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Do you consider the character of Cliff dead.........
Discussion in 'Dallas - The Original Series' started by TJames03, May 6, 2019.
Do you consider Cliff dead now that KK is??
.........in the Dallas universe now that KK has passed away?
Did Cliff die in the Mexican jail?
TJames03, May 6, 2019
Michelle Stevens 'The Lovely Michelle'
Yes, in the same way as JR Ewing, Miss Ellie, Punk Anderson, and Carter McKay being dead. I can't imagine anyone playing these characters besides the actors who played them originally. I do have a hard time with the TNT Dallas Cliff and wish his fate was kinder.
Michelle Stevens, May 6, 2019
I can't imagine anyone else playing Cliff either, so I consider Cliff dead. I didn't like TNT Dallas, but it's something Ken Kercheval chose to participate in and put his time and effort into doing. So out of respect for his work then I guess Cliff did die in prison.
Kenny Coyote, May 6, 2019
JR Ewing Fan Soap Chat Active Member
I don't even remember. It's had to have been over a decade though.
No because I don't accept him being in jail.
JR Ewing Fan, May 6, 2019
Yeah, I do. I can't say for sure why, I suppose because like @Michelle Stevens I can't picture any other actor in the role.
Justine, May 6, 2019
JR Ewing Fan said: ↑
By that do you mean you don't consider TNT Dallas to be a legitimate continuation of the Dallas story?
No. I don't consider off screen events to be the final say. Of course, where Dallas is concerned, what happens on screen is not necessarily binding either,
Seaviewer, May 8, 2019
I got some FF in my head showcasing Cliff's mortal exit from the Dallas universe....
Seaviewer said: ↑
Off screen events referring to Ken Kercheval passing away? So you'd be open to the idea of a recast? It's an interesting idea. I don't usually like recasts just on the principle of it, but if a recast would lead to another Dallas continuation and this time one that is accurate as to the history of the series regarding both the events that took place from 1978-1991 and accurate as to the characters' personalities. I thought the personalities were simplified a lot in TNT Dallas and in most cases they left out the redeeming qualities and amplified the negative qualities. The character of Cliff was easily the least accurate of all of the them.
They butchered Cliff's personality along with his values and even the events in his history such as saying he adopted Frank from an Asian country. We all know Cliff didn't adopt anyone, just as we all know that John Ross and Christopher didn't grow up with Elena. It wouldn't have been that hard to get the events of the past accurate! The hard thing about a recast is finding someone who the audience would accept as Cliff. I've only seen recasts done well when the character being recast was a minor character or a major character who had just recently debuted so the audience hadn't had much time to get attached to the idea of a certain actor playing that role. For those reasons recasting Kristen worked ( she'd only been a minor character until Mary Crosby was given the role). Recasting Jenna worked because she'd also only been a minor character until they cast Priscilla Presley in the role. Recasting Miss Ellie didn't work because the audience was emotionally attached to seeing Barbara Bel Geddes play the role. The only thing that saved it from being a complete disaster is that it was just a temporary recast of less than one full season since Miss Ellie didn't appear until almost half way through season 8. I've read different things about the intent but I believe that they knew from the start that the Miss Ellie recast was temporary. The way I remember it being reported on Entertainment Tonight was she was just filling in for Barbara Bel Geddes until she was healthy enough to return to the series.
If Barbara Bel Geddes wasn't expected to ever be able to return to acting I doubt they would have recast her. They probably would have had Miss Ellie pass away instead of recasting her. It's just like with Jock, they never considered recasting him. On the series 10 DVDs there is a special features section where they explain that they never considered having Wes Parmalee turn out to be Jock. They said the reason Jock's portrait was always featured so prominently in the show after Jock died is that it was their way of keeping Jock's presence alive as much as it could have been. They talk about how Jocks presence is felt all through the run of the series and they kept him relevant to the show with how much they mentioned him and with the storylines that involved actions of his that had consequences long after he was gone such as the contest for Ewing Oil, the storyline where Cliff and Jamie thought they had found evidence that entitled each of them to a third of Ewing Oil, and the information Donna found where Jock and Sam Culver had both had Sam's relative, Jonas Culver, committed to a sanitarium for just long enough so that they could drill for oil on his land but Jonas didn't know he was getting out soon and he committed suicide as a result of feeling trapped in the asylum.
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No, I don't. That's the beauty of TV. And the legacy he left behind.
Sarah, May 8, 2019
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Kenny Coyote said: ↑
They ignored the reunion movies so I ignore TNT.
So you'd be open to the idea of a recast? I
I'm always open to the idea of a recast - at least in theory. I don't believe the writers should necessarily be beholden to the whims of the cast in telling their story but in practice I admit it can be tricky finding the right replacement.
If Barbara Bel Geddes wasn't expected to ever be able to return to acting I doubt they would have recast her.
It was said at the time that with Jock gone it was necessary to keep Miss Ellie alive because she was the only one left who could keep JR in line.
KayLloyd Soap Chat Fan
Yes, I'm a believer that out of respect for the actor, the character should die with them. In my mind, Cliff died trying to find Pam.
KayLloyd, May 17, 2019
Yes in the sense that since Ken Kercheval is gone, Cliff will be dead if there's ever another reunion movie or Dallas revival.
No in the sense that the character lives on in fanfics.
For me, Cliff died in the Mexican prison.
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Union free school no more
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The strike at STEM6 Academy in north London against zero hours contracts and for union recognition shows that if you get organised and fight hard you can win.
Early in October 2013 a message arrived at the Islington NUT office from a teacher at the newly opened STEM6 Academy telling us that she had never been a union rep before and asking for our support in negotiating teachers' terms and conditions.
The three months which followed saw her lead an often bitter fight which, although taking place in a small workplace, has won a big victory with major implications for other free schools, as well as important lessons for workers facing nasty anti-union employers.
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Academies fail the grade
The government's plans to privatise education are mired in financial scandal and under pressure from campaigns by teaching staff, parents and local authorities.
Michael Gove has put the Academies and free schools at the heart of his education strategy. A programme started under the last Labour government, and opposed by all trade unions and by many parents and communities, has expanded so that now half of all secondary schools are Academies and primaries are converting at a worrying pace.
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Tory education secretary Michael Gove has set out to destroy progressive education. But he is meeting increasing resistance, and even falling out with some of his friends.
On 3 February this year Michael Gove gave a speech about his vision for education at the London Academy of Excellence. Gove painted himself and his project as a historic crusade against "failing schools".
Gove and his government have been reforming education at breakneck speed. From the break up of the state system in the form of Free Schools and Academies to the overhaul of the curriculum, Gove has left no aspect untouched.
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The leaking of Michael Gove's plans to return to O-levels in place of GCSEs reignited a row about "falling standards" in British schools. Here Terry Wrigley argues it is not enough for the left to simply dismiss such claims - instead we must argue that the root of the problem lies in the marketisation of education
Right wing politicians like nothing better than a good disaster. Disasters give them an excuse to intervene and make matters worse. If there wasn't a financial crisis, Cameron's gang would have to invent one. Now education secretary Michael Gove is using supposed "falling standards" to destroy comprehensive education and condemn most working class pupils to a second rate education. By abolishing GCSEs and restoring the old "O-level", he is trying to return to the days when only a minority of 16 year olds took a school-leaving exam.
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As the Tories accelerate the drive for schools to become Academies,
Terry Wrigley looks at why local education authorities are being sidelined
There has been widespread opposition to the government's reform of how the NHS is governed, and an understanding that the new structures would accelerate privatisation. Most people reject the idea of healthcare being run as a business. Despite active local campaigns and union opposition, why has popular opposition to the privatisation of schools as academies been more muted?
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Michael Gove, the education secretary, has launched a new wave of academies expansion - forced academies. After the last election Gove rushed the Academies Act through parliament. Last November, almost unnoticed in the wider crisis, he extended his powers to directly intervene in local schools and convert them into academies. The justification is that these are "underperforming" schools.
Gove claims he is a champion of "social justice," and that academies are about helping the neediest. Nothing could be further from the truth. By 2015 Gove will have overseen a 15 percent cut in school budgets in real terms. Programmes such as one to one tuition, behaviour improvement and ethnic minority support programmes are being sacrificed, while Gove now has more centralised power than any previous secretary of state.
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On 3 October, at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, education secretary Michael Gove went out of his way to sing the praises of Rupert Murdoch. Gove admitted that he remained "a great admirer of Rupert Murdoch, he's a force of nature, a phenomenon, he's a great man". For a senior minister to still admit to being one of Murdoch's creatures is quite remarkable, but there was a good reason for Gove standing by his man: Murdoch has a central role in Tory plans for British education.
During their first fourteen months in office, Cabinet ministers met senior News International executives 130 times. Over a quarter of these meetings involved David Cameron himself. While in no way wishing to be fair to Cameron, it has to be admitted that his government was merely continuing a long established tradition of British governments kow-towing to Murdoch. This tradition began to take shape under Harold Wilson in the late 1970s, was consolidated under Thatcher, was deepened and extended under Blair and Brown and was set to become even more extravagant under Cameron.
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The coalition government has launched a colossal attack on all aspects of our education system. Terry Wrigley argues that this is an acceleration of previous governments' policies to drive the market into the heart of learning and will deepen a class hierarchy of institutions and students.
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Edubusiness unchained
Alistair Smith
Since the passing of the Academies Act in July 2010 a new wave of privatisation has been unleashed on our schools. Conversion of outstanding schools to academies or the creation of new "free" schools is allowing edubusiness to expand rapidly.
Ark, EACT and the Harris Academy chain have announced business plans to double the number of academies they control. They are also using the new opportunities to create free schools.
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The new government has launched a "radical reform" plan to expand the academies programme and introduce "free" schools. This threatens the future of state education by entrenching social segregation. It will also be disastrous for the pay and conditions of school staff and will destroy accountability and democracy in the education system.
Michael Gove, the new secretary of state for education, has written to head teachers in schools judged by Ofsted to be "outstanding" asking if they would like to become academies. The government has removed legal requirements for schools to consult staff and parents about the decision to turn a school into an academy. This is now decided at just one meeting of a school's governing body.
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Jane Lee, Catholic Church does not rule out statute of limitations in abuse claims, The Sydney Morning Herald
November 25, 2015 /in International /by SOL Reform
The Catholic Church has not ruled out blocking compensation claims for child sexual abuse if it occurred before certain time limits.
The church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council released a set of guidelines for the way it deals with survivors’ civil claims ahead of a royal commission hearing on the Melbourne Archdiocese’s handling of historic abuse on Tuesday.
The guidelines – which church lawyers helped draft – reveal for the first time how it intends to deal with legal defences which survivors consider to be the biggest barriers to obtaining compensation from the church.
Most states and territories have laws that allow the church to block civil claims for child abuse in court if they were made beyond certain time limits. Victoria last year abolished statutes of limitation for child abuse, largely because survivors typically take decades to disclose their abuse.
The guidelines say the church will not take up this option unless it risks having to bear a “disproportionate share” of compensation compared to other defendants, or if so much time has passed that “the Church authority considers that a fair trial would not be possible”.
Lawyer Viv Waller, who has represented hundreds of clergy abuse survivors against the church, said that its failure to totally resile from technical legal defences left victims of historic abuse in their vulnerable position against authorities.
While the church had become more willing to negotiate with survivors rather than rejecting their claims out of hand or forcing them into low settlements through internal redress schemes, “the church is still holding all of the cards,” she said. “There’s still a very acute power imbalance between the church…and the survivor of sexual abuse.”
The guidelines – which largely mirror the “model litigant” rules for the federal government – also deal with a NSW court decision known as the ‘Ellis defence’, which ruled the church’s property trust could not be sued for child sexual abuse.
The council’s chief executive officer Francis Sullivan has maintained the church should always provide defendants an entity to sue. The guidelines say the church will help “the claimant to identify the correct defendant to respond to the legal proceedings”.
Ms Waller said the guidelines do not guarantee it will refrain from using the defence. “That falls well short of allowing the church to be sued, providing an entity to be sued that is backed by insurance.”
She had unsuccessfully sought written promises from the Christian Brothers that they would not rely on the defence in recent months.
“We all know the difficulty in issuing court proceedings is they’re able (through the Ellis defence) to drive quantum down in any negotiated settlement.”
Mr Sullivan insisted that the guidelines ensured survivors would never be left without a defendant. “It’s not meant to be a compromise (or) a conditional commitment. The commitment is that the church authority will make available an entity to be sued.”
While lawyers who represented the church in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse had helped draft the guidelines, it was not a “legal document”, he said.
Mr Sullivan conceded the guidelines would be difficult to enforce despite its endorsement by all Australian Archbishops and the church’s two most senior religious leaders, because bishops were autonomous.
“Hopefully these guidelines will form part of the general standards the church uses in assessing how it performs in these areas.”
Counsel assisting the commission, Gail Furness, SC, said on Tuesday that the Melbourne Archdiocese had paid about $12.8 million in compensation for 316 child sex abuse claims between January 1980 and February 2015.
Ms Furness said that the church had paid much more in compensation to survivors who pursued civil claims – about $270,000 on average – compared to $46,000 to those who went through the church’s internal Melbourne Response redress scheme.
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Matt Wood was just an all American guy with an ambitious hairdresser. She submitted a video to Cosmopolitan Magazine, and next thing he knew -- Matt Wood was named Cosmopolitan's Bachelor of the Year (2006).
Matt Wood: The Bachelor of the Year
By Dory Nissen
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CBN.com – He’s handsome, smart, and an all around nice guy—the all American boy look is in. Computer technology consultant Matt Wood was voted one of the hottest guys in America-- Cosmopolitan’s Bachelor of the Year for 2006.
700 club producer Dory Nissen recently sat down with Matt and learned that behind his great looks and blue eyes, is a big heart and a man on a mission.
Dory Nissen: When your hairdresser sent in your picture, were you shy about it? What was your reaction?
Matt Wood: I figured, what’s the harm in it [?]... the chances that I would get picked are so slim to none, and she was having a blast, so I said go for it.
[Matt was chosen to represent Colorado and was flown to New York for the finals.]
Nissen: And then, Mr. Colorado … you win! Could you believe it?
Wood: Oh it was unreal. I literally had to look down at my shirt and said, “Oh Colorado, that guy sounds familiar." And people were shaking my hand and pulling me forward to give my acceptance speech. All the cameras were flashing and I said, "I’m just Matt."
Nissen: And the media keeps calling!
Wood: There are so many doors, I can hardly name them all ... national commercials, auditions for CSI, Days of Our Lives ... across the board, doors have opened. I got a call from Survivor. I got a call from The Bachelor ... all these calls have come in.
Nissen: But there is a side to Matt Wood that goes far deeper than a stunning physique. Matt is a born again believer. Raised in a Christian home, he accepted Christ as a child and never looked back.
Wood: It comes down to Jesus. He is my Lord, Savior, and life. When you experience Jesus as life, your whole life changes because the air you breathe is Him! My life is Christ, and when I live it's Christ speaking, it’s Christ walking, it’s Christ living, and I think that’s what these people have seen.
Nissen: Matt, are you concerned that people will say that you are just saying that and this is some kind of bandwagon you are on?
Wood: No, absolutely not.
Nissen: So, you don’t care?
Wood: Yeah, pretty much. I don’t fight my battles anymore. When you give your life to Christ you give Him everything -- including defending yourself. There have been things that have come up in the media right after I won that questioned my character. So yeah, I got attacked for sure, but I don’t fight those battles. No bandwagon, I’m for Jesus. If that’s a bandwagon than I'm on the bandwagon.
Nissen: The bottom line is much of Cosmopolitan’s content is not in line with someone with Christian character. In our lives, we are bombarded with things that we consider not Christian and not in our Christian character. But it’s about Christ and when He opens the door, you can’t say no. And He may take you into some tough places -- places where you are really going to be challenged.
Wood: Oh, there was a lot of prayer involved. I mean I said, "God what have you got me doing here? This is not the first thing I would have thought You’d put on my plate as far as being a witness." But that‘s how God works -- He never picks the easy way .
Matt is very passionate about a few things -- acting and modeling … and kids! So when Matt won a $15,000 bachelor pad makeover, he asked for cash instead to do something special. Matt bought film and editing equipment, teamed up with some Christian friends with film and acting backgrounds, and established a summer camp for kids interested in the arts. Matt’s message is clear.
"You are accepted, you are worth it. So I have an audition with McDonalds, but I’m not going to walk in and say, 'Like me, like me -- please like me. Hey look at me, I’m cool right. I can do hot. I can do geeky -- that’s easy.' "
"We are sheparding here. We are lifting them up -- and it’s not so much as telling them what do do or telling them how to live," he says.
"I had a chance to speak at a youth conference, and I spoke on purity. The thing I wanted to drive home was not so much, 'You gotta live pure, you gotta live righteous' but, 'You are pure, you are righteous. So live like it! You are the prince and princess of the king!' And if I can get that message across that you are a son and a daughter of the king, man you can change the world," he adds.
Matt has a new girlfriend. He met Raqel through this experience—a Christian women whose passion for sharing Christ with people is as strong as Matts.
"I would want to show people that Matt Wood is a personality. And it’s Christ living through Matt's personality, and that’s the Christian life. Matt Wood can not live the Christian life, but Christ through Matt Wood can live the Christian life."
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These days, it seems I've been irregular at posting my travel sojourn. I do have my reasons. There is so much to share of my travel experiences that it makes me squirm to see my blog becoming a travel blog. It isn't bad but I want my blog to be a place like A Rabbit Hole of "Alice in Wonderland" with varieties.
And another reason is that; jotting down everything that I encounter and experience is what I want to do; but its a draining process; since there is so much; this much; to write. I promise myself that I will be regular and more importantly on time to jot them down here. I shudder to think that my Sri Lankan trip has also been on the line to complete.
Anyway, continuing on Angkor temples. The Angkor Wat, Bayon and Ta Prohm also now referred to as Angelina Jolie temple after few scenes were shot for the movie Tomb Raider are all part of Little Circuit. The temples in the little circuit are all mostly at shorter distances from one another and they are also huge temples.
The day starts at 4 am to be on time to watch the sun rise at Angkor Wat temple. However early you go, you always see crowds that have gathered before your arrival; such is the name and fame of Angkor Wat. Many people place their tripods strategically to capture the sun rise which is again very famous. You need to find a spot to watch the beauty of the sunset and also to take a good pic. Just along the side where people gather to watch sun rise are number of restaurants. Tourists generally take a break for a while after watching sunset to have a hearty breakfast to prepare for their long and exhaustive day ahead; before entering the temple.
These restaurants are just tiny shacks with a couple of plastic chairs and tables; and they are in a row. Each restaurant has a unique name and they are international that can be easily identified by the tourist. The guys and women owners of these shacks walk up to you and mention the restaurant name and the number and ask you to visit them for breakfast after watching sun set. One of the shack could be "Number 4 James Bond" or another one "Number 6 Britney Spears". The strategy is simple; have a name a Westerner can recognize. So you will have them nagging you constantly to visit "Stall no 4 James Bond" for good breakfast.
The shacks that are strategically placed closer to sunrise viewing area are the ones that most people visit; very few venture to the far end. The stalls at the far end have to struggle very hard to get business. There was thing one guy who was not more than 12 years old who had an impeccable English with an American accent. This boy owned or maybe worked in a stall at the far end of the row. He was dirty looking, ragged, wearing torn clothes. You might easily mistake him for a poor Cambodian tramp until he starts speaking. He is poor yes, but his business acumen was laudable. I can never forget him. He came unto us and started(in American impeccable English) "Sir, ma'am would you care for some Coffee and breakfast? My stall is on the left; please sir, this way. This way ma'am"
When we said we will return after watching the sunset, he replied "Sure ma'am. Remember my stall. Pleasure to have you here". Now, the way he approached, his confidence, his etiquette; I am not one bit exaggerating. You get to learn all of that in a business school paying lakhs of rupees. It was unfortunate that we couldn't go to his stall at the far end later; because we were hijacked mid way by a couple and hungry that we were; we settled at the nearest one. The boy was disappointed and said "This is unfair!" and forgot about it the next moment and went off to pursue other tourists. But observing him through the breakfast; it was obvious that people had no patience to go unto his stall and he lost many customers. While the front stalls got quick customers about 5-6 in 20 mins; he managed just one. When life challenges your existence, you find a way; isn't it?
So the much awaited sun rise at Angkor Wat
The temple of Angkor Wat is one of the largest of the Khmer temples built during the 12th century as Hindu temple. The size of the monument is overwhelming and its not surprising that you need 4-6 hours to soak it up. We started at 6 AM and finished it at 10 AM. There is a "how to explore" guide on the internet. The temple follows the plan of Meru mountain; the secret mountain and thus the five towering gopuras. The outer compound has libraries. The bas reliefs at the main entrance depict stories from the battle of Ramayan and Mahabharat, churning of the ocean by demons and gods to get Amruta, army of the King Suryavarman II and other similar ones on both left and right side.
Ram and Lakshman
Ravana at war against Ram
A partial view of the lengthy bas reliefs
Wooden stair cases to help tourists walk without falling off and also to protect the monument
An Apsara
Scene depicting Mahabharata war
Bhishma pierced by 1000 arrows
These were richly colored; some of the partial colors can be seen here. Imagine the temple in its heydays; richly colored; sculptures studded with precious stones...such grandeur.
Sri Krishna riding the chariot
King Suryavarman II and his ministers giving audience
Soldiers marching to war with horses and elephants
Khmers going to war against Chams
These are Cham soldiers
A day in the life of Khmers
A general going to war
The king going to war. How do we know he is the king? By the number of parasols he is accompanied with
The entrance to inner courtyard
Vandalized images of Hindu gods; the organic color remains
One of the towers
Inside the temple
The last tier
The central courtyard has lot of apsaras
A pediment richly carved
The topmost central courtyard has images of Buddha; they are worshiped
As seen from above
Another image of Buddha with the Buddhist flag
The central courtyard
A monk
The steps to the top
The round depressions shows how the stones came here; they were chained and pulled by elephants
The pond and on the other side are the stalls
The baray
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From Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
Phnom Penh is infamously known for its killing fields and genocide museum. The Pol Pot regime is a touchy topic. Some sections say that the brutality of the regime was exaggerated to hide the brutalities of America in that region. They say the count of people affected and dead from land mines are much more than those dead from genocide. Well, we can't get to hear the truth. But the killing fields and genocide museums show a gruesome history during the Pol Pot regime.
Its beyond imagination to see how a small group of people can treat fellow human things in the most inhuman way. All for power, fame and the madness to control. The visit to these places made me numb and you can't leave without crying. You shiver as you read the gory stories, see the blood stained clothes and broken and pierced skulls in galore. You shudder at the thought of torture means, and you can't help but weep when you learn the arduous conditions people were subjected to. Thankful that you did not belong to that era and the place. I won't be posting any photos of the actual killing field and genocide visuals since they are disturbing. Its enough for one to shudder and go ballistic.
There is not much in Phnom Penh and so most tourists enter Siem Reap; the home to Angkor Wat. But there are few who spend a day or two at Phnom Penh. The journey to Siem Reap can be on a private bus with sleepers. They are decently equipped and worth the money - 10$ per person. Traveling during the day; you can see rice fields passing by small villages and indigenous houses built on a raised platform; like what we would call our first floor with a slit here.
Toursits from all over the world travel to Siem Reap to visit the Angkor Wat Temple. Well, Siem Reap is home to clusters of similar temples; many more grand and huge than Angkor Wat, but its Angkot Wat rings a bell. There are many hotels in the town and in fact, Siem Reap is better equipped than Phnom Penh. We managed to get transferred to the hotel of the same management of the hotel at Phnom Penh - 12$ per night with unlimited access to rooftop swimming pool!. But didn't use it; rather spending time on the streets consuming the experience was better.
Lets talk about what Siem Reap is famous for. The hindu temples built in Khmer architecture are scattered throughout. There are about 15-20 of them that are most famous and grand. You are tired and beaten up by the time you finish visiting them. Yeah, feeling overwhelmed and difficult to believe are perks that comes along with it. Never anywhere else in the world would you find clusters of immaculate and exquisite architecture all hurdled up in one place as Siem Reap. Stretching over 400 sq.km including the forest area, the temples are between 6th to 15th century; Angkor is derived from Sanskrit "Nagar" meaning City.
About 6 mms from the town is the ticketing area at the entrance of Apsara Archeological Park. You can opt for 1 day($20), 3 days($40) or 7 days($60) pass. Best is to take 3 days to sink everything in but thats also very tiring. You require a minimum of 3 days to visit those important 15-20 temples. The tickets bear your face as ID so that its not transferred. There are 2 divisions of seeing the temples - Little Circuit : major sites to east of Angkor Wat and Grand Circuit : further out north and east. There are also Roulous group and outlying temples over 20 mms away from Angkor Wat.
It takes about 2-4 hours to explore each temple; one can now visualize the size and details of each temples. There is a detailed guide on how to explore Angkor Wat on the internet.
To summarize, these temples were built as Hindu(Vishnu) temples by kings in power making them as "State temples"; symbolizing the king's kingdom and rule. So we find so many temples; each state temples built by different kings throughout history. The temples also have Buddhist stupas and statues when the next king was a Buddhist. The succeeding king; if he was a Hindu, converted the temple back to Hindu temple. Now, most of the temples are not living; meaning to say Hinduism is not prevalent. The idols are defaced. The Angkor Wat has Buddhist statues and are revered.
These temples also served as testaments to the king's victory in war; so rich bas reliefs carved with war scenes can be seen. The temples are highly symbolized; the temple is a "temple mountain" where the temple is built as a representation of Mount Meru. The temples are surrounded by mounts, guarded by garudas, built in a mountain-like pyramid shape and topped by 5 towers; representing 5 peaks of Mount Meru. The baray or water reservoirs are huge; they run km long and surround all sides of the temple.
Well, you need to read books upon books to understand Siem Reap temples. We roamed around a tuk-tuk and bought a book for $4 to understand each temple. We opted for a guide only at Angkor Wat. The other temples were self guided. After 2 days of intense 8 AM - 6 PM temple touring; it was so so overwhelming and saturated that you can only marvel.
Angkor Wat is kept for the last; rather the first thing for the morning for sun rise. The first day for us for touring the Grand Circuit and outlying temples. Its convenient to travel by tuk-tuk enjoying the country side and forests.
10th century temple of Bantaey Srei (Citadel of Woman) dedicated to Hindu God Shiva. Its entirely built of red sandstone; lot of intricate carvings of stories from Hindu mythology like the one above.
Bull and Garuda carvings on a pillar
A broken Nandi
The building themselves are miniature in scale; unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. The walls are of laterite.
Combat between Vali and Sugriva
Indra and Airavatha
A typical home
Country side of Siem Reap
A young lady with her wares to sell
Temple of Pre Rup - state temple of King Rajendravarman in 961. Its a temple mountain of brick, laterite and sandstone.
Kids are very much around trying to sell their wares
A figure on the walls of the towers
Guarding lion
Inside one of the temple towers. In the centre was a linga which has been dismantled. Behind is a beheaded statue of Buddha. What I was telling about; Hinduism giving way to Buddhism, Buddhism giving way to Hinduism....
East Mebon - 3 storey temple mountain again built by Rajendravarman during 10th century.
A painter
Buddha statue revered
Ta Som, of 11th century built by king Jayavarman VII. Its largely not restored with numerous trees and other vegetation growing among the ruins. Apsaras on the walls
Entrance of Ta Som.
Seems it was a Shiva temple once.
Ruins, conservation in progress
Ruins among strangler figs and mosses. A unique surrounding to be in. The ruins, the nature showing its power...makes one feel humble.
Through the forests
Catching fish
Entrance to Preah Khan built in 12th century by King Jayavarman VII; garudas holding naga
Pediment depicting Jayavarman VIIs victory over invading Chams
Apsaras
This temple remains largely unrestored with silk cotton trees overtaking the majestic construction
Volatile and Danger
Finely carved
Stupa inside what was once a Vishnu temple
The long path shows how big the temple is
Buddha under Bodhi tree
An inscription
Who wins - Nature of Man?
A portion of the temple
Silk cotton trees reclaiming whats theirs. These trees are huge and the roots are 30-40 mts long. The challenge to archaeologists is to conserve these buildings
The purpose of these 2 story buildings are unknown, maybe libraries.
Nature is always invincible. I spent 30 mins just sitting here and contemplating the reason of our being
Well, well, the best way to remain is speechless
In a child state...
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Liverpool thrash Leicester to stretch lead as Tottenham, Man Utd close on Chelsea
Liverpool stretched their Premier League lead to 13 points by outclassing second-placed Leicester in a 4-0 win on Boxing Day as Manchester United and Tottenham cut the gap on fourth-placed Chelsea.
Mikel Arteta got off to an underwhelming start as Arsenal manager with a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth, but Carlo Ancelotti had a more positive impact on his Everton bow as Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s brilliant diving header earned a 1-0 win over Burnley.
Chelsea beat Tottenham in a big win for Frank Lampard over his former mentor Jose Mourinho on Sunday, but the gap between the two is back down to three points as the Blues lost 2-0 at home to lowly Southampton.
Spurs came from behind to beat Brighton 2-1 thanks to goals from Harry Kane and Dele Alli, while United moved just a point further back in seventh as they too overturned a poor start to thrash Newcastle 4-1 with Anthony Martial scoring twice.
– Liverpool lay down a marker –
Liverpool’s trip to their closest challengers was the top billing of a busy Boxing Day card, but there was no contest as the newly crowned world champions showed their class.
“It’s one of many successful nights so far this season,” said Liverpool midfielder James Milner.
“We are not even halfway and so much can change and happen. The strength of this team is we take it one game at a time.”
Roberto Firmino’s header was scant reward for a dominant first half display as Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah wasted big chances.
However, three goals in seven minutes in the final quarter ensured the scoreline fairly reflected their control.
Milner doubled the visitors’ lead before Firmino’s classy finish made it 3-0.
Trent Alexander-Arnold helped set up all of his side’s first three goals and rounded off a stunning individual display by drilling home the fourth from outside the box.
“We played our last two games against two of arguably the best teams in the history of the Premier League,” said Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers, whose side also lost 3-1 to Manchester City on Saturday.
– Tottenham, Man Utd close on Chelsea –
AFP / Adrian DENNIS Nathan Redmond (centre) slides in to double Southampton’s lead at Stamford Bridge
After the highs of Sunday, Chelsea again struggled when faced with breaking down stubborn defensive opponents in Southampton.
The Blues have now lost to West Ham, Bournemouth and the Saints in their last four home league games.
“We are being asked a different question at home. At the moment we are not answering them,” said a frustrated Lampard. “We do not manage to pick up that final pass.”
Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl’s decision to rest in-form talisman Danny Ings paid off as his replacement Michael Obafemi scored just his second Premier League goal with a calm finish into the top corner.
The visitors then secured a second straight win to move up to 14th when Nathan Redmond prodded past the onrushing Kepa Arrizabalaga 17 minutes from time.
Spurs were still feeling the after-effects of that Chelsea defeat with Son Heung-min suspended and confidence low when Adam Webster headed Brighton ahead midway through the first half.
Kane swept home at the second attempt after his first shot was saved by Mat Ryan before Alli then delivered all three points with a delightful chipped finish from an acute angle.
AFP / Paul ELLIS Mason Greenwood (right) and Marcus Rashford (left) both scored in Manchester United’s 4-1 win over Newcastle
United were also beaten 2-0 at bottom-of-the-table Watford on Sunday and another frustrating evening seemingly beckoned when Matty Longstaff scored his second Premier League goal – both of which have come against the Red Devils.
However, unlike when the Magpies beat Ole Gunnar Solskajer’s men 1-0 in October, the response from United was emphatic.
Martial fired in at the near post with the help of Newcastle ‘keeper Martin Dubravka before a thundering finish from Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford’s header made it 3-1 before the break.
Another defensive error then teed up Martial to dink over Dubravka for the fourth early in the second half.
– Arteta’s slow start –
AFP / Glyn KIRK Mikel Arteta could not inspire an instant turnaround for Arsenal in his first match in charge
Arteta got an early lesson in the flaws that have blighted Arsenal’s season as they were caught out trying to play from the back to concede the opening goal when Dan Gosling put Bournemouth in front.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang again rode to the Gunners’ rescue to equalise just after the hour mark, but a point leaves Arsenal still down in 11th.
“It was intense, I was so excited, I just wanted to pass that energy to the players and I really enjoyed it,” said Arteta.
Sheffield United are sixth, behind Tottenham only on goal difference, as they missed the chance to close to within a point of Chelsea in a 1-1 draw with Watford.
Crystal Palace climbed up to eighth thanks to Jordan Ayew’s brilliant individual run and finish a minute from time to beat West Ham 2-1.
Aston Villa won the battle of two of the bottom three as Conor Hourihane’s fine strike was enough to beat Norwich 1-0.
Liverpool edge Arsenal on penalties after 10-goal thriller
LIVERPOOL, England – Anfield debutant Curtis Jones scored the winning spot-kick as Liverpool beat Arsenal on penalties after an astonishing 5-5 draw to reach the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Soccer Football – Carabao Cup – Fourth Round – Liverpool v Arsenal – Anfield, Liverpool, Britain – October 30, 2019 Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka in action with Liverpool’s Rhian Brewster REUTERS/Andrew Yates
The 18-year-old kept his cool in front of the Kop to send Liverpool through after the hosts has trailed 3-1, 4-2 and 5-4 before a stoppage-time equaliser by Divock Origi.
On a crazy evening it had appeared as though Joe Willock’s screamer had earned Arsenal victory, but Liverpool proved irrepressible as their barnstorming season continued.
Both Juergen Klopp and Unai Emery changed their entire lineups from the weekend’s Premier League action.
Liverpool took the lead in the sixth minute as Arsenal’s Shkodran Mustafi scored a comical own goal.
Arsenal levelled after 19 minutes when Mesut Ozil, given a rare start by Emery, picked out Bukayo Saka in space and after his shot was saved, Lucas Torreira tapped home.
Brazilian teenager Gabriel Martinelli scored his first goal of the night seven minutes later to put Arsenal ahead, scooping in from close range after a save by keeper Caoimhin Kelleher.
Liverpool self-destructed as Harvey Elliott’s poor pass went to Ozil who played in Saka to square for Martinelli to make it 3-1, but in the 43rd minute Elliott tumbled in the box at the other end and James Milner tucked away a penalty.
Milner’s dreadful back pass allowed Ainsley Maitland-Niles to make it 4-2 but Arsenal old boy Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain crashed home a beauty shortly after to close the gap.
Liverpool equalised in the 62nd minute when Jones played in Origi who turned superbly to fire into the roof of the net.
Willock’s goal sent Arsenal’s fans into raptures again but Origi scored with almost the last kick of the game.
Klopp feels Liverpool are being rewarded for Keita patience
Jurgen Klopp feels Liverpool are reaping the rewards of showing patience with Naby Keita.
Much was expected of the Guinea midfielder following move from RB Leipzig for a reported £52.75million ahead of the 2018-19 season.
Keita struggled to hit the ground running in the Premier League and initially found himself in and out of the Reds’ starting XI.
However, the 24-year-old has started to show what he is capable of in recent games for the title hopefuls and took just 15 seconds to open the scoring in Friday’s 5-0 hammering of relegated Huddersfield Town.
That was his third goal in five outings in all competitions and Liverpool boss Klopp says Keita just needed time to show his true qualities.
“People expect if you pay money for a player that you come in and from the first day you show everything you are able to do,” Klopp said.
“That would be nice if it’s always that easy. It’s not. Naby needed time, we gave him the time and now he is there.
“It was for sure his best game, in a lot of departments. He was calm in the right moment, very, very positive-aggressive in the right moments, winning balls, blocking balls, closing gaps, passing balls, being safe with the ball, turning and creating with that moment.
“It was just a brilliant game.”
Liverpool are top of the league with two games remaining, but rivals Manchester City will return to the summit if they beat Burnley on Sunday.
Klopp: Liverpool´s December lead doesn´t matter
Jurgen Klopp was quick to dismiss any talk of Liverpool’s nine-point lead at the top of the Premier League being decisive after they thumped Arsenal 5-1 at Anfield on Saturday.
Liverpool emphatically capitalised on Tottenham’s 3-1 defeat to Wolves as they recovered from going a goal down by cantering to victory thanks to a hat-trick from Roberto Firmino, a Sadio Mane strike and a Mohamed Salah penalty.
The Reds’ advantage at the top will be cut to seven points if third-placed Manchester City win at Southampton, with the defending champions then set to host Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on January 3.
And Klopp is adamant his team’s current lead means little, telling a post-match media conference: “Tomorrow it will be seven and when we play against Man City it could be four. It’s possible.
“I’m not the smartest person in the world, but I’m really not an idiot – not always, at least. That’s really nothing. It’s absolutely not important how much points you are ahead in December, even in the end of December.
“Before the game we heard because it was on all the screens about the result of Tottenham. Did you think the party started already? I didn’t see a smile in any faces in the dressing room. Just see it and then go on.
“We came here in that situation with 54 points after 20 matchdays now completely being focused on the situation. Now it’s not about creating headlines, creating stories. It’s still about preparing football matches, play them as good as you can and try to get as many points as you can. That’s it.
“In the moment it feels like [a] marathon what we are running. Before the marathon, the weather is brilliant, new trainers, new shirt, new everything. The people say, ‘You will win today’. But first I have to run.
“The people all around us are buzzing and one guy has to run. We have to run. That’s what we try as good as possible.”
Firmino was able to complete the hat-trick as usual penalty taker Salah gave the Brazilian the ball for the second spot-kick, a gesture that amazed Klopp.
He said: “2018 ends with a Christmas present from Mo Salah. I love it, the gesture. He gives the ball to Bobby and he can score a hat-trick.
“That’s just a nice thing. In the moment, I was not too happy because in training Bobby doesn’t finish with penalties too often, to be honest. Obviously today it was his day and absolutely okay.
“Look, it worked so it was one of the nicest things I ever saw in my life. Really I don’t know a lot of players who would do that. When I saw him then celebrating with Bobby that was then like ‘wow’. Just outstanding. So far, the gesture of the season – really, really nice.”
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Leicester vs Tottenham – Match Preview
After suffering a heavy defeat to Arsenal last weekend, Tottenham had to bounce back in the best possible way against Southampton in midweek and thanks to a comfortable win by three goals to nil, that is exactly what they managed to do.
And thanks to a combination of results elsewhere that saw their London rivals drop points, it means that Mauricio Pochettino’s men have reclaimed third spot before Saturday’s visit to the King Power Stadium.
It is there where they will face a Leicester City side who are unbeaten in their last six league outings, a run of form which sees them currently occupy ninth place in the table. It is fair to say that Claude Puel’s men are going under the radar as of late, as they prove to be a tough but to crack.
The Foxes were reunited with an old face on Wednesday night as Claudio Ranieri bought his Fulham side to the East Midlands, while it was a trip that proved relatively fruitful for the Cottagers as they managed to earn a much needed point in their bid to stave off relegation.
The question for Leicester is whether or not they can continue their impressive run of form and in turn become a genuine contender for the Europa League places this season, especially as just one point separates themselves and Everton who currently lie in sixth.
To do so they will have to continue their unbeaten run, one that could be in danger with the visit of Tottenham on the horizon. That said, Leicester do seem to have their upcoming opponent’s number after a spate of recent wins.
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Bournemouth vs Liverpool – Match Preview
In what promises to be a busy weekend of Premier League action, our first port of call takes us to the South Coast as high flying Bournemouth play host to title chasing Liverpool.
Eddie Howe’s men returned to winning ways in midweek and will be looking to continue that momentum on Saturday.
The fixture computer has not been all that kind to the Cherries as of late, with recent fixtures against both Manchester outfits and Arsenal, while it is certainly no kinder this weekend with the visit of Jurgen Klopp’s men.
However, there was at least some brief respite from this tough set of fixtures on Tuesday night when they got the better of Huddersfield at the Vitality Stadium. That win took them to 6th place for 24 hours at least, although they have since been overtaken by Everton.
Still it is only goal difference that keeps the Toffees in 6th place and that will give Bournemouth hope that they can make an honest fist of competing for a Europa League place, especially if Manchester United continue their uninspiring form.
For Bournemouth’s dream of European exploits to become a reality then they will need to keep putting wins on the board, something that is easier said than done though when you consider the quality of their next opposition.
Last time out Liverpool made the relatively short journey to Burnley and even though they were given a scare in the second half when the Clarets went ahead, they eventually went up through the gears and secured a win by three goals to one.
With the games coming thick and fast in December, it was a much changed Liverpool starting eleven. One that saw Sadio Mane miss out through injury, while star duo Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino were dropped to the bench.
At one point it looked as if the gamble was going to backfire, especially when Burnley took the lead via a largely contentious goal. However, those changes at least meant that Jurgen Klopp had a backup plan should it be required.
And that plan was executed perfectly as Salah and Firmino came on to add more bite to the Liverpool attack, something that was plainly evident when the latter put Liverpool ahead with his first touch of the ball.
Eventually Xherdan Shaiqiri would wrap up all three points in the dying seconds after a neat counter attacking move was completed, but even after that victory at Turf Moor all they can do is stay on the coattails of league leaders Manchester City.
Liverpool are still unbeaten in the Premier League this season and as good as their performances have been, the question that needs to be asked is whether frustration will eventually get the better of them.
How deflating will it be to toil each week, only to then still see that you cannot get to the top. I guess the next few matches will tell us if that particular scenario will play out. However, frustration shouldn’t get the better of them against Bournemouth as they add another three points to the board.
Liverpool vs Everton – Match Preview
Three derby fixtures take place on Sunday and although the majority of them take place in London, one should not forget the small matter of a clash on Merseyside as Liverpool and Everton square off in a bid for bragging rights in the North West.
Liverpool go into this weekend lying second in the table, but the two point gap that they had at the close of last Sunday may well end up being five by the time a ball has been kicked at Anfield. With Manchester City playing the day before, they have the perfect chance to pull clear at the top.
Whatever happens at the Etihad, Jurgen Klopp and his players know that they need to concentrate on the task in hand and that is getting the better of a high flying Everton side who themselves start this weekend in the heady heights of sixth in the Premier League.
The Toffees have been going about the business quietly as of late and it is fair to say that they have flown under the radar with them now moving ahead of a continually struggling Manchester United side under the managerial reign of Jose Mourinho.
And Everton broke into the top six after a hard fought and narrow win over Cardiff last Saturday, Gylfi Sigurdsson was the hero as his second half finish from close range broke the resistance of Neil Warnock’s men.
Everton will have their work cut out to come out on top at Anfield, but at the same time they can look back on their recent draw at Stamford Bridge as evidence of what they are capable of when going up against the teams right at the top of the table.
That trip to Stamford Bridge before the November international break saw them earn a very creditable draw and had they had a bit more firepower at their disposal late on, then they could very well have earned all three points against the Blues.
Will Marco Silva look to implement a similar game plan at Anfield this Sunday? To be fair it would probably make sense, if Everton can get a foothold in the game early and pack out the midfield then it will cut off the supply that Liverpool will look to provide the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.
Salah opened the scoring last Saturday as Liverpool eventually worked their way up through the gears to beat Watford 3-0. After a goalless first 45 minutes, there was no panic from the visiting Reds as their extra quality shone through in the end.
The only blot on their copybook was the fact that Jordan Henderson was sent off for two yellow cards and will miss this Merseyside derby due to suspension. However, you get the feeling that Liverpool will have enough in their midfield ranks to cope with his absence.
And they will arguably have enough in the final third to make sure that they come out on top and continue to apply the pressure on last season’s Premier League champions Manchester City. Liverpool to win and also keep a clean sheet, looks like where the smart money should go.
Arsenal vs Tottenham – Match Preview
The battle lines have been drawn in North London as this Sunday sees the first of two clashes between Arsenal and Tottenham in the space of the next month.
Later in December, these arch rivals will square off in the Carabao Cup Quarter-finals, but this weekend the stakes are arguably much higher.
That is because it is Premier League points that are on offer with Unai Emery’s men looking to not only extend their unbeaten run which has been in place since August, but also they will look to leapfrog ahead of Tottenham in the table.
The Gunners go into this clash sitting three points behind Spurs, but safe in the knowledge that a win in front of their own fans would see them move ahead of Mauricio Pochettino’s men by virtue of goal difference.
That might be easier said than done though as Tottenham will come into this fixture with their tails up after making incredibly light work of crosstown rivals Chelsea last weekend, a win that sees them start the weekend lying third in the table.
And that is a position that they would like to solidify as they stay on the fringes of this season’s title race, and they cannot afford to cede any further ground to Manchester City and Liverpool if they want to be considered bona fide contenders.
Their hopes of success have been given a real shot in the arm after that win over Chelsea, it was a performance where Tottenham were on top from minute one. A point that was reinforced when Dele Alli opened the scoring early on.
The England international was only a substitute in England’s recent win over Croatia in the Nations League, but he showed any doubters why he should be in the starting eleven after a very impressive performance over Maurizio Sarri’s men.
Arsenal also ended up on top last weekend but admittedly their win was not as impressive. At the same time though that win over Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium is the kind of game that they would have struggled with last season under former manager Arsene Wenger.
Unai Emery’s men are of a different ilk and although they needed a large slice of fortune after Jefferson Lerma’s bizarre own goal gave them the lead, it is fair to say that they were good value for all three points in the end.
Arsenal were given a recent test at home to Liverpool recently, one that saw earn a creditable draw against the team that are currently second in the table and this weekend will provide a measure of just what the red half of North London can do this season.
Last year at this ground, Arsenal ran out 2-0 winners in a particularly one sided performance. However, in the grand scheme of things it counted for very little as the limped to a sixth place finish in the Premier League.
These two outfits are two of the Premier League form teams going into the clash, so something will have to give. At the same time, the form book does have a habit of going out the window in clashes such as this. If it ends in a draw then Tottenham will be the happier of the two sides come full time.
Liverpool vs Brighton – Match Preview
However, this is a Brighton side that will be buoyed by the fact that they managed to record a huge upset last Sunday when they got the better of a Manchester United side who have made a lacklustre start to this campaign.
For Liverpool they come into this game with maximum points after getting the better of a Crystal Palace on Monday night.They were made to work for their win in South London, but at the same time you would have to say that they were good value for their win.
Whether this means they can consider themselves serious title challengers is perhaps a little too early tell, we won’t really know the lie of the land for the first 10 matches of the season have taken place.
The objective for Liverpool will certainly be to make sure that they are in touching distance of Manchester City once the first quarter of the season is complete. If that is the case, then the belief in the Anfield camp will have no doubt increased as they hope to win a first ever Premier League title.
Their opponents Brighton will be looking to not only build on their win over Manchester United last weekend, but they will be hoping for better fortunes on the road after suffering a defeat to Watford in the first game of this campaign.
For the Seagulls, it is not necessarily these games that are going to define whether they stay up or not. In essence this becomes something of a free hit for the South Coast outfit, at the same time though the same could have been said going into their clash at the AMEX last Sunday.
United were definitely out of sorts last weekend, but as the old adage says you can only beat what is in front of you and that is exactly what Brighton managed to do. That win would have been a huge confidence for the club, especially as they are many people’s tips for relegation come next May.
If they are to survive the dreaded ‘second season syndrome’ then it is not only their home form that is going to be vital in helping them avoid the drop, but it also the picking up of more points away from home.
That could well be easier said than done though especially if the likes of Mohamed Salah and Mo Sane are firing on all cylinders. The former has seemingly picked up where he left off after winning the Golden Boot last season while the latter looks refreshed after the Summer hiatus.
Brighton will come here hopeful of causing another upset, but unfortunately for them it looks like they will be sent home empty handed as Liverpool go on to make it three Premier League wins out of three on Saturday.
Liverpool´s 30-goal hero Salah: There´s more to come
Liverpool sensation Mohamed Salah warned there is more to come after reaching the 30-goal mark in his first season at Anfield.
Salah arrived from Italian outfit Roma in the off-season and the Egypt international already has 30 goals in 36 appearances across all competitions for Liverpool.
The 25-year-old forward, who is only one goal adrift of two-time reigning Premier League Golden Boot winner Harry Kane with 22 strikes this term, reached the mark during Liverpool’s 5-0 rout of Porto in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 fixture.
“It is a great feeling to have scored 30 goals in a first season at a club like Liverpool,” Salah told Liverpoolfc.com.
“It’s something huge, so I am very happy about it – but I have to carry on and keep looking forward to score many more goals.
“In my mind I am always trying to improve and I’m doing it every single day. Every day I look at myself and try to improve myself all the time.
“I am happy at the moment, I feel good, and that’s the most important thing – and 100 per cent, there is still more to come.”
Liverpool – third in the league and two points behind second-placed Manchester United – are back in action against West Ham on Saturday.
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Sarah Lemp, Markus Hirnigel. Photo by Nonoka Judit Sipos.
2020 marks the centennial of Clarice Lispector’s birth. The Ukrainian-Jewish refugee who settled in Brazil has long been acclaimed as a feminist trailblazer in male dominated South American literature. Fortunately, her canon is newly translated into English. The New Stage Theatre Company celebrates Lispector with an evocatively uncompromising adaptation of Near to the Wild Heart. Artistic director Ildiko Nemeth’s production is both an English-language premiere and first-ever North American stage adaptation of Lispector’s 1943 debut novel.
Lispector’s writing is semi-autobiographical and surreal – the artistically experimental, not the hashtag kind. The “Wild Heart” belongs to Joana (Sarah Lemp), who is smart, bored and unhappily married to Otavio (Markus Hirnigel). He’s just as disinterested; his mistress Lidia (Katalin Ruzsik) is pregnant. Joana’s 90-minute stream of consciousness biography reveals a lifetime of uncomfortable relationships with the other men in her life, including her Father (Ken Raboy), adored Teacher (Fritz Buecker) and lover known as The Man (Maciej Bartoszewski). Her spectral Mother (Lisa Giobbi) and the bitter Aunt (Gina Bonati) who took her in only to send her to boarding school are even less comforting. When Joana owns up that her memories are a part of her reality, she resolves to life live for herself.
Artistic director Ildiko Nemeth’s production makes terrific use of The New Stage Performance Space, a basement seating approximately 30. There is no stage platform, making the actors and audience equal participants in exploring Joana’s wandering mind. Nemeth, who used Alison Entrekin’s English translation of the novel, controls the heroine’s shifting perceptions of time and reality so well that what could be heavy doses of literary tour de force is fluidly presented. Jessica Sofia Mitrani’s black-and-white video designs projected against the back wall create a properly surreal atmosphere of clinging vines, rolling waves, cloudy skies, overgrown flora and fauna and creepy eyeballs. Jessica Sofia Mitrani and Hailey Desjardins’s are exaggerated as only in a nightmare or really bad day can be.
Lispector’s feminism allows women regardless of background to see themselves in ordinary circumstances presented in unusual ways – though interior monologues are certainly not limited to books or the stage. That is why Sarah Lemp’s Joana is relatable. How many young women still experience insensitive sexist remarks from their obnoxious Father’s Friend (Theodore Bouloukos)?
The rest of the cast is equally convincing as the shadowy participants in a reality not exactly of one’s own making.
The New Stage Theatre Company’s production of Near To The Wild Heart opened December 7, 2019 and runs thru January 18, 2019 at The New Stage Performance Space (36 West 106th Street, NYC). Please note that this space is not wheelchair accessible and it’s suggested arriving about 15-20 minutes prior to performance due to a limited waiting area and the building’s primary use as a youth hostel. Schedule and ticket information are available at Ovation Tix or by calling the box office at 212-422-0028,
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England v New Zealand, 4th ODI Report by Andy Jalil
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Player: KS Williamson, GD Elliott, JE Root, EJG Morgan
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DateLine: 24th June 2015
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England level series with stunning win in record chase
Nottingham – Rarely has a team been transformed in their style of limited-overs cricket as England have so successfully. After their exit from the World Cup so ignominiously just over two months ago they have the look of world beaters. Having been set a daunting target of 350 runs to win the fourth ODI against New Zealand, they did so with dismissive ease to be home by seven wickets and with six overs to spare.
Leading them in their brilliant display was the captain Eoin Morgan with a marvellous 113 from 82 balls with 78 of those runs coming from boundaries as he dominated the bowling, advancing down the pitch several times for his attacking shots. It was another night of records tumbling. England comfortably beat their previous highest run chase of 304 against Pakistan in Karachi in 2000. They also registered their highest total batting second and it was the joint fourth-best run chase by any country.
This series has been an exhibition of high scores not just as team totals but for individuals as well with 21 scores of 50 or more in four games which is a record for a five-match series in England. Three of England’s six fastest ODI hundreds have been hit in this series. Along with the splendid innings of Morgan was the performance of Joe Root with his sixth ODI unbeaten century and the second of the series. He finished with 106 from 97 balls and the pair put on 198 for the third wicket, England’s highest ODI stand against this opposition.
The assault on the new Zealand bowling by Morgan and Root had been superbly set up by the opening pair, Alex Hales and Jason Roy who rampaged to 100 in 10.4 overs before Hales fell for 67 from 38 balls which included 4 sixes and 7 fours. It was another great display of aggressive batting in which he took 22 in one over from Mitch McClenaghan and in one 14-ball spell he hit 47 runs. The breath-taking performance by England batsmen had come after what would be regarded as a highly commendable innings by New Zealand earlier.
The tourists’ innings got off to a brisk start, with Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill’s hard-hitting stand putting on 88 from 85 balls. Guptill took his score to 30 with 4 fours in a seven-ball period. McCullum was on the attack early reaching 28 with a low trajectory six over long-off. On 88 England claimed the first wicket with McCullum, on 35 from 31 balls edging behind. Just after the hundred had come up from 103 balls, Guptill reached his 23rd ODI half century and the second of the series but with his dismissal New Zealand were 116 for two.
Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor who had put on a brilliant double century stand three days earlier, once again combined in an excellent century partnership off 97 balls. Adil Rashid was brought for the 24th over and he was soon struck for fours with Williamson taking his score to 39 from 31 balls.
After bringing up his 18th ODI half century he increased the tempo and lifted Rashid for a straight six which took him to 69 from 53 balls. His 12th four, driven to long-on, was his last scoring shot. Two balls later, just ten short of a century from only 70 balls, his drive was held at mid-off and New Zealand were 250 for four.
After the fifth wicket fell, there came the explosive stand of 71 from just 32 balls, between Grant Elliott and Mitchell Santner. It was a chastening experience for Rashid who conceded 28 runs in one over which included four sixes all hit by Santner. On 44 from 19 balls, Santner went for yet another big hit but gave a simple catch to deep cover. Five runs after Tim Southee became Ben Stokes second victim on 344, the New Zealand innings ended leaving Elliott unbeaten on 55 from 52 balls, his tenth ODI half century.
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The A–T Boyz released a new CD in late June through Hacienda Records, titled “Este Es Mi Barrio.” The CD contains 10 tracks, eight of which Raphael Rodriguez wrote. Cacy Savala also sings some duets with the singer/songwriter. Raphael posted a live video on Facebook on June 27 thanking Rick Fuentes, Mario Vigil, J. R. Gomez, among others, for their varied contributions in the making of the CD. For more information about the group, call Martha Rodriguez at 512-929-0538.
The rock band, The Krypteia Collective, is now known as Rival Waves. The multitalented members are Joel De La Garza, Marc Schulz, Erik Salinas, Frank Ramirez and Jim Shields. Listen to their first single, “Amputee,” soundcloud.com/rivalwaves/amputee to hear their brand of “guitar-driven rock and roll fused with a modern and relentlessly disruptive post-punk aesthetic.” They will be performing on Saturday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m., with Steamroller at 9 p.m., followed by MC Overlord at 11:30 p.m. at One-2-One Bar.
Ten-piece Austin soul band, The Nightowls, will celebrate the release of their new EP, “Royal Sessions,” on Friday, July 15, at the Historic Scoot Inn with Magna Carda and Cari Q.
Dança Coração are a group of Kizomba & Semba (Afro dance) instructors in Austin. They’re hosting a big Kizomba Social the First Friday of every month starting at 10:30 p.m. To learn more about the Kizomba, two instructors will be presenting new material at a workshop from 9-10:30 p.m. There is a $10 fee for each event at Esquina Tango.
“The Home of the Blues,” Antone’s, will be hosting a celebration of their 41st anniversary from July 1-16 with a variety of music and musicians daily. Most days are ticketed events ($5 and up), but there are also “Customer Appreciation” days with no cover. On Saturday, July 16, “A Tex-Mex Conjunto Dance,” tribute to legendary bassist Keith Ferguson with Conjunto Los Pinkys, featuring Isidro Samilpa, and some special guests is 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Colombian Independence Day will be celebrated with music, food, art and more with a family friendly event including artists Kiko Villamizar, Salero, La Frenetika, Favian Bustos’ Salsa Show, Ensamble Gaiteros, Ensamble musica Colombiana and DJs on Saturday, July 23, 1-7 p.m. at Kenny Dorham’s Backyard. Pre-Sale: $10 and door $13.
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The Phantom Tollbooth - Denial
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Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius, Mark Gatiss, Sally Messham and Nikki Arnuka-Bird
Director: Mick Jackson
Scriptwriter: David Hare based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book
Composer: Howard Shore
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarlovkos
Rating: R for themed material and unsettling images
Denying the Holocaust ever happened. Yes, there are those in the population who claim this---and therein lies the story of “Denial.” This is the argument between an American professor, Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), and British historian, David Irving (Timothy Spall.) Irving says there is no actual proof of a Holocaust or gas chambers or direct orders to exterminate the Jewish population. It is 1993 and Irving gets tired of Lipstadt talking about him, so he sues her for libel, and because he is a British citizen---in a British court.
The film begins and is interspersed with scenes of Deborah jogging. This clears her mind, before and during the trial. At one of Deborah’s lectures, in which she pointedly talks about Irving, he is actually present and calls her out about her comments. She refuses to take the bait and has security escort him out, whereby, he sells, or gives away free, copies of his books in the outer lobby. You can see the opposites here. Deborah Lipstadt is stoic and firm in her belief, while Irving is more of a free spirit, only too willing to talk to anyone and even offers a reward if someone can prove his theories correct. You, also, get to see the living conditions of both Lipstadt and Irving. She lives alone with a dog while he has a young child and a housekeeper.The case goes to court, in Britain, in front of a judge (no jury), and Irving is representing himself. Deborah, on the other hand, has lawyers galore provided by her publisher. In Britain, you have two legal counsels. One gathers the information in minute detail (Andrew Scott who is “Moriarity” in the Sherlock Holmes PBS series) and the other who presents the case in court, wig and all---Tom Wilkinson. Deborah has little to say, as the others plot their strategy. The legal group needs to prove that Irving knew and spoke about the Holocaust happening, way before he began his books against it. Deborah’s comments would, then, not be libel. The group is formal and to the point, while Deborah is lenient and their point of contention is whether to allow Holocaust survivors who witnessed events, to testify or not. Along the way, there are threats and the trial goes on.
Rachel Weisz does not seem comfortable in the role of Deborah Lipstadt. Her accent is somewhere between Brooklyn and Britain, and at times, her acting is stiff. Her best scenes are at Auschwitz, where she and Wilkinson go to see what used to be gas chambers and when she is telling why her name is "Deborah." Tom Wilkinson, on the other hand, as does Andrew Scott, fit into their roles as legal counsels. Scott likes to be the center of attention, while Wilkinson is at the sidelines studying everyone. When Wilkinson delivers his statements in court, it’s like a puma stalking its prey. Timothy Spall is mannerly, the man who thinks he is right about his assertions, and has an answer of rebuttal to every question. Ever the person who thinks he has been harmed in the writing field.
Much of the action takes place either in the legal counsel rooms or in the courtroom. The scenes at Auschwitz are heart-breaking and special permission was granted to film there. This is a depressing film in that such a disaster would be researched in a court of law to see if it happened or not. That is like researching WWII in a lawsuit to see if that war really happened across the globe. Irving trying to prove that Hitler was a friend to the Jewish population is a wrong way decision.
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I stumbled on this post (via Natasha Hanova) by Donald Maass, Scott Bell and Richard Volger about Story Structure (which is filled with awesome and you should read the whole thing), but this part leapt out for me:
Q: You three Story Masters each teach universal principles but also singular techniques. What dimension of storytelling is most important to you?
Donald Maass: “… there’s another consideration that I’ll pick as my most important dimension: Whatever it is that the author wants to say, or wants us to see, understand or get. You can call it theme. I call it what matters to the author. I’m amazed that many authors can’t answer that basic question about their stories, or if they can the answer isn’t an emotional one.
What in the world of the story makes you the angriest? What’s the greatest injustice? What’s the principle at stake? What in the story is closest to your own heart? What’s the most painful parallel to your own life? Answers those questions and you’re getting close to what matters. When you know what that is, you can use it more deliberately to build a story with meaning.”
I’m struggling with my theme right now (I’m plotting out my next novel), but theme has always been difficult for me (in spite of knowing its importance). I seem to know, in a generic sense, what my story is about, and I can certainly narrow it down in terms of plot, but succinctly describing the theme has often challenged me. It’s there, I just can’t seem to put it in words. And I’m a writer. #sad
I already knew Donald Maass was brilliant (read his Writing the Breakout Novel and you’ll see what I mean), but this simple paragraph was exactly the tool I needed to nail down my theme.
What makes me angriest in my novel? Well that was easy.
Intolerance.
Suddenly, I had my theme in one word, without even trying. And I could see how all the threads of my story, that I thought were an amorphous tangle of plot and character arcs, were actually a multitude of expressions of my theme: the impact of intolerance on my character, on the people she loved, on the society as a whole. It crystallized the plotting I’m doing on the next book, because I can more easily see where it needs to go and why.
Do you struggle with theme? Do you know it intuitively but struggle to put it into words? Or is it there from the beginning, like a guiding light for your story?
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Bryan Russell says
I tend to think of it as the emotional core of the novel. And apparently I write about death a lot.
Laura Pauling says
Sometimes I do but reading books with great theme have helped me a long the way. It's the heart of the story, the internal struggle of the character, it's where all the emotion lies.
Stina Lindenblatt says
I don't struggle with theme. It's one of the first things I think about when I come up with a concept.
Love Donald's explanation. That makes perfect sense. 😀
Andrea Mack says
Yay for you! It can be so hard to think about "theme" (what a scary word). I love Donald Maass's book too, I re-read bits of it to help me to think more deeply about what I'm writing.
I always come up with the theme halfway through the story… that's probably why editing takes me so long! But intolerance is something that a lot of people my age don't get and it's terrible! So it's great that that's what you're writing about!
@Andrea Maass is really great at bring out that depth, you are so right! Maybe I should go back and re-read his book. 🙂
@Jess Thank you for sharing that! It makes me even more passionate about writing this book(s)!
Matthew MacNish says
Thankfully I'm pretty sure I've got mine nailed, even if it's a secret.
1000th.monkey says
I always know within the first couple scenes what important growth/emotional arc my characters will go through, which almost always makes the theme of the store pretty tangible and hits the characters right at their weaknesses.
…figuring out the actual plot? Well, I'm a pantser… need I say more?
Tricia J. O'Brien says
Wow. Mr. Maass has a way of making abstracts very concrete. This is really a helpful quote and post, Susan. Thanks.
Shannon O'Donnell says
That is exactly what Harrison Demchick pointed out to me in his review of my MS. One of the most important emotional connections was missing, which weakened the whole story. 🙂
Munk says
Intolerance burns me as well.
Stephanie McGee says
I don't consciously think of theme. I've learned that if I do, things come off as forced. I just write the story that comes to me and if there's a theme there I might try to tease it out more in edits, but I just don't think about it. I can't, for me, or else the words come out fake.
D.G. Hudson says
Donald Maass and Bell (J. Scott Bell) are my favorites for techniques and solid 'how-to' instruction.
They tell you how to analyze your work, which helps when you have to pitch it. They identify what's important. Refining it down to the core is an art unto itself.
I could see the theme in my completed sci-fi novel after I had written two-thirds of the story. I used some of Maass' techniques to pin it down. It revolves around 'Trust' in all its permutations.
Interesting post, Susan.
Gail Shepherd says
I loved Donald Maas's Breakout book (and his workbook is super cool also, if you haven't checked that out). Theme is one of the easier elements for me; I think my personality sort of tends that way, and I like to dwell on large, universal issues. I guess in my case I have to be careful not to be too heavy handed.
@1000thMonkey I used to be a pantser (now I'm a hyper plotter), so I know what you mean. Getting from Pt A to Pt B isn't as easy as it seems! 🙂
Rick Daley says
For me, the theme drives the plot, and I usually have a good sense of the theme from the beginning and allow it to subconsciously guide the characters through the story.
For THE MAN IN THE CINDER CLOUDS, the theme of virtue is pretty overt from the get-go. The fun part was finding a creative way to show the theme, and its impacts, through the characters and the story. Sometimes it's tough for me to avoid being preachy.
With RUDY TOOT-TOOT, the theme of "there's a right time and place for everything" was with me from the beginning, but it took many revisions to draw it out into a complete story.
For my first draft of my first novel, I tried to make a novel about a theme, but quickly realized that without characters, setting, and plot, I didn't have a story.
Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina says
Hi, Susan, I left you an award on my blog — The Versatile Blogger Award. Stop by and pick it up.
Natasha Hanova says
I love it when things are explained in a way we can immediately understand, relate to, and apply to our work. Donald Maass is brilliant.
@Natasha I completely agree! 🙂
jbchicoine says
I don't have a clear sense of my theme when I begin a story, but as soon as I know my character and what he/she is up against, the theme crystallizes and it's always emotionally based.
Thanks for that little excerpt! It is very reassuring! 🙂
Bane of Anubis says
Theme's not too difficult for me, though sometimes I find myself too focused on it (i.e., worrying about how the story reflects back to it) or w/ one too many sub-themes (a problem I also have with plot)
Angela Brown says
I haven't really focused so much on a theme. It's something this post has me thinking about now, especially for my WIP UNCOMMON.
*brain hurting, steam pluming from ears as gears grudgingly turn*
Cherie Colyer says
I do think I have a good idea of theme when I start a book. Although I don't focus on it as I write the first draft. Thinking about my YA novel and the MG I'm working on, the themes are very close even through the stories are worlds apart. I guess I know where my head is.
My dash said you had a new post, but now it's gone!
Ghenet Myrthil says
I didn't have an issue with theme in my WIP. I didn't think of it when I thought of the plot, but after writing the draft, I saw what it was. I love Donald Maass' advice.
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Every year in early December, TimberWest gets the opportunity to recognize important local community groups in the Lake Cowichan area thanks to the hard work of Jayne Ingram, co-owner of BRI Security, and retired town councilor.
Over the past several years, Jayne has coordinated the TimberWest U-Cut firewood lots in Lake Cowichan, and developed the giving-back culture strongly associated with the permit sales, where 100% of the funds collected are donated back into the community to worthy organizations during TimberWest’s annual Day of Giving in December.
So far the program has generated more than $45,000 with all proceeds directly supporting important local organizations.
“It’s amazing how the whole program, which benefits so many different community groups, has evolved over the years,” Ingram reminisces. “It had such a simple start too – with just a coffee and a muffin, and a conversation with TimberWest.”
Some of the community groups who have benefitted from the TimberWest program include the 1st Lake Cowichan Scouts, Cowichan Lake Food Bank, Lake Cowichan Fire Department annual Toy Drive, Cowichan Lake Community Services, Cowichan Lake Community Garden, Palsson Elementary School, Lake Cowichan’s Seniors Centre and the Lake Cowichan School.
Ingram is enthusiastic about all of the groups and the volunteers who run the organizations, and says the entire community consists of compassionate individuals who are only too willing to give their time for a worthy cause.
“We are a community rich with volunteers,” says Ingram.
Cowichan Lake Community Service executive director Carol Blatchford says the TimberWest firewood program has been a much-appreciated funding source for them over the years.
She explains the funding her organization receives is used for their many children and youth programs that includes what Blatchford refers to as one of her favourites, “the YLT program otherwise known as Youth Leaders in Training.”
Youths who work for the YLT program are responsible for younger children who register for the activities the YLT program provides. Those activities include trips to fun destinations such as the Escape Room in Nanaimo.
“Without donations from companies like TimberWest, we wouldn’t be able to provide those kind of organized activities that are so well attended and appreciated as the majority of kids who take part in our programs would not otherwise be able to afford the activities our programs offer.”
Another popular program Cowichan Lake Community Services offers is Girls Troop. Blatchford explains those registered with Girls Troop learn about self-esteem and life skills with a strong focus on cooking.
“With the donation money from TimberWest, we are able to buy supplies needed to run the program,” explains Blatchford. The food Girls Troop members prepare is then shared with their families as well as any community members who show up at Community Services in need of a meal.
Lake Cowichan School’s resources teacher Kevin Smith is responsible for the school’s Meals on Wheels program that involves students with developmental disabilities who are given the opportunity to learn food preparation skills and the importance of giving back to the community.
Smith explains the community firewood program provides enough funding each to make the program sustainable.
“We can run the program and not have issues with things like buying groceries and we can even spruce up some of the recipes.”
The program involves approximately a dozen students between grades four to 12. Smith explains his Meals on Wheels group is broken into two groups who prep and package the meals so they can transport them once a week to those most in need.
“We take the meals to people in our community and some of the outlying communities. It’s an important service as there’s no ministry services for this sort of thing,” says Smith.
TimberWest’s Chief Forester and VP of Sustainability Domenico Iannidinardo says the company has been honoured to be in a position to support Island community groups and the important work that they do.
“The Lake Cowichan firewood permit program is a great example of how a small idea can lead to big results and have a growing impact on making the community a better place,” he explains. “Thank you Jayne for running such a successful program and to everyone who buys a firewood permit; your contribution makes an impact where you live.”
For more information on the TimberWest firewood permit program please visit http://www.timberwest.com/our-neighbours-and-communities/
To learn more about how to give to the local community groups, please visit their websites.
Cowichan Lake Community Services http://www.comserv.org/
Lake Cowichan School Meals on Wheels program: http://lcss.sd79.bc.ca/
Jayne Ingram with the Lake Cowichan Fire Department. The TimberWest U-Cut firewood program supports the Fire Department’s annual Toy Drive. 2017.
Jayne Ingram with teacher Kevin Smith from the Lake Cowichan School. Kevin is responsible for the school’s Meals on Wheels program. 2017.
TimberWest with the Lake Cowichan Fire Department at their annual Toy Drive. 2016.
Jayne Ingram passing along some holiday cheer during the annual TimberWest Day of Giving with Ginny Saboe with the Lake Cowichan Seniors Centre. 2018.
Chelsey Toth with TimberWest passing along some holiday cheer during the annual TimberWest Day of Giving with Carol Blatchford and Sherry Sohye with the Cowichan Lake Community Service 2018.
The 1st Lake Cowichan Scouts at the 2016 TimberWest Day of Giving.
2018 TimberWest Sustainability Progress Report
Igniting community generosity, one firewood permit at a time
Year in Review – 2018
Timberwest and Indspire announce new post-secondary Indigenous Forestry Education award
First of its kind $100,000 endowment for indigenous students pursuing graduate studies in forestry
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Home Our Volunteers Stories The Sweetest Smile in the World
Friday, 27 June 2014 17:03 Tzu Chi Foundation
The sweetest smile in the world is the smile of a sick person. That is what volunteer Wu Jin-zhu learned during her service at Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital in southwest Taiwan.
“I could not experience the pain of Grandmother,” she said. “But I could be at her side and encourage her to go on.
“In March this year, I was serving in the hospital’s emergency unit. I saw an elderly woman coughing large amounts of blood. The doctor asked her if he could do a gastroscopic examination; but she firmly refused. The family asked me to help them persuade her to change her mind. Just as I was about to speak, the lady said to me angrily: ‘I am the person who has the pain. It is not you. Of course you cannot feel it. If you want the examination, you do it!’
“Her words made me feel deep regret. I thought for a long time that there must be a better way to talk to patients and make them believe that we volunteers are sharing their pain.
“In April, I returned to the hospital as a volunteer and, in the emergency unit, came across another Grandmother. She was spitting blood and phlegm from her stomach. The doctor wanted to do a detailed examination of her stomach. Her husband was at her side and trying to persuade her; but she was not willing. I remembered my last experience. Although I was afraid of making the same mistake, my heart told me ‘do it!’
“I said to Grandma: ‘if you have an examination, then the doctor will be able to make an accurate judgement and give you better treatment. Although I cannot feel your pain, I deeply wish to bear it with you. Let us get through this together. Is that all right?’ She thought about it for a while and said finally: ‘all right’. I stayed with her at her side to help and encourage her until the procedure was completed.
“At the end, I saw on her face how exhausted she was and my heart was uneasy. Then she said: ‘thank you very much’. When I saw her kind smile, I thought of what Master Cheng Yen said: ‘the most beautiful smile in the world is the smile of a sick person.’
“I said to Grandmother: ‘you have given me the most beautiful smile in the world. I must thank you very much.’ She smiled back and was very happy. My heart was full of happiness. Gratitude and failure are both a force to help us grow!”
Story shared by Tzu Chi volunteer Wu Jin-Zhu in Morning Volunteer's Assembly on August 25
Edited by Lin Shu-huai
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It’s the mission moniker that has stirred a backlash within the libertarian community for months. Not much is known about Operation Jade Helm, a series of military exercises involving thousands of troops and several of the most elite Special Forces groups in the country. Some fear that these drills represent a serious threat; a U.S. military preparing to take over private land for federal use. Others aren’t casting their suspicions in any specific direction, only concerned that the military isn’t being more open about the purpose of the drills.
The controversy has inspired a civilian group called Counter Jade Helm to form in Texas, where the mission is set to begin next week. The Houston Chronicle reports that a volunteer force of more than 200 people will begin stalking the training drills, monitoring them in an effort to see exactly what they’re up to. “If a team member sees two Humvees full of soldiers driving through town, they’re going to follow them,” said team member Eric Johnston. “And they’re going to radio back their ultimate destination.”
Keeping track of the military’s exercises will be no mean feat; Operation Jade Helm is cloaked in secrecy and there is no public information regarding where the drills will take place. Still, the counter group intends to chip away at that secrecy as much as possible. “We’re going to be watching what they do in the public,” one former Marine told the Chronicle. “Obviously on a military base they can do whatever they want. But if they’re going to train on public land, we have a right as American citizens to watch what they’re doing.”
It may all sound like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but most of the group’s member insist that they are merely trying to figure out what’s going on. “We just want to see what they’re doing and make that information public,” said Johnston.
The military refuses to comment specifically on the drills, but they did release a statement denying the worst of civilian suspicions. “This training exercise will go mostly unnoticed; not interfere with private citizens and not violate their privacy and rights. It will not disrupt their economies or livelihoods. State and local officials will receive updates as the exercise progresses and they are equally committed to ensuring the training occurs smoothly.”
Of course, the civilians suspicious of Jade Helm are not particularly worried about a couple of weeks of “disruption.” They are concerned that the federal government is stepping over the Constitution by pressuring landowners to yield to the armed forces. Governor Greg Abbott is so concerned about the exercises that he has ordered the Texas National Guard to monitor the operation.
Is this much ado about nothing, or is there something sinister being planned by Obama’s military? As nice as it would be to dismiss the worst of the theories, this White House has not earned the benefit of the doubt.
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WDIM Podcast
A bi-weekly podcast about anything and everything! Movies. Music. Books. Life. The Universe. Everything!
Episode #34: Politically Correct With Pixxie Haxx!
Pixxie Haxx is a very unique individual that I'm glad to have met!
We hit it off musically right away. And we talk about pretty much almost everything!
The episode starts at 11:15 but you should really LISTEN to this most important intro!
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Pixxie sings!
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Double standards.
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From the EP Inside Again
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Episode #33: Consume Or Produce with Mikey Mason
Hey, folks! It's time for a new episode of What Does It Matter? Podcast!
Comedy rock legend Mikey Mason is BACK on the show!
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Enhanced ID (Cont'd): Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Congo - 46th Meeting, 40th Regular Session Human Rights Council
19 Mar 2019 - Enhanced interactive dialogue on:
- The oral update of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo A/HRC/40/47 Item:10 - Technical assistance and capacity-building
Belgium, Mr. Geert Muylle
UNICEF, Ms. Anne Grandjean
Germany, Mr. Fridtjof Dunkel
Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Dvorák
Togo, Mr. Awoki Koinzi
Russian Federation, Ms. Olga Tchekrizova
Netherlands, Ms. Monique T.G. Van Daalen
France, Mr. Iyad Jaber
Egypt, Ms. Chahinda Emadeldin Hussein Mohamed
Switzerland, Mr. Lukas Heinzer
Ireland, Mr. David Mathews
China, Ms. Shao Wu
Cameroon, Mr. Côme Damien Georges Awoumou
Ukraine, Ms. Dina Martina
Congo, Mr. Aimé Clovis Guillond
Angola, Ms. Marilia Manuel
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ms. Miriam Shearman
Austria, Ms. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
Australia, Ms. Lisa Gittos
Dominicans for Justice and Peace - Order of Preachers (Joint Statement), Mr. Mike Deeb
Action internationale pour la paix et le développement dans la région des Grands Lacs (Joint Statement), Mr. Daniel Delisle
Lutheran World Federation, Mr. Emmanuel Gore
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Ms. Sonia Tancic
International Service for Human Rights, Ms. Adelaide Etong Kame
World Organisation Against Torture, Mr. Sidore Collins Ngueuleu Djeuga
CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Ms. Lisa Majumdar
Rencontre Africaine pour la defense des droits de l'homme, Mr. David Wenk
Mr. Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (Final Remarks)
Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (Final Remarks)
Ms. Sheila B. Keetharuth, International Human Rights Experts on Kasai (Final Remarks)
Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, International Human Rights Experts on Kasai (Final Remarks)
H.E. Ms. Marie-Ange Mushobekwa, Minister for Human Rights of the Republic Democratic of Congo Mushobekwa (Final Remarks)
Mr. Abraham Ndjamba Samba, Coordinator, Synergy of Citizen Observation Election Missions (SYMOCEL) (Final Remarks)
Belgium, Mr. Geert Muylle 00:01:42
UNICEF, Ms. Anne Grandjean 00:03:42
Germany, Mr. Fridtjof Dunkel 00:05:16
Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Dvorák 00:07:21
Togo, Mr. Awoki Koinzi 00:09:44
Russian Federation, Ms. Olga Tchekrizova 00:11:59
Netherlands, Ms. Monique T.G. van Daalen 00:13:39
France, Mr. Iyad Jaber 00:15:44
Egypt, Ms. Chahinda Emadeldin Hussein Mohamed 00:19:43
Switzerland, Mr. Lukas Heinzer 00:21:15
Ireland, Mr. David Mathews 00:23:33
China, Ms. Shao Wu 00:25:28
Cameroon, Mr. Côme Damien Georges Awoumou 00:26:57
Ukraine, Ms. Dina Martina 00:28:01
Congo, Mr. Aimé Clovis Guillond 00:30:05
Angola, Ms. Marilia Manuel 00:31:35
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ms. Miriam Shearman 00:32:46
Austria, Ms. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger 00:34:51
Australia, Ms. Lisa Gittos 00:36:44
Dominicans for Justice and Peace - Order of Preachers (Joint Statement), Mr. Mike Deeb 00:38:26
Action internationale pour la paix et le développement dans la région des Grands Lacs (Joint Statement), Mr. Daniel Delisle 00:40:42
Lutheran World Federation, Mr. Emmanuel Gore 00:42:52
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Ms. Sonia Tancic 00:44:55
International Service for Human Rights, Ms. Adelaide Etong Kame 00:47:06
World Organisation Against Torture, Mr. Sidore Collins Ngueuleu Djeuga 00:48:49
CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Ms. Lisa Majumdar 00:51:02
Rencontre Africaine pour la defense des droits de l'homme, Mr. David Wenk 00:52:56
Mr. Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (Final Remarks) 00:54:41
Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DRC, MONUSCO (Final Remarks) 00:56:55
Ms. Sheila B. Keetharuth, International Human Rights Experts on Kasai (Final Remarks) 01:02:52
Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, International Human Rights Experts on Kasai (Final Remarks) 01:07:24
H.E. Ms. Marie-Ange Mushobekwa, Minister for Human Rights of the Republic Democratic of Congo Mushobekwa (Final Remarks) 01:09:47
Mr. Abraham Ndjamba Samba, Coordinator, Synergy of Citizen Observation Election Missions (SYMOCEL) (Final Remarks) 01:15:25
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DAXX/ATRX, MEN1, and mTOR pathway genes are frequently altered in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors Academic Article
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
DNA Helicases
Nuclear Proteins
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) are a rare but clinically important form of pancreatic neoplasia. To explore the genetic basis of PanNETs, we determined the exomic sequences of 10 nonfamilial PanNETs and then screened the most commonly mutated genes in 58 additional PanNETs. The most frequently mutated genes specify proteins implicated in chromatin remodeling: 44% of the tumors had somatic inactivating mutations in MEN1, which encodes menin, a component of a histone methyltransferase complex, and 43% had mutations in genes encoding either of the two subunits of a transcription/chromatin remodeling complex consisting of DAXX (death-domain-associated protein) and ATRX (α thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked). Clinically, mutations in the MEN1 and DAXX/ATRX genes were associated with better prognosis. We also found mutations in genes in the mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) pathway in 14% of the tumors, a finding that could potentially be used to stratify patients for treatment with mTOR inhibitors.
Jiao, Yuchen
Shi, Chanjuan
Edil, Barish H.
De Wilde, Roeland F.
Klimstra, David
Maitra, Anirban
Schulick, Richard D.
Tang, Laura H.
Wolfgang, Christopher L.
Choti, Michael A.
Velculescu, Victor E.
Diaz, Luis A.
Vogelstein, Bert
Kinzler, Kenneth W.
Hruban, Ralph H.
Papadopoulos, Nickolas
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Book Review: “Windhorse Warrior” by R C Friedericks, (Pub.) Niyogi Books
August 25, 2019 Reviews India Leave a comment
Niyogi Books never fails to impress their readers through their exceptional literary masterpieces. Continuing this chain, they have presented another remarkable story of a Windhorse Warrior by R C Friedericks. The book features a Chinese man Chuang Wei Ming as he treads the path of finding his objectives and in the process is drawn closer to Buddhism, the legendary King Gesar and his self awakening. The story takes its readers to the Central Asia in the year 1947 at Shanghai, China.
A bewitching tale of love…
Jiachen took her last breath in Wei Ming’s arms. She left him in the visible world but stayed by him in the form of an invisible force which led him towards his road to enlightenment. He went on following Jiachen’s belief in Communism and hence, a boy belonging to an elite family of China converted into a communist party member.
The story that initiated in China, later on travelled to Tibet. Wei Ming volunteered for the Chinese movement of introducing communal reforms in Tibet. Through genuine communist values along with the wisdom and honesty in his heart, Wei Ming succeeded in winning the trust of Tibetans. He spoke like them, dressed like them, helped them with his insight and became a part of them.
However, to some he was still a Chinese, an outsider or a Gyame. The situation worsened with the aggressive approaches of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Tibet. The true virtues of communism started being undermined and the PLA turned more into a conqueror than a reformer. The incidents pushed Wei Ming into the state of confusion and lack of clear perception.
In his journey full of twists and turns, the most enchanting incident was meeting Dechen, his Dakini. Dechen was not an ordinary person and so did Wei Ming. She catalyzed Wei Ming’s spiritual transformation and sowed the seed of Buddhism in his heart. Together, they awakened their people and shown them the Golden Way.
United, we can bring this world to its full beauty and live in it as fully awakened human being. Come with us on the Golden Way! (P.g. 445)
But, destiny didn’t forget to play its cruel game on the mortal yet the eternal lovers.
Warriors of Peace…
Windhorse Warrior gives an idea of resisting the enemy and evil by resorting to non-violence. It portrays warriors who struggle to bring peace and harmony. Moreover, it features many strong men and women – playing significant roles in Wei Ming’s story and are indeed true Buddhists as well as warriors.
Glimpse of Tibet and Tibetan history…
The ancient Tibetan society and its scenario is beautifully described in the story. The political ruckus of that time and its impact on the people, culture and prevailing circumstances are precisely illustrated and therefore, effortlessly connects to the reader. The plot revolves around and also mentions at many junctures the ancient legend of King Gesar. The eminence of non-violence, love, peace and equality rules throughout the story and promotes the luminous concept of Buddhism and enlightenment.
Windhorse Warrior is a love story set in an ambiance of political hustle and bustle. It is an exceptional expedition of Wei Ming from a privileged boy to a communist comrade and ultimately to a spiritually awakened being, a Babdrungpa. His transformation from Wei Ming to Chodak-la and his glorious days of Tibet proves to be an exciting read.
BHABYA SINGH
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Who Were the Two Prisoners at the End of Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
[Spoiler Warning: This post is full of plot details from Captain American: The Winter Soldier. For non-spoilers, here’s why the latest film gives the Marvel Universe exactly the kind of reboot you didn’t know it needed.]
Like every Marvel movie in The Avengers franchise, there are post-credits scenes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier for those who wait. Here it is, if you left the theater early or want to see it again.
This time, we see Hydra agent Baron Wolfgang von Strucker talking with another operative in a hidden lab about the fact that all of the secrets of SHIELD and Hydra have been released on the internet for all to see (not to mention, “trending” according to Black Widow).
Baron Strucker reassures his fellow Hydra agent that the only secrets revealed were the ones Fury and his team knew about. There are still several Hydra locations working on projects that SHIELD didn’t know about.
At this point, Strucker says they have something that is worth more than any of them ever knew. We then see Loki’s staff, the one used to kill Agent Colson in The Avengers. He says they have only scratched the surface on what they can do with it.
Baron von Strucker says they will keep Captain America and his “colorful friends” busy with some of the many other Hydra labs, so their more important work can continue.
They continue walking and discussing developments with their volunteers. Those killed in the experiments will be “buried so deep their own ghosts won’t be able to find them.
When the other scientist asks about “survivors,” the camera pans to show two prisoners, referred to as “the twins,” in clear cells. The young man is rapidly bouncing off the walls of his cell, while the young woman sits on the floor controlling several blocks floating in front of her.
Von Strucker says it is no longer the time of spies or even heroes – we have entered “the age of Miracles” and “there is nothing more horrifying than a miracle.” The girl claps her hands together and the blocks fly.
“Miracles” appears to be how mutants will be referred to in the Marvel universe – outside of the X-Men franchise owned by Fox. In relation to Marvel movies, owning the X-Men gives Fox exclusive rights to the word “mutant.”
The twins are actually Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. This article from Screen Crush gives you a lot of background on the two and the roles they may play in the upcoming movies in the Marvel Universe.
They are the children of Magneto (yes, that Magneto, which one would assume would go unnamed in these movies) and have been part of the Avengers at several different points in the comics, despite starting off evil.
As far as a brief summary of their abilities, Quicksilver can move and think at superhuman speeds and Scarlet Witch can alter the probability of things with hexes.
While that sounds innocuous, in reality she is extremely powerful with the ability to explode things, stop bullets or projectiles and create forcefields among other things. Since they show her levitating blocks, it appears she may have telekinetic powers in the films.
Here’s a video discussing the post-credit scene and giving you some background comic book info on the two.
There’s also a second post-credit scene that shows Bucky (aka the Winter Soldier) in the Smithsonian learning about Captain America and his own fate. He realizes that Captain was telling the truth.
If you are looking for other Easter eggs in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, here is a list of 16 interesting scenes to keep an eye out for when watching Marvel’s latest blockbuster.
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Bill's Bucket List
From November 29, 2015, that's "Bill's Bucket List." C.I. noted:
Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts "Bill's Bucket List." Bill Clinton declares, "People say, 'Bill, you're a former president. Won't you be bored as First Spouse? Heck no! The East Wing is the only place in the White House I've never had sex. Bucket list!" Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts.
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I usually post an old comic here on the weekends. I'm posting now because of C.I.'s snapshot. She's had great snapshots all week, dealing with serious and real issues. Her discussion of terrorism today is a must-read and the reason I'm posting.
Thursday, January 17, 2019. ISIS is never going to be defeated by a military, the 21st century has a new Thomas Friedman and . . . it's a girl!!!!, and much more.
Kevin Liptak (CNN) huffs:
Military commanders warned President Donald Trump on December 26 during his surprise visit to Iraq that -- despite his claims to the contrary -- ISIS was not entirely defeated in Syria.
People familiar with the President's reaction said the conversation was eye-opening for a leader who days earlier claimed the terror group was defeated "badly" in the country.
Despite his claims? Oh, Kevin you and your ilk are such an embarrassment. Check out this site in December 2017 and all through 2018 -- despite the media claiming ISIS was defeated in Iraq, we noted reality, it wasn't defeated.
Remember how the US media repeated the lie over and over -- in part to assure Americans that Hayder al-Abadi was some sort of hero. They did similar things with Nouri al-Maliki. The American media was not reporting, it was advancing talking points from the US State Dept -- it wasn't about what was, it was about what the US government wanted you to see.
Liptak really needs to check his sense of self-importance. I love the "surprise visit" -- as though every visit hasn't been a surprise one. King Abdullah II of Jordan's visit this week was a 'surprise visit' with the kingdom denying up until the king landed that he was going to Iraq. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bully Boy Bush all made 'surprise visits.'
Kevin thinks he's sniffed something out -- I'm sure he has and maybe now he'll learn to wipe?
In the meantime, will all the children please leave the room? In the meantime, let's try to get honest. US troops are not going to defeat ISIS. Not in Syria, not in Iraq, not anywhere.
ISIS is not a country, it's not a force of a country. ISIS is a terrorist organization. They are not defeated in war. All war aimed at a terrorist organization ever does is recruit more members.
By declaring war on them, you elevate them.
When Ed Snowden went to Russia and Barack began his verbal attack on Vladimir Putin, we noted he was elevating Putin. And he was. We noted the same thing with regards to ISIS. But on that one, Barack grasped it. It's why he made his junior varsity crack.
Whether you think it's earned or not, the US is hated in many sections of the world. If it helps you to stop sobbing, there are sections that like -- maybe even love -- the US. But the country is hated in sections of the world.
So inflating ISIS automatically creates sympathy for the terrorist organization. 'The imperial devil is against ISIS? Yea ISIS!' But more to the point, the US at war against ISIS?
What likes to think of itself as the lone super power at war against ISIS?
Do you not get the kind of drama that creates, the kind of support?
It's Goliath (the US) versus David (ISIS).
You can't get better recruitment than that.
ISIS will never be destroyed by war.
Terrorism is an ideology and it is born from a belief of imbalance. When that belief is backed up with something like 'The US declares war on ISIS!,' you have recruitment and increased membership.
Terrorism is a crime. It needs to be fought as you would fight a crime. It needs to be arrests and public trials. Not shipped off to Guantanamo with whispers about what someone may have done. You fight terrorism with open discourse and debate, with democracy.
The US military will never 'win' against ISIS. That's not a job a military can handle.
Idiots who don't grasp that are like the liars who pretend they don't in order to keep never-ending wars going.
The smartest thing Donald Trump could do would be to remove all US troops from Syria -- as well as Iraq. It would be safer for both Americans and Iraqis if that happened. As it is, ISIS recruits flowed to both countries due to the presence of the US.
While the children are still out of the world, let's point out another reality with regards to terrorism: when people feel wronged, it would do the larger society good to consider the validity of those claims.
The PKK is a group that fights for Kurdish rights. They are labeled a terrorist organization by many (including the US government). Turkey is happy to bomb northern Iraq (killing and wounding many civilians) while they pretend they are attacking the PKK. But at what point in our history do we look at the grievances of the Kurds? When do we examine it for validity?
PKK actions have always decreased when it appeared that an examination might take place, an honest inventory. Ten years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- yes, Erdogan -- reaped a few benefits by giving the impression that an honesty inventory and dialogue was about to take place. It never did and violence returned.
Though, of course, the Kevin Liptaks couldn't report it that way. They had to lie and make it nefarious and complicated and twisted because heaven forbid we ever illuminate basics in foreign relations. The US government doesn't want you to understand its actions, it only wants you to nod along with whatever they do.
ISIS will be defeated by law enforcement, by recognizing real injustices and addressing them, by an open dialogue where participants -- even those not belonging to the government of a super power -- feel their voice is heard and the future is something that they have a stake in.
These are not complicated issues. Getting someone to buy-into their own future is neither a new nor novel concept. But the Kevin Liptaks exist to pass along stupidity, not to inform.
Open the doors, let's allow the children back in and move to another topic.
IRNA News AgencyVerified account @IrnaEnglish 1h1 hour ago
@JZarif : US, Pompeo has no right to meddle in #Iran-Iraq ties
bit.ly/2MhSA95
From my point of view, the US government has no business telling the Iraqi government (or any government) who they can be friendly with and, yes, Iran and Iraq sharing a border, it is important that the two nations get along.
But I do understand why some would disagree.
This chart gives one reason.
MarketWatchVerified account @MarketWatch 5h5 hours ago
30 countries receive 82% of all U.S. foreign aid, led by Afghanistan and Iraq, while 121 countries get less than $100 million each on.mktw.net/2DaLpwy
Afghanistan gets the most US dollars with $5.7 billion. Second place? Iraq with $3.7 billion. When you're taking $3.7 billion, you're really going to be expected to take a few strings with that money.
Look at the struggling countries above, the non-oil rich ones. They get peanuts while oil-rich Iraq gets $3.7 billion -- and this while the whole world knows how corrupt the US-installed Iraqi government is.
The Iraq War hits sixteen in two months. Sixteen years. Sweet sixteen. Will it ever end?
At THE NEW YORK TIMES' AT WAR blog, Iraq War veteran Russell Worth Parker shares:
On our return to Camp Lejeune, N.C., we were freed to spend a night with our families. Unable to sleep, I woke my wife at 2 a.m. and made her watch “Napoleon Dynamite,” a movie that so divided my platoon I thought we would come to blows over its absurdities. I wanted her to see and understand something about the previous seven months of my life. I didn’t know how to tell her about a 2-year-old child toddling through window glass shattered by an explosive charge and leaving tiny, bloody footprints on the polished concrete floor of his home. Later that morning, more than a hundred Marines assembled in a final unit formation behind a large brick building immediately across the New River from a demolitions range. Before we were dismissed for the last time as a unified group, some Marines across the river detonated a substantial charge. We all visibly flinched, some of us dropping to the ground, all of us conditioned to dodge the shrapnel and fire that invariably accompanied loud blasts in Iraq. We looked around at one another and slowly stood back up, laughing at ourselves but sharing a level of understanding that has since been elusive.
Ironically, that common understanding is both the thing we most need from each other as veterans and the thing that keeps some of us from effectively reconnecting with civilians, a critical factor as we become civilians ourselves. Sajer’s notion of remaining separated from the human condition, though he claimed not to feel regret, is nothing less than self-imposed exile. Just as I felt when I stood before that Iraqi policeman, it is my responsibility to say something, to find some sort of connection. I just ask that you not get frustrated or awkward and turn away if the translation comes haltingly, or if the truth proves to be more than you wanted.
The headline notes that people are ready to share their stories but are others willing to listen?
A dialogue isn't parallel play. It requires speaking, listening, debating, thinking, exploring. Russell Worth Parker wants to initiate a conversation. Hopefully, it will lead to a lively exchange.
Maybe even an honest one -- if Max Booty can stay out of it. Maxie's still high on the wars he never fought in and serving up more garbage at THE WASHINGTON POST:
It is impossible to say why the Islamic State struck now, except that it could. But there is little doubt that the announced U.S. withdrawal gives the terrorists an inducement to attack. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a colleague of mine at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes about a recent trip to Syria in Foreign Affairs. She notes that the U.S. troop presence in towns such as Raqqa and Manbij was virtually invisible yet highly significant. Two female university students she met in Raqqa told her that the Americans “provided the invisible force field that kept ISIS down and the Russians, Iranians, and Turks at bay.”
He's referencing the deaths of US troops yesterday (see yesterday's snapshot). If it's impossible to say why the Islamic State struck, then how can it be possible to state "the announced US withdrawal gives the terrorists an inducement to attack"? Oh, Maxie, you are as laughable as your online photo. Do you think look sexy? You don't. You look ridiculous. And what's his name? Matt Drudge, that's his name. Matt Drudge should sue you over that photo claiming you're trying to appropriate his look.
As for the laughable Gayle Tzemach Lemmon?
I do love how her Wikipedia entry presents her as Diana Prince, formed from clay! I love that. It's so novel and so unbelievable. Where does the "Lemmon" come from? Per Wikipedia she was apparently sired by her mother and grandmother -- the woman has no father.
At any rate, she's become the 21st century Thomas Friedman. He spent how many columns 'exploring' the world via his anonymous cab drivers? She does it with these female university students she's always stumbling across.
The notion that these people pop up before Thomas and Gayle and just happen to say exactly what Tommy and Gayle wanted them to say? That sort of creative license exists for novelists, not journalists. But them those aren't really about journalism, are they?
Wait, wait, wait a minute. As Vanessa might say.
Gayle is the new Thomas Friedman. Is Thomas Friedman her father? No wonder she doesn't list her father in her Wikipedia entry. No wonder.
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What Fetal Personhood Laws Mean For Abortion Rights And Beyond
Usually Diane's weekly show goes up on Fridays. This one is already up:
With last October’s confirmation of conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade came under greater threat than any time since it became law in 1973. But the movement to erode the protections Roe provides has made steady progress at the state level for years, including in the form of fetal personhood laws.
A special series by the New York Times editorial board explores what these laws are, how they’ve been used to successfully chip away at Roe v. Wade and why women with wanted pregnancies end up prosecuted under them.
The series will appear in print on Sunday, January 20th.
Lauren Kelley The New York Times Editorial Board, Women and Reproductive Rights Editor
You can stream it now at the link.
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Coinbase Wants To Be Too Big To Fail
Posted on September 27, 2018 by John Adams
THE NEW TITANS OF FINANCE prowl a glass fortress 3,000 miles from Wall Street. High above San Francisco’s Market Street, their headquarters take up three floors with sweeping views of the bay and city below. The reception desk bears jars brimming with chocolate coins near a jokey “Initial Chocolate Offering” sign. Beyond it, in an open space with no corner offices, big shots poached from Silicon Valley giants sit beside junior hires clutching free cans of LaCroix. This is the home base of Coinbase, the buzzy startup that wants to rewire the financial system around blockchains and digital currency.
But good luck finding it. There’s no logo outside the building or in the lobby. Nor is there any signage in the hallway outside that reception desk, just fortified metal doors and an intercom. Coinbase employees maintain a low profile, they explain, because most own virtual cryptocurrency, some ?in quantities that make them multimillionaires on paper.? A kidnapper could capture someone and “pull out their fingernails,” a staffer says, to learn the location of their fortune—as if betting your career and well-being on a volatile, unproven financial technology weren’t stressful enough.
Such is life at Coinbase, a company where the mood alternates between upbeat and under siege. It was founded in 2012 as an exchange that lets individuals and companies easily buy and store digital currencies, most notably Bitcoin. And by 2017, when investor interest in those currencies moved to the mainstream, Coinbase was perfectly positioned to capitalize, becoming a 21st-century Wells Fargo for a new digital gold rush.
In short order, Coinbase became the first U.S. cryptocurrency startup to earn a $1 billion “unicorn” valuation from investors, and the first to bring in $1 billion in annual revenue. (The still-private company is profitable, according to regulatory filings, though it won’t disclose specific earnings.) Coinbase now claims 25 million customer accounts—a five- fold increase from two years ago—putting it on a par with traditional finance giants like Charles Schwab and the brokerage arm of Fidelity. The tech press is buzzing about new, higher-valuation funding rounds and a looming IPO. And the company’s first-mover status has made it something of a home planet for the universe of crypto-oriented business; a surprising number of top industry figures are connected, in one way or another, to Coinbase and its 35-year-old founder and CEO, Brian Armstrong.
Still, life at the top is tense. Coinbase owes its preeminence in part to last year’s unprecedented speculative surge in cryptocurrency investing. Today the buoyant Bitcoin runs of 2017 seem a distant memory, as more investors question the value of assets that have?yet to prove their staying power. Many of the most popular digital currencies trade 80% or even 90% lower than their peaks last December, and the popping of the bubble has erased a staggering $600 billion in market capitalization. The collapse has meant less trading and less commission revenue for Coinbase, even as new low-fee competitors threaten? to turn the company’s core service into a commodity—and even as the company recovers from self-inflicted problems that alienated customers during the boom.
Presiding over all this is an introverted founder who sees the cryptomania of 2017 as just one chapter in a longer story. Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian. And he wants Coinbase to become the banking empire that brings those tools to the masses.
Armstrong and his colleagues have laid the groundwork for that future, carefully wooing regulators and investing in new technology. What he hasn’t done yet is convince the wider financial world that crypto is a must-have technology. If Armstrong can’t eventually make a compelling long-term case, it may be not just Coinbase that crumbles, but an entire industry.
THE IDEALIST: Brian Armstrong at Coinbase’s San Francisco headquarters. “I really want to see crypto be used by a billion people in the next five years,” he says.
Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune
GROWING UP IN SAN JOSE, Armstrong often felt bored and confined. His parents, both successful engineers, provided a comfortable upbringing and a brisk intellectual environment. But while Armstrong saw the Internet as a tool to change society—in the same way Apple’s Steve Jobs and Intel’s Andy Grove who built their empires minutes from his househad done with computers and chips, two decades earlier—he fretted that others had beat him to it. “By the time I graduated from college and I was starting to work, I felt maybe I was too late—this Internet revolution had happened,” he said.
Armstrong arrived early, however, for the genesis of a different revolution. While surfing the web at his parents’ house on Christmas of 2009, he encountered a nine-page paper written by a pseudonymous author named Satoshi Nakamoto. The idea it described—a global currency beyond the reach of banks or governments—was so compelling he began to read ?it again, tuning out his mother’s entreaties to join the holiday festivities downstairs.
Nakamoto’s paper is now famous for describing the architecture of Bitcoin—and the broader notion of using a global network of computers to maintain a common record ?of any kind of transaction. Like other early believers, Armstrong became enamored of the idea of a financial system that could minimize the influence of middlemen and politicians. His fixation grew after a trip to Argentina. He recalls sitting in restaurants in Buenos Aires where prices on menus were covered with stickers that changed almost daily—symptoms of rampant inflation that had wiped out the savings of ordinary people. Bitcoin, he thought, represented a way to store or transfer wealth beyond the control of rapacious states. It was digital gold.
Childhood photograph of Brian Armstrong. Armstrong says he saw the Internet as a tool to change society: “By the time I graduated from college and I was starting to work, I felt maybe I was too late—this Internet revolution had happened.”
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For this vision to come to pass, though, ordinary people would have to use crypto- currency—and in its early days, that was wildly impractical. Would-be Bitcoiners had to engage in a recondite rigmarole of downloading “wallet” software and then funding the wallet with an offshore bank transfer or working with shadowy middlemen.
Armstrong’s vision was to make the process more akin to buying stock online. In 2012, he left his job as an engineer at Airbnb to make it a reality. He designed Coinbase to allow customers to use traditional bank accounts to purchase cryptocurrency. Whereas buying Bitcoin had once required serious tech chops, the Coinbase version was more like using PayPal or Venmo. And instead of requiring users to store currency using complicated cryptographic keys, Coinbase stored it on customers’ behalf.
There turned out to be plenty of demand for an easy-to-get Bitcoin service; barely a year after launching in late 2012, Coinbase reached the million-customer mark. At a time when concerns about drug dealing and money laundering hovered over the crypto world, Coinbase took pains to comply with know-your-customer laws and other strictures of U.S. banking law. And during last year’s mania, as hundreds of new crypto “coin” investments sprang up, the company—fearful of scams or trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission—declined to sell the vast majority of them. (Today there are?15 cryptocurrencies with a market cap over? $1 billion, but Coinbase offers trading in? only five of them.) Fretting about compliance didn’t endear Armstrong to the crypto world’s self-styled renegades, whose tastes run towards cocaine, Lamborghinis and anti-government diatribes. But it has put Coinbase on the cusp of regulatory approval for a broker dealer license. It is also in talks to obtain a federal banking charter—a once unthinkable idea for any Bitcoin-related company.
“What matters in financial products is the first-mover advantage and who sets the standards,” says Christian Bolu, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. “Coinbase is assuming that mantle and setting the regulatory agenda.”
Charts show price of Bitcoin and estimated number of Coinbase users
The company is also a darling of blue-chip venture capital firms, including early investors Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. The latter’s $25 million investment in 2013 came as the VC community’s first truly big bet on cryptocurrency. The young CEO, his backers say, quickly revealed an instinct for self-improvement. “Every meeting you have with him, he sends follow-up questions,” says Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen. “He’s constantly curious and looking for mentorship.” Armstrong’s bid to better himself is almost pathological. Last year, he obtained his pilot’s license but largely lost interest upon becoming satisfied he could fly a plane. At Coinbase, Armstrong will grill employees about what he, and they, could do better: He once emailed his performance review from HR to the entire staff in order to solicit tips.
He consumes large numbers of books, mostly by audio. His tastes include science and behavioral psychology, but lean to management bromides and great man biographies (Steve Jobs, the Wright Brothers, Dwight Eisenhower). Reading Michael Malone’s Bill and Dave, a history of Hewlett-Packard, prompted Armstrong? to urge employees to approach him anytime with ideas, lest someone else snap them up. “Steve Wozniak, when he was an engineer at HP, brought them the Apple 1,” Armstrong recounts. “He’s like, ‘I built this, I think HP should manufacture it.’ And they said no. And, of course, then he left and created Apple Computer, right?” Armstrong’s nightmare, it seems, would be for success to elude him after being right under his nose.
BUT WHEN SUCCESS did arrive, Coinbase and Armstrong found they had a?lot to learn about managing it. In 2017, as Bitcoin and other digital currencies rose 20-fold or more in value, Coinbase made a killing on trading fees. During the height of the mania, Armstrong has said, Coinbase signed up more than 50,000 new customers a day. This led the company’s website to crash and sputter and leave the site’s engineers to feel like they were holding back an avalanche with Saran Wrap. For some Coinbase customers, the site became a hellish experience, as glitches reigned and orders went unfilled. Twitter and the website Reddit lit up with anguished accounts of money stuck in limbo and customer service tickets landing in black holes, unresolved for days. Dozens of other customers filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau and the SEC.
Hackers, meanwhile, began targeting customers with elaborate phishing and bank fraud scams; Coinbase was at one point spending 10% ?of its revenue on resolving fraud-related issues. Employees weren’t happy, either. The chaos left many engineers and customer service reps working 18-hour days, and some quit in exhaustion.
Another serious hiccup occurred on June 21, 2017, when a high-net-worth “whale” abruptly sold millions of dollars’ worth of the popular currency Ethereum. The result was a “flash crash,” as prices plunged from $320 to under 10¢ before shooting back up again, triggering automated sell orders that resulted in some unlucky investors ditching their whole position for a pittance. Unlike most big stock exchanges, Coinbase hadn’t built a trip wire to halt trading in the case of a panic selloff—a big technical blunder. Armstrong eventually decided to rescue the victims by canceling their side of the trades—a calm-restoring but costly proposition.
At the peak of the crypto boom, Coinbase took another hit to its credibility over its handling of Bitcoin Cash, a spinoff of Bitcoin. It initially declined to support the new cur- rency, then reversed its position after a wave of customer complaints. But in December, just before Coinbase announced the reversal, there was a sudden, unusual uptick in Bitcoin Cash’s price—sparking speculation that Coinbase employees had traded on inside information and bought the currency in anticipation of an influx of new money. According to a former employee, the outcry led Coinbase to abruptly delete two of its channels on the messaging app Slack, which employees used to discuss the crypto market and trading strategies.
Coinbase concluded after an internal investigation that its employees had not engaged in insider trading, and the company tells Fortune it closed the Slack channels out of an abundance of caution rather than any wrongdoing. Given the evolving regulatory regime around cryptocurrency, it’s not clear that trading the currencies based on inside information would even be illegal. Still, the controversy, combined with the site’s customer service woes, sent a message: Just as cryptocurrency was commanding a national spotlight, Coinbase seemed unready for primetime.
Its struggles didn’t scare away investors, however: In August 2017, the startup raised $100 million, giving it a $1.8 billion valuation. That provided Armstrong with the capital and clout to hire talent that could help him right the ship. Coinbase poached longtime Twitter operations executive Tina Bhatnagar to help repair its customer service shambles, and it brought on HP veteran Asiff Hirji as COO. Armstrong has also committed to hiring inclusively: Coinbase, by company rule, interviews three qualified people from underrepresented backgrounds for each open position, and 33% of leadership roles are held by women.
Employees give their boss high marks for staying on an even keel as the crises unfolded. Armstrong himself believes he found his footing as the company grew. At first, he recalls, “I thought [a CEO] had to be a military general, barking orders. But I feel I’ve embraced my own style of leadership, which is a little bit more collaborative. It’s seeking the truth, not trying to be right. I also realized you shouldn’t try to be something you’re not because that’s the worst kind of leadership.”
Coinbase has also doubled its headcount over the past year to nearly 1,000. The extra staffing has helped restore work/life balance and reduce the number of all-nighters. Arm- strong, for his part, is showing his staff that he too can chill out. This includes recapturing some of the vibe from the company’s early days. Back then, Armstrong and Coinbase’s third employee, Olaf Carlson-Wee (who today runs Polychain Capital, the largest U.S. crypto hedge-fund) would team up in epic Halo matches against business VP Fred Ehrsam, a former high school gaming champ. There was also a lot of ping-pong and rock-climbing. Today’s version of chilling out includes Armstrong indulging his penchant for belting Disney songs in the office and at off-site karaoke. One staffer (who calls Armstrong a “great singer”) described the CEO leading a recent Little Mermaid sing-along at a bar in San Francisco’s Castro District.
PART OF YOUR WORLD: Armstrong with staffers at Coinbase’s San Francisco headquarters. The CEO wants the company to eventually become the crypto equivalent of a global bank.
Jason Henry—The New York Times/Redux
Customer service, meanwhile, has improved dramatically under Bhatnagar, says Mike Dudas, a Google veteran who runs a crypto-news startup The Block. By mid-2018, Coinbase claimed to have eliminated 95% of its backlogs, and it says it responds to complaints within 10 hours—a far cry from the peak of the Bitcoin mania, when many tickets took a week or longer to resolve.
Of course, if complaints are a far cry from where they were, that’s because Bitcoin mania is too. Cryptocurrency prices have lost more ground since December in percentage terms than the Nasdaq did during the dotcom bust of 2000–02. The research firm Diar recently reported that Coinbase trading volume has dropped from over $20 billion in January to less than $5 billion a month this summer.?Since Coinbase charges commissions that range up to 1.99% of the value of each trade, the simultaneous plummeting of values and volumes is a double whammy. And its margins are under threat from new competition. Over the past year, fintech companies Robinhood and Square and European brokerage eToro have wooed crypto investors with low- or no-cost trading. That ominous drumbeat adds urgency to one of Armstrong’s biggest missions: converting Coinbase into a diversified blockchain-banking giant that isn’t solely dependent on trading revenue.
IT’S A SWELTERING EVENING in Washington, D.C. as Armstrong, clad in a tan suit, sits down for dinner. He and a small retinue are gathered in a hotel restaurant near Dupont Circle, where the food is both expensive and mediocre. Tucking into poached salmon, he reflects on his day meeting lawmakers and senior regulators. Armstrong, ever the Silicon Valley engineer, is not wowed by the political atmosphere. “I think my favorite part was the underground train,” he says, referring to the hidden monorail that whisks elected officials and elite visitors to and from the Capitol. Still, the CEO and his team have been persistent in educating the political class about cryptocurrency and blockchains. And these efforts are paying dividends, as more regulators see the technology as a useful tool rather than an inherently criminal threat—opening more opportunities for Coinbase and its competitors.
In addition to its impending broker-dealer license, Coinbase has won permission to provide custody services for big institutional customers that wish to own cryptocurrency assets. These services could prove lucrative if the company can lure more big players like mutual funds, pensions, and private equity funds to trade with it. There’s already some progress on this front: Earlier this year, its services aimed at professional traders and institutions—primarily wealthy “family offices” and cryptocurrency oriented hedge funds—surpassed its consumer platform as the company’s biggest source of trading volume.
“I don’t think it’s going to be easy,” cautions Richard Johnson, a financial technologies expert with consultancy Greenwich Associates. “The institutional market will be a different one for them to crack,” especially since mainstream fund managers are waiting for a stronger regulatory framework before investing.
Emilie Choi, vice president of corporate and business development. Choi, a veteran of LinkedIn, is a tech M&A specialist; she has helped Coinbase buy nearly a dozen smaller blockchain and finance firms to build out its own empire.
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But recent acquisitions could help Coinbase be ready when that framework emerges. One of its recent hires is Emilie Choi, VP of corporate and business development, who presided over 40 acquisitions at LinkedIn. Since signing on in March, Choi has helped Coinbase snap up nearly a dozen small blockchain and financial firms that could help it provide a broader range of services. Still, for a company that likes to style itself as “the Google of crypto,” Coinbase is still waiting for an encore hit to its trading platform, along the lines of Google adding Gmail or Maps or YouTube to its core search service.
Right now, Coinbase’s most promising project, say Johnson and others, involves a new class of investments known as security tokens, which represent investable assets as tokens on a blockchain. Armstrong has spoken of building an alternative investment market around such tokens, run by Coinbase. Supporters say tokens could be used to convert assets that are relatively illiquid and expensive—privately held companies, for example, or art and other collectibles—into units that are easy to trade.
Trying to understand security tokens and their implications is much like trying to grok the Internet in 1994. Just as people were puzzled by terms like “browser” two decades ago or “app” a decade ago, the vocabulary of blockchain—including “tokens” and “wallets”—is still baffling to many. One of the industry’s better explainers is Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, a charismatic 38-year-old with spiky hair, salt-and-pepper stubble and eyes that glisten. Srinivasan has written a series of influential essays on tokens’ potential to remake the venture capital industry.
“Blockchains are the most complicated piece of technology since browsers or operating systems,” he says, adding that only a handful of savants possess the expertise in a range of fields—including cryptography, game theory, networking, databases, and cyber-security—to wrangle them. But tokens are different, he explains. They can be built by a much broader class of engineers, while still taking advantage of blockchains’ powerful attributes, such as being tamper-proof and indestructible. And when used to securitize assets, they represent an efficient new way to recognize and distribute ownership.
Balaji Srinivasan, Chief Technology Officer. Srinivasan joined Coinbase this spring when it acquired Earn.com, a crypto startup he founded. He’s an expert on security tokens, tech that Coinbase thinks could be the foundation of a blockchain-based investment market.
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David Sacks, the venture capitalist and founding COO of PayPal, sees U.S. real estate— a $7 trillion market that is highly illiquid—as particularly ripe to be subdivided and sold via tokens. “It’s like going from an analog to a digital system of ownership. Today, a deed or private security is a piece of paper in a file cabinet somewhere. A token digitizes it,” said Sacks, who is backing a company called Harbor that creates code to ensure tokens comply with security laws. The real estate idea is already moving from theory to reality: The owners of the upscale St. Regis in Aspen, for example, announced in August that they would sell a 19% stake in the hotel in the form of tokens.
Preston Byrne, a financial consultant and cryptocurrency lawyer, argues that the security tokens will make it easier for businesses ?to raise capital, by streamlining regulatory compliance and record-keeping—as information that currently occupies dozens of disparate files gets consolidated onto blockchains. Tokens could also make companies less reliant on investment banks and other middlemen, slashing the costs associated with mergers, acquisitions, and the issuance of equity or bonds. “Coinbase is in a very good position to leverage all that because they’ve got the tech,” Byrne says. “This is where the rubber hits the road, as tech startups start eating big banks’ business.”
The big banks, of course, may eat before they get eaten. Flush with cash and stocked with their own tech talent, financial monoliths like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are funding their own blockchain projects. And Coinbase hardly has a monopoly on crypto- currency trading technology; rivals including Circle and Gemini are also jockeying to build institutional trading platforms.
Still, Coinbase remains an investor favorite. Multiple sources confirmed to Fortune that the company is in the final stages of a hefty funding round. In April, when Coinbase acquired crypto company Earn.com, reports leaked that Coinbase projected its own value at about $8 billion. The company has not confirmed that figure but doesn’t dispute it.
As for the broader cryptocurrency revolution, Armstrong hasn’t lost sight of the ideal of a global payment system independent of banks and governments. To this end, Coinbase is building software called Coinbase Wallet to help ordinary investors navigate the world of tokens. And Armstrong remains even more ambitious than his investors. “I really want to see crypto be used by a billion people in the next five years,” he says.
This article originally appeared in the October 1, 2018 issue of Fortune.
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GAL Aviation and MENA Aerospace Form Aircraft Interiors Joint Venture
VIP Airliner Interiors Services Launched in the Middle East .
Dubai, UAE, November, 2011 – GAL Aviation Inc. of Quebec City and MENA Aerospace Enterprises WLL of Bahrain will establish GAL MENA WLL, a joint venture based in Bahrain which will provide comprehensive services for corporate aircraft and VIP airliner interiors design, refurbishment and installation. GAL MENA will set up fabrication and design capabilities as well as carry out training in the particular trades associated with this activity.
Ralph Eisenschmid, MENA Aerospace Enterprises group chief executive officer said: “We are very excited to be involved in the establishment of the region’s first business aircraft interior refurbishment center. GAL Aviation brings a wealth of experience to the venture which, when coupled with MENA’s regional presence, will provide a new level of service and expertise to the region’s aircraft owners and operators.”
Marc St-Hilaire, GAL Aviation partner and vice-president of business development, said: “The demand for these products and services is very strong. Since GAL’s team has a proven track record in working in these areas, we felt it was a natural evolution to join forces with MENA Aerospace to provide the operational platform and regional network from which to deliver these services. This operation will focus on aircraft cabin refurbishment, reconfiguration and warranty programs. This complements our operation in Canada, where we design and produce new aircraft cabin components for major business jet manufacturers.”
The services will be provisioned from purpose-built GAL MENA facilities in Bahrain and at its hangar at the Bahrain International Airport, and supported by GAL Aviation’s production center in Canada. The companies are confident that GAL MENA WLL will be operational by the second quarter of 2012.
About GAL Aviation Inc.
GAL AVIATION is a member of the GAL group of companies. GAL Interiors specializes in the computer-assisted design, engineering, manufacture and certification of cabin components for business, private and VIP aircraft, for both retrofit and ‘green’ installation. Specifically, this company unit focuses on galleys, lavatories, cabin liners and sheet metal and machining, structural provisions manufacturing and finishing, electronic devices, water system and electrical installations. The company also provides certification and documentation services to FAA, TC and EASA standards. Engineering and design for all equipment also meets these international standards.
GAL Technical provides consulting /outsourcing services in the field of business, corporate, VIP airliners and commercial aircraft. Included in its offering are entry-into-service and field representative support; maintenance planning and control; mobile technical team and project management support for airframe heavy maintenance and modification; quality control and records management; engineering and maintenance programs; aircraft interiors removal, refurbishment and reinstallation; maintenance administration and training, and AOG and warranty programs support.
About MENA Aerospace Enterprises WLL
MENA Aerospace Enterprises WLL is the primary holding company and administrative head for all companies and business units within the corporate group. The corporate group consists of MAE Aircraft Management WLL which holds an Aircraft Operating Certificate issued by Bahrain’s Civil Aviation Affairs to commercially operate aircraft; MAE Jet Charters Company WLL which sells and coordinates V-VIP and corporate travel on chartered business jets; SA MENA Avionics WLL, an EASA Part 145 & 147, FAA and BCAA approved MRO which specializes in the installation, maintenance and repair of avionic and electronic systems on board aircraft and MAE Aviation Real Estate, a developer and operator of an aviation business center and 6,400 square metre hangar at Bahrain International Airport. MENA Aerospace was established in Bahrain in 2004. The corporate group is majority Bahraini owned, and employs in excess of fifty people at its offices and facilities located in various areas of Bahrain.
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Captain John Hart 1870.
Hart’s Mill is one of the most iconic buildings of Port Adelaide and is the longest continuously serving flour mill in South Australia, operating from 1855 to 1980. It was built under the direction of John Hart, a significant colonial figure, three-time Premier and instigator to much of the development of Port Adelaide.
Hart’s Mill was the largest and most technologically advanced mill in South Australia and at the time was claimed to be the best in the southern hemisphere. It was built to create an export market for the State’s produce and successfully shipped the finest flour all over the world. “Hart’s Flour” was regarded as one of the best and commanded the highest prices in Australia.
The large building that we all know today as Hart’s Mill was the second mill built on the site in 1894.
Hart’s Mill c. 2006. (Photo by Valerie Sitters)
In ~1894 the mode of power for the mill was converted from steam to electricity. A large electric motor was connected to the main driving wheel in the motor house adjacent to the mill building. The 1.5m diameter wheel transfers its power via rope belts to a system of drive-wheels, shafts and secondary wheels throughout the building.
Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide, Drive Wheel Diagram.
On the 14th of March 1905, the mill was destroyed by fire with the loss of everything apart from the brick walls which remained standing. All of the internal timber structure, floors, windows and roof were lost together with nearly all equipment.
Hart’s Mill, Port Adelaide, 1905 Fire.
After an insurance payout of £10,356, the internals of the mill was reconstructed and new machinery purchased. The mill re-commenced operation in March 1906.
In 1928, a major upgrade of machinery was carried out and it was in this general form in which it operated through until its closure in 1980.
Some of the machinery still remains in the building including roller mills (1928), purifiers (1905), flower dressers (1928), arc bleachers, drive shafts, rope belts as well as a 360 HP electric motor (1928).
The scene inside the working mill is hard to visualise, but would have been similar to this mill in Howe Indiana:
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At least three dead, nine injured in shooting at Halloween party
MattGush/iStock(LONG BEACH, Calif.) -- A shooter fired into a crowd of several dozen people outside a home in Long Beach, Calif., late on Tuesday night, killing three men and leaving nine others injured, authorities said.
The victims were at a backyard party in downtown Long Beach, a city south of Los Angeles, when someone began firing "almost indiscriminately" from an alley, the city's police chief Robert Luna said at a press conference.
Luna said it appeared the gathering was of work colleagues who had come together for a Halloween party, and that most of the victims were not Long Beach residents.
The shooter, described as a man of unknown race, is believed to have fled the scene in a dark-colored vehicle, Luna said, adding that it was not clear if others were also involved. He said no one has been detained and that police have been canvassing the neighborhood.
"Why would somebody do something this horrific? We don't know, but I can assure you we're going to work very hard to try and find that out," Luna said. "When you look at this -- and again, this is preliminary -- I don't believe this was just a random act of violence."
The shooting began after 11 p.m on Tuesday night and two police officers responded within a minute of the emergency call, Luna said.
Of the nine people who were wounded, seven were adult females and two were adult males, he said.
At 10:44 pm, @lbfirefighters responded to shooting at a residence on the 2700 block of 7th Street. An MCI was declared with a total of 12 patients. 3 confirmed fatalities (adult males) 9 patients transported to local area hospitals. 5 immediate & 4 delayed. PIO onscene. pic.twitter.com/k8txxNqZfL
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Maternal-State Conflicts:
Claims of Fetal Rights & the Wellbeing of Women & Families
Sponsored by The National Advocates for Pregnant Women and
The Mt. Sinai-Based Clinical Education Initiative
January 25-27, 2002, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City
Preliminary Agenda
Friday, January 25: Day 1 (pre-conference)
1:00-10:00 p.m. Coalition & Community-Building Workshop, Facilitated by Be Present, Inc.
Through this conference, NAPW hopes to foster a broader understanding of maternal-state conflicts and develop a wider coalition of people willing to work together to oppose them. Participants in the conference come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and areas of interest. We will be coming together to address issues that are sometimes very personal and always politically charged. Our differences and the nature of our subject, which touches on pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, drug use, and HIV, to name a few, often divides us and as a result, limits our effectiveness. This training provides an opportunity to look specifically at how we get divided and to gain new insights and skills to work together more effectively for social justice.
Saturday, January 26: Day 2
9:00-9:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:30- 11:00 Opening Plenary: Reframing the Debate: Maternal-Sate Conflicts Controlling Women & Families in the Name of Fetal Rights.
This session will feature an overview of the history, most recent emergence, and consequences of the maternal-state conflicts. Panel members will discuss so-called ³fetal rights² policies and practices that are in effect today, as well the role of race, class, and gender in who is affected by such policies. The plenary will also address the relevance of the maternal-state conflict to a variety of different movements, examining how a wide range of progressive causes have a stake in this debate/issue.
11:30-1:00 Breakout Session (Period One)
Room One: Fetal Images and Ideologies
Anti-abortion groups have long used the image of the fetus as an organizing tool. This image has also influenced popular and political culture, affecting everything from what laws are proposed, to how health care is provided. This session will explore images of the fetus, mother, pregnant woman, and drug-using pregnant women in popular culture, focusing on the effect of these images on such things as the recent stem cell debate and on our understanding of maternal-state conflicts.
Room Two: Are Claims of Fetal Rights New?
Over the course of history, claims of fetal rights have arisen in various contexts. Panelists in this session will explore the history of fetal rights claims, placing current claims in historical context, and specifically addressing their recent rise to prominence in medical and legal contexts.
Room Three: Creating Crises: Crack Moms, Drunk Babies, and Welfare Queens
Consciously or unconsciously, many people accept the framework of ³maternal-fetal conflicts.² Images of neglectful mothers and vulnerable newborns, combined with flashy catch phrases like ³crack moms,² ³crack babies² ³FAS babies,² and ³welfare queens,² have been used effectively to create a sense of crisis and a politic that blames individual mothers for larger social problems. This panel will discuss the history, the research and myths underlying these labels, the policies that have resulted, and the consequences to women and children.
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Breakout Sessions (Period Two)
Room One: The History of Maternal-Fetal Medicine or How the Mother Magically Disappears
This session will examine the advent of ³maternal-fetal² medicine and the medical community¹s role in the creation of so call ³maternal-fetal² conflicts. Panelists will also discuss the role of new technologies, such as 3-D sonogram imaging, and address the beliefs, attitudes, and policies that underlie current approaches to the medical treatment of pregnant women. Panelist will offer alternative frameworks for addressing and defining this conflict.
Room Two: How Medicine & Medical Care are Co-opted by Fetal Rights
Fetal rights claims are often used to justify intrusions into health care that do not benefit women or children. In fact, these measures often serve to drive women away from health care and to compromise the relationship between provider and patient. In this session, health care providers, advocates, and recipients will talk about the ways in which claims of fetal rights have affected their ability to provide or receive appropriate health care.
Room Three: Providing Care for Pregnant Women: Addressing Hard Cases & Finding What Works
Some argue that fetuses are best protected by threatening pregnant women with punishment for behavior deemed ³dangerous.² However, many health care providers and outreach workers who have direct contact with pregnant women have found alternative approaches more effective. This panel will discuss programs and services, including harm reduction and outreach models, that are effective, respectful, and humane.
4:00-5:30 Breakout Sessions (Period Three)
Room One: Women as Bystanders to Their Own Bodies
In many ways, fetal rights claims have served to position women as bystanders to their own bodies under the law, by denying them fundamental rights to bodily integrity and self-determination. Panelists in this session will examine this trend, exploring how fetal rights claims shape everything from tort law, to the workplace, to health-law, to end of life decision-making policies.
Room Two: Prosecuting and Punishing Pregnant Women: Protecting Fetuses or Controlling Women?
In the last decade, approximately 200 pregnant women and new mothers have been arrested on claims of fetal abuse. While some women are being sent to jail because they failed to ³protect² the fetus, other women in INS and other forms of detention find that they cannot get prenatal care and are subjected to searches and conditions that endanger them and their pregnancies. Pregnant women with HIV might be punished for making informed treatment refusals, or women might find that their welfare or health benefits are cut if they continue a pregnancy to term. In particular, panelists in this session will discuss the range of punitive and contradictory responses to pregnant women and the ways in which these reveal agendas unrelated to so-called ³fetal rights.²
Room Three: Legislation and Strategy: How Do Legislators and Lobbyists Deal With Claims of Fetal Rights?
This panel will examine legislation and policy on the federal and state levels. Panelists will discuss pending federal legislation including the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act, as well as ³fetal-rights² policies at the state level. Legislators and lobbyists will discuss how they have responded to these proposals, examine both successful and unsuccessful legislative battles on the issue, and discuss how future battles might be reframed to address the real issue of maternal-state conflict.
Sunday, January 27: Day 3
9:30-11:00 Breakout Sessions (Period One)
Room One: Reproductive Health Care and Claims of Fetal Rights
While it is widely understood within the reproductive rights movement that fetal rights measures are part of a long term strategy to undermine the right to have an abortion, less attention is paid to how these claims affect access to a wider range of reproductive health care, including alternative birthing providers/settings. This roundtable discussion will explore the relationship between fetal rights claims and reproductive health care access, focusing on finding the common ground between such groups as midwives and abortion rights activists in the search for responses to claims of fetal rights.
Room Two: In the Name of the Children
Policies based on claims of fetal rights are often justified by the argument that they are protecting children. Can reproductive rights and children¹s rights advocates find common ground in their efforts to protect women, children and families? This roundtable discussion will feature panelists sharing their personal experiences, examining policy implications, and exploring opportunities for collaboration.
Room Three: Maternal-State Conflicts and Progressive Political Movements
How are fetal rights claims connected to other political movements? How does the image of the drug-using pregnant women relate to so called "welfare reform" and other efforts to limit income support programs? Are these claims used to undermine coalitions for health care, disability rights, protection of the environment, and drug policy and prison reform efforts? This roundtable discussion will examine these issues and explore how our respective movements might be strengthened by a shared understanding of maternal-state conflicts.
11:30-1:00 Breakout Sessions (Period Two)
Room One: Organizing and Coalition Building
This workshop will address how to organize and build coalitions to respond to so called fetal rights measures, how to talk to the opposition, community organizing, and what types of actions organizations and their members can take to oppose attacks on pregnant women and a range of progressive issues in the name of fetal rights.
Room Two: Media and Communication
This session will feature communication strategies for people and organizations who are opposing fetal rights measures. In addition to examining current images in the media, panelists will address concerns about perceived damage that might occur from being in alliance with controversial issues/groups, how to talk to the media about fetal rights issues, counter-imaging strategies, and redefining issues as maternal-state conflicts.
Room Three: Strategies for Legislation and Litigation
This workshop will explore approaches for activists and advocates seeking to overturn or combat fetal rights legislation and litigation.
1:00 2:30 Closing Lunch
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National Advocates for Pregnant Women
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Away from the world of RIAT, there's been something lacking at military airshows for the last few years. With ever shrinking defence budgets, participation has wayned and we haven't seen many shows do that much different. Leuchars 2006 saw a reversal of the trend. Paul Johnson/Flightline UK heads north of the border for the annual airshow. All Photography copyright Paul Johnson/Flightline UK.
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Display No.4000!!!!
The Red Arrows display at Leuchars was a very special occasion for the team as it marked their 4000th display. Red 10, Flt lt Andy Robins said "It is a huge honour to be part of The Red Arrows during the Teams 4000th Display, a moment which will go down in the Reds history. This will definitely be something to look back on when The Red Arrows are performing their 5000th Display!"
The military airshow scene in the UK has been dominated by RIAT for a long time now. Even with the quite disappointing affair in 2002, RIAT has maintained it's dominance and we don't see that changing - it is after all so much more than a normal airshow. However it has been the case that this dominance combined with the drawdown of much of the usual participating nations's air arms has seen the other UK military shows suffer as air arms are not able to commit to so many airshows. The shrinking UK air arms too are no longer able to support airshows anything like they used to. True, Yeovilton is an exception having been able to keep the Commado Assault and it's massed displays of air power, but such things have been absent from public RAF airshows for quite a while now. However, we are pleased to report that in 2006, RAF Leuchars managed to put on a truly memorable event with plenty that simply wouldn't be seen anywhere else.
The RAF did not perhaps support the event so well as a whole with several types missing completely. However, there was still a good mix of types from the inventory on static shows as well as the full compliment of display aircraft in the show, bar the Merlin HC3 and C-130J both of which were cancelled for operation reasons. RAF displays are always very pleasing to the eye but Flt Lt Chris Knight did an absolutely superb job of shoeing off the tiny little Grob Tutor T1 basic trainer to the crowd. With the introduction of the Typhoon F2/T1A so important to Leuchars, it was good to see the type displayed twice with a 3sqn example well placed in the static display with other RAF types. One type that made a very late addition to the flying display was a Nimrod MR2 from RAF Kinloss. Just a week before a 120sqn Nimrod was lost in a tragic accident while on operations over Afghanistan. The flypast was made to thank the public, particularly the people of Scotland for the support they have shown to the Nimrod force and was flown by personnel from 120sqn and captained by Grp Cpt Chris Birks, station commander of RAF Kinloss.
Leuchars' Own - The Attack!
The last two editions of the Leuchars airshow have seen a "tactical demonstration" form the centrepiece of the airshow. This year saw four Tornado GR4s from RAF Lossiemouth join four Tornado F3s from Leuchars and a Chinook HC2 to mount an attack on the airfield. Two of the F3s played the enemy and were suppressed by the other F3s in a dramatic dogfight before an attack by the GR4s and Troop extraction from the Chinook. What was particularly significant about the F3s involvement was a demonstration of strafing. The F3 is currently under evaluation for a role in Forward Air Control and precision gunnery attacks.
Leuchars' Own - The Diamond!
Perhaps one of the best airshow moments of the year. This wasn't only a great bit of formation flying but was also captivating to watch as the nine Tornado F3s and one whip F3 roared into the air streaming in succession. The formation was put together to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of 43(F) and 56(R) Squadrons. While the aircraft represented all three Leuchars squadron (hence including 111(F)sqn), the crews came exclusively from the two anniversary squadrons.
As well as the usual solo displays, it was a particular highlight to see aircraft from RAF Leuchars take such a significant role in the flying display, particularly as the Tornado F3 has been absent from the display circuit this year. Leuchars F3's were involved in a anniversary flypast and the airfield attack, as well as the sunset ceremony at the end of the day which saw last years F3 display crew, Sqn Ldr Dicko Moyes and Flt Lt Gaz Littlechild reunited to end the display with some noise. it was certainly something welcomed by the enthusiast as well as the general public. Also on show in the static park was the dramatic special scheme worn to celebrate 56sqn's 90th Anniversary which has seldom been seen in public this year. Another rare display was that given by a 22sqn Westland Sea King HAR3A. While it may not excite many, displays by these very important RAF aircraft are rarely seen and welcome at any show where they appear.
The RAF's past was also well represented, something that should always be important at a military airshow. Thanks to the good weather, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight finally made it to Leuchars with all four types, though sadly the Spitfire went unserviceable prior to it's display. That left the Dakota to perform as a solo while Hurricane and Lancaster performed a duo display. The BBMF's involvement as ever is particularly significant at Leuchars as this is the last RAF airshow to be held to commemorate the Battle of Britain. Thankfully another Spitfire was on hand to mark the 70th Anniversary of the type. Rod Dean flew a typically polished routine in the Aircraft Restoration Company's Mk. XVIII. Naval heritage was represented by the Sea Fury of the Royal Navy Historic Flight. Later RAF history was also well represented. Caledonian Chipmunks put two De Havilland Chipmunk T10s in the air for a well thought out duo display of this important type - a type that all to often is forgotten these days. The team also had an extremely rare Nord 1101/Messerchmitt Me208 on static display. Later RAF hardware was represented by a pleasing trio of classic jets. Air Atlantique brought out the AW Meteor NF11 and Vampire T55 pair for a rare outing. The Hunter Flying Club also sent a Hunter T8b, a type flown by both 43(F) and 111(F) sqns. As always, there were examples of the Jet Provost and Strikemaster on static display.
One of the outstanding things about Leuchars this year was the size and diversity of the International contingent. One thing that separates Leuchars from it's other RAF and Royal Navy equivalents is the support from the United States Air Force. Maybe it's the great welcome, the Scottish hospitality but Leuchars always manages to secure a few types from the continental USA. Heading the line up as it has done for the last few years was the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress from the Air Force Reserve Command at Barksdale AFB. Joining it were a New Hampshire ANG KC-135R Stratotanker and a AFRC KC-10A Extender. They were joined by the usual F-15C Eagles and F-15E Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath.
Battle of Britain Ally Returns
We make no apologies for featuring the Polish Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum so prominently. As well as being one of the most appropriate participant at Leuchars, it was perhaps one of the highlights if the UK 2006 season. While it was perhaps not the most dramatic of Mig displays we've ever seen; no tailslides for instance. Capt Artut Kalko flew two powerful displays during the afternoon showing off the lines of this former Cold War warrior.
A highlight in the static park was a Hellenic Air Force Mirage 2000BG, the first aircraft from Greece to visit RAF Leuchars for the show. It was joined in the static by a collection of F-16AM/BM Fighting Falcon from the Danish and Norwegian Air Forces. The Luftwaffe made a strong contribution with a C-160D, Tornado ECR and a very welcome appearance by a F-4F Phantom II which is becoming increasingly rare. In the air, there no doubt it was aircraft from the former warsaw pact and former battle of britain allies that were the highlight. The Czech Air Force sent it's Mi-24V Hind solo display that was seen at RIAT along with it's support Mi-17 Hip that was on static. However, display star was the MiG-29 Fulcrum from the Polish Air Force. Despite not performing some of the tailslides and cobras that mark russian type displays, the MiG certainly gave the more regular fast jet displays from the Belgian and Dutch Air Force F-16AM Fighting Falcons.
Other international rotary action came courtesy of a Belgian Agusta A109 antitank helicopter, itself perhaps making it's flying display debut in the UK at Leuchars. Other international helicopters in the static park included a pair of Eurocopter Squirrel anti tank helicopters from the Danish Army. The Danish in fact were pretty good supporter of this years show sending their Baby Blues Display Team of four SAAB T17 Supporters. The team come from the RDAF Flying School based at Karup Air Base. Despite being quite underpowered the team put on an enjoyable performance of aerobatics and tailchasing. We hope it's not their last trip to this side of the North Sea. Sadly, in the weeks running up to the show we lost the Irish Air Corps team of Pilatus PC-9M aircraft, but they did send a single example for static display.
This was a truly excellent military show, the best for many years not only at Leuchars, but in the UK as a whole. It clearly shows that trying things away from traditional solo displays works well in the airshow arena. We hope that in Leuchars absence in 2007 due to runway resurfacing that the remaining RAF shows in particular try to take Leuchars cue. There was only really one negative on the whole day; that being the traffic arrangements for getting with several people reporting it took an overly long time to get moving. All being well, the RAF Leuchars airshow will return in 2008.
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The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
The Virgin in the Ice
by Ellis Peters
Macmillan, 1982
This book has everything: murder, politics, possible elopements and runaways, battles, mysterious heroes, snowstorms, fires, and more. And somehow it all works. Just barely, at points, but as a loyal fan I can overlook the coincidences that show the straining seams of the plot. Because this is Cadfael at his finest, in the dead of winter, with Hugh at his back, and a seemingly untenable tangle of mysteries ahead of him.
We start shortly after the sack of Worcester by Empress Maud's forces, a strike at King Stephen in the seemingly interminable English civil war (we're at the tail end of 1139, for those keeping track.) Refugees from Worcester have made it to Shrewsbury, but three expected refugees have not arrived: a nun from the Benedictine convent at Worcester and her two charges, a noble lady of seventeen years and her thirteen-year-old brother. Their uncle and guardian, a knight recently returned from the Crusades, is desperate to search for them -- but he is for the Empress, and cannot travel in the lands held by the King to search for them without risking capture or death. At the same time, Cadfael is called to the priory at Bromfield to care for a Benedictine brother who has been found stripped naked and beaten near to death in the snow. It is not long, of course, before Cadfael realizes that things are far more dire, and deadly, than they first appear.
I do really love this series. I am extremely attached to the returning characters -- Cadfael especially, but I am also really fond of Hugh -- and as stated in earlier reviews, I tend to grow attached to the characters we meet and leave within the course of one of these novels, as well. Characters like Josce de Dinan are drawn in a few spare lines, but that's all it takes for Peters to make them real people. She does even better with those she follows closely through the book. We spend a fair bit of time with Yves Hugonin, the young boy lost between Worcester and Shrewsbury, and he's a believable, tremendously sympathetic character. His sister is less sympathetic but all the more believable for that, too. We don't see a lot of the Shrewsbury group at all, aside from Hugh, as all the action takes place at Bromfield Priory and environs. It was occurring to me that we haven't really seen anything of Prior Robert, Cadfael's main thorn-in-the-side in the first books, since the advent of Abbot Radulfus, and I wonder if that's because Peters felt she was done with his character and Radulfus has Robert well in hand, or whether there's more Prior Robert in books ahead.
The plot here is, as mentioned above, packed. Perhaps slightly too much so, and if I have any complaint its that the coincidences needed to bring the murder plot to conclusion and those to begin another plot -- that I have to believe will be a series-long side-plot -- just really, really strain even my credulous belief. I'm willing to go with it because the trappings are so excellent, but I'll admit to a raised eyebrow and an eye-roll, particularly at the resolution of the murder plot. This is also possibly because of the dramatic fashion in which it is brought to its end, which seemed a little unnecessary. Though perhaps not out of character for the series, so it's not entirely unexpected, if not entirely forgiven.
What I might call the main plot -- the search for the Hugonin children, which becomes enmeshed in the search for, and need to deal with, a very nasty band of outlaws plaguing the Ludlow region -- is done extremely well. The tension builds until the conclusion to this plot follows entirely from events leading up to it, and even if it's a bit extra dramatic that somehow didn't seem out of place or eye-roll-worthy here. These outlaws are not Robin Hood-like chivalrous bandits; they're nasty thugs, slaughtering, pillaging, raping, and destroying everything and everyone in their path. I had a couple of bad moments where I worried for Hugh, Yves, and especially Brother Elyas, the poor soul Cadfael travels to Bromfield to heal.
An extra bonus was reading this during the best winter we've had here in Southern Ontario in ages. Reading about frozen brooks and deadly storms when we've got two feet of snow outside is a nice alignment. Peters does winter well, and it created a suitably chilling backdrop to the tale. Though I can't help but wonder whether monks got cold draughts up the legs, if they were just wearing their habits all winter? Cadfael's a hardy soul, but that can't have been comfortable.
All in all, great fun. Because the cast is nearly entirely new, you could probably start here with the series if you wished, though you may have less tolerance for coincidental shenanigans than I did if you haven't engaged with the characters and series conventions in previous books. Not deep reading, though not entirely brainless either. The theme here was apportioning blame, and the hubris inherent in taking responsibility for more than your share. Not as deeply explored as I might have liked -- there was too much plot to allow for such introspection -- but nevertheless there. I am, as always, looking forward to the next book, The Sanctuary Sparrow.
Earlier books in the Brother Cadfael Chronicles:
1. A Morbid Taste for Bones
2. One Corpse Too Many
3. Monk's-Hood
4. Saint Peter's Fair
5. The Leper of Saint Giles
Labels: Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters, historical, mystery
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Brownhills West Station, built in traditional Victorian style, offers visitors and volunteers comfort and convenience. The station buffet offers a variety of hot & cold snacks and drinks.
The Brownhills West headquarters has a 10 road layout. There are two bay platforms (1 & 2) and a through platform (3) which can accommodate 4 coaches.
During the design phase, care was taken to incorporate modern facilities into the building while maintaining an authentic feel. The double glazed windows are of period design and security shutters are hidden away behind decorative facias when not in use. The Victorian atmosphere is given a further touch of authenticity by the real coal fire.
Additional facilities include male, female & disabled toilets, Hot & cold buffet with indoor seating and level access to trains and all station areas to aid disabled visitors
Our car park allows parking for over 40 cars and an overflow car park which offers an additional 150 spaces.
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The Catholic Church of Bessarabia in the interwar period, PhD thesis in history
Author: Ciobanu Petru
Degree: doctor of history
Speciality: 07.00.02 - History of Romanians (with specification of time period)
Scientific adviser: Ion Gumenâi
doctor habilitat, associate professor (docent), Moldova State University
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The thesis was presented on the 18 December, 2019 at the meeting of the Scientific Council and now it is under consideration of the National Council.
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Bessarabia, Catholic Church, interwar period, Iasi Diocese, Catholic parishes, Catholic communities, bishops, priests, church
Author: Ciobanu Petru Andrei Theme: The Catholic Church of Bessarabia in the interwar period, PhD thesis in history, Chisinau, completed in 2019. Thesis structure: Introduction, four chapters, general conclusions, bibliography of 198 titles, 148 pages of basic text (until Bibliography), Annexes. Key words: Bessarabia, Catholic Church, interwar period, Iasi Diocese, Catholic parishes, Catholic communities, bishops, priests, church. The goal: the evolution of Catholic Church of Bessarabia in interwar period, with its different aspects: spiritual, social, demographical, educational, charitable, economic and legal. The objectives: establishing the political and religious context of the region after 1918; indicating the historical conditions where the Catholic communities of Bessarabia changed their legal status, becoming, from the part and parcel of Tiraspol Diocese, a part and parcel of Iasi Roman Catholic Diocese; determining the demographic evolution of Catholic element in Bessarabia in interwar period based on existent statistic data; identifying the main centres of Catholic life in Bessarabia and their organization manner; elucidating the internal life of Catholic communities in the Prut-Nistrian area during the period included in the paper chronological boundaries; reviewing the main actors of Catholic life in Bessarabia and the role they had in Catholic communities between Prut and Nistru; presenting some figures of native priests from Bessarabia and studying their activity within Iasi Roman Catholic Diocese; studying the activity of Catholic Church in Bessarabia in the educational and charitable assistance fields. The scientific novelty: elucidating the evolution of Romano Catholic communities life in the chronological boundaries enunciated in the title, as a component part of the Bessarabian confessional colouring. Introduction in the scientific circuit of a great number of documents which, till this moment, were not researched, represent another point of scientific novelty of this paper. At the same time, it was followed the conceptual reinterpretation of those few documents that had already been used or, if the case, the review of some conclusions the researchers came to. Therefore, the solved scientific problem is related to the complex elucidation of the evolution, place and role of Catholic confession in Bessarabia during 1918-1940 of XX century. The theoretical importance of the paper: to present, in the context of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies, a theoretical and methodological framework, based on factual, chronological and diachronic continuity, following the way of the new research field, history and religions study. On the other hand, this study opens new perspectives in both historical and interdisciplinary research (religion history, anthropologic study etc.). Generally, the paper covers an existent gap in historical science of the Republic of Moldova, providing a synthesis of the Catholic community life in Bessarabia during interwar period in its different aspects. The applicative value: initiating or continuing an interconfessional and interreligious dialogue with other religious realities currently present in the Republic of Moldova; the results of the paper may be starting points for other studies in the field; in the context of deepening the study of the history of minorities of any kind in the Republic of Moldova in the university, this thesis can be used as a teaching material within the faculties. Implementation of the obtained results: the theme of the thesis is the subject of a monograph, fifteen articles and ten participations in national and international conferences.
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Remembering Sydney’s ‘Drag Queen’ scene of the 70s
It seems little known now that back in the late 1970s our little part of the world here in Sydney experienced a phenomenon with a large subculture of transgender women that remains unexplainable. Why did so many choose to live in just several postcodes spanning from Kings Cross at this moment in time?
This phenomenon was coined the ‘drag queen’ scene by Roberta Perkins. Now a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at UNSW, it was part of her research for an honours degree in the early 80s, eventually writing a book called The Drag Queen Scene. It remains the best and most complete record of that time. Only a few seem to be around now, but thankfully, the City of Sydney’s libraries has copies.
The 'Drag Queen' Scene. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983
I was an active participant of this subculture from which I learned I could live the life I wanted for myself and was blessed with influential and considerate role models. It was a wonderful environment for my chosen self to grow up in.
This subculture was made up of differing social groups all trying to live in what was still very much an oppressive and ignorant time. To be trans was often to be seen as a freak and came with all the dangers and fears of an un-accepting public. But from the bashings and name-calling this subculture gave us our strength and courage – our sisters gave us love and security.
While we were all individuals, we all looked out for each other in social justice terms and shared a sisterly bond. Sometimes we would mix socially, although generally we were rivals for the many trans-curious men that came to the Cross or the Taxi Club in Darlinghurst.
I was part of the showgirl group. I worked at Les Girls during this time and the late nightclub was a mecca for girls from all groups. Other showgirls in this group came from Simone and Monique’s Playgirls Revue, who worked the club circuit, and Capriccio’s, the famous Oxford Street show. Interestingly, we were all dubbed as drag queens, although most of us lived as women.
Colleen Windsor Craig Petrie Amber Lee
Kings Cross was full of bars and clubs during this period and many trans women worked in them. Infamous now in any Kings Cross story are such places as the Rex Hotel, Tina’s Bar, the original Venus Room in Hughes Street, the Manzil Room – the late night bar for rock bands and their roadies, and the Bourbon and Beefsteak. All these bars were popular social spots and fertile ground for picking up trade.
Unbeknown to the punters, many of the strip clubs employed trans girls who were often better at the art of striptease than their female co-workers. These girls were less social as it was important they weren’t sprung by the punters. These places, almost extinct now, were really the drawcard of 1970s Kings Cross for straight males.
A large group of working girls operated around Darley Street in Darlinghurst. These were the day’s pre-HIV/AIDS where a girl could make more money over a weekend than any of the rest of us over a week. The laws of the day allowed street soliciting and the stories of traffic backed up in William Street on a Saturday night are all true.
The final group were the girls who ran their own business: hairdressers, seamstresses, beauticians, artists and the like, as well as kept girls who had found themselves a ‘husband’ or boyfriend and decamped to suburbia. Of course, these girls would still turn up in popular drinking spots to catch up with sisters and let their hair down.
Perkins, in her research, estimated the number of trans women connected through this subculture to be about 500. Let’s remember this is still very early in the development of Sydney’s LGBTI community and still remains an unexplainable social occurrence.
In the 1980s, Sydney dramatically changed and many participants in the ‘drag queen scene’ phenomenon dispersed. Public attitudes began to shift, other capital cities became appealing and some girls opted for a slower lifestyle in small towns or the bush. Reforms like the introduction of equal employment legislation opened doors.
Perkins formed an association for transgender people, the Australian Transsexual Association, in 1981 and the politics around what is transgender slowly developed.
Doris Fish
Mardi Gras was born and a flood of gay bars opened such as the Albury Hotel, Unicorn Hotel, Exchange Hotel, and the Stranded nightclub, mixing trans and drag subcultures into a scene that would become fundamental to Gay Sydney.
US author Kate Bornstein relates an interesting story about Doris Fish, who was the star of Sydney’s political drag group Sylvia and the Synthetics in the 70s and later became one of the most prominent drag queens in San Francisco. Doris told her that there was always a bond between the drag queens and the transwomen in Sydney. The bond was so strong, they invented a name for the identity they shared: tranny. This name said family to us – but later something else to the world.
this is great,Les Girls was fabulous and it was my preferred club in the 70s and 80s!Old friends,so much talent,such good memories.
Drag Queen Merch 18 April, 2018
Astounding performance by drag queen. Drag Queen Store Online is the best store to buy drag queen products.
Jeffrey Watson 07 November, 2019
Thank you very much for this great post. newtown game
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Hailing from London, Colleen started performing in the famous Les Girls, King Cross in the mid-1970s and through the late heady eighties at the Flinders Hotel, part of the then fabulous Golden Mile. As a retired showgirl and proud trans woman who has a longstanding and fond relationship with the local community Colleen has been associated with several community organisations. These days as a writer Colleen is exploring these experiences with an eye on the past and a place in the present.
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Homefront: The Revolution: The Voice of Freedom Released
Deep Silver now offers The Voice of Freedom, the first single-player DLC for Homefront: The Revolution, Dambuster’s insurrection-themed first-person shooter. This is a story-driven prologue to the game available separately (the base game is required) or as part of a season pass. Here’s word on the add-on and improvements in the latest patch:
The Voice of Freedom casts the player as Benjamin Walker, legendary figurehead for the rebellion and the KPA’s most wanted man, as he tries to infiltrate Occupied Philadelphia and meet up with Jack Parish’s Resistance Cell. This tense, story-driven prologue will test your stealth and combat skills as you encounter a sinister and hostile faction in the subways of Philadelphia – the ‘90’.
The Voice of Freedom is free to all holders of the Homefront Expansion Pass, and available to purchase separately for $5.99 (regional pricing may vary). It is ready to download now for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC via Steam.
Players returning to Homefront: The Revolution will also find that the recent ‘Performance Patch’ has massively improved the overall experience.
First-Person Shooters Homefront: The Revolution | Donster | September 28, 2016 |
You say you want The Revolution, well now you know… you probably don’t.
By Jon Ryan, IGN
For all of its problems, 2011’s Homefront introduced an interesting Red Dawn-like concept, and revisiting post-invasion America in an open-world first-person shooter format sounded promising; but this fledgling FPS franchise has let me down again. There are some genuinely good ideas in Homefront: The Revolution, but nearly every one of them comes with a big fat “but.” While initially engaging, the stealth and shooter gameplay quickly becomes tedious, the story is terrible, and a general lack of polish means Homefront: The Revolution fails to make finishing its 20-hour campaign feel worthwhile.
First-Person Shooters Homefront: The Revolution | Donster | May 24, 2016 |
Homefront: The Revolution Gamescom 2015 Videos and Screens
Source: Gamer’s Hell
Deep Silver has released a pair of fresh videos (Redzone & Thank You) and five more screenshots for Homefront: The Revolution showcasing this game due to launch in spring 2016, for PC, Xbox One, PS4, Linux and Mac. This is a free-roaming FPS that throws players into a near future dystopia. Catastrophic events have brought the United States to its knees and enabled the Korean People’s Army forces to impose a brutal military occupation. Trapped in this American nightmare, Philadelphia has become a police state, where surveillance drones and armored patrols keep her once-proud citizens at heel, crushing any dissent with totalitarian force.
To overcome their oppressors, players will have to engage in guerrilla warfare and use ambush, infiltration and hit and run tactics in un-scripted firefights. At every turn they’ll find a sprawling open-world city, in which recruiting fellow revolutionaries and building improvised homebrew weapons are just two of the keys to creating a powerful resistance force. Homefront: The Revolution will also support up to four players in online co-op gameplay where you form your own resistance cell and become renowned as Heroes of the Revolution.
Find out more at the official Homefront: The Revolution website.
First-Person Shooters Homefront: The Revolution | Donster | August 7, 2015 |
Deep Silver Now Accepting Applications for Homefront: The Revolution Models
Be a part of The Revolution.
Source: IGN
In an effort to increase the diversity in their in-game world of occupied Philadelphia, Deep Silver Dambuster Studios is accepting applications from the public to be scanned and modeled as non-player characters (NPCs).
Those interested can submit photos via the studio’s official website. According to the terms and conditions, one must be at least 18 years old and able to travel to Nottingham in the UK for the 30-minute facial scanning process.
The developer will be contacting applicants throughout the year and reassures people to not become upset if they don’t hear back right away. It’s possible these scans will also be used in the studio’s prospective projects, as a note on the site clearly states they’re “looking for new faces to feature in Homefront: The Revolution and other future video games.”
Homefront: The Revolution is a follow-up to the 2011 FPS Homefront and is expected to release sometime in 2016. It was recently delayed when development shifted over to Deep Silver Dambuster Studio and given extra time.
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Deep Silver Acquires Homefront from Crytek
Publisher Deep Silver announces the acquisition of the Homefront intellectual property and all related assets from financially troubled publisher/developer Crytek, offering no hint about what they paid for the shooter series. Word is development of Homefront: The Revolution will continue in Nottingham, England at a newly formed studio called Deep Silver Dambuster Studios. Here’s the announcement:
Today, Koch Media together with its publishing label Deep Silver announces that it has acquired the Homefront brand and all coherent assets from Crytek. This includes Homefront: The Revolution which has been announced on 2nd June 2014. The development will be continued in newly founded, Nottingham-based Deep Silver Dambuster Studios.
“We are thrilled to see another great IP joining the Deep Silver universe,” says Dr. Klemens Kundratitz. “We strongly believe in the potential of Homefront: The Revolution and trust in the new team to continue the path we have been walking in the last years.”
Deep Silver Dambuster Studios is the third development studio within the Koch Media Group, joining Deep Silver Volition and Deep Silver Fishlabs.
More game information is available at the official Homefront: The Revolution webpage.
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When the electronics ban was announced, US officials told CNN they were concerned that terrorists had developed ways to hide explosives in battery compartments. But the new intelligence makes clear that the bomb makers working for ISIS and other groups have become sophisticated enough to hide the explosives while ensuring a laptop would function long enough to get past screeners. Though advanced in design, FBI testing found the laptops can be modified using common household tools..
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KAIST Develops Super-thin Flexible Lithium-ion Battery
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The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on March 17 that the team of professor Choi Jang-wook at its Graduate School of EEWS and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) professor Song Jae-yong developed a flexible lithium-ion battery that is thinner
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Evidence Found for Oriental Medicine Principles
Science of Oriental Medicine
Analyzing structural similarities between compounds derived from traditional oriental medicine and human metabolites, Korean scientists have found scientific evidence in the prescription principle of oriental medicine, which treats diseases with the synergistic effects of multiple compounds. On Marc
Science/Tech | Jung Suk-yee | March 12, 2015, 06:35
KAIST Develops 10 nm Flexible Insulating Film
Core Tech for IoT
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on March 10 that its research team led by biotech professor Lim Sung-kap and electrical and electronics engineering professors Yu Seung-hyup and Jo Byung-jin have developed a very thin, flexible, yet thickness-maintaining polym
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Hanmi Pharmaceutical Presents LAPSrhGH at Endocrine Society
A new long-acting sustained-release human growth hormone LAPSrhGH, which Hanmi Pharmaceutical has been developing, was presented at an international medical organization. Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced the findings of Phase 1 clinical trials with LAPSrhGH in Korea, and the interim results of Phase 2
Tech Developed to Make 2D Structure Superior to Graphene
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A Korean research team has succeeded in developing a technology to make a new 2D structure that is superior to graphene in electrical characteristics, which could be used in not only semiconductor devices, but also the fields of energy storage, organocatalysis, and biology. A research team led by Ba
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Samsung Makes Largest R&D Investment in History, Even with Last Year's Bad Performance
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Samsung Electronics will invest the highest amount of money in its history for research and development (R&D), even while going through troubles due to performance deteriorations last year.According to an audit report of Samsung Electronics on March 8, its total R&D investments reached 15.325507 tri
Korean Research Team Develops Tech to Draw Nano-scale Patterns in Semiconductors
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A technique has been developed to draw detailed patterns on the surface of semiconductors by controlling nanometer-sized cracks. It is expected to contribute to distributing nanotechnologies using existing lithographic methods.According to Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) o
Science/Tech | Jung Suk-yee | March 6, 2015, 06:30
Tech Developed to Localize Core Component for Heavy Ion Accelerators
Accelerating Tubes
The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has succeeded in localizing superconducting accelerating tubes, important equipment for heavy ion accelerators.A research team at IBS announced on Mar. 5 that they have successfully developed a technology to make a superconducting accelerating tube, which is ess
Daewoong Pharmaceutical’s Olostar Advances to American Market
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Daewoong Pharmaceutical’s Olostar, a new combo drug that treats both high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia at the same time, is being introduced to the American market. The company announced that it signed an export contract of Olostar with Autotelic Inc. of the U.S.Olostar is an ARB+Statin complex
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Development of Yungjin Pharm.’s COPD Treatment Aided by Gov't Support
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Yungjin Pharmaceutical’s next-generation oral treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), YPL-001, has been selected as a new cross-governmental drug development project.On Feb. 23, Yungjin Pharm. announced that it concluded an agreement with the Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) fo
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KAIST Develops New Air Pollution Measurement Sensor
Micro Sensors
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Feb. 24 that mechanical engineering professor Park In-kyu and his research team succeeded in developing a novel and energy-saving technique for microscopic sensors of air pollution measurement that can be used in mobile devi
Science/Tech | Jack H. Park | February 25, 2015, 03:14
Korean Air Partners with Airbus to Rebid on Korea-built Fighter Jet Project
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Partnering with Europe's Airbus Defense and Space, Korean Air will bid to begin a Korea-built fighter (KF-X) development project on the scale of 18 trillion won (US$16.29 billion) to build new fighter aircraft for South Korea. Korean Air recently announced a rebid for the KF-X project, signing an MO
Tech Developed to Make Lunar Rover Capable of Operating in Extreme Environments
Korean Lunar Probe
On Feb. 16, a research team led by Dr. Gang Sung-cheol at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology unveiled a prototype of a lunar rover, which is planned to be on the moon roving by 2020. What is notable is that a lunar rover has been developed with local technology. The machine is able to car
Tech Developed to Localize Core Components for Satellites
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Samsung Begins Construction of Daegu-Samsung Creative Economy Complex
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It was a weekend full of leisure, culture and sport activities, which were meant to commemorate the anniversary of the works on the El Chorro Hydroelectric Power Station, which were officially opened by the King 96 years ago.
There were all together five plays on Friday and Saturday for small groups of 25 people.
Besides enjoying the route and plays, the visitors could choose clothes from that period and participate themselves.
Caminito del Rey Alfonso XIII (2)
Next 21st May, will mark ninety-six years since King Alfonso XIII walked along the hanging boardwalks of El Caminito del Rey. The path was actually named after this visit, during which the King opened the works on the hydroelectric power station at El Chorro, which were created to provide Málaga with power and water. In order to commemorate that day, the company in charge of administration of El Caminito del Rey, as well as the Town Council of Ardales, organized special happening on the path during which the visitors will be able to revive memories of the King's hike through this nature site.
Real Stage
The company in the charge of the performances, which will take place at the spots visited by the King in the past, is the Town of Ardales Theatre (Grupo Municipal de Teatro). The route is starting at the King's Chair, the place where Alfonso XIII signed the documents which close the works and will continue up to the access to the canyons. There, the royal entourage will approach the Gaitanejo Reservoir, as they did in the past together with Rafael Benjumea, the engineer who was in charge of the project, who would explain how this hydroelectric power stations were technologically important.
The next part of the visit which was turned into a play was the walk that the King had along the boardwalks, impressed by the works and the natural surrounding. There will be 15 actors dressed as the people from that time. They will play the role of the entourage lead by the King and formed by politicians and experts who will follow him up to the bridge at the Toro Cave, where Alfonso XIII will abandon the path and say goodbye to other participants, who will go on a guidede tour along the rest of the path.
The visits with a theatre plat will have no more than 125 people, who will walk in groups of 25 people. Two of these visits are planed to be done: one on Friday,19th May, and another on Saturday 20th May. Those people who are interested in having this 'royal' experience and visit El Caminito del Rey path can book the visit at the Tourist Information Office in Ardales throgh the email: turismo@ardales.es. The price of the visit is €18 (the same as the price of the guided tours at the booking portal of El Caminito del Rey).
The First Engineering Project of its Kind in the World
In 1901, the works on the hydroelectric power complex were started in El Chorro. After more than 20 years new facilities, which provided the part of Málaga which is around Hoya and the Guadalhorce River with electric power, drinkable water and water for watering the fields, were finished. These works were considered to be one of the most innovative engineering projects from the beginning of the 20th century. For that purpose, the drops and elevations made by rivers in the canyons of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes were used in a risky operation for making a precipice which would help the first large hydroelectric power station in the south of Europe start running.
King Alfonso XIII opened the works following the plan made by the main engineer Rafael Benjumea. He came by train to the Gobantes Train Sation in Peñarrubia, after he had travelled by car to the area close to Villa de Ardales. There he crossed El Chorro Reservoir by boat and had a lunch close to the Engineer's House. The King then laid the first stone on the dam, carving his signature on the Sillón del Rey (The King's Chair) in the limestone, and then he continued his visit to the Gitanejo Power Plant and the boardwalks which used to connect the canal with the hydroelectric precipice. After he had gone along the first two canyons, the King went across the bridge at Toro Cave and went by train to El Chorro Station in Álora, where he continued his trip to Pizarra. Next day he opened several important projects in the Town of Málaga.
El Caminito del Rey gets awarded by the Civil Engineers Association
Caminito del Rey confirms itself as an international tourist attraction with 3300 visitors in 2018
Tourist mobile phone app, which includes 2000 sites, upgraded by the County Council
Booking and tickets selling portal of El Caminito del Rey is opening on Monday 18th April
Shuttle bus service that connects two entrance points are to be provided for visitors' transport on El Caminito del Rey Path.
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Human Presence since Prehistory
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Visitor Reception Area, Shuttle Bus Stop and Car Park, and El Kiosko Restaurant
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First Canyon Gaitanejo Gorge
The Soto
Second Canyon Las Palomas Cliff
Hoyo Valley
Third Canyon Desfiladero de los Gaitanes and the Southern Wall
Last Stretch Way to El Chorro Train Station
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Travelcards for combining Train+Bus+Visit to El Caminito del Rey Path are to be on sale again starting from 1st February 2019.
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They are Human, Right?
Sunday, I woke up to Randy Newman's "Back On My Feet Again" as I sat down to a delicious breakfast, and proceeded to read about the pressures that athletes face. Are we not surprised that professional ball players are actually human? That they, too, encounter everyday anxieties and feel unwanted stress on their shoulders? I suppose that society does not care; fans do not want to hear it. Why? Because the athletes are making millions of dollars, hence the "deal with it" message screaming from the public.
Problem is, there is a difference between a million dollar athlete and his million dollar mind. Often, the former becomes history, overtaken by the expectations created by the latter. The result is a million dollar splatter.
Once an athlete makes it to the big leagues or the professional ranks, is he not infallible? Just ask Barry Zito or Vince Young. Zito was the best pitcher in baseball, a former Cy Young winner with the curve of all curves and a free-loving lifestyle that was magnetic to friends and females. And then, coupled with the highest paying pitching contract in history, his boyish, unhittable pitching persona was gone -- along with his captivating personality. Expectations were too heavy to lift, social networks broke and friends dropped like flies. Mental caused maladjustments to the physical. Confidence became cursed. Freedom became flawed.
From "The Mystery of Barry Zito" (NYT):
According to [Giants' pitching coach Dave] Righetti, the mystery was that Zito, inexplicably and without suffering injury, had lost 5 miles per hour off his already modest 89-m.p.h. fastball and, also inexplicably, had lost control of his devastating curveball. “It’s not physical,” Righetti said, sitting in the visitors’ dugout before a game against the Cleveland Indians in late June. “I mean, he’s not injured. It’s a matter of confidence.”
In truth, Zito’s pitching problems are probably the result of both physical and mental problems. “He had speeded up his motion,” Righetti said, “which caused him to overstride.” Zito’s arm has been trailing his lunging body a split second too late. This causes him to lose speed off his fastball and to fling his curveball high, rather than snapping it low across the plate. He lost control of his curve, Righetti said, “and batters weren’t swinging at it. Then he stopped throwing as many curves as he used to.” Righetti said the funny thing was, when Zito threw on the sidelines in warm-up sessions, “everything was locked in. But the game speeded him up. You know, this is a tough game to be on top for years.” He meant that the greatest athletes, who have 20-year careers of peaks and valleys, have the ability to will themselves out of occasional slumps.
“I’ve made mechanical adjustments lately,” Zito said during our breakfast in late June. “My curve and fastball are better now. But your body’s gonna do what your mind lets it do. You have to surrender to the pitch. You try to control the process, not the result. A New Age guy told me that the last thought you have before you let the ball go — I hope the batter doesn’t hit it — determines where it goes. All the preparation, off-season work, can be done in by that last thought.”
Meanwhile, Young lost his mantra (or, followed through on it) -- one that he delivered after Donovan McNabb's controversial comments about the lofty pressure of black quarterbacks compared to their white counterparts. Young explained his belief in doing something else: if a player can't handle playing the position, then get out.
Well, he suddenly did that himself, to the point of questionable return. He became so emotionally unstable, a search and rescue suicide watch was in effect. Rhoden's review recommends not therapy, as Warren Moon counts on now, but a history lesson for the most challenging position in organized sport.
The pressure mounts at all levels. The good thing about the youth aspect, though, is summarized in what Todd Balf writes. When the competition is over, when the tryouts are done, the athlete returns to his true self, where he can act his age.
Says Balf, a 12-year-old can cuddle up and cry when he doesn't reach his goal (as long as his parents are supportive and not obsessed with early specialization and excessive competitiveness). A 30-year-old pro, it seems, has nowhere to go...maybe music is the answer.
Get me back on my feet again,
Back on my feet again.
Open the door and set me free,
Get me back on my feet again.
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Moving On and Moving Up
The Value of Mental Toughness
When a Receiver Loses His Mind
Dissecting QB Development
Dig your Digs - It Means More than you Think
Injury Outlook
The Psychological Ingredients of a Coach
Getting Through the Fouls
Leaving Lasting Impressions on the Court
Scouting the Political Hardwood
Catching up to Steve, at Nashspeed
To Throw, or Not to Throw?
Phelps Wins Again
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Cool Ass Comics: Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian Edition!
With the new CONAN movie out I thought I'd showcase some of the grittier, more adult oriented covers from a handful of my surviving SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN comic magazines as well as some from CONAN SAGA, a magazine that reprinted tales from both SAVAGE SWORD as well as the color comic CONAN THE BARBARIAN. This B/W comic mag was an amazing fantasy read for those who loved barbarians and artwork from the likes of Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta.
These publications also had wonderfully designed portraits book-ending the mag featuring everybody's favorite Cimmerian battling various enemies and beasts with a scantily clad, impossibly well built lovely just waiting to be rescued. Each magazine generally contained two tales of savagery with the co-feature not always about Conan. The cover at the top of the page is from issue #81 with the story 'The Palace of Pleasure' being one of the more misogynistic I've seen. It also features inks by the artist that got me into these books, Ernie Chan. Joe Chiodo did this surreal cover artwork.
Here is the very first SAVAGE SWORD I ever received. CONAN THE DESTROYER had just come out, and having been collecting the more kid friendly CONAN comic books, my attention turned to these far more gritty adaptations. Finally seeing the Cimmerian on the big screen got me hooked and after showing a curiosity for these mags upon seeing my first one in a barber shop, I had to have some of them. My mom would never buy them for me, though, till this issue from September, 1984. It's easily one of the goriest and sexiest issues I've ever come across. The issue also came under fire from some readers and non readers alike for the level of violence and bare flesh contained therein. 'Treachery of the Gray Wolf' is the lead story and again features the inks of Ernie Chan! Joe Jusko did this amazing cover.
SAVAGE SWORD #175 contains 'Blade of the Demon Slayer'. Conan finds the most mesmerizing blade he's ever seen and sets out to get it only the arcane blade is after him, too. Dorian designed this unusual cover. This issue also features a pin up gallery of Conan by Dave Simons.
Issue #176 contains a rousingly interesting tale entitled 'The Three Deaths of Conan' wherein our hero is captured by a wizard who delights in revealing to Conan various nasty ways in which to bring about the barbarians demise. Another pin up gallery is here, this time from James Fletcher. The striking cover is the work of Earl Norem.
'Fury of the Iron Damsels' headlines SAVAGE SWORD #179 and is of great interest in that it features Valeria stealing a coveted idol. Conan and Red Sonja set out after her to retrieve it. Along the way, Conan and co. run into the Iron Damsels, a gang of lady killers who swore vengeance on him as well as a gang of thieves who are also after the idol. Another Conan tale, 'What Dwells Below' closes out this issue. Earl Norem drew the cover.
Issue #192 features my all time favorite team of artists of this title--Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Ernie Chan! 'The Cape of Dark Dreams' is part three of 'The Skull on the Seas' story. Conan and the Khitai pirates are trapped on a dangerous island inhabited by reptilian men. Two other stories close out this issue--one of a young Kull and another of Red Sonja. The amazing cover was the work of Bob Larkin.
This 200th issue spectacular is jam packed with savage goodness and features that titanic trio of Thomas, Buscema and Chan! This bizarre tale is titled 'Barbarians of the Border' wherein the past mixes with the present as Conan shares pages with his creator, Robert E. Howard! A Short History of Conan and The Father of Conan are two features that close out this spectacular issue. Joe Jusko drew the kinetic cover.
This was my first issue of CONAN SAGA and sports a grand cover by Earl Norem taken from SAVAGE SWORD #24. The covers were chosen at random and seldom, if ever reflected the story within. Giant spiders and barbarians go hand in hand and this cover exemplifies that. 'The Haunters of Castle Crimson' is the lead story and is more horror oriented than most other Conan tales. It's adapted from Howard's 'The Slave Princess' story. A Solomon Kane story closes out the mag as well as the very first letter column for this reprint magazine.
For a time, Conan was known as 'Amra' after defeating another Amra, the Lord of the Lions, who had captured Conan's lover, the lovely pirate leader, Belit. In so doing, Conan also earned the respect of the faithful black lion, Sholo. Issue #38 covers Conan's days when he was possessing the 'Lion Spirit' and was referred to as Amra by everyone but Belit. This is the first of the four part Jhebbal Sag legacy. 'The Beast King of Abombi' is the title of the head tale. A lengthy and insightful Roy Thomas article is featured as well as a Conan/Red Sonja team up and a pin up gallery. Bob Larkin did the cover which was first seen in SAVAGE SWORD #27.
'Long Night of Fang and Talon' is part two of the Amra saga and features lots of action and monsters as well as seeing Conan traveling around with the loyal and fitfully powerful Sholo, the black lion. Both must rescue Belit from the dungeon of the mind controlling Beast King, Abombi. An early tale of King Kull follows it as well as a history of Kull. Ernie Chan did the exceptional cover art.
Issue #40 is part three of the action packed Amra saga, reprinted from SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #26 and covers several years from Conan's days on the Black Coast to the Pictish forests. A tale of young Conan follows it. Earl Norem designed the cool cover.
While I'm not crazy about this cover, it is the exciting conclusion to the Amra saga adapted from Howard's 'Beyond the Black River' series. Lots of action close out this epic storyline. Incidentally, no artist is credited with the cover and it's not one of the more attractive designs. A Solomon Kane story, 'Blades of the Brotherhood' closes out the issue.
And finally, this cover for CONAN SAGA #44, reprinted from SAVAGE SWORD #42, features the cover taken from SAVAGE SWORD #35. What's special about this one is that this was the very first SAVAGE SWORD I ever laid eyes on and it was in a barber shop. The gruesome Bob Larkin cover kept my mother from allowing me to skim through this magazine I instantly fell in love with. The main story here is 'The Devil Tree of Gamburu' adapted from Howard's 'Conan the Buccaneer' novel. Here, Conan battles amazons and man eating plants!
UNTIL NEXT TIME....
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Luis said...
Great post! I loved Conan's black and white comics, the art in them was fantastic. In fact, I'm in the process of buying the reprints by Dark Horse that collect th entire run of Savage Sword. So far I'm up to Volume 3 which goes up to issue number 31.
Thanks, Luis! I agree, I love the B/W artistry of the magazines and pick up a few back issues when I can. I need more of the earlier ones. I like those covers the best. They have a dark quality about them that slowly dissipated as the series continued.
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Critical Hits & Misses #167
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Books, childrens books, feminism, feminist kids, feminist kids books, intersectional feminism, kids books, Queen Latifah, transgender teens Edit
Check out this story on the new breed of children's books, which include transgender teens, blended families, and feminism. This is the future that liberals want!
We're feeling bookish today, so here's another link for figuring out what kinds of books kids should be reading. Romper lists 14 books that teach kids intersectional feminism!
For today's musical hit, we have an oldie from the late 80s, but it's one of the "safe" and feminist rap songs that you could jam with your kids to back then, when rap was getting nastier for commercial reasons. It's Queen Latifah and "Ladies First"
Today's critical rolls: What were some of your favorite childhood books, or books that you read to your kids/students/whatever today?
Critical Writ has a super-duper strict comment policy that specifies a single rule above all others: we reserve the right to ban you for being a terribad citizen of the internet.
Reggie And Me #4 Review: A Grim, Yet Compelling, Installment
12:00 PM Unknown Comics, Reggie and Me, Reviews, Zachary Krishef Edit
Warning: This review contains full spoilers for the issue.
In Reggie And Me #4, Reggie finally puts his diabolical plan into action. In the past issues, we've seen him scheme to take down Moose so he can date Midge. To make this happen, he has pretended to befriend Moose in order to find out what makes him tick. As the issue starts, he's palmed Archie's phone and is sending Midge messages and gifts. Naturally, Moose isn't happy about this. Reggie wants to manipulate Moose into beating up Archie under the bleachers.
Reggie, seen here sowing the seeds of mistrust.
Reggie's behavior in this issue is awful. He's definitely crossed the line from being a slightly sympathetic villainous character to being outright awful. His plan, if executed correctly, would lead Midge and Archie to meet near the bleachers, with Midge there to confront her "secret admirer" and Archie there to get his phone back. Meanwhile, Moose would see them, assume the worst, and beat him up. Mr. Weatherbee would expel Moose and Archie, eliminating Reggie's two main obstacles.
Hey, that bat was innocent! RIP, baseball bat, 2017-2017.
Fortunately, his plan does not work. It's rather disturbing that Moose outright showed up wielding a baseball bat, but that could be attributed to believing that Midge's stalker was dangerous and wanting to keep her safe. He does think that Archie is trustworthy and he loves Midge, so he shakes Archie's hand and tells Midge that he just wants her to be happy. It's surprisingly touching and a wonderful character moment for Moose, showing that he's not just a jealous boyfriend. Midge, of course, sets him straight about the whole mix-up.
Unfortunately, the grim specter of violence still looms over Riverdale. Reggie gets hurt by one of the bullies from another school. The issue also shows some more glimpses from his past. "Little" Ambrose is reintroduced into the New Riverdale universe, desperately wanting to tag along with his idol, "Little" Reggie. One simple act of kindness, and he follows Reggie around, almost like a puppy. An act of cruelty drives him away, in tears. History ends up repeating itself in a gut-wrenching cliffhanger. Twice, Reggie yells at Vader to leave him alone. The second time, poor Vader runs into the street and gets hit by a car.
Reggie And Me #4 is a fantastic issue, both subverting the expected plot and setting up a horrifying conclusion. I'm a dog lover and I winced as I read that last panel. We don't see what happens to Vader, but the next issue's solicitation promises that we will "learn his fate." Tom DeFalco continues to create an amazing character study of Reggie Mantle and how he affects the lives of those around him, especially the one being who loves him unconditionally.
Reggie And Me #4 is written by Tom DeFalco, drawn by Sandy Jarrell, lettered by Jack Morelli, and colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick. You can find it at your local comic book shop.
Zachary Krishef is an evil genius. Do not question his knowledge of Saturday Night Live trivia or Harry Potter books.
Archie #18 Review: Perfect For New Readers!
11:30 AM Unknown Archie, Comics, Reviews, Zachary Krishef Edit
If you think that this cover looks oddly familiar, you would be correct. It's a reference to a few of the recent promotional images for the Riverdale tv show. Similarly, Archie #18 introduces a new arc, tailored to introduce Mark Waid's version of the characters to new readers. I think that the comic works very well as a jumping-on point for anyone unfamiliar with the source material. It has all of the main cast of the show living in Riverdale, as well as Jughead demonstrating his expert detective skills.
Jughead Jones? More like Jughead Holmes!
If that actually happens on Riverdale at some point, I will be very pleased. For the most part, this issue feels like a lighter version of the show, and, in my personal opinion, what the show should be. It weaves engaging drama with slapstick humor and doesn't have to get overly dark and melodramatic. For example, Archie is reunited with Veronica, but it's shown that they have either grown apart during her absence from Riverdale or possibly romanticized their relationship. Archie doesn't understand it when Veronica talks about the trials of being rich and she finds his sports chatter boring.
Similarly, I enjoyed seeing more of Dilton Doiley in the issue. He and Betty bond at a car convention as they respectively geek out over the cool technology seen in cars. Betty is an expert with fixing cars and Dilton loves finding out how they work. It's a match made in car heaven! Sure, Archie notices and it makes him sad, which upsets Veronica in return, but that's the nature of a love whatever-gram.
Archie #18 is written by Mark Waid, drawn by Pete Woods, and lettered by Jack Morelli. You can find it at your local comic book shop.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Books, Comics, Critical Hits and Misses, female characters, feminist sci-fi, Mary Shelley, Science Fiction, Ursula Le Guin Edit
The Guardian has a pretty neat article that examines how dystopian science fiction written by feminists, from as far back as Mary Shelley and maybe even earlier, have predicted the future beyond their moment in time. A really fascinating look at feminist sci-fi!
Maria Ranger at The Valley Vanguard discusses how we really need to stop turning every female character in a comic book into a sex object. We agree.
For today's musical hit, we have Lorde and "Liability"
Today's critical rolls: Discuss some of your favorite feminist fiction, whether it's sci-fi or not!
U.S.Avengers #4: Monster Mash
4:00 PM Unknown Comics, Marvel, Reviews, U.S.Avengers, Zachary Krishef Edit
Wasn't Monsters Unleashed fun? I definitely thought so! Evidently, Al Ewing also loved it because he delivered an issue jam-packed with monsters! It's billed as a mega-Marvel event all in one issue, but unlike a recent Deadpool issue that did the same thing, this one has the same number of pages and it's all done by the same creative team. In fact, the other comics involved in the crossover don't exist and fake covers were designed purely for the comic.
If you're worried about not understanding what's going on, fear not! It's a stand-alone issue and the opening sequence effectively explains who the new Red Hulk is and what kind of mission he's on. He's on a hunt for a rogue agent, one of my favorite recent debuts in the Marvel Universe. Get ready, the American Kaiju's coming to town!
He has no underlying issues to address, he's certifiably large and scaly under duress! K-A-I-J-U, Crazy Ex-Kaiju! My apologies to Rachel Bloom.
Meanwhile, Deadpool guest-stars in the issue, getting caught by the resident mad scientist and turned into a monster. Savvy comic fans can guess that this will lead to a confrontation with Todd Ziller's patriotic alter ego and the Red Hulk. There's even a Dawn Of Justice joke!
U.S.Avengers #4 is a great breather issue. It's pure fun and a great break from the usual comic. Next time, it appears as though things will get serious, as Captain America appears. No, not Luke and Jessica's daughter, but Steve Rogers. Secret Empire is almost upon us. This issue was written by Al Ewing, drawn by Paco Madina, inked by Juan Vlasco, colored by Jesus Aburtov, and lettered by VC's Joe Caramagna. You can find it at your local comic book shop.
Jughead: The Hunger Review: You ARE The Menu In This Supernatural Tale
2:20 PM Unknown Archie Horror, Comics, Jughead: The Hunger, Reviews, Zachary Krishef Edit
This is the official cover for Jughead: The Hunger. It's okay, if slightly generic. The faces look slightly more realistic than usual, adding to the menacing tone of the story. Personally, my favorite cover for the special is this variant by Robert Hack.
I think it's amazing. I love the way that it's designed to mimic the style of an old-school horror movie poster. Every time you look at it, some new detail pops out. I especially love the fading at the edges. It really helps to sell the feeling that you're looking at a classic poster. Most of all, it has an aura of menace and danger, showing the contrast between Jughead's serene face and the slavering, monstrous werewolf.
Make no mistake, this story is not your happy, go-lucky Archie's Weird Mysteries story. The story won't reset at the end. This story has deadly consequences. Essentially, it's paced like a movie, complete with a suitably gory cold opening. Poor Mrs. Grundy. It seems like she gets killed in a lot of alternate universe stories, including Riverdale, Life With Archie: The Married Life, and Afterlife With Archie.
The art is amazing. Michael Walsh is able to project a creepy aura into even the most innocuous of images. Even a simple drawing of Jughead chowing down on a burger is filled with disturbing foreshadowing. The small flecks of blood that dot several panels are tiny, but effective. The little touches also help to set the mood, along with the main visuals.
The fish isn't as out of place as you might think. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I also like the twist that Betty Cooper is actually an undercover werewolf hunter. It added a fun Buffy-esque tone to the story, which I find especially amusing because some reunion photos from the show were just released today. I do wish that we had more time to focus on that plot in the story. I want to see more of Archie's reaction to the revelation that one of his closest friends initially came to town to kill his other closest friend. The comic went by so quickly. I'm interested in seeing more of this universe. I think it has the potential to be Archie Comics, Inc.'s equivalent to Marvel's Marvel Zombies or Deadpool Killogy comics.
In every generation, there comes a new slayer. This summer on The CW, it's Betty The Werewolf Slayer.
In an interview, Frank Tieri said that he could picture this being expanded into a series of some sort. I certainly hope that one is given the go-ahead. I want to know more. (Spoilers- move to the final paragraph to avoid them.) At the end, Jughead left town after brutally slaughtering Reggie. Why did the wolfs-bane seemingly not work on him? Given that he seemed angry with Reggie earlier, could he just control the transformation by then? How do Jughead's parents, if they are alive in this world, feel about this? Will Jellybean become a werewolf?
Jughead: The Hunger is written by Frank Tieri, drawn by Michael Walsh, lettered by Jack Morelli, and colored by Michael Walsh and Dee Cunniffe. You can find it at your local comic book shop.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Critical Hits and Misses, Get Out, Homecoming, Jordan Peele, Justice Leage, logan, movie posters, Movies, postracial, Racism, Spiderman, white supremacy Edit
The New York Times examines how Get Out, Jordan Peele's directorial debut and surprising hit, shows that the "postracial America" myth is just that: full of shit. Lots of talk about white supremacy in America, and how this horror film subverts the typical horror tropes. An excellent an opinion piece.
Over at Forbes, Erik Kain discusses what a good poster for a superhero movie looks like. He may not be looking forward to yet another Spiderman reboot, but the latest poster sure looks pretty awesome, and so did Logan's. Compared to those two, Justice League's poster is not much to look at.
For today's musical hit, we have Bruno Mars latest, "That's What I Like"
Today's critical rolls: What are some great (and not so great) examples of movie posters, for any genre and any point in Hollywood history? Share pics!
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin comic creators, Comics, Critical Hits and Misses, Diversity, lgbt characters, lgbt comics, Movies, people of color, trans characters, trans comics Edit
The New York Times chronicles how the comics industry is finally making strides towards diversifying not only characters, but creators as well. The star of the article is America Chavez and Gabby Riviera, the gay Latin woman writing America's first solo book. But this article mentions Luke Cage, Kim & Kim, La Borinquena, plus others, that are books written about minority heroes, and written by minority creators. Well worth a read!
Speaking of diverse representation, this time at the movies, ABC writes about how there's been an uptick in diverse films at the theater, and as a result, we're seeing an uptick in Asian-American and Black-American movie goers as well. You mean when minorities see more of themselves in films, they might actually go to the theater more often? Shocking!
For today's musical hit, we have The Chainsmokers and "The One"
Today's critical rolls: Tell us about your favorite hero of color, and why they are your favorite! Brownie points if you happen to like a hero written by a person of color too!
Brother's Ruin Is A Kind Of Magic
12:00 PM Megan Crittenden Books, Brother's Ruin, Emma Newman, Megan Crittenden, Reviews Edit
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of magic, must be in want of a school of witchcraft and wizardry. Brother’s Ruin by Emma Newman is the first installment of a new gaslamp fantasy series. In 1850 England, Charlotte Gunn is leading a double life. Not only is she a successful illustrator under a male pseudonym, but also a mage who has yet to be discovered by the Royal Society of Esoteric Arts. She works hard to hide what she does and what she is, lying to most everyone but her brother. When she finds that her father owes a great debt, and her brother may also be a mage, she must guard her secrets even more carefully than before—while working to make sure her brother receives the best offer from the magic colleges.
In a post-Potter world, it is prudent to explain to your readership exactly why your mage doesn’t want to go to Hogwarts. Newman does provide, in time, justification for Charlotte’s reasoning, but readers who are still bitter that they never received their letter may have a hard time empathizing with Charlotte. The Royal Society of Esoteric Arts are servants of the Crown first and foremost; these sons and daughters of the Empire may not marry or pursue careers that are not magical in nature. I still felt like that would be a small price to pay to play with magic and be among peers who do not treat you differently because you are a woman, but you do you, Charlotte.
The romance, what there is of it, feels very weak. Charlotte’s fiancé George is a major reason she does not want to join the Royal Society of Esoteric Arts, but she hardly seems to like him and lusts after another man. In a rare reversal of literary tropes, George contributes so little that he could be replaced with a sexy sensible lamp and the plot would lose nothing. It’s fine to have extraneous characters that contribute little to the plot, but as an anchor for Charlotte it’s hard to see the appeal of his sensible nature and mutton chops. She also lies to him incessantly, not only about her powers but also her career as an illustrator and her sleuthing adventures. How can we root for a love interest the heroine doesn't even trust? Magus Hopkins, while not nearly as nice, seems to light Charlotte’s fires higher and I foresee adultery in Charlotte’s future.
Brother’s Ruin is a quick, entertaining read, but ultimately it feels like a prologue rather than the first full book in the series. 183 pages is not a great amount of real estate to map out both plot and world-building, and something’s got to give. We are not informed about the issues within the Royal Society until quite near the end, and even then it’s a lot of telling but little showing, aside from one corrupt Magus whose motivations are still a mystery at the end. There is a lot of potential in the premise this book sets up; I do hope the sequel will be meatier.
Brother’s Ruin by Emma Newman was published on March 14, 2017 by Tor.com. It is available wherever fine books are sold.
Megan “Spooky” Crittenden is a secluded writer who occasionally ventures from her home to give aid to traveling adventurers.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Akta Manniskor, comic books, Comics, Critical Hits and Misses, gatekeeping, Humans, Science Fiction, Westworld Edit
As good as the first season of HBO’s Westworld was, it lacked exploration of the effect the existence of human-like androids would have on the wider world. Thankfully, as Alex Cranz points out over at io9, we have Humans, the Channel 4/AMC remake of Swedish sci-fi show Äkta människor (Real Humans) to cover this theme
The Entertainment Monthly blog has a pretty good post about why gatekeeping is killing the comics industry.
For today's musical hit, we have The Weekend and "I Feel It Coming"
Today's critical roll: Gatekeeping sucks. And it's not just in the comic book fandoms. Tell us about gatekeeping you've seen or experienced in your fan or hobby groups.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Bioware, Comics, Critical Hits and Misses, Games, Gorillaz, Mass Effect, Mass Effect Andromeda, Superheroes Edit
Bioware’s next installment in their Mass Effect franchise, Andromeda, finally came out - and io9’s Evan Narcisse, Beth Elderkin and James Whitbrook reminisce about the original trilogy, picking moments that made them fall in love with it.
Do you ever get tired of Superhero comics? Me either. But if you do, SyFy Wire has a pretty handy list of 8 genre comics that you might want to check out, whether or not you are sick of superheroes!
For today's musical hit, Gorillaz just dropped some new tunes! We thought "Andromeda" seemed particularly pertinent today. Enjoy this art track!
Today's critical rolls: Happy Friday! What are some of your favorite non-superhero comic books?
Nasty Women Is Mandatory Reading In This Political Climate
11:30 AM Megan Crittenden 404 Ink, Books, Megan Crittenden, Nasty Women, Reviews Edit
When Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during a presidential debate, it instantly became a meme throughout social media. It also did not take long for merchandise announcing your feminine nastiness was available for purchase. I remember one article at the time saying that the moment was a good one for Clinton that would mobilize feminists everywhere around her and win her the election.
Spoiler alert: Trump won and “nasty woman” became more than just a cutesy phrase on your coffee cup. Now all women in America and abroad had to wonder how their “nastiness” was going to be targeted. Would he follow through and punish women who got abortions? Would misogynists feel emboldened, now that one of their own was elected the most powerful man in the country? Trans women scrambled to get their passports to reflect their real gender, sanctuary cities took a stand, millions donated to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, and a Kickstarter project was announced: Nasty Women.
Nasty Women is an anthology from 404 Ink, a UK literary magazine. 1,336 backers pledged £22,156, well over it’s £6000 goal. And now that the finished project is available for purchase, and I cannot recommend it enough.
I've read a lot of feminist anthologies over the years. Unfortunately, I have to say it’s rare to find an anthology this diverse; of the ones I read it’s only beat out by such wonderful anthologies such as A Bridge Called My Back where race or other minority demographics is the entire point of the collection. Too often when feminist essays are collected in a volume, there are a few token essays by women of colour and far more rarely, a contribution from a trans woman. The editors of Nasty Women have done a great job curating these essays; most of the authors are living in the USA or the UK, but their voices are myriad and their experiences and identities are diverse.
And their voices are powerful. The women who contributed explore what it means to be a “nasty woman”; that is, a woman that patriarchal norms deem unsuitable and improper. Race, immigration status, transness, disability, weight, faith, pregnancy, punk rock and witchcraft are just some of the facets of “nastinest” explored.
It is raw, it is powerful, and it is sorely needed right now. This book captures the sense of loss so many women felt last November and December, but also the rise of the fighting spirit that saw the Women’s March hot on the heels of Trump’s inauguration, not the first nor the last of loud protests that we have seen since. This is a very peculiar time in history; no one seems to know how stable our government is right now, how long it will last or what horrible policies they can actually get through. Because of this uncertainty, I have no idea how easy this book will be to read years later. Many of the experiences related in this book will surely be relevant, but the overall political worries over Trump and Brexit, if I may be willfully hopeful and naive, may be alleviated in the months to come. But I can tell you, right now, you want to read this book.
If there’s anything I wish was included was essays from First Nation women. Their fights have been ongoing for hundreds of years, and when we thought we won at Standing Rock, it turns out it was just delayed. Their voices too, are sorely needed.
Nasty Women was published on March 8, 2017 by 404 Ink and can be ordered from their website.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin arsenic, Comics, Critical Hits and Misses, fashion, victorian fashion, women in comics Edit
A color to die (dye?) for.
The Monkeys Fighting Robots blog is taking a look at women working in comics. It's an interesting study on a male-dominated workplace, so check it out!
Over at Racked, this is a fascinating look at the deadly history of green dye (hint: it was made with arsenic!) and the horrific lengths people, especially women, went to wear jewel tone greens just to be fashionable.
For today's musical hit, we have kind of an oldie. It's Jewel and "Who Will Save Your Soul"
Today's critical rolls: The internet learned why Odinson became unworthy of his hammer (spoilers at that link). What do you think? A good reason to become unworthy? Or, if you don't want to be spoiled, make up your own head canon on why he became unworthy of the hammer, and Jane was more worthy than he. Feminist reasons for why Jane is worthier are always welcome. ;)
Amberlough Is A Beautiful, Gut Wrenching Dream Of A Book
1:00 PM Megan Crittenden Amberlough, Books, Lara Elena Donnelly, Megan Crittenden, Reviews Edit
It’s the end of an era for Amberlough City. The nationalistic One State Party is on the rise with a surprise election win, despite doing poorly in the lead up polls. The Ospies are against everything Amberlough City standards for, and are willing to do what it takes to crush it under it’s thumb.
I hate to say that Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly is timely, but it is just that. Most reviews compare it to Cabaret, and it really does seem to draw closely from the end of the Weimar Republic and rather than spend pages and pages explaining the political atmosphere, Donnelly allows the reader to fill in the gaps with real life references. I think many will find uncomfortable parallels with certain recent political events, as the Ospies crackdown on immigrants, racial and religious minorities and the LGBT.
The story centers around three protagonists: Cyril DePaul, a spy who has been out of the game for a few years and finds himself in the grips of the Ospies; his lover Aristide, cabaret star and criminal kingpin; and Cordelia Lehane, a firey dancer with a drug dealing side hustle. All three struggle as the Ospies tighten their grip around the city’s throat, and all three take radically different ways of resisting.
Readers may find Aristide and Cordelia’s predicaments relatable, even if their circumstances are fantastical. How many of us in 2016 thought, “this could never happen here?” How many of us saw the rise of the alt right coming, but dismissed it or, in hindsight, didn’t treat it as seriously as it deserved? Like us, Aristide and Cordelia in their own ways prepare for the tightening noose, hoping to slip out at the last minute if it comes to that, but the rapidly changing political atmosphere ultimately takes both by surprise. In the end, they are in two very different places, and I am left unsure whether I would do better than either of them.
Cyril is a frustrating character, and the book’s flaws are largely his flaws. We are to believe that he was an incredibly skilled spy being sent back out into the field, but he is incredibly naive enough to make a deal with the Ospies (and live up to it when he’s back in Amberlough City and out of danger) and he never informs Aristide of the deal he made. He also makes some very contradictory decisions near the end that made me scratch my head. I’m trying to keep this light on spoilers but it involves him refusing to receive very important information because he might talk under torture, then mere hours later he radically changes his plans because he says he never considered the fact that he might talk under torture. Whether that was him cracking up or an oversight, I’m not sure. Regardless, readers will struggle to remain sympathetic with him. The rise of the Ospies isn’t completely his fault, but if he had made different choices and stood up to them...well, it would be a much shorter book.
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly is sexy, fun and gut wrenching. The good times roar as we wait for the other shoe to drop, for the fascists to burst down the door and break up the party. This book will break your heart, and you will be grateful for it. It was published by Tor.com on February 7, 2017 and is available wherever fine books are sold.
Arrow is not in a happy place - "Kapushion" Review
11:00 AM Ivonne Martin Arrow, Arrowverse, Berlantiverse, Green Arrow, Ivonne Martin, review, Stephen Amell, The Flash, TV Edit
Talk about a huge bucket of water in the face, to all the Berlantiverse fans who were glowing and tapping and singing after yesterday's fun The Flash musical episode. I mean, Arrow and The Flash have always been tonally different, since their inception, and that was a purposeful decision. If Arrow went dark, you could always count on Barry and the gang bring a touch of brightness in that universe. Even during their crossovers, Oliver is usually srz bizness while Barry is lightening the mood.
But never before has there been such an abysmally wide crater between the two tones of the show, in the same week.
Spoilers beyond the fold, and strap in, because it's a pretty bumpy ride.
I will admit, I wasn't expecting the dark, dark place this show went. I mean, it seemed pretty obvious that Prometheus was trying to turn Oliver dark, and I assumed that the episode would go like this: Prometheus abducts someone he cares about and tortures that person in front of Oliver, while the rest of the gang rushes to save them both from imminent death.
So I was basically predicting your typical run-of-the-mill superhero tv episode.
That's not what we got.
Last week, Adrian Chase had our hero chained up and promising to get Oliver to see what he really is. This week, Adrian spends the episode in a totally unhinged state, become increasingly furious that Oliver seems incapable of figuring out whatever it is Adrian's point is. Color me as confused as Oliver, because I didn't really understand what it was he wanted Oliver to admit.
If you've been ignoring the Russian Bratva flashbacks all season because of how incredibly slow they were to get to any kind of point, stop that now. This episode brought the Russia storyline front and center and made it integral to the current Adrian Chase plot. Back in season one, the flashbacks were an interesting and well-used gimmick that started to get real old, even downright obnoxious, by the time we got to season four. And in season five, I didn't necessarily mind them as much as I had season four's, but I tended to skim over them, even in my reviews.
I make this bad guy shit look good...
But they matter. Not just for plot reasons, but because goddamn Dolph Lundgren popped up every now and again and he is a scene-stealing force of nature. And he was front and center in "Kapushion" so it was totally worth not skipping over the Russia scenes. Basically, Oliver helps Anatoly take down Kovar, but in doing so, goes to a really dark place several times. And several times Anatoly tells him he can't separate the monster inside of him from the man, despite Oliver insisting that he can. Ultimately, Anatoly sees that when Oliver channels the monster, he enjoys killing.
And that's apparently what Adrian Chase sees too. But he can't just out and say that. He wants Oliver to get there, to admit that he is a monster and not a hero.
Fair warning, this episode contains a LOT of torture. Adrian puts Oliver through physical torture, and then decides to use some psychological torture as well, in the form of Evelyn Sharp. Does that name sound familiar to you? She was that silly girl they wasted the superhero name Artemis on, who starts out with Team Arrow and then ultimately turns on them because Oliver is a murderer, so of course it makes perfect sense to help out the actual psychopath instead of the guy trying to be a good person.
If I sound contemptuous, it's because I am. I have no use for Evelyn Sharp. She was a poorly written character who was never given a chance to shine, I was not overly impressed with the actress, and worse of all, her reasons for turning on Team Arrow were shoddy at best and incomprehensible at worst. If she had never come back to the show, I would have been fine. And Adrian pretending to snap her neck in front of Oliver barely registered on my GAF meter. Maybe a slight blip of annoyance that they were killing a female character, but then I don't think I ever really bought that she was dead. Turns out I was right, because it was all part of the torture and Evelyn was in on it. The minute Oliver admits he enjoys killing, she gets up with a snooty comment and walks off. Keep walking, hypocrite. You literally just watched a man get tortured for days in some of the most horrific of ways, and somehow you feel vindicated? GTFO.
I can't even muster up the care to write something witty for this screen cap, because I DGAF about this character so hard.
I don't have a lot to say about the plot, because I honestly have no idea where the hell this story is going. As an audience member, what am I even supposed to do with the information that the titular hero of the story likes to kill? On one level, the debate over whether heroes should kill bad guys has been raging for decades among comic book fans. Some people think Batman is wrong to let the Joker keep escaping Arkham, because every time he does, new innocents die. And some people have thought since season one that Oliver isn't a real hero because he did kill a lot in that season.
So is this ultimately an anti-hero's story? Maybe. I mean, it's not like Oliver's journey hasn't been understandable. He started out as a snot-nosed rich brat who knew nothing and whose greatest dilemma was how to escape his loving girlfriend and sleep with her sister, to having to survive on a hellish island where survival absolutely meant kill or be killed. It's not really surprising that he learned to kill. I suppose the surprising part is discovering, during the Bratva scenes in this episode, that he appears to enjoy skinning enemies alive "for practice." Christ. At least The Punisher is content with just killing his enemies quickly so he can move on to the next bad guy.
At the end, Adrian just lets Oliver go, and our broken hero stumbles into the Arrowcave, much to stunned and horrified expressions of his team, and tells them that he's done with everything.
Team Arrow: "I literally can't even..."
I mean, after what he just went through, I don't blame the guy.
Ultimately, it appears that Prometheus has done exactly what he wanted to do from the start: he has broken Oliver's spirit completely. When Stephen Amell delivered the final line of this episode, it was heartbreaking: "I don't want to do this anymore."
Speaking of Stephen Amell, this episode featured him in every scene, and while "Kapushion" was hard to watch just for the sheer level of darkness and internal and external torture, there's little doubt about it that Arrow's leading man was at his peak here. He was nothing short of absolutely fabulous in every scene. When screaming at Adrian during the torture scenes, Amell was raw and powerful. When torturing Russians or beating the crap out of Dolph Lundgren, he was awesome. And when he drags his broken self into the final scene, I believe him when he says he's done.
Josh Segarra continued his A+ performance of the very scary Adrian Chase, although I must say... Prometheus seemed unhinged and almost out of control in some of these scenes, out of sheer frustration that Oliver Queen just didn't freaking GET the point of his master plan. Dude, Segarra is killing it this season.
I have no idea what's going to happen to Oliver going forward, but I'm with you, Arrow... it's been a helluva ride, but season five is shaping out to be some of Stephen Amell's finest moments, both in and out of the suit.
But after "Kapushion" I think I really need to go watch "Duet" again, just to shake myself out of that dark, dark place Oliver is in.
On a final note... Oliver totally got the raw end of the deal this week out of the CW shows:
Arrow airs on Wednesdays at 8/7c on the CW.
Ivonne Martin is a writer, gamer, and avid consumer of all things geek—and is probably entirely too verbose for her own good.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin censorship, Critical Hits and Misses, Guys and Dolls, LGBTQ, musicals, Once Upon A Time, The Flash, YouTube Edit
Vanity Fair discusses why this year, The Flash, Once Upon A Time, and other shows are doing musical episodes, and why it works. Lots of discussion on how many tv stars got their start in musical theater, and audience interests in musicals seems to be cyclical in nature.
In less happy news, it's been discovered that YouTube restricts LGBTQ+ content to "protect children" (fuck you, YouTube). Autostraddle has the story.
For today's musical hit, in the spirit of The Flash's musical episode, here's the original Broadway recording of Guys and Dolls "More I Cannot Wish You"
Today's critical rolls: We're in a musical mood today. What are your favorite musicals, or musical episodes of tv shows? Or maybe you're a musical hater, tell us why!
"Duet" Hits the Right Notes - The Flash & Supergirl Crossover
11:09 AM Ivonne Martin Barry Allen, Berlantiverse, DC, Ivonne Martin, Recaps, Reviews, Supergirl, The Flash, TV Edit
That sound you heard last night was probably the sound of me squeeing in absolute delight for a solid hour of television.
Also, possibly, it was the sound of the tremendous amount of musical talent that you might not have realized exists in the Berlantiverse. And maybe even the sound of tap-dancing. Because, you guys, there was tap-dancing in this episode!!!!
Spoilers over the fold.
As with the previous crossover episode this season which involved all four Berlantiverse shows, it's probably worth noting right off the bat that the plot of "Duet" was very simple, and if really want to be critical, kind of silly. Music Meister, who appears at the end of Monday's Supergirl episode and "whammies" Kara unconscious, shows up on Earth-1 and whammies Barry as well. Later, Music Meister tells both our intrepid heroes that he's just there to teach them a lesson, and oh yeah, don't die in the dream world because you'll die in the real world too.
The "lesson" for Kara and Barry to learn is about love, which, if you're not interested in the silly romantically-contrived drama this season, may cause you to roll your eyes. Certainly I hit The Flash hard for it's CW-soap-opera-esque decision to play the "will they/won't they" game, with an honorable mention going to Supergirl for the same predictable melodrama between Kara and Mon-El. I will say that at the very least, Supergirl didn't drag the drama on for very long. We all knew the melodrama was going to happen, but it didn't happen until this past Monday's episode, wherein Kara discovers that Mon-El has been lying to her about his real identity as Prince of Daxam all this time, so she decides she simply can't be with him, or have anything to do with him. Meanwhile, Barry decided last week that he couldn't be with Iris because reasons, and that was after she had called off the engagement the week before that, because reasons.
I would be remiss if I didn't link to a post (again) at the Fandomentals blog about the problematic nature of the Mon-El and Kara romance. It's worth a read for sure.
Okay, so what all of the criticism out of the way, let's get real here about musical episodes. Unless you're Glee, the only reason to have a musical episode is a) because the fans would love it, and b) because it's fun, and c) because if your cast has the talent, it would be wasteful not to. Sometimes it doesn't work out (looking at you, Grey's Anatomy), but sometimes it goes down in history as being one of the most memorable things about a show (full confession: I still sometimes play the soundtrack to "Once More With Feeling," the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, in my car).
Considering all the musical talent present in at least some members of every Berlantiverse cast, maybe the real surprise is that a musical crossover didn't happen sooner. Either way, and despite the simplistic nature of the plot, "Duet" delivered in a big way. It was visually gorgeous, between all the costumes and hair, and of course it was such a pleasure to hear the pipes on some of these actors, in all their full glory.
Costuming and hair, especially for Iris and Kara, were on-point here!
So basically, Music Meister traps Kara and Barry in a dream world where they are in fact in a musical, and they don't have their super powers. They have to play along with the plot and see it through to its conclusion if they want to get out. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Mon-El and J'onn crossover into Earth-1 to seek the help of Team Flash, bringing an unconscious Kara with them.
There is a little bit of action out in the real world, as J'onn, Kid Flash, and Vibe team up to capture Music Meister. There's a small sideplot involving Kid Flash being freaked out now about the superheroing thing after Savitar messed with his head, and Music Meister even taunts him about being scared, but ultimately, bolstered by his teammates, Wally gets it together.
The real action is happening in the dreamworld, of course. We start with Barry entering the dreamworld just as Kara is pulling off a beautiful number on stage at a nightclub set in the roaring 20s. Music Meister appears to tell them how the game is played, and there is another musical number that features Carlos Valdes (Cisco) and Jeremy Jordan (Winn) and Music Meister himself (Darren Criss).
I did not know this, but Jeremy Jordan (Winn) is a young broadway star. The hell is he doing playing the dork on Supergirl?
Then you've got the actual stage legends in the form of Jesse L. Martin (Joe West) and Victor Garber (Martin Stein on Legends of Tomorrow), who play the two dads of Iris' in-dream character Millie. Yes that's right, The Flash just slipped in a gay romance we didn't even know we freaking needed, but we so totally do. Anyway, Martin and Garber belt out "More I Cannot Wish You" from Guys and Dolls, along with the third stage legend in this episode, John Barrowman, who plays the rival father and gangster.
I accept this new head cannon
Millie, aka Iris, is secretly in love with the son of the night club owner, and that son is played by Mon-El. So yeah, we had Iris West and Mon-El in love, and neither Barry nor Kara were very happy about it. But they had to move the romance plot forward if they want to get out of this West Side Story knock-off.
Guys. GUYS. There's a tap-dance sequence, which Grant Gustin freaking nails. I was sitting on my couch literally squeeeing with sheer joy. This sequence featured Barry and Kara singing a silly Rachel Bloom (of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) piece called "Super Friends," and it was super fabulous.
Photo credit: Vanity Fair/CW
Ultimately, when Barrowman, Martin, and Garber get into a gangster shootout because they don't want their kids dating, Barry and Kara get caught in it and get shot, despite Music Meister's warning that they can't die in the dream world. Prodded along by Music Meister, Iris and Mon-El have to go save their sweeties by vibing into the dream world and giving the kiss of true love. I swear to God I'm not making this up.
Hokey as hell? Yes! All the yes! But it was so... joyful.
The lesson Kara and Barry learn has something to do with love and forgiveness (I told you the plot was kind of thin). Music Meister, who apparently has channeled all of us in being sick of the will they/won't they, is pleased that they seem to be in love again, and so his job is done.
I mean, it remains to be seen how Kara and Mon-El will fix things, although Kara was probably on the right track when she threatened to geologically drop a mountain on him if he ever lied to her again. But Barry and Iris have fully resolved their differences here, because at the end of this episode, we get one final musical number, this time in the real world. Barry serenades Iris with a beautiful piece written by La La Land's Benj Pasek and Justin Paul called "Runnin' Home To You" as he presents her with the engagement ring once more.
If you're not into romance or musicals, the final scene was probably way too sugary-sweet for your tastes, and the rest of the musical numbers probably annoyed you. But then again, maybe not. My husband is no fan of musicals (how did I marry this man, when I adore them?), but he wasn't greatly bothered by this episode. It will probably never be his favorite episode, but it didn't cause him to leave the room.
But if you're like me, and you love musicals and think that Kara and Barry are the most adorable superheroes ever, then this episode will probably make you as happy as it made me. Because while it did nothing to move the Savitar plot, or any of the other story arcs in The Flash this season, "Duet" was nothing but sheer, golden joy. I walked away from it feeling happy and delighted, a feeling I remember from watching The Flash back in season one. After a dark season two, and an even darker season three, it's nice to know that this cast and these writers can re-capture it... once more with feeling.
The Flash airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c on the CW.
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Aza Comics, Comics, healthcare, intersectional feminism, Trump, US politics, women of color Edit
This fascinating analysis from Forbes discusses why blue-collar white workers voted for Trump, and why the US has such a tough time with the idea of universal healthcare. It's a jarring look at how the social safety net developed around benefiting white men primarily, and how white voters today want to keep it for themselves.
Jazmin Truesdale, founder of Aza Comics, was tired of not finding comic book superheroes that reflected herself. So she set out to create a world where women of color could be superheroes. Sign me up. We here at Critical Writ are ALL about that...
For today's musical hit,we have indie artist SZA and "Babylon"
Today's critical rolls: Slowly we're seeing more women of color make it into the superhero narrative, even within the Big Two (such as America Chavez over at Marvel). What are some of your favorite WOC heroes? Or, tell us what kind of WOC heroes you would like to see created!
4:30 PM Ivonne Martin Amber Benson, BOOM, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clueless, Critical Hits and Misses, dudebros, feminism, International Women's Day, Wall Street Edit
Remember that statue of the little girl facing down the bull on Wall Street, in honor of International Woman's Day? Well it didn't take long for a gross douchebro to remind us why we need that statue, and more broadly, why we need feminism.
We are stupidly excited about this new Clueless comic book from Boom! Why? Well, besides the fact that it's Clueless, it's being written by Amber Benson and Sara Kuhn. Yes, Amber Benson, of Buffy the Vampire fame! Check out the Vanity Fair interview with Benson and Kuhn!
For today's musical hit, we have Louis the Child and "Love Is Alive"
Today's critical rolls: Douchebros pretending to perform sexual acts with a little girl notwithstanding, what are some of the other reasons we need feminism? (yeah, it's an easy one today)
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! WTOL has a pretty cool history of Saint Patrick himself, as well as how March 17 became such a major holiday.
Esquire has a solid interview and story with Chris Evans, who has lately been punching Nazis on Twitter and jumping out of airplanes, because what the hell else would Captain America do in his free time?
For today's musical hit, we have Irish music of course! It's Gaelic Storm's "Scalliwag"
Today's critical rolls: TGIF and Happy St. Patrick's Day! What's on the agenda for the evening and weekend? Green beer? Corned beef and cabbage? Beauty and the Beast?
Reggie And Me #3 Review: Moose's Backstory- Revealed!
2:00 PM Unknown Comics, Reggie and Me, review, Zachary Krishef Edit
This is the official cover for Reggie And Me #3 and it's perfectly fine, but I want to give some special attention to this variant cover. Not only does it have a cool metaphor for the story within, but I also like the visual of Reggie as a conniving psychiatrist with Moose as his troubled patient.
The art is wonderful, with every single scene crackling off the page. I really like the vibrant colors and crisp scenes. I want to give special praise to some of the fantasy sequences, particularly the scene depicting Moose and Archie as eight-bit video game characters. Additionally, I have to commend Sandy Jarell and Kelly Fitzpatrick on the art and coloring. Several pieces in the book are made in different styles and they all feel unique, from Moose's paintings to the standard story.
The story is also exemplary. The issue promised to reveal a hidden side of Moose Mason, and it definitely didn't disappoint. It's subtle, but effective. We see that Moose isn't just a jock, he's also one of five children. He crafts lovely paintings of everyone in Riverdale and plans on giving Midge a special one for her birthday. He even helps his siblings with their homework.
I'm also pleased by Vader's ongoing development. The earlier issues have made no secret of the fact that he's an unreliable narrator, having been adopted from the pound by Reggie. He trusts him implicitly and thinks the world of him. However, he slowly begins to doubt that Reggie is all that he says he is after seeing Moose's home life. He even stops Reggie from defacing Moose's portrait of Midge. It is very well-done.
Reggie And Me #3 is written by Tom DeFalco, drawn by Sandy Jarrell, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, and lettered by Jack Morelli.
Ghost in the Shell - The First 15 Minutes Preview
1:00 PM Unknown Ghost in the Shell, Movies, Previews, Reviews, Rosario de la Torre, Scarlet Johansson Edit
The Ghost in the Shell film is an endeavour that has been mired by controversy since its inception. I highly recommend reading the hyperlinked articles in order to get a bird’s eye view of the problem. That aside, I do want to comment on the first fifteen minutes of the film, that I was very lucky to have seen on March 9th. I have to say, it did look very interesting. So, beware, this is going to be a spoiler for the first quarter-of-an-hour of the Ghost in the Shell Hollywood blockbuster. (To be honest, I don’t feel like I am spoiling much; even the trailer is a spoiler for the first fight, we just didn’t know it was the first fight.)
The first thing that is worth noting, is that the Scarlett Johansson film adheres to a stricter chronological order than the original Ghost in the Shell film, starting the film credits very sedately with what I assume are neural filaments growing to connect to The Major’s brain. What follows, after the director and main actors have had their slides, is something that’s an almost shot-for-shot remake of the following sequence from the original film:
Then, we cut to a close-up of Johansson’s face. She is being gently woken up by a female doctor, and she chokes up. Dr. Ouellet tells her that she was drowning and that they couldn’t salvage her body, but now The Major has a new body—a better one. The Major starts to hyperventilate and the doctor isn’t able to calm her down, so she is sedated and left in a room. Then we cut to an ominous shot wherein The Major is centered in the frame, while Dr. Ouellet and a man (who is from the corporation that finances the experiment) talk about her. We cut again to another shot that copies the original animated film; the one where The Major is crouching on top of the building, hooked with cables to a comms network and assessing the situation of a possible assassination attempt on the President of the African Federation, while he holds a meeting with a high-ranking member of the Hanka corporation.
This is where the robo-geisha fight happens, with gangster men outright shooting the security guards and bodyguards. The situation goes FUBAR, and The Major decides to disregard orders to stand by from Chief Daisuke and takes a leap of faith and crashes into the window. She then starts being a complete badass shooting everything on sight, taking damage and dominating the fight. One of the robo-geishas turns into the spiderbot we see in the trailer, and drags the Hanka corp rep away and hacks into his brain. It’s at this point that a strike team lead by Batou (played by Michael Wincott) enters to support The Major.
The Major is stuck in a difficult position by the robo-geisha who is hacking into the Hanka rep’s brain, not before The Major shoots it fatally. The robo-geisha scuttles back while begging for her mechanical life. ‘Please don’t shoot me,’ I think the robot says. This unsettles The Major, so the robo-geisha has to be shot by Batou. Batou then tells The Major ‘you are not like it, you’re not a robot,’ which angers The Major and she storms off, turning on her cloaking device.
Subtle, this film is not. I don’t expect much from a Hollywood cyberpunk flick.
The film immediately sets up its main narrative theme: Is The Major human? This happens in the scene where Dr. Ouellet is speaking with the shady corporation businessman. At least, I assume the man is from a corporation since the narrative clues us into that, with his slick business attire and his dehumanisation of Scarlett’s character. This man outright calls her a ‘weapon,’ while Dr. Ouellet insists The Major is ‘special’ and ‘more than human.’ This is a cyberpunk staple, after all.
What I find interesting is that the film also points us in the direction of a big difference between the original Ghost in the Shell film and this live-action film, which is The Major’s characterisation. In the animated feature, The Major displays her emotions in a very subtle way, and her internal humanity, or ‘aliveness’ is contrasted with the way she is animated. One of the things that make The Major so eerie in appearance is that she doesn’t blink at all while she’s awake and has a constant wide-eyed stare paired up with her blank face. Yet, the case is made in the animated film that, if not human, she definitely qualifies as ‘alive.’
In the Hollywood film, on the other hand, The Major is immediately established as human to audiences. When she wakes up, she gasps, struggles breathing, starts having a panic attack about the drowning and Dr. Ouellet has to sedate her again. Clearly, we are meant to sympathize with her from the start.
I’m not a big fan of this change because it means that the fundamental question the film grapples with has been resolved from the start. It removes the thematic conflict from the narrative, by dumbing down the themes of personhood in service of a more standard internal conflict about identity.
This is also shown with the aftermath of the fight scene. The Major is clearly affected by the pleas to spare it, coming from the robot. After Batou shoots the robot in the head and outright tells The Major that she is human, unlike the robo-geishas, she leaves straight away, even bumping into some kind of Section Nine SWAT teammate on the way out. She clearly struggles with seeing herself as a human. Motoko Kusanagi, on the other hand, brings up the question of whether being alive necessarily equals being human in her advanced, technological world, especially after the encounter with the Puppet Master.
There’s also a small contrast between gentle femininity and harsh masculinity paralleled in the duplets of Dr. Ouellet and the corp rep at the beginning of the film, and The Major and Batou. It’s not a particularly subversive scene. However, I believe this will be something present in a superficial manner in the rest of the film.
Before diving into the specifics, we really need to talk about filters. Between the influence wielded by Michael Bay’s Transformers films, and Disney's TRON: Legacy, the Ghost in the Shell live-action film didn’t stand a chance. Remember the good old days when sepia or brown filter was gritty, a green filter meant teh future!!!!/cybernetics, blue was horror or night and so on and so forth? Yeah, no, I think The Matrix poisoned till the end of time the well of ‘green is for cyberworld.’ This film is so blue-tinged and washed out it doesn’t make for a very interesting colour palette. The live-action film looks good, but it’s not memorable.
The overall look of the city looks like a crossover with futuristic Gotham from Batman Beyond with the city from the first episode of The Animatrix. It’s not a very original look, but what makes it interesting are all the holo-ads livening up the background. It gives off a very Tokyo vibe. In the live-action film, the city looks a bit too clean compared to the grimy underbelly as shown in the animated feature. I don’t think it detracts from the film, I’m just jotting it down.
Then there is the scene about the meeting between the President of the African Federation and the rep from the Hanka Corporation. I like this set piece. It really looks like a futuristic Japanese tea salon. The robo-geisha’s design is also warmer than the rest of the aesthetics in the film; they look more steampunk, like clockwork machines. It gives a feeling of the robo-geishas being antiques, which lends itself very well to the appearance that the meeting is happening in a very upscale place. Very interesting.
Also, TRON: Legacy, why do you do this to me? In the Ghost in the Shell live-action film, just like in the 2008 Disney film, whenever there is a sequence that takes place in the digital world, it is all orangey. This Scarlett Johansson film is orange and blue, same old, same old for contemporary action films. I was expecting the digital world to be green as a reference to the original films. I am disappoint.
Other Quibbles
Sometimes I felt as if the CGI over Scarlett Johansson’s body wasn’t all that well done. They removed the nipples of the naked body in favour of a more cybernetic look in order to get the PG-13 rating, albeit it looks really inconsistent. Even her back is supposed to look a bit mechanical, and sometimes Scarlett just looks naked. I guess we need to have those titillated eyeballs paying cold hard cash to look at Scarlett’s butt? This is even more evident in the fight scenes.
About the robo-geisha fight scene. Yes, it’s with the President of the African Federation, not the meeting with the programmer asking for asylum of the Galvess Republic. Maybe out of guilt, but the film seems to take a more multi-cultural approach, at least when it comes to to secondary characters. Too bad it doesn't have more of a diverse main cast. Also, would the African countries have unified under a single banner considering the vast cultural differences between them? It feels like the done-to-death ‘Africa is a country’ spiel. I would like to know for sure if there’s more diversity in this film. At this point, it’s difficult to say.
There’s also the fact that the fight scenes are not as surgical. This Major is not as precise as Motoko. I don’t know whether it’s because the fights are not as well choreographed or because the producers don’t want The Major’s fights scenes to look like Black Widow’s in the MCU. For some reason I don’t think Scarlett Johansson’s character is as tactical as Major Kusanagi. I have to remind you all that I only watched the first fifteen minutes, and I may be mistaken about the way the fight scenes are structured.
The Ghost in the Shell live-action film seems to be a more easily digestible, high budget version of the Ghost in the Shell animated film. I recommend it, but I wouldn’t go into it expecting any sort of cerebral fare. It clobbers you in the head with the main narrative themes. So far it seems a more dolled-up Hollywood sci-fi action flick, but I’m sure it will be a lot of fun to watch.
Remember, Ghost in the Shell premieres in theatres on March 31st.
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Deadpool The Duck #5: Marvel's 'The Odd Couple' Adaptation Concludes
11:00 AM Unknown Comics, Deadpool The Duck, Marvel, review, Zachary Krishef Edit
That's the perfect way to end this mashup miniseries, with a Looney Tunes homage. What self-respecting humor comic worth its salt wouldn't use one, especially with a talking duck as the star? Will Deadpool The Duck #5 act as a satisfactory conclusion to the saga? What was the point of all of that vomit from the previous issues? How many jokes has Doctor Bong been forced to endure based on his poor choice of supervillain names? Some of these answers will be revealed!
I'm going to get the queasiest query out of the way first. It turns out that the hero-transmogrifying nanobots were in the, ahem, waste spewed out from Deadpool. To turn back to normal, Deadpool The Duck has to consume it. Out of deference to both the more sensitive readers of this fair website and myself, I am not going to share any images from that sequence. Never let it be said that Critical Writ doesn't take easily-nauseated review readers into consideration.
Reaction shots, however, are perfectly fine. Ain't I a stinker?
For the most part, this really is a satisfactory conclusion to the story. The art is colorful and clear, and it has a delightful cartoony aspect to it. Apart from the aforementioned puke issue, I do think that Doctor Bong was defeated a tad too easily, but at least it wasn't just a random bystander who stopped him. Instead, his own weird habit of falling in love with random character angered his associate. I would recommend the miniseries as a whole to your average comics fan, as long as you love humor.
Deadpool The Duck #4 is written by Stuart Moore, drawn by Jacopo Camagni, colored by Israel Silva, and lettered by VC's Joe Sabino. You can find it at your local comic book shop.
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Getting 'The Kid Stays in the Picture' effect with Photoshop files in FCPX
Moving up a level from the Ken Burns moves is the technique of modifying and animating layers of a photo for 'The Kid Stays in the Picture' effect. What it is, and how to do it in this new MacBreak Studio episode.
The Kid Stays in the Picture is a biopic about the Paramount producer Robert Evans. In the film and TV graphics world, it will be remembered as the production that used many multilayered composites to bring action to old photographs. It was done before and has since been done many times, but it is always that film that gets referenced.
In this new episode of MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin shows Mark Spencer how to achieve this effect in Final Cut Pro X by using (let's mix our references) Ken Burns effects on Photoshop layers. They've already done the hard bit of cutting the girl out and replacing the background!
Done well, it's a great effect and if you haven't seen the movie it's a great showcase for what you can do with stills and of course a great Hollywood story as well. We believe the animations were done in After Effects.
One thought, please use this effect sparingly and take time to build it correctly. TV channels are awash with badly cutout and badly animated photos, it takes time to get this effect exactly right.
To see more advice from Steve on Final Cut Pro X, head over to the Ripple Training website where they have a large range of tutorials from beginner to advanced level.
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InnovateFPGA 2019 – Regional Final – Asia Pacific and Japan Region – Iron Award
Written by Thilina Ambagahawatta.
Humans are social beings, therefore communication with another happens everywhere in the world in various languages and through various devices. What about the mute community? They don’t have the opportunity to present their ideas to other people who can speak, without the help of another person who knows the sign language for interpretation or without the use of some device to do the translation. From the world’s population reportedly, there are a considerable amount of people suffering from speech disorders such as muteness, Apraxia (childhood/acquired) and Aphasia. These may occur due to brain damage, stroke, tumor or any other illness that affects the brain/ vocal cords/ mouth/ tongue etc. Since most of us do not understand sign language, for them to conduct a normal conversation with people like us they definitely need a source of translation. Our team came up with a design idea for a device to offer real-time sign language translation, to support efficient communication for the mute with the rest of the community who doesn’t understand sign language. We participated in InnovateFPGA 2019 to bring this idea to life and to make it our first steps to introduce our idea and findings to the world. The InnovateFPGA is a global FPGA design contest where teams from around the world compete as they invent the future of Artificial Intelligence with Terasic and Intel. This is a competition open to everyone including students, professors, makers and industry. We were able to feature engineer Electromyography (EMG) signals and signals from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) obtained from a MYO armband (a wearable armband that consists of EMG pods and an IMU) and train a Neural Network to classify 5 sign language gestures. Once a model was built, we implemented this neural network on a De10-Nano Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board, sent to us from Terasic to complete our project for the competition. We were able to interface the FPGA board via a Bluetooth connection with an Arduino since our final translation output was to be given as speech through a speaker. As second year undergraduates this was rather challenging, but we were able to secure the Iron Award at the Asia Pacific and Japan regional final round of the InnovateFPGA competition out of 30 teams. It was a great experience to have represented our country and bring glory to our university and nation. We are extremely thankful for the academic and non- academic staff of our department for their advices and immense support given to us. We wouldn’t have come this far in this competition if it weren’t for them. After this successful phase we are hoping to further improve our recognition algorithm and output full sentences using Natural Language Processing. We believe our findings will benefit this community largely in the future.
Project Members: Ramith Hettiarachchi (ENTC), Kithmini Herath (ENTC), Hasindu Kariyawasam (ENTC)
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Change is coming to the W-League as league chiefs consider a raft of reforms aimed at bolstering Australia's women's domestic competition and the national team.
The biggest impact for fans could be the missing stars -- led by Australian skipper and striker Sam Kerr -- who is likely to test her talents for Chelsea in England's Women's Super League.
Both head office and Perth Glory have privately given up hope of keeping Kerr for the W-League's 11th season.
"It looks unlikely that she'll return to play in the W-League this year, but Sam has not or her management hasn't informed us of where she might play," FFA head of leagues Greg O'Rourke told AAP.
Kerr is finishing up her season with the Chicago Red Stars along with a raft of other Matildas in the United States' National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
With another golden boot-winning campaign, Kerr has taken the Red Stars to the playoffs where she'll be joined by six other Australians. Lydia Williams and Steph Catley play for Reign FC, who will take on the North Carolina Courage in Sunday's first semifinal, while Kerr and teammate Mackenzie Arnold will go head-to-head with Hayley Raso, Caitlin Foord and Ellie Carpenter of the Portland Thorns later that day (Australian viewers can catch both semifinals LIVE on ESPN2 on Monday morning).
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The longstanding alignment between the NWSL and W-League has kept senior Matildas in action for the whole calendar year, serving Australian talent well.
But it's being firmly re-considered as the FFA, with a watchful eye to growing European leagues, ensures the W-League is one of the "top five leagues in the world."
Matildas legend Lisa De Vanna has opted against a W-League campaign this summer and is scoring goals for Fiorentina in Italy, while Emily Gielnik has headed to German giants Bayern Munich.
Others could also head to the increasingly professional European leagues.
While that means Australian fans will miss out on seeing Matildas stars, players union chief John Didulica said their moves should be applauded.
"[We're] about increasing the options and opportunities for players," he told AAP. "This might necessarily lead to some of our world class players ending up at the world's largest football institutions, but that is a great thing for the game and the players.
"The challenge for the W-League is to ensure that the gap between its own club operations and the world's leading clubs isn't allowed to become too big and that they remain as attractive destinations."
O'Rourke agreed "the number one thing that we need to do is ensure the quality of our league," which, somewhat counter-intuitively, might mean avoiding an expansion to a full home-and-away competition.
The W-League boss suggested FFA was leaning towards continuing the current set-up, which dovetails the W-League with the NWSL, rather than expansion that would prohibit players competing in both.
"We understand that some of our best Matildas will leave these shores and travel to Europe to ply their trade," O'Rourke said. "We also want to make sure that we are attractive as a league -- to be in the top five leagues in the world.
"To do that we need to make sure that we don't put hurdles in front of some of the best Australian players and the best international players by making them choose which league to play in.
"The NWSL is where there's a complementary opportunity where they could play in both."
Changes -- including a mild lengthening of the 12-week fixture to incorporate midweek games -- are being considered with an eye to the 2020-21 season.
Other, more wide-ranging reforms as tabled in a media report this week, are seen more as aspirations rather than concrete goals.
The FFA has been criticised by many for a sluggish build-up to this campaign, with fixtures yet to be released less than a month before kickoff.
A focus on the underpinning A-League governance structures and a late shift of broadcast rights to the ABC is to blame for the delay.
Sam Kerr has spent the past four years splitting her time between the W-League and the NWSL.
O'Rourke said clubs, who have been consulted throughout, were supportive of the fixtures being pushed back which will guarantee a release this week.
The W-League will start on Thursday Nov. 14, following the Matildas' friendly matches against Chile on Nov. 9 and 12.
This later-than-usual scheduling will ensure W-League teams have access to their international players for the competition's opening round -- unlike the A-League -- and give the competition a bump of interest from the high-profile internationals.
There will also be a bye between the final round of the home-and-away season and the semifinals to coincide with the March international window, when the Matildas hope to seal qualification for the Olympics.
With Kerr and other senior internationals watching the W-League rather than playing in it, opportunities exist for young talent to emerge and stake a claim for the Tokyo Games.
To that end eyes will be trained on wonderkid Mary Fowler.
The 16-year-old will make her W-League debut this season after signing for Adelaide United with sister Ciara.
The next big thing of Australian football travelled to the World Cup this June in France with coach Ante Milicic only to suffer a hamstring injury on the eve of the tournament and not participate.
Her move is a coup for United, a five-time wooden spooner that has never played in the finals.
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1963 The biggest news from 1963 was the assassination of the US President Kennedy which thrust Lyndon Johnson into the role of president and the murder two days later of Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. This was a difficult time to become president with the mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had now killed 80 American Advisors and the continued campaign for civil rights by the black community caused violent reactions from whites including Mississippi, Virginia and Alabama where the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was arrested. Films included "The Birds" and "The Great Escape" and popular TV programs"The Virginian" and "Lassie". ladies fashion clothes and hairstyles included Fur boots and towering hair do's for evening wear. In music the beginning of Beatlemania after they release "I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There" and "Meet the Beatles".
How Much things cost in 1963
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.24%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 1.8%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 762
Average Cost of new house $12,650.00
Average Income per year $5,807.00
Gas per Gallon 29 cents
Average Cost of a new car $3,233.00
Loaf of bread 22 cents
Bedroom Air Conditioner $149.95
New Ford Cortina $675.00
What Events Happened in 1963
World Religions status: 890 million Christians, 600 million Muslims, 200 million Buddhists, 365 Hindus, 13 million Jews
A hurricane and resulting Tsunami cause Flooding in East Pakistan Bangladesh kills 22,000
President John F Kennedy assassinated in the United States
Korea returns to Civilian Rule
Lyndon Johnson Becomes President
An earthquake in Libya destroys the village of Barce - 500 dead
Typhoon Olive with 110 MPH Winds destroyed most of the homes on the Island of Saipan
The Profumo Crisis in the UK causing resignations from the cabinet caused by war minister John Profumo having an affair with Christina Wheeler who was also involved with a Soviet Navy officer
Alcatraz federal penitentiary known as "The Rock" closes
Berlin Wall Opened For 1 Day Passes
1st Beeching Report suggests closing 25% of British Rail
The Sabin oral Polio Vaccine which is taken with a lump of sugar is given nationwide in US and UK
Kenya Gains Independence from Britain
In the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright rules that a fair trial "cannot be realized if the poor man charged with [the] crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him."
Nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher sinks in the Atlantic Ocean
Pope John XXIII dies
Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England
First US State Lottery in New Hampshire
Yugoslavia declares President Tito President for Life
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech
Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
Popular Culture 1963
This was the year an Insurance firm State Mutual Life Insurance invented the Smiley Face found on anything and everything around the world including T Shirts , it's popularity was at it's peak in the 1960's
The Beatles release their first album Please Please Me.
The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast
Bob Dylan walks off the Ed Sullivan show
Beatles Release I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There and Meet the Beatles which is the beginning of Beatlemania.
Popular Films
Popular Musicians
Jim Reeves
Popular TV Programs
AT&T introduces touch tone phones
Flymo Sells first Hover Mower
Zip codes implemented in US
Lava Lamp or The Astro Lamp Launched by Edward Craven Walker
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Tape Cassette Netherlands ( Philips ) used to record and play audio
Pull Tab Can As Used For Soda U.S.A. Alcoa Company
Research for this year is provided by The People History.
See History By Year and Decade for more prices and information.
Find out more about the 60s at ThePeopleHistory.com.
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July 08, 2019 • Issue 19:07:01
Privacy and social media: a delicate balance
In a hyperconnected world of one-click checkouts and same-day deliveries, the race is on to provide seamless, frictionless commerce. Consumers share buying experiences and reviews on social media, encouraging or discouraging others who contemplate similar purchases. Merchants thank positive reviewers and beg critics for a second chance. Service providers bundle reputation management with processing, helping merchants engage with customers in the always-on, virtual marketplace.
And mostly hidden from view, fraudsters package datasets from social media and mobile apps for quick sale on the Dark Web.
Marc Punzirudu, vice president, security consulting services at ControlScan, said consumers sometimes unwittingly expose sensitive data when interacting on social and mobile channels. Criminals can easily defeat typical security questions such as your mother's maiden name, where you attended high school or favorite pet just by looking at your online profile, he stated.
They can scrape your geolocation and time stamps from uploaded photos, unless you modify settings. Armed with publicly available information and open-source intelligence (OSINT), criminals can access online accounts and steal identities. This makes it imperative to understand and properly configure the media platforms you use.
"Facebook and Google don't make money unless they are getting data," he said. "Are your default privacy settings more supportive of you or the organization that uses your data?"
Who owns your data?
"I don't feel I have any privacy when using social media," said Dale Cardarelli, vice president, enterprise sales at Citizens Bank Merchant Services/Worldpay. "We live in an-enter-at-our-own-risk era. Whether I post or my friends post, the world of social media knows who we are."
Cardarelli's daughter, Olivia, is a college co-ed who uses Instagram and Snapchat to keep in touch with friends, relive memories, follow favorite influencers and stay up to date on pop culture. She is careful about what she shares online. Social media platforms "are not safe, and they listen to what you are searching for," she said. "Also, they can see through the camera screen and see what you look like, what you wear and how you style yourself. I keep all of my accounts private; therefore, I keep my own privacy."
APIs and endpoint technologies can be backdoors for cybercrime, according to security analysts. To illustrate this point, Dan Salmon, a computer science student, scraped 7 million transactions from peer-to-peer payments app Venmo and published the dataset on GitHub in June 2019. Anyone can grab the data, Salmon warned, without even using an API key. "There is some very valuable data here for any attacker conducting OSINT research," he wrote on GitHub.
Sam Bakken, senior product marketing manager at OneSpan, observed that Venmo intentionally made its default settings public to enable users to share their purchase activities. Bakken feels that while users can decide whether their transactions are shared publicly, with friends or not at all, Venmo should default to private settings. He questioned why anyone would want to make their Venmo transactions an open book, as "attackers might potentially find such information valuable as fuel for social engineering schemes or maybe even blackmail."
Pete Philomey, national sales manager at South Seas Data, has transacted on Venmo with friends but said he doesn't get the allure of the app's shared buying experience. "I don't really care that you paid your cleaner $100," he said. "Whatever! I have the app's social shut off because who I pay is my business."
Dimitri Akhrin, president of IRIS CRM, concurred, stating that scrapers sometimes extract and use data in ways that companies didn't intend when they made those sources available. As a Venmo user, he noticed Venmo profiles are public unless users toggle back the settings. Not every user realizes this; consequently, there's a lot of aggregated data floating around, he noted.
Separate true from fake
Akhrin has also seen plenty of fake information on the Internet. "Businesses need to weed out the bad actors behind today's content overload," he said. "When bad information comes in, employees lose time verifying email and phone numbers, attempting to schedule appointments and pursuing fake leads. Two-factor authentication, such as sending a code to a mobile phone, would mitigate many of these issues."
Anybody can submit garbage on a form, and not everyone does it with bad intent, Akhrin noted. People who want to download a report or access a video may enter bogus contact information when prompted to avoid being contacted later. Companies spend a lot of money for these leads, but without using proper validation, they can end up spinning their wheels, he said. A validation process would raise the quality score of the leads.
When customers fill out forms or download ebooks, effective lead generation programs route their details to CRMs, enabling agents to begin working those leads right away, Akhrin said. PCI Level 1 compliant programs can transfer, store and push encrypted data into accounting software and other platforms throughout an enterprise, while also generating real-time reports.
Fail safe, fail secure
"The U.S. is constantly poking at privacy legislation, mostly having to do with opting in and opting out and the right to be forgotten," Punzirudu said. "But there is a lot of information out there. Consumers need to learn about themselves and take ownership of their online accounts."
For example, qualified security assessors and hackers can use OSINT research to scrape up to 30 sites at a time. Simply typing an email address on a search site will confirm if a user ID was used on a site. "I could go online and search for you and see the last two places where you lived," Punzirudu added. "The privacy argument is big, but there's a lot of data that you have little control over."
"Fail safe" describes a feature or practice that responds in a way that will cause no or minimal harm if a specific type of failure occurs. "Fail secure" typically means that if the power is interrupted or fails, the door stays locked. When applied to security, these principles ensure that when something breaks, it doesn't cause harm, Punzirudu stated. Lock your doors to prevent intrusion, but not so securely that you're stuck inside if there's a fire.
Punzirudu proposed the following fail safe/fail secure approaches to protecting consumer and business data:
Be diligent about your online identity. Use tools to spot your Internet impersonators and fake accounts. Delete Me, an online subscription service, removes your information from 150 sources.
Be aware of what's going on around you. Assume someone already is pretending to be you. If you're concerned about physical security, install vehicle dash cams and home surveillance cameras.
Subscribe to a credit bureau or similar service that notifies you when accounts are opened in your name.
Evaluate and protect data. Business owners: if you don't need data, don't accept it. Consumers: stop reusing passwords online and in mobile apps.
Privacy versus sharing
A recent study by Statista found that Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, grew from 800 million users in 2017 to 1 billion in 2018. "The business community has embraced Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as a way to market their wares," Philomey said. "These platforms enable companies to be responsive to their customers. For example, companies react quickly to complaints about their products or services on Twitter."
Philomey pointed out that support reps deal one-on-one with customers by phone but can manage up to 10 people at a time on Twitter. Compared with direct mail campaigns that get one response out of a thousand, social media platforms elicit immediate, measurable responses that are easy for marketers to quantify, he said.
When asked about Facebook's plans to launch the cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, Philomey asked why we need another payment method. "I can use so many P2P services and tap my phone or card or watch at the POS," he said. "What rewards option or value proposition will make Libra a top-of-wallet brand?"
Olivia Cardarelli also wasn't keen to give Libra a try. "I would not use it because I don't want my information out there," she said. "Also, Apple Pay is easy to use. I don't need another place to use money and [share personal details with] other companies."
Dale Cardarelli was more open to the new cryptocurrency, stating, "As long as it works outside of Facebook, I would engage with Libra." While she hasn't used digital currency, she likes Apple Pay, because it eliminates keying in card data. "Anywhere the payment checkout experience can be frictionless, I am all-in," she added.
As social commerce adoption grows, balancing cybersecurity with privacy will be complicated, Punzirudu concluded. Stakeholders must evaluate their data sensitivity and delete or disguise information that would have adverse effects if stolen. "If you don't have the resources to analyze your data inventory, enlist a third party with expertise and get it done the right way," he said. "Large cloud vendors can make things inherently secure by default, but remember that 'cloud' is just someone else's computer."
Dale S. Laszig, senior staff writer at The Green Sheet and managing director at DSL Direct LLC, is a payments industry journalist and content development specialist. She can be reached at dale@dsldirectllc.com and on Twitter at @DSLdirect.
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2016-17 Calendar of Events
What Monsters Mean: 10/27 & 10/28
Plan to attend two monstrous MEMSI events right before Halloween. Two authorities will visit us to discuss what monsters mean:
Jeffrey Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. His areas of expertise are popular culture, American literature, and literary criticism. Publications include Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women as a Form of Social Protest (Fordham University Press, 2008), in which he examines the differences in ghost stories told by male and female writers. Other interests are vampires, "gothic" music and culture, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Asa Simon Mittman is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Chico. He has written and co-written several books and articles on the subject of monstrosity and marginality in the Middle Ages, including Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (Routledge, 2006). He is also the president of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application) and co-director of the Digital Mappaemundi, an extraordinary resource that changes the ways we study medieval maps and geographic texts. He is currently working on articles on Satan in the Junius 11 manuscript, the Franks Casket, and images of Jews on medieval world maps.
Join us for both events if you can:
Thursday October 27 at 4 PM, 1957 E St. NW Room 213
Professors Weinstock and Mittman will lead "What Monsters Mean," an informal discussion of the cultural significance of monsters from the medieval period to the present day. The event is open to all who wish to attend.
Friday October 28 at 12 PM, Rome Hall 771 (801 22nd St. NW)
GW MEMSI and the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) are co-sponsoring a seminar on monster theory. Both professors will discuss selections from the work as well as the contours of the larger field. This lunchtime seminar is open to all interested faculty and graduate students, but you must pre-register with Lowell Duckert to receive the readings [lduckert@gwu.edu]:
1. Selections from Jeffrey Weinstock, Vampires: Undead Cinema. Wallflower Press's "Short Cuts" series. Forthcoming 2011.
2. Asa Simon Mittman and Susan Kim, "Anglo-Saxon Frames of Reference: Spatial Relations on the Page and in the World," Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, vol. 2 (2009), with Susan Kim.
3. Asa Simon Mittman, "Introduction: The Impact of Monsters and Monster Studies," Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, ed. Asa Simon Mittman, with Peter Dendle (London: Ashgate, January 2012).
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The staggering damage toll of Hurricane Michael
The damage from Hurricane Michael is staggering. Georgia’s farms were clobbered and the agricultural industry is reporting “unprecedented generational losses” that are estimated to reach nearly $3 billion in damages.
About a million acres of timber has been destroyed as well all sorts of vegetable and nut farms. Lots of sources are still reporting about the Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Fla. The base, if you have not heard, sustained heavy damage from the storm. Most of Tyndall’s planes were flown to safety before Michael hit the coast but 17 F-22 Raptors were left behind because they were undergoing maintenance and were not flight worthy. Each of the Raptors cost an estimated $330 million each. Which means that’s almost $6 billion dollars of fighter jets that may have taken significant damage from Michael. The Air Force is being a little mom on the subject, which - fair enough. There is no reason to broadcast to enemies how many of our fighter planes were damaged beyond repair.
But that isn’t even touching on the personal cost to homeowners up and down the coastline. The NY Times has a “Damage in Pictures” all about Michael and from the look of things it’s as bad as everyone expected. Entire towns are wiped out. Farms are gone. Houses obliterated. It’s apocalyptic looking stuff.
If that’s not bad enough there are sheriffs in FL reporting that they are arresting about 10 looters each night since last Wed. Armed looters, it appears, are targeting homes without electricity and taking advantage that first responders are stretched thin. People really suck sometimes, you know?
There are even neighborhoods putting up hand made signs that say things like, “You loot. I shoot.” Which - sounds about right to me.
Still, it sounds as if hundreds of thousands of people are still without power and cell phone service has only just recently been (mostly) reinstated.
And keep in mind this is all damage from one hurricane. That’s not counting the damage that Florence did just last month. It’s not counting the death toll when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and almost three thousand people died as a result. How about Irma and Harvey - two Hurricane’s that pummeled the south just last year.
They keep coming and they seem to keep getting more destructive and more costly. And why is that? Well, last year my co-worker wrote a strongly worded story titled “Hurricanes should blow climate deniers’ eyes, minds open.” In it he writes:
“While I wish the best to all those affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, I also hope climate change deniers affected by the hurricanes realize their denial of climate change contributed to their current situation and will contribute to worse situations in the future.
Mother Earth is doing her best to convince climate denying Americans that global warming is no hoax and that people are responsible for the increasing instances and intensity of weather disasters. She started by flooding the Gulf Coast with category-three hurricane, Harvey, which AccuWeather predicts will cost America more than Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina combined.”
His story makes compelling arguments and he links to more than a dozen reputable sources and studies. He wrote that more than one year ago and he was correct in predicting that this year the hurricanes would be much, much worse.
And they are. And now all we can do is rebuild and assist those that are in need. And we’ll probably have to do it again. And again. And again.
If you can, donate to the Red Cross.
If you can, donate to the Humane Society Animal Emergency Rescue Fund.
A Comprehensive Guide for Canadians Combining Cannabis and Sports
With cannabis now legal in Canada, I thought I’d help sports fans prepare for the circus that is the first day of cannabis legalization. If you’re going to be playing sports or watching them live or on TV, this comprehensive guide provides the perfect pot strains for enhancing your sports experiences.
Pot strains don’t just get you high in varying degrees. Some strains are relaxing and help relieve pain, inflammation, even depression—perfect for postgame pain and blues after a loss. Some strains are uplifting, energetic, and facilitate creativity, which might be nice prior to your recreational flag football game. Now that you can legally purchase cannabis in Canada (some places), our readers in Canada might find this insight helpful in pairing pot with their favorite sports.
I’ve done the first day of legal cannabis sales before. I was there in Denver, Colorado covering the first legal purchase of recreational marijuana in the United States in 75 years for The Leaf Online. Before the dispensary opened its doors to the public, members of the press packed the pot shop to capacity to witness and report history. Coloradans and out-of-state visitors to whom I spoke happily braved the cold New Year’s Day morning in 2014, forming a line that spanned the length of the street. One older couple said they were “hippies from Indiana and just had to be here.” I was surprised to find anyone who drove further than me just to be there. That couple eventually bought something, though. By the time the press conference was over the line wrapped around the block, and I had a deadline to meet, so I drove 1,400 miles round-trip to spend 36 hours in Denver in the first days of legal weed sales and not get high.
You’re going to be spending a lot of time in line if you plan to make a purchase on Opening Day, so it’s best to have an idea of what you want before you get to the pot shop as to not hold up the line for other cannasseurs. Most stores will have their menu of goodies available on their website, so check that out before choosing a retailer. Just give it a quick look to see if they have what you want. You’ll have plenty of time to investigate further while standing in line.
So what do you want, and who am I to tell you? Well, my cannabis credentials have been earned over 12 years of regular consumption for both medical and recreational purposes. I had a medical cannabis prescription for two years in Montana, during which I used indica strains to alleviate back pain resulting from degenerative disc disease and used sativa strains to get my indica’d ass off the couch and take advantage of the moments I was pain free.
I wrote two bills to legalize and tax cannabis in Montana, familiarizing myself with the medical cannabis industry and its regulatory structure in so doing. My work obviously connected me to like-minded people throughout the state who smoked me up and introduced me to countless strains. If it’s a strain grown in Montana, I’ve probably smoked it at some point. I’ve also made recreational, or as we advocates now call it, “adult-use” purchases in Colorado, Washington, and Nevada.
Since I love to cook and bake, I experimented with multiple cannabis recipes because eating it was so much more effective on my back pain. My friends and I made Mint Cheeba Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Literal Laughy Taffy, cakes, cookies, and, of course, brownies. I still love to eat edibles on an off day, but when I was introduced to waxes, sugars, and shatters, I knew I’d seldom smoke again.
Smoking anything, cannabis included, is bad for your lungs. While there’s no rat poison in joints (yet), simply burning the cannabis flower will result in you inhaling tars, and if you have a back problem like me, a seemingly insignificant cough can aggravate that nerve pain and kill your buzz. That’s why I mostly vaporize concentrates.
Concentrates are concentrated Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive substance in cannabis, in resin form. I’ve seen shatter that’s 98 percent THC, which means you could work on the same gram of shatter for weeks and hardly make a dent. Concentrates are for veteran tokers, though, so when I recommend them, it’s with the assumption that you have run the gauntlet yourself and have graduated to a more healthy and effective means of cannabis consumption.
Now that you know that I know what I’m talking about, here are the perfect pot pairings for playing and watching sports live and on TV. If I haven’t tried a strain, you’ll find a link to Leafly to learn more about it.
Cannabis Strains for Playing Football
Tangerine Man, Trainwreck, Purple Urkle
Snoop Dogg’s Tangerine Man is a strain I’d love to try before a flag football game. It supposedly “pairs wonderfully with daytime physical activity.” Of course, I’d probably eat it to preserve my lung capacity. Maybe at halftime I’d pile on a Trainwreck taffy or two, a hybrid that provides an uplifting, energetic boost while also treating pain. Postgame pain is best treated with Purple Urkle, which will relax every muscle in your body and eventually bring satisfying sleep.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Football Live
Lemon Jack, Light of Jah, Grape Ape
My first Minnesota Vikings game at U.S. Bank Stadium was an overwhelming experience. My buzz from vaping some sativa pregame had mostly worn off by the time the Vikings took the field, which nearly made me weep tears of joy. I think my next game I’ll eat some Lemon Jack. “Like a strong cup of coffee, Lemon Jack is a daytime strain,” and it apparently makes you talkative, which is an important part of being a good football fan. You need to make noise when the opponent’s on offense.
At halftime I’d keep the energy and stress management going with Light of Jah, which I’ve actually smoked but never eaten. It’s a long-lasting high, so eating it should get you through the second half no problem. Postgame I’d smoke or vape Grape Ape to relax and manage any stress resulting from a poor performance by my boys in purple.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Football on TV
Lemon Jack, Jock Horror, Grape Ape, Jack Herer, Green Crack, Durban Poison, Super Lemon Haze
I wouldn’t stray too far from the pot pairings for watching football live except instead of eating cannabis I’d probably vape it simply because I can. Lemon Jack to start with Jock Horror at halftime to enhance your halftime appetite and Grape Ape postgame seems reasonable. If you’ve got things to do besides watching football after the game, substitute Jack Herer, Green Crack, Durban Poison, or Super Lemon Haze for Grape Ape.
Cannabis Strains for Playing Baseball
Super Silver Haze, Sour Diesel, Green Crack
My co-ed softball team in college was named Bozeman Toast because most of us were toasted for every game. It did not enhance our performance, but it made the game more fun, especially playing in rain and then sleet and then snow in the mountains of Western Montana.
We always smoked sativas before a game. I remember Super Silver Haze and Sour Diesel both being employed often in those days. They are energetic strains that foster creativity and will have you smiling even if you misplay a ball in right center that you try to undo with a dive into a puddle that leaves you soaked and clears the bases.
The best game we played that season was when we came across some Green Crack. We scored 16 runs and lost. It was the rain/sleet/snow game, during which I saw our center fielder make the best catch I’ve seen while on the field of play. It was on a sinking line drive she got a great jump on and dove for at the last possible moment. Green Crack, as you can imagine, is an ultra-uplifting, energetic strain that facilitates focus rather than creativity. You might not have as much fun playing the game as you would with Super Silver Haze or Sour Diesel, but you’ll be alert out there and light on your feet.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Baseball Live
Strawberry Lemonade, Cracker Jack
No pregame pot party is going to get you through a baseball game, which is where edibles come into play. The high from eating cannabis lasts much longer than smoking or vaping it. I remember having a bunch of Strawberry Lemonade shake that I used to make butter for cookies and ate a couple before a Minnesota Twins game that made for a most euphoric evening. Strawberry Lemonade is a sativa/hybrid mix, so it’s both uplifting and relaxing. Eating it, though, provides an hours-long body high that makes your cold, plastic chair feel like your favorite recliner at home.
I also enjoyed some sativa-dominant cookies I bought before a game at Safeco Field in Seattle, and we had some five-milligram lozenges to stimulate the buzz for hour three of the game. It was a quick one, as Felix Hernandez barely bested Phil Hughes in a pitching duel. I believe that was the year Hughes set the MLB record for strikeout-to-walk ratio, but King Felix put up a zero to his one. We got so sick of the King’s Corner chanting “K” on every two-strike count (there were a ton), we started screaming at no one in particular, asking what all these Spanish-speakers wanted. “¿Que hora es? Is it the time you want? What?”
We had fun despite the loss, but we didn’t realize that the five-milligram lozenges we were eating were actually two, five-milligram lozenges stuck together, so my buddy, who’s a pot novice, got sick after the game from mixing too much booze with too much cannabis. Don’t do that. In fact, don’t drink any alcohol while using cannabis. Frankly, it’s a waste of booze.
If you’re eating edibles for the first time, go slow to start. Then, if you feel like your buzz could be better and you can handle it, eat a bit more. Like alcohol, your weight, activity, and whether or not you’ve eaten or drank alcohol recently effects your body’s absorption of THC.
If I could consume any cannabis I wanted before a baseball game, I’d try eating Cracker Jack. It’s an intense sativa combining two of my favorite strains: Green Crack and Jack Herer. Around the fifth inning, I’d sneak into the bathroom and take a few vapor puffs of any sativa. Baseball stadiums are more bag-friendly than other arenas, so I generally always have my vaporizer with me in it’s little, book-like case. After the seventh inning stretch I’ll take another trip to the bathroom for another sativa boost. Sativa, sativa, sativa…got it?
Cannabis Strains for Watching Baseball on TV
Durban Poison, Northern Lights, Blue Cheese
The beauty of watching baseball on TV in a place with legal pot sales is when you get to the third inning and feel like taking a nap until the seventh inning stretch, you can reach for an indica and set an alarm for an hour. Don’t be the guy who falls asleep at the ballpark. Baseball doesn’t need you advertising the lack of activity in the game. There are plenty of strikeouts already doing so.
I enjoy an indica-dominant hybrid when watching baseball at home, but usually start the game with a sativa. Durban’ Poison has been one of my favorite sativa strains since I first discovered it a few years ago during a vacation in Colorado. The sugar crumble concentrate keeps my body and mind uplifted even if the Twins do not. If they fall behind early by a lot, I’d reach for Northern Lights or Blue Cheese and get comfortable. If I fall asleep and miss something, I can always rewind. Sometimes I sleep right through until they air the replay, which is even better because I don’t know the score or outcome.
Cannabis Strains for Playing Basketball
Durban Poison, Jack Herer, Green Crack, Kelly Hill Gold, GSC (formerly Girl Scout Cookies)
I wouldn’t recommend smoking or even vaping anything prior to playing basketball. You’ll be hacking up a lung within minutes. Instead, eat some high-energy sativa like Durban Poison, Jack Herer, or Green Crack pregame. At halftime, pile on an indica-infused edible to help manage cramps, inflammation, and muscle spasms. While I’ve never tried it, Kelly Hill Gold seems to be the perfect pot strain for playing the second half of a basketball game. Not only does it help manage pain, stress, cramps, inflammation, and muscle spasms, it’s an energetic indica, which is rare (it’s the only one I found). A postgame puff of Girl Scout Cookies (now known as GSC) will have you feeling fantastic (it really does taste great), and it’s half-sister Cookies Kush seems to be great for pain before bed. Use CBD oil on any specific pain.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Basketball Live
White Widow, Pineapple Express, Lemon Haze, Sour Diesel, Durban Poison, Bubba Kush, Northern Lights, Chocolope
It doesn’t take much to get up for a basketball game. Besides hockey, it’s probably the most entertaining sport I watch live on a regular basis. I think it’s the energy of the crowd and speed of the action that gets me. Basketball was my first love, so it’s easy for me to enjoy. I ride my bike to Target Center for around a dozen Timberwolves games every season, and before I hit the pavement I like to vape a calming hybrid like White Widow or Pineapple Express. If all I have is sativas, Lemon Haze and Sour Diesel are adequate alternatives.
I like to calm my nerves pregame because by halftime I know I’ll be incensed. I usually just grab a Coca-Cola and munch on the trail mix I brought with me and let my buzz dissipate at halftime. The crowd is my intoxicant in the second half, but postgame I’m either subsidizing my euphoria with Durban Poison if we win or treating my minor depression with Bubba Kush or Northern Lights if we lose. Chocolope is the perfect pot strain after a loss in a day game because it’s energetic, uplifting, and helps you handle stress and depression.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Basketball on TV
Jock Horror, OG Kush, God’s Gift, LA Confidential
Watching basketball makes me hungry as hell, so when I’m watching at home I stuff my face. I don’t feel so guilty when I’m watching Duke University men’s basketball because I’m usually pacing the entire game. I seldom sit down and am usually bouncing with the Cameron Crazies during a Duke game. It’s sad really, but not much could make you sad with a bit of Jock Horror. I’ve never tried it, but I’ve tried just about all of its parents, and apparently it’s most notable side effects are maximum munchies, dry eyes, and dry mouth. Since you’re in the comfort of your home with the fridge and Clear Eyes just steps away, side effects be damned.
At halftime I’d switch to a hybrid like OG Kush just to make sure I’m still able to sleep well after the game. An indica like God’s Gift or LA Confidential will help with fourth-quarter stress and assure you sleep like you just played a basketball game instead of watching one on TV.
Cannabis Strains for Playing Hockey
Jack the Ripper, Dragon’s Breath, Harlequin
Playing hockey hurts. Most of us aren’t playing full-contact football, so hockey is about as hard and painful a recreational sport you can play. That’s why we’re breaking out the high-THC strains. A Jack the Ripper cookie prior to puck drop will keep you energized and focused while treating your pain throughout the first period and into the second. It’s generally more than 20 percent THC, so be careful not to overeat it or you could end up “disoriented and paranoid.”
About midway through the second period a Dragon’s Breath edible will help you manage your fatigue and provide a lift for the third period. Postgame vaping of Harlequin is the ultimate pain reliever with a CBD/THC combination that won’t put you to sleep or over intoxicate you.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Hockey Live
Super Green Crack, The Cough, Silver Haze, Headband, Bruce Banner
I can’t remember what specific strain or if it was even advertised on the bag of cookies my buds and I ate before watching the Minnesota Wild take on the Avalanche in Colorado, but I know it was a sativa that made us very focused on the game. And I never knew the strain of the shake I used to make Cocoa Canna Butterscotch Chip Cookies for when the Avs visited Minnesota, but I know it made us giggly as schoolgirls at a slumber party. It was fantastic, and the fact the Wild won in a shootout made it that much more fantastic.
So before puck drop I’d recommend eating some Super Green Crack or The Cough. Both have had me crying laughing, and hockey can be one of the funniest sports. People falling down is always funny. Eventually, though, you’ll want to come back down to Earth. Some Silver Haze edibles midway through the game will actually clear the haze while maintaining the euphoria. My postgame pot of choice after a hockey loss would be Headband for its ability to combat elevated stress levels and depression, even headaches, which can result from screaming at referees and cheap-shotting opponents. After a win, or anytime in my personal experience, Bruce Banner hits the spot.
Cannabis Strains for Watching Hockey on TV
Durban Poison, Green Crack, Super Lemon Haze, Jack Herer, Chocolope, Harlequin, Pineapple Express, Cinderella 99, Aliens OG, ML Ultra, G13, Cheese
Hockey’s probably my favorite sport to watch on TV. It demands my attention, so I oblige by vaping Durban Poison or Green Crack or Super Lemon Haze or Jack Herer or Chocolope or Harlequin. Whatever sativa I have on hand tends to be one that retains most of my focus faculties.
If it’s a day game and I want to accomplish things afterward, some Pineapple Express is perfect for the third period. It leaves you ready to take on a creative project. The third period of night games are best accompanied by Cinderella 99, a dreamy, euphoric, stress-reliever. My preferred pot postgame would be Aliens OG, but it’s not to be taken lightly. It’s one of the most potent strains of weed out there at up to 28 percent THC. MK Ultra would be second, and G13 would be a distant third. For you beginners out there, try some Cheese and forget to call me in the morning.
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H O U Y H N H N M
The New Edition of Finnegans Wake
The Editorial Methodology
A Very Brief Overview
To form a clearer idea of the rationale and methodology that underpins the new edition, we will consider two examples from the first page: (1) to illustrate the basic rules followed by the editors we discuss in detail the genesis of the novel’s famous opening paragraph/sentence; and (2) to illustrate the operation of what is called editorial judgement (otherwise, common sense) we explain the editorial emendation made in the phrase “since devlins first loved livvy” that occurs in that exact form for the first time in the new edition.
All other sentences and phrases in the book (although the details are sometimes far more complex) have been treated in much the same way, and the complete genetic record – only microscopically illustrated here – forms what we term the isotext: an electronic hypertext databank specifying, differentiating and layering all authorial/non-authorial (scribal), documented/undocumented, valid, suspect or corrupting textual operations. This scholarly material forms as it were the root system from which sprang the fully leafed tree that is the final text. It will be made generally available by us as soon as circumstances permit.
(1) The opening sentence – the incipit – appears as a part of a stretch of text that we have coded as Book I, Chapter 1, Section 1, Subsection A, or more simply I.1§1A. Begun in 1926, this segment went through ten major draft stages and was only completed in late November 1938. The history of its genesis follows:
Draft *0: The earliest extant proto-document (I.1§1A.*0) is conserved as British Library MS 47482a, folios 83-94, James Joyce Archive (hereinafter JJA) 44:003-21. It shows us that the opening paragraph began not with the now famous “riverrun”, but with an acronym of the male element (H.C.E.) concealed within a localisation, a (capitalized) place-name: “Howth, Castle & Environs”. This element appears earlier in Joyce’s notebook N.25 (VI.B.15), page 33, where it appears in that precise form and not as “Howth Castle and Environs”. Joyce, it seems, wanted to avoid the distancing effect of the word “and” in this context. Indeed, he writes it again in this ampersand (“&”) form, but without the comma after “Howth”, in drafts 1* and 2*, and does not thereafter seek to alter it. The ampersand thus appears in four exemplars. Its transformation to “and” occurs only in the matrix (that is, in typed or typeset form, denoted mx in the footnotes) of level 6, where the printer in setting the galleys changed “&” to “and” for no apparent reason.
From the same fascinating proto-document *0 we learn that the now two opening paragraphs were drafted as a single paragraph; that the first line was initially limited to the place-name; that it began flush left, and was not as yet indented in any way. In revising this inter-textually (that is, on the same manuscript page) Joyce added the new opening, strongly indented, of “brings us to”. The opening sentence thus reads, in this new version:
^brings us to^
Howth, Castle & Environs! …
The ellipsis (“…”) indicates the run-on text (in this case “Sir Tristram …”).
Draft *1: In the first copying-out of the proto-version (level 1A.*0+ relates solely to a later fragment) this version of the text (with the comma after “Howth” dropped) is copied by Joyce to read:
Howth Castle & Environs! …
Joyce, in copying out the earlier version, neglected to include the short introduced segment “brings us to”. He does however remember it and introduces it afresh, in the margin, as new auxesis or overlay (MS 47471a-2, JJA 44:045). In doing this, he transforms it to read “brings us back to”. The paragraph is also indented in this version.
These operations code into the evolving isotext as:
^brings us |1back1| to^
Draft *2: At this point the proto-textual (early version) history of the first sentence is complete, and we begin again, afresh, with the reading of the fair copy (MS 47472-4ff; JJA 44:105ff.), a clean ink copy dated by Joyce 29 November 1926. The first inscription of the fair copy reads (again deeply indented):
brings us back to
Howth Castle & Environs. …
We see here that the exclamation mark has been dropped by Joyce (see note 4) and that the ampersand in Joyce’s handwriting is again in place. On this page the author makes one inter-textual addition to the opening sentence, which he then revises: he adds the noun “river” and then changes it to read “riverrun”. We code this as:
|2^[river] riverrun^2| brings us back to
Note that the proto-text and isotext are not interfaced. The reason for this is that far too many small changes and relocations, hits and misses, appear in the very early versions before the text has yet settled into a stable fair copy. In our fair copy, the element beginning “Howth” is written flush left. Joyce clearly wants to maintain the irregular deep indentation of the incipit.
Draft 3: The next stage in the text’s genesis is its form (level 3) as it appears in the first typescript (see JJA 44:145ff) signed by Joyce and dated 16 December 1926 (the date of the final revision of the fair-copy manuscript). This typed text reads and is spaced exactly as Joyce intended, with one error: the word “riverrun” is mistyped as “river run”. This error is corrected on the typescript.
Level 3+ (MS 47472, folios 45r and following; JJA 40:174ff.) is a duplicate (carbon) of the draft 3 typescript with the corrections taken over from it and copied in by an amanuensis and also with further authorial overlay. The opening sentence in this document reveals a (mistaken) scribal ‘correction’ of the initial letter (“r”) to uppercase – “Riverrun” – and (as indicated in 3) a correction of the typed “river run” to “riverrun”.
Draft 4: Level 4 (MS 47472-74, folios 74ff; JJA 44:204ff.) is the revised set of galley proofs for transition magazine, dated by the printer 25 February 1927. Here the initial lower-case “r” reappears and, so far, the ampersand remains in situ. The sentence is deeply indented. There are no revisions.
Draft 5: Level 5 (MS 47475, folios 1-13; JJA 44:231ff.) comprises pages of transition 1 (published April 1927) that were revised for the printer of Finnegans Wake in the early 1930s. The opening sentence is again unchanged.
Level 5+ (MS 47475-92ff.; JJA 44:253ff.), a duplicate of the above with fresh additions (sent to the printer of Finnegans Wake in 1936), evidences two major additions to the text: the insertion of “past Eve and Adam’s” to follow “riverrun” and the insertion of “by commodious recirculation” to follow “us”. The latter is further intertextually rewritten as “by a commodious vicus of recirculation”, thereby indicating the intended spelling of “commodious” twice. This event is embedded in the (amplifying) isotext as:
|2^[river] riverrun^2| |5«+past Eve and Adam’s+»5|
brings us 5«+by «^a^» commodious «^vicus of^» recirculation+»5 back to
The brackets “« »” indicate that the additions are in a scribal (non-authorial) hand.
Draft 6: Level 6 is the first set of galley proofs (MS 47476a/b, folios 1ff; JJA 49:005ff.), dated by the printer 12 March 1937 (the revised version of these proofs were received by Harriet Shaw Weaver on 25 February 1938: see Letters, I, 14 July and 6 August 1937, and Letters, III, 18 December 1937). This level introduces our very first errors. The first of these affects the spacing prior to the appearance of the very first word. Here at level 6 the sentence is indented exactly as if it was a regular paragraph. The setting also introduces three further errors, two subsequently uncorrected: the misspelling of “commodious” as “commodius”; the unwarranted ‘correction’ by the printer of the ampersand “&” to the word “and”; and (subsequently corrected) the appearance of a comma rather than a full stop to follow “Environs”. The original run-on form of the first two sentences remains.
Draft 7: Level 7, the second (duplicate) set of galley proofs (MS 47476a, folios 133ff., JJA 49:290ff.), dated as the first set but received by Miss Weaver on 16 May 1938), reveals no alteration to the state of the initial sentence.
Draft 8: Level 8 comprises the third (duplicate) set of galleys (MS 47476b, folios 277ff; JJA 50:005ff). It was sent to Faber & Faber on c. 18 May 1938. These also show no change and no correction to the sentence.
Draft 9: Level 9, dated 7 July 1938, comprises the first set of page proofs (not reproduced in the Archive but presently located at the University of Tulsa). There were several additions made at this stage: a comma was introduced after “riverrun”; a comma and the phrase “by swerve of shore to bend of bay,” were added after “Adam’s”; and the comma after “Environs” was corrected to a full stop. Also, the newly introduced word “by” is revised intertextually to “from”.
One further revision was made at Level 9+ (the second set of page proofs, dated 20 November 1938): the splitting of the first paragraph after the word “Environs.” into two paragraphs, which we code “/9+/”.
Draft 10: Level 10 represents the “Buffalo corrections”, so called because they were made on an unbound copy of the first edition now housed at the University of Buffalo. These were carried out by Joyce and his friend Paul Léon in the summer of 1940. No changes were made to the opening sentence at this stage.
Our final isotextual form for this sentence, in which, in coded form, is contained all of the relevant information (extended by windowed hyperlink) is as follows:
|2^[river] riverrun°|9,9|^2| |5«+past Eve and Adam’s|9,9|+»5
|9|^[by] from^ swerve of shore to bend of bay,9| brings us 5«+by «^a^»
commodious° «^vicus of^» recirculation+»5 back to
Howth Castle &° Environs.° /9+/
Some of the textual transformations are coded by us by way of windowed footnote (flagged in the text by a superscripted circle). The flagged words are hyperlinked and open to read:
• riverrun ] 2, 3, mx 4; river run mx 3; Riverrun s 3+
•* commodious ] s 5+; commodius mx 6
•* & ] 2; and mx 6
• Environs. ] 2, 9; ~, mx 6
The asterisk indicates a change to the final reading text.
In order electronically to generate from this master text the final clear-reading text form, all that is required is the automatic deletion of all editorial superscripts and other codes, along with all superseded readings and brackets. This gives us the sentence in the critically established clear-reading form:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore
to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle & Environs.
(2) The genesis of the phrase “since devlins first loved livvy” is as follows:
Draft *0: The first occurrence appears in this draft as:
… since the Devlin first loved <liffey> livy.
The pointed brackets indicate that “liffey” was crossed out in the act of inscription and replaced by “livy”. An intertextual revision of “the Devlin” to “Devlins” was then made, yielding:
… since ^[the Devlin] Devlins^ first loved <liffey> livy.
Draft *1 and Draft *2: The fair copy reads simply:
… since Devlins first loved livy.
The phrase remained unaltered until the galley proofs.
Draft 6: The compositor introduced an error by joining up the words “Devlins” and “first” to read “… since Devlinsfirst loved livy.”
Draft 9: On the page proofs Joyce changed the capital “D” of “Devlinsfirst” into lower case “d” and he also revised the word “livy” to read “livvy”.
The final isotextual form reads:
… since |9[Devlins] devlins9| first° loved |9[livy] livvy9|.
The superscript “o” links to a footnote:
•** devlins first ] e; Devlins first 2; Dev-⁄linsfirst mx 6; dev-⁄linsfirst 9
The double asterisk and the level reference “e” indicates that the emendation yields a reading that is editorial. The precise form “… since devlins first loved livvy” occurs nowhere in the manuscript record, although all its parts do: the lower case “d” and the separation of the two words are Joyce’s; only the unauthorised joining-up of the words by the compositor is rejected.
Thus the new edition reads:
… since devlins first loved livvy.
Some scholars would insist on retaining the 1939 edition’s
… since devlinsfirst loved livvy.
on the grounds that Joyce might be considered to have “passively” accepted the joined-up words when he neglected to correct the error at the time he changed the case of the “D”. We do not take that view. On the proof in question, for example, the word is spread over two lines – “Dev-” at the end of one, and “linsfirst” at the beginning of the next – making it less likely that Joyce (who was revising, not correcting, the proof) would have noticed the absence of a space.
The reader will appreciate from the above samples that the text presented in the new edition, here and elsewhere, is one that is shaped and logically determined by the facts of the manuscript record; no available fact has been neglected by us and inference is directed and constrained by the surrounding genetic context.
The full hypertext – with its copious detail, cross-connectivity and complexity – will be made available as soon as feasible. The exegetic power of this databank is evident. This power is raised when one adds in – as we have done – the many thousands of notebook references with, inter alia and where known, quotation of the immediate context of the original source texts from which Joyce, the self-admitted arch plagiarist, copied out, in a slow assimilative, highly creative process of digestion with all its distorting and deepening effects, the words and phrases that comprise Finnegans Wake.
DANIS ROSE
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Inégalités : 1% des plus riches détiennent près de la moitié des richesses mondiales
by humanite.fr
Half the world’s wealth in the hands of the richest 1%
Translated Monday 3 February 2014, by Hannah Mosford
Economic inequalities have intensified in the majority of countries since the crisis started, suggests a report published by Oxfam to coincide with the Davos World Economic Forum.
Nearly half (46%) of the world’s wealth is held by just 1% of the population, according to Oxfam’s latest report. With the title "Working for the Few" (link below), the report claims that the 85 richest people possess as much as the poorest half of the population. Their wealth amounts to $110 trillion - 65 times the wealth of the global population’s poorest. According to data collected between 1980 and 2012, the richest 1% have increased their share of the income in 24 out of 26 countries. That means nearly seven out of 10 people now live in a country where economic disparity has grown over the last 30 years. The report suggests that "even if the recession has temporarily dented the portion of global wealth held by the richest, they have recovered over recent years." Consequently, the charity goes on, "governments serve the interests of the richest, while political and economic inequalities continue to widen."
Laying the blame
Since 1980, the richest 1% in China, Portugal, and the USA have more than doubled their share of the national income. Even in those so-called more egalitarian countries such as Sweden and Norway, the share of revenue going to the richest 1% has grown by more than 50%. Oxfam lays the blame for this widening imbalance on financial deregulation, biased tax systems, and laws which facilitate tax evasion. But it has also fixed its sights on austerity measures, on policies which are detrimental to women, and on captured oil and mineral revenues.
The charity foresees the situation getting worse with between 15 and 25 million poor estimated by 2025. It proposes an increase in salaries so as to raise living standards. "Much like our position against austerity measures, we feel it’s in this area that governments will soon have to act," explains Oxfam spokesperson, Leila Bodeux, in the Belgian newspaper, Le Soir.
The equality of opportunities will be no more than an illusion
She also draws a link between extreme economic inequalities and a rich elite who govern to serve their own interests. "Without genuine action to reduce inequality, these privileges and disadvantages will be recycled from generation to generation. We will live in a world where the equality of opportunities will be no more than an illusion," she concluded.
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In a couple weeks, movie goers will be able to sit down and watch Ready Player One, based off Ernest Cline’s 2011 book of the same name. The story is basically about teenager Wade Watts living about 25 years in the future, and using his knowledge of 1980s pop culture to find a real-world treasure hidden by a game designer in a virtual reality game. Pop culture references abound in the story, ranging from Pac-Man and Zork to Blade Runner and WarGames. The marketing for the movie capitalizes on the story’s unabashed love of the era’s pop culture with a series of movie posters that are clear homages to famous movie posters of that time.
About a month later, Avengers: Infinity War will hit theaters. The story here is that Thanos, a villain who’s appeared in cameos in many of the Marvel movies, launches his plan to wipe out half the population of the entire universe and it takes all of Marvel’s heroes to stop him. It’s based on The Infinity Gauntlet comic book series from 1991 by Jim Starlin, George Pérez, and Ron Lim. Since that particular story, however, is mostly only known within comic circles, the marketing here pays less overt attention to the source. Interestingly, though, they still dive heavily into nostalgia by playing up the notion that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now a decade old; the first Iron Man film coming out in April 2008.
I get why they’re doing this. As I wrote back in 2015…
Nostalgia today can be seen more as a memory of being happy. Recalling a time and place where a person enjoyed life a great deal more. Though such recollections are frequently seen through rose-colored glasses, the memories help to distract one from any difficulties being faced currently and can lead to an improved mood or attitude. Harvard professor Svetlana Boym went on to point out that “nostalgia inevitably reappears as a defense mechanism in a time of accelerated rhythms of life and historical upheavals.” That is, we see more interest in nostalgia as a society on the whole during times of significant change.
I doubt that anyone with an inkling of what’s going on in the world today would argue that there aren’t significant changes happening in the society on the whole right now. Even moreso than when the original creators were crafting their stories back in the day. So it’s hardly surprising that both movie makers and old school fans would clamor for a return to more enjoyable time.
While that may be mentally necessary to some degree as a means of self-care, wallowing in that mindset without acknowledging the changing societal events around you is, at the very least, extremely dangerous. Art reflects the culture its made in. Those of my Facebook friends who seem to refuse to acknowledge the world exists outside their immediate family and the local sports teams will be in for even a greater sense of future shock when they wake up to realize that the recursive media they’ve been reveling in was commenting on years gone by, and not their current environment, leaving them even less prepared for a society they increasingly no longer recognize. Society doesn’t change overnight; it only seems like it when you’re not paying attention and repeatedly gorging on the entertainment of your youth.
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Sean Kleefeld is an independent researcher whose work has been used by the likes of Marvel Entertainment, Titan Books and 20th Century Fox. He writes the ongoing “Incidental Iconography” column for The Jack Kirby Collector and had weekly “Kleefeld on Webcomics” and "Kleefeld's Fanthropology" columns for MTV Geek. He’s also contributed to Alter Ego, Back Issue and Comic Book Resources. Kleefeld’s 2009 book, Comic Book Fanthropology, addresses the questions of who and what comic fans are. He blogs daily at KleefeldOnComics.com.
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Model and photographer Presley Gerber: What we know about the 16-year-old son of Cindy Crawford
Blessed with the divine genetics of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, Presley Gerber has taken the natural course and entered the modeling world. Although he’s only 17, the well-mannered and highly responsible young man has already graced campaigns for Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana, with even bigger projects on the horizon.
You'he had a pretty incredible year.
I was lucky enough to get to travel a bunch. I went to Italy twice—Capri, Florence, and Milan—and that was amazing. Winning this [Emerging Model] award is absolutely insane!
You went to Italy to shoot the Dolce & Gabbana campaign, right? What was that like?
We had an absolute blast. The guys I shot with [Cameron Dallas and Gabriel Kane Lewis] and I are all pretty close, so there was no pressure. Everyone who who works at Dolce & Gabbana is so great to us.
How do you spend downtime on set?
We're usually just messing with one another or looking for food somewhere!
What did you eat when you were in Italy?
You always have to get pizza!
We 'll get to thefashion questions, butfirst, the food. How do you like у our pizza?
Plain cheese is my go-to.
When did you realize that modeling was something you wanted to take seriously?
At first I wasn’t sure, but once I started doing it more often, I started having a lot of fun with it. It was about a year and half ago that I realized this was something I wanted to pursue.
Any trepidations?
Not really. I used to work at a smoothie place in Malibu, and this has been quite an upgrade.
Was that a part-time job?
It was. A couple times a week. I would make smoothies
Were you good at it?
I’m not going to say good. I was okay.
Funny. Can you still stomach them?
I’m super into them.
Where do you want to take your modeling career?
As far as I possbly can. I’m not huge on setting goals. I want to do the best I can, and see where that takes me.
One of your first shoots was with Mario Testino for Paris Vogue. What's your relationship like with him?
I had met him a few times when I was much younger. Working with him was amazing. My mom was on that shoot with me and they are so close, so I felt very comfortable.
You've also worked with Bruce Weber.
Yes, with my sister, Kaia, in Miami. He's truly an amazing photographer. The fact that he still shoots only on film is unbelievable. The number of rolls we went through was pretty crazy!
What was it like to walk the Moschino show in Los Angeles?
It was my first show, and I was so nervous. Jeremy Scott is so enthusiastic about everything. He brightens the mood when you’re around him. Even if you’re having a fitting and he's talking to you, he's engaged.
Your sister is also in the early stages of her career. What s that like?
We give each other advice, though she gives me more advice than I give her. When we get to work together, we have so much fun.
What kind of advice has she offered?
She’s a replica of my mom. She has the same brain. She's a very smart girl when it comes to the [industry],and she knows how to point me in the right direction when it comes to angles and all that
Do fans ask youfor selfies?
Sometimes at an event, I'll get a few asks, but I try to keep a bw profile. I kind of like it that way.
What's уour favorite image of your mom?
Oh, man. We have a bunch in our house, and they're all my favorites, because I grew up around them. When I think of my mom, I think of these certain images. She has a very authentic smile in pictures, and that's always able to cheer me up. Has she given you any advice about modeling? Tons! She gives me the most advice out of anyone. So far, so good!
What advice does she give?
Mostly about angles, and she taught me everything I know about how to walk without falling on the runway.
Like your mom, you also have a mole on у our face. Is that a frequent topic ofconversation?
Not usually, but when I’m with my mom, it comes up more often.
Why were you named Presley?
When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents were at a party, and they heard someone refer to Elvis as Presley. It clicked!
What 's your middle name?
Walker. That's a family name.
What are your interests, asidefrom modeling?
I surf. I’m pretty into exercise, and I like hanging out with my friends on the beach or in town. I like being surrounded by people.
How often do you get to surf?
When the water is warm, I try to surf every day. I've been in the ocean since I was a little kid, but I didn’t start surfing until I was 11 or 12.
Why does surfing appeal to you?
I feel like I leave everything on the beach. When you are out there, you have nothing on your mind except exactly what you're doing in that moment.
Are you ntill into photography?
I’m not doing it as much, but I still love taking pictures. I always love shooting Kaia. Because we're still so close, it's easy. There's nothing to worry about, so I can be as creative as I want
Are you a protective older brother?
What was it like to grow up in Malibu?
It was Ike growing up in a small town. I went to school with the same kids since kindergarten. There were 100 kids in a grade. It's a small community. You can’t go anywhere without seeing everyone.
Have you ever won a nything before?
Nothing like this, that's for sure. I'm going to put my award right above the fireplace. Make room for me! ■
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IRC Engineering Services (I) Pvt. Ltd. Came into existence in the year 1995. After starting just as a Radiographic company, IRC engineering services has emerged as not just an NDT company but as a failure analysis consultant to various power generating unit. We are now also a reputed competent firm to carry out inspection on various storage vessels. Our management is comprising of vastly experienced personnel from NTPC and PDIL. With a work force of around 120 comprising of Doctorates ,more than 20 power plant engineers, ASNT NDT LEVEL III , and various NDT Level II holders , IRC Engineering services has carved a niche in the Indian Market. Not Just limiting us to the Power Sector ,we have now also ventured into providing services to Refineries and Fertiliser Units. Non Destructive Testing has been a core to our various services but now we have carried out certain jobs related to Annual Maintenance of Boiler and are looking forward to more opportunities in this segment.
An ISO 9001: 2008 certified company, IRC has been authorized by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board to carry out Radiographic Exposures and accredited by Controller of Explosives as “Competent Person” and “Inspector” for the inter stage inspection of pressure vessels.
IRC, based on its hands on experience with the high pressure boilers has been recognized by the Central Boiler Board as “WELL KNOWN REMANENT LIFE ASSESSMENT ORGANIZATION “(RLA). Its in house integrated testing facilities are also approved as “WELL KNOWN MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY” by Central Boiler Board, under IBR-1950 , and “NATIONAL ACCREDITATION BOARD FOR LABORATORIES (ISO -17025” . IRC’s Laboratory is frequently visited by many Third Party surveyors from reputed agencies such as EIL, BVIS, TUV, PDIL, IRS, NTPC,BHEL, QUEST etc..
IRC’s Vision is to provide a one stop solution to the energy sector and develop trust and reliability of our quality services to our clients.
A. K. Singhi
Shri A.K. Singhi is the founder and managing director of M/s IRC Engineering Services India Pvt. Ltd. He has more than thirty Years experience in the field of Boilers, Welding technology, Destructive and Non-Destructive Test techniques.
He started his carrier from Renusagar Power Division of Hindalco Industries.Was Trained at Bhabha Atomic Research Corporation in the field of Radiography and NDT. Joined boiler experts group of NTPC corporate operation Services.
In the Year 1995, he established his own organization in the field of Industrial Radiography & Stress relieving. Over a period of time he has carved a niche by diversification and expansion of activities in the field of REMNANT LIFE ASSESSMENT,and establishment of metallurgical, Chemical and Mechanical test laboratory. The Test laboratory, he has set up is in the area of 1000 sq.m.with a building in four elevations ,equipped with state of the art facilities. The IRC and its Test Lab facilities are one of the few in the country approved by Central Boiler Board.
Shashank Shukla
Shri Shashank Shukla has more than fourty years hands on experience in Boilers varying from 25 MW to 500 MW.capacity,natural circulation conventional and once through drum less boilers . He started his carrier from the power plant of SAIL Rourkela, Served as head of the department of boilers at Renusagar Power Division of Hindalco Industries.He established and headed a boiler experts group at corporate operation services department of NTPC. He was Co-opted as member of the committee (formed by Ministry of Power under CEA) on “ Maintenance of Large Thermal Power Stations of India”. He has authored three volumes on Maintenance Planning System for NTPC thermal power stations and the system is widely in use even to day.He retired as Additional General Manager and head of the Operation Services of NTPC( Northern Region)covering Singrauli, Rihand, Unchahar & Tanda Power Stations. Prior to that, he was chief of the , Operation and maintenace departments of different Super power stations of NTPC. Presently he is Director Technical of IRC Engineering Services ( India) Pvt. Limited and has presented several technical papers on residual life assessment of boilers. He is a regular invitee as faculty/ speaker on the subject of REMNANT LIFE ASSESMENT OF BOILERS at various Engineering Institutions and Industries.
Mr. B.N. Singh
Dr. B.N. Singh is having more than 40 years of experience in the field of Third Party Inspection of Storage Tanks. He is holder of Doctorate Degree in Water Chemistry. After Retiring from PDIL, he has been an integral part for the growth of the organisation. He is a PESO approved Competent Person as per SMPV (U) Rules 18,19 & 33 and has been carrying out the services for IRC for various kinds of Storage Tanks such as Horton Sphere, Bullet and Mounded Bullet.
Mr. S.K. Handa
Mr. S.K.Handa is having 25 years of experience in the field of Destructive Testing and Non-Destructive Testing. He is having a very wide Knowledge of Various ASME and EN Codes and Standards. He heads the entire laboratory and has its focus on Business Promotion, Operations and Quality Monitoring in the Laboratory.
Mr. Abhinav Singhi
Mr. Abhinav Singhi is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer from Indraprastha University. After completing his Graduation he has done Masters in Business Management from S.P.Jain Institute. He is also an ASNT NDT LEVEL-III in UT,MT,ET,LT. He is having 5 years of experience in the field of Conventional and Advanced Non-Destructive Testing and is currently looking after the Business Development and Operations of the company. He pioneers in the applicability of Advanced NDT Services in the Energy Sector.
In pursuance of commitment to quality and value added services ,IRC has been already accredited by Chief Controller of Explosives, Central Boiler Board and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in the respective field of inspection of Horton Spheres & Bullets, Remnant Life Assessment (RLA) of Boilers and Radiographic Exposure
Recognized as “ Well Known Remanent Life Assessment organization” under Indian Boiler Regulation-1950 by Central Boiler Board..
Recognized as “Material Testing Laboratory” under Indian boiler Regulation-1950.
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2017+ Honda V4 CBR / RVF 1000 / RR Motorcycle Patents Filed – Sport Bike News
By HondaProKevin // March 26, 2016
– All New Honda V4 Sport Bike Patents Filed –
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you’ve seen the multitude of rumors concerning Honda and their release of an all-new V4 sport bike to add to their current CBR model lineup. Honda showed us what they could do with an unlimited budget last year when they released the incredibly expensive 2016 Honda RC213V-S that was as close to a MotoGP bike as you could get with a production and street-legal motorcycle. Honda has made announcements that they have something in the works with a more affordable setup (not $184,000 like the RC213V-S). They haven’t stated exactly what year they will be released so all we can do at this time is speculate and hope while reading the new rumors that pop up on a monthly basis.
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What we can do though, while we wait for possible 2017 or 2018 V4 CBR / RVF1000 “official” updates, is drool over patent documents that Honda files. While doing my weekly patent research, I stumbled across the new patents you’ll see below concerning this new V4 motorcycle. Some may say this is nothing more than the patents on the previously announced RC213V-S but that is not true, if you study the fine details you’ll notice quite a few differences. The main focus on this patent is concerning the air intake / air box etc for the V4 motorcycle they have in the works. I don’t know about you guys but checking out these patent documents has me excited to see what Honda has in store for the future and their sport bike models…
What do you guys think? Anyone else excited for Honda to finally let the cat out of the bag on this V4 motorcycle?
Honda Motorcycle V4 Motorcycle Patent:
The present invention relates to an improvement in a two-wheeled motorcycle provided with an air cleaner unit.
There is known a two-wheeled motorcycle provided with an air cleaner unit for purifying air and introducing the purified air to an engine (for example, see FIGS. 1 to 3 of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2005-105988 (JP ‘988)).
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 of ‘JP 988, an air introducing passage (30) is arranged on the outside of a main frame (5) (a number with parenthesis designates a reference number of ‘JP 988, those that follow are the same). An air cleaner box (18) (hereinafter, referred to as “air cleaner unit (18)”) is arranged on the inside of the main frame (5). A V-type engine (10) for sucking the air purified by the air cleaner unit (18) is located below the air cleaner unit (18).
Lightening holes (42) are formed in the main frame (5). Left and right air intake ducts (43) extend to the air cleaner unit (18) in such a way as to pass through the lightening holes (42). Air introducing passages (30) are configured to communicate with the air intake ducts (43). The air passes through the air introducing passages (30) and enters the air cleaner unit (18) through the left and right air intake ducts (43). After purified by the air cleaner unit (18), the air flows into the engine (10).
In order to lightening the air cleaner unit as above, it is conceivable to use a relatively light carbon fiber as a material of the air cleaner unit. In the case of the air cleaner unit using the carbon fiber, it may be required to provide a reinforcing rib for reducing or suppressing noises and vibrations. In the case of forming a rib structure by the carbon fiber, the forming of the rib may take a lot of time to thereby cause an increase in cost. As a countermeasure against the above, when a layer of the carbon fiber is thickened, it is possible to reduce or decrease air intake noises and vibrations. However, there is a problem that a capacity of the air cleaner unit is decreased with increase in thickness of the layer of carbon fiber.
It is desired to provide a technique which is capable of reducing or decreasing the air intake noises and vibrations and ensuring the capacity of the air cleaner unit.
The present invention has been made in consideration of the above described circumstances, and has an objective of providing a technique which is capable of reducing or decreasing air intake noises and vibrations caused from an air cleaner unit and of ensuring a capacity of the air cleaner unit.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a motorcycle in which a carbon fiber is used for an air cleaner unit, and outside air is introduced through the air cleaner unit into an engine, characterized in that a lamination layer part formed by laminating plural kinds of materials is arranged in a region of at least a portion of the air cleaner unit, and the lamination layer part is formed of a carbon fiber layer and an elastic material layer.
According to this aspect, the lamination layer part is formed of a carbon fiber layer and an elastic material layer. Since the air intake noise and the like are effectively absorbed by the elastic material layer, the thickness of the air cleaner unit can be reduced. Due to the reduction in thickness, a capacity of the air cleaner unit can be ensured sufficiently. In addition, the air intake noises and vibrations produced in the air cleaner unit can be reduced or decreased.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, each of the carbon fiber layer and the elastic material layer is provided in multiple layers in the lamination layer part, and the lamination layer part comprises a first lamination layer part and a second lamination layer part of which the elastic material layer is thicker than that of the first lamination layer part.
According to this aspect, each of the carbon fiber layer and the elastic material layer is provided in multiple layers. Since the lamination layer part is provided with the multiple elastic material layers, the air intake noises transmitted to the lamination layer part can be more effectively reduced than the lamination layer part having a single layer of the elastic material layer.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, the air cleaner unit includes an air intake duct for introducing the outside air and a casing body provided with an opening to be connected to the air intake duct, and the second lamination layer part is arranged around the opening.
According to this aspect, a swirl of an air stream due to the air intake is easily caused in and around the opening of the air cleaner unit into which the outside air is introduced. In the present invention, since the second lamination layer part of which the elastic material layer is thicker than that of the first lamination layer part is arranged around the opening which is easily subject to the influence of the swirls of the air stream due to the air intake, it is possible to reduce or decrease the air intake noises and the vibrations caused in the air cleaner unit.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the engine is formed in a V-type, and includes cylinder sections of the engine each of which is arranged in front of and at the rear of the casing body, and a pair of left and right vehicle body frames is located on left and right lateral sides of the casing body, wherein the first lamination layer part is arranged on a surface of the casing body facing the cylinder sections, and the second lamination layer part is arranged in at least a part of an upper surface of the casing body.
According to this aspect, the second lamination layer part is arranged in at least a part of the upper surface of the casing body. Since the second lamination layer part is located in the upper surface of the casing body in a vehicle formed such that a rider is located above the upper surface of the casing body, the air intake noises and vibrations transmitted from the casing body toward the rider become hard to be transmitted to the rider. Therefore, it is possible to enhance silence of the air cleaner unit.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the upper surface of the casing body is formed with a recess portion for accommodating a battery, and the recess portion is formed in the first lamination layer part, wherein a cushioning material is arranged between the first lamination layer part and the battery, and the battery is mounted on the upper surface of the casing body by fastening a battery cover for covering the battery.
According to this aspect, the cushioning material is arranged between the recess portion in which the battery is accommodated and the battery. With provision of the cushioning material, the recess portion in which the battery is accommodated can be formed in the first lamination layer part of which the elastic material layer is thinner than that of the second lamination layer part. As a result, due to the cushioning material and the first lamination layer part, the air intake noises and vibrations caused in the air cleaner unit can be reduced or decreased while reducing the cost for the air cleaner unit.
The present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a right side view of a two-wheeled motorcycle in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of an air cleaner unit and the surrounding area thereof;
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the air cleaner unit and the surrounding area thereof taken in the direction of arrow 3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the air cleaner unit;
FIG. 5 is a cross sectional view of the air cleaner unit, taken on line 5-5 of FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 is a front view of the air cleaner unit and the surrounding area thereof;
FIG. 7A is a perspective view of an upper half body of the air cleaner unit and FIG. 7B is a perspective view of a lower half body of the air cleaner unit;
FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view of a first lamination layer part;
FIG. 9 is a cross sectional view of a second lamination layer part; and
FIG. 10 is a cross sectional view taken on line 10-10 of FIG. 3.
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. In the drawings and the embodiment, the orientation such as “front”, “rear”, “top”, “bottom “left” and “right”,” shall be described in accordance with the direction viewed from a driver riding on a motorcycle.
The embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, a two-wheeled motorcycle 10 is a straddle type vehicle and includes a vehicle body frame 11, an engine 12 as a power source mounted on the vehicle body frame 11, a front wheel steering section 15 supporting a front wheel 13 in a steerable manner which is located forwardly of the engine 12 in a front part of the vehicle body frame 11, a rear wheel suspension section 16 supporting a rear wheel 14 in a swingable manner which is located in a rear part of the vehicle body frame 11, a fuel tank 17 disposed above the engine 12 and mounted on the vehicle body frame 11, and a rider’s seat 18 on which the rider rides in a straddling fashion, disposed at the rear of the fuel tank 17 and mounted on the vehicle body frame 11.
The vehicle body frame includes, as the main components, a head pipe 21, a pair of left and right main frames 22 extending from the head pipe 21 to the rear side of the vehicle, and a pair of pivot frames 24 which extends downwardly from rear ends of the main frames 22 and supports a pivot shaft 23 functioning as a support shaft of the rear wheel suspension section 16.
The rear wheel suspension section 16 has a swing arm 25 which extends from the pivot shaft 23 to the rear of the vehicle and supports the rear wheel 14 at the rear end thereof. The front wheel steering section 15 includes a steering shaft 26 which is inserted into the head pipe 21 and functions as a rotation axis, a steering handle 27 mounted on an upper end of the steering shaft 26, and a front fork 28 which is integrally provided with the steering shaft 26 and extends downwardly in the forward direction so as to carry the front wheel 13.
The engine 12 to be mounted on the vehicle body frame 11 is the so-called V-type engine having a forwardly inclined front cylinder 31 and a rearwardly inclined rear cylinder 32. A front cylinder exhaust pipe 33 is connected to an exhaust port 31a of the front cylinder 31. The front cylinder exhaust pipe 33 extends first on the front side of the vehicle and is directed to the rear of the vehicle in a curved manner. A rear end of the front cylinder exhaust pipe 33 is connected to one chamber 35 in which a catalyser device is accommodated, and one muffler 37 extends from this one chamber 35 to the rear of the vehicle. The rear cylinder 32 is formed of a plurality of cylinders (two cylinders) which are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction, and rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34 for leading exhaust gas are connected to exhaust ports 32a of the rear cylinder 32. The rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34 extend to the rear of the vehicle and are connected to the other muffler 38 via the other chamber 36 in which a catalyser device is accommodated. An air cleaner unit 40 is arranged above the engine 12 in a space formed between the front cylinder 31 and the rear cylinder 32. Namely, the cylinder sections (the front cylinder 31 and the rear cylinder 33) of the engine 12 are arranged in front of and behind a casing body 53 of the air cleaner unit 40.
A radiator unit 41 is arranged at the rear of the front wheel 13 and in front of the engine 12. A front part of the vehicle body is covered with a cowling 42, and the lateral side of the vehicle are covered with a vehicle body cover 43. A front fender 44 is mounted on the front fork 28 in such a way as to cover an upper side of the front wheel 13.
As shown in FIG. 2, an upper end of the front cylinder 31 of the engine 12 is covered with a front head cover 46, and a front ignition device 48 is installed in the front head cover 46. Similarly, an upper end of the rear cylinder 32 is covered with a rear head cover 47, and a rear ignition device 49 is installed in the rear head cover 47.
The front cylinder 31 is formed of a plurality of cylinders which are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction, and the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33 for leading the exhaust gas are connected to the exhaust ports 31a of the front cylinder 31. The rear cylinder 32 is formed of the plurality of cylinders which are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction, and the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34 for leading the exhaust gas are connected to the exhaust ports 32a of the rear cylinder 32. Namely, the engine 12 is the V-type engine formed of two front cylinders and two rear cylinders.
The air cleaner unit 40 is arranged above the engine 12 between the front cylinder 31 and the rear cylinder 32. The fuel tank 17 extends from the upper side of the air cleaner unit 40 to the rear of the vehicle in such a way as to cover the air cleaner unit 40.
As shown in FIG. 3, the engine 12 and the air cleaner unit 40 are arranged between the pair of main frames 22L, 22R. Namely, the pair of left and right vehicle body frames (left and right main frames 22L, 22R) each is located on left and right sides of the casing body 52 of the air cleaner unit 40. To lateral surfaces 40L, 40R in the vehicle width direction of the air cleaner unit 40, there are connected air intake ducts 51L, 51R for introducing air into the air cleaner unit 40. Air inlets 51La, 51Ra are provided on each front end of the air intake ducts 51L, 51R. Each of the air intake ducts 51L, 51R passes through lightening holes formed in the left and right main frames 22L, 22R.
Next, the structure of the air cleaner unit will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the air cleaner unit 40 has the casing body 52 and an element 55 which is provided in an interior of the casing body 52 for allowing the air to be passed therethrough so as to purify the air. The casing body 52 is formed of an upper half body 53 and a lower half body 54 which are joined together from upper and lower sides. Front and rear funnel holes 58, 59 are provided in front of and at the rear of the elements 55, and a front funnel 56 and a rear funnel 57 for supplying the purified air to the front cylinder 31 and the rear cylinder 32 each are inserted into and attached to these front and rear funnel holes 58, 59.
The casing body 52 is partitioned by the element 55 and a partition wall 68 into a clean side 61 and a dirty side 62. The clean side 61 is formed in an upper part of the casing body 52 and the dirty side 62 is formed in a lower part of the casing body 52. A first fuel injection nozzle 63 for feeding atomized fuel is located in the interior of the casing body 52 and at a position facing each inlet of the front and rear funnels 56, 57. A second fuel injection nozzle 64 is located on a downstream side of the first fuel injection nozzle 63. Throttle valves 65, 66 are provided each in intermediate positions in the axial directions of the front and rear funnels 56, 57 and between the first fuel injection nozzle 63 and the second fuel injection nozzle 64. A front seal member 56a for preventing a leak of the intake air is interposed between the front cylinder 31 of the engine 12 (see FIG. 2) and the front funnel 56, while a rear seal member 57a for preventing a leak of the intake air is interposed between the rear cylinder 32 and the rear funnel 57.
The air introduced by the air intake ducts 51L, 51R from lateral sides of the air cleaner unit 40 to the dirty side 62 which forms a lower half of the air cleaner unit 40 is filtered by the element 55 and flows into the clean side 61 which forms an upper half of the air cleaner unit 40. Then, the air flows from the front and rear funnels 56, 57 which are arranged to face into the clean side 61, to an intake side of the engine 12 (see FIG. 2).
Next, a secondary air supply device, etc. for purifying the exhaust gas by burning a combustible component will be described.
Referring again to FIGS. 2 and 3, the secondary air supply device 70 includes an electromagnetic valve 71 for supplying or intercepting the purified air within the air cleaner to an exhaust system, and a reed valve 72 being opened and closed by a negative pressure of an exhaust channel (the exhaust port 31a, 32a) of the engine 12 which is provided in a downstream side of the electromagnetic valve 71. The reed valve 72 is comprised of a front reed valve 73 and a rear reed valve 74. The front reed valve 73 is arranged in a front part 40a of the air cleaner unit 40, while the rear reed valve 74 is arranged in a rear part 40b of the air cleaner unit 40.
A connecting pipe conduit 75 for supplying the purified air from the air cleaner unit 40 to the electromagnetic valve 71 provides a connection between the air cleaner unit 40 and the electromagnetic valve 71. An upstream front pipe conduit 77 provides a connection between the electromagnetic valve 71 and the front reed valve 73, and an upstream rear pipe conduit 78 provides a connection between the electromagnetic valve 71 and the rear reed valve 74.
As shown in FIG. 6, front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b extend from the front reed valve 73, and each distal end of the front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b is connected to an exhaust channel (the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b). Referring again to FIG. 3, rear pipe conduit members 82a, 82b extend from the rear reed valve 74, and each distal end of the rear pipe conduit members 82a, 82b is connected to an exhaust channel (the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34). The rear pipe conduit member 82 provides a connection between the rear reed valve 74 and the rear cylinder exhaust pipe 34. Namely, the reed valve 72 is located at a position facing the exhaust channel, between the air cleaner unit 40 and the exhaust channel of the engine 12.
Like this, the reed valve 72 is comprised of the front reed valve 73 and the rear reed valve 74. The front reed valve 73 is used for the front cylinder 31 while the rear reed valve 74 is used for the rear cylinder 32, in such a manner that the secondary air is supplied from the air cleaner unit 40 to the exhaust channel of the engine 12.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 6, the front cylinder exhaust pipe 33 extends in the forward direction of the vehicle and thereafter is curved so as to be directed to the rear side of the vehicle while lying toward right in the vehicle width direction, and the front reed valve 73 is arranged in such a way as to lie toward right in the vehicle width direction similar to the direction of the front cylinder exhaust pipe 33. The front reed valve 73 and the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b are connected each by the front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b. In the drawing, a reference character CL designates a center line in the vehicle width direction. By the way, although the front cylinder exhaust pipe and the front reed valve are arranged in such a way as to lie a little toward right in the vehicle width direction in this embodiment, they may be arranged in such a way as to lie toward left in the vehicle width direction.
The front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b are comprised of front tubes 83a, 83b which are made of an elastic material such as a rubber tube or the like having low thermal conductivity and extend from the front reed valve 73, and front tubes 84a, 84b which are made of metal and extend from each distal end of the front tubes 83a, 83b of the elastic material to thereby be connected to the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b. Since each part of the front pipe conduit member 81a, 81b connected to the front reed valve 73 is formed of the front tubes 83a, 83b of the elastic material, the thermal effect on the front reed valve 73 due to the thermal conduction from the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b can be reduced. In addition, it is advantageous in that the vibrations from the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b are hard to be transmitted to the front reed valve 73.
The front reed valve 73 and the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b are arranged on the right side in the vehicle width direction and connected by the front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b. Therefore, the lengths of the front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b which provide a connection between the front reed valve 73 and each of the front cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b can be shortened. In addition, since the front pipe conduit members 81a, 81b are able to be checked from the outside in the vehicle width direction, it is possible to improve the maintainability.
Referring again to FIG. 3, the rear pipe conduit members 82a, 82b which provide a connection between the rear reed valve 74 and each of the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b are located at lateral sides of rear ignition devices 49a, 49b and extend from the front side of the vehicle to the rear side of the vehicle.
The rear pipe conduit member 82 is comprised of rear tubes 85a, 85b each of which is made of an elastic material such as a rubber tube or the like having low thermal conductivity and extends from the rear reed valve 74, and rear tubes 85a, 85b which are made of metal and extend from each distal end of the rear tubes 85a, 85b of the elastic material to thereby be connected to each of the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b. Since each part of the rear pipe conduit members 82a, 82b connected to the rear reed valve 74 is formed of the rear tubes 85a, 85b of the elastic material, the thermal effect on the rear reed valve 74 due to the thermal conduction from the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b can be reduced. In addition, it is advantageous in that the vibrations from the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 33a, 33b are hard to be transmitted to the rear reed valve 74.
Referring again to FIG. 2, the front reed valve 73 is arranged in the lower half body 54 of the casing body 52. The front reed valve 73 and the rear reed valve 74 are located at substantially the same height. In a side view of the vehicle, the pair of main frames 22 and the front reed valve 73 are arranged at a position to overlap with each other.
The casing body 52 is divided into the upper half body 53 and the lower half body 54 in the upward and downward direction, and divided surfaces 54e of the casing body 52 are inclined in the rearward direction of the vehicle in relation to a horizontal plane in the forward and rearward direction of the vehicle. Moreover, the front reed valve 73 and the rear reed valve 74 are arranged on the casing body 52 at substantially the same height.
Even if the divided surface 54e of the casing body 52 are arranged to be inclined in the forward and rearward direction, the front reed valve 73 and the rear reed valve 74 are arranged on the casing body 52 at substantially the same height. Therefore, the casing main body 53 can be compactified in the vertical direction, and the weight distribution thereof can be optimized.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b lie toward the right side in the vehicle width direction and extend in the rearward direction of the vehicle. The rear reed valve 74 is arranged at a position to lie toward the right side in the vehicle width direction which is identical with the direction of the rear cylinder exhaust pipe 34.
The rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b and the rear reed valve 74 are arranged at a location to lie toward the right side in the vehicle width direction which is the same side in the vehicle width direction. Therefore, the piping of the rear pipe conduit members 82a, 82b for connecting the rear reed valve 74 and each of the rear cylinder exhaust pipes 34a, 34b can be simplified.
Next, it will be described mainly that the casing body of the air cleaner unit is formed of a lamination layer structure using a carbon fiber.
As shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, the casing body 52 of the air cleaner unit 40 is formed of the lower half body 54 and the upper half body 53 configured to be joined to the lower half body 53 from above. Upper flanges 126 formed in a lower end 53b of the upper half body 53 are placed in alignment with lower flanges 54a formed in an upper end 54a of the upper half body 54 so as to be fastened together, and when having been fastened, the casing body 52 is formed.
The lower half body 54 has an opening portion 129 to be closed by the upwardly open upper half body 53. Around the circumference of this opening portion 129, the lower half body 54 is formed with a lower front wall section 131, left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R extending rearwardly from end portions of the lower front wall section 131, and a lower rear wall section 133 extending between the left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R. A bottom plate section 134 forming a bottom of the lower half body 54 extends between the lower front wall section 131 and the lower rear wall section 133 and between the left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 332R. Left and right openings 135L, 135R are provided in each of the left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R. The air intake ducts 51L, 51R (see FIG. 3) are able to be connected to these left and right openings 135L, 135R.
The upper half body 53 includes a first ceiling section 138, a second ceiling section 139 provided in front of the first ceiling section 138 at a position lower than the first ceiling section 138, a third ceiling section 141 provided on the left side of the first ceiling section 138 and the second ceiling section 139 at a position lower than the second ceiling section 139, a ceiling rearward inclined section 142 which is gently inclined rearwardly at the rear of the first ceiling section 138 and the third ceiling section 141, a first upper front wall section 143 located forwardly of the second ceiling section 139, a ceiling forward inclined section 144 which is gently inclined obliquely downwardly in the forward direction from a lower end of the first upper front wall section 143, a second ceiling forward inclined section 145 located on the right side of the ceiling forward inclined section 144, a second upper front wall section 146 located in front of the third ceiling section 141, a fourth ceiling section 148 which is provided forwardly of the second upper front wall section 146 at a lower position than the third ceiling section 141, a left upper lateral wall section 147L located on the left side of the second upper front wall section 146, and a right upper lateral wall section 147R located on the opposite side in the vehicle width direction of the left upper lateral wall section 147L.
Referring to FIG. 3 at the same time, an FI unit 151 is attached to the first ceiling section 138. A battery 152 is mounted through a cushioning material 171 (see FIG. 10) on the ceiling forward inclined section 144 located forwardly of the first ceiling section 138. A winker switch 153 is fitted on the third ceiling section 141 located on the left side of the first ceiling section 138. A starting magneto 154 is fitted on the fourth ceiling section 148 located forwardly of the third ceiling section 141. A fuse box 155 is fitted on the second ceiling forward inclined section 145 located on the right side of the ceiling forward inclined section 144. Namely, various kinds of parts containing electric components are arranged on an upper surface of the upper half body 53.
Next, it will be described that the lamination layer part of the casing body has a lamination structure of a carbon fiber layer (CFRP) and an elastic material layer which are laminated in multiple layers. Although acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) is used as an elastic material in this embodiment, the elastic materials other than the NBR may be used.
FIG. 8 shows a cross section of a first lamination layer part 161. In the first lamination layer part 161, a carbon fiber layer 163 and an elastic material layer 164 are provided in multiple layers. More precisely, the first lamination layer part 161 has a five-layer structure formed of a first carbon fiber layer 165, a first elastic material layer 168 which is laminated on the first carbon fiber layer 165, a second carbon fiber layer 166 which is laminated on the first elastic material layer 168, a second elastic material layer 169 which is laminated on the second carbon fiber layer 166, and a third carbon fiber layer 167 which is laminated on the second elastic material layer 169.
In this embodiment, the first elastic material layer 168 has a plate thickness (t1) of 0.2 mm and the second elastic material layer 169 has a plate thickness (t2) of 0.2 mm. Each of plate thicknesses of the first carbon fiber layer 165, the second carbon fiber layer 166 and the third carbon fiber layer 167 are set to be 0.2 mm.
The first lamination layer part 161 formed as above are applied to regions indicated by multiple dots in FIG. 7A, of the upper half body 53 and the lower half body 54. By the way, the plate thickness is used with the same meaning as a thickness.
FIG. 9 shows a cross section of the second lamination layer part 162. In the second lamination layer part 162, a carbon fiber layer 163B and an elastic material layer 164B are provided in multiple layers. More precisely, the second lamination layer part 162 has a five-layer structure formed of a first carbon fiber layer 165B, a first elastic material layer 168B which is laminated on the first carbon fiber layer 165B, a second carbon fiber layer 166B which is laminated on the first elastic material layer 168B, a second elastic material layer 169B which is laminated on the second carbon fiber layer 166B, and a third carbon fiber layer 167B which is laminated on the second elastic material layer 169B.
In this embodiment, the first elastic material layer 168B has a plate thickness (t21) of 0.3 mm and the second elastic material layer 169B has a plate thickness (t22) of 0.3 mm. Each of plate thicknesses of the first carbon fiber layer 165B, the second carbon fiber layer 166B and the third carbon fiber layer 167B are set to be 0.2 mm.
The second lamination layer part 162 formed as above are applied to regions indicated by oblique lines in FIG. 7A, of the upper half body 53 and the lower half body 54.
Next, a boundary region between the first lamination layer part 161 and the second lamination layer part 162 will be described. A lower surface of the first carbon fiber layer 165 of the first lamination layer part 161 is brought into coincidence with a lower surface of the first carbon fiber layer 165B of the second lamination layer part 162. On the basis of the lower surface of the first carbon fiber layer 165 and the lower surface of the first carbon fiber layer 165B, the first elastic material layers 168, 168B, the second carbon fiber layers 166, 166B, the second elastic material layers 169, 169B and the third carbon fiber layers 167, 167B are laminated one on another in this order. By being laminated in this way, a difference in level is formed in a boundary region between the first lamination layer part 161 and the second lamination layer part 162. Since the difference in level in the boundary region is formed on an outer surface of the lamination layer part, air intake noises and vibrations caused in the air cleaner unit can be reduced or decreased without exerting an influence upon a capacity of the air cleaner unit.
Referring to FIGS. 3 and 7A, B together, in the upper half body 53, the first lamination layer part 161 is applied to the ceiling forward inclined section 144 on which the battery 152 is fitted, and on the second ceiling section 139. Moreover, the second lamination layer part 162 is applied to the first ceiling section 138 to which the FI unit 151 is attached, the third ceiling section 141 on which the winker switch 153 is fitted, the ceiling rearward inclined section 142 located at the rear of the first ceiling section 138 and the third ceiling section 141, the first upper front wall section 143 located in front of the second ceiling section 139, the second upper front wall section 146 located in front of the third ceiling section 141, the fourth ceiling section 148 which is located in front of the second upper front wall section 146 and on which the starting magneto 154 is fitted, and the second ceiling forward inclined section 145 on which the fuse box 155 is fitted.
Referring to FIG. 2 at the same time, in the lower half body 54, the first lamination layer part 161 is applied to the lower front wall section 131, each lower portions 149L, 149R of the left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R, a lower portion 158 of the lower rear wall section 133, and the bottom plate section 134.
With respect to the lower half body 54, the first lamination layer part 161 is arranged on each surface of the lower half body 54 facing the cylinder section (the front cylinder 31 and the rear cylinder 32). More precisely, the bottom plate section 134 located above the front cylinder 31 and the lower front wall section 131 located in front of the rear cylinder 32 are formed by the first lamination layer part 161.
Further, the second lamination layer part 162 is arranged on upper portions 150L, 150R of the left and right lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R which are located above the left and right openings 135L, 135R and provided along the divided surface 54e divided from the upper half body 53, and on an upper portion 159 of the lower rear wall section 133. Namely, the second lamination layer part 162 which is larger in the thickness of the elastic material layer than the first lamination layer part 161 is arranged in the vicinity of the opening 135L, 135R and above the openings 135L, 135R.
Next, the mounting structure, etc. of the battery mounted on the upper half body will be described.
As shown in FIG. 10, the ceiling forward inclined section 144 is formed in an upper surface 53a of the upper half body 53 forming the case body 52, and the battery 152 is mounted on the ceiling forward inclined section 144. The upper surface 53a of the upper half body 53 has a recessed portion 170 formed by the ceiling forward inclined section 144, the first upper front wall section 143 and the third upper front wall section 160, the battery 152 is accommodated in this recessed portion 170.
The recessed portion 170 is formed by the first lamination layer part 161 (see FIG. 7A). The cushioning material 171 is arranged between the first lamination layer part 161 and the battery 152. The battery 152 is mounted on the upper surface 53a of the casing body 52 by fastening a battery cover 172 for covering the battery 152 by a fastening bolt 175. In this embodiment, although a sponge is used for the cushioning material 171, it is not limited to the sponge. The material can be freely selected as far as the cushioning material is used.
The operation and effects of the above described motorcycle will be described below.
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 7A, B to 9 together, the lamination layer part 120 consisting of the first lamination layer part 161 and the second lamination layer part 162 is formed of the carbon fiber layer 163 and the elastic material layer 164
In the present invention, the lamination layer part 120 is formed of the carbon fiber layers 163, 163B and the elastic material layers 164, 164B. Since the elastic material layers 164, 164B are provided in addition to the carbon fiber layers 163, 163B, the thickness (plate thickness) of the lamination layer part 120 of the air cleaner unit 40 is reduced in comparison with the case where the lamination layer part 120 is formed of the only carbon fiber layers 163, 163B. Due to the reduction in the thickness of the lamination layer part 120, the capacity of the air cleaner unit 40 can be ensured sufficiently.
Further, since the lamination layer part 120 is formed of the carbon fiber layers 163, 163B and the elastic material layers 164, 164B, the air intake noises and vibrations produced in the air cleaner unit 40 can be reduced or decreased.
Since the air intake noises and vibrations produced in the air cleaner unit 40 are able to be reduced or decreased due to the provision of the lamination layer part 120, the number of reinforcing portions (ribs) necessary for enhancing the rigidity of the air cleaner unit 40 can be reduced. Since the number of the reinforcing portions is reduced thereby making it possible to obtain the simpler structure, the air cleaner unit 40 capable of realizing the cost reduction can be provided.
Further, the carbon fiber layers 163, 163B and the elastic material layers 164, 164B are provided each in multiple layers in the lamination layer part 120. More precisely, the carbon fiber layers 163 of the first lamination layer part 161 are three layers, and the elastic material layers 164 thereof are two layers. In addition, the carbon fiber layers 163B of the second lamination layer part 162 are three layers, and the elastic material layers 164B thereof are two layers.
Since the lamination layer part 120 having the multiple elastic material layers 164, 164B is provided in the air cleaner unit 40, the air intake noises transmitted to the lamination layer part 120 can be more effectively reduced than the lamination layer part having a single layer of the elastic material layer.
Further, a swirl of an air stream due to the air intake is easily caused in and around the openings 135L, 135R of the air cleaner unit 40 into which the outside air are introduced. Moreover, the lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R provided with the openings 135L, 135R have a larger area than other surfaces and are easily subject to the influence of the air intake noises and vibrations produced in the air cleaner unit 40. Furthermore, the main frames 22L, 22R only are disposed on the lateral sides of the lower lateral wall sections 132L, 132R. In particular, since the lightening holes are provided on the lateral sides of the openings 135L, 135R, the regions in and around the openings 135L, 135R are formed such that the intake air is hard to be converged in comparison with other regions, and are easily subject to the influence of the air intake noises and vibrations.
In the present invention, since the second lamination layer part 162 of which the elastic material layer is thicker than that of the first lamination layer part 161 is arranged around the openings 135L, 135R which is easily subject to the influence of the swirls of the air stream due to the air intake, it is possible to effectively reduce or decrease the air intake noises and vibrations caused in the air cleaner unit 40.
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Ma mère cuisine mieux que la tienne
Les Détestables (Benidorm Bastards)
Bye Bye (2010 to 2014)
Format Barbara Vallant - Aroma TV vallant@aroma-tv.com
FORMAT60 minutes
CATEGORYDramatic
ORIGINAL TITLEPlan B
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NUMBER OF EPISODES6 episodes by season
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Who has not at one time wanted to go back and change the course of events? And what if you were given a second chance, a PLAN B? The day when Philippe discovers an incredible small company called PLAN B that offers the possibility of going back in time, he does not hesitate. Since, the love of his life and companion for the past six years, has left him his life has lost its meaning. With the tremendous power he wields thanks to Plan B, he attempts to save his relationship, his law firm despite his shady business partner/friend and his dysfunctional family. He goes as far as manipulating them to achieve his goals. But Philippe soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions – as uncontrollable as they are unexpected – on his life and the lives of others. And even though Philippe can stop tragic events before they happen, he cannot erase the memories and the emotions associated with them. Nothing will ever be without consequence again. This high concept is a gripping and intimate psychological drama that follows a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his small world, and who comes to the realization that he is its own worst enemy. And you? Would you be willing to risk… a PLAN B?
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Budgeting for a Tank
June 14, 2008 by Lazy Man 20 Comments
I have a confession to make. I have had a tank on my Amazon wish-list for over two and a half years now. As Lazy as I am, it’s time for me to make this a reality. No it’s not a hot water tank or a fish tank – it’s a drive-around-and-run-over-stuff tank . It even comes with a cool name – the Badonkadonk – or Donk for short. Let me be clear, I don’t spend the day thinking, “I really want to do some damage today.” Well, at least not every part of the day. There are a lot of other things that can be done with a tank (let me know in the comments).
My friends had a lot of good fun when they discovered the Badonkadonk on my wish-list. If one them happened to win the lottery for a re-“Donk”-ulous amount of money, I think NAO Design would have an order in their in-box. Neither me, nor my friends play the lottery, so it’s going to take a little more planning for this to happen.
How am I going to make my dreams of tank ownership a reality? It comes down to budgeting. At a nickel shy of $20,000, it’s cheaper than the average car. NAO Design is clearly willing to take a loss on shipping as well. I live about ten miles from it’s Palo Alto headquarters, but I think it will still cost more than $14.99 in gas alone for them to ship it to me. However $20,000 is still not chump change (at least not for me). I need to have another plan.
I can see two viable ways of getting me in a Badonkadonk. The first would be to get those friends together and purchase it together. People buy timeshare vacations everyday – why not do that with tanks? We could be the pioneers of an entire “tank-share” industry. If I can convince 6 friends to give around $3500 we’d be there. That’s less than $300 a month. The downside is that each of us would only have the tank two months of the year. That’s still two months more of tank-time than I have today.
If I can’t convince my friends to join in, I have a plan B. I’ve got two words for you: tank rentals. I could rent the tank at the bargain price of $20/hr. At that price, I would nearly own the tank if I could have it rented for 1,000 hours of the year – just 20 hours a week. I could even rent it out for special occasions at a bulk rate of $250/day. I haven’t done extensive market research, but I believe this is a fair price for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. What makes a bigger impression at the prom – a limo or a tank? How about tailgating at Lambeau field before the Packers’ game? I think you know the answer.
If you see me posting less often in the upcoming months, it’s because I’m focusing on my efforts on making tank-ownership a reality. Once I complete that, I’ll be able to re-focus my goals on the journey of becoming financially independent.
Filed Under: Smart Purchases Tagged With: amazon wish list, april fools, battle tank, Budgeting
jim says
Everyone needs a drive around and run over stuff tank, but I think you should get the “blow up junk” add-on because that totally just rounds the whole package out. The add-on will affect your projections is totally worth it.
I’ll go in with you on the Badonkadonk… :)
BTW, I can’t believe you can buy a tank through Amazon hahaha
Man, talk about a way to get someone to click in from their RSS reader ;)
I think you need one of those crazy PneumatiPak II potato guns to go with your tank. I would pay $20 to play with that.
I’m sure you could get more than $20 /hr to rent out a tank. I bet people would pay more more like $50-100 an hour to drive around in a tank. You might need some *very* high liability insurance though. :-)
Danny Tsang says
Please tell me you only want to buy a tank on Amazon because it’s the first of the month! Btw that tank needs some 20 inch chrome rims on it.
Cos says
absolutely hilarious!
No Debt Plan says
Best personal finance post I’ve seen today. Two thumbs up.
DebtKid says
I really wish this wasn’t a April 1 post…
I secretly really, really want a tank as well…what do you think about forming a tank co-op? (like they have for jets) We could ride around visiting banks, other PF bloggers, etc…
man that would be cool.
Mrs. Micah says
I’d chip in, except that I believe DC traffic laws frown on tanks. ;)
Mary Sue says
Dude. Baby want.
*checks Sonic Screwdriver fund, notes it is about $19951.72 short.*
After driving a Bradley, that thing looks ten degrees beyond lame. Does it have an optional chain gun?
Good news: I found a site where they’ll pay YOU to drive a tank:
http://www.army.com/enlist/
$1340/month + a free helmet.
Harley says
A tank on April 1st? I get it
Living Off Dividends & Passive Income says
I’ll chip in on the tank with you!
Four Pillars says
Excellent post – nothing worse than an April fools post that tanks!
Asia'h Epperson says
This must be a April Fool joke.
erik says
i’m thinking this isn’t an april fool’s joke, because i could see myself at least renting this thing for a manly getaway or friend’s birthday. Sad, but true!
Count me in when you decide that it was not an April Fools joke. We can share from 360 miles away, right?
RJ says
Hmmm…Looks suspisiously like a giant robot foot from those Japanese cartoons. I think I’ll wait for the arms or torso to come out. Then we can all join up and begin our bid for world domination.
Seems like a good deal though. I’ll be able to buy one in about 4 seconds with my pretend income stream :D
TR says
Is this really serious? Is there really such as thing as a Badonkadonk?
Mr. Stupid says
Hey, did you see this on slashdot?
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/265790278/article.pl
mr. stupid
I’m much too Lazy to spend two years making my own tank. I’m not skilled enough either.
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Knock It Off!
Firefly (2007 Sigma 6)
March 16, 2013 Rob B 12 comments
Most of the impetus for this blog comes from reconnecting and finding a continuing use for my collection, the breadth of which sometimes makes me question my sanity. Earlier in the week, a couple of GI Joe news items got me thinking about Sigma 6 Firefly.
First, there was the news of the Toys R Us exclusive Jurassic Park figures based on GI Joe molds. One of these figures wears a mask that’s painted in a very similar fashion to this Firefly. Hmm..interest piqued, I thought. Then came the news that the Retaliation Firefly may have a background as a former Joe, similar to the Sigma 6 version. Okay, gotta dig out the figure ASAP, I said. So here we are.
Part of me thinks, when digging through a bin of stuff to find a specific toy: just why did I buy this stuff? But then I find the figure, mess about with it a bit, rediscover just what about it captivates me, and finally end up feeling better about having a basement full of toys.
I’m trying hard not to gush about how Sigma 6 pushes all my toy buttons. Sure, it didn’t equal the good old days in terms of sales, longevity and compelling media tie-ins, but holy cow was it a cool toy line. For the small scale GI Joe line, the hook that kept things going was the interaction between figures and vehicles. The size and articulation suited them perfectly and made a great play pattern. For the larger Sigma 6 scale, the hook is the accessory, whether it be weapons or gear. All over the line, there are great integrations of figures and weapons, and just plain amazingly designed figures.
This second release of Firefly in the Sigma 6 line represents his full-on transition to Cobra. Earlier in the series, he had been a Cobra spy in the midst of the Joes. There are hints of both his classic look (grey camo) as well as the previous Sigma figure, including similar weapons and armored uniform pieces.
The weapons have more in common with his earlier Sigma version than what we’ve come to expect from the Cobra saboteur. The designers must have taken his code name literally, as he’s equipped with fire-based weapons. As crazy and literal as these weapons are, they’re still well made, and can be reconfigured. With snap-on fire claws and a fire blasting staff, he’s an impressively armed alternative to the Firefly of the 80’s. I didn’t mind GI Joe being re-imagined in this way, especially when it resulted in some great toys and fun play.
When I bought some Kreo-O figures a few weeks back, I remember thinking that I was having the most fun with Joe since Sigma 6. Figures like this Firefly aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I find it interesting that Kre-O, another play-centered, stylized take on GI Joe in a new scale, has been embraced by collectors. Oh, and if you haven’t yet, check out Sigma 6 Central and GeneralsJoes’ Sigma 6 Celebration for all the love that the Sigma series deserves.
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Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, that’s a Joe figure?! I am SO GLAD I missed this entire era of GI Joe!
I would’ve watched the cartoon more if they didn’t use 4Kids! group voice actors and had better writing. I would’ve cast the characters MUCH differently. If anyone wants to know who, ask.
Little Boa
With the mask, it looks like a robot, not a person (looking at it a second time, the mask reminds me of the mask some Fire Nation soldiers had in the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon). I can see how this figure would be unappealing in the context of the GI Joe aesthetic.
Don’t worry about your sanity… unless you get a grandiose vision of modifying a ride-on lawnmower into a scaled up Rat from 1992 that is.
KansasBrawler
Little Boa, thanks, I now know what I need to do to prep my mower for my professional mowing gig this year…
On the subject of the sigma six cartoon. I just finished watching the D.I.C series and apparently sigma six is worse. I didnt think it was possible to make a Joe cartoon worse than DIC.
The Sigma Six cartoon started out fairly soft, it seemed like it wanted to be one of those sort of emotioned shapes, lines, zany style cartoons mixed with super boss villains that role in for the episode in style shows (pokemon, sort of, I guess), it just didn’t grab me a whole lot.
Toward the end of the end of the cartoon, it almost seemed like it was starting to get a little more GI groove on. Lt. Stone, HANDS DOWN, my favorite thing about Sigma Six (cartoon and figure), came in to the show, and so did Firefly about that time.
Just when the show was starting to get somewhat interesting to me, it was done. 🙁
After Stone and Firefly, Long Range rounded out my top three characters, and I tell you guys, if they had dropped Duke and Scarlett, and put Stone in charge for the next season, I think Sigma Six would have kicked it up a notch. With Stone in command, Long Range driving the RHINO, Heavy Duty and Tunnel rat still providing the wacky humor, and having Hi-tech mature into a sort of James Bond’s “Q,” could have led to some interesting shows.
Firefly was one I wanted to buy out of the figures, the cartoon sort of sold me. The twin sub-machine guns just said “firefly” to me for some reason, too. Never did get one, I was waiting for clearance price!
The few figures I did have were sort of fun, really pretty solid toys with great pose-ability, not overly exaggerated human forms, either, in my view.
These would make for a great stand alone display, and as the years roll on, a rare one!
Neapolitan Joe
Why they did not arrive in Europe!? Another pissed opportunity.
Most of the sigma six stuff didnt arrive in Australia [not that i’m complaining]
Sean_C
Didn’t care for Sigma Six, either scale…I can under the appeal of the larger scale thought I dislike the cartoon look, but the 2.5″ scale was a bit of an insult, actually…cancel 3 3/4″ at retail and then make mini-figures? Kreo doesn’t appeal to me. I see some charm there in the little figures since they are actually poseable (not rubbery junk), but I have no interest in buying building blocks. To get all the figures, you’d have to buy the big sets. No thanks. I don’t even buy much of the modern 4″ line, either, because it’s not 3 3/4″. I’m just not a hardcore GI JOE fan.
LOVE this version of Firefly, both the story and the figure. Hell, I love the black-orange good guy FF too.
You need to dress as Firefly for the full effect (1984 or 1992/93, it doesn’t matter much), raise your arm defiantly as you go by spectators and shout “COBRA!”. If that doesn’t look crazy enough, maybe “COBRA! La la la la la la…” like Serpentor did from the movie.
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Reifler Is Trying To Help The Common Man
August 19, 2016 Carrie Jansen Leave a comment
Forefront Capital hopes to introduce the 99 percent to the world of investing. Based on an article on Yahoo Finance Brad Reifler says Forefront Capital will launch a new initiative called Forefront Income Trust.
The new initiative is to help those that are not in the one percent the ability to invest. Currently the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) require investors to be accredited. To become accredited a person or corporation must meet certain income requirements before they can invest, starting at $200,000 and going up to over $1 Million.
Because of the extreme requirements set by the SEC the majority of people are unable to invest their money. The rules set by the SEC are over 30 years old and are now outdated with how people can become educated about investing, and the options available to them.
The Investor Advisory Committee is tasked with reviewing what makes a person an accredited investor. Investor Advisory Committee was started in 2010 and will review the definition every four years to make sure the definition accounts for new technologies and ideas of investing.
He’d given investment tips before but now Brad Reifler decided to look into the options afforded to the middle class, and what could be done to allow them to invest without requiring a minimum of $200,000, and thus Forefront Income Trust was born. With Forefront Income Trust a person could invest with a minimum of $2,500, a far cry from the $200,000 requirement.
On his Twitter Brad Reifler described that he invested in a 529 college savings plan when he was younger, as it was available to anyone, of any income level. Later Reifler would find out the fund was worthless, and ended up losing money.
The final straw for Reifler was when his father-in-law gave his life savings to Reifler to invest, this is when Reifler realized there were virtual no options for the 99 percent. With this information, Reifler set out to make a fund in which anyone could invest in, giving more options to the middle class.
Brad Reifler started his massive rise within the investments world when he founded Pali Capital in 1995. He successful led Pali Capital as CEO until 2008 at which point the company had revenues over $200 milllion a year. Not only did Reifler see the company to excellent returns, he also helped expand the company to more than 200 employees around the world. All outlined on Brad’s official website.
In 2009 Reifler decided to get back into investments by founding Forefront Management Group, LLC. Here is where Reifler has hit his stride offering a diverse set of options for investors, this includes the types of investors such as individuals or institutions, both of which Forefront Management Group handles. With the new initiative Brad Reifler hopes to bring his expertise to the everyday person. Check out what they’re doing next on the Forefront Group website.
CCMP Capital
The World Of Stephen Murray
August 18, 2016 Carrie Jansen
Stephen Murray was a philanthropist. He was born in Brooklyn New York, on August 2nd 1962. Murray gave assistance to the Make A Wish Foundation of New York, the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County and the Columbia Business School, from where he earned his Masters Degree in Business Administration, in 1989.
He also received his undergraduate degree from Boston College. Murray worked for Manufactures Hanover Trust in 1984 as a credit trainee. In 1989, he joined Manufacture Hanover Equity Corporation.
The company was then bought by Chemical Bank. The deal made the two companies, one unit. Learn more about Stephen Murray CCMP Capital: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-13/stephen-murray-ex-ccmp-chief-who-helped-build-firm-dies-at-52
Murray was a co-founder of CCMP Capital, which is a direct spin off from J. P Morgan Chase. It was also known as Chase Capital Partners, then as J.P Morgan Partners before Chase acquired them. They became independent in 2006. It is a Private Equity Investment Company, which is not publicly traded on the Stock Exchange.
The company has roughly $12 billion in assets. As of 2007 the company was ranked #7 in the World. Stephen Murray CCMP Capital has offices in New York, which house their headquarters, Hong Kong, London and Tokyo. They have many investments, such as 1-800-Flowers, Aramak, Cabela’s, Quiznos Corporation,Consumers/Retail,Industrial, Healthcare and Chemical Energy and, the list goes on and on.
Steven Murray has served on many board,which including: Aramark, AMC Entertainment, Warner Chilcott, The Vitamin Shoppe and so much more. In March 12th 2015, Steven Murray passed away. CCMP Capitial Chairman, Greg Brenneman said they were sad to lose such a friend and partner. He extended his and the company’s condolences to Murray’s family.
Brenneman, then went on to say that Murray was viewed as a terrific investor and deal maker. Also, expressed gratitude for his constructive qualities and, the role he played that was instrumental in bringing about the success of CCMP.
Jose Manuel Gonzalez, Agricultural Politician
Jose Manuel Gonzalez happens to be the president of Venezuela’s Federated Chambers of Commerce and deputy of Guárico State’s National Assembly. These claims and experience give him a unique perspective on Venezuela’s economy. Jose Manuel Gonzalez remarked that Venezuela’s agriculture industry is very much like a roller coaster of supply and demand involving hundreds of thousands of tons of corn, rice and other crops.
Gonzalez has stated his frustrations with the current political regime of closed-door meetings and its affect on states like Guárico but takes his position as deputy with a great level of seriousness and maturity. Gonzalez considers his time as deputy and within the government as a very educational experience that helped to teach him more about his fellow Venezuelans. He, in turn, believes that the various caucuses of Venezuela have come to respect his opinion on relevant policies. Gonzalez’s greatest remark is that the politics of running a country are too important to be left in the hands of career politicians; that chasing the populist opinion has repeatedly left to Venezuela’s ruination.
Gonzalez sees an upheaval of the current Venezuelan government, free of charismatic messiah-figures, those seeking the approval of a messiah and single-party strangleholds over its governance. He feels that party interests tend to rise above Venezuela’s interests when new politicians are appointed, sabotaging or diminishing any successes the administration might gain.
Gonzalez’s political hopes lay with Parliament so that the entire country could reach an agreement, expediting the stabilization of Venezuela’s economy and agriculture. It is Gonzalez’s sincere hope that others would adopt the core credo of respect for ownership, respect for guarantees, and refutation of acting as a conquering warlord. Whoever leads Venezuela should do so through actions and policies, rather than from speechifying. Despite having attempted a run for a higher position, Gonzalez has said that he shall continue to faithfully serve as Deputy of Guárico’s National Assembly until his final day.
The Amazing Life Of Doctor Avi Weisfogel
Avi Weisfogel lives an amazing life. Here is more about the work he does, including charity work, as well other info about him.
Doctor Avi Weisfogel is a talented dentist that focuses quite a bit on finding sleep solutions via dentistry. He is the creator of the Dental Sleep Masters system. The system is available to dentists across the country, and it is designed to show them how they can treat patients so they can sleep better. The system is also designed for physicians.
If you are a dentist or a physician, then you should look into the Dental Sleep Masters system because it may help you increase your revenue.
Asides from being a successful dentist and businessman, Dr. Weisfogel has also performed charity work. He has raised money for Operation Smile, which is one of his favorite charity organizations. The organization has helped thousands of people around the world.
Music And Hobbies
Not only is Weisfogel a charitable man and a successful businessman, but he is a musician. In fact, he loves hip-hop and he has built up quite the following on Soundcloud. He enjoys sharing his music with the world and he is a fan of sports, especially hockey and football. One of his favorite football teams is the New York Giants and for hockey he loves the New York Rangers.
The dentist is also active on social media and he can be found on popular platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. People should follow him on those sites because it allows them to stay up to date with the things going on in his life.
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Fashion Blogger Puts WEN by Chaz to Week Long Test
Emily McClure, a fashion and beauty blogger at Bustle.com, recently put Wen hair by Chaz conditioner to a week-long test designed to reproduce the successes showcased on advertising for the Sephora marketed product. For seven days, she applied the conditioner daily and took note of the progress.
Before starting Day 1, Emily was concerned about the recommended amount to be applied. It was much more than what she uses normally, but after following the instructions, she was pleasantly surprised to find her hair felt somewhat thicker. She was also happy not to see lose strands around, which she often experiences as a woman with longer hair. Her Day 2 results where basically the same as Day 1, with the same fuller look she had gotten before.
On Day 3, Emily wanted to see how well WEN by Chaz would work with her styling products, and was glad to see that by the end of the day her hair was still looking shiny and healthy. Day 4 was a loss since she was not able to get a shower in before work, but by Day 5 she had gotten a sense of what her hair would look like after applying the conditioner.
By Day 6, she was still keeping up her good results, and even got compliments on her look at an after-work happy hour. Finishing up her test on Day 7, she said that she in the future she would use WEN when she was looking for a brighter shine.
WEN by Chaz is a cleansing conditioner created by celebrity stylist Chaz Dean. Its revolutionary hydration process is designed to reverse the damage caused by other products containing harsh chemicals. Beginning in 1993, Dean tested his formula for five years before finally marketing the product that is available today. Check out the gallery of Wen hair products on Total Beauty.com.
Visit the Wen hair website http://www.wenhaircare.com/, for more information.
CCMP, Entreprenuer
Stephen Murray Made CCMP Capital The Most Innovative Fund On Wall Street
August 3, 2016 Carrie Jansen
Stephen Murray was the CEO of CCMP Capital at the time of his passing, and he positioned the company perfectly before he died. Stephen’s death was a shock to the system on Wall Street, and everyone who ensured the fund was successful learned under Stephen. Learn more about Stephen Murray CCMP Capital: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/stephen-p-murray#/entity
This article explains how Stephen and CCMP Capital became the most innovative fund on the street.
#1: Stephen Conceptualized The Fund Himself
Stephen Murray was solely-responsible for the newest fund offered through CCMP, and he taught his staff about the fund before he was forced to leave work due to an illness.
His illness took him from the world not long after leaving work, and it continued in the capable hands of his subordinates. He taught everyone he knew, and the staff helped CCMP become a strong fund that was able to go on without skipping a beat.
#2: Investors Are Incredibly Happy
Investors at Stephen Murray CCMP Capital are incredibly happy with the results they see, and there are excellent reports going to clients every day. A report created for a client at CCMP that is growing daily has Stephen Murray at its heart, and it is as if he still works with the company to this day.
The fund may not be named after him, but the fund is clearly his lasting influence on his longtime employer.
#3: Who May Invest At CCMP?
CCMP is a portion of Chase Bank, and their firm has been servicing investors from the richest of the rich to the middle class investor who works with the bank. There are quite a few people who are making better money at CCMP, and Stephen was instrumental in making the firm accessible to everyone who wishes to invest.
There are several reasons to invest in the stock market, and CCMP Capital is one of the finest places to. Someone who wishes to invest well will find what they need when approaching CCMP for the first time.
Stephen Murray’s legacy is apparent in every part of the firm from its largest fund to its smallest customer.
Career Inspiration
Danilo Diaz Granados Hosts Unforgettable Day
On a beautiful July morning in Miami, a group of people gathered together to have breakfast and start on a day filled with action and adventure. The group was organized by Danilo Diaz Granados, co-founder of Toys for Boys, a business that caters to the affluent and shows its customers that there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the finer things in life.
Danilo invited a number of the Miami elite to see the best of what the area has to offer. They started by eating a decadent meal at One Thousand Museum’s sales center, and then they were given an exclusive tour of the new building that’s located in the desirable Biscayne neighborhood. Later in the day, they took a helicopter to the Palm Beach Race Track. Each guest got to get behind the wheel and feel the horsepower of an ultra high-performance vehicle as they drove around the track. Dom Perignon hosted their lunch at the River Yacht Club on the Miami River. They finished their day with sunset boat rides on the latest vessels made by Van Dutch and Technomar.
The action-packed day was a way for Danilo to treat his loyal customers and was a perfect time to showcase what he’s all about to potential new customers.
Danilo went to Babson College in Massachusetts, where he received a degree in Economics and Entrepreneurship. He moved to Miami and took advantage of the opportunity to start Toys for Boys. He gave the Latino community a place where they could find high-quality goods like art, watches, jewelry, and automobiles.
Securus
Securus Technologies Takes a proactive Approach to Recent Data Breach
Securus Technologies is taking an admirably proactive approach to the recent data breach that the security company suffered. The company is behaving in a very transparent manner in light of the issue. The company recently announced that they pal to release a series of reports over the next several months. These reports point to wrongdoing by inmate communications provider Global Tel Link (GTL). GTL was shown to be doing many shoddy business practices such as overcharging customers, double-billing etc. Another point Secures hopes to highlight through these releases is that these actions are a huge breach of integrity and not reflective of the companies values. Through these releases, Securus, is leveraging their position as in industry leader to create lasting change within their area of expertise.
Securus Technologies is a leading provider of many different technology systems that serve the criminal justice system. Rick Smith, CEO of Securus Technologies is committed to solidifying his company’s reputation and growth. It is easy to see that Mr. Smith is very capable of making sure that his company maintains their position as a leader in their industry. One has to admire his proactive, innovative approach to situations as they arise. Rick Smith also has his finger on the pulse of what’s next for his company. This is a wonderful attitude to have in a world where technology is changing at a pace that gets faster every day.
Securus Video Visitation – Everyday from Securus Technologies on Vimeo.
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Patricia understands both the emotional and financial strain of her clients and encourages them to focus on realistic goals while exploring creative solutions to resolve their issues. Patricia is a skilled negotiator with a keen ability to work successfully with clients, attorneys, and the court in settlement, the collaborative process, or litigation if necessary. Patricia was recognized as a Top 25 Westchester County attorney by Super Lawyes in 2016 and 2017. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and is certified in Collaborative Law and has been invited to lecture on various topics of family law, domestic violence, and confidentiality issues.
Patricia was also recognized as a 2014 Legal Leader in the field of family law, received recognition as a Top 100 Lawyer in 2015 by The National Advocates and received the 2015 Client Satisfaction Award from the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. Patricia received Congressional recognition and proclamations from local communities and the Office of the Westchester County Executive for her commitment to public service. Patricia has also served as an attorney on the Board of Trustees for a not-for-profit institution. Patricia is a member of the Westchester/Rockland Collaborative Law Group, the Westchester Bar Association, and Westchester Women’s Bar Association and is a sustaining member of the New York State Bar Association. Patricia’s practice areas include legal separation and divorce, custody and access disputes, complex financial matters, and prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2014 - 2017
Education: Pace University Law School Practice Areas: Family Law
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Legal issues of Confidentiality between Patient and Therapist, Manhattan College Graduate Program Presentation, 2010
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Tyras v Tyras Outcome: Prevailed on behalf of Husband Mc v Mc Outcome: Wife prevailed after trial, court awarded permanent order of protection and supervised visistation on behalf of the minor child. Manolatos v Manolatos Outcome: Wife prevailed on both issues after trial and appeal
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By James Branch Cabell
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MUCH has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Froser's Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts of Kennaston's life. Yet most readers of the Biography, I think, must have felt that the great change in Kennaston no long while after he "came to forty year"-- this sudden, almost unparalleled, conversion of a talent for tolerable verse into the full-fledged genius of Men Who Loved Alison -- stays, after all, unexplained. . . . Hereinafter you have Kennaston's own explanation. I do not know but that in hunting down one enigma it raises a bevy; but it, at worst, tells from his standpoint honestly how this change came about.
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Market6 and 84.51° Merge to Deliver More Personalized Shopping Experience for Kroger Customers
CINCINNATI, OH – August 1, 2016 – 84.51°, a powerhouse in pioneering customer engagement, has merged with Market6, a predictive analytics company with offices in Cincinnati and suburban Chicago. Market6 is focused on product movement data solutions and extensive capabilities in data, insights and customer experience for over 1,000 consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail clients; 84.51’s objective is to leverage Market6’s technology, IP and people to expand its work with The Kroger Co., as well as Kroger’s regional grocery retailers and the CPG business.
Market6 Surpasses 1,000 Customers
Named to the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies for the second year in a row
DEERFIELD, IL – September 8, 2015 – Today, Market6 announced two major milestones – surpassing 1,000 customers and being named to the 2015 Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies for the second year in a row. Three year growth for Market6 eclipsed 931%. Market6 provides web-based retail collaboration solutions with advanced analytics built in to help retailers and suppliers drive insights, make smarter decisions, and deliver measurably better results.
FMI and Market6 Announce Collaboration 2.0 Project
FMI to Lead Panel Discussion on Improved Grocer–Supplier Relations with Kroger, Kraft, Coca-Cola and Campbell
ARLINGTON, Va. – June 1, 2015 – Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in partnership with Market6, a leading provider of collaboration solutions for grocers and their suppliers, today announced the FMI Collaboration 2.0 project, a multiyear initiative to help grocers and manufacturers improve how they work together around key shared business processes to grow sales, profits and customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Market 6 Named Fast Track Business of the Year!
CINCINNATI, OH – May 29, 2015 – Market6 Inc., a leading provider of Web-based retail collaboration applications, today announced that it has been named the Fast Track Business of the Year by the
Market6 Announces Three New Executive Appointments
DEERFIELD, IL – February 3, 2015 – Market6 Inc., a leading provider of Web-based retail collaboration applications, today announced three appointments that strengthen the company’s business development, product management and analytic expertis
Market6 Wins Consumer Goods Technology Readers' Choice Award
DEERFIELD, Ill., Jan. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Market6 Inc., a leading provider of Web-based retail collaboration applications, today announced that it has received a Readers' Choice Award for the second consecutive year from Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) magazine. Market6® has been recognized as a leader in the Demand Data Analytics category by CGT magazine's readers. In 2014, Market6 was selected as an Editors' Pick winner in CGT magazine's Readers' Choice Awards program.
Roundy's Selects Market6 for Vendor Collaboration Portal
DEERFIELD, IL – January 20, 2015 – Market6 Inc., a leading provider of web-based retail collaboration applications, today announced that Roundy’s, Inc.
Bota Box Spearheads Innovation in the 1.5-Liter Wine Category with Launch of Bota Brick
NAPA, Calif. (Dec. 11, 2014) – Bota Box, the nation’s leading eco-friendly wine producer of premium 3-liter varietals, announces the launch of Bota Brick, a groundbreaking new entry in the 1.5-liter wine category. Featuring the same environmentally responsible packaging as the original 3-liter Bota Box, Bota Brick offers wine consumers a new alternative in the 1.5-liter section that stays fresh after opening more than four times longer than any 1.5-liter glass bottle.
Inc. Magazine Ranks Market6 No. 143 on Its 2014 Inc. 500 List
Sales Growth Rate of 2,677% Places Market6 No. 11 Among Software Companies
DEERFIELD, IL – August 20, 2014 – Inc. Magazine has named Market6, a leading provider of web-based retail analytic applications, as the 11th fastest growing private company in the software industry and number 143 overall on the 2014 Inc.
Market6 to Host Kroger Supplier Panel Discussion on Collaboration and Analytics
Kroger VP Merchandising and Executives from Leading Consumer Goods Companies to Present at GMA Executive Leadership Forum
DEERFIELD, IL — August 7, 2014 — Market6®, a leading provider of web-based retail analytic applications, today announced that Mike Brooks, vice president of Health and Beauty Care and Non-Perishables Merchandising for Kroger, and executives fr
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Arabia Felix : across the "empty quarter" of Arabia
Arabs of central Iraq : their history, ethnology, and physical characters
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Menders of the maimed : the anatomical & physiological principles underlying the treatment of injuries to muscles, nerves, bones & joints
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Pineal organ, the comparative anatomy of median and lateral eyes, with special reference to the origin of the pineal body, and a description of the human pineal organ, considered from the clinical and surgical standpoints, by Reginald J. Gladstone,... and Cecil P. G. Wakeley,... [Foreword by Arthur Keith.]
place of prejudice in modern civilization, The : (prejudice and politics) : being the substance of a rectorial address to the students of Aberdeen University
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About TV Production
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ITNP Advertising appoints first Directors Rep to boost talent offer
Careers at Sea: To Sea or Not To Sea
ITNP Advertising have just launched a new campaign, Careers at Sea: To Sea or Not to Sea, created for The UK Chamber of Shipping / The MNTB and aimed at school leavers.
It depicts the different career options available to young people, aged 16-28, who might be interested in working at sea.
Click below for more info.
The Breakfast Challenge
Yesterday various members from all of ITNP's different divisions made their way down to the Whitechapel Mission to complete another breakfast challenge.
They had the following to say about their experience...
"This was something I had not thought about before and really made me think about how isolating homelessness must be."
"It was great to see what a rounded experience the Whitechapel mission offer their customers. They don’t just offer food - they offer a community, cleaning facilities and a place where their customers get choice."
IET Open day
ITNP Industry News hosted an engineering open day inviting a group of children into the studios to see how a TV company operates and show how engineering has made this possible.
The kids got to make their own news report, control cameras from the gallery and even got to visit a satellite truck, beaming their footage 30,000 miles via satellite to ITN MCR.
This is the third year ITN Productions has hosted this open day in partnership with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
ITNP film in Juvenile Detention Facility
ITNP Industry News travelled to Malibu last week to film at Camp Kilpatrick Juvenile Detention Facility for the ICPA.
The Camp re-opened in June this year after being re-designed by DLR Group with natural light, better acoustics and access to the outdoors.
This new setting has been found to influence positive behaviour, reduce incidents and create a less-stressful environment for staff.
Butlins launches 'Summer Breaks' campaign
Butlin’s has launched their ‘Summer Breaks’ sponsorship of ITV’s The Voice Kids, with the campaign creative and production by ITN Productions.
The family-focused sponsorship series premiered on Saturday June 10 with the tagline Discovering Something Special.
'Sarah Payne: A mother's story'
Luke and Lee Payne remember killer Roy Whiting smiling and waving as he drove their sister away.
Hear the family speak about this painful event and the long lasting effects in tomorrow's documentary for Channel 5 'Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story' at 9pm.
You can also read the full BBC article by clicking below.
easyJet documentary takes off
The first instalment of our groundbreaking new fly-on-the-wall documentary 'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' aired last night at 9pm on ITV. If you missed it, fear not! You can watch it on catch up here.
It did tremendously well with an average audience of 3.7million (peaking at 4million) leaving it in the running to be one of the highest-rating documentaries of the year for ITV.
Make sure to watch the next episode on Monday 21st August, 9pm on ITV.
ASAE's American Associations Day
Industry News have just spent the past two days filming US association leaders at ASAE's American Associations Day in Washington DC.
If you've ever wondered what associations are all about, click below to watch a video of the event.
A night of Magnificent Madness at The Oscars®
"We may not have won an Oscar, but it was a thrilling ride all the same, says ITN Productions editorial director Chris Shaw."
Click below to read the full Broadcast article on Chris' first Oscar® experience.
'Camps to Champs' makes OWM Shortlist
The Shortlist for the One World Media Awards has been announced and 'Camps to Champs' has been shortlisted in the Popular Features Category.
We look forward to the announcement of the nominees in early May. Take a look at the full shortlist here.
To find out a bit more about the programme click below to read of this fantasitc Huffington post article by Olympic Silver Medallist Samantha Murray 'The Power Of Sport For The Displaced'.
Congratulations to Marcel
This weekend Marcel Mettelsiefen (director of Oscar® nominated film WATANI: MY HOMELAND) was awarded the Grand Prix du Figra for 'Syria, Return to Aleppo', which is France’s most prestigious documentary award.
It also won the Young Jury Award at Figra.
The Last Days of George Michael
Last night ‘The Last Days of George Michael’ was watched on Channel 5 at 9pm by 1.3m people, currently making it the most watched programme in its slot this year after ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
The documentary charted the days leading up to the shocking death of music icon George Michael on Christmas Day 2016.
'Video and your association' event
This morning ITNP Industry News held their breakfast event “Video and Your Association” at Kings Place. The event was designed to give insight into the world of associations and creating an effective video strategy.
Massive thanks to Jon Snow for kicking off proceedings with his observations about the growth and future of ITN Productions. Also thanks to some familiar faces for joining us on our panel, including Adam ‘two panels in two days’ Barnett, Grant Fulton and Louisa Preston.
Advertising speak at CMO Inspired Conference
The ITNP Advertising team are currently at the CMO Inspired Conference at Sopwell House in St Albans.
This morning Mark and Adam spoke about 'Real and relevant content' and the importance of authentic storytelling within the industry.
EasyJet excitement 'takes off'
Filming has begun for our easyJet fly-on-the-wall documentary. This revolutionary series will be the first to use a mini fixed-rig in the cockpit following easyJet’s pilots-to-be as they take off for the very first time.
With women making up only 5% of pilots worldwide, the series will also include inspirational female role models and efforts to increase the proportion of female recruits.
Click below to read the full article.
ITN Productions 'Green' shoot
As a company we are conscious of how much waste can be created on a large commercial shoot.
With that in mind, click below to find out what our Advertising team decided to do to combat this on their most recent shoot.
Mel chats to Hugh Jackman
This week Mel chatted to Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart about 'Logan' and their final roles as Wolverine and Professor X.
Click below to see the full interview.
Second win for 'Interview with a murderer'
‘Interview with a Murderer’ achieved it's second win at the RTS Awards on Wednesday night for Best Home Current Affairs, alongside 7 other awards for ITN.
First Industry News programme launch of the year
The Industry News team launched their first programme of the year last night. A special preview launch event of ‘Vision for the Future’ for the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) took place at the Intercontinental London, Park Lane before the IMI Annual Dinner.
All guests, including participants of the programme were extremely positive about the programme and their experience with the ITN productions team.
To view the programme and find out more about IMI click below.
ITNP appointed as Host Broadcaster for IAAF World Relays
We're excited to announce that IAAF have appointed us as Host Broadcaster for the 2017 IAAF World Relays in The Bahamas!
Our live coverage of the IAAF World Relays will feature 16-18 cameras and will incorporate digital and social media coverage. We will also be providing an integrated live feed for international television and radio rights holders of the opening and closing ceremonies, all races and medal ceremonies.
Click below for more info. (© Getty Images for IAAF)
'Shannon Matthews: What happened next' documentary
The disappearance of Shannon Matthews was a story that first gripped and then appalled Britain. Nine years on, executive producers Ian Rumsey and Andy Dunn's documentary 'Shannon Matthews: What happened next' investigates the aftermath of one of Britain's most notorious crimes.
When aired, the documentary averaged 1.4 million viewers (peak at 1.6m), beating ITV, BBC2 & Channel 4 in the slot.
Click below for full article and where to view.
ITN Productions takes to The Oscars red carpet
Today was a momentous day for ITN Productions. We walked the red carpet of The Oscars for the first time, wondering if our Best Documentary Short Category nomination for WATANI: MY HOMELAND would come up trumps.
We didn't walk away with The Oscar in the end but this is another big milestone moment for us in growing our business, particularly in growing the business in the U.S.
Image: WATANI Executive Producer, Chris Shaw with wife Martha Kearney
'Murdered by my Fiance'
'Murdered by my Fiance' is an exclusive documentary following the investigation into the murder of Helen Bailey, and the conviction of Ian Stewart.
Airing Thursday 23 February at 10pm on Channel 5. Executive Producers: Ian Rumsey and Andy Dunn
Click below to read more about the twists and turns of this tragic tale.
What an Oscar means to an independent studio
Our M.D. Mark Browning talked to The Hollywood Reporter about our Oscar® nominated documentary film WATANI: MY HOMELAND and his U.S. expansion plans for the company.
"...this is another big milestone moment for us in growing the business, particularly in growing the business in the U.S."
Click below to find out why.
Using live / documentary-style production in video marketing
In this AMA article Mark Browning makes the case for applying video production skills used in news and documentaries to marketing.
The same storytelling used in news or other video formats can help authenticate marketing or branded content.
To read the whole article click below.
ITNP nominated for two RTS awards
Nominations for the RTS Television Journalism Awards have been announced and we are up for two categories!
Current Affairs - International nomination: 'Children on the Frontline'
Current Affairs - Home: 'Interview with a Murderer'
To view the full list click below.
'Interview with a Murderer' wins Best Doc
'Interview with a Murderer' won Best Documentary Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2017 last night. To view the documentary click below.
Also in the category were: 'Abused: The Untold Story', 'Behind Closed Doors', 'How to Die: Simon's Choice', 'The Murder of Sadie Hartley' and 'Swim the Channel'.
'WATANI: MY HOMELAND' nominated for Oscar®
ITN Productions is delighted to announce that 'WATANI: MY HOMELAND', a unique film documenting the refugee journey of one Syrian family, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.
Click below to find out more.
Birthday Shoot
When Industry News freelance reporter, Jon 'the voice of Siri' Briggs agreed to today's shoot, he told his producer that he was happy to be working on his birthday. He was teamed up with DOP David 'Rocksteadi' Crute only to discover that it was his birthday too!
The two birthday Boys gowned up for a photo whilst filming an innovative anesthesiology technique at Royal Union Hospital, Bath.
ITNP appoints first Head of Creative
ITN Productions has appointed Kathryn Dufty as the first Head of Creative of its advertising production business to further amplify the creative output of its TV commercials and branded content teams
Find out more about our new Head of Creative by clicking below.
'Going Back Giving Back' Recommissioned
This week we’ve begun work on a new series of Going Back Giving Back for the BBC, which has been re-commissioned for five further episodes. It’s succinctly summed up by the BBC as: A place for heart-warming stories and life-changing journeys.
We’re currently on the hunt for worthy beneficiaries and potential donors, please contact chris.dodd@itn.co.uk with your suggestions.
La La Land interview with Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling jokes that his friends have told him to stop playing the piano all the time and he'll maybe consider doing a stage version of La La Land. Interview by Melissa Nathoo, ITN Productions news presenter.
Click below to see full interview.
Seize the Holiday wins 'Campaign of the Year 2016'
#SiezeTheHoliday live ad for Virgin Holidays, created by AMV and produced by ITN Productions and HLA, beat off tough competition from Adidas and Channel 4 to take home the prize of ‘Campaign of the Year 2016’ by Marketing Week.
Click below for more info on #SiezeTheHoliday, the world's first live ad campaign.
'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' begins Monday
The 2 part documentary series 'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' begins this Monday on ITV at 9pm!
Becoming a pilot involves dedication and determination. Follow rookie pilots as they take their first steps from the flight school classroom to flying with hundreds of paying passengers on board.
IAAF partners with ITN Productions
ITN Productions has formed a joint venture company for Host Broadcasting and Media Production with the IAAF. The company will incorporate traditional and digital production and 24/7 storytelling.
ITN Productions will work with rights holders, event organisers, sponsors and athletes to ensure quality and consistency of production across the sport.
ITNP partners with LCCA for art exhibition
ITN Productions have entered into a new partnership with the London College of Contemporary Arts.
We have offered them an ‘exhibition space’ on one of the walls of our office and in return they will offer us art work from the students to be hung there on a quarterly rotation.
To learn more about the project click below.
'Be the Business' movement
ITNP Industry News have been supporting the Productivity Leadership Group, producing videos with Brand Ambassadors to spearhead the 'Be the Business' movement.
You can read all about it and register to be part of it by clicking here.
Or find out at what time of day successful industry icons, such Deborah Meaden and Matt Barbet, are most productive by clicking below.
'Children of Syria' nominations
‘Children of Syria’ has had a very successful week receiving two Emmy nominations for 'Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary' and 'Best Documentary'.
It has also been shortlisted for a Grierson Award in the ‘Best Documentary’ category.
Sarah Payne doc receives rave reviews
ITN Productions sensitive 1.5 hour documentary film 'Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story' received outstanding ratings and rave reviews.
"Sarah Payne: A Mother’s Story trod softly and let the terrible facts speak for themselves." The Telegraph
Watch Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story on Demand 5
'Brands as Broadcasters' by Simon Shelley
"I was recently invited to present at the Content Marketing Association ‘Digital Breakfast’ on the topic of ‘Brands as Broadcasters’.
This is the idea that brands are moving towards being broadcasters in their own right, utilising the democratisation of social channels to reach wide audiences with a vast array of content, not just about the brand, but often more about the world around that brand."
Click below to read the full article by Simon Shelley, Head of Industry News.
U.S. ITNP Industry News launch 'Trusted Leader'
Industry News US launched the AWHONN 'Trusted Leader' program last week in New Orleans.
Attended by over 3,500 nurses and healthcare professionals, the 'Trusted Leaders' programme highlights the valued and vital role of nurses working in women's health, obstetrics and neonatal nursing.
To watch the programme click below.
Excitement hits the offices of ITNP
We all know that in an office environment you can find yourself getting excited about things you normally wouldn't, such as a delivery of new stationery.
Well imagine the excitement levels in the ITNP offices today when our delivery of brand new office mugs arrived!
Each department of ITNP now has it's own branded mugs as part of the ITNP rebrand.
ITNP run the British 10K
ITN Productions ran the British 10K through the heart of the capital on yesterday, raising £1,700 for The Whitechapel Mission to help the homeless.
Congratulations to all who took part on such a hot day!
Mel meets Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead
Mel interviewed Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead about their new film 'Dunkirk' yesterday.
Did you know that they tried method acting with corned beef?
To watch the full interview click below.
'The Power of A' by Greg Melia CAE
The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has been advocating on behalf of the association community for nearly 100 years.
The heart of the initiative’s message is that associations make a difference in every corner of the US, and in every industry.
To read the full article by Greg Melia CAE click below.
ITNP Sport debuts as IAAF host broadcaster
Last weekend saw our debut outing as host broadcaster for the IAAF World Relay Championships in the Bahamas.
The competition took place over two days in Nassau, and saw some of the fastest athletes on the planet compete in teams for the coveted Golden Baton.
The revolutionary production included a Facebook Live Friday night preview show, and most importantly a superbly executed broadcast of all the races.
ITNP Sport attend the EFL Awards
Here's some of the ITNP Sport team looking glam at the EFL Awards.
The Football League Awards is an annual awards ceremony commemorating football-related people involved in the three divisions of the Football League.
ITNP Sport attend the BT Sport Industry Awards
Last night Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director, and Raj Mannick, Head of Sport, attended the BT Sport Industry Awards, the largest of its kind.
The Awards celebrate the best in the business and attracts sports stars, celebrities and senior figures from across the industry and beyond.
ITNP makes Realscreen's Global 100 List
We are delighted to find out that we've been included in Realscreen Magazine's Global 100 list.
Click below to see the full list.
Mel talks to Dave Bautista for ODE
Melissa Nathoo spoke to some of the cast of the new Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, this week.
Click below to see her interview with Dave Bautista who plays Drax.
Trump is TV doc gold dust
ITN Productions' editorial director, Chris Shaw, speaks to The Hollywood Reporter about Donald Trump.
He is "...gold dust for TV documentary producers".
To read the article click below.
Grand Opening of new ITNP Post Production
Last night saw the launch party to celebrate the grand opening of the new ITNP Post Production facilities.
80 people joined Post Production for a live DJ and lots of awesome tech demos.
'Alternative Election Night' success
ITNP have had a major victory with our overnight live election coverage for Channel 4 in the format of the 'Alternative Election Night', hosted by David Mitchell and (as the Telegraph described him) the man-stallion that is Jeremy Paxman.
With a tiny team and a modest budget we created a successful 10 hour long show.
Channel 4 said of it "Our show was a complicated mix of content and talent but felt brilliantly judged and balanced on air."
ITNP Industry News have been busy...
ITNP Industry News have been very busy week indeed with a whopping 3 programme launches in one week.
'The Future of the Single Market' for AmCham EU launched at the European Business Summit, 'The Changing Face of Retail' for BRC launched at Retail 2020 and 'Above and Beyond' launched for POLFED at the Police Federation Annual Conference 2017.
Crime documentary 'Murdered by My Daughter'
ITN productions continued its successful run of fast-turnaround crime documentaries for Channel 5 with yet another ratings success last night at 1.2 million viewers.
‘Murdered by My Daughter’ followed the case of Britain’s youngest double murderers – the 14 year old who killed her mother and sister with the help of her teenage boyfriend.
It’s the 12th crime documentary for Channel 5 so far this year.
Filming in Namibia
One of our broadcast producer's, Nathaniel, drew the short straw and was sent to the Namibian desert over the weekend to film with Angelina Jolie.
Despite being dedicated to her African conservation project she was still kind enough to fly Nat over the landscape in her friend's plane!
Click below to see some beautiful photo's from the shoot.
Sports look to data enrich the fan experience
“Producers are working out how to create more inventory for their clients" says Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director for ITNP Sport.
ITN Productions is testing a number of different “medical grade” sensors and devices and says it would assign a specialist to a future production to assist in the interpretation and presentation of the data on screen.
Data capture of athletes to innovate sporting events
ITN Productions is exploring ways of capturing telemetry from sensors worn by athletes and presenting the data to fans on digital platforms.
"We want to innovate in this area to provide a more indepth view of an event than ever before" says Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director.
To read the rest of this Broadcast article click below.
ITN Plotting British Invasion Into U.S. Market
“We’ve built a lot of our business plan on rapid U.S. growth. We have intentions to hire and employ a lot of extra head count in the next 18 months and set up offices in the east and west,” said Mark Browning, ITN Productions group managing director.
“For us, probably the single biggest and most exciting opportunity as a U.K. production company is working with U.S. networks and getting into the U.S. sector.”
ITNP sign digital production deal with ICC
ITNP has extended its partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide digital clip productions services to clip licensees for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Following a successful integration for the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, star players and key moments will be showcased in a variety of ways, from individual clips of in-match content to curated packages and highlights clips.
The Good, the Bad and the Hired
Thursday 'telly take-over'
This coming Thursday ITN Productions will be taking over your telly's with a programme triple whammy.
There will be 'On Benefits' at 8pm and 'Fritzl: What Happened Next' at 10pm on Channel 5. There is also 'Super Orgasm' at 10pm on Channel 4!
'Don't neglect sensitivity for speed' by Ian Rumsey
"Trust, tenacity and a talented team are key on a fast-turnaround doc" says Head of Topical Programmes, Ian Rumsey, in this article for Broadcast.
"Is it possible? Can you get anything exclusive? How quickly can you do it? These are the questions that prompt one of the most exciting forms of documentary-making in the business: the fast-turnaround."
Tami Hoffman joins ITNP News
Welcome to our new Head of News, Tami Hoffman. What a week to start, Election week!
Tami was previously an editor at Sky News.
Alternative Election Night
Tune in to Channel 4 tonight at 9pm for our 'Alternative Election Night', co-produced with Zeppatron.
Includes Jeremy Paxman, David Mitchell, Cathy Newman, Richard Osman, Romesh Ranganathan and more..
Realscreen award for 'Interview with a Murderer'
ITNP Television were delighted to have won the Crime & Investigation award at last nights Realscreen 2017 Awards for 'Interview With A Murderer'.
Adam at Butlins
The Advertising team have just come back from a 3 day shoot to create new idents for Butlins.
Here's our Head of Client Services, Adam Barnett, taking a moment from the shoot to spend some quality time with Butlins' Billy Bear.
Who did Mel meet this week?
This week our Mel got to chat with Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario, stars of the new 'Baywatch' movie.
She also interviewed 'Neighbours' legend Susan Kennedy and Rob Mills.
Click below to see her interview with the 'Baywatch' cast.
Broadcast award nomination for 'Camps to Champs'
ITNP Television have been nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award, in the 'Best Non-Scripted Online Short' category for 'Camps to Champs'.
'Camps to Champs' see Olympic athletes invite viewers to experience how sport can positively change lives.
Simon Shelley meets Prince Charles
Head of Industry News Production, Simon Shelley, was delighted to meet Prince Charles yesterday. Simon attended the College of Medicine event ‘Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality’ at the Kings Fund, as Industry News are currently working on a programme about the very same subject.
‘Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality’ is not about asking 'what’s the matter with someone?' but rather 'what matters to someone?' Prince Charles is a huge supporter of that work and we'll hopefully be interviewing him for the programme.
Focal Awards 2017 win for the archive team
Head of UK Sales, Simon Wood, and his archive footage team were awarded 'Footage Employee of the Year' at The Focal Awards last night. Simon accepted the award on behalf of his team.
'Going Back, Giving Back' is back!
Aled Jones returns for a new 5 part series of 'Going Back, Giving Back'. You can watch it every week day, starting this coming Monday on BBC1 at 9:30am.
'Soham Revisited: 15 Years On' documentary
It was a story that horrified the country. 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family BBQ to buy some sweets - but never came home.
To find out more about the 90 minute special documentary that's on tomorrow night click bellow.
ITNP Sport Football Tournament
After years of heartbreak the Sports team were finally crowned champions at this year’s ITNP Sport Football Tournament.
All proceeds from the tournament went to the charity Rethink Mental Illness, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, and former Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle was on hand to present the prize to the winning team, as well as taking the time to referee a few games.
'Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story'
‘Shannon Matthews: The mothers story’ is the following instalment to the successful Channel 5 documentary ‘Shannon Matthews: What happened next’.
It went out last night and will be aired again at 10pm this Sunday on My5.
Tune in to watch Karen explain her motives for the kidnap of her daughter.
Industry News shortlisted for the ‘International & European Association Awards’
Industry News found out this week that they have been shortlisted for a nomination in the ‘Best TV Video Channel category’ for the International & European Association Awards.
The Awards Ceremony takes place on Wednesday 3rd May in Austria as part of the Associations World Congress on 2 - 4 May.
Industry News - US first launch of the year
The Industry News team in the United States had their first launch of the year this weekend with ‘A Place for Living’, in partnership with ACHCA (American College of Health Care Administrators).
The programme was premiered at the ACHCA 51st Annual Convocation & Exposition in St Louis, Missouri. Things kicked off on Saturday with a short intro and presentation to the board. The programme was then officially launched during the opening session on Sunday, introduced by Cecilia Sepp CAE, President & CEO, ACHA.
Both the ACHCA and all participants were thrilled with the programme and launch. ‘A Place for Living’ can be viewed below.
Game on for remote production
Broadcast recently interviewed our Director of Sport, Alastair Waddington and our Chief Technology Officer, Bevan Gibson about the capabilities afforded to us by incoming IP-based technologies.
As host broadcaster for the IAAF World Relays this month we will be expanding our remote production model out to the Bahamas.
To find out more take a look at the article, click the link below.
Live commentary for International Champions Cup
The International Champions Cup (ICC) has commissioned ITN Productions’ Sport to provide live commentary for international broadcasters during the tournament.
Director Ben Holman joins ITN Productions
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ben Holman has joined the directors roster of ITN Productions Advertising division.
ITNP renews digital production partnership with International Cricket Council
ITN Productions’ sport team has renewed its partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide digital clip production services.
ITN Productions commissioned to make six series for audible
ITN Productions has been commissioned to produce six new podcasts for Audible, Amazon’s audio entertainment service, covering subjects ranging from tales of survival and success, to literary history and the future of technology.
ITN Productions to produce Channel 4's The Real Brexit Debate
The live, hour-long programme will see four high profile politicians reflecting the main divisions in the House of Commons on this issue – Theresa May’s Deal, Labour’s “Jobs First” offering, a harder Brexit and People’s Vote/Remain, just days before MP’s historic vote on 11th December.
Channel 5 Christmas Special Celebrates Tommy Cooper
Produced by ITN Productions, the affectionate look back at Tommy Cooper’s life and career is full of classic routines and sketches along with some rare gems from the archives.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline secure global exclusive from Emmy award-winning Channel 4 news filmmakers Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Emmy award-winning Channel 4 News filmmakers, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watt's feature documentary, For Sama, produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions, has been commissioned by Channel 4 and PBS Frontline, it was announced today.
ITN Productions Appoints Head of Development and Makes Internal Promotion
ITN Productions has appointed Georgina Madley as Head of Development and promoted Grace Dean to Head of Short Form, it was announced today.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline's "For Sama" wins Top Documentary award at SXSW Film Festival
Documentary feature grand jury prize went to “For Sama” directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline's "For Sama" Scoops another Award at SXSW Film Festival
Just days after winning the Grand Jury prize for Documentary Feature, “For Sama” won the Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival Awards in the US on Saturday night.
ITN Productions Expands Advertising Team With New Appointment
ITN Productions (ITNP) is expanding its Advertising team with the appointment of Ella Littlewood as Executive Producer and team lead, it was announced today.
ITN Productions Appoints New Commercial and OPS Head
Lawson will be responsible for ITN Productions Advertising, Industry News, Education, News and Archive businesses which produce a range of content for brands, businesses, trade associations, publishers, producers and broadcasters in the UK and around the world.
"For Sama” selected to screen at Cannes Film Festival
Channel 4 News and ITN Productions film one of five UK titles in Cannes line-up. For Sama, a documentary telling the story of one woman’s journey through love, motherhood, war and survival during five years of the Syrian conflict, has been selected to screen at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
ITN Productions, Lifetime/A&E Network, Nine Network and RTL Collaborate on Global Royal Documentary, Meghan & Harry: Baby Fever
ITN Productions has inked deals with Lifetime/A&E Network, Nine Network Australia and RTL Netherlands for a brand-new Royal documentary, Meghan & Harry: Baby Fever.
BBC One commissions Inside the Supermarket
BBC One has commissioned ITN Productions to produce a six-part series following 12 months in the life of Sainsbury’s - Britain’s oldest supermarket.
Channel 4 to Broadcast First Live Conservative Leadership Debate
ITN Productions is making the special 90 minute programme, Live: Britain’s Next PM - The C4 Debate, which will take place on Sunday, June 16that 6:30pm, after the first round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest.
'For Sama' Scoops Audience Award at Sheffield Doc Fest and Receives Special Mention in Grand Jury Award
The award, in memory of Dr Clifford Shaw, is voted for by the Sheffield Doc/Fest audience. It recognises the film that receives the highest audience vote during the festival. Audiences votes after two screenings where it received standing ovations and critical accolades.
ITN Productions nominated for Edinburgh TV Awards Production Company of the Year
Formed in 2010, ITN Productions is ITN’s Oscar-nominated, in-house production company producing nonfiction and current affairs content for UK broadcasters and networks around the world.
ITN Productions Charts River Thames Illumination
ITN Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to film one of the most ambitious public art projects ever attempted in the world – Illuminated River, a public artwork that will light up to 15 bridges on the River Thames...
ITN Productions Advertising & Adam&EveDDB Launch New Campaign For Esso
Esso has launched a new campaign this month produced by ITN Productions, Advertising and adam&eveDDB, which follows an inspirational, real-life father whose ultimate goal - as a double amputee - is to take part in one of the world's most prestigious and oldest active sports car races in 2022.
ITN Productions Advertising Relaunches Social Content Campaign for M&S Food
ITN Productions, Advertising, has been charged with creating and producing the social content for the new series, which features a celebrity tasting panel of Emma Willis, Amanda Holden, Paddy McGuinness and Rochelle Humes.
ITN’s Head of Post Production, Olly Strous explores the company's recent adoption of Sony’s Ci media cloud platform live at IBC 2019
In a panel interview live at IBC 2019, ITN’s Head of Post Production Olly Strous shared his unique insights on the company’s recent adoption of Sony’s Ci media cloud platform.
O2 and ITN Productions to capture England rugby fan reactions in first live TV advert to be powered by 5G
O2 and ITN Productions will create the world’s first live TV advert, powered by 5G, and aired live on ITV during the England match this Saturday.
Channel 5 to broadcast live Brexit debate featuring biggest opinion poll on Brexit since the EU referendum
This is the latest live debate ITN Productions has produced for Channel 5. Jeremy Vine also chaired Live Debate: Are Our Politicians Up To The Job? last month.
New Netflix originals docu-drama series Drug Lords coming soon...
ITN Productions' first Netflix series Drug Lords will be released globally on January 19th. This 8 part series charts the rise, reign and fall of the world's most notorious gangsters.
ITNP Sexism debate tops C5 suffrage season
C5 is planning a live debate on sexism in Britain, produced by ITN Productions, to spearhead a week of dedicated programming to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage.
Big Ben’s secrets revealed in new Channel 4 documentary
Big Ben: Saving the World’s Most Famous Clock goes behind-the-scenes as the Elizabeth Tower (fondly referred to as Big Ben) undergoes essential repairs.
Matalan Christmas Ad Campaign produced by ITN Productions
Matalan launched the Christmas season with a heart-warming and humorous new TV campaign. The hero 60 second commercial went live on 4th Nov during The X Factor on ITV.
ITN Productions to produce landmark royal documentary
Her Majesty The Queen and Sir David Attenborough are to appear together in a major ITN Productions documentary to be screened on ITV in 2018.
Sam Leadsom and Mark Fulton join ITNP in IAAF joint venture
Digiday UK go behind the scenes at ITNP
Digiday UK spent the day with us at ITN Productions to see what goes on behind the scenes.
To see the full article click below.
ITNP Post Production go Go Karting
Last night our post team went for a night of bonding at the Go Karting track in Shepherd's Bush.
There were bruised ribs and a few bruised egos but in the end everyone got to live out their Mario Kart fantasies and walked away winners.
Whitechapel Mission Breakfast Challenge
It was an early 5:45 am start for ten members of our team yesterday as they took part in the Whitechapel Mission Breakfast Challenge.
They prepared and cooked breakfast for approximately 300 people who may not have eaten for up to 24 hours.
It was a thoroughly rewarding experience for all involved.
'President Trump: Can he really win?'
We were excited to learn that our programme 'President Trump: Can he really win?' achieved 1.5 million viewers (peaking at 1.6 million) when it aired.
The programme also generated a lot of buzz on social media with lots of you wanting to have your say about the controversial figure.
ITN Productions Family Day
The ITN Productions family day was a chance for all of the different factions within ITN to come together (including family members) for a day of fun and games.
There was a Suzuki racing bug track, a Cadbury’s chocolate fountain, a Lego play-zone, a red carpet photo opportunity and much more.
One of the highlights of the day was Safari Pete’s wildlife show which allowed adults and children alike to get up close and personal with animals such as a crocodile, a meercat and a scorpion.
'Children on the Frontline' screened at UN Assembly
ITNP Television's programme 'Children on the Frontline - The Escape' was screened in front of 2500 diplomats and dignitaries at the UN General assembly hall in New York to mark World Humanitarian Day on August 19th.
ODN smashes their Facebook figures
Our Digital team hit record figures on Facebook this week with a heartwarming story about a dog named Nikki who became trapped when searching for food.
The clip reached 4 million people after being shared nearly 22 thousand times.
To see this video and more click below.
'Seize The Holiday' campaign with Virgin Holidays
ITN Productions and HLA joined forces to co-produce the world’s first live streamed global ad from 18 locations around the world for Virgin Holidays.
The 60 second advert aired during ITV’s X Factor on Saturday night, and required 19 simultaneous shots.
The live commercial was designed to show a UK audience that people just like them are experiencing their ideal holidays, at this very moment.
Click below to view.
Why live TV ads won’t work for every brand
As live TV ads become increasingly popular among marketers our Head of Commercials, Adam Barnett, talks to Marketing Week about how brands can make the most of the format – but warns it isn’t for everyone.
Construction Worker of The Year Awards
ITN Productions proudly sponsored the 'Construction Manager of the Year awards' last night.
Our Industry News team attended in their finery and were treated to a fantastic, sequin-filled evening.
The Head of Industry News, Simon Shelley (front left), presented an award and a teaser of their film 'Masterminds of Construction' was shown.
'Escape from ISIS' wins International Emmy
We couldn't be prouder - 'Escape From ISIS' has won an International Emmy.
"We're thrilled to win this Emmy for a second year running against stiff international competition. Reporter / producer Ed Watts and Exec producer George Waldrum did an amazing job with a very challenging subject but the real heroes are the extraordinary women who despite their appalling experience were willing to tell the world about their ordeal at the hands of ISIS." - Chris Shaw, Editorial Director.
'Travel Agents Taking Off' launches at ASTA 2016
Our USA Industry News team had a grand time premiering our new film 'Travel Agents Taking Off' at the ASTA Global Convention in Reno last night.
The programme, featuring an interview with travel personality Samantha Brown, was very well received.
ITNP Advertising team win gold at the CMA Awards
We couldn't be prouder of our Advertising team for winning gold last night at The CMA International Content Marketing Awards 2016. The branded content they created for Barclays came top in the category for 'Best Finance' film.
Click below to view the video of last nights events.
Commercials team wins big at Media Week Awards
The Commercials team attended the Media Week Awards 2016 last night in their finery.
They took home a whopping four awards; the gold award for their ‘ITV with #suzukisaturdays and Ant & Dec’, ‘ITV with The Woodland Trust: Discover the World on your desktop’ and best use of content for ‘The 7Stars and ITV for #suzukisaturdays’.
They also won a bronze award for ‘ITV with Camelot’s Play Makes It Possible’.
'WATANI' Oscar and Prix Europa success
The ITN Productions documentary 'WATANI: MY HOMELAND' has been shortlisted for the Documentary Shorts category of The Oscars 2017. It has also won the Prix Europa award for Best European TV programme of the year about cultural diversity.
Marcel Mettelsiefen's unique documentary follows a Syrian family over three traumatic years, from the ruins of their life in Aleppo, to beginning their new lives in Germany.
'Behind the scenes' of our Jamie Oliver interview
Here's a little sneak-peak behind the scenes of our Jamie Oliver interview on the shoot of our new Industry News programme 'Championing the Public's Health'.
The programme launches tonight at the RSPH awards in front of key public health leaders.
ITNP Industry News launch at RSPH awards
Following on from 2015’s ‘Improve and Protect’ programme, RSPH and ITN Productions partnered again this year to produce a programme called ‘Championing the Public’s Health’.
This was launched last night at the Royal Society for Public Health Awards. The programme explores some of the UK’s major public health challenges and the initiatives being taken to tackle them.
Watch the full programme here.
Children on the Frontline wins AIB award
We are delighted to have won an award at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards last night.
Our documentary 'Children on the Frontline: The Escape' came top in it's nominated category for International Current Affairs.
Take a look at the trailer here.
ITN lands Easyjet access
ITN Productions has landed access to Easyjet and will follow trainee pilots as they take off for the first time in a three-part documentary series for ITV.
It will follow pilots as they begin training and take their debut solo flight, their first passenger flight and track the ups and downs of mastering take-off and landing.
Melissa meets The Cookie Monster
Last week our Digital News reporter Melissa Nathoo was lucky enough to meet The Cookie Monster!
Click here to watch them boogie to 'Can't Stop the Feeling' by Justin Timberlake.
On Set with the ITNP Advertising team
It’s been a busy time for the Branded Content team who were on a two day shoot last week for Barclays combining three locations across London.
They put the cast through their paces literally, forcing them to deliver lines whilst on the treadmill – multitasking at its finest!
ITNP is shortlisted for the Broadcast Awards 2017
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Documentary about Big Ben announced
The House of Commons has now announced that we will be making a series of unique programmes for Channel 4 which will document the epic transformation of the Elizabeth Tower, the Great Clock and the Great Bell, also known as Big Ben.
On set for The Christmas Channel
Filming and editing is now complete for the Jerusalem Productions' Christmas campaign 2016 (formerly known as Nativity Factor).
Our Head of Ventures, Duncan (see photo), has been working alongside a team of specialist Christian film makers on two short films for YouTube.
Click here to see the first film and here to see the second film.
'Healthy Communities, Healthy People' launches
Today Industry News launched their latest programme 'Healthy Communities, Healthy People' at the NHS Alliance Health Creation day. The programme looks at every aspect of health and social care and how we can improve peoples health and well being across the entire population.
Click below to take a look at the trailer.
ITNP NewsXchange Breakfast Event
The ITN Productions news team held a breakfast event for our broadcast and digital news clients at this year’s NewsXchange conference, in the DR Koncerthuset.
This year's NewsXchange saw opening speech from Ulrik Haagerup, Director of News at DR TV, followed by a keynote from Nigel Farage. Other noted speakers included Patrick Worrall of Channel 4 News, along with Patrick Walker of Facebook.
Camps to Champs Premiere
'Camps to Champs: The Power of Sport for the Displaced' launches with a premiere event at the ICA tonight. The Olympic Channel Original Series follows Olympic heroes as they visit refugee camps and areas for displaced people to see how sport can positively change lives.
The episode will go live at 7.30pm, directly after the screening, at www.olympicchannel.com and further episodes will be released weekly for the next three Thursdays.
Children on the Frontline wins award at Rory Peck and FPA
We are very proud to be able to congratulate Marcel Mettelsiefen and our Broadcast team on their continued awards success for 'Children on the Frontline: The Escape'. Last night it won a Rory Peck award and the FPA voted it TV Doc / Feature Story of the year. Marcel also won FPA's Journalist of the Year.
Click below to view the trailer.
Double win for Escape from ISIS
'Escape from ISIS' has achieved a double win for the Broadcast team by winning a Rory Peck and a Columbia duPont Journalism Award.
To find out more about the duPont award winners click below.
Bake Off's Andrew Smyth joins Industry News
Industry News is feeling festive this week after filming with engineer and Bake Off finalist Andrew Smyth for the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Andrew put both of his skill-sets to good use by showing us how to engineer a Christmas gingerbread house.
ITN Productions ranked 21st out of 100
We are delighted to have been ranked 21st in Televisual's annual 'Top 100 Production Companies' yearly listing, published at Edinburgh Television Festival.
We also placed highly within a number of individual specialisms such as 6th for entertainment, 5th for popular factual and 6th for specialist factual.
The Edinburgh Television Festival
At ITN Productions we’re all about new emerging talent.
With that in mind our Group MD Mark Browning spoke in a panel discussion at the Edinburgh TV Festival about the success of apprenticeship schemes in delivering new industry talent and our Editorial Director Chris Shaw chaired a talent scheme session from 2016’s Ones to Watch (the Festival’s charitable talent scheme for emerging talent).
Overall it was a hugely interesting and enjoyable festival and we were delighted to have been nominated for 2 awards at the festival.
ITNP News heads back from the Rio Olympics
After a few eventful weeks at the Olympic Games our News and Sports teams are on their way home from Rio. One of the many highlights for them was hosting Mo Farah's wife and daughter for an interview on their rooftop terrace.
ITNP Industry News attend ASAE Exposition
ITNP Industry News have been out in the US attracting new Associations at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Salt Lake City.
The cupcakes on their stand went down a treat with attendees and more importantly they met Kevin Bacon!
ITNP Sport looks to rights-holders outside UK
Alastair Waddington, Director of Sport Production, talks with rights-holders outside the UK.
Check out the full article below.
'Bridging the video chasm' by Greg Melia, CAE
By 2020 video will account for 82% of all consumer internet traffic. Find out how ITN Productions Industry News can help Associations make the leap to video.
'Escape from ISIS' nominated for International Emmy
'Dispatches: Escape from ISIS' has received a nomination for the Current Affairs category at the prestigious International Emmy Awards 2016.
The documentary exposes the brutal treatment of the estimated four million women living under the rule of the so-called Islamic State.
The EFL season kicks off
The ITNP sports team were on site with camera's in hand to capture the first game of the EFL season between Fulham and Newcastle.
There's nothing quite like the smell of a freshly mown football pitch!
The Rio 2016 Olympics are here
Our sports team has been busy in Rio creating digital coverage of the Olympic Games for SNTV and for anyone wishing to broadcast live from the Olympics, our news teams are over there now offering quality broadcast facilities.
To book your spot email rio2016@itn.co.uk.
Grierson Award nomination
Starting the week with good news - we’ve been shortlisted in the Grierson Awards Best Documentary for Current Affairs category for 'Dispatches: Escape from Isis'.
GB Athletes & ITN Source News prepare for Rio
As the excitement to the Olympics rises, Jennifer Cordingley caught up with Mo Farah & the GB athletics team when they brought the spirit of Rio to London.
Don’t forget our ITN Source News team are setting up broadcast facilities in Rio, so make sure you’ve booked your spot to broadcast live from the games by emailing rio2016@itn.co.uk
Industry News & the IET
Industry News joined forces with the IET for their Open House initiative to get kids thinking about feats of engineering and technology.
They learned all about the VR studio wearing ‘the cloak of invisibility’ and got the opportunity to present the weather with ITV London presenter Helen Plint.
'I am Team GB' gets Ad of the Day
Our Commercials team are delighted to have been awarded 'Ad of the week' in The Drum for their 'I Am Team GB' ad campaign, created in collaboration with ITV Creative, ITV AdVentures and the National Lottery.
ITN Productions won the contract to produce The Wright Stuff
ITN Productions has picked up a multi-year contract to produce Channel 5's long-running current affairs format The Wright Stuff, beginning January 2018.
After The News
This week we launched our new series After The News, on every weeknight after ITV News at Ten for the next 4 weeks. The series, hosted by Emma Barnett and Nick Ferrari, debates Britain’s biggest talking points featuring a plethora of high-profile guests from news, politics, and popular culture.
3 programmes, 1 night and 20% of total TV audience
Last night 3 ITNP programmes were broadcast simultaneously on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. During this time 20% of the total TV audience were watching ITNP shows, equating to around 2.5M viewers. The shows include; 'After The News' for ITV, 'Trump & Russia: Sex, Spies and Scandal' for Channel 4 and 'Becky Watts: Killed for Kicks' for Channel 5.
Stephen Fry recording the voiceover for easyJet: Inside The Cockpit
Stephen Fry came in yesterday to record the voiceover for the 3rd episode of our EasyJet series Inside the Cockpit. The programme aired as a two-parter on ITV to fantastic reviews and ratings. It is in the top three of most watched documentaries on ITV this year. It’s now going to MIPCOM 2017 for international sales as a three-parter and is a Hot Pick for the Festival.
It’s still available on the ITV Hub if you missed it first time round.
Emmy Award Win for ITN Productions 'Children of Syria'
Children of Syria won Emmy Award for Best Current Affairs Documentary, beating competition from HBO, NBC and Netflix. This is our third Emmy win.. 2 years ago the prequel Children on the Frontline won an International Emmy Award, and we repeated the achievement last year with Escape from Isis. Over the past 3 years this body of work has picked up around 25 gongs including 2 Baftas, 3 Emmys, The Prix D’Italia and an Oscar nomination for the film adaptation.
I Am Team GB wins BIG at The Media Week Awards
We're on a roll.. ITN Productions' advertising campaign I Am Team GB, produced for ITV Adventures, won a Gold, Silver, Bronze and the biggy.. The Grand Prix at the Media Week Awards 2017. That’s our second Grand Prix for ITV in the last few years! I Am Team GB was produced in partnership with ITV Creative and Art & Graft.
ITNP receives SIX nominations to the CMA Awards
ITN Productions Advertising has been nominated for not one, not two but SIX Content Marketing Association Awards for our work with Barclays, Matalan and REED.
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Weather doesn’t stop the food fest fun as thousands flocked to Nelson
The wet and windy weather on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 September wasn’t enough to stop the Nelson Food and Drink Festival fun, as thousands flocked to the town for the annual event, bringing their brollies and wellies!
This year was the first ever year the event took place over the course of two days, thanks to Gold Sponsors, Pendle Rise Shopping Centre; Silver Sponsors, Oddie’s; organisers, Scott Dawson Advertising; as well as unreserved support from Pendle Borough Council and Nelson Town Council.
Children danced in the rain to musical performances from the Sambafriq band and visitors were treated to live cookery demonstrations from celebrity chef, Richard Fox.
Around 50 stalls were present at the festival selling a range of delightful delicacies from across the globe including cakes, spicy Spanish tapas, authentic Asian curries, German sausages, cheese and churros, and so much more!
Zafar Ali, Nelson Town Council Chairman wouldn’t have missed the festival for the world:
“It’s actually my wedding day today! But luckily the ceremony isn’t until later, so I could experience the food and drink festival first. I love it, I have been every year and wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
It may be raining but I have my extra-large golf brolly to hand and will be sampling the stalls. Its Nelson Town Council’s 10th anniversary today too so it’s an extra proud day for me, we fully support this event for the town and its brilliant to see so many people are here being part of it.”
Cllr. James Starkie and Janet Starkie; Mayor and Mayoress of Pendle, attended the celebrations, arriving in style on a vintage red double-decker bus.
Cllr. Starkie said:
“Both myself and Janet are locals, born here in Nelson and it’s wonderful to be here seeing it thriving. Today has been a particular treat and worth getting up early for, arriving on the vintage bus; I just wish the journey was longer – it really was fantastic!”
Opening the event Cllr. Starkie added:
“The festival is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the food, drink and entertainment from different cultures around the world, it’s also a showcase for local businesses and local produce. I would like to thank Pendle Council and Nelson Town Council for backing the event; to our Gold Sponsor Pendle Rise Shopping Centre and our silver sponsor, Oddie’s, thank you for supporting the festival. To Scott Dawson Advertising, thank you for doing all the behind the scenes work to make this event possible. Thank you all for being here, it’s a fantastic display of what Nelson has to offer.”
Zahida Shamin, Events Director at Scott Dawson Advertising said:
“Today wouldn’t have been possible without our sponsors, so a huge thankyou to them. Also, a huge thankyou to the community of Nelson for coming into the town in the masses with big smiles, rain or shine. It’s brilliant to see the community supporting each other and enjoying themselves. This year was the 4th Nelson Food and Drink Festival and also the 10th Anniversary for Nelson Town Council. We all had a brilliant day!”
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Title: Strikeouts
Subject: Ozzie Smith, Jack Dunn (baseball), Carl Mays, Rick Sutcliffe, Bob Turley, Harry Brecheen, Alex Carrasquel, Mike Garcia (baseball, born 1923), Tony Castillo (pitcher), Les Straker
This article is about baseball. For striking out a court case, see motion to dismiss. For the typographical mode indicating deleted text, see strikethrough.
In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike-out (denoted by K)[1] occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during an at bat. It is a type of out in most circumstances. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters.
Although strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher, it is recognized that the style of swing that generates a home run also leaves batters somewhat susceptible to striking out. Some of the greatest home run hitters of all time – such as Reggie Jackson and Sammy Sosa – were notorious for striking out.
3 Jargon and slang
4 More than three strikeouts in an inning
5 Strikeout records
5.1 Pitchers
5.2 Batters
A pitched ball is ruled a ball by the umpire if the batter did not swing at it and, in that umpire's judgment, it does not pass through the strike zone. Any pitch at which the batter swings or, that in that umpire's judgment passes through the strike zone, is ruled a strike. Each ball and strike affects the count, which is incremented for each pitched ball with the exception of a foul ball on any count with two strikes. That is, a third strike may only occur by the batter swinging and missing at a pitched ball, or the pitched ball being ruled a strike by the umpire with no swing by the batter. A pitched ball that is struck by the batter with the bat on any count, and is not a foul ball or foul tip, is in play.
A pitcher receives credit for (and a batter is charged with) a strikeout on any third strike, but a batter is out only if one of the following is true:
The third strike is pitched and caught in flight by the catcher (including foul tips);
On any third strike, if a baserunner is on first and there are zero or one outs;
The third strike is bunted foul and is not caught by a fielder.
Thus, it is possible for a batter to strike out, but still become a runner and reach base safely if the catcher is unable to catch the third strike cleanly, and he then does not either tag out the batter or force him out at first base. In Japan, this is called furinige (振り逃げ?), or "swing and escape". In Major League Baseball, it is known as an uncaught third strike. When this happens, a strikeout is recorded for both the pitcher and the batter, but no out is recorded. Because of this, a pitcher may occasionally be able to record more than three strikeouts in one half-inning.
In baseball scorekeeping, a swinging strikeout is recorded as a K, or a K-S. A strikeout looking (where the batter does not swing at a pitch that the umpire then calls strike three) is often scored with a backward K, and sometimes as a K-L, CK, or Kc (the 'c' for 'called' strike). Despite the scorekeeping custom of using "K" for strikeout, "SO" is the official abbreviation used by Major League Baseball.[2]
"K" is still commonly used by fans and enthusiasts for purposes other than official record-keeping. One baseball ritual involves fans attaching a succession of small "K" signs to the nearest railing, one added for every strikeout notched by the home team's pitcher. The "K" may be placed backward in cases where the batter strikes out looking, just as it would appear on a scorecard. Virtually every televised display of a high-strikeout major league game will include a shot of a fan's strikeout display, and if the pitcher continues to strike out batters, the display may be shown following every strikeout.
The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist who is widely credited as the originator of the box score and the baseball scorecard. As is true in much of baseball, both the box score and scorecard remain largely unchanged to this day. Chadwick decided to use "K", the last letter in "struck", since the letter "S" was used for "sacrifice." Chadwick was responsible for several other scorekeeping conventions, including the use of numbers to designate player positions.[3]
Those unaware of Chadwick's contributions have speculated that "K" was derived from the last name of 19th century pitcher Matt Kilroy. If not for the evidence supporting Chadwick's earlier use of "K", this explanation would be reasonable. Kilroy raised the prominence of the strikeout, setting an all-time single-season record of 513 strikeouts in 1886, only two years after overhand pitching was permitted. His record, however, is limited to its era since the pitcher's mound was only 50 feet (15 m) from the batter during that season. It was moved to its current distance of 60'6" in 1893. The modern record (1901–present) is 383 strikeouts, held by Nolan Ryan, one better than Sandy Koufax's 382.
For 55 years, Walter Johnson held the career strikeout record, at 3,508. That record fell in 1982 to Nolan Ryan, who was then passed by Steve Carlton, before Ryan took the career strikeout record for good at 5,714.
Early rules stated that "three balls being struck at and missed and the last one caught, is a hand-out; if not caught is considered fair, and the striker bound to run." The modern rule has changed very little. The addition of the called strike came in 1858.
In 1880, the rules were changed to specify that a third strike had to be caught on the fly. A later adjustment to the dropped third strike rule specified that a batter is automatically out when there are fewer than two out and a runner on first base. In 1887, the number of strikes for an out was changed to four, but it was promptly changed back to three the next season.
Jargon and slang
A swinging strikeout is often called a whiff, while a batter who is struck out by a fastball is often said to have been blown away. A batter who strikes out on a swung third strike is said to have fanned (as in a fanning motion), whereas if he takes a called third strike it is called a punchout (describing the plate umpire's punching motion on a called third strike).
But sometimes these descriptive words are used generally as synonyms for strikeouts, irrespective of whether they were swinging or looking (e.g. Tim Lincecum has punched out nine batters tonight or Ryan Howard has been fanned six times in this series).
On a called third strike, it is said that the batter was caught looking, or that he looked at a strike. Typically, a called third strike can be somewhat more embarrassing for a batter, as it shows that he was either fooled by the pitcher or, even worse, had a moment of hesitation.
For example, Carlos Beltran was caught looking at strike 3 to end the 2006 NLCS, and the season, for the New York Mets. Sports commentators have also been known to refer to it as browsing if the batter did not move his bat at all.
A pitcher is said to strike out the side when he retires all three batters in a half-inning by striking them out. This term is also used when all three outs were caused by strike outs, regardless of how other batters in the inning fared. A batter that takes the third strike looking, especially on a breaking pitch like a slider or a curveball that appears to be out of the strike zone but drops in before he can get the bat off his shoulders, can be said to have been frozen.
In slang, when a batter strikes out three times in a game, he is said to have completed a hat trick. If he strikes out four times, it is called a golden sombrero. He receives a platinum sombrero if he strikes out five times, and this dishonor is also known as the Olympic Rings.
Striking out six times is a rare occurrence, which in the history of major league play has only occurred in games that went to extra innings, with Sam Horn of the Baltimore Orioles being one of the few to do this. The slugger's then-teammate, pitcher Mike Flanagan, told reporters after that 1991 event that six strikeouts would thereafter be known as a Horn. He added that if anyone ever strikes out seven times in one game, it will be a Horn of Plenty.
Some pitchers who specialize in strikeouts have acquired nicknames including the letter "K." Dwight Gooden was known as "Doctor K" (back-referencing basketball star Julius Erving a.k.a. "Dr. J"). Francisco Rodriguez is known as "K-Rod."[4] Roger Clemens has taken the "K" name to an extreme by naming his four sons Koby, Kory, Kacy, and Kody. Tim Lincecum is nicknamed "The Say 'K' Kid", referencing former Giants player Willie Mays.
Hall of Fame strikeout artist Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers coincidentally has a last name starting with "K", and in his call of the pitcher's perfect game in 1965, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully commented that Koufax's name "will always remind you of strikeouts." Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is known as "Dice-K", a term which was used as a pronunciation guide for his name when he first arrived in MLB.
More than three strikeouts in an inning
If a third strike is not caught cleanly by the catcher, it is still recorded as a strikeout for both the pitcher and the batter. Under certain situations, however, the batter is not ruled out and the play is still alive. This occurs only if both of the following are true:
First base is not occupied or there have already been two outs recorded.
The catcher fails to cleanly catch the ball that led to the third strike.[5]
The batter becomes a batter-runner and may proceed to first base as soon as he gets three strikes and the pitch is not caught in flight by the catcher. If he makes it to first base without being tagged out or thrown out, the out is not recorded. Since a strikeout is awarded in such cases while the play does not result in an out, it is possible for a pitcher to record more than three strikeouts in one standard half-inning. Sixty-six pitchers have recorded four strikeouts in one inning in Major League history.[6] The first Major League player credited with this rare feat was Ed "Cannonball" Crane of the New York Giants on October 4, 1888.[7]
Prior to 1960, the event was extremely rare, having taken place only eight times.[8] Although more common since then, it remains one of the most rare single-game achievements. Chuck Finley accomplished the feat on May 12 and August 15, 1999, with the Anaheim Angels and again on April 16, 2000, with the Cleveland Indians. Pete Richert of the Los Angeles Dodgers is the only pitcher to do it in his MLB debut (April 12, 1962, against the Cincinnati Reds).[9] Steve Delabar struck out 4 men in the 10th inning, and recorded the win in a 3-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on August 13, 2012, making him the first pitcher in major league history to record four strikeouts in an extra inning.[10]
The most recent player to achieve the feat is Anibal Sanchez of the Detroit Tigers in the first inning of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox on October 12, 2013.[11]
Five strikeouts in one inning has never occurred in a regulation Major League Baseball game. It has occurred at least three times at the minor league level. Mike Schultz of the Lancaster JetHawks struck out five batters in one inning on July 16, 2004, and Garrett Bauer of the Rockford RiverHawks struck out five batters in one inning on July 1, 2008.[12]
Houston Astros pitcher Joe Niekro struck out five Minnesota Twins batters in the first inning of an exhibition spring training game,[13] April 7, 1976 at New Orleans. Niekro's catcher, Cliff Johnson, was charged with five passed balls in the inning.[14] Exhibition games are not recorded in official statistics.
Strikeout records
The Top 20 Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders (active players in bold) (since 1901):[15]
Nolan Ryan – 5,714
Randy Johnson – 4,875
Roger Clemens – 4,672
Steve Carlton – 4,136
Bert Blyleven – 3,701
Tom Seaver – 3,640
Don Sutton – 3,574
Gaylord Perry – 3,534
Walter Johnson – 3,509
Greg Maddux – 3,371
Phil Niekro – 3,342
Ferguson Jenkins – 3,192
Pedro Martínez – 3,154
Bob Gibson – 3,117
Curt Schilling – 3,116
John Smoltz – 3,084
Jim Bunning – 2,855
Mickey Lolich – 2,832
Mike Mussina – 2,813
Cy Young – 2,803
Active pitchers with over 2,000 K's:
CC Sabathia – 2,389
A.J. Burnett – 2,180
Roy Halladay – 2,117
Ryan Dempster – 2,075
Johan Santana – 1,988
The Top 10 Major League Baseball career strikeout-per-nine innings leaders (since 1900, minimum 1,000 IP):[16]
Randy Johnson – 10.61
Kerry Wood – 10.32
Pedro Martínez – 10.04
Tim Lincecum – 9.63
Nolan Ryan – 9.55
Max Scherzer – 9.44
Trevor Hoffman – 9.36
Sandy Koufax – 9.28
Óliver Pérez – 9.22
Clayton Kershaw – 9.20
The Top 5 Major League Baseball single season strikeout-per-nine innings leaders (since 1900, minimum 1.0 IP per team game):
Randy Johnson, 2001 – 13.41
Pedro Martínez, 1999 – 13.20
Kerry Wood, 1998 – 12.58
The Top 10 Major League Baseball single season strikeout totals (since 1900):[17]
Nolan Ryan 383 1973 California Angels AL 8
Sandy Koufax 382 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 9
Randy Johnson 372 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks NL 11
Nolan Ryan 367 1974 California Angels AL 14
Rube Waddell 349 1904 Philadelphia Athletics AL 18
Bob Feller 348 1946 Cleveland Indians AL 19
The Top 10 Major League Baseball single season strikeout totals (all time):[18]
Matt Kilroy 513 1886 Baltimore Orioles AA 1
Toad Ramsey 499 1886 Louisville Colonels AA 2
Hugh Daily 483 1884 Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies/Washington Nationals UA 3
Dupee Shaw 451 1884 Detroit Wolverines/Boston Reds NL/UA 4
Old Hoss Radbourn 441 1884 Providence Grays NL 5
Charlie Buffington 417 1884 Boston Beaneaters NL 6
Guy Hecker 385 1884 Louisville Eclipse AA 7
Bill Sweeney 374 1884 Baltimore Monumentals UA 10
Progression of major league strikeout record for one nine-inning game, regular season (partial listing):
18 – Dupee Shaw, Boston Reds (UA), July 19, 1884;[19] and by Henry Porter, Milwaukee Brewers (UA), October 3, 1884.[19][20]
Modern era:
16 – Rube Waddell, July 29, 1908
18 – Bob Feller, October 2, 1938; matched by Sandy Koufax, August 31, 1959, and again on April 24, 1962; and by Don Wilson, July 14, 1968.
19 – Steve Carlton, September 15, 1969; matched by Tom Seaver, April 22, 1970; and Nolan Ryan, August 12, 1974.
20 – Roger Clemens, April 29, 1986 – matched by Clemens again, September 18, 1996; by Kerry Wood, May 6, 1998; by Randy Johnson, May 8, 2001 (the first nine innings of an extra-inning game); and by Los Angeles Angels (five pitchers), September 25, 2012
Note: Tom Cheney struck out 21 batters overall, in a 16-inning game, September 12, 1962. He had 13 strikeouts through the first nine innings.
See also List of pitchers who have struck out 18 or more batters in a nine-inning MLB game
Progression of strikeout record for one game, World Series:
10 – 1903 (first modern Series), Game 1, Deacon Phillippe
11 – 1903, Game 2, Bill Dinneen
12 – 1906, Game 3, Ed Walsh
13 – 1929, Game 1, Howard Ehmke
14 – 1953, Game 3, Carl Erskine
15 – 1963, Game 1, Sandy Koufax
17 – 1968, Game 1, Bob Gibson
Progression of major league strikeout record for a relief pitcher, regular season (partial listing)[21]
15 - Walter Johnson, July 25, 1915
16 - Randy Johnson, July 18, 2001
The Top 15 Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders:
Reggie Jackson – 2,597
Jim Thome – 2,548
Sammy Sosa – 2,306
Adam Dunn – 2,220
Alex Rodriguez – 2,075
Andrés Galarraga – 2,003
José Canseco – 1,942
Willie Stargell – 1,936
Mike Cameron – 1,901
Mike Schmidt – 1,883
Fred McGriff – 1,882
Tony Pérez – 1,867
Bobby Abreu - 1,819
Dave Kingman – 1,816
Manny Ramirez - 1,813
Active batters with over 1,400 K's:
Bobby Abreu – 1,819
Derek Jeter – 1,753
Andruw Jones – 1,748
Alfonso Soriano – 1,732
Carlos Peña – 1,566
Jason Giambi – 1,560
Torii Hunter – 1,547
David Ortiz – 1,474
Carlos Beltran – 1,427
Scott Rolen – 1,410
Ryan Howard – 1,401
Single season strikeout records (batters):
1 Mark Reynolds Arizona Diamondbacks 223 2009
2 Adam Dunn Chicago White Sox 222 2012
3 Chris Carter Houston Astros 212 2013
5 Drew Stubbs Cincinnati Reds 205 2011
7 Ryan Howard Philadelphia Phillies 199 2007
Ryan Howard Philadelphia Phillies 199 2008
Adam Dunn Washington Nationals 199 2010
Chris Davis Baltimore Orioles 199 2013
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Spectrum of pediatric brain tumors in India: A multi-institutional study
Ayushi Jain1, Mehar C Sharma1, Vaishali Suri1, Shashank S Kale2, AK Mahapatra2, Medha Tatke3, Geeta Chacko4, Ashish Pathak5, Vani Santosh6, Preeta Nair7, Nuzhat Husain8, Chitra Sarkar1
1 Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
2 Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
3 Department of Pathology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India
4 Department of Pathology, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India
5 Department of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
6 Department of Pathology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
7 Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai, India
8 Department of Pathology, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), Lucknow, India
Date of Submission 24-Sep-2010
Date of Decision 03-Nov-2010
Date of Acceptance 27-Dec-2010
Date of Web Publication 7-Apr-2011
Chitra Sarkar
Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi - 110 029
Background : Till date there is no published multi-institutional data regarding the epidemiological profile of pediatric brain tumors in India. Aim : The present retrospective study analyses the histological spectrum of pediatric age group brain tumors in seven tertiary care hospitals in India. Material and Methods : Data regarding frequencies of various primary brain tumors (diagnosed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification), in 3936 pediatric patients (<18 yrs of age), was collected from seven tertiary care hospitals in India.Results : The most common primary pediatric brain tumors were astrocytic tumors (34.7%), followed by medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuro-ectodermal tumors (22.4%), craniopharyngiomas (10.2%) and ependymal tumors (9.8%). The most common astrocytic tumor was pilocytic astrocytoma. In comparison to adults, oligodendrogliomas and lymphomas were rare in children. Conclusions : Our study is the first such report on the histological spectrum of brain tumors in children in India. Except for a slightly higher frequency of craniopharyngiomas, the histological profile of pediatric brain tumors in India is similar to that reported in the Western literature.
Keywords: Astrocytoma, craniopharyngioma, epidemiology, medulloblastoma, pediatric brain tumor, World Health Organization classification
Jain A, Sharma MC, Suri V, Kale SS, Mahapatra A K, Tatke M, Chacko G, Pathak A, Santosh V, Nair P, Husain N, Sarkar C. Spectrum of pediatric brain tumors in India: A multi-institutional study. Neurol India 2011;59:208-11
Jain A, Sharma MC, Suri V, Kale SS, Mahapatra A K, Tatke M, Chacko G, Pathak A, Santosh V, Nair P, Husain N, Sarkar C. Spectrum of pediatric brain tumors in India: A multi-institutional study. Neurol India [serial online] 2011 [cited 2020 Jan 19];59:208-11. Available from: http://www.neurologyindia.com/text.asp?2011/59/2/208/79142
Tumors of the nervous system are the second most common childhood tumor after leukemia, [1] constituting approximately 35% of all childhood malignancies and remain the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children. [2] Childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors differ significantly from adult brain tumors in reference to their sites of origin, clinical presentation, tendency to disseminate early, histological features and their biological behavior. Whereas in adults the predominant CNS tumor types are metastases, glial neoplasms and meningiomas, in children, besides gliomas, other major tumor types including primitive embryonal neoplasms are also common. In recent times, an enhanced understanding of these biological differences between adult and childhood CNS neoplasms has led to investigations in distinct molecular and genetic pathways and therapeutic approaches for each tumor type. However, for the necessary research required in the field of pediatric brain tumors, a thorough knowledge of the worldwide incidence and distribution of the various neoplasms is essential. There are several reports regarding the epidemiology of CNS tumors in children in the Western literature. [1],[3] However, due to scarcity of reliable data collection and monetary resources, information on the demographic profiles of these tumors is scant in the developing world, where due to a large population load the burden of such tumors is high. Specifically, till date, there is no published database on the profile of pediatric brain tumors in India, which is indeed a difficult and marathon task. The present study therefore attempts to profile the hospital-based prevalence of pediatric CNS tumors (according to the WHO classification [4] ) at seven large centers in India having excellent neurosurgical and neuropathology facilities. The data has been compared with international statistics from population- and hospital-based series.
Data on CNS tumors in the pediatric age group (<18 years of age) was collected from the neuropathology records of seven tertiary hospitals in India, which included GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi; Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore; Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh; National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore; Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai; Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), Lucknow, and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The time periods for which data was available differed among the institutes. Primary tumors of the brain were included, while metastatic tumors and vascular malformations were excluded. The cases were diagnosed and characterized where necessary using immunohistochemistry and categorized according to the most recent WHO classification prevalent at the time of diagnosis. [4] With these criteria, a total of 3936 pediatric brain tumors were collected and analyzed to assess breakup of different histological types and grades and compared with available international data in tumor registries and hospital-based studies.
Pediatric CNS tumors accounted on an average 14.8% of total intracranial tumors (ranging from 10-21%, [Table 1]). The percentage breakup of various histological subtypes from various hospitals is provided in [Table 2], and percentage breakup of histological subtypes of the most common gliomas (astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas and ependymomas) in [Table 3]. On comparing the histological subtypes of pediatric CNS tumors, it was seen that astrocytomas averaged 34.7% (range 22.3-46.7%), and were the commonest tumors in almost all the hospitals. Embryonal tumors including medulloblastomas, supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs), Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs), etc, comprised the second largest group after astrocytomas (average 22.4%). Craniopharyngiomas (10.2%) were the third most common tumors followed by ependymal tumors (9.8%), neuronal and mixed-neuronal glial tumors (4%), nerve sheath tumors (3.6%) and meningeal tumors (3.2%).
Table 1: Prevalence of pediatric tumors reported from various centers in India
Table 2: Percentage breakup of various histological subtypes of pediatric CNS tumors
Table 3: Percentage breakup of various subtypes of pediatric CNS gliomas- astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas and ependymomas
Among the astrocytomas [Table 3], WHO Grade I tumors (pilocytic astrocytomas and subependymal giant cell astroytoma (SEGA) were the commonest (average 23%). Grade IV astrocytomas (glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) comprised on an average 4.46%. In ependymal tumors, anaplastic ependymoma (Grade III) was relatively more common and comprised one-thirds to half of ependymal tumors. Oligodendrogliomas were very rare in the pediatric age group (1.1%). CNS lymphomas also formed a rare diagnosis in children.
[Table 4] compares the frequency of various CNS tumors reported in different countries, including developed countries such as Canada, Sweden, Japan and Germany as well as developing ones like Brazil, China and Morocco. [1],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11] The frequency of tumors in India fell between the ranges formed by the international data.
Table 4: Frequency of various types of pediatric CNS tumors reported in different countries (in percentage)
In developing countries like India, due to lack of complete registration of newly diagnosed cases with local cancer registries, the exact tumor burden of such diseases goes unnoticed and is underestimated. Hospital-based prevalence data therefore forms the basis for estimating the disease load. This data is essential for ascertaining the required healthcare infrastructure in the management of these diseases, and for assessing geographical differences in their molecular and genetic profiles. With increased availability of diagnostic facilities and better healthcare, the incidence of CNS tumors seems to be on the rise in developing countries. Due to the high incidence and mortality of childhood CNS tumors, they form the most demanding group of tumors for neuro-oncologists. In contrast to the Western literature, there is to date no report exclusively profiling pediatric CNS tumors in India. We assessed the hospital-based prevalence of such tumors by collecting data (categorized according to the most recent WHO classification [4] ) from seven centers with first-rate neurosurgical facilities in different geographical locations in India, in an attempt to represent the profile of the entire country.
In our study, the most common brain tumors in the pediatric age group in descending order are astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, craniopharyngioma followed closely by ependymoma. However, in a large meta-analysis by Rickert and Paulius, [3] it was seen that internationally, ependymomas are the third most common tumors followed by craniopharyngioma occupying the fourth place. This trend can be seen in [Table 4] in the data from Canada, [7] Germany, [6] Sweden, [9] and Morocco [10] while figures from Korea [5] and Brazil [1] are similar to Indian data. Data from a single institute in Beijing, China, however, showed craniopharyngiomas to be the second commonest tumor. [8] Rickert and Paulius found germ cell tumors to be the fifth most common type, [3] but as can be seen from [Table 4], the frequency of germ cell tumors varies markedly in different countries ranging from just 0.9% in Morocco [10] to 14.3% in Japan. [11] In particular, all the three oriental Asian countries included i.e. Korea, China, and Japan, show higher frequency for germ cell tumors and craniopharyngiomas, suggesting environmental and/or genetic differences. As can be seen from [Table 4], except for a marginally higher frequency of craniopharyngiomas, the spectrum of brain tumors in Indian children seems to resemble Western studies.
The primary limitation of our study was variation in the time duration of data collected from different institutions starting from 1990-2006 till 2007. This highlights the requirement of uniform and structured cancer registries in developing countries like India and the recent awareness of the importance of gathering data for epidemiological purposes by hospitals. In spite of this limitation, this study serves an important purpose as an initial attempt to profile brain tumors in Indian children, on a multi-institutional level, across different geographic regions, in an effort to represent the entire patient population. Also, the tumor frequencies differed between different hospitals, as all are tertiary level referral hospitals. The incidence of various CNS tumors in the current study falls well within the range seen in the international studies for every tumor category. This can have important connotations in the field of pediatric brain tumor research in India, particularly when analyzing differences in their molecular and genetic pathways, which could aid in the development of targeted, individualized therapies and planning treatment protocols and strategies.
To conclude, there is a rising global trend in the incidence of pediatric CNS tumors. Based on large hospital series of pediatric patients, the present survey revealed the histopathological diversity of childhood neurological neoplasms, and provides the first profile of the spectrum of CNS tumors in children in India.
1. Rosemberg S, Fujiwara D. Epidemiology of pediatric tumors of the nervous system according to the WHO 2000 classification: A report of 1,195 cases from a single institution. Childs Nerv Syst 2005;21:940-4.
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2. Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Murray T, Xu J, Smigal C, et al. Cancer statistics, 2006. CA Cancer J Clin 2006;56:106-30.
3. Rickert CH, Paulus W. Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in childhood and adolescence based on the new WHO classification. Childs Nerv Syst 2001;17:503-11.
4. Louis DN, Ohgaki H, Wiestler OD, Cavenee WK, editors. World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system. Lyon: IARC; 2007.
5. Suh YL, Koo H, Kim TS, Chi JG, Park SH, Khang SK, et al. Tumors of the central nervous system in Korea: A multicenter study of 3221 cases. J Neurooncol 2002;56:251-9.
6. Kaatsch P, Rickert CH, Kühl J, Schüz J, Michaelis J. Population-based epidemiologic data on brain tumors in German children. Cancer 2001;92:3155-64.
7. Kaderali Z, Lamberti-Pasculli M, Rutka JT. The changing epidemiology of paediatric brain tumours: A review from the Hospital for sick children. Childs Nerv Syst 2009;25:787-93.
8. Zhou D, Zhang Y, Liu H, Luo S, Luo L, Dai K. Epidemiology of nervous system tumors in children: A survey of 1,485 cases in Beijing Tiantan Hospital from 2001 to 2005. Pediatr Neurosurg 2008;44:97-103.
9. Hjalmars U, Kulldorff M, Wahlqvist Y, Lannering B. Increased incidence rates but no space-time clustering of childhood astrocytoma in Sweden, 1973-1992: A population-based study of pediatric brain tumors.th Cancer 1999;85:2077-90.
10. Karkouri M, Zafad S, Khattab M, Benjaafar N, El Kacemi H, Sefiani S, et al. Epidemiologic profile of pediatric brain tumors in Morocco. Childs Nerv Syst 2010;26:1021-7.
11. Makino K, Nakamura H, Yano S, Kuratsu J, Kumamoto Brain Tumor Group. Population-based epidemiological study of primary intracranial tumors in childhood. Childs Nerv Syst 2010;26:1029-34.
1 Clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of pediatric meningiomas
Sudha Battu,Anupam Kumar,Pankaj Pathak,Suvendu Purkait,Linchi Dhawan,Mehar C. Sharma,Ashish Suri,Manmohan Singh,Chitra Sarkar,Vaishali Suri
Neuropathology. 2018; 38(1): 22
2 Oncogenic KIAA1549-BRAF fusion with activation of the MAPK/ERK pathway in pediatric oligodendrogliomas
Anupam Kumar,Pankaj Pathak,Suvendu Purkait,Mohammed Faruq,Prerana Jha,Supriya Mallick,Vaishali Suri,Mehar C. Sharma,Ashish Suri,Chitra Sarkar
Cancer Genetics. 2015; 208(3): 91
3 Brief Descriptive Epidemiology of Primary Malignant Brain Tumors from North-East India
Manigreeva Krishnatreya,Amal Chandra Kataki,Jagannath Dev Sharma,Mouchumee Bhattacharyya,Pintu Nandy,Munlima Hazarika
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2014; 15(22): 9871
4 Spectrum of Pediatric Brain Tumors: A Report of 341 Cases from a Tertiary Cancer Center in India
Umesh Das,L. Appaji,B. S. Aruna Kumari,Nagesh T. Sirsath,M. Padma,S. Kavitha,T. Avinash,K. C. Lakshmaiah
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2014;
5 Overview of Childhood Cancers at a Regional Cancer Centre in North-East India
Munlima Hazarika,Manigreeva Krishnatreya,Cidananda Bhuyan,Bhargab Jyoti Saikia,Amal Chandra Kataki,Pintu Nandy,Monalisha Hazarika,Partha Sarathi Roy
6 Spectrum of pediatric brain tumors in India
Mohanty, A.
Neurology India. 2011; 59(2): 156
7 Medulloblastoma in childhood-King Edward Memorial hospital surgical experience and review: Comparative analysis of the case series of 365 patients
Muzumdar, D., Deshpande, A., Kumar, R., Sharma, A., Goel, N., Dange, N., Shah, A., Goel, A.
Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences. 2011; 6(3 sup): 78-85
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National Bank is pleased to announce that William W. Clingempeel has joined the bank as a Trust Officer. Mr. Clingempeel will be based out of the bank’s Loan Production Office in downtown Roanoke.
Mr. Clingempeel has over 35 years of investment experience serving customers in the greater Roanoke region. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business with a major in Finance and a MBA with a concentration in Finance, both from Virginia Tech. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Financial Planner (CFPÒ), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Certified Funds Specialist (CFS).
As a Trust Officer at National Bank, Mr. Clingempeel will help both individuals and corporations create and maintain investment plans that meet their unique financial goals.
“We are really excited to have Bill join National Bank,” said F. Brad Denardo, President and Chief Executive Officer. “I know that our customers will enjoy working with him and benefit greatly from his expertise and dedication to customer service.”
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Bliss N Eso, Kimbra, Busby Marou Are SXSW Bound
More Australian acts including Bliss N Eso, Kimbra and Busby Marou have been announced to showcase at SXSW 2012.
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REVIEW: Yes, Melbourne, April 11, 2012
I must admit I had reservations about going to see Yes without Jon Anderson on vocals but that was quickly set aside as soon as they started.
2011 AMP Shortlist Announced
The nine albums in the running for Australia’s premier music prize, the AMP, have been announced.
Andy’s Best Music Of 2011
Andy’s favourite music of 2011, featuring Lykke Li, Lil Wayne, Lanie Lane, Lana Del Rey… and that’s just the ‘l’s.
U2 Are The Top Touring Act Of 2011 By Far
Billboard has revealed the top-grossing touring acts of the year, and U2 come out on top by a long way.
Jennifer Lopez Gets 2011 YouTube Crown
Jennifer Lopez’s ‘On The Floor’ was the most-viewed music video of 2011, setting Pitbull up to rule the top ten.
The Jezabels Lead 2011’s AIR Award Winners
Sydney quartet The Jezabels scored two awards at the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards last night.
The Flaming Lips Announce Harvest Fest Sideshows
Bona fide Oklahoma freaks The Flaming Lips have announced two sideshows for November’s Harvest Fest.
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NS' green, cost-efficient service recognized
NS intermodal train 237 stops at the South Carolina Inland Port terminal at Greer, S.C.
Customers on board for intermodal at inland port facility in Greer, S.C.
Norfolk Southern continues to gain intermodal business at the South Carolina Inland Port in Greer by offering cost-efficient and environmentally friendly rail transport to and from the Port of Charleston.
Customers are showing their appreciation. Eastman Chemical Company has recognized NS’ intermodal group for helping develop a sustainable rail option at the inland port that has reduced the company’s shipping costs and truck emissions.
“Combining this inland terminal with reliable rail service to the Port of Charleston allows Eastman to take shipments off the highway, which is more efficient from an environmental standpoint,” said Chris Luebbers, NS group manager intermodal marketing.”
“What’s really exciting to me is that it proves the point that rail can be better from a cost perspective, even in short-haul lanes like this.”
— Chris Luebbers,
group manager intermodal marketing
NS is the exclusive provider of rail service to the inland port, which is owned and operated by the South Carolina Ports Authority. With BMW as an anchor customer, NS partnered with the ports authority to open the facility in fall 2013, providing rail, signal, and other track infrastructure. BMW operates a production plant at Greer for its X-series sports activity vehicles, and NS transports parts and components for the luxury automaker in double-stack intermodal containers between Charleston and Greer.
NS has added other high-profile customers in and around northwestern South Carolina, known as the Upstate. Among the largest are Adidas, the athletic apparel company, which operates a distribution facility at nearby Spartanburg; tire maker Michelin, one of the state’s largest manufacturing employers with a production facility near the inland port; and farm equipment manufacturer John Deere.
A container crane at the South Carolina Inland Port.
In 2015, NS container traffic at the inland port outpaced its first-year volumes by more than half. NS added a second train to and from Charleston to better serve the inland port. To further enhance efficiencies, NS has worked with the Port of Charleston to streamline container movement between NS’ intermodal facility at Charleston and the port’s two marine terminals.
“The response from companies in the Upstate has been good,” said Luebbers, who has been involved with the inland port project since its conception. “We’ve seen extraordinary growth above and beyond projected estimates.”
The Eastman intermodal solution
Eastman, a specialty chemical company based at Kingsport, Tenn., began using NS’ Greer service in March 2014. Its products move mainly in 20-foot containers and include specialty plastics and wood pulp-based products bound for markets worldwide. The plastics, primarily plastic pellets, are used by manufacturers to make things such as packaging products, refillable hydration bottles, and housewares. Companies use the wood pulp-based products to make liners for high-end suits, wedding and prom dresses, and caskets, among other things.
Before NS' rail option at Greer, Eastman moved these export products by highway from Kingsport to Charleston. Eastman used a relay system in which trucks traveling from each end of the route – one with a loaded container bound for the port and the other with an empty container for return to Kingsport – met in Columbia, S.C., to exchange containers.
NS intermodal gained the business by developing a service plan that offers a similar delivery time at a lower cost, said Debbie Davis Waltermire, Eastman’s director of global logistics procurement. Now, Eastman uses trucks only on the move between Kingsport and Greer. NS’ service removes about 212 miles of truck travel from each Eastman shipment and provides next-day service for containers moving from Tennessee to the port.
“We had to build the right lead time into our business model to do this, but it is very manageable,” Waltermire said.
As part of its Supplier Excellence Program, Eastman presented NS intermodal and the ports authority with awards for innovation and sustainability for helping advance the company’s business goals. It was the first time that Eastman’s global logistics group issued a sustainability award to supply-chain partners, Waltermire said.
Eastman cited its collaboration with NS in its 2015 sustainability report in a section entitled “Making a difference along the supply chain.” Waltermire said NS earned the award for offering a transportation solution that was cost- and resource-efficient and that helped Eastman reduce supply-chain carbon emissions. Trains, on average, are four times more fuel-efficient than trucks and reduce carbon emissions by 75 percent, according to Federal Railroad Administration studies.
“Eastman has goals around sustainable growth and improved carbon footprint, and we felt that this gives us supply-chain efficiencies that allow for sustainable growth,” Waltermire said. In addition, the NS solution helps Eastman deal with truck driver shortages – what Waltermire described as “resource scarcity” – and also generates a social benefit: safer highways.
Waltermire said Interstate 26 between Greer and Charleston “is exceptionally congested, and we felt rail was a safer approach. Anytime you can take truck traffic off the road, I think that’s a personal safety improvement.”
While greener transport is an Eastman goal, NS’ competitive pricing made the conversion to rail possible, Waltermire said. “One thing we say about sustainability is that you can pay a fortune to be sustainable, but you wouldn’t stay in business doing that,” she said. “What the Norfolk Southern intermodal group did was to make sure that this was a value proposition that made sense for Eastman.”
A triple play for NS
Eastman does business across three of the railroad’s markets. NS’ coal business group transports bituminous coal to the Kingsport plant for use as energy and as a feedstock for manufacturing chemicals and materials. NS’ merchandise group moves chemicals and inbound wood pulp. The intermodal service at Greer makes it a triple play for NS.
“Norfolk Southern’s rail service is a crucial component to Eastman’s success, as equipment turn times greatly influence their production capability,” said Joe Abernathy, NS industrial products senior account manager in chemicals marketing. “Innovation is a key component for both of our companies, and we complement each other in that regard. They are staunch supporters of the rail mode of transportation.”
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pride goes before the fall…
By Mitzi on March 2, 2011 in desperate cry for help, going to hell in a handbasket, keep hope alive, made for the maury show, pocket full of dirty tissue, tagging out, why we as a people can't get ahead
Not for nothing, somebody might wanna send a prayer up for Pastor Grant Storms’ soul ASAP.
Cause apparently, the prominent New Orleans based Christian leader, who is best known for using a bullhorn to protest an annual three-day gay parade as “depraved”and describes masturbation as an immoral act, was just caught jerking off in his van. At a public park. During the day. While kids were around.
Talking about, the TWO witnesses were confused. He was just peeing in a bottle… That is, until whatever tiny sense of honesty he actually has kicked in. Then the hypocrite finally confessed to beating off.
I mean, if this isn’t just… typical.
*drops the rosary beads and walks away*
arizona is a bad, bad place…
By Mitzi on December 21, 2010 in desperate cry for help, end of days, going to hell in a handbasket, it's not a game out there, made for the maury show, pocket full of dirty tissue, tagging out
Right… So about Elizabeth Johnson, the chick in Arizona that basically admitted killing her 8-month year old baby, stuffing his lifeless body in a diaper bag & tossing it into a dumpster after she found out on Facebook that her baby daddy was kicking it to another girl???
DEAD FISH EYES
I’m really starting to think that folks should be required to pass some sort of mental stability exam before having access to social networking sites. ‘Cause this is officially doing the most right now. Killing your own flesh and blood because you snooped around and found exactly what you were looking for? Lord have mercy, this is some real life, white trash version of that scene from For Colored Girls… SMDH.
Epic. Parental. FAIL.
And not for nothing, I equally fault the child’s father for this senseless tragedy. Mmm-hmm… sure do. Because if you know that you’re dealing with a psycho chick- why would you put your personal business on freaking Facebook??
And DO NOT even try to tell us that you didn’t think she was capable of the crazy. Not for nothing, I took one look at that ‘extra calm, eyes-wide-open but nobody’s home’ mugshot and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt… this bish is a killer. Just. Like That.
Meanwhile, he done dates, procreated and been in a protracted custody battle with her looneytunes ass? nope. He should’ve known better.
As far as I’m concerned, he was practically begging for her to snap off and act up.
*makes a sign of the cross*
You know, instead of spending all that time and energy trying to run out the Mexicans, Governor Jan Brewer should focus on keeping the babies safe unstable moms.
cloudy days ahead…
By Mitzi on December 16, 2010 in going to hell in a handbasket, it's in the genes, made for the maury show, supermarket dreams on a bodega budget, tagging out
Oh Heidi, Heidi, Heidi… I know it’s hard to stay relevant in television these days. Especially when you’re a visibly aging weather girl for the weekend evening news report show.
(SIDEBAR:. I so didn’t even know there was a evening news broadcasts on the weekends! Who’s watching the news on a damn Saturday??)
But sweetie, filing false rape reports is not the way to way to do that sunshine.
Personally, I believe you should serve every last day of that year long jail sentence. Perhaps that will give you some time to think about all the ACTUAL rape victims whose REAL cases weren’t being investigated while the police went on this wild goose of yours.
Oh and good luck with that job suspension… Seems like a shitty economy to be playing the reindeer games with your livelihood. Sure hope your attention-seeking ass saved up for a rainy day.
fodder for the tea party…
By Mitzi on November 1, 2010 in going to hell in a handbasket, made for the maury show, pocket full of dirty tissue, why we as a people can't get ahead
It’s amazing how fast time flies! Not only is it already the first of November- let the official birthday countdown begin- but it’s already time for midterm elections. READ: Obama is already halfway through his presidency. WHEW!!
Now, I know that I don’t have to remind/ encourage any of you guys to go out and vote tomorrow. But in case you needed a specific reason to stay involved in politics and be mindful of how your tax dollars are being WASTED, here ya go:
A NY Judge recently ruled that a 6 YEAR-OLD can be sued over accusations that she ran over an elderly woman with her training bike.The little girl was 4 YEARS-OLD at the time of the incident/
No seriously. King’s County Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten ruled that a first grader can be sued.
I. Will. Not.
While I can certainly understand that the family of the victim, 87- year old Claire Menagh are probably sad and still grieving (apparently Claire’s fall required surgery for a fractured hip and she subsequently died three months later), but COME ON.
The lady was 86 years-old. She lived a long and hopefully happy life. Accidents with kids happen all the time. Are you REALLY so litigious that you’re going to waste taxpayers dollars on suing a little girl who wasn’t even in kindergarten at the time?? And this fool as judge is going to give you a forum for this nonsense?
*sucks the back of teeth clean & rolls eyes*
why i refuse to go to queens…
By Mitzi on October 29, 2010 in end of days, going to hell in a handbasket, tagging out, why we as a people can't get ahead
Whew! It is good to be home.
Love LA to death but there’s nothing like waking up in my own bed and NOT having to sit in traffic for an hour and a half just for a simple 45 minute meeting. Okay?
Anyhoo, so I see I arrived back home just in time for the nonsense to pop off. Mmm-hmm… In what can only be described as a scene straight out of Law & Order (the original MYC-based joint NOT this LA spin-off nonsense), some group of fool ass jurors had the nerve and audacity to ACQUIT that sicko rape-text suspect from Queens.
Now for those who are unfamiliar, this pint-size pervert climbed in through the unlocked kitchen window of a waitress that he’d apparently been stalking, grabbed a kitchen knife and repeatedly raped her in her bedroom while her family was asleep down the hall. THEN, after he was finished, he asked her for her cell number so that “maybe we could still be friends.”
*gags*
So basically, homegirl gives him her number (cause who’s telling the man that just repeated raped you and threatened to kill you and your entire family, anything but yes???) in hopes that he’d be stoopid enough to call and she could give his the number to the cops.
Well in what could only be described as a minor miracle, the genius calls WHILE the police are at the house investigating. And he even cops to the rape during his monitored conversation with the girl Talking about, “Yeah, I’m sorry about that. Don’t get me in trouble.”
Yet and still, despite the recorded phone call admission & evidence from her rape kit, the irresponsible jury acquitted this psycho because “there were no signs of forced entry.”
Um, since when does a person have to force his way through an open window???
I. Can’t.
*orders Antoine Dobson’s Sex Offender Tracker app*
entitlement & licca don’t mix…
By Mitzi on October 20, 2010 in going to hell in a handbasket, made for the maury show, work it white girl
And just like the basket of cheddar biscuits at Red Lobster the good times never end.
Just yesterday afternoon, I posted a story to my FB page about the loosey goosey woman in Pennsylvania that’s locked up and rightfully serving fed time for attempting to poison her former best friend and husband’s pregnant mistress with deadly chemicals she stole from the microbiology lab where she worked.
And now we’ve got Clarence Thomas’s ridiculous right-wing nut ass wife Ginny leaving belligerent messages on Anita Hill’s work phone. Talking about, “I would love you to consider an apology some time and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”
Are you serious???
First of all, who the hell told GINNY that she had the right to ask for an apology from ANYONE? Forreal, she ain’t nothing but a pompous, out-of-line, attention seeking 53- year old bish. I don’t know which of her fellow Teabagging homegirls put the battery in her back and that fool gassed up, but alla them hoes are dead wrong for this nonsense.
I mean, let’s keep it 1000. Ginny DOES NOT WANT IT with Ms. Anita. We all know her shady good-for-nothing, self-hating husband is guilty as the day is long. Okay? And even more importantly, this ain’t 1991. Ron and Nancy ain’t around to make folks testimonies disappear no more.
Ginny, you WILL get that lily white behind embarrassed if you keep up with the sheenanigans!
And not for nothing, it’s been a THOUSAND years. Why is she even thinking about, let alone harassing this woman? And on a damn SATURDAY afternoon? Um hello, shouldn’t you be spending time your husband/ family? Or what, Clarence left you home alone and forgot to lock the liquor cabinet AGAIN?
I mean, I can just see it now:
Ginny and her gang of bitter, bitchy, Lilly Pulitzer wearing, conservative Right croonies were sitting around in the manse, tossing back dry martinis like juice and complaining about why none of them were picked to be on the Real Housewives of DC. Next thing you know, one of the crypt keeper crew gets a little crunk and pipes up- “Yeah! Cause you know we got REAL drama! Shoot! Remember that trick Anita Hill, that tried to play your man Gin- Gin??” So then, Ginny takes another long swig before replying, “Hell yeah, I remember that ho. Matter-of-fact, I should call her.” And the ball starts a rolling…
Just. Like. Like.
assed out in the most literal sense…
By Mitzi on October 19, 2010 in end of days, going to hell in a handbasket, it's not a game out there, made for the maury show, tagging out
Wow. Just, Wow…
Apparently a top Canadian Commander (who frequently piloted planes for top political figures and dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth II) just plead guilty to rape, murder and stealing HUNDREDS of pairs of women’s underwear (mainly from adolescents & teens) during string of home invasion break-ins.
According to the NYT, 47 year-old Col. David Russell Williams, started the 2-year spree by simply breaking into his neighbors homes and stealing panties from the women AND children while the residents weren’t home. But then, he progressed to assaulting the women while they were home.
First last September, he broke into the homes of two women near the air base where he was in command, forced them to strip, blindfolded and photographed them. A month later, he broke into the home of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, an air force flight attendant based who had flown with him. The police said she died after being beaten and having her mouth and nose sealed with tape. Finally in late January, the second woman, Jessica Lloyd, 27, was reported missing. Her body was found Feb. 8.
Seriously? There are too many sick and twisted little details for me to even begin to get into. You should definitely read the entire breakdown HERE. But in the meantime, some of my most fave highlights include:
-he kept METICULOUS photographic records of all the break-ins, thefts and assaults which captions and all.
-he masturbated on a neighbor’s daughter’s bed
-he took pictures of himself- sexually aroused or masturbating- while wearing the stolen panties
-he stole 87 pairs of undies from the same high school girl in a single break-in
-this nutjob is MARRIED and living with his wife the entire time
So err-um, guess who’s NOT moving to Canada??
*both hands shoot up high in the air*
my money is on the back-hand…
By Mitzi on October 13, 2010 in end of days, going to hell in a handbasket, it takes a village, made for the maury show, tagging out, too old for the road, why we as a people can't get ahead
Okay, so you know I’m like totally obsessed with this whole Chilean miner rescue situation, right?
Cause the lord knows that I can barely make it through twenty minutes in an MRI machine without having a claustrophobia induced panic attack, let alone 69 freaking days in a dark hole with no bathroom.
Oh and, thanks to my Twitter fam @looseneck I’m really, really on pins and needles waiting on the rescue of the trifling miner who’s wife discovered his affair when she met his mistress of several YEARS at a vigil by the collapsed mine. Talking about, “she heard another woman calling out his name.”
I mean, can you even believe the audacity of this bish? Not only is she in an international forum laying claims to a married man but then she got the nerve to be out there carrying on and screaming louder than his damn wife?
When I tell you, 2010 is the year of the jump off?
And wait on it, here’s the BEST part: Apparently neither woman is backing down. Both the wife and the mistress have publicly vowed to remain on site and wait for him to be brought to the surface. And then he’ll have to choose. On international television.
*faints, regains consciousness and reaches for the popcorn*
Mark my words, SOMEBODY is getting their face smacked in on CNN before this is over.
peta shld be more worried abt this than my full-length…
By Mitzi on October 5, 2010 in end of days, going to hell in a handbasket, it's not a game out there, keep hope alive, tagging out
OMG, OMG, Oh My F’KING God!!! This video is crazy. I am so going to have nightmares for days behind this nonsense. Real talk, I can’t even breath I’m so freaked out.
How the hell did this fool sit there and tape this attack? And he was there with his children? Are you freaking KIDDING me??? Please believe that I would’ve been snatched up my kid and hit the bricks from the moment I saw blood being drawn on the first bite.
Those poor men. I am literally shaking right now.
When I tell you that my kids are NEVER going to step foot anywhere near a damn one-ring circus in LIFE?!?!?!
Lord have mercy… I wonder what the trainers did behind the scenes to those lions that angered them to that point. SMDH.
*makes a sign of the cross with the right as I reach for a sedative with my left*
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This week we conclude the Book of Genesis. Jacob blesses his children. He then dies and is brought from Egypt to be buried in the land of Israel. Before dying he exacts a promise from his favored son, Joseph. “And when the time approached for Israel [Jacob] to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, ‘Do me this favor, place your hand under my thigh as a pledge of your steadfast loyalty: please do not bury me in Egypt. When I lie down with my fathers, take me up from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.’” (Genesis 47:29-30)
In ancient times an agreement was often sealed by placing one’s hand under another’s thigh. Times have of course changed! Nonetheless important agreements are often sealed by a handshake or a verbal pledge. Often the most important agreements are not memorialized in writing but by these informal gestures.
In particular acts of hesed, of lovingkindness, are those that are done without even a pledge. Interestingly the Hebrew for “steadfast loyalty” is hesed v’emet and can also be translated as true kindness. Jewish tradition defines such acts as those for which no ulterior motive can be found and in particular where no reciprocal favor can even be anticipated. Tending to the needs of the dead is chief among these acts. It is a commandment, a mitzvot. In this case especially we cannot reasonably expect something in return.
According to tradition we must tend to the burial of our own loved ones ourselves. We place the shovel full of dirt into the grave, performing this final act of love for those who were dearest to us. In doing so, Judaism insists that we not pretend the loss is anything but what it is. We respond to death by taking a shovel and lifting the earth into the grave ourselves. Our loved one returns to the earth from which we are each fashioned and is covered by a blanket of earth wrapped by our own hands.
In this way we face death with lovingkindness. We do not look away. We grab hold of the shovel. We hold the hesed v’emet in our hands. And that remains our steadfast loyalty—forever.
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Vayigash Sermon
This Shabbat we discussed forgiveness given the extraordinary example of Joseph found in the portion. Joseph forgives his brothers even though some wanted to kill him and all ended up selling him into slavery. Interestingly we do no read if their father Jacob forgives the brothers. Nonetheless Joseph serves as a model of forgiveness and an entry for our discussion. We examined Moses Maimonides insights from the Mishneh Torah. Here is that text:
Repentance and Yom Kippur only atone for sins between man and God; for example, a person who ate a forbidden food or engaged in forbidden sexual relations, and the like. However, sins between man and man; for example, someone who injures a colleague, curses a colleague, steals from him, or the like will never be forgiven until he gives his colleague what he owes him and appeases him.
[It must be emphasized that] even if a person restores the money that he owes [the person he wronged], he must appease him and ask him to forgive him. Even if a person only upset a colleague by saying [certain] things, he must appease him and approach him [repeatedly] until he forgives him.
If his colleague does not desire to forgive him, he should bring a group of three of his friends and approach him with them and request [forgiveness]. If [the wronged party] is not appeased, he should repeat the process a second and third time. If he [still] does not want [to forgive him], he may let him alone and need not pursue [the matter further]. On the contrary, the person who refuses to grant forgiveness is the one considered as the sinner.
[The above does not apply] if [the wronged party] was one's teacher. [In that instance,] a person should continue seeking his forgiveness, even a thousand times, until he forgives him. (Mishneh Torah, Repentance 2:9)
Although forgiveness is difficult to grant it is required to sustain our relationships, especially long term relationships. Judaism insists that it is demanded and even commanded. Granting forgiveness is a mitzvah. Withholding forgiveness is therefore a sin. Only forgiveness can liberate us from the despair of holding a grudge. Anger corrodes the soul. Forgiveness redeems. It rescues relationships. Redemption begins with "I'm sorry."
We Need Some More Anger
India Gang Rape Sparks Mass Protests But Newtown Shooting Only Sparks Mourning | The New Republic:
Mark Lilla is correct in his observations. We could use some more anger. Justice might be served by our angry protests.
[In India] theirs is a democratic anger. There is, I’m told, a background to all this: frustration with rising crime rates, especially in Delhi, rampant police corruption and arbitrariness, and the pettiness of parliamentary politics when India faces significant domestic challenges. But whatever fuel was there to be sparked, it is bracing to see people take to the streets, not to defend narrow interests or ideological obsessions, but to defend the public good. The land of Gandhi has not lost its willingness to mobilize and put pressure on those in authority, even when it sometimes makes the country nearly ungovernable. The same cannot be said of the land of Martin Luther King. I would be surprised to learn on my return that a mass demonstration is being planned on the Washington Mall; that’s no longer how we deal with issues like this. We light candles, we hug (lots of hugging on CNN), we pray. We triple-lock ourselves into our homes or gated communities, accompany our kids to schools they could easily walk to, and load them down with helmets, and knee and elbow pads, before taking a bike ride. Yet when they do manage to get out, they find themselves in places where adults openly display their handguns in holsters.
Save the children? No, we prefer to mourn them. We are as resigned to the status quo as thesadhus of Benares are to the cycle of birth and death before they reach moksha. Contemporary Indians apparently have a very different idea of what it means to be a citizen.
Citizenry demands our righteous indignation.
I am not in a very forgiving mood.
Joseph, by contrast, demonstrates extraordinary forgiveness. Some of his brothers want to kill him. Others decide to sell him into slavery and then tell their father that Joseph was killed by wild beasts. All throw him into a pit and then callously sit down to a meal while Joseph suffers in the darkened pit. Now, in this week’s portion, Joseph is given the opportunity to exact revenge. His brothers stand before him begging for food. There is a famine in the land of Canaan but the Egyptians, because of Joseph’s capable leadership, have ample food.
Instead Joseph forgives his brothers.
It is a remarkable moment. Joseph says, “Now, do not be distressed or reproach yourselves because you sold me here; it was to save life that God sent me ahead of you…. With that he embraced his brother Benjamin around the neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. He kissed all his brothers and wept upon them…” (Genesis 45:5, 14-15)
Too often we do not follow Joseph’s example. We remain angry at family. We harbor a grudge against brothers.
In contrast, we quickly forget atrocities. How many mass killings will our nation suffer before we pledge never to forget? Months ago there was Aurora and now most recently Newtown. But in order to move forward and return to the normalcy of our lives we push such unspeakable evils far away. Soon we forget.
Atrocities are often pushed aside. We fill our hearts with anger at family. We have it reversed. Instead we should forgive the wrongs committed against us by family. And remain angry at the gun violence that happens too often in our country. We should allow the tragedy in Newtown to forever burn in our hearts.
That is the only way we might affect some measure of change. Anger has a purpose. When it spurs us to action it serves a greater good. When it pushes brothers away from each other it creates a lasting emptiness. We need to hold family close. There are bonds that only family share. Joseph understood this. He forgave. He forgot. He redeemed his brothers’ evil and rescued their atrocities.
For Newtown, however, and for all the other victims of senseless violence my heart continues to burn with anger. For too long I looked aside. I did not get involved. I reasoned that our political system is too broken and the second amendment too ingrained for there to be effective change. Never again!
We must change. We cannot prevent all gun violence. We cannot write laws that will prevent all atrocities, but we can change. We can do a better job of protecting ourselves and our children. There are limits that can be enacted. There are background checks that can be made.
If one more life is saved then perhaps, like Joseph, we can redeem evil and give the deaths of these precious young lives lasting meaning. Perhaps their deaths can save others. Perhaps they can make our country safer.
The Talmud teaches that if you have the ability to prevent a wrong from being committed and refrain from getting involved, then you are complicit in the offense. I will not stand guilty again. I pledge to remain angry!
My hope and prayer is that this is the moment. Newtown’s tragedy will become the event that history later records was the earth shattering occasion when ordinary Americans became so enraged that our country finally changed, that the political order was at last shaken and the right to bear arms gained some sensible limits. And then everyone remained safer.
End Gun Violence Now Petition
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On Friday December 14, a gunman armed with three high-powered firearms and high-capacity magazines walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Hundreds of shots were fired and twenty first-graders, ages six and seven, and six educators were killed.
This violent and horrific event aimed at children shocks our conscience and country. Our hearts are broken, our souls weep, and our arms are outstretched to the families of the victims, the survivors, the first responders, and the entire community of Newtown, Connecticut. In just the last few months, we have seen shootings at schools, malls, theaters, and houses of worship. We are pained and dismayed by the pandemic of gun violence, far exceeding other western nations, and we will not accept it.
Our tradition teaches us of the sanctity of life and how each and every person is created in the divine image. We must directly confront gun violence so that our nation is not marked nor the years measured by senseless massacres. We will not allow the intense emotion we feel now to return to a place of complacency where we become desensitized to the atrocities that unfold around us daily. We must come together to build a society worthy of those lost and a culture that represents our best virtues.
We stand committed to working with our local, state, and national leaders to squarely address these issues and honor the victims, survivors, and their families. We recognize the right of Americans to own guns, but we do not accept the current state of affairs. We stand united and call on our leaders to support comprehensive action, including meaningful legislation to limit access to assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines, aggressive enforcement of firearm regulations, robust efforts to ensure that every person in need has access to quality mental health care, and a serious national conversation about violence in media and games.
We, the undersigned, ask that President Obama, Congress, and every citizen to take direct and unequivocal action to stop the outrageous and unacceptable violence that is destroying the fabric of our society.
Another Tragedy
Why is the killer included in the death toll? “Killer Also Dies in Connecticut, Leaving a Toll of 28.” It seems unfitting that he is placed alongside those he murdered. Judaism offers this teaching instead, Y’mach sh’mo—may his name be blotted out. That seems more appropriate. May we never read of his name again! Amen Selah! And may his young, innocent victims rest in peace. May we forever recount their names. May their memories inspire us for some measure of good. And may we one day rid the world of senseless violence. Or at the very least make it impossibly difficult for deranged people to get their hands on weapons. No more schools, or movie theatres, or malls, or street corners should again be the site of such bloodshed. That is my prayer. And after I read the stories of the brief lives of those murdered, and make room for their memories in my hearts, that is all I wish to read about. An end to this violence made far too easy by guns. Amen! Selah!
Hanukkah Sermon
The story of Hanukkah in Billings, Montana continues to inspire. Here is that story.
Tammie Schnitzer remarked, "I have to make sure my kids are proud of themselves and never have to hide who they are. Yes, I'm afraid. But I know that if something happened again, the community would respond." A Christian neighbor, Becky Thomas said, "We saved our menorah, and it's going in our window again. We need to show commitment for a lifetime." The heroics of this story are that a community came together to banish the darkness of hatred, prejudice and discrimination.
Hanukkah is indeed about standing up to be different! And we have now learned, it is also about fighting for others to be different! That must be the light of Hanukkah.
“There’s nothing to eat!” my son would often exclaim as he would stare into a refrigerator filled with food. The freezer was as well stocked with frozen goodies. I soon realized that his statements were not about reality but instead about desire. What he wanted to eat, what he imagined savoring, was not to be found in the refrigerator. Now, even weeks after Hurricane Sandy, such exclamations have disappeared. The freezer is only partially restocked. The refrigerator is once again filled.
For weeks we stared into an empty refrigerator. We were forced to throw out the defrosted food. We cooked what we could heat up on the gas stove. We were happy to have the meal. We were confident that the lack of electricity was only a temporary frustration. Others were worse off. There was still plenty to eat, just far too often not what we wanted to eat. Now, we no longer stare into the refrigerator searching only for what we desire. Sandy cast such feelings aside. Now we are happy to have its light illumine whatever food might be on the shelves.
When Jacob saw that there were food rations to be had in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at one another?... Go down and procure rations for us there, that we may live and not die.” (Genesis 41:1-2) This week we read that our forefather, Jacob, is confronted with a famine in the land of Israel. He is unable to provide for his family. He instructs his sons to go to Egypt where unbeknownst to him, his son Joseph has stored plenty of food. In an extraordinary measure of foresight and leadership Joseph stockpiled food throughout the seven years of plenty. Now, during the seven years of famine, everyone is coming to him to procure food.
The Midrash relates: You may learn from the story of Jacob that it is a man’s worst trial to have his children ask him for food when he has nothing to give.
Imagine how difficult this trial was for Jacob. He had nurtured his children throughout their years and sustained them on God’s dream. They would settle in the Promised Land, the land of Israel, and their descendants would number as the stars in the night’s sky. Instead they had only known struggle and hardship, favoritism and envy.
And now they know hunger.
The scars remain.
Vayeshev Sermon
This week’s Torah portion offers a disturbing story. Joseph’s brothers first try to kill him and then settle on selling him into slavery after throwing him in a pit. The Torah emphasizes that there was no water in the pit. Imagine how he cried out to his brothers from the darkened pit as they sat down to a meal.
Often we read stories in our Torah about the worst of human tendencies. The saga of brothers of course begins with Cain killing Abel. Jacob and Esau are little better. Joseph and his brothers begin a torturous relationship but are ultimately reconciled. Three weeks from now Joseph will demonstrate an extraordinary gesture of forgiveness, but this week we are left wondering about our forefathers’ example. Is this how we are supposed to behave?
In a word, the answer is no. Torah is not always about how we are supposed to act. Instead it is Torah because this is what happens all the time. We see ourselves in the brothers’ envy or perhaps in Joseph’s pomposity. Too often human beings behave in this way. This is what makes these stories Torah. We can see ourselves in its painful ordinariness.
So how do we learn what we are supposed to do? For that we turn not to such examples, but instead to the mitzvot, the commandments contained in the Torah. They offer us guidance. We learn for example “To love your neighbor as yourself.” Imagine if this mitzvah was our first thought rather than those feelings of jealousy and envy that too often creep into our hearts.
Abraham Joshua Heschel counseled that the deed is wiser than the heart. When we follow the heart we too often end up like Joseph or worse, his brothers. When we follow our hands, the world around us becomes transformed. That is Judaism’s wisdom.
This evening begins the third night of Hanukkah.
Many are celebrating with the giving of presents and the eating of latkes (or perhaps sufganiyot). Some are also enjoying the playing of dreidle. The tradition requires only the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah preceded by the appropriate blessings. The lights are placed in the window to proclaim the miracle of Hanukkah for all to see.
For centuries this holiday was downplayed. It was simple in its observance. Yet it was profound in its message. Hanukkah reminds us that hope is always possible. The lighting of the Hanukkah candles are about adding light during the darkest times of the year, and throughout the darkest moments of our history.
In the Talmud two great rabbis argue about how best to light the Hanukkah lights. Rabbi Shammai believes that our ritual should mirror the actual miracle. Millenia, ago after the Maccabees’ struggled with the Syrian Greeks and recaptured the Temple, their dedication ceremony was nearly stymied because of the lack of holy oil. Miraculously the oil lasted not the expected one night but eight. The light was therefore brighter on the first day when there was more oil. Shammai taught that we should light eight candles on the first night and one on the last night. Hillel, with whom Jewish law later sided, argued that the lighting should reflect not what actually happened but our hope in the future. With each passing night, the light should increase to illustrate that the future can always be brighter than the past.
Theodor Herzl, the architect of the modern Zionist movement, once wrote a story about Hanukkah, entitled “The Menorah”. He concluded:
There came the eighth day, on which the entire row of lights is kindled, including the faithful ninth candle, the shammash, which otherwise serves only to light the others. A great radiance shone forth from the menorah. The eyes of the children sparkled. …The occasion became a parable for the enkindling of a whole nation. First one candle; it is still dark and the solitary light looks gloomy. Then it finds a companion, then another, and yet another. The darkness must retreat. The young and the poor are the first to see the light, then the others join in, all those who love justice, truth, liberty, progress, humanity and beauty. When all the candles are ablaze everyone must stop in amazement and rejoice at what has been wrought. And no office is more blessed than that of a servant of light.
Theodor Herzl died in 1904. The modern State of Israel was established in 1948.
That is what Hanukkah is all about. When the rest of the world says your dreams are delusions, when even friends decry your faith as fantasy, Hanukkah reminds us that the lights must always be kindled, that hope can still be kindled. Even during the darkest days of winter and even when nations seem again arrayed against us, there is light.
The future can indeed be brighter that the past.
Losing Hope On Israeli-Palestinian Peace | The New Republic by Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier writes:
I have been thinking about lost causes because I have concluded that one of my causes is lost. I no longer believe that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will occur in my lifetime. I have not changed my views; I have merely lost my hopes. I am still quite certain that the establishment of the state of Palestine is a condition for the survival of the state of Israel, as a Jewish state and a democratic state, and that for Israel not to be a Jewish state would be a Jewish catastrophe, and for it not to be a democratic state would be a human catastrophe; and that the only solution there has ever been to this conflict is the solution that was proposed by the Peel Commission in 1937, that is, the partition of one land into two states; and that the Jewish settlement of the West Bank was a colossal mistake, and the occupation (and the indifference to it) corrodes the decency of the occupiers; and that the Jewish state is a secular entity; and that anti-Semitism, which will never disappear, does not explain the entirety of the history of the Jews or their state, or exempt Israel from accountability for its actions. An impenitent Zionist and an impenitent dove, in sum; but to the consternation of some of my comrades, a hawkish dove, too, since I see that Israel has enemies and I believe in the ethical primacy of self-defense. I have irritated some of my comrades also with my unglowing view of the Palestinians and their inability to recognize the historical grandeur of compromise. Since 1977, and really since 1947, they have refused one proposed solution after another, as if the “unviability” of an imperfect state is not preferable to the unviability of statelessness. In recent decades they have added a new religious maximalism to an old secular maximalism. But still I concur in the necessity and the justice of their demand for a state, and still I yearn for a serious Palestinian diplomacy.
And Daniel Gordis writes in Haaretz, critiquing the naivete of too many American Jewish leaders, in particular a number of my colleagues:
Jews have always seen ourselves as citizens of the world. But key to Judaism’s survival has been an ability to couple that universal concern to a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges and dangers facing the Jewish world. The mark of great religious leadership is not simply its ability to imagine a better world, but to imagine how we might get to that world from the one that actually exists. We will know great Progressive religious leadership is emerging when we see the world that they describe bears at least some resemblance to the one in which Israel has to try to survive.
And yet I stubbornly insist on hope. I cannot live without it. Yes, it must be coupled with reality, but I refuse to allow even present reality to lead to fatalism or worse, a stultification of the spirit. Zionism's revolution was, and continues to be, the belief that we must first and foremost rely on our own strength and creativity to change the course of Jewish history. We once relied only on our prayers. We were once subject only to foreign rulers. Now there is more that we can do. There is far more that is within our own hands. I.will never let go of this dream.
I do not pretend to have solutions to our current struggles. It is true that Palestinian intransigence and terror remain the greatest obstacles to any resolution. This does not excuse our current reluctance to change. We can shape our future. We can mend our ways, if for no other reason than to do what is best for the Jewish state. Unless Israel "withdraws" from both the territory and ideology of those who want nothing to do with Israel as a Jewish democracy, the Zionist dream of being a "free people in our own land" will falter. Yes, the creation of a Palestinian state remains within Palestinian hands (not the UN's!). If they were to affirm the legitimate right of the Jewish people to live within the historical boundaries of the land of Israel and to do as they have done, create a vibrant Jewish state, then a Palestinian state would soon be fashioned alongside it. The future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, however, remains within our hands.
Vayeshev
We begin the story of Joseph and his brothers. They do not get along very well. Joseph is the favored son of their father Jacob. The brothers resent this and scheme against him. Some want to kill him. Reuben tries to save him by convincing them to throw him into a pit. He plans to later rescue him, but the brothers instead, on the advice of Judah, sell him into slavery. They then tell their father that wild beasts killed Joseph. Jacob is forever distraught.
The Torah’s language is wrenching in its starkness and simplicity. “…And they took Joseph and cast him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. Then they sat down to a meal.” (Genesis 37:24-25)
The Vilna Gaon comments: Why does it have to say “there was no water”? After all, doesn’t “empty” imply there was no water? The Midrash Bereshit Rabbah teaches: “Rather there was no water, but there were snakes and scorpions in it.“ The human mind abhors a vacuum. If it is is not filled with the water of Torah, it must be filled with snakes and scorpions of other beliefs.
The tradition often likens Torah to water. Like water it sustains us. Better to fill our minds with Torah than with other beliefs. Crowd out other ideas is the tradition’s counsel. I have always believed that there is plenty of room in my heart for all manner of ideas. I can love Torah while also loving modern philosophy and contemporary poetry, and even Eddie Money (Gimme Some Water!).
Then again, imagine Joseph, alone in the darkness of the pit. Imagine how his thoughts might have tormented him. Would the Torah that he so loved sustain him? Would the love that his father showered on him secure his faith? Are those snakes and scorpions at my feet?
Perhaps the tradition is right. When our hearts are overcome with hopelessness and despair, fill them instead with the music of our prayers. The Psalmist can indeed sustain us. The tradition can indeed mend broken hearts.
Such words cannot rescue Joseph. That is dependent on our own hands. We must reach down ourselves and rescue our brother from the pit.
Torah can give us strength and courage. That is why we pray. That is why we fill our hearts with its teachings. So that when our hearts our broken we can gain sustenance. We can then not only mend our own hearts but others as well.
There are far too many people trapped in the pit for us not to pray, for us not to gain fortitude from the waters of Torah. Drink so that others might be rescued. Taste so that our hearts might be healed.
Vayishlach Sermon
At Shabbat Services we discussed the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel and becoming Israel. I concluded by sharing a teaching by the Hasidic master, Sefat Emat. He writes:
This may be an account of Jacob’s wrestling with his conscience, torn between his human tendency to avoid an unpleasant encounter and the divine impulse in him that urges him to do the difficult but right thing. This position may find support in the text, “you have striven with beings divine and human” which can also be translated, “you have striven with God and with men.” We can imagine Jacob saying to himself, “Until now, I have responded to difficult situations by lying and running. I deceived my father. I ran away from Esau. I left Laban’s house stealthily instead of confronting him. I hate myself for being a person who lies and runs. But I’m afraid of facing up to the situation.” By not defeating his conscience, Jacob wins. He outgrows his Jacob identity as the trickster and becomes Israel, the one who contends with God and people instead of avoiding or manipulating them. At the end of the struggle, he is physically wounded and emotionally depleted. Nevertheless, the Torah describes him as shalem, translated as “safe” with connotations of “whole,” at peace with himself, possessing an integrity he never had before.
Struggle is what defines us. It is what names us. Struggle has the potential to make us great.
The Jewish people trace their lineage to Abraham through Isaac and in particular Jacob. He is the father of the twelve tribes. In this week’s portion he gains the name Israel by wrestling with a divine being. His brother, Esau, is forever our enemy. According to Jewish tradition our many enemies can be traced to Isaac’s first-born son.
Esau is seen as the ancestor of the Edomites who aligned themselves with the Babylonians and destroyed the First Temple. The tradition as well sees the Romans as descendants of Esau who destroyed the Second Temple and views Jacob’s only brother as the ancestor of our later enemies, even modern European antisemites. Bereshit Rabbah comments: “We went looking for a brother, but instead found Easu, armed and hostile in a very non-brotherly manner.” All our enemies begin with Esau.
There are days when my dreams are haunted by this tradition. Must Esau forever be my enemy? The two brothers, Jacob and Esau, are indeed reconciled, but then part company and become the fathers of different nations. Will this enmity continue to be my future? Is this the history that we are condemned to live? I am a descendant of Jacob. My enemies forever bear the imprint of Esau. Our brother exclaims, “Let but the mourning period of my father come, and I will kill my brother Jacob.” (Genesis 27:41)
A few weeks following those terrible nights of Kristallnacht, in November 1938, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a disheartening article about Zionism. In it he argued that only the Arabs were the rightful inhabitants of Palestine. He viewed the Zionist settlers as colonialists. He advocated that Jewish settlers practice non-violence in order to win over the hearts of the Arabs. Ghandi also thought that the Jews of Germany should follow a similar practice in response to the then emerging Nazi onslaught.
His views were of course terribly naive. Ghandi refused to divide the world into friend and foe. Our lot, we have learned, is far different. I am Jacob. My brother, Esau.
The Jewish philosopher and founder of Hebrew University, Martin Buber, responded to Ghandi by saying that that no land belongs to any people. “The conquered land is, in my opinion, only lent even to the conqueror who has settled on it—and God waits to see what he will make of it.”
Buber, unlike the majority of Zionists, argued for a bi-national state, a state with a shared place for Jews and Palestinians. It is a vision of Zionism long since rightfully discredited by the overwhelming majority of Israelis. How could such a state then have a decidedly Jewish character? Still there must always be a place for Arabs within a Jewish and democratic state.
On this day, in 1949, the United Nations argued that there should indeed be a place for Palestinian national aspirations, not within the Jewish state, but instead alongside it. Decades of war, terrorism and bloodshed suggest this is impossible. These past weeks might have again caused our hearts to become hardened. Martin Buber refused to lose hope.
And so we continue to ask, “Even after the rockets and the public calls for our destruction, there still is hope?”
“Yes, even now.”
And Rabbi Akiva’s students asked him, “Even now?” He answered, “Yes, even now.”
We must always hope. Even now.
Always. No matter the history. Regardless of the circumstance.
Especially now.
“And Esau ran to greet Jacob. He embraced him and, falling on his neck, he kissed him; and they wept.” (Genesis 33:4)
Toldot, Sandy and Israel Sermon
What follows is my sermon on the recent war in Israel and Gaza, delivered on Friday, November 16.
Like so many I am still reeling from Hurricane Sandy. I still find it hard to believe that living in such an affluent society and the center of the universe (New York, New York!), we could be without power for so long. How can so many New Yorkers continue to be without, and not just without power but unable to even return to their homes? I thought it was only in Louisiana and Mississippi that we saw such things. We have learned: it not just the fury of nature, but also the folly of human beings that leads us to this end. It is not just elsewhere but here In New York too there is ample evidence of our folly. “Let us rebuild!” is all we seem to be able to proclaim. “Get rid of LIPA!” we add. “We were in the dark for far too long.”
Contrast this with events in Israel. As all are aware, Israel is again facing relentless rocket attacks from Gaza. Despite Israel’s recent withdrawal from Gaza, the Palestinian leadership and Hamas in particular seek to destroy rather than build. Yet many of the lights remain on in Gaza. Why? Because Israel provides much of the electrical power to Gaza. Now that is amazing. Or perhaps foolish, some might say. But I find it extraordinary. Where there is a will, anything is possible. We can protect ourselves and continue to live according to our moral code. Despite Hamas’ stated intention, namely the destruction of Israel, the Jewish state refuses to let go of its values. Its struggle is not with the citizens of the Palestinian territories but with its leaders who, time and again, choose violence and hate over peace and reconciliation.
550 rockets have been fired on Israel. Kippat Barzel (Iron Dome) has intercepted nearly 200. Fortunately only 25 fell on populated areas. Israel has assassinated key leaders and targeted over 600 weapon sites, all while desperately trying to avoid hitting civilians. When will this cease? Why can’t Israel be allowed to live in peace?
It begins in the Torah. It starts with the very first brothers, Cain and Abel, when Cain killed Abel. It continues through this week’s Jacob and Esau. Who started the fighting between the brothers? Was it Jacob who stole the birthright and took advantage of Esau’s hunger? (What a heel!) “I will only give you food if you first give me what is rightfully yours.” Who is to blame? Was it Esau who was so hungry that he spurned his heritage? He had such disregard for his family that he could only see the lentil stew. Was it their parents? Isaac favored Esau; he liked the meat Esau hunted. Rebekah favored Jacob. Who is to blame? Was it God? Blasphemy, you might say. We read: “But the children struggled in her womb…And Rebekah went to inquire of the Lord and the Lord answered: ‘Two nations are in your womb, two separate peoples shall issue from your body…’”
Who is to blame? Is it LIPA or nature’s fury? Sure it was a super storm. Was it, as I believe, caused by climate change or just a once in a hundred year storm? Can we assign blame? There is indeed plenty of human folly to go around. It pains me that our infrastructure is so vulnerable, that our power lines are but mere extension cords strung from one pole to another. Can we fault others? Should we instead fault ourselves?
Who is to blame? Is it Israel or the Palestinians? My sympathies are of course with Israel and its citizens. I stand with Jacob, who will soon become Israel. I believe that the Palestinian and Arab leadership are largely to blame for the lack of peace and the failure to establish a Palestinian State. Now, no less, precious resources are being directed to exhume Arafat’s body in order to determine if he was poisoned. Really!? The cynic in me thinks, here is but one more example of resources being diverted so that the Jewish state can be blamed for all of the Palestinians’ troubles. We might soon hear, “The Jews killed Arafat.”
No sooner had Mahmoud Abbas said that he would like to visit the city of his birth, Safed, that he had to retract the statement because of riots. To go there would have been to acknowledge Israel’s sovereignty. Imagine what might have occurred were he a courageous leader. He could say, “It is good to return to this city, to the place of my birth. It pains me that it has taken so many years. Here Jew and Palestinian lived side by side. But those years are no more.” He actually said that the Palestinians make no claim on pre-1967 Israel. In other words he claims only the West Bank (and parts of Jerusalem) and Gaza for a Palestinian State. And those words led to the controversy which he later retracted.
Imagine how different it could be if he went there, to Safed. Imagine if we cast aside blame and stopped arguing over birthrights and instead shared a pot of stew. I know; call me naive, call me a dreamer. But hoping and dreaming is what makes you a rabbi. Actually those are the key ingredients of being a Jew.
Imagine how different it would be if Netanyahu said likewise. He could say, “We have no territorial claims on the West Bank. True it is where our faith was born. It is where our ancestors are buried. But we will give it all up so that we can have peace and share this land. You can live there, in my people’s birthplace, and I will continue to live here in yours.” And he should go on to say, “If need be, we will rip out the anti-democratic forces from within our midst so that we can make peace.”
Imagine! Is it possible to cast aside history and pain for the sake of peace? Yitzhak Rabin (z”l) said, “There has been too much blood.” And this has become our only truth. There is quiet for a few months and sometimes years. And then there is blood.
Just imagine if the values that somehow called Israel to keep the lights on in Gaza called its leadership, amidst all the rockets and the necessary defensive measures of the IDF, to stand up and say, “I am still ready to make peace. Come to Jerusalem. Come even to Safed. We will never give up on peace!” And imagine if the Palestinians, and their leadership, tossed their home made rockets into the sea, rather than vowing to push the Jews there, and answered the call of peace, and went to Safed and Jerusalem.
Imagine what we could accomplish, if we cast blame aside!
Chayei Sarah and Hurricane Sandy Sermon
Below is my sermon from Friday, November 9 when we were finally able to gather together as a community following Hurricane Sandy.
This week’s Torah portion is called Chayei Sarah, the life of Sarah, but opens with her death. She dies at the age of 127 years. Abraham then buys a burial plot and buries her in Hebron in the Cave of Machpelah. She is the first to be buried in this holy site. Then Abraham sends his trusted servant Eliezer to find a wife for his son Isaac.
As much as I like talking Torah my thoughts are focused on Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. So here is what I have learned from this still unfolding cataclysm. This is what Sandy should teach us.
First the mundane. Losing electricity reminds us why we light Shabbat candles before sunset. Although there are of course deeper explanations for this ritual, the most basic is that the candles provided light for the celebration that followed. This is also why we read Torah only during daylight hours. It is impossible to read from the scroll without light. We tried it this past week in a darkened sanctuary. It is impossible.
Second, we are far too dependent on technology. I have now added a qualification to my discussions about the wonders of the iPhone and my wireless house. They all require electricity. I am in fact dependent not on my computer skills but instead on LIPA. It is no longer so impressive to be able to stream music from my iPhone to the stereo! None of it works without electricity.
As I quickly discovered our cell phones worked only sporadically and from certain precise locations in our neighborhood. Perhaps communication is better when it is more human, when it is face to face. I discovered that the human connection is indeed better. There is something more authentic about going to a neighbor’s house to check on them and share wine rather than texting.
We require electrical power for even the most mundane. We require our cars, and the gas that runs them, for far more than we even realize. Had it been the usual routine for the Moskowitz’s I would not have begged other parents for a ride to Ari’s recent soccer game. Susie and I would have driven two cars all the way to Patchogue because we were coming from different locations. This past week it was impossible because my car was running impossibly low on gas.
Finally, the question of climate change. I happen to believe the evidence is unequivocal. I understand that some might hold different views. Nonetheless we can’t keep building so close to the water and expect no harm. We can’t just replenish our destroyed beaches. I appreciate the call to rebuild. I admire the sentiment. Perhaps instead we should be thinking more strategically. We need to make some fundamental changes in how we live, or at least where we live. Or at the very least we need to better protect our vital infrastructure. This seems obvious so soon after Sandy but the tendency is to fall back on what we know rather than change. I know that change is difficult but it is required. Sandy should be our wake up call. If we go back to business as usual, if we simply rebuild and attempt to recreate what was destroyed and lost, then we will be back where we started. Maybe it won’t be next summer, but it will happen again. Pretending it can’t happen again will lead to our demise. The island we cherish is threatened by climate change and the encroaching sea. As much as I love the ocean and its beaches we had better figure out a better way to keep our distance.
Yes, we, in our immediate area, are very fortunate. It is not simply that we lost less than others, but because of all that we have. Sometimes as they say you have to give it up in order to better appreciate what you have. Far too much of our modern lives are taken for granted. One lasting lesson is that the simple conveniences of heat and electricity should never be taken for granted. They are blessings that far too many still do not have.
Back to the Torah. How does Eliezer find a wife for Isaac? He devises a test. He comes to the town’s well and waits to see who would offer him water. Rebekah of course offers him water, as well as for his camels, and then invites him back to her family’s home for a meal. The rabbis discern that hospitality is the true measure of the righteous.
Like Eliezer I learned first hand of the blessing of hospitality. Let us look at this hurricane as a test, not of course as one sent by heaven. Let us see Sandy instead as a test granted to us so that we might improve our lives and that of our communities. Will we go back to our same old ways? Will we place band aids on all of our short term flaws? Will we change nothing, hoping and praying that this will never happen again? Or will we rise to the challenge and the test and say how must we change?
Eliezer devised a simple test for Isaac’s future wife. Would she show hospitality? Would she offer to water the camels as well? We have a far greater test and challenge standing before us. Once we care for the wounded and hurting, we must begin to ask how we can change, what we must change. We have now been taught to appreciate our many blessings. Let this lesson not be so fleeting. Let it not be short lived.
May God grant us much healing and even more wisdom to change the very ways we live.
Vayetzei
Last week we studied the work of Abraham Joshua Heschel and in particular his beautiful essay written in the shadow of the Holocaust in 1949, “Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul.” In it he claims that Judaism is not simply about adding meaning to our own lives. It must have relevance for the entire world. “To be a Jew is either superfluous or essential… In keeping faith with our Judaism, we guard the hidden divine light and the noblest of visions, which have been saved for humanity’s future.”
It is a notion worthy of reflection. The Jewish people are called to better the world. Our tradition adds meaning to all of humanity. Some might object to such an idea, thinking that it is given to conceit. Yet, as we approach the holiday of Thanksgiving, I recall the promise of America also held before the other nations of the world. Throughout our history we have continued to believe that our vision of freedom and democracy is something that all should cherish.
President Obama, for instance, said at his first inauguration: “Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man -- a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience sake.”
Or perhaps you prefer the words of President Bush, offered at his second inauguration, only a few years after the terror of 9-11: “Some, I know, have questioned the global appeal of liberty - though this time in history, four decades defined by the swiftest advance of freedom ever seen, is an odd time for doubt. Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals. Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul.”
To be a believer, whether it is faith in America or Judaism, requires a chutzpah that these visions are not about self-fulfillment, but something much grander. We cling to democracy despite the fact that the world appears to waver and teeter toward fundamentalism. And we must likewise cling to our Jewish faith. It is not about what I find meaningful or even spiritually fulfilling. It is instead about what the world needs! Our tradition, for example, holds justice as paramount. And the world certainly requires more justice! Heschel reminds us: “Judaism teaches us to view any injustice…or human oppression as a major tragedy and feel divine joy at bringing happiness to any mortal.”
Jacob, now running from his brother Esau from whom he (unjustly) stole the birthright, finds a place in the wilderness to rest for the night. He dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven. Angels are climbing up and down upon its rungs. God stands at its head declaring a promise for future generations: “Your descendant shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants.” (Genesis 28:14)
The dream that begins in this week’s Torah portion and travels through the nation that we cherish and celebrate tomorrow on Thanksgiving is also contained in our faith and rooted in the scroll that we hold in our arms each and every Shabbat. We declare our allegiance to these dreams not so that we might find fulfillment but instead so that the world might be redeemed.
May we never tire in bringing these dreams to the world!
We continue to pray for the peace of Israel. “Our God, God of our fathers and mothers, Rock and Redeemer of the people Israel: Bless the State of Israel, with its promise of redemption. Shield it with Your love; spread over it the shelter of Your peace…”
Too Many Rockets, Again
Children should not learn such vocabulary...
Pray for the peace of Israel!
P.S. I thank my colleague, Sherry Gutes, for sharing this video with me.
I am unable to leave Sandy behind. Perhaps better to say that Hurricane Sandy will not let go. Her winds and waves continue to torment my dreams. True, life is returning to normal on the North Shore. Power has been restored. Our homes are again warm. Nonetheless for our friends and family living only miles away the struggle continues. Far too many, in the place we call home, are without even the most basic of necessities.
I find this painful to witness. I pledge not to sit idly by. I must vow to do more.
I find it as well painful to read the opening verses of this week’s portion, about our forefathers Jacob and Esau. Here is that story. Jacob and Esau are twins. Esau was born only moments before Jacob. Jacob emerges holding on to his brother’s heel. He is thus called “Jacob, meaning heel.” Esau becomes a skilled hunter. Jacob is more mild mannered and toils in the house (nay, tent). One day Esau returns from hunting and spies the lentil stew that Jacob is cooking. Esau screams, “Give me some of that red stuff to gulp down, for I am famished…” (Genesis 25:30) Seeing an opportunity, Jacob tells Esau to sell him his birthright. Esau relents saying, “I am at the point of death, so of what use is my birthright to me?” Jacob insists that Esau make a solemn vow renouncing the birthright. He does. And thus Jacob claims the birthright of his older brother.
How many people take advantage of the pain and suffering of others, especially during the past weeks? How many gas stations unnecessarily raised their prices? How many people stole from others when their homes were unprotected? There were far too many who took advantage of their brethren and profited from their hunger, thereby spurning their very heritage and casting aside the ties that should bind us together. Then again there were far more (at least I continue to believe, I must believe, that there are always more good than bad) who ran to help, who contributed much needed supplies, who offered assistance, who continue to write checks for repair.
And now my thoughts turn to Israel. Why must Jacob and Esau continue to fight? Let it be said that I stand with the State of Israel. I stand with my people, with Jacob who later becomes Israel in its struggle with Esau. Still I wonder why can’t brothers live in peace, why must they fight over birthrights, inheritances and blessings? Why can’t we live by the prophet’s words, please God may it be soon? “And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation. And never again will they learn war." (Isaiah 2:4)
I understand the intricacies of the modern Middle East. I recognize the failures of the Palestinians to build something (anything!) positive in Gaza after Israel unilaterally withdrew from this territory. I can argue with the best of them whether Jacob stands guilty of stealing the birthright or as the Torah records, “Thus did Esau spurn the birthright.” Sometimes I wish that such discussions should be of no consequence. I just want peace.
Yehuda Amichai, the great Israeli poet, writes:
Not the peace of a cease-fire,
not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,
but rather
as in the heart when the excitement is over
and you can talk only about a great weariness.
I know that I know how to kill,
that makes me an adult.
And my son plays with a toy gun that knows
how to open and close its eyes and say Mama.
A peace
without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,
without words, without
the thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it be
light, floating, like lazy white foam.
A little rest for the wounds—
who speaks of healing?
(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation
to the next, as in a relay race:
the baton never falls.)
Let it come
like wildflowers,
suddenly, because the field
must have it: wildpeace.
Let that be our prayer. For our tortured souls following Hurricane Sandy. And for our embattled (once again) Medinat Yisrael, the State of Israel.
Peter Beinart Belongs in the Zionist Tent
Daniel Gordis: Peter Beinart Belongs in the Zionist Tent – Tablet Magazine
Peter Beinart who argues that the settlements are the major stumbling block to peace with Israel's neighbors and perhaps even more importantly the core reason why many American Jews are growing disconnected from the Jewish state was recently uninvited from speaking at the Atlanta Book Fair. While I disagree with Beinart about many of his judgments, this action represents an insidious turn in the American Jewish landscape. When facing such difficult and weighty problems we require a diversity of views. Narrowing the discussion serves no one, except perhaps our enemies. As the debate grows smaller and our collective views more narrow we can then be more effectively caricatured. I therefore open my hearts and ears to those who disagree with me. As long as someone believes that the State of of Israel must remain Jewish, democratic and in the Middle East they are a Zionist. I have always found it strange that there is far more open debate about Israel's most vexing challenges within the Israeli Knesset than among American Jews. I certainly don't agree with everything Israel does or everything every American Jew says but let's keep the debate open and wide. It does not serve our collective future to apply such litmus tests and attempt to excommunicate those who disagree with us.
Rabbi Danny Gordis writes of those who uninvited Beinart:
They represent, I believe, a scary anti-intellectual trend in the Jewish community. These people believe that an increasingly narrow tent will best protect the state of Israel, and so they continue to move the tent’s pegs. But they are doing just the opposite of bolstering the Jewish state: They weaken Israel and make it more vulnerable because they exclude enormous swaths of the community that we need—particularly on a week like this.
And Gordis concludes:
Speaking with people who agree with me is no challenge. Engaging with those whose views seem to me dangerous is infinitely harder, but far more important. That sort of conversation is perhaps the most critical lesson that we inherit from centuries of Talmudic Judaism. The Talmud is essentially a 20-volume argument, in which even positions that “lost” the battle and were not codified into law are subjected to reverential examination. When Hillel and Shammai debate, Jewish law, or halakhah, almost always follows Hillel. But we still study Shammai with reverence. Even those views not codified, we believe, have insights to share and moral positions worth considering.
The American Jewish community is the most secure diaspora community the Jews have ever known. Economically, socially, politically, culturally—we have made it, and what we say and model is watched by countless others. Yet New York Times readers this week can only conclude that in the midst of that security and comfort, we’ve utterly abandoned the intellectual curiosity that has long been Judaism’s hallmark.
Are we not ashamed to have created a community so shrill that any semblance of that Talmudic curiosity has been banished? Has the People of the Book really become so uninterested in thinking?
Let us rally in support of the State of Israel. This week let us renew our commitment to its security. But let us as well not rally around one ideology and one vision of Zionism. We are indeed one, but not one idea.
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Authors of Colour
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New Books Coming Your Way, March 15, 2016
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
Fiction/short stories; India/Pakistan
The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation of India and Pakistan in 1947, but they transcend that historical moment. A young woman in a crushingly loveless marriage seizes freedom in the only way left to her; a mother is forced to confront a chilling, unforgiveable crime she committed out of love; an ambitious servant seduces both master and mistress; a young prostitute quietly, inexorably plots revenge on the madam who holds her hostage; a husband and wife must forgive each other for the death of their child. Caught in extreme states of tension, in a world of shifting borders, of instability, Rao's characters must rely on their own wits. When Partition established Pakistan and India as sovereign states, the new boundary resulted in a colossal transfer of people, the largest peacetime migration in human history. This mass displacement echoes throughout Rao's story couplets, which range across the twentieth century, moving beyond the subcontinent to Europe and America. Told with dark humor and ravaging beauty, An Unrestored Woman unleashes a fearless new voice on the literary scene.
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Know the Mother by Desiree Cooper
Fiction/short stories; race/gender
While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives.
In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician’s wife’s thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: "Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn’t worth the price of abandoning her family, so she’d come back home. She’d risked it all for love." With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper’s stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality.
Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.
Fiction; Korean American
Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family’s future.
A few miles away, his parents, Jin and Mae, live in the town’s most exclusive neighborhood, surrounded by the material comforts that Kyung desires for his wife and son. Growing up, they gave him every possible advantage, but never kindness nor affection. Now, Kyung can hardly bear to see his parents, much less ask them for help. Yet when an act of violence leaves Jin and Mae unable to live on their own, the dynamic suddenly changes, and he feels compelled to take them in. Once more under the same roof, Kyung is forced to question what it means to be a good husband, father, and son, while the life he knew begins to crumble and his own anger demands to be released.
As Shelter veers swiftly toward its startling conclusion, Jung Yun leads us through dark and violent territory, where, unexpectedly, the Chos discover hope. Shelter is a masterfully crafted debut novel that asks what it means to provide for one's family and, in answer, delivers a story as riveting as it is profound.
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Fiction; India/London
Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead, he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. The story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness begins to find ghostly echoes in his own life. And, as present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik’s own goes into free fall.
On the Way Back by Montague Kobbé
Fiction; Caribbean (Anguilla)
Nathaniel Jones, a middle-aged businessman from England, travels to the Caribbean island of Anguilla to spend a fortnight on holiday when he's captivated by a brilliant and beautiful member of the local community, Sheila Rawlingson. After a secret, intense hundred-day courtship, Nathaniel proposes to Sheila, whose agreement to marry this white man is seen as a betrayal by her family and fellow Anguillans.
Recognizing the value Anguillan society places on economic projects, Nathaniel attempts to set up an airline business to gain the support and favor of the Rawlingsons. Nathaniel sends for his son, Dragon Jones, to travel to Anguilla and cofound Dragon Wings, the nation's first commercial airline. Nathaniel, Dragon, and Sheila turn to her uncle for financial backing. Sheila's uncle, however, foils Nathaniel's best-laid plans at every turn. Kobbé's hilarious social novel brilliantly echoes A Confederacy of Dunces and Herman Wouk's Don't Stop the Carnival.
Labels: A Life Apart , An Unrestored Woman , Desiree Cooper , India , Jung Yun , Know the Mother , Neel Mukherjee , Shelter , Shobha Rao
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Weather World
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Weather World : BBCNEWS : August 27, 2017 5:30am-6:01am BST
strikes, you can be sure bbc weather watchers will try to succeed where many of us fail to get a good photo of it. these were all taken when storms swept through the uk injuly. become a bbc weather watchers by signing up online. —— become a bbc weather watcher by signing up online. and coming up, how a blanket could help produce a phenomenon —— and coming up, how a blanket could help reduce a phenomenon known as glacial melt. so far on weather world, we've been getting very high—tech at this urban weather experiment on this windy rooftop in london. but along with the high—tech, i'm glad ifound something that's a little bit more familiar, at least to me, which is a weather station. we've seen a lot of these on our travels on weather world. remember, in northumberland, we saw a fully working met office weather station there. inside here, we've got a thermometer and it's measuring humidity with this gauge, all inside a very clever box which protects it from the direct sunshine and excessive wind. of course, that weather station had a stevenson screen behind which you had
strikes, you can be sure bbc weather watchers will try to succeed where many of us fail to get a good photo of it. these were all taken when storms swept through the uk injuly. become a bbc weather watchers by signing up online. —— become a bbc weather watcher by signing up online. and coming up, how a blanket could help produce a phenomenon —— and coming up, how a blanket could help reduce a phenomenon known as glacial melt. so far on weather world, we've been getting very high—tech...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : August 28, 2017 1:30pm-2:00pm BST
every second and whenever lightning strikes you can be sure bbc weather watchers will try to succeed where many of us fail to get a good photo of it. these were all taken when storms swept through the uk injuly. become a bbc weather watcher by signing up online. sarah: and coming up, how a blanket could help produce a phenomenon known as glacial melt. so far on weather world, we've been getting very high—tech at this urban weather experiment on this windy rooftop in london. but along with the high—tech, i'm glad ifound something that's a little bit more familiar, at least to me, which is a weather station. we've seen a lot of these on our travels on weather world. remember, in northumberland, we saw a fully working met office weather station there. inside here we've got a thermometer and it's measuring humidity with this gauge, all inside a very clever box which protects it from the direct sunshine and excessive wind... of course that weather station had a stevenson screen behind which you had a thermometer. this, although not the same as a stevenson screen, acts like that, prote
every second and whenever lightning strikes you can be sure bbc weather watchers will try to succeed where many of us fail to get a good photo of it. these were all taken when storms swept through the uk injuly. become a bbc weather watcher by signing up online. sarah: and coming up, how a blanket could help produce a phenomenon known as glacial melt. so far on weather world, we've been getting very high—tech at this urban weather experiment on this windy rooftop in london. but along with...
animal takes part, weather they want to or not. tim allman, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. he is lucy martin. hello. a north—south split to our weather today. i weather watchers at the note and sending in their pictures. blue skies and suffolk. as we move into the weekend, looks as if we will see a lot of warm sunshine around, still the risk of seeing the odd isolated shower, particularly on saturday. a few outbreaks of light drizzly rain in the far north—west on sunday. today we have seen a bit ofa on sunday. today we have seen a bit of a north—south split, some of rain moving across northern ireland and scotland. as we move through the rest of the day today, we will see some good spells of sunshine across the far south and south east. temperatures reaching a maximum of 2a 25 celsis, more in the way of cloud in the midlands, could produce the odd spot of rain, mainly dry with a few sunny spells. a risk of a few fairly heavy showers across northern ireland and scotland, some localised flooding could happen in northern ireland. as we go through this evening and overni
animal takes part, weather they want to or not. tim allman, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. he is lucy martin. hello. a north—south split to our weather today. i weather watchers at the note and sending in their pictures. blue skies and suffolk. as we move into the weekend, looks as if we will see a lot of warm sunshine around, still the risk of seeing the odd isolated shower, particularly on saturday. a few outbreaks of light drizzly rain in the far north—west on sunday. today...
The Papers : BBCNEWS : August 2, 2017 10:45pm-11:00pm BST
. there were heavy downpour that indeed. that was seen the weather watcher in lyme regis. if you chose to to the beach you may well have just turned round and had a trip to the beach you may well have just turned round and had at home. compare that with how those quys home. compare that with how those guys looked across the bar north of scotland, beautiful blue skies. we had a lot of cloud and as you can see large amounts of rain fell across southern counties of england and used angrier and eventually the rome burns in across the bar north of scotland. —— eventually the rain. it will turn wet here as the night goes on and some showers packing from the west. we keep a fairly strong breeze so low pressure still in charge of the scene for tomorrow. that brings is a mixture that we have become quite used to recently. some sunshine, some showers. the closer you are to the centre of the low is where you will see most of the showers. persistent rain across northern scotland. and very, very light winds meaning the showers will be slow—moving. so if a shower arrives it could be with
. there were heavy downpour that indeed. that was seen the weather watcher in lyme regis. if you chose to to the beach you may well have just turned round and had a trip to the beach you may well have just turned round and had at home. compare that with how those quys home. compare that with how those guys looked across the bar north of scotland, beautiful blue skies. we had a lot of cloud and as you can see large amounts of rain fell across southern counties of england and used angrier and...
. colin paterson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. good afternoon. some sunshine around this morning, the further south and east you are doing the best for that. whether watchers have been out of the cameras, this photo sent in from suffolk, some blue skies there. some sunshine as we move into this weekend and feeling warm and the sunshine, the risk of the odd isolated shower and to saturday. particularly the further north you are fully could be fairly heavy. a fewer outbreaks of light and rain and drizzle and the north—west on sunday. today the seen shirley outbreaks pushing across through northern ireland and scotland and into the north—west of england. further south some good spells of sunshine and that is how we stay as we move through this afternoon, good sunny spells across the south and east. temperatures in the sunshine warming up to a maximum of 24. perhaps a little more cloud across the midlands and to wales with the odd spot of rain but it is thick enough, some outbreaks of rain from england northern ireland and scotla nd england northern ireland and scotland a
. colin paterson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. good afternoon. some sunshine around this morning, the further south and east you are doing the best for that. whether watchers have been out of the cameras, this photo sent in from suffolk, some blue skies there. some sunshine as we move into this weekend and feeling warm and the sunshine, the risk of the odd isolated shower and to saturday. particularly the further north you are fully could be fairly heavy. a fewer outbreaks of light...
BBC News at Six : BBCNEWS : August 8, 2017 6:00pm-6:31pm BST
be another. joe wilson, bbc news, sheffield. looked wet there. time for a look at the weather, here's ben rich. awful out least? it's been dramatic. yes. we had funnel clouds sent in by a weather watcher off the essex coast and thunder and lightning as well. an impressive shot there again from essex. it hasn't been that dramatic everywhere. the rain further west across england and wales hasn't been as heavy. for northern ireland and scotland it's been a scattering of showers and plenty of fine and dry weather. this evening things will turn completely dry across scotland and northern ireland, clear spells here. areas of wet weather with further thunder and lightning around england and wales. temperatures around 10—14 degrees. tomorrow, one day on the calendar, two very different days of weather. northern ireland and scotland a cracking start to the day, blue skies and sunshine, 13 or 14 degrees for glasgow and belfast. cloud for northern england and wales. here things will brighten up through the day. a different story further south and east. a wet start in the south—west o
be another. joe wilson, bbc news, sheffield. looked wet there. time for a look at the weather, here's ben rich. awful out least? it's been dramatic. yes. we had funnel clouds sent in by a weather watcher off the essex coast and thunder and lightning as well. an impressive shot there again from essex. it hasn't been that dramatic everywhere. the rain further west across england and wales hasn't been as heavy. for northern ireland and scotland it's been a scattering of showers and plenty of fine...
. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. time for a look at the weather. we have seen some decent sunshine today. i have a weather watcher picture to show you of the sunny skies in cornwall earlier this morning. beautiful reflections. but it has not been sunny everywhere. this was the scene sent in an hour ago, showing a thunder cloud working across the skyline of aberdeenshire. and in the last hour, we have seen some lightning being picked up by our lightning detectors from these big showers heading into eastern scotland. so there are thunderstorms. if you are out and about in the next couple of hours, there is a chance of catching the odd heavy downpour across both scotla nd odd heavy downpour across both scotland and northern ireland. in northern england, most of this showers are fading away, so the weather is largely dry in the evening. plenty of sunshine still left in the day across the midlands and south—east england. further south and west, temperatures are still in the high teens to low 20s. 0vernight, pressure tends to build. the clouds will fade away, the showers easing off acr
. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. time for a look at the weather. we have seen some decent sunshine today. i have a weather watcher picture to show you of the sunny skies in cornwall earlier this morning. beautiful reflections. but it has not been sunny everywhere. this was the scene sent in an hour ago, showing a thunder cloud working across the skyline of aberdeenshire. and in the last hour, we have seen some lightning being picked up by our lightning detectors from these big showers...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : August 3, 2017 8:00pm-8:46pm BST
in a few months‘ time. hugh pym, bbc news. now for a look at the weather. good evening. sunshine and showers was the order of the day with the heaviest showers falling across northern and eastern parts of scotland, our weather watchers sent in pictures of impressive cloudscape and as we go on the internet, the wettest weather . there will be showers in northern ireland and southee should stay dry into friday. sunshine and showers on friday, not many on the south, and particularly across scotland and the north, were there will be blustery wind. lighter winds in the south—east, up to 2a degrees in london, cool and fresh air in the north and west. sadly bring showers, heavy showers likely in wales, the midlands, towards lincolnshire, a cool day, 16—20d. sunday should be dry with some rain spreading in from the west later on. that's all from me for now. hello, this is bbc news with vicki young. the headlines at 8.30pm: the bank of england downgrades its growth forecasts for this year and next — warning that the uk economy will remain "sluggish" because of uncertainty surrounding br
in a few months‘ time. hugh pym, bbc news. now for a look at the weather. good evening. sunshine and showers was the order of the day with the heaviest showers falling across northern and eastern parts of scotland, our weather watchers sent in pictures of impressive cloudscape and as we go on the internet, the wettest weather . there will be showers in northern ireland and southee should stay dry into friday. sunshine and showers on friday, not many on the south, and particularly across...
Breakfast : BBCNEWS : August 15, 2017 6:00am-8:31am BST
about the weather. this was sent in by one of our weather watchers and it tells the story nicely because today‘s forecast is one of sunshine and showers. we have to get rid of the rain from kent first and also from the north—east of scotland. that pushes into the northern isles, clearing shetland last, moves away from kent, then brightens up with just a few showers, the heaviest of which will be in the north of the country. for northern ireland this afternoon it is sunshine and showers, some heavy ones for you. the show is more frequent across scotland. you can see the odd flash of lightning. but there will be a lot of dry weather and temperatures could reach 19 in edinburgh. a lot of dry weather with sunny spells, as we comes up a lot of dry weather. some showers in east anglia and kent, but here we could hit 26 celsius yesterday. in the southern counties of england, into south—west england and wales a lot of dry weather. the odd shower, but the showers across england and wales will be fewer and further between. tonight the showers will fade, you will have a clearer night and by t
about the weather. this was sent in by one of our weather watchers and it tells the story nicely because today‘s forecast is one of sunshine and showers. we have to get rid of the rain from kent first and also from the north—east of scotland. that pushes into the northern isles, clearing shetland last, moves away from kent, then brightens up with just a few showers, the heaviest of which will be in the north of the country. for northern ireland this afternoon it is sunshine and showers,...
BBC Newsroom Live : BBCNEWS : August 25, 2017 11:00am-1:01pm BST
told them i will not be coming back! in a moment we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two — first we leave you with for a look at the weather. a north—south split to the weather today, the best of the brightness the further south you are and whether watchers have been sending in their photos. this blue sky in suffolk. enter the weekend, a lot of warm sunshine and the rest of the odd isolated shower. particularly on saturday the further north you have the could be fairly heavy and outbreaks of light drizzle and the far north—west on sunday. today a bit of a north—south split, outbreaks of show a leading across northern ireland and scotland but the best of the brightness the further south and east you are. through the rest of the day today, good spells of sunshine across the far south and south—east tabs of teaching maximum of 24 or 25. a little workload across the midlands and wales, losing the odd spot of rain and substrate with sunny spells and this if you feel they have showers across northern ireland and scotland. the chance of localised flooding in northern ireland. through thi
told them i will not be coming back! in a moment we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two — first we leave you with for a look at the weather. a north—south split to the weather today, the best of the brightness the further south you are and whether watchers have been sending in their photos. this blue sky in suffolk. enter the weekend, a lot of warm sunshine and the rest of the odd isolated shower. particularly on saturday the further north you have the could be fairly heavy and outbreaks of...
included. this photo sent in bya thunder included. this photo sent in by a weather watcher and barnes, very heavy rain there. further south, more dry and bright weather. the band of rain in the north and cloud further south edging slowly eastwards through the day. behind it some fresh idea but also more in the way of brightness. onto the map, northern ireland is a mixture of sunny spells and showers this afternoon. some can be fairly sharp, brightening in the west of scotland but holding on to the cloud and if few outbreaks of rain in the far east. northern england has plenty of dry weather, the odd isolated showers and a breakfast for wales. the best of the sunshine set in the south—west. more humid air in the south—east, temperatures reaching a maximum of 24. through tonight, the rain becomes more confined to the northern isles, a fusion is into northern isles, a fusion is into northern ireland and into the west coast but if the least, dryer and fresher than last night. overnight lows of 12 to 14. better tomorrow, lows of 12 to 14. better tomorrow, low pressure to the north—we
included. this photo sent in bya thunder included. this photo sent in by a weather watcher and barnes, very heavy rain there. further south, more dry and bright weather. the band of rain in the north and cloud further south edging slowly eastwards through the day. behind it some fresh idea but also more in the way of brightness. onto the map, northern ireland is a mixture of sunny spells and showers this afternoon. some can be fairly sharp, brightening in the west of scotland but holding on to...
. good morning. this is a beautiful weather watchers picture sent in this morning and it is of course of east yorkshire. you the full. the sun is out but it's not out everywhere. in the west of northern ireland you have rain and through the day that will slowly move eastwards. it's courtesy of this weather front, connected to this low pressure. 0ne weather front, connected to this low pressure. one look at the isobars, they are tightly squeezed, so it will be breezy, at windy for some of us, especially through the irish sea and western coast of scotland. a bright start to the day, with some high cloud, but that will tend to break through the afternoon and we will have more sunshine. the rain comes across the irish sea into the western fringes of wales in south—west england. some of it will be heavy and ahead of it the cloud will build. a lot of dry and sunny weather in the midlands and east anglia, kent, lincolnshire, up to northumberland. the rain continues to edge towards north—west england and out of northern ireland. kind it there will be some showers. the scotla nd there will
. good morning. this is a beautiful weather watchers picture sent in this morning and it is of course of east yorkshire. you the full. the sun is out but it's not out everywhere. in the west of northern ireland you have rain and through the day that will slowly move eastwards. it's courtesy of this weather front, connected to this low pressure. 0ne weather front, connected to this low pressure. one look at the isobars, they are tightly squeezed, so it will be breezy, at windy for some of us,...
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#TeachSDGs Blog
open Letter to Greta Thunberg and Teachers Everywhere
Dear Greta,
First and foremost, I wish to thank you. Thank you for bravely taking your solitary stand in August. Thank you for speaking so boldly to the rich and the powerful. And, above all, thank you for inspiring millions of young people to #climatestrike alongside you.
With my own students you have been held up as an example of what youth can accomplish when they raise their voices. I have even suggested that you are, at this moment, the single most important person in the world. Many – including you – may disagree with that statement, but please allow me to make the case for those who don’t yet know what we do.
Climate change is not just about worsening fires, storms and floods that seize the headlines on a daily basis. It is also about the growing number of children who spend their days pursuing water instead of education. It is about drought and malnutrition and starvation – mostly in parts of the world that are least responsible for our thickening atmosphere. It is about the “tipping point” when melting ice will release more methane than even a zero-carbon Earth can handle. It is about the scientific consensus that we are only about a decade away from crossing this line.
Despite these facts some politicians, parents, and power brokers are telling you and your followers to return to your Friday classes. To pursue change from there. To allow the “more knowledgeable” adults to continue doing their work.
Some are worried about you. Some are anxious about their jobs or their stocks. Some are willfully blind to the realities of climate change. Some are scared. But they all have one thing in common:
They’re all wrong.
Confronting injustice has long involved bold breaks from the status quo – including the breaking of rules. Your detractors, for various reasons, seek to moderate your anger and shrink your sense of personal power. Thankfully, you and the approximately 1.5 million allies who just commanded the Ides of March seem to understand your true strength and authority. And you all have every right to be furious.
I want you to know that the vast majority of educators are on your side. To teachers everywhere I wish to acknowledge the difficult position we occupy. Entrusted with children from families of all political stripes, we are expected to separate our ideologies from our instruction. While some accuse us of indoctrinating students, others will criticize us for being unsupportive. When making your own decisions, I urge you to consider climate change action not as an ideology, but as a moral imperative that speaks to the deepest levels of common humanity.
Our students also find themselves divided. One group will die from climate change, one will fight in their names, and one will be marginally better at graphing and documenting the history of this crucial moment because they missed less class time. We, the educators, should want the second group to be larger than the third.
This does not mean that we have to organize weekly strikes; our students are doing that on their own. Some, however, will look to our faces when considering whether to participate in #FridaysForFuture. Freedom of Expression allows us to smile. Our consciences want us to dance. Our school mission statements encourage us to teach citizenship and activism. Tens of thousands of scientists and political leaders have signed letters in support of this movement. And the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, signed by every country on Earth, supersede restrictive curricula. So, yes, you can teach about climate change in any subject area.
Still, some voices will seek to silence us, too. Some voices will call for threats or punishments to students and teachers alike. But to educators reading this, please know that you can be the other voices in any setting. You can echo Greta Thunberg’s assertiveness and bravery.
You, Greta, have no doubt heard teachers say that young people can change the world. Like most adults, we love to say this. In this hypocrisy vs. heroism moment, please know that your teachers are immensely proud of you. So are the 30,000+ educators who drive the global #TeachSDGs movement. We stand united behind you. And we will encourage more of our colleagues to do the same.
Thank you again. And congratulations on the Peace Prize nomination.
Ada McKim is a co-founder of @TeachSDGs and a Canadian teacher of World Issues and Law.
Donald Chandler
Brilliant piece. Our local school strike group will be spreading this far and wide, I bet. On the surface, Friday’s Global Climate Strike was about climate action. Going deeper, though, it was about the beginning of the end of absolute adult authority. A necessary shift, under the circumstances.
Peter Cunningham link
The problem is you people - the indoctrinators of youth.
Clearly you have no understanding of the complexities involved and resort to the touchy feely. Failure to deal with the real issues means you people are part of the problem. IN A NUTSHELL:
It is pointless harping on that CO2 alone and nothing else is responsible for climate variation.
Air does not warm the oceans - the oceans warm and cool the air.
Solar and geological factors control water temperatures.
A standard atmosphere is 784 times less dense than water (or) 0.1275% the density of the same volume of water and depending on moisture content, air has 45 times less thermal conductivity than water.
The ONLY solution to cleaner air is modern, inherently safe nuclear. USE IT.
The USA alone has sufficient stockpiles of decommissioned nuclear warheads to power the entire world for over 500 years, and neutralise that waste TOTALLY to the value of beach sand in just 300 years.
You people prattle on with utter irrelevance, and in so doing are part of the problem, not the solution.
You deniers get so desperate these days resorting to myth and fables rather than fact. Your kind is in decline and you cant accept it.
Where is the data that says the air is thickening?
Can you supply a link, it would make an interesting read.
Clearly comprehension isn't your forte'. Another try:
Let us first examine the first examine the Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat of some atmospheric gases.
You have a peek at: www.engineeringtoolbox.com
Look for "Comparing Gas Specific Heat Capacity with Thermal Conductivity and Radiation Peoperties". READ and absorb.
When done - How "much less" the density of air is to water.
Water has a density of 1000 kg/m^3.
If you had a meter cubed of water it would weight about 1000 kg.
Air that is near sea level has a density that averages 1.275 kg/m^3.
If you have a balloon containing a meter cubed of sea level air, the air itself would weight only 1.275 kg.
Therefore, to find how much more dense water is than air all we need to do is find a ratio of water to air.
1000 kg/m^3 divided by 1.275 kg/m^3 yields 784.
Therefore, at sea level, air is 784 times less dense than water.
Expressed in another way, a volume of air at sea level has 0.1275% of the density of the same volume of water.
Dirt is about 2.5 times the density of water.
As you asked about air density:
The density of air is usually denoted by a Greek letter 'p', and it measures the mass of air per its unit volume. Dry air mostly consists of nitrogen (~78%) and oxygen (~21%). The remaining 1% contains many different gases, among others, argon, carbon dioxide, neon or helium. However, the air will cease to be dry air when water vapor appears.
As a mixture of gases, air doesn't have a constant density; this value depends in large on air composition. Most components have similar densities and don't influence the overall density in a substantial way. One of the exceptions is the water vapor; the more water vapor in the air, the lower its density.
For dry air, the density of air at sea level at a temperature of 15°C and pressure of 101.325 kPa (mean sea-level pressure), the density is approximately equal to 1.225 kg/m³. If you change the air temperature, humidity, or the altitude (and hence the pressure), the air density will change, too. As a rule of thumb, you can expect a drop of 0.11-0.12 kg/m³ per 1000 m of altitude change.
Now on a hot day you sweat, so you use a fan, and what does that do? It cools you.
Now examine the laws of thermodynamics - particularly the second.
This is why the oceans substantially affect the air temperatures - and why Greta and Indoctrinators, and sensationalist media are so damned dangerous. The politicians aren't stupid - they are using alarm to control, and the sheep simply cannot see.
Ardhendu Biswas link
If We, the parents can't do anything for our children and they ignite the change,how dare we to crab them back?
Mr Hill
Here is a hard truth to ponder, Greta: if the great producers of this world whom you excoriate were to withdraw their productivity, wealth and talents—in short—their minds from the world today, your generation would simply perish. Why? Because as children you have done nothing as yet, with your lives besides being born. This is what we expect of children until such time as they can be producers by learning from their elders. You are understandably social and ecological ballast. You are not yet cognitively advanced to replicate the structures of survival of which you are the beneficiaries.
Children are important installments on the future. We have invested in you. It is you and your smug generation which think they have nothing to learn from the older ones who are failing themselves. Whom do you expect to employ the majority of you if you have neither the job credentials or life competency skills to navigate the world? The future unemployable-skipping- school-on-Friday obstreperous children?
The truth, as one anonymous blogger aptly put it, is that your generation is unable to work up to forty hours per week without being chronically depressed and anxious. Its members cannot even decide if they want to be a boy or a girl, or both, or neither, or a “they.” They cannot eat meat without crying. I might add that your generation needs “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” as pre-conditions for learning in school. Its members have a pathological need to be coddled and protected from the challenging realities of life. Your generation is the biggest demander and consumer of carbon spewing technological gadgets and devices. An hour without any of them and too many of you succumb to paralyzing lethargy. Your generation is the least curious and most insular set of individuals one has ever encountered. Your hubris extends so far that you think you have nothing to learn from your elders. Greta, living in complete harmony with nature is the death of creativity. Understand this. All great civilizations were forged in the crucibles of proper exploitation of the earth. Those who lived on land with oil and did nothing with it never had a right to it in the first place. Non-usage of God’s resources is the cardinal sin because it results in the un-development of our human capabilities, and makes us indistinguishable from beasts.
Your generation needs to be taught the morality of wealth creation, rather than only parasitically benefiting from it. The only revolution you will lead is one into nihilism and civilization regression.
Robert Sellani
To add some counterbalance - also from an educator....
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/open-letter-greta-thunberg-jason-d-hill/
Prof.Kamal Bhattacharyya link
My Dear Greta Thunberg,
I am from India, the place of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore in literature (1913), Arartya Sen in economics(1998), Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee in economics (2019). Despite all odds, how you are going alone makes you no lesser than super heroes. Our capital Delhi is suffering from acute environmental pollution where people are to go in oxygen parlour to take fresh oxygen, in this situation your emergence in loke an incarnation of divine power. I on behalf of all the Indians invite you to India. Let me tell you one quote from Rabindranath Tagore "If no one responds to your call, then go alone".
With blessings
God speed
Yours ever
Kamal Bhattacharyya
Vyacheslav Luchkin link
Climate change is highly complicated issue. Why wouldn't these young and energetic leaders tackle more evident problem? It is disgusting that UN Mafia prospers and insolently and shamelessly robs and milks the world community! UN is managed by a gang of swindlers, thieves and outright bandits. I think that bringing UN criminals to justice is a right thing to do. Head of UN Mafia (HUNM) Guterres and his cronies must be sent to jail! I saw at the Instagram page of Greta Thunberg her photos with HUNM Guterres. Does that mean that she supports UN Mafia?
Where is your evidence for your rude allegations?
From the UN down, the climate change delusion is a gigantic money tree. It is a tyranny that, despite its pretensions, favours the rich and politically powerful at the expense of the poor and powerless. But the madness of the crowds is waning. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. We can only hope it comes before most of us descend into serfdom.
You asked for evidence, so some bigger words - here are but a few ... FACTS:
Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC official, 2010:
“…one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”
Edenhofer also stated,
"Developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community and so they must have their wealth expropriated and redistributed to the victims of their alleged crimes."
Maurice Strong, organiser of the first UN climate summit, 1992 :
(a) “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.”
(b) “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”.
Maurice Strong – speech to Club of Rome – and “invented” referred specifically to ‘Global Warming’
(c) “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that .. the threat of global warming.. would fit the bill…. the real enemy, then, is humanity itself….we believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is a real one or…. one invented for the purpose.”
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change
(a) The December 2015 climate treaty in Paris will be “a centralised transformation” that “is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different"
(b) At a news conference in Brussels in October 2015, she admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution."
(pc: That should be taken also in the context of Strong’s statements quoted above and the intent to de-industrialise the developed world. A potential return to lifestyles of the 15th and 16th centuries.)
Richard Benedick, US State Department, 1992:
“A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.”
Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, 1988:
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Mikhail Gorbachev, former chief communist of the planet, 1996:
“The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.”
WELL - You did ask ...... and there are more!
Lawrence Taylor link
Thank you for this letter. Our leaders are not taking this seriously and we have run out of time. Unfortunately, I don't think there is going to be meaningful change and your actions will be needed. I am trying to incorporate Windyday Concept. If you can have your city declare a Climate Emergency, have them build worker coop factories to make solar panels, batteries, wind & tide turbines, and set up local farms. We will have to break the present system based on fossil fuels, including food supply which is worldwide and produces plastic in quantities that are overwhelming our planet. We should plant hemp and bamboo to detoxify the soil, build up it's root structure, and can replace plastic. And hemp is 7X better as a CO2 trap than trees. Please spread this letter and my comments.
Merci pour cette lettre. Nos dirigeants ne prennent pas cela au sérieux et notre temps est écoulé. Malheureusement, je ne pense pas qu'il y aura un changement significatif et que vos actions seront nécessaires. J'essaie d'intégrer Windyday Concept. Si vous pouvez demander à votre ville de déclarer une urgence climatique, demandez-leur de construire des usines de coopératives de travail pour fabriquer des panneaux solaires, des batteries, des éoliennes, et de mettre en place des fermes locales. Nous devrons casser le système actuel basé sur les combustibles fossiles, y compris l'approvisionnement alimentaire qui est mondial et qui produit du plastique dans des quantités qui submergent notre planète. Nous devrions planter du chanvre et du bambou pour détoxifier le sol, renforcer sa structure racinaire et remplacer le plastique. Et le chanvre est 7 fois meilleur en tant que piège à CO2 que les arbres. S'il vous plaît diffuser cette lettre et mes commentaires.
Sharon Schaub
Holy Crow. Why are you worried about plants! If you get rid of CO2 we won’t have plant life nor human life. You climate people are all uneducated crazy people 😂
Silly deniers in decline.
Fred Sagwe
The hour us cometh to speak out on how to mitigate on #climateaction with bravery.Right now my country Kenya and else where in the world is adversely affected .With drought ,hunger & famine wreaking havoc.
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Remedial Suggestions
Congratulations. Some ideas put very briefly. We need to morally enforce a voluntary lifestyle code.
1.Let the youngsters boycott fossil fuelled vehicles. Let each one insist on cycling and buying adult tricycles or quadricycles
for the elders. in the family.
2. Let all children insist on having VERMIcomposting (the best method which uses red worms) of waste at home. You get suitable bins for the purpose( The colonies and municipalities will never do it...only exceptional ones will). Organic soil sequesters carbon better than anything else. Its our duty to produce it out of waste.
3. Let all children identify carbon guzzling plants and trees. Let them insist on planting and propagating eg. medium size NEEM trees in BUCKETS in balconies. Let children cultivate this great hobby. Many full grown trees' roots may rip up the foundations of buildings, but if grown in buckets or large planters the trees and roots will remain contained and small.
As more such trees begin to abound let these be kept on pavements.
4. Tell your parents and family members to redeem money deposits from oil companies. And to never invest, ie. buy shares of these.
5. Tell your science teachers and Principal you want to learn how to make electricity using a stationary bike. Keep a record of how much clean electricity you generated on which date. At the end of note how much carbon emission you saved the planet.
6. Make it a weekly hobby to install a solar power driven gadget even if it drains some part of your pocket money. Learn to cook in a solar cooker.
Much Love. Wishing you Greta success!!! God Bless
"...morally enforce a voluntary lifestyle code". Hmmmm... did your brain hurt after thinking of that?
First - Andrew -- aka: "the wit".
"morally enforce a voluntary lifestyle code"
YES - That's exactly how the UN works - Voluntary compliance, but enforced with financial penalties.
Andrew - if you doubt me, and surely you do, then I suggest you digest the UNs Agenda 21 and it's spawn Agenda 2030.
Get back to me here and enlighten everybody.
Yawn boring denialist crap
Andrew Lalvawnhima
Well, this just shows teachers are dumb about climate science. Europeans are just so self righteous. The rest of the world agrees climate is changing but unless you provide us with sustainable Nuclear powerplants, the rest of the world will mostly die of economic collapse. Sustainable energy costs more than fossil fuels and are unreliable, they cant even power up low voltage streetlights consistrntly let alone a city. You dont burn coal, the rest of the world will burn trees. Thats sad, but a reality. And The EU or America wont wet other countries experiment with Nuclear power, and there are only a few that would even dare to experiment with that.
Truth is Greta Thunberg is delusional and so are most climate activists and since European Children seem to be getting dumber, they are of no importance to solving a climate issue. Greta does read a lot about the negatives but doesnt read at all about the positives of fossil fuels which by far outweighs the negative. I would suggest her to stop that Asperger's arrogance and stop leading children who have the potential and the RESOURCES to actually solve Climate Change in the future without depriving the Energy resources it takes to bring up the Economy and Mental well being of us 3rd world developing countries.
Im from India and I hope Greta would stop with her delusions of being used as a political puppet, seriously she has no idea of the damage she's causing. I have no hard evidence but everyone here can see that Climate change activists and government employees are the most corrupt departments in India. A person from our locality got an iphone and a car in 3 months after he joined as an assistant in a govt funded Climate activist organisation... Its just bullcrap and political motive for the rest of the world so just stop
Yes, an iphone and a car in one buy is hard to get around here with a salary topping at around 20k per month... Thats 60k in 3 months at most... That wont buy you an used iphone 8... He got an XR and an SUV... He had no job and lived with his parents who work at an NGO... So in European context, it would be equivalent to working as an intern and buying a yatch
In short: YES!
I am actually amazed that this site was so open and fair as to allow dissenting but constructive comment (yours and mine), so that's a step in the right direction.
I am from Australia, and like you can see that feeling good about something ranges from "nice" to "destructive".
Righteousness bears its ugly head in many places and is always destructive. This article and many of the comments is an example of claiming the moral high ground, but so blinded by ideologies - can never be constructive.
I am a civil engineer. I MUST examine the whole before embarking on a task. Not so with the righteous.
The dangerous element here is that this site/forum contains educators. No wonder the workd is being screwed up!
Mike link
Not so said Professor Hill...
This stream-of-consciousness rant occasionally verges on making an actual point, but never quite gets there. How much time did you waste on this absurd rhetorical pat on the back? Please waste more! The less time you spend interacting with children, the better.
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By Larry Young On May 27, 2019 · Add Comment
“I’m a secret agent. In space.”
I love how they started this week’s episode. An interesting late Seventies/early Eighties music cue for the chronicom hunter quite reminiscent of The Return of the Saint theme puts the audience on notice of the vibe. Good ol’ Bear McCreary. Then, a quick smash cut to the space-worthy Zephyr, and the whole thing reads like a Guardians of the Galaxy riff on a quarter of the budget. I mean, that’s not necessarily a bad thing because GotG itself is thematically a low-rent affair, but, still. The Netflix Marvel heroes played the same game with smaller bank and seemed to make bigger wins in terms of production value. It’s hard to do cosmic scope shooting in a soundstage on a weekly schedule.
“Hello, fellow brigands. I look forward to playing this game of chance with you.”
But I love Enoch so much. I almost wish this story thread followed Fitz in the chronicom world instead of Enoch in the MTVU (sorry, Jeph, it’s not all connected, so you get a new acronym), but I understand. It’s just it hurts my feelings wasting this badass, backstory-rich character on a space casino story that was old when Buck Rogers did “Vegas in Space” in 1979 and Space: Above and Beyond did “R&R” in 1996. Maybe there’s something in the Writer’s Guild that encourages you to revisit old, tired space casino stories every twenty years or so on SF-based adventure shows? Maybe it’s the writers’ room reliving childhood favorites thinking nobody will notice? I dunno. Maybe they all accidentally dosed themselves with space mushrooms…
…like Daisy and Simmons did. Which, OK, that’s not a bad in to the A story, this episode, although consequence-free drug use isn’t a thing we usually see on Disney-owned family-friendly ABC. And now that Chloe Bennett is 27 it’s a little easier for the audience to swallow her leading SHIELD mission teams than it was back in Season Two. But this “Let’s all just eat alien snacks without a thought” thing seems wildly unearned even if it’s just to get us to the broad comedy this episode seems to want to sell us literally minutes after Simmons goes rogue and disobeys direct orders and fires off the ship into unknown territory based on her feeling Fitz still might be alive in this general direction of space. Minutes after this one-woman mutiny where the rest of the crew is about to brig her at best or murder her at worst, she’s under the space craps table telling Daisy she loves her while pining for her future husband? Come on. There’s dark and light and tonal shifts and whatnot but that one practically gave me the bends. Having this soap opera-esque interlude with Fitz and Simmons constantly trying to find each other and being kept apart by circumstance or misadventure is the sort of push-me/pull-you that kills shows but writers can’t help themselves.
Moonlighting blew apart because “will they or won’t they?” was the point of that show and when you answer the question it’s over. Cheers survived Sam-and-Diane because that wasn’t a throughline of the show, and when it started to be the reason for it they kissed Diane goodbye. This dopey FitzSimmons thing has been going on for years and only tweens, lonely hearts, and shut-ins are falling for it. This show should be balls-out at all times.
“If I can’t Quake it, I’ll break it.”
See? Even tripping balls, Daisy knows what we all want to see. Oh, darn; Jemma finally finds Fitz again only to have him spirited away again. How has this “they’re destined to be together; forever apart” thing been a sub-theme for years? It beggars belief. I mean, of course we all understand adventure shows should be all things to all people, yes? Bikinis and spacesuits, star-crossed lovers. The Japanese called Sean Connery’s James Bond “Mister Kiss-kiss Bang-bang” and that’s hitting it square. Desperate people doing desperate things in service of true love… that thing that’s worth all the trouble and danger.
Thing is, deft writers can do all that in the same scene, and not have it be two narrative tracks in a forty-eight minute show. The audience who might follow you for the kiss-kiss might not care about the bang-bang, and the folks in the crowd who want the bang-bang might find the kiss-kiss boring. Tightropes need to be walked, but having S.H.I.E.L.D. on Earth and Simmons and the Swoon Patrol in space each episode is a mistake even if everyone knows the two narrative tracks will eventually meet up two-thirds of the way through the season. This one will only satisfy if it ends up that Sergeant Coulson’s Other-Dimension Team is divining ley lines to solve all this hanging plot thread crapola and revealing that they’re good guys working to put it all back together.
I just hope that Jed and the fam have some balls and make Sarge the leader of S.W.O.R.D. and have national treasure Clark Gregg run everything in Season Seven and go out on a crazy-ass, put-it-all-on-the-table adventure note.
Seen better; seen worse. Let’s go make a mess.
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St Luke’s Fun Club was inspected by Ofsted in July 2015 and was judged to be an OUTSTANDING provider. "All children receive individual attention from kind and attentive staff who know them very well, ensuring children feel emotionally secure". This is a grading that we are proud of and committed to retaining by further developing the club's services and facilities.
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Winds from a thunderstorm early July 22, 2014 caused trees to blow down in areas across the Superior National Forest, with the most impacts in the far northwest part of the Forest in northern St. Louis County, Minnesota. Multiple agencies coordinated to rescue people from two groups injured from falling trees while camped in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). No further storm related injuries have been reported and crews continue to patrol and assess storm impacts today. More…
Starting in the early morning hours of July, 22, the St. Louis Sheriff’s Department, Crane Lake Volunteer Fire Department (CLVFD), local businesses, and the Superior National Forest worked together to conduct emergency response operations in parts of the LaCroix Ranger District that were impacted by the powerful thunderstorm. Seven injuries were reported. One group used a satellite phone to call in an emergency to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office at three a.m. from Lady Boot Bay of Lac LaCroix. Mark Zupancich of Zup’s Resort, Anderson’s Resort, SLCSR, and the Crane Lake Volunteer Fire Department (CLVFD) removed two injured people by boat to an ambulance. At approximately noon, a report of five more BWCAW visitors camped at Loon Lake-some who were still trapped in their tents from fallen trees, was received by SLCSR. Morse /Fall Lake First Responders (MFLFR), along with CLVFD members, extracted the trapped individuals. First responders accompanied two people who were flown out by a Forest Service floatplane to Ely. Three more people with less serious injuries were accompanied by first responders and brought out by boat to Crane Lake. In a separate medical evacuation that was not storm-related, a Forest Service floatplane was also used and assisted by MFLFR and the Lake County Sheriff on Tuesday.
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Dear Mr Matthews,
When my beloved wife Mrs Rosemary Anne Jeffery passed away on the 3rd of June 2015 I turned again for a memorial stone purpose to the memorial stone centre ltd who had served us so efficiently in providing a headstone for our sons grave after his tragic death on the 25th august 2002. As on that occasion our wishes were most professionally and accurately interpreted by Mr Matthews who showed such patience and sensitivity and insuring that our every consideration was met.
As explained to us the short comings of the traditional fixing method being used we decided to purchase the stone safe stability system for our sons grave in august of 2002 and I have no hesitation in selecting the stone safe fixing system for my wife’s grave as my late sons memorial stone has remained upright and stable, unlike others that I have seen, either layed down by the local burial authority as they have become a danger. I have also noticed that a vast amount of memorial headstone don’t remain vertical even after a short time of installation. I’m am very grateful for the services carried out and would have no hesitation in recommending the stone safe stability system.
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Nick Stuart-Nicolson
I have known Anton Matthews for around 20 years. I have marvelled at his innovative style and I was pleased to be invited when he received his richly deserved “Award for Innovation” for his outstanding Memorial Headstone Stability system at Arun District Council’s Business Partnership Dinner.
I am now retired, after 50 years as a Funeral Director and Monumental Mason both in Central London and locally. During these many years the Funeral Industry has been plagued with the phenomenon of Memorial Headstones becoming loose on their bases and in many cases becoming detached and falling. This has caused considerable stress and often cost to the families concerned and has been a source of embarrassment and additional cost to the Funeral Directors and Monumental Masons involved.
In essence, the long established system of attaching headstones to their bases has been flawed. In many cases they have been attached with cement and after weathering this method has generally failed. The Industry attempted to overcome this problem with the addition of a stainless steel pin set into the upright Headstone and through the base; however over time this system has also failed, with the pin gradually withdrawing from the ground. The results have in many situations been catastrophic.
Clearly, a more robust solution was needed. After much research, Mr. Matthews developed his Stone Safe Stability System. I have been privileged to witness a number of rigorous and properly conducted demonstrations of this outstanding system, and I have seen how easily the pin system has totally failed in a number of circumstances and soil conditions; where the Stone Safe System, on the other hand, has well exceeded the very demanding requirements of British Standards in this respect.
I know I am not alone in thoroughly endorsing The Stone Safe Stability System, and also recognising the exemplary professionalism and dedication of Mr. Anton Matthews in his contribution to the peace of mind and safety concerns of consumers.
President & Chairman — Bognor Regis Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Eric Bignell
Because Anton Matthews, the proprietor of StoneSafe, was concerned about the safety of headstones being fixed using a simple stainless steel dowel driven into the ground he developed his StoneSafe headstone stability system.
Twice I have been among the witnesses who have seen him demonstrate its ability to fulfil the requirements of British Standard 8415 (fixing of memorials) in sandy soil conditions, as required by the standard, once in a pit he had dug and filled with sand and once in undisturbed sandy soil at a cemetery in Redhill, Surrey. On both occasions the StoneSafe system was demonstrated to be able to comply with the requirements of the British Standard by withstanding a loading in excess of 150kg.
I videoed the demonstrations and posted the videos on You Tube, where they remain and you can view them.
The demonstrations were impressive and I do not believe anyone can seriously doubt that the StoneSafe headstone stability system is one of the most secure ways of fixing a headstone, especially in soft soil. It is even guaranteed for 30 years.
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I was the cemetery manager at seven oaks (Kent) for over 10 years. I first met with Anton Matthews 6/7 years ago because I had concerns with the pin fixing method being used by memorial masons. Having read an article in the ICCM (institute of crematorium and cemetery management) magazine I decided to contact Mr Matthews. After a long conversation on the telephone with him , he agreed to carry out a demonstration at the cemetery. I actually worked with him hands on to install a memorial on the stone safe stability system. I was most impressed how the system worked. A few years later I decided to start my own business, “Taylor Created Memorials” selling and installing memorials. I’m a member of both NAMM and Bramm and a NVQ installer and from my experience as a cemetery manager I saw daily the short comings of the traditional fixing method (pin). I insist that any lawn memorial I install is fitted with a stone safe stability system, for the peace of mind for the customer and for myself knowing that I have carried out a memorial installation working to best practice.
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Celeste Review
Kaan Serin
When I first played Celeste last year, I was enamoured. I thought its platforming was nothing short of perfect. I thought its soundtrack was eargasmic. And I thought its understated story was beautifully married into its gameplay. After returning to the game recently, my opinion hasn’t changed one bit. Celeste is a genius piece of game design and a wondrous work of art.
First off, the actual gameplay. Celeste’s platforming is pixel perfect. All of Celeste’s obstacles are constructed around our protagonist’s – Madeline’s – dash. The game is essentially built around this mechanic and milks it in the best way. It’s incredible how much mileage the developer’s have got out of such a small move set, since every single obstacle feels new.
Celeste’s levels are split into separate rooms rather than seeing the camera following you throughout the game. This is for the best as Celeste can present small, bite sized challenges that get progressively more complicated. These rooms are almost miniature puzzles to solve. You’ll look out over a room of obstacles, hazards and platforms and need to plan three steps ahead. Where exactly should I jump? When exactly should I dash? How do I get around that? In this way, Celeste is just as much about problem solving as it is about twitch based movement, making it accessible to anyone.
The levels don’t disappoint either. In true platforming fashion, each world – or stage of the mountain – is themed. Instead of relying on old tropes like the snowy stage, the desert stage or the lava stage, Celeste takes a different approach. Each stage in Celeste doesn’t just have a different aesthetic theme but a different gameplay twist.
One of the stages is entirely built around the idea of momentum. It gives you mechanical platforms that shoot back and forth and it’s up to you to use these to your advantage. One of the stages features incredibly heavy winds; completely changing how Madeline’s dash operates and feels. They’re all incredibly varied and none of them rely on cliches of the genre.
The act of platforming itself is flawless. Madeline is weighty and responsive. Her dashes feel snappy and her wall climbing is satisfying to master… or at least try to master.
You see, Celeste is a brutally difficult game. Similarly to Ori and the Blind Forest or Super Meat Boy, dying is okay. In fact, dying, a lot, is expected. Celeste has an incredibly quick pace and when you combine that with puzzle like level design, it’s natural for it to take some trial and error to complete the game.
Of course, death is never frustrating. Every time I died I knew that I had made an error. The controls weren’t wonky, the level design wasn’t unfair. I realised my mistake and used it as a lesson. Celeste’s quick respawns don’t hurt of course. Every time you die, you’ll be back in the action, at the start of the same room, in less than a second. It’s sweat inducing, but never frustrating.
Though, if you find the base game to be difficult, you’re not ready for the B-sides and C-sides. These are collectible tapes you can find throughout the levels. Getting to them is hard enough but what they unlock is beyond your imagination. These tapes unlock remixed versions of all of the stages and they require godlike platforming precision. I got through a few of them and they each took me 2-3 hours, 300 deaths and a bucket load of sweat.
However, don’t be intimidated if you’re not great at platformers. Celeste has a flexible Assist Mode that can tailor the game to your skill level. The Assist Mode includes sliders for all types of things, including the speed of the game and how many dashes Celeste has, among other things. The best thing is that there’s no penalty: achievements aren’t disabled so don’t worry.
The other way to adjust the difficulty comes with some self restraint. There are collectible strawberries floating all over Celeste mountain and a major part of Celeste’s challenge comes from these collectibles. They’re not only incredibly well hidden but getting to them will require some serious platforming chops to manoeuvre around new obstacles. If you don’t want any extra challenge, avoid these – though you will miss some very creative sections.
Of course I’d recommend that you try to get through the game without the Assist Mode. I played it without it and it will definitely enhance your appreciation for Celeste’s story.
For me, Celeste’s sweat-inducing gameplay is only worth it because it’s married so well with a beautiful and sensitive story about mental health. Madeline, comes to climb the titular Celeste Mountain to escape and deal with her anxiety and self-consciousness. Celeste’s delicate and relatable writing accurately depicts what it’s like to deal with self-doubt.
But it’s more importantly the most appropriate story to mirror the player’s own struggles through the seemingly insurmountable mountain. This makes the climb up Celeste mountain an even more intimate and relatable one. As Madeline is crippled with the thought that maybe she’s not good enough to overcome the mountain, so was I.
This means that whether you’ve struggled with anxiety and mental health or not: Madeline’s journey remains painful, relatable and cathartic. Unlike many stories about mental health, Celeste is an genuinely healthy game to play for anyone struggling with these issues.
And that’s why Celeste on Xbox One is so ingenious. It epitomises what makes interactive storytelling so impactful. Celeste beautifully marries the emotions of the character to the emotions that we feel platforming up Celeste mountain. Her struggle is our struggle and while she’s battling her own inner demons, so are we. In that sense, players are invited to project their own struggles onto Madeline and her story here is a landscape for players to deal with their own problems. This makes Celeste infinitely more personal to players, whether you’re crippled by anxiety or just dealing with self doubt.
Celeste is undoubtedly a modern masterpiece. Its mix of reactionary platforming and problem solving is a breath of fresh air. Its Assist Mode is ahead of the curb in an industry constantly discussing accessibility. The way it masterfully weaves its emotional story about mental health with its brutal difficulty is astounding. Hours of extra content, one of the best soundtracks of all time and neat art is only the icing on the cake for this indie gem.
When I first played Celeste last year, I was enamoured. I thought its platforming was nothing short of perfect. I thought its soundtrack was eargasmic. And I thought its understated story was beautifully married into its gameplay. After returning to the game recently, my opinion hasn't changed one bit. Celeste is a genius piece of game design and a wondrous work of art. First off, the actual gameplay. Celeste's platforming is pixel perfect. All of Celeste's obstacles are constructed around our protagonist's - Madeline's - dash. The game is essentially built around this mechanic and milks it in the best…
Pixel perfect platforming
Levels have tons of variety
Brutal, but fair difficulty
Accessible thanks to Assist Mode
Heavenly soundtrack
Intimate, important story
Formats - Xbox One (Review)
Release date - Jan 2018
Price - £15.99
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59% Blame Obama For Flood Of Illegal Child Border Crossings: Poll
The public largely blames President Obama for the flood of children who have poured over the border in recent weeks, creating a growing humanitarian crisis, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll released Monday.
The late June survey found that the public largely blames Obama policies for the crisis in Iraq and believes the lost IRS emails are an administration effort to cover up wrongdoing at the agency.
The poll found that 59% of those closely following the immigration crisis agree that "current administration policies and lack of focus on securing the border" are behind the human tide of illegal crossings. Six in 10 say that the children should be ordered to leave the country. (The survey found that 73% of Americans are following this story closely.)
Hoping to quell public outrage, Obama formally asked Congress on Monday for $2 billion in emergency funds to improve border security, provide more detention space and return children to their native countries.
He also promised to take executive action on immigration reform, blaming House Republicans for not passing legislation. He directed staff to recommend initiatives this summer that he can act on "without delay."
House Speaker John Boehner fired back, saying that Obama had helped to trigger the latest crisis by "giving false hope" to illegal immigrants and that his penchant for unilateral action makes it hard for GOP members to believe that he will enforce border-security measures.
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Obama is taking hits from the public on the IRS scandal as well.
The IBD/TIPP poll found that 65% believe that the lost IRS emails are an attempt by the administration to "hide evidence that the IRS deliberately targeted conservative groups" prior to the 2012 presidential election.
The lost emails are the latest twist in a more than year-long saga that erupted when an inspector general report detailed how the IRS held up Tea Party groups' applications for tax-exempt status before the 2012 elections.
Several saw their applications in limbo for years while they were being asked overly intrusive questions. The delays limited their ability to raise money for voter drives, education campaigns and the like.
The IRS initially blamed "rogue agents" in its Cincinnati office, a claim that later fell apart as evidence of coordination with officials in Washington emerged.
GOP lawmakers had long been pressing for emails sent to and from Lois Lerner, an official at the heart of the controversy who refused to testify before Congress about the case. Just weeks ago, the IRS claimed that her 2009-2011 emails disappeared when her hard drive crashed.
Obama dismissed the IRS scandal earlier this year, saying there was not "even a smidgen of corruption." Congressional Democrats argue that the IRS wasn't singling out right-wing groups.
Those defenses aren't flying with most Americans who've been tracking this story. Among independents, 66% think the lost emails were an attempt to cover up wrongdoing. Even 36% of Democrats say it was a cover-up.
Iraq Policy Criticized
On Iraq, 56% of Americans following events there say that Obama's decision to remove all American troops from the country in 2011 "set the stage for the current unrest," which has seen an Islamic militant group — the ISIL — overtake several Iraqi cities. Half of Democrats also blame the troop withdrawal.
What's more, 55% say that Obama wasn't being honest when he claimed that Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was entirely responsible for the decision to bring the troops home.
Meanwhile, 55% say that the administration's failure to contain the Syria conflict contributed to the rise of the militant forces in Iraq. Just 27% give Obama high marks for his handling of the Iraq situation.
But while a majority believes that ISIL militants pose a direct threat to U.S. security, the public is hesitant to endorse any military response. Only 49% support airstrikes, and just 27% back the use of ground troops.
Obama said Monday he would send 200 personnel "equipped for combat" to Iraq in addition to 300 military advisers sent earlier.
Despite the recent events, Obama's popularity has not deteriorated significantly. The IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index fell just 0.1 point to 44.9. That's still the 16th straight month below the neutral 50 level.
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For more than thirty-five years, Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band have been delighting audiences with a hot mix of New Orleans inspired music. The band’s sound is firmly rooted in the music that Woody Allen has loved since his childhood and draws inspiration from such legendary artists as Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and of course, Louis Armstrong.
Their repertoire consists of over 1200 songs and comprises a diverse collection of early 20th century popular tunes, hymns, spirituals, marches, blues and rags. In keeping with the spontaneous nature of the music every performance is an energetic collection of improvisations—there is no play list, nor do the musicians know what song Allen, in collaboration with band director Eddy Davis, will call out next.
Beginning as informal jam sessions and then becoming regular concerts every Monday night, the band has performed for thousands of New Yorkers and visitors from all over the world. For the last decade, the group has been regularly playing once a week at the Manhattan landmark hotel, The Carlyle. Allen even missed accepting an Academy Award for ( ) so as not to miss his Monday night gig.
In 1996, the band embarked on its first tour of Europe and was chronicled in the documentary film, “Wild Man Blues” and subsequent compact disc titled under the same. Since then, the band has returned to Europe on numerous occasions, most recently performing in Greece and Turkey.
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Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced long-stalled legislation on Thursday that would make it a federal crime to share sexually explicit material of a person online without the subject’s consent.
The "Intimate Privacy Protection Act" is an effort several years in the making to combat the rise in recent years of “revenge porn,” images that are shared on the internet in order to extort or humiliate someone. The practice disproportionately affects women.
“These acts of bullying have ruined careers, families, and even led to suicide,” Representative Jackie Speier, a California Democrat and lead author of the bill, said in a statement.
The legislation would allow fines and up to five years in prison for posting online or distributing sexually explicit photos or videos with “reckless disregard” for the consent of the subject. More than 30 states have enacted similar laws in recent years.
Exceptions listed in the bill would allow for posting material that is in the public interest or that features a person voluntarily posing nude in a public or commercial setting.
The bill stalled for years amid concerns raised by technology companies and internet freedom advocates worried that service providers such as Alphabet Inc's YouTube could be exposed to liability for acting as third-party hosts of revenge porn content shared by users.
Speier’s bill, which was introduced with support from Facebook and Twitter, exempts such companies as long as they do not promote or solicit revenge porn content.
Many tech companies have tightened their terms of service in recent years to prohibit revenge porn. Those companies typically rely on users to report objectionable content to teams of human reviewers who delete content found to violate terms of service.
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The Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon—Burning Shadows expansion includes:
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The indy RPG storytelling game 99 Chances consists of a deck of cards, each with three distinct features: numbers from 1-99, opposing sets of words (good/bad, open/closed, wise/foolish, etc.), and genres (western, zombies, sci-fi, murder mystery, etc.)
In Helios, players are high priests in a distant world of the sun god AHAU, and the power of the sun drives everything in the game as players try to build temples, expand cities, and make their civilization flourish.
In the two-player-game Haleakala, players are building statues on the slopes of a volcano to honor their gods. The higher the statues are built up the volcano the more they score in one of the two scoring phases, but of course the closer they are build towards the crater the danger of being destroyed by volcanic eruption is higher as well.
In the two-player game Caverna: Cave vs. Cave, each player starts the game with only two dwarves and a small excavation in the side of a mountain. Over the course of eight rounds, they’ll double their workforce, open up new living space in the mountain, construct new buildings and rooms in which to live, and dig for precious metals.
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Fiji rations measles vaccination
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SUVA, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Fiji's Health Ministry has an interim shortage of the measles vaccine as additional stocks are expected to arrive soon after nine people have been confirmed with measles, the ministry said Thursday.
The Ministry of Health said the remaining measles vaccine stock will be prioritized to those who are at the greatest risk of catching and spreading measles and it is not available for the general public until additional stocks arrive in the coming days.
The Health Ministry said current stocks are being reserved for high-risk target groups which include residents of Serua/Namosi, one of the 14 provinces on Fiji's main island of Viti Levu’s western side which initially contracted measles.
Fijian children from the ages of 6 months to 3 years and people travelling overseas are on the priority list.
The Fijian government also wants people travelling overseas to show proof of travel such as their ticket and travel itinerary and not just by a passport.
The next batch of 200,000 vaccines will arrive in the island nation over the weekend or early next week.
Cases of measles also have been reported in other South Pacific island countries like Samoa and Tonga.
Last Friday, the Samoan government declared a 30-day state of emergency in response to the measles crisis.
All schools were ordered to close, and restrictions were placed on the movement of vulnerable people in order to curb the spread of the disease.
Samoa has taken strict measures to deal with the measles epidemics which started in the island nation from mid-October this year.
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In Tonga, all government primary schools and kindergartens have been shut until at least November 25, in an effort to limit the spread of measles sweeping through the South Pacific.
American Samoa, also announced a public health emergency and governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga said everyone travelling from Tonga and Samoa to the U.S territory must provide proof of measles immunisation as a condition of entry.
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Download Unit 3: Signs of Celebration (pdf)
Level 3 Australian Curriculum (Year 3)
This unit is about the enduring practices of celebrations and ritual, and the role of symbols within these. In this unit students examine a variety of different celebrations in order to develop understandings about how celebrations are an important part of any community. They explore how celebrations are consistent across time and cultures. They compare several celebrations such as; Eucharist, Aboriginal smoking ceremonies and Anzac Day, to find similarities and differences. They investigate why, when and how different people celebrate and explore the values that underpin celebrations. During the unit they will discover that some celebrations are traditional and have been conducted over long periods of time, and that many of these commemorate a special event.
This unit could be taught in conjunction with preparation for Eucharist.
Significance, culture, ritual, community
Rituals and symbols reflect things that are significant to communities and cultures.
Rituals are a way to connect with community, celebrate the things we value and remember the past.
There are many different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceremonies where laws and stories from The Dreaming are acted out.
How do symbols and rituals reveal what people value?
What rituals and symbols are important in our families?
How and why do we celebrate?
What rituals and symbols are important to other people?
How and why do different communities celebrate?
What is unique about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceremonies and celebrations?
How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past?
Before commencing this unit please check ‘Yarra Healing’ for important background information regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. http://www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/TeachingandLearning/EssentialLearningandUnderstandings
Wallam, A. and Kelly, S. 2004, Corroboree, Cygnet Books, Western Australia.
Ciddor, A. 1995, The First World War Through Children’s Eyes, Macmillan, South Melbourne.
Cummings, P. 2013, Anzac Biscuits, Scholastic Press
French, J. 2014, A Day to Remember, Harper Collins
Hoy,C. and Johnson, B. 2005, My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day, Lothian, Sydney.
Greenwood M, and Lessac, F. 2008, Simpson and His Donkey, Walker Books, NSW.
Walters, C, and Mullins, P. 2007, Only A Donkey, Viking, Melbourne.
China: A Portrait of the Country Through it’s Festivals and Traditions, Fiesta Series, Moondrake, 1998, Reed Educational, Port Melbourne
www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/festivals.htm contains brief information texts about festivals and celebrations around the world.
www.nationaltreasures.com.au This website contains symbols of important historical events in Australia such as Gallipolli. Click on the icon to reveal the story behind the symbol.
http://www.shrine.org.au/Home This is the website of the war memorial in Melbourne which has great information, stories and teacher resources as well as details of excursions and exhibitions.
http://www.awm.gov.au The Australian War Memorial website is also a great source of information and stories related to Anzac Day.
www.indigenousaustralia.info/culture.html contains information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ceremonies as well as stories from the Dreamtime.
www.vaeai.org.au/regions/index.html You can find your Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (LAECG) through the VAEAI website.
http://www.cam.org.au/acmv Aboriginal Catholic Ministry website.
Reconciliation Gayip video
Video clips of a recent Anzac Day march or ceremony
http://www.awm.gov.au/education/schools/memorial-boxes/ Memorial boxes containing artefacts from Wars Australia has been involved in, and Anzac day memorabilia can be borrowed from the Australian War Memorial. These can be accessed in any state.
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Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer
We are restoring a vintage1 computer that CuriousMarc recently obtained. Analog computers were formerly popular for fast scientific computation, but pretty much died out in the 1970s. They are interesting, though, as a completely different computing paradigm from digital computers. In this blog post, I'm going to focus on the op amps used in Marc's analog computer, a Simulators Inc. model 240.
The Model 240 analog computer from Simulators Inc. was a "precision general purpose analog computer" for the desk top, with up to 24 op amps. (This one has 20 op amps.)
What's an analog computer?
An analog computer performs computations using physical, continuously changeable values such as voltages. This is in contrast to a digital computer that uses discrete binary values. Analog computers have a long history including gear mechanisms, slide rules, wheel-and-disk integrators, tide computers, and mechanical gun targeting systems. The "classic" analog computers of the 1950s and 1960s, however, used op amps and integrators to solve differential equations. They were typically programmed by plugging cables into a patch panel, yielding a spaghetti-like tangle of wires.
An analog computer was "programmed" by plugging wires into the patch panel. This panel is from an EAI analog computer at the Computer History Museum.
The big advantage of analog computers was their speed. They computed results almost instantaneously with their components operating in parallel, while digital computers needed to chug away performing calculations, often for a long time. This made analog computers especially useful for real-time simulations. A disadvantage of analog computers is they were only as accurate as their components; if you wanted 4 digits of accuracy, you needed expensive 0.01% accurate resistors. (In contrast, digital computers can be made as accurate as desired simply by using more bits of precision.) Unfortunately for analog computers, digital computers became exponentially faster and more powerful, so by the 1970s there was little reason to use analog computers.
Inside the analog computer
The heart of the analog computer was its operational amplifiers or op amps. Op amps could sum and scale their inputs, providing basic mathematics. But more importantly, integrators were constructed by combining an op amp with a precision capacitor (below). An integrator computed the integral of its input over time by charging the capacitor. This allowed analog computers to solve differential equations. (It may seem strange that integration, a mathematically sophisticated operation, was a basic building block of analog computers, but that's the way the hardware worked out.)
The integrators in the analog computer used large precision capacitors. The adjustable capacitor on top is 10 nanofarads, while the large metal box below is an adjustable 10 microfarad capacitor. These capacitors were designed for very low leakage so the integrated value wouldn't leak away. In front are relays to select the capacitors.
Analog computers used multiple potentiometers (below) to set input values and scaling constants. These potentiometers rotated through 10 turns to provide high accuracy. A voltmeter was used to check the potentiometer values. The voltmeter could also be used to display output values, but more often, outputs were displayed on an oscilloscope, strip chart, or X-Y plotter.
At top, the digital section of the analog computer. The potentiometers are below; some were not installed in this model of the computer. The blank panel in the upper left could hold a digital voltmeter.
Some analog computers included digital components such as gates, flip flops, one-shots, and counters. This functionality supported more complex techniques, such as iterating through a solution space. Marc's computer has some digital logic, accessed through the colorful patch panel shown above.
The photo below shows the computer partially disassembled. The computer is more complex inside than I expected, with many circuit boards. The patch panel has been removed, revealing the grid of contacts behind it. When a cable is plugged into the patch panel, the cable connects to these contacts, wiring up the program. The computer has five modules behind the patch panel; the leftmost module has been removed and is sitting in front of the computer.2 The boards visible at the top of the computer support the digital logic and two analog multipliers. The power supply and circuitry for the front panel are at the bottom.
The analog computer with the sides removed to show the internal circuitry. One module has been removed and placed in front of the computer.
A closeup of a module is shown below, with the patch panel contacts in front. The module's eight circuit boards can be seen at the back. From left to right, the boards are four op amps (4 boards), miscellaneous circuitry (1 board), and a multiplier (3 boards). Multiplication was surprisingly difficult to implement in an analog computer; the three boards implement a single circuit to multiply two values.3
One of the modules. The "fingers" on front contact plugs inserted into the patch panel. Square high-precision (0.01%) resistors are visible behind the fingers.
The op amps
In the above photo, each op amp took up a full board of components. Each board includes an op amp integrated circuit, which raises the question of why so many other components are required. The reason is that analog computers placed heavy demands on op amp performance. In particular, the op amps need to work with signals at DC and at low frequencies, and op amps inconveniently perform poorly in this range, operating better at higher frequencies.
In 1949, a solution to op amp problems at low frequencies was developed: the chopper op amp.4 The idea is that a chopper modulates the input at, say 400 Hz. The op amp happily amplifies this 400-Hz AC signal. A second chopper demodulates the AC output back to DC5, providing much better performance than directly amplifying the DC signal.4 The op amp boards in the analog computer add a chopper circuit to the IC op amp to improve its performance.6
The diagram below shows one of the op amp boards.8 The op amp's single input7 is on the right (separated from all the other connections on the left, to avoid noise). The input is split into three paths. The first path is to the DC chopper amplifier. The signal goes through a low-pass filter (i.e. resistor and capacitor) to extract the DC and low-frequency signal. The chopper itself is pretty simple: a JFET transistor alternately grounds the signal as driven by an external 400 Hz oscillator. This modulated 400 Hz signal is fed to the op amp IC, an Amelco 809 high-performance op amp, introduced in 1967.9 The IC is in a round metal can; this packaging was common back then and helped shield the op amp from noise. Finally, the IC's output goes through a second chopper and filter to demodulate it.
An op amp board from the analog computer with functional groups labeled. Even though the board uses an integrated circuit op amp, many additional circuits are necessary to obtain the performance required.
Next, the second input path is combined with the DC amplifier's output. Most op amps are based around a differential pair, and this board is no exception. In a differential pair, two transistors provide high-gain amplification of the difference between two input signals. This differential pair's inputs are the board's input and the signal from the DC chopper amp so it amplifies both the original input and the DC signal. The two transistors in the differential pair need to be exactly balanced for the op amp to function accurately. In particular, the two transistors need to be kept at the same temperature, so they are fastened together with a metal clip (below).
Critical transistors are held together with metal clips to ensure they stay at the same temperature. The differential pair is on the right, while the transistors on the left buffer the inputs.
The third input path goes to the AC amplifier. The input goes through a high-pass filter (resistor and capacitor) and then a simple transistor buffer. This "feedforward" signal is combined with the output from the differential pair to improve the amplifier's frequency response. At this point, the input has been amplified three different ways to yield good low-frequency and high-frequency performance.
The final stage of the op amp board is an output amplifier to provide high-current output for use by the rest of the computer. This amplifier is implemented with a Class AB amplifier circuit. Individual transistors at the time weren't sufficiently powerful, so it uses two NPN transistors and two PNP transistors to drive the output.
Each op amp board has its input and output wired to the patch panel. On the patch panel below, the op amps (A1 through A4) are shaped like pieces of pie; their inputs are green and outputs are red. The op amps used for integrators are also wired to the integration capacitors.
Detail of the patch panel showing the connections for op amps A1, A3, and A4. The inputs are green and the outputs are red. Initial conditions (IC) are in white. The potentiometer connections are above (yellow).
On the patch panel, each op amp has multiple input plugs with different resistor values for scaling; these are the "10" and "100" numbers above. The photo below shows these high-precision resistors (black cylinders) attached directly to the patch panel contacts. Integrator inputs are controlled by relays (below) and electronic switches so the analog computer can initialize the integration capacitors, run the computation, and then hold the result for analysis.
Resistors (black cylinders) are attached directly to the patch panel contacts. The relays in the middle control the computer's different states: initial constants, operate, and hold. The circuit boards plug into the green connectors at the bottom.
Even though op amp integrated circuits existed in the late 1960s, their performance wasn't good enough for analog computers. Instead, a whole board of components was used for a single op amp, combining the IC op amp with a chopper and other circuitry to yield a high-precision op amp. Although improvements in integrated circuits led to exponential increases in digital computer performance, analog computers received much smaller benefits from ICs. As a result, digital computers almost entirely took over and analog computers are now historical artifacts.
The removable patch panel for the analog computer. The computer was programmed by plugging wires into the holes. The panel is removable, so one programmer could use the analog computer while another is wiring up a panel. (Click to enlarge.)
You might wonder why I'm studying the circuitry of this analog computer in such detail. The reason is that we're trying to restore the computer, but we don't have documentation.1011 Thus, I'm reverse-engineering it to determine how to restore it to operating condition and how to program it. While the circuit boards are not too complex, the computer contains many different boards to analyze. The hardest part is figuring out the connectivity of the many tightly-bundled wiring harnesses, mostly by brute-force beeping out connections with a multimeter.
You can expect more analog computer posts as we continue the restoration. Follow me on Twitter @kenshirriff to stay informed of future articles. I also have an RSS feed.
The computer's integrated circuits have 1968 and 1969 date codes on them, so I think the computer was manufactured in 1969. ↩
When fully populated, the computer has 6 modules behind the patch panel, but the one on the right is missing. At first, we thought the module had been lost at some point, but it appears that this computer was a lower-cost model and was never fully populated. Evidence of this is that 1/4 of the potentiometers above the patch panel are not installed; these potentiometers would be handled by the missing module. ↩
Analog computers could implement arbitrary functions using diode-resistor networks. (Each diode turned on at a particular input voltage level, and contributed a ramp to the output.) For multiplication, diode-resistor networks were configured to implement a parabolic function (i.e. squaring). Multiplication was implemented through the identity X×Y = ((X+Y)2 - (X-Y)2)/4. The sum and difference were computed using op amps, while squaring was done with the parabolic function generator. ↩
Modern chopper op amps use a more complex chopper-stabilizing mechanism, with two op amps. A secondary op amp uses the chopped signal to null out the main op amp. This tutorial discusses the difference between the classic and modern chopper op amps; there's also a discussion here. The point of this footnote is to avoid confusion between the design of chopper op amps used in the analog computer and modern chopper designs. ↩
You can sort of think of the chopper as performing amplitude modulation on the signal, like an AM radio signal. However, the demodulation needs to be "phase-sensitive" so it can tell the difference between a positive input and a negative input. This is in contrast to AM-radio demodulation, which can be done with a diode since phase doesn't matter. ↩
The diagram below (from the brochure) shows the structure of the op amp board. The basic idea is that part of the input goes through a capacitor (i.e. high-pass filter) into the AC amplifier. The input also goes into the "DC stabilizer amplifier", which has a chopper on its input. The output is demodulated and put through a low-pass filter (resistor/capacitor). The two amplifier outputs are combined and fed into the "DC amplifier", the output amplifier.
Simplified schematic of the op amp.
Note the circuitry for overload detection and protection. In an analog computer, overload can easily happen if any of the values get higher than expected and exceed the op amp limits (+/- 10 volts). This is bad because it will cause the results to be wrong. The op amp detects overload and illuminates a panel light so the user knows there is a problem. An important part of analog computer programming is how to scale everything so the mathematical values fit within the physical limits of the system. ↩
Nowadays, op amps have a positive and negative input. In analog computers, however, op amps usually had just the negative input. Thus, they summed and inverted their inputs. ↩
For reference, I've reverse-engineered the pinout of the op amp board. The input is two shorted pins on the right. The pins along the left of the board (with their connector label) are:
L: balance in
K: chopper ground
J: overload signal out
H: chopper drive in
F: ground
E: ground
D: -15V
C: +15V
B: op amp output
A: unused ↩
Although now almost forgotten, Amelco was an important semiconductor company producing high-performance op amps. Among other things, Amelco made the first JFET op amp. It was founded by Hoerni (who invented the "planar process" for ICs at Fairchild). I reverse-engineered a hybrid Amelco op amp and discuss the history of Amelco in this article. The Amelco 809C op amp datasheet can be found here. ↩
As far as documentation on this computer, archive.org has a Simulators Inc 240 brochure scanned from "Ted Nelson's Junk Mail". The Analog Computer Museum has a brochure in German for the Dornier 240, an almost identical computer. (I haven't been able to find out the relationship between Simulators Inc and Dornier, but presumably one company licensed it from the other.) ↩
If you're looking for books on analog computers, here are my comments on ones I've read recently:
Analog computer programming is a modern book on analog computers, and a good place to start.
Introduction to analog computer programming is a reasonable introduction; the PDF is online.
Analog and analog/hybrid computer programming comprehensively explains how to solve many different types of problems.
Electronic analog and hybrid computers has a detailed discussion of the hardware implementations of analog computers of this era.
Analog and hybrid computing provides a basic description of analog computers and their programming.
Analog computer techniques is hard to follow and from the vacuum tube era, so I don't recommend it. ↩
Try: http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/library.html
Vikas Jois said...
I recently listened to an interesting Omega Tau podcast episode on Analog computers where Bernd Ulmann, an analog computing expert is interviewed:
https://omegataupodcast.net/159-analog-computers/
ross b. said...
If you're looking for an introduction to programming analogue computers I can recommend "Systematic analogue computer programming: an introduction for students of science and engineering" [by] A.S. Charlesworth [and] J.R. Fletcher
kludge said...
The reason for the chopper is long-term stability. If you build a simple DC-coupled op-amp circuit, it's going to drift very slowly over time, and the Amelco op-amps were to some extent temperature stabilized by having some degree of symmetry and having transistors biased by diodes which would change with temperature in the direction opposite the transistor. Stability would be fine for a minute-long run but if you want to be running a simulation for an hour or more, even a tiny bit of drift can cause instability. Therefore, the chopper. Now, if only we could find a way to keep the integrator stages from leaking, then we might have a future for analogue computation...
Mark Jeronimus said...
I really enjoyed this book: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC.html
Though you do a great write up. It would really be nice to see you or you and marc do work on and with this in a video. Camera adds so much more than these(good) photo's
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CHAPTER 6 RIGGING
Rigging is the method of handling materials using fiber line, wire rope, and associated equipment. Fiber line and wire rope were discussed in chapters 4 and 5. We will now discuss how these materials and equipment can be used in various tackle and lever arrangements to form the fundamental rigging necessary to move heavy loads. Additionally, we discuss the makeup of block and tackle, reeving procedures, and common types of tackle arrangements. Information is also provided on other common types of weight-handling devices, such as slings, spreaders, pallets, jacks, planks and rollers, blocking and cribbing, and scaffolds.
SAFETY is paramount in importance. You will be briefed throughout this chapter on safety measures to be observed as it pertains to the various operations or particular equipment we are discussing. Also, formulas are given for your use in calculating the working loads of various weight-moving devices, such as hooks, shackles, chains, and so on. SAFE rigging is the critical link in the weight-handling process.
The most commonly used mechanical device is block and tackle. A block (fig. 6-1) consists of one or more sheaves fitted in a wood or metal frame supported by a shackle inserted in the strap of the
Figure 6-1.-Parts of a fiber line block.
block. A tackle is an assembly of blocks and lines used to gain a mechanical advantage in lifting and pulling.
The mechanical advantage of a machine is the amount the machine can multiply the force used to lift or move a load. The strength of an individual determines the weight he or she can push or pull. The ability to push or pull is referred to as the amount of force the individual can exert. To move any load heavier than the force you can exert requires the use of a machine that can provide a mechanical advantage to multiply the force you can apply. If you use a machine that can produce a push or pull on an object that is 10 times greater than the force you apply, the machine has a mechanical advantage of 10. For example, if the downward pull on a block-and-tackle assembly requires 10 pounds of force to raise 100 pounds, the assembly has a mechanical advantage of 10.
In a tackle assembly, the line is reeved over the sheaves of blocks. The two types of tackle systems are simple and compound. A simple tackle system is an assembly of blocks in which a single line is used (fig. 6-2, view A). A compound tackle system is an assembly of blocks in which more than one line is used (fig. 6-2, view B).
Figure 6-2.-Tackles: A. Simple tackle; B. Compound tackle.
The terms used to describe the parts of a tackle (fig. 6-3) and various assemblies of tackle are as follows:
• The block(s) in a tackle assembly change(s) the direction of pull, provides mechanical advantage, or both.
• The fall is either a wire rope or fiber line reeved through a pair of blocks to form a tackle.
• The hauling part of the fall leads from the block upon which the power is exerted.
• The fixed (or standing) block is the end which is attached to a becket.
• The movable (or running) block of a tackle is the block attached to a fixed objector support. When a tackle is being used, the movable block moves and the fixed block remains stationary.
• The frame (or shell), made of wood or metal, houses the sheaves.
• The sheave is a round, grooved wheel over which the line runs. Usually the blocks have one, two, three, or four sheaves. Some blocks have up to eleven sheaves.
• The cheeks are the solid sides of the frame or shell.
• The pin is a metal axle that the sheave turns on. It runs from cheek to cheek through the middle of the sheave.
Figure 6-3.-Parts of a tackle.
• The becket is a metal loop formed at one or both ends of a block; the standing part of the line is fastened to the becket.
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• To round in means to bring the blocks of a tackle toward each other, usually without a load on the tackle (opposite of overhaul).
• The term two blocked means that both blocks of a tackle are as close together as they can go. You may also hear this term called block and block.
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Accountants Await Business Licence Regulation Change
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The Government is expected to “reverse” by mid-December its requirement for certified bank statements to accompany business licence renewals, a top accountant has revealed.
Gowon Bowe, the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) president, told Tribune Business: “There have been several meetings and conversations on the issue. I think they [the Government] have indicated that they intend to reverse what was recently put into play. There has been a commitment that between now and the middle of December the necessary amendment to roll the requirements for audited bank statements will be addressed.”
This newspaper understands that KP Tunquest, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, will likely meet with the managing partners of Bahamian accounting firms this week to resolve the controversy that erupted over the requirements set out in the business licence regulations.
Mr Turnquest confirmed to Tribune Business that informal talks were being held over the issue, and that the Government would be making a statement on the matter “in due course”.
The amended regulations, which were put into effect almost unnoticed on May 30 amid the general outcry over the Budget’s VAT hike, require companies with an annual turnover of $10m or more to provide audited financial statements that will confirm their prior year earnings.
But for those businesses earning between zero to $10m, the regulations stipulate that “a financial statement” confirming their turnover must be supplied to the Department of Inland Revenue (DIR). This, though, must also be accompanied by “a certified bank statement” covering each bank account held in the business’s name and any other accounts “that are used in transactions” on its behalf.
Many accountants and private sector executives view the new regulations as “overkill” and an incursion into corporate privacy, especially since Business Licence fees are currently calculated based on just one indicator: Top-line turnover. Accountants verify this, with businesses submitting such attestation along with their filings and payment by end-March every year.
There have been some suspicions - vehemently denied by the Government - that the increased information demanded by the new regulations, which will apply for the first time to 2019 business licence filings, is akin to a “trojan horse” paving the way for corporate income tax’s introduction.
Mr Bowe added: “The final wording in terms of what will be required with regards to information and the level of attestation is one that we still need to just see in what I’m going to call ‘black and white’. It is not simply a case of leaving the Ministry of Finance or Department of Inland Revenue exposed without the comfort that they require, but making it more practical for the businesses that have to report as well.
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Downeast Maine, July 3-7, 2005
April and I flew nonstop from Indianapolis to Portland, Maine, rented a car, and spent five days exploring southeastern Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick. We'd reserved a cabin in Trenton, just north of Mount Desert Island. Mount Desert Island includes the towns of Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and others, and most of Acadia National Park. We reached the area in time to drive to the top of Cadillac Mountain to view the sunset. At the summit of Cadillac Mountain, elevation 1532 feet, we were at the highest point on the Atlantic from Maine to the tip of South America.
We couldn't pass up an opportunity to visit the L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine. Here's a size 1000 Bean boot.
We stopped for lunch in Topsham at the Sea Dog Brewing Company, where I ordered a sampler of 10 different kinds of beer. When the waiter delivered the 10 glasses in a special wooden holder, I remembered someone once telling me, "I'd rather have a free glass in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy." I agree with that.
On the drive to Cadillac Mountain we saw the 151-foot, four-masted schooner the Margaret Todd sailing on Frenchman's Bay.
April atop chilly Cadillac Mountain at twilight. Behind her are the Porcupine Islands, the Schoodic Peninsula, and coastal eastern Maine.
A breathtaking sunset atop Cadillac Mountain. This is the first place that sunlight strikes North America each day, on sunny days.
Our rental car and our cabin at the Isleview Motel and Cottages in Trenton, Maine.
Rather than fight the masses of tourists on Mount Desert Island, we opted to spend our first day exploring the Schoodic Peninsula portion of Acadia National Park, which occupies the lower third of the the Schoodic Peninsula, just east of Mount Desert Island. Sunrise during our visit was at 4:20 a.m., which seemed somewhat inhuman. As we'd hoped, there were far fewer tourists there than on Mount Desert Island. The temperature on this day as well as during the entire trip was in the 60s and 70s inland and in the 50s along the ocean. Black flies were absent, and mosquitoes were bothersome only in the deep woods.
As for birdlife, seabirds seemed to be flourishing, but landbirds were very scarce. On average we saw two or three individuals per hour in the forests, an astonishing drop from the numbers I observed there 23 years ago. The most common species were Herring Gull and Common Crow. In the forests the most common species were Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, and Nashville Warblers, with small numbers of Northern Parulas and American Redstarts. We found no chickadees at all.
Here are some images from our day on the Schoodic Peninsula.
Common Eiders (sea ducks) on a seaweed-covered granite shelf. Red granite alternated with black basalt "dikes" like the one in the background.
Close-up of Common Eiders. Males are mostly black and white, while females are all brown. Their ski-slope profiles are distinctive.
April scanning to the east, over Schoodic Harbor.
Red algae, seaweed (bladderwrack?) and edible smooth mussels (blue mussels) in a Schoodic Harbor tidal pool.
Red algae and barnacles in a tidal pool.
Green algae, barnacles, blue mussels in a tidal pool.
Seaweed in an intertidal pool. The long brown leaves are kelp.
April stepping carefully on barnacle-carpeted rocks exposed by the falling tide.
Barnacle- and seaweed-carpeted rocks.
A basalt dike intrusion in red granite. The best examples we saw of this geological structure were on the Schoodic Peninsula.
Tourists at Schoodic Point. Mount Desert Island in the distance.
April on Schoodic Point. Cadillac Mountain in the background.
April relaxing with a book on Schoodic Point.
Herring Gulls, the most common species of gull along the coast.
Herring Gull.
Common blue flag grew abundantly in brackish or freshwater situations, even on apparently bare rocks like these.
Native to Asia, rugosa roses grew wild just about everywhere. They withstand immersion in salt water and very low temperatures.
Orange hawkweed, which with yellow hawkweed formed attractive borders on roadsides and in fields.
Canada dogwood, an abundant ground cover in the boreal forests.
Ground cover in the coniferous forests consisted of reindeer moss, lichens, blueberry, chokecherry, and seedlings of canopy trees.
This sandy track ran through the southern part of the park. Common trees included wild cherry, gray birch, eastern hemlock, black spruce, white spruce, poplars, and sugar maple.
Higher elevations near the peak called Schoodic Head supported spruce, fir, and other conifers, with scant ground cover.
Tuesday morning we arose at 3:15 a.m. Indiana time and drove 50 miles east, to Jonesport, where we had reservations for a trip to Machias Seal Island. Captain Barna Norton had passed away since my last visit in the 1980s. His son John now runs the business of ferrying people 10 miles out to sea in his boat, Chief.
Map showing the remote location of Machias Seal Island.
Machais Seal Island is located in the lower Bay of Fundy, 10 miles west of Canada's Grand Manan Island. Machias Seal Island is about one mile long at low tide and a few hundred feet wide. During the birds' nonbreeding season, the only occupants on the island are the two lighthouse keepers. The lighthouse has been maintained by the Canadian Coast Guard for over 100 years.
Machias Seal Island serves as an important breeding site for seabirds. To minimize disturbance to the nesting birds, only 30 persons per day are allowed on the island.
We left Jonesport at 7 a.m. in thick fog, which burned off long before we arrived on Machias Seal Island about an hour later. En route I spotted many Black Guillemots, a Northern Fulmar, my first for North America (I'd seen them last year in Ireland), several harbor seals and porpoises, increasing numbers of Arctic Terns, a single distant Atlantic Puffin on the water, and lots of gulls. The air temperature stayed in the 50s from the time we left Jonesport until we returned, which made us glad that we'd dressed in many layers of warm clothes.
April had hoped to get some good looks at Atlantic Puffins. Her hopes were more than realized, as you'll see below. We left the island after enjoying one of the most enjoyable experiences of the trip. Few people get to spend time so close to wild seabirds. We were grateful for having had the opportunity to view these unusual birds at such close range.
April in Jonesport aboard Chief, awaiting our departure.
Click here for a 13-second audio cut of April describing the morning so far.
Captain John Norton sporting his patriotic suspenders.
Motoring slowly out of Jonesport in the fog.
A fog-shrouded uninhabited island.
April views a distant headland through the fog.
We leave the harbor and fog behind, and Captain John opens the throttle.
Thirty-three miles later we're viewing Machias Seal Island. The 82-foot lighthouse is visible for 14 miles. Note the cloud of Arctic Terns over the island.
Click here for a 15-second audio cut of Bill aboard Chief.
Captain John ferried us to shore in a small, maneuverable boat that he often leaves anchored near the island. In rough weather, the high swells make it too dangerous to land the boat.
Once ashore we walked to a picnic area, as terns swooped and screeched at us. Note the heliport and photographic blinds (the gray structures).
Click here for a 14-second audio cut of the sounds during landing.
Six persons walk to each blind, avoiding tern eggs and chicks while adult terns divebomb and strike us. Puffins perched on the roof. It was interesting to hear the sound of their claws on the boards above us as they shuffled across the roof.
Click here for a 13-second audio cut of the sounds outside the blind.
Views from the blind.
Images of Atlantic Puffins from the blind.
A juvenile Atlantic Puffin - note the dark face and less colorful bill.
Images of Razorbills from the blind.
Images of Common Murres from the blind (look for the thin beak).
Images of nesting Arctic Terns (note cryptic chicks in rightmost image).
April and Bill ready to reboard Chief.
Leaving Machias Seal Island behind.
Captain John "Z.Z.Top" Norton.
April showing a side-effect of the meclizine tablet -- yawn... drowsy... sleeeep...
Sleep-deprived grizzle-faced Bill.
A friendly sea-dog companion, Chip, liked to sleep on peoples' feet. Captain John towed the landing boat back to Jonesport.
The cabin with Captain John and navigational equipment.
Motoring into Jonesport.
After leaving Jonesport we headed back west. Along Route 1 we saw lots of blueberry barrens (burned-over fields dedicated to blueberry growing). Blueberries weren't in season -- they ripen in August -- but strawberries were being sold along the roadside, along with the omnipresent lobsters.
We spent most of the afternoon exploring the Petit Manan Point section of the Petit Manan National Wildlife Sanctuary. The Petit Manan Point section lies south of the hamlet of Pigeon Hill, which lies south of the town of Steuben. The refuge was almost deserted, as were most places we visited on our trip. We explored meadows filled with lupines, hawkweed, and other wildflowers, then hiked a trail that led through boreal forest to the shoreline.
The John Hollingsworth Trail into the forest. Mainly gray birch and various kinds of poplar with an understory of blueberry.
April examines one of the many kinds of ferns on the refuge. The shrub in the foreground is an alder, the dominant ground cover in boggy areas.
Trail through the boreal forest.
Swamp laurel (thanks to Kyle Arvin for the identification).
Relaxing along Pigeon Hill Bay.
April contemplates the complexity of a tidal pool.
A panoramic view from Petit Manan National Wildlife Sanctuary. The distant lighthouse is on Petit Manan Island.
From Petit Manan National Wildlife Sanctuary we returned to our cabin in Trenton, rested, then headed into Bar Harbor to explore this trendy town. During the afternoon the sky clouded up and fog rolled in. We never got rained on, but we didn't see blue sky again until we'd returned to Portland.
Thick sea fog rolls into Frenchman's Bay, about to engulf the Margaret Todd.
Bar Harbor at night.
April browsing boutiques in Bar Harbor.
On Wednesday we decided to drive 100 miles east to explore Campobello Island, New Brunswick. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt spent their summers at their 34-room cottage on Campobello Island. It was there that FDR contracted polio in 1921.
View from the Cobscook Bay side of the Roosevelt cottage, the same scene that FDR and Eleanor would have seen, except that there were no trees back then.
The Roosevelt cottage. A Canada Park Service guide give us a excellent tour of the house and grounds.
East Quoddy Head on Passamaquoddy Bay at the northern tip of Campobello Island. The tidal change is almost 20 feet.
At low tide you can walk from here to the lighthouse, but the tide was approaching high. If you don't return in time, it's 8 hours till the next low tide.
East Quoddy Head light as seen from the eastern side of the peninsula. The light was built in 1829 as an aid to navigation in the Bay of Fundy and Passamaquoddy Bay. It is reputed to be the most photographed lighthouse in the world. I don't know about that, but it is the most photographed lighthouse on Campobello Island.
A fine trail through boreal forest in Roosevelt Campobello International Park, at the southern end of Campobello Island.
April in the boreal forest.
Chokecherry, ash, and other shrubs bordering a freshwater stream on the Bay of Fundy.
Yellow lady slippers, an orchid we found in the boreal forest.
A quiet Bay of Fundy, with Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, in the distance.
A New Brunswick license plate.
Lupines and salmon-farming equipment along the Cobscook Bay side of Campobello Island near the village of Welshpool.
Weirs (fish traps) abandoned and decaying in Cobscook Bay. Overfishing by commercial vessels have made such fishing techniques unprofitable.
Lubec, Maine, as seen from Campobello Island.
Lupines of various colors were abundant everywhere in eastern Maine as well as on Campobello Island.
"Welcome to the United States. Are you terrorists?" After the bombings in London that morning, we anticipated a higher level of homeland security than what we encountered.
An isolated homestead on an island west of Lubec.
April found a beautiful 2-acre sanctuary called Cottage Garden, where we spent an hour admiring the gardens and watching a video on the natural history of coastal Maine.
Cottage Garden flowers.
April at Cottage Garden.
Heart-stopping gasoline prices in Lubec were shown per gallon in Canadian dollars, not U.S. dollars. Whew!
The harbor at Cutler, Maine.
More of the harbor at Cutler, and the town doctor's house on the promontory.
Old (read "rotten") herring ready for packing into lobster-trap bait sacks.
Cutler resident Pam Wood showed us how she packs the herring into the bait sacks and secures them. She makes the sacks by hand. And you think your job isn't much fun! She does this from May until the end of November, while doing maintenance at the University of Maine in Machias as well.
Part of the Navy's immense Very Low Frequency (VLF) 24-kHz LORAN antenna array at Cutler.
A restaurant in Machias where we had breakfast and dinner that day. Said to have the best blueberry pie in Maine.
On Thursday, our last day, we took a boat cruise from Northeast Harbor on the south side of Mount Desert Island. A National Park Service employee narrated as we motored among the islands. We saw Black Guillemots, Common Eiders, Osprey, an adult Bald Eagle, porpoises, seals, and stunning scenery.
A lighthouse on one of the islands in the bay.
A real overachiever of a nest-building bird, this osprey (see its black-and-white face atop the nest) had added annually to its already monstrous nest of branches and twigs.
Harbor and gray seals lounging on rock shelves.
Lobstermen cleaning their boat on the ocean.
We stopped for 45 minutes on Little Cranberry Island, now called Isleford.
The Maine economic equivalent of petroleum, fresh from the sea.
A quiet walkway.
A great place to warm up with a hot chocolate.
Back on the mainland looking over Southwest Harbor.
Southwest Harbor boats.
Bass Harbor Head Light, probably the most photographed light on Mount Desert Island.
Bass Harbor Head Light
Tourists exploring the red granite shoreline at Bass Light.
April on the Bass Light rocks.
From there we took the coastal route back to Portland, following the same U.S. Route 1 that runs all the way from Maine to Key West. Our flight was scheduled to depart at 9 p.m., but due to circumstances we still don't understand, our TransMeridian Airlines jet wasn't in Portland when we arrived at 8 p.m. It still wasn't there at midnight. When it did arrive and we'd boarded, there was another half-hour delay while they offloaded excess fuel. We didn't get home until almost 3 a.m., two bone-weary zombies who probably shouldn't have been driving in that state. In any event, the mysterious missing jet situation made for a very, very long day.
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American Airlines and British Airways Reunite Special Family for Thanksgiving
Published on : Tuesday, November 26, 2019
This Thanksgiving, transatlantic joint business partners American Airlines and British Airways teamed up to reunite a family, spread across the world, stateside.
The airlines flew four siblings from London, Madrid, Los Angeles and San Francisco to be with their parents in Chicago ahead of the holiday.
Stephanie, 31, Joe, 30, Caralyn, 28 and Stephen, 24, were able to head home to surprise their Father, Jan Mezyk, whose health is unfortunately deteriorating and is unable to travel.
Stephanie flew from Madrid with joint business partner Iberia, sister Caralyn joined them from London, brother Joe departed from Los Angeles, before youngest sibling Stephen joined them from San Francisco. All four siblings haven’t spent Thanksgiving together since 2004, when Stephen was just eight years old.
American Airlines and British Airways’ expert crew pulled out all the stops to get the Mezyk’s from all four destinations to the Windy City travelling in Club Europe with British Airways, and Flagship Business across the Atlantic and Domestic First in the U.S.
After surprising their parents at home, the extended family were served an exclusive Thanksgiving meal in their hometown at Bistronomic restaurant. A video, capturing the touching moment Dad, Jan and Mum, Katie, found out all their children were home together, is available to view here:
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Caralyn, said “We are all so overwhelmed by the efforts made by British Airways and American Airlines to get us back to Chicago for the holidays. My Mum and Dad had absolutely no idea and weren’t expecting any of us to make it home, so for all four of us to be back together was incredibly emotional for them. We were given the VIP treatment from the start and the whole experience is something we will never forget. After being apart for so long, it was wonderful to just be together.”
Neil Chernoff, British Airways’ Director of Networks and Alliances, said: “Bringing people together is something British Airways and American Airlines do every day, but it’s even more important over Thanksgiving and Christmas. The teams often go to great lengths to create memorable journeys, so we hope that the Mezyk family have their best holiday season yet.”
Vasu Raja, American Airlines’ Senior Vice President of Network Strategy, said: “Caring for people on life’s journey is what we do at American, alongside our Atlantic Joint Business Partners. On behalf of our 130,000 team members across the globe, we were delighted to be able to care for the Mezyk family, and all the other families who entrust their travel plans to us during the Thanksgiving holidays.”
American Airlines, British Airways, and Iberia formed the transatlantic joint venture in 2008, with Finnair joining in 2013, to widen their options across Europe and North America in order to offer customers the most competitive choice. The partnership brings together their networks of flights and offers customers a choice of over 140 transatlantic flights a day, with approximately 75 flights a day from London to the USA and 102 nonstop flights from North America to Europe.
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LITTLE NELLIE
Four Year Old Saint of the Eucarist
"Princesses of the Kingdom
Jacinta Marto & Nellie Organ
By Leo Madigan - Kolbe Publications
William Organ, Nellie’s father, says of his family, “The branch to which I belonged had been settled for generations in and around Dungarvan. I may say they were very humble Catholic folks, whose sole inheritance was that sterling faith, which has survived for centuries of Ireland’s bitter sorrow. Mary Aherne, Nellie’s mother, a native of Portlaw, Co. Waterford, like me, her husband, came of a humble Catholic family poor in world’s wealth, but rich in those gifts of heaven, for the lack of which no boon on earth can compensate.”
William Organ was married to Mary Aherne on 4th July, 1896, in the village of Portlaw, C. Waterford. The Sisters of Mercy say of Mary when she was at school there, “She was a light-hearted, innocent girl, full of fun and frolic, but generous, straightforward and devout.” Her husband said to his sister, a Sister of Mercy, “It was Mary’s piety that won me.”
Their marriage was blessed with four children: Thomas, David, Mary, and lastly Nellie, who was born on 24th August, 1903, at the Royal Artillery Barracks, as her father had joined up in October, 1897. She was baptised a few days later in Holy Trinity Church.
“When only two,” her father writes, “she would clasp my hand and toddle off to Mass, prattling all the way about Holy God.” Nellie loved her father dearly, and her first request when her mother went out, was to buy a rosary for daddy. One night her father said he was going on sentinal duty. Nellie said: “I will be sentinal in your place.”
“You go to sleep,” said her father.
“No,” said Nellie. “I shall wait for you,” and when he returned some hours later she was awake waiting for him.
The holy names were the first words she learned, and at night the family Rosary was said. Her mother taught her to kiss the Crucifix and the large beads, a habit which Nellie retained.
In 1905, Nellie’s father was sent to Spike Island in Cork Harbour, but the change brought no improvement to the health of Nellie’s mother, who was suffering from consumption. Mrs. Organ, always pious, turned in her last months entirely to God, and her Rosary was never out of her hands. She clung to Nellie with such transports of affection towards the end that the child had to be torn, almost rudely, from her dying embrace. She died in January 1907. It was always as “dead mother” that Nellie spoke of her afterwards. Poor little Nellie, a few days more and she followed the coffin to the grave, only a few hundred yards distant from the barracks where they lived.
Now Mr. Organ was left with four motherless little ones. The priest came to the rescue and had them provided for – Thomas, the eldest, barely nine, to the Christian brothers; David to the Sisters of Mercy, and Mary and Nellie to the Good Shepherd Sisters at Sunday’s Well, Cork. On arrival they both looked ill. Nellie was crying bitterly and both coughed alarmingly. Miss Hall, a trained nurse and recent convert, resided in the Children’s section. She was called and declared they were suffering from whooping cough, and the doctors advised their being sent at once to the Sister’s of Mercy’s Hospital.
While awaiting the ambulance, Nurse offered Nellie some soothing lozenges. The little one smiled through her tears, and taking one offered them again to Nurse Hall, saying, “Now you take some too.” Upon another occasion her nurse offered her a very fine strawberry; at once the little one said: “You take one bite, and I’ll take another.”
In about two months, on 20th July, the sick children returned from the hospital. The 22nd was the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, a patron saint of the convent. During the Mass, Nellie insisted on facing the organ loft instead of the altar. The music thrilled her; her cheeks flushed as she stared towards the gallery. One of the elder girls whispered to her that she must face the other way, but she stamped her foot and declared: “I want to see the music nun.”
After Mass the children went into the dining room for breakfast. The tiny tots had warm bread and milk sweetened with sugar. This was a much loved dish, called “goody”, but whilst the others ate heartily, Nellie could scarcely be persuaded to swallow a spoonfull. It was then that the Sisters saw how frail she was. As the days passed, they noticed that the child walked and tottered unsteadily, with her arms held out before her as though she feared to fall.
They knew nothing of the injured back, caused by being dropped as a baby. But they saw that the regulation shoes were too heavy so they got a fine pair of slipper shoes. Next day, dresssed in white with rose pink socks and her new shoes, Nellie looked a picture. Nellie’s appearance was very striking because her colouring was quite unusual; her fair hair, framed a face set, not with blue eyes as one might expect, but with great, luminous, solemn, dark eyes. “She looked a little love,” said a companion on this particular morning. “She looks like a little angel,” said another.
Nellie was not all angel though. A few days after, at breakfast, the milk was burnt. Nellie slid from her perch armed with mug and spoon,, marched to the Sister presiding, put her spoon in her milk and said, “Mother, taste that!”
Another day in the playground the bell rang and the children went in to supper, but Nellie remained. Some of the children hid behind the trees to see what she would do. She went on quietly walking on a ladder that was on the ground. The Sister told Nellie the next day that she must not be naughty and keep the children late for supper. “They could go if they wanted,” Nellie said. “They did go and leave me alone.”
“Are you sorry?” asked the Sister.
“Yes, I am sorry,” answered Nellie.
“Then tell God you are.” Instantly Nellie went on her knees. “Holy God I am very sorry for keeping the girls late for supper. Please forgive me and make me a good child and bless me and my mother.”
In class even babies have to sit still occasionally. Sitting still was always the cause of bitter tears to Nellie on account of her weak spine. One day she was particularly fractious. She wailed, cried and stamped her foot when they tried to soothe her. At last Sister Mary Immaculata said to her reprovingly, “Come, come, Nellie. If you are not a good little girl I will take off those pretty shoes and give you back your old ones.” But Nellie redoubled her wailings. The Sister sent a pupil to take off the dainty shoes. Meanwhile Nellie’s behaviour puzzled her. The child made no resistance to the girl’s efforts; on the contrary she assisted in removing the much-loved shoes and stockings and even managed a friendly little smile, though the tears still trembled in her big mournful eyes. Presently Nellie stole up to the Sister’s knee, and clutching the folds of her habit whispered softly, “Mother, I am sorry.” This was too much for Sister Immaculata. She caught the little one up in her arms and restored the socks and shoes. Nellie was a puzzle – these heroic efforts, in such a baby, to suppress tears and wailings which threatened to break out in spite of herself.
Then the older girl who slept next to Nellie said that she cried half the night and seemed to be suffering. She was examined by the nurse and found to have a curved spine and crooked back. Consequently, Nellie was moved to the Infirmary, where she shared her meals with a little black kitten, of which she grew very fond and which fully reciprocated the child’s affection. But, alas! Nellie loved it so much that she nearly hugged the life out of it. They gave her the bonniest of little bunny rabbits instead and Nellie loved it in time, but never quite so much as the live kitten.
Class lessons had now ceased for the delicate child, but she sometimes joined the kindergarten in their games in the playground. One day she was given a box of beads to string. Baby-like she put some in her mouth and, when something startled her slightly, she swallowed them. The teacher snapped her up and went running to find the nurse. The nurse hurried down with a Sister and together they rushed her into the informary nearby. They extracted five beads. Nellie did not cry during the operation, but some time after she seemed to collapse they sent for the doctor; his verdict was that Nellie was already very consumptive. He held no hopes for her recovery.
Sister Mary Immaculata´s heart was pierced with regret for what she called her “harshness” to the suffering child. Nellie seemed to be instinctively aware of what was passing in the Sister’s mind.One evening, soon after the doctor’s visit, she expressed a wish to see Sister Mary Immaculata and also the Mother Superior. Both hastened immediately to the cottage. We are told by Dr. Scannell: “Two very busy nuns both obeyed her summons and arrived together. But Nellie, after a gracious smile to the Superior, turned and threw her arms around the Sister’s neck, drawing her down and holding her closely, her little cheek laid caressingly against that of the nun. For quite a considerable time she held her mistress in that close embrace but spoke no word whatever. The Mother Superior was puzzled, but Sister knew in her heart that the little scene was intended by this “old fahioned” baby as an asurance of her full foregiveness and forgetfulness of the past.
Nellie was told about Our lord’s life, and afterwards she always asked constantly for “the story of Holy God as a child”. Passing a statue of the Sacred Heart she said, “It is God”. One day in the cloister she stopped before a statue of Our Lady and the Divine Child with the world in his hand. “If you give me your ball,” said Nellie, “I will give you my shoes.”
Nurse said, “Nellie, you can’t get that.”
“He can give them if he likes, answered Nellie confidently.
Communication with God
There was a statue of the infant of Prague in the Infirmary, and Nellie at first took it for a doll. When she was told it was Holy God as a child she became interested. Nurse Hall made a novena for her and when at the end she felt better and was able to get up, Nellie was greatly impressed. One day when Nurse Hall was ill, Nellie called a girl, “Quick, quick, bring Holy God, put him on the chair near me, it is he that will cure Mama, you will see.” Then she embraced the statue and put it on the ground and said, “Now, little Jesus, dance for me.”
“What nonsense,” said the girl. “You know he can’t dance.” And she went on with her work.
Nellie took her little trumpet, began blowing, and called out enraptured, “Look, look, see how he dances.” Another girl came but they saw nothing except Nellie, sparkling eyes and cheeks aglow. When she was no able to blow anymore she called on the to “blow more music”. In a few moments she called out, “He has stopped!” and her face regained its usual calm. One of the Sisters, hearing of this incident, said, “Dear Lord, if you really did dance for Nellie, give us money for a bakehouse which we badly need.” A few days later £300 came from a lady marked: For A Bakehouse.
Miss Hall carried Nellie round the Stations of the Cross and she learned for the first time the story of Christ’s Passion. It bewildered her and at the X1th Station, the Nailing to the Cross, Nellie said, “Why is he letting them do that? He could stop them if he liked.”
Nurse Hall tried to explain as best she could the fall of man and the redemption. Nellie’s tears fell, and between sobs she exclaimed, “Poor Holy God! Poor Holy God!” Every time she kissed the crucifix that sigh broke from her lips – “Poor Holy God! Poor Holy God!”
One other puzzle remained for Little Nellie. Miss Hall says she gave the child a confused explanation of the Sacramental Species... “but Nellie, with generations of Catholic ancestors behind her, drinks it all in with ease, and expresses her relief by saying how glad she is to find that ‘Holy God is not squeezed in that little house.’”
Nellie loved picking daisies for Holy God, and would say, “Holy God is good to give me such lovely flowers.” Once she noticed some dead flowers by the Sacred Heart statue outside the Infirmary. “Look at those dirty flowers, they must be taken away from Holy God.” Long afterwards she asked Mother Superior whether “those dirty flowers had been taken away from Holy God.”
The little invalid remained for two months in the Sacred Heart Infirmary. Nurse Hall frequently considered it advisable to pass the night with her, and while the bed was being made Nellie would, with her tiny hands, smooth the sheets saying, “I do not want any wrinkles in Mother’s bed.” As we have seen, Nellie was very affectionate and loved her nurse. She would say, “God took my mother, but he has given you to be my mother.” At night she would slip her tiny hand between the rails of her cot to take that of her ‘mother’ which she would clasp affectionately until she fell into a fitful sleep.
The little altar of the Holy Infant which stood beside her cot received her greatest care. She frequently asked for fresh flowers and for oil for the lamp that burned before the statue. One day the girl who attended nellie while nurse was visiting other patients left the child to see something in the other room. Hearing someone move she returned suddenly, not expecting for a moment that nellie could have left her cot. What was her amazement to see the child holding a flower in her hand, vainly endeavouring to clammer back into bed! “Oh, you naughty child,” said the girl. “I’ll tell mother when she comes back that you stole a flower.”
Nellie did not answer for a moment but hugged the flower to her breast, then quietly remarked that the altar was hers. Later when she was alone with Nurse, she said to her, “Mother, I’m sorry I took the flower but I was only talking to Holy God and he gave me the flower. He did, Mother.”
Feels God's Pressence
Katie was the name of the girl who attended Nellie. One morning, instead of going to Mass as usual, she remained in the kitchen but was careful to see that Nellie did not know this. What was her surprise on entering the Infirmary and approaching Nellie to be reproached with “not having Holy God”?
Next day Katie determined to deceive Nellie. She arose at the usual hour, went down the passage and opened the outer door of the cottage, closing it again with a bang, but herself remaining within. Then she removed her shoes and crept soundlessly back to the kitchen, staying there in the most cautious silence till the regular Mass time had elapsed. Then, entering unconcernedly into Nellie’s room, she smiled at the Little One. “You did not get Holy God this morning”. The tone was sorrowful.
“How do you know, lovey? Did you not hear me close the cottage door?”
“That makes no difference,” replied Nellie decidedly. “I know you did not get Holy God today.”
Nellie was very considerate and at night, although the poor little one suffered from thirst, if the girl did not hear the first time she called, she would not call again but would wait till morning.
Of Nellie’s first visit to the chapel during Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Nurse Hall gave this account of the child’s extraordinary behaviour on that occasion. Nurse carried Nellie down to the chapel. She had never before actually seen the Sacred Host exposed. What then was Miss Hall’s surprise to hear the little one say to her in an awed whisper, “Mother, there He is, there is Holy God now,” and with her little hand she pointed to the monstrance, after which she never once took her eyes off the Host, while an expressionm of ecstasy transfigured her face. From that day onward, by some interior warning and without a single exterior sign to guide her, she always knew when there was exposition at the Convent.
Nellie was born in a barracks where the prison is called a “lock-up”. So she regarded Jesus as a prisoner “in the lock-up”. On exposition days she would say, “Take me down to the chapel. I know that Holy God is not in the lock-up today.”
In another account of this same first visit, Mother Superior writes, “It was the first Friday of the month (October). I was passing along the corridor, when the chapel door opened and Nellie, holding the nurse’s hand, toddled out softly and recollectedly. Remembering how ill the child had been, I stooped down, one knee on the floor, and said, “Well, how is Baby today?” For answer the little one laid her face on my shoulder and wept silently. But her tears were not sad, they were all sweetness. It was a holy emotion, the happiness of which overflowed in wordless weeping. In that moment”, continues the Mother solemnly, “it was made known to me interiorly that God had some special designs on the child, and that I, then Superior, was expected to co-operate with Him in accomplishing them.”
During the last days of September Nellie had grown so weak and ill that they feared she would die, so she was carried to then school Infirmary which was brighter and more cheerful than the cottage.
The Most Reverend Dr. O’Callaghan O.P., Bishop of Cork, had said that if any children were in danger of death he would come and confirm them. In reply to a letter Mother Superior mentioned the Organs, stating that Nellie, the younger, aged four, was very fragile, but not suggesting the possibility of immediate danger and making no mention of Confirmation. The Bishop, on receiving the letter, took no notice of the reference to Nellie, but next morning, as he himself affirmed, he felt inspired during Holy Mass to go and confirm the tiny child. Immediately, after breakfast, he rang up the Superioress and told her he proposed coming at twelve o’clock that very day to administer the sacrament of Confirmation to Nellie Organ.
Oh! Then there was a hurrying to and fro in the Convent of Sunday’s Well! Such preparations! White frock, wreath and veil etc.
While Sister Mary Immaculata was busied with these temporal thing, another Sister was thinking of the spiritual. She hurried upsairs to give the child some instructions on the Sacrament she was about to receive. The event far surpassed her expectations. Nellie knew already what she intended teaching her! “And”, the Sister adds, “as the hour approached, the little one’s limbs trembled from excess of her joyful anticipation.”
And so, on 8th October, 1907, Nellie received the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Afterwards she was brought to the parlour to be introduced to the good Bishop. It was then that the Bishop, as he afterwards declared, was so much impressed by the graces which he now perceived had been granted to this motherless child. Nellie declared to all who came to see her on her Confirmation day, “I am now a soldier of Holy God”.
It was soon seen that she had clearly grasped that Fortitude was the grace of graces to be looked for in Confirmation. So vigourously did she apply her forcible character to practise patience in suffering that, the Mother Superior assured me, she never saw the child betray impatience after the day of her Confirmation, though her sufferings were very great indeed. When the pain was sharpest she would take a crucifix and, kissing it, would sigh with tears, “Poor Holy God! Oh, Poor Holy God!” If they sympathised with her she would smile and remark, “What is it compared with what He suffered on the Cross for me?”
The afternoon of the Confirmation day was very pleasant for the little one. Miss Hall had made for her a soft down bed in her own apartment. There Nellie held quite a reception – all the Community of Sisters, all the children came in groups to visit her, and sweets and ‘goodies’ were passed round. When late evening fell, the Sister in charge sent a grown girl to carry Nellie back to the school Infirmary, but Nellie pleaded so hard to be left with her second mother that the kind Superioress could not refuse. So it was in Miss Hall’s room, therefore, that the child spent all the rest of her mortal days. In this room, she gave back her snow-white soul to her Creator. And this little room is still preserved in the Convent of Sunday’s Well exactly as on the day she left it. All her toys are there – the bunny rabbit and the tin bugle, all her little pictures and objects of piety, the statue of the Divine Infant of Prague – everything that she had loved and handled.
One morning, immediately following one of her worst attacks, the Nurse asked her, “Well, how are you today, Darling? I thought you would have been with Holy God by this time.”
“Oh no,” answered Nellie. “Holy God says I’m not good enough to go yet.”
“What do you know about Holy God?” asked the Nurse.
“He did come and stand there,” said the child. “And he said that.”
The Nurse, and the Sister with her looked at one another in astonishment. “Where was He, Nellie?” asked the Sister.
“There,” she repeated confidently, pointing to the same spot.
“And what was He like?” asked the Sister.
“Like that,” she said, putting both hands together.
Soon after her Confirmation, the child’s appetite, always small, seemed to fail completely. She would hold her little bowl of broth ot milk, turning and turning the spoon about in it, but refusing to eat. When pressed to swallow some she would shake her head and say that her throat was sore. The doctor was called to examine the throat but could find nothing wrong. Nellie heard his opinion calmly. She did not cry over it, nor over her pain, but she continued to asert that she had a sore throat. Finally Nurse Hall herself examined the little mouth thoroughly and discovered a new tooth that had just cut its way through at the root of her tongue. It must have caused considerable suffering.
And while it was being extraced Nellie didn’t cry either.
In all this it is Nellie’s bearing that interests us. She had actually borne in silence the accusations of being “pettish” and “willful” after the doctor had failed to discover anything wrong. Now, however, that what had appeared to be petulance or willfulness was vindicated, she let Mother Superior know about it with charming sweetness. She looked forward to Mother Superior’s evening visit and then, holding her by the sleeve and smiling truimphantly she said, “Now Mother, hadn’t I a sore throat, hadn’t I, Mother, hadn’t I?” until Mother Superior kissed her and agreed.
All this time consumption was wasting away the baby frame. Not only were her lungs affected but also her jaw bone had begun to crumble away from the disease known as “caries”. (Tooth Decay – prevalent at the time and the reason why municipal authorities took to adding sodium flouride to their water supplies.) In the end it came away in pieces, and the odour from it was extremely unpleasant – at times unbearable. The devoted nurse syringed it sometimes with disinfectants. This, although it hurt considerably, was nevertheless not once resisted by the child after her Confirmation. When the nurse took out the syringe, Nellie took out her crucifix. Giving her intelligent consent to this pain, which clearly God had laid upon her, she thought of the Great Atonement. When the pain was greatest she used to lie motionless in bed, her arms crossed on her breast, her little fingers folded round her crucifix.
Longing For The Eucharist
The Sisters, who had been amazed to behold Nellie’s desire to be carried down to the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, were now more surprised still to hear her sighs of longing for the then unheard of privilege in childhood, of receiving Holy Communion. At this time she was often heard repeating to herself, “Oh, I am longing for Holy God! I wonder when he will come! I am longing to have Him in my heart.”
One night, when Mother Mary Francis, the Superior, went to wish Nellie good night, the child lifted her little face and said, “Mother, tomorrow morning, when you get Holy God, will you bring Him up to me?” She answered vaguely that she would ask Holy God to love her very much and she would come and see her straight after Mass, which the eager child took for ‘yes’. That evening Nellie called the nurse and said, “Mother Francis is going to bring me Holy God in the morning.” And before daybreak Nellie was awake.
“Mother, mother, please get up and clean the house because Holy God is coming up to me today.” Nurse tried to calm her and told her that Josephine would be over soon. But Nellie was not satisfied. “Jo is late this morning and the place will never be ready.” Nurse had to get up and if she stopped work for a moment Nellie would chide her, “Mother, what are you doing, the room will never be ready.” As Mass time came Nellie watched the door eagerly, and when Reverend Mother came without Holy God Nellie’s disappointment was keen. She wept bitterly, and hardly spoke a word that day and at night she said, “Mother, I did think I would have had Holy God today.”
For several days she remained preoccupied. When asked if she wanted anything she would answer, “No, mother, I was only thinking of Holy God.” Her lovely eyes looked sad, but resigned, nor did she again ask for Holy Communion, only her recollection increased. “Mother,” she whispered to the nurse one morning, “when you get Holy God in the chapel, will you come back and kiss me. Then you can go back to the chapel again.” This kiss was not for nurse, it was for the Blessed Sacrament. It was given indiscriminately to anyone, nun or child or grown up whom she could coax to come to her immediately after receiving Holy Communion. In profound reverence would touch the lips of the communicant, then in strictest silence she would wave her tiny hand as a signal to the other to return and finish her thanksgiving. Sometimes nurse would hesitate to leave her, but Nellie would always insist, “Mother, go down to Mass,” she would say, “and get Holy God and come back to kiss me.”
Nellie’s recital of the Rosary was particularly edifying. She kissed each bead and said each prayer slowly, distinctly and with a spirit of recollection most remarkable in one so young. On one of her visits Mother Superior asked, “Baby, shall we talk or say the Rosary?”
“Say the Rosary,” replied Nellie.
Mother had said only a few Hail Marys when she heard a whisper, “Kneel down, Mother.” “I took no notice,” relates the Mother Superior, “but went on with the decade, when Nellie in a determined voice repeated, ‘Mother, kneel down,’ and I had to finish the Rosary on my knees.”
Another day they were saying the Rosary and when the fifth mystery was reached the child interrupted, “Mother, let us say this one for the Pope, for my Holy Father,” which was done. Then the Litany followed, and when the Sign of the Cross had been made, Nellie took her crucifix and kissed it solemnly. “This kiss is for my Pope, my own Holy Father,” she explained.
The Ver. Fr. Bury, S.J., during a retreat at the Convent, often went to visit Nellie. He asked her, “Now tell me, what is Holy Communion?” Nellie answered, “It is Holy God. It is he who makes the nuns and everyone else holy.” At another time she said. “Jesus rests on my tongue and then goes down into my heart.” One day after a visit, as he was going away, he lifted his hand to give his blessing as usual, when Nellie stopped him and said, “Oh Father, won’t you take off your cap?”
Father Bury heard Nellie’s confession and gave her unconditional absolution, showing he fully believed she had come to the use of reason. He wrote to that effect to the Bishop, saying Nellie had come to the use of reason and was endowed in no ordinary degree with ardent love of God and the desire to be united to Him in Holy Communion.
Bishop Gives Permission
The answer came while Father Bury was dining in the Convent parlour. No sooner had he read the permission than he started up from his unfinished meal, flung his seviette halfway across the table, and rushed upstairs two steps at a time to take the joyful news to the anxious little one. When Nellie heard of the Bishop’s consent she kept repeating, “Oh, I will have Holy God in my heart, I will have Holy God in my heart.” Night brought little rest. She kept Nurse Hall awake all night long asking, “Is it not time to rise yet? The stars are gone, Mother, surely it is time to get up now.”
The eventful morning dawned at last, the morning of 6th December, 1907. After such a sleepless night it was feared the excitement would be too much for the delicate child and that she would be unable to receive the Blessed Sacrament. But Nellie tried to calm herself. She lay quietly in her cot and, though her limbs trembled slightly, the illness passed. It was the First Friday. Dressed all in white she was carried down and placed in an easy chair before the Sanctuary. The community Mass had just ended. Nellie remained silent and motionless with her head bowed down in prayer and adoration. Every eye was on this baby of predilection, all her companions looked on in wonder.
A Baby to receive Holy Communion!
Then came Father Bury in stole and surplice. Domine non sum dignus! Who can be worthy? No one. But He can make us worthy by His gifts and graces. Nellie knew this well for He Himself had taught her. She saw the priest approaching, she lifted her eager face. “The child,” writes father Bury, “literally hungered for her God, and received Him from my hands in a transport of love.” So all her yearnings were satisfied. Holy God had come into her heart at last.
The joyous strains of the First Communion hymn echoed:
Oh Mary, dearest Mother,
In God’s sweet scented bowers,
Will you gather for a little child
A wreath of fragrant flowers.
I wish my heart to be
A cradle fair and gay,
Where my Blessed jesus may repose
On my First Communion Day.
It is now dedicated to Pius X, and called Nellie’s First Communion hymn.
Still Nellie sat there motionless, insensible to things of earth, in silent, loving conference with the Saviour, her radiant countenance reflecting the Eternal Light that dwelt within her.
After her First Communion Nellie was brought back to her cot in the nurse’s room. All day long the child maintained that profound calm which is rarely met with except in souls of more than ordinary sanctity. Many of the sisters and her companions visited her bringing her gifts of medals, scapulars and pictures. She thanked them quietly and bade nurse hang them around her cot. The moment the visitors had gone she joined her hands in prayer, and her lips were seen to move, whispering her love and gratitude to Holy God.
In Mother Superior’s reply to questions as to the radiance on Nellie’s face, she says, “At the moment of her First Communion, which she received in a transport of love, Nellie’s features shone as if the presence of the great light in her heart reflected itself in her face. Yes, those who saw Nellie then are well convinced that the child’s appearance was not at all ordinary. This phenomenon was seen more particularly at her other Communions because, after the first, she was taken almost immediately out of the chapel and there were only a chosen few who had the happiness to witness the scene which really took place. Then Nellie had not only a countenance more recollected, an attitude more pious than she customarily had, but an extraordinary radiance.”
Another wonder, the little one’s jaw was diseased, and the odour from it was very disagreeable. The jaw had become so much worse that it was crumbling away, in fact it was coming away in pieces. Yet after Nellie’s First Communion the odour ceased.
The following Sunday, being 8th December, Nellie, after once again receiving Holy Communion, was made a Child of Mary. How lovingly she bent her fair head as Father Bury invested her with the precious silver medal on its broad, blue, silken band. She loved blue ever afterwards, for it spoke of Our Lady.
The next day, 9th December, she was annointed. Death seemed to be momentarily at hand, and the grace of Extreme Unction was now added to the graces she had already received. As the sisters said, “Our Little Nellie has received all the Sacraments except Holy Orders and Matrimony.
Yet Nellie did not die. She continued to live on, so weak as to be often unfit for the slight fatigue of being carried down to the chapel for Holy Communion, which she now received very frequently. On these occasions Holy Communion was brought to her room where an altar was prepared. When the priest had gone and the last final tinkling of the silver bell had died away, she sank back upon her bed and became absorbed in prayer. The thanksgiving frequently lasted till 5 0’clock in the afternoon. Not a morsel of food passed the child’s lips during these hours of thanksgiving, yet the fever of consumption was wasting her away.
Nellie’s longing for the Bread of Angels was insatiable. One night she, who as a rule was so patient, kept nurse awake continually calling out, “I want Holy God! I want Holy God! Mother, will it soon be morning.”
“Try to sleep,” answered the nurse. “Father wont be here for a long time yet.”
“Go and call him,” begged Nellie. “Tell him I want Holy God. Does he live in the garden, Mother.”
Nurse answered, “He lives a long way off in the city.”
At last morning came and Nellie’s desire was satisfied.
This was the time when her thanksgiving lasted till evening. When Mother Superior visited her at quarter to five she was lying quite still, turned towards the window. Having heard of her strange condition all day, Mother bent over her. Nellie turned suddenly round. “Oh Mother, I am so happy. I have been talkig to Holy God.” Her voice trembled with delight. Her face, previously dusky with disease, were now white as milk and her cheeks glowed. Her large eyes shone with such brilliance that one could not help thinking: Those eyes have seen God. Her smile cannot be described because it was of Heaven.
On Christmas Eve Nellie prepared her little crib for baby Jesus and declared that she must have some straw for the bed of Holy God. Josephine said there was none but Nellie was not to be put off. “There is plenty down in the farm yard,” she said. Finally some was brought, and Nellie prepared the bed for Holy God, smoothing every straw. Then the little Infant was taken and placed in it. Nellie was to receive the Infant Jesus at Midnight Mass. She had tried to rest early in the evening but long before the hour for Holy Communion had arrived Nellie was making her preparation. “Do not speak to me before Mass,” she said. “I want to keep thinking of Holy God.
At midnight she was carried to the church. The first Mass had already been said, and now the second had begun. It was a scene of prayer, love and adoration. There, in her accustomed place before the Sanctuary, was Nellie. Her pallid, wasted face foretold that this was to be her last Christmas on earth, yet it was radiant with holiness and love, for was she not to receive her Holy God on this, the night He first came down to dwell among his children? Now her head was bowed in prayer, now she raised her eyes and followed each movement and each gesture of God’s minister.
Finally the Sanctuary gates are opened wide, and Jesus of Bethlehem comes to Little Nellie to give her his Christmas gift, His Eucharist, His own dear Self.
Nellie’s face, before so pale and haggard, was glowing now; her eyes were bright with some strange brilliance, staring fixedly at the Tabernacle as if they penetrated the secrets of His hidden life. “If anyone was in ecstasy,” declared Sister Mary of St. Pius, who knelt next to the child, “Nellie certainly was then.”
Back in her cot she could not rest and called nurse. “Today is Holy God’s birthday, the day he came on earth to save us from sin, so light the candles, Mother, please.” When the crib was lighted up, Nellie’s joy found vent in tears. When calmed she sang several hymns.
The New Year 1908 dawned, but it brought no hope to those who loved Little Nellie. It was a wonder to all how she continued to exist. The tiny frame was quite exhausted. She could retain nothing, not even a spoonful of broth. She seemed to live on the Blessed Sacrament alone. Her sufferings were so great that one day they drew tears from a Sister who witnessed them. But Nellie was quite resigned. “Why are you crying, Mother?” she asked. “You should be glad I am going to Holy God.” If Nurse Hall complained of a headache or other pain Nellie would say, “What is that suffering to what Holy God suffered for us?”
One day Reverend Mother showed Nellie something but she, with a gesture of impatience, bade her go away. Sister reproved her for it. Soon Nellie begged for Reverend Mother and would not be comforted until she came at which time the little one threw her arms around the nuns neck and, between sobs, pleaded, “Mother forgive me. I won’t do it again.”
Nellie was very affectionate. Another day, when her nurse went to Cobh, Nellie was very sad and kept asking Josephine when nurse would be home. At the noise of every tram she would send Josephine to the window to see if the nurse was coming. Dinner arrived but she could not take it. “I will eat when my Mamma comes back,” she said, which was not until seven o’clock. Nellie’s joy was great, and she made everu effort to eat the sweets Mamma had brought her.
One day Mother Mary Magdalen was holding Nellie in her arms. Thinking she had fallen asleep she said, “How happy this child is, she will go straight to heaven for she has commited no sin.” Nellie started, raised her head and said sadly and humbly, “Oh yes, Mother, I did. I told a lie once. Her love of purity showed itself by her insisting that all must be white when Holy God came to her. He garments, the counterpane and even the flowers. Once she was given a coloured frock. “No!” she said. “I can’t get Holy God in that dress. I want the white one.” Her wish triumphed. Nellie joyfully exclaimed, “Now I am able to get Holy God.”
From her window she admired the clouds, the ‘friends and angels of Holy God’ as she called them. When she heard the children laughing in the playground, she, too, was glad that God’s children were happy. But when they made some artificial flowers she would have none of them. “They are too stiff. I want Holy God’s own flowers.”
“You’ll soon be one of God’s own flowers yourself, Nellie,” said the nurse. “You will soon bloom in Holy God’s garden up in heaven.”
In Holy God Nellie lived, moved and had her being – this was the world of Holy God and nothing happened that was not His Will. “Baby” said Mother Francis de Sales one day, “when you go to Holy God tell Him Mother Francis wants some money to pay her debts.”
Nellie answered, “Holy God knows it and that’s enough.”
On another occasion one of the nuns went to Nellie and begged her earnestly to pray for her sister, a lady in the world, who was greviously ill. “Has she children, Mother?”
“She has many children,” replied the nun.
“Then,” said Nellie, “I will pray to Holy God and He will see that she will be cured.” The lady recovered.
Sister Mary Immaculata once stayed up till 4am illuminating an address for the Countess of Aberdeen and overslept for Mass. She came up, hoping to get Holy Communion with Nellie, but Nellie was too ill that morning. Nellie heard Sister say, “I have lost my Communion”. Much as she loved her Nellie wouldn’t speak to her for two days, saying, “She did not get up to receive Holy God. If Mother had been ill...but only sleepy!” Two days later, putting her arms around her neck she said, “Mother, I forgive you.”
To the same Sister when she was ill Nellie said, “Holy God will cure you and make you strong, for you have a good deal of work to do for Him,” and the Sister, who had been frail, became strong. And to the same Sister she said, “When I shall be with Holy God, you take this,” and she showed her a scapular of the sacred Heart and a Rosary of the Immaculate Conception. “These will make you better and strong.” Sister carried them always.
Nellie liked medals and holy pictures and had them arranged around her bed. She would call attention to them – “Look at this,and that,” naming her heavenly friends. Sister Teresa, had a nice medal on her Rosary. Nellie noticed it and said, “Have you one for me?”
Mostly Nellie liked to be left alone and if asked, “Are you lonely?” she would reply, “Oh no! I am talking to Holy God.” Sometimes she would speak as one inspired as when, asked to pray for the recovery of Father Cullen S.J., she said, “Holy God is very fond of Father.” A few days later she said, “He will get better but he will never see me again.” Her words came true, as they did when she was asked to pray for two sick Sisters. One, she said, would get better because she had a lot of work to do for God. The other would get better, but Holy God would not cure her entirely.
After Christmas Nellie was enrolled in the Apostleship of Prayer. She seemed to understand it, and indeed her prayers were universal – the Holy Church, all God’s children, the Pope “My Holy Father” as she styled him, The Bishop “My Bishop”, sinners, those who pain Holy God, the Souls in Purgatory, and her own ‘dead mother’. On the occasion of her enrolment in the Apostleship, Reverend Mother showed her a picture of the Sacred Heart. Nellie examined it closely. “That is not the way I saw Holy God ,” she said. “This way!” And she crossed her hands on her breast.
A Holy Capuchin, Pere Fidele, impressed Nellie very much, and she begged him to bless her, and Mother also. The humble priest said, “I think you ought to bless me,” and, Franciscan like, he knelt while Nellie dipped her finger in the holy water and made the Sign of the Cross on his forehead saying, “God bless you, Father.” Ever after, with child-like simplicity, she blessed all who asked her, once changing the words when a lady who was in great trouble was taken to see her. It was the day before Nellie’s death. Though no word was spoken Nellie said to her, “May God bless you and comfort you.” At the same time a new peace entered the lady’s soul. In gratitude she sent some violets, which were laid in Nellie’s dead hands.
Nellie's Death
Being told that the more patient she was the nearer she would be to Holy God, Nellie declared, “I will fly to Him, I will go to Him on His own day.” Which she did, dying on a Sunday. “I will wear my First Communion dress and I will go in Nurse’s arms and they should make a new dress for Nurse.”
One day a Sister said, “Nellie, when you go to Holy God, will you ask Him to take me to Him? I am longing for heaven.”
She answered solemnly, “Holy God can’t take you till you are better and do what he wants you to do.” The same day she sang several little hymns and then called Nurse Hall. “Tell me, Mother, do you feel well today?”
“Very well,” answered the nurse. “Do you feel you are nearing God?”
A couple of days before her death Mother Superior said, “Nellie, what will you ask Holy God for me when you see Him?”
She answered at once. “That He may love you very much and that you may do much good.”
On the 2nd of February poor little Nellie’s agony was heart-rending. Towards three o´clock she bcame quite calm and remained motionless for an hour. Her gaze was fixed on something she seemd to see at the foot of the bed. There was an extraordinary look in those lovely eyes, now filled with tears, but they were tears of joy. She tried to rise and draw near to that which she saw, her lips moved and, raising her eyes with a smile of perfect satisfaction, Nellie flew to Holy God whom she had loved so faithfully. It was 4 o’clock on Sunday, 2nd February, 1908. She was four years, five months and eight days old.
A couple of days later Nellie’s remains were confided to consecrated ground in St. Joseph’s cemetery.
It was not, however, before Nellie’s sanctity made itself perceived. Her admirable and precocious virtues, her extraordinary life and her angelic death began to be talked about.
Little Saint
The graces obtained through her intercession were by degrees divulged. The resting place of this little child became celebrated throughout the country. Many were the demands for the removal of the body to the Convent cemetery at Sunday’s Well. Permission for this was sought and obtaied from the necessary authorities.
When the grave was opened, on 9th September 1909, it was seen that such a transference could with safety be accomplished. There were present a well known priest, also the nurse and two other reliable witnesses. To the great astonishment of all (for it must be remembered that this child died of phthisis – a wasting away of the body) her little corpse was found to be intact. The hands were quite flexible and the hair had grown a few inches. The dress, wreath and veil of First Holy Communion, in which she had been buried as she had desired, were still intact and, the silver medal of the Children of Mary was as bright as if it had just been polished, and the blue ribbon was unfaded.
Many persons visit the grave, not only from Ireland but also from abroad. Some come to satisfy their devotion and others – by far the greater number – to ask for cures of various kinds. Nor do they petition in vain. A photograph taken in 1924 of the hallowed spot shows numerous ex-votos, such as crutches, surgical boots, etc. For reasons of prudence this evidence of the child’s seeming intercessory power was removed in 1929.
If during her lifetime Bishop O’Callaghan showed himself a devoted friend to Nellie, after her death he was no less so. When Pope Pius X, impressed by the facts related to him of Nellie’s life, asked for a relic, Bishop O’Callaghan was extremely pleased. His sister relates the circumstances connected with its presentation.
“My brother showed great satisfation at the Pope’s request for a relic, and cast about to find something that might serve as a case in which to send it he bethought himself of a valuable gold locket of large size, a family heirloom in my possession. Would I give it? he asked. I willingly assented. The locket was altered to suit its present requirements. My brother had a delicately chased monstrance with a host engraved upon it. The relic was then placed within the locket and forwarded to Rome where it was received by His Holiness with great devotion.
Madame Merry del Val, mother of His Emminence Cardinal Merry del Val, likewise begged Bishop O’Callaghan for a relic, which was later presented by the Countess to the Queen of Spain.
The Bishop lost no time in opening a court of enquiry concerning the virtues of the holy little child, this being the first step towards possible canonisation. He was not destined, however, to see his hopes realised. Pius X died in August 1914, and he himself in 1916.
God’s time had evidently not yet come. May Nellie herself from her fair heavenly home hasten this.
It has been seen during the preceding pages how Nellie’s young companions at St. Finbarr’s School were filled with a holy envy on the day of her First Communion. They ardently desired that the traditional age of ten or twelve for admitting children to the Holy Table should be abolished, and that those of a younger age might receive their Eucharistic Lord.
Soon after Nellie’s death thee children began to pray for this intention. Novena succeeded novena unceasingly.
When the decree of Pope Pius X Quam singulari was published in August, 1910, the girls at St, Finbarr’s were confident that their prayers had brought it into being. They wrote thanking His Holiness, and at the same time begged the Pope to canonise their little classmate and make her the patroness of early First Communicants. The Holy Father’s reply to this letter was published in Father Scannell’s Life of little Nellie, which came out about this time.
Beside the above short life there is a more detailed one written by Margaret Gibbons (Sands & Co.). The C.T.S. of Australia has published a short life, and likewise a similar Society in America, But France has worked the most indefatigably in her regard.
In Pere des Ronces’ life of 200 pages is found the approbation of no less than eight cardinals, forty four Archbishops and Bishops, including our own Cardinal Bourne, Cardinal Vannutelli and Cardinal Mercier.
The presentation of Pere des Ronces’ life to the Pope by Abbe Prevost is worth recording. Scarcely had Pius Xth heard the child’s name pronounced than his features, ordinarily so sad, lighted up with a kindly smile. “Oh!” he exclaimed. “So they want me to canonise her...but that is unheard of in the Church, a child of four! We have, it is true, a little saint, of two and a half years, but that is a martyr, St. Simon of Trente. In the case of martyrs it is easier.”
“Nevertheless, Holy Father,” replied the Abbe, “it is certain that Little Nellie practised virtue in an heroic degree, and Your Holiness would be convinced of it if you would deign to read what is set forth in these pages.”
“Yes,” said Pius X. “She was a little angel. Her patience was admirable, her resignation in suffering perfect. Moreover, she showed a superior intelligence in supernatural matters. As for her innocence, it is beyond a doubt...she was an angel, living with angels.”
Abbe Prevost then mentioned the many favours from all quarters of the globe attributed to Nellie’s intercession. “That is well,” observed His Holiness. “She must obtain miracles.” Then, taking up the richly bound volume of her life, he added playfully. “From a little life you have made a big book.”
Turning over the leaves, the Pope came across Nellie’s photograph. “Ah! There she is!” he exclaimed, gazing at it benevolently.
At the close of the audience the following was presented:
Most Holy Father,
Humbly prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness, I venture to beg your acceptance of this Life of Little Nellie, the Little Violet of the Blessed Sacrament.
This angelic child of but four years is an attractive model of virtue to all little children, especially by her love for the Holy Eucharist, and her ardent desire to receive it.
Her clients have been pleased, with reason, to call her the angelic forerunner of the decree Quam singulari. It appears to us one of the most practical and efficacious means of a faithful correspondence to the saving Decree would be the spreading abroad of this life. Priests and educators of youth find therein a powerful aid to their ministry, as numerous witnesses bear testimony.
Deign, Your Holiness, to bless our efforts, and those of the priests and ‘leagurers’ who second us by their devoted help.
Pope Pius X took up his pen and wrote:
May God enrich with every blessing Abbe Prevost and all those who recommend frequent Communion to little boys and girls, proposing Nellie as their model.
Pope Pius X. June 4th, 1912.
On 8th December, 1984, a plaque to honour the saintly child, the “Little Violet of the Holy Eucharist”, was erected on the exterior wall of the Parish Church in Portlaw. Crowds of parishioners and people from neighbouring counties were present at the ceremony after the celebration of Holy Mass by His Lordship, Bishop Russell.
After the 1914-1918 war Mr. William Organ returned to his native Waterford and was employed as sacristan in one of the local churches. He was highly respected and the people of Waterford turned out in their thousands to pay their respects to the man who endeared himself to the people.
Little Nellie’s two brothers, Thomas and David, and her sister Mary went to England after completing their education. One boy joined the Merchant Navy, the other the Army. David is still alive but Thomas has joined Nellie’s Holy God.
Mary became a seamstress and did the sewing for the boys in the Jesuit College in England until she married. Her husband Mr. Evans is dead but she has three children – two girls and a boy. Mary is now 85 and failing in health.
A pageant for primary classes written by Anthony Blinco – also known as an award winning playwrite in the Irish Times Children’s play writing competition – based on the life and death of a four year old saintly child named Nellie Organ, known widely as Little Nellie of Holy God, whose circumstances influenced Pope Pius X to permit young children to receive Holy Communion at an early age. This pageant can be obtained on application to Sr. Imelda, Good Shepherd Convent, Sunday’s Well, Cork.
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Idiotic Member of the Georgia Delegation of the Day
It's Paul Broun again!
Paul Broun was apparently "live-tweeting" the State of the Union Address. (Live-Twittering?)
Here is one of his "Tweets"
Mr. President, you don't believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism.
7:09 PM Jan 25th via web Retweeted by 100+ people
RepPaulBrounMD
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How many ways can one be idiotic in a mere 12 words?
Let's start with the idea that the President might actually be taking the time to read a mouth-breathing back-bencher's Twitter feed. Yeah, that seems realistic.
Then there's the "you believe in socialism" nonsense. That hardly seems worth refuting, it's so prima facia absurd. The president who believes in socialism extends the Bush tax-cuts, bails out the auto corporations and uses the SOTU to propose a spending freeze and reduction of corporate tax rates. He believes in socialism like Richard Dawkins believes in Allah.
Then there's this suggestion that somehow the Constitution and socialism are mutually exclusive. I know that to the teabagger mind anything they don't like is unconstitutional, but there is nothing in the Constitution forbidding socialism. If there were we wouldn't have an Interstate Highway system, a Postal Service, or even a military. All those things are funded by taxing the citizenry. Everybody has to pay their share whether or not you ever plan to drive across country or mail a letter or invade a foreign country. That's socialism. Everyone gets the same benefit whether your tax bill comes to $100. or $1,000,000. Even if you didn't earn enough to pay any taxes, the Army will still protect you from the Ruskies, you are welcome to drive on the Interstate, and the Post Office will still bring you your bills and catalogs. How does a member of Congress not understand this?
Labels: Georgia Delegation, idiots, Paul Broun, Teabaggers
Bristol Speaks - Or Does She?
Treasury funds Bristol Palin to speak on campus
Updated: January 28, 2011 at 1:50 am | Michael Tabb News Editor
Bristol Palin has been selected as keynote speaker for this year’s Sexual Responsibility Week at Washington University.
Sexual Responsibility! Bristol Palin! Hahahahahahaha!!!
Student Union Treasury on Tuesday approved a $20,000 appeal by the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) to sponsor a four-person panel featuring Palin.
Jeezus Christ, that's a lot of money. For that type of cash, what will Bristol be discussing?
The panel will address the issue of abstinence in a college setting.
Abstinence in a college setting? Someone who has never attended college and sucks at abstinence is going to be the keynote freakin' speaker at a discussion of abstinence in college? Why not ask her to discuss the difficulties of playing in the NFL, or what it's like to be raised by decent parents?
Why not pay her $20,000 to talk about how to pick the right guy? Or pay her to explain why she named her baby "Tripp" when a: Tripp is not a name and b: the nickname "Tripp" generally is given to someone with a "The third" after his name.
What is she going to say to the audience? "Don't have sex because you might get knocked up like me and then you'd be forced to travel around to various shitty colleges talking about it for $20,000 a pop." 'Cuz I think that's pretty much the extent of her insight into the matter.
The event will begin with a 25-minute speech by Palin on her life story to be followed by an hour-long panel discussion and a half hour question-and-answer session. A reception will be held after the question and answer to allow students to interact with Palin one-on-one.
Of course, the last time someone interacted one-on-one with Bristol, she got pregnant.
And how in the hell can it take 25 minutes to tell her life story? She's what, 20 years old? "First I was a baby, then a little girl, then I got knocked up and went on Dancing With the Stars and Levi's a total butthead!"
Some Treasury members felt that Palin’s speech would spark student interest.
“I know it will fill Graham Chapel, so to me, that’s value in itself,” said Treasury representative Daniel Bernard, a junior. “It brings the student body together in a way that we usually don’t have on this campus.”
I think bringing the student body together is exactly what Bristol is there to warn against!
“One concern I do have when we fund someone like Bristol Palin is, what really are we supporting? And to me it’s someone who is famous because they got pregnant at 18,” said freshman Jacob Trunsky, chair of the Budget Committee.
Now that's just not fair. She was sixteen.
“I understand that people are not going to be happy—this will probably be protested. We really just want to start dialogue and the fact that we’re bringing in a balanced panel should be taken into account,” Elman said. “We’re not just bringing in Bristol Palin, we’re bringing her in with three or four other educated people.”
Oh. Three or four educated people? (Technically not "other educated people") Who else is on the panel?Who are these others who will be providing balance?
The originally scheduled panel included representatives from the Catholic Student Center, Missouri Right to Life, and Planned Parenthood.
Now that's balance! One speaker from Planned Parenthood, two from the "don't have sex 'cause you might get pregnant" school and one from the "don't have sex 'cause you'll go to hell" academy.
Wow, this whole sex-week abstinence panel just sounds awesome! I just can't wait until. . .
Bristol Palin will not speak at Washington University; SHAC says decision mutual
Oh, I'm sure the decision was mutual. Just like when my sophomore-year girlfriend broke up with me at the Spring dance, it was mutual. I'm sure that the person who now won't be getting 20 grand for nothing was really okay with this. Heck, it was probably her idea.
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Wordyard / Media / Time to bake smart correction tools into news platforms
Time to bake smart correction tools into news platforms
June 20, 2011 by Scott Rosenberg 1 Comment
[cross-posted from the PBS MediaShift Idea Lab]
A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day. To understand why this is such a big deal, first hop with me for a minute into the Wayback Machine.
It’s the mid-1990s. Journalists have just arrived on the web. They’re starting sites like Hotwired and Pathfinder, Salon and Slate. They’re doing good work, but also, inevitably, making mistakes. Their customary corrections routine — post a notice in the next edition or issue — makes no sense in the new medium, where stories are just files on servers or data in databases, and fixes can take effect instantly and invisibly.
Editors at the dawn of the web understood they had to be accountable for changes they made to published stories, and so improvised a routine for handling substantive corrections: Fix the problem; place a notice on the story page indicating that you’ve fixed it; and — this step was only taken by extra-conscientious organizations — add a notice to a separate page logging the fact of the correction (and linking to the corrected story).
>p>Fast-forward to the present. The web’s publishing environment is vastly more complex, flexible and elaborate. But when it comes to corrections, virtually every news site still handles things the way we did 15 years ago: Go into the story, often by hand (i.e., by adding to the body of the story text), fix the error, and append a correction notice to the story top or bottom. Then, if your site has a separate corrections-listing page, go into that by hand and add the notice there. Insert any cross-links. Republish the story and the corrections page. And you’re finally done.
The process is cumbersome, to be sure; it’s also not smart. Most publishing systems don’t actually “know” that the story has been corrected. There’s no data stored that distinguishes a corrected story from, say, one that’s been altered in some other way. The typical content-management system software package will track each successive edit or revision to a document, but it doesn’t distinguish garden-variety edits from formal corrections.
For years now, I’ve dreamed of a smarter publishing software tool that would handle corrections intelligently and seamlessly as part of the publishing cycle and editorial workflow, rather than as a clumsy kludge. One goal, certainly, is to make editors’ lives easier. If corrections can be handled with less fuss, maybe news sites will be less reluctant to make them.
But an even more important goal is to give journalists and the public better information about corrections. Once corrections are treated as data, developers can do things with them — say, allow readers to sign up to be notified of corrections for a site, individual story or story category; or create display boxes that automatically link to the half-dozen most recent corrected stories. The ultimate purpose of all this is for news organizations to demonstrate accountability and transparency to a public that views them with sparse and dwindling trust.
So when I read about the new Armstrong CMS project, I got excited. Armstrong is an effort by the software teams at the Bay Citizen and the Texas Tribune to build a new-model, open source publishing system for local news sites. It’s working off the highly regarded Django content-management framework, funded by a $975,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, and building on existing work already in use at the two sites.
The Armstrong project has a chance to create a new standard for corrections for the entire field of web journalism. I asked Brian Kelley, the Bay Citizen CTO who is a co-leader of the project, whether Armstrong had plans for corrections yet. He suggested that, because many organizations have different needs, Armstrong’s open plug-in and extension options might be the best way to handle the corrections process.
Maybe so. At MediaBugs we certainly plan to explore this route with Armstrong as we have with other partners; our MediaBugs widget and WordPress plug-in are already in use on a handful of news sites.
But there’s a bigger opportunity for the Armstrong community here: They can build a smart correction-handling process into the heart of the tool they’re creating. The best practices in this area are widely understood and agreed upon; why not bake them into the technology? No one, to my knowledge, has done this before in a free, open source publishing system. (If there are proprietary systems that do a better job, I’d love to hear about them.)
Here are the basic features I’d want any corrections tool to provide:
Editors should be able to correct published stories by checking a box or clicking a button on an edit screen. If the system has a permissions hierarchy, then managers should be able to enable or disallow the option of making a correction.
Editors who are correcting a story are taken to a screen or overlay that lets them enter the text of a correction notice. The software would automatically record the date and time the correction was made.
Once the correction notice is entered, the editor is prompted to make whatever edits are required in the story text itself, and to save them. Editors would then have to republish the story, following whatever their site’s routine might be.
Ideally, a corrections system like this is part of a larger scheme for tracking and presenting all post-publication changes to each story. The database would record the changes made to a story as part of the correction process in a special way — that is, it would know that this particular revision is not just any old change but a formal correction.
Site designers and managers have the option of building a self-updating corrections page that automatically pulls in corrections notices and links back to the corrected stories.
That’s it! None of this is particularly challenging as programming or design work. My experience is that when I describe what’s needed to most developers, they’re not interested — the problem’s too “trivial.” Maybe it is — but not to the editors I’ve talked to, who groan about the pain their software inflicts on them whenever they try to do a correction the right way.
Each time we rewrite the software used to publish news on the web we have another chance to raise the bar for the whole field. I’m crossing my fingers that Armstrong will be the project to make smart corrections a reality.
Filed Under: Media, Mediabugs
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