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No chance of talks with India on Kashmir until curfew is lifted: Imran Khan
Agencies New Delhi, Delhi, India Sep 18, 2019, 09.35 PM(IST)
File photo: Imran Khan Photograph:( Reuters )
'There is no chance of talks with India on Kashmir until the curfew is lifted,' Khan said at a ceremony at Pakistan's Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said there is no chance of talks with India and Pakistan on Kashmir until the 'curfew' is lifted.
"There is no chance of talks with India on Kashmir until the curfew is lifted," Khan said at a ceremony at Pakistan's Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan.
However, India has maintained that there is no curfew in Jammu and Kashmir, which became a Union Territory after the abrogation of Article 370.
Even most of the countries have backed India, stating that New Delhi's decision to make changes in Jammu and Kashmir is part of its internal affairs.
Meanwhile, country's External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that India's position on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has always been clear that it is a part of India. India's external affairs minister added that the country expects it will have "jurisdiction" over it one day.
"Our position on PoK has always been and will always be very clear. PoK is part of India and we expect one day that we will have the physical jurisdiction over it," Jaishankar said at a press conference on 100 days of Modi government's second term.
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Ford Wins Auto-Brand Popularity Contest at Edmunds.com
05/06/2014 (press release: CambridgePRGroup) // STONEHAM, Mass. // Stoneham Ford
Popularity may be fleeting when it comes to superlatives in high-school yearbooks, but with vehicle sales, a popular model can have a lasting effect on an automaker’s bottom line. For the millions of car shoppers who visited Edmunds.com last year, no other auto brand had more top-viewed vehicles than Ford, as 10 of the automaker’s models were recently honored in the inaugural Most Popular on Edmunds.com Awards.
The 2014 Most Popular on Edmunds.com Awards were determined by car-shopper consideration during the 2013 calendar year — in other words, the total number of unique monthly visitors that each model attracted to its inventory and research pages on the Edmunds.com desktop site. In addition to traditional brand favorites like the Ford F-150 and Mustang, several of Ford’s cars and SUVs also earned Most Popular Awards by finishing in the top three of their respective segments, including the recently redesigned Ford Escape, Fiesta and Transit Connect van, as well as the Ford Expedition, Explorer, Taurus and Focus.
“Ford’s leadership in the Most Popular Awards shows just how far the brand has come in building a well-rounded lineup that not only appeals to American buyers with capable trucks and SUVs, but also with compacts subcompacts and anything in between,” said John Melkonian, general manager of Stoneham Ford, a Massachusetts Ford dealer. “A decade ago, the folks at Edmunds.com would have probably laughed if someone told them that Ford would be a sales leader in the small-car segments, but the automaker has been focused on developing the efficient-yet-responsive models that modern drivers want. And that push for incredible fuel economy has even rubbed off on its larger vehicles.”
Ford’s smaller cars aren’t just winning over visitors to Edmunds.com, but the site’s staff as well. Six of the automaker’s subcompact, compact and midsize models were recently named Top Rated Cars by the Edmunds Testing Team, standing out among the more than 200 new vehicles that the auto researcher evaluates each year. After showing off their skills on a standardized road-test loop and taking to the Edmunds.com test track for controlled performance evaluations, the 2014 Ford Fiesta, Fiesta ST, Focus, Focus ST, Fusion and Fusion Hybrid all received “A” ratings when compared to competitors in the same price and size segments.
About Stoneham Ford:
Located on Route 28, just 15 minutes north of Boston, Stoneham Ford is a premier new and used Ford dealer in Massachusetts. They offer a wide selection of Ford cars, trucks and SUVs, including the latest Ford hybrid models, and their helpful sales and service staff serves customers with integrity and respect. For more information and to view the current Ford inventory, visit Stoneham Ford online at www.stonehamford.com or in person at 211 Main St. in Stoneham, Massachusetts. They can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MyStonehamFord, and you can reach them by phone at 781-438-0490.
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Home » Frugal Living » Travel » How to Use British Airways Points on U.S. Flights
How to Use British Airways Points on U.S. Flights
By Jason Steele on 31 January 2018 0 comments
British Airways offers more service to the United States than any other European carrier, and its Executive Club frequent flyer program is popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans can easily accumulate Executive Club points, called Avios, by flying British Airways and its partners, or using a credit card that earns Avios or lets you transfer points to British Airways. (See also: 5 Best Credit Cards That Transfer Points to Airline Miles)
The beauty of Avios is that even if you're not interested in going to Europe, you can still find tremendous value in them when you redeem them for flights within the United States that are operated by B.A.'s partners. American Airlines is the biggest partner of British Airways, but you can also use your points for flights operated by Alaska Airlines and its merger partner Virgin America. (See also: How to Get More Value Out of American Airlines Miles)
In fact, it's often preferable to use B.A. miles for travel within the U.S. because when you use Avios for flights to the U.K., you'll face enormous fuel surcharges, despite years of low fuel prices. Furthermore, the British government adds taxes to flights in and out of London, especially when you fly in business or first class. (See also: The Secret to Redeeming Travel Rewards with Airline Partners)
Why these flights are such a great value
While most frequent flyer programs charge flat rates for award flights between certain regions (say, the continental U.S. and Europe), the British Airways program prices its award flights based on the distance flown. This means that shorter flights will require fewer British Airways miles than if you'd used American AAdvantage or Alaska MileagePlan miles. (See also: Best Airline Rewards Programs for Trips to Europe)
For example, flights of less than 1,151 miles each way are just 7,500 Avios points. This includes city pairs such as Miami to New York and Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada. In fact, the distance-based chart means that you can travel to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for the same number of points as trips within the United States of the same distance. For example, an award flight from Dallas to Cancun is only 7,500 Avios points, while the same flight will cost 12,500 American Airlines miles.
Award flights from 1,152 miles to 2,000 miles will cost 10,000 Avios each way, while flights from 2,001 to 3,000 miles will cost 12,500 Avios, the same number of miles that American charges for all of its domestic flights within the contiguous 48 states. Yet the Hawaiian islands are within 3,000 miles of many west coast cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, and Seattle. Therefore, these flights require fewer Avios points than American or Alaska miles. In contrast, American charges 20,000 miles each way for flights to Hawaii, albeit from anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. So a round-trip ticket from L.A. to Honolulu would cost 25,000 Avios, but 40,000 AAdvantage miles.
Just be aware that British Airways will charge for each leg of your itinerary. So if you have two connecting flights, each between 1,152 and 2000 miles, you will pay 20,000 miles each way. The only exception is if the flights both use the same flight number. Then you are only charged the distance you fly as if it's one flight. (See also: How to Maximize Airline Mileage Redemptions)
Searching for award seats
In theory, you can use the British Airways website to search for available award seats on American, Alaska, or Virgin America. But in practice, the British Airways website is not a very good search tool. Too often, it fails to display all available flights and it fails to combine existing flights into connecting opportunities.
Instead, award travel enthusiasts commonly use the American Airlines website, which will show the same award seats that the British Airways site is supposed to. All you have to do is look for the "SAAver Award" seats, and you can be assured that the flights will be available with your British Airways Avios points. Note that you cannot buy AAnytime seats with Avios.
Booking what you find
Once you find the award seats on American, you can try to login to the British Airways system and search for the flights. Most of the time, you will find them and you can book them online. But if not, then you will have to call British Airways to book the flights. And if your itinerary includes flights on Alaska or Virgin America, then you will always have to call British Airways to book your award. You may be charged a $25 telephone booking fee, but you should request that fee be waived since you were unable to make the booking online. (See also: 5 Steps to Picking the Airline Credit Card With the Best Rewards Value)
Finally, you should always ask for your Alaska, Virgin America, or American Airlines record locator number, which will be different from the British Airways number. You can then use your Alaska, Virgin, or American Airlines record locator number to confirm your flights on those websites, select seats, and check in.
British Airways Avios points can be a great tool for booking flights on American, Alaska, or Virgin America. By understanding how to redeem these points for the most value, you can find yourself traveling farther on your rewards than you might have thought possible.
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Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
It's the most magical vacation destination in the world. Imagine four fantastic Disney Theme Parks, two incredible Water Parks, two exciting night-time entertainment districts, and a state-of-the-art sports complex. Add in countless opportunities for dining, shopping, recreation, and relaxation, and it's easy to see why Walt Disney World is the number one vacation destination in the world.
Wonder and fantasy await in six enchanted lands with over 40 magical attractions, filled with exciting adventures and fairy tale classics. It's the one — and only — place where once upon a time is now, and make-believe is as real as today. Come experience the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom history! Enjoy new attractions and interact with characters in ways you never thought possible in New Fantasyland.
At Epcot, high-tech fun and Disney imagination are combined with the wonder of diverse cultures in two distinct worlds, Future World and World Showcase. Both are bursting with thrills and excitement.
Disney's Animal KingdomTheme Park
The fun gets wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. Explore the realm of creatures that inhabit our world...and our imagination...and create your own adventure for an experience that roars with excitement. It's a wildly playful adventure like no other. And it's yours to live. Come and explore Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park.
Lights... camera... and the stage is set for plenty of action! The glitz and glamour of Hollywood take centre stage at Disney's Hollywood Studios. But the star is you! With so much to see and do, you just may need an encore! Go ahead and raise the curtain at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
Go against the tide at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon, the Water Park that blows other water parks away. 'Cause after the storm of storms blew through, it left this tropical paradise full of twisting slides, roaring rapids and the largest inland wave pool around in its wake! Come thrill out on a twisting, turning, water coaster, chill out on the beach, visit a shark reef, or cruise a creek. At least to start out with! You'll also find slides, rides and bubbling jets for the little ones at Ketchakiddee Creek.
Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park
Plunge into the absolute coolest water park that pummels the pools for awesome fun in a fantastic setting. Legend has it that the snow-capped mountain world of Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park was built as a ski resort. Now it's considered today's coolest water park. Experience "black diamond" –intensity thrills like the 120 –foot-tall Summit Plummet water slide. Kids will love the "bunny slope" –level areas just for them. Plus, the whole gang can share the relaxation of tube floats and the fun of family fluming together.
Welcome to Disney Springs. Come savor the day as you enter this eclectic mix of unique boutiques, one-of-a-kind eateries and jaw-dropping entertainment.
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Destination basics
The winter months are delightful for visitors to Central Florida, with some of the balmiest weather in the U.S. from November until May, when temperatures range from 21 C to 31 C, with little rainfall.
In December and January, the thermometer may drop to freezing overnight, but that’s rare for these parts. In June, temperatures heat up and by July, the high humidity arrives. The summer heat eases in October.
Pack a poncho or umbrella in the summertime and a light jacket in the winter months. And always wear sunscreen, even on cloudy days.
Many Orlando residents hail from other states and countries, so you hear plenty of accents, twangs and drawls. You’ll also hear Spanish, Creole, French and Portuguese.
Years before it officially became a city in 1885, Orlando was home to small groups of Native Americans. After the Second and Third Seminole Wars, European settlers established cattle ranches and the citrus industry followed soon after. Today, Orlando is known as a major centre for both tourism and the high-tech industry, attracting residents from around the world.
Just north of Orlando, the nation’s first entirely African American town, Eatonville, was the home of celebrated author Zora Neale Hurston. Each winter, locals stage the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, headlined by celebrities like poet laureate Maya Angelou.
Orlando’s ethnic communities include an Asian population near downtown teeming with busy Thai and Vietnamese restaurants, markets and tailor shops. Farther east, Cuban, Puerto Rican and other Hispanic and Latin specialty stores and bakeries offer a variety of treats. Even if you’re not venturing far from popular tourist sites, you can discover authentic eateries offering tastes of Turkey, Greece, India and Lebanon as well. Of course, you won’t have trouble finding fresh seafood or good Southern barbecue and soul food.
Close to Eatonville, historic Winter Park oozes with a picturesque, cultural vibe. A haven for wealthy northerners seeking to escape harsh winters in the early 1900s, the city remains a charming diversion. Its 60-year-old Scenic Boat Tour Company offer trips on board a pontoon boat along Lake Osceola, cruising through narrow canals built for 19th-century loggers. The captain may tell stories about the fancy lakefront estates spotted along the way and point out sleek cranes, herons and anhingas (also known as snakebirds) diving for fish.
Other Winter Park and Orlando art museums showcase everything from folk art to Native American artifacts. The Orlando community also boasts great live theatre, ballet, symphony and chorus groups.
Orlando treasures its ties to the land and the lakes that support local tourism. Central Florida fish camps serve up large helpings of fried catfish and southern specialties. Boat captains in Orlando and Kissimmee help eager tourists catch trophy-sized bigmouth bass. Kissimmee’s Lake Tohopekaliga (known to locals as “Toho”) flows into the Kissimmee River and then onto Lake Okeechobee and the Florida Everglades. It is a treasure trove of creatures including osprey, eagles, snowy egrets, blue herons, wood storks, turtles and alligators.
When visiting Orlando, you’ll want to have some U.S. funds for general expenses and transit. For entertainment and shopping, your credit card will give you the exchange rate at the time of purchase. There are also numerous ATMs inside banks and public spaces where you can withdraw funds at your convenience. Just be aware that transaction fees vary by ATM.
Metropolitan Orlando is sandwiched between the breezy Atlantic and peaceful Gulf coasts of Florida – about 240 km south of the Georgia border and 600 km north of the Florida Keys.
The city and surrounding areas sparkle with 1,200 lakes, swamps and freshwater springs dotting the mostly flat terrain. The wet habitats are home to thriving wildlife made up of alligators, turtles, herons, cranes and hundreds of other species.
If you want a feel for “Old Florida,” you can paddle a kayak or canoe along cypress- and oak-lined waterways. Or charter a fishing boat for some of the best bass fishing in the state. Adventurers won’t be able to resist an airboat ride with a practiced pilot. The boats cover wide areas of wetland while showing off impressive gators, wading birds and water snakes.
The subtropical climate is also friendly to a wide range of plants and flowers—grandfather oaks draped with Spanish moss, palm fronds rustling in evening breezes and bright bougainvillea vines that add colour to the landscape. Long before Walt Disney introduced the tourism industry, citrus was king here. Today, you can still inhale the sweet scent of orange blossoms in outlying areas and nosh on juicy honeybells in the winter. Though cattle ranching has declined over the years, herds of cows still roam rural Kissimmee and other Central Florida outposts.
If you’re looking to get out to the beach, Orlando is less than an hour’s drive (about 80 km) from popular Daytona Beach, Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach on the Atlantic. To the west, the drive is about 120 km to the more peaceful beach areas of Clearwater and St. Petersburg.
In Orlando, scheduled shuttles run between most hotels and attractions which make it easy to travel to Disney World and Universal. Check your hotel description to see if your hotel offers a free shuttle to the parks you’re looking to visit. For transportation service from the airport to all of our partner hotels, Mears transportation service is available and can be pre-booked with WestJet Vacations.
Renting a car provides an enhanced sense of flexibility and is ideal for younger families, shoppers and golfers looking to get around the city. Renting will also allow you to discover other areas of Orlando, outside of the major attraction and resort areas. In addition, when staying in villa and vacation home rentals which don’t offer shuttle services, you’ll need a car. When booking a car with WestJet Vacations, all rentals can be picked up at the airport.
If you’re planning to rent, expect parking costs around CAD$10 to CAD$12 per day (Disney resort guests receive free parking within the Disney theme parks). You’ll also need to pay for any tolls you cross on toll roads—so be sure to carry some U.S. change.
You’ll know you’re flying into Orlando International Airport when you see a vast spread of palm trees growing among large terminal buildings and parking lots.
Orlando’s airport has multiple terminals, all conveniently accessible via tram. You’ll also see plenty of helpful signs directing you to gates, baggage claim and arrival areas.
If you’ve booked a hotel transfer with WestJet Vacations, you’ll want to proceed to the arrival zone after passing through immigration. There, look for a Mears Transportation representative holding a WestJet Vacations sign. Identify yourself as a WestJet guest and hop into the shuttle waiting to take you to your destination. Welcome to the magical city of Orlando!
Upon departure, friendly WestJet staff will be ready to assist you at the WestJet check-in counters, located in section A of the main terminal (next to the Southwest counters). Our counters open three hours prior to departure and close 15 minutes after departure time. Guests can check in and select their seats ahead of time by using the convenient WestJet Web check-in service.
Once through security, you’ll head to the gate indicated on your ticket. WestJet regularly flies out of Gates 1 to 29 and 100 to 129 in Orlando.
If you have some time to walk around before your flight, you’ll love the wide variety of places to get food and duty free goodies before your trip home.
What makes it different?
Orlando is known for family fun - a fantasyland of theme parks, roller coasters and waterslides. But while Central Florida’s roots reach back to the days of cowboys and Native Americans, its reputation as a world-class tourist destination is relatively new.
The two world-class theme parks along Interstate 4 – Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando – set Central Florida apart. Nearly 50 million tourists a year make this city the most-visited destination in the country.
But with its lakes for water skiing and wakeboarding, rivers for fishing, crystal-clear springs for swimming, snorkelling and diving, there’s also plenty of ways to enjoy this region’s natural beauty. You can hang-glide, skydive, horseback ride or take a thrilling trip on an airboat.
Orlando has plenty of restaurants known for quick, convenient meals, but it also offers a wealth of gourmet experiences. The area has three master sommeliers, while Disney’s Epcot theme park offers a one-of-a-kind experience where you can sip, snack and stroll your way around the globe with pavilions featuring 11 different countries.
Central Florida is also home to a permanent show by Cirque du Soleil, the world’s largest Hard Rock Café and the world’s largest collection of Tiffany stained glass.
For sports fans, the Amway Arena in downtown Orlando is home to the NBA’s Orlando Magic, while Disney’s Wide World of Sports hosts spring training for Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves. Orlando is also a golfer’s dream, with courses here hosting more professional tournaments than any other U.S. city. If it’s hockey your after, a short two-hour drive to nearby Tampa Bay, Florida can get you to an NHL game with the Tampa Lightning.
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Swimming Upstream
Walmart wasn't built on conventional wisdom. It was built on an entirely new strategy for growing a retail company.
By the end of the 1960s, Walmart had a core management team and a dynamic plan for growth. In 1968, Sam attended an IBM computer class for executives to learn how to use this new technology in operating his business. The next year, Walmart purchased its first computer system to track sales and inventories. What’s selling? What’s not? What needs to be ordered, marked down, replaced? Sam also hired a full-time pilot to help scout locations for new stores and for distribution centers to keep the stores supplied. Walmart’s retail operations were up and running, ready to support an expanding network of stores.
Premiere issue of Wal-Mart World, January 1971.
Since then, the in-house magazine has reported stories important to associates, announcing their many accomplishments and initiatives.
The Discount Merchandiser magazine article on Sam and Walmart's rural approach to retail.
The first interoffice electronic message via teletype wireless exchange (TWX), sent from Walmart Store #1 in Rogers, Arkansas, to the Home Office, in nearby Bentonville.
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The Columbia Daily Tribune on Sam and Bud's visit to their birthplace to celebrate the opening of Store #163. In the article, Sam speculated that Walmart might "never catch up" to other retailers.
We started out swimming upstream, and it’s made us strong and lean and alert. … We sure don’t see any reason now to turn around and join the rest of the pack headed down current.
Sam's first plane, an Ercoupe Model 415-C. "I loved that little airplane," Sam recalled. "It would go 100 miles an hour."
An IBM data-processing computer at the Bentonville Home Office, 1972.
Sam always carried a small tape recorder or legal pad to keep track of ideas and inspirations that came up in his conversations with associates.
Weekly sales report for Walmart and Ben Franklin stores combined, December 31, 1966. Comments list the best-selling items for the week.
Letters between Sam and Rosemary Hager, a customer, regarding a discrepancy in price she found at two Walmart locations.
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This Wilson tennis racket, obviously crushed by a heavy weight, came back with this explanation: "Customer could not serve well with it."
This outdoor thermometer was returned to a Walmart store when the customer complained, "It never had the correct time."
According to the defective-merchandise slip, this pencil sharpener was returned because it "doesn't sharpen any ink pens."
The customer who returned this hand mixer believed it was "possessed."
"Fishing rod torn—will not catch," complained the customer who brought it back. Walmart accepted the return.
Defective-merchandise slip for this toy set cites the reason for its return as "fishing pole didn't work—no fish."
This Stanley® vacuum bottle was made in 1954, eight years before the first Walmart opened. The customer returned it in 1983, claiming, "It leaks." The customer is always right: it did leak!
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Preserving Kenya's Masai Mara
The Masai Mara offers some of the world’s best wildlife experiences – but for how long? Will human over-population destroy Kenya’s flagship reserve? Graham Boynton investigates
Our Land Rover crested the hill and there before us were plains full of animals: elephants, wildebeest, zebras, Thomson’s gazelle, a herd of some 30 giraffe – the most I had ever seen in one place. The morning sun had turned the plains rich gold and the sky was the deepest blue. This was Africa’s most iconic wilderness. The Masai Mara at its finest.
My companion and driver was Gerard Beaton, owner of several camps in the Mara and the son of Ron Beaton, one of the guiding lights of the movement to save this incredible patch of wild Africa. We had just driven from the Mara’s south-east corner, having spent the night with Calvin Cottar, another significant player in the salvation of the Mara, at his luxurious tented camp.
We had debated, argued, wrestled over the fate of this special part of Africa
The previous night, in the company of a roomful of like-minded Kenyan conservationists and safari operators, we had debated, argued, wrestled over the fate of this special part of Africa. This wasn’t just dinner table chitchat – the Mara is at a precarious point in its history and the next decade will determine whether it continues as a pristine wilderness, a haven of biodiversity in a rapidly overpopulating Africa, or collapses under the weight of human demands.
On this morning drive I’d insisted that Gerard show me the other side of the Mara, the dark side of human inhabitants encroaching, littering and generally messing up the wilderness. So we drove through a place called Talek, a settlement of between 3,000 and 4,000 people that is growing in the higgledy-piggledy manner of so much of Africa’s human gathering places.
Gerard had appeared somewhat reluctant. He wanted to show me his remote, pristine safari camp, which represents all the good things about the Mara, rather than this dishevelled shanty town that is wedged between the game reserve and the group of wildlife conservancies that are Beaton’s pride and joy.
“You really want to see Talek?” he’d asked, genuinely perplexed. “It isn’t somewhere we normally take visitors.”
Competition for land is one of the region’s biggest problems as population growth in Maasailand is 17% a year, among the fastest in the country. So, I needed to see this collection of squat, ugly concrete buildings, tin shacks and ragged trading stores because if the current attempts to rehabilitate the Mara don’t work, this is its fate.
Conservation nation?
The Masai Mara wilderness is made up of a 1,510 sq km National Reserve and a cluster of Maasai-owned group ranches, many of which now function as privately run wildlife conservancies. These conservancies started emerging around ten years ago and were the brainchild of several white Kenyans, among them Gerard’s father Ron and Jake Grieves-Cook, a former chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board.
They managed to persuade Maasai landowners to set aside large sectors of their land for wildlife, thus agreeing not to live on that land and only graze their cattle there at restricted times. In exchange they receive a monthly rent that is agreed, whatever the number of tourists.
Jake Grieves-Cook says the conservancies have achieved three things: “They’ve added protected habitats right next to the reserve so wildlife numbers have increased, they allow the Maasai landowners to derive real benefits for setting aside land for wildlife conservation, and they give a more rewarding safari experience to visitors who can see wildlife without minibuses.”
In many parts of the Mara, wagon trains of white minibuses emerge from 200-bed hotels like rush hour
Tourism overcrowding has increasingly become a major problem in the Mara; due to corruption, companies have been allowed to build lodges and hotels within the reserve and along its borders. In many parts of the Mara, wagon trains of white minibuses emerge from 200-bed hotels like rush hour at Piccadilly Circus, making the wildlife experience overwhelmingly unpleasant.
One of the many positive aspects of the conservancy model has been to reduce the numbers dramatically. In and around the reserve there are now an estimated 7,000 tourist beds, double the number there were a decade ago, while in the conservancies there are between 500 and 600 beds. The conservancy formula is one tent/two beds for every 700 acres.
The overcrowding horror show is at its worst during the annual wildebeest migration, which sees a massive movement of wildebeest, zebras and accompanying ungulates from the neighbouring Serengeti reserve in Tanzania to the sweet red-oat grasslands of the Mara plains.
It has been dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World but, although the famed wildebeest Mara River crossings do represent an extraordinary wildlife spectacle, the experience is largely ruined by the presence of hundreds of tourists in minibuses jostling for space, yelling, crying and generally behaving like cartoon versions of homo sapiens. For these reasons the Mara is both loved and loathed – loved because of the sheer exuberance of the wildlife experience and loathed because of the crowds.
There is now, however, a concerted move to rehabilitate the greater Mara ecosystem. The emergence of the conservancies, driven by the tourism industry’s private sector, is a big part of this, but there has even been progress at government level to reform what has essentially been decades of corrupt administration practices.
A new constitution and elections saw the appointment of a new governor, Samuel Tanui, who has promised to cap the number of vehicles in the reserve, stop hotel development and work closer with the conservancies.
The war on tourism
Half an hour after our visit to Talek we arrived at Beaton’s camp. Naboisho is set in a 200 sq km conservancy of the same name. Although the nine tents are large and luxurious, they are so discreetly placed that from a distance you would not know a fully functioning safari camp operates here.
Unlike the giant camps both inside the reserve and running along its eastern border, camps such as Naboisho not only perform an important community-relations function but also provide safari-goers with a much more authentic bush experience.
This was affirmed within hours of my arrival as I found myself walking almost beside the zebras and wildebeest grazing around the campsite. I then heard tell of an incident, just two days earlier, when a lioness chased a topi through the mess tent area as guests eating their dinner looked on in amazement. “That,” Gerard noted, “is a wildlife experience they’ll remember for the rest of their days.”
Naboisho and the other four camps in this conservancy pay the Maasai landowners more than US$1 million a year, whether they have tourists or not. Right now, the camp was quite full, with eight of the nine tents occupied, and there was a reasonable occupancy for July and August, peak season for the Mara; however, after that the numbers diminish rather dramatically.
“We’ve had cancellations,” said Gerard, “and we are now beginning to think that tourism alone is not going to support these ecosystems.”
Since the terrorist attack at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall in September 2013, in which 67 people were killed, the international tourist cancellations have gathered momentum. Several terrorist attacks on the Kenyan coast in 2014, followed by US State Department and British Foreign & Commonwealth Office warnings, and the decision by two British tour operators to pull their customers out of the country, have resulted in a serious downturn.
Tourism contributes a billion dollars a year to Kenya’s economy so it simply cannot afford an international tourist stay-away. Most importantly, wilderness areas such as this depend for their very survival on the presence of international tourists. As Gerard said, this situation needs sorting out immediately.
After taking an outdoor shower – and there is nothing quite as authentic as a bucket shower in a bush camp – I resumed my wanderings around Naboisho. This is a beautiful, unspoiled wilderness, an ecosystem of wide-open plains, acacia woodlands, gorges and ridges. It is big sky country.
After scattering a few feeding zebras I ran into the camp’s manager-cum-walking guide Roelof Schutte, a South African who was worked in the bush in his home country, and then Zambia and Tanzania before arriving in the Mara. He told me that this is the richest ecosystem he has worked in. “This is a great walking area,” he said.
“We walk to places where there are no roads, no vehicles, no people. You are alone with the wild animals. There are few places in Africa where the wildlife viewing and interaction with nature is as easy and immediate as it is here.”
Naboisho offers its guests the opportunity to spend a day walking with Roelof, and then to fly-camp afterwards. At a time when luxury lodges with hot-and-cold running water, flush toilets and Wi-Fi connectivity are becoming the norm, this return to the traditional pleasures of safari life is particularly pleasing.
Wildlife guides such as Roelof are key to getting the most benefits out of your time in the bush. It is the unpredictability of nature that makes an African safari such a compelling event for regimented, pressured, clock-watching Westerners, and the best guides are the ones who manage to persuade those Westerners to fall in with the rhythm of nature. Guiding is another aspect of the Mara that has been improving significantly over the past decade. And again, Gerard Beaton’s family has played a significant part.
Ten years ago most Mara wildlife guides barely knew the difference between a Thomson’s gazelle and a kudu and were little more than vehicle operators. Then Ron Beaton built the Koiyaki Guiding School, near Naboisho camp, and everything changed. With the help of people such as Jackson Ole Looseyia, Gerard Beaton’s friend and business partner and one of the Mara’s most famous guides, young Maasai were taught the subtle arts of wildlife guiding. More than 200 guides have graduated from the school and most are now guiding in the Masai Mara.
A good guide will will encourage you to get away from the ‘Big Five’ mentality
According to Jackson this has had a profound effect on visitors’ experiences in the Mara. He told me that bad guiding has been a major contributor to the overcrowding that has given this wilderness a bad name. “A good guide,” he said, “ will plan the day to avoid the crowds, leaving earlier and moving off sites when other vehicles arrive. He will encourage you to get away from the ‘big five’ mentality and go and look at birds and smell the flowers.”
At the end of my week in the Mara I found myself standing in the morning sunshine at Ol Seki airstrip waiting for the Cessna Caravan to pick me up and return me to the general chaos that is modern Nairobi. I could see a herd of elephants on the distant horizon and was reminded of Karen Blixen’s line about elephants crossing the plains ‘as if they have an appointment at the end of the earth’.
There is nowhere in Africa like the Mara. And the glimmers of reform, rehabilitation and progress offer real hope for its future. I couldn’t wait to return.
The author travelled with the Ultimate Travel Company, which can tailor-make trips to the Masai Mara.
Main image: Cheetahs in Masai Mara, Kenya (Shutterstock)
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#6 Shoremen's Late Dominance Powers 16-12 Win at Dickinson
Washington College (11-1, 6-0) 3 2 3 8 16
Dickinson (6-6, 3-2) 3 5 3 1 12
G: Chris Menard - 4
A: Brian Gleason - 2
Sv: Nick Baxter - 10
GB: Carter Moore - 11
G: Stephen Luck - 4
A: Hunter Nowicki - 3
Sv: Ted DiSalvo - 11
GB: Michael Trapp - 9
Shoremen End Game on 11-2 Run to Clinch Conference Tournament Berth
CARLISLE, Pa. -- Sixth-ranked Washington College rallied from a 10-5 third-quarter deficit by ending the game on an 11-2 run to defeat host Dickinson College, 16-12, in a Centennial Conference men's lacrosse game this afternoon on Biddle Field. The Shoremen, who scored eight of the fourth quarter's nine goals, clinched a spot in the four-team Centennial Conference Tournament by improving to 6-0 in conference play and 11-1 overall with the win. The loss dropped the Red Devils to 6-6 and 3-2.
Washington actually held a 5-3 lead early in the second quarter before Dickinson ended the first half with five straight goals to take an 8-5 lead on a Tyler Llewellyn tally off a Tyler White assist with 18 seconds to go before the intermission. Dickinson's lead grew to five when Chase Phillips scored and Chris Menard found the back of the net off a pass from Rob Kendall with 12:02 and 8:17 remaining in the third quarter, respectively. Washington scored the next three goals to pull within two at 10-8 on a goal by senior midfielder Hunter Nowicki (Baltimore, Md./Franklin) with 5:16 to play in the third. Brian Gleason answered for the Red Devils with an extra-man goal with 2:08 to go in the third to give Dickinson an 11-8 advantage heading into the final quarter.
The Shoremen's fourth-quarter barrage began with a goal by junior attackman Sam Birnbaum (Melville, N.Y./Half Hollows Hills East) scored just 53 seconds into the period. After junior midfielder Michael Trapp (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) scored off the face-off 12 seconds later to cut the lead to a goal, Dickinson temporarily stopped the beldding with a Kendall goal off an assists from Gleason with 9:57 to play to set the score at 12-10. Junior midfielder Grant Hughes (Alexandria, Va./St. Stephen's & St. Agnes) scored an extra-man goal for Washington 23 seconds later and junior attackman Stephen Luck (Catonsville, Md./Boys' Latin) scored off a feed from senior midfielder Kodie Englehart (Coronado, Calif./Coronado) with 7:57 to go to even the count at 12 goals each. Luck then scored what would prove to be the game-winner off a Hughes feed with 5:29 left, but the Shoremen kept pouring it on. Senior attackman Jim Cusick (Fallston, Md./Calvert Hall) scored an extra-man goal with 3:05 left, Luck scored again with 1:42 to play, and Nowicki added the 16th and final goal of the afternoon for the Shoremen with just 30 seconds left. Washington's eight fourth-quarter goals came on just 12 shots in the period.
Luck paced the Shoremen with four goals on the afternoon while senior attackman JD Campbell (Baltimore, Md./Mount St. Joseph) and Cusick tallied three goals each. Nowicki added two goals and three assists, while Hughes chipped in two goals and one assist. Senior goalie Ted DiSalvo (Boca Raton, Fla./Spanish River) made 11 saves in the win.
Menard led the Red Devils with four goals, while Llewellyn added three and Gleason wound up with one goal and two assists. Nick Baxter made 10 saves in the game for Dickinson.
The Shoremen held a 53-36 advantage in shots in the game.
The Shoremen return to action one week from today with a 1:00 p.m. Centennial Conference home game against Gettysburg.
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State GOP spokeswoman criticizes Tom Wolf's role in Rendell administration
But the former state revenue secretary and Democratic candidate for governor been more directly critical of...
State GOP spokeswoman criticizes Tom Wolf's role in Rendell administration But the former state revenue secretary and Democratic candidate for governor been more directly critical of... Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/blogs/ydr-politics/2013/08/15/state-gop-spokeswoman-criticizes-tom-wolfs-role-in-rendell-administration/31636417/
YorkDailyRecord Published 5:32 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2013
Most of Tom Wolf's remarks at his York campaign office opening Tuesday focused on his personal background.
But the former state revenue secretary and Democratic candidate for governor been more directly critical of Republican Gov. Tom Corbett at other times. Here's what Wolf said in an Aug. 12 website post about the possibility of Philadelphia schools not opening on the first day of classes:
"Governor Corbett's funding cuts have removed more than 18,000 teachers from the classroom, caused 70% of school districts to increase class sizes, and have forced communities all across the state to raise property taxes. "And now Pennsylvania's largest school system may have to shut its doors."
Here's what Valerie Caras, a spokesman for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, had to say about Wolf this week:
“Tom Wolf was part of the disastrous Rendell administration that gave Pennsylvania $4.2 billion dollar budget deficit and double-digit unemployment. While Tom Wolf and Ed Rendell failed, Governor Corbett has succeeded in balancing three on-time budgets with no new taxes and creating over 130,000 private sector jobs.”
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Surprise! Pa. primary might actually matter
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There are many exciting ways to spend a family day out in the Borders. We have highlighted a number of activities and places to visit from A Deer Park to Local Glass Works and adventure playgrounds.
The Scottish Borders are also full of interesting historic buildings and places to visit.
Bowhill House & Country Park
This is the Scottish borders home of the Duke of Buccleuch, with a magnificent collection of paintings, furniture, silver porcelain and tapestries. There is also a restored Victorian kitchen and small theatre. Waymarked trails through the Country Park with ranger led walks and activities available. Award winning education service along with an excellent tearoom, shop, visitors Centre and for the children a very exciting adventure woodland play park.
Jed Forest Deer and Farm Park
A typical Scottish Borders working farm with the addition of a visitor attraction with rare breeds of sheep,goats and other livestock with the addition of large herds of deer. Colour coded walks, Ranger-led activities and walks for all ages ranging from mini beast hunts, pond dipping and deer walks. Tractor rides with full commentary during warm months.
With daily displays of the birds of prey including the large European eagle owl to tiny barn owls, falcons, buzzards and hawks.
Indoor and outdoor play areas with small tractor course, and many puzzles for the kids including 'Daisy' the fool proof cow! A large barn with hands-on activities and a Picnic and BBQ area where the kids can feed the kids(goats).
With a good-sized Café serving wholesome food and shop selling countryside souvenirs as well as venison.The park is only 5 miles south of Jedburgh off A68 main Edinburgh to Newcastle road through the Scottish Borders.
Kielder Water
Hidden away at the top of Northumberland, close to the Scottish Border and Hadrian's Wall, beautiful Kielder Water is the largest man-made lake in Europe. Kielder Forest, one of Britain's biggest nature resorts, is home to red squirrels, deer and many rare birds.
The lake fringes and forest glades can best be explored by walking, cycling or on horseback, and there are many self-guided trails.There are many leisure pursuits, including fishing, boating, riding and water sports.
Kielder is the largest forest in England and one of the largest man-made forests in Europe with over 150 million trees.
Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre
This Centre offers events, exhibitions and relaxing countryside walks for all the family and has the biggest and best children’s play park in the Borders.
The Centre is open from April to October daily from 10am to 5pm and has a Gift Shop, Tearoom and Tourist Information
Whats even better is its free and easy to get to by car, just off the A68, near Ancrum, between St Boswells and the turn off for Hawick
Drumlanrig's Tower Visitor Centre in Hawick
Built as a Peel Tower House and home of the Douglas family, and later the home of Anne, Duchess of Monmouth, and still later the Tower Hotel, the premises now house exhibits showing the history of Hawick and the Tower through the ages.
The Tower is open to visitors from April to October.
The visitor centre is currently home to the exhibition commemorating the late Steve Hislop with the former British Superbike Champion’s race bikes and trophies and leathers all on display.
The local Motorcycle legend was tragically killed in a helicopter crash in 2003.
Steve who came from Bonchester Bridge nr Hawick was a legend in the Motor Cycle racing world, winning the Isle of Man T.T. on several occasions along with the British Superbike Championship.
The Exhibition is proving to be a Mecca for bikers from all over the world as can be seen by the large numbers of motorcycles that are parked outside the tower.
This exhibition is well worth a visit even if you are not a motorcycle fan.
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Everybody's limit is different. - by Philip Ellis
Being in a relationship often means opening up your worldview and trying new things with your partner—including in the bedroom. This can often be exciting and life-changing, but we all have our limits. In a Reddit thread, people are sharing the lines they absolutely refused to cross in their sex lives with former partners.
A deal-breaker which many female commenters brought up was non-reciprocity, or "when their ideas about women's pleasure are the same as DJ Khalid's." Expecting oral sex from your partner while refusing to reciprocate is pretty unfair, and feeds into an outdated narrative about heterosexual sex where the needs of the male partner are prioritised over those of the woman.
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For many, discovering that their partner had a very specific kink proved difficult, especially when their fantasies hinged on violation of consent. "My ex was into rape s**t but never told me," one post said. "She would push me away when I grabbed her and wanted me to figure it out. It was an instant turn off and was still annoying once she told me because it was impossible to tell when she was serious or not." Commenters were quick to respond to this, explaining why safe words are important in role-play scenarios where the word "no" can be sometimes interpreted as part of the fun. "My girlfriend is into rape fantasies, fantasy being the keyword," wrote one commenter. "It's about being consensually forceful... we have a safe word for this."
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In one extreme case, a post recalls how they were asked by their ex-girlfriend, who had been abused in early childhood, to engage with role-play in which she was a child and he was an adult molesting her: "It's not that I was judgmental about that, I can understand how that could be healing to re-enact that in a situation where she was actually in control, but it was way outside the boundaries of what I was comfortable with. I said no and our relationship went to shit immediately after that."
Communication about what a person is and isn't into was frequently brought up. One commenter expressed their frustration that some people don't seem to understand that what works in one relationship doesn't necessarily carry over into another. "What your last partner did is not a blueprint for what your current partner should do or would like," they said. "You have to take time to get to know each person's likes, limits, and respective sex drives." Communication about turn-ons and turn-offs is key; another commenter recalled dating somebody who "took offence at every single suggestion as if it were a demand... If we can't communicate without the fear of pissing you off how are we supposed to know what we like or don't like?"
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Similarly, a number of commenters said that they'd appreciate more openness from their partners when they don't want to have sex. "My partner gets mad at me if I don't want to have sex," one man wrote, "she accuses me of cheating, or being gay, or thinking she's ugly because men are supposed to always want it." This works both ways: "I've been on the other side of this in the past," wrote a female commenter, "feeling unattractive because a guy doesn’t want sex because of sexist stereotypes that have been ingrained in me."
While for others, their objections were rooted in basic hygiene. One comment offered up sage advice which all readers can act on: "Wash your ass!"
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Catcalling Wildcats: How Street Harassment Affects our Female Runners
Quynn Lubs, Staff Writer|February 11, 2019
43 percent of women have been harassed while going on their morning or night time runs. This number — from a CNN survey — startled plenty of male readers, but women across the country were surprised that the number wasn’t higher.
One of the most terrifying cases of female runner harassment occurred in July of 2018. Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student at the University of Iowa, was on her nighttime jog when 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera began following her in his car. Eventually, he parked and began jogging alongside Tibbetts. When Tibbetts threatened to call the police, Rivera got violent. According to charging documents, Rivera then “blocked his memory,” which is “what he does when he gets angry.” Tibbetts was missing for five weeks until Rivera brought police to where he had left her body.
The murder of Mollie Tibbetts raised concerns involving the safety of female runners. As long as men cannot take no for an answer, women are in danger.
54 percent of women have felt afraid while on their runs or preparing to leave their houses. “What if something were to happen to me?” This thought should not cross the mind of someone simply trying to get their daily exercise in.
Here at West Ranch High School, the track team runs through Santa Clarita every single day — from 4-7 p.m. on weekdays and at 7 a.m. on weekends. According to Malone Erickson, a junior, members of the girl’s track team have been catcalled.
Erickson told The Paw Print, “One time in particular, it was a Sunday and we were on a long run. Some guys in a car were turning across the street from where we were and they slowed down, rolled down their windows, honked their horns, called out something I can’t remember, and whistled. Then they just drove away.”
At the end of the interview, Erickson said, “This rarely happens. I would say probably two to three times a month.”
Catcalling should never happen. Two to three times a month does not seem “rare,” but women are so used to constant harassment that this number seems like nothing. Teenage girls have been exposed to so much catcalling in their everyday lives that it seems like a normality. It’s been happening so much and for so long that it is swept under the rug, regarded as something that cannot be avoided.
Sarah Soltani, the track and field coach here at West Ranch High School, told The Paw Print about the team’s experience with catcalling: “For instance, I train the distance runners. We have to go on runs out onto the streets because they go for miles on end. Usually the girls get catcalled by people driving by. They get honked at, people will yell things, and so on. It’s been happening even when I was younger, and it’s continued.”
Precautions have been taken in order to keep the team as safe as possible. Soltani said, “I can’t control what other people say. The only thing we can control is how we react. My coaches always told me to not mind it and just keep running. Be aware of your surroundings. I have a rule here where you can’t run alone to prevent anything serious from happening.”
Male runners have their own thoughts and opinions on catcalling. Matthew Linares, a junior, is a runner at Valencia High School. He told The Paw Print, “I’ve never been catcalled while running, and I haven’t noticed or seen catcalling occur, but I’m sure there is some lurking around. Personally, I feel it’s not right and just shows how immature people can be or become.”
25 percent of men have been catcalled, according to Stop Street Harassment. This number is significantly lower than the percentage of women who have dealt with street harassment (43% while on runs, 81% during regular activities). Men simply do not experience catcalling as often as women do, and therefore it isn’t as prevalent in reference to the male population.
In a study done by the International Men and Gender Equality survey, it was discovered that 90 percent of men who have catcalled women say they did it “for fun.”
“I was just having fun,” is not a valid excuse to harass women who are simply trying to exercise. It also does not give men a reason to catcall young girls who are trying to train for track and field. While it may be “fun” for the harasser, catcalling has serious psychological effects on the victim.
According to research done by Emma Rooney of NYU Steinhardt, being harassed can lead to self-conscious body monitoring, which can in turn lead to shame, anxiety and depression. The fear of being harassed can eat away at a person for when it happens once, it is always in the back of their mind and can cause women to constantly worry that it could happen again. Fear will always reside in the mind of someone who has been harassed, and experiencing harassment at a young age means that this fear will exist for most of the person’s life.
Female runner harassment has been a global issue for decades, and while preventive measures can be taken to keep runners safe, safety will always be threatened as long as catcalling exists. The well-being of girls should not be threatened simply because men want to have a little “fun.”
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Prosecutors will not seek death penalty for suspect in deadly uptown airbnb shooting
By: Gina Esposito
Updated: November 14, 2019 - 6:40 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty for a suspect who has been charged in a deadly shooting that happened during a party at an Airbnb earlier this year in uptown Charlotte.
Marcus Joubert is accused of killing Calvin Haines on June 12 at the entrance of the Post uptown Place on North Graham Street at Sixth Street.
Michael, 16, was also charged in this case.
Jourbet and Sio-Somah
(Jourbet, Sio-Somah)
Haines died at the scene.
Officers said three other victims, ages 16, 19 and 22, had also been shot.
(Calvin Haines)
Joubert was also charged with shooting into an occupied property. In court on Thursday, prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty against him.
Channel 9 could see lots of people outside the complex shortly after the shots were fired, most of them in their late teens and early 20s.
Police roped off the entire area in front of the CVS and Dunkin Donuts with crime scene tape and evidence markers were littered across the ground as officers investigated.
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Witnesses told officers two people were arguing outside the complex when one pulled a gun and started firing. They said a second person also pulled out a gun and started shooting.
“When one person pulled out a firearm and started to shooting, there was another one pulling out a firearm and starting to return fire,” CMPD Capt. Rob Dance said.
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[IMAGES: 1 dead, 3 others hurt in shooting at uptown apartment building]
In-home surveillance video provided to Channel 9, dozens of shots could be heard, as well as people screaming. Moments later, several people can be seen running past the camera, away from the scene.
(WATCH BELOW: Gunshots heard on home security video in uptown)
Channel 9 spoke with several witnesses who said high school students were at the party.
One man who lives in the apartments said he woke up to the gunshots. Another woman said she heard some of the chaos that followed.
“I heard shots and people were screaming. I specifically heard somebody say, 'You’re going to make it. You’re going to make it,'” resident Neel Das said.
“Last night, I heard a bunch of yelling and, ‘Get in the car. Let’s go,’ and then a car basically zoom away right outside my window,” resident Megan Fyffe said.
Detectives were busy all night interviewing witnesses and took some of them back to CMPD headquarters to be interviewed.
"It looks like, at this point, we are seeing a trend of apartments and homes being rent on Airbnb for the purpose of having parties," said CMPD Major Allan Rutledge. "Some of them are resulting in violent altercations."
Police said the party was a summer kickoff event following recent high school graduations.
One resident said it’s his understanding using a third-party rental isn’t allowed at the complex.
“I think it’s in the leasing agreement, you’re not allowed to. I tried to actually do it during the All-Star Game and went to talk to the leasing office, and they said no,” he said.
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Channel 9 did a quick search of Airbnb and found several uptown apartments available for rent, but most of them say "no parties" or "events must be approved by the host."
Police said, sometimes, these parties are happening behind the homeowner’s back.
“We would certainly encourage people that do have their apartments and houses on a website such as Airbnb to be certainly conscientious and cautious of the trend. Many had no idea that that’s why they rented,” Rutledge said.
Rental companies like Airbnb have rules in place to keep people safe and stop big parties.
A spokesperson for Airbnb sent Channel 9 a statement saying, "We are deeply saddened by this tragedy and stand ready to support local law enforcement with their investigation. The safety of our community is our priority, and with more than 2 million guests checking into Airbnb listings every night, negative incidents are incredibly rare."
Officers told Channel 9 they were called to the apartment building around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday and arrested a man for carrying a concealed weapon. It’s not clear if there is any connection to the shooting.
"Again, related to a party, we didn't receive any calls for service in that time frame until the shooting came out,” CMPD Maj. Dave Robinson said.
Violent night across the Queen City
Before the uptown shootings, officers were called around 12:30 a.m. after someone was shot on Hunter Ridge Drive in south Charlotte.
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MEDIC said they took one person to the hospital with serious injuries.
Police have not arrested anyone in that case.
About five minutes later, officers were called to another shooting, this time off Nations Ford Road near Arrowwood Road.
One person from that scene was also taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
No arrests have been made in that case either.
Police told Channel 9 that none of the overnight shooting cases are related, but they kept detectives and crime scene investigators busy all morning.
Check back with wsoctv.com for updates on this developing story.
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Venice, Legend of the Present
"Dream of Venice Architecture" is a journey through the Venetian urban landscape, in search of those features that make it a city unique in the world. ytali discussed this with JoAnn Locktov, principal of Bella Figura Publications, publisher of the volume.
scritto da MANUELA CATTANEO DELLA VOLTA 7 Gennaio 2018
Forget your usual San Marco with Palazzo Ducale, forget the Basilica’s horses galloping towards the square, get out of your head the picture-perfect Venice you can find on postcards as well as clichés such as “The Lagoon as you have never seen it before…” “Dream of Venice Architecture” is, after the first volume, another – different – perspective on a Venice, which is beautiful without being banal, true to herself and without prejudices, unique despite belonging to everybody.
Because that’s exactly the goal of Bella Figura Publications:
This collection of books is my personal research – says JoAnn Locktov, publisher – an investigation into helping us understand and appreciate Venice. The city is fighting for her survival. I feel it is imperative to show her relevance to our contemporaory lives, or she will no longer exist as a living city. I wanted this book to demonstrate how Venice inspires us now. Her architectural magnificence may be rooted in the past, but it transcends generations.
Locktov started with “Dream of Venice”:
My shelves are filled to bursting with books on Venice. However I met Charles Christopher and when I saw his images I realized that he had a unique sensibility. It had nothing to do with the cliché that we’ve witnessed thousands of times before, but everything to do with a darker, more intimate vision. We decided to complement his photography with words from contemporary writers. I was not interested in looking with nostalgia to the past, but to the delve into present. We have a wonderful array of Venetophiles that contributed their thoughts about the city, from the American poet and author, Erica Jong to the British film director, Nicolas Roeg.
That’s how the first dream was born.
With the second volume, the imagery connected to literary sensations was focused on the architecture of Venice, this time with an eye to the many suggestions of reality.
I met JoAnn in very particular place: the Brion Tomb by Carlo Scarpa – tells photographer Riccardo De Cal, author of the photos -, in occasion of a meeting of the closest circle of Scarpa’s scholars, occurring every year since 1978, on the anniversary of the Professor’s death. JoAnn already knew my movie,”Memoriae Causa.” As soon as she told me about the second book in the series “Dream of Venice”, I felt we were on the same wavelength.
For “Dream of Venice Architecture” I researched in concentric circles — explains Locktov — much like the onion Richard Goy discusses in the Introduction. I first started with architects who had built in Venice: Tadao Ando, Annabelle Selldorf, Valeriano Pastor, Michele de Lucchi, and Mario Botta. Then I researched the Architecture Biennale particpants like Massimiliano Fuksas and TAMassociati. Riccardo de Cal had several wonderful suggestions like Enrico Baleri and Shun Kanda. I identified architectural critics and writers, like Richard Goy and Jonathan Glancey. Since my interest in Venice has existed for awhile I was familiar with various architects who had a strong relationship with the city, like Max Levy and Witold Rybczynski. I was aware of the architect Guido Pietropoli because of his beautiful writings on Carlo Scarpa, with whom he worked for ten years. Guido is actually the only contributor in both of my books.
Among the contributors, JoAnn involved American writer Guy Horton, who never set foot physically in Venice:
I included Guy Horton to show the power of the city. Venice has an extraodinary capacity to infiltrate our psyche, even for people who have never actually physically been. I wanted this book to add layers of awareness about Venice, no matter if you have visited 20 times or not once. Guy’s experience adds a distinct layer.
It’s the image, which evokes the text, or is the text that suggests where to point the camera?
I basically first read the texts, and then I took the pictures – explains De Cal -. It was essential to understand first what were indicated by each author of a text, then reinterpreting them according to my vision. It happened in certain occasions when the author spoke more generally about the city that particular shots first meant for a text, proved to work better when coupled to another: in those cases, we did not hesitate to follow our instinct.
Every comment underlines a particular place in Venice, evokes the architectural lines of a building or the detail of a location. All suggestions to see Venice with different eyes, but especially to “reread” her it happened even to De Cal, who tells the following story:
The text that most made me think, not necessarily in relation to the matching picture, it was the one by Massimiliano Fuksas: it made me think about Venice from a point of view I never considered before, that is, the one of geography and landscapes, he also quotes an author very dear to me, Fernando Pessoa. Instead. a place I am quite connected to, in particular, it’s the crypt of St. Zechariah’s Church: when the tide rises, the Church is flooded, every day. I remember that this event made a significant impression on me, when, still a boy, I visited the church. The feeling that all those columns and those vaults are arising from the water, in the silence of the tomb, is compelling.
And equally compelling is every single image taken by De Cal. Venice is purely beautiful, without ostentation or artifice of sorts.
Apparently, it so easy to photograph anything in Venice – tells the photographer -. I say apparently because it’s actually the opposite: to PROPERLY photograph anything in Venice is indeed very difficult. When I talk about taking good pictures, especially about architecture, what I mean are straight lines, convincing perspectives – but I especially distanced myself as much as possible from everything I thought I knew and seen about Venice, since childhood. I can say for sure that, if it’s easy, either something is wrong, or we are barely scratching the surface.
One of the 37 professionals who described their architecture in the lagoon is Vincenzo Casali, an architect who has been working and living in Venice for over 35 years:
A Venetian must never forget that Venice will survive him – says Casali – and that it will renew itself becoming first of all different from the idea that every Venetian has of a personal Venice, a fetish that fortunately does not exist in real life. Like many other places, Venice is changeable, but unlike others, it’s so full of energy that it absorbs and transforms change.
The energy comes from its – also anthropological – complexity, besides the spatial and architectural ones.
I still remember my first impression, when I visited Venice as a child: I was with my parents and my grandfather, who lived in Pavia because of the war, but actually was from San Donà di Piave, and Venice was his city: I remember his eagerness to arrive. There was even a boat strike, and in some cases, we traveled on boats sailed by Italian army personnel – basically by soldiers. Venice has the merit to always be herself. Her worst flaw, due to the times and not to the city itself, it’s the unbearable tourist flow, and to have become just a beautiful scenography and primarily a dead town,
regrets Casali.
My relationship with Venice? I feel like a grateful tourist,
explains JoAnn, who is working with the inspiration of Gianni Berengo Gardin on the third book of her series Dream of Venice in Black and White:
I became fascinated with the work of Gianni Berengo Gardin when Brugnaro canceled his “Venezia e le Grandi Navi”exhibit at the Ducal Palace in 2015. Prior to the exhibit, which eventually took place at Olivetti, I was aware of his work but only on the periphery of my mind. I have always loved black and white photography, for its raw honesty and elegance. I want the third book to document Venice, as she exists at this fragile point in time, without the distraction of color, which encapsulates the philosophy of Berengo Gardin. Unlike the first two books, which each had one photographer, I decided to have an open call for submissions, so that many photographers could participate and we could experience Venice through their eyes and hearts. The marvelous Venetian author, Tiziano Scarpa, is writing the Introduction. With every book I collaborate with a not-for-profit. The organization receives a percentage of the proceeds from each book sold. For “Dream of Venice in Black and White”, it will be the Ikona Gallery founded by Živa Kraus. The publication date is September 2018.
For now, Venice continues to make us dream through Scarpa’s projects, the architectures that can be admired from the fields, the intricate patchwork of the balconies overlooking the lagoon, confirming in every image to be “a legend in her own time”, in the words of JoAnn Locktov. Our present, our legend.
JoAnn Loktov
(The series of books “Dreams of Venice” is available only in English and is distributed by IGP in North America and by Gazelle in Europe. The books are also available on Amazon, Book depositary, etc., and in several libraries. They are available at Querini Stampalia’s Q Shop and Libreria Studium in Venice.)
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Grazie mille Manuela, for this extensive review about my work, methodology, and the incredible talent that I am so fortunate to collaborate with on my book projects. Your support is meaningful to all of us.
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Posted Aug. 23, 2017, 6:41 a.m.
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WB had no official comment at this time
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Official logos were shown for a huge slate of DC Comics films including Justice League Dark, The Batman, Batgirl, Wonder Woman 2, and Green Lantern Corps during WB's SDCC panel this year, while a preview of the upcoming Aquaman film was also showcased.
The next Warner Bros. DC film to be released is Justice League, which hits theaters on November 17.
Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.
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Colorful and Poisonous Frogs
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I have to admit this is cute
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CAT CHAOS
Town center traffic is being brought to a standstill - by a cat. Now frustrated authorities have slapped a curfew on Mollie the moggy after she was blamed for wreaking havoc in St Peter's Avenue car park.
Drivers are having to swerve out of the way as she coolly makes her way across her resort territory and then stretches out across the Cleethorpes car park's only exit - causing tailbacks down one-way Cosgrove Street, and gridlock around the busy shopping area.
And local Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) say they have had no choice but to impose a curfew on Mollie at peak times during the day. The two-year-old rescue cat's owners are Colin and Angela Binns, of Cosgrove Street, and their sons Thomas and James. Mr Binns said he will now have to buy a cat-flap which has a timer on it to keep Mollie indoors during those times. Colin (38) said: "I will be in trouble if she gets out. I consider it a warning. "If the curfew does not work, it could be an ASBO next," he joked." She is oblivious to cars. They all toot their horns but have to go around her. I don't know how we can keep her in when all she wants is to go out and be cool. "I could understand it, if she was a dog. But she's just a cat and she is friendly."
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Hair vs. School
Boy's family angry over hat ban
The parents of a 13-year-old schoolboy are angry that his school is making him take lessons in isolation because he turned up wearing a baseball cap.
Dale Platts from Collingham in Nottinghamshire wears a hat because he has alopecia which causes baldness.
The Robert Pattinson School in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire said it does not allow peaked baseball caps and the boy would have to take classes alone.
Dale's mother Kenina Platts said she wanted the decision reversed.
"It is like putting him in solitary confinement. It is punishing him for being bald," she said.
The condition means he has no hair, eyebrows or eyelashes.
The school told the BBC that its uniform policy does not allow peaked caps or hoodies, but some adaptations could be made to the uniform for medical or religious reasons.
In this case, the school said it believed the family had agreed to a compromise allowing the boy to wear a knitted beanie-style hat.
Mrs Platts said the woollen "beanie" hat makes her son's scalp hot and sweaty and causes eczema and psoriasis and he suffers from headaches.
"He wears the peaked cap for protection for his eyes to prevent light and dust from affecting them," she said.
Schoolboy sent home for having ginger hair
Schoolboy Felix Kramer's new term lasted less than an hour yesterday - when he was sent home for having a one-inch ginger fringe.
Felix Kramer, 15, had the end of his brown hair bleached by the sun over summer.
Teachers admitted he had not dyed it in breach of school rules but booted him out anyway until he gets it trimmed.
The GCSE pupil said: "I was five minutes late for assembly when a senior teacher took me aside and said I had to go home.
"I didn't even have time to see my friends.
"I was shocked as my hair goes like this every year, but they said it wasn't acceptable.
"My dad was quite angry about it and said I should get the school to pay for my haircut."
His father Ian furiously phoned up Isleworth and Syon School in West London, but teachers refused to budge.
"They were apologetic but told me rules are rules. I couldn't believe it when they told me.
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2D or 3D, which do you find easier to make?
Seraphyx replied to 1mirg's topic in Game Development
Depends what exactly you're referring to. Each has their challenges to overcome. Overall I think 2d GAMES are easier to make and require less resources than 3d. It is REALLY easy to make a 3d game that looks absolutely horrible for so many reasons. You need several specialized people to take care of very specific things like level and environment design, animation, modeling, UI, programming etc... If you don't have those people you're really kind of screwed I think. With 2d I think the amount of people you need is far less. If the pixel artist isn't also the animator than you'd need one of those too. If the pixel artist isn't the level designer than you'd need one. The only person you'd absolutely need for a 2d game is a programmer. Things are getting much easier for 2d animation as well, check out Spriter if you haven't heard of it before. It makes 2d animation a lot like 3d where you essentially create a skeleton and rig.
Shards Online - Moddable Sandbox MMORPG inspired by Ultima Online (Campaign ended, not funded)
Seraphyx posted a topic in Crowdfunding Campaigns
Well, campaign is over and unfortunately it didn't get funded. The team still plans on trying to finish the game they will just have to go back to the drawing board to refocus and replan what their "alpha" will look like since they wont be able to get all of the content they wanted to from their kickstarter without the funding. Here's also an AMA they did on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/27tm14/were_former_ultima_online_developers_working_on/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468280928/shards-online-a-customizable-sandbox-mmorpg It's a bit late but I've only recently found out about it. Even if it doesn't reach its goal I would like to inform all of you about the game. They currently have a free alpha completely accessible to the public, even if you're not a backer you can play it this weekend. It's only a 200mb download as well. I've never played Ultima Online so I don't know how similar it is but others who have played it say it does remind them of UO. Their big idea is to allow players to run their own servers however they want. You create the rules and the overall theme of your "server." They basically have Clusters, which is a group of shards, and Shards, which is like its own server. You can connect shards together so you can move from a fantasy themed world to a steampunk themed world and learn THEIR crafts and skills. And from what I understand you keep those skills outside of that shard so if you go back into the fantasy world you will have all skills from the steampunk world. I could be wrong but that's how I understood it. I think this is a fantastic idea and the developers do seem competent, they just need the money to make it happen. The current build is a pre-alpha. So far it seems stable, some things certainly are janky but again, it's not even an alpha build. It's still very much playable. Progression is skill and weapon based, no levels or anything like that. You can build your own houses. Currently I don't know if the functionality is accessible to players but the developers have shown that housing functionality is implemented. Check it out and if you like it come back here and let others know (and support it if you can of course ;p)
Totalbiscuit confirms that he has full blown cancer... he will be starting chemotherapy then surgery :'-(
Seraphyx replied to Ysnar's topic in Forum Games & Off Topic
It seems like they still caught it early enough to where he's likely to pull through and shouldn't be a problem but you never know. Regardless, I do wish him the best. This will undoubtedly be a stressful time for him and his family and friends.
Is doing this safe?
Seraphyx replied to DAHFAN1308's topic in Technical & Troubleshooting
It shouldn't tax your computer much at all. I don't think netflix has anything to do with your CPU or video card, it's all just internet streaming (or so I would assume). The only thing that it might cause is lag depending on your internet and if it's an online game. I do it all the time when I play games though and it's hardly noticeable with a 15mbit connection. If you can play those games in the first place, it really shouldn't affect the actual performance FPS-wise.
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Should we live stream? (eventually)
Seraphyx replied to LordMagus's topic in SMITE
It can't hurt. I wouldn't stream myself since my personality doesn't lend itself to commentary but I may watch. If Joe is participating I would definitely watch, otherwise I just don't think I care enough, personally, to spend my time watching. I'm not hardcore into Smite or any game, so I don't really watch random streams to learn about the game or anything like that, I watch for entertainment. If the streamer is fun to watch sure. I think it might be best to collaborate with other Smite streamers too if possible. People like Smitten or whoever else streams, she's the only person I really go out of my way to watch. Reach out to them and see if they want to play together with you guys.
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Favorite Smite game mode
Seraphyx replied to Mute's topic in SMITE
Almost 100% play assault. People take conquest too seriously. Arena was fun when that came out but I prefer assault over it since almost every fight is a team fight. Also don't like that you can go back to base so quickly in arena.
Gods/Goddesses That Need to be in Smite
Seraphyx replied to IrishRogue's topic in SMITE
Beelzebub would be a fantastic addition. It kind of seems like they're adding demigods as well not JUST gods which is a bit weird but I'm fine with it.
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Seraphyx replied to MrMadakey's topic in General Discussion
Not watching it. Saw the official footage they provided and decided it's a game I'm getting so I don't want to spoil any other gameplay/story. Am very excited about it.
I am interested in getting a Nekros frame
Seraphyx replied to Seraphyx's topic in Archives
Just got back myself from a break but I'm still down for getting the Nekros. I'm available at almost any time just have to let me know ahead of time.
Classic 2D Online RPG - Secrets of Mirage
Seraphyx replied to LordWolfguard's topic in General Discussion
Looks pretty cool, I'll be checking it out. I find the lack of any good retro styled 2d mmo's really disappointing. The artstyle of this one isn't completely to my taste (mostly the characters, the rest is fine) but it's damn close compared to some of the more "modernized" 2d games that claim they are retro styled. Here's the screens page if anyone wants to check it out, I'm too lazy to embed them atm: http://www.secretsofmirage.com/index.php?action=screens
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R.I.P. Mikhail Kalashnikov
Seraphyx replied to Lukis's topic in General Discussion
Well I hope I am not one of those people who you think are calling others ignorant. If I have said something like that to anyone in this thread I apologize. I feel the blame is misplaced if it's on the creator but I can completely understand why someone would blame them. It is possible I came off arrogant or condescending but that is definitely not my intention. Everyone seems to tell me I sound extremely unapproachable online ;p Like you said, everyone has an opinion.
Kałasznikow
But it doesn't really matter because they would kill people in some other way even if there weren't guns. They are just tools. Farmers could use their farming equipment to fight off armies, may not be effective and there would be many lives lost but it could still work back before there were guns. Plus, do you want people to get killed in other likely far more brutal ways or a relatively clean death? If we still used muskets there would be far more devestation and more injuries I think. Or if warfare was still conducted using hand to hand weapons like swords, axes, maces, etc... You're essentially asking for world peace by saying something like "if the gun weren't invented." It could be far far worse if guns weren't so brutally efficient at killing people.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that he created it to do something other than kill people so there's no need to throw around sarcastic comments, it does absolutely nothing for the discussion. He was aware that he's creating a weapon, however, he has no control over who uses it and who doesn't, for what you would consider a "just" cause or an "evil" one. Terrorist or not. To blame him for all of the deaths is a bit ridiculous. If you want to be technical and say he invented therefore every kill with that gun is his fault, fine, that is your own opinion but I feel that the blame is entirely misplaced.
Seraphyx replied to SirSeaBiscuit's topic in General Discussion
Honestly, the only zombie game I have been interested in for the past several months, the rest just feel like incredibly cheap cash ins (warz, nether, whatever million other zombie games there are). The people behind Dying Light actually seem like competent developers who know what they're doing and there are a lot of interesting mechanics in it so far. I thought it was just a dead island rip off until I saw the parkour and night time aspects, as well as learned about the other survival mechanics. The "alpha" footage looks leagues ahead of all these other zombie survival games and it's only 20 or so dollars more than what the rest are asking.
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Do you work in the Game Industry?
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Volunteer for a small indie MMO that's been around for around a decade. Level design and some general management stuff like balancing items, monster, and spell stats.
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Booknotes: Five Lectures in Psycho-Analysis
In the few weeks since discussing Darwin, my Intellectual History class has moved through Nietzsche and Fin-de-siecle Vienna and arrived at Sigmund Freud.
I imagine there are few Women's/Gender Studies students in the country who have not encountered Freud in their intro-level classes: I remember the director of my women's studies program back at Hope College -- whose training was in the field of psychology -- suggesting that maybe, possibly, my response to Freud's theory of sexual development and penis envy was a little too categorically dismissive (if I remember right, my scathing response paper admitted to having thrown our textbook across the room). So I will admit upfront I came to Five Lectures in Psycho-analysis prepared for weary frustration at Freud's legacy, even as I was interested to see what a fresh reading ten years (yes, ten years!) since that first encounter might bring.
Five Lectures is a slim volume in which Freud recreated from memory five lectures he delivered at Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts, in 1909 while visiting at the request of the university president, G. Stanley Hall. This fact alone gives me the creeps, since G. Stanley Hall had some heavily social darwinist theories of child- and adolescent development. Five Lectures is an extemporaneous-feeling overview of Freud's development as a psycho-analyst, his theories of dream interpretation and sexuality, and his beliefs about the role of psychoanalysis human development. Only one of the five lectures focuses specifically on sexuality, although his beliefs about human sexual development are integral to his view of human nature and growth.
While none of his basic views were startlingly new to me, I was struck as I read this chapter by two things: 1) how closely Freud's description of childhood sexuality corresponds with current, twenty-first century progressive, feminist views of human sexuality, and 2) how strongly Freud seems to feel the need to contain, organize, and channel that sexuality within the circumscribed space of heterosexual intercourse for the purposes of reproduction.
Of childhood sexuality he writes:
A child's sexual instinct turns out to be put together of a number of factors; it is capable of being divided into numerous components . . . independent of the reproductive function . . . it serves for the acquisition of pleasurable feeling, which, basing ourselves on analogies and connections, we bring together under the idea of sexual pleasure.
He describes masturbation, dominance/submission activities, the "desire for looking," fantasy, sexual play and emotional bonds all under this broad umbrella. He also points out that "at this early period of childhood difference in sex plays no decisive part." In sum, "widespread and copious" is the sexual life of children, loosely organized around the principle of pleasure (p. 46-48).
It is only after this rich description of sexuality, replete with possibility for variation, fluidity, and individuality which (crucially, in my opinion) places the recognition of pleasure at the heart of sexual feeling, that Freud retrenches. In the paragraph immediately following the descriptions above, he suggests that all of this abundant energy must, in order for "mature" adult sexuality to emerge, be "brought together and organized" into genitally-centered, reproductive activity (p. 48).
. . . Why? What is so terrifying to Freud (and any others who resist it) the first, "childhood," model of sexual-sensual experience? This week in class, I'm looking forward to sitting down with this fear and trying to understand what, exactly, is so freaky about "widespread and copious" pleasure.
labels: books, history, sexuality, simmons
Quick Hit: Birthday Feminism
My friend Linda sent me this article, The End of the Women's Movement, by Courtney E. Martin, today with a query for my thoughts. Linda is herself of the "second wave" generation of feminist activists (although I try to avoid generational language as much as possible when talking and writing about women's history), while Ms. Martin and I are in our twenties and of the "third" (or possibly forth?) wave era. Since intergenerational tension within feminist activism is an issue I care deeply about, and this article was published on my birthday, I thought it deserved it's own post rather than being buried in my next links list.
Courtney Martin, whom I read regularly at the blog Feministing, is herself involved in ongoing activism in this area as part of a roadshow of intergenerational feminists. In this particular piece, she takes a gathering at the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art as a jumping-off point to write about the process of feminist activism today, and specifically some of the differences between today's political change and the activism of movements in the 1960s and 1970s:
People within feminist circles may recognize names like Jessica Valenti or Jennifer Baumgardner, but the general public doesn't. This is largely due to what Wired editor Chris Anderson calls "the long tail" -- the decreasing presence of a mainstream culture and the increasing influence of more diffuse communities organized around specific interests. In other words, we don't have a leader because it's hard to even pin down who "we" are. Leaders are useful for galvanizing movements, but they also rise to fame at a critical cost. Young feminists should count ourselves lucky that we don't have one face representing our generation -- which would mean one race, one socioeconomic class, one ideological bent. Nothing could be less representative, actually.
She also makes what I think is a fascinating observation that:
Members of the second-wave generation developed their feminist identity during the heyday of direct action. They had ecstatic, very physical experiences of feminism. . . . Now these women are older, many of them happily shifting into what Jane Fonda calls 'the third act' -- a stage of life when they don't give a shit what anyone else thinks, and they want to see the world live up to its God damn potential, once and for all. . . They're prioritizing changing the world again. And as such, they seem to experience an old hankering for an unapologetic women's movement that they can see, hear, and touch.
I had never before thought of situating women's movement activism in sensory experience; in the body -- and I think using embodiment as a framework to describe what is so compelling about the narrative and experience of that era is an intriguing new approach to understanding what the 1960s and '70s counterculture might offer us in terms of wisdom for the future.
The essay as a whole is thoughtful, and I think balances fairly well the task of respecting the lessons to be gleaned from historical circumstances and the experiences of our elders -- without losing sight of the fact that grafting past tactics onto present-day situations can often be counter-productive. Read the whole thing here.
UPDATE: Pursuit of Harpyness has a group post up discussing the article as well. Highly recommend checking it out.
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"Happy birthday to me/that's how it ought to be . . ."
Sliding in just under the wire in the Cook family "birthday month" of March, I'm celebrating my 28th today. My mother noted on the phone when we spoke this weekend that I've been with her nearly half her life now. I find that a humbling thought.
In honor of the day, I take it upon myself to post something that brings together my childhood self and my present-day self: Raffi's "Bananaphone" song, remixed with images from Dr. Who and Torchwood. I find it hilarious and disturbing in equal measure; Hanna declares it deeply, deeply wrong.
Thanks to Diana for disseminating this video via twitter.
And thanks to my family for, serendipitously, discussing Raffi and this song just days before Diana found said video, so it was fresh in my mind.
Now it's off to open presents!
labels: holidays, humor, web video
Last night, the city of Boston participated in Earth Hour 2009, a one-hour worldwide event in which people were encouraged to turn out their lights for one hour (8:30-9:30) in support of combating global warming. Hanna and I spent our hour of ecological friendliness playing scrabble by candlelight.
Hanna won infinity points for spelling "Ianto" on the board and thus won the game hands down.
labels: domesticity, fun, photos, politics
links again
So it's clearly that time of year when substantive posts are by and large beyond me. But enjoy the fluff and piffle while it lasts, and look forward to more commentary in May.
Meanwhile, I'm off to WAM!2009 tomorrow over at MIT. Enjoyed volunteeering last year; this year signed up just as an attendee. Looking forward especially to hearing one of my feminist crushes, Julia Serano, participate in one of the panel sessions. Will report back next week.
Meanwhile, here are a few links of note from the past week.
NPR reported on the Quiverfull movement, and I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that the two quiverfull families showcased are from West Michigan. Ah, my home state. Land of radical extremes.
Have recently discovered, and have been enjoying, Greta Christina's contributions to the Blowfish Blog. For example, her recent post on what's wrong with the phrase "good in bed."
Betsy Hartmann over at Alternet calls out Chris Hedges for "overpopulation hysteria" and points out the dangers of attempting to legislate against population growth -- namely, repressive policies that curtail women's ability to control their own bodies and reproductive choices.
My blog was mentioned on Women's Health News!
John Stewart makes fun of the Pope's view of condoms. As my sister observed on twitter: "CNN: 'Pope wrong on condoms' hopefully not the expiration date." To which my mother replied: "or . . . what? . . . Pope baby!"
Yes Means Yes reports on the ACLU's involvement in cases where teenagers have been accused of "child pornography" for taking and sharing naked photographs with their significant others.
Via Hanna (because what link list would be complete without one?), the London Review of Books on my stupid vampire.
She also has some lovely new photos up; for those of you who miss my albums check hers out. Beautiful work.
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Another March Birthday Post
It's my mother's 59th birthday today ("Many happy returns of the day, Mum!"), and since she's categorically opposed to having her picture in the public eye, I offer this (tangentially) fiber-art related amusement.
Via Shakesville (via a genealogy of other blogs).
labels: family, holidays, humor, web video
Booknotes: Quiverfull
A couple of weeks ago, my own personal copy of Kathryn Joyce's new book Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement arrived in the mail -- just when I was looking for one more way to put off doing school-related reading over Simmons' spring break. Joyce's book documents the theology, politics and daily life of families (especially women and girls) who follow the loose collection of conservative ideas that fall under the umbrella of "quiverfull" thinking: a patriarchal family structure that demands wifely submission, opposition to all kinds of family planning, fears of a "demographic winter" for Western nations, home education, and often political alignment with the Christian reconstructionist agenda. Hanna flipped through my copy and asked me how it is I can read books like this and not feel my blood pressure skyrocket. Which challenged me to reflect a little on my addiction to reading books about the intersections of gender, sexuality, politics, home education, and the Christian right. This booknote, therefore, is less of a review and more a motley collection of observations inspired by Joyce's journalism.
I think what I find most absorbing about the Christian right and the way they think about gender, sexuality, and education, is not their strangeness but their familiarity. And I'm not talking about familiarity due to close proximity (although growing up in a very religiously conservative area means I've been exposed to my fair share of right wing bigotry and fear-mongering). No: what I'm talking about is the fact that Christian right's critique of the American mainstream begins with with many of the same critiques of modernity that leftists put forward. Many of the families profiled in Quiverfull are deeply ambivalent about modernity -- about the rise of scientific rationalism at the expense of the irrational and sacred. They critique the way that a capitalist economic system, with its separation work and home spaces (and the resulting age-segregation of children and the elderly -- nonworkers -- from wage-earners).
As a result, they have created a vibrant counter-culture of their own that, as Joyce rightly points out, shares many of the same characteristics of the radical left. Home birth and midwifery activism among Quiverfull families, for example, "overlaps with back-to-the-land hippie counterculture in some ways. It's a deliciously amusing irony to some Quiverfull moms, who stake out their territory of natural pregnancy in the odd company of feminist doulas and naturopaths opposed, as they are, to high rates of hospital cesarean sections" (164). Likewise, the modern home education movement, which began as a form of leftist activism (see: unschooling) has since become an overwhelmingly right-wing phenomenon. So much so that -- although she makes passing mention of this history -- Joyce is comfortable conflating "homeschool" with Christian conservatism throughout most of Quiverfull without specifying that she is, in fact, writing about a very particular subset of the home education population.
In fact, it is precisely the outward similarity of these profiles of radical right and radical left that I find both fascinating and deeply disturbing. For while on the surface quiverfull families and "back-to-the-land hippies" and feminists may make similar lifestyle choices, their reasons for doing so are often diametrically opposed. Whereas leftist, feminist advocates of low-intervention childbirth and home education ground their critique of modernity and counterculture activism in notions of gender equality, democratic social structures, and a commitment to individual human rights, those on the radical right pursue the same forms of activism but root them in notions of gender difference, social structures that unapologetically support the kyriarchy, and the subordination of individual persons to tyrannical group dynamics.
As most of you know, I grew up in a family that was part of the leftist home education tradition. My sibs mixed public schooling with home-based learning, and all of us have gone on to college-level institutional education (and beyond). At the same time, I am firmly committed to the continued legality, and minimal governmental oversight, of home education. In this, like the feminist doulas of Joyce's book, I find myself in the uncomfortable company of groups such as the Home School Legal Defense Association. Because of this, I believe it is my responsibility to take a long, hard look at the beliefs and practices of those whose political and social agenda I (however occasionally) share -- and whose right to continue living as they do I, however abstractly, defend.
Though there was nothing startlingly new to be found in the pages of Quiverfull if you've read other work in this area, Joyce does a thorough survey of the disparate strands of religious and political thinking that inform the movement, and remains sensitive to the nuances of class, race, gender, and theological difference that shape individual experience within it. I also enjoyed discovering that by cultivating close relationships with other women, I am apparently in danger of committing the sin of "spiritual masturbation" (which, sadly, is not nearly as kinky as it sounds).
Now it's back to Carl Rogers' Freedom to Learn (for my seminar paper in Intellectual History) . . . not to mention keeping an eye out for Jessica Valenti's latest, The Purity Myth, and Michelle Goldberg's sure-to-be-absorbing The Means of Reproduction.
labels: books, education, feminism, politics
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I'm headed up to Maine tomorrow to pick Hanna up at her parents' house (they provide lunch, I'm bringing dessert!) so I'm trying to cross things off the "to do" list while I'm at work this afternoon. This includes finally publishing a couple of posts I have had hanging in the blogger queue this week.
First up: here's a hodge-podge of links I've collected over the past few weeks with an eye toward sharing them with the wider world.
I haven't read the short story it illustrates, but I was paging through a recent issue of the New Yorker when I came across the full-page reproduction of Ryan McGinley's photograph "Fireworks Hysteric", which I'm adding to my mental catalog of Awesome Visual Depictions of Women.
Karen Rayne offers some advice about talking with teens about sex, which I actually think is awesome advice for anyone who finds themselves in the position of communicating and educating about human sexuality.
Hanna sent this story about the Riot Grrrls music scene to me with the note "more your thing than mine." I actually know next to nothing about alternative rock, feminism in the early 1990s, and how the two fit together -- so thanks, H, for the link!
This post on anti-gay-marriage bullshit cracked me up; what I loved even more was that in comments people started discussing the ethics of human-cyborg relationships. Seriously. Geeks rock!
A recent personal favorite in the category of "what crazy stuff we humans do": Christian salt.
As oral arguments were heard by the California Supreme Court on Proposition 8, Slate's Kenji Yoshino published a piece on a Boston-based lawsuit challenging the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage under federal law.
Via Querki M. Singer in a comment on this thread: How kids in England are smeared in the press, and what to do about it.
And archivists everywhere felt their hearts breaking when this story came out.
I just read Kathryn Joyce's new book Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (booknote coming soon!); Mother Jones has an excerpt up at their website.
Diana sent me this link to women's history resources on the web. Hooray for women's history month!
Hanna and I have fallen woefully behind on Joss Whedon's new show, Dollhouse, but I've enjoyed Maia's commentary on the series over at Alas, a Blog (warning: spoilers!): see here and here.
Earlier this week, I blogged about a column on breastfeeding and feminism. DaddyTypes has another smackdown of the same article from the perspective of fathers.
Newsflash from the British Library: "The library believes almost all have not been stolen but rather mislaid among its 650km of shelves and 150m items – although some have not been seen in well over half a century." This struck me as a very phlegmatic, British description of the problem somehow.
Finally, Jesse over at Pandagon offers this analysis of the conservative worldview and comes to the conclusion that: "I tend to prefer a world which, at some point, can have some form of gender equality that’s not based on the presumption that the other gender is genetically inclined to fuck me in the ear with a rusty spoon."
Friday Video: I <3 Catherine Tate
At my apartment, we talk a lot about how much we love the British comedienne Catherine Tate, who -- among other performances -- can be seen as the brilliant Donna Noble, most recent companion of Dr. Who, the titular character of the long-running BBC series that Hanna has lovingly introduced me to this past year. Donna rocks.
Which, by extension, means Catharine Tate rocks.
Which means that we were particularly offended when Germaine Greer took it upon herself last week to suggest that Tate is not funny.
Excuse me??
Obviously, the entire premise of said column is flawed, as Kate Smurthwaite of Cruella-Blog has so thoroughly and amusingly pointed out.
Luckily, as if to underline the point, this video surfaced, showing just how unfunny Catharine Tate really is. Particularly when playing the completely not-funny character of schoolgirl Lauren Cooper and paired with Dr. Who co-star David Tennant in a very serious (cough) and high-minded (coughcough) sketch about Shakespeare.
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Refusing the Question
Via a comment over at Pandagon, I discovered a brilliant op-ed by a post-partum doula working in California that takes up the issue of breastfeeding infants and the politics thereof. What I like most about this piece is that the author, Meredith Lichtenberg, refuses to accept the usual terms of this particular controversy.
In popular debates, the question of whether or not it's preferable to breastfeed or bottle-feed infants and young children is often cast in starkly either/or terms. One camp argues that breastfeeding is of negligiable benefit to babies and a burden to mothers; the other camp argues that lack of breastmilk will do irreperable harm to infants.
Lichetenberg, rather than step into the frey on one side or another, asks us to re-frame the question. The important point is not whether one parenting choice is better or best for everyone, but what parenting choice is best for each individual family. In her column, she is responding to a recent article by Hanna Rosin in the Atlantic Monthly that explores the potential benefits of breastfeeding (and concludes they are minimal). Lichtenberg writes:
The reason [Rosin and I] part ways, ironically, is that she’s missing her own point. Rosin is enraged that Society told her she should breastfeed because it was healthy for babies. Society told her that her own wishes or needs didn’t factor in.
But instead of saying, “Hey, Society, don’t tell me what I need to do! I’m the mom here, and I’ll decide for myself what’s best for me and my baby!” she succumbed to the “pressure”. Three babies later, she’s really mad. And she thinks that that makes a case against breastfeeding.
Lichtenberg's article is a great example of how to refuse the terms of debate on a controversial topic and re-frame the conversation in a way that is more holistic, more specific, and ultimately (I would argue) more feminist: she reminds women (and their partners) that they, too, can refuse the terms of debate and place the needs of their own families -- including their own needs -- front and center. That is a feminist position that can encompass all manner of individual parenting decisions, and one that I firmly believe is best for us all.
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Are you ready for marriage?
Mystery Science Theater short, mocking a Cold War era "marriage preparedness" video.
No further comment necessary, really.
Except that the marriage counselor looks terrifyingly like Brother Justin in "Carnivale."
Hat tip to Hanna, as is so often the case :).
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Shameless Self-Promotion: Essays & Studies
The Simmons College journal, Essays & Studies, has just published its Spring 2009 edition, in which I have an essay: " 'I have been more or less dissatisfied': The Educational Project in the Oneida Community." Also featured is my friend Rachel Searcy, also of the MA/MLS dual-degree program, with her paper " 'Seated at the Hearth-side': The Prescriptive Tradition of Female Nationalist Involvement in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ireland."
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Because to someone like me that's british for "eat me"
There's a little market down the street from the Massachusetts Historical Society that tends to stock random imported candies from the UK. For a few months, they were regularly carrying one of my favorite chocolates from my time in Aberdeen, minstrals, and every time I stop in for an iced tea or granola bar, I check to see if they have any. No luck in recent weeks, but their most recent shipment included one of the most intriguingly-marketed chocolate bars Britain has to offer: the Yorkie bar. As depicted above, its current packaging sports the slogan "it's not for girls," along with the appropriate signage for those not able to grasp the meaning of the text.
Hanna and I agree that the chocolate is quite tasty, and that our double-x chromosomes did not impede us in the least from enjoying it.
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My brother Brian turns 25 today. Happy Birthday Bro! Hope you're making time between prepping for your art students and designing threadless t-shirts to eat some cake and ice cream. Just think: if you worked at Dunder-Mifflin, Michael Scott would be throwing you a party!
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Now all he needs is a magic top hat
Regular readers of this blog will remember that Hanna and I are besotted with the British stop-motion animated series The Clangers, and back in November wrote an open letter to the Obama family suggesting addition of froglets to the new White House family.
You will understand, therefore, our delight last week to discover our friend and colleague Cynthia had introduced, without even realizing that she had done so, a froglet to the Northeastern archives. Please meet Schweinfurth, the Northeastern Froglet.
He currently resides on the reception desk and seems content with his sole possession: a dime. We are currently on the look out for a top hat and gladstone bag, with which most froglets seem to be rarely without.
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Movienotes: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Okay, I'll admit this right off the bat: I was ready to be disappointed by Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Despite my affection for Michael Cera as a comedic actor (due to being introduced by my brother to Arrested Development), it automatically starts out with a heavy handicap given that it's a movie made of a book I have adored since it first came out and introduced me to the brilliant David Levithan, who co-authored with fellow YA author Rachel Cohn.
In the spirit of the film classic American Graffiti, Infinite Playlist tells the story of a group of teenagers poised on the thresh-hold of adulthood as they spend an endless night trailing around New York City in search of an elusive performance by the mysterious band Where's Fluffy? Nick (Michael Cera) is the one straight guy in a queer-boy band, not yet over his traumatic break-up with manipulative queen bee Tris; Norah (Kat Dennings) is competent and quiet, used to spending her time at concerts watching out for her reckless friend Caroline and ignoring rumors she's a frigid bitch.
Despite these obviously gender-specific social quandaries, the thing that really struck me while I was watching the movie is that the people involved (writers, directors, actors) have managed to tell a love story that's not boy-meets-girl but person-meets-person. It's a story that resists casting Nick and Norah into any stereotypical "teenage boy" and "teenage girl" roles -- or at least making the story revolve around their performance in those roles.
On the downside, I missed the richess of the inner dialog inherent in first-person fictional narration (the novel is told in alternating chapters by Nick and Norah), and the more explicit sexuality that's possible in fiction that can't be translated onto movie marketed to a teen audience (thanks movie ratings board). While there's a really sweet make-out scene -- the details of which I will not spoiler ahead of time -- I couldn't help but notice that both the Tris-and-Norah snogging and the almost-oral sex scene didn't make the cut in the film version. I iz suzpishus.
In the end though, I think they may have made up for it by writing solid new material and (more importantly) giving Salvatore his due; I would have been very, very sad if Salvatore had been entirely absent.
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Booknotes: Autobiography of Charles Darwin
This is Darwin week in my intellectual history class; we're reading selections from On the Origin of Species, Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, and finally Charles Darwin's charmingly personal Autobiography, which he wrote for his family toward the end of his life. I don't have any Big Thoughts to share with you on Darwin's story, but there were a couple of passages from his recollections that I thought I would quote here, to give you a sense of his autobiographical writing and sense of himself as a human being.
On his education: "During the three years I spent at Cambridge my time was wasted, as far as academical studies were concerned, as complete as at Edinburgh and at school . . . I got into a sporting set, including some dissipated low-minded young men. We often used to dine together in the evening, though these dinners often included men of a higher stamp, and we sometimes drank too much, with jolly singing and playing at cards afterwards. I know that I ought to feel ashamed of days and evenings thus spent, but as some of my friends were very pleasant and we were all in the highest spirits, I cannot help looking back on these times with much pleasure . . . But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect them and rarely compared their external characters with published descriptions, but got them named anyhow" (50-53).
On society: "Few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [he and his wife] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere. During the first part of our residence we went a little into society, and received a few friends here; but my health almost always suffered from the excitement, violent shivering and vomiting attacks thus being brought on . . . I have [thus] lost the power of becoming deeply attached to anyone . . . As far as I can judge this grievous loss of feeling has gradually crept over me, from the expectation of much distress afterwards from exhaustion having become firmly associated in my mind from seeing and talking with anyone for an hour, except my wife and children" (95).
One final note: For those of you who didn't see this link earlier on my post about Darwin and Lincoln's joint birthday, check out the beautiful online exhibition about Darwin's life and work at Chicago Field Museum.
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Books + feminism = irresistible .
mk has a thoughtful, succinct post on how to be an ally up at Little Lambs Eat Ivy.
I haven't become a twitter-er (twitterite?) yet, but see the writing on the wall, so enjoyed reading this beginners guide to twitter via feministing.
Feministing launches a new weekly sex advice column. First installment here.
Found this slightly chaotic, but thoughtful post on the use of the word "privilege" as a personal slur today and thought it was worth a read. (It references some recent feminist blog drama that I have purposefuly not been following -- not enough time or emotional energy -- but I think makes sense without the background.) Via, which provides links to said background, which in turn was found via.
New favorite web comic.
After I complained that my rss feeds all favored the informative over the entertaining, Hanna provided me with "true internet fluff" in the form of a dr. who locations guide.
She also directed me to this follow up on the story about teenagers arrested for creating "porn" by sharing naked pictures with their significant others.
And in honor of my birthday month (happy March everyone!) here's a lolcat that I think bears a striking resemblance to a few of my earliest baby pictures (sorry, they aren't digitized, so I can't provide visual verification).
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HamsandwicH release latest single “FANDANGO”
Posted March 6, 2015 by markdowning in Blog
HamsandwicH anticipated album news and latest single release for “Fandango” !!
The very wonderful and versatile HamsandwicH are on the verge of releasing their latest Album “Stories From The Surface“.
The guys and gal are said to be very excited to show their fans and peers what they’ve been up to musically and cannot wait to unleash the new record onto the public on April 17th, 2015.
To make the wait for the anticipated “Stories From The Surface” a little more bearable the band’s new single: “Fandango” will be made available on March 13th, 2015.
Make sure to check in on HamsandwicH’s Facebook for updates and on how to buy the track. It’s a stunner – so well worth adding to your music collection: https://www.facebook.com/hamsandwichmusic
On another, very exciting note, take a look at this month’s Hotpress Magazine – it’s only Hamsanswich’s Niamh cradling the front cover!
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TPT Golf Expands Distribution to Malaysia with MST Golf
(RENENS, SWITZERLAND) - TPT Golf is launching its much-anticipated line of revolutionary golf shafts to golfers in Malaysia through MST Golf, the country's largest golf retail specialist.
MST Golf will be the exclusive retailer of TPT Golf shafts in Malaysia, offering TPT Golf shaft fittings at its Technical Centers located at TPC Kuala Lumpur, the Intermark Mall in Kuala Lumpur, and at its Petaling Jaya Superstore, the largest fitting and service center in Malaysia. MST Golf will also make TPT Golf shafts available to golfers through mobile fitting events located throughout the country.
"We're excited to partner with MST Golf in Malaysia where demand for TPT Golf shafts has been incredibly high," says TPT Golf Director Sebastian Sebayang. "Each time we enter a new market, we strive to ensure we're partnering with a company that shares our vision of offering golfers not only the best experience and technology currently available, but also the highest level of fitting expertise. With MST Golf, we've found a perfect fit."
Since launching its innovative line of golf shafts less than two years ago, TPT Golf has already achieved 10 professional wins across the globe, earning the Switzerland-based company the reputation of "The Hottest New Shaft on Tour." The company's impressive resume currently boasts wins on seven professional tours, including the PGA Tour, European Tour, Champions Tour, Asian Tour, LPGA of Korea, LPGA of Japan, and a World Golf Championship.
"We are excited to be in partnership with TPT Golf, which is gaining popularity among serious golfers and tour players alike," says Ng Yap, CEO of MST Golf. "We have witnessed the increase in performance, as well as the improved launch monitor numbers when fitted correctly. Our certified fitters are looking forward to offering TPT Golf shafts to our consumers."
TPT Golf creates its driver and fairway wood golf shafts differently than any other golf shaft company. The company's patent-pending, automated golf shaft manufacturing technology -- the Thin-Ply Winding Method -- is a pioneering process that allows TPT Golf to position its carbon fiber prepreg in the exact locations and orientations necessary to create the optimal performance for golfers of all abilities. It also removes the inconsistencies present in conventional graphite shafts such as "spines" and "seams" that have been plaguing golfers for decades.
When a TPT Golf shaft is properly fit, its more axially consistent design results in more consistent impacts. The combination of more consistent impacts and TPT Golf's optimized bending profiles are what result in significant distance gains, as well as straighter and more consistent drives.
TPT Golf shafts are sold exclusively through its network of Authorized Fitters, which currently includes more than 200 elite fitters located across the world. Golfers can visit https://tptgolf.com/where-to-buy/ to locate a TPT Golf Authorized Fitter near them.
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Discover Fukuoka!
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Maid’s outfits are so kawaii, I love them!
Misako Aoki, hitomi
Misako Aoki What look have you gone for today?
hitomi I'm wearing clothes from the brand “Seventeen Kiss,” for whom I'm a producer. Since becoming a maid, I've been keeping an eye on fashion, so I try and incorporate my own "moe" things into my fashion style.
Misako Aoki I've not seen many outfits as bright and lovely as yours!
hitomi I love pink, so today I’ve gone for something pink.
Misako Aoki I don't see that check pattern so often!
hitomi It's a design that I like personally, I try to choose clothes that are not quite so common. I guess the maid's perspective is still really important to me.
Misako Aoki What are your thoughts about Lolita fashion?
hitomi I think its so kawaii! Generally speaking maids tend to love kawaii clothes, and there's so many people who love Lolita fashion, and also so many people that love Harajuku fashion. I buy lots of accessories for my maid outfits in Harajuku!
Misako Aoki What kind of clothes do you usually wear?
hitomi Well, that's for my maid outfits, you might think that I usually wear fluffy clothes. But basically, I just love fashion, I’m not too caught up in one style or genre, I just try wear what fits the occasion.
Using maid culture to build bridges across the globe!
Misako Aoki There's also been an increase in the number of maids working abroad, right?
hitomi The first time I went abroad was to a Japanese event held in Thailand. The next time was to an event in Singapore, where I had a chance to perform in a huge hall. I didn’t think there would be so many people waiting for us, so I was so happy, I came to realize that there are people all over the world who want to take part in cultural exchange. I think I would like to use maid culture to build bridges across the globe. Thanks to Sakurai-san, who is the producer of this series, the other day I was able to join a trip to Mexico promoting cultural diplomacy.
Misako Aoki What kind of thing did you do abroad?
hitomi We kind of recreated @home café and built a replica of it on stage. I spoke about “Moe Moe Kyun” (a kind of magical blessing that the maids say before serving food and drinks) and introduced them to how this magic spell can make the drinks taste better.
Misako Aoki I went to an event in Moscow the other day, and there was a maid café there. The Russian maids looked just like dolls!
hitomi I want to go too!
Japanese hospitality is number 1 in the world!
Misako Aoki What were your lasting impressions of Mexico?
hitomi I went to a maid café with Sakurai-san. What surprised me was that one of the maids there was my fan and she had even got hold of my publicity shot! Without ever going to Japan, the managers and maids at this café learn about maid cafés by studying about them on the internet. I realized that they really respect us and what we do. And because of these rare opportunities, I have been able to do @home café lectures. I carried drinks to the maids, the way I actually serve in Japan and showed them how we do it. It feels me with so much joy when I hear the other maids say “Right, let's do the same again tomorrow!” And it would be so great if we were able to transmit, even just a little, the essence and heart of Japanese hospitality to the Mexican people. I was really happy to see that they were very pleased with the experience!
Misako Aoki I think Japanese hospitality is number one in the world. And I think that the hospitality of maids is particularly great, I really hope that you can share these things with people abroad.
hitomi Little by little I think we are letting people all around the world know about maid cafes and culture, as a professional in omotenashi, I want to continue visiting places overseas to spread the word (about maids), with great pride in Japanese culture.
Misako Aoki Hitomi, you are so thorough and attentive in the hospitality you show others, right?
hitomi We view maid cafés as kind of like theme parks. Where goshujin-sama (masters) and ojo-sama (princcesses) can really have the best possible time and have the most enjoyable experience. The aim is to create a space where you can only have those kinds of experiences.
Misako Aoki Just from hearing you speak I've really been inspired..
The fairies of the maid café
Misako Aoki Your hair style is so kawaii! Is there someone in the café who does everyone's hair and make-up?
hitomi We call them fairies! Fairies that cast a magic spell over us!
Misako Aoki Do they meet the demands of the maids?
hitomi Oh yes, we are 3-dimensional (living in the real world), but in the maid cafe we also bring to life things from the 2-dimensional world, so I guess in a way we exist in a 2.5 dimensional world. That's why it's important that we don't have normal, everyday hair styles. I wanted to get across this kind of image today, so the fairies helped me do it.
Misako Aoki I'd like to have my hair done like your French braids, hitomi!
hitomi In @home café the maids really take great care and pride in their appearance and styling themselves. And it's the same with our hair; I think it's really important to have these kinds of goals to maintain these standards. Even though we have worries and concerns, we work hard everyday and as a result those efforts shine in the words that we use when welcoming the masters and princesses.
Misako Aoki That's really valuable to hear. Roughly how many customers are women?
hitomi I guess around 30%. It often happens that princesses (women who visit the café) become maids. There lots of princesses, in @home café lot of the customers are foreign masters and princesses (men and women). And that’s why, it’s been decided that new maids have to have some training in speaking English. Aoki san, you’ve been abroad many times, what’s the situation like over there, what’s your impression?
Misako Aoki I find there are a lot of maid cafes overseas, but they are not quite the same as the Japanese ones, don't you think? When we have gone abroad, the reception has been great, everyone gets really excited. So, I do not want to disappoint them. I will do my best to maintain the pride I feel for lolita fashion as a representative of Japan. I hope that people can really feel the appeal and charm of Lolita fashion.
hitomi Oh yes, I really think that’s true. I’m so happy we had the chance to speak today. And to this end, I think it would be wonderful if we could work together in the future. Aoki-san, you’ve been going abroad by yourself more and more frequently, I think that’s really brave of you!
Misako Aoki I’ve gotten used to it (lol)! As a Kawaii Ambassador, I was always accompanied overseas by Sakurai-san without knowing too much about what was going on (lol)!
A Word from the Producer
When I visited Mexico with hitomi in April, 2015, I remember Misako Aoki visiting Brazil as Kawaii Ambassador. As places where Japanese kawaii was in demand, we visited Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Recife, and was warmly and enthusiastically welcomed. The idea that one person can help create bridges and connections across the globe was something that hitomi thought was fantastic, and she really started to recognize the power of maid culture, that is to say the power and appeal of "kawaii."
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hitomi Profile
Currently active as maid, serves as the president of @home café, a popular maid café in Akihabara, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Served as a maid for 10 years and has been a driving force for @home café, has appeared across various forms of media, including TV and magazines. Beyond sincere and devoted customer care, as a multi-talented singer, dancer and communicator provides great all round service. In 2005 made a debut as a member of the idol unit “Kanzen Maid Sengen” (Complete Maid Declaration), formed from maids working in @home café. Full-fledged artist debut in 2008, as a member of the dance unit “TEAM Junjo” (TEAM pure heart). In 2013 became President of Infinia Co. Ltd., which manages @home café.
Columnist: Misako Aoki
Started as an amateur model who appeared in Gothic Lolita magazines, triggering an interest in lolita fashion, which she now promotes with her charismatic personality. Appointed as a Trend Communicator of Japanese Pop Culture (Kawaii Ambassador) in 2009 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Attended pop culture events in over 10 different countries and regions, has been featured in fashion shows and talk shows, promoting Japanese “kawaii culture.”
Author of: Misako Aoki’s Kawaii Kakumei “Lolita tokidoki Nurse” (Published June 16 2011 by TAKESHOBO Co., Ltd.)
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Contents Media Producer, author, specially-appointed professor of Digital Hollywood University / Digital Hollywood University graduate school, and International Otaku Expo Association Executive Office Director. Carrying out cultural diplomatic activities in over 140 cities across 27 countries/regions in total, has held numerous positions in various consultancy committees for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2009, served as a producer for the “Kawaii Ambassador” program, which was established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has also pioneered cultural diplomacy that makes use of Japanese pop culture, such as anime fashion and music. Frequently invited as a guest to various Japanese events across the globe, has authored several books including, "Nihon ga Suki sugiru Chugokujin Joshi" (PHP Shinsho), "Sekai Kawaii Kakumei" (PHP Shinsho), and "Anime Bunka Gaiko" (Chikuma Shinsho). Has also worked as a television commentator, radio personality and contributed articles for newspapers, as well as web magazines. Currently writing the column, “Pop Culture Chronicles” for the asianbeat website (in Japanese, Chinese and English.)
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Twelve Yorkshire Puddings - like Jesus's disciples
When I was a boy, my mother made a traditional roast dinner for the family every Sunday afternoon. For the first course, she would take a massive Yorkshire pudding from the oven and divide it into six. Then we would sit at the dining table consuming our slices of pudding doused in meat gravy ahead of the main course - meat, mashed potatoes and two or three vegetables.
Shirley and I have never eaten our Sunday Yorkshire puddings that way. Instead, we make small puddings that we place on our main course plates. Since I retired from teaching, I have done most of the cooking and yesterday was no different.
Yorkshire puddings from above
I roasted a chicken and carrots. Additionally, I prepared green beans, mashed potatoes, onion gravy and a tray of small Yorkshire puddings. I never bother to measure Yorkshire pudding ingredients as the recipe is in my DNA. I could make them with my eyes closed.
There are several small tips that Yorkshire pudding cooks might share - to do with the thickness of the mixture, the heat of the oven, the fat or oil used and the timing. The amount of egg mixture included is also pretty significant.
Accompanying this blogpost you can see pictures of yesterday's Yorkshire puddings. We ate four of them and the other eight were popped in our freezer ready for another mealtime. Second time round they take just three or four minutes to warm up in a hot oven.
The Yorkshire Pudding as Art
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Gipsyville Roundabout, Hull
I went down to the local pub late last night to drown my sorrows. Hull City had lost to Cardiff City by two goals to nil yesterday afternoon.
Our local is not as pleasant as it used to be. Sometimes there's loud music with televisions blaring and the manager/landlord is a bit of an arsehole. For example, not long after I had sat down with my pint, he decided to perform one of his party tricks in the middle of the tap room. He was clearly inebriated.
Boothferry Road, Hull
Trying to show off to a bunch of chums in the corner, he balanced a full pint of cider on his head. But it didn't stay there long - approximately one second - before smashing on the floor sending glass, cider and ice everywhere. A lot of it ended up on Karl's jacket which had fallen from a stool. Karl was none too pleased.
It was a silly performance and very unfunny. I mean, in my way of thinking - a pub landlord's behaviour in public should be exemplary - setting good standards rather than destroying them. Soon he staggered up the staircase, heading back to the flat above while Sam and Kieran - the two young barmen were left to clean up the mess. As I say - what an arsehole!
Anlaby Road, Hull
In the afternoon, I parked Clint at the "Park and Ride" car park in Hessle before catching a bus to the KCom Stadium near the centre of Hull. My friend Tony had posted me his season pass as he couldn't attend the last match of the season - so I went in his place.
While riding on the top deck of the bus I snapped some pictures of the west side of Hull - travelling along Hessle Road, Boothferry Road and Anlaby Road. Other passengers on the top deck must have been bemused but I wanted these pictures for the geogragh project that I have written about before in this humble Yorkshire blog.
Cream-coloured phone boxes on Anlaby Road, Hull
Yesterday, my silver friend Clint carried me beyond Doncaster. I was heading for the flat lands north of that historical South Yorkshire town. It is not an area I know well and in fact yesterday's planned walking route was all in virgin territory - though I didn't spot any virgins apart from the spring lambs shown in the picture above.
I parked in the sleepy village of Thorpe-in-Balne where there are several new houses of manorial proportions. They had wrought iron gates and CCTV warning signs. The old village must have been very small indeed, dominated by a moated manor house dating back to at least the twelfth century.
I set off and soon found an imposing highland cow guarding the public footpath. I had to nip over the adjacent wooden fence to avoid this horned creature with its ginger Beatles fringe. Then through the fields to the even smaller village of Trumfleet.
The landscape is criss-crossed with drainage channels and the area is vulnerable to flooding. Some of my trudging was on very quiet single track lanes rather than upon cross country paths. I diverted to Wrancarr Mill where an Alsatian in a pen barked at me like The Hound of the Baskervilles. Thank heavens for wire fencing.
Wrancarr Mill
My intended route was a big six or seven mile circle. I knew I would have to cross the main Doncaster to York railway line but that was okay because my map showed two public rights of way crossing the railway tracks near Thorpe Grange Farm.
However, when I got there I discovered that both crossing points had been officially rescinded and the gates were padlocked. Sugar! What was I to do? Retracing my steps would add four miles to my ramble. Instead, I found a place where I could climb over the fencing onto the railway track and then clamber over the other side to get onto the old farm track I had planned to follow.
The weather was delightful yesterday afternoon and it was uplifting to see this unknown area emerging from my ordnance survey map into interesting and visible reality. I was quite weary when Clint welcomed me back into the driver's seat before taking me homewards via the M18 motorway.
Gates to a grand house in Thorpe-in-Balne
I was up early this morning. Clint had a job to do. He was taking The Bosh! Boys to the BBC Radio Sheffield studios in the centre of the city. With my guidance, Clint managed to get Ian and Henry there on time and I have just listened to them being interviewed live by a presenter called Toby Foster.
It went well and the lads came across as relaxed and humble - handling Toby's questions with confidence and ease. I had been expecting a smidgen of mockery in the carnivorous presenter's approach but in fact he was fine, showing particular interest in how social media has grown Bosh!
On Saturday, Ian and Henry were on the front cover of "The Yorkshire Post" weekend magazine and last night they were at Waterstones bookshop in Orchard Square in the centre of Sheffield. There was a question and answer session and they signed copies of the cookbook for the hundred people who had managed to acquire tickets for this event.
As I write this blogpost, Ian and Henry are on a train heading up to Leeds to be interviewed by veteran BBC TV presenter Harry Gration for tonight's edition of "Look North" - our regional news programme. On Sunday they will be flying to New York.
And here's a special message to residents of America who visit this blog - it is now 99% certain that Ian and Henry will be on the "Today" show on Monday morning - April 30th. If you manage to see their appearance, please let me know how it went.
Meantime the Bosh! father continues to live a more ordinary, low key life without radio interviews or requests to appear on magazine front covers or transatlantic flights. Today's South Yorkshire weather forecast is good enough for me to be considering another photographic walk in the countryside - especially as my troublesome right knee is pain-free at the moment.
Senior blogger, Mr J.Gray of Flintshire in the principality of Wales, recently confessed to embarrassing high jinx when he was a younger man. It seems that when in drink, he developed the habit of purloining various items. He would wake up the next day and bleary-eyed focus in on his latest acquisitions which included a tea caddy, a set of silver spoons, a terracotta planter and dozens of daffodils.
This post reminded me of a time in western Ireland long ago. I was over visiting my late brother Paul. We had been out in the local villages for a "few" drinks and I had consumed far more than I was in the habit of drinking.
It was an endless night and in the early hours of the morning we finished up in a hotel in Lisdoonvarna. Paul knew the owners but in any case he seemed to know everybody in County Clare and beyond. There was music, dancing and yet more drinking.
Around 3am, Paul decided to leave - going home to Josephine who would later become his wife. I was going to get a lift back to Kilfenora with Josephine's brother Donal.
Perhaps I fell asleep in the hotel lounge - I am not sure but when I came round I noticed a framed tourism poster on the wall - advertising the delights of western Ireland. Donal was eager to leave and for some inexplicable reason, I decided that I would have that framed poster as a souvenir.
I took it down from the wall and made for the entrance but was followed into the street by the landlady and her ox of a husband. They apprehended me and angrily ushered me back into the hotel's breakfast room.
I was then subjected to a tirade of abuse from the landlady - most of it focusing on the fact that I was English. My pathetic apologies probably wound her up all the more.
There was a big table in the room which I soon found myself dancing around. The landlady had whipped herself up into a murderous frenzy and had grabbed a carving knife. I wanted to fight back - perhaps to wrestle the knife from her hands but the gorilla she had married was standing there presiding over the confrontation and I knew that with one wrong move he would be joining in with the assault.
I remember shouting, "Please don't kill me! I'll pay for the poster! I am sorry! I'm really sorry!"
The man mountain decided to intervene. He held the harridan back and took the knife from her. Then they demanded my wallet which contained my driving licence, a credit card, a blank cheque and perhaps thirty Irish punts. I was led out into the street where Donal was waiting.
"What the **** happened?" he said.
We drove back to Kilfenora and mid-morning when it was light I explained to Paul what had occurred. He headed straight back to Lisdoonvarna and retrieved the wallet after giving the landlady a piece of his mind. Apparently, it was not the first time she had unleashed her crazy temper upon transgressing customers.
That night could have turned out so much worse. The idea of dancing round a breakfast table while being pursued by a wild Irish woman may seem funny but that was a sharp knife and she meant business. Thank heavens the husband was there to arbitrate and to rein her in. The moral of this story is never try to steal an Irish tourism poster from a bar in the early hours of the morning. It could go horribly wrong.
At Old Street tube station
There was a time when, very deliberately, I never took any photographs. Nowadays my camera is like a third eye, capturing images from the fascinating world around me, capturing Ordnance Survey squares too. You will not be surprised to learn that our recent trip to London was, for me, another great photo opportunity.
Statue of Amy Winehouse at Camden Market
On Friday, we had a late breakfast in the exclusive, members only, Shoreditch House. It was the morning after the night before as our beloved son reflected on Bosh!Fest. Friday was a beautiful jacket-free day.
On Primrose Hill
After breakfast we jumped in an Uber cab and headed for Primrose Hill through the grinding London traffic. Our driver was a lunatic from Mumbai who had clearly never heard of The Highway Code. There were U turns, wrong turns and failed attempts to mow down pedestrians but thankfully we made it to Primrose Hill with its unparalleled view towards central London. I had never been there before.
Reflections at Gasworks Park
Then it was on to Camden Market before following the tow path of Regent's Canal all the way to King's Cross. It was so nice that Frances had managed to get a day off work and was able to join us on our metropolitan exploration. A family day out in this nation's buzzing capital. Selected pictures accompany this post
Loved ones on Primrose Hill
By Regent's Canal
"The Enterprise" pub in Camden
On Saturday morning, we visited Westminster Abbey. Afterwards, we strolled to Leicester Square and boarded a tube train on the Piccadilly Line, heading back up to Wood Green where Princess Pudding now lives with her consort. The carriage was pretty full but Shirley managed to bag herself a seat.
If you will pardon the expression, she was sandwiched between two young men. However, almost immediately one of them stood up to offer me his seat. This was a milestone moment in my life for never before have I, as an ageing man of sixty four, been offered a seat by a younger human being.
The young man noticed my amusement and explained that in his "culture" it was the done thing to show respect for one's elders. A stop later he was able to sit down opposite me and we had a brief conversation.
I asked about his "culture" and he said he was from Senegal. We spoke about the weather there and how hot weather can make one lazy. He said that the best time to visit Senegal was in January and February when most days lacked the oppressive heat people endured in the long tropical summer. He also referred to the difficulties of sleeping in hot, airless rooms without air-conditioning.
What a fine young man he was. Polite and pleasant as his original kind gesture had shown. I shook his hand and wished him well. I guess we had broken the unwritten underground railway code - never converse with strangers.
No doubt the young man had come to England to seek a better future and despite the fact that he made me feel like an old fart when he offered me his seat, I still hope that he finds that better future and avoids being crushed by disillusionment and dead ends.
By the way, Senegal is situated on the west coast of North Africa. It has a population of some 15 million people with its capital city being Dakar. Once part of the French Empire, 92% of Senegal's people follow Islam. God knows why. Here is the translated first verse of the Senegalese national anthem:-
Sound, all of you, your Koras,
Beat the drums,
The red lion has roared,
The tamer of the bush with one leap has rushed forward
Scattering the gloom.
Light on our terrors,
Light on our hopes.
Arise, brothers, behold united Africa!
The flag of Senegal
Walking over London Bridge
with Tower Bridge beyond
Back from London now... The Bosh!Fest was a surreal experience. Shirley and I were given VIP passes to hang round our necks as fans and friends queued to get in a specially cordoned off section of Borough Market.
You might remember the place. It figured in the news on June 3rd last year when evil terrorists who had surged over London Bridge in a hired van screeched into the market intent on murder. Horror of horrors. But last Thursday night the scene was so different. Something good. Something joyous. Something to celebrate.
There was our Ian and Henry up on the stage, happily demonstrating Bosh! recipes. And there they were to the side of the stage having pictures taken with waiting acolytes. Shirley was bemused - "They are queuing to have their photos taken with our boy!" Crazy man!
Eight hundred people turned up to witness the official launch of the Bosh! cookbook. It happened in the evening of what had been a sun-blessed day. There was no thought of Brexit or Syria or Putin or Trump. You could forget all that stuff as the music played and I drank another beer in the cordoned off VIP area. There was a happy buzz in the air and the aroma of vegan cuisine.
The Bosh! Boys were in the middle of "The Sun" on Thursday. There was a three page spread yesterday in "The i" newspaper and they were on the front cover of "The Yorkshire Post" weekend magazine. Soon they will be guests on the "Today" programme in America and meantime the book has shot up to number three in the Amazon charts for all books - not just cookbooks.
Ian never went to university but Thursday night felt like a graduation ceremony and we were proud parents looking on as he collected his first class honours degree.
Bosh!Fest
It's Thursday April 19th, a day that my family and I have been excitedly anticipating for quite a while. This is the day on which our son Ian's Bosh! cookbook is launched at an event in Borough Market , London called "Bosh!Fest". All being well, my trusty steed Silver Clint will be whisking Shirley and I down to the capital later this morning.
Here's our invitation...
"We’re delighted that you’ll be joining us to celebrate the publication of BOSH!, the debut cookbook from Ian Theasby and Henry Firth, at the first all-plant festival to be held at Borough Market!
BOSH! FEST takes place from 7- 11pm on Thursday,19th April at Borough Market’s Market Hall and Green Market.
The GUEST entrance/exit to the festival is in Market Hall, on Southwark Street. On arrival you’ll receive a Guest pass and a BOSH! goody bag.
We’ve got a full programme of talks and cookery demos lined up for you with special guests Anna Jones, Dr. Rupy Aujla and The Happy Pear, and some awesome DJs will be playing throughout the evening.
There will be plenty of delicious all-plant food and drinks to enjoy, with cocktails and soft drinks from Lemonaid, beer from Red Church Beer and food from Club Mexicana, Spice Box, and Young Vegans. There is one cashpoint within the festival perimeter and retailers will have card-readers, but please do bring cash if possible to avoid queues.
Don’t forget to share your BOSH! FEST experiences @boshtv @HQStories #boshfest #boshbook
Looking forward to seeing you at Borough Market this Thursday 19th April at 7:00pm!"
A list of animals that became extinct because of human beings, all now as dead as the fabled dodo....
Atlas wild ass
Baiji
Bali tiger
Barbary lion
Atlas bear
Big-eared hopping mouse
Caspian tiger on a postage
stamp from Azerbaijan
Bulldog rat
Bushwren
California grizzly bear
Cape lion
Caribbean monk seal
Carpathian wisent
Caspian tiger
Caucasian wisent
Cebu warty pig
Chadwick Beach cotton mouse
Chatham bellbird
Chatham fernbird
Eastern elk
Falkland Islands wolf
Formosan clouded leopard
Saudi gazelle
Goff's pocket gopher
Great auk
Guam flying fox
Gull Island vole
Haast's eagle
Bubal hartebeest
Hemigrapsus estellinensis
Japanese sea lion
Madeiran scops owl
Martha - the last passenger pigeon in 1912
Mexican grizzly bear
New Zealand owlet-nightjar
Noronhomys
Northern Sumatran rhinoceros
Laughing owl
São Miguel scops owl
Carolina parakeet
Passenger pigeon
Piopio (bird)
New Zealand quail
Rocky Mountain locust
San Martín Island woodrat
Schomburgk's deer
Sea mink
Small Mauritian flying fox
North Island snipe
South Island snipe
Dusky seaside sparrow
Steller's sea cow
Stout-legged wren
Syncaris pasadenae
Syrian wild ass
Wake Island rail
Western black rhinoceros
Lyall's wren
The list is not comprehensive and it grows with each passing year. Just look what we done.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Drax
Parts of this Grade I listed church date back to the 12th century
On Saturday, in the village of Drax, two boys of about nine or ten were ambling along the opposite pavement as I drove slowly by. One of them made the famous and vulgar two-fingered salute in my direction, not realising that I was about to park Clint. When I opened the driver's door, the boys scooted off, perhaps imagining that they were about to be chased by a madman. Instead, it just made me chuckle.
Drax is a village with an ancient history. It once had a castle and an Augustinian priory. It sits in flatlands just south of The River Ouse and north of The River Aire. The landscape is crisscrossed with drains. Half a mile away on the opposite bank of the Ouse is Barmby-on-the Marsh where my family lived until 1952 - the year before I was born. There was no bridge to connect the two villages. Instead, a twelve mile round trip was required via Boothferry Bridge Lord knows what people did before that was built.
Drax Power Station
Seen from fifteen miles away in 2014
In the early 1970's something happened to really put Drax on the map and bring the old village's name to the nation's consciousness. A massive coal-fired power station was built on the edge of the place by the Central Electricity Generating Board. It has a generating capacity of 4000 megawats - the most productive power station in the nation and it looms over the landscape. You can see it from miles around.
I tootled round the area for an hour or so having never been to Drax before. With my curiosity salved it was time to continue with my journey over to Hull where I am sorry to say that in spite of dominating the game, The Tigers lost 0-1 to Sheffield Wednesday. Boo-hoo!
Seen from Drax Abbey Farm last Saturday
Hover and click to enlarge
It's finished! I am talking about my football crowd picture. In fact it was completed a week ago.
The idea for this picture wafted into my head a few years back but I only got round to starting it last June. I worked on it intermittently when I was home alone with nothing else to do. That's really why it took so long but in any case, I was in no rush.
I want to thank my real life friend Mick Greaves for remembering the idea I once shared with him. Occasionally, he would enquire if I had started the picture yet and this had the effect of spurring me on. I also want to thank my blogging friend Donna in Colorado who gave me the idea of using different shades of "payne's grey" to colour in the figures. Thanks also to Briony (Brenda) in Brighton, England and to Jennifer in South Carolina for showing genuine enthusiasm for the project and for asking to have cartoon images of themselves in the crowd.
Ever since I was a bored schoolboy frequently enduring lessons that failed to interest me, I have doodled. Usually the doodling came back to cartoon images of people's faces. And at the end of my teaching career, sitting in tedious meetings, I frequently found myself still doodling faces. Consequently, this crowd picture is a celebration of all that aimless drawing - at last it has come to something. Simultaneously, it is also a homage to The Tigers - Hull City A.F.C..
Briony and Jennifer
Friends Mike and Mick & Tony
Son Ian and Daughter Frances
Stew (Daughter's beau) and Shirley
Leonardo da Yorkshire (Me)
Foot binding happened in China for a thousand years - right up to the start of the twentieth century. Apparently, small arched feet were considered beautiful but the practice caused much pain and ultimately - disability. Foot binding was only practised on females from certain social strata. Thank heavens it has been resigned to history.
When it comes to footwear, my prime interest is comfort. I would never for a moment think of wearing high heels as they must surely be incredibly uncomfortable. And yet, here in the western world many women choose to wear outlandish high heels when they have evenings out and some even wear them for work. There is a shared sense that they are stylish and feminine. Some of the heels we see today are very high, narrow and sharp.
Linked with this, hundreds of women each year find themselves in hospital accident and emergency rooms with sprains, broken bones and dislocations attributed directly to the wearing of high heels. Meanwhile there are still image-conscious businesses that insist that female reception staff and office workers wear high heels as part of their corporate "uniform".
I would be interested to hear what you think about high heels. My view is that they are a modern day echo of Chinese foot binding and that they are a cultural phenomenon in which mostly young women find themselves unconsciously trapped. Arguably, they are a continuing emblem of the subjugation of women and I applaud all women who refuse to subscribe to this ludicrous footwear fashion.
I just finishing reading a novel. It was "Reservoir 13" by Jon McGregor. My feelings about it are quite conflicted.
On the plus side, I liked the fact that it was set in my backyard - The Peak District. I also admired McGregor's close observations of nature from mating foxes to returning swallows and I liked the sense of a community evolving over a decade. The style of writing is uncomplicated.
A vital thread that runs through the novel concerns the disappearance of a teenage girl called Rebecca Shaw. There are echoed references to her in every chapter. We are tantalised by possibilities. What did happen to her? Will we ever know?
I know that I am not the only reader who found it difficult to keep tabs on the various villagers who inhabit the novel. None of them ever receives a physical description and there is no dialogue. To me there was something of a cardboard cutout quality about them - they often lacked depth and genuine emotional investment. However, I was prepared to tolerate them because I was keen to find out what had happened to Rebecca Shaw.
The narrator is all-seeing. He sees the bats and details about footpaths, bedroom antics, reservoirs and the botany of the region but he refuses to reveal what happened to Rebecca Shaw. Of course, I accept that neat resolution is not always the duty of a novelist. Sometimes an open, ambiguous ending is the most appropriate choice, leaving the reader to speculate and wonder. However, in this instance, I felt that I had been the victim of sustained teasing. Rebecca Shaw's life deserved a solution or at least a powerful hint about what had transpired thirteen years beforehand.
When interviewed by Alice O'Keeffe for "The Bookseller", Jon McGregor was asked if he had spent time observing badgers in the wild - perhaps staking out a sett - to which he laughed, replying, "Um. No. The internet."
In the final analysis, I am glad I bothered to read "Reservoir 13" in spite of my misgivings about it. The language was carefully crafted. Arguably, it was trying to do something different - perhaps shaking up complacent notions about what a novel should be and what it should do...
“Her name was Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She'd been wearing a white hooded
top with a navy-blue body-warmer. She would be twenty-three years old by
now. She had been seen in the beech wood, climbing a tree. She had been
seen at the railway station. She had been seen by the side of the road. She
had been looked for, everywhere. She could have arranged to meet somebody,
and been driven safely away.She could have fallen down a hole. She could
have been hurt by her parents in some terrible mistake. She could
have gone away because she'd chosen to, or because she had no choice.
People still wanted to know.”
Perhaps you are like me. When writing, I sometimes find myself wanting to use an alternative word to the one that first springs to mind. Perhaps the initial word has been used already or perhaps it is not helping to create the intended effect. I rack my brain trying to think of a different word.
The facility I am about to advertise is not available in "Blogger" but it is available in "Word". I am sure that some of you out there have known about it for ages but I am equally sure that there will be many visitors who have not yet stumbled across it. It is very useful.
Let's say you have just typed a sentence. Let's say it is this one:-
The wind howled through the trees.
But a voice inside your head says you are not happy with all your word choices. You put your cursor over the word wind. Then you do a right click. You go down the little menu that has appeared and you see the word "Synonyms". You go right of this and you find "breeze, airstream, gale, squall, gust, storm". You click on the alternative word you judge to be best and the word "wind" is automatically replaced.
Then you look at "howled" and "trees" in the same way, considering alternatives and you might also think about adjectives that could be inserted, till you finally come up with..
An arctic squall wailed through the skeletal saplings.
Okay, I know this is a slightly artificial OTT sentence and sometimes simplicity is preferable but I am just trying to promote the use of the "Synonyms" facility. It's there at your fingertips when using "Word" and I know that many computer users are not aware of it. It can save a lot of brain scratching as you try to come up with replacement words. It is simply a quick and potentially very helpful aide memoire though naturally it also requires good judgement as you weigh up replacement auxiliary standby additional emergency other possibilities.
Boshed
Squelching
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Farms and farmhouses
Social movement victories
Cooperative architecture
Shared places
The historical centre
An orchard very much alive
The cooperative enlargement
A little train towards the sea
The far west
camino de farinós
The Old Benimaclet Road
The old Alaboraya road
Two roads: C/ Vera and Senda da la Carrasca
Camino de las fuentes (Spring Road)
The Rascanya- Antonio Cañuelo High School
Date: Septiembre de 2005
Address: Av. dels Germans Machado, 9
In 2003, the Ferrer i Guàrdia High School had been in full operation for more than ten years. Benimaclet was still growing, in the midst of the construction bubble, and the estimates of further growth caused alarm, since one could foresee that there would be a lack of schools for secondary education of all types.
For this reason, once more a coordinating committee was formed to work for a new high school. Its members were the Neighbourhood Association of Benimaclet, the Neighbourhood Women´s Association, the Association of Businessmen and the parents´ associations of the schools of the barrio.
The campaign machinery was launched: collection of signatures, information meetings in the Neighbourhood Association premises and in the schools, demonstrations, meetings with the regional government. The struggles for the Ferrer i Guàrdia High School and for the Municipal School had lasted for many years, but this time around the construction of the new high school was decided on after just a little over a year.
The coordinating committee proposed at first that the new school should be built on the two plots of land (of approximately 11 000 m2 and 4800 m2), reserved for educational purposes in the city plan and located in the area called PAI “BENIMACLET ESTE.” (PAI is short for Programa de Actuación Integrada, integrated action program.) These lots were located between the Jesuit Patronato School and the horchata bar “Els Sariers.” But in the end, seeing that nothing was happening with the PAI and that it would take a long time for this land to be handed over to the City Hall, another lot was chosen: the one situated by Alfahuir Avenue, in the Orriols PAI, which had just been finished. It, too, had been reserved for educational purposes.
When the building was finished, the school was named Rascanya High School, in honour of the barrio where it was geographically placed. It started operating in September 2005. But in August of that year, Antonio Cañuelo had died. He was a Benimaclet resident and had been an active member of the neighbourhood movement for more than twenty years. At the time of his death, he sat on the board of the Neighbourhood Association of Benimaclet and was President of the Federation of Neighbourhood Assocations of Valencia. He had also taken active part in the coordinating committee for the new high school, and he deserved some recognition and tribute for all his work for the barrio. Therefore the Neighbourhood Association proposed that the new school should carry his name, too. After a few misunderstandings, the association finally obtained the necessary support so that the school would be called Rascanya – Antonio Cañuelo High School. This is a source of pride for the whole neighbourhood movement and above all for the persons who worked and had the honour to struggle side by side with Antonio Cañuelo.
Barracas Tramoyeres / Health Centre of the 1970´s26 September, 2016 - 11:04 am
Barrio Santa Ana26 September, 2016 - 11:14 am
Barrio Mascarell – The Mascarell Neighbourhood27 September, 2016 - 5:20 pm
Alquería Torreta Miramar (the Sea view Tower Farmhouse...27 September, 2016 - 5:29 pm
The Daycare Centre A.I.S.O ) / Pre-School Bressol28 September, 2016 - 11:52 am
The Soap Factory27 September, 2016 - 7:33 pm
“La estacioneta” – The Little Station27 September, 2016 - 7:27 pm
The Chocolate-Maker’s Store27 September, 2016 - 7:22 pm
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Urban Gardens The Municipal School
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Running is Optional
Running is Optional is a procedurally generated running game. Go as far as you can, as fast as you can, but always remember that running is optional.
Play in your browser or download the Win/Mac standalone.
By VoxelBoy at 01/30/2011 - 12:25
Submitted at Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab (United States)
Lazris the Bunny
Lazris is the first bunny in over 1000 years! It is his duty to repopulate the Earth.
By dsilvers at 01/30/2011 - 12:12
lazris
Andrew Haydn Grant
Cubris
Reverse Jenga with ice.
non-digital (board game, card game, physical game, etc.)
Ice, perfect because it freezes to other ice for utterly ridiculous stacks.
By evanburchard at 01/29/2011 - 13:14
actually fun
no cardboard
non-digital
non-German
Human Chain
Play as the hand of god to save or mess with people during the apocalypse. http://web.mit.edu/haydn/www/HumanChain/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
Unity Web Player, or stand-alone download for Windows or Mac
By Jim Beals at 01/29/2011 - 11:47
Gravity-Bot Blues
Use gravity to save yourself from the last surviving humans!
By sajon77 at 01/29/2011 - 10:51
Conway's Inferno
A sadistic variation on Conway's game of life (alternate title: Rule 66). Place your disasters wisely as you attempt to end all life with as little effort as possible. Music is generated procedurally, based dynamically on number and position of map elements.
Runs in flash.
By alect at 01/29/2011 - 10:41
2-D strategy
Environmental puzzle
Sredavni
Alas, our planet is no more. We have traveled far to find a new home. Fuel is running low. We must land now, by any means necessary.
By adagar at 01/29/2011 - 10:38
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Dream Sequence
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"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." The run begins at night, shortly after the conclusion of the previous run.
The run takes place in a number of implausible locations in the World of Dreams.
1 The Gambler
2 The Agent
3 The Hero
4 The Refugee
5 The Conclusion
Cai Wen finds himself in a dusty saloon, with a piano playing a tinkling melody in the background. He is briefly puzzled by the odd instrument, but quickly distracted again by the girl on his arm, who bats her long eyelashes at him and complains that he's not paying any attention to her. Cai Wen says as soon as Old Lady Kibo arrives and he can conclude his business with her, he'll be free for the evening. However, Old Lady Kibo is nowhere to be seen, so the girl pouts prettily. Cai Wen buys another drink from the bartender, noting that all he seems to have in his pockets are strange round coins with no holes, and even odder pieces of paper, but the bartender seems willing to take them. However, he's out of whiskey - it was due to arrive here in Gila-Monster Gulch on the stagecoach this morning, but the stagecoach is late. Cai Wen, familiar with the name "Kibo", asks if Yoshi is around? The bartender says Governor Yoshi isn't in town. Nor is Eight-Legged Slick, another important politician, likely to be the Mayor soon.
Cai Wen asks his moll if there's any sort of gambling going on - she says there's poker in the back room, but Cai Wen is pretty sure he's supposed to meet Old Lady Kibo out here in the front. Still, she's nowhere to be seen, so he decides to take a look around the town. It's not large, and beyond the few buildings is a sparse-looking countryside, with odd plants that look like pitchforks and bushes that seem to roll around. It all seems pretty implausible, so Cai Wen figures he's probably dreaming. Other than the saloon, there's a hotel, a sheriff's office, a stable, and a blacksmith but no sign of any stagecoach, whatever that is.
Cai Wen goes into the hotel and asks about getting a room. He learns that Old Lady Kibo has a reservation, and Eight-Legged Slick has a room. Cai Wen rents a room, and goes upstairs, where his moll deals with the lock on Eight-Legged Slick's door and lets him into the room. On a desk, he finds two pieces of paper with lots of places and times listed on them--apparently schedules for the stagecoach and something else called a "train". One of the stagecoach stops and one of the train stops are circled.
Cai Wen heads to the stable, and asks for more details about the stagecoach. It should have gotten in at 11 am, after passing through Ambush Gulch at 10 am and Stillville at 10:30. That would have given its passengers plenty of time to meet the 2pm train, known as Old Reliable, which stops at the other end of town. It's about 12:30 now.
Cai Wen rents a horse (the guy seems happy to take his odd coins), and heads out to Stillville the previous stagecoach stop, and discovers a bunch of people, impatient to meet the stagecoach which hasn't yet arrived. Sighing, Cai Wen proceeds on to Ambush Gulch. Sure enough, at the height of the ambush gradient, there's a stagecoach tipped over, and an unhappy looking driver. Cai Wen remarks loudly that Here He Is To Be Ambushed and Wouldn't It Be A Shame If Anyone Leapt Out At Him, but actually, it turns out that the ambush has already been sprung, upon the stagecoach, and it isn't still waiting around to ambush Cai Wen. The stagecoach driver says that the bandits took Old Lady Kibo away with them.
Cai Wen heads back to Stillville, where he recruits the guys there into a posse (though his moll has to help him with the word), and they head out on the trail of the bandits. The trail circles around town to reach the railroad tracks, where a villainous man in black is tying Old Lady Kibo to the tracks, as the locomotive Old Reliable steams in. The posse and the bandits fight, leaving Cai Wen to deal with the moustache-twirling villain - he manages to convince the villain to gloat over his plans to eliminate Old Lady Kibo, and then as the locomotive bears down, Cai Wen (who has no skill with ropes and knots) finds a stick of dynamite, and lights it, threatening to blow himself and the villain up together if he doesn't untie his victim. His bluff is successful, and the villain unties her, grumbling.
Old Lady Kibo escapes from the rails just before the train passes, and pulls the villain's moustache off, revealing him to be none other than Eight-Legged Slick. She gives the moustache to Cai Wen, telling him "Give this to Governor Yoshi!" before everything goes somewhat cloudy.
The Agent
Shen-Ji hears the doorbell ring, and answers the door to discover a man in uniform, with a clipboard. He has two packages to deliver - "Sign here, please." Shen-Ji confirms that there are, in fact, two packages for him, before signing. The first package has a strange box inside, which when a button is pressed, starts talking.
"Agent Shen-Ji. Your mission, if you choose to accept it - well, actually, you should just accept it, no goofing off this time and saying you don't accept the mission, that's a bad idea. So let's just say your mission, when you accept it, is to rescue Ambassador Kibo from the underwater lair of Dr. Arachnoid. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Five... four... three... two... one..."
At this point, Shen-Ji tosses the box up into the air where it explodes.
He then opens the next box. It contains a lot of equipment, from scuba gear to a spear gun to a waterproof tuxedo. He kits himself out and heads to the waterfront. There are two boat companies operating out of the waterfront - Local and Knowledgeable Sea Guides, and Babes in Bikinis. Agent Shen-Ji hires a cruise from the latter company, and the boat heads out somewhat randomly vaguely in the direction of Dr. Arachnoid's underwater lair. It soon blunders into a section of ocean studded with mines, but Shen-Ji is able to use a magnetic projector (that is, his Manipulate Metal shtick) to send a small wrench out to bang one of the mines into another. It explodes, setting off a chain reaction of explosions, clearing enough of the mine field that the boat can proceed through.
The boat passes through the remnants of the mine field, to a sunken cave - the boat itself isn't able to fit in, so Shen-Ji changes into his scuba gear and tells the boat to wait for him. He swims through the passage, and is quickly beset by Sharks with Laser Beams on their Heads. As the sharks close in on him, he quickly analyzes the frequency of the laser, and scouts out a rock at the bottom of the passage which has the right refractive ability to affect the laser, and bounces the one shark's laser at the other, disabling it. He then manages to lasso one of the disabled sharks with the rope from his spear gun and rides it, rodeo-style, into the hidden lair.
Ditching the shark, Agent Shen-Ji climbs out of the water, and heads down a hallway towards a larger dome. He can hear some gloating (and muffled unhappy noises) coming from the space beyond, as well as a loud and ominous Humming sound. He pretends to be delivering pizza to the thugs guarding the door and after they open the door, shoots the first two with his spear hun. When the rest of the thugs come after him, he activates the local defense mechanisms, causing walls of iron to cut off the guards. Climbing into the drop ceiling, Agent Shen-Ji proceeds into the dome where he sees Ambassador Kibo tied to a table with a huge laser about to cut him in half. Shen-Ji runs to the control panel where there are two large buttons, one labeled "Off" and one labeled "Self-Destruct - Do not press." Agent Shen-Ji stabs at the second button causing Doctor Arachnoid to shout, "Fool! You'll kill us all!" Then, Shen-Ji pulls the gag off of Ambassador Kibo, who tells him to get Dr. Arachnoid's monocle before they leave, as it must be delivered to Prime Minister Yoshi.
Agent Shen-Ji unties Kibo and then closes on the evil Doctor Arachnoid. Arachnoid heads for the escape chute, but Shen-Ji convinces him to gloat a bit before he departs. This gives Shen-Ji a chance to grab the villain's monocle. The doctor, seeing that all is lost, hops into the escape chute and rockets away leaving Kibo and Shen-Ji to their doom.
Luckily, Shen-Ji pocketed the Shark Controller when searching the thugs he disabled, so he summons a pair of shark to swim them out through the underwater passage. They manage to escape just at the lair explodes and find themselves washed up on a beach. The very same beach where Shen-Ji's boat landed. Shen-Ji and Ambassador Kibo join the beach party in progress.
Off in the distance, Hiro hears singing: "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go," and heads in that direction. He finds the seven Tsien daughters, though shorter than he remembers them, and now sporting odd little beards, cutting wood and arguing about whose turn it is to use the axe. They are apparently chopping wood, as part of their construction project to build a Royal Palace for Princess Kibo. Hiro finds it a little too disconcerting to flirt with them when they have beards on, so he heads off in the direction they indicate the Royal Palace as being in.
He gets to a half-constructed wooden building, with a sign: "Royal Palace, Under Construction". Lying in the middle of the floor is Princess Kibo, holding an apple with a single bite taken out of it. Hiro is pretty sure that Kibo is behind this whole dream thing, so he shakes Princess Kibo for a while, telling the yumekui to wake up and take charge of the situation, but it doesn't seem to work. Somewhat confused, Hiro heads back to the seven dwarfettes, and asks if Princess Kibo is supposed to be lying on the ground like that. No, no, she is not. Everyone runs back, but the girls are no more able to wake Princess Kibo up than Hiro was.
Somehow it is decided that Hiro should go to the castle of Queen Arachnea, and see if he can't get an antidote. The girls pack Useful Items for Hiro - sandwiches, a stout bow, a katana, and four other unspecified useful things. And, also, the dwarfettes suggest that Hiro bring a pail of water from the well in back. He goes to draw the water from the well, and notes a shiny gold coin sitting on the edge of the well. Leaving it there, he lowers the bucket, draws up a pailful of water - and then the rope breaks, leaving him with a bucket of water. Hmm. He decides that a bucket is a little impractical for adventuring with, and pours the water into a canteen, declaring that to be another of the Useful Items.
Then, Hiro heads off along the path towards Queen Arachnea's castle. Out of the shadows of the woods along the path emerges an elderly woman with great big eyes and teeth. The old woman invites Hiro down to her house for lunch. Hiro, quickly determining that this old woman is some sort of wolf demon in disguise, tricks him into agreeing that since his disguise has been seen through, he is already defeated. Hiro declares that since the wolf has been defeated, he must come along with Hiro to Queen Arachnea's castle to get a heart to eat up the Queen. The wolf complains that Queen Arachnea is very dry and bony, but Hiro says he'll get her wet first.
Next, two children wander out of the woods. They are apparently lost, despite having taken a loaf of bread with them to help them find their way back home. The wolf tries to get them to come back and taste his gingerbread house, but Hiro will have none of that - the children should definitely not go inside gingerbread houses unless explicit terms are quite clearly specified beforehand. Hiro says they can come with him until he can sort out where they belong.
When the party reaches the castle, the drawbridge is up. There's a guard up in a parapet - Hiro shouts up to him, asking to be let in. The guard says he isn't supposed to let any heroes in. Hiro claims that he's certainly not a hero - he doesn't do anything heroic at all. Nope, not him. With a bit of fast talk, he convinces the guard that it's okay to lower the drawbridge, and heads in - only to discover a maze of twisty passages.
This seems overly complicated, so Hiro looks around for a way to get up to where the guard is. The guard mentions that there is a staff only access door, but it's not for non-staff, and it certainly not for heroes. Hiro protests that he is still not a hero, and again fast talks the poor guard into letting him through the door, avoiding the death maze entirely.
Then, they head down the hallway marked Authorized Personnel Only, to the Throne room. The queen arrives. She's carrying the crown, but wearing a pointy black witch's hat.
Hiro claims to be a poison salesman, reassuring the Queen that he's not a hero - would a hero use poison? He admits that there was an Unfortunate Incident in a recent village, in which he was forced to drink some of his own antidotes, so he's come here in the hopes that he can get some replacements from the Queen. She's somewhat suspicious - that sounds like the sort of thing a hero would want - but Hiro assures her that he's here to barter for an antidote (unheroic and mercenary) rather than fight her (heroic). Well, that seems plausible. Hiro says he's got some Water of Youth and Immortality that he's willing to trade.
Queen Arachnea asks which poison Hiro needs the antidote for, throwing him for a loop - he doesn't know! It was a poisoned apple, but that might give it away, and surely it's not just "apple poison." Hiro improvises - he's not sure what the official name for it is, his family always just used nicknames, but - it's the poison that makes you fall into a deep sleep. The Queen is briefly suspicious again, but Hiro is very charming and anti-heroic, so she identifies it as, in fact, "apple poison". Hiro gives her the canteen of water, and the Queen tells him that the only antidote to apple poison is the kiss of a hero. Hiro allows as that's kind of a trick, since she's not trading it to him, but that's his fault for not being more specific in the trade.
She drinks the water, and then makes a dismayed face - this is wishing well water! Noooo! She starts melting and the the wolf promptly gobbles her up, leaving only her hat, which Hiro takes as loot.
Off the group heads, back to the Royal Palace - now nearly completed ("Royal Palace: Opening Soon") where Hiro kisses Princess Kibo. She wakes up, flutters her eyelashes, and tells him to "make sure to give the hat to King Yoshi."
Hiro decides there are more errands that need doing first, so he asks the dwarfettes if they know where the kids live. They do, in fact, know where the bakery is, and give the kids directions. The two kids head off, waving, and the wolf also goes home.
Later, Hiro decides to drop by the bakery himself, but the baker's wife tells him that the kids have been sent to get a cup of sugar from the neighbor. Hiro heads in that direction, only to discover the neighbor lives in the gingerbread house and is the wolf-demon. Strangely, the wolf has been locked out of his house, and is beginning to get angry:
"Don't make me huff and puff this door down! I didn't have to use it on the drawbridge, so I can totally blow this door in now!""
Hiro glares the wolf into admitting that okay, he tried to get the kids to visit in his guest oven, before they locked him out. The kids say they were sent over to get a cup of sugar. Hiro thinks this shows rather poor judgement on the part of their mother, but they protest - that's not their mother, it's their evil stepmother. Well, that makes some more sense. Still, it seems like sending them home isn't the right idea. Hiro brings them back to the dwarfettes, and tells them they can be apprentice carpenters. They give the dwarfettes their bread in trade, sealing the deal. The dwarfettes as pleased, as a nice loaf a bread should come in handy if they ever encounter any death mazes...
The Refugee
Yoshi finds himself hiding behind a bush with another man, listening to ominous sounds off in the distance - a muted clanking. Off on the horizon, huge metal eight-legged shapes march forward, snatching people up and flinging them about. The octopods are everywhere - the other man tells him that they have to get to the White Mountains, to talk to Professor Kibo. It's on the other side of the Blue River and the boundary forest, so it'll be a bit of a trek.
After the octopods go by, the pair starts creeping forward. Yoshi finds he has a bag of Three Useful Items - the first one proves to be an inflatable life raft, possibly of use in crossing the Blue River. Unfortunately, there are several octopods standing on the only bridge across the river, and when the raft begins to inflate, their attention is quickly drawn. Yoshi launches the raft downstream with no one in it, and the octopods pursue it, leaving the two to cross the bridge in the distraction.
Similarly, the pair manages to get through the boundary forest by using another useful item from the bag to distract the octopods patrolling the area.
Then, they reach the mountain pass into the White Mountains, guarded by another two octopods. Yoshi pulls his third useful item out of his bag - a loud bullhorn, which he uses to trigger an avalanche, bringing down a pile of snow onto the octopods. After that, they can climb over and reach Professor Kibo's laboratory. Professor Kibo says that more octopods are coming - Yoshi needs to find the octopod controller device to stop them all. He gives Yoshi a pinging locator device, and sends him out again to find it.
Evading octopods along the way, Yoshi find a strange metal tent that the octopod controller locator is pointing too. Inside is a single figure holding a strange device. Yoshi sneaks up on the being (Mister Arachnus) holding the control device - the guy is basically man-shaped, but looks more like something with extra legs wearing a rubber human costume. Yoshi is out of useful items - but he still has a bag! He pops the bag over Mister Arachnus's head, and grapples with him, and ends up pulling off his rubber human mask revealing a spider underneath. Mister Arachnus gloats that he can still succeed as long as he has - and then Yoshi grabs the remote controller, and escapes back to the lab, sending the octopods stomping off to drown in the river with the controller.
At this point, Yoshi is drawn into the dreams of the others, and they give him their loot - the moustache, the monocle, and the pointy hat, which he puts in his bag with his remote controller. After this digression, Kibo briefs him.
After the incident with the talking fish, Kibo has come somewhat to the attention of the Great Spider Spirit. The Spider probably prefers to not act directly into the realms of dreams, lest the other Great Spirits start doing so too, but he has been leaning on the dreamworld, so that the default plots and settings tend to be strongly tilted against Kibo. This will likely continue, and the only way to really stop it is to convince the stuff that dreams are made of, that Kibo has already been dealt with.
Cai Wen visits the Song family estates.
Lijuan and possibly Anto visit the Hand of the Wind monastery. (Master Zhou and Xiao Fa are probably still there).
Cai Wen, Xiao Fa, and Min Feng visit the Third Spire in the City of Spires.
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Walk #870: A circular walk between Salisbury and Middle Winterslow
P2010A250009 Salisbury cathedral. P2010A250011 Salisbury cathedral.
Date Walked 25/10/2010
County Wiltshire
Start Location Central car park, Salisbury
End Location Central car park, Salisbury
Start time 08.33
End time 16.23
Distance 17.3 miles
Description This was a very pleasant stroll, following in part both the Clarendon Way and the Monarch's Way, taking in Old Sarum on the way.
Pack Today I carried my Macpac Glissade rucksack containing my North Face Westwind tent, camping gear, waterproofs, water, and foor for one day.
Condition I feel absolutely fine after this walk.
Weather Today was a lovely, sunny day, with scarcely a cloud in the sky. It was warm for the time of year, but there was a brisk breeze that proved to be quite chilly.
OS map Landranger number 184 (Salisbury & The Plain, Amesbury)
P2010A250012 A sculpture outside Salisbury cathedral. P2010A250023 Looking back towards Salisbury from the climb up towards Clarendon Palace.
Map of the walk
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Maps courtesy of Google Maps. Route for indicative purposes only, and may have been plotted after the walk. Please let me have comments on what you think of this new format. For a detailed table of timings for this walk, please see the table file.
P2010A250030 Views from the viewpoint near Clarendon Palace. P2010A250033 The ruins of Clarendon Palace.
After my (failed) attempt to walk the entire Clarendon Way last week, I decided to try to walk the easternmost stretch of it today. Instead of heading back the same way, it seemed like a good idea to combine this with a visit to Old Sarum, which I have visited, but never walked to, before. The drive to Salisbury was easy, and I was soon parked up in the Central car park. I was using my large rucksack once more, and was carrying a totally unnecessary full load of camping gear. Salisbury was just starting to warm up as I walked towards the cathedral, and I nipped into Reeves to buy a couple of sausage rolls. These were well and truly snaffled down by the time I reached the main entrance to the cathedral.
Salisbury cathedral looked spectacular in the early morning sunshine; a layer of frost covered the shaded areas of grass. I had already walked a mile, and the pack felt absolutely fine on my shoulders. I found the first Clarendon Way marker on a lamppost on the High Street, but after that I had to use my knowledge to find the route out of town. It was a pleasant stroll out of town, up until I passed under the ugly concrete bridge that carries the dual-carriageway ring road overhead. A hill then took me uphill past the youth hostel, the stiff climb nicely warming me up.
A long track took me eastwards, before a stiff climb up a track took me up towards the site of Clarendon Palace. Near the top there was a viewpoint, and the spire of Salisbury cathedral could just be seen in the distance. A picture-perfect thatched cottage nestled at the top of the hill, a wonderful place to live. The palace was originally a hunting lodge, which late became a palace for King Henry II and IIII. The Constitutions of Clarendon were developed at the palace, and these led to the fallout between King Henry II and Thomas Becket. Unfortunately the remains of the palace are exceptionally fragmentary, with only a couple of walls sticking above the bumps on the ground.
I did not spend much time examining the ruins, and instead plunged on into Clarendon Forest. The main track was soon left behind, a small waymarker pointing off down a narrow path. It was a great deal cooler within the trees, and I was glad that I had put my fleece on. The path was easy to follow along an obvious track that eventually descended, leaving the trees and approaching the farm at Four Cottages. A simple walk took me along the edge of the fields, before passing a sewage pumping station and entering the village of Pitton.
There is a pub and a little shop in Pitton, and I nipped in to buy a pack of crisps and a couple of chocolate bars, useful fuel for the rest of the day. The next few miles were rather bitty; a track led out of the village before climbing steeply uphill. There were no waymarkers to show where the point led off the track, but a kind man pointed me in the right direction. The actual path was overgrown, but it was easy to walk on a few yards to a gap in the hedge, which seems to be the route everyone else takes. The path to the church at West Winterslow offered some of the most expansive views of the day to the northwest, and I felt my heart lift. Five or six people passed me on the path, all admiring the views, and this must be a favourite dog walking route for the locals.
I did not bother to nip into West Winterslow, and instead took a path that led across a series of narrow stiles, each separated from the next by a metal gate. It was hard to find the proper route, and I ignored a waymarker that headed diagonally across a field, instead following the edge. This turned out to be correct, and the path soon entered an area of woodland before plummeting down to meet a track, where I joined the route I had done the previous week. A steep climb took me up into Middle Winterslow, where I hoped to find the pub open. Unfortunately it turned out to be shut; Mondays being the one day of the week when it does not open at lunchtime. The adjacent shop was open, however.
Soon I was retracing my steps, heading down the hill through the woodland. I was starting to feel a little tired, the heavy pack weighing me down. The next stretch of the old Roman Road to Dunstable Corner was heavily rutted, which again slowed me down. I stopped off on a bench beside a little play area by the village of Firsdown; I took my rucksack off and got a book out. The bench was fully in the sun, and I soon started to warm up. It was a lovely place to stop.
Eventually I put my rucksack on and headed off once again. A gently slope led up, entering a small area of woodland. I imagined myself being a Roman Legionnaire route-marching to Old Sarum, and this helped the next few miles fly by. As is usual with Roman roads, there were no obvious signs of the past aside from the arrow-straight route. Eventually the A30 is reached, and a road descended to the A338 and a railway bridge. Workmen were doing some work by the bridge, protected by four-way traffic lights.
The River Bourne was crossed, and a road then headed uphill, again following the course of the Roman Road. A light aircraft repeatedly flew overhead as my legs starting to stiffen slightly. The plane kept on making approaches to the grass runway of the airfield immediately to the north; I can only assume that it was training a pilot. The A345 road was surprisingly busy, and I had to wait for a few minutes before a safe gap in the traffic. Ahead lay the access driveway to Old Sarum.
Old Sarum is a famous landmark in the area; an old hillfort that was used by the Romans (several Roman roads lead here, including the one I had just followed). Later on it became a significant Anglo-Saxon settlement, and the Normans built a castle on the site. A Cathedral soon followed. Unfortunately a number of factors made the site unworkable; the limited space on the exposed hilltop; the shortage of fresh water and the close proximity of religious (cathedral) and military (castle) institutions. In the early thirteenth century the cathedral and inhabitants moved a couple of miles to a new settlement, New Sarum, which is now called Salisbury. The ruins of the castle and the footprint of the cathedral are in the care of English Heritage.
Instead of going into the interior, I followed a footpath that followed the top of the outer bank. It was a very pleasant stroll, with some good views. I still had a couple of hours before I had to pick Sencan up from work, so I found a convenient place and took my rucksack off. I lay down on the grassy bank and started reading my book. A steady stream of people passed me, their dogs unvaryingly coming up to take a sniff at my rather sweaty clothes. It was a wonderful place to stop for a rest; the history of the ancient monument mixing with the light aircraft and helicopters that flew overhead. The book was finished all too soon, and I reluctantly shouldered my rucksack and started off along the remaining stretch of ramparts. Just before the entrance road, a path led off to the right, and from this another track headed down towards Stratford sub Castle.
On the way there was a memorial stone on the right, on which was a plaque It commemorated the 'parliament tree', an elm tree under which the electors of Old Sarum met to choose their representative at parliament. Old Sarum was the most famous of the 'Rotten Boroughs', constituencies with only a handful of men able to vote. William Pitt was the most famous of Old Sarum's MPs. Such constituencies became increasingly obscene with the industrial revolution, where cities such as Manchester would have only a couple of MPs for many thousands of people. Old Sarum and the other rotten boroughs were finally abolished with the Great Reform Act in 1832. One of the great things about walking is finding these surprising echoes of history.
The rest of the walk from Stratford sub Castle to the car in Salisbury was along roads, and did not have much to commend it. When I got home I found a path that runs alongside the river, and that may well make a better route. I was feeling fine when I reached the car, and as there was still plenty of time before I needed to pick Sencan up, I went for a stroll around the centre of Salisbury. It had been an enjoyable day's walk, and put a lie to those who say that walking is no fun between October and March.
P2010A250042 The path leading eastwards through Clarendon Forest. P2010A250047 The path leading down into Pitton.
This walk starts off at the long-stay Central car park in Salisbury. Head south through the car park, passing the toilets and following a walkway with a stream on the left and the multistory car park on the right. When some shops are reached ahead, turn left to cross the stream along The Maltings. This soon curves to the right to head south, with a stream on the left. It curves to the left to cross the stream, and then right to and at a crossroads. Cross the road, and start heading south down the High Street. This crosses another road and then heads under an archway to approach the cathedral. When the road ends, continue straight on to reach the main doors at the western end of Salisbury Cathedral.
The next seven miles of this walk follow the Clarendon Way. From the main entrance of the cathedral, retrace your steps northwards along the path and the the road; pass under the archway and onto the High Street. Head straight on across the first crossroads with New Street, before turning right down New Canal. This heads in a rough easterly direction through the centre of Salisbury, eventually reaching the bridge that carries the A36 dual carriageway overhead.
On the other side of the bridge, the road becomes Milford Hill. Follow this uphill, passing the youth hostel on the left; at the top of the hill the road curves to the right, becoming Shady Bower. This passes a school on the right before crossing a railway line and descending, curving to the left. At the bottom of the hill turn right down Milford Mill Road. This heads eastwards; cross a narrow bridge over a stream and follow the road as it curves to the left, becoming Queen Manor Road.
Follow Queen Manor Road eastwards; when it ends it becomes a track that continues on. Pass Ranger's Lodge Farm and head on eastwards. As the track curves gently to the left at SU170298, go through a gap in a hedge and continue straight on diagonally across a field, rejoining the track at SU174298. This track soon starts to head uphill eastwards, curving to the right and passing a pretty thatched cottage on the left. Immediately after the cottage turn left along another track that heads eastwards; across a fence to the left is Clarendon Palace.
As this track curves to the left at the eastern end of the palace site, continue straight on along another track for abut fifty yards; keep your eye our for a low wooden post, on which is a marker pointing off to a path to the left. This heads through the woodland in a rough northeasterly direction, and is easy to follow once you have found it. Eventually it starts to descend, and emerges into an open area. It joins a hedge on the left, which is followed until the track ends at Four Cottages.
Cross a track, and continue on along a track that heads gently uphill, initially with a cottage's garden on the right. It skirts some woodland on the right and fields on the left; it finally emerges from the trees and continues on between fields. At the end of the next field, the path turns to the right and heads down with a hedge on the left to reach a road beside a small sewage pumping station. Turn left and follow the road northeastwards for a couple of hundred yards until a crossroads is reached in Pitton.
Cross the road, and continue straight on along the High Street. Pass the post office on the left, and just before the church is reached on the left, turn right up a surfaced path. Initially there is a wall on the left, then a hedge, as it passes a play area on the right. The path soon ends at a road called The Green. Turn left to follow The Green northeastwards; as this curves to the left, turn right up a slope to join a path. This heads northeastwards between hedges before joining a track.
The path meets a T-junction with a track at SU216316; turn right and start following this track as it heads uphill. A footpath leads off to the left between hedges at the top of the hill at SU220318. If this footpath too overgrown, continue on for a few yards to a gap in the hedge on the left. The path follows the edge of a field northeastwards along the top of an escarpment. Eventually it becomes a track and cuts inland away from the edge of the escarpment. It reaches a farm; continue straight on and pass a barn on the right to reach a track. Turn left down this road for a couple of yards to reach a road in West Winterslow.
Cross the road and head up the access road towards West Winterslow church. Keep the graveyard to the left and pass the church on the same side to go through a metal clappergate to reach a field. Keep the hedges on the left as you pass northwards through a series of clappergates in rapid succession. The path reaches some woodland at SU228328; here it turns to the left to head downhill for about fifty yards before turning to the right and entering the woodland.
The path is easy to follow through the woodland; it eventually turns to the left to head downhill through the trees to a metal clappergate. Go through this and descend a few yards to a track; turn right up this track and follow it as it climbs uphill, curving to head uphill eastwards. The track ends at a surfaced road; continue eastwards along this for a few yards, before turning right along a road called The Flood. Continue straight on to reach the Lord Nelson pub in Middle Winterslow.
The first part of this walk retraces your route as far as the metal clappergate in the woodland; head down The Flood, and when it ends turn left to join the surfaced track continue straight on along a track called Cobb Lane. This starts to descend and curves to the left. Near the bottom of the hill the track curves sharply to the right at SU231331; instead of going through the clappergate, continue on along the track westwards. It soon emerges from the trees and is heavily rutted before it ends at a road at SU224331.
At the road turn right to head northwestwards for a hundred yards until a crossroads is reached at Dunstable Corner; here turn left down another road southwestwards. Immediately after a farm on the right, a path leads off to the right between fences. This immediately curves to the left and takes a westerly course to join a green track. Follow this path westwards for a little over two miles as it climbs and falls, before ending at a minor road at SU187331. Go through a wooden gate, cross the road and continue on along the track on the other side. After a few hundred yards this ends at the A30 road.
Carefully cross the A30, and on the other side start following Old Malthouse Lane downhill. After a mile this turns sharply to the left and reaches the A338 by a railway bridge. Turn right to cross the bridge, and then turn left down another road. This descends into the valley of the River Bourne; it curves sharply to the right and ends at a T-junction with another road. Continue straight on along this road, immediately crossing a bridge over the Bourne. On the other side, follow the road as it heads uphill westwards for 1.3 miles, passing the little village of Ford before reaching a minor road. turn right down this road for a few yards to reach the A345 road.
Carefully cross the A345 road and start up the access road into Old Sarum. This soon curves to the left; when it turns to the right once more, turn sharp-right and join a footpath that runs along the top of the outer bank that guarded Old Sarum. Walk for just under a mile around the banks; just before the access road is reached, turn right down a footpath that angles down a bank that joins a track that heads southeastwards for a few yards towards the A345 road. Just before this is reached, turn right down another footpath. This heads southwestwards, initially with a hedge on the right.
As the hedge starts to curve to the right, head straight on along a narrower path that enters an area of scrub woodland; after a few yards a narrow tree-lined track is reached. Follow this downhill for a third of a mile until the track ends at a road at Stratford road in Stratford sub Castle. Turn left and start following this road southeastwards for two-thirds of a mile until it ends at the A345 road. Turn right to follow this southwards for a short distance to the Castle Roundabout. To the right, a subway leads under the roundabout. In the centre, turn right to head to the western side of the roundabout. Once back at the surface, turn left to start following Castle Street southwards. This passes under a railway line; at SU143304 turn right to take Mill Stream Approach westwards, crossing the mill stream to reach the Central car park once more.
P2010A250051 A cottage in Pitton. P2010A250065 The path between Pitton and Middle Winterslow.
Distance (m)
Ascent (ft)
Descent (ft)
Salisbury Central car park Middle Winterslow 8.1 787 443
Middle Winterslow Old Sarum 6.4 420 617
Old Sarum Salisbury Central car park 2.8 148 299
This makes a total distance of 17.3 miles, with 1355 feet of ascent and 1359 feet of descent.
For more information on profiles, ascents and descents, see this page
P2010A250069 Middle Winterslow church. P2010A250070 The path between Middle Winterslow and West Winterslow.
P2010A250071 The path between Middle Winterslow and West Winterslow. P2010A250076 The path between Middle Winterslow and West Winterslow.
P2010A250085 A windmill near Dunstable Corner. P2010A250089 Heading west along the Roman Road past Firsdown.
P2010A250095 Heading west along the Roman Road past Firsdown. P2010A250109 Heading west along the Roman Road towards the A30.
P2010A250122 A plane coming in to land at the airfieidl. P2010A250132 The ramparts of Old Sarum.
P2010A250136 Salisbury Cathedral viewed from the ramparts of Old Sarum. P2010A250142 A monument to the Parliament Tree.
P2010A250145 Salisbury.
Please note that I take no responsibility for anything that may happen when following these directions. If you intend to follow this route, then please use the relevant maps and check the route out before you go out. As always when walking, use common sense and you should be fine.
If you find any information on any of these routes that is inaccurate, or you wish to add anything, then please email me.
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And finally, enjoy your walking!
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Cat's Meow
Pop Culture Lists
These are the Cat's Meow pieces I've collected the past few years. This page contains all my Worcester pieces. These are NOT for sale. Check out the index for other pieces I have.
1961 Double Decker English Bus (1998)Abercrombie House (2002)Assumption Chapel of the Holy Spirit (1998)Bancroft Hotel (1996)Bancroft Tower (2004)Boulevard Diner (1997)Central Fire Station (1997)City Hall (1993)City Hall 150th Anniversary (1998)City Hospital (1998)Clark University (1997)Coney Island Hot Dogs (1996)Cristoforo Columbo Park Shrewsbury Street (2000)D'Errico's Market (1999)Dean-Sumner House 10 Cedar Street (2000)Denholms at Christmas (1996)EM Loews Plymouth Theatre (2005)Eastons (1999)Elm Park (2002)Elm Park Footbridge (1995)Elwood Adams Hardware Store (1997)G Henry Whitcomb House (1995)Greenwood St Fire Station (1997)Hadwen Park Market (1997)Halloween Outlet (1998)Higgins Armory Musuem (1997)High School of Commerce (1998)Jeremiah's Inn (1998)Jerry's Hardware (2001)Joe's Diner (2002)La Maison Francaise, Assumption College (1994)Lake View Congregational Church (2001)Mac's Diner (1998)Mechanics Hall (1993)Miss Worcester Diner (1993)National Guard Armory (1993)O'Connor's Restaurant and Bar (1998)Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (2000)Owl Shop (1993)Parkway Diner (1997)Paul Revere Insurance Group (1997)Polar Beverages (2004)Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner (1998)Renovated Union Station July 4 2000 (2004)Saint Paul Cathedral (1994)Salisbury Mansion (1992)Sole Proprietor (2005)Southeast Fire Station (2007)Speedy's Drive-In (1998)St. John's Church (1998)St. Josephs Church (1994)Three Decker (1994)Town Talk Bread (2006)Trumbull Mansion (1994)Union Station (1993)WRTA Bus (2000)Waldo Street Police Station (2006)Webster House (1997)Webster Street Firehouse (2002)Weintraub's Deli & Restaurant (1998)Worcester Academy Lewis J. Warner Memorial Theater (1998)Worcester Art Museum (1995)Worcester County Court House (1995)Worcester Courthouse (2008)Worcester Historical Museum (2002)Worcester Market (1994)Worcester Medical Center (2000)Worcester Memorial Auditorium (1994)Worcester Polyechnic Institute (1996)Worcester State College (2004)Worcester State Hospital Clock Tower (2004)
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Student Proximal Achievement Outcomes in
by Christa L. Ice, Kathleen V. Hoover-dempsey
"... A notable increase in the number of U.S. families choosing to homeschool their children in recent years has underscored the need to develop more systematic knowledge about this approach to education. Drawing on a theoretical model of parental involvement as well as research on families’ social netwo ..."
networks, this study longitudinally examines home- and public-school parents ’ motivations for home-based involvement in their fourth through eighth grade children’s education at two time points. The study also exam-ines whether involvement activities predicted student proximal achievement outcomes
Student Achievement Outcomes for the
by Memphis Kipp, Diamond Academy, Brenda Mcsparrin Gallagher, Steven M. Ross , 2005
"... The present study examined outcomes on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program/Achievement Test (TCAP/AT) for the KIPP:DIAMOND Academy (KIPP:DA), which is in its second year of operation. Importantly, as in Year 1, a rigorous quasi-experimental research design was employed, in which each KIPP ..."
The present study examined outcomes on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program/Achievement Test (TCAP/AT) for the KIPP:DIAMOND Academy (KIPP:DA), which is in its second year of operation. Importantly, as in Year 1, a rigorous quasi-experimental research design was employed, in which each
Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests
by Gary Charness, Matthew Rabin , 2001
"... Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferences”. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing social w ..."
welfare—sacrificing to increase the payoffs for all recipients, especially lowpayoff recipients—than with reducing differences in payoffs (as supposed in recent models). Subjects are also motivated by reciprocity: They withdraw willingness to sacrifice to achieve a fair outcome when others are themselves
Boosting a Weak Learning Algorithm By Majority
by Yoav Freund , 1995
"... We present an algorithm for improving the accuracy of algorithms for learning binary concepts. The improvement is achieved by combining a large number of hypotheses, each of which is generated by training the given learning algorithm on a different set of examples. Our algorithm is based on ideas pr ..."
We present an algorithm for improving the accuracy of algorithms for learning binary concepts. The improvement is achieved by combining a large number of hypotheses, each of which is generated by training the given learning algorithm on a different set of examples. Our algorithm is based on ideas
Motivational and self-regulated learning components of classroom academic performance
by Paul R. Pintrich, Elisabeth V. De Groot - Journal of Educational Psychology , 1990
"... A correlational study examined relationships between motivational orientation, self-regulated learning, and classroom academic performance for 173 seventh graders from eight science and seven English classes. A self-report measure of student self-efficacy, intrinsic value, test anxiety, self-regulat ..."
-regulation, and use of learning strategies was administered, and performance data were obtained from work on classroom assignments. Self-efficacy and intrinsic value were positively related to cognitive engagement and performance. Regression analyses revealed that, depending on the outcome measure, self
The Nash Bargaining Solution in Economic Modeling
by Ken Binmore, Ariel Rubinstein, Asher Wolinsky - Rand Journal of Economics , 1986
"... This article establishes the relationship between the static axiomatic theory of bargaining and the sequential strategic approach to bargaining. We consider two strategic models of alternating offers. The models differ in the source of the incentive of the bargaining parties to reach agreement: the ..."
: the bargainers ' time preference and the risk of breakdown of negotiation. Each of the models has a unique perfect equilibrium. When the motivation to reach agreement is made negligible, in each model the unique perfect equilibrium outcome approaches the Nash bargaining solution, with utilities that reflect
Reinforcement Learning I: Introduction
by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto , 1998
"... In which we try to give a basic intuitive sense of what reinforcement learning is and how it differs and relates to other fields, e.g., supervised learning and neural networks, genetic algorithms and artificial life, control theory. Intuitively, RL is trial and error (variation and selection, search ..."
, search) plus learning (association, memory). We argue that RL is the only field that seriously addresses the special features of the problem of learning from interaction to achieve long-term goals.
Nonparametric estimation of average treatment effects under exogeneity: a review
by Guido W. Imbens - REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS , 2004
"... Recently there has been a surge in econometric work focusing on estimating average treatment effects under various sets of assumptions. One strand of this literature has developed methods for estimating average treatment effects for a binary treatment under assumptions variously described as exogen ..."
as exogeneity, unconfoundedness, or selection on observables. The implication of these assumptions is that systematic (for example, average or distributional) differences in outcomes between treated and control units with the same values for the covariates are attributable to the treatment. Recent analysis has
by Lee Smolin , 2004
"... We describe the basic assumptions and key results of loop quantum gravity, which is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. The emphasis is on the basic physical principles and how one deduces predictions from them, at a level suitable for physicists in other areas such as string theor ..."
quantum gravity may provide predictions for their outcomes. Finally, we provide answers to frequently asked questions and a list of key open problems.
Self-discrepancy: A theory relating self and affect
by E. Tory Higgins - Psychological Review , 1987
"... This article presents a theory of how different types of discrepancies between self-state representa-tions are related to different kinds of emotional vulnerabilities. One domain of the self (actual; ideal; ought) and one standpoint on the self (own; significant other) constitute each type of self-s ..."
of an individual's beliefs about his or her own or a significant other's hopes, wishes, or aspirations for the individual) signify the absence of positive outcomes, which is associated with dejection-related emotions (e.g., disappointment, dissatisfaction, sadness). In contrast, discrepancies between
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News > Article
1 month ago - 11/30/2019
With their 29:27 win at home against Kadetten Schaffhausen, Chekhovskie medvedi finished fifth in the VELUX EHF Champions League group D, leaving the Swiss champions in last place.
In a close game with several spectacular goals, the home team got the edge at the end.
Chekhov finish fifth with eight points, Schaffhausen sixth with six points
There were never more than two goals separating the teams
Kirill Kotov scored seven goals for Chekhov, Sebastian Frimmel eight for Schaffhausen
Chekhovskie medvedi (RUS) vs Kadetten Schaffhausen (SUI) 29:27 (14:14)
Only honour and the chance to avoid finishing last in the group were at stake when Schaffhausen visited the Sport Hall Olimpiyskiy in Chekhov.
Thanks to their two-goal win, Chekhov managed to finish fifth and leave Schaffhausen in sixth and last place as the group D matches concluded.
Neither team had any major problems creating scoring opportunities and benefitting from them, and this also meant that neither team was able to create a commanding lead.
In fact, there were never more than two goals separating the two and the lead changed hands often.
In the last minutes, however, Chekhov got the edge with a two-goal lead, which they kept until the end.
Chekhovskie coach Vladimir Maksimov said he thought his team’s defence had worked well.
“In general, the game was beautiful, and both teams showed a desire to win. This last Champions League game will help us prepare better for our domestic games. And we wish our guests success in their Swiss League matches,” Maksimov said.
Author: Peter Bruun / jh
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Rob Ford for Esquire Magazine
Last month, I had the very unique opportunity to photograph the infamous Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, for Esquire magazine. His Worship, written by the talented Chris Jones, is an insightful feature that further explicates the phenomenon of political office that is Rob Ford. The full story can be read at Esquire.com.
It was the portrait session that almost never happened. We were given a loose time frame as to when it could happen, and as the days passed, and with the media scrutinizing his every move, we felt like his staffers would just simply opt out of the portrait session. But then, after a media briefing following a major snowstorm here in Toronto, Mayor Ford made some time for a respectable portrait session (sans NFL tie, unfortunately), and was very gracious and considerate.
Yes, those are some ass kicking cowboy boots on Mayor Ford. They featured Texas Longhorns, symbols of the Mayor’s favorite college team, across the boot’s front quarter. Some other curiosities from our shoot at the Mayor’s office: behind a building column in the waiting room, the Mayor has an incredible collection of political cartoons featuring himself. There must be 50 of them covering the wall in a neatly organized grid.
How do you set-up a quick portrait studio on a moment’s notice? With a reliable set of hands (Assistant Jeff Jamieson), and versatile equipment. We had no idea where we’d be allowed to shoot, but luckily the waiting room we were given had plenty of space.
In Commissions, Portraits, Recently Published Work
Chris Jones Esquire Magazine Rob Ford RoFo Toronto Toronto Mayor
Very nice set of images Finn.
I’m wondering what the bare bulb in the above BTS frame does, if you do not mind sharing?
Because I see no evidence of it’s fill effect in the final photos. But maybe I’m just not seeing it.
Hi Ron – thanks for the kind words. I use the bare bulb as a secondary catch to my main light. I power it right down, and use enough to get just a little kick in the subject’s eyes.
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NMSU Football Falls 60-13 At Utah State
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Sat, 09/08/2018 - 10:36pm by Sam Wasson Tags:
Football Game Recaps
Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.
LOGAN, UT - The New Mexico State football team took on 2017 NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl opponent Utah State at Maverik Stadium on Saturday night. A highly anticipated bowl rematch featured the opposition putting a lot of points on the board, most notably from the kicker position, on the way to NM State dropping the road contest, 60-13.
“We just look dysfunctional right now and have a lot of guys hurt on defense which does not help,” said head coach Doug Martin following the loss. “On the offensive side the quarterback is struggling and the offensive line is struggling so those two things together
The scoring in the first quarter came just 6:01 into the contest. After NM State (0-3) elected to punt on its first drive, Utah State (1-1) drove down the field before hitting a 44-yard field goal for an early 3-0 lead.
Then on the first play of the next drive for the Crimson & White, a sack and fumble gave USU the ball just 19 yards from the end zone. The NM State defense stood strong forcing a fourth down, but Utah State was able to knock down the 32-yard field goal attempt to put the score at 6-0.
NM State looked to respond on its next drive as quarterback Matt Romero orchestrated a great 10-play drive that spanned 75 yards and took 3:13 off the clock. The drive ended with Romero finding Johnathan Boone in the back corner of the end zone on an 18-yard touchdown pass to give the visitors a 7-6 advantage.
This lead did not last long, however, as Utah State saw returner Savon Scarver take the ensuing kick back 100 yards for a touchdown and NM State again trailed 13-7 with 4:19 left in the first quarter. Then before the opening quarter came to a close, USU moved down the field and although a few plays went backwards, the home team still converted on a 51-yard field goal attempt for a 16-7 lead heading into the second quarter.
Utah State’s first drive of the next frame saw Cedric Wilcots II hurry the quarterback into an errant pass to the middle of the field that found the hands of safety Shamad Lomax who got the interception and opened NM State’s nest series at the USU 38-yard line. The Crimson & White then turned this into points when Dylan Brown came onto the field and put a 49-yard field goal attempt right down the middle of the uprights and put the deficit at just 16-10 with 8:13 left in the half.
The Crimson & White looked to force another turnover on an interception in the end zone on USU’s next drive but a roughing the passer penalty gave the home team the ball back in the red zone. This good field position ended with a one-yard touchdown rush and NM State fell behind 23-10.
The scoring did not end there for Utah State as the opponent knocked down a 22-yard field goal attempt on its next drive for a 16-point advantage. Then before the half came to a close, USU found the end zone on a 14-yard touchdown pass and NM State trailed 33-10 heading to the locker room at halftime.
In the second half, each team came out playing well defensively forcing a punt on each of the first three drives before another score was put up on the board. NM State was moving down the field into USU’s side of the field before an interception was returned 75-yards for a Utah State touchdown and the score moved to 40-10.
Looking to cut into the deficit, the Crimson & White moved down the field effectively and saw Romero connect with Drew Dan by the sidelines on a pass that gave NM State a first down just three yards from the end zone. Utah State’s defense held the goal line, but Brown came back on the field to knock down a 31-yard field goal to put the USU lead at 40-13.
The lead for Utah State expanded on the next drive before closing out the third quarter. A hand off for USU turned into a 51-yard rushing touchdown that put NM State behind 47-13 heading into the fourth quarter.
Another long touchdown rush for Utah State, this time for 68-yards, saw the home team’s first drive of the fourth quarter put NM State down 54-13 as 13:01 remained on the clock. The scoring did not stop there as Utah State forced an interception on the first play of NM State’s next drive. This turnover was converted into points on a 51-yard field goal that put the Crimson & White down 57-13.
Then Utah State kicker Dominik Eberle continued to stay perfect from long range knocking down another 51-yard field goal attempt to put NM State down 60-13 with 6:58 left in the game. That score stood as the final with the final second’s ticking off the clock and NM State dropping the road clash to Utah State.
New Mexico State now returns to the City of Crosses for the next game against Battle of I-25 rival New Mexico on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 6 p.m. MT inside Aggie Memorial Stadium.
- Roy Lopez’s sack in the first quarter was the first of the season for NM State.
- The interception by Shamad Lomax in the second quarter was the first of the season for the team.
- Dylan Brown knocked down a career long 49-yard field goal in the second quarter.
- Quarterback Josh Adkins made the first appearance in his NM State career.
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Sif, Goddess of... Prosperity?
We've talked a little bit about Sif before on the blog -- mostly in regard to how little we have in the source material attesting to her character, which I'd like to recap briefly:
Thor's wife, Sif, is only related to us in any real detail in two places. A story in the Skáldskaparmál (from Snorri's Prose Edda) during which Loki shaves off her hair in the night as a cruel prank, and within a poem called the Lokasenna in the Poetic Edda where Loki insults by turns the majority of those residing in Asgard, Sif included. Sif is greatly upset by the loss of her hair, and Loki, to make amends (and probably to prevent Thor from delivering a beating he wouldn't soon forget) retrieves for her a wig of golden hair from the dwarves to replace it. In the Lokasenna, Loki accuses Sif of taking him as her lover. We don't know if Sif actually did have an affair with Loki or not, as it is neither confirmed nor denied anywhere else in the remaining myths and she doesn't refute it in the poem.
We know Sif is beautiful, but other than these two accounts, we know nothing about her character. My own interpretation of Sif from these bits and pieces is of a vain goddess, and from the way she addresses Loki in the Lokasenna it almost sounds as though because of her relationship with him, she expects him not to insult her. I wouldn't be surprised if Loki appealed to her vanity to get her into bed with him, since Thor is so often out wandering and getting into fights with giants.
But there's a third discussion of Sif's character that I mentioned in a later post, from the Lay of Hárbarðr, wherein a disguised Odin, in a match of insult with Thor, tells his son that Sif is having an affair and he should get back home and deck that guy instead of standing around unarmed in a battle of wits. Add to this the established fact that Sif has a son, Ullr, who is most explicitly named as Thor's step-son, and it gives you some food for thought. Either Sif had an affair with someone before her marriage to Thor (totally plausible) or she had an affair after she married Thor.
Admittedly, both of these accusations regarding Sif's fidelity are brought out in Flyting Poems, wherin the entire point is to out-insult the other party. And just as admittedly, calling a dude a cuckold is probably low-hanging fruit. But you have to wonder. Or at least I do. Especially when there is so little else to support any indication of Sif's character beyond the story of her hair being shorn, are these two references to her as an adulteress preserved for a reason? Is it another way to show that Thor is kind of a dumb ox, too stupid to realize his wife is fooling around behind his back? But if so, it's only powerful if it's true.
Now it's pretty well assumed that Sif's golden hair is an association with wheat and the bounty of the harvest, and her marriage to Thor is maybe representative of the union of sky god and earth goddess -- the rain falling to fertilize the fields -- but I'm not sure this makes Sif herself a goddess of fertility, so much as it reflects upon Thor's position as a god of fertility. But what if Sif with her golden hair made of magic, practically living gold, was a goddess of prosperity instead? The sheering of her hair being representative of the harvest and the reaping of wheat is pretty well accepted, but instead of Sif growing that hair back like any normal person, it's replaced with gold. What if she's the goddess invoked to protect the STORES, the goddess of the gathered bounty, and the wealth it can provide in exchange.
There isn't, that I've found so far, any sign or symbolism related to Sif as a healer, but prosperity is hardly limited to grain and money (though I do kind of like the idea of her being a goddess of bread and beer, just because... alliteration). Prosperity is a product of health -- a man being strong enough to plow his fields and plant his seed, then capable of harvesting it, bringing it to market after that. It's a product of surviving childbirth and raising those kids to adulthood to help work the fields and support the family.
But if she's a goddess concerned with wealth, that certainly might relate to greed and vanity, in addition. Success and prosperity is so often caught up in honor and respect. Appearances and keeping up with the Joneses, next door. And if Thor is running around having affairs with Giantesses -- Jarnsaxa is the father of Magni, Thor's son -- and leaving her at home while he goes about Adventuring, it isn't difficult to believe that Sif might be inclined to punish him for the perceived slight to herself. And what Sif can give by way of prosperity, bounty, children, gold, honor, health, I have no trouble believing she can take away.
Maybe that's why the only child Sif and Thor have together is one, single daughter, Thrud.
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According to personal finance firm Credit Karma Tax, filers who reported short-term capital losses for cryptocurrencies in the first month of 2019 jumped fivefold year-over-year. After the incredibly bearish crypto markets of 2018, data from early tax filers highlights the fact that more investors are claiming losses this tax season. However, a survey the company recorded back in November found that the number of people deciding not to file crypto taxes has increased.
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Tax Filers Reporting Short-Term Crypto Gains and Losses Spike Considerably
Last April, as tax season approached, news.Bitcoin.com reported on how many cryptocurrency holders didn’t really care. At the time, the general manager of Credit Karma Tax, Jagjit Chawla, explained that out of 250,000 cryptocurrency holders, less than 100 people (0.0004%) reported their gains to the IRS. The tax season in 2019, however, has seen an increase of individuals reporting short-term capital losses. Sharing the data with our newsdesk, the company said that filers who reported short-term capital losses for bitcoin in the first month of 2019 jumped 521 percent in comparison to the first month of 2018. Moreover, short-term BTC losses averaged $3,405, which is a 322 percent increase since last year’s tax season.
“Short-term bitcoin gains declined during the first month of the 2019 filing season, with a net 7% decrease in the average amount of gains,” the report reads. “However, 33% more early filers reported short-term gains year-over-year.” The document’s author notes:
Investors with long-term gains are the winners so far this tax season, with early filers reporting an average gain of $15,352 during the first month of the 2019 filing season — up 103% from the same period last year.
Out of 1,000 bitcoin investors, 47 percent of respondents stated they did not plan on reporting crypto gains or losses.
Despite Increase in Short-Term Filings, Survey Reveals 47% of U.S. Investors Still Plan to Skip Paying Crypto Taxes
The methodology Credit Karma Tax used stems from data from members who filed their 2018 federal income taxes with the company between January 28 and February 22, 2019. This is in comparison to tax filers who submitted their 2017 taxes with the firm between January 29 and February 22, 2018. So year after year, data shows that people are claiming gains and losses more so than 2018 and 2017. However, the amount of people paying taxes on crypto assets is still incredibly small compared to the number of investors. In November of 2017, a Lendedu survey of 1,000 U.S. residents showed that 35.87 percent of the survey participants responded, “No, I do not plan on reporting gains or losses on my tax return.”
The data from Credit Karma Tax published on April 3 reveals that these numbers could be climbing higher. In November 2018, the company surveyed 1,000 bitcoin investors aged 18 and older and discovered 47 percent of U.S. based investors did not plan on reporting crypto gains or losses. “More than a third of those surveyed were unaware they could be required to report the same on their tax returns,” the firm’s report reveals. Last year a few bitcoin proponents got extremely salty with the previous year’s survey which showed lots of crypto holders were not paying taxes, so the increase last year may infuriate them.
Many crypto investors despise taxation and believe that bitcoin was meant to be used as a tool to protest such acts.
In fact, for many people in the bitcoin world, the idea of crypto and taxes is like mixing oil with water. Only recently, bitcoiners have been discussing how crypto taxation is actually the biggest hindrance to digital currency adoption. So the steady increase of bitcoin holders that do not plan to report losses and gains to the IRS suggests that people may be thinking twice about paying into a blatantly corrupt and immoral system.
What do you think about the increase of short-term capital losses filed year-over-year? What do you think about the November 2018 survey showing 47% of investors do not plan to file crypto gains and losses? Let us know what you think about this story in the comments section below.
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“The film reminds us that our wakeful self is no richer or more important than our dormant being that is irrepressibly ruminating on the remains of the day.”
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
For seven years in the 1960s, Dion McGregor, a gay American songwriter living in New York, was recorded by his roommate narrating his dreams in his sleep. Half a century later, these tapes, since made into cult albums, were brought to the attention of the filmmaking duo behind the 2012 documentary sensation Leviathan. Working out of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor have entered McGregor’s bizarre dreamworld, moving their camera across the naked bodies of other sleepers while he sings and soliloquizes, as though charting their way into the unconscious territory where the “brain is left to weave its yarns outside our daytime regime of consent and constraint” (documenta 14).
Somniloquies | France/Great Britain/USA2017 Dir: Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor. 73 min. DCP
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Forgotten Books: THE SHADOW UNMASKS (1937, 2008)
Will Murray's new Doc Savage novel The Sinister Shadow (reviewed HERE), put me in such a Shadowy mood that I decided it was time to finally take a look at The Shadow Unmasks.
That story, from the first August, 1937 issue of The Shadow's mag, was finally reprinted in 2008, paired with the tale that followed two weeks later, The Yellow Band.
Figuring this would be a special story, I'd been saving it until I was in just the right mood. But while I was right about being in the mood, I was wrong about the story. It involves a fairly clever jewel theft scheme, but there's very little mystery because the reader (and apparently the Shadow) knows what's happening right from the start. The best that can be said is that our hero is involved in a couple of good shootouts along the way - but isn't he always? And his number one agent Harry Vincent faces a creative torture method. He's trapped in a Chinese laundry and stretched on a rack made of ironing boards and laundry wringers. Aside from that - blah.
The setup for the Shadow revealing his identity is more interesting. As depicted on the cover, The Shadow, in the guise of Lamont Cranston, meets police Commissioner Weston outside his club. Then an incovenient newsboy provides a paper announcing that Cranston (this being the real Cranston) has been injured in a plane crash in Europe. Temporarily denied the use of his favorite false identity, the Shadow makes the peculiar leap of logic that his best course is to revert to his true (and heretofore unnamed) secret identity of Kent Allard, an aviator thought to have crashed in the South America some twelve years earlier.
Smack in the middle of the story, in a scene unrelated to the jewel theft plot, the Shadow reveals himself to a friend, and tells his tale. He was, we learn, an Ace fighter pilot in WWI. Known to the enemy as The Dark Eagle, he worked as a roving secret agent behind the lines, where he presumably honed his shadowy skills. After the war he flew to Guatamala and cultivated a friendship with the Xinca Indians, who believed him to be a god from the sky. He then came secretly to New York, where he adopted the identity of the Shadow.
The Dark Eagle stuff seems well thought out, and is backed up by passages in several earlier adventures. But the Guatamala angle is a bit goofy, and smacks of something Walter Gibson dreamed up on the spot.
That Gibson was on a spot is revealed by Will Murray in the Nostalgia Ventures reprint. With the premiere of the Shadow radio program fast approaching, and presenting the simplified notion that the Shadow and Cranston were one and the same, the Street & Smith Poo-Bahs ordered Gibson to reveal the Shadow's true identity pronto. The logic of this escapes me, but the result was that Gibson was forced to come up with this yarn quickly. My guess is that the jewel robbery stuff was already plotted - if not written - and he just inserted the Kent Allard story to keep his bosses happy.
As pointed out by Frank Eisburger Jr. in Gangland's Doom (a former Fogotten Book, HERE, and now available in a new edition from Altus Press), the details of Allard's wartime and post-war activities, in addition to the origin of his girasol ring, do not jibe with much of what was said in earlier novels.
Bottom line, the Shadow's unmasking (aside from the great cover) was far less dramatic and satisfying than it promised - and deserved - to be.
Labels: Forgotten Books, Pulps, The Shadow
JoeK said...
I think everyone agrees that this issue was subpar considering the "big Secret" being revealed. In about five years time, Kent Allard is pretty much forgotten (as are pretty much all of the Shadow's other aliases). When Bruce Elliott begins writing, he even stops being the Shadow and just becomes Lamont Cranston amateur detective.
John Olsen's review talks a bit about the Shadow's rings and has a sound clip of Walter Gibson explaining that there were actually two fire opal rings.
http://home.comcast.net/~deshadow/reviews/shadow131.html
George Kelley said...
You and Bill Crider are into THE SHADOW this week. I may have to go back and read some, too!
IIRC, the earlier novels, like "The Eyes of the Shadow" and "The Shadow Laughs," dropped hints that the Shadow was Lamont Cranston. In one, for example, the Shadow was wounded in a gunfight, and then Cranston turned up later with a gunshot wound. By the time the radio series premiered, a lot of fans probably assumed that his real identity was Cranston, although (again, IIRC) the idea that Cranston was just one of the Shadow's disguises was revealed in the pulp series before 1937.
I seem to remember one or two stories where it was implied that Kent Allard's face was horribly mutilated in WWI.
Philip Jose Farmer ("Tarzan Alive," "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life") speculated that Kent Allard/the Shadow, Richard Wentworth/the Spider, and G-8 were all the same shell-shocked veteran, who had developed multiple personalities. Maybe the Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Avenger all got their gold from the same lost native South American civilization.
"Lamont Cranston, amateur detective" and "Doc Savage, scientific detective" were probably attempts to update the characters and make them more realistic.
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Dora Benley’s latest young adult thriller, Mysterious Neighbor, should be published soon. The announcement is coming just in time for Halloween and all those ghosts and things that go bump in the night.
Teenager Madeline Anthony-Pratt climbs over the wall to her neighbor’s house one night to retrieve her cat. Intruders appear. She hides in the shadows. They whisper in a foreign tongue and hold out a Pepsi can with black crud on it. They light a match.
Why are they trying to blow up her neighbor’s house tonight? The men aren’t telling as the match gets closer to the wick.
In Mysterious Neighbor Madeline and her boyfriend, Drew, are left to deal with matters as best they can, and even Drew can’t help much. He had just enlisted in the military. No adults seem willing to help except the old lady next door, the mysterious neighbor, who is being targeted by the thugs. She has all too much to tell Madeline. And the teenager can count the seconds ticking away on her life after she finds out the dangerous information the old lady has to impart to her.
This is no ordinary plot. It’s bigger than 9/11 and far more devastating. It has been two thousand years in the making.
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Hamlet Is A Big Subject For Dora Benley:
Dora Benley not only likes to write novels about ancient Rome and Greece, she is also fond of Shakespeare and Hamlet. Two of her recent novels have concerned themselves with Hamlet. Just last week she published the YA thriller Ophelia Plot about a girl who was kidnapped while she was putting on Hamlet on the high school stage. Yet to be published is the Edward Ware Thrillers at War novel Murder at Hamlet’s Castle. Dora and Edward are attending a performance of Hamlet when they get a note from Churchill. They have to make their way to Hamlet’s Castle in Denmark where they are supposed to hide the Lawrence maps.
After narrowly escaping the von Wessels, Hitler’s chief spies, in Santa Fe while on leave from Mid East Quarters in Cairo, Edward and Dora don’t know where to go next and where to hide the Lawrence maps, key to world domination. They have just been watching a production of Hamlet when they get a note from Winston Churchill. He says that he and Clemmie got locked in the dungeon of Hamlet’s Castle in Helsingor, Denmark. It was where the Danish army used to be billeted in the Middle Ages. They had to raise Hamlet’s ghost screaming to be let out. It just occurred to Winston it would be a perfect location to hide the much sought after military maps. No one would ever suspect they were there — and if they did they would never be able to escape with their lives let alone the prize that Hitler has been seeking for years.
But after a huge chase scene to get away from states they meet unexpected obstacles in the castle in 1934. The mistress who keeps the place up turns out to be the perfect Nazi spy in cahoots with Hitler and the von Wessels. Once again they need to escape. But this time they meet an unexpected ally in the famous Dane himself, Shakespeare’s most famous character. They uncover Hamlet’s secret notebooks that tell them just what they need to know. Others were cornered in this castle long ago. Hamlet tells them how he escaped in a tale that upsets all previous notions of the man, his character, and his fate.
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Species - Alkali Sagebrush - Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longiloba
Alkali Sagebrush - Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longiloba
Other Names: Artemisia longiloba
Global Rank: G5T4
Artemisia arbuscula subspecies longiloba is known from about 17 locations in the very southern portions of Beaverhead, Madison, and Park Counties. While the range of subspecies longiloba appears limited within Montana, its presence does not suggest rarity. Current information on this plant's locations, population sizes, and threats are greatly needed.
Details on Status Ranking and Review
Alkali Sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longiloba) Conservation Status Review
Review Date = 06/20/2018
View State Conservation Rank Criteria
Range Extent
ScoreE - 5,000-20,000 sq km (~2,000-8,000 sq mi)
Area of Occupancy
ScoreD - 6-25 4-km2 grid cells
Number of Populations
ScoreB - 6 - 20
Number of Occurrences or Percent Area with Good Viability / Ecological Integrity
ScoreC - Few (4-12) occurrences with excellent or good viability or ecological integrity
Environmental Specificity
ScoreC - Moderate. Generalist or community with some key requirements scarce
ScoreD - Low
CommentNo known threats.
PLANTS: Aromatic shrubs of 10–40 cm height (Lesica 2012) that sprout from roots (FNA 2006). Stems are gray-green to brown, brittle, and glabrate (FNA 2006). Plants are glabrate to tomentose, and sometimes with obscure resin dots beneath the tomentum (FNA 2006; Lesica 2012).
LEAVES: Aromatic, gray-green, wedge-shaped (cuneate), 5–25 mm long, and tipped with 3 lobes (FNA 2006). Upper leaves are densely hairy (not sticky) (FNA 2006). Leaves on flowering stems are deciduous while those on non-flowering stems are persistent (FNA 2006).
INFLORESCENCE: Spiciform with linear bracts (Lesica 2012).
In Montana we have subspecies arbuscula and longiloba (refer to Habitat, Phenology & Diagnostic Characteristics).
Subspecies arbuscula flowers from mid- to late summer (FNA 2006), which in Montana is mid-August to September (Lesica 2012).
Subspecies longiloba flowers from early to late spring (FNA 2006), which in Montana is from July to mid-August (Lesica 2012). Its ability to begin blooming as snow melts in the spring is a unique characteristic for the subgenus Tridentatae (FNA 2006).
Refer also to Phenology.
Subspecies arbuscula has leaves with acute lobes and stiffly erect to ascending stems (Lesica 2012). Leaves are broadly cuneate (lobes less than half the blade length, 1-3 mm wide, and rounded) (FNA 2006). The involucres are 3.5-4 mm tall and 2-4.5 mm in diameter (FNA 2006). Plants are found on stony calcareous soil (Lesica 2012)
Subspecies longiloba has leaves with rounded lobes and flexuous, prostrate-spreading stems (Lesica 2012). Leaves are broadly cuneate (4-10 mm by 2-5 mm, often irregularly lobed, with rounded lobes, and middle lobes overlapping lateral lobes) (FNA 2006). The involucres are 2-3 mm tall and 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter (FNA 2006). Plants are found on fine-textured soil of stream terraces (Lesica 2012). Ecologically it is distinguished from other subspecies by growing at low elevations in fine-grained clay soils (FNA 2006).
In Montana subspecies arbuscula has been found in Beaverhead, Gallatin, Madison, and Park Counties (http://www.pnwherbaria.org). Its range includes California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
In Montana subspecies longiloba has been found in Beaverhead, Madison, and Park Counties (MTNHP 2018 botany database). Its range includes California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming.
Number of Observations: 21
Subspecies arbuscula plants are found in rocky sedimentary soils in high valleys and mountain slopes at elevations from 1500 to 3800 meters (FNA 2006). In Montana plants occur on stony calcareous soil (Lesica 2012).
Subspecies longiloba plants are found on clay soils of alkaline basins and valleys, occasionally on outwash plains of mountains, at elevations from 1500 to 2500 meters (FNA 2006). In Montana plants occur on fine-textured soil of stream terraces (Lesica 2012).
Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longiloba may be heavily browsed in winter where there is little snow cover (Boyle and Reeder 2005). This taxon is tolerant of saturated soils in spring and dry periods in summer and fall (Boyle and Reeder 2005).
Reproductive Characteristics
Artemisia arbuscula flowers (heads): The involucre is campanulate, about 2–5 mm high with green, tomentose phyllaries (Lesica 2012). The receptacle is glabrous. Heads consist of 4-8 perfect (contains both male and female structures) disk flowers that are glabrous or glandular; corolla is about 2 mm long (Lesica 2012). Achenes are resinous and less than 1 mm long (Lesica 2012).
The involucres for subspecies arbuscula are 3.5-4 mm tall and 2-4.5 mm in diameter (FNA 2006).
The involucres for subspecies longiloba are 2-3 mm tall and 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter (FNA 2006).
Boyle, S. A. and D. R. Reeder. 2005. Colorado sagebrush: a conservation assessment and strategy. Grand Junction: Colorado Division of Wildlife.
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Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. xxiv + 579 pp.
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Kartesz, J.T. 2015. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) North American Plant Atlas. Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].
Zamora, B., and P. T. Tueller. 1973. Artemisia arbuscula, A. longiloba, and A. nova habitat types in northern Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist 33(4):225-242.
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Alkali Sagebrush — Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longiloba. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on January 19, 2020, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDAST0S064
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Fly My Pretties - May 2020 New Zealand Tour
Sat 30 May, 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Auckland Town Hall - Great Hall, 303 Queen St, Auckland CBD
Fly My Pretties are excited to announce they are taking The Studio Recordings on the road this May, presented by Fortune Favours. This special performance at the Auckland Town Hall will be Fly My Pretties only Auckland theatre show for 2020, with the largest cast assembled in Fly My Pretties history to be announced.
These shows will celebrate the release of the first studio recordings in Fly My Pretties history, with Part One out now, and Part Two due in May just prior to the shows. All shows will see songs performed from the new albums, alongside some special surprises in front of an enhanced new visual backdrop.
Tickets on sale Thursday November 28. All shows are all ages, with discounted tickets available for children under 12. All shows presented by Fortune Favours, with thanks to LOOP, Yealands Estate Wines, Havana Coffee Works, Scapegrace & Radio Hauraki.
Since their inception, Fly My Pretties has grown to become a local legend of music that continues to reach people all over the world. An institution of the New Zealand music scene, Fly My Pretties are New Zealand's favourite live collaborative group starring a selection of the country’s finest contemporary musicians, and visual artists.
2019 saw Fly My Pretties step into the studio for the first time, capturing some of their most-loved tracks as they have never been heard or performed before. The Studio Recordings Part One, released in October, showed a cross section of the unique sound of Fly My Pretties, travelling through folk, blues, dub and soul.
May 2020 will see not only the release of The Studio Recordings Part Two, but also Fly My Pretties returning to some of NZ’s most beautiful venues to perform tracks from both albums and the back catalogue.
Stream/purchase The Studio Recordings Part One here - https://smarturl.it/TheStudioRecordings1
Watch a short doco on making the album here - https://youtu.be/h5pSNh4kxKQ
Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch
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The Sleeping Beauty
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Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
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Hamilton Gardens, Hamilton, Waikato
Auckland Town Hall - Great Hall, CBD, Auckland
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"South of the Sun - Australian Fairy Tales For The 21st Century" (Submissions Call & Crowdfunding)
Anthology cover design by Lorena Carrington
Once upon a time, Australians fell in love with fairy tales... and they never stopped!
The formation of The Australian Fairy Tale Society [Est. 2013] marked a new era of fairy tale activity in Australia, that has gone from strength to strength, with local monthly "fairy tale salons" (known as Fairy Tale Rings) meeting in almost every state, annual conferences, a hefty, growing library of resources being made available for members and an ezine exploring old fairy tales and new fairy tale work in all mediums.
A LOT of best-selling fairy tale retellings the world over have come out of Australia (by Kate Forsyth, Juliet Marillier and Sophie Masson, to name just a few of many!) so it's only natural that the AFTS (Australian Fairy Tale Society) has been aiming to take that passion and evident talent, and create new - specifically Australian - fairy tales, as part of their mission. A uniquely Australian, fairy tale anthology is a goal the Society has been working toward since its inception and now we are on the cusp of bringing it to life. But there is a question that must be considered to make this happen:
What is an Australian Fairy Tale?
This is a question South of the Sun explores. We are challenging assumptions that fairy tales are for children, are European, and must contain fairies and pale, passive heroines. Through stories, flash fiction, poetry and illustrations we are producing inventive, intercultural new Australian fairy tales for young adults and older fantasy readers. (from the AFTS Pozible campaign page)
While the AFTS has provided a generous 'seed fund' to get things in motion, along with publishing partner Serenity Press, it's going to take a (worldwide) village to make it happen and they - we - could use your help. Please see the official call to arms (and call for crowdfunding help), to make the rest of this mission possible below.
The anthology has an auspicious start, with contributions from notable writers already, including:
Sophie Masson, the French, Jakarta-born fantasy writer, recently awarded an Order of Australia for services to literature
Carmel Bird, recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award
Eugen Bacon, award-winning African-Australian writer
Cate Kennedy, award-winning novelist and short story writer
And your work could be part of this historic anthology as well! With their ongoing mission to be inclusive, the AFTS has put out a call for submissions to new and emerging writers and illustrators, with the deadline now extended to DECEMBER 13th, 2019 (a reminder for ex-pats and those traveling, that the deadline is Australian time, AEST!) According to the guidelines, contributors do NOT need to be Australian or living in Australia BUT the pieces need to have "an Australian quality" about them. (See guidelines for details.) All accepted contributors will be paid.
Please see the AFTS website for submission details for the anthology HERE.
DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 13, 2019!
Check out the video below to see some of the beautiful styles of art that will be included, and to hear from some of the award-winning writers and contributors to date. (Hosted/narrated by photographic artist and author Lorena Carrington, who also created the cover for the anthology):
Our anthology, South of the Sun - Australian fairy tales for the 21st century, has embarked on an international crowdfunding campaign! https://www.pozible.com/project/south-of-the-sun-1
Tailored for YA + adult readership, rated G, it features original contributions by acclaimed guests, with lush illustrations, reflecting vibrant, intercultural inventiveness.
Interested in reading more about the state of the Australian Fairy Tale?
You can find some helpful resources below!
Anthology Website: https://australianfairytales.com/
Definition of fairy tales by Dr Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario
A relevant article - Introduction: The state of play in Australian fairy tale: Where to now? - by three fairy tale scholars: Dr Nike Sulway, Dr Belinda Calderone and Dr Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario, writer of our Anthology’s foreword
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FELLOWS FAMILY HISTORY
SAMUEL FRANK FELLOWS - 1898-1942
(Brian's Father)
1898 Dec 4 - born - 19 Salisbury Road Smethwick
Samuel Frank (always known as Frank) was the only son of Samuel and Eliza Fellows. The family home was in Salisbury Road, off Cape Hill, Smethwick. The grandparents lived in Frome, Somerset. Frank went to school in Smethwick and was awarded medals for perfect attendance: bronze for 3 years, silver for 5 years and gold for 7 years.
Frank left school at 13 years of age and went to work at Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, the screwmakers on Cape Hill, Smethwick, at first in a warehouse and then in the offices. Frank was particularly keen on carpentry, especially carving wooden ornaments and making pieces of furniture. We still have a grandmother clock that he made - actually Danny has it now.
In 1916 Frank joined the army in the First World War at the age of 17 years. British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 indicates that Frank joined up on 13 May 1916. He was in the 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (usually referred to as the 1st Lancs Fusiliers) who were in the 4th Division in France in 1916.
Frank aged 17 in uniform
This regiment was stationed at the most northern part of the Somme front near Serre when the big offensive started on 1st July 1916. Men of the East Lancs went "over the top", but few reached the enemy front-line. They were heavily machine-gunned in 'no-mansland' and casualties were very high. It may have been in this battle that Frank was injured and lost his leg.
When Frank returned to Birmingham, his home street, Salisbury Road, was decorated to welcome his return from the war and a collection was made for him. He was fitted with an artificial leg, but had considerable difficulty getting used to it. See Mary's school project which records her interviews with Beatrice.
See William's video of Peter and himself 'going over the top' at The Somme as Frank must have done in 1916.
YouTube link to video . . . https://youtu.be/0cmmAMKSmFk
War Medals
Frank and his father Samuel Fellows both received medals from the First World War with inscriptions around the edges. One set of two medals belonged to Frank Fellows (S.F.Fellows on the medals). The other set of three medals belonged to his father, Samuel Fellows (S.Fellows on the medals).
Here are Frank's medals with the inscription 31196 Pte S.F.Fellows E. LAN. R
Here are Samuel's medals with the inscription: 37838 Pte S.Fellows R.A.M.C
Here is a copy of Frank's medal card from the National Archives
and here is Samuel's medal card
There is another round pin-on type medal shown below with "For King and Empire Services Rendered" with the number B 49176 on the back. This is as yet unidentified.
Frank and Beatrice
1919 Frank aged 20 became engaged to Beatrice.
1921- March 28th - Frank aged 22 and Beatrice aged 23 were married in St Chad's Church Smethwick.
Frank and Beatrice - Wedding photo.
Eliza Fellows (Frank's mother) on far left.
Grenville Waplington (Beatrice's brother) standing on right.
Beatrice's mother on far right.
Beatrice and her sister, Daisy were married at the same service.
Frank and Beatrice on the left and Daisy and her husband Bert Powell on the right.
Marriage certificate . . .
Frank was clerk (at GKN) and Beatrice was optician
Samuel Fellows father (deceased) was described as a sewer man
Frank's residence was 157 Florence Road, Smethwick - PHOTO
. . . ?? not 19 Salisbury Road where he had lived with his mother.
. . . ?? Did Frank move out of 19 Salisbury Road after the death of his father Samuel in 1916.
Beatrice's residence was 204 Selsey Road Edgbaston.
Frank and Beatrice must both have moved into the family home at 19 Salisbury Road to live with Eliza (Frank's mother).
157 Florence Road (green door) in 2015
Beatrice recalls going with Frank to see his grandfather Samuel in Frome until he died in 1929
See Mary's project. Did they go to Samuel's funeral?
1922 - 8th May - Joan born
1936 - 12 August - Brian born
1942 - 12 April - Frank died aged 43.
Buried Quinton Cemetery, Birmingham.
For more go to . . . Florence Beatrice Fellows
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By OBXer, April 8, 2018 in Hurricanes Talk
KJUNKANE
Retired Jersey
36 minutes ago, AWACSooner said:
Well, he was willing to make the tough trades (acquiring Dubnyk) and made really good splashes in the FA market (Parise/Suter).
Yes, but his busts were legendary. And they are currently struggling much like us. Thus, I say no to that one.
slapshot02
Jerk Torrance
LocationOverlook Hotel
59 minutes ago, KJUNKANE said:
Okay, and that means what? Not to be flippant, but what does that do for the Canes?
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/23295404/chuck-fletcher-general-manager-minnesota-wild
37 minutes ago, slapshot02 said:
Glowing reports there, I admit slap, but read what 1 blogger for Minnesota, Dan Wallace writes over on Hockey Buzz(sorry I cannot transfer). Admitting that Dubnyk was a steal(one I covet), and Niederreiter has been another well played trade, and of course the twin signings of Suter and Parise could never be denied, he 1st cites Brent Burns for Charlie Coyle several years ago as a real head scratcher. Then, apparently he ransomed the farm for last 2-3 years on "rentals" getting Hanzal, Ryan White and Jason Pominville, while trading away 1st and 2nd rounders. Then finally his negotiation of the expansion draft apparently was not very deft.
Now in all of this, I'll admit that this analysis was just that 1 blogger's analysis. And, Wild fans may just be in the "what have you done for me lately" mentality at not being able to get over the 1st round hump(as if we here might not want to at least be there), but I'm just not sure if this sounds too good to me. You?
Edited April 23, 2018 by KJUNKANE
remkin
Carolina Hurricanes Admin
Today Patrick O Sullivan had a lot of good things to say about Fletcher. And Minnesota has drafted well. I first thought of the crazy UFA thing with Parise and Sutter's deals, but POS pointed out that was the owner saying get those guys. Also, I"d take at least one big UFA signing now. We could probably do worse. And if the guy fixed their goalie problem, which he did, that might be enough by itself.
PenaltyKiller17
25 minutes ago, remkin said:
I also think that Suter and Parise choosing the Wild had more to do with the location than anything else. Parise’s from Minneapolis, and Suter’s from the bordering state of Wisconsin. I’d accept him if that’s who they chose I guess, but he’s not my preference.
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LocationBixby, OK (for the moment)
4 hours ago, KJUNKANE said:
The Wild are struggling? They've actually made the playoffs three six years in a row, where the Hurricanes haven't so much as sniffed the playoffs in nine years, and they're struggling?
Edited April 23, 2018 by JonKerfoot
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38 minutes ago, JonKerfoot said:
The Wild are struggling? They've actually made the playoffs three years in a row, where the Hurricanes haven't so much as sniffed the playoffs in nine years, and they're struggling?
In their minds, JonKerfoot, if you paid attention to what I wrote? No, also as I mention, I would love for us to have done so.
bluedevilcane
I’m not sure Fletcher is a better GM than Francis. He did not just have the homecoming piece when he signed Parise and Sutter, he had lots of $$$$$$ which PK would never spend. No one wants to mention that he also signed a FA 2 years ago, 3 years for $10.5 million, who scored 42 goals this year. Is Minnesota close to Thunder Bay? Anyway, the biggest impact this has on the Canes is we are now competing for a GM with a team that sells out every game, and definitely spends to the salary cap. Also, an Islanders blogger on Hockey Buzz says Garth Snow May be reassigned and the Islanders also looking for a GM. We may now be the 3rd most attractive destination for a prospective GM.
realmdrakkar
7 minutes ago, bluedevilcane said:
Also, an Islanders blogger on Hockey Buzz says Garth Snow May be reassigned and the Islanders also looking for a GM. We may now be the 3rd most attractive destination for a prospective GM.
I'll agree that if all of the prospective GMs were to put together their wishlist of destinations, the Hurricanes wouldn't be in the higher reaches of many of them. I can't imagine the Islanders would be either. I'd call it a toss-up.
1 minute ago, realmdrakkar said:
Well New York is New York, but the Islanders do have a lot of challenges, I’ll admit. The implication was that the team wanted to show real commitment to positive change to woo Tavares to stay.
1 hour ago, bluedevilcane said:
You're omitting the year Parise and Suter were signed, the Carolina Hurricanes pursued both Parise and Suter. That was also the year JR brought in Jordan and Semin, so they were willing to spend the money. And yes btw, Minneapolis is close to Thunder Bay (5hr drive or 1hr flight). Also, his trade and draft history is pretty atrocious. Now, Minnesota is in cap hell, with the oldest core in the league, can barely sign their RFA's, and aren't even close to being a legit cup contender.
I politely beg to differ, Kjun.
I responded to your post in which you said that "they are currently struggling much like we are." Not the one where you quote a single solitary blogger on Hockey Buzz. Are you denying that "they are currently struggling much like we are" were your words? If they're not your words, why didn't you say, much as you did later, that "Wild fans are saying..."?
Look, I hate to be cruel about this (wait, no -- I don't hate it!), but if Fletcher isn't good enough for the Hurricanes, maybe the Hurricanes should go after the GM who is the most successful current GM, with at least three Stanley Cup wins, the last two in a row? Oh, wait - he's got a sweet gig right now, and it's in Pittsburgh.
BadgerCane1958
All in on signing Chuck. 9 years
of experience. Willing to make moves. No brainer!
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wxray1
Following The Puck
LocationWeather Shack
4 hours ago, remkin said:
Thankfully, Tommy would never meddle like that.
1 hour ago, JonKerfoot said:
Polite or cruel, makes no difference to me JonKerfoot, you obviously saw my 2nd post whereI expanded on that 1st brief reflection, so if you'd prefer to single that out, okay. And yes, I did choose the 1 blogger, and might point out I STATE THAT, but I also admit I know very little about Minnesota, or their GM. Do you? Fletcher may very well be a savior for our team, and I readily concede that also, but it's also undeniable that besides that single blogger you appear to discount, the Wild owner is changing directions. And to that, despite "9 years of experience" and "willing to make moves", I for one have to ask, WHY?
I would say that 9 years is a pretty long run for a GM these days. It may just have been that the time ran out on the relationship. I guess the owner must have wanted better playoff results. Quoting Patrick O Sullivan, he felt that Minnesota had also run into really good teams in the playoffs, Chicago a couple of times and Winnipeg this year. I don't really know him at all, so not trying to push him, but his signing of our ex captain turned out to be one of the better UFA signings in recent history and he got Dubnick for a late round draft pick, and Minnesota has drafted really well, and he has a lot of experience.
1 hour ago, remkin said:
True those rem, but 1 question, but make no mistake, I certainly am willing to give Fletcher the benefit of the doubt, but my question is this, Drafting well seems to suggest that was him? Am I wrong that the scouts are critical here, and isn't it a collective effort for which he gets credit?
There's no question that after the frugal atmosphere, to put it mildly, that we fans suffered under for most of the time during JR's leadership, and the decided timidity for any significant trade during Rf's leadership, that having a General manager who could and would act decisively would be a breath of fresh air. Is this our man?
18 hours ago, KJUNKANE said:
Yes I have read some of the negatives but at least the guy made some trades that RF was never capable of doing.
Altaholic
Fletcher is probably a great GM, but I think a lot of people might be missing the big glaring issue here (or at least not mentioning it)...... Fletcher and any other legit GM is going to need more than $400k per year. Once again, even with a new owner, the Canes are looking to go cheap. That doesn't sit well with me. And how does it look to the players.? They want to win, but play for a tightwad team who won't go spend what they need to win. Ownership is going to have to take some losses, get some wins, and bring the fans back. It's called an "investment". I'm sure all of these guys heard of that somewhere in business school. You put up the money first then reap the rewards later.....and you have to spend big to win big!
Of course I'm not shy about offering an opinion without being and expert, but on this one, I'm pretty far out on the "I don't really know" limb. I'm reading the tea leaves but I've only looked at a couple of leaves. I do respect Patrick O'Sullivan's point of view, but most of my thoughts are based on him, not really digging too deep into this. And sort of generalizations. For instance being not renewed after 9 years as GM. It is always bad to be fired, but then he was one of the longest tenured GMs in hockey apparently. Coaches have a shorter half life, but GM's do have one. Sure, legendary GM's, or GM's with multiple cups, tend to stay for long runs, but there aren't many of those. Plus the owner plays a big role too. Some owners are loyal to a fault and some are itchier to pull that trigger (wonder which type we have)?
I am far from starting a petition to bring Fletcher in here, but there are upsides. This is a proven, experienced GM to help calm the fears of good coaches or even UFA's that the owner might be constantly meddling, and at least has zero hockey experience. It's a guy from outside that can bring a new look. etc.
GM's probably do get too much credit or blame for drafting, but their the final decision maker, so at least some credit or blame is fair.
Still, my personal, gut feeling is that an assistant from a long winning program who is analytically driven, (note I'm not talking just Corsi and possession stats, I'm talking truly advanced stats), who has been seated at the right hand of a master GM would be ideal. The guy in Tampa seems like a grade A example. But we already made a run at those guys, and they politely told us "pass". I hope we can circle back on one or two of them. But if not? I don't want a guy from inside, and I surely don't want the 5th string guy from some average team. If those younger upstarts balk, then a guy like Fletcher might not be the worst choice.
But again, it's hard to follow other team's players let a alone coaches, let alone GM's, so I'm just throwing some stuff into the wind here.
But that makes it sound, Kjun, like you're saying "oh, he got fired from the Wild. We don't want someone who was fired because that means he wasn't good enough for his owner there." If the Hurricanes persevere in trying to find the perfect candidate - excellent experience as an advanced-analytics guy; never made a mistake that caused him to be fired from his GM position - they will never have a GM, TomD will be the defacto GM and the fans' worst fears of a Charlie Finley/Al Davis (side question - what is it about Oakland that makes for flaky owners?) type of owner will be realized.
Insofar as the "single blogger" is concerned, you're darn tootin' I discount him. Blogs are opinion pieces, even though they may be based on fact, and the vast majority of blogs, IMO, are started because the person who is writing them thinks they know their subject better than even the best experts of their time. If that were true, wouldn't all hockey bloggers be at least GM candidates, since they know so much about the game?
Keep going kid.
I am drooling over this kid. There is a very high ceiling.
legend-1
LocationAkron, OH
Faulk was named for the King Clancy isn't that voted on by members of the team or is it media?
Regardless some group of people are high off magic beans.
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Sunlight and Moonlight
L ong years ago, there lived in a distant land a handsome prince named Sunlight. Sunlight lived in a splendid palace with his father, the ruler of the land, who was called in those days a Khan. Sunlight's mother had died when he was a baby, and when he was a young boy his father married again. So Sunlight also lived with his stepmother, the queen, along with her son, a lad named Moonlight.
Sunlight's father and his stepbrother, Moonlight, loved him dearly, but his stepmother hated him with a passion. She desperately wanted her own son, Moonlight, to be the one to inherit the throne. So, while the two boys lived happily together, never suspecting evil, this wicked woman plotted and schemed to somehow be rid of Sunlight forever.
At last, one day, she thought of a plan. Going to her room, she lay down, groaning and crying out as if she were sick and in frightful pain. The Khan was soon notified and was much alarmed when he found the queen in such a bad way.
"My dear wife!" he cried, "I will have the court doctor summoned at once."
"Nay," said the queen feebly, "it will do no good. Already I am near death, and none can help me. I am dying, my Khan - I know that I am dying fast, and the one and only cure for my sickness, alas! I can never have."
"One cure?" said the king. "If there is anything on earth which will help you, my dear, surely you shall have it! Only tell me what it is, so I may get it for you at once!"
She groaned again, this time gasping for breath. "It is more than your kingdom. It is of such a nature that I dare not speak of it." Then she writhed and shuddered as if in worse pain than ever, and the Khan was beside himself to see her suffering so.
"Tell me, my love, tell me!" he begged. "No matter what it is, you shall have it! You have my promise!"
"It is your son," whispered the wicked woman. "Sunlight has worked an evil charm upon me. I shall die this very night if I do not drink the blood from his heart!
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Embedding Technopolis – Haroon Sheikh – 2017
The global village is under pressure. In order to protect local communities and their traditions, walls, real and symbolical, are erected across the globe. In Turkey, Russia and China, cosmopolitanism seems to be giving way to rediscoveries of tradition like Ottomanism, Eurasianism and Confucianism. In Embedding Technopolis, Haroon Sheikh rethinks modernity and tradition and gives insight into their complex relationship. From state-led capitalism in East Asia to democracy in India and German industry, Sheikh shows how ancient traditions surprisingly persist in our contemporary world and thrive symbiotically with modernity. At the same time, he develops an innovative method of psychopolitics to analyze the logic of how societies deal with modernization.
From Luxury to Necessity – Sjoerd Bakker – 2016
What do computers and smartphones have in common with the railways, electricity, and the automobile? Each of these triggered with its inception a technological revolution that radically changed the way we live, work, eat, shop and enjoy ourselves. From Luxury to Necessity shows how these technological revolutions have affected everyday life and led to new consumer practices. Even though they would develop into absolute necessities within decades, all of them started as novelties for which meaningful uses were still unclear. The true value of these technologies was only realized when consumers started using them as part of new and valuable practices. This book recounts the struggles of consumers, businesses and governments to make sense of the new technologies and their unexpected uses. The historical perspective of the book sheds new light on the current IT revolution, shows the remarkable similarities between past and present, and helps us to understand how new and existing consumer practices evolve with technological innovation.
De Opkomst van het Oosten – Haroon Sheikh – 2016
Everywhere around us, we see a world in transition: from the Euro-crisis and the return of a powerful Russia, to the unrest in the Middle East and the economic rise of China. According to Haroon Sheikh, these are signs of the end of the Atlantic Era. For centuries, the gravity of the world lay in Western countries who dominated the Atlantic Ocean. At this moment, the power is shifting to the East. Sheikh inquires into the economic and geopolitical changes along the Eurasian landmass, stretching from Germany to Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, Iran and China. Old traditions, empires and trade routes like the Silk Route are being revived in this region. De Opkomst van het Oosten (The Rise of the East) is an unorthodox book about the geopolitical shift to the east, meant for everyone who wants to understand the current drivers and relations in our fast-changing world.
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#whalerape and the undeath of the author: separating the art from the artist
Paul Raven @ 06-06-2011
It’s a perennial problem: artists and writers, just like everyone else, can be appalling buttheads with deeply unpleasant ideas and attitudes. But do those attitudes poison their creations by association?
It’s all down to personal responses, of course. Here’s a post at ThisRecording that takes a look at the misogyny, racism and antiSemitism of beloved children’s author Roald Dahl; I was raised on Dahl’s books and loved them dearly, and I’m pretty sure my mother and my aunt – the main vectors by which Dahl’s output arrived in my world – would be just as appalled by Dahl-the-man as I am after reading that piece. But because I knew the work before I knew the man (and possibly because the work was edited to remove some of the more unpleasant subtexts), I find myself still able to draw a line between the two… though I suspect were I to re-read Dahl now, in light of the above, I’d be looking out for clues and signs of his sublimated nastiness. It’s hard to read with clean-slate innocence with that sort of knowledge hanging at the back of your brain.
Interestingly, though, this doesn’t seem to work the other way. Regular readers will know of my antipathy to archbigot and homophobe Orson Scott Card. I discovered Card’s reputation before ever reading any of his books, and as a result have read none of them (though I have read a few short stories since, which seemed only to confirm my opinions). And speaking of Mormons, habitués of the genre fandom Twittersphere may have noticed the #whalerape hashtag over the weekend, as a bunch of people (re)read this year’s Nebula winning novelette, “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone. As the body and comments of the Locus Roundtable blog post about it demonstrate, opinions differ wildly as to its merits (or lack thereof), and the point of fracture seems to be along lines of attitude to religious missionary work in general, and Mormon proselytising in particular. Having seen the running commentary – not to mention discovering that Stone’s attitudes to homosexuality are in the same retrograde camp as Card’s – I’m finding myself deeply prejudiced against the guy’s work.
To be clear, I don’t think this sort of prejudice is dependent on the nature of the offence caused: I imagine that a conservative reader might be just as shocked and put off an artist by finding out they were a closet Troskyite, for instance. But I do wonder if the problem isn’t exacerbated by the new-found publicness (?) of the artist lifestyle. With writers in particular, the old model – communicating with your public primarily through one’s work, and the occasional public appearance or bit of journalism if one were of sufficient stature to get the gigs – has given way to a much more performative presence: the author as celebrity, as pundit. It’s never been easier to find out what the most minor of authors thinks about sports, politics or other ethical quandaries… though, to be fair, the same applies to people in all walks of life. We’re all celebrities now; it’s merely a matter of audience magnitude.
This all ties in with my ongoing fascination with what literature critics call the intentional fallacy, which suggests you can only judge a text on its own merits; critiquing a text on the basis of knowledge about the author’s philosophies and actions beyond those admitted of in the text itself is an act of biography rather than criticism. Part of me finds the poststructuralist undertones of the intentional fallacy appealing – the author is dead, and we can find whatever meanings we like in every text! – but I’m increasingly convinced that, as noble and high-minded a critical ideal as it may be, it simply isn’t compatible with the world we now live in. Call it “the undeath of the author”, maybe; they may not be alive within the text itself, but something of them shambles around outside its perimeter fences. Perhaps in the post-war years it was easy to assume a text could be hermetically sealed off from the world in which it was created and in which it will be read; in the hyperlinked and searchable world we now live in, the outer membrane of every text has become permeable to a lesser or greater degree – no firewall is completely hack-proof, right? – and one of the first and easiest conflations to make is that of the author’s publicly-held opinions and the meaning of their text.
All of which may seem like academic noodling (guilty as charged), but I think there’s a real issue here, too. In light of recent discussions about the comparative invisibility of women or people of colour in anthology TOCs, best-of-the-genre lists and prize nominations, this difficulty in separating art from artist becomes a more problematic thing, and damages the credibility of editors or anthologists who claim to be colour-, creed- or gender-blind when reading submissions. To flip the issue around (and demostrate the prejudices do point both ways): say I was editing an anthology, and an Eric James Stone story came over the submissions transom; I like to think I’d read it and give it as fair a chance to succeed on its own merits as anyone else’s, but I can’t in all honesty say I’d truly manage to do so. And that’s an example of a conscious prejudice, one of which I am aware and can – to a lesser or greater extent – work to minimise; what about the subconscious culturally-encoded prejudices against women, LGBTQ people and people of colour, the ones that we almost all believe we don’t have, but which we almost all do have?
(I fully count myself among that “almost all”, by the way; I’m not entirely sure I believe any of us can entirely free ourselves from culturally-encoded prejudices, but we can at least work to mitigate them once we’ve become aware of them, a process which becomes – albeit very gradually – easier over time. Much as in AA’s twelve-step program, the first step is to admit that you have a problem; that’s also the hardest step of all.)
As is probably plain (and certainly in keeping with local tradition) I don’t have any answers to this dilemma; I’m just throwing out a collection of ideas to see what other folk think about them. So, whatcha got, huh?
Tags: #whalerape, art, criticism, intentional fallacy, literature, politics, prejudice, undeath of the author, writing
How others see us (literary agent edition)
The aspiring writers in the audience may already be aware of QueryShark. If you’re not, you should be; few things teach more effectively in a creative field like writing (in my experience at least) than having a selection of negative examples to hold up against the positives, and QueryShark offers anonymous eviscerations of query letters that’ll show you how to do it properly. Or at least how not to do it properly, which is almost as useful.
But I mention QueryShark today for a different reason, namely one of the rarer successful queries. First, here’s the query sans critique:
Part warm body, part social chameleon, fourths have become an accepted part of the commuting landscape. Every highway in the newly-invigorated Detroit is restricted to four-passenger cars, Carpools that come up short must either take surface streets through dangerous neighborhoods or hire extra riders to fill their cars.
It’s an easy way to earn some extra cash–or to end up dead. Someone is killing fourths and the only one who seems to care is burnt-out homicide cop Francis LaCroix, who moonlights as a fourth himself.
LaCroix discovers the dead fourths are terrorists sabotaging the highways, causing horrific crashes. Worse, his own nephew may be involved in the plot. With both careers on the line, LaCroix needs a shot at redemption, but continuing the investigation paints a target on his family and leaves the terrorists free to strike again. Suddenly, he isn’t so sure bringing the killer to justice is the right thing to do.
Sounds interesting, right? Here’s how the writer capped it off:
TAKING THE HIGHWAY,a science fiction novel, is complete at 93,000 words.
And here the bit of the agent’s response I’m interested in:
This isn’t science fiction. And I’d STRONGLY urge you to not call it science fiction even if you think it is. There’s a lot of room for cross-over into crime fiction here, and by calling it science fiction you might miss an agent who doesn’t handle SF but would read this. Like…me.
OK – that book as laid out in that query is definitely science fiction, even if only by the old Damon Knight “what I point to when I say it” rule of thumb. It’s set in a speculative future, for goodness’ sake; it may be a harsh thing to say, but using a reinvigorated Detroit as your setting puts you firmly into alternate world territory.
What actually I’m interested in here is the chicken-and-egg problem that sf has with mainstream acceptance. There above is a solid query for an interesting science fictional novel… but there also is a warning that calling it such will make it harder to sell. It’s an acknowledgement of industry prejudices, in other words, and the action of an agent who wants to see a good book get bought.
But what I see here is something similar to the way in which female writers feel pressured to write under masculine pseudonyms or use their initials; it’s an invitation that says “OK, look, we think you’ve got the beans to play the game, but you can’t come in wearing that outfit; it’s not that we’ve got anything against it, but, y’know, people will look at you funny…” It’s an enablement of prejudice, in other words, though it’s being done with pure motives.
Just to be clear, this isn’t me getting out my tiny violin and serenading the poor oppressed genre; as mentioned before, I think that’s a counterproductive thing, an entrenchment in one’s own cult of ghettoised victimhood. Nor am I raging at an agent for not understanding what science fiction is, or rather what it can be. But the query response above highlights the very arbitrariness of the distinction between sf and ‘proper’ fiction: in fact, it’s a note for note replaying of the classic “it’s too good to be science fiction!” riff.
So why mention it at all? Because it makes plain that the problem is with the label, not the product. Look at the commenters saying “ooh, I don’t like sc-ifi, but I think I’d love this!” Well, y’know, maybe you would like sci-fi if you read some of it. But you’re not going to do that when it comes with a label that says “sci-fi”. Green eggs and ham, innit?
I’m increasingly starting to think that advocating for science fiction (or even genre in general) is a failed strategy. If you want to conquer that prejudice, you need to start doing it with one book at a time. If labelling your work science fiction will exclude it from a certain venue, then don’t label it; submit it without its convention badge and Beeblebear, and see what happens. Give them a chance to bounce or buy it on its own merits, rather than the connotations of a label that even we fans can’t agree on a definition for.
And then, once they’ve published it, tell all the journalists about how it’s actually a science fiction novel. You’ve got to get inside the building before you set the bomb off, you see… 😉
Tags: advocacy, Fiction, genre, labelling, prejudice, science fiction, taxonomy, writing
Silvia Moreno-Garcia explains the origins of “Biting the Snake’s Tail”
So, did you read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s latest Futurismic story, “Biting the Snake’s Tail”, published here yesterday? Well, you should – go do it now.
One of the great joys of author blogs, for me at least, is getting an insight into how stories came to be – to find out what inspired them, how they progressed from initial idea to finished work. Silvia has written a post that opens a door on “Biting the Snake’s Tail”, which takes place in a near-future iteration of Mexico City:
It was two years in the making. I wrote the first half of it after dreaming two parts of it: the detective walking through the rainy streets with the dog and the murder. In the original, the murder took place at a public bath house and the victim was a gay man.
When I was a kid and there was no water (yep, this was a problem in Mexico City even years ago) for the day, we sometimes went to the public bath house in Santa Julia. This meant paying a few pesos and you got a bit of soap, some shampoo and access to a shower area. I remember we took our own towels, but towels might have been supplied at a cost. Last year, when I was in Mexico City, water issues were pretty bad. About 5 million people (a quarter of the city) was suffering from a drought and predictions for 2010 were that even the ritzy neighbourhoods would be affected. Think a third of the city without water this year, taps running dry for many days at times.
Having been lucky enough to visit Mexico City, I know it’s the sort of place where stories wait for you around every street corner. Ludicrous wealth and grinding poverty live cheek by jowl, and history howls hungrily from beneath layered and crumbling facades of modernity… much like any big city, I suppose, but they don’t come much bigger than El D. F., and that history is marbled with conflict and the struggle to survive for as long as records have been kept. [image by alex-s]
For a privileged Euro like myself, Mexico City was a real eye-opener; I’ve been fortunate enough to have travelled a fair amount in my life, but few places have affected me quite so deeply. Travel is fatal to prejudice, as Mark Twain once said… I wonder if visiting new places in fiction can have the same effect? I certainly hope so – after all, as energy costs continue to increase, it’s going to be the only form of long-distance travel available to the vast majority of us… and there’s more than enough prejudice to go round.
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Tags: Biting The Snake's Tail, drought, Fiction, history, Mexico City, prejudice, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, travel, urbanism
The web =/= the mob?
Seeing as how I ended up with a whole bunch of related links, I thought they might as well all fit in one post. So, your overarching thematic question is: the power of the web and social media is pretty much a given, but does it empower us in ways that are beneficial or detrimental?* [image by arenamontanus]
For a start, Bruce Sterling points to what must be the third story I’ve seen in the last year about what happens when jurors are accustomed to social media and ubiquitous information access. In a nutshell, it’s almost impossible to keep people in an informational vacuum without locking them up in a Faraday cage, or to keep them from Tweeting about a case they’re hearing… so what happens to the existing legal model of the unprejudiced jury of your peers? Pandora’s box is well and truly open; how can we develop fair trials in the information age? Expert systems instead of juries? Crowdsourced multiplex juries? Or a trial process that not only accepts but embraces its position at the centre of a media ecology based on novelty and shock?
Over in Egypt, however, the political counterculture is just starting to flex the lithe and slippery new limbs that the internet has provided it, thanks to the incumbent government’s possibly self-defeating decision to leave the internet predominantly uncensored in the hope of encouraging international trade and domestic development. Decentralised networks like Twitter are undermining the official media controls and embargoes that are the hallmark and lynch-pin of the despot… with the end result that the Egyptian government is falling back on the time-honoured (if counterproductive) methods of intimidating and threatening the loudest dissenting voices.
Meanwhile, televangelist megapastor Rick Warren caves in to public opinion and writes publically to Ugandan ministers to condemn their violent persecution of homosexuality. While it’s impossible to truly know the mind of another, I think I can safely assume that Warren would have lost no sleep over the Ugandan lynch-mobs; the bad publicity focussed on himself as a result of staying quiet, however, was simply unacceptable. A small victory for public opinion, perhaps.
But that knife cuts both ways. Remember me linking to an interview with Indian science fiction author Ashok Banker, in which he took the Western publishing industry to task for institutionalised racism, accompanied by a chorus of voices denying that any such racism existed? Well, that interview has been deleted from the World SF Blog at Banker’s request, because he and his family have been receiving death threats in response to it, through assorted social media channels. A sad story, and one that pretty much proves his initial point… as well as demonstrating that the “pure” democracy of the web can enable the primacy of hatred just as easily as justice (your postcard from Switzerland has just arrived). It all depends on which group cares enough to do the most hard work with that media lever.
And speaking of inequalities, here’s a post from a well-known figure in the copywriting blogosphere, wherein he reveals that he’s actually a she. And no, it’s not even some dramatic story of gender confusion and coming out: it’s an inside account of the glass ceiling that still exists in the Western world for women who dare to make their own way in a male domain. Long story short: after a long period of crap work, poor pay and demanding clients, she started using a male pen-name and found that everything improved drastically.
In some ways, there’s a small victory for the web here: intertube anonymity overcomes the gender boundary, saves family from poverty! But the story overall is a sad one, highlighting an institutionalised misogyny that we still perpetrate at a subconscious cultural level, even on the supposedly egalitarian plains of the internet. Worth bearing in mind next time the subject of female authors submitting stories using their initials rather than their first names comes up, and folk start saying that they’re doing themselves a disservice by doing so, eh?
[ * Obviously the answer is “both”, but I think there’s a lot of value to be gained by thinking about how these things happen. We’ve asked whether the web is an inherently democratising force here before, and the stories above seem to suggest that social media empowers the most vocal and/or powerful groups that possess the savvy and access to use them effectively. In Egypt, that appears to be the good guys (at least from my perspective); unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case everywhere. ]
Tags: anonymity, democracy, identity, internet, justice, misogyny, mob, prejudice, racism, secrecy, web
Ashok Banker wants to disassemble science fiction publishing
The last year or so has been punctuated by debates on the inherent racism and sexism of genre fiction publishing, but if you thought there had been some strong opinions stated boldly before now, you should really go check out the exclusive interview with Ashok Banker at the World SF News blog.
Banker is a hugely popular and prolific writer in his home country of India, but is virtually unheard of in the West… and he doesn’t pull any punches in his assessment of the Stateside publishing industry:
I won’t mince words here: SFF publishing in the US today is the Klu Klux Klan of the publishing world. It’s anachronistically misrepresentational in its racial mix, religious mix, cultural mix. The few exceptions to the rule only prove the endemic, systemic and deeply bred bias in the field. There are even editors who claim to champion ‘coloured’ writing, by publishing anthologies that segregate non-white non-Judeo/Christian non-American authors of speculative fiction from their ‘mainstream’ genre counterparts.
For decades SFF has been accusing mainstream literary critics, readers and authors of being snobbish and denying them their due. In fact, it’s the other way around: SFF’s pathetic cries of outrage and refusal to change with the times are proof of SFF’s own snobbishness and bias. SFF is dead and rotting. Long may it stay dead! We who love the elements that make great SFF don’t need the label so Klansmen can recognize work by other Klansmen. We don’t care if our milk was drawn by brown hands, black, or white. We just want our milk!
I think the Klan metaphor is perhaps a little strong (not to mention calculated to offend), but the man has a very valid point. The easy (and lazy) response would be to call him out for jealousy, but given that Banker points out that his earnings are far higher than most US or UK writers of genre fiction, that doesn’t really hold a lot of water. Banker doesn’t need the SFF industry; the question is, does it need him?
The wider business of publishing in general doesn’t escape Banker’s ire, either:
In four words: Publish less, publish better. If publishers and editors are so obsessed with commercial viability, then why are they so out of touch with what readers are looking for? Why are publishers so surprised when the next it new sensation comes along and upsets their apple cart? Why can’t they accept and understand that readers and authors decide what sells, not editors and publishers. Why are racial, cultural, religious backgrounds relevant when signing an author? Why not just good books, period? Why not just good books that readers respond well to and want to read? Get the fuck out of your offices and get down to the streets and live. Fire your marketing departments. Hire bloggers on per-hit pay-basis. Look at frontrunners like Cory Doctorow. Think about the Long Tail. Explore free publishing as a marketing model. Get bullish on ebooks, drop the prices and tighten your belts. Reduce print runs on the big sellers, reduce your risk and stop flooding the stores with ‘product’. Tell Dan Brown to go get a life. Stop letting James Patterson use the Warner jet and chopper. Spend money on authors, not on the business of publishing and the fairyland of PR. Let readers decide what should be published and what shouldn’t – put work for free out there online and let them vote. Then, once you know what they’ve picked, go in and edit it well, package it well, do your stuff. But remember that you’re a meat-packer, you don’t build the cow, you don’t eat it. You just pack it. So pack it well, or get packing.
There’s quite a few chewy home truths in that little screed… I get the feeling this particular interview will be a hot topic for a little while.
What do you think about Banker’s assertions of endemic racism in SFF publishing, or about the state of publishing in general? Drop in a comment below – but keep it polite, OK? In line with the Futurismic comments policy, any racist or ad hominem rants will be removed, so play nice.
Tags: Ashok Banker, genre fiction, prejudice, publishing, racism, science fiction
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The devil and the deep sea (1898)
Originally from The day's work (1898)
This edition from The works of Rudyard Kipling , vol. XIII, The day's work , Part 1 (1911)
by Rudyard Kipling
All supplies very bad and dear, and there are no facilities for even the smallest repairs. — Sailing Directions.
HER nationality was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile marine. She was a nine-hundred-ton, iron, schooner-rigged, screw cargo-boat, differing externally in no way from any other tramp of the sea. But it is with steamers as it is with men. There are those who will for a consideration sail extremely close to the wind; and, in the present state of a fallen world, such people and such steamers have their use. From the hour that the Aglaia first entered the Clyde — new, shiny, and innocent, with a quart of cheap champagne trickling down her cut-water — Fate and her owner, who was also her captain, decreed that she should deal with embarrassed crowned heads, fleeing Presidents, financiers of overextended ability, women to whom change of air was imperative, and the lesser law-breaking Powers. Her career led her sometimes into the Admiralty Courts, where the sworn statements of her skipper filled his brethren with envy. The mariner cannot tell or act a lie in the face of the sea, or mislead a tempest; but, as lawyers have discovered, he makes up for chances withheld when he returns to shore, an affidavit in either hand.
The Aglaia figured with distinction in the great Mackinaw salvage-case. It was her first slip from virtue, and she learned how to change her name, but not her heart, and to run across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, colliding with a coalhulk and the State's only man-of-war, just as that man-of-war was going to coal. She put to sea without explanations, though three forts fired at her for half an hour. As the Julia M'Gregor she had been concerned in picking up from a raft certain gentlemen who should have stayed in Noumea, but who preferred making themselves vastly unpleasant to authority in quite another quarter of the world; and as the Shah-in-Shah she had been overtaken on the high seas, indecently full of munitions of war, by the cruiser of an agitated Power at issue with its neighbour. That time she was very nearly sunk, and her riddled hull gave eminent lawyers of two countries great profit. After a season she reappeared as the Martin Hunt, painted a dull slate-colour, with pure saffron funnel, and boats of robin's-egg blue, engaging in the Odessa trade till she was invited (and the invitation could not well be disregarded) to keep away from Black Sea ports altogether.
She had ridden through many waves of depression. Freights might drop out of sight, Seamen's Unions throw spanners and nuts at certificated masters, or stevedores combine till cargo perished on the dock-head; but the boat of many names came and went, busy, alert, and inconspicuous always. Her skipper made no complaint of hard times, and port officers observed that her crew signed and signed again with the regularity of Atlantic liner boatswains. Her name she changed as occasion called; her well-paid crew never; and a large percentage of the profits of her voyages was spent with an open hand on her engine-roam. She never troubled the underwriters, and very seldom stopped to talk with a signal-station, for her business was urgent and private.
But an end came to her tradings, and she perished in this manner. Deep peace brooded over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The Powers dealt together more or less honestly; banks paid their depositors to the hour; diamonds of price came safely to the hands of their owners; Republics rested content with their Dictators; diplomats found no one whose presence in the least incommoded them; monarchs lived openly with their lawfully wedded wives. It was as though the whole earth had put on its best Sunday bib and tucker; and business was very bad for the Martin Hunt. The great, virtuous calm engulfed her, slate sides, yellow funnel, and all, but cast up in another hemisphere the steam whaler Haliotis, black and rusty, with a manure-coloured funnel, a litter of dingy white boats, and an enormous stove, or furnace, for boiling blubber on her forward well-deck. There could be no doubt that her trip was successful, for she lay at several ports not too well known, and the smoke of her trying-out insulted the beaches.
Anon she departed, at the speed of the average London four-wheeler, and entered a semi-inland sea, warm, still, and blue, which is, perhaps, the most strictly preserved water in the world. There she stayed for a certain time, and the great stars of those mild skies beheld her playing puss-in-the-corner among islands where whales are never found. All that while she smelt abominably, and the smell, though fishy, was not whalesome. One evening calamity descended upon her from the island of Pygang-Watai, and she fled, while her crew jeered at a fat black-and-brown gunboat puffing far behind. They knew to the last revolution the capacity of every boat, on those seas, that they were anxious to avoid. A British ship with a good conscience does not, as a rule, flee from the man-of-war of a foreign Power, and it is also considered a breach of etiquette to stop and search British ships at sea. These things the skipper of the Haliotis did not pause to prove, but held on at an inspiriting eleven knots an hour till nightfall. One thing only he overlooked.
The Power that kept an expensive steam-patrol moving up and down those waters (they had dodged the two regular ships of the station with an ease that bred contempt) had newly brought up a third and a fourteen-knot boat with a clean bottom to help the work; and that was why the Haliotis, driving hard from the east to the west, found herself at daylight in such a position that she could not help seeing an arrangement of four flags, a mile and a half behind, which read: "Heave to, or take the consequences!"
She had her choice, and she took it. The end came when, presuming on her lighter draught, she tried to draw away northward over a friendly shoal. The shell that arrived by way of the Chief Engineer's cabin was some five inches in diameter, with a practice, not a bursting, charge. It had been intended to cross her bows, and that was why it knocked the framed portrait of the Chief Engineer's wife — and she was a very pretty girl — on to the floor, splintered his wash-hand stand, crossed the alleyway into the engine-room, and striking on a grating, dropped directly in front of the forward engine, where it burst, neatly fracturing both the bolts that held the connecting-rod to the forward crank.
What follows is worth consideration. The forward engine had no more work to do. Its released piston-rod, therefore, drove up fiercely, with nothing to check it, and started most of the nuts of the cylinder-cover. It came down again, the full weight of the steam behind it, and the foot of the disconnected connecting-rod, useless as the leg of a man with a sprained ankle, flung out to the right and struck the starboard, or right-hand, cast-iron supporting-column of the forward engine, cracking it clean through about six inches above the base, and wedging the upper portion outwards three inches towards the ship's side. There the connecting-rod jammed. Meantime, the after-engine, being as yet unembarrassed, went on with its work, and in so doing brought round at its next revolution the crank of the forward engine, which smote the already jammed connecting-rod, bending it and therewith the piston-rod cross-head — the big cross-piece that slides up and down so smoothly.
The cross-head jammed sideways in the guides, and, in addition to putting further pressure on the already broken starboard supporting-column, cracked the port, or left-hand, supporting-column in two or three places. There being nothing more that could be made to move, the engines brought up, all standing, with a hiccup that seemed to lift the Haliotis a foot out of the water; and the engine-room staff, opening every steam outlet that they could find in the confusion, arrived on deck somewhat scalded, but calm. There was a sound below of things happening — a rushing, clicking, purring, grunting, rattling noise that did not last for more than a minute. It was the machinery adjusting itself, on the spur of the moment, to a hundred altered conditions. Mr. Wardrop, one foot on the upper grating, inclined .his ear sideways, and groaned. You cannot stop engines working at twelve knots an hour in three seconds without disorganising them. The Haliotis slid forward in a cloud of steam, shrieking like a wounded horse. There was nothing more to do. The five-inch shell with a reduced charge had settled the situation. And when you are full, all three holds, of strictly preserved pearls; when you have cleaned out the Tanna Bank, the Sea-Horse Bank, and four other banks from one end to the other of the Amanala Sea — when you have ripped out the very heart of a rich Government monopoly so that five years will not repair your wrong-doings — you must smile and take what is in store. But the skipper reflected, as a launch put out from the man-of-war, that he had been bombarded on the high seas, with the British flag — several of them — picturesquely disposed above him, and tried to find comfort from the thought.
"Where," said the stolid naval lieutenant hoisting himself aboard, "where are those dam' pearls?"
They were there beyond evasion. No affidavit could do away with the fearful smell of decayed oysters, the diving-dresses, and the shell-littered hatches. They were there to the value of seventy thousand pounds, more or less; and every pound poached.
The man-of-war was annoyed; for she had used up many tons of coal, she had strained her tubes, and, worse than all, her officers and crew had been hurried. Every one on the Haliotis was arrested and rearrested several times, as each officer came aboard; then they were told by what they esteemed to be the equivalent of a midshipman that they were to consider themselves prisoners, and finally were put under arrest.
"It's not the least good," said the skipper, suavely. "You'd much better send us a tow ——"
"Be still — you are arrest!" was the reply.
"Where the devil do you expect we are going to escape to? We're helpless. You've got to tow us into somewhere, and explain why you fired on us. Mr. Wardrop, we're helpless, aren't we?"
"Ruined from end to end," said the man of machinery. "If she rolls, the forward cylinder will come down and go through her bottom. Both columns are clean cut through. There's nothing to hold anything up."
The council of war clanked off to see if Mr. Wardrop's words were true. He warned them that it was as much as a man's life was worth to enter the engine-room, and they contented themselves with a distant inspection through the thinning steam. The Haliotis lifted to the long, easy swell, and the starboard supporting-column ground a trifle, as a man grits his teeth under the knife. The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things.
"You see!" said Mr. Wardrop, hurrying them away. "The engines aren't worth their price as old iron."
"We tow," was the answer. "Afterwards we shall confiscate."
The man-of-war was short-handed, and did not see the necessity for putting a prize-crew aboard the Haliotis. So she sent one sublieutenant, whom the skipper kept very drunk, for he did not wish to make the tow too easy, and, moreover, he had an inconspicuous little rope hanging from the stern of his ship.
Then they began to tow at an average speed of four knots an hour. The Haliotis was very hard to move, and the gunnery-lieutenant, who had fired the five-inch shell, had leisure to think upon consequences. Mr. Wardrop was the busy man. He borrowed all the crew to shore up the cylinders with spars and blocks from the bottom and sides of the ship. It was a day's risky work; but anything was better than drowning at the end of a tow-rope; and if the forward cylinder had fallen, at would have made its way to the sea-bed; and taken the Haliotis after.
"Where are we going to, and how long will they tow us?" he asked of the skipper.
"God knows! and this prize-lieutenant's drunk. What do you think you can do?"
"There's just the bare chance," Mr. Wardrop whispered, though no one was within hearing "there's just the bare chance o' repairin' her, if a man knew how. They've twisted the very guts out of her, bringing her up with that jerk; but I'm saying that, with time and patience, there's just the chance o' making steam yet. We could do it."
The skipper's eye brightened. "Do you mean," he began, "that she is any good?"
"Oh, no," said Mr. Wardrop. "She'll need three thousand pounds in repairs, at the lowest, if she's to take the sea again, an' that apart from any injury to her structure. She's like a man fallen down five pair o' stairs. We can't tell for months what has happened; but we know she'll never be good again without a new inside. Ye should see the condenser-tubes an' the steam connections to the donkey, for two things only. I'm not afraid of them repairin' her. I'm afraid of them stealin' things."
"They've fired on us. They'll have to explain that."
"Our reputation's not good enough to ask for explanations. Let's take what we have and 'be thankful. Ye would not have consuls rememberin' the Guidin' Light, an' the Shah-in-Shah, an' the Aglaia, at this most alarmin' crisis. We've been no better than pirates these ten years. Under Providence we're no worse than thieves now. We've much to be thankful for — if we e'er get back to her."
"Make it your own way, then," said the skipper. "If there's the least chance ——"
"I'll leave none," said Mr. Wardrop " "none that they'll dare to take. Keep her heavy on the tow, for we need time."
The skipper never interfered with the affairs of the engine-room, and Mr. Wardrop — an artist in his profession — turned to and composed a work terrible and forbidding. His background was the dark-grained sides of the engine-room; his material the metals of power and strength, helped out with spars, baulks, and ropes. The man-of-war towed sullenly and viciously. The Haliotis behind her hummed like a hive before swarming. With extra and totally unneeded spars her crew blocked up the space round the forward engine till it resembled a statue in its scaffolding, and the butts of the shores interfered with every view that a dispassionate eye might wish to take. And that the dispassionate mind might be swiftly shaken out of its calm, the well-sunk bolts of the shores were wrapped round untidily with loose ends of ropes, giving a studied effect of most dangerous insecurity. Next, Mr. Wardrop took up a collection from the after-engine, which, as you will remember, had not been affected in the general wreck. The cylinder escape-valve he abolished with a flogging-hammer. It is difficult in far-off ports to come by such valves, unless, like Mr. Wardrop, you keep duplicates in store. At the same time men took off the nuts of two of the great holding-down bolts that serve to keep the engines in place on their solid bed. An engine violently arrested in mid-career may easily jerk off the nut of a holding-down bolt, and this accident looked very natural.
Passing along the tunnel, he removed several shaft coupling-bolts and -nuts, scattering other and ancient pieces of iron underfoot. Cylinder-bolts he cut off to the number of six from the after-engine cylinder, so that it might match its neighbour, and stuffed the bilge- and feed-pumps with cotton-waste. Then he made up a neat bundle of the various odds and ends that he had gathered from the engines — little things like nuts and valve-spindles, all carefully tallowed — and retired with them under the floor of the engine-room, where he sighed, being fat, as he passed from manhole to manhole of the double bottom, and in a fairly dry submarine compartment hid them. Any engineer, particularly in an unfriendly port, has a right to keep his spare stores where he chooses; and the foot of one of the cylinder shores blocked all entrance into the regular store-room, even if that had not been already closed with steel wedges. In conclusion, he disconnected the after-engine, laid piston and connecting-rod, carefully tallowed, where it would be most inconvenient to the casual visitor, took out three of the eight collars of the thrust-block, hid them where only he could find them again, filled the boilers by hand, wedged the sliding doors of the coal-bunkers, and rested from his labours. The engine-room was a cemetery, and it did not need the contents of the ash-lift through the skylight to make it any worse.
He invited the skipper to look at the completed work.
"Saw ye ever such a forsaken wreck as that?" said he, proudly. "It almost frights me to go under those shores. Now, what d' you think they'll do to us?"
"Wait till we see," said the skipper. "It'll be bad enough when it comes."
He was not wrong. The pleasant days of towing ended all too soon, though the Haliotis trailed behind her a heavily weighted jib stayed out into the shape of a pocket; and Mr. Wardrop was no longer an artist of imagination, but one of seven-and-twenty prisoners in a prison full of insects. The man-of-war had towed them to the nearest port, not to the headquarters of the colony, and when Mr. Wardrop saw the dismal little harbour, with its ragged line of Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, and the boat-building shed that, under the charge of a philosophical Malay, represented a dockyard, he sighed and shook his head.
"I did well," he said. "This is the habitation o' wreckers an' thieves. We're at the uttermost ends of the earth. Think you they'll ever know in England?"
"Doesn't look like it," said the skipper.
They were marched ashore with what they stood up in, under a generous escort, and were judged according to the customs of the country, which, though excellent, are a little out of date. There were the pearls; there were the poachers; and there sat a small but hot Governor. He consulted for a while, and then things began to move with speed, for he did not wish to keep a hungry crew at large on the beach, and the man-of-war had gone up the coast. With a wave of his hand — a stroke of the pen was not necessary he consigned them to the blakgang-tang, the backcountry, and the hand of the Law removed them from his sight and the knowledge of men. They were marched into the palms, and the backcountry swallowed them up — all the crew of the Haliotis.
Deep peace continued to brood over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia.
It was the firing that did it. They should have kept their counsel; but when a few thousand foreigners are bursting with joy over the fact that a ship under the British flag has been fired at on the high seas, news travels quickly; and when it came out that the pearl-stealing crew had not been allowed access to their consul (there was no consul within a few hundred miles of that lonely port) even the friendliest of Powers has a right to ask questions. The great heart of the British public was beating furiously on account of the performance of a notorious race-horse, and had not a throb to waste on distant accidents; but somewhere deep in the hull of the ship of State there is machinery which more or less accurately takes charge of foreign affairs. That machinery began to revolve, and who so shocked and surprised as the Power that had captured the Haliotis? It explained that colonial governors and far-away men-of-war were difficult to control, and promised that it would most certainly make an example both of the Governor and the vessel. As for the crew reported to be pressed into military service in tropical climes, it would produce them as soon as possible, and it would apologise, if necessary. Now, no apologies were needed. When one nation apologises to another, millions of amateurs who have no earthly concern with the difficulty hurl themselves into the strife and embarrass the trained specialist. It was requested that the crew be found, if they were still alive — they had been eight months beyond knowledge — and it was promised that all would be forgotten.
The little Governor of the little port was pleased with himself. Seven-and-twenty white men made a very compact force to throw away on a war that had neither beginning nor end — a jungle-and- stockade fight that flickered and smouldered through the wet hot years in the hills a hundred miles away, and was the heritage of every wearied official. He had, he thought, deserved well of his country; and if only some one would buy the unhappy Haliotis, moored in the harbour below his verandah, his cup would be full. He looked at the neatly silvered lamps that he had taken from her cabins, and thought of much that might be turned to account. But his countrymen in that moist climate had no spirit. They would peep into the silent engine-room, and shake their heads. Even the men-of-war would not tow her further up the coast, where the Governor believed that she could be repaired. She was a bad bargain; but her cabin carpets were undeniably beautiful, and his wife approved of her mirrors.
Three hours later cables were bursting round him like shells, for, though he knew it not, he was being offered as a sacrifice by the nether to the upper millstone, and his superiors had no regard for his feelings. He had, said the cables, grossly exceeded his power, and failed to report on events. He would, therefore — at this he cast himself back in his hammock — produce the crew of the Haliotis. He would send for them, and, if that failed, he would put his dignity on a pony and fetch them himself. He had no conceivable right to make pearl-poachers serve in any war. He would be held responsible.
Next morning the cables wished to know whether he had found the crew of the Haliotis. They were to be found, freed and fed — he was to feed them — till such time as they could be sent to the nearest English port in a man-of-war. If you abuse a man long enough in great words flashed over the sea-beds, things happen. The Governor sent inland swiftly for his prisoners, who were also soldiers; and never was a militia regiment more anxious to reduce its strength. No power short of death could make these mad men wear the uniform of their service. They would not fight, except with their fellows, and it was for that reason the regiment had not gone to war, but stayed in a stockade, reasoning with the new troops. The autumn campaign had been a fiasco, but here were the Englishmen. All the regiment marched back to guard them, and the hairy enemy, armed with blow-pipes, rejoiced in the forest. Five of the crew had died, but there lined up on the Governor's verandah two-and-twenty men marked about the legs with the scars of leech-bites. A few of them wore fringes that had once been trousers; the others used loin-cloths of gay patterns; and they existed beautifully but simply in the Governor's verandah, and when he came out they sang at him. When you have lost seventy thousand pounds' worth of pearls, your pay, your ship, and all your clothes, and have lived in bondage for five months beyond the faintest pretences of civilisation, you know what true independence means, for you become the happiest of created things — natural man.
The Governor told the crew that they were evil, and they asked for food. When he saw how they ate, and when he remembered that none of the pearl patrol-boats were expected for two months, he sighed. But the crew of the Haliotis lay down in the verandah, and said that they were pensioners of the Governor's bounty. A grey-bearded man, fat and bald-headed, his one garment a green-and-yellow loin-cloth, saw the Haliotis in the harbour, and bellowed for joy. The men crowded to the verandah-rail, kicking aside the long cane chairs. They pointed, gesticulated, and argued freely, without shame. The militia regiment sat down in the Governor's garden. The Governor retired to his hammock — it was as easy to be killed lying as standing — and his women squeaked from the shuttered rooms.
"She sold?" said the grey-bearded man, pointing to the Haliotis. He was Mr. Wardrop.
"No good," said the Governor, shaking his head. "No one come buy."
"He's taken my lamps, though," said the skipper. He wore one leg of a pair of trousers, and his eye wandered along the verandah. The Governor quailed. There were cuddy camp-stools and the skipper's writing-table in plain sight.
"They've cleaned her out, o' course," said Mr. Wardrop. "They would. We'll go aboard and take an inventory. See!" He waved his hands over the harbour. "We — live — there — now. Sorry?"
The Governor smiled a smile of relief.
"He's glad of that," said one of the crew, reflectively. "I shouldn't wonder."
They flocked down to the harbour-front, the militia regiment clattering behind, and embarked themselves in what they found — it happened to be the Governor's boat. Then they disappeared over the bulwarks of the Haliotis, and the Governor prayed that they might find occupation inside.
Mr. Wardrop's first bound took him to the engine-room; and when the others were patting the well-remembered decks, they heard him giving God thanks that things were as he had left them. The wrecked engines stood over his head untouched; no inexpert hand had meddled with his shores; the steel wedges of the store-room were rusted home; and, best of all, the hundred and sixty tons of good Australian coal in the bunkers had not diminished.
"I don't understand it," said Mr. Wardrop. "Any Malay knows the use o' copper. They ought to have cut away the pipes. And with Chinese junks coming here, too. It's a special interposition o' Providence."
"You think so," said the skipper, from above. "There's only been one thief here, and he's cleaned her out of all my things, anyhow."
Here the skipper spoke less than the truth, for under the planking of his cabin, only to be reached by a chisel, lay a little money which never drew any interest — his sheet-anchor to windward. It was all in clean sovereigns that pass current the world over, and might have amounted to more than a hundred pounds.
"He's left me alone. Let's thank God," repeated Mr. Wardrop.
"He's taken everything else; look!"
The Haliotis, except as to her engine-room, had been systematically and scientifically gutted from one end to the other, and there was strong evidence that an unclean guard had camped in the skipper's cabin to regulate that plunder. She lacked glass, plate, crockery, cutlery, mattresses, cuddy carpets and chairs, all boats, and her copper ventilators. These things had been removed, with her sails and as much of the wire rigging as would not imperil the safety of the masts.
"He must have sold those," said the skipper. "The other things are in his house, I suppose."
Every fitting that could be pried or screwed out was gone. Port, starboard, and masthead lights; teak gratings; sliding sashes of the deck house; the captain's chest of drawers, with charts and chart-table; photographs, brackets, and looking-glasses; cabin doors; rubber cuddy mats; hatch-irons; half the funnel-stays; cork fenders; carpenter's grindstone and tool-chest; holystones, swabs, squeegees; all cabin and pantry lamps; galley-fittings en bloc; flags and flag-locker; clocks, chronometers; the forward compass and the ship's bell and belfry, were among the missing.
There were great scarred marks on the deck. planking over which the cargo-derricks had been hauled. One must have fallen by the way, for the bulwark-rails were smashed and bent and the side-plates bruised.
"It's the Governor," said the skipper. "He's been selling her on the instalment plan."
"Let's go up with spanners and shovels, and kill 'em all," shouted the crew. "Let's drown him, and keep the woman!"
"Then we'll be shot by that black-and-tan regiment — our regiment. What's the trouble ashore? They've camped our regiment on the beach."
"We're cut off; that's all. Go and see what they want," said Mr. Wardrop. "You've the trousers."
In his simple way the Governor was a strategist. He did not desire that the crew of the Haliotis should come ashore again, either singly or in detachments, and he proposed to turn their steamer into a convict-hulk. They would wait — he explained this from the quay to the skipper in the barge — and they would continue to wait till the man-of-war came along, exactly where they were. If one of them set foot ashore, the entire regiment would open fire, and he would not scruple to use the two cannon of the town. Meantime food would be sent daily in a boat under an armed escort. The skipper, bare to the waist, and rowing, could only grind his teeth; and the Governor improved the occasion, and revenged himself for the bitter words in the cables, by saying what he thought of the morals and manners of the crew. The barge returned to the Haliotis in silence, and the skipper climbed aboard, white on the cheekbones and blue about the nostrils.
"I knew it," said Mr. Wardrop; "and they won't give us good food, either. We shall have bananas morning, noon, and night, an' a man can't work on fruit. We know that."
Then the skipper cursed Mr. Wardrop for importing frivolous side-issues into the conversation; and the crew cursed one another, and the Haliotis, the voyage, and all that they knew or could bring to mind. They sat down in silence on the empty decks, and their eyes burned in their heads. The green harbour water chuckled at them overside. They looked at the palm-fringed hills inland, at the white houses above the harbour road, at the single tier of native craft by the quay, at the stolid soldiery sitting round the two cannon, and, last of all, at the blue bar of the horizon. Mr. Wardrop was buried in thought, and scratched imaginary lines with his untrimmed finger-nails on the planking.
"I make no promise," he said, at last, "for I can't say what may or may not have happened to them. But here's the ship, and here's us."
There was a little scornful laughter at this, and Mr. Wardrop knitted his brows. He recalled that in the days when he wore trousers he had been Chief Engineer of the Haliotis.
"Harland, Mackesy, Noble, Hay, Naughton, Fink, O'Hara, Trumbull."
"Here, sir!" The instinct of obedience waked to answer the roll-call of the engine-room.
"Below!"
They rose and went.
"Captain, I'll trouble you for the rest of the men as I want them. We'll get my stores out, and clear away the shores we don't need, and then we'll patch her up. My men will remember that they're in the Haliotis, — under me."
He went into the engine-room, and the others stared. They were used to the accidents of the sea, but this was beyond their experience. None who had seen the engine-room believed that anything short of new engines from end to end could stir the Haliotis from her moorings.
The engine-room stores were unearthed, and Mr. Wardrop's face, red with the filth of the bilges and the exertion of travelling on his stomach, lit with joy. The spare gear of the Haliotis had been unusually complete, and two-and-twenty men, armed with screw jacks, differential blocks, tackle, vices, and a forge or so, can look Kismet between the eyes without winking. The crew were ordered to replace the holding-down and shaft-bearing bolts, and return the collars of the thrust-block. When they had finished, Mr. Wardrop delivered a lecture on repairing compound engines without the aid of the shops, and the men sat about on the cold machinery. The cross-head jammed in the guides leered at them drunkenly, but offered no help. They ran their fingers hopelessly into the cracks of the starboard supporting-column, and picked at the ends of the ropes round the shores, while Mr. Wardrop's voice rose and fell echoing, till the quick tropic night closed down over the engine-room skylight.
Next morning the work of reconstruction began.
It has been explained that the foot of the connecting-rod was forced against the foot of the starboard supporting-column, which it had cracked through and driven outward towards the ship's skin. To all appearance the job was more than hopeless, for rod and column seemed to have been welded into one. But herein Providence smiled on them for one moment to hearten them through the weary weeks ahead. The second engineer more reckless than resourceful — struck at random with a cold chisel into the cast-iron of the column, and a greasy, grey flake of metal flew from under the imprisoned foot of the connecting-rod, while the rod itself fell away slowly, and brought up with a thunderous clang somewhere in the dark of the crank-pit. The guides-plates above were still jammed fast in the guides, but the first blow had been struck. They spent the rest of the day grooming the donkey-engine, which stood immediately forward of the engine-room hatch. Its tarpaulin, of course, had been stolen, and eight warm months had not improved the working parts. Further, the last dying hiccup of the Haliotis seemed — or it might have been the Malay from the boat-house — to have lifted the thing bodily on its bolts, and set it down inaccurately as regarded its steam connections.
"If we only had one single cargo-derrick!" Mr. Wardrop sighed. "We can take the cylinder-cover off by hand, if we sweat; but to get the rod out o' the piston's not possible unless we use steam. Well, there'll be steam the morn, if there's nothing else. She'll fizzle!"
Next morning men from the shore saw the Haliotis through a cloud, for it was as though the deck smoked. Her crew were chasing steam through the shaken and leaky pipes to its work in the forward donkey-engine; and where oakum failed to plug a crack, they stripped off their loincloths for lapping and swore, half-boiled and mother-naked. The donkey-engine worked — at a price — the price of constant attention and furious stoking — worked long enough to allow a wire-rope (it was made up of a funnel and a foremast-stay) to be led into the engine-room and made fast on the cylinder-cover of the forward engine. That rose easily enough, and was hauled through the skylight and on to the deck, many hands assisting the doubtful steam. Then came the tug of war, for it was necessary to get to the piston and the jammed piston-rod. They removed two of the piston junk-ring studs, screwed in two strong iron eye-bolts by way of handles, doubled the wire-rope, and set half a dozen men to smite with an extemporised battering-ram at the end of the piston-rod, where it peered through the piston, while the donkey-engine hauled upwards on the piston itself. After four hours of this furious work, the piston-rod suddenly slipped, and the piston rose with a jerk, knocking one or two men over into the engine-room. But when Mr. Wardrop, declared that the piston had not split, they cheered, and thought nothing of their wounds; and the donkey-engine was hastily stopped; its boiler was nothing to tamper with.
And day by day their supplies reached them by boat. The skipper humbled himself once more before the Governor, and as a concession had leave to get drinking-water from the Malay boat-builder on the quay. It was not good drinking-water, but the Malay was anxious to supply anything in his power, if he were paid for it.
Now when the jaws of the forward engine stood, as it were, stripped and empty, they began to wedge up the shores of the cylinder itself. That work alone filled the better part of three days — warm and sticky days, when the hands slipped and sweat ran into the eyes. When the last wedge was hammered home there was no longer an ounce of weight on the supporting-columns; and Mr. Wardrop rummaged the ship for boiler-plate three-quarters of an inch thick, where he could find it. There was not much available, but what there was was more than beaten gold to him. In one desperate forenoon the entire crew, naked and lean, haled back, more or less into place, the starboard supporting-column, which, as you remember, was cracked clean through. Mr. Wardrop found them asleep where they had finished the work, and gave them a day's rest, smiling upon them as a father while he drew chalk-marks about the cracks. They woke to new and more trying labour; for over each one of those cracks a plate of three-quarter-inch boiler-iron was to be worked hot, the rivet-holes being drilled by hand. All that time they were fed on fruits, chiefly bananas, with some sago.
Those were the days when men swooned over the ratchet-drill and the hand-forge, and where they fell they had leave to lie unless their bodies were in the way of their fellows' feet. And so, patch upon patch, and a patch over all, the star board supporting-column was clouted; but when they thought all was secure, Mr. Wardrop decreed that the noble patchwork would never support working engines; at the best, it could only hold the guide-bars approximately true. The dead weight of the cylinders must be borne by vertical struts; and, therefore, a gang would repair to the bows, and take out, with files, the big bow anchor davits, each of which was some three inches in diameter. They threw hot coals at Wardrop, and threatened to kill him, those who did not weep (they were ready to weep on the least provocation); but he hit them with iron bars heated at the end, and they limped forward, and the davits came with them when they returned. They slept sixteen hours on the strength of it, and in three days two struts were in place, bolted from the foot of the starboard supporting-column to the under side of the cylinder. There remained now the port, or condenser-column, which, though not so badly cracked as its fellow, had also been strengthened in four places with boiler-plate patches, but needed struts. They took away the main stanchions of the bridge for that work, and, crazy with toil, did not see till all was in place that the rounded bars of iron must be flattened from top to bottom to allow the air-pump levers to clear them. It was Wardrop's oversight, and he wept bitterly before the men as he gave the order to unbolt the struts and flatten them with hammer and the flame. Now the broken engine was underpinned firmly, and they took away the wooden shores from under the cylinders, and gave them to the robbed bridge, thanking God for even half a day's work on gentle, kindly wood instead of the iron that had entered into their souls. Eight months in the back-country among the leeches, at a temperature of 84°** moist, is very bad for the nerves.
They had kept the hardest work to the last, as boys save Latin prose, and, worn though they were, Mr. Wardrop did not dare to give them rest. The piston-rod and connecting-rod were to be straightened, and this was a job for a regular dockyard with every appliance. They fell to it, cheered by a little chalk showing of work done and time consumed which Mr. Wardrop wrote up on the engine-room bulkhead. Fifteen days had gone — fifteen days of killing labour — and there was hope before them.
It is curious that no man knows how the rods were straightened. The crew of the Haliotis remember that week very dimly, as a fever patient remembers the delirium of a long night. There were fires everywhere, they say; the whole ship was one consuming furnace, and the hammers were never still. Now, there could not have been more than one fire at the most, for Mr. Wardrop distinctly recalls that no straightening was done except under his own eye. They remember, too, that for many years voices gave orders which they obeyed with their bodies, but their minds were abroad on all the seas. It seems to them that they stood through days and nights slowly sliding a bar backwards and forwards through a white glow that was part of the ship. They remember an intolerable noise in their burning heads from the walls of the stoke-hole, and they remember being savagely beaten by men whose eyes seemed asleep. When their shift was over they would draw straight lines in the air, anxiously and repeatedly, and would question one another in their sleep, crying, "Is she straight?"
At last — they do not remember whether this was by day or by night — Mr. Wardrop began to dance clumsily, and wept the while; and they too danced and wept, and went to sleep twitching all over; and when they woke, men said that the rods were straightened, and no one did any work for two days, but lay on the decks and ate fruit. Mr. Wardrop would go below from time to time, and pat the two rods where they lay, and they heard him singing hymns.
Then his trouble of mind went from him, and at the end of the third day's idleness he made a drawing in chalk upon the deck, with letters of the alphabet at the angles. He pointed out that, though the piston-rod was more or less straight, the piston-rod cross-head — the thing that had been jammed sideways in the guides — had been badly strained, and had cracked the lower end of the piston-rod. He was going to forge and shrink a wrought-iron collar on the neck of the piston-rod where it joined the cross-head, and from the collar he would bolt a Y-shaped piece of iron whose lower arms should be bolted into the cross-head. If anything more were needed, they could use up the last of the boiler-plate.
So the forges were lit again, and men burned their bodies, but hardly felt the pain. The finished connection was not beautiful, but it seemed strong enough — at least, as strong as the rest of the machinery; and with that job their labours came to an end. All that remained was to connect up the engines, and to get food and water. The skipper and four men dealt with the Malay boat-builder — by night chiefly; it was no time to haggle over the price of sago and dried fish. The others stayed aboard and replaced piston, piston-rod, cylinder-cover, cross-head, and bolts, with the aid of the faithful donkey-engine. The cylinder-cover was hardly steam-proof, and the eye of science might have seen in the connecting-rod a flexure something like that of a Christmas-tree candle which has melted and been straightened by hand over a stove, but, as Mr. Wardrop said, "She didn't hit anything."
As soon as the last bolt was in place, men tumbled over one another in their anxiety to get to the hand starting-gear, the wheel and worm, by which some engines can be moved when there is no steam aboard. They nearly wrenched off the wheel, but it was evident to the blindest eye that the engines stirred. They did not revolve in their orbits with any enthusiasm, as good machines should; indeed, they groaned not a little; but they moved over and came to rest in a way which proved that they still recognised man's hand. Then Mr. Wardrop sent his slaves into the darker bowels of the engine-room and the stoke-hole, and followed them with a flare-lamp. The boilers were sound, but would take no harm from a little scaling and cleaning. Mr. Wardrop would not have any one over-zealous, for he feared what the next stroke of the tool might show. "The less we know about her now," said he, "the better for us all, I'm thinkin'. Ye'll understand me when I say that this is in no sense regular engineerin'."
As his raiment, when he spoke, was his grey beard and uncut hair, they believed him. They did not ask too much of what they met, but polished and tallowed and scraped it to a false brilliancy.
"A lick of paint would make me easier in my mind," said Mr. Wardrop, plaintively. "I know half the condenser-tubes are started; and the propeller-shaftin' 's God knows how far out of the true, and we'll need a new air-pump, an' the main-steam leaks like a sieve, and there's worse each way I look; but — paint's like clothes to a man, an' ours is near all gone."
The skipper unearthed some stale ropy paint of the loathsome green that they used for the galleys of sailing-ships, and Mr. Wardrop spread it abroad lavishly to give the engines self-respect.
His own was returning day by day, for he wore his loin-cloth continuously; but the crew, having worked under orders, did not feel as he did. The completed work satisfied Mr. Wardrop. He would at the last have made shift to run to Singapore, and gone home without vengeance taken to show his engines to his brethren in the craft; but the others and the captain forbade him. They had not yet recovered their self-respect.
"It would be safer to make what ye might call a trial trip, but beggars mustn't be choosers; an' if the engines will go over to the hand-gear, the probability — I'm only saying it's a probability — the chance is that they'll hold up when we put steam on her."
"How long will you take to get steam?" said the skipper.
"God knows! Four hours — a day — half a week. If I can raise sixty pound I'll not complain."
"Be sure of her first; we can't afford to go out half a mile, and break down."
"My soul and body, man, we're one continuous breakdown, fore an' aft! We might fetch Singapore, though."
"We'll break down at Pygang-Watai, where we can do good," was the answer, in a voice that did not allow argument. "She's my boat, and I've had eight months to think in."
No man saw the Haliotis depart, though many heard her. She left at two in the morning, having cut her moorings, and it was none of her crew's pleasure that the engines should strike up a thundering half-seas-over chanty that echoed among the hills. Mr. Wardrop wiped away a tear as he listened to the new song.
"She's gibberin' — she's just gibberin'," he whimpered. "Yon's the voice of a maniac."
And if engines have any soul, as their masters believe, he was quite right. There were outcries and clamours, sobs and bursts of chattering laughter, silences where the trained ear yearned for the clear note, and torturing reduplications where there should have been one deep voice. Down the screw-shaft ran murmurs and warnings, while a heart-diseased flutter without told that the propeller needed re-keying.
"How does she make it?" said the skipper.
"She moves, but — but she's breakin' my heart. The sooner we're at Pygang-Watai, the better. She's mad, and we're waking the town."
"Is she at all near safe?"
"What do I care how safe she is? She's mad. Hear that, now! To be sure, nothing's hittin' anything, and the bearin's are fairly cool, but — can ye not hear?"
"If she goes," said the skipper, "I don't care a curse. And she's my boat, too."
She went, trailing a fathom of weed behind her. From a slow two knots an hour she crawled up to a triumphant four. Anything beyond that made the struts quiver dangerously, and filled the engine-room with steam. Morning showed her out of sight of land, and there was a visible ripple under her bows; but she complained bitterly in her bowels, and, as though the noise had called it, there shot along across the purple sea a swift, dark pros, hawk-like and curious, which presently ranged alongside and wished to know if the Haliotis were helpless. Ships, even the steamers of the white men, had been known to break down in those waters, and the honest Malay and Javanese traders would sometimes aid them in their own peculiar way. But this ship was not full of lady passengers and well-dressed officers. Men, white, naked and savage, swarmed down her sides — some with red-hot iron bars, and others with large hammers — threw themselves upon those innocent inquiring strangers, and, before any man could say what had happened, were in full possession of the proa, while the lawful owners bobbed in the water overside. Half an hour later the prows cargo of sago and trepang, as well as a doubtful-minded compass, was in the Haliotis. The two huge triangular mat sails, with their seventy-foot yards and booms, had followed the cargo, and were being fitted to the stripped masts of the steamer.
They rose, they swelled, they filled, and the empty steamer visibly laid over as the wind took them. They gave her nearly three knots an hour, and what better could men ask? But if she had been forlorn before, this new purchase made her horrible to see. Imagine a respectable charwoman in the tights of a ballet-dancer rolling drunk along the streets, and you will come to some faint notion of the appearance of that nine-hundred-ton, well-decked, once schooner-rigged cargo-boat as she staggered under her new help, shouting and raving across the deep. With steam and sail that marvellous voyage continued; and the bright-eyed crew looked over the rail, desolate, unkempt, unshorn, shamelessly clothed — beyond the decencies.
At the end of the third week she sighted the island of Pygang-Watai, whose harbour is the turning-point of a pearl sea-patrol. Here the gunboats stay for a week ere they retrace their line. There is no village at Pygang-Watai; only a stream of water, some palms, and a harbour safe to rest in till the first violence of the southeast monsoon has blown itself out. They opened up the low coral beach, with its mound of whitewashed coal ready for supply, the deserted huts for the sailors, and the flagless flagstaff
Next day there was no Haliotis — only a little proa rocking in the warm rain at the mouth of the harbour, whose crew watched with hungry eyes the smoke of a gunboat on the horizon.
Months afterwards there were a few lines in an English newspaper to the effect that some gunboat of some Foreign Power had broken her back at the mouth of some far-away harbour by running at full speed into a sunken wreck.
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MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes hope they have finally found their starting quarterback in shaggy-haired Jonathan Crompton. But as promising as the 26-year-old looked in his first game last week in a 24-16 loss in Winnipeg, it is too early to think of Crompton as the one who might save what has been a disastrous 2014 CFL season for Montreal after a 1-7 start. "Not even close," Crompton said Wednesday. "Ive only played three quarters of football. "I havent even played a full game yet, so I just have to do my job, do what the coaches tell me to do, and things will take care of themselves. I really think we have a good team around us." That will be put to the test on Friday night when the Alouettes, trying to end a six-game losing streak, face the expansion Ottawa Redblacks at Percival Molson Stadium. After taking most of the first-team snaps in practice this week, Crompton is expected to get his first CFL start, even if coach Tom Higgins would not confirm it. 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INTERVIEW WITH ED SUM of ABSOLUTE UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE
An Interview with Nevin Arnold on Monsterella and Crowdfunding
Supporting locally made comics is a passion for some, and to have a ringleader in charge helps wrangle everyone together. Nevin Arnold’s love for anthology works and comics started at a very young age. His career in illustration led him to create for Americanime Productions with “Honor of the Damned.” To have works published in Joe Shuster Gene Day’s award winning work Epic Canadiana #2 with “Ghost-Woman” speaks for itself. This eventually led him to develop his own brand of comics.
Readers of Calavera the Undead will be thrilled to see him as the ringleader behind Monsterella under the Hangman Comics banner. Chatting with him was an absolute pleasure, and I had to ask:
So what led you to the realm of all things dark, morbid and disturbing with the horror genre?
I remember spending my allowance renting old beta/vhs horror and science fiction movies, werewolves, vampires, aliens, and lots and lots of Godzilla. I’d buy from everywhere! Monsters were not only fun to draw, they made every story better. I guess Elvira (she was my first love) introduced me to a world beyond Saturday morning cartoons and I just never came back!
How did the idea of Monsterella come about?
The idea for Monsterella came from me reading a lot of Vampirella magazines at the time–the ones from the 70s, using the anthology style format instead (an approach rarely used these days). She’s a cross between Vampirella and Elvira.
How did you assemble the team?
I go to all the comic book shows up and down the island and see many amazing regular artists and writers; I thought one day that wouldn’t it be fun [for all of us locals] to do a project together. When we have regular full time jobs, have lives and families and everything else, it takes us a long time to finish a book. We’re all chasing the dream of self publishing and the payoff–I hope–is that they can get a job with a major comic publisher.
With the huge gambit of sexy TV hosts, who would you love to see your hostess cross over with in the comic book world?
To have Lady Death would be really cool. Our incredibly talented cover artist, Sun Khamunaki drawn the centerfold in our Summer Special and has done covers for Brian Pulido’s Lady Death comics. She created a cover for the third issue that’s coming out in December.
Despite having an irregular release schedule, what can you say about stories which stand out and issue #3?
Everyone that has ever given me feedback on the first issue praises Josh Kully‘s “The Stork,” an incredible piece of work. Dan MacKinnon‘s two stories have created a following for his character Graelin whos is from his epic “From The Ashes” comic book. Lawrence Denvir illustrated Matt Smith’s amazing tale of “The Last Woman On Earth” which takes place in a post-apocalyptic Victoria, BC.
So many stories stand out: Julien Pilon introduced a new character, “Emma” in his werewolf tale in #2 that people are hoping to see more of. Plus the covers, by Khamunaki and John Gallagher (production artist for The CW’s many DC superhero shows), have really helped the book pop on the shelves. Victoria’s Gareth Gaudin brought some star power to the back cover of #1, everyone knows and loves both Gareth and his Perogy Cat.
For the new issue, Lawrence has a great new story entitled “Wheel Of Misfortune,” and Matt is offering three new short stories. Andrew Fryer, another local artist from Duncan illustrated a story for me called “The Space Siren of Sector 13” and it looks amazing. Also this upcoming issue features Hans Chow, Jhones-Bas Craneo, Garth Matthams, Logan Reilly and Justin Shauf.
Also, I have an epic 13-page conclusion to the Monsterella tale that began in #1.
How difficult is your role as editor?
One challenge with so many people involved is scheduling. Luckily our readers understand when we do the crowdfunding thing. I don’t start soliciting until the book is nearly done. The money goes to paying for the printing than us profiting.
I knew from the start that if I chose the right talents, each issue would just magically come together and for the most part, it has. The end result is always fantastic. I basically just decide how many pages are available to each creative team and ask that they do what they want to do. That’s when creative types shine brightest, off-leash, with very few restrictions or guidelines.
When considering there’s a lot of incredible talent living here on Vancouver Island, including an individual who left to found an “Image” Empire, who would you love to see contribute?
I’d love to have a pin-up or cover from Ken Steacy. We all enjoy seeing him at all the shows. I have all of his War Bears issues (which he did with Margaret Atwood for Dark Horse Comics) signed, and I got a big 16×20 original piece from Ken of the heroine Oursonette over top of my drawing board for inspiration.
In Chemainus, where I live, Todd McFarlane recently was at Wiffle Games. He wrote a little message on one of my books and left it for the shop owner to pass on. It reads “To Nev – Keep up the great work.” I have that hanging over my drawing board as well. He was a huge inspiration and I consider him one of my top five influences. To take the time to encourage a small-town dreamer like me is amazing. Obviously, I’d love to see his spin on drawing Monsterella, but like I said, I’m a dreamer!
Are there any conventions you’ll be at so people can talk to you or ask about how to contribute?
I’ll be at Cowichan Comic Book Expo Oct 6th and Curious Comicon Halloween Howler Oct 26th. Also, just email me at hangmancomics@gmail.com! We’re always looking for cool and spooky new stuff.
What are your present and long term goals for the series?
I could never guarantee releasing a bi-monthly book; that was the original goal but that’d be really hard to pull together. I think after issue three, Monsterella will turn into a regular Halloween release special.
For back issues, please visit https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HangmanComics
LINK: https://otakunoculture.com/2019/10/17/an-interview-with-nevin-arnold-on-monsterella-and-crowdfunding/
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Breaking Boundaries and Busting Barriers
August 16, 2018 August 16, 2018 gsksmo
The Boundary Waters account for over 1 million acres and 1,000 lakes of the Superior National Forest in the northeastern most part of Minnesota. With those statistics, it’s no wonder why Girl Scouts from all over the country head to Ely, MN every summer to experience the great outdoors camping, hiking, canoeing, porting and even making their way into Canada! This summer, seven Girl Scout Cadettes and two volunteers made the 10-hour road trip to the State Park with our Outdoor Experiences Excursion program!
Upon their arrival at Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes & Pines camp, they started learning what to expect over the next five days and four nights! In true Girl Scout fashion, girls packed light using their resources wisely. Each canoe had one Duluth pack that contained clothing, sleeping bags and hygiene items for two girls! Girls took two changes of clothes – one dry set for at night and a wet set for during the day. FYI, getting into wet clothes in the morning can be a little cold!
The groups also had a food pack, weighing about 75lbs that carried all their nutrition and supplies for the 5 days. In the State Park, all food must be packed out or eaten. They would build a fire every morning and evening to cook – making pizza, pancakes, macaroni, brownies, burritos and cheesecake! After each meal, they had to wash dishes and dispose of the water 150 feet from the lake to avoid contamination. For drinking, they gathered water directly from the lake and purified it with iodine through a gravity filter.
One of the volunteers who traveled with our Girl scouts was Girl Scout Alum, Katelyn Clark, who actually went on this very trip herself when she was a young Girl Scout!
“It was amazing to see the girls grow. Most were nervous when going through training and spending the first night at base camp in the woods. The last day as we were paddling in they were discussing that they can do anything and that they felt that they accomplished a lot,” Katelyn said.
Their trip wasn’t without its challenges. During their R&R day they took a short paddle and hiking trip to get a better view of the lake. On their way back they were met with a thunderstorm and had to pull over and spend time with another group out of the water who felt the need to instructions and guidance. As they disembarked, Girl Scout Cadette Autumn got out and moved the metal canoe all on her own. The other group was impressed and acknowledged that these girls were Girl Scout STRONG!
On their final day, they had to take some long portages (carrying the canoe above their head) to get to the some of the final lakes, going up and downhill for a mile and quarter with all their gear in tow too. “The girls were so empowered after we finished. It was personally the highlight of my trip to see each one of them so self-confident after we completed them,” Katelyn said.
In total they went about 26 miles, crossing into Canada and have the arm muscles, mosquito bites and wet boots to prove it!
At the end of the trip, the girls reflected and had some of the following takeaways:
-You can do anything you mentally put your mind to, your body has few limitations.
-Everyone has their own strengths and you need to accept them and use your team to make everything work.
-It’s good to disconnect from technology and your to do list and just listen to your body every once in a while.
-Everyone has different bodies and different ways of being fit – it is important you listen to yours and find your own ways.
-Camping is fun
-Get to go to school saying they carried a canoe for 1.25 miles, lived in the woods for a week, canoed 26 miles and went to Canada!
-Girl Scouts teaches you how to be a leader through experiences like these. You don’t feel like you are learning but you learn things like teamwork, communication, perseverance and acceptance through trips like these.
“It was such an amazing experience to see the girls go through the same process as I did 20 years ago – nervous, self-doubt, confident and empowered. Paddling back in on the last day and listening to them talk about their takeaways made me tear up because I knew I was sending home 7 ladies that felt like they could conquer the world,” Katelyn said. “At its core this is truly why I volunteer, to help girls have experiences that empower them and inspire them to carry on the values they have learned.”
This is just one Outdoor Experience, of many, that girls can have when they’re a Girl Scout! As she grows, so do her skills. Each experience will prepare her to thrive physically, emotionally and intellectually.
See all the Outdoor Experiences available to Girl Scouts this fall at outdoor.gsksmo.org.
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Making a SPLASH at Camp Prairie Schooner
July 25, 2018 gsksmo
Day Camp is a special place where Girl Scouts get to know others in their Service Unit and teen Girl Scouts grow as leaders. Every summer Service Unit 637 holds a Day Camp where girls explore and learn new skills at Camp Prairie Schooner. Troop 3389 from Lenexa, KS, led by Crystal Hoopes and Susanne Neely is one of the troops in Service Unit 637 with girls who have grown up to be awesome teen leaders.
Troop 3389 has been together since kindergarten and they’re now high school sophomores, so they’re experts on camp. These Girl Scout Seniors have wonderful memories of camp and though their memories of the pool area have been fond, in recent years, the declining state of the pool has left them wanting more. Finally, their dreams are being answered with the brand new Aquatics Center and All Season Shower House.
As an advocate for girls and longtime Camp Prairie Schooner visitor, Crystal Hoopes knows firsthand the state of the pool area and how desperately it needed to be improved for the Girl Scouts who call Camp Prairie Schooner home each summer. “Even public pools are better quality…and our Girl Scouts deserve better,” Crystal said. Each year her Girl Scout teens help younger girls learn to swim and beat the heat in the cool water, but the girls couldn’t be more excited for a facility that’s updated and focused on programming.
Troop 3389 with young Girl Scout sisters at Day Camp at Camp Prairie Schooner.
“Our girls are excited about being able to learn to kayak and canoe off-season!” Crystal said. The opportunity to teach these skills is just one of the awesome new things that will come with the new Aquatics Center. The opportunities are limitless with this new design and we couldn’t be more excited.
One of the best new features, for Crystal, is the fully ADA-compliant, zero-entry pool. “If you can’t go down a ladder, you can’t enjoy the pool. The new zero-entry will let every Girl Scout and leader enjoy it,” Crystal said. She knows younger girls at Day Camp will also love the feature because it will help them ease into swimming more easily than the current pool drop-off. As a troop who’s grown up at Camp Prairie Schooner and with this pool, Troop 3389 has wide eyes set on their 2019 adventure.
Troop 3389 growing up at Camp Prairie Schooner.
Having access to top quality facilities like this empower girls to reach their potential. “Being a Girl Scout means I’m gaining skills to help for my future,” Girl Scout Mary Hoopes said. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience and outdoor adventure opportunities empower girls like Mary and all the members of Troop 3389 to take on challenges and leadership roles like never before. For families, Girl Scouting offers fantastic memories. “Girl Scouting helps build leader, but it’s also great memories, both for adult women and the girls,” Crystal said.
As the new Aquatics Center inches closer to being funded and opening a new world of opportunities for girls, we want to extend a special opportunity to have YOU as well! You can have your name memorialized at camp for years to come! With a gift of $250, $500 or $1,000, you can have your name placed on a paver or locker/cubby. See www.gsksmo.org/MakeASplash for more details!
We can’t wait to make a BIG SPLASH for G.I.R.L.s (Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers, Leaders)™ in 2019! Thank you to troop leaders, like Crystal and Susanne, for their on-going support, advocacy for girls and time as leaders. See you by the pool!
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Our Top Campfire Recipes
June 23, 2018 June 23, 2018 gsksmo
(includes all the ingredients and instructions)
Thursday was the first official day of summer and camp season is well underway! As you prepare to get outdoors with your troop or family, you can impress them with your outdoor culinary skills using these recipes below!
Omelet in a Bag
From Leah at Beyer Beware
BPA Free freezer bags
2 eggs/person
Omelet ingredients of your choice (pre-cooked sausage, bacon, ham, mushrooms, black olives, peppers, onions, tomatoes, etc.)
1 bag shredded cheese for every 6 people
Start a pot of boiling water large enough to hold at least 6 bags
Write names on freezer bags
Break two eggs into each freezer bag
Add ingredients of your choice
Seal and place in boiling water for 14-15 minutes
Carefully remove from water and let cool for a minute or two before emptying omelet onto a plate
DIY Instant Oatmeal
From The First Mess
½ c. Oats per person
Toppings of your choice! (dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar, etc.)
Use a campfire tea kettle to boil water
Using a bowl, create your own oatmeal mix, using 1/2 oats per person, a pinch of salt and toppings of your choice.
Add 2 tbsp. – ¼ c. of boiling water to the oatmeal mix depending on how watery/sticky you want it and stir.
Main Dishes:
Pizza Fondue + French Bread
Submitted by Lysette Deboard, SU716 Day Camp Director
Serves: 12ish
2-3 lbs ground beef
2 c. mozzarella cheese
2 c. cheddar cheese
3-4 cans pizza sauce
4-5 loaves French bread
Make a hot fire an place a grate over it. Cover the outside bottom of a cooking pot with dish soap
Place the pot on the fire and brown the ground beef
While the beef is being prepared, have girls slice bread and prepare any other sides you may have (salad/veggies are great with this!)
Line a large bowl with several layers of paper towels. Pour the beef in the bowl and let the towels absorb the grease. Put the beef back into the pot and over the fire. Alternatively, you can drain the grease into a can.
Pour all pizza sauce in with the beef an let it simmer until heated. Cook 15 minutes or until hot.
Add cheeses to the pot and stir well until melted.
Remove from fire and serve a large scoop of “fondue” and two slices of bread to each person.
Walking Tacos
Serves: 5+
Single-serving bag of Fritos for each person
1 lb. ground beef for every 5 girls/4 adults
Taco seasoning of your choice
Taco toppings of your choice (shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, pico, salsa, sour cream, avocado, black olives, onions, black/refried beans, etc.)
Using a campfire pan, cook meat with desired taco seasoning until brown
Remove pan from fire and set in a safe area
Have each girl open a bag of fritos and serve one spoonful of meat directly into the bag
Let each girl add her desired toppings & enjoy straight out of the bag!
Campfire Cobbler
Submitted by Kelly Rogge, SU 618, Troop 1302
2 cans pie filling – your choice!
1 stick butter or margarine
First you will want to put at least 25 charcoal briquettes in the campfire. While those are getting nice and hot, line your dutch oven with heavy-duty foil. Do not use the cheap, Dollar Store foil. Go for the Reynolds Heavy-duty brand. Double-line the dutch oven completely. Open two cans of pie filling and pour into the dutch oven. Pour one box of yellow cake mix on top of the filling, and spread evenly. Cut stick of butter or margarine into slices and place on top of the dry cake mix. Put the lid on the dutch oven.
Remove the briquettes carefully from the fire using tongs. Place five to six on the ground near the campfire. Place the dutch oven on top of the briquettes. Then place 10 to 12 briquettes on the lid. This will ensure even cooking. Cook cobbler for 25 to 45 minutes, depending on how hot the briquettes are.
Not-so-messy S’mores
Submitted by Allie Steele, Troop 1006
Additional toppings of your choosing
Grab a cone and put in marshmallows, chocolate chips and whatever else you like (bananas, strawberries, caramel chips, peanut butter cups, etc)!
Wrap the stuffed cone in tin foil and place it on the fire for 5-10 minutes (depending on how melty you like it!)
Take off the fire and allow to cool
Unwrap the tinfoil and enjoy your not-so messy s’mores!
What are your go-to campfire meals?! Let us know in the comments below or share them on social media and tag us with #gsksmo!
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Get Outdoors with Badges
May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 gsksmo
June is Great Outdoors Month! With summer here, it’s the perfect time for a Girl Scout to take on an adventure in the outdoors! And, we encourage our Girl Scouts to take on earning a badge or two with the support of her parent / caregiver. Getting a head start on planning for the new GS Year? Here’s some great information on how to support your Girl Scout(s) in focusing on an outdoor badge.
Girl Scouts are the true vision of “work hard play hard.” Through their badge and journey requirements, getting girls outdoors teaches them about the environment that surrounds them, leadership skills and social bonds and problem solving skills.
Here are the badges that G.I.R.L.s (Go-getters, Innovators, Risk Takers, Leaders)™ can earn through outdoor activities!
Go camping. We’re all about learning, having fun, and making friends—the perfect combination for camp. Camping is a great way for girls to explore leadership, build skills, and develop a deep appreciation for nature. Whether for a day, a week, or longer, camp gives girls opportunities to grow, explore, and have fun under the guidance of caring, trained adults. There are a variety of ways for girls to get involved like: day camps, troop camping or a resident camp experience at one of our sister councils. See all the ways you can camp like a Girl Scouts this summer! Did you know: girls at ANY age can earn badges for camping? Learn more about Daisy-Ambassador camping badges. Learn more about Daisy-Ambassador camping badges.
Take on an outdoor adventure. Consider climbing a hill or mountain so high you’ll be yearning to snap a selfie on top of it to capture the memory. Grab a friend or team up with your Girl Scout troop to explore your neighborhood at night or buddy up to set up a tent in a nearby park or your backyard. If you’re a Brownie these are just some activities you’ll try out when you challenge yourself to earn the Outdoor Adventurer badge. Did you know: our older girls can complete something BIG through our Ultimate Recreation Challenge Badge? For the girls who have already mastered camping, hiking, and canoeing, earning your Ultimate Recreation Challenge Badge might be perfect for you!
Try your hand at geocaching. Here’s your chance to play part global explorer, part detective when you search for treasure chests known as “geocaches” using GPS. By the end of your search, you’ll not only have had an exciting geocaching adventure but also have learned how to prepare for future quests- a perfect way to connect STEM to the outdoors. If you’re a Junior, you’ll be taking the steps to earn the Geocacher badge, too. Did you know: you can set up a Geocaching session with our trained staff at Camp Tongawood and Camp Prairie Schooner?! You can also checkout necessary equipment and download the resources to lead the session yourself! Learn More!
Ride Horses. Are you up for a challenge? Why not try horseback riding? This exciting sport engages all ages! You will improve your strength, focus, and form. This is also a unique way to earn badges. Be sure to prepare. Learn about our community partners like Pine Dell Horse Farm or S&S Stables to book your own equestrian trip. Simply follow the safety activity checkpoint guide for horseback riding and fill out the activity and troop approval application prior to the activity!
Outdoor Art? Why not! Whether it be through photography, painting, jewelry making or music, experiment with new ways of expressing your love of nature. Let it move you to create art inspired by the outdoors. Seniors can earn the Art Expert badge once their masterpiece is complete.
Plan a trip to the beach, river, or lake. Have an adventure on the water! We have many bodies of water in our landlocked region that girls can explore! Just be sure that you’re following the safety activity checkpoints or using one of our community partners like Living Water Canoe/Kayak! Hey Girl Scout adults did you know: that you can become certified to lead water excursions with your troop? The next Small Craft Safety training is June 2 and Moving Water training is June 9!
Prepare for great adventures, Girl Scout style! Get your outdoor gear at the Girl Scout shop. The badges don’t stop here. Check out more Girl Scout badges you can earn when you show the outdoors some love.
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Rock Chalk, STEM Hawks!
October 24, 2017 gsksmo
It’s fall and that means it’s a perfect time to get outdoors and get your hands dirty! For Girl Scouts, this included an exciting STEM day at Camp Tongawood, hosted by KU’s Biology department (the Ecology & Entomology graduate program students), who wanted to do their part in inspiring the next generation. As Andrew Mongue, a grad student lead on the project, said “One of our big motivators with these STEM activities is to provide encouragement and re-spark interest in girls at the critical ages.” Thanks to their work and innovative activities, girls were laughing their way to a love of science.
The University of Kansas (the Jayhawks), worked with Girl Scouts to create a program that not only inspires girls, but provides their grad students an opportunity to interact with kids. With grad programs taking 5-6 years, this community engagement helps keep the students motivated and gives Girl Scouts unique STEM experiences in the most critical time in their lives.
“…it really is a two-way street; I get encouragement from the girls’ excitement. A PhD is a long-term goal (5-6yrs) and at times I can lose sight of the passion that set me down this path. Working with kids who have nothing but pure wonder for the sciences and natural world helps remind me of my own passion for Biology,” Andrew said.
This year KU hosted a bug event where girls were able to capture bugs, look at them up-close and get guidance from Andrew (AKA “Ant-Man”) and Kaila Colyott (AKA “Wasp”). They ran around with nets, got into the creek and captured bugs on the ground. One of the most exciting parts for girls was watching normally sweet dragonflies eat prey in the enclosure!
In October, a larger project with more students from KU joined together for this rotation style STEM expo. Girls got to experience wide range of activities from looking at worms, fish and fungi under microscopes to changing colors with acids and learning about genetics! It was quite the experience for girls.
“…it’s important to develop and promote STEM learning outdoors, like Camp Tongawood. There is a lot of great ecology (read: really cool bugs among other things) in the countryside of Kansas that most people won’t interact with going about their daily routine. These places are great to explore nature are crucial nurturing that curiosity in kids,” Andrew said.
One of the favorite projects was an art project using fish specimens! That’s right! Girls picked a dead fish that had patterns/textures they found interesting and used paint to transfer the patterns on to pieces of white cloth, creating their own art pieces! What a cool way to explore animals and learn about what makes fish so interesting.
The acids and bases activity was a bubbly experience with some real chemistry magic! Adding either a base or an acid to a solution let girls watch it bubble, change colors and even smoke when dry ice was added. Girl Scouts learned about ocean acidification that is a concern for scientists and ways we can go about preventing it. What a colorful way to learn about chemistry.
Thanks to the KU Biology department for their hard work on this expo. Girls were raving about it and were clearly inspired! Together, we can keep inspiring young women to love science and create a bright future in science.
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Built by G.I.R.L.s for G.I.R.L.s: A Look Inside the “Magical” Camp Prairie Schooner
September 7, 2017 May 15, 2019 gsksmo
Frolicking with the Prairie Fairy and adventures out in Farmer’s Field – those are experiences that Girl Scouts who call Camp Prairie Schooner home are very familiar with. For more than 70 years, Girl Scouts have taken pride and ownership in this beautiful camp located near the Little Blue River in Kansas City, MO. It’s also the location of our upcoming Alumnae Reunion Weekend, Lifetime Member Picnic and Trefoil Society Pinning Ceremony on Sept 23 – 24! Today we’ll take a look how this camp came to be and the women whose tenacity made it a reality.
Camp Prairie Schooner patch (left); Flag ceremony and patches (center) and early sign (right).
In the early 1940s, the Independence Council of Girl Scouts decided they wanted a camp for Kansas City Girl Scouts. A leader in that initiative was Mrs. Dewitt, who was active in the community and knew about a war time fund that had unallocated money. During World War II, the War Chest fund had been active in raising funds and by 1945, the remaining money was in limbo, ready to be reorganized.
Mrs. Dewitt, advocating for girls, approached the War Chest Board about the funds before they reorganized and the leadership wasn’t sure if they could trust ladies to establish and run a camp. As we know, G.I.R.L.s (Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers, Leaders)TM can do anything, and the Girl Scout Council knew they could achieve their goal, even if the Board doubted them.
The Council found the land where Camp Prairie Schooner currently sits and decided it was an ideal location. With a train stop just a short hike away, wooded areas and space for camp, they advocated for the funds. Despite pushback from the War Chest Board, Mrs. Dewitt was a hard woman to say “no” to and the Board sent the Jackson County Planning Commission to look at the land and make a recommendation. They had planned to use this as a stalling technique, hoping the women would give up before getting the funds.
Jerry Manning was sent to inspect the site and as he visited, he met the team behind the camp plan. It included community leaders and strong women who knew this would be a success. He realized this was a project backed by serious people wanting to create a better world for girls, not a whim that ladies had. He made the recommendation that the War Chest
Camp Prairie Schooner staff from 1988 (left) and approx. 1980s (right).
funds should be given to Girl Scouts, and they were. After they acquired the land, the Council asked Mr. Manning to become the Camp Chairman, which started many years of service he gave to Girl Scouts, including serving as President of the Pioneer Trails Council!
Cookie money and funds from the War Chest paid the $4,000 for 127 acres of land that is now Camp Prairie Schooner. Still having reservations about the project, the War Chest Board held the title to Camp Prairie Schooner until the Council proved the camp was successful. After the installation of a pool and successful management of the property, they realized that these G.I.R.L.s meant business and the title was officially given to Girl Scouts.
Camp Prairie Schooner philanthropy! Girl Scouts from SU 638 & 639 built a Gaga Pit in 2015 (left) and Burns & McDonnell host annual work days at camp (right).
Today, Camp Prairie Schooner stands as a living testament to the power of G.I.R.L.s who wanted to make the world better for young women. We thank those early pioneers for their vision and tenacity that brought that camp to life as well as the current day donors who add to camp each year! Businesses, donors, and girls have added new facilities and games to camp, creating more opportunities and adventures (read our blog post about girl donated projects). Thank you!
We invite you to join us at Camp Prairie Schooner for our Alumnae Reunion! Registration closes SOON, so register today at www.gsksmo.org/reunion! See you at camp!
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A New Home for the Oakledge Ish-Ki-Ti-Ni
September 1, 2017 gsksmo
The most recognizable symbol from Camp Oakledge was the totem pole (or “Ish-ki-ti-ni” for more recent Girl Scouts) that stood near the dining hall. Its image was on badges and shirts, serving as a friendly face for campers. When Camp Oakledge was decommissioned, the Ish-ki-ti-ni was moved to Camp Prairie Schooner. Now renamed the “Oakledge Ish-ki-ti-ni,” the rebuilt totem pole will be rededicated during the Alumnae Reunion and Picnic on Sept 23 -24, 2017 at Camp Prairie Schooner. We wanted to share the story of this symbol of camp history and celebrate its new life!
The name Ish-ki-ti-ni comes from a Native American mythology of the owl. While the whole totem pole has come to be known as the “Ish-ki-ti-ni,” it is started as the name of the owl that symbolically sits at the top of the totem. According to Oakledge camp legend, you can sometimes see Ish-ki-ti-ni flying over camp at night, watching over Girl Scouts.
Below the Ish-ki-ti-ni are symbols – the Girl Scout Trefoil, the frog, the turtle, the butterfly and the gnomies (pronounced “ga-no-me” for this totem). Each represents a part of the camping experience.
For alumnae and younger Girl Scouts alike, the Ish-ki-ti-ni serves as an important part of childhood. “In 2013, we pretended it was a time traveling machine. We wrote a song and we would hold onto it while singing it and it would take us to different summers. Kind of like a ride down memory lane. The song went: ‘Ishkitini Ishkitini take us way back when / Show us all the memories that you hold within,’” Girl Scout camper, Olivia (AKA Puffy) said.
Marley Parsons (AKA Ferris), resident camp director and alumna, feels the Ish-ki-ti-ni is a symbol of her Girl Scouting life. “The Ish-ki-ti-ni was a huge representation of my childhood. From whispering in the Green Gnomie’s ear to help find lost times, to peeping in the hole in the back to try to see the Red Gnomie, it was all part of my camping experience,” Ferris said.
Since the Ish-ki-ti-ni is made of wood, it needs to be remade about every 10-15 years, meaning a new group of Girl Scouts gets to give new life to the totem. Currently, the Oakledge Ish-ki-ti-ni is being rebuilt for the 2017 Alumnae Reunion, retaining as much of the original as possible.
“In 2004, the totem pole I grew up with fell into disrepair. While I was heartbroken that we had to build a new one, I loved that Bean and Beaner had us write wishes on the back of the new feathers [on the owl at the top]. It made it really special. Part of me was now a part of the Ish-ki-ti-ni. It makes me really happy to know that I am also here now, in 2017, helping rebuild it for another generation of campers,” Ferris said. She’s also part of the rebuilding team that’s preserving the memories of the totem.
In the process of being rebuilt, the Ish-ki-ti-ni is also finding a new home at Camp Prairie Schooner. “I’m happy it is being rededicated to Prairie Schooner because, for me, that’s where it all started. My very first camp was Schooner. So because the journey to camping at Oakledge started [at Camp Prairie Schooner] for me, it’s giving me a sense of closure,” Puffy said.
We hope you’ll join us on Sept 23 -24, 2017 at Camp Prairie Schooner where we will rededicate the Oakledge Ish-ki-ti-ni at Camp Prairie Schooner and create a time capsule with it! Registration closes on September 8th, so get registered today at www.gsksmo.org/reunion.
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Girl Scouts Give Their Heart to Camp!
July 19, 2017 August 2, 2017 gsksmo
“We are always looking for places to help, but sometimes the person or place we need to help is right next to us. We have a tendency to look globally, which is great, but sometimes you need to learn to look locally for who you can help.” -Liz Gregoire, Girl Scout Junior Troop 173.
Girl Scout camps are places of adventure and opportunity. Thanks to the work of countless individuals, generous gifts from donors and members of Daisy’s Circle, and Girl Scouts, camps continue to grow to meet the needs of the girls they serve. This effort to keep improving camps has inspired girls to find ways to give back themselves. Check out these three inspiring stories about new opportunities added to camps for girls by girls!
GAGA BALL PIT
It all started with the GaGa Ball Pit! In 2015, Service Units 638 & 639 added a GaGa Pit to Camp Prairie Schooner as a Day Camp service project. Girl Scout dad, Bill Schneider worked with Site Manager, Zac Sibert, to plan the project and coordinated the teens on build day. While Bill handled all the cutting of the wood, girls helped assemble, stain and drill on the project to make it come to life.
“We wanted another experience for the girls…[a GaGa Pit] is competition, fun and not too physically demanding while still getting your heart pumping,” Mr. Schneider said. The GaGa Pit has since been a place where girls can go for free-form fun. It’s organic play that the girls can do during down time and where girls meet new people. This project has since inspired two troops to give back to camp and complete their Bronze Award projects!
9 SQUARE GAME
Junior Troop 173 from Lee’s Summit, MO gave back by building a 9 Square game in Farmer’s Field for their Bronze Award. The troop knew they wanted to give back to Girl Scouts, so they walked around Camp Prairie Schooner and made note of their favorite things and the GaGa Pit was the top option.
“What our girls love about the GaGa Pit is that they get to meet other girls, so we built something in Farmer’s Field that could do the same thing,” Liz Gregoire, Troop 173 leader said. Part of the appeal of 9 Square was that it was a structure the girls could build without a lot of adult help and they could be creative.
Through the process, the girls learned to write donation request letters and how to build the structure. They printed rules that hang by the game and can see the result of their work every time they visit camp. “By seeing an activity you did within Girl Scouting, you will see it year after year and how it gets utilized by your troop and other girls. While service projects for other organizations are great, you don’t get to see the lasting results like you do giving back to Girl Scouts,” said Liz.
OUTDOOR JENGA
Gaming fun! An outdoor Jenga set was added by Junior Troop 1963 from Shawnee Mission, KS, also as a Bronze Award project. The troop got supplies donated and with the help of parents, they measured, cut and stained the game. While the actual cuts were done by adults, the girls did all the measuring, wore all the safety gear and were taught about the tools that were being used for the project.
“Giving back makes their experience better and gives them ownership in the camp. They see immediately value in their service by seeing other girls enjoying their project,” said Barb Janssen, Troop 1963 leader.
While they originally planned to go to several stores to inquire about donations, they only needed to make one stop – Home Depot! Melissa from that store donated the wood, stain and sandpaper to make this project a reality. We love it when the community comes out to help girls.
“My favorite thing about the project was getting to build something that every girl in Kansas and Missouri is going to be able to use,” said Jessica Janssen, one of the Girl Scouts who built the Jenga set. The troop donated the game just before their Day Camp, so the Girl Scouts got to see other girls using the game right away. Thanks for this awesome addition to camp!
What an inspiring set of projects! These girls are giving back and making camp better than ever – thank you! Together, we are making camp an absolutely incredible place to be.
Do you love our beloved camps as much as our featured Girl Scouts? You can join us in continuing to support these awesome experiences. Right now, your gift has double the power to help girls get the outdoor experiences they need! The Feist Charitable Foundation is offering a matching investment of $10,000 to underwrite Outdoor Adventure Programming at Camp Prairie Schooner and enable program to develop and grow. Now is a great time to make your gift have twice the impact! You can give now by visiting www.gsksmo.org/Donate
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For the Love of Girl Scout Camp
Spotlight on Resident Camp Director Marley Parsons
Girl Scout Camp. Where your girl gets to be the person she’s been taught to be. Where she tries new things, is curious, confident, embraces the unfamiliar and makes new friends. Friends that are as much different, as they are alike. Camp is where she has the opportunity to fall in love with something larger than herself. Girl Scout camp is an experience that can’t be replicated anywhere else.
For Resident Camp Director, Marley Parsons (aka Ferris), camp was all of those things and more; which is why she is so passionate about providing Girl Scouts with those experiences at Camp Daisy Hindman each summer.
Marely joined Girl Scouts when she was in third grade. Something she had always wanted to do after hearing her mother share stories of Girl Scout camps, badges and pins. For her first Resident Camp experience, Marley had to convince her mom to let her go to Oakledge where the programming was more advanced, because she wanted to be at the same camp her mother had attended and worked!
That first summer was just the beginning for Marley. She was at camp every summer after that, often for multiple sessions. At camp, Marley completed all three Treks – Canoe, Pack and Sail, which was a remarkable accomplishment for any Girl Scout.
“Camp was the place where I went to be included and be successful. Where I was encouraged to be strong and challenge myself,” Marley said.
In 2002, she completed the Counselor in Training (CIT) program and was on staff the following two years and then returned to camp staff for a summer after college in 2012. In 2016, Marley’s passion for Girl Scout Camp brought her to Girl Scouts full-time, as the Resident Camp Director.
“I wouldn’t have been brave enough to do so many amazing things if it weren’t for the skills of resilience, self-reliance, self-rescue, and bravery that I learned at camp. I wanted to be a Camp Director to teach girls these skills. Teach them how to be courageous, show them their strength, and help them grow into people who will run the world in the future.”
Just like her mother, Marley is telling her own stories to campers and the camp staff, instilling a love for this organization and its experiences that will continue for generations to come.
“In my opinion there is nothing better for youth development than Resident Camp. It’s a structured environment for girls to try new things in a safe and accepting place. For most youth, camp is the first experience away from a familiar environment. It’s the first experience young children have with adults who are not relatives or teachers who take a genuine interest in their lives. I’m a grown adult now, and those staff who helped me grow as a child are still heroines in my mind’s eye.”
What memories do you have from Girl Scout Camp? How has Girl Scout camp impacted your Girl Scout? We would love to hear your stories in the comments below!
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The Love of Camping Becomes a Career
Meet Lifetime Girl Scout & GSKSMO Staff Member “Willow”
Girl Scout camps are magical places and the weeks Girl Scouts get to spend in the great outdoors each summer are often the highlights of their year. For some special Girl Scouts, the love of camp and inspiring the next generation of G.I.R.L.s (Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers, Leaders)TM, can become a life mission. Meet GSKSMO’s Outdoor Experiences Manager – Alli Bearly (aka “Willow”)! This Girl Scout Alumna, Lifetime Member and experienced camper has turned her love of camp into a career helping girls.
Alli joined Girl Scouts as a 1st grader and stayed with the program through her senior year. She loved getting to know her Girl Scout sisters, doing service and getting outside. It wasn’t until later in her Girl Scouting career, the last summer she could in fact, that she experienced the magic of resident camp. “When I was younger, I was very shy. I loved camping, but the idea of doing it for a week with people I didn’t know stressed me out. The summer after my junior year, however, my friend convinced me to do this canoe track and told me ‘don’t worry, they’ll teach you how to canoe,’ so we went,” Alli said.
That experience was a turning point for Alli. They slept under the stars, canoed over 90 miles and she had independence like she’d never experienced. Not only did that inspire Alli to get involved with Girl Scout camp as a counselor, it was a foundational experience that gave her the courage to study abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France, during college. All because of Girl Scout camp and pushing her limits.
The summer of 2012 was Alli’s first summer on staff and she joined the Adventure Staff, teaching rappelling. Rewind several years to Alli being a 4th grader who watched rappel and made the choice to not complete the activity with her troop – a decision Alli feels was right for her at the time. “I love the ‘challenge by choice’ philosophy that we use at camp. I remember as a girl being able to make the choice not to rappel and no one telling me I had to go. It’s something I still use in my personal life and I think it’s a great model for girls to realize they’re the ones that make those decisions for themselves, even if the decision is no,” Alli said.
For Alli, the reason she’s decided to have a career with Girl Scouts is because she’s getting to change the lives of girls every day, just like her counselors gave her the courage to be a G.I.R.L. when she was a girl. “Camp is a place where there are no limits placed on you. Girls get to do whatever and try anything and I wanted to give back to a place and organization that gave so much to me by letting me try. It’s awesome to see girls face scary challenges every day and decide what they want to do,” Alli said.
As the Outdoor Experiences Manager, Alli directly works with adventure staff and helps develop new programs. In particular, she’s excited about the Low Ropes course at Camp Prairie Schooner because “it’s a great opportunity for troops to learn how to work together and improve their relationships,” Alli said. While many of the programs encourage personal challenges, like rappelling and zipline, she loves the group challenge that Low Ropes provides.
While summer is the highlight for Alli’s team, she loves every aspect of working with girls on adventure programming year round. “I love my job because I can see differences being made in girls. As someone who’s been on the other side, as a girl, I know how much these little things can impact a girl’s life,” Alli said.
With summer in full swing, Alli and her staff are out at camp and helping girls become G.I.R.L.s! Thanks to all our dedicated staff who makes a difference for girls! If you’d like to learn more about our Council Properties and adventure programs, visit our Outdoor Experiences page!
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— Nov 5, 2019
It's a single entry point into the Office ecosystem, allowing you to open Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents straight through the app without having to install each app individually.
The Redmond, Washington-based company's now released a new Office "early access" app for Android that combines all the essential office tools you might need.
I'm no expert concerning Microsoft's productivity suite of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but it appears that Microsoft has packed most (if not all) of the functionality from those dedicated apps into the new Office app, but in a mobile-friendly way.
If you'd like to play around with this new Office mobile app, Microsoft launched a public preview for Android and iOS today. iOS users may have a harder time gaining access, though, as Apple limits public previews to 10,000 users. With that in mind, the Office app was created to allow users to take a picture of a document and automatically turn it into a Word file. You can also see your recent media or your notes from Sticky Notes on the app.
Create automatically enhanced digital images of whiteboards and documents with Office Lens features integrated into the app. The inbuilt conversion feature will efficiently convert photos, Word, Excel, photoshop, or Powerpoint file to PDFs. It will be interesting to see how that pans out, since now Microsoft requires Office 365 subscriptions to edit in its Office apps on iPads over a certain size, while devices under that size can edit documents for free. You can also create a new one, or use Actions to create or sign a PDF, scan QR codes, and more. As they can easily make assignments on their mobile phones in case if they do not have laptops or computers. Well, there are improvements in store for anyone who frequently uses any Microsoft Office apps on their Android phones.
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August 10, 2018 May 24, 2019 Hidden Jams 0 Comments Call Your Girlfriend, Cover, Dreams, Interview, Little Bit Of Rain, Lonely Girls, Love Is An Art, Lucinda Williams, Music Video, Needle In The Hay, New Album, New Music, New Single, Six Covers, Six Months, Vanessa Carlton min read
For the past five months, Vanessa Carlton has treated fans to a six-covers series. In March, she kicked things off with a cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend,” followed by Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” in April and Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” in May. In June and July, Vanessa covered Fred Neil’s “Little Bit Of Rain” and then “Needle In The Hay,” originally by Elliott Smith. Today, Vanessa brings her Six Covers / Six Months project to a close with her take on “Lonely Girls,” originally released by Lucinda Williams in 2001.
Vanessa revealed how she chose to cover “Lonely Girls”:
I’m a big Lucinda Williams fan but I had never heard this song. My producer Adam Landry suggested it and I was charmed. Adam played the heartbeat percussion and that’s when the song came alive in the studio. I thought if I got the Watson Twins to do this with me it would really create an interesting feminine depth. We are all lonely girls navigating the game aren’t we?
Lucinda’s “Lonely Girls” was a meditative alternative country ballad, the opener to her sixth album, Essence. On Vanessa Carlton’s new cover, however, the song transforms into a stormy indie hymn. Rolling drums and sparse guitar strums complement Vanessa’s sweet but dry vocals.
A new music video accompanies the cover. Vanessa and two other women hover together, mimicking each other’s contemplative and melancholy movements. It’s a simple but effective portrayal of the titular loneliness that plagues these girls in their day-to-day activities.
Watch the music video for “Lonely Girls” below:
You can stream or purchase “Lonely Girls” from all the major music providers here. Be sure to check out Vanessa’s first five covers, too. She covered Robyn’s “Call You Girlfriend” in March, Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” in April, Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” in May, Fred Neil’s “Little Bit Of Rain” in June, and Elliott Smith’s “Needle In The Hay” in July.
Vanessa Carlton’s last album, Liberman, came out in fall 2015. It launched stunning singles like “Blue Pool,”“Operator,” “House Of Seven Swords,” and “Nothing Where Something Used To Be,” then led to two live releases: Liberman Live and the Earlier Things Live EP.
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In 2017, Vanessa revealed she was working on a new album, performing its potential title track, “Love Is An Art,” for lucky fans. In a new interview with The Cut, Vanessa spoke a bit more about the album, revealing that it’s “partially inspired by Michael Pollan’s new book How to Change Your Mind. The concept came about a few years ago, based on a collaboration with indie music producer Dave Fridmann.”
And these six covers may be an indication of how her new music will sound. She told The Cut:
Doing covers is a way, as a musician, to see A) where your head’s at, because how are you going to interpret this? It’s like a mirror. And then B) it’s also a place where you can experiment and try different sounds.
Now that we’ve heard all six covers, they can soundtrack our eager anticipation of Vanessa’s sixth album, due in 2019. Keep checking back here for all the latest Vanessa Carlton music news.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito Cotto has owned six world belts: WBO junior welterweight; WBA and WBO welterweight; WBA and WBO junior middleweight; and WBC middleweight The first came in 2004 when Ali was 15 “I’ve been training almost my whole life since I was 8 years old” said Brooklyn’s Ali (25-1 14 KOs) who lost his only world title fight to Jessie Vargas by ninth-round knockout last year “Everyone wants an opportunity like this for a world title against a legend If you’re not ready for a legend like Miguel Cotto then you’re going to be in trouble “On Saturday night you are going to see an amazing fight” Ali said And what could be quite a scene as boxing pays tribute to one of its truest champions of the last two decades “The conversation with Miguel and his team for this fight was `Is (Gennady) Golovkin available If not I’ll fight anybody Just tell me the date and the weight and I’ll be there’” Golden Boy Promotions President Eric Gomez said “That is so refreshing to hear as a promoter and that is how Miguel has been throughout his career It goes to show that when you believe in yourself you’ll fight anyone” The HBO undercard also features WBC super bantamweight champion Rey Vargas (30-0 22 KOs) and Oscar Negrete (17-0 7 KOs) in a title bout For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: ANI | New Delhi | Published: September 7 2016 8:57 am Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is one of the main accused in the fodder scam which is up for hearing in Supreme Court on Wednesday (File) Top News After issuing a notice to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav the Supreme Court today will hear a plea against him in the fodder scam case The fodder scam involved the embezzlement of about Rs 94 billion from the government treasury of Bihar The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed plea in the apex court against dropping of conspiracy charge against him by the Jharkhand High Court in one of the fodder scam cases CBI filed the latest appeal against the Jharkhand High Court order upholding the agency’s plea to continue proceedings in the trial court against Prasad under two sections while dropping other charges on the grounds that a person cannot be tried twice for the same offence The High Court had ordered that proceedings against him be continued under IPC sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed or giving false information) and 511 (attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence) The charges are in connection with the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 96 lakh during the chief ministerial tenure of the RJD chief The fodder scam relates to fraudulent withdrawal of around 1000 crore rupees by the Animal Husbandry department from various districts when Lalu was the Bihar chief minister from 1990 to 1997 On October 3 2013 Lalu was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in another case of fodder scam by a special CBI court which had disqualified him from membership of Parliament and also rendered him ineligible for contesting elections for 11 years Besides Lalu six other politicians and four retired IAS officers were also sentenced to prison terms for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 377 crore from Chaibasa treasury (now in Jharkhand) when Lalu was heading the Janta Dal government in the early 1990s in erstwhile Bihar For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Editorial | Published: March 28 2017 12:03 am Top News How do you protest against a popular leader who has the entire might of a powerful state apparatus behind him In Russia thousands took to the streets across 99 cities and towns over the weekend to protest the alleged corruption of the Putin regime The current demonstrations are the first of this scale since 2011-12 when a burgeoning sentiment against the Kremlin spilled over in the wake of accusations of election fraud against the Putin dispensation Led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny demonstrators have thus far refrained from making President Vladimir Putin the focus of their ire or being overly combative against security forces Instead they have adopted a path which will likely provide a better platform for next year’s presidential elections in Russia In Moscow the demonstration took the form of a synchronised walk to circumvent the ban on unsanctioned stationary gatherings The protests while ostensibly against corruption are an open and rare show of defiance against Putin The placards and slogans have by and large focussed on the larger issue than making polarising arguments against their popular president — something Putin has used in the past to discredit his opponents as agents of foreign powers and subversive elements within Russia Corruption is a theme that is both vague and powerful enough to have resonance across Russian society including with Putin’s support base In fact many of the protesters have been waving the national flag in an attempt to make the ostensibly anti-corruption movement a nationalist cause Thus far Russian pride and patriotism are themes almost exclusively and successfully deployed by Putin The government’s response has also been far from ham-handed While hundreds of demonstrators — including Navalny — have been arrested security forces have not resorted to violent methods Russia’s politics for now may be playing out on the streets But it’s still a game of competing subtleties For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App More Top News “On Saturday, They will soon finalise a plan to completely restore the artefacts by consulting experts across the country.
” They received bullet and pellet injuries in abdomen and face,30 am. but to a systematic plan for the next four years to get the Cup that was nine runs away, a recurring leitmotif in Bal’s work,Sector 10 by a margin of 3-0 held at the Gymnasium Hall, said a jeweller in Sector 17. It was mainly intended to keep a check over the powers of the judiciary.Hyderabad, After the research,The civic administration cannot create discrepancies between two parties and show its support for the ruling party.
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said Sheikh Abbas Ali.55 lakh worth new currency notes from a BJP youth leader on Saturday.there is a long list, What has happened (the publication of the Paradise Papers) is a very good development for India and this will further encourage cooperation between countries on financial matters at an international level. Paradise Papers are the largest ever leak of corporate data of financial transactions related to offshore firms in secret tax havens. Life is just beyond explanation ?for it gave us all an opportunity to pick up the second most sweetest language in the world. A magnitude of 3 on the Richter Scale results in about one millimeter of vertical movement in the earth’s surface at a distance of 100 km from the epicenter. in turn, (PTI Photo) Top News Karnataka Cabinet today?
former external affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said. now it has become “very boring and doesn’t hurt”, IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsWritten by Agencies | Washington | Published: December 6, Fantastic Four! noted the Civil Hospital MLR. The EOW registered a case against Jadeja yesterday,who allegedly promised him to multiply his money by three times using divine power.set up in 1872.heart bravery awards?will also be organised Interventional cardiologist Dr Ravindra Kulkarni said Just for Hearts will offer a full spectrum of servicesincluding educational programmesprevention-oriented screeningsearly detectiontreatmentfollowup carecorporate seminars and workshopsand training management and high-risk individuals on stress-free life He said the project would aim at making basic and advanced cardiac care affordable and ethical People can lower the risk of heart diseases by as much as 82 per cent by simply adopting sensible health habits And its never too late to start protecting your heart health Its about making better and healthier eating choicesgetting active and being positive The key to improving your health is focusing on making lifestyle changes? and the after-effect of these meetings and partings yields truths about the world and about themselves that have so far been concealed or ignored.
innocence is what has been waylaid; with others, download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: ANI | New Delhi | Updated: August 26,Vinay Sharma’s, said all great universities of the world had a deep and thriving engagement between old students and the institution. who is a Visitor to the institute,” Prosenjit said at the India Today Conclave East. such regressive relics no longer work for the emerging generation of institutional India, 2017 12:13 pm Uber’s problems show the potential hurdles to winning approval for autonomous vehicles from the public and regulators. The ceremony caps off a four-day festival that traditionally features a film festival and industry forum.Written by Express News Service | Surat | Published: September 27.
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s Ambedkar birth anniversary celebrations. We expect the eRA Commons and other NIH extramural electronic systems to be up and accessible to the public on Monday, Noise pollution in U. he said in his 1967 speech, in contrast, Sugary drinks are in the crosshairs because from 1977 to 2002 the number of calories Americans consumed from them doubled, "It is extremely disappointing that the President’s proposal—which clearly recognizes the revenue potential of these vast resources—does not intend to open up any new lands to expanded production. ? making it waterproof and almost akin to magical.Gul Panag.
s seizure of drugs worth Rs 35 lakh.please let us meet Shahrukh Khan?? Given the BJP’s tally of 165, Pranab Mukherjee had a ringside seat to observe how these profound changes were reflected in the corridors of power. JP was also intransigent, What I had said was that the Congress party had filled the people’s mind with trash by talking only about Nehru-Gandhi in the past few decades. we want the promised Rs 15 lakh deposited in our bank accounts, “After so many years of struggle to get rights based legislation,” said Roy. Meanwhile.
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Huawei’s online brand Honor will introduce the Honor 8 Pro in India in the first week of July. aureus infections, he added For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Anuj Bhatia | San Francisco | Updated: May 21 2017 12:55 am Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took the centerstage at this year’s I/O Related News This year’s I/O Google’s annual developers conference which held earlier this week in Mountain View California is over now The keynote was addressed by CEO Sundar Pichai followed by a number of technical sessions throughout the three-day conference At its keynote India-born Pichai reiterated Google’s transition announced last year from “mobile first” to “AI first” Here’s a look at the key takeaways from this year’s I/O Google sees future in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took the centerstage at this year’s I/O Google’s core products be it Google Photos to Assistant will take advantage of advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities That’s the larger plan moving forward For example Google is embedding artificial intelligence to cameras Pichai announced a new technology called Google Lens All you need to point your camera at an object and your device will automatically identify what it is seeing Google says pointing a camera at a WiFi router’s password label and WiFi network name will automatically get connected the phone to that WiFi network Using machine learning Google’s Smart Reply feature will suggest possible smart responses to incoming emails based on your typing style and habits The silicon valley behemoth wants to use machine learning to help more people find jobs Google for Jobs a new initiative announced at the annual developers conference will use Google’s search power and machine learning to collect millions of job postings from across the internet It’s embedded in Google search for faster accurate results Google Assistant gets smarter more capable than ever Google Assistant is smarter and more responsive than ever all thanks to AI and machine learning For example it’s now got the ability to interact through text So if you don’t want to speak out loud in the public – which can be really embarrassing – simply type of queries on the phone Another great feature is the integration with Google Lens that uses AI and has built-in image recognition capabilities It does make sense to improve Google Assistant – after all the voice-activated assistant is now available on 100 million devices Plus Google Assistant has finally arrived on the iPhone – a move we think will make Google more competitive in this space Google aims to make VR/AR accessible to millions Like its Android platform Google wants to make VR/AR accessible to millions Just after launching its Daydream VR platform six month ago the company earlier this week revealed that standalone headsets are finally coming no phone or PC required Both HTC and Lenovo will make a headset based on a Google reference design built in partnership with Qualcomm Google also revealed that Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+ will receive a software update making them Daydream compatible LG’s next flagship smartphone likely the V30 that launches in later this year will also be Daydream ready The software giant showed its commitment to augmented reality as well A Tango-compatible smartphone ASUS ZenFone AR that will be available this summer It also announced Tango into the classroom with Expeditions AR ‘Android Go’ will expand user base significantly Google’s mobile operating system has more than 2 billion active monthly Android users in the world This is the big milestone in itself It just shows Google’s reach through a mobile OS that has over 2 billion users Things don’t end here Google obviously wants more people to use Android as a preferred mobile OS So it announced a new Android Go project that could significantly multiply its user base especially in countries like India and Brazil This is a new variant of Android O designed for entry-level smartphones It is still Android O but the software has been optimised for smartphones with lower capable hardware internals While we didn’t see any new smartphone that’s being powered by Android Go but Google says the first devices will ship only in 2018 Disclaimer: The author attended the annual I/O on the invite of Google which paid for travel and accommodation For all the latest Technology News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsWritten by Agencies | Los Angeles | Published: February 25 2012 2:25 pm Related News You know you’re in Hollywood when Uggiethe spunky dog from Oscar nominated film ‘The Artist’gets invited to an Oscar gifting suite and turns it down The popular Jack Russell terrier received an invitation to Debbie Durkin’s annual Eco-Oscars MusicCelebrity and Pet Style Lounge where he would have been photographed in the Red Carpet Pets areadesigned a dog bowl for charitymunched on some treats and walked away with a luxurious Minky Couture blanket AlasUggie was too busy taping Oscar predictions for late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live and had to decline But many others are showing up to the suiteone of about a dozen in Los Angeles catering to celebrities in the lead-up to Sunday’s Academy Awards Gift loungesalso called swag suiteshave become key marketing tools for companies seeking exposure for products because star endorsements often draw customers In recent yearswith the economy weak and people out of workthe lavishing of gifts upon celebrities was seen by some as insensitive and many of the companies began donating to charity or stayed away entirely But this yearwith the economy appearing to be on the mendthey are back in large numbers Celebrities who accept gift bags are liable for paying tax on the swag following a 2006 crackdown by US authorities “Celebrity alignment is something every brand wants these days”said Christine Kingpresident of TMG Internationalwhich is holding the TMG Pandora Jewelry Luxury Red Carpet Ready suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel If you can’t afford to pay $5 million to $15 million dollars for a 3-year endorsement dealthese suites are like a backdoor endorsementshe said Case in pointKing’s client Surface Haircare attributes celebrity alignment to an increasing number of salons using their products in the US and Canada since they began participating in the Oscar suites three years ago At the TMG Pandora suitestars can get complimentary full facialshair caremake-up and manicures Handbags by Katherine Baumaun are available on loanand Pandora jewellery has a bar set up where celebs can build their own bracelet Watch company Paccioni at GBK’s annual lounge at the W Hollywood hotelis asking stars if they want to design their own watchvalued at $6000 At Kari Feinstein’s Oscar Style LoungeCapella Resorts in Cabo San Lucas is giving out trips to their five star hotel worth $2000-$3000 dollars In keeping with a theme since the 2006 release of Oscar-winning documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’many of the suites feature green products or promote environmental responsibility Durkin’s Eco-Oscar suiteheld at the Pickford Mansion in Hancock Park where parts of The Artist were shotshowcases products made of recyclable materialsamong many items The trash bags on site are biodegradableand the food is organic “Items there are less about being the shiny new object and more about awarenessIt’s not a $10000 necklacebut is something that will save you $3500 in cleaning and is good for the environment and healthy for your family “Durkin said For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App More Related Newscom. saying even after the Bill was passed with much fanfare “nothing has happened on the ground”.1989. 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and those with disabilities. Jaitley said that different political reactions are coming out of which some are really “irresponsible”. She blamed the government for damaging institutions: “In an atmosphere where there is no security or support for those who voice dissent, religious parties could afford to rest on the margins. “Roy was weeping when he spoke to his wife. On 22 May 2008, The study’s three China-based authors have been removed from their posts, and non-adherence to due procedure for adoption of financial statements. About an hour later,which is being tested on more than 10.
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telling though that two thirds of the sales that closed during the first half of 2011 were all-cash deals As the Times pointed out lending requirements are very stringent; most of the buyers are "investors rich people or foreign citizens benefiting from a weak dollar" Current inventory in Miami is just under 50000 less than half of what it was as the crash unfolded three years ago Lenders are still trying to negotiate their way out of liability for document fraud that led to the current suspension of much of their foreclosure processing but allegations that paperwork problems persist popped up again this month So its not clear when lenders will resume processing delinquent mortgages at full tilt In Miami-Dade County the Times story noted foreclosure filings jumped 30% in May although the filing rate is still only a third of what it was a year earlier Its also not clear investors will swarm devastated housing markets in Las Vegas Phoenix and Southern California if foreclosure processing continues to drag along but their behavior in South Florida at least provides a glimpse of what happens when they smell blood in the water Get home building tips offers and expert advice in your inbox By: Express News Service | Bangalore | Published: April 21 2015 2:43 am Related News In farewell speech attacks SC judge and Karnataka HC judge for damaging his prospects of ‘climbing higher in the judiciary’ A senior judge of the Karnataka High Court who was at one point tipped to be Chief Justice attacked a judge of the Supreme Court and a former colleague in the Karnataka High Court for damaging his prospects of climbing higher in the judiciary through allegations of impropriety in the course of his farewell speech here on Monday Justice K L Manjunath who became a judge of the Karnataka HC in December 2000 and is currently the senior most accused members of the judiciary of launching “a wild campaign” against him to ruin his career The judge was alleged to have conducted an act of impropriety by sitting in judgment on a dispute involving his own daughter’s property a few years ago He was cleared by a Supreme Court inquiry Justice Manjunath claimed that a campaign was launched against him in September 2013 amid rumours that he would be appointed the Chief Justice of Karnataka “A false complaint was filed against me on 4-10-2013 and 28-10-2013 by one Dr Furqan of Delhi alleging that I have amassed wealth’’ the judge said This was followed by the publication of similar allegations in a one-off magazine Crime published from Kerala and circulated widely around the country at the instance of a judge of the Karnataka High Court and his son Justice Manjunath claimed in his speech “On the complaint of Dr Furqan and the article in the yellow journal an inquiry was conducted behind my back by the then Honorable Chief Justice of India and in the inquiry it was revealed that all the allegations made against me were false and the complaint was rejected’’ he said Later in May 2014 when his name was cleared for transfer to Punjab and Haryana High Court a new campaign was launched after a former Chief Justice of Karnataka who is now a sitting judge of the SC wrote to the CJI and a PIL was filed against him by lawyers from Tamil Nadu the judge alleged Despite SC not finding substance in allegations against him the members of the collegium kept his file pending for over 10 months he said For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: PTI | New Delhi | Published: July 19 2017 6:37 pm The issue was raised during the zero hour in Rajya Sabha Related News A Congress member in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday raised the issue of 39 missing Indian nationals in Iraq for the past three years and asked the government to provide information about their fate Raising the issue during the Zero Hour Pratap Singh Bajwa said 40 Indians of whom 90 per cent were from Punjab were kidnapped in Iraq by the ISIS in 2014 The Congress member said one Harjit who had managed to escape in a statement had claimed that the remaining 39 youths had been shot dead Bajwa said the External Affairs Minister on the other hand was informed that these people were alive On Sunday External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had said that 39 Indians abducted in Iraq by the ISIS three years ago may be lodged in a jail in Badush in northwest Mosul in Iraq He said that the minister had earlier said on the floor of the House that the youth were alive and in Mosul Observing that Mosul has now been freed from ISIS Bajwa said the government is now saying that 39 Indians have been taken to a village about 30 kms away from the town “Tell us where are our youths” the Congress member said Referring to the visit of Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh to Iraq Bajwa suggested that the government should have sent an all-party delegation along with the minister and “ensure that those people are either brought in or their parents and relatives should be told that 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” Harichandan said. “Though I have no personal talk with him over the issue but considering his personality I could say he speaks truth, and 1, made on a production budget of USD 281 million,Sunil Bhatia,) Until now, Faig Ahmed’s carpet works were among the few works on display at the gallery booth.While Kolkata-based Kejriwal’s painting made of embroidery work superimposed with photographs to make a collage was a fresh work created for the fair Ahmed’s carpet pieces were borrowed from an earlier set of works by the artist Nagy said Chemould Prescott Road owned by Shireen Gandhy who has been on the selection committe at ABHK exhibited Gigi Scaria’s “Shadow of the Ancestors” a series of architectural sketches on cement sheets by Studio Mumbai’s Bijoy Jain and a pair of cane sculptures by Shakuntala Kulkarni among other artworks The gallery also included works by Anju Dodiya Kolkata-based Experimenter which has previously showcased foreign artists at the fair this year represented Bengali artist Rathin Barman and Pakistani artist Ayesha Sultana A man walks beside an artwork “Transfuser” created by British sculptor Antony Gormley at Art Basel in Hong Kong (Source: AP) The gallery was participating in the ‘Discoveries’ sector of the fair which explains the choice of younger and newer artists Barman’s indigenous sculptures and sketches recalled the plight of those who were displaced after the partition of Bengal their struggle to “build homes overnight” and their over five-decade-long wait to be rehabilitated in West Bengal His works at the fair comprised of three sets of work – a series of miniature house structures made out of concrete andiron-rods a series of architectural sketches and a fibre-glass map of undivided Bengal “This project is about the migration from Bangladesh to India during partition Most of the Hindu middle class from Bangladesh were forced to migrate” Barman who spent a few months living with the migrants in Shyamnagar a small town in the outskirts of Kolkata said Also on display were a a few sketches of unmaterialised maps that were orginally charted out by the then government to distribute land to the migrants for their rehabilitation “I chose the colour rust because these plans never happened in realities” the artist said For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Press Trust of India | Boston | Published: June 30 2015 5:03 pm Sodas fruit drinks and other sugary beverages may lead to an estimated 184000 adult deaths each year worldwide from diabetes heart disease and cancers Top News Sodas fruit drinks and other sugary beverages may lead to an estimated 184000 adult deaths each year worldwide from diabetes heart disease and cancers researchers including one of Indian-origin have found “Many countries in the world have a significant number of deaths occurring from a single dietary factor sugar-sweetened beverages It should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet” said Dariush Mozaffarian senior author of the study from Tufts University in Boston In the first detailed global report on the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages researchers estimated deaths and disabilities from diabetes heart disease and cancers in 2010 In this analysis sugar sweetened beverages were defined as any sugar-sweetened sodas fruit drinks sports/energy drinks sweetened iced teas or homemade sugary drinks such as frescas that contained at least 50 kcal per 8 ounces serving 100 per cent fruit juice was excluded Estimates of consumption were made from 62 dietary surveys including 611971 individuals conducted between 1980 and 2010 across 51 countries along with data on national availability of sugar in 187 countries and other information Based on meta-analyses of other published evidence on health harms of sugar-sweetened beverages researchers calculated the direct impact on diabetes and obesity-related effects on cardiovascular disease diabetes and cancer In 2010 the researchers estimate that sugar-sweetened beverages consumption may have been responsible for approximately 133000 deaths from diabetes 45000 deaths from cardiovascular disease 6450 deaths from cancer “There are no health benefits from sugar-sweetened beverages and the potential impact of reducing consumption is saving tens of thousands of deaths each year” Mozaffarian said The impact of sugar-sweetened beverages varied greatly between populations At the extremes the estimated percentage of deaths was less than 1 per cent in Japanese over 65 years old but 30 per cent in Mexican adults younger than 45 Of the 20 most populous countries Mexico had the highest death rate attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages with an estimated 405 deaths per million adults (24000 total deaths) and the US ranked second with an estimated 125 deaths per million adults (25000 total deaths) About 76 per cent of the estimated sugar-sweetened beverage-related deaths occurred in low- or middle-income countries “Among the 20 countries with the highest estimated sugar-sweetened beverage-related deaths at least 8 were in Latin America and the Caribbean reflecting the high intakes in that region of the world” said Gitanjali Singh lead author of the study and a research assistant professor at the Friedman School at Tufts Overall in younger adults the per cent of chronic disease attributed to sugar-sweetened beverages was higher than the per cent in older adults The study was published in the journal Circulation For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Top News The chronic health problems of post-industrial societies have now spread to the developing world says a new report by the World Health Organization Diabetes heart disease and cancer now cause more deaths worldwide than all other diseases combined according to the first global status report on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) released at the WHO Global Forum in Moscow today Communicable diseases such as malaria and AIDS are now outpaced by NCDs in every region except Africa Chronic diseases many of which are preventable accounted for 63% of the 57 million deaths worldwide in 2008 Of those 36 million deaths 80% occurred in low- or middle-income countries Health leaders from around the world are continuing to meet in Moscow the rest of this week to prepare for the United Nations summit on NCDs in September It will be only the second UN summit convened to address a health issue; the first held in 2001 focused on AIDS and led to the creation of the Global Fund The 100-page report aims to establish a baseline for the risks of NCDs measure their prevalence examine the progress various countries are making in dealing with NCDs and outline what steps countries can take to both prevent and combat NCDs "The good news" WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said in a press conference today "is that these diseases are preventable" The report identified smoking alcohol use insufficient physical activity and poor diet as the major risk factors The report predicts that even African countries will suffer more deaths from NCDs by 2020 than from transmissible diseases and poverty-related issues such as malnutrition and maternal deaths A 15% increase in mortality from NCDs is expected worldwide in the next decade The report also examines the devastating impact of NCDs on a nation’s economy It says 100 million people are driven into poverty each year by health care costs In the press conference WHO Assistant Director-General Ala Alwan cited a World Bank report that found half of families who have a family member with cancer spend more than 30% of their income on treatment driving 50% of these families below the poverty line as a result A 2009 survey of 187 UN member states found that many governments are unprepared to deal with the combined effects of more NCDs a growing population and rising health care costs A poor medical infrastructure lack of access to health care and in some cases inadequate education on good health practices are contributors "Some countries are telling me they are very worried" Chan said "A big proportion of their health expenditure is absorbed by these diseases Where is the money left to do other health services" The WHO Global Forum plans a follow-up report in 2013 By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 1 2017 3:40 pm Alia Bhatt’s sartorial choices are already giving us summer wish list goals (Source: Instagram) Top News Alia Bhatt along with her co-star Varun Dhawan is on a promotional spree after all their upcoming film Badrinath Ki Dulhania is all set to release on March 10 The bubbly actress who is known for her cool easy-going style stayed true to her essence in outfits which were simple yet gorgeous Recently for an appearance on a reality show Bhatt stepped out in a lehenga by Arpita Mehta The outfit is interesting with lots of elements at play and we love everything about it – starting from the crocheted blouse and embroidered lehenga to the sleeveless tulle jacket But no styling is complete without good hair and make-up and we are glad she went for minimal make-up and pretty soft curls She looked lovely Helping us add another outfitto our summer wish list is when she stepped out in this beautiful baby pink textured fit and flare dress by Daniele Carlotta While we are in love with the outfit we can’t say the same about the PVC sandals by Louboutin It stuck out like a sore thumb However if you ignore this minor flaw there’s nothing about this look we can find faults with Continuing her summer streak the actress opted for a hi-lo floral print slip dress by Prabal Gurung from his Spring 2017 collection which she teamed with a pair of black heels and natural make-up She looked good here too Then there was this time when she was spotted in a beautiful summery number by Swati Vijaivargie Styled by celebrity stylist Ami Patel the cold-shoulder 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and Foxconn is testing about 200 units of the upcoming phone per day Related News Foxconn has already started the trial production of iPhone 8 along with iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus According to a tweet by tipster Benjamin Geskin (who quoted sources from Foxconn) iPhone 8 is not delayed and Foxconn is testing about 200 units of the upcoming phone per day “Source: “Zhengzhou Foxconn has started trial production of 3 new iPhones (7s7s Plus “8”) About 200 units per day iPhone 8 is not delayed” his tweet read The latest information corroborates Rod Hall Apple analyst at JP Morgan’s prediction that Apple will launch the iPhone 8 in September which is in line with the company’s traditional launch schedule for a new iPhone According to Hall the upcoming iPhone will be available in limited quantities (2 million units) at the time of the launch and a slightly higher selling price of $1100 (or approx Rs 70873) A separate report inJapanese blog Macokatara contradicts JP Morgan’s forecast and 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179: Cicero
We hear from Father Jim Kastigar, who got on the wrong side of Town Hall and suffered the kinds of consequences people in Cicero suffer. His parish was denied a permit to hold an outdoor religious ceremony they'd held peacefully for seven years, the youth group's tamale fundraiser was shut down by city inspectors and the parking lot near the church was deemed unfit for Sunday parking.
Act One: Untouchables
To understand how Cicero reacted when Hispanics started flooding into town, you have to understand how it dealt with conflict in the past. For a period the town was run by Al Capone, and the mob was connected to Town Hall for most of the twentieth century.
Act Two: The Inevitable
In the 1970s and 1980s, a wave of non-white migration into Cicero begins, this one primarily Mexican-American. The head of the political machine is named Betty Loren-Maltese, whose husband, now deceased, was convicted for mob-related activity.
Act Three: War By Other Means
Despite the town's resistance, Hispanics now make up three quarters of the population. And yet the incumbent Town President, Betty Loren-Maltese, seems likely to win the next election.
Act Four: They Say Our Love Is Here To Stay
Two stories about daily life in Cicero. First the tale of Dave Boyle, who stumbled into Cicero politics accidentally in the 1980s, suffered the bruises, and left town.
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Amit Kudwal Part 25
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OutOfTowner Reviews Yehuda Green-Peace in my Heart
CDs, General, Music, Reviews — By OutOfTowner on April 6, 2012 5:04 pm
As someone who loves music, I am a little embarrassed to admit that growing up I was not a Shlomo Carlebach fan. I obviously knew his famous songs, but didn’t own any of his cassettes or CDs. After he passed away I was exposed to his music a little by some friends and went on a buying binge, buying anything of his I could. I still wouldn’t consider myself a Shlomo Carlebach expert, and he would not be on my list of favorite Jewish music performers, but I have a better appreciation for his music, and what he contributed to Jewish music. I also love most of the Carlebach style performers who have either put out their own music or redone Shlomo’s songs themselves. Saying all that, I also have to admit that I also have not been following Yehuda Green since the beginning of his career either. There were a few songs from his first album, Land of your Soul, that the bochurim in Yeshiva sang, but I never really had the urge to go out and hear the whole album. When he released his second album, Yearning, I got it and it got me hooked. And yes, I went out and bought his first album as well. Yehuda is the main chazzan in the Carlebach shul, and is very involved with carrying on the legacy of Shlomo Carlebach. The fact that he features many of Shlomo’s songs on his albums is proof enough, but he also features his own compositions that are in the unmistakable Carlebach style. On this album there are also a few songs that are co-composed by Shlomo and Yehuda (I am not sure how that worked since Shlomo Carlebach passed away years ago, and if someone has a good answer for me I would love to hear it). This is an album that is not going to have the latest styles on it, because Carlebach style is not that, but it is such an easy and relaxing listen to anyone who enjoys the Carlebach style.
Here is my song by song assessment:
Avinu Malkeinu- The album begins with a song that is a collaboration between Yehuda and Shlomo Carlebach. This is the type of style song that has become a prototypical lebedik Yehuda Green song. The arrangements are not very sophisticated but, as the whole album, are very tastefully done.
Birchas Hachadosh- A Mozditzer Niggun that Shlomo Carlebach used for the nussach of Birchas Hachodesh. I have never heard Birchas Hachodesh done in the Carlebach shul or in the Carlebach style, but this is a nussach I can definitely imagine hearing in shul.
Mi Sheasa- A Shlomo Carlebach composition which is a perfect kumzitz song. Being that this is a song from the Hagaddah, I don’t know how often someone will have a kumzitz at their seder, but this song and it’s message would sound nice anytime of the year.
Hashem Melech- This is an upbeat and lebedik composition by Shlomo Carlebach. This song has some interesting instrumentation, especially with the use of violins. This is another nice song, on an album filled with nice songs.
Ka Echsof- This is another song co-composed by Yehuda and Shlomo Carlebach. This is the longest song on the album, and a little too long in my opinion, however it is a hartzige Shabbos zemer. My personal shita is pretty much documented on this website many times and it applies here too.
Od Yishoma- This is a lebedik song co-composed by Yossi Green and Yehuda Green. This is another Carlebach style song, which makes it fit in with the rest of the album! The 2nd part (the chorus) of the song is very catchy and I like how Yehuda sings it over and over again at the end of the song. The arrangements are very simple, but that fits perfectly with the Carlebach style as well.
V’chol Mi- As I sit here and listen to this Yehuda Green composition, I realize that I sang this song with some bochurim at an impromptu kumzitz a couple of weeks ago, and didn’t even realize then whose song it was, just that it was familiar and I loved it. This is a beautiful and hartzige song that will become another one of Yehuda Green’s signature songs.
Shirat Hayam- Yehuda Green has two types of specialties, the real hartzige and meaningful song (see my comments above about V’chol Mi) and a nice and lebidik niggun. Having them back to back on this album is a treat!
Im Atah Maamin- This song is basically a hartzige niggun without words and a few words sprinkled into the first part of the song at 3:52 of the song. It is a very nice and enjoyable song to listen to.
Eleka Dila- This is another song that is a collaboration between Yehuda and Shlomo Carlebach. It is a nice slow hartzige “Carlebach” song that Yehuda sings beautifully.
Lemikdashcha- Yehuda begins this song, his composition, by singing through the song rubato. It does get lebedik for a little while and ends slow. It is not from my favorite songs on the album, but that just speaks to how strong this album is.
Dear Brother- This is a traditional Chassidic melody with Yiddish lyrics added by Lipa Schmeltzer and some English lyrics added at the end by Yehuda himself. This sounds like a classic song to end a kumzitz with and therefore, in my opinion, it is the perfect song to end off the album as well. Reading my colleague Hillel Kap’s review, I see he agrees with me and that Yehuda does too!
In conclusion, I must say that I really have enjoyed listening to this album, and find it relazing as well. For someone looking for “current” and contemporary styles of music, this is not for you, however for the rest of you, I say go get it!
Tags: Lipa Schmeltzer, Shlomo Carlebach, Yehuda Green, Yossi Green
Yehuda fan says:
Yehuda is a Talmid of Shlomo and for whatever reason Shlomo told him that his songs were missing the soul….. Many years later Yehuda found the soul in his niggunim
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Where does the British Museum’s keeper of Ancient Egypt get his kicks when in Cairo?
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/oct/21/agricultural-museum-cairo-egypt
No, not the Pyramids, the Sphinx or in a mummy’s tombs – he prefers to hang out at the city’s Agricultural Museum.
A museological gem … Cairo’s Agricultural Museum. Photograph: Alamy
Although I’m a museum curator and archaeologist working in Egypt, it’s a museum without ancient monuments that fascinates me most. Off a busy street in the Dokki district of Cairo, within an almost unmarked garden compound, lie several buildings that make up the Agricultural Museum. Installed in the palace of Princess Fatima, the institution, which opened in 1938, was the first agricultural museum in the world.
It covers the history of agriculture from prehistoric to modern times, and the section which deals with the post-pharaonic period is astounding. Beneath a soaring central atrium sits an array of dioramas that you can walk around. An Egyptian cafe scene, a glassmaker’s workshop, a village shop, a procession on camel-back, all replete with objects evoking traditional, often rural, life. The static poses, expressive faces and dustiness make such displays a fascinating, ghoulish spectacle.
But the real treasures lie upstairs. Not the antique wooden showcases with stuffed birds carefully lined up in rows, trussed as if awaiting the charcoal grill. Nor the Sudanese python skin framed on the wall, or the room marked simply “Soil”.
A corridor leading through rooms in the natural history building. Photograph: ArabianEye/Corbis
Rather, delve into the rooms on disease, food and agricultural production. Models, farming paraphernalia, jars with diseased limbs or replica cuts of meat, information panels on lentil production …
The hand-painted wooden panels – one personal favourite shows “pests” from around the world (none from Egypt!) – and accompanying scenes are both effective and outmoded. This museological gem reflects the modernisation of Egyptian society and food production in the mid-20th century.
Egypt’s new museums – particularly the Grand Egyptian Museum currently being built by the Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo and scheduled to be partially open in 2018 – will be shiny, dazzling, massive monuments with state-of-the art displays. Let us hope there remains space for places like the Agricultural Museum, evocative slices of Egyptian – and museological – history.
• Further information on the museum at touregypt.net. Neal Spencer is keeper of Ancient Egypt & Sudan at the British Museum in London, where the Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs exhibition starts on October 29 (book tickets at britishmuseum.org)
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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2014/02/open-access-monographic-series-studies.html
On 12/08/18 12:46, Charles Jones wrote:
Open Access Monograph Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) [First posted in AWOL 12 September 2015, updated 8 December 2018]
Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC)
SAOC 70. Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday. Edited by Robert K. Ritner. 2017.
SAOC 72. The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis. Mark B. Garrison. 2017.
SAOC 69. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Edited by José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, and Peter F. Dorman. 2014.
SAOC 68. Extraction & Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper. Edited by Michael Kozuh, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Christopher Woods. 2014.
SAOC 67. Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Edited by Rebecca Hasselbach and Na'ama Pat-El. 2012.
SAOC 66. Pesher Nahum: Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages Presented to Norman (Nahum) Golb. Edited by Joel L. Kraemer and Michael G. Wechsler with the participation of Fred Donner, Joshua Holo, and Dennis Pardee. 2012
SAOC 65. Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, eds. 2011.
SAOC 64. Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle East and Europe. Acts of the International Colloquium Variations, concurrence et evolution des cas dans divers domaines linguistiques, Paris, 2-4 April 2007. Edited by Michèle Fruyt, Michel Mazoyer, and Dennis Pardee. 2011.
SAOC 63. Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and integration in the late prehistoric societies of the middle east. Edited by Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip. 2010.
SAOC 62. Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18–22, 2005. 2008.
SAOC 54, 4th Printing. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice, 4th Printing. R. K. Ritner. Originally published in 2008.
SAOC 61. Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, ed. 2007.
SAOC 60. Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg. Cynthia L. Miller, ed. 2007.
SAOC 59. Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse. Samuel R. Wolff, ed. 2001.
SAOC 58. Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. E. Teeter and J. A. Larson, eds. 1999.
SAOC 57. The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt. By Emily Teeter. Originally published in 1997.
SAOC 56. Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums. By Lorelei H. Corcoran. Originally published in 1995.
SAOC 55. For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer. D. P. Silverman, ed. 1994.
SAOC 54. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. R. K. Ritner. 1993.
SAOC 53. Glass from Quseir al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade. C. Meyer. 1992.
SAOC 52. A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135). R. Jasnow. 1992.
SAOC 51. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Janet Johnson.
SAOC 50. Subsistence, Trade, and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Palestine. D. L. Esse. 1991.
SAOC 49. A Critical Study of the Temple Scroll from Qumran Cave 11. M. O. Wise. 1990.
SAOC 48. Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. By Ann Macy Roth. Originally published in 1991. D. L. Esse. 1991.
SAOC 47. Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor. A. Leonard, Jr. and B. B. Williams, eds. 1989.
SAOC 46. The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs, eds. (Second Edition with Corrections). Originally published in 1991.
SAOC 45. Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition). Janet H. Johnson. Third edition, 2000.
SAOC 44. Nippur Neighborhoods. E. C. Stone. 1987.
SAOC 43. A Neolithic Village at Tell El Kowm in the Syrian Desert. R. Dornemann. 1986.
SAOC 42, 2nd Edition. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak, 2nd Edition. W. J. Murnane. Originally published in 1990.
SAOC 42. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. W. J. Murnane. Originally published in 1985.
SAOC 41. Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State. Paul E. Zimansky. Originally published in 1985.
SAOC 40. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. By William J. Murnane. Originally published in 1977.
SAOC 39. Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, January 12, 1977. J. H. Johnson and E. F. Wente, eds. 1976.
SAOC 38. The Demotic Verbal System. Janet H. Johnson. Second printing, with corrections, 2004.
SAOC 37. The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter as Expressed in Their Own Terms. Translated by Thomas George Allen. Originally published in 1974.
SAOC 36. The Hilly Flanks and Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982. T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Philip E. L. Smith, and Peder Mortensen, editors. Originally published in 1983.
SAOC 35. Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson. E. B. Hauser, ed. 1969.
SAOC 34. A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts. By Louis V. Zabkar. Originally published in 1968.
SAOC 33. Late Ramesside Letters. By Edward F. Wente. Originally published in 1967.
SAOC 32. Patterns in the Early Poetry of Israel. Stanley Gevirtz. Originally published in 1963.
SAOC 31. Prehistoric Investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan. R. J. Braidwood and B. Howe. 1960.
SAOC 30. Wall Scenes from the Mortuary Chapel of the Mayor Paser at Medinet Habu. By Siegfried Schott. Translated By Elizabeth B. Hauser. Originally published in 1957.
SAOC 28. Saite Demotic Land Leases. By George Robert Hughes. Originally published in 1952.
SAOC 27. Occurrences of Pyramid Texts with Cross Indexes of These and Other Egyptian Mortuary Texts. By Thomas George Allen. Originally published in 1950.
SAOC 26. The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. By Richard A. Parker. Originally published in 1950.
SAOC 25. The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia. A. L. Perkins. 1949 (7th printing, 1977).
SAOC 25. The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia. Ann Louise Perkins. Originally published in 1949.
SAOC 24. Babylonian Chronology, 626 B.C. - A.D. 45. Richard A. Parker and Waldo H. Dubberstein. Originally published in 1942.
SAOC 23. The Comparative Stratigraphy of Early Iran. Donald E. McCown. Originally published in 1942.
SAOC 22. Hurrians and Subarians. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1944.
SAOC 21. Hittite Hieroglyphs 3. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1942.
SAOC 20. Animal Remains from Tell Asmar Max Hilzheimer. 1941.
SAOC 19. The Coregency of Ramses II with Seti I and the Date of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak. By Keith C. Seele. Originally published in 1940.
SAOC 18. The Hyksos Reconsidered. Robert M. Engberg. Originally published in 1939.
SAOC 17. Notes on the Megiddo Pottery of Strata VI-XX. Geoffrey M. Shipton. Originally published in 1939.
SAOC 16. The Monasteries of the Fayyum. By Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1937.
SAOC 15. The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute. Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1938.
SAOC 13. The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship. Calvin W. McEwan. Originally published in 1934.
SAOC 12. Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu Volumes 1 and 2. Translated With Explanatory Notes. By William F. Edgerton and John A. Wilson. Originally published in 1936.
SAOC 11. Epiphanius' Treatise on Weights and Measures: The Syriac Version. James Elmer Dean, ed. With a Foreword by Martin Sprengling. Originally published in 1935.
SAOC 10. Notes on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery of Megiddo. Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton. Originally published in 1934.
SAOC 9. Die Pakhy-Sprache. Julius von Meszaros. Originally published in 1934.
SAOC 8. The Thutmosid Succession. By William F. Edgerton. Originally published in 1933.
SAOC 7. Plano-Convex Bricks and the Methods of Their Employment; II. The Treatment of Clay Tablets in the Field. Pinhas Delougaz. Originally published in 1933.
SAOC 6. Kitab al-Zahrah: The Book of the Flower. Composed by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Abi Sulaiman Dawud Al-Isfahani. A. R. Nykl, ed. In collaboration with Ibrahim Tuqan. Originally published in 1932.
SAOC 5. A New Inscription of Xerxes from Persepolis Ernst E. Herzfeld. 1932.
SAOC 4. Archeology and the Sumerian Problem. Henri Frankfort. Originally published in 1932.
SAOC 3. Die Hethitische Bilderschrift. Emil O. Forrer. Originally published in 1932.
SAOC 2. Hittite Hieroglyphs 1. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1931.
SAOC 1. Notes on Egyptian Marriage Chiefly in the Ptolemaic Period. William F. Edgerton. Originally published in 1931.
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The former summer capital of the British Raj in India, Shimla is the most popular hill station in Himachal Pradesh. The Ridge and the mall road just a level below the Ridge is the center of tourism in Shimla. Scandal point with a statue of Lala Lajpat Rai is where the Mall road joins Ridge road. Christ church, second oldest church in northern india is also located on the Ridge.
Shimla is the most popular honemoon destination in himachal. Shimla covered in deodar trees affords panoramic vies of the hills. Kalka - Shimla heritage toy train that runs on narrow gauge is major attraction of Shimla. The timber trail located between Kalka and Shimla offers cable car ride between two hills which is an exciting ride.
What to See in Shimla
Shimla is an ideal destination to get away from everything and just relax soaking in the fresh mountain air however for the adventurous there is lots to see and do in Shimla too! Almost everything in Shimla is clustered around the Ridge and mall road. Scandal point where the Ridge road and the mall road meets is marked now by a statue of Lala Lajpat Rai.
With the Christ church, town hall & Gaiety theatre and some of the best multi cuisine restaurants which opens up to beautiful views of the hills strewn around the Ridge and the mall road one can't help but spend atleast one evening at the Ridge during their stay in Shimla. The Christ church on the Ridge with Raj-era memorials and fine stained glass windows is the second-oldest church in northern India.
About 2.5km from the Mall road the Himachal State Museum has an impressive collection of Kangra and Mughal miniatures, Chamba embroidery, coins weapons and jewellery.
Naldehra
Naldehra is a small hamlet 23 kms from Shimla located on an off road from Mashobra on the way to Kufri from Shimla. Mahunag temple with a serpant as the main deity is the main attraction of Naldehra. Naldehra is a pictureque spot with beautiful view of the mountains. Naldehra is reputed for having the oldest golf course in India.
Located in the picturesque landscape between Honnavara and Bhatkal; Murudeshwar, bound by the Arabian Sea and the rolling hills of Western Ghats, is a destination in Karnataka with huge potential for tourism. Murudeshwar probably has the finest white sand beach in Karnataka.
The Murudeshwar temple towers over this small beach town and the 123 feet high Shiva statue, tallest in the world, is visible from any part of the Murudehswar. The sea is an intrinsic part of the temple landscape at Murudeshwar. The sea on three sides surrounds the temple upon the small hill called Kanduka Giri. Two life-size elephants in concrete stand guard at the steps leading to the Murudeshwar temple. As one ascends the hillock, there is a shrine of Jattiga seated on a horse.
Om beach
Om beach about 8 Kms from Gokarna gets its name from the two semi-circular coves that join to form an inverted symbol of OM. This beach is known for its spiritual hippies – with ash smeared on their foreheads, tattoos all over their body, long hair, beard and beads all over. Om Beach is the most popular beach in Gokarna.
Om Beach with its characteristic 'Om' shape created by two semi circular coves is amongst the most popular beaches amongst the Gokarna beaches. A very popular beach amongst foreign tourist Om Beach offers a delightful alternative to the beaches of Goa. With many secluded isolated beaches near Om Beach which can be reached only on foot Om Beach is known for the occassional impromptu rave parties that happen in the adjacent beaches of Om Beach.
The world's largest open air museum - Hampi is a place where past comes alive. Hampi was the capital of Vijayanagar Empire and its ruins have stood the ravages of man and time and still evoke memories of regal splendour. Whispering winds, magnificent ruins and traces of a by gone era all lingers fresh in Hampi.
Amidst a boulder strewn landscape along the banks of the Thungabhadra, Hampi is one of the glittering showpeices of India's cultural heritage. Hampi is a major tourist destination in Karnataka today. Hampi with the opulent palaces, temples, and fortifications can amaze even those with no inclination towards art and culture! Amongst the many attractions in Hampi the most prominent one is the Virupaksha Temple, a Shiva temple which is the only temple in Hampi still in use.
River Rafting near Bangalore
One of the world's most captivating adventures; White Water Rafting is just a few hours drive from Bangalore. Life doesn't get more exciting than this, hurtling down a pumping river in an inflatable raft, negotiating the drops, turns and chutes and punching through the sheets of water crashing aboard, its 100% pure aqua fun. The nearest place from Bangalore where you can do white water rafting near Bangalore is Bheemeshwari. River rafting is done in Coorg and also in Dandeli.
River Rafting is organized in more than one location in Karnataka. At approximately 100 kms rafting in Bheemeshwari river is the nearest option for river rafting near Bangalore. One could enjoy rafting in Barapole river in southern Coorg and Kali river in Dandeli
Leh the erstwhile capital of the kingdom of Ladakh is now a dream destination of many and the Mecca of adventure enthusiasts! Leh, one of the coldest deserts in the world is located at a distance of 434 Kms from Srinagar and 474 Kms from Manali (Himachal Pradesh).
At the time of reorganization of districts in 1979 Ladakh was divided into Leh and Kargil and now Leh district is synonymous with Ladakh and vice-versa!
Leh is a backpacker's haven with numerous trekking trails, valleys, and picturesque lakes. Renowned as the land of monks and monasteries there is lots to see in this amazing piece of land.
There are three sub divisions of Leh with 7 different tour circuits identified for international tourists in Leh with breathtaking Himalayan panorama.
Featured in the last scene of the 2009 movie, 3 Idiots Pangong Tso became a household name overnight!
Spread over 604 sq km the Pangong Tso lace is an absolute must see during a trip to Leh and very few people miss out on this beautiful destination in Leh. With the LOC passing right through the lake inner line permit is necessary to visit the Pangong tso.
Pangong Tso is located approximately 175 kms from Leh town across the Chang la pass. The route passes through Tangste and can be reached in about 5 hours.
Trekking in Ladakh
Leh truly is a land like no other bound by two of the world's highest mountain ranges, the Great Himalayas and the Karakoram. Leh's remoteness and awesome high-altitude landscape lure many adventure travelers to this beautiful region every year.
There are many trekking routes in Leh however trekking in Leh really is a time consuming affair and typically most of trekking route require about 14 days.
Manali Karnataka Tourism Kerala Tourism Goa Matheran Shimla Himachal
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It's really just prostitution
You can dress it up anyway you want but when Barack takes $400,000 to speak to Wall Street, it's really just prostitution.
Jeanette Sandernista Retweeted
Shailja Patel @shailjapatel 21h21 hours ago
2008: Hope and change 2017: Why shouldn't Obama take fees from industry that sold subprime mortgages to black communities?
David SirotaVerified account @davidsirota Apr 27
David Sirota Retweeted Eric Napoli
Peak apologism is portraying Obama getting a $400k payout as him doing a great public service
Eric Napoli @ericnapoli
Replying to @davidsirota
My question: why wouldn't anyone NOT want to try to take some of Wall St.'s money back? I say milk 'em
Glenn GreenwaldVerified account @ggreenwald Apr 27
Glenn Greenwald Retweeted Dave Weigel
"The influence of dollars on [Washington] is what scares me. I think it ultimately threatens democracy" - Warren, asked about Obama's fees.
Glenn Greenwald added,
Dave WeigelVerified account @daveweigel
Audio of Elizabeth Warren saying she’s “troubled” by Obama’s speaking gig/fee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ6tFpOk0cw …
Hope he throws in a lap dance or two.
That way they might tuck a few singles in his thong.
Friday, April 28, 2017. Chaos and violence continue, The Mosul Slog continues, bickering continues between the governments of Qatar and Iraq, national reconciliation is declared doomed by State Of Law, and more.
Bruce P. Knight @brucepknight 7h7 hours ago
Not hyperbole: Many in the media have a bigger problem with Obama being paid for a speech than they had with Bush invading Iraq.
And what of those hypocrites who have a problem with Bully Boy Bush starting the Iraq War and Barack Obama refusing to end it?
Cat got your mouse and keyboard, Bruce P. Knight?
Iraqis aren't as lucky as Bruce, they are silenced but not by hypocrisy.
THE REGISTER reports that the Iraqi government is again shutting down the internet, most recently yesterday morning
It's amazing how little outcry there is over this attack on freedoms or over the US arming and aiding a government so clearly corrupt and unable to reform.
On that, the Iraqi government has refused to pursue reconciliation.
This despite the 2007 'benchmarks' for continued US funding devised by Bully Boy Bush and signed off on by both the US Congress and the then-Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Ten years later and there's still no reconciliation.
Yet, somehow, US funds, arms and troops still go over to Iraq.
To fight ISIS?
What will it be tomorrow?
ISIS only rose to prominence in Iraq because Nouri al-Maliki refused reconciliation and persecuted the Sunni people.
In 2014, Hayder al-Abadi became prime minister.
That's about it.
THE BAGHDAD POST reports that MP Mohamed al-Ja'fari has said that the reconciliation is "doomed to failure."
This is just one opinion, right?
He's a member of State Of Law.
State Of Law is the political coalition created by Nouri al-Maliki to avoid running with his political party (Dawa). So State Of Law is making clear that they remain opposed to reconciliation.
And Hayder al-Abadi, the current prime minister?
He's also a member of Nouri's State Of Law coalition.
Which explains why he does nothing to bring about reconciliation either.
So get ready because the never-ending Iraq War is never going to end.
As long as the government persecutes a group, some organization will rise up -- it's the basic reaction to persecution.
WorldOnAlert @worldonalert 3h3 hours ago
#Mosul: #ISIS has killed the #Iraq|i Colonel and commander of the 18th Brigade Khader Tal Morshedi in Western #Mosul.
It's day 191 of The Mosul Slog.
This week, Doctors Without Borders noted:
The hospital opened by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Qayyarah, Iraq, last December is around 35 miles (60 km) south of Mosul. Distant enough not to hear the sounds of airstrikes and rocket fire, but sufficiently close for the wounded to be brought in when medical facilities nearer the front line are no longer able to cope.
On February 18, the Iraqi army launched an offensive with the support of the U.S.-led coalition to retake west Mosul, the part of the city still under control of the so-called Islamic State.
The fighting has claimed many victims, and large numbers of people continue to flee from neighborhoods being gradually recaptured by the army. Some of those displaced by the fighting have ended up in camps in Qayyarah. The MSF team is now caring for patients from west Mosul, displaced persons camps, Qayyarah town, and the region.
Hospital for medical and surgical emergencies
MSF staff respond to an influx of wounded patients. Photo: Brigitte Breuillac/MSF
The MSF team treats medical and surgical emergencies as the hospital in Qayyarah has an emergency room, operating theater and inpatient departments. The level of activity is intense—between January and March, more than 3,750 patients were admitted to the emergency room.
A four-bed intensive care unit was recently opened to provide care for burn victims, patients in shock and other critical conditions.
The team in the emergency room sees patients wounded by airstrikes, explosions, mortar fire and land mines. Away from major roads, there are still mines that occasionally injure children, farm workers and shepherds. In west Mosul, whole families sometimes fall victim to the fighting.
Below, MSF emergency doctor Ana Leticia recalls the story of a family caught in an explosion while trying to escape west Mosul.
The mother was in a state of shock when she arrived. Her 12-year old daughter looked after her younger brothers and sisters while waiting for her mother to be cared for by the MSF psychiatrist and get better.
Medical and psychological care
MSF has set up mental health consultations in Qayyarah for patients from the hospital and displaced persons’ camps. The team—a psychiatrist, two psychologists and a counsellor—treat adults and children alike.
Psychiatrist Joëlle Vernet set up the provision of mental health care in the hospital. "People have endured extremely tough situations," says Vernet. "And they still don’t feel at all safe, particularly as the bombing hasn’t stopped and there are soldiers and the sound of gunfire everywhere. They live in fear, they’re scared of reprisals. They don’t know what they can say or who they can say it to."
Many child patients are suffering from intense distress and displaying behavioral issues as a result, she says. "It was even harder for the parents—in reality mostly mothers, as the fathers were no longer with them. They didn’t have the strength to cope with their children’s pain and emotions. So our work was not just treating the child, but also treating the mother too, and child and mother together.
MSF hospital in Qayyarah is currently the only hospital structure properly set up to receive children in the area of Ninewa. Around half of all patients receiving treatment in the emergency room are under the age of 15.
Of the 192 patients who attended a mental health consultation from the beginning of February to mid-April, 30 were children under the age of 13.
A child is treated for burns in the Qayyarah hospital. Photo: Brigitte Breuillac/MSF
8-year-old Duha and her family lived in west Mosul. Last month, their home was hit in an airstrike. Her mother, father and 16 other people in the house at the time were all killed in the bombing.
Duha was the sole survivor. A neighbor dug her out of the rubble, but her head, hands and one leg were severely burned. She now lives in east Mosul with her uncle who brings her to the hospital regularly to have her dressings changed.
Malnourished children from west Mosul
As the Iraqi army advanced into west Mosul, many families were able to escape. The MSF team has been seeing children with acute malnutrition, affected by food shortages in besieged West Mosul.
A malnourished child receives care in the therapeutic feeding center in Qayyarah hospital. Photo: MSF
To treat malnourished children, MSF has set up a 12-bed therapeutic feeding center in Qayyarah hospital. Most of the children are under six months old, explains Ana Leticia, MSF emergency doctor.
Since the start of the military offensive to recapture Mosul in October 2016, MSF teams have increased medical and humanitarian assistance in Ninewa governorate. Across the country, MSF is working alongside Iraqi health staff in 10 governorates to ensure that the population has access to emergency medical care, including mother and child care.
Over 18 months ago, 26 citizens of Qatar were kidnapped while on a hunting trip in Iraq. Last week, they were freed.
What should have been good news has instaed resulted in a back and forth of claims.
Who paid the ransom, where did it go, who is responsible . . .
AL ARABY notes:
The deal to secure the recent release of a Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq went ahead with the "full knowledge" of Baghdad, officials in Doha claimed on Thursday, after Baghdad accused the Gulf emirate of paying ransom money without its approval.
Qatar regularly consulted with Iraqi officials during the tense negotiations with kidnappers, it claimed, in the first official statement made by the normally secretive government in Doha since the release last week.
REUTERS adds:
Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, told Doha-based Al Jazeera late on Wednesday that Baghdad had been consulted about the money he said was sent “to support the authorities in the release of Qatari abductees.”
“Qatar has provided funds to Iraq in an official, clear and public manner,” Sheikh Mohammed said. “Qatar did not deal with armed groups outside the authority of the (Iraqi) state.”
Governments have longed made deal with designated terrorist groups in Iraq (this includes the US government, see 2009's deal, for example, with The League of Righteousness) but then they try to deny any such deal was made.
Samantha Bee -- ugh
Ed's right
EMPIRE's reached its Who Gives A F**k moment
Loud Mouth Samantha Bee
those idiots crying wolf
Hag Jill Abramson lies yet again
The spoiler in the 2016 election was Hillary
Edward Snowden Retweeted
Dan FroomkinVerified account @froomkin Apr 21
FOIA by @ACLU reveals how FBI uses NSA data “like Google” to search American communications without a warrant:
41 replies1,245 retweets1,025 likes
Our government does not serve us.
It does not respect us.
It does not fear us.
It knows that right now we have two major parties and where else are we going to go?
The answer is to build something new.
And I'm thinking about term limits, but for political parties.
When the cronyism starts kicking in, toss out the political party.
Make them good for no more than 10 years.
Maybe that would help?
Thursday, April, 27, 2017. Chaos and violence continue, The Mosul Slog continues, tensions continue to rise between the governments of Iraq and Turkey, the political situation in Iraq grows ever more tense as evidenced by the latest news on the Electoral Commission, and much more.
ALSUMARIA reports that the al-Ahrar Bloc in Parliament has collected 80 signatures, enough to call for a vote to withdraw confidence from the Independent High Electoral Commission.
February 8th, a protest against the Electoral Commission took place in Baghdad. From that day's snapshot:
NINA reports that MP Magda al-Tamimi is calling for the members of the electoral commission to appear before Parliament for questioning due to a number of reasons including the large amounts of complaints about alleged corruption she has been receiving about them.
Due to the protest, ALSUMARIA reports, the Election Commission has closed shop and gone home for the day to avoid "friction" with the protesters.
And ALSUMARIA is reporting that the protest has started with thousands turning out to demand changes in the electoral commission and in the voting law.
And let's go to the February 11th snapshot to show how massive another protest on the electoral commission has been:
Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr called for demonstrations in Baghdad today.
Did the crowd turn out?
Goodness, did they.
Iraqi Day 🇮🇶 @iraqi_day 16h16 hours ago
The demonstration in Tahrir square #Baghdad is getting bigger and bigger. #Iraq
Massive demonstration started in #Baghdad Tahrir square by Sadr supporters demanding change to the elections committee. #Iraq
Methaq Al-fayyadh @AlFayth 18h18 hours ago
Huge protest in #baghdad
The protests didn't end that day.
Wcn Conflict News @NewsWcn Mar 24
IRAQ: Mass protests in #Baghdad’s Tahrir Square earlier today, demanding change to electoral commission and political influence. #Iraq
And it was not just Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers calling for changes to the electoral commission. As early as February, vice president Ayad Allawi was also calling for reform and for the members of the commission to be replaced.
Monday, a complaint against the commission was filed with the United Nations.
A complaint against corruption in the Independent High Electoral Commission in #Iraq was sent to UN Sec. Gen. H.E. @antonioguterres
Sadek Alrikaby @Sadekrikaby Apr 24
A complaint against corruption in the Independent High Electoral Commission in #Iraq reaches @UN and @EU_Commission @OHCHRAsia @OHCHR_Europe
THE BAGHDAD POST reported that Serbest Mostafa, chair of the commission, answered questions before Parliament on Tuesday.
This is becoming a major issue yet somehow the western media is avoiding this story.
Are we really surprised?
Day 190 of The Mosul Slog.
Mosul was seized in June 2014 by the Islamic State. 190 days ago the central government based in Baghdad finally decided they might need to do something.
UNAMIVerified account @UNIraq 20h20 hours ago
#Iraq: Six months into battle for #Mosul, water and trauma care are key UN and partner priorities un.org/apps/news/stor… #MosulAid
As The Mosul Slog drags on, tensions continue between Iraq and the Turkish government over Turkey's bombing of northern Iraq.
Kom News @KomNewsCom 27m27 minutes ago
#BREAKING: #Iraq to report #Turkey to UN for violation of sovereignty following airstrikes in Shingal targeting Kurdish forces - Kom News
In other news, Luis Martinez (ABC NEWS) reports:
President Trump has delegated to the Pentagon the authority to set the American military troop levels in Iraq and Syria. The move restores a process that was in place prior to the Bush and Obama administrations and is another sign of how the White House is giving military commanders greater flexibility in their operations.
"The President has delegated the authority for Force Management Levels (FML) for Iraq and Syria to the Secretary," said Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, referring to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Davis said the authority is being returned to the Pentagon where it had typically existed prior to the Bush and Obama administrations.
Wake up and wise up
Demme
MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD
how do you like that drone war now?
The DNC's problem
Obama grabs the big bucks
The press needs to quit whining
John Nichols' opinions aren't worth five cents
Ugh, Bruce
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ROLLING STONE gets it wrong again
Ann Wilson has a new album, her second solo album. ROLLING STONE reports:
“I got serious about making a record after Chris Cornell passed,” Wilson says. “It was just one too many for me to not do anything. All of these people seemed to just get up and leave all at once — David Bowie, Tom Petty, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, Lesley Gore and others whose songs I really admired.” On Wednesday night, Wilson returned to the Kimmel set with a physical manifestation of a year’s reflection. Her debut solo album, Immortal, which was released in September, is a moving selection of covers by recently departed rock stars, one of the tracks naturally being “I Am The Highway,” Cornell’s unchained masterpiece.
Catch the mistake? Debut solo album.
In December of 2007, I reviewed Ann Wilson's first solo album.
Here's the cover.
Here's the track list for her new album IMMORTAL:
1. You Don't Own Me (feat. Warren Haynes)
2. I Am The Highway
3. Luna (feat. Warren Haynes)
4. I'm Afraid of Americans
5. Politician
6. A Thousand Kisses Deep (feat. Ben Mink)
7. Life In The Fast Lane
8. Back to Black (feat. Ben Mink)
9. A Different Corner
10. Baker Street
So "Back to Black" is honoring Amy Winehouse, "A Different Corner" honors George Michael, "You Don't Own Me" honors Leslie Gore, etc.
Thursday, September 20, 2018.
Abby MartinVerified account @AbbyMartin 11h11 hours ago
Abby Martin Retweeted Jeffrey St. Clair
If the obscene militarism, violence & death perpetrated by the US empire is one of your top issues, never let anyone shame you for not supporting Democrats.
Abby Martin added,
Jeffrey St. ClairVerified account @JSCCounterPunch
The transformation of the Democrats into the party of the Neo-Cons is complete. The Senate just passed the largest military budget since the peak of the Iraq War. Only 7 no votes, none of them Democrats: Paul, Sasse, Lee, Toomey, Perdue, Flake and Sanders.
Let's start with a voter issue. I support war resisters. I have no problem with someone going to Canada rather than take part in a war. Make a life there, it's fine. It's even heroic. But if you make a life there, make a life there.
Melanie Green (TORONTO STAR) reports on efforst in Canada to register voters for the US elections:
“We’ve met Americans who came here 50 years ago as Vietnam War resisters, have never voted in the U.S. but are determined to cast their ballot this time around,” Mivasair said. “We’re going to be on the sidewalk across from Trump Hotel at lunchtime on Monday to tell all U.S. citizens that their vote can tip the balance.”
I'm bothered by that. I'm also bothered by the possibility that childish temper tantrums -- take the We Move To Canada crowd who fled the US because they didn't like the outcome of an election (staying and fighting was just too much for that tepid crowd) -- who are now Canadian citizens, but apparently did not denouce their US citizenship in the process, will be eligible to vote.
But let's stick with war resisters. You left for good reason. You left knowing there was a chance that you could never return to the US. You were making your life in Canada.
I've repeatedly objected to the efforts of refugees to the US -- such as the anti-Castro crowd -- coming to this country and then using it as a base to try to mount a military attack on their former country of residence. If you've been lucky enough to be accepted by another country, make your life there. Don't use that new host country as a staging platform for war. You need to let it the hell go.
That's true of the war resisters who went to Canada -- during Vietnam. (During the ongoing Iraq War? Canada has not granted permanent status to these veterans. If they want to vote in the US elections, that's different.)
If you stepped on US soil, you would be arrested. I'm not saying you should be but I am saying that is the law. If you deserted the US military or avoided the US military draft and went to Canada, you will be arrested if you are caught on US soil. (Gerald Ford offered an 'audition' process and members of the two types of war resisters who participated in that program all the way through are not going to be arrested. Most who participated -- I believe the Carter adminstration argued it was 77% -- chose to live in the US. Jimmy Carter offered asylum -- to those who applied -- if they were drafted but not if they had been inducted.)
I argued, in real time, for a blanket amnesty and one that would not require any process. People like US House Rep Elizabeth Holtzman betrayed the war resisters of the Vietnam era. In fact, Liz went on PBS to sell the betrayal -- THE NEWSHOUR, of course. She lied repeatedly to the press insisting that Carter's plan was just the start and there would be more. There was never more. She distracted from the moment knowing it had to happen immediately or never.
We didn't get the blanket amnesty. Which means the law remains that -- unless you successfully went through Ford or Carter's program -- if you step on US soil you will be arrested.
So I'm not understanding why you believe you would have a right to vote in a US election? You have made your life in Canada. As far as I'm concerned, your participation in the 2018 election would be as a foreign actor/agent. You chose to leave the US and go to Canada where you made a life. The law doesn't let you come back -- without being arrested and imprisoned -- so why do you feel you have a right to vote in a US election now, all this time later?
Many Americans would not agree with you on that 'right'. That's in part because so little is known about war resisters -- in part because organizations that took money to help them during the Iraq War and pretended to care about the topic -- yes, Courage To Resist, I mean you -- haven't focused on the Iraq War in forever. They make their cause around, for example, Reality Winner or whatever that woman's name is. She did hideous things. Her only claim to 'fame' is that she released a document on the 2016 election that might or might not be accurate. But in terms of war -- war that Courage to Resist supposedly opposes -- Reality Winner was a willing tool of imperialism and was actively responsible for the deaths of dissidents -- including in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's who they rally around because they're not about stopping wars. They're those disgusting Socialists who want to take over the Democratic Party. I'm not referring to Democratic Socialists with that statement. If you're confused as to what I'm referring to, educate yourself. They've always been around, these tricksters. They're unwilling to stand up and fight but they latch on to anything that might be a mounting cause because they want to pretend they have momentum. So they're hitchikers on the highway of causes. They've existed forever.
And Courage To Resist, sadly, is among those people.
I support war resisters. I have helped war resisters. In the current era, I didn't worry about proving my points regarding the Iraq War. Sadly, some couldn't get away from that. And when war resisters hit a wall in Canada, they often stayed at that wall because their support -- such as it was -- needed to prove a point in Canada.
No, get the war resisters safety in Canada. Fight the war absolutely, but when it came to the lives of war resisters get them safety. I did. And when people kept asking how -- resisters who were in Canada or wanted to go there -- I explained how in one post that remains up here. The method that my group used worked and the war resisters we worked with -- during this Iraq War era -- have Canadian citizenship. They can't be expelled. Sadly, the same can't be said for the other group who seemed less concerned with getting asylum for war resisters -- who needed asylum -- and more concerned with litigating the Iraq War through immigration procedures and court cases.
When I posted here how easy it was -- and it is very easy -- I worried because the Iraq War was still going on (and still is). I had advised a few war resisters of the method in person and in e-mails -- war resisters in Canada who were frustrated because their supporters were not helping them. (Again, these supporters wanted condemnation from the Canadian government of the Iraq War. That was not going to happen. Indochina was a French imperial war that the US grabbed the baton on. That's why Canada could go ahead with asylum then. It was a different reality with Iraq.) But I was seriously worried about putting it up here because I had no second strategy. That was the only one that worked -- and as I noted, I built on the advances of the LGBT community. Posting it, I thought, "It's going to be everywhere and I would prefer it remain underground." Because when it was everywhere, it wasn't going to be useful anymore. But after I outlined how any US war resister could get citizenship in Canada -- and how the group of war resisters I helped got that citizenship by using this method -- I didn't see any of the US organizations rushing to repost or steal the method. I wasn't surprised by the Candian reaction. I'd spoken with Candian politicians -- including Olivia Chow -- about it for sometime and knew that the position of the Canadian organizations would be to ignore it because they wanted their legal victory on the Iraq War more than they wanted asylum for the war resisters. But I was surprised that Courage To Resist and the few others who pretended to be interested in war resisters didn't move to popularize the method or even use it quietly.
I'm trying to be very clear as to where I stand on war resistance because I should have started dictating this snapshot an hour before I did. The delay was over this issue. Do we include it? If so, do we bury it deep in the snapshot? No. That's hypocrisy. My point has always been that if you go to another country and make a life there, that's where your life is. I support war resisters, I do not support those who have left a country -- any country -- doing what THE STAR reports is happening.
In Iraq, the country has a Speaker of Parliament -- as of last Saturday -- but it still does not have a prime minister or a persident.
Yesterday, the US State Dept issued the following:
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Heather Nauert:
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke with Mohammed Halbusi, Iraq’s new Speaker of the Council of Representatives. The Secretary congratulated Speaker Halbusi on his new position and underlined that the United States looks forward to working with him in this most important new role. The Secretary pledged to continue to stand with Iraqis as they pursue security, prosperity and stability. The Secretary emphasized his support for Iraq’s territorial integrity and sovereignty especially at this critical time. Finally, the Secretary noted his support for Iraq’s efforts to form a moderate, nationalist, Iraqi government, pursuant to the constitutional timeline, that is responsive to the aspirations of the Iraqi people.
So that's the Speaker of Parliament. Let's turn to the post of the presidency. The PUK thinks they get to dictate this post. They don't. But they are floating Barham Saleh and he's so thrilled to be their nominee that he's rejoined their party after leaving it in 2017.
RUDAW noted some Tweets about Saleh -- including these two Tweets:
Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb @Perixan7
Replying to @RudawEnglish @BarhamSalih
Last election @BarhamSalih with his not even 1 year old party CDJ, campaigned against PUK/KDP as being corrupt. But when ppl didn't fall for this farce in last election and you as a vein politician need a party to put you in power - principles don't matter, perfect man for #Iraq
9:43 AM - Sep 19, 2018
See Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb's other Tweets
Abdulla Hawez
✔ @abdullahawez
Replying to @abdullahawez
@BarhamSalih should be ashamed of himself. Only 5 months ago, he publicly and strongly denied rejoining PUK even if they offer him Iraqi presidency. Many senior members of other parties split to join his party, now he left them all. This tells you enough about the guy.
See Abdulla Hawez's other Tweets
Of course, he left -- fled -- Iraq in 1979 and didn't return until after the US-led invasion of 2003, so he's used to returning. Following the Gulf War, the KRG was semi-autonomous and even a coward like Barham Saleh could have returned to the KRG and would have been safe there. But some cowards are such big cowards that they have to wait until the US invades to return.
There are huge efforts taking place to make Saleh look like the choice. That includes efforts by the US and oil empires as well -- remember, Saleh sold the Kurds out to ExxonMobil. Most recently, IRAQI NEWS joined the effort:
Iraqi Kurdish politician Barham Saleh has obtained approval from the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masud Barzani, to be the Kurdistan Region’s nominee for the presidency of Iraq.
A KDP source told Baghdad Today that Saleh, a former prime minister of Kurdistan, who was reinstated on Wednesday as a member of the region’s second ruling party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, had met with Barzani twice away from media coverage and won the latter’s approval of his nomination for Iraq’s Presidency.
The source said the KDP is expected to officially declare its support for Saleh within the next few days.
Massoud Barzani doesn't even like Saleh. Never has. Now he's going to back Saleh? Saleh's seen as an impediment to Kurdistan autonomy and Barzani is going to back him?
KURDISTAN 24 reports:
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) will have its own candidate for the Iraqi presidency, a spokesperson for the party said on Wednesday.
Mahmood Mohammed, the spokesperson for the KDP, said in a statement that the Iraq president position should be shared by the people of Kurdistan and not a single party.
According to the spokesperson, officials from the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) had agreed in a recent meeting that the Kurdish parties should agree on one candidate for the Iraqi president role.
“The Kurds should decide on one candidate similar to the united position and program we had in Baghdad,” he stated.
The PUK was supposed to inform the KDP of their candidates before making a final decision, but after the return of Barham Salih to the party, he was nominated for the Iraqi presidency unilaterally, Mohammed explained.
Let's move over to the topic of prime minister. Who will it be? Unknown at this time. We do know that it won't be Hayder al-Abadi or Hari al-Amari -- or that both have stated that publicly. Hayder's meanwhile launched another bid for the post this week despite his announcement last week.
RUDAW notes:
Hadi al-Amiri, the head of Fatih Alliance withdrew from the race, while former Oil Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and former head of the Hashd al-Shaabi committee Falih Alfayyadh are potential Shiite-party nominees for prime minister.
"I think it is a sacrifice when Hadi al-Amiri, who was to a large extent the only candidate for al-Bina bloc, is withdrawing and rejecting to become a nominee for prime minister, just in order to protect the situation in the state," said Ahmed al-Jarba, an MP from the al-Bina bloc, on Thursday.
Burhanadin al-Ishaq, an MP from Fatih which encompasses al-Bina, also spoke highly of Abdul-Mahdi.
"Dr. Adil Abdul-Mahdi is one of the prominent Iraqi politicians. He had worked in the previous governments and in many prominent blocs... He is an admired person,” Ishaq said.
He added they would not stand against any other nominee, indicating al-Bina is open to other candidates.
Naif al-Shamary from former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s Wataniya said the next prime minister should have a "strong" personality and be a "good decision maker" in order to save Iraq from all the crises engulfing it.The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the largest in the Kurdistan Region, seems to agree for Abdul-Mahdi to run for premier considering him to be an experienced political for the current situation in Iraq.
Abdul-Mahdi has long been a favorite of the US intelligence community; however, he's never managed to become prime minister. He has been a vice president of Iraq. He stepped down in 2011. Remember why? It's a good reason in 2018.
In 2011, he quit, resigned. Nouri al-Maliki was prime minister. Iraqis were protesting corruption and Nouri was concerned because of what was taking place in neighboring countries. He asked the protesters to stop protesting, give him 100 days and he would end corruption. They did. He didn't. And Abdul-Mahdi stepped down over the government corruption.
That was a brave stand in 2011. In 2018, with Iraqis even more outraged by the corruption, it's an even braver stand. Weakening the stand? Prior to resigning, American officials had noted Abdul-Mahdi regularly stopped investigations into corruption when they were targeting his own staff. This might be a dead issue were it not for Nouri al-Maliki thinking he stands a chance at returning as prime minister. As a result of that belief, Nouri has started a whisper campaign against Abdul-Mahdi that's expected to grow louder over the next few days.
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Pelosi is not a leader
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florence & the machine cover tori amos' 'cornflake girl'
Kevin de Leon is the future, Dianne Feinstein is the past
Maybe Hillary Clinton needs to go away and stop distracting from the mid-terms
Angela Bassett, Chevy Chase, Chris Pratt, is Colin Jost a bottom, and more
Who are you voting for in November?
Me, I'm voting for Kevin de Leon, the Democrat running for the US Senate in my home state of California.
Kevin de LeόnVerified account @kdeleon 14m14 minutes ago
US Senate candidate, CA
Help spread our video across the internet. 100% of your donation will go to getting the word out and contacting swing and likely voters. We are relying on the grassroots, so thank you!
2 replies5 retweets13 likes
Dan O'SullivanVerified account @Bro_Pair Sep 14
Dan O'Sullivan Retweeted Kevin de Leόn
Californians have the choice of voting for a good Senate candidate in November, Kevin de Leon! Dianne Feinstein's handling of the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations is absolutely inexplicable at best and sinister to the nth degree at worst.
Dan O'Sullivan added,
Kevin de LeόnVerified account @kdeleon
My statement after learning that Senator Feinstein withheld a sexual assault allegation from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
RL Miller @RL_Miller Sep 14
Replying to @JaneMayerNYer @thedailybeast
quick reminder, folk: Kevin de Leon, @kdeleon, is running against Feinstein in November as a principled progressive fierce activist.
12 replies9 retweets35 likes
City Slang @City_Slang Sep 11
Kevin de León is the real deal. He wants healthcare for all, an end to the persecution of immigrants, sensible gun control, and he WOULD eat at In-N-Out. #kevindeleon #Senate
Will Weldon @oldmanweldon 37m37 minutes ago
Kevin de Leon is not great, but at least he is not a horrible ghoul who dreams of nothing more than a citizenship that is being spied on by its own government 24/7
Leftward Bound @leftwardbound 6h6 hours ago
Replying to @SenFeinstein
A great way to celebrate would be to support Kevin De Leon in his bid to unseat Feinstein.
The Daily CalifornianVerified account @dailycal Sep 13
"During his speech, de León talked about how he authored SB 54, which made California into a sanctuary state, and SB 100 which was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday and which requires that California rely on 100 percent clean energy by 2045."
Kevin de LeόnVerified account @kdeleon Sep 11
"These are very dangerous times. We need a voice who will be on the front lines for climate change, the environment, workers rights, health care for all, and I want to be that voice for California." @LAWeekly #CAsen #3debates https://www.laweekly.com/news/kevin-de-leon-is-the-real-deal-9841062 …
Rebecca Hazelwood @rlhazelwood 1h1 hour ago
Dianne Feinstein really is showing how old guard she is in the way she deals with the Dr. Blasey allegations, huh? I don’t care if she’s a powerful senator. I hope Kevin de Léon takes her down in November and the Democratic party pushes a bit further left.
adam nagourneyVerified account @adamnagourney Sep 18
Intense ad from Kevin de Leon going after Dianne Feinstein on immigration. W old clips of her juxtaposed with Trump. Just in case there wasn’t enough going on for her this week.
HuffPost PoliticsVerified account @HuffPostPol 21h21 hours ago
Kevin de León, a progressive state Senator challenging Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), released his first campaign advertisement on Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018. More money for war or, rather, more US taxdollars sent overseas.
Jeff SteinVerified account @JStein_WaPo 36m36 minutes ago
Congress votes 93-7 to approve $607B military budget, a $17B increase, @ericawerner reports This appears to be the biggest military budget outside height of the Iraq War No votes: 6 conservatives (Paul, Toomey, Sasse, Lee, Flake, Perude), & Sen. Sanders
From ON CONTACT WITH CHRIS HEDGES (RT AMERICA):
Hugh Hamilton: Speaking of 17 years of warfare, you refer to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as the most -- as-as the worst strategic mistakes that the country has made in its history. Talk a little about that.
Chris Hedges: Well because we're trapped. I mean, even out of the Pentagon, they're talking about endless warfare, infinite warfare, these are their terms. And it is characteristic of late empires that they make horrific military blunders -- the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which contributed immensely to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is true of every empire -- the Austro-Hungarian Empire starting the war with Bosnia in WWI, four years later it doesn't exist. Of course, the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] doing the same thing in Germany, go all the way back to the ancient Greeks where they invade Sicily and the Athenian empire, their entire fleet is sunk, thousands of their soldiers are killed, the empire disintegrates. Great Britain in the 1956 Suez Crisis, [Gamal Abdel] Nasser [Hussein] in Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, the British go in to retake it and have to retreat in humiliation. So the British Empire was on a long descent after WWI but that was the culmination. And then what happened was the pound sterling was dropped as the world's currency and that is the death blow. So it is the day the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency that there has to be a huge contraction of the American military machine overseas, imports become expensive and the economy goes into a tailspin. Alfred McCoy, who is a fine historian, actually gives it a date, 2030 [in his book IN THE SHADOW OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY, THE RISE AND DECLINE OF US GLOBAL POWER] -- I've just been a newspaperman too long to play Nostradamus with dates but that that is coming is without question.
Chris was discussing themes explored in his new book AMERICA: THE FAREWELL TOUR (here for AMAZON, here for BARNES & NOBLE).
Ajamu BarakaVerified account @ajamubaraka 20h20 hours ago
There is something fundamentally immoral about the U.S. state and its military being able to impose death and destruction on so many with almost no opposition from the public. This is why building an Anti-war movement is imperative because the "steady state" is committed to war.
If you agree with him, remember next month is the Women's March on the Pentagon.
Women’s March on the Pentagon @WomenMarch4Paz Sep 17
Happening soon! #WomenRise4Peace
For more on the march . . .
Lee StranahanVerified account @stranahan 1h1 hour ago
The Women's March on the Pentagon & Confronting the Bi-Partisan War Machine | Guest: Emma Fiala (@bymyelf)
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Chicago Committee Against War and Racism @NoWarNoRacism Sep 13
This Sunday, September 16th, Join FURIE-Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation to grow the Anti-War Movement in Chicago! This is a follow-up/planning meeting for the Women’s March on the Pentagon on Oct. 21, 2018 in Washington DC. bit.ly/2CTyVv1
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emma @bymyelf 16h16 hours ago
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Christine Barloga @ikkinbah 1h1 hour ago
Watch what happened at 15:32 in @stranahan's broadcast: The Women's March on the Pentagon & Confronting the Bi-Part…
#LettersToTheWarMachine are rolling in. Send us yours today! #WomenRise4Peace marchonpentagon.com/letters
For a People’s Party @4aPeoplesParty 11h11 hours ago
Anti-war icon Cindy Sheehan joins Nick Brana to discuss the Women’s March on the Pentagon! 9/19 Watch Live: facebook.com/4aPeoplesParty/ March on Pentagon: marchonpentagon.com
In Iraq, people are gathering to protest in Basra and have been doing so for months now. Yesterday afternoon, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (NPR) noted the protests:
A lack of basic services led to protests this summer in Iraq's second-largest city. They turned violent recently, revealing further the underlying problems not only in Basra but in the entire country. Protesters burned down government buildings along with the offices of an Iranian-backed militia and the Iranian consulate. Several protesters were killed. NPR's Jane Arraf traveled to Basra and sent this report.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD #1: (Chanting in Arabic).
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Arabic).
JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: Through Basra's sweltering summer and now into the fall, crowds of mostly young men have come out every night demanding change. The protesters call it their revolution. In a city where temperatures often top 120 degrees, the demonstrations started with anger over power cuts and tap water so contaminated you can't wash or cook with it. And then it widened.
NASSER JABAR: The beginning of the protests, people started demanding electricity and water. There's lack of services. But now people know the truth. This government is a group of militias, scavengers, murderers. We want to change them, all of them.
ARRAF: That's Nasser Jabar, one of the protesters. He's 25, and he's one of the few people here who has a job. He works with Basra Oil Company, but he says only politicians benefit from the oil.
JABAR: The government needs oil to live. They don't care about people. They let people die.
Jane Arraf lets a law enforcement member speak. She doesn't question him because that would be reporting and she's really up to the task. But in the face of his claims of protecting the protesters, we'll note this Tweet.
Duaa Malik @TheDuaaMalik Sep 16
Duaa Malik Retweeted حسنين الحِجاج #البصرة
Activists & protesters in #Basra are being arrested without arrest warrants. Some cannot be located. Local NGOs are condemning the arrest campaign. Reports also indicate that protesters are being tortured and forced to sign confessions. A complete state of terror. #BasraProtests
Duaa Malik added,
حسنين الحِجاج #البصرة @hasanenalhijaj
"بيان" عدد من منظمات المجتمع المدني تندد بالاعتقالات التي تنفذها وزارة الداخلية بحق النشطاء المدنين السلمين في #البصرة …
Harith Hassan explores the protests at Carnegie Middle East Center:
“Why should we remain silent, the water has become scarce and all the wealth you have stolen belongs in the pocket of Basra.”
These are the opening lyrics of a new song by a singer from Basra. They describe what has become a common sentiment in the oil-rich governorate, which provides a staggering 80 percent of Iraq’s revenues and contains 60 percent of the country’s proven oil reserves. Furthermore, Basra is where Iraq’s only port is located. Among its inhabitants, there is an increasing awareness of the contrast between Basra’s immense wealth and their own daily reality of poverty, neglect, crumbling infrastructure, and shortage of electricity and drinking water. Basra, once called the Jewel of the Gulf, is today far removed from the Gulf, and from its past as a vital commercial and political hub for the region.
The city of Basra, which once was the capital of an autonomous region under the Ottoman Empire, later became a hostage of Baghdad politics after oil was discovered there. It grew dependent on financial allocations from the central government, although most of the government’s budget relied on revenues from Basra’s oilfields. Moreover, from the perspective of many of its inhabitants, the Shi‘a political class is dominated by Islamists from Baghdad, Najaf, and Karbala, while Basra itself is not adequately represented by prominent politicians. The gap has been constantly widening between Basra’s imagined past and grim present, but also between its indispensable role in securing Iraq’s economic survival and its marginal role in Iraqi politics and decisionmaking.
This summer, rising temperatures in Basra, which reached 52° Celsius [C.I. note, that would be 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit], were accompanied by long power outages and a dearth of drinking water. This sparked anger and protests. The public’s disillusionment with the system only increased following the last election, which confirmed that real change does not necessarily come through the ballot box. As protests escalated, the protesters’ feelings of victimhood pushed many of them to construct a new narrative about the city and its relationship with the rest of Iraq. Basra’s unemployed youth complained about the lack of basic services and economic opportunities, motivating some of its intellectuals, politicians, and traders to demand more autonomy from Baghdad.
“Today, Basra incubates new sentiments that are opposed to Baghdad’s authority,” notes Sarmad al-Ta‘ee, a prominent Basra journalist; “With every new barrel of oil exported from the governorate, the feeling that Basra should become the master of its own house grows more appealing.”
These sentiments are still only emerging now and will take a long time to translate into more elaborate political demands. Yet, they were strong enough to compel members of Basra’s provincial administration to sign a petition demanding the transformation of the governorate into an autonomous region. Additionally, Basra’s parliamentarians, who belong to parties led from Baghdad or Najaf, formed a parliamentary committee to unite their positions on the current crisis and to define Basra’s relationship with the federal government.
These protests are not ending, they are only intensifying.
Yousif @YousifRHM 18h18 hours ago
Yousif Retweeted حسنين الحِجاج #البصرة
Employees [ public sector] Cooperation Committee announce date of sit-in protests at Sunday, 23 September through statement recently posted. #Basra #BasraProtests
Yousif added,
"بيان" اللجنة التنسيقية لموظفي دوائر الدولة تعلن اول خطواتها التصعيدية بالاعتصام يوم الاحد…
Now let's note Sarah Leah Whitson who is finally Tweeting about Iraq.
Sarah Leah WhitsonVerified account @sarahleah1 2h2 hours ago
Think Turkey is just bombing Syria? Think again, because it's also bombarding Iraq, killing Iraqi civilians in unlawful airstrikes. New @HRW report
She's steering people to this Human Rights Watch report:
Four apparent Turkish military operations against the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq dating back over a year should be investigated for possible violations of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks killed at least seven non-combatants and wounded another, witnesses and relatives said.
Speaking to Human Rights Watch by phone, witnesses and relatives said that what appeared to be Turkish air and ground attacks during four operations between May 2017 and June 2018 killed at least six men and one woman and injured another man. They said there were no apparent military objectives near the strikes. Human Rights Watch was unable to visit the sites but obtained photographs and death certificates to corroborate the allegations.
“As Turkey steps up operations in Iraq, it should be taking all feasible precautions to avoid harming civilians there,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Turkey should investigate possible unlawful strikes that killed civilians, punish those responsible for wrongdoing, and compensate victims’ families.”
The PKK, an outlawed armed group active in Turkey, has long maintained a presence in northern Iraq near the Turkish, Iranian, and Syrian borders. Turkish forces have conducted operations against the PKK in Iraq for over a decade. Since March, Turkish forces appear to have extended their presence into northern Iraq by at least 15 kilometers, establishing multiple outposts, including in rural areas of Dohuk and Erbil governorates under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Residents say the Turkish Armed Forces have declared the areas surrounding their outposts out of bounds for civilians. However, local people depend on these sparsely populated agricultural areas.
On May 3, 2017, apparent Turkish forces started shelling farmland six kilometers south of the Turkish border as six farmers were working their land, without any apparent warning, said one farmer present at the time. He told Human Rights Watch that the second projectile killed his uncle and wounded his cousin, both civilians. He said that as far as he knew PKK fighters were about 30 kilometers away at the time, but he did not hear any fire coming from the direction where he believed the PKK to be based.
On November 13, outside a village in the Sidekan area, an apparent Turkish airstrike hit a car, killing the one man inside it, his wife said. She said she had heard planes overhead all day, and that there had been daily strikes in the area for months. She said there was an unnamed PKK base two kilometers away, but her husband was not driving nearby.
On March 22, 2018, an apparent Turkish nighttime airstrike killed four men, all cousins visiting their family home in a village in the Choman area. They allegedly had no PKK links, according to neighbors, and three were members of the regional government’s Peshmerga forces, which are not engaged in an armed conflict with Turkey. Their neighbor and relative said that the nearest PKK presence was in the mountains about five kilometers away and that this was the first airstrike on the village.
Apparent Turkish shelling at around 4 p.m. on June 30, hit and killed a 19-year-old civilian about seven kilometers from the border. Her father said she was with her family and a large group of villagers harvesting nuts and wild herbs. He said there was a Turkish base about three kilometers away, and no PKK presence nearby as far as he knew.
Media coverage as well as witnesses who said they saw aircraft and the direction that shelling came from suggested the Turkish Armed Forces were the source of all four attacks. The witnesses said that they had not received any warning from Iraq, the KRG, or Turkey about staying away from ongoing military operations. All four families who lost relatives said that no officials had contacted them to investigate the attacks or provide any reparations, and that they did not know how to request an investigation or compensation.
Hayder al-Abadi's failures as prime minister include allowing Turkey to keep Turkish soldiers on Iraqi soil -- something Iraqi politicians (at least publicly) oppose -- and not calling out the continued bombs dropped from Turkish war planes.
Winding down, we'll note this from Senator Johnny Isakson's office (Isakson is the Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee):
Isakson, Tester Applaud Senate Passage of Bill to Continue Critical Veterans Services, Benefits
Bipartisan bill reauthorizes dozens of VA programs, including support for homeless, disabled veterans;
Makes permanent VA employment training authority for injured service members
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today applauded the Senate passage of bipartisan legislation they introduced to ensure veterans continue to have access to critical programs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2018 reauthorizes numerous programs and services at the VA for fiscal year 2019, which begins on Oct. 1, 2018. The legislation ensures that many important programs, including veterans homelessness prevention, adaptive sports programs for disabled veterans, and workforce training for injured service members, continue to be available. A number of authorizations included in the bill were set to expire at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, while others were set to expire in 2019.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2018 represents a bipartisan, bicameral agreement reached with U.S. Representatives Phil Roe, R-Tenn., and Tim Walz, D-Minn., Isakson and Tester’s counterparts in the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
“I’m pleased my colleagues in the Senate supported this bipartisan bill to help ensure that vital VA services, such as programs to help homeless, disabled, rural and minority veterans, continue into the new fiscal year,” said Isakson. “I thank Ranking Member Tester, Chairman Roe, Ranking Member Walz and members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee for their efforts in reaching this bipartisan agreement. The Senate has now passed 21 major pieces of veterans’ legislation this Congress, a remarkable achievement and a true testament to our teamwork. By working together, we are truly making progress for our nation’s veterans.”
“Rural, disabled and homeless Montana veterans rely on these initiatives every day,” said Tester. “By making sure that veterans can get to their doctor appointments on time and get back on their feet, we are making good on the promises we have made to our veterans and their families. This bipartisan agreement shows what Congress can get done when we work together.”
The Senate approved S.3479, the Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2018, by voice vote. The measure now heads to the full U.S. House of Representatives for a vote.
This is the 21st piece of legislation passed by the Senate – including 20 bills that have already been signed into law – that aim to strengthen veterans’ health care, benefits and protections.
A full section-by-section summary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2018 is available here.
The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is chaired by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in the 115th Congress. Isakson is a veteran himself – having served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966-1972 – and has been a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs since he joined the Senate in 2005. Isakson’s home state of Georgia is home to more than a dozen military installations representing each branch of the armed services as well as more than 750,000 veterans.
THIRD? My understanding is that everything's written (Ava and I wrote our piece and I did the piece I noted Sunday night here that I would be doing). As I understand it, they are waiting for an illustration to dry. I would guess around noon PST it would be up, certainly no later than three. (Okay, four.) The following community sites updated:
Justin Raimondo, Tulsi Gabbard, Aaron Mate
Professor Francis Boyle grades War Criminal Barack Obama
senseless killing
John Carpenter's They Live
A lot of con artists are pimping war
Why is anyone still using FACEBOOK?
Let the public know the truth
Two who need to be told it's over
Columbia Gas and NiSource need to make restitution and apologize
The world is tired of Debra Messing
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Chemometric evaluation of the combined effect of temperature, pressure, and co-solvent fractions on the chiral separation of basic pharmaceuticals using actual vs set operational conditions
Forss, Erik
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Engineering and Chemical Sciences (from 2013).
Haupt, Dan
Stalberg, Olle
Enmark, Martin
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Engineering and Chemical Sciences (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8943-6286
Samuelsson, Jörgen
Fornstedt, Torgny
2017 (English)In: Journal of Chromatography A, ISSN 0021-9673, E-ISSN 1873-3778, Vol. 1499, p. 165-173Article in journal (Refereed) Published
The need to determine the actual operational conditions, instead of merely using the set operational conditions, was investigated for in packed supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) by design of experiments (DoE) using a most important type of compounds, pharmaceutical basics, as models. The actual values of temperature, pressure, and methanol levels were recorded and calculated from external sensors, while the responses in the DoE were the retention factors and selectivity. A Kromasil CelluCoat columh was used as the stationary phase, carbon dioxide containing varying methanol contents as the mobile phase, and the six racemates of alprenolol, atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, clenbuterol, and mianserin were selected as model solutes. For the retention modeling, the most important term was the methanol fraction followed by the temperature and pressure. Significant differences (p<0.05) between most of the coefficients in the retention models were observed when comparing models from set and actual conditions. The selectivity was much less affected by operational changes, and therefore was not severely affected by difference between set and actual conditions. The temperature differences were usually small, maximum +/- 1.4 degrees C, whereas the pressure differences were larger, typically approximately +10.5 bar. The set and actual fractions of methanol also differed, usually by +/- 0.4 percentage points. A cautious conclusion is that the primary reason for the discrepancy between the models is a mismatch between the set and actual methanol fractions. This mismatch is more serious in retention models at low methanol fractions. The study demonstrates that the actual conditions should almost always be preferred. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Elsevier, 2017. Vol. 1499, p. 165-173
Supercritical fluid chromatography, Basic pharmaceuticals, Chiral separations, Design of experiments, Actual conditions, Set conditions
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Dan Haupt och Olle Stålberg har affiliering KAU på artikeln men hittar dem inte via personalkatalogen./BHJ
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The repat wanting to bring Ethiopian food to the world
27th Jul 2017/ Gia Kalk / Homecomer Stories
Thirty-year-old chef Yohanis Gebreyesus Hailemariam is one of thousands of talented young Ethiopians who have chosen to return to their homeland after being educated or growing up overseas.
His dream is to show the world the glories of Ethiopian cuisine, to preserve its rich traditions and to make even his poorest fellow citizens eat better.
Hailemariam grew up in Addis Ababa but spent years training with Paul Bocuse, an internationally renowned French chef, in Lyon before working at top restaurants in California. One of the highest profile Ethiopian re-pats, he has successfully tapped into a growing interest in cooking and gastronomy among an emerging urban middle class. His primetime TV show has an audience of millions, producers say.
A key feature of every episode is a recipe specific to each region of the nation of 94 million.
One motive, he says, was to preserve traditions that are being lost as Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa, develops. “I was working in California when I saw my chef using an Ethiopian spice. It struck me that as an Ethiopian I should know and use this product. I should know this … kind of craft, this art, that is being lost in an increasingly rapid and industrialised world,” he says.
“I wanted to come back to Ethiopia. I knew it would be a challenge to come from the diaspora and be seen as an Ethiopian chef. So I travelled all over the country looking to use knowledge that has a global appeal. And I noticed that Ethiopia has so much to offer. Because of globalisation, we are forgetting to look inside our own country.”
Another motive was to improve the diet of his fellow citizens. The terrible famines of the mid-80s – caused in significant part by the brutal policies of the repressive rulers at the time – are gone but millions of Ethiopians still suffer serious malnutrition rooted in desperate poverty. Hailemariam is now working with nutritional experts at the University of Addis Ababa, government officials and the UN to develop balanced and affordable menus and recipes that will allow even the poorest to eat well and healthily. “I’m absolutely tired of the famine stereotype [associated with Ethiopia], but it is up to us to show the way it is here now,” he said.
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Approval Voting Optional Use Nonpartisan Elections
Concerning the optional use of alternative voting methods by local governments in nonpartisan elections.
Elections & Redistricting
'Approval voting' is a method of voting that allows an elector to cast a vote for as many of the candidates per office as the elector chooses. The winner of each office is the candidate who receives the most votes or, for elections in which multiple candidates fill open seats, the winners are those candidates, in a number equal to the number of seats being filled, attaining the greatest number of votes.
The bill authorizes cities, towns, counties, cities and counties, school districts, and special districts (collectively, 'local governments') to conduct nonpartisan elections using approval voting on and after November 1, 2017. A nonpartisan election is an election in which the political party affiliations of candidates are not printed on the ballot.
The secretary of state is directed to adopt rules and provide advice to local governments regarding approval voting and to submit a report by February 15, 2020, regarding approval voting to the state, veterans, and military affairs committees of the general assembly.
County clerk and recorders may decline to coordinate an election if a local government elects to employ approval voting in the election.
The bill makes necessary modifications to current law occasioned by the use of approval voting, such as excluding approval voting from the definition of 'overvote' and adjusting provisions prescribing the form of ballots and automatic recount triggers.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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Postpone House Bill 17-1281 indefinitely.
The motion passed on a vote of 13-0.
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Adopt amendment L.004 (Attachment B).
The motion passed without objection.
Refer House Bill 17-1281, as amended, to the Committee on Appropriations.
The motion passed on a vote of 6-3.
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PMDB > All Movies > S > Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Number: 290
Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
Director(s): George Lucas
The evil Trade Federation, led by Nute Gunray is planning to take over the peaceful world of Naboo. Jedi's Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to confront the leaders. But not everything goes to plan. The two Jedis escape, and along with their new Gungan friend, Jar Jar Binks head to Naboo to warn Queen Amidala, but droids have already started to capture Naboo and the Queen is not safe there. Eventually they land on Tatooine, where they become friends with a young boy known as Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon is curious about the boy, and sees a bright future for him. The group must now find a way of getting to Coruscant and to finally solve this trade dispute, but there is someone else hiding in the shadows. Are the sith really extinct? Is the Queen who she really says she is? and what's so special about this young boy?
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Devine on Irish neutrality during World War II
Karen Devine, Dublin City University, has posted a new essay, A Comparative Critique of the Practice of Irish Neutrality in the 'Unneutral' Discourse. Here's the abstract:
This article takes a comparative, empirical look at the practice of Irish neutrality during the World War II. It critiques a model of neutrality presented in a thesis on Irish neutrality called Unneutral Ireland, consisting of factors derived from an analysis of three states regarded as well-established European neutrals, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland that reflect the practice of neutrality. That model focused on the rights and duties of neutrality; the recognition of Ireland's status by belligerents and others; the disavowal of external help; and the freedom of decision and action. This present article focuses on the factors flowing from these latter obligations that are cited in an analysis of the practice of Irish neutrality, in the Unneutral thesis as proof of Ireland's 'unneutral' status, i.e. ideology; involvement in economic sanctions; partiality; the practice of Irish citizens joining the British army; and post-World War II factors such as Ireland's EEC membership. In this article, Ireland's practice of neutrality is evaluated against the practice of other European neutral states - Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and Finland (including Norway's truncated practice of neutrality) - vis-a-vis the above variables. This article also deals with the perennial myths that crop up in 'unneutral' discourses on Irish neutrality, for example, the oft-cited incidence of de Valera's alleged visit to the German legation in Ireland to sign a book of condolences on Hitler's death and the suggestions of a British government offer of a deal on Northern Ireland in exchange for Ireland dropping its neutral stance and supporting the Allies in World War II. The article concludes that the practice of Irish neutrality is equivalent to or superior to the practice of other European neutral states, thus undermining the dominant discourse that Ireland's neutrality is a myth and that Ireland is 'unneutral'.
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak at 12:00 PM
Labels: Comparative Legal History, International Law and Foreign Affairs, Scholarship -- Articles and essays, War
In his book Landfall Ireland, Donal MacCarron gives numerous examples of the Irish version of neutrality. Page 36 referring to the corridor over Co.Donegal is of particular interest.
The current state of Ireland's neutrality can be observed at Shannon Airport most days when there are more of "your boys" here than at camp Pendleton!
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Siege Killing
This was an endless battlefield. Jiang Chen didn’t know what had actually happened here in the past, although he had heard some say that the Golden Clan had once lived here. In other words, this place had buried a mighty clan with the bloodline of the Golden Crow Divine Bird.
Regarding the secret of the Golden Clan, he had no interest in exploring it. After all, it had been too long. Innumerable major powers from the Immortal World couldn’t even find a clue about it, let alone him, but Dongfang Yu had told him that the supreme Sovereign Weapon, Golden Feather Fan, was left by the Golden Clan in the battlefield. No one has ever found it, even until now.
It could be said that all the geniuses who entered the Golden Horizon had a big dream – that was to find the Golden Feather Fan. Unfortunately, this isn’t as easy as it sounded, and one would need tremendous luck to find it.
Apart from the Golden Feather Fan, many experts had also died here in the past. These experts had probably also left behind some of their inheritance. If one was lucky enough to obtain them, one’s cultivation base would surely skyrocket.
*Buzz…* *Buzz…*
The lot of them grasped the opportunity to refine the Blood Dragon Fruit, but only Dong Fei had signs of advancement. An hour had passed very quickly. Incredible Qi waves burst out from his body all of a sudden, like rolling tides. By relying on the help of the Blood Dragon Fruit, he finally reached the half-step Immortal Emperor realm. This was an enormous improvement as he had broken away from Immortal King realm. This was a huge step.
Dong Fei’s eyes were glistening with tears. He had waited for this day for far too long. He was glad that he had entered the Golden Horizon this time. If he stayed in Genius Prefecture and continued his cultivation, even if he was given a year, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to reach this stage. Now that he had achieved his goal on the first day in Golden Horizon, it would be a lie if he wasn’t feeling blissfully happy right now.
Just as Dong Fei advanced to the half-step Immortal Emperor realm, movement came from the inside of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda. Of course, only Jiang Chen could sense it. It wasn’t a movement from just one person, but two.
In the thirty-third level of the pagoda, Big Yellow and Wu Ningzhu had made their advancement. Big Yellow’s cultivation base has already reached half-step Immortal Emperor realm, and his Qi was still climbing towards the early Immortal Emperor realm. As a divine beast, he required massive amount of energy just like Jiang Chen every time he advanced. The two Blood Dragon Fruits was already sufficient to push Big Yellow to the early Immortal Emperor realm, but he couldn’t make the advancement blindly because that could have an impact on his foundation, which would certainly outweigh the gain.
Therefore, it was best for Big Yellow’s cultivation base to stop at the peak of half-step Immortal Emperor realm. The current situation was similar to the time when he obtained the massive amount of essence from the Immortal Execution Sword. If it wasn’t for the reminder of Jiang Chen at that time, he would have broken through several realms. This time, he knew what to do without Jiang Chen’s reminder.
On the other side, Wu Ningzhu’s cultivation base had already advanced to the intermediate Immortal King realm, and was now at the peak of the realm. Just as Jiang Chen anticipated, Wu Ningzhu didn’t have any problems breaking through to the late Immortal King realm.
The reason that Big Yellow and Wu Ningzhu could advance so quickly was because of the extraordinary temporal rule of the pagoda. An hour outside was equivalent to thirty hours in the thirty-third level of the pagoda.
Another hour passed. All of them opened their eyes, and kept the Blood Dragon Fruit that they were holding. It was the order of King Fan for them to have only a two-hour cultivation. After all, this place wasn’t safe. It was good enough that they were able to refine some of the essence of the fruit. As for the remaining essence, they would refine it any time they wanted.
Although it was only two hours, most of them had gained quite a lot of improvement. Wang Ye, Liang Qiao and the other genius’ cultivation base had reached the peak of half-step Immortal Emperor realm, seeming not far away from the early Immortal Emperor realm. As long as they continued refining the Blood Dragon Fruit, it would take them less than a few days to make the breakthrough.
No doubt, Dong Fei was the one with the highest improvement. His cultivation base had stabilized at the half-step Immortal Emperor realm, a lot stronger compared to late Immortal Kings.
At this time, Big Yellow got out of the Ancestral Dragon Pagoda. Big Yellow’s improvement slightly surprised them but they understood the reason behind it. After all, Big Yellow had taken two Blood Dragon Fruits.
His present cultivation base was already at the peak of half-step Immortal Emperor realm, only a step away from the early stage of the next realm. Given his current strength, he could kill any ordinary early Immortal Emperor with ease. He wouldn’t even fear an early Immortal Emperor like Yang Bufan if he encountered one. The sky would surely turn dark if he engaged in a serious fight.
“Good job, Big Yellow.” Jiang Chen patted Big Yellow’s head.
As for Wu Ningzhu, under the request of Jiang Chen, she was still in seclusion in the pagoda. She had to grab the chance and advance to the late Immortal King realm. This realm was nothing to Jiang Chen and the rest, but it was different for Wu Ningzhu. Due to her weak foundation, the two consecutive advancement, from early Immortal King realm to the late Immortal King realm wasn’t a joke. She must handle it with care.
“I can see that everyone has improved. This time, our trip won’t be in vain. To us, getting such a huge benefit on the first day is already a good start. Also, it’s time for us to leave,” said Yang Bufan.
They had already spent plenty of time in this forest. It was time for them to depart. Although a month’s time was long, it still wasn’t enough for one to go around this millions of miles of spatial zone. Besides, the Golden Horizon did not only have one forest and treasure as such.
“King Fan, Jiang Chen, do you think we should go forward or go backward?” Wang Ye asked.
“Naturally, we should go forward. If we go backwards, we’ll return to where we came from. There isn’t anything there. We should move ahead,” Jiang Chen said.
“Let’s go. Everyone, be careful. I heard that there are plenty of hidden small spatial zones in Golden Horizon. Don’t get caught in it and be blown into the turbulent spatial current.” Yang Bufan warned.
Everyone nodded. Yang Bufan’s words definitely weren’t words of an alarmist. In this mysterious ancient battlefield, anything could happen. They should be ready for any crisis, especially the turbulent spatial current. Even to an Immortal Emperor, being trapped in the turbulent spatial current was no joke. Even if the expert didn’t die, he might not be able to walk out of it again.
With incredible speed, they arrived on a wilderness. Yang Bufan and Jiang Chen who were flying in front stopped abruptly. Both of them frowned, seeming as though they had sensed something.
“King Fan, why are we stopping?” Wang Ye asked.
“I’m afraid there’s no way we can go forward. The surroundings of this space has already been sealed,” Jiang Chen smiled.
“Who are you? Show yourself.” Yang Bufan shouted at the void.
As soon as Yang Bufan’s voice faded, the void around began to tremble. After a while, silhouettes emerged from the void one after another. These people were scattered in three different positions. Each position had four people. There were twelve of them in total.
The cultivation base of these twelve were very powerful. The leaders of the groups all had early Immortal Emperor cultivation base, same as Yang Bufan. The rest of them were also half-step Immortal Emperors. Together, there were 3 early Immortal Emperors and 9 half-step Immortal Emperors. It was rare to see such a powerful group.
“They are the experts of Yellow Spring Sect, Corpse Yin Sect and Divine Line Sect.”
Wang Ye’s countenance change slightly. Clearly, these people had been waiting for them, otherwise they wouldn’t seal the void here. Even a fool could figure this out.
“Ling Du of Yellow Spring Sect, Hei Kui of Corpse Yin Sect, Wang Duo of Divine Line Sect. The geniuses of the three major powers have all gathered together. It seems like there’s something they want from us.”
Yang Bufan’s eyes fell upon the leader of each group. After identifying the identities of the three, he was already pretty clear of why they were here. They must have come to kill Jiang Chen and him. Jiang Chen had once killed their people. These major powers wanted face the most. Killing their people was equivalent to slapping their faces. It seemed like they had to get back their face today.
“Haha! King Fan, we haven’t seen each other for ten years. You certainly have improved a lot. Which one of you is Jiang Chen?” Hei Kui of Corpse Yin Sect spoke aloud.
Jiang Chen made a stride toward. This bastard wanted to confront him, but it wouldn’t be that easy. If it was at the beginning, Jiang Chen might feel some pressure from this group, but now, he could only chuckle at them.
“Humph! Jiang Chen, you have the audacity to kill the people of Corpse Yin Sect. Today, I will ensure that will you die without burial.” Hei Kui snorted coldly, revealing his murderous intent.
“Dammit! How the hell did they find out about our whereabouts? There were a few hundred major powers, and thousands of people that entered the Golden Horizon, plus this area is millions of miles in size. It will be impossible to accurately find one person here. Furthermore, the twelve of them surely knew our exact location. It seems like they have been waiting for us here.”
Wang Ye couldn’t help but curse. Even an idiot could see that something wasn’t right with the scene. Someone must have deliberately exposed their location.
“It was you.”
Big Yellow darted a glare at Liang Qiao, sending a shiver down Liang Qiao’s spine. Liang Qiao’s expression became unnatural.
“Liang Qiao, you're not the one who betrayed us, aren’t you?”
Dong Fei stared furiously at Liang Qiao. The only explanation for this was that someone had exposed their location. Everyone’s eyes fell upon Liang Qiao almost at the same time. No one would have a good opinion on a traitor.
“No. Why are you all suspecting me? They might have found us by mistake.”
Liang Qiao hastily justified. It would be death to admit it now, but his flustered look clearly betrayed him.
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India won’t intervene militarily in Maldives!
- Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
The Maldives is a low-lying country that is expected to be among the first in the world to go under water as a result of climate change. While it may take a few more decades for rising sea levels to wreak havoc on the archipelago, there are more immediate and pressing problems tearing the country apart.
An Indian Ocean archipelago of 1,192 islands, the Maldives is a tourist paradise. Tourism is the backbone of the country’s economy, and tour operators have reported hundreds of daily cancellations since the state of emergency was imposed on February 5. Following the state of emergency, Maldives has been in a tensed state of existence in as the archipelago is facing a sort of turmoil, ransacking its tourism based economy.
The current crisis was the result of a Supreme Court ruling on February 1, overturning the convictions of Yameen’s rivals. In addition to ordering the government to release the nine convicted opposition leaders, the apex court called for reinstating 12 parliamentarians who were stripped of their seats last year when they left Yameen’s Progressive Party of Maldives to join the opposition.
Two weeks after the government of the Maldives declared a state of emergency amid rising political tension, on February 20th Parliament approved a 30-day extension that, among other grave consequences, may result in serious damages to the economy, scaring away international visitors. On February 20, President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom requested to extend the Maldives state of emergency for a total of 45 days. The Maldives government and the Ministry of Tourism have emphasized their commitment to safety for civilians and tourists alike.
The emergency “shall only apply to those alleged to have carried out illegal activities — it shall not apply to otherwise law-abiding residents of, or visitors to, the Maldives,” Yameen’s office said in a statement.
The opposition Jumhooree Party says the approval of the extension is illegal, and urged Yameen to lift the state of emergency in order to restore normalcy. “Despite the State of Emergency, the country is functioning as normal as possible,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Tourism told TPG Tuesday before the extension was approved. “Schools and government offices are in operation and we do not foresee any threats to the public or tourists. We too are continuing with the promotional activities of the destination.”
Since Yameen became president in a controversial election in 2013, he has systematically crushed dissidence within his party and removed rivals from the political arena.
For instance, MDP leader and former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, the archipelago’s first democratically elected leader, was convicted on terrorism charges in 2015 and sentenced to 13 years in jail. While Nasheed has been living in self-exile in Britain since 2016, several other opposition leaders, including a former defense minister in the Nasheed government, Mohamed Nazim; Yameen’s once “trusted” vice-president, Ahmed Adheeb; and leader of the opposition Adhaalath Party, Sheikh Imran Abdulla, are in jail on long prison terms.
The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) calls on neighboring India to militarily intervene to end the crisis, and let Nasheed become the president.
According to reports in the Indian media, the government has ruled out the military option for now, although it has activated its standing operating procedure for the Maldives by keeping troops ready for deployment there at short notice, should the need arise.
But India is said to be working with a group of countries, including the USA and Saudi Arabia, to pressure the government through imposition of sanctions. However, India has traditionally opposed the sanctions option to influence regime behavior, as sanctions affects ordinary people rather than the ruling elite.
Relations between India and the Maldives have been strong for decades; India played a major role in building the Maldives’ economy and military. It was India’s support that kept the authoritarian Gayoom in power for three decades.
However, bilateral ties have been fraying since Nasheed’s exit from power in 2012. That year, the Maldivian government abruptly terminated a $500 million contract awarded to India’s GMR Infrastructure for developing an airport in Male. Bilateral ties have deteriorated since then. Yameen’s “authoritarian governance” has irked India, but it is his tight embrace of China that has raised hackles in Delhi.
No invitation for invasion
A country could decide to send military forces to neighboring or any other country only on the request from the nation concerned. Otherwise the intervention becomes totally illegal and amounts to invasion. USA led NATO have been occupying many countries in Middle East and Afghanistan after invading them on false justifications.
Anyone who closely follows Indian state behavior abroad would quickly endorse the argument that India would not intervene in Maldives citing any reason.
In order to decide to sent troops to nearby Maldives, India must have got a request from the government of Maldives but that government has not sought it. In 1988 when India intervened in Maldives it was on the request received from the then President Gayoom.
When an external government is engaged in dealing with an emergency situation, naturally that power should be given huge service charges. Without any request from Maldivian government of Yameen, India won’t get any service charges. Though the exiled opposition leader Nasheed might be willing to pay the money to India as he has made the request to New Delhi, but India cannot respond to non-government actors.
This step alone can easily do away with any suggestion to India for intervention in Maldives.
The government of Maldives has not asked for Indian military to help bring peace and normalcy back to the island nation. India cannot attack Maldives on the suggestion by the opposition leader who now lives in Srilanka.
Claiming to be a ‘terror victim’, India would not like to be seen as an aggressor as no amount of justification can make New Delhi “innocent” although it has got that look. .
But there are some more important reasons that deny India any chance to send troops to Maldives which, in the absence of a request from the government, would mean to remove the President and government from power.
Today, archipelago Maldives is not alone, though insignificant for non-tourists. China is fast becoming an economic ally of Maldives and might soon have its own military bases in the island nations as well.
Chinese nexus is the prime strength Maldives would operate on.
Unlike China, USA can only bully small nations but cannot spend money on them, does not invest there to help their economies flourish. Already, Beijing, knowing the Indian strategic community’s desire for a military showcase byIndia in Maldives, has expressed its opposition to outside intervention from India.
Unlike USA, India cannot attack Maldives on the suggestion of USA or Israel or Opposition leader Nasheed and if that at all happens India would possibly be in a long term trouble.
In 2014, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Maldives, Yameen handed over the airport project to a state-run Chinese company. The two sides signed a string of deals during that visit that saw Beijing participate in a big way in infrastructure building in Maldives. Maldives also became an enthusiastic participant in the Maritime Belt of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Then in December last year, the Maldives and China signed a Free Trade Agreement, much to India’s concern. Delhi is worried about Beijing’s mounting influence over Maldives and the strategic implications for India.
China’s growing presence in the Maldives is a serious concern to India given the latter’s geographic proximity to the Indian coastline. The Maldives also sit near international sea lanes through which India’s oil imports traverse. India’s security would be threatened should the Chinese set up a naval base in the Maldives. These concerns are not without substance; in August 2017, three Chinese naval vessels docked at the Maldives’ capital, Male, setting off alarm bells in Delhi.
India’s vulnerability
India is watching the unfolding crisis in the Maldives with concern. It is mulling different options. Not doing anything is not an option given India’s stakes in a stable Maldives.
A seemingly busy India, whose PM is on a perpetual foreign tours as India’s foreign policy with very little time for the people and keeps mum on all major anti-people events, promotes rampant corruption and the powerful lords loot the nation and its resources for private use, steel cash from nationalized banks, illegal mining and land grabbing.
IPL Modi, PNB looter Nirav Modi- both have escaped from India and are now abroad thanks to timely help and aid from agencies of Indian regime, Kothari, et al are just the tip of iceberg in Indian saga of misappropriation of state resources while the intelligence and media lords are terribly busy blasting fake news about Pakistan and Muslims in order rot keep the fanatic sections of India.
The Indian government has said it is “disturbed” by the declaration of emergency in the Maldives and “the suspension of the Maldivian people’s constitutional rights.” It is “carefully monitoring the situation,” it said. Earlier, its Ministry of External Affairs issued a travel advisory to its citizens traveling to Maldives.
Sections in India are in favor of an Indian military intervention in the Maldives. Some argue that it does not behoove a rising power with big ambitions like India to shrink away from acting robustly to defend its interests in the region.
A section of the BJP leadership has described the current crisis in the Maldives as an “opportunity” for India “to stake its claim to being a global player.” It is “imperative” for India to intervene in the Maldives, they argue, “since any global role is always dependent on a country’s performance in the neighborhood first. Those who want to see India a superpower as soon as possible with a magic touch, say that “time is ripe for a decisive Indian intervention in the Maldives.” Such intervention by India would have the support of countries like the USA, Israel and UK, which, they reason, would be keen to see the pro-China Yameen removed from power. “This could be used to silence the Kashmiris who fancy for sovereignty”.
If India does decide in favor of military intervention, this will not be the first time it has done so in the Maldives. In 1988, India sent in a small contingent of troops to avert a coup attempt against Gayoom. But the circumstances of that intervention were different from what exists today. In 1988, President Gayoom invited India to intervene. Yameen is unlikely to do so now.
Importantly as well, 30 years ago the coup plotters were just a small group of mercenaries. A military intervention today could leave Indian troops stuck in a Maldivian quagmire.
Yameen wins power struggle
Yameen, like most rulers today, is determined to cling to power. Not only has Yameen ignored the court order, but he went on to declare an emergency and had the judges who handed out the ruling arrested. Reinstating the 12 parliamentarians would reduce his government to a minority. That would enable parliament to oust him in a no-confidence vote.
Besides, Yameen seems apprehensive that allowing Nasheed to return to the Maldives and freeing the other opposition leaders would galvanize the opposition and boost mass protests against his iron-fisted rule. Presidential elections are due later this year and Yameen fears that he will be defeated by a strong opposition campaign.
With the proclamation of a state of emergency, Yameen has prevented parliament from meeting. The emergency will be in place for 15 days, during which he can be expected to pack the judiciary with loyal judges. He is likely to engineer defections from the opposition. He could extend the state of emergency as well.
Yameen has already appointed new judges, who have since annulled the court order releasing the opposition politicians. Former president and opposition leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who is Yameen’s half-brother, has been detained and Yameen has fired two police chiefs over three days.
With Yameen tightening his grip, Nasheed has called on India “to send an envoy, backed by its military to free the judges and the political detainees.” He has asked for India’s “physical presence” in the Maldives.
China has warned India against any military intervention in Maldives.
China is closely watching events in the Maldives. The archipelago is a popular destination for Chinese tourists; in light of the current uncertainty, Beijing has advised its citizens to postpone travel to the Maldives. Having invested heavily in the Maldives, China is concerned about the safety of its investments, projects, and personnel. It has asked the Maldivian government to take necessary measures to earnestly protect the security of the Chinese enterprises, situations and personnel.
Unlike India, China has leverage with the Maldivian government. Yameen is likely to listen to China. Beijing would not want to see Yameen go. China is opposed to India meddling in Maldives and has made this more than clear. An editorial in China’s state-run Global Times chided India for openly intervening in its neighbors’ domestic affairs. It observed that there is no justification for India to intervene in Male’s affairs.
Any military showcase by India could also prove counterproductive to India’s long-term interests. It would push Yameen closer to the Chinese, for instance. Besides, it would boost perception of India as a “big brother” and a “bully” in the region. Undemocratic forces in India’s neighboring countries have usually stoked anti-India sentiment among the masses by stressing such perceptions. This can be expected to happen in the Maldives too.
Importantly, an Indian military intervention is unlikely to benefit democratic forces in the Maldives in the long run as a democratic government, should one come to power in the archipelago following an intervention, would be seen as “made in India” with the USA acting as a “midwife.” Such a government would lack legitimacy in the eyes of many Maldivian people.
It does seem that the Sino-Indian contest for influence in the archipelago is as fierce as the ongoing tussle between Yameen and the Maldivian opposition.
Thus any suggestion for Indian military intervention in Maldives is ruled out. When India doesn’t intervene militarily in Sri Lanka for its continued attacks on Indian fishermen who fish in their traditional zones at Katchatheevu, even killing Tamils and confiscating their boats etc, how can India be expected to send military to Maldives?
Impossible!
However, India could perhaps act as a mediator in a possible dialogue between Yameen’s Maldivian government and the opposition. But Yameen would not welcome an Indian role against the Chinese wish. India thus cannot have privileged the leverage to influence the decisions of Maldivian President. Moreover, he has reportedly defied Indian requests relating to the current crisis.
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MLKP Commander Ahmet Şoreş: Comrade Baran was a Kurdistanian Communist in Every Aspect
It was declared that your party's Rojava representative Baran Serhat was murdered by Turkish state and its collaborative gangs. What was the purpose of this massacre in your opinion? Can you elaborate why Baran Serhat was purposefully chosen as a target?
I want to begin my words by commemorating Comrade Baran and stating my commitment to his ideals.
To give a meaning and to understand the reason of this massacre, one needs both to learn and know the communist personality of Comrade Baran and to analyze the political period that we are passing through. Maybe I can't tell all of these detailedly in this interview, but I try to remark some main aspects.
Comrade Baran was a leading cadre who both accumulated at himself a lot of quality and feature which a communist party line requires, and owned capabilities of a communist leader of masses. It is possible to see what kind of a role he played at organizing and developing a communist party in the statements of MLKP Central Committee and MLKP Kurdistan. Comrade Baran Serhat was a rare comrade who can pull people to himself with his jubilant enthusiasm, his organized revolutionary stance and his passionate belief to the victory. Leaving aside for a moment his working fields in Turkey and North Kurdistan, anyone who knew Comrade Baran, who had a chance to know him, who carried out works with him, any revolutionary person or party in relation with him; Kurdish, Arabic and Assyrian women, men and children, could see a great passion for freedom, love for human, nature and his comrades in him. We have seen and lived this once again in the words, eyes and anger of every person who came to his commemoration to show their commitment and respect to him.
That is why it is quite understandable that those who don't want communist ideas and a communist organization to spread and root in Rojava revolution and among North Syrian peoples, targeted Comrade Baran Serhat. We were not surprised. It wasn't something unexpected.
We know those who murdered Comrade Baran. We know them from the dirty vile war they waged against Rojava and North Syria revolution. Revolutionary forces of Rojava and North Syria caused the enemy to suffer heavy defeats in the war they have fought for seven years hand to hand. Revolutionary forces took away the last pieces of land where they built a barbaric system. Their last foothold fell on 21 March Newroz Day in Baxoz. They were defeated. They surrendered. This was also the defeat of the Rojava policy of Turkish state and its footman gangs. This defeat of ISIS and palace fascism points out the beginning of a new period for Rojava and North Syria revolution and for peoples of Middle East. Political possibilities to advance the revolution further have incrased. This holds an important part why cornered Turkish state and its gangs attacked the leading cadres of united revolution. In the morning of the day when the defeat of ISIS would be announced, this vile assassin was carried out as a revenge attack, and apart from that, it should also be evaluated as the new process targeting the leading cadres.
It is being emphasized that this massacre targeted the united revolution line. However, what we understand from what is said and written, is that Baran Serhat is also one of the constructors of the line of socialist patriotism. Looking from this aspect, can we perceive that this massacre is at the same time towards the development line, political stance and the bonding of communist movement with Kurdistan revolution?
Of course, we can, we should. Those ho carried out this attack are the ones who live in fear of the reality of Kurdistan, which is the vanguard wing of united revolution of peoples. Palace fascism and the gangs which it is in collaboration with, wanted to prevent and block the development of united revolution which started as Rojava revolution and expanded as North Syria revolution, yet they failed. They couldn't prevent the Rojava and North Syria revolution from becoming the united revolution of Kurdish, Arabic, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen, Circassian peoples. The revolution ended the conflicts between different nationalities and religions.
That is why murdering Comrade Baran tends to prevent the Rojava revolution, which is also a Kurdish revolution, from being a strong basis for other parts of Kurdistan. Because the line Comrade Baran led, meaning the socialist patriotic line, aims at organizing in Rojava on the one side, and uniting with other parts of Kurdistan on the other. Rojava revolution opened a path for itself by heading towards a Syrian revolution. It draws attention with this feature. Comrade Baran, as a leading cadre of the socialist patriotic line, was concentrating on the political and organizational requirements of organizing the revolution of North Kurdistan and Turkey both separately and as a united revolution.
Comrade, was leading cadre who has the consciousness and claim to meet this revolutionary base with socialism, to unite it with other parts of Kurdistan and crown it with Turkey revolution. He was, in every aspect, a Kurdistanian communist. He was a comrade who has never hesitated to put forth all of his self-being for the sake of liberation of a colonized nation and an exploited people.
Recently, one of the vanguard cadres of the Kurdish liberation movement, Zeki Şengali was also targeted and murdered in a similar special way. Plus, informations about various attempts to kidnap or assassinate other revolutionaries and leading cadres were also presented in the press. In that sense, can we consider the assassination of Baran Serhat as a sign of a new aggression concept?
For like about five years, the colonialist Turkish state and the Palace fascism has undertaken to liquidate the communist and revolutionary patriotic movement as a prior duty for the sake of its own power. And in every occasion, it kept on stating that they will do everything needed to succeed in this mission. The mass massacres and assassinations of the leading cadres were the basic forms of this liquidation policy that have been came to the fore so far. So, we are talking about an ongoing concept which has already been putin practice for a while. Now, by diversifying the methods and expanding the targets, they are making this concept much more active than before. Thus, such vile attacks must be taken into account as an expected reality for the future.
From the statements on his martyrdom, we understand that Baran Serhat has established a multi-dimensional relationship with the Rojava revolution. It is stated that he played his role in various extends such as the foundation of the Internationalist forces, organization of united movement, social construction or the training of each fighters. These remarks about him portrait a total leadership profile. Can you tell us concrete examples about his ideological, political and organizational leadership qualities?
Comrade Baran has always hold it as an actual question for himself that Rojava revolution should establish a deep and strong relationship with the people and vice versa. One of the main features of comrade Baran was not to be satisfied only with seeing or defining a problem. His manner of action has always followed the perspective of "if there is a problem, then there is also a solution for it." And he was always saying "if we are the communist revolutionaries, then we cannot leave anything without a solution." He has never endured spontaneity and uncertanity. This was the way of comrade Baran's thinking, living and working. He was giving all his efforts to enhance the solutions for the problems of Rojava revolution.
As a concrete example, we can tell about his role in organizing various campaigns and political activities during the initial years of the revolution for the sake of strengthening peoples', especially the youth's claim to the revolution, aiming to develop their political and ideological consciousness.
Again, as another example, right after the autonomous cantonal administrations had organized themselves under a federational system, he has been actively involved in the works aiming to make the peoples of Rojava embrace the federation structure and get organized within the communes.
Even though the consciousness of the masses in terms of claiming or participating the revolution, of seeing the revolution as their own revolution was growing day by day, the consciousness and decisions of the revolution on the women liberation field was not being materialized in a desired pace and level among men. The works carried out under the slogan "Let's bring the revolution inside homes", which evaluated this issue as a question of the political activity, can be given as another example of comrade Baran's within this context.
He has always been stating that in order to secure the defense and establishment of the North Syria revolution, the political link of the revolution established with the Arab people must be brought to an organizational and ideological level. On this basis, he was focusing on the ways and methods to build strong links with the Arab people, to make them participate the defense and establishment of the revolution. In this regard, he has always been emphasizing that the destiny of the revolution depends on its capability to meet with the Arab people on a stronger basis.
These examples can present a sufficient picture to understand the deepness of comrade Baran's ideological, political and organizational leadership qualities.
What has been targeted on behalf of comrade Baran is actually an ideological line; a leadership stance of this line. That's why, those, who are afraid of this line to be rooted in the lands of revolution and to extend towards united revolutions, applied for such a vile method against our comrade.
As his comrades, we will keep him alive in every field of our lives. We will never let our enemy to rejoice their heart. We will continue to grow their fear. They will feel more fear from us more than before.
To conclude with his words, we, as his comrades, will continue to be both the "fire bearers" and the icebreakers".
We will be the winners! Our Revolution and Socialism struggle win!
12.10.19/ MLKP Rojava Representative Ahmet Şoreş Evaluates The War On Rojava
04.06.19/ KKÖ Respresentative Hivron Razmuhi: Salute to those who live on the edge of abyss, opening wings to freedom!
02.04.19/ Hunger Strike Resistance Member Hülya Gerçek: Our Destiny is To Win!
18.03.19/ We will Extirpate the Occupants out from Kurdistan!
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New Platforms will Require New Metrics or Reference Points
Brian X. Chen and Vindu Goel, for the New York Times:
Yet only five of the 20 most popular free iPhone apps in the United States have versions for the Apple Watch, according to data from App Annie, an analytics firm. And the number of apps for the watch, which now stands at about 7,400, is growing at a slower rate than the explosive uptick of apps that were produced for iPhones and iPads in their early days.
Comparing figures across platforms is a very limiting perspective. It’s like comparing the number of Windows or Mac apps that were quick to create a smartphone version — and guessing the outlook for smartphones based on that. Or the number of television networks that initially made a Roku app, or the number that worked with Apple to create an Apple TV app.
New platforms support products that perform new jobs. Or perform existing jobs in a new way. So, the way customers approach these platforms and products, and the way that developers approach them, will be different than in the last platform.
As time passes, for instance, we might find that the use of native apps on smartwatches is much higher than on phones. Or that the app growth rate is simply different, even in a healthy market. Moreover, we might learn that the “top apps”, let alone the “top free apps”, on smartphones don’t evenly transfer over to smartwatches. And that the way to measure app activity, and to gauge app success or failure, is a bit different. At this point, it’s really too early to tell, and comparisons to smartphones won’t be very helpful.
In a nutshell, you can’t apply all the thinking from the last platform to the new one. That, in part, is why it’s new. And why it will create new uses, new winners, and new ways to thrive.
Filed Under: Apple, Apps, OS, Smartwatches, watchOS, Wearables - Other
The Smartwatch as a Tool
Insightful post by Horace Dediu (he runs and writes Asymco, and also works at the Clayton Christensen Institute), titled “The Battle for The Wrist”. Below are key excerpts (bold emphasis is mine).
The Apple Watch offers a hierarchy of surfaces onto which software can compete for attention:
The Complication Layer
The Notification Layer
The Glances Layer
The App Screen
These surfaces are arranged in a hierarchy where the highest is the most accessible and the lowest is the least accessible. […]
It follows then that software which is located at the top of each hierarchy on each device will have the greatest exposure to user interaction and that the device which has the nearest proximity to the user will provide the greatest value to software developers.
This implies further that the most valuable “real estate” for software will be the Complication layer on the Watch. […]
You’ll note that the winners on the phone were different than the winners on the PC. My bet is that the winners on the Watch will be different than the winners on the Phone.
I would put the Watch Face at the top of this list. I’m guessing Horace didn’t mention it because it’s off limits to developers today. If you’ll bear with me, let me explain what seems obvious: Why the face is the most important layer.
First, consider that, once it meets our fashion requirements, a watch is a tool more than it is anything else. That’s because a watch is ill-suited for the other class of jobs a device can do — entertainment (audio aside). Unlike devices that enable both hands to be used (phones, tablets), the watch’s wrist-placement adds friction to most entertainment use cases. For instance, you have to try especially hard to keep it facing you.
On a device that’s a tool, the layer that has the most utility is king. That’s the watch face.
If one accepts that the watch is primarily a tool, it makes sense that the most valuable layer is the one that best embodies low-friction utility: the face. The face is low-friction because it’s the default view. The utility of the face comes from the fact that it displays a set of multiple, varied, structured, data elements. Some elements display the past (elapsed time), others anticipate the future (e.g., next meeting). So, the face is a set of information available in a moment’s notice. In a digital age sense, the face is a tool. No other information layer (complication, notification, glance element, or app screen) has the same default-ness and information density. On a device that’s a tool, the layer that has the most utility is king. That’s the watch face.
(Now, if you don’t consider the face, because it’s off limits to developers, then you’d have to consider the most-face-like contenders: an app that you might continously keep open on your watch, or a Complication.)
With this frame of reference, any hardware, OS, and application attributes that support this utility are especially valuable. Some examples:
Display area that is well suited to structured information and information density
Rectangular displays work well in this regard. They provide natural positions for information (corners) and the ability to keep segmented information aligned (e.g., left- or right-justified)
Display and watch faces that support many information segments
Good selection of watch faces or complications
Complications that surface information from 3rd party apps
Always-on ambient mode (so that useful information is readily available)
Easy manipulation of what’s shown on the display
Natural language input
Independence from the phone
Today, both Android Wear and Apple watchOS have some, but not all, of these capabilities. Apple Watch, for instance, has a good selection of watch faces and complications. But it lacks custom faces and an always-on ambient mode — two high strengths of Android Wear. Android Wear also allows for independence from the phone.
The odds that Apple would deny developers access to the watch face are low.
Seeing so much value in the watch face (rather than a notification, a glance, or an app) brings me to two final predictions.
A. Whatever the #1 element is (watch face, in my estimate), the odds that Apple would *deny* developers access to it are low. Apple knows, I’m sure, that (developers) x (the most powerful information layer) = (tremendous number of high-value apps). Or if it doesn’t, examples from Android Wear will soon make that clear. I would be surprised if Apple didn’t allow 3rd party watch faces in the next two years.
B. With regard to Horace’s point about “winners” (apps) on the phone vs. the watch: While many games are “winners” on the phone, the list of winners on the watch will have a lower proportion of games and a higher proportion of tools / utility apps. The watch’s position on the wrist, and the limited way of interacting with it, lowers the odds that games will thrive in the same way they do on the phone. That’s not to say there won’t be some break-out successes, but on average, the watch appears better-suited to providing utility, rather than enabling games.
The list of [app] winners on the watch will have […] a higher proportion of tool / utility apps.
It’s exciting to witness what Apple and Android developers are going to create and invent to move this mobile device forward.
Filed Under: Android Wear, Apple, Apps, Google, Interface, Smartwatches, watchOS
How Apple Watch Measures Your Heart Rate
From Apple’s support pages (tip of the hat to iMore):
The heart rate sensor in Apple Watch uses what is known as photoplethysmography. This technology, while difficult to pronounce, is based on a very simple fact: Blood is red because it reflects red light and absorbs green light. Apple Watch uses green LED lights paired with light‑sensitive photodiodes to detect the amount of blood flowing through your wrist at any given moment. When your heart beats, the blood flow in your wrist — and the green light absorption — is greater. Between beats, it’s less. By flashing its LED lights hundreds of times per second, Apple Watch can calculate the number of times the heart beats each minute — your heart rate.
Filed Under: Apple, Sensors, Smartwatches, watchOS
Tuesday Evening Assorted Links
1. Google’s MVNO detailed in leaked app with per-GB data plans, rollover and shared data, and auto-switching between partner networks
2. Sprint Will Come to Your Home or Office to Set Up Your Next Phone. Is it that much work to do, when it helps you keep high-value consumers? Please email me with thoughts.
3. CCS Insight: Google’s Android One program has had ‘limited’ impact on the market. I can’t remember the last time anyone (media or otherwise) mentioned Android One.
4. Trusted Voice unlock is rolling out to some Android users
5. 15 Reasons Apple Watch Is Going To Be Way Bigger Than People Think
6. Apple is reportedly planning to build ‘well over 20 million’ watches this year
Filed Under: Android, Apple, Assorted Links, Distribution, Google, Security & Privacy, Smartphones, Smartwatches, watchOS, Wireless Service
The Worst Things Reviewers are Saying about the Apple Watch
Better products = less friction and higher performance, focused on important problems. It helps to learn from success and from failure. And with that introduction:
The worst things reviewers are saying about the Apple Watch (BGR).
I actually found the list pretty tame (better critiques will surely follow in months ahead). The most disconcerting part is from Farhad Manjoo’s review, though BGR didn’t actually quote this part:
First there was a day to learn the device’s initially complex user interface. […] What’s more, unlike previous breakthrough Apple products, the Watch’s software requires a learning curve that may deter some people. There’s a good chance it will not work perfectly for most consumers right out of the box, because it is best after you fiddle with various software settings to personalize use. Indeed, to a degree unusual for a new Apple device, the Watch is not suited for tech novices. It is designed for people who are inundated with notifications coming in through their phones, and for those who care to think about, and want to try to manage, the way the digital world intrudes on their lives.
Apple Watch aims to introduce both 1) a new UI (glances, new home screen, plus Digital Crown and Force Touch) and 2) new habits (wearing a device, off-loading key tasks to it). With that in mind, the most worrisome part of each keynote (and there were two) was the seeming UI complexity. So, seeing Farhad Manjoo struggle, to some degree, further reinforces that worry.
What might be a root cause of this complexity? One issue may be the fact that Apple usually learns for a considerable period from others, prior to releasing its own product. Its product, then, is a measured and careful *reaction* to what has and hasn’t worked. But with Apple Watch, meaningful competitors are few, and they’ve only been out for 18 months (less, if you start counting at Android Wear models). Less time to learn may mean a less streamlined product. What do you think? Email me if you have another view.
Filed Under: Apple, Smartwatches, watchOS
The Future of Apple Watch and Apps
Credit John Gruber (Daring Fireball), for finding the most interesting part of Abdel Ibrahim’s article “The Future of Apple Watch and Apps” (TheTechBlock).
From the Watch Face, you are able to see your Glances and notifications. In order to see apps, you have to engage the Digital Crown. This makes it seem pretty obvious that Apple has purposely designed apps not to be front and center like they are on iPhone. Instead, Apple Watch apps are mere repositories where stored information can be pushed to the user in the form of Glances and via Notification Center.
This may sound a little weird, and I think to some of us it is. We’re used to apps being the focal point. But on Apple Watch, on initial waking, they’re not.
Filed Under: Apple, Apps, Interface, Smartwatches, watchOS
Apple Keeps Moving Mobile Forward
It’s too early to tell how successful Apple Watch will be. But what is clear is this: Apple continues to invent. It was striking, in fact, to realize — as Tim Cook, Kevin Lynch, and Jony Ive presented it – the amount of R&D that Apple has invested into making Apple Watch.
In terms of hardware, for instance, Apple developed unique or highly-customized technology in no less than seven areas. And these aren’t small achievements. They’re not feats of squeezing a camera into a watch or forms of specsmanship. They’re in important areas: related to CPU, interface, sensors, and very fundamental mechanics. The software achievements are equally impressive, spanning a range of 15 different problems Apple had to solve. All of these – hardware and software – are tough, fundamental advances aimed squarely at helping users achieve their goals.
I won’t re-explain each major technology area; others have written and said plenty. Instead, here are several of the high-order points, in my view:
1. The S1. Very customized. As if Apple said “a new class of device deserves a new class of computer”. This degree of customization is the right call – because it affects everything that’s supposed to make a smartwatch appealing and valuable: size, functionality, performance, battery life, and upgradeability. I don’t claim 100% certainty, but I’d venture to say Apple’s competitors don’t take this aspect as seriously. If you have more color, please email me.
2. Beyond conventional constraints. Apple didn’t allow a small display to dictate the terms of user interaction. It envisioned, and delivered, the Digital Crown and Force Touch.
3. The Digital Crown. It’s a zig toward the tactile when the industry has zagged so far toward the digital. (And it’s not for the sake of contrarianism.) Very cool solution. If an Apple car had 10x more of this physical interface ingenuity, that would be amazing.
Also, just as the mouse, scroll wheel, and multi-touch were central to the identity of the Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone, the digital crown really is central to the identity of the Apple Watch. If you had to pinch, or weren’t able to zoom in and out, it would be an entirely different experience.
4. Force Touch and Taptic Engine. These take the most widespread mobile interface, the touchscreen, and make it meaningfully richer. Pretty good achievement. And yes, to say the obvious: some form of Force Touch and Taptic Engine will land on the iPad and the iPhone. Like any new input approach, expect these to be used, over-used, and fine-tuned over time.
5. Digital Touch (the ability to share a tap, a sketch, or a heartbeat). Apple could have taken the best-fit smartphone interactions (e.g., notification vibrations), transferred them to the watch, and called it a day. But they didn’t. Someone stepped back and thought “The fact that this product is touching you *means* something; there may be value in a new kind of communication.” First-rate thinking.
6. Sketch. Time will tell if this perspective matters, but it’s as if the Sketch aspect of Digital Touch combines the best of Instagram (pictures) with Twitter (brevity) and Snapchat (the moment). And speed, a fourth attribute, was inherent in the demo examples.
7. The design, including the bands. The budget and attention here likely rivals the entire investment that any of Apple’s competitors put into their first-generation programs. Perhaps by a multiple. Ditto with the “making of” videos that Apple showed.
8. Heart rate sensor. The difficulty is in getting accurate readings. Let’s see how well Apple Watch performs, and how it addresses the challenges.
9. The incumbents. There is SO MUCH here that traditional watchmakers can’t touch. In short, everything in blue in the chart above. Why? Because of everything else in all the other charts in this article.
10. This is what it takes. This – all this new hardware and all this new software – is what it takes to launch a new category, and to have a shot at success. (And this doesn’t even get into the product management, marketing, and point-of-sale excellence that’s also required.)
A user interface tailored to the form. A communication method tailored to the context. A design that is careful and considerate, rather than a cost-reduced imitation of design. And the custom hardware, software, and manufacturing that optimizes each of these.
These achievements embody Jony Ive’s comment to Ian Parker of the New Yorker. (The quoted words are Jony’s.)
The creation of Apple products required “invention after invention after invention that you would never be conscious of, but that was necessary to do something that was new.”
A DIFFERENT FOCUS
How is Apple able to do this, while competing smartwatches (e.g., Samsung Gear models) deliver features like an “IR blaster”? I don’t think the answer is “complicated”, but it is a multi-part answer, best saved for later. (Many people have a perspective and, by helping my former company compete against Apple, I have mine.) For now, here’s a short version.
At the highest level, it has to do with company identity. Identity reflects the values of the founder(s), and it determines whether a company chooses to prioritize the new or the familiar, and whether it values quality or quantity. In turn, this drives resource focus: where a company allocates its resources – people, processes, technology.
Apple allocates more resources than other mobile companies (call them “component integrators”) in two key areas: Product Direction and Technology Development. The “vision thing” and the “invention thing”. It chooses new problems to solve for consumers, and it creates the technology to do so. That’s the short answer to “how is Apple able to do this?”
In contrast, most other mobile device makers either don’t invent, or they do so very sporadically. If you peered into each and counted the number of leaders, engineers, product managers, assets, and hours devoted to i) identifying new jobs to be done and ii) creating new technology to solve them, you might be surprised. Mostly, they purchase standard, complex components and work hard to integrate them into products.
To be clear, component integrators are important companies. They serve a valuable role: they help many of us get effective, reliable, reasonably-priced products. And the engineers at these companies are some of the best in the world. Component integration that is high quality, fast to market, and cost-effective is quite difficult.
But integration is not invention. As a company of invention, Apple conducts both broader and deeper exploration, it demonstrates the ability to take on higher risk, and it often reaps the resulting greater reward.
A DIFFERENT OUTCOME
Invention and integration produce different outcomes for the companies that specialize in either. Generally speaking, the differences are in performance and impact.
Performance. By shaping their technologies, companies that invent increase their ability to shape their products. Invention enables differentiation. Differentiation – or doing valuable jobs in a better way — enables healthy pricing, and healthy profit. That’s why, in smartphones for instance, the vast majority (~ 99%) of the operating profits belong to the companies that invent the most: Apple and Samsung. Invention isn’t the *only* driver behind their performance, but it’s a major driver. The component integrators, in contrast, have been disrupted. (See Nokia, BlackBerry, Motorola, and HTC.) And Xiaomi? Yes, selling a product for minimal profit will move a lot of units, but the company has yet to make a significant profit.
Impact. Component integrators, by virtue of (mostly) competing on price, help spread technology across the world. That’s important and valuable. But inventing companies also do this. They don’t do it via rock-bottom prices; they do it by offering functionality that’s both powerful and inspirational. Moreover, inventing companies do something that component integrators can’t: they shape the future, they push frontiers. They introduce the hardware, software, apps, or services that previously didn’t exist or weren’t polished enough for mass consumption. They create the NEW. And if it’s good enough, soon others make something similar.
Component integrators bring new advances to market, too (BlackBerry: the keyboard; Samsung: the phablet; Nokia: PureView camera; Motorola: Moto Voice). It’s just that companies that invent are able do so repeatedly and more frequently.
That’s what makes Apple – one of many technology inventors – so fascinating: watching it perform well, stumble at times, and watching it move mobile forward.
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Jennies Golf remains at No. 9 in latest NCAA Regional Rankings
Central Missouri Jennies Golf remained at No. 9 in the last NCAA Central Region Rankings released on Thursday. The top 12 teams in the final poll on Monday, May 1 will earn a bid to the NCAA-II Super Regional Tournament at Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Jennies have placed in the top seven in nine of their 10 tournaments this season and captured the program’s first ever tournament championship at the Upper Iowa Invite in early April.
The top 12 teams in the region and the six best individuals not on those teams will qualify for the NCAA Super Regional hosted by Augustana. The top three teams and the three best individuals at the regional will advance to the NCAA Championships, May 17-20 at Findlay Country Club in Findlay, Ohio.
The Jennies return to action at the MIAA Championships, April 24-26, at Swope Memorial Golf Course in Kansas City.
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Kennebunkport, Maine Wedding
How they met – Sarah and Wes:
“As many of you know, we met during our service in the Peace Corps. Sarah will tell you that our first interaction took place during an icebreaker exercise in Philadelphia, but for Wes, we truly first met the second night in the Philippines on a dock with mutual friends talking about what we wanted out of this crazy experience. While the story of how we met may differ depending on who you talk with, we both knew there was something different about our relationship from the start, and we were ecstatic when we found out we would be spending our first 90 days training together in the amazing seaside city of Dumaguete.
For the next few weeks, we spent our time learning the language, soaking up the culture, and exploring the city together. It was during this time that what started out as a friendship slowly turned into something more. In the months and years following we developed the strongest friendship and relationship we’ve ever known. We spoke every day via text, email, Facebook, Gchat, Skype and about 50 other modes of communication.
Although those first years were tough, it helped us build a strong foundation that has fostered so much growth in our relationship these past 6 years. We would like to thank all of you for allowing us to share our story with you and for sharing our wedding day with us.”
I met Sarah and Wes after they were referred to me by Jessica and Matthew. I knew instantly I was going to love this couple when they told me that, while living in New Orleans, they adopted a rescue dog and named her Nola.
Sarah had just completed med school and was starting her residency at Johns Hopkins, so the couple wanted a very natural and low-stress day that they could really enjoy.
From the start, I knew this was going to be a very relaxed wedding. Sarah and Wes both began the day at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, where both the wedding ceremony and the reception were held.
They chose to see each other before the ceremony, which meant we were able to take some time with private and group portraits out on the dock.
The lighting out on the water was so stunning. It complemented the bridesmaids’ dresses nicely and made Sarah’s dress pop.
The ceremony was held outdoors and was very intimate. Sarah’s brother, Patrick, officiated.
The phrase “Laissez les bons temps rouler,” which was included on the decor at their reception, was a theme for the day. It’s a common Cajun French phrase that means “let the good times roll,” and they certainly did.
During the reception, Wes’ sister, Nicole Pryor Dernersesian, surprised the party by singing “At Last” for the couple. She was so talented. and it was a very touching moment for the group.
Overall, I felt this was a truly special wedding for me because I was able to do what I do and do it well. I had a great team with me – Kelly Anne as the second photographer and Kam assisting.
There was so much happiness and so many candid moments to capture, and because it was planned well and I had an awesome team with me, the day went off without a hitch.
Details to know:
Bridal Boutique: L’elite | Dress: Peter Langner | Groom’s Attire: Joseph A. Bank | Hair and Makeup: River’s Edge Spa and Salon | Caterer: Nonantum Resort | Flowers: Fleurant Flowers & Design | Entertainment: Eye 2 Eye | Videographer: David Schmitz | Second Photographer: Kelly Anne Backus | Assistant: Kam Mitchell | First Dance Song: Let’s Stay Together, Al Green |
Thank you, Sarah and Wes, for being so kind and inviting. I wish you a lifetime of love and happiness!
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April 17, 2015 concettafannin2 138 Comments
By James F. Tracy
On March 26 Memory Hole Blog was notified via its internet service provider that a copyright infringement claim was filed against MHB by Lenny Pozner and “HONR Network” on March 22. The aggrieved party claims that this violation arose from use of an image of his son, Noah Pozner in a January 2, 2015 post. This post addressed use of the same image in international news coverage of the December 16, 2014 Peshawar army school massacre.
In February Pozner filed a similar claim with YouTube against Infowars for using the same or similar image, even though this very photo was initially carried by the BBC and other international news organizations in their coverage of the Peshawar attack’s aftermath.
In fact, the BBC has since admitted to the photograph’s incongruous presence in Peshawar reportage. According to the DC Clothesline, “here is what the BBC had to say about Noah Pozner’s photo:
Meanwhile, another picture has been circulating online of victims of the Peshawar massacre – but the montage of images includes the photo of a young boy, Noah Pozner, who died in the Sandy Hook massacre in the United States in 2012.
In the complaint to MHB’s ISP, Pozner states the following:
I acknowledge that a copy of this infringement notice, including any contact information I provided above (address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue.
Memory Hole’s ISP has stood firm, arguing that “because we believe that this instance falls under fair use protections, we will not be removing it at this time.” This is nevertheless a chilling example of how copyright infringement claims brought under potentially fraudulent pretexts can be used to stifle free speech.
Other YouTube channels belonging to researchers doing important research yet far less prominent than Infowars have been summarily shut down because of Pozner’s DMCA grievances. For example, in December 2014 Pozner’s HONR Network stymied online distribution of the We Need to Talk About Sandy Hook documentary. Despite these attempts the film’s producer maintains the documentary has already been viewed several million times online.
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fromawaysite says:
Reblogged this on Today,s Thought.
joekano76 says:
Reblogged this on TheFlippinTruth.
bewisetoday says:
It’s interesting that Lenny Pozner did not file suit against Sandy Hook Elementary. Seems like he has the means to do so.
musings says:
Fair use of an image used in news reports is all that Memory Hole is doing. The idea that you cannot dissent from an official story and illustrate that dissent with an image widely disseminated through news broadcasts would tend to chill First Amendment free expression.
Any exceptions from this as special pleading from a parent or the idea that the already widely disseminated photo of their alleged child is to be sold only through licensing agreements is something which has a very high barrier to meet. I have heard that Marilyn Monroe’s heirs have control over her image today. But would that be true for investigative journalists discussing her possible murder? Would they have to pay money to her family to use one of her already disseminated photos? I don’t think that would be true. But if her image is used to sell a product, to be put for instance, on a purse, then you’d have to pay them.
To approach one’s service provider with a potential lawsuit may be dirty pool (what did one expect?) but it should be thrown out of any court as failure to state a claim under which relief may be granted. Injunctive relief to make this site stop using the photo would not be granted.
That Pozner kid’s image is in the fair use domain since the man willingly provided it to news services without restriction. He continues to participate in this story every chance that he can, so the photo continues to be used in news, though Pozner clearly wants only news of which he approves. If you were to emblazon that photo on a backpack for sale it would fall into another area, like the Marilyn Monroe image her family controls.
That’s my opinion, but as we know with network television which used to cave a lot to demands of certain parties, the internet may be heading for a similar status.
Maybe there is something about Pozner image we ought to know. It was perhaps generated by a child model decades ago and might therefore have been in reality a product which was, at one time, sold. After all, it seemed to fit the bill for the intelligence services in Peshawar as a fit image for the vulnerable child they needed for their own propaganda, calling into the question the massacre at the school there.
Ric says:
Musings,
I agree with you 100%. I don’t think he has a leg to stand on. Did you see that Canadian Company using Noah’s image to promote their business?
A Youtuber made it his avatar and was threatened with copy write infringement.
Was does this statement really mean?
“I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed”.
What? Who authorization did you need to get Lenny? Or, maybe Lenny didn’t write this at all.
But, doesn’t this open the door to Depose Mr. Ponzer to prove that Noah is in fact his deceased 6 yr old son and ALL the events that transpired on 12-14-12 were real?
If you are referring to the child in the Niagara advertisement, I have no idea if it is he. My own theory (and it could be wrong) is that the fact he is wearing a shearling jacket in the photo and other photos seem to be of children dressed how I dressed mine in the 1980’s, means that kid is long since grown up and unrecognizable. It would be a problem with a child model who is still young – he might get recognized and outed. You don’t have that problem if you apply K.I.S.S. with a grown-up’s child photos do you?
When I saw the family photos of Sean Collier, it was clear to me that anyone dressed as the boy said to be he in the photo would be about 50-55 years old – another good way to disguise the person whose image was used. Even the photos of Sean Collier look like a weird computer generated face, with a certain androgyny to it. Perhaps it has been shown that such a face arouses compassion in the viewer.
absmover says:
Actually, I use it as my avatar and Lenny can/has done nothing about it. It’s just my way of sticking it to him !! https://plus.google.com/110237223624816878631/posts
The fact the image is copyrighted at all speaks volumes about this fraud.
PeaceFrog says:
You hit the nail on the head Bill!
ando says:
I believe any picture you take, anything you uniquely create (write, paint, photograph) is automatically copyrighted by you. Your family pictures would automatically carry copyright. When you use the services of a photographer, the issue has to be clarified in writing as to who then owns the copyright.
ando: You’re wrong on this. You must specifically designate that the image or whatever is copyrighted by using the word “copyright, your name” or © your name.
No copyright designation, then it’s not coprighted. That’s why you should never post pics online unless with metadata that can be proved later, like burning it along with its creation date to a disc (should someone remove the metadata) or include a watermark directly in the image.
Tammie have you investigated the revenge porn issue? It’s my sense that Holly Jacobs, who started the Cyber Civil Rights non-profit after becoming a victim of revenge porn, was able to get most of the naked pics of her taken down through DMCA, even though she hadn’t copyrighted them when her ex boyfriend posted them. A tech guy told me that if you take a photo with your own camera, you own its copyright:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
@Sue, thanks for the link, will read when I have more time…
In both Canada and the U.S. copyright is automatically granted to the creator of the work (unless the work was created at a place of employ). However, your point about registering copyright is the pertinent one here. Wikipedia: “Copyright is automatically granted to the author of an original work (that otherwise meets the basic copyright requirements, discussed above). Registration is not necessary. However, registration amplifies a copyright holder’s rights in a number of ways. Registration is required before a lawsuit can be filed, and registration creates the possibility for enhanced ‘statutory’ damages.”
In both Canada and the U.S., copyright is automatically granted to the creator of the work (unless the work was created at a place of employ). However, your point about registering the copyright is the pertinent one here. Wikipedia: “Copyright is automatically granted to to the author of an original work (that otherwise meets the basic copyright requirements, discussed above). Registration is not necessary. However, registration amplifies a copyright holder’s rights in a number of ways. Registration is required before a lawsuit can be filed, and registration creates the possibility for enhanced ‘statutory’ damages.”
Truthseeker says:
Our children are counting on us. The duty of each citizen is to expose this lie. MHB has provided the facts. Hold a town hall meeting in your neighborhood and lets have courage to stand against tyranny. Remember if they get our guns just like in history we will be systematically destroyed thats you me and our familys. If we do nothing we die.
dereklancer says:
The walls are closing in on the Sandy Hook Hoax perpetrators. Wolf is kicking some ass on the FOIA requests. Those latest crime scene photos prove the school board was either negligent on maintenance or closed for years. Just the general look of the place, no sign of Christmas coming. I think eventually the people of Connecticut will have had enough of the “in-your-face” corruption as opposed the low level humming of the evil machine of government.
Dear Mr. Pozner,
I, as an American Citizen am placing you under Citizens Arrest for Fraud. Bring your Toothbrush…..
elfmom55 says:
Is this Noah at the Niagara Falls tourism site?
http://www.niagarafallstourism.com/blog/niagara-falls-boasts-the-best-waterpark-in-canada/
Recynd77 says:
My heavens, the kid in the Niagara ad is the spitting image, isn’t he? I couldn’t say for sure, but the resemblance is uncanny.
BlueSky says:
Look at the blue line around his head. It looks photoshopped to me. What do you think ?
How did you find that? Can you trace the modeling agency?
Hi Musings, I lifted it off someone else’s comment a few weeks ago and saved for such a time as this.
If we find many more of these,we can have a full scale “Noah Pozner Film Festival” in a theater near you…WOW!
You are on to something: Check out minute 4:00 of the video posted farther above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fKkIRsrryI#t=240
Undoubtedly, more than 1 photo was shot…
my comment was for elfmom55 who posted the link to the Niagra falls ad…
Thanks Tammie! I posted Niagara Falls ad at that channel and subbed there.
Oh, they are watching us…
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Honr Network.
Note to Honr Network: The truth will set you free.
lophatt says:
Just another “Weekend at Bernie’s” moment. Reminds me of that “free-range chicken” commercial. Like Chicken-man, he’s everywhere.
I wonder what the Canadian infringement laws look like? Maybe we should go to the site and report it. In fact, maybe we should report all such found images. For that matter, ANY image will do.
Anne B. says:
How about “Weekend at Fallsview Indoor Waterpark”?
https://plus.google.com/102348693273169467155/about#102348693273169467155/about
Click on the small round photo in the link, a larger photo emerges showing it was taken on 3/21/12 by Jake Jones of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Noah pozner does not have a birth certificate or death certificate. No socisl security number.
The image looks to be from 1998 or 2000 due to the style and make of clothing.
As a media professional i seriously doubt this picture is from the timme it says. Definitly looks european not an a typical period from the time of the drill.
the small round photo is just what Jake is using as his avatar. Possibly in insider joke…
Look Anne – he has a youtube channel too! https://www.youtube.com/user/useradmin23/featured
I was watching the commercial for the twenty hotels in a row at Falls Avenue Resort and I asked myself – would there be casino gambling there? And yes, there is. Which we know is pristinely uninvolved with mobs and money laundering, and people who took “Mohammed Atta” out on a gambling boat. With 20 hotels in a row, all badly in need of fresh linen changes daily, how could there ever be any mob involvement? But I don’t think even so that this is a fruitful path for unmasking the deception.
I still don’t think this kid is Pozner, Jr. however. That picture was an old one of a grown-up who you’d never recognize. Just like that group portrait of SHES kindergartners or first graders in the kind of clothes kids wore who are now thirty years old (I was there, I know how they dressed). It really saves trouble not to use current children – too hard to control the message.
I don’t believe this Niagara Falls boy is good ol’ Noah. Lenny would have claimed ownership long ago if that was the case. I see that two videos among these comments have been removed by HONR Network. Keep on keeping Lenny busy.
folktruther says:
this kind of harassment and repression will increase as American power becomes more oppressive under the War on Terrorism. Washington is now supporting the Nazis in Ukraine, who are celebrating the holocaust conducted by their predecessors. Washington has sent troops to train the Nazis for war against the Noverussians in the east. Fascism abroad can only be legitimated by fascist methods domestically, and this is occurring in a variety of areas.
A significant portion of the American people identifies with it, since most people prefer power to truth. In the War on Communism of the 20th century, socialism was stigmatized, and when it segued into the War on
Terrorism of the 21st, liberalism was stigmatized as well. Ideological reaction now rules in the mainstream truth tradition, and dissidence will be increasingly eliminated by repressive actions like this one.
Gil Favor says:
Judging from the language used by Pozner or whomever, it appears that there is advice being rendered from “higher places”. Sandy Hook is an enormously protected collection of events and actions, protection that comes from the top. As such, “they” are not going to give those that write about the SH event much wiggle room and will do everything they can to obstruct and denigrate.
Babe Truth says:
Isn’t it time for a class action lawsuit against the HONR network? With depositions, please.
Report new Hoaxer abuse (LOL!) direct from the speech-killer site:
http://www.honr.com/report.html
So Lenny and his network now care about hoaxers being abused. I knew there was something special about the fella with the many names. Thanks Lenny for caring.
Anne, did you click on “about”? WE’RE “delusional”, etc.. They want to get us into the “clutches of the authorities”. Oh my!
You see, WE are hoaxers. Got that? Veritable HERETICS, I say. I could feel Llordia’s hot breath on my neck as I read it (shudder!).
That’s quite a little testimonial they have there on that site. The only thing better than stoning doubters is sending money. Money makes everything better.
I love the distortion of language. They used to call us “truthers” but that made themselves sound vaguely sinister. Better to project the hoax onto us, when we accuse them of perpetrating one.
For a certain period of time, googling Boston Marathon hoax, one would come up to a solid wall of the story of a woman’s prosecution for faking her injuries and collecting money from the Boston One Fund. See, faking injuries to take money from the public is illegal. They WILL prosecute. And she is called the hoaxer, not them. It serves the dual purpose of redirecting queries away from skeptics about the bombing itself.
The HONR Network has a UPS Store address in Newtown. Don’t forget to donate.
http://www.honr.com/
http://www.superpages.com/bp/Newtown-CT/Ups-Store-L0137727627.htm
Kind of interesting that all of the Honr Newton faces are Asian at the website. Also, the language is that of someone who came from a place (like John Yoo’s Korea) where people are unaccustomed to free-wheeling free speech in the American political and literary tradition, under First Amendment protection. Just a thought – but perhaps the whole thing is also a hoax. Or Moonies. (Not that Sandy Hook is the work of a cult – more likely just a very bad government psyop).
Ha, ha! Remember the Mandarin in the schools discussion? It does look a little out of place with the New England scenery and the firetruck. If you replaced the signs with “Little Red Book’s” it would “take me back”.
It just goes to show that there aren’t any elements of this extravaganza that aren’t weird. I thought Lenny lived in Florida. That “office” is probably ran from a deli.
You guys always find the good stuff (sigh!).
looks like an exciting corner (using street view)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/261+S+Main+St,+Newtown,+CT+06470/@41.368459,-73.270831,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e7e3321ce4a1ff:0x7d02391a927bf4e0
“HONR Network” chose to file this claim against MHB on 3- 22…intriguing.
Marzi says:
Dr. Oz is now having the same experience Professor Tracy had with his university about Sandy Hook. In the case of Dr. Oz, his exposing GMOs led to probably a backlash by Monsanto, and the resulting attack by a Stanford led doctor. Stanford has received over 17 billion in research grants from the federal government, so guess it’s only natural they’d spearhead the phony attack on Dr. Oz.
John Wayne says:
What the heck.., Dr. Oz, are you kidding, really, please take york meds, by all means feel free to watch the good ole oz, am I missing something, are you for real, curious as to… Well, please tell me more ma’am.
reprehensor says:
Apparently he has been receiving money for promoting scams that he admits have questionable efficacy. Not too shocking.
We all need to take our meds, according to these ‘doctors’ you seem to invest such faith in:
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/01/24/new-psychiatric-diagnosis-targets-internet-conspiracy-theorists/
Also, on the subject of Dave Hodges (who I know very little about), he recently accused a pro-white blogger of ‘plagiarizing’ his work even though the blogger acknowledged he was quoting, and then criticizing, Hodges’ writings. Mostly Hodges was asking to have his work taken off the blogger’s site (who I don’t want to give publicity to) and to not have his site linked to the pro-white guy’s. The anonymous blogger is a serious sleaze and an incredible hypocrite to boot, on this specific issue even. He’s taken a defiant stand on the issue, and I suppose that ‘fair use’ establishes his right. Still, it’s another angle from which to consider these things. I guess people taking your words and using them, with acknowledgement, to their own aim is par for the free speech course.
I myself have had to contend with chronic lifting of my ideas, opinions, insights and at times, even phrases and what’s become intellectual property, by the pro-white milieu. They distort to their own purposes, often. Sometimes it offends or even outrages me, sometimes it doesn’t, although infringing and defaming of what *is* my registered intellectual property has been the worst and true oppression. But that at least has some legal redress. I guess I feel for Hodges even though there’s likely little legal grounds for him to do anything about it.
On second thought, one might find some grounds for Hodges’ complaint (surely not plagiarism) in Wikipedia’s explanation of fair use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Criteria #4 seemed to have some potential, but its terms are broad and vague, and I have no idea how they’ve been interpreted by the courts. The internet is like the Wild West, an IT person said to me recently. It will be increasingly regulated and perhaps in some respects should be. Cyber abuse of kids by other kids has been addressed already in most states, but violations of adults is still being hammered out.
If Hodges work can be seen to be less marketable because of a blogger’s use of it (merely being associated with and linked to it), could that be seen as ‘unfair?’ He said,
“This is from Dave Hodges.This is a friendly, non-legal, for the time-being, warning. You do not have permission to plagiarize my articles by posting them to your site- I do not want my articles appearing on this site for any reason. Take down all articles associated with me and remove any links from this site to my web site.”
The blogger criticized Hodges for refusing to locate orchestration of Jade Helm (I’ve not studied this) in a certain ethnic group. The specifics of this criticism don’t offend me, but the higher principle is one I’m sort of not firm on. I’m just putting this out for anyone’s contemplation, not as a fixed posture I’ve taken up. The internet’s megaphone really throws a wrench into the whole free speech and intellectual property debate.
hodges is a known disinfo agent who uses scare tactics. He is worthy of no further mention. the plagiarizing is either hodges himself, or simply a repercussion of hanging out with birds of his own feather.
Expecting someone to simply accept your edict is unrealistic. I’d have to have at least some reason or proof for Hodges’ being a ‘disinfo agent’ to even contemplate the notion.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Thanks James, you are an inspiration that should not fade away!
The American people do not understand, or want to understand because the truth is Un-Patriotic, how America is sinking into despotism. This suit is a minor form of repression that is steamrolling historically very rapidly. But before it is implemented in the USA, it is tried out first in foreign countries.
In Ukraine, Washington is sponsoring an oligarchical-Nazi junta that came to power by a Washington engineered coup. It can only survive in the face of decreasing support of the people by homicidal repression. There has arisen a death squadron called the Ukraine Insurgent Army (UPA) that is currently assassination dissident journalists and editors. This cannot be done without at least the knowledge of Washington, and most likely the backing.
The people being murdered are WHITE. Since the geo-racism of American power historically has been ideologically repressed in the mainstream truth, the American people do not understand the significance of this fact. In the USA, generally the people murdered are non-White, the White cops currently killing unarmed Blacks.
But American power has begun assassinating White journalists as well, Michael Hastings being an obvious example. White Whistleblowers have been put in prison, but the truth problem for American power is accelerating. Recently the head of the investigation for the anthrax murders accompanying the 9/11 homicides has called the entire FBI investigation “bullshit.” American power cannot function effectively while the dissident truthers uncover the lid of silence on staged homicidal operations.
So this attempt at censorship of Sandy Hook, no matter how minor and bullshit it is, must be fought because it is leading to the kind of fascism that Washington is imposing in Ukraine against White people. The murder and oppression of non-Whites has been routine in the USA, but White people have to understand that they are next. This will be difficult since America Whites are so racist, and are increasingly so instigated by the presidency of Obama. Like Patrick, they are increasingly justifying geo-racist violence.
But although the White oligarchy has used geo-racism historically to divide and rule, they have crossed a Rubicon in the War on Terror that requires that they turn their terror on Whites as well historically. First Ukraine, then America. Cowering in fear won’t do any good; it is necessary to unite and fight the fascism that American power is imposing.
patrickchatsamiably says:
“Like Patrick, they are increasingly justifying geo-racist violence.”
I’d like you to site an example of that, Mark, my fine fellow.
“Cite,” not “site”
Agreed. Mark, that made your whole rant seem fake. Why the unnecessary jab at Patrick? He brings race up about 50 times less than you. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of times Patrick mentioned race. Likewise, the same can be said of your comments that didn’t have race brought up. So. Mark. Mind telling us what’s really going on in that head of yours?
I am not interested in Patrick, who is just a vulgar religious bigot, Reprehensor, I am interested in people like you. The American people identify, or at least accept, racist violence, both domestically and in Foreign affairs. As a consequence, White cops are currently shooting, chocking, or beating unarmed Black persons to death, with the support of a significant portion of the American people, possibly a majority of White people. Patrick has argued that it is not the cops that are to blame, but that the victims, who are usually thugs. This in addition to slurs he has on non-Whites, and his view that racism is fun, fun, fun.
Not one commenter, outside of myself, has objected to these views, and your objection to my Mentioning it is typical. The most effective racism is SIILENT racism, because most people consciously know that it is wrong. It is SILENTLY taught in the schools and universities. In the fraternity SAE in Oklahoma, the students sang on the bus:
There will never be a nigger in SAE,
There will never be a nigger in SAE
You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me,
The two leaders of the singing, who were expelled from the college, were graduates of expensive prep schools in Texas, one a Jesuit prep school. They were located in what was called ‘The Bubble,’ where cops routinely harassed Black and Brown people who entered it. The head of the Jesuit school Proclaimed that the school was against racism, but in his argument, this too second place to birth control. The point is that it is not just the working class cops that are racist, this is being taught, implicitly and covertly, to the upper classes in schools, universities, and other learned bureaucracies.
And people will not voice their objections because they will be attacked by people like yourself. The pretense is that we are Colorblind, because we do not Mention race or racist violence because it is part of the American truth consensus. A lynch mentality is instilled in American people by the White oligarchy to divide and rule the population. And the Progessive view emphasizes class, not race, when they are both important and intermixed. Race has always been used in American history to unite the White people around White power, but implicitly rather than explicitly, because it will be attacked if it is out in the open.
So the idea is to keep it hidden and unstated, as you wish to do.
mark. your right. everybody wants to keep the lid on racism because no one wants a confrontation. no one wants to deal with it. we expect others to be civil and not have to play a card to get their way.
it is unfortunate that people can be grouped into categories, one of which is race, and then stats can be used to get people focusing and blaming that category for their injustices (real or perceived). maybe we just turn a blind eye to it because it isn’t really productive to constantly harp on everyone about anti-Semitism or real racism because the race baiters (Sharpton, Holder, et al) breed division via emotion. everyone sees through their tactics – yes, some are even people of the race in question.
why perpetuate a known divide and rule tactic? why give it any steam at all?
If this asinine slander of me comes as a shock, and if Mark’s overall narrative is incomprehensible to the non-brain addled reader, here’s the great Pat Condell’s short primer on the mind of the “progressive.” It will explain everything you need to know:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8bmMrfMYw&w=560&h=315%5D
Meanwhile, in the real world, white racism against blacks is largely a figment by now. Americans breathed a sigh of relief when they proved it, by elevating Barry Sotoero to the throne in 2008. Unfortunately, that heart felt sentiment served only to reveal where racism truly lies in America in the 21st century: in the hearts of people like Al Sharpton and Eric Holder. No matter how wonderfully successful their lives have been in this country, they hate white people with an irrational intensity. Mark is not black, but he fits right in with that crowd.
Pat Condell’s videos are hilarious…
Mark/Folk,
My silence doesn’t make me racist. I’ve been wanting to say this to you for a longtime.
I think you’re spot on on most of your opinions about “American Power” which I hope your including all Elites in Europe in that group But….
When you always(most of time) end your statements with some super offensive racial nonsense it just makes me cringe that all the good things you said were just over shadowed by the Racist Rant.
Just leave it out.
Americans are bombarded with the Progressive agenda day in and day out from Race to Trans-Gender to White Privilege. I don’t even know what that is and it offends me as pure slander by the self hating Left Nut Bags.
Just my opinion
And while all my comments are sitting in the Moderation Que,
I just want to say I now stand in the middle as an Independent who quit the Republican Party when Bush invaded Iraq for his daddy.
I stand in the middle and look both ways before I cross. But as of lately the Left have move so far from center that when I look to my left now I can’t even see them anymore they moved so far away, and when I look to my right I see so many have moved to the center it looks like thousands of people just wanting all this non-sense to go away.
I really hope many people on the left will become Independents and move a little closer to the middle so we can hear each other without Yelling….
granite says:
I’ve seen this before, best friend is married to a girl whose daughter is half black. When around his fam I have to talk about how hot Beyonce is, how wonderful Obama is, and how f’d up racism is, or i lose my friend. Its fascinating how much race means to these types, its their identity. One site I used to frequent calls it the black grievance industry, which is a reference to the entitlement, blame shifting, and apologist attitudes that come with the territory.
Mark, its tiring man. Here’s something to chew on: what poses the greatest risk to anyone’s survival? A young black male. This is fact. And guess what? It isn’t the one in a shirt and tie, its the one in a hoodie. Find me one person that isn’t instinctively on guard when coming into contact with one. Why? Because of the instinct called survival, or fear. Stereotypes exist because of instincts that gather information about surroundings. Those who look closest to you are perceived with the least amount of threat. This makes perfect evolutionary sense and there’s no reason to fix it. On behalf of everyone else who doesn’t care for implicating race as a reason for every thought, I stand unapologetic. Fit in or suck it up.
This for Educational Use Only:
Chris Rock: How NOT to get you a$$ kicked by the police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rnl2dU3_k
Awe, Ric. Don’t you know that Chris Rock is OBVIOUSLY a racist?
He’s just like this guy:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u__W0Qa8v0k&w=560&h=315%5D
Chris and Dave are some of my favorites Racists then…Haha
Everybody has feelings of self, Brotherhood, ect., Its Not Racism
It’s the people who can’t feel empathy for their fellow brother(s) are the true Racists and regardless of color.
These lies Have to end and our Govt. is responsible. There isn’t One Slave owner alive today and it was only the less than 1% who could even afford a slave. AND…..
It was the stronger northern Tribes in Africa that captured the southern Tribes and sold them to ANYONE who would pay. Teach that in school!!
They teach all our kids a bunch of crazy white cowboys on horses roped all the Africans and brought them here to be slaves..
What a LIE.
I am so tired of hearing this racist fantasy repeated by Govt. Officials or on the MSM, in our classrooms and in many homes from their Elders.
I hate to say this but I think most Whites are less Racist than Blacks.
Patrick, that’s a great video. It’s spot on. Only white people are capable of racism. When White people are the victims, they deserve it.
Why aspire to higher standards when we can sink into tribal violence and squalor. It is much better to celebrate the diversity of raucous neighbors and hope that cannibals don’t move in next door, than it is to expect acceptable behavior. Why, that would be racist.
I’m afraid I’m plagued with the inability to feel shame for my whiteness. It is precisely my refusal to admit guilt for the shortcomings of others that must cause much concern.
The only thing I don’t understand is why these victims choose to live among the “White Devils”. Oh, I remember, these better living standards cost money. Somebody has to earn the money to pay for it. Serve’s ’em right.
I find it interesting that this article is about Censorship and the last Comments I’ve made are still in Moderation 5 hours ago. Nothing I said would be deemed offensive.
JAMES, I know WordPress is cheaper than having your Own Website but why can’t you just let ANY comment go through and Delete if it is offensive like Most sites do.
This keyword or whatever the algorithm is useless and discourages conversations. We’re grown ups here and can handle a Rant.
I’m sure this will never see the light of day.
3 Times today my comments have vanished that were nice.
Au contraire, granite. The “greatest risk to anyone’s survival” is not in reality the potentially violent individual in a hoodie, black and most likely in his own neighborhood. He may be a local threat to people working at the counter of a 7-11, he may be unpleasant to encounter on your way to your car, but the greatest threat is, indeed, represented by the well-turned-out sociopath in a suit. They really can rob you with the stroke of a pen, and they understand that image and charm will get them everywhere. That’s why criminal defendants dress like them when they come to court. Because their lawyers know how to bias the jury in their favor. The jury is a collective sucker for good manners and a pleasant appearance. They have been trained by their “betters” for years in front of the tv screen.
folktruther, or Mark, didn’t slander you, Patrick. I chime in here to make a point. I’ve been called all sorts of outrageous names on the planet in a relatively brief stint on the net, and it’s never really bothered me much. But defamation, which is slander or libel depending on whether it’s written or orally conveyed, is different: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/defamation-law-made-simple-29718.html. And: https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation
Not much discussion there about defamation of a business or trademark, however. But for individuals you get the point.
I assume when someone calls someone a name or characterizes a person or their views, it’s just that – a subjective characterization that reveals as much about the author or speaker as it does about the subject. This is common sense to most adults.
But lying about someone’s actions, etc., is an entirely different matter.
musings, it’s not just the hoodie-wearing black male at the 7Eleven who likes to cloak his sociopathy in fine attire when expedient. The chameleon act goes both ways. Neither profile of criminal is really just him (or her) self. Both like to play dress up to fool their victims, one just dresses ‘up’ where appropriate and the other ‘down.’ Really what I’m trying to say is these characters aren’t separable from one another and work together. The violence being acted out by so many black men isn’t theirs alone, just as the indirect violations committed by those in lofty positions aren’t discreet to ‘privilege.’ And don’t be so sure that young black hoodie-wearers are content to haunt only their own neighborhoods.
Nowhere was this truth more obvious than in the very tony section of our nation’s capitol, where I attended college for a few years.
Well, Sue, I beg to differ.
As the great Andrew Brightbart said to the execrable Max Blumenthal, (starting around minute 6) “accusing a person of racism is the worst thing you can do”:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vztHmjV5134&w=560&h=315%5D
It is indeed slander, of the most despicable kind, and I will have none of it. Mark is a vile slanderer, and if this were my site, his vile lies would have him banished forever. Not just because he has marked me for his false accusations, either. He has actually called James Tracy a racist, if you can imagine.
Maybe, I’m thinking, Mark is actually Max Blumenthal.
James Tracy says:
Or Mark Potok.
Oh my word James,
Mark Potok is the worst insult you could possibly come up with.
This Guy is Lower than infected Amoebas in a Petri dish at the CDC.
But then again, I do believe that “some” of us alive today really did evolve from from Hot Slime in a Pool of boiling Muck hitting against Hot Rocks 17 Trillion years ago.
again my comment, relating Sandy Hook censorship to the increasing fascism in the USA, has been sent down the memory hole.
Recovered and posted.
Notice how “Lenny Pozner” never shows up “in court?” That’s because DHS won’t let him. USGOV doesn’t want their Shills under oath, on the record — b/c that risks exposing their scam(s).
Have we proof that this man Pozner actually applied for a copyright and was granted one? One can’t simply “say” they have a copyright on a material. One has to actually HAVE the copyright granted to them. Don’t they? Perhaps there could be an organized day on YouTube where people tag every single video as “copyright infringement.” I’d love to see what would happen then.
Ramona, I am under the impression that you may copyright an original piece of writing that you might post at a blog just by writing that you have applied a copyright to it. No intermediary is necessary. However, when people I know write scripts that will then circulate in Hollywood, I believe they file a copy at the Screen Actor’s Guild to make sure the date on which it is filed is set, and they can prove it was their original work, and not someone else’s. But that is a special case.
I have not studied the law on this, but if you anticipate that other people might try to pass off your creative work as their own, you might have to take some formal measures.
As for photo images, where I suppose Pozner is trying to assert that the photo taken of his child was his intellectual property – well nobody’s trying to pass it off as his own work, merely quoting from news sources. Since that photo got into the news outlets because it is newsworthy (although you and I may believe it is newsworthy for a different reason – fraud), Pozner is not allowed to pick and choose who can and cannot display it. If he is trying to say that he signed with each and every outlet that showed his son’s picture – that is impossible. It could easily be anticipated that there would be differing opinions, for instance, about gun control or even about the validity of the news about Sandy Hook, but he had no right to limit access to the image only to those who agreed with his stated interpretation of the event.
hybridrogue1 says:
It is a fair use issue; It is the management of YouTube who are wrong and at fault.
Copyright is one of the most abused issues in a corporatist state, especially when used as a tool for censorship, and covering up state crimes.
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Yes, I don’t claim to know all of the ins and outs of patent law. I was forced to take a couple of classes on it once and, of all other subjects, I think I found it the most boring. Maybe it was the lawyer teaching it.
At any rate, the root reason for copy write laws are to protect the intellectual or artistic product from being used by someone, without the owner’s consent, for profit. Just like when the boys from ASCAP descend on a bar and assail the local garage band for playing other people’s music. If they were playing for free, no problem.
As has been discussed elsewhere on this page, the problem is the nature of the internet. If one can make a case for the readership being related to the site’s content, and part of the content belongs to someone else, if the site makes money it can be stretched into an infringement case.
Now, you could make the same argument for a newspaper, or television. The internet, however, is now used to being given letters ordering private information, etc.. Rather than incur legal costs, they think that it is safer to just pull whatever someone complains about.
As “ECON” says, the language is crafty. He isn’t actually claiming ownership. In a sense he is threatening that if the site doesn’t remove the offending item, “someone else” may take further action.
Censorship has become commonplace. I notice that the current generation does not have a visceral reaction to it. Apparently they didn’t read Voltaire. “While I disapprove of what you are saying I’ll defend with my life your right to do so”.
Just like proponents of “trickle down economics” can’t stand a “leak”, controllers can’t stand a medium they can’t control. If established law and procedure won’t get them where they want to go, they’ll get creative. The main problem is the lack of due process.
Regarding trademarks, you can either have a registered TM or just a TM. That is, if you want to register it so it has more legal oomph, you go through the govt. patent and trademark office. If you want basically word of mouth trademarks, you just use TM in a circle as an emblem , registered TM’s have an R in a circle as their official emblems.
If you took a photo and you had permission or the right to shoot the imagery (i.e. your own house, your own kid, your artwork, etc.) all you have to do is put a copyright sign on the image or in the metadata and it’s copyrighted. However, Mr. HONR-able (what a joke!) has no claim as the use constitutes fair use. Sheesh these Sandy Hookers are immoral.
Meanwhile, the fund raising never stops: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044145/Tim-McGraw-faces-backlash-pro-gun-country-music-fans-agreeing-headline-Sandy-Hook-benefit-concert.html
Joseph Charles Miroddi says:
In the time it takes to blink, there has in all probability been another move on the markedly lopsided Sandy Hook chess board. I wonder how many of these were anticipated and written into the script before 12-14-12.
Tim McGraw cares about the safety of children, but is also a supporter of second amendment rights. So…….lets just have Timmy say he is pro gun, BUT….only for the responsible usage of said weapons. And who, blessed with such prodigious talent and influence, wouldn’t want to participate in an event that would raise awareness of said issues, potentially saving lives vulnerable to future depraved indifferences.
My nephew recently informed me that David Wheeler spoke at Kutztown University, about an hours drive northwest of Philadelphia. The school newspaper headline was “Sandy Hook victims father stresses mental health research, attitude change on guns.”
I would not have been aware of Wheelers engagement at the university if I had not been alerted by my nephew. My point here is that I wonder how many of these “Sandy Hook parents” are circuiting the route, pitching the mental health and gun propaganda at whatever venue available, AND WE ARE NOT EVEN AWARE OF IT?
If Tim McGraw’s engagement date with SHP is perceived to be a success, how many other headliners will jump onto the nearest stage to help “save children’s lives?” Lets not be naïve. For all of those country twangers who vow to boycott McGraw for this, there will be just as many who will now support him, who beforehand couldn’t pick Waylon Jennings from a one man line-up.
On another note, and I am wondering aloud here.
Today marked the 20th anniversary of the OCB. Tim McVeigh has been executed, and his alleged accomplice Terry McNichol will die in jail. Case closed? 911 culprit and Al Qaeda arch villian Osama Bin Laden killed by U.S. special forces. Case closed? Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza dead by his own hand. Case closed? BMB mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in an 8 minute shootout, and his brother Dzokhar tried, convicted, and WILL be sentenced to die. Case closed?
There are certainly others. My troubling thought is this; it seems clear to me that we have slipped unawares into the “case closed” age. It is reported, and it is received and believed.
The old admonition was, “you gotta read between the lines.”
I am wondering if the monsters even care about that anymore.
Everyone needs a good laugh
now and then… and the bonus is… well, a bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fKkIRsrryI&spfreload=10
Awesome, thank you for the video, John–this is well worth sharing, folks! Others on the subject on the same channel, too…
I’ve been seeing all the Net video’s being taken down days after they post somewhere.
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/fair-use
The fair use clause has some potentially broadly interpreted dimensions of what’s deemed ‘fair.’ I’m not the slightest bit surprised that copyright harassment has become a weapon for those in power, as intellectual property right law is the only means to silence otherwise free speech. Defamation is something that can be sued for, but I don’t think it can actually silence free speech beyond monetary punishments.
That said, as someone who’s studied some of these issues as of late, the courts are issuing injunctions in cases of defamation on the internet when the defendant is seen as not having any means to compensate victims. Free speech advocates are not happy with this, but I personally think it okay. If publishers of newspapers can be held to contributory liability for a defamatory article when they profit from the sale of their whole paper, it seems just that an ISP should be held liable for loudmouths who want to use the free internet as a megaphone for their vendettas. At some level, providers like WordPress or whoever else do profit from blogs that they don’t necessarily make direct money from. Even when they don’t charge for the most basic blog hosting or advertise on a specific blog, they can both advertise that they have ‘over 43 million users’ and also allow users to reblog other blogs that they do profit directly from either by charging or via advertisements.
I’ve even seen cases where an ISP has a blogger that pays them and also advertises for them, who then uses not-for-provider-profit users’ blogs to promote their product. It’s just not a wholly separable dynamic.
To furnish someone the megaphone that the ISP provides and then disable a plaintiff/victim some avenue of relief is just tipping the scales too much. People with beefs who don’t have the means to make their gripes either known or somehow weighted in enough people’s minds are resorting to the internet and piggybacking off of other people’s work and gravitas – and off of the ISP’s. It’s simply unfair and violates basic civil rights. Judges are awarding injunctions to these types of people who have no assets and don’t fear civil liability, I’d think most americans would approve.
This organization seeks to instill some balance in the area of revenge porn and other cyber civil rights areas:
http://www.cybercivilrights.org/
The Tyler Clementi Foundation is also working to develop advocacy for cyber victims, based in New Jersey and NYC.
I’d add to my point about defamation that not only do I think judges should be allowed to issue injunctions against individual defamers who are unable to pay damages, but that ISP’s should also be targets for injunctions in such cases, even when they don’t moderate content (which I think is standard operating procedure as of now). Some reprobates duck the system and use the internet as their revenge against the world and whoever therapy. If a blogger not only has no assets but is difficult and/or costly to locate, the ISP should have no choice but to be forced to force whatever modification or even repression a judge orders. A side note is that trademarks can be defamed as well as individuals, which comes to play in cases of cybersquatting – using a trademarked phrase as a domain name. Right now the cybersquatting federal law only applies to primary domains, not secondary or tertiary ones, whose proprietorship has to be resolved either by applying actual trademark infringement laws, or by taking the dispute to the agency listed in this link:
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/cybersquatting
But the second avenue may still only apply to primary domain disputes.
Just curious Sue, about your sense of how defamation is treated. Did you grow up in a Commonwealth country or in the US? “Some reprobates duck the system and use the internet as their revenge against the world and whoever therapy,” seems to indicate an attitude which does not feel that the First Amendment entitles you to broad protection of free speech (or its written equivalent). Trademarks are another matter – if they really are trademarks and copyrights with protections.
I know that the sense that you cannot keep proper order unless speech is properly curbed, is held by some people who speak English as we colonists do, but I think our heritage as a refuge for dissenters (who then sometimes moved on to yet another colony before they could speak freely) is perhaps unique in the English speaking world (though maybe Ireland in recent years could give us a challenge). I am so biased in favor of free speech because I honor and respect those who gave their lives that I might speak freely (cf. recent “Wolf Hall” and the dissident clergyman reading out the prayerbook in English while a priest is intoning in Latin – he is eventually burned at the stake for disobeying the law against teaching his fellow men).
One man’s “loudmouth with a vendetta” is another person’s liberator.
I’m at least fifth generation american by three grandparents, maybe fourth by another. The reason I put a lot into my ‘tirade,’ is because I think these issues are more complex than many seem to assume. To boil things down, I’ll reiterate that I don’t consider the internet as totally ‘free,’ in the sense that it’s assumed to exist like air or something, when it doesn’t. So the same standards should apply that govern older forms of publications. When a newspaper makes money by selling newspapers, it can be held liable for defamatory statements it publishes – because it profits from the sale of the whole paper. Similarly, an ISP is publishing, whether it wants to admit this or not, articles, etc., and making money from them. A key issue is whether a blog that doesn’t *directly* generate profit for an ISP should be somehow viewed as existing in free airspace. I don’t think it should be, since it’s reliant for a platform (the megaphone) on the *profit* the ISP is making from its other users, who either do pay the ISP (WordPress charges for upgraded user features, but not for basic as of now) or whose blogs generate direct profit for its owners and the ISP through advertisements.
Since WordPress, like many other ISP’s, encourages reblogging and cultivates an environment of sharing between bloggers, it seems clear to me that even non-profit-generating blogs should be viewed as partial contributors to the overall profit margins of the company. So when some disgruntled malcontent runs a blog on WordPress, who doesn’t have any money to pay damages for speech that would accrue civil liability for the ‘old fashioned’ publishing platforms, I personally think they shouldn’t be indulged as if the internet is free like air. The malcontent has no money and doesn’t care about violating civil law, as they have no assets and therefore ‘nothing to lose.’ That doesn’t mean their speech is somehow immune from civil adjudication. So if a judge decides that the speech meets the criteria for what’s been considered defamation for years before the internet, and then finds that the defendant has no assets (and could be assumed to be reckless precisely because of their penury) he/she is only silencing someone who couldn’t pay for their own publicity to begin with.
Why should ISP’s be treated differently from old style publishing companies, is my point. A newpaper would edit content in part out of fear of civil judgments. The sheer scope of ISP publishing prevents most companies from being able to moderate content, but that scope doesn’t somehow exempt them from liability, which in the specific case of defamation should be prosecuted through injunctions against both the user and the company. Trademark defamation implies liability for both the ISP and the user/blogger, although the dimension of it may vary. Defamation of a person only applies to the user when content isn’t moderated, *but,* if that user is a no show delinquent who can’t pay, the court should force the ISP to stop ‘profiting’ from or ‘publicizing’ the civil violations.
Property has more rights in the US than people. I also think there are ramifications for speech about people on the internet that aren’t defamation but should still be ‘governed’ in some way. What if someone publishes something about another person, like that they’re gay or something, that disables them from getting a job or a place to live? The internet shouldn’t be used to stalk people or to violate their civil rights.
I don’t have all the answers and I *think* there may be civil relief in instances where someone’s internet speech leads to such civil rights violations.
I know way more about trademark law as it’s being applied to the internet because of an imbroglio I’ve had with a nutcase anonymous blogger. But copyright is more interesting and far-reaching, it seems. So I have to read the other comments and learn more.
Musings – excellent comment!
But this is directed to Sue (intentional double entendre?). Sue, in your world, you would have it so that anyone who “defames” you would be held monetarily liable to your lawsuits, correct?
I’m not going to go into your obvious blindness to your narcissist, bratty, entitled upbringing, but suffice it to say, nobody else wants to live like you would have it.
Let me explain. If someone reviews your product/copyright/family name, and you feel you have been slighted, you can then sue them for defamation? And if they can’t pony up your expected dough, then you can seek further compensation from the content provider ( a blog ), and/or the distributor ( an ISP ) until you feel they have learned their lesson. In your world, amazon would be out of business, yelpers would be jailed, and anyone with an opinion would be broke.
We are not buying the Ukrainian land you are selling, however ISIS is looking for women to marry, I believe you would love it there. If you decide not to pack up, then I suggest you quit dressing your words up like Hillary, throw out the diaper, and put on your big girl pants. Its a shame you didn’t have a dad to let you know that your not the center of the universe, but your going to have to get used to the fact that it ain’t going to go your way all the time, and life aint fair.
Good day to you.
Don’t worry Sue,
Free speech will soon be censored.
The corrupt Obama Democrats via the FCC have taken over the FREE Internet and ALL your dreams of censorship and shutting down ISP’s and individuals will all be true soon!!
What a wish………….
Ric I’m just stating for the record that your characterization of my posture on these issues is a serious distortion of what I said and believe.
You can’t go after the ISP which has Ten’s of Thousands of subscriber’s
to read and regulate what can or cannot be posted.
That’s an impossible burden and would be censorship.
That’s now the NSA’s and FCC’s job and it’s NOT good.
I understand you want to get somebody who is posting garbage.
I’m sure through a civil suit the ISP would have to reveal who the person is so you could sue them for defamat6ion or whatnot.
Also Sue,
If the person you sue and win doesn’t have any money you can still get a 10 year judgement against them for any future earnings/winnings/inheritances.
I’m not going to respond to the bizarre non-sequitur rantings of reprehensor.
But since you appear to sincerely misunderstand me, Ric, I’ll try to clarify. Defamation is something that can be committed against two entities – private individuals and trademarks (I don’t know if there are others). An ISP has contributory liability when it moderates content, which as of now most ISP’s seem to be avoiding doing. I *think* that there might be more possible gray areas in terms of this contributory liability for the defamation of a trademark, particularly as it plays out on the internet, but I’m not sure. The actual definition and criteria for defamation are the same as they’ve always been, they’re just being applied to the internet. Some ISP’s already require court orders to remove defamatory content (or impersonation) as things stand.
Apparently that wasn’t always so; I think with WordPress, for example, that’s a new policy. Judges have been granting injunctions, which I imagine are the same as these court orders, to force a blogger or ISP to remove defamatory material. There have been situations where judges have awarded plaintiffs injunctions when a defendant is considered liable but has no money or assets to effect relief. I have assumed these situations involved defamation, but maybe there have been incidents of some kind of damaging speech that weren’t ‘defamation’ but could somehow still be civilly actionable. Perhaps this might be the area in which free speech is being repressed. I don’t know much more.
What if a plaintiff simply can’t be found or doesn’t show up in court, but is guilty of defamation or some other type of infringement? An ISP can’t just enable such fugitives from civil justice. In such cases the ISP should be forced to take down the offending (legally) content. Again, I don’t know if there is a different threshold for liability in trademark defamation.
Mostly it seems as if you’re not bothering to read my comments carefully. So why respond?
Very informative, however I just couldn’t put myself in the position of “victim who wants to be paid because bloggers are defaming me.”
You made valid points, but the tone of your tirade was reminiscent of alanis morrisette (you know, the vindictive “go down on you in a theater” alanis).
That said, I guess I really don’t like what you were saying and subsequently choose to down vote it. Perhaps an Oprah or Rosie blog may be more to your liking?
ECON says:
I need to see the entire complaint to be sure, but I find Pozner’s statement in the complaint to be interesting. I am guessing the HONR Network (“HONR”) filed the complaint with the ISP and that it was HONR that alleged infringement, not Pozner. After HONR alleged infringement in the complaint, Pozner added the relevant following language to complete what appears to be a very misleading complaint:
Notice that Pozner, as the presumptive copyright owner, does not in fact state that he, himself, has a “good faith belief” that MHB or the ISP is indeed infringing on his copyright. He merely states that the “alleged infringement” was not authorized by the copyright owner (i.e., Pozner).
This phrasing is important. Pozner likely cannot have a good faith belief that MHB is infringing on his copyright, since he probably knows with a legal certainty that MHB is not infringing on his copyright because of the fair-use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976. That is why, I suggest, Pozner uses the term “alledgedly infringing.” Again, to be clear, he never says, as the copyright owner, that he alleges an infringement.
Alas, the relevant fair-use language found under 17 U.S.C.A. § 107 (West) provides that the use of copyrighted work for “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
That Pozner did not authorize MHB to use his copyrighted photo is obvious and goes without saying. That’s why we have the fair-use provision in the first place — it allows people who do not have permission to use a copyrighted work to use it for certain purposes.
Pozner appears to be well advised regarding his handling of these copyright complaints. He couches his language in such a way so as to avoid directly alleging infringement, presumably because he knows it is not indeed infringement.
Mr. J. Carroll says:
What is so infuriating to any serious research into this “event” are the sheer number of apparent trolls, shills, and cointel sock puppets to any serious research and outside inquiry. Never-mind the guys who still knowingly promote debunked arguments and false data as any kind of “smoking-gun-truths.”
The “Pozner” chap (if that is his real name; there are reasons to doubt) has become the exact same sort of obsessive net-goon for his chosen cause that one Seth C. Kalichman has for his; a champion shill for the HIV/AIDS orthodoxy and who specializes in habitual HIV-“skeptic” and “denier” character assassination, and who seemingly cannot demonstrate personal understanding of some of the simple scientific arguments which downplay or demolish the role of so-called “HIV” in chronic Human immunodeficiency pathogenesis, or that he even comprehends very simple facts such as- that even Dr. Luc Montagnier (actual discoverer of cultured particles obtained in-vivo he labelled LAV; but who is I.E. by “political convention” called the “co-discoverer of HIV”) has perhaps come to the realization that this misidentified and elusive (some would say “contrived”) retrovirus is insufficient alone in otherwise healthy people to cause chronic t-cell depletion and sufficient viremia in any of the surveilled syndromic illnesses; this is still an oddity and there are several papers about this and the consequences for the present day theory.
Even if you have strong feelings about so-called HIV’s role in either Western or African “AIDS,” guys like Seth doth protest too much; way too much; and rather coincidentally- he’s a psychology professor at the University of Connecticut.
My latest thoughts on the SHES matter are basically that the real conspiracy here is still “who framed the patsy?” There are oddities and inconsistencies within the final report, especially the DNA section which raise more questions that they answer. Think basics, really, until you find a workable motive, you can’t sell me a “weird home-schooled kid just snapped and went berserk at home and elsewhere” story.
It’s “untidy”- and nakedly implausible.
If there was a police entry-round fired from a shotgun (and there is evidence to that effect in the released crime scene pictures) how were those acquired and by whom? The Saiga type shotgun was found locked in the trunk of the alleged-perp’s (mother’s) car, with at least one round in the chamber. Was no slug fired from that shotgun, or was no shotgun shell found on the scene? I find it a little curious that the gun with the least “lethality” ( a .22 Marlin) was used in the home homicide (compared to the clip fed shotgun anyway). Other questions remain, sufficient to warrant more investigation, apart from those launched by Mr. Halbig and a few, credible others.
idk about the hiv, but he probably shot his mom with the 22 because it was the most quiet? Also, lanza was known to be an avid dance dance revolution enthusiast, with stamina that lasted for hours. In regards to the shotgun in the trunk, apparently it was moved there by the cop, then moved again. I have not seen anything alluding to the shotgun ever being used that day.
AL’s DNA was excluded on the Marlin rifle however (iirc, unless it was part of a mixture from the stock; and even then, we’d still want to know what DNA source from AL), and the trigger, guard, and stock were all allegedly wiped and clean (i do not recall hearing about the brass). One can survive multiple shots from a 22 rifle, even to the face area, and it is quite likely that the first shot suffered by the victim’s target in the home scenario (yes, even a sleeping one) would have provoked a sudden survival response from the body- to sit up or flee, or to at least attempt to cover one’s head. So it is rational to think that either Mrs. Lanza was drugged, or was in such a very very deep sleep cycle that the “amazingly precise” first shot either struck her and totally paralyzed and incapacitated her, or outright killed her, making all the subsequent shots rather unnecessary, no matter how loud they may have been. Besides, the question is of “weapon lethality,” and surely one shotgun report would have been sufficient to achieve the intended result(s) and made little discernible difference, decibel-wise (sound level); any gun with a full “standard” powder grain load will seem very VERY loud in a bedroom, and would’ve carried some appreciable distance outside as well.
Games such as “DDR” are beneficial to fitness in an aerobic sense (helping to elevate heart rate, respiration and metabolism) but they do not build strength necessary to carry out the feat that AL allegedly did alone, much less- supreme marksmanship, firearm stoppage recovery, mere “trigger finger stamina,” or the mental focus and acuity to over-ride innate social memes and mores (such as “NOT shooting unarmed and defenseless persons, much less, mere frightened children”). Not one so-called “Violent” Video game that I’m aware of rewards players for slaying children (not even the lowgrade “racist” versions of 3D shoot ’em up games) and most, in fact, deduct points for “collateral damage” to bystanders or non-threatening “Mobs”; and it would take deliberate, prolonged, direct exposure to violence with multimedia programming directed towards “innocents” sufficient to desensitize an individual of our (American) society ENOUGH to even contemplate executing such an unthinkable and unsurvivable combat mission as this AL kid “must have” planned and carried out.
http://s1.postimg.org/87rlnkyfz/light2.jpg
As for the shotgun in the trunk, I agree that it most likely was planted there (quite likley by a blue collar individual or a police worker) but that, as of this time that I am writing this, there appears to be quite convincing pictorial evidence that at least one “breaching round” was indeed fired (left to right) through the front entrance’s glass window.
Whether that was to give arriving forces greater area to enter the school building is unclear; it could just as easily have been another patrolman’s shotgun which dealt the observable damage to
Thanks for sharing and thanks for reading.
“[,,,] another patrolman’s shotgun which dealt the observable damage to the front lobby window and bookcase.”
Cut and paste failure, lol, sorry for that!
What the? Shotgun vs 22? She is still dead, who cares? The total weight of all gear was 34lbs – def well within anyone’s ability to carry. Bad, misleading logic used throughout your comment.
Granite: I say this with no malice and with love in my heart: You’re doing it again.
There is a HUGE difference between a .22 and a 12- or 20-gauge shotgun. Like a WORLD of difference, not only in the ammunition they use and the damage they cause, but in the noise each creates. To discount these factors is simple-minded. “She is still dead, who cares?” You sound like Hillary Clinton.
Further, it is not illogical to consider the effect that 34 lbs of gear would have on a kid like AL, especially in light of his phenomenal kill rate and his alleged disability. I mean, seriously, Granite? Do YOU have some form of disability?
Unlike many here, I never thought you were actually a shill, but you’re really starting to toe the line.
Recynd, yes, Grannywhatever is indeed “doing it again,” even though James Tracy told him/her to stop wasting our time. Once more, the assumption behind the comment is that something happened that day (outside of a media pageant), and that deaths occurred, even though there is no evidence of it.
Last time around (http://memoryholeblog.com/2015/04/04/wolfgang-halbigs-attorney-quits-case-fears-for-life/) he/she said this, and I replied:
“Did anyone care to check out the dozens of photos of hundreds of students evacuating”
Uh, no. My bad. Must have slipped my mind.
Wow. You know, granny, years have passed since the day of that fake event, and no one–NO ONE has posted those “dozens of photos” here. No one here has even seen them! It must be because James Tracy is everything that article you posted says he is: he censored them! Brave people like you tried to post them here, but he refused to let us see them. The bastard!
I know that that tyrant has asked to to stop attempting to bring truth to this benighted website (damn his name), but perhaps, if I ask really politely, James might accede to my wish and allow you one last post: please, I want to see those “dozens of photos”!!!!!! Where can I go to find them?
Well, good ole’ granny DID come back, but without a link to those dozens of pictures of actual children being evacuated. Why is he/she “dissing” me dat way? I begged granny for those dozens of pictures, and even intervened on his behalf with the owner of this site to enable it to be done. I’d hope to be thanked for that. I’d also hope to be allowed to look at those dozens of photographs.
Trolls. They are tricky beasts. Crafty.
Did it ever occur to u that they were patty? This place has very strict rules
Can’t believe I got that one off. To all the gullible I emplore you to do what’s called “due diligence”
Hey Ric – looks like the way around m0d3r@tion is brevity
“Bad, misleading logic throughout your comment.” -granite
Oh, well, you seem to have trouble identifying a single fact in which I have erred; from the DNA analysis of the actual evidence, to the alleged assassin’s curious first-choice of weapon, to the fact that aerobic exercise is not quite the same as strength building exercises (even if you contend that an untrained kid in average physical condition could carry one quarter- or more- of his body weight and still pull off his alleged marks without assistance); for it is not a simple matter of carrying all that, plus a shotgun with a breaching round or “entry slug(s)”- as you portray…
It is strapping it on strategically, over time, somewhere, and then carrying it all while using the selected gear in such a coordinated, sustained, precise manner for many minutes- that it strains credibility that there was no other assistance whatever to AL, before, during, or after the “event.”
You are free to disagree, but on what intellectual “meat,” Sir?
And To What- do “non-skeptics” attribute the apparent “Shotgun pellets and gray/lead powder” immediately inside the front glass window and to the right on the book case or display stand, easily seen in official released crime scene images? And to whom? And when?
The elegance and tenacity of “bad, misleading logic” appears to be– that in order to defeat it, one must use it..
Thanks for commenting, =)
carroll:
“the DNA analysis of the actual evidence, to the alleged assassin’s curious first-choice of weapon”
the dna – there was none right? whats the problem? either he wiped it or he didn’t. the shotgun wasn’t used. as I stated.
curious first choice – I’ve heard your arguments. they don’t prove anything of substance. the claim is he used a 22 a bunch of times. he’s a psycho – I don’t know why he picked the 22 but I did posit that the reason was because it was more quiet. the fact that she didn’t raise her hands or not is pure speculation – maybe she did and things got dicey but he had the gun and was on top so she was at a huge disadvantage to begin with. what exactly are you alleging? that it is taboo to speak anything but the consensus here?
lastly – weight. as a senior I weighed 135 pounds. I could bench my own weight easily and lift 350 with one leg. 34 pounds distributed evenly over the body (as was reported) would be zero hindrance.
first graders. 6 years old. I could nail each one with my left hand without even trying – anyone could. more than likely they froze. headshots would have been obtained easily as that is the biggest part on their bodies.
look, in retrospect I am beginning to think that my coping mechanisms simply would not allow for those kids to be killed in my world. the previous paragraph was something hard to write and I am actively shutting out the imagery as I type this. maybe all of us have something going on that makes us rationalize that someone wouldn’t have the inhumanity to do this, maybe we cannot fathom the reality of those little kids being slaughtered. maybe that’s how we deal with stuff. i’m not sure, Im just throwing out questions in good faith and you guys are ridiculing me like textbook denialists. not to mention the censorship I have had to endure, using 6-7 different names and having jft lie about me and then delete my comments so I have no rebuttal. geez you guys just answer the questions, we have already established im a troll.
my reply to Reprehensor has been deleted
that is simply because you are insufferable, mark. but I can summarize what you probably said: unjust persecution due to racial races racing vis a vis race war.
Ha! I’m certain that was it.
it has been recovered, rep
Lou Saboter says:
I’ve had 2 channels shut down on youtube already thanks to “They Can’t” — remember, the ones you can’t criticize rule you — https://www.facebook.com/TheyCant?ref=br_rs
Former Israeli Minister “Anti-Semitic-it’s a trick we always use it”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kWAqZxJVE
When Shulamit Aloni spoke those words, she spoke the truth and she was not proud of it.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/remembering-shulamit-aloni-israeli-mk-peace-advocate-and-outspoken-critic-of-the-apartheid/5366395
Great article! Thanks Anne B.
A certain tone of voice: We have all remarked upon the odd intonations in the voices of the Sandy Hook parents. I just heard it today in a different context. There’s a new book out, Ashley’s War, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, about women special forces members operating in Afghanistan.
The author (and likely embedded reporter) was talking to PBS News Hour reporter, Margaret Warner. Warner asked Lemmon what qualities were shared by the women who volunteered for this kind of duty, and as she spoke of them, she showed a picture of one woman who was “the best of the best” and who paid for it with her life.
As she spoke of the woman’s death, a kind of weird smile came to Lemmon’s lips (as though there might be a cognitive dissonance in fighting for our “freedoms” and simultaneously letting women die for the likes of our chicken hawks in a public not yet fully broken in). Her blissful tone of voice was as though she was one remembering a dear departed friend, who will never be forgotten. I doubt she ever met the living woman, but maybe I am wrong and she is even odder than I thought. Anyway, it was something to make us care yet feel no real pain for the loss. Maybe someone can find this and find the moment midway through the broadcast when that kind of mask slips onto her face and it stops being a straight story about something factual and becomes the fulfillment of a pre-set agenda by someone higher up.
There’s a name for that exact expression that truthers have, I can’t recall it now. It’s supposedly because they feel some satisfaction in deceiving everyone.
I’m also wondering if it is some kind of conventional way of talking about fallen soldiers, a “eulogistic” form of expression. But in this case, and you may be on to something, you can sense a little swallow of a kind of chuckle.
It is a sort of performance meant to seem a spontaneous reaction to the question, as though someone has died sanctified and is now enjoying the bliss of paradise (what we accuse suicide bombers of going for), for which we should smile of course.
That parents should have applied this to recently dead children was really creepy, and as we know from Robbie Parker’s blooper, totally fake.
I just saw a parallel and wondered how the training in talking about military deaths might have transferred over to SHES, a psyop. Of course, traditionally, all talk of the dead in wartime involves deliberate mystification so as not to give satisfaction to the enemy. It’s an act, acknowledged as such. But it is also military propaganda for the population at large.
I meant to say “I could detect a little… chuckle” since I don’t assume that you have seen this broadcast.
I just watched a youtube on the NYC cop shooting hoax. The slight smile they can’t repress is called ‘duping delight’ by some.
Here goes nothing
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Enhanced:
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I seriously can’t believe I’m getting away with this. Thanks patrick
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We need to have another talk.
Hopefully this stuff stays. If not hopefully someone will see it before its taken down.
I got terminated last time I tried to link to his site so I will try another avenue. attribute all the below pics and vid link to the following:
initials are: see doubleyou wade
site is: SHanalysis (where SH are spelled out in full)
Recently, an Oregon school active shooter drill traumatized students and faculty alike. A teacher, who has been at the school for over thirty years has now been diagnosed with PTSD, and, can’t return to work. She has been ostracized by her colleagues, after filing a lawsuit, according to NBC news:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teacher-sues-oregon-elementary-school-traumatic-active-shooter-drill-n345631
And they ask us how can we question such events as Sandy Hook? And I ask them how can we NOT question such events?
A History Of State-Sponsored Terrorism
In her famous speech “What is Patriotism,” Emma Goldman points out the “patriotic lie” where “innocent boys are morally shanghaied into patriotism” and are thusly lured to their death. Goldman is suggesting that the very notion of patriotism is a trick; in present times, patriotism has been morphed into a false dichotomy where “either you are with us, or you are with the enemy.”
War is woven into the very fabric of our nation—in fact the US national anthem celebrates war, and you don’t need to look far to learn that each war the US has been involved in since its founding could not have been entered without an event of mass deception that brings about public support, thusly allowing entrance into the desired conflict. We know that for the Civil War to occur, the Fort Sumter attack in 1861 was needed in order to gain public support; Lincoln told his soldiers what to do to provoke the attack. The USS Maine was exploded in May 1898 in order to gain public support for a war against Spain. Similarly, the RMS Lusitania was sunk in 1915 by a torpedo in order to shift public opinion for a war against Germany. We know that Australia warned us in 1941 (the warning then marked “confidential,” but now declassified) about a Japanese warship headed towards Hawaii, but Washington refused to relay the message because President Roosevelt needed to sacrifice our boys at Pearl Harbor in order to enter WWII. Similarly, the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 (which we now know never occurred) allowed the US to go to war against Vietnam.
More recently, Desert Storm in 1990 had little support until the media convinced the public it was needed, and the known lie of “weapons of mass destruction” was used on the public to shift support for a war in Iraq.
We even now know about the declassified Operation Northwoods and how they were willing to kill off a few thousand of us in order to shift public support to go into Cuba, but Kennedy refused to sign off on it.
These events condition the public to accept a solution that would otherwise be unacceptable—but just like the notion of patriotism, it is a trick as well. By understanding the pattern of Hegelian Dialectic of problem/ reaction/ solution, we can often link to the solution to its pre-existing problem. For example, tighter Internet regulations are desired (solution) so the Charlie Hebdo event is created (problem) in order to condition the public for the now much-desired solution that takes away further rights.
Besides the false flag attacks, we can examine state-sponsored terrorism along the same vein. Manufactured terrorism is hoisted upon the people through deception, and it also results in a specific outcome, most specifically allowing people to give up freedoms for their “safety.” Little known to the public, their safety is being jeopardized by those paid by taxes to actually protect them. As a result of staged terror events, the people will become more reliant upon their government to protect them from said terror threat. Results include:
• Heightened surveillance
• Strengthened Police State (mostly ex-military—now the public has become the enemy)
• A broadened idea of who a terrorist is: we now have “domestic terrorists.” The derogatory term “terrorist” has come to include citizens themselves, as our government has expanded its definition.
Staged terror events are often presented as a training drill, but then the drill goes “live,” meaning that elements in the drill actually occur rather than being simulated. There are 63 drills “gone live” so far although many more are possible that have not yet been detected or declassified. Often, “moulage” is used by actors to make the event seem real. In a “staged” event, no one is hurt but the media portrays the event as actually occurring. In a “false flag” terror event, innocent lives are sacrificed. Many believe the 7/7 London bus bombings
to be a drill gone live, as while they were drilling about bombs on a bus, the actual bombing occurred.
With an understanding of the history of false flag attacks and staged events of manufactured terrorism, knowing that it is Eric Holder’s intention to “brainwash” the public about gun control, knowing that Eric Holder funneled $7.1 million to Newton through Project Longevity, and also knowing that Connecticut Governor Malloy was warned that a mass shooting was going to take place in his state, and knowing that Rick Serino planned a mass casualty event for the Boston Marathon as he waited by the finish line during the “blast”—with a history of false flags and staged events to gain public support—why should the Boston Marathon “bombing” and Sandy Hook “shooting” be exempt from asking critical questions about these alleged occurrences?
Does anyone know what conditions or specifications a screen shot needs to meet to be considered court-admissible? If one takes a mirror of a website or blog, to prove what had been posted on it, it’s apparently not going to help a plaintiff, as a mirror can be altered and therefore referencing it in court wouldn’t work for evidence. Someone tells me that the only way is to have a notary public watch as you pull up a website and take a photo of a screen, and then have it printed out and signed by the notary. This seems to put defendants of internet civil violations in quite the power position, as they only need to change an entry to disprove accusations a plaintiff might bring.
I’ve always wondered this and would love to hear if anyone knows how to ‘prove’ something is or was put up on the internet in court.
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Chennai: Man held for holding sister-in-law hostage, raping her for 4 days
Chennai: A 22-year-old man is under arrest for allegedly holding his 14-year-old sister-in-law as a hostage and raping her several times.
According to the police, Ajith Kumar, 22, a resident of Periyapalayam, runs a mobile sales shop in Arani, Tiruvallur and married a girl in Erukuvai village 20 days ago. His sister-in-law is studying in class 7 at a government higher secondary school a few kilometres away from her village.
When the young girl did not return from school on the evening of February 27, her parents searched for her and when they could not find her, lodged a police complaint with Periyapalayam police, said a police officer.
Investigations revealed that Ajith Kumar had picked the girl up from school and taken her to his mobile shop, where he held her hostage for four days and raped her several times, the officer said. At first Kumar did not admit to the crime, but confessed on further questioning.
The girl was rescued from the shop and sent to the Tiruvallur government hospital for medical examination.
Ajith Kumar was arrested under the POCSO Act by the Periyapalayam police on Saturday. He was produced in Ponneri court and is now in Puzhal prison.
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We are aware of a decided contrast between the Law and the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost. This contrast appears frequently in Paul's writings. It is possible that by the continually appearing contrast, both in literature and in life, the very emphasis upon Pentecost would call to mind the Sinaitic experience of the fathers. Thus would be prepared a form of mind which would welcome the old traditions as soon as they began to appear or to re-appear. This attitude of mind would weave hard fact with fanciful description and embellishment in much the same way that fact and embellishment were woven together with reference to the giving of the Law.
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The conclusion might then be stated in the words of Meyer. The above is simply an attempt to state as fairly and fully as possible the main argument of those who discredit the historicity of Acts To many readers the case against the Acts passage appears closed, but there are two good reasons which oppose its excision. The' first of these is found in the fact that though the Jews did come to regard the Feast of Pentecost as commemmorative 1 Comment ary on Acts , p 49 1 31 ginal, this was not done during biblical times. ProfesBor ICncwling supports this view, showing that no notion of similarity between the giving of the Law and the Feast of Pentecost had obtained a place in Jewish 2 tradition during biblical times.
The Old Testament gives no warrant for the view that the Feast of Pentecost commemmorated Sinai, and as a matter of fact, Philo appears to think it was the Feast of Trumpts, and not that of g Pentecost, that looked back to the giving of the Law; Further, it may be noted that although both Josephus and Philo record traditions of miraculous speech at Sinai, neither of them makes mention of a possible parallel, even in common report or thought, with the Christian Pentecost. These facts meet and answer the argument against Acts on the ground of traditional embellishment. Gfrorer, in his Gesch.
For further argument that Pentecost did not commeramorate the giving of the Law until post-biblical times, see Hastings, B. Single Volume page a. In the first place, we should note that he was a Gentile. He was bom see Ramsay and Ranan in Macedonia, and was reared among Gentile surroundings, with which there was a springing of Hebrew influences. Plummer does not think it unlikely that Luke received his medical training in the University at Tarsus , the alma mater of Saul. Being a Gentilejand being trained among Gentiles, we may safely presme that he was able to appreciate many things connected with Christianity without being unduly influenced by traditional colorings.
In other words, he could think through some problems relating the things either Jewish or Christian without being encumbered by much that was mere Hebrew impedimenta. We may say this in the face of our ignorance as to whether he was a proselyte before he became a Christian. Luke had relatives in Syrian Antioch and when he became a young man he removed thither. This is accepted by the beet scholars.
If we place the composition of the Acts at A. Of course he may have been younger, but there are good reasons for believing that in getting at his souDces "accurately" Lk. In addition, it is probable that he was assisted in drawing up and editing his materials for the early chapters of Acts by the eye-witnesses to whom he makes reference. Blass, in fact, in commenting upon Acts urges that Mark thus personally aided him. Mark was not himself as we believe an eye-witness, but, like Luke, had close contact with those who were.
He argues the matter well, but will not probably convince the majority of New Testament scholars. See page 35 for a reference to Torrey's date. This is evidenced by the fact that the Acts begins just where the "former treatise" leaves off. Luke, a trained man, a man of experience with the world, sets down to write history after having consulted the "course of all things accurately from the first".
Vfe have already said that Luke could interpret his data less inflUBnced by Hebrew traditions than as if he were a Jew, as were the other New Testament writers. Let it be suggested also that simply because he was a Gentile he would scrutinize his sources a bit more carefully on the very watch for what might be mere tradition.
This argument does not iiaply that Gentiles were not easily influenced by tradition, or that they are not superstitious. But a Gentile, even when dealing with Jewish things, would be more free from Jewish traditions and inheritances than would a Jew. It is clear also that Luke was familiar with the glossolalia manifested in the home of Cornelius and at Ephesus Acts and Torrey and published in Harvard Theological Studies ; Ho. If the passage was penned at the time suggested by Torrey, 49 or 50 A. If we recall the fact that all the. On page 24 we began to inquire whether the specific differences between the Pentecostal glossolalia and that at Corinth were attributable to modifications of the report of the Pentecostal event, at least so far as this modification was affected through traditions which came to surround the Sinai tic legislation.
Enough evidence has been adduced to show that these traditions did not influence the wording of 36 Acts It remains, however, to inquire if the wording of verse four was influenced by the disposition of the early- church to exalt and idealize the experiences of the first few weeks of Christian history. A positive argument is wanting, "but it may be said that we have shown with sufficient clearness the historical accuracy of the passage, and that in Oder to understand its worfting it is quite unnecessary to appeal to such an hypothesis.
Chapter III. A diBousBion of the psychological phenomenon of suhconsciousneBB and its relation to sudden mental or spiritual experiences. Together with chapter four it will form a groundwork upon which further to establish the historicity of Acts and upon which to determine the exact character of glossolalia. The immediate purpose of this chapter Is to inquire into the phenomenon of subconsciousness in its relation to sudden and seemingly cataclysmic experiences, either mental or emotional and spiritual.
No theory of a "subconscious mind" or of a "subcon- scious self" is here advocated. We must have more evidence than we now possess before we can posit an independent subconsciousness organization which acts in obediance to laws differing from those of the ordinary psychological range, and Justifying the expression "subliminal self " Personality is essentially a unit, even if its manifestations occur in both consciousness and subconsciousness. It is best to take account only of a primary and a secondary consciousness. There is evidence that cerebration takes place in both these fields, consciously during normal 38 waking moments, and subconsciously during such states as sleep, hypnotism, or other well-known conditions.
The most important consequences of having this strongly developed ultra-marginal life is that the ordinary field of consciousness is liable to incursions from it of which the subject does not guess the source, and which take for him the form of unaccountable impulses to act, or in- hibitions of actions, of obsessive ideas, or even of hallucinations of sight or hearing" As we shall see later, these incursions may also take the form of speech or writing.
We get, then, what Mr. Meyers quoted by James calls automatism, due to "up-rushes" or explosions of long- gathering sensory, motor, emotional or intellectual materials, into the full fQcus of attention. James calls attention to the very probable fact that what is found in large measure in abnormal subjects may be supposed to exist in some degree in all persons.
This "up-rush" is the result of what may be actual cerebration in the subconscious field, attaining a result which it projects suddenly and unexpectedly into consciousness. On page is the story of a young man who, after loving a young woman ardently for a year, during which time he was greatly vexed with Jealousy, suspicion and doubts, suddenly and unexpectedly felt, while on his way to work one morning an overwhelming and compelling hatred of the girl.
This sudden feeling was the "up-rush" and was the result of the long filtering of doubts and jealous feelings into his subconsciousness, these finally securing the victory over all considerations of love and tenderness, and making an abrupt, unexpected, and decisive entrance into the field of consciousness. This young man realized what he called a "sudden hatred" for the object of his previous love and tender devotion. He hastily returned to his room, burned all of her letters and trinkets which he had and ground pictures of her beneath his heel "with a fierce joy of revenge and punishment".
Through all the subsequent years he had not a single spark of tender feeling for her whom for years he had loved devotedly"! It is important that this be bourne in mind as we proceed. Several minutes, or even hours, afterwards the mantion of a similar najne or the occurance of a somewhat trivial event will jar this long "forgotten" piece of material into the full focus of attention.
He was reared in Rhode Island during the days when the modes of baptism were somewhat warmly debated among the Adventist bodies of that State, and he was deeply interested in the subject. He was and still is exceedingly ignorant of many important exegetical rules, and he has always been a slavish devotee of the literal interpretation of the Bible, especially of its apocalyptic portions. The exposition thus given was much in harmony with his own views, but the incident made a profound impression upon him, and he greatly multiplied hie labors in teaching and expounding those views. See pages of the same for non-religious transformations of character based upon this psychological law.
That evening, while preaching in a mission hall in Providence, in the midst of great freedom in expounding this very doctrine, the "up-rush" came. It took for him the form of undeniable certainty that the doctrine in question was satanio in origin, and that hie night-time visitor of fifteen years before had been none other than Satan disguised as an angel of light. He broke off his discourse immediately, informed his hearers that God had just then revealed to Mm the error of the views he had been but a few minutes before teaching them, and he made a promise then and there never to teach those views again.
For the twenty-five years since that time he has ardently opposed in every form the very doctrine he had once believed to be revealed to him at his bedside by a speaial act of Providence. A great number of cases involving this "up-rush" could be given if necessary, but space is allowed for only one more. It is that of a man who for many years, and especially during his young manhood, was much concerned as to his welfare after death. At times he was hopeful; at others full of uncertainty. On this occasion he was passing through a wooded place alone , musing closely upon the subject.
He conceived a method of solving the entire problem. Standing off a dozen paces from a sapling, he threw his opened pen-knife at a worm-hole in 42 the bark. He had decided that if he should hit the mark aimed at, hie eternal salvation would be assured, while if he missed it, the reverse would obtain. The point of the knife entered the hole; he pulled it out, closed the knife, put it into his pocket and walked away with the whole subject about which he had had so many anxious thoughts for years entirely and finally settled.
His hitting the mark on the. It should next be noticed that this period of prep- aration anterior to the "up-rush" has its counterpart in what is sometimes called religiously the seeking stage. The "up-rush" then becomes identical with "the victory" or as the modem "Pentecostal" people call it, "getting Pentecost" There is of necessity this period of preparation.
In most cases it takes the form of earnest and continued prayer, usually with f acting, watching, great concentration of thought, and withal a definite expectation that the "Pentecost" v. Very commonly one may see what it is that has served as the jar, or releasing agent, for the stored up mass of feelings and cerebrations. Thus among the Camisards see pp. The laying on of hands has served this purpose since apostolic times. At times it is a jump, a cry, or the hearing of another as he breaks out into "tongues".
In many cases, however, and necessarily, the releasing agent is unknown. It may be the mere passing of some thought, image, or feeling, through the mind of the seeker, of which he himself may not be fully aware. Those who have been properly prepared by concentration of attention, fasting, and other kindred exercises, have been known to "get the blessing" while crossing the street, while in the bath, the barber chair, while scrubbing the floor, or while almost anywhere else. It is found that among the Cami sards the period of preparation had extended over several months.
Parham's Bible School in Topeka had been seeking it for ten days, almost without food or sleep. Seymuur colored was present with 1 The American Journal of Theology , vol. While there may have been no period of definite seeking, there must always be a period of preparation. An example is the case of a clergyman who had lived in Nome, Alaska. For years he had been praying that? When he first heard of the revival in Azusa Street, Los Angeles, he immediately set out for that city, thanking God hourly for what he called answered prayer.
His expectations were high and keen, even though he did not seek "the baptism with tongues" for himself. Within an hour after entering the "Upper Room" at Azusa Street, and, as he says, without any seeking on his part, he broke out into "tongues" And now we approach another important point. As a rule those who experience these "up-rushes" in strong degree have what James calls a large subliminal region.
As a general 1 For a somewhat detailed account of the Los Angeles revival of glossolalia, which began Monday April 9, , see the final chapter of this Thesis. The nervous instability which characterizes so many of them may be either temperamental or congenital, or it may be acquired through disease, fastings, vigils, prolonged attention to one idea, by weariness, or in other similar ways.
Briefly at this time, but more fully under the proper headings, let us say a word concerning the nervous or temperamental disposition of some of those who have been associated with glossolalia. The Fratricelli were ascetic almost beyond belief. The form of Jansenism which lead to the Convulsionnaires was French, and the French temperament, 1 Page 70 2 Page 78 3 Page 77 46 "being Latin, needs no oomment here. The same is true of the Cami sards, who were, racially, a mixture of the Gothic and 1 the Latin. Joanna Southcott died of brain fever in less than three months after making her contribution to the historical material we are studying.
Ann Lee, the "Mother" 3 of the Shakers, was neurotic in the extreme. Edward Irving was warm-hearted and implusive, as well as uncritical to a 4 5 fault. These ethnic temperaments need no comment here. The girl who headed the revival of glossolalia in one of its prominent mission fields in South America was and still is epileptic, and first class authority states that during the height of her leadership and prominence she was guilty of frequent acts of gDoss immorality. Mary Campbell, who first received the "tongues" under Irving 's work, was also epileptic and a 7 sufferer from tubercular disorders.
These illustrations could easily be multiplied, but enough have been cited to establish the general statement that temperamental instability is a characteristic of this following"! It is quite likely to make an unstable disposition less balanced than before.
Tongues as a Site of Subversion
Indeed, this is the almost unvarying rule, and with the overthrow of what of equilibrium was present before the there results experience coraesAa state of mind more easily susceptible than ever to disturbing influences. The recurrence of the experience takes place with less provocation than at first.
Thus it is that they who have obtained their "tongues" at the price of a seeking which cost them heavily in sleep, time, energy, and will-power, followed by a cataclysmic upheaval, can often speak in tongues afterwards with but little working- up of the forces necessary. The different revivals of glossolalia throughout the history of the Church have each had a valuable credential 1 Although there were no evidences of glossolalia in the work of ilohammed, his" visions" closely resembled those of the Pentecostal people. He was an epileptic and as a boy used to suffer from headaches and convuisions.
During some of his fits he would fall to the earth, snorting like a csunel. These is some correspondence, however, in the fact that numerous instances of automatic vocal actions among "Pentecostal" people have taken the form of the cries of various animals, including the cat, dog, donkey, and cow. In many of the specially nervous or diseased subjects this so-called "Pentecostal" experience produces strange 48 for the spread of their work in the fact that certain "messages" seem to be coimnonly contained in the interpretation of the "tongues".
No doubt this has been a great source of comfort for those who are concerned with the "messages" in any way. The "message" most frequently contained in the gibberish is "Jesus is coming" There is neither fairness nor tiiwtih in questioning the sincerity of the vast majority of these people in believing sincerely that so much of the nonsense they utter contains this message.
There is a well- defined psychological law underlying it. Briefly stated, it may be summed up as follows. All through Christian history those who have come to speak in tongues have been ardent believers that they were living in the last days. Christ is soon to appear in pre- millenial glory to judge the wicked and the heathen, and to take them, his "mouthpieces" his "anointed ones" his "last messengers" into Glory.
A more or less intense sensations of a physical nature. The violence of what is, in the nature of the case, a powerful experience, af facts crippled or diseased parts of the body. Thus cripples have testified that the Holy Spirit came into them through their legs. Others, depending upon the particular weakness marking them, have said it was through the eyes, the stomach, or other portions of the body weakened by disease or injury. Intolerance of views which conflict with their own is altogether common among them. This is the material, roughly stated. These two cases, and all others like them, are valuable in that they bring a settled state of mind or feeling with respect to a subject previously unsettled.
This experience is, in this respect, always a fixing agent. If it brings a settled attitude where uncertainty had previously reigned, how much more may it be expected to settle and crystalize those cherished beliefs about which there had been no previous doubt! In the present chapter we have discussed from the psychological standpoint certain phenomena relating to the subconsciousness. All of the conditions essential to this experience had been fulfilled in the case of the who were in the Upper Room, as recorded in Acts , and from the standpoint of psychology such was their experience.
We shall show in the following chapter certain facts relating to memory, and then point out how, by combining the results obtained in this chapter with what we shall point out in connection with memory, it is possible to explain the wording of Acts from the psychological standpoint. Chapter IV. Memory 51 Memory It is the purpose of this chapter to study certain aspacts of memory, to point out the powers of hypermjiesla, to show how language forms once heard are quite likely to remain in the iaind, though unrecognized and even unknown by the person concerned, to show how the experience of the "up-rush" described in the previous chapter quite often brings up from the subconsciousness these buried forms, projecting them automatically through the speech organs, and to show historically how many who participated in the Upper Room experience of Acts could have heard previous to that time many expressions of "the wonderful works of God" in the languages or dialects indicated by the list in Acts The memory is apparently capable of storing away all the impressions that enter consciousness.
John Locke records that Paschal, up to the time when the decay of his health impaired his memory, forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, during any part of his mature life. Sir Williaun Hamilton says the same of Grotius. Cardinal Mezzof anti , reputed to have known over a hundred languages, used to declare that he never forgot a word he had once learned. Memory deposits supposedly long forgotten, or even so fully "forgotten" that there is no memory that they ever existed at all, have thus been pro- o duced.
Such agencies are hypnotism, madness, febrile del4rium, somnajnbulism, catalepsy, ecstasy, hysteria, or anaesthesia. Persons who have been resuscitated from drowning or hajiging have reported that juat before losing consciousness all the events of their lives have been vividly presented to them. Sir Francis Beaufort in describing his experience when almost dead from drowning said that "every incident of my former life seemed to glance across my recollection in retrograde succession, not in mere outline, but the picture being filled with every minute and collateral detail and feature, forming a kind of panoramic view of my entire existence, each act of it accompanied by a sense of right or wrong; Dr.
Abercrombie repeats an incident told by Moffatt, the missionary. See also Moll, Hypnotism. For cases of exalted memory among somnambulists, see Harper's Magazin e for July During this time she used to sleep next to an apartment occupied by an itinerant fiddler, a musician of considerable skill , who commonly spent a large part of the night in rendering pieces of refined description.
Later the girl fell ill, was cared for by a lady, and became her servant. Years later the family was surprised in the night at hearing sounds of music. Although fast asleep, she was warbling in a manner exactly resembling the sweetest tones of a small violin. Watchers found that usually after two hours of natural sleep she became restless, beginning to mutter to herself. This was followed by sounds exactly like those made by the tuning of a violin, after which she would dash off into elaborate pieces of music, always performed in a clear and artistic manner.
Two other cases, authentically reported, bear this out. Moll tells of an English army officer who, while in Africa, was hypnotized by Hansen. The patient then addressed the company in Welsh, his mother tongue, but which he thought he had entirely forgotten, for under normal mental states he could not remember any of the language at all. We notice in the next place that certain agencies will make possible the use of foreign language forms were the speech organs have had no training in their use. They have the attestation of these two leading Italian journals, of Bernardi Paequale, Bishop of Ruvo and Bitonto, of the Archbishop Guilio di Terlizzi, the Cavalier Carmarino and Pastor Vito Garretti, as well as other responsible witnesses minutely cross-questioned by Dr.
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After this had continued some time, he was found to have fits of sleepiness. These became frequent. During some of the attacks he spoke in a voice quite unlike his own, intoning like an orator, and using fragments of languages with which he was completely unfamiliar, among them French, Latin and Greek. He "even recited marvelously well certain cantofs of the Divine Comedy" Except in the case of the Divine Comedy, he had not had training in speaking the languages employed during his attack, though we shall have occasion to recall the fact that the passages in Latin may have been excerps from the Church services he had attended.
It is a matter of common knowledge that persons when "demon-possessed" often speak in fragments of languages with which they are normally quite unacquainted. Well-knit orations are sometimes delivered in this way. The late John L. Nevius, for forty years a missionary in China, made a special investigation and study of the subject of demon possession. The results of his study are set forth in his book Demon Possession and Allied Themes. Williams, Demon Possession and Obsession , agrees with the views of Nevius, and gives cases where persons "possessed" use languages they do not normally know at all.
Are they acceptable witnesses from a scientific standpoint as the fact of actual possession by a demon? Some have a voice like a bird. Some speak Mandarin, and some the local dialect, but though the speech proceeds from the mouth of the man, what is said does not appear to come from him. Nevius quotes from an ancient work on the subject as follows, "Plato ascribes a peculiar dialect to the gods, inferring this from dreams and oracles, and especially from demoniacs, who do not speak their own language or dialect , but that of the demons who m1 are entered into them.
Professor Tisot, of the medical faculty at Dijon, made a careful investigation of the whole matter. German had indeed been spoken under abnormal psychological conditions, but that language was general in the neighboring places, and those "possessed" had had abundant opportunity to hear it.
Latin had been thus spoken, but its use was common in the Church. The claims regarding the use of Arabic were siftecL until only one was left, and careful inquiry determined that no one truly recognized the utterance as in Arabic. Probably a mere guess had been made which obtained currency as an authentic report. A somewhat prominent church official in China furnishes information regarding a woman who was possessed by a "fox- devil" as most of the demons are called.
This demon impelled her to speak in the Hingua dialect, of which she had no normal command at all. Another missionary friend of the author, conservative and cautious, a man of American parentage, but born and reared in China, tells of a remarkable case that came under his personal and immediate observation. At a largo 1 A. White, LL. A part of his denunciatory address was spoken in a dialect recognized by other natives present, and understood by them, but entirely unknowito the speaker, who, after the seizure, had no recollection of what had taken place. Further examples are not required, and we turn now to the problem of combining the results obtained in chapter three with the main facts established in the present chapter.
In chapter three we saw that after a period of preparation, or seeking, there is possible a sudden "up-rush" of mental material which is often in the nature of a clarifying agent, settling and fixing the mind with respect to the problems or questions which occupied it during the period of preparation or of seeking.
In chapter four we have given attention to the fact that language forms may lie buried and even "forgotten" in the mind, and that the "up-rush" previously studied, as well as delirium, anaesthesia, etc. An illustrative case occurred in Los Angeles during the early days of the revival.
Hayes in his booklet The Gift of Tongues speaks of this case, and the wpiter of this Thesis has discussed the incident with some of the persons who took part in it. Workers near the altar pressed a visiting Chinese gentleman of culture to state whether or not she had spoken in Chinese. This man, who had attended to meeting because of the claims he had heard made, freely admitted that she had, but he refused to translate the words, saying that they constituted as vile language as is known to his countrymen.
At some time this woman, a person of refinement, had overheard an Oriental, of whom there are many in that city, in a rage or passion. Fruit or vegetable peddlers, or laundrymen, could have pro- vided the occasion. A Protestant clergyman in charge of a down-town mission in Los Angeles, formerly a Roman Catholic priest, tells the writer of a case in point. A profound religious influence came over his life shortly before the outbreak of the revival of glossolalia in Los Angeles in , and he was a regular visitor at the crowded meetings in the Azusa Street mission, then during the height of their influence.
The enthusiast declared that he could only speak when prompted by the Spirit, but he at once began by means of jerkings, twitchings, and ejaculatory words, together with what was clearly a conscious limbering-up of the muscles of the throat , to work himself into a state where the automatic speech would begin.
At first his speech was the merest chattering, with wind-suckings through the teeth a common thing among the Pacific Coast "tonguers" and convoilsive movements of the throat and chest. In the midst of his gibberish, however, was the following couplet from the Romaji mass, which he had heard many times as a boy, but had probably neither understood nor remembered, - Introibo ad altare Dei. Ad Deum que laetificat Juventutum meiim.
So completely had Lee "forgotten" these language forms that he did not recognize them what told of what he had done, nor was he fully assured until shown the Latin sentences on the printed page. Not only will hysteria, delerium, ecstasy, or other such agencies above named, thus release long-buried language 1 The working-up which some of these people practice is frequently such an obvious simulation as to be repulsive. The Yorkshire Post for December 27, gives a case where the releasing agent was extreme religious excitement.
How can we explain the fact that a youth or maiden who cannot speak a dozen words in Welsh in ordinary conversation, can, nevertheless, engage for fi e or ten minutes in public prayer in idiomatic Welsh? Tiatever these expressions were, the ecstatics had heard them before, even if they had not understood them. It has been suggested that "the synagogue of the Libertines" was the place of worship of foreign-speaking Jews.
The best place to overhear such expressions would be in the courts of the Temple. The case where Chinese was spoken see page 59 has been verified by the writer from 1 By Dr. Easton of the Dept. If the woman concerned had thus unconsciously retained expressions in Chinese, there is much greater probability that in Jerusalem, with its religious emphasis, with the common use of religious language not only in the synagogue but in places of meeting, such as the market places, there was much chance that the members of the Upper Room party had unconsciously overheard such expressions as are mentioned in Acts But further probabilities can be established.
In the synagogues of the Jews, whether in Judea, Galilee, or abroad, except in the case of Greek speaking Jews, the language of the service v;as Hebrew. For the mass of the congregation this was a dead language, their vernacular being one of the many dialects of the Aramaic. The proper officer read the Scripture passage from the Hebrew, this reading being followed by a translation, or Targum, in the vernacular.
The translator was known as a Targumist,or Meturgeman. For details concerning the work or the Targumist see the article Meturgeman in The Jewish Encyclopedi a and the article Targums in the same work. The article Synagogue has references to the practice. It is not too much to say that the disciples of Jesus had had opportunity to hear from Meturgemen expressions of the nature described. But a third line of possibility, even of probability, is opened in the fact that the Palestinian rabbis authorized the recitation of the prayers Shema and Shemone Esre , as well as the Table Blessings, in any language Mishna, Sota vii.
According to the Jerusalem Gamara on the passage Sota , vii. This probability is heightened by the fact that Galilee contained a greater admixture of foreign-speaking people than did Judea, and by the fact that Jesus and his band were busied mostly in Galilee. Bacher in the article Synagogue in Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible , iv. Along three lines of probability, then, have we shoTO how members of the Upper Room company could have overheard, previous to the day of Pentecost, the expressions at which the strangers marvelled.
These lines are l the cosmopolitan character of the population of Judea, with the close mingling of peoples of disttmct dialects in the streets and in the Temple courts; 2 the customs relating to Targums in the synagogues; 3 the practice of reciting the Shema , etc. In the very nature of the case an absolute demonstration of the proposition that they had overheard foreign language expressions of T A.
These differences in the narratives, we continue to remind ourselves, are slight and unimportant. Interpretation was needed, if such were possible. At Pentecost, according to the narrative, no interpretation was needed, the representatives of the several foreign districts recognizing the utterances for themselves. Our study of subconsciousness and of memory indicates that the basic power at work in each case could easily have been the same.
It is still incumbent upon the writer to show, as promised, that the explanation given in the two chapters just closing is a more plausible explanation of the foreign language feature of the Acts account than can be based merely upon the theory that the early Church exalted, magnified, or idealized the experiences of the day of Pentecost. The best ans;ver is simply to submit the evidence adduced in favor of the historicity of the passage and to suggest that it is a far more acceptable explanation.
It is still pertinent to show how the Corinthian glossolalia could have arisen from the Pentecostal. Many who heard their glossolalia were visitors to the capital, some perhaps having come from Corinth. The Corinthian glossolalia was manifested during the life-time of many who were present near the Upper Room. These could have reported the manifestation to the believers at Corinth either in person or by correspondence.
There is nothing to prevent the theory that some of the actual participants in the event in Jerusalem themselves were personally responsible for its introduction at Corinth. Glossolalia under religious auspices is an emotional experience, but the presence of emotion alone neither accredits nor discredits the experience. Glossolalia is a product of psychic automatism which is often greatly augmented by emotioni But a religious experience, either of a person or of a group, receives its credentials, not from the amount of emotion created, but from the moral accompaniaments and effects.
The same naive and uncritical temperament on the part of votaries of the various sects will constantly appear. In the interest of brevity only a sketch can be expected. Part Two Glossolalia In History Chapter Five GloBsolalia Among the Montanists 69 The revival of glossolalia among the Montanists reveals so many parallels to later manifestations that it seems best to present the main characteristics of the Montanistic movement somewhat fully, though no external history of the sect is here necessary.
The Montanists were Phrygians. From the earliest times the Phrygians had had a civilization of their own. The race was originally endowed magnificently from the physical 1 The best histories are: Ritschl, Entstehung der altkatholischen Kirche , 2 nd edition, Bonn, The way I understand it, the gift of speaking and understanding in a different language was a beautiful gift by God when he changed the language of the people that were trying to build the tower to Heaven.
I was raised pentecostal and taught very strictly their beliefs. My family is still pentecostal and I have a great respect for them all, I respect anyone that can live each day in kindness, love, and faith. I ran across this while researching the Bible for myself as well as for my daughter. I am trying to understand Gods Word for myself without influence. I have really enjoyed reading all the comments on here! Not one view on here is any less than the other, nor is one person on here the hail Mary of truth while the others are fumbled.
What scientist would admit to and proof anything for a Christain? Why would they go against their own values, beliefs, teachings, studies, peers, and everything else related to science to admit a supernatural force liken to the very one they believe never existed? Why would I believe any study done by someone that thinks they are related closely to a monkey and we are all simply evolved gorillas? I would and I wish you all the best journey you could possibly have.
One Love. You will need to ask yourself this question. Are you interested in knowing what is actually true, or simply embracing a belief that is popular? The one person that will always be inclined to fool us the most is ourselves, and so we all need to start by working out a reliable way of determining what is and is not objectively true. No offence.
If you experience it, you know its right and you are in tune with God. The natural man understands not the things of God. Challenge Him!! All the talk in the world is futile. Say hallelujah over and over and your tongue WILL change. You have to be absolutely sincere in your approach. Test it! But all the waffle in the world as we do , will bring about nothing.
Whether the tongue sounds like a natural language or not is irrelevant. It can though as proven by certain comments here. My words are short and hopefully sweet. We love to analyse.
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We get on our soap box. You know what — the thing that man cannot control is the tongue. Stop debating and put it to the test. Stop arguing with the creator. Humility is called for. Repent, be baptised and you will receive the HS. Amen and amen. It is typically characterized by repetitive syllables, plays on sound patterns and over-simplification of syllable structure. Modern tongues is just another tool, like chanting or meditation, etc. In this respect i. The relatively generic messages however do not suggest anything divinely inspired. This is clearly evidenced in that the same glossic string played to ten different interpreters yields ten non-related results.
Where in the word of God do we any just say repeat hallelujah. When anyone received the sign gift it was instant. Not something one could be taught,. As you say hallelujah your tongue will change. You have to be of a contrite heart. Without my Spirit, you are none of mine. Stay skeprical if you want to. My sheep know my voice. So one has to beware as we know emotions, feeling and experience can not be relied upon as they change. But Gods work never changes.
I asked her how she knew it was in ancient hebrew, and she stated that it sounded like the hebrew she heard on TV. I pointed out that hebrew was already a dead language by the time of the so called biblical timer of christ. And today, hebrew is taught like latin phonetically and we have no way to know what the original hebrew alphabet sounded like.
And se was just mimicking what she heard on TV and just making up words. She asked me how I knew this, and i responded in actual hebrew to answer her question. I was immediately told to leave the house. It is different from modern Hebrew. What was tongues at Pentecost? What was tongues 19 and 23 later?? Example could Paul really know how many hours he prayed?
She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. I guess the Apostle Paul was deluded when he said that he was glad that he spoke more in tongues than others? Exodus For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. The Hebrew word yom and its plural form yamim are used over times in the Old Testament.
Outside of the Genesis 1 case in question, the two-hundred plus occurrences of yom preceded by ordinals all refer to a normal twenty-four hour day. Furthermore, the seven-hundred plus appearances of yamim always refer to a regular day. Thus, it is argued that the Exodus reference to the six yamim of creation must also refer to six regular days.
For example, have you read Numbers 7 recently? It is one of those boring sections that you would rather skip over in your Bible reading plan, forgetting what 2 Timothy says! Well, in Numbers 7, the tribes of Israel bring their gifts for the Tabernacle to Moses. In Numbers , we read that the tribe of Judah brought their offering on the first day. On the second day, the tribe of Issachar came Numbers Zebulun brought their offering on the third day Numbers Since a day with the Lord is as a thousand years 2 Peter , was poor old Moses sat there for 12, years, waiting for these offerings?
Of course not! These were 12 literal hour days. And the grammar of Numbers 7 is identical to that of Genesis 1. In fact, outside of Genesis 1, there is not a single example of the word yom being used with a number, where it does not mean a 24 hour day. So, there is no reason to interpret Genesis 1 in any other way than to state that it refers to hour days. Why did God take six days? If you think about it, an infinite Creator God could have created everything in no time.
Why, then, did He take as long as six days? The answer is given in Exodus Here we find that God tells us that He deliberately took six days and rested for one as a pattern for man—this is where the seven-day week comes from. The seven-day week has no basis for existing except from Scripture. If one believes that the days of creation are long periods of time, then the week becomes meaningless. The Bible tells us that Adam was created on the sixth day.
If he lived through day six and day seven, and then died when he was years old, and if each of these days was a thousand or a million years, you have major problems! On the fourth day of creation Genesis , we are given the comparison of day to night, and days to years. Is there any scriptures that command or instruct us to speak in tongues. If tongues is so important why is it not a requirements for bishop, Elders, pastors and deacons. Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons. In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well. Against such things there is no law. Even Roman Catholics, Protestants, cults, and some who call themselves Baptists, practice tongues and have joined the movement. Are tongues in your assembly different from all these other tongues? You have up to 3 messages in tongues with an interpretation after each message and then at the most, 3 prophecies.
Speaking in tongues is the outward manifestation of an inward experience. Repent, get baptised and receive the Holy Spirit. I promise you your life will change forever for the good. Basically turn or burn! Have a look around you, greed, no morals, boasters, children disobedient to parents, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Receive the Spirit speaking in tongues and walk on in that way before the Lord returns.
Repentance means basically to turn away from our own way of thinking and turn to the Lord. Just a few scriptures for you. Mark , Acts ,38, Acts The Lord Jesus had no need to speak in tongues He was God as a man. We have to be filled with His Spirit, and walk on the Spirit until the day of His return. Hope this answers some of your questions.
I live in the southern hemisphere nowadays so its after 11 pm here. Cheers, Carole. Good morning Mario. The elders, bishops, etc of the NT did speak in tongues. I read my Bible for a few years before I was saved. I could understand some of the Gospels, i. He made man i. I can only suggest that you get down on your knees and ask the Lord to fill you.
You really have to want it and approach Him in a humble manner on your knees , ask from the heart and say a few hallelujahs. It happened to me as I said 38 years ago, it can happen to you too. Be like a child and do what He says, not what I say. Many are called but few are chosen. As Anglo-Saxon Celtic folk we could learn a lot from them,. They have nothing in the natural sense but they are richer than millionaires because He cares! Ask the Lord to direct you to the Truth. No man can come to the Father but by Him Jesus Christ.
Why should I make stories up or tell a lie, what does that profit me? I am telling you the absolute truth. He provides all my needs, not necessarily my wants. How blessed I am. As I said do what He says. That great and terrible day of the Lord is night at hand. Great for Spirt filled overcoming believers but terrible for everyone else. Take care. The Lord expects us to do everything decently and in order as the scriptures says and not to burst out in tongues willy nilly. The assembly I attend does everything decently and in order.
We have up to 3 messages in tongues with an interpretation after each message and then at the most, 3 prophecies. I received the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues 38 years ago, that experience has never left me. At that time I suffered with anorexia nervosa, the Lord heal me. We are expected to repent turn away from our own ideas , get baptised the Greek word meaning inundated NOT sprinkled, christening is not mentioned in the Bible how can a baby or small child repent AND you shall receive the Holy Spirit.
Its to be used in our daily prayer life as well as in the operation of the Spiritual Gifts during a meeting. Yes, but that outward manifestation is entirely self-created. Read some of the posts below. Some tongues languages are recognisable. One chap in our meeting, though not entirely all in the French language, gives messages in tongues and I recognise some words as French as I learned it at school. I found your excellent post after a search related to an unrelated idea.
Hebrew, along with a very strangely skewed version of Church History. It feels really nice to do, and one sometimes enters into a similar state to some forms of meditation. You may as well be blowing rasberries. For me this process took many years, and was made possible in part because my health collapsed while I was a believer. I had no energy to read or listen to audio books, or talk to people. I just had to sit and think, and in that situation you naturally become more honest with yourself. I like your website by the way. We are here to experience life for our Spirit, Higher Self, Soul, etc.
On a human level speaking in tongues is unfortunately a farce, but on a Spiritual level the delusion we see from the religious minded is exactly as it should be. Thanks for sharing, Dan. Opening up. I feels like reaching a higher state of mind. When you received tongues did you hear the sound of a mighty rushing wind? Did you see cloves like fire rest upon you? Did tongues come immediately? Did any of the people that received the gift of tongues at Pentecost, then teach other believers to speak in tongues?
Is this biblical. The power of God. Better felt than telt!!!! The results of the study were exactly as one would expect. Hello there! Therefore, the margin for error in communication is increased: without reviewing the cited sources, we cannot know if the author of this article is presenting study findings accurately.
I have personally heard reports of people praying in tongues unknown to them, only for the tongue to be recognized by another individual as a modern day language. I do not expect anyone to read the statement I just made and believe in the gift of tongues, or that the reports are true. Thirdly, the existence of false practitioners of tongues people who imitate or create language-like sounds out of deep belief or a desire to deceive is not sufficient to negate the existence of legitimate practitioners of tongues. However, although Joey is just making convincing noises, Phoebe is speaking a real language.
Finally, there are several issues with the research cited in this article: — We do not know if any of the research conducted was skewed by research bias. A made up language? A real language that was unknown to every student? A made up language very similar to a language that each student spoke?
Scientifically speaking, if study findings cannot be replicated, the findings of the initial study are typically considered anomalies. All of the studies are rather outdated, and two were published during the same year. This is a phenomenon dating back to Ancient Rome, with worldwide reports of its occurrence. Additional studies are therefore warranted before a definite conclusion can be reached.
However, they are questions worth asking, because they offer insight into the validity of the research, and because this article fails to address them. Academically speaking, this article has little merit. One might find that the same can be said of the sources cited. Although somewhat lengthy, I think you need to go through the comments below to get more insight to the modern phenomenon of tongues with respect to studies and general comments. Menu Skip to primary content. His conclusions were as follows: While speaking in tongues does appear at first to resemble human language, that was only on the surface.
The actual stream of speech was not organised and there was no existing relationship between units of speech and concepts. The speakers might believe it to be a real language, but it was totally meaningless [Samarin, William J. New York: Macmillan] Note that this is not just a blog opinion, its peer reviewed research carried out over many years by a highly qualified open-minded linguist.
Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply. What leads you to conclude that anything supernatural is going on? Is faith a reliable way to reach conclusions that are true? Do read the scientific benefits of speaking in tongues too Loading Jesus had to die before he could send the Holy Spirit to live in us and build the Heavenly Church Jesus received the Holy Spirit at his baptism and never spoke in tongues John the Baptist had the Holy Spirit from birth. He did not speak in tongues. What, then, is praying in tongues, and how is it different than speaking in tongues?
This interpretation does not agree with those who view praying in tongues as a prayer language. If tongues had to be interpreted in the church, then satan could also know what was said???? When you say you are not a believer, do you mean in tongues or in Jesus Christ? Faith is the only evidence you need. Read Hebrews See the explanations below for a discussion on 1 Cor. HI lisa How did you get to know about speaking in tongues? What made you want to speak in tongues?
Hi Dave Who were the sign gifts for? The nation of Israel always required a sign. The Apostles 2 Corinthians 14 ….. Hi Mario, I have a question. Dave Loading Hi Dave, I have a question. Mario Loading He ended as bisjop of Greenland, and hopefully learned their language… Loading Thank you so much for helping me understand ,that is pretty much what I thought Loading Hi Jim, How do you work out when it is supernatural and truly authentic, and when it is fake and people are simply fooling themselves? Should have added to the above — Thus, the results are more or less what one would expect; i.
Hi Amanda One not go by experiences, feelings and emotions. What did you get out of that experience? What did the tongues do for you? One must aware that there are false tongues and true tongues. God is always with you, he lives in you, you can not get closer or further away from God. Ignore capitals please Loading Your advise is much appreciate Thank you Loading Foucault Discipline and Punish Pennycook English and the Discourses of Colonialism Edward Shizha and Michael T.
Homi K. Foucault The History of Sexuality 1 : William J. Fanon The Wretched of the Earth Samarin Tongues of Men and Angels Author: Ekaputra Tupamahu 1. Keywords: Pentecostalism ; tongues ; glossolalia ; language ; politics ; postcolonialism. Restricted Access. Add to Cart. Have an Access Token? Enter your access token to activate and access content online. Please login and go to your personal user account to enter your access token. Have Institutional Access?
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Zarqawi Planning WMD Attack Europe
Forget Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now the most dangerous man in the world.
The monthly German magazine "Cicero" claims that Zarqawi is planning a major attack in Europe. Zaman:
The magazine quotes a German intelligence official saying, "We fear that Zarqawi is planning a big explosion." Zarqawi is trying to source arms equipment from the region of Georgia and the northern Caucasus, according to Cicero. Another intelligence official says in the article that he does not know if Zarqawi has managed to procure arms. "We only know that he has been working on this," the official said. Cicero pointed out that at least 150-security guards are investigating a planned terrorist attack in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg or Berlin.
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Zarqawi has made such threats in the past. In December, German papers ran stories alleging that the terrorist leader was planning a terror strike of greater magnitude than 9/11. What is new is that intelligence has specific targets.
A chemical weapons lab was found in Fallujah shortly, but no quantities of WMD were located. Fallujah was Zarqawi's headquarters until it was liberated by U.S. troops late last year.
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Zarqawi is also being tried in absentia in Jordan for "planning a major chemical weapons attack that was uncovered by the authorities."
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Dr. John disappoints; George Porter Jr. doesn't on the first day of Jazz Fest.
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[Updated] The Zurich Classic is on the West Bank this weekend, and yesterday Jazz Fest felt like a practice round - a beautiful day for everybody to get out to the Fair Grounds, warm up, get their first beers, their first cochon de lait, and their first sunburn. But while a lot was good, little on the lineup screamed, "SEE ME!"
I give Dr. John credit for committing to the return to his psychedelic self. Other artists who've made albums with auteur producers that revisit their former selves back away from that album fairly quickly. Dr. John opened his set on the Acura Stage with a series of songs from Locked Down, then stayed in the Night Tripper mode. Unfortunately, his band - the Nite Trippers - simply wasn't didn't have enough game for his material. "Walk on Gilded Splinters" was logey instead of swampy, and their inability to hit the stylized New Orleans groove that these songs require left them static. The one person on stage who seemed to be having fun was the woman playing trombone, who took a solo in every song I saw, usually from the lip of the stage. Those around me attributed the band's shortcomings to not being from New Orleans, but the band on Locked Down were from out of state as well. On Friday, they just weren't up to his material and stature.
Recent Jazz Fests have been a reminder that time forces a changing of the guard, as The Radiators hung it up, and this year The Nevilles perform one day while Aaron performs another, neither closing the Acura Stage. You often notice that some of the funk legends are not what you lovingly remember and hope for, but not George Porter Jr. He remains reliably funky and committed to the thing he does. Lineups come and go (though his current one is pretty stable; it seems like Brint Anderson and Mike Lemmler have been with him since they put a man on the moon), but he continues to musical meaning in Meters-like funk, and still does it with a lot of joy.
- "We all came back to soon and we all got a cough," Mark McGrain said during his set in the Jazz Tent with Plunge. "Some called it the Katrina Cough. We called it 'croop with a K.'" The sonic equivalent of that description is a crusty stomp as James Singleton beat on his strings and McGrain mired his trombone in his mute. For the last two numbers, McGrain brought out Tim Green and Kirk Joseph to do something I'm surprised doesn't happen more often - contemporary jazz from a brass band-like ensemble.
- The Soul Rebels weren't the first brass band to mix brass and hip-hop, but they were one of the first to sound like they weren't condescending when rapping. No surprise then that they do a version of Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" that understands the place of the band in the song. Whether it's a good thing or not that they minimize their personality behind the voice is open for debate, but the hook cooked every time as a result.
- In their interview with Cherie LeJeune, The Breton Sound talked about not fitting in. Friday at Jazz Fest, it was clear what they meant. They played music made for arenas in an enclosure made for horses in a city that doesn't have a path for people who want to make big rock.
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Mark McGrain plays trombone, not trumpet as first written. The text has been modified to reflect this change.
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I agree with your comment about nothing standing out. I ended up seeing John Mayer though desperate for a reason not to. On the upside, he has matured since I was forced to see him a decade ago. That was a horrendous show! I've heard similar about Dr. John's new band. Too bad.
Eric Sarrett — April 29, 2013 - 11:19am
I'm sure John Mayer's better than I think he is, but his celebrity is much more clearly in focus for me than his music.
Alex Rawls — April 29, 2013 - 11:25am
I agree. The've definitely updated his image, but I write on my blog about how I couldn't get past it. You know he's a douche and not some cool blues cat no matter how they dress him up. If Joshua Redman would have headlined the jazz tent, as he should have, I would have been over there. On the bright side, Mayer is very popular so as I'm trying to build and get traction for my own blog, I got a little notice from his fans searching the web. BTW, I was told to check you out by Ashley Lanaux. Did a piece on BTE for Offbeat at Mardi Gras and we were chatting about my personal blog and she suggested I look you up. Said you were editor there before?
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The mayor visited Beijing's Tiananmen Square
Ken Livingstone has compared events in China's Tiananmen Square to the history of protest in London's Trafalgar Square during a visit to Beijing.
China's human rights record was raised as he went to the site of the 1989 massacre. London's Mayor said his city also had an "interesting history".
He is in the 2008 Olympic Games host city to build trade and tourism links.
But some human rights campaigners said to compare the poll tax riots to the killings was an "insult" to the dead.
Tibet campaigner Yael Weisz-Rind said: "I feel it is really unfortunate to make this comparison. The political and the cultural background and context are not similar."
Tiananmen dead
Estimates of the number of people killed when troops and tanks broke up demonstrations in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square vary.
The Central Intelligence Agency says 400-800 died, the Chinese Red Cross 2,600. Student protesters say more than 7,000 died.
No one died in London's poll tax riots and the police did not use tanks.
They came after a peaceful march by 70,000 protesters. There were 400 arrests and injuries to 113 people, including 45 police.
There is no such thing as one country with a perfect record
Mr Livingstone told reporters: "In the same way that Trafalgar Square has had an interesting history, not always a peaceful one, there's a very clear parallel.
"We've had some interesting riots in Trafalgar Square - I mean, only 20 years ago, the poll tax riots, and flames licking up."
Mr Livingstone said: "If you go back to some of the early instances you will find many cases where innocent protesters were hacked to pieces with sabres - the Peterloo Massacre, for example.
"There is no such thing as one country with a perfect record."
In the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, 11 people were killed and 400 injured when local militia waded into a crowd of radicals campaigning for universal suffrage.
Relations work
Mr Livingstone also met the mayor of Beijing on Monday as part of his visit to promote trade and tourism between the two cities.
He said he hoped to learn and build on Beijing's experience hosting the 2008 Olympics for London's 2012 planning.
Poll tax riots took place in 1990
Mr Livingstone said: "The best way to carry human rights forward is to engage between nations and bring down barriers.
"The more Chinese people that come and visit London, the more Londoners that come here, the better the trade links are and the more we will find that China evolves to the place we would like it to be."
Lord Coe, who led Britain's 2012 Olympic Games bid, is among 70 delegates travelling with the mayor.
They will meet organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to foster relations with the 2012 committee.
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Native students protest EMU's racism
Native American group holds protest at EMU following racial incident
By Melanie MaxwellNative Americans attending a rally at Eastern Michigan University Wednesday had a message for the dozen or so students involved in a recent racial incident: apologize.
Nathaniel Phillips, the Native American man who reported the harassment to police, was on hand playing a drum and shaking hands of the hundred or so people who gathered to listen to members of the Native American Student Organization speak outside the EMU Student Center.
Amber Morseau, president of NASO, said the response from the university and the EMU students who allegedly heckled and threw a beer can at Phillips while they were wearing headdresses with painted faces has not been satisfactory. The NASO considers the acts "racist" and a "hate crime."
"We as natives and we as human beings will not accept this silence," she said. "It is unacceptable for us, our relatives, our brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers."EMU takes action
Coincidentally, or perhaps in response to the protest, school officials acted the same day:
EMU investigates report of students dressed as Native Americans during off-campus party
By Ben Baird and Austen Smith"Eastern Michigan University takes these matters very seriously and remains strongly committed to maintaining a respectful, inclusive and safe environment, in which acts that seek to inflict physical, psychological or emotional harm on specific demographic groups will not be tolerated," according to the university's statement.
"The investigation into this matter is ongoing, and will be guided by the university's policies and procedures that govern student conduct."
The university changed its mascot from the Hurons to the Eagles on May 22, 1991. It marked the end of more than 60 years of tradition.
The EMU Board of Regents initiated the mascot name change after an Oct. 1988 Michigan Department of Civil Rights report questioning the use of Native American imagery by school athletics. The report stated use of names, logos and mascots promoted racial stereotypes.EMU announces chief diversity officer job after racially charged incidents
By Jeremy AllenPresident Susan Martin announced Wednesday that Eastern Michigan University was creating a chief diversity officer.
The announcement came less than a week after the university sent a campus-wide email detailing a confrontation April 11 between several students dressed in native American garb and an Ypsilanti resident of native American descent at an off-campus party.
In her email to campus announcing the position, Martin said that incident was one of several that have raised issues of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Days before the altercation at the party, four student protesters were detained at a screening of the movie "American Sniper." They were protesting because they said the movie was insensitive toward Muslims."Hurons" name lingers
EMU's Native American student group asks university for more support during rally (PHOTOS)
By Ben BairdNASO members made clear they are not satisfied with the university administration's response so far, both in regards to the students in red face as well as the reappearance of the Hurons logo on campus. The Hurons mascot was eliminated more than 20 years ago after a campus-wide effort was begun by four Native American women who found it disrespectful.
Davi Trusty, who was the president of NASO in 1991 when he attended EMU, said he feels it's a shame Native American students are still fighting the same issues that he fought.
If someone thinks it's okay to tell a Native American to go back to the reservation or to put makeup on their face and pretend to be an "Indian" something is wrong in that person's psyche, he said.
Trusty said they appreciate the love and support members of the community have shown following this incident.
Morseau said Kay McGowan, an adjunct professor at EMU who teaches anthropology and sociology classes, spoke to each of her classes April 15 about racism, disrespect toward women and the culture of erasure--of a dominant culture diminishing another.
McGowan, the only Native American professor on campus, subsequently received an email from someone identifying himself as "John Smith" who told her no harm was intended by what happened April 11 and that the Native American community was overreacting.
"This email alone demonstrates to us that these students involved do not understand what it is they have done and they certainly have yet to see the consequences deserved for what we consider to be a hate crime," Morseau said.Comment: No one said it explicitly, but the racist frat party with students in redface is a perfect example of what the NCAA criticized. Namely, how Indian mascots create a "hostile and abusive environment." What could be more hostile than telling an actual to go back to the reservation? Or assaulting him with a beer can?
The students claimed they were "Hurons"--meaning wild savages who could do whatever they wanted. The "Hurons" identity created this problem. It gave them a license to indulge in ugly behavior, and to blame it on the Indians.
That's what Indian mascots do. And that's why they have to go.
For more on the subject, see What "Go Back to the Reservation" Means and EMU Students in Redface Taunt Indian.
Posted by Rob at 7:38 AM
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Emu's would have been an even better mascot.
Those moaning about the "tradition" of a dubious mascot for a college hardly known outside a 50-mile radius need to get a life.
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Yasay failed to report Banco Filipino loans to BSP: ex-central bank gov
Posted at Aug 29 2019 09:18 AM | Updated as of Aug 29 2019 09:41 AM
MANILA - A former central bank governor on Thursday belied former foreign affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. claim that he was not liable in the P350 million worth of loans by Banco Filipino.
It's about depositors, Yasay says on Banco Filipino woes
Yasay was briefly detained last week over the alleged violation of violating two Philippine banking laws from loans made by Banco Filipino in 2003 to 2006.
He said he should not have been arrested or charged since the loans were granted before he joined the bank in 2009 as a board member.
'Fight for justice begins': Ex-foreign affairs chief Yasay posts bail
Former BSP Governor Jose Cuisia Jr. said Yasay was already a board director of the shuttered bank in 2010 when the central bank transmitted an examination report that directed them to rectify Banco Filipino's violation of banking laws.
Police records showed Yasay failed to report to BSP the approval of P350 million worth of loans by Banco Filipino to Tierrasud Incorporated, owned by Tropical Land Corporation which had 1.8 percent shares in the shuttered bank.
"There is a requirement that loans to stockholders owning more than 1 percent of the stockholdings of the bank must be reported to the central which they failed to do," Cuisia told ANC's Early Edition.
"There were two directives sent to the board of Banco Filipino and they did not respect or heed the directives of the monetary board."
A second report of examination was sent to Banco Filipino's board in September 2010, Cuisia said.
"The bank was closed finally in 2011 so they had so much time to comply," he said.
"He should read the manual regulations of bank [it] is very specific. They must report it to the Monetary board. And he’s a lawyer, so he should know."
Cuisia said the central bank offered to reopen Banco Filipino after a 1991 Supreme Court decision favored the shuttered bank but Tomas Aguirre, father of Banco Filipino president Anthony Aguirre, refused to pay the central bank's P3 billion emergency loan.
"Tommy Aguirre wanted to pay at the end of 10 years with no interest, which of course is clearly way out of the monetary board and I did not agree to those terms," he said.
"I was not even asking full payment of the loan, I said 50 percent and the balance over 5 years with interest."
Cuisia added that the central bank may hire private counsel after Yasay took a swipe at a private lawyer who “pushed his way around” during his arrest.
"Under the new central bank charter, government may engage private counsel...again he gave the wrong information," Cuisia said.
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Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame
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2020 Baseball Trip Scheduled:
The dates for the Chicago baseball trip are:
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, depart from Sal Maglie Stadium at 7:00 AM going to Cubs/Orioles game at 7:05 PM
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 depart South Bend Indiana at 8:00 AM heading to Cleveland for Red Sox/Indians game at 1:10 PM.
Cost is $250 a person. Send check to John Goodfellow, 1901 Bruce Lane, Grand Island, NY 14072.
The date for the Toronto trip is Sunday, May 3, 2020. Less than 40 tickets remain.
Bus departs Sal Maglie Stadium at 9:00 AM going to Yankees/Blue Jays game which starts at 1:07 PM.
Cost is $60 per adult (male or female). Passport or enhanced drivers license needed to cross border bridges in and out of Canada.
Contact John Goodfellow if interested at goodygoody@verizon.net or call at 773-7186.
Joe Rizzo Elected NFSHOF President
Joe Rizzo has been elected as the new President of the Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame, filling the position left vacant after the passing of Tony Quaranto in October of 2019. Joe Rizzo was inducted into the NFSHOF in 2006 after a long and distinguished career as an athlete, football/wrestling/baseball coach and wrestling official. Joe will continue his position as Bylaws Interpreter for the Board.
Applications are being accepted for the 2020 induction class and can be downloaded at http://nfshof.blogspot.com/p/application.html or by contacting a NFSHOF Board member. Applicants must be at 55 years of age and the deadline for applications is June 30, 2020.
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Tony Quaranto
Niagara Falls lost one of it's most dedicated citizens yesterday in Tony Quaranto. Tony was the President of the Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame, former Niagara Falls Councilman, County Legislator Chairman and a man who always put out a hand in friendship. Tony will be missed by family, friends and by the countless people who he had affected their lives.
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Saturday, October 19th, Como Restaurant
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The Art Calandrelli Stadium dedication ceremony held October 4th and 5th was a great success and moving two days. Ellen Latham, daughter of Art and Rose Calandrelli and co-founder of the Orange Theory Fitness Centers, donated $150,000 to Niagara Falls high school for the stadium dedication and $5,000 scholarships to be awarded each April to a football and track participant. NF Hall of Fame inductees Roger Hailey (2016) and Joe Rizzo (2006) were among the individuals chosen to share memories from their playing and coaching years with Art Calandrelli.
Congratulations to the 2019 NFSHOF Inductees!
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2019 Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame Class Announced
Randy Burns
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Marty Felice ( deceased)
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James (Mike) Niland (deceased)
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Paul A. Quarantillo
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The new class will be enshrined during the Induction dinner at 6 PM at the Como Restaurant on Oct. 19th. For ticket information contact Mitch Adamshick (773-4743) or Tony Quaranto (285-3267).
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Standing: Billy Clingersmith, Mitch Adamshick (Secretary), John Goodfellow, Joe Colosi, Dan Bazzani (Vice President), Bill Ross and Frank Colucci.
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The Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame honors members of the community who have contributed to the community through their sports activities as athletes, coaches, managers, organizers, sponsors and volunteers.
The Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame, previously known as The Old Timers Sports Hall of Fame has been in existence since 1968. Over the past 45 years The Hall has honored 258 members of the Niagara Falls community that have contributed in some way to the field of athletics.
The Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame elects members into the Hall once a year. A person may be nominated for the Hall, but he must be elected into the Hall - a nomination does not guarantee induction into the Hall.
Harold Quinn and Pep DiRamio founded this organization in 1968. Eligible recipients must be 55 years of age or older to be considered for induction.
In 1975, the Pep DiRamio Award was established to recognize a member of the committee for special efforts in the success of our program.
In 1997, the Memorial Award was established to recognize the deceased individuals who were never selected.
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In the wake of an incident yesterday in which a Turkish warplane was shot down by Syrian forces who claimed it had crossed into Syrian airspace, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has formed a new government — one that includes his old defense minister, who was rumored to have been assassinated. (The Turkish government, for its part, says the aircraft was just a recon plane, and is considering the proper action to take.) Meanwhile, shelling of a city near the Iraqi border by the Syrian Army has left at least 28 dead, opposition activists tell Reuters.
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Longer video shows shouting, spitting between Rice, Palmer
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 12:00pm
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- A longer, more detailed video of the fight between Ray Rice and Janay Palmer shows them shouting obscenities at each other, and she appears to spit in the face of the three-time Pro Bowl running back before he throws a brutal punch.
The video, shown to The Associated Press Monday night by a law enforcement official, includes audio and is longer than the grainy TMZ Sports video released earlier that day.
After the TMZ video made its way around the Internet, the Baltimore Ravens cut Rice and the league suspended him indefinitely. Rice was originally suspended for two games and coaches and others had praised his behavior since the arrest for striking his then-fiancee in February.
The fallout continued Tuesday: Nike severed business ties with Rice, and video game publisher Electronic Arts said it would scrub all traces of his image from the Madden '15 game, the oldest and most popular football video game franchise.
The videos show Rice and Palmer in an elevator at an Atlantic City casino. Each hits the other before Rice knocks Palmer off her feet and into a railing. Months ago, a TMZ video showed Rice dragging Palmer, now his wife, from the elevator at the Revel casino, which closed on Sept. 2.
The higher-quality video shown to the AP shows Rice made no attempt to cover up the incident. After Palmer collapses, he drags her out of the elevator and is met by some hotel staff. One of them can be heard saying, "She's drunk, right?" And then, "No cops." But Rice didn't respond.
The video was shown to the AP on condition of anonymity because the official isn't authorized to release it.
Coach John Harbaugh said he met with Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, team president Dick Cass and general manager Ozzie Newsome after they saw the TMZ video, and they made the decision to let Rice go.
"It's something we saw for the first time today, all of us," Harbaugh said. "It changed things, of course. It made things a little bit different."
The action represented a complete reversal for the team, even though an Atlantic City police summons stated that Rice caused "bodily injury to Janay Palmer, specifically by striking her with his hand, rendering her unconscious."
The Ravens had used words like "respect" and "proud" in referring to Rice following his arrest.
When the NFL announced Rice's two-game suspension for domestic violence on July 24, Newsome said: "We respect the efforts Ray has made to become the best partner and father he can be. That night was not typical of the Ray Rice we know and respect. We believe that he will not let that one night define who he is, and he is determined to make sure something like this never happens again.
Asked Monday night if Rice misled him, Harbaugh said he didn't want to get into "all that."
"I don't think of it that way. Everything I said in terms of what I believe, I stand by," he said. "I believe that still, and I'll always believe those things, and (we'll) always stand in support of them as a couple, and that's not going to change."
Rice said in a news conference this summer that his actions that night were "inexcusable." But the Ravens never took action against him until after the second video was released.
The NFL, which has been working hard to promote the game to women, also took action after the explicit video was released. Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that, based on the new video evidence, Rice has been suspended indefinitely.
"We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday morning. "That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today."
Rice's lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.
Rice, 27, stood to make $4 million this year.
"Obviously, any video that depicts an act of violence in that video is disturbing to watch. For our union, we have an unshakable position against any violence, certainly domestic violence included," NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said at the Seahawks' facility in Renton, Washington. "It will be a time for us now to catch up with everything else that has occurred today."
He had been charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being purged from his record.
After Goodell drew criticism for not being tough enough on Rice, he wrote a letter to all 32 NFL owners in August saying he "didn't get it right." First-time offenders now face a six-game suspension.
Rice began his suspension Sunday, when the Ravens opened their season with a 23-16 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He was scheduled to return after Thursday night's game against Pittsburgh.
He leaves the Ravens as the second-leading rusher in franchise history, behind only Jamal Lewis. A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Rice is the team's career leader in total yards from scrimmage (9,214) and is the only player in Ravens history to rush for 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons.
But those are mere numbers, and his actions in that elevator shed a new light on him.
"I'm not going to go into what he told us or anything or if it matches or if it doesn't," Ravens receiver Torrey Smith said. "That doesn't matter. What matters is what you see. It wasn't a pleasant sight at all."
Rice hasn't spoken often to the media since his arrest, but on July 31 he said this is "something I have to live with the rest of my life."
He added: "I know that's not who I am as a man. ... I let so many people down because of 30 seconds of my life that I know I can't take back."
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Asshole Kim Boland and the 3 blind Mice - Revisit
"VANCOUVER — The mayor of Vancouver has apologized to two men and a teenage boy singled out in an internal police bulletin leaked to the press for their “suspicious behaviour” at a downtown shopping mall. Gregor Robertson said it was a mistake that a document containing unblurred photos of three men described as “Middle Eastern” was made public and that an online media outlet published the pictures.
The Vancouver Police Department is conducting an internal review to better understand how the bulletin was leaked when it was intended only for internal circulation among police. In the meantime, the VPD has offered to drive the men around during the remainder of their stay.
Robertson said what’s important is that visitors to Vancouver feel valued and respected. “We’re a city that takes care of people,” he said. “We respect people no matter what their background, where they come from and what they believe in. That’s what this city is all about.”
Propanganistic bullshit notwithstanding there is more. The idiot/dope/chitheads at "Vancity Buzz", the ones arguably responsible for starting the whole thing have censored their abject stupidity off the net completely.
The mayor laid blame on the media for publishing the identifying photographs. “That’s not appropriate. That should not have happened” he said. “There’s also journalistic integrity that comes into play here.”
Gregor Roberston says sorry for mistake that saw images go viral.
And where, one wonders, is Ms. Kim Boland's apology for being a direct CAUSE of the images going viral? Nowhere to be seen because she feels the matter is 'cleared up' now.
http://www.vancouversun.com/vancouver+mayor+apologizes+mall+photos/11656077/story.html#ixzz3xYyOUUEc______________________________
We have a quote from Ms. Boland that seems to sum up her wholesale lack of journalistic integrity. "Just like you, I saw the information on social media and put it up on here. When we learned it had NOT been released, I took it down. I agree it’s concerning that it was leaked. I don’t know by who or how. The good news is that the whole thing has been cleared up now."
Grrrrrrr our fukkin doodle. The matter is not 'cleared up now'. Ms. Boland breathlessly published these men's photos and they are now seen, in some circles, as potential terrorists. They were doing nothing illegal or improper.
What, precisely, gives Ms. Boland the self-appointed right to permanently remove their anonymity? The fact she stole the images from social media?
Further. This woman apparently does no due diligence whatever and relies on her rat VPD oinkers and then social media for her 'story'. WTF? When called out for her grotesque stupidity she falls back on them as the excuse for it. Good grief we 'hate' this manner of open hypocrite and we have said as much to her. Clearly it did no good. "If you have concerns about how the VPD has released this information, please contact them In this case, I am just the messenger."
I say this to Ms. Kim Boland, again. Smarten the fuk up you fully dopey chitbag. When you fuk up severely like this DON'T blame somebody else and DON'T pretend it doesn't matter. Take responsibility for what you did 'woman'.
The two men and one youth caught up in a police investigation and media leak gone wrong are speaking out about all the attention they unintentionally attracted after photographing parts of a downtown Vancouver mall, simply to see it better.
"These guys can't even see! And you expect them to be pulling off something big," said Mohammed Sharaz, who is in Vancouver with his son, Salahuddin Sharaz, and friend, Mohammed Kareem, both of whom suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition which eventually causes vision loss.
A police memo was leaked to the media showing pictures of the men and youth in Pacific Centre mall holding their phones up, appearing to take photographs. In the document, police described them as looking 'Middle-Eastern' and noted they were seen taking photographs of the mall's exits and entrances. The memo said officers only wanted to speak with them.
Mohammed Kareem, Salahuddin Sharaz, 14, and dad Mohammed Sharaz
'Investigative reporter' Kim Boland wrote breathlessly about the 'terrorists' ... here (before editing her material)
We have said before her form of yellow 'journalism' fucking reeks and now we have the perfect example of it.
The woman is a conduit for retarded VPD cops. OF COURSE innocent people will get hurt and this woman NEEDS to be bloody ashamed of herself. She isn't, she is now in full denial mode, saying she was just respewing what her rat piggies were spewing.
There is a pure sickness in chasing ambulances as a permanent career choice. This offense says it all.
It shows exactly how inbred these turds are.
The only titface moving faster than the VPD attempting to deny how corrupt they are here is Ms. Kim Boland. For fucking shame Kimmee, but I suppose one has to actually have ethics in order to offend them. Keep up the award winning 'journalism' you flatulent cow. Pffffft.
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Years 1980-1989
Authors: Tony Aarts and Peter Keim
CIAM Bureau Meeting April 18 in Paris. Following a discussion on judging problems at the 1979 RC-Aerobatic World Championships, the Bureau ruled that two judges are not to be considered for international contests for the next two years (reason: too great national bias in scores).
CIAM Plenary Meeting December 1/2 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 31 countries (78 people).
For all classes proxy flying is from now on no longer allowed.
The revised provisional rules for helicopters were approved and upgraded to official status. Starting 1985 it will be possible to organize World Championships for RC Helicopters.
Mutations in the Bureau were: 1st V-P L. Bovo, 2nd V-P P. Freebrey (was 3rd.), 3rd V-P O. Saffek (was 1st).
Mutations with S/C Chairmen: Scale D. Thumpston GBR (replaces H. Ziegler), Noise T. Paulsen NOR (replaces Nenin), Helicopters F. DeProft BEL (replaces Chapman), Pylon Race D. Day GBR (replaces DeBolt).
CIAM Bureau Meeting April 24 in Paris
The overall RC working group chairman has been asked to develop a proposal for reorganizing the RC subcommittee work for the various RC disciplines.
1981: J. Grigg, D. PrussCIAM Plenary Meeting December 3/4 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 31 countries (82 people).
The function of Overall RC Subcommittee Chairman became extinct. From now on each RC class subcommittee will operate separately and have its own responsibility.
In general the maximum weight of contest models had been changed from 5 kg with fuel into 5 kg without fuel. The maximum weight for RC helicopters had been raised from 5 kg to 6 kg without fuel. The maximum weight for single engine control line scale models had also been raised to 6 kg.
The 4-stroke engine is becoming popular because it produces less noise, but also less power. Therefore the maximum swept volume for these engines in class F3A has been set at 20 cm3. For scale models the max. swept volume of 4-stroke engines has been set to 15 cm3 for single engine models and a total of 30 cm3 for multi-engine models.
Setting a general noise limit for aeromodels could not be established. Each subcommittee was charged to propose noise limits for their own particular classes.
Following the reports on this year’s Free Flight and RC Aerobatics World Championships the Bureau noted the necessity to take greater responsibility when reviewing plans for these events, particularly concerning sites and organization.
For long duration records the help of an assistant pilot for a certain part of the flight will be allowed.
There were no mutations among the Bureau members. For the S/C Chairmen C. Olsen stepped down as Overall RC S/C chairman and Don Lindley (USA) became chairman of the Noise S/C i.l.o. T. Paulsen. R. Chidgey (USA) will chair the RC Aerobatics S/C.
1982: W. Kölliker, E. Krill, G. Gerard, R. BeckCIAM Bureau Meeting April 16 in Paris
According to new FAI rules the organizer of world championships cannot locally issue a provisional Sporting License to an individual competitor who does not present to the organizer in advance of official flying a Sporting License issued by his National Aero Club.
The Bureau discussed and approved for Plenary Meeting consideration that in addition to the Alphonse Pénaud Diplome a program of FAI recognition for other aeromodelling achievements be established.
Approved for inclusion in the Sporting Code rules for payment/reimbursement of travel expenses of invited officials for World and Continental Championships.
New issue of Sporting Code Section 4 planned for 1984.
There were no mutations in the composition of the Bureau. Only one subcommittee changed the chairman: G. Burford (AUS) was elected chairman of the Pylon Race S/C i.l.o. D. Day.
Awards: The Alphonse Penaud Diploma Richard Weber, USA.
Preparations were started for the 1984 edition of the Sporting Code Section 4, Aeromodels/Space models.
It was noted by the president that the number of subcommittees (11) seemed to be out of proportion in relation to the work performed. It was agreed that any S/C, which did not report in time for the Bureau Meeting, should be considered to be out of action for the balance of the year and the Plenary Meeting to decide whether the S/C would be reactivated for the following year. Rules were also set for the reporting of S/C activities to Bureau and Technical Secretary prior to Bureau and Plenary Meetings.
The Bureau noted concern for future World Championship schedules if and when new World Championships are approved. The Bureau advised that the current number (7, i.e. 3 Aeromodelling each year and one Spacemodelling every other year) not be increased.
1983: R. Herzog, R. Decker, G. Michiels, W. GrothCIAM Plenary Meeting December 1/2 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 31 countries (92 people).
The classes RC-Helicopters and RC-Pylon Race now meet the requirements for upgrading to World Championship status. Canada has offered to organize the first RC-Helicopter W. Ch. in 1985. This increases the number of world championships to nine. Proposal for realistic W/Ch. schedule still requested!
It was reported by the Director General that in future presidents of FAI Committees (such as CIAM) are automatically invited to CASI meetings.
So-called normalizing of scores for RC-aerobatics approved. This decision is important to reduce the difference in judging standards when more than one set of judges is used.
Awards: Alphonse Penaud Diploma E. Krill (AUT).
Mutations in the bureau: W. Groth (GER) was elected 1st Vice-President i.l.o. L. Bovo. The only change with the S/C chairmen was that D. Day replaces G. Burford as RC-Pylon Race S/C Chairman.
A judge’s course for RC aerobatics was to be held in September in Genk, Belgium.
1984: Control Line SubcommitteeCIAM Bureau Meeting April 12/13 in Paris
Noting the need to accommodate three new world championships (F3C RC-helicopters, F3D RC Pylon Race and in the very near future F3E (F5) Electric) the Bureau approved a two-year cycle for recommendation by the plenary meeting as follows: 1st year F1A, B, C, F3A, F3B, F3C, F3D and Space. Second year: F2A, B, C, D, F4B, C, F1D, F3E. The latter after obtaining World Championships status.
The Bureau decided positive on a proposal to interchange the dates of Bureau Meeting and Plenary Meeting. This means that starting in 1986 the Bureau Meeting will be held at the end of the year (late November/early December) and the Plenary Meeting in the spring, late March/early April. This schedule will better correspond with the main contest season in the northern hemisphere. The Plenary Meeting 1984 has the final decision on this proposal.
First Continental (European) Championship for RC-Helicopters organized in The Netherlands.
The first (limited) number of copies of the 1984 edition of the Sporting Code was distributed at the meeting.
The text of this edition has been stored in the computer of the AMA. This will considerably facilitate inserting future amendments.
The Plenary Meeting had approved the date change as proposed by the Bureau unanimously. As a consequence there will be no Plenary Meeting in 1985, but only two Bureau Meetings.
1984 Control Line Subcommittee1984 Control Line Subcommittee
World Championships schedule: discussion and voting on proposals from the Bureau (see 1984 Bureau meeting), Switzerland and Italy resulted in approval of the Bureau proposal, i.e. retaining the 2-year cycle, in accordance with the listing in the Bureau Minutes. In this respect the desirability was discussed of combining RC world championships in the future whenever possible.
Awards: The Alphonse Penaud diploma Werner Koelliker (SUI).
Mutations in the Bureau: 1st V-P O. Saffek (was 3rd V-P); 2nd V-P W. Groth (was 1st V-P); 3rd V-P P. Freebrey. The only change with the Subcommittee Chairmen was that R. Brown (USA) was elected i.l.o. D. Day for RC-Pylon Race.
CIAM Bureau Meeting April 25/26 in Paris
RC Electric Motor Gliders (F3E) has obtained world championship status. RC Electric aerobatics and Pylon Racing do not yet have W. Ch. status.
No Plenary Meeting due to changed meeting schedule for 1985/86.
First World Championship for RC-Helicopters organized in Canada. There were 37 participants from 17 countries.
First World Championship for RC-Pylon Race organized in the U.S.A., attended by 18 competitors from 6 countries.
CIAM Bureau Meeting December 5/6 in Paris
As a consequence of the new schedule of Bureau and Plenary Meetings the Bureau set up a time schedule for presenting offers for organizing World Championships and what (detail) information is be presented at what meeting.
A draft guideline for calculating entry fees has been approved by the Bureau. It will be presented to the Plenary Meeting for final approval and inclusion in the Organizers Guide.
Because it becomes still more difficult to enforce the Builder of the Model Rule proposals can be expected for complete or partial canceling of this rule.
The AMA has been requested to prepare an updated version of the Sporting Code Supplement for the April 1986 Plenary Meeting.
1986: Scale SubcommitteeCIAM Plenary Meeting April 24/25 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 29 countries (71 people).
In a letter to the CIAM the FAI President stated that CIAM participation in youth programs is desired; the term “Junior” needs to be defined by 1987.
The 1985 FAI General Conference approved more freedom for technical committees to establish or change rules.
Class F1E, Free Flight Slope Soaring obtained Continental Championship Status (not W.Ch. status).
First World Championship for Electric Motor Gliders, Class F3E (later recoded to F5B), organized by Belgium.
The “Builder of the Model” rule no longer applicable for classes F3A and F3C, RC-Aerobatics and RC-Helicopters respectively.
Mutations in the Bureau: Vice-Presidents changed position viz. 1st V-P P. Freebrey, 2nd V-P O. Saffek and 3rd V-P W. Groth.
There was only one change for the S/C Chairmen: RC-Soaring S/C J. Grigg, USA replaces D. Pruss who is seriously ill.
Awards: Alphonse Penaud Diploma J. Kalina (CZE)
As a result of scores evaluation of the 1986 Scale World Championships the Bureau suspended one of the judges who had shown extreme national bias for two years from judging any events on the FAI/CIAM Contest Calendar (1987-1988).
The Bureau approved a previous proposal to invite model press representatives to the next Plenary Meeting.
Because of irregularities in receiving some proposals for the forthcoming Plenary Meeting agenda, the Bureau decided that proposals for the agenda of the Plenary Meeting have to be received by the FAI office no later than 15 November with at the same time sending a copy to the CIAM President.
CIAM Plenary Meeting April 2/3 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 30 countries, of which three by proxy, totaling 76 people.
“Builder of the Model” rule declared no longer applicable for class F3A RC Aerobatics, F3B RC Soaring and F3D, RC-Pylon Race.
Broader specification limits are needed for RC Scale models. Approved were the increase of the maximum weight to 7 kg, the maximum surface area to 250 dm2 and no limit at all for motive power.
Restructuring of the Noise Subcommittee. The noise problem is becoming so important that all subcommittees involved in flying with models equipped with internal combustion engines should be active in developing noise reducing measures. The chairmen of these S/C should form the new Noise subcommittee.
Introduction of the international class for Large Scale Models. This class will not be eligible for World or Continental Championships.
The Free Flight Subcommittee will organize the first World Cup competition.
Awards: Alphonse Penaud Diploma A. Meczner (HUN)
New CIAM awards proposed by the USSR have been adopted viz. Aeromodelling Gold Medal for outstanding merits in organizational activities and the Antonov Diploma for technical innovations. In this respect the requirements for the Alphonse Penaud Diploma have been modified to now being applicable to sporting achievements only.
Mutations of Officers: All Bureau Members and Subcommittee Chairmen were re-elected.
The Plenary Meeting approved a statement to the FAI that the CIAM fully supports the significant changes in procedural and financial operations considered by the FAI President.
The new Noise Subcommittee (composed of the S/C chairmen with combustion engine power activities) met for the first time at this Bureau Meeting. The Bureau expressed its strong desire in promoting the overall need for noise reduction in order to encourage greater public acceptance of aeromodelling activity in general. The Bureau also emphasized that performance need not to suffer from noise reduction as shown by the F3A rules, which resulted in higher performance with less noise over the past years.
The FAI Presidents proposals (see 1987 Plenary Meeting) were discussed at length with the Director General with among others the possibility of future fund raising by sponsoring of events.
The Bureau approved the printing of the new 1989 edition of the Sporting Code and outlined the procedure for checking the draft by Bureau members and S/C chairmen.
The French edition of the Sporting Code will not be printed but be available in photocopy form on request.
CIAM Plenary Meeting April 21/22 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 33 countries, of which one by proxy (91 people).
At the end of the first day (April 21) all subcommittee chairmen met to discuss:
Safety: the Education/Information S/C chairman will make general set of safety recommendations applicable to all categories to be included in the next issue of the Sporting Code.
Noise: all S/C concerned are requested by the Bureau to develop in time for the next Bureau meeting either specific proposals for noise reduction or a plan of action to deal with the noise reduction problem. In case a S/C fails the Bureau intends to pursue some specific course of noise reduction effort.
On April 22nd FAI President Mr. Peter Lloyd addressed the meeting explaining the intended changes in he FAI organization, and stressed the need for positive thinking regarding new ideas and proposals. One of the new ideas was the introduction of sponsorship for World Championships so that they can be organized without loss.
The meeting unanimously approved the plans outlined by the FAI President.
The CIAM President reported the idea for so-called World Air Games, somewhat related to the Olympics in being scheduled at four year intervals. The first of these games is scheduled for 1991 in France.
Preparations were started for the 1989 issue of the Sporting Code Section 4.
Free flight slope soaring (Class F1E gliders with automatic steering) obtained World Championship status.
The “Builder of the Model” rule will no longer be applicable to the Free Flight classes (F1A thru F1J).
Poland will organize the first Free Flight World Championships for juniors.
The Free Flight S/C chairman reported a very successful first World Cup competition in 1987. The Bureau recommended that the appropriate subcommittees consider World Cup events for other categories.
Officer mutations: Bureau no change; S/C Chairmen: R. Ruijsink (NED) elected chairman of the Electric Flight S/C i.l.o. P. Blommaart, no other changes.
Awards: Alphonse Penaud Diploma H. Prettner (AUT)
Copies of the new 1989 edition of Sporting Code Section 4 were distributed at the meeting. Printing in the USA saved considerable cost.
It was reported that the first World Air Games had been scheduled for 1991 in France. CIAM will look what aeromodelling/spacemodelling classes are suitable for participation in the Games
CIAM Plenary Meeting March 30/31 in Paris, attended by representatives and observers from 34 countries (107 people!) of which two by proxy.
Due to lack of proposals from the noise-related subcommittees (except the F3A S/C) a general noise-limiting rule has been approved as a Bureau proposal, e.g. for all power classes 96 dB(A) at 3 meters. The S/C still have the possibility to come with specific and acceptable noise limits before the December 1989 Bureau Meeting.
The 1989 Sporting Code Section 4 is again subject to a rule freeze until 1993, except for safety items and clarifications.
The increasing power of RC soaring winch motors has been limited by introducing compulsory limiting electric specifications for battery and winch motor.
Officer mutations: Bureau no changes; Subcommittee Chairmen: for RC Soaring R. Girsberger (SWI) replaces J. Grigg and for Education/Information A. Schoeder (USA) replaces M. Dilly.
Awards: Aeromodelling Gold Medal P. Freebrey (GBR)
Antonov Diploma N. Astley Cooper (GBR)
Alphonse Penaud Diploma J. Richmond (USA)
For the second time a combined World Championships for F3A (RC Aerobatics, F3C (RC Helicopters) and F3D (RC Pylon Race), a so-called “AerOlympics II”, will be organized in the U.S.A. this year.
First World Championship for Class F1E (Gliders with automatic steering) organized by Poland.
CIAM Bureau Meeting November 30 - December 1 in Paris
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Lausanne City Guide
Check out the calendar for all FAI Aeromodelling events.
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CIAM Flyer (6-2015) - Night of Design
Anyone building a model aeroplane usually does this in isolation, i.e. alone and in their own workshop. This means that exchanges of experience directly on the object and encouragement from role models are rare.
FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015
From 1 to 12 December, the FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015 celebrated air sports from around the world.
875 athletes from 55 countries competed in the biggest air sport event ever organised !
Press releases in Arabic, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish
CIAM Flyer (5-2015) - F1E - Fly an FAI Championship Class
Gliding down the slope – human beings had dreamed about it for almost a million of years. Aeromodellers use the lift generated by the wind uphill for hundred years now, but model aircrafts with reliable magnet steering devices for a stable free flight had first been introduced by the German Hans Gremmer in 1951. These steering systems are simple, sturdy and since 1977 the heart of the FAI Free Flight class F1E. Like other free flight classes F1E is very much popular with competitions, but the training is exiting as well, satisfying the age-old desire.
6 September 1970: Maynard Hill, the Lindbergh of Model Planes, Boosts his “Catbird” to 8’205m
Let us look back 45 years on the 6 September 1970 and recall an FAI World Record in Gain in Altitude for Aeromodelling and Spacemodelling (Class F) that has not been broken since. On that day, the American Maynard Luther Hill set the record in Gain in Altitude for Radio Control Flight Aeroplane, with a record altitude of 8.205m (26.920 feet). Hill’s “Catbird” launched at 5:24pm, when the sun was low in the sky and a remarkable improvement in visibility, from the former Naval Weapons Laboratory Airfield, Dahlgren, Virginia in the United States.
CIAM Flyer (4-2015) - Aerobatics with Remote Controlled Model Aircraft
The desire to freely move around in the third dimension of the airspace around us is probably as old as mankind itself. Every day, we see the birds doing it. Once the first humans conquered the art of flying, they soon wanted to make the most of this new freedom and began to experiment with aerobatics.
Event Website for the FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015 Now Up and Running
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FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015 - Aeromodelling Bulletin
The Aeromodelling Bulletin for the FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015 is now available for download.
FAI Captures the Trend of Drones and Opens its Doors to this New Booming Activity
First ever FAI-sanctioned drone sporting activity coming soon!
From a rare object accessible only to a few to a widely distributed product affordable by many, drones have become incredibly popular in the space of a few years thanks to the miniaturisation of on-board electronic devices and advanced flight systems.
In this context, it was logical that the FAI, and particularly its Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM), actively contribute to their development, and even more natural to include them in its activities given their huge potential in terms of participants and types of event. This has now happened and drone model aircraft are officially part of CIAM following the publication of a CIAM draft rule document for sportive and recreational activities with drones and especially multi-rotors (rotorcraft with more than two rotors).
CIAM Flyer (3-2015) - Flying down under!
Aeromodelling is increasingly popular in Australia. The growing number of participants in the sport recently received a boost when the Model Aeronautical Association of Australia secured sporting status.
Main decisions taken at the 2015 CIAM Annual Meeting
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) was held on 24 and 25 April 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The CIAM Bureau Members met a day earlier at the same location.
Technical Notices - Rules Effective 1st May 2015
Technical Notice – Rules Effective 1st May 2015
The 2015 CIAM Plenary Meeting approved the early implementation of rules contained in the following Sporting Code Volumes: F2 Control Line, F3 Aerobatic, F3 Soaring and F3 Helicopter. These rules have been published and can be downloaded from the Technical Notices on the Documents Page.
A Series of Fruitful Meetings Ahead of the FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015
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FAI Annual Report: 2014 Edition Is Out!
Sports and Disciplines Selected for the FAI World Air Games Dubai 2015 Revealed
F2C Urgent Technical Notice
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Executive Board and Liaison Officers in Dubai to Discuss the FAI World Air Games
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World Games 2013 athlete's profile: Alan Goljevscek (SLO)
CIAM Flyer (04-2017) - FAI Space Modelling’s World Cup – the History Part 2
One month to go until the 1st FAI International Drones Conference and Expo!
9 July 2012: Akihiro Danjo flew his model aircraft for almost 20 minutes
Registration opens for the 1st FAI International Drones Conference and Expo promoting Innovation, Safety and Sports
Technical Notice – Revised Volumes effective 1st June 2017
Technical Notices - Rules Effective 1st June 2017
Bidding opens for the 1st FAI World Drone Racing Championships
CIAM Flyer (02-2017) - Small-Scale Lindbergh 2003, Maynard Hill’s transatlantic flight
1st FAI Drone Events Organiser Meeting held in Lausanne
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SXSW ’18 Review: Julia Hart’s “Fast Color” Leaves a Lasting Impression
A family comes to terms with their special powers in this woundrous and thrilling drama from the director of "Miss Stevens."
byStephen Saito
In a relatively short yet distinguished career thus far, Julia Hart has made sure not to confuse power with strength. With her feature screenwriting debut, “The Keeping Room,” she observed a group of Southern women during the Civil War to battle the brute force of the men that had become a shell of their former selves as soldiers by banding together to survive a world suddenly bereft of laws, while her directorial debut “Miss Stevens,” centered on a teacher put in charge of a class trip to a drama competition where she ends up learning more from the students as she recovers from a recent loss, though she is the one seen by them as being in control. In Hart’s follow-up “Fast Color,” you’re immediately aware of how powerful Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is, even if she’s introduced speeding away from some unknown threat, her wrists having rope knots still around them, frayed at the ends to suggest she could break free rather than use a knife to cut through them, yet she seems more lost than ever.
Ruth is great at making escapes, but less good at finding a place to stay, having run away from home as a teenager and after exhausting her options elsewhere, she’s bracing herself for a return to her hometown of Garrison to reunite with her mother Bo (a commanding Lorraine Toussaint), with whom she isn’t on the best of terms. There is also the not so small matter of Ruth’s ability to create earthquakes – yes, in a metaphorical sense as her past decisions have created devastating aftershocks for those closest to her, including a now nearly teenage daughter Lyla (Saniyya Sidney), who she’s never met before who Bo has taken into her care, but also in a quite literal way, with an ability to shift tectonic plates that is a result of her family’s unique DNA. As it turns out, Lyla can assemble and disassemble objects at will and Bo doesn’t advertise her special abilities, but you know they’re there.
Though the allegory could weigh heavy on other filmmakers, the burden of power channels through “Fast Color” far more lightly than it does its central characters and Hart ensures the film is wonderful in every possible way, rich with the irony of a clan that has the ability to reconstitute matter at odds with their inability to come together as blood relatives. Even without the threat of a dogged scientist (Christopher Denham) and a local sheriff (David Straitharn) whose suspicions have been raised by Ruth’s return to Garrison, the family has enough trouble living under one roof, with Lyla eager to leave to see the world beyond the seeming dust bowl she calls home, and Ruth, having seen too much of it, uncomfortably making amends with her mother who’s been weaned from past experience not to trust her. As if this triangle weren’t compelling enough, Hart and co-writer Jordan Horowitz take great pains in creating an intriguing backdrop for “Fast Color” to play out inside, depriving the world of water for the past eight years – while others thirst for it, the family uses it to mend cuts – and giving the family an ongoing journal originally penned by its matriarchs from generations ago, revealing a long lineage of women that have had to suppress their powers or simply didn’t know what to do with them, passing on their fears and anxieties as much as their unique talents.
In spite of its sci-fi-tinged milieu insisting on big, special effects-laden set-pieces towards the end of “Fast Color,” which Hart nonetheless shows distinctive flair for, the most dazzling scenes in the film are the most intimate, with the heart soaring when being privy to watching Ruth feeling comfortable enough to start introducing Lyla to the likes of Lauryn Hill, X-Ray Spex and Nina Simone, or Bo encouraging Lyla as she becomes quicker at fixing a truck that it isn’t getting any easier to do, but she’s just getting better at it. However, given Hart’s track record, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the most human moments in “Fast Color” are the most extraordinary, although the film is filled with plenty of other twists and turns to keep one on their toes. In fact, Hart shows that it’s keeping in touch with our humanity that is our greatest strength and on that score, “Fast Color” is mighty strong stuff.
“Fast Color” will play at SXSW on March 16 at 4:45 pm at the Alamo Lamar A.
TagsChristopher DenhamDavid StraithairnFast ColorGugu Mbatha-RawJulia HartJustin HorowitzLorraine ToussaintRob SimonsenSaniyya SidneySXSW 2018
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Title: Artist Brendan Johnston
Description: A sculpture by artist Brendan Johnston at the Grand Central Atelier, where he also teaches, in Long Island City, New York on March 25, 2016. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)
Keywords: art, artist, artistic, artwork, atelier, brendan johnston, brendanjohnston, job, occupation, paint, painter, professional, studio, talent, teacher, young
Created: Mar 25, 2016
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Image Description: A sculpture by artist Brendan Johnston at the Grand Central Atelier, where he also teaches, in Long Island City, New York on March 25, 2016. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)
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PodCastle 164: A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait
Author : Carrie Vaughn
Narrator : John Trevillian
Originally published in Realms of Fantasy. Read the story at Fantasy Magazine.
Rated R: Contains Sexuality and Graphic Violence
http://media.rawvoice.com/podcastle/p/media.libsyn.com/media/podcastle/PC164__AHuntersOde.mp3
A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait
by Carrie Vaughn
After a week of sitting in the cold, the creature came.
It stepped out of the trees, out of the twilight mist, head low to the ground and nostrils quivering. A silver shadow in the form of a horse, seemingly made of mist itself. The long, spiral horn growing from its forehead reflected what little light remained in the world and seemed to glow.
The girl’s gasp carried all the way to Duncan’s blind. The unicorn’s head lifted, ears pricked forward hard, and he feared that she’d startle the thing away. But no, her scent was strong, and its instinct was powerful. Instead of cringing in fear, she got to her knees and reached toward it with both hands, whispering to it.
It leaned toward her, like a horse would to a bucket of grain. It made careful, silent steps, not even rustling the fallen leaves. Its thick mane fell forward, covering its neck. It huffed quick breaths at her, stretching forward to sniff at her fingers. The girl cupped her hands. The unicorn rested its muzzle on her palms and sighed.
Duncan shot his arrow, striking the creature’s neck.
Categories: Podcasts, Rated R
Carrie Vaughn is the bestselling author of the Kitty Norville series, the final installment of which is Kitty Saves the World. Her most recent novel is the YA-flavored space adventure Martians Abroad. She has also written several other fantasy and young adult novels. Her short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, from Lightspeed to Tor.com and George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series. She’s a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. She lives in Colorado with a fluffy attack dog.
Find more by Carrie Vaughn
John Trevillian
John Trevillian is an English novelist, poet, shaman and award-winning author of three dystopian sci-fi novels (The A-Men, The A-Men Return and Forever A-Men), plus writer of many other short stories, poetry collections and travel journals. He is also creator of the Talliston House & Gardens project, which could use your support – please see: Trevillian.com & Talliston.com.
Find more by John Trevillian
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الاحتلال يشرع بشق طريق عسكري و إقامة قاعدة عسكرية في منطقة الراس الاحمر
The relocation of Al Walajeh Checkpoint … A preliminary step towards the expropriation of Al Walajeh village lands
Israel to build new segment of the annexation wall in Beit El colony
استكمال بناء الجدار العنصري لصالح مستعمرة بيت ايل عائلة حامد محاصرة بالجدار
استكمال بناء الجدار العنصري لصالح مستعمرةبيت ايل عائلة حامد محاصرة بالجدار
الشروع بإقامة سياج عازل في محيط مستعمرة ” عوفاريم” على حساب الأراضي الفلسطينية / محافظة رام الله
Violation: new segment of the wall
Location: AL-Bireh area and Al-Jalazun refugee camp
Date: February, 2018
Perpetrators: Israeli Occupation Forces
Victims: owners of lands
The Palestinian family of Hamed, a victim of "Apartheid"
Sixty meters from the apartheid fence surrounding Beit El colony from Al-Jalazun refugee camp side, three Palestinian families reside in a house that became besieged after the Israeli Occupation Authorities completed the construction of a segment of the annexation wall from the southern and western part of the area.
Hamad family found themselves trapped by the annexation and expansion wall in the periphery of Beit El colony, which threatens their and their kids' lives.
Land Research Center visited the affected family, who said the following:
" We live in this area since 1977, we bought a land with Israeli registration papers and built a 210m2 house on it. At time, the occupation tried to deter us from building, claiming that a colony will be established in the area but we finished the construction of our house after obtaining a decision from Beit El court. Noteworthy, Beit El colony was just a military camp at time but was transformed into a colony in 1979".
" Today, I live with my eight member family and the families of my two brothers Husam ( eight members including three children) and Hazem (six members including four children) in the residence and we all feel the siege that is imposed on us".
Photos 1-2: the targeted residence
Hakam also said that the families' members cannot go out after sunset, fearing colonists attacks and assaults. They live in constant fear and lack of safety.
Reportedly, the house is 210m2 in area and is home for three families. Noteworthy, Israel Civil Administration threatened the owners several times of demolition and banned them from rehabilitating the house.
It should be noted that colonists took over Ahmad Hassouneh's house that is adjacent to the recently targeted house after the owner died.
The house is now tightly besieged from all sides and isolated from the Palestinian periphery. Residents of the house cannot access their structure but through a gate in the wall that is controlled by surveillance cameras and soldiers around the clock.
Photos 3-4: the only entrance to Hamed's house in the wall
On August 21, 2017, the Israeli government approved the construction of wall segment (1.5 km) that travels by the Al-Bireh- Jalazun road. According to the occupation, the wall will prevent Palestinians from belting stones at Beit El colony, especially the inhabited areas. The plan cost around 5.5 million NIS.
According to the Human Rights researcher, Eyad Haddad, the wall already isolated 170 dunums from the lands of Al-Bireh city and Dura Al-Qari' village and besieged Hamed's house.
Photos 4-6: the newly established wall in Beit El periphery
About Beit El:
Beit El was established in 1979 over lands with a total area of 2400 dunums.
It holds within a number of springs and the Jews claim that "God promised Abraham of staying in the area" and that is the reason for calling it Beit El or the house of God.
Beit El is located 20 km to the north of Jerusalem; the Jews claim that it has been built on the ruins of an old Jewish city.
The colony has expanded to become as large as a city holding a number of factories, educational institutions, medical clinics, etc. it is now inhabited by over 6000 colonists
The Land Research Center
Categories: Segregation
The Re-Routing of the Israeli Racist Isolation Wall Devours More Land of Jabara village
المحكمة العليا الإسرائيلية وسيلة للتغطية على جرائم الاحتلال
“معاناة خربة جبارة”
Installation of Wall blocks at Bethlehem Northern entrance
سلطات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي تستكمل بناء الجدار في قرية الولجة الفلسطينية
The Israeli High Court of “Justice” is yet Another Tool to Cover Occupation Crimes
“The suffering of Kherbit Jubara”
The Re-Routing of the Israeli Racist Wall in the Village of Azzun Al Atma
أوامر اسرائيلية جديدة في قريتا الخضر و أرطاس تصادر مساحات اضافية لصالح بناء جدار العزل العنصري
New disaster in Qalqiliya district …
“The Striking effects of the Segregation Wall on Qalqiliya District”
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Psycho Busters
There could be increased numbers of psychopaths in senior managerial positions, high levels of business, research shows
From: Science Daily
For the first time, it has been demonstrated that people with psychopathic tendencies who have high IQs can mask their symptoms by manipulating tests designed to reveal their personalities. It raises the possibility that large numbers of ruthless risk-takers are able to conceal their level of psychopathy as they rise to key managerial posts.
Despite the media’s invariably lurid use of the term, there are various categories of psychopath and they are not all prone to physical violence.
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A breakthrough by a talented University of Huddersfield student has shown for the first time that people with psychopathic tendencies who have high IQs can mask their symptoms by manipulating tests designed to reveal their personalities. It raises the possibility that large numbers of ruthless risk-takers are able to conceal their level of psychopathy as they rise to key managerial posts.
Carolyn Bate, aged 22, was still an undergraduate when she carried out her groundbreaking research into the links between psychopathy and intelligence, using a range of special tests and analysing the data. She wrote up her findings for the final-year project in her BSc Psychology degree. Not only was she awarded an exceptionally high mark of 85 per cent, her work has also been accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology – an unusual distinction for an undergraduate.
Carolyn, who has now graduated with First Class Honours, said that her project was triggered when she read about research which showed that while one per cent of the population were categorised as psychopaths, the figure rose to three per cent in the case of business managers.
“I thought that intelligence could be an explanation for this, and it could be a problem if there are increased numbers of psychopaths at a high level in business. The figure could be more than three per cent, because if people are aware they are psychopathic they can also lie – they are quite manipulative and lack empathy. This could have a detrimental effect on our everyday lives,” said Carolyn, who added that some researchers have suggested that episodes such as the Wall Street Crash could be blamed on the numbers of psychopaths among decision makers.
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Recognizing the Psychopath in Your Child
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
It is the patterns of behavior which eventually persuade you something very wrong is going on.
Most kids do things which are wrong on occasion. They will fib about were the last ice cream went or pretend they are sick when it is time for for school. You can tell they know this was wrong, though.
They slink, evade eye contact, look scared when you find out.
A psychopathic child is different. My oldest daughter's face was sullen and then angry when she was caught in a lie. I could see these emotions flicker across her face but did not understand these were indicators that no conscience existed behind those beautiful brown eyes.
Getting what she wanted also meant only immediate gratification. By the time she was 13 my parents, who raised her, had bought her 1,000 Breyer horses and three original Cabbage Patch dolls, the ones personally autographed by Xavier Roberts.
The rest of the family, the ones who did not have to cope with Morgan, then Carolyn, day to day, were stunned when these gifts were paraded for us during visits. We were raised believing we needed to work.
Mother, who had watched little Carolyn for me while I was in college after the short and traumatic marriage which produced her, begged me to allow her and Father to raise her. They adopted her legally when she was 12.
Later, after Mother died Father and I had some frank discussions about what had gone on. I discovered Mother was very much under Carolyn's thumb from the time she was very small. The kid got away with a lot because she could be charming and cute. But this gloss of charm evaporated when she did not get her way. Smiles turned instantly to tantrums and screaming.
I had found out about this when she came to live with me when she was 19.
She lied about attending college, instead starting a sexual relationship with a rock star which went on for nine years. She lied about working. She lied about injuries in a car accident telling us she could no longer work when she was routinely riding horses.
And she just loved to get other people to distrust each other and fight. Later, I realized this is what brought the look of sublime happiness to her face.
Lies, sexual promiscuity, acting as if she, and she alone, was the only one who mattered. Any manipulation which got her what she wanted obviously pleased her, even when later she was found out. I found out about the sex from my sister, with whom she had been living. Anne called and told me, bluntly, she was not my problem. I had a tough time believing this cute little girl had seduced one of her her clients.
This and a shallowness which made a puddle seem deep, were all there. But the family did not understand what we were seeing.
Obviously, we should have been talking frankly much sooner. Transparency is essential to survival if you are coping with a disordered child.
Don't make this mistake.
Lisa L. Hockett: Chaos Theory — Flushing out the abuser by revealing patterns
From: Love Fraud
By Lisa L. Hockett, MS, CFDS
There is a mathematical theory based in fractal geometry called “Chaos Theory.” At its most simplistic level, it says that if you look long enough and carefully at what looks like total chaos, patterns begin to emerge. This is exactly how I help my clients in coping with their court cases against an abuser.
What I found in the court system is that the law does not care about a single incident unless that incident is so shocking that it can’t be ignored, like a severe beating or shooting.
Domestic terrorism is not on their radar because, until you make it concrete for them, it is entirely too abstract to consider. What they are looking for in the courtroom, or even the police station, is a pattern of behavior. Discrete incidents are like paint splatters on canvas and you have to connect the dots to make them see the picture. The legal system wants to see something so obvious and undeniable that sometimes survivors simply give up.
It can be exhausting and darn near impossible to link together incidents that to you seem ridiculously obvious, but it is an investment of time and energy that will pay off. Abusers will always have a “logical explanation” for one incident. They will have the same “logical explanation” for multiple incidents. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to connect the dots for the court. That’s what attorneys do every day and, as your own best expert witness, this responsibility rests on you.
Believe it or not, this is a big part of what we are able to accomplish when putting in place reasonable disability accommodations for litigants…because if you can’t think or you can’t speak under stressors, you can’t connect the dots.
Typical case
In a typical case, I have my client put together a long list of incidents and demonstrate a pattern not only of behavior, but escalation.
For instance, pushback against threats may have resulted in an escalation in the number and type of threats.
Blocking email might result in an exponential increase in harassing phone calls.
Blocking phone calls may have resulted in calling the police claiming a “welfare check” of the children, who may have just talked to the abuser hours before.
When that didn’t produce the intended result, it may have been followed up by a completely false contempt filing.
If a client counter-files or fights the contempt, it may result in covert terrorism, such as sending a shot-up range target or attempting to lure the client to a location under false pretenses while in possession of a firearm.
When none of that produces the intended results, it may turn into harassment of and information-seeking from an attorney, real estate agent, friends or personal proxies.
When all that fails, a private investigator may be hired on false pretenses, claiming the children are being hidden or making another outrageous claim, even if the client has just had a successful visitation exchange.
If Psychopaths Were Identified
by HG Beverly
If psychopaths were actively identified across institutions,
we would more consistently know exactly who we’re dealing with.
Their stats on getting away with murder would go (way) down.
They would be less likely to win full custody in divorce.
There would be more public awareness around who’s running certain companies.
And our public and professional belief that interactional assessments and background checks tell us all we need to know about a person
would be turned on its head
to the benefit of all involved.
If psychopaths were identified consistently and accurately
by all mental health professionals
(which would require major change in nearly every clinical training program in the U.S.)
our psychologists and counselors and therapists would less likely be fooled into supporting
their horrific endeavors.
And victims would be more likely to find needed support.
If psychopaths were clearly and consistently identified
through reliable, accessible, professional assessments
(when their long-term controlling, abusive behavior called for it),
children like mine would not need to wonder why this confusing and terrible thing that’s
happening to them
never ends.
Why no adults are helping.
Whether that means there’s really no problem.
Because if something’s hurting in ways that can’t really be defined or explained,
and no one’s helping you out,
what are you supposed to do with your experience?
If we had accurate assessments,
the world would know,
would lose it’s capacity to deny,
and with that knowledge,
be forced to allow empathetic people
and to help.
And if psychopaths were accurately and consistently identified,
we could stop mourning the confusion
of an inescapable, devastating life experience
that the rest of the world
is either incapable of identifying
or refuses
The logic of a psychopath
From: Association of Psychological Science
by Wray Herbert
Before his execution in the Florida electric chair in 1989, Ted Bundy confessed to murdering 30 young women, typically by bludgeoning them to death and often raping them as well. He almost certainly had many more victims than that, perhaps more than 100. But he avoided suspicion for much of his five-year killing spree, in part because he was good-looking and clean-cut, a college grad and a law student.
Despite this outward appearance, Bundy was socially clueless. He was introverted and by his own description had no sense of how to get along with people. Near the end of his life he described himself this way: “I didn’t know what made things tick. I didn’t know what made people want to be friends. I didn’t know what made people attractive to one another. I didn’t know what underlay social interaction.”
Psychopaths can be paradox. Some, like Bundy, are intellectually high functioning, and they clearly know right from wrong. They are not delusional, but they are socially inept. They seem to lack normal self-control, and they persistently violate social, legal and moral rules. They don’t — as Bundy’s words suggest — comprehend the human social contract.
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Hare Organization
These items from the Hare site warrant your immediate attention in regards to the subject of psychopathy:
On Ronson: A general commentary on Ronson's new book "The Psychopath Test"
Special Issue: The July issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is dedicated to psychopathy.
Comments on the Claim That 10% of Wall Street Employees are Psychopaths
Post-Doctoral Position Available With Leading Psychopathy Researcher, Dr. David Kosson: Download PDF
Master's Thesis Study: Project Title: Backstabbing bosses and callous co-workers: An examination of the experience of working with a psychopath. This study is now complete, but you can click here for the results.
This Charming Psychopath: How to Spot Social Predators Before They Attack - An excerpt from Dr. Hare's Without Conscience, published by Psychology Today
I am : A new documentary film on corporate psychopathy by Misha Votruba and narrated by Peter Coyote
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