1, but here's the full idea:
Option 1: We cast a the Invisibility Sphere and Silence spells on somebody's weapon. We sneak to each group and take them out in the order listed above (again, feel free to provide input on those ideas) with Khaska doing necessary healing in between, keeping everyone relatively fresh in the fight. We could even enlist Jake's help once we take Skyler out of the picture. Again.
If we go for Skyler, attacking him in a dark room might prove beneficial. I just gained darkvision, and Bronzebeard can probably see in the dark just fine (he has uncanny sight as well as hearing, apparently), so the two of us attacking when Skyler has no weapons, no armor, no verbal spellcasting AND no sight…
The main problem I see with this option is that the Silence spell would hinder our own spellcaster's ability to be in fights. But that would only be a problem for the Skyler fight, as range is a better possibility for the other fights.
Option 2: One group goes to take out Skyler, the second group goes to take out Acolyte 1. We could then regroup and take out the remaining pairs, perhaps meeting at Jake's house. If we were to do this, the spellcasters could go take out Acolyte 1 so the Silence spell doesn't effect them. Bronzebeard should definitely be in group 1, Synn and Khaska in group 2, and Orensland and Rynn split up between the two. Orensland may be better attacking Skyler for sword combat purposes, as range may be important in fighting Acolyte 1, but it's still pretty flexible.
The main problem I see with this option is that our chances of losing the element of surprise are way higher. Whoever attacks Acolyte 1 without some way to silence him would be at risk of being targeted by the other acolytes soon after, putting the druid's family at risk. Can we cast two spells of silence, or would that be limiting our spell possibilities?
So, generally speaking Option 1 sounds better, but I am willing to switch if Option 2 seems more feasible/effective to some of you.
Here are my rolls for whatever we do. If Orensland is in the silent invisible group, you may want to write something in there about how odd it is to not need to skulk about in the shadows. Walking out in the open with no effort at concealment would feel weird. My Hide and move silent checks are if I wind up somewhere else.
*Hide: 42 (18+24 mod)
*Move Silently: 33 (9+24 mod)
Longsword:
To hit: d20+10
Damage: d8+5
*To Hit: 19 (9+10)
*Damage: 7 (2+5) (PLUS 11 (4+1+1+5) IF SNEAK ATTACK - MAKING IT 18)
*To Hit: 26 (16+10)
*Damage: 8 (3+5)
All in all, pretty pathetic on the damage side of things. Hopefully Bronzebeard does better. :)
Quick question, if a spell has no verbal component does silence stop that spell from being cast?
Yes, you CAN cast spells that have no verbal component while you are under a Silence spell. Great question.
I just talked to Eryx, and I realized we can pull a Coup de Grace on Skyler, making overwhelming him not as necessary as we would have thought. Since I now have darkvision and can sneak like a champ, I could probably just steal into his room and kill him in his sleep. With my first roll, he would need to make a Fortitude save of 36 or higher to not die.
Perhaps I could go in, wait for him to fall asleep, then kill him. If for some reason that doesn't work, I can sneak out and we can do something else.
It's a pity assassins have to be of evil alignment. It sounds kind of fun.
Khaska thinks that the more easily Skyler could be dispatched, the better; he thinks that Orensland getting him in his sleep would be best. Others of the party could be waiting nearby for Orensland's report—or to rush in if something goes wrong. Once Skyler is out, the party should target the acolytes in the shrine
Khaska, personally, would not want to kill anyone at prayer or at a shrine, so he'd be willing to be in a second group going after Acolyte 1. (He'd also encourage the other group to wait until the others have left the shrine, but of course they probably won't pay attention.) He's not exactly the sneakiest—and he's wearing plate!—so he'd like to cast Silence on the weapon of someone going with him. (Two castings of Silence shouldn't be a big deal; they're Level 2 spells, and he has 4 of those per day.) Unfortunately, that'd mean that he'd be limited to melee weapons, but he's pretty handy with a scimitar. These rolls will be for any scimitar usage he has in the fight, wherever he ends up:
To Hit: 17 = 9 + 8
Damage: 8 = 6 + 2
Damage: 8 = (2 + 2) x 2
Well, ain't that a mixed bag.
So it seems that all of Sanjin spells require him to make sound. So other then use his python rod, he'd be be useless if silenced. So if both groups use the silence spell I don't know how he could best help. Although I suppose he could cast some spells beforehand.
Orensland would be willing to go with Sanjin to attack acolyte 1 without a silence spell while the others attack the acolytes in the shrine? After Skyler, of course.
Could Sanjin (and Khaska, I suppose) merely stand outside the zone of silence and use spells at range?
Of course. You could, for example, use the spells to sneak in, but then jump out of the affected range once combat begins.
You can also, if needed, dismiss spells, ending their effect early.
Perhaps we could use silence and have Sanjin use the invisibility sphere to begin with -while others attack. Then we could drop the silence spell if we feel we need spell back up.
So, here's what I'm gathering from all this back-and-forth.
We cast silence and invisibility sphere on somebody's weapon. This is primarily for sneaking together as a group without drawing fire from all six clerics. During combat, we may cancel the spell(s) or just have spellcasters cast spells from a distance. Orensland runs in and kill Skyler outside of the sphere of silence/invisibility, although you guys are there for backup, as he'd be a dead man if Skyler wakes up without you guys around. Orensland come out and give the thumbs up that he's dead, or you run in to save the day if you hear commotion.
Is this the general consensus? If we all agree on this, Eryx can move the story up to that point.
As for following Skyler, presuming all goes smoothly, that's where it's still hazy. Do we stay together or split up?
I still vote we stay together, mostly because we don't know the strength of each acolyte/Khaska can heal us, and I vote we attack acolyte 1 first with spellcasters out of range of the silence and invisibility sphere spells.
"Orensland come out and give the thumbs up that he's dead, or you run in to save the day if you hear commotion."
If they're in the area of a Silence spell, they won't hear a thing. :)
Staying together is primarily a function of how far apart the various clerics are. Could the party go from killing Skyler to getting Acolyte 1 without running into 2-5? I think it might be best to have some go for Skyler and some go for Acolyte 1, and then gang up on Acolytes 4-5, and then 2-3.
You know, I had a thought. As much as I enjoy the back and forth in these gray boxes (because you come up with much more specific plans that are easier for me to interpret), it does take a while. What if we made a new sort of arrangement between your characters. Right now there isn't really a "leader" of the party per se, but it does seem to me that Rynn has taken that role on more than anybody else. I wonder if we could start a new informal system where everybody expresses their preferences, and then BlackWolf decides exactly what "assignments" are given out to the different characters.
For example, it seems you all want to have Orensland sneak in and kill Skyler independent of the group. But how, then, to split the group up to go after the remaining enemies? It's not a decision I, as DM, want to make for you. Perhaps Rynn could say, "Okay, Orensland and Khaska head for the barn to free the centaur family, while Sanjin, myself, and Bronzebeard head for those that are praying in the makeshift shrine. Then we'll meet up at the shrine and assault the final group together." Or something.
It seems that this would be very much in character with Rynn and your group dynamics, and would also have the benefit of shortening the back-and-forth in these gray boxes. Plus BlackWolf knows the D&D rules well enough that he would understand the plusses and minuses of picking course A instead of course B better than, perhaps, Thev. Also, if BlackWolf wants more detail about the area and the setup, he can just call me instead of going back and forth here in the gray box waiting for responses to specific detailed questions.
I don't know how I feel about your proposal, Eryx. In character, yes, I suppose that Rynn has the respect of the group and could possibly be considered a leader. But the gray boxes are where we discuss and work out our plans as players — really that's where we actually play the game. So I'd hesitate to change that much. I don't think I as a player need to also be the leader.
As far as the plan of attack, I agree with what's been posted so far. Kill Skyler first, then acolyte #1 to keep the druid's family safe. Then we've just got 4 acolytes left, and possibly some druid help. I think it makes sense to try to play things out to that point — we usually only give 3 rounds of actions anyway. Once that much is done then we can figure out how to take care of the rest.
Rynn will be using his bow, as usual, trying to take out the unsuspecting enemy from afar.
Longbow: 22 (rolled 14 + 8 bonuses), damage: 10 (rolled 8 + 2 STR)
To weigh in on Eryx's proposal, I'd like to say that I enjoy the grey boxes when we're able to discuss options in shorter posts. It makes it feel a little like a game (especially for me, how just played his first in-person tabletop RPG this week and has the least knowledge of D&D of the group), and the questions we're debating feel somewhat less intimidating.
They had been discussing how best to approach the situation. Sanjin and Khaska both had spells that would certainly be of use to help them sneak in—specifically Invisibility Sphere and Silence. It was decided that they could cast them on a weapon of one of the party and sneak into the village that way. This was very comforting to Khaska in his full plate armor.
“Cast it on my axe,” Bronzebeard said. “I can keep it out of sight and let you all do your thing. I’ll join in if I think it necessary.”
“You won’t be able to activate the lightning effect on it,” said Sanjin.
The dwarf shrugged. “I do alright without it. I’ll be fine.”
The plan was to sneak in, have Orensland try to simply assassinate Skyler while the Mansonite was sleeping, then move to free Drikdare’s family. With that decided, everybody gathered near Bronzebeard.
“All right, friends,” he said, “stick close to me. Once you leave the area of Sanjin’s spell, you won’t be invisible anymore. Best not to take any chances.”
Sanjin went first, and after his spell was complete there was the faintest ripple effect of the light around them. But since they were inside its effect, nothing else changed. They knew, however, that from outside the spell they were now all invisible.
Khaska reached out to touch the axe, invoking a prayer. Immediately the sounds of the night stopped. The Maha’i was honestly a little startled. The insects. The sounds of the wind through the trees. Even the water from Clearwater Lake lapping at the shore … all had made more sound in the background than he had noticed. Their absence was jarring. Ranna seemed very confused, but Rynn reached a hand out to her and calmed her. Their empathic bond helped him get her attention, and she came with them.
They waited until the patrol passed by their location, and then snuck into the village proper. It was slow going, Bronzebeard making sure that they could all keep up with him. It was agonizing in that they couldn’t hear anything. The patrol could be around the next bend, for all they knew.
In the end, they managed to get next to Jake’s house, and then Rynn signaled to Orensland that he was to enter. The rogue gave a salute, and then blended into the shadows. The group saw the door open, and then shut. There was no way of knowing how much noise it had made—no matter how sneaky the shadowdancer, rusty hinges were rusty hinges. Rynn found himself holding his breath instinctively to hear better. Obviously it didn’t help. Bronzebeard saw him and made motions with his hands to indicate deep breaths. The ranger smiled. The captain had him pegged.
Orensland peered through the room. Even though it was dark outside, some low-light from the eclipse behind Pressen, he could see perfectly in the dark house. He smiled. His shadowdancer abilities were increasing. He could now see in the dark, though there were no colors. But still … This was going to be a cinch!
Jake didn’t seem to be home. It was a sparse house, though a relatively large one. There were two floors, one of the only buildings in town to have an upper level. It appeared that Skyler was upstairs. The shadowdancer crept up the wooden stairs, carefully testing his weight at each step, wary of creaks. The same with the first door upstairs, but luckily it opened quietly and he was able to poke his head in. No Skyler. He crept down the hallway, listening for snoring or anything else that would give away Skyler’s location. The second door opened quietly enough, and there was Skyler, sleeping, but with his sword laid by the side of the bed. Clearly a paranoid kind of person, but Orensland could actually respect that. His sword already drawn, he slunk forward, taking care to try even harder to be quiet. He must be careful. If he failed in this, he would be alone with a high-powered zealot cleric that, armored or not, could put up quite a fight.
Skyler stirred in his sleep just a hair, turning away from where Orensland was. The rogue took his sword and held it in both hands above the man’s sleeping form. Here went nothing!
But he needn’t have worried. The sword sliced cleanly into Skyler’s neck, and the cleric didn’t even wake before he died. Orensland let out a sigh of relief, cleaned his sword on the sheets (apologizing mentally to Jake), and turned to leave.
The shadowdancer emerged from Jake’s house and gave a thumbs up in the general direction of where the others had been. It was now time to move on the guard by the barn south of town, and to free Drikdare’s family.
Luckily, they didn’t encounter the patrol while on their way there. Orensland listened for them, and the seemed to be making a trip through part of the village, but behind them.
At the barn, the solitary guard was pacing back and forth in front of the barn doors, which were locked and bolted with chains. He seemed bored, with his wicked-looking morningstar held on his shoulder. Orensland crept forward and positioned himself nearby. He would wait for the others to attack before dropping his shadowblending and joining the attack.
Two arrows whistled through the air—the shadowdancer thought it weird that there was no “twang” sound from Rynn’s bow—both hitting the Mansonite and lodging in his armor. At the same time, Khaska appeared out of thin air and rushed the besieged man, but man managed to get his shield up, and Khaska’s scimitar grated against it. Orensland rushed forward and stabbed hard with his short sword into the small of the man’s back. He cried out, and heaved his morningstar at the Maha’i just as Khaska made his second swing. The two connected at about the same time, the spikes from the Mansonite biting into Khaska’s arm as Khaska’s scimitar sliced into the space between the Mansonite’s helmet and his shoulderguards. The man gurgled once and dropped to the ground.
Khaska, now outside the Silence spell, turned to look at the village. Orensland also looked, while Rynn moved outside of the spell to listen himself. After a few moments, it seemed that the remaining clerics were unaware of what had happened. So far, their infiltration of the village had been wildly successful.
“So far so good,” Rynn said. “Now, do we divide up and head for different groups, or do we stick together and take them on one at a time?”
Then, from inside the barn, there was some speaking, but in a language Orensland didn’t understand. He glanced at the other two. “Do either of you know that language?”
Rynn and Khaska both shook their heads.
The attempt on Skyler’s life went off without a hitch. He’s dead. Again. You also were able to avoid the patrol and then get the drop on the cleric guarding the barn with Drikdare’s family. He did manage to get a single hit in on Khaska before Khaska’s crit put him in the ground. He’s dead. The barn is bolted and locked with chains. It appears that the combat was heard from inside, but not in the city itself. Drikdare’s family is aware that something is going on, but none of the rest of the Mansonites is aware, near as you can tell. They're also speaking in a language that Rynn, Khaska, and Orensland don't understand.
Khaska is at 47/54 hitpoints.
What’s your next steps? Split up? Stick together? Go after the patrol? The group in the makeshift shrine?
The Silence spell and the Invisibility Sphere will wear off before you can get back into the “city limits,” so to speak, so you can discuss your plan with the group. Khaska has another casting of Silence prepared, but it looks like Sanjin only prepared one of Invisibility Sphere. So you can sneak in, but you can’t be invisible anymore.
May I suggest buffing up before you all head into town to fight the remaining acolytes?
And then give me three rounds of actions against … well, whoever each of you decide to attack.
Edit: Initiative and three rounds of actions. I harbor suspicions these combats won't be resolved as quickly as the last two.
In regards to the druid's family, we may as well try to see if they speak our language(s). If they can, great, see let's see if they can help us persuade the druid to switch sides. If they can't, they're probably too scared to do anything rash, so let's just leave them until the fighting is done. Any other thoughts?
My vote is that we gang up on the clerics in the shrine together first, then move on the party with the druid. We may be able to convince him we're on his side by that point, as stated earlier. Is the shrine open like a pavilion, or do you enter via a doorway? Hopefully the former. I would say we put the silence spell back up, but it doesn't affect Orensland as much, so will go with whatever everyone else thinks. I'd like to fit in a sneak attack or two if possible, though, so I'll include some Hide and Move Silently checks as well.
*Hide: 26 (2+24 mod)
*Initiative: 22 (11 + 11)
*To Hit: 31 (20+11) crit!
*Damage: 19 (rolled 8+ 5 + max 8 for crit)
*Damage: 10 (5+5)
This should be an interesting round. Especially that second hit. What a crit!!
Will you open the doors or try to talk to Drikdare's family through them? If you want to open them, I'll let you take 20 on the Open Lock check for Orensland. You've got the time.
Sorry, I get confused between the rules of the two editions (I'll be happy when we switch). When casting Lightning bolt and False life -how many dice to I roll? Is it based on my Wizard level, Spell slot?
False Life. 1d10 + 8 (your wizard level).
Lightning Bolt. 8d6 damage for your character.
All 3.5E spells can be found here.
Sanjin will wait for Orensland to do his sneak thing then attack.
Initiative: 11 (9 +2 dex)
Cast Mage Armor on himself
Cast False Life: Temporary Hit Points: 13 (5 rolled +8)
Cast Lightning bolt at the nearest target -making sure to not catch Orensland: Damage: 23 (rolled 1,1,3,5,5,1,3,4)
Since False Life and Mage Armor both last 8 hours, not rounds, just throw them on your character and give me two more rounds of offensive actions. In fact, if I were you, I would have cast them on Sanjin already (not that it would have mattered so far).
Khaska would like to release Drikdare's family and at least pantomime to them what has happened. Perhaps it's irrational on his part, but he has an inkling that though he can't speak their language, they may perceive affinity with a fellow hoofy creature. If he can, he'd try to figure out a way that the party could instantly communicate to Drikdare that his family is safe. Would I need to roll anything to communicate this way? (And is there any way that Khaska could use Comprehend Languages or Tongues without having prepared them?)
As for next steps, Khaska understand that it's best to take on the two whose location we know: those at the shrine. But he wouldn't attack them while in the shrine; he'd want to wait until they exited, or provide cover for the party as it attacks, including through a Silence spell. Let me know how other of the party would react to Khaska.
I would like Knowledge rolls from BlackWolf and DeltaWolf, and a Bluff Check from Thevarou.
There is not any way to use spells you have not prepared. You will have to wait a few hours for a new day to cast those spells. Tongues works on more people than just you, but Comprehend Languages will only work on yourself.
Knowledge roll: 10 (rolled 9 + 1 bonus)
You didn't specify a sub-type of Knowledge roll, so I just used basic INT modifier as the bonus. Rynn does have ranks in local and nature, so if either of those apply then add another +2 or +7 respectively.
If everyone is hanging around with Khaska to see the druid family, then Rynn would keep a lookout on the outside in case the patrols come around. But otherwise, he'd prefer to go hunting the next group of clerics with Orensland.
Hide: 10 (rolled 2 + 8 bonus)
Round 1 attacks:
longbow: 22 (rolled 9 + 13 bonus), damage: 5 (rolled 3 + 2 STR)
longbow: 28 crit (rolled 20 + 8 bonus), damage: 19 (8 full damage + rolled 8 + rolled 1 + 2 STR)
longbow: 28 (rolled 15 + 13 bonus), damage: 7 (rolled 5 + 2 STR)
longbow: miss (rolled natural 1)
Seems like Rynn's luck goes from average to the extremes. Hopefully his Move Silently check and the fact that he's firing a bow from afar will make up for a lame Hide check. Now if I can just see about getting my bow enchanted to add to the damage… :)
Orensland would be ok with luring the clerics out of the shrine or waiting, but if the Silence spell is wearing off, he would think it more prudent to attack while we have some hope of keeping the battle contained. He would apologize to Khaska, whom he respects.
Bluff: 15 (no modifiers)
Not that it will necessarily help you, but BlackWolf's Knowledge check is sufficient to know that Centaur speak Elven and Sylvan. Apparently, the ones trapped in the barn are speaking Sylvan.
I think I have almost enough to move forward to the next breaking point. If I can get Initiative and 3 rounds of actions from Thev, and two more rounds of actions from DeltaWolf, then I'll be good to go.
Damage: 14 = (5 + 2) x 2
Knowledge: 12 (9 rolled +3)
To Hit: 13 (11 rolled +2 Dex)
Just then the Silence and Invisibility Sphere spells wore off, revealing the party. Sanjin was startled by the sudden noise that assaulted his ears. The night was noisier than he expected.
“Well,” said Orensland, “I’m gonna let them out.”
“I believe I might be able to find kinship with them,” said Khaska. “Fellow hooved beings and all.”
Rynn slung his bow over his shoulder. “It’s worth a shot.”
Bronzebeard shrugged. “I’m just the muscle here.” He turned to watch the village, in case the patrol came by.
It took Orensland a moment, but he was able to get the lock open. He pulled the chain off from the doors and grabbed one of them, swinging it wide open.
A centaur woman gingerly stepped out, and Khaska had to immediately avert his eyes, as she was topless. She said a few words, but nobody understood them.
“Can you understand me?” Rynn asked, in Elven. She spoke again in the same language, which wasn’t Elven. “Centaurs sometimes speak Elven and Sylvan,” Rynn said. “I would guess she’s speaking Sylvan.”
“Everybody please sheathe your weapons,” Khaska said. “We don’t want to appear threatening.”
Everybody did so, though Bronzebeard merely put his greataxe down and leaned on it.
Two smaller centaurs emerged from the shadows of the barn. One was also a female, but a much younger one. The other was male, perhaps a teenager. Khaska stepped forward, still keeping his eyes from the adult female’s … chest. He tried his best to pantomime what had just happened, pointing to the dead Mansonite and trying to indicate that they were friendly.
However, the teenage male after making getting sufficiently far from the barn, waited to watch Khaska for a moment or two, then turned to the older female, spoke in Sylvan for a few seconds, and then, more quickly than anybody expected, turned and bolted, running straight for the forest.
“Eapas!” the female cried out.
He shouted something back, and then was in the trees and vanished from view. The younger female crowded close to the elder, and the elder put her arm around the younger’s shoulder. The elder glanced for a long moment at the forest where the young male had gone, but then turned to face the party and Captain Bronzebeard. She would be staying, evidently trusting in these new strangers. “Drikdare?” she asked.
Khaska pointed to the village. Then he pointed to himself. He thought this might not be an appropriate time to use his full name, so simply said, “Khaska.” He then pointed to each of the group in turn, saying their names. Orensland gave a sweeping bow when introduced. Rynn gave a short wave. Sanjin nodded his head. Bronzebeard put his hands together and also bowed, but in an efficient manner much less grandiose than Orensland’s.
The elder female put her hand to her heart. “Eloranos,” she said. Then she placed her hand on the younger. “Gwynll.”
“Eloranos,” Khaska said. “Gwynll.” Gwynll was shy, and tried to back up and hide behind her mother. The Maha’i could see that both of them were slightly emaciated. Not dangerously so, but they had not eaten their fill for some time.
“Where to now?” Bronzebeard asked.
“The clerics at the shrine,” Orensland said. “Then move on the party with the druid.”
“I agree, but I will not attack them in the shrine,” Khaska said. “It would be blasphemous to do so.”
“You didn’t have a problem attacking in that shrine back in Hammerdine,” said Rynn. “Why the change of heart?”
“That was a secret shrine to Nerull. As misguided as these whitecloaks are, they serve good gods. I will not attack in a shrine to those gods. Shall I cast another Silence spell?”
Rynn nodded. “I think so. It will help us sneak in, at least. Can we also be invisible?”
Sanjin shook his head. “I’m sorry, I only prepared one casting of that spell. And if we use Silence again, I’ll have to move out of range to cast my spells.”
“That’s fine,” the ranger said. “Skyler was the main threat. The invisibility spell worked to get us into kill him. And if we can keep the clerics from casting and you can cast at them, then we have a severe advantage.”
The centaur woman began speaking rapidly. It was hard to understand what she said, but the name “Skyler” came out several times.
Khaska pointed at the dead whitecloak. “Skyler is dead.”
Orensland drew his sword a few inches from his scabbard and pointed to it. “Skyler,” he said. He pointed at the dead whitecloak. “Skyler.”
The centaur woman relaxed. She seemed to understand. Khaska motioned for her to come closer, and she did so. The younger one did as well, but more cautiously.
Khaska reached out to Bronzebeard’s axe, saying a prayer and casting Silence once more. The sounds of the night once again vanished. The group moved towards the town and crept towards the makeshift shrine.
Orensland poked his head around the corner of a nearby house. The two clerics were inside the abandoned house they had converted to a makeshift shrine. The front door had fallen off its hinges and sat to the side, giving them a clear look inside. The two clerics were at prayer. Orensland looked around for the patrol, didn’t see them, and then motioned for the others to follow. He thought it might be best to lure the two out so that Khaska could join in the fight. He motioned for everybody to stay and then crept forward, drawing his sword. He left the area of the Silence spell but didn’t blend into the shadows. He wanted to be seen when he spoke.
But just then one of the two clerics stood up. “Goodnight, Amelia,” he said, and then turned to go.
Orensland was about ten feet from the entrance. He had been planning to quip, “My friends and I would like to have a word with you outside,” but the moment the cleric turned around, their eyes met, and the shadowdancer knew there would be no time for funny quips. His grip tightened on his sword.
That was just fine by him.
“Amelia!” The cleric snapped, drawing his sword and moving quickly to the wall, grabbing a shield and arming himself.
The other cleric was on her feet instantly, and she had not discarded her shield to pray.
“Skyler!” The male cleric yelled. “Everybody! Intruders!”
And with that, he called a prayer out to Heironeous and charged straight at Orensland. Orensland managed to parry the man’s blow but doing so threw his riposte off. Neither injured the other as the female cleric emerged from the shrine. She pointed her sword at the sky.
“Die, darkfriends! For Harrison!” She shouted a word in elven and her sword erupted in flames as she charged towards Orensland, heedless of the others. Sanjin had moved from the area of the Silence spell and launched a Lightning Bolt at this female cleric. Focused just on Orensland, she didn’t even try to dodge it, allowing it to hit her squarely in the chest. Orensland still just barely managed to dodge out of the way of her vicious strike at him.
Arrows from Rynn landed in the first cleric’s armor, clearly wounding the man. Khaska hesitated for just a moment at seeing that one of their targets was a woman, but the need to help Orensland from her flaming sword overcame his quick reticence, and he engaged her, sparks flying from her sword as she parried his scimitar attack.
“If you kill me,” she said, “at least I will be with Harrison again in the Seven Heavens of Celestia, even if you didn’t give him a proper burial!” Khaska could tell that she had been crying; her eyes were splotchy.
Just then silence descended on them. Bronzebeard had entered the fray, but, oddly enough, did not attack. He seemed content to let the Silence spell from his axe be his contribution.
The other cleric managed to hit Orensland, drawing blood, but it left him open to a counterattack and the shadowdancer’s sword sank deep into the man’s chest. He gasped once, making no sound in the magical silence, and then dropped to the ground, bleeding out.
The female cleric began to cry, tears streaming down her face as she beat futilely against Khaska’s defenses. She managed to catch Orensland off guard as she turned, her flaming sword carving a gash into the shadowdancer’s arm before an arrow from Rynn sprouted from her chest. It hit with such force that she fell backwards onto the ground, where she stayed.
Blazing light erupted into the group. Sanjin could hear the prayers of the patrol—alerted by the fighting, or perhaps by the cries for help, they had just rounded the corner of a nearby house. One of the clerics wielded a huge mace, the other had a smaller mace and a shield. Drikdare, of course, came with them.
“Drikdare!” Eloranos called out. The two centaur had stayed back, and Bronzebeard had moved far enough away that they no longer were in range of the Silence spell.
One of the Searing Light spells from the clerics went wide, but the other blazed into Khaska, and the smell of burnt hair filled the air. Drikdare quickly morphed into a huge brown bear, just as he had on the ship. Sanjin managed to coat one of the Mansonite clerics with an Acid Arrow spell as they entered the Silence spell. They were obviously surprised at the lack of sound, but pressed forward and attacked. Khaska moved to place himself between these newcomers and Drikdare’s family. He hoped the action would help turn the druid to their side.
And indeed, it appeared to do so. Drikdare in a display of animal ferocity, turned on the cleric with the huge mace, savagely mauling him with one paw before biting down on the man’s arm and worrying it, blood flying everywhere.
I took the liberty of moving the combat partially into a fourth round so you could all see that Drikdare has decided to join you in fighting off Manson’s minions. There are two clerics left—you handily dealt with the two in the shrine. (A few good crits will do that for you.)
Give me three more rounds of actions.
Gah, pulling Khaska's heartstrings! He knows that he did what he could for Harrison on the ship, but to no avail. If Amelia is still alive after the fight, he'll explain that, try to comfort, and see how she reacts. It might be too late, but he'll take any ally he can get. And he will certainly insist on a proper burial for all the other Whitecloaks no matter anyone's objections.
With that, and given the Silence spell, he'll wield his scimitar again:
Orensland would likely feel some remorse over that one as well, being the one who fairly mercilessly killed Harrison. However, he'd also remember how indifferent these white cloaks have been to underprivileged folk, which would help assuage his guilt.
Orensland would also agree to give the White Cloaks a proper burial.
Initiative: 24 (13 + 11)
To Hit: 26 (15+11)
Damage: 8 (3+5)
Damage: 11 (6+5)
Those were oddly consistent rolls. Fortunately, they weren't too bad!
Is there a way to use burning hands without torching my allies?
For Thev … Ameila and her companion are both bleeding out. They are not dead. (You also cannot heal or stabilize them in a Silence spell with magic. You can, however, dismiss the spell as an action.) In the campaign so far I have exercised my prerogative as DM to allows NPCs the same chances of dying that PCs do. This is partially because you are all good aligned, and might not want to merely kill everybody. It's also partially because there have been a few instances where you wanted to interrogate one of your enemies. Other DMs simply have enemies die once they fall below 0.
DeltaWolf, there currently is a way you could hit both clerics with Burning Hands. Depending on how things go, that may not last, however. Why would you not use Lightning Bolt? It does way more damage. Or you could specify Burning Hands if possible, Lightning Bolt if not.
If Sanjin can use burning hands without hitting his allies he will, otherwise he’ll skip it.
Cast Burning Hands (if possible) * Damage: 11 (4,1,1,4,1)
Cast Lightning Bolt * Damage: 32 (3,4,2,6,3,2,6,6)
To Hit: 13 (rolled 12 +2 Dex)
If he can't use Burning hands..
To Hit: 11 (rolled 9 +2 Dex)
It could be interesting if Amelia lives; mostly because Rynn's reaction might be quite different from the rest of the group. In his estimation, these clerics are either hypocrites or else have let their devotions blind them. Not being much of a worshiper himself, he does not have a basis to relate to them (other than, perhaps, his respect of Khaska's ways), so he falls back to his ranger-colored viewpoints where they are like animals out of control — not inherently evil, but needing to be culled.
And actually, depending on what happens around these clerics, the Whitecloaks in general, and whether we rescue Lady Maramos; I could see a case for Rynn to finally slip from a Neutral Good alignment into Chaotic Good.
But first, we must finish the fight. It sounds like we may be able to easily finish off these clerics, but I was wondering about how much damage we've taken. Perhaps that won't matter until the aftermath. And although Rynn wouldn't object to saving any of the clerics lives, he wouldn't spend his actions to do so himself…
longbow: 10 (rolled 2 + 8 bonus), damage: 9 (rolled 7 + 2 STR)
longbow: 19 (rolled 11 + 8 bonus), damage: 4 (rolled 2 + 2 STR)
Wow… I guess something must have thrown Rynn off against these newcomers. I'm guessing most of those will not overcome the enemy AC.
The Mansonite drew his arm back and smashed his two-handed mace into Drikdare’s head, breaking bone and causing some of the bear’s teeth to fly out.
Sanjin finished another incantation and blasted the dwarven cleric fighting Orensland. The man tried to dodge out of the way but was encumbered by his plate armor. The Lightning Bolt blazed into him with full force, small arcs of lightning playing across his metal armor as he used his mace to bash Orensland’s leg, causing the shadowdancer to stumble. But Orensland leapt forward with a snake-like lunge, and his sword glanced over the dwarf’s and into a gap between his arm and chest armor. The dwarf slumped forward and collapsed.
Rynn turned his attention to the remaining Mansonite, but both of his arrows went wide, one embedding itself in the wall of the makeshift shrine, the other skittering across the ground.
Drikdare recoved from the hit he had just taken and took two swipes at the cleric, roaring with full rage—which looked odd, since nobody could hear him. The druid’s claws raked through plate armor and cushioning to savage the man’s chest and arm. He collapsed into a heap on the ground, blood flowing freely from many gashes and wounds.
The fight was over.
Khaska muttered a prayer (even in such magical silence he prayed quietly to dismiss the spell and of course Teresh heard his plea even if nobody else could) and then suddenly the sounds of the night returned to those still in the area of the Silence spell.
Bronzebeard relaxed and slung his axe over his shoulder. “Looks like you didn’t need my help at all this time. Well done. You have freed the town of Rhun.”
As he was speaking, Drikdare morphed back into his centaur self and bounded over to the two females. He embraced them both and began speaking to them rapidly in Sylvan.
Once again, nobody could understand what they were saying, but Eapas’ name came up several times. The female pointed in the general direction that the young centaur had escaped to.
Drikdare turned to the group and spoke in Elven. “I know that you cannot truly be my friends, as you work for Lady Maramos, but I thank you for freeing us even if it was for your own reasons. I also hope that you have already slain Skyler. If you have not, we need to move on him immediately.”
“Skyler was the first cleric we took out,” Orensland said, also in Elven, while wiping his blade with a rag. “I snuck in and killed him in his sleep.”
“We killed him for the second time,” Rynn said, also in Elven. “I hope he stays dead this go-around.”
“Yeah,” Orensland said, sheathing his sword and turning to Drikdare, who had not approached, and who was still holding his arms around the two female centaur protectively. “We thought you might be an ally were we to free your family. Do you speak common?”
“I do not," he replied.
Orensland looked at Khaska and shrugged. “Looks like he only speaks Elven. Sorry.”
Sanjin kicked over one of the fallen clerics, the second one he had hit with a Lightning Bolt. “Hmm,” the wizard said. “This one’s extra crispy, but he’s still alive.”
Three of the whitecloaks are bleeding out but have not yet formally died. The one that Drikdare mauled is completely dead. The druid was taking no chances with his family’s safety, apparently.
Drikdare seems wary of you. His family can only speak Sylvan, but he speaks both Sylvan and Elven. So that means that Khaska will be unable to speak to him unless he uses Tongues and/or Comprehend Languages. Also, his son has run off, and he would like to go find him, but is concerned about leaving his wife and daughter behind while he does so.
And finally, will you stabilize any of the three remaining Mansonites? (Amelia is one of them.)
Rynn, Khaska, and Sanjin get 3500 XP, 3000 for the combat, and 500 for the "quest" of freeing Rhun from these exiled Whitecloaks. Orensland receives only 3031 XP for being higher level.
First things first: we need to figure out 1) whether to save the bleeding-out Whitecloaks and 2) how to gain the centaurs' trust.
Khaska would lean toward saving the Whitecloaks, especially Amelia, out of mercy and the hope for more allies—perhaps even rescuing the Whitecloaks from their overzealous ways. How the centaurs would perceive such a move would be unclear; would it be negative (because the Whitecloaks had been so oppressive) or positive (because it provided evidence that the party is good)?
In fact, Khaska would like to ask through a translator the centaurs' opinion on saving the Whitecloaks—as well as Bronzebeard and the party.
Once that's settled, he'd communicate to the centaurs (through a translator again) that he'll be able to converse with them the next day through the Tongues spell, and that he'd be willing to do so in a Zone of Truth.
What do you all think?
I'll allow you to deliberate here in the gray box with the other players, but not in the in-game world. Amelia has been bleeding out for some time, and the others look pretty bad. If you want to stabilize any of them, you'll have to do so immediately.
As I said previously, Rynn wouldn't object to Khaska saving the lives of our foes, but it isn't something he's contemplating himself (if anything, he'd be wondering if any of them needed to be finished off). If asked, he would be taken aback a bit and shrug. Should they be stabilized, Rynn would get to work on removing their gear and tying them up.
"It's true that we served as bodyguards for Lady Maramos," Rynn will say in Elvish to Drikdare, "but we are neither servants of evil nor mercenaries. We deceived the vampire in order to discover the evils her kind are committing in league with the Cult of Skyrnyn. You of all people surely understand how circumstances can lead one to work with an enemy."
Rynn will ask the druid about the Mansonites, especially about how they've treated his family and the townsfolk. He's curious about their motivations and whether any of them have any good in them. He'll happily help translate for Khaska, and also will inquire about Eapas.
Since there's little time, Khaska will stabilize the Whitecloaks who remain alive, and will approve of Rynn's taking their gear and binding them. That'll give us the chance to learn whether they could become friends.
Upon Khaska stabilizing the whitecloaks Sanjin would make a comment about hoping that doing so won't end up coming back to bite us.
Orensland would approve of stabilizing and disarming the Whitecloaks for the sake of discussing our options as a party. As for ultimately deciding whether or not we should let them go, Orensland's opinion would depend on how vengeful they seem when they wake up. If they are willing to depart in peace, we can consider that option. If they intend to hunt us down one day… well, that's a different matter.
Orensland would also be willing to talk with the centaur as translator, and would approve of bringing him in on the matter. We can get the gnomes from the ship to back up our story as far as they have witnessed (aka, we are nice folk). We may also ask him to play along when Sebastien comes back onto the scene.
…also, can I call dibs on the fire sword? :)
I'm fine with Orensland taking the magic sword. Might be a good idea to check if there is anything else of value.
Khaska moved over to stabilize the surviving Mansonites. Amelia’s words had cut him deeply, and he had hoped that, perhaps, one or two of them could be turned from their overly-zealous ways.
Sanjin sighed. “I hope that doesn’t come back to bite us,” the wizard said.
“Well, we can at least relieve them of their equipment in case we have to fight again,” Rynn said. He moved over to the dwarven cleric Khaska had just stabilized and kicked his mace away before picking up the shield and tossing it aside. Khaska was watching the centaur to gauge their reaction, but he found them unreadable.
“It's true that we served as bodyguards for Lady Maramos,” Rynn said in Elven to Drikdare, “but we are neither servants of evil nor mercenaries. We deceived the vampire in order to discover the evils her kind are committing in league with the Cult of Skyrnyn. You of all people surely understand how circumstances can lead one to work with an enemy.”
“And does that make you my enemy as well?” the druid asked.
“I certainly hope not,” Orensland said. “I don’t much like to see innocents caught up in the machinations of others, whether it’s you or the Cloudlovers. Their ship is nearby, as is Captain Bronzebeard’s.”
Sanjin was quietly translating the gist of the conversation to Khaska, who had finished stabilizing the remaining clerics.
“I was heartened to hear that you had freed them. Manson was most put out by the turn of events,” Drikdare continued, “though he did achieve his objective. Ameila was heartbroken. She and Harrison were engaged to be married, and planned to have the ceremony this summer on the solstice, when Pelor would most smile upon their union.”
Orensland looked down at the comatose form of the female Mansonite. “Well, that’s going to be a problem. I chopped his head off. She’s probably not going to like me.”
Khaska then spoke up. “We did bury him overboard with the proper rites, however. Though his path approached that of evil, I hope his soul finds rest.”
Rynn translated, with a quick explanation that Khaska did not speak Elven.
Drikdare nodded, then spoke to Khaska, looking to Rynn to translate. “You seem a noble soul. You are only the second Maha’i I have met, but both of you have been considerate and thoughtful. But now, I must ask if we can depart. My son has run off, fearing recapture, and I would like to retrieve him. Here on the lake we are a few weeks travel from the plains where our clan can be found.”
Bronzebeard hefted his greataxe over his shoulder, and said a few halting words in Sylvan. Drikdare nodded. The captain turned to the others, speaking in common. “I don’t know a lot of Sylvan, but I do know some. I said they would be safe here.”
“I could be of assistance tracking your son,” Rynn said. “I would be happy to do so.”
Drikdare spoke quietly to his wife and daughter. Gwynll especially seemed quite reluctant to see him go, but her mother drew her close protectively and that seemed to calm the girl down, though she still watched the others warily.
“Come,” the druid said. “Let us find Eapas. He is foolish and headstrong, but more than capable of surviving on his own for some time in the wild.”
With that, Rynn and Drikdare departed, heading to the prison-barn to pick up the young centaur’s trail. Just then, Wilmin and Xala approached. “Is it done?” Wilmin asked.
Orensland nodded. “All of them are dead or captured. Your village is free!”
Xala cheered out loud, thanking the gods for their good fortune to be rid of these overzealous rulers.
“May I suggest that we separate the survivors of Manson’s followers,” Bronzebeard said. “No need to have them all grouped together.”
“We should probably do something about Skyler’s body,” said Khaska. “He deserves proper funeral rites as well.”
“I’ll head back to the ships and have mine dragged here by the Cloudlovers,” said Bronzebeard. “Perhaps you’d like to come see your uncle, Wilmin?”
“I would happily go with you to get Uncle Pippy!” the gnome said.
Xala was running from house to house, banging on doors and announcing that they had been freed. People began to gather. There was some low murming when they saw that several of the Mansonites were still alive, though now disarmed, without armor, and tied up. Khaska was also a point of curiosity, people pointing and murming at him.
“My guess would be,” said Sanjin, “that they don’t see many Maha’i here on the Death Side.”
“It is a concern of mine that I will be so readily remembered and identified,” said Khaska.
“That’s a good point,” the wizard mused. “Perhaps we should find some way to alter your appearance. There are spells and magic items that would do so.”
“I would love to hear your suggestions,” Khaska said. “But perhaps later. We should greet these people and begin discussing next steps.”
Between Rynn, Ranna, and Drikdare, picking up Eapas’ trail was simplicity itself. The three of them plunged into the forest, moving quickly and easily falling into a rhythm of mutual cooperation. Rynn could tell that Drikdare was an accomplished outdoorsman.
“I thank you for your assistance in finding my son,” Drikdare said, after a few minutes of silent tracking. “He is headstrong and impulsive, but wants what he thinks is best for the family.”
“Of course. I'm happy to help, though I'm not sure I understand why he thought running off would be best for your family. Do you think he is seeking for help?”
“I suspect that he will try to make his way to the plains and find the tribe. Unsure of how you all will act towards us, he felt the wilds would be the least dangerous option for him, and the one most likely to bring help and assistance. He feels guilty for his part in how we were forced to work with Manson and his minions.”
“Was he the first to be captured by Manson then?”
“Some of Manson’s acolytes captured my wife and children on his orders. They were attempting to find someone who could help them navigate the wilds of the forests here, and then they sent Eapas back to my tribal encampment to retrieve me. Eapas was worried if he warned others what was happening that his mother and sister would come to harm, so he lured me out, and then I too was captured by the circumstances. That was almost a year ago.”
“It sounds to me like he made a wise decision, but I suppose I can see how he might still feel guilty about it. How old is he?”
“He is sixteen. His manhood hunt will take place this summer, and I think many such things weigh heavily on his mind. He feels the weight of responsibility descending upon his shoulders, and fears he has acted unwisely.”
Rynn pointed out a broken twig, another sign of the young centaur’s passage, and then let Drikdare take the lead. “How did Manson and his people treat you and your family?” the ranger asked. “A year is a long captivity.”
“They were looking for a base of operations between Fort Windhaven and the head of the Derring River, as they were expecting Lady Maramos to come back to Darkcrest that way. When we were on the move, I think it was actually worse.” Rynn was still behind him, but the ranger could hear Drikdare’s voice get husky with emotion. “That’s when they had Gwynll and Eloranos in chains. Eapas and I helped scout. The barn here in Rhun was comparatively comfortable. I think they could have spared us some more food, but we weren’t starved or tortured or anything.”
Rynn shook his head. “I don't get it. How can they think that they are doing good when they enslave your family? They're no better than the vampires who make slaves … maybe even worse because since they cannot enthrall you, they resort to threatening your family.”
Drikdare snorted. “The Bringers in general see no reason to negotiate or handle evil in any way other than to slay it. Manson and his kind are even worse–if you do not immediately attack evil, you are a ‘darkfriend,’ an ally of evil. Though they do not immediately kill all such beings they meet, they do look down upon them. My family, and most of the centaur tribes in general, fall into such a category. We are not zealous enough, and therefore not worthy of equal consideration.”
“Pah!" Rynn practically spat. "They should have killed each other then, rather than waiting for us to have to do it. But I guess they don't think of themselves as evil though, do they. Can't see their own folly.” Rynn thought about the remaining Mansonites back in Rhun. How would they react to being accused of being evil? To his mind, if they couldn’t tell that they were so corrupt, then they needed to be put down. “What other things have they done? Have they done anything that is actually good?”
“Well, I have it on good authority that they have captured a very powerful Vampire, a leader of Darkcrest. Such a being is clearly evil, is she not?” Drikdare turned to look at Rynn, half-amused, half-serious.
Rynn smiled. It was a fair question and a good point. “Yes,” he responded, “she is evil. But Manson hasn't captured her for altruistic reasons. He's just trying to get back in good graces with the Whitecloaks. I'm not sure that capturing a vampire—even a powerful one—makes up for what they've done along the way.” It was good to vent, even to a new friend he didn’t know that well, but after he finished, he realized that, really, Drikdare had no knowledge of anything that Rynn and his friends had done in the service of Lady Maramos. They could easily be seen as being just as hypocritical as Manson. “There are times when you have to do something you don't like. Maybe even things you know are wrong in the service of a greater good. But if one isn't careful, he can become corrupted. My friends and I may have been the bodyguards of a vampire, but we haven't stooped to evil acts like Manson and his people have done. We even risked blowing our cover to help Captain Bronzebeard when he pulled into port near Fort Windhaven.”
Drikdare nodded as he splashed into a stream. It wasn’t clear from here where Eapas had gone, so Rynn signaled to Ranna to begin tracking the young centaur by scent. She was able to find his exit from the stream about fifty yards upstream. The boy was clever, trying to hide his path, but Rynn and Drikdare were too skilled for his ruse to succeed. “I think that capturing such a prize as Lady Maramos is more than a mere means of getting back in with the mainstream Bringers. I’ve overheard some of Manson’s men speaking about how their excommunication was not without controversy. Manson may be making a play for the leadership of the Bringers. The capture and execution of Lady Maramos would be a powerful sign that he would be a good leader of their order.”
The thought of Manson as the leader of the entire Bringer organization half frightened, but mostly angered Rynn. “With leaders like him, who needs vampires or the Cult of Skyrnyn?!” Rynn spat out, exasperated. “Under his leadership, Garth Calad might as well be Darkcrest.”
“Have you ever been to Darkcrest?” asked the druid.
“No. When we were back in Gallidus, we learned that some terrible things may be happening there. Large groups of people were being tricked into 'pilgrimages' that we believe were headed for Darkcrest.”
“If they are the groups I am thinking of, Darkcrest is not their final destination. They head for the Marshes, and like all who enter the Marshes, are never heard from again.”
Rynn knew that the druid was speaking of the Zyrbryxion Marshes. Spanning so many thousands of square miles, nobody would say “the Marshes” on the Death Side and mean anything else.
“Why the Marshes? What's the point of leading all those people out there? I had just assumed that the pilgrimages were a front for getting a bunch of slaves into Darkcrest.”
“I don’t know. We have been forbidden to enter the Marshes since before my great-grandfather’s time. It is folly to go there.”
Rynn thought on this. Arandur had mentioned the same thing to him—everybody who travelled into the Marshes simply didn’t come back, no matter how skilled, no matter how well equipped, no matter how brave.
“Do you know any more about Darkcrest?” Rynn asked. “My group has been travelling as Maramos' bodyguards just as a way to get there and learn what is going on there. We don't actually know very much about it.”
“Just what I’ve heard from travelers. The city is quite insulated from the outside, populated by vampires and their worshippers. It is a city filled with violence and debauchery, where the vampire houses vie for power and attempt to one-up each other. The House of Maramos has sat atop the ruling dynasties for centuries now.” Drikdare shrugged. “If the rumors are to be believed. I’ve not traveled there myself, and am wary of trusting all that I hear of it.”
“What kind of travelers?” Rynn found himself thinking about Inyel, the Blood Ranger. She seemed the kind of person who might be interested in working with vampires in some capacity. It wouldn’t have surprised him to hear that she had been to Darkcrest and made some pact with its rulers.
“Some brave explorers occasionally go there. Perhaps a Bringer contingent under cloak of secrecy. Sometimes the vampires have allies—evil folk who can work for them outside the city itself. On a rare occasion, I or others of my clan have met people who claim to have visited the city. Perhaps at Hub or just at a trading site. We do not meet such people often.”
Rynn paused as he scanned the ground for signs of Eapas’ passing. “Drikdare,” he said, after a few moments of thinking, “what do you think we should do about Lady Maramos? I don't like the idea of Manson using her to get back into the Whitecloaks, much less become their leader. Some of my friends think we need to rescue her, but I wonder if letting her return to Darkcrest is too high a price for admittance. I'm wondering if we should destroy both her and Manson.”
“I must admit that has much appeal to me. We centaur consider the undead to be abominations. Vampires the worst of the lot, deliberately created to be immortal, yet still aware of their past lives and intelligent and cunning. Why have you not destroyed her so far? What purpose, aside from a trip to Darkcrest, do you have for your dangerous ruse?”
“You know, honestly, I'm not sure. I've been thinking about it a lot lately. In some ways, I feel like we just fell into it. There was an opportunity for us to learn more about what our enemies were up to, and we played along.”
“Well, I do find it odd that Lady Maramos traveled outside of Darkcrest. Do you know the nature of her business?”
“Not really. I think it was something to do with corrupting the government of Hammerdine. It seems that the vampires have some kind of alliance with the Cult of Skyrnyn.”
“I have not heard of this Cult of Skyrnyn. This is the second time that you have mentioned them. Who are they?”
“They are dragon worshippers. They think dragons should be free, and since there are only evil dragons left, they are trying to free the ones controlled by the Knights of the Silver Dragons. Or something like that.” Rynn shrugged.
“And the vampires serve the Cult?” Drikdare seemed genuinely alarmed. “To what end? It must be a mutually beneficial arrangement, and probably lucrative, to lure Lady Maramos out of Darkcrest to travel on the Living Side.”
“I'm sure you're right, but I don't know much else. We didn't do a lot of talking with Maramos herself, as you might imagine. Even her previous bodyguard didn't stick around a moment longer than he had to in order to get his payment. And her servant, Sebastien, doesn't seem like he's been privy to many details.”
“I wonder if there are other ways to discover the details. Have you searched her coach?”
Rynn was genuinely startled. The thought had literally not occurred to him. “No. I hadn't thought of that; we were so focused on getting to Rhun to help everyone there. And before the battle with Manson, we didn't want to risk getting caught doing anything suspicious by Maramos or Sebastien. But that's a great idea. Hopefully she didn't have all her possessions on her when she was captured.”
“If there is information there that can be useful, it will be up to you to determine what to do with it. But I am curious. This Cult of Skyrnyn … they wish to free the dragons from the Knights. As much as I do not want evil dragons freed on this world, I admit to finding their enslavement distasteful. But then again, we do not interact much with the Knights. They left the Death Side many decades ago in any kind of force, though we may occasionally see a dragon rider in the skies.”
Rynn nodded and thought about what Drikdare had just said about the enslaved dragons. “I agree with you. I've seen and met a few of the dragons, and I didn't like what I saw. If they ever got free, their enslavement would make them all the more dangerous. Maybe organizations just tend toward corruption—I suppose in some ways the Knights and the Whitecloaks are not so different.”
“I am surprised that you have shared so much with me, who you have known so shortly.”
Rynn laughed, startling a bird perched on a nearby branch which took off in flight. “I've never been good at bluffing. I guess now that I'm not hiding my true nature from Lady Maramos, I'm just saying whatever comes to mind. Plus, I think I wanted you to know that we aren't your enemies.
“I suppose that telling you all this could be folly. I've been wrong about people before and the betrayal still stings. But I want to believe that we're on the same side.”
“If your enemy is Cedric Manson, then we are on the same side at least that far. He will not make it back to Garth Calad alive.”
Rynn smiled broadly and nodded in agreement. He felt a surge of enthusiasm because the clouds of doubt that hung over his head seem to be clearing. “Let's find your son so we can get on with that.”
“I am sure that when my family is able to reunite with my clan my father will aid me in destroying Manson. But yes, let us continue to find Eapas. We do seem to have a good rapport in tracking. I think we could be friends, Rynn.”
“I'd like that, Drikdare. So is your father head of your clan?”
“He is. Which means I am the chieftain’s son, and have been missing for an entire year. And now you perhaps also sense why Eapas wishes to go find help himself, to redeem his past error. It weighs heavily on him, as a future chieftain.”
“It is my error that caused mother and Gwynyll to be captured,” came a voice. Eapas stepped out from behind a few shrubs. “You are not quiet, father. Could hear from far away.” The boy was speaking in Elven, but it was clear he hadn’t mastered the language. Rynn appreciated his attempt to speak so that everybody would know what was being said. The two centaur embraced, and Rynn stayed enough away that they could have a private moment, whispering to each other, probably in Sylvan anyway.
When the two separated and began to walk towards Rynn, Eapas was moving just ahead of his father. “Thank you,” he said, to Rynn.
“You are welcome,” the Ranger said. “Let’s get you back to Rhun with the rest of your family. I hear you’ve not been eating well. We can fix that.”
The lad smiled. “I am hunger.”
“Of course you are,” Rynn responded. He saw Drikdare smile, a grateful father that Rynn wasn’t embarrassing his son for his lack of proper Elvish grammar.
Back in Rhun the party had decided to take Bronzebeard’s suggestion and split up the survivors of Manson’s coterie. There was a room upstairs in their makeshift shrine, and that’s where they deposited Amelia. The dwarven cleric went into the prison-barn where Drikdare’s family had been held, and the other human left in the basement of Jake’s house. Apparently, Jake was on a hunting trip for a few days, a concession that Manson and his friends allowed. (Overzealous and controlling though they were, they recongnized that people needed to eat, and that hunting and fishing were the staples of the people of Rhun.)
Rynn and Drikdare returned with Eapas after a few hours. The young centaur seemed chastised, but overjoyed to see all of the family reunited. Eapas knew some halting Elven and could therefore communicate with most of the party. Rynn had an interesting report—Drikdare was sure his clan would be incensed at Manson’s kidnapping of Drikdare and his family, and would likely go on the warpath after him. Though Drikdare was not sympathetic to defending Lady Maramos, the clan might be an ally against the Mansonite caravan on its way to Garth Calad. The druid was quite certain that, if he could get back to his clan, that he could lead a war party to exterminate Manson and his followers. He seemed to relish the idea.
While the party discussed what they might do next as they waited for the ships to come, Khaska decided that now would be as good a time as any to have a conversation with Amelia. He wanted to wake her up using his healing spells. The other Mansonites he would let recover on their own.
He deliberately set aside his weapons and armor (though first checking that she was still unconscious and securely bound) to seem not intimidating, and made sure the symbol of Teresh was visible above his clothing. (The symbol she carried around her neck was identical—she was a cleric of Pelor.)
He reached out to touch her head and say a prayer. The healing magic flowed through his hands to her, and he saw the bruises and cuts on her face heal. She awoke, still injured, but now conscious. She looked at Khaska, but didn’t say anything.
Khaska sat down, to be eye to eye with her. “Greetings, in the name of Pelor. I am Khaska. What may I call you?”
“You serve Pelor?” He saw that she glanced down to his chest, where sat his symbol of Pelor.
“Yes, and none other. I take it that is a surprise to you.”
“You're a darkfriend. How is it that a cleric of Pelor serves as bodyguard to Lady Maramos, vampire sorceress of Darkcrest and leader of the house of Maramos? Does Pelor even answer your prayers, or do you serve the dark Gods and have deluded yourself into thinking you still serve him?”
“That is a long story, if you wish to hear it. To be short, however, I and my friends have uncovered some of the vampires' nefarious works on Gallidus, and we are accompanying Lady Maramos in order to investigate and frustrate their purposes.”
“And she lets you do that?”
Khaska raised an eyebrow. “She does not know. We are impersonating her original bodyguards.”
“Why not just kill her if she trusts you? Is that not what Pelor commands us? To dispatch a vampire, even of her power, during the day would be simplicity itself!”
“We hope to postpone that moment to do greater good saving thousands from death and slavery.”
Amara paused for a long moment. Khaska was content to let her brood on the subject.
“Your greater good,” she said, “meant the killing of Harrison and fighting Cedric Manson, a great man and a faithful servant of goodness and light. Evil is to be eradicated and destroyed, not guarded until a later moment!”
“I am truly sorry for your companions. I have saved those I could. Before you judge our actions, though, I should tell you more about what is happening on Gallidus.”
“Who have you left alive? Skyler?”
“Two of your companions, whose names I do not know. The others were beyond my capacity to heal, Skyler among them.”
“Why keep us alive at all?” She began to cry, a tear trickling down her cheek. “Why not let us die.”
“Because you are servants of good.” She blinked at that. Several times.
“For all the good my service to the Gods has been to me so far.” She looks you in the eye. “You may call me Amelia.”
“Well met, Amelia.” With introductions complete, there was another pause, as if neither quite knew how to move forward in the conversation. Khaska decided to continue. “I would like to tell you more of our mission, but I understand that today has been very difficult for you. If you would like some time alone, I will honor your wishes and return later to talk.”
Her response was a whisper that the Maha’i strained to hear. “Will you pray for me? I wish to commune with Pelor, but … I'm so confused.”
“Most certainly I will. I will return anon.”
“No, I mean, will you pray for me right now?”
“Oh. Certainly. I will do my best to render it in the common tongue. My own prayers are most often in my own language.”
Khaska moved from sitting to kneeling, raising his hands and his head to the ceiling in a gesture of reverence.
“Teresh …” he paused, realizing that he had defaulted to the Maha’i name for their God, “ah, Pelor, thou who lightest all, we are in the night. Turn thy face toward us that we might behold thy paths and set our feet aright.”
Khaska was pleased that his “rendering in the common tongue” had rhymed. He looked at Amelia, and he could tell that she was impressed.
“Thank you. But …” she paused, “how are you in the night? I'm here alone, my friends dead or captured, my fiance slain, my leaders gone, all alone with enemies.” She paused. “Or at least not friends.”
“Well, I have never been to the Death Side of the world before. I am in the company of a vampire and her servant. And I plan to go even to Darkcrest. My night is different from yours, but it is yet night.”
“I've never been to the living side.” She looked down, a slightly wistful expression crossing her face. “My parents were both members of the order, and I was raised to be a cleric like them. Fighting evil.” Then she looked back up at Khaska, her eyes bright and attentive. “What is the living side like?”
“Brighter, for sure. There are more people as well. Fewer dangers.” He paused. “I am from the desert, but there are places on Gallidus where the trees are taller than twenty horns and shine a green like nothing else.”
“And you left such a place to come here and fight for Pelor? You sound like the original Bringers, before the Knights abandoned them.”
“I have not heard the story of the Bringers of Light,” Khaska said. It was true; he knew what they were now, but new nothing of their history and what had caused them to become so militant and overzealous. “I only know that we came to save as many as we could. But I would be curious to hear the story, if you would want to tell it.”
“The Knights came to the Death Side with many cleric and allies, fighting for centuries to rid this side of our moon of evil. Eventually the Dragon Riders thought their time would be spent elsewhere, and they abandoned this side of the moon. Only the most faithful fighters of evil remained behind, and they became the Bringers of Light and now stand against all of the evil the Knights too cowardly to fight on their own.”
“It is a noble quest, certainly. Would you be willing to hear of our quest?”
She looked at him intensely. “Yes.”
Khaska told, as best he could, their encounters with the Cult of Skyrnyn and the vampire Veleria in Hammerdine, and of their goals in hoping to discover more of the deeds of these aligned workers of evil on the Death Side by aiding Lady Maramos and thus gaining access to, it was hoped, more information and understanding. When he was done, he could see that she believed him. He thought it a good moment to try to persuade her to join their side in some capacity. She was a Mansonite, but seemed the most persuadable of those he had encountered so far. So he simply asked. “Would you be willing to help us achieve our ends?”
She waited a few seconds before answering, and Khaska noticed that she didn’t answer the question directly. “What will you do with me if I refuse? And what will become of the others, and my slain companions?”
Add this to what Khaska said before “The dark gathers all across our world, and we need all hands before the Dark Times of Arkenosian invasion.” Khaska sighed. “I will not kill you. But unless you do, I do not think you will be welcome in Rhun. The townsfolk feel that righteousness often untempered by grace is not the best neighbor. You would likely have to leave Rhun. Please think and pray on it. Pelor, whom we call Teresh, might answer yours as he does mine.”
“I will do so. Will you be performing rites over my fallen comrades? If so, I would like to help, if you would let me.”
“I will. And you may help, if you swear yourself to peace. My companions would need assurance that they can trust you out of bonds.”
“I don't think I'll be much of a threat to your entire group without my armor and weapons, but I swear to be peaceful during the services. Did you also perform services for Harrison?”
“I did, as best I could on water.”
“I thank you for that, at least.”
“Thank you for your company, Amelia. May Pelor grant you knowledge and wisdom to choose your path ahead.” He gingerly got up (he had been kneeling since their prayer) and quietly closed the door behind him.
As he left the makeshift shrine, one of the townspeople came running up to him. “Mister Khaska! The ships are here!” And sure enough, in the morning light, he could see the mast of the Rainbow Javelin above the nearby cabins and houses. There wasn’t really much of a dock … a few one or two-person fishing boats on the nearby beach, but Bronzebeard anchored a ways offshore and then began rowing towards the town in his longboat. Sebastien was with him, and the moment the vampire-worshipper stepped off of the boat he went straight to Orensland and pulled him aside.
“Report. Why did you leave some of them alive?”
“Information.” The shadowdancer didn’t want to explain much more than that. Sebastien nodded.
“What information have you gleaned?”
“Enough to be of use. Manson travels with about twenty-one of his followers and acolytes. They are moving slow in a caravan with several wagons, some commandeered by force from the townsfolk here.”
“So we’ll be able to catch up to them easily.”
“Or even get ahead of them if the Cloudlovers will drop us off on the far side of the forests here. It will be slow going for them. They have a few days head start on us, but that’s not going to be a problem at all.”
“That is good news. When do we leave?”
“That has yet to be decided, but we don’t want to waste any time, either. Now that the Cloudlovers are here, we can have that discussion.”
“What of the townsfolk here? Will they be friendly to us?”
“They seem largely ignorant of what Manson’s overall objectives and plans, and don’t know that we serve Lady Maramos. I doubt they would even know who she is. But I don’t know that we should broadcast our purpose more generally.” He leaned closer. “Not everybody is friendly to vampires, of course.”
“I see that the centaur and his family are here. Are they friendly to us?”
“Not particularly, but they are deeply unfriendly to Manson. Drikdare wants to get back to his clan and lead a war party against Manson and his caravan.”
“Perhaps we could ally with them? I have many financial resources at my command still in the carriage.”
“That’s not a bad idea.”
Khaska was using the makeshift shrine for his morning prayers. He had not slept much, but still felt the rejuvenating influence of Teresh buoy his alertness and sharpness. He was mindful of Amelia in the room up the stairs, but was careful not to seem to be overly pious. He was here to commune with his God, not to put on a show to convince her that he was a trustworthy ally.
As he finished his prayers, he stood to turn. He had been thinking that they would have to bury the Mansonites today, and had pondered on what he might say and do over the bodies to properly inter them. He turned to go … and saw Captain Bronzebeard standing there. The cleric hadn’t even heard him come in.
“I didn't want to disturb your morning prayers, but I had a thought I wanted to discuss with you in private,” the Captain began.
“Oh, yes, certainly. Share your thoughts.”
“From your report, Amelia seems that she might be amenable to some arrangement other than being a Whitecloak for the rest of her life. I was wondering what you thought your plans for her might be?”
“I do not know if Rhun would accept her as a guardian, but that could be an option. Otherwise, I am not sure. Perhaps she could accompany us to Darkcrest. Would you have a suggestion?”
“I do, in fact. I am in need of new crewmembers. We roam the lake, and sometimes the seas, looking to fight pirates and slavers and others. A good-aligned cleric would be a welcome addition.” The Bronzebeard leaned in closer, and whispered. “I have a further idea, but wish it to remain between us, for now.”
Khaska also whispered. “I can keep your secret.” He tried not to let his excitement show.
“You cannot yet raise the dead, but I suspect that, if your current endeavor doesn't get you killed, you will someday grow in the grace of Pelor that he would grant you that spell.” With that, Bronzebeard paused, tilting his head for a moment, clearly listening to their surroundings, then continued. “How do you think Amelia would respond if we promised to try to raise Harrison from the dead?”
“I suspect she might disbelieve it, though if I were able to accomplish that, I would win her total trust. But his body is at the bottom of Clearwater Lake. How could we even retrieve it for the spell?”
“Have you heard of the Spirit of the Lake in your travels here on the Death Side?”
“No, I have not. What is this spirit?”
“The locals speak of a spirit that rescues drowning sailors, helps stranded ships, and sometimes eradicates those same pirates and slavers that I try to track. Some believe in it. Others think it a legend created by too many drinks while sailing the lake. But I happen to know that the spirit is a real being, and is capable of a great many things.”
Khaska sat quietly, debating about whether to ask the question he had in mind whether Bronzebeard was the spirit. But he refrained, and asked instead “Could this spirit retrieve Harrison's body? And do you … know that this spirit would do such a thing?”
“I am certain that the spirit could retrieve the body. But I harbor suspicions that he would do so only if a powerful cleric,” and with this, Bronzebeard stared right into Khaska’s eyes, almost unnerving the Maha’i. He was forcefully reminded of the intensity of Loremaster Onasus, or even of the righteous fury of Mirwen Taldiril. Bronzebeard continued, “or a cleric who thinks someday he might be powerful enough, would commit to returning to raise Harrison from the dead.”
“I feel there is something that you know about Harrison—or Amelia—that I do not.” He paused, deep in thought for a moment. “But I trust you that his return would be so valuable. If I survive our venture Darkcrest, and if I advance in my abilities sufficiently, I will return to raise him.”
“I know all that you know about them. I am just aware of the Spirit, and how it might benefit your current cause, and thought I might bring it to your attention.”
“I will take your word.”
“Well, then, I'd best be off. I will go searching for a suitable tree to replace my mast. Please tell the others I have done so. Oh, and don't leave before sunset this evening. I suspect by then you will have a new bargaining chip for Amelia.”
Khaska nods in acknowledgement. “May Teresh guide your steps.”
“I would think it best, once the Spirit of the Lake delivers on my promise, to tell your friends of your goals. I suspect they will simply agree with you that perhaps Harrison and Amelia deserve their chance at happiness, but that you will have to travel a bit out of your way to make it happen. Orensland will take to this goal most naturally. I sense a good deal of guilt from him about his involvement in Harrison's death, though he would not have changed his actions.” He bowed. “Good day, Khaska.”
The party had decided to wait until the other Mansonites were awake before making a final decision about their next steps, but at Sebastien’s behest, Khaska used his magic to wake them up to get things moving forward.
As expected, neither was very open to any kind of negotiations. The human merely ignored them after calling them “darkfriends,” and said nothing else. The dwarf was similarly immovable, but for very different reasons.
“Cedric Manson saved my life several years ago. I owe him my allegience because of that, and I will not betray him until my debt is repaid. And that’s that.”
The party gathered near the outside of the barn, away from the structure itself, but also away from the town. Sebastien had joined them.
“What’s our next move?” he asked.
They were in the middle of discussing the situation when a few of the townsfolk came running. “Jake is back!” one of them said, a young newlywed man carrying a child on his shoulders. “He wants to meet you!”
“It would be rude to not go meet the leader of this town,” Khaska pointed out. “We can finish our discussion in a bit.”
The group walked back to the town itself, a decent crowd having gathered. Rynn watched as people departed with various cuts of meat. Given the amount of people and the number of cuts he saw, it was clear that Jake was a skilled hunter.
As the party approached the crowd, the townsfolk parted and Jake stepped forward.
He was a Maha’i.
Khaska didn’t even try to hide his astonishment, his mouth hanging open. Jake was similarly surprised, stepping forward. The group stopped, leaving the two Maha’i to approach each other.
“I didn’t quite believe it when they told me upon my arrival,” Jake said. “I never thought to meet another of my kind.”
“I am the first you have ever seen?” Khaska gaped. “How can such a thing be?”
“My mentor found me in the plains to the east, a child crying next to a dead female he assumed was my mother. She had many scars on her and still had the shackles of slavery around her neck and hands. She had perished for want of food. He found me and brought me here, taught me to hunt and track before he passed on many years ago. I’ve lived in Rhun as long as I can remember, helping the good people of this town.”
So to sum up what you’ve learned.
1. Drikdare has it out for Manson, and will be heading back to his clan to organize a war party to ambush and kill the remaining Mansonites on their way to Garth Calad. Drikdare is also the next in line to be cheftain of his particular clan. Eapas in line after that.
2. Drikdare is not particularly fond of the idea of helping Lady Maramos, but does feel that he is in your debt for freeing his family.
3. Two of the Mansonites, the male human and the dwarf, are uninterested in bargaining, talking, learning, or really anything except for either escaping or killing you. Or perhaps dying honorably in combat. Amelia, on the other hand, seems more amenable to alternatives. Bronzebeard will be somehow contacting the Spirit of the Lake to bring Harrison’s body back, and suggests that Amelia join his crew. He suggests sticking around at least until this evening. (It’s currently late morning, and none of you really slept last night.)
4. Manson and his group are in a caravan with wagons, which means they’ll be moving slowly through the forest until they can reach the plains and head for the bridge. The Cloudlovers are still willing to drop you anywhere on the Death Side. It would be pretty easy to beat Manson and his caravan out of the forest. (A reminder, Rhun is on the east side of Clearwater Lake, about 20 or so miles south of the mouth of the Derring River.)
5. You have now met Jake. He’s a bit of a community leader in Rhun, and is a decently high-level ranger. He’s a Maha’i found in the wilds on the Death Side next to his dead mother (it was assumed), and doesn’t know squat about other Maha’i.
The loot from the Mansonites is as follows:
1. 4 sets of +1 plate armor.
2. 1 set of +3 plate armor.
3. 2 +1 heavy steel masterwork shields.
4. 2 +2 heavy steel masterworks shields.
5. +2 flametongue sword. (Crosis has called dibs, but only if there are no objections.)
6. 4 masterwork crossbows.
7. One +1 longbow.
8. +1 greatclub.
9. +2 maul, merciful enchantment.
10. 3 +1 Amulets of Natural Armor.
11. 1 +2 Amulet of Natural Armor.
12. Ring of Jumping.
13. Ring of Protection +2.
14. Various coin and jewels totaling 2481 gold.
Loot isn’t really important at this point, as we’re planning on switching over to 5E rules shortly anyway. I’ll have details about how I want to handle that to you in the campaign dialogue page sometime before we hit the end of this Codex.
And finally, a bit of metagaming discussion I’d like us to start to hash out. I did dialogues by IM with Thev and BlackWolf for the conversations with Drikdare, Amelia, and Captain Bronzebeard. As BlackWolf and I did his dialogue, BlackWolf came to the conclusion that Rynn, at this stage, really just wants to drag Lady Maramos out into a field during the daytime, open the top and shout “Rise and shine!” while watching her turn to dust.
I expressed worry about this because I don’t want the actions of one character to impact the fun of some of the players. (Note that I’m making a distinction here between characters and players. Rynn is character. BlackWolf is a player.) D&D is a bit of a social contract game. We have to make sure each other are having fun within some basic limits. What I don’t want to have happen is what this youtube DM-advice-giver talks about starting at about 6:05-7:12 in this video of his. (Incidentally, I’d be curious if you would all watch the video and pick which kind of player you think you are. It might be a beneficial self-diagnosis.) I don’t want one of you to ruin someone else’s fun.
I’ve talked with Crosis about this, and he thinks that Orensland feels so strongly about following the trail of their enemies to Darkcrest with Lady Maramos that he would actually fight Rynn over it. That’s what the character Orensland would do. The player Crosis doesn’t think that conflict between the characters Rynn and Orensland about what to do would actually ruin his fun. (In his words, the only thing that would ruin his fun would be if Orensland died. I pointed out that resurrection is a thing in this world.) I just want to make sure that, if BlackWolf decided to have Rynn drag her out in to the sunlight, that he wouldn’t be ruining anybody else’s fun. Creating inter-party conflict might be an interesting storyline switch, but it comes fraught with complications as the party moves forward from that point. If you’re all going to fight each other over whether or not to kill Lady Maramos, I want basically everybody to agree to do so to see where things go, and that we’ll do our best to not ruin each other’s fun moving forward.
Anyway long post. Long gray box. Thanks for putting up with it all.
What do you all want to do next? And what are your thoughts about a possible inter-party conflict about the fate of Lady Maramos? What will you do with the two incorrigible Mansonites?
For the inter-party conflict about the fate of Lady Maramos, I'm thinking such an event would be quite interesting as far as plot development goes. Orensland sees keeping Lady Maramos alive as a key to determining the plot behind the pilgrimages, and as such key to saving hundreds of men, women and children. He would be seeing their suffering in his eyes as motivation for putting up a fight to keep Lady Maramos alive. If he and Rynn fight, and he wins, he'd likely keep Rynn out of commission until Lady Maramos is conscious (Killing her when she's defenseless is one thing, killing her when she's awake and powerful as ever is another). If he loses, I would assume Rynn would kill her then and there, not leaving much choice for the incapacitated Orensland. Orensland would not be happy, but would still want to work with the party, as that is his best chances of averting the evils plaguing the events surrounding Darkcrest.
As for what to do now, I should think we fly over to the tribes and figure out what they are and are not willing to do. Orensland would recommend that we don't tell them about the vampire, and ask that we get the coffin in return for helping with the fight. We should bring the carriage in the ship to help with transportation. I suspect any conflict between Rynn and Orensland would happen after we have actually secured the vampire.
As for the remaining Mansonites, Orensland would be torn over the remaining two stubborn ones. When he steals from the wealthy who prey on the poor, he intentionally avoids looking into their personal life beyond their atrocities. In essence, he avoids feeling guilty about who he has hurt. In this instance, he killed Harrison only seeing the darkness his order was bringing, but with Amelia around and willing to be a better soul, he can't help but feel the humanity of the Mansonites still alive. Killing them would be the simplest option, and one he is inclined to, but he'd rather not be the one to do so. If someone has a better idea, Orensland would be inclined to listen, but only if it a) doesn't tip Manson off that we're on to him or b) they don't continue their zealot ways against the good people who disagree with them. He likes the idea of resurrecting Harrison, but after the resurrection will be on guard for any possible acts of revenge.
And if Amelia is nice to us, Orensland would feel bad about taking the flametongue sword, as she no longer fits the stereotype of people he generally steals from. If he could somehow get it without causing too much grief from her end, he would be down for taking it, but otherwise may just stick to his own sword. Remorsefully. As for the other loot, I should think we should split the financial goods evenly, but Orensland would also like the +2 Ring of Protection, if if that's all right. He doesn't much care for the other goods.
The sword wasn't actually Amelia's. They gave the good weapons to those "on duty," so you can lay claim to any of the loot you want. I suspect that if she goes with Bronzebeard he'll insist that she get at least a set of armor and a sword, maybe a shield as well.
To be clear, the resurrection of Harrison will take place probably months or even years from now. Khaska must be a level 13 cleric to perform that spell, and it costs 10,000 gold (in 3.5 E rules; in 5E rules, it's only 1000 gold, so you have that going for you as we prepare to make the switch). So, he's made a reasonably big commitment here. You all don't necessarily have to be on the hook for the cash, but I figured your characters wouldn't mind doing some extra travel for a good cause at some point in the future.
Ah! Well, Orensland would love getting the sword, if nobody is opposed. Also, I didn't mention the +2 Amulet of Natural Armor, but would like that if nobody else wants it. I just find myself in a poor condition to call dibs on more items.
And he would still be good for the resurrecting of Harrison some time down the road.
First, the issue of Lady Maramos. I'm glad that Crosis as a player is up for some in-game debate (or even conflict) about this. I think it could be interesting since we both are happy to let it play out however it will.
For now, Rynn would talk with the rest of the group and explain his side of things. He's worried that we didn't have a solid plan, and that taking Lady Maramos back to Darkcrest might just end up with us dead and her back home safely. Yes, she is our ticket into the city… but with the information Rynn learned from Drikdare, it sounds like getting into Darkcrest may not be all that we thought it would be. It sounds like the pilgrimages might be part of something else after all. So eliminating Maramos (and Manson) would get rid of them and also free us up to investigate in other ways. It doesn't even completely rule out the possibility of visiting Darkcrest.
Rynn will be open about his objections to rescuing Maramos. It complicates things (both now with Sebastien and later with her) and if she gets to Darkcrest we might lose our only chance to destroy her. But he won't fight Orensland over it at this point. Really, I don't think he would actively fight Orensland (e.g. he wouldn't try to incapacitate his friend in order to get his way), but he might take sudden action that Orensland would have to prevent to get his way.
I'm also interested in what the rest of the party has to say on this matter. But no matter what, I think we should search Maramos' carriage — though we'll have to do so when Sebastien is unaware. I actually think that Orensland is best equipped to do so without leaving a trace, but Rynn will try if needed.
Regarding resurrecting Harrison, Rynn is fine with it if Khaska vouches for Amelia. The ranger will want to ask her a single question, "Which is more evil: shielding a vampire or holding a family captive to enslave their good father?" Her answer to this will determine whether Rynn thinks she has any redeemable qualities, though even if he thinks she does not, he'd still defer to Khaska's judgement. (Likewise he's also fine with Bronzebeard taking her on as crew.)
For the other two Mansonites, Rynn sees them as liabilities. If they got away, they could warn Manson or cause other trouble. If the townsfolk kept them imprisoned that might work, but they would probably still try to escape. Rynn doubts that Bronzebeard would want to take them on as crew.
So, given that they are liabilities and that Rynn sees them as the worst kind of lawful (they do evil things in the name of good because others tell them to instead of thinking for themselves) the ranger would be willing to be the one to execute them if the group agrees that is the thing to do. Like with Adam back in Codex III-Chapter 5, he considers it a necessity and thus would feel no guilt or remorse. It's his ranger training; unfortunate that there is no other way, but nothing to wring one's hands over with indecision. Maybe Rhun has some laws that ought to come into play? This time there is no large government to sit in judgement.
As far as the loot goes, Rynn could make good use of the +1 longbow — at least until we switch over to 5th edition. He really doesn't need anything else.
Thev and I came up with a pretty cool chart to determine which Maha'i tribe (and therefore which earthly antelope he's based on) Jake is from. Here's the google doc. My wife rolled a 55, so Jake is descended from the Mkentek tribe, which means he looks like a Nyala. (Khaska, being from the Mawkhavi tribe, looks like a Gemsbok.)
Sorry for the delay, guys. Been a busy week and long posts are always somewhat intimidating to respond to!
First, Khaska's torn about the unrepentant Mansonites. He doesn't want to kill them—after all, he himself saved them. However, he also doesn't feel like it's quite his place to mete out justice. He'd rather consult with the townsfolk of Rhun on what would be a proper punishment: ideally, something that would leave them alive but unwilling or unable to continue their harm. Perhaps, for instance, the Cloudlovers could drop them in the forest somewhere along the route to the intercept point with Manson's caravan: let them fend for themselves in the wilderness without gear. I suppose we'll see how they react when Khaska promises to resurrect Harrison?
Second, Orensland is committed to rescuing Lady Maramos, it seems. Khaska's now a little more ambivalent about that prospect, given that the pilgrimages don't seem to be headed to Darkcrest anymore. He would remind them that reviving Maramos would determine the party's next moves, and he agrees with Rynn that they don't seem to have a plan for when they reach Darkcrest (Khaska, again, at least wants to be disguised when entering the city).
However, he's not in favor of reviving her immediately; he thinks it would be better to thwart Manson first and revive her after the battle, if possible, in order to protect bystanders and maintain the party's control of the situation as long as possible. He wouldn't be opposed to joining Drikdare and his tribe in the battle; it would certainly help avoid the situation on the Ruvalk.
Khaska would also be in favor of the party searching Lady Maramos's coach as soon as possible.
3. Khaska is shocked to find another Maha'i on the Death Side. What's more, while he knows the Mkentek clan by look, he's never spoken with one before—they're more aligned with Gtarrei politically, but the border tribes relate as a matter of economic necessity.
Even if Bronzebeard hadn't advised them to wait until evening, Khaska would ask to take time to speak with Jake. He'd introduce himself formally, of course, and then mostly want to field Jake's questions, if for only one practical reason: Khaska realizes that Jake is starting with total ignorance, and isn't quite sure where he'd begin. Some things he'd be sure to mention are the history of the enslavement of the Maha'i along the western coast of Gallidus and his desire to find and free anyone who might still be in servitude on the Death Side. He might even mention the story of Tawru One-Horned.
Regarding loot, Khaska would like either the Ring of Protection or the Amulet of Natural Armor, however he works out the split with Orensland. A +2 mwk heavy steel shield might be nice as well.
BTW, here's Jake for you all:
(I would draw everyone, but… I'm not skilled with humanish faces, and they wouldn't look that great.)
Sanjin thinks this white cloak girl is a wild card and is opposed to bringing her along. As for the other Mansonites he worries that they would cause trouble and has no qualms about ending them. Never the less he is happy to just turn them over to the town as to get them off the party’s hands.
Sanjin leans towards using Lady Maramos as was their plan. Yet he will make no attempt to stop Rynn if he makes a move to destroy her.
Also on a flavor note: Sanjin is fascinated with undead and as more time goes by his interest will grow -even to the point where he desires to study necromancy. I also think his general language and behavior would reflect this.
“So you don’t know your clan? Your heritage? Your culture?”
Jake bristled a little. “My culture comes from the good people of Rhun and the other nearby villages on the lake.”
“Of course,” Khaska said, “I meant no offense to them, but, Jake, you are of the Mkentek tribe. They dwell among the Shajran forest on the east side of Gallidus, and are a noble and proud people.” He smiled. “Sometimes they are looked upon with suspicion by the others because they swear allegience to neither Jevereshk nor Gtarrei, two rival cities of our people. But perhaps that is not a weakness, but a sign of independence and strength.”
“I would love to speak more of this with you, but I must ask the nature of your business here. You have freed us from the Whitecloaks, but for what purpose? And are there survivors?”
“There are,” said Rynn. “We kept a few alive to learn more about Manson’s plans and where he is traveling to.”
“So you will be tracking Manson, then? I wish you luck in that. He is a cunning and devious cleric, with great powers at his command. What do you want to do with the survivors?”
“There’s some debate about that,” Khaska said. “As a leader of this town, your input would be greatly valued. I do feel obligated to perform last rites for the slain Mansonites. We could bury them in the woods or in a cemetery, if your village has one.”
Jake shook his head. “We bury our dead in the woods or maybe on the lake. There isn’t a designated place for it.”
Khaska presided over the funerals for the fallen Mansonites. A few of the townsfolk came out, but most didn’t participate. The two unrepentant clerics seemed too much a liability, so they remained tied up and under guard. Amelia was allowed to come, and said a prayer over each grave that Rynn and Orensland had dug. Khaska and Jake spoke for a few hours about the Maha’i. The ranger was very interested in hearing the tales of his people, and Khaska told him many that he could remember, even including the Tale of Tawru, though he left a few of the newly discovered details out. They spoke of the enslavement of many of the western Maha’i, and of the likely fact that Jake’s mother had been among them, perhaps even born into a life of slavery. He taught Jake a few of the prayers that he felt the Mkentek tribe might also use, and a few halting words in Maha’i.
Later that day, as Khaska and Jake were walking the streets, the two saw Bronzebeard walking up.
“Khaska!” he said, “I’ve found a suitable tree on the south side of the village I can use to remake the mast for my ship. Perhaps you’d like to come see it with me?”
Khaska knew exactly what Bronzebeard was asking, and he took his leave of Jake and followed the dwarf. About a mile down the shoreline they found Harrison’s body, soaking wet, but still all together wrapped in one of the sails from the Ruvalk.
“I hope this helps,” Bronzebeard said. “At the very least, I think that we can persuade Miss Amelia to come join my crew.”
Khaska hefted the body over his shoulder and began walking, a little unnerved that he could feel Harrison’s head bouncing around in the cloth. But after a few hundred yards, he had to put Harrison down due to the weight.
“I’ll carry him from here,” Bronzebeard said. The dwarf easily hoisted the dead body up and carried it to the outskirts of the village. “Why don’t you go get Amelia, and we can make our bargain.”
Khaska went ahead and gathered Rynn to help guard Amelia. The two of them took the Mansonite out to the edge of town. As they walked, Rynn was assessing his view of this Mansonite. He wasn’t particularly inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt.
“Amelia,” he asked, “if you were born into the Whitecloaks, why did you follow Manson? He’s been excommunicated.”
“I don’t particularly care for Titanius,” she said. “I find him too cautious and calculating. Cedric might be too far in the other direction, but I find his assertiveness in fighting evil more to my liking.”
“And you like to fight evil?”
“You do not?”
“I recognize the complicated situations we sometimes find ourselves in.” He looked at her. “For example, which is more evil: shielding a vampire or holding a family captive to enslave their good father?”
She looked down at the ground.
“It would depend on what good you could get from the father. I was never quite comfortable with Drikdare’s family working for us, but what choice did I have? If I’d spoken up, I’d be abandoned or worse, summarily executed for being a darkfriend! I’m no ranger, like you. I don’t know that I would survive on my own here in the Deadlands.” With that, she glanced around. “You bringing me out here to kill me and be done with it?” she asked. With that, she turned to Khaska, walking on the other side of her, holding her bound hands up imploringly. “At least pray over me like you did my companions.”
“Captain Bronzebeard has an alternative solution,” Khaska said, pointing to the dwarf who had just appeared around the bend in the trail. “One that we all might find to our liking.”
Bronzebeard approached, carrying Harrison’s body.
“Amelia,” he said, “I have a proposal for you.” He deposited the body on the ground. “Since Manson and his other cleric friends killed most of my crew on the Ruvalk, I find myself in need of more willing to sail with me. We sail the lake and sometimes the oceans, living the free life, unencumbered by ties to the land or to any particular place. We serve others as we can. Fight pirates. Free slaves. Help those in need. You could find a place with us. A cleric would be most welcome aboard the ship.
“This is the body of your fiancé, Harrison. We’ll bury him with the others, but Mister Khaska here has agreed to a condition that might make my offer more viable to you, young lady.”
She had teared up at learning that Harrison’s body was in the tied up sail.
“Amelia,” Khaska said. “I have not yet the grace from Teresh to perform the spell, but when I do, I will return to this town and raise Harrison from the dead if you agree to go with Captain Bronzebeard.”
She gasped at the thought, turning to the Maha’i cleric.
“You would pledge to do such an action? But I have no money to pay! That spell requires …” she paused.
“A good amount of diamonds,” Khaska finished her sentence. “I swear to you, by Teresh, that if I can, I will return to bring Harrison back to you. You two can be married, as was your plan. I do not know how long it will take, or even if I ever will attain the power as a cleric to perform such a spell, but I know that I will do all in my power to do so. It is all that I can pledge to you, but I do so happily.”
Her face was beaming, the tears rapidly having moved from sadness to joy. She turned to Bronzebeard.
“If it will give me a chance to be reunited with Harrison, I accept your offer, and will join your crew. And I swear to be peaceful while here in the village. But,” she furrowed her brow. “If we are sailing the world, how will we know to come back here when Khaska is powerful enough to raise Harrison?”
Bronzebeard smiled. “You’re a smart one, young lady.” He reached into his backpack and pulled out a telescope. “Rynn, I think you should hold onto this. About the time that Khaska can perform the spell, I bet that wizard of yours, Sanjin, will be able to cast Greater Scrying. Having an object of mine will help, and he can contact me through that spell. We’ll immediately return to this village and meet you here.”
Rynn reached out to take the telescope. “You are a kind and generous soul, Captain Bronzebeard. I will keep your telescope in the hopes that it will bring us together again someday.”
“Will you give this same offer to the others?” Amelia asked.
“Your compatriots seem too locked into their ways of thinking,” Bronzebeard said. “I doubt they will accept.”
“I would like to make it a condition of my joining your crew that they at least be given the offer.”
Bronzebeard raised his eyebrow.
“Fine, but don’t be surprised when they call you a darkfriend.”
Bronzebeard was half right. The human cleric literally spat at Amelia’s feet when she presented the offer to him.
“I always knew you were weak, Amelia. Manson would be ashamed of you. You’ve become just as evil as all the darkfriends that we swore to fight when we left the order fo follow Manson. You aren’t even worthy …”
He was cut off as Bronzebeard kicked him in the head, knocking him out flat.
“I told you,” he said.
The dwarven cleric was different. “You have to do what you feel is best,” he said. “But I must stand by my oath to Manson.” He looked at Rynn and Khaska. “What are you going to do with me?”
“Well, to be honest,” Rynn said, “I think Jake and the locals want you two executed. They’re making allowance for Amelia, but you two weren’t as friendly, and are unrepentantly going to try to break free and get away.”
“I would rather not die trussed up like some sheep. No good dwarf wants to be executed as a prisoner of war. Grant me an honorable death, on my feet, and armed. I don’t even need armor, just a weapon and a chance to die gloriously in combat, trying to honorably fulfill my oath to Manson.”
“We’ll consider it,” said Khaska.
Once they left the building, Amelia turned to them. “His sense of dwarven honor has always been strong.”
“Do you think one of us could take him down?” Khaska asked. “How dangerous is he?”
“His power as a cleric is about that of mine, or Harrison’s. I didn’t get the impression that Harrison was the problem when you fought on the lake.”
“It wasn’t,” came Orensland’s voice. The elf came walking up. “He didn’t even get a hit on me once.” He looked Amelia in the eye. “And I am sorry for the pain it caused you. I’m happy that it seems you’ve accepted the deal with Bronzebeard and Khaska.”
“So then one of you could probably easily kill Gill,” she said. “He would be content with such a death. Truth be told, his wanting to die honorably in combat sometimes got him in trouble with some of the rest of us.”
Sanjin was happy to talk to Sebastien to distract the human from the fact that Orensland was going to search Lady Maramos’ coach. Truth be told, the fact that they were working for a vampire was beginning to fascinate Sanjin. He thought it best to ask the vampire’s manservant about the possibility of staying in Darkcrest to study for a bit. He liked this because, well, it was true, and it also assumed that they would be successful in rescuing Lady Maramos. When Sebastien was less panicked about failing his mistress, he was much easier to deal with.
Secretly, the wizard hoped that Orensland was successful.
Orensland took his time searching the coach, which he found impressive. He had only caught snatches of what was inside, but now that he was actually given a chance to inspect it more closely, Lady Maramos did travel in expensive style. Bronzebeard had rowed him out to the ship as Sanjin took Sebastien to the other side of the village for a chat. The dwarf and his first mate were keeping an eye out as Orensland looked around.
And indeed, there was something, a hidden compartment under one of the fine and comfortable carriage seats. Unfortunately, Orensland also discovered a trap guarding it. A magic trap. He cursed under his breath.
“What is it?” came Bronzebeard’s voice.
“Magic trap,” he responded.
“Can you disarm it?”
Orensland grabbed his thieve’s tools out. “I can certainly try.”
He tried and tried to figure a way around the magic detection mechanism he knew was there, seeing if there was some other method of obtaining whatever was in the compartment. He found it quite difficult, and was sweating profusely from his concentration and fine work with his hands and tools.
He removed a panel of wood just below the compartment, and thought that he had it. Now to just reach through and …
That’s when it blew up in his face. A lightning bolt smashed into his chest, blowing him back across the carriage. The arc then jumped from him through the wall of the carriage, and he could hear Bronzebeard and his first mate both grunt in pain. Orensland had set off the Chain Lightning trap.
“Criminitely!” the dwarf said, as he grabbed a bucket of water and quickly used it to douse the flames on the carriage. “You alright in there?”
Orensland groaned. “Not dead, at least.”
“Well, we’ll get Khaska to fix you up. But, well, I don’t know how we’re going to hide the fact that you sprang the trap. Even if Sebastien didn’t know it was there, Lady Maramos did, and you’ll be in a heap of trouble when she finds out.”
“If we can rescue her,” the shadowdancer said. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”
“Anything in there?” the first mate asked.
Orensland looked in at the now-open compartment. There was a bag, a book, and a rolled up scroll. He looked at the scroll, but it was in a language he didn’t understand.
“Do you read this?” he asked Bronzebeard. Bronzebeard glanced at it. “It’s in draconic. Yes I can.”
Orensland flipped through the book. It was a ledger, and after a few minutes of perusal it became obvious that it was a ledger that detailed all of the vampire’s efforts on Gallidus on behalf of the Cult of Skyrnyn. There was a wealth of information here. In the right hands, it could cripple their operation.
The bag contained a massive amount of jewels. He hefted it. “Sebastien kept saying that he had considerable means to help us. I bet he knew about this compartment, and how to get past the trap.”
“Then he’ll know that you sprang it,” Bronzebeard said. He was looking over the water, where several of the townsfolk had gathered, having heard the Chain Lightning strike. Sanjin and Sebastien were not among them. “But he didn’t hear the lightning, so we have that going for us. We’re going to have to hide the damage, or explain it away somehow.”
Orensland took 37 points of damage from the Chain Lightning trap. The carriage is damaged, but just superficially. (It wasn’t targeted by the spell, but the spell did damage it, if that makes sense.) It still works fine.
1. Regarding the Mansonites, Gill wants to die in honorable combat, the human is just an overzealous jerk, and Amelia has agreed to go with Bronzeneard. Jake, and the townsfolk, want them executed. Does someone wish to fight Gill in a duel to give him an honorable death?
2. I coordinated with Crosis offline to get his rolls for trap disarming. Since the carriage is damaged now, Sebastien is going to notice that and know that the trap was sprung. What do you want to do about that? (He didn’t hear the lightning.)
3. The letter, translated by Bronzebeard, says the following.
Lady Maramos,
Once you have completed your tour of your minions on Gallidus, I request an audience. I can come to Darkcrest at your behest once you have returned safely. The carrier pseudodragon can return a message to me at the Citadel, and then I will return to gather the information you have collected, per our arrangement. After our meeting, you and your House will be welcome in the Citadel whenever convenient as we prepare for the Dark Times.
Gulnith Smithsrana
Gulnith, if you recall, is the member of the Cult that Amara took off with, and that was responsible for killing Fan back in Codex IV-Chapter 5. Apparently she has made a pact with just the House of Maramos. You know from Sebastien and Drikdare that there are many great houses/covens of vampires in Darkcrest, and that they sometimes compete with each other for power. An alliance with the Cult of Skyrnyn would certainly be an advantage for one house over the others.
4. Loot.
It seems to me the following is the best way to distribute loot:
Orensland gets the +2 flametongue sword.
Khaska gets one of the +2 heavy steel shields.
Rynn gets the +1 longbow.
Sanjin gets the +2 Amulet of Natural Armor.
It also makes sense for Khaska to take the +3 plate armor, though like we did before you can’t wear it until you have to fixed up for you by a blacksmith to fit Maha’i physiology. If you make it to Darkcrest, you’ll easily have access to one there.
Everybody else already has a +1 Amulet of Natural Armor, so it makes sense for Khaska to take one of those as well. No reason to be wasteful.
And perhaps Sanjin and Orensland can both roll off for the Ring of Protection +2. Roll a d20, and the highest gets it to upgrade from their +1 Ring of Protection. (Khaska could use one too, but he’s got PLENTY of new armor from this fight, haha. That’s what happens when you kill a bunch of high-level clerics. Your cleric makes bank!)
Amelia will take one of the sets of armor, a shield, and the mercifully enchanted maul, as well as one crossbow. The rest can be given to Bronzebeard so he can sell them off and hire a new crew. So the loot goes as follows:
4 sets of +1 plate armor. Amelia. Spares.
1 set of +3 plate armor. Khaska.
2 +1 heavy steel masterwork shields. Spares.
2 +2 heavy steel masterworks shields. Amelia. Khaska.
+2 flametongue sword. Orensland.
4 masterwork crossbows. Spares.
One +1 longbow. Rynn.
+1 greatclub. Spares.
+2 maul, merciful enchantment. Amelia.
3 +1 Amulets of Natural Armor. Khaska. Amelia. Spares.
1 +2 Amulet of Natural Armor. Sanjin.
Ring of Jumping. Spares.
Ring of Protection +2. Roll-off between Sanjin and Orensland.
Sorry, BlackWolf, that you didn’t seem to come out of that very well. I don’t know that Rynn is underpowered for your level, but it does seem he’s underlooted relative to the rest of the party. I don’t know that it matters much as we prepare to switch to 5E, but I thought I’d mention that I’m aware of the disparity.
5. I don't know that we need to spend a lot more time in Rhun. Although, logistically, it'll be tricky and cramped on the Rainbow Javelin, you could get all four horses, the party, Drikdare and his family, the Cloudlovers, and the wagon, all on the ship. A two day's journey would put you on the plains, well ahead of Manson. You do have to get the horses and the carriage off of the Ruvalk, and there isn't a dock.
I've tried to divide the major decisions up and number them. There are 5 of them. What do you all want to do about them?
1. Rynn seems the most amenable to ending the unrepentant Mansonites, so Khaska would ask whether he’d be open to the duel. Of course, he might also be the least likely to be interested in the WC’s honor. Would Orensland, as Skyler’s slayer, be up for it? Khaska wants to avoid personally killing Gill.
The human WC… hm. Khaska would still be in favor of exiling him or dropping him in the wilderness.
2-3. Is there a way for the party to blame the tampering on someone other than Orensland? Sebastien would notice the damage, but would he have a notion of when the trap was sprung?
Either way, we know more about LM’s dealings: she’s in cahoots with Gulnith, and has information the latter wants. If we’re not particularly interested in the information LM has—which we might never hear, in any case, being just bodyguards—we could just let LM be killed. Perhaps we could also send a letter as if from LM to Gulnith, requesting her presence in Darkcrest, and set off some cascade of political maneuverings among the vampire houses. Disarray among evildoers serves good, after all.
On the other hand, we might just want to accompany her to Darkcrest and see if we can frustrate her plans when we know more about them.
4. Loot looks great to me. Totally reasonable to give the others some of the items, as Khaska gets his fair share!
5. Khaska at least wants to teach Jake the Maha’i gesture of greeting and farewell (hand lying on the other’s face, as described in the story of Khaska and Dhezga) and extend the invitation to come with him to Gallidus, if he so wishes. Is there a way he could leave some memento—an icon of Teresh, perhaps?—with Jake?
After that, Khaska would be ready to depart.
For the first one, my character would be willing to do the battle, but lingering regrets over Harrison might lead him to support somebody else doing it.
As for 2-3, I think we're going to have to be pretty tricky. We know that Bronzebeard it's pretty awesome all around, can he memorize what is in the ledger? We could make a copy and Sebastian would never know. Perhaps we could take the overzealous Klarich, smack him with the lightning axe to replicate the traps fact, I make it seem like a petty crook tried to break in to the fancy coach. The deathblow should be from one of us, and should be hit by the flat side of the axe, as it is more likely that my character would kill him then the captain, who didn't get along well with the vampire. That story could also explain why my character got sizzled, as it was a chain lightning spell. In general, though, we should make it look like only the thief try to get a way with the goods. Yes Ikelea, once we are finished reading through the ledger, we should try putting all items back.
The loot distribution looks good to me, too. Rolling a D 20, I got a 3. It looks like I am not getting that ring of protection. :-)
I vote we just take the cart that Manson is using do you carry the coffin. Perhaps we can take the horses?
I rolled an 18 -Sanjin would be happy to let Orensland have the ring. It seems like Orensland is more likely to need the extra defense. Either way.
Thev is correct that Rynn doesn't care one bit about satisfying the Dwarf's honor, so he would not be open to risking a duel. But he would be willing to play executioner (with a preference toward a firing squad scenario) if Orensland doesn't accept the challenge to duel, or just for the other.
But overall, Rynn doesn't have strong opinions in this matter as long as the Mansonites are dealt with. He doesn't trust them, including Amelia — in her case he has no new information since his question to her was ignored in the narration. He's fine with letting Khaska and Bronzebeard decide about her; similarly he's happy to let the townspeople decide the other Mansonites' fate.
Regarding the carriage, Rynn is thinking more and more that we should just kill off Sebastien. Then we don't have to worry about pretending or hiding around him. Of course, without Sebastien, that means we probably have to kill Maramos instead of rescuing her… which is what the ranger wants to do anyway. Given the new information we've learned in the last couple of posts (especially the scroll and ledger), it feels like there is less and less value to rescuing Maramos. We can disrupt their operations via the ledger's information, and maybe even learn more from studying it further.
The only reason to keep Lady Maramos alive (in Rynn's estimation) is to draw out Gulnith. We don't know where the Citadel is, after all, so it may be difficult to find her. But on the flip side, if Maramos is alive and back with her own people… and Gulnith is there too… it just seems like we'd be giving them the home field advantage. And that's assuming that we could even stay on long enough to be part of the audience rather than being paid for our services and dismissed. And it depends on whether Lady Maramos is happy with us for rescuing her, or angry that we failed in our job in the first place.
As a player, I'm up for us going to Darkcrest if that's what everyone wants to do. Sometimes you just have to be drawn into the Death Star and then walk right into the detention block to boot. It can make for a great story to go into the heart of darkness (so to speak). But it's not what Rynn would want to do given the current circumstances, especially since maybe not everyone survives such a trip. (After all, Han didn't choose to go to the Death Star.)
So yeah; Rynn votes we just kill Sebastien, then decide with Drikdare whether we bring his tribe into the hunt for Manson. Either way, the ranger wants to get rid of the threats of both Manson and Maramos while we can. Then we'll figure out the next step for the next enemy.
And finally, regarding loot I'm fine with the distribution. The bow is good for Rynn, but it isn't what he wants. None of it really is. The only use he can get out of it is to sell it to fund what he really wants. Given that we're in the deadlands, that's gonna be harder to accomplish.
Generally speaking, as I've role played more, I'm less and less interested in looting. It just seems to distract from the story, and often leads to the "murder hobo" style of gaming where loot becomes an end unto itself. I understand the need for making sure that Rynn isn't underpowered, since that's how the game is balanced. I just hope that Eryx isn't feeling like he's wasting time on generating loot and whatnot. So that may be a nice benefit of moving to 5e. In the meantime, I'm fine with what we have now, and will continue to concentrate on collecting money over specific items of loot.
You are right, BlackWolf, in that I totally neglected to put your question and Amelia's answer into the narrative. My apologies. I've amended the post and underlined the relevant part to make it easier to find. I hope that helps inform your character's decisions further.
Regarding what to do with the carriage and the damage, it seems we have three options.
1. Blame the damage on someone else. Perhaps the human whitecloak? Maybe have an "accident" as you drag it off the Ruvalk?
2. Just kill Sebastien. I feel obligated to point out that Lady Maramos is currently basically frozen in time. Even if you do rescue her, you don't have to immediately pull out the stake. You could drag her corpse all the way back to Darkcrest and then "wake her up," so to speak. So you don't need Sebastien around to feed her.
3. Don't even take the carriage with you. Just take the stuff from Manson once you raid the camp. Bonus: You're not dragging a sleek black coach with elegant horses across the deadlands with a big "hey, I'm rich, come murder me!" sign on your backs. Haha.
Bronzebeard says that he can't memorize the ledger. "You all seem to have an overdeveloped sense of my abilities." Besides, he's staying behind to fix his ship and then sail on.
Which of these options do you want to pursue?
Maybe I was projecting too much onto you, BlackWolf, regarding loot. One of the things I really enjoy as a D&D player is getting the cool magic items. That doesn't make my character all murder-hobos either. I just want to make sure you're having fun, since that's my job. I'm sensing some frustration from you about how this Codex is going and just didn't want to add to it any more.
Loot looks good. Sanjin gets the ring.
Thanks for pointing out that Maramos is in suspended animation and doesn't need Sebastien. Khaska would be in favor of blaming the damage on an accident, but is also leaning toward dispatching Sebastien; he's a liability to the party. If we could find a way for him to perish without directly killing him (accident on the skyship, at the hands of Amelia or one of the Whitecloaks, in the battle with Manson), that would be preferable.
For the present, Khaska is alright with going after the Mansonite band. But longer-term, here's an idea: why don't we ourselves take Maramos to Garth Calad? We're not sure how we'd be received, but Khaska would feel much safer going there than to Darkcrest (whether his intuitions are right or not). Perhaps they would have a way of containing Maramos and getting the information she has. And they might subtly approve of our preventing Manson's excesses for good.
Khaska's pretty torn about the duel. He thinks it would be appropriate to give Gill the honorable death he wants, but he's also aware of his own commitments (especially the new one to Amelia) and doesn't want to risk his own death. In the end, I think he'll turn the WCs over to the town, as Rynn would, but he would warn them in their sentencing to put aside anger and hatred, if they have any, in favor of justice. All the same, he would ensure that they received a proper and holy burial.
Yes, that is an enormous help. Orensland does not mind killing Sebastien knowing that Lady Maramos does not need to feed on us.
My proposal, then: We dump the carriage in the water, but keep the ledger, scroll and money nearby the village (perhaps bury it). It would likely not do well for us if they were found on our person if we entered Darkcrest. We can utilize it when we return for Harrison's revival.
We go ahead and kill Sebastien.
I'll go ahead and duel with the Dwarf. Preferrably with no armor. Orensland would not mind beheading the final stubborn cleric either, he's kind of gotten into the habit of such executions by this point. Guilt over Harrison is leaving.
I think we all agree that we want to catch up to Manson? If that's the case, I vote we move on to that circumstance quickly. We've tarried here for some time in the campaign.
As for whether or not to kill Lady Maramos, that could well be decided by any fights that break out inside of our party. Whoever wins, wins. That fight doesn't need to happen, but Orensland is not planning on changing his mind. That would likely also determine which city we go to next.
Thanks for adding in Rynn's question. Amelia's answer definitely helps Rynn understand the bind that she was in. He can sympathize to a degree, but it also further cements his thinking that lawful organizations become corrupt and people end up working against their conscience. Assuming we execute the other two Mansonites, I think that might be an event sufficient enough that Rynn will finally tip from neutral to chaotic alignment.
I like Crosis' idea of caching the money. I think we should do something about the ledger to disrupt our enemies' plans, but we could do that later. Or maybe we could spend some time making a copy of important details, then ask Bronzebeard if he could see it delivered to someone we trust on the light side? Perhaps one of the Knights of the Silver Dragons?
Rynn agrees that we need to catch up with Manson. We could ambush him by ourselves, or we could get Drikdare's clan involved. The latter would be a small detour that would give us some help, but on the other hand, some centaur could get hurt. Rynn would defer to Drikdare on this one.
As far as loot, don't get me wrong — I also like getting the cool magic items and improving my character. But when the loot doesn't really contain anything Rynn needs/wants, then taking the stuff only helps if he can sell it off, and that happens to not align with my concept of Rynn being more spartan/utilitarian. Of course not everybody turns into a murder hobo. I'm just trying to lean further away from that. :)
I don't really feel frustrated about how this codex is going, nor about loot. Rynn is conflicted about what they should do and wishes there was a clearer path, but that's just a story element. Loot wise, Rynn just needs money so he can fund making his own bow magic. If there is any tiny bit of frustration from me as a player, it would be that it took 10 chapters across 3 codices to craft the masterwork bow, and now that it's done there doesn't seem to be any option in the foreseeable future to get it turned into a magic one. In a way it's more satisfying to have to wait to get the really cool/powerful items, though. The +1 longbow is good for Rynn if we have to fight anything where magic weapons make a difference (e.g. bypassing damage reduction). But because it's not composite (which is the type of longbow Rynn prefers), it actually does 1 less damage if he uses it. So it's not really an upgrade for him.
That's a really good idea about copying important details and sending them via Bronzebeard. If we go to the centaurs we'll be flying way ahead of Manson and company, giving us a few extra weeks to kill. Spending one of those weeks prepping a ledger copy would certainly not be draining on time. Even if it were, it's a worthy enough task to delay us. We'd have to ask Bronzebeard for cooperation, though.
Khaska is wholly in agreement with the plan about copying the ledger; depending on its length and our resources, he'd actually recommend making multiple copies.
He's also alright with dumping the carriage in the lake (though perhaps it should be burned beforehand?) to destroy evidence of our passing. He'll voice his opinion that if Sebastien will be a hindrance, he should be separated from the party, but he'll defer to the party on how that should be done.
And, as mentioned above, he'll firmly suggest that the party proceed to Garth Calad with Lady Maramos's prone body. He's not too keen on going to Darkcrest anymore, nor on being around with Lady Maramos awake and fully powered.
“That’s assuming we take the carriage with us,” Orensland said. “I wasn’t really that keen on dragging the elegant black thing with us. Might as well be walking around with gold pieces falling out of our pockets, asking to get robbed.” He nodded at the shoreline. “Let’s head back.”
Sanjin was happy to continue to talk to Sebastien for some time, and was wondering why it was taking so long for Orensland to re-appear. Eventually, however, the young man was tired and decided to head to bed. (He had been offered an unused bed in an abandoned house, like the rest of the party, and though the accommodations were barely more than meager, they were better than sleeping on the ground.)
On bidding him good night, Sanjin left to go find the others. When he finally found them, they were at the shoreline, discussing their options as the final bits of sunlight disappeared. Orensland brought the wizard up to speed.
“We were thinking of caching the money here in Rhun,” Rynn was saying. “We could make a copy of the relevant portions of the ledger to take with us. Perhaps use them in the future to disrupt their operations on Gallidus.”
“Maybe make two copies, and send one to the Knights of the Silver Dragons? Perhaps with Captain Bronzebeard,” Khaska put forth.
“We’ve imposed on Bronzebeard a great deal,” Rynn said. “I’m sure even his patience has limits.”
“That is a good point,” the cleric responded. “But even if Bronzebeard would be unwilling to deliver it himself, I’m sure he could make sure it got to a ship headed to the living side.”
“I know something about sending letters from the Death Side,” Sanjin said. “I send them to my brother at the elven university in Dreqorun. People are usually honorable and pass them along if paid the right amount. I would rather we pay Bronzebeard a fair amount to send such a letter along rather than simply rely on his good graces yet again.”
“A sensible compromise,” Khaska said.
“Now, what to do about Sebastien?” Orensland asked.
“Oh?” Sanjin inquired. “We’re doing something with him?”
“He’ll notice the damage to the carriage,” the shadowdancer said. “It will be obvious that I tried to break in.”
“Ah, that’s why you smell like burning,” Sanjin said. “Trap went off?”
Orensland nodded. “Chain Lightning.”
“If we are betraying Lady Maramos, and possibly allying with the centaurs to attack Manson, all while making a copy of her ledger, hiding her cash, and generally doing a great deal of we can to actually undermine her, I feel that Sebastien is becoming a liability,” Rynn said. “We should just kill him.”
Orensland gave a low whistle. “And who’s going to feed Lady Maramos if we do?”
“Nobody has to,” Khaska said. “If she has a stake in her heart she is basically frozen in time. Even if we want to take her to Darkcrest, there’s no need to wake her up before we get there. If we remove the stake once close to Darkcrest, there would be no need for her to feed at all.” The cleric furrowed his brow. “For that matter, maybe we ourselves should take her to Garth Calad, once Manson and his minions are all dead. If she would be a powerful bargaining trip for him, could she not similarly be so for us?”
Sanjin laughed. “I like the idea of dragging around a super-powerful vampire sorceress in whatever way we see fit. I’m so glad I met you guys!”
They talked it over, but between the various things that could go wrong and the liability Sebastien represented, they all decided that he should be killed.
Orensland put his hand on his hilt. “How are we going to explain this murder to the villagers?”
“We’ll think of something,” Khaska said. “You want to do it?”
The shadowdancer shrugged. “I’m the sneaky assassin-type. I’ll go do it right now if we want.”
They all looked at each other.
“We all have to die sometime,” Sanjin said. “Looks like tonight is Sebastien’s time.”
“Could we not do it later, perhaps make it look like an accident?” Khaska asked. The cleric was getting nervous with all of the killing of defenseless people. Skyler was one thing, but now Sebastien, and potentially the remaining Mansonites. All killed by the party and not in combat. (Well, maybe Gill. The Maha’i was beginning to see why perhaps the dwarf wanted to die that way.)
Orensland shook his head. “He’s a liability, and if we’re going to kill him, lets get it over with.” He drew his sword.
“I’ll be back in a bit. You all figure out what we’re going to do with the other Mansonites. I’ll duel Gill if nobody else wants to.” With that, he turned, took a few steps, and then vanished into the night.
He wasn’t worried about killing Sebastien. He had been substantially more nervous about killing Skyler, but in the end, both went about the same. He snuck in, sword drawn, and managed to kill the sleeping human in a single blow. He wiped his sword off and returned to the others.
“I don’t know that we’re going to want to sleep in there tonight,” he said.
“I’ll go tell Jake and ask what we’re doing with the Mansonites tomorrow,” Khaska said.
Jake was disturbed. “You just … murdered him?”
“He was a vampire worshipper who could not be swayed from his path, and was a liability to us,” said Khaska. “There is much evil in the world, and our preventing enslavement and death of thousands of people may very well depend on not getting caught in our ruse. We are not the bodyguards that Lady Maramos thought she hired.”
“And did you kill the bodyguards too?”
“They had murdered and slain other innocents before. Their leader, Kaylee, was a former compatriot of our friend Jenika. Though they had both been raised in the same monastery, Kaylee had turned to evil, and left a trail of misery and even death in her wake.”
“So who gives you the right to decide who dies and who doesn’t?”
“Sometimes the decision is forced upon us. When you fight an animal in the wild, do you stop to discuss the situation with it? Or do you fight to survive? But here, in a village like this, or in a bigger city, there are rules and laws and those that enforce them. For example, what would you have us do with the two Mansonites?”
“They took control of our town, forced us to harbor them and share our food and lodgings with them. But I don’t know if that warrants death.”
“I too am uncomfortable with that, but there seem to be no other good options, and a great many of the townsfolk want them to die for their crimes.”
“A sentence I am uncomfortable carrying out,” Jake said.
“You are the leader of the town,” Khaska said. “We will defer to you.”
There was a knock on the door. It was Rynn, come to invite Khaska to sleep with him on the edge of town, where he was going to set up a small fire. Khaska brought him up to speed on the conversation. Rynn did indeed have something to add. “As a ranger, Jake, you must understand that sometimes wild animals outgrow their niche and need to be put down for the greater good.”
Jake stood. “I understand that, but after you kill the other two, I want you to leave. I know the Cloudlovers have offered to take you elsewhere here on the Death Side. Please go. Tomorrow.” He went to the door and opened it. “You are excused.”
Khaska was disheartened. Their decision to execute the remaining Mansonites did trouble him, though he saw no better way. Even Jake had agreed earlier to execute the remaining Mansonites, though now it seemed the other Maha’i was reluctant to personally carry the execution out. There really wasn’t much crime, so to speak, in such a small village. There was no need for police, or courts, or procedures. People worked out disagreements among themselves or with the help of neighbors.
Rynn, on the other hand, felt relieved. Here was justice, swift and sure, unlike in Hammerdine or Laishtek or any of the other “civilized” cities where true justice was hamstrung by corrupt politicians and conniving merchants, perhaps with the help of shady guardsmen. Here they would just kill those who enslaved others and oppressed them and be done with it.
The next morning Rynn went to go find the Cloudlovers. They assured the ranger they could be ready to go shortly. Sanjin was already there with them, chomping at the bit to get moving.
The ranger thought a public execution might be best. Despite his wanting to just kill the remaining Mansonites, he did understand the need to do so with the townsfolk’s consent, on their behalf. Perhaps, he concluded, it was a small concession to the needs of law. However, when he came into the room with the human Mansonite and explained the situation, the man simply laughed.
“You seek to murder me and make it seem acceptable by doing so in front of the villagers! We’ve saved them! We came here and taught them the light. You darkfriends don’t even know how lost and fallen you are. No matter what you tell yourself you are just as evil as the vampire you serve. At least she knows what she is! You’re just …”
Hearing him go on, Rynn decided that this man could not be redeemed. So he drew his sword and ran the man through. Perhaps it wasn’t a concession to the needs of law after all. The last time he had killed a man tied up before him, while the man had been taunting him, he had wondered if it was the right choice. He had even needed to talk to Khaska about it, to get the cleric’s opinion on his actions. This time … not at all. Ending this man's life was the only way to prevent him from harming others. He, like Manson, couldn't be trusted to live.
The ranger wiped his sword on a clean part of the man's shirt. There would be another grave for Khaska to pray over. And the world was better for it.
Congratulations, BlackWolf. I think that you wanted to make Rynn officially chaotic good.
Now he is.
Yes, this fits his character progression, and I think you're right in the timing to make it official. But I have one minor quibble — you wrote here that Rynn felt guilt about Adam. That's not correct. Quoting from Codex III - Chapter 7:
"He didn't feel guilt or remorse over what he'd done. After all, the man had been a heartless criminal. But he wondered if it was the right choice. And more than that, he wondered if he'd done it for the right reasons."
And then later:
"I worry that Haalak might not get the information he needs now that Adam is dead."
So really, Rynn never felt guilt about Adam, and none here either. The issue with Adam was really about whether it was the right call; whether the "ranger justice" was the correct way. Rynn wasn't sure before, but further campaign events have changed his mind. He sees no redeeming qualities to this Mansonite, and no reason for him to live on to do more harm. Laws of civilization just interfere with that.
I'm not sure how I feel about Rynn being provoked into the kill like with Adam… there's a lot of overlap, and I'm not sure that "getting his goat" is the trigger for the ranger to kill. I suppose it's fine. But in my mind, Rynn would have been just as willing to just walk away saying something like, "you die at dawn" and then seeing it through in the end. I don't think you necessarily need to rewrite it, but just know that I don't see my character as one that is heading in a path of killing out of anger. I see him more heading down a path of a cold logic — ending these people is the only way to stop them from hurting more people. They can't be trusted to live.
Does that emendation help better convey Rynn's motivations?
It definitely addressed the issue of whether Rynn felt guilt, and that was the main thing.
The phrase "Rynn had had it," still sounds to me like he's lost his temper though, and I don't see that being a motivation for Rynn to kill. I wonder if something more like, "Hearing him go on, Rynn decided that this man could not be redeemed," would be a bit better? But I'll defer to you as the GM on this; after all, nobody can control their emotions all the time.
I just added your sentence to replace mine. "Rynn had had it," to me, could mean a loss of temper but also just an exasperation with the evil, unrepentant man. "Sheesh, monologuing again?" I appreciate that you defer to me as GM, but you are the player, and I want to do my best to capture y'all's character's traits accurately. I think we're good here.
Gill was thankful for the change to die honorably. Orensland was content to let the dwarf pick any weapon he wanted, as long as he wasn’t armored. The dwarf picked the two-handed mace. The party, with Jake and Amelia, as well as Drikdare and Eapas, escorted them to the outskirts of the town.
“If I win,” Gill said, “then your friends will have to keep fighting me. I’ll keep my oath to Manson. You seem like good folk, but I will not break my oath.” He whispered a command word and the mace shimmered as he activated the merciful enchantment.
Orensland drew his new sword and also said his command word. The sword burst into flame.
“Begin!” the dwarf yelled.
Orensland dropped into a crouch, then lunged forward, quick as a snake. Gill was simply not fast enough. The shadowdancer drew blood and merely danced aside from the ponderously slow blow the dwarven cleric swung at him. Gill swung it back around but in doing so left himself open for another quick strike. The maul hit the ground, cratering in the dirt and sending specks of mud flying, coating most everybody nearby. As he pulled the maul free Orensland came in for an overhead blow. The dwarf moved to block it, but Orensland feinted and then lunged forward. The sword drove right into Gill’s chest, and the dwarf screamed as he brought the hammer down on Orensland’s head. The shadowdancer was protected from any serious damage by the magic of the merciful enchantment, but found himself seeing spots from the blow even as Gill fell backwards onto the ground. Dead.
“Your skill in combat increases,” Rynn said, admiringly.
“Bury the bodies,” Jake said. “I know that you might come back someday to raise Harrison—Captain Bronzebeard has explained the situation, but I don’t know that you will be fully welcome here. You have freed us from Manson’s people, but now I think it best if you leave.”
Khaska was sad, and spoke to Jake for a few minutes as the rest of the party finished loading up the skyship and prepared the graves. Khaska and Amelia prayed over the remaining bodies before interring them. But an hour later it was time to go.
Orensland had stashed the money from Lady Maramos, with Rynn’s assistance, out in the woods somewhere. The ranger would be able to find it again.
Sanjin had spent several hours the night before pouring over the ledger (it too was in draconic) and copying the relevant information. Bronzebeard agreed to try to send it along to the Hammerdine chapter of the Knights of the Silver Dragons for a fee of 10 gold. Sanjin had also made a copy of the relevant information the party could take with them. Khaska wrote a personal letter to Rider Reitman explaining the circumstances, and hoped that it would eventually make its way to the Hammerdine chapter where the party had personally ingratiated themselves with the city officials and with that chapter of the Knights and their leader.
Captain Bronzebeard came up to Orensland. “My sneaky friend,” he said, “I wish you the best of luck. You seem committed to keep jumping in to the jaws of death.”
Orensland shrugged. “If we don’t, then who will?”
The captain reached his hand out. “If you ever need a place to stay or a new adventure to go on, you could find a place with me and my crew if circumstances warrant it. But I hope you are successful with, well, whatever it is you plan to do.”
“Thank you, Captain Bronzebeard,” Orensland said. The two shook hands vigorously.
Khaska said goodbye to Jake, the last to board the ship.
“I know that there has been much awkwardness over our presence and actions,” Khaska said, “but it has been good to meet you, Jake, and to teach you some of the ways of our people. I hope that someday perhaps I might show you more of our lands, should Teresh deem it so.”
“I thank you for your time and conversation, Khaska,” he said. “I perhaps spoke too harshly yesterday evening. If we meet again, I hope it will be less awkward.”
“May Markus guide your steps, Jake of the Mkentek tribe, of the village of Rhun,” Khaska intoned. He stepped forward to give the customary sign of farewell among the Maha’i, placing a hand on Jake’s face.
Jake returned the gesture. “Markus guide you as well, Khaska of the Mawkahvi tribe.”
The Cloudlovers had already said their goodbyes to Wilmin and Xala, and with that, the Rainbow Javelin lifted from the village and sailed off.
That will end this (very long) chapter.
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Italy wields EU funding in migrant row
STALEMATE:Migrants who were barred from disembarking after their rescue on Aug. 15 started a hunger strike, while Italy demanded that the EU commit to taking some in
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Migrants aboard the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti on Friday gather on deck as they await decisions in the port of Catania, Italy.
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Italy’s populist government on Friday said it would pull EU funding unless it agrees to take some of the 150 people stranded on an Italian coast guard ship.
Dozens of people have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania on the Diciotti since Monday night, because Rome is refusing to allow them to disembark without commitments from the EU to take some of them in.
However, a high-level meeting of a dozen EU member states in Brussels on Friday, held to discuss what officials said was the broader issue of the disembarkation of migrants rescued at sea, failed to produce an immediate solution for the Diciotti migrants.
“The European Union has decided to turn its back on Italy once again,” Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Facebook, adding that his nation had no choice but to “take a compensatory measure in a unilateral way.”
“They want the 20 billion euros [US$23.27 billion] paid by Italian citizens? Then let them demonstrate that they deserve it and that they are taking charge of a problem that we can no longer face alone. The borders of Italy are the borders of Europe,” he added.
Di Maio had earlier said that “if they decide nothing regarding the Diciotti and the redistribution of the migrants, I and the whole Five Star Movement [his party] will no longer be prepared to give 20 billion euros to the European Union every year.”
Under EU rules, people must seek asylum in their country of arrival, but Italy’s government has increasingly barred boats from docking at its ports.
Brussels quickly hit back at Di Maio’s comments.
“Unconstructive comments, let alone threats, are not helpful and they will not get us any closer to a solution,” European Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a briefing. “The EU is a community of rules and it operates on the basis of rules, not threats.”
No deal was struck about the Diciotti migrants at the talks, as a source at the European Commission said: “This was not a meeting where decisions were taken.”
However, the source said they discussed “the need for a shared and rapid solution for the migrants on board of the Diciotti, as well as those most recently disembarked in Spain and Malta.”
EU figures for 2016 say Italy contributed just less than 14 billion euros to the EU budget — less than 1 percent of its gross national income — while the bloc spent 11.6 billion euros in Italy.
Di Maio said that Italy did not want the “mickey taken out of us by the union’s other countries” on the distribution of migrants.
“The EU was born of principles like solidarity. If it is not capable of redistributing 170 people, it has serious problems with its founding principles,” he said in an interview with state broadcaster RAI.
Italian media reported that some of the migrants had started a hunger strike over their treatment. The coast guard said they had “refused to eat breakfast” on Friday.
Prosecutors were traveling to Rome to question officials, including Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, about the illegal detention of those on board.
“If a judge wants to arrest me, I expect it, no problem,” Salvini said.
Salvini stopped the majority of the migrants from disembarking after they were rescued on Aug. 15.
His only concession was to allow 27 unaccompanied minors off the boat on Wednesday.
Opinion polls suggest that Salvini’s stance has boosted his far-right League party’s approval rating to about 30 percent — a more than 10 point jump from its showing in March’s election — and is now level with the Five Star Movement, with which it has governed Italy since early June.
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The 3-foot 8-inch (1.1 meter) performer — a word he preferred to actor — inside the waste-bin-shaped costume has died at 81. Baker's nephew and carer, Drew Myerscough, said he found Baker dead Saturday at his home in Preston, northwest England.
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Fame came when he was cast as the actor inside R2-D2's cylindrical robot costume in 1977's "Star Wars."
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Information in this page has been entered to support the current volumes of Wildpro and further information will be added as new volumes are completed. This page is not intended to substitute for the manufacturer's data sheet and the information is not yet complete for all species, or for all contra-indications etc.
CAUTION: Before any pharmaceutical product is used, the manufacturer's data sheet, containing information on uses, dosage and administration, contra-indications, warnings etc., should always be consulted. It is important to remember that licensing of pharmaceutical products for use in a particular species/condition, as well as mandatory meat and milk withdrawal times for food-producing animals, varies between countries and changes with time. Withdrawal times also may vary between different pharmaceutical formulations and depending on route of administration. In the EU, the prescription cascade must be followed (see LCofC1.2H and W564.Apr05.w1); note that specific restrictions apply for food-producing animals. In the USA, FARAD may be consulted regarding residues and meat and milk withdrawal times.
Glucocorticoid (steroidal) anti-inflammatory drug. (B263)
Synthetic glucocorticoid anti-inflammatory agent; immunomodulator, antineoplastic.(B263, W324)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate: 1.3 g is equivalent to 1g dexamethasone. (B263)
"9a-fluoro-16beta-methylprednisolone; 16beta-methyl-11beta,17a,21-trihydroxy-9a-fluoro-1,4-pregnadiene-3,20-dione; hexadecadrol; 9a-fluoro-16a-methyl prednisolone; 9a-fluoro-11beta,17a-21-trihydroxy-16a-methyl-1,4-pregnadiene-3,20-dione; 16a-methyl-9a-fluoro-1,4-pregnadiene-11beta,17a-21-triol-3,20-dione; Celestone cortisone; Cortone dexamethasone; Decadron; Dexameth; Hexadrol hydrocortisone; Solu-cortef methylprednisolone; Medrol; Depo-Medrol; Solu-medrol predn; (11beta,16alpha)-9-fluoro-11,17,21-trihydroxy-16-methylpregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; Superprednol; Calonat; Decasone; Decacortin; Deronil; Fluormone; Dekacort; Dexa-Cortisyl; Dinormon; Millicorten; Fortecortin; Anaflogistico; Spoloven; Luxazone; Dectancyl; Dexapos; Dexasone; Dexinoral; Gamma-corten; Dextelan; Policort; Dexacortal; Dexa-Manallet; Decalix; Dexacortin; Deseronil; Dergramin; Hexadrol; Deltafluorene; Oradexon; Dexa-Cortidelt; Aeroseb-D; Dexinolon; Decaderm; Dexafarma; Cortissumman; Dexasine; Loverine; Maxidex; Dexa-Scheroson; Pet Derm III; Isopto-Dex; 16alpha-Methyl-9alpha-fluoro-prednisolone; 1-Dehydro-16alpha-methyl-9alpha-fluorohydrocortisone; 16alpha-Methyl-9alpha-fluoro-delta-1-hydrocortisone; Lokalison F; Dexa-Mamallet; 9-fluoro-11-beta,17,21-trihydroxy-16-alpha-methylpregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; 16alpha-methyl-9alpha-fluoro-1-dehydrocortisol; 16alpha-methyl-9alpha-fluoro-delta(sup 1)hydrocortisone; delta(sup 1)-9alpha-fluoro-16alpha-methylcortisol; 9alpha-fluoro-16alpha-methyl-11beta,17,21-trihydroxypregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; 9alpha-fluoro-16alpha-methyl-1,4-pregnadiene-11-beta,17alpha,21-triol-3,20-dione; 9alpha-fluoro-11beta,17alpha,21-trihydroxy-16-alpha-methylpregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; 16alpha-methyl-9alpha-fluoro-11beta,17alpha,21-trihydroxypregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; 9-fluoro-11,17,21-trihydroxy-16-methylpregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; aeroseb-dex; aphtasolon; corsone; decaspray; desadrene; desametasone; desameton; desamethasone; DEXA; dexacort; dexadeltone; dexalona; dexamethasone alcohol; dexone; dezone; DXMS; mexidex; MK 125; sk-dexamethasone; dexapolcort; dexaprol; fluorocort; HL-DEX; prednisolone f; visumetazone; 9alpha-Fluoro-11beta,17alpha,21-trihydroxy-16alpha-methylpregn-1,4-diene-3,20-dione; Ak-Dex; Dalalone; Decadrol; Decaject; Decameth; Dexacen; Mymethsone; Solurex; Dexmethsone; Tobispray; 9-Fluoro-11�,17,21-trihydroxy-16-a-methylpregna1,4diene-3,20-dione; Milli1) ten; Also available as Dexamethasone acefurate; Also available as Dexamethasone acetate; Also available as Dexamethasone dipropionate; Also available as Dexamethasone sodium phosphate;" (W324)
C22H29FO5 (W324)
392.4665. (W324)
Related Chemicals
Dexamethasone: white to off-white crystalline powder, odourless. (B263, W324)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate: white to slightly yellow hygroscopic powder, odourless or with a slight odour. (B263)
262 - 264�C. (W324); about 250�C, with some decomposition. (B263)
Dexamethasone: <0.1 g/100 mL at 25�C. (W324); practically insoluble. (B263)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate: 1 g soluble in about 2 mL of water. (B263)
Other solubility
Dexamethasone: sparingly soluble. (B263)
Affects almost all cell types and systems. (B263)
Cells: glucocorticoids stabilise lysosome membranes; they inhibit fibroblast proliferation, macrophage response to migration inhibiting factor, sensitisation of lymphocytes and cellular response to inflammatory mediators. (B263)
Cardiovascular system: glucocorticoids can reduce capillary permeability, enhance vasoconstriction and increase blood pressure. May also be a clinically insignificant positive inotrophic effect. (B263)
Central nervous system and autonomic nervous system: glucocorticoids may lower seizure threshold, alter mood and behaviour, reduce response to pyrogens, stimulate appetite, maintain alpha rhythm. N.B. glucocorticoids are required for normal adrenergic receptor sensitivity. (B263)
Endocrine: In non-stressed animals exogenous glucocorticoids suppress release of ACTH from the anterior pituitary and thus reduce or prevent release of endogenous corticosteroids. The suppressing effects of exogenous glucocorticoids may sometimes be nullified by stress factors such as renal or liver disease or diabetes. Administration of glucocorticoids at pharmacological doses may reduce release of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), prolactin and luteinizing hormone (LH), and may reduce conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3), while plasma levels of parathyroid hormone may be increased. Osteoblast function may be inhibited. Activity of vasopressin (ADH) at the renal tubule is reduced; diuresis may occur. Binding of insulin to insulin receptors is inhibited and the post-receptor effects of insulin are inhibited. (B263)
Haematopoietic: glucocorticoids may increase circulating numbers of platelets, neutrophils and red blood cells; platelet aggregation is inhibited. Glucocorticoids may cause sequestration of peripheral lymphocytes, monocytes and eosinophils into the lungs and spleen and also decrease release of these cells from bone marrow, thus resulting in decreased amounts of circulating cells of these types. There may be reduced removal of old red blood cells. Lymphoid tissue involution may occur. (B263)
Gastro-intestinal and hepatic: glucocorticoids cause increased gastric acid, pepsin and trypsin secretion, alteration of mucin structure and a decrease in proliferation of mucosal cells. Absorption of iron salts and calcium are decreased; absorption of fat is increased. In the liver there may be increased deposition of fat and glycogen within hepatocytes, also serum levels of alanine aminotransferease (ALT) and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT). There may be significant increases in serum alkaline phosphatase. There may be a minor increase in bromosulfophthalein (BSP) retention time. (B263)
Immune: many effects are seen only at high or very high doses; there are species differences. Glucocorticoid administration may cause decreases in circulating T-lymphocytes, inhibit lymphokines, inhibit migration of neutrophils, macrophages and monocytes, reduce interferon production, inhibit phagocytosis, chemotaxis and antigen processing and decrease intracellular killing. Nonspecific immune responses are affected to a greater degree than are specific immune responses. The complement cascade may be antagonised and the clinical signs of infection may be masked. Decreases in mast cell number and suppression of histamine synthesis may also occur. (B263)
Metabolic: gluconeogenesis is stimulated by glucocorticoids. There is enhancement of lipogenesis in some areas of the body such as the abdomen and there may be a redistribution of adipose tissue from the limbs to the trunk. Fatty acid mobilisation from tissues, and their oxygenation, is increased. There are increases in plasma levels of triglycerides, cholesterol and glycerol. Protein is mobilised from many areas but not from the liver. (B263)
Musculoskeletal: Muscular weakness may result from glucocorticoids, also atrophy and osteoporosis may occur. Via inhibition of growth hormone and somatomedin, increased excretion of calcium and inhibition of the activation of vitamin D, bone growth may be inhibited. Bone resorption may be enhanced. Growth of fibrocartilage is inhibited also. (B263)
Ophthalmic: prolonged systemic or topical ocular use of corticosteroids may lead to increased intraocular pressure, glaucoma, cataracts and exophthalmos. (B263)
Reproductive: glucocorticoids are probably required for normal fetal development and may be needed for adequate production of surfactant, and development of myelin, retina, pancreas and mammary tissues. Teratogenic effects may be seen if glucocorticoids are administered early in pregnancy. In the later stages of pregnancy of horses and ruminants, administration of exogenous steroids may result in induction of parturition. Glucocorticoids which are not bound to plasma proteins will enter milk; high doses or prolonged administration to the nursing mother may potentially inhibit growth of nursing newborns. (B263)
Renal/Fluids: glucocorticoids may increase excretion of potassium and calcium, resorption of sodium and chloride, and intracellular fluid volume. Rarely may result in hypokalaemia and/or hypocalcaemia. Diuresis may occur when glucocorticoids are administered. (B263)
Skin: glucocorticoid therapy may lead to thinning of dermal tissue and atrophy of skin, also hair follicles may become extended and alopecia may be seen. (B263)
Storage / Stability
Heat labile: store at room temperature 15-30�C. (B263)
Store dexamethasone tablets in tight containers. (B263)
Store dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection protected from light. (B263)
Light sensitive. (W324)
Legal Category (In UK)
POM (B266)
Associated Techniques --
(Further Reading)
Debra Bourne (V.w5); Gracia Vila-Garcia (V.w67)
Suzanne I. Boardman (V.w6); Becki Lawson (V.w26); Susan Mikota (V.w72)
Therapeutic Information
Uses/Indications
Suppression of inflammatory reactions. (B201.7.w7)
In general may provide symptomatic relief but not treat the underlying cause. (B201.1.w1)
May reduce clinical signs of hypersensitivity disorders.
Glucocorticoids may be used in the treatment of:
Adrenal insufficiency. (B263)
Arthritis. (B263)
Systemic lupus. (B263)
Allergic reactions including asthma. (B263)
Dermatological conditions: pemphigus and allergic dermatoses. (B263)
Thrombocytopaenia. (B263)
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. (B263)
Neoplasias. (B263)
Increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure. (B263)
Exacerbations of ulcerative colitis. (B263)
Nephrotic syndrome. (B263)
Topically (some glucocorticoids) topically - eye, skin, intra-articular, intra-lesion. (B263)
Dexamethasone is used in the treatment of:
Shock or acute circulatory failure (together with intravenous fluid therapy). (B201.7.w7)
Inflammatory and allergic disorders. (B201.7.w7)
Ketosis. (B201.7.w7)
Induction of parturition in cattle. (B201.7.w7)
Hypoadrenocorticism. (B201.7.w7)
Horses: chronic granulomatous enteritis. (B201.7.w7)
Avoid use of high dose dexamethasone in the treatment of acute spinal cord injuries. (B201.7.w7)
Absorption /Bioavailability
Cattle:
Following intravenous administration of 0.1 mg/kg dexamethasone 21-isonicotinate in dairy cows, the volume of distribution Vd was 1.31 L/kg. Distribution into milk was rapid; the drug was detected in four of five cows when sampled at 15 minutes after administration, the concentration in milk peaked at 20.6 +/- 1.47 ng/mL at 30 minutes and then declined at a similar rate to plasma concentration. (J295.65.w1)
Plasma Protein binding / Storage
Elimination Route
Urine:
Following intramuscular administration of 60 �g/kg of either a crystalline suspension of dexamethasone or a mixture containing dexamethasone sodium phosphate (short-acting) plus the long-acting phenylpropionate ester of dexamethasone, urine contained 6.2 to 21.2 ng/mL urine, and were at least five times higher than levels in milk over the same period. (J289.20.w3)
Following intramuscular administration of 60 �g/kg of a crystalline suspension of dexamethasone milk contained 2.0 to 6.8 ng/mL at the first milking (seven to 13 hours after injection) and levels were at least five times lower than levels in urine over the same period. With the crystalline dexamethasone suspension levels declined rapidly: within 48 hours the concentration was less than 1.0 ng/mL and within 72 hours it was less than 0.5 ng/mL. In cows given a preparation containing dexamethasone sodium phosphate (short-acting) plus the long-acting dexamethasone phenylpropionate, also at 60 �g/kg intramuscularly, one animal developed a peak residue in milk of nearly 3.0 ng/mL at six hours; levels in this and another cow remained above the detection limit (0.23 ng/mL) and above the recommended maximum residue limit (0.3 ng/mL) throughout the monitoring period (72 hours after drug administration). (J289.20.w3)
Elimination half-life / Clearance Rate
Plasma half-life:
Dog: 119-136 hours. (B263)
Human: 200-300 hours or more. (B263)
Following intravenous administration of 0.1 mg/kg dexamethasone 21-isonicotinate in dairy cows, the half-life of elimination t1/2β was 4.54 h in plasma and 3.00 h in milk. Clearance ClB was 0.2 L/kg/h. By 12 hours after administration the concentration in milk was too low for detection and was calculated from the regression line to be 1.46 ng/mL. (J295.65.w1)
Administration of a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone concurrently with amphotericin B or with potassium-depleting diuretics such as furosamide and thiazide diuretics may result in hypokalaemia. (B263)
In individuals receiving digitalis glycosides, in the event of hypokalaemia from the above combinations, there is an increased risk of digitalis toxicity. (B263)
Administration of glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone may decrease blood levels of salicylates. (B263)
Glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone may increase insulin requirements. (B263)
Metabolism of glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone may be increased in individuals administered phenytoin, phenobarbital or rifampin. (B263)
Glucocorticoids administered concurrently with cyclosporin may result in the blood levels of both drugs being increased due to mutual inhibition of hepatic metabolism; the significance of this effect is unclear. (B263)
Glucocorticoids may inhibit the hepatic metabolism of cyclophosphamide; this may require adjustment of the dosage. (B263)
Steroid metabolism may be altered by mitotane such that increased dose of the steroid may be required for treatment of mitotane-induced adrenal insufficiency. (B263)
In individuals receiving immuno-suppressive doses of corticosteroids, live attenuated virus vaccines should not generally be given as virus replication may be increased. (B263)
In individuals receiving immuno-suppressive doses of glucocorticoids, responses to vaccination, toxoids or bacterins may be decreased. (B263)
Possibility of potentiation by administration with oestrogens. (B263)
Concurrent use of glucocorticoids with anticholinesterase agents in individuals with myesthenia gravis may result in profound muscle weakness. (B263)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection incompatibility reported with: daunorubicin hydrochloride, doxorubicin hydrochloride, metaraminol bitartrate, vancomycin. (B263)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection compatibility reported with: amikacin sulphate, aminophylline, bleomycin sulphate, cimetidine hydrochloride, glycopyrrolate, lidocaine hydrochloride, nafcillin sodium, netilmicin sodium, prochlorperazine edisylate, verapamil. (B263)
Compatibility depends of factors such as pH, concentration, temperature and diluents. (B263)
Formulations available
Dexamethasone 1 mg = dexamethasone acetate 1.1 mg = dexamethasone isonicotinate 1.3 mg = dexamethasone sodium phosphate 1.3 mg = dexamethasone trioxaundecanoate 1.4 mg (approximates). (B201.7.w7)
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection 4 mg/mL is approximately equivalent to dexamethasone 3mg/mL. (B263)
Tablets, injections for intramuscular, intravenous or subcutaneous use, depot injection for intramuscular use. (B201.7.w7)
Injection, oral powder. (B263)
Doses / Administration Routes / Frequencies
Erinaceus europaeus - West European Hedgehog:
0.1-1.5 mg/kg intramuscularly. For inflammation. (B22.27.w3)
5 mg/kg intramuscularly. For shock. (B22.27.w3)
0.05-0.15 mg/kg subcutaneously once daily for up to five days. (D107)
Atelerix albiventris - Four-toed hedgehog:
0.1-1.5 mg/kg; up to 5 mg/kg for shock. (J204.59.w1)
"Hedgehog" (species not distinguished between Atelerix albiventris - Four-toed hedgehog or Erinaceus europaeus - West European Hedgehog):
0.1-1.5 mg/kg intramuscularly. For inflammation and allergies. (B267)
5.0 mg/kg intramuscularly. For shock. (B267)
In Elephants:
1 mg per 5 kg bodyweight intravenously. For treatment of heatstroke. (B10.49.w21, B64.27.w4)
Loxodonta africana - African Elephant
20 mg was given to one 12-year old elephant and 100 mg was given to another, 13-year-old elephant as part of treatment for acute salmonellosis. (J4.185.w1)
200 mg intramuscularly one daily for three days in a six year old elephant as part of treatment of an atypical salmonellosis. (P1.1985.w3)
For further details of the treatment of salmonellosis in elephants see Salmonellosis (with special reference to Waterfowl, Hedgehogs and Elephants)
8,000 mg as a single dose intravenously was given in an adult 3,600 kg elephant for treatment of inflammation and respiratory signs. For further details see Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis in Elephants. (J4.189.w5)
In Bears:
In general: "Domestic dog drugs and dosages are used to treat bears." (B336.51.w51)
4 mg intramuscularly followed by 10 mg orally once daily (in a donut) as initial treatment for Ruptured Intervertebral Disk in a Bear. Post surgery, 0.22 mg/kg bodyweight three times daily intramuscularly (discontinued on the fourth day post surgery). (J4.177.w3)
Lagomorphs - Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus - Domestic rabbit:
0.5 - 2.0 mg/kg subcutaneously, intramuscularly or intravensouly. (B373.Guide.w41)
1 - 2 mg/kg intramuscular or intravenous injection. As an anti-inflammatory.. (B600.4.w4)
1.0 - 2.0 mg/kg intramuscularly or intravenously. (B603.5.w5)
Note: In general, inflammation in rabbits should be treated using a NSAID, not a corticosteroid. a single intravenous bolus may be useful in treatment of shock or acute inflammation (e.g. Encephalitozoonosis in Lagomorphs (Parasitic Disease)). Corticosteroids may be useful in the management of neoplasia, particularly lymphoproliferative disorders, and may be useful in allergic or autoimmune disorders. (B603.5.w5)
0.6 mg/kg intramuscularly as an inflammatory agent. (B263)
0.2 - 0.6 mg/kg subcutaneously, intravenously or intramuscularly every 24 hours. (B546)
In the treatment of shock, 2 mg/kg intravenously or intramuscularly once only. (B546)
[For dogs and cats, use of the sodium phosphate salt is specified for the shock dose]. (B546)
0.5 - 2.0 mg/kg intravenously, intramuscularly or subcutaneously. Shock dose in the treatment of enterotoxaemia. (B601.15.w15)
0.5 - 2.0 mg/kg orally or subcutaneously every 12 hours. (B602.41.w41)
Ferrets - Mustela putorius furo - Ferret:
0.5 - 2.0 mg/kg subcutaneously, intramuscularly or intravenously. (B602.41.w41)
For shock:
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate 5 - 10 mg/kg subcutaneously or intramuscularly. (B626.App.w22)
Dexamethasone 0.5 mg/kg orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly or intravenously. (B626.App.w22)
1.0 mg/kg subcutaneously or intramuscularly following adrenalectomy. (B631.21.w21)
Adult Pan troglodytes - Chimpanzee: 2 mg/kg intravenously, intramuscularly or orally. d(W768.Jun2012.w1)
Primates:
As an anti-inflammatory 0.25 - 1.0 mg/kg intramuscularly or orally once daily. (D425.3.15.w3o)
For shock 2 - 8 mg/kg intravenously once. (D425.3.15.w3o)
For treatment of cerbral oedema 2 mg/kg intravenously or subcutaneously once, then 1 mg/kg three times daily. (D425.3.15.w3o)
2 - 8 mg/kg intramuscularly, intravenously or subcutaneously, once or twice daily. In the treatment of shock, trauma, endotoxaemia, capture myopathy. (B12.56.w14, B115.8.w4)
Reduce the dose for long-term treatment. (B115.8.w4) Reducing the dosage over time . (B12.56.w14)
Dexamethasone was given at 1-2 mg/kg subcutaneously every 12 hours for 1-2 days in the successful treatment of cranes with Capture Myopathy. (B703.10.w10)
Monitoring parameters
Cattle: Dexamethasone injection, 2 mg/mL; various manufacturers: "there are no withdrawal times required when used in cattle. A withdrawal period has not been established for this product in preruminal calves; do not use in veal calves." (B263)
Toxic Information
Contraindications / Precautions
Except in emergencies, contraindicated in individuals with renal impairment, diabetes mellitus, chronic nephritis, congestive heart failure, osteoporosis, viral infections (during the viraemic stage), pregnant animals (except to induce parturition in cattle/sheep), laminitis. (B201.7.w7)
Systemic glucocorticoids are considered contraindicated in individuals with systemic fungal infections, except when used as replacement therapy in Addison's. (B263)
Systemic glucocorticoids are contraindicated for intramuscular injection in individuals with ideopathic thrombocytopaenia. (B263)
Contraindicated in individuals known to be hypersensitive to the drug. (B263)
Sustained-release injectable glucocorticoids are considered contraindicated for chronic corticosteroid therapy of systemic diseases. (B263)
Except in "burst" therapy, systemic glucocorticoid use should be tapered off gradually and additional glucocorticoids may be required in the event of stress. (B263)
Large animals: use of corticosteroids late in pregnancy may induce parturition. (B263)
Adverse Effects / Side Effects / Warnings
Effects generally manifest as signs of hyperadrenocorticism. (B263)
Growing animals: may retard growth. (B263)
Poldipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, hypokalaemia, calcinotis cutis, immunosuppression, delay in wound healing, gastro-intestinal ulceration. (B201.7.w7)
May cause iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome (iatrogenic hyperadrenocorticism). (B201.7.w7)
Polydipsia, polyuria and polyphagia may be seen even with short-term "burst" therapy. (B263)
Side effects may include a dull, dry coat, weight gain, panting, vomiting, diarrhoea, liver enzyme elevation, pancreatitis, gastro-intestinal ulceration, lipidaemia, diabetes mellitus (activation, or worsening of an existing condition), muscle wasting, behavioural changes: depression, lethargy, viciousness. (B263)
When used for anti-inflammatory therapy, side effects are relatively uncommon except for polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia. (B263)
When used in immunosuppressive doses side effects are more common and may be more severe. (B263)
Generally develop fewer adverse effects than do dogs. (B263)
Occasional signs of polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia with weight gain, diarrhoea or depression. (B263)
"Cushingoid" effects may be seen with long-term high-dose treatment. (B263)
Horses: use of dexamethasone may play a role in development of laminitis. (B263); may induce laminitis. (B201.7.w7)
In lactating cows, milk yield may decrease. (B201.7.w7)
If used to induce parturition, may increase risk of retained placenta. (B201.7.w7)
For induction of parturition: do not give until after day 260 (cattle) or 138 (sheep) to avoid premature offspring. (B201.7.w7)
Operator Warnings
Overdose / Acute Toxicity
Chronic Toxicity
Reproductive effects
In laboratory animals, administration of glucocorticoids, particularly in the first third of pregnancy, has resulted in fetal abnormalities. (B201.7.w7)
Use late in pregnancy may induce parturition. (B201.7.w7)
Teratogenic effects
Mutagenic effects
Carcinogenic effects
Organ toxicity
Bird Toxicity
Aquatic organism activity
Other organism toxicity
Nutrient Information
Biological Use
Recommended Daily Allowance / Recommended level in food
Stability in food (Storage time)
External / Environmental Information
Application Concentration
Persistence of Effect / Frequency of Application
Human-associated sources
Effects in the aquatic environment
Effects on land
Breakdown in soil and groundwater
Breakdown in water
Breakdown in vegetation
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Traditional news Today's technology
Phil Johnston, Harriet Reece and John Werner are the winners!
Band Mill is the answer for Week 199 of Orofino History Trivia a special feature to celebrate the history and heritage of Clearwater Country.
Join in the discovery!
Monday: The name remains.
Tuesday: It was part of the boom.
Wednesday: Green chain
Thursday: Saws
Friday: Away from town
Saturday: Opened in 1939.
Band Mill, located off Grangemont, was owned by Palmer Soderberg and Joe McCarthy and opened in 1939. It got its name from the band saw that was the first in the area used to cut boards off the logs. Other mills were using circle saws.
Some of the equipment was from previous mill sites. Down river from Pink House Hole in the area known as McGill Hole on the railroad side of the Clearwater River, there was once a mill.(The piers can still be seen at low water.) When it was torn out in 1928, the equipment was moved first by rail car to the Rudo Landing up Orofino Creek. It was then put on trucks and taken to a new site at Cow Creek for a new mill. When the rent on the land, owned by Jim Crawford, became higher than they were willing to pay, the men closed the mill and moved the equipment to start Band Mill.
Phil Johnston in helping fill in some of the history of Band Mill after he entered the correct guess, said his grandfather, William Joseph Johnson, was involved in building both Band Mill and O Mill. Soderberg and McCarthy also owned O Mill. It is also quite likely WJ Johnson helped dismantle the mill at McGill Hole.
Logs for Band Mill were supplied by gyppos, first Butch and George Gleason and later Phillips and Triplett.
After Soderberg died suddenly in 1960, the mill was sold to Potlatch Corp., along with O Mill.It operated for about a year after that and was shut down.
Window on the Clearwater
Orofino, ID 83544
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Category: Press Releases
Olympic Champion Brittney Reese Plans To Cement Herself In Track and Field History.
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Just In / Press Releases
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Reese vs. Bartoletta Headlines Prefontaine Classic Women’s Long Jump
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Eugene, Oregon – The only American women besides Jackie Joyner-Kersee to win Olympic gold in the long jump will lead the world’s best at the Prefontaine Classic.
Avery Lewis, 11-Y-O Breaks 4th Record At Colgate Women’s Games
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Avery Lewis, a 5th-grader at Friends’ Central School, in Wynnewood, PA became the only athlete to hold 4 concurrent records when she broke the 55m record.
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By world track February 19, 2017
A World record and American high school record were eclipsed Friday night during the inaugural Artie O’Connor College Invitational. Complete results below.
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We have no idea what implications this might have and whether or not it even indicates anything, since Patch 8.2 is still in testing and a Tuesday launch is more than unlikely due to Essence tuning and Azshara's Eternal Palace, which is supposedly coming shortly after launch. Blizzard said they wouldn't be delaying the new raid like they did with Battle of Dazar'alor.
I have tried it a few times. It's good if you're new to the game. Otherwise not so much. I found I leveled slower by using it, as it's suggesting to take the longest possible route usually. Basically following roads everytime, when you could take an easy shortcut. Especially if the shortcut involves a bit of fall damage, it's out of question. The "go here" spots don't also update if you take a shortcut, and then the waypoint arrow points to wrong direction. But perhaps it has been updated since then.
WoW Classic seeks to recreate the "vanilla WoW" experience—that is, WoW as it existed before a series of seven game-altering major expansion packs from 2007's The Burning Crusade to 2018's Battle for Azeroth. To achieve this, Blizzard has rebuilt the game based on archived data from back in 2005 and 2006 (patch 1.12 is the goalpost—the current game is on patch 8.1.5). The company has committed to meticulously presenting the experience exactly as it was back then—warts and all—with only a small number of unavoidable or critical changes.
The primary goal of Conflict and Strife is to provide an interesting choice in PvP by allowing access to an extra PvP Talent. It’s not necessarily going to be a strong option for PvE. The acquisition of this Essence is via PvP, and is totally optional for PvE-focused players. While there may be interesting PvE uses for some of the choices, it is not expected to be a strong competitor on usual PvE criteria (like total throughput) on every spec.
Nov 6 Pet battle advice and leveling class Hi all. Been doing pet battling so far. I like it a lot. But I am not getting very much experience for my class Does the experience get better later on? I am a level 2 orc shaman with about 9 level 3 pets. I will keep leveling my pets but the experience feels very bad for my shaman levels. Any pet battle advice is welcome. Thanks. Also I have a few heirlooms and some gold.Goldshaman4 Nov 6
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Issues & Studies
China's Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia and the Indian Response
Digital Representation in an Electoral Campaign Influenced by Mainland China: The 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive Election
Introduction to the Special Issue - China's Engagement with South Asia and Responses from the Region
Engaging the Asian Giants: India, China and Bangladesh's Crucial Balancing Act
Modi's Neighborhood Policy and China's Response
P1 - 21
Social Sciences > Politics
SMRUTI S. PATTANAIK
Issues & Studies ； 55卷2期 (2019 / 06 / 01) ， P1 - 21
英文 DOI： 10.1142/S1013251119400034
India ； China ； Bangladesh ； foreign policy
Bangladesh has engaged both India and China as they fulfill its aspirations for development without raising the apprehensions of either. High-level visits between Bangladesh and India and the resolution of some of the long pending issues have removed some earlier distrust, greatly institutionalizing the relationship between the two. India opposes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), while Bangladesh is a participant, China shares a robust relationship with the military of Bangladesh, while security cooperation between India and Bangladesh is nascent, involving capacity building and cooperation to meet non-traditional security challenges. Bangladesh has kept the sensitivities of the two countries in mind as it engages with both. Therefore, it has built its energy and infrastructure with the largest credit line ever offered by India while also engaging with China to invest massively in infrastructure projects. Bangladesh is the only country in South Asia to have profited from relations with both India and China in such a way. In this study, four sectors have been selected in which Bangladesh has engaged both countries and benefitted immeasurably.
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Does Trump Deserve the Loyalty Given to Him by His Base?
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By Laura Tucker, Staff writer; Image: Donald Trump wearing MAGA hat (Image source: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)
One thing that is both hurting and helping Donald Trump's chances for reelection in 2020 is his loyal base. He needs to keep them, so he makes comments and policy decisions that he knows they want, but in the meantime, he risks alienating those who don't agree with his base.
There's no doubt there were many who were looking for something different in 2016. Most Republicans, many independents, and some Democrats as well. They were looking for something different than a career politician, and they found it in billionaire Donald Trump.
But because he's not a politician, he's being viewed as hurting the country. While at one time there were rumors that Republicans were trying to get one of their own to run as an independent in 2016 just so as not to have him in office, they soon found that with someone who didn't know the ropes, it would be beneficial to have him in office and get a laundry list of things done around Washington that they'd wanted.
However, there have been many things that have caused everyone to pause, things that have proven to be an embarrassment to the United States. The Steele Dossier says he watched prostitutes urinate on a hotel bed in Russia. He got into a war of words with the North Korea dictator, as he has done with many other leaders, U.S. allies even.
He walked back nearly every policy decision of former President Barack Obama, including the Affordable Care Act, the Iran Deal, NAFTA, and the Paris Climate Accord. Just a few months into office, he was already being investigated.
After a White Supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a rally, Trump claimed there were fine people on both sides. There were stories and reports last year that some of his administrators were trying to overthrow him by secretly recording him.
Aside from his policy, or lack thereof, there are questions regarding his personality as well. He lies constantly, so much so that it's just expected. It seems like no one bats an eye that the President of the United States is a bold-faced liar.
Most recently he came forward with racist thoughts. He's calling out four congresswomen of color and a House Democrat leader.
But throughout, Trump hasn't lost his base. He's losing the Democrats who voted for him as well as many independents, and even some Republicans are turning against him, even switching parties, but he has not lost that base.
Does he deserve the loyalty of his base? And what would it take to lose his base? It doesn't seem there is much he can do wrong in their eyes. And in fact, even before he was elected he suggested he could shoot someone on the corner and still retain their support.
No matter what he says or does, there are Trump signs waving, MAGA hats in every crowd, and of course, chanting. His base loves to show their loyalty by chanting. In 2016 they chanted "build that wall" and " lock her up." This year they are chanting, "send her back."
Yet, for all that loyalty he commands, he has none. He turns out aides and officials quickly. Once they disagree with him, they are out, replaced by someone who will be loyal.
He became upset when his attorney general recused himself from the Russia investigation. He wanted the FBI director to end the Russia investigation. He tried to get the White House counsel to fire the special counsel would was conducting the Russia investigation. And now that many of those individuals are gone, he won't let them testify before the House committees, insisting that they ignore congressional subpoenas.
So this goes back to the original question: does Trump deserve the loyalty of his base? He has shown that he won't be loyal to anyone else, but they continue to support him, wear his headgear, and chant for him, no matter what he says and does.
Trump desperately needs that support moving into 2020. He needs to keep making decisions to keep them showing up for him. Just as illegal immigration was a cornerstone of his message in 2016, he's making racism a cornerstone in 2020. That's what his base seems to thrive on, and he knows it.
But are these poor decisions, aimed at keeping his base, going to cost him the support of those outside his base? He can't win on his base alone. A recent survey showed half of the voters believe he's racist.
He needs to walk a tightrope for that support, and he's shown numerous times his bone spurs do not know how to walk on a tight rope. His base will continue to be loyal, but what will he do to try and attract those who aren't loyal to him to get their votes?
Those who are not loyal to Trump have their eyes wide open going into 2020.
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MLS Analysis
MLS Week 32: No parity, FCD, Picault & Bello impress, RSL disappoints
Week 32 showed that the gap between the haves and have nots is wide - and that is good. Meanwhile, FC Dallas, Philadelphia, and Portland made big statements while RSL crumbled in the face of a huge opportunity. Brian Sciaretta breaks it down
IT WAS an interesting weekend in MLS as none of the results particularly surprised. There were some performances that were impressive and some that were shockingly bad. For the “Play your kids crowd,” George Bello started and scored in a memorable night for one of the best American prospects.
Parity not there in 2018
The 2018 MLS regular season is drawing to a close and that is always a time for a reflection. Typically, MLS games are tough to predict and sometimes there just isn’t a lot separating teams. With the league now at 23 teams, there is far more of a distinction between good and bad.
The bad teams in the league this year are just awful. Orlando City, Colorado, San Jose, Chicago, New England, Houston, and Minnesota are all just tough watch. Whenever matched up against a good team, none of them seem competitive.
The numbers show just how bad some of these teams are. Colorado has lost seven games in a row, has been outscored 22-1 in that span, and has a league-worst -30 goal differential. Orlando has been shutout in four straight games. San Jose has lost six in a row and has a league-worst 20 points this season from 32 games (a total of just four wins).
Of course there have been some upsets along the way, but these teams have been brutal and are typically outmatched by Atlanta United, the New York Red Bulls, Sporting Kansas City, FC Dallas, and other teams safely in the playoffs. There is a lot separating the teams these days.
This season threw us some curveballs. Who thought Toronto FC would be so bad? Or that LAFC would be so good in its inaugural year? Or that the Philadelphia Union would be this good? But the league is getting easier to predict and that points to the importance of investing in academies and visionary front office personnel.
The growing gap between the haves and have nots in MLS is a good thing. It’s not like Major League Baseball where market size is a huge factor of success. In MLS, teams from small cities and with small budgets can compete well. It’s about decision making from the higher-ups within organizations. The rules in MLS used to be geared towards parity. Now there are simply too many front office decisions that have to be made that have a huge impact on teams.
Hopefully the rules continue to open things up - like with the elimination of geographic homegrown player restrictions, larger budgets for homegrowns, the increased ability to reinvest beyond the cap after the sale of players. The more forward thinking decisions are rewarded, the better the league will be.
Bello starts & scores
Few would deny that George Bello, 16, is one of best American teenage prospects right now. He is the cornerstone of the U.S. U-17 team and it is easy to envision a scenario where he plays in both the U-17 and U-20 World Cups next year – like Josh Sargent did in 2017.
Bello earned his second start for Atlanta United on Saturday at his usual left back position and in the 17th minute, he scored his first professional goal.
Great news seeing US U-17 left back George Bello, 16, score his first goal for Atlanta. Huge upside on this kid https://t.co/xeFMgqmCtB
— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) October 6, 2018
Atlanta won the game against New England 2-1 and remained atop the race for the league’s Supporters Shield. With Bello rewarding the faith placed in him by Tata Martino, will he continue to earn starts into the playoffs?
The injury to Miguel Almiron will certainly see of Martino changes his approach towards playing youth. Can Martino win with as subpar lineup like the Red Bulls can?
Regardless, it is clear that the rest of the media are starting to grasp the potential of Bello.
.@ATLUTD’s goal-scoring rookie @_georgebello getting a lot of post-game love from media. pic.twitter.com/R0WfEAawVN
— Gabriel Gabor (@MLSGabor) October 6, 2018
Parker’s assist
Tim Parker was not called up to the U.S. national team for the upcoming camp. While the Long Islander had a few bad games in September, he is back in fine form again.
Last weekend, he scored against Atlanta United in a huge 2-0 win. On Saturday, he set up fellow central defender Aaron Long with what was probably the league’s assist of the weekend - Long was called up to the U.S. team but perhaps Parker should have as well.
After scoring vs Atlanta last weekend, did Tim Parker get the MLS assist of the week tonight? Nifty flick set up Long’s header pic.twitter.com/4u4UBS1gl5
Picault, Union make a statement
As discussed, Aaron Long has made a strong case for earning another call-up to the U.S. national team. With the struggles of American defenders in Europe the past two weeks, it is very possible that Long earns his first cap in the October friendlies.
After earning a call-up to replace the injured Christian Pulisic, Fafa Picault meanwhile made a huge statement on Saturday – as did the entire Philadelphia Union. The Manhattan-born Picault, 27, scored two goals in a dominating 5-1 win over Minnesota United.
THREE! ????
What a ball from @K_J_Rose...and @Fafagoal23 did the rest. #PHIvMIN https://t.co/PNdm2KbRZy
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) October 7, 2018
The strike.
The moves.
TOO HOT, @Fafagoal23. ???? #PHIvMIN https://t.co/xZyiyKjgQx
There were a lot of grumblings about Picault’s involvement with the U.S. team because of the enormous profile of the player he is replacing at the last minute. There are others that also were asking for Romain Gall instead.
All Picault can do is play well, and play with confidence. He at least gave American fans something to talk about and possibly look forward to in the games ahead.
Meanwhile, Philadelphia clinched a playoff berth and it has one of the more intriguing rosters of all the teams in the playoffs. There are no household designated players. Instead are a bunch of players that fit really well together – including several U.S. youth internationals.
Tonight @PhilaUnion started seven #USMNT-eligible players and two Jamaicans, one of whom played @NCAASoccer, the other two years in @USL. You can build a good team domestically if you put the work in. #Doop #PHIvMIN
— Brooke Tunstall (@YesThatBrooke) October 7, 2018
FC Dallas were the weekend’s big winners
There is finally separation at the top of the Western Conference as FC Dallas took advantage of a Sporting Kansas City slip to move four points clear at the top. After its 2-0 win over a poor Orlando City, Oscar Pareja’s team was the biggest winners in MLS this weekend.
Dallas has never played like one of the league’s elite teams this year but it has been mostly steady and has avoided long, poor runs. Next up will be two tricky games against DC United on the road and Sporting Kansas City at home.
There were other very good performances aside from Dallas. Philadelphia was dominant although its playoff status is pretty well known. Montreal came up big against Columbus in a desperate situation although DC United can and should overtake the Impact regardless of how well the Canadian team performs due to games in hand. DC United rallied to beat Chicago although it should beat Chicago at home. LAFC also took care of business against a Colorado team that is in a full meltdown.
But Dallas stood out because it was a game it had to win and it wasn’t necessarily easy given the conditions which forced a lengthy weather dely. It wasn't flashy, but it was effective and professional. Like Picault and others, right back Reggie Cannon will arrive in his first U.S. national team camp with momentum.
Real Salt Lake were weekend’s biggest losers
You expected Orlando, San Jose, Minnesota, and Colorado to have bad performances this time of year. They are bad teams with nothing to play for.
But Real Salt Lake has the talent to make the playoffs (maybe not go far, but at least qualify for the post season). Combine that with the fact the team was playing at home in altitude, against a beatable opponent, with huge playoff implications on the line, there is no excuse for a 4-1 loss to Portland. None.
A win would have seen Mike Petke’s team leapfrog into fourth place and go four points clear of the playoff line. The seventh place Galaxy did not win and it creating an opening. Everything was there for the taking.
Instead, Real Salt Lake did not look ready for the moment. Petke’s young team was simply not prepared mentally to rise to the occasion. The maturity of Portland’s Sebastian Blanco and Diego Valeri was simply too much. RSL should have had a better answer, and it didn’t. That’s not the mark of a playoff team.
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The thickening of global geopolitics around Indian Subcontinent
Samirsinh Dattopadhye March 5, 2018 Current Affairs, English 0
16 countries including India to take part in naval exercise in the Indian Ocean
New Delhi: India has organised ‘MILAN’ Naval Exercise. 16 countries will be participating in this exercise. It is claimed that India will effectively use this exercise to ensure secure marine transport channels. This naval exercise has gained importance in view of the increased Chinese naval activities in the Indian Ocean. On the background of the Maldives crisis, India has created an opportunity to exhibit the strength and effectiveness of its Naval Forces through these exercises, claim experts.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/16-countries-including-india-take-part-naval-exercise
India successfully test fires nuclear capable ‘Agni-2’ missile
Balasore: India successfully tested the medium-range ‘Agni-2’ ballistic missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. This missile, capable of hitting a target up to 2000 kilometres has passed all the test parameters set and conducted by the ‘Defence Research and Development Organisation’ (DRDO), including the test fire. The Indian agencies informed that this has increased the capacity of the ‘Agni-2’, which has already been commissioned in the Indian army.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/india-successfully-test-fires-nuclear-capable-agni-2-missile
Increasing China’s dominance along the eastern border and Indian Ocean, a concern: Admiral Lanba
New Delhi: Increasing Chinese dominance and chauvinism along the Eastern border and in the Indian Ocean is a cause of concern, warned the Indian Naval Chief, Admiral Lanba. There are reports that China has sent six warships to the Indian Ocean in view of the Maldives emergency. China has augmented the air defence by deploying the ‘J-10’ and ‘J-11’ fighter jets near the Indian border. Admiral Lanba seemed to be expressing the concerns felt by India over this.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/china-dominance-indian-ocean-cause-concern-admiral-lanba
Pakistan summons Indian Deputy High Commissioner alleging ceasefire violation
New Delhi/Islamabad: Pakistan has alleged that India is violating the ceasefire on the Kashmir border. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry has summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner twice, in two days. At the same time, there are reports of the Indian army destroying the Pakistan posts along the Line of Control (LoC). Due to this the Pakistani attempts of terrorist infiltration into Jammu-Kashmir through the LOC have been foiled.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/pakistan-summons-indian-deputy-high-commissioner-alleging-ceasefire-violation
Russia-Pakistan to form joint military front against terrorism, declare Foreign Ministers of both countries
Moscow : The United States has acted against Pakistan by stopping the military and financial aid for harbouring terrorists responsible for sabotage in the neighbouring India and Afghanistan. It seems that Pakistan is receiving political support from Russia after the United States has turned its back. This fact came forward during Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja’s visit to Russia. A joint military commission of the two countries against terrorism was announced in the press conference addressed jointly by the Foreign Ministers of the two countries.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/russia-pakistan-form-joint-military-terrorism
India to receive advanced ‘Submarine Rescue System’ from UK
New Delhi/London: Taking into consideration the Chinese threat, India is increasing its preparedness to handle all kinds of emergency situations in deep waters. Within a month, the Indian Navy will receive its first advanced Submarine ‘Rescue System’. India had signed an agreement for INR 175 billion with a UK company for two ‘Flyaway Submarine Rescue Systems’. The work on the first of the two systems being manufactured for the Indian Navy has been completed. The second system will be handed over to India in the month of June.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/india-receive-advanced-submarine-rescue-system-uk
Pakistan initiates heavy artillery firing at Jammu-Kashmir LoC after Indian army destroys its bunkers at Mendhar & Uri
Srinagar/Islamabad: The Pakistani army posts near the Mendhar and Uri sectors of Jammu-Kashmir (J&K) that were instigating action by firing at the Line of Control (LoC), have been destroyed by the Indian army. Following this, Pakistan has initiated long range heavy artillery firing at the LoC. According to reports, a meeting between high-ranking officials of the Army, intelligence agencies, CRPF and the J&K police force was held in view of the heightened tension.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/pakistan-firing-jammu-kashmir-loc-indian-army-mendhar-uri
Ex-servicemen demand to deport Illegal Rohingya from Jammu-Kashmir
Jammu – Settlements of Rohingya and the Bangladeshi nationals coming up beside the army camps and bases in Jammu-Kashmir (J-K), are a cause of concern. Ex-servicemen have demanded that the Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators being a threat to the national security, should be expelled from the country. Similarly, the ex-servicemen have also demanded that the ’FIR’ filed against the Army officers in Jammu-Kashmir must be withdrawn.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/ex-servicemen-demand-deport-illegal-rohingya-jammu-kashmir
On the background of second ‘Kabul Process Conference’, Taliban sends proposal for dialogue to the US
Kabul / Washington :The Taliban, who had appealed for discussions through its open letter to the American public, has once again accepted that they are ready for discussions. This proposal for peace talks from Taliban just only two days before the ‘Kabul Conference’, organised on the security and stability issues in the country, is considered significant. The Afghan envoy and the analysts had termed the previous proposal as an acceptance of defeat and an attempt to hide the defeat behind the proposal for peace talks.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/background-second-kabul-process-conference
Jordan’s King Abdullah on India visit
New Delhi: Jordanian King Abdullah II is on his India visit. Disregarding protocol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself welcomed King Abdullah II at the New Delhi airport. During his three day visit, King Abdullah will be discussing cooperation in areas of trade, defence and tourism with the Indian leaders. These visits in the recent past by the heads of state of Israel, Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are considered to have major political significance and a major success of the Indian foreign policy.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/jordan-king-abdullah-india-visit
India and Canada sign six agreements
New Delhi: India and Canada should come together to counter the threat from terrorism and extremism, faced by both countries, appealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks on Friday with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who is on his visit to India. Six agreements were signed between the two countries following the discussions. These include agreements on energy and defence. Furore was created when a pro-Khalistani terrorist received an invitation for the dinner organized by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in New Delhi.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/india-and-canada-sign-six-agreements
Pakistan on FATF ‘watch list’ for terror funding
New Delhi/ Paris : The decision to include Pakistan in the ‘Watch List’ has been taken in the ‘Financial Action Task Force’ (FATF) meeting held in Paris. This comes as a major shock for Pakistan. Importantly, China an ally of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, acting on behalf of the ‘GCC’ have shocked Pakistan, voting in favour of the decision. The inclusion of Pakistan in the ‘Watch List’ is going to aggravate the difficulties for the Pakistani economy, which is already in doldrums.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/pakistan-fatf-watch-list-terror-funding
Pakistan suspends action against Hafiz Saeed
Islamabad : ‘Financial Action Task Force’ (FATF) meeting is in progress in Paris, the French capital. In this meet, efforts to place Pakistan in the ‘watch list’, for sheltering and providing all kinds of aid to terrorists are being made. Following this, news of Pakistan taking action against the terrorist organisations had surfaced. But, now it is clear that Pakistan has become reluctant to continue with the actions. Pakistani media has claimed that Pakistan avoids any action against terrorist like Hafiz Saeed, fearing that any such move could trigger instability in Pakistan.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/pakistan-suspend-action-hafiz-saeed
India keeping a close watch on China’s activities in Indian Ocean, says Indian Navy Chief, Admiral Sunil Lanba
New Delhi: ‘China is becoming more aggressive in the Indian Ocean region and always has six to eight warships deployed in the region. But, the Indian navy is keeping a close watch on these Chinese movements,’ clarified the Navy Chief, Admiral Sunil Lamba. India is soon organising marine military exercises involving 16 countries in the Indian Ocean region. But, Maldives which is currently under the Chinese influence has refused to participate. In view of this, the Naval Chief had a dialogue with the media.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/india-keeping-close-watch-china-activities
US is humiliating Pakistan, alleges Advisor to Pakistan PM, Miftah Ismail
Islamabad: The US made it crystal clear that it will not be satisfied unless Pakistan makes a resolve to finish all the terrorist groups. Lisa Curtis, deputy assistant to the President and Senior Director for South and Central Asia in the US National Security Council, visited Pakistan to deliver this message. She delivered this message during a meeting with Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua. The US embassy to Pakistan released this information. Against the background of Curtis’ visit, Miftah Ismail, the financial advisor to the Pakistani Prime Minister has alleged that US is trying to put Pakistan in a dilemma.
Read More: http://www.newscast-pratyaksha.com/english/us-humiliating-pakistan-alleges-advisor-pm
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त्रिविक्रमाचा गुणाकार अल्गोरिदम (The Multiplication Algorithm of Trivikram) – Aniruddha Bapu
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/ Music Video: Ama Lou – NORTHSIDE
Music Video: Ama Lou – NORTHSIDE
UK singer/songwriter Ama Lou gives fans the official video for his Murda Beatz and Frank Dukes-produced single titled “Northside”. She told Vogue about the visual.
“The first look is a fit that is kind of classic. It’s a North London fit. Growing up my friends dressed like that….I started screaming I was so happy. I loved how it looked, especially with the perfect lettering. I grabbed it and it became the ‘Northside shirt’ to the crew.”
Watch the clip below and download “Northside” now on Apple Music/Google Play.
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Seth Tuscher
Seth Tuscher Vice President
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Chicago 321 N. Clark Street
Seth Tuscher is a Vice President in CBRE Chicago’s Leasing and Asset Services group. He rejoined CBRE following the 2014 acquisition of U.S. Equities Realty. Seth has a long history of representing some of Chicago’s most sought after office properties and has completed over 400 lease transactions.
Seth’s expertise is in developing tailored marketing strategies for a full lease-up of available space, while maintaining strong relationships with ownership, management, tenants and the brokerage community. Over the past two years, he has successfully negotiated over 500,000 square feet of transactions, making him a recent recipient of CoStar’s Power Broker of the Year Award. His experience spans from repositioning vacant loft office buildings to restacking 95% leased assets in the Loop and Near North submarkets.
Prior to joining CBRE|U.S. Equities, Seth served as Managing Director at Ameritus Corporate Real Estate. He directed the management, underwriting and sourcing for all of the firm’s investments and third party brokerage assignments in Chicago. During his tenure at Ameritus, he led and negotiated over $130 million of sales, lease and consulting transactions. He was twice part of a team winning BOMA’s coveted Office Building of the Year (“TOBY”) Award.
Previously, Seth worked with CBRE as part of their corporate services tenant representation team, where he completed over $75 million in lease transactions.
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Miami University (Oxford, OH), Bachelor of Science in Business
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Rangers v Peterhead, Sun @ 10am
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Bizarre Confessions
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Author Topic: Collateral Murder (Read 5603 times)
Hedaira
Tit Critic
Re: Collateral Murder
The money got funneled into KBR, Halliburton, and 'Water. Those are companies and I doubt they're interested in giving it back.
"After walking away from the other people backstage, Justin Bieber found a place where we could be alone -- a bathroom. We went inside and immediately his personality changed drastically. He began touching me and repeatedly said he wanted to fuck the shit out of me."
Soldier that released the Collateral Murder video gets busted:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
It's symbolic of our struggle against reality.
Concerned Netizen
Concern Intensifies
He's gonna get cornholed like nobody's business, which seems a shame, but he does seem like a dumbass. Of course, it's possible they caught him by being sneaky and then planted the dumbass evidence to make a slam-dunk case against him, or something.
Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for him because it sounds like his heart was in the right place, but on the other hand, I don't know where the hell his head was. When you put more faith in Wikileaks than your own government...
I expect they'll make an example of him and do little to patch all the security leaks he revealed. I wonder if they have a special place in the fed pen for people with high security clearance like that. Seems like they wouldn't want them mixing with the general population.
Dr. Leonard HmofCoy
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
His BRAIN is gone
Dude is 22. Seriously, a kid. If the Army had any sense they'd discipline the fuck out of his superiors for allowing him access to any classified information whatsoever, and let him go with a dishonorable or whatever.
"Parasitic wasps laying eggs in other insects is a better love story than Twilight." -
"Anyhow, it was the best sentient food movie since Killer Tomatoes Eat France." -
"lee marvin in drag is no way to spread the gospel, son." - TFJ
"It failed. My enemies have been purged." - Sidious
"It's not like there was ever a time I didn't think Rudy Giuliani was a smug gibbering imbecile." - random axe
"*drags taint* Oh cool, I didn't know you could do that." - mo.d
If the Army had any sense...
I think this is already out of the Army's hands. It's a political / national security / embarrassment thing now. The kid is toast.
Sweet, that's awesome. Fuckin kid doesn't even have the amniotic fluid wiped off of him yet and he's off to Leavenworth, while the Pentagon desk jockeys who are supposed to be supervising him just carry on. Need to fucking Nuremberg some of those people, remind them that as officers they are responsible for the actions of their subordinates.
I know. Reading that article, it sounds like he was just free to surf the Top Secret NTK government internet, able to download whatever he pleased. It's hard to believe that once granted clearance, there's no monitoring. You move files containing a quarter-million classified embassy cables and nobody notices? There's no system set up to monitor this kind of thing? That's not an employee problem - that's a management problem. At best, there'll be congressional hearings with a lot of chest-beating and showboating, and some poor low-level schmucks in the IT department will be scapegoated.
Agreed, but do they still send kids even younger than that to Leavenworth for touching another soldier's dick? They sure used to. It's, ah, a strange and not exactly American institution in many ways. The management issue . . . they go out of their way to try to make soldiers into un-self-directed cogs, but the officers often walk away scot free when something goes wrong. Ridiculous.
But, hell, I don't think you should even be allowed in the military if you're under 21. I don't like the way the whole thing is set up. I admit I could never make it in our military. There is simply no way I would ever put my faith in someone's leadership abilities just because of the insignia on their clothes. Dude, I don't know you, and if there's shooting, I'm going to trust my judgment over yours, because frankly odds are that you're a dumbass, and I'd rather get shot following my own judgment. And if you'll have me shot for that, then I guess I better shoot you first and try to get away with it.
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Big Ears Festival 2016 is crazy good
I don't normally cut-and-paste press releases into here, but this lineup is so amazing I had to share.
Thanks, Kid Logic Media.
October 20, 2015 – Knoxville, TN – The internationally acclaimed Big Ears Festival – declared “the most ambitious avant-garde festival to emerge in America in more than decade” by Rolling Stone – is proud to announce its most expansive, groundbreaking line up to date, bringing together musical leaders and innovators from the worlds of classical, jazz, electronic, folk, hip-hop and beyond for the weekend of March 31 – April 2, 2016 in venues throughout downtown Knoxville, Tennessee.
Heralded American composer John Luther Adams – winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music as well as the 2014 Grammy Award for “Best Classical Composition” – will serve as Composer-in-Residence at this year’s festival. Hailed as “one of the most original music thinkers of the new century” by The New Yorker, Adams’ work combines rich musical experience with his love for the natural world, especially the wild Arctic landscapes of Alaska, where he lived for nearly 40 years. Several of his key works will be performed during the Big Ears weekend, including his powerful, sweeping orchestral masterpiece, Become Ocean, in a concert by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Steven Schick.
Big Ears will also present at least two very special rare performances during the weekend. New music icons and Big Ears alumni Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass will present the American debut of their unique collaboration, thus far heard only once this past summer in Italy. In addition, the legendary 1972 minimalist/industrial rock creation by violinist/filmmaker Tony Conrad with German “Krautrock” legends Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate, will be heard live in its only concert performance in 2016.
The remainder of the weekend will see dozens of concerts by a virtual who’s who of the world’s most iconoclastic and visionary music artists. Composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton will perform with two of his ensembles – a ten piece group and a trio; his former associate, composer/trumpet virtuoso Wadada Leo Smith will perform duos with leading jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer; while the wildly acclaimed young saxophonist Kamasi Washington – collaborator with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus – will present his soulful, spiritual jazz.
Guitarist Marc Ribot returns for a couple special concerts, and jazz guitar wizard Mary Halvorson will present a solo show as well.
The Irish supergroup, The Gloaming, will perform, along with young British folksinger, Olivia Chaney; leading American folk and alternative rock artists like Andrew Bird, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Angel Olsen, Joe Henry, Lambchop, and Circuit des Yeux will be in attendance as well.
Icelandic producer/composer Valgeir Sigur∂sson will be bringing his Bedroom Community compatriots Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, and Sam Amidon for a show commemorating their 10th Anniversary as a label and musician’s collective; and fellow Iceland native composer Ólafur Arnalds will present his electronica collaboration with Janus Rasmussen, Kiasmos.
Widely acclaimed new music ensemble eighth blackbird will make their Big Ears debut, presenting Bryce Dessner’s new work Murder Ballades during their performance, and Australia’s musical shamans, the Necks, will return to lead Big Ears on another kaleidoscopic musical journey.
There will be groundbreaking electronics from Nicolas Jaar, Ikue Mori, and Andy Stott; maximum minimalism from drone legends Sunn O))); future thinking hip-hop and beyond with Shabazz Palaces and Hieroglyphic Being; Saharan Desert electric guitar jams from Bombino; and even more musical exploration with avant-garde sonic explorers Phantom Orchard and Wolf Eyes.
There’s more to come, including other special performances and details to be revealed in the coming weeks. One thing is certain: Big Ears fans will be fully immersed in an unforgettable weekend of astonishing music-making of all kinds.
Weekend passes, individual day passes, reserved seat tickets for Tennessee Theatre performances, and the “Sonic Explorer” VIP Pass all go on sale Friday, Oct. 23 at 12 noon eastern.
Full details on the Big Ears lineup – including the daily artist breakdown – as well as all ticketing information can be found at www.bigearsfestival.com. Installations, interactive experiences, panels, discussions, and undoubtedly a few surprises will be revealed leading into the festival. All this and more information can be found at www.BigEarsFestival.com, by “liking” Big Ears Festival on Facebook, by following @BigEarsFestival on Twitter, and by joining the newsletter.
Daily Lineups:
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Steven Schick performing the Music of John Luther
Adams, Bryce Dessner, and Philip Glass with Guest Cellist Maya Beiser
Xylouris White
Zeena Parkins & Tony Buck
Olivia Chaney
Mamiffer
Anthony Braxton Tentet
Outside the Dream Syndicate (Tony Conrad with Faust)
Nicolas Jaar (DJ)
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
eighth blackbird with Bonnie "Prince” Billy and Bryce Dessner
Yo La Tengo & Lambchop
Shabazz Palaces
Steven Schick
Joe Henry & Marc Ribot
Phantom Orchard
Chris Abrahams
An Evening with Laurie Anderson & Philip Glass
Bedroom Community 10th Anniversary: Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, Sam Amidon, & Valgeir Sigurðsson
Kiasmos (Ólafur Arnalds & Janus Rasmussen)
Lambchop
Anthony Braxton Trio
Hieroglyphic Being
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Facts and Fallacies about Perfumes
Juliette Samuel
All over the world, perfumes are believed to be from the French word “parfum,” which is actually just the translation of the word. Actually, perfumes originated from the Latin word “per fumum,” which literally means “through smoke.”
Many centuries ago, perfumes are based on incense that we sometimes burn today. They are scented smokes that mask repulsive ones instead of eradicating the bad odor, which therefore creates a neutral atmosphere.
The natural aromas, fragrance extracts from plants and fruits and odors are usually where the basic components of the perfume come from and this is still widely used even when alcohol-based perfumes have been invented.
Due to many propagandas and advertisements, a lot of people believe that when you use a certain perfume you would totally have all-day freshness and fragrance. The fact is that perfumes are not created to have a lasting effect because you would be suffering from its saturating effect. It is created in such a way that the fragrance will disappear in a period of time.
Many companies are creating more and more alcohol-based perfumes that are extremely volatile. All of these products are created uniquely from each other although the base components are the same. The difference lies in the scent that they give off.
Many would argue that natural scents are duplicated through modern technology but the reality is that natural scents especially those that come from plants are extremely difficult to duplicate.
The Jasmine scent for example is impossible to duplicate. Therefore, all scents that are artificially created are not exactly duplicates of the original scents.
However, there are essential oils used in perfumes available in the market today but they are relatively expensive than those that are artificially created through technology. Technology can only do as much when it comes to replicating and mass-producing scents but they are not mirror image of the original scents.
Do not be misled by the common notion that technology is able to produce a product that depicts the real thing. The fact is that nothing really beats natural scents coming from plant extracts.
The scent is overwhelming and very pleasing to our sense of smell. If used properly, these scents especially the natural ones could be used for relaxation, which is actually the base principle of aromatherapy.
Have you ever experienced smelling something so repulsive and you suffered headache after such as smoke, burnt odor and other extremes? Well, this is because our sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger than the rest of our senses.
Life Never Smelled So Sweet!
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The Lope: I Didn't Know Coffins had Pumps
I Didn't Know Coffins had Pumps
Your friendly neighborhood corpse checks out a Coffin feed pump.
The pump was part of the circulation system of steam locomotive Frisco #4501 now on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Dallas. 4501 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1942 and has a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.
The pump was made by the J.S. Coffin Jr. company of Englewood, New Jersey, which seems to still be in business as Coffin Turbo Pump in Englewood.
Here is the other side of 4501. The museum is a cramped place, but plans to spread its impressive collection over a larger piece of real estate next year.
Frisco used 4501 for passenger service on its "Meteor" train, which made overnight runs between St. Louis, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. It was delivered in colors of zephyr blue, white and gray, with "Meteor" spelled out on the side of the tender. The "Meteor" lettering is gone but you can see zephyr blue on some of the wheels and cylinders.
Though its role on the Meteor had been taken in 1947 by diesels, 4501 powered a portion of President Harry S. Truman's 1948 whistle stop campaign through Missouri.
The museum thoughtfully provides stairs so you can enter the cab.
Our fortifying corpse took the engineers seat but was disappointed to find that this locomotive did not have a dead man's pedal - a pedal which when released (as in, when the engineer dies or passes out) would cause a locomotive to stop.
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Bluey Travel
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Pronounced Blue’ē, it means the collection of possessions carried by a person travelling in the Outback.
Australian Dictionary in 1899: “There’s the everlasting swaggie with a bluey on his back who is striking out for sunset on the never-never track”.
In the early days you needed food & water to travel in the Outback, these days you need a vehicle and the right information. Our business was created to help people who want to travel through the outback independantly (Self Drive). The obvious name for our business was Bluey.
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Pine Creek was the site of the Northern Territory’s first goldrush, Gold was discovered while digging holes for the Overland Telegraph Line pylons in 1871, and people rushed in, hoping to pan their way to fortune. Unfortunately the gold was in the rock, not the riverbeds, requiring laborious crushing with heavy stamp batteries – which, for most prospectors, was too much like hard work for unpredictable returns. The mine worked intermittently from 1906 to 1985. In 1985 through to 1995 the location was mined as an open cut pit using modern techniques and producing 764,000 ounces of gold.
The small town of Pine Creek, has retained its colonial appearance. The well maintained historic displays and to some extent its frontier characters, making it a worthwhile stop along the highway. It is also a convenient fuel stop at the southern entrance to Kakadu National Park.
Miners Park: houses historic mining equipment collected from old mines in the Pine Creek area. Interpretive signs and displays give a comprehensive explanation of life in the gold fields earlier this century and the history of mining in the region. Well worth a visit
Old Railway Station and Steam Engine: The railway station was built in 1888 and served as a communications centre until 1976. Historic photos, maps and memorabilia depict the North Australia Railway. The steam engine ran from the late 1800’s to 1943 and could pull a 140 Tone load on its run from Darwin to Pine Creek. Today the road trains you pass on the highway weigh in at 125 tonne.
There is a museum and library, which displays the local history in an interactive and thorough way. The building was originally the home of the mining warden and was later taken over by the army as a military hospital, during the war.
Gun Alley Gold Mine: Miners Lookout overlooks the open cut gold pit, which is now filled with water.
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John Tipton (trans.), Ajax. Chicago: Flood Editions, 2008. Pp. xv, 112. ISBN 978-0-9787-4675-9. $13.95 (pb).
Reviewed by Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago
Sophocles' Ajax is a study in isolation--the kind felt in the presence of others and the kind experienced when one is truly alone. The play is built around the solitary Ajax, an eminent hero in a bad situation. Whether crazed, suicidal or dead, Ajax remains inside an impenetrable circle of his own consciousness and of others' conflicting demands and desires. The staging of the play expresses this position: Ajax is surrounded by bloodied animals early in the play and at the end, bloodied himself, is surrounded by enemies and friends who argue out the fate of his corpse. At all points, every eye--onstage and off--is turned towards Ajax; he can no more be ignored than absorbed by society.
A new translation of Ajax by John Tipton offers a fresh take on Ajax as the center that cannot hold. Things fall apart in Tipton's play and fall apart quickly. His Greek camp is a violent world without even the scant comforts that Sophocles offered: the chorus here is not a collective of invested players but, as Tipton puts it, a "sinister, nagging voice that punctuates the action" (109). His characters speak in stark six-worded lines that often carry the resonance of a swift smack:
Tecmessa: God, calm down.
Ajax: Don't be stupid (43).
The couple's Tennessee-Williamsesque hostility fits the bill: whereas Sophocles' Ajax had merely sacked Tecmessa's homeland, allowing other evils to kill off her parents, Tipton's Ajax himself performed the patricidal honors ("you took my father from me" (36)). Violence is the norm in this Ajax, as the book's cover proclaims: images of rams' heads, spattering and spattered with blood, hang upon a white wall. Those gory heads bring to mind the precipitating act of the play--Ajax' maddened massacre of livestock. As Stanley Lombardo points out in his graceful foreword to Tipton's play, "Sophocles could count on considerable shock value in opening his play with this hero slaughtering and torturing pigs..." (xiii). Tipton's Ajax revels in this slaughter without offering the recompenses of Sophocles' poetry or humanity. As brutal as Sophocles' world was, Tipton's is one step more hastily ferocious.
In an useful afterword (which he calls "an accounting"), Tipton theorizes that the play "argue[s] for energetic pacing" (106), hence his choice of six words, and no more, to each line of Greek. He does not explain his use of the "counted line" rather than a metered one, but readers of his poetry will be familiar with his predilection for this form (his previous book, called Surfaces, was published in 2004). Louis Zukofsky is the great modern master of the counted line and an acknowledged influence on Tipton. Zukofsky turned the counted line into a conduit of absurd revelation: his 1978 book, called 80 Flowers, contains a series of eight-line poems with five words to each line, but these are lines that push their limits, as in the poem "Raspberry":
rose-flower'd mated with other brambles
seeded-pulp dewberry plethoric blackberry drunk-red
boysenberry loganberries phenomenal such-of-you tastier
Zukofsky's counted lines are never not open questions about the definitions and differences of sounds and words, words and thoughts. And who's to deny that "such-of-you" is a word, if Zukofsky wants it to be? The counted line is not as vibrant a poetic instrument in Tipton's translation of Ajax. Lacking Zukofsky's reach to the ridiculous, a six-worded line can be a bare thing that also lacks what the metered line gives Greek tragedy: the legacy of song, the imprint on the inner ear. What takes its place in Tipton is a sort of punchy, winking appeal. Indeed, his best writing is edged with sardonic and breezy wit, as when a messenger reports on Ajax' lousy history of divine faux pas:
He had the gall to say,
"Queen, go help some other Greeks.
I've got things under control here."
Gods hate that kind of thing (53).
The most daring move made in Tipton's Ajax is his take on the chorus. Choruses are frequently sites of difficultly and/or creativity for modern rewriters of tragedy; what was a familiar lyrical voice in Athenian tragedy is these days viewed as an oddly intervening collective. Tipton strips his down. In contrast to the supportive, if self-pitying, array of soldiers that Sophocles placed under Ajax' command, Tipton's chorus is sleekly depersonalized. He explains his method as follows: "First, I eliminated any use of the first person in the chorus to disembody it. And second, I exaggerated the psychological elements and distressed syntax into a slightly disjointed raving" (109). All this eliminating and exaggerating adds to the icy isolation of the world Tipton creates. Inasmuch as this chorus does not fully represent men (let alone Ajax' men), a primary layer of societal connection is gone from the play. Inasmuch as their language is transformed into a sometimes incomprehensible version of avant-garde nihilism, a large portion of performable meaning is also excised. The chorus' first words in the play serve as an example. A fairly literal translation of these lines by H. Golder and R. Pevear (Oxford 1999) goes like this:
Son of Telamon, holder of power
on deep-anchored, sea-ringed Salamis,
when you do well I rejoice (33).
Here is Tipton's version of the same lines:
Salamis silt sea bed
(12. The italics are Tipton's, as used for all choral passages.)
Tipton quite deliberately shucks language of meaning. The blank spaces between words (in place of the connections of syntax) match the emptiness and meaningless of his world (in place of the connections between men). Tipton has little interest in the fraught complexity of human or linguistic relations. This chorus does not love Ajax and does not long for Athens any more than it, like Sophocles' chorus, imagines itself as the trembling eye of a dove (lines 139-40).
Ajax spends the first scene of the play speaking to Athena, who has driven him mad and caused him to slaughter livestock instead of the other generals of the Greek army (whom he'd have much rather slain). As a result of his madness, Ajax cannot see that his adversary Odysseus is also present, watching him. When Ajax exits the stage, Odysseus is asked by Athena for his reaction to the downfall of his foe. Instead of vengeful triumph--the reaction the bloodthirsty goddess had expected--Odysseus' response articulates, simply, the desolated state of mortality: "For I see that all we who live are nothing more than phantoms or an insubstantial shadow" (A. F. Garvie, Ajax, Warminster 1998, 35). Tipton renders those same lines in the following way: "If you stare hard at life/ you see we're nothing but shadows" (11). Tipton's version of these lines is fast, faster than the original Greek and faster than most translations thereof. This speed is an advantage of his translation; it keeps ancient tragedy from reading as the stuff of academic dullards. But speed has its disadvantages too--Tipton's lines always beg the question of what has been left out. For better or worse, Tipton's not an academic work. There are no graphics of the Greek theater and no footnotes. It seeks to be poetry more than to be translation, and indeed Tipton dubs himself an "interpreter" rather than translator (110).
Garvie's very literal translation allows the reader to perceive Sophocles' intentions more clearly: Odysseus starts by categorizing mortals as "phantoms" (eidôla) a word that is sometimes translated as images, and which devolved from the notion of "forms" to connoting merely a "fancy" of things. Odysseus quickly replaces this first assessment with a second: "or an insubstantial shadow." "Insubstantial" is kouphên in Greek, which also can mean nimble, light, airy or just as likely to float away. Thus Sophocles ironically employs terms from the family of lighthearted flip to render a terrible pronouncement on humanity. The grim image has precedence in Greek poetry: Pindar, the incomparable lyricist, called man "a dream of a shadow" (Pyth. 8, 95-6), but even he does not bring in the haunting synaesthetic effect that Sophocles' Odysseus manages: the nothingness of weight, the nothingness of darkness are combined into one gloomily effervescent turn of phrase on the life not worth living, or human life. Tipton's "nothing but shadows" is in the same ballpark as Sophocles' statement but lacks in bleak complexity what it gains in sadistic velocity. This trade-off is at the core of Tipton's Ajax.
If Tipton's world has a touch of the post-apocalyptic, it is perhaps because it combines the most terrifying elements of the mythical and modern. There are not only vengeful gods and naysaying prophets in Tipton's Ajax but also loaded guns and atomic bombs: when Ajax kills himself, it is not with Hector's sword, as in Sophocles' version, but with his firearm ("The killer is cocked and ready--" (57)). Where Sophocles' chorus of soldiers curse a mythical bringer of Ares to Greece, Tipton's choral voice worries over "the toll the statistics of missiles" and blames the "the Los Alamos boys" (86) for the proliferation of war. Tipton's world implicitly includes not only Troy, but Iraq, not only the Greek generals but the present administration. He writes:
this play has a particularly urgent message for those of us today in Britain and the United States who find ourselves victorious but powerless after our own misguided adventure into the Near East. Ajax demands our attention, not only for its clear-eyed account of the bitter aftermath of victory but also for its treatment of unscrupulous politics (109).
I agree that Ajax ought to "demand our attention", but not necessarily for the reasons Tipton states. After all, the play is not actually set in the "bitter aftermath of victory," but rather during the final stage of the Trojan War, when the outcome is still unknown. A bit of hope is always at play in Sophocles' tragedy. It is revealed in the bonds between Ajax and Tecmessa, between Ajax and his chorus, in Ajax' own occasionally transcendent language and, ultimately, in the cultic implications of proper burial. These are not elements of Tipton's work, but his stark interpretation will prove satisfying for audiences wary of consolation, false and true.
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Ancient And Modern History of East Lancashire
Post subject: Ancient And Modern History of East Lancashire
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Stray Notes On The Ancient And Modern History of East Lancashire
The above was the title of a paper read to the members of the Burnley Literary and Scientific Club, on Tuesday evening week, by Mr. Tattersall Wilkinson, and as it contains much that is interesting to natives of this part of Lancashire, we have determined to give it in extenso, feeling assured that our readers will relish the perusal of the same. We must not omit to mention that we are much indebted to Mr. Wilkinson for his kindness in placing the paper at our disposal.
Burwains
This pretty, sequestered manorial house stands under the shade of a low hill, effectually sheltered from the north and westerly winds. Situated in the side of a deep clough, which runs up from Catlow Bottoms, with an eastern aspect, it commands delicious views both up and down the Walverden Valley, while the heathery crown of old Boldsworth, forms a charming apex to the eastern horizon. From an inscription over the porch, it appears that this house was built by Jno. Briercliffe, in the year of of grace 1642, exactly two years previous to the battle of Marston Moor, at a time when England was convulsed in the deadly throes of a civil war. It seems that the De Briercliffes held lands in Briercliffe in the 14th century. There can be no doubt whatsoever that this ancient was located here immediately after the conquest, and derived their name from the township. The Briercliffes continued to reside here up to the beginning of the 18th century, when Burwains finally passed into the possession of the Robertshaws, of Coldwater hOuse, who are the present owners. There is a tradition that when Burwains was enclosed from the moor, there was other cultivated land between Haggate Hill and Boldsworth, and also that Hird House was built and the adjacent lands enclosed by the Briercliffes immediately after, the shepherds or herders inhabiting the new house, hence its name. Prior to 1642, when the present structure was erected, there existed an old building, and when the new hall was finished, John Briercliffe had the original inscription of the old house placed over the entrance of the porch. In consequence of some misapprehension on the part of the late Mr. John Robertshaw, he had it taken down and destroyed. In the earlier part of the fourteenth century, owing to a marriage between the Tattersalls of Ridge and Holme, and the Briercliffes of Briercliffe, the Tattersalls became possessed of lands in Briercliffe, and further, in the year 1380, the Receiver of the Honour of Clitheroe was paid the sum of £1 2s. 6d. by the heir of Peter Tattersall, of the Holme. Eight years later, in 1388, occurs an inquisition of the Duchy Escheator, taken at Lancaster, which shews that Peter Tattersall, who lately held lands in the village of Briecliffe from John, Duke of Lancaster, had given those lands to one Robert de Stokke, his heirs in fee simple, for the purpose of furnishing a chaplain to say prayers for the soul of the king of England, and of the heirs of him, the said Peter Tattersall, for ever. During the stormy times of the Reformation, the Briercliffes, along with the Parkers, Towneleys, Halsteads, and others of the old local families, remained firmly attached to the old religion of their forefathers, and devotedly attached, to the ill-started dynasty of the Stuarts. During a visit to the Burwains a short time ago, I found in the north-west angle of the mansion a small room that had formerly been a Catholic chapel; the mouldings on the ceiling, and niches on the walls, with their antique Norman arched pattern, together with the two family crests of the Briercliffes and Parkers on each side of the mantelpiece, are in a remarkable state of preservation. Several founts, hewn from solid blocks of stone, are on the premises; one was carefully placed away on the top of an old oak-cased clock, while another ten or twelve inches in circumference and twelve inches deep, with handles on each side, I found embedded in the soil in the garden, doing duty as a plant pot for the propagation of ferns. These grand old relics are worthy of a better fate. The original fireplace built in the style of the sixteenth century, is walled up, and a modern one supplies its place. The old style of sitting all round the fire, and the smoke escaping through an aperture some six feet square has been abandoned, but the traces are still left behind. At the end of the dining room opposite the fireplace is a large oak frame, well filled with fine specimens of old English pewter plates and dishes, some bearing the date 1709. They are almost as gard and white as silver. On the landing at the top of the stairs there is a fine oak cist, richly carved on the frames and round the panels, and bearing the following inscription:- "M.S., 1666." This cist was the property of Margaret Briercliffe, granddaughter of John Briercliffe, afterwards the wife of William Sagar, the founder of Catlow Hall. The inscription over the door of the latter mansion is, "William Sagar and Margaret his wife, July 24, 1666." The two dates being identical, it is very probable that they were married in the same year, and the cist at Burwains would be a wedding present. It is in a fine state of preservation and likely to exist for centuries to come. It appears from a number of old documents placed at my disposal by Mrs. Robertshaw, that frequent marriages have taken place between the Sagars of Catlow Hall and the Robertshaws. I also found one among the number bearing date 1663, in which Richard Tattersall, of the Ridge and Hurstwood (an ancestor of the Tattersalls of Hyde Park Corner, London), gives a receipt to his brother-in-law, William Sagar, of Catlow, for the sum of £80, being the balance of his wife's dowry, and absolves him from all further responsibility from the beginning of the world up to the above date. It is a remarkable fact that neither of these yeomen could sign their names, their marks appearing at the foot of the document. During the troubles that occurred in the middle ages, when every township supplied its quota of men-at-arms, the weapons were generally stored at a convenient central depot. It appears that Burwains was the repository for Briercliffe, and some of these primitive weapons, in the shape of rusty rapiers and flint firelocks, are to be seen there at present day. In an old building formerly used as a coach-house, with harness-room above, I was informed that the Baptists held their meetings in the latter place over a century ago, prior to the building of the old chapel at the east side of Haggate. A good tale is told of the days of two and three bottle men, when the good old dame of the household rode on horseback seated on a pillion behind the saddle of her lord. The Master of Burwains, attired in his three cornered hat, waistcoat with saddle pockets, and kerseymere breeches ribboned at the knees, was returning home from Colne Fair in the small hours of the morning, accompanied by his buxom dame on the pillion, with
The swats so reamed in both their noddles,
Fair play they cares no deils a bodle.
Crossing the brook at Catlow Bottoms, the old girl slipped into the stream, while her spouse, in happy ignorance of the mishap, rode up the glen to Burwains, never dreaming for a moment on "the lass he'd left behind him" until he arrived at home, when, finding out what had happened, servants were dispatched immediately in search of the missing lady, and she was found laid in the stream with her head resting on a sand bed, the water babbling against the side of her cheek, she at the same time broke forth in the following ejaculations:- "No, no, Mr. Hitchen; not another drop; not another drop will I have." A high wall crosses the clough in the direction of "Ackroyd," or Fold's House, and on the top a number of hollow wooden troughs conveyed the water from a spring to the Manor House; in those days they had no idea of iron pipes and syphons. An unfortunate incident happened to one of the family of Briercliffe at a rush bearing held in the early part of last century at Holmes Chapel. Elevated with drink, he entered into a quarrel with a local farmer, and snatching up a "church curdle" killed him on the spot. Escaping from the hands of justice he enlisted as a sailor, and served on board the fleet commanded by Sir John Norris. On coming ashore he deserted, and making his way to Holmes Chapel he remained hidden in the woods for several weeks, but was afterwards apprehended and expiated his crime at Lancaster on the gallows. Several of this ancient family are still living in the neighbourhood of Burnley, and a John Briercliffe, also a member of the family, resides at Ashton-under-Lyne, and another is Mary Ann Briercliffe, the wife of Mr. Jobling, butcher. One of the descendants also died in America about 12 years ago. Such is the history of one of the oldest and most illustrious families in East Lancashire.
An Old Quaker Burial Ground
Crossing the glen, thickly planted with ok, sycamore, and orchard trees, we arrive at the Quaker burial ground, and the quaint old house, with its rough grit corners and chimney, a model of rural comfort and beauty. A plain low room on the ground floor, "simple and unadorned," is pointed out as the meeting house, a fit retreat for the meek in spirit. Far removed from the busy throng, in this sweet secluded spot, the followers of George Fox worshipped God in spirit and in truth according to the dictates of their consciences. Opposite the old house the limits of "God's acre" is indicated by a low wall on the north and east, while a deep ditch, interspersed with several fine trees, mark the west and southern border. Several gravestones without inscriptions cover the resting places of the silent dead. One near to the wall contains the following inscription:- "Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth, the wife of John Vipont, 1681." Just 203 years ago. The name is not familiar to the district, although I have been informed that several Viponts live in the neigbourhood of Colne. The view from this charmingly sequestered spot is beautiful beyond description. "Catlow Water" meanders prettily down the woody vale toward Pendle Water, while the "Forest" with its smiling farmsteads - a truly English scene - backed by old Pendle, bars the view westward. This is, indeed, a lovely resting place.
The poor man's grave; this is the spot
Where rests his weary clay;
And yet no gravestones lifts its head
To say what gravestones say.
No sculptured emb ems blazon here,
No weeping willows wave,
No faint memorial, e'er so faint,
Points out the poor man's grave.
New House In Briercliffe
From an inscription on a grit slab over the door of this farmhouse, which reads as followd, we learn that "Robert Parker and Jane his wife, Robert and Henry their sons, built this house, May 2nd, 1672." A postscript at the bottom, probably written by Robert, their son says:- "O Thou of mighty most blessed and them that made this cot. R.P., 1672." Over a door in another part of the building is written "Robert Parker and Grace his wife 1677." The Robert Parker first mentioned was the grandson of RobertPArker, of Extwistle, who married Jane Haydock, daughter of Evan Haydock, Heasandford (Pheasantford) who died December, 1597.
The Camp At Thornton-In-Craven
During the civil wars the strong castle at Skipton was held with a powerful garrison for the king, under the command of Sir John Malory, as brave and indaunted a cavalier as ever faced an enemy. It was besieged by the soldiers of the Commonwealth under General Lambert, one of Cromwell's most distinguished officers, who was born at Carleton, and was the son of a private gentleman. The siege commenced on December 1642, and continued until December 1645. During its continuation strong garrisons were formed at Thornton and Fisburne by the Cromwellians, for the purpose of providing forage for the troops at Skipton, and also to keep down the Royalist gentry who were very numerous in East Lancashire, and also in the valleys of the Ribble and Calder. The Roundheads made frequent raids through this neighbourhood for the purpose of levying contributions on the money and property of the Royalists. The following is a list of the different articles taken and plundered from the house of Edward Parker, Esq., at Browsholme, by the soldiers who were laid at Thornton:- "Decimo Nono Nv., 1642. One silver salt, ten silver spoons, one payer of new russet boots and spurs, one new doublet of water'd grogram, one clothe doublet, one cloth jerkin, one linen shirt, one sword and belt, one red silke shagg waiscoat, one sayer of blue knitt stockings, two pounds of bees-wax, &c., £c. Septimo Aprilis, 1643 - One gray mare, a sword and belt, bonds and bills for £13, a double testament, "Crumbs of Comfort," bracelets, one little boy taken prisoner, &c., &c." Mr. Parker, after having been repeatedly plundered by both parties, like a wise man sought and obtained a letter of protection from both parties, of which the following are copies:- "For the Col. and Lieu.-Col. within Craven, these Noble Gentlemen. I could desire to move you in behalfe of Mr. Ed. Parker, of Broosome, that you would be pleased to take notice of his house, and give order to the officiers and soldiers of your regiments that they plunder not, nor violently take away, any of his goods, without your privities; for truly the proneness of souldiers sometimes to commit some insolencies w'out comand from their supiors is the cause of my writing this time; hoping, hereby, through your care, to prevent a further evill, in all thankfulness I shall acknowledge (besides the great obligation you putt on Mr. Parker, myselfe to bee, your much obliged, RIC. SHUTTLEWORTH. Gawthrop, 13 Feb., 1644." The following is a protection from the Royalists:- "These are to intreat all officers and souldieres of the Scottish armie, and to require all officiers and souldieres of the English armie under my command that they forbeare to take or trouble the p'son of Edward Parker, of Bronsholme, Esqr, or to plunder his goods, or anie other or damage to doe unto him in his estate, THO TYLDESLEY. This 8th day of August, 1648." The following letter shows that the Lancashire aristocracy went to foot races:- "Bolton-by-Bowland, July ye 24, 1688. Dear Ned (edward PArker), - I hope this will find thee in good health, which I shall be glad to hear; I intend towards Leeds to-morrow to see the footrace, and should be hearty glad of your comapnie; if you think of going I desire you either to be att Bolton by 12 a clock, or meet me att Gisborne by one. There will be a great many of our acquaintance, viz., Lister Lambert, Parker, Scargenteon, York, Starkey, cum multis alibus; we may go from ye race to York and take ye towne before ye judges; I hope good nature will work with thee upon this account, in which hopes I rest. Your affectionate kinsman and humble servant, A. PUDSEY. My humble service to ye ffather and all at Browsholme. Write two lines per bearer." - Returning to the camp at Thornton, the Roundheads made a raid into Briercliffe and Extwistle, for the purplse of plundering the supporters of the Royal cause. A party sacked High Halstead, near Swindean, taking all they could lay their hands on, and ultimately driving away ten oxen and two other beasts to the value of £45. The noise and tumult made by the marauders was heard across the valley from Extwistle by Mr. Parker, who immediately drove all the cattle within reach into the thickets of Runclehurst Wood, also hiding away most of the valuables in the hall. On finding themselves checkmated, they attempted to fire the place, but having to decamp hastily, very little damage was done. On the 25th day of May, 1644, Prince Rupert entered Lancashire by way of Stockport, with an army of 8,000, destined for the relief of Lathom House. Rigby, who commanded the besiegers, immediately retired to Bolton with a force of 2,000 soldiers. The storming of the latter place soon followed, after which the Royalists poured across the hills into Burnley valley on the way to the King's forces at York, a few days previous to the battle of Marston Moor, where the star of the Royal Stuarts destiny set for ever. Breaking up into small detachments for the purpose of foraging on the line of route, they commenced to plunder indiscriminately both friend and foe. A party of 200 made their appearance in Worsthorne on the eve of a summer's afternoon, where they blackmailed the farmers' larders of all the edibles and drinkables they could lay their hands on, the officers living at free quarters at an old public-house, which was demolished during the early part of the last century. It was calld "Cross House," hence the name of the locality Cross House Green. The house is gone, but a portion of the garden fence exists at the present time. The common soldiers took possession of the barns and shippons, where they slept or caroused during the night. The following morning they seized and drove the cattle out of the fields along the line of march. Passing the farm house at Bottin, one of them enteres the place, took possession of a panful of potatoes, which were boiling on the fire, and carrying them to the door he poured them on the flags to cool, and they were afterwards divided among his comrades. At High Halstead two horses were unyoked and taken out of two carts, and a herd of cattle was taken possession of. The despoiled farmers, incensed by the cruel treatment they had received, collected together, armed themselves with all kinds of rude weapons, and hung on the rear of the invades bent upon rescuing some of their cattle. On arriving at Cockden Water, a few soldiers remained straggling behind, and the pursuers, taking a short cut by Ormroyd Brisge, overtook them in the hollow opposite the barn belinging to Miss Halstead. Here a fierce struggle took place, in which the troops had the advantage, leaving two farmers and several soldiers dead. The names of the farmers were Peter Hitchon, of Worsthorne, and Barnard Smith, of Hurstwood. Their names are recorded in the register of the Parish Church at Burnley.
Windle House
This old house stands on an eminence to the east of Black House Lane, in the township of Briercliffe. The family from whom the name is derived is of ancient date, but none of its members seem to have taken any important part in the history of the district. I find in a copy of the Towneley manuscripts kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. W. Waddington, that John, the son of Wm. Winhall, conveyed to John, son of Gilbert de la Leigh, all the lands he held in Worsthorn for the sum of one penny.This deed is dated 1311. And in another deed bearing the same date, the aforesaid JOhn conveys to his father, Gilbert de la Leigh, the lands mentioned aboce. The descendants of the Winhalls, under the name of Windle, still exist, some of them in humble circumstances, in Burnley and the neighbourhood.
The Spencer Family
It is not my intention to deal fully with the history of this East Lancashire family. I hope to hav a special paper at some future time on that subject. Personally, I may say that I entirely coincide with the opinion of Dr. Grossart with reference to the connections of the great poet with this part of the north. The Spencers seem to have been numerous in Briercliffe, Worsthorne, and Hurstwood. I find in the Towneley manuscripts that there is a brief abstract of a deed of transfer, dated 1459, by Peter, son of Richard Spencer, to John Towneley. There is also a house adjoining the "Fighting Cocks" at Mereclough, built by Peter Spencer, and dated 1752. The Spencers of Black House Lane and Haggate also sprang from the same branch.
The Site Of Monk Hall
This ancient house, together with the land adjoining, amounting to a caracute (100 acres) was in the possession of the Abbot and monks of Newbo, near Lincoln, temp. Henry III., and it was afterwards granted to the monks of St. Mary's, at Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds, by Henry, Duke of Lancaster (Birch's M.S.S.) from whom the name of "Monk Hall" is derived. In a croft abutting upon the road adjoining the modern Monk Hall, remains of the original foundations may still be traced. The main structure seems to have been in the form of a square, with outbuildings attached. An old building in the immediate vicinity, with antique mullioned windows and capacious fireplace, has in all probability been an appurtenance to the old hall. In those days the land to the west would be an open moor. An old road commences here, passing by Noggarth Cross over Extwistle Hill, and by way of Runclehurst to another cross of a similar description near Hebrew Hall Bar, Burnley Road. It stood built into the fence wall on the spot where a modern shop was erected by Mr. Holt, of Lee Green, and which is now occupied. The plinth was broken, and all traces are now lost.
Reminiscences Of Worsthorne
Cock fighting and bull baiting were carried on here until a very recent date. I have a keen remembrance of the last bull bait that took place. The bull belonged to Jim Anson, and was chained to a stake near the present church gates. The game consisted of tying the bull with a tether of some fifteen yards in length to a strong stake driven into the ground. All being ready, a bull dog was loosed on the infuriated animal. As soon as the dog pinned the bull by the nose, its master had to seize it by one of the forelegs, and if the twain could manage to hold firm for three minutes the dog was declared the victor, if not, vice versa. On this occasion old Nick O' Ellises, with his dog crib, was declared the victor. Old Nick was one of the ugliest men I ever saw, strongly pitted with small pox and a cherry looking nose, it was an open question with me if the dog was not the handsomer of the two. The brutal game of cock fighting generally took place at the bottom of the moor during the middle of the last century. "Mains" were fought on Sundays. This savage practice was much followed by men of the higher circles of society as well as those of the lower degree. Up to 1830, these battles were very frequent, and a number of local gentry attended. The game was often delayed until the arrival of old Jimmy Roberts, cotton manufacturer, of Burnley, who came riding on a bay pony. He was born in 1779, and died in 1830.
The Fighting Cocks At Mereclough
The cockpit was on the Green, facing the old hostelry. A celebrated battle was fought here for a great stake between Ormerod's Butterfly, and Towneley's Caesar. During the fight Caesar knockedButterfly down, and the bystanders thought it was all over with the latter. Ormerod, of Ormerod House, the owner of the bird, thought the same, and hurriedly left the field, but he had not gone far before he heard a great shout, which induced him to return. During his absence Butterfly had risen again and killed Caesar on the spot. In commemoration of this event the inn was named the Fighting Cocks, and that name it bears to this day. On the sign was the following verse:-
For heaps of gold and silver we do fight;
Death comes at every blow if it hits right.
Towneley's great Caesar dith bleeding lie:
Killed by Ormerod's gallant Butterfly.
The Old Wapentake Law
For ages previous to the introduction of Courts of Requests, or County Courts, there existed an old law emanating from the Feudal Court held at Clitheroe Castle. Its jurisdiction extended over the whole of the district of the Honour of Clitheroe, one of the largest in England. The practice was, that if any unlucky debtor became involved in pecuniary difficulties to the extent of £1 19s. 11 1/2 d. the creditor, by applying at the Castle, could issue a wapentake, which was generally served by a bailiff of the Court, who proceeded to the house of the delinquent. After serving the process, he generally seized some article of furniture, a pair of tongs, poker, or maybe a kettle, conveying them back to the castle as proof of delivery. A very good tale is told in Worsthorne in reference to one of these occurrences. In a small cottage called "The Kell," with its knotted door and leaden-framed windows, there lived an old man with his only son, the latter of whom was possessed of a stalwart, herculean frame, but had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb. The pair carried on the lucrative occupation of pig-ringing and mould-warp catching. Having got into debt with his grocer, two bailiffs arrived from Clitheroe with a wapentake. Throwing it upon the table, they proceeded to seize the old kettle in the corner. The young man being the only occupant when the bailiffs arrived could not for a moment understand the meaning of all this. Studying for a moment what to do, a happy inspiration flashed across his mind. Rising from his seat, he quietly locked the pair in the house putting the key in his pocket. Reaching from the wall his father's pig-ringing apparatus, he seized one of the "bums" by the hair, pinning his head between his knees as firm as a vice. The bailiff's comrade, rushing to the help of his mate, was soon settled by a thump on his "conk" by the mute Sampson. After a round of spluttering and snorting from his prisoner, he managed to bore a hole through the bailiff's nose inserting a ring through it, very much to the detriment of the owner. The other bailiff, after being amazed at the ringing process, which he could not prevent, immediately dashed through the window, taking frame and glass with him in his headlong course, no doubt having a serious objeciton to undergoing a similar process.
Halstead Cote
On the eastern verge of the farm at High Halstead, and opposite the bank of the great reservoir in Swindean valley, in a section of a fence wall, are a number of stones whose well developed form show evident signs of the masons handiwork. They extend some 12 or 14 yards in length. They are the only remains of an old one-story cottage which remained standing up to about a century ago. It went by the name of "Halstead's Cot," and the place where it stood still retains the old title of "Halstead Cote Nook." Situated on the borders of a solitary moor, the Jacobite leaders chose this lonely spot for the rendezvous a short time previous to the rebellion of 1745. The rising of 1715, had proved disastrous to many of the old nobility who flocked to the standard of the Royal Stuart. Some had to fly the country, while others expiated their devotion to this unlucky family (who like the Burbon, learnt nothing and forgot nothing) on the scaffold. The Earl of Derwent-water, Lord Kenmure, and a host of others suffered at the hands of the executioner. The gallows at Garstang, Preston, Liverpool, Lancaster and Tyburn, were employed in the execution of men of lower degree. Two men from the neighbourhood of Burnley were among the lot. Stephen Sagar from Dineley was hung at Wigan on the eleventh of February, 1716. The other name I have forgotten. In the beginning of 1745 the hopes of the Stuarts again rose in the ascendant. Great numbers of the old Catholic gentry looked anxiously forward to the landing of their darling prince. Francis Towneley, a brave and chivalrous young gentleman, had a long time a resident in France, and a frequent visitor to the mimic court held at St. Germain's, where the head of the House of Stuart resided. Strongly attached to the religion of his ancestors he entered into the enterprise with all the ardour of youthful enthusiasm, and secretly collecting a number of men, principally tenants on the Towneley andother Catholic gentlemen's estates, they frequently met in the lonely cot at Halstead's Cote Nook for the purpose of drilling and preparing for the coming struggle. Firm and stern must have been the minds of these brave men, who looked upon the House of Hanover as interlopers and adventurers. It was no child's play; confiscation and death stared them in the face in case of failure. At length the time arrived. The news that the Prince had landed spread like wildfire among his confederates in Lancashire. Truly and bravely did Francis Towneley draw the sword and cross the Rubicon. With 200 men he joined the standard of his prince at Manchester, amid the ringing of the church bells and the martial tones of the bagpipes playing, "The king shall have his own again." I shall not dwell upon the disastrous undertaking which ended in the wholesale butchery on Culloden Moor, and the hanging, drawing, and quartering on Kennington Common.
They rally and bleed for their kingdom and Crown,
Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down;
Proud Cumberland prances insulting the slain,
And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plan
For a merciless sword o'er Culloden shall wave,
Culloden that reeks with the blood of the brave.
Oft when passing the hallowed spot on Worsthorne Moor, when pursuing my avocation as a shepherd, have I uncovered my head in silent respect to the memory of this gallant young man who fell in the defence of his religion, and in the cause of his (to him) righteous king.
The Stocks At Worsthorne
This ancient relic of Saxon times stood in full working order in the centre of Worsthorne up to a recent period, a terror to those incorrigible gamblers and drunkards who chanced to cross the path of the village constable or churchwarden for the time being. I remember three being sat in "doleful dumps" in the stocks at one time for gambling. Their names were Cheetham, Cracker, and Stitch. You must excuse these names being given in the vernacular. I have known the time when, if you asked for a person by his proper name you would probably not have found him. A good story is told in connection with the stocks at this village. One of those admirers of JOhn Barleycorn, named Jack Balding, who had passed the zone of moderation, was caught flagrente delicta by Old Jim o'th Halstead, the village constable who took him before his betters, and he was condemned to sit in the stocks for an hour. Old Jim, having the privilege of selecting the hour of punishment, waited with patience to put an extinguisher on poor Jack, who had often "put him one." Choosing a cold and bitter winter's day he collared him and marched him triumphantly to his doom. Sitting on a cold flag for a cushion, with his legs elevated to an angle of 45 degrees, his hour of punishment seemed anything but cheering. Locking him safely in, the constable marched proudly away, thinking, "Now I've got him," and proceeded to the enjoyment of a good warm dinner, leaving Jack to whistle for his. Scarcely had he gone when one of the culprit's friends slily popped Jack a bottle of good, old rum into his pocket, the proceeds of a subscription among his sympathisers. Jack relished the welcome companion as if it were his mother's milk, and his progress to complete unconsciousness of this world's affairs was so rapid that before the constable had consumed his dinner, Jack rolled away into the arms of Morpheus. A wag standing by was suddenly struck with the idea of making things warm for the man of office. Ruching off with breathless haste, as if something terrible had happened, he ran to Old Jim's - "Be quick; tha's dine it reight at last; poor Jack's starved to deoth; tha'at sure to be hanged for putting him in this cold day." Dropping his knife and fork, the constable answered, "Tha doesn't tell't truth, surely?" "I do that; come and look for thi sel',"was the response. Without more ado, away went the man of office. On arriving, he lifted up Jack's head. It felt as heavy as lead, and down it went with a thwack when he took his hands away. By this time a crowd had gathered around, all enjoying the fun but old Jim, the prospects of Lancaster Castle being before his eyes. "Whatever mon I do?" he cried. "Get him some brandy," cries out one; "be quick," says another, smiling at the fun. "Tak' him to th'lower public and get him what yo think's best, and I'll pay," said the constable. No sooner said than done. Getting him shoulder high, they marched him to the place indicated, and in a very short time the room at the Bay Horse rang with the merry laughter at the expense of Old Jim o'th' Halstead.
Several members of the club took part in the conversation which ensued at the close of the paper, which was deemed on all hands to have been a most enjoyable one. On the motion of Mr. W. L. Grant, seconded by Mr. W. Thompson, a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Wilkinson by acclamation.
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Post subject: Re: Ancient And Modern History of East Lancashire
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:12 am
Computer Whizz
Location: Near Chorley
"The swats so reamed in both their noddles"---
and then he lost his wife off the back of his horse into Catlow Bottoms
I'd be dangerous with a brain.
Edmo1981
Fascinating info on Burwains, thanks for posting it. It describes a 'fine oak cist' with the inscription 'MS 1666' existing in Burwains. Does anyone know what a cist is? We own a large carved oak chest/bedding box which opens at the top. This has an identical inscription and reputedly came from Burwains. (We inherited it from some distant cousin of my grandad's called Muriel. My grandad's mother Priscilla Robertshaw was born at burwains. ) Anyway, it sounds like it may be the exact piece of furniture described, which is amazing!
Wow, how interesting is that, lucky you.
wikipedia has it as a coffin like box, "but also in modern use , can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box".
I don't suppose it would be possible to see a picture of it....please?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:43 am
Sage of Simonstone
Ringing the bailiff's nose! Magic
Ps thanks for posting this Mel - it must've taken you ages to type.
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at
sylviac
Hello Edmo,
It seems fair to assume that the chest is indeed the same one mentioned as being at Burwains. I knew your great grandmother, Priscilla, well. I lived at the top of Walverden Road and went down to see her every day when I was a young girl - a lovely lady. I also took your father out in his pram for walks around the Burwains area.
Priscilla (nee Robertshaw) was born at Burwains and married Thomas Edmondson who was related to my mother (also an Edmondson). I recall an 'aunty Muriel' but only vaguely.
It appears that the chest would be made for Mrs. Sagar at Catlow and found its way back to Burwains by the 19th century. The description of the chest being of large size, and the fact that it stood at the top of the stairs at Burwains, strongly suggests that it was made as a bedding/robe box (many of these were lined with cedar wood).
It is brilliant that the heirloom has survived within the family - perhaps it is the earliest surviving household artefact in Briercliffe?
I will get a photo of it and post it here as soon as I can, its at my parents house. Its great to know the provenance of the chest, I had always wondered who MS was. It must have been sold with the farmhouse when the Robertshaw family bought it from the Briercliffes.
Thanks for the information Sylvia, I think you sent me some family history stuff a few years ago which was really useful, however I never seem to have any time to get into the research properly! Its really interesting to know that you knew my great grandmother, and that you have a vague memory of Muriel.
I have now traced my Robertshaw ancestors back to John Robertshaw born in 1732 (with help from Mel posting Robertshaw burial info a few years ago, and more recently from this webpage http://www.pendlewitches.net/page7a.html), but have trouble with the more recent relatives, namely where Muriel fits in, or how she acquired the chest. Also, my next task is to connect John Robertshaw to Ambrose Robertshaw, who bought Burwains in 1752.
I have attached some photos of the chest.
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What a lovely piece of furniture. Beautiful on its own but to know a little of its history adds to the interest. It's things like this, and the recent Catlow find, that encourages me to keep looking for and transcribing the news articles. Sometimes it takes an age and can be a little tedious. I tackle the longer ones in stages, doing a couple of paragraphs here and there but so very worth it when you see pictures like these. Thanks for taking the time to share them with us Louise.
What can I say----wow----thankyou so much for putting the photos on the site. Wow again, it must be priceless.
It's lovely and in such good condition for its age. I'd be taking that to the antiques roadshow if it were mine
suzycue44
Genealogist in Waiting
Location: Richards Landing, Ontario, Canada
such interesting reading...all of it. I wonder if the divine Tat will still be telling stories in the ether regions of Heaven.... or somewhere! I printed off his piece from the Express....needs another read, and another.....
I cannot even imagine the monetary worth of that bedding chest....but I agree about it being on Antiques Roadshow...just to get an idea. Do hope it is insured!!
Great way to start my morning today! Thanks, all!
Location: Barrowford
I agree that the chest is superb. I would be interested to know if the flower species in the panel cartouches can be named - or is it a generic emblem?
Mel, the articles are a valuable resource and lead to some fascinating results - many thanks for posting them.
Thanks for all your comments, and thanks again Mel for typing the article out. After reading the article I remembered that I'd read years ago about the sagar-briercliffe wedding in 1666 and put two and two together and linked it to the chest, then i forgot all about it. This article is the first description of the chest i've found.
We have a number of large early 20th century water colours of farms in briercliffe by an artist called Charles Simpson. Theres three of Burwains in around 1915-20, two of which show the house and farm yard and one showing the front elevation of the house. Theres also Foulds House, Catlow Bottoms, and a couple of Hurstwood, one of Spenser house I think. Would photos of these be of interest to anyone? Maybe i can email photos of them for inclusion in the photo gallery on the main Briercliffe Society webpage? We also have lots of old black and white photos that i really should scan in at some stage!
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Ethan Alter: B | 1 USERS: A-
Bye Bye Miss Pumpkin Pie
By Ethan Alter | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.31.2011
After a welcome re-appearance by Victoria earlier this season, Season 7 of How I Met Your Mother continues to mine its freshman year for material, calling back the so-called “Slutty Pumpkin” girl that we first glimpsed (from behind anyway) waaay back in November 2005 on the show’s sixth episode. It turns out that, from the front, the Slutty Pumpkin looks a heck of a lot like a certain girl-next-door from Capeside, MA, who went onto inspire the activities of Gotham City’s nocturnal detective before settling down with a one-time fighter pilot/stock car driver/self-absorbed sports agent and raising an adorable bit of tabloid fodder. I’m speaking, of course, about Katie Holmes, whose guest star stint was only slightly less awkward than the Nicole Scherzinger fiasco from last year. To their credit, the writers worked Holmes’ anti-chemistry into the story of “The Slutty Pumpkin Returns,” cleverly setting up Slutty Pumpkin girl (whose actual name is Naomi, by the way) and Ted as the world’s worst couple. How terrible are they together? So terrible that every kiss, every hug, heck, every pat on the back seems to cause Ted physical pain. Too often in the past, the show (and Josh Radnor himself) has had to work overtime to convince us that there’s a spark between Ted and his current flame that’s clearly not that there. So it’s a relief to know that, in this case anyway, that uncomfortably awkward feeling we get whenever we see Ted kiss a member of the opposite sex is entirely intentional.
Having spent the decade since his first sighting of the Slutty Pumpkin girl turning up at Halloween parties hoping to spot her again, Ted finally gets proactive about the situation, badgering the clerk at the costume rental store to give him the name and address for the girl that wore that ensemble ten years ago. Instead of ordering this creepy guy out of the store and calling the cops, the proprietor cheerily mentions that he’s not the first guy that’s shown up wanting to find the girl that got away. In fact, “three girls got proposals off my wife’s slutty artichoke costume.” (He goes on to add that two others disappeared and I start wondering if Ted should be calling the cops on this guy instead.) Showing up at her front door, Ted is surprised and delighted to discover that she remembers him from that Halloween party too. Later, they enjoy their first date on the exact spot where they locked eyes on each other ten years ago… on a small, dingy rooftop. Can you smell the love tonight? (On second thought, that may just be the dumpsters in the back alleyway.) Then Naomi has to go and spoil the mood by singing a verse or two from the song that was playing when they met, the Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week.” And if you thought Katie Holmes’ mouth does strange things when she speaks, just wait ‘til you see her faux-rap. Ted understandably looks a little frightened and attempts to stop that racket by smooshing his lips against hers. “It took me ten years, but I finally kissed her,” says Future Ted in voiceover. “And it was… terrible.” Heh.
Anyway, things keep going downhill for our young would-be lovers. A post-dinner snuggle session on a deck chair is marred by awkward hand-holding and a shoulder in the windpipe. Their second date make-out session proves even more awkward, featuring some of the “worst kissing of all time” and more shots of Holmes singing along to “One Week,” this time with extra butt wiggle to further stoke your nightmares. Ted realizes that he has to break up with her, but he’s egged on by his 15-year-old self to at least have sex with her first because “we made a deal we would always boink any chick that wants to boink us.” When he shows up at her place again on Halloween night fully intending to end things, the sight of her in her old Slutty Pumpkin costume -- and the fact that she reconstructed the costume he was wearing that night, a hanging chad -- causes him to utter the fateful words “I love you” instead. Awkward offscreen sex ensues and the duo turn up at the annual rooftop Halloween party where Naomi experiences a moment of clarity after downing a few of her patented Tootsie Roll cocktails and tells Ted flat-out, “We are terrible together” before vanishing back into the crowd. So you can all cross another name off the list of potential mothers… not that Holmes was every likely to stick around for longer than one episode anyway. That Suri isn’t going to raise herself, after all.
With Ted occupied with this week’s guest star and Kal Penn sitting this episode out most likely due to A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas promotional duties, that pushed Barney and Robin together for a B-plot that revealed a horrifying secret: Barney is 1/3 Canadian, courtesy of the Manitoban-born grandmother on his father’s side. Much Canuck-inspired humor ensued, which HIMYM generally excels at. (Best related line of the night: “This Canuck’s going to beat on you like the drummer from Yukon Blonde hopped up on Timbits.” It’s funny because we only understood half of it.) Eventually Robin presented Barney with a proposition: she’ll stop ribbing him about his Canadian heritage if he agrees to dress up as a proud officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the Halloween party. Ever the proud red-blooded American male, Barney can’t bring himself to lose to a Canadian, opting to re-enact Apollo Creed’s Rocky IV entrance instead. (Glad to see he still found a way to honor his duck tie bet, wrapping that accursed thing around his bare arm.) In a post-credits scene, his Canadian and American selves battle each other Superman III-style with the Mountie taking it on the chin repeatedly. This whole storyline just offered further proof that this show is just funnier when Robin and Barney aren’t stuck dating other people.
Meanwhile in the episode’s C-plot, Lily and Marshall were off in their own little suburban universe this week, having been gifted a big house in the ‘burbs by Lily’s grandparents. Amusingly addled by pregnancy brain, Lily initially thinks moving out of New York is a great idea and uses some aggressive double entendres to sell her hubby on the notion. But after accidentally rewarding a group of trick-or-treaters with a bottle of Pinot and a stapler, she realizes she’s not in the right state of mind to be making such a momentous life decision (also, the writers don’t want to have to come up with reasons to bus them in from the suburbs every episode) so they decide to stay put in their lovely Dowisetrepla apartment. Not much of a storyline, but at least they were spared from having to share the screen with Holmes.
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superficial. – s/t
Speaking for myself a fair part of writing about local music is managing one’s enthusiasms and expectations to try to not get too carried away when something particularly tantalizing arrives via the inbox or emerges on the radar… or failing to do so entirely like I did after listening to Fredonia buzz band superficial.’s eponymous debut EP. Shimmering, mesmerizing, and completely compelling every second of it’s 15 minute running time, it bangs in a variety of ways from start to finish.
Now ordinarily I’m not a stickler for rules but when it comes to putting out albums and EPs there are a few as laid down by giants of bygone ages, and one of them is your first song better hit hard, unless you’re doing an intro in which case your second song has to or else, and superficial. satisfies with a flourish. All swirling synths and organs, “Intro” feels a little like Kid A‘s “Motion Picture Soundtrack and could’ve probably been a killer jam on it’s own until it up and ascends to sonic heaven before the shoegazey perfection of current single “Prom.” Somewhere between Ezra Koenig, Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon, and HEALTH’s Jake Duzsik, vocalist and songwriter Kyle Osmun’s crystalline, sweetly melancholic alto always seems to hover in space over a surging groove from drummer Sarah Poremba, making “Prom” one of the most irresistible local singles of the year.
Okay, I should probably pump the breaks a little here before I get carried away but it’s too late. “Open Heart” and “Interlude (Your Favorite Song)” keep the endorphins pumping with an intrinsically sexy “With Or Without You” heartbeat rhythm and achingly palpable longing effortlessly conveyed by Osmun’s otherworldly yet non saccharine vocals that sound real nice in your inner ear. And just when you think you’ve got superficial. maybe figured out they switch it up and overwhelm with the OG indie rock of “Not The Same,” with sweet Johnny Marr guitars jangling away over a soaring and ecstatic Wild Nothing sing-a-long chorus.
Is Kyle Osmun maybe too good to be true? As if in anticipation of that inevitable question the “I Don’t Want To Know” closes out this exceptional introduction by providing an emphatic answer, pairing it all down to Matt Fedczuk’s chiming acoustic guitar, some righteous reverb, and Osmun, who confirms he’s the real deal. Now I just want to see them live…
Superficial. by superficial.
Written by Cliff Parks
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A movie review
by Will Corcoran
When I first heard there would be a movie related to Cystic Fibrosis I was excited to see how they would tell the story of 70,000+ of us who live with this illness everyday. Here I will review the movie 5 Feet Apart from the perspective of a CF patient. As you know if you saw the movie, the movie’s main characters are a boy (Will) and girl (Stella) who are living in the hospital full time. Stella is waiting for a double lung transplant while Will is in a clinical trial to combat his B. cepacia. Of course as with any Hollywood movie, the two begin to fall in love. The movie’s title is from the idea they had to disregard the 6 feet apart protocol (in order to avoid cross infection and make each other even more sick), and instead use a pool cue to keep 5 feet apart and give the middle finger to their illness.
Although I am happy for the awareness that the movie brought our community and foundation, I am irritated by the way Hollywood chose to execute the story. 5 Feet Apart is another reminder that Hollywood chooses subjects such as Cystic Fibrosis as a way to entice viewers into paying for another ticket, while doing nothing to support the community that they are profiting off of. The movie generated over $80,000,000 in gross income, yet CF patients and researchers got not even a penny to support their daily battles with CF.
One of the main issues I have with the movie 5 Feet Apart is how it shows a viewer a small slice of how a CF patient may be impacted by the disease. Of the 70,000+ CF patients in the world, few have lived full time in the hospital or even have access to proper health care. The movie gives an uneducated viewer no inclination that this is one version of a CF patient’s life – or how fortunate these patients are to have such a great hospital and ability to receive treatment. By not acknowledging how rare or fortunate these patients are, the filmmakers are disregarding the stories of thousands with CF and do not properly educate a viewer on how CF may impact patients differently. The CF community was excited and hopeful about 5 Feet Apart because we knew it would create awareness and educate the greater public, but if the movie only tells a small fraction of the CF population’s story, is it doing the community justice?
The movie continues to glamorize Will and Stella’s lives with CF by not showing how violent and disruptive the disease can be at times. For example, in scenes where Will and Stella cough, it is often a soft and controlled low volume cough that ends with them spitting lightly into a cup. This does not show a viewer how CF patients at the stage Will and Stella are at may cough uncontrollably, loudly and violently, for much of their treatment while possibly throwing up or needing to stop their treatment to get a breath of air while hacking out a glob of yellow mucus. The way in which filmmakers had these characters coughing was not realistic, maybe they did this in an attempt to not scare viewers of our reality.
Filmmakers also disregarded several aspects of life with CF that are important to understand when educating about the disease. Digestive issues that cause patients extreme discomfort or force them to spend hours on the toilet were not mentioned once, while the patient-health care team relationship was dramatically romanticized. Life within the hospital itself was made to look luxurious, with patients having access to a pool, several hangout areas, and the ability to walk freely throughout. As any CF patient who has been hospitalized will tell you, life within the hospital is far from luxurious. The majority of the day is spent doing treatments in your room, and when you are allowed to leave you often only have the energy to do a lap or two around the floor – of course you are fully gowned and gloved then as well.
The ‘5 feet apart’ sentiment of the movie itself is not accurate to how many CF patients live their lives. CF patients often live prioritizing their health and infection control more than anything else, to have hollywood make a film where two patients continually disregard their own health as well as those around them is inaccurate and disrespectful to the vast majority of us who take our health seriously. CF couples do exist and we do not always make the best choices for our health, but the way in which the 5 Feet Apart filmmakers choose to have characters forgo their wellbeing to be close to each other seems unrepresentative of how serious our illness is. Further, patients like Will and Stella who are in near critical condition would rarely have the energy or ability to be as active or careless for their health as filmmakers make them out to be.
The idea behind a movie about CF that educates viewers and gives the public a window into our world is great – but the way Hollywood chose to make this a love story about two dying teenagers does not properly represent the lives of 70,000+ people with this terminal disease. Beside this, I do not think it is possible to make a movie about CF that everyone would be happy with – so I guess we just have to say thank you for putting Cystic Fibrosis in more people’s minds. If nothing else the movie made our disease’s name more visible, if that can lead to one more dollar being raised for research in order to get a cure, it is worth it.
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Florence was the first model manufactured by CG Mouthpiece Italy. A little bit darker than the Rome model, it was designed for saxophonists who want a powerful, very projective and not excessively bright sound. Its step baffle of average length, about one third of the window, is shared by both types of chambers available for this model. As a matter of fact, the Florence model is available in the medium chamber and big chamber versions. The first one is characterized by easier sound emission (smaller volume of the chamber, less concave window walls) and a very centred and compact sound; the second one by greater body and deeper sound (real big chamber, concave window walls), particularly detectable in the medium-low and low register of the instrument.
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The Rome model was designed for those musicians who look for a clear and powerful sound with great projection. The transition of the step baffle into a really big chamber provides the Rome model with a bright and buzz-free timbre. The internal walls of the window become concave halfway through it, virtually enlarging the following big chamber. Designed for the saxophonist who wants to approach the most modern musical genres and needs to stand out easily among the other instruments. The harmonic frequencies, achieved thanks to the high beak, help saxophonists make their sound stand out also within crowded sound contexts (amplified instruments, great sound pressure). The bronze we selected proved to be a great choice, because the research for timbre brightness did not jeopardize the sound body, which is still powerful and full in all the registers of the saxophone.
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Torino tenor
The Turin model was designed for saxophonists who look for a traditional, typical 1940s-1950s sound, as well as timbre homogeneity in all the registers of the instrument and great projection. The transition of the long low beak into a large chamber - bullet cut – provides the Turin model with a full and dark timbre, maintaining an excellent sound focus. The window walls are initially flat to concentrate air in the starting phase and become gradually concave halfway through the window, anticipating the size of the chamber that – thanks to the bullet-cut shape – has an even larger volume. The Turin model is characterized by great projection and a moderately dark timbre – thanks to the long and not too low beak, with a fat and deep sound, thanks to the bullet-cut shape and gradually concave walls towards a large chamber. Recommended also for hard-bop lovers and anyone who prefers a similar sound to hard rubber but with the typical projection and focus of a metal mouthpiece.
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Venezia tenor
The Venice model was designed for musicians who look for a similar sound to hard rubber, but with typical projection and focus of metal mouthpieces. The transition of the long step baffle into a large chamber provides the Venice model with a full and not too dark timber, maintaining excellent sound focus. The timbre depth of the Venice model is also achieved thanks to the internal window walls, which become concave halfway through it, anticipating the size of the big chamber. A little brighter than the Turin model, it is perfect in contexts where this timbre characteristics can help stand out in big bands or medium bands with several wind instruments.
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Corfu Heritage Foundation
Acknowledgement – 2018
Corfu Festival 2018 – Press Release
Prossalendi’s “Britannia” – Historical Perspective
Romanticism in Corfu
Prossalendi’s “Britannia” – Contemporary Perspective
Corfu Cricket Match – 2018
Corfu: The Garden Isle
Order of St Michael & St George
14th January 2018 26th October 2018 Corfu Heritage Foundation
Corfu Festival for the Bicentenary of the Order of St Michael and St George 1818 – 2018
CORFU.- As it is well known, George IV, as Prince Regent of the United Kingdom, founded the Order of St Michael and St George in Corfu and in Malta on 28 April 1818, two hundred years ago. This forms part of Corfu’s history and belongs to its heritage. In fact, the history of the Order begins with the visions of Sir Thomas Maitland (1760-1824), Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta after the Napoleonic Wars.
Count Spiro Flamburiari, Chairman of the Corfu Heritage Foundation, has had the inspiration to honour the bicentenary of the Order this year with a Festival aiming to boost British-Hellenic relations in Corfu. His whole life has been devoted to the promotion of the island and its prosperity, and to highlight the significance of its heritage.
The Festival takes place under the auspices of the British Embassy Athens, the Hellenic Republic’s Ministries of Culture and Tourism, and the Municipality of Corfu. Events – including 5 lectures, 2 brass band concerts, 3 visual art exhibitions and 1 cricket match – will take place between 7 July and 30 September 2018.
● Lectures at the Corfu Reading Society.
3 August – Mr Derek Johns, “Romanticism – A Brief Introduction”.
6 August – HE Ms Kate Smith CMG, “British-Hellenic Friendship in Corfu”.
24 August – Ms Helena Matheopoulos, “Music in 1818”.
28 August – Sir Efthimios E. Mitropoulos KCMG, “The Order of St Michael and St George”.
4 September – Mr Nicholas Parsons CBE, “Edward Lear – Artist ∙ Poet ∙ Wanderer”.
● Music by the Mantzaros Philharmonic Society curated by Mr Robert A. Christoforides.
5 August – Mr Socrates Anthis will direct the Wind Band at the Esplanade’s Band Stand.
7 September – Mr Socrates Anthis will direct the Wind Band at the Old Fortress.
● Exhibitions at the Ionian Academy curated by Dr Megakles Rogakos.
7 – 29 July – “Prossalendi’s Britannia” – Historical Perspective.
2 – 26 August – “Romanticism in Corfu”.
1 – 29 September – “Prossalendi’s Britannia” – Contemporary Perspective.
● Cricket Matches organised by Sir Simon Orr-Ewing Bt and Mr Nikos Louvros.
13 May – Matches between the Lost Marbles and the Atlas CC Cricket Corfu teams.
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Aharon Zohar says:
14th August 2018 at 11:09 am
We are living in Corfu and interested in attending your activities
Pls. send us your programs
Dan Costin says:
Thank you for your interest. At the moment we do not have a newsletter. However, please feel free to return to our events page http://www.corfuheritagefoundation.org/events Kind regards, Dan
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Appeal of MARK V. VALENTINO from action of the Board of Education of the Mount Morris Central School District and Superintendent Renee Garrett regarding tenure.
School Administrators Association of New York State, attorneys for petitioner, Arthur P. Scheuermann and A. Andre Dalbec, Esqs., of counsel
David W. Lippitt, Esq., attorney for respondents
MILLS, Commissioner.--Petitioner appeals the determination of the Board of Education of the Mount Morris Central School District (“respondent board” or “board”) to transfer him to a newly created position outside his tenure area. The appeal must be dismissed.
On November 28, 1994, respondent board appointed petitioner to a three-year probationary term as a junior-senior high school principal in the tenure area of secondary administration. The board granted petitioner tenure effective November 28, 1997.
On September 27, 2000, the board reorganized its administrative staffing within the district by abolishing the positions of elementary principal and junior-senior high school principal and laying off the incumbents, elementary principal Robert Riviello (“Riviello”) and petitioner, with recall rights to similar positions. The board then created two new administrative positions: principal K-12 for curriculum and instruction, and principal K-12 for student affairs. The board determined that the position of principal K-12 for student affairs was similar to the position petitioner previously held and offered it to him. Petitioner accepted and was appointed in accordance with his recall rights with no loss of salary, benefits or tenure status. The board offered the other position to Riviello.
On August 9, 2006, the board again reorganized its administrative staffing. This restructuring abolished the two K-12 principal positions held by Riviello and petitioner, who were laid off with recall rights to similar positions. The board then created two new positions, principal K-8 and principal 9-12. The board determined that the principal 9-12 position was similar to petitioner’s previous position and offered it to him. Petitioner accepted and was appointed with no loss of salary, benefits or tenure status. Riviello assumed the other position.
On August 15, 2007, the board yet again reorganized its administrative staffing. It abolished the position of assistant principal 6-8; laid off the incumbent in that position, Michael Murray (“Murray”), with recall rights; recreated the position of principal K-12 for student affairs; appointed petitioner to that position within the administrative tenure area of K-12 principal for student affairs; and appointed Murray to a three-year probationary term in petitioner’s prior position as principal 9-12 in the administrative tenure area of high school principal 9-12. By memorandum dated August 21, 2007, the superintendent notified petitioner of his new appointment. (Apparently, Riviello remained in the principal K-8 position.)
By letter dated August 28, 2007 to respondents’ counsel, petitioner’s counsel alleged that the board had violated petitioner’s tenure rights by unilaterally transferring him to the tenure area of “K-12 Principal for Student Affairs.” Petitioner’s counsel suggested a proposed solution in lieu of litigation, namely, that petitioner’s appointment be changed to the tenure area of secondary administration. The letter also addressed an issue with Murray’s recent appointment. On August 30, 2007, the parties orally resolved the dispute regarding Murray’s tenure, but not petitioner’s.
A series of written exchanges between counsels during September 2007 followed. By letter dated September 7, 2007, petitioner’s counsel requested that the board pass a resolution returning petitioner’s tenure status to the area of “Secondary Administration,” or, alternatively, granting petitioner tenure in the area of “K-12 Administration” with all previously accrued seniority applied. By letter dated September 10, 2007, respondents’ counsel agreed, interalia, that petitioner’s service in his current appointment would be treated as service in the secondary administration tenure area. Petitioner’s counsel apparently also requested a memorandum of agreement outlining petitioner’s duties. Respondents’ counsel objected to that request on September 12, 2007. By letter dated September 13, 2007, petitioner’s counsel requested a board resolution specifying the restoration of petitioner’s tenure area, after which he would “retract [the] demand for a Memorandum of Agreement and withdraw the Commissioner’s Appeal without waiving [petitioner’s] right to refile (emphasis added).” Four more letters were exchanged concerning this proposal.
By letter dated September 24, 2007, respondents’ counsel informed petitioner’s counsel that on September 20, 2007, the board had received an amended improper practice charge filed with the Public Employment Relations Board (“PERB”), relating, interalia, to petitioner’s transfer, and that in light of the pending PERB charge, the district could not move forward with a settlement “in lieu of litigation.” This appeal ensued.
Petitioner asserts that each time the board changed his position, it offered him positions in accordance with his recall rights with no loss of salary, benefits or tenure status, thereby maintaining his tenure within the secondary administration tenure area. He requests that respondent board’s August 15, 2007 resolution unilaterally transferring his tenure area from secondary administration to K-12 principal for student affairs be vacated, that he be restored to his tenure area of secondary administration, and that he be reinstated to his duties as principal 9-12 with all accrued seniority.
Respondents contend that the appeal must be dismissed as untimely and for failure to join Murray as a necessary party. Respondents also contend that the appeal must be dismissed because petitioner is seeking similar relief in another forum (PERB). Respondents deny that petitioner’s tenure rights were violated in any respect. Finally, respondents request that portions of petitioner’s reply be stricken.
The appeal must be dismissed as untimely. An appeal to the Commissioner must be commenced within 30 days from the making of the decision or the performance of the act complained of, unless any delay is excused by the Commissioner for good cause shown (8 NYCRR §275.16; Appeal of O’Brien, 44 Ed Dept Rep 43, Decision No. 15,092; Appeal of Spina, 43 id. 354, Decision No. 15,016). A reconsideration request does not extend the time within which an appeal must be commenced (Appeal of a Preschool Child with a Disability, 43 Ed Dept Rep 343, Decision No. 15,012; Appeal of Williams, 42 id. 260, Decision No. 14,846).
Respondent board resolved to restructure its administrative staffing on August 15, 2007. Petitioner did not serve the petition until October 4, 2007, more than 30 days later. Petitioner contends that there is good cause for the delay because of the “good faith” efforts of the parties to resolve the tenure matter. Petitioner asserts that he reasonably believed respondent board had agreed, by letter dated September 10, 2007, to treat his appointment as service in the secondary administration area, and was awaiting a board resolution to that effect at the next board meeting scheduled for September 26, 2007. He contends, therefore, that no final determination from which an appeal could be taken would have occurred until September 26, 2007, and the appeal was commenced within 30 days of that meeting.
I find petitioner’s argument unavailing. In petitioner’s counsel’s September 13, 2007 letter, he stated that following written confirmation “that a Board resolution rescinding the August 15th change in [petitioner’s] tenure area . . . has or will take place . . [he will] withdraw the Commissioner’s Appeal without waiving [petitioner’s] right to refile (emphasis added).” Such language clearly indicates that petitioner acknowledged that the board’s action occurred on August 15, 2007. Refining the terms of the appointment is essentially a request for reconsideration, which does not extend the time within which an appeal must be commenced (Appeal of a Preschool Child with a Disability, 43 Ed Dept Rep 343, Decision No. 15,012; Appeal of Williams, 42 id. 260, Decision No. 14,846). Moreover, the letter indicated that petitioner had already instituted an appeal, or, was at least keenly aware of the appeal process and its requirements. In this case, petitioner had not filed a previous appeal and did not serve the instant petition until October 4, 2007. Accordingly, the appeal must be dismissed as untimely.
The appeal must also be dismissed for failure to join a necessary party. A party whose rights would be adversely affected by a determination of an appeal in favor of a petitioner is a necessary party and must be joined as such (Appeal of Samuel, 45 Ed Dept Rep 418, Decision No. 15,371; Appeal of Meringolo, 45 id. 128, Decision No. 15,281; Appeal of Kelly, 45 id. 38, Decision No. 15,253). Joinder requires that an individual be clearly named as a respondent in the caption and served with a copy of the notice of petition and petition to inform the individual that he or she should respond to the petition and enter a defense (Appeal of Samuel, 45 Ed Dept Rep 418, Decision No. 15,371; Appeal of Meringolo, 45 id. 128, Decision No. 15,281; Appeal of Kelly, 45 id. 38, Decision No. 15,253).
Petitioner requests that he be reinstated to his duties as principal 9-12, the position to which Murray was appointed on August 15, 2007, and that Murray be reassigned to Murray’s previous duties as assistant principal 6-8 and director of physical education. Petitioner contends that since the board restored Murray’s tenure area to secondary administration, Murray’s reassignment would still be sufficiently within his tenure area and therefore does not affect his tenure rights and he need not be joined as a necessary party.
Petitioner’s argument is again unavailing. A decision in favor of petitioner would clearly impact Murray’s employment and therefore he is a necessary party to this proceeding. However, Murray was not named as a respondent, and there is no evidence that he was personally served with notice of the petition or the petition. Accordingly, the appeal must be dismissed for failure to join a necessary party.
In light of this disposition, I decline to address the parties’ remaining arguments.
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The New York Times’ names Kalie Shorr’s ‘Open Book’ among The Best Albums of 2019
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The Only Country Album on the NYT List, Additionally Variety Labels it “2019’s Best Freshman Country Effort”
Nashville non-conformist, Kalie Shorr, is kicking off December on the road with LeAnn Rimes and receiving major accolades along the way. Today, The New York Times released their Best Albums of 2019 list which included Taylor Swift’s Lover (14), Lana Del Ray’s Norman ___ Rockwell (6), Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (11) and other major all-genre records released over the past year. At No. 7 on pop music critic Jon Caramanica’s list lands Shorr’s Open Book, her debut full-length album released in September. It was the only Country release chosen by the renowned critic.
“Open Book, by the relative newcomer Kalie Shorr, is the sort of gut-wrenching album made by someone who understands how vital and detailed country music can be, and who is faithful to its heritage (including its lineage of resistance). Everyone in Nashville is likely hoping to sandpaper her into something just a little bit less confrontational; fingers crossed that doesn’t happen.” – Jon Caramanica, The New York Times
Asked her initial reaction to this honor Shorr says, “Honestly, I can’t even believe it. I poured my entire heart and soul (even the darkest corners) into this album. For the first time, all that I factored in while creating this was self-exploration and healing. To have that be received by fans and critics alike is all I could have ever hoped for. I’m so honored to be included on a list with some of my personal favorite albums of the year as well.”
Recent reviews include:
“Kalie Shorr turned in 2019’s best freshman country effort.” — Chris Willman, Variety
“A word to a gaslit girl from one who’s wisened up, this rocker is as gleefully mean as Avril Lavigne’s finest and as sisterly as something by the Dixie Chicks. Hot stuff from one of Nashville’s most promising.” — Ann Powers, NPR Music
“Listen to the music and it becomes clear that Shorr hasn’t sensationalized her heartbreak and grief. Instead, she’s expertly navigated it and turned it into something artful.” — Nancy Kruh, People
“For several years running, Kalie Shorr has been one of country music’s most promising new artists — for how she melds an appreciation of the genre’s roots with an unabashed love for emo and pop, for her cutting songwriting, and for how she’s made her feminism a vital part of her musical perspective.” – Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone
“With Open Book, Kalie Shorr channels both her inner Dolly Parton and her inner Alanis Morissette. She leans in to country music’s story-song tradition – and almost no detail is too personal to share – but her deeply specific verses intertwine with universally relatable choruses. High school me would have stanned this album hard (and that’s a high compliment!).” – Angela Stefano, The Boot
“Push past all the emotions Shorr leads with to find sublime songwriting and brilliant use of literary devices. The lyrics on this album, while at times unhinged, specific and shocking, are also perfect for who she is, right now. She has rare grit and the kind of courage they don’t manufacture on Music Row.” – Billy Dukes, Taste of Country
Respected rock music critic Craig Manning tweeted, “Big release day in general, but there are two records in particular that I very highly recommend,” and after touting Sturgill Simpson’s new LP, he went on. “The other is the debut album, Open Book from Kalie Shorr which is like Red era Taylor Swift, plus A Mark, A Mission era Dashboard Confessional, plus the first two Avril Lavigne albums. ‘Lullaby’ is immediately in the pantheon of all-time great breakup songs.”
Shorr is currently on tour with LeAnn Rimes for her “You and Me and Christmas” Tour and will be playing Nashville’s New Year’s Eve concert, Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight, with Keith Urban, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, The Struts, Amanda Shires, Bren Joy and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Caramanica’s NYT List Includes:
1. 100 gecs, 1000 gecs
2. Bad Bunny, X 100PRE
3. Polo G, Die a Legend / YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Al YoungBoy 2
4. Kim Petras, Clarity
5. Romeo Santos, Utopia
6. Lana Del Ray Norman _____ Rockwell!
7. Kalie Shorr, Open Book
8. Baby Keem, Die for My Bitch / Guapdad 4000, Dior Deposits
9. Kanye West, Jesus Is King
10. 10k.Caash, The Creator
11. Ariana Grande, Thank U, Next
12. Summer Walker, Over It
13. Benny the Butcher, The Plugs I Met
14. Taylor Swift, Lover
About Kalie Shorr Kalie Shorr burst onto the Nashville music scene in 2016 with her self-penned hit “Fight Like A Girl”. The Portland, Maine singer-songwriter became a Sirius XM “Highway Find” and was spotlighted by Spotify, Apple Music, CMT, Radio Disney Country, Taste of Country, and even Billboard magazine. In 2017, Kalie released her Slingshot EP to positive reviews and was named “New Artist You Need to Know” by Rolling Stone, “The New Nashville” by Teen Vogue, and one of “2017’s Hottest Artists Under 25” by Taste of Country. Named a CMT Next Women of Country and a “Top 10 Country Artists To Watch In 2018” by the Huffington Post, Kalie released her last EP Awake to critical acclaim and toured with Sara Evans and RaeLynn on the CMT Next Women of Country Tour. On March 31, 2018, Kalie fulfilled a life-long dream when she made her Grand Ole Opry debut calling it “one of the most emotional experiences of my life” and has since gone on to play the Opry many times. In late 2018, she headlined the Walmart/Pepsi “Road to the CMA Awards” Tour raising awareness for the 52nd annual CMA Awards telecast. In November of that year, Radio Disney Country launched a daily radio series called “Let The Girls Play” hosted by Kalie and fellow Song Suffragette Savannah Keyes. Kalie’s message of female empowerment has led to praise for her “social advocacy” [NPR] and let to features on PBS NewsHour, NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “On Point” in addition to ELLE Magazine. Kalie released “2019’s best freshman country effort” [Variety] and her first-ever full-length album Open Book in September with Rolling Stone saying “[Open Book] showcases the alchemy that Shorr concocts which manage[s] to conjure both Shania Twain, Red-era Taylor Swift, Dashboard Confessional, and Alanis Morissette all at once.” The New York Times’ lauded the record on their Best Albums of 2019 list. She is currently on the road supporting LeAnn Rimes’ “You And Me And Christmas” Tour this holiday season.
http://www.countryschatter.com/2020/01/the-new-york-times-names-kalie-shorrs-open-book-among-the-best-albums-of-2019/ 2020-01-02T13:12:58-05:00 theadminHonorsPress Release"Open Book",Kalie Shorr,NPR Music,People,Rolling Stone,The New York Times,variety
The Only Country Album on the NYT List, Additionally Variety Labels it “2019’s Best Freshman Country Effort” Nashville non-conformist, Kalie Shorr, is kicking off December on the road with LeAnn Rimes and receiving major accolades along the way. Today, The New York Times released their Best Albums of 2019 list...
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Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2011: Religious damnation?
by Eva | October 2, 2010 | 4 comments
At first glance, Yohji Yamamoto's Spring/Summer 2011 collection, presented yesterday at Espace Vendôme in Paris, was just another in the long line of displays of the master's great skill. Yamamoto is the go-to designer for garments blending the line between their supposed function and metamorphosis into an architectural object, but this collection is - as opposed to Dolce & Gabbana - not only about clothes. It makes you think about religion and the world.
Models wore quasi-dirty hair, Dr. Martens boots and Converse shoes. Their faces were white, geisha-like, and they showed significantly more skin than you would expect from Yamamoto. There is no direct emphasis on sexuality in traditional Japanese society, which is why clothes by the designers of the Japanese avantgarde school (Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto) are seldom revealing or fitted to the body. Still, this collection has corsets!
The collection's main theme is gothic. Black, corsets, large silver pendants, pale faces? Check. The models' half aloof, half ethereal expressions reminded me of Elegant Gothic Aristocrats, although I wouldn't say they were an influence. However, it is interesting that the mental connection first led me to a Japan-specific gothic style when such styles are popular all over the world.
And then came the surprise:
Psychedelic colors and prints with clear religious elements. I haven't been able to find detailed photos of the print, but so far I've noticed the Star of David, Buddha, cross and pentagram combined with the word DAMNATION. Is this an anti-religious message? Does Yamamoto want to say that religions are doomed? The world? Something else? There is probably no definite answer and I'm sure this was his intention, too. Yamamoto wants to make you think (another reason why fashion is art) and this is why he's one of the greatest.
The one thing I feel Yamamoto did want to express clearly - taking into account the religious symbols as well as psychedelic colors - is confusion about the current state of the world (I previously wrote about it here) and also about his place in it. A few years ago he said he would stop designing in 6 or 7 years. He hasn't mentioned it since, at least not in public, but he isn't always at peace with his work. The brand has also been struggling financially due to recession.
The show opened with choral music followed by "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, to whom Yamamoto wanted to pay homage (reincarnating him as Jesus on the crucifix with a guitar almost exactly 40 years after his death). Incidentally, "Purple Haze" also speaks about confusion: Purple haze all around / Don't know if I'm comin' up or down / Am I happy or in misery? / Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me ... Not so incidentally, Hendrix was also known for his use of psychedelic drugs.
I think "Purple Haze" is ultimately optimistic - after all, it's about being in love and the music doesn't drag you down either. That's probably what the closing outfit meant, too: voluminous yellow skirt and t-shirt saying "This is me". Yohji Yamamoto is still here; times might be rough for him at the moment, but he is here to stay.
Dejta on October 3, 2010 at 12:35
I really like your interpretation of Yamamoto's Spring/Summer 2011 collection.
And it's good to look it that way, although I don't' agree with his use of accessories.
At one point, we all feel that way sometimes. Good thing he got his way of expressing it.
Eva on October 3, 2010 at 15:37
Why don't you agree with his use of accessories? I'm curious.
Just checked out your website, pity I don't understand Swedish :/
beba on October 4, 2010 at 22:13
Mogo?e se ne strinja, ker je rožni venec okrog noge namotan pa Jezus na križu s kitaro, hah.
Zmaga ga tale Yohji.
Moram ga malo bolj pre?ekirat, ?is si me navdušla!
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Board index World of Blue Twin Peaks Movie, TV, Books Season 3 (2017) The Return Parts Discussion
Part 18 - What is your name? (SPOILERS)
Discussion of each of the 18 parts of Twin Peaks the Return
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Re: Part 18 - What is your name? (SPOILERS)
Postby Saturn's child » Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:51 am
Novalis wrote: In the final few scenes of this part, there is a profile shot of Cooper/Richard where he starts to learn forward slowly, at quite a severe angle. Am I the only one who thought, momentarily, that he was going to do the low bow/float that Leland does in the red room from FWWM?
Really caught me off my guard. Was absolutely certain -- for the tiniest moment -- this is where it was headed. Then, no.
Ttly.
Hercousin
Postby Hercousin » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:27 am
Ragnell wrote:
powerleftist wrote: You people are thinking more about this show than Lynch himself in all his life. The person who cares less about how all of this makes sense or ties together is the man himself. The game is over.
No, the game is on. Forever. Lynch and Frost know this fandom. Back in the day they cliffhangered everything to see if they could force another season or in the giddy silliness of just seeing how much they could leave ubresolved but when they started writing this they'd seen it resulted in two decades of speculation, hunting for clues and discussion. A two year trend had become a 25 year phenomenon. How do you top THAT? With a single summer wrapping everything up, explaining everything, and letting the fandom discussions die down to trivialities, critiques and fix-it fanfics?
Hell baby gawddamned no!
You give everyone some answers that just raise more questions, points in the story that could be intentional and could be mistakes, leave some soapy plotlines unresolved and give us an ending that has us not only arguing over the reality of the show but also whether its a happy, tragic, or cliffhanger ending.
This way, you ensure we all get the same enjoyment we've had for the last 25 years of picking the series apart and debating it.
And that is why I was so happy at the end. Because its clear that's what they did and that is a GIFT to the core fandom of Twin Peaks, those of us who love a good mystery. The mystery continues forever. The Modern Goddess of Mystery, Laura Palmer, sits in her throne and presides over a discussion of whether she was wrapped in plastic or not, and if she should have been. This is amazing and wonderful and proves they were paying attention to us all along.
I really like this. Even if there's no season 4, you're right, the mystery is there. That final shot of Laura whispering is what does it. Still feel some sort of malaise but I'm coming out of it thanks to all the commentary on both sides.
thedarktrees
Postby thedarktrees » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:39 am
Ok, so having thought about things a bit more, I'm now getting on stuck on something that's hard to reconcile. A lot of the opinion/interpretation here seems to revolve around the idea that Coop went too far, tried to save Laura, and basically f#cked everything up, spawning some new reality where Laura's not Laura, Coop's not Coop, etc.
Which seems to be the case for the most part -- but then how does any of that fit with the actual starting point of Season 3? i.e., the Fireman's instructions to Coop about 430 an Richard and Linda? Isn't he essentially instructing Coop on what he's supposed to be doing? And if so, why does Cooper seem so puzzled about the Richard/Linda letter? Shouldn't he have known exactly what this was? Or at least recognized the reference? So DID Coop actually f#ck up? Is this somehow not what was supposed to happen? The whole things looks like Coop did bad -- and yet, seems he just followed the Giant's clues.
TwinsPeak
Postby TwinsPeak » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:47 am
With the alternate reality theory. Do you think there is a chance that Laura and Coop/Carrie and Richard are in our reality? Using the real owners of the house makes me wonder....but if it was our reality I guess Laura's name would be Sheryl and Coop would be Kyle.
I've also heard most of the original show is a dream. Most of the Return is a dream. But Fire walk with me isnt a dream....anyone believe that?
ArthurKing
Postby ArthurKing » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:47 am
Coop told Cole, if he'd ever disappear he had to do everything he could to find him. That's what TP fans and viewers are doing right now. So in the end Cooper found Laura, but we all are trying to find Cooper.
Hockey Mask
Postby Hockey Mask » Thu Sep 07, 2017 11:37 am
M.T Wentz wrote: "Everyone has a shadow."
Except on cloudy days
...or at night. "
Postby Ross » Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:07 pm
thedarktrees wrote: Ok, so having thought about things a bit more, I'm now getting on stuck on something that's hard to reconcile. A lot of the opinion/interpretation here seems to revolve around the idea that Coop went too far, tried to save Laura, and basically f#cked everything up, spawning some new reality where Laura's not Laura, Coop's not Coop, etc.
I wondered about this at first as well. And I wrote about it in my theory post. The Giant is the ultimate puppetmaster. Yes- Cooper and Carrie/Laura end up exactly where he wanted them. Even if its bad for Cooper & Laura. The Giant originally sends Laura as someone to eventually face and fight evil. Of course Laura ends up choosing her own path to her own salvation.
In the end Cooper and Laura end up where the he wants them, with Laura restored and a chance to fight the darkness. Even though this is far away from what was necessarily best for either Cooper or Laura.
vicksvapor77 wrote: On rewatch, I noticed some very interesting editing choices for the end of parts 17 and 18.
In Part 17, we see Cooper trying to change the past with Laura, then we see Sarah freaking out and trying to destroy her photo and then we see Laura disappear from Cooper's grasp and scream with Julee Cruise's song playing over the end credits.
Part 18 opens with the new Dougie tulpa being created and reuniting with Janey-E and Sonny Jim. We then have what I believe to be simple rollback (soaps do this to sort of "recap" the last scene of the previous episode when starting the next episode) to the moment from the end of 17 with Cooper losing Laura in the woods and then he goes into the Red Room.
Some have speculated that they think Cooper loses Laura twice but I think it's just simple rollback of footage (it's definitely not an alternate take). I think it's to show the multiple events happening at once in the timeline, like Sarah smashing the picture and Dougie's reunion with his family (which is daytime, so perhaps earlier that day?), happen BEFORE Cooper loses Laura in the woods.
Now, we don't conclusively see our normal timeline ever again after this moment, which is what makes me very afraid that our current timeline where Laura dies was erased. What do you guys think about this? For those that absolutely don't think the original timeline of her dying was erased, how do you reconcile the conscious editing choice to not show "our timeline" again after Cooper loses Laura in the woods? I would definitely agree that moment and the ensuing ones in the Red Room seem to indicate he failed in saving her from her original murder but then what? We don't see our timeline "revert to normal" again, with her body showing up back on the shore or showing her meeting Ronette, Leo and Jacques so it's definitely suspicious. Certainly if she just fails to exist in that timeline from that moment (she literally disappears from the woods) things in that timeline would be altered for everyone? Clearly her soul can be displaced elsewhere, as she was already in the Red Room after her death. Why not go to another timeline/dimension as Carrie? But that doesn't reconcile us never seeing "our timeline" again after that moment or that she literally disappears from Cooper's grasp, which is obviously different than the original timeline.
I definitely see it as the timeline was restored, and that Cooper came out of the Lodge back in the unaltered time. Diane is there waiting for him. This certainly seems like the same Diane we just left. I think its purposely vague though.
madeleineferguson
Postby madeleineferguson » Thu Sep 07, 2017 12:18 pm
I think the Diane we meet in Part 18 is another tulpa, or maybe even her doppelgänger. When she's sitting in the car waiting for Cooper to book the hotel, and she sees another Diane... I think that's the tell.
The One Armed Man uses hair to make a tulpa, but Diane wears wigs. No idea if it means anything, just an observation.
So honestly, was mtsi just pulling our leg about seeing someone on location??
Postby madeleineferguson » Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:01 pm
Ross wrote: So honestly, was mtsi just pulling our leg about seeing someone on location??
I'm choosing to believe that there were things filmed which are being saved for Season 4.
KyleRickards
Postby KyleRickards » Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:14 pm
Quick one, who does Carrie/Laura hear scream 'Laura!!' At the very end?
zeronumber
Postby zeronumber » Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:29 pm
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mtwentz
Postby mtwentz » Thu Sep 07, 2017 2:34 pm
Weren't we speculating it was Mary Jo Deschanel? If it were someone like her, it would have been just a cameo most likely and could easily have been cut.
"Dougie is COOPER? How the Hell is this!?"
TheGum
Postby TheGum » Thu Sep 07, 2017 2:46 pm
I've just had this moment of clarity, and I haven't had time to catch up with this thread where I left off, but I will say this- I am genuinely worried about Cooper. I want him to be safe. But- anyone that thinks Lynch is having a laugh at us is nuts. Fix your hearts or die. If he didn't give a fuck about us he wouldn't have done the Return. Think about his decisions with respect because he respects you. If he didn't he wouldn't have bothered.
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Far From Heaven is Todd Haynes’ latest film, the acclaimed director of Velvet Goldmine, and it has a uniquely stylistic ’50s touch to it. Right from the opening pastel-coloured credits, to the costumes, to the delicately set scenery to the actor-like score, you know you’re in for a trip down memory lane.
However, Haynes’ film sadly just tries to tackle too many complex and confronting themes for one film. Focusing in on racism in a very racist American 1950s as well as homosexuality in a very homophobic area of the country, Far From Heaven bites off more than it can chew, as it tries to tackle two heavy topics in the space of 100 minutes, a mean task even for one heavy theme. Dealing with the naïve and simple minds of the 1950s middle American population, the film quickly immerses the audience within the themes of sexuality and race, and tries to deal with these two issues in detail, but it just makes it too much for the audience to deal with. On one hand we have the story between Cathy and the black Raymond, and then on the other the story between Cathy and her questionable husband Frank. These two plots could easily be cut into two films covering different themes in depth, rather than skimming over them simply in a single attempt, not quite evoking any real emotions. Now remember, this is just one opinion, and at times Far From Heaven seems to meander around the two themes rather than getting to the point. It illustrates the discrimination in this small town, and the narrow-mindedness of the population at this era, and how one woman’s struggle to over come these social nasties will really show how far from heaven the real world really is.
"I've learned my lesson about mixing in other worlds. I've seen the sparks fly. All kinds."
Adopting the stylistic look of the 1950s
Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) is a good housewife in Connecticut, happily married to Frank (Dennis Quaid) with two young kids. Cathy is the sort of person who is able to love each and every person, and is outside of the prejudiced views of the other people in this town. So when Raymond (Dennis Haysbert, an African-American gardener, comes along, she obviously shows compassion towards him and his family, getting looks and whispers from all around the town. Now Frank is a successful sales executive, but has some difficulty knowing where he stands, and starts experimenting with his own sexuality. But Frank’s secret is discovered after Cathy does the good-wife thing and delivers some food to her husband who is working late, and finds Frank in the arms of another man. What follows is an emotional melodrama where Cathy is faced with holding together the family, her life and her friendships as she is forced to follow her own desires, which conflict with those ideals set by the restrictive society that she lives in.
This gorgeous video is presented in its original widescreen aspect of 1.85:1, and is anamorphically enhanced. Simply put, this transfer is amazing, with very niggly issues stopping it from being absolutely perfect.
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The rich colours are like a vivid Technicolor picture reborn in the 21st century. The sumptuousness of the colours just leaps off of the screen for the entire duration, showing a richly-detailed palette with blood-like reds, blues as deep as the richest sapphires and greens that make the botanic gardens look dead. Haynes’ use of colour really captures the essence of the Technicolor ’50s-style films, and looks fantastic filmed with modern techniques including coloured-filters, high-tech cameras and stock, as well as improved lighting and physical directions. The black levels are solidly spot-on, and provide a fantastic backing for some of the key sequences of the film such as the darkly-blue-lit interior scenes.
The detail of the image is exquisite, with a surprisingly high bitrate capturing the minute and delicate photography with not so much as a falter. Aliasing is nearly non-existent, and compression-related artefacts are nowhere to be seen. The delicate nature of the sun pouring through the leafless trees is perfectly rendered on this disc and is an absolute joy to watch. Film artefacts are few and far between, and a slight wash of grain covers the image but is by no means annoying. Moments occur where sharpness lapses, but these generally tend to shoot through unnoticed.
The biggest bummer occurs at the 73 minute mark where a clumsy layer change is right in the middle of a scene and is quite disruptive to the flow. No subtitles have been included.
Two film soundtracks have been included on the Region 4 package, both Dolby Digital with one 5.1 effort, and another in stereo. The 5.1 is clearly the way to go if your hardware can support it, and is a fine example of a broad soundstage, but not a fantastic use of 5.1 effects. Just keep in mind the genre of the film too.
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Dialogue comes predominantly from the centre channel, with effects and the score filling up the soundstage from the remaining speakers. The subwoofer has very little to do for this soundtrack, with only the very odd effect supporting the lower end of the soundstage. The score is fitting to the style of the film, and has been composed with precision by Elmer Bernstein. This Academy Award-nominated score brings melodrama, emotion and suspense, creating a stylistically positive mood that just adds so much to the style and period of the film.
The 16:9 enhanced menus load up when you stick this baby in, and compliment the intended tone of the film, with subtle animation and pieces of Bernstein’s beautiful score floating over the top.
First up are three featurettes, The Anatomy of a Scene (27:28), The Making of Far From Heaven (11:31) and The Filmmaker’s Experience: Q&A with Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore (4:54). These three featurettes are all fairly interesting and informative to listen to and provide a detailed analysis of the party sequence, a usual promo-style making-of and a “how good are we?” question and answers featurette. For a film of this genre, these are fantastic features, even if they are a little self-obsessed.
Next, a 1:08 theatrical trailer accompanies the collection, and is a very well-made and traditional type trailer that really advertises the film well.
Completing the list of quality extras is a fantastic audio commentary from director Todd Haynes. This commentary shows off Haynes’ passion for precise filmmaking, but does get boring listening to one man’s love of his own work.
Eight aesthetically fantastic pages of production notes come next which are informative, but hey you still have to read. Topping off the collection are cast and crew biographies for Julianne Moore (five pages), Dennis Quaid (five pages), Dennis Haysbert (four pages), Patricia Clarkson (four pages) and Todd Haynes (five pages).
Oh golly gee we’re at the end of the review already. Far From Heaven reinvents ’50s style cinema in all aspects, but just tries to tackle too much, making it a fairly busy film that doesn’t quite delve into either of the two themes deeply enough as too much time is spent switching between them. It’s close, but not quite there. The video transfer is incredibly detailed, really showing off the intended artistic views, and the audio and extras package accompanies the film but doesn’t offer anything remarkable or memorable. So for the fans, this is one neat package, but if you’re after a night’s easy entertainment, this may not be a good choice as it does require you to think and take in a bit, and may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It's well worth the ride, but not suitable for all.
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The Dark Knight Rises completes Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises: "I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns." Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises: "Do you think this is gonna last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
Lucious Fox is Bruce Wayne’s gadget man, his very own ‘Q’.
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Bruce Wayne’s usual sneaky inquiry about the latest secret gadget, is conspicuous by its absence. Fox is unperturbed:
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Fox shows Miranda Tate around the secret underground bunker containing the even more secret infinite-energy device:
Lucius Fox: Wayne had it built under the river. That way the chamber could be flooded if there were ever a security breach.
Miranda Tate: Is Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?
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Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate in The Dark Knight Rises: "Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I'll honor my father by finishing his work. Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply reward for my patience."
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The Fox News poll shows that on April 21, 2004, Americans said they were pro life over pro choice by 47-44. But last week they said they were pro choice over pro life by 48-37. They have gone from three points more pro life to eleven points more pro choice. Why? As the courts restrict the right to choose, it becomes more precious to voters. And there is a general swing to the left in the country driven by dissatisfaction with the Bush Administration and with the war in Iraq. The tide is moving all boats to the left. If Roe v Wade is repealed, and the issue of abortion is up in the 50 state legislatures in the country, look for the pro choice forces to have a big advantage.
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Maybe this wasn’t the best tagline to support someone’s right to choose, but it’s certainly fits the bill for today’s GOP, doesn’t it? No, this is not an article about abortion rights. Today I’m contemplating the disturbing rise of populism and if there’s still time to do anything about it. My blogvesary has been goading me into an abortion debate for a long time to which I will only say this: the mother should have the right to an abortion in cases when a child is at clear risk of becoming a registered Republican. Sorry, I don’t think men get to have this debate. We don’t have the equipment and we tend to be jerks (or 0 for 2 …you know, like your last two presidents). Facing overpopulation and potential extinction maybe our steadily decreasing abortion rates shouldn’t be our biggest concern in 2020. What concerns me is the uncanny ability of our conservative friends to weaponize such religiously-charged issues to bolster their ongoing/confounding relevance and electoral successes—successes that, not only fly in the face of logic, but cause other unseemly things to happen to said logical face.
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Tweet Tower—President Trump’s ghoulish adviser, Stephen Miller, is warning the world that if the president’s demands for wall funding are ignored any longer, the government may not start again in the traditional fashion. He told the press today the president may have to use an executive order to ‘pop the clutch’, or ‘Trump-start’ the nation to get it running properly. Some theorize this could be accomplished by pushing the government down a steep hill. The White House has not confirmed that it’s considering the hill over on 13th street by Columbia Heights. “This is unchartered territory,” said Miller. “We should probably just meet the president’s demands on this one. Why take the chance that our country’s brakes could fail?”
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South Park, CO—Today Spectr-phil-A Records proudly announced the venue for their 8th annual Fakeapalooza. The popular fictional music-jest will be held in South Park, Colorado this year and the event is scheduled to last a full a eleven days, “because our music festivals go to eleven!” Many of the best names in fictional rock are already booked, such as Spinal Tap, The Rutles, Eddie and The Cruisers, Josie & The Pussycats, Sex Bob-om, The Soggy Bottom boys, The Hong Kong Cavaliers (minus Buckaroo Bazai), Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem (minus Animal, who’s in rehab), the non-surviving members of the Monkees and parts of Gene Simmons. There’s even rumors The Discord’s own Armpit Salesmen will be making an appearance! The Salesmen, a self-described Spinal Tap cover band, features Cokie McGrath (whichever one is available) on lead vocals, Tony Benjamin-Franklin Ballz on lead guitar, Alex Already-His-Alias Bone on drums, Les Moore, more or less on keyboards, and even Mick Zano will be there, jamming out on the triangle, tambourine and/or cowbell. Tickets are $85 through Ticketgon or completely free at the door #BYOLGBTQ. Don’t void where prohibited as you could be arrested.
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Dark Side of the Moon—A Chinese rover has sent back the first images from the dark side of the moon and they are, well, pretty much what rock & roll fans all expected. The mission has proven, once and for all, there is Waters on the dark side of the moon. Yesterday, at 10:26 a.m. Beijing time, the Chinese spacecraft Chang’e 4 landed in an area on the lunar surface somewhere between the Sea of Tranquility and the hood The Chinese probe then deployed a rover that soon sent back the first images along with an eerie, tangential message, “Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Interstellar overdrive one of these days, Pigs! … Is there anybody out there? Mother? Nobody home? Wish you were here, Animals. There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark…”
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Soll, who sees the alphabetic pattern in a positive light—even calling it a “reinforcement of the content of the poem”79—Gunkel and Mowinckel see the pattern as an extraneous element artificially imposed upon these psalms. 81 Gunkel makes a few more comments about the acrostic pattern in his introduction to the Psalter. The first comments come again in the chapter on wisdom poetry in the psalms. He draws a distinction among the acrostic psalms between those that are bonafide “wisdom poems” (Pss 37; 112) and those that are “wisdom-influenced” poems (Pss 25; 34; and 119).
8 Zevit says he does not question the existence of the pattern that Jakobson discovers, but he does question whether subconscious patterning is relevant. ”9 Zevit does not marshal evidence to prove the last part of this statement—a statement that serves as one of his main presuppositions in reading biblical poetry. 10 Jakobson’s insights, therefore, provide a powerful refinement and focus to generalized statements about biblical poetry made by biblical scholars. ”11 A similar point is made by C.
Such satire has the effect of diminishing the power of the wicked enemy in the thinking of the audience of this psalm. 46 At the end of the day, there is a complete and profound “reversal” of fortunes. ”47 It is more accurate to describe this language as envisioning not just a social but also a theological (“divine”) reversal—a common biblical motif (1 Sam 2:4–9; Pss 73:13–21; 113:7–9; Job 42:7–9. Cf. Luke 1:51–53; 6:25; 16:25). Psalm 10 The first poetic device encountered in Ps 10 appears in the first verse and involves sarcasm.
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Tough quiz: 7 calls you may never see in NFL (but how would you rule?)
Rules Quiz
by Ben Austro - December 27, 2012 November 29, 2017 5
1st-and-goal from the B5. Quarterback A1 throws an interception, caught by cornerback B1 at the B3-yard line, who then runs parallel to the sideline. No player on Team A would be able to catch B1, so Player A12, who was on the bench, runs onto the field and tackles B1 at the A40-yard line. What is the call and where do you spot the ball?
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4. Touchdown awarded due to palpably unfair act
Spot ball at A2 for extra-point conversion try. When something happens that is well beyond the realm of fair play, the referee is allowed to confer with his crew and award any equitable resolution they deem necessary. This authority is given under the palpably unfair act rule, and there is no record of it ever called in the NFL.
It did, however, happen in the 1954 Cotton Bowl. Because the runner is unimpeded to the end zone, the only equitable call is to award the touchdown. Deliberate palpably unfair acts are subject to an ejection of the player or participant, although, surprisingly, the officials in the Cotton Bowl did not.
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5 thoughts on “Tough quiz: 7 calls you may never see in NFL (but how would you rule?)”
oneblankspace says:
The 2013 Fiesta Bowl featured a variation on Question 3.
nightfly says:
Ah…. Dickie Moegel.
This almost happened in a 1997 Jaguars-Steelers game. The potential game-winning field goal for the Steelers was blocked, and as a Jaguar began to return it for a touchdown, he ran past Bill Cowher, who made a motion as if he was going to tackle the player. Cowher said that he almost made the tackle.
Sean Boardman says:
For Q #1, I have always been interested to see a 7th Quarter kickoff happen, but it never has as of yet. I did watch the Los Angeles Express Triple-Overtime USFL playoff game on ABC, and no kickoff occurred to start the 3rd OT period, only the ends of the field at the LA coliseum were switched, with possession maintained by the offense, as a continuation of the same drive from the end of the 2nd OT period.
Wow! Good to know someone was watching.
With all of the revisions to the overtime section of the rulebook for modified sudden death, it is a little more clearly stated that there is another kickoff. Before then, it was probably an item in the officials’ Casebook.
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– Posted on March 17, 2013Posted in: Bad25, Exclusive, Instagram, Michael Jackson
As we enter the back-end of March 2013, many Michael Jackson fans are wondering what the next phase of his posthumous career will bring.
Last Friday marks three years since the announcement of a seven-year deal between Sony Music Entertainment and The Michael Jackson Estate. The deal, said to be worth a potential $250 million in cash advances to the estate, made Sony Music the exclusive distributor of the Michael Jackson’s material until 2017. So far, footage from “This Is It” rehearsals, unreleased songs, demos, remixes, video games and even an posthumously edited version of the never-finished short film for Jackson’s track “One More Chance” have been released. Most recently added to the list was a commemorative 25th anniversary edition of Jackson’s “Bad” album, called “Bad 25”, which featured never-before heard tracks from the era, a live album and concert DVD showcasing Jackson’s July 16th performance at Wembley Stadium from the Bad World Tour in 1988.
Artwork for Spike Lee's "Bad 25" film.
Made to promote “Bad 25” was a documentary of the same name, put together by legendary filmmaker Spike Lee. The documentary, which debuted at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in August 2012, details the creation of the songs and short films from the “Bad” album. An edited version of the documentary was broadcast on a number of television networks around the world in late 2012 with a DVD and Blu-ray scheduled for release in February 2013. This date was then pushed back to March – and again to summer, according to Spike Lee – meaning it won’t be released until June 2013 at the earliest. An exact release date has not yet been confirmed and the reason for the delay remains a mystery.
On February 22 The Michael Jackson Estate and Cirque du Soleil confirmed the continuation of their relationship by announcing “Michael Jackson ONE” – a brand new Cirque production set to residency at Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The production will preview from May 23 before officially premiering on June 29, just four days after the 4th anniversary of Jackson’s death. The Estate and Sony previously released a soundtrack for Cirque’s touring production, “IMMORTAL”, and could very well do the same for “ONE”.
On March 4, less than two weeks after announcing “ONE”, the Estate filed four new trademark registrations for “THRILLER THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME” under Triumph International. The filings were for live performances, recorded music and video, promotional materials and merchandise, fuelling speculation that a “Thriller” themed project may also be in the works. Fans know of at least a dozen demos from the “Thriller” era that could be included in a commemorative release, such as “Hot Street”, “Trouble”, “Niteline” and “Starlight”.
Also still yet to see an official release are a number of Jackson’s more recent studio recordings – including “Escape”, “Blue Gangsta”, “Do You Know Where Your Children Are” and “Slave To The Rhythm” – all of which have leaked online, receiving rave reviews from fans around the world. Combined with songs that have not yet leaked (at least not in full) – such as “She Was Lovin’ Me“, “Can’t Get Your Weight Off Of Me”, “I Was The Loser“, “Days In Gloucestershire” and “A Place With No Name” – the opportunity for an album of complete, unreleased recordings still remains possible.
Hard drives containing unreleased Michael Jackson music.
A couple of days ago, on March 15, Jackson’s long-time collaborative partner, Michael Prince, uploaded a photo to his Instagram showing a number of hard drives with the caption: “So many hard drives spinning and humming, new tracks from MJ will soon be coming.” Prince worked alongside the King of Pop for fourteen years, from HBO’s planned “One Night Only” concert in 1995 until the final day of Jackson’s “This Is It” rehearsals in 2009. Naturally the photo created a buzz among Jackson fans, who interpreted it as a sign that the songs on the hard drives would soon be released. However, this is not the case. According to a source close to Prince, who was able to comment, a small team was simply preparing to begin looking through old drives in pursuit of any material that may have been forgotten about. There are said to be dozens of hard drives that have not yet been analysed, which could contain yet-to-be discovered material that fans are hoping to hear. However, despite fans’ insatiable appetite for Jackson’s unreleased songs and demo recordings, there are currently no plans to release such material in an official capacity. Prince has since removed the picture from Instagram to avoid causing any further confusion or misinterpretation by fans and friends.
Sources behind the scenes at Sony tell me that other project ideas being considered include the long-awaited official release of Jackson’s famed 30th Anniversary celebration concerts from Madison Square Garden in 2001, a Blu-ray of the Michael Jackson Memorial Service, an album of incomplete, unreleased songs to be re-produced as duets, and a 3D version of the “HIStory World Tour” to be screened in cinemas around the world. The 30th Anniversary celebration in particular has the potential to be a huge success, as these stand as the last full-length concert performances of Michael Jackson’s career. The concerts include tribute performances by a number of the world’s biggest stars, and feature the incredible onstage reunion of the Jackson brothers – their first performance together in seventeen years.
In the pipeline prior to Jackson’s passing was a 30th Anniversary edition of his 1979 album “Off The Wall”, to be called “Off The Wall 30”. This was Sony’s proposed follow-up to the mega-successful “Thriller 25”, which has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide since its release in February 2008. However “Off The Wall 30” was put on hold following the announcement of Jackson’s ill-fated “This Is It” tour. Sony have since pursued the possibility of issuing the commemorative edition posthumously, but are yet to locate enough releasable material from the era to use as bonus tracks.
In the months leading up to his passing, Jackson himself was planning for a television special to be broadcast around the world at Halloween, showcasing his 1996 film “Ghosts”. This is also something that remains unreleased, despite the fact that fans are chomping at the bit to experience it in high definition. A Blu-ray featuring the 40-minute film and a “making of” documentary would surely please MJ-enthusiasts around the world.
But in the end, all is speculation and nothing (apart from the new Cirque production “ONE”) is confirmed. So I am asking…
What would YOU like to see released next?
Discuss below…
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Posted March 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM
The HIStory World Tour on DVD! 🙂
Charles Thomson
HIStory Tour in cinemas is the worst idea I’ve ever heard. It will be absolutely mauled by critics and audiences alike. It was a stain on Michael’s legacy and should never, ever be officially released. The lip-synching was atrocious. At times Michael was miming to studio recordings with three layers of his voice and would forget which layer he was pretending to sing. On the 1996 leg he lip-synched to the original, 1979 studio cut of Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough. I have spoken to people who walked out of the concerts in disgust at that point in the show.
The idea of Madison Square Gardens on DVD is only marginally less stupid. The segment with his brothers is good, although a lot of the vocals were over-dubbed in post-production, but the solo section is badly and glaringly lip-synched. Again, it will invite intense criticism which will not serve Jackson’s legacy well. Moreover, his face looked so bad it had to be digitally blurred – and not especially well.
Sony is seriously scraping the barrel now if these are the ideas it is coming up with. The memorial on DVD? How utterly morbid.
They should just give it up. Give us Bad and Victory Tours in good quality, then stop. There’s nothing left worth releasing.
The only worthwhile projects besides those two tours on DVD would be more documentaries in the style of Bad 25, but given that the powers that be are not remotely interested in celebrating Jackson’s political or controversial output and are instead intent on turning him into a Disney-style caricature they can use to shift product, we’re unlikely to get anything approaching a probing analysis of his best work.
Bad 25, although it was half-decent, glossed over the overt racial commentary of Speed Demon and used the documentary to launch irrelevant attacks on Jackson’s family. The amount of time spent attempting to convince its audience that the Bad short film was a gritty piece of cinema rather than the camp lunacy it actually was demonstrated from the word ‘go’ that the film was totally unobjective. It was propaganda. The idea that albums like Dangerous or HIStory might be meaningfully dissected is therefore somewhat far-fetched.
The Immortal tour sucked. Undoubtedly the worst concert production I have ever seen. Distasteful and offensive, actually. The Vegas show looks equally tacky, based on the press launch.
Give us the 80s tours and then give up. All else is just more corpse-raping nonsense.
LibelFreezone
Posted March 18, 2013 at 9:56 AM
Mr. Thomson, you forgot one thing. You forgot to add “… in my opinion…” which is all that your diatribe is.
jason rodgers
actually Charlie has an extremely valid point……..
Posted June 6, 2013 at 4:16 PM
Agreed!!!
samhabib
The memorial on BluRay?!? What the fuck is this, man?!? The greatest fucking entertainer that EVER LIVED and all they can think of producing is a BluRay of his memorial?!?
Michele Dickson
Posted April 5, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Well, Charles Thompson is just one person. There are plenty of REAL Michael Jackson fans who will disagree with him, on just about every point he makes here. I, for one, am heartily sick of hearing the “everything was crap after Thriller” line. To refer to the BAD video as “camp lunacy” is a direct smack in Michael’s face and indicates that the maker of the comment (Thompson) did not bother to look past the surface of the video, at all. I prefer to consult Joe Vogel’s analysis of Michael’s body of work, for a balanced and fair evaluation, rather than to take Thompson’s words on face value. With regard to the HIStory World Tour, CT may think he’s some kind of expert and may think he’s being objective with the sweeping statements he makes, but thousands upon thousands of fans who either attended the concerts, or watch them now, on DVD, do not agree with him. They have voted with their wallets and their feet. I think a 3D movie of the HIStory World Tour in theatres and then on DVD would be fantastic. It might actually make some of the naysayers and lipsynch whingers shut up about it, for once and for all. I’d also love to see a Dangerous project, similar to the one created for BAD 25, with a Dangerous Tour concert (other than Bucharest) on DVD as well as unreleased songs and demos from the Dangerous sessions. The Memorial Service service was very, very well done and it was more like a tribute concert, albeit a sombre one. It’s probably not necessary to release it on Blu-ray, but some people must have said they’d like it, for the Estate to be considering it. It certainly was a piece of history that should be preserved and passed on in some way, to show future generations just how loved and revered MJ was and still is, in all walks of life.
You pretty much said everything that was on my mind.
Shirley Alves
Posted July 7, 2013 at 8:56 AM
Oh Charles…Charles… Wow. I have been a fan of yours for a few years now, and even listened to your interview on King Jordan’s this afternoon! But reading this loathsome opinion piece shocked me. Wow. I thought you were on MICHAEL’s side!! The BAD short film was “camp lunacy”??!! The Immortal Tour was “distasteful and offensive”?? OMG… I saw the show 7 times, and I never saw anything that would even remotely be construed as such! I attended the ONE premiere last Saturday night, and it was NOT “tacky”!!
While it IS true that SOME of MJ’s song performances on the HISTORY tour were lip-synched, the same could be said of any number of artists these days!! Certainly, you can NOT say that the ENTIRE song line-up was lip-synched! And anyways, it seems that you are a bit out of touch with what fans love about those shows… He still danced as well as ever; his performance of some numbers was simply breathtaking – the level of energy and emotion he put into them astounding (ex Beat It; Earth Song; Black or White; Billie Jean); and he looked absolutely delicious, being in the sexiest strongest physical shape of his life…!!
And since when is an artistic project’s release based on what CRITICS will or will not think about it anyway??! As long as PEOPLE are happy and buying it, that’s what counts! I mean, if you check, you will see that several stupid critics even thought the THRILLER album was “campy” and not as “good” as OFF THE WALL when it first came out!! Some even called it a FLOP!! Can you imagine that??!!! No offense to you personally, but critics come and go… and after all, a critic is just one person with an opinion, whether they are commenting on albums or movies or shows. The totality of the opinion of the many OTHERS outweigh the importance of any critic. If many like it, regardless of a critic’s thumbs down, it will do well. Conversely so, if the MASSES do NOT like a product, regardless of how many accolades a critic may give it, that product’s future success is dead in the water. While a critic can INFLUENCE those on the fence about whether or not to purchase any given item, whether an album or a car, he can’t do much either way for a person who knows what they like, and already know that they can’t wait to get their hands on that given item. Maybe for a Broadway show, a critic’s thumbs down can be the kiss of death, but for an artist as loved around the world as Michael Jackson, I don’t think so.
It is sad to me that you seem to be saying that after the 80s, MJ was a flop…. 🙁
While certainly, that WAS his most successful era, his lesser successes still outperform ANY artist these days. What did INVINCIBLE sell? “Just” about 15 million copies… One Direction should be so lucky to “just” sell that many!!! And incidentally, do critics like One Direction or Justin Bieber as much as the MANY fans do????? I think not. And yet, they are doing absolutely fine…
Case closed.
I will however concede, Charles, that in Immortal, the “Bubbles” character WAS tacky, and that the dancing “glove”, “hat” and “loafers” only served to promote the superficial characterization of who Michael was, which was disappointing… I would have liked to have seen the portrayal of Michael as a person, humanitarian, and genius songwriter/poet be explored and highlighted more…. but overall, I would not call the show offensive.
Betty Boob
Posted January 2, 2017 at 10:31 PM
Shirley, Why dont you get a job and stop this perverted obsession you have with MJ. Geez, get a life will ya?
I don’t quite agree with everything Charles says, but not here to argue, tastes differ,
and I do agree with him about Immortal and no need for History on DVD (though if hardcore fans
really, really want it… it’s NOT to please critics after all), but I’d love Victory in good quality.
In fact I’d love Triumph even more and .., but i realize this will never happen. So, Victory
and that’s about it. Everything great MJ is already available, too bad video quality often sux.
If they can somehow swap VHS picture to truly good DVD, I’m all for that.
Documentaries would be nice, but only with relevant people involved if possible. People who know what they are talking about, because they were there, working alongside MJ. No speculation etc.
And NO even subtle family bashing please! Which is, again, impossible coming from the Estate.
If they have new old demos\songs or something, I’d love them just like they are, not overproduced by some clumsy producers. Of course this is interesting only to “old”, very loyal and somewhat obsessed fans, as you can’t market that to teen kids who became fans couple years ago.
deirdrelawlor
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I am shocked by Charles’s comments. To come there to put forward the physical appearance of Michael as not being acceptable enough in the image, is simply disgusting. When in the choices of the fans, it is necessary to stop wanting to attribute to them a burning desire of quality so visual and sound . When we see astronomical quantity of fans has such point desperate people, when they come there to appreciate imitators and impersonators, sorry it proves well that their level of requirements is at the lowest, because the lack is so big. (sorry 4 the bad translation)
im a huge fan of MJ but his physical appearance was heartbreaking certainly by Invincible era…….
TJ.
MJ Fandom is not what it used to be.
I remember the time my friends from around the world and i would sit up all night dissecting & fantasizing about every possibility from a simple quote or hint some music producer or “close friend” of Michael’s would let slip into the press. Remember when Christian Audigier let slip that Michael was heading to London to announce This Is It? Fans didn’t sleep for a week from pure excitement.
Those days are long gone.
That enthusiasm and optimism didn’t die in 2009 with Michael though, it died after that. It died around December 2010 when the fan community were very clearly shown that the men in suits running all things “official MJ” were A) corrupt, and B) not even a little bit interested in MJ’s wishes or artistic vision.
Trusting those same men to deliver a quality and respectful product worthy of Michael’s name is something I can never do. They’ve pissed on his legacy, And i feel nothing but dread at that thought of what they’ll do next.
Marco B. (@B__Marco)
Nothing !! I do not want to see released anything.
I want:
1) Justice for MJ’s Children and Family
2) The Esate/Branca gone
3) MJ’s grown up kids/adult get in charge of their father art and start releasing Material with the goal of raising Money for charity .
When all the 3 above will be achieved, I will accept any type or release and support it buying.
Before that, I am against any release….No support and money from me.
Lauren Trainor
Loved Immortal (twice); happily looking forward to MJONE; loved ‘Michael’; support the Estate; would love to see a Dangerous25 and would love to see something with emphasis on the Invincible album; love to see Ghosts remastered and released…and sure would love a new album of music tracks such as what Damien listed above.
Thank you for the breakdown and information, Damien.
You liked the dancing monkey in Immortal? I’m sure MJ would have loved nothing more than to see his music reduced to such bullshit.
Posted March 18, 2013 at 12:07 PM
‘Loved ‘Michael”? Don’t you feel any amount of guilt for ‘loving’ a product that Paris Jackson has claimed contains fake songs?! That’s absolutely disgusting. And you call yourself a fan?!
Julie Noel
Posted June 27, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Don’t worry, Lauren probably works for the Estate. The fan community was infiltrated by Sony and Estate minions after MJ’s death in order to stifle serious discussion and sell product. It has been difficult for many of us.
“Sources behind the scenes at Sony tell me”…
LMAO! As if a memorial of a deceased legend or that horrible 30th anniversary that is shown every year on TV would be considered. And for your interest: Sony has no rights on the 30th anniversary.. Stop lying.
Let’s see, so far this Estate has given us songs that Michael Jackson’s own children have claimed are fake, a sub-VHS quality release of the Bad Tour, poor quality video box set in the form of Visions, incorrect dates on replica tickets, have denied any support/endorsement of the controversial Michael Bush exhibition/auction, an auction which included signed pictures of Jackie Jackson… er… signed by Jermaine… and to top it all off, dancing monkeys on the atrocious Immortal tour.
All in all, a complete fucking horror show. No comeback from the Cascio songs, I’m afraid. When you wage war with the man’s family, and the vast majority of his LEGITIMATE fan base, you’ve fucked up to the extreme and there’s no comeback.
There’s no future for the Michael Jackson brand while these morons are in charge.
Posted May 29, 2013 at 10:12 PM
Quality control certainly seems to have been an issue since Michaels passing. The videos in vision looked photoshopped in a very amateur way. Not the kind you get when you compare gone with the wind or enter the dragon say, when they were remastered. I am sure MJ use to film his videos using 35mm film so why are the videos not remastered properly. In beat it his jacket has being turning Orange over the years. When the video first cam out his jacket was red. Or may be its just me.
With moonwalker the concert footage that was used for man in the mirror looked like it was filmed using 35mm film, not vhs. can the estate not locate the full concert?
I used to like the extended mix, instrumental and acapella formats for most of the bad singles, so perhaps Dangerous/Bad the Instrumentals would be good idea. Not some cheap Kareoke type but the proper job like it was on singles and also for songs that we have not heard instrumentals too.
Victory tour is the best idea. Perhaps even a film. There was that vide called unauthorised, where mj was wearing a red jumper, filmed at havenhurst post thriller, pre bad. He talked about a song called buffolo bill which he said he knew was gonna be a hit, id like to hear that. The wembley version of the dangerous tour would be great. Budapest was awful, poor camera angles and also mj didnt seem on full form that night. There was a nice glossy book for thriller 25, would be great to have had or get one for bad, with unrealsed pictures, all the pictures taken for the bad cover. What about demo version of bad, or other songs on the album. What about a dvd release of captain eo, or an imax 3d release?
What about a video for dangerous. Was one in the works? I know that dangerous (the single) was scheduled for a december 1993 release but was cancelled because of what was going on at the time. Maybe if sony spend a couple of million making a dangerous video with the set based around the dangerous cover, something similiar to janet jacksons rythmn nation video, electrifying dancers that can carry MJs grace, high budget, with a digital mj or an impersonator? what about a 125 dvd box set with every bad tour concert. I think so much could be done for his legacy, but nothing is, its just all low profile releases, other than the tours. Can anyone remember the week bad was released Every shop in the high street had posters outside. I’m talking too much now, it would be interesting to see what others think.
You’re right, Sam. There is no coming back from the ‘Michael’ album. That was it. For the true fans, that was absolutely it. They crossed a line.
Michael Jackson’s mother, who he spoke to constantly on the phone, say that is not his voice. His brothers, who he sang with for decades, say that is not his voice. His daughter, who he sang to – in her words – every day, says that is not his voice. His nephews, who recorded songs with him, say it is not his voice. And any true fan’s ears say that it is not his voice.
Nobody of any quality has come forward and said it is his voice. Teddy Riley said it was MJ’s voice, but he was – by that point – on the Estate’s payroll, and made the comments at the same time that he was posting comments on twitter saying he believed Michael had faked his own death and was in hiding. He is now making subtle comments on twitter to suggest that the voice is not MJ’s after all.
The Estate released a statement claiming lots of prominent figures believe it’s MJ’s voice. Except the statement is a lie. Some of the people on the list and at the meeting came forward to say the statement was bullshit. The statement said Quincy Jones had confirmed it was MJ’ voice, but he was interviewed days later and said he could NOT confirm it was MJ’s voice.
The songs ae demonstrably fake. Any fan with working ears and the braincells they were born with know they are fake. No evidence has ever been produced to suggest that they are real, but mountains of evidence point towards them being fakes. Even Jason Malachi’s producer says it is his voice on those tracks, not Michael Jackson’s.
The fans who support the ‘Michael’ album deserve every piece of shit product that the Estate sells them. I hope they send Immortal around the world all over again so those fans can pay a hundred pounds a ticket for a second time round, to watch a man in a monkey suit dance to hideous remixes of Michael Jackson’s greatest songs while white dancers in comedy afro wigs mock his family members in the background.
Who are you to judge Michael’s true fans? That is bullshit. It’s fine to give your opinion but fan bashing should be off the table.
If they support demonstrably fake tracks, they’re not fans.
Teddy Riley is clearly fucked off with the whole thing and seems absolutely desperate to say something. Fans have just asked him about the songs in the last few days and he’s responded ‘I wish I could talk about it’. Why? If they were legit, why wouldn’t he just say ‘They are legitimate’?
If you call Paris Jackson a liar, don’t call yourself a fan. Simple. If you’d rather support the ‘second family’ than the man’s OWN family, don’t count yourself as a Michael Jackson fan. It’s that simple. One of those families was at his side during his trial in 2005. One wasn’t. Take your pick.
1. The Triumph Tour at the LA Forum
2. The Victory Tour at Texas Stadium
3. Making Michael Jackson’s Thriller
4. Ghosts
5. A 12 song album of songs recorded during 1998-2009
6. A 2 or 3 cd set of unreleased songs, alternate takes, demos, and live versions
7. Deluxe edition of Off The Wall
8. Deluxe edition of Dangerous
Documentary on Off The Wall
That’s a good DVD list. I’d love Desiny and Triumph tours on DVD but don’t think we’ve got any hope of ever seeing them released, sadly.
Could do without all the unreleased material you’ve listed, given that none of what they’ve put out so far was especially good and some of it wasn’t even real. I just think it detracts from Michael Jackson’s legacy and discography to keep releasing sub-standard material that he shelved for a reason. He didn’t release that much music as a solo adult. If they carry on, there will be more substandard, previously unreleased material on the market than there is fantastic, finished, officially released music – and who does that serve?
I love Off The Wall but am not sure how interested I’d be in a documentary about it, given that MJ had very little creative input compared to all his subsequent solo albums. He actually had more input in the Jacksons albums from around the same period. I’d be more interested in a HIStory documentary, but have absolutely zero faith at all in those in charge to actually create something accurate, honest and in keeping with the spirit of the album.
Mjjinspiration
Hmmmmm!Very good ideas I think also good ideas are:
1. This is it (All the songs and all 3d videos.I mean Full concert and no interviews or making of, only action)
2.A concert in 3d (history/bad/dangerous/this is it)
3.History tour making of and Rehearsals
ALBUMS/CD
1.Ressurection album(2003)
2.Will I Am album (2007)
3.The World Is No church album (1998)
4.Beatboy 2010 album (2009)
5.A 14 tracks album with other unreleased material from 2001-2008
6.Dangerous 25
7.A 10 tracks album with unreleased tracks from 1970-1988
8.An album with all unreleased duets michael made
9.An Instrumental Album
1.Documentary for History/Dangerous/Invincible albums
2.Michael Jackson on studio
1.In zip file Multitracks of all his greatest hits like Billie jean,Smooth criminal,Hollywood tonight etc.
I think Michael was a good album but it has 3 no-MJ’s songs like KYHU, Monster and Breaking news it was a big mistake and the other mistake was the rework happend in some tracks.Immortal was a disaster noone wants Remixes There are a lot of better remixes on web.Bad 25 was awesome Album and the best think sony released all these 4 years.
I did like the Immortal World Tour. It’s Cirque and is based on the circus performance. What part of that isn’t clear? We may not like everything about it but as a whole it worked. Obviously, others like it too.
“I did like the Immortal World Tour. It’s Cirque and is based on the circus performance. What part of that isn’t clear?”
I have seen Cirque Du Soleil before. At no point did a bunch of white dancers dress up as black celebrities and mock them, nor did anybody dress up as a giant monkey.
Blacking up like minstrels is not appropriate. Nor is ending the show with the ‘Michael Jackson’ character descending the stage in an embrace with a monkey. What part of *that* isn’t clear?
The show was utterly offensive and the idea that some fans are prepared to defend it is, to me, deeply alarming.
I saw the show in Montreal and in Quebec City, and at that time, the “fans” were all black except for one. No One was “blacked up”.
I know the show kept getting shortened as time went on, and perhaps by the time it got to the UK, it was so disjointed that it was unclear who those “minstrels” (as you call them) were. That is unfortunate. In the original show (which even I saw get cut and changed over the 10 months I saw it performed), there was a group of urban fans who decide to travel to Neverland, in hopes of being welcomed into Michael’s home. In the scene you are mentioning, they are trying to impress Michael with a little J5 impersonation performance. It works. After that sequence, the gates of Neverland open and they are allowed inside… with Michael appearing in the Giving Tree. That is what happened originally. Originally, the Giving Tree is on stage throughout the entire show. A friend in the UK told me she didn’t see anything like that…
So perhaps, the UK version was not what I saw in Canada.
Thanks everyone for getting involved with the discussion! I’ve seen a few ideas and opinions I like and a few I don’t necessarily agree with. I have some ideas of my own which I’ll share when I have time… either as a reply to the article or possibly even as a new article. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. Keep em coming!
I’m hoping one day we’ll get to see the footage Michael shot throughout his life, especially what was recorded when he traveled the world from 1987 to 1999. To see his meetings with kings, presidents, prime ministers… the sites he visited, the sea of fans waiting at every hotel… to see all that from his perspective would be incredible.
He led one of the most remarkable lives in that decade spanning his three solo tours. It would make for an INCREDIBLE documentary. And he had cameramen/friends with handheld cameras almost everywhere he went in those years.
It could be actually combined with footage from recording sessions for the albums: Bad, Dangerous and HIStory/BOTDF and behind the scenes from their respective music videos.
Another project I would be very interested in is to have his classical compositions properly orchestrated and issued as a standalone album or part of some movie soundtrack.
I’d like to see a proper release of What More Can I Give one day (e.g. a charity single sold at McDonald’s, as was originally discussed)
-solo version
-all star (English+Spanish versions)
-music video
-behind the scenes footage
Michael Jackson’s Ghosts/Thriller Blu-ray combo with the making ofs is another good idea. A “Halloween Collection” album with his “scary” tracks (Thriller, Torture, Is It Scary, Ghosts, Threatened, Monster/the real song started in 1998/ and others) could be a very marketable addition.
Finally, I wouldn’t mind if one of the songs Michael finished production/arrangements for was given to a respectable, quality but mainstream rapper like Jay-Z or Kanye West for use on a future album. I’m thinking about a song that has an incomplete vocal track except for a hook or chorus (as in Shut Up And Dance). That way Michael would get production and songwriter credit for the song (royalties) as well as recognition in the mainstream for being featured on a hit/or very strong album track. But it would need to be done with A LOT of care and I don’t see such respected artists easily trusting the executors with regards to such undertakings.
PasMater
I want HIStory Tour on blu-ray and in cinemas. That would be amazing. HIStory was amazing tour, just like Bad and Dangerous. It deserves to be oficially released.
P.S. I don’t understand why Charles is so frustrated. He can just not go to see it and stay home watching Bad Tour VHS with live vocals.
Duet album also sound interesting, but collaborators should be picked very carefuly. No Justin Bieber for example.
30th Anniversary is great idea too. But blu-ray.
I’m not interested in memorial service. That is lame.
Also they should apologize for releasing fake songs and remove them from MJ’s discography.
The HIStory Tour is a smear on Michael Jackson’s legacy – one of the single most appalling live tours in music history. He charged stadiums full of people for a ‘live’ show, then mimed to album tracks for two hours.
If it is released, critics will absolutely maul it. It will be a bloodbath. As somebody who actually cares about Michael Jackson and his legacy, that is something I do not wish to see.
Every tape of the HIStory Tour should be incinerated.
Critics absolutely “mauled” HIStory (his greatest album ever) and Invincible which was also great album. Who cares what will critics say or write. They “mauled” everything MJ did after Thriller.
MJ show is not just vocal performance. It’s your lost if you can’t enjoy it. I will enjoy it for sure with millions other fans in theaters all around the world, with 3D glasses!
One of the most appalling tours in history? I wouldn’t go that far, but I do agree. Michael mimed through all but two songs during two-hour concerts. Even his dancing wasn’t all it should have been. Was that a result of age? Probably. In that case, could we forgive him? Yes. But that still doesn’t make it a tour suitable enough for release.
apart from legit songs…………all i want is ‘Place with no name’ and the original of ‘Behind the Mask’.
And if he recorded ‘Joy’ the song given to Blackstreet then i want that….
Odds are we will never get any “original” mixes of songs. I mean, look at “This Is It”. We still only have the John McClain reproduction – while it is fantastic, I would be interested in hearing the original demo.
I have supported the Estate through and through for these past few years. I bought every single project that has been released – yes, even the controversial MICHAEL album some two and a half years ago. But right now, I have to say I am not happy.
* The HIStory World Tour was Michael’s worst performances. Throughout the entire tour only TWO songs were performed with live vocals, excluding ad-libs at the end of some songs – Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ and the Jackson 5 Medley. And even those songs had subpar vocals. This is not the kind of release that the fans want to hear or see. The same could be said with the 30th anniversary shows – a tedious few hours of boring tributes, a Jacksons reunion, then five or six songs that were all lip-synched. Michael shouldn’t be remembered through these disappointing performances.
* The fans simply don’t want a duet album. We’ve made that clear. Sony needs to remember the backlash that surrounded reproducing Michael’s material. If they add ANOTHER ARTIST to the mix, I’m sure it’ll be even worse.
* The memorial service should not be released. There are already high definition copies widely available online, not to mention that it is an overall boring choice. Of course, Michael’s death still saddens me to this day, but I personally wouldn’t want to buy a release that takes me back to the months after his death, not to mention hearing other artists try to pay tribute to him.
* Like the other shows, Ghosts is available online in high definition, along with its “making of” featurette in the same quality. Again, a waste of a release.
Damien, can you please inform the Estate that what fans want the most and would support the most is another new album? I’m clamoring to hear new music, and I know several others are as well. Thank you for your information on the topic.
Eric M. Hembre
My top choice for the next MJ project release would be a follow up to the Michael album, minus the controversy. Pick songs that fans know it’s Michael. There shouldn’t be any question the vocals on the album are indeed Michael Jackson’s. Songs like Blue Gangsta, Slave To the Rhythm and A Place Without No Name should be on there. The 1st two I think could do very well on the dance charts and in the clubs.
Tracks like Do You Know Where Your Children Are and Escape should also be officially released. With those two, and the 3 I mentioned above, you got 5 very strong tracks. Add 6 or 7 more to go with them and we got ourselves a decent album that will blow the Michael album away 1 million times over.
After that, I’d like to see a Dangerous 25 album. Dangerous was a huge album, and it’s a shame it’s not given more respect and appreciation that it rightfully deserves.
Hell no to a DVD with the memorial. That’s tacky and disrespectful.
No thanks to a History tour concert DVD. How about a new one for the Dangerous Tour, that ISN’T Bucharest.
No thanks to a duet album. It will fail. I don’t want to see some computer generated studio artist like Justin Bieber ruining a Michael Jackson track. It’s bad enough he had to be apart of the We Are The World remake.
Duet album with Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Ne-Yo, & Prince. With guest rappers Jay-Z & Kanye West if they need a rapper is some songs.
They can also include unreleased Freddie Mercury duets on the same album.
For me, they can leave Lady Gaga off.
Roie
About the lip-synching – the thing is that Michael’s shows, including the HIStory tour shows were an entertainment experience that included many things that made up the whole – the lighting, special effects, performance tableaux, the band, the singers and the songs, the dance and the dancers – Michael’s stamp was on all those things and he was there out front, performing his heart out.
So it seems a tad nit-picky to me to hear a complaint about lip-synching considering not only the totality of a Michael Jackson show and the particular uniqueness of Michael’s performance role in even one of those shows, but also what they meant to Michael and his fans and the personal cost they exacted on Michael’s health at times. Still I realize people have a right to their opinions, just as I do and I just watched a full HIStory tour performance and it was fantastic! Would I be happy if Michael sat on a stool for two hours or more and just sang? Yes. Could Michael have done that? Perhaps. If he was tied down.
As for the “critics” – most of them and their critiques were rarely about Michael’s music or art when he was alive, so pfft to the critics, they spat on their own craft, if that’s what you could call it. The critics (with a very few exceptions) can go to hell.
Alec’s suggestions are good (though the people currently in charge of releasing Michael’s material have shown they’re not to be trusted with it), and there is one thing that Michael took part in that I’d especially love to see but I’ll just keep hoping it will appear sometime in the future, independent of the estate.
I, for one, never show a lip synced MJ performance to friends or colleagues as an example of Michael Jackson at his best for fear of being laughed at.
You might tell them to try and do what Michael did, then you could have a laugh.
No. Real musicologists don’t really appreciate people pretending to sing.
Michaels fans are very fractionated and nothing will appeal to every group. But there is enough for everyone. Michael had other interests and talents as well , and it should not be limited to music. My wishes :
– an unplugged album with his best vocals( no autotune!)
– a documentary on his dance and choreography
– release of what more can I give for one of his charities
– a book with his drawings, quotes , speeches ,rare photo’s and song lyrics. Better quality than the opus.
– a bio documentary ( maybe too soon now)
– a release of the Cardiff tribute show on dvd . I was there and despite what people say (who were not there) it was the best live tribute show I have seen, and I have seen many. It was authentic because two of the people who were at the root of his career Gladys knight and Smokey Robinson performed . The artists were great and their performance was excellent. His mother children and other family being there made it a unique experience that will never be seen again. Compared to it Cirque immortal was a disappointment. Not enough cirque and no Michael feel . For the enormity of the production I found the mis en scene poor and the dancers mediocre. They could have done much better considering the commercial succes .
– An album with only unknown music. No leaks, Not a theme album, but a mix of different eras and genres.
– Victory tour
– No memorial ! No biopic, No posthumus duets with people who were never a part of his musical entourage and whose vocal abilities don’t hold a candle to his.
What I would like most for Michael is respect for his work and for the man. without second thoughts. Like how 25 years after his death fans pay tribute to Bob Marley by making his song their club song . See on you tube AJAX FANS SINGING THREE LITTLE BIRDS @ OLD TRAFFORD ( MAN UTD – AJAX 1 – 2 )
angelmjalive
The footage he’s been filming since 6/25/09…………………
Most commenters here are retards or haters. I have painstakingly collected ALL available bootleg History shows on the Internet. I love every single one of them and I would pay anything to have an official release of History Tour. And for Jason whatshisname, Michael always looked handsome throughout the years. If you think otherwise, let’s see how handsome you are! So, back off with your hateful comments and don’t call yourself a fan, TRAITOR!
You don’t need to get so defensive. Although I love every single thing about him, Michael was NOT a perfect man. With that in mind, the HIStory tour was truly awful. How can you compare the Bad tour, where Michael was at the top of his game, to the HIStory tour? Hell, even the Dangerous tour is ten times better than the HIStory tour. Think about it. Which appeals you more:
(a) A Michael Jackson concert where every song is performed live and Michael gave his very best on stage, singing with every ounce of emotion he can pull out of himself
(b) A Michael Jackson concert where almost every single song has overdubbed vocals and Michael’s dancing seems tiring, uncaring and lazy.
You’re not a hater for wanting to see Michael’s best, not Michael’s worst.
Actually, come to think of it, the Estate could put something together discussing Michael’s socio-political output like those MJ Academia videos were doing. Alas, they’d have to actually care about the man. And expose themselves. So it ain’t going to happen.
Dave Allemby
Please no more compilations – as much as we love Michael Jacksons songs – there is a limit to how many best ofs we can buy -The songs I would like to see released is those with Freddie Mercury -Two legends together
Just look at this:
http://historycontinues.com/forums/showthread.php?1339-Your-Choice-for-the-Next-Project&p=19933#post19933
Even though it’s only 15 voters, EVERYONE wants a new album. C’mon Estate.
Braden Putt
*All his studio albums to be released in 8.1 stereo.
*Bad tour concert shot with film cameras.
*Victory tour concert shot with film cameras.
*Another Dangerous tour DVD, with ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’, ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Bad’ performed.
* A documentary using MJs own personal recordings throughout the years.
*Off The Wall, Dangerous and HIStory special anniversary editions.
*A brand new album featuring only songs MJ recorded between Invincible and 09. The songs included should be atleast 80% finished by MJ and should be promoted as the last album MJ was working on before he died. Redone and Will.I.Am tracks to be included if they are atleast 80% finished.
*All Short Films to be released in Blu Ray Quality.
*Anniversary edition of This Is It with plenty more behind the scenes footage.
I’d like to see Private Home Movies get an official release. There are so many documentaries out there about Michael Jackson that are utter rubbish. This one might actually be one of the most vital pieces of his legacy, as it shows who Michael really was, both in the home videos and the fabulous commentary section.
It’d be interesting to see a director’s cut, including some behind the scenes footage and outtakes of the commentary that were cut from the broadcast edit.
I wouldn’t mind if they included it as a bonus disc in a future album of unreleased songs.
Posted April 8, 2013 at 4:39 PM
I’m not going to debate with other fans, but I will say I’m against a History tour DVD. It isn’t very good.
I would like to see a studio DVD set released of MJ recording his music broken up by album narrated or introduced by section by Bruce Sweden & conversation & reflections by those involved. Quincy & Rod Temperton & so on.
E.T. storybook rerelease please 🙂
Concerts from J5 days up to Victory & everything in between.
I enjoy the unreleased music. Just stop messing it up
Also MJ, from what we hear, wanted Bad to be a 3 disc set with 33 songs, but it would’ve been to expensive at the time. Why not now? Where are those songs? Quincy gave the impression MJ had 33 songs ready to go, but was told it was too many
A book of his artwork would appeal to me
How about more official collectables?
Mjj2
Posted April 16, 2013 at 7:45 PM
HELL YEA
Jacksons blu ray package (destiny, triumph, & victory– behind the scenes of the 3 tours. like footage of Michael & Emmanuel Lewis at Disney)… thriller recording sessions on film ( Michael tapes all rehearsals)…he said he had 33 songs ready for the bad album but at the time it people were still using vinyl…JUST PLEASE DON’T RELEASE ANYTHING ALREADY HEARD LEAKED, NOTHING PROCESS, NO MORE CASIO TRACKS EVER. ALL THOSE HARD DRIVES OF TRACKS… WORK WITH US!
Besides the unreleased tracks from any era of his career, whatever Sony or Triumph releases next should be in blu ray discs, I was kind of dissapointed when I got the bad-88 wembley tour in dvd. Sure it was made out of Jackson’s personal video tape but still we(the fans) want to see him in high definition. In that case, I would really really like to see him in victory tour and before that Sony/Triumph can take different sources let’s say from Dallas where Van Halen joined him on stage with Beat it, and take Billie Jean from Kansas city where he moonwalked in different ways. What I am trying to say is that sometimes it is not possible to make a video of the whole old shows, the blu ray – live songs have the same concept (all songs taken from victory tour) but different places and video sources. I don’t think I don’t need to see him on History Tour unless a show with the same concept (as i mentioned earlier) is made out of his live vocals. Cause almost 80 percent of the songs on that tour he playbacks on the songs, that could be very interesting. As far I have seen him on youtube in Australia where he sang “Scream” live, that wasn’t tape until the chorus of the song. Bad tour with the same concept can be released as well in high definition in my personal opinion even the fact that “Thriller” is the biggest selling album of all time, “Bad” era is his prime both phsically, and vocally. His energy was on the edge, I mean look at Smooth Criminal on Wembley he is unstoppable, and about the vocals his little boy voice was getting behind his mature voice, thats the time he started to sound like an electric guitar with distortion effect, I don’t know if it is something to do with his nose-job or his age but that is (Bad Era) definately his prime. I think I can sum up my thoughts on what should be released next with whatever is next should be in blu-ray and live vocals they don’t need to take the whole show. Although, if there is a recording of NYC live ’88, he sang Smooth Criminal live not just the last his ad-libs at the end of the song as in Wembley.
Besides the concerts, I would pay a 1000 dollars for a blu-ray that includes his time in studio where he sung the melodies, his beat boxes and awesome vocals. I have seen him on “Spike Lee’s Bad 25” with Stevie and Seidah, nothing would get me more excited except seeing him live :D. He can play instruments too, we all have seen him in This is it, giving the tune for the players in the band how the song should sound like.
Bottom line, all concerts should be on blu-ray and with live vocals. I always search resources to listen his unreleased tracks, it wouldn’t hurt my ears a bit even if i hear 1000 unprocessed tracks or demos so Sony should release as many as it can. At last videos of him in studio doing anything.
Mike Gunn
Posted June 28, 2013 at 1:12 AM
It would be awesome footage if exists of MJ singing the Bad extended mix just after the false fade, that was raw and brilliant and MJ spat out the words then singing du du du du du doo….
What would I like to see happen? Songs like “A Place With No Name”, “Blue Gangsta”, “Slave To The Rhythm”, “Xscape”, “Serious Effect”, “Do You Know Where Your Children Off” should be released. I’ve been wanting Xscape released since it leaked back in 2003.
The dvd/blueray release of the short-film “Ghost” is LONG OVERDUE.
Rodney Jerkins also said that some of the best songs recorded during the Invincible sessions were saved for a later album. He also stated that they recorded the Invincible sessions. Being that it was MJ’s last studio album released in life, that the studio video footage could be made into a documentary, showing MJ in the booth recording the songs from Invincible, with insight on some of the songs. then, alongside the documentary, release an Invincible Pt. II full of unreleased songs from the era. It’s been said that Blue Gangsta, Xscape, A Place With No Name, and Slave To the Rhythm are from those sessions.
I think History Tour on DVD would be a mistake because of the lip-syncing… but the dancing was so good.
Above all, I’m mostly interested in the unreleased music that MJ recorded from 1997 – 2009.
And it’d be nice to get “Serious Effect (feat. LL Cool J) released, which was recorded during the Dangerous sessions.
Posted May 13, 2013 at 5:43 PM
WHAT I WANT NEXT……….MORE MICHAEL JACKSON SONGS TO BE RELEASED!!!!!!!!! A new MJ album! Song Groove (AKA Abortion Papers) from Bad 25 is one of the best songs ever!!!!!! MJ Estate should release genuine MJ tracks like the ones on Bad 25.
IM DYING TO HEAR NEW MICHAEL JACKSON SONGS!!!!!!
Posted May 21, 2013 at 6:07 AM
I would love to hear any unreleased songs. There should be a full cd of them. Everyone knows he recorded lots of songs for each album that never got released. I have a book that lists alot of them and have heard a few of them. Blue Gangsta is one of my favorites. Also any studio demos are great for the REAL fans (like me). I once heard MJ warming up his voice – I think it was on you tube. It was great! I hope they can put something together before the summer is out.
They need to start off with Dangerous 25 with the unreleased songs like Serious Effect. Then they could put its tour in it. After that they should put the HIStory tour in theaters in 3D in 2014. with the DVD and the anniversary in 2020 including the songs What About Us and more.
What about a video for dangerous. Was one in the works? I know that dangerous (the single) was scheduled for a december 1993 release but was cancelled because of what was going on at the time. Maybe if sony spend a couple of million making a dangerous video with the set based around the dangerous cover, something similiar to janet jacksons rythmn nation video, electrifying dancers that can carry MJs grace, high budget, with a digital mj or an impersonator? what about a 125 dvd box set with every bad tour concert. I think so much could be done for his legacy, but nothing is, its just all low profile releases, other than the tours. Can anyone remember the week bad was released Every shop in the high street had posters outside. I’m talking too much now, it would be interesting to see what others think
Alex Stassi
Posted June 2, 2013 at 11:25 AM
I agree with most of Charles comments about releasing any concert footage past History. The realism is he did lip-synch most of his live performances from there onwards.
A memorial blu ray is insane?!?! What are they thinking??
Off the wall 30 is most welcome if done like Bad 25… if the triumph tour was professional filmed then live versions of the off the wall tracks could be used for video footage. I’m pretty sure there are other live performances from back then… MJ was on fire at 21.
Victory tour /Triumph on dvd/blu ray would be great. We need videos of MJ post Motown and pre- Dangerous.
How about the outtakes from The Jacksons when they were at epic? There must be some gems out there from that era.
Sony need to take a leaf out of Motowns books when they released the Rare Pearls 2cd of 32 unreleased tracks!!! That was a major wow!!
Massive MJ fan, but personally, not really interested in anything after History and definitely not post Invincible
nikkorlf
Posted June 29, 2013 at 10:17 AM
UNRELEASED SONGS!
Posted July 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM
Immortal tour was a disappointment in every sense of the word. It was rubbish. So I don’t hold out much hope for ONE. I think the best would be a release of the Dangerous tour in 3d at cinemas worldwide. As for History it was great but a half assed effort on many levels. But I think Dangerous would be far more successful.
That would be nice but im beginning to think this is wishful thinking. I mean look at the way the Bad tour dvd was put together, the intro looked like a boot leg copy, and so did the packaging, yet it was an official release. Then the cover of the Michael album, who painted his face, it looks odd. There was no lyric book inside either.
But it would be nice to get
1) Victory Tour DVD, (not the dallas concert), including the press conferences he did at the time.
2) Bad Tour Osaka dvd (michael seemed posessed at this show)
3) Best of bad tour dvd clips from various bad tour shows, including these with the black and red shirt
3) Moonwalker DVD 25th anniversary special including deleted and behind the scenes
4) Bad 25 book ( a bit late now but something similiar to the thriller one would have been great)
5) Album with unreleased Michael jackson songs
6) Instrumental version of all the post off the wall albums
7) A film based on mjs life story post 1979, not something like the american dream, but more higher budget that can win oscars.
8) Documentary like the legend continues following Michaels career, including rare clips
9) captain eo dvd with making of documentary
10) Dangerous tour dvd (Note for the estate, not bucherest, wembley would be better with bad and the way you make me feel included, which was only included in the first few shows, and dangerous from argentina, where he sand the “i never knew but i was living….” bit. I dont know why he removed this in later shows. I also think the tour have been better if he performed Who is it, Give in to me and Remember the time and left out will you be there, heal the world, which where fine tracks but not when you go to see him live.
11) dangerous 25 cd released with a video including an animated Micahel JaCKSON. they could use same technology that was used to make Avatar, to inlcude michael , perhaps on a set themed around the dangerous cover. But this will be hard and expensive so i’m guessing the estate wont do it. Just look at michael jackson the experience on playstation or apple. I dont understand why this cant be done for videos for future singles.
12) on official book, something like the one that his mother released but was later banned, with official unseen photos and stories of mj by those working closest to him.
13) history tour. Im not sure of this once. This wont do much for his legacy, he didnt want to be onstage and its obvious. The set list became boring.
I saw ONE at the opening premier and it’s MUCH better than Immortal. ONE gives each song a chance to “shine” in its own light, it brings out the center of what Michael was trying to do. It is a tasteful, very well done tribute to Michael, much better than Immortal.
My opinions have changed, just to be fair.
– A new studio album (This is the number one choice for me and many, many others. We’re clearly dying for new material. Also, there should be a maximum of THREE previously heard/leaked songs on this album [four or five on a twelve track disc]. I won’t pay for four songs I’ve never heard and six that I have. Additionally, while I listen to Do You Know Where Your Children Are on a regular basis, that is a song that is easy to tear to shreds. It should stay in the vaults, to be quite honest.)
– Dangerous 25. Another Spike Lee documentary, a second disc of unreleased songs/songs from the planned 2001 special edition second disc, the 1992 show in Rome with TWYMMF and Bad (maybe with Dangerous as an extra).
– The planned book IN HIS OWN WORDS, that would have featured handwritten notes from Michael and his own personal critiques on some aspects of his life (the Motown 25 show, Dangerous tour, etc).
– An “in the studio” documentary with studio footage from every era possible.
– An unplugged album. Just a cappella vocals layered over a piano or guitar. Pick some unexpected songs and unexpected options. (C’mon, just imagine Jam on guitar, or Whatever Happens on piano, or even a combination of both for Man in the Mirror.)
– An a cappella album. Not exactly something that needs to be promoted, but just an iTunes exclusive. A cappellas of songs we don’t have (I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Speechless, Morphine) and even songs we DO have, just in higher quality (Who Is It, They Don’t Care About Us, Billie Jean).
– A fan remix album. Contact some of the best fan DJs (Nick* is one of the best) and have them remix some songs. Fans have responded much more positively to fan remixes and it would be cool to give us a chance to shine.
– The release of 2005’s From the Bottom of My Heart (with pre-recorded vocals from Snoop Dogg, The O’Jays, Beyonce, etc.) for a charity or potential disaster. If in existence, maybe include a solo demo as a B-side.
– As many have already said, a release of the Cardiff tribute show on Blu-ray. I haven’t seen it but from fan clips it looks like a phenomenal concert and something the fans who couldn’t attend would love to see.
– Most importantly, NO duet album, NO memorial release, NO 30th anniversary release, and NO Ghosts DVD release. I understand the vault will eventually come to be empty and the only option is to release these, but for the time being there are still plethoras of songs and video to be released.
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ackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became the dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” and “Thriller,” were credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. *..-.
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Posted July 10, 2013 at 10:02 PM
I have been slightly obsessed with the sound and visual spectacle created by MJ and also the Jacksons.. I have always wanted to see the Jacksons Live concert from the late 70’s.., which i have on vinyl, on DvD. You have to hear the ‘improv’ bit before ‘Rock With You’. I saw him 4 times in concert but the 1st, BAD concert at Wembley.. was the best concert I have ever seen.. In more recent years I wasn’t too thrilled about his face or colour.. but the expectation of more music and performance kept me hooked. A hole has been left in my life.. and there will NEVER be anyone to replace him.. R.I.P.. Gloved one..
Matlhogonolo Katlego Matlhaku
They could release a DVD and Blu-Ray collection of all his short films and also include the behind the scenes of each short film. Kinda like what they did on the ‘Dangerous Short Films’ dvd, but the behind the scenes footages should be longer. I also do second the idea of having a full This Is It concert DVD. No interviews! Just the full performance! I also adore the idea of releasing all his unreleased material in on collection. I would also like it if they released the ‘HIStory Tour Live in South Africa’. That’s if the footage still exists… And I too, would LOVE to see one of the Victory concerts in high quality. And maybe they could also release Immortal on DVD and Blu-Ray… Just a thought…
mikey moonwalker
As a mj fan, i do not think that HIStory tour was not a bad show. yeah it had some of it’s faults,(lip-syncing, etc.)but it was still a damn good show. I also would love to see the 30th anniversary to be released. But most of all…..
Release Dangerous Tour From 1st leg
Arjun Sanyal
I think they did – try the 1992 Bucharest concert?
i also add that HIStory Tour Brunei 1997 should be released as either a 3D movie or on DVD/Blu-ray
MitchUK
Posted August 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM
What would i like to see released: ummmm
1. The idea of fan released remixes is good. I love the Tag Team version of You Rock My World
2. More alternative versions and remixes of MJ’s best songs. Or an album similar to Blood On The Dance Floor/History in the mix
3. A whole new album of unreleased tracks
4. I would love Ghosts on DVD. I have the original box set (but it is VHS!!)
5. A live tour, but as a compilation of his best performances from all of his tours would be interesting
6. Better promotion of the projects from Sony
I like the idea of live performances. I was wondering if an album-like DVD could be made. So for ‘Off The Wall’, we get the best-known performances of ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’, ‘Rock With You’, ‘Workin’ Day And Night’ and ‘Off The Wall’. For ‘Thriller’, we could have ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin”, ‘Thriller’, ‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Human Nature’. The same process could be done for ‘Bad’, ‘Dangerous’ and ‘HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I’ (which includes ‘Blood On The Dance: HIStory In The Mix’). We could then have an ‘extras’ CD, with live performances of songs like ‘You Rock My World’, ‘What More Can I Give’, ‘You Were There’, ‘Elizabeth I Love You’, ‘Medley’ and the medley performed during Half-Time at the Super Bowl XXVII
Posted September 24, 2013 at 3:01 PM
I have not read all comments so forgive me if this idea has already been suggested. How bout no more anticipation of what the estate will release next in terms of remixing, footage or any other nonsense. Just get together all the unreleased material Jackson left, Do not play with it as there is no way anyone can complete it without the approval if Michael himself which no one is going to get. compile it into some kind of order, i.e year, era, style, type of song, Design a streaming website like Netflix or similar or even create a partnership with them where fans pay a one of payment and get to listen to the song and demos and such whenever they like. Its trendy and it gets to core of what the fans want, No more bullshit please, we dont need anymore unseen footage, we know what he looked and sounded like and we knew what his character was like and its why we all like him, if its unseen its for a reason, no one was meant to see it, especially not like this. Come on Sony, pull your fingers out.
sathula
Posted October 28, 2013 at 6:49 PM
I wud like to see bad tour and 30th anniversary here in South Africa.
I mean made availlable in South Africa , we love MJ here , and its on the history books that his last perfomace of history tour was here in Durban South Africa, we miss u MJ.
Did I just read 3D version of HIStory concert release around the world? I think its a BRILLIANT idea. Lip-synching may have been a part of it. But it really doesn’t translate to “appalling” or “worst” tours ever! That is getting very extreme. And frankly, I am surprised some are vehemently opposing the idea. I have watched Michael Jackson HIStory tour Munich in an amazing 720p quality and it left me astounded.. It was amazing watching every detail of the tour unfold right from his energy levels to the various touching aspects of his performances like the “Earth Song”. I am sure MJ would have wanted the audience to see those aspects of the tour. He was a story teller and every concert of his had a message to give. HIStory is important in many ways. Right from the robotics and locking/popping dancing to a slow “Stranger in Moscow” to the “Dangerous” choreography and an epic ending to the tour with a “HIStory” encore with flags of every country being waved around. It should be an experience watching all of this on 3D! And more than the lip-synching this is what that matters – MJ’s beautiful way to deliver the message through his performances. It is also one of his last tours which all the more gives it the privilege to be screened it all over the world. With careful editing it does have the ability to be a success. Something I have realized, audiences had rather watch MJ in 3D than a blu ray memorial service!
As for additional ideas, how about a DVD release of Dangerous and Bad tours as well? Apart from Bad Wembley and Dangerous Bucharest live ofcourse. I have seen few snippets of Bad and Dangerous Tokyo live and MJ is enthralling in them! And a Blu Ray release of “Ghosts”. Even better, a 3D remake of all the spooky videos ever made by MJ including Thriller and Ghosts with the song “Threatened” incorporated somewhere.
And seeing that MJ isn’t there to direct his Short films, yet I have this crazy hope for Short films being made on some of his songs by some high quality animators!! With a reference to MJ perhaps? Just an Idea!
I think they should release another This is it album but with the LIVE rehearsals.
I would like to see them release a movie about Michael Jackson life that would be cool if they did that maybe some more unreleased stuff would be cool too
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Release the film, ghosts. I saw the trailer for it ONE time and out looked so fun! Then, it just…disappeared and I thought….”Well? Are they releasing it or not?!” I was a Jr. in high school at the time. I’d really like to see that released, finally.
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Dave Dubya
I am an old-fashioned American citizen who believes in our traditional values of freedom, truth, and justice. When I see our laws and government subverted and twisted into service of the undemocratic, powerful, corporate oligarchy, I must react with a patriotic defense of our values. I strongly oppose the ongoing destruction of what is left of American democracy and shall give voice to our common cause of freedom. I invite you to share my thoughts. I also welcome your comments, be they contradictory, corrective, or complimentary. Only one comment and response will be allowed for anonymous trolls. Repeated, unidentified, and off-topic trolling will be deleted as spam.
So much for honor and service.
Former general John Kelly supported his Orange Authoritarian leader’s botched consolation call, and the lies about it, to a woman who lost her husband while serving in Niger. Kelly’s subsequent attack on the military widow and her friend Congresswoman Wilson was the same far Right tactic of accusation, tinged with racism, for all who dare call out their lies.
Kelly claimed Congresswoman Wilson "stood up, and in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building."
This is a lie, proven by video of the event in question. Right wing assholes don’t need no facts. This has always been true. Why should they worry about facts if they get in the way of their hate, greed and agenda for power?
Kelly was so filled with hate for the uppity Black woman, he repeated, "even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned." Aww. Poor wittow stunned asshole.
Kelly told Fox News he used the phrase to eloquently "call people liars." This is the vile projection we see all the time from the radical far Right.
Proven liar John “Empty Barrel” Kelly refuses to admit to the lie and refuses to apologize. He is a disgrace to not only the country and Constitution, but to basic human decency. No wonder he fits in so well with the Kremlin approved Trump Cartel.
John “Empty Barrel” Kelly had more to add to his dishonorable vile character. “I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man.”
Yes, for defending slavery and treasonously killing thousands of American soldiers. You can bet every goddamned white racist is totally on board with him.
So much for “supporting" the US military. Let’s add ‘hypocrite” to “liar” and “asshole”, to bestow upon the far Right authoritarian John “Empty Barrel” Kelly.
Empty Barrel expanded on his ignorance by saying, “He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which, 150 years ago, was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War. And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand.”
More BS. The Revolution was fought for United States independence, not for individual state sovereignty.
His, “men and women of good faith on both sides” echoes his beloved Fuhrer’s praise for white racists marching with Nazis in Charlottesville.
Empty Barrel showed more stupidity with, “...the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War”.
Oh, really? This from a far Right jerk from a party that refuses to compromise? What an ignorant asshole. (Pardon me if that term becomes redundant. I’m open to any other descriptor that would be more accurate.)
The Compromise of 1850, allowed the South to implement slavery in new U.S. territories gained during the Mexican-American War.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates tweeted, “...it’s called The three fifths compromise for a reason”, referring to the constitutional provision that increased representation for slave states in the House of Representatives in 1787.
Coates added, “But it doesn’t stand alone, “Missouri Compromise. Kansas-Nebraska Act.”
He later tweeted there was also the Compromise of 1877, which further disenfranchised black people once federal troops withdrew from Southern states.
Coates summed it up with, “Shocking that someone charged with defending their country, in some profound way, does not comprehend the country they claim to defend.”
I would say this now applies to the vast majority of the morally bankrupt Party Of Trump.
John “Empty Barrel” Kelly is a viper, who fits in perfectly with the snake pit that infects our White House.
Posted by Dave Dubya at 2:40 PM
Michael Stivic said...
"Listen to my words, and pay no attention to my actions."
Kinda like Bernie when he say everybody has to pay their fair share of taxes. Except Bernie. amirite?
Dave Dubya said...
Out-of-Character Stivic,
This quote was from the previous post, not this one; but thanks for your thorough attention and highly thoughtful remark.
You're not clear about what actions and what words you mean. And did Bernie really say, "everybody has to pay their fair share of taxes. Except Bernie."?
That doesn't sound at all like Bernie. He wants his bracket to pay more taxes.
Did you learn that at FOX(R)?
What else did you learn?
Jefferson's Guardian said...
Dave Dubya: "Did you learn that at FOX(R)? What else did you learn?"
As we already know, there's nothing that could possibly be learned from FOX® News. Absolutely nothing. It's the designated propaganda arm of the corporate Republican Party -- no different than Pravda was used as a similar device for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1991.
Whether FOX® News or Pravda, all you'll get is the party-line and nothing else. Followers of either are, and were, loyalists to their party -- but traitors toward truth.
Infidel753 said...
"Worse than a crime, it was a blunder" (attributed to Talleyrand). It's impossible to serve Trump without ending up covered in slime, but you'd think Kelly would at least have had the sense to check whether there existed objective documentation of the speech he was about to misquote.
Refusing to apologize when his false statements were exposed is purely despicable, though. He should have admitted he was wrong after being proven so.
It is, of course, a myth that the South fought the Civil War for states' rights. It was always primarily about defending slavery. The Southern states' own declarations of secession make that clear. As for compromise, there were multiple efforts to compromise with the slavers during the years before the war. Kelly seems surprisingly ignorant of American history.
In any case, would a successful compromise have been a good thing? Even if it allowed slavery to persist longer? At best, he wasn't thinking about what he was saying.
JG,
Did you see the account of FOX(R) coverage on the morning of the indictments? All about attacking Hillary, of course.
Here’s What ‘Fox & Friends’ Covered On Manafort Indictment Day
Infidel,
To be admitted into the White House, the following must be checked at the door:
1. Facts
2. Honesty
3. Compassion
4. Compromise
5. Basic human decency
All of these have no place in the Oval Office. Russians are always welcome.
ArchieBunkerNYC said...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
"I told Bernie I had found Hillary’s Joint Fundraising Agreement. I explained that the cancer was that she had exerted this control of the party long before she became its nominee. Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position, but here we were with only weeks before the election.
Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express outrage. Instead he asked me what I thought Hillary’s chances were. The polls were unanimous in her winning but what, he wanted to know, was my own assessment?
I had to be frank with him. I did not trust the polls, I said. I told him I had visited states around the country and I found a lack of enthusiasm for her everywhere. I was concerned about the Obama coalition and about millennials."
I love it. Donna has thrown both Hillary and Obama under the bus in the article.
The DemocRats are starting to eat their own.
The Podesta group is being exposed what Rats they are and their role in lining up rich Russians with Bonnie and Clyde Clinton.
We see you need to deflect and distract from the subject again.
But since you bring up Rats, are there any worse RATS than the ones who insult a grieving war widow and call her a liar?
I know you agree.
Dave Dubya: "But since [ArchieBunkerUSA] bring[s] up Rats, are there any worse RATS than the ones who insult a grieving war widow and call her a liar?"
I can't think of any. It's really the lowest form of humankind that would -- lower than a slithering snake, really. I'd venture a guess that Donald Trump is probably Satan, incarnate, and the wicked irony is that Chuck worships him. ;-)
"I know you agree."
Any decent and loving human being would agree, of course, but than again we're talking about Chuck Morre.
Insult a grieving widow?
lol on the buffoon with the red hat.
Maybe she should run with Hugh "Guam may tip over" Johnson for President/Vice President in 2020. That's the winning ticket. amirite?
And right on cue... You are right again. Any decent and loving human being would agree, of course...
Arch is knocking on the door again. He wants to distract and deflect back to Donna Brazile.
I see no point in allowing that, especially after he refused to agree that RATS insult a grieving war widow and call her a liar. Instead he insulted the Black war widow's Black friend, who spoke on her behalf.
His disrespect for the Gold Star widow is apparently based on the skin tone of the widow and her friend. Not that it matters. No grieving family member should ever be so disrespected.
Arch offers more proof of the Party Of Trump's utter lack of basic human decency. They are a cult devoted to their Leader and his sick campaign to make America hate again.
Trump can only destroy, never build. Government is not a business. The only walls we need are between business and government, and between church and state. The founders knew this as well.
Trump will be the most dishonored, and likely most despised, president in history. His cult will be known to be rife with Klansmen, Neo-Nazis, Racists, ammosexuals, militia nuts, and easily duped low-information rubes.
Dave, your comment explains it perfectly. Trump will most definitely be the most despised and dishonored president in American history. His Republican predecessor claimed the title of "The Decider"; this man has shown that his only capability lies in being "the divider".
As for his still blind cult of followers - Chuck obviously among them - Hillary Clinton tagged them perfectly: "the deplorables". Equally accurate synonyms are the disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, unworthy, and inexcusable. In other words they're mostly the dregs of society, who only strive to push us to the bottom with them.
Always push back.
Now Arch wants to project about the "Democrat Party" being "rotten to the core with corruption and lies".
Not that we need him to remind us. The problem with the Democratic Party is they are often too much like Republicans.
If he could show us a trace of human decency for the Black Gold Star widow and admit to Kelly's lies about her Black friend, I would allow him to comment. But I have to draw the line somewhere. He found it.
They are proud of being racist "deplorables". Hate is their language.
Republicans are the Party Of Trump, therefore the Party of Klansmen, Neo-Nazis, Racists, ammosexuals, militia nuts, and easily duped low-information rubes.
Their authoritarian billionaire leaders play them like hillbilly fiddles.
By comparison they make Democrats look like saints.
Speaking of corruption on an industrial scale:
TRUMP TRUMP IS LEADING THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY, ONE OF FIRST-CLASS KLEPTOCRATS
Newsweek has the Rogues gallery.
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Laura Burhenn doesn't live here anymore
w/ Cymbals Eat Guitars and Sinta
May 28, 2009 at Black Cat
by DCRC Senior Youth Correspondent, Andrew
John Davis' new project, Title Tracks, took the stage at the Black Cat around 11pm on Thursday night. Davis' previous work includes playing drums in the Dischord dance-punk band Q and Not U as well as co-writing songs with Laura Burhenn for the pop duo Georgie James whose break up preceed the start of Title Tracks. Davis writes and performs all of the music on the upcoming full length (label TBD). The live band, which features ex-Georgie James members Andrew Black and Michael Cotterman as well as Merideth Munoz from noteworthy DC band Pash, appears on the two song single out now on Dischord Records.
Title Tracks is the first time Davis has exerted total artistic control over his band's music--as opposed to Georgie James where he worked with another songwriter. The new songs draw from both the more jagged edges of Q and Not U as well as the softer pop sensibilities of Georgie James. The result is expertly crafted power pop that recalls The Jam and The Byrds. Of the nine or so songs in the set many were upbeat anthems with driving choruses reminiscent of Ted Leo on Hearts of Oak. One or two songs forayed into a slower, more pensive area with spare arrangements of striclty organ and drums. The band was very tight on stage, no surprise given the rhythm section's time spent supporting Davis' in Georgie James. Highlights included "Found Out", "Every Little Bit Hurts" (the two songs on the debut single) and the lilting "Hello There."
On one hand I was sad to see Georgie James go, but the set last night really got me pumped for the future of Title Tracks. If you get a chance, check out Davis' radio show on WOXY, he spins some quality tunes. Look out for a full length record from Title Tracks as well as more shows this summer.
Crowd spotting: Justin Moyer (aka Edie Sedgwick, aka J-Mo) of Supersystem and Antelope, the singer from all girl DC punk band Partyline, Potsy.
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Labels: senior youth correspondent, title tracks
Cymbalism
Cymbals Eat Guitars w/Sinta @ The Black Cat Backstage - Thursday, May 28 - $10
The 28th of May is my mom's birthday, which has nothing to do with the show that I saw last night, but I think it's worth mentioning. Also worth mentioning is my approach to DCRC. Rock Club, at its core, is about seeing live music. So the performance is really what I focus on. This is important as I consider last night's show put on by Cymbals Eat Guitars (CEG, henceforth).
I credit my acquaintance with CEG to WOXY, as they tend to play tracks like Cold Spring, from time to time. So I was happy for the chance to check CEG out in person at my neighborhood bar. Now this is where my Rock Club criteria comes in. I don't have any CEG tracks on my iPod, so I'm just a casual listener. But I was disappointed by their show at the Black Cat for the following reasons:
clumsy and sloppy - this works for a number of bands (many of whom I enjoyed in the 90s), but it didn't work for CEG last night. To me, they just sounded amateurish - like they needed a lot more time at band practice.
bad banter - people are paying for the privilege to listen to you play your music. Be somewhat professional and don't try to sell them something additional before you've proved yourself. One of the first things out of CEG's mouth (other than lyrics) was a plug for their merchandise. A little presumptuous if you ask me. Although maybe it was a veiled hint that their songs are worth listening to on record (but not live). I'd buy that.
winter hat - I stepped out of the show to take a call from Emma Peel and when I returned, lead singer Joseph Ferocious had donned a hat. The kind you wear when it's cold (it wasn't cold). Maybe he thinks he performs better while wearing a hat? I was hoping that, anyway.
joseph ferocious - ? Okay this has nothing to do with their performance. And I guess everyone's allowed to brand him or herself however they like. But while Joseph D'Agostino brought a lot of energy to his vocals, Ferocious is setting the bar kinda high.
Sinta - this was the opening act at the Black Cat Backstage Thursday night. And I thought they were twice as nice as CEG. They were a bit loose in places, too, but they made it work for me.
More about Sinta via my Tweets:
Sinta at Black Cat Backstage. This band doing a lot of things right.from txt
"Last Song"...poppy and good.from txt
I'd put Sinta up against a number of headliners we've seen.from txt
Cute chick singer. Rocking vocals.from txt
Next time these high schoolers play your favorite club, check them out. They were impressive. I'll admit that I had an American Beauty moment while watching them perform.
Senior Youth Correspondent Andrew will cover the headliner of the night, Title Tracks, in a forthcoming post...
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Labels: cymbals eat guitars, Potsy, sinta
Namecheck
What's the rock equivalent of the rapper's "Well, my name is [INSERT NAME HERE], and I'm here to say..."? It's the self-namecheck song, where you mention your own band in the song. Below are a list of the most well-known (to me) self-namechecks. As you'll soon see, you shouldn't write this kind of song unless you know what you're doing.
From best to worst:
"Bad Company," Bad Company. This one is probably Bad Company's best song and explains the whole raison d'etre of the band. If you're Paul Rodgers and someone asks you what it's like to live the rock and roll lifestyle, you get a faraway look in your eyes and say, it's not for everyone.
"Jocko Homo," Devo. .0003458 points out of first place. Are we not men? We are Devo.
"Rock and Roll Band," Boston. Okay, technically not a self-namecheck since they never really say their name in the song, but really, what part of "We were just another band out of Boston" do you not understand? This one had everyone dancing in the streets of Hyannis, including that one mongoloid Kennedy kid who killed that girl with the 5-iron. That's how powerful this song is. The Steely Dan version would go like this: "We were just another band that formed in a northeastern private college/we read Vonnegut and wear turtlenecks"..../break for four minute gay jazz sax solo/..."big black cow etc etc."
"(Theme From) The Monkees," The Monkees. Same concept as "Bad Company" but totally different vibe. When you ask Mickey Dolenz what it's like to live the rock and roll lifestyle, he'll give you a hug and then ask for a cracker.
"Private Eyes," Hall and Oates. Another one that's not a self-namecheck song, but hey you know what's fun? Every time Hall sings "private eyes, they're watching you," replace with "Hall and Oates, we're watching you." It makes for a much more interesting song. You know what else is amusing? Every time a song has the word "you" in it, replace with "Jew." That's good for a few laughs.
"Black Sabbath," Black Sabbath. This song only mentions the band name in the song title, but not in the song itself. Here's what the song says: big black shape with eyes of fire/telling people their desire/Satan's sitting there, he's smiling/watches those flames get higher and higher/oh no no, please God help me! Also, this song begins with the sound of fat sizzling.
"Who Are You?" The Who. Word has it that Pete Townshend wrote this song recounting a night when he met the Sex Pistols and got piss drunk because he felt washed up. Passed out in a Soho doorway and you know the rest. I was amazed when I realized this song contained the word "fuck" clear as day and yet was still played on the radio.
"We Are The Clash"/"This Is Radio Clash"/"Clash City Rockers," The Clash. Having watched The Future Is Unwritten (click here for Sacklunch's exhaustive review), my main takeaway was that Joe Strummer was kind of a prick. After firing Mick Jones, he cobbled together some be-mohawked strangers and released Cut The Crap, which is a world-famous misnomer if there ever was one. Really, "We Are The Clash" is a terrible song. "Clash City Rockers," however, is pretty cool. The best of the bunch, in my opinion, is "This Is Radio Clash." As always I am the contrarian and prefer Mick Jones to Joe Strummer.
"They Might Be Giants," They Might Be Giants. Let me quote Homer Simpson here: "Marge, try to understand. There are two types of college students--jocks and nerds. As a jock, it is my duty to give nerds a hard time." Here's what I propose we do with John Flensburger, or whatever his fucking name is, and the other one, the guy that looks like Jamie Lee Curtis--find an escalator in the Port Authority, make them each kneel in front of a handrail, make them stick their tongues out, and lick the entire length of the escalator handrails. The whole thing. We could put a piece of duct tape on the rail to make sure we know when it's gone around one revolution.
"On With The Body Count," Body Count. Lord, why doth hast thou punished me by making me live through the 90s? Ice-T sucked bad, whether he was rapping, or barfing out this rock/rap abortion that was Body Count. Didn't he grow up in the suburbs? Something about him seems fraudulent.
So there you have it, the definitive top ten. If any local bands are reading this and are thinking of going the self-namecheck route, beware. It's like wearing an ascot, you have to have the right attitude to pull it off.
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My Favorite Band (this week) - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
I'm on a bit of an Australian kick. I've been listening to An Horse a lot but for months I've been loving "Primary Colours" by Eddy Current Suppression Ring. I first learned of this band from PostRock and it sent me off to learn more about Australian and New Zealand bands.
Readers paying close attention may ask, "Aren't you just stealing all your ideas from Malitz over at PostRock? You learned about the Eddy Current Suppression Ring from him and he even titled his article 'New Favorite Thing'! Have you no shame?" To those people I simply say Shut Up. Shut...the fuck....up.
Okay, back to my post. Australia is known more for it's crocodile hunters and boxing kangaroos than its music. However, it has produced great bands, AC/DC being the most popular example. Others include:
INXS - What? I grew up on Sabooh Soobah, Listen Like Thieves, and Kick.
The Saints - "I'm Stranded" is the tits.
Midnight Oil - I still go back and listen to Diesel and Dust.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - I finally came around on these guys after listening to Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!.
The Church - just released their 23rd album!
Men At Work - If you don't like "Down Under", "Who Can It Be Now?", and "Be Good Johnny" there's something wrong with you.
On the down side, they did give us The Vines, Jet, and of course, The Bee Gees.
Enjoy the Eddy Current Suppression Ring's concise post-punk, talk-singing, and catchy riffs:
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Labels: Eddy Current Suppression Ring, My Favorite Band
Let's Discuss: Grizzly Bear
Potsy's going to the sold out Grizzly Bear and Here We Go Magic show on Monday. While I'm a fan of Here We Go Magic (check out their Daytrotter session), I don't have a strong opinion on Grizzly Bear. "Knife" on Yellow House is a great song but I really never got into them. Their new album, Veckatimest, was released this week and everyone has opinion. Some love it, some hate it. I haven't listened from start to finish so I'll reserve judgement for the time being. However, based on what I've heard on their MySpace page, I don't see what the fuss is about. Hopefully, seeing them in Austin on June 16th will help me decide which camp I should pitch my tent.
Are you undecided as well? Here's something to help you out - the video for "Two Weeks". I find the song a little boring but the video is too fucking creepy not to love.
Labels: Grizzly Bear, here we go magic, let's discuss
ACL Stage Left featuring Brazos
Getting tickets to Austin City Limits, the PBS show not the festival, is tough. Fortunately, the local PBS station that hosts the series, KLRU, has started a new Web-only music series called ACL Stage Left. They feature local artists and provide "a space where the very best, most unique, passionate music artists can capture great moments and tell their tales, turning their listeners and our viewers into life-long fans." I can support that.
A few weeks ago a friend and I went to see Brazos on ACL Stage Left. It's in the same studio as Austin City Limits, just with different staging. In typical Austin style there was plenty of free beer, which was nice. Two days prior to the taping I saw Brazos open for Wye Oak. I love me some Wye Oak but Brazos was the band that impressed me most that night. They have a unique style that combines folk, rock, and jazz. It's often quiet and melodic, moody but reaffirming. The music is strong but the lyrics are equally compelling. It's rare for a band strike that balance. Perhaps their greatest asset is Martin Crane's effortless vocals. Here he is performing the first song he ever wrote, "Mary Jo":
Not bad, huh? The vocals on that one remind me of Band of Horses. I look forward to seeing the entire performance when it's posted online. In the meantime, here's another great video from ACL Stage Left. It's Leatherbag (who looks and sounds like a combo of Buddy Holly, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan) performing "On Down The Line":
Posted by Jumbo Slice at 11:18 AM 1 Comments
Labels: ACL Stage Left, Brazos, Leatherbag
Baby Got Beat
In case you missed this one...
She manages to stay cute somehow.
Labels: beatbox, julia dales, Potsy, youtubesday
National Success
Potsy is our go to guy for covering The National but he was busy celebrating Memorial Day and eating clam chowder in New England. Fortunately, Andrew, our Senior Youth Correspondent, was at the 9:30 Club on Sunday to review the show.
w/ Colin Stetson
Brooklyn-via-ClevelandCincinnati indie rockers The National visited DC for three shows this Memorial Day weekend-two on Sunday night and then one on Monday night. I caught the earlier of the two Sunday night shows thanks to a friend who had the foresight to bag two tickets since all three ended up selling out.
I was pleasantly surprised by opener Colin Stetson. I checked him out the day before and from what his myspace had to show, he was an experimental saxophone player who was on tour supporting a new record of original tunes for solo saxophone. I wasn't too excited for him because the songs on the myspace sounded like typical "I dare you to say this isn't music" experimental fare. I had completely misjudged Stetson--his performance gets an A for three reasons.
1) He played a short (20 minute) five song set. This was genius because even the most pedestrian of music listeners will give experimental mumbo jumbo like Colin's a short listen before they get bored or, more than often than not, angry.
2) Colin Stetson played the largest saxophone I have ever seen. Someone screamed out "What are you playing?" Answer: Bass Saxophone. It was huge. His large instrument added a "spectacle" element that helped the crowd stay interested.
3) He worked great with the crowd. The crowd was very responsive. The music was definitely interesting to listen to, and his lip smacking technique to add a drum sound was very impressive. The crowd cheered louder after every number, and Colin seemed simultaneously perplexed and overjoyed to get such a good reaction from the crowd. That's DC for you Colin. We shall never dance, but if you play crazy saxophone ditties, we will applaud as if you were a Pavement reunion.
Having only seen The National once before at Merriweather opening for REM, catching them in a club was, as expected, a whole different experience. I was pretty close since the lady I came with is kinda short, and this was most definitely a plus. The National opened with a new song called "The Runaway", a slow and introspective tune that found the band in their more orchestral mode rather than straight up rock mode.
It's hard to pick out highlights of their 90 minute set because each song was played with more tightness and intensity than the last. Although people were shouting requests all night to no avail (Annoying right?), some requests that were played when the band wanted to play them included "Start A War", "Apartment Story", and "Slow Show." The National relied almost exclusively on Boxer, their latest record, and Alligator, their second most recent LP. Singer Matt Berninger really threw himself into the performance, screaming many choruses with Morrissey-esque defiance.
"Mr. November" was in its proper place--the encore--during which Berninger doused himself in a conveniently located bottle of white wine and proceeded to chuck ice cubes and flowers into the crowd. The professionalism and talent of the band was more than evident in The National's stunning set Sunday night. The performance as well as the three sold out shows go to show why The National are one of the best indie bands around. Also, as if anyone cares, this show is now tied with the free Spoon show at GW for best of the year, in the Senior Youth Correspondent category of course.
Apartment Story
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Labels: 9:30 club, Colin Stetson, The National, Youth Correspondent
My Favorite Band (this week) - Future of the Left
I was always a fan of McLusky (who isn't?) but I didn't jump on the Future of the Left (henceforth FOTL) bandwagon right away. That all changed when I saw the power trio perform at SXSW. They were the best band I saw all week. And I saw A LOT of bands. A shitload even. Dozens. You get the point.
Cardiff’s finest release their new full-length, Travels with Myself and Another, June 23 on 4AD. I snagged an early copy and it's every bit as scrappy, humorous, and funky as anything McLusky released. My personal favorites are "Arming Eritrea", "Stand By / Your Manatee", and "Lapsed Catholics".
Here's the video for "The Hope That House Built", the first single off their new album. Ever wondered what it'd look like if Ewan McGregor was Wolverine instead of Hugh Jackman? Well, here's your answer:
Consider yourself warned: FOTL plays DC9 on July 19th. Do NOT miss this show. Tickets are on sale now. What are you waiting for? Seriously, go buy yours right now you slacker.
Labels: Future of the Left, My Favorite Band
Good good good, [Deep] vibration...
4 band bill @ DC9
sacklunch and I had a nice visit to DC9 on Tuesday. We met Steve from Babystew.com and he turned out to be a good dude with lots of brains about the muzic. He curated the night's show which ambitiously brought out 4 bands to DC9 - starting with Motel Motel, whom we nearly missed completely. We caught their last song, and it sounded...unobjectionable (the sample size was too small to really have an opinion).
Next up was Roman Candle, which I thought sounded a little bit like the Rolling Stones covering Wilco tunes. I think they'd do particularly well in gooey middle America. Also, the lead singer looked a lot like Rick Schroeder. sacklunch thought he looked like Chip Chanko. Same thing.
But the highlight of the night (no offense to head liners Tereu Tereu) were The Deep Vibration. Rock. Solid. A little bit 70s, lots of stage presence. Nothing necessarily new, I tended to like the more blues influenced tunes, but a good performance. See below:
Labels: motel motel, Potsy, Roman Candle, Tereu Tereu, The Deep Vibration
Loxsly Comes to DC
One of Austin's finest bands, Loxsly, is heading to DC for not one but TWO shows:
Saturday, May 23rd at DC9 (opening for Ra Ra Rasputin and The Spiritual Machine)
Monday, May 25th at Galaxy Hut (with Finer Designer)
I received an early copy of their new album, Tomorrow's Fossils, and it's every bit as good as their Flashlights EP released last year. I've already endorsed this band a number of times. But don't take my word for it. Here's what some others have to say about Loxsly:
"Instead of relying on a couple of offbeat songs to demonstrate a more experimental bent, Loxsly often blends familiarity and new ground within the same song, making for a more intriguing concept."
Said the Gramaphone
"A continuous loop. Though something is different every time."
Absolute Punk
"a tiny bit dark, a huge bit emotional, and thoroughly enjoyable."
"Loxsly appl(ies) a dark, underwater sonic treatment that isn’t flashy or in your face, but draws the listener into a carefully constructed world filled with thick, buoyant bass lines, swirling organs, and shimmering piano runs."
As the Constellation's Arms Uncurled from Loxsly
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Labels: Loxsly
Tereuible Tuesday
Tonight at DC9: local boys Tereu Tereu throw their album release.
Two of my favorites things come together for this week's clip: physical comedy and rock.
Labels: Potsy, Tereu Tereu, youtubesday
My Favorite Band (this week)
Inspired by Potsy's un-Rock Club like consistency with YouTubesDay, I've decided to start my own weekly feature: My Favorite Band (this week). Once a week, from now until eternity, I'll post the one band I'm currently infatuated with. I tend to listen to entire albums rather than playlists or the radio. Don't expect any one hit wonders to be featured. You have to release an album that tingles my balls to get the honor of My Favorite Band (this week). So who is our first lucky band? Let me introduce you to An Horse.
This grammatically challenged duo hails from the land of Crocodile Dundee and Yahoo Serious: Australia. The band consists of Kate Cooper (guitar) and Damon Cox (drums). Their debut album, Rearrange Beds, is out now. Take a listen:
If you like what you hear, you can catch An Horse with Telekinesis at the Black Cat Backstage on June 17th.
So, how did they get that name? As the story goes, "A friend once gave Kate a sweater with An Horse written on it because he thought it was grammatically correct. It wasn’t and that was quite a long time ago but Kate still wears the sweater. She hasn’t grown in years."
Ed. Note: After I posted this An Horse released the video for their first single, "Camp Out". Potsy thinks Kate looks like Ellen DeGeneres but in this video she looks like Britt Daniel's little sister to me. Judge for yourself:
Labels: An Horse, My Favorite Band
The Thermals - May 13, 2009 @ The Black Cat $13
Always good to see an enthusiastic crowd for a DC show. It doesn't happen with any regularity, but every once in a while, DC eats itself a bran muffin and lets loose. The folks who gathered together on Wednesday night made a decent show an enjoyable show for me. And while The Thermals delivered a solid performance, in their past two shows they have failed to conjure the same sense of shock and awe as they did in March of 2007.
Last night's show suffered from a soggy middle where the songs (newer ones I suspect) seemed less earnest and lacking the passion that I remember their earlier performances. Still, the crowd stuck with them faithfully, and the pogo-stick of a young lady in front of me proved that The Thermals still stoke the fire in the bellies of today's youth. Though she may have been on pills.
I haven't really listened close to Now We Can See, so that biases me against the unfamiliar, but like Andy Rooney, I like the ol' stuff better.
Jumbo Slice isn't the only DCRC twit. Here's what I thought was interesting in less than 140 characters:
The Thermals at the Black Cat. Good crowd.10:57 PM May 13th from txt
The Thermals at the Black Cat. Girl jumps on stage. Girl gets thrown out.11:04 PM May 13th from txt
The Thermals at the Black Cat. Yet there is a Charles Manson figure in the back...11:06 PM May 13th from txt [He was "security." Although, I didn't feel safer with him there.]
I love how the drummer eggs on the audience.11:20 PM May 13th from txt
Nirvana cover.11:24 PM May 13th from txt [Sappy - didn't delight as much as one might have expected]
Breeders cover.11:36 PM May 13th from txt [Saints - hard to hit the high notes - but this worked better]
Over.11:43 PM May 13th from txt
Labels: Black Cat, Potsy, The Thermals
Show Recommendation: Attendance Required: Tereu Tereu & Friends at DC9
Kudos to Steve at BabyStew.com for helping organize an excellent lineup at DC9 on Tuesday, May 19th: Tereu Tereu with The Deep Vibration, Roman Candle AND Motel Motel. It's not often you get to see four terrific bands for 8 dollars. There's really no excuse for missing this show. And be sure to get there early for Motel Motel. I can't get enough of their Old York EP, especially "Coffee".
Labels: Baby You Got A Stew Goin', motel motel, Roman Candle, Tereu Tereu, The Deep Vibration
Summer is almost here and bands are hitting the road. We have a full slate of shows over the next month (look at the Upcoming Shows section!). One band we'll be seeing (twice in fact) is White Rabbits. After touring with Spoon, White Rabbits asked Britt Daniel to produce their sophomore album, It's Frightening. It's not officially released until next week but you can listen to it on their MySpace page or download it from iTunes for a paltry $6.99.
The first single off of It's Frightening is "Percussion Gun". For some reason, it kind of reminds me of The Delta Spirit (which is a good thing).
Labels: White Rabbits
Fantastic 4some
It's college graduation time across this great land of ours. This week's youtubesday clip is in homage to the caps and gowns and tassels...
Okay, so the song itself isn't about graduation, but be glad I didn't post Third Eye Blind.
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Labels: Potsy, youtubesday
These United States w/ The Spinto Band & Greenland 5/8/09 @ the Black Cat - $12
What do folks think of The Roots being the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? Steady work...not a tough gig. Sounds like a nice pretirement set up. But doesn't it preclude them from having any real future as a touring band?
If DCRC could swing a house band, I'd like to think that we'd change it up every season or two, just to keep things fresh. Statehood would've been the DCRC band in 2006/7, as we seemed to see them every other week. In 2008, we went in a new direction and These United States (TUS) emerged as the band de l'année. Deleted Scenes looks to be the front runner for DCRC house band of 2009 (that's probably bad news for them, sorry).
Since we've seen and reviewed TUS a number of times already, we decided to reach into the emailbox for one of dozens of shovel-ready reviews submitted by our faithful readership. I will serve as editor in thief and try to move us along [in].
From the desk of our newest Youth Correspondent, Andrew:
I found about this show on Thursday and decided to check it out because two solid local acts were on the bill, Greenland and These US. I went into this with fairly high expectations. Greenland has been a personal favorite since I first saw them at Ft. Reno in '06, These US always put on a great performance, and an impressive cursory listen to the Spinto Band seemed to indicate that I might not have to head outside of the club for a breather as I usually do with local shows. Although I was in a grouchy mood because the girl I was bringing to this thing [Andrew tells us a superfluous anecdote about being stood up Friday night - no doubt trying to win sympathies from our female readers] ...I entered the Cat feeling pumped for some solid rock.
I got there a little bit after Greenland started their set, thanks to the parking spot I found which was about equidistant from my house to the club. I missed "Black Lightning", their opener which is not on the record and thus a rare treat. What I did hear was a mix of new and old tunes. A highlight from the new is definitely "Coffee", a forward moving, bass driven number that features the chorus lyric "It's getting serious, It's getting serious, It's getting serious, I guess I'll drink some coffee." This is great stuff which I think represents most D.C. 9-5ers jobs pretty accurately. That said, I don't know anything about "9-5." Old tunes that landed well with the crowd were "We Are Clipper Ships" and "Tiger Rug" off of the debut album Call Message. Although not too many people were there for Greenland, those that were seemed to be digging the reverb soaked guitars and stream of consciousness lyrics. Myself included.
[Andrew tells us of his jock sniffing banter with Greenland band members after their set] Not wanting to overstay any hypothetical welcome I had with the Greenlanders, I headed up to the stage to check out Spinto Band, who is from Delawhere? If you are reading this review, a pre-lecture question you might have had is "What was the Spinto Band like?" In a word, Hobbits. [Ironically, Andrew goes to great length to describe this band as being short.]
Anyways, the Spinto Band played quasi danceable pop music in the vein of OK Go or Shout Out Louds. More people were in the club now and the crowd was notably closer to the stage than during Greenland's set. They were a tight band and had a decent amount of stage presence, but I couldn't get over the Hobbit thing. Not to harp on appearances, but the lead singer who was not particularly Hobbit like (hence he is the front man) did remind me of that berry's and creme ad [shameless]. He had a very similar mannerism and repeatedly referred to the stage as "the bandstand." Weird I know. There music was original and seemed to appeal to the people dancing, but I couldn't help feeling I had heard it/read about it a year or two ago from some similar but better band.
Ok so they finished up and got off the bandstand. As I was staking out a primo spot for the headliner's set, I saw this woman staring at me. [In this part, Andrew gets hit on by a "strange example of a female" only to have her freak out by his juvenescence.] I finally escaped from this philistine by retreating to the back lounge area until These US started.
First thing I noticed was that the band had gone through some heavy changes since the last time I had seen them (last summer, Ft Reno). I was aware of their new Kentucky connection--the normally rotating cast of characters had been replaced by two new permanent members, a guitarist and drummer from Lexington, KY, and the band had recorded a record there recently. But of the five people playing in the band, only two (Jesse and JT Hnatow) were original members. The new (newer than KY guy) looked downright scary and had a haircut that was waaay two young for him. Highlights from the set included "First Sight", the closest this and comes to indie rock and a nice break from the usual array of southern fried rock the band specialized in. Southern fried rock highlights included "Honor Amongst Thieves" and "We Go Down to That Corner." The stuff sounded good in a slower Neil Young sort of way, but I missed the vitality and one two punch delivery of the band's set last summer. I was getting pretty tired as it was pushing midnight and I wasn't looking for another run in with that crazy chick so I headed home.
Greenland was awesome. They really did it for me. The Hobbits were trying too hard to be pop sensations. Yes, some hipster looking tweens were dancing, but if you actually watch the movies about the ring, the way to destroy the ring is by helping Frodo, carrying his stuff, and not trying to frame Golum. There is nothing about starting some twee Voxtrot wannabe band. Come on now, grow up! These US seemed tired. It's hard for an older DC band that has toured the hell out of the country (and Europe for that matter) and achieved only relative merit for it to stay strong. I also think the line up change hurt more than it helped. I saw a few people from the scene, most notably Randy from the now defunct but then awesome DC band Let's French as well as a guy from Bellman Barker.
Not bad, Andrew. A few points off for referring to TUS as "These US;" for not mentioning TUS drummer Robby Cosenza (I didn't recognize him at first, either - he's got a 9 to 5 haircut now) and sometimes-TUS-member Mark Charles (aka Vandaveer), and his last second appearance on stage (and birthday?); for mentioning the Berries and Creme ad (I'm not a fan); and finally for all the typos I had to fix. Extra points for going solo to the show, your analysis of the bands and for your making it through your senior prom (let's hope you didn't get stood up for that one).
Labels: Black Cat, Greenland, Potsy, Spinto Band, These United States, Youth Correspondent
Wye Oak and Pomegranates
Quick preface to my review: Wye Oak and Pomegranates play the Black Cat backstage this evening. Yeah, I know, it's Monday. You're tired from the weekend, yada, yada. Take my advice: get off your ass, get out the door, and go see these bands. How good were they? Put it this way: I skipped a viewing of The Room at the Alamo Drafthouse to attend the show. Go see Wye Oak tonight. You can thank me later.
Once again I'm pressed for time so I'm basing this review on my Twitter comments. Lazy? Yes, but what else would you expect from us?
10:11 PM - at @mohawkaustin for Wye Oak. Salesman playing now. I dig them playing on floor w/ the crowd.
10:17 PM - Salesman are a drummer-guitar duo that doesn't play garagey blues rock. More spacey-psychedelia w/ rock jams.
I didn't stay for much of their set but I liked what I saw. They set up their gear in the middle of the room and just started jamming away. Looking at them I expected a White Stripes sound but they went in a totally different direction. The songs were moody and wandering. Good stuff all around.
10:54 PM - Pomegranates onstage. Thought they had a girl singer. Nope. Just a high pitched dude.
11:00 PM - Pomegranates - Bloggy eunuch rock. Sounds bad but it's actually quite good.
I seriously thought they had a female singer. His singing reminded me of Dirty On Purpose, which gives me an excuse to post this picture of Sacklunch and Potsy's doppelgangers:
11:14 PM Pomegranates drummer very animated. It's hysterical. Like fast paced miming without the face paint or being French.
11:15 PM - Oh and he has a budding mullet as well. Hockey haircut WIN.
The drummer was by far the most amusing but the whole band put on quite a show. Each song was catchy, perfect pop music fun. I made a lot of dooshy Twitter comments (I dislike the terms "Tweets") about these guys but they were great. Seriously. I defy you to see them live and not like them. I've been listening to their albums almost nonstop since the show.
11:48 PM - Brazos takes stage. I'm seeing these guys on Friday as well. They're doing a taping of Austin City Limits.
Brazos played the Austin City Limits Stage Left program at our local PBS station on Friday (review later in the week). I didn't even realize they were also playing with Wye Oak until the day of the show. The only other time I'd seen them was at a "secret" show in the middle of some woods. I was given sketchy directions - drive to a remote park, follow train tracks for quarter of a mile, listen for the music. I eventually found a huge group of people drinking beer, smoking dope, and listening to music. Unfortunately, after two songs by Brazos it started to downpour and we all scattered for our cars. End of secret outdoor party.
11:59 PM - Brazos - effortless and beautiful voice. I want to say something snarky but just can't. It's great stuff.
12:04 AM - Just one snarky comment. Drummer looks like Sulu from Star Trek. OK I'm done.
12:11 AM - Singer has played whole set w/ his fly down.
12:17 AM - Brazos closes w/ a rocking tune called Interlocking. Great set. Looking forward to the ACL taping.
I'll have more to say on Brazos when I review their Stage Left performance but must add they were terrific on this night. They instantly became one of my favorite Austin bands.
12:48 AM - Super excited for the new tunes from Wye Oak. Here's one now!
Take It In - Wye Oak
"Take It In" is the first single off their forthcoming album The Knot (out on Merge Records July 21st). I could not be more excited for this release. I'll be at Waterloo Records on the 21st to pick up my copy. "Take It In" sounded great live as did all the other new tunes.
1:08 AM - Wye Oak plays an amazing cover of Neil Young. Of course anything Jen sings sounds incredible.
They covered "Pocahontas" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse off their Rust Never Sleeps album (the one with "Hey Hey My My"). I love when a band includes a interesting cover song to their live show. Excellent choice by Wye Oak.
James Lipton on Inside the Actor's Studio often (always? not sure since I really don't watch) asks his guests, "What's your favorite sound?" The people usually respond with something lame like "a child's laughter". If asked I'd answer, "Jenn Wasner's voice as it trails off, just before the drums crash in and guitar feedback begins." I love the contrast of her soulful voice and the band's loud, layered dissonance. It often sounds as if there are 5 or 6 people playing instead of just two. Speaking of which...
1:22 AM - Andy playing three instruments at once. He's like a one man band...who happens to be in a band.
Andy Stack is one talented dude. He carries the rhythm section all by himself and does it well. It was cool to see people stare in disbelief as he played drums, keyboard, and blew into some horn-thingee all at once. My only disappointment was the band did not play longer. Hopefully, they'll tour again over the summer and make their way back to Austin.
Final note, the band was selling posters made especially for the show (see image above). I snagged one to put in my daughters room. Sacklunch decorated his kids rooms with a bunch of very cool indie rock posters and I'm stealing his idea.
Labels: Brazos, James Lipton, Pomegranates, Salesman, Wye Oak
Show preview--Potsy's going to the These United States, Greenland, and the Spinto Band show tonight, unless he watches golf or something.
I got a quick separated-at-birth thing for you:
face transplant woman
And here's a nice video to get you revved up for the weekend. DC's own Doug Lazy, "Let It Roll." This was the jam of the summer in 1989. Do they still have jams of the summer?
Khan You Dig It?
King Khan and the Shrines w/ Mark Sultan
Once again Sacklunch writes a very belated review of a show, what a surprise...
Anyway, we all ventured out to check out King Khan for a late performance at the 930 Club. I had heard from a friend, let's call him Donald Malice, that we should definitely get there early to check out Mark Sultan (aka BBQ), because, well, he is worth checking out. Good call. I think he usually plays by himself, but tonight it was a three-way, but instead of lube and condoms, it was a bassist and an extra guitarist. Mr. BBQ plays pretty stripped down garage/blues/lo-fi rock, or whatever you want to call it. I dug the sound. Some tunes were better than others, and I think he suffered a bit by playing in such a large, fairly empty room. Also, I found the extra guitarist to be somewhat superfluous, though he did shred a fair amount on the closing song. Would love to see this dude again in a smaller, more intimate setting. Perhaps the BC Backstage, DC9, or at that imaginary party where I invite all of the friends that I don't really have...In any case, good opener. I also enjoyed the fact that late shows at the 930 Club tend to be sparsely populated, thus giving me plenty of room to wander about like a drifter (or M. Kapiloff).
King Khan came on around 11:30 PM and by then, the room was respectfully about 1/2 full. I had heard some stories that KK shows tend to get a little crazy, so I was anticipating the worst/best. However, Mr. Khan and his Shrines were very well behaved the entire night and busted out some very good, danceable, foot-tapping, head-bobbing garage soul. Here are my notes from the show:
1. There are like 12 people of stage, all of whom were not necessarily blessed in the looks department. Definitely a qualifier for ugliest band currently touring today. That being said, this could open up an interesting topic. What is the ugliest band (both past and present)? Please leave your comments in the, uh, comments....
2. Potsy and I did a fair amount of texting during the show. I have to say that I have become quite adept at text messaging as a mode of communication. Thank you iPhone. Mostly, the texts had to do with doppelgangers:
Chris Kattan on keyboards
John Norris (MTV news) on guitar
2 homeless guys on percussion
Gabe Kaplan on sax
Hitler sans stache on sax
3. I thought the show was good, but became a little one-note/derivative over time. However, I kept expecting someone to pull a Jame Gumb, so that kept me on my toes.
4. And finally, Ahmed the blind guy was in attendance. Shocking. I seriously think that guy goes more shows than Donald Malice.
Labels: King Khan and the Shrines
Never trust a big butt and smile
Last Saturday night I excelled in my first Corn Hole-ing. Yeah. I thought I stumbled into something I wasn't ready for, but as it turns out (thankfully), this version of corn hole-ing is a bean bag game - in the same vein as horse shoes. I love house parties, and this game was being sponsored by some 20-somethings in Woodley Park hosting a KY Derby party. In my first warm up toss, I holed it (not official corn hole-ing slang, mind you). So I was feeling pretty good about myself. But within 10 minutes of play, my opponent Emma Peel managed to drain it. Again, not official slang, as I mean that she literally drained it by tossing the bean bag down the sewer drain in the back alley where we were playing.
Other highlights from this party included a pinata (no doubt a nod to today's Cinco de Mayo celebrations). Best candy in the world (TakeFive) was featured inside, so I was pleased to see it hit the ground. And finally, while chatting up some of Emma Peels colleagues, I experienced an intense burning sensation. Again, it wasn't that kind of corn hole-ing...and the burning was coming from my front shoulder. And then the back of my shoulder. Turns out, I had a wasp in my shirt, and 5 stings later, I manage to un-shirt myself to free the bee.
And that brings me to today's youtube post. I'm full of wasp poison, and I've had this song stuck in my head since Saturday night.
Labels: bell biv devoe, poison, Potsy, youtubesday
Are you a fan of heavy metal? DC Rock Club is planning a return trip to Jaxx, and no offense to Kix, but this time we're looking to forgo the Hostess Twinkie bullshit hair metal and see some REAL METAL. Like Black Metal or somesuch.
To these ends we solicited help from our friend Stutts, who knows a guy who knows metal. This friend of Stutts's, who we'll call Tor Eckman, sent us the epic missive posted below. It pretty much gives us everything we want to know but if you, gentle reader, have further recommendations, let's hear them.
Now, from the desk of Tor Eckman:
hey old man's child looking for old grandad are ye? here's what i see that i would go see, or at least wouldn't miss:
well, i'm maybe seeing Kreator May 9th here in st. pete. i've never seen them. they're one of the original German thrash metal bands i heard as a teen barely out of high school. i lost interest and they changed line-ups so who knows if i'll care about anything but their first few albums. Exodus is another band from that generation i've never seen but has the rep and cred for that genre. Belphegor is blackened death metal from Austria--i know, you're tired of all the Austrian metal that you hear on the radio. there's only one other Austrian band i know of, which is not one to miss, Abigor. song titles such as Sexdictator Lucifer and Bondage Goat Zombie should carry you through the door without much trouble. basically anything from Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia, don't miss.
http://www.myspace.com/belphegor
Dragonforce is a teen metal head favorite. they are, like, the fastest speed metal band in the universe, duh. kind of like prog metal on serious speed. i'm not into that for more than a song or two. but it can be amazing to watch.
Absu (Texas, US) and Glorior Belli (France) i won't miss. basically, don't ever miss anything from France. (Deathspell Omega, Blut Au Nord, Malveillance, S.V.E.S.T., god don't get me started on the French scene.) Absu manages to bridge thrash and black styles effortlessly with their own weird lyrical mythos by the amazing drummer Proscriptor. plus it's an American rarity. Glorior Belli is on Southern Lord if that means anything (and it should). they will resemble the Scandinavian style more than any of the bands mentioned so far. there's an unmistakable buzz present, an almost ambience or drone, with odd chord progression as well as dark melody with all kinds of prog like tempo changes. you can listen to their entire album here:
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=15104566&ap=0&albumid=9625370
Atheist, down the road, literally from Sarasota--one of the origins of the so-called Florida Death Metal scene. with Psyopus (super fast grindcore experimental from NY) on the bill. could fix your technical death metal appetite. or make you laugh your ass off. some fanatics like to call this death jazz. my money is on Psyopus. you will scratch your head more than you will scratch your friend's ass.
let me know how things turn out
"grow some heretical hemlock for your representatives. serve it on a
revenue platter. then cut them down." -m'cpei
Ponytail (with Imperial China)
I'd heard a lot of bad things about Ponytail, but one thing I hadn't heard was Ponytail themselves until we caught them at DC9 last week. They win the gong for Longest and Most Irritating Soundcheck, for sure. Their lead singer looks like Juliette Lewis from The Other Sister. Her singing is a mix of yelps and whoops with nary a good ole' English word to be found. We have all the components of a terrible show swirling about, a gathering storm of crap, yes?
No, not really. Surprisingly enough, they were pretty good. High energy the entire set, singing about God fucking knows, in some sort of Ewok language, jumping around, and loud. Really, what's not to like here? There are some bands that are so just off-the-wall odd, that you find yourself just enjoying the spectacle, if not the music itself. I couldn't hum a single Ponytail song to you, but people were going nutty. The floor was shaking and there was some crowd-surfing in effect. It was a good time. Much like that time when I appeared in Nursing Home Gangbang IV: Urine-Soaked Grannies, I'm not sure I'd do it again but it was an interesting experience at the time and I'm a better man for having gone through it. In conclusion, I recommend seeing Ponytail if you haven't already seen them. Also, rent a copy of Nursing Home Gangbang IV, it's pretty good and has a surprise M. Night Shamalama-style ending. If you're a completist, you might as well get volumes I -- XXXIII. It's your call, man.
DC's own Imperial China opened up and it looks like they're about ready to bust out of this DC scene of ours. DC9's pretty small so saying "the place was packed" isn't saying much at all, but nevertheless, it was an impressive turnout for an opening band on a Thursday night, which we all know is Must See TV night, when America's Stars Come Out To Shine. Additionally, the crowd booed the sound guy when he refused to let IC play another song. Not too shabby. In my opinion, Imperial China are a good band, but goddammit, they still keep doing those Primus/Tool tempo changes and slap-bass shit, and that just rubs me the wrong way. I do not want to sail the sea of cheese. I do not care if Jerry is a race car driver. Jerry can suck one. It's frustrating because they'll hit a nice groove, almost something druggy and danceable, and I'll be enjoying it, and then BAM, they switch directions. Maybe they need to drop acid before they play and soften up a bit. My main beef with this style of music is that it seems overly masculine and appeals to a certain type of dude--I'm not thinking Limp Bizkit or anything lame like that, moreso the sort of Dischord/straight edge scene that was basically a 98% sausage fest. On the plus side, to me it sounds like they hit those nice Kinski/Chemical Brother-type grooves more often these days, and they sound pretty tight. I'm also liking the increased role of Brian Porter's vocals as well. I will say that they had one song where they hit it just right, called "Go Where Airplanes Go," which according to the band isn't out yet but will be on their upcoming album (to be released late summer/early fall). Of all the local bands we've seen, this is probably the only song I've heard where I was thinking to myself, man, what is this? I must have it. It's basically a very stripped down track, with Porter singing through the first half while playing the keyboard, then some spare percussion coming in on the second half. Top shelf stuff. So unfortunately I have no audio to post, but it did remind me of one of my favorite tracks from the Playing With Fire album by Spacemen 3--"Any Way That You Want Me (demo)", and I can and will post that instead. Enjoy the goodness:
"Any Way That You Want Me (demo)"
So basically, what I want to say to Imperial China, is stop sounding like Dischord, which I never really liked anyway (heresy!), and start imitating good bands like Spacemen 3 more often, like you did with "Go Where Airplanes Go." Also note that I am available to assume a Col. Tom Parker-type role as your manager and svengali, should you desire.
PS--Some notes/trivia about "Any Way That You Want Me." First of all, I didn't know it's a cover. It is. The track was originally released by the Troggs in 1966. And apparently Jason Pierce's desire to record the song was the straw that broke Spacemen 3's back (or shot them out of the airlock and asphyxiated them, to use a better space travel-related metaphor), according to Wikipedia--"The final conflict that contributed to the split [of Spacemen 3] was Pierce’s decision to release a cover of the Troggs’ “Any Way That You Want Me” as the first Spiritualized single, which Kember had been wanting to cover for years." I found the Spiritualized version of the song and I don't like it as much as the demo done earlier by Spacemen 3. You be the judge--here's the video from Spiritualized, and also the Troggs version thrown in, for good measure.
"Any Way That You Want Me," Spiritualized
"Any Way That You Want Me," The Troggs (warning--fan-created video)
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Containing Multitudes: Laser Safety Edition
June 2, 2018 /in Adventure & Radiation, Uncategorized /by Phil B
Most of you found me as the ridiculous coffee & steins guy. Some think of me as the radiation safety man who knows way too much history and is an embodiment of Institutional Memory (this would definitely be the point of view from the researchers and students I wrangle). To others, I am the crazy coin ranter…who knows way too much history.
But last year, a whole new part of the internet found me and, often, decided they didn’t like what I had to say as I revealed I am the laser safety guy who isn’t a big fan of some aspects of maker & founder culture. I wrote a bit of a rant on a product whose existence I found infuriating as it, from start to finish, embodied those bits of culture that drive me crazy. This also caused the parts of the internet I didn’t piss off to send me a steady stream of things to see if they were bad too or, in most cases, in hopes of raising my blood pressure. I took home some lessons from all this I’d like to share with you:
In the last couple years, something happened that caused a wave of cheap 405nm (deep violet) and 450nm (blue) laser diodes to come onto the market. Since shorter wavelength means more energy per photon, this was what the market has been waiting for to make small, cheap laser cutter/engravers. Cubiio was only one of dozens of different versions of similar systems.
The FDA Center for Device and Radiologic Health (CDRH) are aware of these systems, or at least becomes so as soon as someone tells them. There are so many and they so understaffed that they don’t actively hunt them, merely address those that are directly reported to them or are revealed in the course of an accident investigation. There is some despair of ever getting ahead of the wave at this point. The days of a few large and responsible laser manufacturers to wrangle, who reliably file paperwork before selling products, are long gone.
Amazon and eBay are oh so very complicit in the illegal importation and sale of laser systems that aren’t FDA compliant. Their hosting of third party sales without much (if any) vetting of what is being sold through their marketplace is a gushing pipeline of gray/black market items to America. When told to suspend sale of an item by the CDRH, they will very diligently remove that specific listing from that particular seller. If you heard a bit of sarcastic tone in your head there, good. Nothing prevents a different seller from selling the same item or the original seller for listing a substantially similar one, just different enough to evade the CDRH take down. Since listings are automated and fees are generated by listing and sale, there is no incentive for Amazon & eBay to do so self-policing. And then there’s Alibaba…
USPS/Customs Enforcement stop what they are specifically told to stop. They haven’t been given much direction about lasers and, much like CDRH, they don’t have much hope against the wave. I can personally attest to my two Not At All Okay handheld lasers, purchased via 3rd party seller on Amazon, that were shipped direct from China and sailed through Customs. The Mail Cops’ focus is trying to interdict weapons and illegal drugs, so this is one of those eye-rolling “Sure, yeah, we’ll get right on that in our copious free time” situations.
The intentionally reactive, rather than preventive, nature of control in the sale of laser products means we are way deep into whackadoo laser quackery on the market and have been for a while. It’s reminding me a lot of where we were with radioactive materials and x-rays, circa 1920. As an example, laser physiotherapy treatment, my entire ass. You are quite successfully selling a glorified heat lamp from China at a 100000% markup to overfunded sports programs. That piece of crap shouldn’t cost $100, much less $250k.
So, let me tell you how I got to this point in my life, or rather how I got back to it. Once upon a time, my first job out of college was working at one of the large industrial & scientific laser manufacturers in Silicon Valley. I began in production, building pretty much every laser they had on the market at the time. In short order I moved to service and then, thanks to having picked up all the safety roles for my division out of boredom and no one else wanted them, to the Environmental Health & Safety department when a layoff happened. By attrition, I was eventually the only person left in the EH&S department and I was the corporate laser safety officer (LSO) for the entire company. I was burnt out and desperately wanted out of there as management gave zero shits about their employees. After a particularly bad day at work, I discovered that it was possible to get a job working in Antarctica and submitted a resume.
Two years later, Raytheon Polar Services Corporation hired me to be a cryogenics/science technician to serve as a winterover at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It was, however, a very last minute hire before deployment. From the time a verbal offer was made to the when a same day FedEx letter with paper contract and plane tickets to Denver to attend fire school arrived at my office was 7 hours. Because it was so late in the day, my boss who I loathed was already gone when it arrived. Which meant that before I finished for the day, I had placed a resignation letter in his box, giving two weeks notice and informing him that the first week would be spent on vacation as I learned to be a firefighter in Colorado. I also cleared out my more important items from my office and locked down all relevant things on my computer. It’s fair to say that I burnt that bridge very effectively and scattered the ashes to the wind.
However, as corporate laser safety officer for this company I’d had a prominent voice in the safety community despite being in my 20s. The collective laser safety officers of the San Francisco Bay Area pushed the issue that we needed to make some kind of certification for our field, that there was a bit of a difference between being the person wrangling the one welding laser in the shop and being responsible for an entire university worth of lasers. And so the Board of Laser Safety was formed and the very first Certified Laser Safety Officer (CLSO) examination was organized for October 12, 2002. By the time this date rolled around though, I’d left my job at $LASER_COMPANY and was no longer a practicing laser safety officer. But, I’d paid the money, so I figured what the hell, take the test and maybe it would be something good for the resume when I got back.
The CLSO exam is supposed to be a three hour exam; I was the first one done in 73 minutes. I know this because the proctor showed me his stopwatch and wanted to make sure I was actually done and didn’t want to take more time checking it over. I said no, walked out of the testing room at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and drove all the way back down to my parents’ hose in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I then finished packing my giant bodybag sized duffles and went to sleep. The next morning my dad drove me to San Jose airport to catch the first leg of my very long and delay prone flight to the South Pole.
Several months later, now trapped at Pole with no escape flights coming for the next nine months, my dad let me know that they’d received a giant envelope from the Board of Laser Safety. I asked him to open it. Inside was this certificate which he sent me a picture of.
My original Board of Laser Safety CLSO certificate.
Note the certification number: G1006. The first five certification numbers, G1001-G1005, were held by the members of the Board of Laser Safety. Because I’d finished the test first, I was the sixth. The members of the Board never revealed to me who Number One was, but I was Number Six. Yes, I have been making Prisoner jokes about this for 15 years.
You will also note there is a renewal date on that certificate of January 1, 2006. I spent most of 2003 at the South Pole where the need for laser knowledge was minimal other than telling people “Don’t stand under the dancing laser speckles on the ice from the Atmospheric Research Observatory’s lasers. That’s actually bad. Try not to go blind, I’ll see you in the bar.” Most of 2004 I was unemployed or temping for the water district doing groundwater flow modeling. 2005 was LLNL and they had no need for my mad phat laser sk33lz (well, that’s not true, my knowledge informed other projects I was doing in interesting ways). And so, without continuing education credits, my CLSO lapsed.
Four years ago, I got tapped by a whole bunch of people affiliated with Burning Man as “Hey, I know a guy that knows something about lasers” in the wake of this incident. It kinda rankled that I had to keep giving the caveat of “I am not a CLSO” as I ran people through how to conduct an accident investigation and create policies for control of lasers in a place that believes in Safety Third. Oh, the fun I have with people who try to bring that mentality to places I’m actually responsible for.
Two years ago, I was asked if I was willing to serve as the deputy LSO for UC Berkeley in addition to my other duties. I said yes and somewhat sarcastically replied “You mean formally, as opposed to what I’ve been doing in the hallways for the last eight years? You finally read my resume I gather.”
Last year, the tsunami of shitty laser products, as discussed earlier, hit me. I snapped and decided I needed to re-certify so that I could complain with authority. The weird long BBotE production window in May was because I spent a week in Rochester, NY taking that exam and attending the DOE Laser Safety Conference.
Yesterday, I was contacted directly by the Board of Laser Safety to inform me that I’d passed and was re-certified.
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Spirits of Carter Mansion Kickstarter Preview
The Madjai March 12, 2019
Quick Look: Spirits of Carter Mansion
Designer: Keith D. Franks III
Artist: Seth Rutledge
Publisher: Cutlass Board Games
Ages: 14+*
Playing Time: 10-15 min
WARNING: This is a preview of Spirits of Carter Mansion. All components and rules are prototype and subject to change.
*Note: The developer set the recommended age of this game at 14, and while the mechanics are certainly fine for that, the theme of this game is luring a child into a nightmare basement to be lost there for eternity. The theme is, in this reviewer's opinion, too heavy for most 14-year-olds. Of course, use your best judgment.
tl;dr: One step removed from social deduction, this is a social persuasion game that can be played 100% truthful the whole time. With the added dark horror theme.
Getting to the Game: Remove from the 18 cards in the box the cards named Foyer, Basement, and Grand Entrance. Shuffle the rest, and deal three to each person. Place the Foyer face up in the center of the table, and then shuffle all the rest of the cards not dealt out into the deck, placed next to the face-up card.
Each player now chooses their team, based on the cards in their hand. It's this step that separates Carter Mansion from most social deduction games. If you only have scratches or only have blue totems, then your choice has been made for you by the spirit world. The rest of us choose a card with either symbol (red is bad, blue is good, like always), and place it face down in front of us with the alignment marker placed on top of it like a card protector. This is the team you've decided to be on. If you're on the blue team, you're trying to get a kid the soccer ball they kicked into the house and get them out before the red team can lure them into the dark basement...for all time. Dark, right? I know.
Playing the Game: Each round, a Spirit guide is the first player, and their job is to choose which card put forth by the spirits (the players) the kid will be lured into. If the baddies can get the Spirit guide to choose the basement before the kid gets the soccer ball, then they win. Somehow, the soccer ball prevents the kid from becoming trapped there? It's like...a ward of good, or something? If the Grand Entrance is chosen, and the kid has the soccer ball, they get to go home to their parents and tell their friends they braved the evil mansion.
Here's the trick, though--this game can be determined completely by everyone telling the truth. Unlike most social deduction games, where there's some mechanic in place to prevent role claims, this one lets the players be their own judges. As the Spirit guide changes every round, the forces of good and evil are going to ebb and flow as they each jockey for the soul of the kid. Let's do this scenario, though: In a five player game, it's possible (though, statistically unlikely) that each player chooses the path of evil. Let's say even three of them do. If the second Spirit guide chosen is evil (can't be the first, since the basement isn't in anyone's opening hand), and another evil player has the basement card in their hand, all that has to be done is for them to say, "I have the basement. This is it." The Spirit guide chooses that card, and they win. Not exactly a rousing evening.
Also, since teams can change based on card effects, there's no reason why everyone shouldn't be completely honest with what team they're on. The ability to change someone else's team back and forth is pretty standard in social deduction games like Werewolf or Growl, where you're looking to turn all the townies into baddies. Here, however, there's an interesting spin--two rooms in the house are able to change another player's alignment, so if you regret the decision you made early, you can change it, or you can recruit whoever you think has the soccer ball back and forth; a wonderful mechanic that keeps games from getting stale, or players on the "other" team from being shut out in a game.
Overall, the game works well when it works, but that isn't often enough to keep me bringing it to the table. It's a great idea, fitting actual horror onto a social deduction game, but there has to be enough at stake for both sides to avoid just coming out and owning who they are. That part is missing still, and I hope it gets added in before the game hits mailboxes.
Artwork and Components: The artwork you're seeing on the cards above isn't washed out by a bad camera. The wooden tabletop is the correct color. The cards overall just feel overly watered down. For a horror game, the usual problem is that everything's too dark, but here, it just feels overly hazy or watercolored. It's not that the art is bad--it's not. It's actually quite good. It's just that some cards aren't quite colored correctly. Maybe this will get resolved in the retail release.
There are no components in my review copy besides the cards, which are of decent stock. Should hold up well.
The Good: Quick gameplay, lots of room for negotiation and persuasion. Art is decent.
The Bad: Theme is super dark, which might be fine for some. Possible for an early victory to ruin the game.
Score: While there are issues here, the game itself is a cool take on social deduction, and I'm here for games with a dark tone and story. As someone on BGG put it so succinctly, "Just because a game's mechanics are light doesn't mean the theme has to be." Well stated, friend. Also, keep in mind, social deduction games as a whole change based on the group you're playing with, so my experience might not be yours. That's one of the many things to love about the genre. I'm giving Spirits of Carter Mansion a score of Stay Out of the Basement.
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Nicholas Leeman - Reviewer
Nicholas has been a board game evangelist for over 10 years now, converting friends and family alike to the hobby. He's also a trained actor and works summers as one of the PA announcers for the St. Paul Saints. He lives in Minneapolis, MN with his board gaming wife and son.
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Spirits of Carter Mansion Kickstarter Preview Reviewed by The Madjai on March 12, 2019 Rating: 5
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موقع سينمائي جديد للعالم العربي
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Eshtebak “Clash” | A Nation Locked up in a Riot Van
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It’s not often that I come across a movie balancing its story skilfully on the crosspoint of cinematic symbolism, realistic dramas and powerful messages. Rarely ever does that movie come from my home country, Egypt, so let me take a moment to savor this achievement .. and let’s start.
A Group of Detainees from “Eshtebak”
In their 3rd joint screenplay, brothers Mohamed and Khaled Diab are telling us a story of a group of random people in one of the chaotic days following the sacking of Egyptian former president Mohamed Morsi. Everything starts with an empty riot van, which doesn’t remain that way for too long, as it’s quickly filled up with 20 persons; Some of them are Muslim Brotherhood members, others are just Morsi supporters, while on the other hand we also have representatives of the opposition and in the middle we have 2 members of the press.
After a violent start for the confrontation, our group settles down and realizes the truth of the situation; They’re actually locked up together in van that is continuously, and viciously, under attack. They don’t have enough faith in the authorities detaining them, given that half of the people in the van are actually on the same side and thought that this will be their ticket out of the van, but how wrong they were. They have women and children in the van and they’re frightened by the idea of facing the same fate as a similar group of people, in a similar van, as one of the members of the group reminds everybody.
In the full length of the movie we never leave the van. We’re either witnessing how the detainees are interacting with each other, or following the events that take place outside the van through the eyes of our characters looking, in their turn, through the windows and the open door. Our story is progressing with every new location the van heads for, with every conversation and story told inside the van, and with every medical challenge that emerges either by the attacks or by the inhumane conditions they’re all in.
“Eshtebak” is a claustrophobic, blood boiling, experience that is, surprisingly, very easy to follow and be engaged with. In his second project as a director, Mohamed Diab gracefully faced, and capitalized on, all the technical and artistic challenges involved with capturing sophisticated emotions in the tight space, and through the limited angles, he had. Powered by mind blowing performances from all 20 members of the core cast, and top class action sequences taking place outside the van, Diab focused on capturing the magic he engineered rather than casting a spell or two on the frames he’s chosen; A maturely correct decision.
A Video Review of the Movie in Arabic
The formula enabled for the level of realism that I pointed. Usually a similar project would succumb to surrealism and fantasies being convinced that symbolism and messages are the top priorities, but not “Eshtebak”. It is important to clarify that an average movie, liberated from any technical or artistic challenges in Egypt nowadays, will face extreme difficulties in finding a point where it can portray the two sides of the political conflict without taking sides. Actually, it’s just the one side that you can ever be allowed to take, so seeing this project all the way through to the theatres screen is an astonishing achievement, let alone convincing the audience with the pictures it’s portraying. That perfect balance was slightly broken in the end sequence where it leaned more towards symbolism, maybe to further clarify the message, maybe to encourage the audience to disregard their own vision to the facts and focus on the moral, that I cannot tell for sure, but what I can tell is that it felt uneven in comparison with the rest of the movie.
Although “Eshtebak” is a story of conflict between two, politically biased, groups of people, the real anticipation was after the depiction of police on one side and the Muslim Brotherhood on the other. The movie had to offer a few compromises in favor of the police forces, adding reasonable motives to the cruelest of their practices and always putting the Muslim Brotherhood gangs in the kick off position of any violations. However, at this cost, the movie also offered the widely condemned organization the most humanized, arguably, in their history of their appearances in cinema.
“Eshtebak” stars Hany Adel, Ahmed Malek and Nelly Kareem in addition to several less known names in Egyptian cinemas. Among the many achievements of the movie is giving a sensible presence to every single person in the van in addition to a few other characters outside the van. Those were mainly members of the police force and they carried the biggest burden of convincing the audience that whichever extent of kindness that they’re showing can actually come from Egyptian police. In my opinion, they succeeded in doing so, and that is also a great achievement.
Probably the weakest link in the characters’ chain is the background stories phase most of them had to go through. It felt irrelevant and added an unneeded layer of particularity to those characters as opposed to the anonymity which was a great tool for relating to those characters.
Technically the movie is mostly shot using handheld cameras offering a shaky effect that I rarely ever welcome, but it was very well utilized in “Eshtebak” to reflect the sense of chaos and discomfort. The shaky shots were successfully deployed in sophisticated long takes with minimal lighting complications during the daytime segment of the movie. At night however, the movie utilized the infamous green laser beams, shining the inside of the van through the windows in mesmerizing shots, beautifully captured by cinematographer Ahmed Gabr.
“Eshtebak” is a well crafted piece of artistic cinema that sends a straightforward wake up call to the Egyptian community. It brings the largest idiotic classifications of large groups of people through layers and layers of details to their human core, and it places those people in a situation that in not far more miserable than the conflicts we’re facing in our daily lives. The formula is wrapped into well tuned comedy, heartwarming moments and realistic reminders to heart wrenching incidents that we became extremely talented in denying.
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Applying traditional style of Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Malaysian cuisine, Get Down Cafe’s passion is to provide excellent and flavorful vegetarian meals to satisfy all food lovers. Get Down Cafe uses a unique brand of soy products which blends soybeans with various spices to provide a bounty of flavor.
Complementing our cuisine, Get Down Cafe’s full bar offer a variety of drinks and cocktails with a focus on sake. From the time-honored and traditional “rice wine” to the modern and innovative sake-tini, the possibilities are endless.
Our mission from the entire family at Get Down Cafe to bring together great food, drink and friends into our warm and inviting establishment.
Get Down Cafe came to be as one of partners of red Bamboo NYC decided to branch out on her own. The goal is to take Cafe cuisine to new heights, to expand the Pan-Asian theme by adding a Japanese flair to the mix, and to push the boundaries and change the perception of Cafe as bland and boring.
By locating Get Down Cafe on 47-49 7th Ave South, she aspires to provide a comfortable, roomy and friendly place to enjoy the food.
Get Down Cafe has no affiliation at all with the former Red Bamboo in Brooklyn on the current VP2 in the West Village.
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Poor Ghanaian Men Don’t Cheat, Only The Rich Does – Fisherman
Chief International Correspondent for CNN, Christiane Amanpour flew to Ghana to conduct interviews on the topic ‘Sex and Love Around the World’.
She’s interviewed some Ghanaians about the topic to get their divergent views on it.
In one of the episodes she landed in James Town, a fishing community in Accra. There she spoke to a young man believed to be in his mid-forties on ‘Is cheating a rich man’s game?”.
However, the young man who doubles as a footballer and fisherman said he believes only rich men cheat on their wives. This according to him is because they have the mean and can afford to have mistress’ aside their wives.
“I don’t cheat on my wife because I’m poor”. He answered, when quizzed whether he cheats on his wife or not.
His answer which was rather interesting made Christian Amanpour probe further about the relationship between ‘money and infidelity’
“So this is rather interesting, you did say that you don’t cheat because you are a poor person, would you say that the people who cheat are mostly the rich people who can afford to have a wife and a mistress and a girlfriend”, she asked.
“Because of their money, when you are rich you can decide to choose any woman you want, but I am a poor person I have to stay with one lady”, he said.
Instagram sensation, Moesha Boduong, earlier told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that women in Ghana sleep with married men for money for survival.
According to her, the root of all these is because Ghana’s economy very bad.
“[In] Ghana, our economy is in such a way that you just need someone to take care of you.
“You can’t make enough money as a woman here because even if you want to get an apartment, in Ghana you pay two years in advance and I just started working, where will I get money to pay for an apartment for two years,” she told Amanpour in an interview.
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Peace Agyare loves to write and is addicted to reading. She is a staff at Ghaflagh.com & ghafla.com/music/ A well bred journalist with a flair for entertainment, society and arts. She loves covering events and reporting personalities for the public consumption.
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Label: Hollywood Records
Length: 60'20
Music Composed & Produced by Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams
Music Conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith, Bruce Fowler & Don Harper
Additional Music by Don Harper & Steven Stern
Orchestrated by Bruce Fowler, Suzette Moriarty, Ladd McIntosh, Walt Fowler & Dennis Dreith
"The Rock" Guitars by Bob Daspit
"The Roll" Guitars by Michael Thomson & Michael Stevens
Score Recorded by Alan Meyerson & Bruce Botnick
Score Mixed by Alan Meyerson
Recording Assistants: Gregg W. Silk & Brian Richards
Paramount Recordist: Paul Wertheimer
Additional Engineering by Marc Streitenfeld
Music Editors: Bob Badami & John Finklea
Assistant Music Editors: Shannon Erbe & Sienna Pascarella
Music Contractor: Sandy DeCrescent
Music Preparation: Dominic Fidelibus
Score Wrangler: Emma Burnham
Assistants to Hans Zimmer: Marc Streitenfeld & Justin Burnett
Score Recorded at Media Ventures, Sony, Paramount
Album Compiled by Marc Streitenfeld & Nick Glennie-Smith
Equipment: Euphonix, Steinberg Cubase, Yamaha, Fairlight
Mastered at A&M Mastering
Executive Soundtrack Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Executives in Charge of Music for The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group: Kathy Nelson & Bill Green
Executive in Charge of Soundtrack for Hollywood Records: Mitchell Leib
Special thanks to Jan Glennie-Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Jay Rifkin, Bob Badami, Tom Bocci, Sam Schwartz, Mike Gorfaine, James Newton Howard, Mark Levy, Suzanne Zimmer, Zoe Zimmer & the Media Ventures Gang, Angie Rubin, Squirt
Hummell Gets The Rockets (6:25)
Rock House Jail (10:12)
Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Don Harper, Steven M. Stern
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Fort Walton - Kansas (1:37)
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The first minute of "Rock House Jail" — is that Hans, NGS, or both? I know the track uses part of NGS' original theme, and Hybrid has made it sound like most of the track is a Hans cue. But that first minute is one I've always been curious about.
First 2 minutes of "Rock House Jail" is the cue "Tour's Over Bob", credited to Nick, Don Harper & Steven Stern.
So, it's Nick, Hans had nothing to do with that one... :)
Hans had nothing to do with that one
Very interesting. I've always thought that it was Hans. The piece is a pure Zimmer sound and style. Still, good to know who really did it. Props to Nick, Don and Steven.
Afrogarrix Replies: 0 || 2016-04-22 01:00:20
This Score Is cool With Nick Glennie-Smith With Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams On This Movie By Michael Bay But Still cool
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Hello score fans,
can someone help me, i am looking for this score but it is not available on itunes outside the USA, who do I contact to make it available for purchase, because this leaves a very big hole in my collection
Dimitris Krommidas 2015-11-29 01:04:29
Try Amazon.
max 2015-11-29 10:18:33
Hello Dimitris,
I know it is available on CD format on multiple platforms both new en used (who in there right mind would resell this masterpiece), however I own all my music on iTunes, and this release is missing, I was hoping someone here knows who to contact about making it available outside the USA (it is in th USA itunes store, so it should be that digital is the problem)
Dimitris Krommidas Replies: 7 || 2015-07-12 09:58:34
A top classic from mr.Zimmer.
It is THE best !
My top favorite score ever ! I know every second by heart !
I agree mr.Hybrid Soldier. :)
I am very happy to own this album too!
Ds 2015-07-12 14:45:30
I didnt know which movie to see this afternoon... Now i know, thanks guys :-D
Wow, Hybrid, I didn't know you had a top favorite!
Well, a lot of people around the world have this score deep inside their hearts because back then, in 1996, it was the way that they discovered Hans Zimmer.
I am one of them.
Thank you mr.Zimmer.
You should thank Messrs. Glennie-Smith, Gregson-Williams et al s well, Dimitris... ;)
The "Theme Idea" on NGS' page, is that the theme the director didn't like and made Hans replace? Because no offense to Hans, but I like NGS' theme better.
God, "The Rock" theme is one of my favorite HZ themes EVER. One of my favorite opening scenes, too. I wouldn't trade it for anything!
Oh, don't take that the wrong way: I love the Zimmer theme, too. ;)
MacArthur Replies: 4 || 2013-10-10 17:46:47
Hybrid are there any other scores like POTC1 where Zimmer came to a RCP guys rescue and did not get credited.
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple: Armageddon (he helped on the Asteroid Chase cue), Iron Man (Driving with the Top Down is his, among other things...it seems he actually did quite a lot on that one) and Transformers 2 ("Decepticons Invade/Fallen on TV" cue from the complete score).
MacArthur 2013-10-10 20:03:43
Thanks Ed. I did know that he did transformers 2 (The Fallen's Arrival) and 1 question do you like the Iron man score?
Not a huge fan. Pretty much the only thing I like about it is the general style, but that kind of orchestral rock stuff has been done SO much better by other composers (including Brian Tyler and John Debney, although ironically not particularly in their two scores for the franchise, but rather the Fast & Furious scores for Tyler and The Scorpion King for Debney). Djawadi's is really banal and simplistic and lacks energy to me. There's some decent themes in there ("Vacation's Over") but they're really underdeveloped. I haven't heard the complete score though, so I'm basing this on the album. Hell, I think Trevor Rabin would have made a better Iron Man score than Djawadi did. :p
Oh Wow. I never thought Rabin was that good. although i do agree about Djawadi he's not great his Clash of the Titans score was good (at least I thought)
One quick note I was doing a download and my iPod wiped my music clean. I mean nothing left except for one song that I had just put on it. do you know what might have happened. Cause I'm Baffled.
Did Zimmer do anything solo on this score
The amount of names on In the Tunnels is insane, lol.
Though there was a track in POTC1 that had a lot more names attached.
Fort Walton - Kansas reminds me of summer cookouts or somethin' nice like that.
i cant help but wonder if curse of the black pearl drew from this score :P
lol, Curse of the Black Pearl drew from a LOT of previous Zimmer scores....The Rock, Crimson Tide, Gladiator, Drop Zone, and El Dorado to name a few. ;)
El Baradei Replies: 4 || 2013-01-13 17:52:21
This score is still one of the best scores of all time with maybe the best action theme of all time.
The Rock and Hans Zimmer are the reasons for me to love film scores.
El Baradei 2013-01-14 09:55:19
By the way, did you know: the main theme for Ed Harris' character was composed by Hans Zimmer based on ideas by him and James Newton Howard.
10 years before Batman Begins the first collaboration between Zimmer and Howard.
Oh there was one before that... Though not in composition.
Okay, and what was it?
Waterworld, where Hans gave JNH the MV samples library. :)
The Rock was a favor back, though from what I know I don't think JNH was involved in any way, it's more like Hans politely asked if he could copy James... haha
This soundtrack is great stuff.
But it and Crimson Tide sound a lot alike. Particularly Hummell Gets the Rockets.
anoopa Replies: 0 || 2012-03-10 12:38:11
Good afternoon, I liked the movie a rock, and really want to learn songs on piano, but the ability is not music and cannot find them. Can you please help
July Replies: 0 || 2012-03-10 01:40:15
I've been a big rock/heavy metal guy growing up, but more and more I see that this is true. . .but it is EXTREMELY slbtue. That's how I and many others have been deceived it seems innocent. But you research it and you realize that its roots are often evil and occult.Why did the Beatles's include Aleister Crowley on their Sgt. Peppers album?Why did Ozzy Osbourne dedicate a song to Crowley?Why did the Rolling Stones write Sympathy for the Devil ?Is ACDC's Highway to Hell really innocent?A while ago, I was happy to listen to it bobbing my head. One day I woke up. And these examples are classic examples, newer rock is often more bold in attacking truth and Jesus (band Slayer comes to mind). Can I choose to listen to that smut and have a testimony of Jesus?
Hey, Hybrid, do you think we're ever going to get a who-composed-what detailing for this score? Seems like this is one that needs it the most (and that's saying something considering how big some of Zimmer's committees are!).
As far as I can guess, Zimmer composed the main theme and the first half of "Hummel Gets the Rockets", Gregson-Williams contributed to some of the more frenetic action cues (his ultra-kinetic percussion sound from the Tony Scott is evident in "The Chase") and Glennie-Smith did the rest, the "Jade" and "Fort Walton - Kansas" cues in particular sound like his.
But you probably know better than I do, so I'd love to hear what you know about this complicated situation. Thanks.
Oh yeah - AWESOME score. Probably the best late 90s MV action score there is!
Dakota 2011-06-27 18:40:24
I second this! Or for the complete score as well
Gav 2011-06-27 23:51:07
I think Don Harper is solely credited, at least in the credits, for The Chase.
Kostja Replies: 0 || 2010-03-30 00:00:00
Good afternoon, I liked the movie a rock, and really want to learn songs on piano, but the ability is not music and cannot find them. Can you please help.
steve Replies: 0 || 2010-02-07 00:00:00
le meilleur jamais entendus dans un film merci
thanks very much !!
ammar.palestinian Replies: 0 || 2009-12-10 00:00:00
genius . when i used to watch those movies which u composed their music . i directly go to check who is that genius composed the music . and every time i find out that he is , , , hans zimmer . best regards from deep in the heart . thank u
moataz egypt Replies: 0 || 2009-11-03 00:00:00
you are so good
irfanbhaktidjauhary Replies: 0 || 2009-08-16 00:00:00
Moni Replies: 0 || 2009-05-08 00:00:00
The best soundtrack I have heard. Hummel getting the rockets is the best ever!!!!!
lover Replies: 0 || 2009-03-04 00:00:00
some guy Replies: 0 || 2009-02-15 00:00:00
This score is simply amazing- I've never seen/heard a sountrack that would fuse with the picture as well as The Rock does. Once you've seen the movie once or twice, you can actually only listen to the soundtrack and recall every single action scene accompanied by it's part of the score - you can almost follow every body move the actors make.
Joseph Soans Replies: 0 || 2008-10-17 00:00:00
This Movie is got one of the Greatest Sound tracks. I,ll love to hear them again and again !!!!!!!!
CLAUDIO CAMPORESI Replies: 0 || 2008-08-11 00:00:00
THE GREATEST SUND TRACK I EVER HERD !!!
Shane Wesley Replies: 0 || 2008-07-29 00:00:00
One of the greatest scores ever! I would like to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra jam out one of these. Love electric guitars with an orchestra!
i dont get why its isnt in the top 3 :(
BEST MUSIC I EVER HERD!
The Rock soundtrack - Hans Zimmer - Nick Glennie-Smith 1996
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Talk:Weclome Back
Revision as of 22:59, 3 July 2006 by Cutepetsrus (Talk | contribs)
1 Bologna
2 StrongBad on a Plane
3 Topiary
4 Chaps upgrade to Flash 8?
5 Doin' that thing you do
6 "The part with the narwhal?"
7 Homsars hat flying off...
We can leave the Baloney in Baloney Sammich Truck but otherwise it should be bologna
Both are accepted spellings... Merriam-Webster lists Baloney as a variant of Bologna. --phlip TC 15:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Those words have undergone differentiation. Baloney is properly only "nonsense", and the meat product is bologna. — It's dot com 16:47, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
It's dot com, I don't think that's a true statement. M-W shows it as a variant of "bologna"; if you have a dictionary citation where it's noted that "baloney" doesn't mean "bologna" anymore, then provide it. Especially as they use the "baloney" spelling in the toon, and barring absence of evidence that it cannot adequately mean the meat, we should use the "baloney" spelling throughout. - Qermaq - (T/C) 19:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Touché. Sandwich was also misspelled as "sammich" so the explicit use of "baloney' was probably just word play.
"Sammich" is not a documented and accepted spelling of "sandwich", however. "Baloney" is. - Qermaq - (T/C) 21:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I have personally never seen the sausage meat being spelled as anything except "balogna" in any serious context. Bubs' truck is hardly what I'd call serious. --Jay v.2020 (Talk) 21:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Because simple personal experience is limited, we have lexicographers whose job it is to determine actual usage on the broad scale. Above it is shown that Merriam Webster's lexicographic staff feels "baloney" is an accepted spelling of the meat product. Cambridge and American Heritage agree. Oxford seems to disagree, however Oxford is a primarily British dictionary which also documents US usage, so the actual US dictionaries should take precedence here. Note that I am not saying "bologna" would be wrong, but that it would be inconsistent with TBC's usage on the site, and as such would be less appropriate for the knowledge base. - Qermaq - (T/C) 21:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the outcome of this discussion is very important, but I will note that searching Oscar Meyer's (probably the manufacturer of the most bologna in North America) website for baloney reveals zero occurrences, and searching for bologna reveals several. My vote is to refer to it as "bologna" everywhere but "Baloney Sammich Truck". Trey56 21:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Of course that's a branding choice on Oscar Meyer's part (the song wouldn't be so great if they had a way with b-a-l-o-n-e-y!), as "baloney" is the branding choice for Maloney's Baloney. Then there's LightLife's Foney Baloney, another clear branding choice. One would expect branding usage to be consistent, regardless of whether the word is real or not, or whether the form of the word is more, less, or equally prevalent in American English. - Qermaq - (T/C) 21:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Also, I think it's strange to assume that "baloney" is TBC's preferred spelling based off of "Baloney Sammich Truck"; no one's arguing that "sandwich" should be respelled "sammich" everywhere in the article... :) Trey56 21:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Again, as I noted above, no one would argue that, because "sammich" is not a lexicographically-accepted word. "Baloney" is, as I think I have proven, as correct a spelling as "bologna" in American English, and to insist on using a spelling TBC did not use in this case seems a little odd to me. Compare to this: what if they did a toon about "pop" and people argued we should call it "soda" because it matches their personal experience? This is NOT a case of them making up a word or spelling out a slang term, and the line of thinking we'd use if they called it "ba-low-knee" or something else like that doesn't apply. It's my position that if they use a real spelling of a real word in canon, we should follow suit when discussing canon. - Qermaq - (T/C) 22:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I think it's pretty much a regional spelling difference, like saying 'soda' or 'pop'. Most people, I would assume, have seen both. Since the only documented instance of the word's spelling is 'baloney', I think we should continue that spelling throughout, although add somewhere "baloney (which can also be spelled bologna)".Trelawney 22:10, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
If only they had misspelled "truck" — then the case would be clear! Since this isn't the case, I think Trelawney's suggestion is the best compromise, although I would change the parenthetical statement to "(more commonly spelled bologna)". And now I plan to spend no more time thinking about this molehill. Trey56 22:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
StrongBad on a Plane
Strongbad doesn't shake with the plane, should we include this in goofs?
Who is that man in the topiary garden? It doesn't look anything like the bust of Van Buren... Rogue mentioned Shakespere in IRC, and it bears a resemblance... what do people think? --phlip TC 15:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I think it might just be Shakespere.--H*Bad 16:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I gotta agree with H*Bad. Shakespeare is who I immediately thought of when I saw that. Ramrod 16:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I, too, thought of the Bard of Avon. — It's dot com 17:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
One more vote for Shakespeare... that's why come he's so awesome. Trelawney
Chaps upgrade to Flash 8?
They've said before that they still use Flash 5 (or was it Flash MX, I forget). But this eppisode used alot more blurred objects then usual (in the plane, the blades of grass the camera records and the quick zoom in on h*) and bluring is a new feature added to Flash 8 (Chaps have previously used photoshop to do this). I'm working on importing the flash file into my Flash 8, I'll see if that has any clues. --John
Doin' that thing you do
The lyric referring to "our bass player" reminds me of That Thing You Do!, where the bass guitarist had no other name than T(he) B(ass) Player. — It's dot com 16:47, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Heh, thats true.--H*Bad 17:02, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually TBC are most likely referring to the fact that bass players are generally un-notested
"The part with the narwhal?"
At least, I think SB said Narwhal. You don't get that many of them in midair, but I'd imagine one of the celebrities had brought one along.
There were no celebrities.--H*Bad 19:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide? It's far too subtle for me to add it, though someone braver might include it. At least it should die in STUFF.--Bobo the King 19:45, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
That was a sperm whale, though, not a narwhal. It's probably just cause narwhals are so cool. :)Trelawney
Homsars hat flying off...
...and then coming back, reminds me of the parts from Airplane! when one of the characters tossed their jacket and it came back to him.--H*Bad 18:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I think the sae thing happened with a hat too. I love that movie.... SaltyTalk! 18:46, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Homsar's hat comes back to him all the time. - Joshua 18:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Maybe its something that the Chapmans took from the movie.--H*Bad 19:01, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I just thinks that he threw it around the world, so naturally it came back to him. Homsar would do that kind of thing. --Homfrog 22:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Or it simply flew around behind the viewer. - Qermaq - (T/C) 22:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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The paper trail that revealed DUP MLA Trevor Clarke's sideline planning applications business
Brendan Hughes
DUP MLA Trevor Clarke
DUP MLA Trevor Clarke is running a sideline business lobbying on behalf of planning applicants, an Irish News investigation has revealed.
The paper trail which sheds light on the business has raised concerns of a "major conflict of interest" – and a breach of the assembly code of conduct.
In January, Mr Clarke updated his Stormont register of interests to include Versatile Consultancy under 'employment and earnings'.
He describes himself as a "partner" in Versatile, earning "between £1,001 - £2,000" for two hours worked per month.
However, no details are given on the nature of the business.
Seven planning applications have been submitted to Antrim and Newtownabbey council which list Versatile as the agent acting on behalf of applicants.
Analysis: DUP MLA's planning consultancy business raises serious questions
The earliest was submitted in May 2017, and the most recent in June 2019. They are mostly proposals for private domestic properties.
The application forms list contact details for Versatile, including an office address and some mobile phone numbers.
Forms were signed "L McLean".
One of the mobile numbers is the same as a number used by Mr Clarke's car sales business, and a printing business run by his son, Adam Clarke.
A second mobile number on the forms is a contact number for Lisa Tully.
Mrs Tully is a daughter of DUP Mid Ulster councillor Paul McLean.
She had worked in Trevor Clarke's constituency office. She currently works in DUP MLA Joanne Bunting's office.
Decisions on planning applications are made by local councils. A planning committee made up of councillors votes on whether to approve or refuse proposals.
Councils can charge hundreds of pounds in fees for the submission and processing of planning applications.
Letters acknowledging receipt of payment cheques were sent to Versatile's office address.
Of Versatile's seven applications, three were approved, two refused, one withdrawn, and the most recent is still under consideration.
When one application came before the planning committee in March, Mr Clarke attended and spoke in its favour.
He is listed in the minutes as "Trevor Clarke MLA". There is no reference to Versatile.
The applicant told The Irish News said Mr Clarke helped him with the application, but he was unaware of Versatile's role.
Seven members voted to refuse the plans and three abstained. How each individual councillor voted was not recorded.
Among the committee members is the DUP's John Smyth, the current council mayor. He also works in Mr Clarke's constituency office.
On two applications which planners had advised for approval, Mr Smyth was the councillor who made the proposal to follow the planners' recommendation.
A DUP spokesman said Mr Smyth was unaware of Versatile, and "at all times" considered applications "only on the planning merits of the case".
Examining the seven application files, the documents include correspondence between Mr Clarke and council officials.
Some handwritten notes of phone calls refer to Mr Clarke as the "agent".
As recently as January, Mrs Tully wrote to planners using Mr Clarke's constituency email address.
The emails were signed off "on behalf of Trevor Clarke MLA" and included his constituency office address and phone number.
The most recent application also involves correspondence sent to an email address connected to Adam Clarke.
Paid advocacy is prohibited under the Stormont assembly code of conduct.
It says MLAs "shall not, in return for payment or benefit, advocate or initiate any cause or matter on behalf of any outside body or individual". They also cannot "misuse" any public resources made available to them.
The code "applies to all conduct by members when acting in their capacity as a member of the assembly".
Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the British government's Committee on Standards in Public Life, expressed concern.
"Initially it seems to me that this MLA is involved in a major conflict of interest between his public responsibilities and his private business interests," he said.
"Particularly in planning issues, elected public officials have heavy moral and legal responsibilities, and they need to demonstrate at all times that they are operating in the public interest and there is no actual or perceived opportunity of personal financial gain or a public perception of a conflict of interest."
He added: "He appears to have breached the MLA rules of conduct in not fully declaring the nature of the business he is a partner in.
"If he had declared the nature of the business he was receiving money for then he should not be involved in decision-making about planning issues."
Stormont is supposed to have a Commissioner for Standards who investigates complaints about the conduct of MLAs.
However, because of the collapse of power-sharing in 2017, there is currently no standards watchdog in post to investigate this issue.
A DUP spokesman for Mr Clarke said: "Trevor Clarke established Versatile Consultancy having lost his seat at the March 2017 assembly election.
"The business offers advocacy as well as site maps/drawings etc, beyond anything offered in the representative role of an MLA."
Adam Clarke declined to answer questions, refusing to say what his role is in Versatile.
Mrs Tully said: "Anything I do outside of my full-time job is none of your business."
Asked what her full-time job is, she repeated "that's none of your business" before hanging up.
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NeighborCity hit with MLS copyright lawsuits
Referral site providing transaction-based scores for 850,000 agents
Two regional multiple listing services have filed copyright lawsuits against the operator of NeighborCity.com — not long after the site rolled out updated profile pages for 850,000 agents that feature agent scores and performance metrics based on their transaction history.
The lawsuits allege that NeighborCity.com’s owner and operator, American Home Realty Network Inc., reproduced, displayed and distributed copyrighted listing content, including photographs, without the MLSs’ authorization.
NeighborCity’s CEO Jonathan Cardella is named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed by Rockville, Md.-based Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS).
The complaint filed by MRIS on March 28 alleges the company violated copyright laws through "the creation of unauthorized derivative works incorporating the MRIS database."
St. Paul, Minn.-based Regional Multiple Listing Service of Minnesota Inc. (NorthstarMLS) filed suit against American Home Realty Network on April 18.
San Francisco-based American Home Realty Network — licensed as a brokerage in California, but no other states — has not filed a formal response to the complaints in court.
Cardella told Inman News that NeighborCity obtains some, but not all, of its listing and transaction data through agreements with individual brokerages. The site contains nearly 2.7 million listings nationwide, about 2 million of which are identified on the NeighborCity website as MLS listings.
"We cannot address ongoing litigation at this time but to say that the MLSs apparently do not recognize our broker agreements, which convey the right to use the listing data available on our website," Cardella said. "Additionally, we have not seen the federal copyrights of any of the alleged copyright violations despite our requests for those MLSs to" provide them.
Cardella added that in NeighborCity’s brokerage agreements, "brokers only give us permission to use their (own) listings." The site also has licensing agreements with third-party data aggregators that provide public records information, among other types of data.
Cardella declined to elaborate on other sources for the site’s listing and transaction data, saying, "We cannot go into detail on our data collection as it is proprietary and subject to the ongoing litigation."
MRIS and NorthstarMLS both declined to comment for this story. An attorney for MRIS said, "MRIS’s position is that brokers can share or distribute their own listings outside the MRIS multiple listing service."
Brokers who have agreed to publicize other brokers’ listings on their websites frequently receive listing feeds from their MLS, which include the listings of all participating brokers in their market.
In its complaint, MRIS said it provides brokers participating in its Internet Data Exchange (IDX) program with a "licensed data feed" in the Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) format.
Participating brokers and authorized third-party vendors may acquire an authorized developer license from MRIS to implement an "authorized application that uses … information MRIS makes available through a RETS data feed," MRIS said in its complaint.
MRIS claims that American Home Realty Network, through Neighborcity.com, provides "customers with unauthorized access to and use of the copyrighted MRIS Database and informational content in support of their referral business."
When NeighborCity first launched agent profile pages in 2008, several MLSs shut off data to the site, Cardella said. NeighborCity then turned to brokerages, rather than MLSs, for listing data, and no longer pulls data from any MLSs. He declined to say whether MRIS or NorthstarMLS were among the MLSs with which NeighborCity previously had licensing agreements.
Both MRIS and NorthstarMLS declined to comment on whether the timing or reasons behind the lawsuits had anything to do with the updated agent profile pages.
MRIS first informed NeighborCity of its alleged copyright infringement in a letter dated Nov. 18, 2011. The letter noted the absence of a licensing agreement between the two companies and demanded the brokerage "immediately cease any access to or distribution or other use of the copyrighted MRIS MLS database or any of the informational content therefrom."
In a Dec. 21, 2011, response, NeighborCity offered to enter into a "custom license" agreement with MRIS that would enable the brokerage "to continue to use the listing data in which your client claims a proprietary interest" in order to make referrals exclusively to MRIS members, charge them referral fees, "rank and rate member brokers and real estate agents for public display and to effectuate referrals," and "derive and own analysis and derivative works from the factual listing data," among other things. MRIS rejected the offer.
Cardella said he made similar offers to NorthstarMLS and more than 30 other MLSs, all of which were either ignored or rejected.
"We are … very disappointed that our overtures, prior to these suits being filed, to both of these entities to engage in productive relationships that benefit the general public as well as their member-brokers, were summarily rejected. Apparently they prefer to engage in litigation rather than negotiate a business relationship in good faith," Cardella said.
"We are providing listing agents and brokers with exposure for their listings via visible credit on our listing pages, and we streamline the process for buyers seeking to obtain buy-side broker representation by matching and connecting them together for showings and to facilitate offers and listings. We cooperate closely with the client and the member-agent and broker to get deals done and to satisfy our clients," he added.
"Why any MLS would refuse to license their data to our brokerage and would instead prefer to sue us instead is beyond my understanding, but I’m sure they feel justified in their position because it is a strategic imperative for their respective businesses, thus the MLSs are working together to essentially destroy NeighborCity."
NeighborCity plans to file responses to the complaints within the next 15 to 30 days.
Brian Larson, president of consulting firm Larson/Sobotka Business Advisors LLC, is one of the attorneys representing NorthstarMLS.
Larson told Inman News in December that he expected more MLSs would go after "data pirates" who redistribute MLS data without authorization, and that his firm was working with clients to evaluate ways of shutting them down, adding, "I’d expect some news on this front in the first quarter."
He declined to comment on whether he was referring to NorthstarMLS’ complaint at the time.
Northstar MLS has more than 13,000 members in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. MRIS has more than 40,000 members in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
In their complaints, both MLSs included screen shots of NeighborCity listing pages with photographs showing the MLSs’ copyright notices at the bottom of the images.
Source: MRIS complaint against NeighborCity
Source: NorthstarMLS complaint against NeighborCity
MRIS’ complaint calls for judgments against American Home Realty Network and Cardella for copyright infringement, payment to MRIS of "any and all profits arising from the foregoing acts of false designation of origin, and unfair competition," statutory and compensatory damages, and a permanent injunction required that the defendants "cease directly or indirectly infringing, or causing , enabling, facilitating, encouraging, promoting, and inducing or participating in the infringement of, any of MRIS’ respective copyrights," among other things.
NorthstarMLS’ complaint makes similar demands. The MLS also requests a jury trial.
In early March, just a few weeks before the complaints were filed, NeighborCity quietly began rolling out updated, transaction-based profile pages for 850,000 agents nationwide. The pages, which include "NC Agent Scores," are currently in beta, but will officially launch this Thursday.
The scores and the performance metrics that accompany them on the profile pages are based on agents’ transaction history. The metrics include the agent’s top cities; top neighborhoods; property types; percentages of buyers vs. sellers represented; total number of closed transactions compared to total average number of peers’ closed transactions; number of active listings compared to average number of peers’ active listings; percentage of agent’s transactions where he or she was a dual agent or where his or her brokerage was a dual agent; and price ranges represented.
"We know that it’s important to a seller that their home sells and that it sells at market rate or better and within a reasonable time frame," Cardella said. "And with a buyer we know that it’s important that they get someone who’s experienced with helping people buy homes … (and that buyers) get a reasonable price. How well they service their clients interests, that’s what we seek to capture."
Screen shot of an updated NeighborCity agent profile page
NeighborCity’s business model is based on referral fees. Agents pay the site a portion of commission when a sale closes with a client referred by NeighborCity. According to its website, NeighborCity ranks and displays every agent in a given market. Agents do not pay for their rankings and are listed regardless of whether they choose to work with the company.
Previously, agents on the site were ranked according to an "AgentMatch" score that considered how well an agent’s experience and performance matched a site user’s particular property or property search.
Now, the site has also incorporated NC Agent Scores, which are percentile-based rankings comparing an agent to his or her peers and analyzing that agent’s experience across all listings and transactions known by the site.
Agents with the highest NC Agent Score relative to a given property or search now have the highest AgentMatch scores. That particular change has not yet been implemented throughout the site, but is expected to be by Thursday’s official launch. The site will also update its search to allow users to choose whether they are buyers or sellers, price ranges, location, and property types and return ranked results.
"We are having a lot of success using this information to make effective client referrals and to see those clients through to favorable outcomes. We have a proprietary system for making and tracking those introductions that is driving solid conversion rates (a few times better than industry average)," Cardella said.
"We will move hundreds of millions in home sales this year using this model and we are seeing over 3-4 times revenue growth, year over year. In short, we are bridging the online and offline real estate worlds using AgentMatch, and the rest of our competitors are too compromised to offer this service as media channels, beholden to the industry."
This is not the first time a real estate website has tried to offer consumers agent productivity data. In April 2010, HAR.com, the public-facing site for the Houston Association of Realtors, rolled out a "Realtor Match" tool that allowed consumers to see which agents had the most transactions and listings in a neighborhood they were interested in. Agents complained, however, and the association was forced to disable that particular feature of the tool after just a few days.
When HAR launched Realtor Match, Cardella told Inman News that having an MLS provide such tools was like "having the wolves guarding the sheep."
MLSs, Cardella said at the time, "Will always be stuck in the political quandary of the agent vs. the consumer, and the agent will always win because they are the ones paying the fees."
More recently, Seattle-based online brokerage Redfin offered agent "Scouting Reports" that included transaction data for agents in 14 markets going back three years in late September. The brokerage pulled the plug on the reports less than a week later, citing holes in multiple listing service data.
"We intend to get agents to send us the data to fill in the holes if there are any. If there are holes in the MLS data, (which is) the best available, then the hole is affecting everyone equally," Cardella said, adding that NeighborCity is "happy to address" any issues regarding inaccurate information.
Cardella said he personally believed political pressure, not missing data, was behind Redfin’s decision to pull its Scouting Reports.
"I think there is a lot of pressure within the industry to suppress information and I think they folded to it. Since we’re no longer members of these MLSs, (they) can’t say ‘we’ll turn off your (data) feeds,’" Cardella said.
Screen shot of an old agent profile on NeighborCity.com
"In any given market, there’s about 20 percent of all the members that really know their business. It becomes apparent through technology like this. If we’re successful … we’ll make these agents really, really efficient and the number (of agents) will decrease and I think (MLSs) see it as a threat to the size of their membership base. It’s about protecting the profession," Cardella said.
"It shouldn’t mean anything besides an opportunity to grow and benefit the public, but it isn’t. (There’s a) fear of change."
A guide to the new performance-based profile pages
While NeighborCity has been working on the user interface and the technology behind the updated agent profiles since about November, the site has been working on its rankings for years, Cardella said.
"We put an amazing amount of thought on how we’re doing this analysis," he said.
In addition to the general metrics listed above, NeighborCity also breaks down an agent’s performance as a listing agent and a buyer’s agent. Listing agent metrics include number of listings sold, average days on market, average days to sale, percent listings sold, and percent of asking price obtained on average — all compared to peers’ performance. The sold listings data covers up to the past five years.
Buyer’s agent metrics include number of listings purchased and average purchase price per square foot, both compared to peers. The data for listings purchased covers up to the last two years.
Further down the page under these metrics, consumers can see the agent’s peers. "Peers" are those agents who listed or sold properties that are comparable to the properties the profiled agent listed or sold in location, price and property type, among other factors. Six peers — those considered most comparable to the agent ranked according to an internal "peer score" — are readily visible on the profile page.
When making comparisons between an agent and his or her peers, the site typically considers only those sold transactions or properties listed within a six-month window of each of the agent’s transactions and comparable in terms of price, location and other factors.
"Accordingly, if we have a sold record five years ago and comparable solds that are within six months of that record, we incorporate that performance in our analysis," Cardella said.
The six-month window helps mitigate the differences between a new agent selling homes at comparatively lower prices than an agent selling homes during the housing boom, for example.
"We find that market gyrations in six months are usually minimal enough not to confound this analysis, and since they happen to everyone and are fairly typical, the significance is minimal. Everyone deals with price gyrations. Yes, they can make you look a little better or worse, but they do the same to your competition," Cardella said.
A profile page also includes a Google map that displays the agent’s active, inactive and recently sold listings. A contact form for the agent is provided under the NC Agent Score on the upper right corner of the page.
An agent’s profile page will display that agent’s transaction history from the first record the site has of the agent up to the present. The vast majority of the site’s data is less than two years old, but some is up to five years old. If an agent’s transaction history doesn’t meet a minimum threshold for transactions, listings, and other data points, the site will add a disclaimer to the relevant part of an agent’s page stating "Not enough data is available to verify the accuracy of this score."
"We need more than just a few listings or deals," Cardella said.
For now, if a listing goes off market and is relisted, it is treated as if it is a new listing and days on market are reset. Eventually, the site plans to detect when the same property has been relisted and display extended days on market, which would sum days on market for both listings. The site also plans to adjust the "percent listings sold" calculation similarly.
"Right now, I would imagine that those who relist a lot are punished by our scoring because they have a lower ‘percent listings sold,’ and from a seller’s perspective, that’s the most important attribute of a listing agent," Cardella said.
When an agent’s market activity indicates that he or she is part of a team, specializes in selling REOs (bank-owned homes), or is reporting for an entire brokerage or housing development, NeighborCity provides performance metrics for the agent but does not provide a score. That agent is also excluded from any peer group comparisons for other agents.
"If we did add them, (that) would skew the whole peer group, basically," Cardella said.
"Hopefully in the future, if you have a team, there would be a way to recognize the agent who represents each transaction," he added.
Agents can claim their profiles, but they cannot change the auto-generated summary that accompanies their profile, the metrics displayed, or the scoring. They may add their own bio, change their photo, enter their license number, and add their social media accounts, among other features. The site may also let agents add listings and transactions to their profiles in the future, Cardella said.
Since beta testing commenced, most agent have reacted positively to the profile pages, he said.
"I think they appreciate it, someone recognizing their performance. (If) some agents don’t do as well as they like, we listen. Some will say the data’s not right, and we say ‘what’s wrong’ and usually we don’t hear back from them," Cardella said.
In the next few months, NeighborCity plans to add user comments and feedback to the profile pages, though they will not be considered in the scoring or performance metrics. The site also plans to recognize individual agents with awards for outstanding performance and create feeds that plot a timeline of an agent’s sales activity.
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From hair in India to hair India p. 1
Ralph M Trueb
In all cultures, human hair and hairdo have been a powerful metaphor. Tracing back the importance and significance of human hair to the dawn of civilization on the Indian subcontinent, we find that all the Vedic gods are depicted as having uncut hair in mythological stories as well as in legendary pictures. The same is true of the Hindu avatars, and the epic heroes of the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata. Finally, there are a number of hair peculiarities in India pertinent to the creed and religious practices of the Hindu, the Jain, and the Sikh. Shiva Nataraja is a depiction of the Hindu God Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance as creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe and conveys the Indian conception of the never-ending cycle of time. The same principle manifests in the hair cycle, in which perpetual cycles of growth, regression, and resting underly the growth and shedding of hair. Finally, The Hair Research Society of India was founded as a nonprofit organisation dedicated to research and education in the science of hair. Notably, the HRSI reached milestones in the journey of academic pursuit with the launch of the International Journal of Trichology, and with the establishment of the Hair India conference. Ultimately, the society aims at saving the public from being taken for a ride by quackery, and at creating the awareness that the science of hair represents a subspecialty of Dermatology. In analogy again, the dwarf on which the Nataraja dances represents the demon of egotism, and thus symbolizes Shiva's, respectively, the HRSI's victory over ignorance.
Modified Ferriman–Gallwey score in hirsutism and its association with metabolic syndrome p. 7
R Aswini, Sabeena Jayapalan
Background: Hirsutism is the presence of terminal hair in females in males pattern. It occurs in 5%–15% of women. Modified Ferriman–Gallwey (mFG) score of ≥ 8 is considered hirsutism, but there are populations with a low mFG score. In clinical practice, hirsutism is subjective. Although hirsutism is considered as a purely esthetic problem, it is associated with many underlying disorders, especially androgen excess disorders. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) disease is the most common cause of androgen excess in females, and there are reports of its association with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome occurs alone in hirsutism. Aims: To assess mFG score in patients who consider themselves as hirsute. To study the association between metabolic syndrome and hirsutism. Methods: Hospital-based cross-sectional study design was adopted. A structured questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic and clinical data. The severity of hirsutism was assessed using mFG score and metabolic syndrome was diagnosed by the American Heart Association criteria. mFG score was expressed as mean and Student's t-test and Chi-square statistic were used as the tests of significance. Logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: The mean mFG score was 5.5. Metabolic syndrome was present in 44%. About 65.2% of patients with score ≥8 had metabolic syndrome, whereas only 37.7% of patients with score <8 had metabolic syndrome (P = 0.019). Metabolic syndrome (P = 0.018) and PCOS (P = 0.003) were the significant variables in logistic regression analysis. Triglyceride levels ≥150 mg/dl and waist circumference ≥88 cm were the components of metabolic syndrome that were significantly associated with hirsutism (P = 0.006 in both). Conclusions: To find the ideal cutoff of mFG score to define hirsutism in our population, a population study among females in the reproductive age group has to be conducted. As there is a definite association of hirsutism and metabolic syndrome, and metabolic syndrome can result in cardiovascular complications, any women presenting with terminal hair in a male pattern should be evaluated for metabolic syndrome irrespective of the mFG score.
A comparative study of microneedling with platelet-rich plasma plus topical minoxidil (5%) and topical minoxidil (5%) alone in androgenetic alopecia p. 14
Kaksha B Shah, Aarti N Shah, Rekha B Solanki, Ranjan C Raval
Context: There are very few studies evaluating efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in hair restoration and its combination with microneedling. As far as ascertained, there is no study to evaluate efficacy of microneedling with PRP plus topical minoxidil (5%) versus topical minoxidil (5%) alone in androgenetic alopecia (AGA). Aims: This study aims (1) to compare the efficacy of (a) topical minoxidil (5%) alone and (b) topical minoxidil (5%) + microneedling with PRP in men between 18 and 50 years with AGA Grade III to V vertex (Norwood–Hamilton scale) and (2) to perform objective and subjective evaluation based on clinical improvement and photographic evidence. Settings and Design: The study was conducted in the outpatient department of dermatology, venereology, and leprology in tertiary care hospital. It was open, prospective study. Subjects and Methods: Fifty patients with AGA were selected on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria. These patients were randomly divided into two groups of 25 patients each and were given following treatment: (i) Group A: topical minoxidil (5%) alone and (ii) Group B: topical minoxidil (5%) + microneedling with platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Statistical Analysis Used: Patients were assessed before starting the treatment and at the end of 6 months on the basis of (a) Patient's self-assessment based on standardized seven-point scale compared with baseline (b) Physician's assessment based on standardized seven-point scale of hair growth compared with baseline. Results: There was a significant improvement (P < 0.05) in both patients' assessment and investigator's assessment in Group B as compared to Group A at the end of 6 months. Conclusions: Microneedling with PRP is safe, effective, and a promising tool for the management of AGA.
Prospective analytical controlled study evaluating serum biotin, vitamin B12, and folic acid in patients with premature canities p. 19
Deepashree Daulatabad, Archana Singal, Chander Grover, Neelam Chhillar
Background: Premature canities is a common yet unfathomed disorder. The evidence for the role of micronutrient deficiency in premature canities is not well established. Aim: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the micronutrient levels in Indian patients with premature canities as compared to controls. Materials and Methods: We conducted a case–control study in 52 self-reporting patients with premature canities (<20 years age). Micronutrient levels including serum Vitamin B12, biotin, and folic acid were assessed and compared among the patients and controls. Results: We observed that mean serum Vitamin B12 (198.07 ± 88.98 pg/ml in cases vs. 343.07 ± 143.06 pg/ml in controls, P = 0.000), folic acid (6.22 ± 2.46 ng/ml in cases vs. 8.49 ± 4.18 ng/ml in controls, P = 0.01), and biotin (252.71 ± 18.79 pg/ml in cases vs. 266.47 ± 30.44 pg/ml in controls, P = 0.013) levels were significantly lower in cases as compared to the controls. Conclusion: In view of the dark hair and many prevailing myths, premature canities is a significant problem in Asians with profound psychosocial impact. This study unveils the association with Vitamin B12, folic acid, and biotin deficiencies. Larger studies are recommended to arrive on a logical conclusion.
Presence of mast cells and mast cell degranulation in scalp biopsies of telogen effluvium p. 25
Shane A Grace, Angela M Sutton, Nina Abraham, Eric S Armbrecht, Claudia I Vidal
Background: Telogen effluvium (TE) is a type of acquired, diffuse alopecia that occurs due to an abnormal shift of scalp hair follicles from anagen to telogen, leading to premature shedding of hair. Previous studies have suggested the existence of a neuroimmunologic “brain-hair follicle” axis, in which mast cells have been implicated as an important link between the nervous system and immunologic system. Objective: The current study sought to investigate the role of mast cell presence and mast cell degranulation in the pathogenesis of TE. Materials and Methods: Mast cells were counted using Giemsa and tryptase immunohistochemical stains in scalp biopsy specimens with the pathologic diagnosis of TE (TE, n = 10), alopecia areata (AA, n = 7), and androgenic alopecia (ANDRO, n = 9). Results: We found significant (P < 0.001) group-level differences between the mean mast cell counts per high-power fields for each type of alopecia studied. Tukey post hoc analysis showed the mean mast cell count for TE to be significantly larger than AA for both Giemsa (P = 0.002) and tryptase (P = 0.006); significantly larger than ANDRO for both Giemsa (P < 0.001) and tryptase (P < 0.001); and significantly larger when compared to normal scalp skin for both Giemsa (P < 0.001) and tryptase (P < 0.001). No significant difference of mean mast cell counts was observed for AA compared to ANDRO for Giemsa (P = 0.373) or tryptase (P = 0.598) stains. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that mast cells could play a role in mediating stress-induced hair loss seen in TE.
Acute alopecia: Evidence to thallium poisoning p. 30
Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Namasivayam Balamurugan, Narendra Nath Jena, Ritesh G Menezes, Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian
Thallium is a toxic heavy metal often involved in criminal poisonings and occasionally in accidental poisoning. Here, we report a case of acute, nonintentional thallium poisoning due to thallium-contaminated alternative medicine for its rarity and to create awareness about the combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia with neurologic and gastrointestinal symptoms among practitioners, professionals, public, and policymakers.
A case of membranous aplasia cutis congenita and dermoscopic features p. 33
Belén Lozano-Masdemont
Membranous, bullous, or cystic aplasia cutis congenita is a clinical subtype of aplasia cutis, covered with a membranous or glistening surface. A male newborn presented at birth with two flat lesions on the left parietal scalp, surrounded by a rim of terminal hairs. Physical examination revealed two translucent papules. On dermoscopy, they showed a reddish background, thin, lineal vessels and, remarkably few hair bulbs could be seen because of the translucency of the lesion. No skull bone and brain defects were found. The diagnosis of membranous aplasia cutis congenita was established. Histologically, it is characterized by an atrophic epidermis with loose fibrovascular stroma and edematous dermal stroma. Dermoscopy may help to rule out other entities (herpes simplex, epidermolysis bullosa, trauma…) since the atrophic epidermis and fibrovascular stroma is evidenced by the hair bulbs and its characteristic translucency (“translucency's sign”).
A case report of verruca vulgaris on basis of alopecia areata successfully treated with diphenylcyclopropenone p. 35
Tugba Kevser Uzuncakmak, Mahmut Can Koska, Ayşe Serap Karadağ, Necmettin Akdeniz
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune skin disease which is usually characterized by patchy hair loss in effected regions. Diagnosis usually based on clinical findings and main treatment options include topical, intralesional, systemic corticosteroids, and topical immunotherapy. Verruca vulgaris is an infectious disease caused by human papillomavirus which is usually characterized by well-marginated hyperkeratotic papules or plaques. There are several treatment modalities such as physical and chemical destruction and topical immunotherapy. A 23-year-old male patient presented to our outpatient clinic with multifocal noncicatrial alopecic plaques on scalp and multiple periungual verrucous papules on bilateral hands. High potent corticosteroid cream and minoxidil lotion 5% were offered for his scalp lesions, and topical 5-fluorouracil lotion was initiated for his verrucous lesions. In the 1st month visit, we detected contamination of viral warts on alopecic plaques of his scalp and all the previous therapeutics were stopped. We initiated topical diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP) sensitization weekly. After the fourth application of DPCP, we observed that all of hyperkeratotic papules disappeared. Diphencyprone treatment was continued, and with further applications, hair growth as vellus type was observed. DPCP is relatively beneficial treatment option for both diseases although it is not a first-line therapy most times. There are case reports and series about this treatment for both of these diseases. We want to present this case to by regard of the unusual presentation and efficacy of DPCP in both indications.
Light microscopy and polarized microscopy: A dermatological tool to diagnose gray hair syndromes p. 38
PL Chandravathi, Hetal Deepak Karani, Sirisha Rani Siddaiahgari, Lokesh Lingappa
Gray hair syndromes are rare syndromes which have an autosomal recessive inheritance and are characterized by pigmentary dilution of skin and hair, defects in immunological function, and nervous system defects. They comprise three disorders namely Chediak–Higashi syndrome (CHS), Griscelli syndrome (GPS), and Elejalde syndrome. Clinically, it is difficult to distinguish these disorders as their clinical features may overlap. Hence, to make a correct diagnosis and differentiate between CHS and GPS light microscopic examination of skin and hair shafts as well as peripheral blood smear evaluations should be done. In cases where the diagnosis is not possible chromosomal analysis for specific mutations can be done. In resource-poor settings where chromosomal analysis is not possible, and light microscopy findings are inconclusive, polarized microscopy can serve as a useful tool to distinguish between CHS and GPS. We report three cases with gray hair syndromes where the diagnosis on light microscopy and polarized microscopy of hair shaft correlated with the bone marrow examination findings and chromosomal analysis, thus emphasizing the importance of a noninvasive, cost-effective, and time-saving alternative in the diagnosis of these syndromes.
Reply to: Hyperprolactinemia and hirsutism in patients without polycystic ovary syndrome p. 42
David Saceda-Corralo, Pilar Barrio-Dorado, Óscar Moreno-Arrones, Sergio Vañó-Galván
Hair in the mouth: A rare presentation p. 43
Pooja Bains, Ameesha Mahajan
Burnt matchstick sign - A new trichoscopic finding in trichotillomania p. 44
Subrata Malakar, Samipa Samir Mukherjee
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We are extremely pleased to announce that we have joined the International Schools Partnership.
The next stage in the development of Kehoe-France will be greatly enhanced by its inclusion within a group of schools that can deepen the range of experience and support available. The International Schools Partnership, a leading educational provider, will take our school forward to its next phase of development. We as a family feel that now is the right time to bring in new investors such as International Schools Partnership in order to help take our camps and schools into the future.
The International School Partnership has been attracted by our philosophy and priorities and is committed to fostering them. The experience of their team in running prestigious schools around the world ensures that our school can benefit from inclusion in their existing and developing programs.
The International Schools Partnership's vision is to be an international schools group of quality and scale, recognized across local communities and the education sector for amazing learning, ambition, and growth. They are a focused, growing, and financially secure group with 18 schools located in the United States, Spain, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
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July 17th: It’s all over in a Second or Two – Roadside Shooting at the Tour du France
By Keith | Published
As most of Yorkshire knows only too well, it’s all over in a second of two! Or at least that’s how it seems if you stand by the roadside for several hours to wait for the greatest bike race in the world that is Le Tour (a.k.a. The Tour du France) to go past. Out of all the places that we could have watched Le Tour, Jawbone Hill in Oughtibridge was where we washed-up. As one of the top-ten places listed on the Sky website – we figured it would be good. For starters, it was on a hill so the riders would be going slow – right? Access wise – Jawbone Hill camping was right there too, with its built-in ringside (ok… roadside…) viewing. Double bonus. All we have to do was rock-up late Saturday, pitch the tent and wait up for the great show on earth to roll past. Piece of cake – what could be better or easier for that matter?
There’s no shortage of erudite cycling commentators far more qualified than me to talk about the actual race itself – so this post is more about shooting Le Tour from a roadside shooters perspective. Thanks to Google Earth I had already driven up and down Jawbone Hill several times in the comfort of my own house to get an idea of where might be best to photograph from. I’d worked out where the sun (assuming it wasn’t cloudy) was gonna be in the sky (sic) and roughly which sections would be back-lit and where would be in shadow. Sadly though, there were still many known unknowns. How many others were going to be roadside too? Would the crowd all surge forward and block the view? Would the weather play ball or would we be treated to a day of interminable grey or worst still, rain? Would there be any restrictions to moving about as spectators? More questions than answers so it seemed like it was all going to be a bit of pot-luck. Walking up Jawbone Hill it was obvious that it had a number of steeper ramps and a steep(ish) finishing straight. By 10am on race day Sunday 6th, some 6 hours before the action, the frontline viewing spots behind the roadside barrier on the finishing straights were already taken! Folks sure seemed keen but I guess 6 hours for a ringside view of Le Tour might not be an unreasonable return?
In the end I settled for a position on about half way up Jawbone, on the beginning of the outside of a bend which came after a decent straight. Waiting for the riders gave an opportunity to try out some angles and do some crowd watching. I was pretty chuffed with one shot especially which for me summed up waiting for the TDF when a young gent got down with the vibe and worked on his TDF Road Art. I would have been rude not to snap some of the more memorable aspects of the TDF ‘caravan’ has it rolled past and it was an opportunity to practice focus tracking and panning. By the time the helicopters arrived and signalled the immenent arrival of the riders themselves I’d distilled my game plan and was sorted. Rightly or wrongly I’d decided to shoot the first group of riders as they approached my position with a 70-200mm then switch to a 24-70mm mid-range for the close up stuff as more riders came past. I added an on-camera flash, with a booster pack for faster recycling, to fill the shadows. I opted for a wide aperture for the telli shots – primarily to separate the action from the background but stopped down a bit for the mid-range shots to give more depth of focus.
Anyways, here’s my shots as the caravan and Le Tour tackles Jawbone Hill. I think my game plan worked ok although it nearly fell on its derier as I’d not factored into the equation that ahead of the first riders is the official red race car – complete with outriders – which nearly obliterated the long shot down the road look that I was after. Totally by luck than judgement as the opening group came towards me I was able to snatch a few shots of the riders once the lead vehicles had pulled past. It hard picking a ‘best shot’ but this one sums up what I’d envisaged.
Apologies for the delay in posting – technology failure caused by the BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) took a wee while to get sorted – but here at last is a full gallery of the day…
This entry was posted in Cycling, Events, Photography and tagged Le Tour, Tour du France.
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FamilySearch Volunteers Break International Indexing Record
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FamilySearch indexing volunteers broke a record this week during the first Worldwide Indexing Event. FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, was hoping an unprecedented 50,000 contributors would participate in the 24-hour effort to submit genealogy records, beginning at 6 p.m. MDT on 20 July 2014. A total of 66,511 indexers and arbitrators went online to submit records, surpassing the goal by 16,511 people.
Volunteers were encouraged to submit a single batch of indexing or arbitration work, but many continued working throughout the day. By the end of the challenge, more than 5.7 million records had been submitted, the second-highest number of records contributed in a single day.
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Rand Paul’s Seminal Speech
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In his speech, Paul lauded Cold War thinker George Kennan for articulating a strategy based on a careful calibration of U.S. interests. Kennan, he said, objected to President Harry Truman’s “implied obligation to act wherever Soviet aggression or intimidation occurred, without regard to whether American interests were at stake or the means existed with which to defend them.” After all, not every cluster of Islamic radicals in far-flung outposts of the world constitutes a threat to the United States, just as not every two-bit Communist regime constituted a Cold War threat. Paul’s “saner, more balanced approach to foreign policy” would take account of these distinctions.
Paul was particularly intriguing in his assessment of Ronald Reagan, often invoked by neoconservatives as a model for their aggressive foreign-policy prescriptions. This is a false analogy, says Paul, adding that Reagan’s foreign policy was “robust but also restrained.” He quotes Reagan adviser Jack Matlock as saying the fortieth president’s Soviet policy “had more in common with Kennan’s thinking than the policy of any of Reagan’s predecessors.” The Cold War ended, Paul argues, because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of socialism. “Reagan aided and abetted this end not by ‘liberation’ of captive people,” but with tough talk accompanied by a willingness to engage diplomatically. And he praises Reagan’s “strategic ambiguity”—his willingness to keep the world guessing about just how he defined his own foreign policy.
This was far more effective, says Paul, than the current tendency to outline precisely what the United States will and won’t accept from other countries, which he suggests undermines effective diplomacy. He is particularly critical of how this has worked vis-à-vis Iran, which has been told that “all options are on the table” (meaning, obviously, the military option) while U.S. officials sternly remove from the table any prospect of containment and have handled the diplomatic option in ways suggesting limited interest in that as well. Just as it would be unwise to state unequivocally that we will accept containment as a policy against a nuclear Iran, says Paul, it is equally unwise to say we will never accept containment. “War,” said Paul, “should never be our only option.”
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Mac Predictions
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Top 10 reasons iPad is not a Mac/PC replacement
It has become fashionable to argue that the iPad is a laptop killer. Walt Mossberg kicked things off with his iPad review in March, and CNet's Brooke Crothers chimed in earlier this month.
As much as I love my iPad, and indeed all things Apple, I can't help thinking that this is crazy-talk. Sure, iPad is a great device for reading the odd e-mail and browsing the web, but when I hear people claiming it's all they need on their business trips, it makes me wonder how much work they really do when they're clocking up those frequent flyer miles.
iPad's lack of a physical keyboard and Flash support are the two shortcomings most commonly cited as differentiating it from a laptop, but these are just the most superficial and obvious shortcomings (although I accept that for some, the absence of Flash is an advantage rather than a shortcoming).
1. iTunes dependency
Put simply, an iPad can hardly replace a Mac/PC, when you need to connect it to a Mac/PC to turn it on (initially). At present, for setup, backup and system upgrades, you have no option but to sync with a Mac/PC.
2. No shared file system
The "Finder"/"Windows Explorer" is an essential component of a Mac/PC. But this feature is entirely absent on an iPad. In most cases, a file is only accessible from within the app that owns it. So, for example, to e-mail a document as an attachment, you must send it from the app that generated it, rather than directly from the Mail app itself. And if you want to download a PDF from Safari, to view later in another app, you're out of luck. It's also impossible to link between locally stored files, meaning iPad is currently useless to web developers, designers or serious spreadsheet users.
3. Limited document format support
iPad can do a reasonable job of viewing Microsoft Office files, but it is far from perfect. Oddly, support for viewing Apple's own iWork files is not perfect either. Apple has implemented a fraction of the formatting options that are available on the Mac version of iWork. So by amending a document on an iPad, you risk stripping away important formatting. In Pages, for example, paragraph borders and padding are missing. In Keynote, transitions on grouped objects are not implemented.
4. No file sharing
Options for transferring files on an iPad are limited to syncing via iTunes or sending via e-mail. MobileMe users may also use iDisk, and third party apps like Dropbox can help. But as yet, the simplest and most obvious solutions, such as regular file sharing via AFP for Mac and SMB for Windows are unavailable. Also missing is the ability to mount the iPad on your Mac/PC file system as a USB mass storage device to transfer files directly without having to use the cumbersome iTunes syncing method - even an iPod classic can do this!
5. Native file formats only
When opening MS Office or iWork files on an iPad, using Pages, Keynote and Numbers, the files must first be converted into a special iPad format, in order to appear in the relevant app. Consequently, in order to open them on a Mac or PC, they then have to be converted back. This is extremely cumbersome, and creates risks with version control, by duplicating files, rather than allowing you to work directly on a file on your iDisk or Dropbox.
8. Not extensible
Many have griped about iPad's lack of Adobe Flash support, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. iPad is not extensible in any way. Indeed, 3rd party developers are explicitly prohibited from developing shared frameworks, runtimes and libraries. So, not only is there no Flash, but no Java, no WMV, Silverlight, Apache, PHP, nor SQL. You can't even install your own fonts, which is a big shortcoming for a platform promoting graphics apps, such as Keynote.
9. No Terminal app
The Terminal app is one of the hidden gems of Mac OS X. Buried away in the utilities folder, it may not be very pretty, but if you learn how to use it, it can be incredibly powerful. Since iPad is based upon the same Unix as Mac OS X, (Darwin), it's a great shame that Apple doesn't provide us with a terminal app to take advantage of it.
10. Single-user only
While Mac OS X has excellent multi-user support, it is currently nonexistent on iOS, giving the operating system a strangely retro feel. In practice, this means when an iPad is shared in a household or office, everyone must use the same settings. No customization per user. No parental controls per user. No separating content per user. This isn't a problem on the iPhone, since phone are typically single-user devices, but the iOS should offer more on an iPad.
Please don't get me wrong, I love my iPad, and the recent developments in iOS 4.2 are very welcome. But let's be realistic, as yet, it's a long way away from becoming a Mac/PC replacement.
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The Economist on iPhone and iPad
For those who are interested, The Economist has just announced that its much anticipated iPhone and iPad apps are finally launching tomorrow - internationally. "Existing print or online subscribers will receive access to the full contents of each week’s issue".
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iTunes web store and Android app
Update: it was just the Beatles after all. Ah well...
Yesterday's teaser on Apple's home page came completely out of the blue. It seems no one was expecting it. The teaser represents several notable departures from Apple's typical media management:
It only gives one day's notice, rather than a week
It's on their website, rather than e-mailed to selected journalists
It explicitly states it's about iTunes, rather than just hinting what it's about
It's happening at 10am New York time, rather than California time
Seemingly no media event ("Stevenote")
Some say that it's going to be the Beatles catalog, finally appearing on iTunes. While this is certainly long overdue, it would hardly be the kind of earth-shattering news that justifies the claim "you'll never forget." Any serious Beatles fans ripped their treasured CDs into iTunes years ago. Sure, maybe this will be an appetiser, but it's unlikely to be the entrée.
Other guesses include a new subscription service, or a cloud service. These seem implausible to me, simply because iTunes 10.1 was launched only last week, and another update would be required in order to push out these kind of feature.
So what could it be?
My money is on iTunes' finally opening up its ecosystem to support 3rd party devices. I've outlined this strategy before, which would be predicated on maintaining iTunes market dominating position, even as consumers move from dedicated MP3 players, of which iPod claims the lion's share, to smart phones, of which iPhone is one of many.
If this happens, we can expect to see a web-based version of the iTunes store launching, plus iTunes apps for Android, plus maybe Windows 7 Phone and Blackberry.
It may seem like a strange idea to provide iTunes on competitor platforms. Think of it as the "glass of ice water" strategy. It once seemed equally unlikely that Apple would give iTunes away free to Windows users. At AllThingsD in 2007, Steve Jobs explained it was like "giving a glass of ice water to people in hell." In fact, it's a beach-head into competitor territory - once people get used to using iTunes, their next gadget is more likely to have an Apple logo on it.
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Hornwood Fell - Yheri
Yheri by Hornwood Fell
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Ever since I founded this website, black metal has been a continuously returning genre. We never meant to be a metal webzine and I still feel like we aren't but I guess it was inevitable that the extreme musical style would claim most of our attention. I don't really mind by the way. Most of our writers have a tremendous background in the genre, including myself. Besides, since I've been away from the scene, lots of things have changed and mostly it got better.
Now I know that that was quite a strange paragraph to open a review with but I wrote it with a good reason. Italian black metal horde Hornwood Fell is hugely inspired by the old school of Scandinavian metal and bands such as Ulver, Darkthrone, Borknagar and Satyricon. When the band was founded in 2013, they were on their way to sound exactly like those early black metal lords, mostly like their first albums by the way. However, things change and so did this act.
Hornwood Fell is still quite loyal to the traditional black metal style but gradually this band started coming up with atmospheric elements, often clean vocals and technical ingenuity. The result is a much more varied sound, while still being brutal, dark and aggressive as hell. The majority of the songs still drive on an vast array of blast beats and fierce riffs. The being said: that drummer is an insanely wicked animal. What a performance!!!
For the main part, 'Yheri' is a ferocious slab of black metal which is quite impossible to ignore if you're into the genre. Songs like opener 'Walking in the Woods' or my personal favorite 'At His Awakening' lift the overall quality to an immense level. There seem to be some influences from today's post-black metal scene as well, judging from the massive wall-of-sound I'm hearing and from the strange elements of noise which often appears.
So check it out, I dare you. This act succeeded in mixing the bleakness of Burzum with the intensity of Limbonic Art and the strangeness of Sigh or Ved Buens Ende. If that doesn't convince you of getting your hands on a copy of this album, perhaps you shouldn't call yourself a black metal fan....
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Competition, Not Cost, the Real Story Behind TekSavvy’s Pricing Changes
TekSavvy announced a series of new pricing plans for its Internet services yesterday in the wake of the CRTC usage based billing decision. The focal point of most media coverage (National Post, CBC, Globe) is that costs are increasing by $3 – 4 per month, a move attributed to the CRTC decision which implements a capacity-based model for pricing of wholesale Internet services. While Peter Nowak says this portends a “dystopian future”, I remain far more optimistic.
The TekSavvy plans offer both cable and DSL services at different price points, speeds, and usage rates. For example, its fastest cable service offers 24 Mbps with 300 GB per month for $46.95 or an unlimited amount of data for $61.95. The DSL service offers even greater variety with higher price points for its fastest service and a very basic, cheap service of 3 Mbps with a 25 GB cap for $24.95 per month. The DSL service also introduces off-peak usage for the 300 GB plan with usage during off-peak periods not counting against the usage cap.
These plans are far superior to those offered by Rogers or Bell. The most comparable Rogers plan offers the same speed (24 Mbps) but imposes a 100 GB cap for $60/month. In other words, same speed, same price but 100 GB vs. unlimited data. The Rogers basic lite plan of 3 Mbps has a 15 GB cap for $35.95 per month (less data and significantly higher price). The Bell pricing is similar – its 25 Mbps service is $59.95/month ($27.48 for the first 12 months to get customers to switch) but comes with 100 GB cap. Its basic service costs $33.95 per month for 2 Mbps and just 2 GB of data.
Meanwhile, Montreal-based ISP Electronic Box has also announced new rates in Quebec that feature similar differences between cable (cheaper) and DSL services. In fact, the Electronic Box pricing is coming down for its cable package as consumers will be able to purchase a 60 Mbps service with a 250 GB cap for $54.95. The same speed service previously came with a 150 GB cap priced at $79.95. The DSL pricing is going up but the ISP also offers an off-peak plan that does not count against the cap and is longer than TekSavvy’s as it runs from 2:00 am until noon (TekSavvy until 8:00 am). By comparison, Videotron charges $82.95 for its 60 Mbps service with a 150 GB cap.
So what is the real story here?
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FDI in Ecommerce
The Govt. of India has recently affirmed through a circular through DIPP that Foreign Direct Investments in E-Commerce companies is allowed upto 100%. There is cheer among a few although there are clauses and causes for worry for many. The notification says that 100% FDI is allowed only in companies that operate as a Marketplace and not on those who operate with their own Inventory.
Let me clarify this with some examples;
Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and PayTM are the big Four Marketplaces in India and so is my own startup Oyethere.com. In these models, the company doesn’t own any inventory and merely facilitates the sale of products between Retailers/Sellers and Customers. Marketplaces bring together the above-mentioned two parties and complete the transaction. There are several variations here too. For instance, some marketplaces merely connect the buyer and seller (OLX) and the money is paid by the buyer to the seller directly. A majority of them including Flipkart and Oyethere.com collect the money from the customer while the Retailer provides a Bill/Invoice to the customer. The Marketplaces then repays the Retailer with its Sales value after deducting commission, if any. However, there is a catch for the big two companies, Flipkart & Amazon. Flipkart has a subsidiary company by the name WS Retail which is the largest seller on its own marketplace. Similarly, Amazon has a 49:51 JV with Cloudtail which is owned by Catamaran ventures, which is in turned owned by the family office of NR Narayanamurthy, Chairman, Infosys. These two companies could face issues because the DIPP Notification on FDI states that no more than 25% of Sales can be derived from one seller in the marketplace. This could be a potential spanner in the scheme of things until these large companies find a legal way out.
The most affected ones would include the likes of ZivaMe (lingerie), Urban Ladder (Furniture), Hopscotch (Baby Care) YepMe (Fashion) which has Shah Rukh Khan as Brand Ambassador and is also an Investor, Myntra (Fashion) owned by Flipkart and many other small and budding Ecommerce players who have already received foreign funding or are in the process of raising one. These companies are legally not allowed to receive FDI more than 49% which would never be possible.
Having said the above, the biggest beneficiaries would be the offline Retailers like Viveks Ltd. (Consumer Durables) who have already been selling online through Marketplaces. Oyethere.com also enables offline retailers like Café Coffee Day, India’s largest café chain with over 1,500 cafes across the country, Brown Tree (Organic Food), CeeDeeYes Supermarket, Smiling Baby (baby shop) and many others to sell their products online through its portal thereby facilitating the sale between the Retailer and consumer. I am personally meeting several Retailers to convince them to come on board our startup Oyethere.com and benefit from the incremental business opportunity without spending a dime on Marketing or Business Development.
There is a deterrent to Marketplaces as well – they are not allowed predatory pricing, meaning they cannot unduly discount the prices of products and ensure that the prices are merely competitive. This brings a lot of trust on marketplaces like Oyethere to Retailers because they are sure that they, and not the marketplaces, have a final say on the final pricing of products.
One of the promises of the Narendra Modi Government in their election mandate was that they would not allow 100% FDI in Multibrand Retail. And they have stuck to their guns. However, Ecommerce is seen by the Government as an enabler of trade and not a threat and hence this move which is expected to benefit very large marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart and newbie startups like Oyethere.com.
Look forward to some interesting days ahead in this space.
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23rd Sep2019
‘John Wick’ kicks ass in a video game this October!
by Phil Wheat
Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment, in partnership with Lionsgate, have revealed that John Wick Hex will launch on October 8th 2019, on Windows PC and Mac exclusively via the Epic Games store. Developed by the acclaimed Bithell Games (Volume, Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular), John Wick Hex is fight-choreographed chess brought to life as an action-oriented […]
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Tags : Epic Games, John Wick, John Wick Hex, Mac, Video game, Windows
23rd Apr2019
Microids release teaser for ‘XIII’ remake!
Microïds and PlayMagic Ltd have unveiled a teaser for the remake of the cult classic XIII, the cel-shading FPS initially released in 2003. Based on the first five volumes of the eponymous comic book series, XIII conquered the gamers’ hearts with its unparalleled mix between a story-driven adventure, a solid gameplay and a unique artistic […]
Tags : Mac, Microids, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayMagic Ltd, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, XIII
Point & Click horror ‘Without Escape’ launches tomorrow
Without Escape - a point-and-click horror game inspired by classics such as Myst, Night Trap, and The Adventures of Willy Beamish – is set to launch April 24 on Steam (Windows, Mac, and Linux), itch.io, and Windows Store. In Without Escape, you’ll explore a new dimension of horror as you face demonic forces and unearth […]
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16th Mar2018
Official full season trailer for Telltale’s ‘Batman: The Enemy Within’
Since the complete second season will soon be available for download, here’s the official full season trailer for Batman: The Enemy Within, the five-part episodic game series that continues Telltale’s unique take on the World’s Greatest Detective. This trailer recaps the events of the entire season but focuses primarily on the relationship players built with […]
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22nd Nov2017
New trailer for THQ Nordic’s reboot of ‘Black Mirror’
THQ Nordic have released a new gameplay trailer for their series reboot Black Mirror, the Gothic horror adventure due for release on 28th November 2017. Developed by the Bremen studio KING Art Games, known for The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Dwarves and The Raven, Black Mirror will be available on PC/Mac/Linux, PS4 and Xbox One. […]
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03rd Nov2017
‘Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy’ comes to Mac, PC & Linux next week!
Originally released for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox in 2003 (US) and 2004 (EU, RoW), respectively, THQ Nordic announced today that Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy will find its way to PC/MAC/Linux on November 10th 2017. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an original 3rd person action-adventure inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt. Travelling […]
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16th Aug2017
THQ Nordic announce ‘Black Mirror’ reboot
THQ Nordic have revealed their new project: Black Mirror, a Gothic horror adventure due for release on 28th November 2017. The game will be developed by the Bremen studio KING Art Games, known for The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Dwarves and The Raven, and will be available on PC/Mac/Linux, PS4 and Xbox One. The […]
09th Jul2017
‘Next Up Hero’ – Announcement Trailer
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04th Nov2015
‘Jackbox Party Pack 2′ Review (PC)
by Paul Metcalf
If you are a fan of games, you’ll know that there are many ways to play. Some are more social than others, while some want you to play alone. Jackbox Party Pack 2 is a set of party games that wants you to enjoy it with as many people as possible, and ends up being […]
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05th Oct2015
Curve Digital announce cyberpunk adventure ‘Murder’
Developed by Peter Moorhead and published by Curve Digital, Murder is a short story told in the form of a classic point and click adventure, creating an experience that “prides itself on environmental storytelling and confident, cinematic flair”. Heavily inspired by the works of Masamune Shirow, Katsuhiro Otomo, Neal Stephenson, and other cyberpunk greats, Murder […]
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03rd Oct2015
First screens and trailer for FPS survival horror ‘Syndrome’
Independent game studio Camel 101 and Bigmoon Entertainment today announced Syndrome, a survival horror game coming to PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Mac and Linux in Q2 2016. Featuring Oculus Rift support, Syndrome takes the genre back to its terrifying roots as players wake up on a deserted spaceship, dazed and confused from a deep […]
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First look at ‘Homefront: The Revolution’
Deep Silver have today revealed a new cinematic trailer for the up-coming FPS Homefront: The Revolution, a follow-up to the underrated 2011 original. Developed by Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, Homefront: The Revolution - an open-world first person shooter – puts the player in the middle of a full-blown guerrilla war in an occupied United States. The […]
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23rd Jul2015
‘Skyhill’ Preview (PC)
If the apocalypse strikes and the monsters have taken over would the penthouse in a hotel be the best place to find yourself? Skyhill is a game that starts you off trapped in the luxury apartment, with the aim to not only survive but make it the bottom floor, or that is what I’ve been […]
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28th Apr2015
Kickstarter sensation ‘Mighty No. 9′ coming to retailers!
Comcept and Deep Silver today announced their partnership for Comcept’s upcoming side-scrolling action game and Kickstarter sensation, Mighty No. 9. Created by Keiji Inafune − the “father of Mega Man” − Comcept and Japanese co-developer Inti Creates, Mighty No. 9 will be available on 15th September 2015 in the Americas and on 18th September 2015 […]
Tags : Comcept, Deep Silver, Keiji Inafune, Linux, Mac, Mighty No. 9, PC, Playstation 3, PlayStation 4, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
18th Jan2015
‘Satellite Reign’ Early Access Preview
Maybe it’s my nerdy side that enjoys getting early access to games (and other software), even when they are buggy or incomplete. Feeling a part of the development process and reporting on any errors I find is something I used to do as part of being a developer so when I play a game that […]
Tags : 5 Lives Studios, Cyberpunk, Early Access, GOG, Mac, PC, Pre-Alpha, Preview, Satellite Reign
‘Blackguards 2′ (P)review
When it comes to role-playing games I tend to have somewhat of a particular taste. I remember the days of Baldur’s Gate and its sequel, I bought them both and dabbled with them but never really made progress, but I’ve played games like Skyrim for more hours than I can count. The fact is I […]
Tags : Blackguards 2, Daedelic Entertainment, Mac, PC, Preview, Review, RPG
18th Dec2014
‘Metrocide’ Review (PC)
Some games are created to punish the gamer, they often require patience and just a little luck but can still be the most annoying experiences put into game form. These games, such as Dark Souls, are sometimes lauded as some of the best games ever made, but to gamers who don’t have the patience to […]
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06th Sep2014
‘Wacom Bamboo Pad’ Review
As a designer I often have to use tablets in my creative pursuits and I’ve experienced all manner of different makes and models – in fact I use one on a semi-regular basis for my day job. So when I was offered the opportunity to review Wacom’s new Bamboo Pad I jumped at the chance, […]
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18th May2014
‘Libratone Zipp’ Speaker Review
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a Libratone speaker – but when you have something as superb as the Libratone Live there’s not really any need to upgrade is there? Well that is until now. Copenhagen-based audio company Libratone have taken the concept of the Airplay speaker to the next level with the Libratone […]
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‘The Last Tinker: City of Colors’ [P]review (PC/Mac)
In a world where creativity has given way to conflict, a young street kid living in the slums of Colortown seeks to restore the spark of imagination to his hometown. As Koru, you must harness the power of color to defeat the Bleakness and make Colortown vibrant once again. A charming blend of modern platforming […]
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21st Mar2014
Space Wolves Expansion now available for ‘Space Hulk’
Independent developer Full Control have announced the releases of the Space Wolves Expansion for Space Hulk, the 3D digital turn based strategy game based on best-selling board game set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe is now available. The expansion comes with the ‘Fangs of Fenris’ campaign, which features three new missions set in a cool and […]
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Get excited – ‘Duke Nukem’ comes to Steam!
In news that pleases me greatly (yes, I am a HUGE fan of the franchise) Devolver Digital have partnered with 3D Realms and Singapore-based indie developer General Arcade to launch Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition on Steam, which includes the original FPS Duke Nukem 3D and three expansion packs – Duke Caribbean: Life’s a Beach, […]
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Ninilchik is conveniently located halfway between Soldotna and Homer on the Kenai Peninsula. Visiting our small village is a must for any Alaskan adventure. From our pristine shores you will take in the the breathtaking view of some of the most picturesque Volcanoes in the world. While you are here, be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to shop in one of our unique Alaskan gift stores or dine in one of our fine restaurants.
Ninilchik is home to several fishing charters who would love to be your guide for the day or the week. Ninilchik offers both Saltwater and Freshwater fishing. Come for the day, the weekend, the week or longer and stay at one of our friendly B & B’s, RV Parks, Cabins or State Campgrounds.
Explore the history of our quaint village while relaxing in a truly unique place. Ninilchik is your Alaskan destination!
Location and Climate:
Ninilchik lies on the west coast of the Kenai Peninsula on the Sterling Highway, approximately 35 miles south of the Soldotna & 35 miles north of Homer . It lies at approximately 60° 03′ N Latitude and 151° 40′ W Longitude. The area encompasses 38.2 sq. miles of land and 36.5 sq. miles of water. Winter temperatures range from -14 to 40; summer temperatures vary from 45 to 70. Average annual precipitation is 24 inches. Ninilchik was originally settled in 1842. The original settlers did not remain the winter. Grigorii & Mavra Kvasnikoff moved their large family in 1847, others family began following in the early 1850’s.
The Russian Orthodox church was dedicated in 1901 and remains on the original site.
In 1911 an American teacher, Alyce Anderson, arrived and started the English school which was located up on the hill in view of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1951 Ninilchik built the school which is still beside the Sterling Highway. In 1996 there was a fire at the school and when it was rebuilt the second wing was added. Ninilchik celebrated 100 years of public school in 2011 with a community BBQ. Many of the original families still have descendants attending Ninilchik School.
The community of Ninilchik suffered minor damage in the 1964 earthquake, which shook most of the state and knocked out bridges, opening fissures in the land. Many of the Elders still remember and tell stories of where and what they were doing during that quake.
The Sterling Highway was paved in 1967 and has been an ongoing process since then.
Ninilchik sits across from two active volcanoes. In 1990 & 2009 Mt. Redoubt erupted bringing ash into the community of Ninilchik. The volcanoes produce steam on a regular basis. The majestic beauty can be observed throughout the town.
One of the favorite spots for tourists to photograph, besides the Russian Orthodox church, is the sign near the Ninilchik river.
The original sign in the historical village was in Russian it has since been translated to English and reads “Privet (Greetings). My name is Ninilchik Village. I was settled around the turn of the 19th century by creoles, Russians, Aleuts, and Indians. The names of my earlier children were Kvasnikoff, Oskolkoff, Kompkoff, and Astrogin. They were retired hunters and trappers that wanted to find a homeland of their own. Some of their great grandchildren still reside here to this day. My Russian Orthodox Church, on the hill, was built in the early 20th century. My river, and Cook Inlet are best known for their fish. My beaches are known for their clams. I ask that you please respect my people, their heritage, their culture, their property, and my river and beaches. Spasebo (Thank you).”
Visit Ninilchik, enjoy the rich history, take in the panoramic & breathtaking views.
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Fluorescence contrast-enhanced proliferative lesion imaging by enema administration of indocyanine green in a rat model of colon carcinogenesis
Nobuhiko Onda, Reiko Mizutani-Morita, Susumu Yamashita, Rei Nagahara, Shinya Matsumoto, Toshinori Yoshida and Makoto Shibutani _
Nobuhiko Onda1,2, Reiko Mizutani-Morita2, Susumu Yamashita1, Rei Nagahara2, Shinya Matsumoto1, Toshinori Yoshida2 and Makoto Shibutani2,3
1Evaluation Technology Department 1, R&D Group, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8512, Japan
2Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Division of Animal Life Science, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
3Institute of Global Innovation Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
Makoto Shibutani, email: mshibuta@cc.tuat.ac.jp
Keywords: colon tumor, endoscopy, fluorescence imaging, indocyanine green, tight junction
Received: April 19, 2017 Accepted: August 08, 2017 Published: October 09, 2017
The fluorescent contrast agent indocyanine green (ICG) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical applications. We previously reported that cultured human colon tumor cells preferentially take up ICG by endocytic activity in association with disruption of their tight junctions. The present study explored ICG availability in fluorescence imaging of the colon to identify proliferative lesions during colonoscopy. The cellular uptake of ICG in cultured rat colon tumor cells was examined using live-cell imaging. Colon lesions in rats administered an ICG-containing enema were further assessed in rats with azoxymethane-induced colon carcinogenesis, using in vivo endoscopy, ex vivo microscopy, and immunofluorescence microscopy. The uptake of ICG by the cultured cells was temperature-dependent. The intracellular retention of the dye in the membrane trafficking system suggested endocytosis as the uptake mechanism. ICG administered via enema accumulated in colon proliferative lesions ranging from tiny aberrant crypt foci to adenomas and localized in proliferating cells. Fluorescence endoscopy detected these ICG-positive colonic proliferative lesions in vivo. The immunoreactivity of the tight-junction molecule occludin was altered in the proliferative lesions, suggesting the disruption of the integrity of tight junctions. These results suggest that fluorescence contrast-enhanced imaging following the administration of an ICG-containing enema can enhance the detection of mucosal proliferative lesions of the colon during colonoscopy. The tissue preference of ICG in the rat model evaluated in this study can be attributed to the disruption of tight junctions, which in turn promotes endocytosis by proliferative cells and the cellular uptake of ICG.
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Where are we today with IEC 61850?
Author:Christoph Brunner, it4power, Switzerland
Now, ten years later, where are we with IEC 61850? I would estimate that in the meantime more than 5,000 substations worldwide are equipped with IEC 61850. So obviously, IEC 61850 can be considered as a well-established standard. While I was visiting DistribuTECH in January, I learned from a US utility that it had recently successfully commissioned its first IEC 61850 substation - on their own - not as a project supplied by one of the big vendors. In a country that is known as being rather hesitant with IEC 61850, this is a positive surprise. And it is a good example that sometimes it is worth to just attempt a project with a new technology instead of only discussing it. Last but not least, it shows as well that apparently IEC 61850 products are ready to be used by utilities without the need to fully depend on the supplier.
Nevertheless, the working groups dealing with IEC are busy in doing further development of the IEC 61850 series.
As always with my first IEC 61850 column of the year, I will try to provide an update on some of the ongoing standardization activities for IEC 61850.
With regard to the core IEC 61850 documents for substation automation, significant effort has recently be brought in by the editors in order to complete the revision of the UML models and to prepare the publication of the Edition 2.1 that is auto generated from the UML model. As already mentioned earlier, this Edition will incorporate technical issues discovered during the implementation of the Edition 2 products and during the preparation of the UML models.
Last year, a first draft of the planned technical report IEC 61850-7-500 was published. This report provides a collection of modeling guidelines for substation automation applications using the existing logical nodes. With regard to new models, a first draft of the planned technical report IEC 61850-90-3 was circulated that provides object models for condition monitoring of primary equipment like switchgear, power transformers or power lines. Also, the work on creating models for FACTS has made significant progress.
With regard to the engineering process, the new task force created last year that works on defining the SCL extensions for describing functions and sub-functions has started its work and the task force to describe logic modeling made good progress.
In WG 17 one of the focuses was in the finalization of a first draft for IEC 61850-90-15, a technical report describing the models for DER integration into the Grid. Also, the document for modeling schedules is close to a first circulation. And finally, WG18 made progress on the extensions of the models for steam and gas turbines.
While all these activities will further expand the capabilities of IEC 61850, it is of course important to bear in mind the stability of the standard and its products. I recently had an interesting discussion with experts from a utility that are planning the technical solution of their substations for the next years. One of their major concerns regarding IEC 61850 was the life cycle of the technology and products. They are worried that with all the progressing versions of the standard, they will not be able to maintain their automation and protection equipment during the expected life cycle without a need to continuously upgrade already installed equipment.
This indicates a topic that in my opinion shall become a key activity of the standardization work in 2014. Besides the required progress with the ongoing activities, it is important that we consolidate as well the current status. With Edition 2 products starting to become available, we need – together with the UCA users group that develops the conformance test procedures – establish a process for the maintenance of various editions of our specifications. And we need to develop plausible concepts how IEC 61850 products including the tools of various editions can coexist in a future system.
If we succeed with that, I am pretty sure that we will see in the future a further growth of the acceptance of IEC 61850 worldwide.
Christoph Brunner is the President of his own independent consulting company it4power LLC based in Switzerland. He has over 25 years of experience with knowledge across several areas within the Utility Industry and of technologies from the Automation Industry. He has worked as a project manager at ABB Switzerland Ltd in the area of Power Technology Products in Zurich / Switzerland where he was responsible for the process close communication architecture of the automation system. He is Convener of WG 10 of the IEC TC57 and is a member of WG 17, 18 and 19 of IEC TC57. He is senior member of IEEE-PES and IEEE-SA. He is an IEEE Fellow and he is active in several working groups of the IEEE-PSRC and a member of the PSRC main committee and the subcommittee H. He is international advisor to the board of the UCA international users group.
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Currys PC World is encouraging footie fans to “go big for the big games” with outdoor executions in London made to look like a gigantic version of TV packaging.
Built by Clear Channel, the installation is built from a stud-metal frame with dibond panels and printed vinyl sheets.
The ad is already in place in the first of two sites, in Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle. On 4 June it will be moved to a site further south in Brixton Road, where it will stay for another two weeks.
Pete Fennell, head of advertising for Dixons Carphone, said: “As we’re encouraging fans to go big for the big games, we required an out-of-home execution which captures the excitement ahead of summer in an equally big and impactful way.
“Our goal with the sites is to stop people in their tracks in a highly creative way. I think the special build sites do just that and help to really set us apart this summer.”
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Helmsdale, home of The Emigrants Statue, hosts the Diaspora Tapestry
It's a good job we thought of it first really!
Helmsdale's way up in the North East, just south of Wick, with a fine arts reputation. Not only did it win the nation's Creative Place Award in 2014 but it's home to a very fine sculpture of The Emigrants unveiled in 2010 by First Minister Alex Salmond.
The statue was commissioned by millionaire Dennis MacLeod, a local Sutherland man who made his fortune in gold mining in South Africa. He is determined that the clearances are not forgotten. Alex Salmond said the statue celebrated the Scots' triumph over adversity and the plaque reminds us that those who were forced to leave for a new life took their culture and enterprise with them.
So there could scarcely be a more appropriate location to display our Scottish Diaspora Tapestry. And as was to be expected of Helmsdale, the local knitting group [pictured below at work and at the Official Opening by Gordon Prestoungrange and Arran Johnston on October 28th] had metamorphosed and transferred its skills to creating a panel that honours The Rutherford Collies.
Collies? Yes, Border collie dogs that came to Sutherland with the Cheviot sheep and then made their way to Kildonan, Victoria, Australia after John Rutherford and his six sons emigrated there. Soon after his arrival he sent home for two collies and Clyde and Lassie joined them in 1864 to become the progenitors of a new breed Down Under of Rutherford Roughs -commemorated in Panel AU17 used in the poster below.
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Senior Game Designer (Puzzle Studio)
Welcome to Rovio! We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Game Designer to join our successful Puzzle Studio in Espoo, Finland. Our vision is to reinvent the puzzle category with games where time-to-fun is our North Star Metric, while deep, immersive meta-game and social gameplay turn them into hobbies lasting for years. You are able to create game concepts that combine casual approachability of puzzle games with depth and social dynamics of mid-core games. You are fluent in a number of casual and mid-core social-game systems and mechanics and from insights into our audience you are able to craft deep emotional experiences in games so that players think about them even when they are not playing. You share our passion to take the casual social gaming to next level by providing deeper gameplay experiences, and for that you want to understand human psychology and social dynamics to really tick players' intrinsic social motivations and needs. You'll fit in our flock if you want to: Share our vision of re-inventing casual puzzle games Create and lead the execution of game concepts that achieve both creative and commercial success in mobile F2P Continuously learn and keep improving with ambitious and likeminded gaming professionals You’ll need these skills: 7+ yrs commercial experience and proven success working on mobile F2P games, preferably both from operating a live game as well as developing a game from scratch Experience in creating strong game concepts and leading their execution Strong social game design skills, understanding the dynamics of competition and collaboration. Experience in creating and managing highly balanced game systems and economies Skills and passion to lead game vision, willingness to have an open mind and adapt and iterate designs, but also steer and make decisions when needed A genuine interest in F2P and mobile games, as well as the wider world of gaming Strong interest and belief in data-driven approach to support & validate intuition It would be lovely if you also have: Creative writing experience CCG/Strategy/RPG design experience If you feel you have what it takes to join our ambitious and exciting team, apply now! Interviewing starts as soon as we find interesting candidates. Looking forward to hearing from you!Read more
Senior Data Scientist
Welcome to Rovio! We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist, Team Manager, to join our Business Intelligence team in Espoo, Finland. You will join us to expand one of the most successful entertainment brands in the world and enable our thriving teams to create engaging experiences for millions of players using data science. Our players generate massive amounts of data (i.e. billions of data points per day). In Rovio, data sits at the heart of everything we do, as it enables us to enhance our game operations as well as lots of other cool stuff. We believe such huge data has value only if it is converted to actionable recommendations. Our Business Intelligence team empowers the game teams through insights derived from the data and develops relevant tools and models to support decision making. Your role: You will work closely with various teams such as User Acquisition, Advertising, and game teams. As a Senior Data Scientist, Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in steering Rovio’s data science activities. You will foresee and plan the modelling projects for the games unit, and lead the implementation of cross-portfolio machine learning projects. At Rovio we create different types of games that reach to billions of players. This presents a big challenge for data science and an exciting opportunity for creating models with great impact for the Games unit and millions of players. We predict how players will play, retain and spend through time, which is fundamental to the gaming industry. You will apply state-of-the-art data science methods for creating automated decision-making systems for performance marketing activities in the magnitude of millions of euros monthly. Together with our data engineering team, you will prototype and develop scalable solutions that are used to make recommendations for large scale user acquisition and cross-promotion campaigns. In addition to marketing optimization, you will have the chance to work on any and all of the most interesting and high impact analytics challenges faced by Rovio. The main responsibilities are in the following three areas: Data Developing models and algorithms that increase the efficiency in decision making and drive higher ROI Designing automated solutions to improve ways of performance marketing and advertising using your statistics, machine learning, and programming skills Defining and spreading best analytics practices, methods and processes inside Rovio Tech Testing your ideas and work with data engineers to take your solutions to production Working with and guide other team members in data science projects that are of more technical nature Creating systematic ways for validating the quality of the models Leadership Providing leadership and support to a team of data scientists Coaching team members’ to improve their performance and help them advance in their career development Guiding stakeholders in understanding data science concepts (e.g., ML, AI, model selection), utilizing existing data, discovering opportunities and driving data-driven decision making You'll need: Expert knowledge in data science, machine learning, and statistics(e.g. bayesian modeling, gaussian processes, random forests, boosting trees, neural networks, AB testing) Experience in applying data science for the tasks of regression, classification, and forecasting Know-how to do feature engineering on time series Proven record of applying models from concept to production Programming skills in Python and/or R Ability to automate analytics processes using programming languages or modern data science tools Solid knowledge of databases and Big Data technologies (e.g. SQL, Spark, Presto) Interest in mobile games: Your gaming experience will help you to understand the data and business problems. Self-starter type of personality, ability and willingness to guide a team of experts with different backgrounds. Proactive, trusted advisor and driven by curiosity Ability to lead the work of others in the craft and provide constructive feedback 4+ years of relevant work experience Additionally, we'd love you to have: Prior work experience in performance marketing, advertising, or gaming industries Experience in working with a team of data scientists and leading/coaching peers What you get when you join us: Strong company with ambitious plans for the future: Rovio has long background in the mobile gaming industry and we have no plans to stop our growth. Awesome data-minded coworkers: We are a family-like community that is hands-on, collaborative and ambitious. We help each other grow professionally. Personal growth: We offer subscription to various learning platforms, as well as budget to buy books and conference tickets. Fun and international environment: You will hear lots of languages, jokes, and laughter in our workplace. Hackathons: We love to try new technologies and methods to build the next generation infrastructure. Competitive benefits such as a cell phone of our top models, a laptop you feel comfortable with, lunch and sport vouchers, breakfast, gaming area, sauna, and more. Don't keep us waiting - send your application already today! Remember to include a cover letter and CV.Read more
Senior Animator, Character Lab
We are now looking for a Senior Animator to join our talented Character Lab in Rovio Espoo, Finland as part of the Delta team. This position is a fixed-term employment of up to 18 months. Rovio’s Delta team houses a diverse collection of specialist teams that work together in the complex environment of game development. These include Character Lab, Player Support, QA, Localisation, App Store Operations, User Research and Audio. Delta’s goal is to enable each of the game teams to concentrate on making games by providing services that give them all the tools and support they need to succeed. In Delta, you will work with pretty much every team and we constantly look for new ways of working and new ways that we can add value. It is an exciting, international team where you will be constantly challenged and never bored. Characters are key to the success of Rovio games and we need our animators to create strong personality and quirky humor as they bring these characters to life. As a Senior Animator in Character Lab you will develop and animate characters for Rovio’s games and products. You will also be expected to communicate your ideas to creative leads of the projects and the Character Lab team to improve work processes. Although the Character Lab is a central support team, you will be expected to play a big role in the development of the games in general. You will help craft its IP and story through concepts and storyboards, as well as creating various production quality art assets for the final product. You'll fit in if you want to: Lead and create character animation for various platforms with excellent visual storytelling Create animated assets, storyboards and animatics as needed to develop animations Work together with game teams creative supervisors and artists with animation, character concepting and character design Support producers in planning, scheduling and prioritizing animation related tasks We're looking for someone who has: Excellent knowledge of character acting, game animation and narrative character animation Good Maya and Spine skills, Fundamentals of Unity Understanding of in-game animation development and production process Collaborative, communicative and a team-player in a multidisciplinary environment 5 years of experience in animation or commercial game projects Fluent in English We’d love you to have some of these: Good drawing skills and overall visual design skills Can work in different styles to suit different projects Passion for games animation, animated series, movies and pop-culture Ability to contribute to processes, pipelines and character rigs What you get when you join us: Our team is hands-on, open, collaborative and ambitious You will get to work in a truly international environment Flexible work hours Competitive benefits: such as choice of current gen smartphone and home internet service paid, choice of laptop, lunch and sport vouchers, breakfast, gaming area, gym, sauna Please note that we don't have relocation assistance for this position. If you are interested, please send your application today, with the CV, cover letter, and a link to your demo reel. We look forward to hearing from you!Read more
Lead Server Developer - Advertising + User Acquisition
Welcome to Rovio! Do you want a challenge? Do you want your work to reach 10’s of millions of gamers around the globe? Do you want to enable the growth of our games? Do you want to optimise our player’s ads experience? In this role, you will shape our ads and UA offering for our games solving complex problems and driving our business. In Q1 2019, to grow our business we spent over $23 Million on user acquisition, and our ads platform mediated over 15 ads sources delivering over 1 billion impressions per month. As a Lead/Senior Server Developer you will be responsible for concepting, building and maintaining our own services (including yield management, campaign management, native cross-promotion). You will participate in selecting and integrating partner services and tools (including Singular, AppNexus, Facebook, Unity Ads, Vungle, Google). We expect you to lead small development teams and bring with you strong technology skills ideally including machine learning experience. Games Technology works with data and analytics, machine learning, build and submission tools, cloud infrastructure for service and game servers, and their in-house gaming cloud services platform, Beacon, to bring Rovio’s games to life every day. With a multi-national team of talented professionals, Games Technology supports tens of millions of players, hosts some of the most cutting edge cloud services out there, serves thousands of requests per second from all corners of the globe, captures 4 Billion analytic events per day and over 1TB of data per day, and runs approximately 1300 instances on Amazon AWS. All of these services and tools enable successful live operations in Rovio’s games, allowing game teams to optimize player engagement and monetization. Your responsibilities: Develop and maintain our Ads and UA product offering Research emerging solutions and technologies, for example, the use of machine learning for optimisation Work closely with and lead developers and engineers (client, front-end, server, data, cloud, QA), product managers, designers to implement versatile solutions Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues working closely with our ads operations team Work on other service areas as required (for example segmentation, payments, live ops) Launch, iterate and make a difference What we are looking for? 5+ years of recent Java development experience Background in Ads / UA service development Depth knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Big Data warehouses Practical experience working in Agile software development teams using Scrum or Kanban Excellent team working skills and leadership Excellent verbal and written English skills What you get when you join us: We give you the best support we can, helping you to grow and achieve your professional goals Our team is hands-on, open, collaborative and ambitious. We do have fun together! You will get to work in a truly international environment with more than 15 nationalities in the Technology team Competitive benefits such as lunch vouchers, breakfast, gym, sauna, gaming area and our various hobby clubs. When applying please tell us what you bring and how you will drive our ads and UA performance! Remember to include a cover letter and CV. We look forward to hearing from you!Read more
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We are looking for an Experienced Level Designer for Rovio’s Puzzle Studio. Depending on your skillset and experience this may be a Staff or Senior role. Rovio’s Puzzle Studio is the established and passionate team behind the successful Angry Birds Match, Angry Birds Pop, and soaring Angry Birds Blast. In the studio we’re looking for the most talented and ambitious yet humble game development professionals on the planet to build the next big thing. We’re a flat organization where you’ll find openness, candid feedback and a shared ambition to succeed to be at the very core of our DNA as a studio. True to the Nordic culture we pride ourselves in real life/work balance and strongly support personal growth and hunger for learning. How do you succeed as a Level Designer in the Puzzle Studio? We believe strongly that content is king, and our level designers are a crucial piece of that puzzle. As a level designer you are responsible for crafting the definitive player touchpoint for our games. You will own the entirety of content design including delivering top-notch levels, concepting new gameplay elements and shaping level difficulty and progression all the while using data analysis to tune and perfect your work. What you’ll take under your wings: Design and deliver level content in all its forms across the entire product lifecycle for social puzzle games. Use data and player feedback to continuously hone and maintain existing level content. Take full ownership your work, and have responsibility for all design details along the way. Work closely with other team members by collaborating on multiple aspects of the development process to ensure the game’s success. We’d love it if you have these feathers in your cap: You have at least 4 years of experience designing game-changing puzzle experiences in such sub genres as match 3, bubble shooter, etc. You have a demonstrated track record of bringing impactful data driven changes to live products. You have the passion inside you to create the best content & player experiences the game industry has ever seen. You have strong level design skills as well as theoretical or practical knowledge of level design and core gameplay. You solve problems analytically, and use data to validate your intuition. Mechanics, rules, probabilities and aesthetics in level design are your specialty. You have the ability drive level design through each applicable stage of production: concept, wireframe, prototype, implementation, and refinement through to final sign-off. Reviewing games from player experience perspective and give constructive feedback to game teams to help to refine the best possible content experience is your passion. You are incredibly focused on top-quality and efficient content production. You have experience in F2P games both as a designer and a player, you follow closely what is happening in the market, and are able to distill the best ideas to your own work. We’re looking for team members who bring their own creative vision and passion into everything they do. If that describes you, this is a great opportunity to work in a fun and creative environment with skilled coworkers, contribute to a captivating new product, and expose your work to a global audience. What you get when you join us: We give you the best support we can, we help you grow and achieve your professional goals. We do have fun! We are a family-like community that is hands-on, open, collaborative and ambitious. You will get to work in truly international environment: you will hear a number of languages in our workplace and can join a variety of activities that we come up with together. Great opportunity to work with top talent in the gaming industry! Competitive benefits such as a cell phone of our top models, a laptop you feel comfortable with, lunch and sport vouchers, breakfast, gaming area, gym, sauna and more. Send your application over now - we look forward to hearing from you!Read more
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Well here we are on our new shiny forum. It’s so clean… too clean! So here I am to give folks some updates.
We recently spun off some time to build a completely new system called Simple 10. It is kind of the counter-culture to games like SEG in that it is so streamlined that it takes only ten pages of rules to get you going. The whole purpose of the system is for casual games, lite on rules, but thick on possibilities.
Beyond that, we are continuing work on our SEG advanced rules. The magic system has taken front stage and we are working on taking the vast and mind-boggling concepts of magic and condensing them into usable and readable rules. Play testing has revealed some more areas to tweak here and there, but we’ve got the structure in place. Now it’s just a bit of tweaking and writing!
Even more, we’ve been working hard on posting some interesting Adventures to help develop the world of Thorin, our custom fantasy setting with more twists and turns than a plate full of curly fries.
Check out the main page for all the latest updates! www.sunderedepoch.org
Randal Snyder
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Demos and meetups
If anyone is in the St. Petersburg FL area on August 23rd, you may want to consider coming out to our BBQ and demo. The main point is to meet folks and have fun, food, and drinks, and then to add in some educational side dishes...
Randal Snyder (aka me) will be running a 2-4 hour demo of the Sundered Epoch following a D&D style adventure complete with plot, elves, dwarfs, halflings, and humans, and using the rules for magic and conversion from d20 monsters! Fantasy games are often the most complex due to the wide range of topics and abilities characters can have. It is also one of the most popular RPG formats in existence and hense - why we want to prove the system does it, and does it well!
So if you can make it, please message me and I will be glad to give you directions and more details.
v3.6 Released
For those of you using the Sundered Epoch: Generations rules, you may be interested in getting the latest version of the rules from the website www.sunderedepoch.org
There are several changes to the system and we included a new Narrator's Guide chapter to help new GMs take on the tasks of running a game. Hopefully our insights prove useful.
Version 4.0 Released!
http://www.sunderedepoch.org/downloa...1_-_Core_Rules
That day has finally arrived! The Sundered Epoch: Generations - Core Rules v4.0 is now available. And for the first time you can BUY THE BOOK, AT COST! Check out the Downloads page for more information.
I wanted to give folks an update on where things stand. The Sundered Epoch: Generations is in full production and I am working hard to merge it with the Eastside Project setting.
What's new? First off there are a bunch of minor tweaks to the rules - mostly optional rules. But more to the core of the system, I have streamlined the character creation process and added some background information to help define the character a bit more. Specifically, we've added things like personality traits, motivations, and occupation.
To go with the Eastside Project setting, we have included some optional attributes that should be used with the ESP setting. Most of these were included in the core rules so it is not a significant change, but this allowed us a chance to define their use more thoroughly.
And most significantly, we have introduced Magical Abilities. These abilities fit nicely with the magic system and setting and allows players to create any kind of spell caster they can imagine.
Some of you may be wondering, "what is the Eastside Project"? Glad you asked (you did ask right?)! The Eastside Project is a modern conspiracy/horror/fantasy setting that puts players in the middle of secret societies, battling pan-dimensional beasts, and invoking sorcerous powers. In one sense it is an alternate look at history through the idea that secret societies exist within all organizations. It can be taken to any extreme you want from a horror game like Hellraiser to a conspiracy game like X-Files, or even an alternate history plot like Hellboy or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The base setting really is a playground with lots of ideas and background material to help get your creative juices flowing.
In a one line summary: it is a transdimensional ride through insanity and back again.
Speaking of insanity! As part of this update we have included the guidelines on Sanity, and losing it. We have been working hard to design and include dozens of monsters capable of crushing your puny body and mind. These creatures and the concepts used in Eastside Project really help to illustrate the diverse ways the SEG system can be used.
Once completed, the Eastside Project will include the SEG core rules version 5.0, its own unique and never ending world of adventure, and countless other dimensions to explore. Even incomplete, the book is grossing over 250 pages and we haven't even begun the illustrations and artwork.
Even further we will be releasing optional rules to the web in small PDF documents. These will be compartmentalized between chapters such as character creation, combat, magic, etc.
So while things have been quiet, we are far from idle. Keep an eye out for more updates and previews in the future!
Just yesterday we uploaded a brand new document called "Aliens of the Known Universe". This free document summarizes the species stats for Halo and Star Wars creatures to allow you to use them in your Sundered Epoch: Generations games. We expect to have this document updated fairly frequently as we already have plans to expand this to include Star Trek and Farscape races and we are looking for yet more sources. Everything is possible from video games to movies and even literature and comic books.
As always, its free and available from our website www.SunderedEpoch.org
If you have suggestions or requests, please feel free to message us at SunderedEpoch@hotmail.com
Hey all. So I'm back with quite a few updates to some of my docs. Of course they're intended for my game system, Sundered Epoch, but its incredibly easy to convert them over to d20. (multiply Attribute modifiers by x2)
Aliens of the Known Universe - A collection of aliens from Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, Halo, Farscape, and more. If anyone has requests I can take a crack at it.
Arms & Armour of the Known Realms - Right now this is just a document of medieval armor, but it will grow to include weapons and basic equipment. I'll be adding magic items and other fantasy stuff too.
My next book is going to be Denizens of the Known Realms, a book of fantasy creatures from all over the spectrum.
So anyway, if someone can make use of it great! They're out on my website www.sunderedepoch.org along with the core rules. If anyone has suggestions, requests, or feedback, I'm all ears.
Beta play-testing/reviewers needed
This group has always been a great help and I'm hoping it will be once more.
As most of you know I'm writing an RPG, Sundered Epoch: Generations, with the intent of publishing it. The rules are complete and I am at the point where I am moving on to the background world and artwork. In order to continue I am looking for folks who would be willing and able to review the rules, play-test, and provide feedback.
I can't offer payment, but I will credit anyone who participates in the opening cover, and when completed, I will send you a free copy of the system as thanks.
I'll have some questionnaires covering different topics such as clarity of the rules, playability, general feedback and room for improvement. And I hope to get some good, honest feedback and get some conversations going.
To give you an idea of scale, the SEG system is on par with d20 from a rules complexity and scale. The book is currently 285 pages, not counting future artwork and the growing background information. However, I have tried to organize the book in such a way that experienced GMs can begin playing with minimal reading and much of the book is reserved for optional rules to allow you to tweak the system to suit your needs.
If you are interested, I'd love to hear from you! Send me an email at SunderedEpoch @ hotmail.com with the subject Play-test.
In case you missed it, we have released a beta version of the Sundered Epoch: Generations - No Man's Land for review and playtesting. You can download all of the existing documents here: http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2423015
Big news! We have just released a preview copy of the Sundered Epoch: Generations Core Rules 5th Edition preview. We decided to release this copy to garner independent reviews, expand play-testing, and to help build the SEG community. To join the conversation and contribute, visit www.SunderedEpoch.org
You can view and download all of the SEG files here:
http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2423015
It has been a couple of years since our last update. Its amazing how time flies.
But fear not, my friends! We have not been sitting idle. Since our last update we have:
- Released a new version of the Beta rules for SEG 5
- Published several source books including
----Aliens of the Known Universe
----Technology of the Known Universe
----Arms and Armour of the Known Realms
----Denizens of the Known Realms
----And we are working on updating them with new details and preparing even more books
-We published several Adventure Starters, our version of the D&D Modules. Most of these are based in the No Man's Land setting.
-Our vehicle rules are almost ready for full publication. The rules are very similar to standard SEG combat.
So if you're looking for more resources for SEG (or any other game), check out what we've been publishing at www.SunderedEpoch.org
Hello friends! As some of your know, I have been working on writing a role-playing game for several years. Well, today it is officially published!
If you are into RPGs and board games, please like my page:https://www.facebook.com/SunderedEpoch/
And if you like what you see from the previews, download a free copy of my book, share the links with your friends, and rate it! This will help to create a buzz and spread the word.
Several more additions are on their way including the official game world setting, No Man's Land where you play as secret agents trying to protect our dimension from Outsiders, opposing cults, and even other secret societies with their own agendas. This book will include our highly flexible magic system that allows you to create new spells in seconds, monsters of epic proportions, and a world of endless adventure possibilities.
But you know me, I like to think BIG!
As of today you can get your copy of the Sundered Epoch: Generations - Core Rules absolutely free from DriveThruRPG. Please pick up your copy and help to promote the Sundered Epoch!
http://drivethrurpg.com/product/1695...ns--Core-Rules
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LMCs could face legal action over template letters for GPs to refuse benefit requests from patients
3 September 2013 By Sofia Lind
Exclusive LMCs could face legal action over advice to GPs to refuse requests for support from benefit claimants, as campaign groups consult lawyers over communications they claim are ‘staggeringly ignorant’.
Pulse has learnt that two disability activist groups have sought legal advice about taking action against LMCs and they also say there may be grounds for action against individual GPs if they are ‘involved in acts of discrimination’.
But local GP leaders said that the LMCs’ advice was consistent with that provided by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and that the fault lies with the system set up by the Government and not GPs.
The move deepens the row over the support GPs provide for patients who are appealing their benefits being withdrawn.
GPs are facing rising pressure from patients requesting information to protect their benefits, with a 21% rise in requests to verify work capability since January.
As a response, two LMCs have issued template letters for GPs to refuse requests for additional support from benefit claimants, with one considering a ‘just say no’ campaign to support practices who refuse to take on the unfunded work.
But Pulse has learnt that two pressure groups - Black Triangle and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) - are now planning legal action against the LMCs involved.
Dr Stephen Carty, a GP in Edinburgh and the the Black Triangle Campaign’s medical adviser, said they had taken legal advice over the LMC advice and that they felt they had a case.
He added: ‘LMCs are one-trick ponies whose only function is to prevent GPs doing unpaid, or pro bono, work. I think this is a staggeringly ignorant position to take.
‘Any GP working at the coalface will have stacks of examples of patients who have completely fallen to bits over the Work Capability Assessment. There are lots of admirable things LMCs do but this is a disgrace and I have urged doctors to withdraw their LMC subscriptions and stop paying them.’
Dr Carty added that they were also considering action against individual GPs, pending the outcome of the DWP’s appeal against a tribunal ruling from May this year that said the Government’s Work Capability Assessment process discriminates against people with mental health problems.
He added: ‘If the High Court found that the current process was discriminating, then there may be grounds for taking legal action against individual GPs if they were involved in acts of discrimination. If there were legal clarity on this, it would already be happening.’
But LMC leaders said that they had not heard of any legal action yet, and that these requests are outside the normal care provided by GPs.
Wessex LMC chief executive Dr Nigel Watson said: ‘What we have said to patients is that if the appeals people want further clinical information, which only we can give, then we’re more than happy to do that if the appeals people write to us. But what a lot of these people want is not a medical report, just a letter to say that we support the patient.
He added: ‘Some of the disability groups then say that GPs just do things they get paid for and have got quite difficult about it but we’ve just then tried to explain that we provide care for patients, this is what we do, and I think it is not helped sometimes by the fact that there is an inconsistent approach - some practices will do it and others won’t.’
Editorial: Stop exploiting GPs’ goodwill
In full: Doctors’ letter to the BMA and template benefit support letter
Peverley’s attack on benefit claimants was wrong-headed - and having worked for Atos, I should know
Dr Peter Higgins, chief executive of the LMCs in Lancashire and Cumbria, defended the template letter they drafted to refuse supporting benefit appeals, and stressed the decision on whether to use it or not was still pending.
He told Pulse they had not heard anything yet about legal action, and added: ‘All that we quoted was off the DWP website so I can’t really see where they are going with that.’
The move comes as a group of GPs have supported the Black Triangle Campaign’s work against the DWP and the Work Capability Assessment process by signing an open letter to the BMA.
The letter called on the BMA to endorse an alternative template letter, prepared by Dr Carty, which could reduce the workload of providing supporting information in patients’ benefits appeals. It further said it is GPs’ duty under GMC guidance to take action if they feel that ‘patient safety may be seriously compromised by inadequate policies or systems’.
But a BMA spokesperson said they had already undertaken ‘substantial work’ to point out problems with the WCA.
He said: ‘BMA representatives have met government ministers to put our objections to them directly. We have recently written to the employment minister asking for changes to be made as soon as possible to the way the system is undertaken. We have also met with disability groups including the Disability Benefits Consortium, an umbrella group representing disability charities.’
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Readers' comments (82)
Anonymous03 Sep 2013 1:24pm
Anonymous | 03 September 2013 11:49am
Star Trek fan?
A utopic world where money has no meaning and life's needs are covered by the genorosity of others. Whilst I care for the sick (or believe themselves to be sick) Ford give me a car or if I'm very lucky Bugatti will provide for me. Waitrose to allow me to shop free as I can't earn any money being in the caring profession. Clakes send me 2 pairs of shoes and Durex a big box of condoms so I do not have children that the state will have to look after. Forget the Durex as I'll be sleeping in the park and practising from a bench because I cannot buy premesis as I can't earn. Not sure the wife wants sex in a laurel.
I was all for this forum being open so we could see the trolls and idiots as well as the well meaning majority of non-medics feeding in views, after your comment I feel different.
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Why does people believe GPs should work for free just because we are in medical profession? Other then the minority who are in charitable trusts, do they know of any profession as a group work for free?
This isn't discrimination, it's as simple as refusing to do unpaid work. Why don't Dr Carty & Co. give up all their worldly possessions and work for free if that's what he believes.
Augustus Bennett03 Sep 2013 1:34pm
I already provide good quality typed/ not handwritten/ scribbled reports when asked to provide information for ATOS/ DWP etc.
I also sit in front of a computer sometimes until 8-8.30 PM completing the rest of my work. So not much blood left in the stone to suck.
I am also a member of the public who can be sympathetic to those patients who are genuinely in need who sometimes go against my advice by attempting to return to work against medical advice, sometimes losing benefits which they would have been better continuing to claim.
On the other hand I am less sympathetic when I receive a letter from DWP about a patient who is receiving ESA who I haven't seen for 2 years, who isn't on any medication, who I wasn't even aware was on the sick. Or the patient who claims not to be able to bend/ walk etc. who I then see shopping normally in the same Aldi as me.
At the end of the day we all do occasional supporting letters, but in general terms I feel it is generally best to answer the questions on these forms using the information contained in the medical records (or my own knowledge of the patient's case) instead of being spoon fed the "right answers" to questions by third parties such as Citizen's Advice when I am really in no position to be able to verify what I am being asked to say.
I don't think a blanket refusal to provide further information is likely to be appropriate. However also agree with other contributors who correctly point out that these reports aren't a statutory part of our contracted work.
So at the end of the day I will continue to use my common sense in these matters.
"I remember reading the original post which was deluged by the vehement pro-benefit lobby group.That is what happens when you have a freely open discussion forum.Pulse needs to get its act together and tighten up its access policies."
But... the disability campaigners showed themselves to be far better acquainted with the facts than the GPs who were commenting.
It's telling that you would rather debate the issues with uninformed GPs who confirm your false, right-wing biased understanding of the situation than with people who actually know the facts.
Dr Carty's practice website is Leith Mount surgery in Edinburgh, where he seems to be raking it in quite nicely with his inflated private fees! Maybe thats why he feels everyone else should just be working for free! Our private fees for a similar deprived practice are not even a quarter of that!
Snapshot of my morning surgery
9am- Abusive call from bloke who's pissed off he can no longer get his branded viagra on NHS, and thinks the generic stuff is s**t, "he pays his taxes you know"- even though he's never worked a day in his life cause he's got a "bad back". Next patient- wanted letter there and then for his appeal for "depression", he's not been to the surgery for the last 5 years, on no meds and failed to attend his counselling we had ref him to 6 years ago. Next patient shouting dogs abuse because he got taken off his ESA at appeal- again not worked for 20+ years due to drug abuse, but not attending drug services for years and not attended GP for years so we had no medical evidence to give him! So for all the disability rights activists out there- do you get the picture!!! We all know those patients that are genuine and I am sure most of us will go out of our way in our own time to help them, but the rest of this stuff is just making our lives miserable! I am fed up being abused every day. I am a caring GP of 20 years experience, but I've had enough, not young enough to retire but I'm out of here and going abroad!
http://www.leithmountsurgery.co.uk/privatefees.pdf
I cant comment on his charges under competition rules but if I were his patient , I would call Dr.Carty the biggest hypocrite in the world. Given his practice leaflet clearly states they do NOT issues letters for housing matters and then goes on to criticize the LMC and thereby fall afoul on GMC best medical practice and also will have to some bits to fill in the probity section during his appraisal. Of course its possible he may be working for free but he is in a partnership which has these as standard written rules hence should have walked out or amended it before jumping onto the LMC.
Interesting he does not provide letters on housing matters. Could the same arguments not be used for this as well!
Not really. What the GPs on the other continued to point out was that 1) they are not contractually obliged to provide this information and that 2) undertaking this works takes them away from their families or other NHS work that they are contracted to do.
Are you disputing either of these facts?
It's telling that you continue to gloss over these issues and continue your abuse and name calling.
Ildiko Spelt03 Sep 2013 2:27pm
I totally agree with Augustus Bennett's comment, I am in the same situation. It is very hard to write a medical certificate to a young person who never worked and hasn't been in the surgery since very long, is not on any medications, but is on benefits. Unfortunately these cases are very frequent. I am happy to support the genuinely ill patients.
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Celebrating Our 125th!
THE OLD BECOMING NEW AGAIN
Once upon a time….
St. Leo the Great Parish began with immigrants and refugee parishioners . . . and the next generation carries on!
What about the children? What about the language barrier? What about sharing God’s Word with the young ones?
One of the many mission works St. Leo is called upon to do is provide a conduit for education, spiritual formation, and social adjustments for our refugees, immigrants, established parishioners and all the folks in our community.
When our African children began school, they were placed by age. Unfortunately, a 10 year old just learning to read was put into fifth grade. Imagine the confusion and intimidation he experienced. Some of the young Burundians had never even been in school before. Yearning for knowledge, many are already excelling and are like sponges soaking up stimulating information. One of our young ladies after two years in school has completed Great Expectations and deeply appreciates having access to such wonderful books—and there are more she is anxious to read! Most of our youth attend St. Boniface, St. Lawrence, Holy Family, Resurrection, and St. Joseph schools through the insistent determination of our Pastoral Associate to find boundless educational opportunities for them all.
Outside of school, any minority must deal with “being different” amongst their peers. The young Guatemalans and especially our Burundi children and youth have other children make fun of them because they’re from another country. They struggle with nuances in English, both in school and out in public. But when they come to understand our puns and clichés, their laughter is contagious! Nevertheless, they are resilient and clinging together as community keeps them anchored.
A real tension exists because they truly wish to preserve their culture - especially the great respect the community shows to its elders, and to retain their modest and moral upbringing as it was in their home countries. However, maintaining cultural values as opposed to seeing and doing what goes on in the street is a pivotal conflict. Trying to balance these concerns is an ongoing challenge for our youth.
A more delicate matter is the discipline of children in other cultures. Stronger means are permitted elsewhere but in our country, there are laws that protect children from certain corporal punishment. Our immigrant and refugee parents and families have learned the intolerance of such discipline here in the United States and understand their new way of life means a change to their parenting.
Parish involvement provides a pathway to carry on their faith traditions. Especially when it comes to church, it’s the children and youth of our parish who want to do the singing, They are actively involved as servers, musicians, and join their parents in various programs. Most importantly, Children’s Liturgy of the Word unites all our cultures in faith-filled understanding and experience of faith. Currently, thirty to forty children participate every week and the numbers are growing!
The future lies in the children. And it “takes a village” to create the experience of and for a lifetime.
What a village we have! And what a great “next generation” we have at St. Leo!
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Twisted Demo (v1.1) review in Twitching Reality #1
Twisted Helices is Ram Samudrala. He plays guitar, sings, and programs the keyboards, which serve as the entire rhythm section for the songs he writes. He's sick of hearing hundreds of bands all sounding like clones of each other, so he lives up to the twisted part of his band name. I'd say he fulfills this part of his philosophy quite well. On to the review... Side A consists of six songs -- Tick in My Head 1, Noises, Let us Blame God, The Lie, Don't You Believe in Me?, Tick in My Head 2-3, and Lynno and Reeno. Tick in My Head 1 is an instrumental consisting of many interesting sounds. The song sets up a trancey feel in the many of the elements meander around the same 4 or 8 bars over and over. The mix could use some balance as levels tend to overpower each other as elements are introduced. Noises poses the question: "How does one separate the signal from the noise in the real world?" It has a catchy feel with an interesting commentary "Intel inside. Intel inside. Every single one of us... Intel inside" (transposed from the INXS song "Devil Inside") establishing a good supporting atmosphere for the lyrics. However, Ram makes the attempt to incorporate two lead singers with his overdub, interfering with the coherence of the main vocal. There is little straying from the established rhythm, resulting in attention deficit. The catch phrase of Let Us Blame God seems to be "get over it"! It contains a cool shuffle rhythm that immediately draws your attention, but the vocals are drowned in processing leaving you scratching your head trying to figure out the lyrics. Had Ram not included the lyrics on a separate sheet, I'd have no clue. We don't always pay attention to lyrics when we listen to music, granted, but the ideas within his songs deserve some deep thought. Sometimes less is more. The Lie speaks of being in an abusive relationship with the futile hope that things will get better as time passes. Again with this song -- a very catchy intro, but awfully repetitive. Voices are lost in effects, periodically breaking free from the blanket of processing. The guitar loses focus and drifts on and off the beat setting up an uneasy feel. This may of course be a good thing as I found I focused more on the lyrics. Melody of the flutey-reed sound is reduced to a simple progression played in octave leaps. The voice has emotion, but the monotony of the rhythm stifles it. Don't You Believe In Me? comes in strong with a guitar styling similar to that of Johnny Marr (ex of Smiths) blending into a pop-ish rhythm. The drum sequencing has plenty of human feel to it, resulting in a stable level of interest. But we have the same problems with overuse of vocal effects and vocal competition. Voices jut out of the mud for the phrase "Don't you believe in me?" which certainly dramatizes it, but at what cost? It's like watching a commercial with teenagers playing volleyball on the beach and enjoying it all only to have the sponsor come on and mention "2000 flushes" toilet deodorizer. You ask: "Did I miss something?" Okay. Okay. I must sound like I'm putting Ram down, but I'm not. Remember it's a critique. Helpful hints. Ram comes close to getting it right with Tick in My Head 2-3, his satiric tribute to WEEN. This track reminds me of the early twisted phase of Pink Floyd. He's created a neat effect with his voice slightly delayed between the left and right channel that sets up a dark, perhaps demented, feel for the song. TIMH3 introduces a sinister drum rhythm that enhances the whole piece. Watch the levels on your guitar when kicking in with distortion, though. Lynno and Reeno is, again, a catchy tune. Ram cuts loose on this one with plenty of emotion in his voice. He wrote the some "for Lynn and 'reen for Valentine's day". That could only explain the attention given to the overall mix. The only gripe I have is the vocal level getting the best of you again. Other than that...it's a template for a mix to keep as a reference. Side 2 contains alternate mixes of the songs with similar problems, but they get better as the tape progresses.
There are many great ideas but I think you should mix with the audience in mind -- you know what you're saying, but without the lyric sheets, they won't. Maybe have a friend sit in on a mixdown session and see what suggestions come up. Don't be afraid to stray from your original ideas.
Comments: Overall vocal level and clarity could use some attention. Explore the re-mixes and avoid repetitive looping of melodies.
Twitching Reality is published by Mike Lemega (MLemenga@tvo.org).
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