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Bremerton Needs Retail and Other Enlightenments
Steven Gardner
So a week ago Bellevue developer comes to this side of Lake Washington to tell us Bremerton needs retail.
The commenters to the story first responded, “Duh.”
Here are some other observations worth noting:
Silverdale doesn’t have a city hall.
Poulsbo needs parking.
Port Orchard is hilly.
Bainbridge Island is still part of this county.
The heat was hot.
Commenters to the story also complained about the parking, with responses that Kmart had plenty of free parking, and then arguments that downtown needs people for retail to survive.
None of it is wrong, and Kemper Freeman’s point about Tacoma is perhaps worth considering. Nonetheless, does his take mean Bremerton should have put retail in first. Well then, how do you do that? I think the whole point of these parks and conference centers and tunnels and new bridges and hotels and government centers and infrastructure tax breaks and property tax breaks and road paving and condo building and Bellevue developer wooing and new marinas and fish and fisherman statues and parking committees is designed to create what?
It is designed to create the kind of crowd I saw the other day at 2 Blocks Up Cafe at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Fourth Street. On Wednesday during a break in union negotiations four of us headed over to the cafe for sandwiches and strategizing and found that we had to sit outside the restaurant. The place was packed.
I don’t know what accounted for the rush that day, and I don’t know if that’s a regular thing. You can’t create conclusions from a single observation, try as story commenters might.
Nonetheless, what I have seen is a host of downtown merchants who are believers in downtown Bremerton. Boston’s Pizza is doing great night business now because of the Fairfield Inn.
Bremerton has not turned the corner it needs to for downtown to be considered a success, but despite the economic downturn the momentum hasn’t stopped. At least, it hasn’t as far as I can tell from my casual observations.
Dirt is dirty.
May 4, 2010 Bremerton, BusinessBremerton, Business, Retail
Hen Movement Grows Slowly in Bremerton
Did you remember that there are some people who want to be able to have hens in their Bremerton backyards. Here’s the latest from a purely observational standpoint.
I haven’t written much about it lately, but I saw another Facebook post last week to suggest the group is gathering signatures. One note said nine sheets were turned in, which would mean the group has 180 signatures and needs only 2,320 more to get on the ballot.
Meanwhile, the city council has remained silent on the issue in every meeting I have attended, and that has been quite a few. That can’t be too good a sign for those who want to decriminalize poultry in the city. You may recall that chicken fans don’t really want to go to the ballot box to get their hens, but they’re willing. This weekend they’ll travel to Port Orchard to gather signatures from Bremerton registered voters disloyally shopping across the inlet. They also have plans to hold more signature-gathering meetings to get petitions out at outdoor markets and other events.
Thursday afternoon I spotted the sign posted here, took a picture, then drove all over much of the rest of town to see if I could find even one more sign like it. I didn’t find one.
April 29, 2010 BremertonBremerton, chickens
Safe from the Tales of Intimacy in Bremerton
A co-worker plying his trade on a Saturday decided to take a break in the place that is one of the breakiest of the break places in downtown Bremerton, the Harborside Fountain Park.
The park, besides its whale spouts and imported trees and rocks, has a sound system that when employed provides an atmospheric backdrop that says, well I’m not sure what it says. It just plays music.
Said co-worker happened to be there on a day when said music was the kind that contains several references to human intimacy in rather non-discreet language, applying a common term that generally refers to intimacy to things that are incapable of being intimate, such as cars, homes and accountants.
If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, think of Ralphie when the lugnuts flew, and not because someone shot them.
Said co-worker told me of said incident, when diaper-clad kids could splash to the sounds of a story about women who are not particularly choosy and tend to display improper manners. It caused me to make three trips to the fountain park. When I went, though, all I heard was music inoffensive, unless you count Billy Squire. (I do, but not for the same reasons.) The broadcast was from the Sirius satellite network, which doesn’t have to concern itself with Federal Communications Commission standards. If Janet Jackson had experienced that malfunction on the Sirius radio, if that were possible, she wouldn’t have been fined.
I talked to Wyn Birkenthal, Bremerton’s parks and recreation director, about the Saturday experience of my co-worker and he was appropriately aghast. It’s not something he wanted repeated. Staff has been instructed to only employ channels that “provide music without profane lyrics or questionable DJ commentary.
You’re children are safe from potty mouth entertainers, at least in Bremerton‘s parks.
I can’t protect them from bad musicians, though.
With any luck, maybe you’ll hear this guy:
April 20, 2010 Bremerton, cheap thrillsBremerton, Music, Parks
Bremerton Invades South Kitsap
Steven Gardner writes:
Last week I was driving around Port Orchard and saw a sign advertising “Ettermans’ jackets.”
It made me long for the old days, when a sign like that would inspire me to stop and take a picture to throw up on a blog, an excuse to get silly about Port Orchard. The pressures of writing for two blogs, though, eventually became too much, though. I passed by that place taking no pictures and writing no screed against your fair city. It’s like those dogs in that Gary Larson cartoon. They’re sitting on the porch while a cat’s delivering mail, while the dogs do nothing. “We’re getting old, Jake,” one says to the other.
That could change in the next few weeks. As Chris has likely explained to you, my illiterate rants (as opposed to the brilliant ones I write on the Kitsap Caucus site) can again find a home. I’ll just post them here. The Bremerton Beat is no more. See it as a victory if you like, but I’d be careful. Here in Bremerton we like our chickens illegal and our hot dog vendors spread out a bit. We’re a different breed, and we can see your houses from our condos. We can draw tourists with whimsy and fountains. Pretty soon we’re going to have something else to draw them, and that includes you. While our finest residents will be going to your town to post bail, your finest will coming to ours for something else. I can’t yet tell you yet what it is. Remember though, you’re on notice.
March 23, 2010 BremertonBremerton
Yo, Bremerton – It’s a Dog Gone Shame
Fans of Uptown Mike’s hot dog stand – formerly located on the Bremerton Boardwalk — take note. Mike Lipson, a.k.a. Uptown Mike, has relocated his business to Port Orchard, specifically the front terrace of the Kitsap County Administration Building at 619 Division Street.
Hot dogs and government? Well you know what they say about making sausage.
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“It’s something I always thought would be a natural,” said Lipson. “In other cities, street vending by government buildings is like peanut butter and jelly.”
Lipson said on his first day, “I was slammed.”
Apparently Kitsap legislators have a greater appetite for hot dogs than Bremerton boaters.
“There was not enough traffic there to support the business,” said Lipson, explaining his move from the boardwalk.
Lipson, a Port Orchard resident five years and counting, formerly operated his stand on the Port Orchard waterfront and added the Bremerton location about two years ago. Now, he’s open at the courthouse 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and at Ace Hardware in Port Orchard’s Towne Center Mall Thursday through Sunday.
Getting a hot dog at Uptown Mike’s is as much about the experience as it is the food.
Lipson, born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, slathers on the accent – only slightly diluted by 30 years away from the Big Apple – like an extra serving of grilled onions. He sings the praises of his product with characteristic NYC hyperbole.
“You go from baby food to hot dogs. It’s on every street corner,” he said.
Lipson serves genuine Sabrett frankfurters, “the official hot dog of New York City.” That may not mean much to the general public. But to former New Yorkers like Steve Krecker, it’s the gold standard.
“Sabrett hot dogs, as far as I’m concerned, are the best hot dogs on the planet. It’s nice to be able to get them,” said Krecker, his own accent thickening with every bite.
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Krecker has dogged Updown Mike from one location to another.
“Steve’s one of the anchors of the business. He grew up back east. He knows the food,” said Lipson.
OK, so what’s the big deal about Sabrett? As someone who also grew up back east, I can say from experience, there are hot dogs and then there’s Sabrett.
As I remember them, “real” New York hot dogs are plump but not spongy, with a slightly crunchy skin. Smother them with sauerkraut or tangy grilled onions in red sauce, inhale the spicy aroma (mixed with the damp cellar smell wafting out of the subway) and chomp down. Ahhh.
Theoretically all that would be missing here is the subway.
Alas, when I arrived for my meeting with the county commissioners this week, I had just eaten lunch, so I have yet to find out if Uptown Mike’s lives up to my memories.
Bremerton Beat blogger Steve Gardner, who sampled Lipson’s wares in 2007 in Port Orchard, declined to pick a favorite out of Uptown’s — then planning to locate in Bremerton — and two other Bremerton hot dog stands. Gardner recently drove out of his way to see what Snap Dogs Diner, open this year on Lund Avenue in Port Orchard, had to offer. Gardner’s obviously never met a dog he didn’t like.
So, Steve (and Bremerton) eat your heart out. At least you’ll have a good reason to look forward to those commissioners’ meetings.
June 30, 2009 Bremerton, Business, City of Port Orchard, Kitsap County GovernmentBremerton, Hot Dogs, Kitsap County Government
Recapping 2008 Power Struggles Over SKIA
Today’s Kitsap Sun features a recap of top stories for 2008. We reporters were assigned to write synopeses of those for our coverage area. On my to-do list, because Steve Gardner’s on a well-deserved vacation, was the tension that developed over the year between Bremerton and Port Orchard over the South Kitsap Industrial Area.
But just as I was poised over my keyboard to begin writing, I was informed that SKIA didn’t make the cut after all.
Perhaps it more appropriately belongs on our list of upcoming 2009 stories, to be published later this week. After all, the issue of whether or not Port Orchard will be the designated provider of sewer services to the South Kitsap Industrial Area is yet to be settled.
Private property owners began pushing earlier this year for the annexation of the 3,250-acre area slated for industrial development into the city of Bremerton in the belief that the city is equipped to handle permitting faster than the county — a key component, they said, to encourage development.
The Port of Bremerton, which owns more than half of SKIA, agreed in August to move ahead with the annexation petition despite concerns over an agreement with the city of Port Orchard regarding sewers.
Port Orchard maintains it has a right to provide sewer service to the area under a 2003 agreement it signed with the Port of Bremerton. Since the process began, PO city officials have been pressing the port and the city of Bremerton for assurance that the agreement would be honored.
But Bremerton officials have resisted, saying it is premature to decide who will provide infrastructure to SKIA. Bremerton also is now in a position to run sewer lines to SKIA because of the extension of its sewer service to Gorst.
Tempers flared in July at a heavily-attended public meeting of the key players in the proposed annexation, including the port, Bremerton, Port Orchard and private property owners.
Following Bremerton’s acceptance of the annexation petition, Port Orchard challenged the proposal before the county’s boundary review board, triggering a public hearing and extending what could have been a 45-day process to 120 days.
The annexation is segmented into two parts, the smaller SKIA North, on which the BRB will deliberate at their 7 p.m. Jan. 8 meeting, and SKIA South, which includes the port’s property. There will be a public hearing on SKIA South Jan. 23. The BRB’s decision on SKIA North is expected Jan. 30; SKIA South is scheduled for a decision on Feb. 25.
Most recently, Bremerton challenged portions of Port Orchard’s comprehensive plan update, including a map showing SKIA as a future sewer service area. The final plan does not include SKIA on the map, but, count on it, Port Orchard will continue to assert itself with regard to the SKIA/sewer issue. Stay tuned.
December 30, 2008 2007 Election, City of Port Orchard, Land Use, UncategorizedBremerton, Port of Bremerton, Port Orchard, SKIA
McCormick Woods Rumor Patrol
The Port Orchard City Council, Mayor Lary Coppola and city officials will host a Q&A session on the proposed McCormick Woods annexation at 7 p.m. Wednesday (tomorrow) at the Clubhouse at McCormick Woods.
One of the first questions they’ll address is whether Bremerton can annex McWoods via a vote of Bremerton’s citizens that would leave McCormick Woods residents entirely out of the loop. The short answer is, they can’t.
That according to city attorney Greg Jacoby, with whom I spoke tonight at the City Council meeting.
I’ve been trying to figure this out since I, as a McCormick Woods resident, received a mailing from the City of Port Orchard marked “annexation ballot enclosed,” which was sent out around the end of September.
City officials have made no secret of the fact that they would welcome a McCormick Woods annexation. The process was set in motion by a Q&A session hosted about a year ago by then-Mayor Kim Abel. The city has legitimate incentives to seek a McCormick Woods annexation, among them property tax revenue from McCormick Woods homeowners and increased access to state and federal grants as a larger jurisdiction, although there has also been talk of the contribution McWoods residents would potentially make on the city council.
On more than one occasion, PO officials have pledged their support of any organized effort on the part of McCormick Woods residents to annex. The city, as a gesture of support, picked up the tab for the mailing, which included:
* An invitation to the Q&A session.
* A list of “Advantages of Annexation,” drawn up by members of the McCormick Woods annexation committee (made up of McWoods residents who have organized the annexation petition drive and who have concluded, through their research, that annexation to Port Orchard holds significant advantages to residents).
* An individual copy of the annexation petition, ready for signatures.
* A letter from Mayor Coppola warning of the consequences, should McWoods residents decline to annex into PO. The alternative … dare we speak it? Bremerton.
Coppola noted that Bremerton in a recent update of its comprehensive plan included McCormick Woods in its expanded urban growth area. Bremerton City Council President Will Maupin has said that if McCormick Woods residents came to Bremerton with a petition to annex, that city would be open to accommodating them, but, Maupin added, historically, McWoods has been thought of as logically belonging within PO city limits and Bremerton did not have any plans to derail a McWoods annexation into PO.
Yet in the mailing to McWoods residents, Coppola writes, “considering Bremerton’s aggressive expansionism as illustrated by the Port of Bremerton and SKIA, you can only wonder what it must have in mind for the long term future of McCormick Woods.”
Oh, yeah, that SKIA thing. It’s no secret that Port Orchard has been stung by Bremerton’s reticence to guarantee that PO will provide sewer service to South Kitsap Industrial Area, according to a 2003 memorandum between PO and the Port of Bremerton. POB is the primary landowner within the 3,400-acre SKIA, slated for industrial development. Bremerton earlier this year accepted a petition by landowners in SKIA North, representing 150 acres of the SKIA puzzle, to annex. PO recently pressed the county’s Boundary Review Board, charged with vetting the proposed annexation of SKIA into Bremerton, to hold a public hearing on SKIA North. Bremerton has also approved a petition to annex SKIA South (the rest of the acreage, including land held by the POB) and it is likely PO will call for a formal challenge of that proposal as well.
So where were we? Oh, yes, Coppola’s letter to McWoods residents. Coppola said that since a portion of McCormick Woods (McCormick North, a.k.a The Ridge) is contiguous with land on Anderson Hill Road that is part of the City of Bremerton, Bremerton could annex that area “by a simple majority vote of its existing citizens.” I did a reality check with Coppola via e-mail last week, asking what citizens he was talking about, and he replied back “Bremerton’s.”
I also checked with James Weaver, Port Orchard’s Development Director, who was under the same impression. Both Coppola and Weaver referenced a no contest clause residents of The Ridge signed prohibiting them from opposing any proposed annexation.
Weaver said, “The Ridge is abutting the City of Bremerton existing City Limits (formerly known as Northwest Corporate Campus) and, from my understanding, may be annexed upon request by the City of Bremerton without vote or McCormick initiated petition.”
Weaver, in his e-mail to me referenced the Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington publication on annexation as a source of information on the methods by which an annexation may be achieved. Among them is an election process initiated by a city council that wishes to annex a given area, but, as I read in the fine print, the people who ultimately get to vote are not the residents of the municipality seeking to annex the area, but the residents of the area to be annexed.
Weaver also deferred to the city attorney on the issue, saying he is not the authority on annexation law. Jacoby said McCormick Woods residents would definitely be the ones to vote on an annexation with Bremerton. But what if … I asked … Bremerton only wanted to annex the Ridge, which can’t object because of the no contest clause. Jacoby said he’d get back to me on that scenario, which, I admit, is highly speculative. I mean, why annex The Ridge and not the rest of McCormick Woods? But surely it’s a question residents of The Ridge will want answered.
To add to the confusion, the McCormick Woods annexation committee also bought into the Bremerton-take-over idea. In its “advantages” list, the committee said that inaction on a McWoods-PO marriage would mean “we could do nothing and still be annexed into the City of Bremerton with or without our consent.”
According to Jacoby, that’s not true.
It does not appear the mayor or the annexation committee were being duplicitous, just misinformed. Jacoby said he first learned of Coppola’s assertions about a possible McTake-over by Bremerton this morning.
During a discussion with the City Council on Wednesday’s upcoming Q&A on McWoods, Coppola sought a different tone regarding other jursidictions and their relationship to McWoods. The reference was actually to Kitsap County’s budget burden, especially if Silverdale incorporates. But, to me, Coppola seemed to be backpedaling when he said of city officials conduct at the annexation meeting, “I don’t think we want to denigrate anybody. I don’t think that makes us look good. … We’re going to take the high road.”
October 14, 2008 City of Port Orchard, McCormick WoodsAdd new tag, annexation, Bremerton, McCormick Woods, SKIA
No Organized Opposition to McWoods Annexation But …
The McCormick Woods annexation committee is ready to move forward with a petition that could make McCormick Woods Urban Village a part of the City of Port Orchard. A story on the latest developments will run tomorrow.
While no organized opposition to the proposed annexation has emerged, at least one resident, Pat Lowery, has approached Bremerton city officials to gauge their interest in annexing McCormick Woods.
“From the very beginning, we got only one side of the story,” said Lowery. “’We’ve got to join Port Orchard and stay away from big, bad Bremerton.’ … My whole attitude on this was let’s look at both sides of the issue.”
Lowery does not favor a Bremerton annexation over Port Orchard, but he thinks residents should hear what Bremerton might have to offer. He e-mailed Mayor Cary Bozeman, who forwarded the inquiry to city council members.
“My guess is it’s probably premature for them or me to comment on this issue,” Bozeman said. “We’ve been pretty much preoccupied with the SKIA issue.”
Bremerton has accepted a proposal to annex from property owners in the 3,400-acre South Kitsap Industrial Area. Port Orchard has been pressing for the right to provide sewer service to the area, slated for industrial development.
Bremerton City Council President Will Maupin said the council has in the past discussed the possibility of a McCormick Woods annexation. But the consensus was that its location — in South Kitsap — made it more logically affiliated with Port Orchard.
McCormick Woods Urban Village is eligible for annexation into Bremerton because The Ridge at McCormick Woods, a development on the north side of Old Clifton Road, is contiguous with a large parcel of land within the city of Bremerton, now under development.
Hypothetically speaking, Maupin said, Bremerton would be open to considering a McCormick Woods annexation, provided a financial analysis showed revenues and expenditures “pencil out” for the city.
“If they were interested in being annexed into Bremerton and approached us with a petition, we would certainly analyze the situation,” Maupin said. “If it were going to be a big burden on the rest of the people of Bremerton, we probably wouldn’t do that.”
Because McCormick Woods is a relatively affluent urban growth area, the balance of property tax revenue to expenditures for police services would probably be advantageous to the city, Maupin said.
He added, however, that Bremerton would not try to derail a McCormick Woods-Port Orchard match-up. Referencing Port Orchard’s increasingly aggressive stance on the SKIA sewer issue, he said, “We would not and have not said a word about the current annexation into Port Orchard, and we won’t. Port Orchard has been causing problems with our annexation of SKIA, which isn’t anywhere near Port Orchard.”
Annexation committee member Dick Davis said he doesn’t believe there is significant support among McCormick Woods residents for a Bremerton annexation. But Lowery, and whoever else may be a of similar mind, has committee members feeling uneasy.
“I don’t know how large it is. Maybe it’’s a group of one,” said Davis. “I think it is, but I don’t think you want to ignore this thing. It creates seeds of doubt.”
September 17, 2008 City of Port Orchard, McCormick Woodsannexation, Bremerton, McCormick Woods, SKIA
PO Council Ponders its Next Move on SKIA Sewers
Clarification 9/8/08: In a comment below, Bob Meadows called into question the following statement on this entry:
“With financing, the expansion cost $21.5 million, of which $4.5 million represents expanded capacity set to be dedicated to SKIA.”
Regarding the total cost of expansion, I checked with City of Port Orchard Treasurer Kris Tompkins, who replied:
“I think there needs to be clarification. The expansion cost of the treatment plant was $21.5 million including the debt (financing) of $16.8 million. The City & District (Karcher Creek Sewer District, now Westsound Utility District) together contributed $4.7 million (50/50%). These numbers do not include the interest (of 1/2 a percent), which over the life of the debt will be an additional $775,000+. One loan will be paid off in 2022 & the second in 2024.”
Regarding the cost of the expanded capacity dedicated to SKIA, Bob also called into question the $4.5 million (in the statement above), saying he could find no such reference on the city’s annual financial report. The figure I was using came from an e-mail to me from Lary Coppola on why the city wants to pursue its perceived right to provide sewer to SKIA. City Councilman John Clauson cited an amount of $3.5 in a recent interview.
Kris Tompkins, who replied:
“To my knowledge there has not been any calculation of a monetary value that represents the expanded capacity to be dedicated to SKIA. So I don’t believe the statement “…of which $4.5 represents expanded
capacity set to be dedicated to SKIA” is correct. Part of the expanded capacity was in order to service SKIA but I never even have heard that a certain percentage of capacity was attributed to SKIA.”
Here’s the original post:
Members of the Port Orchard City Council are considering what to do next on the issue of Port Orchard’s desire to sewer the South Kitsap Industrial Area, since Wednesday, when the Bremerton City Council voted 7-0 to accept SKIA property owners’ petition to annex SKIA south. The council already voted to accept annexation of SKIA north, for a total of 3,400 acres to be annexed.
The council has yet to meet as a whole, yet in previous meetings, said Councilman John Clauson, they have been united in their desire to see Bremerton uphold a 2003 memorandum of agreement between Port Orchard and the Port of Bremerton, primary property owner of SKIA. The agreement designates Port Orchard as the entity that will provide sewer to the area, slated for development as an industrial park.
But Bremerton officials have said they are under no obligation to honor an agreement to which they are not party.
Mayor Cary Bozeman on Wednesday said the city would look for the deal that best served the residents of Bremerton, be it through Port Orchard or another provider.
“Obviously I’m disappointed in the sense that the City of Bremerton and the City of Port Orchard have had a great relationship forever, and I hate to have it get tarnished in this way,” Clauson said. “I do have a great respect for Mayor Bozeman and the city council. I’d like to talk to them directly.”
As to how far Port Orchard will go to press the matter, Clauson said, “We’ve been talking about the possibility of a lawsuit over this whole issue.”
Although he hoped it doesn’t become a matter for the courts to decide, Clauson said, the council and the Mayor Lary Coppola will do what they need to to defend the city’s investment in an expansion of its wastewater treatment plant, made in part on the assumption that Port Orchard would serve SKIA. The plant is operated jointly by the city and Westsound Utility District (formerly Karcher Creek Sewer District). With financing, the expansion cost $21.5 million, of which $4.5 million represents expanded capacity set to be dedicated to SKIA. The city anticipated money from new hook-ups in SKIA would contribute significantly to the debt, Clauson said, but without SKIA, the burden will fall back on city residents.
“It’s just not fair to the rate-payers if we don’t have the expansion growth that we anticipated,” Clauson said. “So, yeah, I expect it could ultimately make it to court. I’d rather not have to go that direction, but if we have to we have to.”
Rob Puutaansuu, chairman of the city’s utility committee, said talk of a lawsuit was “premature.” Puutaansuu said the council needs answers to certain questions from its own legal council and staff now that Bremerton has made the next move. For one thing, “At what point to we have to force the issue,” said Puutaansuu. “Is it now or down the road when services are provided?”
In anticipation of the need for expanded sewer service to SKIA, Port Orchard, were it the provider, would have to expand its collection line from the pump station on Feigley Road near McCormick Woods that was built with SKIA in mind, said Puutaansuu, who also mentioned being “disappointed” with Bremerton’s stance.
James Weaver, Port Orchard’s development director, said the county’s Boundary Review Board will have to address the memorandum as it rules on the proposed annexation. The board’s review could take 45-120 days. At Wednesday’s meeting, Weaver would not rule out a lawsuit, but said the city was “exhausting every avenue.”
“Litigation is an ugly word,” Weaver said.
September 5, 2008 City of Port Orchard, Roads and Infrastructure, What Runs DownhillBremerton, Port Orchard, sewers, SKIA
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Mastery of a Romance language –French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish – at the second year level or higher
The French major prepares students to engage with French and Francophone literary, philosophical, and visual cultures. Along the way, students will develop proficiency in oral, aural, and written French, while becoming astute critical readers and thinkers in French.
Required for the major are nine courses focusing on the French and Francophone world at the 2095 level and higher, including:
FREN 2310 – Introduction to French and Francophone Literature and Culture, or FREN 2320 -- Introduction to French and Francophone Film,
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Required for the minor are five courses focusing on the French and Francophone world at the 2095 level and higher.
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4:00 PM PT5:00 PM MT6:00 PM CT7:00 PM ET0:00 GMT8:00 5:00 PM MST7:00 PM EST4:00 UAE (+1)01:0019:00 ET6:00 PM CT22:00 , December 11, 2019
Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana Attendance: 15,637
Brogdon, Holiday help Pacers rally past Celtics 122-117
NBA Headlines
Bucks win 6th straight, improve to 38-6
Lakers send Rockets to 3rd straight loss
Suns overcome Smart's team-record 11 3s
Kawhi has 39, Clippers rally by Pelicans
Gobert has 28 and 15, Jazz rout Kings
76ers edge Knicks, snap 6-game road skid
VanVleet has 29 in return as Raptors win
LaVine has 42, Bulls rally from 19 down
Paul scores 30 to lead OKC over Blazers
Warriors down Magic to end 10-game slide
(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
By MICHAEL MAROT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana aced one major test Wednesday.
Now coach Nate McMillan expects the Pacers to continue putting up high marks.
Malcolm Brogdon scored 29 points and made all 15 of his free throws, the Holiday brothers combined for 20 fourth-quarter points and Indiana rallied from a 10-point deficit to finally beat the Boston Celtics 122-117.
"One of our problems all season has been closing out these games against elite teams," Brogdon said. "Tonight we were able to do that so it will definitely help our confidence.
The rebuilt Pacers snapped a seven-game losing streak against Boston, which included a first-round playoff sweep last season. They managed to dig themselves out of a 94-84 hole to start the fourth quarter with teamwork, defense and patience. And they did it with injured All-Star Victor Oladipo cheering throughout the stretch run.
The fact this performance came on a night three-time All-Star Kemba Walker scored a season-high 44 points, making seven 3-pointers and dishing out seven assists to lead Boston only made it sweeter.
"He's obviously one of the great players in the league and once he gets downhill, it's tough to stop him," Aaron Holiday said. "I just tried to fight over the screens and hoped my bigs could help me at the rim."
For McMillan, it was precisely the kind of effort he talked about Monday as the Pacers entered their most challenging three-week stretch so far.
And against an old nemesis in Boston, the Pacers played it perfectly.
They withstood Walker's 15-point first quarter, his scoring flurries at the end of the first half and start of the second half, even the 12-2 run Walker and Jayson Tatum spurred to close out the third quarter.
So with Walker on the bench, Indiana took advantage and turned the game with a team effort.
The Pacers forced five turnovers in the first 8 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter to close to 98-96.
Doug McDermott finally tied the score at 102 with two free throws at the 5:07 mark. Aaron Holiday gave Indiana a 105-104 lead with 4:16 left and Justin Holiday added gave Indiana a 114-109 lead with 1:26 left. Brogdon made six free throws in the last 17.1 seconds and Walker fired an airball on a 3 that would have tied it with 4 seconds to go.
Boston's four-game winning streak ended.
"I just missed," said Walker, who was 2 of 7 in the fourth. "I took some good ones, maybe a few that weren't so good but I just missed."
Celtics: Guard Marcus Smart missed his second straight game with a left eye infection. ... Boston had assists on each of its first 11 baskets. ... Jaylen Brown had 18 points, eight rebounds and eight assists before fouling out. ... Tatum finished with 16 points, Brad Wanamaker had 12 and Daniel Theis scored 11. ... The Celtics were 14 of 36 on 3s and their bench was outscored 47-19 by Indiana.
Pacers: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and new Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Roger Penske attended the game. ... Aaron Holiday scored 11 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter. Justin Holiday had 17 points, nine in the fourth. ... Domantas Sabonis had 15 points 14 rebounds and four assists, while T.J. Warren scored 14 and Myles Turner had 11. ... Brogdon also had eight assists and had the best free-throw shooting performance by a Pacer since Danny Granger made all 16 of his attempts on March 1, 2011. ... Indiana's bench outscored Boston's 47-19...
Trips to Indianapolis are usually enjoyable for Boston coach Brad Stevens, who led nearby Butler to two Final Four appearances after growing up in Brownsburg - an Indianapolis suburb.
And he's far from alone.
Gordon Hayward also grew up on the west side of Indianapolis and played on Butler's first Final Four team. Rookie guard Carsen Edwards starred at Purdue and rookie guard Romeo Langford was the state's 2018 Mr. Basketball Award winner. He played at Indiana University last year and had a large group of supporters make the trip from his southern Indiana hometown, New Albany, for the game.
OLADIPO UPDATE
McMillan said Oladipo looks better in practice and continues to make progress, but there's still no timetable for his return from a ruptured quad tendon in his right knee.
He suffered the injury in January.
"He's still rehabbing, working hard and he's certainly getting better," McMillan said. "He's getting closer but I think he's still a ways off."
Celtics: Head home for their second showdown this season with division rival Philadelphia on Friday.
Pacers: Will try to extend their winning streak over the Hawks to six straight Friday in Atlanta.
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BEFORE THE SHIP TIPS: 2013's TOP 10 (+5)
THE OFFICIAL SLIFR 12 DAYS CHRISTMAS CARD
JOAN IN HER KERCHIEF, GEORGE IN HIS CAP
PROFESSOR LARRY GOPNIK’S POST-HANUKAH, PRE-CHRISTM...
EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE VALEDICTORY FILMS OF ARTHUR P...
There aren’t but a few ticks left in 2013, a year which found me more divorced than ever from the theatrical moviegoing experience, an activity that over my lifetime has often seemed as commonplace and even as essential as breathing. But the past year in personal economics has forced some sea changes in my habits, in terms of what I have available to spend on movies in dollars and in time. And to be honest, I don’t entirely look upon this as a bad thing—another shocking realization given my lifelong enthusiasm, especially when I consider how many times the spending of the effort and those hard-earned dollars to get to the theater has resulted in frustration over the deterioration in civility and consideration among audiences, not only for fellow viewers but often for the movie they too have paid to see.
There also used to be a time when I felt an obligation, more or less, to see everything that came down the pipe. But no more—my sense of completism is no longer such that I feel any compulsion to see movies like About Time, or The Fifth Estate, or The Hobbit: Bilbo vs. the Smaug Monster, or whatever the hell that last Die Hard sequel was called, just because they’re out there. It’s hard enough to keep on top of the multitude of movies that I actually want to see. And in 2013 I’ve done an even less thorough job of staying in the conversation vis-à-vis new release than ever before, which makes participating in the year-end rituals of ranking and taste-flogging even more difficult.
But I enjoy those rituals enough, despite the often numbing sameness of the majority of lists that get aired out even before all the movies of the year have even had their week-long Oscar qualifying runs, that this year, as in years past, I bemoan the fact that my own top 10 list for the year will have to wait till February to be posted. It’s often that long before I’ve seen enough of what’s out there to give me a sense that I have even a rudimentary handle on the year in film.
So, as counterintuitive as it may sound, this year I’ve decided to make a little game of my shortcomings and publish two lists. There will be that February-ish one, which will come after I’ve had a chance to see American Hustle and Nebraska and Her and The Past and The Great Beauty (I have a screener!) and Short Term 12 and Frances Ha and August: Osage County and Byzantium and The Armstrong Lie and Blue Jasmine and The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis and the seeming hundreds of others I have yet missed.
And then there’s the one I’m posting today, the one comprised of the best I’ve actually had an opportunity to indulge in before the ship tips at midnight. Given the frequent refrain being that on any given day the critic’s list might be different, in either ranking or selection, today’s list is one that is by its nature in flux, one which I know must be different than the top 10 I’ll compile two months from now. I just felt like it might be an interesting exercise (at least for me) to look at the two lists in February and consider how much effect the year-end push for “quality” in the typical American movie industry release schedule actually has had on what I value most in my own favorites. It also seemed like a nice way to highlight the movies that are likely to get pushed out of the top spots, another way of saying, “Hey, these movies are good too!”
So behold the movies I’ve thought most highly of in the calendar year 2013. I’ve written no words here on the individual films—I’m up early ostensibly to work and am already behind schedule just by writing this introduction, so I’ll have to table my final takes on them until February. These are, as Sergeant Joe Friday often said, just the facts, the names only. The hopefully impassioned reasons are, like the rest of the movies of 2013 yet unseen, coming soon to a theater near me.
My top 10 (+1) favorite films of 2013 so far, in descending order:
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (La vie d’Adele)
(Abdellatif Kechiche)
ALL IS LOST (J.C. Chandor)
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Peter Strickland)
THE EAST (Zal Batmanglij)
GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron)
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright)
MUD (Jeff Nichols)
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Jean-Marc Vallée)
PAIN AND GAIN (Michael Bay)
Honorable Mention: CURSE OF CHUCKY (Don Mancini)
Favorite Documentaries (in alphabetical order):
AFTER TILLER (Martha Shane, Lana Wilson)
BLACKFISH (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
TIM'S VERMEER (Teller)
(Alex Gibney)
From my house to yours, may you and your friends and loved ones write a new holiday standard of love and happiness and togetherness during this Christmas season. Kick back, pour a drink, stay in your jammies late, open some presents, toast your fortunes, have some wonderful food and companionship, and above all be blessed. And while you're at it, see a movie! Maybe some of the SLIFR 12 Days of Christmas will in some way inspire your choices or just add to the happy buzz of what I hope will be your best Christmas holiday yet.
Day One: Out of the past and into your stocking...
Day Two: One to make any grinch's heart grow three sizes!
Day Three: I put the star on top of the tree... and I liked it. I liked it!
Day Four: Santa Say There's Trouble Every Day!
Day Five: A Christmas Carole!
Day Six: The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK sends its cheer!
Day Seven: Don't Call Her Savage, Call Her Santa's Favorite Elf!
Day Eight: Happy Horrordays!
Day Nine: Some good little girls and boys get on Santa's gift list, and some not-so-good little girls and boys get on Santa's shit list...
Day 10: Just Swimmin' in Seasonal Good Tidings!
Day 11: It was December 1966. I was in first grade. They (They!) dressed me up like a Christmas tree and forced me to read to the entire school. I slipped in some choice words though-- Santa was never so salty as he was that chilly morning, and I got even saltier as they hauled me to the principal's office. That'll show 'em. I got a lot of dates as a result of this memorable performance too. Uh-huh...
And finally, Day 12: How could your holiday party go wrong with such a guest list?
Perhaps not the most holiday-y of classics, but it's the one I'm seeing into midnight on this night before Christmas, now that no one believes in Santa Claus under this roof any longer. Sleep tight, my dears, and if the gunplay gets too loud just come and tell me to turn the TV down. The movie's almost over and I'll be going to bed soon too, after finishing off a plate full of cookies, carrots and a glass of milk in remembrance of more innocent times. There's a hopeful and happy day awaiting us all, and this ex-Santa is gonna need his rest. To all those who have read this blog over the past nine Christmases (!) and to those who may have only recently stumbled upon it, may your days be merry and bright and may this Christmas in particular be full of light.
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PROFESSOR LARRY GOPNIK’S POST-HANUKAH, PRE-CHRISTMAS, POST-SCHRODINGER, PRE-APOCALYPSE SLIFR HOLIDAY MOVIE QUIZ
Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a while since Miss Jean Brodie asked you firmly but politely to put your pencils down and seal off your answers to the last SLIFR movie quiz. But we here at SLIFR University know that even if you, as a student body, have not been as rigorously tested of late as you may have become accustomed to in previous sessions, your education has most certainly gone on, the inexorable accrual of knowledge and experience as impossible to deny as it is impossible to justify your outrageous tuition bills.
And after all, what is a ridiculously expensive education good for if not for flaunting all that knowledge, which probably seems at best trivial to those outside the grueling scrutiny of academia, in semester-ending exercises such as these exams? For those inside the confines of that intense world, the incessant intrusion of such a bombardment of book-learnin’ simply must coexist with the pleasures of art and music and the occasional bacchanalian beer blast. The awareness of this apparently paradoxical coexistence creates, for the distanced yet interested observer, a consideration of conditions that have become standard operational procedure for the typical SLIFR student, that is the condition of being simultaneously both dead-- crushed by oppressive forces within academia like, you know, Dean Wormer or somebody-- and alive to the possibilities of life opened up by exposure to the likes of Vermeer, Whitman, the Renoirs and, of course, a seemingly endless supply of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
We here at SLIFR U feel that there is no one better to guide you through the challenges of this year-end testing experience than one who is well acquainted with this sort of quantum physics-derived philosophical conundrum, the sort of challenge which you may face in this new quiz when forced to choose between two art film sex bombs of the ‘60s, or to justify wanting to put a ballpeen hammer upside the head of some guy in line at the hardware store when you overhear him start to diss Last Year at Marienbad, which just happens to be your favorite movie. Yes, there is only one man on the teaching staff here who we feel is up to that Herculean, or perhaps more appropriately that Schrodingeresque task. He is, of course, Professor Larry Gopnik, head of the mathematics department here at SLIFR U, an esteemed educator, master scribbler of figures, amateur philosopher and occasional dabbler in the niche arena of religion-based hauntings. Professor Gopnik has concocted, for your delectation and frustration, with all awareness toward the multiple religious festivals and perspectives being celebrated during this season, his very own Post-Hanukah, Pre-Christmas, Post-Schrodinger, Pre-Apocalypse Holiday Movie Quiz, which he assures us is imminently finishable well in advance of the end of the world.
The usual request applies as much to this quiz as to all the ones previous. For each query, copy and paste the question into the comments field and provide the question along with your answer, so the reader will be able to more easily track which question it is you are answering without having to constantly scroll back up to the top of the post. There are no other restrictions or guidelines. And there are, of course, no wrong responses. Short answers are, of course, quite acceptable, though the more detailed your answer, the more entertaining it is likely to be for the scholars who hold your grade, and thus your fate, in their hands. And if you have your own blog, please feel free to post your answers there and leave a link below to your own page.
So let’s get crackin’. Blue Books open, spit out your gum, sharpen your Metzenbaum scissors (we think outside the box here at SLIFR U), and for God’s sake, get that Schrodinger’s cat out of here! You may have as much time as you need to finish, or until that twister blows through town. Have fun!
1) Favorite unsung holiday film
2) Name a movie you were surprised to have liked/loved
3) Ned Sparks or Edward Everett Horton?
4) Sam Peckinpah's Convoy-- yes or no?
5) What contemporary actor would best fit into a popular, established genre of the past
6) Favorite non-disaster movie in which bad weather is a memorable element of the film’s atmosphere
7) Second favorite Luchino Visconti movie
8) What was the last movie you saw theatrically? On DVD/Blu-ray?
9) Explain your reaction when someone eloquently or not-so-eloquently attacks one of your favorite movies (Question courtesy of Patrick Robbins)
10) Joan Blondell or Glenda Farrell?
11) Movie star of any era you’d most like to take camping
12) Second favorite George Cukor movie
13) Your top 10 of 2013 (feel free to elaborate!)
14) Name a movie you loved (or hated) upon first viewing, to which you eventually returned and had more or less the opposite reaction
15) Movie most in need of a deluxe Blu-ray makeover
16) Alain Delon or Marcello Mastroianni?
17) Your favorite opening sequence, credits or no credits (provide link to clip if possible)
18) Director with the strongest run of great movies
19) Is elitism a good/bad/necessary/inevitable aspect of being a cineaste?
20) Second favorite Tony Scott film
21) Favorite movie made before you were born that you only discovered this year. Where and how did you discover it?
22) Actor/actress you would most want to see in a Santa suit, traditional or skimpy
23) Video store or streaming?
24) Best/favorite final film by a noted director or screenwriter
25) Monica Vitti or Anna Karina?
26) Name a worthy movie indulgence you’ve had to most strenuously talk friends into experiencing with you. What was the result?
27) The movie made by your favorite filmmaker (writer, director, et al) that you either have yet to see or are least familiar with among all the rest
28) Favorite horror movie that is either Christmas-oriented or has some element relating to the winter holiday season in it
29) Name a prop or other piece of movie memorabilia you’d most like to find with your name on it under the Christmas tree
30) Best holiday gift the movies could give to you to carry into 2014
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EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE VALEDICTORY FILMS OF ARTHUR PENN AND ROBERT ALTMAN
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
A movie bearing the title Penn and Teller Get Killed (1988) has a built-in inevitability which, masters of the perverse and debunkers of tricks and scams that they are, screenwriters/stars/instigators Penn Jillette and Teller would never consider not fully embracing. The movie’s very inertness as a narrative exercise built around an escalating series of deceptions and practical jokes (many of them either derived from or recreated entirely from their live act) seems strangely deliberate too, a willful deflation of the very expectations they themselves have set up.
I’m not sure just how much actual cinema most who managed to see this movie in a theater in 1988 thought they were entitled to, but when I bought a ticket to see it during its brief one-week run in Los Angeles I wasn’t surprised by its halting, lurching, episodic structure, and I more or less enjoyed it. Speaking again of inevitability, that very lumpiness seems a natural byproduct of any attempt to impose a filmed story on P&T’s brand of gasp-inducing hijinks, the sort that work to such breathtaking, wisecracking, yet deadpan effect on stage, where matters of editing and camera tricks aren’t an issue.
Not that Penn and Teller don’t give camera creativity a fair shot. The bit that opens the movie—a talk show appearance in which they use the studio cameras to disguise the fact that they’re seated at a desk upside-down, “levitating” objects through the “magic” of gravity—hints at the ways they might use the techniques of filmmaking to heighten their already ghastly, blackly funny trickery. During the interview that follows, one in which their contempt for the host (and the audience) is barely veiled, Penn feigns exasperation-- or maybe it’s genuine (part of the running P&T joke is that sincerity is almost impossible to discern, and even more unlikely to actually appear)—over how tiresome putting one over on the crowd has become, how blasé their responses to the repeated puncturing of illusion have become. In a typical moment of bombast, he speculates, on national television, how much fun it would be if someone were to actually attempt to kill him and his partner. Their manager (Caitlin Clarke, spewing a curious Mexican accent which eventually morphs into an even less believable Noo Yawk variation) may roll her eyes, but she also sees and dreads the possibilities. It’s an invitation to assassination mounted as pugnacious performance art, and a juicy way to kick off what promises to be a delirium-inducing death dodge of a movie.
Unfortunately, seeing it again 28 years later, after a couple of decades witnessing the sort of wise-assery that is coin of the Penn and Teller realm become that of mainstream pop culture, Penn and Teller Get Killed seems to sputter almost right from the beginning. The theme of the duo out-pranking each other is kicked off with a familiar and funny bit— Teller impishly orchestrates Penn’s blustering, frustrating attempt to pass through airport security. That’s quickly followed by a great gag in which Teller and Penn, working in concert, provoke a coin-throwing scuffle in the middle of an Atlantic City casino. But the movie’s central section, involving the boys’ increased paranoia and disillusionment over having attracted the homicidal intentions of a genuine psycho (David Patrick Kelly), gets quickly bogged down in subplots involving film noir parody—a sequence shot in black and white until, suddenly, it’s not—and the appearance of a policewoman girlfriend for Penn… who looks sort of familiar…
It won’t take long for even the dullest of viewers to sniff out what it takes a cynically prepared illusion deconstructionist like Teller seemingly forever to figure out—he’s being duped, and we see through it, a strange development indeed. Teller doesn’t wise up until it’s too late, which certainly sets up the sour fulfillment of the movie’s titular promise. But by the time one half of our heroes is hanging by his heels upside-down at the mercy of a maniac, a faint reversal of that first gag in which he and his partner were in control, the manic energy powering Penn and Teller Get Killed has been eaten away, like a chocolate Easter bunny with a hollow center-- nothing inside, most definitely not resurrection, the strains of the Bee Gees’ “I Started a Joke” hanging in the air.
The aggressively nihilistic tilt of the movie’s finish might have some bite if what came before were made with anything of the pompous carny glee over the upending of illusionist’s tropes that marks Penn and Teller’s live performances. I kept thinking, upon seeing it again, that the movie needed a magician behind the camera as well, someone like Brian De Palma, whose own cinematic sleight of hand might have meshed well with the macabre irony that is Penn and Teller’s calling card. But somehow Arthur Penn ended up directing the movie, and apart from one Penn directing another there’s not much of interest, certainly not the spirit of foreboding or real danger, or even much sensitivity to black comedy, that one might reasonably expect from the director of Bonnie and Clyde and Night Moves.
The closest thing to a lark on Penn’s résumé, Alice’s Restaurant, is still weighted with its voice-of-a-generation convictions, but even a jolt of the lunacy coursing through The Missouri Breaks would have been welcome, if only to shake up the static air within P&TGK’s relatively lifeless frames. Instead, Penn directs like a TV veteran marking time, which might seem like the only other legitimate approach to this material were the end result itself less moribund. Penn and Teller Get Killed, which turned out to be Arthur Penn’s last theatrically released feature, stands as little more than the period at the end of a fascinating career, one which in 1967 set the spark to a great, disruptive decade of American film culture and by the end of that same decade had already begun to settle into faint echoes of its own promise.
It just so happens that my latest encounter with Penn and Teller Get Killed was prompted by my participation in David Cairns’ Late Show Blogathon, which concludes tomorrow at his Shadowplay blog. The blogathon features writing dedicated to examining and celebrating the final films of famous and/or fascinating film directors, and to my eye, P&TGK made for a perfect example of a once-vital director whiling away his working days, taking a project presumably for the sake of keeping occupied (perhaps with the only work available) and failing to invest much of his own personality and concerns in the process, thus ending his creative journey on a decidedly low note.
But when I set to thinking about Penn’s opposite in this regard, a director who was fully engaged and creatively inspired right to the very end of his life, as a filmmaker and on Earth, the first person that came to mind was my favorite director, Robert Altman, and the film that capped his gloriously inconsistent and unpredictable career, A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
Based on Garrison Keillor’s only slightly self-conscious throwback to the regional radio variety shows of old, APHC deliberately accesses memories of a near-completely arcane style of programming by calling up faint folkloric echoes of a past that may or may not have even fully existed, at least as anything other than the object of sweet nostalgia. As one character, house detective Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) observes, Keillor’s show, which at the beginning of the film is about to be ushered permanently into memory by the inexorable march of economic progress, has been on the air “since Jesus was in the third grade.” (Or the mid-‘70s, if you value the actual historical record.) The Minnesota theater from which the show has traditionally emanated for all those years has been designated for demolition by a faceless corporation, and what makes up the heart of the film is the salutary last performance by Keillor’s imagined stock company—musicians and actors from the actual Prairie Home Companion stage/radio show intermingled with an impressive roster of actors (including Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones and Lindsay Lohan, among many others) assembled by Altman.
The movie begins on a shot of a radio tower at dusk, transmitting voices gathered out of the electric mist of memory. This ethereal opening connects APHC with other Altman movies immediately, most obviously the Grand Ole Opry live radio shows that inform Nashville (and Keillor’s original conception of APHC), the beautifully reconstructed broadcasts that punctuate the milieu of 1930’s Depression-era Kansas in Thieves Like Us, and even the cacophony of a.m. radio advertising that kicks off O.C. and Stiggs. But the device also helps make clear that, rather than indulging an empty exercise in prefab nostalgia, Altman’s film will operate on a mournful frequency of its own. And as unlikely and unexpected as it may seem at first, in its themes and even its basic structure it creates a curious link with Penn’s far less personal and compelling farewell.
Both movies, as it turns out, are concerned with death. In Penn and Teller Get Killed, the fascination is superficial, immature, valued only for its ability to shock the presumed bourgeois nature of its audience. (The movie’s meager theatrical and home video audience probably has a far different perspective on itself.) The eventual demise of the entire cast is intended as the grand fulfillment of some nasty cosmic joke. But the punch line has no sting because everything in the movie unfolds in a context in which nothing “real” is ever at stake, where ironic detachment isn’t so much a temporary stance as it is the movie’s lifeblood, a defiant operating philosophy. When the other shoe fails to drop and the bodies remain limp on the floor, we need only imagine that it will do so once the lights come up, Penn’s self-satisfied narration notwithstanding.
The slender thread that connects these dissimilar movies turns out to be their relationship to their central performers. Death in both films is a concern that is framed and colored by the reflection of performances derived and adapted from other media. P&TGK reconstitutes vaudeville stage magic but fails to translate any of its mystery, or even (curiously) much of the satisfaction to be had from its debunking, into cinematic language that manages to address the Grim Reaper with anything more than facile attention .
Altman, on the other hand, reimagines Garrison Keillor’s dense, theatrically presented universe as one that exists perhaps on the other side of a stage mirror, a world which can only adequately be investigated by the curiosity of his roving camera. The difference is that Altman feels the quiet urgency underlying his material. Without sacrificing humor or the joy he takes from this latest permutation of the community of performers he has consistently celebrated, whose world he insists we not just observe but inhabit, Altman allows himself to take the terminal trajectory of his subject very seriously. In APHC, as Keillor and Streep and Tomlin take over the dressing rooms, lofts, wings and eventually the stage of the doomed theater, Altman’s gently probing camera finds its corollary in Virginia Madsen’s visiting angel of death. She roams these same spaces, even inhabiting the backdrops onstage during the show, searching out souls which are quite unaware that they are next to depart the material world, in the same way that the theater itself has no clue its days are numbered.
Some can see this angel, sense her presence, but most cannot. When the singer/raconteur played by grizzled veteran L.Q. Jones retires to his quarters after his big numbers, the angel takes him quietly, and Altman makes plain his purpose. “The death of an old man is not a tragedy,” says Madsen in a cool attempt to comfort the woman who discovers Jones’s lifeless body. “Forgive him his shortcomings and thank him for all his loving care.” Altman, who knew during production of A Prairie Home Companion (if few else did) that he had only about a year left to live, serves Keillor’s material in the most resonant way possible by fashioning it as his own cheerfully unsentimental goodbye, a valedictory statement on mortality that is in its modest way painfully profound.
But, befitting Altman’s career-long tendency to exalt in folly as well as the need for crucial human relationships, whatever the end result, the 81-year-old wheelchair-bound director nimbly avoids the opportunity to turn the movie into either a narcissistic dirge or, in the manner of Hollywood, a hollow triumph of the human spirit. (Or worse, an empty, cynical joke.) There’s room enough, as it turns out, for plenty of humor and spirited exchange even among the shadows of inevitability, as evidenced by the movie’s loving, irony-free recreations of Keillor’s deadpan tales and familiar folk tunes, some of which have been refashioned into dryly hilarious jingles for products you just can’t do without. (“Powdermilk Biscuits, in the big blue box.”) Such generosity is APHC’s primary currency, and Altman spends it well.
The movie ends on one of the most gracefully sorrowful of all movie codas, so graceful that even the melancholy it inspires can’t fully dampen the happiness generated by the movie’s love of performance and performers—another consistent Altman trait that links him with the forgiving, unflinching humanism of Jean Renoir. The final show that has made up the film we’ve just seen is months past, and the central cast members, Keillor, Guy Noir (Kline), the Johnson Sisters, Yolanda (Streep) and Rhonda (Tomlin) have gathered in a booth at Mickey’s Dining Car for a reunion of sorts, with ribald cowboy songsmiths Dusty and Lefty (“The Pachelbels of the Prairie, the Brahmses of the Bunkhouse”) seated at the counter. After some relaxed catch-up chatter and a visit from Yolanda’s daughter (Lohan), who has since the end of the last show apparently become an investment counselor-- she advises poor clueless Mom on her retirement portfolio—there’s a cut to a view from the inside out through the rain-spattered window of the dining car.
A subtle evocation of the reflections that have played such an integral part in Altman’s visual poetry over the years (think The Long Goodbye, Elliot Gould aimlessly staring at the surf while inside the beach house Sterling Hayden and Nina Van Pallandt argue), the group gathered in the booth can be seen reflected in the window. And just as we registered the double meaning of the neon sign shining “Checks Cashed” into the night, Madsen’s angel of death appears once again from the left of the frame, gazes into the restaurant, sees the group and moves frame right toward the entrance to the diner.
There are a couple of cuts to the friends chatting, oblivious to the presence of the figure who has once again made her presence into their lives. She continues to stand silently at the door, watching, and they finally see her. The camera, again assuming her point of view, or at least her observing nature as it has throughout the film, moves in slightly. The four of them are obviously uneasy to be seeing her now—Guy Noir tries to catch her eye, to draw some indication from her as to who it is she’s there for. But she never speaks.
She only moves toward them, the stationary camera watching her as she overwhelms the frame.
A cut to the exterior of the diner, the camera slowly craning up, heavenward…
and dissolving slowly…
…back to the movie’s central image of heaven, the performing stage…
…where we will last glimpse the actors and musicians, in their graceful element, before the credits roll.
That Altman could choreograph this moment of reckoning and bliss as his deliberate valedictory to film and to life ought to put a smile on the faces of everyone who has ever cherished the great moments and great movies, and even the less-than-great ones he and his talented collaborators created over the course of a 40-year career as a director. In its terms of clear-eyed summation, love of life and acceptance of what will visit us all (sans the familiar synthetic comforts), Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion might just qualify for me as the best movie farewell ever made.
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Protocol, rationale and design of SELPHI: a randomised controlled trial assessing whether offering free HIV self-testing kits via the internet increases the rate of HIV diagnosis
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018; 18:531 (doi:10.1186/s12879-018-3433-x).
Authors: Michelle M. Gabriel, David T. Dunn, Andrew Speakman, Leanne McCabe, Denise Ward, T. Charles Witzel, Justin Harbottle, Simon Collins, Mitzy Gafos, Fiona M. Burns, Fiona C. Lampe, Peter Weatherburn, Andrew Phillips, Sheena McCormack, Alison J. Rodger
Background: Among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the UK, an estimated 28% have never tested for HIV and only 27% of those at higher risk test at least every 6 months. HIV self-testing (HIVST), where the person takes their own blood/saliva sample and processes it themselves, offers the opportunity to remove many structural and social barriers to testing. Although several randomised controlled trials are assessing the impact of providing HIVST on rates of HIV testing, none are addressing whether this results in increased rates of HIV diagnoses that link to clinical care. Linking to care is the critical outcome because it is the only way to access antiretroviral treatment (ART). We describe here the design of a large, internet-based randomised controlled trial of HIVST, called SELPHI, which aims to inform this key question.
Methods/design: The SELPHI study, which is ongoing is promoted via social networking website and app advertising, and aims to enroll HIV negative men, trans men and trans women, aged over 16 years, who are living in England and Wales. Apart from the physical delivery of the test kits, all trial processes, including recruitment, take place online. In a two-stage randomisation, participants are first randomised (3:2) to receive a free baseline HIVST or no free baseline HIVST. At 3 months, participants allocated to receive a baseline HIVST (and meeting further eligibility criteria) are subsequently randomised (1:1) to receive the offer of regular (every 3 months) free HIVST, with testing reminders, versus no such offer. The primary outcome from both randomisations is a laboratory-confirmed HIV diagnosis, ascertained via linkage to a national HIV surveillance database.
Discussion: SELPHI will provide the first reliable evidence on whether offering free HIVST via the internet increases rates of confirmed HIV diagnoses and linkage to clinical care. The two randomisations reflect the dual objectives of detecting prevalent infections (possibly long-standing) and the more rapid diagnosis of incident HIV infections. It is anticipated that the results of SELPHI will inform future access to HIV self-testing provision in the UK.
Trial registration: DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN20312003 (registered 24/10/2016)
Keywords: HIV; Self-testing; HIVST; MSM; Diagnosis; Prevalent; Incident
Tagged under: Research methods, HIV testing, HIV self testing, HIV policy and practice, All gay & bisexual men
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Found new references
Giromancy
Post subject: Found new references
Missing since: 04 Feb 2010
But this time there are no references to movies....
COSPA STORE
COSPA Inc. is one of the top manufacturers of character apparel, goods and costumes from anime, manga and games in Japan. We own several brands: COSPA, Nijigen COSPA, Resinya!, COSPATIO and TranTrip. Each has a unique brand concept. We were established in 1995 and have created the character goods market for everyone who loves character apparel, goods and costumes. Our goal is to share and maximize fun by creating new trends for character apparel as communication tools. Our policy is to produce only approved and properly licensed merchandise that brings original creators' passions.
WEBSITE: http://www.cospa.com/
THINGS AND STUFF
There is a store in the game called THINGS AND STUFF located in (ALTERNATE RESORT AREA), this store exists in real life and is located at Garden City NY the exact addres is: 186 7th Street, Garden City, NY (you can look at google maps)
According with this site: http://www.gardencityshopping.com/dir_household.html
THINGS AND STUFF (Decorating, Gifts and Household Furnishings)
The store in the game has the same logo, and the facade is almost identical:
IT´LL DO CLUB DANCING
This sign is located in ALTERNATE RESORT AREA on SANDFORD St. next to the THINGS AND STUFF store.
It´ll do Club Dancing Was quite a place in the 50's and 60's.
Located near Tennyson Park in east Dallas. Dancing and mingling in the evenings. There is a interesting story that during the day it was a hang out for "pressure cooker" wives. They shopped, drank and socialized most of the day- then ran home and threw dinner in the pressure cooker so they would have it on the table for hubby when he got home.
BOWL FREEWAY LANES
This sign is located in RESORT AREA on SANDFORD St.
Freeway Lanes offers the best bowling experience in the Cleveland area. With locations in Mentor, Parma, Solon, Wickliffe and Warren, you'll find over 250 lanes, high definition screens, outdoor patios, restaurants with full-service bars and live entertainment.
WEBSITE: http://www.freewaylanes.com/
BETTS BIG T (Service & Grill)
In RESORT AREA on one side of Bachman Rd. there is a sign with the name:
BETTS BIG T (SERVICE & GRILL) is the name of a restaurant in Chiefland Florida ( 2525 N Young Blvd Chiefland, FL 32626 )
40 MOTEL
This sign is located in RESORT AREA on BACHMAN Rd. in front of JUDE´S DINER.
A reference from a Motel located in Columbus Ohio
( 3705 W. Broad St. Columbus, Ohio Rt. 40 West)
HECTOR SAXE
Hector Saxe is a Paris based seller of board games and related accessories French company, designer and manufacturer of Backgammon since 1978. Hector Saxe of Paris produces a collection of backgammon sets that are second to none. Using the finest faux leathers, real leather, and other high quality fabrics, these beautiful backgammon sets are the ultimate! Each backgammon set includes 30 chips, 2 dice cups, 2 sets of matching dice, doubling cube, and cloth drawstring back to storing and protecting your backgammon. As much art as game!
WEBSITE: http://www.hectorsaxeparis.com/en/
A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer in Europe (especially in Paris) during the 1920s with his first wife, Hadley. Some of the later prominent people who are featured in his memoirs include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.
ELKS BINGO
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order and social club founded in 1868. It is one of the leading fraternal orders in the U.S., claiming nearly one million members
(INFO 1)
http://www.elks.org/
http://www.elks2532.org/elks-bingo.html
The sign has the same format of letters.
COMTEMPO CASUALS STORE
Contempo Casuals, aka Contempo was originally launched in the 1960s by the, believe or not Neiman Marcus Group, then later sold off to Wet Seal, a clothing store formed in Newport Beach California. Wet Seal was a young women's clothing retailer headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California which also added the clothing store Arden B. to their list. While Wet Seal mostly maintains clothing for teenage girls, Arden B. targets the urban girl or career styles.
Contempo carried moderately priced brand name and company-designed apparel along with accessories that created and induced many of the trendy fashions we now love so much on the vintage sites. Mainly from the 70s through the early 90s. They hit their triumph of fashion in the 1980s . They exposed and created the path for the avant guarde designer. They sold to their funky, chic,sexy,whistle wearers. The girls who dared to be different could find clothes at reasonable prices that would challenge mainstream dullness.
THE TEXTURE BELOW WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE CD AND WAS NOT USED IN THE FINAL GAME, THE FINAL TEXTURE IS CONTRASTS CASUALS STORE.
http://sites.google.com/site/shresort/
dr bones
Cafe5to2 Waitress
Post subject: Re: Found new references
Missing since: 23 May 2004
Last seen at: Proud citizen of Portlandia.
Wow, that's actually pretty cool. I was not aware of most of these. How did you manage to figure all of that out? It's crazy how some of these signs and logos are almost exact replicas of ones in real life, I figured most of the stores in the game were just generic names they made up.
"Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame."
"The lies and the mist are not they but I. You all know that I am One. Yes, and the One is I."
KageReneko
Subway Guard
Last seen at: Colombia
Damn, SH1 still being my favorite... You have so much free time and I really envy you ...
Damn interesting. What eye (or specific good programs) you have. Keep this up
This is kickass.
Tabris
Last seen at: Quebec, Canada
Very, very cool. I have no idea how you find all these things but please keep doing it hah
Piramit Kafa
Last seen at: Turkey
I didn't know there were this many "readable" signs in the game When I play it, I can't even make most of the signs out. But I guess I just missed those in the dark. Good job.
There was a SIGNATURE here. It's gone now.
Typographenia
Last seen at: Los Angeles
I have no idea how one goes about tracking this stuff down, but you're amazing at it.
JULIO´S AUTO PARTS
JULIO´S AUTO PARTS is located in OLD SH on MATHESON St. between LEVIN St & BACHMAN Rd.
JULIO´S AUTO PARTS is an auto parts store located in Chicago Illinois ( 3000 West Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL )
Yoshata
My Bestsellers Clerk
Missing since: 25 Jan 2010
Awesome eye.
Either that, or are you secretly someone who worked on the game and that's how you know all this stuff so well? Edit: nevermind, it seems you didn't, based on your profile. Still, this research you've done is really cool.
phantomess
Last seen at: California
Wow, I'd never have guessed that all these little places in-game had specific inspirations- and from all over the place. Really interesting.
Hunting the abyss lord . . . Only one will stay alive!
So... Do you think the developers have actually seen all those places or they just picked random bussinesses from random phone guides in order to create the town??
MeatyDistraction
Missing since: 16 Jun 2006
Last seen at: Under One Of Andrew DeSalvo's Man Titties
I don't think these locations were picked at random. They all have that sort of old-school, small town charm to them.
Nice to see something from my area, though (Columbus, Ohio). Very, very cool.
"Are you goin' to Hell or Heaven? Did you walk with the sinners, or pray with the reverend? Tell the truth, I did a little of both, but ain't no tellin' where I'm goin' 'til my body's a ghost."
PoemOfTheLastMoment
Missing since: 05 Dec 2010
Giromancy, you sir are the man!
There's a lot of other places in the game... here's a video showing a few examples...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tty7stwZBsY
Now I Know, The Real Reason Why I Came To This Town....I Wonder....What Was I Afraid Of? Without You..I've Got Nothing...Now, We Can Be Together Again.....Mary.....
New one:
The Soda machine in the hospital is a clear reference from the DIXIE NARCO vending machines company, model ¨501 T¨,
has the same design with different colors.
Website: http://www.dixie-narco.com/default.cfm
We can see the same in SH3, another vending machine from DIXIE NARCO company:
Last seen at: Pits of Hell
This is amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing!!!
Lostkitsune
Woodside Apartments Janitor
Last seen at: Night Springs
This is really cool! Wow I haven't even seen most of these signs before haha.
Haoie
Last seen at: New Zealand
Some of these are surely just coincidence. Especially store names.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
Soulless-Shadow
Haoie wrote:
The only one I think could be a coincidence would be Julio's Auto Parts because all the others not only have the same names, but same fonts, designs, and logos. There are far too many similarities for many of them to just be coincidence. Either way, someone was copying from someone.
VenusDoom
Missing since: 06 Nov 2010
o.o How does one go about finding all this, it's AMAZING!
Cry baby, cry baby, cry,<3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DW9xJTX-4
I love the Silent Hill Series. The games: Homecoming, Origins, and Shattered Memories, did nothing wrong whatsoever, they were developed well, and did things different. Just because they were not by Team Silent doesn't mean that they're bad games. I believe in this series. I believe that one day, we can have a game that will make all Silent Hill fans Happy. I believe that Silent Hill Downpour can achieve this.
Team Silent may be gone, but their series isn't. Instead... it's here, it's alive.
If you agree, add it to your sig.
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Plant vs zombie survival endless day,recipe for disaster 2007 quest guide,emf meter power lines safe,youtube national geographic locked up abroad japan - Test Out
Rhythm and music games in the past have mostly fallen into a handful of categories, think Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, or Rhythm Heaven. Known as 'Monster Hunter Cross' in Japan when it release last November, Monster Hunter Generations is now the official title for the western port.
Owners of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate that have a save file of the game on their 3DS will unlock exclusive content in Monster Hunter Generations when it launches. In Monster Hunter Generations, players take up the esteemed role of a hunter, seeking out and vanquishing a variety of colossal creatures throughout the world. This latest installment marks the debut of new gameplay mechanics such as Styles and Hunter Arts which allow players to create the most custom, personalized playstyle of any Monster Hunter game yet. For the first time in the series, players will have the ability to now play as a Felyne themselves in the new Prowler Mode. As part of the Nintendo Direct today, it was also announced that Monster Hunter Generations will feature a unique armor set based on Marth from the tactical RPG series Fire Emblem. During the Nintendo Direct that aired earlier this afternoon, Nintendo rather oddly snuck in a seemingly big game announcement: Paper Mario Color Splash for Wii U.
Paper Mario for Nintendo 64 and it's sequel, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door on the Gamecube were praised for their unique humor and RPG goodness. It's too early to completely disregard Paper Mario Color Splash as a simple sequel to Sticker Star, but the footage we saw didn't leave us with much hope. Earlier today, Nintendo hosted their first (Second counting the Pokemon Direct last week) Nintendo Direct of 2016. Back in October of 2015, Nintendo first reavealed their new venture into the world of modern day gaming. On February 3, 2016, Nintendo gave more information before the beginning of Miitomo and Nintendo Account. Nintendo's first app made exclusively for smart devices, Miitomo, will launch in North America in March for both iOS and Android phones and tablets.
Launching alongside Miitomo in March, My Nintendo aims to become much more than a traditional rewards program. Including Miitomo, Nintendo plans to release approximately five smart device applications by the end of March 2017. French developer Seaven Studios announced that the rhythm-driven platformer Inside My Radio would be launching on the Wii U eShop in North America and Europe on February 25. This Splatfest will be taking place simultaneously around the world at the same time, unlike the previous events that have had different themes for each region. Last night, Nintendo revealed the release date of the final batch of Mii Fighter costumes, as well as the release date of the final DLC characters and stage for Super Smash Bros. Nintendo has confirmed that Ancho-V Games, the last in a series of free DLC maps released in Splatoon, is entering the rotation tonight at 6 P.M. Totem Topple is a vertical tower defense game centered around building a totem poll and protecting it from an endless stream of evil and rotating enemies. During the last Nintendo Direct Presentation, it was announced that Cloud would join the Smash 4 roster and that there would be one final dedicated video presentation for the game. For years, many have wanted Minecraft to arrive on Nintendo platforms, and today, that wish was granted.
Earlier tonight, Yacht Club Games, the creators of Shovel Knight, revealed upcoming plans of the new Shovel Knight amiibo.
Splatoon is never lacking new content being added to the game, especially with the new gear, weapons, and stages being added. This past Thursday, November 12, Nintendo hosted their first Nintendo Direct in a few months, as well as the first Nintendo Direct since the passing of company president Satoru Iwata. Much to the surprise of viewers and fans, Nintendo announced at the end of yesterday's Nintendo Direct that Cloud from Final Fantasy VII is coming to Smash 4. This past Tuesday, Nintendo announced via Twitter that the Nintendo Badge Arcade, previously released in Japan already, has been added to the 3DS eShop in the US and Europe. The next Nintendo Direct, Nintendo's direct-to-viewer news stream about upcoming games and products, will be broadcast on November 12 at 2 P.M. Nintendo just had their investors meeting, and while some good news was dropped on the progress of mobile development and the Nintendo NX, there was a distinct lack of mention of a certain piece of hardware that Nintendo has been hard at work on: their Quality of Life sensor.
The Quality of Life sensor that Nintendo is working on is different than anything currently imbedded in your smartphone or smartwatch. One of the key features of their sleep sensor is that you don’t have to interact with it in any way or wear it, which is what is required from a lot of current health devices.
Does the silence mean that Nintendo has pushed their Quality of Life sensor aside for a stronger focus on video-games? I think the silence is specifically there to shift our focus away from the sensor and more towards their gaming consoles, which is what they desire to sell more of at the moment.
If you recall a while back, Nintendo was working on a Vitality Sensor that would work in conjunction with the Wii, and probably with Wii Fit.
Some of the neat technologies in the QoL sensor include a non-contact radio frequency sensor, which will probably be able to track everything about your sleep including your movements. One of the patents regarding the sensor includes a projector to project messages onto your ceiling, again showcasing the fact that you do not need to interact with the device. Overall, while there is no news regarding the sensor, there is more than likely no need to panic.
Nintendo has once again held their semi-annual Corporate Policy and Investor Briefing last night, and it did once again contain some new and interesting information. We've already seen Nintendo giving Splatoon many updates, whether it be adding new weapons, stages, or a bug patch or nerf patch. Octodad: Dadliest Catch, an indie game that many have been waiting for to arrive on Nintendo platforms, now has a release date for Wii U.
Along with the multitude of new stages and weapons Nintendo has been releasing for Splatoon, there have also been a few updates to fix up bugs or glitches, weapon balance, etc. Although you might not be able to tell from the name, Freedom Planet is as inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog as games get. For starters, they don’t really add as much to any game as Nintendo might claim they do.
The good news is, is that one amiibo can still work with every game that is compatible with it, as long as you buy those games. Recently, the preorders for wave 5 went up only about two weeks before release, and even then, some sellers, such as Amazon, didn’t open up for preorders, but opted to instead open up direct sales for the amiibo one at a time late in the day of the launch day Friday. Early on in the life of amiibo, there would be people who would order hundreds of the same amiibo at a time for one purpose: to resell them at a higher price by controlling the amount that came into the hands of the normal people. Flash back to E3 2014; Nintendo was announcing these little figurines of their game characters. This past week, Nintendo of America revealed the release date of Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, as well as some new information on some of the upcoming Animal Crossing amiibo, on Twitter. The trailer for FreakZone Games's "AVGN 2: ASSimilation" has gotten a new trailer to showcase some of the new things coming to the game including a new armor system, new bosses, and tons more. Since the rise in popularity of independent developers during the last generation, games similar in gameplay and style to Exorcism Extreme have been plentiful. Earlier yesterday, Nintendo announced via Twitter that a new map, called Hammerhead Bridge, would be the next map added to Splatoon later that night. In a rather surprising announcement, a Super Mario Maker Stage is coming to Super Smash Bros.
The next Splatfest for North America has officially been announced, and it pits science against art!
As of September 4th owners of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate across the globe will be able to download the monthly DLC pack for September. In a July interview with Eurogamer, Pikmin developer and legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the next Pikmin game is well into development. Ever wonder what it would be like to merge the gameplay of Mega Man and Donkey Kong Country? Today, Nintendo has put out a release calendar for upcoming games and amiibo for the rest of 2015. Two of the 3DS's best Indie offerings are coming to Wii U in a single HD collection later this year.
The entry level system in the 3DS family of portable consoles, the 2DS, will be getting a price reduction in the U.S.
It has been revealed that the hit Japanese 3DS title Yo-Kai Watch will be localized and launch in North America November 6. The fourth North American Splatfest has been revealed by Nintendo of America today via Twitter. We are just about 3 weeks away from Super Mario Maker's release for Nintendo Wii U on September 11, 2015, and tons of amiibo costumes in the game are already being leaked. For those who don't know, when you tap an amiibo into Super Mario Maker, you can give Mario a costume of an amiibo, like Donkey Kong, Link, or Wii Fit Trainer.
Finally, another image has leaked, this time, via Twitter user MarioFan1, showing off a possible Tingle amiibo costume in Super Mario Maker. Nintendo has released the dates that some of their already announced amiibo will be hitting store shelves. Mega Man Legacy Collection is an upcoming release that features the original six 8-bit Mega Man games as well as a variety of Mega Man content including high-resolution artwork, music and a new Challenge Mode.
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Tui xin du?c chia s? nh?ng kinh nghi?m cho anh em vn-zoom v? ch? d? Survival Endless trong Plants vs. Nintendo announced today that Miitomo, their first mobile application, will be launching this Thursday, March 31, alongside My Nintendo, the new rewards program as a replacement for Club Nintendo which closed down back in June 2015.
Inside My Radio seeks to stray from the formulaic status quo of music games by emerging a a rhythm-driven platformer.
Following last year's release of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Generations is the next main series adventure in Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise. Coming in summer 2016, and initially released in Japan as Monster Hunter X, the western release of Monster Hunter Generations is the newest installment in the popular action RPG series, which has sold more than 36 million units worldwide. Players can earn Zenny and collect resources that can be used for crafting powerful weapons and armor which are styled after the monsters they have defeated. Players can choose from four distinct combat Styles, like Aerial which adds the ability to attack and mount monsters from mid-air. In this mode, there are even more adventures to be had in unique quests playing either as a Felyne alone or with up to three other companions in group quests. Fans can look forward to this and more collaborations with popular series for special themed gear for both hunters and their custom Felyne support partners known as Palicoes. Although Sticker Star, the most recent Paper Mario entry for 3DS, might have been a solid entry in some other game series, it failed to satisfy the demands of Paper Mario fans. Nintendo Selects are games that have sold really well and have a lowered price to get players to get them.
During Nintendo's Financial Results Briefing on October 29, 2015, Nintendo officially revealed they would have a new account system, called "Nintendo Account". Nintendo said that Nintendo Account registration and Miitomo preregistration will begin on February 17, 2016. Today, Nintendo outlined the steps that fans can take to be among the first to get in on the social fun. 17, people will be able to pre-register for Miitomo by signing up for the new Nintendo Account service using their existing email, social media accounts or current Nintendo Network IDs. It is a more comprehensive service that rewards users for interacting with Nintendo products and services in a variety of ways.
The game was built from a demo created during the French Game Developers Competition Ludum Dare#23 and has since grown to full-fledged EDM adventure. Nintendo revealed on their Twitter yesterday that the next Splatfest will be about Pokemon! You can start getting your gear ready and vote for which team you want to be on in Inkopolis Plaza, voting has already started! Both the 3DS and Wii U saw less games than expected with the delays of titles like StarFox Zero and the new Legend of Zelda for Wii U.
A variety of Mii Fighter costumes will also be released in the near future, including costumes for Geno, Knuckles, and Tails. Many people like myself have wanted Minecraft, and now it is officially headed to Wii U next week! The game, developed by Re-Logic has been confirmed today by 505 Games, the distributor of the game, on Twitter. FAST Racing Neo is Shin'en Multimedia's attempt at an F-Zero game, which has made many fans excited for this game.
Image & Form's sequel to SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Heist has been announced to be releasing next Thursday, December 10. During the November 12 Nintendo Direct, Nintendo revealed two new stages being added to the game soon: Museum d' Alfonsino and Mahi Mahi Resort. As this was the first Nintendo Direct in quite a few months, many big announcements were predicted to occur, which they did. No details on the date or pricing of the DLC character were given, but a Smash-focused presentation, the last of its kind, will be streamed in December. The Badge Arcade is a free application which lets you earn badges that you can use and place on your Nintendo 3DS home screen icons to decorate it through a crane game.
Not a single investor asked a question about it, and Nintendo did not reveal any new information on it, despite initial reports claiming a March 2016 release. In fact, when I first got my phone, I tried to use the health applications fairly actively, however, it soon became a hassle to log everything I was eating; there was a lack of convenience, which is a problem Nintendo is actively trying to solve. While we can only speculate this, my personal stance on this is that they have not sacrificed anything in their company to work on this. The two markets for games and health devices could not be more different, which could be why Nintendo is not trying to talk about it amongst video-games, but may talk about it on its own at a later point in time. This product never made it to the market, which has some people skeptical about the QoL sensor, however, last year Iwata said that the reason the Vitality Sensor never made it to the market was specifically because people had to interact with it in some way shape or form. Using a microphone it will track the noises that occur around you and possibly from you while you sleep.
The device is also capable of detecting your emotions, and it even has one of those new-fangled alarm systems where when it’s time to wake you up, it actually wakes you up, unlike those times where your smartphone fails to do the job. During this meeting, some data was given showing that their sales are improving, and that amiibo are making lots of profit for them, as well as hits like Splatoon and Super Mario Maker. The game, developed by Young Horses Inc, has been announced on Twitter to be releasing on this Thursday, October 29, for North America and Europe. Originally developed for PC as a SOnic fan game, Freedom Planet has since evolved into a full fledged adventure of it's own with unique characters, plot, and level design.
In Super Smash Brothers for example, all they can do is function as superior computer players that you can customize.
If you have 5 amiibo compatible games, this means you paid about $2.60 for the DLC per game.
This was actually really convenient for those who had to work in the morning and may have missed the launch and the preorders. For those unfamiliar, a scalper is someone who will buy something of limited stock with the sole intent of reselling if for a higher price. I have never scalped like that, but only in passing in stores after everyone else already had a chance to preorder or buy what they wanted if they desperately wanted it. Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 2 was first revealed at SGC 2015 back in July of this year, as well as the fact that they would try and get the game on Nintendo platforms again.
A simple gameplay idea suited well for multiplayer settings and parties, accompanied by basic environments and pixel art is able to flourish in the indie environment. The map released last night at 7 PM PT (10 PM EST) and is the seventh map added since Splatoon's release in May, and the twelfth map overall. Tatsumi Kimishima, a new face to many, will be taking over Iwata's position at Nintendo as President.
This Splatfest will bring two very interesting subjects, and put them up against each other to see which side will be the winner this time. Nintendo has recently announced that a Mario Kart 8 Wii U Bundle will be available for the price of $299.99 that includes a 32gb Wii U, a digital copy of Mario Kart 8, and an eShop card to download both sets of Mario Kart 8 DLC.
As always, these monthly doses of extra Monster Hunter are free of charge and add a variety of new content to the game. Miyamoto says that the team is always working on the next Pikmin game and that Pikmin 4 (title not final) is actually close to competition. Some games shown off last night include Graphite Lab's Hive Jump, as well as Kerbal Space Program for the Wii U. The new gaming service allows gamers to easily find the games they want to watch, as well as the channels they want to watch, and the livestreams they want to watch.
Some new information we got today includes official box arts for several games, release dates for amiibo, as well as some release dates on games such as Star Fox Zero.
The new map, announced over Twitter and first shown in the Stay Fresh trailer, Flounder Heights, will become the eleventh map overall, and will be the sixth map added to Splatoon since its release.
Yo-Kai Watch is an RPG that involves befriending the Yo-Kai of Japanese folklore, who are invisible and mischievous creatures, and using them in battle. The theme is what is very interesting, Transformers, with Team Autobots up against Team Decepticons.
One of these leaks may even show off an unannounced amiibo we may be getting in the future. A user on Google+ by the name 'Tentai Hentaclez' has put up pictures of the amiibo costumes for Rosalina & Luma, Toon Link, Pac-Man, and Mega Man, which you can check out here. What makes this really interesting is that we have not seen a Tingle amiibo, so could this be an unannounced amiibo or is there an alternate way to unlock costumes? You can check out the official site for the game here, and you can preorder the game now before it's release on September 11. This new wave of amiibo will be releasing September 11, 2015, which includes Zero Suit Samus, Olimar, Super Mario Bros. The collection is coming to the 3DS in early 2016 following the August 25th release of the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC digital versions. 9 launched as a kickstarter campaign last year promising a re-imagined spiritual successor to the popular Mega Man franchise. In addition to this, those who preregister for Miitomo before March 31 at 1AM PT (4AM EST) can earn My Nintendo Platinum Points to get rewards once My Nintendo launches alongside Miitomo.
The game will boast the most customization options of any iteration to date as well as plenty of new weapons, items, and monsters. If you've never played a Monster Hunter game and even if you're not so sure Monster Hunter is for you, we'd definitely recommend picking up MH4U at this price.
It is the most customizable Monster Hunter™ experience to date, and serves as a fitting tribute to the last decade of the series. On their journey, players must defend each of the game’s four villages from the threat of major new menaces known collectively as the Fated Four. With the introduction of devastating new attack skills and power-ups known as Hunter Arts, the action looks more visually striking than ever before on Nintendo 3DS. With hundreds of quests in store for hunters and Felynes, there are tons of challenges to tackle in the solo adventure, and also multiplayer quests via local or online play, opening up the epic world of Monster Hunter to players of all levels. We were only shown a minute or two of footage, but it's pretty clear that the game is looking to fall closer in line with Paper Mario: Sticker Star than the beloved early iterations of the game.
It lacked key components of previous Paper Mario games: unique characters, expirience points, and a partner system. Some of the games included in this Direct were updates on games like Star Fox Zero, Splatoon, and Super Mario Maker, as well as introductions of new games such as Paper Mario on the Wii U and a new entry to the Rhythm Heaven series.
Nintendo Select games are sold for $19.99 instead of their normal retail price, which will get many more people to buy it. Nintendo Account connects all of your gaming platforms (Wii U, 3DS, smartphone, PC, etc.) and have a new membership service as the replacement for Club Nintendo, called "My Nintendo".
One of those titles is Miitomo, a game in which your Mii asks you and your friends questions or, "friendly conversation starters" so you can interact more. Anyone who preregisters for Miitomo before launch will get a special bonus on My Nintendo in the future. You can also check out the slides from the October 2015 Financial Briefing, or keep reading on for the full February 3 press release from Nintendo. People who pre-register will be among the first to be notified about the availability of Miitomo when it launches in March. Miitomo users with a Nintendo Account will be able to take advantage of My Nintendo to enhance their experience. The game sets you as a rad-looking green LED trapped inside boombox that blasts electro, club, and disco tunes. This time, you will be able to choose which side you want to be on, based on Pokemon Red or Blue, whichever you prefer. However, with games like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Splatoon, and Xenoblade Chronicles X along with countless excellent eShop titles this year, we've gotten more than enough to keep us busy.
Since the initial build of the game, it has been polished and was recently released on Wii U. The two new fighters that will join Cloud in the future are Corrin from the upcoming Fire Emblem Fates and the titular character Bayonetta. Keep reading for a full press release and a video of the entire presentation, it's worth a watch. It's likely that the last of the DLC content as well as any selected fighters from the ballot that ended in October will be revealed during this presentation. The popular building block game already on most platforms such as PS4, Xbox One, PC, smart phones, and many other consoles will now be on a Nintendo platform for the first time.
Using the amiibo, you can customize a Custom Knight, and even unlock Co-Op mode on the Wii U version.
Shin'en Multimedia announced on Twitter that the game will be releasing next Thursday, December 10. Nintendo announced via Twitter yesterday that the second map, Mahi Mahi Resort would be added to the map rotation tonight at 6PM PT (9PM EST). A multitude of games were either revealed or had more information given, including The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, a small glimpse at Zelda for Wii U, Star Fox Zero, Hyrule Warriors: Legends, and many other games too! He marks the fifth third-party character playable in Smash 4, along with Sonic, Mega Man, Pac-man, and Ryu. Badges you can earn include badges of inspired by the Zelda, Mario, and Animal Crossing series. It may even be able to track your heart rate without being in direct contact with you, which is pretty revolutionary. In any case, we should hear some news regarding the device soon, and I can tell you it is going to be worth purchasing, as sleep is one of the single most important factors affecting your daily life. This Wednesday, Super Mario Maker will be getting a new update bringing not one, but five new things to the game.
In addition to this, they also revealed in the tweet that the game will be on sale for 20% off until November 5.
Although the concept of a high-speed 16-bit platformer might already be quite familiar, don't let that dissaude you. I have no issue with spending money on DLC, but the majority of it adds nothing to the gameplay.
There are too many amiibo figures that I wanted that I never purchased or preordered in time, and now likely never will be able to purchase them. There is no way to control scalpers, and they will continue to charge sometimes obscene amounts for these little figures, that again, do not add much to the gameplay. What a cheesy name, but Nintendo made us want them, rather, need them by showing the intro to Super Smash Brothers Melee.
Extreme Exorcism jumps on this train with its fun and crazy bouts of gampelay; and it's not half bad. The Super Mario Maker Stage that was revealed a while back as well as the Pirate's Ship stage from Brawl [Wii U], the Duck Hunt stage from Wii U [3DS], a variety of Mii costumes, as well as balance patches were included in the update. The game, originally expected to be released on November 20, will now be expecting a Q1 2016.
You can go check it out in Splatoon when it's part of the rotation, whether in Turf Wars or Ranked Battle.
Kimishima will be Nintendo's first president since the death of Satoru Iwata back in July of this year. This will be the fifth Splatfest for the U.S, and will begin next Friday, September 18 at 9PM PT (September 19 at 12 midnight EST). This news likely comes in anticipation of Super Mario Maker getting a release later this week. This month's pack includes 12 new quests, 1 new weapon, 1 new armor set, 1 new Palico equipment set, 1 Bonus Palico, 1 guild card background, and 6 guild card titles. It's unclear whether Pikmin 4 would be coming to the Wii U or the mysterious NX platform; no further details have been revealed at this time. Gunman Clive HD Collection let's you live this reality by combining two great 3DS indies into one package on the Wii U. Both western side-scrollers, Gunman Clive and Gunman Clive 2, received praise when they came out on the 3DS starting January 2013. Flounder Heights will be added to the map rotation tomorrow night, August 20th, at 7PM PT (10PM EST). Following it's large success in Japan, the game has already received a sequel (with another coming) and a few spin-off games alongside merchandise and a television show.
You can hopefully be able to choose which side you want to be on soon, in preparation for the Splatfest that will be starting on August 28 at 9PM PT (August 29 at 12 midnight EST) and will last 24 hours. Another user, this time, on Miiverse named Dalagonash, who is the community manager for Nintendo UK, has taken an in-game screenshot of what appears to be the amiibo costume for Silver Mario.
The image of Tingle was eventually found on Miiverse, verifying that this is real, but we still don't know if there will be an amiibo for him. Each team makes a dash for the Rainmaker, a powerful weapon that acts like an Inkzooka for it's wielder. Although originally slated for April 2015, the game's release was pushed back to September 15, 2015. PT and continuing for 24 hours, users will be able to join either Team Marshmallow or Team Hot Dog. Tourney Mode will allow players to compete to earn points over a certain amount of time and participate in private and public tournaments. Keep reading for the press release, and check out Miitomo here, and find out more about My Nintendo here. The game will be exclusive to the 3DS and is planned for release sometime during the summer of 2016.
A blend of brand new areas and monsters join returning fan-favorites which have been updated and adapted to the latest generation of gameplay. Nintendo will offer a special Miitomobonus to anyone who signs up for a Nintendo Account between Feb.
After a succesful PS4 launch last month, Inside My Radio will be debuting on Wii U next week and will set you back $14.99.
The newest stage features an office theme complete with desks and fans that allow players to manually raise platforms.
This year we gathered a panel of seven staff members that voted on their favorite games across seven categories. The amiibo has been revealed to be releasing in the US on January 8, 2016 for price of $12.99.
505 Games also confirmed that the Wii U version of the game is still on the way, hopefully to come some time soon.
There has not been a new F-Zero game since 2003's F-Zero: GP Legend, and Nintendo has not announced anything on a new F-Zero game in the future.
You can pick download it now in the 3DS eShop, but be careful- you have a limited number of free attempts, but have to pay $1 to earn five additional plays. The last Nintendo Direct presentation was during E3 and before the passing of the company's former president, Satoru Iwata. It would be unlikely, and silly, for them to pull people from the QoL team and re-allocate them to the Pikmin 4 team.
This next Splatfest will be during Halloween weekend, so while you're not trick-or-treating, you can go play some Splatfest! The update will be releasing this Tuesday, October 20, so be sure to update if you want to continue playing online. You wait in line, peering over the shoulders of the people in front of you to ensure the amiibo you are after are still on the table, and you didn’t waste your Friday morning. In Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, you earn tokens each day that you connect your Shulk amiibo via NFC to the game, which can then be used to collect little in game goodies. Yes, people of the internet, I have scalped before, and I likely will again if the circumstances are right.
They were supposed to be these great little things to show and display and use in conjunction with various games to enhance the gameplay. AVGN 2: ASSimilation will be releasing this winter, you can check out the trailer after the break.
The Super Mario Maker stage features a different layout every time it's played and four different Omega forms. The hand that is featured in Super Mario Maker will make an appearance to create a new stage and fix any broken blocks while you're brawling. You can check out the full press release and some of the new things revealed after the break. The HD Collection will features both games running at 1080p and 60 frames per second and will be prices at $3.99. The 2DS is a unique portable system that does not fold at the middle and lacks the 3D feature.
A brave team member must then charge into the enemy base with the Rainmaker to win a match.
To get involved with the Splatfest, pledge your allegiance to a team by registering at a booth in the in-game Inkopolis. Replay Upload works similar to Mario Kart 8 in allowing you to upload your replays directly to Youtube via a Google Account. The game comes from indie developer Seaven Studio and recently hit the Wii U eShop following it's release on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4. The total number of maps available in Splatoon is now 16 after the inclusion of Ancho-V Games. You can expect to see Tatsumi Kimishima, the current President of Nintendo, to make an appearance in this Nintendo Direct. It will be beginning this Friday, October 30th at 9PM PT (Saturday, October 31st midnight EST).
Sadly, amiibo are not fully controlled to avoid scalping to the high degree that they are being scalped. The stage will arrive to both versions of the game on September 30, it is currently unknown whether it will be released for free. You can check out some screenshots of what this Splatfest should look like after the break. Details for the modern edition of the 30th Anniversary Mario amiibo will be launched in the future.
Although not confirmed by the developer Comcept themselves (likely to protect another ongoing Kickstarter they've started, Red Ash) Game Informer claims to have insider knowledge that the game won't release until next year. Miitomo is a social experience that uses Nintendo's Mii characters, which first debuted on the Wii console, to engage friends in a lighthearted and welcoming environment.
In Hyrule Warriors, the two different Link amiibos give you extra weapons that you didn’t really need to complete the game.
Users can spark fun conversations and learn more about each other by answering questions such as "What song has been stuck in your head lately?", "Do you believe in aliens?", or even "If you saw a nose hair sticking out of your friend's nose, what would you do?" Users can also easily take and share photos featuring their Mii with the Miifoto feature. Suddenly, it’s your turn, and you get to go to the table to snatch your precious collectible figure.
Nintendo's new My Nintendo rewards program will launch alongside Miitomo in March, and will be able to connect with the app.
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Orensland tailed the Glittersail Brothers for a few days, learning their patterns of movement. He mostly saw the “drunk” brother and the one with the pet weasel, but he did see the third brother once head out with one of the vampires from the House of Lancel. They went to a high-class gambling establishment where the brother played pan pipes and a guitar-sort of thing. He was, apparently, a bard, and a fairly good one (though not at all even approaching the skill level of the Ravenstones).
Eventually, he felt that he could approach them, but decided it would be best to do it with just one, so as not to be outnumbered. One day the “drunk” one, Greygook, left the compound by himself, and Orensland followed. Khaska had lent him the Hat of Disguise, and Orensland used it to alter his appearance in various ways. He appeared as a half-elf, but his hair was a different color and his face was altered in subtle ways, including a few days growth of beard on his chin. He glanced at his face in a window as he trailed Greygook and the disguise seemed pretty good to him.
Eventually Greygook found his way into an apothecary shop, one he had visited before. Orensland suspected this gnome was a connoiseur of various pipe weeds. The store was empty except for the half-orc proprietor, who seemed lost in a haze of his own smoke. He watched Greygook, but not closely. This seemed an opportune time.
Orensland came in, nodded to the half-orc, and then wound his way over to Greygook.
“So, friend, what’s good here?” he asked.
The gnome looked at him, a bit surprised. “I’ve tried several different of their mixes, but I enjoy the soothing river blend myself. Takes the edge off, but still keeps you sharp. I think you’ll find it over in the first aisle.”
“Well, I thank you kindly. I must find some way to repay you.”
The gnome smiled. “Try it out, and if you like it, why don’t you buy my stash this round?”
“Depends entirely on how much ‘stash’ you want?”
Greygook laughed. “Just for a few days. No more than a few silver pieces. It’s better fresh, I think.”
“Indeed. And I can afford even some more expensive items here. The House of Maramos pays me well, as I imagine the House of Lancel does for you.” There it was, out in the open. Greygook’s smile vanished and his face became near unreadable. Orensland continued. “I hope you don’t mind I took the liberty of following you around for a few days after our meeting was supposed to occur, but I think we might be able to come to an arrangement. Perhaps we could go somewhere and discuss it over a glass of wine or something?”
Greygook glanced him over. “I think that might be a good idea, but I don’t drink during the day. Have you tried pipe smoking?”
“Then let me buy you some of the soothing river blend and you pick out a pipe and I’ll introduce you to the glories of good pipe hash.”
They found a relatively isolated stoop a few blocks away where they could talk more privately, and began their negotiations. Orensland made it clear that money was not the object, and they discussed different ways that the gnomish brothers may be able to offer other kinds of incentives. Enchancing the prowess of the various party members was one possibility. The gnomes, he was able to coax out of Greygook (even though he already knew this information), studied magic artifacts and ruins. He mentioned that one of their party, an elf wizard, had similar interests. This was after a few coughing fits as he tried the pipe smoke.
“I’m not sure if we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement if money and magic items aren’t the kinds of things you’re interested in. We have little else to offer you and your friends, except for the elf, of course, with whom my brother could perhaps share some notes. I would have to ask him first, of course, and I don’t know that it could be a perfect exchange. Greydale would not want to give away all his research.”
Orensland knew that Sanjin was uncovering hints that there were more of these archways, and that his suspicions were confirmed they were somehow linked to each other, gateways for ease of travel over vast distances. But they had to be ancient. More ancient than even any of the oldest texts in the Maramos library, or even a few he had borrowed from other covens.
“I understand,” Orensland replied. “The House of Maramos has been more than generous with us. They are a hard act to follow.”
Greygook pursed his lips for a bit, then Orensland saw his face harden. He had made a decision.
“You may not want to stick around with them too much longer,” he said. Then he turned and looked Orensland right in the eye. “If you aren’t interested in money or items, perhaps information will be of use to you.” He took a deep breath from his pipe and exhaled slowly, the smoke curling around his face. “I guarantee that it will,” and then he shrugged and hopped down. “But perhaps you should check with your compatriots before you agree to anything. I’ve given you a small taste, in good faith, of how we might be of use to you. I hope that good faith will be returned.” He tipped his hat. “I need to go check with my brother on exchanging information with your wizard friend. I assume you know how to find me, but I don’t know that I’d wait too long to talk to my friends. Good day! ” With that, he wandered off.
Orensland stayed on the stoop for a while, lost in thought, but then he got up and made his way back to the lands of the Maramos Coven.
But it was on his way that he saw a crowd gathering in one of the squares, hearing some murmuring and chatter, and made his way over.
The crowd was standing around a cross, upon which was … the man Orensland had stolen from. The shadowdancer was nearly sick. It took him a moment to compose himself and take a closer look. He realized the man was already dead, so at least that mercy had already been extended. It seemed like he had been drained of blood first—there were deep puncture marks on his neck and dried blood ran all the way down his naked body.
He asked what was going on to one of the passers-by, someone who looked like a local. “Excuse me, I’m a traveler here in your town and was wondering if you knew what happened to this man? Why was he …” he almost choked on the word “crucified,” but finished his sentence, “killed.”
“Word is he lost some money for his masters. So they drained him dry and put him up here as a warning.”
“So, he didn’t die up there?”
The man snorted. “You think the Chosen are going to let good blood go to waste?”
Orensland has discovered the horrifying results of his stealing. The man was killed for his incompetence. If you’d like to learn more, I’ll need a Gather Info check from you. (And anybody else who might want to ask around about this or anything else that’s come up.)
By now it’s been long enough that you can assume you all have your new weapons and armor.
Sanjin thinks that the black archways are gateways of some kind. Possibly connected? Or able to connect? His research is uncovering the barest hints of an ancient network of these things, but only in the most ancient history books, and even then the information is incredibly sparse.
It doesn’t seem that the Glittersail brothers have much in the way of incentives for you. They will share some of their research with Sanjin, but as far as the rest of you don’t really have much to offer that you don’t already have access to by way of the House of Maramos. Greygook has said he has information that may be of use, and hinted that it is related to the House of Maramos and why they might not be good allies for the party.
Everything else continues apace as per the last gray box. Teaching Feral, etc.
How would you all like to proceed?
Edit: Also, Thevarou has met a friend who expressed an interest in joining our campaign. We've had some players come and go before, but I wanted to get the lay of the land from you all. It is our game, after all, not my game. Would you all be interested in/okay with adding another player?
I would be happy to have more players join us.
As would I. More players are always more fun. :)
Well, that stinks. Orensland would stop lifting purses after that little spectacle. While not overcome with horrible guilt (he doesn't know the man/is in a shady business), he would hate for a possibly innocent bystander to get killed because he was bored. In that way, Orensland would probably not try to gather information on the man ––– the more he knows about the man, the more guilt he would likely feel.
Orensland is all about getting more information about what the gnome means about not associating with the Maramos clan. Obviously this is something the party will have to discuss, and Orensland will not try to make the decision in their behalf. It would also depend on what information the gnomes are looking for, so Orensland would want to ask the brother(s) that.
Khaska knows that a transportation network across the moon would be a fantastic asset for whoever controls it— and thus would make any enemies particularly formidable. He's gotten the information he'd like most about Urziana, so he would like to see if other vampire libraries would have information on these artifacts and their builders (or other artifacts, for that matter). After all, we needn't depend only on the Glittersail Brothers for our information, now that we have an idea of what they're looking for. Perhaps Khaska could even see if he could access the House Lancel's library again, going for some of the Glittersail Brothers' possible sources (though he'd be hesitant to return there, and only would if the others deemed it a good idea).
Other than that, Khaska thinks concurs that it would be good to get some more information from the Glittersail Brothers about the Maramos clan. While we can withhold such information from House Maramos if needed (at least temporarily), it would be good to have it for our own protection.
OOC Addendum:
Needless to say, I think my friend would be a good addition. I met him in a writing group, and he's very good at creating characters and their stories. :)
I'm fine with adding more players. Given my lackadaisical posting, I worry whether I even count as a player sometimes. :/
As for what we do with the Glittersail gnomes Rynn will continue to defer to Orensland's expertise in information and deception as well as Khaska's morals. Here in a city full of vampires the ranger is definitely out of his element. Unlike in the wild, nothing seems clear here. In fact, he feels a bit trapped by indecision and almost wants something to just happen that will force him to action.
His companions (and probably our hosts, honestly) would easily pick up on his discomfort. He's like a trapped animal. When asked, he'd say he's fine, but clearly he isn't. He doesn't know what they should be doing and his moral compass feels askew.
Orensland was horrified. He muttered something to the man, “Of course not,” before turning to leave.
He managed to make it a stoop several blocks away before vomiting. As he wiped his mouth off, he vowed that he wouldn’t steal anything else while in Darkcrest. Nobody else needed to die because he was bored!
Orensland went back and told the others in the party about the initial contact with Greygook. Together, the group decided that would be worthwhile to try and obtain more information from these gnomes. Khaska did caution the shadowdancer, though.
“Do not reveal everything that we know of the Maramos coven at once.”
Orensland held a hand up. “I know how to work a situation like this.” He pointed at himself. “Reformed criminal, remember?” Then he gave one of his jaunty smiles.
“Fair enough,” said Khaska. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I was going to go back to my quarters to visit some more with Feral before I went on another trip to yet another house that may be of use in our research.”
“The Dagmeisters, right?” asked Sanjin.
“Indeed. Lady Isabelle thought they might have the best library on ancient and arcane items.”
“She said the same to me. Might I accompany you?”
“I was assured that any guests of the House of Maramos would be welcome,” the cleric replied.
“Just make sure to be careful,” Rynn said. “We don’t know if there are other houses that claim to be allies of our benefactors, but are secretly allied against them.”
Khaska entered into his private chambers to find Feral sitting at one of the couches. She was staring off into space, and didn’t even notice him coming in.
“Feral?” he asked, softly.
She blinked and glanced over, seeing him for the first time. “Khaska. It is good to see you.”
“I am sorry my studies take me from you so much. Have you been reading like I asked you to?”
“I have, though not as much as you might want.” This seemed an odd confession. Feral had been absorbing the knowledge Khaska gave her like water in dry soil.
“What preoccupies your mind?”
She turned and looked at him. “Are there any legends of beings like us, but with one horn? Like a … a horse with a single antler?”
“I believe such a being would be called a unicorn.”
“Tell me of them.”
Rynn was eating at the table with Sanjin, whose face was buried in a book. They were waited on by one of Greymantle’s servants, a young man today. The ranger was bored, unable to do anything he really wanted to. It was interesting to see Master Erilidar at work, and Orensland had even invited the ranger to watch some of his sparring matches with Captain Gendry and others, but there was little else for the ranger to do. He felt out of his element and mostly deferred to Khaska’s wisdom and Orensland’s experience here. He almost wanted some event to occur, good or ill, that would force him to have to act, instead of sitting around being waited on hand and foot all the time.
Another servant came in, walking up hurriedly to him and bowing.
“Master Rynn,” she said. “Lord Maramos has requested an audience with you. Would you please come with me?” She glanced at Sanjin. “Master Sanjin would be welcome also. I was told to bring whomever was around.”
“Unfortunately,” Rynn said, “our friends are out and about the city right now.” He glanced at the serving man, who patiently waited at the end of the table, white towel draped over his hand. “I suppose,” he said.
Sanjin had already put the book down and was preparing to go—never one to miss a chance to observe vampire lords up close.
The young lady escorted them to the mansion and brought them upstairs, somewhere neither had been before—the actual quarters of the various vampires. She brought them to a large oak door and knocked softly.
“Enter,” came Lady Maramos’ voice. The young servant opened the door and entered, keeping her head down (as all the servants seemed to do upon coming into the presence of Lord and Lady Maramos).
“Master Rynn and Master Sanjin, as requested, my lord and lady.”
Lady Maramos was sitting on a couch, intently focused on a piece of crystal hoving in the air in front of her. She didn’t even acknowledge them, her eyes unblinkingly staring at the clear piece of crystal before her.
Lord Maramos was sitting atop a desk, pulling a huge longbow together and stringing it. He walked over to Rynn and held it out.
“What do you think of this bow, Rynn?”
The ranger was a bit surprised and shifted his own weapon aside for a moment to reach out and grab it. The bow was heavy, and larger than any he had seen for a normal-sized creature. It seemed clearly crafted for one, however—it was not a giantkin bow or anything like that. The wood it was made of was white, a bleached kind that Rynn had never seen before.
“It looks like a fine bow, my lord. It would take someone stronger than me to wield it, I fear.”
Lord Maramos smiled. “It is my personal bow, Bonestrike, crafted from a tree of the Putari forest.” He took it back from Rynn. “I use it to hunt sometimes, and wanted to ask you if you would join me on an expedition to hunt rocs in the Abghat peaks.”
“How long would you be gone?” Lady Maramos piped up. The jewel before her dropped and she caught it in her hand.
“No more than a few days,” he said. “I wanted to get one last hunt in before our guests arrived. We have plenty of time, and all the preparations have been made. Besides,” he looked at Rynn, “I can tell wanderlust when I see it. Rynn suffers from the same malady I do … he hates cities.”
“Too bad you are the lord of the most powerful vampire house of Darkcrest,” Lady Maramos said. Her face was serious, but there was a lightness in her voice. Rynn noticed the side of her lips twich upward in ever so small a smile.
“Anybody else who would like to come is invited,” Lord Maramos said. “But if I am correct, the others aren’t as bored in the city as you are. Master Greymantle noted your discomfort. He says you frequently sit on the wall of our compound, wishing to be left alone. Since I share that same discomfort to some degree, I thought a hunting trip might be worthwhile for both of us.”
Sanjin spoke up. “Would you be bringing a roc back?”
“Some of the meat, yes,” Lord Maramos said. “I have never quite relinquished my habits from my mortal days, and killing my own food brings a satisfaction that the best cooks in the world cannot match.
“What do you say, Rynn?”
Greygook found Orensland at the agreed upon place.
“Have you given any thought to our proposals?” the gnome asked.
“My friends and I believe an exchange of information could be mutually beneficial,” Orensland said.
“We had hoped that would be the case,” Greygook said. He produced a piece of paper with writing on both sides. “Our first offering of information. Years ago we discovered an ancient ruin at the mouth of the Lyrcus river. Our research there was unfruitful, but we discovered a tomb of ancient sorcerors, the Caicellian Order. It was guarded by the undead … not just random undead but ones clearly placed as sentries. It didn’t seem worth our while, but the information on that sheet could be used to find the tomb.”
“I know this small scrap of information on a dungeon thousands of miles away is perhaps not worth much to all of you, just to your wizard friend perhaps, but it represents just a first step. We hope there may be other steps.
“Now, we wish to know of the House of Maramos. We suspect that they have guests coming from a dragon cult of some kind, but are not sure when, or even if our information on the cult is accurate. Can you help us with some small scrap of information, just as we have given you one.”
1. Feral has asked Khaska if there are any stories or lore from the Maha’i about unicorns. Are there any? (You could write one up, if there are, of just give a general idea.)
2. Lord Maramos has invited Rynn (and anybody else who wants to come) roc hunting with him in the Abghat peaks. The trip would only be about four or five days. As is my purview, I rolled a Sense Motive check for both of you. Lord and Lady Maramos seem sincere in this offer. He really does just want to go hunting, and has invited you along.
3. The Glittersail brothers have offered their first piece of information—the location of the Tomb of the Caecellian Order. They have asked, in return, to confirm some rumors they have heard about the House of Maramos and a dragon cult. (The Cult of Skyrnyn, it seems, but that is not completely certain.) I know it’s just Orensland with the gnome right now, but the others can weigh in with exactly how much information you wish to trade.
I will say that the gnomes are interested in a tit-for-tat arrangement. The more you give them, the more they will give you. It is up to you how much you wish to tell the secrets of the Maramos Coven.
Sanjin is not particular interested in joining Lord Maramos' hunt. However he wouldn't want Rynn (should he except) going alone with him. If Rynn does want to go, and none of the other party members wanted to, then he would want to go and make sure nothing nefarious befalls Rynn.
At this point, though the dangers of such a trip with a powerful vampire cross briefly though his mind, Rynn decides to jump at this opportunity to get out of Darkcrest for a little while.
"You have seen through me, sir. I will gladly accept your offer and join your hunt."
The ranger will thank Sanjin for his offer to come along, but he is pretty sure that none of the others in the party will have a real desire to go. Though he won't try to stop anyone else from coming, he'll ask them not to risk themselves on his account. "If Lord Maramos intends to turn on me, I'm not sure that even all of us together could stop him. I'd rather take the risk alone. The rest of you can continue your investigations unhindered without me anyway. And maybe I'll learn something useful from our host."
Besides all that, Rynn feels conflicted about what the party has done to help Lady Maramos. There's part of him that respects what they have done here. He is disgusted by the slavery and other evils going on… but on the other hand, his experiences in other cities hasn't exactly given him a shining beacon of hope. He's starting to wonder if maybe an alliance with these vampires might make some sense, in an "enemy of my enemy" sort of way. So he hopes to use this time with Lord Maramos to see what he can learn.
Khaska is curious what may have brought this subject to Feral's mind, and why it seems unicorns have preoccupied her to such a great extent, and will ask her about it: "I will gladly share what I know, but I hope you will permit me a question from curiosity: What is it that causes you to ponder unicorns, when you did not know their name?"
He'll probably adapt his answer to her response, but he'll have to admit that while he knows of unicorns' existence, he knows little about them. Jevereshk Maha'i, and even the Mawkhavi on the eastern edge of the Niktean Wastes, know almost nothing of forests. As unicorns, even in forests, are said to be elusive and rare, the knowledge that filters into the Maha'i deserts is fragmentary, full of rumors and legends. He'll point out that though they are also cloven-hooved and speaking creatures, tthey walk on four legs; they're also said to be friends of good people, but fierce and perilous, not to be trifled with; and they have remarkable healthful virtue, with the ability to detect and negate poisons - certainly in nonliving matter, but it's also said that they can do so with hearts.
As far as I was aware, the relationship the Maramos household had with the Cult was generally known and frowned upon by members of the city. At least, it was known that there was a relationship between the Maramos household and the Cult. So Orensland would confirm that there is a relationship, and provide the name of the Cult. He would express interest in knowing why they care for this information–– specifically if the gnomes themselves care, or if it's the House of Lancel that cares. The gnome may react badly to that, or he might say why, so Orensland might as well try.
The more I'm thinking this out, the more I feel like a dialogue might be necessary with the DM. As for a question to everyone in general, any hard feelings about confirming that Cult representatives should be arriving some time in the coming months, though the exact date is unknown to party members (I forget, do we know the exact date?)? It may be a bargaining chip for understanding why the gnomes care in the first place. Details that would be expressly avoided would be matters pertaining directly to party members (why we are here etc.), the ledger, Lady Maramos's dealings on the Living side, or Orensland's own theories as to the exact nature of the relationship between the Maramos house and the Cult.
You know, I've been thinking about it. While grateful for this new information, Orensland would make clear that they were walking a fine line–– the tomb info may be handy in the future, but the gnome is hoping for information that would likely result in our deaths should the Maramos household discover they have a mole. Before discussing any details, Orensland would ask the gnome whether or not the information regarding dragon cults pertains to his brother's research, with the implication that Orensland may share information depending on the answer. Then see if the gnome appears to be lying, which may indicate that the House of Lancel is the true seeker of this information.
…see the potential need for dialogue? And I figure I shouldn't be the one to roll a "sense motive" check, as it would make more obvious whether or not Orensland gets his facts right.
The thing is, I could very much see the gnomes asking about the Cult for their own research. They were researching an archway on the Living side, and the House of Maramos happens to have the same archway in their library. It could be that the archway is connected to the Cult somehow. Perhaps as part of their grand secret scheme for surviving the Dark Times. If this that were the case, Orensland would be more inclined to help them find the information they seek, though obviously would not divulge too much in this meeting.
Orensland realized, and had discussed with the others, that the gnomes were interested in a tit for tat sort of setup. If he wanted to know more—and information on this tomb wasn’t exactly what they wanted—he would have to give up more.
“How do I know,” he asked, “that this information won’t go straight back to Lady Drakh?”
“I supposed you don’t,” Greygook said. “But I can tell you that we are allies of temporary convenience with Lady Drakh and her house. When our research here is complete, we will move on. Our allegience is not set in stone, and our interests lie in an artifact that we believe is in the hands of the Maramos coven. But this one question does come from Lady Drakh. She wishes to know more about this dragon cult.”
“I can conform that there is a relationship between the Maramos’s and the Cult of Skyrnyn.”
He nodded. “Lady Drakh suspected as much, and is making plans to sever that relationship. More information may be of use to us in planning around whatever machinations she has.”
“They are coming soon. When we arrived in Darkcrest with Lady Maramos, they sent a message to the cult. Some of their leadership will be coming here. The timeline is unclear.”
The gnome nodded. “For your own safety, I wouldn’t be around when the leadership comes to town. It could be hazardous to your health.”
“Why?” Orensland asked. “The cult has no reason to harm us. Nor does the house of Maramos.”
“I never said the cult or that the Maramos’s were a danger to you.”
Lady Drakh, then? Intriguing. But perhaps it was best to change the subject. Orensland was grateful for the information he had received, but worried about giving away too much information of his own. “Tell me of this artifact you seek.”
“We think it may be in the library. One of Lady Maramos’s predecessors collected a number of unique items before she was slain. We have been unable to enter the library on our own. The Maramos coven is stingy with access to those they do not know well.”
Interesting, Orensland thought, that Sanjin and Khaska had been given such access. They had indeed earned the trust of Lord and Lady Maramos. He almost absentmindedly rubbed his neck where she had fed on him. They had all earned the trust of Lord and Lady Maramos. At great cost.
“I have been in the library.”
“Could you tell me what you’ve seen there?”
At this point Orensland was almost certain they were speaking of the black archway. What else could it be?
“There are a great many things there. They even have a skull of a copper dragon hanging on the wall! At least, our wizard says it’s a copper dragon.” Orensland leaned closer. “You want to confirm that this artifact is there, don’t you?”
Greygook nodded. “We do.”
Orensland smiled. “Then I will need a little more information about Lady Drakh’s plans.”
Greygook got very serious. “We have been prepared to leave at a moment’s notice should Lady Drakh turn on us. I suppose we’re in little more danger, and the knowledge of the location of this artifact may be worth it.” He took a deep breath. “She plans on staging a coup against the Maramos coven if the cult ever comes to Darkcrest. I imagine she will strike when these leaders are in town. When the Maramos’s are destroyed, we would be allowed access to the artifact to continue our studies. Hence our temporary alliance.”
So that was the game then. A strike at both the cult and the Maramos Coven at the same time. That information was very very valuable. And Orensland felt to respond in kind.
“Describe this artifact to me.”
“An archway, made of magic obsidian, about 10 feet high and 6 feet wide at the most. Kind of oval shaped.”
Orensland nodded. “It’s in the library, I have seen it.”
Greygook tipped his hat. “Then this has been a most productive conversation for both of us. Here’s hoping that we both get what we need out of these next few months.”
“I hope your research is a success,” Orensland said. He was completely serious. Sanjin was convinced the archway was some kind of transport mechanism, but was completely baffled at how it might be activated. Perhaps these gnomes could figure it out.
Perhaps they could together. Orensland had a thought. “Would you be interested in meeting our wizard? He’s spent quite a bit of time in the library and would be of more help in studying the archway than I am.”
“I think my brother might be interested in comparing some notes. I assume your wizard will now go study it. But we are confident we have more information and that he will be unable to duplicate our years of research.”
“Then I will try to bring him. I hope none of us die soon. There apparently is much for us all still to do.”
Greygook snorted. “I’ll drink to that!”
“I remember seeing an image of a unicorn,” Feral said. “It has been on my mind of late. I was wondering if such a creature figured in the stories and histories of our people.”
Khaska moved to sit by her, thinking through what he knew, both about actual unicorns, and about how the Maha’i in general thought of them.
“I must admit I know very little about them. They are creatures of wonder and beauty, who come from other planes of existence as messengers or champions of goodness. Here, on our plane, on a world like ours, they are said to dwell in enchanted forests, acting as guardians and protectors of them. They can heal poisonous wounds, it is said.”
“Do they ever visit our people?”
“I come from a land where there are no forests, so I have never even encountered more than rumor or legend of one here. There are some tribes that do not even believe they exist. But it is said that they are friends to good people, yet fierce and perilous. A unicorn here on this plane would not be something to trifle with.” He leaned forward a bit. “Do you remember where you saw the image?”
“I do not, but I feel drawn to the memory this last little while.”
“A glorious creature, hoofed and horned, like us, that can speak for itself and defends good. I would hope all Maha’i are drawn to them.”
Feral glanced up, one of the few times she actually looked Khaska in the face. (He was still troubled by the fact that she would not as often as he would like.) “Your words are wise. I hope someday I can meet others of our kind.”
“I am trying to arrange for your freedom, as you know. That is my desire as well.”
“You puzzle me, Khaska. You clearly seek the good for me, yet are allied with these vampires.”
“I seek to undo their evil by understanding them more completely first. The foolish rush in where they do not understand. The wise wait until the opportune moment.”
“I suppose I can see the wisdom in that. But I still wish they were all gone, and I to from this horrible place.” She looked away, almost wistfully. “Perhaps someday I can journey to the living side.” She smiled, sadly. “Maybe I will someday even see a forest.”
“If it is in my power, this will happen to you,” Khaska promised.
The journey to the foothills of the Abghat peaks took only three days. They moved during the “day” on the living side when Pressen reflected the sunlight and hence Lord Maramos was free to move about. The entourage was small. A cart to hold his coffin (not nearly as elaborate or eye-catching as Lady Maramos’ carriage), an empty cart for the meat, three servants to man them and otherwise set up camp and tend to the equipment, a “personal servant” to Lord Maramos, a young woman who rarely spoke and who shared his tent at night, and then finally Captain Gendry, who insisted on coming, and of course Rynn and Lord Maramos. Rynn was offered the use of a horse, and the ranger found that he would probably much prefer to walk, but had to keep up. Ranna loped alongside the caravan, happy to no longer be cooped up. Rynn sympathized with the feeling, and, oddly enough, so did Lord Maramos.
“I was once a wanderer, much like I suspect you have been,” he confided one day. “Before I was captured and turned the House of Maramos I wandered over the length and breadth of the Deadlands, selling my services as a tracker and a fighter as needed, surviving on my own when not.”
“How does that work?” Rynn asked. “Sebastien and Master Greymantle both spoke of earning the right to be turned. Were you not willing at the time?”
“I was not,” Lord Maramos said. “I was foolish and resisted. Until the day Lady Maramos slew my sire and I hers I resented having been changed. Now that I am free of that influence, I find there are more advantages than I had realized to being Chosen. I do not even remember the specifics of much of my old life, though obviously I still feel the same wanderlust I did as a mortal.”
“So your personality remains even after you are turned?”
“Much of it, yes.”
“How were you able to rebel against your sires?”
“Vampires cannot directly rebel against their sires. But our sires, then the leaders of the Maramos Coven, had had a falling out, which allowed us to take advantage and kill each other’s sire.”
“The painting in the dining hall depicts that?”
“The coup where we took control of this house hundreds of years ago. We purged it of other vampires and now all that remain are either daughters of Lady Maramos or sons of mine.”
“And so they cannot rebel against you?”
“It’s not mind control over them. There is a … bond. It is difficult to explain. A bond that limits the freedom a child has from its sire.”
“And if the sire dies?”
“The child is free in every way. Lady Maramos and I have used volunteers ever since the coup, the method of finding children Sebastien and Danforth both spoke of. We do not wish to repeat the mistakes of our predecessors. Our children are loyal. Not all houses use the same methods, though many have adopted them.”
After making camp in the foothills, they waited one night until just after sunrise twilight and then Rynn, Captain Gendry, and Lord Maramos advanced on foot. Lord Maramos was a canny tracker, but Rynn was able to hold his own. They located a goat herd with little difficulty, and managed to separate one of the animals from the others. Lord Maramos knocked the animal out and used his supernatural strength to drag it up the mountainside to a clear pool of water atop a granite mesa—a site where rocs frequently came to bathe, he said. The climb was difficult, but all of them, even Ranna, made it, though sometimes Rynn was grateful he had the Ring of Feather Falling in case he slipped.
Lord Maramos deposited the goat near the lakeshore and slit its throat, the blood spilling over the ground. The vampire lord spread some of the blood around, and then vanished to his hiding spot.
Captain Gendry had distributed some poison to both Rynn and to Lord Maramos before they separated to flank the dead goat’s location. It dried quickly when exposed to the air, so the contained would have to be opened at the last minute to dip an arrowhead in it. The poison would act fast to cripple a roc, grounding it. Then they would have to kill it.
They waited for hours. The middle of the day came and went. Rynn was worried that Lord Maramos would have to go back to his coffin when the sun rose. Ranna was bored, but Rynn made sure that she stayed hidden and still. Rocs had incredibly good eyesight, so exposure would make the hunting party vulnerable. Best to stay hidden in the nooks and crannies surrounding the lake.
About an hour before sunrise twilight, however, their patience was rewarded. Rynn was stunned by the size of the bird. He had heard his mentor, Arandur, speak of them, but the size of the creature … well, it nearly rivaled that of Keldarian the Red. The creature’s shriek grated on his nerves as it circled, slowly and cautiously. It called out several times, swooping across the area, trying to scare out any other prey. Rynn had been warned of this tactic, and kept his calm, slowly unscrewing the poison container while making sure Ranna remained still. He dipped his arrowhead in it, and then prepared to draw.
The roc eventually landed and began to pick at the goat’s carcass. That was the moment. Rynn drew back, breathed out, and released. He beat Lord Maramos’ arrow by mere seconds, the vampire lord rising from his hiding place with an arrow nocked into Bonestrike and pulled back before loosing it. Both arrows landed well into the roc’s chest, close to the beating heart, where the poison would quickly spread. Two arrows worth of poison would likely be enough, Lord Maramos had said, but three or four would be even better. Unfortunately Rynn’s second shot went wide, deflected by the roc’s flailing wings. Lord Maramos, however, managed to hit the second time. Captain Gendry had drawn his sword, prepared to defend his lord should the roc attack them.
However, the roc decided to attack Rynn instead.
The ranger whispered the elven word that activated the magic on his bow and the arrow he had nocked burst into flame. He got several shots off, all of which hit before the roc swooped in. The ranger had picked a spot he though would give him some defense against the creature’s attempts to pick him up, but the creature’s talons managed to reach into the crevice he had hidden and snatched him. Its claws grabbed and pinned him before the roc beat its great wings and began to take off. Rynn couldn’t move his arms. Ranna tried to grab one of its wings but missed as the twangs from Lord Maramos’ huge bow still sounded. The roc flew away, but already blood was pouring from its wounds and its wings flapped slower and slower. As it climbed higher and higher Rynn could tell it was tiring, until, just as they reached several hundred feet above the ground, it could no longer even beat its wings. The roc dropped him.
After one moment of his heart skipping a beat as he dropped, the ring of Feather Falling activated and Rynn began to drift down. He could tell he was still over the mesa, actually just over the lake now, which was unfortunate, but his hands were free and he still had arrows to fire. So fire he did.
The roc was trying to glide, but the arrows coming now from both below and from above were too much. It succumbed to its wounds and fell, plummeting facefirst into the rocks near where Rynn had hidden, dead. The ranger took a deep breath as he slowly descended into the lake, the shock of the cold water taking his breath away. But he was able to swim to shore quickly enough that he didn’t begin to cramp or become hypothermic. But now he was soaked through.
Lord Maramos was laughing and cheering as Rynn trudged out of the water, blood running down his arms and legs from where the talons had gripped him.
“If we had more time in our lands, I’d commission a painting of that moment, Rynn! You descending, calm as a spring morning, shooting the roc while I shoot at it from the bottom. Amazing!”
“We should get him to a fire and with some new clothes, before he freezes,” Captain Gendry said. “And tend to his wounds.”
“Oh, let us relish in the moment of success!” Lord Maramos. “Fantastic!”
Captain Gendry allowed them that moment, but then went to go find some wood and start a fire. Rynn was grateful for the heat while the vampire lord began to butcher the carcass of the animal. A potion of healing took the edge off of his wounds as well. Luckily the sun came up while he was drying off, providing at least some light. Lord Maramos hid under one of the roc’s wings while it passed. Given the height of the surrounding mountains, it was not around for long.
Laden down with as much meat as the three of them could carry (Lord Maramos wanted to make a few more trips later on by himself), they slowly descended back to the camp, arriving just before sunset twilight. The servants tended to Rynn’s wounds in a more thorough manner, and the ranger fell asleep quickly.
When he woke many hours later, the servants were loading up the remaining of the roc meat into the carriage, camp having been struck.
“Come Rynn,” Lord Maramos said. He had just finished drinking from the young servant girl’s neck. “We must get back to Darkcrest before the meat spoils!”
On the journey back, Rynn decided to ask a question, something that had been bothering him from when they had slain the Roc. Something Lord Maramos had said.
“My lord,” he broached the subject, riding next to the vampire lord in front of the entourage, “I was curious about something you said during the hunt.”
“I must admit I was intrigued by the possibility of seeing a painting of the two of us on the hunt.” This was not a lie. Rynn was not a boastful man or prone to self-aggrandizement, but he had really enjoyed the hunt, and the thought of memorializing it in such a permanent manner did hold some sway in his mind. “But you said that would not be possible because you won’t be long in your lands?”
Lord Maramos sighed. “You are an astute listener, Rynn Fowler, as you are a tracker and hunter.” He glanced over at the ranger. “You have earned my trust once again, and I feel I can tell you that when the cult leaders come, my coven will be joining them, journeying to their base in the Marshes to await the Dark Times aboard their skyship. Lorraine and I felt that afforded us the best opportunity to survive. That is the price we asked for assisting them in their endeavors on the living side.”
Rynn pondered on this. “So my offer of fighting services during the Dark Times, that I gave you when we first arrived?”
“I do not think that we would need such help. Perhaos the cult would be interested, but I do fear only a true believer, such as Orensland, would be accepted. They have been preparing for centuries. I do not know if your offer would be of much use to them, I’m afraid.” He grimaced. “I like you, Rynn. You remind me much of a younger version of myself.” Then he snorted, a small laugh. “A much younger version. I hope you survive the Dark Times. If you do, perhaps come visit us back in Darkcrest when we return. There may yet be more roc hunts in our future together. I would like that.”
“I enjoyed the hunt as well, my Lord. And obviously I hope I survive the Dark Times as well.”
Lord Maramos laughed at that. “Only a fool would wish otherwise.”
The trip back was uneventful, and they managed to get the meat back to the Maramos lands before it spoiled. Lord Maramos wanted to host a feast that evening, and the servants curried about to cook roc meat and preserve that which wouldn’t be immediately consumed. Khaska was on hand to finish healing Rynn’s wounds, and Lord Maramos regaled everybody with the tale of the hunt. It was obvious that Lady Maramos was indulging him.
Rynn, still exhausted from the fight and the travel (he felt he would have been more rested if he had walked instead of riding a horse—using different muscles than he was accustomed to), went to sleep in his private quarters.
Only an hour or two into his rest, he heard a voice.
“Rynn! Hsst!”
He bolted upright, his hand moving to where he left a dagger by his bedside, but glancing around, he saw nobody.
“You can’t see me, but I can see you. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Darrell Titanius, the commander of the Bringers of Light, and we are communicating through a Greater Scrying spell.”
“I assume that means Jared Evans has returned to you unharmed.”
“He has, and is standing here next to me. The spell allows me to see you and your surroundings, but only I can speak through it on my end. He is glad to see you safe. We have been watching you for several days, and this seemed the first time we could catch you alone to communicate with you. What news have you of Darkcrest for us?”
“As you know, I just returned from a hunt and am exhausted. Perhaps we could speak tomorrow when I’ve talked to my friends about what they have learned in my absence?”
“A fair request. Shall I cast the spell at the same time?”
“I think during sunrise twilight would be best. The house seems the quietest then, everybody having gone to sleep. The vampires are not allowed in this building, but their servants are here in great numbers.”
“Then I will contact you then. Be safe, Rynn. You walk a dangerous path.”
The ranger smiled ruefully. “Don’t I know it.”
To sum up major points:
1. The Glittersail brothers do not work directly for Lady Drakh. They are in a temporary alliance (in some ways like you are with the House of Maramos), and only wish to study the archway. They think that Lady Drakh is their best means of obtaining access to do so. They will tell her about the arrival of the cult.
2. Lady Drakh is planning a coup against the House of Maramos. This will take place when the leaders from the Cult of Skyrnyn arrive.
3. The Maramos Coven plans on leaving with the cult leaders when they arrive, to journey to their citadel in the Zyrbryxion Marshes via skyship.
4. Also of importance is the fact that Sanjin is unable to determine how these magical archways are activated.
5. You will learn from Lord Titanius that there are a number of whitecloaks in the city, all disguised. Spies to keep tabs on the vampire houses, who normally don’t involve themselves much with the outside world. They are available to help if needed.
What do you all want to do with this information? I’m going to need some pretty strong consensus from the party—how the rest of this Codex plays out is now entirely in your hands.
Also, can I have Khaska and Sanjin roll Knowledge (History) checks, to know what your characters might have heard about the Caecellian order.
Well, that makes things much more interesting. Who should we backstab, then? :)
I'm just going to write out my thoughts. From what I can tell, we have the potential of making four different decisions. One, betray the Maramos household/the Cult by aiding Lady Drakh. Two, warn the Maramos household about Lady Drakh's plans. Three, get out of Darkcrest while we still can. And four, we find some way to leave both sides burning. There may be more, but those are what I came up with.
I can't really think of a way we can ultimately hurt Lady Drakh AND the Maramos household AND the Cult. That would be ideal– We don't like any of them, and would love to see Darkcrest essentially fall. Perhaps if Jared makes contact with us we can recruit the Lightbringers in some grand blaze of glory (that would be awesome), but that idea hangs on a lot of "if's." Any awesome ideas?
If it turns out option four is not feasible, I am more inclined to betraying the Maramos household/the Cult, for several reasons. There's practicality, first of all. If Amara shows up with the Cult, none of us really has a chance of making it out alive. Plus if we magically DO find our way into the Citadel, we have reason to believe that there may be some evil dragons still afoot (the burned temple of the death god we came across earlier). If we were to find any, it would be at the Citadel, and while it would be good to confirm they exist none of our characters are probably good enough to bluff our way past an evil version of Captain Bronzebeard. So there's just a lot of sudden death possibilities that arise with continuing to cozy up to the Cult and their allies.
…Though if we could get Lady Drakh to target and kill Amara if she shows up, that could open some doors. Maintain our cover as a double-agent and get access to more Cult information. That would still involve betrayal of the Maramos household, but… yeah.
Also, I had another thought, which would also only be possible with betraying the Maramos clan. It appears the gnomes are fairly close to opening a portal mechanism between the Living and Death sides of Jenoa. Way back when we first met them, they offered to hire us as security in their travels. We turned them down, but perhaps we could make a working arrangement with them. We don't know what the gnomes are planning to do with the archways once their study is complete. If they are hoping to keep it relatively secret (telling everyone in Darkcrest they can open a portal to the Living Side would likely result in their loss of the archway) we could offer an alternative. Provided we have free access to the archways and their teleportation capabilities, we would be willing to serve as a kind of security detail for them if they pursue research in more dangerous areas. Like tombs guarded by undead sentinels. We would benefit greatly from being able to hop continents in any of our pursuits, and doing some dungeoning on the side would likely be more beneficial than detrimental to our skills, quests and general adventuring. We'd keep it relatively secret, of course. We aren't the only ones who would be interested in exploiting such a gateway, and most anyone would try to take control of the archways if they knew about them, good and evil alike.
…In that sense, is there a nice way to take the archway out of the library, provided we gained permission (from Lady Drakh or even the Maramos's themselves?). Like, is there a large-scale handy haversack or somesuch we could use to transport it? Having the archway would be great, but I think Lady Drakh would notice if we randomly showed up in her new accomodations every once in a while, or vanished without a trace. Moving it to a secure location would be absolutely required should we ever strike such a deal with the gnomes.
Anywho, those are my inclinations and ideas. Thoughts?
… I swear your fifth point did not exist when you first posted. So my immediate inclination would be to inform the Whitecloaks of the upcoming coup, through reliable spies and/or through their scrying us, however we come across that information about Whitecloak spies. The city will be in chaos then, especially if we play major double agent and get both sides armed to the teeth in time for the Cult to arrive. They may enjoy the idea of taking advantage of that chaos and attacking Darkcrest themselves. everyone was kung-fu fight-iiing… :D Once the dust settles, we would still be able to make a work arrangement with the gnomes, and might not even need to move the archway. If we REALLY play our cards right, all three sides will believe we're on their side, so whoever wins that madhouse will still see us as helpful allies. :D
Knowledge: 9 (6 rolled + 3 Mod)
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Rynn finds himself tricked by the lies of his own making. Lord and Lady Maramos seem like the best possible vampires there could be. He actually finds himself feeling hesitant to betray them. The ranger has to remind himself that they are selling out the entire world for their own safety. He could use a reminder of the evils they have perpetrated.
And there's one other issue preoccupying Rynn's mind: Juliet. As far as we know, the Cult of Skyrnyn has gathered many slaves and taken them to the deadly marshes. If she lives, chances are great that she is there.
Despite the obvious dangers, Rynn can't help but wonder if there is some remote chance of visiting the Citadel as part of the Maramos coven, and from there, find his wife. This is a very dangerous situation for Rynn, because he is willing to put himself in great jeopardy to find his wife and child.
Unfortunately, the ranger is known by name to the cult. Amara knows him, obviously, and there's the risk of how much Gulnith knows/remembers. So at this point, Rynn realizes that the chances of going peacefully to the Citadel are low. It sounds like skyship is the next best option, and that makes him wonder if we could capture the cult's. Perhaps even take our deception to the next level with "Captain Orensland" being "sent back to the Citadel on orders before the Maramos coven arrives."
Should we try to cause havoc in Darkcrest? Let the coup attempt proceed, amplified by the Bringers? Use it as an opportunity to strike at the cult and seize their skyship? I admit there's a certain appeal to avenging ourselves via taking their vessel. And maybe the chaos could provide opportunity to off the insane Lady Drakh and free some slaves as well.
As for the gnomes and the archways, Rynn is indifferent at this point. He acknowledges Orensland's arguments, but only in a distracted way. He just nods his head and isn't really focused on them. It is a dangerous time for him to be preoccupied and not thinking straight…
From BlackWolf: He could use a reminder of the evils they have perpetrated.
I'd like to point out that you just went on a long camping trip with Lord Maramos in which you would have watched him repeatedly eat from the young (willing, you assume) servant girl, with whom he was also sharing his bed/cheating on his wife (though likely with Lady Maramos' permission), all while transporting his coffin for ease of sleep. You've had a fair number of reminders of exactly what Lord Maramos is of late.
Yes, clearly Lord Maramos has questionable morals. But those things were apparently consensual, which is a huge step up from most vampires in Rynn's estimation. The areas that I feel that Rynn could use a reminder (in-game, obviously) are for things like the Maramos coven being involved with Veleria enthralling Judge Stoneheart and all the mess that happened there with the Sendylus guild. That kind of stuff.
After mulling the whole thing over further, I realized I didn't write down very concrete "next-action" type stuff. So here's what Orensland would probably do:
Best chance of sewing strife and wiping out evil would be to let the coup happen. Sneaking into the Citadel would be crazy awesome, but also crazy suicidal. So Orensland would daydream of doing something like that, but it seems the possible gains would not outweigh the very likely death scenario he sees in his mind.
As for getting the most out of the coup, Orensland would spend the next week or two re-evaluating the various houses of Darkcrest. Who is Lady Drakh plotting with? Who would rush to the aid of the Maramos household? He'd try to scout out the situation at hand and see which side seems strongest, keeping to the shadows where possible. Depending on the information he gathers, he may try to level the playing field behind the scenes for when the battle commences. The Bringers in the town may be able to help with this info gathering, but here's my role:
Gather Info: 8 ( rolled 5 + 3 Mod)
Bummer. Hopefully the Bringers have better luck.
One problem he forsees is the Maramos household falling and the party being targeted as their allies. We may want to cozy up to both sides so that whoever wins doesn't try to kill us. Thoughts?
Orensland would also float the idea of kidnapping a cult member or two when they arrive. While the leaders themselves are likely quite powerful, I suspect that their lackies are more easily dealt with and perhaps more prone to speaking. What was that weapon Orensland used to knock out Jason/Jared/whatever that guys name was? Orensland would likely have a much nicer one commissioned and practice using it should such a tactic prove useful. Whether or not we actually do depends on party input and Bringer input.
To ensure that the Cult members are in the thick of things when the coup happens, Orensland will plan on stealing their skyship crystals. That may or may not happen, depending on how things play out, but this seems as good a chance as any to damage the Cult leadership as well as the Maramos household. Keeping them from escaping could prove quite… beneficial. Perhaps this could be our bargaining chip for earning the trust of Lady Drakh.
[Sorry for the delay; it's been a very busy and exhausting week on my end. And I have to admit that the large amount of information to factor into my deliberations and the very open-ended nature of the decisions here are stressful and have contributed to my delay. I'll get something as soon as I can.]
For the time being: Knowledge (History): 20 = 11 + 9
[Addition] Eryx just clarified to me that he's only looking for a strong consensus on the broad outline of the party's next moves, which is much more manageable. Khaska wants the party to leave the city as soon as it can, hopefully leaving the vampire clans in disarray as it does so. To that end, he'd want to ensure that when the Drakh go against the Maramos, the Maramos are a roughly even match — meaning that it'd probably be best for us to make sure the assault happens after the Cult has arrived at the Maramos's residence. This we'd probably want to engineer beforehand and be out of the city — or at least far away from the conflict and the Cult — when the action happens.
One thing that we might consider is helping out the Glittersail Brothers somewhat (perhaps in an effort to secure their aid in escaping the city): one of us could copy down the details of the gateway in the Maramos library, or even (perhaps) smuggle one of the brothers in, whether in disguise or as a friend/acquaintance from Gallidus, so that he could take his own notes. That way they don't have to stick around, either.
I suppose what Khaska could contribute to the deliberations would be an idea for destination: he's inclined to make for Garth Calad, especially if the party can get a skyship. He feels that they should know what the party knows, as it would probably help them significantly with their efforts. If one of us is still around the house during the chaos (Orensland?), we might even be able to pilfer a few key books that could help out. Khaska would also be interested in speaking with Darrell Titanius, if possible, and offer his help.
I'd also like for Khaska to find a book with Maha'i legends in it, but that's probably something he'd just ask the Maramos for outright, given their generosity.
Regarding Feral: while Khaska would like, in the intended chaos, to free as many of Darkcrest's slaves as possible, he feels a particular responsibility for Feral and her safety, and would invite her to join the party at least until they reach somewhere safe or where she'd like to stay — perhaps Rhun, perhaps Garth Calad (does she have magical abilities? Khaska could administer some tests to find out), perhaps Laishtek (if the party heads back to Gallidus).
It had been a week since Lord Titanius had first contacted Rynn. Since then Rynn had spoken with him twice more through the spell (once with Khaska present) and the party had agreed upon a general plan—allow the coup to proceed, but make sure the two sides were as equally matched as possible. Having the two vampire houses destroy each other was the ideal. If the envoys from the cult could be caught in such a disaster, all the better. Orensland was easily able to make contact with the Bringer spies in the city—spread throughout the city posing as merchants, shopkeepers, and vampire worshippers.
There were several ideas of how to escape the city. Orensland, Khaska, and Rynn favored stealing the skyship in the chaos. Sanjin pointed out if they could get the gnomes research, perhaps they could use the transport device. A quick inquiry with Master Greymantle confirmed that outsiders would not be permitted to visit the library. Sanjin did meet with the gnome brothers briefly, but it was painfully obvious that a back and forth between the two scholars would not give the answers needed in a timely fashion.
However, Sanjin was able to ascertain a piece of the puzzle from hints and comments made by Greydale as well as his own study of the archway. There was some kind of key needed—the gateway device could not be activated on its own.
Khaska had spent his time either with Feral, continuing teaching her (in the weeks they had spent together, she had learned to read quite well, to the cleric’s delight), or in the library. It occurred to him that it may be advantageous to pilfer a few of the volumes from the Maramos library in the chaos, and he spent his time attempting to determine which were the most valuable books. He had wondered to Lady Isabelle if there were any Maha’i legends in any of the books, but unfortunately there appeared not to be any. But it was after their fruitless search that she wanted to show him their printing devices. “Perhaps,” she said, “you could write down the legends you know of, and we could produce a volume of them here for you.”
“You would do that?”
She shrugged. “I care not for the stories of your people. Myths and legends have little use to us wizards. But my mother has made it clear that we are to accommodate you and your friends. And so I follow her wishes.”
She took Khaska to a specific room in one of the adjoining buildings, where she showed him the printing device she spoke of. It was an unusual contraption, set up to create identical copies of text. Stacks of papers sat to the side, and Khaska glanced at some of them. It turned out they were the exact pamphlet Jenika had discovered all those months ago in Hammerdine, for the Peaceful Children.
We welcome you, brothers and sisters! The Gods be with you as you undertake this journey. Keep your decision to yourself, above all else. We do not wish to overtly persuade others to join us merely because their friends are doing so. The Gods speak to whom they will.
Together we will journey to our chosen land, where the Gods themselves will protect us from Arkenos. Do not bring any weapons with you, for such an action would show a lack of faith. War begets war. Violence begets violence. Strife begets strife. Only by renouncing war, violence, and strife, can we be assured of the protection of the Gods!
The Maha’i remembered this pamphlet. Therylassa had signed a more specific note to the bottom of the one Jenika had found, making it more personal and relevant to the activities of the Peaceful Children in Hammerdine. There were many stacks.
“You have many of these,” he said.
“Propoganda pieces for another branch of the Cult’s underlings. A defunct one, now.”
“Yes, Lady Maramos said they had betrayed the cult and been massacred.”
“Thus a waste of resources and time on this printing device. I lost months of research time. Now I fear I won’t complete my project before the Dark Times.”
“May I inquire to the nature of the project?” Khaska was getting very excited. The ability to reproduce texts so rapidly was absolutely pregnant with possibilities! The great works of the world could be reproduced at a small cost and distributed! Libraries would no longer be merely for the rich or the well-connected!
“I had hoped to reproduce spellbooks,” Lady Isabelle said. “The creation of scrolls, for instance, would be a fantastic boon, a way of empowering our coven and our allies with magic capabilities beyond … anybody else in the world!” She sighed. “Alas, no matter how particular and refined I make the magical notations, the magic itself is not transferred. It seems for now we wizards are still reduced to copying spells and creating scrolls by hand.
“I am sorry your work has not come to fruition,” Khaska said. “Could I perhaps try with a divine spell?”
She shook her head. “Divine spells do not transfer either. We have tried with a vampire cleric brother of mine to create scrolls.”
Fynn Obsdeer was always a sight to behold. The dwarf was never clean and always reeked of the filth of the streets, his beard matted with old wine and gutter water, his eyes bloodshot, and his gray clothes stained with things Orensland didn’t care to examine more closely.
All the better to hide in plain sight, the Bringer of Light had said.
One of the Bringer spies in the city, he relied on his magic to keep himself alive and provide himself food and water. He lived as an itinerant bum, never staying in the same place twice. He was the hardest to track down, but Orensland had managed to do so. The two of them sat on a broken bridge overlooking one of the small aqueducts that served as the sewers of the city.
“Lady Drakh and your patrons are likely the most powerful vampires in the city,” the cleric was saying, drinking from a wine pouch (actually filled with water). “Frankly, I’m a little surprised that Lady Drakh is going to challenge them directly. She must have some advantage we don’t know about. If she is going to go after the Maramos’s, man, that would leave a huge power vacuum if even one of those two great houses is destroyed.”
“How do you think such an attack would work?”
“That’s the complicated thing. Vampires cannot enter places they have not been invited, and the great houses are meticulous about not inviting each other over. Only peers or close allies would be. So in order to enter the Maramos mansion, Lady Drakh would have to be invited.”
“Lady Maramos was invited to hers,” the shadowdancer said.
“Then I would not be surprised if that had been reciprocated, but it would not be the case with all of the other vampires of the Lancel coven. Maybe only Lady Drakh.”
“So it seems a safe bet is that Lady Drakh intends to take on both Lord and Lady Maramos just by herself.”
“Probably one at a time. Going up against both at once? That would be suicide.”
“Would she have to kill both of them in order to allow other vampires into the mansion?”
Khaska stayed and looked the device over, studying it meticulously. He was no engineer, but perhaps it could be reproduced elsewhere? He was very excited, but tried to hide his interest. Lady Isabelle seemed to be unable to look past the fact it could not create magic text, disappointed that her creation was not fulfilling the original function she had envisioned for it. Eventually she grew bored and, not wanting to overstay his welcome, he left with her. As they walked back to the main mansion, Rynn emerged, a wine flask in his hand. Khaska could see the form of Lord Maramos in the doorway, and the two were laughing. Rynn came down the stairs, drinking from the flask and biting off chunks of roc jerky—a new favorite of the ranger. The cleric’s eyes narrowed.
Lady Isabelle disappeared inside the mansion and the two of them were alone in the courtyard for a moment.
“Headed back to our quarters?” asked the cleric.
“Yes,” Rynn said. His speech was slightly slurred. Khaska came along with him, making sure the ranger made it back with so much wine in him. As they entered the ranger’s quarters, the cleric helped Rynn take his boots off as the half-elf lounged on one of the chairs.
“Rynn,” Khaska said, sternly. “We need to talk.”
The ranger took a swig of the flask. It was nearly empty. “What about?”
“I fear your …” Khaska paused, looking for the right word, “… affinity with Lord Maramos has clouded your vision of what we are up against here.”
Rynn squinted at him. “How so?”
“You know what Lord Maramos is. What he does to these worshippers of his. Sleeping with the women. Draining the blood of his victims.”
“Not victims,” Rynn said. “Everybody here is willing. That makes it okay.” He stopped for a moment, brow furrowed. “Well, more okay.”
Khaska stood. “Do you not remember what happened in Hammerdine? The vampire Veleria and Judge Stoneheart. How she addicted him to her blood? How she used her influence to change court cases, letting the guilty go unpunished. Letting the Sendylus guild smuggle items and things for the Cult and other interested parties? You hated all of that. Have you so easily forgotten the ills these vampires have inflicted the world over?”
Rynn paused. “Oh yeah.”
“The Maramos’s may be ‘civilized’ vampires, but they are still vampires and are working with our enemies. The people who may very well have enslaved your wife and child.”
Rynn nodded. “You are right, as usual, my friend,” he said. “Oh, on that note, Lord Maramos received a note by messenger pigeon or something from the cult. They’ll be arriving in two days.”
Just then there was a knock at the door. “Come in,” Rynn called out. Orensland entered.
“Hey guys, just got word from Lady Maramos. The cult representatives will be here in two days. I’m to join them for their meeting in the morning the day after they arrive.”
In the last post the biggest thing I needed to know was if you were going to betray one group to the other. You all basically agreed to try to burn the entire city down, the Maramos Coven, the Lancel Coven, and the cult. So nobody said nothin’ to nobody, and I could move the story forward to the imminent arrival of the cult representatives.
Orensland has not really been able to determine the size of the forces allied with Lady Drakh, and the Bringers are not much help. However, the Bringers, experts on vampires that they are, have a good sense of which individual vampires are the most powerful in the city based on level of respect, longevity, relative strength of the individual houses, and number of vampire “children” each coven has. Basically, the Maramos coven and the Lancel coven are the two most powerful in the city. Lady Drakh and Lord and Lady Maramos are among the most powerful vampires, but the Bringers express surprise that Lady Drakh would directly challenge them.
Also, Lady Isabelle has developed a printing press. She cannot get it to create scrolls of magic or spellbooks, however, but it is otherwise a basic printing press. I drop this in because I think it an interesting technological advancement that Khaska would be interested in knowing about. And maybe doing something about? Feral showed no magical aptitude, but was nervous about the tests Khaska administered, and slightly disappointed when she showed no magical aptitude for either divine or arcane magic (though the test for arcane magic is not as easy for Khaska to administer, he’s aware that result might be incorrect).
The Bringers of Light in the City are:
3 clerics. One (human) runs a butcher shop, one (human) helping procure relics and magic items for an enchanter shop, and the third (dwarf) is completely itinerant, relying on his magic to create food and water and seemingly just a homeless bum.
1 sorcerer. This elf works as a bookkeeper for one of the merchant guilds associated with a lower vampire coven. Has a stone of sending he uses to report important information to Garth Calad at regular intervals. (It allows him to use the Sending spell once a day.) He's the unofficial leader of the group in Darkcrest.
1 fighter. A human who works security at an apothecary shop.
All are relatively generic level 7 characters and are basically at your disposal.
Khaska has heard of the Caecellian Order. They were an order of magic users, one from each of the major spellcasting classes—bard, cleric, druid, paladin, sorcerer, wizard, the most powerful magic users of their time. Rumor has it that they jointly created a series of Codices, powerful spellbooks that granted their wielders extraordinary powers, which Codices have since been lost to time. That knowledge would prompt Sanjin to remember the Codices were akin to powerful spellbooks, magic woven into the very pages and texts themselves, allowing those who carried them access to both “regular” spells (like a staff or a wand) as well as powerful magical abilities that could be used only sparingly. Sometimes only once, in times of great need, a use of the book that might prove fatal to its carrier.
Rynn is drunk on some pretty good wine. BlackWolf, can I get a DC 15 CON check from you, per the personalized rules for Rynn's drunkenness. This will only affect the beginning of the next post.
The cult’s skyship is two days out. They will arrive in the evening, the meeting is set for the next morning. Only Orensland is invited. Please prepare your spells and everything for whatever it is you plan to do. By now all your “wish lists” from the Maramos coven have been fulfilled and you have your fully upgraded armor, weapons, etc.
What’s the plan?
So… here's a tentative idea. By the way, I have a lot of those. If that is annoying in any way, let me know, I'll try to be less… complicated in my idea formulations.
We're hoping to make sure that neither side catches the other by surprise –– both sides being ready to fight = bigger fight = more vampire casualties = huge blow to the forces of evil on this side of Jenoa. This idea is a possible way to facilitate that.
From what we gather, Drakh has some kind of ace hidden up her sleeve that will enable her to take out both Lord and Lady Maramos. Possible ways that might happen are 1) some other previously invited "allies" of the Maramos household are planning on invading the house with Drakh, 2) Drakh can summon demons in their household to bypass the invitation rules, and 3) Drakh is planning on inviting one of them over to her place, ambushing and killing that one, then going to the Maramos house to finish off the remaining Maramos.
So first, we tell Lady Drakh that the Cult is arriving in the next three days, specific time unknown. That will likely get some activity going at the Drakh mansion, and more activity = more opportunities to deduce her plan. For example, messengers will likely be dispatched to communicate to other houses that will be involved in the coup. We can follow those messengers and get a clearer picture of how this fight is going to play out. The Bringers could probably help with following messengers and gathering info in that way.
It's also possible servants will be dispatched to be watching for skyships, especially if the specific time and date of their arrival are unknown (hence we tell Drakh "sometime in the next three days"). This provides an opportunity to tell the Maramos household that they may need to be weary. Orensland can say that he has been scouting out the area which the Cult skyship would be arriving at (as well as good vantage points to be watching for the skyship), and saw the same servant(s) similarly oriented to look for a skyship coming from that general direction. Orensland determined (through recognition or following) that these servants report to the Drakh household.
Orensland can say this makes him uneasy. Has Lady Drakh been invited into the house before? Could she pose a threat to the Cult leaders? Say, can she summon demons in the Maramos house? Orensland would recommend that they tighten security and stay near the Cult leaders, just in case. This conversation would happen before the cult arrives, though after scouting out Lady Drakh's forces.
Everything else we've talked about previously. Orensland would report that he plans on scouting out the Drakh household, as he's feeling uneasy about them. Thus he won't be around for the arrival of the Cult, just in case Amara is there. He'll be actually watching from a safe distance in the shadows to know whether or not he should be worried. If she is there… well, Orensland would probably not go back to the Maramos household and seek refuge with one of the Bringers. He'd recommend the others do the same until we know about Amara.
As for the skyship idea, Orensland is probably the most confident about being able to sneak into and out of the city unnoticed. Thus, he would like to stick around for the action, striking or helping from the shadows, should he prove useful in some way. Plus plunging the city into madness sounds like something Orensland would like to see. :D If the others want to commandeer a skyship, Orensland would be willing to help, but he would like to stay in Darkcrest. He would make sure a meeting place is agreed upon for a future rendevous, of course. You'd need someone who can fly that skyship, however. If none of the Bringers can, that limits our options considerably. If the others decide they do not want to steal the skyship, Orensland would probably concoct a plan for stealing the crystals to keep the Maramos household/Cult leaders from fleeing. Furthermore, the butcher shop might be a good place to lay low until escape becomes possible. There's enough blood around there that it may be more difficult for vampires to track the party.
Also… pilfering volumes might be a bad idea if the books have trap spells on them. It's what I would do in a library of rare books, at least.
Orensland would also wait until Rynn had sobered up a bit before telling him these ideas. We're kind of on the sword's edge for the next few days.
It appears that Khaska's words were very sobering for the ranger, because Rynn scored a 17 on the check. I also took the liberty of rolling a Fortitude check to see how he'll recover from a hangover: scored 20. So I think that his headache will be minor, caused perhaps as much by his own self-criticism as the alcohol.
Rynn is unsure whether we should tip off the Maramos clan, even in the subtle ways Orensland is suggesting. It seems that they are more powerful, and they've got allies on the way. (Unless the Cult is planning to betray the Maramos clan? That would be a major shift.) But on the other hand, would Lady Drakh fight if she didn't think she would win?
So aside from those musings, Rynn is fine with Orensland's plans for hinting toward the Maramos that something might be up. But I wonder if he should cast doubt on the Cult of Skyrnyn as much as Lady Drakh? We've seen how the Cult has turned on each other after a failure, and there is likely some level of in-fighting. Maybe Orensland could say that although he hopes to advance in the Cult, he worries for their safety — after all, the vampires have treated him better than his own, right? They should be careful that they don't end up betrayed. If he (Orensland) were in charge, they'd do things differently. (*snicker*)
As for his own actions, Rynn will scout out the likely ports for the skyships to dock at. Stealing one would be fantastic, but Crosis has a good point that we'd need to be able to sail it. But clearly the skyships are important to the cult… so if nothing else, the ranger would readily take an opportunity to sabotage or burn down the cult's vessel. He'll look into procuring some gunpowder and alcohol — maybe it's time for him to make better use of it as fuel rather than drink.
Upon reflection, Rynn hasn't seen or heard of a skyship port for Darkcrest.
Give me a Gather Info roll for your attempts to "scout out the likely ports for the skyships to dock at." I'd also like to point out that Lord Maramos is pretty friendly with you at this point. Your hunt with him seems to have put you in his good graces in a way that even allowing Lady Maramos to feed on Orensland did not accomplish.
Khaska's preference would be for a plan with fewer steps, if possible; the more our plan depends on a sequence of subtle events going just right (people, say, noticing Lady Drakh's messengers within the day's length of time before the Cult arrives), the more likely the whole venture will collapse. He does, however, think that misinforming Lady Drakh about the time of arrival of the skyship would be reasonable (as well as reasonably excused!), and that sowing potential mistrust about the Cult in the Maramos' eyes.
We should, however, have a cover story just in case the Maramos catch us amidst our preparations to leave. Would it be reasonable for Orensland to express wariness about these Cult leaders since "learning" "just now" of the Peaceful Children's extermination — and thus planning to hang back, and his friends to depart?
Regarding departure: would there be any way the Glittersail Brothers could provide a "getaway vehicle"? They know a conflict is coming, but we could warn them that the houses might be better-matched than Lady Drakh expects, and they might want to leave. Perhaps if we managed to pilfer the Cult's skyship and depart alongside the Glittersail Brothers, they could train the party in skyship sailing — at least somewhat. Barring that —and this might be the best idea— would there be any possibility that, leaving the city on foot, the party (and the Bringers stationed in the city?) could rendezvous with a Bringer ship to take them back to Garth Calad?
Khaska, meanwhile, will try to lay low from the intrigue; he's not the best at it, after all. In the meantime, he is very interested in the printing press. If he hasn't shown Feral the library yet, he'll do so, and introduce her to the printing press as well. This might be a silly notion, but: could the press fit in a bag of holding? If it would, Khaska would be inclined to grab that instead of books — perhaps even just ask for it, given that Lady Isabelle seems so disappointed in its failure to transfer magic. If neither of those is an option, perhaps he and Feral can examine the mechanism and take extensive notes about its construction that could help them reproduce it later on.
He'll also make sure that a legal document for his "ownership" of Feral is drawn up. As long as they're in Darkcrest, he's going to make sure they have legal evidence for her protection. Once they leave the city, he'll burn it.
Any suggestions on spells Khaska should prepare? "Silence" was shockingly effective last time, so he might prepare at least one of those.
Gather Info: 21 (rolled 11 + 10 bonus)
If Rynn gets a chance, he'll try to casually mention to Lord Maramos that he hasn't seen any skyship ports in Darkcrest. Do the vampire covens not make use of them? "I hope that does not inconvenience the Cult."
I don't have any spell suggestions, but I can definitely see how Silence could sow additional confusion. :)
“That gives you cover to not be there exactly when they arrive,” Rynn said. “Making sure Amara is not part of the delegation should be top priority.”
“I had the same concern,” Orensland said. “If she’s part of the group, we may have to get out while the getting is good.”
“I agree,” Khaska said. Just then there was another knock at the door. Sanjin entered without waiting to be invited in.
“Lady Isabelle just got a note from one of the Maramos’s and made a hasty exit from the library. I assume something is afoot?” They rest of the group filled him in. The wizard became giddy at the thought of violence and the possibilities it might create. He, apparently, had been making a list of the important books he might want to loot from the library. Just in case the House of Maramos were to fall, of course.
“Then we have some last-minute preparations to make,” Rynn said. “Wait.” He paused. “Lord Maramos didn’t mention where their skyship was going to be landing. Did he mention that to you?”
“He did not. Come to think of it, I don’t know that in any of my wanderings I’ve seen a skyship port. Knowing where they are coming from would be a great boon in spying on them.”
“And possibly sabotaging their ship,” Rynn said.
“Whoa!” Khaska blurted out. “What?”
The ranger glanced at the cleric. “We had already discussed doing our best to make sure the vampires and cult all fight and destroy each other. I can think of no better way of forcing a confrontation, if it becomes necessary.”
“We will burn that bridge when we come to it,” Khaska said.
“Cross that bridge,” Orensland replied. “But the mixed metaphor may be apropos in this case. In the meantime, I will inform the Glittersail brothers of this development.”
“Perhaps we should give them some slightly false information. Off by a day or two.” Khaska looked from one companion to the other. “Give us a slight advantage.”
“A sensible precaution,” Sanjin said. “In the meantime, I suggest that we prepare for battle. We will probably have some fights in the next few days!”
“Did we not want to leave?” asked Khaska. He was concerned for Feral’s safety.
“How are we going to make sure they destroy each other if we leave!” Sanjin blurted out. “I figured we would get into the fight and turn traitor on each side as needed—be the equalizer, so to speak.” He turned to Rynn. “Can’t burn their ship down if you’re not in town!”
“I know where you can get some alchemist’s fire,” Orensland spoke up. “Worked pretty well on the Sendylus guild’s house. I imagine it would work fine on the cult’s skyship.”
“I think it would be best if I lay low,” Khaska said. “All of this intrigue and spying are not to my tastes, and I have a new project Feral and I will work on in the meantime. But one that might interest you, Sanjin.”
“Oh, do tell!”
Khaska began to explain Lady Isabelle’s printing device, but after a few minutes Orensland and Rynn took their leave to go do more “intrigue and spying.”
After weeks upon weeks of boredom, suddenly there was an air of excitement to the group. Their ruse, playing bodyguards for Lady Maramos, now months in the making, was about to pay off. The only question was, “how?”
Orensland was able to meet with Greygook out and about the city, and informed the gnome that the cult would be here in three days, instead of the actual two. The gnome was grateful for the information, and left to go inform his brothers and Lady Drakh.
After using Khaska’s Hat of Disguise again, Orensland followed.
Though he had no desire to go into the House of Lancel’s lands, he did try to scout around them, blending into the shadows as needed, disguising himself as needed. He watched as Greygook disappeared into the main house, and came out a few minutes later, with both his brothers in tow. They disappeared behind the house—that seemed odd. As far as he could tell there wasn’t anything behind the house. Orensland snuck around the other side of the compound, hoping to get a glimpse in or something. He’d actually never been to that side before …
… And he immediately berated himself for not having done so. The mast of the gnome’s skyship stuck out above the stone wall. The wall itself was an impressive fifteen feet high, but the mast, even for a smaller ship like theirs, still poked out above it. He guessed, based on his memories of the ship, that it was resting on the ground.
He listened to the conversation of the gnomes, but unfortunately didn’t understand a word of it. Stupid gnomes speaking in gnomish. They were having an argument, that much was clear from the tone of their voices, and he could tell it was the other two against Greygook. Eventually Greygook stormed off. Perhaps this was a weakness among the brothers he could exploit? However, he decided to continue his spying on the Lancel compound. After a few hours, though, he noticed no increase in activity or suspicious movements by anybody, and decided to go home.
Sanjin examined the mechanisms of the printing device with Khaska and Feral. After some examination, it was clear that the device could not be disassembled and transported, even with the bags of holding and haversacks they had. However, with Sanjin’s help, they were able to make detailed diagrams of the device, a project Lady Isabelle did not object to. Sanjin did eventually ask if he could take a mold for making the individual draconic characters, and Lady Isabelle consented letting them take that much.
Khaska also introduced Feral to the library, and the former slave was gobsmacked at the room and the books contained therein. They were there when Orensland returned with the report of finally having found the gnomes’ skyship. Rynn joined them shortly after, having just spoken with Lord Maramos.
“The cult’s skyship, the Adder Invictus, will be landing here,” the ranger pointed down at the ground, “within the Maramos coven’s walls. It will hover and be anchored so it can’t damage the buildings. Lord and Lady Maramos and their coven intend to simply leave and abandon the city at the conclusion of the negotiations.”
“Well, that will make things more convenient for you to burn their ship!” Orensland snickered. “Nice of them to park it literally right outside your front door.”
“Easier to be seen, though. And harder for you to sneak around without the cult leadership seeing you,” replied Rynn.
“Fair enough, but I had an idea for why I might be able to feign not wanting to be around. After all, we just found out the cult massacred some of their allies. If I were in charge of the cult, we wouldn’t do that sort of thing, and it makes me wary of wanting to ‘move up the ranks.’ I planned to tell this to Captain Gendry. I’m sure that would make its way to Lord and Lady Maramos.”
“That would also sow distrust further between them and their allies in the cult,” Khaska said. “A wise rumor to spread, then. But I fear our plan is becoming too complex. Too many variables in motion.”
“Until people start showing up and making their moves, all we can do is try to position them and ourselves in the right places,” Sanjin said. “All our plans will go up in smoke at the first time a fight breaks out. Who knows how it will play out then?”
“I hope,” Khaska said in response, “that we can achieve our objectives of making the three major players all but destroy themselves. The cult leadership. The House of Maramos. The House of Lancel. Our intelligence from the Bringers indicates that even the destruction of one house would prove destabilizing to the internal politics of Darkcrest. To knock out two in a single blow would create much chaos.”
“Set the town on fire,” Orensland said. “Hopefully both politically and literally.” He grinned.
“It seems awfully inconvenient for you to be making this announcement here and now,” Lady Maramos said. Her eyes bored into Orensland, who swallowed.
“I’m just saying that I’m glad I’ll be introduced not immediately upon their arrival. Your assurance my work was satisfactory may be enough, but then again, we did lose you for several months and almost got you killed by Manson. Given the knowledge that they just basically annihiliated some of their so-called allies for misstepping, you can understand my wariness. I’m not sure the leadership of the cult will be as forgiving as you have.”
“That may be true, but I assure you, Orensland, I have no intention of selling you short. You let me feed off of you for weeks. If that doesn’t show dedication to your cause, I’m not sure what would.”
“You have been very good to me,” Orensland said. “I hope the cult is as generous to you as you have been to us. Where I in charge, they would be.”
“Given our ongoing deal with them, it would be foolish for them to betray us.”
“Then I’m sure you have nothing to worry about.”
As he left with Rynn later that afternoon, he reported back his conversation with Lady Maramos. “I’m sure I laid some seeds of doubt.”
“I trust you did your best. It’s a plausible story, and in the end, I fear Sanjin is right. We can only do so much before all the pieces come on the board and begin to interact. It’s going to be a wild few days.” Even after the roc hunt, the ranger was itching for some action.
“Now, let’s go get you some alchemical fire in case we want to get really wild!”
They were nearly back to the House of Maramos when they both spotted Greygook lurching down a side street. The gnome was holding his hand to his side, blood seeping down his shirt.
“Oh dear,” Orensland said. He immediately glanced around, but didn’t see anybody who looked like they were following the gnome. It seemed safe to approach as the gnome slumped down by some stairs leading up into a tavern.
“Greygook!” he hissed under his breath. “What happened?”
“I told my brothers this would happen. Lady Drakh betrayed us. The moment we told her when the cult was coming, she decided our usefulness was up and attacked us to prevent us from double crossing her or interfering.” He began to weep. “I think my brothers are both dead.”
“You’re not doing so well yourself,” Rynn said.
“I know you have no great love for your vampire house, but I wish to have your help. My brother’s research on the voidgates, as well as the key to opening the one in the Maramos library, we think, are back on our skyship. We have spent the better part of a decade searching for answers to these questions, and I can’t let his research go to waste. We can’t let his life’s work just end!”
He clutched Orensland’s shirt. “Help me get the research back. Help me kill Lady Drakh during her attempted coup! I swear I will give you access to all Greydale’s notes and information if you help hide me until then and aid me in stealing back the key and my brother’s book!”
So … gunpowder isn’t a thing in this world. Yet. But alchemical fire is! How much would Rynn have purchased? (20 gold per vial.)
Lady Drakh has decided the usefulness of the Glittersail brothers has come to an end. You aren’t sure of the fate of the other two, but Greygook managed to get away, though he is severely wounded.
The skyship is arriving tonight, probably during sunrise twilight. It is currently mid-day.
It seems to me that I know what you all want to have happen, ideally (everybody from these three factions dies and you don’t), but you don’t have any concrete plans for letting that play out. I don’t want to play your characters, but may I make a few suggestions:
1. Let Feral leave the city with one of the Bringers. They would be more than happy to let a slave free upon sufficient distance from the city.
On that note: What do you want the rest of the Bringers to do when the fighting breaks out? Nothing? Wait it out? Target one of the houses or the cult? They represent a formidable, hitherto unknown force in the city. They are quite confident nobody in the city knows of their presence and would make a big surprise if they acted in concert with each other.
2. When the fighting does break out, interfere yourselves, allowing you to keep the sides “even.” You represent a variable that can change the course of a battle, even among such powerful factions.
On that note: Where do you want to position yourselves? Just in Master Greymantle’s residence? Orensland want to sneak around to do some spying on the cult leaders—make sure Amara isn’t there? If Amara is present, are you all just going to leave the city and hope for the best?
The “itinerary” is that the cult will arrive this evening, but the meeting between them and Lord and Lady Maramos won’t happen until the next morning. Orensland has been invited to that meeting. If fighting hasn’t broke out by then, will he attend (if Amara is not present)?
The notes and “key” whatever that is, to Greydale’s research on the “voidgates” are on the skyship in the House of Lancel lands. Do you want to try to retrieve them? If so, when? Before the fighting? During the fighting?
Lots of questions. Let me try to sum up:
What to do immediately with Greygook?
Where are you all going to be when the cult leadership arrives?
What are your objectives?
What do you want to do with the Bringers at your disposal?
1. What to do immediately with Greygook - first of all, patch the boy up. Perhaps one of us could run grab Khaska while the other one tries to get Greygook somewhere private (as opposed to bleeding out on the tavern steps). Once he's stable, he could hide out with a Bringer/run away with us, depending on how things play out. Secondly, I vote we take him up on his request to go grab the key and book. We've talked before about how handy jumping continents could be, and that option seems to have fallen into our laps. That being said, we'd need some more information. What does it look like? Where on the ship is it? Would Lady Drakh know anything about their research –– is it possible she's also interested in getting her hands on the book or key? Regardless, with the Glittersail brothers out of the picture, she may send servants to loot what they can from the ship before throwing everything out. The ship itself will likely remain intact, since it would be a true waste to throw away a skyship even by wealthy vampire standards. I suspect thievery would need to happen before the fighting occurs in order to get the key or book in time. Orensland volunteers!
And speaking of the skyship, stealing the whole thing itself during the fighting might not be such a bad escape plan. We have a pilot now, after all. Right? Can Greygook fly the thing?
Also, Greygook may be able to fill us in on some final details we've been missing. While Lady Drakh probably didn't spill the whole plan to him or his brothers, they likely have a better idea of how Lady Drakh intends to take on the House of Maramos (since the concept is surprising to those who are familiar with the strengths of both houses). Are there any details he'd be willing to share now that she backstabbed them?
2. Where are you all going to be when the cult leadership arrives - Orensland will be hiding in the shadows and watching for the arrival of the cult. When the cult arrives, Orensland would immediately inform everyone else –– including details like whether or not Amara is present. If she is, we make ourselves scarce around the house of Maramos. If not, Orensland may as well join the meeting in the morning. An attack appears eminent for later that day, so might as well get whatever additional info we can before chaos descends. A few hours after the meeting, we should set fire to the skyship. That'll serve a two-fold purpose. One, cut off their escape route. Two, put them on guard, as somebody clearly is attacking them. After the skyship is taken out, we put ourselves into a defensive position and wait for the fighting to start, where we do our best to even the odds without dying in the process.
3. Objectives- Get Feral out (Orensland likes the idea of sending her out with a Bringer). Get the book and key. Make sure as many people die on all sides as possible. Be ready to flee if need be.
4. How to use the Bringers - Position them close to the House of Maramos to further even the odds. If they have some kind of relay system, perhaps one Bringer could hang around the House of Lancel and warn us when the coup starts.
Sanjin would agree with Orensland that the books and key should be retrieved ASAP -if he asked for advice before acting. Sanjin also thinks it is best to get Feral out, as she could prove to be a liability.
Khaska thinks Orensland's right on target with most of his planning. He agrees that 1) we should heal Greygook, and ask him for any insight about House Lancel's plans (promising him safety for cooperation); 2) Feral should get out of the city, preferably with a Bringer escort, before the fighting; 2) one of our primary goals should be to retrieve the plans and key from the gnomes' skyship as soon as we can; 3) we should leave the Maramos residence if Amara is with the Cult.
A couple more points, however:
He'll recommend that Feral take the copy of the printing press designs with her, so that they remain safe.
Khaska will encourage the party to set a rendezvous point outside of the city where the party and the Bringers can meet after a certain amount of time if they get separated from each other.
Have we determined whether we can… steal the voidgate from the library? That would be ideal: take that along with us. After all, we don't know where it even goes.
The earlier we get the key and the gnomes' studies, the earlier we might be able to test the gate, to make sure it would be safe as an escape route in case that's needed… including to make sure we know where it comes out. Of course, we might want to do so when any onlookers might be otherwise distracted.
Is there any way we could steal the key and research materials from the gnomes' skyship… and then steal the Cult's skyship in the middle of the tumult, potentially with the voidgate on board (loaded up with the help of crystals stolen from the gnomes' ship)?
Rynn generally agrees with the planning thus far. He has no real personal interest in the stuff in the Maramos' library, so he'll leave any of that up to Sanjin and Khaska.
The ranger thinks we need to get a skyship in all the madness, so he'll position himself to that end. I'm now wondering if we should try to liberate the Glittersail skyship. That way we aren't acting against the Maramos coven directly at first (keep the cover a bit longer; "we're helping you against Lady Drakh!") and we can get the research at the same time.
Rynn also wants to either steal the cult's skyship or set it on fire (as previously mentioned). Rynn will have purchased 3 flasks of alchemist's fire (60 gp). He also wants some alcohol, oil, or something else really flammable so the ship will catch and be hard to put out. If we manage to get the Glittersail skyship, then we could firebomb the cult's vessel from above. Or even try to board it that way, if there's an opportunity to steal it (though I expect they'll leave guards).
So Rynn wants to plot toward nabbing the Glittersail skyship as soon as Lady Drakh takes action. That also keeps him away from being spotted if Gulnith or Amara are on the cult's ship. He'll watch them arrive from a distance because he thinks that their arrival will trigger Lady Drakh into action (hopefully she will be off-guard because it should happen earlier than she was expecting) and once she starts to move then her focus should be on the Maramos and the Glittersail skyship will not be as hard to commandeer.
If Orensland wants to try to sneak onboard the Glittersail ship early to steal the plans, Rynn would support that. If we can acquire that before the fighting starts then that's one less thing to do later. Plus the shadowdancer can see how they're guarding it or if they are planning to use it.
“First things first,” Rynn said. “Let’s get you off the street. Orensland, go get Khaska for some healing. We’ll be in this tavern here.”
“Make sure it’s a private booth!” Orensland said, running off.
Khaska came immediately, though he had the foresight to take his hat back from Orensland and disguise himself. They left the Maramos compound a bit apart so as not to arouse suspicion. The cleric was able to use some basic healing to patch Greygook up. He probably wasn’t in danger of bleeding to death, but the cleric mused, having his blood leaving a nice trail for a vampire to follow probably wasn’t in their best interests anyway.
“We have some allies in the city,” Khaska said. “Perhaps it would be best if you went to stay with one of them. In the meantime,” he leaned forward, “is there anything else you can tell us about Lady Drakh’s plans? We mean to get the two houses to destroy each other as much as possible. Maybe these dragon cultists as well.”
“Is your ship still flyable?” Rynn asked. “Perhaps that could be our way out of the city in all the fighting.”
“Lady Drakh mentioned she didn’t want us interfering with her plans for ‘the meeting,’” Greygook said. “And unless they’ve damaged the ship, it’s still flyable. We’d have to get to it, however. It wouldn’t take long to get it flying, but without a skilled crew, it’d be up and out of the city. Flying so close to buildings is tricky business.”
As soon as Orensland knew that Greygook was in good hands, he stood up.
“I’m going to go get the research and the key. What does it look like? Where is it?”
“It’ll all be in a small box that has an Arcane Lock spell on it. Don’t try to open it there. It will be hidden with the journal in that box under the skyship’s steering wheel. The wheel leans back if properly set. I’m sure a rogue like you can figure out the mechanism. ”
Orensland nodded, then turned and vanished outside the curtain marking off their private booth.
From what he could tell, the Lancel house guards had been doubled at the front gate, but his clambering up the side of some nearby buildings to get a better view into the compound revealed no other changes. There was one guard on the ship. Orensland wasn’t all that worried. He then snuck up to the front gate to try and listen to the guards. There was enough light to create shadows, and he was able to blend in and get quite close.
The guards seemed tense, on edge. They spoke to each other in whispers, and he was able to make out snippets. They were gearing up for something, and worried it might have already started now that “that gnome” had gotten away. The leader of this small squad was excited, hoping to prove himself in combat. Perhaps he could be made one of the Chosen! Orensland thought he sounded a little self-confident for a guard. But there was the matter of the chest from the gnomes’ skyship. He ghosted away from the front gate.
He managed to snag his grappling hook on the first try, and it barely made a sound. The shadowdancer was over the wall and onto the ship in a flash, landing with barely a thunk. He whipped out his new sap and clubbed the guard over the head, grabbing the limp body and depositing it on the deck.
The wheel mechanism was relatively complicated, but with Greygook’s instructions he got it on the first try, finding the small box. Wary of the gnome’s warning about the lock, he simply grabbed it and was up the mast and over the wall a few seconds later, nobody (except the unconscious guard) the wiser in the Lancel compound.
Sanjin was helping review the drawings they had made of the printing device with Feral one last time when Orensland burst into the room. He held up the chest.
“This has all the gnome’s research into these gate things, as well as the key, but it’s got an Arcane Lock on it. Can you get it open?”
Sanjin was immediately interested, tossing aside the paper he had been examining. Feral scooped it up without a word.
“Not today, but eventually, yes. But … wait, if there isn’t anybody in the library, then ooh! I can!”
“Where did you get this?” Orensland quickly explained the situation. Rynn and Khaska were taking Greygook to be with one of the Bringers, after Lady Drakh had killed his brothers.
“Feral,” Orensland said, “probably best to go back to Khaska’s quarters.”
“Wasn’t Khaska going to send you out of the city anyway?” Sanjin asked.
“He had mentioned as much to me, but I had not been made aware of any specific plans,” she whispered.
“Well, go to his quarters.” The two of them left to head to the library.
Luckily, there was nobody there. Lady Isabelle didn’t spend much time there, and aside from one visit from Lady Maramos herself about a month ago, the group basically had free reign in the library.
After cursorily saluting the two valet skeletons, Sanjin took the chest and placed it on the table with the antimagic field on it. With the Arcane Lock spell suppressed, Orensland opened the chest easily.
Inside was a book and an obsidian rod. Sanjin picked the rod up, glancing across the room to the gate device. “Made of the same material.”
“I bet that was the ‘sacred stick,’ the goblins were after,” Orensland breathed.
Sanjin opened the book.
“Stupid gnomes writing in gnomish!” he cursed. “He’s got plenty of research in here. I just have to be able to cast Comprehend Languages on myself to read it. But I think we’re on the verge of something amazing here! I can try to discern his charts and graphs without the words, I guess.” He sat down and began to study the book.
Rynn and Khaska came in.
“Greygook safe?” asked Orensland.
“As safe as he can be if Lady Drakh is hunting for him. You get the box?”
“And Sanjin was able to open it. Unfortunately, the journal of research is in gnomish.” He held the rod up. “But we think this is the key!”
Khaska’s ears flattened. “Is this what they sought all those months ago, in the Wastes? That they sent the goblins after?”
“Things might begin to move quite rapidly,” the cleric said. “I think I need to get Feral out of the city as soon as possible. I’ve already made arrangements with one of the Bringers to escort her out. I’ll see to that now while you all investigate this ‘voidgate.’”
You now have the key and Greygook’s research. Unfortunately you can’t read the research since none of you know gnomish (and I assume neither Khaska nor Sanjin has Comprehend Languages prepared, but if you genuinely would due to continuing research in the library, then I’ll allow it and post results here in the gray box). But, that doesn’t mean you can’t experiment and try on your own to use the key on the gate. Think of it as a puzzle. You all indicated that you wanted to “test” it all out. Here's your chance.
Can I get an Knowledge (Arcana) check from Sanjin to try to discern some diagrams and things from the research journal, even though you can’t read gnomish at the moment?
Edit: I'm the DM, so I can do this. I've moved the clock back. The skyship will be here TOMORROW, not TONIGHT. You have a day to prepare spells you think might be of use in experimenting with the gate and the key and reading his research. Detect Magic. Comprehend Languages. Identify. Whatever. I realized in thinking about this that I had set you up for a harder task than I had intended by having Lady Drakh attack the gnomes at the last minute. So now she attacked them the moment she found out about the cult's arrival and didn't wait a day.
Your idea of moving the gate out of the library is a clever one, Thev, but the library is so far underground and the gate so heavy that you’d basically have to wipe out the House of Maramos entirely and have a good amount of uninterrupted time to get it up out of the house and onto a skyship or cart or whatever.
For the sake of narration, you’ve told Feral your plans and she’s ready to go. You’ve made arrangements to give her to one of the Bringers (you get to pick which one) and he’ll escort her to your rendezvous place. You’ve discussed setting one up before for everybody to meet up after the hullabaloo if you’re all separated. Where would you like it to be?
Greygook said that Lady Drakh has plans for “the meeting.” The guards around her place seemed to be gearing up for a battle.
In short, you have the key and the gate and some uninterrupted time. What experiments would you like to try to see if you can get the gate to function as anticipated? I’ll post responses pretty quickly here in the gray box.
Thanks for moving the clock back! That really helps. As far as Khaska's spell preparations have gone, I do think he'd probably have prepared Comprehend Languages this day. After all, one of his primary preoccupations while in the Maramos house has been research in the library, and it's not like he'd prepare combat, food, or other spells while in relative (if wary) safety. Of course, for the next day he'll prepare the spells he'll need for battle. Does that seem reasonable?
Further, with Comprehend Languages (if the above seems reasonable), what can Khaska and Sanjin figure out about the gate and its key together?
Regarding a rendezvous location: how about the southernmost point in the bend of the East Gnarzaan River? Perhaps the best Bringer to accompany Feral out of the city would be the sorceror — s/he seems to have the most beneficial position when it comes to oversight and embeddedness, and if the Bringers wish to keep a presence in the city, s/he shouldn't reveal his/herself in the fight. S/he can return to the city after the rendezvous.
Another reason to start out eastwards: Khaska figures the Bringers would want to return to Garth Calad (unless they wish to remain to continue covert operations and observation), and Khaska himself wishes to go there. With a skyship, moreover, it could be possible to do surveillance of the Zybryxion Marshes on the way, which could be beneficial. (Given that we could continue our conversations with the Bringers, we could even help them with their research.)
Knowledge Arcana: 22 (11 rolled + 11 Mod)
I'd also like to try my Decipher Script skill (I have a +3 mod) but I believe that should be done in secret.
Although this kind of thing seems the purview of Khaska and Sanjin, there's no need for BlackWolf and Crosis to sit this out. If you were all sitting around the table in a normal D&D game, you'd all be contributing to the effort to figure out these gateways.
Khaska takes a while to read through the working notes from Greydale. He learns many things.
1. These "voidgates" date back to the Pressen Empire. Everybody please give me a straight Intelligence check.
2. They are stationed around particular magic points—Ley Lines, where magic forces are most potent across Jenoa.
3. The gnomes blew most of their cash having Discern Location cast for the key. That's how they discovered its location at the northern end of the Niktean Wastes. As far as they know, this is the only key to one of the voidgates still in existence. Greydale speculates trips might be only one way through the gates—still useful, but not as useful as two-way trips.
3. The gnomes have cast Detect Magic and Identify on the rod. Both spell shad no effect. As if they magic energy just … vanished. Don’t know where it went. Greydale was puzzled by this.
4. Casting those same spells on the voidgate itself (the one near the wastes) had different results. Detect Magic worked–a strong Conjuration school spell was revealed. Identify did not. It must be the magical equivalent of an artifact.
5. Tried touching the key to the gate. No reaction. In fact, gate doesn’t react at all. Used it like a wand. Passed it through the gate. Did everything the gnomes could think of. Nothing worked. It must be attuned to a different gate.
6. Based on Greydale's study of the Ley Lines on Jenoa, there are likely other gates at: the Fortress of Vigilance; the Zyrbryxion Marshes; the one north of the Niktean Wastes (confirmed existence); the Lonely Sisters (Greydale note: fire giants); at the river convergence in the Elven lands (0-13 on the world map); Darkcrest (Greydale note: confirmed); Tjavan (Greydale note: undead); at D5-ish on the world map.
Based on 2 above, Sanjin is able to tell that the voidgate would not work if moved too far from the ley line nexus point. He is also skeptical that they key would be attuned to only one of the gates.
What, if any, other steps would you like to take with this new information?
Interesting. As for Rynn, the ranger just shrugs and doesn't have much to add. If the key works on the gate here in the library, it could be a potential escape route. Of course, who knows where it would lead us… and if it's a one-way trip then we might not have a good way to test it. Some of the gate locations sound fairly inhospitable.
If it did lead to the Zybryxion Marshes, that could possibly be a good way to surprise the Cult of Skyrnyn, since apparently they are based somewhere there. If we could traverse the gates at will then Orensland could sneak through and check it out.
In any case, it might be prudent to at least try putting the key near this gate. Touch them together, wave it around, imagine one of the other possible gate locations, etc. Because if this key doesn't work with this gate (or we cannot figure it out) then the key becomes something to mess with later.
INT check: 15 (rolled 14 + 1 modifier)
Since the rod seems to suck up magical energy, maybe that's related to how it is used? Maybe you have to use it on the gate and "pour" magic into it (by casting a spell or otherwise channeling energy via the wand)? Maybe something to do with teleportation magic (which does fall under the school of Conjuration)?
INT Check: 22 = 20 + 2
Khaska's been doing his studying, haha! :D
First, is there any information about the ley lines in the notes or the library? Any information would help us with our further research.
Second, we should probably test out the same actions the gnomes did with the key and the voidgate. (Is there a way for us to block the door while we're doing so?) Rynn's suggestions also sound good. As we don't know what will happen with the gate when it's activated, we should probably tie the person conducting the tests to a bookcase or piece of heavy furniture. On a similar note, we could tie something to another length of rope to test whether the gate is one-way. (If we can pull it back, great! Maybe someone can try going through while tied off.)
(What does "magical equivalent of an artifact" mean?)
That comment about an artifact comes from the obscure rule (that I am invoking here) that the Identify spell cannot be used on artifacts—which are basically super high-level weapons or magic items. The kinds of things legends are made of.
Both Khaska and Rynn note the term "Pressen Empire" is a bit weird. Neither has heard of it before, but Pressen is the gas giant around which the moon you are on orbits, not one of the moons itself. Anybody who gets a 15 or higher on their Intelligence Check would also realize this information.
To find out more information about the ley lines, can I get a Knowledge (History) or Knowledge (Arcana) (your choice) check from Khaska and Sanjin? You may have advantage, the 5E rule where you can roll twice and take the higher roll, since you have spent many hours familiarizing yourself with the library and its contents.
How do you suggest blocking the door? Tie a rope around the doorknobs? Move a bookcase or table or something in front of it (it opens outward, following our USA fire codes, heh). May I suggest posting a lookout instead?
Can I get specific actions you wish to take? Like "I cast a conjuration spell at the gate" or "I touch the wand to the gate." You've hinted at some things, but I'd like the concrete steps your characters would perform.
Sorry I haven't been participating, this week has been pretty nuts. The next couple of weeks will be too, I'm getting ready to come back to the States. But I'll try to participate as best as I can.
So, I have a theory. "Pressen Empire" sounds weird to all present. It almost seems to imply that, once upon a time, there was an empire that ruled over BOTH Jenoa and Arkenos. Maybe more moons? We won't go there yet. But if there was an empire that ruled over both, that would imply there would need to be some form of transportation between the two worlds beyond the 1000-year atmosphere mixture phenomenon. Like… a portal of some kind…
We've always assumed that these voidgates connect to each other. But what if they have a twin on the other moon? It would make sense, really– the key appears to be attuned to at least one voidgate, while it is not attuned to another. Perhaps there is one key to two voidgates– allowing for two-way travel between two specific gates with one specific key. With all this hypothesizing, a one-way gate sounds silly, especially if you need to take the key with you. If it only works on that voidgate, then you'd need to travel all the way back to use it again.
As for how to use the key, Orensland would suggest they try every method outlined in the journal, in the order they are presented. Touch it to the gate. Use it like a wand. Try to pass through the gate with it in hand. In further ideas, see if the gate has a hole or symbol that seems to match the key, like a functioning keyhole. Cast a spell of some kind, though that's out of my wheelhouse. If we're really desperate, perhaps Orensland could try to shadowdance through the gate while holding the key. That's all I'm coming up with right now.
Orensland could stand guard. He'd shadowdance to avoid detection.
Knowledge 12 (9+3)
Move Silent: 39 (15 + 24)
Thev (via IM)
Knowledge (History) = 26 = 17 + 9
Well, hopefully that's enough to get us some information about ley lines!
Khaska thinks that Orensland's theory about the Pressen Empire sounds plausible and, indeed, was the first thing that came to Khaska's mind when he heard the name. (He'd wonder where the gnomes got the information in the first place.) If that's true, and if the gates might work both ways… we should be very careful. If the gate leads to Arkenos, we could unwittingly open a portal that would allow evil creatures to come pouring in. Sure, they'd come out in Darkcrest, which Khaska would not mourn, but it still wouldn't be good to be the ones who inaugurated the Dark Times ahead of schedule. And if we do need to make an escape… yes, let's post a sentry instead of blocking the doors.
Khaska would ask whether, with this hypothesis, the party would still want to conduct experiments that could end very badly, or whether we should just effect our escape from Darkcrest and seek out another of the voidgates, perhaps one that's unattended.
If the party thinks we should press on with the experiment, Khaska would suggest, as did Orensland, following the same actions the gnomes tried:
Touching the gate in various places with the key
Waving the key in front of the gate in various patterns: straight across, from top to bottom, around clockwise and counterclockwise (starting in different positions along the circumference and traveling different distances: quarter-turn, half-turn, full circle)
Drawing basic shapes in the air in front of the gate: squares (upright and 45-degree-tilted), triangles, stars
Passing the key through the gate (but with the key tightly attached to the person using it, so it can't be wrenched or pulled out of his grasp)
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Like when I said “channeling energy via the wand” that meant several things. Cast a spell at the rod? At the gate while holding it? Cast a spell at the rod and then the gate, or both simultaneously? E. All of the above? Things like that.
“Well, do you have Comprehend Languages prepared?” asked Sanjin. “At least flip through the journal, to give us an idea of what the gnomes’ research already covered.”
Khaska nodded. He spent a few moments praying, and felt his mind open as Teresh’s divine magic flowed through it. He took the book and began to read. The notes were extensive—Greydale was a good scholar, and after about half an hour he had a good hold on what the gnomes thought they were dealing with.
“He calls these ‘voidgates,’” Khaska said, pointing to the archway. “They date back to something called the ‘Pressen Empire,’ which I have never heard of.”
“Pressen Empire?” Orensland said. “Not Jenoan or Arkenosian?”
“Pressen.”
The shadowdancer stared at the archway. “It is possible this transportation system can lead to Arkenos? Perhaps there was once an empire that spanned both moons?”
“That would have been over 50,000 years ago,” Khaska breathed. “We are coming up on the 53rd Dark Times.”
“What else?” the wizard inquired. He was getting very excited. Khaska spoke to calm him.
“If indeed this could connect to Arkenos, we should be extra careful. I would not want to be responsible for inaugurating the Dark Times ahead of scheduel, even if I would think Darkcrest would be a fine city for their forces to destroy!” He turned back to the notes. “These gates are placed at specific locations, ley lines, where magic forces are most potent. He has a list of potential places. The Fortress of Vigilance. The Zyrbryxion Marshes. North of the Niktean Wastes—we know that one exists. He has a note here to that effect. The Lonely Sisters—he notes there are fire giants there. One in the Elven Lands at a convergence of major rivers.”
“I’ve been there, but I don’t remember an archway like this,” Orensland said.
“Did you explore the entire area? The city that’s grown up around that convergence is quite large,” Sanjin said.
“No, I can’t say for certain that it’s there or not there.”
Khaska nodded, and continued. “Tjavan—Greydale notes there are undead there. And finally, in the middle of the ocean, the Upper Jaw of Thanor.”
“Could be a ley line convergence that isn’t conducive to actually having a voidgate there,” Sanjin said. “Is that all?”
Khaska thought for a moment, and then moved over to an area of the library that contained many maps and scrolls. After some time he found one, rolling it out on one of the tables. “I remembered this map from looking around here,” he said. “It details ley lines from some wizards from the elven university.” He glanced at the map and the journal back and forth. “If Greydale’s suppositions are correct, there are many other points that might have similar magical properties than the one’s he’s laid out here. Most of the ley lines come from near the Fortress of Vigilance, extending out and around the globe, so I suspect he is right about that one, but there could be …” he did some quick calculations, “potentially ten to twenty of these voidgate locations. He may have just scratched the surface of what was possible.”
Sanjin was similarly now looking at the map. “Just because there is a ley line convergence doesn’t mean there will be a gate there, but you may be right. Perhaps his understanding of ley lines was rudimentary compared to these elven scholars. What I don’t understand is where they were getting their original information. The journal doesn’t say?”
“It does not. It just starts with some notes about these voidgates and a key to unlocking them. It mentions Discern Location was cast—they spent a great deal of money on that, trying to find a key. That led them to the Niktean Wastes where we intersected them.”
“So there’s only one of them?” asked Rynn. “Makes for a good getaway if nobody can follow you.”
“Yes, but if the rod is only attuned to one gate, the trips might be one-way, he speculated,” Khaska said. “I mean, that might still be worth something, but less useful than being able to connect any gate to any gate.”
“How will we know which gate it’s attuned to?” Sanjin asked.
“They tried a number of experiments on the one near the Wastes,” Khaska said, now rolling up the map (having made some notes of his own in the book now). “None of them worked. I suggest we try the same things here. It’s why they were in Darkcrest—to see if this rod is attuned to this gate.”
“Sounds good to me,” Sanjin said, practically snatching the rod from where it lay on the table in front of them. “What did they try? Though, wait, did they cast Identify on it?”
Khaska flipped through the book. “They did.” He paused, a little unclear on what had happened. “It appears that the spell … just vanished. Both Identify and Detect Magic had no effect.”
“That doesn’t make any sense. Detect Magic is a sustained spell. It lasts for a while.”
“Well, he says once he turned towards the rod with it, the spell seemed to just vanish.” Khaska shrugged. “That’s his term here, as near as I can translate it. ‘Vanished.’”
“Well, let’s get started duplicating their experiments,” Rynn said. “The longer we sit her, the more chance we have of being discovered. And this seems to be the kind of thing we should not let fall in the hands of vampires.”
“Quite right,” Khaska said.
“I think I should go stand watch, in case someone comes,” Orensland said. “If someone’s coming, I’ll come and warn the group. This kind of thing isn’t really my area of expertise. Good luck, gentlemen!” He opened the door and the others saw him meld into the shadows as he closed it.
Khaska read the individual experiments to Sanjin, who tried each of them.
Touched the gate with the rod. In several places. No effect.
Use the rod like a wand, point it at the gate. No effect.
Point the rod at the gate, think of another location, like the one near the Niktean Wastes. No effect.
Pass the rod through the gate. (After removing the dragon skull from where it was hanging—a feat that took some doing, given its weight.) (Also after tying a rope to the rod in case it was pulled from Sanjin’s grasp.) No effect.
Then they started trying things that the gnomes had not attempted, or at least had not written down.
Wave the rod at the gate in various patterns. Straight across, from top to bottom, around clockwise and counterclockwise (starting in different positions along the circumference and traveling different distances: quarter-turn, half-turn, full circle). No effect.
Drawing basic shapes in the air in front of the gate with the rod, squares (upright and 45-degree-tilted), triangles, stars, etc. No effect.
Sanjin hrumphed. “If there are twenty possible gates, and this key-rod-thingy is attuned to only one, and we don’t know where they all are, it could take a long time to get this to work. But I really can’t imagine it’s only attuned to one gate. That makes so very little sense to me.”
“Magic isn’t my specialty,” Rynn said, “but perhaps that’s a limitation of creating magic devices like this?”
“Maybe.” Sanjin’s tone indicated he still wasn’t convined.
“Maybe the devices need to be powered by magic?” Rynn speculated.
“An interesting thought,” Sanjin said. “We know that at least two spells were cast at it. Did the notes indicate anything else like that was done as part of their experimentation?”
Khaska shook his head. “Just Identify and Detect Magic.”
Sanjin held the rod up. “Perhaps we should cast some spells at it. Maybe from the conjuration school—that’s the school for other spells like Teleport.”
“Healing spells are that school—conjuration,” Khaska said. He held his hand out. “May I?” Sanjin handed it over. Khaska looked at it, and at the archway. “I will cast Cure Mass Wounds to target them both.
Along the sides of the rod a series of runes began to glow, five of them, two at the bottom, two above that, and one on just one side above those that. The archway remained inert.
“Wow,” Sanjin breathed.
“Well, that’s something at least,” Rynn said. “It ever do that to the gnomes?”
“Not that he wrote down in his notes,” Khaska said.
“Well, what now?” Sanjin asked. Then he reached his hand out. “May I examine it?”
Khaska held it over. The wizard inspected the runes. “It’s a very ancient form of draconic,” he said. “But it’s just numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.”
What now, indeed. Casting a spell at the rod has made these five runes begin to glow. I was speaking with Thev over IM. He said he would try the Cure Mass Wounds to target both the archway and the rod.
Sanjin would recognize that the runes are an ancient form of draconic, and they stand for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively, in order starting from the tip down. It looks like there could be 10 runes on the rod, as each takes up about the same amount of space.
Best guess is that the rod absorbs spells of a certain caliber (apparently conjuration, though perhaps other kinds as well). Numbers 1-5 lit up on the rod, and Cure Mass Wounds is a level 5 spell, so perhaps each spell "fills up" the rod a little further? Like, to fill the rod up to 10, you could cast two 5-level spells at it, or five 2-level spells, etc.? I asked Eryx, and apparently "the runes remained glowing," so they didn't fade away soon after the spell was cast, suggesting that more could be done. We'd definitely need to cast another spell at the rod to see what happens- if more runes glow but in a different order, we might be looking at more of a lock combination kind of use. As is, it looks like the runes just start glowing at "1" and go up from there.
I would assume we could somehow direct the rod's newly filled power into the voidgate. So the rod serves more of a key-battery capacity, being the instrument through which one powers the voidgate (in fact, maybe that's why it's called a voidgate- it absorbs the powers from the rod). Perhaps each time a person goes through the gate, a rune deactivates. Or we need to power up the rod to 10, and all power is discharged for a single person. But I would assume the limitation lies in how juiced the rod is.
As for how to transfer energy to the gate, we should retry our previous non-magical actions in the same order as before but with the 5 runes lit up. Touch the gate with the rod, etc. If it still doesn't work, tinker with some new conjuration spells to fill up the remaining runes, then try them again. We may also want to say the name of locations just in case – I'm not sure if the book Khaska has contains ancient names for Ley Line locations, but if it does, try to say the one in the Niktean Wastes. Or say "the Niktean Wastes." Or at least think of the gate in the Niktean Wastes. You get the idea. If we can somehow choose the gate we go to, we may as well choose the one that doesn't drop us off in the swamp filled with Cult activists.
My guess is that all 10 runes must be lit up for the rod to work, and that the rod must be refilled after each teleportation. After all, the power of gate jumping isn't exactly of the level-1 variety, so it would likely take more than just one rune to be fully activated. Unless a different level of runes teleports you to a different gate, closer gates to your current location requiring fewer ruins? Food for thought to look for in experimentation. Anways, the magic of the voidgate is of the conjuration variety, so it makes sense that only conjuration spells can "power" it.
But cast another spell at it to see if my "charging rod" idea is right, perhaps a level 2 or 3 conjuration spell. If it works, we should experiment on the gate before reaching 10 filled runes first, just in case we don't need that many to power it.
Orensland's guesses and suggestions seem reasonable, so let's: try "filling" the rod with one more spell; if that works, try operating the voidgate, including by naming or imagining other places. Of course, we should only envision ones where we might actually want to go (like the Niktean Wastes; though would could test others, to see if they work without us having been there); this could prove an effective means of escape (though if we don't know how long the gate stays open and how to close it, we could just invite half of Darkcrest to the other side of the planet).
Sanjin is excited that we got it to do something. One idea he has is to try to cast a Divination spell on the gate intself -unfortunitly Sanjin does not have any prepared. I'm also a little concerned that the gates would need to be "opened" from both sides.
I feel bad for slowing down the story, but I don't have anything to add at this time.
“We speculated that it might only work with conjuration spells,” Khaska said. “Let us try another school.”
“Or an arcane spell,” Sanjin said.
“Let me try an Abjuration spell first,” Khaska replied. He took the rod back, held out his holy symbol of Teresh, and said a quick prayer, casting Shield of Faith into the rod.
The sixth symbol lit up. “Yup. 6,” said Sanjin, who was barely containing his excitement.
“There’s still room on the rod,” Rynn noted. “It looks like there’s room for about four more runes. If 7 through 10 are the same size.”
“No reason they shouldn’t be,” the wizard replied. “I don’t know if it needs to be full, though. I mean, at least we should try it on the gate with what power it currently holds. If nothing works, then try to fill it with more spells. I worry it might have to be opened from both sides, though. But start with just the magic power we have in the rod now.”
“A sensible thought,” Khaska replied. “I will follow the same procedures we just tried in order. I will endeavor to keep the gate near the Niktean Wastes in mind. We know that to be a relatively safe location.”
“Also a sensible thought,” Sanjin said.
Khaska touched the gate with the rod. In several places. Again, there was no effect.
He used the rod like a wand, pointing it at the gate.
A bolt of blue-ish white energy lanced from the tip (where the 1 and 2 runes were) to the center of the archway, where the energy swirled like water, rippling back and forth in waves from the edge of the “pool” in the center. Along the archway itself runes began to glow—identical to the ones that had been on the rod, which faded. 1 was on top in the center, then two 2s appeared on each side, then below those, 2 3s, and so on. The rippling light in the center grew brighter for a moment, the entire center lighting up brightly as the 2 6 runes lit up, and then the light abruptly vanished.
In the archway itself there was blackness for a moment as their eyes adjusted from the afterimage of the bright light, but then they could see that a portal of sorts had opened. In the archway was now a dark area, but a stone walkway moved from the base of the archway back into the darkness, with sides a few feet high. Sanjin crept forward, fascinated.
“The walkway continues for some length,” he said. “It opens up a bit past the gateway here, but can’t see the end of it. There does seem to be some low light, but I can’t find its source. It’s just kind of there.” He glanced down. “I don’t see anything below the walkway. Maybe this is a pocket dimension?”
The archway made a sound, like a small bell, and Sanjin hurriedly backed up, a little startled. The 6 runes both blinked twice, and then vanished.
“I think they are counting down,” Rynn said. “We have five more minutes, or whatever, until the gate closes.”
You have successfully opened the voidgate! The gate, once open, creates a portal and there is a walkway extending into the darkness (low-light conditions, but not with any obvious source of light) beyond the threshold. The walkway, which starts about five feet wide before expanding to about ten feet wide appears to be hanging in space. There are sides to the walkway about three and a half feet tall.
What do you all want to do now?
FYI, to make the narration flow better, I did add just a little to the last post before the gray box.
Looks like we're in business!
So I had to reread it a few times to get what exactly happened, but I think I get it now. So the space inside the voidgate does NOT lead directly to another gate as we have assumed, but rather to a pocket dimension (unless one of the other voidgates opens up to a magically lit walkway over empty space, but it seems less likely). Each rune lit up on the rod can charge the gate for approximately one minute each, meaning that we initially had 6 minutes, but after a minute of inspecting the gate only have 5 left before it closes.
How noisy was this whole spectacle? Should we worry about servants or vampires overhearing some loud explosion-like noises coming from the library? The "small bell" sound doesn't sound terribly compromising, but you never know.
As for theories, I wouldn't be surprised if the walkway leads to a central location from which one could walk up to other voidgate entrances. In that sense, one could theoretically get from any voidgate to any other voidgate, resolving our earlier fears that we'd pop out in the middle of the marshes or on Arkenos by using this gate specifically.
Naturally, the only way to test this is to walk into the gate and check it out! It sounds like something Orensland would do, but he is sadly not present. There are several dangers to this – there may be creatures/other beings inside the pocket dimension, and we don't know what happens if someone is in the pocket dimension when the gate closes (though I suspect nothing). We also don't know if the rod can open a gateway from inside the pocket dimension, though that would be a silly design flaw if you can't.
If I'm right and other voidgate entrances are inside, there are a couple ways this can play out. It could be that the entrances are oriented in such a way that it's clear where they lead to. Perhaps there's ancient draconic labelling over the gateways (would Khaska's comprehend languages spell make it so he can read them?). Maybe they're situated in a way that suggests they belong to particular ley line intersections. Or there are just a bunch of arches inside, and we have no indication as to which gates lead to where.
What Orensland would do if he were there would rush in (while shadowdancing, just in case), take a look at everything, then rush back and report before the gate closes. Heck, he'd probably be fine just running in and staying in there after the gate closes just so he can explore everything while being able to hide if need be (then they reopen the gate at some predetermined time so he can get back). However, he is not there, though if you guys want to run grab him, he'd be down. If I recall correctly, elves can see in low-light areas pretty well, so perhaps Sanjin would like to check it out? Or Khaska with a light source, since he has comprehend languages already cast, plus has some familiarity with the ley lines?
I feel like there's been a lot of back-and-forth, slow movement with figuring out these voidgates. I think one of the reasons I'm inclined to letting Orensland just run in for a while then come back out later is because he'd be the safest (detect traps, shadowdancing to avoid other creatures, etc.). Plus we'd have more information to work with so we can move it along a bit faster.
Per the email, Khaska would be fine with Orensland going into the voidgate and exploring, though he would like to 1) try tying a rope to him (in case such a simple measure would help) and 2) get a bit of hair so that it might be possible to scry if something goes wrong. If this ends up working, we may have found a better escape route than we could've imagined, though it would mean we wouldn't make it to the rendezvous outside of Darkcrest. It would almost certainly be safer than stealing a skyship from the House Lancel.
A second experiment we might want to do if Orensland comes back and reports other gates: just attempt to use the rod, charged, on another gate while our gate is open. We wouldn't want to get stuck in the void, but if we know we can get out easily, we'd have some more assurance.
I'm also fine with Orensland going in to explore. Rynn would volunteer to stand watch for a while so the shadowdancer can go in.
However, Rynn will frown at the suggestions of using the voidgate as an escape route. He admits that it would be a great trick in case things go sideways, but he doesn't want to just skip out and wonder what happened between the vampires and the cult. In his mind, stealing/destroying skyships from the cult or House Lancel is less about escaping and more about hurting our enemies while advancing our own mobility.
This voidgate is certainly important. But to the ranger, it's a distraction from what needs to be done.
Khaska thinks Rynn's point is about escape vs. leaving Darkcrest in disarray is a fair one, so he'd be alright with relegating the voidgate to a backup evacuation plan. Either way, we're definitely bringing the rod with us.
“Well, we can’t see very far into this ‘void’ area,” Khaska said. “Perhaps we should send someone in to scout it out?”
“Are we sure the gate opens to the same place every time?” asked Rynn.
“I don’t see why it wouldn’t,” Sanjin said. “But I have an idea.” He grabbed a sheet of paper from the notes on his desk, wrote on it quickly, and then walked forward and put it on the ground just inside the voidgate.
“If it opens to the same place, the paper will be there. And this time, I’ll try a spell.”
A few minutes later, after counting down, the gate shut, flaring brightly for just a moment, and then the portal vanishing. Through the voidgate they could now just see the back of the library, a foot or so behind the archway.
Sanjin took the rod, and muttered some arcane words, pointing at it. A single rune lit up.
“That answers that question,” he said. “Do you want to scout it out, Rynn?”
“I was actually thinking I could go trade with Orensland and take up watch. I think he would be the better scout, in this instance.”
Orensland was ecstatic that they had gotten the device to work. Sanjin pointed the rod at the gate, and the same sequence of events repeated themselves. The portal opened.
“That’s so neat!” the elf exclaimed. Sanjin reached into the portal and retrieved his piece of paper. “So, I’ll head in and look around. You’ll re-open it in, like, half an hour. An hour?”
“Let’s say an hour,” Sanjin said, once again peering through. “I don’t see anything except this path.”
“Sounds good to me,” the shadowdancer said, striding through the portal. He vanished into the low-light conditions of the pocket dimension using his shadowdancing, and a moment later the portal closed.
“Let us hope that was not a mistake,” Rynn said.
Orensland began to jog along the path. He glanced over the side once, but saw no floor or surface to land on. If one jumped over the side, it would be a very long fall. He wondered if the fall would even end.
He moved towards the center of the path, as far away from either side as he could get.
It gradually sloped up and curved around, and after about ten minutes of jogging he saw two other pathsways, also sloping and curving nearly in tandem, to either side of him. Up ahead, it looked like they would meet. After a few more minutes of jogging, he indeed saw them all converging on a platform similarly suspended seemingly in mid-air.
The platform itself was about 100 yards in diameter. There was a similar four-foot wall to prevent falling off, and the shadowdancer counted fifteen different paths that led up to it, including the one he had come up. He dropped a dagger on his path so he could remember which one he had used. In the center, curving more steeply up, another pathway went up from the center of the platform. Orensland glanced up and could see, way off above him, another platform, with what looked like another fifteen pathways arcing away from it, but those pathways seemed to arc up from the higher platform, while the paths down here arced down away from this platform. He figure he didn’t have time to go up to that platform, but he did have time to explore one of these alternate pathways from the one he was on. He picked the one just to the left of his and began jogging down it—noticing some writing on the wall just to the right of it. It looked like each path had a different word next to it. The names of the locations? It looked like draconic to him, so he couldn’t read any of them.
He managed to get about what he figured was halfway down this new path before he could see its end—another voidgate, sitting suspended in space.
So, two platforms, fifteen voidgates (he assumed—he hadn’t seen the other 13 from his platform) connected to each of them. Intriguing. But, he had about half an hour left. He jogged back, retrieved his dagger, and then sprinted down his original pathway, dropping his blending into the shadows. After all, he didn’t want to get trapped here, and he had seen no sign of anybody else in this “pocket dimension.”
He reached the gate, and it hadn’t opened. Not wanting to panic yet, he did want to try something. He walked forward and reached his hand out, as if to put it through the gate. Could you, theoretically (he had no desire to do this) jump through and “fall off” this series of pathways.
It looked like you could. His hand went through where he assumed the portal would open with no problem. He backed away. He didn’t have a problem with heights, but if this was literally an infinite height, he didn’t want to even contemplate getting too close. Just then, however, he was shoved backward from the voidgate by a firm force. He reached forward and, try as he might, it seemed there was something preventing him from getting closer to the gate. This time, panic did set it. Was he barred from re-entering the gate from this side?!?
But then the “1” rune lit up. Then the “2” rune. The force must be a safety mechanism to prevent ones getting a limb chopped off when the portal opened, the shadowdancer mused. The light from the voidgate swirled in the center and coalesced brightly, flashing for a moment and … then revealing the library in the Maramos mansion.
Sanjin was holding the rod, which still had a two runes atop it lit.
“So either of us can fill it up,” he said to Khaska, “and you don’t have to unload the entire set of charges into the voidgate at once. And now to our last experiments.”
Sanjin pointed the rod at the gate, and energy arced from it to the archway. The third set of runes lit up.
“And you can power it up further while it’s activated.” Sanjin then stepped through the gate into the pocket dimension and pointed at the archway from that side.
The last rune on the rod flared and the fourth set of runes on the gate, on both sides, lit up.
“And it works from inside the pocket dimension,” the wizard said.
He stepped out and pointed the rod one final time. Nothing happened.
“But you cannot draw power back into the rod from the voidgates themselves. Good to know.”
Khaska, this whole time, had been near Orensland. Near as the shadowdancer could read him, was relieved. Orensland gave his report.
“If, as we’re suspecting, this might be a transportation system that spans both moons, I bet the lower platform is for Jenoa, and the upper for Arkenos,” Orensland said, concluding his findings.
“A reasonable assumption,” Khaska said, “but I feel to be cautious here. Like Rynn said, we would not want to inadvertently start the Dark Times early!”
“While this is a great backup plan,” Rynn said, “I still favor stealing the gnome’s skyship in the chaos and getting out that way.”
“Can we fly it?” asked Sanjin.
“Greygook said he could do so with our help, even inexperienced as we are. It’s a small ship. Not as complicated as something like the Adder Invictus.”
“Well,” Khaska said, “I’m glad we have multiple ways out of the city if need be. The next few days will be harrowing.”
Orensland and Sanjin grinned and looked at each other. Khaska almost sighed. Weren’t elves supposed to be serious and contemplative?
Khaska took Feral from his quarters and escorted her out into the city to meet with one of the bringers, a human named Amber Lackman, who had been working for an enchanter’s shop as a merchant.
“Feral, this is Miss Lackman, and she’ll be taking you to our rendezvous point near the East Gnaarzaan river.”
“And that’s where you will meet me?” the former slave asked? Khaska could tell she was deeply troubled. He nodded affirmatively.
“I wish the circumstances were such that I could accompany you, but we press forward with our plans to to intervene in the meeting two days hence. I know you are not very familiar with our gods as of yet,” (the cleric had told her of many of them, but had not formally introduced her to many of their religious rites and prayers) “but if you wish to say a prayer for us, I hope the Gods would listen to you.” He pointed to her backpack, where she had the plans for the printing press. “Keep those safe, too. The vampires know not what they have there. I have high hopes for the future of this device.” Then he straightened. “May your feet never know splitting from the road, Feral.” He turned to the Bringer. “Keep her safe, Miss Lackman.”
“Good luck,” the human said. “I’ll see you at the rendezvous. If not there, then on to Garth Calad.”
“May the gods guide your steps,” he intoned. With that, the two women left on their way out of the city. He felt a pang of regret. Such little time, he felt, he had spent with Feral. The Maha’i woman had never, he felt, fully warmed up to him. Always stand-offish and demure. He hoped her future allowed her to overcome the years of trauma from her slavery, but he suspected it would be a long road.
But, his priority right now was clear. The cult would be arriving soon, and the opportunity to strike a blow against many of their enemies was too good to pass up. He hoped the next day would bring justice to many who had wrought such evil in the world—to Feral, and to many others.
Every member of the party slept uneasy that night, and spent the day resting and preparing as best they could. Rynn, having worn clothes provided by the Maramos for now many weeks, put on his regular clothes, long since washed, the boots replaced (and broken in), and thought of being once again on the open road. However, he mused, “the open road” might be a skyship journey once again, or a trip through the pocket dimension. Sanjin looked over his list one more time. If they did decide to go through the voidgate, he was prepared to hurriedly loot the Maramos library. The possibility of taking many of their magic texts was—enticing. Khaska spent the day in his chambers, praying and meditating, drawing strength from the communion with Teresh. Orensland made sure he was completely packed and ready to go at a moment’s notice, and then spent the day once again out in the city.
That evening, the group retired to their beds after taking an early supper. They wanted to remain hidden in case Amara was part of the entourage of the cult’s leadership. Orensland snuck out and went to his pre-selected spot, a place on the roof of the stables which gave him plenty of shade to blend in with the shadows and gave him a good view of most of the Maramos compound.
He only waited for a few hours when he saw the ship descending slowly in the distance. It was sunrise twilight, and so the Maramos couple couldn’t greet their allies in person, but Master Greymantle and Captain Gendry both were on hand. The skyship descended and dropped an anchor and several ropes, ropes that allowed those on the ground to more easily guide it down. It finally rested, tied off in several places to the various buildings so it could not drift into one of them, hovering about fifteen feet above the ground. A rope ladder dropped down and Orensland was able to get a good look at the cult members leadership as they all came down.
First was the honor guard. There were ten dragon-men dressed in plate, all with shields and with longswords at their side. Each shield held the same draconic symbol for the cult that the party had seen several times since first encountering it in Laishtek. But after these ten, standing at rigid attention, came the leadership. Orensland perked up.
The first to descend was a humanoid-looking dragon person—not like the dragon men. He seemed to be slight of build, and his clothing and the slender sword at his side were definitely of elven design—he looked somewhat like an elf to the shadowdancer’s eyes, albeit one with black scales and horns jutting forward. He didn’t actually use the rope ladder—the black cloak he was wearing turned out to be wings.
Next came a human woman with green hair, and green scales going up and down her arms. Her eyes seemed slightly yellowish. He assumed this was Gulnith, and the shadowdancer’s knuckles turned white on his sword hilt. He hadn’t known Fan personally, but he was incensed about what had happened to her.
The third and final member of the cult’s leadership was dressed to the nines in plate armor, a wicked looking mace strapped to his? her? back. This figure wore a mask split into five colors at different points, and emblazoned on the chestplate—and on the cloak, Orensland could see as this figure turned—was the symbol of a five-headed dragon, Tiamat.
The arrivals were greeted by Lord and Lady Maramos at the door to the main mansion, and they were all brought inside, except for four of the dragon-men guard who took up positions around the skyship. Orensland was relieved that the cult leadership were not put up in Master Greymantle’s “house,” where the chance of running into them would obviously be greater. He was further relieved, after watching the Adder Invictus for about half an hour, that Amara was not among the cult’s entourage. He returned to give his report to the others, sneaking back into their accomodations with ease.
You now know basically everything about the voidgate system you can know without further, more detailed exploration of the pocket dimension, which it seemed none of you wanted to do under the gun in Darkcrest.
The cult’s leadership has arrived. From Orensland’s descriptions, it appears the first two are dragon disciples—the prestige class (people like Amara who, over time, take on the traits of a draconic ancestor). The third is likely, according to Khaska, a cleric of Tiamat, the evil dragon goddess. Sanjin is very confused by Orensland’s description of the honor guard. They seem to be a different race entirely—something different from dragon disciples.
The formal meeting will be tomorrow morning. Aside from Gulnith, nobody else here should recognize you, and even she doesn’t know Sanjin or Orensland, through the meta-gaming luck of missions and switching characters.
What’s the plan? From what you all posted before, there were several options discussed:
1. Burn down the Adder Invictus.
2. Steal the gnomes' ship.
3. Orensland would attend the meeting.
4. Steal the skyship crystals from the Adder Invictus.
I'd like to know which of them you're still interested in, and in what conditions. (BlackWolf, for example, wanted to go get the gnomes' ship during the fighting. Crosis suggested setting fire to the Adder Invictus some time after the meeting, if no fighting broke out during it.)
Also, here's what you now know about the voidgate system.
(OOC: This is very exciting! Ahh!) Hearing that the pathways were labeled makes Khaska want to take a look himself in the pocket dimension with Comprehend Languages cast on himself. He doesn't know the next time he'll be able to do research, so he'd want to go inside and make observations, writing down a guide to the paths on both the Jenoa and Arkenos platforms (that is, any labels on the paths and other text he finds). (He'd probably write the notes down in Maha'i in case they're seen by someone else, copying them in Common once the party is safe.) He'd just open the gate one minute, enter, make his observations, and then open it again from the inside when he's done. Or, since we don't want Khaska opening the voidgate when a vampire's hanging out in the library, have Sanjin stand guard in the library and open the gate after a particular interval, so that Khaska exits during a safe period when no one's around. Either way, Khaska will bring along his Hat of Disguise in case he needs to hide or otherwise occlude himself in the void or upon exiting.
Here's an idea, too: if the notes about the voidgates are correct, we could literally travel to the Fortress of Vigilance in 30 minutes, say hi to the Knights of the Silver Dragons, and inform them of the impending chaos in Darkcrest, perhaps recruiting a few Knights to our aid (and perhaps offering them a chance to get at the leadership of the Cult of Skyrnyn and several vampires as well). We haven't had any direct dealings with the Fortress, but IIRC, the Knights in Hammerdine may have made a good report about us. What do folks think of that?
To present matters: does Khaska know anything about this mysterious new reptilian race?
Would we prefer setting fire to the Adder Invictus or stealing the crystals? Stealing the crystals could be more stealthy, depending on how well-guarded the ship is, and would incapacitate it just as well, leaving it open to fire (or restoration of the crystals) later. It would be interesting for Orensland to attend the meeting, too, and it's likely he'd learn things there we'd be hard-pressed to learn otherwise (and which we could then report to the Bringers).
Addendum: is there anything we'd want to stash in the voidgate system for (likely) safekeeping? Could we make, for instance, copies of the printing press plans and put them there, or other documents?
I forgot to mention that Orensland's time in the pocket dimension was something he and I did over Skype. We just talked it through.
Khaska does have enough time to explore the pocket dimension, and is able to do so with no interference. Lady Isabelle is the only vampire you've ever seen in the library, and she's busy preparing for the arrival of the cult leadership. Unfortunately, all of the "labels" appear to be proper names. Probably cities or sites of interest that are long since irrelevant. You have no idea what any of them mean or where they lead to. One label on the upper platform does correspond to a label on the lower platform. Think of a draconic equivalent of yin and yang—two words that obviously pair together, but put into proper names. Like The City of Yin paired with Yangville.
You could stash anything you wanted to in the pocket dimension. (I actually assumed Sanjin would want to do so with the wizard spellbooks from the library.) When Khaska mentions that possibility, Orensland realizes it's basically the best way to steal anything in Darkcrest! The cleric admonishes the shadowdancer. (I really like all your characters.)
Nobody knows anything about this mysterious new draconic race.
The skyship is literally hovering in the air in the Maramos courtyard. None of you know a great deal about skyship mechanics, but you obviously know that if you remove the skyship crystals, it would crash to the ground bit by bit as you removed the crystals (or just crash all at once if you managed to grab them all simultaneously).
THAT old, eh? Of course, Khaska marks down which of the walkways is present-day Darkcrest, and looks forward to the opportunity to explore the void once more. If it does link Jenoa and Arkenos… perhaps there was a time before Dark Times, and perhaps there could be healing beyond unifying Gtarrei and Jevereshk.
Rynn thinks the idea of pulling reinforcements through the Voidgate is a fantastic idea… but probably not one we have time for. There are so many questions:
Can we find the right voidgate for the Fortress of Vigilance?
Is the voidgate there still or has it been destroyed?
Do we have enough spell slots for this?
Will the Knights listen to somebody who showed up magically circumventing their defenses?
Will the Knights believe us and be willing to fight?
Could they get ready in time?
How would we manage the logistics of getting very many Knights through the gates?
How long would they need to prepare?
Could they make it in time to make a difference in the current scenario?
If somebody (Khaska, maybe?) wants to take the chance, Rynn is open to supporting it. But personally, the ranger wants to stay in Darkcrest to see how things turn out and be in position to turn things the way he sees fit.
He also really likes the idea of stealing the skyship crystals from the Adder Invictus. That would be great payback, since it was the crystals that drew things in in the first place. It could start stealthy, but then the ship crashing down would give it away. Even if we could only grab a couple crystals, that might be a major blow.
Plus fire. I seriously want to burn that ship down.
So, what will Rynn do? He will try to take up a position where he can see the Adder Invictus and be ready to assist in stealing crystals and lighting the ship on fire. What good positions are there for this type of thing? Is there a building or wall where Rynn would be a little above the ship?
Rynn wants to wait for Lady Drakh to act first. We didn't give her perfect intel, but hopefully the arrival of the skyship has put her into motion. When she attacks, we can cause mayhem without drawing as much attention. But if she doesn't act soon enough, he wants to be ready to firebomb the ship.
Once the battle is going on and we've hurt the cult via the Adder Invictus, then Rynn thinks we should head to Lady Drakh's place to try to liberate the Glittersail gnomes' ship.'
As for Orensland attending the cult meeting, that's up to him, I think. I could see that be really beneficial (knowledge about what's going on in their meeting and whatnot) but it's also risky. Plus without him, we might not get a chance to steal any crystals.
I'm. So. Pumped.
Ok, so first things first: Orensland would like to attend the meeting. We can learn much, and while it was technically an invitation, he's not sure how he could stay in character while declining the opportunity to meet cult leaders in the flesh. Also, some members of our party have technically met Gulnith – so while Amara is not present, we still have a dangerous enemy that could recognize a Rynn or Khaska. Sanjin and Orensland are the only two she hasn't met, but Khaska is a definite red flag. He kinda stands out. They should lay low while the Cult leaders are up and about.
As for sabotaging ships and the like, Orensland agrees that we should wait for Lady Drakh to make her move first. When that happens, Orensland would do the following in order of importance:
1. Sabotage the Cult's transportation system. While stealing the crystals seemed like a great idea at first, it occurs to me that Orensland's ability to shadowdance is not really a secret. If they mystically vanish, and no intruder can be discovered, the number of suspects is… pretty low. So fire seems the better option. Orensland is still happy to do the burning, but perhaps Rynn should be on hand to act should the attack occur during the meeting.
2. Get the Glittersail gnomes' ship. It seems that's the chosen Plan A for escaping.
3. Set a couple well-placed fires in the House of Lancel too. Why not, right? I doubt many heavy hitters will be standing guard there.
This will likely require Alchemist's fire, so Orensland would purchase several of those vials in advance. He likely already has, given that fire has been discussed at length several times, but I just thought I'd clarify that it's on the shopping list.
Also, a proposal. Khaska and Rynn seem fine leaving the voidgate and finding another elsewhere, but Orensland would admit he'd prefer to escape via the voidgates himself. We'd need to explore their exit points at some point, and now seems as good a time as any. Plus we could wind up fairly close to Garth Calad if there's a voidgate near there, who knows. Also, it's the perfect escape route for plundering the library. We literally just need to set the books on the other side of the gate, and voila! Stolen. We could steal… many, many things that way. Oh my gosh, Orensland is excited. Perhaps, if we don't mind splitting up the party, Rynn and Khaska escape through conventional means while Sanjin and Orensland escape through the voidgate? Then we agree to meet up somewhere? (or, since we could technically have made these plans in advance, we try to explore possible exit points in advance (like, the night before the cult arrives) so we have a better idea on where we want to meet up? Orensland is very, very down for exploring the Jenoa gates. The possibilities are endless.)
And lastly, I think there's something we all need to agree on before it becomes an issue. How much of a secret are we keeping the voidgates? Obviously we don't want them to be public knowledge, and we DEFINITELY don't want our enemies to know about them, but telling high-ranking officials that we trust has come up a time or two. The question is… who do we trust with something this significant?
We have a couple options so far as that goes. We could essentially hand the key over to the Sir Reitman, a good man we trust, so he can use it to infiltrate… anything anywhere. Sending troops or spies directly into the swamp, that kind of thing. That would certainly be interesting. However, something about that option feels off to me. It has become clear that there is much on this moon that is not as straightforward as all our characters were raised to believe. For example, it appears there are still metallic dragons about, and it wouldn't surprise me that (free) colored dragons are as well (remember that shrine that was destroyed?). Then there's Khaska's childhood hero actually having been a blackguard, some secret Cult plan we still know nothing about… you get the idea. Who is truly trustworthy when we've come across so many curveballs that make the "simple" option much more complicated? Sir Reitman and even the Knights in general are just so very unaware of the reality of the moon they live on. And if that's true, how much is true about our knowledge of Arkenos? Is it really as horrible of a place as we have thought of it? Are the races on that moon as bloodthirsty as legend depicts? 1000 years is a long time for truth to be twisted so far out of context that the legends have nothing to do with reality. Would Reitman want to use the information to preemptively strike Arkenos without fully understanding the condition of those he is attacking? Can we trust him to be open to the possibility that the condition on either or both moons are not as straightforward as he has been lead to believe? So, those are risks carried with the first option.
Or we could be a secret band of heroes teleporting across both moons saving the world. …Yeah, that sounds like way more fun to me. Perhaps we could drop enough hints with someone like Reitman for them to know we can complete missions nobody else can complete, but never fully disclosing the voidgate system. That way we'd get information and tasks that could be completed, but not actually give up the gates to somebody else.
Orensland's point about how little we might know is well taken. While Khaska would love to burst into the Fortress of Vigilance with the use of long-forgotten magic —that would be a legendary appearance!— it would be very easy for an unscrupulous, powerhungry, or otherwise untrustworthy Knight to wrench the keyrod from him and use it for his or her own ends. Further, it would potentially reveal knowledge of the voidgates to more people than have known about them in millennia, triggering a rush for knowledge and control of the remaining voidgates and making the party a target. It's best they remain a secret for now — we should be reluctant to reveal even to the remaining Glittersail brother that we figured out how to operate the voidgate in House Maramos.
That said, Khaska feels few compunctions about hiding desired volumes from the Maramos library in the voidgate. Doing so could, after all, save them from destruction, preserving unique knowledge — including some that might provide a strategic benefit in conflicts to come. He'd advise against pilfering things from anyone else, though, given what happened to Orensland's first mark.
He'd also be alright with exploring the Jenoa voidgates, but a 30-minute roundtrip to each gate from the central platform would mean that it would take 7 hours to explore all 14 — and that's if everything goes right, and there's no people or monsters or collapsed rocks or ocean waiting on the other sides of the gates.
An escape through the voidgates could be great. We could even hide out in the void if the battle outside gets too intense, emerging after a day or two; Khaska could create food and water, if needed (assuming magic works normally in the void!). But Khaska also feels he has a duty to Feral, who by now is outside the city. If we do plot an escape through the voidgate, he'd want to return at least a while to make sure she's alright. Again, it's best if she escapes with the Bringers; a Gtarrish-looking Maha'i woman appearing in the middle of the Niktean Wastes, for instance, would arouse suspicions, and who knows what she would do with the knowledge of the voidgates?
As far as the meeting, Khaska thinks it could be worth it for Orensland to attend, but we should also consider that the Maramos might mention the other members of our party, or refer to them to Orensland. In any case, we should be ready to make a quick escape. Is there an instantaneous signal that Orensland could send the moment matters go south?
Sanjin is of course going to smuggle any intresing things from the library into the portal. He is opposed to letting anyone but us have the key to the gates.
Sanjin was most intrigued with his description of the honor guard. “It sounds like an entirely new species!” he nearly squealed. “How fascinating! I’ll have to go take a look.”
“Is that wise?” asked Khaska.
“If I’m headed into the city for some reason or other, no reason not to take a look as I go.”
“Are you headed into the city?”
“Yes! So I can get a better look at these draconic humanoids!”
Khaska sighed. “Be careful!”
“Of course.” Then the wizard’s face lit up some more. “If one of them dies in the fighting, can I dissect it?”
“We’ll cover that bridge when we come to it,” Khaska said.
“Cross that bridge,” Orensland corrected. “So, I’ll attend the meeting tomorrow morning, and you’ll all be prepared to act when Lady Drakh makes her move?”
“That seems about it,” Rynn said. “We’ve done our planning, our recon, sown some bad information, smuggled Feral out, and now we just need to let events unfold and adjust on the fly.”
“I will say many prayers to Teresh tonight,” Khaska said. “Tomorrow will be a momentous day.”
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Surfactants: Colloid Surfactants for Emulsion Stabilization
Revision as of 20:11, 25 November 2012 by Gonzalez (Talk | contribs) (New page: Entry by Grant Gonzalez, 9 Nov 2012 = Foams = '''Keywords''': Thin Films, Disjoining Forces, Foams, Surfactants '''Authors''': Arnaud Saint-James, Douglas J. Durian, David A. Weitz == ...)
Entry by Grant Gonzalez, 9 Nov 2012
1 Foams
1.1.1 Disjoining Forces
1.1.2 Foam Structures
1.1.3 Possible Applications
1.2 Discussion
Keywords: Thin Films, Disjoining Forces, Foams, Surfactants
Authors: Arnaud Saint-James, Douglas J. Durian, David A. Weitz
This paper examines the structures of foams, a dispersion of gas within a smaller volume of liquid. Thin films form the interfaces between the gas and liquid faces and are stabilized by surfactants.
Photograph illustrating the microstructure of the foam that still persists 2 h after shaking an aqueous solution containing 5% sodium dodecylsulfate. The bubble shapes are more polyhedral near the top, where the foam is dry, and more spherical near the bottom, where the foam is wet. The average bubble size is about 2 mm. (Photo taken from Foams paper)
Bubbles are dispersed such that liquid thin films are surrounded by gas on both sides, forming a gas-liquid-gas interface. Neighboring bubble surfaces in a foam interact through a variety of forces that depend on the composition and thickness of liquid between them, and on the physical chemistry of their liquid–vapor interfaces. As a result, various interactions affect the stability of thin films. Foam stability therefore is primarily determined by the repulsion of bubble-bubble surfaces, allowing for a layer of liquid to be dispersed between two neighboring bubbles as short distances. Otherwise, the interaction terms will combine and form one bubble. As a result, foams can be considered (while determining stability)as vapor–liquid–vapor film structures formed between neighboring bubbles while considering the interface essentially flat.
Disjoining Forces
A static pressure difference can be imposed between gass-liquid-glass interfaces by several means including gravity. Therefore, the equilibrium film thickness depends on the imposed pressure difference and the effective interface potential. A disjoining pressire p arises when the film thickness does not minimize the potential energy as a function of length, there arises a disjoining pressure p. This disjoining pressure drives the system toward mechanical equilibrium. In response to a hydrostatic pressure, the film thickness thus adjusts itself so that the disjoining pressure balances the applied pressure and mechanical equilibrium is restored.
This paper predicts the disjoining pressure versus film thickness using DLVO theory for an aqueous film containing 1 mM of 1:1 electrolyte. The equilibrium thickness of a free film occurs when the effective interface potential is at a local minimum or when the disjoining pressure vanishes with a negative slope. Similar considerations are important for establishing the distribution of liquid around several bubbles packed together in a foam, and hence the bubble shapes. As presented in this paper, a thin-film balance apparatus allows the creation and study of a single thin film, held on a horizontal support, and at any applied pressure. This method therefore provides a means to measure the disjoining pressures vs film thickness.
Effective interface potential (left) and corresponding disjoining pressure (right) vs film thickness as predicted by DLVO theory for an aqueous soap film containing 1 m M of 1:1 electrolyte. (Graph taken from Foams paper)
The paper then continues to discuss that the interaction between neighboring bubble surfaces in a thin flat film may not be accurately described by the simplest DLVO theory. However, their model nevertheless captures the forces at work. Specifically the large energy barrier, which prevents two films approaching too closely. This energy barrier may arise from electrostatic repulsion or it may arise from other interactions. However, its role is primarily to prevent two films from approaching sufficiently close that they fall into the deep attractive well. Therefore, it acts to stablize the foam. The degree to which the two films are forced together by external forces determines how high up the energy barrier they are forced; this is in turn parameterized by the disjoining pressure. Should the repulsive barrier be overcome, the films fall into the attractive minimum, whereupon they coalesce. Thus this repulsive barrier provides the essential stabilization of the foam.
Foam Structures
Foams depending on the concentration of liquid to vapor form various structures, depending on the "wetness" of the system. In very wet foams, a forth is formed as excess air bubbles rise to the surface of the liquid and pop. In wet foams, spherical bubbles are formed due to sufficiently strong repulsive interactions; as bubbles rise to the surface, they pack together. In dry foams, polyhedral bubbles result from the severe distortion of spherical bubbles resulting from the lack of liquid in the system.
Possible Applications
Foams have potential for application in many roles:
Oil Recovery
This paper explains the formation of foams and how their stability can be examined by treating the interactions of the gas-liquid-gas interfaces as thin films. The paper is a great analysis of a real world system with possible applications. Furthermore, the paper links many topics this course discuses such as stability of thin films and surfactants.
Saint-James, A., Durian, D. J., Weitz, D. A. and Updated by Staff 2012. Foams. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 1–24.
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International Series, 2000 Australia in South Africa ODI Series, 1999/00 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2000 Zimbabwe in England Test Series, 2000 Asia Cup, 2000 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000 The Wisden Trophy, 2000 Singer Triangular Series, 2000 NatWest Series, 2000 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000 South Africa in Australia ODI Series, 2000 Godrej Singapore Challenge, 2000 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2000/01 New Zealand in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2000/01 ICC KnockOut, 2000/01 Coca-Cola Champions Trophy, 2000/01 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 2000/01 England in Pakistan ODI Series, 2000/01 India in Bangladesh Test Match, 2000/01 England in Pakistan Test Series, 2000/01 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in India Test Series, 2000/01 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in India ODI Series, 2000/01 Sri Lanka in South Africa ODI Series, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in New Zealand Test Match, 2000/01 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test 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Series, 2003/04 England in West Indies ODI Series, 2003/04 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2004 Bangladesh in West Indies ODI Series, 2004 New Zealand in England Test Series, 2004 Australia in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004 Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series, 2004 NatWest Series, 2004 Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 2004 Asia Cup, 2004 The Wisden Trophy, 2004 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2004 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2004 Videocon Cup, 2004 NatWest Challenge, 2004 NatWest International, 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, 2004 Paktel Cup, 2004/05 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2004/05 New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 2004/05 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 BCCI Platinum Jubilee Match, 2004/05 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2004/05 South Africa in India Test Series, 2004/05 England in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2004/05 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2004/05 India in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 2004/05 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2004/05 India in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 World Cricket Tsunami Appeal, 2004/05 VB Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2004/05 England in South Africa ODI Series, 2004/05 Australia in New Zealand T20I Match, 2004/05 Australia in New Zealand ODI Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in South Africa Test Series, 2004/05 Pakistan in India Test Series, 2004/05 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2004/05 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2005 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2004/05 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 2004/05 South Africa in West Indies ODI Series, 2005 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2005 Bangladesh in England Test Series, 2005 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2005 Australia in England T20I Match, 2005 NatWest Series, 2005 NatWest Challenge, 2005 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test 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England], 2006 Pakistan in Scotland ODI Match, 2006 Sri Lanka in Netherlands ODI Series, 2006 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2006 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2006 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2006 European Championship Division One, 2006 Kenya in Canada ODI Series, 2006 Bangladesh in Kenya ODI Series, 2006 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2006 Bermuda in Canada ODI Series, 2006 ICC World Cricket League Americas Region Division One, 2006 Pakistan in England T20I Match, 2006 NatWest Series [Pakistan in England], 2006 DLF Cup, 2006/07 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2006/07 ICC Champions Trophy, 2006/07 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 2006/07 Bermuda in Kenya ODI Series, 2006/07 India in South Africa ODI Series, 2006/07 The Ashes, 2006/07 ICC Tri-Series (in South Africa), 2006/07 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh T20I Match, 2006/07 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2006/07 India in South Africa T20I Match, 2006/07 West Indies in Pakistan ODI Series, 2006/07 Sri Lanka in 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Future Cup, 2007 West Indies in England T20I Series, 2007 NatWest Series [West Indies in England], 2007 Netherlands in Canada ODI Series, 2007 Quadrangular Series (Ireland), 2007 Pataudi Trophy, 2007 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007 India in Scotland ODI Match, 2007 Bermuda in Netherlands ODI Series, 2007 NatWest Series [India in England], 2007 South Africa in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2007 Twenty20 Quadrangular (in Kenya), 2007/08 ICC World Twenty20, 2007/08 Australia in India ODI Series, 2007/08 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2007/08 South Africa in Pakistan Test Series, 2007/08 Canada in Kenya ODI Series, 2007/08 South Africa in Pakistan ODI Series, 2007/08 Australia in India T20I Match, 2007/08 Bermuda in Kenya ODI Series, 2007/08 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2007/08 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, 2007/08 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2007/08 Pakistan in India Test Series, 2007/08 New Zealand in South Africa T20I Match, 2007/08 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 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in Pakistan T20I Match, 2007/08 New Zealand in England Test Series, 2008 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2008 Kitply Cup, 2008 New Zealand in England T20I Match, 2008 NatWest Series [New Zealand in England], 2008 Australia in West Indies T20I Match, 2008 Asia Cup, 2008 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 2008 Bermuda in Canada ODI Series, 2008 Associates Tri-Series (in Scotland), 2008 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2008 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2008 European Championship Division One, 2008 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2008 Bermuda in Netherlands ODI Series, 2008 Kenya in Scotland ODI Series, 2008 England in Scotland ODI Match, 2008 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2008 Scotiabank Series, 2008 Kenya in Netherlands ODI Match, 2008 NatWest Series [South Africa in England], 2008 Kenya in Ireland ODI Series, 2008 Bangladesh in Australia ODI Series, 2008 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2008/09 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2008/09 T20 Canada, 2008/09 Tri-Nation Tournament in Kenya, 2008/09 New 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T20I Match, 2009/10 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2009/10 Zimbabwe in West Indies ODI Series, 2009/10 England in Bangladesh Test Series, 2009/10 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2009/10 Canada in West Indies ODI Match, 2009/10 Ireland in West Indies ODI Match, 2009/10 ICC World Twenty20, 2010 South Africa in West Indies T20I Series, 2010 South Africa in West Indies ODI Series, 2010 New Zealand v Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2010 Bangladesh in England Test Series, 2010 Zimbabwe Triangular Series, 2010 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2010 India in Zimbabwe T20I Series, 2010 Asia Cup, 2010 Scotland in Netherlands ODI Match, 2010 Australia in Ireland ODI Match, 2010 England in Scotland ODI Match, 2010 NatWest Series [Australia in England], 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division One, 2010 MCC Spirit of Cricket T20I Series, 2010 NatWest Series [Bangladesh in England], 2010 MCC Spirit of Cricket Test Series, 2010 Bangladesh in Ireland ODI Series, 2010 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2010 Bangladesh v Netherlands ODI Match, 2010 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2010 Sri Lanka Triangular Series, 2010 Afghanistan in Scotland ODI Series, 2010 Netherlands in Ireland ODI Series, 2010 Pakistan in England T20I Series, 2010 Ireland in Canada ODI Series, 2010 NatWest Series [Pakistan in England], 2010 Ireland in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2010/11 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2010/11 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2010/11 Afghanistan in Kenya ODI Series, 2010/11 Zimbabwe in South Africa T20I Series, 2010/11 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2010/11 Australia in India ODI Series, 2010/11 Pakistan v South Africa T20I Series, 2010/11 Pakistan v South Africa ODI Series, 2010/11 Sri Lanka in Australia T20I Match, 2010/11 Sri Lanka in Australia ODI Series, 2010/11 New Zealand in India Test Series, 2010/11 Pakistan v South Africa Test Series, 2010/11 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2010/11 The Ashes, 2010/11 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 2010/11 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2010/11 India in South Africa Test Series, 2010/11 Pakistan in New Zealand T20I Series, 2010/11 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2010/11 India in South Africa T20I Match, 2010/11 England in Australia T20I Series, 2010/11 India in South Africa ODI Series, 2010/11 England in Australia ODI Series, 2010/11 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 2010/11 West Indies in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2010/11 ICC Cricket World Cup, 2010/11 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, 2010/11 Australia in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2011 Pakistan in West Indies T20I Match, 2011 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2011 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2011 Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2011 Pakistan in Ireland ODI Series, 2011 ICC World Cricket League Championship, 2011-2013/14 India in West Indies T20I Match, 2011 India in West Indies ODI Series, 2011 India in West Indies Test Series, 2011 Sri Lanka in England T20I Match, 2011 NatWest Series [Sri Lanka in England], 2011 Tri-Nation Tournament in Scotland, 2011 Pataudi Trophy, 2011 Bangladesh 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World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2011/12 Australia in West Indies ODI Series, 2011/12 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2011/12 Australia in West Indies T20I Series, 2011/12 India in South Africa T20I Match, 2011/12 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2011/12 The Wisden Trophy, 2012 Pakistan in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2012 Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2012 NatWest Series [West Indies in England], 2012 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012 Australia in Ireland ODI Match, 2012 West Indies in England T20I Match, 2012 NatWest Series [Australia in England], 2012 New Zealand v West Indies T20I Series, 2012 New Zealand in West Indies ODI Series, 2012 Bangladesh in Ireland T20I Series, 2012 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2012 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2012 Bangladesh v Scotland T20I Match, 2012 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 2012 Bangladesh in Netherlands T20I Series, 2012 India in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2012 New Zealand in India Test Series, 2012 NatWest Series [South Africa in England], 2012 Afghanistan v Australia ODI Match, 2012 Pakistan v Australia ODI Series, 2012 Pakistan v Australia T20I Series, 2012 South Africa in England T20I Series, 2012 New Zealand in India T20I Series, 2012 ICC World Twenty20, 2012/13 New Zealand in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2012/13 New Zealand in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2012/13 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2012/13 West Indies in Bangladesh Test Series, 2012/13 England in India Test Series, 2012/13 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012/13 West Indies in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2012/13 West Indies in Bangladesh T20I Match, 2012/13 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, 2012/13 England in India T20I Series, 2012/13 New Zealand in South Africa T20I Series, 2012/13 Pakistan in India T20I Series, 2012/13 Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2012/13 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2012/13 England in India ODI Series, 2012/13 Sri Lanka in Australia ODI Series, 2012/13 New Zealand in South Africa ODI Series, 2012/13 Sri Lanka in Australia T20I Series, 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Series, 2013 Pakistan in Ireland ODI Series, 2013 NatWest Series [New Zealand in England], 2013 Netherlands v South Africa ODI Match, 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, 2013 New Zealand in England T20I Series, 2013 West Indies Tri-Nation Series, 2013 Kenya in Scotland T20I Series, 2013 The Ashes, 2013 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2013 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2013 India in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2013 Pakistan in West Indies T20I Series, 2013 South Africa in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2013 Pakistan in Zimbabwe T20I Series, 2013 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2013 Australia in England T20I Series, 2013 Australia in Scotland ODI Match, 2013 RSA Challenge, 2013 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2013 NatWest Series [Australia in England], 2013 Afghanistan v Kenya T20I Series, 2013/14 New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2013/14 India v Australia T20I Match, 2013/14 Australia in India ODI Series, 2013/14 Pakistan v South Africa Test Series, 2013/14 New Zealand in Bangladesh ODI 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Lanka in Bangladesh Test Series, 2013/14 England in Australia T20I Series, 2013/14 India in New Zealand Test Series, 2013/14 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2013/14 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh T20I Series, 2013/14 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2013/14 Ireland in West Indies T20I Series, 2013/14 Ireland in West Indies ODI Match, 2013/14 Asia Cup, 2013/14 England in West Indies ODI Series, 2013/14 England in West Indies T20I Series, 2013/14 Australia in South Africa T20I Series, 2013/14 World T20, 2013/14 Asian Cricket Council Premier League, 2014 Sri Lanka in Ireland ODI Series, 2014 England in Scotland ODI Match, 2014 Sri Lanka in England T20I Match, 2014 Sri Lanka in England ODI Series, 2014 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 2014 Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2014 India in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2014 New Zealand in West Indies T20I Series, 2014 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2014 Pataudi Trophy, 2014 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2014 Afghanistan in 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in South Africa ODI Series, 2016/17 Pakistan v West Indies ODI Series, 2016/17 England in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2016/17 Pakistan v West Indies Test Series, 2016/17 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 2016/17 England in Bangladesh Test Series, 2016/17 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2016/17 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2016/17 Papua New Guinea in Hong Kong ODI Series, 2016/17 England in India Test Series, 2016/17 Zimbabwe Tri-Nation Series, 2016/17 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2016/17 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy [New Zealand in Australia], 2016/17 Afghanistan in United Arab Emirates T20I Series, 2016/17 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 2016/17 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series, 2016/17 Bangladesh in New Zealand ODI Series, 2016/17 Bangladesh in New Zealand T20I Series, 2016/17 Bangladesh in New Zealand Test Series, 2016/17 Pakistan in Australia ODI Series, 2016/17 Desert T20 Challenge, 2016/17 England in India ODI Series, 2016/17 Sri Lanka in South Africa T20I Series, 2016/17 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series, 2016/17 England in India T20I Series, 2016/17 Sri Lanka in South Africa ODI Series, 2016/17 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy [Australia in New Zealand], 2016/17 Bangladesh in India Test Match, 2016/17 Afghanistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2016/17 Sri Lanka in Australia T20I Series, 2016/17 South Africa in New Zealand T20I Match, 2016/17 South Africa in New Zealand ODI Series, 2016/17 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2016/17 Ireland in United Arab Emirates ODI Series, 2016/17 England in West Indies ODI Series, 2016/17 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2016/17 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 2016/17 Afghanistan v Ireland T20I Series, 2016/17 Papua New Guinea in United Arab Emirates T20I Series, 2017 Afghanistan v Ireland ODI Series, 2016/17 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2016/17 Pakistan in West Indies T20I Series, 2017 Papua New Guinea in United Arab Emirates ODI Series, 2017 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2016/17 Pakistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2017 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2017 Ireland in England ODI Series, 2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series, 2017 South Africa in England ODI Series, 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, 2017 Afghanistan in West Indies T20I Series, 2017 Afghanistan in West Indies ODI Series, 2017 Zimbabwe in Scotland ODI Series, 2017 South Africa in England T20I Series, 2017 India in West Indies ODI Series, 2017 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2017 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2017 India in West Indies T20I Match, 2017 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka Test Match, 2017 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2017 The Wisden Trophy, 2017 India in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2017 Australia in Bangladesh Test Series, 2017 India in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2017 Independence Cup, 2017/18 West Indies in England T20I Match, 2017 Australia in India ODI Series, 2017/18 West Indies in England ODI Series, 2017 Bangladesh in South Africa Test Series, 2017/18 Pakistan v Sri Lanka Test Series, 2017/18 Australia in India T20I Series, 2017/18 Pakistan v Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2017/18 Bangladesh in South Africa ODI Series, 2017/18 West Indies in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2017/18 New Zealand in India ODI Series, 2017/18 Bangladesh in South Africa T20I Series, 2017/18 Pakistan v Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2017/18 New Zealand in India T20I Series, 2017/18 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2017/18 The Ashes, 2017/18 Papua New Guinea v Scotland ODI Series, 2017/18 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 2017/18 Afghanistan v Ireland ODI Series, 2017/18 Sri Lanka in India ODI Series, 2017/18 West Indies in New Zealand ODI Series, 2017/18 Sri Lanka in India T20I Series, 2017/18 Zimbabwe in South Africa Test Match, 2017/18 West Indies in New Zealand T20I Series, 2017/18 Freedom Trophy, 2017/18 Pakistan in New Zealand ODI Series, 2017/18 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series, 2017/18 England in Australia ODI Series, 2017/18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series, 2017/18 Pakistan in New Zealand T20I Series, 2017/18 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh Test Series, 2017/18 India in South Africa ODI Series, 2017/18 Trans-Tasman Twenty20 Tri-Series, 2017/18 Afghanistan v Zimbabwe T20I Series, 2017/18 Afghanistan v Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2017/18 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh T20I Series, 2017/18 India in South Africa T20I Series, 2017/18 England in New Zealand ODI Series, 2017/18 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2017/18 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier, 2017/18 Nidahas Twenty20 Tri-Series, 2017/18 England in New Zealand Test Series, 2017/18 West Indies in Pakistan T20I Series, 2018 Pakistan in Ireland Test Match, 2018 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2018 ICC World XI v West Indies T20I Match, 2018 Afghanistan v Bangladesh T20I Series, 2018 Sobers/Tissera Trophy, 2018 England in Scotland ODI Match, 2018 Pakistan in Scotland T20I Series, 2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation T20I Series, 2018 Australia in England ODI Series, 2018 Afghanistan in India Test Match, 2018 Australia in England T20I Match, 2018 India in Ireland T20I Series, 2018 Zimbabwe Twenty20 Tri-Series, 2018 India in England T20I Series, 2018 Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series, 2018 India in England ODI Series, 2018 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2018 Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2018 Bangladesh in West Indies ODI Series, 2018 Marylebone Cricket Club Tri-Nation T20 Series, 2018 South Africa in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2018 West Indies v Bangladesh T20I Series, 2018 Pataudi Trophy, 2018 Nepal in Netherlands ODI Series, 2018 South Africa in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2018 Afghanistan in Ireland T20I Series, 2018 Afghanistan in Ireland ODI Series, 2018 Asia Cup Qualifiers, 2018 Asia Cup, 2018 Zimbabwe in South Africa ODI Series, 2018/19 West Indies in India Test Series, 2018/19 Pakistan v Australia Test Series, 2018/19 Zimbabwe in South Africa T20I Series, 2018/19 England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2018/19 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2018/19 West Indies in India ODI Series, 2018/19 Australia in United Arab Emirates T20I Match, 2018/19 Pakistan v Australia T20I Series, 2018/19 England in Sri Lanka T20I Match, 2018/19 Pakistan v New Zealand T20I Series, 2018/19 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Test Series, 2018/19 South Africa in Australia ODI Series, 2018/19 West Indies in India T20I Series, 2018/19 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2018/19 Pakistan v New Zealand ODI Series, 2018/19 Pakistan v New Zealand Test Series, 2018/19 South Africa in Australia T20I Match, 2018/19 India in Australia T20I Series, 2018/19 West Indies in Bangladesh Test Series, 2018/19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2018/19 West Indies in Bangladesh ODI Series, 2018/19 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 2018/19 West Indies in Bangladesh T20I Series, 2018/19 Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2018/19 Sri Lanka in New Zealand ODI Series, 2018/19 Sri Lanka in New Zealand T20I Match, 2018/19 India in Australia ODI Series, 2018/19 Pakistan in South Africa ODI Series, 2018/19 ACC Western Region T20, 2018/19 India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2018/19 The Wisden Trophy, 2018/19 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Cup Asia Region Final, 2019 Ireland in England Test Match, 2019 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2019 The Ashes, 2019 ICC World Test Championship, 2019-2021 West Indies v India T20I Series, 2019 United Arab Emirates in Netherlands T20I Series, 2019 India in West Indies ODI Series, 2019 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2, 2019-2021/22 Spain in Finland T20I Series, 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Americas Region Final, 2019 Botswana in Namibia T20I Series, 2019 India in West Indies Test Series, 2019 Romania Cup, 2019 New Zealand in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2019 Afghanistan in Bangladesh Test Match, 2019 Bangladesh Twenty20 Tri-Series, 2019 South Africa in India T20I Series, 2019/20 Ireland Tri-Nation T20I Series, 2019 Sri Lanka in Pakistan ODI Series, 2019/20 Singapore Twenty20 Tri-Series, 2019/20 Vanuatu in Malaysia T20I Series, 2019/20 Freedom Trophy, 2019/20 South American Men's Championships, 2019/20 Oman Pentangular T20I Series, 2019/20 Sri 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West Indies ODI Series, 2019/20 Australia in India ODI Series, 2019/20 Ireland in West Indies T20I Series, 2019/20 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2019/20
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all types tournament finals tournament cons. finals tournament semi-finals tournament quarter-finals preliminary quarter-finals preliminary matches
Day/night matches: day match day/night match night match
Match result: won match lost match tied match drawn match no result
Toss result: won the toss lost the toss either
Batting or fielding first: batting first fielding first either
Captaincy: as captain not as captain either
Wicketkeeper: as designated wicketkeeper not as wicketkeeper either
Type of Batsman: right-hand batsman left-hand batsman unknown hand
Type of Bowler (by hand): right-arm bowler left-arm bowler unknown arm
Type of Bowler (by style): pace bowler spin bowler mixture/unknown
Age at start of match: from to or - quick pick - teenager 22 or less 25 or less 25 and above 30 and above 40 and above
Innings in match: 1st innings 2nd innings 3rd innings 4th innings
Runs scored in an inns: from to or - quick pick - no runs single figures 0 to 25 25 and above 0 to 49 50 and above nervous nineties centuries double-centuries
Batting position: from 1 to 2
from to or - quick pick - openers (1-2) upper order (1-3) middle order (4-7) top order (1-7) tail (8-11) number 3 number 4 number 5 number 6 number 7 number 8 number 9 number 10 number 11
Dismissed: out not out/absent/dnb either
Type of dismissal:
all types caught bowled leg before wicket run out stumped hit wicket handled the ball obstructing the field retired out not out retired not out (hurt)
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment (Updated)
Status Report - Source: SpaceRef
Posted March 1, 2013 9:56 AM
UPDATED at 3:50 p.m. EST: This morning at 10:10 a.m. EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 with Dragon spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its second of 12 NASA contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
Less than 24 hours after launching, the SpaceX Dragon was supposed to arrive at the ISS where the station crew would grapple and berth the spacecraft to the ISS for an expected three week visit.
However, after the Dragon spacecraft had separated from the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and just before the Dragon solar arrays were to deploy, an anomaly occurred with the thrusters where only one of four was enabled. The spacecraft appeared to be in the correct orbit.
The deployment of the solar arrays was delayed while the SpaceX team deliberated on the problem. After SpaceX was confident it understood the problem they made the decision to deploy the solar arrays.
SpaceX issued one of two statements shortly after the problem occurred "One thruster pod is running. Two are preferred to take the next step which is to deploy the solar arrays. We are working to bring up the other two in order to plan the next series of burns to get to station."
After the solar array was deployed SpaceX issued another statement: "Falcon 9 lifted off as planned and experienced a nominal flight. After Dragon achieved orbit, the spacecraft experienced an issue with a propellant valve. One thruster pod is running. We are trying to bring up the remaining three. We did go ahead and get the solar arrays deployed. Once we get at least 2 pods running, we will begin a series of burns to get to station."
Juste before a 3 p.m. EST media briefing SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that two of the thrusters were now active and working. During the media briefing the other two thrusters were being prepared to be brought online.
Musk also said that at this time that one possibility for the problem was "some blockage in the oxidizer pressurization" and he said it appears that they were able to free the blockage or the stuck valve by cycling the valves, or as he put it, "hammering the valves". This cycling of the valves appears to have been effective he went on to say.
The berthing to the ISS will not happen as scheduled early Saturday morning, but could happen sometime on Sunday. However a decision on whether to approach into the safe zone of the ISS has not been made yet. Once SpaceX and NASA are confident that the issue has been resolved, then the decision to approach the ISS will be made. NASA requires three of the four thrusters pods working.
SpaceX was quick to mention that there was no issue with the Falcon 9 rocket itself, which performed well according to Elon Musk.
The Dragon spacecraft is filled with about 1,200 pounds (544kg) of supplies, including supplies to support the 160 scientific investigations that are being performed by station's Expedition 34 crew.
Dragon stage separation.
The SpaceX Dragon is scheduled to return with about 2,300 pounds (1043kg) of cargo including important scientific materials, crew supplies and education experiments.
Dragon was scheduled to return to Earth on March 25 with a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Baja California. No new date for a return has been set yet.
5:00 p.m. EST UPDATE: All four thrusters are online and working.
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George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) was a historian, naturalist, explorer, sportsman, and conservationist. He helped to establish Yellowstone Park and Glacier National Park, co-founded the first Audubon Society, and along with Teddy Roosevelt, co-founded the Boone and Crockett Club. Grinnell was a long-time editor of Forest and Stream magazine and wrote several landmark books on the Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne peoples, having lived with and befriended the last generation to have known the glorious freedom of the buffalo days. Grinnell’s career as a writer and recorder of Indian life-ways would later be characterized by the famed historian Stephen Ambrose as “of incalculable benefit to every student of Western or Indian history.”
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George Bird Grinnell’s classic and monumental work on the Cheyenne Indians was trimmed into 240 fully-illustrated pages in a 2008 edition (editor: Joseph A. Fitzgerald) by World Wisdom titled The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways. This review submitted by reader Samuel Bendeck Sotillos picks out several salient points of the book and stresses the special social and spiritual nature of the civilization studied by Grinnell.
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways Grinnell, George Bird * Bendeck Sotillos, Samuel 2008 - Web Edition American Indian
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Home > Genomes > Uniprot 2018_03 genome > A0A0P4Y0Q4 > Family classification of domain no. 1
Family level classification of domain no. 1 from sequence A0A0P4Y0Q4
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Family classification
Uncertain (marginal E-value): The MIR domain family has an E-value of 0.0011 for the domain selected. This score is conditional on the domain being a member of the MIR domain superfamily. There is a possibility that the selected domain is the member of a sub-family for which no structure has yet been solved.
Closest structure
1t9f A: is the closest structural domain in the library. There may be other structures not included in the library that are closer, but those structures will be more than 95% identical in sequence to 1t9f A:.
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No lifting of HK black ban EDITORIAL 08/27/2011
No lifting of HK black ban
Noynoy refuses to apologize to the Hong Kong hostage victims and relatives of the slain tourists, because he insists that the “Manila massacre” that occurred on Aug. 23, 2010 was the work of one deranged individual, and that the state, not being responsible for the slaughter, has no need to apologize.
At the same time, however, Noynoy, through his spokesman, said he wants Hong Kong’s travel blacklist on the Philippines lifted, as he called this unfair, especially since his administration has already made improvements in securing tourists.
Evidently, to this day, Noynoy and his boys fail to realize just what added damage they have inflicted on the country’s tourism through that botched hostage rescue operation, made even more damaging with his rejection of an apology to the victims and their relatives, as Noynoy refuses to accept responsibility and accountability for the Manila massacre.
But he forgets that days or weeks after the botched rescue operations, with public and Hong Kong pressure mounting, Noynoy did say, and on record, that he was responsible for the botched rescue. He did say something to the effect that “at the end of the day,” he was responsible for it. And that is on record.... MORE
Too good to be true FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/27/2011
Too good to be true
Something just doesn’t smell right in what the Moro Islamic Liberation Front leaders are saying with regard to the rebel group’s placid rejection of the Noynoy government peace panel proposal, which cancelled out any move to create a substate that the MILF is demanding from Noynoy.
The group even went to the extent of saying that there is hope as long as the peace talks continue, as well as claiming that the MILF’s rejection of the government’s expanded autonomy offer won’t result in the same way the MILF reacted violently to the rejection of the Supreme Court of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD), where the group of Ameril Umbra Kato launched several bloody attacks in areas populated by both Moros and Christians.
A report said that despite the MILF’s rejection of the government proposal in the peace negotiation, the MILF leadership does not see a repeat of the 2008 massive atrocities in Central Mindanao which killed hundreds of civilians triggered by the SC’s declaration of the MoA-AD as unconstitutional.
MILF spokesman Von Al Haq stressed the MILF leadership has not monitored any disgruntled group within the organization except for the group of renegade commander Ameril Umbra Kato, who was declared “bughaat” or rebel by the MILF Central Committee..... MORE
India’s Anna Hazare: ‘Gandhi Lite?’ focus 08/27/2011
India’s Anna Hazare: ‘Gandhi Lite?’
NEW DELHI — He may dress, talk and fast like his hero Mahatma Gandhi, but critics say anti-graft activist Anna Hazare has only managed to co-opt the style, not the substance, of India’s independence icon.
The figure of Gandhi looms large — and literally — over Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign, with a giant photograph of the apostle of non-violence providing the backdrop to the 74-year-old’s public hunger strike.
Hazare’s speeches are peppered with Gandhian references to a “second freedom struggle” and his own diminutive, bespectacled appearance, and preference for simple white clothing, all serve to reinforce the link in the public mind.
If the effort to embrace Gandhi’s legacy is sincere, it is also conscious and calculated, and observers say it has paid dividends by tapping into a national yearning for an inspirational leader..... MORE
17-year old girl accuses priest of rape
-17-year old girl accuses priest of rape
“I was so afraid and confused. He is a priest; I attended mass and received communion from him. After that first time I saw that he was not at all what he showed the world to be,” she said.
She believed him to a be a man of God, but he turned out to be the one who would abuse and torment her.
Seventeen-year old “Leah” is currently under the protection and custody of women’s group Gabriela as she and her family begin their fight for justice against what has been done to her by a priest in Tubay, Butuan City.
The 17-year old girl is accusing 47-year old priest Fr. Raul Cabonce of repeatedly sexually abusing and raping her while she was under his care in his parochial residence in Butuan. Leah was one of Cabonce’s two wards. She began staying in the priest’s official residence after he made an offer to Leah and her family that he would help send her to school. A mutual acquaintance and Leah’s neighbor facilitated Leah’s transfer to the priest’s parish.
In a detailed affidavit, Lead described in full and incriminating detail how the priest began to show interest in her and how the interest escalated to sexual abuse and rape. According to Leah. Cabonce first abused her on September 2010.
Seventeen-year old “Leah” wants her abuser and rapistpunished so “He won’t do what he did to me to other children, other women.” (Photo by Ina Alleco Silverio / Bulatlat.com)
“I was cooking dinner when he walked up close to me and began touching me. I was shocked and very alarmed when he began touching my breasts and waist,” she said.
It was not the first time that Leah saw the priest conducting himself in such a way.
“I had previously seen him touching Rachel (not her real name); and when seated he would pull Rachel to his lap and touch her just about everywhere. I felt very uncomfortable and ill whenever I saw him do that to her, but I was afraid to say anything.”
When she brought it up with Rachel, the 20-year old told her that “it didn’t matter.” She told Leah that she and her family were very indebted to the priest for all the help he had given them since Rachel was a fifth grade student.
Leah said she first believed that what Cabonce did to her did not really mean anything and so she resolved to put it out of her mind. Her hopes that it would not be repeated were immediately put to an end by February 27, 2011 when Cabonce made further advances.
On that date, Cabonce made Leah give him a massage and ,in the process, forced her to have oral sex. The minor was almost paralyzed with fear especially after the priest allegedly threatened to kill her and her family if she said anything to anyone about what happened. The priest reportedly owns three guns — two of them short arms, and Leah has seen all of them.
Leah also found out that the priest has a girlfriend, supposedly an older girl who attended college also in Butuan. She often saw the girl in the convent and she stayed with the priest in the parish house.
“There was also a time when I was able to read the sent box of her cellphone and I saw also Fr. Cabonce’s messages to her. It was obvious from the messages that they have a relationship,”she said.
Leah and Rachel by then had practically ceased to have contact with the outside world. Whenever Cabonce was in the parish, he ordered them to stay indoors and not communicate with anyone, not even through their cellphones..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/26/seventeen-year-old-girl-accuses-priest-of-rape/
Protest against 2012 budget dispersed, ralliers to file charges, intensify protests
“This PPP scheme for education and health will cost the taxpayers more because the government must guarantee the private sector partners’ return on investment.” – ACT Teachers Party Rep. Antonio Tinio
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Groups under Kilos na Laban sa Budget Cuts condemned the brutal dispersal of their rally on Thursday, Aug. 25 in front of the House of Representatives. The anti-budget cut groups said they will file charges with the Commission on Human Rights against the Quezon City Police District and the security office of the House of Representatives for the brutal dispersal of the rally on Aug. 26, Friday.
Kilos na Laban sa Budget Cuts is an alliance composed of various groups such as youth, students, teachers, health workers, migrants, and urban poor. According to Aki Merced, spokesman of League of Filipino students, 20 ralliers were seriously injured.
“We were in the middle of our program in front of the House of Representatives when the police from QC station 10 and security units of the HOR assaulted us. Of course the people got angry— they were hitting us with metal rods and blasting us with water from a fire truck,” Merced said.
The protesters were brutally dispersed by the police and security forces of the House Representatives. Kilos na Laban sa Budget cuts are set to file charges with the Commission on Human Rights against the Quezon City Police District and the Security Office of the HOR.
(Photo by UP Kilos Na / Bulatlat.com)
The groups said they were peacefully holding a program when, without warning, the police stationed at the Congress main gate started hitting the protesters with their shields and truncheons. After that the police trained their water canon on some 300 protesters.
“In fact, majority of the protesters were caught unaware as they were still sitting on the road, some on the sidewalks, and listening to the program, when the dispersal began,” the alliance said in a statement.
The Kilos na Laban sa Budget Cuts had described Aug. 25 as the national day of action against budget cuts on education and social services. The groups are calling on the lawmakers to reject the proposed 2012 national budget because it contains both cuts and insufficient allocations for basic social services.
“After last year’s P1 billion ($23 million) budget cut for 97 State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), 50 SUCs will face a P500 million ($11 million) slash for 2012. Funding for basic education, health, housing, and OFW services are all severely insufficient,” the alliance said. ??On the other hand, the proposed budget contains huge funds for the presidential pork barrel, or the intelligence funds of the Office of the President, from P65 billion ($1.547 billion) to P161 billion (3.833 billion).
Aug. 25 was also the scheduled budget hearing of the Office of the President and the Department of Education (DepEd). Progressive legislators of the Makabayan coalition also joined the protest calling for higher budget allocation for social services like education and health.
“Aquino the budget-slasher”
Kilos na Laban sa Budget Cut described the 2012 national budget as anti-people and branded President Benigno Aquino III as the ‘budget-slasher’.
“Aquino is blatantly abandoning the people. Budget allocations for education, health and other social services suffered hefty cuts and remained lacking while debt servicing, military, dole-out programs like the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), the President’s unprogrammed funds and legislators’ pork barrel budgets are being increased. This plus last year’s budget allocation is a very clear indicator of Aquino’s priorities,” said Merced..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/26/protest-against-2012-budget-dispersed-ralliers-to-file-charges-intensify-protests/
When bringing education to underserved Blaans is being deemed as an act of rebellion
“Why is it becoming harder to be of service to your fellow Blaan? What does the government want us to do?” – Blaan Teacher
SECOND PART: Encampment in communities, instilling fear, part of ‘peace and development’ operations?
Sidebar: Neglected, Blaans unite, empower themselves
Sidebar: News in Pictures: Suffer the little children to go to this school
Sidebar: Slideshow: In Upper Suyan Village, children suffer the worst from poverty, militarization
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
DLUMAY, Sarangani – (First of two parts) Joy Lasib, 21, does not consider herself an activist. But when she suffered harassment from the military, she said she learned to be strong and to fight for her rights.
A Blaan, Lasib grew up in Davao del Sur, south of the Philippines. Her parents are peasants whose meager income is barely enough to put food on their table thrice a day. She managed to finish high school but they could not afford four years of college.
“I had wanted to take up education in college. But poverty hindered that dream. A mining company offered me a scholarship but our family declined because we do not want to be used. We know what they are doing to our lands,” Lasib told Bulatlat.com. SMI Mining Company has been digging into Lasib’s community in search of gold and other valuable minerals in Matanao, Davao del Sur. “Land is important to us. It is our life and it sustains our needs.”
Since she graduated from high school in 2002, Lasib had helped her parents in household chores. She said she was not able to muster the courage to apply for work because of her educational background. “I am also not confident about my multi-tasking skills,” she explained. Little did she know that a few years later, she would have to pluck up the courage not just to overcome her fear of multi-tasking but fear itself.
Educating the Blaan children
In 2008, Her uncle, Yol Lasib, asked if she was interested in teaching Blaan children in a remote area in Sarangani, a neighboring province. She was more than interested. But she hesitated, thinking she was not competent to become a teacher. But she was promised some trainings.
A Blaan child during their psychosocial activity(Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao / bulatlat.com)
“I thought it would be better to be of help to my fellow Blaans than to stay home doing nothing. So, I agreed,” she said.
The Center for Lumad Advocacy and Services (Clans) and the Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya (Sibol) arrived in the community of Sitio Dlumay in 2007. Sibol was then looking for a community with rich water resources for their micro-hydropower electric plant project. Looking closer at the needs of the community, one of the head teachers, Maricel Salem, asked the support of the NGOs in setting up of a literacy school for the children.
In a survey conducted in 2007, the literacy rate in six sub-villages of Upper Suyan was a mere three percent. At that time, most children would have to walk two to three hours a day to go to a formal school in the village proper of Upper Suyan. Malnutrition, parasitism and poor health among the residents were also common. Clans said farming methods remain backward and undeveloped..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/25/when-bringing-education-to-underserved-blaans-is-being-deemed-as-an-act-of-rebellion/
ACT Representative slams surveillance operations on progressive lawmakers, teachers
“Why does the PNP keep on tracking the activities of duly-elected lawmakers, as well as teachers, of this country? Why don’t you monitor the operations of criminals, killers, drug syndicates, kidnappers and the like?” – ACT Rep. Antonio Tinio
MANILA – Progressive legislator slammed the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the use of its intelligence funds to monitor the activities of elected solons and legitimate teacher organizations instead of lawless elements.
During the budget hearing of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Aug. 23, Tuesday, ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio L. Tinio questioned officials of the PNP as to how the P505.4 million ($12 million) intelligence funds are being utilized. PNP Chief Raul Bacalzo said intelligence funds are intended for lawless elements and enemies of the state.
Tinio refuted Bacalzo’s statement by citing a firsthand account in which he and other elected representatives and legitimate teacher organizations like the Quezon City Public School Teachers Association (QCPSTA) are being subjected to PNP intelligence operations.
“Why does the PNP keep on tracking the activities of duly-elected lawmakers, as well as teachers, of this country? Why don’t you monitor the operations of criminals, killers, drug syndicates, kidnappers and the like?” Tinio asked.
On Aug. 6, Tinio said, he and other six party-list representatives of the Makabayan coalition was placed under surveillance by the PNP. In the account of ACT, a police officer who identified himself as PO3 Ruben Dipasupil of the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) of Station 2 of the Masambong Police Station came to the venue where Makabayan was having a meeting and told them he was making a “spot report” about the on going meeting..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/25/act-representative-slams-surveillance-operations-on-progressive-lawmakers-teachers/
US cable: China used ZTE to buy Arroyo influence By Michaela P. del Callar 08/27/2011
ENVOY SAYS FLOURISHING RP-SINO TIES NOT A THREAT
US cable: China used ZTE to buy Arroyo influence
The United States did not see as a threat the flourishing ties between the Philippines and China during the past administration of former President Gloria Arroyo but said the anomalous National Broadband Network (NBN) deal awarded to Chinese supplier ZTE was “typical of the deals that China reportedly uses worldwide to make friends and buy influence,” a 2008 U.S. Embassy cable released yesterday by online whistleblower Wikileaks stated.
Then U.S. Ambassador to Manila Kristie Kenney, in her April 28, 2008 cable labeled as “sensitive,” believes the U.S. remains a reliable ally of the Philippines despite Manila’s increasing engagement with Beijing as corruption and graft-tainted projects entered into by the two countries had cast a dark cloud over its intensifying relations.
“Strengthened Philippine-People’s Republic of China ties do not imply a weakening of our strong bonds with the Philippines,” the cable said. “Recent scandals have reawakened long-held views among Filipinos that link ethnic Chinese to corrupt practices.”.... MORE
P150-M deposit part of smear job — Mancao By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/27/2011
P150-M deposit part of smear job — Mancao
Controversial former police Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao, who has pinned down his former boss at the now defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson in the murders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito, yesterday claimed that an unseen hand was behind the mysterious deposit of a P150-million check deposit in his bank account.
The former police official who has since earned his real estate broker’s license noted that the check could be part of an “orchestrated plan” to smear his credibility after he pointed to Lacson in the 2000 double murder case.
“This is deliberate move to destroy me. But I’m very confident that my name will be cleared,” he told reporters at the Department of Justice.
Mancao said the allegation of the senator that a P150-million check was deposited into his bank account was already investigated by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) last February..... MORE
Solon calls on Aquino gov’t to compel oil firms to open their books By Charlie V. Manalo 08/27/2011
Solon calls on Aquino gov’t to compel oil firms to open their books
Ang Galing Pinoy Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo yesterday called on the Aquino government to compel the oil companies to open up their books of accounts for auditing to determine whether there is indeed overpricing in the pump price of petroleum products.
In a statement, Arroyo, who chaired the House committee on energy during the 14th Congress, said with the local price of oil products not reflective of the price of crude in the world market, there exists a strong basis for some sectors to accuse the oil companies of overpricing. Thus, the need to compel them to open up their books.
“The government should now again try to force the oil companies to open their books of account to determine whether they are overpricing their oil products as independent studies have revealed that petroleum products in the country are overpriced by at least P7 to P8,” Arroyo, eldest son of former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo, said.
The younger Arroyo recalled that when he was still the chairman of the House energy committee, he and his colleagues tried to force the oil companies to open up their books..... MORE
Angara tells PSC chief to take stand to fund best athletes in RPn By Angie M. Rosales 08/27/2011
Angara tells PSC chief to take stand to fund best athletes in RPn
In the wake of the controversy over reported politicking among the country’s sports officials, attributed as the root cause of the sad plight of some local athletes, Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday told Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Ricardo Garcia to take a stand in funding the best athletes of the country who are fielded to the national team.
Angara cited the case of the Philippine Dragonboat Team, which was not financially supported by the PSC because it was not accredited by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) as a national team.
The senator’s challenge was made in hope of providing solution on the issue of the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation (PDBF) team which won five gold medals and 2 silver medals in Tampa Bay, Florida and despite the honor they brought to the country they did not receive any accolades or incentives from the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and PSC as the team was not an accredited national team.
This stance of POC and PSC earned the outrage of various sectors, including legislators that prompted them to call for an in depth inquiry..... MORE
House okays penalty for improper disposal of dangerous materials By Charlie V. Manalo 08/27/2011
House okays penalty for improper disposal of dangerous materials
The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading early this week a bill seeking to penalize improper disposal of hazardous and radioactive wastes.
All 234 congressmen who attended the Monday session voted to pass the measure that provides a comprehensive management of disposal of dangerous materials, prompting Laguna Rep. Dan Fernandez, chairman of the House committee on ecology, to comment the unanimous vote underscores the concern of lawmakers over the extreme dangers to life and property that could be caused by irresponsible disposal of radioactive and hazardous wastes.
House Bill 4812, otherwise known as the “Philippine Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes Management Act of 2011,” consolidated several legislative proposals authored by Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II; Reps. Irvin Alcala; Bernadette Herrera-Dy; Rodel Batocabe; Roger Mercado and Fernandez.
“HB 4812 is an urgently needed measure that will strengthen the authority of various government agencies, especially the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Department of Health and Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to take action against persons and firms caught endangering public health and the environment through hazardous wastes,” Fernandez said..... MORE
Navotas intensified drive vs dengue makes it second with lowest nunber of cases By Arlie O. Calalo 08/27/2011
Navotas intensified drive vs dengue makes it second with lowest nunber of cases
By Arlie O. Calalo 08/27/2011
The intensified campaign and the active participation of residents have placed Navotas City second among the 17 local government units in Metro Manila with the lowest number of confirmed dengue cases, Mayor John Rey Tiangco said yesterday.
The mayor made the announcement after he obtained the records from the recent observation of the 32nd Morbidity Week headed by the Center for Health Development-National Capital Region which assessed the effects of the deadly disease all over the metropolis.
“This would further encourage us to be more doubly active in implementing measures to ensure that every case is monitored so as to prevent further harm and, worse, death to the residents,” Tiangco said.
Record shows from 840 confirmed dengue cases in the city last year, the total number of cases that was recorded from January to August this year has dropped to 247..... MORE
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Official site of singer/songwriter Taliia ⋆ Music, news, events, latest photo & videos ⋆ Taliia.net
This artist will undoubtedly stay in your memory for a long time. Talent & youth, precocious exceptional sense of style, and with that beautiful and daring.
Taliia is a pop singer & lyricist whose musical journey has taken her all the way to London, where she studied on the Artist Development course at Access to Music London (BANM), like well-known college graduates: Rita Ora, Ed Sheeran, Vanessa from The Saturdays, DJ Ironik and Baby Cakes. Taliia successfully completed the course and gained a distinction in her Rockschool diploma. She also passed with distinction ABRSM Music Theory examination.
Taliia’s debut single “Fiesta” blends an urban vibe with R&B beats and funky grooves – melodious rap from a female perspective. Together with her EP “The One From September” it was released in summer 2014. The critical response to her music has been stellar so far. Amy Redmond (BBC Radio 1 producer) has said:
“Sounds great, well produced good pop music, ready for euro charts surely!»
Having received support of Jim Gellatly show on Amazing Radio, BBC Radio 6, RKC Radio, Hit Mix UK, EGH Radio, Croydon Radio, Take 2 Radio Music, K1776 FM, XRP Radio & many more.
Now Taliia presents her first album «The One From September», that includes tracks in English as well as songs in Russian. All English lyrics she wrote by herself. All music and Russian lyrics were made by Gennadiy Bogdanov.
The debut release «The One From September» was born like the highest treasure, like the first step into this world!
You’ll hear several music styles in the album. Taliia’s songs are a mix of modern, relevant lyrics, catchy hooks & uptempo tunes that can be described as a combination of cosmic electropop with sexy rap.
The album is made capitally! All songs were mastered by Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin (mastering engineer) from Metropolis London (Previously worked with Blur, Robbie Williams, Nenah Cherry).
Official Music Video «Not You» by Taliia
The first step is crucial, but Taliia believes that the audience will feel her extraordinary gift – it’s easy to sing about the things that matter.
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21 Center Street, Estate of Famous Author, Martin Cruz Smith, is For Sale At 21 Center Street, built in 1890, there’s no counting the number of stories that have been told over the last 100 plus years. Or, the number of people that have sat on the front porch, walked through the lush gardens or dined in the sun-lit dining room with vintage sliding doors. Stories are part of this home’s soul. You can feel them at every turn.
So, it’s no surprise that for the last 10 plus years, a well-known author, Martin Cruz Smith, has found solace and inspiration here. Known for originals such as Gorky Park, Smith, alongside his wife Emily, have penned his two most recent novels, Tatiana and Girl from Venice at this historical estate set in the coveted Forbes neighborhood of San Rafael. Today, a separate guest cottage on the breathtaking grounds, serves as a tribute to the writer and his works.
The Smith’s say it best: “In fifty years of marriage, we’ve lived in six different homes but this is by far our favorite. This is where we planted a garden, got to know our wonderful neighbors, built a playhouse and watched our five grandchildren grow up. And this house is where two books were written & inspired, Tatiana and Girl from Venice. We hope that whoever chooses to live here has as happy a time as we have had.”
Iconic, timeless and built to impress, this resplendent four bedroom Victorian estate, artfully blends vintage charm and modern sensibility. Nostalgic by nature, the wraparound front porch suggests summer living, tranquility and endless conversation. With its soaring ceilings, crown moldings and sweeping staircase, the entryway is refined yet welcoming. Everywhere you look, albeit the etched windows, butlers pantries, window seats or pocket doors, you’ll uncover a piece of history. Yet, this classic home has undergone a modern makeover of sorts. The sunlit chef’s kitchen, chic flooring, new carpet, contemporary paint colors and carefully designed one bedroom guest cottage give a nod to today’s style and way of life.
“Believe it or not, my husband’s first book he read cover to cover was actually Gorky Park. He has been a long time fan of Smith’s work. The first few times we met about selling the Smith’s estate, I needed actually needed to temper his enthusiasm and request for a signed copy.” says, Kira Swaim, owner of Tam Realty. “Representing them is an honor. We sell a lot of homes here locally and are leaders in the market. Yet, 21 Center has a certain mystic, magic and soul that is rare and indescribable.”
Set on a double lot in the flats of San Rafael’s historic Forbes neighborhood, just a short walk to the West End, 21 Center is just waiting for someone to come in and tell it’s next story.
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Sampi part ways with Trackmania
Trackmania has been part of Team Sampi since the very beginning of our journey in eSports. Today, we officially announce that our most awarded section will no longer continue under our colors. The back-to-back world champion from 2018 & 2019 and currently the best player in the world Martin “Kappa” Krompolc will continue racing under Sauber F1. Marek “tween” Pacher, who won the first ever trophy for Team Sampi at Giant Cup Paris last year and became the runner up at the world championship 2018, becomes a free agent.
Statement of Jakub Jankto, Sampi CEO
“Big thanks both Kappa and tween for what they have done for Sampi. In 2 years, Martin became twice the world champion. I am happy that he got an offer he deserved for his tremendous achievements, especially when it came from an organization that is sponsored by Formula 1 team Sauber. To get into a team like that is a dream for every player. We scouted Kappa, raised him to be the back-to-back world champion and motivated him to push his limits and work hard. The result is a transfer such as this one. Here, he would not progressed any further so this step was only logical. I would also want to thank tween. He won our first trophy at Giant Cup and became the second best player of 2018 behind Kappa. Both players deserve a hell of respect for what they have achieved in their careers. In Trackmania, Sampi was on the very top and could not get any further, our players were the TOP2 in the world. The only pitty was that we did not make it to Zerator Cup. From now on, we want to focus on different game titles and to prove that we belong to the TOP as we proved in Trackmania.”
In late 2018 and in the first half of 2019, Kappa and tween were known as the Dominant Duo in the community. After tween had won the first ever title for Team Sampi at Giant Cup, they had finished first and second at the world championship and then did the same at Gaming Winterfest. In April 2019, they went to Poitiers, France to play Gamers Assembly where they both ended up on the podium, this time however, on second and third place.
Marek “tween” Pacher had an opportunity to be one of the first eSports players to play a tournament on a flying airplane. Air France Trackmania Cup was definitely an unforgetbale experience and we are really proud that Team Sampi was the team he represented at such historic event.
Last weekend, Kappa made history when he became the back-to-back world champion by winning the Trackmania Grand League at Paris Games Week. At that point, it was only a matter of time until an organization with bigger possibilities than Team Sampi will offer him a contract. We are more than happy for Kappa that his Trackmania career will continue under an organization like Sauber F1 and he can become even greater player than he already is.
Statement of Martin “Kappa” Krompolc
“I’m very thankful for all the great support I got from Team Sampi. I was a part of the team just roughly over a year, but we achieved many great things I will always remember! I’m quite upset at the moment but it’s time to move on for both sides. I wish Team Sampi all the best for the future.”
Statement of Marek “tween” Pacher
“Being invited to Team Sampi has brought me to another level of motivation over the past year. It got kickstarted with my favorite autumn in the game ever, when I won Giant Cup and got second behind my teammate Kappa at the World Championship. That alone made my confidence sky-rocket and I can never be thankful enough to Jakub Jankto for putting so much trust in me. I would also like to thank Jakub Faul for tailoring things to our needs, and to all my teammates, especially Kappa, who is no less than an inspiration to me in the game. I will remember my stay with Sampi very fondly.”
One journey ends, another begins. We are forever thankful to Kappa and tween for truly an amazing representation of Team Sampi and all the memories we have had together. We wish them the best in their careers and real lives. Thank you for everything guys, you are legends!
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Today is the last day of 2019 and that is traditionally the time to make a review of what happened throughout the year for Team Sampi. This was our second year on eSports scene and it is safe to say that we made a huge progress compared to 2018 and this is only the beginning. […]
Sampi GAMING HOUSE
Team Sampi proudly announces the first ever gaming house in the Czech Republic! We have been working on this project for the past year and now it is finally time to reveal it. Ten professional computer, PlayStation 4 and XBOX players will be permanently accommodated inside the 538 m² house in Tuchoměřice village between Prague […]
Sampi signs with Seron
Team Sampi is proud to announce that Dominik “Seron” Čermák will join our FIFA section. Being only 15 years old, Seron is considered to be the greatest talent in the Czech Republic. His achievements under his latest employer Nessus Gaming / FK Teplice are a great promise for the future under our colors. Seron has […]
FIFA eClub World Cup: WickyBG & Poacher
The most prestigious tournament in FIFA eSports is knocking on the door and Team Sampi is registered for online qualifiers. We will be represented by Stanislav “WickyBG” Chakarov and Sam “Poacher” Carmody. Since the launch in 2017, the eClub World Cup has featured the world’s best real-world football clubs and endemic eSports teams in EA SPORTS […]
Sampi part ways with RIIJK
Today, Team Sampi part ways with Czech FIFA20 player Stepan “RIIJK” Sobocki. After a mutual agreement, we decided that it will be in the best interest of both parties to no longer continue in our cooperation. Althought RIIJK was a core player for domestic tournaments and arguably one of the very best Czech players, we […]
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UT Longhorn Mariachi Camp Culminating Concert, 2016
The summer of 2013 marked the establishment of the first annual Longhorn Mariachi Camp at The University of Texas at Austin’s Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music. This was also the first time the college had reached out to the Hispanic community of Texas in such a culturally relevant way.
Now in its fifth year, The University of Texas at Austin Longhorn Mariachi Camp aims to make high students aware of the opportunities available to them at the university and encourage them to enroll upon graduation. The camp also seeks to give students a rich musical experience marked by excellence, connect them with other students interested in mariachi music from across the state, and provide an understanding of what it takes to be a member of a mariachi ensemble.
A total of 73 students registered and went through the enriching program in 2016. During the four-day camp, students experience small group training on their primary instruments and vocals taught by mariachi directors from Texas school districts and universities throughout Texas. They also receive guidance in performing as a large group through preparation for an end-of-camp concert featuring every student and their instructors.
The camp provides an opportunity for students to reside in a campus dormitory, allowing them to experience life at The University of Texas at Austin. They explore campus after the instructional day is over by visiting the Student Union, the Main Tower and other points of interest on campus. Campers also take a trip to the State Capitol to view and learn about the Tejano Monument.
UT Austin Longhorn Mariachi Camp (photo by Juan Castillo)
In previous years, the university was able to provide school districts with matching scholarships for every student enrolled in the camp. This year, however, this benefit is going away due to accounting complications.
“Every year we hear from potential campers who would love to attend and benefit immensely from our program but do not have the financial means to do so,” said The University of Texas’ Mariachi Ensemble Director Zeke Castro, has been instrumental in the creation and realization of the summer camp.
The Longhorn Mariachi Camp needs the support of businesses and individuals who desire to enrich the lives of deserving young musicians who might not otherwise be able to attend such program.
Friends of the UT Austin Longhorn Mariachi Camp may sponsor a student for $300 this summer. This includes four days of intensive instruction and room and board in a dorm campus for a Texas high school student. Supporters who wish to give scholarships may designate them for a specific school or school district and make payments directly to UT as part of the fee payment process.
“In contrast to prior camps, many at-risk students and low socio-economic school districts may encounter registration difficulties without the opportunity to receive a scholarship for each student registered in 2017,” Castro expressed. “We’re calling on our community to support students who long to be part of a unique and culturally relevant music experience as well as experiencing the longhorn life.”
The public is also invited to witness the campers’ success at the culminating performance on Saturday, Jul. 1, 1:30 p.m, at the Bates Concert Hall in the Butler School of Music. The performance is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Zeke Castro at maestroerc@utexas.edu or visit music.utexas.edu.
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rencontre windows phone Twenty years ago, Joseph Johnson was ordained an elder in the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist by Bishop C. Joseph Sprague. His journey to the ministry did not follow a traditional path, but Pastor Joe could not ignore God’s call. After graduating from high school in rural Indiana, where he was baptized and confirmed in the United Methodist Church, he attended both Indiana and Purdue Universities. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue, but felt called to explore ordained ministry. He enrolled at The Iliff School of Theology, but left and returned to engineering.
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Math Prof likens mandatory diversity statements to McCarthyist loyalty oaths
By uomatters | 11/25/2019 - 12:19 pm | 11/25/2019 Uncategorized
From InsideHigherEd, here:
December’s Notices of the American Mathematical Society contains a surprising column on Page 4, given that mathematicians have not been on the front lines of debates about diversity and campus speech.
The column, by Abigail Thompson, chair of math at the University of California, Davis, and one of the society’s vice presidents, says that today’s diversity statements are like the political litmus tests of the McCarthy era.
“In 1950 the Regents of the University of California required all UC faculty to sign a statement asserting that ‘I am not a member of, nor do I support any party or organization that believes in, advocates, or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government, by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional means, that I am not a member of the Communist Party,’” Thompson says. Those who refused to sign were fired. [Full disclosure: My Dad had to sign one of these – apparently helping liberate North Africa, Sicily, and France was not enough proof of his loyalty.]
Now, “Faculty at universities across the country are facing an echo of the loyalty oath, a mandatory ‘Diversity Statement’ for job applicants.” The “professed purpose” of these statements is to identify candidates “who have the skills and experience to advance institutional diversity and equity goals,” Thompson wrote. But “in reality it’s a political test, and it’s a political test with teeth.” ..
UO requires these statements for hiring and promotion. Originally they were bargained for by the faculty union, as a way for women and minorities to get credit for the high service burdens they face. The administration quickly picked up on them as a way to increase their control of faculty hiring and promotion. The most blatant example is from AVP Melanie Muenzer’s “search advocates” initiative, which puts mandatory “thought partners” on faculty hiring committees, which starts off as if it’s about ensuring efforts are made to get diverse candidate pools on the basis of race and gender – something easy to agree with – but then goes on in a way that can be read as if it is about making sure that new hires subscribe to particular beliefs, which of course reduces intellectual diversity:
Providing guidance and serving as a thought partner to the search committee during the review of candidates including the steps to select candidates for phone or online interviews, invitations for campus visits, and final selection
As needed, making recommendations to the provost on extensions or continuation of searches that may be struggling to recruit candidates or have challenges during the review and selection phases of the search
This concern about is strengthened by the fact that the new instructions for Provost Phillips’s Institutional Hiring Plan warn that departments that lack collegiality are unlikely to be given lines for new hires.
So if your department has a lot of plainspoken faculty who vocally disagree on intellectual matters no new hires for you until you zip it and sign that loyalty oath.
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Debate demonstrates UO diversity
By uomatters | 05/31/2018 - 4:48 pm | 05/31/2018 Uncategorized
That would be UO student diversity of thought. Emerald reporter Mateo Sundberg has the report on yesterday’s debate in a packed PLC 180 classroom between the student Republicans and Democrats.
Before clicking on the link for the story here, please humor me and enter your guess in the comments as to whether the College Democrat debaters are the 4 on the left or the right of Sundberg’s photo, just because I’m wondering if everyone is as bad at predicting this as I am:
When talking about diversity, Provost Banavar often notes how boring it would be to live in a world where everyone thinks the same. So it’s good to hear that’s not the world our students live in at UO.
But what about us faculty? Back in 2006 I matched the Lane County voter registration file to a list of UO professors. Out of about 700 faculty, 506 could be matched by name in both files. Of those 506 there were 25 registered Republicans.
Here’s the distribution of Oregon and Lane County voters, compared to UO:
By college, it looked like this:
Tagged Diversity
Today: CAS holds student town hall on “Diversity Action Plans”
By uomatters | 10/17/2017 - 11:44 am | 10/17/2017 Uncategorized
I’m not going to live blog this – Bruce Blonigen will post the notes on the CAS diversity web page. There are a few undergrads, about 15 grad students (particularly women from the sciences) and about 5 people from the dean’s office. Andrew Marcus does a good job inviting suggestions, and he is getting many interesting ideas from the students. I stirred the pot a bit by noting that they should think big – the VPEI has millions of dollars for diversity, and it should be possible to reallocate it from her administrators to programs that would actually benefit students, e.g. scholarships for research experiences. For some reason the VPEI is not at this meeting to hear the students’ ideas, nor was she at the previous one with faculty.
Dear Faculty and Department Managers,
The CAS Dean’s Office is hosting the third and final DAP Town Hall next week for students on Oct 17th. Can you please pass on the information below to your class lists/student workers to get the word out? Please let us know if you have any questions or need further information. All students are welcome to attend, including graduate and undergraduate students.
Join a conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is hosting a series of town hall meetings this term to discuss the college’s Diversity Action Plans (DAPs). The next meeting will be an opportunity specifically for students to provide input on the DAPs. (There are separate meetings for students, staff and faculty.) Please join us on Tuesday, October 17th, from 3:00-5:00 pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Snacks will be provided.
The town halls are an occasion for the CAS deans to discuss the plans with you, so we can respond to your questions and ideas and revise our plans with broad college participation. The more involvement we have in refining our plans, the stronger they will be, and we are eager to hear your ideas for setting diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities in CAS.
The action plans that we created are and will be living documents. We will continue to provide opportunities in the future for everyone to offer improvements, and faculty, staff, and students are welcome to communicate their thoughts and suggest ideas at any time to CASDean@uoregon.edu. We ask you to be familiar with the all-CAS Diversity Action Plan draft, which you can access on the CAS diversity page: https://cas.uoregon.edu/diversity/.
We look forward to hearing your ideas on October 17th.
The CAS Dean’s Office
10/10/2017: VPEI Alex-Assensoh skips CAS Diversity Action Plan town hall meeting
CAS is having a town hall meeting from 3-5 today in the library reading room, on the latest draft of the CAS “Diversity Action Plan”. The order to do this came down from President Schill and VPEI Alex-Assensoh in the wake of the Halloween blackface incident. The initial draft of the CAS plan was done without much if any input from the faculty, given the initial timeline. This town hall is part of Dean Andrew Marcus’s effort to clean up this steaming pile of crap.
After complaints from the Senate about the narrow focus on race/ethnicity and gender, the May 2016 version of the VPEI’s “IDEAL” Plan now includes a more inclusive definition:
The term “diversity” can be defined in a number of different ways. The UO looks at it broadly and inclusively, encompassing race, ethnicity, disability, thought, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and economics. The UO seeks to promote further diversity among its faculty, staff, and student body through active recruitment and intentional retention.
For something called “The IDEAL Plan” there sure are a lot of different versions floating around. VPEI Alex-Assensoh never bothered to return to the Senate with the revisions, nor was she at this meeting. Word down at the faculty club is she’s still out looking for another job, after the University of Louisiana turned her down.
The current draft CAS DAP plan is here. It still uses the narrow definition of diversity. There are pages and pages of administrative speak like this:
Marcus starts off by noting that the CAS Diversity statement says:
Tolerance, inclusion, curiosity and openness are essential to advancing human understanding—and thus essential to the intellectual and academic mission of the College of Arts and Sciences. We welcome a diversity of cultures, histories, languages; different types of knowledge; different talents, abilities, training; a range of experiences, affiliations, alliances and perspectives—all are necessary for creativity, invention, collaboration and problem solving. There is no meaningful learning without challenge and difference.
He then introduces the latest interim CoDaC, Director Vickey DeRose, appointed by Alex-Assensoh without consultation with the Senate, to help manage these DAPs. Marcus then notes that much of the plan was mandated by the President and cannot be changed.
The VPEI’s office has never conducted a “diversity climate” survey, despite its enormous budget, years of talk, and planeloads of consultants:
Meanwhile, volunteers from the Business School prepared and distributed a “campus climate” survey to undergraduates, as a first step in a rational way, without support from VPEI.
Their results, from their undergraduates, show that the diversity problem (at least at LCB) goes well beyond the narrow focus on race and gender that we see emphasized in the CAS plan:
These results are similar to those from the SERU survey, which UO participates in. No one in the VPEI’s office had ever heard of it:
Lots of discussion about faculty hiring. UO’s TTF faculty is already broadly representative of the available pool of PhD’s with respect to gender and race:
Someone brings up the natural question: Why not spend more resources on building the pipeline, by recruiting more under-represented undergraduates? And, at UO, the least well represented group is now low-income students.
UO is ranked #328 out of 377 selective public colleges for promoting income mobility. 56% of our students come from families in the top 20% of the income distribution (4.3% from the top 1%) and only 4.7% come from the bottom 20%:
Our economic diversity has been getting worse over time (except perhaps for a small recent blip):
Despite this poor performance and the bad trends, UO’s long debates about diversity have generally ignored economic diversity, and this new DAP seems to be doing the same.
Mandatory Implicit Bias Training starts by noting IBT doesn’t change behavior
The UO administration is now requiring all search committee members to take a two-hour training on implicit bias. I did an abbreviated version at a BOT meeting last year, and I’m at one of the three long versions right now, with about 60 other faculty and administrators. The presenter, Erik Girvan (Law), who gives these talks often, starts this one off by acknowledging that there is lots of empirical evidence showing that these trainings do not affect implicit bias, or actual behavior. So I guess we’re just here to check a box – or for the talk, which is an interesting mix of advocacy and science.
More (from my comment), responding to a comment saying Erik did a good job:
I agree. It’s tough to mix science and advocacy without going off the rails in one direction or another – particularly when you’re being paid to present a particular argument, and the audience has been ordered to attend and pay with their time. (I’ll guess that, including the opportunity cost of attendee time, these trainings cost UO about $75,000.) Erik did a good job despite this.
There was plenty I’d argue about – i.e. the casual use of “bias” when talking about conditional means which are by definition unbiased estimates, the general over-emphasis on the implicit association test, and starting with the shades-of-gray visual illusion, which is too obvious an attempt to manipulate people into agreeing they must be biased about race too. But it did grab people’s attention.
I thought the most powerful part was the behavioral results from the randomized resume and email response surveys, which show pervasive racist behavior in decisions that are clearly related to actual mentoring and employment situations.
My understanding is that people’s racist employment decisions are generally not correlated with their IAT results. That said I think Erik successfully used the IAT as a useful teaching tool, in part because it opens people up to thinking about their own biases, and maybe about their own behavior, in a safe, non-threatening way. I can see why administrators love it, regardless of the validity of the science.
Sanjay Srivastava (Psych) posted my “check a box” comment on his @hardsci twitter, and there are a bunch of comments, including some arguing that mandatory diversity training of this sort actually harms diversity, because of a reactivity effect. Check it out at https://twitter.com/hardsci
And, for the record, I am now officially certified by the University of Oregon Office of Equity and Inclusion as being allowed to participate in faculty hiring. Please don’t tell my chair!
Hello William,
You are now enrolled in the following session: “Understanding Implicit Bias”.
Below are the date(s)/time(s) of the session: Oct 12th, 2017, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
*** Course Description ***
How can someone’s race, sex, age, and other characteristics influence the way we see and treat them even when we are genuinely trying to be unbiased? What concrete steps can we take to help prevent this from happening? To help answer these questions, this workshop introduces the concept of implicit bias. Through a mix of short presentations, lively activities, and discussions, we will explore some harmful side effects of how our brains naturally perceive, categorize, and draw inferences about the world, including other people. We will also examine when this kind of bias is most likely to occur. And we will talk about what practical steps we can all take to try to reduce or eliminate it as well as what has been shown not to work. This workshop may be of particular interest to those serving on search committees and hiring managers.
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UO is failing on economic diversity. Where’s the “Economic Diversity Action Plan”?
8/7/2017: UO is failing on economic diversity. Where’s the “Economic Diversity Action Plan”?
Despite this poor performance and the bad trends, UO’s long debates about diversity have generally ignored economic diversity. UO’s Institutional Research website has pages and pages of tables slicing and dicing UO’s students and faculty by every imaginable diversity metric – so long as those metrics are race and ethnicity or gender. The good news is that UO has improved markedly by all those measures over the past 10-15 years.
However, if you believe economic opportunity and diversity are important, you will have no luck finding that information on the IR website. If you go to UO’s Office of Equity and Inclusion’s “IDEAL Plan” you’ll find that the latest version now pays lip service to economic diversity, but you will not find a word about how UO compares on the relevant measures, or on the time trends. Similarly, the “Diversity Action Plans” that are now under preparation by every academic and administrative unit under the supervision of Equity and Inclusion have little if anything to say about economic diversity – it’s all race with a bit of gender.
Fortunately there is a new paper out with the data for UO and other colleges:
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23618, Revised Version, July 2017
Fact sheet: PDF
Non-technical summary: PDF
Paper: PDF
Slides: PDF | PPT
Data: Stata / Excel
NYT Interactive Tool to Explore Data: Web
Unfortunately that paper makes it very clear UO is failing when it comes to promoting economic diversity. The figures at the top of this post come from the NYT summary for UO:
A new study, based on millions of anonymous tax records, shows that some colleges are even more economically segregated than previously understood, while others are associated with income mobility.
Below, estimates of how University of Oregon compares with its peer schools in economic diversity and student outcomes.
The median family income of a student from University of Oregon is $126,400, and 56% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.4% of students at University of Oregon came from a poor family but became a rich adult.
When it comes to economic diversity UO is near the bottom whether you look at selective publics, the PAC-12, or other Oregon universities:
It would be nice to believe that these sad results will help drive UO’s diversity debate and spending priorities for promoting diversity.
UO spending on racial diversity triples since 2011, consultants cash in
By UO Matters | 04/23/2017 - 10:09 pm | 04/23/2017 Uncategorized
This does not seem to include spending on the UMRP, probably about $1M a year, or spending by the colleges:
Here’s a snippet of the 2015-16 Equity and Inclusion’s operations spending. From what I can tell none of it went to help students pay tuition. Outside consultants got $360K for “services and supplies” – and they’ve already topped that for 2016-17:
UO undergrad calls for more diversity of ideas
Mateo Sundberg’s Op-Ed is on the Daily Emerald website here:
Over one year ago, the Black Student Task Force released a list of twelve demands for the University of Oregon administration to address campus issues surrounding diversity and tolerance. One of the demands, demand number six, was a request for the University of Oregon to commit to hiring more African-American professors, specifically in areas outside of the humanities and the social sciences, to encourage diversity in our university’s faculty.
However, this demand, and many other similar demands for diversity by means of race and ethnicity in higher education, fails to reach its goal of creating a space of intellectual rigor, debate and ideological diversity.
Commentators on both the political left and right have highlighted how academic departments value diversity in the form of race and ethnicity over diversity in thought. Few people would try to argue that having an entire faculty of white, middle-aged, straight and upper-middle class professors would create a campus climate that was diverse and inclusive. Sadly, this line of thought does not ring true when applied to faculty having diverse political ideologies.
The University of Oregon should continue to pursue faculty candidates of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds because the life experiences and worldviews of minorities are important and valuable for intellectual debate.
However, if the universities do not diagnose and fix their ideological bias problem, they will become an echo chamber of only liberal ideas and thought, which would result in the failure of our universities duty to be a space of intellectual rigor that is full of debate. Universities do not have a monopoly on knowledge and intellect; they need to hire more faculty members of diverse ideological and political thought before universities render themselves obsolete.
Please consider commenting on the ODE site. Also see this post on Nick Kristof’s recent NYT Op-Ed on the same theme.
Nick Kristof on “The Dangers of Echo Chambers on the UO Campus*”
Nicholas Kristof is the son of two PSU professors and grew up on a farm in Oregon. A few years ago we got him to come to campus and talk to our SAIL students. He is arguably the most liberal of the NY Times’s columnists, although it’s tough to top Krugman. Here’s his latest column:
After Donald Trump’s election, some universities echoed with primal howls. Faculty members canceled classes for weeping, terrified students who asked: How could this possibly be happening?
I share apprehensions about President-elect Trump, but I also fear the reaction was evidence of how insular universities have become. When students inhabit liberal bubbles, they’re not learning much about their own country. To be fully educated, students should encounter not only Plato, but also Republicans.
We liberals are adept at pointing out the hypocrisies of Trump, but we should also address our own hypocrisy in terrain we govern, such as most universities: Too often, we embrace diversity of all kinds except for ideological. Repeated studies have found that about 10 percent of professors in the social sciences or the humanities are Republicans.
We champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don’t look like us — so long as they think like us. …
UO’s first Diversity Plan, adopted by the Senate in 2006 after a long debate, explicitly noted the importance of those people who don’t think like us:
For purposes of this Diversity Plan, the term diversity is given a broad meaning and includes, but is not limited to, differences based on race, ethnicity, national origin or citizenship, gender, religious affiliation or background, sexual orientation, gender identity, economic class or status, political affiliation or belief, and ability or disability.
Here’s the data on political affiliation for the University of Oregon faculty in 2006:
But the 2016 diversity evaluation posted on the VPEI website is all about race and ethnicity:
Over the last three years, the University of Oregon (UO) Office of the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI) has worked diligently to institutionalize the process of collecting and analyzing data on the ethnic, racial, and gender diversity of our faculty, staff, and students. This report on racial, ethnic and gender diversity among faculty and academic leadership ranks is the product of collaborative work with the Office of Institutional Research, the Center for Assessment, Statistics and Evaluation (CASE), Affirmative Action, the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs.
And that is where UO has been spending its diversity money – currently about $5M a year, if you count the VPEI budget and the UMRP money which is now running about $1M a year.
President Schill has now called for UO’s colleges to develop new diversity plans within 90 days. I wonder where they will focus our efforts and our spending?
*OK, so it’s not just about the UO campus.
Tagged Bias Response Team, Diversity, Under-represented Minority Recruitment Plan
UO’s latest AA Plan shows UO faculty are about as diverse as the available PhDs
Longtime readers may remember that my public records obsession started back in 2006, after former UO General Counsel Melinda Grier and AAEO Penny Daugherty (still) tried to hide UO’s affirmative action plans, and the fact that Daugherty had failed to do them for several years. Grier stonewalled my PR requests for months, and then tried to charge me hundreds of dollars to see the ones they could find. Say what you will about Mike Gottfredson, but he refused to follow Frohnmayer in backdating Daugherty’s work. Here is the March 1 2016-17 Plan – which she finished with 22 minutes to spare.
As has been true for years, UO’s faculty (but not academic leadership) are generally representative with respect to race and ethnicity, and a bit less so with respect to gender.
How can this be true, when you look around campus and see almost no minority faculty? It’s because the number of minorities, and for that matter all first generation low-SES people getting PhD’s, is unacceptably low. For faculty, UO is compared to the hiring pool of all minority or female PhD’s or recent PhDs in that field. Given this, UO’s efforts to increase minority hiring amount to robbing Peter to pay Paul – they do nothing to increase the supply. Increasing the supply, starting at HS, was the impetus for UO’s “fill the pipeline” SAIL program.
I’ve put table 3 below showing statistically significant under-representation. Table 2 in the pdf shows the details comparing percentages at UO to the hiring pool. Keep in mind that all these data are based on self-reports to Daugherty’s AAEO. Given UO’s UMRP there is a $90,000 incentive for faculty to say that they are members of a federally protected minority group so the AA Plan may over-estimate the true number of minority faculty at UO. (Strangely, UO’s UMRP pays the $90K for hiring a minority even if the department does not have minority under-representation, but it won’t pay for hiring a woman even if women are underrepresented.)
Tagged Diversity, Under-represented Minority Recruitment Plan
Board of Trustees ASAC to meet Wed by phone to approve CoE diversity plan
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 2:30 pm HEDCO Education Building, Room 240. It’s a telephonic meeting, but apparently there will be a phone there to listen in. The full draft of the proposal is here.
From what I can tell this is the first specific reference to the administration’s use of the confidential Academic Analytics data to rank departments.
Tagged academic analytics, Diversity
Professor Zack neither thrilled nor honored to get UO’s MLK award
UO Professor Naomi Zack (Philosophy) is talking today at 12:00 at the ceremony in the Ford Alumni Center. She asked me to post this Eric Kelderman report on her thoughts about the award, in the Chronicle here:
… Ms. Zack said she was skeptical of some of the measures underway at the university because they rely too much on decisions at the department level, where people are too inclined to hire those like themselves. To prevent that, she said, the hiring process needs to be directed more from the administration.
“It’s human nature to hire people who are the students of your friends,” Ms. Zack said in an interview. That’s not necessarily racist, she said, but “the problem is that it works against excellence.”
“These hires need to be conducted by people who are required to look at the good of the institution as a whole,” she said. “We need something top-down here.”
Pres Schill and VP Alex-Assensoh call for Campus conversation on racial equity
By uomatters | 11/20/2015 - 9:09 am | 11/20/2015 Uncategorized
Today at 11:30 AM, Global Scholars Hall.
Dear Campus Community, Continue reading →
Non affirmative action compliant Triplett hire
11/4/2014 update: UO Auditor to investigate Affirmative Action waiver for Triplett hire
The UO administration spends millions on promoting student and faculty diversity. But will it follow the law when it comes to hiring Johnson Hall administrators? UO’s new Auditor is going to look into it:
From: Brenda Muirhead <brendam@uoregon.edu>
To: William Harbaugh <harbaugh@uoregon.edu>
Subject: RE: PR request, AAEO documents
Date: November 4, 2014 at 3:47:51 PM PST
Thank you for the email yesterday. I will review this case and determine if a request to waive a search was appropriately approved for this position. If you have any questions about the fraud and ethics reporting process, please don’t hesitate to contact my office at 541-346-6541.
Brenda Muirhead
UO Office of Internal Audit
11/3/2014: UO violated Title VII in Asst VP of Collaboration hire, according to Public Records Office:
Title VII is the section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act involving hiring, generally known as “affirmative action”. UO’s affirmative action policies require basic good hiring practices such as an open search and public job announcement, or an explanation for the exception. I’m no detective, but I think this evidence that UO violated its policies in hiring its new Assistant VP for University Initiatives and Collaboration is called “the dog that didn’t bark”:
From: “Thornton, Lisa” <pubrec@uoregon.edu>
Date: October 16, 2014 at 12:14:09 PM PDT
Subject: Public Records Request 2015-PRR-076
Dear Mr. Harbaugh-
The University does not possess records responsive to your request made 10/06/2014 for “documents related to the job search for the new UO Assistant VP for University Initiatives and Collaborations… [s]pecifically I am requesting any documents showing exemptions or exceptions to the UO job search procedures”. [The full request is below].
The office considers this to be fully responsive to your request, and will now close your matter. Thank you for contacting the office with your request.
Lisa Thornton
Office of Public Records
Presumably Ms Thornton and Dave Hubin have already brought this potential non-compliance with state and federal affirmative action law to the attention of Interim General Counsel Doug Park, for swift investigation and appropriate remedial efforts. But just in case, I have cced Park on the notification – at the risk of another set of retaliatory emails from him, accusing me of harassment.
10/16/2014: Administration kicks off diversity plan by hiring new AVP without an affirmative action search
“Around the 0” has the latest window dressing, here:
Sounds great. So, did they do an affirmative action compliant search for their latest Assistant VP hire? Doesn’t seem likely:
Date: October 15, 2014 at 11:04:18 AM PDT
To: Lisa Thornton <pubrec@uoregon.edu> Cc: doug park <dougpark@uoregon.edu>
Dear Ms Thornton
It’s been more than a week since I made this PR request. I would appreciate it if you could let me know when you expect to be able to provide the documents.
On MondayOct 6, 2014, at 3:19 PM:
Dear Ms Thornton –
This is a public records request for documents related to the job search for the new UO Assistant VP for University Initiatives and Collaborations, announced here: http://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-gains-statewide-education-system-expertise-latest-hire
Specifically I am requesting any documents showing exemptions or exceptions to the UO job search procedures explained at http://ups.uoregon.edu/content/new-appointments and http://ups.uoregon.edu/content/interim-recruitment-guidelines-unclassified-personnel
I believe that this search and hire may have violated UO policies and procedures, and Oregon and Federal affirmative action hiring laws, and therefore I ask for a fee waiver on the basis of public interest.
10/1/2014: Chuck Triplett, who helped Pernsteiner fire Lariviere, now works in JH Continue reading →
Tagged administrative bloat, Charles Triplett, Diversity, Lariviere Firing, Penny Daugherty
Scott Greenstone in the ODE on UO’s freshman class
Excellent reporting. Read it all, here:
… Targeting low-income students helps diversity because minority students are statistically more likely to fall into the low-income bracket, according to Grant Schoonover, an adviser for Pathway Oregon.
“There’s a greater number of first generation and historically underrepresented students in that cross-section,” Schoonover said.
Students who qualify for Pathway Oregon get a promise from the university that any tuition and fees the federal Pell grant and state grants don’t cover, the UO will absorb.
… But much of this change in diversity could simply be because high schools are getting more diverse, says Peace Bransberger, a research analyst for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
“If you look at the simple view, you’ll see that even from 2005… entering classes of students are more diverse,” Bransberger said.
Hiring? Don’t forget the $90,000 minority faculty UMRP scam
Update: With the faculty hiring season well under way, I thought I’d repost this classic.
7/4/2013 AA Plan update: For the first time in living memory, Penny Daugherty’s Affirmative Action Office has managed to complete the federally required annual update to UO’s AA Plan on schedule. Last time she and Randy Geller got President Gottfredson to backdate it just as Frohnmayer regularly did, making it look like UO was in compliance when it wasn’t. The updates are here, the “Executive Order” report deals with race and gender.
Take a look at Table 3 on page 41. Using the federally specified methodology and the latest NCES data, UO’s tenure track faculty is representative of the available pool of Phd’s with respect to race/ethnicity in every single job group. For women, there is under-representation in Music, Education, CAS Humanities, and CAS Sciences:
How can this be, when a quick glance around UO reveals so few minorities? It’s because the available pool of minority PhD’s is very small. Logically, you’d think we should focus our efforts on increasing the number of minorities who get PhD’s. (Which the recent SCOTUS decision leaves some scope for.)
Nope. Instead we’ve developed a “beggar thy other universities” Under-represented Minority Recruitment Plan, paying departments $90K for every existing racial or ethnic minority TTF PhD we are able to keep another university from hiring. UO spends about $1M a year on this. And to add to the absurdity, there’s nothing in the UMRP for hiring women, and it doesn’t apply to NTTFs. And don’t get me started on SES, political, or religious diversity. UO wants faculty who look different, not faculty who think different.
When it comes to UO’s central administration , they mostly care about hiring their cronies for “special assistant” jobs without open affirmative-action compliant searches. Former Journalism Dean Tim Gleason is the latest case.
Back in 2006 I filed a complaint with the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights about the UMRP, which at the time was giving the money directly to the minority faculty, who often took it as summer salary. Unequal pay for equal work. It took a lot of public records requests, a bar ethics complaint against Melinda Grier, and a long talk with Associate AG David Leith at the Oregon DOJ, but eventually UO changed the plan to give the money to departments, and require them to ensure the funding was not distributed solely on the basis of race.
So while the UMRP may now be mostly legal (though see below for some of the stunts Russ Tomlin pulled) it’s still stupid, and there’s no sign that new VPAA Doug Blandy is going to try and fix it.
The Faculty Club consensus is that Pres Mike Schill has been better for UO than his recent predecessors. So what's your guess on how our Board of Trustees next pick for Pres will compare to Schill?
Way better
Betterish
Gottfredsonesque
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November 11, 2019 Jennifer Tuerke 1 Comment
Voices of Hope feels an obligation to address our community about the challenges we have faced and our continued commitment to serve. The services offered by our newly established Crisis Center have been recently reduced due to the unpredictability of funding and need for coordinated efforts to address our overdose crisis. I am the current Chief Operations Officer, lifetime resident of Cecil County and a person living in long term recovery. I am a mom, sister, wife and neighbor who is proud to live here.
Voices of Hope is a non-profit 501(c)3 community based organization and one of the only Recovery Community Organizations in Maryland. People in recovery, family members and recovery allies from Cecil County created this organization in 2013. Our passion came from the frustration of watching our families become decimated by the addiction crisis. Our overdose rate was just below Baltimore’s, our suicide rate and child maltreatment rate led the state, and our resources were few.
Over time, we built a program to help people access recovery supports such as recovery housing and recovery education, and this work was supported entirely through donations and small local grants. We added backpack harm reduction outreach in our most disadvantaged communities weekly, connecting people to health care and treatment through compassionate relationships. We distributed over 3,000 doses of Narcan since 2018, and we operate a Certification program to train people in recovery to get jobs in the healthcare profession. More recently, we applied for big grants with the State and Federal government and we received foundation awards to support our work. We were primarily volunteer run up until 2017. These funds allowed us to hire over 25 local people, many of which are living in recovery. We are recognized as a leader in innovative substance use and disease prevention programs that have been built by grass roots efforts.
We were excited about the Crisis Center request for proposal and the services it would provide to our community. We were the only organization in Cecil County to apply. It funded a vision Voices of Hope already had and was actively pursuing. During the 2 1/2 months that our Crisis Center was open, we helped 75 people access opioid use treatment and 140 people were referred to us. Cecil County people received compassionate referrals to treatment providers, received transportation to services, and connected to peer and family supports. Although the State adjusted our grant and we are continuing to work with the Health Department to reach a new contract, we will continue to provide Substance Use Peer Support 24/7 with adjusted available resources through contacting (443) 993-7055 .
Voices of Hope embraces evidence-based practices as outlined by the CDC for how a community can respond to the opioid crisis. However, acceptance of these practices has been a challenge. Many supporters have asked, “How can we help?” Donations to support our mission are welcome and needed. Additionally, we need to strengthen relationships with community partners. Support from law enforcement, local government and health care providers are needed to adequately address the overdose crisis of Cecil County. More than just addressing the use of drugs, we need a community alignment to address our trauma from the effects of chaotic drug use and overdose deaths, build a recovery oriented system of care through coordination of resources and a structure that brings together prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, treatment, and the recovery community along with emergency responders, criminal justice and family preservation equally, encouraging all pillars to take their seat at the table. We need our politicians to be actively engaged with initiatives and invested in the success of our shared efforts. Without this, we are swimming against the tide of addiction that faces us in Cecil County.
Please support your local non-profit. If you know someone who has been helped by Voices of Hope, it is because someone donated to the cause and others volunteered in the effort. We sincerely thank all of those who have donated and have given time and support to our organization. Our strength is the people of Cecil County who are dedicated to preserving our families and our future.
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See the Winners of National Geographic’s ‘Nature Photographer of the Year’ Contest
by Robin De Clercq December 14, 2016
written by Robin De Clercq December 14, 2016
French underwater photographer Greg Lecoeur really captured the money shot when he was in South Africa in June 2015. Last month, his “Sardine Run” already won gold in the 2016 Siena International Photo Awards, and now he’s also been selected, from thousands of entries, as the grand-prize winner of the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest.
“During the sardine migration along the Wild Coast of South Africa, millions of sardines are preyed upon by marine predators such as dolphins, marine birds, sharks, whales, penguins, sailfishes and sea lions. The hunt begins with common dolphins that have developed special hunting techniques to create and drive bait balls to the surface. In recent years, probably due to over fishing and climate change, the annual sardine run has become more and more unpredictable.”
– Greg Lecoeur
Lecoeur eventually earned a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos with his picture, but he wasn’t the only one who won. Within four categories, a first, second and third best picture respectively won $2,500, $750 (and a signed National Geographic book) and $500. Varun Aditya of Tamil Nadu (India) placed first in the Animal Portraits category for a photo of a snake, Vadim Balakin of Sverdlovsk (Russia) placed first in the Environmental Issues category for a photo of polar bear remains in Norway, and Jacob Kapetein of Gerland (Netherlands) placed first in the Landscape category for a photo of a small beech tree in a river. Lecoeur’s photo won the Action category.
Animal Portraits, 1st place: “Dragging you deep into the woods!”
© Varun Aditya / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
I shot this at Amboli, Maharashtra, India, on July 24, 2016, during a morning stroll into the blissful rain forest. Ceaseless drizzles dampened the woods for 10 hours a day; the serene gloom kept me guessing if it was night or day. The heavy fog, chilling breeze, and perennial silence could calm roaring sprits. And there I saw this beauty. I wondered if I needed more reasons to capture the habitat, for I was blessed to see this at the place I was at. I immediately switched from the macro to the wide-angle lens and composed this frame.
Environmental Issues, 1st place: “Life and Death”
© Vadim Balakin / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
These polar bear remains have been discovered at one of the islands of northern Svalbard, Norway. We do not know whether the bear died from starving or aging, but more likely if we see the good teeth status, it was from starving. They say nowadays that such remains are found very often, as global warming and the ice situation influence the polar bear population.
Landscape, 1st place: “Struggle of Life”
© Jacob Kaptein / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Last year I participated in the Marius van der Sandt Beurs. This scholarship stimulates photography by young photographers. For a whole year I was guided by some excellent nature photographers to realize a project I wanted to accomplish. I chose a natural stream restoration project of a nature organization in the Netherlands. The first time I entered this patch of forest, I immediately saw this little beech. I came back several times to photograph it. One evening, just after sunset, all the light conditions were perfect. I stood in the cold water for more than an hour making many photos while I experimented with different shutter speeds.
Landscape, other laureates
The first cold days of winter have frozen the surface of a pond. The first snowfall has revealed its delicate beauty. A long shutter speed enhances the movement of the clouds around Mt. Cimon de la Pala, Paneveggio-Pale San Martino Natural Park, Italy
© Alessandro Gruzza / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A colossal Cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37000 feet en route to South America
© Santiago Borja / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
This GreenMeteor was captured while taking a time-lapse to document the urbanization around the Skyislands in India. The camera was set at 15s exposure for 999 shots and this came into one of those shots. Green Meteor’s greenish color come from a combination of the heating of oxygen around the meteor and the mix of minerals ignited as the rock enters Earth’s atmosphere. I think for those 15 seconds, I was the luckiest photographer on the planet to have capture this phenomenon.
Action, other laureates
An EF2 tornado bears down on a home in Wray, Colorado- May 7, 2016. As soon as we were safe, as the tornado roared off into the distance through a field before roping out, we scrambled up the hill to check on the residents.Thankfully, everyone was alright, and we were grateful for that. As I was checking in with a young woman coming out of the basement, we became very aware of a strong new circulation – right above our heads. We needed to run for cover, and did so before saying a proper goodbye.
© Tori O’Shea / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A remarkable conservation success story, the graceful Great Egret was saved from the brink of disappearance in Hungary, when in 1921 there were only 31 mating pairs remaining. Less than a century later, international conservation efforts have triumphed. We can now count over 3,000 mating pairs in Hungary alone.
© Zsolt Kudich / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Green turtles devour the soft tentacles of a jellyfish which are a common food source for many turtles.
© Scott Portelli / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Animal Portraits, other laureates
Fry of a Peacock Bass hover around their mom for protection against predators. Peacock Bass, part of the Cichlid family, exercise excellent parental car and will protect their young against any threat that approaches them. This tropical species from South America was intentionally introduced in South Florida during the 1980s to control the African Tilapia, another invasive species.
© Michael O’Neill / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
3rd place (a)
‘Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level,? friendship knows no age and gender,? friendship knows no distance’ -quoted by Luis A Ribeiro Branco-. This way must be. And this images perfectly could represent that message. Two Empusa Pennata which seem to play a game on the thin plant. Wildlife image and absolutely uncommon to see a couple of this specie together.
© Jose Pesquero Gomez / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
3rd place (b)
This image was taken last summer on Skomer Island, Wales. It is well known for its wildlife, the puffin colony is one of the largest in U.K.The photo shows a detail or study of an Atlantic puffin resting peacefully under the rain. As Skomer is inhabited, puffins do not feel afraid of humans, and so people can be close to puffins and the photographer can think about the right composition and take this kind of intimate portraits. Also that morning the conditions came together: rain and light.
© Mario Suarez Porras / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
The Crow saw the Puffy Owl resting and decided to chase away the Owl from its territory.
© Chia Boon Oo Lawrence / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Environmental Issues, other laureates
Eighty percent of the San Francisco Bay Area wetlands – 16,500 acres – has been developed for salt mining. Water is channeled into these large ponds, leave through evaporation, and the salt is then collected. The tint of each pond is an indication of its salinity. Micro-organisms inside the pond change color according to the salinity of its environment. This high salinity salt pond is located right next to Facebook HQ where ~4,000 people work every day.
© Chris McCann / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
This image is a magnification of plastic particles in eyeliner exploring just one facet of the synthetic swarm suspended in our oceans. The particles, lash lengthening fibres, illuminating powders and glitters these products contain are in fact tiny pieces of plastic. Every time we wash these products from our bodies or ingest them as we lick the glosses from our lips, we unknowingly add to the trillions of micro plastic particles currently infesting every level of the ocean.
© Eleanor Ryder / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Honorable mention (1)
A young woman in bikini looks at an approaching forest fire near the beach. A firefighting plane drops water to extinguish the wildfire. This image was taken at the beach of Son Serra, on the island of Mallorca on August 18, 2016.
© Sergej Chursyn / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
In Greenland’s pristine landscape lies a US Air Force base which was abandoned in 1947 and everything was left behind, vehicles, asbestos laced structures, and over 10,000 aviation fuel barrels. The Inuits who live in the region call the rusted remains American Flowers. In 2014 and 2015 I camped out solo to photograph it. In 2015 my 5 day solo camping trip turned into 8, as I couldn’t get picked up do to the weather.
© Ken Bower / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
A solitary bear sits on the edge of one of the Barter Islands. There is no snow, when at this time of year, there should be. In speaking with the locals in Kaktovic, they’ve noted that it’s been an unseasonably warm winter, and that the ice will be late in forming this year. This will have an impact on the local polar bear population, when it comes time to hunt seals for their food in the winter months.
© Patty Waymire / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
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Reference: Karp, P. D. Hypothesis Formation and Qualitative Reasoning in Molecular Biology. Knowledge Systems Laboratory, June, 1989.
Abstract: This dissertation investigates scientific reasoning from a computational perspective. The investigation focuses on a program of research in molecular biology that culminated in the discovery of a new mechanism of gene regulation in bacteria, called attenuation. The dissertation concentrates on a particular type of reasoning called hypothesis formation. Hypothesis-formation problems occur when the outcome of an experiment predicted by a scientific theory does not match that observed by a scientist. I present methods for solving hypothesis-formation problems that have been implemented in a computer program called HYPGENE. This work is also concerned with how to represent theories of molecular biology in a computer, and with how to use such theories to predict experimental outcomes; I present a framework for performing these tasks that is implemented in a program called GENSIM. I tested both HYPGENE and GENSIM on sample problems that biologists solved during their research on attenuation. The dissertation includes a historical study of the attenuation research. This study is novel because it examines a large, complex, and modern program of scientific research. The thesis treats hypothesis formation as a design problem, and uses design methods to solve hypothesis-formation problems. The HYPGENE program reasons backward from an error in a GENSIM prediction of an experimental outcome. It uses hypothesis-design operators to design modifications to the initial conditions of the experiment, and to the biological theory, such that the new predicted outcome of the experiment computed by GENSIM will match the observation. This approach is largely domain-independent because most design operators include no domain concepts. The design operators are complete in that they can synthesize any hypothesis that can be represented within the GENSIM framework. HYPGENE uses a planner to satisfy its design goals. This method of hypothesis formation is efficient because it is goal directed (in contrast to previous generate-and-test approaches), and because reference experiments can be used both to guide the generation of hypotheses, and to filter hypotheses. A reference experiment has initial conditions that are similar to those of the anomalous experiment, but has an outcome that is correctly predicted by the theory.
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On the eve of his wedding to Brianne Whitcomb, Eric Davenport sat next to the bed where his fiancée lay, waiting for the sound that could mean the end of his life as he knew it, or at least, the end of his life with Brianne.
As vice-president of the company that had made his father a multi-millionaire before he was forty, Eric had been blessed with a privileged upbringing and the knowledge he’d always have a place in his father’s business. He’d known how lucky he was and enjoyed life to the fullest. But lately he’d been restless. Dissatisfied. And his general dissatisfaction had started to spill over into everything: work, home, even his relationship with Brianne. He’d sensed the same dissatisfaction in her, but chalked it up to stress, telling himself once the wedding was over, things would get back to normal.
Then a week ago, he’d discovered the truth.
God, Brianne, what a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into, he thought.
Brianne was fast asleep, clearly exhausted from visiting with friends and family at the rehearsal dinner earlier that night, not to mention all the work that went into planning a high society wedding. Even if she hadn’t been an event planner, Brianne’s perfectionism and sense of aesthetic would have made planning the wedding a difficult task, but add in her chosen profession, and she’d been determined to throw an event people would talk about for years.
The funny thing was, despite her ties to high society, Brianne was one of the most down-to-earth, sweet, and kind women in the world, not to mention drop-dead gorgeous with a body made for sin. It was no wonder he’d jumped at the chance to date her when it presented itself, and what had followed had been six terrific years.
Only now he suspected they’d been fooling themselves. Now he wondered if the fact the whole world viewed them as the perfect couple—the man and woman who came from similar backgrounds, shared similar interests, and never fought—had somehow disguised the fact they were actually better suited as friends than lovers.
Now he was playing devil’s advocate, disregarding all the reasons that he and Brianne belonged together, and focusing on the reasons that indicated that might not be true.
One very big reason specifically.
He wished he didn’t have to. That he could dismiss his concerns as typical wedding jitters. He wished he could climb into bed with Brianne right now.
Take her in his arms.
Tell her how much he loved her.
Tell her how excited he was to be exchanging vows with her the next day in front of all their family and friends.
It was what he should be doing. How he should be feeling.
He’d wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. But that was when he’d convinced himself she felt the same way.
Instead, Eric was probably going to have to do something that his family and friends weren’t going to understand, something that could in all likelihood make Brianne hate him—at least at first. Though to be fair, he told himself, if he called off the wedding it probably wouldn’t come as a complete surprise to Brianne. She’d sensed something was off between them as well. Earlier, she’d even questioned whether Eric was having second thoughts.
What she didn’t talk about was the reasons she might be having second thoughts.
In that moment, as if she could read his mind, Brianne stirred, stretching her arms and legs out, and smiling in a way he’d never actually seen before. Then she sighed. The sound was breathy and sexual. Her hand rose, cupping her breast, and she massaged the lush mound, giving away the intensity of her dream even before she moaned.
Eric closed his eyes and listened to the words that spilled from her lush lips.
She said she wanted him. She said she needed him.
Only the name she spoke wasn’t Eric’s.
It was Eric’s best friend’s name.
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Early one summer morning a few years ago, Nathaniel Hannan was confronted by one of his students brandishing an antique Colt six-shooter. The private teacher had been hired by the young boy’s super-wealthy New York parents to ensure that his academic performance matched the family’s society social clique. Fortunately the instructor, who had been preparing a Latin lesson at one of the family’s homes, owned a six-gun similar to the one now pointed at him and noticed that it was not fully cocked, signify the artillery could not be fired immediately.
” He seemed to be under the delusion that he was a mob member taking retaliation upon me for a drug cope gone bad ,” Hannan says of the son, who he says had mental health problems.” I managed to handle the situation with a minimum of physical violence. I grabbed the barrel towards the ceiling and disarmed him .”
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The tutor recognised the weapon, famously used by the US cavalry in the old west, as part of a accumulation on display in the family home. When Hannan clarified what had happened to the boy’s father, the man” sort of shrugged and asked if I missed combat salary “.” There were no sanctions to the son ,” Hannan recollects.” The father-god did, however, stop retaining the gun on display and I took the missiles out and saved them .” Some weeks earlier, Hannan had to disarm the son again after he accommodated a knife to the tutor’s throat. But the mentor stresses that this was the only one of his five long-term berths with super-rich houses over the past 10 times where he had to deal with such extreme behaviour.
His experience is untypical for the British tuition manufacture which, according to the Tutors’ Association, is worth around PS2bn a year. The majority of households who hire lecturers in Britain are middle-class parents, with students often receiving additional assignments in the night or at the weekend to help with schoolwork or grammar school entrance quizs. But a handful of firms in London and the dwelling counties likewise cater educators for the super-rich, who account for about 10 -2 5% of their clients and can offer between PS50, 000 and PS70, 000, or more, a year. One, Tutors International, says nearly all its purchasers are high or ultra-high net-worth families.
Hannan, who works for the Oxford-based company, been in a position to encountered only one gun-toting pupil, but the Educators International founder Adam Caller says his staff have had to deal with incidents of self-harm, child defection and threats of violence. He once arranged to surreptitiously remove another teacher from her placement in the western US after a boy gathered a spear on her.” The father didn’t think it was a problem but she was scared for her life. We had to sneak her out of the house when the papa was at the bakery, which he went to every morning. The police waited at the entry to the property and escorted her to an aeroplane .”
Caller believes that such incidents reflect the increasingly complex and wearying asks educators face while living with uber-wealthy kinfolks. In the past four months, these press have pushed the company’s top salaries to about $250,000( PS180, 000) a year.” By far the greatest rise in the highly paid activities is coming from Asia ,” he says.” We’ll be making more than$ 1m in revenue from four educators in Hong Kong this year .”
In the past, the toughest characters might involve tutoring small children in up to 15 GCSEs, but now lecturers are routinely required to be fluent and teach in two or three speeches, from French to Russian and Mandarin Chinese, and to create a lesson programme suited to school curriculums in different countries. Some of the best-paid personas also involve addressing study rigors, mental health problems and other special needs: Hannan once is collaborating with a young heir who had suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle collision. Others require additional work: the company has a job advertised in Florida, where the mentor will need to act as a personal assistant and project director for the family, overseeing the rebuilding of their central residence, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Irma.
However, the mere fact that the family has such wealth and advantage can be the root of their children’s difficulties, says Caller. Some of these class” don’t work very well because they’re so rich”, he explains. For illustration, they never have to be on time for a flight, because they own a private plane.” The juveniles grow up without any consequences for their lack of responsibility ,” he says. Some of them also think that” if they employed struggle into something, they won’t do any better than if they didn’t. They’ve got nothing to work for .”
One role currently advertised involves are concerned with a 12 -year-old Japanese son, whose affair with his parents is described as ” toxic “. The advert states:” He frequently ferments[ sic] bother between himself and his institutions. His access to the family wealth has led to his ability effectively to’ buy’ friends, and … it is unclear whether he has any real friends at all. Over the years, the student has come to rely on his father’s money to solve all sorts of questions .”
The job, which has a minimum salary of $225,000( PS162, 000 ), or $300,000( PS216, 000) for a duet, may require moving with the boy to the US and being on call at all times:” The successful candidate will have to work as a teacher, mentor, guidebook and friend, and in some ways a surrogate mother .”
Tutors to the rich and far-famed: Nathaniel McCullagh( left) of Simply Learning, two of his team, and a pupil, Freya. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian
Another of Hannan’s former patrons, who does not want to be mentioned, says that she and her financier partner hired a educator to mentor their son, who has Tourette’s syndrome.” The only thing he found that appeased it down was marijuanas ,” she says,” so he probably started smoking a little too much. He was feeling very down, so it was a struggle to get him up in the morning and get him to class. That was when we realised we needed to intervene .” Their first step was to send the boy to a therapeutic wilderness clique, which tackles addiction, mental health and behavioural issues such as a calming natural environment.” It took him away from other minors who had high-pitched feeling and other issues. When he finished, he was ready to re-enter normal life but not be in the same environment with the same friends .”
The role required not just working with the son, but too expediting his parents. The job description stated that the teacher should” used to help to enforce their borders and[ restraint] the check behaviours of their son. He has come to learn that if he makes enough of a fuss he can get what he misses from his parents and while they do not want this to continue they need support to develop strategies to be able maintain their authority when under pressure from their son .”
Hannan, who studied at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Oxford University , is not simply helped the son with university applications and preparation for admission tests but likewise bonded with him through their reciprocal ardour of car-mechanics, often helping the teenager fix his vehicle.” I utilized the rapport to help him are aware that his mothers intended when they said or did things ,” he says.” The upshot was that he was more likely to respond in a way that didn’t lead to shouting coincides .”
The professionalism required in a private tutoring grouping is very different to that required in a classroom, says Hannan, who previously taught in a private school in Washington DC.” For all kinds of child protection intellects, being a school teacher requires a certain emotional interval. In a family environment that changes; it’s important to be able to develop a sincere rapport with these folks .” His former student’s mother says that Hannan became a friend to her son, who is now at university.” My son acknowledged[ that there was] somebody to help guide him, moving forward ,” she lends.” To have person by his surface, bracing his hands, was a really positive thing for him .”
Other tutors say faults in families often arise due to the high-flying and transient nature of both parents’ places or life-styles. Mark Maclaine, who co-founded the agency Tutorfair in 2012 after more than a decade of tutoring, says teachers can also find themselves acting as an intermediary between highly demanding parents and their infant.” If you’ve got a parent who is very successful in their vocation, they have been used to getting develops by pushing their staff ,” he says.” But boys don’t work the same way. The mothers realise that the life skills that helped them become incredibly successful don’t apply to their child who is struggling. A mint of their own families turn round to me and say:’ I conclude I’m making it worse .’ If your daddy is the king or your mum is the head of a huge corporation, that’s going to be dialled up to 11.”
However, Dirk Flower, a Harley Street psychologist who works with super-rich households and various tutoring agencies, says educators can also find themselves in families whose value systems undermine their efforts. The standard gripe is that parents expect the educator to achieve top tiers even though it is the pupil’s schooling is disrupted by frequent holidays, he says. But the clank of values can be more extreme.” You do get a criminal family where the 13 -year-old is can walk with a Kalashnikov because their father craves them to take over the empire .”
Cleo Masliah, a teacher who works with another agency, Simply Learning, says a significant aspect of her work with both children and their parents is helping them to operate in western society. Masliah, who studied art record at the Courtauld Institute in London and interior design at La Cambre in Belgium, has worked with ultra high net worth families in Dubai, Moscow, Switzerland and the Caribbean. When she tutored a young Russian daughter who wanted to get into a producing British boarding school, she had to advise the mother on how to present herself.” In Russia, if you’re inspect local schools and you want to show the principal that you’re serious, you take out all your diamonds and your Birkin bag and your Chanel clothings and “youre wearing” some neat stilettos ,” she says.” That’s frowned upon by an academic institution in Britain. So part of the job is to say,’ You know what? It would be a good plan for you to wear plains and keep the jewellery to a minimum. And you know what? You’re a smart, high-profile lawyer; let’s make sure they know that .’ And the girl went in .”
Masliah says the grey zone of swapping between being an authority figure and behaving like an older sister to being a friend and adviser to a parent is what draws the number of jobs ” phenomenal “. However, she warning that teachers must remember the ability their clients manipulated.” They are excessively affluent, and your relationship with them is going to be what they decide it’s going to be. If you have an issue with a normal middle-class pedigree, the worst that is going to happen is that you never speak to each other again. This is different; these are often people in a lot of power. And you’re often not in your home country – you’re in their country, where they are very important. I do a background check on my patrons before I working in collaboration with them. There’s a level of shady that I am not working with, because I’m putting myself in danger ,” she says.
Emma Swanson, the founder of the UK-based international company Tutoring Futures, says dwelling tutoring has become much more popular than boarding school for the super-rich because it is more convenient and allows the parents to spend more time with the children.” The father who needs to travel a lot now takes his children with him ,” she says.” But, clearly, the ultra-high-net-worth do live a very transient lifestyle and the government has dwellings around the world and ships they wish to expend their time on .”
In late 2016, James Clement, a former high-school teacher who works independently as a mentor in Washington DC, did a tutoring place with their own families who took their children out of school for a period to travel round the world. For 12 weeks, they sailed around Indonesia on a 75 -metre superyacht. He and another tutor learnt the girls between 8am and 1pm on the observation deck, which was converted into a schoolroom, taking short breaks to play board games. Two or three days a week, the lecturers would be invited to go jet- or water-skiing with the girls. On other daytimes, they might depart snorkelling or scuba diving on a coral reef, which would be used to educate their students about marine biology, or stay hamlets, volcanoes and islands relevant to their history and geography lessons.
While both teachers dine the majority of members of their dinners with the 20 crew, on occasion they would be invited to join the family for dinner. But these were not simply social invitations, with the instructors sometimes expected at a day’s notice to give PowerPoint representations on a wall-height projector screen in the yacht’s store.” Formerly they asked if we would pay a 30 -4 5 minute performance on the history of Indonesia ,” says Clements. Other topics included the country’s political climate and scientific facts related to the places they visited.
Such exercises reflect how lecturers tread a fine line between being friends of the family and mere employees. Nathaniel McCullagh, managing director of Simply Learning, says instructors enjoy an promoted status compared with other staff due to their academic credentials and close relationship with “their childrens”. But this can risk alienating the household’s” loyal fees”- the personal assistant, the nanny, the butler- whom the tutors need on their surface because they know the family’s foibles and secrets.” They’ll be the ones to say,’ This is a good time to talk to the mothers ‘,[ or]’ Whatever you do, don’t go into that room .'”
Although lecturers sometimes receive privileges, including expensive offerings such as Rolex watches, use of private airplanes and family holiday dwellings, McCullagh stresses that they must be” unimpressed by their smothers “.” We certainly can’t thrown anyone in with chippings on their shoulder or any kind of overwhelming adoration for their own families or the money or the lifestyle ,” he says.” You’re in this macrocosm of massive resource and, for a limited period of time, you’re part of it. The next day, the family is going home in a limo and you’re back on a set home. You start reckoning,’ Why am I on easyJet when they’re taking their own jet ?’ You’ve got to understand that the parents are your boss, but in many cases they don’t want anything to do with you. They are abdicating their responsibility not because they’re bad beings but because they have chosen a professional to do the occupation. If you’re the sort of person who needs constant affirmation from a mother, you could have questions .”
Caller says tutors are sometimes asked by mothers to help a child appreciate their privileges, such as getting the student to do bread for the family for a few months, or cooking a snack from scratch, including making their own pasta. Other assignments can be more elaborate. For instance, one family facilitated build a library for a school in a disadvantaged province of southern India, and assignment their two children- under the supervision of two lecturers- with liaising with contractors, the principal and interior designers, as well as organising the fundraising and buying books.
Melissa Harvey: purchasers were intrigued by her’ humble’ background. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Tutor Melissa Harvey says both sets of parents she worked with visualized her comparatively humble background as a positive influence on their own children. The modern conversations graduate, who previously made at the Swans international primary school in Marbella in Spain, says the two pedigrees” were curious that I went to a comprehensive. I ran in four errands to get through university and I think they heard those things as a positive force for their own children .” One of her jobs, arranged by Tutors International, involved a private cruise through the Amazon jungle where she says her two students were shown how local beings lived.” It was wonderful to be able to show these girls, who comes here a very privileged background, other children who don’t. We showed them how they established their invests or their meat, utilizing all the resources around them. Some of the children didn’t have shoes. We sacrificed them some emblazoned paper and you would have thought we had given them a pot of gold. For the girls, that was a real eye-opener .”
Ultra high net worth houses worldwide are predicted to pass down more than $16 tn to benefit of future generations over the next three decades, in agreement with the specialists Wealth-X. Do the mentors have any anxieties that the extended support they provide is reinforcing structural difference? For sample, Hannan, whose own family was on government assistance when he was growing up, had contributed to one of his former home-schooled students with intensive academic support for their undergraduate studies.” The student started to have difficulties in the first semester[ because of] learning disabilities ,” he says.” So her baby asked me to teach the material to her in a way that she would understand. It’s very difficult to me because her major is not a topic in which I took any coursework at university. So that intends, in a sense, I’m going to university again. Because I have to read everything my student is reading from scratch and, unlike her, I don’t have the benefit of to participate in the classroom and listening to the professor .”
Hannan at least guesses his piece has social cost.” In some of these students there is absolutely the sense of’ Why am I bother to try? Daddy’s coin is always going to be there to take care of me .’ But others feel,’ I’m going to interval myself from that money, from my parents. I want to think of myself as myself .’ The crux of the issue is helping them find out that their lives can have profound meaning separate from this great blessing of house money .”
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A Dangerous Left-Wing Conspiracy
By AIA - 05 March 2019. Politics USA
If possible, Richard Nixon will be rolling in his grave in agony as he watches the daily faux pas by Senate and House Democrats, their media allies (Washington Post, CNN, NYT, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, AP), Hollywood, Never Trumpers, corrupt DOJ/FBI officials etc, as they all race to the bottom of the barrel in their dangerous attempt to cover up for Obama, Hillary Clinton, and corrupt DOJ/FBI officials.
What was Nixon’s crime? His attempt to cover up his involvement in a failed bugging of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. in 1972. Why was Nixon interested in bugging the DNC building? Simple, so he can eavesdrop on their conversations. The Washington Post did a herculean job as they methodically exposed Nixon, it was the golden age of journalism, it was also the golden age of bipartisan politics, as Republicans rightly abandoned Nixon leading to his resignation.
Several years later, in the thick of a contentious Presidential election, Obama and Hillary Clinton committed the same crimes that led to Nixon’s resignation, without paying any price so far! Observe, Obama deployed the power of the DOJ and FBI to monitor the communication of his political rival (Trump). He made Nixon looked like an amateur by claiming he is trying to find out if his political rival is colluding with Russians.
Let’s take a deep breath and sit back. Obama defended Russians during his contentious debate with Romney and the media sided with him. He tacitly deferred to Russians after refusing to enforce his Syrian Red Line, and the media largely sided with him. Russians invaded Crimean and Obama gave a speech about the curve of history, blah, blah, blah, and the media largely bleated their support.
Taking a cue from Obama, Hillary in a made for drama setting presented a misspelled button to her Russian counterpart, however, instead of reading RESET, the Russian word on the button (prophetically) meant OVERLOADED or OVERCHARGED! And the media sanctimoniously lectured us that intent is what matters! Really?
Before we become OVERCHARGED and OVERLOADED, I want us to take a trip down memory lane. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, a British reporter discovered a memo that outlined Ted Kennedy’s dangerous collusion with the Soviets to deny Reagan a second term! A striking claim in the memo is that Ted Kennedy controls the media in the U.S! Wow! No wonder Democrats are given a free pass while Republicans are crucified for saying or doing what Democrats say or do! The Democratic Party that championed slavery is still the undisputable master over her media slaves! Interesting!
Is the US media actually enslaved to the Democratic Party? Yes. Let’s fast forward to the last election as I build my case. Hillary Clinton decided without any pressure to fraudulently organized her communication outside the control of the State Department while Secretary of State. Knowing her propensity for cutting dubious deals and knowing it would leave a vast digital trail, she decided it was best to break all State Department rules on communication by using an unsecured homebrew email server, which was hosted in her home. When words leaked out about the setup, she deliberately deleted about 30,000 emails and to make sure they stay deleted she used special software to bleach the hard drive. Not satisfied with that, she gave her phones to her henchmen to break in pieces with a hammer so that NOTHING will ever be recovered from these devices!
Poor Trump, he rightly believed that if Obama, Hillary and the media can turn to Russians for help, why can’t he imitate the new norm? Hence he called on Russians to recover the emails deleted by Hillary since the FBI was covering up for her! This drew sharp rebukes from Democrats, compromised Republicans and the media, leading to a banana republic styled investigation of a presidential candidate and escalated into a full blown investigation of a President!
In order to conscript and compromise journalists, Obama’s officials repeatedly unmasked and leaked the identities of political opponents (whose foreign calls were captured in NSA database). Unmasked identifies were leaked to (wait for it) journalists from Washington Post, CNN, NYT etc! Hence fourth estate journalists who ought to remain neutral and objective were compromised early on and joined the bad guys in their dangerous left-wing conspiracy to destroy the fabric of the nation by destroying a duly elected President! Ted Kennedy was right after all. The US media are slaves of the Democratic Party.
Let’s examine a concise list of those who conspired against the US and against the President:
Glenn Simpson the co-founder of Fusion GPS, his company compiled the false dossier on Trump with inputs from Christopher Steele and Nellie Ohr (wife of Bruce Ohr a twice demoted DOJ employee who failed to disclose her involvement).
Hillary Clinton, whose campaign bankrolled the false dossier on Trump after it was reportedly abandoned by a surprisingly sane Never Trumper website. Hillary hid her involvement with the salacious unverified dossier, until she was exposed.
The DNC equally bankrolled the fake dossier, like Hillary, they hid their involvement until they were exposed.
Obama turned a blind eye to rampant and illegal unmasking and leaking of American identities by his partisan officials.
Fired acting General Attorney Sally Yates; she signed off on a surveillance warrant based on false information from the fake dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton and her fellow conspirators.
Fired and disgraced FBI Director James Comey. He provided the news hook sought by CNN when he brief Trump about the dossier which he called salacious and unverified, he equally signed off an extension of the illegal surveillance of former Trump campaign official using the salacious and unverified dossier as an evidentiary source.
Comey’s fired and disgraced deputy, Andrew McCabe. He illegal opened a criminal case against the President without first establishing a crime; he is currently under investigation for repeatedly lying under oath.
Others are FBI employees Peter Strzok (who was fired for anti-Trump behavior and is under investigation), Lisa Page, deputy AG Rosenstein (who appointed Mueller and briefly discussed removing President Trump by persuading his Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment), Christopher Steel (former UK spy), Bruce Ohr (DOJ employee), Nellie Ohr (Bruce’s wife, who worked with Fusion GPS to produce the discredited dossier), Susan Rice, Alexander Downer (an Australian Diplomat in the UK), Adam Schiff, Nadal, Al Green (US Democratic Congressmen). Media and entertainment slaves who make up the rear guard of the conspirators are CNN, Washington Post, Hollywood actresses and actors, New York Times, etc.
Time will fail me if am to mention the various nefarious actors in Crossfire Hurricane (the counter-intelligence mission illegally commission by Obama’s officials to spy on the campaign of a political opponent) However, it was the largest left-wing conspiracy whose chief goal is to remove President Trump by crook.
These conspirators deliberately poisoned US political discuss, they brazenly demean the office of the President as a result of their unfounded anger towards a duly elected President. False accusations, illegal investigations, illegal leaks, insults and name calling are now so regular that USA is gradually becoming the United States of Africa/Asia (former President Obama actually has ties to these continents, Kenya in Africa and Indonesia in Asia), no wonder he fundamentally brainwashed gullible journalists and politicians to drop their investigative journalism for spoon fed journalism, and their objectivity for faux pas objectivity.
Meanwhile, both Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi famously claimed in 2018 that civility will return if Democrats win control of either the Senate or the House, alas, they were lying, but the lies may have swayed worried suburban women into voting for democrats in the last mid-term election. However, Democrats lied; they are not interested in changing their acidic tones. They are determined that Obama’s and Hillary’s crimes and cover-ups must not be exposed; else Americans will rightly refuse to vote democrats for decades to come.
Therefore, recent statements and actions from Hillary and Democrats revealed that the US is headed towards uncharted territory. The conspiracy is becoming larger and darker since Mueller has been unable to prove any allegation in the discredited dossier, indeed, even Cohen who was forced to turn on Trump has denied the chief claims contained in the dossier. Interestingly, Steel who purportedly compiled the dossier claimed the material cannot be used in a law court! If this is the case why did the DOJ/FBI use the dossier to secure warrants on multiple occasions to spy on an innocent American?
The conspirators have proven beyond doubt that America is no longer the land of liberty and true freedom. Observe; several Trump associates who were investigated for Collusion with Russians (as alleged in the dossier) were indicted base on unrelated matters (since collusion isn’t a crime). Hence some were indicted for tax evasion or lying to the FBI in unrelated matters. If this charade continues, I personally urge France to request the US to return the Statue of Liberty, since the US is rapidly becoming a banana republic, where the lives and properties of political opponents are no longer safe. Just because the enslaved U.S media fully run rear guard action on behalf of their Democratic Party masters, who wish to expand their vast and dangerous left-wing conspiracies. Sadly, neither the rule of law, nor adherence to DOJ/FBI policies, nor attorney and client privileges, etc means anything in this new and dangerous America! The one created by Obama!
It is time for ordinary Americans to take their country back. Self enslaved MSM cannot and will not help them. Why? It is not the nature of slaves to help freemen to escape, rather, slaves seek to enslave freemen everywhere. Vote out the conspirators and their supporters. May GOD bless America – Amen.
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Posted by :Andy Behbakht On : September 10, 2015
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Thursday, September 10, 2015 – DC TV Podcasts, which is a podcast circle for multiple high-quality DC Comics TV dedicated podcasts, is expanding with a special sixth podcast, that will cover the other side of the DC live-action adventures: DC Movies Podcast!
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DC Movies Podcast will be helmed by a trio of hosts featuring old and new DC TV Podcasts members: Chris Doucher (Owner/Managing Editor of GeekNerdNet; Contributor of The Flash Podcast), Gregg Katzman (Freelance Writer at ScreenRant; Host of Legends of Tomorrow Podcast) and Rose Moore (Geek Culture Blogger and Writer for Moviepilot) all of whom have made names for themselves individually in the world of pop culture, and will now be joining forces to cover DC Comics on the big screen.
This podcast will begin at the end of September with an episode zero where you will get to know the hosts better as well as how DC Movies Podcast will be working each month. Andy Behbakht, host/producer of The Flash Podcast as well as producing Supergirl Radio and Legends of Tomorrow Podcast, is a producer on DC Movies Podcast and will work behind the scenes with our trio of hosts.
At the start of this podcast, there will be two episodes released per month. As 2016 approaches, which will be the big start of the DC Extended Universe, starting with the highly anticipated Zack Snyder film Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice being released March 23, 2016. On each episode, there will be news coverage, speculation as well as eventual reviews of each DC film as the year goes on.
In addition to the coverage of the new DC franchises from Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Movies Podcast will also cover past as well as upcoming DC animated movies from Warner Bros. Animation. Join the hosts of DC Movies Podcast as they go into the beginning of Warner Bros. mega-franchises in the DC Extended Universe!
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DC TV PODCASTS LAUNCHES LEGENDS OF TOMORROW PODCAST – PRESS RELEASE
Posted by :Andy Behbakht On : May 14, 2015
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LEGENDS OF TOMORROW PODCAST
FOR NEW CW ARROW/FLASH SPIN-OFF SERIES!
New Fan Podcast Dedicated to the Upcoming DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV Show on The CW.
Thursday, May 14, 2015 – DC TV Podcasts, which is a podcast circle for multiple high-quality DC Comics TV dedicated podcasts, is expanding its family with the addition of a 5h podcast that will be launching through DC TV Podcasts: the Legends of Tomorrow Podcast!
Legends of Tomorrow Podcast is a fan podcast devoted to the upcoming DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV show on The CW, an Arrow/The Flash team-up spin-off created by the creators of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg as well as fellow Arrow creator Marc Guggenheim.
Legends of Tomorrow Podcast will be helmed by a legendary trio: Tony Kim (Moderator, Web-Master of Crazy 4 Comic Con, Gregg Katzman (Freelance Writer) and Kat Calamia (Host of Comic Uno and Comic Frontline), all of whom have made names for themselves individually in the world of pop culture, and will now be joining forces to celebrate the arrival of the Legends of Tomorrow.
This fan podcast will begin with a “Season Zero” – as The Flash Podcast did, which Supergirl Radio is currently doing – sometime in May with an episode that will tell the listeners more about the hosts as well as discuss what is known thus far about DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
Starting in the summer, the listeners will get to join the journey and discover more about the characters that Legends of Tomorrow will be featuring such as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl, Rip Hunter and many more. Once Legends of Tomorrow debuts on The CW sometime between January/February of 2016, Legends of Tomorrow Podcast will become your one-stop shop for all things related to the series. Andy Behbakht, host of The Flash Podcast, is a producer on the show and will work behind the scenes with our trio of hosts.
Legends of Tomorrow Podcast “Season Zero” will provide an in-depth exploration of the main characters from Legends of Tomorrow in the DC Comics Universe, dissecting both past interpretations of the characters and the current New 52 versions throughout the season, episodes dedicated to iconic storylines and big events that have involved some of the characters. There will also be focus on as many of the characters in other media in which they have appeared, from movies to television and much more!
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is an upcoming superhero team-up drama by Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl), Andrew Kreisberg (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl), Marc Guggenheim (Arrow) and Sarah Schechter Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, upcoming Pan), that will be bringing together heroes and villains from CW’s hit shows Arrow and The Flash to face one big threat.
The CW gave the Warner Bros. TV project a series pick-up on May 7, 2015 and describes as following, “When heroes alone are not enough…the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?”
DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW stars Victor Garber (The Flash, Alias) as Dr. Martin Stein; Brandon Routh (Arrow, Superman Returns) as Ray Palmer/The Atom; Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who) as Rip Hunter; Caity Lotz (Arrow) as Sara Lance/White Canary; Ciarra Renee (Pippin) as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl; Franz Drameh (Edge of Tomorrow) as Jay Jackson; with Dominic Purcell (The Flash, Prison Break) as Mick Rory/Heat Wave; and Wentworth Miller (The Flash, Prison Break) as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold.
Based on the characters from DC Comics, DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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DC TV Podcasts is a podcast circle that features a collection of high-quality and popular podcasts that are devoted to DC Comics television series including The CW’s Arrow and The Flash, FOX’s Gotham, CBS’s upcoming superhero drama Supergirl and more! Join the hosts of Quiver, The Flash Podcast, Legends of Gotham and Supergirl Radio every week for the best news, commentary and opinions about these comic book shows.
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Guided by Voices share title track from new LP ‘Space Gun,’ announce 2018 tour
By Bill Pearis December 8, 2017 1:11 PM
Never one to go more than a few months without a record, Robert Pollard will be back with a new Guided by Voices record on March 23. It’s titled Space Gun and features the current lineup of the band that includes Doug Gillard, Kevin March, Bobby Bare Jr, and Mark Shue. You can listen to Space Gun‘s title track (via Consequence of Sound) below. This follows the two GBV albums they released this year, including August by Cake (which was Robert Pollard’s 100th album).
In other news, Matthew Cutter’s authorized biography Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices will be out in August, 2018 via De Capo Press. Here’s the synopsis:
Robert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene since the early 1980s, along with his band Guided by Voices. Pollard was a longtime grade school teacher who toiled endlessly on his music, only finding success after adopting a do-it-yourself approach, relying on lo-fi home recordings for much of his and his band’s career. A prolific artist, Pollard continues to churn out album after album, much to the acclaim of critics and his obsessive and devoted fans. But his story has never been faithfully told in its entirety. Until now.
Closer You Are is the authorized biography of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices. Author Matthew Cutter is a longtime friend of Pollard, and with Pollard’s blessing Cutter has set out to tell the whole, true story of Guided by Voices. This will be the first book to take an in-depth look at the man behind it all, with interviews conducted by the author with Pollard’s friends, family, and bandmates, along with unfettered access to Pollard himself and his extensive archives, ephemera, and artwork, which many fans will no doubt recognize from the band’s numerous album covers. A series of appendices will further illuminate Pollard’s solo career, side projects, and art shows.
Robert Pollard has had an amazing and seemingly endless career in rock music, but he’s also established himself as a consummate artist who works on his own terms. Now fans can at long last learn the full story behind one of America’s greatest living songwriters.
Pre-orders for the book are being taken now and you can check out the cover art below.
Meanwhile, Guided by Voices will head out on short holiday tour next week, playing a sold-out show at The Bell House on December 15. The band have also announced all the dates of their Spring 2018 tour, which includes another NYC-area show at Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall on April 18( tickets). Other stops on the tour include Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Ithaca, NY. All dates are listed below.
Guided by Voices – Space Gun tracklist:
01. Space Gun
02. Colonel Paper
03. King Flute
04. Ark Technican
05. See My Field
06. Liar’s Box
07. Blink Bank
08. Daily Get Ups
09. Hudson Rake
10. Sport Component National
11. I Love Kangaroos
12. Grey Spat Matters
13. That’s Good
14. Flight Advantage
15. Evolution Circus
Guided by Voices – 2017/2018 Tour Dates
Fri, Dec 15 – Bell House – Brooklyn, NY
Sat, Dec 16 – The Ballroom at The Outer Space – Hamden, CT
Sat, Dec 30 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
Sun, Dec 31 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
Fri, Apr 13 Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI
Sat, Apr 14 HI-FI Indy – Indianapolis, IN
Tue, Apr 17 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
Wed, Apr 18 White Eagle Hall – Jersey City, NJ
Fri, Apr 20 The Haunt – Ithaca, NY
Sat, Apr 21 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
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Tesla is fighting to open its first car dealership in Michigan
by John Howard February 1, 2016, 1:40 pm 304 Views
Tesla Motors is moving into the backyard of the Big Three automakers. The company in November applied for a dealership license, despite the fact that Michigan is one of several states that does not allow automakers to operate their own dealerships.
The application by Tesla was first reported Friday by the Michigan Information & Research Service.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed a law in 2014 that clarified the fact that automakers can not own dealerships in the state.
Tesla owns all of its own dealerships, unlike the big three automakers and foreign manufacturers who allow independent business owners to open dealerships on their behalf.
Fred Woodhams, spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State, said he could not comment on how his office will rule on Tesla.
“Tesla is committed to being able to serve its customers in Michigan and is working with the legislature to accomplish that,” said the company’s statement. “The existing law in Michigan is very harmful to consumers. Tesla will take all appropriate steps to fix this broken situation.”
As expected dealership organizations throughout the United States have fought to keep current restrictions in place, arguing that independently owned dealerships offer car buyers more competitive prices.
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CALCOM SOLAR TO DEPLOY 1.1MW SOLAR POWER SYSTEM AT MEDEIROS & SON DAIRY
Leading Central Valley Solar Provider Empowers Agriculture Business and Water Districts to Optimize Energy and Water Use
VISALIA & HANFORD, California, May 21, 2015 — CalCom Solar, a leader in design-build solar projects for California agribusinesses and water districts, has commenced installation of a new 1.1 MW solar power system at Medeiros & Son Dairy, a dairy farm located in Hanford, CA. The project will be completed in the Summer of 2015.
“CalCom Solar is making solar energy work for us, both operationally and financially,” says Brian Medeiros. “The dairy business takes constant evaluation and assessment to ensure our operation and team is working as efficiently as possible. We’re extremely focused on improving efficiencies across the entire dairy farm. Installing Solar is one of those crucial tools that makes a lot of sense. It helps us to reduce our energy costs and improve our bottom line.”
“We’re very proud to be working with Medeiros and Son, a leader in sustainable dairying and farming, and to provide them with clean, reliable, emissions-free electricity,” notes CalCom Solar CEO Nic Stover. “By deploying over a megawatt of clean solar-powered generation, Medeiros will take a huge step towards becoming a net-zero, sustainable dairy. Beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Medeiros will significantly lower operational costs, saving approximately $320,000 annually on utility bills. Over the next 25 years, this solar array will help provide financial certainty and stability, by providing more than $8 million in utility savings.”
In addition to the financial savings, the system will also help in California’s efforts to mitigate climate change. This solar array will significantly reduce CO2 emissions — the equivalent of burning 1.6 million pounds of coal or nearly 166,000 gallons of gasoline every year. “By having a lower cost renewable energy source, our farming practices will also improve as we will be able to increase the amount of run time on fans and other electrical appliances, helping to cool our cows more,” says Medeiros. This new PV array deployment leverages Net Energy Metering Aggregation (NEMA), affording CalCom the ability to install Medeiros’ solar array where it can can return dividends on once unproductive ground.
CalCom Solar will be deploying NEXTracker technology in this array, an innovative technology aligned with CalCom’s focus on helping agricultural customers increase their energy yield while lowering costs.
About Medeiros & Son Dairy
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AMP v. Myriad Reversal: IP Attorneys Weigh In
ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY V. MYRIAD GENETICS (Fed. Cir. 2011): Claims directed to comparing or analyzing gene sequences should include one or more transformative steps as part of the claim.
by Brian Bathurst and Leah Molera
On July 29, 2011, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Southern District of New York's court's holding that patent claims directed to isolated DNA sequences were invalid and reversed the lower court's holding that claims directed to screening potential cancer therapeutics were invalid. The Federal Circuit, however, affirmed the Southern District of New York's court's holding that claims directed to comparing or analyzing gene sequences were invalid. We wish to briefly focus here on the Federal Circuit's rationale for affirming that claims directed to comparing or analyzing gene sequences were invalid.
In the Federal Circuit's 105 page decisionhttp://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/10-1406.pdf, the Federal Circuit held that the claims at issue "...do not include the step of 'determining' the sequence of BRCA genes by,e.g., isolating the genes from a blood sample and sequencing them, or any other necessarily transformative step." Because the claims at issue were directed to comparing or analyzing gene sequences, the court reasoned "...the comparison between the two sequences can be accomplished by mere inspection alone. Accordingly, Myriad’s claimed methods of comparing or analyzing nucleotide sequences fail to satisfy the machine-or-transformationtest, and are instead directed to the abstract mental process of comparing two nucleotide sequences. The claims thus fail to claim a patent-eligible process under § 101."
Although the Federal Circuit's decision is likely going to be appealed, the take home message here for claims directed to comparing or analyzing gene sequences is to include one or more transformative steps as part of the claim. Alternatively, including a processor or machine that performs the comparison or analyses would also likely render the claim valid.
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In honor of Early Music America‘s 25th anniversary
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 8 pm
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A program of music by Victoria and other Spanish composers to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the master’s death, featuring his celebrated masterpiece, the six-voice Requiem Mass or Officium defunctorum of 1605, plus polychoral music performed with one voice to a part.
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Compassion is an eraser that removes labels and classifications. Use it thriftlessly...
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Beer at Church?
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I found a church in England, not far outside of London, in a very densely urban community, a congregation that took up every seat in the sanctuary. What’s more, they had to have multiple services in order to hold the crowds.
When I preached there, my driver couldn’t find a parking place. I asked the pastor, “With so many people, what room do you have for parking?” The pastor told me that almost everyone in the church came from walking distance. That amazed me because I wondered how a church could get so many people from such a small area.
The pastor explained to me that every other Saturday night they make arrangements to rope off a city block. The police cooperate. They bring in a barrel of beer and a barrel of wine. They add to this a good band. He then went on to say that a hundred of his young people come to this block party and start dancing. It doesn’t take long before people come out of their houses and join them. After a night of dancing and having a good-time party, these young church members say to the people they have been partying with, “How about coming to church with me tomorrow? If you are willing, I will stop by and pick you up.” In reality, it happens and the pastor said, “Every week we pick up about 30 or 40 people who come to our church for the first time. Church growth goes on easily from that point.”
Some may see this as a dangerous outreach method for a church to utilize. Questions like surrounding the image of the church in the public eye or “Won’t people drink to much and get drunk” are sure to arise. But the beauty of this is that people are being met where they are at and told about the life changing relationship they can have with Jesus Christ.I say Praise God!
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - this is all we need."
"I’m learning the fruit of my creative effort often ripens instantly. I’ll sit down and get thousands of words, but then a week later, working with the same discipline, will have nothing. But my job is not to make the words come. Who am I to make the words come? My job is no different than a farmer. I till the land. I fertilize the soil. I plant the seeds. Unlike the farmer, though, I am surprised when the green shoots sprout in the spring. I think perhaps it is magic, and it will never happen for me again. But the farmer knows if he tills the land, and is blessed enough to get rain, the harvest will come."
Rev. Peter J. Gomes
“Religious fundamentalism is dangerous because it cannot accept ambiguity and diversity and is therefore inherently intolerant,” Gomes declared in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times in 1992. “Such intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert.”
"The ultimate weapon," Gomes wrote, "in the face of evil or sorrow, sadness or death, is not stoic virtue and the stiff upper lip but laughter, for where laughter is, God cannot be far away."
"The research shows that when pastors evaluate the success of their church, they measure attendance, dollars raised, number of staff, number of programs and square footage. All of those are logical measures to explore. The only problem is that Jesus did not die a horrible and unjust death on the cross to fill sanctuaries, generate cash, populate programs, hire religious professionals or build out campuses."
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Hai Nan delicious food, you can not miss it
Hai Nan, a beautiful city in the south of China, there are also many delicious food, maybe some of them you have never heard before, now let me introduce.
1 Wenchang Chicken
Wenchang Chicken is the No.1 of Hainan four famous dishes, and famous at home and aboard. The meat of Wenchang Chicken is delicious, with thin and crisp bone and concentrated flavor, fat but not greasy. Wenchang chicken is generally eat in white, but also can be made into coconut milk chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken and so on. If you have a golden chicken in your mouth, you would blurt out the word "great", no wonder there is a saying as "no Wenchang chicken, not a meal".
2 Dongshan Mutton
It is said that the reason why Dongshan Mutton is so delicious is that sheep eat the rare vegetation on Dongshan Ridge, so the meat of the sheep is fat but not greasy, without any smell, has anti-heat, tonic and beauty effect. It was included in the Nanjing government "Presidential Palace" single meal menu in Republic of China, and now it is even well-known in the world. No matter what kind of ceremony, such as marry, funeral, or the Spring Festival, there will be mutton in the dishes. Many tourists to Hainan will also have a try of the Dongshan Mutton. There are many ways to eat the Dongshan Mutton, braised, soup, fried, and hot pot, etc., each way has its own feature.
3 Jiaji Duck
Jiaji Duck, commonly known as "Muscovy", it is one of the four dishes in Hainan. It is said that this kind of duck was introduced from Malaysia 300 years ago, its belly is big, red crown and yellow fin, black and white feathers, each weight about seven or eight pounds. Its characteristics are, the meat is fresh, with white and crisp, very delicious.
4 mud crab
As one of the four Hainan dishes，mud crab is produced in Hele town of Wanning City. Mud fat crab (commonly known as Crab) is full of meat, enjoy the reputation of one of "three fresh fish". Its feature is: grease gold sleek, like a salted Duck's egg yolk. There are also many ways to eat the mud crab, you can eat fried or broiled food, and you can also make the crab soup. The unique ways of eating Manning mud crab are the following two: one way is fried, and the other is steamed. This recipe is the traditional dishes for the Manning locals, this unique flavor is really tempting.
5 Hainan Suansun (Sour Bamboo Shoots)
It's like spring all the year round in Hainan, so bamboo shoots are one of the Four Seasons Vegetable in the market of Hainan. Bamboo shoots can be classified into Lasun, Masun and Yulansun, and also can be classified into Boiled Bamboo Shoots and Suansun by processing methods. In summer, people in Hainan love to make Suansun with fish soup, which taste a little sour but also awoke, you can have a try if go to Hainan.
6 Hainan Chicken Rice
"Hainan Chicken Rice" is very famous, and not only loved by the locals but also the foreign visitors. Hainan chicken is famous for Wenchang Chicken, the key to cook it well is the process of boiled the chicken, of course, it must be the Wenchang chicken. The old way of eating chicken rice is to shape the rice into balls, only this can be considered the traditional Hainan Chicken Rice.
7 Fish Tea
Those who have drunk fish tea will be attracted by its taste. The production of fish tea is rather complicated, first clean up the freshwater fish, cut into pieces and mix with salt for one or two hours, then squeeze out the salt, mixe with cold rice, distiller's yeast, or fried rice, after that, put them into clean jars, seal for about7-10 days in such as hot weather, while in cold season, you should seal them for 15-30 days. Fish tea is sweet but a little bit sour, but very delicious.
8 Jinshan fried balls
Fried balls in Hainan are commonly known as "treasure bags" in Hainan. There are many kinds of fried balls, such as balls filled with fillings, sandwich fried balls, and fried balls without fillings. Wenchang fried balls has a long history, they are famous snacks in the town, characterized for its fine production and material, crispy stuffing fragrant. Jinshan fried balls are made of fine sticky rice, fried with peanut oil.
9 coconut sticky rice cake
Hainan common snacks, its main ingredient rice sheets, filled with fresh coconut, sesame seeds, crushed roasted peanuts, sugar, then pack into a 5 cm round cake with wild pineapple leaves, it taste good when it is still hot. This cake is sweet but not greasy, and delicious with unique flavor.
10 Miaojia tri-color meal
Hainan in the central mountain people of the Miao traditional snacks .Usually, it is made only during the "March 3" (Li and Miao traditional festivals) and has Miao flavor. Three color: yellow, black, and red side by side, full of Ganxiang smell, the rice is sweet and slip with beautiful shape.
11 Li Bamboo Rice
It is Li traditional cuisine in Hainan, filled with fresh cooked rice and flavoring meals in bamboo tubes, and become one of famous Hainan dishes.
12 coconut Banlan cake
Hainan snacks, the main ingredients are the Banlan leaves, Banlan is a tropical herb, and the juice is dark green. People like to use this herb to make all kinds of food, but such cake is the most popular one.
13 Hainan radish cake
Hainan local traditional snacks, require sticky rice syrup, white radish as materials. Cake is decorated with red and green on surface, bright color, fragrant carrot flavor.
14 Baoluo Rice Noodle
Hainan famous local delicacies, made of rice vermicelli with soup and a variety of condiments. The rice noodle is white, soft and smooth, in hot delicious soup, delicious and slightly spicy.
Chinese Food Tour: http://www.tourdechina.cn/ChinaTours/Chinese_Food_Tours.html
Xiaohuang Dong Village, let the Dong song listened by the world!
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Xiaohuang Dong Village, located in Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao & Dong Autonomous Prefecture. It is a famous songs village, as well as a passionate, romantic, and poetic Dong village. All the people here including the elderly and children, men and women are all singers, this is a place where people regard life as song, and cannot without song.
Dong is a nation without writting in the history, their narrative and historical biography are all passed down by mouth and heart, outstanding traditional cultural, customs, social etiquette, all of these are passed down from generation to generation by such a beautiful voice, Xiaohuang Dong village is the birthplace of the Dong Big Songs.
The Bing Songs of Xiaohuang Dong ethnic group has become famous since the 1950s. In mid-1980s, they went to France to attend a show, which was really a sensation in Paris. In recent years, they participated in the Guizhou Folk Contest and CCTV and won awards, the women team also went to Spain for performance. Kam Grand Choir is a kind of multi-voice, non-conductor, without accompaniment folk chorus music, it is very rare in the world and has been enlisted by the UNESCO as a world-class intangible cultural heritage since 2009. The content and forms of the songs are closely related to the customs, personality, psychological, and living environment of the Dong people, such as "Cicada" and "cuckoo reminders spring", which simulated the nature sound of birds, insects, mountains and streams, express the harmony between man and nature.
In the Xiaohuang Dong Village, there are many songs, and everything can be a song. The children in the village start to learn sing songs when they began to learn words, after the age of 5, their parents will call in the well-known teacher to teach them. The local teachers teach singing songs for free in the village, everybody regards this as a sacred duty, now they also open Dong song courses in primary school.
These women are the singers of the Bing Songs of Xiaohuang Dong ethnic group. There happened to be an important official in the Xiaohuang Dong Village on that day, so many people rushed there to welcome this important person. The ceremony was just over when we arrived, suddenly, it rained heavily, so the mothers were all running in the rain with their children.
Looked at the mother led their children in the street, I thought of the Dong customs, such as the blind date, wedding festival, or other similar activities, I guess most ideas of these activities are come from them.
Em... the management is rather good, there are even people doing statistics.
Most of the usual Dong dresses are blue and simple look, but the dresses are much pretty and beautiful on holiday or festival.
Silver is beautiful with multi-pattern.
The men’s trousers are Dong cloth.
Look at the silver lock behind them.
These women have attended some big performances, and this month they will go to Spanish for a show this month.
Dong songs must be sung at the Drum Tower, only in this way can reflect the original ecosystem.
Have some weight in the hand
Xiaohuang Dong nationality song has successfully applied as the intangible cultural heritage.
The Dong song are taught in the school, hope these traditions can be inherited.
1 Transportation: it is not very far from the Jiang Town to Xiaohuang Dong Village, there are two buses, one is in the morning, one is in the afternoon, if miss the buses, you have to take a taxi and pay more.
2 Accommodation: it seems there are only two hotels in Xiaohuang Dong Village, we stay in Congjiang county.
3 Food: there seems to be no restaurants in Xiaohuang Dong Village, maybe it was because we did not find, but you’d better take some rations for the journey.
Guizhou Travel Guide: http://www.tourdechina.cn/chinaguide/Guizhou/
Guangxi Detian Waterfall: wonders on the border line
The border in Chongzuo (in Guangxi province) and Vietnam is more than 500 kilometers long, Daxin County, and Guichun River is one of border river. Guichun River originates from Jingxi County, Guangxi peovice, more than 150 km length, winding 35 km through Vietnam, then run back into Guangxi, so the local residents call it as “Guichun River”, means "return back". The river from Detian Village to Shuolong Town is a natural boundaries of China and Vietnam, the river is 30 meters wide, and we can see clearly what the Vietnamese doing in the opposite bank by standing at the river. Houses and roads at the opposite bank look old, dirt, there are large trucks at the bottom of the mountain, it is said that these trucks are much better than ours and filled with herbs, coffee, cigarettes, perfume, and other smuggling agricultural goods, many border residents live by doing smuggling trade in Vietnam.
Detian Waterfall
Detian Waterfall is on the border upstream of Guichun River, it is now the national-level scenic spot, the waterfall is divided into two parts by border, and have their own name. On the right, the large one belong to China, that is the Detian Waterfall, the left one is more delicate belong to Vietnam, its name is Banyue Waterfall. Go into the scenic area, there are many people at the side of Detian Waterfall, while almost no one in that side of Vietnam. Detian Waterfall has three-drop waterfall, 70 meters height, in the water season on, waterfall on both sides will connect into a waterfall with 200 meters wide, the average annual flow is 50 cubic meters / sec, which is 5 times of that of Huangguoshu Falls. It is also the fourth cross-border great fall in the world, following the Brazil-Argentina Iguazu Falls, Zambia- Zimbabwe Victoria Falls, and the United States-Canada, Niagara Falls, and the first in Asia.
Detian Waterfall is magnificent, gallant, and might.
Guichun River
Guichun River is the border line, and the other side is the Vietnamese territory.
Banyue Waterfall
Banyue Waterfall is within Yuxi town, Chongqing County in Vietnam, with vertical drop of 30 meters. Compared to Detian Waterfall, Banyue Waterfall is just like a slim and graceful delicate little lady.
Boundary marker, which is made by the Vietnamese at the other side of the river.
large raft
The river is shared between the two countries, but the big raft filled with tourists are ours, and the small one chasing the large raft selling things are Vietnamese.
Vietnamese girls are selling coffee, "Please try our Vietnamese coffee?'
Look up the river and listen to the thunder of the waterfall.
waterfall and cliff
Walk into the woods, you can see the waterfall and cliff in the upper reaches.
China Guangxi border
There is a piece of the legendary No. 53 boundary tablet in the upstream a few hundred meters of Detian Waterfall, it is established by the French colonial government the Qing government in 1888, on the tablet engraved with the "China Guangxi border".
China and Vietnam border
The border line was confirmed in mid-June 2006, our government re-established a No. 835 boundary tablet in Detian Waterfall in 2008, and now it has replaced the old boundary marker No. 53. Behind the tablet is the Vietnamese bazaars.
Kapok above Banyue Waterfall is eye-catching, as the blooming fireworks on festival.
Guide to Guangxi: http://www.tourdechina.cn/ChinaGuide/nanning/Attractions/Guangxi-Ethnic-Relics-Center.html
The scenery of Taihu Lake, Wuxi
Wuxi, a place as beautiful as Suzhou and Hangzhou, with typical "Jiangnan Water Village" characteristics. Because I was tired, I just didn’t want to go around but only rolled in Yuantouzhu.
Taihu Lake is the largest lake in eastern China. It is the second largest freshwater lake in China. Its shape is very smooth, especially in the southwest part. Some scientists believe that it is plants impacting outside the universe that come into being the Taihu Lake, Yangcheng Lake, Lake, Jinji Lake, and so Hudang, forming today's Yangtze River Delta.
Nevertheless, many people including the locals and people from other places love to come to yuantouzhu still. Yuantouzhu refers to an island north of Taihu Lake.
The scenery in Yuantouzhu is good, with trees on the two sides of the road.
Flowers here and there.
Plants grow on the side of pond.
Travel to Sky Street, it is in fact a commercial street.
The cleaners on the island.
A yellow leaf
The Xu statue in Yuantouzhu. It turn out that Xu Xiake started his tour from the Yuantouzhu, and lasted thirty years, later he wrote the book "Xu Travels", we were really admired of him.
Because there is a film base in Taihu Lake, so there are many antique warships on the lake.
I have an old ticket, can I board the old ship?
back to Wuxi city
Back to Shanghai, rolled about the Baoshan Wetland Park and found the Yangtze River Port is much beautiful than expected.
Lush plants
Children were happily flying kites. What a beautiful and sunny life.
Taihu Lake Guidebook: http://www.tourdechina.cn/ChinaGuide/suzhou/Attractions/Tai-Lake.html
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Leshou Hall in Summer Palace
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One of China's top ten bridges: Dongguan Bridge
The production of Baihou pancake
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Xijiang Miao Village, an open-air museum
Lianyungang, not just the birthplace of the Monkey...
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The mighty and magical Yungang Grottoes in Datong,...
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A true record of the Bouyei wedding
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Hollywood Boulevard (1976) review
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HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD 1976
Candice Rialson (Candy Hope), Mary Woronov (Mary McQueen), Rita Georg (Bobbi Quackenbush), Jeffrey Kramer (Patrick Hobby), Dick Miller (Walter Paisley), Paul Bartel (Erich Von Leppe), Jonathan Kaplan (Scotty)
Directed by Joe Dante, Allan Arkush
The Short Version: This 'made on a wager', No Fat Calorie, New World Free For All is high on pizza and popcorn thrills, chills, spills and all manner of gratuitous goodness. It's a 'Laff a Minute' riot of all the best bits and pieces of the Corman canon and what made New World Pictures so damn amazing. If you see just one exploitation movie in your lifetime, make it HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.
***WARNING! This review contains violence, nudity and images of a lude, crude nature that may have an adverse effect on your intelligence***
"...This is not a film about the human condition, this is a film about tits and ass!"
Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Candice Rialson and Jeffrey Kramer, fresh off JAWS as Brody's deputy
Sex & Violence explodes on the screen in this sordid tale of the glitz, glamour and broken dreams within the seedy world of exploitation moviemaking! Candy Hope heads out to Tinseltown with big dreams, a big chest and big plans of makin' it in Hollywood! Instead, cute Candy finds unscrupulous producers, vindictive co-stars, low budget pictures and violence amidst the cruel underbelly of independent filmmaking! This globetrotting $60,000 trash epic goes from the concrete jungles of Los Angeles to the endless dangers of the Filipino rain forests!! SEE The Machete Maidens of Mora Tau! SEE The Atomic War Brides! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll shriek in amazement at stock footage from other movies! From Miracle Pictures--"If it's a good picture, it's a miracle!!!"
Mary has reservations about what looks like one of the lead villains from the set of the Japanese Tokusatsu show, SPECTREMAN.
The above synopsis is just as nonsensical as the actual film itself. Quite possibly, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD is the ultimate exploitation movie; The last word in Drive In trash, no less. The way the production was mounted is a monumentally amazing piece of cinematic impulsiveness. The film became woven around a bet between Corman and some of his enterprising crew members. The pitch was that this mystery production would be done far cheaper than any film Roger Corman had made since New World's inception in 1970 and completed in just 10 days. Corman agreed, but stated the film had to be done for $80,000, but he was only going to give them $60,000 to start.
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen--the name derived partially from the old serial program RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
Completed in ten days and under budget at a little over $54,000, this New World wonder production is crammed so full of in-jokes and references to the glorious world of Drive In cinema, if you blink, you're likely to miss something. Thankfully, this fly by night flick holds up well to repeat viewings and is a great party movie for those who appreciate and love these kinds of movies. Not only do you get a mega ton of Corman crudity, but you get an up close look at the West coast version of 42nd Street and a friggin' out of left field performance by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen (remember 'Hot Rod Lincoln'?) belting out an expletive fueled country-rocka-billy tune! In addition to the non stop madness, there's both Robbie the Robot serving drinks at a Hollywood premiere and a stunt man dressed in a Godzilla suit (or, as the credits state, Godzina)!
Kramer, Rialson and Dick Miller enjoy THE TERROR (1963)
Among the array of stock footage, you'll see great scenes from the likes of THE BIG BIRD CAGE (1972), BIG BAD MAMA (1974), CRAZY MAMA (1975), DEATHRACE 2000 (1975) and several other New World pictures. There's a wet T-Shirt contest (Jonathan Kaplan mans the hose), a staged bank robbery that turns out to be real, scantily clad babes with machine guns and Dick Miller (playing his character from Corman's A BUCKET OF BLOOD) going to the Drive In and watching himself in THE TERROR (1963). Speaking of THE BIG BIRD CAGE, one of the best in-jokes concerns a key effects moment (ingeniously improvised by Jack Hill for the film) woven into a brawl in the projection booth of the Drive In. All this stock footage is cannily implemented into the new picture in such a way, you don't always realize you're looking at bits and pieces of film from other movies.
"This stuff is disgusting! How can they expect people to swallow this muck?! John Wayne would never make a picture like this! We're gonna get our money back and we're gonna go home! Depravity! Filth! This is worse than television!!"
Exploitation starlet and super hottie, Candice Rialson (PETS, CANDY STRIPE NURSES) plays Candy Hope, the naive young spitfire from Indiana. Too tall and sexy Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, CANNONBALL) is the foul mouthed primadonna Mary McQueen and bald and brash Paul Bartel (DEATHRACE 2000, EATING RAOUL) chews what's left of the scenery as the director who treats each of his trashy endeavors with the utmost of artistic integrity. Among the plethora of talent putting in cameos are the one and only Forrest J. Ackerman, the monstrous creator of Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine; Lewis Teague (director of LADY IN RED, ALLIGATOR) and also Jonathan Demme (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS), hidden under the Godzilla costume. Charles B. Griffith (EAT MY DUST), Miller Drake (as 1st mutant) and Joe Dante (GREMLINS, INNERSPACE) put in appearances as well.
Dick Miller, Robbie the Robot and check out Uncle Forry to the far right!
The film plays like a heartfelt ode to everything Roger Corman and New World Pictures were all about. Every aspect of the production covers nearly all of Corman's cinematic predilections--New World's preponderance for T&A, Corman's time shooting movies in the Philippines, more busty girls, monsters (there's even a brief sexual jab at Corman's foreign sci fi pick up VOYAGE TO THE SEVENTH PLANET), car crashes, a heavy ambiance of the Drive In (including intermission time) and one of the most crucial components of New World and Roger Corman's movies--Dick Miller. It also meets noted Drive In critic, Joe Bob Brigg's criteria of the three 'B's'--Blood, Breasts & Beasts.
Godzina displays disapproval of the ATOMIC WAR BRIDES script
Guy in car at Drive In: (honks horn)"Move your ass!"
Patrick: "Hey, fuck you, buddy! I wrote this picture, I can stand in front of it if I want to!"
More classic crap includes Candy donning Frankenstein's mask from DEATHRACE 2000 for a proposed futuristic flick and a great reworked line from Criswell taken from that awe-ful Ed Wood trash classic, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE (1956); one of the sleazy producers is named P.G., Godzilla reads the script for 'Atomic War Brides' then tosses it into the toilet and there's also a slasher subplot with a Gialloesque touch as someone is bumping off the starlets of Miracle Pictures. There's even a Hitchcockian finale at the big Hollywood sign.
CUT!! That's a wrap!
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD is truly something special and if it weren't a movie, you'd swear you were watching a documentary on the wild world of shooting "major motion pictures" on the cheap with Roger and company crossed with a Zucker Brothers KENTUCKY FRIED mentality. Not only is it representative of the Corman school of 'Shoot Fast, Edit Well & Make A Tidy Profit', but it's a loving tribute to the Passion Pit, now almost nothing more than a memory of a bygone era when you could make a special movie with some lint, spare change and a bare chest, or two.
This review is representative of the New Concorde DVD
Labels: Drive In of Doom, Hollywood Boulevard
So incredibly added to my wishlist, how did Toho let that one slide? And worse off, how is it that your e-mail was the first I had ever even heard of this film before the review?!
Not sure how they got that past. They never refer to the creature as 'Godzilla', but the credits mention it as 'Godzina'. Possibly, Toho wasn't as strict back then? Oddly enough, it would be New World who would import GODZILLA 1985 in a severely altered cut. Supposedly, they were planning to import BIOLLANTE as well, but financial troubles kept that from happening.
I don't know, Carl, I figured you'd of heard of this one since it was sort of made in your back yard. If you're a fan of New World movies and Roger Corman, you should love this flick as it's ABOUT making those movies. Seriously, it's so jam packed with sight gags, homages to other movies and lines of dialog taken from cult flicks, if you blink, you will miss something.
Cult Film Faves Not On DVD: The Incredible Melting...
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Playing by the lake at Cacapon State Park
With more than 20 years’ experience, teaching has been a lifelong labor of love. I am currently on the staffs of the Shepherd Community Music School at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and the Berkeley Springs School for the Arts, a ministry of Berkeley Springs Presbyterian Church, also in West Virginia. Additionally I teach long distance students using Skype and other video technology. I believe that everyone can learn the harp if given the right tools.
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A natural affinity for teaching combined with the technical skill earned through a BM in Harp Performance from Montclair University, a MM in Harp Pedagogy from Shenandoah Conservatory, graduate level performance study at Carnegie Mellon University, and a DM in Harp Performance from Florida State University, means that I can provide a breadth of harp education second to none in this area. My previous experience includes positions with the Shenandoah Arts Academy, Morgan County Public Schools, and Morgan County Adult and Community Education.
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A Faster Pace and the link between Offense and Defense
The most recent article by Luke Winn, where he interviews Buzz Williams, had a specific mention about trying to make the game longer and increase the number of possessions. This got me thinking about what a faster pace would mean for Marquette. I wanted to look at what impact that would have on their Offensive/Defensive Efficiency, the Four Factors, and their consistency. However, something interesting popped up while looking into this area.
How will a faster pace impact Marquette?
A 90th percentile view of the pace is between 73 and 62 possessions per game across all Division 1 schools. In 2008, Marquette checked in at 68.1 possessions per game. Marquette's possessions range 90% of the time was also in between 62 and 73 possessions per game. In other words, the reasonable upper bounds of the number of possessions per game for Marquette would be an extra five possessions / game. It's a faster pace, sure... but is it really that much faster?
There's a concern that a faster pace will translate to sloppier play (more bad shots, turnovers, etc). However, if you look at the 2008 Pomeroy Game Plan for Marquette, there was no correlation between pace and either Marquette's offensive or defensive efficiency. That's good. It means that should Marquette increase the pace of games, there should not be a detrimental impact on the team's efficiency.
What about the "Four Factors" of effective field goal percentage (eFG%), turnover rate (TO%), offensive rebounding percentage (OR%), and free throw rate (FTR)? Are any of those impacted by an increase in pace? Again, there's more good news, in that there is a statistically significant correlation with our team's eFG% and pace. Of all the Four Factors, eFG% is by far the most important for every team. If Marquette is able to improve the pace, then a team similar to last year should be a better offensive team.
Another aspect that concerned us last year was the team's Inconsistency, which we compared to a High Risk Stock. Without getting into the math, the stats theory is that an increase of possessions will help reduce the inconsistency. Think of it like this... your odds of getting a 50/50 split flipping a coin are far greater if you do it 100 times instead of 10. However, based on some simple analysis, I don't believe that a net change of five possessions per game will actually make a significant difference in the team's consistency.
What was interesting was something that we stumbled upon regarding inconsistency while looking into the numbers. At the time of the High Risk Stock article, we attributed the inconsistency to the fundamental makeup of the roster. Obviously, due to the loss of Barro and Mbakwe, this lack of big men has only gotten worse. However, it appears that the problem may be more fundamental.
No other team in the Big EAST had as strong of a relationship between Offensive Efficiency (AdjO) and Defensive Efficiency (AdjD) as Marquette (math note - based on covariance). When our AdjO was better than average, then our AdjD was better than average. Unfortunately, the converse was true as well, leaded to maddening games where the Defense was terrible and the Offense looked inept.
Going further, we see that there were many teams for which this was not true. Here are the Big EAST teams that were able to keep their offensive and defensive performances separate:
DePaul, USF, ND, Seton Hall, Pitt, Louisville, Syracuse, Rutgers, Villanova (in order of most separate to least separate)
Here are the teams that had a strong link between offense and defense:
Marquette, WVU, St. John's, Cincy, UConn, Providence (in order of most linked to least linked)
(Georgetown ended up right in the middle)
Of particular note is that a team like Villanova was able to avoid the strong link between Offense and Defense. Villanova doesn't have a particularly big team (although they're improving in that area in recent years), so there is hope that it's not particular to roster makeup.
Does this covariance mean that the Defense makes the Offense go? Many times last year we could hear the quote, "our defense drives our offense". Honestly, I don't know. Part of it might be the mindset instilled by the coaching staff to keep the players focused on defense. However, it isn't a good thing that the two areas are so linked. Intuitively, one wants a Defense (or Offense) that stays constant no matter how efficiently or inefficiently the offense is playing.
In addition, If you look at the Efficiency Margin tracker from BE play through the rest of the season, we can see a view of how well the team played. There was a decline in the level of play, culminating with a nadir in the games against UL and UConn, some subsequent improvement leading up to right before the Georgetown game. There was then some additional decline in play before improvement during the tournament.
During the top three occasions in conference last year when we had our best efficiency margin (against Providence, @Nova, and Rutgers), the team had the least link between Offense and Defense. In addition, the top three points where we had the greatest link between Offense and Defense were SHU#1 (that ugly, ugly game), @WVU, and @UL. I think's it's fair to say that not only can Marquette separate the link between Offense and Defense, but that it's in the team's best interest to do so. Now, as for how the team can emphasize this separation, that's up to the coaching staff.
Based on last year's performance, we definitely see benefits for Marquette to try and push a faster tempo. Along the way, we realized that inconsistency is because of the strong link between the team's Offensive and Defensive performance. Hopefully, along the way the coaching staff will get the team to be more consistent on at least one side of the court.
Written by Rob Lowe at 4:41 AM
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Great post Henry. I think the link is based on the glaring weakness of our half-court offense.
In the last two years, I think we have been inept in the half-court set. Our offense is inherently poor unless we score off transition. The strong defense has masked the inability of Crean (and his 1000-play playbook) to generate a half-court offense.
Therefore, the link should disappear if Buzz figures out how to get them to score on a set play.
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Star Wars Rebels Recap - S03E07-08 - "Imperial Supercommandos" + "Iron Squadron"
12:00 PM Dominik Zine Dominik Zine, Recaps, Star Wars, Star Wars Rebels, TV Edit
It’s been eight episodes since the start of the season (seven, if you consider the premiere a single episode), and it’s pretty clear what the producers have building for this half of the season. They’ve been crafting a bigger Rebellion, increasing its numbers by gathering more and more allies. Now, after "Imperial Supercomandos" and "Iron Squadron", the unified resistance against Empire got even bigger.
(Spoilers beyond this point.)
Our primary focus for the two episodes are Ezra, Sabine and Ghost’s astromech droid Chopper, though the second episode features the rest of the crew more heavily. In "Imperial Supercommandos" the trio assist Fenn Rau, the leader of the Protectors of the Concord Dawn turned prisoner of the Rebels, in investigating a sudden loss of contact with his people. First introduced in the second season, Protectors were a Mandalorian (Star Wars’s "proud warrior race people") faction controlling a crucial hyperjump spot the Rebellion needed to find their new base planet. Their position and skill were so good, the Empire bribed them to keep anyone from passing near Concord Dawn. But the Imperials, being who they are, always want to take full control over everything. That’s what Fenn and the Rebels find out upon reaching his base — which they find completely destroyed. The Protectors were wiped out by other Mandalorians, ones openly and completely allied with the Empire, led by Gar Saxon. More importantly, they are of House Vizsla, Sabine’s people — in fact, her defection to the Empire is the primary reason for that alliance.
The episode definitely is setting up Sabine’s future subplot, especially with the mention of her mother, and her burgeoning rivalry with Gar over House Vizsla. It’ll be exciting to see more of it — as exciting as the episode’s action sequences. Generally speaking, the ground level fights in Rebels are not the show’s most spectacularly choreographed ones, unless they involve Force users. This time, we have Mandalorian aerial combat with jetpacks, and it’s a sight to benhold; dynamic, creative, and thrilling. It’s a damn shame we won’t see it for a while, after Sabine’s jetpack gets destroyed by the end. Sigh.
The next episode, "Iron Squadron", introduces a new group, the titular squadron. Under the impressive name hides a trio of teenagers and an astromech, fighting the Empire in a cargo ship in such a bad shape, it makes the Millennium Falcon look like a Star Destroyer. The group’s leader is Mart, revealed to be the thought dead nephew of the Rebel fleet leader, Commander Sato.
Mart and his friends start out — there’s no other way to put this — annoying as hell. They’re basically a trio of Ezras from the first season, thinking themselves a big thorn in the Empire’s side when they barely made an impact. In fact, after Thrawne sends a light cruiser to mop up any resistance in their system, they’d be dead. Thankfully, the Ghost arrives and with the help of first Sabine, Ezra and Chopper — and later the entire crew and Sato’s cruiser — everyone manages to get out safely.
The episode helps develop the thus far very static character of Commander Sato. Sato spent the entirety of last season and the previous episodes this season as the authority figure to the Ghost crew, as someone to send them on missions and react to some of their more insane plans. "Iron Squadron" gives him some depth; a brother lost to the Empire, a nephew thought lost, and what sounds like a history with Grand Admiral Thrawn. The last one especially looks like it’ll be important in future episodes.
Finally, the episode shows how far Ezra’s come since the start of the show. By contrasting him with the teen members of the Iron Squadron, we can appreciate his development. Especially after his short speech, during which he attempts to convince them to leave with the Ghost. The words "How we choose to fight is just as important as what we fight for" sound like something Hera and Kanan would say to him in the earlier episodes. The kid, and the show, have come a long and satisfying way.
And now, an announcement: as of next week, I will be leaving the coverage of the show in more competent hands. As much as I love the show and the Star Wars universe, I’m not an expert in it, which I think could be felt in the previous posts. Thus, I leave in the Stephanie Maynard’s hands, and can’t wait to read her reviews. I’ll see you in other recaps.
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Climate Action, Climate Policy & Planning
Climate clippings 201
April 3, 2017 Brian 3 Comments
1. Australian fund managers short Tesla and Elon Musk
When Elon Musk dramatically promised to build a grid-scale battery in South Australia, the media was enthralled. Share traders and a string of Australian fund managers smirked. They’d seen it all before, and were shorting him in the market.
In that very week he was in the market with plans to raise $US1.15 billion in equity and convertible notes. I understand also that Tesla has gone strangely quiet about SA since then.
“I think it was classic Musk,” says Regal Funds Management senior analyst Omkar Joshi. “That’s what he does. He goes in and talks things up and capitalises on any situation to promote the brand, himself and the company. And once he runs out of steam, he moves on to the next thing.”
Tesla’s share price in on 56 times 2020 earnings, pitched at an optimistic $US26 billion annual revenue, which requires explosive growth. By contrast our pedestrian Woolworths has revenue of $A48 billion, and Wesfarmers, owners of Coles, Target, Kmart Officeworks, Bunnings and a couple of coal mines, has $A58 billion worth of revenue.
Someone was unkind enough to point out that Tesla isn’t the biggest maker of electric cars.
2. State of the climate
The World Meteorological Organization has issued its State of the Global Climate 2016. Extreme weather has continued, records were broken, most notably in global surface temperature:
“This report confirms that the year 2016 was the warmest on record – a remarkable 1.1 °C above the pre-industrial period, which is 0.06 °C above the previous record set in 2015. This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes occurring in the climate system,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
The report is appropriately summarised in the Sacramento Bee as the climate is in ‘uncharted territory’. At this point I’ll just post two graphs:
First emissions (CO2, methane and nitrous oxide) are actually accelerating:
Remember this next time you hear emissions are flatlining. It’s what ends up in the atmosphere that counts.
Then they have a rainfall map of Australia:
The top one is September 2015 to April 2016, and the bottom May to December 2016. What happened is that the El Niño weakened and the Indian Ocean dipole produced warmer oceans to our west. The two maps are classic examples of the effects of both ocean systems.
3. East African famine
According to the New Scientist of 17 March, East Africa faces famine (paywalled), in part because of the Indian Ocean Dipole:
According to the UN Environment Programme, 17 million people in the region now face hunger. “We are currently facing potentially the worst humanitarian disaster the world has known since 1945,” says Mike Noyes at the charity ActionAid.
The famine is the third to hit the region in 25 years. The last, in 2011, resulted in 260,000 deaths.
The dipole has been getting more pronounced in recent years, and extreme climate events such as drought are projected to become more common as the world warms.
4. Methane Erupting From Arctic Ocean Seafloor
Thanks to BilB for the link.
Methane clathrates in the Arctic are erupting in concentrated plumes, which are missed by measuring stations and satellites. From the troposphere they spread to the equator, where the methane is wrongly assumed to come from tropical wetlands. This image showed a profile of the circulation systems.
5. Plankton can save the ocean, but who will save the plankton?
According to the New Scientist (paywalled) oxygen levels in the oceans have dropped by 2 per cent in the last half century and are projected to fall by a further 7 per cent by 21000.
It’s all very complex, but phytoplankton seem to be the problem. They produce nearly half the oxygen in the atmosphere through photosynthesis, more than all the forests on land. Phytoplankton are at the base of the food chain in our seas.
A large part of the problem seems to be our destruction of the topline species in the food chain. Their poo is consumed by the phytoplankton. Also whales stir up the water, bringing nutrients from the deep.
Suggested solutions all have problems. some have suggested pipes and pumps to bring up water from the deep. Doesn’t sound practical at any scale to me, but cooler water actually absorbs more CO2 increasing acidity.
6. Turnbull government climate policy review
Here’s the discussion paper the Turnbull Government has put out for its review of climate policies, which will not be finished before the end of the year. It’s a catalogue of existing policies and provisions, with questions. It has one useful graph:
Sophie Vorath raises the question as to whether the Government can be taken seriously when three members of the Climate Change Authority have resigned in disgust.
Clive Hamilton left because of the Coalition’s “perverse” and “deeply dishonest” approach to climate and energy policy.
Danny Price left saying the Government “doesn’t take the issue seriously”.
John Quiggin posted on his blog:
The government’s refusal to accept the advice of its own Authority, despite wide support for that advice from business, environmental groups and the community as a whole, reflects the comprehensive failure of its policies on energy and the environment. These failures can be traced, in large measure, to the fact that the government is beholden to right-wing anti-science activists in its own ranks and in the media. Rather than resist these extremists, the Turnbull government has chosen to treat the vital issues of climate change and energy security as an opportunity for political point scoring and culture war rhetoric.
He said there is nothing useful to be gained in giving informed advice “to a government dominated by elements hostile to both science and economics.”
7. Turnbull policies failing where it matters
The effect of removing the price on carbon is quite clear and dramatic.
Overall, climate pollution is up by 3.4 per cent since last year and by 7.5 per cent since the Abbott-Turnbull government axed the carbon price.
Unlike the government’s current policy, the carbon price was reducing Australia’s pollution. This is evident in the data.
The new data also shows pollution from Australia’s electricity sector, which is responsible for about 35 per cent of our climate pollution, went up 2.6 per cent on the previous year and 5 per cent since the carbon price was removed.
The pollution increases — from specific generators and overall — show there is little incentive for big polluters to clean up their acts when they have a free ride to pollute.
8. World’s biggest solar + battery storage plant ready to build in SA
The world’s biggest solar and battery storage plant – and Australia’s biggest solar farm – could begin construction this year, after the project was formally launched in Adelaide on Thursday.
The developer of the $1 billion South Australian project, Lyon Group, said construction of the plant, which will include 330MW of solar PV and a 100MW/400MWh battery storage system, would begin in the coming months, with operations set to commence by the end of 2017.
I think we are heading down the path of solar plus storage. We’d just do it faster, in a more orderly way, and with better effect if government policy caught up.
9. Trump’s war on climate change
Joe Romm covers Trump’s “sweeping executive order that effectively guts national efforts to address climate change”.
The question now is whether he will exit the UN climate change process which produced the Paris agreement.
I’ve heard it argued that we would be better off if he goes. The UN works on consensus. One vote can form a veto. If the US under Trump stays, he can really mess things up.
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John Davidson says:
Looking at the graph emissions went down during the Gillard minority government was in power and the Greens had influence.
It started going up again as soon as Abbott took over. At the time when the carbon price was removed Abbott was creating uncertainty about the future of the RET, an important driver of renewable investment.
The key factor is government commitment to climate action. The killing of the carbon price is a symptom.
Ambigulous says:
On 9., I think the veto at the UN applies only in the Security Council.
Ambigulous, at the Security Council the major powers have a veto. Not sure what goes in the General Assembly.
I know that in the climate body, the UNFCCC, votes require consensus of all members at the annual Conference of Parties. That’s why the Paris agreement allows members to formulate and submit their own targets. “Common but differentiates responsibility” is the phrase.
Actually, at theCancún COP in 2010 the major decision was whether to adopt 2 °C global warming as a goal. Bolivia never agreed, arguing for a lower figure. Nevertheless Patricia Espinosa, the Mexican chair, brought down her gavel and declared the resolution passed, ignoring Bolivia’s protests.
No chair would have done that if the dissenter had been the USA.
Nevertheless, the decision allowed the progress which gave us the Paris agreement five years later, to be implemented from 2020. Thus the UN wheels grind slowly. However, between now and then they will be writing the accountability rules.
If the US dips out now they may get rules which they don’t like which a future US president will have to take or leave if they want to rejoin. One way or another Trump will do long term damage.
BTW the WTO also works on consensus rules, which I think is why they don’t meet anymore. In Cancún in 2003 the developing countries wouldn’t cop it any more, so the trade thing has moved to bilateral and regional agreements.
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Psycoloquy 12(006): Nicotinic Receptors in Relation to Nicotine Addiction
NICOTINIC RECEPTORS IN RELATION TO NICOTINE ADDICTION
Susan Wonnacott
Department of Biology & Biochemistry
University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY
bsssw@bath.ac.uk
The first step in processing nicotine's effects on the brain is the drug's interaction with neuronal nicotinic receptors (nAChR). The diversity of nAChR subtypes, their various modes of response (activation, desensitisation, prolonged inactivation), and the complex pharmacokinetics of nicotine delivery conspire to make this a complex issue that is difficult to unravel. The alpha4beta2 nAChR subtype has the highest affinity for nicotine and is the primary candidate for mediating nicotine's central effects. Chronic nicotine exposure (in both humans, animals and cell culture systems) leads to an increase in numbers of alpha4beta2 nAChR (upregulation), with functional implications for withdrawal. However, there is little evidence presently that nAChR upregulation is pertinent to the induction or maintenance of dependence. However, the particular characteristics of the alpha7 subtype of nAChR suggest that it may participate in long term changes in synaptic efficacy that could be relevant to nicotine dependence.
Nicotine, nicotinic receptors, receptor desensitisation, nicotinic receptor upregulation.
1.The contribution that nAChRs might make to the addiction process will depend on factors such as:
-where nAChRs are localised in the brain
-their sensitivity to nicotine
-nAChR activation versus desensitisation
-altered responses after chronic exposure to nicotine
These properties will vary for the different subtypes of nAChR, but as nAChR subtypes have not been fully characterised with respect to their constituent subunits, many aspects of their functional contributions remain poorly defined.
II. ANATOMICAL LOCALISATION OF nAChR SUBTYPES IN THE BRAIN
2. nAChR are widely expressed throughout the CNS, albeit at low levels (10-100 times lower than muscarinic receptors), but different subunits show distinct anatomical localisations. The association of nAChR with dopamine pathways is perhaps most relevant to the psychomotor stimulant properties of nicotine. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN) express mRNAs for a large portfolio of nAChR subunits: alpha3, alpha4, alpha5, alpha6, alpha7, beta2, beta3, (but probably not alpha2 or beta4) (Wada et al., 1989; Le Novere et al., 1996). This suggests that dopaminergic neurones contain multiple nAChR subtypes, and there is pharmacological evidence for both alpha3beta2* and alpha4beta2 subunit combinations (Sharples et al., 2000) (where * denotes the possible presence of other subunits, Lukas et al., 2000). Particularly intriguing is the high expression of alpha6 and beta3 subunits in VTA and SN (Le Novere et al., 1996; Goldner et al., 1997). The expression of these subunits in the brain is very restricted but they are found in high abundance in catacholaminergic nuclei, suggesting a particular relationship with dopamine and noradrenaline systems. The properties conferred by the inclusion of alpha6 and/or beta3 to nAChR function or regulation are generally not known at the present time.
III. SENSITIVITY TO NICOTINE: ACTIVATION VS DESENSITISATION
3. Different subtypes of nAChR differ in their sensitivity to agonists, including nicotine. This will determine which nAChR subtypes could be activated during smoking. The alpha4beta2 subunit combination has the greatest sensitivity to nicotine, with an EC50 value of 1-5 microM for the human alpha4beta2 subtype (Gotti et al., 1997). This is the only major nAChR subtype that can be identified by the binding of tritiated nicotine: [3H]nicotine binding is completely absent from the brains of transgenic mice lacking beta2 subunit (Picciotto et al., 1995) and largely absent (except for the interpeduncular nucleus) from those lacking the alpha4 subunit (Marubio et al., 1999). (Although all nAChR recognise nicotine by definition, only the alpha4beta2 subtype has sufficient affinity for nicotine for it to be useful as a radioligand - see below).
4. However, it is important to remember that agonists (including nicotine) can also lead to the desensitisation (short term) or inactivation (longer term) of nAChRs. Agonist binding can result in the transient activation of the nAChR, with a conformational charge causing the central ion channel to open, allowing a flow of cations. But the open state of the channel has a finite lifetime and automatically closes as the nAChR adopts another conformation: the desensitised state (of which there are multiple configurations), in which the channel is closed, the nAChR is refractory to activation but can still bind agonist, now with higher affinity than when in the open state. Subsequently, the nAChR reverts to the resting state, with channel closed but no agonist bound: in this state it is receptive to activation again (Changeux & Edelstein, 1998). For example, for the alpha4beta2 nAChR, nicotine concentrations greater than approx. 0.1 microM will activate the nAChR, converting it to the open state, whereas the desensitised conformation binds nicotine with about 100 times higher affinity (i.e., lower concentration), in the range 1-10 nM. A further complication is that sustained low concentrations of nicotine (1-10nM for alpha4beta2 nAChR) can convert the nAChR to the desensitised state without prior activation. Radiolabelled agonists will stabilise the desensitised (high affinity) state in ligand binding assays (because the tissue is exposed to the agonist for a long time: minutes - hours). Hence equilibrium binding constants reflect the desensitised state of the nAChR (Lippiello et al., 1987).
5. Cigarette smoking is characterised by the repeated inhalation of tobacco smoke which generates boli of nicotine delivered to the brain, superimposed on a relatively stable basal level of plasma nicotine maintained throughout the smoking day. This basal level of nicotine will keep a proportion of nAChR in the desensitised state, while the remaining population of nAChR will be available for activation by nicotine boli, if appropriate concentrations are achieved. Thus we can see how smokers may manipulate their plasma nicotine profiles to achieve a balance of desensitisation versus activation that suits them, c.f. anecdotal smoking for relaxation versus smoking for stimulation. This will also explain why the first cigarette of the day is the most satisfying, as overnight abstinence will have allowed substantial recovery of nAChR from desensitisation.
6. Given that the resting - active - desensitised relationship will differ between nAChR subtypes, and that the concentration of nicotine delivered to the brain is subtly controlled by the smoker, a very complex picture of nAChR responses emerges.
IV. CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO NICOTINE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPENDENCE
7. It is well documented that the numbers of [3H]nicotine binding sites (alpha4beta2 nAChR) are increased in the brains of smokers examined post mortem (Benwell et al., 1988; Breese et al., 1997), and in the brains of rodents given doses of nicotine daily for a few days (Wonnacott, 1990). This effect can also be produced in cell culture, even when nAChR are expressed heterologously in non-neuronal cells (e.g., Whiteaker et al., 1998). Other nAChR subtypes may also be upregulated but only at higher concentrations of nicotine. The 'upregulation' of receptors was unexpected but is probably a response to desensitisation of the receptor by chronic nicotine exposure (Fenster et al., 1999). There are conflicting reports about the functional status of nAChR after chronic nicotine treatment, with increased, decreased and unchanged levels of responsiveness being reported (Marshall et al., 1997; Hsu et al., 1996). Chronic exposure to nicotine not only transiently desensitises nAChR but can also result in permanent inactivation. alpha4beta2 nAChR are more prone to inactivation than alpha3beta2 * nAChR (Kuryatov et al., 2000). Long lasting inactivation has been seen in native systems, e.g., nicotine-evoked dopamine release from striatal synaptosomes shows partial dose- and time-dependent inactivation (no recovery after one hour; Rowell & Duggan, 1998). Both alpha4beta2 * and alpha3beta2 * nAChR mediate this response (Sharples et al., 2000). Inactivation may reflect the removal of nAChR from the cell surface into an intracellular compartment where the nAChR can still bind hydrophobic ligands.
8. The consensus view is that upregulation of nAChR numbers is an attempt to compensate for the loss of nAChR function through desensitisation, but that compensation may be inadequate (or confounded by removal of nAChR to a functionally irrelevant compartment). However, under circumstances in which nicotine is cleared from the system and desensitisation is reversed, the increased number of receptors could produce an excessive (rebound) response to agonist (including the endogenous agonist acetylcholine). Thus nAChR upregulation may contribute to withdrawal symptoms on quitting smoking.
9. The exact cause and mechanisms of upregulation remain controversial. However, we may ask if this response is relevant to the development of nicotine dependence. Clearly the first step in developing dependence must be the interaction of nicotine with its receptors: indeed, absence of the beta2 subunit in transgenic mice abolishes nicotine self-administration (Picciotto et al., 1998). However, the reversible nature of nAChR upregulation (with a return to normal levels in just a few days in animal models (Wonnacott, 1990), and normal levels are found in ex-smokers (Breese et al., 1997)) is at odds with the long term susceptibility to relapse of smokers after quitting, suggesting that there are other, long term changes in the brain. Rats treated chronically with nicotine by a variety of methods (daily injection, slow release from implanted minipumps, oral consumption) show upregulation of [3H]nicotine binding sites. Dependence, on the other hand, is highly correlated with the rate of access of drug to the brain. Although the nicotine administration routes by injection and minipump are widely used as models of chronic nicotine exposure, neither method adequately models the complex pattern of nicotine delivery achieved by cigarette smoking. It seems probable that peak doses of nicotine delivered to the brain by smokers provoke long-lasting changes downstream from nAChR activation, in dopamine neurones or in brain circuitry.
10. However, there is one nAChR subtype that may be a candidate for long term changes underlying the addiction process. This is the alpha7 nAChR. This subtype is highly calcium permeable (Seguela et al., 1993), has been proposed to participate in synaptic changes akin to long term potentiation (Hunter et al., 1994), is often associated with terminals containing the major excitatory transmitter glutamate (Gray et al., 1996), and is proposed to modulate glutamate synapses onto dopamine neurones in the VTA (Schilstrom et al., 1998). Thus nicotine might influence synaptic remodelling through the alpha7 subtype. It is not very sensitive to nicotine (EC50 = 40 microM; Gotti et al., 1997) and desensitises rapidly, but one study has suggested that 100 nM nicotine may be sufficient to elicit modulation of glutamate transmission via alpha7 nAChR (Gray et al., 1996). Further study of the role of alpha7 nAChR in models of nicotine dependence are warranted, to establish if this nAChR subtype plays a role in the long term changes that underpin drug addiction.
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Picciotto, M.R., Zoli, M., Lena, C., Bessis, A., Lallemand, Y., LeNovere, N., Vincent, P., Pich, E.M., Brulet, P., and Changeux, J-P. Abnormal avoidance learning in mice lacking functional high-affinity nicotine receptor in the brain. Nature 374: 65-67 (1995).
Picciotto, M.R., Zoli, M., Rimondini, R., Lena, C., Marubio, L., Pich, E.M., Fuxe, K. and Changeux, J-P. Beta2-subunit-containing acetylcholine receptors are involved in the reinforcing properties of nicotine. Nature 391: 173-176 (1998).
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Schilstrom B, Svensson H, Svensson T and Nomikos G Nicotine and food induced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of the rat: putative role of Alpha7 nicotinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area. Neuroscience 85: 1005-1009 (1998).
Seguela, P., Wadiche, J., Dineley-Miller, K., Dani, J.A. and Patrick, J.W. Molecular cloning, functional properties, and distribution of rat brain Alpha7: A nicotinic cation channel highly permeable to calcium. J. Neurosci., 13, 596-604 (1993).
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Wada E., Wada K., Boulter J., Deneris E., Heinemann S., Patrick J., and Swanson L. W. Distribution of alpha 2, alpha 3, alpha 4, and beta 2 neuronal nicotinic receptor subunit mRNAs in the central nervous system: a hybridization histochemical study in the rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 284, 314-335 (1989)
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recap: March meet at Byers Imports
It's amazing, the difference a year can make. Last season started on a cold, snowy Saturday morning. The turnout was impressive considering the conditions that day, but many cars stayed at home, warm in their garages.
This season spooled up on a perfectly sunny, warm day. The long winter months finally fading away, our enthusiasts couldn't wait to remove their car covers, disconnect their battery tenders, and fire up their pride and joy.
As the cars poured in by the hundred, the total count was over 300, our enthusiasts were treated to a look at the all-new Audi Columbus building, the latest addition to Byers Imports. As a fine collection of Audi vehicles amassed out front, the metallic building glistened in the sunlight. Meanwhile, all non-Audi cars were heading back to the Cars and Coffee Lot, where our volunteer crew worked to find space for them all. In the end, they had enough parking, but only just.
Headliners in the Cars and Coffee Lot included the new Aston Martin DB11, a handful of Huracans, a sinister black Viper ACR, two of the new Acura NSXs, and an ultra-rare GT3RS 4.0. There were Corvettes, Hellcats, Alfa Romeos, a Bentley, Maseratis, and dozens of other types of cars on display. It was a truly diverse and dynamic gathering.
Ultimately, we couldn't have asked for a better start to Season 9. The season continues on April 8th at ESOTERIC Fine Auto Finishing in New Albany.
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Welcome to Spider-Rama! Each Wednesday, Ben and Duy will look at a Spider-Man issue from the very beginning, in chronological order, and answer questions for various categories, inspired in large part by one of our favorite podcasts, The Rewatchables by The Ringer. Our goal is to make it to Amazing Spider-Man #200. Will we make it? Grab your Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus or crank up your tablet to Marvel Unlimited, and then tune in every Wednesday to find out!
Spider-Rama
by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr.
The Green Goblin discovers that Peter Parker is Spider-Man!
POINTLESS TRIVIA
BEN: Villain appearance count:
Green Goblin: 6
Doctor Octopus: 5
Sandman: 4
The Vulture: 3
Mysterio: 3
The Enforcers: 3
Kraven the Hunter: 3
The Chameleon: 2
Electro: 2
The Ringmaster: 2
Scorpion: 2
Molten Man: 2
BEN: The Green Goblin discovers Spider-Man's secret identity, and is revealed to be Norman Osborn.
DUY: Okay, so a lot has been made about the fact that Norman is Peter's greatest villain because he's his best friend's father, but I think we should note the fact that by the time of the reveal, they're not actually best friends yet. I mean, they might be by default because they had a heart to heart, and Peter has no other friends, but still.
BEN: It's catchier than “the father of a guy I kinda know from school!”
WHAT'S AGED THE BEST?
BEN: I suspect this might be where we have our first disagreement, but I find John Romita’s art style to be more aesthetically pleasing than Ditko’s. Ditko is a master of motion and design, and the comic wouldn’t even exist without him, but I believe Spider-Man needed the change in style to go up even another level. Romita’s background as a romance comic artist blended perfectly with his competent superhero action, making him arguably the most ideal artist possible for the character.
DUY: I actually agree with all that, and when I named the five most important Spider-Man artists when I started the Cube, I placed Romita at #1 just because he's the commercial face of the character. He's just not as exciting.
BEN: He may not be as action-packed, but the Peter Parker side of the book is way better under Romita. But there is certainly an argument that Romita immediately peaked with this 2-part story. The only other contender off the top of my head is #50.
DUY: He sets the classic bar with the cast, I just prefer angry Peter. To which, anyone who says art styles don't affect writing should look at how much the personality of both the main character and the book changes between these two.
BEN: I prefer my Peter to be a lover, not a fighter.
DUY: I should also mention that I prefer my Spider-Man to be on the lankier, weirder side. My favorite Spider-Man artists past Ditko are Steve Skroce and Todd McFarlane, who really drove up the weirdness factor, and Steven Butler, who did a pretty good Ditko riff without being a full-on cover. I know Romita is the classic, and most everyone else followed in his model, it's just not my personal preference.
BEN: I guess Romita’s model was burned into my brain, because this is Spider-Man to me.
DUY: It is the Spider-Man. In about twenty issues, we're going to get to a cover with a Spider-Man image that I will always think of as the commercial image of Spider-Man.
BEN: Another subtle difference is the bigger panels Romita uses. Ditko used those smaller panels and everything was crammed in there.
DUY: Yeah, Ditko really gave a sense of constriction.
WHAT'S AGED THE WORST?
DUY: So... any chance a rich kid like Harry Osborn actually opens up to someone like Peter at a particularly vulnerable moment?
BEN: It's not so far-fetched considering how upset he might be. It's not like Flash was going to talk it out with him.
NITPICKS
BEN: Surely someone would have noticed a superhero battle in a residential neighborhood.
DUY: May's post-op condition sure seems like another convenient way to remind us that she can never find out about Peter being Spider-Man.
BEN: The shock might kill her! And I have to say, there’s absolutely nothing Spider-Man could be swinging a web from in some of these above the city shots.
FAVORITE PANEL
DUY: Here is your "Can you imagine being a kid and reading this off the shelf" moment:
BEN: Even seeing the cover, you probably assumed it was another fakeout, but definitely had to find out. Had any villain uncovered a hero’s identity before this? That wasn’t reversed by the end of the story?
DUY: Well, technically this does get reversed next issue. But they do it in a way that they can always re-reverse it back.
BEN: He still knows, it’s just hidden under severe brain damage. It’s different than Superman having Batman dress up as him to fool Lois or whatever.
DUY: Does Green Lantern villain Star Sapphire count? Carol Ferris becomes Star Sapphire, who knows Hal is Green Lantern, but she's not in control of her own mind.
BEN: Similar.
WHO WON THE COMIC?
BEN: The Green Goblin vaulted into the spot of top Spider-Man villain after the events of this issue.
DUY: I guess you cold have argued he was already there.
BEN: He definitely took the focus with those crime stories, but I think Ock snatched the top spot back after the Master Planner Saga.
DUY: Even that's arguable, because Ock is barely in the Master Planner Saga.
BEN: But he was the Master Planner Saga.
FROM DITKO TO ROMITA
BEN: Obviously another landmark issue in the history of Spider-Man. The Green Goblin is finally revealed after 25 issues. Peter Parker is unmasked for the first time. John Romita becomes the second full-time penciler on the series.
DUY: And Romita becomes the face of the character for at least the next 25 years at this point.
BEN: As far as merchandising, I’d say that didn’t change until I started seeing Mark Bagley art on stuff during Ultimate Spider-Man.
DUY: And Ultimate was pretty clearly about the different, almost manga-like proportions too. Had to get him being a kid. An "alternative" take.
BEN: To address the theories of Ditko’s departure one last time. As far as the disagreement over the Goblin’s identity, there was clear buildup to Osborn being the reveal referenced in the comic itself.
BEN: Now, it could be Stan wanting to make the connection fit against Ditko’s plans, but it seemed like a perfect setup to Osborn as the Goblin.
DUY: That's the thing. I think after all this time reading comics, we can tell when something is a "fix." But this is actually too neatly tied together.
BEN: Too neat for Stan, no offense to him. I love Stan, but he couldn’t remember some of the characters names from issue to issue. Analyzing the theory of a feud between Martin Goodman and Ditko, Peter is immediately less angry in this story. He’s making nice with Harry Osborn and with Ned Leeds. Gwen is clearly interested in him. Even Flash seems open to giving him a chance. He’s beginning to become a part of the group, instead of the angry loner. Incidentally, his college group is the best supporting cast the character will ever have.
DUY: That's it for Spider-Rama this week.
BEN: Thank you, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko—
DUY: —for telling us we aren't the only ones.
Leave us a comment below or on our Facebook page. See you next week!
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Marie Fredriksson: “It’s great being on stage again”
STOCKHOLM - The Daily Roxette had a chance for a brief interview with Marie Fredriksson.
When The Daily Roxette asks Marie how she is feeling, Marie responds "I feel great, thanks!" Marie is currently on a break from the "Stjärnklart" tour, after playing five nights in Stockholm, she will play in Malmö tomorrow and until Friday, and in Gothenburg next week. Marie explains how everything started with this show; "They asked me, I thought about it and said yes. It's been a challenge and a pleasure." And it surely seems to have been the right decision, as Marie adds, after having more than half of the tour behind her, "It's great being on stage again."
Last Saturday, day of one of the shows in Stockholm, was a special day for many. Fans travelled from far outside of Sweden to see Marie live and had the chance to meet Marie. Marie, how did that feel? "It was a lot of fun, especially when someone [note: Rosa Planas from Spain] gave me a really really old record of 'Strul.' They were sweet and friendly as always," says Marie to The Daily Roxette.
As you may know, Marie not only composes music, she is also an artist, and has already had three art exhibitions, the last one in Gothenburg in October, "It was great in Gothenburg, even better than Stockholm." The Daily Roxette wonders if there are any plans for another exhibition, "I paint and I write music whenever I get the feeling, so we'll see what happens first," Marie smiles.
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With all the press the bulldog trait has received, it is common for any stillborn Dexter fetus to be called a bulldog by the breeder; regardless of cause, or presence/absence of deformity. Generally, these events are blessedly rare, so it is difficult for a breeder to compare his loss with other breeders. The fetus is promptly buried, no photos taken, and no DNA samples obtained. Of course, fetal death can be caused by a number of events, including infection, certain plants, and trauma to the fetus from cows fighting, especially in horned cattle kept in confinement.
However, there are two known lethal genetic mutations that appear to be unique to Dexter cattle. They are commonly termed “bulldog” calves and “waterbabies.” Before the advent of genetic testing, many people believed they were variations on the same defect. This confusion delayed the understanding of chondrodysplasia because animals that did not appear affected by chondrodysplasia, (i.e. did not have short legs and a “choppy” gait) could still produce a waterbaby. This led to the false belief that “dwarfism” and “bulldog” calves were not entirely linked. (For more infomation and a list of all the names used to refer to dwarf and non-dwarf Dexters, please see the article Short-legged and Long-legged Dexters.)
First, a little background. Genes come in pairs, called alleles. An animal that has two different alleles for a gene is called heterozygous, one that has two identical alleles is called homozygous. These terms are reused for every gene. So, an animal can be homozygous normal for chondrodysplasia, but be heterozygous for pulmonary hypoplasia.
Dominant means one allele for the trait will change the outward appearance of the animal. This is further defined by the term Co-Dominant, which means one allele for the trait will change the outward appearance a little bit, but two alleles for the trait will change the appearance a lot. (Clinicians often call these individuals affected and severely affected, using the outward appearance to determine how many mutant alleles the individual possesses.)
Recessive means that one allele for the trait will not change the outward appearance of the animal, this is a true “carrier.” In this case, it takes two alleles for the trait to make a change in the animal.
Breeders often maintain that any bad genetic trait discovered in their breed “must be” from some wicked introduction by another breed. But mutations happen. Most go unnoticed. Occasionally, a mutation is actually advantageous. Mutations create variations in animals, and that allows species to survive environmental changes. But some mutations, known as genetic lethals, cause the death of animals that are homozygous for the trait.
Bulldogs:
Bulldog calves are caused by chondrodysplasia, a form of dwarfism. A rough, literal translation of the term chondrodysplasia is “cartilage in bad form.” Chondrodysplasia is a co-dominant trait, so the heterozygous animal with one mutant allele outwardly shows some signs of the trait. The ability to distinguish these animals from the rest of the herd allowed many breeders to eliminate the occurrence of bulldog calves from their herd; before a genetic test became available.
Several laboratories provide testing for this mutation including UC Davis and Texas A & M. The following is an explanation of the abbreviations breeders will see on their lab certificate after submitting a hair sample for DNA testing.
A Homozygous Normal (HN) animal has two normal alleles for the chondrodysplasia gene and appears normal. (Figure 1)
An animal that is Heterozygous for Chondrodysplasia (HC) has one mutant allele and one normal allele. This animal is affected by the mutation and will show some signs of chondrodysplasia such as short legs and a choppy gait. It will be born alive, but has the potential to produce bulldog calves. Some may suffer from difficulties due to tracheal malformations, poor feet, or arthritis. (Figures 2, 3)
An animal that is Homozygous for Chondrodysplasia will be severely affected,(SA) and typically is spontaneously aborted (miscarried). It will have the appearance of a bulldog calf, including a shortened muzzle, domed forehead, and very, very, very short legs. The “guts hang out” through a pronounced abdominal hernia and the animal has a cleft palate. The spine is also shortened and the rib cage is small which may compress the lungs, causing some edema in calves carried close to full term, but overall the fetus has a very different appearance than a waterbaby. Although calving difficulties do occur, most bulldog fetuses are delivered without assistance. (Figures 4, 5)
Figure 1 - Homozygous Normal (HN) Dexter.
Figure 2 - Dexter affected by chondrodysplasia (HC).
Figure 3 - Poor foot and lower leg conformation on a chondrodysplastic (HC) Dexter.
Figure 4, 5 - Severely Affected (SA) dun colored bulldog calf. Notice the extremely short legs, tiny ears, cleft palate, and abdominal hernia.
It is believed that all chondrodysplastic Dexters in North America share the same mutation. This allele is also common in “Mini” cattle types created from Dexter stock, where affected animals were actually favored over normals.*
Waterbabies:
Waterbabies are caused by Pulmonary Hypoplasia Anasarca, (PHA). The term pulmonary hypoplasia means the lungs are underdeveloped and anasarca refers to edema (swelling) at birth. PHA is believed to be a recessive trait, meaning animals that are carriers of the mutation cannot be identified unless they produce a waterbaby, or are genetically tested.
A homozygous normal animal has two normal alleles for the pulmonary hypoplasia gene.
An animal that is heterozygous for pulmonary hypoplasia is believed to show no outward signs.
An animal that is homozygous for pulmonary hypoplasia will have little or no lung tissue which causes it to swell up with fluid looking much like a cartoon character that has swallowed a water hose. This tremendous swelling is the most distinguishing characteristic. It does not have the short legs, cleft palate, and other deformities of the bulldog. The dam might have a swollen belly prior to calving due to an excess of amniotic fluid, and may need a cesarean section to remove the calf because it has swollen too large for vaginal delivery. (Figures 6,7)
Figure 6, 7. Waterbaby calf caused by PHA - Notice normal leg length, and an extremely swollen head that makes it difficult to see the eyes and nose. The animal also has swelling in the torso, although in this case, the head swelling is the most pronounced.
Figure 8 - This red-colored PHA "waterbaby" was not carried to term but still created a difficult calving for the mother due to edema.
The existence of PHA in other established breeds such as Maine Anjou does not imply Dexters are related to those breeds. Dexters actually have a unique mutation within the gene.
Chondrodysplasia was once very common in Dexters because breeders actually favored the appearance of the heterozygous animals, and the body type was once popular in show rings. (In some areas of the country, this is still the case.) PHA is rarer, because there was no selection process to create a market for heterozygous animals. Now that there is a test for both, the occurence of both bulldogs and waterbabies can be easy to eliminated from the breed.
You can test your animals for PHA by submitting a hair sample to UC Davis. The link is provided on this website under the Links section.
* The chondrodysplasia test will only identify one mutation, and will not identify other dwarfism mutations within the same gene, or within other genes. Other forms of dwarfism are known to exist in “Mini” cattle due to the introduction of many breeds other than Dexter, so this test is not an end-all diagnostic for dwarfism in these animals.
8 comments on “Dexter Bulldogs and Waterbabies”
Victoria McCutcheon on December 31, 2013 at 9:12 pm said:
I understand that breeding a cow that IS positive for the Bulldog Gene will NOT produce a BULLDOG CALF.
However, MY QUESTION IS THIS……………..
Even though this calf IS NOT A BULLDOG calf, would THIS calf ALWAYS CARRY the BD Gene? “Would it be a carrier” so to speak? IF So,,, “IF” that calf were bred to a CARRIER BULL in “IT’S” adult life time, would it “THEN HAVE A BULLDOG CALF” as the results of “being a CARRIER” AND being bred to the carrier bull?
Gabriella on February 5, 2014 at 9:14 pm said:
A dead bulldog calf has two bulldog genes, A dwarf/chondro carrier has one bulldog gene and one normal gene. If your cow is a dwarf, 1/2 the time her calf will get her normal gene, and 1/2 the time her calf will get the bulldog gene. So, even if bred to a non-dwarf/non-carrier, 1/2 of the calves from your dwarf cow will be dwarfs themselves. They will look somewhat different than the normal calves and will have one bulldog gene.
To add more to my question above…………
Would this cow WITH BDG have calves that ALSO have the gene even though bred to a NON CARRIER BULL.
Would THOSE CALVES then ALWAYS have the BDG in them and be nown as a “CARRIER” of such?
With THEM also having the possibility of HAVING a BDG calf “EVEN WHEN BRED TO A NON CARRIER” bull in the future?
Gabriella on March 17, 2014 at 9:44 am said:
Her non-carrier offspring do not carry hidden bulldog alleles. The allele is lost from their genome forever. They cannot produce a bulldog calf. The only way they can produce a carrier calf is to be bred to a bulldog carrier, (meaning the bulldog allele came from the other parent).
Deb on July 27, 2014 at 8:47 pm said:
I have two tested NON CARRIER miniature Jerseys which just produced a presumed BD calf. Both sire (semen) and dam (live) were tested for BD1 at UCD. Is there a mutation of this gene or possibly a BD2 gene out there? I am sending a tail hair sample to UCD tomorrow and kept the dead calf in the freezer just in case they want to do a necropsy. This is the first time that we have had this and especially from tested animals. This concerns me to know that there is another gene out there that can cause this.
In this case, the calf is a heifer, legs about 6″ long, very hard curled, front and rear, bulldog face and swollen head, normal ears and tail, tongue protruding, and 5 days away from her expected due date. I have pictures if you could tell me more…thank you!
~Deb…
Gabriella on August 29, 2014 at 3:09 am said:
Most mini cow strains are influenced by the process of selecting extremely small animals that randomly appeared either within their own breed or within other breeds. This means something happened to that small calf that did not happen to his or her sire or dam. For a new mini cow project, I suppose the best case scenario is that the calf has a fresh mutation for something that made it small.* The problem with a fresh mutation is the animal is heterozygous (has one genetic copy) for the trait, because the odds of two mutations at the same location in the same animal is infinitesimal. So, if the animal shows effect of the mutation, it is clinically dominant or co-dominant in nature, meaning two animals bred together that have this new “small size gene” or even two similar new “small size genes” will have a 25% chance of producing a homozygous animal with a double dose of this trait. There are many genetic lethals known in full size cattle, and it is possible that you are experiencing one from the Jersey breed. But, since productivity and growth are selected for in commercial herds, the mutations that cause growth retardation are culled, so any sort of co-dominant dwarfism is usually selected against. In these new mini breeds, the random dwarfs are gathered up from anywhere they can be found, and bred together. So, it is not uncommon for these animals, when bred together, to produce some strange lethals. There are even cases where the sire and dam are quite unrelated and the concept of “compound heterozygote” comes into play, since they may not have the exact same mutation, but the mutations are similar enough that a calf who receives one bad gene/allele from each parent is still born dead. This concept could also result in an extremely small animal that carries two types of dwarfism, which would then be bred extensively because its size is favored.
* Another scenario in new mini cow breeds can be animals that pop out and do not have the smallness of their parents, either because:
1. A randomly small animal used as a mini cow or bull in a breeding program was small for reasons that were not genetic, such as placental insufficiency or nutritional factors during growth of the calf.
2. Two animals that had mutations for some sort of smallness factor were bred together and produced a non-affected animal (also a 25% chance), and this animal reached full size.
These concepts may be a contributing factor when calving difficulties that are reported due to an unusually large calf for the miniature strain.
Jonnie on February 14, 2018 at 8:08 am said:
I have a related question. Could a dwarf heifer be homozygous for chondroplasia and give birth to a stillborn bulldog calf even if she was bred to a non carrier bull?
Gabriella on October 24, 2019 at 8:15 pm said:
No. For two reasons.
1. An animal that is homozygous for chondrodysplasia is dead. It’s a bulldog calf.
2. Let’s say chondrodysplasia is not lethal in its homozygous form. So your heifer is homozygous. She has two copies of the gene. She can only pass on one copy to each offspring. This is how DNA works. If a cow has six feet of DNA in her cells, she passes on three feet to her offspring, and the bull passes on three feet. The calf has sex feet of DNA and a fresh combination of genes.
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Ethical household spending can tackle global poverty says C of E specialist
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EU Referendum 2016
Section 1: Media Reporting
Section 2: Voters, Polls and Results
Section 3: Political Communication and Image Management
Section 4: The Nations
Section 5: Campaigning and Civil Society
Section 6: Social Media
Section 7: Popular Culture
Section 8: Media Influence and Interventions
Section 1: Context
Section 3: News and Journalism
Section 4: Parties and the Campaign
Section 5: The Digital Campaign
Section 7: Brexit and European Perspectives
Section 8: Personality politics and popular culture
Standing behind the leaders
Senior Lecturer in Advertising at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University.
Prior to joining academia, for several years he was involved in Canadian federal and municipal politics.
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Symbolising Britain
Political consultants, their strategies and the importation of new political communications techniques during the 2015 General Election
There now follows a party election broadcast
The slow shift to the digital campaign: online political posters
Online persuasion at the 2015 General Election
Marketing the 2015 British General Election: the invisible campaign?
‘Oh what a circus’: reflecting on the 2015 UK General Election as an event
Six weeks of separation: the campaign rhetoric of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
Did the Green Surge make any difference?
Ordinariness and authenticity in the 2015 General Election campaign
The two inter-linked aspects of this election campaign I found most noteworthy were i) the extent to which the main parties, particularly Conservatives and Labour, insulated (protected) their leaders from direct contact – including depictions in the media – with members of the public, and ii) each parties’ success in avoiding the central questions about their policies upon which an informed choice depended.
In an effort to avoid the kind of ‘Gillian Duffy moment’ that sank Gordon Brown, this time around, the main parties went to great lengths to ensure that, whenever and wherever party leaders Cameron, Miliband and Clegg appeared in front of photojournalists and television cameras, they were seen in carefully controlled and stage-managed settings against a background of smiling supporters enthusiastically waving party signs and placards.
The backdrop or ‘set’ against which a politician is seen has a subtle – but powerful – influence on our perceptions and therefore on our interpretations of the event (have you noticed, for example, how often automobile advertisements are filmed in natural and idyllic surroundings – rather than in traffic jams or suburban sprawl?). Employing many of the same visual communication strategies used to shape audiences’ attitudes towards consumer products, the organisers used these ‘pseudo-events’ to symbolically suggest the leaders’ popularity among the various ages, social and ethnic groups represented by the assembled crowds of Conservative supporters, Labour supporters, and Liberal Democrat supporters.
And of course, through the careful selection of those in close proximity to their leaders, the parties were also able to ensure that their leaders were not pressed – especially in the presence of cameras and journalists – for answers to the questions (to the Conservatives: Where will the promised £12b reductions in social spending be made? To Labour: What is the projected cost of your spending programmes?) they consistently refused to provide and which voters required to make an informed choice about the direction and priorities of UK society.
By carefully controlling the way in which the leaders were presented to the media, the parties made use of an insight offered by Walter Lippmann (1922) on shaping public opinion:
“In order to conduct a propaganda [sic] there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited [in order to control] where they look, and at what. […] It is often very illuminating, therefore, to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion.”
Comparing the various photographs made from different vantage points of a Conservative rally in Wadebridge, Cornwall Isabel Hardman writing in the Spectator ably demonstrates a basic principle of ‘visual syntax’ regularly used by newspaper photo editors: that when a photograph is tightly framed around a small group, it gives the impression of a much larger crowd.
The Conservative party’s Australian strategist, Lynton Crosby has clearly learned valuable lessons from American image consultants such as Michael Deaver whose work for US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush included orchestrating scenes for televised events that left powerful symbolic images in people’s minds. According to The New York Times, Deaver was responsible for “Reagan’s most memorable photographic backdrops for public consumption”.
Reporting on the use of such visual stagecraft to shape US public perception of President George W. Bush’s economic plan, Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times wrote:
“The White House has stocked its communications operation with people who are experts in lighting, camera angles and the importance of backdrops. At a speech promoting his economic plan, White House officials [asked] people in the crowd behind [the President] to take off their ties […] so they would look more like the ordinary people the president said would benefit from his tax cut.”
Now, how many of us had naïvely assumed that, shown against a background of supporters while making his (certainly scripted) plea for the chance to carry out the next step of the Conservatives’ economic plan, Cameron appeared with rolled up shirt sleeves only because he was ‘pumped up’?
With ever greater control exercised by image consultants over the increasingly stage-managed appearances by politicians – whose public personas are already mediated through television and photojournalism, and whose every utterance will soon be vetted by continuous response measure (‘worm’ graphs) and focus groups – we will increasingly find (or worse, not notice) that we can no longer have confidence in the bases on which we make judgements about the character of those standing for office.
Coupled with the refusal to engage with the questions to which the public desperately wanted answers, these trends will only further exacerbate both the real and symbolic ‘distance’ between us and the politicians who claim to understand and represent our interests. Regrettably, these trends are likely to only gather momentum in future campaigns. Caveat emptor.
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Telford died in 1834, in his house in Abingdon Street, Westmonster. He left behind both a wealth of engineering achievements and the establishment of civil engineering as a profession in its own right.
In 1820, Telford had been invited by a group of young engineers to become the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the world's first professional engineering body. He was to remain president for rest of his life and leave the Instution a sizable bequest, which gave it financial security and permanent premises.
Through his position with the ICE, he was in a position to introduce and establish the practice of recording discussions at meetings, plus he encouraged engineers to document their work and the problems they were solving. These ways of sharing experience and passing on knowledge are ones that continue in the profession today.
Telford's ability to manage all kinds of projects, big and small, without being on the spot, is testimony to his good management practices and the trusted relationships he built with colleagues — a precursor to the modern-day definition of project management.
He used contractors to manage construction work. They were given detailed specifications and instructions on what needed to be completed by what date. And he regularly worked with the same people — those he knew would produce the best results. Two examples are ironmaster William Hazeldine and stonemason John Wilson, both instrumental in his major suspension bridges.
In Telford's day the main method of communication was the written word, delivered by horse-drawn coach or train. The ability to delegate effectively to resident engineers was essential in managing far-flung projects. A good judge of character, he nurtured trusting relationships with deputies and he was a supportive mentor. Crucially, he inspired the people he worked with. The management techniques he developed in the course of his career have had a lasting effect on the profession of civil engineering.
Telford was the first civil engineer to be given the honour of a burial in Westminster Abbey. He left us a diverse range of groundbreaking structures — a body of work that inspired his fellow Britains and still inspires engineers today.
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Insilico biomarkers and interventions in aging
Moskalev A1,2, Zhavoronkov A3, Aliper A3, Belikov AV2
1Institute of Biology of Komi Science Center of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia.
2Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russia.
3Insilico Medicine, Inc, Research Department, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
A massive shift in the aging segment of the population will have major social and economic consequences around the world. One way to offset this increase is to expedite the development of geroprotectors, substances that slow aging and extend healthy lifespan, or healthspan. While over 200 geroprotectors are now reported in model organisms and some are in human use for specific disease indications, the path toward determining whether they affect aging in humans remains obscure.
GeroScope is a computational tool that can aid prediction of novel geroprotectors from existing human gene expression data. We shortlisted ten substances, all of which have lifespan-extending effects in animal models, and tested 6 of them for geroprotective effects in senescent human fibroblast cultures. PD-98059, a highly selective MEK1 inhibitor, showed both life-prolonging and rejuvenating effects. Natural compounds like N-acetyl-L-cysteine, Myricetin and Epigallocatechin gallate also improved several senescence-associated properties and were further investigated with pathway analysis. One of the major impediments in human aging research is the absence of actionable set of biomarkers that may be measured to track the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. Using deep machine learning analysis we developed biological age model Aging.AI, which includes 41 input parameters of human blood. Using machine learning with 38 human health parameters, we arrived on a set of four predictors of chronological age, all of which reflect the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
Standardizing selection of geroprotectors with computational tools and the panels of human aging biomarkers will streamline discovery and analysis of new candidates, saving time and cost involved in translation to clinic.
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My previous post about Jerry Seinfeld’s fear of trying on a dress got me thinking about TV on TV and me. Whereas crossdressing is very common on TV these days, during my formative years, TV on TV was rare and I tried to recall my first encounter with crossdressing on the boob tube.
I came up with three suspects. I viewed these TV on TV encounters when I still measured my age with a single digit, so forgive me for not remembering which came first.
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The People’s Choice was a situation comedy starring Jackie Cooper and a basset hound named Cleo. The show ran from 1955 through 1958.
As a youngster, I saw many episodes in rerun, but only recall one. In that episode, titled “The Male Ego,” Sock, a realtor, played by Jackie Cooper, loses the sale of a house because the prospective buyer's wife dislikes a minor detail.
Convinced that women are beginning to take over the world, Sock goes to sleep and dreams about a future in which the women are taking over and are in the process of acclimating men to their rule. All the women wear pantsuits and are shown forcing reluctant men to enter a transformation booth, which “refines” their personalities and attire. When they exit the booth, the men act in a feminine manner and wear miniskirts.
As Sock enters the booth, he seeks help from Cleo, but she refuses to help him because Cleo is female and loyal to the distaff side of civilization rather than her owner. The dream ends as Sock exits the booth as a girly-guy in a girly outfit.
That is all I remember, but it left an indelible impression on my impressionable mind back then.
I was a big fan of the Our Gang comedies. One silent Our Gang film, titled Crazy House, left a big impression on me.
In that film, Jean Darling is a rich girl who invites the gang to her elegant home for a party. The gang is allowed to go anywhere in the mansion since her parents and servants are not home and things get a little out of hand.
One of those little things is when the little rich girl convinces one of the male gang members, played by Harry Spear, to switch places with her. After they switch clothes, the girl became aggressive and fights with the boy in the dress and tries to start a fight with other gang members to prove her masculinity.
Needless to say, seeing the boy in the little girl's dress is something I will never forget.
Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy about high school teachers. Eve Arden played English teacher Miss Brooks and in one episode, she volunteered to help her boyfriend/biology teacher Mr. Boynton (played by Robert Rockwell) to dress as a woman for Halloween or some other costumed affair.
There was no actual crossdressing shown on TV, but just the discussion of dressing a man as a woman stuck in my memory.
Then there was the first television broadcast of Some Like It Hot and all hell broke loose in my little world!
And so it went.
Wearing Brahmin
Harry Spear switched clothes with Jean Darling in the Our Gang film Crazy House.
Labels: crossdress, crossdresser, crossdressing, femulate, femulation, femulator, our gang, our miss brooks, seinfeld, stana, television, the people’s choice, transgender, transgirl, transsexual, transvestite, transwoman
Julie November 09, 2019
For me it was probably an episode of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. A tribal chief and 2 warriors arrive on the islan and want a woman to take back with them to their island (for whatever reason!) So the men try to disguise themselves as women to keep the ladies safe and possibly find an escape. Skipper, Professor and Mr Howell look like ugly men in dresses, but Gilligan was VERY convincing.
It's a possible tie with this and an episode of Our Gang - MAIL AND FEMALE - Alfalfa visits Darla in spite of the He-Man Women Haters Club ban on girls. When Spanky and company arrive at Darla's house looking for Alfalfa, he disguises himself as Darla's cousin Amelia.
And yes, SOME LIKE IT HOT solidified it for me.
If you are 'Take a three hour tour', Perhaps you recall the episode where the castaways were kidnapped by the 'Mad Scientist' from an adjacent island. Mad Scientist's goal was to interchange minds with bodies....
Ginger's mind is swapped with into the Mad Scientist's huge, burly assistant... After the mind swap, Ginger realizes her predicament: "I'm gonna cry.."
When Mad scientist looks for his assistant, his reply comes from Gingers body:
"In HERE(!), feels gooood!". (really?)
Images from that episode of Gilligan’s made the Femulator slot on two occasions:
The Professor: http://www.femulate.org/2018/12/party-time.html
Gilligan: http://www.femulate.org/2018/12/mothers-and-daughters.html
Stanna
You mention Jerry Seinfeld again
I think his comment is closer to the mark than he realises
I have close to being outed simply by showing interest in dresses and accessories
I would have bought them if I could
I know what you mean, Lucy!
My most significant TV 'Femulation Revealation' was from the original Star Trek, where Captain Kirk's old flame, Janet Lester, gains control of an ancient alien device, which allows her to swap her body with that of James Kirk.
Someone should catalog these type 'gender swap' television episodes, into a REAL TEE-VEE (and we DO mean T-V!) Guide ;-)
There are three such “catalogs” listed under my Cultural Links sidebar. Wikipedia has two, one for crossdressing in film and TV and one for transgender in film and TV. The third, Tiffany’s film guide, was very comprehensive up to about 2005, when it seems that she stopped updating the catalog.
You weren't affected by Bugs Bunny's many femulations? Or the cartoon where, in a dream sequence, Bugs transforms Elmer into a pretty convincing sexy girl?
I did not like Bugs, so whenever his cartoon came on TV, I changed the channel. On the other hand, I loved Daffy Duck.
Brenda November 10, 2019
I remember watching the game show Truth or Consequences in the sixties, and many of the pranks involved cross dressing. In one instance a wife is shown three models wearing mod tights and heels, you could only see them from the tops of their legs down. She was supposed to pick one she liked the best, the gag was , one of the models was her husband.
Thanks for stirring up another memory. In grammar school, we walked home for lunch and walked back to school for 1 PM classes. Truth or Consequences aired in the 12:30 to 1 PM time slot. I’ll never forget the episode where they were going to dress some guys as gals, but they did not reveal the results until the end of the show. By then, I was on my way walking back to school and missing the results bugged me for weeks!
OMG, I saw that episode with Gilligan and still I wanted to be Ginger.
I think SLiH opened up my eyes that it was OK to dress up and was actually normal
Seems that there is a distinct division in the femulator community: the femulators who wanted to be Ginger and the femulators who wanted to be Mary Ann. (Nobody wanted to be Mrs. Howell!) I myself am in the Ginger group.
Stana, Ginger always wore high heels
MikkiB November 10, 2019
Back in the early days of television there were a ton of variety shows and someone in drag would pop up on rare occasions. Of course there was Milton Berle who donned female clothes regularly.There were also the occasional voice impersonators and drag queens. George Kirby did amazing female voices and T.C. Jones showed up several times. I can remember a "sister act" that was on Dinah Shore at least twice. There were these two gorgeous blonde "showgirls", not actually sisters but were striking and similar enough to pull it off. They did a great dance routine, and if they were in a chorus line you wouldn't be able to pick them out. T.C. Jones would always reveal his bald head, but the "sisters" stayed en femme and only used their "sort of" male voices when they talked to Dinah. I recognized the "sisters" straight away because I'd seen photos of them in a Confidential Magazine article about Transvestites. I felt my eyes almost pop out of my head when I saw them on TV!
I have seen Uncle Miltie crossdressed on many occasions in both film and TV, but not the other folks you mentioned. I am familiar with T.C. Jones, but draw a blank regarding the sister act.
wearinging brahimn is the best outfit you've ever featured!
Of course, "Bugs Bunny in Drag" got 'artistically hypersexualized' in parody to Jessica Rabbit in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". There are references to individuals having sexual impulse to cartoon images.
https://www.askmen.com/sex/sex_tips/what-is-kink-shaming-and-why-you-should-avoid-doing-it.html
Does anyone recall "Cops" episode involving a vehicle chase caused by nothing more than a tail light problem. The cops 'light him up' and 'the perp' takes off to avoid a confrontation while driving a mangy, beat-up old import pickup truck. Soon the chase ends badly, only to find the driver in full 'gurl' mode....
It always pays to 'pretrip' your vehicle BEFORE 'Driving En-Femulated'.
CallMeMeg November 11, 2019
There was a Mission Impossible where they were to guard a boy king (or something) and did it by dressing him as a girl so the bad guys wouldn't know where he was.
I used to watch Truth or Consequences just because once a year maybe they'd do something like remove a couple of couples from the audience and separate the men from women. They'd dress the men, put them back, and give the wives pictures of the 'women' (each other's husbands) and see who could find the woman in the picture first. Of course, the joke was, each brought back each other's husband.
wsr November 11, 2019
I believe the young actor on Mission Impossible was Barry Williams, he went on to play Greg Brady on the Brady Bunch!
And then there is this from Mad magazine: https://tinyurl.com/yfahe9so
Aunty November 13, 2019
Barry Williams femulating in Mission Impossible on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXxmbmrmh4
Thanks for writing about the Our Gang film. I searched for that for years, as I was not sure it was Our Gang or something else, since I believe it was silent. They actually showed that film at my high school, and I was dumb-struck! I'll never forget the scene where she "force feminizes" him by putting him into her "dolly clothes."
A current show with a lot of femulating going on is Family Guy. I am currently writing a paper on it for an academic conference.
Stana December 28, 2019
I would love to read the paper if you are willing to share it.
A Deal I Could Not Refuse
Trump’s War on Transgenders Marches On
All men will wear dresses
Femulating Friday
My Magic Skirt
Josephine, Daphne and Me
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Worn-Out Workshops
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IGNEOUS ROCKS AROUND Boston, MA
Pictures of a few remarkable outcrops of igneous rocks around Boston:
magma mixing at Salem Neck
the Rockport fayalite-pegmatite inside the Cape Ann granitic intrusion
the Cape Neddick gabbroic intrusion
All around the Salem Peninsula (North-West of Salem, MA), outcrops show magma mixing between the Beverly Syenite and the Salem Gabbro. Particularly good outcrops are exposed on the shore near the Cat Cove Marine Labs (ask permission at the lab), under powerlines crossing Memorial Drive and on the shore just south of the Salem Neck Park.
Interaction between two magmas, a syenitic / granitic and a gabbroic. The gabbroic magma forms pillows with lobate contours, indicating simultaneous emplacement of the two magmas in the liquid state.
Close views of gabbroic pillows, showing their lobate contours. The shape of the contours in similar outcrops (from rounded to the development of finger-like intrusions of mafic magma inside the felsic magma) has been related to the viscosity ratio between the two magmas. The picture to the right shows chilled margins on the outside of the mafic pillows. Chilled margins are due to fast cooling of the hot mafic magma upon intrusion into the cold felsic magma.
Simultaneous intrusion of mafic and felsic magma in a dike crosscuting a previous generation of felsic magma.
How many magmas? Are they all intruding at the same time?
At least, not everything is intruding at the same time!! The most mafic (darker) magma is definitely older than the others and show nice brittle deformation. How about the parent magmas of the grey colored and the tan-colored rocks?
Rockport fayalite-pegmatites
The Cape-Ann granitic intrusion is a 450 Ma old alkali granite outcroping between Peabody, Ipswich and Gloucester (MA). The Cape Ann alkali granite is enriched in alkalis and iron, and accessory minerals include alkali amphiboles, iron-rich dark mica, and fayalite. The Fe2+ end-member of the dark micas, annite, has been defined here. On the northeastern shore of the cape, north of Rockport, pegmatite dikes exposed near the seashore contain large crystals of fayalite.
A pegmatite pod inside a fine-grained aplite. Crystals in pegmatites form at very low nucleation rates compared to growth rates, possibly as a consequence of abundant water in the melt, which depolymerizes the nuclei. This extremely low Nucleation/Growth ratio produces very big crystals. Fine-grained aplites are frequently associated with pegmatites, and may result from rapid loss of water, which would enhance nucleation and suddenly decrease the melting temperature of the magma. Dominant minerals in Rockport pegmatites are grey-blue quartz and yellow-pink alkali feldspar.
Parallel growth of quartz, alkali feldspar and a mafic mineral (fayalite, amphibole?) in a small pegmatite layer between two aplite layers. This comb structure is due to heterogeneous nucleation of the water-rich supersaturated pegmatitic melt on the cold aplitic wall. The lower aplitic body has thus crystallized before the intrusion of the pegmatitic magma. The pegmatitic crystals are crystallizing inside the upper aplite, indicating that this second aplite could result from the crystallization of the same magma that produces the pegmatitic layer, maybe as a consequence of rapid water-loss.
Large fayalite crystals are present in the pegmatites. Most of them have reacted to quartz + magnetite, as a consequence of changing oxygen fugacity during cooling of the pegmatite. This is a spectacular exemple of a natural FMQ buffer!!! The equilibrium fayalite = quartz + magnetite + oxygen (FMQ) is used by experimentalists to buffer the oxygen fugacity in high-temperature experiments (i.e. to control the amount of oxygen and the Fe3+/Fe2+ ratio in the experimental sample). In the pictures, fayalite is black and highly reflective, and is surrounded by a gray quartz+magnetite mix. The very thin dark layer around the crystals might be amphibole.
Cape Neddick layered gabbroic intrusion
The Cape Neddick Complex is an oval-shaped gabbroic intrusion covering about 1 km2 on the eastern side of the cape. It belongs to an alignment of young magmatic rock sometime considered to be the track of a "New England hot-spot". It has been dated at about 114 million years. The Cape Neddick complex consists of two gabbroic intrusions, an outer one rich in plagioclase, and an inner one richer in olivine. Nice igneous layering is exposed mostly in the outer intrusion.
Large scale igneous layering in the outer gabbroic intrusion. The rhythmic layering is underlined by variations in the proportions of plagioclase (light) and clinopyroxene (dark).
Spectacular cross-bedding in the outer gabbroic intrusion. These textures are probably produced by density currents in the magma chamber.
A channel got eroded in the lower massive gabbro, then filled with layered gabbro.
Parallel growth ("comb-structure") of amphibole crystals on top of a gabbroic layer. This is due to heterogeneous nucleation of a supersaturated magma on the cold crystallized wall of the magma chamber, the same phenomenon that happens in granitic magmas at Rockport. The right picture also shows nice erosion features.
Pod of amphibole-rich gabbroic pegmatite cross-cutting the outer gabbroic intrusion.
On its western margin, the Cape Neddick Gabbro intrudes the metasedimentary rocks of the Kittery formation. Near the contact, a really fine grained gray-brown rock contains numerous enclaves of metasediments and gabbros.This fine grained rock might be the product of partial melting of the Kittery formation upon intrusion of the Cape Neddick gabbro.
The inner intrusion is made of olivine and amphibole-rich dark gabbros. Large amphibole crystals are poikillitic and enclose all other minerals, indicative of late crystallization.
Younger aplitic vein crosscuting the outer gabbro. A weak igneous layering can be seen in the gabbro, at about 30° from the direction of the dike.
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1937: Titsian Tabidze, poet
On this date in 1937, the Georgian poet Titsian Tabidze was executed in Stalin’s purges.
“Titsiani”, who co-founded the “Blue Horns” symbolist circle in 1916, is the addressee of fellow dissident litterateur Boris Pasternak’s Letters to a Georgian Friend.
“There is as much soul in his poetry as there was in him, a reserved and complicated soul, wholly attracted to the good and capable of clairvoyance and self-sacrifice,” Pasternak would remember of his comrade. “The memory of Tabidze puts me in mind of the country; landscapes rise in my imagination, the waves of the sea and a vast flowering plain; clouds drifting in a row and, behind them in the distance, mountains rising to the same level.”
The problem was their decidedly less sentimental countryman in the Kremlin.
Georgian security chief Lavrenty Beria put the screws to the Georgian writers’ association, driving fellow Blue Horns alum Paolo Yashvili to suicide when he was pressured to denounce Tabidze.
But of course the only difference that made was for Yashvili’s soul.
Arrested as a traitor a bare two months before his death, Tabidze defiantly betrayed to his interrogators the name of only a single fellow-traveler: 18th century Georgian poet Besiki.
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Tags: 1930s, 1937, boris pasternak, december 16, josef stalin, lavrenty beria, poet, poetry, purge, stalin, titsian tabidze
1955: Six Beria men
Add comment November 22nd, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1955, eight former officials of the Georgia — the country Georgia — secret police were tried publicly in Tbilisi, and six* of them convicted and promptly shot.
Officially, they were in the dock post-Stalin for their various depredations during the late ascendancy of the notorious Lavrentiy Beria. (Both Beria and Stalin himself were native Georgians.)
All their frightening offices for the NKVD had been re-branded, post-Stalin, as counterrevolutionary and terroristic, the same sort of chilling police-state lingo they used to turn against enemies back in their day.
A.N. Rapava, for instance
… was Deputy Head of the NKVD in Georgia. In July 1945, he received the rank of Lt. General. From late 1938 until 1948, he was the Head of NKVD/NKGB/MGB** in Georgia when he was removed under a cloud. (Source)
Georgia’s Stalin-era apparatchiks had vicious infighting, aggravated by a growing rift between Stalin and Beria late in Stalin’s life. (Indeed, if you like some hypotheses, this was why it was late in Stalin’s life: Beria might have poisoned off Uncle Joe to protect himself from purging.)
Rapava was a Beria man, but when Stalin swept his own people into place† in the late 1940s to early 1950s, a Stalin guy named N.M. Rukhadze arrested and replaced Rapava.
A few weeks before Stalin died, when the biography of Beria is thick with curious maneuverings, Beria got Rukhadze replaced; once Stalin kicked off, Beria was free to flat-out arrest Rukhadze.
It was a bit of an irony that when the post-Stalin Bolsheviks came round to mop up in Georgia, the rivals Rapava and Rukhadze had to stand in the dock together, both allegedly part of Beria’s organization. It would have been a bit inconvenient to detail how it was Beria himself who ordered Rukhadze’s arrest.
The others who shared their fate:
A.S. Khazani, NKVD political department officer who wrote a book with the title The Moral Outlook of a Soviet Man
N.A. Krimian, who served in the NKVD in Georgia and later in Ukraine, where he orchestrated the execution of political prisoners ahead of the invading Germans in World War II
K.S. Savitsky, NKVD Georgia official
Sh.O. Tsereteli, a tsarist officer turned Bolshevik and a Beria ally dating back to the early 1920s
All were shot for the victims of the Georgian purges they had conducted. A translator and a bodyguard were also convicted at the same trial, drawing prison sentences.
* Evidently, the official press initially reported only five executions.
** NKVD, NKGB and MGB is for our thumbnail essentially the same state security entity under various names and reorganizations from the 1930s to the 1950s. It became in the last analysis the KGB.
† See, for example, the Mingrelian Affair.
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Tags: 1950s, 1955, communism, joseph stalin, lavrentiy beria, lavrenty beria, nkvd, november 22, politics, stalin, stalinism, tbilisi
1940: Nikolai Yezhov, terror namesake
5 comments February 4th, 2012 Headsman
In the terrible years of the Yezhovshchina, I spent seventeen months in lines outside the prison in Leningrad [queuing to deliver food to or get news of imprisoned loved ones: in her case, her son Lev]. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there):
‘And can you describe this?’
And I said: ‘I can.’
Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face.
-Poet Anna Akhmatova
On this date in 1940, the first name in Stalin’s terror got his just deserts.
Well. The first name after Stalin’s own, a point energetically made by Nikolai Yezhov’s daughter* in her fruitless post-Soviet attempts to rehabilitate the man.
But clearing a fellow’s name is a tough task when that name is the mother tongue’s very metonym for political persecution: the Soviet Union’s mind-bending late-1930s witch hunt for internal enemies, known as the Yezhovshchina.
From late 1936, when he eliminated his predecessor Genrikh Yagoda (later executed, of course), until his own fall from power in at the end of 1938, Yezhov presided over the apex of Stalinist terror, averaging hundreds of political killings daily — perhaps north of 600,000 for the two-year period, plus a like number disappeared into the Gulag’s freezers. (Just browse this here site’s ‘1937’ tag for a taste.)
Departments and regions received quotas for executions as if they were tractor factories. Security officials well understood that their own heads would be next on the block for any perceived shortcoming; Yezhov had thousands of them arrested, too. (pdf)**
We are launching a major attack on the Enemy; let there be no resentment if we bump someone with an elbow. Better that ten innocent people should suffer than one spy get away. When you chop wood, chips fly.
-Yezhov
The “Bloody Dwarf” — surely there is some of Yezhov in the Master and Margarita character Azazello, the Satan/Stalin figure’s murderous and diminutive attendant — rode this tiger unto his own destruction.
Stalin and other Soviet VIPs with (front right) Nikolai Yezhov.
The same photo ‘updated’ after Yezhov’s fall. (For a similarly chilling photographic disappearance, see Vladimir Clementis.)
As Yezhov had once displaced and killed his mentor Yagoda, so Yezhov’s own nominal underling Beria would displace Yezhov.
Power in the NKVD shifted towards Beria over the course of 1938 until Yezhov’s own resignation that November. The former boss was quietly arrested the next April and barely troubled his skilled torturers before copping to the usual litany of official self-denunciations: corruption, economic sabotage and “wrecking”, treasonable collaboration with the Germans, plus a bisexual personal life. (That last one was true.)
Bound for historical infamy, Yezhov salvaged a shred of dignity in the last, when he was “tried” a few hours before death and renounced those confessions — albeit from the twisted standpoint of a man still unquestioningly committed to the man and the system that had destroyed him.
It is better to die, but to leave this earth as an honorable man and to tell nothing but the truth at the trial. At the preliminary investigation I said that I was not a spy, that I was not a terrorist, but they didn’t believe me and applied to me the strongest beating. During the 25 years of my party work I have fought honorably against enemies and have exterminated them. I have committed crimes for which I might well be executed … But those crimes which are imputed to me by the indictment in my case I did not commit …
My fate is obvious. My life, naturally, will not be spared since I myself have contributed to this at my preliminary investigation. I ask only one thing: shoot me quietly, without tortures …Tell Stalin that I shall die with his name on my lips.
And indeed, Yezhov knew from plenty of personal experience how this script ended. It was called the Yezhovshchina for a reason.
The judges pretended to deliberate for half an hour. Ezhov fainted at the verdict, then scrawled a petition for mecy; it was read out over the telephone to the Kremlin and rejected. Ezhov was taken in the dead of night to a slaughterhouse he himself had built near the Lubianka. Dragged screaming to a special room with a sloping cement floor and a log-lined wall, he was shot by the NKVD’s chief executioner, Vasili Blokhin. Beria gave Stalin a list of 346 of Ezhov’s associates to be shot. Sixty of them were NKVD officers, another fifty were relatives and sexual partners. (From Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
* Natalia Khayutina is actually Yezhov’s adoptive daughter. Her birth parents were killed … in the Yezhovschina.
** “I purged 14,000 chekists,” Yezhov later said. “But my guilt lies in the fact that I did not purge enough of them.”
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1953: Lavrenty Beria, Stalin henchman
1934: Night of the Long Knives
1934: Ernst Roehm, SA chief
1952: Rudolf Slansky and 10 “conspirators”
1946: Andrei Vlasov, turncoat Soviet general
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Tags: 1940, 1940s, february 4, joseph stalin, lavrentiy beria, lavrenty beria, nikolai yezhov, propaganda, purge, the terror, yezhovshchina
1939: Evgeny Miller, White Russian
2 comments May 11th, 2010 Headsman
On this date in 1938, former tsarist Gen. Evgeny Miller was executed in Moscow, having been brazenly kidnapped by the Soviet NKVD from exile in France.
Miller opposed the 1917 Russian Revolutions (both of them) and ended up on the wrong side of the ensuing civil war as Aleksandr Kolchak‘s man in Archangel.
There, Miller (he was half-German) was the beneficiary of the Entente powers’ anti-Soviet incursion of British, French, American and Canadian troops.
These powers soon found that their respective peoples, wearied by the late world war, had little appetite for spilling more blood in the service of enthroning a Romanov, and cut bait in 1920.
Miller wisely did likewise, and watched the great workers’ and peasants’ republic take shape from the safety of Paris — where, in the 1930s, he chaired the anti-communist Russian All-Military Union (ROVS).
Soviet intelligence had infiltrated this body, however, and hatched a bold plot* to shanghai Miller and smuggle him out of the country in order to cause ROVS leadership to pass to the Soviets’ own agent, Nikolai Skoblin. Although they got Miller, they didn’t quite pull off the putsch, since the wary general had left behind a note outlining his suspicions of Skoblin in the event foul play should befall him.
Imprisoned at Lubyanka, Miller was personally interrogated by NKVD boss Nikolai Yezhov, but according to Vladislav Goldin and John Long,
little or nothing of what Miller had to report about the recent activities of the ROVS was unknown to the NKVD … the leaders of the NKVD found themselves saddled with a prominent prisoner of no significant value to Soviet intelligence and from whose capture, at the same time, nothing useful could be derived by way of publicity or propaganda.
The fall of Ezhov sealed the doom of General Miller, whose abduction had from the outset been his inspiration. In these circumstances, given his continuing uselessness to the NKVD, Miller’s elimination became an inevitable element in Commissar Beria‘s liquidation of the so-called Ezhovshchina, an operation which lasted from late 1938 through at least 1940. Although part of this undertaking involved the release of up to 200,000 of Ezhov’s prisoners, no such option was available in the case of General Miller for whose disappearance the Soviet government had consistently denied any responsibility. Accordingly, on 11 May 1939, after more than nineteen months of agonizing solitary confinement, Commissar Beria, with no viable alternative, ordered the trial and execution of the long-suffering General Miller in a process, ironically, that was fully implemented in less than twenty-four hours.
[it was] an ill-conceived, poorly executed and totally unnecessary adventure that, in the end, failed to benefit any of its apparent perpetrators.**
Skoblin, for his part, fled, disappearing to a still-unknown fate. His wife, Nadezhda Plevitskaya, copped a 20-year sentence for helping arrange the kidnapping, and died in prison.
They may not have gotten ROVS, but at least they made celluloid. Skoblin’s shadowy activities in France in this period are the inspiration for the 2004 French film Triple Agent.
* Georgy Kosenko, who we’ve previously met in these pages, helped orchestrate the kidnapping. (Times being dangerous as they were, the wheel of Red Terror turned against Kosenko so quickly that Miller actually outlived him.)
** Goldin, Vladislav I. and Long, John W. “Resistance and Retribution: The Life and Fate of General E.K. Miller”, Revolutionary Russia, 12:2 (1999), pp. 19-40.
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1944: Bronislav Kaminski, Waffen SS collaborator
1961: William Morgan, the Americano
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Tags: 1930s, 1939, cinema, evgeny miller, lavrentiy beria, lavrenty beria, lubyanka prison, may 11, moscow, nikolai skoblin, nikolai yezhov, triple agent
6 comments December 23rd, 2009 Headsman
On this date in 1953, Stalin’s feared minister Lavrenty Beria was shot — finally on the receiving end of the cruelty he had administered to countless Soviet citizens.
Lavrenty Pavlovich was, like Stalin, a Georgian peasant, albeit one generation younger.
He won his way into Stalin’s confidence from the 1920’s, and in 1938 replaced Nikolai Yezhov as head of the KGB predecessor NKVD. Yezhov did much of the bloody work of the Great Purge, and was himself in turn purged. The cunning Beria must have taken note.
Though his initial project was to clean up the excesses of the Yezhovshchina — releasing thousands of innocent convicts, making the gulag camps less homicidal and more effective and keeping prisoners alive long enough to get some work out of them, that sort of thing — it wasn’t long before Beria cast a terrifying shadow of his own. (Beria was Yezhov’s deputy, so it’s not like he walked into the job without the requisite qualifications for mass murder.) He wrote the memo proposing the execution of Polish officers that led to the Katyn massacre.
To the more everyday repressive operations of the Soviet secret police, Beria added his notorious (perhaps propagandistically exaggerated?) personal peccadilloes: nothing to trouble the boss, just a little penchant for seducing, or raping, and at his pleasure murdering, comely young lasses.
Soviet author Sergei Dovlatov sketched his character in this imagined vignette (translated by Executed Today friend Sonechka from the Russian original here):
As is well known, winsome high school girls were delivered to Lavrenty Beria’s house. Then his chauffeur presented a bouquet of flowers to the next victim. And rendered her home. This was an established ceremony. Suddenly, one of the damsels became unruly. She began to struggle and scratch. In short, held her ground and did not succumb to the charms of the Internal Affairs minister. Beria told her:
-You can leave.
The young woman descended the stairs. The chauffeur, not expecting such a turn of events, handed her over the prepared bouquet. The girl, somewhat more composed now, addressed the minister who was standing on the balcony:
-You see, Lavrenty Pavlovich! Your chauffeur is more courteous than you are. He gave me a bouquet of flowers.
Beria sneered and dully uttered:
-You are mistaken. It is not a bouquet. It is a funeral wreath.
More consequential for his fate was his position among the handful of Stalin’s closest associates, in which capacity he maintained himself for a remarkably extended period of time. This made him one of the people with a shot at succeeding Stalin, which in turn put him in the middle of the furious political infighting Uncle Joe was pleased to subject his subordinates to.
And the natural enmity between sovereign and heir — the one whose interest is the other’s death — may have even led Beria to poison Stalin in March 1953 when he was on the verge of a falling-out himself. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (he of the pact, and the cocktail) remembered in his memoir Beria boasting after Stalin’s sudden and mysterious death,
“I did him in! I saved all of you!”
Briefly the official #2 man in the post-Stalin state, he would again preside over a political liberalization that belied his monstrous personal reputation.
But this pallbearer of Stalin soon followed his former master to the grave. Outmaneuvered by rivals Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, and Molotov, Beria was purged as a traitor in the summer of 1953 and secretly executed Dec. 23, 1953 with six confederates after a summary trial before the Supreme Court. (One of the expedients laid at his feet in that affair was a set of executions he had ordered in a 1941 purge).
According to a chapter by Michael Ross and Anne E. Wilson in Memory, Brain and Belief, after Beria’s fall, subscribers to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
were instructed to destroy the article on Beria and were provided additional information on the Bering Strait to fill the gap in the pages.
Beria’s heirs actually applied to the post-Soviet government for a reversal of the conviction under laws granting victims of politically motivated prosecutions right of redress. The Russian judiciary turned them down.
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Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry.
Suppression Florida style: Our voters wait far longer than in other states
"Voters in Florida waited far longer than those in other states to cast their votes in the 2012 election, hampered by long ballots and cutbacks in early voting options, according to a new report by congressional auditors."
Voters in the state stood in line more than 34 minutes on average, significantly longer than ballot-casters did in any other state reviewed by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ watchdog.
"The shortest waits? Alaska, at just 1.4 minutes. Three others states had wait times about 25 or more minutes: Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina. But most of the others fell somewhere between five minutes and 20 minutes, on average."
In Florida, the GAO estimated, 16 percent of voters waited 61 minutes or more to cast their ballots — tops among the states surveyed. . . .
The voting-time analysis comparing Florida voters with those in other states was based on a massive survey of more than 50,000 adults, conducted by the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. It included 36 states; the others were excluded because they were vote-by-mail states or because of sample-size issues.
"Report: Fla. voters had country’s longest waits to cast ballots" See also "Sen. Nelson aims to cut wait times on election day." And this is hardly a fix: "Early-voting sites increase; but hours, days drop."
Here's an idea . . . let's give them vouchers
"Wealthier parents have been stepping up education spending so aggressively that they're widening the nation's wealth gap. When the Great Recession struck in late 2007 and squeezed most family budgets, the top 10 percent of earners — with incomes averaging $253,146 — went in a different direction: They doubled down on their kids' futures."
The trend emerged gradually over the past three decades but accelerated during the worst economic slump since the 1930s. Now, enrollments at pricier private schools are climbing. Parents are bidding up home prices in top public school districts. Pay is surging for SAT tutors, who now average twice the median U.S. hourly wage of $24.45. The patterns suggest that the wealth gap could widen in coming years, analysts say.
"School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap." Did you know that gutting the public school system is to help out regular folks: "Florida Parents: Please, Don't Take Voucher Program Away."
SOE runs wild
"The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking into whether [Flagler County] Supervisor of Elections Kimberle Weeks secretly recorded two county officials on the periphery of a Flagler County Canvassing Board meeting last month. It is not an investigation. But it is the first step toward one, should an investigation into potential law-breaking be warranted. " "FDLE Looking Into Alleged Secret Taping and Sunshine Violation by Elections Supervisor."
"Kitchen table tour"
"Former Gov. Charlie Crist is launching a 'kitchen table' tour in the final days of the governor’s race." "Charlie Crist launches ‘kitchen table’ tour."
O noes . . . she's a "librul!"
Kevin Derby: "Looking to protect U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., from a serious challenge from Democrat Gwen Graham, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) unleashed a new TV ad on Tuesday which brings up her past work for a liberal presidential candidate." "National Parties Battle in North Florida Congressional Race."
"To Beat Crist, Scott's Ready to Turn to Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio."
The Latest Scott Scandal
"When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week that GE Oil & Gas would open a $50 million manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, he talked about how it would create 500 new jobs for Florida."
GE Oil & Gas’s official welcome package: up to $15.4 million in financial incentives, including $10 million from the city and $5.4 million from the state.
Not mentioned in the hoopla was how another division of General Electric, GE Energy Financial Services, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in publicly traded oil and natural gas partnerships in which Scott had a financial interest.
Financial disclosure records made public by Scott in June show that, as of Dec. 31, he was heavily invested in more than two dozen oil and gas ventures. One was Spectra Energy, which is currently working with Florida Power & Light to build the contentious $3 billion Sabal Trail pipeline in North Florida.
As BrowardBulldog.org reported in July, Scott and his appointees at the Public Service Commission backed construction of Sabal Trail despite state ethics laws that generally prohibit public officials from owning stock in businesses subject to their regulation. Scott acquired his Spectra shares via a controversial “qualified blind trust,” which by law allows politicians to hide their investment activity and also affords them immunity from prohibited conflicts of interest.
"Gov. Rick Scott heavily invested in oil and gas ventures."
"Broward elections fiasco"
"Brenda Snipes faces court in Broward elections fiasco."
"Already breaking the law"
"A mailer sent out by a non-profit, independent Election Communications Organization supporting Republican state house candidate Rene Plasencia is leading Democrats to cry foul because the organization is not registered with the state as law requires."
Carlos Smith, chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and legislative assistant to Saunders, was unconvinced, and blamed Plasencia.
"It's shameful that Republican Rene Plasencia and his supporters are already breaking the law to communicate with voters and prop up his campaign," Smith said.
"Committee errs with Plasencia mailer in HD49 race."
"Bogus Atlantic City scare story"
Nancy Smith: "Amid the uproar of looming November elections, casino gambling policy in Florida has so gone off the boil. But you wouldn't know that by gambling opponent No Casinos (NC) -- still out there, still flogging its bogus Atlantic City scare story." "We Interrupt This Election Program for a Word about Gambling ...."
"Epic duel"
"Like a prize fight between two political heavyweights, the election race between Ken Keechl and Chip LaMarca is an epic duel." "LaMarca-Keechl a rematch between enemies."
The best they can do
"With five weeks to go until the general election, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., and his Republican challenger former state Rep. Carl Domino continue to try to win over Treasure Coast voters with their latest rounds of television ads."
At the end of last week, Murphy released his latest TV ad, his eighth of the general election. The new ad plays up Murphy’s work in the district including opposing All Aboard Florida’s efforts to build high-speed rail in the area.
"More Ads in CD 18 from Patrick Murphy and Carl Domino."
"The law, which Charlie Crist sponsored when he was in the state Senate, requires Florida prisoners to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences, and it continues to affect thousands of people today." "Charlie Crist’s signature accomplishment is one he never mentions." Meanwhile, "Charlie Crist sells himself as regular guy."
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From Issue: 981 [Read full issue]
Finding Purpose
For decades, psychologists have studied how long-term, meaningful goals develop over the span of our lives. The goals that foster a sense of purpose are ones that can potentially change the lives of other people, like launching an organization, researching disease, or teaching kids to read.
Indeed, a sense of purpose appears to have evolved in humans so that we can accomplish big things together—which may be why it's linked to better physical and mental health.
Many seem to believe that purpose arises from your special gifts and sets you apart from other people—but that's only part of the truth. It also grows from our connection to others, which is why a crisis of purpose is often a symptom of isolation. Once you find your path, you'll almost certainly find others traveling along with you, hoping to reach the same destination—a community.
Here are six ways to overcome isolation and discover your purpose in life.
Reading connects us to people we'll never know, across time and space—an experience that research says is linked to a sense of meaning and purpose. If you're feeling a crisis of purpose in your life, go to the bookstore or library or university. Find books that matter to you—and they might help you to see what matters in your own life.
2. Turn hurts into healing for others
Of course, finding purpose is not just an intellectual pursuit; it's something we need to feel. That's why it can grow out of suffering, both our own and others'.
3. Cultivate awe, gratitude, and altruism
Certain emotions and behaviors that promote health and well-being can also foster a sense of purpose—specifically, awe, gratitude, and altruism.
4. Listen to what other people appreciate about you
Giving thanks can help you find your purpose. But you can also find purpose in what people thank you for.
5. Find and build community
If you're having trouble remembering your purpose, take a look at the people around you. What do you have in common with them? What are they trying to be? What impact do you see them having on the world? Is that impact a positive one? Can you join with them in making that impact? What do they need? Can you give it them? If the answers to those questions don't inspire you, then you might need to find a new community—and with that, a new purpose may come.
6. Tell your story
Reading can help you find your purpose—but so can writing, Purpose often arises from curiosity about your own life. What obstacles have you encountered? What strengths helped you to overcome them? How did other people help you? How did your strengths help make life better for others?
"How to Find Your Purpose in Life" - Jeremy Adam Smith
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Tom Savini Writing New F/X Columns For GoreZone Magazine
Jason Parker July 07, 2013
Legendary F/X artist Tom Savini is of course known by Friday The 13th fans as the man that not only created some of the most detailed death scenes in the franchise, but gave Jason Voorhees life as a mongoloid child in the original 1980 slasher. Savini would return to the franchise years later in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter and pick up where he left off with quite possibly the best practical effects seen in the films ever. Now, Tom takes his experience in the field of effects to the newly relaunched Fangoria offshoot magazine Gorezone!
Gorezone's last issue was published in 1994 and after a long hiatus it is back with the king of gore effects contributing to the classic column Make-Up FX Lab!
From Fangoria
Originally written by FX wizards John Caglione and Doug Drexler, we’re thrilled to announce that Savini – who needs no introduction here – will be steering the new version of the lamented prosthetic effects master-class column. Tom will be digging up classic gags from his storied past with rarely seen – in some cases, NEVER seen – photos from his personal collection as well as his current work, the work of new FX artists he deems worthy, his warts-and-all opinions on the state of the FX industry and more. The column will be intelligent, thoughtful, educational, funny…and of course wonderfully revolting!
This writer is truly excited for the return of the magazine and to read this column and to find out what never before seen behind the scenes photos he reveals. May we see some new Friday The 13th photos? We shall see! For more about this news, make sure to visit Fangoria.com.
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6 ways content marketing will change in 2016
Yaniv Makover
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Even though content marketing is a relatively young discipline, significant changes have already taken place since its adoption in terms of how content is consumed by users. It wasn't too many years ago when most online content was consumed on a publisher's website from within an internet browser. Fast forward to the present: You now have the majority of content being read from within mobile apps from major platform providers like Facebook and Twitter. This shift cannot be underestimated, and it will heavily influence where content marketing is headed in 2016.
1. Marketers will finally embrace the new mobile consumer dynamic and get out of the browser mentality.
According to a comScore report earlier this year, the majority of time spent on digital media takes place within mobile apps, with mobile apps accounting for 54 percent of people's digital media time versus 38 percent on desktop devices. The massive move to mobile consumption will continue to grow. As a result, content marketers will develop a "mobile-first" mentality and will change how they deliver content.
First, content will be explicitly created to support the mobile consumption experience. Users tend to spend less time reading a particular piece of content on their mobile device than on desktop browsers -- giving marketers much less time to make a meaningful impression. Therefore, three things have become critically important: 1) mobile content must be shorter and include compelling visuals; 2) content must load quickly as mobile pages have higher bounce rates; and 3) the content must support a single-page scrolling experience.
Second, calls-to-action will be used to grow a loyal following. One of the challenges marketers face when their content is read inside of mobile apps is that the apps try to get users to remain in their silos, and they don't want users to go to other sites. Content read via mobile apps is not nearly as sticky as on a desktop, and the likelihood of a revisit is very low. As a result, calls-to-action that get users to return -- have them sign up for an email subscription, for example -- will need to be integrated within the flow of content.
2. Publishers will get comfortable with their content being read offsite.
Not only is the majority of content being consumed from within mobile apps, but also a growing percentage of the content is being hosted by platform providers. For example, Facebook has Instant Articles, which allow publishers to have their content stored within Facebook. This enhances the viewing experience as users see content immediately and don't have to click on a link that takes them to a publisher's site -- and away from their mobile app experience. Other platform providers like Google and Twitter are developing similar capabilities.
The downside of these initiatives by platform providers is that users will not always go to a publisher's website to read an article. As a result, publishers will need to get comfortable with their content being read "offsite," and they will need to find ways to measure how consumers are interacting with their content (and brand) beyond their own website properties. Fortunately, new analytic tools that provide a comprehensive picture of offsite and onsite user activities are becoming available.
3. Marketers will start leveraging content data to gain cross-platform visibility.
As marketers distribute content across a variety of platforms, they will discover that content performs differently on the various platforms. For example, a particular piece of content might drive more clicks on Twitter but more email signups on Facebook due to the nature of each platform's audience. As a result, marketers will need visibility on how their content is performing across platforms so they can distribute content effectively.
To get insights on content performance across platforms, marketers will start to use "content data" -- data that captures how different audiences act on content across platforms. This data will enable marketers to push past the limitations of traditional cookie-based marketing -- particularly important as more content gets read on mobile devices where cookies don't work -- and target audiences across different platforms with their content.
4. Publishers will leverage their audiences to provide a new source of advertising revenue and to strengthen relationships with brands.
Top publishers are continually testing new ways to drive long-term ROI in today's shifting publishing landscape. From a subscriber perspective, a lot of emphasis has been placed on digital subscriptions and the use of paywalls, but the verdict is still very much out in terms of how effective they are.
On the advertising front, realizing they have a treasure trove of data about their subscribers, publishers will try to model Facebook's targeting approach and give their advertisers the ability to market to specific target audiences directly from them. In addition to being a new source of revenue for publishers, this will also be of benefit to a publisher's advertisers. Advertisers will have a new option that is different than the fraud-riddled ad exchanges they are shying away from.
5. Paid distribution will no longer be a dirty little secret for publishers.
Historically, it has been a major faux pas for publishers to pay for content distribution. While the decline of content's organic reach in social channels is no longer up for debate, many publishing industry pundits have clung to the belief that good content should and will find its own audience.
Good content might indeed find an audience over time, but it might not be the ideal audience and it might not meet business goals. As different content will likely resonate with different people, each piece of content should be distributed to the audiences that will help publishers achieve their business goals. As content consumption patterns continue to shift, publishers will need to use editorial content in new ways in 2016 -- be it justifying advertising rates and attracting new audiences or signing up new subscribers.
Now a valuable currency, content can be used to drive many business goals. For that to happen, content needs to get in front of the right people. In 2016, more publishers will embrace the fact that paying for content distribution to targeted audiences is the best way to do that.
6. Kittens will no longer cut it.
As marketers spend money to distribute their content, it becomes important to make sure that business goals are being achieved. Creating massive amounts of content and blindly distributing it across audiences and platforms will not always achieve business goals. Moving forward, content will need to be developed through the lens of business objectives, target audiences, and distribution platforms.
Marketers can better understand how content resonates with various, niche audiences across different platforms by focusing on measuring content effectiveness -- particularly against business goals. Looking at how the content experience and resulting target audience response differs based on distribution platform (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) is the first step to improve content creation and measurement.
In closing, 2016 will be an exciting year in content marketing. Marketers will develop a "mobile-first" mentality and become better at leveraging the platform providers -- both from a content hosting and a content distribution perspective. Content marketing initiatives will go to the next level in the year ahead, becoming much more effective at meeting business goals.
Yaniv Makover is CEO of Keywee.
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Yaniv Makover is co-founder and CEO of data-driven content marketing startup Keywee. He leads Keywee’s business strategy, execution and development while maintaining the company’s unique culture of innovation. He has a passion for...
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A place for shared wisdom, history, and running monologues
Can I Kick It? (Yes You Can)
No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. - Billy Beane
We are runners. Clarifying that fact and avoiding labels, in my opinion, opens more doors for success. We aren't a marathon runner. A 5k runner. A miler. An ultra runner. We run races, and we train to run races to our best ability, whether that race is five minutes long or five hours. To be a runner requires a range of skills, and the courage to address weaknesses and make those weaknesses better. It's scary to work on weaknesses because it might mean failing, being out of our comfort zone, or struggling in a way we might deem foreign, but it will help you improve and become a better runner.
The most often over-looked piece of the running puzzle, at least based on my anecdotal experiences from Impala to Impala, is maximizing basic speed and optimizing our finishing kick. All the aforementioned races benefit from some kick, and training for one should never be neglected.
"But Pete, at the end of a race I always get out-kicked. Doesn't that mean I have no speed?" No, person I made up for this article, it doesn't. Perhaps you have no kick because you've never worked on one, but there is always room to improve and maximize our own personal ability.
Why might a kick be important?
There are a few ways to see a value in the kick, but for clarity, there is zero value to kicking hard if you can't get through the majority of the race at a strong pace (in other words, kicks don't matter if you don't have race fitness), but if your aerobic strength is dialed in, you've done a healthy dose of LT runs, long runs, and all things Impala Tuesday, you can get to the closing meters of a race and maximize your race with a nasty Nancy Thomas like kick. That is assuming that in addition to your overall fitness as listed above, you've also trained yourself to kick. A strong kick can swing your overall place by several spots, but it can also swing team scores. The NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Championships, for example, was determined by one point this year. The fifth runner for Oregon out-kicked the fifth runner for Michigan, swinging the score two points in Oregon's favor. (Maybe if you had worked a little harder, I wouldn't have to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0E7EaRLmSI&feature=youtu.be&t=163 )
It can also make a big difference in race time. Let's say you have a goal of running 6 minute pace for a 5k on the track - 18:45. You run 11 and half laps at 90, but if you can kick, say, a 38 for your last 200, you've likely moved up places, but you've also run 18:38 instead. That's a dramatic shift in finish time.
Okay, I'll buy in. How do I Improve my Kick?
Your kick can improve, and here are some ideas to integrate into your training to maximize ability.
First, there are things we already do, now and again, at Tuesday practice, and we will continue to do these things. Have confidence that these are helping you kick, but also see how you can integrate the hill sprints and strides into your week on non-workout days.
1. Michigan Miles. Those final reps, especially the 400, are intended to run at a high end speed while suffering from a substantial amount of workout fatigue. While it's not exactly like a race (in races you can't rest before kicking), there is some simulation. It's an aid in improving your kick to learn how to run fast while fatigued.
2. Ethiopian Miles. Like a race, a kick is shifting down pace while already running fast. This is my favorite element of the Ethiopian mile. While you're running fast, switch gears and finish faster. That's one of the intentions of this workout.
3. Golden Gate Park hill sprints. A major advantage of these hill sprints (ideally about 15-25 second bursts) is that it reduces the risk of injury because you aren't going as all out as you can on the track, you're generally on a softer surface, and despite the lower speed you're mimicking a sprint because, according to Steve Magness, sprinting uphill results in an increase of muscle fiber recruitment. These are ideal in the early stages of a training cycle. As we get back into the swing of things over the next couple of weeks it would be worth working these back into your training regimen.
1st week: 2 sets of 3 x hill sprint
2nd week: 3 sets of 3 x hill sprint
3rd week: 2 sets of 4 x hill sprint
4th week: 2 sets of 5 x hill sprint
You can do these on your own during some other day of the week as part of an aerobic condition run. (translation: do these on your own!!!)
4. Strides. It's easy to mail these in, but they are a useful tool in developing basic speed. Do them often, and take them seriously. Do them before workouts (6 x 100 meters at a relaxed but fast pace). Do them after an easy run (4-6 x 100 meters (or 20-25 seconds) at a fast but relaxed pace). Here are some other more challenging options:
200 meter floaters: Spend the first 100 meters building up speed, starting closer to 5k pace and work down to mile race pace. As you approach 100 meters to go, nearing that mile race pace, accelerate down to 400 race pace (you know, like the gear you find when you have to run down a Muni that's about to drive away from the curb) and hold for about 50 meters. Wind down with about 50 meters to go and float over the line close to the pace you started.
200 meter accelerations: Similar to the floaters, start at a fast but relaxed pace, though closer to 1500 pace. At 100 meters to go, accelerate down and run faster through the last 100 meters. The intention of this is to both train yourself running fast, but to also practice that gear shift you'll need to make in a race.
To be a complete runner you need to be able to switch gears and kick at a race. It will only help. Don't neglect this part of training because it's out of your comfort zone, or it's not an element of training you enjoy as much. Make the effort to get out of your comfort zone and improve your basic speed, improve your kick. I'll allow the Fife Dog (RIP) to draw a conclusion from this post: "Can I kick it? Yes you can." Though like most things, it won't be easy. You'll have to work for it. If you like running (I'm guessing you do), then it's certain you won't have a problem with that.
--Pete Cushman
#1 way to ensure you have Robin's attention: include a Seinfeld reference. That aside, thanks for the great post! I appreciate the background info, examples of what we do already to work on this, and additional ways to implement kick training into our routines.
Thanks, Pete!.
Thanks Robin. It shouldn't be all to challenging to find a relevant Seinfeld reference for any article written here on out.
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Home Advertising GoTo Going the Distance, Despite Industry-Wide Turmoil
GoTo Going the Distance, Despite Industry-Wide Turmoil
By Christopher Saunders | March 22, 2001
Executives from pay-for-placement search engine GoTo said Thursday that the company would best previously-given guidance for revenue and net loss during its first quarter. The Pasadena-based company last told the market that it expected to see revenue of $45 million and a pro forma loss of $16 million.
For the fourth quarter GoTo posted a quarterly loss of $16.8 million or $0.34 per share, on $39.8 million in revenue -- income that was nearly 60 percent higher than the previous quarter.
The company didn't say by how much it now anticipates exceeding its earlier guidance, or whether the news will have any effect on its estimates for reaching profitability, which the company last said it anticipates occurring in fourth quarter.
It's not much for investors and analysts to go on, but the news is still reassuring for an otherwise unhealthy sector -- in which many of GoTo's competitors for the online marketing dollar are struggling to find cash (like 24/7 Media) or laying off and restructuring (like industry leader DoubleClick).
Wall Street previously expected GoTo to post a loss of $0.33 per share for the quarter, according to First Call/Thompson Financial estimates.
On Thursday, the company also announced that last month it surpassed 40,000 active advertisers for its paid search engine listings service, which is distributed through affiliates including America Online, Terra Lycos and AltaVista. Those numbers are up from 37,000 advertisers at the end of December, and 21,000 advertisers at the end of December, 1999.
"Internet search is the ultimate direct marketing medium," said GoTo president and chief executive officer Ted Meisel. "As advertisers look for measurable results, particularly in a challenging economy, they continue to adopt GoTo in increasing numbers. Our ability to drive the top and bottom lines is directly correlated to the value we provide our 40,000 advertisers."
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Home Small Business Luminant Not Laughing at Comic Article
Luminant Not Laughing at Comic Article
By Thor Olavsrud | December 06, 2000
Harnessing zooming electrons to create the Internet may be hundreds of years more advanced than printed information, but whether readers access it through a softly glowing screen or in the glossy pages of a magazine, the written word can cut deeply. Luminant Worldwide, an integrated professional e-business services firm, learned that lesson from a story in last week's New Yorker.
Just imagine the scene: You open your new issue, by habit looking for the cartoons first, when an article, "My Fake Job," catches your eye. The humorous article, by former CBS "Late Show With David Letterman" head writer Rodney Rothman, 26, describes a scenario that could have been yanked from an episode of Seinfeld. In a way, it was.
You chuckle to yourself as Rothman describes 17 days he spent faking a job at an unidentified Silicon Alley dot-com. Following real employees with pass keys around the building, he set himself up with a desk, his own extension and an imaginary position as "junior project manager" from the Chicago satellite office -- much like a Seinfeld episode in which Kramer pulls a similar stunt. He proceeded to spend those three weeks eating free snacks, getting company-provided massages and pretending to work while chatting with friends on the phone.
You continue to chuckle, thinking that while the idea is crazy it's not that implausible in the dot-com world where employees can come and go in the blink of an eye. Then you get to the point where he mentions a T-shirt that reads, "May the e-force be with you." You stop cold. Your company gave out shirts with that slogan just this year. You look at the article again. He says the company is situated on floors two, three, four, six, 11 and 12 in a building in Chelsea. That's it. Free massages -- your company gives employees three 15-minute massages per month. Yoga classes at lunch? On the money. Name plates made with paper and magic marker...yes. Could it be?
It apparently was. Rothman had written about three weeks with Luminant Worldwide -- there was only one (well, maybe more than one) catch that his editors didn't (catch that is). Some of the things he'd written were fictitious -- like a story about a massage from a co-worker named Melissa. Oh, and his mother had worked for the company, calling his reason for infiltrating Luminant specifically into question.
"There were various reactions [at the company]," said a former Luminant employee -- laid-off in the company's most recent restructuring -- who still stays in contact with people at the company. She said descriptions of the office's layout were the most revealing feature of Rothman's tale. "Some people thought it was very funny because it was very much on the money. Some people were upset because it was a violation of their security or their space or that sort of thing."
"It was almost like a Saturday Night Live skit on Luminant," the former employee said. She noted, however, that she has some distance from the situation because she no longer works there.
In this week's issue, the New Yorker apologized for allowing fictional episodes to get past its fact checkers. Rothman is a freelancer and not an employee at the magazine.
Luminant, meanwhile, may take legal action against Rothman. In a company-wide e-mail later posted to a message board on thevault.com, Jim Corey, chief executive officer of Luminant, wrote, "The author of the story was clearly deceptive in posing as an employee, and worked to gain access to the building by following persons with key cards and providing vague and false information to employees. We will be seeking the advice of our legal counsel on how, if at all, we should respond to this incident. If it turns out that the company was Luminant, I'd like to know if he took anything from our offices, interfered with our work in any way or harassed any of our employees."
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Wild Realms has revealed all its secrets… All, except one! The triumphant return of Missiz Freezz, the Krosmaster the communty's been waiting for, will be accompanied by a surprise… and a fiery one at that!
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Keywords: Mentally retarded, oral hygiene, sociodemographic factors
Kothari S, Bhambal A, Saxena V, Bhambhani G, Dubey P. Impact of various sociodemographic factors on oral hygiene of mentally retarded residing in Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh: A cross-sectional study. J Indian Assoc Public Health Dent 2016;14:35-40
Kothari S, Bhambal A, Saxena V, Bhambhani G, Dubey P. Impact of various sociodemographic factors on oral hygiene of mentally retarded residing in Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh: A cross-sectional study. J Indian Assoc Public Health Dent [serial online] 2016 [cited 2020 Jan 19];14:35-40. Available from: http://www.jiaphd.org/text.asp?2016/14/1/35/178718
The disabled form a substantial section of the society, and there are about 500 million people with disabilities worldwide.[1] Census 2011 has revealed that over 26.8 million people in India are suffering from one or the other kind of disability. Among the total disabled, 14.9 million are males and 11.8 million are females. Out of that, around 2.22 million are suffering from some form of mental disability which constitute 0.2% of Indian population and 8.28% of the total disabled.[2]
According to the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps, impairment is defined as any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function, disability as any restriction (resulting from an impairment) or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a person, and handicap as the disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or a disability which limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal for that individual.[3] Mental retardation has been defined by the American Association of Mental Deficiency as “subaverage general intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment in adaptive behavior.”[4]
Oral health is an important aspect of overall health which is all the more important for those with special health needs. A study conducted in Boston,[5] Belgium,[6] South Canara, India [7] and Udaipur, India [8] showed that mentally retarded (MR) have a high prevalence of dental diseases. In disabled individuals, the process of developing dental diseases does not differ from nondisabled individuals. There are no differences in the prevention of the diseases and the treatment modalities among these groups. The main factor related to oral problems in disabled individuals is the inadequacy of the plaque removal from the teeth. Motor coordination problems and muscular limitation in disabled individuals along with the difficulty in understanding the importance of oral hygiene in mentally disabled individuals have resulted in the progression of inflammatory diseases.[9],[10],[11]
According to the persons with disability act 1995 disabled in India have the equal opportunities, equal participation and equal right to health as the normal population.[12] Although individuals who are disabled are entitled to the same standards of health and care as the general population, there is evidence that they experience poorer health, have high unmet health needs and lower uptake of health care services.[13],[14]
Lack of literature about the prevalence of dental diseases among the MR population of central India is the reason behind conducting this study. As per our search, none of the studies is available which determines the oral hygiene of MR in central India. Hence, this study intends to assess the oral hygiene status of MR subjects of Bhopal city. The study also reveals the impact of various sociodemographic factors on oral hygiene of these subjects.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate oral hygiene of MR residing in Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh, Central India. According to social justice department of Madhya Pradesh government, there are 14 such shelter homes, which provide social and rehabilitative support in Bhopal city. A cluster random sampling methodology was used for selection of the study subjects. All the subjects who were present on the day of examination were included in the study. Only, MR subjects of various institutions were included in the study. Children affected with hearing, visual abnormalities, physically handicapped, orthopedic defects, and medically compromised were excluded from the study. The ethical approval was taken from research committee of the institute and consent for participation was taken from subject's legal representatives.
A pilot test was conducted among 52 MR people residing in one of the mental institution of Bhopal to assess the feasibility of the study and to assess the validity and accuracy of the predesigned proforma, the reliability of the examiner and to know the communication difficulties while examining oral cavity of this group of subjects.
A pretested proforma was used to record all required information about the subjects. The first part of proforma records the details about demographic data, socioeconomic status, the intelligence quotient (IQ) of inmates, type of mental retardation, oral hygiene habits and dietary habits. This part of proforma was filled by one of the authors by interviewing inmates/caretakers before the examination. IQ and type of mental retardation were taken from the updated record files of the subjects.
The second part of proforma consisted of the assessment of oral hygiene status using oral hygiene index-simplified (OHI-S) given by Greene and Vermillion, 1964.[15] The examination was done using mouth mirror and explorer no. 5. The examination of all subjects was done by a single examiner, and there was a single recorder to record the data as per examiners instruction. The intra-examiner reliability of the examiner was assessed by using the Weighted kappa statistics −0.92 for OHI-S.
The data were retrieved from precoded survey proforma to a computer. A master file was created in the Microsoft excel sheet for the purpose of data analysis by using Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Descriptive statistics was used to calculate the number, percentages, mean and standard deviation for variables. Student's t-test was used to compare two groups, and one-way analysis of variance test was used to compare more than two groups along with post-hoc analysis which was done specifically to find out the association within the group. P < 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant and P < 0.01 was set to be highly statistically significant. Multiple linear regression analysis was executed to analyze the association of various sociodemographic and clinical variables with the oral hygiene status.
The study subjects consisted of total 267 MR subjects with 170 males and 97 females. The mean age of subjects was 18.6 years. Maximum number of subjects was belong to 16–20 years of age [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Age and gender distribution of mentally retarded subjects
Among MR subjects, 53.5% were institutionalized, and 46.4% were noninstitutionalized. Majority of the subjects (47.2%) were suffering from Down syndrome, while 33% were of cerebral palsy and 19.1% were suffering from Autism. According to IQ, 17.2% had mild, 34.8% had moderate, 33.3% had severe, and 14.6% had the profound type of mental retardation. The subjects affected from the mild type of mental retardation were mostly female while subjects affected from the severe and profound type of retardation were mostly males. Majority (59.6%) of the study subjects belongs to the lower upper lower class, and most of the subjects were vegetarian (83.9%) as per Kuppuswamy's classification. About 54.3% had sugar exposure only once in a day, and 37.8% had twice in a day [Table 1].
Table 1: General profile and background characteristics of the mentally retarded subjects
Majority of the MR subjects (74.5%) used a toothbrush for cleaning their teeth. More than half (54.7%) of the MR clean their teeth twice in a day; 80.14% uses toothpaste, and 64.7% were supervised while brushing. Subjects visiting the dentist irregularly (those who had never visited and visit only when there is a problem) were 86.9% while only 13.1% of subjects visit regularly to the dentist in every 6 months [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Oral hygiene practices of mentally retarded subjects
Mean scores for OHI-S gradually increased with increase in age [Table 2]. Mean OHI-S scores significantly increased with increase in the degree of retardation. Profound had the highest OHI-S score, i.e. 3.71 while mild had the lowest score, i.e. 1.01 [Table 3].
Table 2: Age-wise comparison of oral hygiene status among the mentally retarded subjects
Table 3: Mean oral hygiene index-simplified scores of mentally retarded population according to degree of mental retardation
Multiple linear regression analysis was executed to estimate the linear relationship between the OHI-S as the dependent variable and various independent variables. It revealed that the best predictors in the descending order for OHI-S score as the dependent variable were age, gender, institutionalization, use of toothbrush, and supervision by caretakers [Table 4].
Table 4: Multiple linear regression analysis with oral hygiene index-simplified score as a dependent variable among mentally retarded subjects
Comparison within different significant predictors of OHI-S showed that male, noninstitutionalization, use of finger, and nonsupervision during oral hygiene practice were reported to be responsible for high OHI-S score [Table 5].
Table 5: Comparison within significant predictors of oral hygiene index-simplified among mentally retarded subjects
Ralp Waldes once said, “the first wealth of life is good health.” Being born as a normal child is life's greatest blessing. Disabled forms one of the groups of such people, in whom, dental disease and its treatment present several problems. They have difficulties in understanding the effects of behavior on health, the benefits of dental treatment and the process of accessing appropriate and necessary health services.
Oral hygiene has been implicated as a casual factor in the development of dental caries and periodontal diseases in MR individuals.[16] The mean OHI-S score for mentally disabled in the present study was found to be 2.51 similar to previous studies [8],[17],[18] Anders and Davis [19] reviewed 27 studies of individuals with mental retardation and reported that such individuals tend to have poorer oral hygiene. The reason for poor oral hygiene in disabled population has been attributed to less ability to understand instructions, low powers of concentration, and lack of motor skills and innate skills and lack of manual coordination.[20] The general increase in OHI-S scores with an increase in age group confirms with previous reports,[16],[21],[22] and this was found by Grants and Stern [23] to be due to the cumulative effect of plaque and calculus with an increase in age.
A significant difference between OHI-S scores of mild, moderate, severe, and profound MR subgroups was observed. Mild had the least (mean OHI-S, 1.01) and profound (mean OHIS, 3.71) had the highest OHI-S scores similar to other studies.[8],[16],[24] Thus, standard of oral hygiene deteriorated with the severity of intellectual disability, which seems to confirm a correlation between the level of oral hygiene and severity of the disability. It was suggested this could be due to their insufficiency to brush their teeth themselves or dependence of subjects for oral hygiene maintenance on parents or caregivers.[24]
In the present study, male subjects had poorer oral hygiene than their female counterparts. Denloye [25] observed a similar trend among MR children of Nigeria, where higher OHI-S scores were recorded among males than females. It has been suggested that girls tend to practice better oral hygiene than boys because of their greater social awareness, and thus their oral hygiene is superior to that of boys.[26] Similarly, Jain et al.[8] reported bad oral hygiene of male as compared to their female counterpart.
Institutional status was found to be one of the major determinants in oral hygiene conditions of the study group as the noninstitutionalized children had a higher OHI-S score than the institutionalized group. Similarly, Denloye [25] found high OHI-S score at the different age group of noninstitutionalized as compared to institutionalized while Tesini [16] reported contradictory findings. According to Denloye [25] better oral hygiene in the institutionalized group may be the reflection of better supervision of children by the nurses in charge of their welfare. The few previous studies also reported the same findings.[19],[27],[28] Vigild [29] reported this may be due to the existence of noninstitutionalized children on soft high carbohydrate foods which contribute to the formation of abundant plaque which subsequently become calcified if not adequately removed. The oral hygiene status of these children then depends on how adequately the oral hygiene measures of noninstitutionalized children is carried out.
The lower socioeconomic status was not significantly associated with oral hygiene condition of the subjects. Similarly, Tesini.[17] found that socioeconomic status is not a significant factor in the oral hygiene status of mental individuals. In spite of their socioeconomic status, they are living in the same institution sharing same environmental conditions. However, studies have shown an inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and oral hygiene.[24]
In the present study, 74.5% of subjects used the brush as the mode of cleaning and 64.7% were supervised while cleaning their teeth. Whereas the previous study showed 64.5% uses a toothbrush and 43.9% were supervised while cleaning.[24] The comparison of tooth cleaning modes in the present study suggests that the promotion of cleaning the dentition with a toothbrush will go a long way toward improving oral hygiene. The removal of dental plaque by tooth brushing the teeth significantly reduced the level of gingival inflammation which confirmed the fact that children with a mental handicap can be instructed in simple oral hygiene procedures and that they can carry out tooth brushing procedures themselves when they are given encouragement and motivation.[30] Supervision by the caretakers while brushing was also significantly associated with improved oral hygiene.
Oral hygiene practices are voluntary physical activities that have at least two requirements Motivation and manual dexterity.[31] Thus, poor oral hygiene is perhaps more prevalent among MR persons compared to other individuals. Good oral hygiene and semi-annual prophylaxis appointments may not be enough to prevent the progression of periodontal disease in these patients. These patients may need to be seen as often as every 3 months for scaling and root planning and may also benefit from the use of chlorhexidine mouth rinse and possibly systemic antibiotic therapy.[32]
There is no comparison group taken in the study to better evaluate the oral hygiene status for that age. Periodontal conditions, dental caries, and treatment needs should also be taken into consideration for the subjects. These are some of the limitations of the study. To overcome these limitations, further studies need to be conducted on such populations in future. Meticulous oral examination of MR should be performed, and various factors affecting their oral health status need to be evaluated. With proper planning, clear communication, and carefully drawn limits to services provided, the dramatic oral health negligence experienced by so many of the disabled individuals can be successfully alleviated.
The present study reported poor oral hygiene among MR. Older age group, male gender, a higher degree of retardation, noninstitutionalization, no use of toothbrush and no supervision while cleaning were the major determinants of poor oral hygiene. Although, the study showed poor oral hygiene of the MR, which seemed to indicate a cumulative neglect of oral health. Because disabled children are recognized as a high-risk group for dental disease, they should also receive more preventive dental treatment. This study confirmed the need for strengthening organized preventive and restorative care for this population.
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Martens L, Marks L, Goffin G, Gizani S, Vinckier F, Declerck D. Oral hygiene in 12-year-old disabled children in Flanders, Belgium, related to manual dexterity. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2000;28:73-80.
Rao D, Amitha H, Munshi AK. Oral hygiene status of disabled children and adolescents attending special schools of South Canara, India. Hong Kong Dent J 2005;2:107-13.
Jain M, Mathur A, Sawla L, Choudhary G, Kabra K, Duraiswamy P, et al. Oral health status of mentally disabled subjects in India. J Oral Sci 2009;51:333-40.
Tesini DA. An annotated review of the literature of dental caries and periodontal disease in mentally retarded individuals. Spec Care Dentist 1981;1:75-87.
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Nunn JH. The dental health of mentally and physically handicapped children: A review of the literature. Community Dent Health 1987;4:157-68.
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Greene JC, Vermillion JR. The simplified oral hygiene index. J Am Dent Assoc 1964;68:7-13.
Tesini DA. Age, degree of mental retardation, institutionalization, and socioeconomic status as determinants in the oral hygiene status of mentally retarded individuals. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1980;8:355-9.
Al-Sufyani GA, Al-Maweri SA, Al-Ghashm AA, Al-Soneidar WA. Oral hygiene and gingival health status of children with down syndrome in Yemen: A cross-sectional study. J Int Soc Prev Community Dent 2014;4:82-6.
Krishna CS, Archana A. Evaluation of oral hygiene status and periodontal health in mentally retarded subjects with or without Down's syndrome in comparison with normal healthy individuals. J Oral Health Community Dent 2014;8:91-4.
Anders PL, Davis EL. Oral health of patients with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review. Spec Care Dentist 2010;30:110-7.
Snyder JR, Knopp JJ, Jordan WA. Dental problems of non-institutionalized mentally retarded children. Northwest Dent 1960;44:123-6.
Loe H. The natural history of periodontal disease in man. J Periodontol 1978;49:607.
Al-Haddad KA, Al-Hebshi NN, Al-Ak'hali MS. Oral health status and treatment needs among school children in Sana'a City, Yemen. Int J Dent Hyg 2010;8:80-5.
Grants AD, Stern IB. Periodontics in the tradition of Gottlieb and Orban, 6th ed. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1988; 236-48.
Kadam NS, Patil R, Gurav AN, Patil Y, Shete A, Tari RN, et al. Oral hygiene status, Periodontal status and periodontal treatment needs among institutionalized Intellectually disabled subjects in Kolhapur District, Maharastra, India. Journal of oral diseases 2014; 535316;1-11.
Denloye OO. Oral hygiene status of mentally handicapped school children in Ibadan, Nigeria. Odontostomatol Trop 1998;21:19-21.
Dummer PM, Addy M, Hicks R, Kingdon A, Shaw WC. The effect of social class on the prevalence of caries, plaque, gingivitis and pocketing in 11-12-year-old children in South Wales. J Dent 1987;15:185-90.
de Jongh A, van Houtem C, van der Schoof M, Resida G, Broers D. Oral health status, treatment needs, and obstacles to dental care among noninstitutionalized children with severe mental disabilities in the Netherlands. Spec Care Dentist 2008;28:111-5.
Kaur S, Malhotra R, Kaur H, Battu VS, Kaur A. Oral hygiene status of mentally and physically retarded individuals living in a specialized institution in Mohali. Indian J Oral Sci 2013;4:17-22.
Vigild M. Periodontal conditions in mentally retarded children. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1985;13:180-2.
Stefanovska E, Nakova M, Radojkova-Nikolovska V, Ristoska S. Tooth-brushing intervention programme among children with mental handicap. Bratisl Lek Listy 2010;111:299-302.
Shapira J, Stabholz A. A comprehensive 30-month preventive dental health program in a pre-adolescent population with Down's syndrome: A longitudinal study. Spec Care Dentist 1996;16:33-7.
Stabholtz A, Shapira J, Shur D, Friedman, M, Guberman R, Sela MN. Local application of sustained release delivery system of chlorhexedine in Down's syndrome population. Clinical Preventive Dentistry 1991;13:9-14.
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Negotiate Your Job Offer, Step by Step
Negotiating a job offer can make a job-seeker feel like David fighting Goliath. You have to believe in yourself, but traditional job-search instruction doesn't tell you to value yourself. The conventional wisdom is "If you get a job offer, take it!"
I went to every negotiation seminar I could find in the nineties. I was running HR for my employer, so you can imagine why I wanted to learn to negotiate. My boss wanted me to learn about negotiation too, because our deals with vendors got bigger as the company got bigger.
The dollars got much larger. Sadly, the negotation workshops left me cold. I hated the way they taught negotiation at those workshops. They turned negotiation into an "If X, then Y" transaction. I thought they missed the most important part.
In all the business negotiations I had been part of, there was a heightened level of tension in the room while the negotiation was happening. Why weren't we talking about that? That's what I really wanted to understand.
Here's a step-by-step Job Offer Negotiation process. You might want to wait to read this story until you have a few minutes to relax with a cup of coffee or a nice gelato.
As Your Job Search Begins
You're going to start negotiating your job offer long before you receive it. The minute you start a job search, you need to know your market compensation level. Otherwise you won't know what to say when people ask you "What salary level are you looking for?"
You can't say "Whatever you think is fair." That's an invitation for a lowball offer, but it's worse than that. When you say "Pay me what you want," a lot of managers won't take you seriously, and frankly I don't blame them.
This Is Business, Y'all
When you call the plumber because something is leaking under your sink, you don't want the plumber to say "Just pay me what you think is fair." You're going to start wondering about the plumber's experience and credibility as soon as you hear that!
You are a professional. You command a market rate and that's what you should earn. You need to know what your market rate is. Salary and Payscale are two good resources here in North America.
You can also contact a local third-party recruiter and ask him or her to give your resume a quick read and give you a ballpark salary estimate.
What Are You Expecting to Earn?
You have to know your market salary, because when you answer the question "What's your salary target?" with too high or too low a number, that could be the end of your candidacy for a particular job, right there.
If your number is too low they'll think you're too junior for the job. If your number is too high they'll figure you're out of their range.
The best number to give them is a fair number based on your experience, the impact you've had at previous jobs, and your read on the Business Pain behind the job opening.
Brittany Moves Up In the World
Brittany is interviewing for an HR Coordinator job she saw advertised on Craigslist. Brit earned forty-two thousand dollars a year at her last job. She wants to take a step up now that she's changing job. She's learned a lot about HR since she began working in the field two years ago.
Brittany knows she's underpaid now, and apart from that, she wants a higher-level position. She wants to run an HR department in a small company where she'll be the HR equivalent of Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer. She'll wear all the HR hats!
Brittany has been reading about one interesting employer. It's a growing office-cleaning company with 240 employees. They clean offices and schools at night. They placed a job ad for an HR Coordinator on Craigslist.
The name of the company is Overnite Sensation. As far as Brittany can tell, they don't have anyone doing HR in the company right now. That's good!
I Know My Value
Brittany is happy to come in and set up their HR function, but she's not going to do it for forty-two thousand dollars a year. She knows that the company's investment in an HR function will save them a ton of money and also help them grow their revenues.
She wants to be able to make that argument clearly, should her fifty-thousand-dollar salary expectation become a roadblock in the conversation.
Let Me Put On My Research Hat
Wait a second, thinks Brittany. What are Overnite Sensation's revenues, anyway? It would help me understand the cost associated with the lack-of-HR Business Pain if I knew their sales volume.
Sadly, I don't. That's okay! I can estimate.
Overnite Sensation is privately owned, so Brittany can't find their annual revenues online. That's okay. She'll make some assumptions and try to guess at their revenue level. They have 240 employees. The employees work full-time, at night.
What does the average Overnite Sensation employee get paid per hour? Let's say ten dollars. Ten dollars an hour times 240 employees is a total hourly wage of twenty-four hundred dollars for the whole team.
Now we have to multiply that by forty hours, because people work forty hours per week. Twenty-four hundred times forty is ninety-six thousand.
Wait, is that right?
Those Dollars Add Up Fast!
Dang! Mort is spending a hundred grand a week just on payroll. Okay. My last company was smaller. Wow. Now I see why Mort, the owner, is kind of antsy all the time. He's not relaxed. He needs to get some of that stress off his shoulders.
I can help with that, setting up a great HR function and bringing some Team Mojo up in this beehive.
Everybody here could use some stress relief, even though it's a great company. Well, if they're really a great company they'll hire me!
Fun With Math!
Oh wait, what about the office people? They get more than ten dollars an hour. Well, we'll estimate that there are thirty-five folks in the office and that their pay averages twenty bucks an hour.
I'm making assumptions here like crazy, but that's okay - it's better than nothing. Okay, thirty-five people times forty hours times twenty bucks is another twenty-eight thousand bucks a week.
Shoot. I have to deduct the office payroll from my original hundred-thousand bucks a week estimate. Oh, for Pete's sake, what difference does it make? As far as Mort is concerned, it's still a lot of cash going out the door on payroll - a million bucks every ten weeks, give or take. I wonder how much profit is left after the employees get paid?
How Much Money is Left Over?
I don't know anything about margins in service businesses, but I can't imagine guys like Mort have huge profits. If they did, everyone and his brother would be in this business. So I imagine margins are thin.
Let's say that Mort has to sell six hundred thousand dollars worth of office cleaning services every month to cover his four hundred thousand or so in payroll per month, plus the building expenses, cleaning supplies, insurance and advertising.
How can I make an impact on that six hundred thousand dollars that Mort needs every month? Payroll has to be a gargantuan share of all costs, because the office is tiny and there's just a supply area and garage for the vehicles - no manufacturing or fancy office space, but still. So payroll and supplies, those are the big expenses.
What increases Mort's payroll cost? Turnover, for sure. People calling in sick, so someone else has to work overtime. Okay, I see the movie now! I can make a positive difference on both sides of this business - on the flame that gets people excited and makes them feel valued, and on the crank side where we make money.
I See My Part In This Movie
I can make it easy for the employees to stick around here and bring their friends to work here too. I can help keep turnover down. I can make Overnite Sensation a great place to work. I can help move productivity through the roof!
Brittany is getting excited. She feels like a consultant. That is a great way for a job-seeker to feel. Her brain is still working on the Overnite Sensation case study. She feels like Overnite Sensation is her employer, already!
Brittany thinks, So we've covered the financial side, at least as far as my assumptions can take me. How important is the people side of this business? The people side of a cleaning business is everything!
What If the Employees Need Support?
Employees are the name of the game in a service business. Two hundred and forty employees with no HR support is a high-pain situation.
Brittany has to believe that the absence of an HR person is costing the cleaning company way more than forty-two thousand bucks a year, but it might be hard for Mort to see those costs. They are 'soft' costs. They're costing him money, but not as obviously as a leaky roof would do.
If It's Going to Work, Here's How It Will Work
Brittany thinks about Mort's need and her own needs. If this is going to be a good partnership, she says, then I will be successful showing Mort how the absence of an HR person is costing him a bundle. I'll take the job at fifty thousand bucks a year, no less.
Later, thinks Brittany, when Mort sees the difference my presence makes, he'll boost may pay. Fifty thousand is a good place to start.
If Mort isn't expecting to have to pay someone that much, Brittany will be happy to educate him. If he really won't budge, she doesn't want to work there anyway.
Just as Brittany suspected, the question "What did you earn at your last job?" is the second question Mort asks her at her job interview. Luckily, she's ready for it!
MORT: So, Brittany, what did you earn at your last job?
BRITTANY: In this job search I'm focusing on roles in the fifty-kay range.
MORT: Is that what you were earning before?
BRITTANY: Well, I've looked at your company and researched salaries for one-person HR departments, and I think fifty thousand dollars a year is right in the ballpark.
MORT: You're not going to tell me what you were earning before?
BRITTANY: You know, that's confidential -- I have to believe that your current employees' salary information is confidential, too -- but if we're in the same range, then it makes sense to keep talking
MORT: That's kind of the high end of what I was thinking, but let's see how things shake out.
BRITTANY: Terrific!
Brittany feels that she and Mort could have a lot of fun together and build a great company. Mort says "Fifty big ones, eh? You're kind of young to make that much money."
Brittany lets the age-related comment pass. If she takes this job, she'll have all the time in the world to coach Mort on things like that!
Brittany says "Believe me Mort, I'll save you a lot more than fifty thousand bucks a year.
"You haven't been able to hire people easily because you didn't have a recruiting process. I can't wait to fix that. I have to believe you're losing business because you're short-staffed for bigger projects."
Mort says "Smart cookie."
Brittany says "No offense Mort, but if I come and work here you won't say 'smart cookie' anymore.
Mort says "What will I say instead?"
Brittany says "You'll say 'good point!'"
Mort says "I don't know a thing about HR."
Brittany says "Don't worry -- you've got me!"
Broaching the Salary Topic
You can't wait until you get your job offer to start the salary conversation.
You have to bring it up yourself if they don't do it first. If you're invited to a second interview and no one has brought up the salary topic yet, that's your cue to speak up.
Maybe they'll send you an email message asking you to come back for a second interview. You can respond to the message this way:
Hi Beatrice,
Thanks for your note! I'd be happy to meet the rest of the management team. I will check my schedule to see what could work next week. In the meantime, shall we synch up on compensation? I don't want to waste your time if we're not in the same ballpark salary-wise. Should I chat with Barney about that, or what do you suggest?
When you send this message, you can expect someone to call you and ask you "What were you earning at your last job?" You already know how to deal with that!
What Is a Supposal?
Now you've broached the salary topic. If the employer has completed Human Workplace Recruiting with a Human Voice training, they're going to make a Supposal.
"Suppose we offer you the job," someone will say. "What would the offer need to include, in order for you to sign it right away?"
A Supposal is a great way to get past any salary discussions before a formal offer is created.
What if the job offer comes in low? In that case you'll negotiate.
RRRRRRRRRRRRING!
MORT: Mort Adams.
YOU: Hi Mort! This is Brittany.
MORT: Hi, Brittany! Two weeks from next Monday, am I right?
YOU: I can't wait to get started, Mort. I got the job offer from Barney - thanks for that! We're a little ways apart on salary. I'm really set on my fifty-kay target.
MORT: What'd we offer you -- forty-eight?
YOU: Forty-seven. It's just too big of a gap for me to overlook. Can we get creative and see how we can bridge that gap?
MORT: It's a cash flow issue.
YOU: Mort, if we're going to work together we're going to be very honest with one another. The relationship between an HR person and his or her CEO is a close one. Three thousand dollars a year is a cash flow issue? I could find three thousand dollars in your expense budget in five minutes.
MORT: That's a great idea! I'll pay you fifty grand, you come in and find the three thousand dollars in our budget in your first two weeks on the job. I'm sure there's some fat in there somewhere.
YOU: Great. Should I look for an amended offer letter?
MORT: Yes. Welcome to the team, Brittany!
YOU: Thanks, Mort!
MORT: One more thing. You showed some of my folks a website with colorful pictures on it and motivational posters, or something. What was that about?
YOU: Oh! That's Human Workplace. Just wait, Mort. We're going to have a blast!
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LAFS Alumni Association Mixer | Wednesday, February 21, 2018, from 5p-8p.
Join us for the next LAFS Alumni Association Mixer! Meet up with other content creators and artists at the Los Angeles Film School campus on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, from 5p-8p. Reconnect, engage, network and start creating new opportunities in 2018. Don't forget to invite your LAFS alumni classmates! Food & beverages will be provided. See you soon! - Mario J. Novoa & Joe Byron
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Disrupt Yourself; Innovate Your Life. Listen to the iTunes Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/disrupt-yourself-innovate-your-life/id1209871924?mt=2&i=1000393261081
As Bruce Lee used to say "If you always put limits on yourself, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no Limits. There are only Plateaus, and you must not stay there - you must go beyond them." This is a podcast about going beyond the limits of today, to inch toward a better tomorrow. It's about recreating ourselves anew, about letting go of the certainty of "arriving" for the journey of growth of always becoming... Always evolving, innovating; disrupting the old, creating the new. Listen to the Podcast ------------------------ Below is what will be on the show description: ---------------------------
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Originally formed to compete in the Space Elevator Challenge, Lighthouse developed a power-beaming system to drive power to the climber. Since then Lighthouse has participated in NASA’s 2009 Innovative Partnerships Program, and has had media appearances on both BBC One and BBC Two. Since then Lighthouse has worked to further develop the capability and branch into new operational concepts.
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PSR "Kondenz"
Together with their associated partner Stannica for contemporary dance, Tala Dance Center and brain store project organized an exploratory project within the Kondenz Festival. This project was supported by the Nomad Dance Academy through the PSR LLB program line. The mission of the NDA network, as the main link with the LLB EU project, is to emphasize the importance of development and consolidation of the entire regional scene.
This year's edition of Kondenz Festival of contemporary dance and performance was made through a working process in various segments of the dance work and out of the need to discuss more certain topics, practices, questions and problematic points. The selection of programs was the result of our travels, meetings, discussions, confrontations and preocupations during which we have articulated possible interpretations and reflections about the local matters. The «we» are not only three curators of this edition, but all collaborators of Station, Magacin and from other places of production of dance and perofrmance that have engaged themselves in everyday work and dialogue about where and what is our local dance and performance scene.
The Festival presented 10 performances by local artists and international artists (from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia, Spain and USA. The discoursive program was very important in order to give the theoretical, political and thematic frames to the works we presented. We organized 6 lectures and presentations as well as 2 video works with relevant subjects.
We were interested in artworks that deal with politicality in some or all of these modalities at once, so that the audience of Kondenz festival can get a full insight in the specter of different artistic approaches to dance and performance as “one of the training grounds or battlegrounds of political practice” today.
With its focus on (dance) bodies that are defined by various contexts and that open (self)critical view on the common patterns of the dance practice and perception of the performing body, dealing with reconsideration of normativity in and around dance, this year's Kondenz thematized conditions and needs, wishes and possibilities in this frame. Where is the border between a body that performs and a body that does everyday ordinary actions? To what extent and how is a body shaped by the context and material conditions and, even more important, to what extent and how does a body shape the context? With such an interaction of performance and everyday life it is possible to palpate the outlined borders and to open different perspectives on their fagility, fluidity, complexity, conditionality.
Ida Daniel exposed manifold existences and complexities of the body that is observed and that observes. Normativities of the dance body and breaking the imposed linearity of movement are topics in Zrinka Užbinec’s performance. Rita Góbi introduced us into the world of metamorphosis with the music developped out of the Morse code. How the context which is defined by the capitalist ways of production and consumption, shapes the dance body and what strategies and attitudes are imposed on it in such conditons, as well as how we resist in front of them was articulated by Snježana Premuš in her work «Poiesis of self». In the site specific work «Walking Piece» the city was a scenography that imposed its rythm and conditions to those who move through it.
This Kondenz dealt with norms and their deconstruction questioning heteronormativity. Both the performance “Moonlight” and the collective “Ephemeral Confessions” addressed, with loads of humor, complex social and political questions, deconstructing gender, class and social roles. Mariana Valencia investigated and called in question the normative through an analysis of cultural patterns that had formed her as a person and artists in her performance “Yugoslavia”. The short dance film “Glance” directed by Marko Pejović pointed to the importance of inclusive work in arts and promoted creative work of the artists with dissabilities.
In order to fully understand all the subject matters already mentioned, it was necessary to analyze the structural and material conditions of contemporay art production and working rights of artists, especially women artists in the current trends of repatriarchalization of our society. This conceptual line of the festival stretched throughout all activities, but it was most explicit in the presentation of the research, publication and mobile mural painting of the cultural female workers from Rijeka “How do female artists live?” as well as in the presentation of the Serbian pavilion at the Prague Quadriennial of Performance Design and Space 2019 called “Scene Work Ahead”. The workshop of Dejan Srhoj with its evincive title “Outside working hours” dealt with the conditions in which contemporary dance is created.
Different forms of documentation and musealisation of contemporary dance and performance were topics of another segment of the festival. It consisted of lectures by the New York curator Lydia Bell, and a video interview followed by the discussion on the occasion of 35th anniversary of Mimart Theater. This segment vitally included the question of collectivity and we opened it with the examples from New York, Rijeka and Belgrade. The local example were analysed by Milica Ivić during the discussion “About potentialities of the Common and its actualisations”.
We celebrated one more jubily – 25 years of the artistic work of Dušan Murić, dancer and choreographer; he presented his no-budget imaginarium of the close future “Partisans will come, again” which in its multi-layered structre simultaneously alarmed and invited to the action from the bottom.
This was actually the main motive of the festival program’s concept that went from insights and questioning of the wide specter of normativities and normalisations to placing them in a broader context defined by working and material conditions. Behind it all, there was a wish to draw attention to the universal problems that gather all of us and that go beyond only the field of culture, but rather tackle the general working conditions that are imposed to us as non-alternative.
The Festival was visited by more than 1500 people, while the press coverege was very large and diversed.
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Bill Gates Quits Microsoft! Steve Ballmer to step up
Bill Gates shall no longer be in-charge of day-to-day operations at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer is likely to essay that role (executive charges) while Gates shall stay onboard as Chairman. It is apparent from interviews given by Gates that he shall not take his 'foot of the pedal or hand of the wheel' at Microsoft.He shall still have considerable say or sway rather over all major decisions.He shall work only once a week for Microsoft most probably with only the top level people.He will not as before take under his charge all projects but rather distribute his efforts(guidance) amongst specific targets or products.
The only service we know for sure that will be worked upon by Gates is MSN search-a service which has tremendous potential but needs improvement.
Th reason given by Gates for his de-facto retirement is that he wishes to spend more time on managing the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation,which is the largest transparently operated charitable organisation in the world.He is also the fiercest opposition to anti-trusts after Rockfeller.
Quote of the day: "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates.
And that exactly is what Bill Gates has been for Microsoft; a visionary. Since the earliest days he had a clear cut vision,a dream of Microsoft setting the standard,a dream where computer software becomes affordable and accessable to all.We see this in practice today-most homes and nearly all offices have a computer and over 90% of those computers run on Windows software.
When Microsoft signed a deal with IBM,IBM in their hurry did not bother with the details or legal formalities of the deal For them Bill was like any other youngster(23 then) trying to sell his innovation and make it big. They therefore did not press much and Gates with a future plan in mind got them to sign a non-exclusivity agreement which gave Microsoft the rights of license for the product. Later on when Microsoft cashed in on their free right to market their product,a stumped IBM could only grit their teeth in resentment.
Bill Gates is also extremely proud of the fact that he gets the best talent in America to work for the biggest company.He has said it often enough "I don't hire bozos".He takes only the best and that is one of the reasons why his company does so well.
Unlike Apple and many other brands,Microsoft is a people's brand-comfortable to use,convenient,homely and at a very affordable price.
More than any other computer company,Microsoft have diversified through innovation and continuos improvement-be it the XBox 360 or the internet explorer,Microsoft has a sweeping suite of products. They have been the first to identify the potential of several services and were onto the scene before anyone else(take for instance hotmail,the first ever e-mail service).
Microst also made Stanford a hotbed for recruitment-an incubator of sorts. They even encouraged the growth of new compaies and made sveral donations-including the building in which Google started.
Bill Gates has left behind him a legacy that no entrepreneur can ever parallel.
A question: What is the full and real name of Bill Gates?
Do you have the answer or a wild/random guess to the question above?How do you feel about Gates quitting?Will it affect Microsoft?
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Home Entertainment MOVIES Retour: C-Boyz release Feel My Pain today
Ernest Kanjo / Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:11
When TIPTOPSTARS talked to C-Boyz and the group�s manager sometime ago, they made a promise that the world would hear from them not long from then. Bonaventure Jr., 11, one of the band�s singers and Marie Ndapqwe, manager-mum, went further to indicate that the next single was going to make much musical sense, both in its technical quality and artistic (lyrics) showdown. They were not only certain this was going to be the case, but were also determined to make this dream a reality. True to their words, their promise has been fulfilled and dream met.
Feel My Pain, the said single, is a masterpiece. �When I listened to the song for the first, I skipped and shouted � I couldn�t believe those kids were the ones doing it,� a Feel My Pain reviewer told us at press time. �It�s a brilliant piece of work that will certainly go places and I subscribe to it fully,� he went on.
To another reviewer, Feel My Pain�s video is so compatible to the lyrics of the track and meets high standards. �I watched it over and over and got really fascinated � I was at one moment almost stating that it was too good to be true for tender artists like the C-Boyz,� he explained.
Recorded in a Minnesota studio, Feel My Pain is written and the video directed by Francis Sampah. It is a compassion song that extends love to the less privileged. �There are many homeless people of all ages. These people go through a lot of hazardous moments and usually we neglect them simply because we do not know what they go through exactly. We are asking those who are lucky to be comfortable to halt for a moment and try to put themselves in the shoes of the have-nots or even try to imagine what these people face. So Feel My Pain is a clarion call for us to consider the less privilege and stretch a helping hand,� C-Boyz explained the meaning of the track to us.
According to the manager of the duo, the video concept is a great one that was worked upon by Sampah with the assistance of Bespontube Entertainment. �It�s shot on locations in Minnesota and will be available on Youtube, TIPTOPSTARS - www.tiptopstars.com and our website. Eventually, we will get the track on DVD,� Ndapqwe told us.
Produced by CBoyz Entertainment, the 4.44 minutes-long track (also said to be a true life story) is expected to precede another single Thank God, the child band will be releasing in the next couple of months. But before then, Bon Jr. (as the elder singer is affectionately called) and Denzel, 9, are grateful to fans and friends for the overt love they have shown them this far.
�While hoping they�ll enjoy Feel My Pain, we want to thank our fans for the continuous support and believing in the C-Boyz. We look forward to continue providing them with good music. Special thanks to TIPTOPSTARS for all your support. God bless you,� Bon Jr. said.
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M J Mapp’s Collaborative Recycling Programme in Chinatown
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A collaborative approach to waste management in the Chinatown portfolio that M J Mapp manages for Shaftesbury has delivered both environmental and social benefits. The introduction of recycling facilities alongside a targeted occupier engagement programme has resulted in improved behavioural change, reducing incidents of fly-tipping and improving conditions for people using the service areas. In turn, this has freed up more of the cleaning team’s time to focus on public areas for visitors. M J Mapp is now exploring opportunities to collaborate with Chinatown occupiers on other win-win initiatives.
32 OCCUPIERS RECYCLING MIXED WASTE
IMPROVED CONDITIONS IN SERVICE AREAS
POSITIVE OCCUPIER ENGAGEMENT
A specialist in property and asset management, M J Mapp has embedded sustainability principles into its risk management framework and identifies opportunities to improve the sustainability performance of the properties it manages.
M J Mapp manages Chinatown in London’s West End, on behalf of Shaftesbury, which is also committed to sustainability. Chinatown’s restaurants attract many visitors and have long trading hours. The area has always presented issues around waste management, due to the types and volumes of waste, the limited space for storage, and the number and type of restaurant operators, with different languages spoken.
M J Mapp approached Shaftesbury about a more collaborative approach to waste management in Chinatown, with the aim of:
Increasing levels of recycling.
Improving amenity conditions in the service areas, including pest control.
Engaging with occupiers in a new and positive way, strengthening relationships.
Shaftesbury fully supported the initiative, which launched in April 2016, due to its potential to demonstrate their sustainability ambitions in action.
M J Mapp engaged with Veolia, the local waste services provider collecting on behalf of Westminster City Council. Veolia was keen to support a new waste management programme in China Town, which also aligned with its aim to increase recycling. Veolia agreed to replace four of the ten general waste bins in one of the main service areas with mixed recycling bins, all labelled in both English and Cantonese. Prior to this, there were no recycling facilities.
M J Mapp’s team of ten people working across Shaftesbury’s Chinatown and Soho portfolio engaged with the 14 restaurant operators using this service area. An M J Mapp Facilities Manager who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin was involved in occupier meetings to overcome language barriers where needed.
During the four-week trial, the Facilities Manager monitored the bins daily and Veolia gave feedback to the team on how well the bins were being used, that is, whether non-recyclables were being put into the recycling bins. Veolia feedback showed that occupiers were correctly segregating waste.
Following the success of this trial, which achieved all its aims, the initiative was extended to the second service yard, used by 18 occupiers. All 32 occupiers across the two service areas continue to segregate dry, mixed recyclables. Leases for new occupiers have also been updated to require their participation in the scheme.
M J Mapp, Shaftesbury, Veolia and Westminster City Council are now exploring opportunities to replicate the initiative elsewhere. In addition, M J Mapp is building on this successful collaboration to explore other opportunities with Chinatown occupiers, such as the potential to install devices in restaurants to capture grease before it enters London’s drainage system.
Recycling bins provided free of charge by Veolia.
No changes in the waste services fee.
Freeing up local resource to maintain public areas, by saving time on cleaning and pest control in service areas.
Ongoing monitoring of the service areas by the facilities team shows that the initiative has resulted in:
Reduced incidents of fly-tipping.
Reduced frequency of overflowing bins.
Fewer oil spillages.
Significantly fewer pest control calls.
Increased recycling. Quantitative data is not available from Veolia, as Chinatown is on a general waste collection round. The M J Mapp team continues to raise this with Veolia and the City of Westminster.
Positive engagement with occupiers, opening opportunities for further collaboration.
Improved conditions for health and safety in service areas.
Supporting the sustainability commitments of M J Mapp, Shaftesbury and Veolia, as well as occupiers.
Challenges & Achievements
How to secure occupier buy-in for sustainability initiatives?
Prior to the collaborative waste management initiative, occupier engagement by the facilities team tended to be functional. The engagement routines existed, but the focus tended to be on practicalities around leases and licenses for alterations. There was also a perception that local business owners preferred to be left alone. However, M J Mapp was confident that, with the right level of engagement, the waste management initiative would not only be successful, but would lay the groundwork for further collaboration with occupiers. The facilities team spoke with all the occupiers individually to get their buy-in. They focused on the potential benefits for occupiers, including a more pleasant service area at the back of their restaurants, with reduced incidents of fly-tipping, fewer overflowing bins and less issues around pest control. They emphasised that this would be achieved without any increase in waste management fees. They launched a four-week trial to prove the potential of the scheme. Although the scheme is fairly bespoke, it is replicable for areas where there is an effective engagement programme and occupiers share a service area.
How to maintain performance on waste management?
The sustained improvement of conditions in the service area, without any increase in the total number of bins or frequency of collections, is the result of behavioural changes. Following the initial engagement and monitoring, people immediately started treating the area better and saw the benefits of this, with everything tidy, segregated and well signed. Whilst there is the potential for fines to penalise occupiers that contaminate waste, these have not needed to be used. If one restaurant did mismanage waste now, the facilities team believes that others would be quick to flag that it was not them. In addition, many of the restaurants are small, family firms with well-established teams, which reduces the risk of mismanagement by new staff unfamiliar with procedures. There is also clear signage in English and Cantonese. All 32 occupiers using the service areas have signed up to continue the scheme voluntarily and there is a new lease clause requiring participation for new occupiers.
How to further improve waste management in Chinatown?
The lack of quantitative waste data and absence of food waste recycling options in Chinatown are limiting factors for M J Mapp. Unfortunately, neither waste data nor food waste recycling are currently available through Veolia on the general waste collection round in Westminster and there are strict controls over bringing additional waste service providers into the area. The M J Mapp team continues to explore these and other waste management opportunities with Veolia and the City of Westminster.
Carl Brooks
M J Mapp
www.mjmapp.com
“As one of the most densely occupied restaurant locations within the West End, Chinatown has always presented challenges surrounding waste management. This initiative has enabled Shaftesbury to introduce practices that are in line with its sustainability policy and have made a real difference to the local environment.”
Andrew Price, Portfolio Executive at Shaftesbury
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Nicolas ALBERNY Studied cinema to Montpellier's university (France). He's been a productive writer and director these last years with acclaimed short movies as: 100 precedents, Pompes funebres, Forgotten King Kong, helium Killer, Le cercle. He is his own producer,, storyboarder, editor, music composer and a special effects supervisor.
He wrote and directed Avis de tempête, for Arte produced by Gullver Productions. He also composed the original soundtrack, was the storyboarder and the set designer.
In collaboration with yann Moreau, he co-wrote and director the multi awarded short feature : 'Forgotten King Kong' (broadcasted on canal plus).
Nicolas then started working with Jean Mach in co-writing ans co-directing his first feature length film 8Th Wonderland. Nicolas also composed the original soundtrack and storyboarded the all movie.8th wonderland was released in France and Germany in May 2010 and was awarded 12 international prizes. (More informations 8Th Wonderland)
Futhermore, Nicolas has also directed several clips that have been broadcast on television channels.
He is also an animator.
As a composer, he signed all his movie soundtrack but also composed the soundtrack of two others features : Burial of Rats and Par l'odeur alléché. He is part of a band called 'Groove gate' and another one 'Les farfadets' for which he composed some of the songs. he is also a drummer.
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Docetism - Secondary Succession
Secondary Succession by Docetism
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Secondary Succession, released in July 7, is the most recent album by Docetism. A seven ambient track album, with a very low, nature related and condescending atmosphere of calmness, vigor, introspection and relaxation, it sets you up on a very serene, deep and untouched layer of existence, where anxiety, fear and anguish can never reach you. Deeply rooted in getting touch with nature, and discovering your own self-rewarding essence of purity, Secondary Succession follows you on a great crusade towards yourself, where you can rediscover all the things that you have inside you, but you had lost somehow, along the way.
With a perfect atmosphere of serenity and peace, this is really an album for specific moments, especially meditative ones. It is also the perfect album that you can hear before going to sleep, or exactly as you’re falling into the deepest grounds of somnolence. Its exacerbated sonorous levels of relaxation can firmly calm you, being the perfect soundtrack for each and every moment of tranquility in your life, whether it will be in your sleep, or for a session of meditation, for a moment of reflection, to rest, or only to be quiet on your own, to take a cup of tea. This is the right album for all these moments.
Although having only seven tracks, being a little bit short, and with little rhythmic variations between tracks – which is somewhat cohesive with its atmospheric and meditative proposal – there is also a hidden, minor, minimalist, delicate and intricate beauty in each and every one of these tracks. All of them are precisely tied up together in a such a form, that, somehow, at a certain point, you will feel yourself as becoming a part of the music, and getting lost on the inner journey of its notes and rhythms, progressively finding yourself in unique ways, throughout the slow variety of these strictly correlated harmonies, that builds up an identity at the core of their relations with the outside world.
Subtle and introspective, this is a remarkable album, brilliant on its own terms and merits. With a greater ambivalence of profoundly atmospheric notes, Secondary Succession is a great musical vehicle for you to get in touch with the deepest areas that lies within yourself, at the propitious lucidity driven by the serenity of calm and transcending moments.
If you’re really searching for a remarkable but simple listening album, Second Succession is certainly among the best you’re going to get. Precise, limpid, pure, peaceful and with a positive feeling dispersed throughout the sonorous life of its subtle transportation of sentiments, you’re probably going to get even more than what you’re expected.
Although it gets a little obscure as the album approaches the end, you can feel a great deal of peace inside yourself. Sharing beliefs that can never disrespect the feelings between fellow human beings, Secondary Succession follows the tradition of the greatest meditative albums, that sets up on its ambient surrounding atmospheres the primordial notes that can easily build a sound upon which you will feel positively happy and secure. And accompanied by the sweetest melodies ever created on this genre.
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Raven Lord - Down the Wasteland
Down the Wasteland
by Anna Chase at 06 March 2017, 2:43 AM
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RAVEN LORD, founded in 2011, is a group that truly is the epitome of Classic, Screaming Heavy Metal. Lead singer Csaba Zvekan is known for his vocals in both EXORCISM and KILLING MACHINE, the two bands he was a member of before forming his current gig. RAVEN LORD’s first album, “Descent to the Underworld” (2013), is a collection of precise and sweeping guitar licks overlaid with Zvekan’s powerful voice, truly a masterpiece. “The Rebel”, one of my personal favorites, is a defiant and energetic battle anthem that would make any metal fan head bang. Joe Stump absolutely rips through Yngwie Malmsteen-esque riffs for nearly the entire album, an impressive feat. I was doubtful that their second album would surpass my glowing opinion of the first, however, I was wrong.
“Down the Wasteland” opened with an explosion of strength and sheer heaviness in “Hail to the Gods.” Zvekan’s vocal range never ceases to amaze me, and as he transitioned from a Rob Halford-like shrieking tremolo to a clean tenor, it became clear that his range was, to date, one of the most impressive I have heard, rivaling only perhaps by Dani Filth (CRADLE OF FILTH) or Mike Patton (FAITH NO MORE). The stuttering guitar riffs of “Medusa the Reaper” instantly made the song one of my personal favorites on the album. The contrast between the slowed-down chorus, which showcased Zvekan’s voice yet again, and the fills were tremendous. Karafotis and Stump layered their riffs to provide a chugging, blistering backdrop over the drums. Stump’s solo is the textbook example of speed metal, and he rages through it flawlessly. “New Generation” is a politically-charged track (can we say Dave Mustaine, our favorite anarchist?) and, while the rhythm sometimes sounds similar to that of the previous track, the pause in the riff during the middle provides a much-needed palette cleanser from the constant barrage of concentrated metal. “Down the Wasteland,” the album’s title track, boasts that it has “metal in its veins.” That’s an understatement, for the most part, the album is a prime example of sheer power and energy. However, I wasn’t thoroughly convinced that this track stood out enough from the others to be awarded its position as the namesake of the album. The riffs and background rhythm, along with the long solo, were a bit underwhelming.
However, RAVEN LORD started back to life with the next song, “Coming Home.” The liquid guitar riffs and pure vitality conveyed by the combination of Zvekan’s vocals and the insanity of the solos made me sit back in my seat. I think this song may be the strongest on the whole album, since it showcases the much-needed versatility in speed, rhythm, and singing that sometimes the songs seem to lack. Though the band endeavored to end the album with a bang, I would have to say “Touch the Sky” was one of my least favorites on the album. The riffs were nowhere near as thrilling and complex as previous others, and the lyrics seemed clichéd (“fighting dragons”? How Power Metal.) However, I did enjoy the effect of Zvekan’s layered vocals, which added a depth to the song. I was also rather pleased to hear more of his natural singing voice and not the screaming, while I enjoy some good old-fashioned metal shrieks as much as the next person, I think they shouldn’t be overused in an album and should be saved to emphasize a select portion of a song.
Overall, though, I truly enjoyed “Down the Wasteland”. RAVEN LORD is a powerhouse of traditional metal riffs, and with countless years of experience, their talent shines through. I could listen to Stump shredding for years and never get tired, I’m not exaggerating when I say his solos are truly on Malmsteen’s level. Though it’s hard to revive traditional Heavy Metal when the classic riffs have all been done before, I’m not going to deny that “Down the Wasteland” is a potent and dynamic album that tears through complicated solos with ease and traverses octaves like it’s no big deal. Despite some minor weaknesses, in my opinion this album is definitely worth a listen, if only just to experience Zvekan’s range and Stump’s shredding.
Songwriting: 8
Originality: 5.5
Memorability: 7
Production: 8
1. Hail to the Gods
2. Medusa the Reaper
3. New Generation
4. Down the Wasteland
5. Coming Home
6. Last Man Standing
7. Against the Wind
8. Touch the Sky
9. Gathering Stones
Csaba Zvekan- Lead vocals
Joe Stump- Lead guitar
George Karafotis- Guitar
Lucio Manca- Bass guitar
Garry King- Drums
Record Label: Dream Records
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Ruby's Reflections
Earlier this year in February, Ruby Tavener – one of OzGREEN’s youth ambassadors travelled with fellow ambassador Ali Thwaits and CEO Sue Lennox to India and Nepal to help train 30 new Youth Leading the World facilitators. Now back in Australia and beginning university, Ruby reflects on her experience.
“It’s all a little bit blurry if I’m honest. A month, so full of new experiences and emotions, new people and new places, it’s hard to preserve each day as their own. When I think back on OzGREEN’s 2016 Varanasi trip, I remember how dearly I came to care about everyone at the Sankat Mochan Foundation, and of course Ali and Sue, I recall the feeling of watching the sun rise over Ganga, my first rickshaw ride, the sadness and pain I felt when I saw Nagwa Nalla- a massive drain outlet into Ganga. I’ll never forget the bubbling methane, the bottomless blackness of the river. I think about the joy I felt at the end of each training day, how proud and honored I felt to simply be there, the unreal sight of the Himalayas.
I think of how powerful being apart of OzGREEN makes me feel, overseas and in Australia. Just the other day, I flooded my newly rented, and carpeted apartment because I forgot I had a bath running- I felt like I was failing ‘adult’ life. Then I remembered what I did in Febuary, what OzGREEN allowed me to realise that I’m capable of, what I’m going to do.
OzGREEN has inspired me to take a step forward in my life and future career as a humanitarian. I had deferred my university studies, however after this experience I couldn’t imagine spending a whole year doing nothing. I can’t help but be overwhelmed by the social and environmental tragedies of the world. What I can do is start studying International Development Studies- a bachelor degree that will continue to inspire me as much as OzGreen has.”
The OzGREEN movement, that you are a part of, is inspiring young people across Australia and globally. But in the coming years we will need your help if we want to reach more young people like Ruby.
See Ruby's TEDXBellingen Talk
https://youtu.be/OqSFQCIZMEg
Also Day 10- Varanasi
The day that we left Australia, the Adani mine (biggest coal mine in the world) who's building will destroy the Barrier Reef and cause climate chaos, was approved.
The original cause for this trip to India- a year and a half ago- was the alarming news that the Ganga was going to be turned into a transport harbour for mega coal barrages. When the news of this went away, we calmed down.
However now, as the Adani mine has been approved and stories of mega coal ports have began to float around India, I am lead to ponder on the question- Where is the Adani coal going?
The story is that there are plans for barrages to be build on Ganga, the river is to be dredged to a depth of 5metres deep and 50metres wide, so as to allow the shipping of coal in mega ships up river to mega coal ports.
If this takes place it won't matter what work is done here at Sankat Mochan Foundation, it will not matter how hard the youth fight and protest for effective sewage treatment systems, it won't even matter if Varanasi has the best sewage treatment systems in the world.
The development would cause environmental chaos and destroy the cultural integrity of Mother Ganga.
The conservation of the barrier reef has been a cause close to my heart- thinking about the Adani Mine brings literal tears to my eyes. Where are we headed? Into a world of climate catastrophe, a world without Australia's beautiful Barrier Reef, without India's cherished and vitally needed Mother Ganga.
I don't know about you, but that is not where I want to be.
We do not need a river of sewage, we do not need coal.
We need awareness, we need united action.
This afternoon, a few minutes before we leave for the airport, we send prayers out to Ganga. Holding my candle, I look down into the water; diluted sewage lapping up against the littered banks, malla's sinking into an abyss of pollution.
Slowly placing my candle into the water, I pray for Ganga. I am not and never have been a religious person, but in this moment, with tears in my eyes and an emptiness in my heart, I pray for Ganga and for my beloved Barrier Reef. I pray for the millions of people and animals who rely on Ganga for life, for the eco-systems within the Barrier Reef. I pray for those who have dedicated their lives to these causes, and to those who are blissfully- or perhaps ignorantly- unaware. I pray for the future, my future
Day 10- Varanasi
In the previous 10 days I have sat in on countless meetings- most of which I was silent, just trying to understand what was going on, who was who- I have witnessed the horrifying reality of Varanasi's sewage flow into the river, I have been emotionally torn down, met wonderful friends, experienced the deep spiritual culture of India, and been inspired again and again by the people around me.
Unlike me, Sue has been apart of this family from the very beginning. She has seen 25 years of water testing, campaigning, achievements, and disheartening non-achievements. She has held this cause closely in her heart for 25 years.
After 25 years it is only now that we have discovered an arising fundamental problem:
People do not understand that when they flush their toilet, it goes directly through large pipes, and often small broken pipes, and into the river.
What we need- I am saying "we" as humanity as a whole, because this is not an Indian problem, it is a global crisis- we need to differentiate between cosmetic cleaning and removing and treating the sewage in Ganga.
Thousands of litres of sewage flooding into Ganga every day; 40 million people relying on the water for life; the only sewage treatment plants implemented in the last 25 years do not work; people believing that the river is clean, because the ghats are clean and there is a new blue boat picking up rubbish in the water.
This is too big. Where is the hope?
As corny and cliche as you may think this sounds: the hope, I believe, is in all of us. There can be no denying that.
This is not an unsolvable problem, the technology required is out there. The difficult part is spreading awareness and thorough understanding of the issue, then using that global awareness to influence institutions with power.
Community action = government action.
Day 8- Varanasi
Sitting, blessed, in Mahant Ji's new and renovated 'thrown room' (basically a beautiful meeting room), Sue hums and the softness fills my ears.
A few days earlier an American singer song writer - Betsy Rose - came to stay at Tulsi Ghat. On the second day of our facilitator training, at the end of an intense day of training and brain storming and planning, Betsy Rose sat down with our trainees. And then she sang. She sang "We Will Overcome", a song of resilience and perseverance. In no time at all everyone was singing along, then modifying the song to suit Ganga, then singing again in Hindi.
The words echoed through the room, out onto Ganga and then into the foggy nights sky:
Ganga hogi saaf, Ganga hogi saaf,
ham karenge pryas saath saath,
oh man me hai vishvas,
pura hai vishvas,
Ganga hogi saaf saath saath
I watched how the energy changed, how the students beamed with anticipation and inspiration. Whatever heaviness and sorrow that was left after discussing our concerns was now gone, the mood was shifted- all through song. How divine.
Since that night, this Ganga song has come to represent everything we are working towards. It has become an embodiment of Sankat Mochan's values.
Now, sitting in Mahant Ji's thrown room, or preparing breakfast, or perhaps simply sitting by Ganga, the song is subconsciously hummed- following our travels with encouragement, reinforcing the harmonious nature of our campaign, the togetherness of our cause.
There are certain key figures at Sankat Mochan Foundation, I have come to understand. While I haven't been here nearly long enough to pass judgements, the strong, dedicated and passionate work ethic of these men have become obvious to me. Up all night working, barely home or with family, a constant level of stress- who would do this to themselves?
Environmental activists apparently- what a crazy lot.
Because the Ganga must be free of sewage.
Three of these key figures joined us yesterday afternoon (Gopal Ji, RK Ji, and Pandey Ji)- the third day of Facilitator Training. To begin, outside looking over a million dollar view of the Ganga, we played a game- A Big Wind Blows. Basically, the game consisted of one person standing in the middle of the rest of the group (whom are circled around him/her on chairs). The person in the middle will state "a big wind blows for" and then something sustainable they do: eg, a big wind blows for those who have solar panels on their roof. If this statement is true for you, you must get up and run towards a new chair. Inevitably, one person misses out on a chair and the process starts again.
The first round went and people ran and jumped and dived everywhere attempting to find a seat, it was Gopal Ji who was left in the middle. In my week of staying at Tulsi Ghat, I had not yet seen such a large and playful smile come from Gopal Ji. After a few moments of trial and error and students explaining the game in Hindi to Gopal Ji, laughing along with him, the next round went and this time it was RK Ji left in the middle of the circle, students giggling at him, an even larger smile again, an special brightness in his eyes.
Whilst trying to run and find a safe seat myself, I observed the loose playfulness in their movements. Their smiles were almost larger than the students. How heartwarming such childish fun could be; how wonderfully reassuring to see that even in the midst of an environmental/humanitarian crisis, these dedicated men could release their stress, let go of such overwhelming responsibility and, even if just for a moment, enjoy a delightful game of Big Wind Blows.
A little while on, we got the two students to speak to their peers about what they had witnessed yesterday, the surprise and pain they had felt. How excellent it was to see the participants listening intently and reacting with such understanding when it was their own friends informing them.
For me, this reinforced the significance of what Youth Leading the World believes- that young people have substantial power when it comes to spreading awareness. Simply because we are the future. Who better to talk about the future of Ganga than those who will be there to live along side it's future?
8am sharp we were out on the boat, keen to get water testing; our group included a university student and a year 11 year student, both whom have been attending our Youth Leading the World Facilitator Training this week.
There are 33 drains, all which flow directly into the Ganga. On this day, we took samples from 6 areas.
It was the Varuna River where I first felt physically ill. We had passed the city Ghats, gone under the bridge and arrived in the village area. Looking out to the river, away from the city, the water was an eery white-grey; methane bubbling all around the boat.
In order to correctly collect data from the samples, when water is taken from the river (50 cm's down- as this is the level at which people bath), two chemicals are mixed with the sample to fix the oxygen levels in the water. Usually, the water will turn a orange/brown colour. However, the water at Varuna turned a blanket white. No lab work was needed, this water had a dissolved oxygen level of 0. Solid sewage.
Back past the city Ghats we went, back past our home at Tulsi Ghat and on towards the upstream drains. Nagwa Nalla, meaning drain in English, was originally called Assi River. Anyone who has laid eyes on this once called 'river' will understand the reasoning behind the change of name. This was no river- it was the largest drain I had ever seen, flowing directly into the upstream of the Ganga.
And then I heard a disturbing thing. The law student who had accompanied us, the student who had, a day before, listening intently at our Facilitator Training as we delivered the hard facts, the science and statistics of the pollution of the river, said that he had no idea this was happening. Unable to believe that this system of sewage management was a reality, I saw the horror on his face.
If Lalit could be so oblivious about the state of the water- a committed/passionate/active law student- how many more people are there?
Later on at the banks of the river on Tulsi Ghat, the high school student joining us began to sing "Ganga will be clean", encouraging others to join. A nearby man took notice and said "but Modi Ji has already cleaned the Ganga".
The fact that sewage makes up 95% of the pollution in the river is not in the face of every day people. Unfortunately what is in their face is rubbish, rubbish on the Ghats. And so, to those millions of people who don't understand the science behind the pollution of the river, they turn to blame the physical rubbish and dirt on the Ghat, the soap of those who bath, the stray dogs' filth. Which in reality only make up 5% of this detrimental issue.
Prime Minister Modi Ji's campaign was built, in Varanasi, on the good-willed platform of cleaning Ganga. As an initiative of this he came to Assi Ghat and shovelled dirt away from the Ghat- a symbolic gesture of the governments good intention for the future.
So far however, no substantial effective change has occurred. What has emerged among people is a dangerous and confused misconception that the cosmetic cleaning of the Ghats is cleaning the Ganga.
How can we encourage the government to act on their promises when even the most educated of people do not understand that when you flush your toilet, it goes directly into Ganga Ji?
Today was so foggy I couldn't see the other side of the river.
We ran our first day of Youth Leading the World Facilitator Training. University students from BHU and students from TVN joined in; around 30 people in total. While for me, the language barrier was difficult and exhausting, the passion and energy of the students was more inspiring.
After our brain storming session, the top concerns were:
- population
- illegal construction on river banks/commercialisation of Ghats
- discharge of sewage
- land degradation
- lack of awareness and responsibility
- climate change
- deforestation/urbanisation
- insecurity of food/water
- industrial waste
- lack of implementation of government policies and action
- loss of biodiversity
- wealth gap
- over dependence on fossil fuels
- loss of cultural heritage
One of the most crucial parts of the day for me was the Pulse of the Planet. This is one of the only times when the participants listen, rather than joining in. The Pulse of the Planet is a presentation whereby we metaphorically take the pulse of the world- going through large scale global issues of poverty, climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation etc. Here, the participants learn things that they may never have been told before- I sure hadn't before my first Youth Leading the World- such as:
- 1% of people own 40% of wealth and 50% of people own 1% of wealth
- we are on track for a 4 degree Celsius temperature rise by the year 2100
- current sewage treatment plants implemented by the government do not work
By the end of the presentation everyone- including the facilitators such as Ali, Sue and myself, who have done this for years and heard the presentation countless times- are feeling overwhelmed, small, drained and torn down. It is very important for us to really hear the pulse of the planet, to really listen to its pain, and to then feel that pain ourselves. We than utilise these feelings for positive and passionate action.
Sue Lennox and Catherine Porter both spoke at a conference at BHU university today- along side many esteemed professionals. Sue and Catherine spoke about the future of Varanasi and of course, the Ganga.
Before heading off to the university, we went to get pizza at a lovely little cafe on Assi Ghat. As we began to walk home, with me holding the left-overs in a pizza box, a young girl (possibly only 7 or 8) holding a very small baby approached me and began to follow. While I had no idea of what she was saying, it was blindingly obvious that she and the child needed food. Turning to face her I saw people all around, looking at me- a skinny elderly man stretched his arm out to me, begging. a young boy bounced around me, repeating the same sort of thing as the young girl.
The pizza cost me $4, I wasn't hungry anymore and I could very easily buy another tomorrow- or get food elsewhere. Despite this I froze, distressed. I had never seen desperation like this. Poverty was all around me and all I had was one small pizza.
After distributing the pizza, I realised that not only were these people hungry, they too, like millions of others, relied on the water of the river to survive. I am a wealthy westerner in comparison and surely there is more than a $4 pizza that I have to give. Feeling emotionally deflated, and yet impassioned, I promised myself that I would dedicate all of my being to getting the sewage out of Ganga.
It's fascinating the way that India can tear you apart, and then put you back together again.
While most of the conference was in Hindi, and therefore I understood absolutely none of it, I was able to observe the reactions of the audience, or the people on the panels. The passionate hand gestures, the raised voices accompanied by a round of applause from the audience, the head movements, the ushered words of approval.
The cleaning of the Ganga, the introduction of more sustainable ways of living, improved sewage and waste management- a clean, happy, healthy future for Varanasi. This is what everyone wants.
So why is it not happening?
There is a simple solution, with 101 complications.
As human beings, we have faced challenges 100 times more complicated than this before however.
If India can send a rocket to Mars, then India- and the rest of the world leaders for that matter- get the sewage out of Ganga!
Suffering jetlag, I of course woke up at 4.00am (9:30-10.00 Australian time). A little cold and a little uncomfortable, I lay in bed listening to the wonderful bells and singing and chanting sounds coming from the Ghats below me.
Eventually Ali led me to the balcony where, for the first time of many more to come, I was struck by the breathtaking beauty of the sun rising over the Ganga.
I was standing next to one of the most important rivers in the world. It was magnificent.
A man bathed just below my balcony- praising his Mother Ganga. While appreciating the significance of the river, I felt physically ill and remembered what I had heard in a meeting the night before- "let's feel the pain of Ganga. Let us show the pain of Ganga to the world". In that moment, I could feel the pain of the Ganga.
So many ecosystems rely on the river for life. No river, no life.
Later on that morning, Ali and I visited the lab, it was there that the severity of Ganga's situation was solidified once again for me.
When testing the water, we are looking for temperature, turbidity, biochemical oxygen demand/dissolved oxygen and the number faecalcoliform colonies per 100ml. Faecalcoliform is bacteria which comes from the intestines of warm blooded mammals. On its own, it is not harmful. However the levels of cp/100ml indicate the presence of harmful pathogens and bacteria.
In Australia the levels of faecalcoliform must be, at most:
0 for drinking
150 bathing
1000 boating
In India the level is 500 for bathing.
The water of the Ganga, which is tested twice a week by Sankat Mochan Foundation, has consistently had levels of faecalcoliform from 40, 000 to 60, 000.
However, since a manor drain was redirected, out of public view, upstream we have been recording levels of faecalcoliform at 100, 000.
These are detrimental and heart breaking statistics; ones which no one should over look.
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CN and Norfolk Southern joint interline service reducing transcontinental transit times by up to 48 hours
Collaboration adds more service consistency through greater Chicago gateway for freight between Western Canada and Eastern U.S.
Montreal and Norfolk, Va - Oct 27, 2017
CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today announced that a new joint interline service initiative is reducing transit times by one to two days for carload traffic between Western Canada and NS destinations in the Eastern United States.
This seamless interline service, established in August, allows freight to bypass traditional interchange points in Chicago, in favor of using the most efficient existing CN and NS routes. The service has reduced transit times by up to 48 hours, providing customers more efficient delivery to final destinations.
CN and NS are interchanging two eastbound and two westbound manifest trains daily through greater Chicago, connecting CN’s network in Western Canada and NS’ network in the Eastern United States as part of the new service. Traffic is interchanging at NS’ major rail yard in Elkhart, Ind., avoiding extra handlings in the Chicago terminal.
Jim Squires, Norfolk Southern chairman, president and chief executive officer, said: “Together, CN and NS have re-engineered our Chicago connections to provide shippers with a new superior-service shipping option. Customers on both railways are seeing faster and more reliable service, benefitting their supply chains.”
Luc Jobin, CN president and chief executive officer, said: “Through collaboration, CN and NS are bringing more efficiencies to the supply chain as we deliver higher and more reliable levels of service to our customers.”
CN and NS continue to explore adding additional traffic to the new interline service.
About CN
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately 23,000 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries – serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit the company’s website at www.cn.ca.
About Norfolk Southern
Certain statements included in this news release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and under Canadian securities laws. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. CN and Norfolk Southern caution that their respective assumptions may not materialize and that current economic conditions render such assumptions, although reasonable at the time they were made, subject to greater uncertainty. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of terminology such as “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “assumes,” “outlook,” “plans,” “targets,” or other similar words.
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Online ads might boost smoking cessation uptake in pregnancy
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£6m fund for children living with alcohol-dependent parents
Some 200,000 children are estimated to need help and support
Mark Gould
A new £6m fund has been set up to help an estimated 200,000 children in England living with alcohol-dependent parents. The cash will help finance a range of measures to help identify at-risk children more quickly and provide them with rapid access to support and advice.
And Public Health minister Steve Brine has been given specific responsibility for children with alcohol-dependent parents.
The £6 million in joint funding comes from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The measures include fast access to support and mental health services for children and their families where there is a dependent drinker, and quicker identification of at-risk children, including those undertaking inappropriate care responsibilities.
Outreach programmes will also be set up to get more parents successfully through addiction treatment and early intervention programmes hope to reduce the number of children needing to go into care.
Local authorities will be invited to bid for funding by coming up with innovative solutions based on local need, with priority given to areas where more children are affected. Public Health England will be responsible for working with the funded areas to monitor progress.
The package of interventions, totalling up to £6 million, includes:
a £4.5 million innovation fund for local authorities to develop plans that improve outcomes for children of alcohol-dependent parents
£1 million to fund national capacity building by non-governmental organisations.
The new funding follows government investment last year of £500,000 to expand national helplines for children with alcoholic parents.
Health and Social Care secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "The consequences of alcohol abuse are devastating for those in the grip of an addiction – but for too long, the children of alcoholic parents have been the silent victims. This is not right, nor fair. These measures will ensure thousands of children affected by their parent’s alcohol dependency have access to the support they need and deserve.
"Some things matter much more than politics, and I have been moved by my Labour counterpart Jon Ashworth’s bravery in speaking out so honestly about life as the child of an alcoholic. I pay tribute to him and MPs with similar experiences across the House who have campaigned so tenaciously to turn their personal heartache into a lifeline for children in similar circumstances today."
The move has won praise from Labour MP Liam Byrne, who also lost his father to alcoholism, and chairs the all-party group on children of alcoholics.
He said: "This is a huge step forward for Britain's innocent victims of booze; the kids of parents who drink too much and end up scarred for life."
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But Coltrane's solo on Naima alone makes the record an absolute classic in my book.
:tup
He makes Sanders look like a schoolboy in short trousers, he's so much better, truly worlds apart!
VV Again is one of those Trane albums I took a longtime first to buy (I've had the LP borrowed from a highschool teacher once and gave it some spins, made me a K7 copy of it, but didn't return to it often) and then took a while to appreciate. I enjoy Garrison in general, less so Sanders, but the whole album is still very, very good in my book - and Trane is great on it!
I think I have a more positive opinion of Sanders's solo on "Naima" than either of you, but no disagreement, and frankly, I wish that on most of the 1966-67 recordings Coltrane had been more "selfish" with solo space with regards to Pharoah.
I don't have a low opinion of Sanders there ... it's just that Trane is so darn amazing. His range, his control, the emotions - Sanders screams like sh*t and gets nowhere near as close to the emotion that Trane is able to convey. It's not fair game, of course, I guess nearly all of the young avantgarde players back then would have sounded pretty much alike next to Trane.
Btw, that should have read "a bit less" in the post above on the Mosaic box - and was related to the 100$ price for their various 4LP boxes. But I see they're having a 3LP set on offer and are charging nearly the same amout (90$) for that.
Meanwhile I am just learning about all the unreleased Impulse! Coltrane from the 2005 article mentioned on the Hoffman board - go here and scroll down http://www.personal....du/bdk4/aop.htm
Did you guys know about this?
I believe we discussed this extensively back when the existence of this stuff was first announced.
So that should be a double disc ... Coltrane developping his music in the studio is interesting for me to get me a copy.
But I still long for a CD of the complete February 2, 1966 session (part of which was on the Cosmic Music album).
That means I knew and just forgot ....
re. Sunship, the original LP was murky to say the least, the single CD reissue and the box set version are as so often over-bright and harsh. If I hear this has the kind of sound I like I'll go for it but maybe three versions in a lifetime was enough....nah, but four might be enough...
When you say "single CD reissue and the box set version" you are not referring to the latest releases (from the Hip-O Select Volume Five box set and subsequent single CD release) are you? I have the box set and the sound is NOT over-bright and harsh. Listening to it right now, very nice mastering and the recording itself is interesting in that it's not an Englewood Cliffs recording by RVG and has a subtly different presentation.
Edited 3 Feb 2013 by jazzbo
Oh! No! Do I need that one too?
I can't answer that for you, but I find the newly mastered versions in these "Impulse Album Collection" box sets to be very nice sounding, an improvement over the early 16 and 20 bit versions.
I see what you mean with regards to the early 16 and 20 bit versions. Still, I found some of the titles from box 2, e.g. Crescent, a tad too loud when listened to on headphones.
Are Hip-O Select boxes 4 and 5 also mastered by Kevin Reeves?
Yes. I compared two of these to the most recent Japanese cd counterparts, also mastered by Reeves, and they seem identical to me.
I don't do headphones, so there's been no problem for me. (Did a lot of recording and monitoring of bands I was in in the 'eighties via headphones and totally grew to dislike them).
Location:Nuernberg, Germany
Yeah, me too. A pity they still didn't get to that. The April 1966 sessions would also be interesting to hear.
7:11:13:17:23:29:31
Location:a home in the city.
Posted 6 Mar 2013
new date: April 16, 2013 according to CD Universe.
I'd like to see some cover art work!
Posted 22 Mar 2013 (edited)
Today I compared the Impulse! Originals and SHM-CD of Live At Birdland and Meditations by making secure rips of track 1 with XLD and looking at the log files.
The Japanese and Originals Birdland have the same CRC32 hash number and AccurateRip signatures and so must be identical. I suspected as much by listening.
The Japanese and Originals Meditations are not identical, and do not sound the same to me either.
The Japanese and Hip-O Select Sun Ship also seem to have differing log files (seem because the Hip-O rip is not my own), and sound different.
Perhaps a bit off topic.
Edit: Also identical are Live at the Village Vanguard and Crescent.
Also different Transition (Hip-O not my rip).
Edited 22 Mar 2013 by erwbol
There doesn't seem to be much new in that regard.
Thanks. I can see they went all out with that extra line of text.
Scott Dolan
My two favorite Coltrane album are Sun Ship and First Meditations. So I'm looking forward to this release in a big way. It'll be a nice addition to my 90+ discs of Coltrane material.
BTW, someone mentioned earlier how different Sun Ship sounded from other Coltrane albums. I'd say that goes for his entire '65 output. The Quartet had reached its apotheosis that year, and they were playing what I still consider to be the greatest music I've ever heard.
Carl Baugher
Posted 9 Apr 2013
I got the CDs last week and I love this release for a number of reasons, not the least of which, is the previously unavailable Jimmy Garrison solos. Great stuff.
BTW, someone mentioned earlier how different Sun Ship sounded from other Coltrane albums.
This would be because this session (and this session alone) wasn't recorded at Van Gelders but at RCA in Manhattan.
This goes for east coast studio sessions. He did record for Impulse in studios on the west coast. Nitpicking, I know.
Not the quartet. Another nit.
Well, the quartet was present on those west coast sessions. But, as you imply, the additions made it a whole nuther thing.
clifford_thornton
Location:Brooklyn, NY
I'm tempted by the Mosaic.
Stefan Wood
Location:Herndon, VA
So am I, after discovering this is mysteriously missing from my collection. Must have lent it to someone.......
What about the bonus track on "First Meditations"?
Recorded at Coast Recorders, San Francisco on September 22, 1965.
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It was in 1869 that the first organ was built for the parish of Godsheide (Belgium), almost 11 years after the inauguration of the church.
It was built by Peter-Jan Vermeulen (1830-1910) from Weert in the Netherlands. The specification is typical of the local organ building style of the time with a preponderance of foundation stops only lightened by a 2' stop on each manual and enriched by a reed stop.
The slender case of oak consists in a façade put in front of an arch. Its stylistic language marries successfully Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Roman elements.
In the course of its existence, the instrument underwent no significant change except for the replacement of the bellows, the electrical blower and some minor changes in the specification. The instrument was classified as an historical monument in 1975.
The work undertaken aimed at restoring the original sound, and some borrowed low octaves, added in the course of this century, were removed. Also the Euphone 8' of the second manual, a free reed which was quite rarely used in our region was restored, a copy having been made.
To ensure the perfect and long-lasting functioning of the instrument some changes had to be made thus the part of the action of the two manuals which had fan-shaped backfalls was replaced by rollerboards.
The windchest of the second manual, originally behind the Great, was put further back so as to enable the extension of the former walkboard which was too narrow.
A new horizontal bellows was built in the original style and placed in the lower part of the instrument.
All the other parts were also strictly restored in the original style.
The voicing revealed an unexpected sound world from the end of the 19th century, full of finely shaded tones. The powerful Trumpet of the Great contrasts vividly with the mellow sound of the Euphone. This type of organ is particularly well-suited to the accompaniment of liturgy and to the interpretation of minor romantic works.
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Godsheide (Hasselt, B)
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Disagreements and Likes
There is a disturbing trend that is becoming ever more prevalent. It centers on disagreement. We have forgotten how to debate.
We surround ourselves with like-minded people. With the click of a mouse we can unfriend those with whom we disagree. We find it unwelcome to challenge ourselves with divergent opinions or when friends offer us critique. The measure of friendship today is twofold: loyalty and laudation. We only wish to hear the nodding of agreement.
Loving critique is banished from our screens. Honest disagreement is deleted from our inboxes.
Take but two recent examples. At last week’s LGBTQ pride parade in Chicago, several Jewish women who carried a rainbow colored flag with a Jewish star in its center were asked to leave. Why? Organizers told the women that the flag made people feel unsafe. The march is unabashedly anti-Zionist. The Jewish Star of David, they were told, is associated with the State of Israel. The official statement makes the Dyke March’s ideology even more clear: “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology. It is based on the premise that Jewish people have a God-given entitlement to the lands of historic Palestine and the surrounding areas.”
To say this is disturbing and offensive does not adequately characterize my feelings....
This post continues on The Times of Israel.
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Soccer, Torah and Life
The Israeli novelist, Etgar Keret, writes:
I love soccer because it is so painfully similar to life: slow, unjust, fairly random, usually boring, but always holding out the hope that, at some moment, however brief, everything will come together and take on meaning. There’s no getting away from it—life isn’t about limber athletes sinking hoops from the three-point arc; life is an ongoing, uncoordinated, anguished effort to transcend our trivial existence, an effort that, if we’re lucky, might lead to one brilliant move by Messi, Kaká, or some other dribbling magician. And then, for one split second, that whole damp 90-minute mishmash will turn into something coherent, beautiful, and worthwhile. And, when that moment and its endless playbacks fade, we will all return to our same drab reality of wasted time, pointless fouls, unreceived passes, and wild kicks that miss the goal by kilometers, only to wait with infinite patience and boundless hope for that next moment of grace.
I do not share Keret's observation that most of life is boring (or his talent for spinning humor out of the ordinary), but I do share the sentiment that life, like soccer, is punctuated with flashes of brilliance and grace when everything seems to work and everyone seems in sync.
Such is not the story in this week's Torah portion, Korah. Our portion is about the greatest rebellion against Moses and the authority God placed in him. In fact one can read much of the Torah, especially the Book of Numbers, as a record of how bad things can really go and how telling Keret's observation may be. Very little goes according to plan. God frees the people from Egypt, gives them the Torah and prepares them to entire the Promised Land. They in turn whine and complain. They gripe about Moses and his leadership.
Korah screams, "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above the Lord's congregation?" (Numbers 16: 3) In the end Korah's rebellion is violently crushed. God does not easily forgive those who question Moses' authority.
The Israelites move on to the next episode. Again they complain; this time about a lack of water. In this episode it is Moses who questions God's authority and is punished.
Where are the flashes of brilliance? Where are the models to emulate? My teacher used to quip, "There is no one in the Bible you would want your son or daughter to grow up to be like."
Then why read the Torah? If it is not to provide us with models to emulate and characters to which we aspire, why read it at all?
It is because the Torah mirrors life. It is filled with ordinary people who occasionally do extraordinary things and more often than not do embarrassing things. We can see ourselves in its characters. We can find ourselves in its pages. How often do we discover the soccer-like quality of present reality in the words of Torah?
There is a little bit of Korah in each of us. There is a measure of Moses in all.
Loving the Torah does not always mean imitating it. Loving the Torah and Bible does not mean saying, "It must be right if David did it. It must be true if Moses said it." Torah means instead learning and growing from its words.
There are times when you can appreciate Keret's observation. It was not so long ago that I stood on the sidelines watching my son slide to make a save or leap to knock the unexpected shot out of bounds. Most of the time it was spent kibbitzing with fellow parents, talking about schools, parenting, the news and weather. To be honest I sometimes had to be told about the slide or leap because the kibbitzing so distracted me. You have to remain attentive. You have to be patient. The moments do arrive.
The hours of driving and watching are redeemed by those brief moments of beauty and grace.
We travel from moment to moment, through ordinariness to such grandeur. We are sustained by the moments of illumination and brilliance. We pray that they might be more frequent. We recognize that they are elusive—and infrequent.
Such is life. Such is soccer. Such is Torah.
Selfies and Spies
“Don’t tag me in that photo; I look fat,” a friend once said. In this social media age, we are especially cognizant of how we appear to others.
Perhaps that is Snapchat’s appeal. The image is fleeting. It is shared with only a select group of friends. On Facebook the image can outlive the individual. After death a community of mourners is born on a page. Facebook thinks friendship is eternal. It continues to suggest that I post on a friend’s wall even though he died several years ago.
We coif our image. We hold our selfie stick in the air. We smile. Then we review the photos to be sure we look good. We post. We await the likes and comments. How much of our time is now spent reviewing photos to be sure we look good to others? How many hours do we spend fashioning our digital self-image?
How many selfies are to be found in your iPhone’s camera roll?
The spies scout the land of Israel. Ten return with a negative report. They say: “All the people that we saw in it are men of great size…and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.” (Numbers 13:33)
How did they know how they appeared to the inhabitants of the land? Such knowledge is impossible to gain. In fact the Haftarah contradicts their impression. The Book of Joshua records that the citizens of Jericho are afraid of the Israelites and terrified to confront them.
It is clear that the Israelites’ self-image is negative. It is obvious that they see themselves as a weak people. This negative impression colors how they view the world. They run away from the Promised Land.
Success begins with what one sees in the mirror. Is it beauty one sees? Is it confidence that shines through? If you look in the mirror and see beauty and confidence then the world appears conquerable. If you see yourself as a little grasshopper then that is how you imagine everyone sees you. Then the world makes you cower in fear.
Can a Facebook photo change your world?
The Hasidic rebbe, Menahem Mendl of Kotzk, imagines God saying to the Israelites: “Why are you so concerned with how you look in the eyes of the Canaanites? Such concern distracts you from your sacred task.”
Spending too much time worrying about how you appear to others can very well divert you from the sacred work God intended for you to shoulder.
Years ago I read a story about a musician who played the violin in a subway station. In the 45 minutes he played, only six people stopped and stayed for a while. About twenty gave him money but continued to walk at their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing no one noticed it. No one applauded. There was no recognition. No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He had played one of the most intricate pieces ever written and with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two days before his playing in the station, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theater. The average price of a ticket was $100.
People just thought he was a street musician and not a famous violinist. That did not deter him. He played as masterfully as ever. He did not allow how others viewed him to effect his self-perception. He did not allow the lack of recognition or the absence of the usual applause and standing ovations to divert him from his God-given talent of bringing music to people’s hearts.
The world must be conquered each and every day. It must be bettered each and every day. That is what God calls us to do. The strength to do so begins with how we view ourselves.
It does not matter how others see us. What matters is how we see ourselves.
Shira, She-Ra and Wonder Woman
Some twenty-four years ago when my daughter Shira was born my mother announced her new granddaughter’s name to her high school English class. One of the students said, “You mean like She-Ra, princess of power.” My mother responded, “No. As in the Hebrew word shira, meaning song.” Her students returned baffled looks. The class clown raised his fist and shouted, “She-Ra, princess of power, twin sister of He-Man!” The students laughed. A young girl said, “Congratulations, Mrs. Moskowitz.” “Enough class. Open your books. We are reading The Canterbury Tales today.”
She-Ra was developed by the toy company Mattel to appeal to young girls. If boys could have the powerful He-Man then girls could buy the protective She-Ra. He-Man carried the sword of power and She-Ra the sword of protection.
She-Ra was portrayed as extraordinarily powerful. She was able to lift not only buildings and mountains but men. Her powers were supernatural. Girls could discover in her a positive role model because she, like her male counterpart, made the best use of her God-given talents. She saved the day, and of course the world, in each and every episode.
I just saw the new “Wonder Woman” movie. I felt compelled to go. I grew up watching Lynda Carter transforming into Wonder Woman. Cue the music. “Wonder Woman!”
Time marches forward. Shira joined me.
In this year’s movie, the lead actress is Israeli and the villain German. Like She-Ra, Wonder Woman has supernatural powers. She fights alongside the United States against its enemies. In the 1970’s TV series she fought against the Nazis. In the movie the enemies are WWI Germans. I wish the scriptwriters kept the villains of the original TV series. WWI Germany was not the evil Nazis.
Why choose enemies that history deems more benign? It is because the 2017 battle is against war. It is not against a specific enemy. Have we forgotten the message of the TV series? We continue to face specific enemies. To name but one example, Lebanon banned the showing of “Wonder Woman” because Gal Gadot is Israeli. There are far too many who declare our way of life their enemy. While we might pray for peace and an end to war we recognize that war is a sad feature of humanity.
How else do we explain the Torah’s discussions of war? When the Ark was carried into battle, and to this day in traditional synagogues when the Torah is taken from the Ark, we say: “Vayihi b’nsoa ha’aron… Advance, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered. And may Your foes flee before You!” (Numbers 10:35) We can remove these words from our prayer books, as our Reform Siddur does, but the reality is sadly here to stay. War continues. We have self-described enemies.
Today’s Wonder Woman fights to end war.
Towards the end of the movie she kills the man who she believes to be Ares, the ancient Greek god of war. (Sorry if you have not seen the movie yet.) But the war continues. The killing does not end. Wonder Woman is baffled. That would have been a fitting conclusion to the film. End on a question mark.
Surgical strikes will not end today’s war. Larger bombs will not decide the battles. They might make us feel safer and they might event prevent another attack. But the war against terror is won by banishing fear, by going about our everyday lives, by embracing the pluralistic society that is the greatness of our country (and Britain’s, France’s and Israel’s) and the most powerful sword we can wield against our enemies.
But Hollywood has to tidy up the conclusion. Its films cannot end on a question mark. Ares appears. War can indeed be defeated. And then Wonder Woman, after gaining renewed strength because of her love for Steve, kills the god of war. Killing Ares vanquishes war. The Americans and Germans embrace. War is banished from their hearts.
I prefer questions. Does Wonder Woman represent progress? Yes and no.
Yes because Wonder Woman and the Amazon women successfully defend their island against German invaders. As many reviewers have noted, they do so without any assistance from men. They are extraordinary fighters. Never is Wonder Woman portrayed as a damsel in distress. Moreover she leads the charge through no man’s land and against impossible odds. She does so not to regain a few feet of territory but to rescue a town and save its inhabitants. Her cause is noble.
No. War cannot be erased from men’s hearts. Our Torah in contrast offers realism. It affirms questions. It rejects fantasy. Only in comic books is history so tidy and neat. While war cannot be eradicated, people are indeed capable of unimaginable good. Still it is nice to have a two-hour respite from the news of war. And it is not all bad to have superheroes.
When Shira was born familial priorities were reordered. We were now parents. And my parents were now grandparents. Shira’s grandparents (and of course later Ari’s) became the most esteemed of titles.
It is wonderful, and really not all that mysterious, how one woman can reorder a world.
Sparks of Holiness
The Levites were divided into three clans: Gershonites, Merarites and Kohathites. They were charged with the priestly duties. Some of these tasks apparently required some heavy lifting. So Moses gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen and to the Merarites he gave four carts and eight oxen. But to the Kohathites he gave nothing. They had to do everything with their own arms and legs.
“But to the Kohathites Moses did not give any carts or oxen; since their duties were to the most sacred objects. They had to carry these on their shoulders.” (Numbers 7) Was it because the Kohathites were particularly strong? Or instead because these objects were not very heavy? It appears not. They were charged with carrying the ark, lampstand, altars and sacred utensils.
It was instead because their responsibilities were most sacred. They therefore had to do everything with their own hands. No matter how heavy these were, the Torah’s intention appears to be that when it comes to these particular objects, an ox or cart will not do. Only one’s own hands could carry these.
I once read that the Hasidic rabbis would sweep the floor of their sanctuaries themselves. They left this to no else. I suspect that it was because their synagogues could not afford a custodian. In impoverished Eastern Europe they could not afford much. And yet this is not how these rabbis chose to understand their task.
They saw instead the mundane and every day care of the synagogue, from cleaning up after services to turning on the lights, as holy work.
They decided that no task was beneath them. No job was beneath any person. When it comes to the religious life of the synagogue no one should see any duty as beneath them. Lifting a heavy load must be done with one’s own hands. Carrying the sacred objects must be done on one’s own back.
The Hasidic Rabbi Menahem Mendl of Kotzk comments: "All work for any holy cause requires extra effort. One must harness all one’s powers to do this work. One does not acquire a spark of holiness without effort."
Holiness is not a divine gift. Sparks of the divine must be gathered up and carried. They are the result of hard work. They are the result of even the most seemingly mundane and menial tasks.
Gather them up. Carry them. They are everywhere and anywhere.
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How Much Does a Pondless Waterfall Cost in orlando, central Florida?
This is the first question people ask when they are “pondering” the addition of a pondless waterfall to their landscape.
While it sounds like a simple question, how much does an “average” pondless waterfall cost? A true water feature expert will take this question and ask for a definition of “average.”
The concept of “average” is difficult to define when playing with custom designed products. When it comes to pondless features, each is individually crafted to fit the new environment, and as a buyer, you should keep in mind that the average numbers will fluctuate to your particular water feature. Pondless features come in a variety of shapes, looks, and styles, depending on your budget, space, and preferences.
What does “Average” look like?
The most commonly built pondless waterfall in the Orlando Central Florida area, are about 6’ to 8' in length. Using these numbers, the “average” will begin around $5,500 but commonly rounds up to about $6,500-$10,000. Now this range depends on how many custom features the pondless feature aspires to have. A pondless waterfall alone may be around $5,500 (at that particular size), but add-ons that many people envision in a feature, such as a stream,plants, lights, multiple waterfalls, etc., will add to the base price.
Customizable Features
Why would the final price tag of a pondless feature be vastly different than the base model? Pondless features, like cars, are very customizable. Certain people only want the car with roll up windows and an AM/FM radio. While others want the leather seats with a navigation system and an engine push start button. So when you ask for a basic pondless waterfall, it doesn’t include the add-ons that most people like in a pondless waterfall feature. This will include stream, plants, lights, multiple waterfalls etc. This can change the definition of what the average pondless waterfall feature costs. Here are some photos to give you some ideas.
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Whether you want to install a pondless waterfall to enjoy the soothing sound of slow, trickling water as a bird splashes in the stream. Or possibly your goal is to add a seating area where you can relax and entertain in your new backyard landscape. A pondless waterfall feature can enhance the beauty of your yard and give it a pastoral, tranquil feel.
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Around Indy, Blog, Fashion, Industry Insider, Indy Insider, Interviews, Pattern Events, People May 25, 2018 June 24, 2019
St’Art Up 317 Vendor Spotlight: Mike Neon
St’artUp 317 is a competitive program that aims to match young brands, established businesses wanting to test a new market, startups and artists, with vacant and under-utilized first floor commercial space in downtown neighborhoods to create pop-up stores. Inspired by similar initiatives across the country St’artUp 317 is being coordinated by Downtown Indy, Inc in partnership with PATTERN in order to incubate viable retail businesses and long-term tenants, while supporting the creative class and improving the cultural profile of our city. The long-term goal of the program is to eliminate empty storefronts, increase local and visitor consumer spending and ensure that the Downtown neighborhoods continue thriving.
This series of stories highlights artists, entrepreneurs and businesses that were selected to participate in the pilot of St’ArtUp 317.
Mikeal Neon has an eye for the bold and colorful, taking inspiration from popular culture of the 80s and translating it to wearable reworked fashion pieces. The art featured in Carson’s window shows decked out thrifted pieces that he finds around the city and repurposes to make a unique and vibrant statement on the revival of DIY art and mentality of expressing yourself through self-made clothing.
“My biggest inspiration for these current pieces is a lot of 80s commercials, Andy Warhol’s silver period, and the movie Mannequin. I loved it as a kid,” said Neon.
Hailing from Dayton, Ohio, Neon was drawn to the burgeoning music, art, and fashion scene in Indianapolis and decided to make the move in 2012. Wanting to become a part of the vibrant energy that he was so drawn to, he paved his way as an up-and-coming local artist in the past five or six years. In that time, he has curated a following on Instagram, where he features inspiration pictures or past work he’s done.
His website, 555neon.com (a nod to the classic phone number prefix used in Hollywood film and television that Neon grew up with), features blank pieces that clients can purchase and have Neon create a one-of-a-kind DIY’d garment. Currently, there are a pair of Levi jeans, blank white Vans and Nike sneakers, as well as a t-shirt and camoflague pants that clients can choose to be customized as original pieces.
His process for finding pieces to work on starts out with scouring the local “hole in the wall” thrift shops, a favorite of his is the Salvation Army. He then spends an hour or two adding items that are typically repurposed as well, or painting the clothing pieces to his or his client’s liking. Depending on the piece, it may take him a week to find the right item, or he may find it right off the bat. The fun is in discovering the piece and creating something unique and different. Though he works with a variety of clothing items, his favorite piece to work with is a “vintage cotton blank tee.” His reasoning? Because it’s entirely versatile, a blank canvas to work with, and everyone loves a comfortable shirt that works with everything.
“My main goal as a DIY unisex designer is just being innovative, repurposing materials, and creating a unique brand as result,” said Neon.
As a whole, Neon takes inspiration not only from the colorful, and advertisement-heavy era of the 80s, but also from the more relaxed, street style of Los Angeles. Among others, he finds inspiration in a few streetwear L.A. designers, namely Jerry Lorenzo, Shane Gonzales, and Virgil Abloh, the creator of streetwear brand Off-White.
“A lot of my artwork is a product of me being a cable baby, just being raised by cable television as a kid,” said Neon. “There was so much advertisement and art during that era that was a part of my life as a kid that didn’t really happen at any other point in history.”
Looking towards the future, Neon plans to maybe return to his Ohio roots and bring some of his unisex streetwear branding to the Columbus area and open up the art and fashion world there. While he still takes regular trips to Los Angeles, a large part of his heart remains in Indy.
You can catch some of Neon’s work in the Carson’s window display through the end of May.
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Using Symbols and the Library in Adobe Flash CS4
By Mark Schaeffer
#22. Converting Objects to Symbols
#23. Working with Symbols and Instances
#24. Editing Symbols
#25. Using Symbol Color Effects
#26. Breaking Apart Instances
#27. Creating Button Symbols
#28. Distinguishing Between Graphic Symbols and Movie Clips
#29. Using the Library to Manage Symbols
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
As you’ve seen in #23 and #25, there are several techniques for modifying individual instances without changing the original symbol. Those techniques are limited, however. What if you really want to change the appearance of an instance—for example, by cutting a hole in it or changing its shape?
Breaking “Breaking Apart” Apart
In ordinary English, the phrase break apart can have several meanings: to disintegrate, to divide an object into pieces, or to sever the connection between two objects. In Flash, the Break Apart command is equally vague: It means different things in different situations.
As you saw in #20, breaking apart text divides it into individual characters; breaking it apart again converts it to editable paths. Breaking apart a group has the same effect as ungrouping it. Breaking apart an instance of a symbol severs its connection to the symbol, allowing it to stand independently. Finally, as you’ll see in #55, breaking apart a bitmap allows you to modify parts of the bitmap or use the bitmap as fill.
What does breaking apart do to an editable path? Nothing: The Breaking Apart command is dimmed when a path is selected.
The answer is, you can’t—at least not while the object you want to change is an instance. But it’s possible to break the connection between an instance and a symbol, turning the instance into an independent, editable object. To do so, select the instance and choose Modify > Break Apart (Figure 26).
Figure 26 On the left, an instance of a symbol; on the right, the same instance after being broken apart. The dot screen indicates that it’s now an editable object.
Keep in mind that using the Break Apart command has some negative consequences. When you break apart an instance, any color effects that you’ve applied to it disappear (since color effects work only on instances of symbols). Once an instance has been broken apart, it will no longer reflect changes you make to its parent symbol. And, most significantly, breaking apart an instance increases your movie’s file size, since the former instance now contains real information instead of pointing to a symbol in the library.
Think twice before you break apart an instance, because the process isn’t reversible. Turning an editable object into an instance of an existing symbol isn’t possible, although you can convert the object into a new symbol (see #22).
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Artist: Ian McNabb
Title: Interview
Author: Anthony Strutt
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Robert Ian McNabb was the front man of the Icicle Works from 1981 to 1991. They recorded four studio albums together, ‘The Icicle Works’ (1984), ‘The Small Price of a Bicycle’ (1985), ‘If You Want to Defeat His Enemy, Sing His Song’ (1987) and ‘Blind’(1988), before drummer Chris Sharrock left forcing the band to end their original line-up in 1988. They carried on releasing one last album, ‘Permanent Damage’, before Ian went solo.
Since then he has constantly toured and has now just released his tenth album, ‘Little Episodes’, on his own label.
PB: ‘Little Episodes’ was written and recorded quickly, which I believe is your preferred manner of working. It was also recorded with two new young ladies. How did that come about and will you use them live or again in future work?
IM: I love recording fast. The songs were written in a day and a half, pretty much in the order they appear on the album. The album was recorded and mixed over about seven to ten days. It would have been quicker still if Christmas hadn’t got in the way.
There is only one girl singing on the album, who is Danielle Laura Perkins. She sang on my last album too. I love the way our voices blend. She will sing with me at a couple of shows too this year.
PB: ‘Great Things’, your last album, did not sell as well as expected. What do you put this down too?
IM: ‘Great Things’ did okay. It is still selling now. None of my records sell very many copies, so it is not on its own. It is difficult to sell more than my usual amount when the press and radio don’t give me any exposure.
You just have to push hard on the web and do the best you can. The more gigs I do the more albums I sell.
PB: How has the new album been selling?
IM: It has only been out a week or so and it has done really well on pre-sales, which is great because it means that it has paid for itself already. Every copy I sell now is profit.
PB: You published your autobiography, ‘Merseybeast’, in 2008. How did that come about and was it easier then you thought? Did you receive much backlash because of it?
IM: I just thought I had some good stories to tell and figured I would do it before I start forgetting things. It was easy but time consuming. It took about two years all told. I am not aware of any backlash. For what? It is all true.
PB: You recorded John Lennon's ‘Woman’ for the ‘Number One Project’ in 2008. Did you choose that song and why?
IM: I just love the song and figured that I could do it justice. ‘Mojo’ said it was better than the original. I actually agree.
PB: 2012 is the year of the Doors so we have been told, and has seen a double CD edition of ‘LA Woman’ released already. It will also be fifty years since the recording of the Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’. Do you think both legends have been milked dry yet?
IM: 2012? The year of the Doors? That is funny and nonsense of course. Yeah, I have had enough of all this repackaging. Been there and done that, and now move on. Give someone else the chance. It is just the record companies wringing the sponge because they don’t sell enough records by new artists.
PB: Your last seven inch from 2005, ‘Let The Young Girl Do What She Wants To',all of the copies of which were signed, ended up charting. Were you surprised by that?
IM: We went to a hell of a lot of trouble to get that single in the charts. It wasn’t a very good song, but someone thought it should be a hit, so we went for it.
The idea was that Radio 1 would have to play it in the chart rundown, but in the end they played forty five seconds of it before going back to their usual type of music. It didn’t change anything. My gig fees didn’t go up or anything.
I really don’t know why we bothered. We gave away more than we sold. Still at least I can say the last single I brought out went Top 40. That’ll look good in the obituary I suppose.
PB: Last year saw the Cherry Red remasters of ‘The Small Price of a Bicycle’,‘If You Want to Defeat His Enemy, Sing His Song’ and ‘Blind’. Were you happy with the jobs they did?
IM: I didn’t have anything to do with it and I never listened to them. The artwork looked alright. I didn’t get paid, so why should I have bothered? Some pieces of paper I signed twenty five years ago state I will never recoup my debt to the record companies, and I will never own my own recordings. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
PB: You have played twice recently with Icicles Works bassist Chris Layhe. How did that come about? And now that happened is there any chance of a proper Icicles Works reunion show?
IM: I have played in a club that is around the corner from where he lives in Stockport. We have played together twice now. It was fun and felt special. We have forgiven each other. As for a proper reunion, that depends on Chris Sharrock. Who knows? Maybe one day, but it will have to be soon as the songs are really high and I am not going to be able to do that when I am sixty.
PB: Do you have any plans to put ‘Little Episodes’ onto vinyl?
IM: I would love to do a vinyl edition, but it is very expensive. My plan is to sell two thousand copies by the end of the year. If we achieve this, I will consider a vinyl edition.
PB: There are rumours that you were in talks with Dan Stuart from Green On Red about forming a band together. Are they true?
IM: Yeah, I had some dialogue with Dan about this, but I haven’t heard anything since.
PB: Are there any new bands from Liverpool worth talking about?
IM: Everything in Liverpool just seems derivative at the moment. They need to be more individual. Nothing stands out for me at the moment unfortunately.
PB: Is there anyone doing new work that you really admire??
IM: I like the Black Keys record a lot and I quite like the new Goyte album. I am always waiting for the next great record.
PB: What are your future plans?
IM: To promote myself and gig little episodes for the rest of the year and get myself back up a few notches. It is scary down here.
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Anthony Strutt watches Icicle Works front man Ian McNabb return to Leicester for his first show in almost two years and play a storming two hour plus solo set
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Storming onto a crowded Dingwalls, Ian' s opening words were"You ready to rock" followed by "Band , are you ready to rock ? " and for the next 160 mins Ian, Mokka, Roy Corkill and Waterboy Tom Windrift took us through a journey that showed me why I love
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Icicle Works:Interview with Chris Layhe
Anthony Strutt chats to Chris Layhe, the bassist with 1980's Liverpool new wave band the Icicle Works about his years with the groupo, and what he has been doing since their 1988 break-up
Icicle Works:Shepherd's Bush Empire, London,27/10/2006
Anthony Strutt enjoys a perfect night of a reflection of how he spent his youth on the London date of the 25th anniversary tour of his favourite band of all time, the Icicle Works
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Ducati is a popular Motor Holding S.p.A.company and is an Italian car company that manufactures and designsmotorcycles. When it comes to passing through uneven or hilly terrains, there could be few others that are better than the Ducati Monster 1200S. Without any semblance of doubt it can be considered as the most powerful bike around.
The new generation bike is much larger than its predecessor though the compact and round shaped headlamp as well as the bulbous tank makes it look like a monster and gives it striking features. In addition; the headlamp has LED position lights on both sides. The steel tank is now larger in size and can hold 17.5 liters of gasoline.
The L-twin engine coupled with larger tank, trellis frame as well as the snake shaped headers is quite efficient. The weight balance is now shifted towards the rear of the bike with 52% on that side. Indicator is integrated with grabbing rail and the LED tail lamp is also an improvement. But with a radiator that makes the engine liquid cooled is the highlight of the bike and its 1198 Testastretta 11 motor.
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Rozalie Hirs
flying eyes with springy wings lights shed
on a map sketched in hands flaming wide-awake
I didn’t say that a breathless featherweight
nectar guide and pollen of living poppies blue
fields of cornflowers like heads popping out a one-eyed
cloudless sky that dreams emerge from
silkworms in thousands of yards
spinning languages on green-grey mulberry leaves covered
with hairs revealing threads come to meet
an amorous sun just like that uninvited or rain
stretching antennae for just a moment a touch
of unfolding wings towards what is (a day)
where do butterflies come from that invasion of springlike
sensitivity to light unbearable off-white spotted
wings woken from a dream night so early
a handful of morning dew drunk from shining
leaves of grass and a few hours that sounded like deep bells
in a village between non-specified mountains
where people live somewhere on earth harvest leaks and onions
in the crevices apples in an orchard and trees blossom
grapes burst for fermenting in stainless steel barrels
soon tantalize a nose the palate then
slide over the tongue as a foretaste of who tonight
in a few hours prelude to once more (a day)
is a country of kingfishers revealed in the window
then frost flowers crackle on warm breath towards lips
move like memories, loosened hair past clouds
paths not visited by spotted butterflies or the wind
a house the brushwood rainwater frozen in a roadside verge
earth vanishes under a white glittering expanse
wrapped in rays of light the same clouds sketch
again some mist past the chilly morning
flakes spring into the light an arching
of horizons lets shadows finger by finger
glide past trees wakeup repeat oneself
word for word a breathing into (a day)
©2012 Rozalie Hirs (translation: Donald Gardner)
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String quartet by Rozalie Hirs
Zenit was selected for Toonzetters 2011 as "one of the ten most beautiful works of the previous year".
"At the other end of history came the world premiere of Rozalie Hirs’ engrossing string quartet Zenit, played by the superb new L.A.-based Formalist Quartet. Everything I might say about Hirs' unsettled music I could also say the opposite. It is also quite settled. It forges ahead with tentative sounds and silences. It stops and starts yet flows. It has a hint of hard-hitting Dutch Minimalism, yet it offers a feast of radiant string harmonics, pulsating outside of rhythm." Mark Swed, LA Times. Read entire review
1. Program notes
2. Technical details
3. Review
3.1. Mark Swed: Gérard Grisey’s spacetime epic receives its U.S. premiere at REDCAT
The string quartet Zenit (2010) consists of four movements which are [north], [east], [south], and [west]. All movements investigate the overtone realm of the string quartet. Zenit is scored for a relatively high register of the string instruments with a quick highly energetic bowing technique, resulting in a continuum between timbre, tone color, and harmony, pitch. In [north] each of its twenty constituent chords are articulated in a distinctly different way, the rests can be regarded as inhabited by inaudible harmonic progressions. In the [south] movement, clouds of tones are separated by shorter silences. In [east] several possibilities of harmonic movement are investigated in one continuous movement. In [west] a delicate web of harmonics is spun, and then unraveled through glissandi of harmonics like light falling onto the audience.
An earlier version of this string quartet is Zenit, uur nul (2007), which was commissioned by Zephyrkwartet, with financial support of the Netherlands Performing Arts Fund. Hirs used some of its material, yet thoroughly rewrote the entire piece. As a consequence, Zenit, uur nul was removed from the catalogue of the composer. It bears mentioning that without Zenit, uur nul (2007) the new string quartet Zenit (2010) would have not come about in is present form. Therefore, Hirs is deeply grateful to the players of the former Zephyrkwartet: John Addison, Elisabeth Smalt, Barbara Lüneburg, Jacob Plooij.
Zenit consists of four movements:
I [north]
II [east]
III [south]
IV [west]
string quartet: violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello
Zenit is dedicated to Mark Menzies and Formalist Quartet.
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Gérard Grisey’s spacetime epic receives its U.S. premiere at REDCAT
Mark Swed
Friday night, REDCAT was packed. A red-blooded audience filled every seat. Red-blooded musicians occupied every inch of the black-box stage. There was excitement in the air. Many concert presenters would consider a mainly young audience giving eager and undivided attention to a three-hour concert of complex modern music a happy fiction.
The crowd was real, but it was also spectral. Everyone had gathered for the U.S. premiere of Gérard Grisey’s complete, epic Les Espaces Acoustiques, the magnum opus of “spectral music.”
Now I’m stuck, needing to summarize Spectralism. It came out of IRCAM, the computer-crowded musical laboratory in Paris that Pierre Boulez established at the Centre Pompidou in the 1970s. Sound, for the young composers like Grisey who were there at the time, was a living, breathing thing in and of itself. Machines and mathematical analyses based on an algorithm known as the fast Fourier transform were tasked to serve the sonic organism.
But technology often has a mind of its own, so don’t discount the Frankenstein factor. “Les Espaces Acoustiques” is actually the invention of a weird and yet, I think, profoundly touching sonic organism that has sidestepped musical evolution. Grisey invented sounds never before captured by combinations of acoustical instruments, magnificently physical sounds that stir the body. That they also curiously stimulate the emotions may be related to the source of these visceral sounds being the overtone scale, which contains pitches not accessible to the human ear.
The full work is a series of six linked movements, the first five of which can serve as independent pieces. The Prologue, for solo viola, begins by obsessing over a handful of pitches. Each movement adds more musicians. The Epilogue is for full orchestra and four solo horns. The cycle, written between 1975 and 1985, lasts close to two hours and has had only a handful of compete performances, although there are two recordings.
CalArts was responsible for the U.S. premiere. The orchestra consisted of students, faculty and alumni. The performance, expertly conducted by Mark Menzies, was enrapturing. Andrew McIntosh played the important viola solos with commanding beauty.
The rare outing for Les Espaces Acoustiques invites a consideration of Grisey’s influence on modern music. And Saturday night, CalArts presented a marathon concert that continued on into Sunday morning titled “New Music After Grisey.” Grisey died at 52 in 1998, and the concert was really an evening of strange sounds that preceded him, coexisted with him and have continued in his wake.
For a long time, Spectralism pitted Europeans against Americans. Our Minimalists charged ahead with a horizontal approach to music based on rhythm and repetition. The French Spectralists – who influenced such Finnish composers as Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg as well as a number of German, Austrian and British composers — were builders of harmony and sonority who thought vertically.
Saturday’s concert presented a more complex picture. If we accept Grisey’s speculation that sound is a living organism, then Spectralism is virus that infected composers’ thinking about sound in any number of individual ways. None of the 10 works Saturday resembled any other. The earliest score, by the late American experimental composer James Tenney, Clang, is from 1972 and pre-dated any work in French sound labs but was the most magnificently “spectral” of all.
Clang, 15 minutes of glorious ground-shaking and ground-swelling overtone, was played at the midnight hour by the CalArts Orchestra to conclude the concert. Performances of the brilliant score are as rare and special as those of Grisey’s much larger project.
At the other end of history came the world premiere of Rozalie Hirs’ engrossing string quartet, Zenit, played by the superb new L.A.-based Formalist Quartet. Everything I might say about Hirs’ unsettled music I could also say the opposite. It is also quite settled. It forges ahead with tentative sounds and silences. It stops and starts yet flows. It has a hint of hard-hitting Dutch Minimalism, yet it offers a feast of radiant string harmonics, pulsating outside of rhythm.
Rand Steiger’s luminous wall of sound was for piano and electronics. A true “spectralist,” Gérard Pesson erased a Brahms ballad in a chamber piece leaving only ghostly traces of the original. Wolfgang von Schweinitz injected early music with microtones in a 35-minute brass trio. For these and other works, some performances were outstanding, some were not.
I have resisted describing the actual sound and shape of “Les Espaces Acoustiques” and have now conveniently run out of space. Grisey’s guttural seismic rumblings are felt in the feet, his dance of high frequencies is someplace outside of spacetime as we normally experience it. I trust the English language. But it wasn’t invented to serve this extraordinary French composer.
Los Angeles Times, Culture Monster – All Arts, all the Time, 2 May 2010
27-30 April 2020, TBA, ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) World New Music Days 2020, Christchurch, New Zealand – formalist quartet – New Zealand premiere of the movement Zenit [west]
11 January 2020, 13:00, TAMA Music Festival, Tokyo, Japan – greenroom players – Asian premiere
15 April 2018, 20:15, Van binnen naar buiten (The Red Sofa Series), Juriaansezaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands – Doelenkwartet
24 April 2016, 10:30, Portrait concert: Rozalie Hirs, Theater Antigone, Festival van Vlaanderen, Kortrijk, Belgium – Bozzini Quartet – Belgian premiere
28 September 2013, 20:15, Amsterdam Sinfonietta Anniversary concert, Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Candida Thompson – world premiere of Zenit [west] (2010) for string orchestra
16 September 2012, 16:00, Moments musicaux III, Aarau, Switzerland – Quatuor Bozzini – Swiss premiere.
29 November 2011, 20:00, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montréal, Québec, Canada – Quatuor Bozzini – Canadian premiere
20 November 2011, 14:00, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St. Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, England – Quatuor Bozzini – UK premiere
11 November 2011, 12:30, November Music, MC De Toonzaal, Den Bosch, Netherlands – Quatuor Bozzini
18 October 2011, 20:00, De Link, Tilburg, The Netherlands – Quatuor Bozzini – Netherlands premiere
24 September 2010, 16:00, Klank en kleur Festival: Confrontaties, AAA Concertgebouw series, Spiegelzaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Egmont Kwartet/ musicians of the Concertgebouw Orchestra (violin: Eke van Spiegel, Arndt Auhagen; viola: Edith van Moergastel; cello: Fred Edelen) – Netherlands premiere of the two movements Zenit [east] & [west]
1 May 2010, 20:30, Les espaces acoustiques and beyond: New music after Gérard Grisey, REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles, United States – formalist quartet – world premiere
Rozalie Hirs with the players of the Egmont Kwartet after the performance of Zenit (2010) during the AAA serie, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25 September 2010.
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Racism, Sexism and the ‘Beer Summit’ (SECOND UPDATE)
July 30, 2009 • Joe • police, racism, sexism, systemic racism, white racial frame, whites
It looks like Lucia Whalen won’t be joining the guys for a beer tonight. The White House beer party seems to be a “guy thing.” Why wasn’t Whalen invited? If you’ve been following the news about the arrest of Prof. Gates, you know that Whalen is the woman who set the incident in motion with a 911 call to Cambridge police. There are still a few questions and puzzles about this highly racialized incident.
( photo credit: C. Young Photography)
Whalen had mostly been silent until her press conference yesterday. At that conference she again said that she never said anything racist in her 911 call and that she had been taught by her Portuguese American parents to treat everyone the same. The transcript of her call backs her up on this point, as it clearly indicates she did not suggest black men were breaking in, which means there are very serious problems with the police reports that she told them those breaking in were black. Black men are not mentioned in her call, but she does mention that one of the men possibly looks Hispanic, so she did use that racial identifier, but one not mentioned by anyone else including the police reports.
According to a Boston.com report:
The Gates quagmire began shortly after lunch on July 16 when Whalen, a 40-year-old fund-raiser for Harvard magazine, saw from her office window what appeared to be two suspicious men trying to break in to Gates’ house. According to the police report, Whalen said she “observed what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the porch” about 12:45 p.m. “She told me that her suspicions were aroused when she observed one of the men wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry,” Sgt. James Crowley wrote in the police report.
Whalen’s attorney, Wendy Murphy, corrected what she and Whalen view as major errors in the police and media reports this way:
She did not know the race of the men when she called 911 because of her distance and that their bodies were turned away from her vantage point. Criticism was exacerbated when Mr. Gates challenged police to explain why they would believe “a white woman over a black man.” This statement is issued solely to correct the record and to emphasize that the woman is not racist and was acting as a responsible citizen, with appropriate concern for the safety of the community. She has worked in Cambridge for more than fifteen years, about a hundred yards from where Mr. Gates resides, and was aware of several recent break-ins in the area.
Whalen also says in her call and statements that an older woman called her attention to the Gates house, and Whalen then assisted with the 911 phone call, but had only a brief conversation with Officer Crowley. One question here is exactly how a neighbor and university colleague who made the initial 911 call failed to recognize prominent Harvard Prof. Gates in broad daylight at his Harvard house?
At the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson asked some tough questions about that police report:
So why, then, does Crowley’s official report say that Whalen told him she had seen “what appeared to be two black males with backpacks” on the porch of the Gates house? Is it Crowley’s position that Whalen is lying? Is Crowley lying? Or did the sergeant, or perhaps his dispatcher, just assume that if a break-in was taking place, the perpetrators had to be black?
Tenured radical makes an important point about how whites, including callers and police officers, often do not think about what they are doing. Whites in such settings are usually thinking out of a version of the white racial frame, and do not think about the dangers they have created and can create for black people. Indeed, white people
put black people in danger every day, an insight that was crucial to southern women’s activism against lynching as early as the 1930s. I have learned that while many of us believe racially integrated neighborhoods are desirable, and some of us actively seek them out, no one talks to white people about their responsibilities for reigning in the racism that inevitably follows when white and black people come into proximity with each other. There is no doubt in my mind that white people put black people into danger all the time as a result of their good intentions, and that being aware of this is a full time job. I worry, for example, every time a close friend of mine I have known since college — a major property owner in the neighborhood, with an Ivy degree, wealthy, and a football celebrity — borrows my lawn equipment, because to your average cop he is just another _________ (fill in the blank) walking down the driveway and up the street with someone else’s electric mower.
One national poll found that white respondents were much more likely to fault Gates than Crowley for the incident, but black respondents responded strongly in the opposite direction. Why is this? Retired Seattle police chief, Norm Stamper, notes why whites, who mostly have good experiences with the police, generally view them in a different way from black residents:
But if you’re a struggling black mom, for example, whose husband is serving a long prison term for simple possession of pot (when, under identical circumstances, more affluent offenders, disproportionately white, walk), and whose well-behaved male teens have been stopped and frisked repeatedly, called names and/or had guns drawn on them, you’re not so likely to have warm and fuzzy feelings toward the local PD.
Stamper then summarizes his experienced view of what may have happened, and how it could have been otherwise:
I did offer my opinion that had Gates been white he would not have been arrested. This belief was reinforced when Sgt. Leon Lasher, the imposing black officer pictured standing with Crowley and the small handcuffed prisoner on the porch of that cheery yellow home, answered a reporter’s question. Yes, he said, the outcome likely would have been different had he handled the contact with Gates. This from a man who supports his white colleague’s actions “100 percent.” The second thing we must do is strengthen police competence, and come up with a better definition of what it means to play “by the book.” See, Crowley may in fact have “followed protocol,” as Lasher maintains. But I take issue with the all-too-common practice of police officers baiting a citizen into committing an act of disorderly conduct so that he or she can arrest that citizen for… disorderly conduct. However offended Crowley may have been by Gates’s conduct inside his own home, that behavior was not a crime.
Given this veteran police view, and the issues noted above, it is more than odd that Officer Crowley is being treated as an “equal” in this little beer party (which he reportedly suggested) and not as a possible perpetrator of police racial profiling or worse. President Obama’s and others’ “let’s play nice” beer routine ignores the national black anger over chronic police malpratice such as profiling, which police malpractice is extremely widespread in all areas of the country.
Instead of focusing on the substantial data on racial profiling by the police, the mainstream media and most other public commentators are making this into a melodrama story of conflict and polarization. How about looking at the large amount of data on racist police profiling here and here and here and here, just to mention a few sources. One sign of continuing decline in the mainstream media is its failure to bother looking at social science and other important research data on the topics being debated.
CNN has this report on another white Boston police officer:
A Boston police officer who sent a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a “banana-eating jungle monkey” has apologized, saying he’s not a racist. .. Officer Justin Barrett told a Boston television station on Wednesday night that he was sorry for the e-mail. “I regret that I used such words,” Barrett told CNN affiliate WCVB-TV. “I have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name. I am not a racist.”
The ape imagery straight out of the Thomas Jefferson’s racist frame. His lawyer says this was not meant to describe Prof. Gates himself, and his client is not racist. But of course no one is racist anymore just for operating out of that old white frame.
UPDATE 2 (August 3, 2009):
Here is an excellent article by African American author, Darryl Pinckney, who knows Gates and has experienced much racist profiling himself. He makes this point among many other good ones:
The thing about racial incidents these days is that the perpetrator usually denies that race supplied a motive for his actions, because everyone knows that racism is socially frowned upon, like smoking. Yet racism is still around; maybe more covert in some situations. It is not uncommon for a black person to be told that he or she is taking something that happened or was said the wrong way. Often the black person has no way of knowing if he or she has been, say, treated impolitely in a store or an office because of race. Maybe a clerk was just having a bad day. Think how hard it is to prove that one has been denied professional advancement because of race (or gender). Many black people have a conversation with themselves daily, about letting this or that go, about not being paranoid over every little thing. But sometimes you do know and are not in the mood to let the injustice go, even in the age of Obama. I was appalled by an article supposedly sympathetic to Gates that said he had been unwise to get angry with someone in uniform or that a professor with his skills should have calmed the situation down. Are we not frightened members of society if we recommend appeasing the police or showing respect for authority when it is undeserved?
Tags: Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Lucia Whalen, racial profiling, racism, white women
Seattle in Texas
July 30, 2009 at 5:28 pm • Log in to Reply
I’m going to with hold my thoughts on President Obama here and agree with the main post that it was clearly a case of profiling, etc. Will not go into whites lying–including cops, or simply their racist minds unconsciously filling in information that’s not there (such as the cop suggesting it was the caller saying it was Black men, etc.), etc. And I don’t take issue with the person making the call in the first place as a truly concerned citizen. Bottom line, the cops did their job until they crossed the line–which was, they should have left when Professor Gates showed proper identification and confirmed that was his home, etc. Anyway.
There are many issues that can be discussed in the main post as accurately noted by the title–but to save space have to go to Norm Stamper. Got to put up for anybody interested in seeing an interview of Mr. Stamper a few years ago (he’s a retired cop that actually knows what he’s talking about and just so totally rocks all the way around):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXQNiatbYA
More information on Seattle’s Annual Hempfest in just a couple of weeks for anybody interested:
http://hempfest.org/drupal/
As usual, Stamper is on target with the issue with relation to Professor Gates’ incident…sooo, heh heh!!! 😀
No1KState
Seattle, it’s been a while! How are ya!
I don’t think the absense of Whalen is as much sexism as it is that the central conflict is between the Crowley and Gates. Also, the MSM isn’t just ignoring social science, they seem to be more interested in reporting on polls than they are in facts.
Situations like this indicts the whole of white America. I think I read somewhere else, maybe here, that even absent Crowley’s false arrest, the white public has no interest in Gates credentials. To the white public, he’s just another negro. It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that a person can accurately describe a situation – that the central issue in the arrest was Gates’ ethnicity; that it doesn’t matter what a black American achieves, s/he is always just another nigga, for lack of better words – and the white public still get in an outrage against the person. The tricks a person has to play with his/her mind . . . wow.
And I’m sorry, but white folks gonna have to get over being offended for being called racist; and you certainly need get over the fact that racial minorities in America think just about all y’all are racist. This (un)righteous indignation only proves our point! If you wanna stop the accusation of racism, stop the racism . . . eh, duh!
You might be a redneck if . . .
– you think an average white male is as smart as a wise Latina woman.
– you print an article criticizing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan next to the image of a dead gorilla and two white cops wondering who’d pass the stimulus bill now.
– you draw an image of Pres Obama as an African witch-doctor to criticize his healthcare plan.
Last but not least . . . if you call a person of color a “jungle monkey” . . . you might be a redneck!
July 30, 2009 at 10:18 pm • Log in to Reply
Heh No1KState, been around. 😉 Thanks.
I agree with your points. And what’s funny is Crowley apparently didn’t know who he was? How’s that? Usually precincts have some idea of whose living in their areas. And if he cared so much about profiling you’d think he would have had some awareness of the racial/ethnic minorities living in the area he’s in charge of.
Whalen’s just being used as a decoy to deflect from the central issues as far as I’m concerned. And the symbolic social status of both Professor Gates and Crowley, while important, are only further decoys from the issues–to inflate Crowley’s credentials and downplay the racism and the seriousness of the issue along with Professor Gates’ position and worth as human being for that matter. It was a racist incident–plain and simple–if you reduce it to the procedures and facts, Crowley was in the wrong all the way around. But they happen every single day to less prestigious people and for things that don’t warrant any type of police intervention/interaction, etc. That’s my take anyway.
And with all honesty, I was just excited to be able to say something positive about a cop for once (Mr. Stamper). There’s a few good cops and they need recognition too. Good god and all the support they can get.
There you go Kstate, it’s apparently OK for you indict all of white America because of the Gates incident….That is called racism inspite of your insistence that poc’s can’t be racist. Prof. Gates’s response to Crowley was/is also RACIST.
So you THINK you read that white Americans had no interest in Gates’s credentials! perhaps you meant that you feel that way, but guess what, feelings are not facts. You know-I think that black people commit most of the violent crimes in America is probably more valid than your idle racist speculation.
It’s realy a simple matter-Gates acted like a fool and Crowley should have kept his cool.
I personaly don’t care if racial minorities think whites are racist or not. In fact many minorities seem enjoy the racial charge game since it takes away the responsibility of their own miscreant behaviors.
@ Toby – In an attempt to remain civil, let me tell you what I “hear” or rather, what I don’t. I don’t “hear”:
1 – knowledge or understanding of racism or how it operates on the individual, institutional, and cultural level.
2 – awareness of the facts of the Gates arrest
3 – the ability to access what I think and the evidence I use
4 – awareness that I’ve read and studied a ton of studies and research explaining and detailing racism, individual and institutional
5 – respect for the fact that I’ve read and studied a ton of studies and research explaining and detailing racism, individual and institutional
6 – awareness that the moderators here (not me, I have my own blog which you shouldn’t bother posting to since I’ll probably delete it) are professors and graduate students of sociology
7 – a desire for racial reconcilation
On the other hand, what I do “hear” is:
1 – negatives opinions of people of color, especially African Americans, which are based on historical lies and present-day factual inaccuracies
2 – an angry white man (whether you’re white or male or not) who thinks any government intervention to address racial and gender inequalities will work unfairly against him
3 – an angry white man who didn’t see the irony in white, male members of one of the most powerful groups of people in the world worrying about a playing field leveled against white men
4 – an angry white man who doesn’t realize that before the AIG bonuses, this same group of people – that is, big business execs and lawyers – fought against measures to remedy racial and gender inequality, and so thus doesn’t realize that the people who exploit minorities will exploit him too.
Obviously Toby, you got some personal issues to work out and some books and essays and studies to read before you and I engage in a serious discussion over race, racism, the Gates arrest, and rates of crime. So. What’s gonna happen is this – I’m not going to respond to your comment right away, I’m going to give you time to calm down and study up. 😉
Toby, if you were a black man who had suffered much racial discrimination from white men over your life, and you were inside your own home, with a white officer who did not leave after you gave him full identification that you lived there, how would you react to such a stubborn officer?
Toby, you may want to research the institutional racism in the justice system in America and how Blacks are incarcerated at a higher rate than Whites, even for the same crime. Blacks do not commit more violent crimes than Whites.
I agree with Seattle in Texas. Once Gates was identified as the resident, the matter should have been over and the cops should have left.
August 1, 2009 at 3:18 am • Log in to Reply
OFF TOPIC – I’m curious to thoughts about Orlando Patterson, his stance on race interactions, and his writings, particularly his book, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s ‘Racial’ Crisis.” From the reviews I read, centrists and politically neutral reviewers tend to find the book intriguing. In general, most radicals find Patterson to “conservative,” but a right-wing review of this book denounced it as not paying enough attention to arguments against affirmative-action and offering flimsy reasoning for its continuance. What do you guys think?
JDF
Joe, thanks for the link to the blog by Tenured Radical. It’s the kind of read similar to the works of Tim Wise or Paul Kivel that are so important for whites to read, since it seems only fellow whites can get through to them about these issues.
As for Toby’s post, how can you say that Gates’ response to Crowley was racist?! I would ask you if you’d be angry to be in the same situation, but that’s the point: you wouldn’t ever be. Do white people revel in their ability to be so ignorant of the real world? It’s sickening.
This whole situation serves as evidence why we need cameras on crusiers and cops wearing wires so we know what goes down during these incidents. They aren’t private citizens; they are employees of the state/county and the evidence is overwhelming that abuse of power etc is widespread in their actions.
August 1, 2009 at 4:06 pm • Log in to Reply
@ JDF- *you wouldn’t ever be in the same situation* Right?
I agree with you 100%. And Robert Jensen isn’t too bad a read, either.
Nquest
JDF… I think someone referenced Stanley Fish’s column where he spoke about Gates being mistaken as a servant when he moved in or had worked done at his house when he taught at Duke University.
Out of all these White people who have been so quick to talk about what they have or would do had the police came to their house, it’s amazing not one has included a lifetime worth of stories where they were confused as the help vs. the homeowner.
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Railroad Links Directory: Top : Live Steam : Railroads and Clubs - International
Live Steam : Railroads and Clubs - International
International live steam railway clubs. These clubs are devoted to large scale railways, often large enough to ride on and powered by a variety of fuels including steam, battery and internal combustion.
There are 20 links in this category
Australia - A.M.R Homepage
Altona Miniature Railway (AMR) is a hobby club run by members that provides miniature train rides on scaled steam and diesel engines (5″ and 7 1/4″ gauge), over our 1.5 km length track.
5 inch and 7 1/4 inch livesteam railway located in Altona, Melbourne, Australia
Info: URL: http://altonaminiaturerailway.com.au/ (Added: 12-Jun-2000)
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Australia - Evandale Light Railway and Steam Society Inc.
LAUNCESTON TAS. - The Evandale Light Railway and Steam Society Inc. began evolution in the 1980's driven by the late Greg Waddle.
His dream was to bring together a group of railway, and steam, enthusiasts and build a track, on his property at Evandale , such that they could enjoy their hobby and serve the community.
The Club was officially formed in 1989 and some of the founding members are still part of the club today.
The Society has become part of the fabric of the Evandale Community however times have changed and the Society has relocated from the Waddle property to
Morven Park, still in Evandale, still part of the community and still with the same spirit and aims.
Info: URL: http://www.evandale-light-rail.org.au/ (Added: 10-Nov-2016)
Australia - Queensland Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
Queensland, Australia - Queensland Society of Model and Experimental Engineers (QSMEE) is a society of members who have a common interest in Model Engineering. There is a formal evening school hall meeting once a month where members discuss progress with their models; videos and slides pertinent to the hobby are shown and guest speakers talk about related subjects. The second Sunday of the month is set aside for members to run their locos on the Society railway track and the first Sunday is occupied building and maintaining that track. Although the track is not open to the general public, organised community and charitable groups are welcome.
Info: URL: http://www.tracksandtrains.com/qsmee/ (Added: 18-Aug-2003)
Australia - Sydney Society of Model Engineers
The Sydney Society of Model Engineers Inc. (SSME) is the oldest model engineering club in Australia, and its aim is to promote all forms of model engineering. 3½", 5" and 7¼" gauge live steam, stationary steam, gauge 1, model boats, cars, planes.
Info: URL: http://www.ssme.org.au (Added: 15-Nov-2005)
Australia - The Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society Co-op Ltd.
Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society Co-op Ltd. West Ryde, NSW, Australia
Info: URL: http://www.pnc.com.au/~wallison/slsls.htm (Added: 12-Jun-2000)
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Belgum - Belgian division of Live Steam
Home of the Belgian Live Steamers for 7 1/4" and 5"
Info: URL: http://www.stoomgroep.be (Added: 29-Sep-2004)
Germany - Steinertseebahn Kaufungen 5
live steam, 5", parktrain, steamlokomotion, kids, germany, kassel, steinertsee, kaufungen, steinertseebahn
Info: URL: https://www.steinertseebahn.de/ (Added: 19-Apr-2005)
Holland - Modelbouwvereniging
Modelbouwvereniging "Het Y", based in the Spaarnwoude Recreation Area between Amsterdam and IJmuiden in Holland, is a growing club that supports all aspects of steam. To help us support our members we have an extensive workshop that is 7 days-a-week open, an ever growing library and an active "core" group of knowledgeable members (some from industry and / or educational backgrounds). We also have a 7 1/4 inch track next to the clubhouse that we run every Sunday during the summer months (so long that the weather holds dry). For more information check out our website.
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Japan - Ichikawa steam railway
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Christian Archeology
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Re: Christian Archeology
#61 by duvduv » Jan 17, 2017 3:50 pm
For those who believe that the Jesus/NT universe existed in the first century, what does it mean to those people that there is no evidence for the existence of Nazareth in the first century??
duvduv
#62 by DavidMcC » Jan 17, 2017 3:59 pm
duvduv wrote: For those who believe that the Jesus/NT universe existed in the first century, what does it mean to those people that there is no evidence for the existence of Nazareth in the first century??
What do you mean by "Jesus/NT universe"?
Presumably you accept that Jerusalem and Bethlehem existed then, so why not Nazareth as well?
What's so special about Nazareth that it alone would not have existed?
EDIT: I think Jesus existed, but was nothing like as portrayed in the NT. He was an anti-Roman acitvist, and the Romans were brutal with such people.
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DavidMcC, you haven't noticed that unlike Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Sepphoris, no Jewish sources such as the Talmud or Midrash mention a place called Nazareth at the time of the NT story. Check further on the work and study of archaeology of Rene Salm on this issue, Because IF in fact there is no evidence of Nazareth, how could the NT have been composed in the first century?
duvduv wrote: DavidMcC, you haven't noticed that unlike Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Sepphoris, no Jewish sources such as the Talmud or Midrash mention a place called Nazareth at the time of the NT story. Check further on the work and study of archaeology of Rene Salm on this issue, Because IF in fact there is no evidence of Nazareth, how could the NT have been composed in the first century?
When did I claim that it WAS composed in the first century?
Who cares when it was composed? It was mainly a load of bull anyway. However , that doesn't alter the fact that local people resented the Romans taxing them to pay for a new Roman temple at Tiberius, and there were politico-religious activists agitating against them because of the hardship it caused..
#65 by duvduv » Jan 20, 2017 1:21 am
The point had significance for those who believed the texts were composed in the 1st century. You replied in a way that made me think you believed they were written in the 1st century.
#66 by RealityRules » Jan 20, 2017 7:18 am
duvduv wrote:
DavidMcC wrote:
The jesusneverexisted.com page on Nazareth contains a lot of basic, but older information; referring to René Salm's first book The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus (2007/8). Salm received quite a lot of flak over that book (i.e. people attacking him without addressing points he had made in the book), so he responded with yet another book addressing some of the spurious points raised -
'NazarethGate: Quack Archeology, Holy Hoaxes, and the Invented Town of Jesus', 2015.
See 1. http://www.nazarethmyth.info/
and 2. where Salm's responses to things Bart Ehrman said in a recent debate he had with Robert M Price:
a. http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2016/10/29/ehrman-and-nazareth-archeology-1/
b. http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2016/11/11/ehrman-and-nazareth-archeology-2/
On his mythicistpapers site, Salm also highlights a video (also available at http://www.nazarethmyth.info/) -
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2016/10/07/new-nazareth-video-october-2016/
"This data-rich video presents a concise review of the Nazareth (non-)evidence for a town in the time of “Jesus.” The power-point format with 18 slides (beginning at minute 10) includes the bogus 2009 claim of a “house from the time of Jesus” (even with an astonishing invented wall); the forgery of the Caesarea Inscription mentioning Nazareth (universally considered authentic and often dated to the first century CE); the shockingly early dating of scores of tombs, pottery shards, and oil lamps; water worn (and completely unreadable) coins from Mary’s Well groundlessly attributed to Hellenistic times; and other remarkable material from both my Nazareth volumes. A must see, particularly for those who have not yet read my books. (1 hour)—R.S."
edit: I think Jesus existed, but was nothing like as portrayed in the NT. He was an anti-Roman activist, and the Romans were brutal with such people.
In other words, the Jesus portrayed in the NT is not the Jesus DavidMcC believes in (or vice versa).
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#67 by dejuror » Jan 21, 2017 10:39 pm
Your claim that Jesus was an anti-Roman activist is unsubstantiated--modern fiction. There is no mention of any character called Jesus of Nazareth or an anti-Roman activist named Jesus of Nazareth in any writing attributed to contemporary writers.
It is simply absurd to suggest that what you imagine about your Jesus is true without a shred of historical evidence.
Jesus of Nazareth was not an anti-Roman activist in ancient manuscripts.
Jesus of Nazareth is a fiction character with zero history in all manuscripts.
dejuror
One of the most interesting things that is not addressed is that Judaism places a high regard on marriage especially for rabbis and holy men. It is unheard of that a leading holy man should be 33 years old and unmarried, and revered by Jews. the Roman authors of the NT texts apparently did not know this. In Yiddish he would be referred to as an "alter bokher" (and old bachelor, the opposite of an old maid). Add to it that all his followers were apparently also unmarried. Including the character called Paul. That a religious leader as rabbi should be unmarried and revered is ridiculous in Judaism.
This is also why the stories of celibate Essenes and another alter bokher, John the Baptist, has no basis whatsoever in Judaism and are also myths.
Ironically, this would be a reason why Yeshu Pandera himself was ignored and fell into oblivion when he lived about 75 BCE.
Perhaps you (duvduv and dejuror) should take this up with Wikipedia, which is probably not managed by the devout.
#70 by Alan B » Jan 29, 2017 1:37 pm
duvduv wrote: That a religious leader as rabbi should be unmarried and revered is ridiculous in Judaism.
Yes. But I get the impression that in Jesus' case, the title 'Rabbi' was a casual 'honorific' such as one might call a knowledgeable person 'Professor' even though they are not qualified as a 'Professor'.
Coupled with being unmarried and revered by his followers would point a uniqueness apart from conventional Judaism of those times.
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#71 by dejuror » Jan 30, 2017 3:38 pm
DavidMcC wrote: Perhaps you (duvduv and dejuror) should take this up with Wikipedia, which is probably not managed by the devout.
Your suggestion is of very little use since no source, including Wikipedia, provides archaeological evidence for the supposed Jesus, his alleged followers or Churches in the 1st century pre 70 CE.
All manuscripts, artifacts and archaeological evidence about the supposed Jesus and his followers are dated no earlier than the 2nd century or later.
It is only in the 2nd century and later that writings attributed to non-apologetic sources begin to mention or started to be influenced by the Jesus story which is evidence that the Jesus story and cult originated very late.
The writings attributed to 1st century writers like Philo, Josephus, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Suetonius and even the Dead Sea Scrolls are evidence that the Jesus story and cult was not known at all until at least after c 110 CE.
The use of the word "Rabbi" in NT writing may also be evidence that the Jesus story was invented in the 2nd century.
The title "Rabbi" is not found in 1st writings attributed to Jews like Philo and Josephus.
The title "Rabbi" in the NT appears to be an anachronism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi
Rabbi is not an occupation found in the Hebrew Bible, and ancient generations did not employ related titles such as Rabban, Ribbi, or Rab to describe either the Babylonian sages or the sages in Israel.[6]
The titles "Rabban" and "Rabbi" are first mentioned in the Mishnah (c. 200 CE).
And so it goes on... No real evidence for his existence - just suppositions.
#74 by Tracer Tong » Jan 30, 2017 4:09 pm
Alan B wrote: And so it goes on... No real evidence for his existence - just suppositions.
You mean archaeologically, or in general?
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#75 by Scot Dutchy » Jan 30, 2017 4:13 pm
When did historians actually tell the truth or actually recoded real events especially in the early centuries. Even today events of 100 years ago are still in dispute never mind 1800 years ago.
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Archaeologically.
Generally, a person named Jesus was written about, so maybe he did exist. Though I suspect that many of the stories were inventions as part of the attempt to control the gullible. These days we have, er, 'Fake News'...
Alan B wrote: Archaeologically.
The speculation that Jesus may have actually existed has zero negative effect on the fact that there is no archaeological evidence of a Jesus cult in the 1st century.
By the way, stories were written about Romulus, Remus, Aesclepius, Jupiter, Satan, Diana, Apollo, Ghosts, God and Angels so maybe they did exist??
#78 by Leucius Charinus » Feb 02, 2017 1:46 am
dejuror wrote: The speculation that Jesus may have actually existed has zero negative effect on the fact that there is no archaeological evidence of a Jesus cult in the 1st century.
This is an understatement. There is no UNAMBIGUOUS archaeological evidence for the existence of the Jesus Cult aka the "Nation of Christians" in the first three centuries of the common era. If anyone has any element or item of archaeological evidence (from WIKI or anywhere) which can stand up to common sense critical questioning then link to it.
If anyone thinks that I am making an overstatement of the primary evidence then lets see the evidence itself.
Does anyone wants to make a wager that I am mistaken?
Is there at least one such item of archaeological evidence that unambiguously (that is, leaving "Confirmation bias" at the door) attests to the existence of the nation of Christians before Eusebius started using this specific expression?
This is a final call for evidence.
Pretty fucking simple task.
What the fuck is this obvious primary or secondary evidence < 312 CE?
On 28 October 312
the Christians
suddenly and unexpectedly
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The victory was
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though opinions differed
as to the nature of the sign
vouchsafed to Constantine.
The winners became conscious
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of resentment and vengeance.
The revolution of the fourth century,
carrying with it a new historiography [ <<====== "The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius" === ]
will not be understood if we underrate
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#79 by duvduv » Apr 06, 2017 6:03 pm
I see more and more articles and books being propagated about the archeological "evidence" for 1st century Christianity, and yet none of it does anything of the sort. One would imagine that the pop scholars and others would be tackling this issue head on! Where are Bart Ehrmann and others to explain that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever in archaeology of any Christian sect anywhere in the first century?!
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Mob Wives Creator Reveals She’s No Longer Friends With Drita
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One of the shows we miss most on our TV’s is VH1’s Mob Wives. Recently, the creator of the show- Jennifer Graziano– did a tell all interview with VH1 that was released back in March but resurfaced today. In the interview, she revealed she’s no longer friends with Drita D’Avanzo. What did she have to say about that? Read on for details.
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“So after Karen brought Drita into the fold,” Graziano explained, “I then became super close with Drita and when Karen moved to Arizona, she and I remained friends, but Drita was here every day. Me and Drita became super, super close. We used to take her daughter and my son, I have pictures of them when they were one years old of my son kissing her daughter’s face. We used to go to the zoo together, everything. So me and Drita became close as well. So it became very difficult for me, when the two of them went into this all out war, so to speak.”
“You have to understand, I was both the producer while we’re filming but then when we’re not, I was both of their friends,” she continued. “When the cameras are off, I’m going to clubs and dinner with Drita. The next night I’m out with Karen and, she’s telling me this, and Drita’s telling me this and they’re both trying to make me pick a side, not only as the producer but as the friend. [Over the years] I’m doing my absolute best to remain neutral on both levels. And at times, they have both accused me of taking one over the other. Drita swears I favor Karen, Karen swears I favor Drita… It’s just difficult, everyone wants to be the center of attention and everyone wants to be the star. I guess they all at one point or another looked at me as favoring one over the other.”
“When Karen and Drita had an all out war, there was a time where I just had to step back, and be like okay, Drita you’re acting ridiculous, Karen you’re acting ridiculous,” she added. “[The show] took a huge toll on mine and Drita’s friendship because I guess she got to a point where she felt because I was friends with Karen longer, we had more family history, whatever the reason may be, she felt that I chose Karen over her. So we had a huge falling out and then there were contract issues.”
So what is the status of Graziano’s friendship with D’Avanzo now? She revealed that, “”Well, to be honest, a lot of things transpired over the years that I’m not happy about. I think she could have and should have handled things a lot differently, and better. I’m sure she thinks the same about me. I think on a professional level, obviously, we worked together throughout the entire life of the show, so professionally I’m able to maintain that but I don’t think we have a friendship any longer.”
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Submitted by Richard Goode on Wed, 2008-02-27 12:56
An animal has no choice in the knowledge and the skills that it acquires; it can only repeat them generation after generation. And an animal has no choice in the standard of value directing its actions: its senses provide it with an automatic code of values, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil, what benefits or endangers its life. An animal has no power to extend its knowledge or to evade it.
Man has no automatic code of survival. He has no automatic course of action, no automatic set of values. His senses do not tell him automatically what is good for him or evil, what will benefit his life or endanger it, what goals he should pursue and what means will achieve them, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. His own consciousness has to discover the answers to all these questions—but his consciousness will not function automatically. Man, the highest living species on this earth—the being whose consciousness has a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge—man is the only living entity born without any guarantee of remaining conscious at all.
Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Ethics
So... according to Rand, an animal has an automatic code of survival, but man does not.
Leaving aside the fact that man is an animal (a fact which has been common knowledge for nigh on 150 years), we must ask how man—a creature with, allegedly, no automatic code of survival but a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge—evolved from an ancestral Tetrapod with no power at all to extend its limited knowledge but completely reliant on an automatic code of survival.
Evolution is a process of gradual change in a population over time. Thus, either the origin of a creature so radically different from other animals as man was an act of special creation, or there existed a "missing link"—a creature with the power to extend its knowledge without limit and an automatic code of survival.
Evolution, of course, is the survival of the fittest. Obviously, a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge and an automatic code of survival is fitter than a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge but no automatic code of survival
So... according to Rand, we shouldn't even be here. But we are. Rand's conception of man—and, thus, her conception of man qua man—is irredeemably wrong.
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Submitted by Leonid (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-09 16:49.
Richard "Evolution, of course, is the survival of the fittest. Obviously, a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge and an automatic code of survival is fitter than a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge but no automatic code of survival "
This is not obvious at all. Man has volitional conceptual code of survival which gives to him enormous evolutionary advantage. Conceptual thinking enables him to adjust his environment to his needs, when automatic code allows only self-adjustment to the environment. When the change of environment overcomes the limits of automatic mechanisms of adjustment, the animal perishes. As a matter of fact, 99% of animals which ever existed on the Earth became extinct. That alone proves that automatic code of survival has very limited capacity. However, conceptual code of survival, as you said, has limitless capacity. Homo neanderthalensis was a creature with no automatic code of survival and with limited capacity for gaining knowledge. It gave to him enough capacity to compete with animals but not with Homo sapiens. BTW, I don’t think that there is such a thing as limitless capacity. Everything is limited.
A topical question
Submitted by Richard Goode on Sun, 2010-05-09 06:08.
Was Homo neanderthalensis a creature with no automatic code of survival but a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge? Or a creature with no power at all to extend its limited knowledge but completely reliant on an automatic code of survival?
You're welcome, although you
Submitted by EBrown2 (not verified) on Thu, 2008-03-06 04:34.
You're welcome, although you might want to reserve that later on.
In any case, I immediately noticed a problem with this entry over at Barnes's place:
http://aynrandcontrahumannatur...
deprecating her use of the term "metaphysical."
I have no trouble in decoding it as meaning:
"the necessary conditions of experience, which cannot be altered by human action, rational or otherwise"
The closest technical philosophical term I can propose for that concept is "transcendental," which, unfortunately for Rand, is tainted by association with Kant and the phenomenologists. The use of "physical," on the other hand, as Barnes dubiously proposes, would put her dangerously close to approval of the reductive materialist program, and she doesn't want to lead her argument there, atheism or no.
"Be it a question of science, metaphysics, or religion, the
man who says: 'What is truth?' as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human race."-Jacques Maritain
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Wed, 2008-03-05 13:29.
Well, granted that he has no
Submitted by EBrown2 (not verified) on Wed, 2008-03-05 05:53.
Well, granted that he has no -duty- to hang around, his participation here seems to be more aphoristic than Socratic.
I'm going over "The Case against Hume" now, it's very informative.
"Be it a question of science, metaphysics, or religion, the man who says: 'What is truth?' as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human race."-Jacques Maritain
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We'll need that search party for Richard if you start asking him pointed questions...
No snap "contradiction-hunts," please
Professor Goode, paradox and contradiction are not necessarily co-extensive.
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Tue, 2008-03-04 16:23.
Oh, Richard, must you stoop to altering what the man meant -- as well as utterly ignoring explicit refutations of your nonsense?
Shall we send out a search party?
Submitted by Richard Goode on Tue, 2008-03-04 11:59.
Mr. Valliant is both wrong and right
Yup, it's a contradiction all right. Mr. Valliant has abdicated his mind and evicted himself from the realm of reality.
I still regard Barnes as an unreliable source for an Objectivist bibliography on anything, however.
It was a paradox I couldn't resist
Submitted by EBrown2 (not verified) on Tue, 2008-03-04 02:38.
"Continued reliance on Barnes, Richard, can only lead to still more humiliation."
Your comment implied that he would go astray relying on Barnes.
I was pointing out the irony of Goode's citation of Barnes's web site actually -showing- the proper context of the Rand quote, although it is one of the commentators (Ellen Stuttle, another Rand critic) that makes the point.
I am well aware of the Branden material cited. I'm pretty sure that what I posted is completely consistent with it.
Then, how exactly am I "wrong"?
Ironically, Mr. Valliant is
Ironically, Mr. Valliant is both wrong and right, since the last comment at Goode's link gives a cite to Branden in The October 1962 Objectivist Newsletter's Intellectual Ammunition Department which deals with the question by casting doubt on the conceptual soundness of "instinct" as an explanatory device in so far as it reduces animal behavior to Cartesian clockwork. The concept of "open instinct" would go far to explaining the transition between automatic responses and current human volition.
"Codes"
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Mon, 2008-03-03 20:57.
You know, why don't you finish reading before you start your tirades, Richard? It would mean less embarrassment for you. If you keep reading, you'll discover exactly why the one is an analogue of an ethical "code" while the same kinds of things in humans will not suffice. Possessing something new -- a consciousness that works in abstractions -- we need to know what to do and what we are doing in a way other animals do not.
There is -- obviously -- no contradiction here at all.
That the pleasure-pain mechanism and the like work automatically -- as they do in other animals -- does not mean that they must control our behavior, i.e., that they can be called a complete and automatic "code" for human conduct, obviating the need for a chosen ethical code. But such things are the only equivalent of a "code" that other animals possess.
A human society can proclaim child-murder an ethical mandate (like the Aztecs, the Bronze Age Greeks and probably the Bronze Age Hebrews) -- or it can consider such a thing to be a serious crime (like the Classical Greeks and ours today).
Sticking to the evolutionary perspective: A human code can be a great improvement over the animal analogue -- that is, IF it operates by the same standard governing the automatic ones: life. Rather than waiting for evolution to change our emotions and behaviors, our thinking can make these improvements as soon as such are discovered.
(BTW: Continued reliance on Barnes, Richard, can only lead to still more humiliation.)
Submitted by Leonid (not verified) on Mon, 2008-03-03 17:46.
"The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right course of action. The physical sensation of pain is a warning signal of danger, indicating that the organism is pursuing the wrong course of action..."
So is your vision,Richard,tast,smell,hearing and tactility. Your perceptions are not automatic tool of survival they just tell you what is it out there.It is up to your mind to decide what to do with this information.It also called volition or free will.There is no contradiction between perception and mind ( unless one is Kantian).There is a difference between guard and code.Now check your premises again.
Submitted by Richard Goode on Mon, 2008-03-03 13:04.
It appears that your point has been conceded.
Indeed, it does.
Even Rand agreed with you. You simply need to find where she says it. Good luck, and add a link when you find it.
She says it in The Objectivist Ethics (pp. 17-18).
The pleasure-pain mechanism in the body of man—and in the bodies of all the living organisms that possess the faculty of consciousness—serves as an automatic guardian of the organism's life. The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right course of action. The physical sensation of pain is a warning signal of danger, indicating that the organism is pursuing the wrong course of action...
But then, on the very next page (p. 19), we find the passage( I quoted in my original post.
Man has no automatic code of survival. He has no automatic course of action, no automatic set of values. His senses do not tell him automatically what is good for him or evil, what will benefit his life or endanger it...
Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (To maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality!)
Hat tip: Daniel Barnes.
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Submitted by Mark Hubbard on Mon, 2008-03-03 00:23.
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Sun, 2008-03-02 22:49.
Something isn't "conceded," Scott, if the "answer" was already built-in before the objection was raised.
In that case, the objector was just ignorant.
Forgive the misspelling -- "subtraction," of course.
I think this is what answers Richard.
He also seems oblivious to Rand's whole theory of volition to which this directly relates, how it is thinking that opens up options for us.
He also doesn't seem to grasp how a pre-set or highly constrained repertoire or range of behavior -- i.e., an automatic code -- is so much less adaptive.
That true. The addition is that conceptual consciousness which can control subconsciousness is in charge. Neo-cortex took over from amygdala.The car still the same,but driver is different.
Yes, that distinction is important, but, from an evolutionary perspective, I think we can say that it was more a matter of addition than substraction.
I was talking about insticts versus mind,not about emotions or pleasure-pain mechanism. However since you mentioned them I'd like to elaborate: these two mechanisms are not the same. Pleasure-pain mechanism is sensation,input,exactly like vision or hearing. Emotions are outputs,automatical value-judgments.In animals emotions mostly preprogrammed,instinctive responses or based on conditioning. Humans, however, first have to internalize certain code of values in their subconsciousness. This is volitional,rational process. If one's emotions are inadequate one can by means of introspection volitionaly reprogramme his emotional response.
Automatic functions you refer to are no insticts-they are vegetative functions-like breathing,blood pressure, temperature,glucose level and other parameters of homeostasis. They also responsible for reflexes-for example pupil's contraction. Flight and fight reaction is also vegetative reflex which causes blood vessel constriction,elevation of blood pressure ,increase of the level of stress hormones-like corticosteroids and noradrenaline and so on. We don't have conscious control over these physiological reactions( yogi claim they do).But they are not instincts-they don't tell us what to do. This is function of neocortex.If one "loses his mind" one simply wouldn't know what to do untill he " put himself together".
And, Leonid, it's not as though we no longer possess a pleasure-pain mechanism, or an emotional capacity (although certain of the primates' capacities do appear to have been lost to us). It was the addition of self-consciousness and cognitive self-regulation which rendered these things less than determinative of behavior.
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Submitted by Grady on Sun, 2008-03-02 19:14.
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Leonid: "As evolutionist you understand that Nature is constantly removing obsolete tools of survival. That why we don't possess insticts."
Curious as to what you think of Arthur Koestler's argument in GHOST IN THE MACHINE that we have a three-structured brain (core, mammalian, and neo-cortex) that don't always communicate well. The argument includes ideas that the basic part of the brain control automatic functions (instincts?), the neocortex was, relatively speaking, "slapped on" fairly recently over the mammalian brain, and the two don't communicate perfectly. His example included talk about the role of the amygdala, "flight or fight," and explains why rationality sometimes fails us in stressful situations (the amygdala takes over and we "lose our minds." If evolution removed the instincts, it didn't remove the hardware, which still play a part....
I found his argument interesting, and aware that Koestler was an influence on Nathanial Branden, but I wonder how much of the science, given the time period in which it was written, stands up today...
Submitted by personallydisin... on Sun, 2008-03-02 18:51.
It appears that your point has been conceded. Even Rand agreed with you. You simply need to find where she says it. Good luck, and add a link when you find it.
Leonid had an excellent point. We have no instincts because reason is a much fitter attribute.
I would say, we have so few instincts because reason is a much fitter attribute.
Additionally, I would say Rand's point is still valid. People who argue that intuition is more powerful than reason, are relying on instinct, which is not our strength.
It seems that you possess vivid imagination so I propose thought experiment. Suppose you are living in fourteen century. Suppose you have all knowledge and instincts of all your human and animal ancestors like fictional characters of Frank Herbert's "Dune". Now tell me would it help you to make microchip, cyclotron, nuclear power station or just pair of jeans? Obviously not-all these things haven't been invented yet and by no means you can have this knowledge stored as innate knowledge or instinct. Can you see my point now? Creativity distinguishes man from beast. Instinct is antecedent knowledge which cannot tell you how to create,to invent new,non-existent things. When ancient ape or Homo erectus created first stone axe he became Homo Sapient-since he used his mind, not an instinct. With development of conceptual thinking instinct became negative evolutionary factor since instinct allows only adjusting an animal to static environment. Mind, from other hand allows adjustment to changing environment and, more importantly, allows adjustment of environment to man. As Ayn Rand put it “Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish—man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish—man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish—man writes the Constitution of the United States. But one does not obtain food, safety or freedom—by instinct." As evolutionist you understand that Nature is constantly removing obsolete tools of survival. That why we don't possess insticts. You said: "Obviously, a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge and an automatic code of survival is fitter than a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge but no automatic code of survival". That not obvious at all. Instinct would be a hindrance since,as automatic mode of behavior it'd preclude the use of mind.If man were possess both instinct and mind and were to choose which one to use in any given situation , than by this very action he would become rational animal. In other words man cannot use both instinct and mind. Evolution's choice was mind and that why we are having this conversation.
No, I do not "care to" -- for you.
You will do your own homework on this one.
As I wrote elsewhere:
"I present detailed arguments which you totally ignore, logic for which you have zero response and facts to which you have given no answer. You willfully refuse to engage anything. You drop a silly and insulting bomb, invariably, one which is obviously ignorant of what Rand actually said, and then disappear when it is thoroughly answered -- and then behave as though nothing was ever said.
"Anyone can simply track your blog posts and the discussions that follow to see what I mean.
"You accuse Objectivists of acting like religious zealots, taking things 'without question,' when you know you have given no answer to detailed argument after detailed argument. This has proven to be a thankless and unproductive effort on my part. Such epistemological bankruptcy as you complain of is being displayed here only by you with your pseudo-logic, the rank equivalent of asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin -- all constructed while you simultaneously evade logical integration of fact after logical integration of fact.
"You admit you have an ethics, but insist that it is (and must be) a stranger to logic and reason -- and you have the nerve to call us 'religious'!
"Go put a bone through your nose and go away.
"I have spent more time than you happen to deserve on your 'challenges.'
"This has nothing to do with the need to make our case, just the need to make it to you.
"I'm tired of correcting your 'logic.' There's no challenge to it, and, most especially, no reward in it.
"Intellectual honesty is an act of will.
"The unwilling should be ignored."
If you are intrigued by yet another concept familiar to most students of Rand, but which, as usual, you seem never to have heard of -- and you do seem to be devoting a good deal attention to Rand lately -- why don't you go read and listen to some lectures on the subject first -- i.e., before making your ignorant assertions?
But -- HINT -- that "remnant" was all over my lengthy discussion of her metaethics, hard to miss, in fact.
The truth is out there!
(And material on the evolution of the eye is copious -- you and Reed might want to bone up there, too.)
As far as I am aware the evidence is that there is a wide range of types of eyes that exist and have existed; and that eyes and their components vary in complexity.
As far as I'm aware, that's the extent of the evidence. (I'm an evolutionist because no other explanation of life as we know it seems even remotely plausible.)
I wasn't so much interested in an explanation as I was in the clear evidence James had.
I hope that James will answer your questions.
Rand states that man has no automatic code of survival.
Now you're telling me that
we humans also still possess the remains of such an automatic system, as Rand also observed.
Would you care to elaborate? Isn't this a contradiction?
Richard - I have read that
Submitted by reed on Sun, 2008-03-02 04:31.
I have read that eye evolution perspective before, in fact when I first heard the proposal that evolution of the eye was impossible (or hard to explain) I imagined a similar scenario. I wasn't so much interested in an explanation as I was in the clear evidence James had. As far as I am aware the evidence is that there is a wide range of types of eyes that exist and have existed; and that eyes and their components vary in complexity.
Reed.
Man is unique -- in fact.
So are other creatures.
Each small step in our evolution towards greater cognitive self-regulation did, in fact, confer survival advantage, as it obviously would. In no way are we presupposing any disadvantage was ever conferred at any stage -- and there is no reason to suppose so from Rand's description of plainly observable facts about man. We can observe the advantages primates have due to their superior capacity to learn and adapt -- and even, to some degree, teach -- steps on the very path we are discussing. Moreover, we humans also still possess the remains of such an automatic system, as Rand also observed. And, yes, we are "fitter" for survival because of this fact, to use your terms.
You'd be better served by learning what exactly Rand is saying here and what her conception of man is before, once more, embarrassing yourself with public proclamations of your ignorance.
There you go: try convincing Reed that something like the eye evolved.
You try convincing an evolutionist that man (as conceived by Rand) evolved.
Could be tricky. Unlike the eye, man (as conceived by Rand) doesn't exist.
The evolution of the eye
New things happen.
Get over it.
This is a level of explanation that satisfies the intellectually undemanding. Whereas, those who are puzzled by what seems "absurd in the highest possible degree" - such as Darwin himself in the case of the evolution of the eye - demand a missing link or, rather, a series of missing links to show how the evolution of the eye is even possible.
Darwin went on to say, "Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real." (Emphasis mine.)
And here is what zoologist Dan-Erik Nilsson has to say. "Here's how some scientists think some eyes may have evolved: The simple light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancestral creature gave it some tiny survival advantage, perhaps allowing it to evade a predator. Random changes then created a depression in the light-sensitive patch, a deepening pit that made "vision" a little sharper. At the same time, the pit's opening gradually narrowed, so light entered through a small aperture, like a pinhole camera. Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight. Eventually, the light-sensitive spot evolved into a retina, the layer of cells and pigment at the back of the human eye. Over time a lens formed at the front of the eye. It could have arisen as a double-layered transparent tissue containing increasing amounts of liquid that gave it the convex curvature of the human eye." (Emphasis mine.)
So, what the hell was your actual "argument"?
Honestly, I couldn't detect an ounce of logic.
Still don't after your recapitulation.
No surprises there. I'll try to spell it out more clearly.
If we accept Rand's conception of man, then we must suppose that, through a series of gradual changes, a creature without an automatic code of survival evolved from a creature with an automatic code of survival. But each change must confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight. What we are supposing is that each change confers a survival disadvantage, as the creature which is to evolve into man progressively loses the automatic code of survival which has stood every one of its ancestors in good stead over the course of millions of years.
Obviously, a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge and an automatic code of survival is fitter than a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge but no automatic code of survival. It is that creature which should have won the battle for survival, not Rand's auto-pilotless pilot. And, indeed, we are that creature. Man, as conceived by Rand, is an evolutionary chimera.
It's all absurd...
... nevertheless I can imagine the evolution of the eye (just like evolutionists do) but evidence for it is not "pretty clear" to me. A good first step would be to find evidence of new information in any area and then evidence of evolution from an organism without eyes to an organism with eyes.
It's good that you, James, are aware of some evidence which makes the evolution of the eye pretty clear to you. Do you think eyes evolved multiple times or do you think there is one common sighted ancestor that sighted animals share? And what evidence do you base your opinion on?
Back on topic... almost...
What is the proposed mechanism of thoughts or instincts being passed from one generation to the next?
The Origins of It All
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Sat, 2008-03-01 18:55.
No more or less "absurd" than the emergence of human consciousness by that same means.
Both eyes and volition evolved, and the evidence for this is pretty clear.
And the evidence that both exist is even stronger.
On the Origin of Eyes
Submitted by Richard Goode on Sat, 2008-03-01 15:04.
You sound no better than the creationist who demands a "missing link" for the eye...
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Yep -- Blah, Blah, Blah!
Submitted by James S. Valliant on Fri, 2008-02-29 21:46.
You sound no better than the creationist who demands a "missing link" for the eye, the hand, and multiple working parts to a cell.
How is this any different from the emergence of sexual reproduction, the capacity to fly, or consciousness itself?
"Blah (1) Most animals have no capacity to fly.
Blah (2) Birds do fly.
Blah (3) Birds evolved from an animal ancestor which could not fly."
Each of these premises is anything but "blah" -- it is simple truth.
Now, according to you, if 1 and 2 are true, how could 3 not be false? This is some serious blah -- and I do mean "blah"!
Hmm. Shouldn't science be explaining the observations of flying animals, e.g., birds, not explaining them away with "logic"?
So, is this supposed to cause me to question my observations of animals which do fly?
Seriously?!
btw: if you would only do your homework -- i.e., learn about the subject on which you make such embarrassingly ignorant assertions -- then you might stand a chance of discovering its relevance.
Seems to me that anything less is irresponsible.
At some point, it becomes obviously dishonest.
Old habits die hard
Submitted by Richard Goode on Fri, 2008-02-29 09:02.
Just More Blah, Blah, Blah, Richard?
Blah (1) An animal has an automatic code of survival.
Blah (2) Man has no automatic code of survival.
Blah (3) Man evolved from an animal ancestor.
I have presented an argument which purports to show that, if (1) and (2) are true, then (3) must be false. In other words, that Ayn Rand was either a creationist or very much mistaken about human nature.
For once, why don't you -- first -- go figure out what Rand actually said about human volition, Richard?
For once, why don't you address the argument?
How is what Rand said about human volition relevant? Note that my argument is based on "what Rand actually said". Refer to the passages I quoted.
I will not wade into the subject your ignorance -- once more -- without more of a reason.
A knock-down, drag-out argument against Rand not good enough for you?
But, in short, it is our capacity to choose which makes playing golf on the moon possible, splitting atoms possible, our studies of other animals possible, our genetic engineering of life forms possible, etc., etc. It is precisely the lack of an "automatic" code which makes all of this creativity possible. An "automatic" code of survival would preclude any of this -- as it does for the rest of the animal kingdom. Our behaviors are not determined -- and our knowledge is not limited to the results of trial and error or any kind of "conditioning."
I see that you concur with Rand that an animal has an automatic code of survival, but man does not. Explain, then, how it is man - rather than a fitter "missing link" - who evolved from our animal ancestor. (And, while you're at it, explain how an auto-pilot mode precludes a pilot.)
Get serious.
No, James. You get serious.
Interesting as usual Richard
Submitted by personallydisin... on Thu, 2008-02-28 22:45.
there existed a "missing link"—a creature with the power to extend its knowledge without limit and an automatic code of survival.
Is it possible that we are these creatures that you talk about and that Neitche and Rand are the creatures that they talk about?
The argument that we have no instincts has always seemed a bit pointless to me. Is reason devalued when man has instincts? When I first heard this idea, I remembered my first grade lesson on the first Thanksgiving. A misleading and irrelevant introduction to colonial history. I have an aversion to dumbdowned lessons.
However, imagine if you were to quote a first grade teacher instructing her class on the first Thanksgiving, and published it as an historical essay. It would be easy to laugh at her, as she was catering to one audience and being used by another.
Yes, it makes self-destruction possible, as well.
It is our moral capacity -- our danger and our glory.
Submitted by Richard Goode on Wed, 2008-02-27 19:14.
The flexibility of a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge is far
superior to a fixed automatic code of survival and therefore the former
would replace the latter by evolution.
A sense of vision is far superior to a sense of smell and therefore the former would replace the latter by evolution. Actually, no. Obviously, your argument is invalid.
Not obvious
Submitted by Rick Pasotto on Wed, 2008-02-27 14:32.
Obviously, a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge and an automatic code of survival is fitter than a creature with a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge but no automatic code of survival
It's not obvious to me. The flexibility of a limitless capacity for gaining knowledge is far superior to a fixed automatic code of survival and therefore the former would replace the latter by evolution.
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Surely to Sion He brings good tidings, and to Jerusalem peace and all blessings; He goes up into a mountain, and there spends a night in prayer, and He is indeed heard by the Father. Accordingly turn over the prophets, and learn therefrom His entire course. |Into the high mountain,| says Isaiah, |get Thee up, who bringest good tidings to Sion; lift up Thy voice with strength, who bringest good tidings to Jerusalem.| |They were mightily astonished at His doctrine; for He was teaching as one who had power.| And again: |Therefore, my people shall know my name in that day.| What name does the prophet mean, but Christ's? |That I am He that doth speak -- even I.| For it was He who used to speak in the prophets -- the Word, the Creator's Son. |I am present, while it is the hour, upon the mountains, as one that bringeth glad tidings of peace, as one that publisheth good tidings of good.| So one of the twelve (minor prophets), Nahum: |For behold upon the mountain the swift feet of Him that bringeth glad tidings of peace.| Moreover, concerning the voice of His prayer to the Father by night, the psalm manifestly says: |O my God, I will cry in the day-time, and Thou shalt hear; and in the night season, and it shall not be in vain to me.| In another passage touching the same voice and place, the psalm says: |I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy mountain.| You have a representation of the name; you have the action of the Evangelizer; you have a mountain for the site; and the night as the time; and the sound of a voice; and the audience of the Father: you have, (in short,) the Christ of the prophets. But why was it that He chose twelve apostles, and not some other number? In truth, I might from this very point conclude of my Christ, that He was foretold not only by the words of prophets, but by the indications of facts. For of this number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator's dispensation in the twelve springs of Elim; in the twelve gems of Aaron's priestly vestment; and in the twelve stones appointed by Joshua to be taken out of the Jordan, and set up for the ark of the covenant. Now, the same number of apostles was thus portended, as if they were to be fountains and rivers which should water the Gentile world, which was formerly dry and destitute of knowledge (as He says by Isaiah: |I will put streams in the unwatered ground| ); as if they were to be gems to shed lustre upon the church's sacred robe, which Christ, the High Priest of the Father, puts on; as if, also, they were to be stones massive in their faith, which the true Joshua took out of the laver of the Jordan, and placed in the sanctuary of His covenant. What equally good defence of such a number has Marcion's Christ to show? It is impossible that anything can be shown to have been done by him unconnectedly, which cannot be shown to have been done by my Christ in connection (with preceding types). To him will appertain the event in whom is discovered the preparation for the same. Again, He changes the name of Simon to Peter, inasmuch as the Creator also altered the names of Abram, and Sarai, and Oshea, by calling the latter Joshua, and adding a syllable to each of the former. But why Peter? If it was because of the vigour of his faith, there were many solid materials which might lend a name from their strength. Was it because Christ was both a rock and a stone? For we read of His being placed |for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence.| I omit the rest of the passage. Therefore He would fain impart to the dearest of His disciples a name which was suggested by one of His own especial designations in figure; because it was, I suppose, more peculiarly fit than a name which might have been derived from no figurative description of Himself. There come to Him from Tyre, and from other districts even, a transmarine multitude. This fact the psalm had in view: |And behold tribes of foreign people, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians; they were there. Sion is my mother, shall a man say; and in her was born a man| (forasmuch as the God-man was born), and He built her by the Father's will; that you may know how Gentiles then flocked to Him, because He was born the God-man who was to build the church according to the Father's will -- even of other races also. So says Isaiah too: |Behold, these come from far; and these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of the Persians.| Concerning whom He says again: |Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold, all these have gathered themselves together.| And yet again: |Thou seest these unknown and strange ones; and thou wilt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these? But who hath brought me up these? And these, where have they been?| Will such a Christ not be (the Christ) of the prophets? And what will be the Christ of the Marcionites? Since perversion of truth is their pleasure, he could not be (the Christ) of the prophets.
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>> we send condole length and prayers to the family joor the wife of lemuel wilson jr. says she took her husband to highland hospital in oakland this morning. >> and he told them what had happened? >> correct. >> reporter: the chp was looking for lemuel wilson in a deadly hit-and-run crash last night that killed a 5 and 10-year-old boy, injured a 3-month-old baby, and their mother, who was driving this dodge durango. investigators say they have evidence connecting wilson to the infinity which drove across this median and hit the durango on the solano avenue on-ramp. the 5 and 10-year-old were thrown from the suv. >> infinity comes across at such a speed, strikes the durango head-on in the left rear, catastrophic damage. the infinity launches up over our heads and lands back here. that's probably close to 100 feet. from the collision impact point. and that driver immediately
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immediate coastline but overcast skies will work their way inland overnight tonight. right now a live look from our santa cruz camera showing you it is busy on the fourth. if you're heading to santa cruz the next three days on the holiday weekend, shaping up to be a very nice next couple of days. a lot of sunshine, some morning drizzle perhaps. it's nothing to really worry about. clouds will depart midday. for afternoon sunshine. you can see temperatures really comfortable in the 70s. however, your ocean water temperature still sitting at a chilly 55 degrees. let's show you outside, exploratorium camera, pier 15 in san francisco, mostly cloudy skies from this vantage point. boy oh boy is it still a beautiful sight. current numbers right now mainly 50s and 60s. currently 63 in novato. 62 in san jose. 60 in oakland. 55 in san francisco. right now brent with the mild spot at 78. still a bit of a breeze, especially in fairfield, gusting to 30-mile-per-hours. we're at 29 in concord.
this active wind is going to be sticking with us the next 24 hours. our weather pattern really not changing all that much overnight tonight. it will be another breezy afternoon on your sunday. overnight tonight here's the call. we have coastal clouds right now. we'll start to see fog work its way around the bay. that's going to keep temperatures mainly limited to the mid and upper 50s as you start your day on sunday. highs in the microclimate, south bay 82 tomorrow, sunshine. 81 santa clara. 79 sunnyvale. 81 in gilroy. along the peninsula, 76 palo alto. 73 redwood city. 59 for the high in half moon bay. 58 mainly cloudy in daly city. 64, afternoon sunshine. cool along the water, sauce lito at 66. 91 clover dale. 81 vallejo. 70 oakland. 73 fremont. 76 hercules. 81 san ramon. 84 antioch. 82 livermore. you're headed to tahoe, shaping up to be a wonderful holiday
weekend. folks can still ski at a lot of resorts. lots of sunshine. temperatures on the mild side. this is south lake tahoe sitting at about 83 each and every afternoon through tuesday. if you're staying in the bay area, your fourth of july 12-hour planner on tuesday showing you coastal clouds throughout much of the day. tons of sunshine as you get inland. by 10:00 as we're setting off fireworks around the bay, we'll have clouds and fog to contend with. visibility will likely be an issue. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. plan the next seven days, breezy again on your sunday afternoon. some coastal drizzle on monday. sunshine and dry skies from then on out. tuesday fourth of july looking spectacular. wednesday, thursday, friday little change. maybe a touch warmer on saturday. but that summer-like pattern in full effect. >> just a touch warmer. >> 2 degrees. >> all right, drew, thank you. abc 7 sports with mike schuman. baseball, top of the order, a's hosting braves in the midst
of a three-game slide, knuckleballer r.a. dickey today. he's having a good day at the park. dickey held the ace to one run through six. bottom eight, 3-1 braves, 22nd of the year, a 3-3 dame. cassilo was on the mound in the ninth. santana grounds to short. the rookie's got it -- error. next batter, swanson of course his second relationship of the game. double to left, that's going to score santana. that's the winning run. a's lose their fourth straight 4-3. matt moore on the hill. josh bell knocks in a run with a base hit. moore went 5 2/3, aloud one run on four hits, struck out five. he had six walks. sixth inning, austin slater. looks like he got underneath it for a flyout but traveled over the center field wall. third of the year, 1-1 game. extra ins, top 11.
hussen, he throws a wild pitch. span scores and giants win 2-1 the final. free agency has begun in the nba. a first order of business for the warriors, agreeing to a five year, $201 million deal with two-time mvp steph curry, $40 million a year, ridiculous money. but who's going to turn it down? shaun livingston back, agreeing to a three year, $24 million deal. andre iguodala met business the spurs last night, houston today. rockets offered him a contract, iggy shut down further meetings except with the warriors. golden state offered $15 million per year. he just tweeted this, sources close to andre iguodala reporting he's agreed to terms to return to the bay. we'll try to confirm that later. 14-year veteran david west agreed to a one-year deal for $2.3 million. he'll retire at season's end. and his presence in the locker room is key, especially with these new young centers.
nhl free agency began today. 9:00 a.m. records have the sharks re-signing joe thornton to a one year, $6.5 million contract. patrick marleau deciding whether he'll return to team teal or jump to anaheim. sharks gm doug wilson quickly checked off top priorities. re-signing goalie martin jones and defenseman mark edvard vlasic to contract extensions. the 27-year-old net minder has been phenomenal, including a stanley cup final last year. the 30-year-old vlasic gets an eight year, $56 million contract. he's regarded as one of the best defensemen in the league. nightly task of shutting down the opposing team's top players who played 811 games over 12 seasons, all for san jose. california classico putting the earthquakes and l.a. galaxy at stanford stadium. 75th minute. quakes down 1-0. galaxy looking for more.
the stop, the drop kick down the field to a streaking chris wondolowski who's going to stop on a dime, finished with the left foot, and that ties the game 1-1. that's the score late in the second half. we'll have complete highlights at 11:00 on abc 7. nascar daytona for the coke zero 400. possibly dale earnhardt jr.'s final race. one of a race record 14 caution flags. the biggest with seven laps to go, the 42 kyle larsen goes airborne. several cars were also wrecked. ricky 10 house jr. would end up taking the checkered flag. his second this season. both coming on restrictor plate tracks. from four wheels to 2. 104th edition of the tour de france started in germany. stage 1, 8.7-mile time trial. wet conditions led to disaster for alejandro valverde, broke his ankle and kneecap on this fall, he's out of the tour.
brad thomas won the stage in : 16:04 and starts off with the leader's yellow jersey. that's the way the ball bounces. we'll be back at 11:00. andre is so cryptic on tweets, i hope it's true and he'll be back with the warriors, that would be great. >> it would be great. call those sources. >> call andre, only andre. nice job, buddy. it's fourth of july weekend. and a tradition in san francisco. up next, the sights and sounds of the fillmore jazz
tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, a warning from the san jose earthquakes about using a homophobic slur during a soccer match but some fans example ignored it. neighbors in one inland community angry after somebody abandoned an entire trailer on the side of the road. they say an illegal waste
problem is only getting worse. a beautiful weekend for jazz in san francisco. ♪ ♪ >> abc 7 news was on fillmore street for the first day of the fillmore jazz festival. you can see lots of people enjoying the music. this is the 33rd year for the free event. it's also happening tomorrow 10:00 to 6:00. there's jazz, food, arts and crafts on more than 12 blocks of fillmore street between jackson and eddy. the fillmore festival precedes drew tuma by five years. >> calling me out. >> thought you should know that. >> great event too. >> that too. >> that's it for abc 7 news at 9:00. our next news cast is at 11:00 on channel 7.
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